Rav Kook z"l Letter Sent To European Jews Begging Them To Make Aliyah and Warning Them of Upcoming Tragedies Way Back In 1909!

If only our grandparents would have listened to Rav Kook's prophetic words, how many millions would have been saved, instead we listened to our anti-Zionist leaders that ultimately led to ..the annihilation of 3/4 of the total world's Jewish population

Yes, of course it was a decree from heaven, absolutely, but each individual has choice and because we were misled by the people that we trusted the most we chose to give up our "bechirah," our G-d given choice, which in turn caused the biggest tragedy that the Jewish people experienced in its entire history 

Will we ever learn? I doubt it

This was written in 1909, 33 years before the Holocaust
(his letter in red)

בכל יום השואה מרחף לו כתם נוראי מעל הנהגת היהדות החרדית.

עוון בל יכופר שעוד לא נאמרה בו המילה "טעינו".

ההנהגה החרדית בראשותם של גדולי הרבנים והאדמורי"ם, הניאו את חסידיהם מלעלות לארץ ישראל ערב פרוץ מלחמת העולם השנייה, ואף הזהירו אותם לבל יעזו ללכת לאור קריאת הציונים לשוב הביתה ארצה.

הסוף המר ידוע לכולנו, רובם הושמדו וחלקם ברחו ברכבת קסטנר הנוראה בעוד צאן מרעיתם נטבח ע"י המפלצות הנאציות.

אחד יחיד ומיוחד היה רבה של ארץ ישראל מרן הראי"ה קוק זצ"ל שעודד בכל הזדמנות את יהודי אירופה לעלות ארצה, ואף הזהיר כי תמה תקופת הגלות וכי אם לא יעלו רעה גדולה עלולה להשיגם.

לפניכם "הקריאה הגדולה: לארץ ישראל" שכתב עוד בהיותו ביפו בשנת 1906 (33 שנים קודם פרוץ שואת יהודי אירופה): 

אֶת הַקְּרִיאָה הַזֹּאת נִקְרָא בְּקוֹל אֶחָד, בְּקוֹל גָּדוֹל וְלֹא יָסָף.

בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, אַחִים נְעִימִים, בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, הַצִּילוּ אֶת נַפְשׁוֹתֵיכֶם, אֶת נֶפֶשׁ דּוֹרוֹתֵיכֶם, וְאֶת נֶפֶשׁ עַמֵּנוּ כֻּלּוֹ, הַצִּילוּהוּ מִשּׁוֹמֵמוּת וְטִמְיוֹן, הַצִּילוּהוּ מֵרֶקֶב וְהַשְׁפָּלָה, הַצִּילוּהוּ מִכָּל טֻמְאָה וְרִשְׁעָה, מִכָּל צָרָה וְצוּקָה, שֶׁהוּא עָלוּל אֲלֵיהֶם בְּכָל אַרְצוֹת הָעַמִּים בְּלִי הֶבְדֵּל וְהֶפְרֵשׁ.

"בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל!" נִקְרָא בְּקוֹל נוֹרָא וּמַרְעִישׁ, בְּקוֹל רַעַם וְרַעַשׁ גָּדוֹל, בְּקוֹל מְחוֹלֵל סְעָרָה וּמַרְגִּיז שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ, בְּקוֹל קוֹרֵעַ כָּל קִירוֹת לֵב. הִמָּלְטוּ עַל נַפְשְׁכֶם וּבֹאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל. קוֹל ד' קוֹרֵא אוֹתָנוּ, יָדוֹ נְטוּיָה עָלֵינוּ, רוּחוֹ אֲשֶׁר בִּלְבָבֵנוּ הוּא מְקַבֵּץ אוֹתָנוּ הוּא מְעוֹדְדֵנוּ, וְהוּא מַכְרִיחַ אוֹתָנוּ כֻּלָּנוּ לִקְרֹא בְּקוֹל גָּדוֹל אַדִּיר וְנוֹרָא: אַחֵינוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, אַחִים אֲהוּבִים וִיקָרִים, בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, הִלָּקְטוּ לְאַחַד אֶחָד, אַל תַּמְתִּינוּ עַל סְדָרִים וּדְבָרִים רִשְׁמִיִּים, אַל תַּמְתִּינוּ עַל רִשְׁיוֹנוֹת מַרְעִישִׁים וּמְפֻרְסָמִים, עֲשׂוּ מַה שֶּׁתּוּכְלוּ, הִמָּלְטוּ וְהֵאָסְפוּ בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, סֹלּוּ סֹלּוֹ הַמְסִלָּה בְּעַד עַמֵּנוּ הָאָהוּב וְהַנִּדְכָּא, הַרְאוּ לוֹ בְּפֹעַל שֶׁדַּרְכּוֹ כְּבָר מוּכֶנֶת הִיא לְפָנָיו וּסְלוּלָה, אֵין לוֹ מַה לְּהִתְיַשֵּׁב, אֵין לוֹ מַה לִּדְרֹשׁ, אֵין לוֹ דְּרָכִים וּנְתִיבוֹת רַבִּים, דֶּרֶךְ אֶחָד יֵשׁ לְפָנָיו, וְדַוְקָא בָּהּ יֵלֵךְ, וּבָהּ הוּא מֻכְרָח לָלֶכֶת, דַּוְקָא לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל.

הַנִּצָּנִים נִרְאוּ בָאָרֶץ. בֹּאוּ אַחִים יְקָרִים וּרְאוּ אֵיךְ שׁוֹשַׁנַּת יַעֲקֹב מַתְחֶלֶת לִפְרֹחַ עַל אַדְמַת הַקֹּדֶשׁ. בֹּאוּ לִרְאוֹת אֵיךְ רוּחַ יִשְׂרָאֵל פּוֹרֵחַ וּמִתְעוֹרֵר לִתְחִיָּה, לְחַיִּים לְכָבוֹד וָעֹז. הֲתֵדְעוּ אַתֶּם אַחִים אֲהוּבִים, אַחִים אֻמְלָלִים יוֹשְׁבֵי אֲרָצוֹת מַאְפֵּלְיוֹת, אֶת הָאוֹצָר הַגָּדוֹל שֶׁל הַקְּדֻשָּׁה וְהַמְּנוּחָה, שֶׁל הָעֹנֶג וְהַשַּׁלְוָה, שֶׁל רוֹמְמוּת הָרוּחַ, וְשֶׁל גְּדֻלַּת הַנֶּפֶשׁ, שֶׁל קְדֻשַּׁת הַחַיִּים, שֶׁל אַדִּירוּת הָרַעְיוֹן וַעֲדִינוּת הָרֶגֶשׁ, שֶׁיֵּשׁ בְּכָל לֵב שֶׁל יִשְׂרָאֵל הַיּוֹשֵׁב בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל•? הוֹי אַחִים יְקָרִים, הֲתוּכְלוּ גַּם לְשַׁעֵר אֲפִלּוּ מְעַט מֵהַרְבֵּה מֵחִבַּת אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה, חִבַּת קֹדֶשׁ וְחֶמְדַּת עוֹלָמִים, הָאָרֶץ כִּי טוֹב מְנוּחָה כִּי נָעֵמָה?!

בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, בֹּאוּ וּרְאוּ הֲדַר אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה, הֲדַר הַכַּרְמֶל וְהַשָּׁרוֹן, הֲדַר שְׁמֵי הַתְּכֵלֶת הַנָּאִים וְהַיָּפִים, הֲדַר הָאֲוִיר הַצַּח הַטָּהוֹר וּמְמֻזָּג, הַשּׂוֹרֵר בְּהוֹדוֹ וַהֲדָרוֹ, גַּם בִּתְקוּפַת טֵבֵת, בֹּאוּ וְהִתְעַנְּגוּ וְשִׂישׂוּ מָשׂוֹשׂ עַל אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה הַנָּאָה וְהַמְעֻנָּגָה, אֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים שֶׁאֲוִירָהּ הוּא חַיֵּי נְשָׁמוֹת. מַה יָּפִית וּמַה נָּעַמְתְּ!

בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, בֹּאוּ וּרְאוּ "וְשָׂשׂ לִבְּכֶם וְעַצְמוֹתֵיכֶם כַּדֶּשֶׁא תִפְרַחְנָה" (ישעיה סו, יד). בֹּאוּ וּרְאוּ, אֵיךְ עַמֵּנוּ הָאָהוּב וְהַיָּקָר מְחַדֵּשׁ כַּנֶּשֶׁר אֶת נְעוּרָיו, אֵיךְ הוּא מַתְחִיל פּוֹשֵׁט בִּרְוָחָה אֶת עַצְמוֹתָיו הַכּוֹאֲבוֹת וְהַמְפֻצָּחוֹת מִימֵי נְדוּדוֹ וְגָלוּתוֹ הַמָּרָה, בֹּאוּ וּרְאוּ אֵיךְ מִתְרַגֵּל הוּא לִזְקֹף כְּתָמָר אֶת קוֹמָתוֹ, בֹּאוּ וְחוּשׁוּ אֵיךְ הוּא מְעוֹדֵד אֶת רוּחוֹ, בְּזָכְרוֹ אֶת חָסְנוֹ וּגְאוֹנוֹ.

בְּזָכְרוֹ אֶת הוֹדוֹ וְתִפְאַרְתּוֹ עַל כָּל צַעַד וָשַׁעַל. בֹּאוּ וְהִתְעַנְּגוּ עֲלֵי זִכְרוֹנוֹת טוֹבִים מִיַּיִן הַטּוֹב, הַמַּגְדִּילִים אֶת הַנֶּפֶשׁ וּמַרְחִיבִים אֶת הַדַּעַת, זִכְרוֹנוֹת מְלָכִים וְשָׂרִים, זִכְרוֹנוֹת גִּבּוֹרִים וּנְבִיאִים, זִכְרוֹנוֹת תִּפְאֶרֶת וָעֹז, גְּדֻלָּה וָהוֹד. בֹּאוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, פֹּה תִּרְאוּ חֲזוּת הַכֹּל, פֹּה תֵּדְעוּ שֶׁאַתֶּם חָיִים חַיִּים שֶׁהֵם רְאוּיִים לִשְׁמָם, בְּאֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים.

(מאמרי הראיה ב, הקריאה הגדולה: לארץ ישראל)

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Chareidie Seminary Girls Arrested in Norway For Smuggling Drugs Will Be Deported Back to Israel On SHABBOS!

Ironically, the Charedi girls arrested in Norway will be deported on a plane on Shabbat.

The story of the drug smuggling was exposed in B'hadrei Charedim  and they reported that dozens of young men and women are smuggling 'Gat' to Europe, which in Israel is permitted, but in Europe forbidden. 

In return for smuggling they receive a sum of money and a hotel for three days and are told by the drug dealer that if they get in trouble, they can call the local Chabad emissary.

In the past few hours, we learned that two ultra-Orthodox girls from Jerusalem have been detained for several days in Oslo, the capital of Norway, for the attempted smuggling of 'Ali Gat. 

They will be deported on the coming Shabbat to Israel.

The Norwegians refuse to put them on a flight with a  stop, insisting on a direct flight, and direct flights from Norway happen on Shabbos only.

Meanwhile they are begging the Chabad Shliach in Oslo, Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm, to intervene and help them.

Satmar Rebbe R' Zalman Teitelbaum Gets A Taste Of His Own Medicine Getting Stoned In Monroe Visiting His Father's Grave

אבנים יורדו על הרבי מסאטמר

'שייגעץ'

Stone throwers

When you encourage your talmidim to throw stones on other Jews who don't agree with your SHIT'ah, be it Kloizenberg, Belz or Frum Zionist Soldiers, it comes to bite you back in the proverbial ass!

Well, yesterday was the Yurzeit of the Beirach Moshe, the father of today's Satmar Rabbis....
When R' Zalman Leib, Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, came to daven at his father's kever, he was in for a surprise: 
a bunch of Satmar boys called him a "Sheigatz" and threw stones on him ....
He didn't like it one bit, I'm told!

There are two versions who the rock throwers were ...
One version (and this version is the easy way out) is that the boys were from the Aronim contingent ....and decided to harass him!

Another version, and it this one is the more credible take:

 The boys were actually Zalonim ... and the story behind this is ....the Satmar Yeshivah administration decided to throw them out because they were 20 year old guys and the hanhala felt that 20 year olds were a hard bunch to discipline ...

The boys then went to the Satmar Rebbi looking for sympathy to beg him to let them stay because they were afraid that it would damage their chances for a good shidduch .... they didn't want the  shame that they had to leave the yeshiva for the crime of being older and single....

 The Holy Rebbe listened to them and was probably in cramps trying very hard not to burst out in hysterical laughter because little did they know it was all his idea ...

He made believe he was compassionate and sympathetic to their plight stroked his beard, arched his eyebrows and moved some left over crumbs around .... then told them he had a brilliant idea that he would set up another Yeshivah for them called "Shiur De'Satmar" that would be set up for "older " boys!

This actually made it worse, because now everyone would know that if you "learn" in Shiur DeSatmar you are basically "an alter bucher" an outcast!

The Boys being from Satmar .... wouldn't take this sitting down so they waited for a good opportunity to teach him the quintessential  "Satmar Lesson" developed and nurtured way back in Europe when they stoned the Spinker 80 years ago,......and so they waited for the right time which couldn't have come any sooner and met him with "Sheigetz Arois" and showered him with some stones for good measure!

I am told from good sources that there are still plenty of stones left to throw at Zionists, come Yom Hatzmoet next Thursday!

Update!
My Zalonim friends are emailing me that the "rock throwers" were definitely the Aronim, and they will not leave the "debt" hanging around too much longer, meaning that the Aroner Rebbe better watch his back!
They added however that my story with the "older buchrim" is spot on. 

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Chareidie in Israel Use Chareidie Girls As Mules To Smuggle Drugs To Satmar & Other Chassidishe Communities in Manchester!

Over the past few months, dozens of young Charedi men and women have been arrested for smuggling contraband items in Manchester, England.

I am getting many e-mails from Manchester begging me to publicize the terrible tragedy taking place in England in Chassidic communities...

According to the reports, many chassidishe boys especially those from Satmar backgrounds are taking drugs and are getting them from Israel.

The Israeli chareidie drug dealers get seminary girls from Israel, offer them free trips to England and money to smuggle in the drugs ....

Recently, two Charedim spent Seder night in a holding cell in the airport in the city. On Tuesday, two young women were arrested. One of them is being held at the airport, while the second has been placed under house arrest until Thursday in the home of a local Rabbi. On Thursday, they will both be deported from England with a black stamp on their passport that will ban them from ever entering England again.

According to an investigative report that was conducted by BeChadrei Charedim, an Israeli citizen has been having young Chareidi men and women smuggle a contraband substance (Khat / drugs) into England. 

Anti-Semitic Attacks Spike, Killing Most Jews in Decades With More Than a Quarter In the USA!!!!

 Israeli researchers reported Wednesday that violent attacks against Jews spiked significantly last year, with the largest reported number of Jews killed in anti-Semitic acts in decades, leading to an "increasing sense of emergency" among Jewish communities worldwide.

Capped by the deadly shooting that killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, assaults targeting Jews rose 13% in 2018, according to Tel Aviv University researchers. They recorded nearly 400 cases worldwide, with more than a quarter of the major violent cases taking place in the United States.

But the spike was most dramatic in western Europe, where Jews have faced even greater danger and threats. In Germany, for instance, there was a 70% increase in anti-Semitic violence.

"There is an increasing sense of emergency among Jews in many countries around the world," said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, an umbrella group representing Jewish communities across the continent.

"It is now clear that anti-Semitism is no longer limited to the far-left, far-right and radical Islamist's triangle — it has become mainstream and often accepted by civil society," he said.

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New Knesset Member Mikki Haimovitz, a Vegan, Will Have to Sit On A Leather Chair

Newly Elected MK Mickey Haimovitz, of the Blue and White party and  is vegan, asked Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to change the seat of the chair that is used in the Knesset  because it is padded with leather taken from a cow.

Haimovitz wrote the following letter to the Knesset's director general: 

"An investigation conducted in my office shows that the upholstery of Knesset chairs is made of cow leather.

It is a known fact, that these animals undergo great suffering, and are victims of violent treatment and neglect. 

For reasons of conscience, I do not use leather in my life.
And just as it would not occur to me to order a car with seats covered with animal skin, so too all my hours in the Knesset will not be tolerable sitting on leather.
If there is a problem financing the change, I will be more than happy to fund it myself.
In the future, it may be appropriate to consider replacing all seats with non-animal skins.

Haimovitch ends her request that if it is implemented, 

"the Knesset will be able to serve as an example of preventing exploitation and suffering of animals"

The Knesset, however, decided to refuse her request:

 "Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein considered her request, but we decided to refuse it. 
In addition, the chairs in the Knesset are lined with deer skin and not cow's skin, as Haimovitz claimed!"

Sadigere Rebbe Attacked in Lakewood

The Sadigura rabbi, who is currently in Lakewood, was attacked Tuesday by a meshiginer during a reception, the Lakewood Scope reported.

According to the report, the suspect, apparently mentally ill, arrived at the home where the Rebbe was staying  and shouted  that the Rebbe is the Messiah.

He then entered the house, and began to attack the rebbe, and according to one of the Rebbe's relatives, he punched the Admor's head and "pulled his beard," miraculously the Rebbe was not seriously injured.

The gaba'im and those present in the area managed to subdue the meshiginer, took him out of the area and called the police, he escaped!

 Following the violent incident, the Rebbe left to Brooklyn, where apparently there are less meshigoyim  to celebrate Pesach!....

Nitra Yeshivah Ignores NYC Measles Regs So City Closes It and Tiferes Bnos in Williamsburg!

Nitra still thinks it lives in Europe in some small shtetel and can do whats it wants ...

Ignoring a  Huge Chillul Hashem; sticking their tongues out at City Health Officials ,even after it was discovered that over 90% of all Measles cases in the USA are from the Frum Chareidie community! 

The city Health Department shut down two Jewish schools in Brooklyn for failing to submit immunization and attendance records amid the measles outbreak.

The school Tiferes Bnos on Marcy Avenue and preschool Talmud Torah D’Nitra on Bedford Avenue will not be permitted to reopen until the department approves a corrective action plan that addresses the lapses in compliance.

Health officials previously closed five schools – including the United Talmudical Academy’s preschool run by a Williamsburg yeshiva — for failing to comply with the health commissioner’s order.

The order requires yeshivas and child care programs in certain ZIP codes to exclude unvaccinated students and to provide the Health Department with immediate access to medical and attendance records.

All five have been authorized to reopen under Health Department monitoring.

“Schools that continue to disregard our direction during the outbreak will be closed down until they can prove to the Health Department that they will comply,” Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said in a statement.

New York Times Continues With Hatred of Jews Publishing Another Antisemitic Cartoon

The New York Times printed a second anti-Israel cartoon on Saturday in its international edition, a development that comes in the wake of the newspaper having run an antisemitic cartoon on Thursday, retracting it on Saturday, and then, later on Sunday, apologizing for running it.

This second cartoon depicts Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu wearing a robe and holding up what looks like a tablet with the Star of David on it. It depicts Netanyahu as blind and holding a selfie stick, taking a photo of himself. Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades-Ha did not immediately respond to Breitbart News’s request for comment on Monday morning in response to this revelation.

But the second cartoon was roundly criticized by the pro-Israel community.

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt ripped the Times for printing it

The second cartoon was published on the opinion pages of the international edition of the New York Times on Saturday in print. It comes after the Times previously, last Thursday on those same pages, printed an antisemitic cartoon that the paper retracted on Saturday morning. That original antisemitic cartoon depicted a blind President Donald Trump wearing a skullcap being led by Netanyahu, who was portrayed as a dog on a leash whose collar bore the Star of David. As some experts have pointed out, that first cartoon has striking resemblance to a literal Nazi propaganda cartoon from 1940 that showed a Jewish mean on a leash leading British Prime Minister Winston Churchill around.

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When the Late Kaliver Rebbe Defied Satmar And Was The First Admar To Visit the Kotel in 1967

Chareidie Outraged At The Exposed Elbow of the Statue of Liberty

Below is a letter to the editor of the Yated that will have you wondering whether our Rebbes, Teachers and principals, have gone mad!

Now I've been screaming that the chareidie world is sick and getting sicker......

But this letter should win the prize for the most "Outrageous Bizarre Insane" Letter to the Editor of all time!

She signs the letter "A Proud BYM alumnus"

Is this what we are now "proud" of?

She laments the fact that the Statue of Liberty has an "exposed elbow" and that when she drives her children past the statue, she rushes to cover the eyes of her "pure boys."

First of all I hope she is not the one driving. Second of all, the eyes of her boys may be "pure" but their brains are now fried by having a mother that should be driven and committed to the nearest funny farm ASAP!

She writes that as a young BYM student, the girls put on a play and the background scenery had the picture of the Statue of Liberty and that her "esteemed principal, Rebbetzin Paretsky" nixed the scenery because the elbow of the statue was exposed!

Which guy ..... gets turned on by a woman's elbow? Seriously?
And an elbow of a copper statue that turned green ????

Have we all gone insane? Is this our Torah? Is this our values?
Is this the Tznees values that our Torah asks of us ...?
To cover the "exposed elbow" of a dead copper statue that is over 100 years old?

And who was going to watch this play?
Wasn't it for women only?

So should we now be worried that a lady watching the silly play with  a bunch of amateur actors, might glance at the background scenery and see  the "exposed elbow" of the statue and get turned on???

Muslims Ready To Take Over Congress .....

Shulim Lemmer's Kids suspected having Measels on Jet Blue Flight ....

Everything at the end worked  out ....

He sang they had no measles, Chad Gadyeh

Day Yoimie Snippets ... Bechoros Dafim 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 & 10 ......

A great opportunity for the entire family, to share some thoughts on the daf ...  the  family feels united by discussing what the head of the house is studying.
I try to break it down so that everyone can understand it .... 

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

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''Mesachtas Bechoros"

With this daf, we begin a new Tractate, Mesechteh, called Bechoros!

This mesechta, deals with "kodshim" ... karbonot.. sacrifices. 

However, this mesechta is unique and different than other mesechtas dealing with "kodshim" since it deals with "kodshim" that is halachicly relevant even in our days.

The previous mesechtas that we learned, Zevachim and Menachos dealt in Korbonos and the Avoideh of the kohanim, but unfortunately with the destruction of both Temples, we can no longer bring sacrifices, so the halachos of these mesachtos do not apply in our days.

Our mesacteh deals with first borns, and those laws are applicable in the here and now!

We learn about three different "first-borns":

Bechor Adam: The first born of a Jewish mother must redeemed by a kohein for 5 Selaim or Shekalim on the 30th day!

Petar Chamor: The first born of a donkey must be redeemed for a sheep and that sheep is given to a kohein.

Bechor BehimahTahor: The first born of any kosher animal is given to a kohein and has the holiness of a korban.

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War over Bread in Viznitz After Pesach

Kaliver Rebbe Passes Away at 96 Was a Holocaust Survivor

ברוך דיין האמת

 האדמו"ר רבי מנחם מנדל מקאליב זצוק"ל

The Rebbe passed on in his Yerushalyim home surrounded by his chassidim.

Rav Menachem Mendel Taub was the son of Rabbi Yehuda Yechiel Taub, the Rozler Rov, and son-in-law of Grand Rabbi Pinchos Shapiro, the Kechneyer Rebbe, scion of the Nadvorna dynasty. 

He had six brothers and sisters. He married his first wife, Chana Sara Shapiro, before the start of World War II.

In 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving there three days before Shavuot. While in Auschwitz, he was experimented upon by Josef Mengele. 

Because of "chemical burning experiments", he was unable to grow facial hair; he was also unable to have children.

He was transferred from Auschwitz to the Warsaw Ghetto and the Breslau concentration camp, and later to Bergen-Belsen. Six months after the war ended, he reunited with his wife in Sweden. In 1947 they immigrated to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

He and his wife immigrated to Israel in 1962. The following year he founded Kiryas Kaliv in Rishon LeZion.

 The foundation stone was laid on 7 Adar 5723 (3 March 1963), the day of the yahrtzeit of the founder of the dynasty, Grand Rabbi Yitzchak Isak Taub. Several years later he moved his headquarters to Bnei Brak.

 In 2004, the rebbe's court moved to Jerusalem.where he passed on.

Since World War II, the Rebbe has actively spoken about the Holocaust and frequently invokes the memory of the Jewish martyrs. 

He has encouraged the recital of "Shema Yisrael" to memorialize Holocaust victims at the conclusion of religious events in Israel. He has also traveled to interact with millions of Jews by telling his story and encouraging the saying of "Shema Yisrael". 

He is also active in Jewish outreach and conducts regular lectures for groups of professionals, including doctors and police officers. In addition, a network of kollels, an encyclopedia project, and several other divisions of Kaliv have been founded.

In March 2014 he participated in the annual conference of the Rabbinical Congress of Europe, which met in Budapest to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry.

 He delivered an emotion-laden speech in Hebrew, and switched to English to direct remarks to US President Barack Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin.

In December 2017, the Rebbe Sent a message in English to the newly elected President.

Fatrima Ibraham the Muslim Pregnant Wife of Sri Lanka Terrorist Blows Herself Up With Her 3 Children Kills 3 police officers Trying to arrest her

The pregnant wife of one of the terrorists who murdered hundreds of people in a series of attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday detonated a bomb in her home, killing herself and their three children when police arrived following the massacres, according to multiple international reports.

Three police officers were killed in the blast triggered by Fatima Ibrahim when they entered the luxury apartment.

Her husband, Ilhan Ahmed Ibrahim, 31, and his brother Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim, 33, have been identified as two of the eight suicide bombers responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks at the Cinnamon Grand and Shangri-La hotels in the Sri Lanka capital city of Colombo.

Both were the sons of wealthy spice trader Mohammed Yusuf Ibrahim, who has now been arrested on suspicion of aiding the terrorists carry out Sunday’s attacks. His youngest son has also been detained for questioning. Another son, Ismail, is reportedly a fugitive.

Judges Rule Sex-Segregated Pool Schedule Unlawful at Condo in Lakewood, NJ

DIN QUESTION:

The article below states that MEN had 16.5 hours use of the pool and WOMEN had 3.5 hours.....

Let's forget the women for just a minute.....Why do men need 16.5 hours? Isn't this in Fakewood? Aren't they supposed to be learning? What is going on? 

What's going on is, that the women are working all day and the men are home all day ... that's what's going on .....

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found on Monday that a condominium’s sex-segregated pool time policy in the heavily dominated New Jersey neighborhood of Lakewood discriminated against women.

The court ruled for a group of owners who sued after each were fined $50 by their condominium association for violating the rules of A Country Place Condominium Association about the pool that includes separate swimming times for men and women in accordance with strict modesty standards upheld by Orthodox Jews, who consist of two-thirds of the association’s residents during of the 2016 lawsuit.

The judges said the policy violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the federal Fair Housing Act, which “makes it an unlawful housing practice to “discriminate against any person in the terms, conditions or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the provision of services or facilities therewith, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status or national origin.”

Lori Gilbert Kaye Murdered on Pesach in San Diego Chabad Shul

Open Letter from a friend of Lori a"h

Today an anti-Semitic hate crime shot and killed my friend Lori Gilbert Kaye z”l at synagogue. 

Lori you were a jewel of our community a true Eshet Chayil, a Woman of Valor.  You were always running to do a mitzvah (good deed) and gave tzedaka (charity) to everyone. Your final good deed was taking the bullets for Rabbi Mendel Goldstein to save his life.

Lori leaves behind a devastated husband and a 22-year-old daughter. When I heard the horrific news, Lori I called your best friend Dr. Roneet Lev who is at the hospital with the other victims and their families who asked this to be shared.

 Friends please share this widely - 

Today at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue on Shabbat and the last day of the Passover holiday, a 19-year-old stormed in and said ‘F*ck the Jews’ and opened fire with an AR-type assault weapon. The hateful murderer had posted a manifesto online with anti-Semitic screeds and talked about planning the attack! He shot and killed Lori Kaye z”l who took the bullets for the Rabbi. Tragically the Rabbi was still shot in the hand and he gave a sermon telling everyone to stay strong. 

The horror continues, the other victims suffering shrapnel injuries include a 8-year-old girl, Noya Dahan. She asked for her picture to be shared and for everyone to know she is strong. 

Noya Dahan

The other shrapnel victim was Almog Peretz, age 32, Noya’s uncle who came from Sderot to visit his family for the Passover holiday. He was a hero today, gathering the children and leading them to safety. During the shooting a brave off-duty border patrol agent chased and fired at the shooter as he ran off. Fortunately he was caught by the authorities and is in custody. 

Noya’s family moved to San Diego from the Israeli city of Sderot (San Diego’s sister city) to get away from the terrorism and the constant attacks on their community.  The peaceful city in Israel they’re from is in the Negev and is less than a mile from the Gaza border. For years their home has been a major target of Qassam rocket attacks from terrorists in the Gaza Strip.  

Anti-Semitism is real and is deadly. Hate crimes are real and are deadly. Lori would have wanted all of us to stand up to hate. She was a warrior of love and she will be missed. May Lori’s memory be a blessing. 

Please pray for recovery of the Rabbi Goldstein, Almog and Noya. 

Please share this! Loris family want this to be a huge funeral to honor her and to stand against Anti-Semitism, I will post details about it as soon as I know.

New York Times Shows Its Vicious Hatred of Jews In Cartoon

As Jews around the world prepared for the last days of the Passover Chag, the New York Times international print edition (available in countries including Israel), published this cartoon

A blind US President Donald Trump wearing a Jewish skullcap being led by a canine caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was drawn by Portuguese cartoonist Antonio Moreira Antunes, of the Lisbon weekly paper, Expresso. According to the Daily Mail, Expresso deleted the cartoon from its site without an explanation or apology.

The image of Israel leading the US draws upon a classic antisemitic trope of Jewish power and control.

The newspaper that makes a virtue out of promoting anti-racism, minority rights and giving a platform to every possible liberal or progressive cause appears to have no boundaries when it comes to offending Jews.

 The New York Times has belatedly recognized its disgraceful editorial failure if this tweet is to be believed:

How do such ‘errors of judgment’ occur in the first place?

The image is so blatantly offensive, it’s hard to believe that editors at the New York Times international edition failed to see it before the damage was done.

And the damage has been done. The New York Times can issue its Editors’ Note in a future edition but this image has already been seared in the memories of an international audience that had the misfortune to pick up a copy of the paper that day.

Just when we think the New York Times couldn’t stoop any lower.

Lady Goes Berserk In Mexico Pesach Program After Finding Out The Chef Put "Kitniyot" in Food

Chareidim Protest Diners Eating Chametz on Pesach!