Sunday, October 29, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023
NYC street vendors cheer Hamas terrorism on Israel: ‘Leave our land’
Their views are hard to swallow.
New York City’s omnipresent halal and other street vendors expressed near universal support for Hamas with many telling The Post the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack in Israel which killed roughly 1,400 people was justified.
“I am Muslim. I am Egyptian. We support Gaza,” declared a Columbus Circle vendor who would only provide his first name, Ahmed.
“Hamas no attacks Israel. Hamas defends herself. Hamas is self-defense, to protect Islam,” he continued.
“Leave our land. No place to Jewish. Israel must leave.”
Israel may use new ‘Sponge Bombs’ to seal and block off Hamas tunnels
Israel may use a new weapon called “sponge bombs” to seal and block off Hamas tunnels.
The Israel Defense Force could deploy the new handheld devices to negotiate Hamas’ labyrinthine tunnel system –and trap any hidden fighters in them once they launch their long-awaited ground invasion into Gaza, according to reports.
The sponge bombs consist of chemical compounds based around a liquid emulsion.
It can be thrown into a tunnel where it swiftly expands and hardens.
The device would leave Hamas fighters with no escape and allow Israeli commandos to secure safe routes to travel while searching for hostages.
The Hamas tunnels are believed to stretch for hundreds of miles underground, although the blockaded Gaza Strip itself is just 25 miles in length.
The IDF has reportedly trained soldiers to use the sponge bombs at the Israeli military’s “mini Gaza,” a mock-up of the underground tunnel system constructed at the Urban Warfare Training Center in the Negev desert.
The bombs feature a barrier that keeps two volatile liquids separate.
When it is removed, the liquids combine and immediately react.
The dangerous material left some Israeli soldiers blinded during training, according to reports.
It’s not the first time foam or slime was considered for military use — American soldiers used foam as a non-lethal tactic against rioters in Somalia.
Broadway producer James L. Simon tears down Israeli hostage flier in Heavy Jewish Neighborhood
A Broadway theater producer is the latest New Yorker to be caught on film brazenly tearing down fliers of civilians in Israel kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, The Post has learned.
In a video shared online by neighborhood blog I Love the Upper West Side, James L. Simon, who co-produced the 2022 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” is seen at West 62nd Street and Broadway using scissors to remove a poster featuring one of the roughly 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel.
The stone-faced Simon then crumpled up the flier, which had been taped to a traffic sensor box in the heavily Jewish neighborhood, before chucking it into a garbage can and silently walking off, the footage showed.
“You’re going to a dark and devious place if you’ve come to a place where you’re ripping posters off the wall of Israeli hostages, of innocent people held captive by terrorists,” former Broadway producer Adam Epstein, who hosts the podcast Dirty Moderate, told The Post.
Simon, who has also produced Broadway revivals of “Pippin” and “Bells Are Ringing,” told The Post he took down the fliers for the purpose of keeping the city’s streets clean, not for antisemitic reasons, and apologized for offending anyone.
“I’m a strong supporter of free speech and encourage people to express their opinions, but all I’m asking is to do it legally,” he said, citing city Sanitation Department rules.
Legendary Jewish Music Producer Sheya Mendlowitz Passes at 61
R’ Sheya Mendlowitz, a music producer whose work heavily influenced the landscape of frum, bataamte music for four decades passes away. He was 61.
A trailblazer and visionary in the music industry, he produced hundreds of music albums, including some of the greatest hits for Mordechai Ben David and Avraham Fried. He was also the producer of 15 of the legendary HASC concerts, the first one of which took place 35 years in January of 1988 at the Lincoln Center, when Sheya was just 25 years old.
Sheya grew up in Flatbush, attending Yeshiva Torah Temimah as a child. His entry into the world of music came through his second grade rebbi, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum z”l, who headed the original Pirchei Choir. Sheya joined the choir, appearing on the fourth Pirchei Choir LP, and later sang on the Sdei Chemed albums.
In 1979, he co-produced the Amudei Sheish Boys choir LP, then solo-produced the Amudei Sheish Wedding Album which was released the following year.
Sheya went on to produce Avraham Fried’s first solo album, entitled “No Jew Will Be Left Behind” in 1981. That same year, Sheya was involved with two of MBD’s releases: “Mordechai Ben David Live” (his first live album) and “Memories”, which was written in memory of his mother, A”H. Over the following years, Sheya and MBD jointly produced a number of hit albums together, including: his “MBD & Friends” (1987), “Mostly Horas” (1987), “Yisroel Lamm & The Philharmonic Experience” (1988), and “25 Years of Jewish Music” (1988). Sheya Mendlowitz went on to produce MBD’s “Simen Tov – Keitzad” (single album) (1989), and “The Double Album” (1990).
Sheya produced his first concert in 1981 at the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden, featuring Mordechai ben David.
He was the composer of one of the most famous “Siman Tov U’Mazal Tov” tunes of all time – first sung by the chasunah of the Belzer Rebbe’s son – which is still used at Jewish weddings throughout the world.
Sheya had a special fondness for authentic Jewish music, and insisted on promoting it as much as possible.
“One thing I have tried to do is to preserve Jewish music. Everything is influenced by its surroundings and people try to take the rhythms of secular music and put Jewish words to it, but I wonder if that’s really Jewish music,” he said in an interview earlier this year. “So what I’ve tried to do is preserve the Jewish identity of the music. The stuff that’s lasted through time are the real old, old songs- the chasideshe stuff and the Carlebach stuff and the Modzitzer stuff, because if you take all the arrangements and extras out of it, you’re left with a beautiful, pure melody.”
Sheya suffered terribly from a slew of ailments and medical conditions the past few years. Incredibly, he never complained. As he was unable to walk the past few years, close friends made a Shul for him in his home where there Minyanim every Shabbos and Yom Tov. He always had a smile and a good word for everyone.
He was in and put of the hospital recently, and his condition deteriorated until his Petira early Friday morning.
The Levaya will be on Sunday morning at Shomrei Hadas on 14th Avenue and 38th Street.
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