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Monday, April 25, 2022

2 of Ami Magazines favorite Lev Tahor Leaders Extradited To The US From Guatemala

 

Ami Magazine had a 4 page write up about the Lev Tahor cult and attempted to convince their naive readers that this group were a legitimate chassidis.

Two Lev Tahor leaders who were arrested last year in Guatemala have been extradited to the United States to face trial.

Yaakov and Shmuel Weingarten are facing charges of suspected kidnapping and abuse of children. The kidnapping attempt was purposely carried out on Shabbos to make it more difficult for the parents to pursue them.

Yaakov Weingarten was arrested on the first day of Pesach last year.


Watch Chareidim in Bnei Brak at the Viznitz Bakery grab the first batches of Chametz an hour after Pesach

 


Residents of Bneii Brak want to know where 856,000 Shekel Collected for Widows & Orphans Went

 


Yaakov Vider, Member of the Vaad in Bnei-Brak wants to know where close to a million shekel collected for widows and orphans went.... it disappeared!
In a comment to the Israeli press he said that "once again the askanim who collect for widows, orphans and poor families couldn't stand up to the challenge of not stealing tzedakka money




Harav Pinchos Padve Will no longer take any responsibility on Belz Kashrus ... "It's all bluff!"

 



הגאון ר' פנחס פדווא, רב קהילת בעלז בקרית גת, וחבר בית דין כשרות 
בעלז, הודיע שאינו לוקח עוד שום אחריות על כשרות בעלז.

 הוא טוען שהכל בלוף שם בגלל כמה עסקנים ואין שום אחריות ונאמנות. הרבי מבעלז ניסה בכל הכוח להחזירו למערכת הכשרות, אבל בעצת כמה גדולים סירב. עם היותו חסיד גדול מהרבי מבעלז וגם מנאמניו הקרובים הסביר להקבי מבעלז שאינו יכול לקחת עוד אחריות על הכשרות הרערוע לאחר שבלאו הכי ראשי הכשרות  לא מקשיבים לו

Al Aqsa is such a holy place that if you riot there you’ll regain your ability to walk.

 

Listen to these crazies .....

 

Thursday, April 21, 2022

California ruling deemed step forward for Jewish women stuck in abusive marriages

 For Jewish women trapped in abusive marriages, a California divorce court may have offered a way out.

In an unprecedented ruling, a Los Angeles judge deemed a man’s refusal to give his wife a get, or Jewish divorce, a form of domestic violence, and made that determination part of the basis for granting her full custody of their children.

Judge Bruce G. Iwasaki’s order, issued Feb. 7, relied on a recent clarification of the California family code that established coercive control — that is, a pattern of behavior that interferes with the spouse’s personal liberty — as a kind of domestic violence. Iwasaki held that the husband’s get refusal, by preventing the woman from remarrying under Jewish law, met that definition.

Japanese Singing the Haggadah

 


Lecha Dodi Zikiv

Jen Psaki Cries because Republicans don't want 6 year olds to have operations to change their genders

 


Listen to this unmitigated fool

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Listen to this damn liar

 

Chusid beats a Marine in pushups

 


The "minhag" of Chassidishe women shaving their heads is "bad and stupid"

 

The custom of women shaving their hair after marriage was widespread in Galicia and Hungary prior to the Holocaust and is still continued in some communities, mainly from the Toldos Aharon sect and in old Yerushalmi families. Some said that the basis for the custom was a fear of sechita (squeezing liquid) on Shabbos or so that the hair does not represent a chatzizah (barrier) to immersion in the Mikvah.

Many poskim opposed the custom, including Rabbi Yosef Shaul Natansohn in his Shoel U’Meishiv who said that such a custom may be Lo Yilbash [females adopting a male custom which is prohibited by Torah]. The mekubal Rabbi Yehuda Petaya said that the custom contradicts the kabbalistic opinion of the Arizal, who maintained that women should grow their hair and only men should shave their heads.

In a sharp response to a young man querying whether to keep his family’s custom of shaving married women’s hair, Hagaon Rabbi Shlomo Fisher Zts’l, who recently passed away, said that such customs are “bad and stupid”.

Rabbi Fisher wrote that “you can remain calm and need not be upset about revoking this bad and stupid custom [about which we can say Rabbeinu Tam’s anagram that Minhag is the letters of Gehennom] of married women shaving their hair, which is against halacha and defies intelligence as well as causing great distress to women.

“The gemara (Eiruvin 100b) says that women are accustomed to growing their hair long. In the Rambam (Avodah Zarah 12:10) it says that a woman may not shave her head and in Nazir 28b it is written that a husband may say: “I don’t want a shaven headed wife.” The women who shave their hair wear a sheitel when going outside and in the home they are contemptible to their husbands and this is the opposite of the Torah’s imperatives. Rashi writes (Devarim 4:9) that when you perform the Torah’s statutes in the proper way you will be considered wise and perceptive but if you distort them you will be deemed fools.

“The sephardim maintained kabbalistic customs throughout the generations even more than Ashkenazim and were more acquainted with kabbalistic stringencies but they never even considered doing this bad custom of having women shave their heads. If the custom was not maintained one must rejoice in this and not be upset.”

Israel Cancels Indoor Mask Requirement

 

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced on Wednesday the revocation of the requirement to wear masks in most enclosed spaces

Masks will still be required in places with a high potential for infection such as hospitals, nursing homes, and on flights.

The decision will go into effect beginning on Motzei Shabbos, April 23 at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

"Ich Vill Zein a Rebbe"

 

White House Staff Rushes an Easter Bunny to Stop Biden from blabbering to Reporters

 


A staffer dressed in an Easter Bunny costume intervened Monday to stop President Biden from answering a reporter’s question on the White House lawn.

Biden, hosting the first White House Easter Egg Roll of his presidency as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, began to answer Afghan reporter Nazira Karimi’s inquiry before the bunny showed up and cut him off.

Event attendee Thomas C. Dillon tweeted his footage of the interaction, which wasn’t viewable to most spectators.

“Joe Biden quickly interrupted by the Easter Bunny after he starts to comment on #Afghanistan and #Pakistan at the White House,” Dillion captioned an 11-second clip.

Dillon, a public relations consultant and former adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, shared an extended version of the video with The Post, including Karimi’s brief and hard-to-hear inquiry regarding Afghanistan, Pakistan and Russia.

“Pakistan should not and Afghanistan should be — people should be free,” Biden began his answer, before the bunny rushed to his location.

Biden jerked his head toward the costumed character in apparent shock and took a step away from the censorious beast.

Airports, airlines across US begin to drop mask mandates after court ruling

Travelers were celebrating across the country Monday as airports and airlines dropped their mask requirements after a Florida federal judge voided the Biden Administration’s mask mandate for planes, trains and buses on Monday.

But confusion also accompanied the enthusiasm as some airports, airlines and transportation agencies had yet to announce whether or not they would continue to enforce the mandate — or confirm that masks are still required.

Following the judge’s ruling, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines all relaxed their mask policies for customers, crew and workers.

“Feels good to be flying the moment the mask mandate was lifted. People are literally celebrating at this airport,” Darrin Smith tweeted Monday night.

Monday, April 18, 2022

Julia Haart's husband moves on with a new girlfriend

 

Julia Haart’s estranged husband Silvio Scaglia has already moved on with a new woman.

The La Perla owner, 63, has been dating blonde socialite Michelle-Marie Heinemann, 56, for the past few months, Page Six has learned.

“Silvio Scaglia and Michelle-Marie Heinemann recently began dating and are very much in love,” a spokesperson for Scaglia confirmed to us on Sunday.

“[They] look forward to spending their future together.”

Haart, 51, filed for divorce from Scaglia in February, hours after he fired her as CEO of Elite World Group.

While the two are still duking it out in a vicious divorce battle, that clearly hasn’t stopped Scaglia

Trump Sends Snide Holiday Message to “Racist” New York AG James

 

Former President Donald Trump delivered an aggressive holiday wish to New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is currently conducting a broad investigation of the Trump Organization’s business practices.

“Happy Easter to failed gubernatorial candidate and racist Attorney General Letitia James,” Trump wrote in a statement blasted out by his Save America PAC. “May she remain healthy despite the fact that she will continue to drive business out of New York while at the same time keeping crime, death, and destruction in New York!”

Last week, James filed a motion to hold Trump and his children in contempt for failing to turn over documents to her investigators that were ordered to be handed over by a judge.

James began investigating Trump in 2019 after his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress that his company had manipulated its asset valuations for tax and business benefits.



Our response to the situation at the Kotel, then and now* Rav Kook z"l

 


The Mufti of Jerusalem has just accused the Jews of rioting at the Kotel and claimed that they were attempting to take over the Al-Aksa Mosque. This accusation did not only appear yesterday, but also at the time of the Arab riots at the Kotel in 5689 (1929). At that time, *Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook* published an incisive response to the Mufti of his day, although it seems that it could have been written this morning:

"All of the civilized world knows that the Jews never stopped praying at the Western Wall. Everyone knows that the moniker of 'Wailing Wall' was given to it on account of the tears that Jews wept there for generation upon generation, in the midst of penetrating prayers of every heart and soul.

"The Mufti's claim that Arabs were threatened is false. There is no foundation to this. No Jews, even the young among them, ever threaten anyone. They only stand their ground to defend themselves and, especially, their elders, their women, and their weak when others converge on them. It is a vain and terrible slander to say that the Jews desecrate the holy places of the Muslims, something that has never entered their minds.

"Is this the strategy of those Muslims going to pray, to arm themselves with swords and knives? And who can fail to understand that the Arabs who carry these weapons do so for the sole purpose of committing murder.  And how dreadful it is when they turn their prayers into a libel against Jews so that they can justify murder and the spilling of innocent blood.

"The truth is so obvious that a horrible injustice has been instigated by some Muslims through incitement against a quiet people that labors, body and soul, in the Holy Land.

"We hope that the tradition of peaceful co-existence, where all the residents of Eretz Yisral build together the beloved and neglected land, and transform it into the Garden of Eden it is meant to be - that this same holy tradition will prevail over the lying schemes and deception, the impurity and malice we have witnessed of late."

Amen.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Jerry Seinfeld'a TV mom on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93

 

Liz Sheridan, who played doting mom to Jerry Seinfeld on his hit sitcom, died early Friday. She was 93.

Sheridan died in her sleep from natural causes, five days after her April 10 birthday, said Amanda Hendon, her longtime representative and friend. She did not provide further details, including where Sheridan was living.

Her “Seinfeld” role as Helen was her best known but followed decades of work on stage and screen. In the 1970s, Sheridan appeared on Broadway in plays and musicals, the latter including “Happy End” with Meryl Streep and “Ballroom.”

“She was always very grateful to her fans and felt blessed to have enjoyed decades of work in the entertainment business,” including performing in her one-woman show, “Mrs. Seinfeld Sings,” Hendon said in a statement.

Another “Seinfeld” mom, Estelle Harris, died two weeks ago on April 2. Harris, who played hot-tempered parent to Jason Alexander’s George Costanza, also was 93.

The story behind the violance at the Har Habayis


Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

What’s happening in Jerusalem and how did the situation get so bad?
It’s important to note that any analysis of the current tensions without the larger context of the decades long conflict is bound to be lacking. For weeks Palestinian extremists have been using any excuse to spread rumors that Jews are planning to take over the Temple Mount. While Jews find this outrageous, the average Palestinian believes it – every single time the rumor is spread.

Harav Brant Rosen a Reform Rabbi adapts the Satmar Shita vis a vis Israel


On March 30, Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago, a synagogue on the heimish North Side of the city, made the unusual announcement that his congregation had “just voted to adopt anti-Zionism as a core value.” The proclamation arrived within days of 11 murders in a wave of terrorist attacks across Israel. On April 7, three more Israelis were killed on Dizengoff Street in the heart of Tel Aviv in this new wave of violence. It’s not often that an established synagogue declares its antipathy against the Jewish state as a core part of its identity—but then again, this wasn’t out of step for Rabbi Rosen, who’d been working himself up to this very moment for the better part of the past decade.

As it happens, I’ve known Rabbi Rosen since before “I was a man.” I grew up in Skokie, Illinois, and attended the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in neighboring Evanston, where Rabbi Brant held the rabbinate. Back then, he was, I suppose, a kind of liberal Zionist. I didn’t have much of an impression of him, other than that he seemed kind and Jewish. In 2002, when I became a bar mitzvah, Rabbi Brant led the service. In his notes on my d’var (which I recently read again), he seems reasonably sympathetic to Israel. 

By the time Rabbi Brant left JRC in 2014, my father and I had heard through the grapevine that he’d become a radical pro-Palestinian activist, and in our family, “Rabbi Brant” became a catchall for a certain kind of Jew we simply could not understand. When I moved back to Chicago this past year, I couldn’t help but go back to the source. I wanted to know: Who are these people? What even is a “non-Zionist” synagogue during the most spiritually elevated time of the year? 

To try to find the answer, I attended Tzedek’s 2021 High Holidays services over Zoom.

Employee sues his company because they made him an unwanted birthday party and wins $450,000

 

Days before his birthday in August 2019, an employee at a Kentucky-based laboratory asked his office manager to not arrange a celebration for his birthday.

It wasn’t the fear of getting older, but rather an anxiety disorder that can spur “panic attacks in stressful situations,” according to court documents. The employee, who was hired in October 2018 by Gravity Diagnostics, did not want a celebration because “being the center of attention” can trigger his disorder, the documents state.

When the company threw him a lunchtime party against his wishes, it triggered a panic attack and he left abruptly to spend his break in his car. Four days later, after his office managers confronted him about his reaction to the party, he was fired from the Northern Kentucky company, court records show.

He eventually sued Gravity Diagnostics, and this week, a jury awarded the man $450,000 in damages for his lost wages and emotional distress.

The New Minhag of the LGBT Community

 

Friday, April 15, 2022

Entire Haggadah is one long blog post about Jews making Aliyah ... Does Satmar have a different haggadah?

 

Zera Shimshon Pesach

 

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Police Arrest 4 Jews Planning to Bring Korban Pesach on Har Ha'Bayis

 


The police arrested on Wednesday night four Israeli Jews who stated they had plans to sacrifice a lamb on Friday on the Temple Mount ahead of the Passover holiday.

The police stated after the arrests that in recent days, reports have been circulating about “the encouragement of extremists to be arrested by the police in an attempt to reach the Temple Mount and act illegally.”

Acting on a court order, the police arrested four Israelis for questioning, residents of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, on suspicion of “intending to violate the order,” as well as “calling to violate public order or violate a legal provision.”

How the FBI Planned to Kidnap a Governor and Blame it on Trump

 


The FBI got walloped last week when a Michigan jury concluded that the bureau had entrapped two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Those men and others were arrested a few weeks before the 2020 election in a high-profile, FBI-fabricated case that Joe Biden claimed showed President Trump’s “tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one.” But the jury verdict exposes how the feds have created the monsters they parade to vindicate their vast power over Americans.

Michigan was a swing state in the 2020 election. When the arrests were announced, Whitmer speedily denounced Trump for inciting “domestic terrorism.” 

Biden won the 2020 election because of the early voting, and the Michigan kidnapping plot was one of the biggest stories in October 2020. Prior to the presidential election, Attorney General Bill Barr assured that news did not leak about multiple federal investigations into Hunter Biden. But the FBI felt no such constraints and trumpeted a ludicrous scheme that was shot down even by a jury that a federal judge had largely blindfolded. 

Will Trump be back on Twitter? Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41 billion

 

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor.

“Since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”

“My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder,” Musk said.

In the filing, Musk used blunt language, telling the Twitter board: “I am not playing the back-and-forth game.”

“I have moved straight to the end,” the entrepreneur said. “It’s a high price and your shareholders will love it.”

Earlier this week, Musk said he had abandoned a plan to join Twitter’s board, just as his tenure was about to start. Taking the board seat would have prevented him from a possible takeover of the company.

Twitter said in a statement: “The Twitter Board of Directors will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all Twitter stockholders.”

Analysts are predicting that Musk will ultimately succeed in his takeover bid.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Daniel Dresdner and his Alleged Aveirois

 


Spring Valley, Pomona Therapist Daniel Dresdner & Daas Wellness Center Sued by 2 Clients for Alleged Sexual Assault

He has been indicted with 55 counts of Sexual Abuse 


Quick note: Dresdner has previously worked at Westchester Medical Center, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, Bais Ezra, Bikur Cholim, and HASC.

In June, 2018, Plaintiff Jane Doe was suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues as a result of trauma she had suffered during her life, and sought treatment by Daniel Dresdner, who was working at DAAS. According to the complaint, beginning in 2019 Dresdner began grooming Jane Doe by paying her complements on her jewelry, clothes, and physical appearance. Between April and June 2020, treatment took place over the phone, but returned to in-person treatment at DAAS. According to the complaint, Dresdner at some point invited Jane Doe to his home for an appointment, and spoke to her for many hours until 2 AM by the firepit in his backyard.
Jane Doe alleges that in June of 2020, Dresdner deceived her into meeting him for a session in a park in New York City. After arriving at the park, the complaint alleges that Dresdner informed Jane Doe that he had had to stay in New York City, and started confiding in her about his personal life. The complaint then details what he disclosed: That he had been arrested in Florida in May 2020 for assaulting a police officer, among other charges, that he had a drug and alcohol addiction, and that he had personal issues at home. According to the complaint, Jane Doe was shocked not only by the information but also because she had paid for this session which was supposed to be focused on her own wellbeing, not his. Not knowing any better, Jane Doe alleges that she trusted him as he continued to normalize this conduct with her.

Chesed in Israel.... unbelievable

 

This clip is from the road to Beit Shemesh!
 Anyone who asks, gets, no questions asked 
The distribution will be in all major chareidie cities

מי כעמך ישראל

Left Wages War on Childhood

 

From Greta Thunberg to children put on puberty blockers, the victims of the war on childhood are everywhere. They show up at environmental or gun control rallies holding up giant signs in their little hands, they’re indoctrinated at school to enlist as child soldiers for the latest cause.

Adults tell them that unless they save the world, they won’t even live long enough to grow up.

At the heart of the exchange of political buzzwords of the culture war is a simple question about whether childhood should exist. Leftists believe that no one may evade political commitments, and that therefore the idea that childhood should be a space apart from adult causes and concerns is a privilege that it is the job of teachers and popular culture to shatter into pieces.

And that is the war on childhood that we see all around us waged from Disney to kindergarten.

A Bird Takes a Crap On Biden Because He Didn't Like Biden's Putin Remark

 

Watch Saudi TV Make "Choizik" From Biden

 

A Teacher in Torah Vodaath Who really cares about his students

 

HORRIFYING VIDEO: Frum New Jersey Woman Intentionally & Repeatedly Run Over

 

A driver ran down a woman in a predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey on Tuesday, seriously injuring her.

The incident occurred in the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Tuesday morning at approximately 8:00 a.m. when the suspect suddenly swerved off the road and onto the lawn of a nearby house, driving his vehicle towards a female pedestrian.

The driver pursued the woman, who attempted to evade the suspect’s vehicle.

The suspect managed to run down the woman, running her over with his vehicle. He then turned around and continued his attack, running over her repeatedly.

According to RLS Media, the woman suffered serious injuries, but is now listed in stable condition.

Authorities located and arrested the driver, who has been charged with attempted murder.

Popular Israeli Kinder Chocolate Could Have Salmonella

 

 US consumers were asked to dispose of some Kinder chocolate products not authorized for distribution in the country, warning they could be from the batch recently recalled in Europe due to a potential Salmonella Typhimurium contamination.

The confectionery group’s North American division last week recalled Kinder Happy Moments Chocolate Assortment and Kinder Mix Chocolate Treats basket because they were manufactured in a facility where salmonella was detected.

The voluntary recall on Tuesday is for two products in the US — Kinder Happy Moments Milk Chocolate and Crispy Wafers assortment with a best by date of July 18 and Kinder Mix Chocolate Treats Basket with a best by date of July 30 — and affects no other Kinder products distributed or sold by Ferrero’s US arm.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday said Ferrero was also recalling certain Kinder brand chocolate products for the same reason.

The company on Tuesday published an update upon the Food and Drug Administration’s request to ask Americans to dispose of Kinder products intended for foreign markets yet available for sale in the United States.

Italy’s Ferrero has also recalled several batches of Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs and other products in Spain, Britain and Ireland, while Belgian health authorities have urged consumers not to eat several recalled Kinder products.

Ferrero on Tuesday maintained there were no reports of illness in the United States to date from the chocolates and it was working with the FDA to address the problem.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Gur Hamel who murdered an Arab to avenge the death of his two murdered friends Found Dead in his Cell

 

Following a deterioration in his health over the past several days, Gur Hamel, z’l, passed away on Monday morning in his cell in Ayalon Prison.

Hamel, 52, was sentenced to life in prison in 2000 two years after killing a Palestinian farmer to avenge the murder of two of his friends who were killed by an Arab terrorist as well as an Israeli security guard who was murdered by an Arab earlier that day near Kiryat Arba. Hamel’s brother-in-law was also murdered by an Arab terrorist in a shooting attack in the Shomron.

At the time, he was a resident of Itamar, although residents said he was an extremist whose request for permanent residency had been denied.

In recent days, an attorney from the Honenu legal aid organization had appealed several times to Israel’s Prison Services to provide Hamel with medical treatment and evacuate him for urgent care at the hospital. All of the appeals were denied.

Hamel’s family members claimed that his medical condition was neglected and the Prison Services are to blame for his death.


Monday, April 11, 2022

In Detroit a Jew Associated With Rashida Tlaib & Backed by the Jew Hating JStreet Running Against A Pro-Israel Shiksa

 


Just know that Fatso Nadler endorsed the Israel-Hating Levin! 

In January, Michigan’s 11th district was redrawn as part of statewide congressional map changes. Two incumbent Democratic House representatives first elected in 2018, Haley Stevens and Andy Levin, soon went from cordial allies to primary opponents, each hoping to win the Detroit-area seat come November.

Not long after, an email sent by David Victor, a past president of the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby group who lives in the Detroit area, was leaked to a progressive group and posted on social media. Victor had backed Levin, son of longtime former Congressman Sandy Levin (who was brother to the late U.S. Senator Carl Levin), in 2018. But in the message, sent to pro-Israel donors in the Detroit area, Victor called Levin “arguably the most corrosive member of Congress to the U.S.-Israel relationship,” and urged the donors to back Stevens in the race.

Getting ready for Bein Hazmanim

 

Birthright to bring 19,000 young adults to Israel this summer

 

About 14,000 Birthright Israel participants from nearly 900 universities and colleges in North America are expected to land in Israel in the coming months, as part of Birthright’s 2022 Summer season. The flights, which begin on May 1st mark Birthright Israel’s long-awaited return after a series of suspensions since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Birthright expects to bring about 19,000 young adults from North America during this summer.

Birthright Campus Trips are a unique opportunity for North American students to go on a life-changing trip to Israel with their college friends and meet new people from their campus. The trips are usually timed to coincide with the school’s winter or summer breaks.

Colleges with the largest number of Birthright Campus Trip participants include University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (585 students); University of Florida (506 students); and University of Wisconsin – Madison (424 students).

After a long hiatus, we are excited to bring back so many students from North America to these important and exciting tours to Israel. Many of these students are coming from college and university campuses where incidences of anti-Semitism are increasing, leaving them feeling beleaguered and isolated,” said Birthright Israel CEO Gidi Mark. “We know that after going on a Birthright trip, these students feel more confident,“ he added.

Zachary Lech, 20, a Harvard student studying government, will travel to Israel on an upcoming campus trip. Having grown up in a small town, Lech said that he had not experienced being part of “a vibrant Jewish community” before arriving at Harvard. He hopes to further his Jewish involvement through Birthright. “I went on a short trip to Israel when I was 10, but this is my first time really seeing the country. I'm beyond excited to join the amazing people I've met here at Harvard on a trip to Israel to see for myself what Jewish life can really look like, and to explore my culture,” he said.

Michelle Zangari of Rockville Center Doesn't Want Frum Jews in her Neighborhood "Look what happened in the 5 Towns"

 

Question: Can you imagine if she said that about blacks?

At a recent town meeting in Rockville Center, a village right near the Five Towns, a local resident gets up and asks the board to amend the local laws to prevent Jews from opening Shuls in houses.

The woman describes how she grew up in the Five Towns, and laments how Jews moved in and opened Shuls. She describes in dark tones how the local real estate market jumped as a result, causing many of the non-Jewish residents to grab the opportunity to sell, eventually causing the neighborhood demographics to change.

Finally, she gravely warns the board how like the Five Towns, Rockville Center “can be next.”

Shudders can practically be felt throughout the room as she speaks.

When she finishes, the board says that they have received similar complaints, and will immediately look into what can be done.