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Friday, August 5, 2011

Rabbis Ban I Pod !

With the heading "Daas Torah" in large bold letters, 54 Rabbis banned the I Pod and the MP4 even if it contains words of torah! 
Amongst the signers is of course  Rabbi Moishe Green, who will sign any ban.
The ban basically states that it is prohibited to buy or sell any of the above mentioned devices and even to hear "words of torah." 
They also warn sellers not to sell or load these devices with words of torah even if it is for a Mitzvah...
Nowhere in the ban does it state that it is prohibited to molest and sodomize children!
(Hat tip: Failed Messiah)



Medical Study: You can be fat, not exercise & drink and smoke and you can still live to be 100 years old!



Academics studied almost 500 people between 95 and 109 and compared them with over 3,000 others born during the same period.
They found those who lived extremely long lives ate just as badly, drank and smoked just as much, took just as little exercise and were just as likely to be overweight as their long-gone friends.
The study was carried out by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who interviewed 477 very long lived Ashkenazi Jews.
Prof Nir Barzilai, director of the college's Institute of Ageing Research, said previous studies of this group had identified certain genes which protected them from the effects of a normal Western lifestyle.
This research, published today (Wednesday) in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, indicates it really is the genes that matter.
He explained that this study provided evidence that these and other "longevity genes" helped "to buffer them against the harmful effects of an unhealthy lifestyle".
He said the first woman he interviewed, an 109-year-old, told him she had smoked 40 cigarettes a day for 90 years. While most people would have died of lung cancer or heart disease, she soldiered on.
Prof Barzilai emphasised that the research did not mean most people could live unhealthy lives and not expect to pay a price in the end.
He said: "Although this study demonstrates that centenarians can be obese, smoke and avoid exercise, those lifestyle habits are not good choices for most of us who do not have a family history of longevity.

Nine Days Are Almost over: How to cook a "Roasted Ribeye" Video


69% Say Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research



The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-two percent (22%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
The number of adults who say it’s likely scientists have falsified data is up 10 points from December 2009 .
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009. One in four (25%) believes scientists agree on global warming. Another 18% aren’t sure.
Republicans and adults not affiliated with either major political party feel stronger than Democrats that some scientists have falsified data to support their global warming theories, but 51% of Democrats also agree.

Levi Aron Pleads Not Guilty In Kletzky Murder. Suspect Fit For Trial! Asked for not Kosher food during initial questioning!




Despite the alleged confession, police and prosecutors say they are continuing to work on verifying Aron's horrific and bizarre explanation for the boy's death. It remains unclear why Aron would have taken the child in the first place.
The medical examiner's office said the boy was given a cocktail of prescription drugs. But Aron's confession didn't mention that, and he denied ever tying up the boy.
The suspect was asked if he wanted a kosher meal. "No, I'll eat anything," he replied, according to the documents. They considered McDonald's before settling on Chinese food.
Before the arraignment, State Assemblyman Dov Hikind told reporters that the victim's family and community were still coming to grips with the gruesome slaying.
"The idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable," Hikind said. "He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed."
A pretrial hearing was set for Oct. 14.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Heat of the "Three Weeks" by guest blogger Hannah Greenberg



Fire purifies. Fire destroys. Fire is iconic of the ‘Three Weeks,’ a time of devastation, and, B’ezrat Hashem, also of renewal.
More profound than our giving up shoes on Tish B’Av, more significant than our foregoing meat during the Nine Days, more important than our refraining from music during the period of time lasting from the Fast of Tammuz through the Fast of the 9th of Av, in fact, more weighty than any other basic aspect of this time of grief, of profound loss, is our need to be more open minded toward each other.
Consider that following that other time of narrowness, our slavery in Egypt, we were emancipated, and, somehow, we merited both to receive the Torah and to enter Eretz Yisrael, thereafter. This time, in contrast, we think that the best we can do is to pray for the fulfillment of our lives as that fulfillment would be manifest in the establishment of the Third Temple and in the arrival of Moshiach. Nonetheless, we forget that last time our restrictions were not self-imposed and our passage through the straits resembled the helpful squeezing that occurs during childbirth. This time, quite the opposite is true. By dint of our self-serving values, we caused the walls to close in on us. This time, on the contrary, we will be fortunate if our journey through our self-wrought tightness does not destroy us.

Our legacy of baseless hatred, of judging without cause, of casting ourselves apart from others among us, brought about the contemporary pressures from which we now suffer.
In associating ourselves with strata, with separateness, with the types of dissonance that gets called up by categorizing ourselves as “them” and “us,” we destroyed not only Hashem’s physical house in the Old City, i.e.  the Temple, but we laid waste, also, to the holy places within ourselves. 
When we elevated the act of making comparisons and contrasts to a place of merit, we, in turn, downgrade our souls to a place of shadows.


Now, that is, during this time/space, which we occupy, only the breaking open of our hearts, only the revealing of our most vulnerable depths, only our subsequent experiencing of grief can restore us to light, to thresholds higher than those of the status quo, can pull us up to our potential. Such an aliyah is not a matter of our merely integrating our learning into words, but is a matter of our weaving our words into deeds and our deeds into habits.
It’s no longer sufficient for us to claim championship because we have managed to guard our thoughts from unrestrained fantasy or have otherwise rid our minds of whimsy. Contemplation count, it just doesn’t count enough to bring us to the next level. Rather, simultaneous with any private designs, we might collectively construct, out of our ideations, acts of loving kindness. As an entire people, we must grow choices that are comprehensive, we must elect intentionality that brings accord, we must make efforts to behave in ways that celebrate all of us, that leaves none among our tribes, behind.
Such goals can feel unrealistic; it is one thing to claim to love the Klal, another to hold ourselves back from casting dispersions on other Jews and on other interpretations of Jewish activities, especially when we don’t understand or like existent alternatives. And yet, it is required of us to appreciate, as we claim we do during the three festivals, Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot, as we symbolize by gathering together four very different species, by referring to four very different sons, and by pointing to the whole of the generation of the miracles on Har Sinai, that, specifically, without some portion of our people we are lacking.
To bring Moshiach and the Third Temple, exactly, and to cover ourselves with unprecedented peace, more generally, we must urge and help all other Jews to join with us. We must make and sanctify social inclusivity. We must get beyond present interpersonal restrictions, and, in doing so, built a comfortable channel for The Boss’s Goodness. Only our improvement of our relations with other Jews will bring our rescue. Else wise, we will continue to fail to overcome our current, overwhelming existential tightness. There can be no wishing away of it.
This daunting goal, what’s more, is a necessary vision. Without it, we risk remainingaliened from Hashem and from all of His higher spheres. We chance that the cosmic reflection of our earlier alienation of our brethren will continue to be both the cause and the ongoing means of our ban from all things beneficent, from all things that truly matter.
Despite our life circumstance, it is the nature of the universe for us to be pressed upon. It is our merit, though, to determine whether or not those forces, most of all the unpleasant ones, will merely seem, or actually be, exerted upon us, and whether or not those weights result in good, or, has v’shalom, its opposite, in our lives. It is our decision whether or not we escape the void, the spiritual exile, whether or not we continue to have difficulties because we have failed to heal the psychic hurts we laid upon ourselves.
It is in our power to reduce the amount of pain we endure before our final healing. We can propagate actions that bring about unity, understanding, and, ultimately, transcendence. We can burn in intense devotion to each other, in the mitzvot bein adam l’chaveiro. We can herald an era of harmony and of good fortune if we apply ourselves to do so.
Hannah Greenberg bloggs on the Jerusalem Post Blog

America's got talent! Team Iluminate!


R" Amnon Yitzchok blames the murder of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira on haredi singers and songs that he feels are improper!


R' Amnon (left), R' Abuhatzeira Z"L (right)
Rav Amnon Yitzchok arrived at his theory by using  gematria (numerology) . The gematria of the name of the murderer is 560, the gematria of the word "songs" is 560, and the "Siman" in Shulchan Aruch that prohibits songs is 560.
He added and I will loosely translate it after the Hebrew: Parentheses are ours:

"כיון שהצדיק היה מקפיד בעניינים אלה, יש לנו מסר גדול, שצריכים להתחזק בעניינים האלה של קדושה וצניעות וטהרה, ובפרט ב'גזירת החורבן' - לא לשמוע שירים אסורים ופסולים מזמרים פסולים ואסורים כל ימות השנה. גם לא מזמרים כשרים כל ימות השנה, רק במועדים שהתירה ההלכה. אין מסר יותר ברור מזה".
"ואדם שמקל בזה", הוסיף הרב אמנון יצחק, "אם יתברר שאני צודק במה שאני אומר, יתבעו אותו בשמים על סילוקם של הצדיקים. תזכרו את הדברים שאמרתי ואולי יהיה לנו שכל לשוב בתשובה סופסוף לפני הצונאמי שיגיע, כי הצונאמי ביפן ובהאיטי זה כלום לעומת סילוק של צדיק".
"Since this rightous man (R' Abuhatzeira) was very strict with these issues, there is a very strong message in his death that we have to be careful  in matters of Tznius .... especially after the ancient Rabbis decreed after the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash, not to listen  to any prohibitive music throughout the year and even Kosher music throughout the year. One can only hear music at holidays... and there is nothing clearer than this.
And any person that takes this rule lightly, is and will be responsible for the death of the Tzadikim. Remember my words and do tesuvah before the Tsunami hits us.  The tsunami that hit Japan and Haiti is nothing compared to the death of the Righteous."
Dus iz nies:
560 is also the gematria of the following word in hebrew: לישועה ולנחמה which actually translates to "salvation and comfort" so I have no idea how this would fit into his equation..
560 is also the gematria of רננו צדיקים ..."the rightous shall sing" this gematria actually contradicts his theory.... but who am I to say??????????


Wednesday, August 3, 2011

UPDATE!!!! Desperate battle to defuse collar bomb hung round neck of girl, 18, 'being held to ransom' at multi-million pound mansion: Video



* Balaclava-clad intruder 'broke in and attached bomb and note to girl'
* Shaken parents outside house haven't spoke to their daughter yet

* Family is one of Sydney's wealthiest with mansion in exclusive street

* Bomb officers investigating other 'items' in house

* 'Life of young girl potentially at risk', say police
* Bomb is proving a 'tough nut to crack'




Four bomb squad officers have entered a house in a wealthy suburb of Sydney where a terrified teenage girl has had an explosive device strapped to her body by a balaclava-clad intruder.
Police said a 'delicate operation' was taking place in a property in the suburb of Mosman where wealthy families including bankers, stockbrokers, sports personalities and company directors live.
A senior police officer described the device as an unusual 'collar bomb', which has never been seen before in Australia, but an exact description has yet to be officially given.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021874/Teenage-girl-mansion-Australia-bomb-ransom-note-strapped-her.html#ixzz1TyJQqOun

Update!!!!!!!!!!5:10 New York Time




After 10 hours, police in a wealthy suburb of Sydney released a teenager involved in a bomb scare. Police refused to confirm media reports that the teenager had been strapped to an explosive device in an apparent extortion attempt.
Update at 3:30 p.m. ET: Assistant Police Commissioner Mark Murdoch said the British armed forces were contacted, because they had experience with the device, described as a collar bomb, The Australian  says. Police reportedly have X-rayed the intact device and are analyzing its components before attempting to defuse it.
Murdoch said the 18-year-old girl, Madeleine Pulver, was kept in an "uncomfortable position" during the ordeal and was taken to hospital for evaluation early Thursday,The Daily Telegraph reports.
Madaline Pulver 18 year old 

The reason why the Jewish People lost respect for their leaders .... they are constantly in courts and not in Bais Din!

Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum

Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum

Mordechai Tendler
Torah leaders constantly preach to their naive flock that a Jew who has a conflict with another Jew, should resolve their issues in a Bais Din. The leaders themselves do not listen to their own sermons and refuse to follow Torah law. Take for example Mordechai Tendler of New Hempstead, who constantly admonished his kehillah to follow our holy Torah and resolve their perspective issues in a Jewish Bais Din "al pi Torah."Mordechai Tendler as of this writing is in secular court suing his former Kehillah for back pay, because they fired him for having sexual affairs with members of his own congregation. Tendler did in fact subpoena his kehilah to a Bais Din but then refused to show up. Tendler is now suing google to identify the various bloggers  for reporting the truth that he had multiple affairs.
And now we have two Chassidic Rabbis suing each other in Secular Court to determine who the leader of the Satmar Chassidim is. 
Read Reuters

The succession battle between two brothers to be the leader of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect is back in the courts.
The brothers, Zalman and Aaron Teitelbaum, have been fighting for years in religious and state civil courts to determine who should head the Satmar wing of Hasidic Judaism. The Teitelbaums' father, Moses, was the long-time Satmar boss, but he died without naming a successor.
Aaron Teitelbaum governs Kiryas Joel, a town about 60 miles from New York City. The largely Yiddish-speaking town was founded in the 1970s and its residents strictly observe Jewish religious rules.
Zalman Teitelbaum runs a similiar Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City.
The latest development in the fraternal battle was sparked by a group of Zalman's supporters who live in Kiryas Joel. They have accused Kiryas Joel of running a repressive theocracy and asked a federal judge to dissolve the self-governing community.
In court papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, a Kiryas Joel offical who stands accused by the angry residents said the legal fight was a tactic to change the town's leadership.
"Plaintiffs ... attempt through this case to drag Moses Witriol ... into the middle of their dispute concerning leadership," Witriol, the town's director of public safety, said in court filings.
In an amended complaint filed last month, the Zalman Teitelbaum supporters said Kiryas Joel officials selectively enforced laws and discriminated against them because of their religious beliefs. They asked U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who is presiding over the case, to direct New York State to dissolve the municipality.
The case is Kiryas Joel Alliance et al. v. Village of Kiryas Joel et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-3982.

Author of "Hush" is Judy Brown, Daughter of the Publisher of Hamodia

We have been recommending this book ever since we started this blog.... this book should be required reading for all frum parents.....
It's time to admit that we as a frum community have severe problems with abuse, and it's time to deal with it..
We are supporting Judy Brown for "outing" herself! We admire her courage!
Read Judy's words
"Six months after my book, "Hush," came out, my publisher and I began receiving threats in the mail intended to intimidate us for daring to expose these unspeakable truths about my beloved community. The message was clear: I had violated the rule that said victims must protect the community from their own crimes. Now, I would pay.



For too long we have tiptoed around our flaws with fear and caution, pushing them into the shadows in hopes they will disappear. For too long, victims have been made to be the villains, and abuse was calledloshon harah, evil talk. For too long, we have refused to honestly discuss the horrific possibilities, and in doing so allowed our children to fall victim to them. And for too long, I have allowed my own fear to make me part of a wall of silence -- guilty for what I had seen, guilty for what I had written.
I refuse to continue to allow that fear to force me into hiding over a book that should have been written long ago. I no longer want to be known only as Eishes Chayil when my name is Judy Brown. I must find the courage to stand with the victims who carry the burden of our silence for the rest of their lives.
I originally wrote my book under a pseudonym to protect my family and friends from community retribution, but so far we have only hurt ourselves. Maybe now, because of Leiby's tragedy, things will change. Maybe now, we will finally teach our children what we should have taught them years ago: morality has no garb!"
Read more:

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Bachelorette Show: Jewish Boy from Long Island, J.P. Rosenbaum gets final rose


J.P. Rosenbaum, a Jewish construction manager from New York, received the final rose from The Bachelorette, Ashley Hebert, a Christian girl.
Rosenbaum got down on one knee and proposed to Hebert during the ABC dating reality show's two-hour season finale Monday night.
Rosenbaum had been favored to get the final rose from the 26-year-old dental student.
Hebert said during the "After the Rose" special following the finale that she would move in with Rosenbaum in New York City after she finishes dental school next month. No wedding date has been set.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Monsey: Police Ask Other Victims To Come Forward In Child Abuse Case In Monsey


Shmuel Dym

Rockland County, NY - A Monsey man was arrested last Friday and charged with sexually abusing at least one child.
Ramapo police say 31-year-old Shmul Dym is facing two counts each of first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree course of sexual conduct for contact with an individual less than 11 years old, both felonies.

Dym was arraigned and released on $30,000 cash bail. He surrendered his passport to the court.
At this time, no further information regarding the case will be released to protect the victims. If any other person feels they may have been victimized, they are encouraged to contact the Ramapo Police.


Muslim Fathers kills 6 Daughters in Islamic "honor killing"



" He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to," Police Inspector Javed Sial.

FAISALABAD:
A man gunned down six of his daughters on suspicion that two of them were in relationships with boys in the neighbourhood.
On Tuesday morning, Arif Mubashir called his teenage daughters to his room and shot them while the rest of the family, including their mother, watched. His wife Musarrat called the police after the incident.
Mubashir shot the girls after their brother said two of them were in a relationship. He told police officials that he had killed his daughters because they were both “without honour”. The man said his daughters Sameena, 14, and Razia, 16, were in a relationship with college boys from the neighbourhood and the sisters had helped each other. “I should have been told immediately but the girls sided with each other. They were both corrupt,” Mubashir told Tandlianwala Police Inspector Javed Sial.
Police officials have taken Mubashir into custody and filed a case against him. “He does not regret what he did. He boasted that he would do it all over again if he had to,” Sial told reporters.
Pakistan has repeatedly been termed as one of the least women-friendly countries. In June, the Thompson Reuters Foundation ranked Pakistan as the world’s third most dangerous country for women.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 27th, 2011.

Murderer of Rav Abuhatzeira, "I kissed his hand before killing him"


Asher Dahan


The murderer of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, the Kabbalah rabbi grandson of the Babi Sali Thursday says he kissed the rabbi’s hand before stabbing him. “I don't know what devil or Satan got into me” at the moment of the murder.
Asher Dahan, who is in police custody, told the Hebrew-languageMaariv newspaper, “I respect Rabbi Abuhatzeira and depend on him for everything. He was everything for me. I worshipped him.”
Dahan murdered the rabbi, grandson of the renowned “Baba Sali” Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira,” in his conference room later Thursday night.
“Every time I left the rabbi, I had a feeling of happiness and joy,” Dahan told police investigators. He gave me hope there is a solution to everything in life, and I never tight for a moment that perhaps he was wrong.
Dahan had consulted Rabbi Abuhatzeira several times lately concerning marital problems.
“There were problem between my wife and me,” Dahan explained. "I went often to the rabbi for advice, and he told me to do allsorts of things, but the situation only got worse. It caused me personal damage, and it reached point that I was afraid of a divorce.”
He described his actions after he entered the rabbi’s conference room without anyone stopping him or asking him any questions. Dahan waited to be the last one to see the rabbi so he could be alone with him.
“I kissed the rabbi’s hand and said a few words” after entering, Dahan related. "Seconds later, I took out the knife and stabbed him in his chest. He screamed and fell to the floor.”

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Shomrim's Policy of discouraging a Jewish Victim from going to Police, violates Federal Civil Rights Statutes!

Chaim Deutsch Flatbush Shomrim Founder shows off his $250,000 "mobile security commans center"


In an article in today's New York Post,  reporter Michael Lesher writes that Shomrim received $130,000.00 in taxpayer money yet refuse to follow New York's mandatory reporting statute. 
Jewish vigilante groups like Shomrim, unskilled and ill-equipped for police work, and all too often driven by religious prescriptions to keep their community’s crimes out of the public eye, are being paid to interfere with the authorities by New York City taxpayers — through the generous offices of some City Council members.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/orthodox_cops_separate_and_unequal_KC3tF7T2mdzkNO7AQ03mIJ#ixzz1TgxyB6Kz

Friday, July 29, 2011

"Obama is a loser" "Nobody loves Obama" : Peggy Noonan


I want to talk about something that started to become apparent to me during the debt negotiations. It's something I've never seen in national politics.
It is that nobody loves Obama. 
This is amazing because every president has people who love him, who feel deep personal affection or connection, who have a stubborn, even beautiful refusal to let what they know are just criticisms affect their feelings of regard. At the height of Bill Clinton's troubles there were always people who'd say, "Look, I love the guy." They'd often be smiling—a wry smile, a shrugging smile. Nobody smiles when they talk about Mr. Obama. There were people who loved George W. Bush when he was at his most unpopular, and they meant it and would say it. But people aren't that way about Mr. Obama. He has supporters and bundlers and contributors, he has voters, he may win. But his support is grim support. And surely this has implications.
Read More in the Wall Street Journal

Disturbing Arab Propaganda Against the Jewish People! Video


New Trends in Arabic Anti-semitism from Henrik Clausen on Vimeo.