“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

Saturday, February 11, 2023

High Court, AG, Planning Coup D’état by Declaring Netanyahu ‘Incapacitated’

 

The High Court on Friday ordered Attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to respond within a month to the petition of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, which demands that Netanyahu be declared incapacitated for his involvement in the judicial reform.

According to the Knesset website, the term “incapacitated” describes a situation in which a government official cannot fulfill his duties for certain reasons. The lack of ability to fulfill these duties can be temporary if the office bearer will return to fulfill his position, or permanent if it is clear that the office bearer will not return to fulfill his duties.
Regarding the incapacity of the Prime Minister, Article 16 of the Basic Law: The government establishes instructions regarding the filling of the position of the Prime Minister. According to section (a), if the prime minister is absent from the country, his deputy will call the government meetings and preside over them. According to section (b), if the Prime Minister is temporarily unable to fulfill his duties, the Acting Prime Minister will take his place. If 100 consecutive days have passed in which the acting prime minister served instead of the prime minister, the prime minister is considered to be permanently prevented from fulfilling his duties. According to Article 20(b) of the Basic Law, if the Prime Minister is prevented from fulfilling his duties permanently, the government is considered to have resigned on the 101st day on which the Acting Prime Minister holds office.

And that, folks, is how a judicial Coup D’état happens in Israel:

Left-wing activist baker who believed in abolishing police dies after robbers mowed her down at bank in Oakland – victim’s family say killers shouldn’t go to jail as murders soar 50%

 


The family of an Oakland baker and former publisher who espoused anarchist beliefs believe that the thieves who killed her in a daylight robbery and assault shouldn’t go to jail and her death shouldn’t be used to argue for more police.

Jennifer Angel, 48, founded Angel Cakes bakery in Oakland in 2008. Prior to that, she was a publisher of what she described as ‘radical, progressive’ magazines and a publicist for authors.

On Monday, Angel was leaving her car in front of a bank in uptown Oakland when two robbers smashed her car window and ran off with her belongings, her fiance Ocean Mottley said. 

She then went after the robbers’ getaway car, catching up with it but getting trapped in its door and being dragged over 50 feet. Her head was crushed on the sidewalk and the car drove away.

By Thursday, her family had confirmed her death after spending days in a coma at a local hospital

AT&T Stock Loses $10 Billion in Value After Dumping Newsmax


Since DirecTV dropped Newsmax on Jan. 24, AT&T’s stock has fallen by almost 7%, wiping nearly $10 billion from its market value.

AT&T, the 70% owner of DirecTV, has come under fierce criticism after deplatforming Newsmax from its satellite TV systems — the second conservative channel it has removed in the past year, with OAN going last April.

Days after the Newsmax drop, former President Donald Trump called on Americans to cancel not only DirecTV but all AT&T services, including cellular and wireless services.


“I think it’s deplorable,” Trump said of the cancellation. “Newsmax did well in the ratings, so they actually took something off that was actually doing well in the ratings, as opposed to other shows that don’t.”

Friday, February 10, 2023

Arab Savages Murder 6 Year Old and a 20 year-old- Recently Married Man in Yerushalayim at a Bus Stop

 




Two people were killed and five more injured in a terrorist ramming attack in Jerusalem Friday afternoon.The attack occurred at 1:27 p.m. Friday at a bus stop in the Ramot neighborhood of the capital.

According to preliminary reports, the terrorist rammed his car into a group of pedestrians who were waiting for a bus on Golda Meir Boulevard, on the edge of Ramot near the Tomb of Samuel (Nebi Samuel National Park).

Witnesses say the terrorist, who has been identified as 31-year-old Issawiya resident Hussein Karaka, has been eliminated.

Emergency first responders from MDA and United Hatzalah were dispatched to the scene to treat the injured. Two children injured in the attack were initially listed in critical condition, with two other victims listed as being seriously injured, and two in moderate condition. Two of the victims, including a six-year-old boy, later succumbed to their injuries.

"A car hit the people at the bus stop. Volunteers are currently performing CPR on a young boy approximately eight years old," said United Hatzalah CEO Eli Pollack. "Another man in his late 20s is in critical condition. We treated three other three people who were hurt in the incident."

Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center reported that one of the victims, a man in his 40s, was admitted with moderate injuries. Four other victims were evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

Two children injured in the attack were initially listed in critical condition, with two other victims listed as being seriously injured, and two in moderate condition.

Two of the victims, including a six-year-old boy, later succumbed to their injuries.

"A car hit the people at the bus stop. Volunteers are currently performing CPR on a young boy approximately eight years old," said United Hatzalah CEO Eli Pollack. "Another man in his late 20s is in critical condition. We treated three other three people who were hurt in the incident."

Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center reported that one of the victims, a man in his 40s, was admitted with moderate injuries.

Four other victims were evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.

"The scene was terrible when we arrived," said MDA first responder Shraga Rosenthal. "We saw a vehicle near the bus stop that hit pedestrians that were waiting. We saw six victims near each other. Two of them were six-year-old children who were unconscious with severe multi-system injuries." "A 27-year-old and a 30-year-old male were unconscious, and two further victims were conscious with limb injuries.  "We provided first aid, and performed CPR on the two children. This is a very serious incident.”

MDA paramedic Lishai Shemesh, who was in the area at the time of the attack, said: “I was in the car with my wife and children and noticed a car driving fast into the bus stop and crushing the people who were waiting there."

"I stopped at the side and immediately ran towards the victims. A security person neutralized the terrorist. It was a shocking scene, we saw several victims including 6-8 year old children who were lying unconscious. We immediately began to triage the victims and provide life-saving treatment. MDA teams were immediately at the scene in large numbers, and continued treatment while conveying to hospital. I joined one of the ambulances and we drove a 26-year-old male with a head injury in serious condition to Shaare Zedek hospital."

Zera Shimshon Parshas Yisro

 

Jewish composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach dies at 94

 

Composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach, who was responsible for dozens of mellow pop hits from the 1950s to the 1980s, including “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “(They Long to Be) Close to You” and the theme from the movie “Arthur,” has died at the age of 94, a family member of Bacharach confirmed to CNN.

Bacharach died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.

He was born on May 12, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in the Kew Gardens section of New York City.

Bacharach was the son of Irma M. (née Freeman) and Mark Bertram "Bert" Bacharach, a well-known syndicated newspaper columnist. His family was Jewish, but he said that they did not practice or give much attention to their religion.

Bacharach became a major figure in 20th century pop music, scoring major hits in a variety of genres, from Top 40 to country to rhythm and blues and film scores. He wrote hit songs for a wide range of artists, including Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, the Carpenters and Christopher Cross.

Bacharach, with longtime collaborator Hal David, who was Jewish as well, churned out many of the catchiest songs of the era. Many of them – “Say a Little Prayer,” “Walk on By,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” – became hits for Warwick, one of the biggest-selling female vocalists of the 1960s.

Other hits included Perry Como’s “Magic Moments,” the Shirelles’ “Baby It’s You,” Tom Jones’ “What’s New Pussycat?”, Jackie DeShannon’s “What the World Needs Now is Love,” Herb Alpert’s “This Guy’s In Love With You,” Neil Diamond’s “Heartlight” and the Patti Labelle-Michael McDonald duet “On My Own.”

Bacharach was married four times and had four children.

Anti Netanyahu Far-Leftists Learned Well How to Protest in Yerushlayim From The Chareidim

 

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday evening summoned the commander of the Jerusalem District of the Israel Police to reprimand him in the wake of what he described as "the loss of control of the police in the capital city to a group of anarchists", during a protest of left-wing activists led by the Crime Minister movement.

"The Jerusalem Police lost control over the anarchists. An incident in which burning tires were set on fire near the Prime Minister's Residence, Highway 1 was blocked, and light rail traffic was blocked - these are all extremely serious incidents in which police and security forces were on the scene, but were explicitly instructed not to enforce the law and not to confront the rioters," said Ben Gvir.

In response, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai issued a statement in which he said, "The Commissioner backs the Jerusalem District, its commanders and its chief, Superintendent Doron Turgeman, for standing firm and exercising discretion in dealing with the protest and the subsequent breach of order. In addition, the Commissioner regrets the fact that the investigation of the matter is carried out in a public manner while the police forces are operating in the field, and not through an operational investigation which is carried out at the end of the activity, as is customary."

Shatzer Matzohs bakery , appears to close its doors this Pesach season.

 

Shatzer Matzohs, a matzah bakery that has operated for decades and gained a loyal following, may not be producing matzos ahead of Passover this year.

“At this point in time, we’re not baking,” said a person speaking on Shatzer’s phone line who identified herself as the owner but declined to give her name.

The owner told the New York Jewish Week that the closure is “temporary,” but that she does not know what the future holds. Another person at the Shatzer phone number told the Jewish Week in a subsequent call that the factory may indeed reopen ahead of Passover, but that it has not started baking yet, as it would have at this point in time in previous years.

Rabbi David Bashevkin, a writer and the director of education for the Orthodox youth group NCSY, recalled the brand, which is produced in a factory in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Kensington, as being “the matzah of my childhood.”

“For many people, it had a reputation as the best matzah bakery in the tri-state area, which by definition means it’s the best matzah in the world,” Bashevkin told the New York Jewish Week.

The owner would not comment on why the factory is closing or the history of the company. American Jewish historian Zev Eleff told the New York Jewish Week that he was able to find advertisements for the company in Yiddish newspapers that date back to the 1960s.

“It was a staple,” said Eleff, who serves as the president of Gratz College, a Jewish institution outside of Philadelphia. “The idea of family-owned and tradition, that was a commodity. It’s an important quality, and I think that’s something that’s now lost.”

Shatzer Matzos produces round “shmura” matzah, which is a handmade version of the Passover staple whose production is supervised beginning at the moment the wheat is harvested.

“To hear that we’re not going to have Shatzer Matzoh this year is just a devastating loss,” Bashevkin said. “In my family, we ate their matzah all year long. My father still has Shatzer Matzoh boxes from last year.”

In the Facebook group “Great Kosher Restaurants Foodies,” Riki Landa announced that the company is closed this year, adding that the news was “so sad.”

“I don’t think many will appreciate that for many years, Shatzer was the handmade shmura place,” Rabbi Josh Yuter wrote on Twitter.

“This was the matzah of our youth,” Bashevkin said. “And we’re still rooting for it to come back.”

Ezra "Shoiteh" Friedlander Tells Chuck Schumer All Jews Love Him

 

Earlier this week, Shoiteh Friedlander,  was in an elevator with U.S. Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer, and filmed a short conversation he had with the leading Democrat.

“I am inside an elevator with Senator Chuck Schumer”, Friedlander says in the video.

“Senator, everyone loves you.

“This Senator does so much for the Jewish community. I am saying it publicly. You always have.

“This is not my opinion. This is a fact.

“G-d bless you Senator”.