Robert Menendez Putting his Nose Into Israeli Elections warns Netanyahu that having Ben Gvir in gov’t would harm US ties

 

Robert Menendez, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, recently warned opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu that including extreme-right lawmakers in a potential future government would harm US-Israel relations, according to a report Saturday.

According to the Axios report, Menendez made the comments during a visit to Israel last month. Citing two unnamed American sources familiar with the meeting, the report said Menendez raised his concerns over Netanyahu’s cooperation with far-right parties, specifically mentioning Otzma Yehudit and its leader Itamar Ben Gvir.

Former prime minister Netanyahu recently brokered a deal to get Otzma Yehudit and Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party to run together in a bid to improve his chances of returning to power.

Ben Gvir has reportedly been offered a senior ministerial position if a Netanyahu-led government is established.

5 Towns Community Suffers Tragic Loss with the Passing of Dr. Steven Krauss at 63

 

Dr. Steven Krauss ,63,of blessed memory, was one of the genuine Tzaddikim of the Five Towns and a personal friend.  Dr. Krauss leaves a devastated community both in the Five Towns, among his thousands of pediatric dental patients and his beloved family of three married daughters and many grandchildren.

Dr. Krauss was known throughout the Jewish community in the entire tri-state area as perhaps the leading pediatric dentist in the nation.  Patients came from as far as Lakewood and Monsey. He was described as kind, compassionate and had the most finely honed dental skills to ensure the most painless experience children could ever have at a dentist.

Dr. Krauss, or Reb Shmuel Eliezer, excelled in the midah of Ahavas Yisroel and served as a paragon of this midah to all who knew him.  Typically, in order to ensure that children not be in a state of pain he would often open up his office at late hours at night.  He would personally call patients and or their parents after a procedure to make sure that everything was going well.

Protestors in Tehran rip down Palestine and Islamic Republic street signs

 

Protestors in Tehran rip down Palestine and Islamic Republic street signs. Hamas Muslim Brotherhood and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are allies of the mullah terror entity 🇮🇷. @IranIntl pic.twitter.com/zw26uAZQBf

— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) October 1, 2022

"camale" Harris Says Only Blacks will get Fema Funds in Florida

 

This is false. @VP's rhetoric is causing undue panic and must be clarified. FEMA Individual Assistance is already available to all Floridians impacted by Hurricane Ian, regardless of race or background. If you need assistance visit https://t.co/x9X8AstnzL or call 1-800-621-3362. https://t.co/idsw1PX86x

— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) September 30, 2022

Ezra Friedlander & "Lange Rekel" Eichenstein Proudly Pose With a Jew Who Married a Shiksa

 

Met @SecondGentleman @DouglasEmhoff at @WhiteHouse Rosh Hashanah reception hosted by @POTUS and he made a very nice impression but that's understandable as he is a Brooklyn Boy & we are a friendly bunch! @ShelleyGspan @KamalaHarris @VP pic.twitter.com/n2NIWUea2t

— Ezra Friedlander (@EzraFriedlander) October 2, 2022

Yesterday, I had a chance to engage with @SecondGentleman @DouglasEmhoff at a @WhiteHouse reception in honor of Rosh Hashana.

We chatted about #AD48, including our very own Midwood, the neighborhood he grew up in. He is proud of his Brooklyn roots & remembers where he came from! pic.twitter.com/3te7ELayx2

— Simcha Eichenstein (@SEichenstein) October 2, 2022

Itzhak Perlman Playes Aveenu Makleinu in White House

 

Here's Itzhak Perlman, the legendary Israeli-American violinist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, playing Avinu Malkeinu at the @WhiteHouse.

You can hear people singing along to the High Holiday prayer. pic.twitter.com/ImicYiyv0t

— Gabby Deutch (@GSDeutch) September 30, 2022

Chareidie Gangsters Burn Down Cellphone Store in Geulah Because They refused to cave in to Vaad to pay them monthly fees

 

חשד: עבריינים הציתו הלילה חנות סלולר בשכונת גאולה בירושלים לאחר שהבעלים סירבו לשלם לוועדת הכשרות. pic.twitter.com/RUdouckQoU

— ישי כהן (@ishaycoen) October 2, 2022

Teacher Chana Pinchasi Seeks a Student of hers to apologize

 

I did a terrible thing in the 90s and my heart still hurts. I am writing because I am looking for the student I committed a crime against.

I was a literature teacher at the 'Traditional' high school, at 'Beit-Alliance'. I had a 'class' of wonderful female students .

I was young and stupid, and I had arrogance and I was drawn to the students who were eloquent like me, and had similar quick minds. I wasn't even aware of it.

Part of the matriculation was conducted orally, with an examiner who was a teacher from another school while I was sitting in the classroom. 

On the day of the test, it was the turn of one of the smart and diligent students whose pace was slower. 

She read a poem we learned (by Trainin, I remember exactly) and made a mistake in reading and interpreting it.

I failed her in the test, I knew that she was there throughout the year in every class and she deserved a good grade because she studied seriously, with love, attentively and persistently. She knew a lot, and it was a human and understandable mistake that the excitement and stress of the test created. She deserved a big boost and nurturing (what the hell are grades anyway!) I didn't give it to her.

I remember her mother calling me, I heard the tears but I hardened my heart under the 'professional' pretext. And it was pure evil and arrogance and stupidity.

I think about her all these years and want to ask her forgiveness, and am ashamed that I forgot her name. I want you to know that she was great and I was spoiled. I caused a very unnecessary injustice to her at such a fragile age. I can't take back the pain but I want to ask for forgiveness. Even if decades have passed, I am still filled with guilt and shame and pray that she has a good life.

Social network, help me find it? It is also possible to reach me in private email

עשיתי מעשה נורא בשנות ה90 וליבי עדיין נוקף. אני כותבת כי אני מחפשת את התלמידה שפשעתי כלפיה.

הייתי מורה לספרות בתיכון 'המסורתי' כשהיה בשוק, ב'בית-אליאנס'. היתה לי 'מגמה' עם אוסף תלמידות נפלאות שתלו בי את עיניהן.

הייתי צעירה וטיפשה, והיתה בי יוהרה ונמשכתי אל התלמידות שהיו רהוטות כמוני, עם קצב מהיר. אפילו לא הייתי מודעת לזה.

חלק מהבגרות נערכה בעל-פה, עם בוחנת שהיא מורה מבית ספר אחר כשאני יושבת בכיתה. (או אולי זה היה בבחינת ה'מגן', הזיכרון מתעתע בי)

ביום המבחן, הגיע תורה של אחת התלמידות הנבונות והשקדניות שהקצב שלה היה איטי יותר. היא קראה שיר שלמדנו (של טריינין, אני זוכרת בדיוק) וטעתה בקריאה ובפרשנות שלו.

אני הכשלתי אותה במבחן. זו היתה קריאה רחוקה אבל אפשרית ובכלל זו ספרות, ואני ידעתי שהיא היתה שם לאורך השנה בכל מאודה והגיע לה ציון טוב מפני שהיא למדה ברצינות, באהבה, בקשב ובהתמדה. היא ידעה המון, וזו היתה טעות אנושית ומובנת שההתרגשות והמתח מהמבחן יצרו. היא היתה ראויה לחיזוק גדול ולטיפוח (מה זה בכלל ציונים, לכל הרוחות!) לא נתתי לה.

אני זוכרת שאמא שלה התקשרה אלי, שמעתי את הדמעות והקשחתי את ליבי בתואנה 'מקצועית'. וזה היה רוע צרוף והתנשאות וטפשות.

אני חושבת עליה כל השנים אלה ורוצה לבקש את סליחתה, ומתביישת ששכחתי את שמה. אני רוצה שתדע שהיא היתה מצויינת ואני קלקלתי. גרמתי עוול מיותר מאד בגיל שברירי כל כך. אין בכוחי להחזיר את הכאב אבל אני רוצה לבקש סליחה. גם אם חלפו עשורים, אני עדיין מלאה באשמה ובושה ומתפללת שיש לה חיים טובים.

רשת חברתית, תעזרי לי למצא אותה? אפשר גם בפרטי.

#עשרת_ימי_תשובה

Chana Pinchasi (חנה פנחס

Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones

 

After we published this op-ed by Kenneth Marcus, Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley School of Law, sent us a response. You can read it below, followed by a response from Marcus.

If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame.

Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, my own alma mater, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism. And these are not groups that represent only a small percentage of the student population. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus. Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he himself would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students.

It is now a century since Jewish-free zones first spread to the San Francisco Bay Area (“No Dogs. No Jews”). Nevertheless, this move seems frightening and unexpected, like a bang on the door in the night.

Lady tries to disrupt Kapparos