“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

Sunday, October 2, 2022

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

 

Itzhak Perlman Playes Aveenu Makleinu in White House

 

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

 

Saturday, October 1, 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.
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

 



US Now Has an Alliance with North Korea

 

Ukrainians Going back to their old habits denying entry to a group of Jews and only allowing entry to non-Jews

 

Watchg EMS Worker Get Stabbed to Death While people Just walk by and do nothing

 

Lev Tahor Leaders Released By Mexican Court

 

 In a new development in the Lev Tahor saga, the two cult leaders who were still in custody were reportedly released Thursday by a Mexican court, signifying that the court had not verified the suspicions of human trafficking and other crimes assigned to them. The crimes carry sentences of up to 20 years in prison.

Menahem Mendel Alter and Moshe Yosef Rosner were the only two members of the cult left in custody, after the others had succeeded in escaping from custody on Wednesday night.

Lev Tahor sources confirmed that the two had been released and stressed that this proved that the entire arrest operation was a false arrest as they had not been involved in human trafficking or any other offenses. However Mexican enforcement officials told local news outlets that they had gathered evidence of such crimes and that the two would have to stand trial for them.

A Mexican official involved in the arrest said that the escape was planned meticulously. “People waited for them with cars and they fled within minutes. The official said that “we are trying to locate them and return them to custody.”

The official said that the members of the cult had caused extensive damage to the detention facility. One of the guards was injured during the escape.

A Lev Tahor source told Kikar Hashabat that “they can continue searching. We have left the country already, we planned this operation well. Regarding the damage they caused, the source said that “they can’t keep us in subhuman conditions, this was our response to the conditions of custody.”