El Al Mess .... What Was The Real Issue .... A DIN Prospective!

Now that El Al is compensating all passengers, and the crisis is basically over ... we can now stop and evaluate what really happened.

I am not going to go into all the details that have already been reported and regurgitated in the media. 

What I would like to focus on is only one aspect of the problem....

How does a frum "observant" Jew travel to Israel on Thursday night in the best of circumstances???

One of the passengers was a well known Rosh Yeshivah, who will remain nameless, who threatened El Al with a boycott. 
What was he thinking??? 

How does a mechanech of spiritually vulnerable young minds take a risk of being Mechalel Shabbos, taking a chance to travel on Thursday evening, hoping to get there in a comfortable window of time???

Where is the outrage of "Daas Torah?"

Why isn't there one Yeshivish or Chassidish Dayan protesting the fact that there were frum people ... Roshei Yeshiva no less, leaving on a 10 to 11 hour flight on a Thursday night??

The passengers all complained that  "El Al staff weren't there on time"

 When El Al initially responded that "the weather was bad, " the passengers retorted that they, the passengers were all there on time so why wasn't the staff on time?

Question: How does a frum Jew who heard horror stories about the weather ... hearing that people were in their cars from 6 to 8 hours on a trip that usually takes 45 minutes to an hour, how do they continue to the airport... on a Thursday evening????

Yes ... Yes they say ... that El Al is a Shomer Shabbos airline and  would make sure that they get there on time....

Shomer Shabbos ....??????????

Do you know how long it takes for cargo to be inspected and loaded on a plane??? I'm not talking about passenger cargo ... I'm talking about cargo that planes take from companies doing business in Israel.....

Yes .... yes ... El Al doesn't fly on Shabbos....but how and when  does cargo from companies get on the plane??? Especially now that Shabbos ends at approx 5:30 P.M.?

I got news for you guys ... the cargo gets there 5- 6 hours before the plane takes off ... yes ...absolutely ....  cargo was loaded on Shabbos... ... 
Tell me .... I'm waiting with bated breath ... What time on Saturday do they clean the plane??????
Hmmm? You never gave it any thought???? I don't believe you!!

So don't give me this cockamamie excuse that you were confident that El Al would make sure that they get there before Shabbos??


Yes .... shut up already about "El Al Pilot Lied To Us" ....
What about you? Don't you have any respect for Shabbos, the most important Mitzvah in the entire Torah??
I'll bet you a dollar to donuts that there wasn't a single "baal teshuvah" on that flight .... not a single one! 

You took a chance... you took a risk .... you gambled... and you lost!!!!!

I'll bet that if this wasn't El Al but happened on United or Delta .... you would all shut up!
And the airline would tell you to take your business elsewhere!

How do I know? You ask?????

Because I spoke to a Chabad guy who told me that practically twice a month, Frum Jews taking other airlines come in minutes before Shabbos and call the local Chabad asking for help with food etc ...

and BTW ... as the slogan goes "Crap Happens" 

Grow up ... I've flown often enough ... I know all about delays etc ... 

If I want to get there on Shabbos I give myself more than ample time, and if I can't ... I sit on my proverbial fat ass and stay home!

And don't tell me as my friend who was on the plane told me ..

"It's not about the money!!!" "I swear It's not about the money!!"

It's all about the money ... 
and I wonder if that Rosh Yeshiva will get a private special deal with El Al to fly free for the entire year ...

I wonder......

Confirmed: No Chabad House on Mars : NASA’s InSight beams back breathtakingly clear photo of Mars

NASA’s spacecraft that landed on Mars Monday has beamed back its first clear photo of the desolate Red Planet, and it was confirmed that there is no Chabad House on Mars.

Satmar was extremely pleased with this development! 

“There’s a quiet beauty here. Looking forward to exploring my new home,” NASA tweeted late Monday, hours after its new InSight lander touched down.

The image came after the rover had earlier sent back a somewhat blurry photo. The space agency said that in the interim the spacecraft had opened its solar panels, which allowed it to recharge its batteries for the mission.

“Our Mars Odyssey orbiter phoned home, relaying news from @NASAInSight indicating its solar panels are open & collecting sunlight on the Martian surface,” NASA wrote in the tweet. “Also in the dispatch: this snapshot from the lander’s arm showing the instruments in their new home.”

The InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on Monday after six-month journey to the planet. The dispatch that included the first clear photo of Mars from the mission were relayed to Earth by the Mars Odyssey orbiter.

“The InSight team can rest a little easier tonight now that we know the spacecraft solar arrays are deployed and recharging the batteries,” Tom Hoffman, a project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which leads the mission, said in a statement.

More pictures of the Red Planet may be beamed back in the coming days.

Soon, the mission team will unfurl InSight’s robotic arm and use the attached camera to snap photos of the ground for scientists to determine where to place the spacecraft’s instruments, NASA said.

Day Yoimie Snippets ... Menachois Pages 100,101, 102,103,104, 105 & 106

You can copy and print this without my consent, since Torah belongs to all of us..... 

See  previous Daf Yoimie Snippets 

"דף ק .."ברקאי  

Page 100 Mesectas Menachois  

"Barkai" 

In the days when the Temple stood, the Kohanim would offer the "korban tamid," before any other sacrifices were offered.  

Towards the end of each night, the supervisor of the Kohanim would appoint a Kohein to stand at the highest area of the Temple to gaze towards the east to watch when exactly the  sun rose.

As soon as the appointed "watcher" would notice sunrise he would shout out "barkai" .... meaning the sun rose.

There are rabbis who are of the opinion that the Kohanim would wait a bit more till sunrise was more prominent.

The reason they would appoint someone to watch and announce the sunrise, was because of a story that actually happened.

It happened that the Kohanim once saw the moon on the east and thought that it was the sun rising, and they went ahead and sacrificed the "korban tamid" while it was still night, which invalidated the sacrifice. 

They were then forced to burn it since the Halacha is that there cannot be any sacrifices offered at night.

They therefore appointed someone who would be able to distinguish when the sun actually rose.

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Liberal Jews Don't Care About Anti-Semitism If It's From the left!!!

Jonathan Greenblatt, Chief Tuchis Lekker of the Goyim

By Karol Markowicz
Jew-hating has become too normal in America, and liberal Jewry keep mum about it. Left-of-center Jews speak out about white nationalists, but where are they on anti-Semitism when it arises from their own side?

Last week, Airbnb announced its decision to remove rental listings in the West Bank. But the apartment-sharing service didn’t touch listings in other disputed territories, like Russian-annexed Ukraine and Turkish-occupied North Cyprus. You would think liberal Jewish outfits would race to call out what lies behind this hypocrisy: anti-Semitism.

You’d think wrong. Anti-Defamation League boss Jonathan Greenblatt, for example, issued a tepid statement saying he was “dismayed” by the move. But he stopped short of calling out the blatant anti­Semitism.

Yechiel Feingold, 20 Killed By Hit And Run Driver in Lakewood

Yechiel Feingold z"l

Tragedy struck the Lakewood community on Sunday morning, when word spread of a horrific crash that took the life of a young man.

The crash occurred just before 7:30AM on County Line Road near Cedar Row.

Lakewood Hatzolah arrived and found one victim (the passenger) in traumatic arrest. He was rushed to a local hospital, but was R”L Niftar moments after arriving.

The driver was rushed to Jersey Shore Trauma Center in critical but stable condition.

The Niftar has been identified as Yechiel Feingold, 20-years-old of Baltimore, Maryland. He learned in Rabbi Goldblatt’s yeshiva in Lakewood.

Novaminsker Rebbe Slams R'Malkiel Kotler Publicly For His Endorsement Of Peleg Violence At The Agudah Convention!!

Listen to the keynote speeches Motzei Shabbos at 12:43 

www.agudahconvention.org/program

R' Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshivah of Lakewood and Satmar "tuchis lekker," endorses the violence of the Peleg Faction in Israel, and said so at the Agudah Convention ... He spoke on Shabbos after Shachris ....He came up with some cockamamie story about some rabbonim in Israel not giving the proper "Kavod Ha'Torah" for the Peleg rabbonim who advocate violence and organize illegal protests on the streets of Bnei Brak ...
No more protests in Yerushalyim, though; they managed to negotiate with the Zionist Police.
R' Malkiel  totally politicized the Agudah Convention and the majority of the attendees were horrified!! 

Over the years, R' Malkiel and R' Aron Shechter of Chaim Berlin have managed to bring the Israeli machlokas to the USA...
They support the Auerbach crazies .... and instead of spreading Torah, they spread machlokas throughout the Yeshivas ...

R' Malkiel's zombies also placed "pashivelin" under each attendees hotel room's door . The pashkivelin mocked R' Chaim Kanievski.

R' Perlow, the Novemensker Rebbe, at his Key Note Agudah Address on Saturday Night, called him out and set the record straight! 

Beverly Hills boycotts Airbnb

The Beverly Hills, California city council condemned Airbnb's decision to remove its list of apartments and holiday units in Judea and Samaria “settlements” from its site.

"We find the activity of the Airbnb company to be troubling. In the name of our residents, this decision, which passed unanimously, reflects the council's continued commitment to Israel and the exposure of hatred wherever it may be," Beverly Hills Mayor Julian Gold was quoted as saying in Yediot Aharonot. .

"Airbnb is not welcome in Beverly Hills as well as its policy, which is based on anti-Jewish double standards," added his deputy John Mirisch. "Hatred of Jews is a disease. We try to strengthen others against it and we have to protect ourselves from its effects."

"Beverly Hills is a international tourist destination with visitors from all over the world. Airbnb is a service for renting apartments with a significant impact throughout the world. Since the company's decision to remove all homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank demonstrates hatred, prejudice, ignorance and hypocrisy, since the company operation is contrary to the values ​​that are important to us Beverly Hills, since prejudice and discrimination based on religion has no place in our society, country and the world - the city council opposes the discriminatory decision.

“We urge the boycotting company to amend its disrespectful decision to the land of Israel and restore the original services immediately. If they do not do so - we call on all citizens of the world to boycott them until they reconsider their vile anti-Semitic activity."

Followers of Satmar & US " Peleg Rabbanim "R' Malkiel Kotler Lakewood and R' Schechter of Chaim Berlin Insult R' Chaim Kanievski

Some of you may know that Rav Chaim Kanievski met with the Zionist Ex Defense Minister of the Zionist State, Lieberman, and allowed him to write a letter in a brand new Sefer Torah that was finished in the downstairs of R' Chaim Kanievski's home.

Photos of this event was all over the Israeli Press!

Followers of Satmar and the two anti-Zionist Roshei Yeshivois, Rav Malkiel Kotler of Lakewood, and Rav Aron Shechter of Chaim Berlin, stuffed Pashkivelin under the doors of each room at the hotel of the Agudah Convention, making sure that all the guests were aware of this news story!

The following was a letter to YWN by an outraged guest! 

Dear YWN,

I am sorry to be writing such a harsh letter while in my room just two hours before Shabbos, but I feel a public Mach’ah is in order. Not only that, but a public apology from the Agudah is in order.

 I paid to attend the Convention to be spiritually uplifted by words of Gedolim. I did not pay to have a politically motivated newspaper, with an offensive headline stuffed under my door.

I am referring to a piece of trash that I wouldn’t use to lace the floor of my birdcage. This newspaper, suspected to be funded by Satmar, and two the leaders of the Peleg Yerushalmi in America (a Rosh yeshiva from Lakewood, and a Rosh Yeshiva from Flatbush), hardly has an ad in it, yet is published weekly and shoved into our mailboxes in Flatbush and Lakewood. Big deal. I and 99% of the rest of the world simply throw it in a trash bin. But to have this shoved under every single door at the convention is utterly disgusting.

Bnei Torah at the convention I have spoken to are appalled. On the cover page of this “special journal for the Agudah Convention”, there is a full-on attack on Maran Sar Hatorah Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita! There are no ample words to describe the horror and shock!

This lead article is a haskala- style mocking piece centering on Maran Sar HaTorah and the decisions he’s made.

The Agudah should be just as careful as they have been with the kashrus and ideology of the speakers, to be just as carefuls in protecting guests from the most dangerous infection of all- disdain and disrespect for gedolei Yisroel!

Shameful, and disgraceful.

Name withheld by request.

Noach's Teivah Coming To Israel Finally!

For two years, the world’s only seaworthy life-size replica of Noah’s Ark has been wowing passengers traveling along Holland’s Maas River.

Built according to the specifications detailed in the Hebrew Bible, the 390-foot-long vessel towers to a height of 75 feet. It boasts enough wood to fell 12,000 trees. And its distinct form dominates the coastline of the small town hosting it deep in southern Holland’s so-called Bible Belt.

Dwarfing even some modern-day cruise ships, the ark instantly became an international tourist attraction when it was completed  in 2012 after four years of construction.

But the man who built it, the devout Christian businessman Johan Huibers, can’t wait to take the mammoth to Israel—a country whose problems and successes, he said, are always on his mind.

“My preferred destination for the ark is Israel,” Huibers, 60, told JTA earlier this month on the forward deck, which features a life-size statue of a giraffe.

His love for the Jewish state and people, he said, flows from the same impulse that compelled him to raise nearly $5 million to build the ark.

“It may sound scary, but I believe everything written in this book, cover to cover,” he said while pointing at a copy of a translation into Dutch of the Hebrew Bible. “This is a copy of God’s ship. It only makes sense to take it to God’s land.”

Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin "Either El Al apologizes or face boycott"

A well-known charedi rabbi is threatening to boycott El Al if the carrier does not apologize for causing religious Jews to violate Shabbat last week.

In a letter to El AL, Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin wrote that "if by Sunday evening an apology is not issued, unfortunately, we will have to start preferring other airlines".

Many in the charedi community have been calling to boycott El Al following a flap last Shabbat between the carrier and its observant passengers.

Israeli Bobover Chassidim Will Wear Hats Instead of Shtreimlich This Shabbas

Passengers from Flight 028, from the US to Israel were shocked to 

discover that all their baggage with their Shabbos clothing were left in Newark for "security reasons"!

Bobover Chassidim are furious with  El Al, although this time it is unclear who is to blame for the mishap.

Flight 028 from New York landed on Friday morning with 200 Chassidim, about 160 of them from Bobov who returned from a wedding. They received notice that the suitcases with the Sabbath clothes and the Shtreimelch remained "for security reasons" in Newark.

"We were told that we were dealing with security reasons, but the feeling was that this was a technical malfunction that left us in this situation," one of the passengers told DIN.

El Al response was:

 "Due to the lack of manpower at the TSA (the security inspection supervisors in Newark), the baggage was delayed for inspection and arrived at our security check after the passengers were already on the plane!

LETTUCE-PRAY ..... Romaine still on shelves of Frum stores even after E. coli warning from health officials ...

Watching this video, I was mamash embarrassed to be a frum Jew! .... The frummies sounded so crazy and naive .... one big bruiser with a stupid smile on his face ... said, "I'll risk it"

Are they are all so sure that BODEK & POSITIVE have no E coli..... ? I sure hope they don't ....

but to say "I'll risk it" is dumb....

Will you "risk it" and feed it to your toddlers???

Meshigiginer!!!!

The right answer would have been to tell the reporter that "Bodek and Positive have informed and assured our community that their products are safe and not  included in the warning of health officials .... "

One fool asked "is this a law?'
Hey ... Is there is a law on not drinking bleach??? .....

On what planet are we living in????

It may not "be a law" but it's no "mitzvah" to eat it either!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

42-year-old woman jumped out of her office window in Ramat Gan’s Diamond Exchange After "aggressive" Police Questioning

Mazal Hadadi ע''ה

Israel billionaire Lev Leviev's diamond company LLD has asked Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to probe the circumstances of the suicide of Mrs. Mazal Hadadi who was questioned under caution this week in connection with a massive diamond smuggling scandal.

The 42-year-old woman jumped out of her office window in Ramat Gan’s Diamond Exchange District on Tuesday night.

"The circumstances of her death raise the suspicion that she took her life due to severe emotional distress due to the aggressive and disproportionate investigation she was subjected to in recent days," the letter stated.

Naive Frum Jews Voted For the Dems and Get Kicked in the ASS!!!! New NYS Guidelines Require Yeshiva Elementary Schools to Teach AT LEAST 6 HOURS A DAY of Secular Studies

So where is Simcha Felder? HMMMMM???

Where is the Monroe Satmar Rebbe?????

Didn't they say that it's "Daas Torah" to vote for the Democrats???? Hmmmm???

The only way out is that all Yeshivois practice what the preach for Israel .....the Satmar SHIT" ........

"Stop taking $$$$$$$$ from the Medinah!!

If they stop taking federal and state funds.... and if they use their own transportation, then they can  continue making their children ignorant ... no problem ... 

Private and religious schools that don’t provide instruction substantially equivalent to New York state’s public schools will be threatened with loss of funding for textbooks, transportation and other services under new state Education Department rules released Tuesday.

Jona Rechnitz & Jeremy Reichenberg Dressed As Santa Claus Delivering Bribes

Accused cop-briber Jeremy Reich­berg and cohort Jona Rechnitz donned Santa hats and cruised around in a black Aston Martin convertible to deliver Christmas grifts to officers on Staten Island, according to videos and photos released Tuesday.

The pricey goodies, including Nintendo games and American Girl dolls, were delivered to Reich­berg’s co-defendant, former NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant, as well as retired cop Eric Rodriguez and already-convicted ex-Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Rechnitz testified in Manhattan federal court.

“Ho, ho, ho!” Rechnitz says in the video.

Rechnitz explained that he wasn’t just channeling the jolly fat man — he was mocking one of Reichberg’s “competitors,” a man named “Abe” whom he described as also having high-level connections in the NYPD.

“You little ho,” he said of Abe in the clip.

In another video, the two men are seen driving up to a heavily protected 1 Police Plaza with ease while boasting about their ties to then-Chief of Department Philip Banks.

“We’re going to go park in the chief of department’s extra spot,” Rechnitz boasts in the video.

“Please salute us, officer, if you want to keep your job,” he adds snarkily as the men drive past a cop standing guard in the cold.

“Philip Banks is now chief of department, and we have full access,” Rechnitz explained of the statements on the witness stand.

Judge Grants Permission To perform BRIS On a Girl!!!! ..... Mohels Very Happy!

In a major blow to the federal government, a judge in Detroit has declared America's female genital mutilation law unconstitutional, thereby dismissing the key charges against two Michigan doctors and six others accused of subjecting at least nine minor girls to the cutting procedure in the nation's first FGM case.

The historic case involves minor girls from Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, including some who cried, screamed and bled during the procedure and one who was given Valium ground in liquid Tylenol to keep her calm, court records show.

The judge's ruling also dismissed charges against three mothers, including two Minnesota women whom prosecutors said tricked their 7 -

Crazed Chassidishe Fanatics Protest Bet Shemesh Employment Expo For Women

Hundreds of chareidi women arrived on Sunday arrived at a Beit Shemesh shopping and employment fair, only to be met by crazed extremists who protested at the site. 

When the savages, heard of the event taking place in the Kinor David Hall, they immediately, like a pack of hungry dogs, headed to the site to protest. 

They carried signs against the Zionists and the State, screaming “Gevald” as they chanted.

The hundreds of women in attendance heard advice from professionals, experts in their fields, all offering their experience towards enabling the women to earn a Parnasa honorably. The experts included the directors of leading colleges who spoke to them.

Adding fuel to the demonstration on Sunday night is the recent change of government in Beit Shemesh, where newly-elected Mayor Dr. Aliza Bloch was among the speakers addressing the women. Bloch upset the Charedi incumbent, Moshe Abutbul.

Shomrei Shabbos Passengers Demand $13,000.00 Each ..... From El Al

DIN: I have a friend that was on this flight and he tells me in all  sincerity with a straight face:

"It's not about the money" .

🤪  🤑 🤮

The saga surrounding the El Al flight 002 from New York to Israel has not subsided.

Yisrael Hayom reported Tuesday in an exclusive report that the shomrei Shabbos passengers on the infamous flight from New York to Israel on Friday demanded that the company pay NIS 50,000 ($13,000) to each of the 180 shomrei Shabbos passengers who were on board the plane, and to refund the cost of the flight to each passenger.

In addition to the financial compensation, the passengers demand a public announcement from the company that there were no violent incidents on the part of the shomrei Shabbos passengers, and that the rumors circulated after the flight were totally unfounded.

Lev Tahor Cult Kidnaps Boy From Monroe Who Escaped Them !

Authorities are currently investigating an alleged kidnapping of one of the Lev Tahor Cult escapees.

Meanwhile let’s not forget the disgusting story that Ami magazine ran about Lev Tahor not long ago. Frankfurter visited them and soft sold the cult as a group of misunderstood holy Jews doing their own thing.

Ami Magazine in its March 26, 2014  edition praised the cult stating: that Lev Tahor is being  "unjustly  persecuted," and that the cult is run by "a group of pious Jews". 
(see bottom of my post Mar 26,2014)

Highly credible sources confirm that one of the “Teller children” was reportedly kidnapped from the Monroe area on Monday afternoon.

As of this posting, only the NYPD and the NY State Police are involved in the investigation.

 The Teller children arrived in the United States last week, following an intense effort to rescue them from the Cult, currently located in Guatemala.

The children are the 4 daughters and 2 sons of Rebbitzen Sara Feige Teller, a sister of current Lev Tahor leader, Nachman Helbrans. (Nachman assumed leadership of the cult following the 2017 drowning death of his father, Shlomo Helbrans, the founder of Lev Tahor.) 

She is married to Rabbi Aron Aryeh Teller, rosh yeshivah of Lev Tahor.

Fox News Moving to the Left!!!!!!!!!

In just last few months, Fox News has…

• Backed CNN’s lawsuit against President Trump to reinstate a press pass for heckler Jim Acosta.
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• Buckled to emotional blackmail from CNN and others and stopped airing Trump’s perfectly acceptable ad about the dangers of illegal immigration.
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• Offered a platform to Jorge Ramos, a left-wing propagandist and open borders extremist.
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• Mocked an actor for working a real job.
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• Spread the fake news that Senate Judiciary Committee testimony from Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford was “exceptionally credible” — when the truth is that Ford’s testimony and documentation were riddled with contradictionsand falsehoods.
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• Attacked Breitbart News after it uncovered smoking gun audio about Google’s election meddling.

And Finally:

Airbnb Removing Listings In Yehuda and Shomron Settlements Caves in to BDS Movement!!!

Home-renting company Airbnb Inc said on Monday that it had decided to remove its listings in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, enclaves that most world powers consider illegal for taking up land where Palestinians seek statehood.

A statement on Airbnb’s website said: “We concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.”

It did not say when the decision, which according to Airbnb affects some 200 listings, would take effect.

No Credit Cards For Get­-Refusers

The Knesset has approved the preliminary reading of a new bill which would stop get refusers from using credit cards. It was supported by 50 MKs with no opponents or abstentions.

An explanatory note to the bill notes that botei din have stopped get refusers from using checks since 1995. But since then, checks are barely used and most purchases are made with credit cards.

Mazal Tov! Chuck Schumer's Daughter Marries A "Shiksa"

The question all frum Jews are asking: 

Was Ezra (the Kapo) "Tuchis Lekker" Friedlander invited? 

If he was there did he get a bracha.

Alison Schumer, the younger of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s two daughters, married Elizabeth Weiland on Sunday in Brooklyn, with the couple posing for wedding photos on a bridge over the toxic Gowanus Canal.

The white-dress-clad lovebirds, each clutching a mixed bouquet — with Alison Schumer wearing shoes as green as the Superfund site below them — held hands and shared a tender glance on the rust-flecked Union Street Bridge, which has become a popular backdrop for photos.

Starting at around 10 a.m., the pair posed for several snaps along the tree-lined bridge before heading inside the nearby Green Building event space to exchange vows in a brief, intimate ceremony at around noon.

Dershowitz: Democratic party tolerates anti-Semitism

Passengers Say EL AL Lied About Charedi Violence On Flight From NY

Passengers on the nightmare El Al flight from New York to Tel Aviv on Thursday night have accused the airline of lying and of a “kidnap” after a five-hour delay in taking off meant that the plane could not reach Israel before Shabbat began.

Despite El Al’s initial statement alleging that haredi fliers had been violent, numerous passengers stated subsequently that there had been no violence at all, with many blaming the late arrival of the cabin crew to the airport for the severe delay and failure to reach Israel on time.

Flight LY002 was scheduled to leave New York’s JFK Airport at 6:30 p.m. local time Thursday and arrive in Israel on Friday afternoon. But due to snow storms and the failure of the El Al cabin staff to arrive on time at the airport, the flight ended up leaving more than five hours later.

Shortly before the plane took off, religious passengers began to request stridently to disembark since they realized that the flight would continue into the Sabbath on Friday evening, a violation of Jewish religious law.

El Al claimed that “a group of haredim” requested to get off the plane and “exercised heavy and violent pressure against the cabin crew” in seeking to disembark, and alleged that this caused further delays in taking off.