“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

Friday, August 30, 2013

Gas Masks in Israel "are for Purim," R' Chaim Kanievsky


Kikar reports when asked if one should get on line for a gas mask in light of the imminent attack on Syria, Rav Chaim is quoted saying “gas masks, they are for Purim!”
The Gadol Hador is quoted instructed avreichim to continue their limud Torah and not to concern themselves with the ongoing events.

Having children in Israel, I can now say that I feel much better!

Taubenfeld from New Square walks after sexually abusing teenagers in New Square


Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Gerer Chusid, Yisroel Greenhouse leaves Yiddishkeit with his children!

Yisroel Greenhouse and his kids
I will translate letter later on in the week, when I'll have more time!

 בריוו פון עקיבא וויינגארטן.




איך קען דעם ישראל שוין אסאך יארן, מיר האבן געארבעט צוזאמען אלס משגיחיםרוחניים אין איינע פון די ישיבות פאר בחורים וואס פאלן אוועק. מיר האבן ביידע איבערגעלאזט די ארבעט אין די זעלבע צייט. איך צוליב צו ווייניג געהאלט, און ער וועגן זיין אמונה. ער האט געהאלטן אז ס'איז נישט מאראליש אויסגעהאלטן פאר אים עוסק צו זיין אין עפעס וואס ער גלייבט נישט דערין.

איך שטרייך נאר אונטער דעם פרט, כדי מ'זאל וויסן פון וועמען ס'האנדלט זיך. ער איז נישט קיין כוליגאן, ער איז נישט קיין בעל תאווה'ניק, און ער איז אויך נישט גלייך צו קיינעם פון די וואס האבן געמאכט א ענליכע שריט. (און ס'איז מיר אויסגעקומען צו באקענען אסאך אזעלכע) ווייניג אין זיין עלטער קענען זיך פארמעסטן מיט זיין בקיאות נפלא און אויסערגעווענליכע וויסענשאפט אין יעדן תחום. ס'רעדט זיך דא פון א תלמוד חכם עצום אין יעדן הינזיכט. ס'איז כמעט נישט דא קיין פעלד אין וועלכע ער האט נישט קיין באקאנטשאפט.

אין די לעצטע פאר יאר האט ער זיך מתפרנס געווען פון פירן טוריסטן, נאכוואס ער האט געארבעט ביי עטליכע פלעצער. אבער זיין דעגרי אין סייקא-טערעפי האט ער גענצליך איבערגעלאזט כאטש ער וואלט שיין געקענט מאכן א לעבן דערפון. איך האב אים אמאל געפרעגט פארוואס, האט ער מיר מסביר געווען אז ער האלט ס'איז א פראבלעם פון 'אויספאפן' ווייל ער ווייסט פארוואס די עלטערן צאלן אים, צו ארבעטן מיט די בחורים, אבער וויבאלד ער אליין גלייבט נישט דערין, קען ער נישט ארבעטן דערמיט.

קעגן מיין מורא'דיגע שעצע וואס איך שפיר צו ישראל, פיהל איך דאס פארקערטע "א נידערטרעכטיגקייט" קעגן אזעלכע פארשוינען וואס זאגן אז די 'מיליטער' האט אים קאליע געמאכט. ישראל'ן קען קיינער נישט 'קאליע' מאכן. און זיכער נישט מיט ביליגע דעמאגאגיע און שפעטערייען. ער איז זייער א טיפע מענטש וואס לאזט נישט דורך קיין זאך ביזן דערגיין די טיפקייט דערפון.

מיין טייער ידיד איז אריבער א שווערע לאנגע אדורכגאנג, איך געדענק גוט אלע זיינע מצבים, און ס'איז נישט געווען קיינער וואס האט אזוי שווער אנגענומען ווי מיר, ווען ער האט אנגעהויבן פארלירן זיין אמונה. סתם איינער וועט עס קיינמאל נישט פארשטיין. ער איז געווען א זיידענע אינגערמאנטשיק וואס איז געזיצן און געלערנט תורה יומם ולילה. אויף אים קען מען זאגן אז ער איז ווי די אמאליגע משכילים במלוא מובן המילה צו גוטן און צו שלעכטן. אבער צוזאגן אז דאס איז א באשלוס וואס ער האט געמאכט איבערנאכט איז פשוט נישט אמת.

ס'טוט מיר זייער וויי אז ער האט גענומען דעם שריט, און אנדערש ווי יעדעם ווייס איך כאטשיג ביי מיר אז ער האט עס געמאכט מיטן פוהלן באוואוסטזיין,און רוהיגע געוויסן, אז דאס איז די ריכטיגע שריט צוטוהן. און כאטש איך בין נישט איינשטימיג דערמיט, און ער ווייסט דאס, קען איך מיר אבער נישט פארהוילן פונעם פאקט, אז נישט "לייכטזיניגקייט" אדער "גאווה" און זיכער נישט א "רצון צו תאוות" האבן אים פארדארבן.
ער איז אן אדורכגעטראכטע מענטש, וואס האט גוט גענומען אין באטראכט אלע אספעקטן פאר'ן טוהן וואס ער האט געטאן, און גענומען אין חשבון די פערזענליכע פרייז וואס ער וועט דארפן באצאלן דערפאר.

מ'פרובירט יעצט צו שיקן אלע סארט עסקנים רעדן צו אים, כאילו ער האט עס נישט 'אליין' געטוהן ביז היינט. ער איז געגאנגען איבעראל וואו ער האט נאר געהערט אז עמיצער קען אים העלפן. אפגעזיצן ביי אויסגערופענע רבנים און דיינים כדי נאכצופארשן און דערגיין דעם אמת. אלזא אויב טראכט עמיצער אז עפעס א "שמועס" פון א קליינטשיג עסקנ'ל וואס האט נישט געעפנט קיין ספר אין לעבן וועט אים עטוואס טוישן במשהו, מאכט יענער א גרויסן טעות. אבער ישראל ווי א וואויל קינד ,גייט און הערט אויס, און איז מכבד, און רעדט נאך, מיט יעדער - וואס מען איז אים מציע צו רעדן.

ווער ס'האט אפגעמאכט צו פארשפרייטן די מעשה ברבים האט געטוהן א גרויסע שטות און א רשעות אינאיינעם. די זאכן וועלן אויף קיין רגע נישט טוישן אדער דערשרעקן ישראל. פארגאנגענע וואך ווען אונז האבן גערעדט, האט ער גאנץ גוט פאראויסגעזען וואס ס'וועט פאסירן און וואס ס'קען ארויסקומען פון דעם. ער גלייבט נאך אלץ אז וואס ער האט געטוהן איז א ריכטיגע החלטה געווען. ער איז דאס מסביר שיינערהייט מיט א אנגענעמע שפראך, ווער עס וויל זיך אראפזעצן מיט אים קען זיך דאס אליינס איבערצייגן.

יעדנספאל, וואלט איך נישט געראטן די קליינטשיגע עסקנים'לעך צו פרובן משפיע זיין אויף אים, ווייל ער וועט זיי "אויפעסן פאר פרישטאג". און כ'האב מורא אז ער וועט מצליח זיין זיי צו פארדארבן מער וויפיל זיי וועלן מצליח זיין אים צוריקצוברענגען. נישט אז ער האט א אינטערעסע מיטצושלעפן אנדערע, אבער אויב וועט מען אריינגיין מיט אים אין א ערנסטע שמועס, איז קלאר אז דאס וועט פאסירן.

די דאזיגע שורות שרייב איך מיט א שטארקע צער און ווייטאג. וואס ס'באדערט מיך די מערסטע נאך איז אז מ'פארגיסט אומשולדיג בלוט פון אזא גוטע חבר מיינער, און מ'איז אזוי מזלזל אין מענטשנ'ס אינטעליגענץ. נאך א מזל אז מ'האט וועם צו באשולדיגן... "די מיליטער"! א שאד אז מ'האט נישט צוגעלייגט אויך דער פאקט אז אז ער האט נישט קיין כשר'ע טעלעפאן, אפענע אינטערנעט, און ער גייט מיט א בלויע העמד.

צום שלוס, צו אלע וואס מיינען אז זיין בלוט איז הפקר. טראכט'ס גוט אריין אויב וואס איר רעדט און טייפט איז דער רצון השם. און אויב נישט, זאלט איר אייך בעסער אנפוהלן א מויל מיט וואסער, און דאס איבריגע אויסשפייען אויפ'ן קיבאורד. ווייל גלייבט'ס מיר, איר האט נישט קיין בלאסן אהנונג איבער וואס ס'רעדט זיך דא..!

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Ten Year Old Aaron Tepfer killed in boating accident

A ten year old boy whose leg came in contact with a boat’s propeller while swimming in the waters of Reynolds Channel in Lawrence lost his fight for life over Shabbos. Aaron Tepfer, the son of Tully and Rochel Tepfer, was swimming in the waters off Cedarhurst Yacht Club, three miles from his Cedarhurst home, when the incident occurred at approximately 2:20 PM on Friday afternoon.

 According to reports on Newsday, Tepfer had gone tubing with four friends. The tubes were being towed by the boat, a 27 foot Sea Ray Sundeck, when Tepfer fell into the water. The boy swam toward the boat, which was stopped in the water, but his leg came into contact with the propeller as he attempted to re-board the boat. After being informed of the accident by his own son, the boat’s operator kept Tepfer’s head above water, by grabbing onto his life jacket, keeping the boy from being dragged under water until help arrived.

 ABC News is reporting that five different agencies were involved in the rescue attempt, including paramedics on boats and jet skis, who worked together to extricate Tepfer’s leg from the propeller. Tepfer, who suffered serious blood loss, was stabilized at the scene and was transported to the foot of the Atlantic Beach Bridge, before being rushed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Despite earlier optimistic reports in the local media, Tepfer, who was about to enter sixth grade, passed away on Shabbos

. The levaya will take place at 10 AM this morning at Yeshiva Darchei Torah where Aaron was a student and his mother is a 5th grade teacher.
We regret to inform you of the petira of our talmid Aron Sholom Tepfer A"H. The levaya will be held, Sunday, at 10 am in the Diamond Bais Medrash, 257 Beach 17 Street .

 Shiva will be in the Tepfer home, 376 Rugby Road, Cedarhurst, NY. Shacharis 7:30 am Mincha/Maariv 7:20pm The family requests that no visitors come after 10pm.

 Mrs. Zahava Farbman, LMSW, Associate Director of Chai Lifeline's Crisis Intervention, Trauma and Bereavement Department will present to parents on helping our children cope with this tragedy. It is open to all parents who would like to come, at 9:00 pm in the Diamond Bais Medrash. Israel call in number +972(0)76-599-0060 US call in number +1 424-203-8405 177249# Participant Access Code — at Yeshiva Darchei Torah.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

2,700 year old pottery is inscribed with the name of the father of the Novie Yachaziel!



Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have discovered what they say is a 2,700 year-old pottery fragment with an ancient Hebrew inscription possibly containing the name of a Biblical figure.
The fragment, discovered just outside the capital’s Old City at the City of David site, in what is now the Arab village of Silwan, was likely part of a large ceramic bowl dating from between the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said Sunday.
The text fragment on the shard, roughly transliterated without vowels into English characters as “ryhu bn bnh,” is similar to the name of Zechariah son of Benaiah, the father of the prophet Jachaziel, whose name appears in 2 Chronicles 20:14 when Jahaziel spoke prophecy to King Jehoshaphat before the king went off to war.
“While not complete, the inscription presents us with the name of a seventh century BCE figure, which resembles other names known to us from both the Biblical and archaeological record… and provides us with a connection to the people living in Jerusalem at the end of the First Temple period,” the statement said.
The City of David, while today located outside the southern walls of the Old City, is understood by archaeologists to be the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible.
Fragments of oil lamps, stamped handles and female figurines dating from the end of the First Temple period discovered at the City of David site. (photo credit: courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)
Fragments of oil lamps, stamped handles and female figurines dating from the end of the First Temple period discovered at the City of David site. (photo credit: courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)
The bowl fragment, along with a number of other small artifacts dating from the same period, was discovered by archaeologists Joe Uziel and Nahshon Zanton during an investigation of remains associated with the destruction of the First Temple, which occurred in 587 BCE at the hand of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
Uziel and Zanton said that the letters inscribed on the bowl shard likely date from “sometime between the reign of Hezekiah and the destruction of Jerusalem under King Zedekiah.” Based on their analysis, they noted, the inscription “was engraved on the bowl prior to firing, indicating that the inscription originally adorned the rim of the bowl in its entirety, and was not written on a shard after the vessel was broken.”
The bowl possibly contained an offering, given by the person whose name was inscribed on the vessel, they said.

Terrorists ‘aim to hit Israeli, Jewish targets worldwide’ in coming weeks

Israeli and Jewish targets all over the world are likely to be sought out by terrorist organizations in the coming weeks, the Israeli government’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned in strikingly strident tones on Monday, 

Listing dozens of countries where it said it had “concrete” indications of a terrorist threat. 
It cited concerns about terrorist acts timed to coincide with the forthcoming Rosh Hashana (New Year), Yom Kippur and Succot festivals, and also said that the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US was likely to be “a favored period” for al-Qaeda and other global jihadist groups to attempt to carry out acts of terrorism Iran and Hezbollah, it warned, were continuing their “global terror campaign” against Israeli and Jewish targets.

 It noted that Iran remained bent on avenging alleged Israeli responsibility for the killing of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh in a Damascus car-bombing in 2008, and the deaths of three Iranian nuclear scientists. 

It said its information indicated that Israeli businessmen and ex-government officials were prime potential targets for assassination and/or kidnapping. With all that in mind, the bureau reconfirmed that Israelis are barred altogether from travel to Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where the “concrete” terror threat was “very high.” 
In addition, it ordered Israelis not to travel to Sudan, Somalia, Algeria, Djibouti, Mauritania, Libya and Tunisia, and to leave these countries immediately if they were there, because of a similarly “very high” terror threat. Where Tunisia was concerned, it underlined what it said were the “threats to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets.” 

The unusually shrill and widespread alert included an order to Israelis not to travel to the Sinai Peninsula, because of the chaotic situation in Egypt. The Sinai’s Red Sea resorts are a traditionally popular holiday destination for Israelis, especially at this time of year. 
The advisory noted that Sinai was off limits not only because of the general Egyptian disorder and a series of recent attacks in the Sinai, however, but also because of “information on the intention to carry out further attacks.” 

Using only slightly less urgent language, the bureau, part of the National Security Council under the authority of the Prime Minister’s Office, ordered Israelis to “avoid visiting” the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt and Qatar, where it cited what it called a “basic” terrorist threat. 

Israel maintains peace agreements with both Jordan and Egypt, and the warning underlines what the bureau called “the complex security realities” in nations adjacent to Israel.The advisory also specified a “high” terror threat in Indonesia, Burkina-Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Mali, Malaysia and Pakistan, telling Israelis not to go there and urging them to leave as soon as possible if they were there now. 

The bureau’s warning also specified concerns about terror threats to Israeli “business targets” worldwide, and especially in Africa, “in the wake of the exposure of a terrorist infrastructure in Nigeria over the past year.” 
Generally, it urged Israelis traveling worldwide to take extra precautions, such as avoiding unexpected meetings or out of the way places, and to change regular travel routes The bureau also told Israelis to postpone nonessential visits to Turkey, Oman and Morocco, because of “ongoing potential threats.” Slightly further afield, it cited “very high” terror threats in Afghanistan, parts of southern Thailand, parts of the southern Philippines, east Senegal, India’s Kashmir province, northern Nigeria, parts of Kenya, and Chechnya. Israel were not to travel to any of those areas, and to leave immediately if they were there, it ordered.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Chassidishe Monsey "Animals" defy Rav Sternbuch and blanket Monsey with Flyers condemning Rav Sternbuch and the Builders in Beit Shemesh!

Chassidishe gangsters, flooded Monsey with flyers, "Pashkevelim", urging people to kill Avraham Slonim who supports the building in the Beit Shemesh area, where the Crazy "Asra Kedusha" suspect, was an old jewish cemetery.
Littered Sidwalks in Monsey
However Rav Sternbach and other Gedolim already paskened that there is no problem building there!
Flyer condemning Rav Sternbuch
 I know that some of my readers will say, 
"well. they are just a bunch of mishagoyim," 

 If we do not stop this, this will go out of control, and someone will get killed. The Builder was already beaten to a pulp last week. I urge those who have children in Israel, to do what I did this morning. I called my son's Rosh Yeshiva and told him that if he doesn't condemn this atrocity, I will stop paying tuition. The Rosh Yeshiva told me that he will absoluetly tell his talmidim not to go to any of the Asra Kedusha Protests. I told him that's not enough! He has to come out and stand up for Kavod HaTotorah and speak against these bastards that are distorting our Holy Torah!

Friday, August 16, 2013

The Life of a Frum Lesbian

Chanie Getter
In an interview with Forward reporter, Frimet Goldberger, Ms Getter explains in fluent yiddish her journey from a Chassidishe wife, to her discovery of her being gay.

Chanie Getter grew up in Monsey in a very frum Chassidishe Family. She got married at 18, and had three children. She got divorced, and presently lives with another women. Her parents have nothing to do with her, but she continues to lead an orthodox life...
Chanie with a "Spitzel"

Listen to her story in yiddish
Click on the following link, Forward

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Knesset Member to Kerry "YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE"

Finally, someone with common sense, tells the Mushagna Kerry, where to get off.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is putting lives at risk by gambling on the peace process, Bayit Yehudi faction chairwoman Ayelet Shaked wrote in a letter to him Thursday.

 Shaked began the letter explaining that, due to the gravity of the situation, she feels that she “simply cannot be bound by the restraints of politically correct wording” and must be straightforward. 

“By forcing Israel to capitulate to terrorism by releasing murdering terrorists with so much blood on their hands that the US would never dream of releasing if it was their own citizens murdered –
you are not only being extremely hypocritical, but are actually dabbling in experimentation and gambling, by putting me and my children’s lives at risk,” 

Shaked wrote in the letter, which was also sent to US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro and Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Oren. 
According to Shaked, US pressure to release terrorists from prison, as it did earlier this week,
“is made all the more absurd, cynical and vicious by the fact that [the US] refuses to this day to release [Israeli agent] Jonathan Pollard from jail, despite the unprecedented [prison sentence] he has served thusfar.” 

The Bayit Yehudi MK added that Israelis will pay the price of releasing convicted murderers, not Kerry. 
“How will you carry the burden of the terrible price toward which you are leading us?” she wrote. 
“You forced us into peace talks during a period of time that the entire Middle East is in chaos, without realizing that by doing so, you have foolishly put us in an impossible situation in which we cannot and will not make any concessions.” 

Shaked wrote that Kerry raised expectations to a dangerous level that could lead the entire region to once again spin out of control once they’re proven to be unrealistic. 

In conclusion, Shaked pointed out that “the past four years in Israel have been quiet and peaceful as ever.” 
She suggested that Kerry “perform [his] job in a much more effective and relevant fashion by focusing [his] attention on Syria and Egypt, where people are actually being slaughtered.”

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Frum Jews in Beit Shemesh defy ruling of Rav Sternbuch and riot like the "Shvartza"


Despite the recent kenos and agreement reached to abide by daas Torah regarding the Binyan Shalem project in Beit Shemesh, Asra Kadisha activists were out in force Monday, 6 Elul 5773. Despite the rulings of Eida Chareidi Ravaad HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch on the matter, Asra Kadisha fanatics are unwilling to abide by the posek’s rulings, to the extent last week a number of them attacked an elderly developer involved in advancing the project. Bayit Vegan resident Aryeh Golovnititz (גולובנציץ) was beaten so badly by the thugs who arrived at his home; he was hospitalized with a possible fractured skull.
On Monday morning, the Asra Kadisha activists were back and they used their bodies to prevent ongoing construction. A number of arrests were made. Police estimate about 100 protestors were on hand. The protests began on Sunday, albeit a much smaller and calmer event, as the heavy equipment began arriving on the site, signaling the imminent continuation of the project.
Protests followed in Beit Shemesh and Meah Shearim following the arrests, including setting garbage dumpsters ablaze. There were at least 14 reported arrests in Yerushalayim and Beit Shemesh. City officials sent trucks to collect area garbage dumpsters so hoodlums could not set them ablaze.
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