Girls HS basketball game canceled after antisemites attack players: 'I support Hamas, you f–king Jew'

 This was flagrant and foul.

A high school girls’ basketball game in Yonkers was canceled this week when players on the home team shot antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.

The girl’s varsity teams from The Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, and Roosevelt High School, a public school in Yonkers, faced off in the non-league game Thursday evening.

“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled at a Leffell opponent, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.

MK Fogel’s Tikkun Olam Stages: Hamas, then Hezbollah, then the Supreme Court

 

Chairman of the Knesset National Security Committee MK Zvika Fogel on Tuesday tweeted an exceptionally assertive message that hit all the right places and made him the left’s most hated politician for one day. The message went: “First we’ll defeat Hamas, soon we’ll take care of Hezbollah, and for dessert, we’ll install order in the High Court of Justice. To everything there is a season. Have patience.”

Minister Benny Gantz responded by saying Vogel’s words were “a despicable and shameful comparison between the worst of our enemies and the gatekeepers of the State of Israel,” and called the MK’s statement “a moral abomination.” 

Biden Wants a "Yuden-Rein" Gaza Strip

 

The Biden administration’s implicit policy regarding the Gaza Strip’s future is that Gaza must be free from Jews, writes constitutional scholar Eugene Kontorovich this Wednesday in his Wall Street Journal op-ed (Gaza Can’t Be Peaceful Without Jews).

On Tuesday, State Dept. Spokesperson Matthew Miller announced: “We have been clear, consistent, and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and with no terror groups able to threaten Israel. That is the future we seek, in the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, the surrounding region, and the world.”

Kontorovich argues that the very idea of imposing the Palestinian Authority rule on Gaza means that Biden’s vision for the area “isn’t one of a peaceful, deradicalized entity.”

Jews face restrictions from residing in the Palestinian Authority, and the act of selling land or housing to Jews is met with severe consequences, including the possibility of a death sentence. Some well-publicized instances of such transactions have garnered significant media attention. While Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has not officially endorsed death sentences in these cases, a notable incident occurred in December 2018 when a Ramallah court sentenced Palestinian-American Isaam Akel, an East Jerusalem resident, to life imprisonment with hard labor. His conviction stemmed from selling land in the Old City of Jerusalem to Jews.

Kontorovich compares the White House support for the inherently anti-Jewish PA to the denazification of Germany in 1945, and asserts: “Had the Germans turned on the Jews settling there after the war—as happened in Poland in the 1946 Kielce pogrom—it is likely that the Allies wouldn’t have been satisfied as quickly as they were that Germany was safe for the world.”

The clearest test for whether a clean break from terrorist violence has been achieved should be the test that was applied in post-WW2 Germany: could Jews establish communities there, writes Kontorovich.

He concludes: “The existence of safe Jewish communities in Gaza could eventually make Israel confident enough to withdraw. By contrast, as we’ve seen in recent months, if Jews aren’t safe in Gaza, they won’t be safe in Israel either.”

David Israel

David writes news at JewishPress.com.

Hezbollah Fired 60+ Rockets at Northern Israel on Shabbat Morning

 

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon fired a barrage of more than 60 rockets at northern Israel on Shabbat (Saturday) morning in what the terror group said was an “initial response” to the targeted assassination earlier in the week of Saleh al-Arouri, the Number 2 official in the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization.

Israeli military forces responded to the heavy barrage with a series of attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

What's the Deal With Imitation Crab?

There's a pretty good chance that you've had imitation crab (aka "crab with a k") in a California roll or crab dip, but there's also a pretty good chance you don't know exactly how the crabby carbon copy came to be, how it's made and what else you can do with it. Luckily for you, we have all of that info (and more). We quizzed Jade Silverstein, Sustainable Seafood Consultant and Sales Associate at Cold Spring Fish to discover the true tale behind imitation crab. 

What is imitation crab?

"Imitation crab is made of white fish, starch and other ingredients to create the texture and taste of crab meat," explains Silverstein. "The preparation of fish for imitation crab is actually a Japanese method called surimi, which is used not just for imitation crab but also to make fish sticks, fish cakes and other popular seafood dishes."

According to a 2007 article from Oregon State, Japanese chefs have been making surimi for hundreds of years by mixing leftover fish filets with salt to create a type of "fish gel" to preserve the extra catch. In the 1960s, a Japanese chemist realized that adding sugar to surimi could allow it to be stabilized and frozen, launching the international surimi industry and wider use of the ingredient. To make imitation crab, surimi is mixed with other ingredients, then heated and pressed into crab-like shapes. 

Does imitation crab taste like real crab meat?

"Yes," says Silverstein. "Imitation crab tastes like crab and is a good substitute for crab meat. It is especially a tasty and healthy option for kids who may not like the taste of crab meat."

"The common perception of imitation crab is that it is an artificial product because of the term 'imitation,'" says Silverstein, but it is important to remember it is made with fish. "The fish used in imitation crab are white fish such as pollock, cod or haddock, which are some of the most commonly consumed fish on the market."

She also adds that the starch in imitation crab is made with wheat, but each brand has a different mix of ingredients for their product, with some using actual crab meat and flavoring, which is why it's best to avoid imitation crab if you have any crab allergies.

 

Roi Escaped From Nova Massacre: ‘I Shouted Shema Yisrael And The Bullets Flew Over Me’

 Roi Asaraf is a popular Tel Aviv barber who together with his brother Idan had enjoyed success in his field as well as in his personal life. Married with two daughters, Roi had little actual connection with religion until the events of Oct. 7th rocked him into a connection with G-d. Roi was at the Nova party together with his wife Yonah when rockets were fired at the party. Impulsively, Roi decided to leave – a decision which saved his life and that of his wife and others in his car.

One of the first to get out of the Reim compound, Roi saw what appeared to be soldiers on the road. Netanel, who was sitting behind him, screamed: Roi, drive! They’re terrorists. Soon some 20 terrorists fired at his care but he continued to drive while bending his head down, pressing the gas pedal with all his might and crying Shema Yisrael and Shir Hamaalot.

By 11 AM Roi managed to get back to his young daughters in Jerusalem, but he realized that he had received his life miraculously and decided to change his lifestyle. Now Roi sports a kippah, his wife covers her hair and they have adopted a religious lifestyle. Roi wants his story spread around the world, to strengthen other Jews and to praise Hashem for helping him to survive the Oct. 7th massacre.

24 of Teves – Miriam the Washerwoman

 If you visit Har Hamenuchos on Chof Daled, the 24th of Teves, you might notice a big group of Yidden gathered around a specific kever. But whose kever are they visiting? And why are they davening there?

Our story begins far away, in the Arab country of Kurdistan, where a woman named Miriam Mizrachi bas Mama, lived with her husband. 

One day, her husband suddenly passed away, leaving her all alone. They had no children, and now, she had no husband.

With tears in her eyes, Miriam gathered some food and a few of her things and set out for Eretz Yisrael, where she hoped to live for the rest of her life.

She walked on foot, through sandy deserts, under the blazing hot sun, for many weeks, until she finally arrived in Yerushalayim. 

Miriam was tired, hungry, and covered in sand. But where would she sleep? 

Too proud to ask for tzedakah, Miriam began work as a washerwoman, cleaning houses and laundry for families who lived in Meah She’arim. She made just enough money pay for her food and her little, tiny house.

The sun rose over the small stone homes in Yerushalayim, shining a soft, warm light through the window. Miriam sat up and stretched. Today is going to be a good day. 

She reached for a pail of water nearby to wash negel vasser, listening to the cool water splashing into the small bucket.

Miriam dried the last few drops off her hands and smiled. It was her favorite day of the week – the day she got to clean the home of the great Tzaddik, Reb Shlomke of Zevhil. 

There were many stories about Reb Shlomke making great miracles happen. Miriam knew it was a big zechus to work in his home. 

She lifted her eyes to Shamayim and thought, Hashem, I will start the day by davening to You the only way I know how.

“Shalom, Shechinah,” she said simply. 

“Shalom Avraham Avinu, Shalom Moshe Rabbeinu…”

Miriam said “Shalom” to all the tzaddikim she knew about, trying to connect with each of them, even though they weren’t around anymore. 

You see, she’d never gone to school when she was younger. She didn’t know how to read the Alef Beis, or even how to make a bracha. These simple words to Hashem were the best she could do – and she knew Hashem was listening.

After her short tefillah, Miriam cut a piece of bread and lifted her eyes up to Shamayim once more. 

“Thank you Hashem,” she whispered, before biting into the bread. She then rushed out the door and through the narrow streets of the old city, until she reached Reb Shlomke’s home. 

Miriam greeted everyone with a big smile. “Good morning,” she said, before getting to work. Leaving a large pot of water to boil, she gathered all the dirty clothes and set them aside in a big pile. 

As the water boiled, she cleaned the house and swept the floors. Soon, the house was sparkling. She then took the clothes one by one, soaking them in the boiling water and rubbing them against a hard wooden board to get the stains out.

I’m so lucky to help out in the home of such a great tzaddik, she thought with a smile. I wouldn’t trade this for anything in the world. 

Soon, all the stains were gone. Miriam poured out the dirty, brown water and filled the bucket with clean water to rinse off the clothes. 

Finally, it was time for everything to dry. She squeezed out all the water and then hung the clothes around the courtyard to dry under the nice, warm Yerushlayim sun. 

When she was done, Miriam’s hands were tired and her bones hurt from all the bending and rubbing and scrubbing. She said goodbye and walked back through the tiny streets of Meah She’arim, until she arrived back home.

It was dark and empty, as usual. Miriam sat down and sighed – she was tired. If only I had a child, – she thought. How much happier my life would be. After whispering a short tefilla to Hashem, one that came straight from her heart, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Years passed. Week after week, Miriam dropped by the home of Reb Shlomke of Zevhil to clean and wash his laundry. But even though she greeted everyone with a smile, every day, she felt lonelier and lonelier. She really wished she had a child. 

As she swished the clothes around the bucket with a big wooden stick, she couldn’t help but think: If I don’t have a child, who will remember me when I pass away?

One day, the pain became too much. After hanging all the clothing out to dry, she went back inside the house and walked, nervously, to the room where Reb Shlomke was learning. 

The Tzaddik’s holy face made her step back in awe. A bright light shone around Reb Shlomke as he bent over his sefer, thinking about the Torah’s deepest secrets. For a few moments, Miriam just stood by quietly, until she finally said. “Rebbe, may I have a bracha for a child?”

For a second, it seemed like the Tzaddik hadn’t heard her. Miriam held her breath, wondering what to do.

Suddenly, Reb Shlomke looked up from his sefer and shook his head from side to side. “I can’t help you,” he said, sadly.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Shmos

 

Left-wing journalist Gideon Levy Crying That Terrorists Getting Bad Treatment in prison

Left-wing journalist and activist Gideon Levy lashed out at Israeli society and its security forces in an interview with British journalist Owen Jones.

“If one attack pushes so many Israelis to become inhuman, there's no other word but inhuman, imagine what it does to Palestinians who live under those attacks for decades, and we always wonder how come they hate us and how come they became those monsters and how come they are so violent and how come that they are not human,” he said.

“From my point of view nothing changed. That's an outcome of a reality, of people living in cages for 16 years. Israelis can be mad at me as much as they want. This does not justify the attack but it might explain the attack and the attack has a context, and ignoring the context is really ignoring reality,” stated Levy.

Later in the interview, he said, “In many cases I think the Palestinians are maybe much more tolerant than they should have been, because they are going through this hell for so many years…until the seventh of October there was never such a violent explosion by them. There were the exploding buses, the suicide bombers, I don't underestimate this, but by the end of the day they could have done much worse to Israel because of what Israel is doing to them now for 100 years.”

“Israel always used the Holocaust to its own purposes, domestically and internationally, until this very moment. Which does not mean that the Holocaust is not a national trauma. My parents fled away from Europe, my whole family was exterminated in Europe…I don't obviously don't underestimate the horror, but when you start to use it for your own purposes it is exaggerated, and it is also exaggerated here. For example, to call Hamas a Nazi organization is a pure cheap manipulation. They are a fundamentalistic terrible organization. They are not Nazis and you can't compare them to the Nazis.”

Levy also mentioned National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, calling him “a settler with a criminal background…really a gangster. He's the Minister of National Security and he is also in charge of the prisons in Israel, and what they do now to the prisoners is unbelievable. I can almost say in certainty, even though I'm not sure, but that the Palestinian prisoners in Israel get much worse human conditions than the hostages in Gaza.”

“They hold hundreds of Palestinians, handcuffed for weeks and months with their eyes and even this is accepted by Israeli society because they are all Hamas and they all participated in the raping and the killing on the seventh and therefore we have the right to do whatever we want,” claimed Levy.

 

Medical staff demands terrorist be removed from Wolfson Hospital

 

A terrorist was hospitalized at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon in recent days to undergo two surgeries, Kan News reported.

According to the report, many staff members at the hospital were disturbed by the presence of the terrorist in their facility. There are medical teams who did not want to treat him, in part because there are staff members whose family members were murdered on October 7.

It was also reported that the head of the nurses' committee at the hospital turned to Health Minister Uriel Busso and demanded on behalf of the staff that the terrorist be removed from the hospital premises.

The Health Ministry announced a policy two weeks ago under which terrorists would receive medical treatment at a military medical facility in southern Israel rather than in civilian hospitals. Under this policy, terrorists would only be transferred to a civilian hospital if the terrorist requires a life-saving treatment that is unavailable at the military facility, in order to comply with Israel's obligations under international law.

One of the surgeries the terrorist received at Wolfson Medical Center was to remove shrapnel from his intestines.

The hospital said in response that "we are prohibited from providing medical information, we are acting under the orders of the Health Ministry and in accordance with its professional guidelines."