37 lawyers force Virginia State Bar to Boycott Israel

37 Jew Hater lawyers  managed to influence 30,000 lawyers of the Virginia State Bar to boycott Israel!
They started an online petition to force the Virginia State Bar to cancel its conference in Jerusalem, that was already booked!

Who are those 37 bastards? 

Well, we are going to find out and post their cursed names for the world to see!

The Virginia State Bar (VSB) is the latest organization to capitulate to leftist and anti-Israel pressure, the Washington Post reported Saturday night - and has cancelled a planned trip to Jerusalem for November. 

"Certain members of the Virginia State Bar and other individuals have expressed objections to the VSB’s plan to take the Midyear Legal Seminar trip in November to Jerusalem," the Association stated in a letter to its members.

 "It was stated that there are some unacceptable discriminatory policies and practices pertaining to border security that affect travelers to the nation."

"Upon review of U.S. State Department advisories and other research, and after consultation with our leaders, it has been determined that there is enough legitimate concern to warrant cancellation of the Israel trip and exploration of alternative locations," it added. 

The US State Department has become hostile toward Israel over the past year, and has made increasingly inflammatory statements against the Jewish state.

Recently, it rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's apologies to Israeli Arabs and implied that it is re-evaluating the US-Israel relationship; it also called on Israel to "end the Occupation." Travel advisories released to US citizens have also implied that Jerusalem and other areas are dangerous, with warnings against visiting eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem and even public parks after dark. 

VSB President Kevin Martingayle insisted to the Washington Times late Saturday night that the decision was not due to anti-Semitic views. 

“We are absolutely not making a political point we are making the point that we have to care about every single one of our members,” 

Mr. Martingayle said. “We are a large bar, we have over 30,000 members within the state bar and we have to meet the needs of all of them.”

However, the Times suggests that the decision may have been made following an online petition against holding the conference in Jerusalem by a mere 37 lawyers - a charge Martingayle similarly denies. 

Washington Post reporter David Bernstein also notes that the letter was submitted to the anti-Israel "Electronic Intifada" over two hours before it was sent to Bar members, and adds that it raises questions over who ultimately made the decision to cancel the already-booked conference. 

Obama’s race to chaos

by Michael Goodwin

If you’re confused about the Saudi Arabia-led air attacks against Islamist rebels in Yemen and can’t tell one group of head-choppers in Iraq and Syria from another, don’t despair. All you need is imagination.

Close your eyes and imagine that those countries and terrorists have nuclear weapons. Imagine their barbarism going nuclear as they blow up cities, wipe out ethnic and religious groups and turn the region into cinders.

Now open your eyes and realize you've seen the future, thanks to President Obama’s policies. It is a future that will be defined by Obama’s Wars. Yes, plural.

I've written frequently about the likelihood of a dystopian “Mad Max” scenario if Iran gets nukes. My thinking is guided by a belief among American military and intelligence officials
that a nuclear exchange would take place in the Mideast within five years of Iran getting the bomb. To judge from events, the future is arriving ahead of schedule.

The fact that a top Saudi official wouldn't answer a question about the kingdom’s plan to get nukes is an answer in itself. Proliferation in the world’s hottest spot was guaranteed once Obama abdicated American leadership, a decision that led our adversaries to conclude we would not stop them and our allies to conclude we would not protect them.

A future where it would be every nation for itself was trouble enough, but something far worse is unfolding now. Obama’s courtship of Iran and his willingness to let it go nuclear is speeding up the race to chaos.

Iran wants it both ways — nukes and a free hand to impose its Islamic Revolution throughout the region. Against all good sense and the lessons of history, Obama is saying yes and yes.

Sightings of the Revolutionary Guard leader, Maj. Gen. Qasem Suleimani, leading Iranian-sponsored militias against Islamic State in Iraq has spread alarm throughout the region. The fears reached a fever pitch when Iranian-allied Houthi rebels took over Yemen, chasing out our soldiers and allies with chants of “Death to America, death to Israel.”

Iran long held designs on a Shia Crescent and control over Arab lands, which helps explain why Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others counted themselves as our allies. They are furious as they watch Iran get a nuclear pass from Obama and a green light to expand its power.

The nuclear program will have the United Nations stamp of approval, as will Iranian control of four Arab capitals — Damascus, Beirut, Baghdad and now Sanaa, Yemen. Indeed, Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry suggest Iran even could be an ally in the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda. Already there has been coordination there, leading critics to say America is acting as the Iranian air force.

Israel, of course, sees the pattern as insane and a threat because Iran has threatened to wipe it off the face of the earth. In retaliation for complaining about the nuke deal, Obama denounces our ally and threatens to “re-evaluate” our support for the Jewish state.

But Israel is not alone, with our Sunni Arab allies also viewing Iran as their mortal enemy. Sen. John McCain quoted one of those Arab leaders as concluding, “We believe it is more dangerous to be a friend of America’s than an enemy.”

These are unprecedented developments, veering so far from the norm and happening so fast that consequences are piling up faster than they can be comprehended. Alliances built over decades are shattered in a relative flash, inviting aggression and endless conflict. The toxic brew of Islamic fanaticism and nuclear proliferation could ignite a world conflagration.

These are grim thoughts, expressed because it is impossible to imagine any other outcome of Iran’s rise. It remains the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism and supports Hezbollah and Hamas and now the Houthis in Yemen. As for Iranian influence in Iraq, one analyst is calling Suleimani, the Revolutionary Guard commander, Iraq’s new “viceroy.”

Remember, too, Iran muscle and munitions are keeping Bashar Assad still standing in Syria. The wholesale death and destruction there — an estimated 200,000 people killed and millions displaced within the country and out of it — could be a prototype of its new empire.

While there are many dark and complex forces in play and blame to spread around, the most important catalyst of the violent disorder has been the reversal of America’s policies. Under Obama, we have switched sides, an abomination that ensures a legacy of infamy.

Soaps and Cosmetics Kosher for Passover?

by Rabbi Eliezer Melamud

Soaps and Cosmetics

The Poskim (Jewish law arbiters) disagree whether body lotions that contain ĥametz (leavened products) may be used on Pesaĥ. While soaps, shampoos, and creams are not made from ĥametz, but

they sometimes contain grain alcohol or other ĥametz derivatives, leading to queries about their status on Pesaĥ.

Some say that applying an ointment is equivalent, by rabbinic enactment, to drinking. Consequently, even if the ĥametz in these products is not fit for a dog’s consumption, it retains the status of ĥametz because it is suitable for anointing, and thus it is forbidden to use them on Pesaĥ. Accordingly, one must use soaps, shampoos, and creams that are kosher for Pesaĥ.

Others maintain that the Sages only equated the application of ointment to drinking with regard to Yom Kippur and anointing with oil consecrated as teruma (priestly gift). All other Torah prohibitions relate to eating alone, not anointing. Although it is forbidden to derive benefit from ĥametz, the ĥametz in these products was rendered unfit for a dog’s consumption even before Pesaĥ began and thus lost the status of ĥametz. It is therefore permissible to derive benefit from them and apply them to the body during Pesaĥ.

The Practical Ruling

Since this dispute relates to rabbinic law, the halakha accords with the lenient opinion. Therefore, creams that are absorbed into the skin, flavorless lipstick, and perfumes that contain alcohol need not be certified kosher for Pesaĥ, in keeping with the lenient opinion, since they are not fit for consumption and generally do not contain ĥametz ingredients.  Moreover, the vast majority of cosmetic products produced in Israel do not contain wheat-derived alcohol. Even the majority of products produced abroad do not contain wheat-derived alcohol, since it is more expensive than potato-derived alcohol.
Still, when one has a product and is not sure whether it contains wheat-derived alcohol, even if he is normally stringent he may be lenient, based on a combination of several uncertainties and doubts (See, ‘Peninei Halakha: Pesach’ 8:9).
Usually, after teaching this halakha, I am asked: “Rabbi, what do you do personally?” My reply is: If there is soap or cream Kosher for Passover, we prefer to use it. But if there was no suitable cream in the store, or it was significantly more expensive, or if someone is sensitive to a special soap or shampoo, we use the products regularly used during the year.

Toothpaste and Lipstick

Toothpaste and lipstick must be certified kosher for Pesaĥ because they are flavored, and as a result, are like any other food product.

Does Dishwashing Soap have to be Kosher for Passover?

Dishwashing soap does not need to be certified Kosher for Passover. And even though it comes in contact with dishes, since the taste is completely unfit for consumption – even if these substances were mixed with ĥametz, its taste was befouled before Pesaĥ and it is no longer considered ĥametz. Indeed, if a person had the intention of eating hametz unfit for consumption, since he considered it as food, he transgresses a rabbinic prohibition. But in this case, no one is interested in tasting the dishwashing soap on the dishes, and even if the dishes were not rinsed well and the taste of soap was left on them, there is no prohibition whatsoever.
Q: Why are there kashrut organizations that give certification for dishwashing soap?
A: This is a marketing gimmick of dishwashing soap manufacturers, who think that by doing so they gain an edge on their competitors, and it is extremely puzzling that the kashrut organizations collaborate with them by providing certification, thus using the Torah as a “spade to dig with” i.e. a source of profit.

Medicines on Pesaĥ

Medicines are the subject of some of the most common questions on Pesaĥ. There is concern that pills contain wheat-based starch. The purpose of the starch is to solidify and harden the pills. Had the starch been produced from potatoes or kitniyot, there would be no problem even for Ashkenazim, as for medicinal purposes one may swallow pills containing kitniyot. But what about starch extracted from a type of grain that can become ĥametz?

Flavored Medicines must have Kosher for Pesach Certification

The answer depends on the taste of the medicine: if it is flavored, like syrup, lozenges, or chewables, then one must ascertain that it is kosher for Pesacĥ. In case of doubt, its use is forbidden. Only a dangerously ill person whose medicine does not have a substitute is permitted to take medicine containing ĥametz, because saving a life overrides the prohibition of eating ĥametz. 

The Custom of the Stringent not to Take Even Bitter Medicine Containing Hametz

Some meticulously observant people try to avoid even bitter medicines that contain ĥametz. They show concern for the opinion of the few poskim who maintain that medicine is not considered unfit for animalconsumption since we deem it significant, and it is thus rabbinically prohibited. Other poskim permit bitter medicines that contain ĥametz starch for one who is bedridden or whose entire body is in pain, but rule stringently for one suffering from mild aches and pains.

The Majority of Poskim Rule Bitter Medicine is Permitted

However, most poskim maintain that bitter medicines containing ĥametz may be taken by any ill person, even only to reduce mild pain, as a prophylactic, or to fortify the body.
Practically speaking, if one is uncertain whether certain bitter or tasteless medicines contain wheat starch, he may swallow them without ensuring that they are free of wheat starch. As we have seen, most poskim maintain that medicines rendered unfit for animalconsumption before Pesaĥ may be consumed during Pesaĥ even if they are known to contain ĥametz. Even one who prefers to comply with the stringent opinion on this issue need not be strict if he is uncertain whether the medicine contains ĥametz. This is especially true nowadays, when we know that potato and corn starch are used more widely than wheat starch. Thus, in practice, one may consume bitter or tasteless medicines on Pesaĥ without ascertaining whether they contain ĥametz.
Therefore, it is permitted to take bitter medicines containing wheat starch even for the purpose of easing mild pain, preventing illness, or strengthening the body.

Tasteless Medicines Do Not Require Inspection

From what we have learned, all drugs that are tasteless, even though they are listed as not kosher for Passover, according to the majority of poskim, are halakhically kosher. Practically speaking this is also true, for even the machmerim (stringent) admit that since they are tasteless, the prohibition is of rabbinic status, and as is well-known, in rabbinic controversies halakha goes according to the mekelim(lenient), in particular when they are the majority.
Moreover, this is especially true nowadays, when we know that potato and corn starch are used more widely than wheat starch.
 
So in effect, on Pesach, one can take bitter or tasteless medication designed to be swallowed, without checking lists to see if they kosher for Passover (‘Peninei Halakha:Pesach’, 8:7).

This article appeared in the ‘Besheva’ newspaper, and was translated from Hebrew. For an overview of the holiday, click here. For the issue of kitniyot (and quinoa), click here. For how to kosher the kitchen for Passover, clickhere.

Sholom DovBer Levitansky Sexual Predator, His Frum Victim Tells Her Story, video

Here watch this heart breaking account of a young girl, Sima Yarmush, being molested by her "Rabbi" Sholom Dovber Levitansky, and he now moved to another community to continue molesting...

Ami's Yitzchok Frankfurter can't find kosher food in Tel Aviv!

The clown, Yitchok Frankfurter interviews MK Yisroel Eichler in this weeks Ami, and tells him that he cannot find  kosher food in Tel Aviv....
This lying skunk, like the Meraglim, must push his anti-Zionist agenda, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with the interview, and even if its a ridiculous lie!

The following Kosher Food establishments in Tel Aviv do not even  include Kosher super sols and other kosher supermarkets,Kosher Cafe's, Fast Food Restaurants,  Pizza Stores, Falafel Stores:

Meat, 

Liliyot
Fancy, Mediterranean, Meat
Weitzman 4
03-609-1331

The 11th Floor
Fancy, Steak, Meat
Azrieli Towers
03-777-4067

Giselle
Fancy, French, Meat
Kaufman 5
050-424-5633

L'Entrecote
Fancy, Steak, Meat
Ahad Ha'am 28
03-633-7733

Pasha
Fancy, Turkish, Meat
Ha'Arba'a 8
03-5617778

L'Artiste
Fancy, French, Meat
Nachalat Binyamin 30
053-809-5170

Olive Leaf
Fancy, Mediterranean, Meat
Sheraton Hotel
Hayarkon 115
03-521-9300

Lili24
Fancy, French, Meat
Lilienblum 24
03-510-3913

Prime Grill
Fancy, Steak, Meat
Herbert Samuel 60
03-510-0336

Regina
Fancy, Israeli, Meat
HaTachana
03-736-7474

Meat & Wine
Fancy, Steak, Meat
Shenkar 16, Herzliya
09-956-7006

Vino Socca
Fancy, Steak, Meat
Galgalei Haplada 7, Herzliya
072-216-3751

E- Zugi
Fancy, Continental, Meat
HaBarzel 17
03-511-0075

Goshen
Fancy, Grill, Meat
Nachalat Binyamin 37
03-560-0766

Meatos
Fancy, Steak, Meat
Weitzmann 2
03-693-2002

Le Relais Jaffa
Fancy, French, Meat
Bat Ami 7
050-780-3725

Lechem Basar
Mid, Israeli, Meat
Namal Tel Aviv
053-809-5534

Shmulik Cohen
Mid, Eastern European, Meat
Herzl 146
03-681-0222

Gueta
Mid, Libian, Meat
Yerushalyim 6
03-681-3993

Maganda
Mid, Israeli, Meat
Rabbi Meir 26
03-517-9990

Mifgash HaSteak
Mid, Grill, Meat
Menachem Begin 37
053-809-4801

Petrozilya
Mid, Israeli, Meat
Rothschild 47
03-516-2468

Cabina Beach Bar
Mid, Israeli, Meat
Gordon Beach
03-523-6762

DAIRY

Uno
Fancy, Italian, Dairy
Weitzman 2
03-693-2005

Tranquila
Mid, Italian, Dairy
Mikveh Yisrael 1
03-685-0002

Barbia
Mid, Mix, Dairy
Namal Tel Aviv
03-602-5026

La Lasagna
Chill, Italian, Dairy
Ben Yehuda 177
053-809-4886

Hungarian Blintzes
Chill, Hungarian, Dairy
Yirmiyahu 35
03-605-0674

FISH

Deca
Fancy, Fish, Dairy
HaTasia 10
057-944-2900

Blue Sky
Fancy, Fish, Dairy
Carlton Hotel Roof
Eliezer Peri 10
03-520-1830

The 11th Floor
Fancy, Sushi, Dairy
Azrieli Towers
03-777-4067

Blackout
Fancy, Fish/Pasta, Dairy
Yafo Namal
053-809-4758

Pacific Bistro & Sushi
Fancy, Asian Fish, Meat
Crowne Plaza Hotel
HaYarkon 145
03-520-1169

Yakimono Sushi
Fancy, Sushi, Dairy
Hilton Hotel
03-520-2023

Derby Bar
Mid,Fish, Dairy
Yigal Alon 96
03-5614545

Armando
Mid, Fish, Meat
Herbert Samuel 88
03-510-1601

Kanki Sushi Bar
Mid, Sushi, Dairy
Bograshov 23
050-996-6101

Shibuya
Mid, Sushi, Dairy
Bograshov 28
03-620-4927

Oshi Oshi
Mid, Sushi, Dairy
Namal Tel Aviv
1-700-708-023

Super Sushi
Chill, Sushi, Dairy
Dizengoff 79
053-809-4664
Ibn Givrol 72
1-700-502-888

Iranian Defector: ‘US Negotiating Team Mainly There to Speak on Iran’s Behalf’

An Iranian journalist writing about the nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran has defected. 

In an interview Amir Hossein Motaghi, has some harsh words for his native Iran. 

He also has a damning indictment of America's role in the nuclear negotiations.

“The U.S. negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran’s behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal," Motaghi told a TV station after just defecting from the Iranian delegation while abroad for the nuclear talks. The P 5 + 1 is made up of United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, plus Germany.

A close media aide to Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian president, has sought political asylum in Switzerland after travelling to Lausanne to cover the nuclear talks between Tehran and the West.

Amir Hossein Motaghi, who managed public relations for Mr Rouhani during his 2013 election campaign, was said by Iranian news agencies to have quit his job at the Iran Student Correspondents Association (ISCA).

He then appeared on an opposition television channel based in London to say he no longer saw any “sense” in his profession as a journalist as he could only write what he was told.

“There are a number of people attending on the Iranian side at the negotiations who are said to be journalists reporting on the negotiations,” he told Irane Farda television. “But they are not journalists and their main job is to make sure that all the news fed back to Iran goes through their channels.

“My conscience would not allow me to carry out my profession in this manner any more.” Mr Mottaghi was a journalist and commentator who went on to use social media successfully to promote Mr Rouhani to a youthful audience that overwhelmingly elected him to power.

Anti-Semitism flourishes like a poisonous plant in the Ivy League Colleges debunking the Forward's Lying Editorial

Last week the communist anti-Israel newspaper the Forward wrote an editorial saying in effect that there is very little anti-Semitism on US Campuses... the point was to downplay anti-Semitism so that those fighting Antisemitism on the campuses would relax their guard!

At the University of California, swastikas have been found on Jewish buildings, as they have at Vanderbilt University, University of Oregon and Emory University. These incidents are increasing and are always linked to an anti-Israel campaign. 

Anti-Semitism flourishes like a poisonous plant in the Ivy League colleges, the laboratories of "equal opportunity", in the large green areas of sun, gymnastics, jogging, squares with concerts, demonstrations of students, a network of streets dotted with libraries, cafes,restaurants, pizzerias. 

54 percent of Jewish students at US colleges suffered anti-Semitic attacks or witnessed them, according to research published by the "Center for Human Rights Under Law" at Trinity College.

Jewish students are attacked by groups such as the "Students for Justice in Palestine", and after the conflict in Gaza last summer, phrases such as "Death to Israel" and "Kill all Jews" appeared on the walls of Berkeley. More recently, it was the turn of "The Zionists should be sent to the gas chambers."

The godmother of Berkeley's campaign against Israel is 

Professor Judith Butler, who invented the "gender studies" so popular today in Europe. Butler came under fire for an interview in which she denounced the memorials for the victims of 9/11. 

In US classrooms, professors portray the Palestinian Arabs as victims of Israeli "occupation" and the Jewish State as "racist", an "apartheid state", "genocidal". In buildings on campus, the anti-Israeli groups organize pickets against Israel, conferences on BDS, and supporters of Israel are routinely attacked and prevented from speaking.

Do not forget that the symbol of the anti-Israeli "pacifism" in the world is Rachel Corrie, an American college student, killed under an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in an attempt to block the demolition of a house of terrorists when its driver could not possibly have seen her. The myth of Corrie inspired literary works, boycotts, and articles all over the world. Her story has helped to defame Israel in a way that is even worse than the faked killing of Mohammed al Dura.

At Evergreen State University, former professors of Corrie, at graduation ceremonies, wear khaki pants and a keffiyeh, in tribute to their former student.

In recent days, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative think tank in California, released the black list of the worst campuses of America with regard to anti-Semitism. 

Heading the list is Columbia University. "How many Palestinians have you killed?" asked Professor Joseph Massad of an Israeli student. And professor George Shaliba said to a Jewish girl that she could not claim rights on Palestine because she hadn't eyes that were Semitic enough.

Columbia is the University of Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute there, who called "legitimate resistance" suicide terrorism against Israel and the Israeli army "a weapon of mass destruction."

Columbia is a strategic center because it is the faculty where Edward Said, the most prestigious intellectual exponent of the Palestinian Intifada, taught. He was shown on the border with southern Lebanon, while he threw stones at Israeli soldiers who were leaving the area. His definition of the Palestinians as "victims of the victims" had an extraordinary and lethal resonance in the West. 

Berkeley taught a course on "Politics and Poetic of Palestinian Resistance", while at Yale the Initiative for Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, the first academic center in the world completely devoted to the study of anti-Semitism, lasted just four years. It was closed due to charges of "subservience to Israel", the pressure of Palestinian ambassadors in the United States, political correctness - and lavish donations from Arab countries. 

There was no controversy, however, when the students of the Jackson Center for Global Affairs at Yale were brought by their lecturers to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he was visiting New York at the UN (at that time the Iranian leader again denied the Holocaust).

Last October, hundreds of anthropologists around the world signed a petition for the boycott of Israel. 

There are famous names from Columbia University (13 signatures), 9 from Harvard and 8 from Yale. 

These include Professors Jean and John Comaroff Harvard, Deans of Studies of Post Colonial Africa, and Michael Taussig of Columbia University,  mimes is and Latin America scholar. The American Studies Association has joined the international campaign to boycott Israeli universities. It comes from Harvard, home to Professor Stephen Walt, one of the authorsof "Israel Lobby", the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as applied to Israel.

Funds that come from Islamic countries manipulate the nature of Middle East Studies. 

Just scroll through the list of donations from Arab Gulf states since 1995: Boston University ($1.5 million), Columbia University ($500,000), George Washington University ($12 million), Georgetown University ($16 million), Harvard ($12 million), MIT ($10 million), University of Arkansas ($18 million).

Meanwhile, anti-Semitism is rampant everywhere. From Hampshire College, where a pro-Israel student was attacked by individuals with veiled faces, shouting "Baby Killer", to Rutgers University, where an event compared the Palestinians to Holocaust victims. 

This wave of anti-Semitic irrationality and anti-Israel hysteria on campus is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Allan Bloom, a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, who deprecated the fall of these sanctuaries of knowledge with a book titled "The Closing of the American Mind ". Where everything must be instantly gratifying, including the hatred for Israel. The new opium of the elite. 

R' Shmuel Auerbach's Newspaper "Hapeles" a bunch of Mafia Extortionists

Following months of investigation, Israel Police on Wednesday night 4-5 Nissan arrested 21 people suspected of involvement in a blackmail ring. The suspects are reportedly all affiliated with the so-called Yerushalmi branch, the Bnei Torah party headed by Rav Shmuel Auerbach.

It is alleged that during the last year they harassed, threatened, and extorted senior managers and executives from large companies and government companies in an effort to persuade them to advertise in the party-affiliated ‘HaPeles’ newspaper.

Twenty-one people were arrested after police investigated complaints of threats and harassment via telephone, email and fax. Arrests were made in the capital, Bnei Brak, Ashdod, Yerucham, and Modi’in Illit. 

The police message to the media read “Following an undercover investigation for the past half year the Fraud Division of the Jerusalem District arrested 21 suspects around Israel. The suspects during the past year allegedly harassed, intimidated and threatened senior executives in companies and government companies in an effort to compel them to advertise in HaPeles”.

According to the evidence gathered by police, the efforts to compel others to advertise in the newspaper go back as far as two years. Some of the people who turned to police are active in Yahadut Hatorah.

Police officials explain that those in custody would call the “struggle hotline” daily and identify themselves with a code name, password and caller ID from their phone number, and only then would they receive the day’s assignment.

 They were instructed to harass and intimidate. 

The recipients received hundreds of calls, faxes and emails, so much so that it interfered with their ability to conduct business as usual.

The harassment in some cases led to the companies canceling ads elsewhere in the hope of turning off the calls, faxes and emails.

Police add that 200 policepersons were involved in the arrests, including detectives, Yassam commando police, border police and undercover agents. 

The suspects were taken to the Lahav 433 (FBI) headquarters.

Two of the suspects, both residents of the capital, are viewed as the main players in the operation. They are both from the chareidi sector. Among those in custody is a leading personality in the Yerushalmi camp, A.T. (name on file), is believed to be the mastermind behind the operation. Police raided his home in the Ramot neighborhood of the capital, he was arrested and taken into custody.

Chareidi media reports state officials affiliated with Degel Hatorah are pleased arrests have finally been made and they hope police take the severity of the actions of those involved seriously and act appropriately.

But you can't have an Iphone!

Terrorism Cause of Germanwings Plane Crash

It was a terrorist act, but no one wants to say the word, Terror. 

The co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane appears to have "intentionally" brought the plane down while his captain was locked out of the cockpit, prosecutors said Thursday.

First Officer Andreas Lubitz, 28, was alone at the controls of the Airbus A320 as it began its rapid descent, Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin told a news conference. Passengers' cries were heard on the plane's cockpit voice recorder in the moments just before the plane slammed into the French Alps, Brice said.

"Banging" sounds also were audible, he said, suggesting the captain was trying to force his way back into the cockpit. However, the reinforced cockpit door was locked from the inside and could not be overridden, even with a coded entry panel.

"If he had been able to open this door, the captain would have done it," Brice said.

Lubitz "didn't say a word" during the descent, according to Brice.

"There was no reason to put the plane into a descent, nor to not respond to… air traffic controllers," he told a press conference. "Was it suicide? I'm not using the word, I don't know. Given the information I have at this time … I can tell you that he deliberately made possible the loss of altitude of the aircraft."

The current interpretation, Brice added, is that the co-pilot had "a desire to destroy this plane" though there was nothing to indicate a terrorist connection.

Germanwings' parent company Lufthansa earlier said Lubitz joined Germanwings in September 2013, directly after training, and had flown 630 hours.

His captain was an "experienced" pilot, with more than 10 years' experience with the organization and more than 6,000 flight hours on the Airbus model.

Many airlines, especially U.S. carriers, have a flight attendant come into the flight deck if a pilot leaves, for example during a bathroom break.

While Lufthansa earlier Thursday would not comment on its cockpit security procedures, it said it followed rules set out by German authorities that allow temporary absence from the flight deck.

Former pilots and aviation experts told NBC News that most planes have coded entry door controls, but these can be overridden with a double lock — a practice implemented industry-wide after the 9/11 attacks.

"The cockpit has the ultimate control of the door," said former pilot Captain John Cox. "If it is placed in the override mode then no matter what is done with the code pad, the door will remain locked. The security people were very firm on the need for the flight deck to remain the ultimate authority."

"It's likely that an airline like Lufthansa will have fitted the highest specification of security technology," said David Gleave, an aviation safety investigator based at Loughborough University near Leicester, England.

"These reinforced doors are designed to be very strong — they can't be smashed open. That's the point of them."

Bergdahl Charged with Desertion, 5 of most dangerous Taliban were exchanged for his release

Obama is one crazy dangerous dude!
Remember when Obama said that Bergdahl "served with honor & distinction?"

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who was recovered in Afghanistan last spring after five years in captivity, faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, according to his lawyer.

Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl’s attorney, told The Washington Post that his client was handed a charge sheet on Tuesday. Army officials announced they will provide an update in his case at 3:30 p.m. at Fort Bragg, N.C., but declined to discuss new developments ahead of the news conference.

Bergdahl, 28, went missing from his base in Paktika province on June 30, 2009, and is believed to have grown disillusioned with the U.S. military’s mission in Afghanistan. He was held captive in Pakistan by the Haqqani network, an insurgent group allied with the Taliban, until a deal brokered through the government of Qatar was reached last year.

Does Obama want Israel to commit suicide?

by 

Cal Thomas

In 1982, during one of many visits to Israel, I had the opportunity to speak with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who told me, "Israel needs friends." He added that in the end, his nation could not trust any nation with its fate and security. The protection of Israel, he said, was ultimately the responsibility of Israelis.

Begin's comment was prophetic given the petulance of our current president, who behaves like an enemy of Israel when he attempts to impose a Palestinian state on Israel and negotiate a deal with Iran that can only lead to new threats against the Jewish state and further destabilize the chaotic Middle East.

Suicide is not in Israel's interests, or that of the United States, but suicide is what President Obama seems to want Israel to commit by pressuring it to return to indefensible 1967 borders and accept a nuclear deal with Iran.

In his determination to strike a deal with Iran over its nuclear weapons program (which Iran has denied exists, so what is the U.S. negotiating?), President Obama has traded history, facts and reality for a potential deal with a regime that promotes terrorism around the world and is busy attaching Iraq to its vision of a greater Persian Empire.

Last Saturday, Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei again called for "Death to America," just one day after President Obama appealed to Iranians in a video message to seize a "historic opportunity" for a nuclear deal and a better future. The leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, also continues to use inflammatory rhetoric about the ultimate destruction of Israel. What should this tell us?

The president is cozying up to a nation that oppresses women, has an apocalyptic view of the world and believes that if it starts a nuclear war the 12th Imam -- the Islamic messiah -- will emerge from a well and bring peace on Earth and good will, at least to Shia Muslim men. Women will remain subject to male domination and have only the few rights given to them by men.

Israel, which embraces Western values of free elections, religious tolerance and pluralism, a free press and equal rights for women is treated by President Obama and his administration as Iran should be treated. Do these people suffer from diplomatic dyslexia, or anti-Semitism?

The coming nuclear deal with Iran, if it occurs, will be a sham from the start. Agreements between nations require at least some trust, but Iran has as much credibility as a double-your-money promise from Bernie Madoff.

Why should Israel be forced to surrender more land to an enemy that has sworn to destroy it? A Palestinian state would likely be used as a launching pad for an attack. Gaza is a perfect example. It has been used by Hamas to attack Israel, which unilaterally and foolishly gave it up in hopes of promoting peace.

Suicide is not in Israel's interests, or that of the United States, but suicide is what President Obama seems to want Israel to commit by pressuring it to return to indefensible 1967 borders and accept a nuclear deal with Iran.

That two states is not what Israel's enemies want was made clear enough when President Clinton brought then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Camp David in 2000. Barak offered Arafat virtually everything he asked for -- 95 percent by some estimates -- and Arafat rejected the offer. Arafat, his contemporaries and those who have come after him, desire only one state headed by themselves with no Jewish state and no Jewish presence, as evidenced by the wars and terrorist attacks they have launched and continue to wage against Israel.

In Deuteronomy 17:7, God instructs the ancient Israelites: "You must purge the evil from among you."

In his dangerous pursuit of a problematic nuclear weapons deal with Iran and his attempt to marry a cancerous Palestinian state to the land of Israel, President Obama is not purging evil; he's inviting it to spread. History will judge him for this as it has every other nation that has harmed "the apple of His eye." (Zechariah 2:8)

Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist. He joined Fox News Channel in 1997 as a political contributor. His latest book is "What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America" is available in bookstores now. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com.

Jeb Bush Responds To Criticism Over His Anti-Israel Advisor James Baker YM"S

His excuses did little to reassure critics.

Likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush earned widespread criticism this week regarding a speech planned by his foreign policy adviser, former Secretary of State James Baker. 

As Baker geared up to deliver an address Monday evening before a gathering of the left-leaning lobbying organization J Street, a number of conservative sources skewered him for his perceived anti-Israel position.

Radio host Mark Levin, for one, cited a “well-documented” pattern of “antipathy toward Israel” regarding Baker, adding both he and Obama share similar hatred toward the Jewish nation.

“This is they guy,” Levin continued, “the leading adviser to Jeb Bush on foreign policy, who Jeb Bush asked to be his leading adviser, and now he’s the keynote speaker to this left-wing hate group J Street.”

Even before Baker’s speech, Bush spokesman Tim Miller attempted to distance the former Florida governor from the actions of his adviser.

Bush, Miller said, “firmly opposes lobbying groups whose actions undermine Israel’s efforts to defend itself.”

The backtracking continued Tuesday when another Bush spokesperson, Kristy Campbell, sent out a statement indicating that Bush “respects Secretary Baker” but “disagrees with the sentiments he expressed last night and opposes J Street’s advocacy.”

She went on to cite Bush’s “unwavering” support both for Israel and its presumptively reelected prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Bush camp’s attempts to assuage misgivings have apparently been insufficient, as evidenced by the comments left by several readers of a Politico article on the topic.

One commenter declared Bush a “political coward” while several asserted he is lying about his purported stance on Israel.