Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Watch Student Interrupts Principal's Speech Shouting "Am Yisrael Chai" When he claims "military killing innocent people in Gaza"
During a ceremony at a college in Ramat Gan, a student interrupted the principal's speech and shouted “Am Yisrael Chai” after he claimed that the military is killing innocent people in Gaza.
Author Delivers Blistering Response When Forced to Answer Where She Stands on “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” Before Scheduled Speaking Event
Russian Israeli author Dina Rubina was scheduled for an event to discuss her books at Pushkin House in London in collaboration with the University of London.
Before she was “allowed” to speak, however, event moderator Nataliya Rulyova demanded she clarify “her position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” saying other invited participants needed to “understand your position on this issue before responding.”
Here is the note Rubina received from Rulyova:
Hello, Dina!
The Pushkin House announced our upcoming conference on social media and immediately received critical messages regarding your position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They wanted to understand your position on this issue before responding. Could you formulate your position and send it to me as soon as possible?
— Natasha
Here is Dina’s blistering response to the ridiculous request.
Chareidim destroy 80 sheitels in Yerushalayim wig shop attack
Jerusalem police are looking for the suspect in a wig shop attack who destroyed a large supply of wigs for Jewish women.
The Israeli branch of American wig shop, Dini Wigs, was trashed in the attack, with wigs cut up, graffitied, and windows smashed. The estimated damage is over one million shekels (more than £210,000).
In the early hours last Friday morning, an Orthodox Jewish man can be seen on the shop’s CCTV cameras pulling out a hammer and smashing the glass door of the luxury wig shop.
The suspect, whose face is exposed in the footage, arrived with a headlamp, hammer, and spray paint.
At 3am on Friday, security cameras alerted the shop manager that there had been a break in.
In a video shared by Kassy Dillon on X, formerly Twitter, shop assistant Ayalla said: “Someone came in overnight. He just came in to destroy and damage the wigs. They don’t know exactly why. But he chopped up wigs and sprayed all over the wigs with graffiti spray.”
“It was devastating. We put so much effort in to make people look so beautiful and help them cover their hair, enjoy themselves, look pretty and keep their religion.”
Dini has stores in the US, Israel, and France, and caters for Orthodox women who cover their hair, as well as people living with medical hair loss.
Ready to wear wigs from Dini cost between £1,500 and £5,000, but Ayalla said, “It is not only money, it is a destruction of handwork.” The wigs are handmade from real human hair.
Ayalla added, “There is a group of people that don’t want people to wear natural wigs. They want people to cover the hair with fabric and not with hair.”
Local press outlets have suggested that the suspect was acting on behalf of the “chastity guards”, a vigilante gang that operates in Charedi communities to enforce modesty through violence and intimidation.
Israeli police are looking for the suspect and Dini have changed their security system after the attack.
House approves bill to sanction ICC officials over arrest warrants for Israelis
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for requesting arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, The Associated Press reported.
The 247-155 vote amounts to Congress’ first legislative rebuke of the court since its decision last month to seek arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas. The move was widely denounced in Washington.
While the House bill was expected to pass, it failed to attract significant Democratic support, dulling its chances in the Senate.
Both the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee acknowledged the bill in question is unlikely to become law and left the door open to further negotiation with the White House. They said it would be better for Congress to be united against the Hague-based court.
The Biden administration has denounced the ICC decision but has stated that it opposes sanctions against the court.
White House spokesperson John Kirby said in a briefing with reporters last week that sanctions were "not the right answer" to deal with the ICC arrest warrants, adding that the administration opposes that approach.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who spoke after Kirby, reiterated that message and said legislation against the ICC "is not something the administration is going to support."
"Sanctions on the ICC are not an effective or appropriate tool to address US concerns. We will work with Congress on other options to address the ICC overreach," she said.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Tuesday reiterated the administration’s opposition to the sanctions bill.
“We have made clear that while we oppose the decision taken by the prosecutor of the ICC, we don’t think it is appropriate, especially while there are ongoing investigations inside Israel looking at somebody’s very same questions, and we were willing to work with Congress on what a response might look like but we don’t support sanctions,” Miller said, according to AP.
Last week, a group of 19 pro-Israel House Democrats wrote a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in which they pushed back on the White House's opposition to impose sanctions against the ICC.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Senior Chabad Figure, Passes Away at 74
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a prominent rabbi who oversaw several thousand Chabad-Lubavitch educational institutions, passed away on Tuesday, just days before his 75th birthday.
Rabbi Kotlarsky’s bearded visage was well-known to everyone who attended or watched footage of the annual Kinus Hashluchim, proudly reading off the names of thousands of Chabad emissaries during the “roll call,” a highlight of the massive gathering. In addition to being the director of the Kinus Hashluchim, Rabbi Kotlarsky was the vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch. He traveled the world on behalf of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, pinpointing locations for Chabad sites and becoming known as the public face of Chabad in many foreign.
In 2023, Rabbi Kotlarsky was named to the Algemeiner’s list of top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life. Crown Heights resident Mendy Hershkop recalled Rabbi Kotlarsky for his big heart, his humility and the way he cared for every shaliach as if they were his own children.
“He was really a man who looked ahead,” Hershkop said. “Even in the present, he was able to constantly see the future, and see the future in the present.”
Tributes to Rabbi Kotlarsky poured in on social media.
“The world lost a giant today,” posted Shalom Goodman on X, who credited Rabbi Kotlarsky for having “a major part in building thousands of Jewish communities across the world as the unofficial leader of the Shluchim emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.”
“If you’ve heard of Chabad, it’s because of Rabbi Kotlarsky’s work,” tweeted journalist Yochonon Donn. “Whenever I called him he was always traveling – in an airport in Kenya, a bus in India, visiting a shaliach in Wisconsin. Truly a giant among men.”
The funeral for Rabbi Kotlarsky will take place tomorrow in Crown Heights. It is expected to pass by Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway at approximately 1 PM, with burial to follow at 2 PM at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights near the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel.
Bus with Bais Yaakov Girls Crashes in NJ 2 Airlifted to Trauma Center
Footage of the scene of the accident with the Monseytrail bus. Hatzalah members are on scene assisting the patients on scene. pic.twitter.com/ddOGi6ZLSD
— Rockland Daily (@Rockland_Daily) June 4, 2024
A Monsey Tours bus filled with Bais Yaakov girls from Flatbush crashed into a tree this afternoon in northern New Jersey, with at least five transported to local hospitals.
The accident took place at approximately 3:30 this afternoon on East Shore Road, in West Milford. Hatzalah members from Rockland, New Square and Kiryas Joel both raced to the scene, located near Greenwood Lake. Sources said that two passenger were airlifted to a trauma center, with three more transported to area hospitals with less serious injuries.
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