Rabbanim are the ones mobilizing the Bnei-Torah rioters inciting them ,planning their activities, and paying for their transport

 

by Paul Mirbach

So, here is what I am thinking about the Haredi pogrom perpetrated against Supreme Court Justice, Noam Solberg.

1. Unlike the mass protests of Haredim on Tuesday, where they blocked highways and train tracks for hours, which was a threatening act to display their ability to bring the entire country to a standstill, the targeted, personal attack on Solberg was a calculated act of intimidation. Extortion in it's blackest form (sic).

2. It is clear that these "protests" are being coordinated.

3. There is nothing spontaneous about bussing hundreds of Haredi Yeshiva bochers from Beit Shemesh to Alon Shvut. It requires organization, from ordering buses, to permission for to skip Torah study, to gaining entry to a Yishuv in the West Bank which has an electric gate and guards. (Is it not strange that Torah study is so important that they cannot miss a day of study to serve in the army, but they can take off as much time as they want - every day - to protest the draft)?

4. It requires paying for the buses, which cost at least 2500 NIS a pop. At 50 per bus, every time, calculate the cost. There is no way these Yeshiva students are paying for it. Maybe it's coming out of the billions allocated to them by the government? The vast majority of the Haredim involved in the attack were minors. This is not coincidence; minors are treated with leniency and juvenile courts are much more forgiving. Furthermore, sentences of minors are expunged when they become adults, basically letting them off the hook, allowing them to get drivers' licenses, etc.

5. Do you think any of the protestors, who are minors, have the wherewithal to order the buses, much less money in their accounts to pay for them?

All this, points to the probability that they are being mobilized by their Rabbis and teachers who are inciting them, who are planning their activities, and who are paying for their transport and organizing it.

Which brings me to the Police. It sounds good, that 62 Haredi youth were arrested. Great. But it means nothing, and they will all be released - wait and see. But no Rabbis, no Yeshiva heads who are inciting them, instructing them, sending them and providing them with the logistics and permission to skip studies have been investigated. The Police are playing King Canute against the tide.

They may not serve in the army, but this has the "ש"ג" syndrome written all over it. And, if they don't go after the organizers, coordinators and inciters, it's not going to stop. We ain't seen nothing yet

These are NOT Peleg Rioters these are Mainstream Charedim

 

There is a common—extremely common—claim that Haredim make whenever there is a riot or act of violence carried out by members of the Eida Haredit or the Peleg Yerushalmi:

“We aren’t those Haredim. They are extremists; we’re not. Rabbi X doesn’t agree with rioting. There are differences in hashkafa (outlook, beliefs, worldview). The secular world doesn’t understand the distinctions between the various groups.”

This morning, the day after the Alon Shvut riot, Radio Qol B’Rama’s Yaki Adamker and Yisrael Cohen—two of Israel’s most prominent Haredi journalists—interviewed Rav Boaz Naqi, a spokesman for the Peleg Yerushalmi.

I don’t particularly care about what he said; frankly, there were no surprises. The issue is that they spoke with Rav Naqi at all. The interview was respectful, especially by the standards of Israeli news interviews. More important than the content or tone of the conversation is the fact that the conversation took place.

Qol B’Rama will not interview MKs from Yesh Atid. That is a policy decision; they are effectively off-limits. A few months ago, for the first time in a very long time, these same two journalists interviewed a Yesh Atid MK. The conversation lasted roughly 30 seconds. One of the journalists felt the need to insult the MK at the beginning of the interview. The MK hung up, and that was the end of it.

When Haredim make their claim—that there are important differences between groups, that Rav Dov Landau or Rav Moshe Hirsch may despise the state but do not encourage violence, and that they are not like the Peleg or the Eida—they forget one important point: no one cares.

No one outside their community cares about the microscopic distinctions between these worldviews. Perhaps those differences would make for an interesting graduate-school seminar, but in the real world they are largely irrelevant. Put aside, for the moment, the argument that Rav Landau’s and Rav Hirsch’s statements help lay the intellectual groundwork for the violence perpetrated yesterday. That is a separate and important discussion. The critical point is that these differences are an illusion.

More significantly, the Haredim themselves do not seem to care. Mainstream Haredi media figures clearly view someone like Rav Boaz Naqi as part of their community. No mainstream Haredi journalist would refuse to interview members of these groups. No one is going to exclude them from a minyan. (Full disclosure: I have attended synagogues in Haredi neighborhoods where I was not counted for a minyan. It was rare, but it happened.) No one is going to question the kashrut standards of the Eida Haredit. No one is going to do anything remotely comparable to what some—admittedly a small number of—religious Zionist rabbis and community leaders have done in response to the hilltop rioters.

Anyone who read the tepid condemnation issued by the Shas and Degel HaTorah MKs saw a perfect example of what I mean. Not one word about who committed the crime. Not one word about who was attacked. They condemned violence in the abstract. They devoted far more words to criticizing the Supreme Court and defending their own community than they did to condemning the attack itself. These MKs felt that their job is to protect their community, including the rioters.

So yes, it was Haredim who rioted—without any adjective attached to soften, qualify, or limit that description.

About the Author

Ben Waxman was born in the US  He lived in the Jerusalem area for decades and now resides in the Shomron.

Chutzpadik Bnei-Torah first Smash a Car's window then when they get arrested they riot

 

 A motorist accelerated rapidly and drove into the rioting crowd a short time ago in Ramat Beit Shemesh B'

Qatar Shutting down its Foundation of Educating" US Children K-12 to Universities

 Qatar Foundation International, which has spent the past 17 years building influence across U.S. education from K–12 schools to universities,  teacher training programs, and national education networks, is shutting down its operations.
 

Aliyah from North America Continues to Rise

More than 2,300 Jews from 478 families are expected to make aliyah from North America this summer through Nefesh B'Nefesh.

The organization plans to operate 47 group flights from cities  including New York, Miami, Boston, and Los Angeles.

Nefesh B'Nefesh expects to surpass last year's total of more than 4,150 olim from North America, one of the highest annual figures in the organization's history.

Chuck “Cryi'n" Schumer Endorses a Nazi Candidate who Praised Hamas June 3, 2026

 

Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who has long called himself a “Shomer Yisroel,” is standing fully behind a Democratic Senate candidate who spent years sporting a Nazi-linked tattoo, posted comments online praising a deadly Hamas raid on Israelis, and appeared on a podcast hosted by antisemitic conspiracy theorists. And he doesn’t want to talk about it.

During a press gaggle this week, Schumer repeatedly dodged questions about Graham Platner, insisting over and over that Democrats are “gonna beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.” When asked directly, “Are you satisfied with the explanations he’s given for the controversies his campaign has faced right now? Are you concerned about what you’ve heard?” Schumer replied: “I met with Graham Platner today. We’re going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.”

The man Schumer is determined to elect to the Senate is an oyster farmer from Maine with a history that has alarmed Jewish groups across the spectrum.

Platner carried for years a chest tattoo depicting a Totenkopf — a skull symbol associated with Nazi SS units — which he only covered up with a new tattoo after announcing his Senate run. He claimed he didn’t know about the symbol’s Nazi associations.

The tattoo was only the beginning. In a since-deleted Reddit post commenting on a deadly 2014 Hamas raid on Israeli soldiers, Platner wrote, “Looks like an all around well executed and successful small unit raid to me.” When another user criticized the Hamas “execution” of the Israeli soldiers, Platner replied: “Pragmatically I have little problem with killing an enemy combatant who you attempt to capture but for whatever reason cannot. From a strictly professional standpoint, this was a damn fine looking and successful raid against a superior opponent.”

Outrage as High Court Orders Government To Allow Red Cross Visits To Nukhba Terrorists

 

Three judges on Israel’s High Court ruled unanimously to revoke the government’s policy prohibiting visits by the Red Cross to Palestinian security prisoners held in Israel Prison Service and IDF facilities, including the Nukhba terrorists who participated in the murderous October 7 massacre.

The policy was instituted immediately after the October 7 massacre.

The main ruling was written by Justice Daphne Barak‑Erez, who wrote that the government failed to present a legal basis for the policy. Previously, the government’s main justification for the policy was the fact that the Red Cross did not visit Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Deputy President of the Court, Justice Noam Solberg, joined the ruling, noting “the difficulty of reconciling the policy with the relevant provisions of domestic law, which the state chose not to amend or repeal, and the state’s failure to present any legal basis for its decisions despite many opportunities to do so.”

Justice Yitzchak Amit agreed with the other two judges.

The Court therefore ruled that the state must permit Red Cross representatives to visit security prisoners and provide information about their status in accordance with the procedures outlined in the Red Cross Ordinance, and, with necessary adjustments, in IDF‑run facilities as well.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir condemned the decision. “A disgraceful decision by detached judges who sit in an ivory tower and continue to worry about terrorists while Israeli citizens pay the price of terrorism. Every such decision is a reminder of why the judicial system needs deep reform. Reform now!”

Bnei-Torah Terrorize and Smash Car Window of Judge Sohlberg Who was always Sympathetic to Charedim..

רשע למה תכה רעך

This story is absolutely wild — and it says far more about the leadership vacuum than about the kids on the street.

Judge Noam Sohlberg is a shomer Torah u’mitzvos, of reasonable mind, and one of the few Supreme Court justices who consistently rules with sensitivity toward chareidi needs. And yet he becomes a target for harassment simply because a group of Bnei-Torah have nothing productive to do and no one in authority willing to rein them in.

This isn’t about ideology. It’s about boredom, lack of structure, and zero accountability.

When thousands of young men are told:

• not to serve ....not to work and then don't learn

you create a pressure cooker. They’re restless, they’re idle, and they’re looking for stimulation. And when the adults in the room — the roshei yeshiva, the rebbes, the askanim — respond with silence, the message is unmistakable:

“Do whatever you want. No consequences.”

So the “entertainment” becomes intimidation. The “excitement” becomes mob behavior. And the “cause” becomes whatever excuse justifies the chaos of the moment.

This isn’t Torah.This isn’t yiras Shamayim. This is what happens when a community refuses to confront the reality that a large percentage of its youth are drifting, unanchored, and desperate for meaning — and instead of giving them purpose, it gives them slogans.

The tragedy is that the leadership knows this. They see it. They feel it. And they still choose silence.

Because silence is easier than responsibility. And the moment boredom turns into a hobby, every decent Jew becomes a target.

A protest by dozens of Haredi demonstrators outside the home of Israeli Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg turned violent Wednesday evening, with authorities reporting damage to the property and widespread condemnation from government officials and the judiciary. 

The protesters gathered outside Sohlberg’s residence in Alon Shvut, a settlement in the West Bank, to oppose what they said were judicial measures aimed at increasing enforcement against ultra-Orthodox men who evade military service.

Rabbi Moshe Brandsdorfer issued a halachic ruling on what Bracha a yeshiva student should make when arrested over enlistment.

My question is, can the "Ben-Torah" make that bracha when a pretty Police lady grabs him? Or does he make another type of Bracha? What bracha do you make when you are mevatel torah to block buses and cars?? What bracha does one make when burning down cars and throwing stones on police? What bracha does one make before you scream "Nazi" and "Shiksa?"

If they had asked me that shaaleh, I would have answered רופא חולי עמו יש

Rave Brandsdorfer if he asked me, I would paskin that he himself can make the bracha חונן הדעת with Shem and Malchis! 

Amid the uptick in arrests of haredi draft dodgers around the country, a rabbi in Jerusalem published a new halachic ruling on how a yeshiva student should act when being arrested for refusing to enlist in the IDF.

The ruling was released by Rabbi Moshe Brandsdorfer, who is the Chief Judge and head of the Heichal Horah institution in the capital.

The rabbi was asked if a student who is arrested should recite a blessing on the "sanctification of G-d's name" when he is apprehended.

After reviewing the relevant halachic sources, Rabbi Brandsdorfer ruled that a detainee should recite: "Baruch ata Hashem, hamikadesh shemo berabim - Blessed are you Hashem who sanctifies his name in public" without saying G-d's name, due to the general halachic rule that states that when there is uncertainty surrounding a blessing, a blessing is not recited.

He added that those present during the arrest should answer: "Good for you for being caught on the words of the Torah," as the sages said about Rabbi Akiva.

The Brave Selfless Jews Who Fought Nazis

 Watch this clip and be inspired, These were not Rabbis, nor were they all frum, but were "pushiteh" Yidden and many of them gave their lives so that others would live!