“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Saturday, August 22, 2026

England's Chutzpah telling Jews where to live!

 

Britain will not stand back and accept the destruction of the two-state solution," the British Foreign Secretary declared this week, after summoning Israel's Chargé d'Affaires like a headmaster calling in a boy caught smoking behind the bicycle shed.

The offense? 

A tender for apartments in E1, between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim, in the Jewish homeland, approved in 2025, processed for months, and now suddenly the gravest threat to world peace since the fall of Singapore.

Fine. Don't stand back. Sit down. Lie down. Have a smoke behind the bicycle shed. Do whatever it is you do these days instead of governing His Majesty’s Global Colonial Empire. Just spare us the sermon.

Because here is what has changed, and what London has not yet noticed: 

The US Join European Countries to Prohibit Jews from Buliding in its very own country in Judea and Samaria

 


The United States does not support Israeli annexation of the Judea and Samaria region, a State Department spokesperson told Axios on Friday in response to Israel's decision to advance construction plans in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim.

"As the President has clearly stated, the US does not support Israel annexing the West Bank. A stable West Bank keeps Israel secure and is in line with this Administration’s goal to achieve peace in the region," the spokesperson told Axios.

Israel issued a tender on Tuesday for seven residential compounds in E1, comprising 1,234 housing units. The projects are part of approximately 3,400 housing units approved for the area last August.

The announcement has drawn criticism from several European governments. Britain's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called for the tender to be withdrawn on Wednesday.

“This Israeli Government’s publication of a tender for the E1 settlement project is an unacceptable and destructive act. E1 would cut across the heart of Palestine and risks separating the West Bank from East Jerusalem, which would endanger the viability of a two-state solution," Miliband said in a statement condemning the move.

"The UK has been clear privately and publicly in our opposition to E1 and our support for a two-state solution as the only way to ensure long-term security and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis. All settlements damage that prospect and are a flagrant breach of international law," he claimed.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar rejected London's position on Thursday, accusing Miliband of adopting a patronizing tone.

"I reject outright the statement of the UK Foreign Secretary and the patronizing tone of his words," Sa'ar wrote on social media.

"The Jewish people have the right to live throughout the Land of Israel, just as the British have the right to live in London and throughout the United Kingdom. More than a century ago, the Balfour Declaration formally recognized the historic right of the Jewish people to re-establish their national home in the Land of Israel - including in the area in question."

Britain later joined France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway in condemning the E1 tender. The seven countries described the plans as "unacceptable" and called on Israel to withdraw them immediately.

"The E1 settlement will undermine the prospect of the two-state solution by driving a wedge through the West Bank and harming the territorial contiguity of the Palestinian Territories," the statement said.

"We urge the Government of Israel to retract these plans immediately and end its expansion of settlements," the statement said.

Jewish Teacher Mother Of Four, Dies After Car Plunges Into Five Towns Pool

 


Allison Rahmani, a 40-year-old mother of four and teacher at the Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway, died Friday morning after the SUV she was driving crashed into an in-ground swimming pool, authorities said.

Rahmani was driving a 2023 GMC in the driveway of a home on Elinor Road shortly before 9:30 a.m. when she lost control of the vehicle, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

The SUV struck a tree and an unoccupied 2006 Honda before plunging into the in-ground pool, police said.

Rahmani was removed from the vehicle before officers arrived. Police performed lifesaving measures before she was transported for medical treatment.

A source familiar with the family told JNS that Rahmani did not drown. The source said she was able to call for help after the crash but died in an ambulance while being transported to the hospital.

Police said Rahmani was ultimately pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Police initially did not identify the woman or say whether she lived at the residence where the crash occurred. She was later identified as Rahmani, a Hewlett Bay Park resident.

The fatal vehicular accident remains under investigation. Police have not disclosed what caused Rahmani to lose control of the SUV.

Friday, August 21, 2026

Zera Shimshon Parshat Ki Tezé

 


Mass psychosis !!!! How Lindsay Clancy become a more compelling victim than her three children who she brutally killed?

 

Outside Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts this week, Americans are witnessing something resembling a mass psychosis event.

Hundreds of women have assembled to support Lindsay Clancy, the mother on trial for murdering her three young children.

Clancy does not deny killing 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan with her own hands.

Her defense argues that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore cannot be held criminally responsible.

The women outside the courthouse, holding babies while cheering for Clancy, have no such excuse.

Unless, that is, we want to talk about what social media has done to women’s ability to process tragedy, assign responsibility and distinguish between victim and perpetrator.

Imagine the conversation at home as Mom puts on pink and heads off to spend the day with hundreds of other women cheering as members of Clancy’s defense team drive past.

“Mom, who’s the woman you’re making heart hands at?”

“A woman who strangled her three children!”

For the families of these women, alarm bells should be ringing.

Tom Barrack condemns Israeli strikes in Syria though Turkey is installing air defense systems for the deployment of Turkish jets

 


Thursday, August 20, 2026

A very sad end to the search Katriel Nachman Keinan found with no sign of life in Teveria

 

A very sad end to the search

With a broken, aching heart, torn by tears, we announce with deep sorrow the passing of *the yeshiva student Katriel Nachman Keinan, of blessed memory a resident of Beit Shemesh, who, after extensive searches with the help of all parties, was, to our sorrow, found today in the Switzerland Forest near Gai Beach in Tiberias, with no sign of life, and he was 24 years old.

Nachman was a chassidic young man, humble, a man of truth, connected to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, King Moshiach, warm and helpful to every person, whoever they are.

Nachman went missing a week and a  half ago - since last Monday in the Tiberias area, and we, his close family and friends, together with Anash, Chabad chassidim, and the emergency and security forces, did everything in our and their power to search for him in every possible place until the bitter and painful end.

Thank you to everyone who helped and assisted, we appreciate it very much.

Fishel Sherman responds to him being designated a level 3 Sex Offender

 


Twice convicted sex offender, Fishel Sherman, has finally landed on the public sex offender registry. He is designated a level 3 sex offender, the highest risk level given his repeat offenses. He lives around 13th Avenue and 53rd street in Boro Park.

You are committing a terrible avairah. You don't know the truth and are being motzei shem rah! If I were so guilty I would be locked up right now. You were so eager to investigate what was alleged about me, why didn't you go further and verify your findings with my Ruv? I'll tell you why you didn't bother to do that. That would defeat your purpose. You are looking to shmear me so that you can get others to admire you. Like those who commented on your post. As if they know! This was a false accusation. Others were also falsely accused by that family. You don't care. You would rather get congradulated. And it doesn't stop here. You will be punished for all the people who accepted this loshon harah and believes it.

I'm not judging you, the state of New York did. And you admitted twice to molesting kids. Your friends, your ruv, your grandmother's uncle's fish's dog's cousin's shadchan's eidim opinions mean nothing. You're a twice convicted Pedophile and a level 3 sex offender.
As for you being molested as a kid, I'll tell you the same thing here that I told you when you called me last year. I have no sympathy for you. You should have known better. You certainly should have known better the second time around. I have even less sympathy for people like you who were abused as kids. I was too, a d I would never even dream of hurting someone the way I was hurt. Save that naarishkeit for your therapist at Mustard Seed. They make good money being suckered by pedophiles like you. You won't fool anyone here. You and you alone are responsible for you being a Pedophile.
Of course you're "open" about your first abuse conviction. You managed to con the judge into giving you diversion and accepted an award in public for compliance before being arrested again. You can't claim the first time was false because you paraded yourself to the press and acted as a posted boy for D'emic's diversion program. This time you're claiming it was false because no one gave you an award for admitting to being a Pedophile. Sorry, not buying it.
You are by definition a danger to society. You're a level 3 sex offender, the highest risk category. גיי טרעפן א מיתה משונה, מנובל.

Legitimizing terror: the dangerous illusions of Kushner’s Gaza roadmap

 


What these gentlemen just don’t seem to understand is that Hamas is not a mismanaged real estate company looking for an exit strategy.

By Jonathan Pollard, World Israel News

The core tenet of modern counterterrorism has long been unyielding: democratic governments do not reward mass violence with diplomatic parity. Yet, Jared Kushner’s recent high-stakes meeting in Egypt with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya shatters this foundational principle.

In attempting to broker a 15-point peace roadmap under the banner of the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace,” Washington has crossed an extremely dangerous threshold.

By treating a designated terrorist organization as a legitimate partner, this initiative creates an existential moral hazard and threatens the structural integrity of the U.S.-Israel alliance. The fatal flaw of Kushner’s blueprint lies in its naive assumption that Hamas can be induced to surrender its weapons through a phased diplomatic process.

The framework envisions a phased transition where Hamas surrenders its heavy weaponry to a technocratic National Committee in exchange for a complete military withdrawal from Gaza by Israel.

To believe that an organization rooted in genocidal anti-Semitism will willingly strip itself of its primary leverage is an illusion that ignores decades of regional history.

For Hamas, ceasefires have never been steps toward permanent coexistence; they are tactical pauses used to regroup, rearm, and reinforce tunnel networks.

For example, in order to retain the organization’s small arms, Hamas has recently justified the distribution of thousands of machine guns to its members by designating them as “personal defense” weapons that fall outside their commitment to disarm. They did this, by the way, in broad daylight without a word of criticism from Mr. Kushner.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flat rejection of this roadmap is not mere political posturing ahead of the October elections. It is a calculated, necessary refusal to repeat past strategic failures that cost thousands of Israeli lives.

For Mr. Netanyahu, demanding complete, verifiable disarmament before a single Israeli soldier withdraws is the only position compatible with long-term security.

If the Israel Defense Forces withdraw prematurely based on vague backroom promises, the security vacuum will inevitably be filled by the next generation of militancy, ensuring that Gaza remains a permanent launchpad for terror.

At its root, this transactional diplomacy being practiced by Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff treats deeply ideological conflict as a corporate real estate dispute to be managed via international stabilization forces and infrastructure committees.

What these gentlemen just don’t seem to understand is that Hamas is not a mismanaged real estate company looking for an exit strategy; it is a bloodthirsty Islamist terrorist organization whose genocidal ideology bears chilling similarities to that of the Nazis.

Offering them diplomatic recognition on the international stage as Kushner just did undercuts the sacrifice of those fighting them on the front lines and vindicates the original perpetrators of the October 7 atrocities.

True enduring stability in the Middle East cannot be built on empty pacts signed with terrorist entities. Rather than forcing a deeply flawed, corrupt, business-centric blueprint onto a resistant ally, Washington must pivot back to ironclad coordination with a new Israeli government that is dedicated to achieving a clear, decisive victory over its enemies.

What this means in this instance is that peace will only be achieved when the Israeli government orders the IDF to eliminate Hamas.

After that, the government should rid Gaza of its brainwashed residents, and announce the annexation of the Strip. Assuming all this occurs, then and only then will the security of our southern border be assured. And Mr. Kushner can go back to being a failed real estate agent.


A fork in the Chareidi road

 

A person should be able to declare, without embarrassment or apology: I am Chareidi. I work. I serve. I support my family. I care about my country. And I still belong in my community. A new Chareidi political movement is promoting just that.


Rabbi Yehuda L. Oppenheimer served for approximately twenty years as a congregational rabbi in the United States, most recently at the Young Israel of Forest Hills. He now lives in Afula, works as a tour guide, and writes regularly for The Jewish Press and the Queens Jewish Link.

Channel 13 reports that elements associated with the Peleg Yerushalmi have been exploring the possibility of yet another hareidi political party formed with several leading figures unsatisfied with the “mainstream" parties - one that would take an even more uncompromising position against military service. The name it has taken is “Code Black" (Tzeva Shachor) from the network they developed to alert supporters when military police attempt to arrest hareidi draft evaders. Demonstrators are then dispatched to obstruct the arrest.

At almost the same moment, a very different hareidi political movement has begun taking shape around Moti Leitner, deputy mayor of Beit Shemesh. Leitner argues that genuine full-time Torah learners must be protected, but that the great majority of hareidi men should serve in the military or perform meaningful national service. He speaks openly about teaching mathematics and English, preparing young people to earn a dignified living, representing working hareidim, and helping hareidi olim find their place in Israeli society.

I know which one I hope will succeed.