Sunday, March 30, 2025
A NATO Threat Rising on Israel’s Border?
Read to what the Judge told the "Shoe Bomber" at his Sentencing!
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to light it?
Did you know his trial is over?
Did you know he was sentenced?
Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on TV or Radio?
Didn't think so.!!!
Everyone should hear what the judge had to say.
Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.
Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,' defiantly
stating, 'I think I will not apologize for my actions,' and told the court 'I am at war with your country.'
Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:
Kamisha Hart a Nurse from Portland Univ Hospital said that Bibas Family should be "be grateful" to Hamas that members of the Bibbs "were not returned in blue body bags and handcuffs".
Kamisha Hart, a nurse from Portland University Hospital, one of the leading hospitals in the US, was fired after her shocking antisemitic expressions were exposed and after it turned out she justified the murder of Shiri Bibas, and the abduction of her children.
The nurse wrote, among other things, on her Instagram account,
"I refuse to take care of you (a Jewish man), I don't take care of animals, dogs, rats and wasps of any kind."
In addition, she wrote that Shiri Bibas "was a legitimate target" following her military service, adding that the Bibbs family should "be grateful" to Hamas that members of the Bibbs "were not returned in blue body bags and handcuffs".
Here we go again!! Columbia’s new prez called Congress hearings on antisemitism ‘Capitol Hill nonsense’
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| Claire Shipman |
Columbia University’s new president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism “Capitol Hill nonsense.”
Claire Shipman, a former CNN White House correspondent whose ex-husband is former Obama Administration press secretary Jay Carney, served as co-chair of the University’s board of trustees before she was appointed Friday night to replace interim school president Katrina Armstrong.
In a Dec. 28, 2023, text message, Shipman wrote to then university president Minouche Shafik she thought Columbia would be spared from the “capital hill nonsense,” referring to December 2023 Congressional hearings that saw the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and MIT testify about campus protests against the war in Gaza.
The tense hearings famously resulted in Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Penn’s Liz Magill resigning after they were grilled on whether calling for the killing of Jews would violate their school’s bullying and harassment policies — and answered that it depended on the context.
Shipman’s text messages about the hearings were revealed in a 325-page October report from the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce that included leaked messages between university officials.
Columbia’s leaders had expressed contempt for the congressional investigation, according to the report.
In the same text message, Shipman also suggested reinstating student groups that had participated in the protests.
“I do think we should think about unsuspending the groups before semester starts to take the wind out of that,” she wrote to Shafik.
Armstrong’s resignation was the second in less than a year over the university’s handling of campus protests.
Armstrong left days after she caved and told President’s Trump’s administration she would implement a mask ban during campus protests as a condition for keeping $400 million in federal funding — while allegedly privately promising faculty she would not.
Shafik had resigned from the school’s top post in August amid the furor over the campus protests.
Shipman and Columbia could not immediately be reached for comment.
Katrina Armstrong’s resignation as Columbia’s interim prez is another Trump win against lefty insanity
Maybe the third time will be the charm.
Columbia University obviously subscribes to the belief that Friday night is the best time to put out bad news.
How else to explain the fact that, at 8 p.m. Friday, it announced that its interim president had quit?
If members of the Board of Trustees hoped nobody would notice, they’re more delusional than advertised.
The resignation of Dr. Katrina Armstrong is yet another bombshell development in the Trump administration’s crackdown on universities violating the civil rights of Jewish students, with Columbia a serial offender and top test case.
The announcement gave no reason why Armstrong is returning to the medical school or why she is being replaced by Claire Shipman, co-chair of the trustees.
Shipman, a former television journalist, will be Columbia’s third president in a year.
The first, Nemat Shafik, was overwhelmed by campus chaos after the Hamas terrorist invasion of Israel and the Jewish state’s response, and fled to London.
Then again, no explanation for the latest change was needed.
Numerous reports show Columbia mired in internal turmoil over the White House plan to strip it of at least $400 million in federal grants and contracts unless it makes changes that will subject disruptive students to arrest and provide responsible oversight to two departments that are hotbeds of antisemitism.
Armstrong’s sin was that she tried to play for two teams at the same time.
She initially promised the White House that Columbia would forbid demonstrators from wearing masks, then said the opposite to faculty members.
She later reassured the White House she would keep her initial promise, but her credibility was ruined.
So now she’s gone, and Shipman is left to clean up the mess.
Cabinet approves: Maale Adumim - Jerusalem route - with no Palestinians
The Security Cabinet has approved the laying of the third section of the "Sovereignty Road" in the area surrounding Jerusalem. The move, promoted by Defense Minister Israel Katz, will enable Palestinian Arabs to travel between population centers while bypassing Israeli checkpoints. In practice, it has other implications, i.e. diverting all Palestinian vehicles from the existing roads connecting Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.
The decision was made for two main reasons – one for security, to prevent terrorism in this area. About one year ago, Matan Elmaliah was murdered and seven others were wounded in a shooting attack carried out by three terrorists on the section of the road in question.
The second reason is political, in order to create a continuum of roads in this area without Palestinians, and preventing them from accessing various areas by foot, such as the Khan al-Ahmar outpost, against which a demolition order has been pending for years and which the Palestinians define as strategic in an attempt to break Israel's territorial continuity.
The road will also remove a significant obstacle to the application of full Israeli sovereignty over Ma'ale Adumim, and has therefore been delayed by the political echelon over the years.
Guy Yifrach, mayor of Ma'ale Adumim, commented this morning: "We are delighted to reach a time like this. A historic-political decision that we brought to the Security Cabinet, the paving of the Sovereignty Road, was approved tonight. This will significantly improve the security of the residents of Ma'ale Adumim and the surrounding area, and will drastically reduce traffic congestion in the area.”
“Since I took office, this has been the city’s most important project. Over the past year, I have conducted dozens of observations, tours and discussions with senior government officials, the defense establishment and the IDF. Tonight, after persistent efforts, one of the most important decisions was made for the city of Ma'ale Adumim, for Jewish residence in Judea and Samaria and for the capital of Israel – Jerusalem."
"Beyond the diplomatic breakthrough that has been blocked for decades, this is also an unprecedented budgetary achievement: 303 million shekels were approved for the construction of the road. The project will include a connection between al-Azariya and a-Zaim through an underground tunnel, and will allow Palestinian traffic from southern Judea and Samaria to the north – without passing through Israeli roads. This is a historic moment, which proves how determination, cooperation and faith in the justice of our path has paid off," Yifrach concluded.
Netanyahu's Plane to DC Had to divert European Countries Due to ICC Warrant
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most recent flight to Washington took longer than it should have due to the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said on Thursday.
“When the prime minister arrived here last month, he had to fly 13.5 hours, a trip that should take 12 hours. People don’t know it, but the reason was that he can’t land anywhere in Europe,” Ynet cited Leiter as saying during a webinar.
Netanyahu “had just had surgery. He came with two doctors, and they told him he may have to land for treatment,” the envoy explained in an online conversation with the One Israel Fund, an American organization dedicated to supporting Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria.
“But if he were to land anywhere in Europe, he could be arrested as a war criminal. So he had to fly over American army bases [for] 13.5 hours,” Leiter added.
Netanyahu had undergone a surgery to remove his prostate, less than six weeks before he took flight to the U.S. on Feb. 2 to meet with President Donald Trump. It was the first official visit of a foreign leader following Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip during the war that broke when Hamas carried out one of the largest terrorist attacks in history against the Jewish state, murdering roughly 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 more into the enclave on Oct. 7, 2023.
“You can’t fight antisemitism if the No. 1 Jew in the world is branded as a war criminal,” Leiter said during the webinar.
“So, as I told the joint session of the Senate leadership, if you are all fighting antisemitism—the first thing you must do is remove the mark of Cain from the prime minister’s forehead. That is the first step, because if he is a child murderer, then we are all child murderers, and we deserve the hatred,” the ambassador said.
Leiter added that the Trump administration has demonstrated a “commitment to assisting us and ensuring that no international entity undermines our right to defend ourselves. This also includes direct engagement with European countries to prevent unilateral actions against us.”
The ambassador also discussed his office’s work against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The fight against antisemitism includes the fight against decisions made by local U.S. governments and districts to suspend their investments in Israeli government bonds—a phenomenon that has grown since the start of the current war in Gaza, he noted.
Leiter stepped into the ambassador role on Jan. 27. A U.S.-born former chief of staff to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Leiter founded the One Israel Fund in 1994.
His son Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidyah Leiter was killed while fighting against Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 10, 2023.
Leiter, a 39-year-old father of six from Kibbutz Ein Tzurim, was killed along with three other Israel Defense Forces reservists while inspecting a booby-trapped tunnel entrance in the northeastern Gaza Strip’s Beit Hanun area.
Miriam Elisheva Yarimi Accused of Horrific Fatal Brooklyn Crash Is Luxury Wigmaker with History of Traffic Violations
Miriam Elisheva Yarimi, the 32-year-old driver accused of fatally running down a mother and her two daughters in Brooklyn on Shabbos, is a wigmaker with a luxurious lifestyle and a history of legal and traffic issues. Yarimi was driving her Audi with a suspended license on Ocean Parkway in Gravesend when she collided with a Toyota Camry, then careened into a crosswalk, killing the family as they left Shabbat services.
Known for flaunting her affluent lifestyle on social media, Yarimi has posted pictures of vacations, luxury cars, and nights out. She also gained attention after winning a $2 million settlement in 2023 from the NYPD over a misconduct claim.
In addition to her legal troubles, Yarimi has accumulated over 93 traffic violations, including 20 speeding tickets and fines exceeding $10,000. Authorities have not yet disclosed whether she will face charges in connection with the fatal crash.
Jewish Mother and Two Daughters Killed in Brooklyn Crash While Crossing on Ocean Parkway
The victim of today’s horrific crash in Flatbush has been identified as Natasha (Sara) Saada (35), along with her two daughters, Diana Saada (7) and Debra Saada (5)
A tragic accident in Brooklyn claimed the lives of a mother and her two young daughters as they walked home from synagogue on Shabbos. The crash, involving a driver with a suspended license, left the woman’s 4-year-old son critically injured and sent shockwaves through the local community.
The collision occurred around 1 p.m. on Ocean Parkway near Quentin Road in Gravesend, a neighborhood with a large Orthodox Jewish population. The 35-year-old mother and her daughters, ages 8 and 6, were pronounced dead at the scene. Nine people were injured in total, authorities said.
A witness described the moment of impact as overwhelming. “The sound was like an explosion,” the witness said. “Everything just stopped.”
According to police, the crash involved a Toyota Camry operating as an Uber and an Audi driven by 32-year-old Miriam Yarimi. After the initial impact, the Audi veered into the crosswalk, striking the family. Images from the aftermath showed shattered vehicles, scattered belongings, and emergency responders working frantically to aid the victims.
“This was a terrible tragedy caused by someone who shouldn’t have been behind the wheel,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
Yarimi and the 62-year-old Uber driver were transported to Coney Island Hospital in stable condition. Authorities have not yet filed charges but are conducting tests to determine if impairment played a role.
The father of the children was at home with the couple’s infant when he received the devastating news. “A neighbor had to go to him and tell him his wife and two daughters were gone,” a resident said. “He lost his wife and two of his four children in one instant.”
The close-knit community has been deeply affected by the tragedy. First responders, visibly shaken, were seen consoling one another at the scene. One was reportedly on his knees, overcome with grief.
“It’s unthinkable,” said a witness. “The streets were filled with families walking home from synagogue, and in an instant, everything changed.”
Mayor Eric Adams described the incident as “a tragedy of immense proportions.”
“A mother and her children were simply enjoying a beautiful day, and now a family has been shattered,” Adams said. “The pain they are enduring is beyond words.”
The two young girls were pronounced dead at Maimonides Medical Center, while their brother remains in critical condition.
As investigators continue to examine the circumstances, the community is left mourning an unimaginable loss and seeking answers about how such a devastating event could have occurred.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
The true scandal of the WZO affair and Lakewood leadership
The reason people are so upset about Eretz Hakodesh and the WZO affair is this:
Nobody cares that rabbanim paskened one way or the other. I can understand both sides. It’s a halacha shayla, make the psak, and finished.
What bothers people is the absolute amount of energy and time and yes, care put into an entirely pointless issue.
There’s a famous pyramid based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It’s a psychological theory that one must address the base issues in a person’s life such as food water and warmth, before moving on to higher levels in the pyramid of friends, prestige, and creative activities.
However, there is also a lesser-known pyramid based on Ash’s hierarchy of rabbinic leadership priorities, which is found below
Now, let’s look where WZO is on this pyramid. You see it? No? That’s right - the WZO is nowhere freaking on there! That’s because it does not matter. Not a bit! The fact the local Lakewood ‘leadership’ spent hours and hours on it and stopped seder for this waste of time tells us one of two things:
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