Lakewood girl schools again turning away Jewish Children!

See this letter from a victim

DEAR PROPRIETORS OF LAKEWOOD’S BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOLS:

Once again, you have seen fit to send out acceptance letters to most of Lakewood’s eighth grade girls. The “undesirable” minority will go to their graduations publicly degraded – everyone knows who they are.

You say there is no room, “the boat is full.” That’s exactly what the Swiss government said when denying refuge to Jews during World War II. Incongruous with a “poor” community such as Lakewood, your mosdos scream wealth and plenty. Surely you can find room for a few extra desks – even a new classroom – in those enormous, grand high school buildings of yours? 

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You say the unaccepted girls are “not tznius.” This may be true of a select minority, and being in the business of chinuch, they are also your responsibility. However, you have an evil practice of persecuting the less academic students, children of divorce, those who have difficulty paying tuition, and those whose parents you can blackmail before you grant them a precious seat in your mosad.

Young, fragile, impressionable children and their families are at your mercy. Their hopes for the future, their self-esteem, their sholom bayis, and their physical health are being sacrificed on the altar of your egotistic iron grip of power. It must take a lot of strength to overcome your genetic predisposition to be rachmanim b’nei rachmanim. Or perhaps we should examine your genealogy.

No one is fooled by your beard-stroking, yeshivish-talking imitation piety; not even your own employees or your own children. It only serves to remind us that you should know better. The Torah you appear to represent and impart in your schools does not condone your behavior.

Have yourselves an Evian conference and decide how to solve the problem of universal high school acceptance in a way that does not shame or destroy precious bnos yisroel. Treat them as you would your own beloved, superior, deserving children. Stop feigning innocence and blaming others; do the right thing.

Vizhnitz Monsey Bans "Hot Color" clothing for ladies

Vishnitz Monsey, obsessed with women, now bans them from wearing clothing that are "Hot Pink, Hot Yellow, Hot Orange"......

This ad appeared in "The Community Connections " in Monsey!

Loose Translation from Yiddish:

From the words of the Rabbi of Vizhnitz

and these are his holy words....

Women ought to go in the way of our ancestors, that clothing should be normal, and not to pursue the desires of this world.

Everyone wants children that are religious, and this is a Segulah to have religious generations. 

The "nekeivos" (women) should follow the customs of our ancestors and not to deviate from those ideas.

Dear Daughters of Israel,

Wearing clothing with colors that are Hot Pink, Hot Yellow or Hot Orange are prohibited according to halacha, (see Oiz Ve'hadar Levusha, Chapter 7b)

Let's abide by the halacha, and that will bring Spiritual Nachas to Hashem and you will merit to have salvation and good tidings!

Chag Samaiach

The Jewish Press continues to protect sex abusers!

The Jewish Press defended Mordechai Tendler years ago, and now they are defending a sexual predator, read the following by their clueless "reporter", I highlighted in red the offensive comments from this bastard Yori Yanover

Yori Yanover defender of sexual predators

Jewish Teacher Charged with Molestation and Fired on Dubious Grounds
The arrest was made based on the testimony of a 12-year-old babysitter's hearsay from a 6- and a 7-year-old.
Yori Yanover • The Jewish Press
Published: May 13th, 2013

Jordan Eareckson Murray, 32, father of three, known by his students as Rabbi Yaakov, taught first and second grade at the Torah Day School, on South Ferdinand Street in Columbia City, Seattle, and, reportedly, groped two female students, ages 6 and 7, after putting them on his lap behind his desk, in front of other students.

He was arrested May 3 and spent close to 48 hours in the King County Jail before posting a $100,000 bond, according to jail and court records.

Formal charges were filed last week, accusing Murray of touching the two girls under their clothes numerous times since the middle of the school year. Other students were unaware of the behavior because Murray’s desk blocked their view, according to the charges.

Here’s how the evidence against Muray was collected:

The two alleged victims were playing together at the younger girl’s house and told the girl’s 12-year-old sister, also a student at the Torah Day School, that “Rabbi Murray puts his hands in their pants,” according to the charges, which note that the two younger girls “were scared” and confused and didn’t know why it was happening.

If it was happening.

The 12-year-old sister brought the girls to her mother, and they disclosed the alleged abuse, according to the charges.

The 12-year-old had baby-sat Murray’s children in the past, according to reports.

In other words, the arrest was made based on the testimony of a 12-year-old babysitter’s hearsay from a 6- and a 7-year-old.

The Seattle Police Department received two referrals from Child Protective Services on April 23 and launched an investigation, the papers say.

Murray declined to speak with investigators, which means he’s getting good legal advice.

Here’s what Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carol Spoor had to say on the case:

“The defendant is a clear danger to children given the circumstances of this crime where he abused his position of trust as a first- and second-grade teacher, secretly molesting these girls in class in front of others.”

Based on the hearsay testimony of a 12-year old who heard it from her 6-year-old sister and her 7-year-old friend.

I’m not saying the man is innocent—how could I possibly tell? But I’ve been in this business a few years, and when it smells, I can sense it. These cases always depend on the quality of police investigation, most importantly: how much of the information came voluntarily from the child witness, and how much did the interrogating detective feed her.

Children do not have a developed sense of right and wrong, children have magical thinking, children are incapable of reasoning the way adults do. It’s extremely tough for experts in the field to get untainted information from children, because children are constantly on the lookout for cues as to what the adult wants them to say.

Here’s something about the quality of the detective work in this case:

Seattle Detective Michael Moore told the court that a 6-year-old girl had told him that after she approached Murray to show him her school work, Murray put her on his lap and shoved his hands down her pants while he was seated behind his desk. As he did so, Murray stared at the girl’s school work as though he was reading it, Moore continued. The detective added that the rest of the first-grade class was unaware Murray was groping the child.

Having spent two years of my life in the first and the second grades (one year each), I’m trying to imagine a situation whereby a teacher manages to pull off that feat of depravity with no one noticing.Of course, as is common in these cases, which often turn out to be nothing more than mass hysteria, once the news spreads about the alleged molestation by a rabbi, local children suddenly remember having been abused by the same man.The chilling documentary, Capturing the Friedmans, shows one such case, where an entire family was destroyed by mass hysteria, spun by confused children, frightened parents, and shoddy work, even, possibly, lies, of the detectives of the Great Neck PD. In 1988, one of the family members, Jesse Friedman, was coerced into pleading guilty to some incredible and imaginary crimes of child sexual abuse, and sentenced to 18 years in prison. In July, 2010, the Federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals said there was “a reasonable likelihood” that Jesse Friedman was wrongfully convicted.In the Seattle case, another 6-year-old has already come up with a description of sitting on Murray’s lap or standing between his legs, and said other girls in her class also sat on his lap, according to the charges. The girl said Murray often hugged her from behind and touched her over her clothing, the papers say.So, after having been unaware of anything out of the ordinary happening in the original report, all of a sudden we hear of busy molestation schedules in Rabbi Yaakov’s classroom.By now there are at least four other students in Murray’s classes, in addition to the original two, all ages 6 and 7, who have “routinely complained of anxiety, headaches and stomach aches,” but the girls’ parents said the children were fine and acted normally after being sent home early, the papers say.

So, after having been unaware of anything out of the ordinary happening in the original report, all of a sudden we hear of busy molestation schedules in Rabbi Yaakov’s classroom.
By now there are at least four other students in Murray’s classes, in addition to the original two, all ages 6 and 7, who have “routinely complained of anxiety, headaches and stomach aches,” but the girls’ parents said the children were fine and acted normally after being sent home early, the papers say.

In today’s U.S.A. you’ll catch a better break planting bombs than being a rabbi accused of henky penky.

Murray was fired following the allegations. According to Dan Donohoe, spokesman for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, he does not have a criminal history. Originally, the police told the press that Murray had a criminal record in another state, but then they issued a retraction.

Gives you an idea of the quality of their police work?

Did you read the above from this animal??

Now here are the links and see the truth:

Here is the redacted charge sheet and other court documents. You can see what Murray allegedly did and how he was arrested.

Download Information Charge Sheet Yaakov Jordan E. Murray 5-2013 extra redactions

Here are two previous FailedMessiah.com posts accurately reporting what happened:

Seattle Day School Teacher Charged With Child Sexual Abuse.

Why Didn't The Haredi Torah Day School Of Seattle Do A Background Check?

The above links supplied by FailedMessiah

Rabbi Yosef Kolko, Ex-yeshiva Teacher, Admits Sexually Assaulting NJ Boy

With other accusers stepping forward, a former yeshiva teacher changed pleas Monday in the middle of his trial, admitting he sexually abused a boy he met while working as a camp counselor.

Rabbi Yoself Kolko, 36, shifted uncomfortably on the stand as he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sex assault, sexual assault and child endangerment. The abuse occurred from August 2008 to February 2009. It ranged from fondling to oral sex and stopped when the boy told his father, who confronted Kolko.

The change in plea came after the prosecutor's office was contacted Friday by a representative for a woman who said she had been a victim of Kolko and a man who said he had a victim, Senior Assistant Prosecutor Laura Pierro said.

The case may be a watershed for the prosecutor's office and the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, which has in the past been reluctant to bring criminal matters to civil authorities, preferring instead to handle them through rabbinical courts and senior rabbis.

"I'm hoping that it's going to open the doors" to others in the community cooperating with authorities, Pierro said in an interview after the plea. "We broke ground with this case."

Prosecutors said they would not pursue the other two cases.

Kolko's bail was revoked, and he was ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation before sentencing.

His attorney, Michael Bachner, said Kolko was "extremely remorseful," apologizes to the victim and hopes after treatment "to return to society as a benefit to it."

The plea came after only three of the prosecution's eight witnesses testified. The senior rabbi the father approached was due to testify, as were other members of the insular community who were expected to shed light on internal workings of Lakewood's Orthodox population and how such allegations were handled inside it.

When Judge Francis R. Hodgson asked Kolko if he had received any promises or was threatened or coerced in exchange for his plea, Kolko answered softly that there were things that were "not part of the court system."

Bachner would not comment on Kolko's statement.

The victim's father had initially wanted the case handled within Lakewood's Orthodox community, asking a senior rabbi to help ensure that Kolko stay away from children and go to therapy. In mid-2009, the father decided to take the case to authorities.

The Associated Press generally does not identify accusers in sex-crime cases and is not naming the father to protect the son's identity.

Testifying last week, the father said he went to prosecutors because he felt the case was not being handled appropriately. Kolko was still teaching and planning to work at the summer camp where he met the boy.

"I was more concerned that he was still at his jobs," the father said Thursday. "And I felt that children are being endangered."

The father acknowledged it is not common for members of the Orthodox community to take cases like this to law enforcement.

Prosecutors had said the boy's family was ostracized by the community for pursuing the case in state court. The boy's father, a prominent rabbi, lost his job and the family moved to Michigan.

"There certainly were members of the community who remain outspoken against what the father did on behalf of his son," Pierro said. "I can tell you that there are many more whom are perhaps silently or not as openly are swelled with pride that he took this rather historic step."

The boy, who was 11 and 12 when the abuse took place, testified last week, describing a series of encounters with the rabbi, including molestation and oral sex.

The boy, now 16, said he was uncomfortable but wanted to remain close to Kolko because they were friends and the boy had no other companions in school.

Pierro commended the boy's and his father's bravery.

Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato said that in "securing justice for the victim," prosecutors "have proven our ability to successfully intercede on their community's behalf, affording them the same protections under the law we so tirelessly apply to all Ocean County's citizens."

"We will make every effort to assure this is a major step toward a continuing relationship with Ocean County's religious communities," he said.

Kolko faced a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison and a $650,000 fine, but the judge said he will likely cap one count at 15 years and run sentences on any other counts concurrently.

Only Jews not "goyim" can have the wart pigeon cure

A recent ad in the Brooklyn-based, Yiddish-language Di Tzeitung newspaper boasts a use for the city’s most ubiquitous bird as a cure for warts.

The ad recommends that the bird blood be poured onto the offensive skin growth, left for an hour and then washed off. In two or three weeks, “with God’s help, there is no memory thereof.”

The woman who placed the ad told The Post her daughter had a wart on her hand that disappeared after the treatment.

“I did this to help people,” she said. “You go to the market, you buy a pigeon, and the blood goes on the wart. That’s it.”

The woman said she has no connection to the Wallabout Street poultry market in Brooklyn that the ad plugs and only went there because no one in her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community would perform the treatment on her daughter.

One caveat, she said — the cure only works on Jews: “Gentiles are not capable of taking this.”

The ad ruffled the feathers of some in the Orthodox community, who said that it would likely be an object of ridicule. “This isn’t for every Tom, Dick or Harry,” said one area rabbi. “It’s like a talisman — something that helps you, but you don’t know why.”

And pigeon advocates were appalled, too.

“It’s meshuggeneh,” said Anna Dove, who runs the People for the Preservation of Pigeons Facebook page.

Crazy new "Chumra" ‘Oy’-glasses! Bobov bans ‘hip’ thick-framed glasses

Thou shalt not wear nerdy glasses!

An Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn has forbidden thick-framed retro glasses favored by the likes of Woody Allen.

“We are asking that everyone buy simple glasses,” reads a letter written in Yiddish that was recently issued to parents of students at Borough Park’s Bobover Yeshiva B’Nei Zion, which caters to members of the Bobov sect.

“What we have to commit ourselves to is we have to stand on top of this and not tolerate the new modernism.”

Students at the 48th Street school, which serves Grades 4 through 12, plus older rabbinical students, had been taking a shine to thick-framed and multicolored glasses.

“The good deed that accompanied the Jews in Egypt was that they didn’t change their names and clothes, and this same strength is still accompanying us and maintaining us in exile — in all generations,” explains the letter, which calls for traditional garb and was posted by the blog Failed Messiah.

School officials admit there’s no easy way to head off trends in specs, since styles fluctuate so much.

Still, the thick frames — often seen on celebs such as LeBron James and Justin Timberlake — “give the child a very coarse look,” the letter says.

“It doesn’t matter what age — a student cannot come to yeshiva with these glasses,” the letter reads.

Parents are asked to exchange the “immodest” frames and told that the expense should be viewed as an “educational boost.”

Lumiere Eyewear, a local optical shop, said it has already exchanged 30 pairs in just two weeks.

School officials recently descended on another local eyewear shop, MS Optical, to inspect its wares, an employee told The Post.

“They basically said these are the Hasidic ones — and those are not,” the employee said.

The store keeps its “acceptable” glasses — frameless, semi-rimless — in a separate display, far away from bolder styles.

Students — all wearing plain, wire-framed glasses — said they support the edict.

“What one kid does, another will copy. The school doesn’t want a domino effect,” said Nafle Frank. “Style is not a sin, but the culture is to stay away from new things and to keep them the way they were.”

He joked that the two Satmar grand rabbis — Aaron and Zalman Teitelbaum — have been wearing hipster glasses for the past 35 years.

“Now they look up to date,” he said.

EYE FOR AN EYE: A Brooklyn yeshiva now favors wire specs over thick frames like those worn by Woody Allen.

IRS targeted Jewish Groups, and questioned them about Israel

The passionately pro-Israel organization Z STREET filed a lawsuit against the IRS, claiming it had been told by an IRS agent that because the organization was “connected to Israel,” its application for tax-exempt status would receive additional scrutiny.  This admission was made in response to a query about the lengthy reveiw of Z STREET’s tax exempt status application.
In addition, the IRS agent told a Z STREET representative that the applications of some of those Israel-related organizations have been assigned to “a special unit in the D.C. office to determine whether the organization’s activities contradict the Administration’s public policies.” . . .
And at least one purely religious Jewish organization, one not focused on Israel, was the recipient of bizarre and highly inappropriate questions about Israel.  Those questions also came from the same non-profit division of the IRS at issue for inappropriately targeting politically conservative groups. The IRS required that Jewish organization to state “whether [it] supports the existence of the land of Israel,” and also demanded the organization “[d]escribe [its] religious belief system toward the land of Israel.”

Father of child abuse victim, testifies against the "Chazir" Kolko

Yosef Kolko, 39, right, walks with an unidentified man, near the Ocean County Courthouse in Toms River, N.J., Thursday, May 9, 2013, during a break in his trial on sexual assault charges. Testimony continues in the trial of the yeshiva teacher accused of sexually abusing a boy at a summer camp where he was a counselor. Prosecutors say the boy's parents were pressured by members of their Orthodox Jewish community to drop the charges and let a rabbinical court deal with them. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

A former yeshiva teacher is on trial in New Jersey on charges he sexually abused a socially awkward boy whose family members, prosecutors say, were ostracized by their Orthodox Jewish community for taking the allegations to civil authorities.

Rabbi Yosef Kolko, 39, met the boy in 2007 at religious school-run summer camp in Lakewood where he was a counselor. The boy was 11 at the time, and authorities say abuse continued until early 2009.

Kolko has denied the charges, which include sexual assault and child endangerment.

The boy’s father, a rabbi, testified Thursday that during a car ride back from his son’s therapist office, the boy said he had been sexually abused.

said, he called Kolko. The two met and the father told Kolko he needed to attend therapy and stop working with children. The father wanted to bring the matter to a group of rabbis who had “experience dealing with these issues,” he said, and did not intend to make the allegations public. The father recorded the conversation at his wife’s urging.

The next morning, the father 

Kolko did not dispute the allegations, the father said. At one point Kolko told the father he had nothing to say to him, which the father took as an admission as guilt, something Kolko’s lawyer disputed.

Later, the father and Kolko went to the home of a prominent Lakewood rabbi, where the father said Kolko was contrite and looked “close to tears.” The father said the rabbi took the allegations seriously.

The Associated Press generally does not identify accusers in sex crime cases and is not naming the father to protect the son’s identity.

The boy’s father wanted to bring the matter to a rabbinical court. After a few months he was unsatisfied with how the case was being handled and that Kolko was not following his recommendations and still teaching. After hearing Kolko was planning to return to the summer camp, the father called the head of the camp and Kolko, who told him to talk to a Brooklyn rabbi.

“I was more concerned that he was still at his jobs,” the father said. “And I felt that children are being endangered.”

In July 2009, the father decided to bring the case to Ocean County prosecutors. He said that if the allegations had been dealt with appropriately through rabbinical channels, he probably would not have gone to the police.

“Going to law enforcement is not, at this time, common within the Orthodox Jewish community. Even when it’s necessary it’s considered unusual,” the father testified. “Particularly with some people who might believe that the alleged molester is innocent would give the person going to law enforcement a very hard time.’

Prosecutors said the family was ostracized by the Orthodox Jewish community.

A flier was circulated in Lakewood, a community with a large Orthodox Jewish community, saying the boy’s father had made a mockery of the Torah and committed a “terrible deed” by taking the case to state prosecutors, the Asbury Park Press reported.

The family has since moved to Michigan.

The boy’s former therapist also testified Thursday, saying the boy told her in late 2008 he no longer needed help with his social skills because he had made a new friend, Rabbi Kolko.

“He’s my best friend. He’s the only one who understands me,” Dr. Tsipora Koslowitz recounted the boy telling her.

The boy took the witness stand Wednesday on the first day of the trial, testifying how he wanted to remain close to Kolko, even though his actions made him uncomfortable, because Kolko was his friend and he had no friends in school or camp.

The boy described a series of encounters with the rabbi, who would pick him up in his car, including molestation and oral sex and occurring in such locations as an empty classroom, a storage room, Kolko’s car and the basement of a synagogue, the newspaper reported.

Yated calls Israel's Finance Minister, "Hitler"

This idiot, who calls himself Walder, who has no clue what happened during the Nazi era, calls another Jew "Hitler"!

The "punk" Chaim Walder

Read the following by the blog Failedmessiah.
Yated Ne’eman, the haredi daily newspaper that serves as a mouthpiece for ‘mainstream’ non-hasidic haredi leadership, published a column today comparing Israel’s Minister of Finance Yair Lapid to Adolf Hitler, the Israeli haredi website Shtieble.net reported.

Written by the paper’s former editor, Chaim Walder, who is now a regular columnist, the column says that what Lapid is doing now by cutting government support of haredi schools that refuse to teach the country’s core curriculum and by his demand that haredi yeshiva students be drafted into the military resembles what Hitler did to the Jews in the Holocaust.

"Why do they hate us, why despise us, why is it that in all the surveys haredim are the most hated, why is it that Yair Lapid[’s party] got any - so many [Knesset] seats in January’s election?”

Walder then quotes Adolph Hitler for his answer.

“We will have to solve the Jewish question. [We must cause the Jews to abandon] the notion that the Creator of the World chose the Jews, and therefore it is their right to be parasites that feed on the bodies of other productive citizens. Jews must adapt to real and productive work just as other citizens do, if not, we will sooner or later face a crisis whose dimensions are immeasurable. If the Jewish money and power continues in Europe or elsewhere - it will lead to civil war, then the result will not be the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jews across Europe,” Walder wrote.

Walder does qualifies his comments a little, saying that the intent of Lapid and his allies is "not to physically destroy haredim.”

Instead, Walder wrote that Lapid and his allies want to destroy haredim in other ways through other means.

“[Lapid and his allies] have malicious intent when it comes to quality of life, ability to lead a normal life and in giving us basic rights, such as allowances, discounts, property tax, income support, food for the children, after-school programs, day care centers, education - there are even those who speak of taking away our freedom to vote, or of forcing us to leave Israel. [Lapid’s policies are] dictatorship at its best.”

Walder then cited a column Lapid wrote two years ago to defend his comparison of Lapid and Hitler.

"Forget ideology, forget about that I do not understand how it does not bother you [haredim] that you that you live at my expense, but I do not have the ability to pay for it all.…Not only for your kids but I have to give to my children, too. Do you realize how it makes me feel? We must find a way, my [haredi] friend, or it will end badly. What does it say in [Megillat] Ta’anit: Friendship or death,” Lapid allegedly wrote.

"Now tell you tell me what the difference is [between Lapid and Hitler] in that final sentence?" Walder asked.

Frum children's card game curses all Israelis

The Card Game

By: John Roberts , Yourjewishnews.com

Children in Jerusalem, Israel have begun playing with a new card game which lists curses against all Israelis.

The apparently new hot item is circling around the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. The anti Zionist card game lists quotes against Zionism from ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis.

The game is divided in four categories. One category lists Jewish people who were allegedly murdered by the evil Zionists.

Another category shows portraits of many ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis along with quotes cursing all Israelis. The Chafetz Chaim is quoted one of the cards: "For me it is clear that the Zionists are the seed of Amalek." Satmar rabbi is quoted on another card as saying: "There is no doubt that the Kingdom of heresy will be burned to the ground before the coming of the messiah." Belzer rabbi is quoted on another card as saying: "Every Jew should pray to God everyday to destroy the Zionists and the Israeli settlers."

A local resident explained that the game was distributed in thousands of packages for the children in the neighborhood. "The goal is to introduce the anti Zionist ideology to children through a game, and teach them from a young age to hate Zionists," a Meah Shearim resident who declined to give his name, told YourJewishNews.com.

“The government should confiscate all these card games and burn them in one large fire. The manufacturers of this card game should be arrested and charged with inciting violence related charges and conspiracy to commit murder as a hate crime. What normal person gives a child a game that calls to murder innocent men women and children?” Frank Scott, 40, of Long Island, New York told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the disgusting card game.

Palestinian imprisoned in Israel converts to Judaism, to join the Israeli military

Yaniv Eliasaf

By: Shifra Unger 

 In a truly amazing turnaround, a Palestinian man, who was imprisoned in Israel on terror related charges, converted to Judaism, and is now ready to join the Israeli military.

This is probably a story that can happen only in Israel. The Palestinian converted to Judaism, joined the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, received Israeli citizenship, and wants to join the Israeli Army. The former Palestinian, married a Jewish woman, and studies in a yeshiva in Jerusalem, Israel. Today he said: "Thank God I'm a Jew. I wake up every morning and bless God for that."

Yaniv Eliasaf, was born as Boosman, in a Palestinian city near Nablus. He spent 11 years in an Israeli prison. When he was released, he burst into tears because he had nowhere to go. He wrapped himself in a prayer shawl and put a skullcap on his head, because during his imprisonment he converted to Judaism. The danger of death hovered over him, because his fellow Palestinians considered him as a collaborator with Israel, and in Israel he was Palestinian.

Two years ago, when the checkpoint Brigadier General learned of Yaniv, he was granted entry into Israel. For the past two years he has lived in Israel with temporary status, he works odd jobs and deals mainly with the study of Torah. He seeks to establish his home in Israel, and he wants full citizenship.

He said that he is ready to join the army, and if they sent him to Nablus, his birthplace, he will fulfill all orders. A few months ago, he returned to Nablus as a Jew, and went to Joseph's Tomb. Yaniv's story is almost unbelievable. This story teaches more than anything the complexities of life in Israel and Palestine.

“This is an amazing heartwarming story, as this man went from a person that sought to destroy as many Jews as possible to a practicing Jew. Not only that, he will soon join the Israeli Army and fight against his former brothers, very inspiring,” Larry Brown, 61, of Dallas, Texas told YourJewishNews.com after learning about Yaniv.