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Monday, June 7, 2021

"Moozal Tov" Baby rhino born in Israeli zoo



An Israeli zoo proudly announced the birth of a new baby rhino on Sunday.

The baby male, who has not yet been named, was spotted trotting alongside his mother, 11-year-old Rihanna, now a mother of three, the Ramat Gan Safari Park zoosaid.

The zoo will be monitoring mother and calf for health and safety, the zoo said, while they reside in a designated maternity zone for the next several weeks until the baby is strong enough to join his fellow animals in the safari's African Savanna section.

The rhino is of the square-lipped or southern white rhinoceros breed, the most common of all rhinos. Though not presently classified as an endangered species, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), it still faces a considerable threat of poaching.

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UNRWA admits terrorists dug a tunnel underneath Gaza school

 

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has admitted that it has likely revealed a tunnel beneath one of its schools that armed terrorist groups utilized during the recent 11-day conflagration with Israel, i24NEWSreported Sunday.

A statement by UNRWA claimed that "the Israeli Air Force conducted strikes that caused damage to UNRWA installations, most notably to the UNRWA Zaitoun Preparatory Boys’ School ‘A’ and Elementary Boys’ School ‘A.’"

While declaring the inviolability of UNRWA premises, opining that all United Nations buildings are clearly marked on their roof, it acknowledged that "no displaced persons were inside the school at the time of the strike and no physical injuries were caused."

The statement did not mention that it is highly likely that the IDF called ahead of the strike to warn that the school was a target.

The UNRWA statement added that during a detailed assessment on the premises on May 31, the air strike revealed what appeared to be a 7.5-meter cavity beneath the school and what appeared to be a tunnel.

UNRWA said the tunnel was not connected to the school and there is no "indication of the existence of any entry or exit points for the tunnel within the premises."

Created in 1949, UNRWA supplies aid to more than three million of the five million registered “Palestinian refugees” in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and territories assigned to the Palestinian Authority.

However, it has also come under fire for its anti-Israel activities. During the 2014 counterterrorism Operation Protective Edge, Hamas rockets were discovered inside a school building run by UNRWA.

Likewise, a booby-trapped UNRWA clinic was detonated, killing three IDF soldiers. Aside from the massive amounts of explosives hidden in the walls of the clinic, it was revealed that it stood on top of dozens of terror tunnels, showing how UNRWA is closely embedded with Hamas.

Sunday’s statement followed criticism of UNRWA after its Gaza director, Matthias Schmale, said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News that he did not dispute Israel's assertion that its air strikes on Hamas terrorist targets in the Strip were "precise".

The comments resulted in protests in Gaza, with Hamas ridiculing Schmale as "a spokesman for the Israeli military".

While Schmale has apologized, he was called in for consultations with his bosses in Jerusalem last week.

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El Al cuts airfare for children

 

El Al on Monday will launch an unprecedented campaign in Israeli aviation: According to information received by Israel Hayom, families flying abroad will be able to purchase tickets for the parents at full price, and pay only airport fees for the children.

The reduced fare will apply only for children up to age 12, and will apply to nearly all destinations in Europe, other than Greece and Cyprus. It will also include Dubai, Phuket, and Seychelles.

The reduced fares apply for those traveling prior to October 23, 2021.

For European destinations, the sale is valid until June 17, while for Dubai, Phuket, and Seychelles, tickets can be purchased at the sale price until June 10.

El Al's announcement follows similar moves by other airlines, and one of the reasons the fares are so low is that children are required to quarantine upon their return to Israel, since they cannot yet be vaccinated.

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The Meraglim of Today ... Rabbi Wein

 

The land of Israel has always posed a problem for the Jewish people. On one hand, it is and always has been our national homeland, the land promised to us by the Lord from the days of our forefathers. It is the Holy Land, the most special place on earth. On the other hand, the record of the Jewish people in the land of Israel, and their behavior and attitudes, has often been a spotty one.

The Law makes demands upon those who live here. It has, to speak, a very delicate digestive system, and the land rejects, after a period, behavior that is detrimental to creating a viable and moral society. Yet, the attachment of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is so strong that it has been able to survive centuries of separation, conquest, and exile.

Whatever period of history you choose, Jews always lived in the land of Israel, and some Jews lived there even vicariously. The Jews never forgot that they were strangers in alien countries, and if some of them did forget, the societies that they lived in eventually reminded them that they were, after all, only strangers and outsiders. All this serves as a backdrop to the spies who appear in this week's Torah reading.

Over the centuries, there are many reasons given by the commentators as to why the spies returned with such a negative report, with twisted positive facts into potential calamities and disasters. But one of the main and cogent reasons for this behavior was the ambivalent fear that has always existed within Jewish society, i.e., to commit to national existence in the land of Israel, independent of the blandishments and seeming advantages of physical life under different circumstances.

The fear and trepidation exhibited by the spies, when Moshe confidently said to bring back a report about the land of Israel, did not die with that generation of doubters in the desert. I am not speaking here of immigration to the land of Israel today, or entering the process of Aliyah. Rather, I am addressing an attitude that exists in almost all sections of the Jewish world outside of the land of Israel. That attitude is the commitment involved in living in the land of Israel, a justified concern regarding the spiritual and social commitment necessary to successfully live as a Jew in the land of Israel.

It is this challenge, more than anything else, that shook the spies and turned them into slanderers There are many of these same personalities, unfortunately, that still exists today in the Jewish world. There are Jewish organizations as well as individuals who are in the forefront of anti-Israel movements and programs, not politically driven, but rather an expression of the ambivalence that prevails within the souls besetting Jews in our time. The results of the behavior of the spies should be a sobering reminder regarding the dangers of slandering the land of Israel and the Jewish population.

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88th Yurzeit Of Chazzan Yossele Rosenblatt

 


The Hazkara below was a year ago



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David Dushman, last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz, dead at 98

 

Using a tank, David Dushman destroyed the electric fence at Auschwitz.

David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier who helped liberate Auschwitz in World War II died on Saturday. He was 98.

The former soldier died at a Munich hospital, according to the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.

The Red Army soldier “was right on the front lines when the National Socialists’ machinery of murder was destroyed,” said Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews.

“Every witness to history who passes on is a loss, but saying farewell to David Dushman is particularly painful,” said Knobloch.

Over a million people, mainly Jews, were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945.

Dushman, riding in his T-34 tank on Jan. 27, 1945, flattened the electric fence surrounding the Nazi death camp.

“They stumbled out of the barracks, they sat and lay among the dead. Terrible. We threw them all of our canned food and immediately drove on, to hunt fascists,” Dushman recounted in a 2015 interview with Munich newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

“Skeletons everywhere,” he said.

Following the war, Dushman trained the Soviet Union’s women’s national fencing team for four decades.

He also frequently visited schools to speak to students about the horrors of the Holocaust.

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Sunday, June 6, 2021

Rabbi Chaim Druckman: Expressing an opinion is incitement?


 Rabbi Chaim Druckman, one of the leading rabbis of the religious Zionist community in Israel, wondered this morning (Sunday) how expressing his opinion as expressed through the "Letter of the Rabbis" is interpreted as incitement.

"The rabbis' letter calling for 'doing everything' to prevent the Bennett-Lapid government - can only be incitement in the imagination of those who think it is incitement," Rabbi Druckman said in an interview with Kol Chai radio.

He said, "For months there were demonstrations in front of the prime minister's house - and we did not hear the Shin Bet chief say it was incitement, suddenly my letter is incitement. I did not imagine that anyone would see this as incitement."

"Everyone knows my positions," the rabbi stressed. "It is inconceivable that I say to do something that involves physical or verbal violence, it is only those who want to label me as saying such things. People have completely lost their minds. They turn white into black and black into white."

"I oppose this and I express my opinion. I think everyone is seeking the good of the people of Israel, but in my opinion what others mean for the good of the people of Israel is to the detriment of the people of Israel."

Rabbi Druckman was asked if this was not a necessary move to prevent a fifth election. "I think there was a choice, but the point is I think the government that is about to be formed will hurt religion and state, I think security matters will be hurt, if the government relies on terrorist supporters. I think it will be a bad government and since I want the good of Israel then I express my opinion. May I not express my opinion? Is expressing this incitement?"

He questioned the Sin Bet's statements that there have been threats of violence against Yamina MKs. "I do not understand, what happened? What was the urgency of issuing a statement on Shabbat? Where was the head of the Shin Bet when Jews were attacked in Lod? There he also made a preemptive warning?"

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How Grandchildren of Shottenstein Defrauded Their Grandmother Tens of Millions of Dollars


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Is the "Amuka" Segulah a Fraud a Prank?

 


Read below an article in Arutz 7 touting the famous segula for finding your zivug . 

But when did this "segula" start? How did it originate? Is it genuine? 
The truth is that there isn't a source anywhere for this!

According to Emailim Batorah it all started off as a prank!

THE AMUKAH PRANK


The  Amukah Segulah is a prank invented in the last 50 years.There is no source in any ספר or a קבלה from any reliable source.

This Segulah was invented by a prankster. It caught on like wildfire
because desperate people do desperate things and believe in them.

The prankster combined two Rashis next to each other as if it read
כל פסולין שאין מוצאין אשה פונין והולכין שם והיא עמוקה
"All Pesulin who can't find a woman turn & go there.
Where do they go?... That is "Amukah" (Prankster's Pshat)



The Gemoro (Yevamos 17a) asks, why is it that (a certain hill) is called הרפניא? 
Answer: Because all the פסולין (Mamzeirim etc.) go towards  this hill הר- פניא to find a spouse. (& have illegitimate children)

רבא said
 "This hill is not really a hill but actually a pit deeper (עמוקה) than שאול (Gihenom) 
From Gihenom one can be redeemed whereas a Mamzer remains that way forever. 

עמוקה is not referring to the town Amukah but the word "deeper".

               

THE REAL SEGULAH - DAVENING & TALKING 

Instead of Amukah festivals, perhaps we should practice
the 2 most Authentic Segulos

1) Daven at home or in local Shul (no need for    
    Amukah- 40 Rabbonim - 40 days etc.)

2)  a) Talk - Redt Shidduchim.

     
     b) Talk & explain to all your friends etc. why if we don't
       do anything about narrowing the age gap we will
       end up ח"ו  with 20% of our sisters & daughters 
       as AGUNOS FOR LIFE
Know someone who wants to be added? Forward them this email and have them click below. 

Sign up here.



The prayer at Amuka which could bring you your marriage partner by this upcoming Rosh Hashanah.

A prayer like this one doesn't see every day. Today at Amuka, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Edelstein will conduct an awe-inspiring prayer event on the site to bring personal salvation to members of the public, with the blessing ofRabbi Chaim Kanievsky that those who contribute to poor brides should merit, in accordance with their deeds, to find their partners and get engaged by Rosh Hashanah 5782.

Today marks as the yahrtzeit (date of passing) of the holy Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel who is interred in Amuka in northern Israel.

t's sufficient to merely mention the name 'Amuka' to cause multitudes to feel a sense of holiness: The holy tomb has long been a magnet, and many have found personal salvation at this place that's auspicious for finding one's marriage partner. Many have found, by prayer at this holy site, their true "soul mates."

Now, a few days before the yahrtzeit, Kupat Ha'ir has publicized that, due to the unprecedented number of poor brides who do not even have the means to pay for their own weddings, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Edelstein will today be conducting a prayer event and "nullification of curses" at this auspicious place, to help people see personal salvation.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky expressed himself in an out-of-the-ordinary manner in response to this special and rare prayer event.

In the words of the rabbi, those who donate to Kupat Ha'ir's fundraising campaign for poor brides the sum of at least 516 shekels [$160] – the gematria of chasan kallah- will be included in the prayer of Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Edelstein in the ceremony at Amuka, which will be conducted according to the tradition he received from his father Rabbi Ya'akov Edelstein of blessed and righteous memory. They should also merit, with the power of the tzedakah(charity) and the tefillah (prayer), that, in accordance with their deedsthey should become engaged by Rosh Hashanah 5782.

Now is our time- your time- to join this tefillah event; to help these poverty-stricken brides; and to merit to hopefully receive our marriage partners ; to bring us the salvation that we yearn for so much- by Rosh Hashanah 5782. Join now to ensure that your names, and those of your loved ones awaiting their partners, will be there.

To submit names click here

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Rivka Brown Editor of "@_VashtiMedia" Claims Jews "have no native tongue"

 




Less you think that there aren't enough goyim that hate our guts, rest assured that it's not only goyim that hate us, there are Jews that hate us too..
Rivka Brown, not the sharpest blade in the drawer but dangerous, tweeted that:
 "Jews are a diasporic people, we have no native tongue. Sorry!"

Brown in her Twitter profile claims that she is the editor of "@_VashtiMedia," which is named after a wicked queen, who wanted to annihilate Rivka's ancestors and whose husband, Achashveirosh, hung her to dry after she grew a tail, Vashti Media is equivalent to the Nazi Propaganda Newspaper Der Sturmer, the only difference that I can see is that Queen VashtiMedia is written by our very own Jews!

Brown has close to 22,000 followers.Which proves that having "followers" may make you popular but doesn't make you smart!

One reading her tweet would notice immediately that she made up a word... "diasporic" indicating she has her very own forked "tongue"
She probably meant "diaspora" ...  she has no idea what she is "ploppling" about ... and calls herself a "reporter" 

Most Jews live in the diaspora, which mean by its own definition  that they were expelled... and they were expelled from Israel where they spoke Hebrew 3,500 years ago, Hebrew is older than English the language that she thinks she speaks ..."diasporicly"

She not only hates her own heritage she is a certified dummy to boot.

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Rockland County's Peter Daszak Sent $600.000 to Wuhan lab Then Suppressed Debate on the Pandemic's Origins & Personally Benefited

 

The nonprofit exec whose organization sent nearly $600,000 in US taxpayer money to a Chinese lab that may have been the source of COVID-19 masterminded an effort near the start of the pandemic to squelch the notion that the coronavirus was man-made, a new report reveals.

Peter Daszak, president of the New York City-based EcoHealth Alliance, secretly organized a statement issued by the influential British medical journal The Lancet in February 2020, according to Vanity Fair.

A total of 27 scientists — including Daszak, 55, who trained as a zoologist — signed the statement, which expressed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China.”

“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” the statement affirmed.

“Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus.”

During Daszak’s efforts to arrange the Lancet statement, he reportedly emailed two scientists, including Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina, who’d worked with the lead coronavirus researcher at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, located at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

Daszak told the scientists that they “should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way,” Vanity Fair said, citing emails obtained by the group US Right to Know.

“We’ll then put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice,” Daszak reportedly added.

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He's Back! He Was so right on the China Virus ... While Facebook Punished Media Posts That Stated that the Deadly Virus Originated in China

 


How Facebook's 'independent fact checkers' cited letter secretly organized by Wuhan lab funder Peter Daszak to 'debunk' leak theory and punish news outlets that explored it



Facebook's 'independent fact checkers' relied on a letter spearheaded by a major financial backer of the Wuhan Institute of Virology to 'debunk' articles exploring the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a leak from the lab, it has emerged.

For nearly a year, Facebook censored articles exploring the lab leak theory, labeling them 'false information' and punishing news publishers by limiting their reach on the platform, before the social media giant sheepishly reversed course last month.

Facebook relies on third-party fact-checkers to 'debunk' false claims, and in the case of the lab leak theory, a February article from Facebook partner Science Feedback played a key role in the social media site's censorship. 

The article, which purported to 'debunk' a New York Post opinion column questioning China's denials of a lab leak scenario, prominently cited a letter to The Lancet, a leading medical journal, signed by '27 eminent public health experts'.

It has now emerged that the Lancet letter, which played a key role in suppressing early debate on the pandemic's origins, was not only signed but organized by Peter Daszak, whose group funneled U.S. taxpayer dollars to controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). 

Though no definitive proof has emerged yet to show whether COVID-19 leaked from a lab or crossed over to humans directly from an animal, mounting evidence in support of the lab leak theory has emerged in recent weeks -- after academics dismissed it as impossible for more than a year. 

It is now clear that many of the leading experts in emerging coronavirus threats, who rushed to dismiss the lab leak theory early in the pandemic, were potentially conflicted, fearing that confirmation of a leak would shut down virology labs around the world and cut off their precious flow of funding.

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Saturday, June 5, 2021

21 year old Amazon Delivery Woman Viciously Beats 67 year old ..Caught on Video

 


A 21-year-old Amazon delivery woman viciously beat another woman, 67, who had called her a bi**ch after the San Francisco-area driver told her to 'check her white privilege' when she'd complained about a delayed package.    

Itzel Ramirez, the Amazon driver, was arrested after she was filmed assaulting the woman in Alameda County, the sheriff’s office said on Friday.

Video posted to social media shows the unidentified victim from Castro Valley appearing to say something to the driver after she dropped off the packages in front of an entrance to Vista Creek Apartments at around 6pm on Thursday.

Doug Smith, the owner of the apartment complex where the victim lives as a tenant, told KTVU-TV that the victim received an alert that a package she had been waiting for was delivered.

When she went to the lobby of the apartment complex to retrieve the package, it wasn’t there. The Amazon driver, Ramirez, was standing nearby.

According to Smith, the woman asked Ramirez where the package was. Ramirez is said to have replied that the package would be arriving soon.

Smith said that the victim waited for about 15 minutes in the lobby. She then came back outside and once again asked Ramirez about the status of the delivery, according to Smith.

‘I believe the Amazon driver said something about “your white privilege,” and my tenant said, “You don’t need to be a b***h about it,” turned around and walked away,’ Smith told KTVU-TV.

Ramirez was so enraged that she began punching the woman in the head and upper body, landing as many as 10 blows. 

She claims she was acting in self-defense.

Surveillance footage filmed by cameras positioned both outside and inside the lobby of the building shows Ramirez push the woman up against the front entrance and continue to strike her.

The woman is seen hunched over with her hands covering her head in an attempt to defend herself.

The victim is believed to have suffered a broken nose and other visible injuries.

Ramirez was seen wearing her Amazon vest as she posed for her booking photo with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

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NYC shrink tells Yale audience she fantasizes about shooting white people in head

 

A New York City-based psychiatrist told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine in April that she had fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.”

Dr. Aruna Khilanani spewed the race-hating virtual remarks — in which she also said she’d walk away from the shooting “with a bounce in my step” and that white people “make my blood boil” and “are out of their minds and have been for a long time” — at the Ivy League institution’s Child Study Center on April 6.

Audio of the talk was posted on the substack online platform of former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss on Friday, along with an interview of Khilanani conducted by writer and podcaster Katie Herzog.

A flyer promoting the talk and posted online by Weiss titled the lecture, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind” and included “learning objectives” such as “Set up white people’s absence of empathy towards black rage as a problem” and “Understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage.”

Khilanani opened her remarks by telling the audience, “I’m gonna say a lot of things, and it will probably provoke a lot of responses, and I want you to just maybe observe them in yourself.”

She then added “prayers up for DMX” before discussing what she described as the “intense rage and futility” people of color purportedly feel when talking to white people about racism.

Khilanani launched into an attack of all white people as a monolithically ignorant, delusional, and hateful group. Early on, she offers a telling self-diagnosis: “We are calm, we are giving, too giving, and then when we get angry, they use our responses as confirmation that we’re crazy or have emotional problems.” She insisted “Nothing makes me angrier than a white person who tells me not to be angry, because they have not seen real anger yet.”

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San Fran Sicko Police BLUR picture of ‘teen’ setting Asian woman’s hair ablaze

 


JonathanTurley.org: 

This could make for an interesting line up. The San Francisco police posted a videotape of a man lighting the hair of a woman on fire on a bus.  They were seeking the help of witnesses but bizarrely blurred out the face of the suspect. When confronted on the curious effort, the police insisted that it was just trying to get people to recognize the victim. Huh?

The young man is shown in the videotape casually moving over to sit behind the woman and then puts a lighter to the back of her head. She was helped by other passengers as the suspect and two friends ran off of the bus.  She obviously could have been severely burned or even killed in such an attack if the fire spread.

Police spokesperson Adam Lobsinger later explained that they were trying to find the victim because “without the victim, when we catch the suspects, it’s harder to do anything,. We are still looking for the suspects.”

That is a bit hard to follow. One would think that they are trying to find both the victim and the culprit.  The latter is particularly important since he is out in the public after lighting the hair of a woman on fire. Regardless of the eventual prosecution, you should want the public’s assistance in finding this maniac and getting him off the street. You can actually show both faces and achieve both purposes. Moreover, you have a videotape to help with any prosecution regardless of the victim.  The police also have the driver as a witness.

Turley: “I just cannot track the logic on this one.”

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Black Thugs Continue to Beat Asians ...BLM Silent!

No description necessary. The video tells the story.


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Washington Post Says Some Birds are Racist

 

According to The Washington Post, it's hunting season for cancel culture and its latest targets are "racist" birds. 

The Post ran an expansive report on Thursday, titled "The racist legacy many birds carry," focused on the "birding community," which apparently is having a difficult debate "about the names of species connected to enslavers, supremacists and grave robbers."

"Corina Newsome is a Black ornithologist, as rare as some of the birds she studies," Post environmental justice reporter Darryl Fears began his piece, noting she was hired to "break down barriers" at the Georgia Audubon nature preserve. 

"But overcoming those barriers will be daunting. As with the wider field of conservation, racism and colonialism are in ornithology’s DNA, indelibly linked to its origin story. The challenge of how to move forward is roiling White ornithologists as they debate whether to change as many as 150 eponyms, names of birds that honor people with connections to slavery and supremacy."

Fears wrote that birds such as Bachman’s sparrow and Wallace’s fruit dove "bear the names of men who fought for the Southern cause, stole skulls from Indian graves for pseudoscientific studies that were later debunked, and bought and sold Black people."

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