The day a Holocaust survivor got revenge on his tormentor

Martin Greenfield, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor, owns and operates Martin Greenfield Clothiers in Brooklyn, NY.

He survived the savagery of the Holocaust, made it to America with barely a penny and became a world-famous tailor in Brooklyn, dressing celebrities and presidents. In his new memoir, “Measure of a Man,” Martin Greenfield tells the story of his extraordinary life. In this excerpt, he explains how the concentration camps nearly stripped him of his humanity at age 16 — and the day he got it back.

While at Buchenwald, the SS assigned me to work in the munitions factory. But early one morning after roll call, a soldier placed me on a 12-prisoner team to perform repairs outside the camp in nearby Weimar.

Working in the city was a welcome distraction from camp life. Sometimes you got lucky and spotted a potato in a field or smuggled a trinket to trade for food. Either way, it was a chance to see the sky, escape the stench of rotting corpses, and confirm that there was still a world beyond the barbed wire.

We loaded our gear and marched the few miles to Weimar. The soldiers stopped us in front of a bombed-out mansion, home to the mayor of Weimar. A big black Mercedes sat out front. The soldiers commanded us to sift the rubble, clear the debris, and begin repairs on the mansion.

I walked alone to the back of the estate to assess the damage. Dusty piles of broken bricks lay scattered across the yard. Seeing the cellar door ajar, I slowly opened it. A shaft of sunlight filled the dank cellar. On one side of the space sat a wooden cage wrapped in chicken wire. I walked closer and noticed two quivering rabbits inside the cage.

“They’re still alive!” I said to myself with surprise.

Inside the cage were the remains of the rabbits’ dinner. I unlatched the cage and pulled out a wilted leaf and carrot nub. The lettuce was browning and slimy, the carrot still moist from the rabbits’ gnawing. Excited, I wolfed down the lettuce and tried to crack the chunk of carrot in half with my teeth.

My luck was short-lived. “What are you doing?” a voice yelled.

I whipped my head around toward the door. A gorgeous, smartly dressed blond woman holding a baby stood silhouetted in the door frame. It was the mayor of Weimar’s wife.

“I . . . I found your rabbits!” I stammered with a cheerful nervousness. “They’re alive and safe!”

“Why in the hell are you stealing my rabbits’ food?” barked the woman. “Animals!” I stood silent and stared at the floor.

“I’m reporting this immediately!” she said, stomping away. My heart pounded in my emaciated chest. A few minutes later, an SS soldier ordered me to come out of the cellar. I knew what was coming, and the knowing made it all the worse.

“Down on the ground, you dog! Fast!” yelled the German. He gripped his baton and bludgeoned my back. I do not know whether the mayor’s wife watched the beating. Given her cruelty, why would she want to miss it? On the hike back to Buchenwald, I replayed the scene over and over in my mind.

How could a woman carrying her own child find a walking skeleton saving her pets and have him beaten for nibbling on rotten animal food? I thought.

In that moment, my numbness to death melted. In its place rose an alien blood lust, a hunger for vengeance unlike any I had ever known. The surge of adrenaline and rush of rage felt good inside my withered frame.

Then and there I made a vow to myself: If I survived Buchenwald, I would return and kill the mayor’s wife.

On April 11, 1945, 3:15 p.m., the Allies liberated Buchenwald.

Physically, I was free. Emotionally, I was in chains. I’d made a promise to myself. And I intended to keep it.

I located two Jewish boys who were well enough to make the walk to Weimar. I told them what the woman did and what I was prepared to do about it. We could rummage machine guns from the mountain of German weapons seized by the inmates and Americans that lay in piles on the Appelplatz.

The streets outside camp were electric with an ominous sense of disquiet. A smattering of prisoners in striped pajamas ambled in search of noncamp food. I kept my eyes open for SS. We gripped our guns and got to Weimar as quickly as possible.

My heartbeat quickened the closer we got to the mayor’s house. Pent-up rage from all I had seen and experienced surged through me. Killing the mayor’s wife could not repay the Nazis for the
terror they had inflicted on us. But it was a start.

We walked a few miles before turning down the street the mayor’s home was on. I pointed to a house several paces down the road: “I think that’s it.” The big black Mercedes was not out front.

It took me a moment to make sure I had the right house.

“The car isn’t here. Looks like the house is empty,” I said. “The plan is we take our guns and go in through the side door. Then we hide and wait so I can kill the blonde bitch that had me beaten.”

The boys nodded.

We crept up to the side door. I slowly turned the knob. It was unlocked. I entered the house quietly, with my gun drawn. The boys fell in behind me and eased the door shut. We stepped softly to mute the sounds of our wooden clogs on the floor.

“Hello?” a voice around a corner said. “Hello?”

Just then the beautiful blond woman turned the corner and let out a screech. She had the baby in her arms again.

“Don’t shoot!” she screamed. “Don’t shoot!”

“Remember me?!” I yelled. “Do you?!”

Her blond tresses shook violently. She hid her face behind her upraised hand as if shielding herself from the sun.

“You had me beaten because of the rabbits. I’m here to shoot you!” I said, sounding like an SS.

“No! Please!” she quavered. “The baby, please!”

I aimed the machine gun at her chest. The baby wailed. My finger hovered above the trigger.

“Shoot her!” one of the boys said. “Shoot her!” The woman’s outstretched hand trembled in the air. My heart pounded against my chest like a hammer.

“Shoot her!” the other boy yelled. “That’s what we came here for! Do it!”

I froze. I couldn’t do it. I could not pull the trigger. That was the moment I became human again. All the old teachings came rushing back. I had been raised to believe that life was a precious gift from God, that women and children must be protected.

Had I pulled the trigger, I would have been like Mengele. He, too, had faced mothers holding babies — my mother holding my baby brother — and sentenced both to gruesome deaths. My moral upbringing would not allow me to become an honorary member of the SS.

Still, extending mercy felt weak. I tried to save face in front of the boys. If I couldn’t be a hardened killer, I could at least be a car thief. “Where is the car?” I yelled.

“There is nothing,” she said.

“Where is it?!” I barked.

“It’s not here,” she said.

I lowered the gun and stomped out of the house and went around back.

“You made us come here for nothing?” one of the boys huffed.

“I couldn’t shoot her,” I said. “She had a baby!”

“How many babies did they kill?” he quipped. He had a point.

We walked to the large barn behind the house and unlatched the heavy wooden doors. There, covered with hay, sat the big black Mercedes. “That lying Nazi bitch!” one of the boys yelled. I was livid. I’d spared her life and she lied to my face.

“Wait here,” I told the boys. I marched back in the house, gun drawn, and found her. “This time, I’m really going to shoot you,” I said. “Give me the keys!” She gave me the keys. I jogged back to the boys and the car. “I got them,” I said rattling the keys in my hand.

“Who knows how to drive?” one of the boys asked.

“Don’t worry, I do,” I said. We brushed off the hay and hopped in the car.

“Hurry up! Let’s get out of here,” one of the boys said.

What a sight we must have been: three teenage Jews in striped prisoner uniforms, armed with machine guns, driving a black Mercedes in Weimar, Germany, on our way back to the Buchenwald concentration camp. We smiled, laughed, and talked tough like the men we weren’t.

“Did you see how scared she was?” one boy said excitedly. “I bet she made in her underwear!” We chuckled and drove on.

“Look!” one of the boys said pointing out the window. “Two girls!” I pulled the car to the side of the street.

We invited the German girls to take a ride. They must have been so mesmerized by the Mercedes that our raggedy uniforms failed to give them pause. To my surprise, they hopped in. This was the closest any of us had been to attractive girls in a long, long time. They rode with us a few blocks before we dropped them off.

I contemplated ditching the car. After all, we were driving the mayor of Weimar’s Mercedes. If that didn’t give us away, the license plates would. But then I thought, What the hell? When’s the next time you will get to drive a Mercedes?

So I drove the car all the way back to Buchenwald. In fact, I drove straight through the camp gates. Only this time, the irony of the slogan emblazoned across the gates — “To each what he deserves!” — made me laugh.

Prisoners stood motionless and stared as we coasted into camp. They must have assumed an important dignitary or the mayor of Weimar himself would step out of the fancy car. When they saw our striped prisoner uniforms, they rushed us. “How did you get a Mercedes?” someone asked.

“Well,” I said smiling, “we just got it.”

Throughout my life I had heard that everything happens for a reason, that God’s ways were mysterious but purposeful. I believed that. But something I read decades after my showdown at the mayor of Weimar’s house proved to me that in the end, in this life or the one after, God ultimately achieves justice.

A friend shared with me an article from a 1945 issue of Life magazine about Nazi suicides following the war. Here is a portion of what it said: “In the last days of the war the overwhelming realization of utter defeat was too much for many Germans. Stripped of the bayonets and bombast which had given them power, they could not face a reckoning with either their conquerors or their consciences. These found the quickest and surest escape in what Germans call Selbstmord, self-murder . . . In Hitler’s Reich, Germans stopped killing others and began killing themselves. In Weimar, the mayor and his wife, after seeing Buchenwald atrocities, slashed their wrists.”

That day at the mayor’s home, God pricked my conscience. In so doing, He spared me the guilt and shame of killing the mayor of Weimar’s wife.

I didn’t need to kill her. She did it for me.

Excerpted with permission from “Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents’ Tailor” (Regnery) by Martin Greenfield with Wynton Hall, out this week.

Khamenei YM"S: "The Only Cure for Israel is its Annihilation"

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Y"MS, on Saturday once again called for Israel’s destruction.

Khamenei’s latest provocation came in a series of tweets in which he launched a tirade against the Jewish state and called to arm Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria.

“This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to be annihilated,” read one tweet.

“The only means to confront a barbaric regime like Israel is arming WestBank,” read another tweet by the Supreme Leader.

“We've seen 100s of times that Israel doesn't abide by #peace.They didn't even tolerate Arafat who cooperated w/them& poisoned him to death,” charged Khamenei in another post, referring to the death of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

"WestBank should be armed just like Gaza. Friends of Palestine should do their best to arm People in West Bank,” another tweet read.

This is certainly not the first time that Khamenei has called for Israel’s destruction. 

Last month, the Iranian leader accused Israel of having "no limit or boundaries regarding viciousness, cruelty, and trampling underfoot all human standards and ethnics. Crimes, genocide, mass destruction, the killing of children, women and the homeless...they take pride in."

He previously said on Twitter that the Israel government was “the most wicked terrorist” in the world.

Khamenei has also called Israel an "illegitimate and bastard regime," and further called the United States a "smiling enemy" that is not to be trusted.

The latest Twitter rant, ironically enough, comes just days after reports indicated that U.S. President Barack Obama had written a letter to Khamenei in which he indicated that cooperation on ISIS depends on an agreement being reached by the November 24 deadline regarding Iran's nuclear program.

The White House would not comment on the reports and would only reiterate that Washington’s policy toward Iran has not changed, but Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice, on Friday said that Washington was “not engaged with Iran” regarding ISIS.

American Jewish Leaders Quiet while Obama abandons Israel and serenades Iran and Qatar,

Where is Shumer, while Israel is bleeding? Where is the Agudath Israel? Where?
Read the following: 
By Isi Leibler

Isi Leibler

Is American Jewish leadership intimidated?‎ I would hesitate writing this column had I not served as a national Jewish leader who faced ‎similar dilemmas to those confronting the American Jewish leadership today, many of whom I ‎was engaged with in various battles against enemies of the Jewish people and Israel.‎ Yet, with considerable regret and notwithstanding notable exceptions, I believe that today the ‎major leaders within the American Jewish establishment are failing to stand up and be ‎counted, despite chilling signals that the U.S. administration is about to abandon ‎Israel, effectively revoking the U.S.-Israel alliance on which we are deeply dependent.  There ‎are even hints that U.S. President Barack Obama may forgo the U.S. veto at the United Nations ‎Security Council that protects Israel from censure and sanctions, which could have disastrous ‎repercussions. This is taking place at a time when much of the world regards Israel as it did ‎Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. ‎ Another serious issue is that Obama has again breached a solemn undertaking and appears ‎prepared to consummate a deal with the Iranians, enabling them to achieve nuclear status.‎ Tensions have escalated over the past 12 months and the vicious and humiliating manner in ‎which the Obama administration has treated Israel, its purported ally and the only democratic ‎state in the region, is unprecedented.  The administration's condemnation of Israel's ‎‎"disproportionate response" and directive to withhold replenishment of arms during the Gaza ‎war is hardly the behavior of a genuine ally.‎ In contrast, the Obama administration serenades Iran and Qatar, which promote global ‎terrorism; kowtows to Saudi Arabia despite its horrific abuse of human rights, and embraces ‎Turkey's anti-Semitic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.‎ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has failed to make a single concession, opting ‎to merge with the genocidal Hamas. He deliberately incites hatred of Israelis, and just last ‎week hailed the murderer of the 3-month-old Israeli baby as a shaheed (martyr) and extended ‎condolences to the family of Rabbi Yehuda Glick's attempted assassin, whom he described as ‎‎"rising to heaven while defending our people's rights and holy places."  Abbas adviser Sultan ‎Abu Al-Einen said that the "bullets were a beacon that will continue to shine for years to ‎come." Yet the Obama administration remains circumspect and respectful of Abbas while ‎Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is treated with contempt and derision.‎ What is especially galling is that in the midst of regional upheaval with millions of people being ‎displaced, hundreds of thousands butchered and the world confronted by a snowballing ‎threat of Islamic barbarism from Islamic State and other terrorist groups, Obama remains obsessed ‎with Israel's need to make concessions that would undermine its security and create long-term ‎existential threats. It is bizarre that he spends more time condemning Israel for building homes ‎in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem than on the carnage taking place in the region.‎ And yet, despite all of the above, the Jewish leadership seems to have hibernated.  The only ‎voices consistently protesting against the bias and condemnations directed against Israel are ‎the Zionist Organization of America and the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, ‎which was the first to respond with a well-deserved fusillade against the "chickenshit" ‎outburst, demanding an apology and repudiation.‎ The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in a rare criticism of ‎the White House, demanded that the anonymous official whose remarks were "inappropriate" ‎and "counterproductive" be "held to account." But Abe Foxman, the national director of the ‎Anti-Defamation League, effectively trivialized the incident, saying that "the White House ‎statement [which distanced itself from the comments without condemning them] should bring ‎closure to the issue." ‎ Amazingly, the National Jewish Democratic Council condemned the outburst in harsher terms ‎than the Jewish establishment, expressing "surprising disappointment at the profane and ‎inappropriate language" employed. ‎ The issues at stake here are far beyond the vulgar language and the hostile exchanges between ‎Obama and Netanyahu. They relate to the foundations of the U.S.-Israel alliance.‎ These are times when one would expect the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (whose ‎raison d'etre is surely to respond to such situations) and the American Jewish leadership to ‎publicly protest at the manner in which Israel is being treated. ‎ Remaining silent and relying on the ZOA and other small groups to defend Israel, conveys the ‎false impression that the committed American Jewish community is alienated from Israel and ‎prefers to remain aloof while the Obama administration bashes the Jewish state. ‎ Most Jewish leaders with whom I communicate admit that they consider Obama's behavior ‎toward Israel as reprehensible. ‎ Many seek to rationalize their behavior by stressing that they are lobbying vigorously behind ‎the scenes and maintain that public criticism of Obama would encourage him to become even ‎more extreme.‎ This is the classic Diaspora approach of the "trembling Israelites." It has been proved wrong in ‎the past and American Jewish leaders, to their credit, were always robust and outgoing in ‎exercising their democratic right to promote the Jewish standpoint. We have learned over the ‎years that while shtadlanut (silent diplomacy) is indeed necessary, it can only be effective ‎when backed up by a public campaign.‎ At this crucial turning point in the relationship with Israel, my real concern is that American ‎Jewish leaders are simply fearful of directly confronting the president and that the allegedly ‎powerful Jewish lobby lacks the backbone to stand up and be counted. ‎ The absence of direction and leadership has already resulted in further erosion as displayed by ‎Gary Rosenblatt, the respected editor of The New York Jewish Week, who produced an ‎editorial titled "Bibi takes on the world," blasting Netanyahu for confronting the "leader of the ‎free world" and "jeopardizing Israel's relationship with its most important allies" for electoral ‎reasons.  Rosenblatt is a Zionist and a courageous and outspoken journalist. Only two weeks ‎earlier, he had penned an editorial, "Blaming Israel isn't the answer," castigating the global ‎anti-Israeli tsunami. ‎ But his latest editorial was unfair and extremely damaging. The Jewish Week was founded by ‎the Jewish Federations, and Rosenblatt conceded to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic (who ‎exposed the "chickenshit" comment) that in the past there would have been "hell to pay in the ‎community" for such an editorial on Israel, but now "that is no longer the case." ‎ Goldberg cited the editorial as evidence that Jewish leaders were "uneasy" about Israel's ‎direction. He referred to discussions by unnamed Jewish officials questioning Netanyahu's ‎policies. He went on to state that Israel should be trying to "negotiate in good faith" with the ‎duplicitous Abbas and impose a settlement freeze on Jerusalem and the settlement blocs until ‎such time as negotiations with the Palestinians have clarified which territory will remain within ‎Israel. Needless to say, pigs will fly before the Palestinians agree to such an accommodation.‎ This is the approach that the Obama administration will adopt in its forthcoming effort to ‎renew negotiations after the midterm elections. Whereas most Israelis feel that the prime ‎minister would be well advised to cease making public announcements about construction, the ‎vast consensus would never agree to a construction freeze in the settlement blocs and ‎especially not in the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.‎ Certain myths and falsehoods need to be dispelled. Israel is not creating new settlements. To ‎the contrary, the only real change on the ground in the last decade has been the dismantling of ‎settlements in Gaza which were transformed to launch rockets. Nor are any Arabs being ‎displaced or Palestinian land being appropriated. The entire area engaged in current ‎settlement is about 3 percent of the former Jordanian occupied territories. The Oslo accords never ‎required limits to settlement growth and certainly not natural growth of existing communities.‎ That is the message that AIPAC and Jewish leaders must urgently promote. They must also ‎firmly and publicly condemn the biased policies adopted against Israel by the administration ‎and lobby Congress to prevent Obama from abandoning Israel during his remaining two years ‎in office.‎ Failure by the Jewish leadership to act now will massively undermine the entire Jewish ‎community as a political force in America, sending a message to the American people and ‎Congress that American Jews are distancing themselves from Israel. This would invariably ‎impact on the very high levels of support that Israel currently enjoys.‎ It will also weaken the will of Jewish students to stand up and fight for themselves at the ‎campuses, many of which have been transformed into anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic cesspools.‎ The Jewish leadership has an enormous responsibility to provide direction. Hopefully they will ‎move in this direction, preventing analogies between today's American Jewish establishment ‎and the disastrous era of Rabbi Stephen Wise and his colleagues, who failed to stand up to ‎President Franklin Roosevelt's indifference to the plight of Jews during the Holocaust.‎ Isi Leibler's website can be viewed at www.wordfromjerusalem.com. He may be contacted at ‎ileibler@leibler.com.‎

WHAT LANDSLIDE? Obama threatens vetoes and executive orders – including immigration reform THIS YEAR

This guy is living under a rock somewhere on another planet!
Doesn't he understand that the reason Democrats lost in a lanslide is because America repudiated his crazy suicidal policies?

1. 'Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign,' the president warned
2. He has only vetoed  two minor bills since his inauguration in 2009
3. And 'I'll take some actions that some in Congress will not like,' Obama added, referring to threatened executive orders
4. Those include a bold move on immigration 'before the end of the year'
5. President sounded more like a winner than a loser despite his policies being repudiated on a national scale
6. Never articulated a single policy where he would shift his position to align with GOP majorities in both houses of Congress 

President Barack Obama came out swinging on Wednesday just 14 hours after a Republican wave swept over the U.S. Congress in an election that largely repudiated his policies.

'Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign,' he said, threatening to dust off a veto pen that he has used only twice in nearly six years.

And he hinted at executive orders that will enrage conservatives. 

'I'm pretty sure I'll take some actions that some in Congress will not like,' he said. 'That's natural. That's how Democracy works.'

Much of reporters' tussling with the president focused on executive orders related to immigration reform – what some tea party Republicans call an 'amnesty' – which he plans to implement this year.

He acknowledged that the GOP won Tuesday's elections, but framed the results as a mandate for Republicans to work with him, instead of the other way around.

'Obviously the Republicans had a good night,' he said. 

But he said he would principally work with them 'if there are ideas that the Republicans have that I am confident will make things better for ordinary Americans.'

'I want to just see what works,' he said.

'The American people sent a message,' he claimed, 'one that they've sent for several elections now.' 

'They expect the people they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions, and not ours.'

He then rattled off a list of economic indicators that he said buttressed his case that Republicans should accept his point of view.

'More Americans are working. Unemployment has come down,' he claimed, glossing over the part-time employment shift that the Obamacare law's employer mandate has ushered in. 

'Our economy is outpacing most of the world. But we've just gotta keep at it. Much of that will take action from Congress. And I'm eager to work with the next Congress.'

He cited infrastructure building projects and international trade as areas where he thought his agenda overlaps with the GOP's. 

Responding to hot-button questions about the fate of Obamacare in the age of a Republican Congress, the president didn't budge.

He said he would only work with Republicans if they seek to 'make responsible changes' to the law. 'I'm going to be very receptive to hearing those ideas.'

'Despite all the contention,' Obama claimed, 'we now know that the law works.'

And he pledged to avoid last year's chronic website snafus the next time around. 

'We're really making sure the website works super well before the next open enrollment period,' he said. 'We're double- and triple'checking it.'

Addressing his relationship with the new Senate majority leader, Obama chuckled at a question about whether he might sit down with him for a drink.

'I would enjoy having some Kentucky bourbon with Mitch McConnell,' the president said. 

'He has always been very straightforward with me. To his credit, he has never made a promise that he couldn't deliver. And he knows the legislative process well. He obviously know his caucus well.'

McConnell, he told reporters, has 'always given me realistic assessments of what he can get through his caucus and what he can't, so I think we can have a productive relationship.' 

Obama also announced that he has sent Congress a funding request for $6.18 billion in new funds to fight the Ebola crisis at home and in Africa.

And he surprised many by saying he would ask Congress for a new Authorization for Use of Military Force to help him prosecute a flagging war against the self-described Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), the terror army that has slaughtered indiscriminately in its quest for a regional caliphate.

The move is a 180-degree turn from he administration's previous position that a George W. Bush-era congressional permission slip was more than adequate to deal with turmoil in Iraq and Syria. 

'We now have a different type of enemy,' Obama said Wednesday, echoing Republicans' objections months ago. 'The strategy is different.'

''It makes sense for us to make sure that the authorization from Congress reflects what we perceive to be not just out strategy over the next two to three months,' he said, but also our strategy moving forward.

The president also challenged the lame-duck Congress, with a Senate still run by the election-wounded Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, to 'pass a budget for the rest of the fiscal year' in just five weeks, and to do it in a 'bipartisan, drama-free way.'

And he didn't budge on immigration, despite the second midterm election shellacking of his presidency.

'I have consistently said that it is my profound preference and interest to see Congress act on a comprehensive immigration reform bill,' Obama said.

That sort of bill passed the Senate in 2013 but was dead on arrival in the House.

With a larger Republican majority in the House and a newly minted Senate majority as well, that plan seems even less likely to succeed now.

Obama pledged to 'do everything I can in my executive authority' to take 'whatever lawful actions that I can take that I believe will improve our immigration system.'

And he dared the GOP to see things his way.

Executive orders, he said, 'will be replaced and supplanted by a bill from Congress.'

'You send me a bill that I can sign and those executive actions go away.

But he cautioned: 'What I'm not gonna do is just wait.'

America faces most dangerous two years in 150 years because of Defiant Obama

If President Obama suffered a “shellacking” in the 2010 elections, then what he endured Tuesday night was nothing short of a vicious gangland beatdown the likes of which have rarely been seen before in the history of electoral politics.

This, of course, is a wonderful and well-deserved outcome. But beware: America now enters the two most dangerous years of her existence — or certainly the most dangerous since the Great Depression and possibly going all the way back to the Civil War.

Not to dismiss the promising results of Tuesday’s election.

Voters clearly and forcefully rejected the party, politics and policies of President Obama. They slapped his socialist agenda back into the days of Soviet gulags, where it belongs.

His grand visions of mighty government ruling unchecked over desperate ghettos have been snuffed out.

Gone, too, were the so-called “low-information voters” who have been coaxed to the polls since 2008 on lies and false promises that the federal government would solve all their problems.

They are used up and wrung out.

Even the onslaught of threats and desperate accusations in endless emails to their Obamaphones couldn’t motivate those people to the polls one more time.

Voters rejected the craven, crass and mafioso tactics of Senate Leader Harry Reid.

Voters stripped him of his baldly partisan use of the United States Senate as a graveyard for all House legislation in order to protect his Democrats from tough votes and insulate the President from reality.

The little man with giant fists got staggered by a nasty uppercut from voters even though Reid saw it coming for weeks. Now, the ex-boxer stumbles on the canvas all tangled in the ropes, waiting for the bell.

And voters also rejected the loony-toon delusions of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Honestly, the woman should be running a hat and wig shop in Boro-Park, selling weed and prescription pills on the side. How it is that Democrats in Congress have taken her so seriously for so long will baffle historians for decades.

The silver lining for Democrats today is now they now have the perfect excuse to bounce both of them out of leadership forever.

Obama still has two more years left in his final term.Obama has demonstrated again and again that he has no regard for the constitution or the legitimacy of laws when they do not suit his agenda. He flaunts his disregard for the constitutional process, dismisses laws he doesn’t like and rewrites others.
He mocks the powers of Congress. The Supreme Court has slapped him down more than any president in recent times. All of this as he tells us he is an expert on constitutional law.

And this is where things get very, very dangerous for America.

Now come his very explicit threats to pass more illegal and unconstitutional presidential edicts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens already in the United States. This, in turn, will issue invitations for millions more illegals to come streaming across the border.

It will not end at immigration. Unchecked power is addictive.

Disowned by Democrats and made to feel irrelevant in this election, President Obama’s enormous and unjustified ego is deeply wounded. He is frustrated and feels caged, cornered. This is when people like him are most dangerous.

Buoyant Republicans will make an effort to engage him.

But President Obama is not a listener. He is not a negotiator. He is not a learner. He will just take what he wants. It is easier that way.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme during the Great Depression was nothing like the strains this president has put on Constitution. Indeed, not since the Civil War has America faced such a dire threat to her existence as a lawful, constitutional republic.

The difference in leadership between then and now could not be more striking.

To bind the union, Abraham Lincoln took an economic and political war and elevated it into something higher. He made it about emancipating slaves and won. And saved the Republic.

This president does the opposite. He got elected promising to elevate politics but instead finds unity and sows discord, often inciting racial divisions.

America’s only hope today is that President Obama finally turns to the bust of Lincoln he keeps in the Oval Office and listens.

Palestinian Savage Rams Van Into Crowded Light Rail Station Killing 1, Injuring 13

Israeli firefighters prepare to tow the vehicle of a Palestinian motorist at the scene of an attack in Jerusalem November 5, 2014. 

A Palestinian savage rammed his car into a crowded train platform in east Jerusalem on Wednesday and then attacked people with an iron bar, killing one person and injuring 13 in what authorities called a terror attack before he was shot dead by the police.

It was the second such attack in the past two weeks, and deepened already heightened tensions between Arab savages and Jews in the city. Earlier Wednesday, Israeli police had dispersed dozens of masked Palestinian savages who threw rocks and firecrackers near a contested holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Police said the animal slammed his car into the train platform in east Jerusalem first, backed out and proceeded to drive away, hitting several cars along the way. He then got out of the car and attacked a group of civilians and police officers on the side of the road with a metal bar before he was shot and killed.

Israeli police said “one person was killed and about a dozen people were injured in the terror attack.”

Police said the 38-year-old Palestinian savage identified as Ibrahim al-Akri had recently been released from prison after serving time for security offenses.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility by any Palestinian organization but the Islamic militant group Hamas welcomed the attack.

“We praise this heroic operation,” said Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum. “We call for more such ... operations.”

Israel’s Minister of Public Security Yitzhak Ahronovich said civilians and police officers were among the wounded. He praised the police officer who neutralized the Palestinian attacker, saying that “a terrorist who attacks civilians deserves to be killed.”

The attack was almost identical to one two weeks ago, also committed by a Palestinian savage from east Jerusalem, that killed two people, a baby girl and a young woman from Ecuador, at a train platform near the scene of Wednesday’s attack.

Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have been clashing almost daily in east Jerusalem in recent months.

Israel captured east Jerusalem - with its sites sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians - from Jordan in the 1967 war. Palestinians demand the territory for their future capital. The fate of the area is an emotional issue for Jews and Muslims and its future lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Wednesday’s car attack came shortly after clashes in the Old City, where Palestinian animals threw rocks and firecrackers at police to protest a planned visit to a key holy site by Israeli supporters of a right-wing activist who was shot by a Palestinian gunman last week.

The Israelis had planned on commemorating a week since a Palestinian savage shot and wounded American-Israeli activist Yehuda Glick, who has campaigned for more Jewish access to the location, which is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. Palestinians view such visits as a provocation and often respond violently.

Several police officers were hurt in the clashes, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, adding that the police used stun grenades to disperse the Palestinians. Quiet was soon restored, he said.

Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed almost daily in east Jerusalem in recent months, with much of the unrest focused around a sacred compound revered by both Jews and Muslims. It’s the holiest site for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount because of the revered Jewish Temples that stood there in biblical times. Muslims refer to it as the Noble Sanctuary, and it is their third holiest site, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Glick, a leading voice in a campaign to expand Jewish prayer rights on the hilltop complex, was wounded a week ago when a Palestinian gunman on a motorcycle opened fire at him as he left a conference in Jerusalem.

Muslim worshippers view Jewish prayer at the site as a provocation, and Israeli authorities place tough restrictions on it. Everyone visiting the area from the Israeli side has to be screened by police.

East Jerusalem has experienced unrest since the summer, with Palestinian youths throwing stones and firebombs at motorists and clashing frequently with Israeli police. The violence gained steam last month, when a Palestinian motorist rammed his car into a crowded train station, killing a 3-month-old Israeli-American girl and a woman from Ecuador.

“Chareidim Are the Biggest ‘Reformers’”

Finally, a Rav with some Seichal. The "Gedolim" have changed the Torah to suit their agenda, and then they call those that oppose their idiotic ideology .... Apikorsim!

So read this "Bar-Seichel"

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi of Efrat in Gush Etzion and founder of Ohr Torah Stone, strongly criticized chareidi Knesset members today for their stance on the government’s conversion reforms.

Arutz Sheva reports that in an interview with Galei Yisrael radio, Rabbi Riskin defended the proposed government decision regarding conversion which would remove Chief Rabbinate supervision of the conversion process, and criticized its opponents.

“I do not understand the whole issue. Yes, I think there is a (Torah) commandment of ‘you shall love the convert.’ Yes, I think that the Chief Rabbinate until now did not know what it is to get someone who wants to convert treated properly, with love and care,” he fired. “How dare they say that my conversions were not done according to Jewish Law?”

In response the interviewer, attorney Dov Halberthal - who is himself chareidi - said, “They say it’s an issue of love replacing halacha.”

Rabbi Riskin replied, “It’s not ‘instead of halakha.’ The halakha itself talks about love. Don’t you know a very simple mishna: ‘be disciples of Aharon, loving peace and pursuing peace?’ Love people and bring them closer to Torah through love.”

Halberthal continued to respond, claiming that applies to “Jewish people and not the Gentiles,” but Rabbi Riskin retorted: “there is no place in where it says that ‘people’ means ‘Jews.’ It means ‘human beings’ - period.”

Halberthal then presented the position of many in the chareidi world that “neither the halacha nor the Jews want converts,” apparently interpreting the Jewish prerogative to warn converts against the hardships of being a Jew as meaning Judaism opposes conversion entirely - a sentiment to which Rabbi Riskin responded harshly.

“That is against the halakhic tradition! I’ll tell you, in my opinion the chareidim are the biggest ‘Reformers’, in many many things, including opposition enlistment into the army because ‘there is nothing but Talmud (study),” he said, in a dig at chareidi opposition which has claimed those supporting the bill align with the Reform movement.There is no (early halakhic authority) who says that learning Torah physically protects peoples’ lives,” he said, in a swipe at the hareidi position that yeshiva study should itself be considered national service.

“There is room for dissenting opinions in Judaism,” Riskin declared. “There is no one who says that their way is the only way in Judaism - to say so is to be Catholic and follow the Pope,” he exclaimed.

Read more: Arutz Sheva

Nachman Caller Slams Dov Hikind: Which Daas Torah Allowed You To Send A Jew To Jail?!?

Nachman Caller is upset that Dov Hikind advocated that the convicted Child Rapist Nechamia Weberman be put in Jail! Get it?
Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Caller. "Which Daas Torah".... how about the Torah that was given at Har Sinai that says that a Rodef has to be stopped!

Read from THEYESHIVAWORLD my comments in red!

In the final 24 hours of the campaign, R’ Nachman Caller has come out with a scathing attack on Assemblyman Dov Hikind questioning whether the Assemblyman has Daas Torah (rabbinical guidance). Specifically, Caller points to Hikind’s decision to go after Nechemya Weberman and celebrate via press release his imprisonment. The ad states “for political reasons Hikind helped throw a Jew in jail for 103 years. Which Daas Torah allowed Hikind to go so extreme?”

First of all, Hikind didn't sentence the Rapist Weberman to 103 years, the Judge sentenced him. Second of all, Tell me which Daas Torah says that Weberman was allowed to have Yichud with many girls, which Weberman the Child Rapist, actually admitted. 

Further enraging the Daas Torah crowd, Hikind was an early supporter of Ezras Nashim – the all women competitor to Hatzolah and boasts of helping them get state certification for their volunteer ambulance service. 

Didn't the local Rabbonim give an Haskama for this Ambulance Service?

Finally, Caller points to numerous stories in mass media including most recently in the New Yorker and New York Times where Hikind proudly criticizes the community for have a serious problem with child molestation, “Did you vote for Hikind so he would embarrass us in the secular press?”

Stop feeling up and raping our children, then we will stop "embarrassing" you in the secular press!

 the second ad reads Hikind is battling challenger Caller in a race for New York State Assembly. While insiders expect Hikind to win, they will be watching very closely to see the if the anti-Hikind votes exceeds 30% indicating a weakening in support for Hikind in the Jewish community.

No matter who you decide to vote for – make sure and vote today. Polls close at 9PM!

Unlike our "Rabbonim and our "Mosdos", American Evangelicals will support Republican candidates who will promote Israeli interests in the Capitol.

I have watched all the ads and emails from our Holy Rabbis and from our much Holier Mosdos! Not one mentioned that any of the candidates they support, support Israel!

In fact they endorsed candidates that have policies that are against Torah! Candidates that support abortion and support alternate lifestyles. 

All these leaders want is money, money and more money!

In fact, in Boro-Park, Satmar plastered the streets condemning Dov Hikind, because "he was a Zionist" and "is mixing Israel's interests with the American Elections."

Now look how the Goyim are voting in this election! 

Religious influence on the American public sphere is steadily decreasing, but the vote of the Christian political right  is gaining momentum,according to polling. Traditionally, this active religious group has continually placed supporting Israel at the forefront of their political agenda.

Today, Americans head to the polls to cast their vote in the 2014 midterm elections. This year, it looks likely that the American Senate will gain a Republican majority, thus completely shifting the focus of the government and derailing much of the current Democratic agenda.

American Evangelicals overwhelmingly support the Republican Party and their candidates (72%), whereas only 20% of Evangelicals lean Democratic. Furthermore, Evangelicals support candidates who support Israel. 

But Christian conservatives will probably vote in greater numbers on Nov. 4 than others, giving them an outsized say in who runs Congress. Forty-nine percent of evangelicals say they have a great deal of interest or quite a bit of interest in news about the elections, compared to 38 percent of non-evangelicals.

"Evangelicals have in fact become one of the core constituencies in the Republican Party,” Robert P. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute polling group said. "Because they see themselves that way, we see their willingness to vote consistently Republican, even though you could point to a number of issues where the Republican-led House (of Representatives) really hasn’t moved much on their agenda.”

If Republicans capture the majority, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky), becomes the majority leader, he plans to present legislation that will challenge Obama, inviting Republican leadership to partake in foreign policy discussion concerning Iranian sanctions. 

This move led by McConnell would be a victory in the eyes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has previously made efforts to impose stricter sanctions on Iran, against the presidential administration's will.

Additionally, if the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee switches over to Senator Bob Corker (Republican, Tennessee), a leader who has supported Israeli interests time and time again. Over the summer, Corker added to the US-Israeli strategic partnership, triggering Congressional hearings that could reject deals that did not support the Israeli government. He also attached a non-binding resolution vote on any future dealings with Iran, to the strategic partnership.

In order for Republicans to win control of the Senate this midterm election cycle, Republicans must gain a six seat lead in the Senate. This requires Republican victories in key swing states such as North Carolina, Iowa, Kentucky, Colorado, Georgia and Arkansas--- incidentally enough; each of these states has a strong Evangelical Christian presence.

Although it is unclear whether or not these potential Republican-led rulings and resolutions would actually be able to block a nuclear agreement with Iran, it is clear that Republican candidates have pledged to provide Israel with increased support in the US Capitol.

Ari Morgenstern, the spokesman for Christians United for Israel told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that he expected large evangelical support for the Republicans.

"I do expect evangelicals to vote Republican in large numbers today.  They will do so because they strongly disagree with this administration's treatment of Israel.  And they will do so because they strongly disagree with this Administration's approach to a number of domestic issues from life to religious freedom.  Simply put, this administration has broken to the left so dramatically on these issues that they have left even centrist evangelicals far behind," Morgenstern said.