Yeshivah World Blog rules that Goldfish are not kosher

In their weekly Halacha Shiur,  
"Conducting Business with Non-Kosher Food" in the 
TheYeshivaworld blog the question came up if one can sell Goldfish? 

Their Ami-ratzehshe answer!

"the custom is that a Yid may sell goldfish etc since they are not sold to be eaten. "

Well, I got news for you guys:

Goldfish is a kosher fish, it has scales and fins (clearly seen in the photo), and is from the Carp Fish Family, and you can eat them too! Now What? 

Oh Oh! Dovid Hellman pleads guilty in Get Extortion Case! Is he talking?

A Brooklyn, NY, man admitted today in Trenton federal court to traveling to New Jersey in order to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce – referred to as a “get” – through threats of violence, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

David Hellman, 31, a personal trainer, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging him with traveling in interstate commerce to commit extortion. His bail conditions include a $500,000 bond and GPS monitoring.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

On Oct. 9, 2013, Hellman and a group of conspirators – including Jay Goldstein, 59, Moshe Goldstein, 31, Avrohom Goldstein, 34, Simcha Bulmash, 30, Ariel Potash, 40, Binyamin Stimler, 38, and Sholom Shuchat, 29 – traveled from New York to a warehouse in Edison, N.J., with the intent of forcing a Jewish man to give his wife a “get,” a divorce document which, according to Jewish Law, must be presented by a husband to his wife to effect their divorce.

Hellman admitted that when he arrived at the warehouse, the group met with an individual who, unbeknownst to them, was an undercover FBI agent posing as the husband’s brother in law. Hellman admitted that they discussed a plan and prepared to confine, restrain and threaten the victim.

The group was then arrested by a team of FBI agents and charged by criminal complaint – along with rabbis Mendel Epstein, 68, and Martin Wolmark, 55 – in connection with the scheme. Hellman is the first defendant to plead guilty; the charges against the alleged conspirators remain pending. All of the defendants reside in Brooklyn, except Potash and Wolmark, who live in Monsey, N.Y.

During his guilty plea proceeding, Hellman also admitted that on Aug. 22, 2011, he and others went to a residence in Brooklyn where they restrained, assaulted and injured a man in an attempt to extort a divorce from him. That conduct will be considered by the court during sentencing, currently scheduled for June 12, 2014.

Hellman faces a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.

The pending charges and allegations against related defendants are merely allegations, and they are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Aguda removes the words "Torah protects Eretz Yisroel" from Sunday announcement to please Satmar!

The Aguda announcement had the words

התורה מגינה ומצילה את ארץ ישראל

(The Torah Shields & Protects Eretz Yisroel)

But had to remove those words after a delegation of Agudah officials met with R' Aaron Teitelbaum, Monroe Satmar Rebbe, to invite him to the "Water Street" Yom Tefilah.

 R' Aaron said that those words are against the Satmar Shitah, since the "Torah doesn't protect the State of Israel!"

This is the new Announcement without those words!

Meanwhile, R' Aaron still didn't sign and hasn't as of this writing agreed to go! He is waiting to see what his brother, R' Zalman Leib is going to do!

US Jews selling out Israel!

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann Bachmann has accused American Jews of having “sold out Israel” by voting for President Obama in 2008 and 2012.


“The Jewish community gave him their votes, their support, their financial support,” Bachmann told Tony Perkins on the Family Research Center's radio channel, “and as recently as last week, 48 Jewish donors who are big contributors to the president wrote a letter...to the Democrat [sic] senators in the U.S. Senate to tell them to not advance sanctions against Iran.”

“This is clearly against Israel’s best interest,” Bachmann continued, “and what has been shocking has been seeing and observing Jewish organizations who it appears have made it their priority to support the political priority and the political ambitions of the president over the best interests of Israel.”

“They sold out Israel,” she concluded.


Slate.com says that Bachmann also described to Perkins her conviction that End Times, as predicted in the Bible, were coming. As proof, she pointed to Obama’s “threatening” of the Jewish state:

“The nations of the world will come against Israel and the scripture very specifically says all nations,” Bachmann said.

 “[F]or the United States, we don’t have that experience until recently under President Obama with the United States not standing with Israel.”

Seventy percent of Jewish American voters picked President Barack Obama when he ran for reelection in 2012. 

Obama Cuts Funds for Israel Missile Defense

It seems that the "shitah" of Obama and Satmar are identical! Both hate the State of Israel!

In the same week that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intercepted a Gaza-bound shipment of Syrian missiles from Iran, President Barack Obama is asking Congress to reduce U.S. funding for Israel's missile defense programs by $200 million, according to the Washington Free Beacon. 

In a press statement reacting to the news, Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks said: "Today, the Israelis captured a ship carrying missiles from Iran destined for Gaza and earlier this week a rocket fired from Gaza fell in the Ashkelon region of Israel. The threats to Israel are real, constant, and serious. This is clearly not the time to step back from our support of Israel and her defense. Yet President Obama proposes significantly cutting U.S. funding for joint missile defense projects with Israel at this dangerous time."

In the past, the White House and the Obama re-election campaign had used funding for Israeli missile defense as a talking point to fend off criticism of his confrontational policies towards Israel, arguing that President Obama has achieved unprecedented security cooperation with the Israeli military.

Rabbi Dovid Weinberger had threatened someone with a lawsuit in secular court, No Bais Din for him!

The good Rabbi didn't like people talking about his philandering, so instead of going to Bais Din, Reb Dovid, the mechaber of a popular sefer, threatened to take him to secular court (ala Tendler), against the teachings of our Torah and against the first Rashi in Parshas Mishpatim!
So, who does he get to do his dirty work? His lap dog

David Seidemann, 

a lawyer who happens to be a congregant in Shaaray Tefilah, the shul in Lawrence that Rabbi Weinberger was a Rabbi before he got booted!
People in the 5 Towns have said that David Seidemann with his lady partner Mermelstein love when people get divorced so they can sink their claws into the necks and pockets of those unfortunate men who find themselves on the opposing side of the dispute.
Weinberger and Seidemann deserve each other!

"Woof Woof"  Seideman

Is G-D sending Us a Message? Jews being drafted in the Army but in UKRAINE!

If not in Israel, then in the Ukraine. 

Why is it that the Chareidim are always blaming the ladies for lack of tzniees when anything goes wrong!
Here you have a clear sign from above, that Jews ought to sign up for the IDF!
But here they will blame it on coincidence!

Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities received draft notices to report to the Ukrainian army draft center, according to a report in Maariv. 

Yeshiva students from multiple yeshivas in Kiev, including Chabad students, were told to report to the draft center, in response to the increasing tensions with Russia. 

But unlike in the IDF, Jewish soldiers in the Ukrainian army cannot get kosher food, cannot have beards, and must work on Shabbat – which is they day they clean the base. Some of the students are considering running away to Israel. The only question is, this time, will the Jews in the Ukraine decide to run away before it’s too late, or only after it’s too late.

What would happen if the Charedim joined the IDF?

Satmar now against Sunday's Massive Protest because they danced the "Penguin" Dance!

Satmar brainwashes their little children, with hate and a hatred for Hebrew!

Loose Translation: Our Comments in RED!

#9 Which language is one prohibited to speak?
Answer: Ivrit (Hebrew)
Only the Satmar Rebetizzin ( Aaron Teitelbaum's wife)is allowed to speak Hebrew with her sisters!

#10 What happens when one actually speaks Hebrew?
Answer: His Mazal gets contaminated!
(What about  the millions of Jews that speak Hebrew ? Are their Mazal's contaminated? How about the Mazal of the Gerrer Rebbe, Belzer Rebbe, Rav Ovadia Yosef and the thousands of holy Jews that speak Hebrew all the time.....what about their Mazal?)

#13 What does the Rebbe say in his book about the Kotel?
Answer: One is prohibited to go to the Kotel

#14 When will we be allowed to go to the Kotel?
Answer: When Moshiach will come!
(I don't think that  Satmar will ever be allowed to go to the Kotel, not if the Lubavitcher Rebbe will be Moshiach!)

As World Implodes, Obama Promises Action................Against Israel!

In a bombshell interview with Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg, President Obama issued his most direct public threats ever against Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

'Bibi’, the President all but said, ‘if you don’t accept the peace plan that my Secretary of State hasn't even released yet, you will ruin your country.’ The interview was released for publication almost the very moment as Netanyahu’s plane departed to meet with Obama in Washington.

In addition to droning on about the growing dangers posed by increasing Israeli settlement ‘expansion’, the "rights" of Palestinian refugees, the historic "moderation" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and the reasonableness of the Iranian regime, President Obama used the interview with Goldberg to issue ominous new threats and dire warnings against the Jewish state if it did not agree to accept his plan to shrink Israel back inside the 1949 armistice lines.

Obama tells Goldberg that it isn't really the Palestinians who need to change. It is Israel. Palestinian terrorism against Israeli civilians is essentially the result of steps Israel takes to prevent such terrorism. The best way to change the Palestinian Authority's incitement to – and celebration of blood curdling violence against Jews – is for Israel to change its housing policy. 

Nothing new here. This has been the President Obama's basic position since long before he ever ran for public office; and a position shared by most of the international community. 

What is new about Obama's latest interview are his threats. If Israel doesn't do what Obama decides Israel should do, then Israel should no longer expect the U.S. to support it: “If you see no peace deal and continued aggressive settlement construction – and we have seen more aggressive settlement construction over the past couple of years – if Palestinians come to believe that the possibility of a contiguously sovereign Palestinian state is no longer within reach, then our ability to manage the fallout is going to be limited.”

If Israel accepts that Obama knows best, that his proposed solutions to Israel's problems are superior to its own, then Israel will faced increased isolation and threats. On supporting Israel, Obama says: "It is getting harder every day". He explains that Israel faces 'increasing international isolation' because there is a "genuine sense on the part of a lot of countries that this issue continues to fester and that nobody is willing to take the leap to bring it to closure."

Back in January, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon was forced to publicly apologise for comments he made to an Israeli newspaper stating his belief that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's all-consuming efforts to forge an Israeli-Palestinian "peace agreement" might be born out of a "misplaced obsession and messianic fervor". His comments  provoked an unusually ferocious firestorm of outrage from both the White House and State Department. It was outrageous, the State Department and White House told the world in strikingly harsh language, for anyone to question the wisdom of John Kerry's unshakeable belief that "solving" the Israeli-Palestinian still remains the foremost challenge of U.S. foreign policy. Rarely, if ever, have administration officials used such sharp and pointed language towards the actions or statements of Iran or North Korea.

In the past four days, Russian forces have seized the Crimean Peninsula, another 150,000 troops are mobilizing on Ukraine's eastern border. North Korea successfully test fired two medium range ballistic missiles. Hundreds of Christian civilians in Nigeria have slaughtered by Islamist terrorists that Obama and Kerry have pressured the Nigerian government to 'accommodate'; UN nuclear inspectors reported that Iran is accelerating development of its nuclear program thus violating last November’s agreement with America. In our own hemisphere, Venezuela's leftist regime escalated its brutal crackdown against opposition protestors, Russia announced plans to establish permanent basis in Venezuela and Cuba. In response, President Obama intensifies his rhetoric against Israel.

Maybe it is time that somebody important demand that Moshe Ya'alon retract his apology? If anything, Ya'alon’s "misplaced obsession and messianic fervor" comments might now subject him to charges of 'understatement'.