Herzog "the Leftist" Helping White House Humiliate Netanyahu

 

President Joe Biden invited President Yitzhak Herzog to a meeting at the White House, N12 reported Tuesday night. That the official invitation will go out in the coming days, but it appears that Herzog will come to America in the third week of July, speak before a joint session of Congress to mark Israel’s 75th anniversary, and then come for tea in the Oval Office.

The White House has issued a clarification, saying that during his visit to the US last year, President Herzog was invited by the House of Representatives to speak at the joint session. And the White House is working on coordinating the visit.

This is not good news for Israel, even if you’re a left-winger. It suggests that the White House is investing an extraordinary amount of time and effort in pushing away Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and getting precariously close to undermining his legitimacy.

In late March, one day after US Ambassador Tom Nides reassured Israel’s Army Radio that an invitation of Netanyahu to the White House was happening shortly, President Biden told a reporter emphatically: “Netanyahu won’t be invited to the White House in the near term.”

Toldos Avrohom Yitzchak Rebbe Says He Opposes Light Rail Violent Protests

 

An unusual and historic meeting took place this week between Jerusalem mayor Moshe Leon and the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchak Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Kohn.

The rebbe spoke with warmth and friendship to the mayor about several topics concerning the city. At the end of the meeting the Rebbe blessed Leon and said that he intends to maintain contacts with him.

The main topic which was raised was the issue of the light rail, which has once again led to violent demonstrations at the Bar Ilan street site where work is now being completed on the light rail line which will connect the neighborhoods of northern Jerusalem.

The mayor presented to the rebbe a number of steps being taken to maintain the character of the neighborhood, including special stations for the chareidi sector, darkening the windows of the train and other measures. The mayor explained how the train will be a significant improvement over the hundreds of buses passing through the congested region and how it would help even from a spiritual level. The rebbe said that he was happy to hear another opinion and that he had heard new contentions which he had not know previously. He added that he is opposed to all acts of violence and destruction.

The second part of the discussion concerned the assistance which the mayor wishes to provide for educational institutions including Talmud Torahs as well as welfare organizations and the importance of cooperation in promoting the affairs of the city. It should be noted that although Toldos Avrohom Yitzchak do not participate in elections, there are some groups which permit voting in municipal elections [due to take place in November 2023] and the Rebbe may have influence over those groups as well.

The mayor said that his goal is to ensure that no child will be without a proper educational facility and this is now his major endeavor, after many years in which the issue has not been properly addressed.

Officials involved in the highly secret meeting termed it “historic” as the rebbe has never in the past met with any mayor, even when there was a chareidi mayor in Jerusalem. The current meeting demonstrates that Moshe Leon is determined to maintain channels of communication with every sector in Jerusalem.

Toddler Seriously Injured After Being Bitten By Rats in FILTHY Bnei-Brak

 

 Just Yesterday, we posted a video where you see that even the cats wouldn't touch these filthy rats! 

This problem is only in Chareidie areas, and now happening in the Chareidie area in Beit Shemesh as well. 

A two-year-old Bnei Brak girl was bitten by rats and badly injured while she slept in her bed.  The girl was taken to the Maayanei Hayeshua hospital, where she received treatment for her bites.

The girl’s family heard her scream and then found her bleeding from rat bites all over her body, the girl’s father said. They then hurried to the clinic, where it was decided to hospitalize her immediately.

According to the father, they had warned and alerted the municipality multiple times to the proliferation of rodents, but they “simply didn’t do anything. We are afraid to return home, the situation has to change. One of the children might die because of this,” he warned.

The father recalled that “I saw a large amount of blood which didn’t stop flowing. I washed the girl and searched for the source of the bleeding and then understood that it was rat bites. We rushed to the emergency room and they gave her intravenous antibiotics to prevent infection. It will take some time until the wounds from the bites will heal.”

The city of Bnei Brak has recently suffered an infestation of rats, which has led to multiple incidents of people being bitten by the rodents.

Among recent incidents, a two-year-old was bitten in kindergarten and a four-year-old child was bitten in a playground. Both required emergency medical treatment.

“A quarter of a million residents of Bnei Brak suffer from a terrible plague of rats and mice that endanger human life and no one cares,” said Yaakov Wieder, a city council member and a relative of the injured child.

“I call on the Israeli government to declare Bnei Brak a dangerous area and to issue an order obliging the municipality’s officials to immediately address the eradication of the plague,” Wieder added.

“The municipality and Mayor Avraham Rubinstein are working very hard to eliminate the nuisance of the rats and remove this significant hazard in every way,” Ynet quoted the municipality’s response.

“Today’s incident only strengthens the urgency of approving the emergency plan that is on the table of the city council. The municipality of Bnei Brak is speeding up the overall activity as shown by, among other things, the increase of the municipal sanitation budget, which has almost doubled and currently stands at NIS 120 million per year, and the replacement of trash cans with underground bins, a huge project that is being carried out all over the city.

The municipality announced a “war” against the problem in March and allocated a considerable budget to the matter, Ynet reported. A project manager has been appointed to deal with the scourge.

In March, Wieder warned about the situation in a letter to the Health Minister: “In recent days, a number of children and toddlers have been bitten by rats, and an elderly man who was walking on the road even needed medical attention and was hospitalized as a result of being bitten. After consulting with an expert, it seems that the problem does not exist in cities adjacent to Bnei Brak, so there is no doubt that it is related to the sanitation conditions in the city. Bnei Brak is one of the dirtiest and most neglected cities in Israel. This is a clear danger to the public that really endangers human life.”

New York Times Declares "Falafel Tanami" in Midwood the Best Falafel in NYC

 

What happens when the country’s premier newspaper names a hole-in-the-wall kosher falafel joint as one of the 100 best restaurants in New York?

Hundreds of people show up every day, creating lines that occasionally snake out the door. News stations from across the globe ask for interviews, catering requests come in from all over the city and, of course, the falafel often sells out before closing time.

That’s what happened at Falafel Tanami, a tiny Israeli-owned falafel place just a few blocks off the Avenue M stop on the Q train in Midwood, Brooklyn. In April, the humble eatery at 1305 East 17th Street  —  featuring just three counter stools, a quiet soundtrack of Israeli religious pop and photos of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson adorning the walls — was included in the New York Times’ list of the 100 best restaurants in New York City, curated by the paper’s senior food critic, Pete Wells.

“It has been crazy, Baruch Hashem,” said Galit Tanami, using the Hebrew for “thank God.” She owns the store with her husband, Ronen. “Everybody is so excited for us.”

“The falafel are extraordinary,” Wells wrote in his review. “The thick cushions of pita, baked to order, may be better yet. It’s hard not to go wild with the salads and vegetables and garlic, all as fresh as if you were standing in a market in Tel Aviv.”

“Now everybody wants to try it,” Tanami said of her restaurant’s signature dish.

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).