Footage captured by @Reuters earlier today showed terrorists atop a convoy of trucks in Rafah, preventing Gazans from accessing the humanitarian aid insidepic.twitter.com/k0NvJEder5
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) April 8, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Watch Hamas Take all "Humanitarian Aid"
The Turncoat Biden wants to label goods produced in Judea and Samaria
The Biden administration is preparing to label goods produced in Judea and Samaria, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing U.S. officials.
While it is undecided as to when the move will take place, it comes amid increasing tensions between Jerusalem and Washington over the prosecution of the six-month war in Gaza and disputes over the extent of Israeli violence directed at Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, including U.S. sanctions on Jews living in the area.
Such labeling would reverse a Trump administration policy implemented in 2020 that required products originating in the Israeli region, called the Israeli-administered Area C under the Oslo Accords, to be labeled as “Made in Israel.”
According to the Financial Times report, the Biden administration was close to announcing the step last month after Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on March 22 announced that the Civil Administration declared 2,000 acres in the Jordan Valley as state land. The announcement took place during a visit to Israel by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Two days later, the U.S. declined to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that for the first time separated the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza from the release of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The American sources told the Financial Times that they did not want to announce the product labeling around the same time as the U.N. move.
The European Union approved regulations in 2019 labeling Judea and Samaria products as originating in “occupied territories,” a designation that Jerusalem disputes.
For its part, Israel continues to develop Judea and Samaria, with the Civil Administration on Friday announcing approval of the “deposit” planning stage of a plan to build 234 housing units in Kiryat Arba, changing the zoning for the neighborhood in question from industrial to residential.
Is This a Joke??? Mir Rosh Yeshiva Calls To Extend Winter Zman Until 3rd Of Nissan
This proves that the Roshei Yeshiva do not believe that "Torah is Matzil" if they did, there would no breaks for Bein Hazmanim! They lie saying that they the torah learners are equally carrying the burdens, How So? If they truly believed in their hearts that it is the Torah that is protecting the Jewish people, they would be learning nonstop 24/7 including Pesach! They wouldn't leave Klall Yisrael unprotected for a minute, But unfortunately, they do not believe it! And what is insane is that the Charedie Press is so excited to report this. This proves my point that the Chareidie Leaders of Klall Yisrael are totally disconnected to the rest of the Jewish people and reality!
In the wake of the difficult situation in Israel, both due to the protracted war with Hamas and Hezbollah and the cancellation of the draft exemption for yeshiva students, the Mir Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, decided to extend the winter Zman until Thursday, the 3rd of Nissan.
In a letter distributed in all of the yeshiva’s different buildings to its over 9000 students, the Rosh Yeshiva explained that he was following the directive of the gedolim to strengthen “Torah diligence” during the Bein Hazmanim period.
The Rosh Yeshiva wrote: “Happy are you who are standing on guard with courage and strength to protect the world and disseminate life in the world through the study of Torah and prayers during such a long and tense period, while ignoring all the temptations of the world and immersing yourselves in Torah study with great diligence. Now it is time to prepare for Pesach and help in the home which is one of the fundamentals of Torah to assist one’s friends and all the more so one’s family.”
The Rosh Yeshiva added that “We cannot ignore the decrees and tragedies during the war, with the sword unleashed outside and with the decrees against the world of Torah and it is certainly a call from heaven to strengthen out Torah study and this is our obligation at this point.
The Rosh Yeshiva specified extending the study in the mornings to the 3rd of Nissan, and added that “In the merit of this devotion the decrees will be abolished.”
Monday, April 8, 2024
Inside a 958-foot container ship, from the crew's living quarters to the massive engine room
A merchant mariner captured life at sea on a video tour of a Maersk container ship.
The video shows the everyday life of cargo ship crew as they spend months at sea.
Second mate Bryan Boyle said workers celebrate holidays on board with festive meals and community.
A merchant mariner gave a tour of a 958-foot cargo ship in 2019 that showed the intricacies of the hulking freighters that haul 90% of the world's goods.
In the video, second mate Bryan Boyle records the vast array of machinery that keeps the ship moving, as well as the crew's and officers' living quarters on the Maersk ship, which was built in 2006.
Though the video was taken in 2019, Boyle told Business Insider in 2021 that it provides insight into the lives of shipping crews today.
Solar eclipse: Researchers warn about increased risk of deadly crashes during spectacle
The increased traffic and spectacle of the total solar eclipse on Monday could imperil motorists, with researchers warning that fatal collisions increased during previous eclipses and law enforcement bracing for the event.
There was a 31% increase in fatal traffic accidents during the 2017 total eclipse – and even in the days before and after the astrological event – according to a letter published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal this week.
Week After Bar-Mitzvah Boy Hangs Himself another 15 Year Old Found Dead Because of Parental Allienation
Shock and shock again on the streets of Williamsburg!
Less than a week after the tragic incident, in which a Bar Mitzvah boy passed away under unbearable circumstances in the Williamsburg neighborhood of New York, it happened again in the same neighborhood, and tonight came the bitter news of the passing of a 15-year-old boy, Monday night, who suffered from parental alienation and whose heart could not bear it
His body was found near the Beit Midrash of the Tush Chasidic community
The young man who cut his life short was Ze'ev Serulovich, z"l, the reason for his tragic suicide is a result of parental alienation, according to neighbors.
The tragedy occurred at Tash Shul Williamsburg, where the 15-year-old's body was found after extensive searches.
As you will recall, and as reported extensively in DIN, last week, a bar mitzvah boy took his own life, a few hours after his bar mitzvah celebrations ended. Reports state that Ass'kanim from the community to which his mother belonged prevented his father, who belongs to another Chasidic group, from participating in his private bar mitzvah celebration .
The Bar Mitzvah event was organized for him by the "ass'kanim".
Sources close to the family noted that for several years the boy had been crying incessantly, when all he wanted was to see his father, whom he loved all these years, and due to family reasons he divorced his wife.
However, according to the ass'kanim involved in the case, the children were forbidden to meet with their father, whose soul was scarred by the fact that their parents were divorced, and therefore, the ass'kanim claimed, it would be better for him not to meet with the father.
Following the incident, the famous American influencer Yonassan Shvartz published a long and chilling monologue, and began his remarks with a message he received from several ass'kanim who asked him not to deal with this issue "because the story should be swept under the carpet"... "
"There are dead children walking around here, a child committed suicide, and that's what you have to say? Sweep??? What does that sound like?" he cried out from the blood of his heart.
Rabbi Schwartz continued with pent-up pain, saying:
"I personally accompany such stories, hundreds and even thousands of children who are estranged from their parents. Usually it's alienation from the father, are these children alive? These children are called dead! Indeed, they have not yet committed suicide by hanging rope or jumping from the roof, but their lives are not called life, walking around dead in the streets!"
Back-Stabber Schumer Fails to Show at COJO Breakfast
On Sunday, the Council of Jewish Organizations (COJO Flatbush) held its annual breakfast, yet Senator Chuck Schumer, who frequently attends, was nowhere to be found. Multiple politicians at the bipartisan event linked his noticeable absence with his recent decision to abandon Israel.
On a video posted to X, Congressman Mike Lawler, an honoree at the breakfast, and Dov Hikind, both slammed Schumer for his attempts to interfere in Israeli politics.
Lawler said, “Just as we don’t want people interfering in our elections, he never ever should interfere in the Israeli elections.”
Hikind accused Schumer of “stabbing Israel in the back.”
Councilwoman Inna Vernikov added in a tweet, “@SenSchumer we missed you today. Yes, stabbing Israel in the back would not be a good look, especially after hostage families were begging and pleading for our support. Shame.”
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Yeshivos Say That They Are Carrying The Burden Just Like the Soldfiers So How Come They Take off Bein Hazmanim?
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| Rabbi Yitzchok Berkovitz in Aish |
The following does not represent some original thought or halachic innovation. Others have said things like this before, and more will say them after. I’m simply joining an existing chorus, and demanding that hypocrisy be called out and, potentially, avoided.
In the most recent issue of Mishpacha Magazine (April 3, 2024), in the wake of the Attorney General’s ruling that the Israeli army must initiate the process of drafting previously-exempt yeshiva students, Gedalia Guttentag interviewed Rabbi Yitzchak Berkovits, the rosh yeshiva of Aish HaTorah, about the Chareidi position regarding exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.
In response to the interviewer’s question about the IDF manpower shortage, Rabbi Berkovits acknowledged the problem and said,
“We need miracles. The most important asset that Klal Yisrael has is the olam hayeshivos, now more than ever. And the fact that we’re protecting Klal Yisrael means that we need to take ourselves seriously. If we recognize that at a time like this, when Klal Yisrael is in danger, the yishuv in Eretz Yisrael is in danger, then we need to take what we’re doing seriously… I know it’s very difficult to maintain a state of chizuk long term, but in the first days after Simchas Torah, when the yeshivos reopened early, people were learning like crazy. There were all-night sedorim. You know, it was very difficult to maintain that. And I think people have gone back to normal life. We really do have to strengthen our passion, our hasmadah and our tefillah.” (Emphasis mine)
I have written numerous articles explaining why I don’t agree with this perspective. Nonetheless, let’s assume that Rabbi Berkovits is correct: that the people learning Torah, rather than those who are fighting for Israel, are, in fact, the authentic source of Israel’s protection.
Let’s work with this oft-cited reason for military exemptions for those who are learning in yeshivot. (In my less generous moments, I summarize this as, “You’re fighting in Gaza, and we’re learning in yeshiva. You’re welcome.”)
This family was murdered by Hamas Oct 7
Johnny, Tamar, Shahar and Arbel (6) and Omer (4) Siman Tov were burned alive and murdered by Hamas terrorists.
This video was posted on their TikTok accounjt only 3 weeks before the massacre.
🕯️ May their memory be for a blessing
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