Democrat Las Vegas official who killed a reporter will remain in office and get paid

 

An elected official who allegedly murdered an investigative reporter in Las Vegas will remain in office for months and still get paid while he sits in prison.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was denied bail last week after he was charged in the stabbing death of Jeff German, a Las Vegas Review-Journal journalist who had been probing Telles’ alleged misconduct in office.

But as he waits behind bars, a county leader said Telles will keep getting paid.

“For now, he’s still an elected officer and he’ll get paid while he’s in jail,” Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom told WSAV on Friday.

Segerblom said that voters have the option to recall Telles, who lost a Democratic primary in June. But 100,000 signatures are required to put the ballot initiative forward.

There is also the possibility that Telles could resign.

“We can take the scope of work away from him, but as far as him having the title and getting the salary, it is that way, because the voters picked him,” Segerblom told the television station.

Telles is reportedly paid $130,000 annually.

County officials have stressed they have already taken some action against Telles, including prohibiting him from all Clark County facilities. The county also said it told his staff to no longer report to him a couple of months ago, which will continue until a new administrator starts following the November election, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

“The Public Administrator is an elected position and the County is reviewing its options under the law regarding Robert Telles’ current status as the Public Administrator,” the county said Thursday.

The public administrator secures property of the deceased while loved ones or an executor is found, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The office also handles the estate of a deceased person when families can’t, the newspaper said.

German, who reported on political corruption and government wrongdoing for decades, was fatally stabbed outside his home by Telles on Sept. 2 during a confrontation, Las Vegas police allege. His body was found a day later.

A Las Vegas police captain said Telles, 45, was upset to learn German, 69, was looking into further alleged misdeeds by the Democrat leading up to the murder.

German already reported on an alleged affair between Telles and a female worker in his office, though both denied it, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

When Arabs Celebrated the 911 Murders

 

.@RashidaTlaib and @IlhanMN does NOT want you to share this. https://t.co/ieoaO75nNu

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3 Lev Tahor Members Sentenced To Prison This Week

 

Malka Brothers 

Three Lev Tahor members were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the kidnapping of children in 2018.

“This was a horrific, horrendous, crime that was committed,” Judge Nelson Roman said on Friday during the sentencing of one of the defendants, Mordechai Malka.

Prior to the sentencing, Malka apologized for his role in the kidnapping but the judge dismissed his remarks, noting his lack of remorse during the trial itself, and sentenced him to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Earlier last week, the judge sentenced Matisyahu Moshe Malka (Mordechai’s brother) and Yaakov Rosner for their roles in the kidnapping. Rosner also expressed remorse for his role in the kidnapping as well as his newfound enlightenment about the cult’s toxicity. His words were apparently perceived as sincere by the judge who released Rosner on account of the time he has served since March 2021.

In contrast, Malka was sentenced to 66 months in prison.

Mordechai Malka’s brothers-in-law, the Weingarten brothers, will be facing trial in the near future. Two of them have already been extradited to the United States from Guatemala in order to face trial.

“I feel bad though,” said Lev Tahor survivor Mendy Levy, who escaped the cult several years ago. “Because Mordechai Malka was not really a bad guy. He was just forced to do what he did by the Weingartens, Nachman Helbrans, and Mayer Rosner.”

Some Smart US Chasidim, look to the New York Times article as a wake-up call

 

by Menachem Bombach

I was very sad to read the shocking New York Times article about their investigation into some of New York’s Hasidic schools. We can see that, in their desperate desire to protect the traditions of the past, some community leaders and school directors are really jeopardizing their future.

I am currently visiting New York from Israel to speak at a conference organized by the Jerusalem Post. Prior to the publication of this painful article, I had already met with a group of Hasidim from Brooklyn. They were very worried about the poor education that their sons are receiving. They are desperate to break out of the system, but afraid of being punished by their community.

We are fortunate in Israel that we have checks and balances, such as government inspection of Haredi schools. All of the Netzach schools in the educational network I founded are open for inspection by the Israeli Ministry of Education, which ensures that we deliver the education that we promise to parents.

Mixed Reactions from Community to New York Times Article on Chassidishe Yeshivois

 

OMG! The New York Times actually had their entire investigative report translated to a 100% perfect Hasidic Yiddish!https://t.co/DO500kHcAL

— Shlomo Felberbaum (@ShlomoFelber) September 11, 2022

Jay

 7 hours ago

Instead of all the “Askanim” tweeting and going on the offensive. Go on the DEFENSIVE and endorse out loud Lee Zeldin for governor. I’m not interested in anyone’s tweet and press releases. Tomorrow’s front page of any orthodox paper should be an endorsement for Lee Zeldin. We Yidden have the ability to elect Zeldin if we are united as one. Chasidish, Litvish, Yeshuvash, we can all do it together…

Phineas

 9 hours ago

Oh please. The New York Times doesn’t hate or like chasidim. The reporters followed the story which received attention when former yeshiva boys went public with their lack of education.

If the samar schools feel the were maligned, they can sue for libel but that would mean exposing their curriculum to public scrutiny.

My daughter goes to bais yaakov and the teachers are terrified because they’ve been told that this sorry will effect them. It won’t, they get an excellent secular education. This is about exclusively Yiddish speaking schools that provide no secular education beyond some arithmetic.

Even yeshivish places like chaim Berlin will be fine. The government isn’t looking for prep school level standards, just basic instruction.

Also, for the people pointing put that many chasidim succeed, that’s like saying all kids should focus on basketball in lieu of studies because a few make the nba.

While I don't usually approve of Holocaust analogies one must wonder why the obsession of @nytimes with out community and yes: 80 years ago the Times couldn't be bothered w highlighting the plight of Jews; suddenly they 'care" about us? and all those who proclaim their 'concern' https://t.co/YoNiilCnWz

— Ezra Friedlander (@EzraFriedlander) September 11, 2022

 

What all the Ortho bros don’t want you to know is that orthodox and Hasidic are not synonymous. They’re using their education in moderate ortho settings to “disprove” the truth of what happens in the Hasidic world.

— Elle (@ladyofthepond) September 11, 2022

 

So NYT found that Yeshivos got $1 billion over past 4 years. divide that by 150,000 students..... averages approx $1300 per kid per year...... that's a huge amount... vs. a public school kid in NY receives average of $30,000 per kid.... Maybe we should fight for this equivalent. https://t.co/ffoh6ojHMl

— boroparkhocker (@boroparkhocker) September 11, 2022

 

 Conflicted

 6 hours ago

I am very conflicted by this. On the one hand the Chillul Hashem and giving gasoline to anti semites is terrible. On the other hand, this is shedding light on a very important topic that will otherwise go ignored and will continue doing more damage to our children.
Think how much awareness there has been in the frum community since the revelations in the secular media regarding Chaim Walder. Although deeply shameful, many communities and institutions have taken concrete steps in protecting children since then.
So too here, I’m hoping that although it’s shameful to have our dirty laundry out in the public. Perhaps. we can look at the problem of poverty due to lack of education with fresh eyes and think creatively how to resolve this. Adequate secular education is not in conflict with Torah values. Our children deserve better.

The @nytimes spoke to 275 Hasidic yeshiva graduates and family.

The ONLY reason we spoke to them is because there is not a single frum publication that wants to listen.

They are ALL beholden to our corrupt leaders.

— Shlomo Felberbaum (@ShlomoFelber) September 11, 2022

Chassidishe Chickens Came Home to Roost and Chassidim Don't Like it One Bit

 

by Rationalist Judaism Blog 

It's finally happened. 

For decades, the Chassidic community in the New York area has avoided teaching its children secular studies, or even the English language. Moreover, they've managed to secure a vast amount of public funding for this, through a combination of political power and cunning finagling. Along the way, countless young chassidim have been doomed to poverty, with many of them bitterly disillusioned by the chassidic lifestyle and some of them leaving it with a well-earned grudge.

The inevitable has now happened. The New York Times has published a seminal report on the situation, bitingly titled "In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush with Public Money." They even published it in Yiddish translation!

Now, in the past I've had harsh words for the New York Times, with its grossly incompetent and false articles about Israel. But this article is meticulously researched. The journalists reviewed thousands of pages of public records, translated dozens of Yiddish documents, and interviewed more than 275 people, including current and former students, teachers, administrators and regulators. (Many of the school principals from whom they sought comment refused to be interviewed, and the Times went to the extent of sending them a pre-publication preview of the article, to get their response.)

Furthermore, anyone who is familiar with the chassidic community, either in New York or England or Israel, knows that it's all true.

Unfortunately, it feeds into the worst antisemitic stereotypes. From time immemorial, the antisemitic caricature of the Jew has been as a cunning thief. But who should be blamed for the antisemitism that could result as a result of this stereotype being reinforced?

For the first time ever: Female get refuser imprisoned

 

For the first time in the history of the Chief Rabbinic Court of the State of Israel, its President has authorized the imprisonment of a female get refuser, a woman who refuses to accept a religious divorce from her estranged husband and has thus been preventing him from remarrying for four years.

On Sunday morning, the woman was arrested by Israeli police officers after being apprehended in her own home. The officers were forced to break into the home in order to carry out the arrest.

Prior to the arrest, the Agunot Department (dealing with the issue of 'chained' spouses, those who are unable to remarry owing to their estranged spouses' refusal to grant or accept a religious divorce) had been tracking the woman via a private detective who located her in another location, behaving suspiciously, walking down narrow alleyways and then doubling back, apparently in order to avoid being followed.

Chareidie Ladies Now putting on "shaitlach" on their Toes

 

I sure hope that these "Toe Shaitlach" aren't from India or made from "lace" because that would present an entire other problem.

What's next?

"hand shaitlach?" 

Notice the ad states: "No texting" they don't want you to order thru your smartphone, chas ve'shaolom!

Amazon sends Chabad preschool hundreds of toys it didn’t order

 

It’s Hanukkah in the summer. 

A preschool at a Yorkville Chabad center has received an endless deluge of cardboard Amazon boxes containing pricey puzzles and water slides — despite no one on staff ordering the toys.  

The mystery presents first arrived at Alef Bet Preschool on East 92nd Street every couple of days in June, and over the coming months, the volume and size of the gifts ramped up. By August, deliverymen were dropping off several 27-pound boxes daily each holding at least 50 puzzles or a few water slides decorated with the American flag. The preschool estimated that it received maybe 1,000 items altogether.

“I came in here one morning and there were like 30 boxes,” said Deborah Landesman, assistant director. “That’s when the rabbi wrote to us, ‘Who ordered slides?’” 

Jerry Nadler has become a serial napper in Congress

 

When the country’s House Democratic committee chairs gathered for a regular Zoom check-in earlier this year — one of the leaders was asleep at the wheel.

As the nation’s most powerful elected officials planned, strategized and informed their colleagues about what they were up to, Rep. Jerry Nadler — chairman of the House Judiciary Committee — napped.

“He was Rock-A-Bye Baby. The meetings are usually half an hour and he was out for about 15 minutes,” a Democratic Hill staffer who was on the call told The Post.

The aide said nobody bothered to wake the sleeping giant, and things hummed along without him.

“It’s just a known thing,” the aide said of Nadler’s serial snoozing.

New York Times Will Post Anti-Chareidie Article ...Chareidim Attack but are quiet when NYT Attacks Israel

 

 I find this situation very interesting. 

For years the New York Slimes has been defaming the State of Israel, hiring writers who are self-hating Jews, such as Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart. These articles drip with pure hate, lies and total fabrications reeking with pure unadulterated antisemitism.

What was the reaction of the Chareidie world? Crickets! Zero, Nada and gurnisht!

Why? Because if it's not about Chareidim they could care less, even if those hateful articles are about their brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisrael, if it doesn't affect them directly, they don't care. Now that "the Slimes" is going to publish a hit piece against them, they are suddenly up in arms. 

And now about the "hit piece"

I am not in favor of government regulations in the curriculum of private schools, period. And I am not a fan of Naftali Moster, the former Belzer Chusid who founded Yaffed, the organization that advocates that Chasidic Yeshivas be given a secular education. 

Naftali's father has a collage education, and his mother was a graduate of Yeshiva of Brooklyn, not the typical Chareidie Bais Yaakov. They chose to put Naftali in a chassidishe school, knowing full well that the yeshiva would not teach Naftali any secular subjects. His rants should be directed at his very own parents. 

Having said that, I think that all yeshivos should be teaching English, Math, Biology and yes, History. 

When i grew up, practically all chassidishe yeshivos thought secular subjects. When the Bobover Rebbe, R' Shlomo z"l decided not to have secular subjects taught in High School, or Mesivta, there was a mass exodus of students from Bobov and most of those students went to Torah Vodaas. In fact, the rebbe's own future son in law, the Bobover Dayan, R' Tauber went to Torah Vodaas for High School. 

You ask, but why teach "history?"

Because all Chassidishe Yeshivos already teach history. I'll give you an example, I was talking to a Tosher Chusid, a teenager and I mentioned that I saw the Tosher Rebbe when he came to Crown Heights. Before I could tell him anything else, he told me the exact year the Tosher visited Crown Heights and how long he stayed there for and in whose home, he was at... He then rattled off all the different dates that the rebbe visited Boro-Park, Williamsburg and Israel. I was amazed and asked him how he knew all that, and he told me matter-of-factly that it is taught in yeshiva as a subject. The same thing is in Skver, every teenager knows all the dates of when the Skverer Rebbe visited and which countries he visited. This is part of the Chassidishe curriculum.

 Since they are already teaching "history" it wouldn't hurt to add some history of the country that hosts them. 

I find it baffling that the American Chassidishe leaders are upset at the Yeshivos and Belz in particular that take government funds in exchange for teaching Math and English. But these same Chareidie leaders take millions of dollars of Federal, State and City funds, for their moisdois.

Well, now this "blood" money is going to take a big bite into their derrières, because the US will not give them money anymore for nothing in return. 

It didn't have to come to this, if they would only have continued teaching Math, English, Bio etc., no one would have bothered them. I learned in Chareidie Yeshivas for Elementary and High School, and these subjects were taught without any problems and that generation produced talmeide chachamim, poiskim, Roshei Yeshivois etc.

Yes, today, parents are worried that the State would be requiring them to teach LGBT stuff, but as I read the specifics of the regulations, it states explicitly that they won't be required to teach any subject except for the core subjects. 

The "ASS'kanim" claim that Chareidim do well financially without any secular education, while that may be true for "yechidim" a couple of them, the vast majority would starve to death were it not for food stamps, Medicaid and other benefits. According to the last census, New Square, and Kiryat Yoel have the largest population living in poverty. Just walk into any shul during davening and you will hear genuine sob stories of heimishe people living in abject poverty. It's also true that now that the Biden economy is in utter ruin, most Americans are having a hard time managing financially, but at least they have a fighting chance having a basic education, and Im not talking about a college education, I'm talking about basic English and Arithmetic. 

Ukraine Warns: “Russia Will Purposely Direct Missiles At Uman On Rosh Hashanah”

 

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told Israel’s Kan News that “Russia will deliberately fire missiles at Uman on Rosh Hashanah.”

In an interview with Kan on Friday, Podolyak said that the Russian army will deliberately fire missiles at Uman when Jews are gathered there and therefore he doesn’t recommend that anyone travel to the area for Rosh Hashanah.

“We have no doubt that some chassidim will make efforts to reach Uman on foot,” he said. “We understand that they won’t listen to our warnings that there is a danger of rockets being fired at Uman,” adding that there is a chance that Russia “will purposely do this to create global repercussions.”

Podolyak added that Ukrainian security forces will try to ensure the welfare of mispallelim but it’s impossible to provide 100% protection. “We’re warning people but those who come are responsible for their own lives. We’re a free country, we can’t prevent people from coming to Uman. We’ll try to actively intervene to maintain basic security so that if there is missile fire, people can find shelter.”

Last week, the Ukrainian security forces carried out intensive training drills in preparation for the arrival of Jews to Uman.

All for snatching an Iphone

 

For snatching a purse pic.twitter.com/Z56m23wQAG

— Next Fucking Level (@FuckingLeveI) September 10, 2022

US Killed 326 Journalists in its war on Terror, But Wants Israel to "change its rules of Engagement"

 

According to the Watson institute at Brown University, 71% of those killed in America's war on terror were non-combatants. 326 of them were journalists. The hypocrisy of the White House asking Israel to change its rules of engagement to better protect civilians is staggering.

— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) September 10, 2022

Sotomayor Rules Yeshiva U Can Disregard NYS Court Ruling on LGBTQ Student Club

 

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ruled Friday (Sept. 9) that Yeshiva University can continue to live out its religious mission without threat of government interference.

Sotomayor, who has jurisdiction over the lower court, wrote in her order that “the injunction of the New York trial court, case No. 154010/2021, is hereby stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court.”

Unless Sotomayor rules otherwise in a future order – or the Supreme Court decides to take up the case – her ruling means that Yeshiva University can disregard a state court ruling ordering the school to recognize an LGBTQ student club.

Satmar Friedman Brothers attend Trump Rally With Shtrimlach

 

פרידמאן ברודער פון קרית יואל ביי א טראמפ ראלי pic.twitter.com/8eRGuizZS3

— Hasidic (@hasidic_1) September 4, 2022

In the words of Rabbi Sacks: 'The Queen has spoken gently to the better angels of our nature.'

 

Dear Friends,
On the sad passing of Her Majesty The Queen, we are sharing below an articles on which Rabbi Sacks paid tribute to her lifelong service to the country.

Reporter asks KariLake if she will be Trump’s VP, gets absolutely destroyed

BREAKING: Reporter asks @KariLake if she will be Trump’s VP, gets absolutely BLOWN ABACK by her answer pic.twitter.com/veNAE7N4q9

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 8, 2022

Zera Shimshon Parshas Ki Seitza

 

Crazy Poles Want WWII Reparations From Germany- For Jews Murdered By Poles ...Germany tells them to fly a kite!

 

On the 83rd anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Poland last week issued a $1.3 trillion claim of damages from Germany for its occupation of Poland during the war. The Polish claim included demands for compensation for crimes committed by Poles against their Jewish neighbors without German involvement. Germany rejected the claims, stating that reparations had already been paid in the past for war losses.

A three-volume report written by a Polish parliamentary committee was published, entitled “Report on Losses Suffered by Poland as a Result of German Aggression and Occupation during World War II 1939–1945.”

The report details demographic, material, economic and cultural damage incurred by Poland between 1939 and 1945, the years of Germany’s occupation of the country, and estimates the cost at $1.3 trillion. The sum is based, among other things, on the fact that 5.2 million Poles, about 3 million of them Jewish, were murdered and killed during this time by Germans. The Poles are demanding 76 percent of the total amount for loss of human life.

The report however glosses over the fact that a percentage of the Jews killed were murdered by their Polish neighbors without the involvement of Germans. Canadian-Jewish historian of Polish origin, Prof. Jan Grabowski, discovered this when reading the third volume of the report, which includes a list of 9,292 places where Germans committed atrocities against Poles in occupied Poland between 1939 and 1945. According to the report, the list is intended to “commemorate the Polish citizens who were killed by Nazi Germany in World War II.”

One of the sites listed in the report is Jedwabne, where 1,650 Jews were listed as murdered. However hundreds of these Jews were murdered in a Polish pogrom in 1941, which is well documented based on historical research of archives as well as eyewitness accounts.

Prof. Grabowski was surprised to find the victims of Jedwabne in a report meant to deal with German crimes against the Poles in World War II. Writing on Facebook, Grabowski said he was “dismayed” that the “Polish authorities would actually ask the Germans for compensation” for the Jews murdered by Poles in 1941. “To say that the whole situation is grotesque is to say nothing at all,” he wrote. “It’s unbelievable. If you thought you knew the history of the Holocaust, you were wrong! It is being re-written right now, in Poland, as we speak,” Grabowski wrote on Facebook.

“What kind of restitution does Poland want from the Germans for 200,000 Jews murdered by the Poles or with Polish participation?” he asked in Polish on Twitter, drawing angry responses from Poles.

Grabowski, who lives and teaches in Canada, is a prominent Holocaust historian who focuses on Polish involvement in the persecution and murder of Jews in the Holocaust.

Grabowski’s book, “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland” was published in Hebrew a few years ago. A book that he co-edited, “Night Without End” was recently published in English. Both works comprehensively document crimes committed by Poles against Jews. According to Grabowski’s estimates, which have sparked harsh debate in Poland, where he has been denounced as an “enemy of the people,” 200,000 Jews were murdered with the help of Poles or by Poles during World War II.

Reb Yanky (Jack) Meyer Founder of Misaskim and Leading Askan Dies at 58

 

Yanky suffered from a terrible illness in recent months and his condition severely deteriorated in the weeks prior to his tragic petirah.

Yanky was an incredible human being, a person whose magnanimity and selflessness may never truly be understood, and someone whose relentless drive to help others deprived him of every basic worldly pleasure. He was simply too busy devoting his life to helping console those in pain and providing support to anyone he could possibly help, to enjoy even a single night of uninterrupted sleep.

Yanky was a devoted member of Boro Park Hatzolah for around 35 years, a position in which he was fondly known as “B-41.” He also volunteered for Tomchei Shabbos of Boro Park, spending each Thursday night delivering food to dozens of families who didn’t have the means to buy what they needed.

Yanky was a chaplain in multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Port Authority Police, NJ Transit Police, the Office of the Medical Examiner of NYC, the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office, and was a senior NYPD Clergy Liaison, as well.

Yanky was trusted by all, including every NYC mayor and NYPD commissioner since the days of Rudy Giuliani, as well as high-ranking officials in the NYPD, FDNY, and many other agencies. In a world often in turmoil, Yanky was a voice of reason, calm, and respect, and all admired him for that.

Yanky used his vast connections and contacts to prevent thousands of autopsies over the years and assist in bringing Jews to Kevuras Yisroel in a timely manner. In times of tragedy, Yanky z”l was always leading the restoration of stability, and he had a unique knack for informing families of the sudden loss of a loved one with care and sensitivity, somehow managing to provide a measure of comfort even when people were in their deepest pain.

Chinese Restaurant Owner Duped Mashgichim and Admitted to Feeding Customers Treif

 

A new statement from the OK hashgacha says that the proprietor of Kosher Chinese Express in Manalapan intentionally sold treif to his customers. Just a few days ago, we reported that OK Kosher has pulled their certification of Kosher Chinese Express in Manalapan, NJ, after damning video emerged of the eatery’s proprietor buying treif meat and chickens at a nearby wholesale store.

OK Kosher has completed an extensive investigation into the events at Kosher Chinese Express in Manalapan, New Jersey. Kosher Chinese Express intentionally violated its obligation to the kosher consumer despite OK Kosher’s having assigned multiple Mashgichim Temidim to this restaurant.

These Mashgichim Temidim were the only people who had keys to the restaurant, refrigerators, and freezers.

Queen Elizabeth’s long, complex relationship with the British Jewish community

 

Queen Elizabeth II, who sat on the throne for 70 years until her death on Thursday, enjoyed a long and warm relationship with the British Jewish community, from her ascension to the throne in 1952 through her final years.

In May 1952, just several months after the death of her father, King George VI, the queen met with the British chief rabbi and leaders of the British Jewish community. A month later, Jewish officials – as well as the Israeli ambassador – were present at her official coronation at Westminster Abbey.

Marking her platinum jubilee in June, Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews umbrella group, wrote that Queen Elizabeth has “been a rock for the nation” and has cultivated “a long history of involvement with the Jewish community.”

On the same occasion, British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis praised the queen’s “70 glorious years of leadership” and lauded “her humility, her sense of duty, the service that she gives to the nation [and] her selflessness.”