Sunday, April 7, 2024
Satmar Rebbe z"l once said that "Not All tzaddikim will rise by Techiyas Hameisim"
I will translate the above sign with no comment from DIN! It speaks for itself!
"It once happened, that the Satmar Rebbe, (R' Yoel Teitelbaum) went to visit "mekomos hakedoshim" (a cemetery where great rabbis are buried) with a group of his followers, suddenly one of the Chassidim told the rebbe, that "he is getting tremendous feelings of spirituality here," and is wondering that if and when Moshiach comes, and there will be "techiyas hameisim," the rising of the dead, if he will still feel this spirituality.
The rebbe answered "You have nothing to worry about, there will be enough so called tzadiikim that will never arise at Techyas Hameisim"
Is this Kerestier Yurzeit a Scam to pilfer the rich?
I thought that the whole point of Karastir was to feed the poor, and even to those who are not so poor but want to visit the grave by R' Shayele, how does this square with the ass'kanim running the show in Karastier charging premium prices for the Shabbos Menu?
People writing to us are asking if the purpose of this price list is to discourage those who are struggling for parnassah,the innocents, who want to make the trip to beg R' Shayele to intercede on their behalf, but who cannot afford the meals!
The ass'kanim want to become rich from those meals and don't need the schnorrers who will just eat and not contribute!
The organizers don't really care about R' Shayele ben Moshe z"l it's "how much money we can make. "
Organizers in Meron became very wealthy getting funds for the famous "Chai Rotel" business and pocketed millions off those who thought they were doing a mitzvah! But at least in Meron, food was distributed gratis, for free.
Judge tosses Louis Farrakhan’s $4.8B lawsuit against ADL
A federal judge tossed Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s $4.8 billion lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League accusing the civil rights group of falsely smearing him as an antisemite.
Farrakhan — who over the years has said Hitler was a “great” man, repeatedly claimed “Satanic” Jews control the government and Hollywood and compared Jews to termites — sued the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Manhattan Federal Court in October, insisting the groups had harmed him and the Nation of Islam by pushing the “false narrative” that he is an antisemite.
In dismissing the suit Friday, Manhattan federal court Judge Denise Cote wrote Farrakhan had failed to provide any evidence demonstrably linking the groups’ actions and writings to injuries sustained by him or his religious organization.
Regarding Farrakhan’s claim that Morgan State University barred him from speaking at the school in 2023 due to pressure from the ADL, Cote wrote he did not prove there was “an injury fairly traceable to the ADL.”
Cote also noted in her decision the ADL’s writings on Farrakhan and his comments about the Jewish people were not defamatory because they “constitute non-actionable opinions” and that Farrakhan “has not pled actual malice.”
The Anti-Defamation League cheered the judge’s decision on X and linked to a blog post listing a selection of Farrakhan’s “hateful and conspiratorial statements.”
“Truth is a defense and no, we will not stop calling out antisemitism wherever and whenever we see it,” the ADL wrote.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Pelosi Turns on Israel joins Tlaib, AOC in call for Biden to halt transfer of US weapons to Israel
Several dozen Democratic members of Congress, including former speaker Nancy Pelosi, have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for a halt on arms transfers to Israel following an IDF strike in Gaza that killed seven staffers of the World Central Kitchen, including a dual US citizen.
“In light of this incident, we strongly urge you to reconsider your recent decision to authorize the transfer of a new arms package to Israel, and to withhold this and any future offensive arms transfers until a full investigation into the airstrike is completed,” the House representatives wrote.
“We also urge you to withhold these transfers if Israel fails to sufficiently mitigate harm to innocent civilians in Gaza, including aid workers, and if it fails to facilitate — or arbitrarily denies or restricts the transport and delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” they said.
Noting that Israel has said it did not intentionally target the aid workers, the Congress members said that “if this is true, it is a shockingly unacceptable mistake.” They also called for the administration “to conduct a thorough investigation into this airstrike,” which the White House reiterated Friday it will not do.
Most of the signatories were from the Democrat’s left flank but the backing by Pelosi indicated support for stopping weapons deliveries to Israel is increasingly becoming mainstream among Democrats.
Biden-appointed judge torches DOJ for defying subpoenas after prosecuting Trump advisor
'There’s a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena,' Reyes said
A President Biden-appointed judge slammed the Justice Department’s apparent hypocrisy on Friday for allowing attorneys involved in the Biden family investigation to defy subpoenas — even though former Trump advisor Peter Navarro is sitting in prison for doing the same thing.
District Judge Ana Reyes ripped the DOJ at a status conference for not letting DOJ lawyers Mark Daly and Jack Morgan provide testimony as part of the House Judiciary Committee's investigation into the Biden family and the impeachment inquiry into the president.
"There’s a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena," Reyes said during a hearing on the Judiciary Committee’s lawsuit, according to Politico, seemingly referring to Navarro.
Former defense secretary predicts Iran will strike at Israel
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday said Iran is likely to retaliate against Israel for a recent missile strike that hit Tehran's consulate in Damascus, Syria.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the strike, which killed senior Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi. Reuters cited a Lebanese security source as the first to identify Israel as the responsible party, to which an Israeli military spokesperson responded, "We do not comment on reports in the foreign media."
In an interview on CNN, Esper predicted Iran will take action against Israel, but on a limited scale to avoid wide-scale war in the Middle East.
"They are going to act," Esper said Friday. "They're going to feel the need, to uphold their dignity, to maintain credibility with their proxies, throughout the region, and to really meet the demands of hardliners, within the theocracy that wants to see something done."
"But on the other hand, they're not going to want to make this a wider war," he continued. "They don't want to escalate. They know that a major conflict with Israel, let alone Israel and the United States would be disastrous for Iran. So, I suspect that they will limit the attack to Israel, Israeli targets."3
When the US Killed 7 Children in a "tragic mistake"
On August 29, 2021, a US drone fired a missile at a truck in Kabul, killing an aid worker and 9 other civilians including seven children.
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) April 3, 2024
It took the Pentagon weeks to admit it was a "tragic mistake."
It is only one of many mistaken attacks on civilians that the US has done in…
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