When extremist elements of the charedi community tell you they are protecting a way of life that is 2000 years old, they are lying. @yaffedorg https://t.co/p009oEhbxs
— YehudisFletcher (@YehudisFletcher) September 18, 2022
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
When extremist elements of the charedi community tell you they are protecting a way of life that is 2000 years old, they are lying. @yaffedorg https://t.co/p009oEhbxs
— YehudisFletcher (@YehudisFletcher) September 18, 2022
President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, paid their final respects to the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday, passing by her coffin as she lay in state at the British Parliament in London.
Herzog is one of many world leaders who arrived in London ahead of the queen’s funeral on Monday.
“On behalf of the State of Israel, its citizens, and the Jewish People, I paid respects to HM Queen Elizabeth II at her Lying-in-State,” Herzog tweeted. “The Queen was a true ‘woman of valour,’ as we say in the Jewish tradition, a beacon of stability and a historic figure. We grieve with Britain.”
Herzog later signed a condolence book for the queen at Lancaster House in London.
In an English-language video message, Herzog offered his condolences on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people.
“She was truly a leader that transcends time, intergenerational, she saw where the world was 70 years ago and how it is today. Her reign was truly majestic and she truly personified the word majesty,” he said.
“In fact, she showed stability, strength, and wisdom which was radiated throughout the world.”
The “amazing” scenes outside as Britons mourned the queen were something, Herzog said, “we will never forget.”
“The people of Israel and the people of Britain are really close friends and our nations are closer than ever,” he said.
Herzog also wished the new king good luck in his role:
“I would like to wish King Charles III a long reign of peace, justice, stability and dignity. May he succeed and God bless the King,” he declared.
On Sunday evening the Herzogs attended a state reception for the visiting world leaders, hosted by King Charles.
Guests included US President Joe Biden, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Also on the guest list were many heads of Arab states among them King Abdullah II of Jordan and Queen Rania, Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tarik, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister and vice president of the United Arab Emirates.
Kuwait Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, were also at the event, described in British press as “the reception of the century.”
It was the largest such British royal reception for world leaders since the death of Queen Elizabeth II’s father, George VI, in 1952.
A state funeral will be held Monday for the queen at Westminster Abbey, the imposing location for royal coronations, marriages and funerals for more than 1,000 years.
After the funeral, the flag-draped coffin of the queen, topped with the majestic Imperial State Crown, will be taken west to Windsor Castle, where she will be laid to rest.
After Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow stopped an attack by an armed assailant at a Baltimore bar, police officers thanked him — and then they arrested him.
Now the Good Samaritan credited with saving a man’s life faces up to a year in prison, charged with violating a city ordinance that forbids bringing handguns within 100 feet of a public building, even though he neutralized the attack without drawing his pistol.
Mr. Muldrow, a North Carolina security specialist, holds a concealed weapons permit, but it was issued in Virginia, not Maryland. Even so, he has no intention of accepting a plea deal when he appears at his Oct. 31 hearing in Baltimore Circuit Court.
“I’m not going to settle with probation or anything like that. I don’t think it’s fair,” he told The Washington Times. “I’ve carried overseas in different countries, and you’re telling me I can’t carry my weapon from one state to another? I’ve trained more than the average police officer, and I can’t carry from Virginia to Maryland? I have a real big problem with that.”
His attorney, Michael Stark of Maryland’s Stark Defense, said that the “good guy with the gun was placed under arrest for having a gun.”
Just another day in Kathy Hochul’s New York. After we fire Hochul on November 8th, we are taking back our streets!pic.twitter.com/QgUYEvdJMm
— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) September 17, 2022
In a remarkable discovery which occurred accidentally last week at the Palmachim nature reserve, a popular coastal recreation site near Rishon Letzion, a burial cave from the time of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II was discovered. The cave contains dozens of intact objects including candles in the places where they were lit, amphorae and human remains.
The unusual discovery was made last Tuesday during works conducted by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority to develop a garden at the nature reserve. A tractor accidently hit a rock, revealing the ceiling of an ancient burial cave.
This past week, Ami Magazine’s Jake Turx called out a lie that President Biden has repeatedly told about President Trump, falsely claiming that Trump supports Neo-Nazis.
At a White House “unity” event (which was heavily divisive), Turx questioned ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt about Biden’s nasty comments, and Greenblatt did not defend them. Turx also pointed out the hypocrisy of using divisive rhetoric at a unity event.
The question centers around the false claim which Democrats love to recycle, alleging Trump referred to neo-Nazis at a 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia as “very fine people.” In reality, Trump said they should be “condemned totally,” and distinguished them from peaceful protesters whom Trump called “very fine “people on both sides of the issue of whether to remove a Confederate statue.
The hoax has been repeatedly debunked, yet Biden continues to use it.
Leftist Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, did not defend Biden when asked about the comments after a White House “unity summit” on Thursday. However rather than admitting Biden was lying, Greenblatt dodged the issue and made other false claims about Trump, attempting to justify Biden’s vicious attack.
Turx asked whether it was “good faith” for the president to attempt to unify the country while using a divisive hoax that had been widely debunked, and Greenblatt replied:
“If President Trump had been able to say, clearly and consistently — not just in the minutes after Charlottesville, but in the days in the weeks, in the month, in the years, to call out David Duke when given the chance, to not say “stand back and stand by” to the Proud Boys when given a chance to condemn them, to not tweet out antisemitic memes whether they are directed at Hillary Clinton or the press or anyone else, to call out the “Great Replacement Theory” — I could go on and on and on and on and on, but the reason why we’re here is because the failure to communicate that gave permission, gave license to hate, and make no mistake — whether it’s white supremacists, armed militia groups, enraged sovereign citizens, radical anti-Zionists, enraged jihadists — it’s become open season on everyone in this environment.”
Greenblatt was essentially justifying Biden’s lies, based on other things that Trump has done, which were also false.
Trump repeatedly condemned white supremacist David Duke, although it was not reported by the mainstream media. Trump also condemned the “Proud Boys” at a debate, and borrowed the term “stand by” from moderator Chris Wallace, while it was quite clear from the context that Trump was not supporting them in any way.
The very rare “antisemitic memes” tweeted by Trump were extremely subtle and appeared to be unintentional, such as a retweet of Hillary Clinton against a background of cash with a six-pointed star, which the campaign said was a mistake.
And “Great Replacement Theory” is a white-supremacist spin of an actual Democrat strategy of leveraging an open-borders policy to produce millions of new Democratic voters.
Israel’s Ambassador in Moscow Alexander Ben-Tzvi held a meeting last week with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov on the issue of Jews gathering in Uman for Rosh Hashanah.
Ben-Tzvi informed Bogdanov that although Israel issued travel warnings to Ukraine and Ukrainian officials warned Israeli not to come, there are already several thousand Israelis in Uman.
Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that Bogdanov told Ben-Tzvi that Russia won’t guarantee the welfare of the Jews in Uman.
“This is a real danger,” Bogdanov said. “Russia cannot guarantee the Israelis’ safety.”
Nevertheless, Bogdanov asked for further information about the Israeli presence in Uman so that he could pass it on to the relevant authorities in the Russian army.
Meanwhile, in light of the many thousands of Jews already in Uman, volunteers of the United Hatzalah branch in Uman are busy with a dramatic increase in the number of calls for their services.
Mattis Shapiro, head of Hatzalah Uman, said: “Hatzalah volunteers, in cooperation with medics and paramedics from Israel and the US, will work in shifts around the clock to provide an immediate response to cases that are received at the lcoal emergency hotline 063-800-1221. It should be noted that as part of the streamlining of the security operation, Hatzalah volunteers hung up dozens of regional number signs in 15 areas near the kever in Uman – facilitating the rapid arrival of emergency and rescue forces.”
Aharon Ben Harosh, deputy head of Hatzalah Uman, said: “We equipped all the Uman ambulances with the necessary medical equipment in order to provide a quick response to the volunteers in Uman and in Ukraine for any emergency and medical assistance.”
Interrupting my social media hiatus because I’m enraged. Mahsa Amini, a 22yr old Kurdish Iranian woman, has just died this morning from brain injuries after being arrested for “bad hijab” & beaten by the Gashte-Irshad (Iran’s “morality police”) 1/#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/3D1rD4SvLk
— Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی (@hodakatebi) September 17, 2022
Do you really want to know how Iranian morality police killed Mahsa Amini 22 year old woman? Watch this video and do not allow anyone to normalize compulsory hijab and morality police.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 16, 2022
The Handmaid's Tale by @MargaretAtwood is not a fiction for us Iranian women. It’s a reality. pic.twitter.com/qRcY0KsnDk
LISKA HIGH ENERGY SLICHOS
Shema Kolainu in Liska on first day of Slichos! @baisliska pic.twitter.com/c7tD2WAEmI
— Ezra Friedlander (@EzraFriedlander) September 18, 2022
LOW ENERGY SLICHOS AISH KODESH
Selichos at Aish Kodesh with Rav Moshe Weinberger. #KingInTheField #TheCaptain pic.twitter.com/Skrs67zK6Z
— Akiva Ackerman (@AkivaAckerman) September 18, 2022
Slichos Kever Dovid Hemelech
סליחות ראשונות בקבר דוד המלך עם בעל המנגן ר' איציק ניימן בהשתתפות הג"ר משולם זושא ברנדווין pic.twitter.com/YhFp6UV4Sx
— משה ויסברג (@moshe_nayes) September 17, 2022
Watch Child Get Emotional at Slichos
ואפשר גם להתרגש מילד שלא טעם חטא!@ershy111 @mendi_koriz @ishaycoen pic.twitter.com/FT5GGmYeyQ
— דוד קליגר (@tam04321) September 17, 2022
Lebedeka Slichos Yitzchok Meir
סליחות ראשונות עם יצחק מאיר האחד והיחיד. שנה שישית שלי במעמד המרגש הזה והפעם בבנייני האומה, בזכות עיריית ירושלים שהחליטה לחוס על ההמון שהיה נדחס בביכנ"ס ישורון מדי שנה. מה שיפה פה זה המגוון. יש כאן דתיים, חילונים, חרדים, ליטאים, חסידים וכל המינים והסוגים. שנזכה שיתקבלו התפילות. pic.twitter.com/2hYjUfmWpY
— רפי פרלשטיין (@rafiperlstein) September 17, 2022
Child Singing Machnesei Rachamim Selichos
Last night three communities in Sydney came together for a combined first-night Selichot service, and this kid blew the socks off of all three with this rendition of Machnisei Rachamim.
— Yaakov - יעקב (@yaakov_h) September 18, 2022
Part 1: pic.twitter.com/MAu5AEC43n
Again the "Liska Selichos"
Shema Kolainu in Liska on first day of Slichos! @baisliska pic.twitter.com/c7tD2WAEmI
— Ezra Friedlander (@EzraFriedlander) September 18, 2022