PM Netanyahu's Statement to the Media

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening at his Jerusalem  office, issued the following statement to the media:   "We are in the midst of a terrorist assault focused on Jerusalem.  Today, during morning prayers, as they were wrapped in prayer  shawls and tefillin, four rabbis were slaughtered, four innocent  and pure Jews – Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky,  Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Levine  and Rabbi Moshe Twersky. May their memories be blessed.   We send our condolences to their families. We send our best wishes for a recovery to the wounded and to the heroic policemen whose  action prevented a greater disaster. The human animals who  perpetrated this slaughter were full of hatred and incitement, deep  hatred and terrible incitement against the Jewish People and its state. Hamas, the Islamic Movement and the Palestinian Authority are disseminating  countless lies and falsehoods against the State of Israel. They are  saying that the Jews are contaminating the Temple Mount. They  are saying that we are planning to destroy the Holy Places, that we  intend to change the order of prayer there – this is all lies. These  lies have already claimed a very heavy price. They took the life of a  three-month-old baby, Chaya Zissel Braun, who had been taken for  her first visit to the Western Wall, along with her parents, who  wanted to thank G-d for giving them a baby. They also claimed the  lives of Karen Jemima Mosquera,Jidan Assad, Aharon Badani,  Sgt. Almog Shilony and Dalia Lemkus. All of them were pure souls. All of them were victims  of this mendacious incitement. Today they are joined by additional  victims of the same wild blood libel of the kind that is etched in the  memory of our people.   Yesterday a bus driver from eastern Jerusalem committed suicide.  He committed suicide. The findings of the pathology report have  been published and they prove this unequivocally. He committed  suicide. But this has not prevented those same elements from  inciting and disseminating the blood libel to the effect that he was  murdered by Jews. This incitement contributed its part to the  shocking slaughter that was perpetrated this morning in a holy  place during prayers. But what is outrageous is not only the  brutality of the murder but the shouts of joy in Gaza, in Bethlehem  and in other places. They are giving out candies, waving axes in  the air and praising the shahidim. True, this time Abu Mazen  condemned the slaughter and it is good that he did. I remember that  he also condemned the murder of the three youths but it is not  enough because in the same sentence in which he condemned  today's slaughter, he linked it to imaginary actions – which have no  basis in reality – that Israel is purportedly planning to carry out on  the Temple Mount. There is daily, even hourly, incitement on the  streets of the Palestinian Authority. There, not only do the most  reprehensible murderers become the heroes of Palestinian culture,  but there is unending, constant incitement against the very existence  of the State of Israel, against the security of Israel's citizens, in  schools, the media,  mosques, everywhere, and this is the root of the conflict: The refusal  to recognize – and educate for – the existence of the state of the  Jews.   Last week I traveled to Jordan and held a very important meeting in  Amman with King Abdullah and US Secretary of State John Kerry.  Together, we called to calm the situation and for the restoration of  quiet. To my regret, the answer that we received from the  Palestinian Authority was to declare a day or rage in Jerusalem. And  today we all saw the result. The world sees this slaughter but, to our  regret, does not demand that the Palestinians stop the wild  incitement against Israel that is the root of the conflict. I call on all  heads of state in the civilized world – I want to see outrage. I want  to see condemnation, a deep and uncompromising condemnation of  hese murders of Israelis, of Jews. Do not discriminate between  blood and blood. When there are other acts of murder you express the same outrage and condemn them. But when I see a  three-month-old baby being murdered, when I see these Jews at  prayer in a synagogue, our holy place, just as a church is holy for  Christians and a mosque is holy for Muslims, I expect to at least  hear the same condemnation, in an uncompromising and unreserved  tone. To my regret, there are those who currently insist on giving  he Palestinians a prize in the form of unilateral recognition of a  Palestinian state that does not recognize the state of the Jews. We  will not tolerate this reality; we will fight terrorism and we will  defeat it. We will restore law, order and security to the streets of  Jerusalem.   This evening I ordered the demolition of the homes of the terrorists  who perpetrated the massacre and the hastening of the demolition of the homes of the terrorists who perpetrated the earlier attacks. I  ordered stepped-up enforcement against – and stiffer punishments  or – those engaged in incitement, as well as the banning of  organizations engaged in incitement, and increased security on the  streets of Jerusalem. Alongside offensive actions there are also  defensive actions.   Citizens of Israel, I call on you to show maximum alert and to  respect the law. As a state, we will settle accounts with all of the  terrorists and those who dispatched them. We have already proven  that we do this, but let nobody take the law into his hands, even if  tempers flare and blood boils. We are in a lengthy war against  abhorrent terrorism which did not start today. Terrorism has  followed us through all the years of the Zionist enterprise. We have  always withstood it and we will do so this time as well.   There are those who would like to uproot us from our land and from  our capital. They will not achieve their aim. We are in a battle for  Jerusalem, our eternal capital. In this battle we must be united; this  is the order of the day. We have always known to unite in times of  trial. We must put aside all of the little differences and unite around  one major issue – defending Jerusalem, defending the security of  Israel's citizens. I think that this is what the citizens of Israel expect  of us at this time – to stand together as one, unified and united.  What is called for at this time is national unity."

Karlin-Stolin Rebbe Says Throw the Arabs Out of the Mosdos!

B"H, we have a leader with some Seichal!

Following the massacre of mispallalim in Kehillas Bnei Torah in Har Nof, the Karlin-Stolin Rebbe Shlita has instructed his gabbaim to get the Arabs out of the chassidus’ mosdos; including schools, shuls and batei medrash. 

The rebbe explains that doing so today is tantamount to sakonos nefoshos.

The rebbe is aware that there are Arabs employed in many areas of the mosdos but explains that none of this can justify placing the tzibur in a life-threatening situation.

First Policeman at Scene of Har Nof Massacre Died a Hero

Advanced Staff Sgt. Major Zidan Sayif is the latest casualty in the Har Nof shul massacre. He was one of the first policemen to arrive on scene and actively engaged the terrorists in a gun fight.

His heroic actions resulted in many saved lives since the terrorists had to turn their attention from massacring  Jewish worshipers to face a gun battle with the heroic policeman. 

He lived in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat in northern Israel.

He leaves behind his wife, four year old baby and a 7 month old daughter as well.

Arab Savages leave 4 Widows and 24 orphans

Thousands of mourners gathered outside the Bnei Torah synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof to mourn the loss of  Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 58, and Rabbi Calman Levine - all from Har Nof – who were laid to rest Tuesday afternoon.

The three rabbis– two US-Israeli citizens and a British-Israeli national - were murdered by two Palestinian gunmen who opened fire in a brutal terror attack on the synagogue early Tuesday morning.

Kopinsky and Levine held dual US-Israeli citizenship after making aliya from the United States and Goldberg was a British-Israeli national who immigrated to Israel from Britain.

“How many widows and orphans joined all of Israel this morning, four widows and 24 orphans on one street,” Rabbi Yitzhak Rubin, head of the congregation said at the funeral.

"You cannot take an Ishmaeli and place him in school or university or tell him to be educated because he and his ancestors and his ancestor's ancestors were savages," he said in reference to the attackers. "We will not deal with revenge or responses because we have what Moshe Rabbeinu promised to us," he said.

Kopinsky's death marked a further tragedy for his family as his 13 year-old daughter died two years ago under sudden circumstances. "You were a man of kindness with modesty and humility" his brother Chaim Kopinsky eulogized.

Kopinsky leaves behind a wife and five children.

Yerachmiel Levine, eulogized his father and said he, “used to study [Torah] every day until late at night when he would fall asleep at his chair.”

Levine leaves behind a wife, nine children and five grandchildren.

Pinhas Markowitz, said of his brother-in-law Goldberg, "You were full of love for G-d and studying Torah and love of the individual and of health."

Goldberg who made aliyah over 20 years ago from Liverpool leaves behind a wife and six children.

Following the remarks and eulogies the victim’s children gathered together to recite the mourner's Kaddish.    The funeral procession then made its way to Har HaMenuchot in the neighborhood of Givat Shaul where the three Rabbis were laid to rest.

Thousands Attend Funerals of Har Nof Synagogue Massacre Victims

Family members of Aryeh Kupinsky (C), aged 43, an immigrant from the United States, gather at his body covered in a prayer shawl as two other victims of an attack by Palestinians are also in vans during their funeral service outside the Yeshiva in Har Nof, a religious neighborhood in west Jerusalem, where they were slain earlier 18 November 2014. Also killed was Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, an immigrant from Britain, and Rabbi Kalman Levine, an immigrant from the US. Media reports state that two Palestinians armed with an axe, kitchen knives and a pistol killed four worshippers and injured eight others at a Jerusalem synagogue early 18 November, before being shot dead by Israeli police. The attack, which lasted seven minutes until the first police arrived, occurred during morning prayers. (Credit: EPA)

The four victims were Rabbi Moshe Twersky, hy"d, 'Rosh Kollel' for the 'Torat Moshe' yeshiva; Rabbi Kalman Levine, hy"d; Aryeh Kupinsky, hy"d, and Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, hy"d. 

Police revealed that all four victims were dual citizens, with three holding American citizenship, and the fourth British citizenship.

Kupinsky (43) lost his 13-year-old daughter Chaya Hana two years ago. 

Goldberg (68) made aliyah (immigration) to Israel in 1991, and leaves behind a wife and six children. 

Rabbi Levine (50) leaves behind a wife and nine children, as well as five grandchildren.

Rabbi Twersky was born in the US and made aliyah in 1990 with his family. He leaves behind a wife, five children and ten grandchildren. Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, a prominent head of the Lithuanian hareidi community, eulogized the rabbi saying "he was a great and holy man. He was so close to G-d in his holy life and was murdered in the middle of his prayer, with the tefilin (phyllacteries) on his head."

Rabbi Twersky's funeral was to be held at 2 p.m. at the Torat Mosheyeshiva in Sanhedria. 

The funeral services for Rabbi Levine, Mr. Kupinsky, and Mr. Goldberg began at 3 p.m. at the synagogue in which they were murdered, theKehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue in Har Nof. 

Thousands showed up for the funeral of the three, including President Reuven Rivlin.

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BBC REFUSES TO SHOW ISRAELI HAR NOF TERROR VICTIMS!

International media coverage of this morning's massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue has already come in for some criticism, with media watchdogs already pointing out a slew of headlines and stories downplaying or otherwise misrepresenting the attack.

Four people were murdered and eight others wounded, four of them seriously, when two terrorists stormed Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday.

Harrowing images from the scene show men still wrapped in bloodied prayer shawls, their tefillin (phylacteries) scattered on the floor.

In a BBC news interview following the attack, responding to a Palestinian spokesperson who railed about "Jewish murderers" in Jerusalem,Economics Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) sought to put the record straight.

Echoing other Israeli leaders, he blamed Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas for inciting attacks such as the one this morning.

"Abu Mazen himself incites and tells the Arab 'take arms, fight the Jews'," Bennett said, in a reference to several statements in recent weeks in which Abbas called on Palestinians to use violence.

Bennett then produced a picture of one of the victim's murdered in this morning's attack, in an attempt to make his point.

"This individual came this morning to pray just like many Muslims and many Jews went to pray this morning. The Muslims went home safe but four Jews will never come home again."

His interviewer was less than pleased with the visual aid - despite it being no more graphic than countless other images of injured Palestinians regularly given airtime. "Sorry we don't want to actually see that picture, could you take that down," she said.

Taking to Facebook after the interview, Bennett said his actions during the interview were a response to the previous interviewee's provocative remarks.

"Yes, I will show this, Mrs. British interviewer," read the statement.

"Now in an interview with the BBC I went on after a Palestinian spokesperson, who told of Jewish murderers in Jerusalem (!)

"In response I showed the interviewer who is murdering whom. She requested I stop showing the picture. I will never stop." 

CNN HEADLINE: "Israeli police shot two Palestinian civilians' "

CNN Bastards taking a page from the Nazis, wrote the following headline, while reporting the terror in Har Nof!

"Israeli police shot two Palestinian civilians' "
Then they changed the Headline to this:

'Deadly Attack on Jerusalem Mosque'

Please email CNN and tell them that this will not be tolerated!

Everyone always asks what can I do? 

Well, this is just a small thing to do!

Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved inthe Har Nof massacre with the victims.

According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was responsible for the headline describing the massacre under the headline, "Israeli police shot dead two Palestinian civilians" - when, in fact, the shooters were Palestinian terrorists who killed four Jews and wounded eight others as they prayed the morning service before being killed in a gun battle with police.

Dagan charged that the headline was a serious violation of international journalism ethics, and called to revoke Wedeman's press license and, generally, bring anti-Semitic coverage of terror attacks by foreign journalists to an end - permanently. 

"There is no reality elsewhere in the world where journalists can report a terror attack in this style," he stated. "This rule should also apply to foreign reporters in Israel. There is good and there is bad, there are killers and there are victims." 

"The media arena in recent years has become an equally important battlefield for Israel, and it must use all the tools at its disposal to demand certain baselines in its media coverage," he continued. "Coverage like this legitimizes the next murder; whoever loses in this loses the next war as well."

Dagan also noted that the Samaria Regional Council has been closely scrutinizing foreign media coverage of events, and that this represents a disturbing trend.

"CNN's strange headline is a direct continuation of a series of other reports in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that appeared recently," the letter said, and noted for example that the report on the car rampage near the Jerusalem light rail last month by the Associated Pressbegan with the title "Israeli police shot a man in East Jerusalem." 

Arab Savages Murder Rav Moshe Twersky and 3 others in Har Nof Shul, Arabs Celebrate!UPDATED 8:22AM

Terror attack in Jerusalem. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST,MAOR DAVIDOVICH,MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

Harav Moshe Twersky HY"D

One of the four victims in Tuesday's deadly terror attack at a Jerusalem shul was the leader of a local yeshiva.

Rabbi Moshe Twersky, the 60-year-old Rosh Yeshiva of the English-speaking Torat Moshe yeshiva, was the first victim of the attack to be named.

His funeral was scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Givat Shaul cemetery in the capital.
Eight other people were wounded in the attack, including two police officers.

According to police, the two suspected Palestinian terrorists, armed with a gun and axes, attacked worshipers after entering the "Kehilat Yaakov" synagogue on Agasi Street in the capital's Har Nof neighborhood. Two police officers quickly arrived to the scene and exchanged fire with the suspects, killing them.

Palestinian sources reported that the two suspects from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukabaer were cousins.

The attack marks the latest incident in a flare of violence that has surged over the past few weeks in Jerusalem.

Israeli leaders have condemned Tuesday's deadly attack as have Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State John Kerry. 

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip then celebrated the  attack on a Jerusalem shul that left four Jewish worshiper dead.

Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city.

Gazan reveler in Rafah handed out sweets and brandished axes in praise of the deadly attack. 

UPDATED 8:22 AM

The names of the four victims of the terror attack at a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof were released on Tuesday.

Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 58, and Rabbi Calman Levine, 50, all from the Har Nof neighborhood were identified along with Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59, as victims murdered by two Palestinian terrorists.

Along with Twersky who was a US-Israeli citizen, CNN reported that two other victims also held dual American-Israeli citizenship. The UK confirmed that a dual British-Israeli national was also among the four.

Funerals for the four were to be held Tuesday afternoon.

Kopinsky's death marked a further tragedy for his family as his daughter died three years ago in sudden circumstances.

Levine leaves behind five children and nine grandchildren.

Twersky, originally from Boston, was the dean of the English-speaking Torat Moshe yeshiva and the first victim of the attack to be named.

Bais Din, Shmes Din, Bobov 45 Ignores Bais Din Ruling to stop calling itself "Bobov"

Normally, I would say, "Who Cares?" 
But this is in line with  our previous post with the Heading:

"Noveminsker Attacks Bloggers"

The "Gedoilim" don't give 2 hoots about any rulings of Bais Din! They just want the Bloggers to heed the Torah and the 613 mitzvos,  The Gedoilim, don't have to listen to the Torah... they don't have to listen to Bais Din, they can go to Secular Court.... but us bloggers have to crawl under rocks, observe all this hypocrisy and keep our mouths shut! and Chap their Shrayim!
In the Litvisher Camp, Rav Shechter and Rav Belsky have ignored the Psak of many a Bais Din!

You won't hear  the "Agudah Convention Gedoilim" talking  about Gedolim observing the Torah like the rest of us schnooks! Nooooo! 
You won't hear any Gadol talk about the second Rashi in Parshas Mishpatim..... Noooooo!
Bloggers ....bad bloggers.....naughty bloggers..... loshon hara bloggers....
If the Gedoilim who were at the Aguda Convention do not come out with a statement condemning this Chillul Hashem, then these are not leaders...

Reb Mordecha Dovid Unger, Bobover Rebbe

Reb Benzion Halberstam, Bobover Rebbe

A brief history:
Reb Shloimeh Halberstam z"l, the First Bobover Rebbe in the USA, had two sons, Reb Naftulche, who was born in Europe before WW2 and was from his first wife (she was murdered in the camps) , and Reb Ben-Zion who was born in the USA was from the Rebbe's second wife.

When Reb Shloimeh z"l passed on, naturally his eldest son Rav Naftulche became Rebbe..
Reb Naftulche after waiting over 40 years to become Rebbe succumbed to an illness soon after becoming Rebbe and  passed away.

Reb Naftulche z"l, had no sons, and was "burdened" with daughters only!
One Daughter married Rabbi Rubin and the other married Rabbi Mordcha Dovid Unger.

Now that Reb Naftulche went to his Maker, Reb Ben-Zion claims that the Rebbe Shloimeh's  inheritance goes back to Reb Shloimeh's other son. him.
 Rabbi Unger, the son-in-law of Reb Naftulche claims that the Rebbistiveh belongs to him, because he is inheriting from Reb Naftulche z"l...
(though daughters do not inherit al pi Torah, but who cares)

So, as you can imagine, actual fists fights broke out between both Bobover Camps, both screaming that their guy is the Bobover Rebbe!
Don't forget there was and is  millions of dollars of real estate involved, and the guys surrounding the Rebbes are also in on the take and on the payroll... each Rebbe has tons of Gaboim etc.... all grabbing the $$$$$$$$$$'s!

So they went to Secular Court.. and the Secular Judge threw them both out and told the two Rebbes to work it out in Bais Din!
The Bais Din took 9 years to come to a decision and they ruled in favor of Reb Ben Zion...
They Ruled that only the Reb Ben Zion Camp can call themselves Bobov and they get all the Real Estate, but they have to give Reb Mordecha Dovid some 10 million dollars over 5 years (I may be off with a million or two, but whose counting).
Reb Mordcha Dovid can call himself Sanz-Bobov, Rupshitz-Bobov, 45th Bobov...
but not Bobov by itself!

When Reb Mordcha Dovid's guys heard this, they went thru the roof... because now all the handlers of the Rebbe will finally have to work for a living...
They weren't going to take this sitting down, so they decided to ignore the USA Bais Din that they chose themselves, and went to look for a Litvisher Bais Din in Yerushalyim... and they found one! Holy Moly!
They found Rav Moshe Sternbach, the anti-Chassidish, anti-Zionist but respected Litvisher Rav!
He wrote that the USA Bais Din's psak is a sham! And that both Bobovs' can call themselves Bobov, and that they should go bactk to the tables to make peace....
easier said than done!
They also had Rev Chaim Kanievsky co-sign the document but he added the following:
• Bobov 45 must listen to the Bais din’s ruling
• The Beit Din’s ruling should not, God forbid, be discredited by Bobov 45 hasidim or leaders. 
• Bobov 45 can not challenge the beit din’s ruling in secular court.

So there you have it!

Arab Egged Bus Driver hangs himself and they blame it on the Jew!

 A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged inside his vehicle on Monday, an incident Israeli police described as a suicide but which the driver’s family said they believed was an attack.

The incident quickly touched off Palestinian stone-throwing protests and a general strike in some large Palestinian suburbs of Jerusalem, pouring more fuel on tensions stoked over the past few weeks by a dispute over Jerusalem’s holiest site.

The bus driver, Youssef al-Ramouni, 32, was found dead at the start of the route he was supposed to have driven late on Sunday, in an area of Jerusalem close to Jewish settlements and Palestinian neighborhoods.

Israeli police said the evidence suggested Ramouni had committed suicide. But rumors quickly spread in the Palestinian media that he had been killed by Jewish assailants, stirring tension and violence.

In Abu Dis, a Palestinian town on the outskirts of Jerusalem, shops closed after news of Ramouni’s death and masked youngsters blocked roads with dumpsters. Dozens of youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who fired tear gas.

“The bus driver committed suicide, there is no other indication other than it was a suicide case,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

Ramouni’s brother Louy told Reuters there was no way that Youssef, the father of two young children, would have killed himself. “I saw the body last night and I saw bruises and marks that he was beaten up,” he said.

“There were marks of fingers on the body and also on his back there was a bruise as if he was hit by a hard object.”

Israeli police said an autopsy would be conducted. Ramouni’s family requested a Palestinian pathologist be present but it was unclear whether this would be allowed.

Over the past month, five Israelis and a foreign visitor have been killed by Palestinians - run over in vehicle-driven attacks or stabbed. About a dozen Palestinians have been killed, including those accused of carrying out the attacks.

Residents trace the violence in Jerusalem back to July, when a Palestinian teenager was burned to death by Jewish assailants, an alleged revenge attack for the abduction and killing of three Jewish teens by Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank.

Other triggers have been the summer war in Gaza and a row over access to a Jerusalem compound sacred to Muslims and Jews alike.

Finally a Jewish Congressman that will tell the TRUTH about White House anti-Israel policy!

It's about time.... 

We have Shumer, a Jew in the Senate who keeps his big fat mouth shut even when he sees the President treat Israel like an enemy and Iran as an ally. 

Come January we will finally have a guy who is proud of his heritage that won't cover for the  anti-Semitic State Department.

Every time the administration says a little beetie favorable thing about Israel, all the Liberal Jewish "Tuches Lekers"  dance with joy, falling over themselves to post on Facebook and Twitter that Obama is pro-Israel! 

We all know the truth and we will finally get a guy who will stand up for Israel...

A real Kidducsh Hashem!

Rep. Zeldin with his family after voting on Nov. 4, 2014

Congressman-elect Lee Zeldin, who won Long Island’s First District Nov. 4, arrived in Washington last week and insists he’ll be different from Jewish Democrats.

The only Jewish Republican member of Congress, Zeldin, 34, dismissed the Obama administration’s stance that there’s no distance between the U.S. and Israel, pointing out criticism of Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the Unites States’ nuclear negotiations with Iran, reports The New York Post.

Zeldin, an Iraq war vet and state senator, says he’ll come down stronger on Obama regarding Israel than the Jewish Democrats, who he says are limited in their criticism of their own party’s leader. The Republican Jewish Coalition, which made electing Zeldin its “top, top priority,” wants tougher sanctions over Iran and worries about the Obama administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran.

The House and Senate now have 31 Jewish members, 30 Democrats and one independent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who conferences with the Democrats. New York alone has five Jewish members – Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey, Steve Israel, Jerrold Nadler and Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Zeldin overthrew six-term Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) in the Nov. 4 vote.

Obama Calls Beheaded American Hostage, Peter Kassig, by his forced Muslim name, "Abdul-Rahman Kassig"

Peter Kassig with his father, Ed, fishing

Our President when confirming the beheading of American hostage Peter Kassig, referred to him as Abdul-Rahman Kassig. This was the name that Peter took in captivity, and I'm guessing it was a forced conversion. The murderer himself can be heard saying before he  murdered 
"This is Peter Edward Kassig, a US citizen."
You don't hear him saying Abdul-Rahman at the beheading, yet the President saw fit to call him by his Muslim name.
What's up with that? HMMMM?

Read the report!

President Hussein Obama  confirmed the death of American hostage Peter Kassig, saying the aid worker was killed "in an act of pure evil" by Islamic State militants.

The group said in a video on Sunday it had beheaded Kassig, and warned the United States it would kill other US citizens "on your streets."

"Today we offer our prayers and condolences to the parents and family of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter," Obama said in a statement to reporters on Air Force One as he returned home from Australia.
The video did not show the beheading but showed a masked man standing with a decapitated head covered in blood lying at his feet. Speaking in English in a British accent, the man says: "This is Peter Edward Kassig, a US citizen."

Kassig, a 26-year-old from Indiana, is also known as Abdul-Rahman, a name he took following his conversion to Islam while in captivity.

Kassig's parents have said through a spokesperson their son was taken captive on his way to the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Oct. 1, 2013.

A former soldier, Kassig was doing humanitarian work through Special Emergency Response and Assistance, an organization he founded in 2012 to help refugees from Syria, the family has said.

Kassig's beheading is the fifth such killing of a Westerner by Islamic State, following the deaths of two US journalists and two British aid workers.

In an apparent reference to testimony about Kassig by former fellow captives, the masked man says: "Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American army, doesn't have much to say. His previous cellmates have already spoken on his behalf."

The announcement of Kassig's death formed part of a 15-minute video in which the group issued warnings to the United States, Britain and others including Shi'ite Muslims.

It also shows militants beheading several men identified as pilots and officers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"To Obama, the dog of Rome, today we are slaughtering the soldiers of Bashar and tomorrow we will be slaughtering your soldiers," the masked militant said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was horrified by the "cold-blooded murder." Britain's Foreign Office said it was analyzing the video.

Novominsker attacks Bloggers!

The following was written by VIN, Sandy Eller reporting. I will comment after the article in red!

The Novominsker gave a scathing rebuke to bloggers who feel the need to comment on any issue that arises.

“Rabbosai, we have become a society of ‘kikkers’, of lookers,” said the Novominsker. “We look at ‘yenem’ and we make comments.  There are many self-appointed ‘mevinim’ amongst us unfortunately, ready to sound off on anything and everything. These mevinim have no compunctions about opinionating about whatever goes on in the Jewish world, in the Torah world especially and very often, as a result of that curse of technology called the blogs, they engage in cynicism and zilzul talmidei chochomim and downright chutzpah.”

Rabbi Perlow quoted the Kotzker Rebbe who would exhort his followers to scrutinize themselves and their own actions instead of looking at the behavior of others.

“An ehrliche yid should behave with humility and understatedness and speak with kavod hatorah and respect talmidei chochomim and not appropriate themselves as a commentator and a mayvin on everything that goes on.”

The Novominsker spoke about instilling these same values in our children and grandchildren.

“How do you expect the younger generation to think when they hear sometimes their parents making derogatory remarks on the ‘system’ in the Torah world today, learning after the chasana, having to support the kinder, the eidemes and so on?”

“Yes there are questions and issues about individuals and parnassa is an overriding question sometimes, all the time, and they must be addressed individually, but not to become self-styled commentators on the Torah scene today,” added the Novominsker.

Offering his own view as a member of the older generation, Rabbi Perlow spoke about the lost passion for Torah that was prevalent decades ago, threatened by those who feel free to criticize others in a public forum.

“What I need to stress is that we must curb the urge to opinionate, because opinionating…means poor judgment, unfair comments and unwise chinuch,” said Rabbi Perlow.

The Novominsker concluded his twenty nine minute address with a plea to seek a greater level of refinement and closeness to the Ribono Shel Olam.

“That is an oblgiation incumbent upon every Jew, especially ehrliche yidden and thus enhance k’vod shomayim.

The reason that we have " many self-appointed ‘mevinim’ amongst us, ready to sound off on anything and everything" is very simple....

We the "homoin am" have no leaders! 

Those that we do have we don't respect! 

Some examples ....

Satmar: I am not going into the SHIT'ah now.... just an observation... 

The two Rebbes are fighting and are in Secular court, fighting about real estate worth billions, in violation of the second Rashi in Parshas Mishpatim!

How can the regular hard working Zslub have any respect for these guys.

Bobov: Two guys fighting, both were in Secular Court, with the Secular Judge admonishing them and asking them why they cannot work these things (real estate, again) out in Bais Din!

By the way, one of the Rebbis is not excepting the recent Bais Din ruling, claiming  one of the Dayanim is on the take.It was ok for the last 6 years while the Bais Din was deliberating, but now that they paskened, it's not ok!

In the Litvisher world, two Roshei Yeshivas were at each other's throats after Rav Shach passed on, 

one of the followers of one Rosh Yeshivah actually threw a shtender at the opposing follower and killed him.... hush hush....V'hamevin Yavin!

Rav Auerbach disregards any Halachic rulings of Rav Kanievski or Rav Shteinman! 

Both Rav Kanievski and Rav Shteinman disregard Rav Auerbach!

Lakewood and Satmar and the Aguda all hate each other but like the Arabs, they get together to make an asifa against Israel!

No "leader" cares that Iran just made a statement that they will "obliterate all of IsraeL"! Not one, again, Not One Rabbi ran to the White House protesting the deafening silence from Washington DC!

All the above will stick up for Child Abusers but will vilify the victim!

So now the Noveminsker wants us all to shut up and crawl under rocks?

No Way! 

We all want Torah leaders, we all want clarity in today's world, but the present leadership does not, and apparently cannot, lead!

The Gemarah already prophesied, 2,000 years ago

"Pnei Doro, K'Pnei Kelev" Rashi says that means that the leaders will follow public opinion, not Torah! They will be just like dogs. 

 A dog tends to run ahead of it's owner and then stops at the end of the block to see where its owner is going to go, and then when its owner takes a turn at the end of the block, the dog again runs ahead and then waits again at the end of the block.

Unforunately, that's our present Torah leaders, they have no clue what's going on, relying on their handlers, and when the handlers say, "throw stones on the religious soldiers" they say "Amein"

Rabbi... you said that  "the Kotzker  would exhort his followers to scrutinize themselves and their own actions instead of looking at the behavior of others."

If I were you I would start with that!

Novominsker Rebbe wants to give Har Habayis to the Muslims!

The Novominsker Rebbe is ready to hand over sovereignty of the Har Habyis to the Arab murderers!

He blamed Jews who hold on to the Har Habyis for the current bloodshed!

In an address at tonight’s Agudah Convention at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in New Jersey, the Novominsker Rebbe, R’ Yaakov Perlow spoke out strongly against those who go to Har Habayis, saying that they are directly responsible for bloodshed in Israel.

Referring to those people as “misguided individuals,” the Novominsker said that going up onto Har Habayis is “a clear violation of the psak of Halacha and gedolei hador.”  Rabbi Perlow also said that these actions incite the Arabs to engage in acts of violence.

As previously reported on VIN News, recent moves by Jews to ascend to Har Habayis have brought increased tensions to the area, including the attempted assassination of Rabbi Yehuda Glick who had been advocating for greater Jewish access to the site.

“Stay off Har Habayis,” warned the Novominsker. “Do not generate redifa on yidden.”

The Novominsker, who is the head of the Agudah’s Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, advised anyone to is seeking to become closer to the shechina to do so in their own shuls, instead of going to Har Habayis.