Tuesday is the last day for New Yorkers to cast their vote in the primary election for governor — and the last chance for Republicans to choose someone who’ll finally put a stop to the state’s dizzying decline.
We believe that person is Rep. Lee Zeldin, and we urge Republicans who haven’t yet voted to get to the polls and back him.
Let’s face it: For the past few years, New Yorkers have been making a beeline for the exits, fed up with surging crime, lousy schools, high costs, arbitrary mandates, runaway taxes, dangerous climate policies and on and on. They’re appalled by the nutty progressive views that keep winning the day over those held by everyday, common-sense residents.
And their deep dissatisfaction makes it possible, for the first time in quite a while, for a Republican to win in November, ending one-party rule that has led the state steeply downhill.
Among an encouraging crop of Republicans, we see Zeldin as the best choice to go the distance, end the nonsense and reverse the decline. An Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq, Zeldin already proved he can beat Democrats when he won a state Senate seat in 2010 and a House seat in 2014. He’d stem crime by fixing New York’s disastrous criminal-justice reforms, like cashless bail, and giving judges discretion to hold dangerous suspects. He’d also fire district attorneys, like Alvin Bragg, if they refuse to enforce the law.
Zeldin would rein in spending, slash taxes, ease business regulations and fix the state’s ludicrous climate policy. He’d give kids access to a better education by lifting the teachers-union imposed cap on charter schools.
We don’t agree with him on everything, but his proven experience and fierce commitment to saving the state from misguided woke radicals make him the clear choice.
The polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Republicans who love the state should make sure to cast their vote for Lee Zeldin.
In a painfully candid interview aired on Israel’s Kan 11 state television channel, a young woman (whose voice was dubbed and face blurred) described the severe abuse she suffered at the hands of the rabbi of her school and subsequently the harassment she endured at her Ulpana, or girls high school.
The young woman, a member of a prominent religious Zionist family, said that she had been sent to an “extremely religious school” where modesty was at a premium and no allowance was made for exposure to technology.
On May 23, I called out Moshe Boylan who wrote a letter to the editor to the FJJ (Flatbush Jewish Journal) explaining why the FJJ wouldn't mention "Yom Hashoah" in the FJJ a weekly newspaper that caters to the Chareidie community of Flatbush.
Moshe Boylan, who I'm told is a Yankee, whose father and grandfathers lived comfortably in the USA while their brothers and sisters were being tortured to death, explained, that the "Olam HaTorah and Yahadus HaChareidis " a term that he totally made up, were dead set against it!
He babbled that the rebbis of the editor of the FJJ were consulted and they issued a fatwa that Yom Ha'Shoa, Yom Ha'zikoren and Yom Hatzmoet, three events celebrated by millions of Jews does not even deserve an honorable mention. I will mention honorably that all these rabbis of the editor who issued this ruling, were all born in the USA except one who arrived with his entire family in 1938.
I am not going to go into that now, as I wrote about this at length 3 weeks ago, I invite Moshe Boylan and his "Olam HaTorah and Yahadus HaChareidis " and the rest of his naive and ignorant followers to view the documentary below.
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| Tuly Ziv and his son, Noam |
Zacklikovsky, a professional oven-builder, who spent the war years in the Lodz Ghetto and Buchenwald Concentration Camp, didn't depart from his routine. "The next day dad went to work like nothing had happened," Tuly says. "They asked him 'how was it?' and he answered 'I turned on the oven, put the body in, and that was that. All I did was turn Eichmann into ashes.'"
In 1940, Nazi arch criminal Adolf Eichmann visited the Lodz Ghetto in order to monitor up close the operation to expel the Jews, as the preliminary step towards the implementation of the Final Solution. Someone who saw the senior Nazi officer from a distance was Pinchas Zacklikovsky, then a young man of 20.
Pinchas Zacklilkovsky was born in 1920 in Poland to a wealthy family of Gur Hasidim. He was raised alongside four brothers and sisters, and like every Jew in Europe was greatly shaken by the outbreak of World War II. At the beginning he escaped on his own, wandered throughout Poland in areas that were then controlled by the Soviet Union, in an attempt to escape from the clutches of the Nazis, but in the end, he decided to return to his family and be with them during those dreadful times.
From the Lodz Ghetto he was transferred to the Czestochowa Ghetto and in 1944 he was sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. "They beat his father to death right before his eyes," Tuly says. In an interview with the newspaper Yom HaShishi in 1990, Zacklilkowsky said that, after the American army liberated the Concentration Camp from the Nazis, he angrily set upon a German officer who had tortured him, and ripped out both of his eyes.
He made aliyah in 1946 on the Enzo Sereni ship, but was then expelled with the other "illegal" immigrants to Cyprus and was afterwards imprisoned in the Atlit Detention Camp. Afterwards he was recruited into the Etzel, and during the War of Independence he served in the Givati Brigade. He met Sara Levitt Neuman, who was born in 1926 and survived Auschwitz, via mutual acquaintances. They married and made their home in Bnei Brak.
Ukrainian ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said on Motzei Shabbos that Ukraine is considering revoking Israelis’ exemptions from visas, including the thousands that travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, in retaliation for the limits Israel is placing on Ukrainian refugees.
In an interview with Yediot Achronot, Korniychuk complained that Israel is “unfairly” imposing restrictions on Ukraianins entering Israel and that the “Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the President’s Office told me that this is unacceptable.”
“And now we’re considering whether to suspend visa waivers for Israelis in response,” Korniychuk threatened. “It may not be felt now but before Rosh Hashanah, the Israeli government will feel it.”
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Gerardo Milman, a member of the Argentine National Congress, told Iran International last week that the Iranians aboard the Venezuelan plane seized in Buenos Aires two weeks ago planned “attacks on human targets” and that photos of “aircraft aimed at Israel’ was found on the pilot’s phone.
Milman confirmed that the pilot was “a senior Quds official, a member of the Ministry of Intelligence,” adding that the co-pilot on the plane was “even more problematic.”
Milman slammed Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez, security ministry and intelligence chief for attempting to whitewash “the Venezuelan-Iranian intelligence operation …[as] an air training operation” and ignoring the material found on the pilot’s phone: “photos of missiles, aircrafts aimed at Israel, photos of war material aimed at confronting Israel in order to commit terrorist acts in the state of Israel.”
Milman said that the Argentinian government is aligning itself with the “the Caracas-Tehran-Moscow regime,” saying that there is a “Venezuelan-Iranian intelligence operation that includes several elements in the region.”
He added that Venezuela and Tehran cooperate on manufacturing armed drones and noted that the governor of a state in Venezuela where drones were made is now the ambassador to Argentina.
“The truth is that everything has a very accurate correlation,” he said. “My idea is that Iran seeks to consolidate with the Argentine government this trilogy with the regime of Caracas and with the regime of Teheran.” Milman believes that the plan provides “absolute proof that financing cells operate with respect to the Hezbollah situation.”
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| A Palestinians walks next to graffiti showing former US president Donald Trump with a footprint on his face in Gaza City |
This cockamamie report is failed the Obama mentality, that there cannot be piece if the Palestinian issue is not addressed. But what this report doesn't realize is that the Saudis and Bahrain, Egypt don't care about the Palestinians.
The United States’ Department for Homeland Security (DHS) warned that the Abraham Accords could fuel further conflict in the Middle East, shortly after the landmark deal was signed in 2020.
In a Wednesday report, The Intercept cited an official document titled “Terrorists’ Longstanding Grievances Very Likely Exacerbated by Israel’s Normalization of Relations with Two Gulf States.”
The US-brokered Abraham Accords – spearheaded by former US president Donald Trump – were an August 2020 joint agreement between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to normalize relations, with Sudan and Morocco later included.
FTO (Foreign Terror Organizations) supporters’ pre-existing grievances about US foreign policy regarding the Middle East, such as viewing the United States as responsible for Israeli actions, will be exacerbated by Israel’s normalization of relations with Bahrain and the UAE,” the intel report read.
According to DHS officials, newly-formed ties with prior foes were not the primary risk of the accords, but instead the establishment of ties without addressing the Palestinian issue.
“FTOs could leverage… anti-US grievances to fit their longstanding messaging themes, portraying the United States as a principal antagonist in the Middle East,” the report continued.
It noted that “retaliatory violence” towards the US could be triggered, citing how Iran has compared racial tensions inside the US as evidence that it supports Israel in the Palestinian conflict.
Nearly two years after the implementation of the Abraham Accords, tensions between Israel and Palestinians did rise, with the 11-day war between Gaza’s Hamas and Israel last year, an increase of terrorist attacks, and clashes at Jerusalem’s holy basin.
Ger will have a new representative in the coming Knesset. The Gerer Rebbe has chosen Yitzchak Goldknopf to represent the largest chasidic sect in Israel in the Knesset
Goldknopf is known and even notorious in the chareidi public for his leadership of the kindergarten and daycare chain in Jerusalem that he inherited from his father, turning it into a prosperous nationwide chain of hundreds of early educational centers, as well as medical clinics and schools for special needs children.
Goldknopf’s draconian management style, includes alleged violations of the rights of thousands of chareidi women employed as kindergarten teachers and aides. These teachers were forced to sign agreements waiving their rights to seniority and basic employment rights, leaving them with salaries of 50% of their counterparts in other educational systems. Goldknopf systematically exploited the need of chareidi women for employment to deny them tenure and other employment benefits.
In recent years, these teachers have taken their protest to the Knesset, with little success. Even efforts to unionize under the Histadrut labor federation were unsuccessful. When some of the teachers appealed to Goldknopf himself, he refused to entertain their demands, asking one of the them, “What, you want your pay to be higher than that of the director general?”
It is thus unfortunate that the Gerer Rebbe sees Goldknopf as a worthy representative for the next Knesset. Many chareidim have responded on social media,stating that they would rather vote Likud if Goldknopf is placed on the electoral slate. Others say that he should be indicted for his exploitation of teaching staff. With the current split in Gur it is also highly unlikely that the breakaway faction will vote for Goldknopf, an appointment of the Rebbe.
Thus it is safe to assume that both Shas and Agudah will not gain electorally in a new election but how much they will lose depends both on the popularity of Ben-Gvir and the lack of popularity of Agudah’s representatives in a chareidi public increasingly unconvinced with its political leaders integrity.
At his Motzei Shabbos tisch, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe spoke harshly against the Gerrer Chassidim who have been attacking the followers of Rav Shaul Alter.
The Rebbe said that this sort of disgracing of Talmidei Chachamim led to the destruction of Yerushalayim, and he said that “the disputes that are taking place can mamash lead to murder.”
As reported on the Charedi news website Kikar Shabbos, the Rebbe said, “I want to focus on a topic that has been hurting me a lot for a long time. Unfortunately, there are disputes among many different members of Klal Yisrael, which can sometimes lead to real bloodshed.”
He continued,” I said this to my Chassidm several weeks ago, and now I want to address all of Klal Yisrael. As an example, I will use Reuvain and Shimon. Reuvain belongs to one Chassidus and Shimon belongs to another. Reuvain sends out all sorts of letters and materials, denigrating the Chassidus of Shimon, to build himself and build up his own greatness. Regarding this, the Gemara says in the name of Rav Yehuda, ‘Yerushalayim was only destroyed because of the disgracing of Talmidei Chachamim.’ Also ‘Anyone who disgraces a Talmid Chacham there is no medicine for his wounds.’”
“The fact that you follow a certain sect of Chassidus and you hold of your own Rebbe, does not give you permission to speak against a different Rebbe.”
The Rebbe said many more strong and even harsh words, describing the current situation.
At the end of his speech, the Rebbe emphasized that he is speaking to both Chassidm and Litvaks, and he urged his followers to spread this message. In addition, he requested that it be published in the Israeli Hamodia in the coming days.
