R' Kalman Mendelsohn, founder of Mendelsohn's Pizza in Boro Park Passes Away at 65

Reb Kalman Mendelsohn, founder of the famed Mendelsohn's Pizza in Boro Park, Brooklyn, passed away on Shabbos, 21 Tammuz, 5777 in Jerusalem.

He was 65.

Reb Kalman, son of Rabbi Mayer Mendelsohn obm, a Gerrer Chossid from Israel, moved with his family in the late 1950s to the neighborhood of Crown Heights.

Growing up in Crown Heights near the Chabad community, he soon developed a strong connection to the Rebbe and the Lubavitch community. 

He often told of an incident which happened when he was 5 years old, playing on the corner of Kingston Avenue and President Street near Raskin's fruit store. He recalled running into the street to retrieve a ball, directly into oncoming traffic. Suddenly, a hand grabbed his shirt, pulling him to safety. Looking up, he saw that it was the Lubavitcher Rebbe who had saved him, he told.

As a bochur, Reb Kalman learned in the famous Yeshivas Chiddushei Harim, and after his marriage, he founded the famed Mendelsohn's Pizza Dairy Restaurant in Boro Park, Brooklyn, a place for families to be able to enjoy a fresh, nourishing and affordable hot meal in a proper environment. 

The store, known as "the crossroads between Boro Park, Flatbush and Crown Heights," also became a place of Chesed for the entire New York community and beyond. Shiva homes would receive big orders at no charge. Newly-married couples would come to Mendelsohn's during Sheva Brachos for a free delicious lunch as a wedding gift and would also receive Brachos from Reb Kalman.

Anyone traveling from Eretz Yisroel or Europe to seek help in America knew that he could get a fresh hot meal, a warm smile, a listening ear and good advice, at Reb Kalman's restaurant on 18th Avenue, and all at no charge.

The Mendelsohn's home in Boro Park as well, was open to guests at all times. Their Shabbos table often had ten to twenty Yeshiva boys in addition to many others.

Reb Kalman moved to Israel several years ago and would come often to visit his family in New York. Even on his final Shabbos, there were guests in the Mendelsohn home in Jerusalem.

Reb Kalman would often visit the Congregation Ohel Moshe - Chevra Thilim Lubavitch Shul at Lubavitch Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway, where his son Motti serves as the Gabbai. 

He is survived by his wife, Basya and children Motti Mendelsohn, Heshy Mendelsohn, Meyer Mendelsohn, Chaya Friedman, Devorah Weinberg and Esther Chana Nussbaum, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

He is also survived by his siblings, Miriam Weber, Rochele Abramowitz, Leah Greenbaum, Menachem Mendelsohn, Yankel Mendelsohn.

The levayah and Kevura took place on Motzei Shabbos in Yerushalayim.

Shiva in New York is at 1809 - 51 Street in Boro Park, Brooklyn NY.

Baruch Dayan Ha'emes.

"New" American Gedoilim Meet With Satmar Rebbe Against IDF

B"H, there are no problems with Judaism in the USA ....no problems in Monsey, Lakewood, Monroe, Williamsburg and Boro Park.... there seems to be no problems with Teens overdosing and committing suicide ..... no problems with askanim in Lakewood taking Federal Programs ..... nope!

Rabbonim got together two weeks ago to declare that anyone Joining the IDF is a sinner ....

In the above clip, two askanim from Israel from the Peleg faction are trying to convince the American Rabbis that they should declare that yeshiva boys in Israel should not even register for the draft, and the Satmar Rebbe, R' Aron Teitelbaum will have none of that declaring one of the Peleg Askanim a "liar." Stating emphatically that there isn't anybody in jail who did the proper thing and registered .... "there are over 40,000 boys learning, and I challenge any of you to come with me to Israel and find one boy in jail."

What is interesting to note that they added new "Gedoilim" to this meeting! 
Rav Dovid Shustel, one the the 4 Lakewood R"Y, who is sitting on the Satmar Rebbe's left, and after mumbling something incoherently, the Satmar Rebbe says ...."wow that was a deep thought." 
R' Aron Schechter, the R"Y of Chaim Berlin, now a Satmar Tuchis lekker, sits on the Rebbe's right, and cannot put two words together. In the clip one can also see Rabbi Rottenberg, a rebbele who has a little shteeble in Monsey....now added to the Gedoilim list ...
Bobover 45 Rebbe is seen in the clip totally bewildered and looks like he just heard for the very first time that Israel has an army! 

The clip above is in Yiddish.... and even if you are fluent in the language ... you will be amazed to hear that these leaders cannot put two coherent words together .....
Its true that the clip was pasted together ..... and that some of the talk is cut in middle .....but still most of them are incoherent ....and that is a shame!!!
I wish I can unhear this ......I would have had more respect for them!

Chabad Emissary Steps In To Help Autistic Child During Transatlantic Flight

An encounter on a recent flight from Europe to America has caught the attention of the Internet.

On a flight back from Israel after chaperoning an a Mayanot Taglit-Birthright trip, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rochel Groner found herself in a unique position to help. An hour into an eight hour connecting flight from Europe, and after a three-hour delay before takeoff, a young boy with autism had a meltdown.

“You could hear his cries throughout the plane,” wrote Rabbi Bentzi Groner, who along with his wife Rochel co-directs the Charlotte, N.C. chapter of Friendship Circle and ZABS place, an upscale thrift boutique and employment training center for young adults with disabilities. A ‘meltdown’, which appears similar to an extreme tantrum, is a response in people with autism to sensory overload.“You could feel the tension among the other passengers,” he continued in a Facebook post .

The child’s parents seemed overwhelmed by the situation and despite there being no overt comments from other passengers “it was getting very uncomfortable,” said Groner.

The post and photos of the incident have already received thousands of reactions and has been shared more than 500 times.

“Don’t need to see Wonder Woman in the theater,” wrote one commenter, “Just drive on down to ZABS Place. She’s there every day!”

“This is the most beautiful story I have heard about in a very long time. We need more Rochels in this world,” wrote another.

“While most of the passers looked on with awe,” Bentzi Groner writes, “little did they know that for Rochel this is her life. At Friendship Circle, we’re taught that if we just offer our hand in love and acceptance, miracles will follow.”

R' Aron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe Distances Himself From His Own Newspaper "Der Blatt"

De Blatt, the Yiddish Weekly Newspaper of the Aronim, published a "Nasty" Headline this past week denigrating the Gedolim of Israel, specifically Harav Shteinman, asking its readers to harass them, because Israeli Gedoilim are of the opinion that all yeshiva boys must register for the IDF! 

Headline asks Jews living outside of Israel to harass Israeli Roshei Yeshivah

The law in the State of Israel is that all boys of age must register for the draft, but if they produce a "petur" which is an exemption if they are enrolled in a yeshiva, they are not drafted.....

However, the bachelor, R' Shmuel Auerbach, has ruled that eligible yeshivah boys shouldn't even register. His fanatical violent faction calls itself "Peleg" which means "separated" ..... meaning they consider themselves separated from the rest of the Chareidie world!

The Israeli governments arrests those eligible  for the draft, that don't register. There isn't anyone sitting in an Israeli jail that registered and had a "petur" and exemption.

R Aron Teitelbaum himself mocked  his own brother, R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, who backs the "bachelor," stating that there are over 60,000 Yeshiva students learning in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, and there is no one sitting in jail? 

This morning a "Kol Koreh" was distributed in Kiryat Yoel, that the Headline of "Der Blatt" was not the opinion of R' Aron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, and denigrating Israeli Roshei Yeshiva is against his teachings.

Even though Der Blatt is his very own Newspaper!

Go figure!

 

Appeals court overturns conviction of Sheldon Silver

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once among the state’s most powerful elected officials, has had his conviction on corruption charges overturned by an appellate court.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in a Thursday ruling, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that narrowed the definition of bribery. The appellate judges found that instructions given to the jury in the Silver case were erroneous in light of the Supreme Court decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. 

“We further hold that this error was not harmless because it is not clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have reached the same conclusion if properly instructed, as is required by law for the verdict to stand,” the Thursday decision states. 

The McDonnell case, decided after Silver was convicted in late 2015, provided a more limited interpretation of what an “official act” is, ruling that setting up a meeting, calling another public official or hosting an event do not on their own qualify as official acts. Essentially, the court was asked to opine on what constitutes corruption and what constitutes normal government action for a benefactor.

Silver was convicted of engaging in a two-track corruption scheme that padded his bank account with an estimated $4 million that prosecutors painted as bribes and kickbacks disguised as legal fees. Silver, who was of counsel for well-heeled Manhattan law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, was accused of helping steer state grants to a doctor who funneled mesothelioma patients to the law firm. Silver, who also did legal work for a separate firm that handled property tax assessment appeals, similarly was accused of receiving legal fees from real estate developers that had extensive business before the Legislature.

The Silver case was brought by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who also won convictions of former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Long Island, and his son Adam. Skelos also is appealing his conviction.

The full decision is here

Another Young Teenager Dies in Monsey

A 19-year-old Charedi, Yehuda Chaim Rubin, died tragically on Tuesday in Monsey, New York.

According to the Behadrey Haredim news website, Rubin was found dead in his apartment by friends. The friends called an ambulance, but the paramedics had no choice but to pronounce him dead.

The police took the body for an autopsy, the report said, and thanks to the work of the Misaskim organization, which safeguards the dignity of the deceased, the body was released, and Rubin’s funeral was held on Wednesday at the cemetery in Monsey. Jewish law prohibits autopsies, considered an affront to the dead, unless a rabbinic decisor rules otherwise, such as in the case of public danger from an undiagnosed and possibly contagious disease.

A friend of Yehuda Chaim told Behadrey Haredim, “I know him so well, what an incredible pain…my friends and I are simply shocked. He was such a good person, he always helped everyone in the store where he worked. After we did not hear from him for half a day, we tried to contact him, but without success. One of the friends called the rescue forces to the apartment where he lived, and unfortunately there was nothing they could do to save him.

Behadrey Haredim reported that Rubin’s family had lived in Israel in the past before moving to the United States several years ago.

Russian Lawyer Pictured with Obama Ambassador to Russia – 8 Days After Trump Jr. Mtg. VIDEO

Natalia Veselnitskaya was sitting with Obama’s Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul during a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, 8 days after cold-contacting Trump Jr. in Trump Tower.

That looks like Emin Agalarov sitting next to Natalia Veselnitskaya. He was mentioned in Donald Trump Jr’s statement this morning. Emin helped set up the meeting with Veselnitskaya.

Veselnitskaya was also connected to Fusion GPS, the DNC opposition research firm that produced the fraudulent and discredited Trump Dossier

So why was Veselnitskaya hanging out with Obama officials just days after her meeting with Donald Trump Jr.?

And why was Veselnitskaya given a privileged seat up front during the Congressional hearing?

And why did the then Attorney General Preet Bharara allow her into the US without a visa??????

  See her at the 0.48 mark behind Obama's Russian Ambassador at a Congressional hearing

See Photo Veselnitskaya has on her Facebook Page.... she carried this poster on the Women's March 

GOP Rep Steve King: Use Food Stamp, Planned Parenthood Funding to Build Border Wall

Jewish Mother of 6 Thrown In Jail by Ohio Judge

An Orthodox Jewish mother of 6, who has been battling her ex-husband to allow her to raise her children in an Orthodox Jewish home, has been thrown in jail by an Ohio Judge. 

An Orthodox Jewish mother of six who was barred from speaking with her own children because she insisted on raising them in a religious home has been thrown in jail because she lacked the financial means to reimburse her wealthy ex-husband $10,000 in court costs as order by an Ohio judge. 

Julie Goffstein and her husband Peter Goffstein had been raising their boys as members of the Chabad community in Cincinnati when Peter Goffstein decided that he no longer wanted to live a religious lifestyle. 

Given an ultimatum of choosing between her religion and her marriage, Julie chose to continue living her life as a Jew and the Goffstein’s bitter divorce began to unfold in 2010. 

After hearing the testimony of 11 character witnesses and two court ordered evaluations, Judge Jon Sieve of the Hamilton County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas awarded full custody of all of the Goffstein children to their mother, specifically noting the importance of continuity for the boys who had been raised in an Orthodox home.

Nine months later, Peter filed for a reallocation of custody and within weeks Judge Sieve had reversed his decision, awarding Peter full custody of the four younger children, observing that Julie’s insistence on sending the children to yeshiva was not in their best interest. 

While Judge Sieve’s ruling allowed the children to remain in yeshiva, Julie was held responsible for paying their tuition, with Peter given the authority to make all of the children’s educational decisions. 

Over time, the situation continued to deteriorate, with Peter filing multiple lawsuits against his former wife and Julie moved with the two older boys to Crown Heights where they continued in yeshiva, while the four younger boys were sent to public school against their will by their father.

As the court battles continued, Peter Goffstein continued to keep the younger children shielded from both their mother and their Jewish heritage, allegedly chopping off one child’s payos, removing the boys’ yarmulkas and making them eat pork. 

Friends of Julie’s also reported that he smeared urine on one child’s face as a punishment for a religious observance and that Peter repeatedly bullied anyone who supported Julie’s mission of raising her sons in an observant home. 

Eventually the court forbade Julie from discussing any religious matters with her sons, and she was found in contempt of court for telling one son of her efforts to get him back into yeshiva.

While Peter is extremely wealthy, Julie’s financial situation is very bleak, having been stripped of all marital assets by Judge Sieve. 

His latest decision, holding Julie in contempt of court for being unable to reimburse her ex-husbands court costs and sending her to jail, seems to be the latest obstacle thrown at Julie simply because she has chosen to raise her sons as practicing members of the Jewish faith. 

Julie’s sons, ranging in age from nine to eighteen are living a life of turmoil, with the younger boys facing their father’s reported harassment and the two older boys now living alone in Crown Heights because of Julie’s imprisonment.

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200 French Jews Defy Satmar Rebbe's Bizarre Advice and Make Aliyah

Just last week R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg visited France and told French Jews not to make Aliyah ... the Satmar Rebbe follows in the footsteps of his great uncle , R' Yoilish, who instituted the now famous Minhag to advise people that are in mortal danger to stay put and not emigrate ....
the last time Satmar followed that Minhag, a half million Hungarian Jews got murdered......
but as the adage goes ... a nut is very hard to crack! 

Today 200 French Jews stuck their thumbs up his nose and basically told him to go eat schmaltz herring and kichel in the states!

Helbrans Hated Israel But The State of Israel Will Take Care of His Remains

Very very interesting! 

G-D has a sense of humor .....

This guy Helbrens who got killed under questionable circumstances in Mexico wrote a sefer that stated  that "Israel is a dangerous place to live" .........yet he gets killed in Mexico?

Turns out that the Zionists didn't have anything to do with his death.

The person who feared persecution of the State of Israel or of his enemies was not killed by his enemies .... The person who decided that it was a danger to live in the State of Israel and wished to destroy her, did not die because he remained in Israel.

In fact it was he who killed himself. He went to toivel himself irresponsibly in a dangerous river. 

What is even more ironic .... is ...that we would not be surprised that the State of Israel takes ownership of his body and the Israeli Embassy in Mexico and the Minister of Foreign Affairs arranges for his burial!  

Halbrens is an Israeli Citizen and that is the only citizenship he has!

This was also the case with the Satmar Chassidim that smuggled drugs to Japan ..... and the Zionist Foreign Ministry negotiated and facilitated their release (the Chareidie fake News Press reported that Askanim were involved)! 

And the Zionists helped R' Yoel Tetelbaum escape from the Nazis  during WW2

Hashem certainly has a sense of humor!

Trump Playing The Media

President Donald Trump is a maestro playing the media like a well tuned Stradivarius violin.

Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, founder of the Lev Tahor ultra-Orthodox sect, found dead in a river in Mexico

Helbrans as a child lighting Chanukah Candles

Rabbi Shlomo Erez Helbrans, 55, leader of the "Lev Tahor" ("Pure Heart") ultra-Orthodox sect, was found drowned in a river in the Mexican state of Chiapas on Friday, according to local media.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying the reports were being looked into by the Israeli embassy in Mexico.

According to local media, Helbrans' body was pulled from the river by rescue forces on Friday afternoon after the rabbi was swept away by strong currents while swimming before Shabbat.

Rabbi Helbrans was the head of a group of forty ultra-Orthodox families who entered the state of Chiapas about three weeks ago, after crossing the border from Guatemala.

From Israel to the US, Canada, Guatemala and finally Mexico

Helbrans was born Shlomo Elbarnes into a secular family in Jerusalem, only becoming religious as a young man. He studied at the Itri Yeshiva in Jerusalem before founding the Lev Tahor sect in the 1980s.

Lev Tahor is an ultra-Orthodox sect comprised of predominantly Israeli Haredi extremists who leave their families behind in Israel as part of a wider boycott of Zionism. The group is widely considered to be a cult for its extreme conduct which adheres to the strict word of Jewish scripture.

In the 1990s, the movement was under investigation by Israeli authorities for allegedly collaborating with Islamist elements against state security. Helbrans fled to the United States along with several students who were smuggled out of Israel with fake passports. As such, an additional investigation into Helbrans for kidnapping was launched.

Whilst in the United States, Helbrans was arrested and served two years in prison for kidnapping after assisting a 13-year-old boy go into hiding from his secular mother.

After his release from prison in the US, Helbrans was to be deported to Israel, but instead fled to Canada where he was granted refugee status after claiming persecution in Israel for his religious and political beliefs.

Underage marriage, beatings and psychiatric drugs

According to estimates, the sect numbers about 230 people, of whom about 150 are children.

About three and a half years ago, Canadian authorities blocked the group from transferring underage members to Guatemala after Canadian courts issued a decree requiring some children to be transferred to foster families after being found to have been severely abused.

Welfare officials in Ontario and Quebec claimed that they had evidence of abuse involving beatings, underage marriage, and illegal education. However, the sect succeeded in transferring a number of the children to Guatemala giving rise to a legal battle over the last few years to expel them back to Canada.

In September 2016, at the request of Israeli authorities, Guatemalan law enforcement raided the Lev Tahor compound and arrested its leaders on suspicion of child abuse. The raid prompted its members to leave the site to a new location in eastern Guatemala, and complain that they were being persecuted due of their faith.

Helbrans and the group had crossed the Guatemalan border into the Mexican state of Chiapas several weeks ago. 

Satmar Rebbe to French Jews: Don't move to Israel!

R' Zalma Leib Teitelbaum, Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe

Sounds familiar????

His late uncle R' Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of the Satmar dynasty, advised his chassidim that held American and Palestinian passports during WW2, not to emigrate, saying that Hitler YM"S will never get to Romania and Hungary!

So it's natural that his successor would follow the same minhag even if it may very well annihilate the entire French Jewish Community!

Then he outright lied and told the French Jews:

"Specifically in Israel, children learn in public schools," one of the influential businessmen said. "And because of that, we're losing our next generation."

That is a bald faced lie, since there are over 300,000 Jewish children learning in Frum Schools in Israel, 100,000 are American boys from the USA.

There is more Torah learned in Israel now in the year 2017 than anytime in Jewish history, going back to Moshe Rabbeinu.

Why doesn't he address the 85% assimilation rate of Jewish students in the USA?????????????
The assimilation rate in Israel is practically ZERO!

Over the past two years, France's growing anti-Semitism and terror have led a record number of French Jews to immigrate to Israel. However, the Chasidic rebbe said, these Jews also lose their connection to Jewish tradition.

"Specifically in Israel, children learn in public schools," one of the influential businessmen said. "And because of that, we're losing our next generation."

The Satmar and Pshevorsk rebbes have worked to create schools which teach only Jewish studies, in an attempt to persuade the local Jewish community to provide their children with a Jewish education and not to leave France.

"Your place is here," the Satmar Rebbe said on Tuesday night. "Don't move to Israel."

He explained that his fathers, the founders of his hasidic sect, worked to provide for the spiritual welfare of Moroccan and Algerian Jews. Already decades ago, they built schools for these communities' children, or provided support to the existing schools.

"Today, many people are leaving for Israel, and cutting off all connection with Judaism," the Satmar Rebbe continued. "It's a spiritual holocaust."

"You must continue to stay here, and send your children only to schools which provide a true Jewish education."

Satmar Rebbe Monroe Mocks His Brother Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg about IDF

מתקפת האדמו"ר נגד הקיצוניים

הרבי מסאטמר: הסיקריקים משקרים ומחריבים את ירושלים

תיעודים חדשים מתוך פגישת רבני ואדמו"רי ארה"ב בעניין הגיוס בישראל, מכילים אמירות מפתיעות ונחרצות של האדמו"ר מסאטמר - מנהיג החסידות המתנגדת לציונות - נגד הסיקריקים (אקטואליה)

The Satmar Rebbe of Monroe, R' Aron Teitelbaum, has now taken the stand that the protests against the IDF Recruitment, instigated by his brother, R' Zalman Leib, are Fake and  Phony!

R' Aron  mockingly said that there are over 60,000 Yeshivah Boys in Bnei Brak and Yerushalayim learning Torah and no one is in jail!
He added that the "sikrikim" that are aligned with Shmuel "the bachelor" Auerbach are a bunch of liars and frauds that are perpetrating a Chillul Hashem by blocking traffic and inconveniencing innocent people trying to get to work.

Infant hit by Route 59 Road Rage Driver Dies

The 3 month baby who was being pushed in a stroller was hit June 26 along with his mother 38, and two sisters, ages 13 and 9, by Albert Gomez 62, of Spring Valley.

To Cover Up the Frauds in Lakewood, R' Malkiel Kotler will Organize a Meeting against the IDF in Monsey

Rav Kotler existing a private jet

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Instead of taking care of the massive Chillul Hashem that is occurring on a daily basis in his own community, Rav Kotler has decided to attack the IDF instead!

ראשי הישיבות הגאון רבי מלכיאל קוטלר והגאון רבי אליהו בער ווכטפויגל יוזמים "כינוס חירום" בנושא המאבק ב'חוק הגיוס' • גורם בכיר: "דעת רבים מגדולי הדור בארה"ב שאין להתערב בנושא" (חרדים)

Loose Translation:

(Kikar Shabbos) Rav Malkiel Kotler and Rav Eliyahu Wachtfogel are organizing an "emergency conference" addressing the Draft Law!

Crazy stuff!

Aaron Rajman murdered in Boca Raton

Yesterday, July 3rd, 2017, a great soul was tragically taken from this earth. 

Anyone who knew Aaron Rajman, knew him in many ways. 

The fighter, the friend, the brother, the sister, nephew, uncle and much more! 

Aaron was murdered at his home in South Florida in an home invasion .

Details are still scarce as to what lead to fatal shooting.

PBSO said a group of men entered a residence at 65th Terrace where a fight broke out. That led to gunfire.

Detectives from the Violent Crimes Division and Crime Scene Investigators were on scene this morning, and investigating this as a homicide.

Heroin has infiltrated the Chasidic community

A 20-year-old Chasidic woman died of a heroin overdose in Brooklyn last month — showing how even an ultra-insular religious community isn’t immune to the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Malky Klein’s mother discovered her daughter slumped over in bed and frothing at the mouth on June 24 at around 7:15 p.m. in their Borough Park home, according to police.

The Jewish volunteer ambulance service Hatzolah was called and medics tried to revive the young woman before taking her to Maimonides Hospital.

But by 8:22 p.m., doctors at Maimonides had pronounced her dead.

Malky’s overdose death is not an isolated incident, according to community members.

“We’re definitely losing more people to drugs — there’s no question,” said Yaakov Behr­man, who runs the Crown Heights drug-prevention group Operation Survival. “It’s getting worse in the United States, it’s getting worse in the world, and it’s affecting our community.”

Zvi Gluck, who works with suicidal and drug-addicted Jewish youth at his Manhattan-based group Amudim, has personally counted 60 opioid-related deaths among the metro area’s Orthodox Jews since the start of the year. Twenty of those were Hasidic.

Layala Rauch, 24, a close friend of Malky’s, said feelings of isolation are driving heroin use among Hasids. Rauch, who was raised Hasidic but strayed from the sect, said that from a young age, Klein embraced a more mainstream identity that alienated her from her ultra-religious community, getting her kicked out of a conservative religious school in Kensington and landing her at a school for troubled kids in Midwood, where she and others turned to drugs.

“This happens to many girls,” said Rauch.

Gluck and Behrman argue there is no straight line from Hasidism to addiction.

“It pains me when people make it a Hasidic issue,” Gluck said. “With suicide, it has certainly been among Hasidim that have left the fold. On the addiction side, though, it’s an equal-opportunity offender.”

Behrman blamed a rise in drugs on city streets for the rise in Orthodox and Hasidic overdoses.

“In many cases, the families are committed to getting help for their family members. They’ve tried, they’ve gone to professional help, attempted to put their child through rehabilitation. But if the kid is addicted and experimenting, there is very little the family can do,” he said.

Gluck and Rauch both know Klein’s family and agreed the parents did all they could.

The family kept anti-overdose drugs on hand, and Klein’s father was the first to administer one during her fateful overdose, according to a Hatzolah first-responder.

The parents paid for two years of rehab in California — from which Klein had recently returned, Rauch said, adding:

“The father and mother stopped at nothing.”

Klein’s parents did not return requests for comment.

Ike Fisher Blackmails Israel Because of Kotel Issue! Take Your $$$$ and Shove it!!

Does anybody else see the irony of mega rich Liberal American Jews like Ike Fisher, trying to dictate policy to Jews in Israel and by extension the rest of us Jews in the Diaspora.?

Mr Ike, 
take your Trangendered,Feminist,Liberal, Pro Gay,Fake Jewish agenda, and stick it where the sun don't shine. 

The unmitigated arrogance of a rich mamzer expecting everyone to bow down to his money.

The Jewish People do not need your stinking money.

 This Reform yutz who is a "supporter' of Israel in now boycotting Israel.

 Well, why don't we boycott his clients? 

He writes:
" “It is time for the Government of Israel to understand that its constituency includes Am Yisrael.”"

Let me tell you something about "Am Yisrael" ..... Am Yisrael survived Hitler YM"S ...we will survive you too....
 Coming out in public, guarantees that your offspring will most certainly assimilate amongst other Jew haters.


Email this two timing Jew Hater!
 ikfisher@capital-realty.com

Here is a list direct from his website:

http://www.capital-realty.com/ikeresume.htm

 Major US Jewish philanthropist Isaac “Ike” Fisher has suspended his financial support of Israel, in light of two explosive decisions made last week by the Israeli government that have upset liberal Jews around the world.

American born Knesset member Michael Oren confirmed to The Jerusalem Post a report in Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot on Sunday, that Fisher had sent him a letter informing him of a series of measures he is taking in protest of a government decision to backtrack on an agreement for an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall, and another on the issue of conversion.

These steps include cancelling a 1 million dollar investment made into Israeli bonds, suspending fundraising activities, and suspending his involvement in AIPAC.

Oren himself told the Post last week that he was furious about the decisions, and would vote in the Knesset against the government’s decision to grant the Chief Rabbinate a monopoly on conversion, even it meant getting fired from his post as a deputy minister. This has not yet been necessary as on Friday, a deal was reached to freeze the conversion legislation, while a special task force will be created to find a solution to both the haredi parties and the opponents of the bill.
In an email obtained by the Post Sunday, Fisher thanked Oren for his support for Diaspora Jewry over these issues. “As you know, I actively support the State of Israel, however my support is suspended till the Government of Israel reverses course,” he wrote.

“Last week I purchased one million dollars of Israel Bonds. That support is suspended. I am the incoming Campaign Chair of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation. I have advised them my work is suspended unless Israel reverses course. I am a National Board member of AIPAC. That work too is also suspended. I sit on the Board of American Friends of Tel Aviv University. I have advised them that my financial support is suspended,” Fisher stated.

“Enough is enough,” he concluded. “It is time for the Government of Israel to understand that its constituency includes Am Yisrael.”

“I was very saddened by what he wrote,” Oren told the Post, but added that “Israelis have to hear it.”

“I don’t think there is appreciation of the depth of hurt and alienation that liberal North American Jews feel toward Israel now, and this was a last straw for many,” the MK added.

Oren does not see this issue disappearing anytime soon, nor is it likely that Fisher is the only Jewish figure who will take concrete action in protest of the government decisions.

“I’ve heard from several major philanthropists that they were crestfallen, disappointed, hurt and they were certain it would have impact on Diaspora giving [to Israel]” he noted, though he said he was not at liberty to reveal anymore names.

While reactions might be expressed via financial avenues, Oren stressed that this is not about money, but about the concept of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

“I agree with this,” he emphasized. “The state of the Jewish people is not just about Jewish people living in Israel. We demand that the Palestinians recognize us as such so we should be the nation state of the Jewish people.”

Chris Matthews Wants Trump To Execute Jared Kushner

In just a few minutes on Thursday's edition of 'Hardball' on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews compared President Trump and his family to Saddam Hussein and his sons, the Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, and the deposed Russian royal family, the Romanovs. 

Matthews wondered about the Trumps: "Is it a royal family instead of a Democratic or a Republican form of government? Or is it a family running the government? Is it Ivanka and Jared and the President sitting around in the White House upstairs ruling the world?"

“So the son-in-law — you know, one good thing Mussolini did was execute his son-in-law. I mean, I’m talking about Ciano,” he happily remembered.