The Avos Entering The Land

 

Not today!

 

"Not today MF!" pic.twitter.com/aHIBy5y4h9

— Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) December 4, 2025

Arab Explains to a Christian Who the Colonizers Are

 

An Israeli Arab exposes the ignorance of an anti-Israel woman.

"The Jews are not colonizers, the Arabs are. Do you read your own Bible? The Bible says Jesus was born in a Jewish Bethlehem, a Jewish city. Jesus was born a Jew and came to Jerusalem, full of Jews, before Islam." pic.twitter.com/uze7siWccj

— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) December 3, 2025

Lakewood rallies around a drunk driver who killed a mother!

Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Frum Community’s Troubling Response to Tragedy

In recent days, I’ve been stunned by the reaction of segments of the frum community to an avoidable tragedy. Instead of sober reflection, we’ve witnessed misplaced sympathy and even public support for a man who chose to drink, drive, and kill.

Consider the case of Mordechai Berkowitz, 23 years old — an adult by both secular and halachic standards. He made a conscious decision to get behind the wheel intoxicated. The result was the death of an innocent mother of children. 

This was not a case of shogeg. It was karov le‑mezid.

Yet, rather than confronting the gravity of his actions, some in the community rallied behind him. 

The author of a popular WhatsApp group, whom I highly respect, even attended his trial to show support. Tehillim groups were organized at holy sites. Would those supporters at his trial have shown up in court, had he killed someone's wife, husband or child of our community?

Have we lost our collective sense of moral clarity?

They made this רוצח into a hero! 

I am not calling him a רוצח, our תורה הקדושה calls him that! Now anyone drinking will drive thinking, "worst comes to worst, I'll be made into a hero, and get a great קבלת פנים!

The problem runs deeper than just one case. Too many in this generation — including Torah leaders — have embraced the dangerous notion that saying “sorry” erases consequences. But it doesn’t. A life was taken. A choice was made. Time must be served..

 This isn’t a child. This is an adult. Sorry doesn’t always cut it. Consequences matter.

And let’s be honest: if the victim had been a Jewish mother, would the same sympathy have been extended to the driver? History suggests otherwise. When a drunk driver killed an engaged couple on Motzaei Shabbos a few years ago, the community demanded a stiff sentence. Why the double standard?

This hypocrisy is not new. Satmar ass'kanim secured the release of Philip Drelich, who murdered his pregnant wife and a diamond dealer, despite being sentenced to two consecutive life terms, he walked free in 2016. What message does that send?

Meanwhile, the same voices that defend killers are often the loudest critics of Zionists — Jews who built a home for over 7.5 million people and who daily risk their lives for Klal Yisrael. The contrast is staggering.

I believe in rachmonis. Compassion is a cornerstone of our faith. But compassion must never be confused with excusing deliberate, destructive choices. Supporting someone who was karov le‑mezid undermines justice, morality, and the very values we claim to uphold.

The frum community must ask itself: what are we teaching our children? That “sorry” is a get‑out‑of‑jail card? That murder can be overlooked if the perpetrator is one of us? If so, we are not only failing the victims — we are failing ourselves.

Sorry is only good  בין אדם למקום 

 An Orthodox Jewish man who launched an anti–drunk driving campaign after killing a woman in a 2022 crash was sentenced Wednesday to six years in New Jersey State Prison without parole. 

Mordechai Berkowitz, 23, admitted he had been drinking before veering across the center line on South Lake Drive on July 22, 2022, fatally striking 44-year-old Juana Lopez-Hernandez. 

After the crash, Berkowitz started a “Don’t Drink + Drive” campaign that drew nearly 45,000 pledges. Berkowitz was taken into custody immediately after sentencing and will receive credit for time served.

Comey & Letitia James may be re-indicted as early as this week

 

The Department of Justice will likely present new indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to a grand jury as early as this week in the Eastern District of Virginia, sources tell CNN.

R' Zalman Sorotzkin Wants Mercy for Someone Who Drove Under the influence

 

A Heartfelt בקשה from Rav Zalman Sorotzkin- בית מדרש לוצק

Please daven for a Yid like me and you who made a horrible mistake by driving under the influence and needs רחמי שמים.

His sentencing is today. He's facing 5-10 years in state prison R"L

*מרדכי בן שרה רינה*

מי שמרחם על אכזרים לסוף נעשה אכזר על רחמנים

Just in the past two years many innocents were killed by drivers under the influence yet this Sorotzkin is fighting that this guy not face jail! 

How insane is this?? 

Civil War in Viznitz as they beat the crap out of a Viznitz Chusid that made the Mistake of Attending a Wedding of the other Viznitz

 All this is happening in the holy city of Bnei-Brak! 

The New Viznitz and Gerer Song!

Dec 2, 1947: The day the Damn British gave the ok for Arabs to kill Jews

by Robert Besser
 

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.