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Sunday, February 13, 2022

Clinton paid tech workers to dig up Trump-Russia connections:........... Bombshell Report

 

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia, a bombshell new legal filing alleges.

The Friday filing from a Department of Justice prosecutor tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s Russian probe served to throw cold water on Democrats’ longstanding allegations of collusion.

Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion related to potential conflicts of interests in connection with the case of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who is charged with lying to the feds, according to Fox News.

Sussmann allegedly told the FBI he was not working on behalf of Clinton when he presented the agency with documents that supposedly linked the Trump Organization to a Kremlin-tied bank two months before the election.

Goyim beating up Jews in Flatbush

 

A frum teen was the victim of an unprovoked attack on Friday night in Flatbush, and a second was targeted shortly thereafter.

Flatbush Shomrim say that the victim says he was at Avenue L and E. 32nd at about 10:30 pm, when an unidentified male exited a van and randomly punched him in the face.

The victim added that he saw a second male filming the attack from inside the van.

The NYPD and Flatbush Shomrim have both been notified, and police are analyzing security camera footage.

A second victim has since come forward, saying that he too was targeted by a male fitting that same description.

The second victim says he was approached by a male on Nostrand Ave. and Kings Highway at about the same time as the first attack. The man attempted to punch him, but he was thankfully able to get away.

As in the first attack, a second male was seen filming.

If you have any information that can be of assistance in this investigation, please call Flatbush Shomrim at 718-338-9797.

Saturday, February 12, 2022

The Gerer Kidnappings Explained in Yiddish

 

"It is prohibited to drink the wine of Someone Who Reads the Hebrew "Yated Neeman" : Brisk Rosh Yeshiva R' Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik

 It seems that the 6 page letter of the Brisker Rosh Yeshiva is directed against the Yated because they published columns and excerpts from the rapist Chaim Walder


Gerer Gestapo Commander Avraham Binyomin Zilberberg Advises Teenagers How to Leave Their Parents and What to say to the Police

 


זילברברג מייעץ לבחור איך לעזוב את הוריו


 

When ABC News Reported On Biden the Liar

 

Paying a Shadchan Up Front is a "Ripoff"


 

by Baila Sebrow


When I became a shadchan at age 18, I joined a society of people who considered shadchanus to be a holy endeavor. I was so very young, and there was so much I wanted to learn. At that time the only people who considered themselves shadchanim were people known to be truly G-d fearing individuals who practiced shadchanus only lsheim mitzvah.

Wanting to do shadchanus the correct way, I chose mentors whom I could learn from and reach out to when there was a challenging shidduch situation. One such holy mentor, Z”L, was so pious that when she encountered an issue, she would run to the kevarim of Rabbonim and daven that the shidduch should come to fruition. Such were the only people I associated with in this field. Never in a million years would those holy neshamas dare to ask for even one cent from a person they were helping find a shidduch, even if they were in dire financial straits.

So, WHY, WHY, WHY has it suddenly become fashionable to pay a shadchan to talk to you? WHY has it become fashionable to pay a shadchan an exorbitant fee with no strings attached?
Who is to blame? YOU!!!
YOU ARE ENABLING THEM!

Uman Will have to Wait! Bennett, Lapid call on Israelis to leave Ukraine immediately

 

Prime Minister Bennett and Foreign Minister Lapid decided during a situational assessment Saturday night to strengthen the travel warning to Ukraine and called on Israelis to leave the country immediately ahead of a possible invasion by the Russian army.

The meeting was also attended by the Defense Minister, the Chief of Staff, the head of the Shabak, the head of the National Security Council and the National Security Adviser, the director general of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, and other professionals.

The conversation discussed preparations for the evacuation of Israelis from Ukraine. It was agreed to strengthen the travel warning to the area, along with a call for Israeli citizens to leave the area immediately. In addition, an increase in civilian flights on the Israel-Ukraine route will be considered. A dialogue will be held with all civilian airlines on the issue.

Foreign Minister Lapid spoke with the Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine and other embassy staff today. Tomorrow, the families of the representatives will land in Israel and a team will set out to reinforce the consulate staff and assist in handling, if necessary, the evacuation of Israelis and Jews from Ukraine.


Julia Haart was an ‘entitled’ nightmare who made us cry Ex-Staffer


 “My Unorthodox Life” star Julia Haart made no secret that she wanted to be the “Jewish Kris Jenner.”

She made it known that she wanted to create an empire, signing up for Netflix cameras to follow her five-star life as CEO of Elite World Group. Those cameras caught her in all her finery — she is believed to be one of LVMH’s top global spenders annually — and followed her to luxury hotels as well as her $65 million Tribeca penthouse.

But the walls came tumbling down this week as Haart, 51, was fired from her job at Elite World Group, the company she co-owns with her husband, Italian mogul Silvio Scaglia. Hours after her exit on Tuesday, she filed for divorce from her husband of two years, later applying for a restraining order against him and accusing him of threatening to kill her, hating her kids and making anti-semitic slurs.

Scaglia, 63, retorted by suing her for $850,000 he claimed that she had “illegally taken” out of a company bank account they shared after she was sacked. A letter attached to a legal filing also claimed that Haart had abused her office as CEO and overspent.

To those who worked with Haart, none of this, they claim, comes as any surprise.

Goyim beating the crap out of Jews in Williamsburg



 At least two incidents have been reported over the weekend involving unprovoked attacks on Jews in Williamsburg.


The first incident, caught on film involved a Chassidic couple walking down the street on Friday night, in the area of Marcy Ave. and Stockton St.

As they walk, minding their own business, an unidentified individual runs up behind them and knocks off the man’s Streimel. He then turns and runs away, along with another individual who stood back to watch the attack unfold.

A second incident was also reported, in which another two men had their Streimels knocked off their heads by two suspects.

The NYPD is investigating these incidents as possible hate crimes.

Hispanic Lakewooder Refuses Treatment Because EMTs Were Jewish


 Shocking video from Lakewood, NJ shows a non-Jewish resident refusing to accept medical treatment because the responding EMTs were Jewish, who were volunteers ffrom Lakewood EMS, dispatched by 911.

Paramedics were called in to help with the women, but sadly for her, they too were Jewish!

Eventually, the anti-Semite was treated and transported to the hospital by the Jewish first responders, but not before she threw a fit.

"It appears to me from this video that the sick/injured woman was sick/injured while working at the residence of a frum person and that she was looking to develop a claim against the frum homeowner. she was scared that a frum first-responder will look to protect the frum homeowner from a potential claim that the sick/injured woman was contemplating and will not record the bubamayses she wanted to tell. This looks like fraud to me, not anti-semitism."

Some want to learn pshat that she was probably afraid of being abducted and forced to clean for Pesach.




Friday, February 11, 2022

Zera Shimshon Parshas Tezaveh

 


Julia Haart seeks restraining order from ‘abusive and unhinged’ Goyishe Husband who wants to kill her and fired her

 

“My Unorthodox Life” star Julia Haart has accused her estranged husband Silvio Scaglia of threatening to kill her in a petition for a restraining order.

Haart, 51, petitioned a court Thursday to prohibit Scaglia, 63, from coming near or contacting her, accusing him of hostility towards her son’s Judaism — and claiming he told her “I will kill you in the public eye.”

She filed for the order a day after she was fired from Elite World Group, the company she co-owns with Scaglia.

The document, seen by Page Six, alleges: “Respondent has become increasingly
volatile, abusive and unhinged.”

Haart claimed in the petition that she is “scared for my safety and the safety of my children, some of whom reside with me,” adding, “Over the past several weeks, Respondent has become increasingly volatile, abusive and unhinged.”

Baltimore Jewish Community Experiences Carjacking And Mugging On The Same Day

 

The Baltimore Jewish community was witness to a disturbing string of crime as of late. On Wednesday, a carjacking incident, and later a mugging incident, occurred just hours apart.

In the first incident, a Jewish man was in the parking lot of Adugah of Park Heights, when he was approached from behind by two black males. The thugs struck him over the head, demanded his keys, and stole his car. Thankfully, the victim was not badly injured and did not require medical care.

Later that day at approximately 8:00 PM, a Jewish man was walking up to his home on the 3700 block of Bancroft, when three black males held a gun to his chest and demanded his keys and wallet. The victim complied and the suspects ran off on foot.

Baltimore Shomrim is requesting camera footage from both areas from anyone who may possess it.

Anyone with any further information may call 911 and Baltimore Shomrim at 410-358-9999.


ANOTHER HOAX: No Records Found of Calls to or From Trump During Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

 

The House committee has seen no evidence of calls to or from Trump during the January 6th, 2020 riot at the US Capitol, despite mounds of media reports that he supposedly was talking to lawmakers and other figures during the incident.

The House select committee has received hundreds of records from the White House relating to the Jan. 6 riot after the Supreme Court refused to block the committee’s access to them. Yet not a single record they now have shows any information about Trump being in contact with people outside the White House at the time.

Some are now scrambling for an explanation, with anonymous officials saying maybe Trump used cellphones to contact people outside the White House, or that maybe the National Archives has more records that haven’t yet been given to the committee.

Amid this revelation, CNN asked an official to explain a report that House Minority Leader McCarthy had a heated phone call with Trump as the riot was unfolding, and if that did occur, why there are no phone records of it.

The source’s response was vague.

“There are a lot of things like that, that I’ll say we’re having to learn from them about them from a lot of different sources to piece all of the data together,” the source said.

“Whether it is the absence of data or phone logs or willing testimony, inevitably, we have different sources to get that information because these are conversations that require more than one participant,” committee member Rep. Stephanie Murphy said. “So even if there is one node that isn’t forthcoming, there are inevitably other points of information that we can use to build a more fulsome picture of what happened on January 6.”

Good luck to them. But until then, perhaps an apology to Trump and his supporters is in order.

British Jewish Org. taking their cue from Anti-Semites Tell Smotrich To “Go Home” “You’re Not Wanted;”

 

When you are in galut long enough  and live in a country that didn't let Jews that were escaping the hell brought by Hitler ym"s into their country, when you live in a country that turned boats loaded with Jewish families back to Germany, a country that hung Jewish teenagers in the streets of Yerushlayim, living in a country that murdered Rishonim, living in a country that expelled the Jews in 1290, 202 years before the expulsion of  Jews from Spain,  then of course, you start talking like the rest of the goyim! But don't you worry, England that is being overrun by the Arabs will send you guys home too!

The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the UK’s Jewish community’s umbrella organization, expressed a less than welcome greeting to Religious Zionism chairman Betzalel Smotrich, who flew to London on Wednesday. 

Smotrich is on a trip to meet with Jewish communities in the UK and France to discuss matters of Jewish identity, especially their concerns about the giyur reform currently being advanced in Israel.

“Get back on the plane Betzalel and be remembered as a disgrace forever,” the organization’s spokesperson wrote on Twitter, writing in Hebrew: “We reject his abhorrent views and hateful ideology and call on all members of the British Jewish community to show him the door. You’re not wanted here.”

In response, Smotrich tweeted: “UK Jews: I love you. All of you.”

He later told Reshet Bet: “I was received with great love. According to the number of invitations I received, I can stay here another week and even two.”

Regarding the hateful tweet, he said: “There are internal political issues here, organizations that are controlled by the progressive left.”

On Thursday, Smotrich responded to the organization on Twitter, writing: “I very much thank you for the publication of my visit and on the many connections I forged in the UK thanks to it. I received dozens of phone calls and invitations from Rabbanim and leaders who were embarrassed by you and apologized, telling me that you don’t represent them and requested to meet me. Unfortunately I won’t manage to meet all of them this time so I’ll need to return for another visit.”

The attack was widely condemned by right-wing Knesset members and at least one coalition member also slammed the organization for treating an Israeli Knesset member who traveled to meet Jewish communities in such a manner.

The Likud party stated: “We completely reject the shameful tweet issued by the umbrella organization of British Jewry against MK Betzalel Smotrich. In doing so, they are disqualifying a large public who love Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael whom MK Smotrich and Religious Zionism faithfully represent. It’s clear that this organization wouldn’t treat left-wing post-Zionist Knesset members who deny the existence of Israel as a national state for the Jews like this. Shameful.

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Has the yeshivish world lost sight of the importance that the Vilna Gaon and Baal Shem Tov placed on living in the Holy Land?

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Most yeshiva students have things somewhat mapped out. Spend a year or two learning in yeshiva in Israel, return to the states, often to a place like Lakewood or Monsey, spend 6 months in the "freezer" focusing on only learning and then start shidduchim, dating for marriage.

However, sometimes these guys end up staying in Israel for another year, and another year etc. And sometimes they settle in Israel and build their lives here in the holy land. Other times they set their sights on returning sometime in the not so distant future…which seems to ebb further and further away with each year that passes. Every so often, there are those who ask the question, "Why aren’t more people staying here after yeshiva?"

Its never easy being an immigrant. Everyone knows Israel has changed over the decades. We hear how difficult it was for the immigrants of political Zionism in the mid 1900’s. We can’t imagine what the Vilna Gaon, the father of the yeshiva movement had to endure in the late 1700’s during his failed attempt at making aliyah to the Holy Land. He made it as far as Odessa and then literally missed the boat. It was the students and children that eventually actualized his vision and moved to Israel to build what became known as the Hayishuv Hayashan, the old settlement. However, this is often forgotten or buried deep within the collective consciousness of today's yeshiva world.

The students of the Vilna Gaon and the students of the Baal Shem Tov should be our role models. They experienced unthinkable hardships and were happy. This is what G-d intended: for the Jewish people - to live here, keep his Torah and flourish.

The idea that before Zionism, Jews had lived in peace in Arab lands is an absolute myth!

 

One idea that Satmar and other Anti-Zionists push to further their hate of the Zionists is the idea that before Zionism Jews in Arab lands lived peacefully side by side. Its interesting to note that this is what the Arab murderers and Satmar have in common. Both of these groups use this for their propaganda in the exact same way. 

But this has been proven on this blog time and again to be a fabrication and an outright lie! 

Read the facts below! 

What really happened to the million Jews who lived in Arab lands? Unfortunately, so many people spread lies about what happened to those Jews – chiefly as a way of propping up a false Palestinian narrative – that most people have no idea of the truth or the scale of the disaster. They see the lies spreading online, but simply do not have the material they need to counter the disinformation campaign.

The ‘Jewish problem’ in the Arab lands

A simple fact: in the 20th century almost a million Jews resided in ancient Jewish communities spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

Another simple fact: at the end of the 20th century, there was almost nothing left.

So what happened?

Rabbanim Get Together to Issue "Kol Korah" Against the Gerer Kidnappings

I know what you are thinking. Why is it necessary to issue a "Kol Korah" against kidnappings when it's explicit in the 10 Commandments "Lo Tignov" You shall not steal another human being?

The reason is that Chassidim by in large have their own interpretation of the entire Torah and therefore need their Rabbis to tell them that here with this particular commandment we all agree!

The Gerer Gestapo Commander Avraham Binyamin Silverberg Who Orders the Kidnappings!



Yiddish Explanation Why We Have Corona

 


Israeli Truckers Are Next

 


Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Song of Moed Katan

 

Ger now kidnapping Children from the Opposition ... as 2 Girls are now missing

 


 Two sisters, ages 17 and 14, have been missing from their homes for the past week.

According to the girls’ family, the disappearance occurred after the parents, Tzvi Arie and Leah Sandik, decided to move out of the Gerrer community in Ashdod. They say community leaders suspected that they were planning to join the community of Rav Shaul Alter.

The parents say that Gerrer authorities were in close contact with the girls, persuaded them to oppose their parents’ decision and flee from home, and arranged special living accommodations. They say the girls, 17-year-old Esti and 14-year-old Ricky underwent brainwashing for months by mentors with senior positions in Ger, including women from their educational staff at their seminary, who instructed them to flee the home as soon as their parents tried to leave the community.

According to Israeli media reports, the family recently has felt disconnected from Chassidus, and they apparently considered the possibility of joining the “breakaway” community led by Rav Shaul Alter, however they did not take any real steps to join.

The family reportedly decreased contact and involvement with the Gerrer community in general, and decided to move from Ashdod to Bnei Brak and send their children to Chassidishe yeshivos there.

The parents say that community leaders and yeshiva faculty urged the children to defy their parents. The family’s 12-year-old boy said that one of his teachers told him: “You have no father or mother, you have to do what the Vaad says.” In addition, the girls’ older married siblings who remain connected with the Gerrer Chassidus helped persuade them to abscond from home.

According to the report, the parents even assured the 17 year old that she could continue to study in the Gerrer seminary in Ashdod, and offered to arrange transportation.

About two weeks ago, both daughters did not return home one evening. Late that night the younger one called from a blocked number, said “I am fine”, and hung up.

The next day the two girls returned home.

Then to their horror, a week ago the parents woke up and saw that the two girls were gone, and they saw a ladder placed near the girls’ bedroom window.

The parents have gone to court, and the court is involved in the matter, however the details have not been disclosed.

One follower of the Gerrer Chassidus denied any involvement in the disappearance, and claimed that it is an internal family matter.

The police confirmed that an investigation is ongoing, and that the parties accused have denied any involvement.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to assist the family.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Andy Levin the Jewish congressman wants Israel to be narrower than his district

 

A Michigan congressman is complaining that he is being subjected to “ad hominem attacks” because his pro-Palestinian positions have been criticized. But there’s nothing ad hominem about pointing out that this congressman wants to reduce Israel to a size that will be barely one-third the width of his own congressional district.

The congressman in question is Democrat Andy Levin of Michigan, who is closely associated with J Street and advocates forcing Israel back to the nine-miles-wide pre-1967 armistice lines.

In fact, Levin is so deeply devoted to making Israel just nine miles wide, that he is the lead sponsor on a bill called the “Two-State Solution Act.” The bill demands the creation of a Palestinian Arab state next to Israel, in what he calls “the occupied Palestinian Territories.”

Sec.5 (a) of the Levin bill defines those territories as “the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.”

Those are the areas that Israel captured in the 1967 war. Which means that if the state of “Palestine” is established, Israel will return to being nine miles wide at a point a few miles above Tel Aviv, as it was prior to 1967.

The centrality of marital intimacy In the Jewish home ... Rabbi Eliezer Melamed Answers His Critics.

 


Before you read the article, I would like to point out that R' Yaakov Yaavetz Me'Emden in his siddur is far more explicit than Rav Melamed. I don't recall anyone criticizing his work.

Q: Rabbi, with your permission and out of great respect for you, I wanted to write about something that perplexed me after studying the book ‘Simḥat Ha-bayit U-virkhato‘. I have found instructions that seem to me to be suitable for chozrim b’teshuva (returnees to Orthodox Judaism), or for specific cases, but not for the vast majority of observant couples who want to build their homes in holiness and purity, and without all the various damaging notions that the corrupt Western culture introduces into other societies. Rabbi, why did you write them as a general guide?

In addition, there is an overemphasis in the book on the importance of the mitzvah of ona (marital intimacy). In contrast, however, I learned from my rabbis that it is better for marital intimacy to be limited (Torah scholars should have marital relations on Shabbat evening, and that Torah scholars should not be intimate with their wives like roosters) and not joyfully, as explained in a number of sections in the book (Chapter 1, Halakhot 1-2, Chapter 2, Halakhot 1 and 3). Perhaps this guidance is suitable for baalei teshuva, but not for yeshiva students, and why is it not explicitly written that these are bedi’avad (ex post facto) instructions for situations where it is necessary to be maykel (rule leniently), and not for a normal situation?

The Background for Writing the Book

You think this beating by a student in Public School was bad? Wait till you read this!

 

On Auction the 1920 Letter of "Hate and Jealousy" of The Eida Hachreidis Against Harav Kook and R' Chaim Ozer's Response

נצחונו הגדול של הראי"ה קוק על שונאיו - קנאי ירושלים

מכתב שיטנה שנכתב נגדו ב-1920 ונחשף עכשיו, מבטא את עומק התיעוב שרחשו הקנאים לראי"ה

 "The Great Triumph of Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook  Over His Enemies. The Yerushalyim Extremists"

"Hate letter that they sent to Harav Chaim Ozer in 1920 reveals the deep hatred the Extremists had against Harav Kook z"l"



The Mishna in Pirkei Avos states:
רבי אלעזר הקפר אומר הקנאה והתאוה והכבוד מוציאין את האדם מן העולם 
"Rabbi Elazar Ha'Kapar says, Envy, Lust and desire for honor, drive a man out of the world"

Chazal say that the reason Korach rebelled against Moshe Rabeinu was only because of envy, and jealousy!
Korach managed to get support from the greatest tzaddikim of that generation. The Torah describes those tzadikim:
נשיאי עדה קראי מועד אנשי שם
"Princes of the assembly, representatives of the Jewish people, and famous"

In other words Korach was able to convince the Moetzes Hagdolah, the Eida Hachreidis of that generation.

A letter of hate and filth was written and signed by the then "Gedoileo Hador" against the Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim, Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l. 
The letter written in 1920 was addressed and delivered to the Leader of European Jewry, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski z"l, who was the pre-eminent Av Bais Din, Posek, and Talmudic scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The purpose of that letter was to get Rav Chaim Ozer on board to condemn Rav Kook z"l. Rav Chaim Ozer as well as other Gedoilim of that generation who read the letter refused to comment and refused to have anything to do with the signatories.
The signatories of that hateful letter were in no particular order: 
R' Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld  who also stamped it with his official stamp, R' Yitzchak Yeruchim Diskin also with his stamp, The Badatz of Yerushlayim, R' Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, R' Mordchai Leib Rubin, And R' Yitzchok Frenkel with the Badatz stamp.

What makes this news is that the letter is now on auction. The historian Moshe Nachmeinu, who is now in the midst of writing a book after doing extensive research of the extremists sefarim and hateful campaign of a Gadol brought this letter to light, and sets this as an example of how the greatest tzaddikim were consumed by envy, jealousy and pure evilness, rishis!

What prompted this letter? 
Rav Shmuel Salant who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Of Yerushalayim for almost 70 years was niftar, and the extremists were looking to fill that position with either Rav Yosef Chayim Sonnenfeld or with R' yitzchak Yeruchim Diskin. In 1919, Rav Kook was appointed the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim and soon after appointed the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1921. It was Rav Kook's appointment in 1919 that drove the extremists crazy and they began a campaign of harassment and hate against the Gadol Hador. Rav Sonnenfeld having lost the coveted position as Chief Rabbi Yerushalyim promptly founded the Eida Ha'chreidis which he headed in the same year that the letter was sent. 
It's important to note that prior to Rav Kook's appointment to Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim, in 1919, Rav Sonnenfeld said not a bad word about him and there wasn't any tension and in fact in 1913, the two travelled together to the Galilee to try to return secular Jewish pioneers to Torah Judaism.

His crime? Believing and preaching that that the fact that Jews were returning to Eretz Yisrael was the "Aschata DeGeulah" the "beginning of the redemption," Loving every Jew, be he a frum Jew or a secular Jew and advocating working with Zionists to establish the return of all Jews to our homeland. Though Rav Sonnenfeld also believed that all Jews must live in Eretz Yisrael, he hated the Zionists with a passion as did all pre WW2 Hungarian and Roumanian Frum Jews. Rav Sonnenfeld was originally from Hungary!

Rav Kook established the Yeshiva Mercaz Ha'Rav in 1924 and despite Chareidie opposition, parents of the Yishuv ignored the Badatz and sent their precious children to the Yeshiva to get a proper Torah Education. That Yeshiva exists today and many well known Rabbanim graduated that Moisad.

It's interesting to note that today in 2022, every single city in Israel has classes on the works of Harav Kook. His sefarim are learned by Chassidim, Sfradim, Litvaks Dati Leumis'. His Torah is being spread all over Israel, but it's hard to find a Jew who knows or learns the sefarim of the haters. 
Read on next page an article that appeared in Matzav Huruach and my loose translation

Bennett Talks to Biden on the Phone and Halts Jerusalem E1 Corridor Plan

 

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday evening spoke with President Joe Biden for the first time since the PM’s visit to the White House on August 28.

Also on Sunday: Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the Judea and Samaria Supreme Planning Committee to suspend discussions on approving the E-1 construction plan to connect Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem. The plan covers an area of about 3,000 acres, most of it is state land, with the construction of about 3,500 housing units at its center.

E1 is located at the narrowest point of Judea and Samaria, where the illegal Khan al Ahmar squatters’ settlement has been festering since 2018, with both the Netanyahu and Bennett governments preferring to ignore a Supreme Court decision to remove it. That’s because E1 is the key to whether or not there will be a Palestinian State someday in Judea and Samaria. If E1 remains desolate, with only the illegal shantytown dotting the area from Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem, there’s a good chance a contiguous Palestinian State will someday stretch through there. On the other hand, should the plan for urban sprawl from Jerusalem to Ma’ale Adumim be carried out, then any future Arab political entity would be forever split in its middle.

The E1 plan had been frozen for years, and the Supreme Committee renewed deliberations on it during PM Netanyahu’s last government. The committee proceeded through the first eight months of the Lapid-Bennett coalition but now put it aside again. According to Israel Hayom, one reason for the halt was an outcry from Meretz who declared that E1 constituted a red line that cannot be crossed. The other objection to the E1 plan has been coming from the Americans, who are well aware of the consequences to the two-state plan should a solid wall of Israeli suburban homes be allowed to stretch across the PA’s narrowest waist.

Agudah Protests Antisemitic Cartoon in Monsey Newspaper


 An antisemitic ad has been published in one of the largest newspapers in Rockland County, the Journal News (aka Lohud).

The Agudath Israel has released a statement against the disgraceful ad, and is demanding an apology. The ad cartoon depicts an image of a puppet-master representing a Rabbi, who is manipulating what appear to be children on top of a pile of cash. The headline next to the ad says: 

Rabbi holds the strings on $76M for East Ramapo School District

Here is the statement in response:

Agudath Israel of America viewed with alarm an incendiary promotional advertisement published today for an upcoming article in Journal News (Lohud), a popular newspaper in Rockland County.

The caption, “Rabbi holds the strings on $76M for East Ramapo School District… Coming Feb. 9,” appears above a puppet master using pencils and string to manipulate what appears to be children atop a pile of cash.

While the article, or even the identity of the “rabbi” (as though his “rabbihood” is somehow germane) are unknown, the caricature evokes the worst antisemitic tropes, and is categorically unacceptable. The concept of the Jew as a conspiratorial puppet master, covertly manipulating the world economy and events, harks back to at least the 1700’s, as further amplified upon in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its imagery and underlying implications have stoked pogroms for hundreds of years, and was employed as recently as by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, who killed 11 worshippers in the largest modern mass shooting against Jews in America, at Tree of Life in 2018. We wonder how any article which emerges from an editorial board that approved such a hateful cartoon can pretend to be free from bias.

Agudath Israel calls for a full apology, and actionable commitment by Lohud to avoid bigoted imagery and coverage of the Jewish community in Rockland County in the future.

Dovi Soiefer Was Attacked By Two Rottweilers -This Was His Unusual Request From Their Jewish Owner

 

Dovi Soiefer, a Jewish businessman, arrived in Miami for a business conference – “the ECAP Health Conference” this week, looking forward to productive business meetings.

On his way to the conference, Soiefer was attacked by two rottweiler dogs, who knocked him to the ground and scratched and bit him on the arm. After the owner of the dogs succeeded in controlling them, he gave Soiefer his number and told him to be in touch and receive restitution from him.

A woman from the hotel who saw the attack called police, who said that if Soiefer pressed charges, the dogs would be put down.

The embarrassed owner of the dogs pleaded with Soiefer not to press charges and promised him compensation for his injuries. The man said that he had already recently lost a dog to sickness and did not want to lose his other dogs. However after Soiefer heard that the owner of the dogs was Jewish, he had a different request from him.