News poll: Religious Zionism is the third largest party in the Knesset

 

A poll by Prof. Camil Fuchs published by Channel 13 News on Friday gives the Netanyahu bloc 60 seats, an increase of one compared to a poll published on Wednesday.

As for the Joint List, which split right before the Knesset slates were submitted, Hadash-Ta'al wins 4 seats, but Balad falls below the electoral threshold with 1.2 percent support.

Likud increases by one seat to 32 compared to a poll earlier this week, followed by Yesh Atid, which again wins 24 seats.

The third largest party is still Religious Zionism, which receives 13 seats, unchanged from Wednesday's poll, while Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party has 12 seats. Shas wins 8 seats and United Torah Judaism wins 7 seats, both continuing to maintain their strength.

Labor and Meretz again win five seats each and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu remains stable with 6 seats. Mansour Abbas's Ra’am Party rounds out the list with 4 seats.

The Jewish Home, under Ayelet Shaked, remains below the electoral threshold with 2 percent support, as is Eli Avidar's Free Israel Party, with 0.4 percent.

Martha’s Vineyard, population 15k, freaking out over 50 migrants. But Want Texas To Absorb 4.2 Million

 

A live look at the people of Martha’s Vineyard today pic.twitter.com/A6bCAXtZvm

— Frederal Bureau of Investigation (@Grand_handsomer) September 15, 2022

If 50 constitutes a humanitarian crisis in Martha’s Vineyard, what the hell is 4.2 MILLION? https://t.co/zdMshotEVW

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 15, 2022

They don’t want them. pic.twitter.com/qJFJk0onIJ

— NYCHomoCon (@NYCHomoCon) September 15, 2022

Fun Fact: The Obamas' 7 bedroom/8.5 bath Martha's Vineyard home could easily house all 50 illegal immigrants that were sent there.

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 15, 2022

Martha’s Vineyard, population 15k, is freaking out over 50 migrants.

Del Río, population 36k, encountered *28,000* migrants in October 2021. pic.twitter.com/dkc38rNfAg

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) September 15, 2022

12 Stunning Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Homes With Plenty Of Room For Illegal Migrants https://t.co/09jzawzw9I

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 16, 2022

Rabbanim in Israel Against "musical selichos" with singers & instruments

 

I happen to agree, but if "musical selichos" inspire others, who am I to discourage them, whatever floats your boat.

"Musical Selichos' didn't start in this generations, it was started in the Bais Hamikdash, when the Leviyim sang and played their instruments, daily.

Senior Ashkenazic rabbanim in Eretz Yisroel have signed onto a letter decrying the recent practice of shuls making “musical selichos” with singers and instruments.

Led by the Ponavez Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Hagaon Rav Gershon Edelstein, the signers of the kol koreh wrote that those who engage in musical selichos are being “poretz geder” and turn selichos from a serious reflective moment into an “evening of entertainment.”

Besides for Rav Edelstein, the letter was signed by Rav Tzvi Weber, Rav Yehuda Silman, Rav Yitzchok Mordechai Rubin, and Rav Shariel Rosenberg.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Ki Tavoi

Governor Abbott Brings the Border To Kamala Harris... Sends Bus Loads of Migrants to Her Home

 

🚨Breaking: Two migrant buses from Southern Border just arrived outside Kamala Harris residence at Naval Observatory in DC. pic.twitter.com/41QnF3p16W

— Real Mac Report (@RealMacReport) September 15, 2022

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"Jew/Israel Hater" ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt must be replaced

 

 A recent Fox News investigation found that the Anti-Defamation League’s educational and “anti-bias” programs, which influence millions of American children, educators and officials, promote far-left and critical race theory concepts including “white privilege” and “systemic racism.”

The materials also promote groups such as the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter, despite the fact that these organizations and their leaders often take virulent Jew- and Israel-hating positions, and express support for the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

ADL programs call denying white privilege a “biased attitude,” encourage white children to view themselves as “oppressors” and include an article indicating that white women are “justly seen as oppressive” and “enjoy unearned skin privilege,” among other egregious claims.

This is a longstanding problem. Six years ago, our group, the Zionist Organization of America, documented that multiple ADL lesson plans encouraged students to join BLM protests in Ferguson, Missouri. At these same protests, calls were made for ending Israel’s existence, calling it an apartheid, genocidal state. The ADL further promoted BLM while ignoring the BLM/Movement for Black Lives organizations’ anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic platform.

JNS Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Tobin pointed out that the ADL’s announcement following the Fox investigation that it would review educational content “misaligned "with ADL’s values was “blatantly dishonest.” This was the case because the ADL’s woke leftist educational materials are, in fact, aligned with ADL’s woke far-left values, promoted under ADL CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt.

Tobin noted that the ADL publicly endorsed BLM and its racist “equity” agenda, defended anti-Semitic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), downplayed left-wing anti-Semitism, hired an outreach director who calls Jews racists and worked with tech firms to promote internet censorship.

Rebuke of the infamous NYT article by Isaac Bardos

I struggled in the ultra-orthodox school system.

My experience pushed me to leave religious Judaism.

I switched to public school and graduated with honors from a school ranked in the top 4 public high schools in my home state.

From 9-12th grade in public school, I got to see the values, the culture, the "education," the lifestyle, everything it had to offer.

I attended two public (state) universities, in NY and Maryland, and two private universities in two different states.

Spending years in both settings allowed me a very unique perspective comparing the two systems and all that came with it.

One of the main reasons I chose to return to religious Judaism is BECAUSE of the shockingly large amounts missing in the secular education.

-The lack of values

-The focus on ego-driven outcomes

-95% of everything I learned in secular curricula is available for FREE on google, YouTube, Lynda, etc

I have never met a single Hasidic or ultra orthodox person struggling in life because they didn’t get a full year of 5th grade grammar or they missed out on “history” which is the absolute greatest waste of time, and instead they learned about how to manage their emotions, how to communicate with others, and be accountable to a higher power.

If your "perfect" curriculum was that "perfect," you wouldn’t need billions of dollars to pay back loans.

And if any Hasidic graduate wanted better grammar and math, thanks to Grammarly and free math resources, the school curriculum isn’t the answer.

And neither is the obviously hate-driven articles you’re writing about a people that started the largest volunteer, self funded life saving organization in America. Maybe write an article about how that happened?

Maybe write an article about how, per capita, among the Hasidic communities, there are more non profits than any other population in North America.

One of the reasons I left the public school world is BECAUSE of the hate, judgmentalism, anti-semitism, and we’re-going-to-tell-you how-to-think-about-others, from the very same educational systems that preach “tolerance, acceptance, respect, and inclusion.”

At 17 years old, it was blatantly obvious that was total PR B.S.

For you, the NYT (New York Talebearers) and CNN (Constant Negativity Network), every other headline and article is about “how dare those people be intolerant” which is ironically 100% intolerant of every other person who has a different perspective than you.

Well done seeding hate in our beloved country.

Well done doing it on September 11th.

Hasidic clients are among my favorite to work with in business. Instead of wasting years of educating kids to be about "who is better than who," who has more followers, and who’s going to outdo the next person at prom, Hasidic schools focus being valued for who they are.

What would the suicide rates among high schoolers be if that was the focus?

Looking forward to a front page sincere apology for the hurt you caused.

Israel Prisons Service weighs early release for terrorist mass-murderer who murdered Rabbi Benyamin & Talia Kahana

 

22 years after the murders of Rabbi Binyamin Kahane and his wife Talia, the Israel Prisons Service early release board is considering granting an early release to the murderer, Naji Abu Khamid, after Abu Khamid requested a hearing claiming ill health.

The terrorist was convicted not only of the murders of the Kahanes but also of a string of other offenses including the murder of Gadi Rejuan, who was killed in the Atarot industrial zone. Abu Khamid was sentenced to seven life sentences and a further 50 years behind bars.

The families of the victims were only very recently informed of the date of the hearing and both the son of Rabbi Kahane and the daughter of Gadi Rejuan have appealed to have the hearing postponed. Kahane and Rejuan are being represented by attorneys Ofir Steiner and Haim Bleicher of the Honenu organization, who are also demanding that their clients be permitted to make statements at the hearing against the early release of the man who murdered their parents.

Following their request, the Prisons Service agreed to postpone the hearing which would otherwise have taken place next Sunday and will set a new date for the convenience of the families.

Rabbi: Don't eat apples in honey on Rosh Hashanah

 

Rabbi Ben Zion Mutzafi, a leading Sephardic rabbi, told a student not to eat the traditional apple dipped in honey on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), Kikar Hashabbat reported.

On Wednesday night, one of Rabbi Mutzafi's students asked him, "Dear honored rabbi, do Sephardic Jews have a custom to eat an apple in honey on Rosh Hashanah? Because my grandfather said no."

In his response, Rabbi Mutzafi wrote, "'Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will inform you.' (Deuteronomy 32:7) The grandfather is absolutely right. To this day, we the sons of the communities of the east do not have a custom to eat honey on Rosh Hashanah. Rather, we cook some type of fruits or vegetables in sugar, and eat it."

He explained, "According to the Kabbalah, honey represents the trait of justice, which should not be aroused on Rosh Hashanah, because its color is yellowish gold. Its numerical value is also reminiscent [of this], with the letters shin and vav (equaling 306) from the letters of [the word] shofar, which are sweetened by the shofar blasts, and with 14 knuckles of the fingers which hold the shofar, which [together with shin and vav] are the numerical equivalent of shin and kaf (320), which are judgements as mentioned in Edera Rabba in the Holy Zohar. And [this is] as our teachers the Arizal (Rabbi Yitzhak Luria - ed.) and the Rashshash (Rabbi Shalom Sharabi - ed.) wrote, and you can look this up in Shofar Betzion."

Each of the Hebrew letters has a numerical value, called gematriya. The first ten letters represent the numbers 1-10, with the next letters representing 20, 30, 40, and so on, until the letter kuf, which has a value of 100. The three final letters, reish, shin, and taf, have numerical values of 200, 300, and 400, respectively.

Trump Offered Jordan Control Over Judea, Samaria

 

US President Donald Trump offered Jordan’s King Abdullah II control over Judea and Samaria in January 2018, according to a bombshell report published Wednesday by The Washington Post.

The previously unreported offer was reported in a new book on the Trump residency due to be published next week, written by the husband-and-wife journalist team of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.

The Jordanian monarch apparently didn’t react well to the offer.

“I thought I was having a heart attack,” Abdullah told an American friend in 2018, according to the report. “I couldn’t breathe. I was bent doubled-over.”

Abdullah has had endless problems with his majority-Palestinian Authority Arab population, the newspaper noted.

According to the book, Trump thought he would be doing Abdullah a favor, “not realizing that it would destabilize his country.”