Wondering what your "Yeshiva Bucher" is doing in Israel?

Don't worry! There is plenty to do in Israel! He'll do a great shidduch... don't worry! He won't ever have to work...
Notice, that those who work for a living, wern't there... I wonder why????

On Israel, NY Times is an ‘Addict’ in Need of ‘Intervention’ Says Media Watchdog,

A leading US media watchdog has compared the New York Times‘ constant publication of misleading and even false reports about Israel to the behavior of an “addict” in need of an “intervention.”

Gilead Ini, a Senior Analyst with CAMERA, which monitors media coverage of Israeli and Middle Eastern issues for balance and fairness, was commenting on how the Times was compelled to run a story-changing correction to a January 30 report which claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not informed the White House before accepting House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to address Congress on Iran – a major violation of protocol which flowed from the fact that “Netanyahu…and many pro-Israel lawmakers in Congress have urged a hard line.”

Later that same day, editors ran the following correction to the story by reporters Carl Hulse and Jeremy W. Peters: “An earlier version of this article misstated when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accepted Speaker John A. Boehner’s invitation to address Congress. He accepted after the administration had been informed of the invitation, not before.”

“The Times‘ misreporting on Israel is looking more and more like an addiction,” Ini told The Algemeiner.

 “An addiction to anti-Israel advocacy that has been preventing professional news journalism — and if there is anyone in the building that cares about the newspaper’s reputation for fairness, it is time for an intervention.”

In a commentary for Tablet magazine on the latest Times scandal involving Israel, Liel Leibovitz argued that the White House was also culpable for an outcome in which Israel’s Prime Minister was again portrayed as power-hungry and hubristic.

“If Bibi had followed standard protocol, and given the White House the diplomatically-appropriate heads-up, as the Times‘ correction clearly and unequivocally stated, that meant that the Times‘ White House sources had been woefully and entirely misinformed about a key matter of protocol—or, more likely, had invented the tale of Bibi’s outrageous behavior out of whole cloth in order to blunt his unwelcome criticisms of the Administration’s Iran policy,” Leibovitz wrote.

EU Prohibits JEWS from building in Maalei Adumim but builds 550 illegal Houses for Arabs !

Despite the 2012 Levy Report proving the legality of Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria under international law, the European Union (EU) has bitterly opposed that presence and even threatened sanctions - however, a new report reveals that it is in fact the EU that is guilty of "illegal settlement" in the region.

EU bastards in Judea and Samaria

Judea and Samaria was divided into Areas A, B and C in the 1993 Oslo Accords which created the Palestinian Authority (PA), and under the agreements Area C is under complete Israeli administrative and security control.

However, the new report by Regavim, an NGO watchdog group for Jewish national property rights, reveals the extent of the EU's illegal actions aiding in PA land grabs in Area C.

In doing so, the EU is creating illegal facts on the ground to pave the way for a de facto Palestinian state in the Biblical heartland of Israel.

According to the report - which was first published several months ago on Arutz Sheva but has since made waves for the first time in the European press, featuring in the UK's Daily Mail - since 2009 European support has shifted from being passive diplomatic and financial aide to the PA, to becoming fully active cooperation in the PA's unilateral illegal construction.

One of the major goals in these EU efforts is to advance illegal Arab building precisely in Area C which is under full Israeli control, and therefore to slowly cede the areas and create a continuity between Arab-held land between Har Hevron in southern Judea, through Yericho (Jericho) and up into Samaria.

A continuity of this sort would critically harm the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, as well as endanger Israeli security and Israel's ability to guard itself along defensible borders. A full 550 illegal Arab buildings were put up in Area C in 2014 alone.

The report features a detailed mapping of hundreds of illegal Arab structures built by the EU in the corridor from Jerusalem out past Ma'ale Adumim to its east. It also expounds on the changing EU management as seen in official documents, and dissects the impact of the illegal building.

"European hypocristy"

"Between the lines rises in full force the European hypocrisy, which accuses Israel of taking unilateral steps, even as it is sunk up to its neck in illegal and unilateral activities for the benefit of the Palestinian Authority," Regavim stated.

The organization emphasizes that the construction it documented breaches international law which requires obedience to the sovereign power ruling a given area. It is also in complete contradiction of the Oslo Accords which the EU signed off on as a witness, and which establishes Israel as the authority for security and civilian matters in Area C.

In concluding the report, Regavim summed up that the EU's activities "are not legitimate. There is no avoiding a drastic change in terms of the Israeli government's treatment of the issue."

That change would come "firstly, by understanding and internalizing thatthe European Union is a problematic player that causes great damage to Israeli interests in Judea and Samaria," Regavim said. "Secondly, the supervision and checks on the Union's activities and organizations funded by it must be tightened."

The group also recommended that Israel "take a series of steps - political, legal and publicity based."

"The Israeli actions must be comprised of a combination of political actions through the accepted diplomatic channels, legal actions, intensive enforcement, and widening the publicity to create international legitimacy to end the delegitimate actions by the European Union," concluded Regavim.

Letter to Yated Editor says that Rav Yaakov Ruderman's pro-Israel views are now irrelevant

When a guy writes that what a Godol who passed away said years ago, is now irrelevant because if he were alive today he would have changed his mind, then how do we now know if anything any Godol says now, is relevant?

 How do I now know that what any Rishon or Achron said is true? 
Maybe it was true only when he was alive?
More of my thoughts after the letter:

Dear Editor,
In the last edition of the Yated, there was an interesting interview with the previous chief rabbi of Israel, Rav Yisrael Meir Lau.

One of the points in the interview was, in my opinion, mis-leading.

 Rav Lau mentions that when he met with Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman zt"l, the rosh yeshivah was talking to someone about whether it was permissible to have a Magen Dovid in a shul (as there was a machlokas whether a particular shul should allow this). 

Rav Ruderman said in Kovna, this was a common practice and therefore it was not a problem. When one of the people in the room argued that this was before the founding of the State of Israel, the rosh yeshiva said, "What's bad about the state? It saved many Jews from  death. It saved many Jews from death. It opened the gates of Aliyah to people with nowhere to go. Please leave the paroches as it is. The Magen Dovid is not  treif. The man is correct. There is nothing wrong with it, and you can tell that to the people in the shul in my name."

It would appear that even if the rosh yeshiva had this opinion at that point in history, we can't say with certainty that he would utter such a statement after the current terrible matzav in Eretz Yisroel, with a government under Yair Lapid that has caused such terrible damage to Torah in so many ways. To publicize something that the rosh yeshiva said so many years ago, when the matzav is so different now, could lead to a lack of clarity to our olam and/or a lack of respect for the gadlus of the rosh yeshiva.
An Alumnus of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel

DIN: 
What a chutzpah from a conceited smarkatch! ... 

Rav Ruderman clearly said :

"What's bad about the state? It saved many Jews from  death. It saved many Jews from death. It opened the gates of Aliyah to people with nowhere to go. Please leave the paroches as it is. The Magen Dovid is not  treif. The man is correct. There is nothing wrong with it, and you can tell that to the people in the shul in my name."

What changed about that statement?

He writes: 
"Yair Lapid that has caused such terrible damage to Torah in so many ways."

First of all: Yair Lapid is no longer in the government....

Second of all: What did he do that's knegged Ha'Toirah?

He wants Yesivah boys to go to the army? 
Didn't Rav Shach and Rav Ovadia Yosef say many times, that any boy whose "Torah isn't Umnusoih" should not a get a Petur from the army?
see the attached letter from Rav Shach

He cut money from Yeshivos and Kollolim?

I never ever saw so much as a "thank you" to the State of Israel that wrote checks for over 60 years to the Yeshivos and kollilim...
I would think that if they had shown a bit of appreciation, things would have turned out differently!

About the Magen Dovid...
The Satmar Shul in Satmar where Reb Yoel davened had a Magen Dovid...
see the photo from DER YID!

Notice the Magen David above the Aron Kodesh

Ezriel Tauber the Fanatical Anti-Zionist "lady" Speaker will be boycotted in England

"rabbi" Ezriel Tauber, who is an alleged molester of women, decided like a fox guarding the chicken coup, to speak to "Ex Sem Girls" in London. 

Ezriel is also a rabid hater of the State of Israel and can't stop spewing his fanatical hate against the country that hosts millions of Jews, at his seminars. 

He is also the author of many books, written allegedly to broaden his Shalheves ("Keep the Flame Burning") Organization and  trap innocent women in his snare of molestation and to brainwash them to hate their fellow brothers and sisters in Israel.

This poster touts a "unique experience" at this seminar. 
My advice to the "Ex Sem Girls" get your "unique experience" somewhere else.

Lady "speaker" Tauber

Satmar buys property on William St near New Square, defying New Square's requested "1 Mile Ban"

The Bais Din Zedek D'Shikun Square, previously requested Jews to "not purchase any lots within a mile of New Square" to keep the community isolated so that the community stays "completely impervious to outside influences."

Map if New Square got its way

Well, Satmar saw things differently and bought property on William Street, in order to build a new Bais Medrish and to basically start a new community adjacent to New Square.
 The problem is that William Street is about 1/4 of a mile south of New Square, within the 1 mile radius! 

New Square re-published it's request in this week's Community Connections, again requesting Jews not to buy houses within 1 mile of New Square, writing that they are posting it again "for the community's benefit"?

The reason they don't want Jews (goyim are ok) to live nearby , is because as the New Square Bais Din put it , they want  Jews to uphold the "holy tzaddik's (previous Skverer Rebbe) desire for his kehilla to retain its unique identity in complete isolation." 

 If the surrounding Jewish communities were to spread even further towards New Square , to the point of reaching the parameters of New Square, the "blurring of our borders would defeat the founding-purpose of the shtetl."

They are afraid that if Satmar is a neighbor, the New Square residents  might find the Satmar lifestyle more appealing and might G-D forbid leave New Square to join the more "liberal" Satmars!

What Har Sinai looked like according to New Square

So far, it looks like that Satmar will ignore the request, and as of this writing the  30 shuls that are within that 1 mile radius, are not planning to pick up and leave, and sell their shuls for churches.
Just a sampling of the shuls:
Cong Knesses Yisroel, Cong Kehilat New Hempstead, Rabbi Senter's Shul, Rabbi Teichman's Shul, Cong Ohaiv Shalom, Rabbi Spiegal's shul, Rabbi Neuberger's shul etc

We don't know whether the Satmar guys that bought the property are Aroinim or Zaloinim, my guess is that they are Zaloinim, Because Reb Aaron, the Satmar Monroe Rebbe, the leader of the Aroinim faction, is a brother-in-law to the Skverer Rebbe.

Thomas Friedman, the Jewish Anti-Semite, at it again!

The self-hating Jew Friedman with Jew Hater Stalin

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has repeatedly claimed that Israel controls Washington, is warning that if Israel's prime minister addresses Congress next month, "anti-Semites will claim Israel controls Washington."

by Binyamin Korn

Does Friedman really believe that? Or is he cynically using Jewish fears of anti-Semitism to stir opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?

In an emotion-laden February 4 column, Friedman mustered every argument in his arsenal against the invitation to Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. It would be "churlish," "reckless," and even "dangerous," Friedman thundered. He revealed that he has "polled many of [his] non-Jewish friends…and they don't really like this."

The notion that non-Jews dislike the invitation is one of the major arguments of Friedman's column. He cites it again and again, most notably when he declares that if Israel's prime minister goes ahead with the address, "anti-Semites, who claim Israel controls Washington, will have a field day."

Yet it is Friedman himself who has repeatedly given them that field.

Recall, for example, his New York Times column of February 5, 2004, in which he wrote that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has "had George Bush under house arrest in the Oval Office…surrounded by Jewish and Christian pro-Israel lobbyists, by a vice president, Dick Cheney, who's ready to do whatever Mr. Sharon dictates…"

To make sure that nobody missed the implications of a Zionist conspiracy, Friedman added that Sharon, Jewish lobbyists, Cheney, and unnamed "political handlers" were "all conspiring to make sure the president does nothing [regarding Israel].”

Friedman raised the Jews-control-Washington canard again in his December 13, 2011 column in the Times. Furious that Prime Minister Netanyahu received 29 standing ovations--from Democrats and Republicans alike--when he addressed Congress that year, Friedman wrote: "I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby."

In his November 19, 2013 column in the Times, Friedman did it again. "[N]ever have I seen more lawmakers — Democrats and Republicans — more willing to take Israel’s side against their own president’s," Friedman declared. "I’m certain this comes less from any careful consideration of the facts and more from a growing tendency by many American lawmakers to do whatever the Israel lobby asks them to do in order to garner Jewish votes and campaign donations."

So, let's see: Friedman has America's president "surrounded" by Zionist conspirators; Congress is "bought and paid for" by Jewish lobbyists; and "many" Members of Congress will "do whatever the Israel lobby asks them."

Now Friedman warns that if Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Congress again, that will cause anti-Semites to say that Israel controls Washington!

There are two possible explanations for this remarkable contradiction. The first is that Friedman has simply forgotten what he has written in the past on the subject. That's implausible. Which leaves only the second explanation--Friedman knows full well what he has written in the past, but he assumes most readers won't remember, so he can get away with contradicting himself.

But what is at stake is much more than the contradiction between Friedman's past columns and this one. What he is doing is consciously, and very cynically, playing the Fear of Anti-Semitism card. He assumes many American Jews are so terrified of what anti-Semites might say, that he can use that fear to intimidate them into opposing the Netanyahu invitation.

Friedman's assumption is an insult to American Jewry. Perhaps an earlier generation of immigrants or children of immigrants would have been so nervous about their status in America that they would have let such fears cloud their political judgment. But this is 2015. Today's American Jewish community consists largely of those who marched proudly for Soviet Jewry, who are not ashamed to support Israel, and who are not embarrassed by their Jewish identity. Fear of what some anti-Semite somewhere will say is not going to determine what position they take on the issues of the day.

So who is doing more to foment anti-Semitism? Prime Minister Netanyahu and House Speaker John Boehner? Or New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman?

(The authors are president and chairman, respectively, of the Religious Zionists of America, Philadelphia, and candidates on the Religious Zionist slate in the World Zionist Congress elections.)
 

Watch MSNBC'S Brian Williams tell his false ‘war story’ on ‘Letterman’

Brian Williams repeated in full detail his false tale of being shot down in a helicopter during the Iraq war on David Letterman’s show in 2013.

 During an interview with Letterman on what he said was the 10-year anniversary of the alleged attack, Williams recounted: “I am mostly New York-based, I do go cover these two wars we've been fighting, and when I do, I like to go out on patrol, I like to get out in it. 
A guy like Richard Engel [NBC’s chief foreign correspondent], the amount of fire we took that day, he calls Tuesday.” 

Describing the incident, Williams continued, “We were in some helicopters. What we didn’t know was we were north of the invasion. We were the northernmost Americans in Iraq. We were going to drop some bridge portions across the Euphrates so the 3rd Infantry could cross on them. Two of our four helicopters were hit by ground fire, including the one I was in. RPG and AK-47.” 

When Letterman asked what happened when they realized they’d been hit, “We figured out how to land safely, we landed very quickly and hard and we put down and we were stuck — four birds in the middle of the desert — and we were north out ahead of the other Americans.” 

Williams continued, “We got hit, we set down, everyone was OK, our captain took a Purple Heart injury to his ear in the cockpit, but we were alone, they started distributing weapons, we heard a noise and it was Bradley fighting vehicles and Abrams tanks coming, they happened to spot us. 

“This was the invasion, the US invasion. They [US troops] saw us, they surrounded us for three days during the sandstorm that was so big it suspended the war effort, it was called Orange Crush, and they got us out of there alive.”

 Letterman added, “I have to treat you with renewed respect, that is an incredible story … you are a true journalist and a war hero.” 

Williams starts telling his story at around 3 minutes in the video, dug up last night by Mashable’s Brian Ries. 

On Wednesday night, “NBC Nightly News” anchor Williams apologized on air for his “bungled” story about being shot down in Iraq. 

Williams told viewers, “I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago … I want to apologize. I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft.” 

He was forced to own up after military members who were with him on that helicopter and in the aircraft that was actually hit called him out on Facebook and to US military news outlet Stars and Stripes after Williams repeated the story on Friday night’s “NBC Nightly News.” 

Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, “Sorry dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened. Then I remember you guys taking back off in a different flight of Chinooks from another unit and heading to Kuwait to report your ‘war story’ to the Nightly News. The whole time we were still stuck in Iraq trying to repair the aircraft and pulling our own Security.”

Obama soft on ISIS because he is "Muslim Himself" says popular Radio Host

Islamic State terrorists — who burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a cage and filmed the atrocity — are "Nazis on steroids" out to rape murder and bury people alive until they conquer the world, radio talk-show legend Michael Savage tells Newsmax TV.

"These are Nazis on steroids and for (President) Obama to say they are not Islamic is ludicrous because, excuse me, the acronym of their invented nation is ISIS; the first letters standing for Islamic State," Savage said Tuesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show.

"It doesn't say Buddhist state, Jewish state or Christian state, it's not 'BISIS' nor 'JSIS', it's ISIS for a reason. 

They are interpreting their religion from the strict teachings of Muhammad," said Savage, author of the new book, "Stop the Coming War: The Savage Truth," published by Center Street.

Savage said ISIS members are attempting to take over the Middle East the way their ancestors conquered in the sixth century.

"By burning, killing, raping, murdering and burying people alive — in other words, through terror. 

This is nothing new. It's what's been done from the beginning of this religion," he said.

"This is how they masterminded to takeover so much of the world, not through the love of Christianity, not love thy neighbor as thy self, but kill thy neighbor.
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As to why Obama will not identify them as Muslim extremists, Savage said it's all in the president's name: 
Barack Hussein Obama. 
"The answer is in his name. I'm sorry. His father was Muslim. His adoptive father was Muslim and by patrilineal descent, which is the Muslim belief, he is Muslim by definition," Savage said.
"He's not a terrorist sympathizer, but he's soft on Islam in general. He's afraid of saying what's obvious to the whole world. This is the problem. If you can't define your enemy, how can you defeat your enemy?"

Obama's "liberal fears" also prevent him from speaking the truth, according to Savage.

"This is the university mentality, which is, don't call Germans Nazis during the 1930s because you're liable to get Germans mad," he said.

"Of course, not all Germans were Nazis, but they took over Germany and it was essentially a Nazi state. Wasn't it?"

In his new book, Savage said he discusses Obama's ideology.

"He treats our enemies as friends and our friends as enemies, but let's stick to the big lie coming out of Obama's mouth … 

I believe one day, if this country should survive this monster, there will be a psychological analysis of this president who was a pathological liar," he said.

"The man cannot tell the truth. He doesn't know what the truth is or he knows what the truth is, but can lie about it sufficiently that he actually believes his own lie while he's saying it."

He pointed to Obama's decision not to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is visiting the U.S. next month at the invitation of Congress.

"Let's go back to why he wouldn't meet with Netanyahu. 
In his lie, he says because our general policy is we don't meet with any world leader two weeks before their election. Really? Because it's inappropriate, Mr. Obama?" Savage said.

He charged that Obama has sent his campaign wizard Jeremy Bird and 173 other activists to Israel in an attempt to manipulate the upcoming elections and oust Netanyahu.

"Who sent them there? 
Obama did," Savage said.

Savage, host of the syndicated radio talk show "The Savage Nation," renewed his contract with Cumulus Media’s syndicator Westwood One last month and announced a new format he calls "Unprotected Talk."

He also announced a $100,000 scholarship fund for conservative college students, which will award two-year scholarships to five recipients based on an essay contest.

Obama will defy Israel's Security to sign "Iran Deal": Says Poll

Sixty-one percent of Israeli Jews believe there is a high probability that U.S. President Barack Obama will approve the signing of a nuclear agreement with Iran even if Israel expresses that the deal endangers the Jewish state’s security, according to the newly released Peace Index poll by the Israel Democracy Institute.

The U.S. is willing to make concessions in the nuclear talks with Iran in exchange for Iran using its influence to ensure stability in Middle East hotspots such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Army Radio reported Tuesday.

Regarding March’s Knesset elections, 58 percent of Israeli Jewish respondents in the Peace Index said that a government headed by current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is best suited to deal with Israel’s security issues, compared with 27 percent who prefer a government led by Tzipi Livni and Isaac Herzog on security matters.

Herbal Supplements that Target, GNC, Walgreens and Walmart sells have no herbs!

The following  are some of the herbal supplement items tested by the New York Attorney General!

GNC, Herbal Plus brand:

Gingko Biloba:

• No gingko biloba found
• Did detect allium (garlic), rice, spruce and asparagus

St. John’s Wort

• No St. John’s Wort found
• Did detect allium (garlic), rice and dracaena (a tropical houseplant)

Ginseng

• No ginseng found
• Did detect rice, dracaena, pine, wheat/grass and citrus

Garlic

• Contained garlic

Echinacea

• No echinacea found
• Did detect rice in some samples

Saw Palmetto

• One sample contained the clear presence of palmetto
• Other samples contained a variety of ingredients, including asparagus, rice and primrose

From Target, Up & Up brand

Gingko Biloba

• No gingko biloba found
• Found garlic, rice and mung/French bean

St. John’s Wort

• No St. John’s Wort found
• Found garlic, rice and dracaena (houseplant)

Garlic

• Contained garlic
• One test identified no DNA

Echinacea

• Most but not all tests detected Echinacea
• One test identified rice

Saw Palmetto

• Most tests detected saw palmetto
• Some tests found no plant DNA

Valerian Root

• No valerian root found
• Found allium, bean, asparagus, pea family, rice, wild carrot and saw palmetto

From Walgreens, Finest Nutrition brand

Gingko Biloba

• No gingko biloba found
• Did detect rice

St. John’s Wort

• No St. John’s Wort found
• Detected garlic, rice and dracaena

Ginseng

• No ginseng found
• Detected garlic and rice

Garlic

• No garlic found
• Detected palm, dracaena, wheat and rice

Echinacea

• No echinacea found
• Identified garlic, rice and daisy

Saw Palmetto

• Contained saw palmetto

From Walmart, Spring Valley brand

Gingko Biloba

• No gingko biloba found
• Found rice, dracaena, mustard, wheat and radish

St. John’s Wort

• No St. John’s Wort found
• Detected garlic, rice and cassava

Ginseng

• No ginseng found
• Found rice, dracaena, pine, wheat/grass and citrus

Garlic

• One sample showed small amounts of garlic
• Found rice, pine, palm, dracaena and wheat

Echinacea

• No echinacea or plant material found

Saw Palmetto

• Some samples contained small amounts of saw palmetto
• Also found garlic and rice

Revenge for burning of Jordanian pilot, Jordan to execute all ISIS prisoners within hours

This is a lesson, if true, for Israel and the USA
From Sky News Arabia

Sajida Al-Rishawi, the failed female suicide bomber with tied to ISIS, along with several other ISIS prisoners, will be executed by Jordan in the next several hours according to Sky News Arabia.

The move is retribution for the death of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh.

Earlier today, ISIS released a new video online reportedly showing Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh being executed by being burned alive.

Negotiations between Jordan and ISIS broke down several days ago and Jordan feared for the safety of their pilot after two Japanese journalists were executed by ISIS.

Two days ago, Jordanian officials told ISIS they would execute several ISIS prisoners being held by Jordan if their pilot is not released.

President Obama addressed ISIS’ most recent execution saying, “Should in fact this video be authentic, it’s just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization.”