Thank you Torah U’Mesorah For Doing the Right Thing

 

by Yaakov M (VIN News)

Kudos to Torah U’Mesorah for allowing President Trump to address its recent conference.

Even if he were not the most pro-Jewish president in history and a staunch Israel supporter, it is basic decency and respect to have him speak.

A true no-brainer.

The multiple sustained standing ovations he received by virtually the entire crowd of Rabbanim, Chinuch leaders, and askanim, prove unquestionably that our community remains staunchly supportive of the former president.

With that said, it is absurd that we even need to say that it is “okay” to host the former president of the USA.

The recent buzz among some frum Jews that Trump should be thrown under the bus over his meeting with Kanye West and NIck Fuentes is quintessential Trump-Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

Yeshiva World News, published a letter entitled “Torah U’Mesorah is being used by Trump.”

The letter says: “I understand the importance of being on good terms with influential leaders, but…”

There really is no “but” in my opinion. Throughout history, Jews have pandered and patronized every powerful leader, if for no other reason than our own survival. Right or left, socialist or fascist, gracious or cruel.

It was not a popularity contest, and we were not being “used”. We are a pragmatic bunch, and we follow Chazal who tell us to be wary of politicians yet take advantage of our connection with them for our benefit.

However, when it comes to Trump, our connection goes way deeper. As Rabbi Dov Fischer eloquently observed (in the article Trump quoted extensively), Trump is a Philosemite, and we are infinitely indebted to him.

Chareidim of Meah Shearim Now Going After Optical Stores

 

כיכר השבת בירושלים: אלמוני שבר את הזכוכית של הדלת בחנות אופטיקה הלפרין והשפריץ בפנים בואש. משטרה במקום.@allworldnews111 pic.twitter.com/OJxLTXUlrB

— Itamar Cohen | איתמר כהן (@Itamar_cohen_1) December 18, 2022

Chareidim in Meah Shearim continue to wreak havoc in the neighborhood. 

After Thursday’s violent protest in which a woman was seriously injured by a dumpster rolled by youths demonstrating, on Saturday night Chareidie hooligans smashed the window of Optica Halperin, an optician located in Kikar Hashabat. 

Chareidim sprayed foul-smelling materials in the store after smashing the glass window and causing significant damage. The attack occurred at about 1:30 AM.

Sources close to the Chareidim told reporters that the reason for the vandalism was the fact that the store had recently shown pictures of women in its ads. Police from the nearby Lev Habirah station arrived at the scene and opened an investigation. Employees from the store were alerted and asked to come and guard the store, whose doors had been left open. Police left the scene soon afterwards and are continuing their investigation.

Woke Rep wants us to stop calling pedophiles. Pedophiles

Democratic California Rep. Katie Porter said Wednesday during a Congressional hearing on anti-LGBTQ violence that the term “pedophile” brands people as criminals because of their “sexual orientation.”

Survivors of the Club Q shooting, activists and others testified Wednesday about anti-LGBTQ violence before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

Porter said the phrase “groomer” is a “lie” used to position members of the LGBTQ community as a “threat.”

“It denies them access to public spaces,” Porter said, before asking one witness whether Twitter allows posts calling people “groomers.”

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) president Kelley Robinson said Twitter does not allow users to call people “groomers” but claimed Twitter doesn’t enforce the ban. Robinson then said phrases like “groomers and pedophiles” are used “to describe people … that are mothers and fathers … It is dangerous.”

Robinson then argued the phrases are meant to “dehumanize.”

“You know, this allegation of ‘groomer’ and ‘pedophile,’ it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts merely because of their gender identity, their sexual orientation, their gender identity.”

Porter then said that Twitter allowed the terms to circulate online, reaching “72 million users.”

“This is not just about what happens online. What happens online translates into real harms in people’s lives,” Porter said.

Mirel Dzilowski Mother of 11 Severely Injured by Chareidi Protestors on Motzei Shabbos in "very serious condition"

So far not a peep from the "Gedoilim." On the Anglo Beit Shemesh Chats, if someone tries to discuss this, he/she are shouted down by people screaming "Loshon Hara" 

I am afraid that if these illegal protests are not stopped immediately, someone will get killed. 

Just last week, in Beit Shemesh BET, these Chareidim surrounded a bus filled with woman and children, made it stop and threw rocks and bottles at the windows. The Gedoilim of Beit Shemesh are too busy giving Chanukah Speeches about the "yevanim" and do not have the time to deal with their Jewish brothers who are terrorizing the residents. 

Mirel Dzilowski, a 40-year-old mother of eleven, was seriously injured during a violent demonstration by ultra-Orthodox extremists and is hospitalized at Shaare Zedek Hospital. 

Mordechai, one of her relatives, told N12 this morning (Sunday): "Her condition is still defined as severe but stable and there is no change. We sincerely hope for improvement and ask that all the people of Israel pray for her." 

At the same time, footage from the incident shows the moment Mirel was hit that led to her serious injury.

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.”

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