“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

Friday, December 22, 2023

Wow! Red Cross Facilitating Palestinian Terror Payouts

 

Since Oct. 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive controversial stipends from the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch.

According to PMW, incarcerated Palestinians fill out forms to receive the stipends, and the Red Cross delivers the paperwork to Ramallah.

“The role of the International Red Cross in this process is central,” explained PMW director Itamar Marcus. “The international health organization is involved in this because as they visit prisoners, they’re able to bring in forms. Israeli security is not looking at the forms or preventing the terrorist prisoner access to the forms they need to sign.”

The prisoners’ paperwork needs to be completed by the end of 2023 in order to receive stipends in 2024. Terrorists imprisoned before Oct. 7 are also sending renewal forms via the Red Cross to Ramallah, according to PMW.

A Fatah directive dated Dec. 4 and translated by PMW instructs Palestinians to “please produce a [Red] Cross document for those who have no sentence whose names appear below; a [Red] Cross document accompanied by a new administrative [detention] order for the administrative detainees; and a [Red] Cross document accompanied by a verdict for the sentenced prisoners.”

Lists of prisoners from Bethlehem and Hebron districts were circulated on social media to encourage prisoners and their families to claim the payouts. Other Palestinian organizations, such as the PLO’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, joined the publicity campaign.

Since Oct. 7, around 2,400 Palestinian terror suspects have been arrested throughout Judea and Samaria, of whom about half are associated with Hamas.

Moshe Feiglin leaves the Likud: Netanyahu brought a strategic disaster

 

Former MK Moshe Feiglin on Thursday sent a letter to the CEO of the Likud Party, in which he demanded an immediate termination of his Likud membership, in response to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's announcement that the IDF may return the residents of Gaza to their homes.

In his letter, which is in essence a sharp condemnation of the path taken by Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, Feiglin details the dangerous implications of returning the residents of Gaza to their homes. He points out that the announcement of the Defense Minister, who also serves on behalf of the Likud, receives full backing from the Prime Minister.

Feiglin wrote, inter alia, "The significance is that the State of Israel has decided to transform the most just and shocking of Israel's wars into a terrible defeat, and also that the horrors of the Simchat Torah massacre have developed into one of the most lucrative crimes in history."

Shtreimel of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky sold for $1.8 million


 A haredi businessman has purchased the shtreimel of the late sage Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky for a whopping $1.8 million.

The businessman made the purchase at an auction house that was selling items that belonged to Rabbi Kanievsky, after bids from other prospective buyers drove up the price significantly.

The shtreimel has a deeper history, as Rabbi Kanievsky inherited it from his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the former leader of the Lithuanian-haredi community in Israel. Rabbi Elyashiv gave him his old shtreimel after buying a new one for himself.

Rabbi Kanievsky would wear the shtreimel while reciting the kiddush and blessing after meals on Jewish holidays.

The price of a new shtreimel, which is often worn by hasidic haredi men after they get married, ranges from NIS 5,000 (about $1,400) to NIS 20,000 (about $5,500), with an average price of NIS 12,000 (about $3,300).

Zera Shimshon Parshas Va'Yigash

 


Thursday, December 21, 2023

Letter to Editor of FJJ Wants "people to stop the hostage posters"

 PLEASE STOP THE HOSTAGE POSTERS!!! 

Whoever is going around Flatbush hanging pictures of all the hostages on every pole, construction site, mailbox and anywhere else they can, needs to please stop. Nothing productive is, or will, come from this, but a lot of negative things are. These posters are bringing the haters and anti-Israel people into our community to tear them down. These posters do not make our community look like a pleasant place to live. Everywhere you turn these posters are highly visible. Our young children should not be living in fear, asking questions about hostages or thinking they live in a dangerous area. When the posters are taken down, they are left torn up all over the place creating a mess. There are no positives to these signs. They don’t make any one of us more connected or more concerned than we all already are. If they do, then it's sad one needs this to be their motivation. These pictures don't heighten our already heightened sense of responsibility to do everything we are doing for Klal Yisroel. Let's be safe. Let's be smart. Let's keep davening. 

Flatbush resident

DIN: Of course, this writer probably lives in a million-dollar home in Flatbush and consumes yaptcha, herring and fatty meat from the meat boards and drowns it all in Glenlivet, every shabbos. 

Did he stop to think, if he had his wife or daughter, chas vesholom, raped and taken hostage if he would have felt the same way? 

This Yeshiva way of thinking is dangerous and is exactly how the Jews in the US felt when their brothers and sisters were being tortured and gassed in Auschwitz! "don't boycott Germany" "Don't protest in the streets" ...A lot of good it did to my own grandparents and extended family. Maybe if there were photos on every corner, the US government would have gotten involved! 

Jews the real Jews who have "rachmonas" who have empathy want to do their part, histadlis, in making sure that the Americans, don't forget the hostages. 

"Nothing productive?" So tell us all what have you done that is productive? Did you send one letter to Congress asking them to support the only Jewish state that is now the home of the majority of the Jewish people? 

He scribbles further: 

" These posters are bringing the haters and anti-Israel people into our community to tear them down" 

No that's a lie what it is doing is exposing your neighbors as a bunch of antisemites that want you dead! Oh! you want to walk the streets of the Galut Flatbush free of fear, while Jewish blood is being spilled on the streets on a daily basis? You selfish ungrateful narcissist!  

He writes: 

"Our young children should not be living in fear, asking questions about hostages or thinking they live in a dangerous area."

No they shouldn't be living in fear, but neither should Jewish children in Israel who are running for their lives into shelters 10-12 times a day!. By the way, did you teach your children about the Churban Bais Hamikdash? Aren't you scaring them? Oh, you say that happened far away and happened a long time ago. So you do not want your children safe in FAT'Bush to think about children their age who are dead in a country far away?

Those posters are a teachable moment to teach your children that not all Jews have it so good, and believe me it's coming to you very soon. You think Hamas will let you and your children live because they are in FAT"bush?

He scribbles:

"There are no positives to these signs. They don’t make any one of us more connected or more concerned than we all already are. If they do, then it's sad one needs this to be their motivation."

If after looking at those signs and you "are not connected or more concerned" then check if you are Me'zera Avraham. ....Whose heart has not broken after glancing at those photos?  And it's "sad that one needs this to be their motivation?" 

What a perverted and sick thought!!!

Someone is broken and is in pain because they have empathy for another Jew, so they hang posters of the hostages to make everyone aware that they will not be forgotten but this arrogant self-righteous tzaddik thinks that this is "sad" 

How low have we sunk?? How low?

Hasbara .... Listen to the facts

 

Rav Asher Weiss Strongly Disagrees With Rav Shternbuch ... Yeshiva Guys MUST Daven for the Soldiers ... "Roshei Yeshiva who disagree should go home and pass the mantel to others"

 

DIN: So there we have it, a Gadol who strongly disagrees with the likes of Rav Shernbuch, though he doesn't mention him by name and says that Rabbanim like him should quit their jobs and let others with more brains take over! Gut Gezugt... 

Rav Asher Weiss shlit”a, one of the Gedolei Eretz Yisrael, spoke in Passaic on Monday. One fundamental and timely topic he addressed was Charedi yeshivos and others in the yeshiva community davening for soldiers. The Rav, not surprisingly, was extremely in favor, and seemed to feel that it’s not even a question, as it is a basic expression of Ahavas Yisrael.

In regards to the fact that Rabbi Weiss’ own Kollel prays for the names of soldiers, he was asked about certain Roshei Yeshiva who are worried that bochurim will think they are “glorifying” Israeli soldiers and be motivated the join the army.

Rabbi Weiss was steadfast and firmly against that mindset, and completely dismissed it.

He said, “That is a very sad state of affairs, if we are afraid that if boys daven for soldiers, they may join the army.”

He continued, “{If that is the case], the Roshei Yeshiva should go home and pass mantel to others. I totally disagree [with it].

Rabbi Weiss went further. “Rav Chaim Shmulevitz and Rav Chatzkel Levenstein were yeshivishe guys…I was very close with Rav Shach. Officers used to come on a steady basis to visit Ponevezh, Rav Shach used to always invite them to his office. Every time, he said ‘We have hakaras hatov, you are safeguarding the country and we are learning Torah in your merit.

When asked about another concern of believing the army is all-powerful, he replied, “We are not glorifying “kochi v’otzem yadi” – the army today is not [about that]. It’s davening and caring for yiddishe kindelach.

“Even the soldiers who are not frum, so many [soldiers] are real Bnei Torah, but even the others, they are all Yidden, we are supposed to love every Jew.”

“I think this reflects such a lack of self confidence…We are davening for yiddishe kinder who are dying every day. These are not our brothers?”

The Rav also addressed a possible concern that people are diverting financial support away from Yeshivas to support other causes.

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