I would agree in principle that criticism of a country doesn't by itself imply animus toward the people of that country or their ethnicity, but what we're witnessing bespeaks of something more than that and if it didn't many of us wouldn't be concerned about it. There is . . .…
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) October 31, 2025
JD Vance was presented with an unambiguously antisemitic suggestion that Judaism openly supports the persecution of Christianity which was linked to “ethnic cleansing in Gaza”.
— Melanie Phillips (@MelanieLatest) October 30, 2025
JD needed to blow that out of the water. He needed to say it was a sick prejudice. He needed to say… https://t.co/RdACpSyAHq
Leave the gun, take the pastrami.
An unkosher ex-con, with a criminal record dating to the 1980s with over 40 arrests, has been burglarizing kosher groceries and delis on the Sabbath and High Holy Days for years – despite five prison stints.
Serial schnorrer Angelo Robinson was arrested again on Oct. 16 for allegedly breaking into two Brooklyn stores in 2024.
Robinson, 61, allegedly stole $30,000 from Kosher Korner in Gravesend on Yom Kippur in 2024 — the holiest day of the Jewish calendar — using a sawzall to break the lock on the back door of the McDonald Avenue supermarket, cops said.
“This is the epitome of the problem of New York,” the owner told The Post. “How many times can a guy get arrested?
“He keeps hitting Jewish stores on the Sabbath,” continued the disgusted store owner, who asked to be identified as Mr. Cohen. Observant Jews don’t work on Friday after sundown through Saturday at sunset.
Less than a month later, on Nov. 8, 2024, a Friday night, he allegedly used a crowbar to break through a rooftop hatch and enter Jerusalem Glatt, a kosher grocery on King’s Highway, cops said.
Robinson, who has a Staten Island address, then broke into a security room, snipping alarm wires and cutting open a safe to grab $107,000 in gelt, according to a criminal complaint against him.
He may also be a suspect in another burglary last month.
He last made headlines in October 2017 when he broke into then-Brooklyn state Sen. Simcha Felder’s office and punched a hole into the adjacent Mechy’s Gourmet on Avenue J, where he grabbed $5,000 from the register, cops said.
Robinson has served prison time for burglary and attempted burglary, and was most recently released from Bare Hill Prison upstate in 2023 after serving four years.
He also went to prison in 2014, 2008, 2001, 1992 and 1986, for burglary, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
But his time behind bars has apparently not been a good enough deterrent.
The most recent case against Robinson went stale faster than day-old bagel when a fingerprint that identified him as the culprit wasn’t turned over by the cops to prosecutors in time to hold him, according to a law enforcement source. He pled not guilty at his arraignment and was released on his own recognizance, court records show.
When asked about the case, the NYPD said “this arrest remains active and the DA is proceeding with prosecution.”
Investigators got the fingerprint because Robinson left a Sawzall blade with a plastic wrapper on it behind in Cohen’s store, according to the criminal complaint.
“He threw a wrapper … on the floor,” Cohen said. “I put on a pair of gloves, threw it in a Ziploc bag.”
NYPD detectives were able to pull a latent print from the wrapper that led cops to Robinson through an FBI database.
Cohen got a call from the NYPD earlier this month telling him the fingerprint was matched with Robinson, according to Cohen and the court documents.
Robinson was arrested on Oct. 16 and arraigned on two dozen charges from last year’s heists, including burglary, grand larceny, possession of stolen property, criminal mischief and trespassing, the documents show.
Jerusalem Glatt owner Danny Farah said he isn’t afraid of losing money, but he is dismayed that Robinson keeps committing the same crime.
“I think the system is messed up and they gotta get him behind bars for a long, long while,” Farah said. “He’s hitting people and taking all their hard earned money.”
Before Robinson was arrested, another store was burglarized, police sources said.
Mountain Fruit on Avenue M in Midwood was hit in the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 11, store manager Eli Podrigal said. The culprit took $25,000.
The case is under investigation and nobody has been charged, the NYPD said.
The crook, who came in through the roof, had the chutzpah to spend two and a half hours sawing into the safe, the manager said.
“He used a grinder with crowbars and hammers and screwdrivers,” Podrigal said, explaining that the burglar repeatedly changed blades that broke during the process. “He had plenty of blades in his backpack to cover the whole night. It’s all on video.”
DIN: I believe in Torato Umanuto—for those truly immersed in Torah learning. I don’t support mass arrests of yeshiva students, and I respect genuine Torah scholars who dedicate their lives to study. But the prayer rally organized on Thursday was a grave mistake.
Thousands of young Charedi men flooded the streets, many of whom are not learning full-time and are eligible for army service. Their absence from the IDF is glaring—and that public display alienated the Israeli public like nothing else.
To secular Israelis, it felt like a slap in the face. Their children and grandchildren are fighting and dying in a brutal war, and this rally sent a message of indifference.
Are the organizers blind to how this looks?
The insensitivity, the chutzpah, the refusal to share the burden—it’s supercilious and uncaring.
I would like to know if this rally was "mekareiv" one single soul? I don't necessarily have an answer to that question, but what I am certain of is that it turned off hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Jews!
These young men should have stayed in yeshiva and let the politicians handle the protest. Instead, they gained no supporters and likely lost many.
We need unity, not division. And we need honesty about who is truly learning—and who is simply avoiding responsibility.
And now this from Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll
After Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi informed the IDF Chief of Staff of her resignation on Friday morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a statement later that afternoon clarifying that her dismissal had been his decision.
“This morning, I announced the dismissal of Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi from her position. I did not settle for placing her on leave,” said the Defense Minister.
He emphasized, “All necessary sanctions will be taken against her, beginning with the revocation of her rank. Anyone who slanders IDF soldiers and prioritizes the interests of Nukhba terrorists over theirs is unfit to wear the IDF uniform and belongs in prison.”
Meanwhile, former IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari addressed the matter, saying: “I have no connection to the leak of the video from Sde Teiman. I was unaware of any intention to release it and certainly did not approve it. At no point was the source of the leak brought to my attention. As I’ve said before, this is a serious incident that must be thoroughly investigated to uncover the full truth.”
Tomer-Yerushalmi was placed on leave earlier this week, following the opening of a criminal probe against her and investigation materials which clearly indicate that she instructed that materials from the Sde Teiman base be passed to the media, and on the day the video was leaked, she was informed in advance, many hours before publication, of the intention to leak it.
In the leaked video, soldiers from the elite Force 100 prison intervention unit are seen allegedly abusing a captured Hamas terrorist. The accusations have been under intense dispute since they were published, including claims that the video was doctored. Several of the soldiers involved were taken for investigation.
Israel’s deep state exposed.
— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) October 31, 2025
The main story in the Sde Teiman video leak isn’t even the leak itself. It’s the lie to the Supreme Court, it’s the fake investigation where they said they didn’t find who leaked it, and it’s mainly this cover-up culture.
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A tragedy has shaken the Charedi world—a young bochur either fell or jumped, and the community is stunned that “Torah didn’t protect him.” But this shock reveals a deeper problem: the belief, spoken or implied, that Torah study alone exempts one from basic safety precautions.
In some circles, there’s a mindset that safety rules are for goyim and chilonim. That Torah is a shield against all harm, even when common sense is ignored. But this belief isn’t just misguided—it’s a distortion of Torah itself.
In Maseches Sotah 21a, Rav Yosef and Rava debate the protective power of Torah and mitzvos.
Rav Yosef says Torah protects whether one is actively learning or not. But Rava challenges this, citing Doeg and Achitofel—Torah scholars who met tragic ends. Rava concludes:
Torah protects only when one is actively engaged in it. Otherwise, it may shield but not save.
So no, Torah is not a magical force field. It demands responsibility. It demands hishtadlus. It demands that we care for our bodies as vessels of holiness—not treat them as disposable in the name of faith.
This isn’t apikorsus. It’s halacha. It’s seichel. And it’s time we stopped using Torah as a slogan and started living it as a truth.
Today at the Kotel, Charedi reservists from the Chashmonaim Brigade held a beret ceremony, highlighting their dedication to Torah learning and military service.
The footage captures the solemn event and the soldiers’ commitment to both faith and duty.
A bitter end to the rally: after the tragedy, organizers called on the crowds to go home and ordered those on rooftops to come down immediately.
A man died on Thursday during the haredi demonstration against military conscription, after he fell from a height at a construction site on Shazar Boulevard in Jerusalem. The victim was later identified as 20-year-old Menachem Mendel Litzman.
Litzman fell approximately 20 stories. MDA paramedics who rushed to the scene found the victim suffering from multi-system trauma and no vital signs, and had to pronounce him dead at the scene.
Police are investigating the possibility that Litzman committed suicide and did not fall accidentally.
Forces from the Jerusalem District Police are at the scene and have begun investigating the incident.
MDA paramedic Lishai Shemesh and EMT Daniel Alkayam recounted: "The teen lay unconscious at the foot of a high-rise construction site without a pulse and not breathing, with very severe multi-system trauma."
"We were told that he fell from a high height. We conducted medical examinations, but his injuries were critical, and unfortunately, we had no choice but to pronounce him dead," they reported.
Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman sharply attacked the haredi leadership following the incident. "The rotten haredi leadership is directly responsible for the painful death of a young boy in a despicable and unnecessary demonstration. He came out on the orders of that leadership to be a human shield for the power and influence of the haredi activists."
Magen David Adom, which has been on medical standby at the rally, reported that as of 16:45, it had treated 56 participants. Of those treated, four required further care and were evacuated to hospitals in mild condition (including two cases of fainting, a cardiac incident, and a minor injury).
