Pious Jews Prefer Living Somewhere Else in the World Than Living in Israel .. Hitler Couldn't Change Their Minds!

 

The attitude of Jews towards the Land of Israel has always been a litmus type of test of Jewish commitment and even faith throughout the ages. As we see in this week’s parsha, from the beginning of our national existence there have always been Jews – leading Jews, well-intentioned Jews, even outwardly pious Jews – who have preferred living somewhere else in the world than living in the Land of Israel.

 

Even when Hitler came to power, European Jews, in many cases, refused to consider the option of immigration to the Land of Israel. It is not my place to judge others for their behavior in a very dreadful time, especially since I am blessed with the perfect hindsight that they tragically lacked, but it is a strange fact that throughout Jewish history the naysayers regarding the Land of Israel in Jewish society have always abounded. 

 

Jews in the generation of Moses claimed their preference for the land of Egypt over the Land of Israel. An entire generation of special and gifted Jews was destroyed in the desert of Sinai because of their unwillingness to consider living in the Land of Israel as a viable option for them and their descendants. The challenge of living in the Land of Israel was apparently too great a problem for them to overcome - physically, psychologically and spiritually.

 

To me this attitude remains one of the supreme mysteries of all of Jewish history. But mystery or not, it certainly is a fact that has governed Jewish life over the ages.

 

When Moses’ own relative refused the offer to go to the Land of Israel, Rashi explains that the two reasons for his behavior had to do with family and making a living. These are very strong reasons that exist today that prevent many Jews from considering immigrating to the Land of Israel. Again, I neither judge nor begrudge anyone in this or any other life changing matter.

 

However, I feel that the issue of the Land of Israel, independent of any other causes and motives, strikes at a very deep place within our personal and national soul. 

The fact that the most ultra-assimilated and the most outwardly ultra-pious within the Jewish people are included in our generation’s most vociferous of the anti- Land of Israel groups, shows that the problem is both deep and sensitive.

The extremes in Jewish society cannot deal with the Land of Israel as a reality and earnestly hope that the issue will somehow disappear completely. There are millions of Jews who prefer living in exile to living in the Land of Israel. The Jewish people has not absorbed the lessons of the exile, its alienation, assimilation, and its ultimate corruption of Torah values.

 

Today, many Jews who physically live in the Land of Israel still psychologically and spiritually live in the exile, in a fantasy of the long-destroyed shtetel of Eastern Europe. As foretold to us by our prophets, the ultimate fate of the Jewish people will be determined for us by our attitude to the Land of Israel. Living in the Land of Israel or at least visiting it regularly is currently the centerpiece of Jewish life, its faith and its future.

 

Shabat shalom

 

Rabbi Berel Wein

 

New olim will now need to wait a year before receiving Israeli passport

 

New olim will now need to wait a year before receiving an Israeli passport after the Knesset plenum approved an amendment to the Passport Law. This amendment is mainly a counteraction to a large number of Russian and Ukrainian citizens to Israel according to the Law of Return but didn’t actually live in the country. 

Under the bill, new olim would hold a temporary passport (or travel document) for their first year and then receive a permanent passport. A temporary passport complicates travel, as it does not permit the same freedom of travel as a permanent one. The bill reverts back to what existed in Israel prior to 2017, when olim received a temporary passport for one year, save for VIPs or other well-connected individuals who were given passports in less time. In 2017 the law was changed, such that olim receive permanent passports immediately upon becoming citizens.

The amendment was a government proposal that was merged with a private legislation proposal from MK Yossi Taib. 31 Knesset members supported the proposal and 25 opposed it.

American Jews Are Concealing Their Jewish Identity

 

In the past, when I thought of Jews concealing the fact that they are Jewish, black and white scenes from the Holocaust or the former Soviet Union came to mind. As a Jewish baby boomer who grew up in the United States, I always felt safe here and I wore my Judaica to show off my Jewish pride.

But over the past few years, the rise of antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad is making Jews question if they should openly wear religious symbols in public.

Just recently, a loudspeaker on a train traveling through Austria near Vienna began blaring Adolf Hitler's speeches and chanting "Sieg Heil" at the passengers. Someone aboard the train had hacked into the PA system, and it wasn't the first time this happened. One passenger, a concentration camp survivor, left the train crying. Police are investigating, and there is concern that this may be part of a disturbing trend.

Bnei-Brak so Filthy That even the Cats Won't Eat the Dirty Rats

 Why is it that only in Chareidie areas is their such filth? A "busha" !

לא צריך פרויקטור למיגור תופעת העכברים והחולדות. אני במקום ראש העיר בני ברק מביא משאית עם אלפי חתולים ומפזר אותם ליד פחי האשפה - וחלאס. pic.twitter.com/cKvsKBxmwv

— מנחם קולדצקי (@nbjovsr88) June 13, 2023

Blind Hatred of AOC Tlaib and Omar for Israel Outweighs All Other Considerations Even Peace With Arabs

 

Here are the 13 disgraceful Congress members who voted against the expansion of the peace promoting Abraham Accords in the Middle East. If they are not for peace between Israel🇮🇱 & its neighbors, what does that say? Warmongers?🤔 pic.twitter.com/Sh4dFUj785

— TXtwinmama 🟦 (@Txtwinmama) June 13, 2023

Former ‘Miss Iraq’ Sarah Idan to vie for Adam Schiff’s congressional seat

 

First, she represented Iraq in the “Miss Universe” competition. Then she fled her country after posing for a selfie in 2017 with “Miss Israel.” Now, Sarah Idan is running for California’s 30th congressional district—the seat that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is vacating as he vies to replace the retiring Dianne Feinstein in the Senate.

“I’m running because this is a critical time in U.S. history when our democracy is fundamentally at stake,” the Baghdad native, 33, told JNS. “I’ve always been passionate about human rights and making this world a better place.”

At age 18 and a strong English speaker, Idan served as a volunteer translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq. She said that she moved back and forth from Iraq to the United States from 2009 to 2017. She became a U.S. citizen in 2015.

Idan was “Miss Iraq USA” in 2016 (for the Iraqi community inside America). Then in 2017, she went to win the “Miss Iraq” competition (held in Baghdad). That led her to represent Iraq in the “Miss Universe” competition.

A secular Muslim, she reportedly received death threats both for posing in a bikini and being photographed with “Miss Israel,” Adar Gandelsman.

Her Iraqi citizenship revoked, Idan told JNS that she immigrated to the United States in 2017.

A UN Watch “ambassador for peace,” she promotes peace with Israel.

Idan filed on May 19 to run for the California seat as a Democrat, she told JNS.

“Like most Americans, I’ve been directly affected by bad policies voted on in our Congress,” she said. “I believe we need new faces of representatives—candidates who aren’t self-serving, candidates who didn’t hold power positions for years and contributed nothing except for pushing the agendas of the highest bidders in Washington, D.C.”

Idan plans to provide a unique perspective in Congress as a Muslim immigrant woman and a human-rights activist.

“I hope my voice as an ethical activist, as a minority, as a non-corrupt politician and as a working-class, first-generation immigrant will have the impact we long for,” she said. “My expertise on both domestic and foreign policies may help shed a new light on how to solve the problems we currently have.”

Idan’s campaign website, under “U.S.-Israel relationship,” states that she is “a proud, staunch Zionist” who believes in Israel’s right to exist and defend itself from terrorist attacks.

“I support U.S.-Israel military cooperation and will vote ‘yes’ on any measure to fund the Iron Dome,” per the site. “I oppose any efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel, whether on the international stage or on our own college campuses.”

Ben Savage, the actor who starred in “Boy Meets World,” is among several others vying for the seat. By March 30, he had raised a little more than $100,000, including a $77,000 loan, according to his FEC report.

Other candidates include former Los Angeles city attorney Mike Feuer (more than $657,000 raised by March 30), state senator Anthony Portantino (more than $610,000), Los Angeles Board of Education member Nick Melvoin (more than $560,000) and state assemblywoman Laura Friedman (more than $336,000).

Millions losing faith in our system over Trump-Biden divide

 

Watching the Tuesday circus in Miami and listening to media pooh-bah pronouncements about the gravity of the moment, I recalled a conversation with a friend about the indictment of Donald Trump.

He repeated a phrase he had heard recently: “We’re not voting our way out of this.”

“This” of course is a reference to the great divide tearing America apart, and Exhibit A is a Democratic president’s willingness to use the Department of Justice as a weapon against his leading Republican rival.

There are many good reasons why no former president has ever faced criminal charges, and it’s not because they behaved as angels for the rest of their lives starting the minute they left office.

It’s because previous generations understood there had to be limits to the use of government power, or the country would tear itself to pieces every time the presidency changed hands.

But the far-left wing that has taken over the Dem Party always knows best and believes it can cancel its opponents by shutting them up or, in this case, locking them up.

As always with them, this time is different because they are morally superior people.

Twitter Suspends @Chanalemusic for Saying " “Not every Muslim is a Jihadi terrorist but every Jihadi terrorist is a Muslim.”

 

Renowned Charedi podcaster Chanale Fellig (aka ChanaleMusic), host of the “Weekly Squeeze” Podcast, was suspended from Twitter for a week, for stating what appears to be factual.

Chanale tweeted: “Not every Muslim is a Jihadi terrorist but every Jihadi terrorist is a Muslim.”

The tweet was flagged for violating the social media platforms rules of “hateful conduct”.

Fellig was replying to Islamic journalist Muhammad Shehada on Jun 5. Although it is not clear which tweet she was responding to, on that day Shehada tweeted about the Egyptian soldier who brutally murdered three Israeli soldiers (HY’D).

In response to a J-Post headline which stated the obvious–that the terrorist was found with a Koran, “a sign of extremism”, Shehada tweeted: “Makes the blood boil how this garbage gets published so easily in #Israeli media where a Koran is called a sign of “extremism”!”

He continued, “Imagine someone making a similar statement about the Torah or the Bible? SHAME! No! Virtually every Egyptian Muslim soldier carries a Quran in his pocket. Egypt is very culturally religious, though not conservative. Anyone who’s ever seen a Friday prayer in Egypt would see long lines of worshipers stretching out of the mosque…”

Prior to Elon Musk’s takeover, it was common for Twitter’s censorship board to suspend conservative accounts and suppress free speech. However Musk has transformed it into a free speech platform, and one wonders if he will get involved in this instance.

Chanale calls herself the “queen of Jewish Twitter”. Her bio on her podcast site reads: When Chanale is not making music and busy being a supermom of her Israeli kids she is diving deep into Jewish culture. If it’s happening in the Jewish world you’re gonna hear about it here first. Heavy on humor, light on sarcasm, always interesting…

Chareidie Yeshivas Use the "Forbidden" Internet to Find Students Who have Driver Licenses and Throw them Out!

 

This story has me in stitches! 

The "heiliger" Chareide menhalim who organize asifas against the internet, snuck into the website of the Ministry of Transportation and found out which of their students had driver licenses and threw them the hell out!

What is their problem with a bochur having a driver's license? 

They are afraid that he will have easy access to transportation and be able to travel to the bars in Tel Aviv and have a good time, and then drive back nonchalantly to the Bais Medrish to resume shuckling over the gemarrah., no one the wiser.

 It seems that the "internet peaking" tzaddikim finally emerged from underneath their rocks, and discovered "Lo and Behold" that an epidemic of their "shtarker learners" are a bunch of fakes, frauds and phonies, not of any fault of their own as they are forced to sit in a place they don't want to be, but they couldn't tell which ones were "bar-hopping" and which were serious learners, since they all look alike and they all "shuckle." 

Instead of following the advice of Harav Shach z"l whose opinion was that those who are not serious learners, should not be exempt from the Army or following the advice of  Harav Hagoen R' Dovid Leibel shlitah that bochrim should get the choice of getting a secular education and get a job, they decided to just throw them out!

Why use this sneaky method?

Yeshivas are a business and they need bochrim, I mean bodies, so that they can get more government $$$$$$$$$$! They cannot embrace an idea that would give their students an option to legitimately not be part of this corrupt system, they would rather single out a couple of "bad apples" even if this means destroying the shidduch prospects of these bochrim, having baggage that they were" thrown out!" The Manhalim don't really care about the souls of these Bochrim; it's all about numbers! 

Just yesterday, I was at a wedding in Yerushalyim and arrived just as a "big" Rosh Yeshiva from Bnei Brak  arrived chauferred by guess who?? A bochur with a driver's license, how do I know? Because this bochur lives in my neighborhood. So, what's pshat? They will still keep a "sheigetz" or two to drive them around.

These same "internet" Roshei Yeshivas are now secretly fighting a law that was offered recently to lower the age of IDF recruits. Now, the law is that if someone hits 26, he can go to work if he received a "petur" from the army, and is no longer hounded by the Zionists. The new law if passed will lower the age from 21 - 23. 

 Nice?

 You would think, but the R"Y are against this. They told Gafni to shelve it this part of the law.

Goldknupf from the Aguda,on the other hand, doesn't care either way as the Chassidim wouldn't mind working sooner. 

You would think that the R"Y would celebrate this as the bochrim will not need a deferment once they reach 22 or 23, but they are fighting this! Why? You guessed it, they are frightened that this new "gezirah" will diminish their learner population! Turns out that this IDF recruitment business is good business for the R"Ys and who knew that secretly they love the "Geuis Gezirah", because as long as the Zionists recruit for the IDF the more bochrim will inevitably  fill the shtenders, albeit the few with driver licenses 

Zionists are now on the same page as the Roshei Yeshivas, you live and learn!

A security weakness in the Ministry of Transportation's identification system allowed access to the personal information of students from haredi yeshivas all over Israel through the ministry's telephone answering service and website.

Complaints received by the Authority for the Protection of Privacy testified that staff members at haredi yeshivas took advantage of the weakness of the identification system to find out which students had a driver's license. Students with a driver's license were expelled from yeshiva.

To find out whether a student holds a driver's license, one needs to contact the hotline of the Ministry of Transportation or use the website and select the option to get a copy of a license.

The applicant has to enter an ID number and date of birth, details that every student submits during registration, allowing anyone with those details to check if the individual in question has a license.

From the inspection procedure carried out by the Authority, it emerged that the Ministry of Transportation's computerized systems did not use sufficient identification safeguards to verify a person's identity.

In the violation letter that the Authority for the Protection of Privacy sent last month to the Ministry of Transportation, it states that information that a person holds a driver's license is information protected under the Privacy Protection Law, and constitutes at the very least "information about a person's private affairs."

In the violation letter, the Authority stated that the Ministry of Transportation violated its duty as a public body not to provide information about a person from a public database to someone who is not the subject of the information and without the consent of the subject of the information. The Authority also determined that the existing identification system in the Ministry of Transportation's computer systems does not comply with the provisions of the law and regulations. In doing so, the Ministry of Transportation violates its duty to adequately protect the public's information.

In the letter, the Authority emphasizes that "handing over this type of information to an anonymous individual, without the consent of the subject of the information, constitutes a distinct violation of privacy, all the more so where it manifests itself in a substantial harm during the life of the subject of the information, by way of removing him from the yeshiva where he studies, wth all that is implied by that".

Non-Kosher Meat Confiscated From ‘Kosher LeMehadrin’ Restaurant

 

Chas Ve'sholom to eat from "The Rabbanute." We eat only "Mehadrin"

You mean "Mehadrin" Chazir!

This is not the first time that "Mehadrin" restaurants were caught feeding the oilam chazir! 

More than 700 kilograms of unfit, apparently non-kosher meat were confiscated by Israeli police and members of the veterinarian unit of the Ramle municipality from a local restaurant which displayed a mehadrin kashrus.

According to a police report Monday, the meat had apparently been brought into Israel from the Palestinian authority and was being kept in improper conditions in a storeroom with a makeshift air conditioner and with no refrigeration.

A police statement said that “Police from the Ramle station as well as supervisors from local authorities and members of the veterinary service conducted targeted enforcement at a number of local businesses including checking business permits and sanitation. During the enforcement operation the authorities confiscated about 760 kg of mit which were unfit for consumption”

The meat was taken and destroyed and the restaurant was fined for unsanitary conduct.