Canadian Jews Demand Immediate Deportation of Nazi War Criminal Helmut Oberlander

A Canadian Jewish group on Friday called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to proceed with the deportation of Helmut Oberlander — a Nazi war criminal who served with a death squad unit responsible for the murder of more than 90,000 people in Russia and Ukraine.

“Canada cannot continue to allow a mockery to be made of its processes,” Michael Mostyn — CEO of B’nai Brith Canada — declared in a statement.

“Oberlander has had his day in court, and he lost,” Mostyn noted. “To not remove him now would be a punch in the gut to every Holocaust survivor in this country — and would render meaningless the prime minister’s promises of justice.”

The Canadian government has been attempting to deport Oberlander, who was also an infantryman in the German army, because of his Nazi past for the last 25 years.

Oberlander, who is now 95, had his Canadian citizenship stripped on four separate occasions by lower courts, but those decisions were reversed in three appeals.

Finally, in last December, Canada’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to restore his citizenship, which Oberlander obtained in 1960.

B’nai Brith argued that “by failing to deport a Nazi whose SS death squad unit, Einsatzkommando 10a, murdered more than 90,000 innocent men, women and children, Trudeau unfortunately raises questions about what exactly has been learned, and how much history has been forgotten.”

Said the group: “No more delays. No more appeals. Canadians demand justice and further delays make a mockery of that justice.”

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Biden says America “had a good relationship with Hitler”

 During the final presidential debate Thursday night, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed that the United States "had a good relationship with Hitler before he in fact invaded Europe."

Biden just said we had a good relationship with Hitler.

This guy is straight-up senile. pic.twitter.com/yxnmDBScA9

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) October 23, 2020

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Kamala Harris Now losing her mind ... Asks where she is... and then says that "2/3 of the American Population Died of Covid"

A hot mic caught Kamala Harris asking staff "are we in Cleveland?" before she spoke.

cc. OHIO

pic.twitter.com/DFcu2LCGWL

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) October 25, 2020

Ooops, she did it again. Kamala Harris again claims that two-thirds of the U.S Population has died in the last several months. #BidenBrain pic.twitter.com/5B9G2TCm6z

— Michael J. McDonald - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@McDonaldNV) October 24, 2020

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Pollster: If Trump Wins, ‘End of Public Polling’ in Politics

 

GOP pollster Frank Luntz said if President Donald Trump wins Nov. 3 it might be the ”end of public polling” in politics.

In remarks on The Interview podcast, Luntz gave the wake-up call when asked about an election outcome that defies what appears to be poor polling for Trump.

”If polling gets it wrong again, then the industry, at least for politics, is done,” Luntz said, Mediaite reported.

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Watch Biden Say That He Will Take Social Security Away

 

Hey Liberals even Bernie your favorite Communist called China Joe out for trying to get Social Security, Medicare & Veterans programs cut! pic.twitter.com/jPgEHTa0qy

— gotitlikeuwantit (@gotitlikeuwant) October 23, 2020

I thought Joe’s rages were a natural consequence of his onset dementia, but it turns out they have a basis in realty. Let’s take peak, shall we... pic.twitter.com/7QEMzO44wg

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 23, 2020

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Historic letter by leading Rabbonim in America in support of President Trump is released ahead of the elections.

Historic letter by leading Rabbonim in America in support of President Trump is released ahead of the elections.

The letter which includes the signatures of the Admorim of Pupa, Bobov, Munkach, Vizhnitz, Skver, Rachmistrivka, both Satmar Rebbes, the Dayan of the Crown Heights Bais Din as well as the Rosh Hayeshiva of Lakewood, Philadelphia, and South Fallsburg is an unprecedented joint letter of appreciation and blessing, spearheaded by Rabbi Moshe Margareten of the Tzedek Association.

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Amy Coney Barrett Will Be Confirmed Because Kavanaugh Battle Taught GOP To Stop Getting Played By Democrat Dirty Tricks

Amy Coney Barrett has not yet been confirmed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court by the U.S. Senate, but there is no question that her confirmation battle has gone much better than the one endured by Brett Kavanaugh and his supporters. The undervalued reason why is that Republicans and their voters are not wasting any time on dirty tricks from their opponents in the Senate and in the media.

This confirmation was supposed to be apocalyptic. That’s what I predicted. One of the closing paragraphs of “Justice On Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court,” the book I wrote with Carrie Severino:

As ugly as Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle became, he is unlikely to shift the Court dramatically. Except on abortion and homosexuality, Justice Kennedy usually voted with the conservatives. If Justice Ginsburg were to retire while Trump was in the White House, the resulting appointment would probably be like the Thomas-for-Marshall trade. Compared with what might follow, the Kavanaugh confirmation might look like the good old days of civility.

Clearly, we were wrong. There are many reasons for that, and it’s worth looking at them.

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Lives of 130,000 Americans will be saved by March if 95% of people wear masks - but COVID-19 death toll will top 500,000 if they don't, study predicts

 If 95 percent of Americans wore masks consistently, nearly 130,00 lives could be saved between now and March 2021, a new study suggests. 

Without measures like masks and social distancing, however, the US coronavirus death toll is likely to exceed 511,000 by then, the latest research from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimates. 

As of now, fewer than half of Americans say they 'always' wear a mask when they are in public. 

Realistically, the researchers don't anticipate masking will become near-universal - it's still a subject of heated controversy in much of the US. 

But it will be critical that states don't further relax restrictions like social distancing aimed at reducing the spread of coronavirus. Doing so, they warn, could result in more than one million Americans dying of COVID-19 by the end of February. 

Already, the pandemic has claimed the lives of well over 220,000 Americans, and the toll is rising by an average of more than 760 fatalities a day. 

Most experts - including those at the IHME - predict that deaths will only rise more  steeply as we enter the colder winter months and gatherings move indoors where there is a greater risk of transmission. 

More than 50 percent of people in the US only sometimes or never wear masks, according to the IHME study, published Friday in Nature Medicine. 

Masks can reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission by up to 30 percent, several  studies have shown. 

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Trump Brands Sacha Baron Cohen As "That Unfunny Creep"

 President Trump is no fan of Sacha Baron Cohen or his ‘Borat’ character.

The notorious British comedian made headlines this week for tricking Trump ally Rudy Giuliani into an embarrassing cameo in his new film, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”

“Years ago, you know, he tried to scam me. And I was the only one who said no way. That’s a phony guy. And I don’t find him funny,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday, The Sun reported. “To me, he was a creep.”

The incident with Cohen happened roughly 15 years ago, Trump said, without going into additional details.

Cohen did score a brief interview with Trump in 2003 while dressed as his character Ali G. The faux-British rapper pitched a visibly annoyed Trump on the possibility of investing in gloves to protect your hands while eating ice cream.

“I hope you make a lot of money,” Trump told him before leaving.

The film has faced critics in other corners as well, including author and financial analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who derided the character as racist.

“Borat is nearly the most racist movie in history, overtly degrading the pple [sic] of #Kazakhstan. Yet many get ‘cancelled’ for misusing a certain words out of context. So Sacha Baron Cohen & authors get a free pass by the ‘left’ because he attacks Giuliani?,” Taleb wrote on Twitter. “I visited Kazakhstan a few times. Every time, locals brought the subject & insisted that Borat was not representative, that it was unfair, that it cause a lot of damage, etc.”

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Trump, Mnuchin say ball is in Pelosi’s court in COVID-19 stimulus negotiations

 

President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of hijacking COVID-19 economic relief by spurning their offers of urgently-needed stimulus.

Speaking in the Oval Office — just 11 days from the presidential election — Mnuchin, the administration’s point person on negotiations, said the ball was in the California Democrat’s court after months of fruitless discussions.

“We’ve offered compromises. The speaker on a number of issues has still dug in. If she wants to compromise, there will be a deal,” Mnuchin told reporters.

“We’ve made lots of progress in lots of areas but there’s still some significant differences that we’re working on,” he went on.

The Trump administration raised their most recent offer to $1.8 trillion but that is still significantly lower than the Democrat’s $3.3 trillion starting point. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to support anything higher than $2 trillion.

Hope that a fifth wave of relief will pass Congress before the election has essentially faded, prompting a fierce round of finger pointing as Democrats accuse Republicans of penny-pinching during an unprecedented recession caused by the pandemic.

But Trump on Friday said the speaker was trying to secure funding for matters unrelated to the pandemic and claimed she didn’t want to reach a deal before the election.

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Trump Announces Sudan-Israel Peace Deal; Says Five More Coming – Possibly Including Saudi Arabia

 President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of U.S.-brokered deals in the run-up to Election Day.

The deal, which would deepen Sudan’s engagement with the West, follows Trump’s conditional agreement this week to remove the North African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if it pays compensation to American victims of terror attacks.

It also delivers a foreign policy achievement for Trump just days before the U.S. election and boosts his embattled ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Recently, the United States brokered diplomatic pacts between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Jordan recognized Israel in the 1990s.

He said “at leave five” other countries “want to come in” and join the UAE, Bahrain and now Sudan, added that “many more” will follow, indicated that Saudi Arabia would be one of them, and predicted that ultimately Iran would follow suit.

Joint Statement of the United States, the Republic of Sudan, and the State of Israel:

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Monsey "almanah" accuses Monsey Broker Samuel Ehrenthal of Using Religious Organizations to Hide Assets

 A creditor claims that a bankrupt Monsey insurance broker is concealing millions of dollars in assets in religious organizations and businesses to avoid paying his debts.

Judith Gluck, also of Monsey, sued Samuel Ehrenthal in federal bankruptcy court on March 27.

Ehrenthal “failed to accurately disclose, and therefore concealed, his property,” the complaint states, “with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud a creditor … and the court.”

Ehrenthal and his bankruptcy attorney, Kevin J. Nash, did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages asking for his side of the story.

Ehrenthal filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in December, declaring $1.8 million in assets and nearly $14.6 million in liabilities.

His assets are composed mostly of his house on Highview Road in Monsey that is valued at $1.2 million. He listed $543,631 in retirement funds, four parcels of land in New York and Pennsylvania worth $37,200, $200 in a checking account and $200 in a brokerage account.

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Ivanka Trump Prays at Lubavitcher Ohel in Late Night Visit

 

Ivanka Trump, the daughter and Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, has paid a late-night visit to the Old Montefiore Cemetery in the Cambria Heights section of Queens in New York, Thursday night.

She came to pray at the Ohel, the holy gravesite of the Rebbe which is frequented year-round by Jews and non Jews from around the world.

She was accompanied by Rabbi Zalman and Toba Grossbaum, directors of Chabad of Livingston in New Jersey, who are close to her husband Jared Kushner, a Senior Advisor to President Trump.

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Chassidishe Wedding Held in Arab town in Effort to Avoid Detection

 Police on Wednesday dispersed an ultra-Orthodox wedding held at an unexpected location — the Arab village of Kafr Qasim.

The reason for the choice in locale was because the bride and groom wanted to avoid detection while holding a wedding that violated coronavirus restrictions on mass gatherings, according to a Channel 12 news report Thursday.

Under the partial lockdown in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, weddings, like other outdoor events, are capped at 20 people.

An eyewitness quoted by the network said the revelers played Arabic music over the loudspeaker in an effort to blend into the surroundings.

The wedding was reportedly held at a venue owned by a Kfar Qasim resident and video of the event showed dozens of guests not wearing masks or practicing social distancing.

The police announced in a statement that they broke up the wedding and fined the owner of the venue NIS 5,000 ($1,480) after accidentally coming across the gathering while in the area on an unrelated operation.

“The Israel Police calls on all business owners and the public to obey the Health Ministry guidelines in order to prevent the spread of the virus,” the statement said.

The wedding is reportedly not the first ultra-Orthodox event held in an  Arab village in an effort to avoid detection, according to Channel 12.

While Kafr Qasim was largely spared by the first wave of coronavirus, months later the city was facing 170 coronavirus infections per 10,000 residents, the second-highest rate in the country. It has since seen a marked drop in new cases.

Large weddings, traditionally held in summer, were often blamed as the source of the outbreak in Israel’s Arab community.

Wednesday night also saw a row between officers and revelers at a wedding held at a Dead Sea beach, as guests expressed outrage over cops trying to shut down the event, and the groom appeared to become ill over the ruckus.

The confrontation with police was filmed on a video that was shared on social media.

Last week, a bloody brawl erupted as police broke up a wedding held in a private home in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev.

Video shared on social media showed police scuffling with guests and family amid tables arranged for a celebration as people screamed and cried, with one man punched after being knocked to the floor. The bride’s brother was then led out of the house with blood streaming down his face.

Weddings are generally not allowed to take place at this time, and officials have refused to reopen wedding venues due to the fear of coronavirus infections at tightly packed events in which it is difficult to maintain social distancing.

Aaron Boxerman contributed to this report.

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Watch Leslie Stahl ...Lie .... in front of the world ...

 

Leslie Stahl humiliates herself in front of all of humanity. 👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/2T90uv41o8

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) October 22, 2020

 

President Trump says on 60 Minutes that "they spied on my campaign and they got caught."

Lesley Stahl says "There's no real evidence of that." pic.twitter.com/oLJoXr5apo

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 22, 2020

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Parshat Noach .... By DIN

 

In this week's parsha, Parshas Noach ... we find an interesting verse....

ויחל נח איש האדמה ויטע כרם 

"Noach, the man of the earth, planted a vineyard"

This happened right after the flood, when Noach and his family left the ark.

Rashi struggles with the word ויחל.....Rashi says that this word comes from the word חולין.... "profane" 

שהיה לו לעסוק תחילה בנטיעה אחרת ..... "for he should first have engaged in a different sort of planting"

Unkelis understands the word ויחל to mean "and he began" so according to Unkelis the verse translated in English would read:

"Noach began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard"

Rashi could not go along with Unkelis's understanding of ויחל since if this would be the meaning of that word, it would be superfluous, since it's obvious from how the Torah relates the story that this is what Noach "began" to do.

Either way, all agree that the first thing Noach did was to plant a vineyard and subsequently got drunk.

Chazal say that Noach from the word  ויחל debased himself because he planted a vineyard before planting something more practical like wheat etc..

Question: 

Notice that in the verse I quoted above, the Torah calls Noach איש האדמה..... a man of the earth.....

But in the very first verse in this week's parsha, the Torah calls Noach 

איש צדיק תמים .... "a righteous man, perfect"

How does a guy go from being a איש צדיק תמים  to a איש האדמה

in less than two months? What happened?

Answer:

Much ink has been spilled trying to figure out what precisely happened in such a short time ... and the Baalei Mussar have different explanations.....everyone seems to agree that Noach changed, and it wasn't for the better.

My understanding is the following:

There are two different type of people that survive destruction...

There are those who having witnessed and survived a catastrophe  literally lose it .... they lose their faith, their courage, their ambition and cannot move on, always looking back on how the world seemed before the destruction. .... 

should they even decide to somehow continue, they no longer have the enthusiasm and ambition they once had, and the memories of the destruction is always on their mind....they become a shell of themselves,

Many of those who survived the Holocaust were from this group, they lost their faith in humanity and in their G-D. 

But they lost more than faith.... they lost all trust in humanity...

If civilized people can become animals in a matter of weeks....if people who were in the arts, who were educated, who were doctors and nurses could take their neighbors to torture them, to rape and murder them, for no reason .... if good civilized neighbors who they trusted with their very lives can take innocent babies and toddlers and shoot them to death.... 

then what hope is there to carry on? Who can they trust?

and so they basically gave up....

I am not judging them ...

There is another group of people that survive and witness atrocities, this group become stronger for it ....they move forward and even though it never leaves their conscience, they ride above it and decide based on their faith and values, that they have an obligation to rebuild their lives, they continue to believe that not all humans are capable of murder....they continue to trust .... and based on that trust, they move forward .....

My father, z"l whose yurzeit is today was from this group. He lost a wife and children and yet he chose to rebuild his life from those very ashes, and didn't wait too long to marry in the DP camps of Germany ...

If you should look back in Jewish History, you will find that the majority of Jews were from this second group .... 

Unfortunately, Noach couldn't handle it ... he must have missed his family, his friends and even though the generation was a bad one, this was all he knew ..and even though, unlike the Holocaust victims, he had been told that this would happen 120 years before it actually occurred ...but when it actually happened he went into shock and when he emerged from the ark to see total annihilation, complete destruction and devastation, he needed to drown his troubles in liquor..

וישאר אך נח ... "and he became just Noach" no longer the איש צדיק

Noach lived 350 years after the flood, yet there is no mention of him again ... he seems to have disappeared ..

Avraham Aveenu actually knew Noach; Avraham was 58 years old when Noach died ... and yet nowhere is it mentioned that they had any relationship ...

I am sure that Avraham who was a "people person" would have sought him out if there was any hope that he could learn anything from him ...

Noach just disappeared and became a hermit ...

We live now in a different sort of destruction ... a plague .. a virus that doesn't seem to go away ...

We need to choose which category we want to belong to...

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Zera Shimshon Parshat Noach

 

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Summary of Last Night's Debate

The best Trump ever.

That’s what America saw in Thursday’s debate as the president finally found his stride. He was substantive, measured and relatively calm — a combination that enabled him to give the best debate performance I’ve ever seen from him.

His repeated focus on jobs and economic growth reflected the success of his first three years and why 56 percent of survey respondents recently told Gallup they were better off than four years ago.

The president neglected to mention that important survey, but, asked what he would say to those who didn’t vote for him if he won, his answer captured the same optimism: “Success is going to bring us together.”

Where’s that guy been hiding?

He  learned from his mistakes and was consistently disciplined throughout the 95 minutes.

Yet because most polls show him trailing Joe Biden, Trump was also eager to open another contrast, so he frequently brought up the e-mail evidence that the former vice president was directly implicated in son Hunter’s shady business dealings around the globe.

Again, the president was aggressive without being overbearing, yet had to repeat the details because of the outrageous blackouts by Big Media and Big Tech of the stories. But the new charges from Tony Bobulinski, the insider-turned-whistleblower, that he met with Joe Biden personally to discuss a suspect deal with a Chinese energy company will likely force the issue more into the open.

Biden’s answer, that “I’ve never taken a penny from a foreign source in my life,” sounds a lot like his earlier claim that he’d never even discussed his son’s businesses with him. We know now that wasn’t true.

Notably, however, Biden still did not dispute the specifics of Bobulinski’s charges or claim that the e-mails were not authentic.

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Ultra-Orthodox leadership has failed its own followers ....

by Esty Shushan

Over the past few months, being an ultra-Orthodox individual in the public sphere in Israel has not been a pleasant experience. The coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a new reality with respect to the way the general public perceives Haredi society and the change – especially when people are already on edge – has not been for the better.

While no one could have predicted that the closed Haredi sector would be dealing with a global pandemic or the scope of the outbreak that has gripped it, recent events make it impossible for me to defend the ultra-Orthodox leadership.

There has been much talk recently about the secular and ultra-Orthodox sectors going their separate ways. Let the Haredim keep to their overcrowded cities – cordon them off during the pandemic and the rest of Israel could breathe easy, many argue.

But the problem does not lie within the Haredi cities. The problem lies with a broken, degenerate, political system, and that is the makings of the leadership chosen by the majority of the Israel public.

Many have always made it a point to remind the Haredim that they are a minority and therefore that it is more important to act wisely and pragmatically; to indulge the forces of mainstream lobbying with economic and political incentives so as to foster a "healthy evolutionary change."

But modern viruses do not spend millions of years evolving. They become biological and social mutations in a heartbeat, exposing the degenerate system for what it is.

This political system has produced relative quiet for Israeli leaders, as well as near-complete independence and absolute control for the ultra-Orthodox leaders.

Under the auspices of the existing system, initiatives promoting reforms in the ultra-Orthodox education system have been blocked, and the same fate befalls any attempt to improve the situation of Haredi women. The victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse are silenced and abuses in the workplace are allowed – and the list continued.

Power corrupts, and the ultra-Orthodox leadership has received unlimited power. True, most Haredi voters elected it, but under the auspices of state laws, Haredi cities were "red zones" long before the coronavirus pandemic made it all the rage.

This absolute power, however, was not used by community leaders to bring order into the chaos of the coronavirus outbreak. Yes, Haredi leaders are skilled in mobilizing voters to the ballots come Election Day, but they failed to use their power to stop the catastrophe that is slowly but surely killing off these voters.

The outcome of the Haredi leadership's decision-making process during the first coronavirus outbreak was terrible, but they could be chalked up to the uncertainty of dealing with something never before seen. But what happened during the second outbreak is nothing short of gross negligence.

Ultra-Orthodox leaders abandoned their constituents to the mercy of a deadly virus, as well as to the hatred of other sectors in Israeli society, regardless of how closely they observe the Health Ministry's guidelines. For Haredi society, this was a lose-lose situation.

Many may say this is a time for reconciliation – not criticism. I adamantly disagree. It is time for Haredi leaders to come to their senses, unpleasant as it may be. 

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