Iran's Foxes will guard the Chickens! Iran's US Nuclear Deal!

A satellite image of the Parchin military site in Iran 

How is there still anyone who does not understand why Israel opposes the nuclear deal with Iran? 

Rather than being a deal of the brave, it is a deal of the naive. What other secrets will we soon find out about the deal?

What a bizarre world! 

The Associated Press revealed on Tuesday that, under the terms of a secret deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate the Parchin military site, where it is suspected that Iran carried out nuclear weapons development activities. You read that correctly. The cat will get to guard the cream. No need to worry, friends.

The date on Tuesday was Aug. 19, not April 1, so this was not a prank. By the same "healthy" logic used by world powers, Israel should let Hamas run the Iron Dome system during the next war in the Gaza Strip, and the Interior Ministry should give up its authority to stem illegal migration. We must adapt to the new world we live in. And what a strange world it is!

Over the past decade, Iran never stopped lying and cheating as it built three secret nuclear facilities, and the world nobly turned the other cheek. 

How is there still anyone who does not understand why Israel opposes the nuclear deal with Iran?

 Are there any Israelis who think it is wrong to oppose the deal?

 A deal of the brave it is not. Rather, it is a deal of the naive.

Since the deal was signed in Vienna on July 14, there have been non-stop surprises, including revelations about secret components of the deal.

 And recently, the IAEA chief said he was obligated to keep the details of his organization's side agreements with Iran confidential. If the AP report proves to be true, he should hang his head in shame.

Over the past month, during which opposition to the deal has only grown, we have had trouble digesting numerous problematic aspects of the deal. For example, we discovered Article 10 on Page 142, which stipulates that world powers and Iran will foster "cooperation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran's ability to protect against, and respond to, nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems." Absolutely unbelievable!

Later, we heard U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (future Nobel Prize winner?) admit to Congress that he had not seen the IAEA's side agreements with Iran, but, thank God, he had been briefed on them.

And now, we find out Iran will inspect itself at Parchin. If this absurdity is true, it would be best for Kerry to declare, "I didn't know."

Under the deal, Iran will provide its own soil samples from Parchin, and it will have an advance notice of 24 days before inspections of suspicious sites can be conducted. American comedian Jackie Mason joked that restaurants in New York face a tougher inspections system.

By agreeing to this deal with Iran, Obama produced a very funny episode of "It's a Wonderful Country" (an Israeli comedy show), but in Persian rather than Hebrew.

It is now easy to understand why, within weeks of the deal being signed, the Iranians were saying that no foreign entities would enter their military sites. They knew what they were talking about, as they were aware that world powers had agreed to forgo inspections of Parchin.

So what's next? What other secrets will we find out about the nuclear deal? Perhaps, when the deal expires, Iran will be allowed to conduct nuclear weapons tests with world powers?

Where Was Israeli Flag in Herzog-Abbas Meeting?

Labor leader Herzog under Facebook fire for photo op in Ramallah that included only one national flag.

Labor/Zionist Union leader Yitzhak Herzog has come under Facebook fire since Tuesday for agreeing to sit for a photo with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas – despite the fact that there was no Israeli flag behind him, as protocol demands.

Herzog posted a photo of the meeting on his Facebook page and wrote: "Don't be worried. Don't be afraid. Dare to ensure a better future for our peoples.”

Comments from critics were fast and furious.

 “You sly fox,” wrote Amir Moyal, sarcastically. “Abu Mazen said not to bring a flag, but you are not worried, not afraid, you dare!!!! You played a trick on him with a blue tie, which, along with the white shirt, is precisely an Israeli flag!!!! Now there's a leader for you!!!”

"Next time, bring a flag from home,” wrote Yaki Morad.

"What do you want from him, guys?”, asked Irit Hodorov. “The Israel flag is in the laundry.”

Ronen Braverman asked: "If you represent the 'Zionist' union, where is your country's flag?” 

And Amir Levy imitated 1970s children's cartoon riddles and wrote: “Dear children, please help Buji [Herzog] find what flag is missing in the picture.”

Boaz Golan, who owns the 0404 news site, had a different take on the matter.

"Unlike many people who verbally attacked you on your Facebook page, and said that you should be ashamed for not having the Israeli flag on the side where you are sitting, we actually are not too excited about the story and do not want to see our flag next to the detestable terror organization, the PLO.

"We are sorry that you are hurting our national pride, Buji. We are sorry that you and your likes weaken us in the face of the terror organizations. They hurt us and we run to them for a selfie and to write a few words.

 Shame on you!”

Former Jewish NYT Editor Caught in 'Palestinian Donkey Cart' Lie

Ezri Tubi, spokesperson for the Samaria community of Yitzhar, released a video on Wednesday debunking the claims of Robert Cohen, a former editor of the New York Times who happens to be Jewish.

Cohen claimed that Palestinian Arabs ride around in "donkey carts" on "dirt roads" to their orchards, while Jews ride in fancy cars on modern highways nearby - so 

Tubi drove through the Arab village of Huwara located near his home to test the ex-editor's claims.

What Tubi found were luxury cars made by Mercedes-Benz and other leading makers, driven by Arab residents on clean paved roads.

"Recently I find myself growing very interested in the processes occurring in the public opinion of Jews in the US," said Tubi. 

"When I saw these lies said by this Jew eaten up by hate I was so angry. 

How can one lie like that? 

Anyone who drives on the roads in Judea and Samaria can't help but notice the fancy luxury cars of the Arabs."

It is very ironic this moron Cohen talks about donkey carts but in reality Jews waiting for buses and trains are being killed through vehicular homicide by arab car owners. It would be very easy to get away from a crazed donkey cart operator. What we don't see are Jews attacking arabs with knives, cars, tractors and large rocks.

By filming the routine traffic in Huwara, Tubi sought to make his point about the actual conditions in the region.

The spokesperson has been releasing a series of videos defending Israel from those seeking to delegitimize it, including his version of John Lennon's "Imagine" rebutting Israel's critics, and a video against "J Street Jews."

Tubi is raising funds online in a head-start campaign to continue his efforts to fight Israel's opponents through his videos.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Sends a Letter to ‘Kock im' Moon’ Regarding Latest String of Attacks against Israelis

Kock im" Uhn

The following letter prepared by Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Prosor, was sent to UN Secretary-General Ben Ki-Moon (aka Kock-im' Uhn) regarding recent attacks against Israelis. 

Following the series of terror attacks in the past week, Ambassador Prosor told the UN that such attacks are becoming part of a disturbing new pattern. This was written in mid-August following a number of terror attacks.

“We are witnessing a disturbing new pattern in which those seeking to murder Israelis take advantage of their humanity. These are acts that no decent person would tolerate.”

​”Excellency,

Today, a Palestinian terrorist approached Israeli security forces south of Nablus and told them that he was not feeling well and asked for water. When they invited him to approach, he drew a knife and stabbed one of the soldiers.

Just two days ago, a Palestinian man approached an Israeli soldier and asked him for some water. When the soldier turned to get him some, the terrorist assaulted him with a knife. Later that same day, another Palestinian stabbed an Israeli border policeman in the back during a routine security check.

Such attacks are becoming part of a disturbing new pattern in which those seeking to murder Israelis take advantage of their humanity. On June 19th of this year, I wrote to you about a Palestinian man who shot two 25 year old Israeli civilians at close range, killing one of them. The terrorist attracted the attention of his victims by asking for their assistance. He then pulled a gun out of his bag and shot the two in cold blood.

Attacks of this kind are especially outrageous because they take advantage of a person’s natural desire to help their fellow man in their time of need, in order to kill him. These are acts that no decent person would tolerate.

This type of attack is also especially dangerous. Not only do such attacks pose a grave threat for Israelis, they may well harm those Palestinians who are genuine in need of assistance.

We have also recently learned that Ahmad Najar, the man who initiated and planned the murder of Malachi Rosenfeld on June 29th of this year used the money paid to him by the PA to purchase the weapon that was used in the attack, and to train those who executed it. These funds were paid to the terrorist for the time he served in an Israeli jail for the crime of murdering six Israelis in 2004.

Once again, the Palestinian leadership is failing to take responsibility. Not only do they refuse to condemn these attacks, but they also fund people who serve time in prison for carrying them out.

I call on the Security Council to unequivocally condemn this latest series of terror attacks in a clear voice. I ask you to publicly call on the Palestinian Authority to condemn those responsible for these attacks, and to do everything in their power to prevent future attacks.

A timely and clear statement by the Security Council is crucial to prevent further deterioration and further suffering.”

Sick Chareidi savages in Yerushalyim urge shunning of Charedi soldiers in Pamphlets

Ok guys, continue giving money to  Israeli Schnorrers ...

I ask them first in a calm voice with a smile ... "So what do you think of the Chareidim in Uniform?" 

Most of them tell me "We are definitely against them"

that's when I throw them out!

A pamphlet distributed in the streets of  Charedi neighborhoods in Jerusalem names members of the community who are serving in the IDF and calls on residents to shun them.

The pamphlet contains the photos of ultra-Orthodox soldiers from the neighborhood who serve in the Givati infantry brigade.

Many Charedi neighborhoods in the capital have seen protests against growing Charedi enlistment in the army.

Ami throws Satmar Under the Bus!

In the August 5 edition of Ami Magazine, Yitzchok Frankfurter, writes in an editorial, titled "American Jewry's Perpetual Inertia," that anyone that advocates for the Iran Nuclear Deal is basically a "murderer."

Now, Mr Frankfurter knows very well the position of both Satmar Rabbis, which is, that not only is it forbidden for Jews to try to defeat this deal, but R' Aron Teitelbaum the leader of the Aroni faction of Satmar, actually sent letters to senators and congressman begging them to support the President on the Iran nuclear deal, because of Satmars' love of President Obama who gives them federal programs.

But in this editorial Frankfurter reminds his readers of "the complacency of American Rabbis," during WW2, specifically Stephen Wise, who though well connected failed to utilize his position to urge President Roosevelt to save European Jewry, because as Frankfurter puts it, his "absolute and complete love" for President Roosevelt!

Frankfurter continues and writes, 
"any layperson who offers an opinion on the Iranian nuclear threat in contradiction to that of the seasoned experts, may Heaven forbid, be guilty of the aforementioned offence [murder] multiplied by 6 million!"

Now, my readers know my prior position of Yitzchok Frankfurter and his magazine Ami, but in this editorial he actually makes sense and puts a dagger in Satmars back, and calls the Satmar Rabbis a bunch of "murderers" ....
He didn't actually say the word "Satmar"... but he meant them, because in the Chareidie world ... only Satmar backs the Iranian Nuclear deal!

I therefore placed Yitzchok Frankfureters photo dressed in a clown outfit further down on my sidebar..
If he continues making sense, maybe I'll put his Shtreimal back on!

Katie Holmes shooting a movie in the holy city of Monsey!

Yup .... Monsyeites are all excited because the famous 36 year old actress Katie Holmes ex-wife of Tom Cruise is shooting a film called "All We Had", around the corner from Bais Medrish Elyon, Yeshiva Bais Dovid and did I mention Mesivtah Bais Shraga?

Rumor has it that she will chap a Mincha at Viznitz, but it's not true!

The film centers on a single mother and her daughter who live together on the edge of poverty in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse.

The location in Monsey chosen for this filming was Ralphies Diner on Remsen Avenue, at the corner of Grove Avenue. The diner got a new name for the purpose of the movie:

"Tiny's Grub n' Go."

Satmar insults survivors by comparing Smartphones with Holocaust

 Satmar is now backing away from this ad, though it's from one of their own... they're calling him a "bit" of a lunatic!

Readers, don't fall for this garbage!

 Satmar does the same thing with the Neturei Karta, though they are on the same page in every single issue on Israel, they say, when asked, that the Neture Karta are lunatics! This is a strategic policy, just like when Arab terrorists shoot up a mall, they say that the terrorist  was a  "lone" terrorist!

The Neturei Karta is funded by Satmar! 

It is the Satmar crazy SHIT"ah that is breeding this vermin!

Just last week Kiryas Joel amended its admissions policy to exclude the children of women who own smartphones.

Now! I don't condemn them for opposing smartphones, but they compare the damage the cellphone does to the Holocaust..

An advertisement which used a Holocaust theme to decry smartphone usage in the ultra-Orthodox community has drawn severe criticism from diverse sources, with supporters of Holocaust survivors and the vehemently anti-smartphone Satmar hassidic both issuing strong statements against its message.

In the ad, images of which have been uploaded to social media, a line of ambulances moves down a road and stops at a gate emblazoned with the corporate logos of Apple and Motorola. A barbed wire fence extends from both sides of the gate, while overhead a metal sign proclaims “Smartphone macht frei.”

The take on the German phrase arbeit macht frei (work will make you free) – which stood above the entrances to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen – has a double meaning, as frei is also the Yiddish term for an irreligious person. Smartphones will make you abandon Judaism, the ad seems to be saying.

“The attached publication is not [an] official publication and is not in any literature from the school or community. This is being published by a loner who took upon himself to fight smartphones, and publishes very controversial and tasteless booklets,” said Rabbi Moshe Aaron Hoffman, a Satmar spokesman.

The ad in question was published by Kol Rabinovich, an independent organization that prints its own material and drops it off in local synagogues, Hoffman continued.

The proprietor of the organization is a “bit of a lunatic and people read [his material] just to have a good laugh.” However, “most synagogues” throw his material away as soon as it is dropped off, he continued.

“It’s not only offensive, it diminishes the work of the real community activists….no official Satmar publication prints his stuff.”

The insular hassidic sect recently made headlines when one of its flagship schools in the New York village of Kiryas Joel amended its admissions policy to exclude the children of women who own smartphones.

“Remember: We will not provide acceptance cards if you’re not in order with the technological rules,” the school’s administration advised in a letter to parents.

Despite several calls to its Yiddish language hotline, The Jerusalem Post was unable to reach Kol Rabinovich for comment.

Prominent Jews across the globe expressed shock at the use of such imagery.

“We are appalled when non-Jews use the Holocaust to promote something other than the Holocaust. It is no less appalling and wrong when Jews do it. This is outrageous and wrong. Insensitive and hurtful,” said Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich.

“This ad is in truly execrable taste,” said Menachem Rosensaft, a prominent survivors advocate who teaches genocide law at Columbia University and both of whose parents were imprisoned in Auschwitz.

“There seems to be no limit to the appalling capacity of some perverse individuals, clearly in this instance including Jews, to desecrate and profane Shoah imagery and, more importantly, Shoah memory. This ad is truly the functional moral equivalent of pornography. ‘Arbeit macht frei’ - ‘Work makes free’ - was the Nazi welcome inscribed over the entryway to Auschwitz. For anyone to so callously trivialize and exploit all the horrors and suffering this image epitomizes crosses every possible line of decency.”

Colette Avital, the head of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors, termed the ad “vulgar, tasteless, cheap and reprehensible” and called for Jewish communities abroad to combat such rhetoric as strongly as they combat anti-Semitism.

“I looked and looked again and could not believe that ultra-Orthodox people should be so insensitive and use imagery connected to the concentration camps. Meaning what? That the use of smartphones would annihilate Jews like the Nazis did?” The Simon Wiesenthal Center also panned the ad, calling it “yet another example of the misuse of Holocaust imagery or symbols for various causes, none of whose relevance approaches that of the Holocaust.”

“The objectionable use of the gates of Auschwitz to protest against smart phones is a reflection of the lack of respect for the Shoa of the sponsors of this ad and on the other hand, their obvious perception of the potency of Holocaust imagery among their target audience,” said Efraim Zuroff, the head of the SWC’s Jerusalem office.

Meet the Fake Hollywood “Jews” Who Endorse the Obama Deal

A group of 98 Hollywood Jews In Name Only, is endorsing the Obama Iran Deal disaster in an ad in a left-wing Jewish newspaper. 

It’s hilarious that the ad identifies those on the list as “American Jewish supporters of Israel,” when they are no such thing and never have been. These people have zero ties to Judaism (other than being born ethnically Jewish) and have never done a thing to support the State of Israel in any way, shape, or form.

Here is the full list of these self-hating frauds:

Mel Levine, Mickey Kantor, Eli Broad, Norman Lear, Frank Gehry, Stanley Gold, Irwin Jacobs

David Abel, James Adler, Daniel Attias, Elaine Mitchell Attias, Lawrence Bender, Peter and Barbara Benedek, Michael Berenbaum, Donna Bojarksy, Peter Braun, Rabbi Sharon Brous, David Bubis, Rabbi Ken Chasen, Eli Chernow, Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels, Bruce and Toni Corwin, Geoffrey Cowan, Bert Deixler, David Fisher, William and Patricia Flumenbaum, Terry Friedman, Abner Goldstine, Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Arthur Greenberg, Earl Greinetz, Richard and Lois Gunther, Stephen Gunther, Janet Halbert, Michael Hrischfeld, Elaine Hoffman, Jane Jelenjo and Bill Norris, Charles Kaplan, Marty Kaplan, Steven Kaplan and Janet Levine, Glenn and Miriam Krinksy, Luis and Lee Lainer, Mark Lainer, Peter Landesman, Shawn Landres, Shari Leinwand, Irwin Levin, Peachy Levy, Rabbi Richard N. Levy, Mike Medavoy, Douglass Mirell, Charles Mostov, Allan and Nicole Mutchnik, David N. Myers, Mark and Marsha Novak, Rabbi Arnold Rachlis, Carolyn Ramsay, Gene Reynolds, Victoria Riski and David W. Rintels, Fredric D. Rosen, Rick Rosen, Monica and Philip Rosenthal, Ranni John Rosove, Thomas Safran, Dena Schechter, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, Larry Shapiro, Abby Sher, Richard Siegel, Glenn Sonnenberg, Carolyn Strauss, Bradley Tabach-Bank and De Dee Dorksind, David A. Thorpe, Larry Title and Ellen Shavelson, Matthew Velkes, Hope Warschaw, Rick Wartzman, Matthew Winer, Sandford and Karen Wiener, Daniel Weiss, Marcie and Howard Zelikow and Michael Ziering.

98 soulless, traitorous bastards. 

Back in the day, in 1943, they had a different name: kapo.

Oh, and Peachy Levy? How on earth can I take anyone named, “Peachy,” seriously?

Are we to assume that Norman Lear and the rest of them read all that, word for word, and if they did, are we to assume that, in their careful consideration, this work is so perfect that it is ready for production? No rewrite necessary? Are there no plots and sub-plots that, according to the language of the trade, needs more work?

No, after careful study on their yachts and then sharing lunch at Spago, they concluded that they know best.

They know better …better than the nuclear physicists who declare the deal a flop favorable only to the mullahs of Iran.

Or is it that these Jewish Liberals remain so gaga for Obama that they don’t care who lives or dies, so long as Liberalism lives?

That’s got to be it because nothing else makes sense.

Hemingway never liked the movies they made from his novels. He was fond of giving the following advice – “Stick to what you know.”

Otherwise, we might add, you risk making complete fools of yourselves.

Rabbi Riskin Clarifies: Converts Must Keep Torah Commandments

Rabbi Stav and Rabbi Riskin

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin responded to reports Monday that some of the rabbis on the new independent conversion courts do not require converts to obligate themselves to a full religious lifestyle. 

Riskin, the Chief Rabbi of Efrat, was named by Haaretz as one such rabbi who recognizes converts who commit to a "traditional" lifestyle in place of the Orthodox lifestyle demanded of them by the Chief Rabbinate. 

"The headlines do not match my words," Riskin stressed. "I am all for observance of the commandments and the genuine and meaningful process that leads to it." 

"My position is that the convert, like all Jews, is in a constant and life-long process of learning and deepening [his knowledge] of the Torah, halakha and the commandments," he added. 

According to Riskin, "construing my position in any other way is misleading and a simplistic interpretation that ignores the many layers and nuances of the issue."

Rabbi David Stav, head of the Tzohar organization and a key rabbi leading the new independent courts, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday that "our court doesn't move a millimeter from the instructions of the Torah greats in their various generations, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi (Yitzhak) Herzog, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef."

"Those that are defaming us today, supposedly in the name of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, instead of conducting a fair dialogue, are guilty of slander, as was done to Rabbi (Shlomo) Goren and Rabbi (Avraham Yitzhak) Kook."

"There are people here who really want their children to be Jewish, and I hope the day is not far when (Chief Sephardic) Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef will also recognize our court which works according to the halakhic minutiae, and will invite us to work under the auspices of the Chief Rabbinate," said Rabbi Stav.

Rabbi Stav Gets Police Protection Following Threats After The Launch Of 'Giur K’halacha

Is this our Torah? A Rav has an opinion different than them, so the opposition wants to physically harm him?
Who really knows what "Giur K"halacha" means?
Wearing fur from a dead animal on your head still doesn't make you the final decider...even if you have the Sfardim on your side....
In all of Shas we always had "Yechidim" that ruled differently than the majority, did the "Yechidim" need police protection? Many times in Shas we actually paskin like a "Yachid"! 
I'm not advocating Rabbi Stav's position, but to harm him because he doesn't agree with the Eida Hachareidis, or the Chief Rabbis?
What message to our children is this? "We don't agree with the Rabbi so we will beat the hell out of him?"

Rabbi David Stav

The Shoham police force will increase patrols close to and around the home of Rabbi David Stav, the town’s municipal chief rabbi, due to a concern for his safety following the launch of a new network of conversion courts last week which Stav helped found.
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The launch of the new conversion courts, called Giur K’halacha, created a fierce media storm in the haredi press, with advocates of a strict, centralized system under the chief rabbinate heavily criticizing Stav for what they perceive to be a an overly lenient approach to conversion which would create false converts who could then intermarry with Jewish Israelis. 

Proponents of the new courts argue that their conversions will comply with Jewish law but make use of leniencies for conversion outlined by various rabbinic authorities in the past to convert minors, with parental consent, from the immigrant community from the former Soviet Union. 

In reaction to the new courts, the haredi weekly newspaper Ba’kehillah on its front page last week labelled Stav “a danger to Judaism, a danger to the rabbinate, a danger to the Torah,” and said that he threatened “the walls of religion

Last week’s edition of the Yom L’Yom weekly newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Shas party, called the new conversion system “the rabbinical courts of the Reform with a yarmulke.”

On Thursday last week at a Bar Mitzvah celebration, Rabbi David Yosef, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages made the same comment.

Speaking to the Post last week, Stav spoke out against the tone of the criticism against him and the other founders of Giur K’halacha, accusing the haredi media of “incitement” and saying that they had “thrown off any and all restraint.”

On Saturday night, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, a brother of David Yosef, referenced the controversy for the first time, and claimed that the approach of the new courts was not in accordance with Jewish law.

“A person whose mother and father go to church every Sunday,” said Yosef in reference to the immigrant community from the former USSR who would not give their converted children any Jewish education or life.

Rabbi Seth Farber of the ITIM organization which helped create Giur K’halacha, labelled Yitzhak Yosef’s characterization of the immigrant community as a “populist stereotype,” and said that the new courts would not convert a child if there was not a commitment by the parents that the child would not practice any other religion and would provide him with some form of Jewish education. 

“Most immigrant families see themselves as Jewish, they don’t go to church, and are simply looking to certify their Jewishness and become full members of the Jewish community, for which there is an available halachic solution,” said Farber. 

Speaking to the Post last week, Chairman of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky criticized the Chief Rabbinate for its stance on conversion, its apparent opposition to Giur K’halacha, and its opposition to a government resolution passed in the last government but repealed by the current coalition to liberalize the state conversion system. 

“They want to keep a monopoly and to preserve their own importance but it’s not control which gives power,” said Sharansky, arguing that rabbinic attitudes to conversion had changed in accordance with Jewish political realities throughout history. 

Sharansky said that the chief rabbinate “would have more influence” if it recognized this principle and allowed rabbis with ordination from the Chief Rabbinate, such as those who established Giur K’halacha, to adopt this position.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post last week, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, another of the founders of Giur K’halacha also insisted that all conversions would conform strictly with Jewish law and called for the Chief Rabbinate to support the new system 

“We care about halacha [Jewish law] desperately, and what we are doing is in accordance with halacha, and are commensurate with the rulings of former chief rabbis of Israel,” said Riskin. “We are a strong Orthodox voice, and we cannot only have a haredi Orthodox voice on such issues, in light of the circumstances and fabric of Jewish society here in Israel,” the rabbi argued.

Matisyahu concert canceled in Spain because he refused to say that Arab Savages are entitled to a State!

It's ironic, the country that tortured Jews and then expelled them, is now banning a Jew from singing!

Jews for years would never even step into the country because of Spain's murderous past. 

Not to worry, the country will soon be taken over by ISIS! 

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now causing a rift in reggae.

A music festival in Spain has canceled the performance of American Jewish rapper Matisyahu due to pressure from the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and because the artist wouldn’t sign a pledge supporting the Palestinian state, according to Spanish media citing a statement from the event organizers.

Matisyahu, who is not Israeli but has visited the country several times, was to perform at the Rototom Sunsplash festival on Aug. 22. His concert slot was filled by Jamaican artist Etana.

The event director, Filippo Giunta, asked the singer on Thursday to issue a “signing statement or video” that expressed in a “very clear” way that Palestinians are entitled to their own state, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais. Other artists at the event threatened to cancel their own performances if Matisyahu was allowed to take the stage because he was “seen to represent Israel,” according to the Times of Israel. The local BDS movement accused Matisyahu of being a “Zionist” who supports the practice of “apartheid and ethnic cleansing.”

The festival, which began in 1994, has strong social justice overtones, including a particular affinity for promoting a Palestinian state. In a translated Facebook statement regarding the Matisyahu controversy, Rototom used the words “occupation” and “occupied” to describe Israel’s relationship with what the event organizers see as Palestinian territories. The festival’s website features a 2 ½-hour video focusing on pro-Palestinian activists, according to the Times of Israel.

The festival has a “social forum,” which has discussed the issue numerous times, according to the Facebook statement. Though permitting Matisyahu to perform his music, which is not characterized as pro-Israel but does draw on Jewish tradition, is apparently not part of that discussion.

Matisyahu, a Pennsylvania-born Jew whose real name is Matthew Miller, has not yet addressed the debate.

Ben Carson stands firm on suggestion that Obama has anti-Semitic views

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Sunday defended his recent suggestion that President Obama holds anti-Semitic beliefs. 

Carson wrote in a recent op-ed piece for The Jerusalem Post that a speech this month by Obama in support of his Iran nuclear deal was “replete with coded innuendos employing standard anti-Semitic themes.”

Carson told “Fox News Sunday” that upon a recent visit to Israel that he “couldn’t find a single person there who didn’t feel that this administration had turned their backs on Israel.”

“All you have to do … is go to Israel and talk to average people on all ends of that spectrum,” continued Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon and social conservative.

Carson, like most Republicans, does not support the deal, in part because he thinks it would put Israel in greater danger of a nuclear or non-nuclear attack by Iran.

President Obama has, since almost the start of his administration in 2009, been accused of weakening relations with Israel, considered the United States’ strongest Middle East ally.

The deal would lift billions in crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for the rogue nation curtailing its nuclear development program, which critics say is to build a nuclear weapon.

Carson also argued Sunday that the president’s speech included anti-Semitic rhetoric because “anything is anti-Semitic that is against the survival of a state that is surrounded by enemies and by people who want to destroy them. … And to sort of ignore that and to act like everything is normal there and that these people are paranoid, I think that’s anti-Semitic.”

Third of Elul: HaRav Kook's Final Requests

HaRav Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook, Israel's iconic first Asheknazic Chief Rabbi, returned his soul to G-d on the third of Elul.

It was the first of Elul, 5695 (1935), when Rabbi David Cohen (known as ‘the Rav HaNazir’) arrived at the guest house where Rav Kook was staying in Kiryat Moshe.

Exactly twenty years had passed since their first transformative encounter in Switzerland. 

This time he held in his hands a special document to show his dying master.

For twelve years, the Rav HaNazir had labored to organize Rav Kook’s writings into a systematic, comprehensive work. 

As his revered master lay on his death bed, he showed him the beginning fruits of his labor - the title page of the first volume of Orot HaKodesh. Rav Kook rejoiced; and he shed tears.

On the day of his death, Rav Kook motioned to his son, Rav Tzvi Yehudah, to come close. “Please pay off any outstanding debts. I do not want to owe anyone, not even the smallest amount.” He then made a second request: “Please prepare my writings for publication. But take care that the only title given to me is ‘rabbi.'”

With great effort, Rav Kook turned his face towards the scholars in the room. When it became clear that his soul would soon depart, the people cried out, “Shema Yisrael!” Rav Kook whispered after them, “Shema Yisrael,” breathing his final breath with the word echad - one. “The Eternal is one.”

The Rav HaNazir wrote:

“When the Rav passed away, We heard a heavenly voice. The voice called out, “Haim, ad olam!” ‘Life, forever!’ Even after completing life in this world, the soul continues, and it grows even stronger, with blessing, in eternal life.”

(Stories from the Land of Israel. Adapted from Malachim Kivnei Adam, p. 420; preface to Orot HaKodesh, pp. 24, 30 RavKookTorah.org)