Rabbi to European ambassadors: 'Jews don't need your approval'

 

The rabbi charged with administering the Western Wall Plaza excoriated United Nations ambassadors from four countries who boycotted a visit to the holy site.

A week ago, the United Nations ambassadors from Italy, Romania, Slovenia, and Moldova dropped out of a group visit to the Western Wall, after the European Union ordered representatives of member states not to participate in any Israeli-hosted tour of eastern Jerusalem.

The representatives of seven other nations took part in the visit as planned. They included ambassadors from Thailand, Costa Rica, Belize, Serbia, Georgia, Haiti, and Sierra Leone.

On Friday, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western Wall, blasted the boycott in an open letter.

"It was with extreme dismay that I heard of your decision not to attend the official tour of the Western Wall given by the State of Israel for ambassadors. 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.' Your decision to 'avoid' the tour was a resounding victory for evil, a choice that is deeply upsetting."

"The Jewish nation does not need anyone’s approval for its eternal connection with Jerusalem and the Western Wall. This is a bond of thousands of years that was shaped by the love of a nation for its God and forged through the fire of destruction. It is a bond that is validated every single day by unusual archaeological findings from the days of ancient kings of Judah, discovered in the earth of Jerusalem. Had you joined the tour, you would have seen them yourself."

"Cynical people have been spreading the disdainful libel that the Jewish nation is threatening the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s peace. They have been doing so since 1929. The truth is quite the contrary. The Jewish nation is the only one in the last two-thousand years under whose sovereignty there is real and complete freedom of religion for all religions."

"What was done cannot be undone. Your choice was made and its echoes were heard around the world. But if the welfare of Jerusalem is indeed dear to you, if you actually wish to partner with those from all religions who sincerely wish to make Jerusalem a city of peace, then you must stand by historic, archaeological, and cultural truth and see the Israeli tolerance and acceptance of all religions in Jerusalem.

Splitting heirs Holocaust survivor $40M estate still unclaimed

 

A decade after his death, the $40 million estate of Holocaust survivor and Staten Island developer Roman Blum has yet to be resolved — and the vast fortune is shrinking as his would-be heirs battle for their piece of the pie.

“I can say there’s about half of it left, probably,” said Richmond County Public Administrator Edwina Frances Martin, whose office oversees the estate because Blum died without a will.

The estate has been whittled down by taxes and attorney fees.

“Right now there are two parties who are claiming a right to Mr. Blum’s estate and it’s playing out in court,” Martin added.

Albert Reichmann Passes Away at 93

 

R’ Yissochor Dov Reichmann z”l, better known as Beri or Albert passes away. He was 93 years old.

Born into a family of 6 in Vienna, Beri and his family escaped the hands of the Nazis, and he eventually became one of five Reichmann brothers running their business empire that became renowned for its philanthropy and chesed.

R’ Beri got engaged to his wife, Egosah, while the family was in Morocco, got married in Eretz Yisroel, and then spent his early married years in Tangier, Morroco, where his oldest child, Efraim, was born.

R’ Beri moved to Toronto in 1959 and joined his brothers Paul and Ralph in establishing a business – Olympia and York, which would quickly see nearly unfathomable success.

Aside from his business accomplishments, R’ Beri became deeply involved in the cause of Russian Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s, using his money and influence to assist them in escaping its clutches.

The levaya will take place at 11:30 am Sunday morning at Khal Toras Emes/Viewmount Shul in Toronto.

Satmar Rebbe Zalman Leib Ignores the pain of Sexual Victims and Visits Nechemya Weberman their Convicted Rapist in Prison

 

We reported this nauseating story back in 2012 when the Sex fiend was first tried in court

https://dusiznies.blogspot.com/search?q=Weberman

The Satmar “Grand Rebbe” Zalman Teitelbaum paid a visit to convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in prison last month, according to a Yiddish-language newspaper serving the Satmar Hasidic community that has published a series of favorable articles about the former fake therapist accused of sexually abusing an adolescent girl starting from when the victim was 12 years old.

The visit, and the weekly series of articles in Kiryas Joel Vochenshrift, have riled advocates for sexual abuse victims in the Hasidic community. They say the community’s leadership has a pattern of downplaying abuse charges and in this case convictions, further traumatizing the victims. 

A sexual abuse survivor who lives in Kiryas Joel, the Orange County, New York seat of Zalman Teitelbaum’s Satmar faction, told the New York Jewish Week that abuse victims like her feel they are “being stabbed” when they see support for accused abusers in the Hasidic media and among their leaders. 

“It’s retraumatizing victims,” said the survivor, who asked not to be named for reasons of privacy and safety. “It’s being stabbed every week, again and again, and knowing that if you’re ever going to open your mouth you’re going to be kicked out.” 

The woman said that other survivors within the community told her “that they are not going to come forward so quick again because they see this every week.”

“It’s the most horrific thing,” the source said. “I am reliving all the hell that I’ve gone through. They are taking a molester, who did the worst thing, and they are promoting him, and calling him holy.”    

Chareidim in Geula Nearly Murder a Lady In Violent Geula Disturbances

 

A woman was seriously injured during violent demonstrations which broke out Thursday in Geula. The woman was doing Shabbos shopping when the garbage dumpster was rolled down Yechezkel street by extremist elements, slamming into her as she was walking and causing her severe chest injuries. She is currently sedated and respirated in Shaarei Tzedek hospital, in serious but stable condition. 

Her name for prayers: Mirel Bas Rachel Leah.

United Hatzalah medic Aharon Getz said that “bystanders said that the dumpster had rolled down the street during the demonstration and crushed her against the wall. Together with other medics we gave her emergency assistance and she was taken in a mobile intensive care unit to Shaarei Tzedek where she is hospitalized in serious condition.”

Police said that they are investigating the matter and will find those involved in the incident and bring them to justice. A Jerusalem District police spokesman said that “recently and especially over the last few nights we have witnessed violent extremists violating the law, harming police and civilians in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh in the wake of the arrest of a suspect in the arson attack against a cellular phone store this week. These are violent disturbances which have no relation to legitimate demonstrations. The violence has been directed against buses, police cars and yesterday against an innocent bystander who was seriously injured. Vandalism, arson, rolling garbage dumpsters, throwing stones and objects, harming civilians and police and blocking roads – is not legal protesting but violent disturbances which could cost human lives. We will continue to act forcefully against violators of law who harm local residents, passersby and policemen.”

Leading politicians, including Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon and incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called on police act forcefully against the violent rioters. “Violence is not freedom of speech, it is anarchy. Anarchists and criminals must be treated harshly and forcefully. The hooligans who nearly murdered a woman and harmed police should be jailed for many years,” Ben Gvir said.

He added that “its time to make order in Israel. We can’t reprieve anyone acting violently. Demonstrations and freedom of speech are important but disturbances, harming police and destroying infrastructure cannot be allowed.”

UTJ leaders Yitzchak Goldknopf and Moshe Gafni and Shas leader Aryeh Deri also condemned the violent disturbances and called for police to “catch the hooligans and bring them to justice.”

Zera Shimshon Parshas VaYeishav

 

J Street defends the Vicious Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar

 

J Street, a far-left organization that has done more to turn Israel into a partisan issue than any other, has joined other anti-Israel Jewish groups (Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Habonim Dror North America, J Street, New Israel Fund, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and T’ruah - note that the Reform Movementisout in the open) in an attempt to browbeat Kevin McCarthy—likely to be the next speaker of the House—into not kicking virulent antisemite Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

This is in keeping with J Street’s plan to make Israel less safe and turn it into a wedge issue.

Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever settle dispute over Israeli ice cream

 

Unilever said Thursday that its litigation with the independent board of Ben & Jerry’s over the sale of its Israeli ice cream business has “been resolved.”

The company did not provide details of how the litigation had been resolved.

Unilever in June sold its Ben & Jerry’s ice cream business in Israel and the West Bank to its local licensee, Avi Zinger, for an undisclosed sum. The next month, Ben & Jerry’s filed a lawsuit against a Unilever subsidiary to try to block the sale.

The Vermont-based ice cream brand said last year it no longer wanted to sell its products in the occupied West Bank because it was inconsistent with its values. Ben & Jerry’s products have been for sale in Israel for decades.

In an updated lawsuit filed in September, Ben & Jerry’s said it was seeking damages and wanted the trademarks returned. The company also asked a judge to stop Zinger from selling the ice cream in the West Bank.

Ben & Jerry’s declined to comment and Ben & Jerry’s independent board did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“I am pleased that the litigation between Unilever and the independent Board of Ben & Jerrys has been resolved,” Avi Zinger said in a statement on Thursday.

Chareidim Riot Like Arabs in Bet Shemesh "Bet" Throwing Stones on Buses with children inside and Putting Trash Bins on Fire .Rabbanim Refuse to Condemn them!

 

As I explained previously, Beit Shemesh is huge with a population of over 120,000 bl"eh. 

There is a neighborhood that is called Beit Shemesh Bet, where the majority of the residents are extremists. 

If you met them one on one, they are the nicest guys but when they are together, they are dangerous, just like a match and a powder keg.

About two weeks ago, a couple of these guys decided to take a bus to Yerushlayim and burn down a store that sold Kosher cell phones, that refused to pay the Chareidie Mafia... "bakshish" bribe money!

There was a family of twelve living upstairs on top of the store, and they barely got out with their lives; the entire store burned to a crisp.

After an investigation, the Zionists were able to identify who the "tzaddikim" were by examining the nearby "tumedikeh" video cameras. They discovered that the arsonists lived in Beit Shemesh Bet!

They arrested the arsonists who should have been charged with attempted murder, but the cursed Zionist judge who had misplaced mercy on these "achzorim" only held them for arson. 

Since their arrest, there has been violent protests every single night, where grown men and bochrim block traffic in their very own communities for hours on end,  to try to get the judge to release them. 

No one would actually care except that there are wedding halls in this neighborhood, and people from other surrounding areas need to go there if they want to go to the simchas. Some stopped going to simchas to avoid the hassle. 

 The residents or people, if you want to call them that, by in large support these terrorists, since they do nothing to stop them, they just munch on "garinim" and gaze at them like they would at monkeys in a zoo. 

Last night they took these riots to a new level, having learned from their Palestinian cousins, that to make the news, you have to step up your game, so they threw rocks at the windows of the buses that were just sitting there, trapped like mice in a cat's jaws, with innocent, men, women and children and even infants sitting inside... For some color, they put the garbage bins on fire..

Hashem must have been watching, because miracle of miracles, no one got hurt.

While this was going on, a group of maybe 100, hired taxis to take them to a brand-new neighborhood in Beit Shemesh, called Beit Shemesh Dalet to continue their mischief. 

Beir Shemesh Dalet will eventually be the largest neighborhood in Beit Shemesh, and these hooligans trying to discourage Dati Leumi Jews from moving in (there are hundreds of Dati Leumi families living there already) protest there every night and scribble "tzniyois" graffiti on the brand-new walls.

Last night they stepped up the game over there too and started spitting on the girls and grown woman that walked by and proceeded to draw Palestinian flags in the brand-new elevators. 

Spitting for them is nothing new, in 2011 they spat and verbally abused a little girl going to school. They got a lot of flak for this huge Chillul Hashem and to stop the national outrage they marched out one of their Capos, a guy by the name of Moshe Friedman who brazenly made a statement denying the entire incident, though he did admit to "yelling" at this little girl, even though there were others who witnessed the incident.

He said at that time that they would continue to yell and harass the little girls because the school she attended was in their neighborhood. The school is actually on the border, (I know, I lived around the corner) and even if it was in their neighborhood, why should a little frum girl going to yeshiva in Israel, in a Jewish country, be yelled and screamed at? And why can't a frum Dati School be anywhere in Israel? If they don't like it, they should move to Ramallah,

In Dalet, there are none of their schools there yet, B"H, and yet they take taxis to spit and yell at girls and Jewish mothers, that don't even live in their neighborhood.

The "spitter" was arrested last night but the Zionist judge let the "shtick drek" off with a warning.

The residents in this new neighborhood, seeing that the Zionists police wouldn't do a damn thing, have decided to fight back, and are taking the law into their own hands and now there is a war every night in Dalet, and I hope no one gets killed.

The protestors don't even live there, they live in BET! 

I think that the Beit Shemesh community should do the following:

(A) Stop shopping in BET, let the shopkeepers know, that things can go two ways

(B) DALET residents should jot down the license plate numbers of the vehicle transporting these vermin and call the Taxi companies and tell them they will not be responsible for what happens to their tires

(C) Sue them personally! 

Do people really hate Charedim?"

by Rationalist Judaism Blog 

I’m always astounded at the frequent charedi claim that the widespread antipathy towards them is motivated by some sort of deep-rooted hatred of Judaism/ Hashem/ Torah. Some people describe it straight-out as antisemitism.

Really? Is there no other possible reason why resent charedim? You can't conceive of anything else?