No more dead ends: Israeli app helps navigate graveyards

An Israeli-developed app offers turn-by-turn voice directions to help cemetery visitors navigate large graveyards in search of a loved one's resting place.

 "It will change everything," said Yehuda Hanfling, a service manager for Chevra Kadisha, the main group that oversees Jewish burials in Israel. The app, 'Gravez' is only available in Israel for now, but its developers plan to expand globally.

For a person visiting a grave or making their way to a funeral, finding the exact location can be tough in a large cemetery that is constantly changing.

"People who haven't been to graves for years and want to reach (the grave) get lost because graves have been added, paths have been added everywhere," Hanfling said. Chevra Kadisha began operating the app in September.

By providing real-time, turn-by-turn directions on smartphones, Gravez aims to save cemetery goers a lot of stress, and time, in reaching the grave they are looking for.

The developers, Corido, used drones and image processing tools to map over 1.3 million graves in 30 cemeteries in Israel so far for pedestrian and vehicle navigation, said Guy Liany, partner chief executive of Corido.

"We map all the geographical elements, the paths, the plots, interest points, everything that depicts the outline of the cemetery," said Liany, adding that the cemetery managers constantly update the system.

A cemetery that contains an average of 30 thousand to 40 thousand graves can be mapped within several days. The app is free for private users but cemetery operators need to purchase the system. The price depends on the size of the grounds.

The app can also suggest nearby parking and provide on-screen prayers traditionally said by the grave. The developers plan in the future to provide paid services like flower delivery or cleaning and renovating tombstones.

"Asra Kadisha" Extortionists Run Away When Women Sing .....

The Atra Kadisha group is famous for disturbing constriction works and archeological excavations around the country on account of protecting Jewish graves, often asking for bribe money to evacuate and allow the costly work to continue. 

However, the group possess no archaeological knowledge and often arbitrarily provokes protests despite professional surveys and excavations ruling out any presence of such ancient graves.

  

They came to Shoham for a second time late June and as usual, got in the construction pit and halted works despite an Antiquities Authority report that determines no graves ever existed in the area. Local women were outraged to hear about the demand for bribe and quickly arrived in the scene, where they burst out singing Halleluiah.

AOC Apologizes and Unblocks Hikind On Twitter Following Lawsuit

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed by former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who accused the lawmaker of violating the First Amendment by blocking him on Twitter.

In a statement, Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that she had “reconsidered” her decision to block Hikind from her account. She conceded that Hikind, an outspoken conservative, was exercising his constitutionally-protected right to free speech by criticizing her on Twitter.

The announcement, first reported by the New York Post, comes just one day before Ocasio-Cortez was scheduled to testify in federal court in Brooklyn.

Lady Hatzalah Wants an Ambulance and 49 Rabbanim Without Consulting their Rebbitzins ..Fight Against It

New York’s all-women Hasidic EMTs are requesting an ambulance licence from the city — sparking outrage from an Orthodox men-only crew that doesn’t want them to exist in the first place.

Ezras Nashim — America’s first ladies-only EMT group — argued Wednesday for permission to operate an ambulance within a two-square mile area of Borough Park to serve Orthodox women who feel uncomfortable being cared for by male first responders.

“It’s the cultural norm of women in the Brooklyn Hasidic community to lead their lives in modesty,” Jim Deering, the group’s attorney, said during a public hearing at Methodist Hospital Wednesday evening.

“It is that cultural modesty and the trauma that can result from it not being honored that forms the need for Ezras Nashim’s ambulance application,” Deering said.

Ezras Nashim – Hebrew for “helping women” – launched in 2012 after the gals were denied membership in the Orthodox ambulance corps Hatzaloh.

Goyim Are Beating the Hell Out of Jews in Boro-Park and Jews are Quiet ...

I am old enough to remember when the Satmar Rebbe of Monroe, Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum parroted the meraglim and said that a Jew cannot move to Israel because he is in mortal danger ... turns out that more Jews were murdered last year in the US than in 10 years in Israel... 

Jews are being beaten in Boro-Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg on a daily basis and their only hope for safety is Mayor DeBlasio! 

Most assaults are not even reported!

Multiple victims were assaulted in what the Boro Park community is calling a string of hate crimes.

Sources say that the disturbing incidents started at around 12:20AM (Friday night / Shabbos morning) on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street. As can be seen in a video,  a vehicle stops, a few men jump out and begin chasing two Hasidic boys down the street. The victims managed to get away.

A few minutes later, the same pack of thugs drove down 48 Street near the Bobover Bais Medrash, and drove past a Hasidic man walking. They punched the man from the car and drove away.

Reform Rabbi Rachel Korbrin Says Halloween is a "mitzvah' of "V’ahavta l’reiacha kamocha. Love your neighbor as yourself. "

Rabbi Korbrin Not In  Her Halloween Costume

The late Radio personality Bob Grant would always quip...

"It's sick out there and getting sicker"

Those words were true when he said them some 30 years ago ...and much truer now

Instead of speaking about the Jewish holidays that just passed .... Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos and Simchas Torah .... this moronic imbecile who calls herself a Rabbi, in an article in The Jewish Times, takes words of our holy Chazal, twists them to fit her sick agenda and states that Halloween can bring out the goodness and potential achdus of our Goyishe neighbors!

She says that in order "to keep peace with her children" she will no longer stop her children from dressing up on this pagan holiday and in fact on this holiday she will give her children a chance to "embrace Halloween."

Those of you that attended Yeshivah will never forget the vicious beatings and violence of those Trick or Treating when we came home from Yeshivah ...

Yeshivah boys were frightened to walk the streets and I remember many years where we would need special patrols to make sure that we weren't hurt... 

Our parents that were Holocaust survivors would look out the windows to watch and with tear in their eyes bless Hashem that we arrived safely home...

and this piece of turd wants her children to "embrace" this violent holiday!

I hope someone takes her and shoves some m&m's where the sun doesn't shine and yells "trick or treat!"

 

The mitzvah of Halloween: The Jewish case for trick-or-treat

“Do your kids do Halloween?” Is the question that, as a rabbi, I seem to get asked every October.

Gerer "Breakaway" Starts New Yeshiva .... Main Donors to Present Gerer Rebbe Freeze Donations ...“The train has left the station,”

Rabbi Shaul Alter 

The unprecedented split in the Gerrer hassidic dynasty deepened on Thursday as a splinter group formally established its first separate institution – a yeshiva katana, or middle school – for the children of families who have already joined the new community.

Over the recent Simhat Torah holiday, Rabbi Shaul Alter, the first cousin of the Gerrer grand rabbi, Yaakov Aryeh Alter, held separate prayer services for some 300 hassidim, thereby actualizing a schism that has been several years in the making. The schism, the first in the history of the Gerrer community, threatens to damage the prestige and political power which it has enjoyed due to its size and financial wealth.

The establishment of separate educational institutions is a critical step needed to provide the families who have joined the breakaway community with schools and yeshivas for their children, as the divide between the two groups becomes more severe and shared institutions become impossible.

New York Nightclub Playes "Reb Shayeleh Krastirer" Song "Lichvoid Halloween"

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Jewish Lady found Her Birth Parents — and they were Famous Con Artists

It was the line about her birth mother being “a strong and expert swimmer” that stopped Donna Freed cold.

In 2010, Freed, a London radio journalist, was reading a five-page, bare-bones report that she had obtained about her biological mother from a Manhattan adoption agency. It described the unnamed woman who had given her up as an infant in the vaguest of terms: “A 27-year-old, Caucasian, Jewish, single female” who lived on the Eastern Seaboard and worked at an advertising firm.

Oh, and she was a good swimmer.

“Why were they telling me she was a strong swimmer?” said Freed, who grew up in Westchester and began searching for her birth parents after her adoptive mother died in 2009.

Rabbi Yakov Lipschutz Famous Monsey Rav and Father of Yated Publisher Pinchos Lipschutz Dies at 87

HaRav Yakov Halevi Lipschutz ZATZAL, was a long time Rov in Monsey at Khal Bais Yosef. He was 87.

As a Bochur, Rav Lipschutz learned in Torah Vodaas and went to Beis Medrash Elyon in Monsey in 1952. He stayed in Kollel, and never left Monsey.

He was a Rosh Yeshiva in Breuers Yeshiva, and then headed the OU Kashrus Division. He later lead National Kashruth, his own kosher supervision organization.

The Niftar served as Rov of Kehillah Bais Yosef in Monsey for several decades.

A tremendous Talmid Chchom, Rav Lipschutz authored Seforim on Chamish Chumshei Torah.

The Niftar leaves behind an illustrious family of talmidei chachomim and bnei and bnos Torah. 

Dead Guy Found in Ponovitz in Bnei Brak

The body of a 70-year-old man was found in a utility room in Ponevezh Yeshiva during the night. Police and Hatzolah were summoned to the scene. The person was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the preliminary information available, the body is that of a homeless man who was seen in the yeshiva often, and he was found in a utility room in ‘Batei Pik’ in the yeshiva.

It appears the man was dead for a number of days and the body was just discovered during the night between motzei Shabbos and Sunday when one of the bochrim opened the door to the utility room. Police are investigating. ZAKA tended to the niftar and is working with police forensic technicians.

ZAKA member Avremi Katz told Kikar Shabbos News that “We are dealing with an older man who was found dead in the utility room near the dormitory when a bochur happened to open the door and he found the horrific scene and they called ZAKA Tel Aviv.

Michael & Yarin Nadel, Father and Son Queens Moving Company Arrested For Fraud

Pay up — or you’ll never see your chaise lounge again!

A Queens father and son were busted for allegedly using their interstate moving companies to extort customers — demanding victims pay thousands if they wanted their belongings returned, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Michael Nadel, 65, and son Yarin “Joe” Nadel, 35, are accused of netting $100,000 from dozens of customers who they forced into paying bogus extra fees to get their stuff back between February 2018 and July 2019.

The Fresh Meadows duo allegedly defrauded customers by giving quotes they had “no intention of honoring.” Once the possessions were loaded onto their trucks, the men then told their marks “additional fees were due,” prosecutors claim.

In some cases, the men and employees of their “State to State” moving companies threatened to sell and auction customer’s belongings if they didn’t cough up the extra cash, prosecutors charge.

Accused sex abuser Malka Leifer refuses to appear before key psychiatric panel

Malka Leifer’s attorneys informed the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday that their client would not appear before the court-ordered psychiatric panel to determine whether she is feigning mental illness in order to avoid extradition to Australia, where she faces 74 charges of sexual assault.

In a letter to the court, Tal Gabay and Yehuda Fried said they could not allow their client to cooperate with a panel, which they had opposed from the start.

Last month, Jerusalem District Court Judge Chana Lomp ruled that the evidence against Leifer was inconclusive and therefore a board of psychiatric experts would be appointed to determine whether the former principal of Adass Israel ultra-Orthodox girls’ school in Melbourne has been faking mental incompetence to avoid being sent back to Australia for a sex abuse trial.

Both the prosecution and defense opposed the appointment of a new panel, with both arguing that sufficient evidence had been submitted to reach a verdict. The state has relied on the legal opinions of three district psychiatrists who determined that Leifer is mentally fit to face justice. 

The pathetic push to deny Trump credit for getting Baghdadi

The mockery and the spin from President Trump’s political opponents poured in as soon as he made his announcement on Sunday about US forces killing ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The president didn’t restrain his urge to take credit for the triumph or hold back on describing the events in pure Trumpspeak. He spoke of Baghdadi “whimpering” and “dying like a dog.” While giving the proper credit to the heroism of the operators who put an end to the career of a murderer and rapist who was one of the planet’s true villains, Trump did the presidential equivalent of an NFL touchdown dance.

Yet as far as his opponents in the media were concerned, the president’s behavior was not only unseemly but also dishonest, since they think he deserves no credit for a moment that put a bow on the successful war the United States has been waging against ISIS on his watch.

That was the keynote of coverage of the Baghdadi operation in the New York Times, CNN and most other liberal outlets. Instead of allowing Trump to bask in the glory of this victory, reporters and pundits widely bashed the president for supposedly being clueless about the operation and the intelligence establishment, for pursuing policies that made the fight against ISIS harder and for not giving top Democrats a heads up about the impending attack.

Dr Michael Schloss Killed When His Plane Crashed in New Jersey

 

The pilot killed when his prop plane crashed into a quiet New Jersey neighborhood has been identified as a Manhattan cardiologist with a long-running passion for flying, The Post has learned.

Dr. Michael Schloss, 74, was flying from Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia to Linden Airport in New Jersey when his plane plummeted into a home in the Woodbridge Township community of Colonia around 11 a.m. Tuesday, setting that home and two neighboring houses on fire.

Authorities said no one was killed or injured on the ground.

Schloss was an experienced licensed commercial pilot, records show.

He operated a business called Warbird Associates Inc., registered in Delaware, and owned two airplanes — the 1980 Cessna 414A that crashed Tuesday and a 1942 Boeing B75N1 Spearman biplane.

He had flown the Cessna three times in the past week, Federal Aviation Administration records show.

On Oct. 23, he piloted the plane from Leesburg in Virginia to Defiance Memorial Airport in Ohio, and flew back to Leesburg Sunday.

On Tuesday, he took off from Leesburg for a scheduled one-hour flight to Linden.

No one answered the doorbell at Schloss’ medical office in Kips Bay on Tuesday.

Try Stealing a Sefer From Satmar Bais Medrish in Yerushalyim

I guess Satmar Mispallilim are in the habit of stealing! 

Monsey Rebbe Beats the Hell of His Student then Thows Him Out of Class

 

A 3 year-old video has gone viral of a Rebbe in a Yeshiva in Monsey beating a student, who appears to be around 15 years old. 

The boy is seen (in the very unclear video) on the floor, and the Rebbe then screaming at him to leave the classroom. The video made its way to Twitter, where local news agencies have picked up on it.

Yeshiva Shaar Ephraim gave the following statement 

“The behavior shown on the video is abhorrent and has no place in an educational institution. We unequivocally condemn any such behavior. We are also glad that the faculty member seen on the video separated from our school several years ago.”

Zera Shimshon - Bereishis

In the beginning Hashem created (1:1)

Rashi points out that the Torah refers to Hashem by the name Elokim as opposed to ' . 

When Hashem acts with judgment, He is referred to as Elokim and when He acts with mercy, He is referred to as ' . 

Here, Hashem is called Elokim since when Hashem decided to create the world, He wanted it to be governed by strict justice. However, looking into the future, Hashem saw that such a model would fail. Hashem therefore brought in the trait of mercy and only then added the attribute of exacting justice to ensure that the world

would endure.

Yoeli Oberlander Can't Keep His Filthy Hands to Himself ...... Arrested Again

A 39-year-old man with a history of sex offenses has pleaded not guilty in Rockland County Court to new charges of improperly touching a teenage boy.

Yoel Oberlander is being held in federal custody in New Jersey on accusations of violating his supervised release from prison based on his June arrest in Rockland on the new charges, his attorney Daniel Bertolino said today.

Oberlander was arraigned Tuesday by County Court Judge Larry Schwartz in New City on grand jury misdemeanor charges of third-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Oberlander is accused of improperly touching a 15-year-old boy's genitals on June 3, Bertolino said. 

Oberlander's next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 7.

"He intends to vigorously fight the charges and have me defend him until the day he's exonerated, which is our expectation," Bertolino said. 

Supervising Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Parietti declined comment on the grand jury indictment or the case, citing the nature of the charges.  She is chief of the office's Special Victims Unit.

Airplane incident

Oberlander was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison in July 2017 for assault with intent to commit stalking when he touched a woman's chest and harassed her during an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Newark Liberty Airport in May 2016. He was placed on three years supervised release.

Why Hillary Clinton Lost the Election in 2016

Israel has 131,000 millionaires, and its wealth is growing quickly

Israel has about 131,000 millionaires, and its population is getting wealthier quickly, according to a Monday report from the Swiss banking firm Credit Suisse.

Israel ranks 23rd worldwide in its total number of millionaires, and by 2024 is expected to have 173,000 millionaires, representing a growth rate of 32 percent, the annual Global Wealth Report found.

The report surveyed worldwide wealth from mid-2018 to mid-2019.

The total number of Israeli millionaires is relatively high, placing the Jewish state slightly below more populous countries including Brazil and Poland, although some states with fewer people, including Norway, Switzerland and Hong Kong, had more millionaires.

The 32% expected growth rate put Israel in the middle of the pack for wealthy countries. 

Republicans Storm and Disrupt FAKE Impeachment Hearings

Republicans brought House Democrats’ impeachment investigation to a halt on Wednesday as around two dozen GOP House members stormed into a closed-door deposition with a Defense Department official. Democrats said the move compromised national security as some of them brought electronic devices into a secure room.

As a series of diplomats have been interviewed in the probe, several of them detailing President Donald Trump’s efforts to persuade Ukraine to investigate a political rival, many Republicans have been silent on the president’s behavior. But they have been outspoken about their disdain for Democrats and the impeachment process, saying it is unfair to them even though they have been allowed to participate.

“The members have just had it and they want to be able to see and represent their constituents and find out what’s going on,” said Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform panel. That committee is one of three leading the investigation, and its members are allowed into the closed-door hearings.

Jordan said things were at a “standstill.” And after several hours, a handful of members remained in the room. The deposition with Laura Cooper, a senior Defense Department official who oversees Ukraine policy, was temporarily on hold.

The Republicans decried that the deposition was happening behind closed doors and said Americans should be able to read the transcripts of any interviews being conducted as part of impeachment.

Democrats have promised to release the transcripts when it won’t affect their investigation, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has pushed back on the criticism of the depositions.

Schiff said in a letter to colleagues last week that “the majority and minority have been provided equal staff representation and time to question witnesses, who have stayed until the majority and the minority have asked all of their questions – often late into the evening.”

Several Republicans appeared to be tweeting from the secure room. North Carolina Rep. Mark Walker tweeted: “UPDATE: We are in the SCIF and every GOP Member is quietly listening.” Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter wrote that “my Republican colleagues and I just stormed the impeachment hearing room and finally got in.”

Gerer Chassidus Ofiicially Split .....

The Gerrer hassidic dynasty – the largest, wealthiest and most influential of the hassidic communities in Israel – is facing an unprecedented schism that could, and likely already has, damaged its prestige and power.


After several years in which tensions have simmered between Gerrer Rebbe Yaakov Aryeh Alter and his first cousin Rabbi Shaul Alter, events over the course of the recent Sukkot holiday boiled over.

These tensions resulted in breakaway prayer services by Shaul and his followers, and a statement by Shaul that he was establishing new institutions for the Hassidim that have followed him out of the mainstream Gerrer community.

Meah Shearim "Tzadikim" Raise the Flag Of the PLO Jew Murderers ... Zionist Police Remove It

Its after Yom Kippur and the Tzadiikim of Meah Sharim are back to embracing the murderers of Jews that make Jewish daughters and women into  Jewish widows and orphans ...