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NYS Assemblyman Ari Brown reacts to Jamaal Bowman referring to PM Netanyahu as a ‘maniac’, reiterating Schumer’s call for a new Israel election removing Netanyahu.
Monday, April 1, 2024
JK Rowling Author of Harry Potter May Get Arrested Because She Dares Calls a Man "a man" and a Woman "a woman"
JK Rowling has challenged Scotland’s police to arrest her under the SNP’s new hate crime laws after stating that a series of high-profile trans women are men.
The Harry Potter author, who lives in Edinburgh, tweeted: “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
“I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.”
Rowling posted pictures of 10 high-profile trans people on Twitter and mocked their claims to be women
They included Isla Bryson, who was initially sent to a women’s prison after being convicted of two rapes.
It started with a tick bite. How I lost my husband to undiagnosed Lyme disease
Raboisai... I am posting this article because of a funeral that took place last week in Beit Shemesh! A 34 year-old young man from Monsey died after a long illness.
The family went from one doctor to another and no one could diagnose his illness except that all doctors agreed that he was deteriorating at a rapid rate.
Finally he was diagnosed with Lyme disease, and before they started treatment, Zev Saloff died at the young age of 34!
If anyone in your family is not well, first check for Lyme disease!
Here is a heartbreaking post from his mother:
For those of you who have not heard, my youngest son Nathaniel Zev (Zevy) passed away last Shabbos. We brought him for burial to Israel, and we are sitting shiva in Ramat Beit Shemesh until Monday morning (Israel time). He has been suffering from long term, chronic neurological Lyme disease, which had not been discovered until recent testing, but he passed away before treatment could begin. We are struggling with this loss. Be aware and vigilant that such vector borne infections can imitate and/or cause serious autoimmune diseases such as ALS, Lupus, MS, fibromyalgia, et al. Please do deeds of goodness and kindness, and learn Torah in the merit of the spiritual elevation of נתנאל זאב בן ר׳ בן ציון
Natanel Zev ben Ben-Tzion. 💔😓😞Gd has a plan
It was 2016 when I got a call at work. It was the house alarm company. My husband, Russ, who picked up the kids from school each day, had arrived home and wasn’t able to turn the blaring alarm off.
I got home later that day and everything was fine. But I noticed Russ asking repetitive questions. Forgetting what time to pick up the kids. And he couldn’t remember the alarm code — the same one we had used for years.
In the time leading up to the alarm company incident, things between Russ and me had not been good. He was moody and irritable. He was angry. I thought we were headed toward divorce. But now I know those were the very first signs of tick-borne illness.
Because Russ was very outdoorsy, and because I knew he had ticks on him over the years, Lyme disease was actually one of the first things that came to mind when I started looking into the symptoms of my husband’s cognitive decline. The thing was, though, that Russ had never had a fever or a rash associated with ticks that we knew of, and when tested with the standard Lyme screener had come up negative.
We also got bloodwork from an integrative medicine doctor to take a deeper look at what was happening with Russ. It showed nothing out of the ordinary. Tick-borne illnesses, like Lyme, fell off my radar. Russ went to a neurologist for cognitive testing and his decline was far worse than I even suspected. He wasn’t able to do simple math patterns that my 6-year-old could easily do at the time. He was a computer scientist and electrical engineer. I was flabbergasted. The neurologist said he either had a stroke event or Alzheimer’s.
Guy Who Is Accused of Ripping People off in His "Pesach Program Scam" Cleverly Links His Failed Website to "Loshon Hara" Site
This has to be the funniest story yet about failed Pesach Programs!
People that spent thousands of hard earned dollars, some of whom lost all their life's savings on his "Pesach Program," that took in money but never delivered, are outraged that he links his failed Pesach Ad links to a "Loshon Hara" site that he himself created!
What utter chutzpah!
Years ago a known rabbi in Monsey, for years gave a shiur every shabbos on Shmiras Haloshon, subsequently we found out that he was having sexual relationships with multiple married women and this shiur was to make sure that if the story got out, people wouldn't talk about it!
We posted about this program last year ....
See
What a clever fellow... Got to give him credit where credit is due!
House Democrats endorse the vicious antisemite Jamaal Bowman
Democrats in the US House of Representatives endorsed Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who has spoken out against Israel, days after the party’s leading Jewish group endorsed his primary challenger.
The endorsement is not unusual — House leaders in both parties routinely favor incumbents facing tough primary races — but it comes as the New York lawmaker is facing a challenge from a popular local elected official, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, who has blasted Bowman’s Israel rhetoric and recently gained the backing of the Jewish Democratic Council of America.
The endorsement Friday, distributed by Bowman’s campaign, emphasized his local bona fides and did not touch on his condemnations of Israel, which he has accused of “genocide” in its war against Hamas in Gaza.
“Congressman Bowman’s life experiences — raised by a single mom in public housing and founding a public school serving low-income children in the Bronx — have shaped him into a public servant who fights for economic justice and in defense of historically underrepresented communities,” said the statement by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar of California.
Bowman was first elected in 2020 and is part of the Squad, the group of progressive Democratic representatives who are broadly critical of Israel. He represents a district that spans Westchester and part of the Bronx in New York City, and is home to a sizable Jewish community.
The Israel-Hamas war has become a focus of the campaign. Latimer has been firmly supportive of Israel since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. In addition to the “genocide” charge, Bowman recently walked back a statement last year casting doubt on claims that Hamas committed rape in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which launched the war. He has also lost the endorsement of J Street, the liberal Israel lobby.
The Chareidie Argument that Shevet Levi Didn't Serve in the Army Totally Debunked!
by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
The Role of the Tribe of Levi
Q: Some say that yeshiva students who do not enlist in the army are like the members of the tribe of Levi who studied in yeshivas and kollelim, and did not participate in the wars of Israel. According to them, the Rambam wrote this as well. Are their words correct according to the Torah?
A: There is no basis for their words. On the contrary, the members of the tribe of Levi were dedicated to public affairs, and were committed to this. In times of peace, their role was to go out to the nation and teach Torah, instruct in Jewish law, and serve as police officers for all matters of law and order regarding interpersonal matters, and matters between man and God.
And in times of war, their role was to strengthen the spirit of the fighters, like the Military Rabbinate and the Education Corps, and to serve as military police enforcing the draft laws on the entire nation, severely punishing deserters and those fleeing from the battlefield.
They also guarded the Holy Ark that went out with the fighters and the senior command that was close to it, in the capacity of the “king’s legion” (like a Special Forces Unit). And anyone who remained without a specific role was among the first to go out to battle with the other soldiers, as befits public servants of the highest echelons.
After defining all their roles, I will briefly explain each detail.
New York Times Terminates Freelance Reporter for Pro-Israel Social Media Posts
The New York Times has ended the employment of freelance Israeli reporter Anat Schwartz due to her liking pro-Israel posts on social media platform X. Schwartz, who began writing for the Times in November, was part of the paper’s coverage of the Israeli response to the Hamas massacre and kidnappings in October.
An investigation was launched in February after the Times became aware of Schwartz’s social media activity, which included liking posts that Israel and its war against Hamas. A spokesperson for the Times stated that the “likes” were “unacceptable violations of our company policy” and that the matter was being reviewed.
Schwartz was one of several writers involved in the Times’ investigation into the Hamas violence and assaults against women on October 7.
Rebbe In Telzstone: State Should Fund 2000 Yeshiva Students, The Rest Must Serve Community
An unusual position regarding funding yeshiva students and the contentious issue of army exemptions was presented by Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Gottlieb, a Chasidic rabbi who serves as the leader of the Ashlag community in Telzstone.
Rabbi Gottlieb described the demonstrations by secularists, demanding that charedim help them and “get under the stretcher” for military service.
He wrote that “In a time of war, even a groom must leave his chuppah and go to help. Although other rabbis insist that we must not stop Torah study, this is not the issue. Nobody wants to stop Torah study, but it is “a time to do for Hashem and to ‘transgress’ the Torah.”
Rabbi Gottlieb suggests that yeshivos be established on the borders in the north south and where required and study half day while spending the other half on patrols and guard duty , in order to “take away from the terrible burden on the general community in Israel.” He warns that “The Israeli public will not forget if the yeshiva students won’t join the war effort.”
He also admits that the yeshiva students are not all sitting and studying day and night. “Not everyone has the strength for this, only a small amount. Near my house there are all kinds of bakeries with food, restaurants and eateries. I see the whole day long that there are quite a few yeshiva students eating with great relish baked foods and other items.” Rabbi Gottlieb concludes: “Do they have no shame?”
In another post Rabbi Gottlieb decries the funding of yeshiva students, stating that it is a “custom whose time has passed”. From the age of 18, he claims that “everyone must contribute their part for the people of Israel and study in their “free time”. He adds that this was the view of the Baal Hasulam, that people should work, should enlist and take part of the burden on themselves. He was even against kollelim, believing that Toraso U’Manuso is meant for a person’s free time, and should not be for remuneration.
Rabbi Gottlieb concedes that the state should fund “some 2000 people every year” as it is in the interest of the Jewish nation to have Dayanim, Poskim, rabbis and Talmidei Chachamim. He believes this number is enough to produce the requisite number of Torah leaders.
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