Chareidie IDF Recruit "My Shabbos Beneath Hamas Snipers" in Gaza

 

I got the call from my company commander shortly before sundown on Friday afternoon.

“They need someone to help tonight in Gaza. The convoy leaves in ten minutes. Can you go?”

I had already showered and put on my clean uniform in honor of Shabbos. My six-hour guarding shift at our base near the gates of Gaza was almost over, following a four-hour emergency standby. I was thinking through the Torah idea I planned to share in the base shul that night.

But the army was sending crews every evening to install sophisticated security systems on the guard towers of forward outposts inside Gaza. Because the roofs are exposed to Hamas sniper fire from less than half a mile away, they only work under cover of darkness. Every night they wait means another day our soldiers’s lives are endangered, so Jewish law requires the work to continue on Shabbos too.

So I grabbed my helmet, borrowed a bulletproof vest, and ran to the mission commander’s warehouse to help load the truck. The commander, a weathered lieutenant colonel who’d been doing this since before I was born, looked me over, pointed to a large box, and barked: “Are you strong enough to lift this?”

I picked up the box—it wasn’t that heavy—and was thus officially accepted for my first active mission in the heart of Gaza, together with two other rookies who had just joined the army with the Shlav Bet program for older ultra-Orthodox volunteer soldiers.

As our Hummer bumped into Gaza, with the last rays of Friday melting into Shabbos, I couldn’t help but laugh at the strangeness of it all. I’m the guy who hires a fix-it man for anything more complicated than changing a lightbulb, and now I was deployed in the world’s most advanced army to secure Gaza—on Shabbos—using cutting-edge sensor technology.

After more than 11 years, Lt. Hadar Goldin Z"L’s body comes home!

 After more than 11 years, Lt. Hadar Goldin Z"L’s body was returned to Israel.

 The Givati Brigade officer was killed and abducted by Hamas on August 1, 2014, during a humanitarian ceasefire in Rafah. 

Hamas retrieved his body from a tunnel in an IDF-controlled area and handed it to the Red Cross, which transferred it to the IDF and then to Abu Kabir for identification, finally bringing closure to his family.

When Tzadaka Organizations Shamelessly Exploit Gedoilei Hador !

by Boruch Clinton

I’m not a complete stranger to the complex and demanding process required for baking hand matzah. Having spent some time years ago watching the highly professional process at the famous Montreal matzah bakery, I can tell you that serious operations would never look anything like the chaos in the image above.

The picture itself came as part of a donation appeal from a kollel. To put it mildly, I was not inspired to donate. Let me explain why.

In a real matzah bakery, water (not to mention saliva blown out the business ends of clarinets) is a carefully controlled substance. The moment the first drop touches flour, the 18 minute timer starts ticking. I can’t imagine any responsible rav allowing such a half-hearted dribbling flow out of an 8 ounce cup.

In fact, adding water to the flour is done with military precision. The Montreal bakery has a narrow alcove containing a stand on which an empty mixing bowl is placed. Both sides of the alcove contain windows opening into separate rooms. The windows are nearly always sealed with shutters.

On a signal, one of the windows is opened and a man reaches out to pour the carefully calibrated volume of flour into the bowl. The window is closed. On a second signal, the “water window” is opened and the perfect amount of water is quickly poured.

One man per window. No crowds, no children, no drama. And what’s with the shtreimel: are they baking on Shabbos?

But what I found the most disturbing was the fact that, as far as I can tell, these people dragged an elderly talmid chochom away from whatever he would have preferred to be doing to be used as a prop in a fake bake-off that’s all part of some perverse fundraising gimmick. That’s hardly כבוד התורה and it doesn’t speak well of the organizers’ priorities.

But that’s not all. A few months later, a member of the B’chol D’rachecha family sent me this image:

If you can’t make it out, that’s a bottle of wine with a label featuring its own familiar image. The claim is that the wine comes from the siyum on Shas from R’ Kanievsky’s final year and that drinking from it would guarantee (ידועה ובדוקה) salvation, income, shidduchim, and sons.

I’m told that one of those bottles could be yours for the low, low price of just $140.

That there are entire industries built on the shameless exploitation of Torah scholars’ reputations is pretty awful. But that there are enough sufficiently naive Jews out there to make those industries profitable is really sad.

 

Josh Rosenberg writes his personal journey growing up Chassidish breaking away from Yisddishkeit and then finding his way back to faith

 I recently published my memoir, Re-Orthodoxed — a deeply personal story about growing up Chasidic, breaking away, and ultimately finding my way back to faith and meaning in Israel.

 I wrote it over many years and in memory of dear friends who tragically took their own lives after facing similar struggles.

Link to buy the book

Mamzerani admits in an interview with a Reform Rabbi that he holds with the Satmar Shita that Israel shouldn't exist

 

Well, he didn't outright say it, but there isn't any daylight between the Satmar Shit'ah and the Shit'ah of Mamzerani! 

Rabbi @AmmiHirsch sat down with Zohran Mamdani.
He came with an open mind.
He left with a pit in his stomach.

Zohran made it crystal clear:
He doesn’t believe Israel has any right to exist.
Not within the ‘67 lines.
Not within the ‘48 borders.
Not at all.

That’s not “policy… pic.twitter.com/vulzUjBbLC

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) November 8, 2025

IDF Soldier in Toronto Singlehandedly throws out Pro Hamas Supporters

 

"They assaulted me, so now I'm going to physically remove them from the premises"

Proceeds to throw every watermelon warrior out like a sack of potatoes while they shriek and cry.

*chef's kiss*

pic.twitter.com/6IgOTpgOWF

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) November 8, 2025

Megyn Kelly demolished by Ben Shapiro in interview

 

Megyn is still trying to play both sides and it isn't going to work. She sounds totally incoherent.

Ben: I think that what Candace is doing right now is evil.

Megyn: I don't opine on whether it's evil or not, but my position is, it's really none of my business

Ben: But I have… https://t.co/M51PUvnAao pic.twitter.com/KvjXj53Yqk

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) November 7, 2025

Frankfurter of Ami Magazine continues with his hate and lies

 

Yitzy (the liar) Frankfurter

Yitzy Frankfurter has once again proven that he’s not just misinformed—he’s deliberately misleading.

 In this week’s issue, he interviews Rav Yosef “Chevroni,” and yes, I’m putting “Chevroni” in quotes because that’s not his real name. It’s a branding gimmick. His actual name is Epstein, and he’s not a Rosh Yeshiva in the traditional sense—he’s a fundraiser with a title.

Frankfurter, in his usual manipulative style, frames a question designed to stir panic, suggesting that the Israeli government is plotting to shut down yeshivos. He writes:

“We are both talmidim of Rav Dovid Soloveitchik, zt”l... He summoned me to Eretz Yisrael to do something about the danger of giyus... He told me he did not have menuchas hanefesh... I wanted to say they would never be able to close down such a makom kadosh. But then I stopped myself because I knew what he had experienced in Europe…”

Really? Who exactly is threatening to close down yeshivos? What government official has made such a declaration? This is pure fiction—emotional manipulation dressed up as concern.

And then the “Rosh Yeshiva” responds by comparing today’s situation to the gezeiras hagiyus in Lita—where Jewish boys were forcibly conscripted into the goyishe army. That’s the comparison? Enlisting in a Jewish army to defend Eretz Yisrael is the same as being dragged into the czar’s military machine?

This isn’t just absurd—it’s offensive. It insults the intelligence of anyone who understands history, and it cheapens the sacrifices of those who actually lived through real persecution.

These people aren’t just out of touch—they’re actively distorting reality. And the Jewish public deserves better than fear-mongering and revisionist drama.

And now for the kicker—the most absurd comparison of all: this guy actually equates the U.S. draft exemptions to students during the Vietnam War with the IDF draft in Israel. Seriously?

Let’s break this down. The United States was fighting a war 6,000 miles away, in a country that posed zero threat to the American mainland. Vietnam was not launching rockets at New York or threatening to wipe Washington off the map. At the time, the U.S. had a population of over 200 million and deployed around 500,000 troops to Southeast Asia. With that kind of demographic cushion, it could afford to exempt 10,000 yeshiva students without compromising national security.

Now contrast that with Israel—a tiny country surrounded by hostile neighbors, fighting a war for its very survival. Every soldier counts. Every able-bodied citizen is part of the national defense. The IDF isn’t some far-off expeditionary force—it’s the shield standing between Israeli families and existential threats.

So to compare the two situations is not just intellectually dishonest—it’s dangerously foolish. It’s the kind of argument that collapses under the weight of its own absurdity.

Here’s the Democratic Socialists of America’s demands to Zohran Mamdani for how to lead an Israel-hating NYC

 

The Democratic Socialists of America’s Big Apple chapter will push Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to implement a virulently anti-Israel agenda, leaked documents show.

Included in the NYC-DSA’s “Anti-War Working Group” list of a dozen “demands” for the incoming mayor is an end to all city contracts with companies doing business with Israel, and withdrawing all funds from banks lending money to the Jewish state, according to a planning document first exposed by Just The News.

The five-page screed was distributed at the group’s Nov. 2 public meeting, and reveals the DSA’s NYC chapter has been plotting since at least late September on how to best to ensure the pro-Palestine, Israel-hating Mamdani fully supports its anti-Israel agenda once he’s sworn in as mayor in January — and doesn’t buckle to political pressure.

Other demands include:

1. Divesting city pensions from Israeli bonds and securities.
2. Banning Israeli products from the city-run grocery stores Mamdani wants to open.
3. Investigating real estate agents “hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank.”
4. Stripping tax-exempt nonprofit status from entities that raise funds for the Israel Defense Forces.
5. End the NYPD’s training with Israeli Occupation Forces.
6.  Arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and active IDF soldiers for “war crimes” if they enter the Big Apple.
7. Dismantle an NYC-Israel Economic Council formed by outgoing Mayor Adams.  

• “Well at least the DSA mask is off,” said state Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, a conservative Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew. “This was never about affordability, free buses or anything else. This was always about Jew hatred.

  “With every municipal issue facing New York City’s government, the DSA doesn’t care about the state of our schools, streets, parks, subways, city budget or anything else. They care about Israel — Israel and only Israel.

  “At least now they can stop trying to deny their antisemitism; most New Yorkers aren’t stupid,” said Yeger.

  Mamdani — a longtime supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement whose father Mahmood Mamdani sits on advisory group that routinely accuses the Jewish state of committing “genocide” – condemned antisemitism on the campaign trail while meeting with some Jewish leaders to drum up political support.

• Alicia Singham Goodwin, niece of the China-based Marxist tycoon Neville “Roy” Singham, serves as political director of lefty nonprofit Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, which launched a “Jews for Zohran” campaign in January— giving the Israel-bashing Mamdani cover from antisemitism accusations, The Post reported in July.

  However, he’s refused to budge on his longtime stance that Israel shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state or condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” that calls for the destruction of Israel.

• Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) said she expects “Comrade Zohran” to be nothing more than a “radical DSA puppet” after seeing the DSA papers.

  “It was always obvious that he would carry the will of the most radical among us to the highest seat of power in our city,” she said. “Now we will see what happens when the insane run the asylum.”

Sorotzkin Hires a Zionist Horse to Escort the Freed Draft Dodger but the Horse Refuses to Shlep him

 I honestly don’t know whether to laugh, cry!

So here we have Sorotzkin—the international schnorrer-in-chief—who somehow scraped together enough donations to rent a horse and buggy to escort a draft dodger back to yeshiva. Yes, a horse. In 2025.

Now, Sorotzkin had already told the world a brazen lie: that this bochur was jailed because the evil Zionists wouldn’t let him learn Torah. 

What he didn’t realize is that in Israel, even the horses are Zionists.

So naturally, the horse refused to participate in this circus. It stood its ground. Then, in a moment of pure desperation, another draft dodger tried to push the horse from behind, hoping to “recruit” it into this holy parade of nonsense. But even a Zionist horse knows better than to be shoved from the rear by someone who has never had any experience with an animal. The horse panicked, collapsed, and lay there in distress.

And the bochurim? The same ones who supposedly learned the sugya of Tzaar Baalei Chayim, couldn’t care less. Because apparently, compassion for animals doesn’t apply when you’re staging a fake martyrdom tour.

Let’s be clear: no one in Israel is being stopped from learning Torah. This isn’t persecution—it’s a draft dodger trying to spin his refusal into sainthood. And now we’ve got horses collapsing under the weight of hypocrisy.

Yeshivat Ateret Shlomo in Rishon Lezion (a haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, yeshiva) on Wednesday evening celebrated the early release of a student, Ariel Shamai, who served 15 days in an IDF military prison for refusing to enlist, with a horse-drawn procession through local streets.

This display drew sharp criticism from residents and from Rishon Lezion Mayor Raz Kinstlich.

According to haredi media reports, the yeshiva’s head, Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin, held a welcoming ceremony for the student, referring to him as an asir olam haTorah (a prisoner of the Torah world).

Videos showed a festive reception on the Ateret Shlomo campus in Rishon Lezion, where a horse-drawn carriage greeted the student.

At the same time, posters around the campus carried the student’s name, “Ariel Shamai,” next to the iconic yellow ribbon and graphics used by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum’s “Bring Them Home” campaign, with the adapted slogans “Bring him back to the yeshiva now” and “Until the last hostage.” The Forum has recently warned Ateret Shlomo against using its symbols in this manner. 

A video obtained by The Jerusalem Post shows the horse pulling the carriage while one participant yanks its reins forcefully; the horse then appears to topple and fall to the ground. Local residents voiced anger over the incident and the celebration.