Naomi Wolf, Self-Hating Jew suggests ISIS hostages are ACTORS and be-headings aren't real

Author Naomi Wolf suggests footage of hostages being beheaded by ISIS militants isn't real.

The 51-year-old Jewish American writer made a series of controversial statements questioning the authenticity of the footage in a number of messages on her Facebook page.

The initial post in which the feminist activist questions where the terror group are 'getting all these folks from' was deleted.

In another post, she also said that the Obama administration was sending troops to West Africa to confront the Ebola outbreak so they could return with the deadly infection - justifying a military takeover of Africa.  

Social media users quickly rounded on her with some suggesting her theories were 'crazy' while others said her views were 'harmful' and had disrespected the victims' families.

A video released on Friday appeared to show British hostage Alan Henning being beheaded by Jihadi John.

He is the fourth person to have been brutally murdered at the hands of the extremists, and a fifth, former Army ranger Peter Kaggis, has been threatened as the next victim. 

After making the controversial statements over the weekend, Wolf defended her actions saying she was criticizing the reporting of the story - suggesting the video had not been properly confirmed by two sources. 

The post, that was later taken down, said: 'OK two of the hostages just happened to go from long careers into the military to... sudden humanitarian work (same was true of the latest British hostage). Where are they getting all these folks from? 

'If someone is abducted there is a record with Amnesty and with Reporters without Borders. Can someone please confirm that these organizations have any record of this person having been abducted? 

'The NYT (New York Times) yesterday ran a depressingly sloppy editorial claiming that all the ISIS beheading videos must be real because 'there are so many of them on youtube'. 

'THAT's journalism? They also called ISIS 'evil' many times - which is not langauge of a news analysis, it is a theological category for some faiths and a Global War on Terror talking point... this may all be true but it takes five people to stage an event like this - two to be 'parents' - two to pose for the cameras... one in a ninja outfit... and one to contact the media that does not bother checking who ANY of these four other people are...' 

During the social media backlash, Mark Boothroyd said: 'Don't insult these people who have given their lives for humanitarian work.

'The activities of all these people have been well documented over the years. They are known people with families and friends who have supported them. Stop spreading conspiracy theories.'

In her most recent post, the author has said that she stands by what she wrote 

Bnei Brak Bochrim Cause Huge Chilul Hashem Shouting at Soldiers that Protected them during the War..

During the last war, the Yeshivah Bochrim that reside in Bnei Brak and learn in Ashdod and Ashkelon, fled for their lives and ran, tripping over their shoe laces, to return to their comfortable homes in Bnei Brak. 
So this week a group of IDF Chiloniem wanted a glimpse of Torah Life; they were met with abuse and scorn from these very ingrates! 
Some Bnei Brak residents got fed up with these parasites, and slapped the Bochrim, which caused a ruckus!
The IDF guys left abruptly after having seen what Torah education is all about!
Shame on the mothers that gave birth to these mammals!

Soldiers and officers from the IDF Homefront Command visited Bnei Brak. They were not warmly welcomed to put it mildly.

The scene was one of violence at the intersection of Rav Shach and Rav Kotler Streets in Bnei Brak on Sunday evening 11 Tishrei. A group of IDF soldiers arrived near the Itzkowitz Shul, part of a tour of the city, for many of the military personnel, their first and only exposure to the Torah city and frum Jewry. A group of yeshiva bochrim began shouting at the soldiers.

The response from passersby was not supportive, and some actually struck the bochrim for their distasteful reaction to the soldiers’ presence. Things got rough for a period of time and the group become confrontational. B”H at some point the situation calmed down and the group of IDF soldiers left the area.

Residents were pained and angered and the unwanted response of the bochrim, whom they said caused a terrible Chilul Hashem with their actions and words. They explained that instead of showing the soldiers the fine side of Torah life they left with an awful impression of frum Jewry.

Sukkah Building Tragedy: Man Falls and Dies in Modi'in Illit

A man in his thirties fell from a sixth floor balcony Monday night on Sha'agat ha-Arie Street in Modi'in Illit. 

United Hatzalah medics provided him with first aid treatment on the scene, and from there he was taken to the hospital in severe condition, where he later died of his injuries. 

Samuel Rosengarten, head of United Hatzalah in Modi'in Illit, said "This is a man who was in the middle of building a sukkah on the balcony of his home. He fell from his home on the 6th floor to the 4th floor. 

Volunteers gave him first aid health treatment. When they reached the scene the man was unconscious and severely bruised all over his body. After administering first aid, volunteers took him to the hospital in critical condition."

he United Hatzalah organization has repeatedly warned those engaging in preparations for Sukkot be careful and act according to the safety rules for fear of disasters or injuries. 

White House Upset that Netanyahu allows Jews to build in Israel

What's up with this Obama? 

Why can't a Jew build in Israel? Are they insane? Upset because Netanyahu allows Jews to build in their own country?

I understand the EU is against Jews living in parts of Israel; they were also against Jews living in Europe. 

The Euro-Pishers are responsible of millions and millions of Jews being slaughtered over 2 thousand year period. Anti-Semitism is in their cursed blood. But America??

If we Jews would all be united, we could, as a group tell the USA to back off, but unfortunately, we have our own groups, like Peace Now, Reform Rabbis, J Street, self-hating Jews, bleeding heart liberals and Satmar that agree with this ludicrous idea that parts of Israel should be Judenrein!

We make asifas against the internet, and asifas against serving in the Jewish army, and thousands show up, but no one wants to make an asifa when Israel is under attack!

Last week there was a local election in the Monsey, Spring Valley, New Hempstead areas, and it was a referendum on whether the residents are in favor of the "Ward System." 

To make a long story short, if the "Ward System" would be put in place, the Heimishe Oilim would have less influence in the running of the Town! If there would be less influence, the local zoning laws would be enforced and the Yiddilich wouldn't be able to place 40 families in a single family home!

So Agudath Israel of America got involved with local Monsey politics, to guarantee that people come and vote against the "Ward System." 

Where the are they now? Is the blood of Jews living in Israel less valued than the blood of Monsey Jews?

In Monsey its "Pikuach Nefesh" to allow 1,000 people to live on one block, but it's not "Pikuach Nefesh" to have more housing in Israel?

Do you know my friends, that if a goy in Israel is ready to sell a house in Israel, and he wants to go to contract on Shabbos, there is a mitzvah, yes, a mitzvah to be Mechalel Shabbos and go to contract on Shabbos! Absolutely!!!

This is paskened L'halacha!

Jerusalem is under Israeli rule. As such it can build. There's nothing else to it. It's not like they're building in Ramallah or any other town that is under Arabic rule. 

Maybe the U.S. Should stop building in California,Texas, New Mecico or any other land that Mexico lost in the war! I'm sure the Mexicans would love their land back! The Arabs were dumb enough to start a war with Israel and lost their part of Jerusalem. That's just too bad! 

Bottom line: when America stops building in Texas Israel will stop in Jerusalem.

The White House rejected criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a withering response on Monday, accusing him of refusing to acknowledge how much help the United States has been to Israel over the years.

A long-time split between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu appeared to widen further after the Israeli leader’s visit to the White House last week.

Netanyahu, on the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday, said U.S. criticism of an Israeli move for a new Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem was “against American values.”

At his daily briefing, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said: “It did seem odd for him to try to defend the actions of his government by saying our response did not reflect American values.

“The fact is American policy has been clear and unchanged under several administrations, both Democrat and Republican.”

Earnest added: “We oppose any unilateral actions that attempt to prejudge final status issues including the status of Jerusalem. These can only be legitimately determined through direct negotiations through the parties that this president has worked hard to try to facilitate.”

“Jews of no religion” are on a fast track to leaving the Jewish people altogether. New PEW POLL!

That's the bad news, but there is good news too, Read!

The new Jewish year opened with some encouraging Jewish news: 

According to aPew Research poll cited by NPR last week, more than a quarter of the so-called millennial generation of American Jews now keeps kosher, almost double the percentage among their parents’ generation. 

This isn’t because Orthodox Jews have more children; as the NPR report noted, many millennial kashrut observers didn’t grow up in kosher homes. Nor have they become Orthodox themselves: 

The Pew data shows that only half of kashrut-observant millennials observe Shabbat. But by deciding to keep kosher they have opted for a more distinctly Jewish identity – and that’s good news for anyone who cares about either American Jewry or Israel.

 

For decades now, soaring intermarriage rates and growing disinterest in organized religion have raised fears regarding the future of American Jewry. Indeed, the same 2013 Pew poll that NPR quoted greatly reinforced these fears: Inter alia, it found that while 93 percent of Jews born in 1914-27 consider themselves “Jews by religion,” that is true for only 68% of millennials, or people born after 1980; the remaining 32% of millennials define themselves as “Jews of no religion.” 

And by every conceivable measure, “Jews of no religion” are bad news for both the Jewish people and Israel. 

 

A whopping 67%, for instance, raise their children “not Jewish,” compared to only 7% for Jews by religion, while 79% have non-Jewish spouses, more than double the 36% among Jews by religion. Fully 54% say being Jewish is of little or no importance to them, more than five times the rate among Jews by religion (10%); 55% feel little or no attachment to Israel, more than double the rate among Jews by religion (23%); and only 10% care about being part of a Jewish community, less than a third the rate among Jews by religion (33%).

 

In short, “Jews of no religion” are on a fast track to leaving the Jewish people altogether. Thus anyone who cares about American Jewry’s survival should be rooting for young Jews to become more attached to the Jewish religion. 

 

And millennials who opt to keep kosher are necessarily doing exactly that, because keeping kosher requires them to recommit to Judaism every day anew: Day after day they must decide what to eat or not eat, what to buy or not buy. Thus the fact that 27% of American Jews aged 18-29 keep kosher, up from 16% among the 50+ group, is a ray of light in the otherwise gloomy Pew data. 

 

It’s also encouraging with regard to a related worry: that young American Jews are growing away from Israel. The Pew data unequivocally proves that the more American Jews care about Judaism, the more likely they are to care about Israel. That’s why Jews by religion deem caring about Israel “essential” to their Jewish identity at more than double the rate of Jews of no religion (49% to 23%). 

Moreover, that's why even among Jews by religion, the proportion who consider caring about Israel “essential” generally correlates closely with attachment to traditional Jewish praxis, rising from 31% among nondenominational Jews to 42% for Reform, 58% for Conservative and 79% for modern Orthodox (the ultra-Orthodox are anomalous; at 45%, they resemble Reform Jews).  

 

This correlation was inadvertently highlighted by a front-page New York Times story last month in which rabbis who criticize Israel complained about congregational backlash. “Rabbis are just really scared because they get slammed by their right-wing congregants, who are often the ones with the purse strings,” 

Conservative Rabbi Jill Jacobs said. She didn’t bother analyzing that telling statement, but I will: Major synagogue donors, by definition, are people who care deeply about maintaining organized Jewish religious life. And those are precisely the people who, as the Pew data shows, tend to be most supportive of Israel, and hence most likely to object to anti-Israel sermons.

 

Even Peter Beinart, who has made a career out of blaming Israeli policy for “distancing” young American Jews from Israel, admitted in a surprising pre-Rosh Hashanah op-ed that the main culprit is actually their alienation from religion. 

“The greatest threat to Jewish life in the United States is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s religious illiteracy,” he wrote, before adding that, “the best way to ensure that American Jews stay connected to Israel is to ensure that they stay connected to Judaism ... If you care deeply about Jewish tradition, you’re likely to care deeply about Israel,” whereas if you’re indifferent to the Bible and the synagogue and Jewish holidays, “you’re likely to be indifferent to Israel too.”

 

Thus the fact that some young American Jews are becoming more attached to Judaism offers hope for their attachment to Israel as well. 

 

It’s also worth noting, as Mitchell Bard did last month, that decades of Gallup polling among Americans overall show a tendency for people to become more supportive of Israel as they age. In 1982, for instance, 49% of Americans aged 18-29 sympathized with Israel more than the Palestinians; today, when those same people are 55+, 74% of them support Israel. In 1996, 32% of 18 to 29-year-olds favored Israel; today, those people are aged 36-47, and 58% of them do so. 

 

Why this happens isn’t clear, though I suspect moving from the left-wing hotbed of college campuses to the real world plays a role. But assuming American Jews resemble other Americans in this regard, one would expect millennials to become more supportive of Israel as they age regardless of their Jewish identity. When you combine this with a salient indicator of enhanced Jewish identity like increased kashrut observance, the widespread assertion that Israel is “losing” the millennial generation seems, at least, premature.

 

None of this justifies complacency: If we want to ensure that young Jews remain attached to the Jewish people and Israel, investing in their knowledge of and attachment to Judaism is vital. But as the upsurge of kashrut observance among millennials shows, it’s not yet too late. For far from losing interest in being Jewish, some young American Jews are clearly hungry for a Judaism with more to offer than just the latest liberal talking points. 

Evelyn Gordon is a journalist and commentator. Follow her on twitter here.

Single Girl Solves "Shidduch Crisis" Marries Herself!

Grace Gelder throws the bridal bouquet

A woman so fed up with the dating scene and single life has become the first person in Britain to marry HERSELF.

Grace Gelder even 'proposed' to herself on a park bench and staged a full wedding ceremony with 50 guests.

The photographer said that after being single for six years she had built up a brilliant relationship with herself - and creating that bond with someone else seemed like too much hard work.

Inspired by the Björk song Isobel, which includes the line, 'My name's Isobel, married to myself', the Londoner said the lyric struck a chord with her and it was then she decided to walk solo down the aisle.

From proposing to herself on the park bench in Parliament Hill, London, last November, right through to the ceremony in mid-March this year, the matrimony was approached like an ordinary wedding.

Grace bought a dress, a ring, rehearsed vows and eventually wed in a farmhouse in rural Devon watched by her sister and friends -sealing the deal by planting a kiss on a mirror.

Speaking to the Guardian, she said: "A few did comment, in a light-hearted way, that it was a bit narcissistic. Obviously, if you have just announced you’re marrying yourself, it is plainly a statement of self-love, and I was under no illusion how self-indulgent that might appear.

"But I was completely comfortable with my motivations. I’d been on a journey of personal development using meditation, dance and performance to increase my self-awareness.

"Included in this was a Shakti Tantra programme focused on sexuality and how this was bound up with making agreements with yourself and other people.

"Sitting on that park bench, it dawned on me that a self-marriage ceremony witnessed by other people would potentially be this massively powerful means of making those agreements stick."

Grace was wed by her friend Tiu - a celebrant - who backed her plans and said the deal would set her up for a new phase of life.

But Grace suffered a case of the pre-wedding jitters only a month before the big day and had to be convinced she was doing the right thing.

Although the wedding holds no legal ground, Grace is glad she is no longer a 'single' lady.

She added: "It felt like a really big deal saying my vows, which were mostly about me promising to take more risks in matters of the heart. I really don’t see it as any kind of feminist statement, but creating a wedding of this kind on my own terms felt incredibly empowering."

Revised Map of New Square, if Jews would acquiesce and not live in 1 mile radius from New Square

Exclusive to DIN:

See new Spring Valley/New Hempstead Map, should New Square be successful with their "Judenrein" wish!

Map was drawn by a reader of DIN

This seems to be the first time since the Weimar Republic that someone is requesting in
"print" to have areas surrounding them, "Judenrein!"
At least 30 shuls are within that 1 mile radius.
Just a sampling of the shuls:
Cong Knesses Yisroel, Cong Kehilat New Hempstead, Rabbi Senter's Shul, Rabbi Teichman's Shul, Cong Ohaiv Shalom, Rabbi Spiegal's shul, Rabbi Neuberger's shul etc

There is no word yet, how Jews will be able to travel on the Palisaides Parkway, which is within the 1 mile radius, as indicated on the above map!

Ben Affleck, clueless actor, defends Muslims Video

Ben Affleck, the Oscar-winning actor and director, has launched a ferocious defense of Islam, after becoming involved in a heated argument when he appeared on an American chat show.

Affleck, the star of Good Will Hunting and director of Argo, appeared on HBO’s television show Real Time with Bill Maher to promote his latest film, Gone Girl.

But instead of talking about the film, the 42-year-old found himself in a furious discussion with both Maher and Sam Harris, the author of a series of books on religion.

Maher, an outspoken atheist and critic of Islam, said last week in his show that “vast numbers of Muslims around the world believe that humans deserve to die for merely holding a different idea, or drawing a cartoon, or writing a book, or eloping with the wrong person.”

He said: “Not only does the Muslim world have something  in common with ISIS, it has too much in common with ISIS.”

Mr Harris said: “When you want to talk about the treatment of women and homosexuals and free thinkers and public intellectuals in the Muslim world, I would argue liberals have failed us.

“The crucial point of confusion is we have been sold this meme of Islamaphobia – where every criticism of the doctrine of Islam is conflated with bigotry towards Muslims as people. Which is intellectually ridiculous.”

Affleck was angered by his comments, questioning Harris’ interpretation.

“You are saying that Islamaphobia is not a real thing?” he said. “It’s gross, it’s racist. It’s like saying ‘that shifty Jew’.”

Harris replied: “Ben, we have to be able to criticize bad ideas. And Islam at this moment is the motherload of bad ideas.”

Affleck looked shocked, muttering “Jesus Christ!” under his breath and sitting back in his chair. He then responded, telling Harris: “That’s an ugly thing to say.”

Maher backed up the author, telling Affleck that he was wrong to state that fundamentalist beliefs were only held by “a few bad apples”.

Affleck countered: “How about the more than a billion people who aren't fanatical, who don’t punish women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and don’t do any of the things you say all Muslims do?”

When Michael Steele, a political analyst, attempted to support Affleck, arguing that many moderate Muslim voices were not given the same amount of coverage as extremist ones, he was shouted down by Maher.

“It’s the only religion that acts like the Mafia. That will ------- kill if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture or write the wrong book,” said Maher.

Affleck replied to his host: “Your argument is, ‘You know, black people, they shoot each other.’” Maher replied: “No it’s not! It’s based on facts!”

After ten minutes of fierce argument, Maher moved on – accepting that the panel would never see eye to eye.

People driving R' Chaim Kanievsky Nuts Motzei Yom Kippur

Here is a "zokin muflig," who fasted all day on Yom Kippur, and so what do the crazy followers do?
They shove an esrog at him to ask him if it's kosher!

I don't get it, don't we have a Shulchan Aruch that states what is a kosher esrog and what isn't? Aren't there countless books with photos depicting Kosher Esrogim and Posil Esrogim? 
They can't give this guy a break? 
Shoving esrogim at him???? 

Motzei Yom Kippur

Klausenberger - Sanz Rebbe looses consciousness during Yom Kippur Davening

The Rebbe of Sanz, a Chassidic dynasty, fainted during davening on the night of Yom Kippur, causing great anxiety among his followers.

Shortly before midnight Friday, his assistants noticed that he had lost consciousness and after he received initial care on the spot, he was evacuated on foot to the hospital.

His followers remained in the beit midrash all night, to say Tehillim for his recovery.

After receiving an IV drip during the night. He was released from hospital and back on his feet by morning, and continued to fast, leading the davening 

Followers of the rebbe estimate that the fainting was caused by the fact that the rebbe slept very little during the “Days of Awe” between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.

Gmar Chasima Tova

New Square Bais Din Begs Jews Not to Buy Houses within 1 mile of New Square to keep the "Shtetel" holy

The Bais Din Zedek D'Shikun Square, is requesting Jews to "not purchase any lots within a mile of New Square" to keep the community isolated so that the community stays "completely impervious to outside influences."

The first New Square Rabbi's, (who founded the community,) deepest desire was to have New Square be a "private corner in the world where the founding residents and their future generations would live according to the unique standards established by the Rebbe z"l" 

The Rebbe understood that it would be impossible to retain the same level of adherence to his legacy unless the Kehilla remained a separate entity and therefore he chose to establish his shtetl in such a secluded area. Only then, he felt, would his community remain almost completely secluded by any outside influences.

Because of the explosive growth and spread of the many communities around New Square, the Bais Din asks Jews to please uphold the "holy tzaddik's desire for his kehilla to retain its unique identity in complete isolation."  If the surrounding Jewish communities were to spread even further towards New Square , to the point of reaching the parameters of New Square, the "blurring of our borders would defeat the founding-purpose of the shtetl."

The Bais Din emphasizes that they legally have no right to demand this of anyone, but ask people to respect their wishes! 

  

Satmar Yiddish Newspaper Headlines Blame Zionists for Forbidding them to Beat their Chickens!

Dear readers,
 I'm getting loads of emails complaining about the fact  that I keep knocking the Satmar Yiddish Weeklies and that I'm spreading Loshon Hara  .....

Read the headlines yourself, and if you can't read yiddish, get someone that can. The ones spreading "Loshan Hara" are the Satmar newspapers themselves, I'm just translating and reporting back to you.
Instead of writing about the upcoming Yomim Toivim, they are busy with "pista maasis" bashing the holy State of Israel on every single opportunity!
They are upset that the Chilonie Government is concerned about "Tzaar Baalei Chayim" and they, with the long beards, who chap sherayim from the Rebbe's soup, don't care that chickens are being tortured by their little children and don't give a hoot, that the live chickens are broiling in the sun!

These papers  came out today, Erev Yom Kippur! 

Der Blatt

 The above headline reads: 
"The Evil (dark) Decree from the Heretic Government stop Jewish residents of Eretz Yisroel from carrying out their custom of beating chickens!

Dee Zeitung

 The above Headline reads:
The State of Israel prohibits the custom of Kapporis with the excuse that they (the government) are concerned for the health and pain (of the chickens)

Der Yid

The above Headline reads: 
Zionist Government attempts to stop the Chareidim from carrying out the minhag of "Kapporis" on Eseres Yemei Teshuvah

Now, in great contrast, see the Headlines of the Yated and The Jewish Press! 
So tell me, who are the ones lying, spreading Loshon Hara, and spewing hate on Erev Yom Kippur??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?

12 Year Old Eitan Bernath makes it on "Chopped" TV Food Show

While producers at the Food Network touted Tuesday night’s episode of Chopped as groundbreaking because of its pint sized chefs, the September 30th installment of the cable television cooking show also featured what might have been another landmark moment, with possibly the first ever yarmulka-clad chef making an appearance on the show.

While Chopped has featured teen tournaments in the past, all four of the mini-gourmands featured on Tusday’s episode were between ten and eleven years old when the show was filmed last spring

12 year old Eitan Bernath of Teaneck was one of four youngsters selected from thousands of applicants to appear on the popular reality show, an elimination style program which pits a quartet of chefs against each other preparing gourmet food with mystery ingredients, which range from the conventional to the bizarre.

Eitan, currently a seventh grader at Yavneh Academy in Paramus, professed a lifelong love of cooking, an interest that he began cultivating seriously at the age of nine and a half.

Eitan’s Chopped odyssey began last December when his father, Jason, received an email about a casting call for the cooking show.  Eitan and his mother, Sabrina, filled out the application on a whim and after an interview process that took several months, the Bernaths received word in March that Eitan had been selected to appear on the show. 

While the episode was filmed last April, the Bernaths were contractually obligated to remain silent about any and all details of the show until after it aired publicly.

“At first it was a little hard to keep it secret, but over time I just got used to it,” said Eitan 

Eitan consulted with Yavneh principal Rabbi Jonathan Knapp to find out how to deal with any potentially problematic halachic situations that might arise while cooking.

“Basically he told me I just couldn’t cook milk and meat together,” said Eitan. “The people at Chopped were extremely nice and we told them that it would be a problem so they made sure it didn’t happen.”

The episode, titled “Short Order Cooks”, began with the diminutive chefs charged to create an appetizer using the four mystery ingredients:  ground beef, slider buns, tomatoes and cotton candy.

“At first when I opened the basket there was a shadow and I thought I saw a squash,” said Eitan. “But then I realized it was cotton candy.  All I could think of was ‘What am I going to do with that?’”

Chef contestants, Christopher Pappas, Lily Nichols, Mona Ziabari and Eitan Bernath stand together during a judging segment, as seen on Food Network’s Chopped, Season 21.

In fact, the cotton candy turned out to be trickier than anticipated as Eitan tried to transform the wispy treat into a sauce. The first batch of cotton candy burned when heated into what Eitan described on air as “black, gooey disgustingness.”  In Eitan’s second attempt, the cotton candy refused to melt. It was the third try that finally proved to be successful, with Eitan dissolving the cotton candy in simmering orange juice.

While the ground beef sliders, seasons with chili powder and Dijon mustard cooked up problem free, Eitan’s panko-coated deep fried tomato slices were inadvertently left in the fryer, minimizing the “wow-factor” of Eitan’s cuisine.

Eitan did not find his inability to taste his creations to be a setback.

“It wasn’t hard cooking food I couldn’t eat,” said Eitan. “I kept imagining what it would taste like.”

While many Chopped contestants have complained about the time limitations imposed on each course, Eitan found the 30 minutes allotted to the appetizer round to be sufficient.

“I wasn’t rushing, rushing, rushing,” recalled Eitan. “People say it feels like time is flying but to me it just felt like a regular half hour.”

Celebrity chefs Geoffrey Zakarian, Alex Gournaschelli and Scott Conant offered both praise and constructive criticism to Eitan for his dish, which featured mini burgers on slider buns topped with cut up tomato and ketchup, accented with a drizzle of cotton candy sauce.

Eitan, the first chef to be eliminated in the episode, was disappointed but poised as he thanked the judges for what he called “an amazing experience,” shaking hands with the judges and Chopped host Ted Allen.  The winning chef, 11 year old Lily Nichols of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, took home a $10,000 prize, while each of the other three contestants received $500 gift certificates to the Food Network’s online store.

Both Eitan and his mother described Chopped as a wonderful opportunity, with the judges and the crew going out of their way to accommodate the contestants.  Mrs. Bernath noted that at one point the contestants were eating lunch and host Ted Allen noticed that Eitan wasn’t eating. Realizing that Eitan would only eat kosher food, Allen sent someone out to pick up lunch for Eitan.

“He told Eitan that they wanted to make sure he had something to eat also and the two of them sat on the couch eating together,” said Mrs. Bernath.  “Eitan thought it was really cool.”

mom Sabrina, Eitan, brother Yoni, dad Jason

While one of the highlights of Chopped for Eitan was seeing celebrity judges savoring his cooking, for Mrs. Bernath it was seeing Eitan’s behavior throughout the experience, particularly after he was eliminated from the competition.

“Eitan decided that for the rest of the day he was going to be the emcee,” said Mrs. Bernath. “As each one of the contestants was chopped, Eitan was there offering them food and water and consoling the parents.  He was the one cheering everyone on and he made a tremendous impression on everyone there.”

Although Eitan didn’t take home the grand prize on Chopped, he has found himself to be in demand in recent weeks. Over 100 people attended a food demonstration at Grand & Essex in Bergenfield this past Monday night, where Eitan cooked up beef sliders and skirt steak burritos.

His future plans, in addition to his schoolwork and preparing for his Bar Mitzvah in May, include a Chanukah cooking demonstration at Grand & Essex and possible collaborations with the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts, a Teaneck restaurant, an appearance on the Chabad Telethon and another cooking demonstration for a well known men’s clothing store.

According to his English principal, Barbara Rubin, Eitan’s fame has not gone to his head.

“Eitan is a young man who really embodies middos as an individual and truly is someone who will become an asset to klal yisroel,” said Mrs. Rubin. “His studies are important. His development as a ben Torah is important. He is a young man with kavod, who treats everyone with dignity and is very well rounded and grounded at such a young age. This is one unique young man.”

Eitan, whose favorite subject is math, says that he hopes to continue pursuing his passion for cooking, and he plans to follow in the footsteps of Guy Fieri, another Food Network personality.

“I can’t eat most of the food he makes, but I want to be how he is,” said Eitan. “He is always happy and when he is in the room, everyone is smiling.”

White House warns Jews not to build in their very own country!

Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem

What's up with this? Arabs can build anywhere ... be it in Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Jerusalem, but Jews can't! ....

In the USA, you can not discriminate, if a black or a green guy buys land or buys a building anywhere in the USA, you cant stop him, constitutionally, from moving in, but Obama wants Israel to stop Jews from moving into property that they bought fair and square in their very own country.

Where is the Agudah? They put their fingers in a local election in Monsey, but keep their mouths shut when it comes to something as frightening as this.

Where are all the "machers" with their keys, and their GMC's with the darkened windows and flashing lights? 

So what can we shzlubbs do to stop this idiocy? We can can call or email our Senators and Representatives,to have the State Department  BUTT out of this!

My Representatrive in Rockland County is a "lemech" called Eliot Engel, so I called him up and some chickie poo answers the phone.

Me:  "Can I speak to Eliot?" 
Secretary: "What's your name and what is this about?"
Me: " My name is DIN, and I don't know what this about because he called me" (I lied because I figured this is the only way I'll get him on the  phone)
Secretary: 1 Minute...
So sure enough, miracles of miracles, he gets on the phone, and he actually listened to me....
I told him, (what Mordechai told Esther,) maybe the only reason you got elected is to intervene on Israel's behalf and tell the State Department, that Jews will continue to build wherever they want.
He told me that he did in fact call them, I said why don't you get the other big mouth Schumer and make a press conference.. 
Engel: Bla bla bla bla bla 
Bottom line is you have to call or email..

So here is Mayor Nir Barkat's Statement vis a vis the crazy statement from the White House:

“I say this firmly and clearly: building in Jerusalem is not poisonous and harmful – rather, it is essential, important and will continue with full force. I will not freeze construction for anyone in Israel’s capital. Discrimination based on religion, race or gender is illegal in the United States and in any other civilized country.

“2,600 apartments in Givat HaMatos that we approved two years ago will enable more young people from all sectors and religions to live in Jerusalem and build their future here, thereby strengthening the capital of Israel. We will not apologize for that.”

Breaking News! RCC evacuated Bomb Threat!

Bomb threat at Rockland Community College, Building evacuated.

- A bomb threat caused SUNY Rockland Community College in Suffern to be evacuated this morning.

Hundreds of students, staff and administrators are being told to leave campus located on 145 College Road.

School officials say classes have been canceled as a safety precaution, and that no one has been injured.

No further info at this time.