— Chaskel Bennett (@ChaskelBennett) January 20, 2022
“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
South Africa’s Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee issued a statement on Thursday giving former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng 10 days to make an “unconditional apology for becoming involved in political controversy.”
“I’m under an obligation as a Christian to love Israel, to pray for [the] peace of Jerusalem, which actually means the peace of Israel, and I cannot, as I Christian, do anything other than love and pray for Israel, because I know, hatred for Israel by me and for my nation, can only attract unprecedented curses upon our nation,” Mogoeng stated in July 2020 during a webinar discussion with South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein that was hosted by The Jerusalem Post.
"Did Israel take away our land or the land of Africa? Did Israel take our mineral wealth? We’ve got to move from a position of principle here,” he said.
The anti-Israel group Africa4Palestine, the South African branch of the BDS movement, filed a complaint over the chief justice’s comments, accusing him of breaching the judicial code of conduct.
The contract between the Kingdom of Jordan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in 1954, published last year by Jordan’s official Petra news agency, documents an agreement for an “urban housing project of Sheikh Jarrah Quarter, Jerusalem.”
This video below is in Yiddish, but he is reporting about a deluge of arrests this past week of Chareidie molesters including a Chassidishe rebbe.
The Chareidie world knew about these people for years but kept quiet.
I have to laugh at these people that say about Walder, well there wasn't a real Bais Din, there were no witnesses, leave him alone he is dead!
If the Chareidie leadership knew about these perverts for years and did nothing why are they upset about the two reporters from Haaretz? They actually did a very good thing, saving the lives of many Chareidie victims.
⚠️ UPDATE in anti-Jewish Hate Crime involving 8YO child. Thanks to help from the public, HCTF Detectives, assisted by Bklyn South Warrants,
— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) January 21, 2022
arrested:
Darling, Christina 21
Brooklyn
Charges:
Aggravated Harassment/Hate Crime
Act in Manner Injurious to Child<17 x3
Menacing/HC https://t.co/ZGC4AVvAwG pic.twitter.com/iKeAKuHi65
The woman who allegedly told three Jewish kids “Hitler should have killed you all” before spitting on an 8-year-old boy in Brooklyn has been arrested, cops said Friday.
Suspect Christina Darling, a 21-year-old student at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, was busted Friday morning and charged with aggravated harassment and menacing, both as hate crimes, and acting in a manner injurious to a child, NYPD Hate Crimes said.
“I’m glad she was found & charged with a crime but what in G-d’s name is going on in this country that an adult would target innocent kids with such hatred?” former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn raged on Twitter.
Darling is accused of storming up to the boy, who was with two other kids, around 12:30 p.m. Jan. 14 on Avenue P near Coleman Street in Marine Park, about five blocks from her home, police said.
She snarled at the kids, “Hitler should have killed you all. I’ll kill you and know where you live,” cops said.
What won't Ezra "the capo" do for publicity?
Rep Boebert figured him out in seconds just by looking at him and asked him in an elevator if "he was there for reconnaissance." LOL!
She really had him pegged!
Well Ezra the one who asked Holocaust Survivors to back the murderous Iran plan, endorsed Fat Nadler, and orchestrated a Congressional Medal of Honor to the late Anwar Sadat, a murderer of over 2,100 Jewish young Israeli soldiers , didn't like this one bit and is now crying that this was an "antisemitic incident."
He ran like a poisoned rat to his enabler the Yeshivaworld news blog, the website that refused to write anything about the rapist Monster Walder.
Ezra had also re-tweeted a comment from a clueless dope that Ami & Mishpacha Magazines should not write about Walder because they were "Family Magazines" ... the fact that Walder broke up "families" went completely over his "langeh rekel" ...
Monster Walder was a bigger antisemite than Reb Boebert!
Ezra's tuchislekker the YeshivaWorld wrote the following about this non-incident!
Friedlander, a Hasidic Jew from Boro Park Brooklyn, who is a professional lobbyist, says that he and a group of people – including another Orthodox Jew – were being escorted by Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York. In the elevator, Boebert looked at them “head to toe” and then asked if they were at the Capitol to do “reconnaissance.”
“You know, I’m not sure to be offended or not,” one of the group members told Buzzfeed News. “I was very confused.”
“When I heard that, I actually turned to the person standing next to me and asked, ‘Did you just hear that?’” he said.
Friedlander tells YWN that Boebert clearly profiled them. “I am not a Rabbi, nor claim to be a Rabbi, but I dress in a long Hasidic grey suit, wearing a Yarmulka and a beard”, Ezra told YWN.
For her part, Boebert said that she was making “a joke” in reference to Democrats’ claims against her that she provided tours of the Capitol to Jan. 6 rioters, and had nothing to do with the group being comprised of Jews.
“I saw a large group and made a joke. Sadly when Democrats see the same, they demonize my family for a year straight,” Boebert said.
“I’m too short to see anyone’s yarmulkes,” she added.
Friedlander told YWN that her response of “being too short to see my Yarmulka”, is pathetic, as I have a long suit and beard and can’t be mistaken for anything else other than an Orthodox Jew.
The attached photo (Ezra with Rep Hakeem Jeffries) was taken less then five minutes after the incident. Friendlander says it is “clear as whistle that I am an Orthodox Jew and she chose to make it her duty to make a disparaging remark”.
This is how she sees Ezra Friedlander the lobbyist – doing reconnaissance”, he added.
The gunman who took four people hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, this past Shabbat, told his brother in a phone call before being shot dead by security forces, "I'm opening the doors for every youngster in England to enter America and f*** with them”.
The recording of the conversation between the gunman, Malik Faisal Akram, and his brother, was published on Thursday by UK-based JewishChronicle, which obtained the recording from a security source.
The brother, Gulbar, was speaking from a police station in the British town of Blackburn, in an attempt to persuade Akram to surrender.
“Live your f***ing life bro, you f***ing coward. We’re coming to f***ing America. F*** them if they want to f*** with us. We’ll give them f***ing war,” he said in the conversation, in which he also boasted about his desire for martyrdom. "I've asked Allah for this death, Allah is with me, I'm not worried in the slightest,” raged the gunman, according to The Jewish Chronicle.
One of the accolades on the gravestone, which is three lines from the bottom reads:
"He fought the battles of those who were weak"
I would like to know who wrote that lie with s straight face!
Chillul Hashem!
The Eida Hachreidis knew for 30 years that the Chister Rebbe is a serial Sex Abuser and not only did they enable this vile creature to continue as rebbe they actually supported him.
30 years ago this fiend opened up a Yeshiva and of course a mikva in Givat Shaul after he was kicked out of Bobov because he was a danger to the boys in Yeshiva.
In Givat Shaul over 15 boys complained to the Eida Hachreidis Bais Din that the Chistar Rebbe was a dangerous serial sexual predator .
So what did the Eida Hachreidis do after they investigated and found all the boys credible?
They banished him from Givat Shaul and told him to move to the town of Emanual.
But he couldn't stay there too long ; when he continued doing "Maaseh Sdom" the parents wanted to kill him.
The Eida was notified and said they can no longer control him, but refused to publicize and warn the Chareidie communities of this murderer of children. They said it was " mesirah." He also didn't own a "smartphone" so he was still a Tzaddik.
Meanwhile the monster moved to Elad and opened a chassidishe court and continued to molest countless children with the full knowledge of the Eida!
After the Elad community got wind of the fact that they have a murderer in their midst they started to make his life miserable and so he moved to Beit Shemesh. Beit Shemesh has enough of Chassidishe and non-Chassidishe molesters and didn't need another one, so they sent him packing.
He then settled in Ramat Shlomo in Yerushalayim, his familiar hunting grounds, and continued to fulfil his sexual fantasies, taking advantage of young innocent children.
Finally one of them after getting fed up with the Gedoilim looking away and covering up for these murderers, and making Walder a martyr, made a complaint in the Beit Shemesh Police Department, and he was finally arrested!
The hands of the Eida Hachreidis' hands are full of blood !
But nothing will change unless the victims continue to report these to the secular authorities. Hopefully the tide has changed.
My Friends this is only the beginning, there are now at least 20 active police investigations against Roshei Yeshiva and Chassidishe Rebbes.
Just last night a "big beard" got arrested for molesting his own daughters for years! You can read the "gag order" below signed by the judge in the case.
Some of their stories make Berland a Tzaddik!
Ben-Ari |
p>עימות סוער במליאת הכנסת: ח"כ עופר כסיף מהרשימה המשותפת קרא "להשתיק את התרנגולת", אחר שח"כ מירב בן ארי מיש עתיד הפריעה לנאומו. בן ארי השיבה לו: "שובניסט ומיזוגן. כל יום שאתה יושב בכנסת זו בושה למדינה"@ZeevKam pic.twitter.com/5b7L19r26Q
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) January 19, 2022
Two lawmakers on Wednesday engaged in a vicious shouting match in the Knesset plenum, with MK Ofer Cassif calling a female counterpart a “hen.”
The verbal altercation between the Joint List’s Cassif and Yesh Atid MK Merav Ben-Ari occurred during a debate on legislation aimed at combating agricultural crime.
For years, Donald Trump punctuated his reality TV spiels and presidential speeches with claims that his business and his many gold-plated properties were “huge,” “amazing,” the biggest and the best.
Now the New York attorney general’s office says it has uncovered evidence that his comments were not just puffery for the public. The office’s civil investigation into Trump found that he and his company regularly fudged the value of assets on financial statements given to banks, insurers and tax authorities.
But that doesn’t mean the Trump Organization will be shut down, Trump Tower padlocked and the former president hauled off to prison.
Lawyers who examined the details of the allegations told The Associated Press that while Attorney General Letitia James could potentially bring a lawsuit alleging fraud, she will face two major hurdles: proving both an intent to deceive and that banks that loaned Trump money were actually fooled.
השי"ח סלימאן אלהזאלין ממזרח ירושלים שאמר רק לפני 4 ימים באירועי הנגב אנו נגרש אותכם יא יהודים מצפת וחיפה ואשקלון ואשדוד ואלאקסא מובא לקבורה עכשיו לאחר שמת בבוקר . דייוחתי בסרטון לפני שעתיים מדבריו לפני כמה ימים שהוא יגרש את היהודים מאדמת פלסטין לטענתו . אז הוא מת בבוקר pic.twitter.com/wrLCTzu82f
— 🟢Saher (@Saher95755738) January 17, 2022
Just this month, Sheikh Suleiman Al-Hazalin from eastern Jerusalem, addressing the Arab riots in the Negev, said, “We will expel you Jews, from Safed and Haifa and Ashkelon and Ashdod and Al Aqsa (meaning Jerusalem).” Since then, he was in an accident and has died of his wounds.
The director of a pro-Israel watchdog group revealed on Monday that Facebook has threatened to delete his personal page after limiting many of his posts from public view, citing content that violates the social media platform’s terms of service. But the social media giant won’t elaborate on what it finds offensive about the account.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the NGO UN Watch, which highlights bias against Israel at the United Nations, said Facebook sent him a notification warning that his personal page is “at risk of being unpublished” due to “continued Community Standards violations.”
However, the social media titan cited just one example of an “offensive” post published by Neuer, which featured an image of a Taliban gunman with a caption calling out Ben & Jerry’s for boycotting Judea and Samaria but not the terror group controlling Afghanistan.
Facebook said that post had earned Neuer a “strike” against his account, adding that the post had been partially hidden from public view – even from the tens of thousands of people who specifically follow him on the platform.
The platform also deleted the post, which he said had been shared on Twitter with no indication that the content violated community standards.
The Texas rabbi celebrated around the world as a hero for freeing himself and several congregants from a gunman in an 11-hour synagogue siege had resigned after the congregation’s board voted not to renew his contract, the Forward has learned.
The board decision came despite what many described as overwhelming support for Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker by the membership of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville.
“I can assure you he would have been unanimously voted to stay,” Anna Eisen, a co-founder of the synagogue, said in an interview. “As a congregation we have been very heartbroken and distraught,” she added. “I myself have begged him to stay but I also realize that he has given us 16 years of his life.”
Malka Leifer's father in law, a chasidic rebbe, has been arrested on multiple charges of historic child sexual abuse. https://t.co/f9FczfKknM
— YehudisFletcher (@YehudisFletcher) January 19, 2022
A 70-year-old rabbi was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of sexual offenses on a family member as well as a minor, Israel Hayom reported.
The suspect, a Jerusalem resident, was questioned shortly after his arrest following complaints at the Beit Shemesh police station about indecent acts he committed several years ago.
Police will request an extension of his detention for further investigation.
משטרת ישראל עצרה אתמול (שלישי) חשוד, רב תושב ירושלים בשנות השבעים לחייו, בחשד שביצע עבירות מין בבן משפחה קטין ובקטין נוסף.
חקירת החשוד החלק בעקבות תלונות שהתקבלו לאחרונה בתחנת המשטרה בבית שמש, בגין חשד לביצוע עבירות מין. על פי החשד, ביצע החשוד מעשים מגונים בקטינים במקרים נפרדים שהתרחשו לפני מספר שנים.
אתמול עצרו שוטרי מחוז ירושלים את החשוד במעשים, ובמהלך היום הוא יובא בפני בית המשפט בבקשה להאריך את מעצרו. החקירה נמש
Antisemitism is alive and well https://t.co/jqnOuKkIzx
— United With Israel (@UniteWithIsrael) January 19, 2022
Sharpton, a weekend host on the liberal network, has a checkered past when it comes to accusations of antisemitism, most notably in New York City during the late 1980s and early 1990s amid strained relations between Jewish and Black communities at the time.
Nicolle Wallace, known for gushing over her liberal guests, has a particular affinity for Sharpton, often inviting him on her daytime program, "Deadline: White House," and Critics took to social media to blast MSNBC for allowing Sharpton to participate on the panel, with some suggesting he was "an expert at targeting Jewish communities," and others accusing him of being unrepentant for his role in the New York City violence.
A Gazan discovers he has received a work permit for Israel. #TheGazaYouDontSee #Gaza #Palestine pic.twitter.com/alzIbxtC57
— Imshin (@imshin) January 18, 2022
New Yorkers: When you see women pushed to their death in front of Subway cars, when children are shot in the middle of Times Square, know that the Cy Vance and Letitia James prioritized investigating Trump over fighting crime. They are responsible for the mess that is New York. pic.twitter.com/KckroVSJLJ
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) January 18, 2022
The residents of the Golan Heights in northern Israel woke up Wednesday to a thick layer of snow covering the ground, with a dusting also expected in the higher peaks of central Israel including, possibly, Jerusalem.
Emergency, rescue and medical services were gearing up for a major storm that is set to last through Thursday.
Police said major roads in the Golan have been closed to traffic while schools in the area remained shut due to the weather conditions.
The snow began on the highest peaks early Wednesday and spread to the rest of the plateau, with some falling on the Galilee highlands.
On Mount Hermon, the highest point in the country, 15 centimeters of snow fell at the lower levels while on the summit 25 centimeters of snow gathered. Due to the weather, the site’s ski center was closed.
Temperatures are expected to drop during the course of the day across the country. Flood warnings were issued in coastal and other low-lying areas.
Heavy rainfall, accompanied by thunderstorms, will continue along the coastal plain until Thursday.
Packages stolen from Union Pacific cargo containers and then ransacked, thousands upon thousands of them, are regularly strewn along the tracks in the Alameda corridor that stretches through downtown Los Angeles. The scene is simply shocking (see, e.g., embedded video posted by the city’s CBS News affiliate).
Why is it happening?
Earlier today, conservative education activist Chris Rufo reported: “Following a lawsuit from parents, the State of California has permanently removed the ‘In Lak Ech Affirmation’ from the state curriculum, which would have forced students to chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice in order to become ‘warriors’ for ‘social justice.’”
Yes, in case you’ve forgotten (or were unaware in the first place): The state of California wanted to make kids sing ditties to Tezkatlipoka. For those who aren’t familiar with the Aztec deity, he’s the literal god of human sacrifice. Oh, and cannibalism. Just to give you a sense of what kind of culture the California Board of Education is revering, here’s Cameron Hilditch on the history of Aztec ritual human sacrifice:
The remains of more than 40 boys and girls were discovered at the excavation site of the great pyramid, most bearing the marks of severe and prolonged torture.
This was to be expected given that the Aztec pictorial codices that have come down to us invariably show the children crying before being sacrificed.
The priests of Tlaloc believed the tears of innocent children to be particularly pleasing to the god, and they took great care to ensure that their little victims were crying before and throughout the ceremony so that the smoke of the sacrificial fire would carry their tears up to the god above at the moment of death.
The ritual began with the bones of the children being broken, their hands or their feet burned, and carvings etched into their flesh. They were then paraded before the celebrants of the ritual while crying. Insufficient tears from the children were believed to result in insufficient rains for the crops that year, so no brutality was spared. At the end of it all, the mutilated victims were burned alive.
Leading the @iTunes billboard charts for best song of 2022, presenting to you הבן יקר לי by Moreinu Harav Schachter and his Rebbetzin. @YeshivaLink pic.twitter.com/iQF3eNeoqI
— Akiva Ackerman (@AkivaAckerman) January 18, 2022
A few weeks ago, Joel Tenenbaum, 81, and Marilyn Berkowitz, 84, arrived in Tel Aviv on an El Al flight from New York ready to start their new lives in Israel.
They had met through JDate five years earlier. Each was widowed; Tenebaum had been married for 47 years, Berkowitz, known as Lyn, for 49.
A retired New York trial lawyer raised in Brooklyn, Tenenbaum always had felt an affinity for Israel — fueled since childhood by Hebrew school and the movie “Exodus.” Berkowitz, a former university dean’s assistant in New Jersey, had been a frequent visitor to Israel ever since her son moved here in 1991.
Both are longtime volunteers for the Israeli nonprofit organization Sar-El. They now share a rental apartment in Tel Aviv’s trendy Florentin neighborhood, close to the ulpan where they will soon enroll in an intensive Hebrew language program.
“A lot of our contemporaries have gone to Florida,” Berkowitz said. “But I think they should become sandbirds, not snowbirds.”
In fact, more and more older American Jews are opting to spend their golden years in the Jewish state.
So you might think that after an Islamic jihadi stormed a Texas synagogue and took hostages, the ADL would be drawing attention to Islamic anti-Semitism, as well as to the targeting of synagogues by Islamic jihadis in the past.
Instead, it once again proves that it is more interested in preserving the Leftist narrative than in combating anti-Semitism: the ADL is very concerned that some of the reactions to the hostage-taking incident have been, in its view, “Islamophobic.”
"With the help of Hashem with the Holy Rebbe's Strength"
Isn't this blasphemy ? Outright apikorses, this suggests that Hashem, G-d forbid, needs the Viznitzer Rebbe to run the world! OMG
I'm glad he put an end to this Christian statement!
I'm always amused when these chareidim who worship their rebbe as a deity, mock Chabadniks who claim their late rebbe is Moshiach!
So it's ok for Viznitzers for years to believe that their rebbe is a deity, but not ok for Chabadnikers to believe their rebbe is Moshiach which is not actually apikorses!
Dudi Shwamenfeld has been named as the Haredi radio host accused by multiple women of sexual abuse.
News of the story broke earlier this month, when it emerged that at least six women had accused the then-unnamed radio host of sexual assault. Now, according to the Ynet news site, at least one of the complainants has filed an official police complaint against Shwamenfeld, a longtime host on the popular Kol Berama radio station that serves the ultra-Orthodox community.
The woman, now 31, told Ynet that she was 19 when she first heard Shwamenfeld’s radio show and decided to reach out to him via Facebook. “We started to correspond. At a certain point he suggested we meet, but I didn’t want to,” she said. But she said Shwamenfeld convinced her to meet and “promised it would be interesting.”
Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did.” pic.twitter.com/sth2bArDDI
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 17, 2022
The IDF has decided that every conscript who is married will now be entitled to a day off on the day a female soldier herself or a male soldier's wife immerses in the mikvah.
According to the new policy, the details of which have been distributed to all units in the past week, the policy will allow soldiers to take off for 24 hours which will not be counted towards the soldier's vacation days.
In the document that was distributed, it was emphasized that "the commander of the soldier is obligated to allow departure for the arranged day set forth in the policy, he can influence the date of departure." It was further emphasized that "this policy will be reviewed by the Personnel Division."
Major Eddie Schwartz, Assistant Chief Military Rabbi, welcomed the new directive in an internal WhatsApp group of the military rabbinate. "The issue of release on the night of immersion for married soldiers has been a complex issue for years," he wrote. "At the end of hard work, which began at the initiative of the rabbi of the Nahal Brigade, and continued with the work of the IDF training staff, a directive was issued last week that every married soldier would be entitled to a monthly 'arrangement day'."
"This will not solve all the cases, and it is important to remember that there are certainly operational constraints, but the new directive will solve many of the cases."
Under Jewish law (halakha), a woman who discerns menstrual blood cannot have relations with her husband for seven days after her menstrual flow has ended (a period of at least five days) and until at the end of the seven days she immerses in a ritual bath (mikvah). The new regulations will benefit religious soldiers who follow the halakha.
Our interview with Jeff Cohen, one of the hostages in Beth Israel Texas synagogue. He tells us the terrorist made antisemitic remarks saying Jews control the world and the media. He describes the terrifying moments he and how eventually they escaped: @N12News pic.twitter.com/X6p6Mqvo3S
— יונה לייבזון yuna leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) January 17, 2022
Jeff Cohen, one of four people held hostage by a gunman at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, this past Shabbat, recalled the harrowing experience in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News on Monday.
In the interview with journalist Yuna Leibzon, Cohen said the terrorist made antisemitic remarks, saying Jews control the world and the media. He also stated that the hostages eventually escaped and were not rescued by security forces as reported.
“It’s been reported that we were released or that we were rescued. That is not the truth. The truth is that we escaped. We escaped because we were preparing all along to take the initiative when we could have it,” said Cohen.
“I strategically and tactfully made sure that I was sitting near an exit,” he recalled. “I helped my friends and my rabbi. We got us all to be sitting in the right spot.”
“At one point,” continued Cohen, “our attacker was not paying attention. He sat down. I think what he did was he put his gun down and poured some soda. Much to Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s credit, he picked up a chair, threw it at him and yelled ‘run!’ and we were out.”
“In the first five to 30 minutes, when you don’t know who this guy is, we had no clue, and he’s spouting all these truly crazy things, at that point I got myself into the place where it was likely that I was not going home,” he replied when asked by Leibzon whether he thought he would come out of this ordeal alive.
“However, throughout the whole ordeal, it was very important to me, and to all of us, that we all got out."