All this is happening in the holy city of Bnei-Brak!
The New Viznitz and Gerer Song!
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Dec 2, 1947: The day the Damn British gave the ok for Arabs to kill Jews
On the anniversary of the December 2, 1947 Arab pogroms in Israel and throughout the Middle East, a long-ago question calls out to be asked:
Did the British purposely order their police and soldiers to stand aside on December 2 as the Arabs killed Jews in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and throughout the Middle East?A few days earlier, on November 29, the newly formed United Nations had voted to partition Israel into two states.
Unable to sway the UN with their threats that they would not give up one inch of land to the Jews, the Arabs instead did what has come naturally to them since the founding of Islam in 610. They rioted, looted, stabbed, raped, destroyed homes and shops, set fires and, with the greatest of enthusiasm, killed Jews.
Eventually the Arabs killed 184 Jews in Israel following the UN vote. Also, Aleppo, Syria saw 75 dead Jews, Aden in South Yemen reported 82 Jewish dead, Damascus saw 13 Jews killed, including eight children, and over 100 Jews were killed in Libya in December-January.
Researching the riot in Jerusalem 20 years later, which included interviewing Jewish and Arab witnesses, here is how Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre described the killings of December 2 in their book O Jerusalem!
“The crowds began to assemble in the shuk at dawn December 2…..The city's Arab merchants shuttered their shops and whitewashed their store fronts with a crescent or a cross to shield them from the fury of the mob…….The Arab crowd, it's volatile emotions fired by the rumors deliberately spread on such occasions - this morning's claimed that two Arab women had been raped by the Jews at Jaffa gate - quickly escaped control. Picking up supporters as they rolled along, a stream of workers, drifters, peasants in black and white checkered kefias, excited adolescents, curious shopkeepers in business suits, howling women, flowed toward the Jewish areas like a rush of water bursting from a dyke.
“Watching them push up Prince Mary Avenue (today’s Shlom Tsiyon HaMalka Street), Zvi Sinai, a Haganah observer, thought that at any moment the British would step forward and bar their progress….Now, to his stupefication, the British stared at the advancing demonstrators as indifferently is if they were a few drunken undergraduates celebrating the Oxford-Cambridge boat race at Piccadilly Circus.
“Sensing the police's indifference, the mob swung into a sprawling marketplace full of Jewish shops, clubbing its terrified Jewish shopkeepers, smashing windows and ripping doors from their hinges, the rioters plunged into its stores tearing goods from the shelves by the armful.
Antisemites are receiving massive funding, we are losing this war
Malcolm Hoenlein, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations in the United States, expressed deep concern at the Israel Hayom Conference in New York over the demographic shift working against the Jewish people and the American Jewish community.
Hoenlein, 81, whose involvement in American politics began in the 1950s when he joined the presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, has witnessed many incidents of antisemitism throughout his life and in recent years warned that what happened in Europe could also happen in the United States. “Unfortunately,” he said, “this prophecy has come true.”
“For the past twenty years I have been warning about the phenomenon,” Hoenlein said, “but even today people do not want to confront reality. The problem is that we do not have a systematic and comprehensive approach toward the community. We have more than two hundred organizations that were founded in the past two years to fight antisemitism and that have received massive funding, but to be honest we are winning a few battles but losing the war. There is no joint financial effort, and the time has come for the community and its leaders to work together. We saw in the New York elections what is truly at stake. There are more Muslims than Italians, Poles and others in New York and their numbers will continue to grow.”
Hoenlein was asked whether reports that roughly 30 percent of Jews voted for Zohran Mamdani were accurate, and he replied, “They did not vote for him. No one actually measures the Jewish community. They use separate cells for measurement, but it does not matter even if it is 20 percent. We must understand what motivated those people to vote for him. He spoke about the cost of living. He excited them. We are not exciting young people, and it is not only a revolt against Israel, Israel is just a symbol. It is a revolt against their families. We are not growing, and we are not building the future. We are the ones who carry this message we always have and now is the time to focus on the future.”
When asked whether this war can be won, Hoenlein replied, “Ten years ago I said, ‘Don’t run, prepare,’ because you can argue with politics and policy but not with demography. The same thing is happening here…we must create a new generation, better educated and more connected to Israel, but we must do it differently.”
'Shoot anyone who starts a fire'
The Knesset Interior Affairs Committee convened on Wednesday morning to discuss the burning of waste in the Arab territories in Judea and Samaria.
Knesset members presented the implications of the phenomenon on the health of the residents and the environment.
MK Tzvi Succot (Religious Zionists) warned of the severity of the situation, saying: "During the Meron disaster, 45 people were killed; here, thousands of people are being killed. People here are dying from the fires, there are stillbirths, and people are lying in the hospital. It is shameful. As a member of the coalition, I'm embarrassed to say this, unfortunately, the IDF is not involved.
He added, "This is terrorism that injures and kills thousands of people. We may have to form a commission of inquiry. We have to send the Air Force and tell them to shoot anyone who starts a fire."
Committee Chairman MK Yitzhak Kroizer and Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman second the aggressive classification of the issue, and said: "It is true that it's terrorism. Anyone who starts a fire must be shot. Terrorism must be treated as terrorism."
Other MKs referred to the wave of arson as a "security threat" and called for decisive action by the security forces, including the use of the Air Force and stopping the perpetrators in real-time.
Slabodka Dinner Disrupted by Landaus/Peleg Fringe Vile Attacks on Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch
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Note: The Boro-Park Scoop and YeshivaWorld are lying when they wrote that this was Neturei Karta! Neturei Karta are not goires any of the Litvishe Leaders, these are Pro-Landau supporters that want Rav Hirsch to quit Degel, because he is not extreme enough!
Do not be fooled by these false reports! They are hiding the fact that there is now an open rift between the supporters of Rav Landay and Rab Hirsch! There are Zero Pashkivilim Against Rav Landau, even though they are supposedly on the same political party Degel.
Notice the hate they have for each other! זו תורה וזו שכרה
Pro-Landau/Peleg activists staged a protest Tuesday night at 51st Street and 14th Avenue in Boro Park, hurling vulgar slogans at HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a as guests arrived for the Slabodka Yeshiva dinner.
The Pro_landau chayos spewed rhetoric so crude and dishonorable that even longtime observers of Peleg antics described the display targeting one of the generation’s leading gedolei Torah as “a new low.”
Inside the hall, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch — unfazed, unshaken, and wholly above the chaos outside — entered to thunderous singing from a packed crowd. The ovation underscored the deep reverence held for the Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva, a towering gadol whose gadlus b’Torah and decades of hadracha have earned him global reverence.
The protest has drawn strong communal condemnation, with many leaders reiterating that Peleg represents no recognized Torah authority and operates entirely outside normative Jewish life.
To summarize: Harav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit”a brought with him Torah and Yiras Shamayim.Peleg brought with them bizayon and chillul hashem.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Trump invites Netanyahu to the White House, What will he do now to Pressure Israel???
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
US President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to travel to Washington “in the near future” during a phone conversation Monday night, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
The call followed a series of statements from Trump urging Israel to avoid any steps that could unsettle Syria’s new leadership while regional tensions remain volatile.
Trump publicly praised what he described as recent progress inside Syria, writing on Truth Social that “the United States is very satisfied with the results displayed, through hard work and determination, in the country of Syria.”
He said Washington had done “everything within our power to make sure the Government of Syria continues to do what was intended,” adding that lifting what he called “very strong and biting sanctions” had contributed to these developments. Trump said that this move “was truly appreciated by Syria, its leadership, and its people!”
Chiloni principals of High School Join Satmar to Prohibit Student to Put on Tefillin
The Satmar Rebbe, as recorded in the sefer Yirei Hashem, ruled that it is halachically forbidden to put on Tefillin for Chilonim — a direct criticism of the Chabad initiative.
Yes, I know it sounds unbelievable, but in Satmar, this kind of ruling is par for the course.
Take this case: a young student, whose brother was badly injured in Gaza, wanted to put on Tefillin in his brother’s merit. He even recruited other boys to join him. Yet the school’s menhalim, apparently mindful of the Satmar “fatwa,” refused to allow it.
And here’s the irony: I can already hear people saying, “See, the Chilonim are against Tefillin.” But they conveniently ignore the fact that Satmar itself has officially taken that stance too.
Monday, December 1, 2025
Civil War Between Backers of Rav Dov Landau and Rav Hirsch
This whole “we are all Leshem Shamayim” line is pure malarkey. Nobody buys it — not even their own followers.
For months, a quiet war was brewing between the supporters of Rav Landau and those of Rav Hirsch. Now the conflict has burst into the open. What we’re seeing is a full‑blown power struggle among the so‑called “gedoilim,” and at this stage Rav Hirsch appears to be pulling ahead.
Grab the popcorn — the show has just begun.
Associates of Rabbi Dov Lando, one of the leaders of Degel Hatorah, are trying to replace all Degel Hatorah MKs in the next Knesset, with politicians who are obedient to the rabbi - and this, in light of the fact that most of the MKs in the party currently obey Rabbi Hirsch, the de facto leader of the Lithuanian public.
A senior member of the national Degel Hatorah tells City News:
"The attempted putsch in question will not succeed, given the trend of hardening of Rabbi Lando's associates, who see with their eyes wide open how the party is slipping through their fingers in favor of Rav Hirsch
מקורביו של הרב דוב לנדו, ממנהיגי דגל התורה, מנסים לקדם מהלך של החלפת כל ח"כי דגל התורה בכנסת הבאה, עם פוליטיקאים הממושמעים לרב - וזאת, לאור העובדה שרוב הח"כים במפלגה כיום ממושמעים דווקא למרן הרב הירש, המנהיג בפועל של הציבור הליטאי.
בכיר ב'דגל התורה' הארצית אומר ל'חדשות העיר': "ניסיון הפוטש המדובר ככה"נ לא יצליח, נוכח מגמת ההיחשלות של מקורבי הרב לנדו, שרואים בעיניים כלות איך המפלגה נשמטת להם מבין האצבעות לטובת הרב הירש".
Is this the Redemption?
Is this the country we have been waiting for? Absolutely! It’s not yet total light, but it has a lot of light.
by Harav Shlomo Aviner Shlitah
It seems that many people have forgotten the very first teaching of the Jerusalem Talmud:
“One time, Rabbi Chiya the Great and Rabbi Shimon ben Chalafta were strolling through the Arbel Valley as morning approached, and they saw the breaking of dawn. Rabbi Chiya said to Rabbi Shimon, ‘Such is Israel’s Redemption. At first it is gradual, but the further it moves along, the faster it is.” (Jerusalem Talmud, at the beginning of Berachot).
Countless times I have passed through that area, during the seven years I lived on Kibbutz Lavi in the Lower Galilee, and now, as well, since my daughter lives there in Kfar Zeitim, near the Sea of Galilee.
Were Rabbi Chiya to see all of this, he would burst with pleasure and pride at how gloriously Eretz Yisrael is being rebuilt and how plentifully it is bearing its fruits. Indeed, this is one of the points that distinguish the intelligent from the less intelligent:
the understanding that there are phenomena that do not occur all at once but involve a prolonged, painful, gradual process.
To what may this be compared? To sunrise. The sun doesn’t suddenly appear out of total darkness. Rather, first comes dawn, the brightening of the east, sunrise, and at noon the sun appears in all its might. It is the same with the start of Redemption. Light and darkness intermingle. There are clouds - ups and downs, crises and setbacks, difficulties and complications.
And why is that?
Would it be too hard for G-d to bring Redemption all at once, instantaneously?
Certainly not, but such is G-d’s will, that we should be partners in Redemption, and such is the nature of people, that they are not angels but just people with weaknesses, mistakes and oversights.
Therefore, if we see problems along the way, we mustn’t despair. We mustn’t think we have erred in our direction. All the questions only prove that our country does not constitute the complete Redemption but only its first flowerings. Or, more precisely, we are already at an advanced stage of our Redemption process.
One might say: “I can agree to the Redemption’s proceeding gradually, but not to its regressing and to our losing what we have already gained.” If so, however, my response is that G-d does not need your consent.
Moreover, you’ve forgotten that the Jerusalem Talmud brings as a first example of gradual Redemption, the Purim miracle, which began with Mordechai’s exposing the plot against King Achashverosh.
Yet one can ask: Wasn’t that success followed by a decree to exterminate all the Jews, men, women and children?
The commentary on Sefer Charedim provides an answer to this:
The “gradualness” referred to relates to the increase in light, yet it is also possible that within this process there will be times of great darkness.
You’ve also forgotten that when Moshe came to redeem Israel, at first the situation deteriorated and Pharaoh hardened his decrees, as Ramban explains at the end of Shemot.
The rule is this: the Redemption is not a sudden burst of light like the moon at midday, but light and darkness in coexistence. We rejoice over that light on Israel Independence Day, and we weep over that darkness on Tisha B’Av, and struggle to rectify it.
Therefore, in the Pesach Haggadah, we seek a “day that is neither day nor night.” We certainly long for a situation of total day, but we know that there is an intermediate situation of neither day nor night, and even for that we cannot possibly offer enough thanks, in comparison to the previous situation that was total darkness.
The source is the Prophets, from Zechariah 14:7:
“There shall be one day which shall be known as Hashem’s, not day, and not night, but it shall come to pass that at evening time there shall be light.” It shall not be entirely like the future Redemption, nor as difficult as the exile (Rashi, Radak).
Don’t worry. We are not stuck half-way through. “Shall I bring her there but not assist in the birth? Shall I begin to assist her but stop? - the word of G-d” (Isaiah 66:9). Rashi explains: “Shall I bring the woman to the birthing stone but not open her womb to remove her fetus? Shall I start something without being able to finish?”
HaRav Avraham Yitzhak Kook z"l writes, “In the end of days, a silent movement has arisen [the Zionist Movement] full of strengths and desires, full of contradictions and contrasts, full of light and darkness, and seeking to reach the shore of Jewish Salvation. It represents a small light from the light of the Messiah (Orot, Yisrael U-Techiyato 20).
Rabbi Kook terms it a small light, yet compared to the darkness of the Exile, it is an enormous light indeed!
Is this the country we have been waiting for?
Absolutely! It’s not yet total light, but it has a lot of light, and in spite of all of the difficulties and struggles we face, the light is getting brighter.
Excerpted from the new book, “Torat Eretz Yisrael Anthology,” available in Israel at bookstores and via link: https://www.chavabooks.co.il/product/torat-eretz-yisrael-anthology/#tab-description. Or via Amazon Books divided into 2 page volumes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G324RXNH. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G3M4747T
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