Flight attendants helpless in face of mask-refusing passengers

 

Flight attendants from all the Israeli airlines have expressed frustration at their lack of authority to enforce the coronavirus rules on the flight, Israel Hayom reported.

The site also noted the attendants' complaints regarding the lengthy process required to report passengers who refuse to wear masks.

This issue does not affect only Israeli airlines: Foreign airlines are also not allowed to issue fines, but some of them allow attendants to write down the names of the passengers, refuse to allow them to board connection flights, mark them as problematic for future flights, and so on.

G., a flight attendant for an Israeli airlines, told Israel Hayom: "There are more than a few passengers who think they are smarter than everyone else. They say they were vaccinated, that they're not afraid, and that they're not willing to wear a mask."

"If I want to deal with it, I need to fill out a report that's four pages long. This is a report in which I need to interview witnesses who testify that the passenger did not wear a mask, take his details, fill out long forms for at least fifteen minutes and sometimes even more, and only then do we submit it to the Civil Aviation Authority, and they decide whether to submit the report."

Unsurprisingly, G. said he has "not yet heard of someone who received a fine afterwards. More than that, I don't know flight attendants who filled out this form until the end, because it's very complicated and exhausting. I also gave up after I tried, and just stopped in the middle.

Israel Hayom emphasized that the flight attendants they spoke to noted somewhat of an improvement on the matter, saying that the vast majority of passengers do wear masks. However, they said, there is a certain population in which the percentage of mask-refusers is very prominent: young people flying for vacations, abroad and to Eilat.

A., a flight attendant with another Israeli company, said: "If it's a violent or dangerous situation, then the pilot can land the plane, call the police, and deal with the matter harshly. But here? For a mask? No one is going to do that. If it were like that, then police would be waiting for a lot of flights that land in Israel."

US authorities seize Judaica from Kestenbaum auction house in probe of Holocaust loot

 

Federal authorities in New York seized 17 items from a Brooklyn auction house that they suspect were looted from their rightful owners during the Holocaust.

The scrolls and manuscripts include community ledgers, memorial books and records from Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia. Among the items is a valuable record of Jewish burials from the community of Cluj in Romania.

The Justice Department began investigating Kestenbaum and Company, the auction house selling the artifacts, in February after allegations that 21 items were being sold without permission or documentation from their rightful owners. Four have already been sold.

“The Scrolls and Manuscripts that were illegally confiscated during the Holocaust contain priceless historical information that belongs to the descendants of families that lived and flourished in Jewish communities before the Holocaust. This Office hopes that today’s seizure will contribute to the restoration of pre-Holocaust history in Eastern Europe,” Acting U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis said in a statement.

At least one of those items was sold after the auction house was contacted by law enforcement officials.

No one has been criminally charged in the case, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York told The Washington Post. The Department of Justice statement does not say who confiscated the scrolls nor name the seller.

Daniel Kestenbaum, chairman of the auction house which specializes in Judaica, said the seller “rescued” the artifacts after they were “tragically” abandoned in Soviet-bloc countries. He said in a statement that the auction house supports federal authorities’ efforts to resolve “this meta-historical problem.”

Goy ''kinueh'' sets deadly fire because relatives didn’t follow Bible

 

A Texas man allegedly set a fire that killed his brother and badly burned his mother because the pair did not follow the Bible, a report said.

Philip Mills, 40, has been charged with capital murder and arson over the Thursday night blaze that left his 54-year-old Paul Mills dead in the family’s El Paso home, KTSM reported.

Police said the suspect copped to the vicious crime and told police he used gasoline from a weed whacker, which was poured onto a living room couch, to ignite the deadly inferno, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the outlet.

After allegedly setting the home on fire, Philip waited outside “with large rocks in his hands” in case his relatives made it out alive, according to the affidavit.

Philip’s 82-year-old mother, Annette Mills, managed to walk out of the home and was rescued by first responders. She was hospitalized in critical condition.

Investigators questioning Mills informed him of his mother’s condition.

“The defendant then laughed and advised the investigators that he was shocked that both his mother and brother did not perish and called it a ‘failed attempt,’” the affidavit said.

The suspect allegedly told investigators he started the fire because his brother and mother did not follow the Bible.

Hamas Ammunitian Storage Near Gaza Residence Blows Up Kill One Injures 14 Including 6 Kids

 

Palestinian factions and human rights organizations have called on Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to stop  storing weapons in residential areas following another explosion, which killed one person and injured 14 others on Thursday.

They also demanded a thorough investigation into the explosion in order to hold those responsible accountable.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.

Hamas said it has launched an investigation, but has not provided any details.

Thursday’s explosion occurred shortly after 8 a.m. in a house located in the Al-Zawiya market area in the center of Gaza City. Palestinian sources said that 69-year-old Atta Ahmed Saqallah died and 14 civilians were injured, including six children.

Medical sources at Shifa Hospital described the wounds of one of them as critical, according to the Palestinian Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights. The three-story house was partially destroyed, while neighboring houses and shops were partially damaged, the center said in a statement. According to eyewitnesses, a fire had broken out in the house before the explosion.

“Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza views the explosion incident with grave seriousness, as there have been repeated incidents of internal explosions in houses in overcrowded residential neighborhoods for various reasons in the past, which resulted in the killing of a number of civilians and the destruction of homes and public and private properties,” the statement read.

“Accordingly, Al-Mezan reiterates its call for a comprehensive and serious investigation into this incident and other similar events, to publish the results of the investigation publicly, and to take the necessary measures to ensure that it does not recur in order to preserve the lives and property of citizens.”

The Palestinian NGO Network, an umbrella organization comprising 133 member organizations, also called for a “serious and transparent” investigation into the explosion. “The Network stresses the need to expedite the provision of all forms of assistance and support to those affected,” the group said. “It also stresses the need to announce the results of the investigation and to take serious measures to prevent such explosions from happening again.”

Palestinian writer Fadel Al-Manasfeh said it was clear that Hamas chooses popular markets as a safe place for its ammunition warehouses because it knows that Israel does not target such places. He said that Hamas was “confused” by the explosion because one of its weapons warehouses had been discovered. He also pointed out that a similar explosion took place in an open market in the Nuseirat refugee camp last year, killing more than 10 Palestinians and injuring dozens others.

The Top 10 Richest Rabbanim in Israel

 

Gerer put out Fake News photos of Lizman learning with Gerer Rebbe

Notice the above photo of a young Litzman reading the Hamodia newspapers, but this of course doesn't fit in the Gerer agenda, that the Gerer Rebbe would read a newspaper... 

So they photoshopped the photo and added gemmaras instead.See photo below...

However the gemmarah is the "Oiz Ve'hadar" edition, and the Oiz Ve'hadar edition didn't exist back then ..

Minor detail 

 

Three Brooklyn Savages Charged for Assaulting Jews, Forcing Them to Say ‘Free Palestine’

 Three men in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been charged in relation to two hate-crime incidents that targeted religious Jews.

District Attorney for Kings Country Eric Gonzalez identified the defendants as Daniel Shaukat, 20, of Bensonhurst; Haider Anjam, 21, of Midwood; and Ashan Azad 19, also of Midwood.

According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the men faced a 68-count indictment that included third-degree assault as a hate crime; second-degree menacing as a hate crime; third-degree assault; criminal mischief; and criminal obstruction of breathing and related charges.

Jackie Mason Dies at 93

 

Jackie Mason, the former rabbi from a family of rabbis whose Borscht Belt style and issue-oriented comedy made him a popular and at times controversial performer, has died. He was 93.

Mason died Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, his longtime friend, lawyer Raoul Felder, told The Hollywood Reporter. Mason had trouble breathing and passed away in his sleep, he said.

Mason’s first of his many one-man shows, The World According to Me!, was a hit on Broadway in the late 1980s — selling every seat at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre for more than a year — and he was given a special Tony Award for his efforts. He also received an Emmy and a Grammy nomination after the show was adapted as Jackie Mason on Broadway.

On the big screen, Mason starred in the disappointing Caddyshack II (1988) after Rodney Dangerfield decided not to do the sequel and appeared in Steve Martin’s The Jerk (1979) and Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I(1981).

Earlier, Mason produced and starred as a New Jersey snitch who steals money from the cops and hightails it to Miami in The Stoolie (1971), firing young director John G. Avildsen during production.

He also provided the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky on eight episodes of The Simpsons, the first time in 1991 and the last in 2016 (he won his second career Emmy for one such turn in 1992).

More recently, Mason did a series of video commentaries for Breitbart News in which he regularly roasted Hollywood.

Former White House doc, predicts Biden will be forced to resign

 

Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician-turned-congressman, says he’s “terrified for our country” in the wake of President Joe Biden’s disastrous town hall this week — and that he doubts whether the commander in chief has the cognitive ability to make it through a full term. 

“He’s completely LOST it!” Jackson (R-Tex.) tweeted Saturday, along with a video clip — recorded this week — in which Biden bizarrely answered a reporter’s question about defunding the police by claiming that Republicans accuse him of “sucking the blood out of kids.”

“Needs a cognitive exam NOW!” Jackson posted.

In Biden’s haywire performance on CNN Wednesday night, widely mocked on social media, he made false assertions about the efficacy of COVID vaccines, talked about helping children “find out whether there’s a man on the moon or whether those aliens are here or not” and confused the audience with references to obscure conspiracy theories.

“I mean, Qanon, the idea that the Democrats or that Biden is hiding people and sucking the blood of children and — no, I’m serious,” he said, drawing dubious looks from the crowd.

At one point in the town hall, the president rambled incoherently as he attempted to discuss the vaccine approval process.

The Lesson That Moshe Rabbeinu Taught us on his very last days

 

This past Shabbos, the Baal Korah read Parshas Ve’eschanan.where Moshe Rabbeinu begins with the words:

‘’ןאתחנן אל ה’ בעת ההיא לאמר’’ ‘’I pleaded to G-d at that time’’

Commentaries discuss why Moshe specifically used the word ואתחנן a word that corresponds numerically to 515. They say this comes to teach us that Moshe pleaded to G-d that he enter Eretz Yisrael with 515 different individual prayers.

But what was missing in Moshe’s resume? After all, he dedicated his entire life to the Jewish people and in addition he was the greatest prophet that ever lived, the entire Torah is named after him as it says: ‘’זכרו תורת משה עבדי’’ ’’remember my servant’s  Moshe’s Torah’’ 

So why did he need to plead so much to enter Eretz Yisrael? What was he missing?

After all, Moshe was instrumental into bringing  the ten plaques on the Egyptians, split the Yam Suf, brought down the Luchos, made sure that the Jewish would have what to eat in the desert, was victorious in the war against the Amalekites, and was able to speak to Hashem פה אל פה face to face, so to speak, and Hashem Himself  testifies that ‘’בכל ביתי נאמן הוא’’ ‘’in My entire house he is the trusted one’’

So what else was missing?

With all his accomplishments and his righteousness, he still had to plead to Hashem with 515 different individual prayers... all by himself with no other Jew pleading on his behalf …. 

Why all those prayers? Let’s remember that all these prayers were for only one reason to be able to enter Eretz Yisrael, but why?

One of the great commentaries says that Moshe  wanted to pass on to us a great lesson. 

Moshe Rabbeinu wanted us to know the worth of Eretz Yisrael. 

Moshe is saying to us:

‘’My dear children, not being able to enter Eretz Yisrael, I will never be complete, I will forever have a part of me missing’’

This is the lesson the greatest teacher of the Jewish people, wanted to impart upon us, Eretz Yisrael isn’t a real-estate transaction, and it’s not settlements. Eretz Yisrael is a Land that is very Holy; the Torah itself bears witness to this:

,,עיני ה’ אלוקיך בה מראשית השנה ועד אחרית שנה’’

"The eyes of Hashen your G-d is upon her (Eretz Yisrael) from the beginning to the end of the year"

We all can enter where Moshe couldn't. Hashem made it possible for every single Jew to come and live in Eretz Yisrael; you are never complete if you never make that move, or at least instil the love of this Land of "milk and honey"  to your children and grandchildren.

From this parsha we learn, how much we have to thank and praise our Creator for those of us who have the merit to live and grow in a country that ‘’עיני ה’ אלוקיך בה’’

Meet Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair: Anti-Israel Activist Has Published Defenses of Hezbollah, Hamas

 

Meet Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair: Anti-Israel Activist Has Published Defenses of Hezbollah, Hamas

Anuradha Mittal founded nonprofit that accused Israel of human rights abuses and defended Hezbollah

Ben & Jerry’s board chairwoman isn’t your average corporate suit. A social justice warrior who’s now under increased scrutiny in the wake of the company’s announcement that it will boycott Israel’s West Bank and East Jerusalem, she has a lengthy history of left-wing activism that includes publishing columns defending Hezbollah and supporting U.S. funding to Hamas.

Anuradha Mittal, the leading force behind the ice cream company’s decision to stop selling its products in parts of Israel, founded the Oakland Institute, which describes itself as an “independent policy think tank,” in 2004 and serves as its executive director. The group has published articles defending Hezbollah and Hamas, terrorist groups that seek the destruction of the Jewish state.

Ben & Jerry’s is under increased scrutiny for its decision to join the anti-Israel boycott movement, which follows criticism over the ice cream maker’s partnership with anti-Semitic figures during the Women’s March in 2018. At the time, the company defended its work with Linda Sarsour, one of the march leaders who was ousted for anti-Semitism. Multiple state and local governments, including Texas and Florida, are considering sanctioning Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever, over the boycott decision.

Mittal published an article written by Green Party Senate candidate Todd Chretien during the Israel-Lebanon war in 2006 arguing that progressives should support Hezbollah.

Coming soon to Israel: Judea and Samaria’s Ben & Jerry’s, a copycat brand

 

A nonprofit group says its plans to knock off Ben & Jerry’s in Israel — and it’s itching to go to court if the ice cream maker tries to stop it. 

The Shurat HaDin Law Center in Tel Aviv has applied to distribute Ben & Jerry’s frozen desserts in the West Bank under the name “Judea and Samaria’s Ben & Jerry’s” — arguing that the Vermont-based company forfeited its trademark rights when it said it would be freezing sales in “the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” 

If approved, it would sell iconic Ben & Jerry’s flavors like Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia in the region — as well as new flavors like “Frozen Chosen People,” according to a mockup of the rival brand, which looks just like original except that it includes a pic of Theodor Herzl, the bushy-bearded father of the modern Zionist movement. 

In a July 23 letter to the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, the Law Center said that it registered a trademark for Judea and Samaria’s Ben & Jerry’s with Israel’s Justice Ministry.

“We will now become the lawful owners of the Ben & Jerry’s name in Judea and Samaria,” said the letter, referring to the historical Hebrew names for areas of the West Bank where Ben & Jerry’s plans to doing business.

Families Outraged as Biden's Feds Drop Cuomo Probe

 The Department of Justice has decided not to investigate whether the civil rights of residents in New York’s government-run nursing homes were violated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial admission policy related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a letter Friday, the DOJ’s Office of Legislative Affairs told US Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), ranking member of that House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, that New York was off the hook in connection with potential violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.

In August, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division requested information from New York in connection with a March 25, 2020, order from the state Department of Health that required nursing homes to admit “medically stable” COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.

It also sought records from Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey, which adopted similar rules that the DOJ said “may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.”

“We have reviewed the information provided by these states along with additional information available to the Department,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joe Gaeta wrote Friday.

“Based on that review, we have decided not to open a CRIPA investigation of any public nursing facility within New York, Pennsylvania, or Michigan at this time.”

In a prepared statement, Scalise called it “outrageous that the Department of Justice refuses to investigate the deadly ‘must admit’ orders issued by governors in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan that resulted in the deaths of thousands of senior citizens.”

“Where is the justice for nursing home victims and their grieving families? These deadly orders contradicted the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s] guidance, and needlessly endangered the most vulnerable among us to the deadly COVID-19 virus,” Scalise said.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Ve'eschanan

 

Could a drug given to dogs to treat cancer fight Covid? Scientists discover $3 medicine can stop virus replicating and causing disease

 

A drug given to dogs to treat their cancer could be used to thwart Covid, scientists say. 

Masitinib has been used on canines for over a decade — but is not yet approved for humans.  

Academics already believe it may have potential in treating skin cancer, Alzheimer's, asthma and multiple sclerosis. 

But now University of Chicago researchers hope it could also offer hope in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. 

Laboratory trials of masitinib — which costs just £2 a pill — found it stopped the virus replicating, which is how it ends up causing disease.

Studies showed it worked just as well against variants, and other similar viruses that can make humans ill.

But the trials were not carried out on humans, with the claims based solely on tests of the drug on mice and cell cultures. 

The team are now planning human trials, in the hope it will be proven to work — and they are confident it will. 

Israeli company is set to become first in the world to launch clinical trials of an ORAL COVID-19 vaccine

 

An Israeli company is set to become the first in the world to begin clinical trials of an oral COVID-19 vaccine.

Oravax Medical, a subsidiary of Jerusalem-based Oramed Pharmaceuticals, has received a green light to begin the study from the Institutional Review Board at Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

The team is now waiting for approval from the Health Ministry, which is expected within a few weeks.

Oramed CEO Nadav Kidron told The Jerusalem Post that an oral vaccine would be faster, cheaper and easier to manufacture than vaccines that are injected.

What's more, it could be easily distributed to low-and middle-income countries.

'An oral COVID-19 vaccine would eliminate several barriers to rapid, wide-scale distribution, potentially enabling people to take the vaccine themselves at home,' he said. 

'While ease of administration is critical today to accelerate inoculation rates, an oral vaccine could become even more valuable in the case that a COVID-19 vaccine may be recommended annually like the standard flu shot.' 

The technology is the same that the company is using to develop insulin capsules for type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients Nadav Kidron told The Jerusalem Post.   

Kidron explained the trials are initially being conducted as a 'proof of concept' rather than testing efficacy. 

Researchers are recruiting 24 unvaccinated volunteers  with half receiving one pill and the other half two pills.

The team will analyze safety and then take participants' blood samples to measure antibody levels.

If results prove successful, the trial will move into Phase III when the capsules will be tested against a placebo.  

'The idea here is that we want to show proof of concept: that it works for people,' Kidron told The Jerusalem Post.

'I pray and hope that we will. Imagine that we could give someone an oral vaccine and they are vaccinated. This would be a revolution for the entire world.' 

The Oravax vaccine targets three proteins on the virus rather then the single spike protein that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines target. 

Kidron says this should help the pill be much more effective against variant, which often have mutations on the spike protein.

'This vaccine should be much more resistant to COVID-19 variants,' he told The Jerusalem Post. 

'Even if the virus gets through one line, there is a second line, and if through the second line, there is a third.' 

The pill can be shipped in refrigeration cooler and even be stored at room temperature, unlike other COVID-19. 

What's more, it would not need to be administered by a health professional, making it easy to distribute in schools, offices  and other businesses.

Michigan Catholic school lawsuit argues mask-wearing covers 'God's image and likeness'

 

A Catholic school in Michigan is suing the state arguing that the previous mask mandate violated religious liberty by covering 'God's image and likeness'.

The Resurrection School in Lansing filed their anti-mask lawsuit in October when Michigan required students and teachers wear masks. The mandate has since been dropped but the school's pastor, Rev. Steve Mattison, said they are taking it to appeals court to prevent the state re-instating the rule. 

On Wednesday, a federal appeals judge heard the Resurrection School's argument to outlaw mask mandates.

'Every human has dignity and is made in God's image and likeness,' the schools argued. 'Unfortunately, a mask shields our humanity.'  

The Resurrection School also claimed masks make people anti-social and interferes with Catholic instruction and practices, such as the act of asking for forgiveness, which it says requires face-to-face apology. 

'As the Catholic faith teaches, we are relational beings,' the suit reads. 'And our existence as relational beings points to the Holy Trinity. A mask is disruptive to this essential element of the Catholic faith, and it is disruptive to the teaching of young children for these and other reasons.' 

More than 33,000 New Yorkers packed up and moved to Florida during the pandemic - and many are making the move permanent

 The pandemic appears to have driven an exodus from New York to Florida with more than 33,000 New Yorkers heading south for more sun, looser COVID-19 restrictions and cheaper taxes, over the past year. 

According to data from the Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles 33,565 people from New York applied for Florida drivers licenses from September 2020 through March 2021. 

The number represents an increase of 32percent over the previous year, when 25,370 New Yorkers applied for Florida IDs. 

While the pandemic appears to have driven the uptick in transplants, Florida has long been a popular destination for New Yorkers, more than from any other state, with data from April 2019 to April 2021 showing 104,960 New Yorkers trading their New York drivers licenses for Florida ones. 

New Jersey came in second with 53,901, with Georgia, Illinois and California trailing with 48,143, 46,042 and 43,801 respectively, according to an analysis by the New York Post. 

The mass transplantation appears to have contributed to a population surge in the Sunshine State, with its Office of Economic and Demographic Research estimating that throughout 2020 it had added 387,479 new residents, a 1.83percent change from the previous year when it had added 368,021 to its population. 

'The experts say we know that this virus is, in fact, uh, um, uh, it's going to be, or excuse me': Biden loses his thoughts on vaccines, flubs answer on his foreign policy work and falsely tells town hall you WON'T get COVID if you have the shot

 

Joe Biden overinflated the efficiency of vaccines, especially against the Delta variant, during his gaffe-filled town hall on Wednesday where he claimed the jab will prevent Americans from contracting coronavirus. 

'We're not in the position where we think that any virus, including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of unvaccinated people, the – the various shots that people are getting now cover that,' Biden said during a CNN town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on Wednesday.

'You're OK,' he assured. 'You're not going to – you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.'

This statement is false considering vaccinated Americans have still contracted or have been hospitalized with the virus and breakthrough cases are increasing with the rapid spread of the Delta variant. 

'If you're vaccinated, you're not going to be hospitalized, you're not going to be in the IC unit, and you're not going to die,' the president told host Don Lemon on stage at Mount St. Joseph University.

'So it's gigantically important that ... we all act like Americans who care about our fellow Americans,' he added. 

Biden struggled at some points during his town hall to complete statements coherently as he lost his train of thought on multiple occasions.

Republicans were quick to jump on the president's gaffes. 'Is this for real?' Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik tweeted on Wednesday. 

'And the media will continue to fawn and look the other way,' the New York Republican added. 

Poll: Majority Want BLM Protests Inquiry more than they want Jan 6 Inquiry

 

As House leaders engage in a standoff over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 panel, a poll found that likely voters are more supportive of investigating the social injustice demonstrations that roiled the nation last summer.

A supermajority of likely voters (66%) want the Black Lives Matter and antifa protests investigated, while a majority do not support Pelosi’s inquiry into the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll.

Just 49% support Pelosi’s House Jan. 6 panel, and majorities of Blacks and Hispanics back an investigation into the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. The demonstrations sparked violence in a number of U.S. cities.

“Sixty-seven percent of whites, 64% of Black voters, 66% of Hispanics and 62% of other minorities think Congress should investigate the 2020 riots in U.S. cities,” Rasmussen Reports wrote in the analysis of the poll. “Seventy-five percent of Republicans, 60% of Democrats, and 63% of voters not affiliated with either major party say Congress should investigate last year’s violent protests.”

Also, according to the poll, majorities of likely voters back police and reject the narrative of systemic racism in law enforcement.

Netflix Loses Nearly Half Million Subscribers as it Pushes More Woke Content

 Netflix lost nearly a half million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada during the second quarter in a surprising consumer rebuke as the streamer continues to embrace left-wing politics and woke content, including a new slate of programming from Barack and Michelle Obama.

The exodus also reflects a growing public disenchantment with paid streaming services in general, but particularly Netflix, as Americans grow weary of rising prices and over-hyped content, while embracing other forms of entertainment post-lockdown.

The streamer said it lost 430,000 subscribers domestically for the period,  the first time it has bled subscribers in two years, when it lost 100,000 subscribers during the second quarter of 2019. Wall Street views subscriptions as the key indicator of Netflix’s financial health because it is the best gauge of the company’s future cash flow.

n its earnings announcement, Netflix blamed the subscriber loss on seasonality and the already large size of its North American customer base. The streamer made no mention of its increasingly left-wing content as well as the openly partisan public positions its executives have taken in recent months.

Gafni: A temporary government with small kippahs

 

The chairman of the Degel HaTorah party, MK Moshe Gafni, participated on Thursday evening as the guest of honor at an event for yeshiva students in Kiryat Ye'arim.

Gafni attacked the government in his speech and said, "I suggest to the heads of the interim government with the small kippahs who think the haredi public is upset, that they come here and see how the haredi public is happy and growing, and proud of the holy yeshiva students."

"We are not afraid of the dark, we are not afraid of you, we will topple you soon," Gafni declared.

The head of the Kiryat Ye'arim council, Yitzhak Ravitz, said, "What Rabbi Gafni is doing in the opposition, ten MKs are not doing in the coalition, all the events here and more are happening thanks to him."

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed "Let Reform have mixed services at the Western Wall"

 

A senior Religious Zionist rabbi has called on the authorities in charge of the Western Wall Plaza to accommodate Reform and Conservative prayer groups at a separate section of the wall designated for egalitarian prayer.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, chief rabbi of the Samaria town of Har Bracha and dean of the local yeshiva, penned a piece on Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website Thursday arguing that non-traditional prayer groups should be given accommodation at the Western Wall.

The rabbi emphasized that the prayers should be permitted only in the ‘Ezrat Yisrael’ section of the Western Wall Plaza – an area on the southern end of the plaza, separate from the main prayer areas of the plaza.

“Because there are many Jews who identify with the Conservative and Reform movements, and have based on the values which they set for their mixed prayers involving both women and men in a form which violates Jewish law and tradition, and they wish to pray by the Western Wall, it is correct to set aside the ‘Ezrat Yisrael’ area for them to hold their prayer services in a respectable manner,” Rabbi Melamed wrote.

“If more people come to pray adhering to their rules, the area allotted to them in the Ezrat Yisrael space should be increased as needed.”

“Orthodox and haredi people who adhere to Jewish law and tradition need not be bothered by these groups which come to the Western Wall. Rather, they should be happy that more of their Jewish brothers and sisters are connecting to the site of the Temple, and more of them want to pray to their Father in Heaven.”

Rabbi Melamed also said the administrators of the Western Wall should see to the needs of Reform and Conservative worshippers, including providing them with Torah scrolls.

"They need a Torah scroll [the Western Wall's rabbi] should take care of it."

The article was penned in response to a confrontation in the Western Wall Plaza during the Tisha B’Av fast this week, during which non-Orthodox and Orthodox worshippers clashed over the mixed prayers at the site.

Satmar & Hisachdas Ha'Ganavim Protest in Front of Israeli Consulate in Manhattan ...Developer in Gush Etzion Refuses to payoff the "Asra Kadisha Mafia"

 

The "Screamers"

The "Sleepers"

The buses 

Satmar Chassidim teamed up with the Hisachdas Ha'Ganavim to protest a new development site in Gush Etzion. The event was in front of the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan. 

What a great activity for the bored chassidim during "Bain Hazmanim" they don't have smart phones (officially) they don't have internet, they are prohibited from riding bikes and swimming, sports are "avoida zara". What a way to keep them out of trouble.The organiser of this event is brilliant and should get an award.

The developer in the Gush wan't paying off the "Asra Kadisha" so the extremists decided to claim that the site has Jewish bones there from 2,000 years ago. 

Gedoiei Yisrael including Rav Moshe Shternbuch have already paskened that the bones are not Jewish. 

A couple of weeks ago, the "Asra Kadisha" shlepped the old feeble 95 year-old R' Tuvia Weiss to the Gush to the protest.

The developer wasn't having any of this and so he called in the police. The police began yelling at the old Rav, and according to the lying "asra kadisha" the police threw smoke bombs at the vehicle. This turned out to be a big lie, but that didn't stop them from making a huge rally in Kikar Ha'shabbos against the police who dissed the old rav. This protest, as I reported previously, was also a protest against R' Shternbuch one of their own leaders. 

At that protest the spokesman for the Eida Hachareidis, Dayan Fisher got up and and asked "how do you expect the police to have respect for Gedoilim when we ourselves don't have any respect for ours ." He then stormed off the stage with another 50 rabbanim following from the dais..

In Monroe, Satmar continues to annex land and build disregarding the fact that there may be bones there from American Indians.... actually that may be a bigger problem since there was at least one  achron  that held that the American Indians were from the lost 10 tribes. 

Who knew? American Indians lived in Kiryas Yoel.