“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Israeli Couple Held In Turkey On” Espionage” Charges Return To Israel
After joint efforts with Turkey, Mordi and Natali Oknin were released from Turkish prison and landed in Israel on Thursday morning.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid thanked the President of Turkey and his government for their cooperation.
They also expressed their respect to the Oknin family for their strength during this complicated time and for their cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Additionally, they conveyed special thanks to President Herzog for his efforts to help bring them home.
The couple was arrested on Friday for photographing the palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with Turkish prosecutors telling a judge that they suspect them of espionage.
During a tour of the country, they innocently photographed Erdogan’s palace and sent the photos to their family’s Whatsapp group with the caption: “What a nice home.” But prosecutors accused them of photographing the palace’s cameras and security checkpoints and claimed that they highlighted those features and sent them to a third party.
On Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu had said that that prosecutors will accuse the Oknins of military-political espionage.
The Oknins are both Egged bus drivers and regularly appear in Egged marketing videos and ads.
On Tuesday, Mossad head Dovid Barnea spoke with his Turkish counterpart to confirm that the Oknins are innocent civilians.
Prime Minister Bennett and Foreign Minister Lapid on Thursday morning spoke with Shiraz, the daughter of Natali Oknin, and with Eran, Natali’s brother, who were waiting for Mordy and Natali Oknin at the airport.
Following is an excerpt of Prime Minister Bennett’s remarks in the conversation:
“Shiraz, good morning. It is wonderful to speak with you again. You see? I told you that we are doing everything, and indeed we did everything. You were a wonderful partner. The family’s restraint was very critical in these days.
Give little Ofek a hug for me. Mom and Dad are on their way home.
I hope that you will now have calmer days. I am happy that they are returning to you.”
Foreign Minister Lapid: “Shiraz, Eran, and the entire family, you are amazing. I am very excited with you. We were with you all week. We promised that we would do everything to bring them back to you and now, they are on their way home. Give them a big hug for us.”
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Chaim Walder suspended from Israeli Charedi media outlets
A popular haredi author in Israel has been suspended by several media outlets, following accusations of sexual abuse.
Chaim Walder, author of dozens of books including the popular “Kids Speak: Children Talk About Themselves” series, was recently accused of sexual abuse by three young women, including two who were minors at the time of the alleged attacks, Ha’aretz reported recently.
After a prominent Brooklyn bookstore announced that it would no longer carry Walder’s books, two haredi media outlets in Israel both suspended Walder.
The Yated Ne’eman newspaper on Wednesday halted publication of Walder’s column, while the Radio Kol Hai station has suspended Walder from his regular radio show.
Walder has denied the allegations, with his attorneys – Micky Hova and Guy Shamer – telling Ha’aretz: “Our client has denied and is disgusted by any accusations of misconduct on his part, especially what has been claimed in the report.”
“These allegations are outrageous falsehoods based on total lies and amount to complete and utter libel.”
Walder’s lawyers said that the accusations stem from the author and educator’s work to help children who had suffered from abuse.
“As a result of this, a group of individuals came together with the goal of hurting him, and we have evidence of part of their attempts to implicate our client.”
Furthermore, Walder’s attorneys claimed that the author had undergone polygraph tests which indicated he was not lying.
Fresh Blueberries No Longer Need Extensive Washing and Checking
The Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc) has announced a change in its Fruit and Vegetable Policy regarding the cleaning of fresh blueberries.
In recent weeks, the cRc has seen a significant decrease in insect infestation of blueberries. Accordingly, blueberries no longer need an extensive washing and checking process. All that is required is a rinsing under a strong stream of water.
The exception would be for organic blueberries that would still require washing with soap and checking via a thrip cloth.
This policy is in effect until April 1, 2022.
Israeli "Yeted Neeman" Disgraces the Memory of "an Achron"
Napoleon's Sanhedrin |
Prosecution’s star witness in Kyle Rittenhouse case is a career criminal but had charges DROPPED just six days before trial began
Gaige Grosskreutz, 28, was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in August 2020, and appeared as the prosecution’s star witness last week
DailyMail.com has learned Grosskreutz is a violent career criminal with a laundry list of prior offenses and convictions stretching back more than a decade
These include domestic abuse, prowling, trespass, two DUIs, felony burglary and two charges of carrying a firearm while intoxicated
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger was well aware of this when he paraded Grosskreutz as a paragon of selfless virtue in front of the jury
Less than ten days before he was shot by Rittenhouse, Grosskreutz was arrested and charged with prowling when he was caught videotaping cops’ personal cars
But the Rittenhouse jury heard none of this because just six days before he took the stand, Grosskreutz’s DUI charge was dismissed on a technicality
Had Grosskreutz’s latest DUI charge not been dismissed, Rittenhouse’s defense would have been allowed to question him under oath about the offense
Restraining Order Issued Against Gerer School Which Suspended Children Of Rav Shaul’s Followers
The Supreme Court of New York State issued a restraining order in favor of the parents of children from the Bais Yaakov D’Chassidei Gur whose children were suspended from the school after their fathers attended the tish of Rabbi Shaul Alter in Brooklyn last week. The temporary restraining order, which is in effect for the next month, requires the school to refrain from:
- Suspending or expelling girls from Bais Yaakov D’Chassidei Gur
because of their religious practices; - Sequestering girls to a segregated room because of her religious practices;
- Harassing the infant plaintiff because of her religious practices.
- Taking any action against the infant plaintiff because of her religious practices.
Moreover, the restraining order “is conditioned and shall remain in effect so long as the girls follow all the rules of Bais Yaakov D’Chassidei Gur and refrain from disparaging Rabbi Yaakov Alter.”
The order also requires the school to explain within the next month why there would be grounds for suspending, sequestering or harassing girls because of their religious practices.
About 100 children were suspended from attending the school after their fathers went to the tish of Rabbi Shaul Alter despite a directive from the rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov, not to attend any functions of Rabbi Shaul.
Eichler’s Pull Chaim Walder Books From Shelves After Allegations Surface
In a tweet published Tuesday afternoon, Eichler’s owner Mordy Getz announced that the popular Judaica chain will no longer be selling books by Chaim Walder.
The announcement comes after allegations surfaced against the author of the wildly popular Kids Speak series, which were widely reported on in the Israeli media.
“The decision was not made lightly,” Getz wrote, adding that the decision was made in spite of the fact that this will undoubtedly cause a heavy financial lost for Eichler’s.
“Given that the access to alleged victims was largely by way of the author’s books and work, we believe that this decision is an essential step in protecting our children and building a safer, healthier community,” the announcement continues.
What The Nazi Just Wrote To His Jewish Classmate From 1934?
Elyakim Haetzni, a 95-year-old resident of Kiryat Arba, received a letter on Monday from Friedrich, who was his classmate in 1934 in Kiel, Germany.
Friedrich now lives in the United States but his heart and mind is apparently still in Nazi Germany, as evident from his letter.
Elyakim’s son, Boaz Haetzni, wrote about the incident on Facebook: “It’s always nice to get regards from a classmate, especially from 1934. My father, Elyakim Haetzni – whose name in German is Georg – received a letter today. The following is a translation of the letter:
“‘Georg, I’m very pleased that you’re still alive after 95 years. Wonderful. Sieg Heil (a victory salute used originally by Nazis at political rallies) from [the city of] Kiel.'”
“And written on the other side: ‘Hebron is Palestine. Juden Reuss (Jews out). Signed Friedrich.‘”
“According to the stamps on the letter, the elderly Nazi Friedrich lives in the United States and it’s still important enough for him to spread his perverse Nazi hatred and combine it with today’s Nazi hatred, the most modern and effective anti-Semitic tool – the Palestinian bluff,” Haetzni concluded.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Don't Drink the Kool-Aid ..For Real
Kraft Heinz is recalling batches of some Kool-Aid mix “due to the potential presence of foreign material, specifically very small pieces of metal or glass,” according to an alert issued by retailer Costco.
Costco issued the alert to customers who appear to have bought packages of 82.5oz Kool-Aid Tropical Punch Mix with “Best When Used By” dates of Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.
The metal and glass shards may have been accidentally mixed into the product during the manufacturing process, according to another notice issued by Stater Bros, a grocery store chain in Southern California.
“The company discovered the issue during an internal review at the manufacturing facility,” Stater Bros said.
“There have been no consumer complaints and no reports of illness or injury related to this issue to date.”
Kraft Heinz did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment.
In Time for Chanukah Fortress from Hasmonean wars discovered in Lachish Forest
Weapons, burnt wooden beams, dozens of coins and a Hellenistic fortifed structure—tangible evidence of a battle between the Hasmoneans and the Seleucids some 2,100 years ago—are currently being unearthed in Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in Lachish Forest.
Ami Magazine allowed their publication to be utilized for the ayatollah's propaganda and failed to disclose the true anti-Semitic nature of Iran's regime owe their readers and Iranian Jews worldwide an apology
Rejecting Rabbi Gerami’s ‘hechsher’ of Iran’s ayatollah regime!
In March 1970, roughly 40 prominent Soviet Jews held a major press conference at Moscow’s “House of Friendship” for foreign media to proclaim their loyalty to the Soviet Union and assert their hatred for Israel and Zionism. Likewise, each Soviet Jew at that press conference not only rejected the claims that the nearly 1 million Soviet Jews endured difficult lives but asserted that they even lived better lives than American Jews. At that time, American Jewish activists involved with the cause of suffering Soviet Jewry knew very well that the press conference was nothing more than a propaganda stunt by the Soviet politburo to improve their stained image in the world’s media by parading out Soviet Jews to sing their praises.
Sadly, for the last four decades, the radical Islamic ayatollah regime in Iran has continued this shameful tradition of using Jews to bolster their anti-Semitic and totalitarian regime in the American and European media. The regime’s latest Jewish propaganda voice has been Iran’s 35-year-old, U.S.-educated Chief Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, who during the last several weeks has been traveling across America visiting several Iranian and Ashkenazi synagogues. Gerami has been preaching religious sermons at each synagogue and avoiding political topics in the Middle East.
Yet in a recently published story by the Orthodox-Jewish Ami Magazine in New York, Gerami couldn’t help but repeat his typical propaganda talking points of “how well the Iranian regime treats Iran’s Jews.” Gerami cannot be faulted for wanting to please his ayatollah overlords in Tehran with positive news coverage for them and in turn wanting to protect Iran’s Jews from possible attacks. The real fault lays with the editors of the magazine for shamefully publishing his words verbatim without also doing their own research and disclosing the facts of the countless attacks Iran’s Jews have faced in recent years at the hands of the regime’s thugs, the vehemently anti-Semitic laws of the regime, and the regime’s sickening repeated denials of the Holocaust.
Eliyana Adler Jewish Historian Tells Polish Govt to shove their $19,000 Award Where the Sun Doesn't Shine
Jewish American historian Eliyana Adler refused to accept an award worth $19,000 from the Polish government’s Pilecki Institute, arguing that it suppresses work by “historians who strive to show the complex and indeed tragic aspects of Poland’s wartime past.”
Adler, an associate professor at Penn State University, was given a newly inaugurated award for scholarship on 20th-century Poland, the Pilecki Institute’s specialty, for her 2020 book “Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union.” The honor was to be co-awarded by the Auschwitz memorial museum.
“The Pilecki Institute, while very generous in supporting some historical scholarship on the Second World War, has also been involved in suppressing the work of historians who strive to show the complex and indeed tragic aspects of Poland’s wartime past,” Adler wrote in a letter dated Nov. 4 to the institute. It was published online on Friday.
Polish governmental institutions have been accused by historians of whitewashing the country’s treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. The country passed a widely criticized law in 2019 that makes it illegal to blame the Polish nation for Nazi crimes.
A recent high-profile court case pitted historians Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking against Poland’s government, which ruled that the pair had to apologize for their book unearthing alleged atrocities by a Polish mayor. An appeals court overturned the ruling in August.
“War and occupation push humans and societies to their limits. The situation during World War II was horrific for all Poles, albeit not in equal measure. Some non-Jewish Poles, as profiled on the institute’s website, lost their lives protecting their Jewish compatriots. Others, as we know from the scholarship of Professors Jan T. Gross, Jan Grabowski, and Barbara Engelking among others, profited in a variety of ways from the murder of their neighbors,” Adler wrote in her letter.
According to the book’s press description, Adler’s work focuses on Between 1940 and 1946, “about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland” who from 1940 to 1946 “lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior.”
“They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their coreligionists in the Holocaust,” the description reads.
The Pilecki Institute is named after Witold Pilecki, a general who helped found the Secret Polish Army, a major resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. Pilecki faked his identity to enter Auschwitz, where he helped organize an uprising and gathered reporting on Nazi atrocities.
Monday, November 15, 2021
PA Ministers Arrested For Marketing Zionist Dates from Settlements as Palestinian
In a development that might just surprise no-one, two former PA ministers have been arrested on corruption charges.
Well, I err. The fact some PA ministers acted corruptly will surprise no-one, but the fact they were arrested probably surprises everyone
And what exactly did they do? Tried to pass of Zionist Dates of DeathTM as their own:
Palestinian sources confirmed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed today, Wednesday, that the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Court had arrested two former Palestinian ministers pending an investigation into the case of “marketing dates from Israeli settlements” and changing the origin of those products to Palestinian.
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According to the same sources, the two arrested ministers are pending investigation into the case, one of whom is a current member of the board of directors in the Palestine Investment Fund of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and was arrested yesterday, Tuesday, while the other minister owns palm farms in Jericho, east of the West Bank, and held the position of minister Agriculture in previous governments, and this is not the first time that he has been charged with corruption, as he was previously accused of corruption cases in 2011.
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In a letter to Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, the “Aman” coalition confirmed, through the information available to it, that the Palestinian companies suspected of wrapping dates produced in the lands seized by the occupation, violate the decision of Law No. 4 of 2010 regarding banning and combating settlement products, It did this through public officials who were given financial and moral benefits that represent suspicions of bribery in accordance with the applicable Palestinian anti-corruption law, which requires the prosecution of these companies and their officials, as partners in corruption crimes and not only as perpetrators of economic crimes, which will contribute to the intensification of the prosecution and criminalization of the real owners, those in charge of these companies, for practicing these crimes, whose impact is not limited to the economic aspect only, but also to the political, national and administrative aspect.
Aman indicated in his letter that the delay in prosecuting these serious crimes will create a feeling among Palestinian citizens in general, farmers and the national private sector in particular, that the implementation of the decision by Law No. 4 of 2010 regarding banning and combating settlement products is not being imposed, and that the perpetrators of these crimes are evading punishment.
I wonder if these were dates were among those being promoted by BDS groups. How sweet that would be
The Camela Tells the World Why Everything Became soooooooo Expensive
🤦🏾♀️ lord help us. how did we get here? pic.twitter.com/tPhkvqQsrJ
— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) November 15, 2021
. @JRubinBlogger the "Dumb Jew" calls for "rules" that would PROHIBIT media outlets from treating Republicans as "normal"
There are no words… Saturday edition. https://t.co/3GSOWtf2ed
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 13, 2021
What a great idea to keep a gun in a chumash
A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694). The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed. Now on display at the Museo Correr in Venice, Italy.#archaeohistories pic.twitter.com/c7OT9tlkn2
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) November 14, 2021
Israel Has New "invisible" Defense System
Israel has a new weapon in its defense arsenal — and enemies of the Jewish state will never see it coming.
The weapon, which reportedly can halt electronic capabilities of an enemy, is part of a new suite of electromagnetic warfare called Scorpius.
The Scorpius “missiles” send narrowly targeted beams of energy that disrupt enemy electronic sensors, navigation, radar or other electronic activity, according to Gideon Fustick, the marketing VP of Israel Aerospace Industries, Israel’s state-run defense contractor.
Fustick told Forbes the electronic weapons fall under a category Israel calls “soft protection.”
Listen to this Freak Assistant Professor Explain Away Pedophilia ...Sick
Holy crap.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 14, 2021
What the hell is wrong with @odu https://t.co/CbIoyO1sYT
The DemonRats are abandoning Biden and His Camel by the Millions
WATCH: ABC's George Stephanopoulos outlines a "brutal new poll" for Joe Biden.pic.twitter.com/3KKQH2E3Xg
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) November 14, 2021
IDF Soldier Converts to Judaism ... Very Moving
I think I already posted this last year when it actually happened, but I find it inspiring
Schumer Visits Anti-Zionist Rabbi in Kiryat Yoel
Senator Schumer visited the village of Kiryas Joel on Sunday afternoon, where he was welcomed by Village Administrator Gedalye Szegedin.
Schumer, who was accompanied by Ezra Friedlander, had lunch in Kiryas Joel with Village Administrator Gedalye Szegedin and others where Szegedin gave the Senator an overview of the incredible growth of the Village and expressed his appreciation to the Senator for his help in ensuring the vibrancy of the community.
Schumer also paid a visit to the home of the Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Joel.
The Lisker Faker up to his tricks again shlepping Schumer who supports the anti-semite squad, to the anti-Zionist community ..
see how Ezra managed to get a seat next to the blond chickiepoo
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Zev Brenner Interviews Muslim Lebanese Man Who Deceived Syrian Jewish Girl Into Marrying Him
Talkline With Zev Brenner EXCLUSIVE with Moslem "Chosson" Who married a Syrian Jewish Girl
EXCLUSIVE interview on Talkline With Zev Brenner, with Moslem Chosson, Eliyah Hawila, who married a Syrian Jewish girl by claiming he was Jewish. Eliyah talks about his life in Lebanon, His llve for Judaism and Israel and why he lied about being Jewish.
"There is no anti-semitism in Iran, but we don't put mezuzzas on the door, and we don't fly to Israel" Says Iranian Rabbi