We had posted about this yesterday; Meir Dov Gold a"h a 13 year-old boy, hung himself because his vengeful mother refused to allow Meir Dov's father to attend his bar-mitzvah!
Well, he may have missed the Bar-Mitzvah, but he did get to eulogize him! Tragic when parents mix their children into their disputes! What a waste! The father in his eulogy mentions the fact that Meir Dov a"h never met his first cousins!
The war rages in the Gaza Strip, northern Israel, Lebanon, Eilat and on the streets of Israel’s cities as Iran’s Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni proxies maintain and escalate their operations against the Jewish state. Unmoved by this state of affairs, Israel’s far left is reinstating the anti-government riots that occurred regularly through the first three-quarters of 2023.
The newest round of leftist political violence began officially on Saturday night in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the first of what has been billed as four days of protests. As was the case in the anti-government protests before Hamas’s invasion of and one-day holocaust in southern Israel on Oct. 7, in the current round, demonstrations are followed by riots in which a few dozen participate.
As before, riots feature bonfires along major traffic arteries, assaults on police and ultra-Orthodox Jews, threats to murder Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and storming police barricades protecting the premier’s home.
They also involve massive exaggerations of the number of protesters. On Sunday night in Jerusalem, for instance, organizers proclaimed the participation of 100,000 protesters. But aerial photographs of the event indicate that at most, a tenth of that number showed up.
Before Oct. 7, rioters demanded the overthrow of the government due to its “anti-democratic” policies or its “corruption.” The new rallying cry is to free the hostages.
On Saturday night, relatives of 10 of the 134 hostages declared, “To return our loved ones, we have decided to work in the service of Hamas. We are demanding that the Israeli government accept the organization’s demands immediately. If not—we will burn the country down.”
Obviously, if the families get their way, Hamas will demand that Israel cease to exist in exchange for the hostages. Given that their demand causes harm to their loved ones, why are the organizers putting them up to this?
To be sure, there are a number of reasons this is happening. But perhaps the main one was revealed on March 17 by riot leader Ami Dror in a WhatsApp group chat with his colleagues. The communication, which Dror authenticated in an interview with Channel 14, was first reported on X by a poster who operates under the handle, Arbelu the Tuna Hunter.
In that communication, Dror told his colleagues that the White House was asking them to reinstate the riots.
חזרה גנרלית!
— igal_malka (@igal_malka_5G) April 2, 2024
פעילי שמאל מתאמנים לפיצוץ ועדת חוץ ובטחון בזמן שהם חושבים שאף אחד לא רואה.
אחר כך משדרים את הבזיון הזה במהדורות ומספרים שאלו משפחות החטופים.
האנשים האלו גורמים נזק לנושא ולחטופים עצמם.
שתפו בכל הכח!!! pic.twitter.com/gWVTokNSvI
Journalist Igal Malka on Tuesday posted a video showing anarchists rehearsing how to meltdown during Knesset committee hearings. The same activists apparently applied their training in committee debates about the hostages over the past few weeks, where they clashed with MKs and used slurs.
Malka also reported about going to the tent compound that was pitched in front of the Knesset on Tuesday and discovering no one was inside. Potemkin tents?
There were still enough crazed anarchists around to attack the PM’s residence with burning torches Tuesday night. Video also curtousy of Igal Malka:
ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Biden was "scripted" by network executives.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Steele recalled the "structured" nature of the pre-taped interview, so much so that her ESPN bosses handed her a "script" to go off of.
"That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured," Steele said. "And I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.’"
Many of the questions Steele asked Biden in the March 2021 interview pertained to sports leagues attempting to restore normalcy during the COVID pandemic and vaccine hesitancy among athletes and fans. Her interview made headlines at the time when Biden supported the MLB's All-Star game boycott of Atlanta following the passage of Georgia's election reform law.
But everything Steele said to the president ultimately came from ESPN's c-suite.
"To the word. Every single question was scripted, gone over dozens of times by many editors and executives. Absolutely. I was on script and was told not to deviate," Steele told Fox News Digital. "It was very much ‘This is what you will ask. This is how you will say it. No follow-ups, no follow-ups. Next.' … This went up to the fourth floor, as we said, where all the bosses, the top executives, the decision makers are, the president of our company, the CEO, where they all worked."
Steele said she didn't know for certain whether ESPN sent the questions to the White House in advance of the interview but seemed confident that is "what happened."
ESPN declined to comment.
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna has called for Israel to provide compensation to the families of seven aid workers, including a Polish citizen, who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
“The authorities should think about who should be held criminally responsible for pressing a certain button and how to compensate the families of the victims — even if it’s impossible to do so with money,” Szejna said.
Which Poland is this? The same one that passed a law restricting the rights of former Polish property owners, including Holocaust survivors and their descendants, to regain property seized by the country’s communist regime.
“Poland approved today, not for the first time, an anti-Semitic and unethical law. I instructed the charge d’affaires of the embassy in Warsaw to immediately return to Israel for consultations for an indefinite period of time,” then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid fumed at the time. Poland has turned into an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that doesn’t respect the greatest tragedy in human history. It is always forbidden to be silent. Israel and the Jewish people will certainly not remain silent.”
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in 2019 also said that the country would “never agree” to compensate for property lost during World War II, because non-Jewish Polish citizens were also murdered during the war – despite the incontrovertible fact that countless Poles ratted out their Jewish neighbors to the Nazis, leading to their deaths.
And this Poland – the one that won’t even allow Holocaust survivors to get back the property they legally and rightfully owned – is now suggesting how Israel should pay other people – who were killed ACCIDENTIALLY. Somehow, it’s always the pot that’s the one calling the kettle black.
In a Twitter post on the issue of state funding of yeshiva students, former Knesset member and right-wing ideologue Moshe Feiglin says that stopping the funding is the best possible thing that could happen to the world of Torah.
“It is good for the Torah and good for the charedim,” Feiglin said, since 1) No Torah study will stop 2) Yeshivos will direct private funding to those who are learning 3) Those who are not learning will learn a trade 4) The Torah world will be truly independent and will not depend on state money which comes attached to political demands.
Feiglin quoted Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz who had requested from Ben Gurion to separate religion from state. Ben Gurion answered that he would never separate the state from religion because if it is separate it will be independent and will present a challenge for every state. Instead he wanted the state “to grip religion in its hand.”
Feiglin said that it is impossible to totally separate the Jewish religion from a Jewish state, but it should at least be separated from politics as much as possible, for example rabbis should be appointed by their own communities and not with state intervention.
He concluded: “We will all be surprised at how well the Torah world will manage without the state’s assistance.”
Moshe Feiglin
According to Israeli media, Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch is strongly opposed to a mass protest against a potential Charedi draft law.
According to Kol Chai radio, the son of the Slonimer Rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Berezovsky, visited the Slobodka Rosh Yeshiva, and requested that Rabbi Hirsch order preparations for a mass protest, like the “March of the Million” over 20 years ago.
Rabbi Hirsch rejected the idea, saying it would exacerbate the current conflict. He added that a massive protest could also lead to snap elections – which the Charedi parties do not want.
Rabbi Hirsch said, “…We must not bring about the breakdown of the coalition before we have exhausted every effort to pass a Draft Law by consensus.”
The group Peleg Yerushalayim has staged small but disruptive protests in recent weeks, blocking the light rail and obstructing highway traffic. It is not clear if they are following the advice of Gedolim, or any Rabbanim at all.
Last week, Rabbi Hirsch spoke to his students last week about the draft crisis.
Here is an excerpt of what he told them:
“Everyone knows what happened last week, that they completely revoked our right to to learn Torah in Eretz Yisrael for the time being. We’ll now need to be moser nefesh for Torah. We don’t know exactly how – how much they’ll be makpid on us…”
“…But one thing is clear, that the first thing we need at a time like this is that we’ll have mesiras nefesh for the Torah itself. That the Torah itself will turn into a korban. If the Torah itself turns into a korban, our limmud will be a korban. What’s the p’shat? Full sedarim without any bitul Torah. Learning Torah with mesirus nefesh. This surely obligates us, to learn Torah like a korban. And this surely could help to eliminate the whole problem – definitely.”
Teaneck, New Jersey — Extremely high tensions as police hold back a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters who want to storm the Congregation Bnai Yeshurun synagogue.
— Frum TikTok (@FrumTikTok) April 2, 2024
Many pro-Israel supporters came out as well.
Source: @ScooterCasterNY pic.twitter.com/vufeiCUrVw
Chareidim? Aren't they Neturie Karta?
Chareidim laugh them off as a harmless group, let them into their shuls, allow their mamzeirim into their Moisdois and marry their children!
This event in Teaneck was for Zaka the organization that deals with the dead and is not in any way political, yet the Chareidim saw fit to join Hamas in protest.
The only Chareidim who came to this event were those who support Hamas!
Chareidim in general will not mix with Modern Frum people except when they need to get away from their restrictive neighborhoods and come to "fress" in the Teaneck restaurants. Then its all kosher!
On my last trip to the US, I was invited to a Sheva Brachos in a Teaneck restaurant; it was in a private room, as I glanced into the restaurant I saw loads of Chassidim at tables "fressing" and laughing and having a great time. When I inquired from the waiter, what was going on, he said they come every night mostly without their wives!
So where were the "fressers" to support the Zaka Event?
