Throughout his career, LaMalfa described Israel as a vital democratic ally in the Middle East and regularly spoke out against antisemitism and terrorism, urging bipartisan support for the U.S.–Israel relationship.
I would like to know which genius came up with the mantra
"We would rather die than enlist"?
We need to grab him and hang him up in the town square!
Well, someone did get killed, are they happy now?
Know that the 14 year-old, Yosef Eisenthal z"l did not die for the "cause" and didn't die "Al Kiddush Hashem" like the IDF Soldiers, he died in vain!
I'm now waiting for a Gadol to tell the bereaved mother of Yosef "He died al Kiddush Hashem" ! That would be an unmitigated lie! This was a needless and reckless death!
There are news reports that the Gedoilim are now blaming the bus driver, everyone but themselves, they sent children into the "fires" without supervision, eyewitnesses are stating the teenagers harassed the Arab driver and spat at him! I am not justifying what the driver did, he should be charged with murder, but Gedoilim have to be charged with incitement!
I know I'm going to get comments like "Well, don't you believe that everything is from HKB"H? It was bashert"
Yes, of course I believe that everything is from Hashem, but you know who doesn't believe it?
The Gedoilim that organize these protests!
If they believed that everything is from the RBS"O they would not have any illegal protests but instead have their students learn an extra hour!
They don't believe that the RBS"O controls the world at all! They are by in large a bunch of power-hungry R"Y and they want to control the narrative! They believe sincerely that they run the world!
Fourteen-year-old Yosef Eisenthal was killed and three others injured after a bus struck pedestrians during a haredi protest against military conscription in Jerusalem.
A preliminary police investigation found the driver was attacked by rioters blocking the road before the fatal incident. The driver was arrested for questioning as authorities investigate the circumstances.
The protest descended into violent clashes, including road blockages, vandalism, and attacks on police and journalists.
Update: Israeli police said Wednesday that the bus driver called the emergency police hotline minutes before the collision, reporting that he was under attack. The driver repeated that account during questioning, investigators said.
Below is a letter from a Chardedie grandmother who witnessed what was going on!
The facility is expected to host over 800 Israeli soldiers.
A disturbing incident took place last Friday night in Beit Shemesh.
Two couples who were talking late at night on Rav Chanan Street encountered a Chassid who began to harass them. They asked him to leave, but instead of leaving, he asked one of the couple if he could take his wife. Original au
A man was harassing a woman in the elevator. See what she did. pic.twitter.com/4HTEhU26QT
— 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 (@Hoang_HQ) January 6, 2026
by Dovie Kornreich
I started crying on the Friday night of Parshas Eikev while walking home from Shul. I really didn’t know why I got so emotional so suddenly. It was true that I was going through a stressful time—moving from a wonderful suburban community I had lived in for the past 8 years—and I had grown very fond of the place and was sad to leave. But I don’t usually cry from stress or sadness.
On Sunday morning, I heard the news of Rabbi Wein’s passing, and my sudden crying spell made sense to me. My neshama realized that I was about to lose one of the greatest Jews I will ever come into contact with.
My connection to Rabbi Wein started in 1986 when I became a freshman at Shaarei Torah Yeshivah High School and Beis Midrash. (Little did I realize at the time, that this was the Golden Age of Rabbi Wein’s rabbinical career.) Coming from a sheltered haredi cheder-like elementary school in Brooklyn to a “centrist” high school with a big emphasis on secular studies, there was a lot I needed to adjust to. My father decided to send me there because he was very dissatisfied with the level of education I was getting in frum Brooklyn yeshivah system.
I considered myself a Brooklyn refugee. I was running from a strict, close-minded, narrowly defined sense of what Yiddishkeit should look like and sound like. Black-and-white, tzitzis out, peyos, and no television or movies. (Following professional sports was somehow okay…) There was no State of Israel, there was no discussion of the Holocaust which actually gave rise to much of our immigrant community. There were no Conservative Jews or Reform Jews or Secular Jews. None of them existed in our world. Completely transparent. The Modern Orthodox were the butt of jokes and derision.
And the Goyim? Let’s not go there.
The secular studies teachers openly complained—to us!—that we were worse than the kids they taught in public school. It was a constant, daily chillul Hashem and I was sick to my stomach.
So I found refuge in Rabbi Wein and in Shaarei Torah.
The policy has added billions in costs to Israeli goods, straining trade ties between the close allies as efforts continue to negotiate relief.
