A man was arrested on suspicion of decapitating his ex-wife and burning the body on Wednesday in the northern town of Tiberias. According to eyewitnesses who spoke with Hebrew media, the man was seen walking in the street holding the victim's head.
Police said they found the victim in her 30s burnt and headless in an apartment that was engulfed in flames on Nachmani Street in Tiberias.
The incident occurred at approximately 12 p.m. when police were alerted to a man walking in the streets with his clothes stained in blood and an apartment fire. The suspect was arrested shortly after police arrived to the scene.
An eyewitness told The Jerusalem Post's sister publication Maariv, that the man was seen in the street covered in blood and only later did they understand that he was apparently holding the woman’s head. “A young ultra-Orthodox man was walking around the street with his wife's head in his hands, covered in blood. No one understood what was going on and why he had so much blood on him. Only later did they realize he was holding the woman’s head.”
Maariv also reported that the man previously claimed he was the Messiah and visited a psychiatrist, who said he was not a public danger.
Large police forces responded to the scene, located the suspect and then found the woman’s body in the apartment after firefighters were able to subdue the apartment fire. According to police the couple has no children.
“At 12:13 p.m. the MDA was informed about a dead woman with severe signs of violence. Paramedics determined the death of a woman in her 30s,” the Magen David Adom said in a statement.
Police are still investigating the incident and a gag order was placed on all details of the investigation and details of the suspect and the victim.
This clip was played on Tuesday night on Channel 2 and other news outlets in Israel, when a woman had to be rescued from a pack of violent “Peleg Yerushalmi” protesters who kicked and beat her. She was called “Shiksa” and the police were called “Nazis” as they rescued the woman. Now watch below: Part one of the attached clip is a group of “Bochrim” from the “Peleg Yerushalmi” which is under the leadership of Bachelor Shmuel Auerbach, as they violently attack an Egged bus in Jerusalem on Tuesday night causing damage to the bus. The second part of the clip is where protesters from the Peleg Yerushalmi throw rocks at a police car which had to be escorted out of the area under heavy guard.
There is a law in the State of Israel that you must register for the draft, period... you can then ask for a "petur" which is an exemption if you are enrolled in a Yeshivah .... ALL Gedoilei Yisroel have instructed Bochrum to register for the draft, and just this morning the Satmar Rebbe in Monroe agreed, and instructed Bochrim residing in Israel to register... There is on guy, who is followed by thousands, Shmulei the bachelor, Auerbach who has defied all Gedoilim and instructed his sheep not to register ..... causing havoc and chaos on the streets of all Chareidie neighborhoods.... These are protests are against the IDF, because the IDF has imprisoned those who failed to register for the draft. The leader, Shmulei, is an old geezer, who will never be drafted so it is easy for him to give orders that will never apply to him or his offspring (he doesn't have any r"l). The Eida Hachreidis, headed by the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, who hates his brother R' Aron the Satmar Rebbe of Monroe, wants to continue his personal family fight and has now officially joined the Auerbach fanatics to help disrupt civilian life in Yerushalyim .... The Eida Hachreidis is the "holy" "hashgacha in Israel, and even though they have been caught up in scandal after scandal with their fraudulent hashgachos, the Charaidim support them 100%...... So if you have children staying in Israel for Pesach, rest assured they haven't opened a sefer, they are busy hanging around those useless protests that block traffic, block ambulances, and block people from getting home, and will continue to eat Treif with the Eida Hachreidie Hashgacha.
Thousands of haredim are gathered this evening, Tuesday, on Jerusalem’s Malchei Yisrael Street, the main street connecting the haredi neighborhoods in central Jerusalem, for a protest defined as “the protest of thousands” against “the decree of the draft.”
The background for the protest is a number of arrests of haredi youth who did not show up to the draft office and were defined, as a result, as “deserters” by the IDF.
In addition to the central group of protesters on Malchei Yisrael Street, which has been closed to traffic, additional protesters are engaged in confrontations with police on Sarei Yisrael Street at the edges of the haredi neighborhoods, where they are intermittently blocking the Street.
The demonstration this evening is the first significant joint effort between members of the “Edah Haharedit,” an extremist haredi group cut off from the State and its institutions since the State’s founding, and the “Jerusalem Faction,” a haredi group which, after the death of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, broke off from the central stream of the Lithuanian haredi sector and functions under the leadership of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach.
One of the speakers at the demonstration compared the State of Israel to the host of enemies of the Jewish people throughout the generations. “The first Prime Minister of Israel, whose name it is forbidden to mention, may his name and memory be erased, said that within 20 years there wouldn’t be a shtreimel [fur hat worn by some haredi men] here, and we are here today and this is our revenge. We will fill the jails. They won’t scare us,” he said. “We got past Pharaoh, we got passed the Spanish Inquisition, we got past Hitler, we’ll get past you, too.”
Deborah Klapper holds an AB from Harvard University and a Scholars' Circle certificate from Drisha Institute. She lives, learns, and teaches in Sharon, MA.
The ArtScroll Children’s Haggadah, by Shmuel Blitz, systematically eliminates women’s stories and their names from the telling of the Exodus and the history of the Jewish people. To accomplish this, the Children’s Haggadah bowdlerizes Torah and Talmud, consistently changing stories to remove female characters. In this way, it alters Torah to fit ArtScroll’s sensibilities while contradicting the word of God and the truth.
Needless to say, changing the Torah to fit one’s personal opinions is forbidden. A main point of Torah is that God tells us what the Torah is, not the other way around.
In this case, the Children’s Haggadah also contradicts the Gemara, which declares that women are obligated in all mitzvot of the seder because “they too were part of the same miracle” (Pesachim 108a-b, Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Berurah Orach Chayim 472:14).
Falsifying the Torah is wrong. But this kind of falsification is also pedagogically disastrous. It undercuts our efforts to teach our daughters that Jewish tradition values them equally with our sons. It undercuts our efforts to teach our sons that their sisters are equal members of the Jewish people. It is frightening that this haggadah has been a standard resource in Jewish homes and schools for 17 years without anyone noticing its distortions.
Long Islander David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s much-debated pick as ambassador to Israel.
Friedman, 57, a bankruptcy lawyer who served as one of Trump’s advisers on Israel during last year’s election campaign, has been an outspoken supporter of Israel throughout his life—particularly regarding the settlement movement, which he believes is not an obstacle to peace. Friedman, who owns a home in Jerusalem, also strongly supports relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and plans to live at his Jerusalem residence instead of the traditional ambassador’s residence in Herzliya.
Yet throughout his Senate confirmation hearing, Friedman had struck a conciliatory tone, saying that he regrets “the use of such language,” including an Israel National News op-ed he authored last year that described supporters of the left-wing Jewish lobby group J Street as “worse than kapos.” He sought to reassure the committee members that he would be more tactful and diplomatic in his role as ambassador to Israel.el, in a 52-46 vote that largely fell along party lines, was sworn in wearing a traditional kippa.
Only two Democrats, Sens. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, crossed party lines to join Republicans in supporting Friedman.
Earlier this month, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee narrowly approved Friedman in a 12-9 vote that also fell largely along party lines, with most Democrats opposing his nomination over his lack of diplomatic experience as well as controversial statements he had made regarding liberal American Jewish groups.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Friedman on his confirmation, tweeting that he will be “warmly welcomed as President Trump’s representative and as a close friend of Israel.”
Stephen M. Greenberg, chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman/CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued a statement saying they have “enjoyed a vitally important and mutually beneficial close working relationship with each U.S. ambassador to Israel since the founding of the Conference more than 60 years ago. We are sure that it will continue and be enhanced during Amb. Friedman’s tenure, and look forward to working closely with him as he takes up his duties in Israel.”
Pastor John Hagee, founder and chairman of Christians United for Israel, which says it represents more than 3.3 million pro-Israel Christians, called Friedman “the right man for this extremely challenging post.”
So this Monroe leader of Satmar, the guy that was pro the Iran deal, and had his community write letters to Congress that they not to attend Netanyahu's address ...will do anything to kick his brother to the curb. Even if he secretly agrees with him .... Justyesterday we postedthat R' Zalman Leib, Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg called for violent protests in Yerushalayim.....so the "Chuchim fin dee ma nistana" R' Aron, Monroe Satmar Rebbe stated that its not a good idea to block traffic .... Not because he cares for another Jew....... not because he worries that some Jew will get to work, or get home late....... naaaaaaaaaaaaa.... It's because his crazed brother called for protests and backs the fanatic bachelor Shmuley Auerbach! Here is what Sandy Eller reported in VIN
The Satmar Rebbe’s words came Monday morning after Shacharis and he noted that while Satmar forbids military service, it has never been the Satmar way for Chasidim to simply not register for the army. Instead, for decades Charedim have followed an established protocol that had them exempted from the army when they came to register.
“This was done during the time of the Divrei Yoel,” said Rabbi Teitelbaum, referring to Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, known to be a fierce critic of Israel and its military. “Despite the Divrei Yoel’s opposition to the State of Israel, his talmidim always went to register for the army. Reb Yoel never saw this as an act of zealotry or as expressing his approval of Zionism.”
The Rabbi noted that, the practice still continues today, and there is an organization that works closely with Charedim to help them receive their military exemption once they register for the army.
But a new group that has broken with that long standing tradition and are instead encouraging Charedim to shut down city streets with regular protests. the Rabbi said.
“These people are not zealots,” said Rabbi Teitelbaum. “They are newcomers who have no understanding of how to fight against the Zionists. We have waged war against the Zionists for more than 60 years but have never seen this kind of lawlessness and chaos. The citizens of Jerusalem are living terribly difficult lives because of these people, and there is no one taking responsibility and authorizing this type of disruptive behavior.”
Demonstrators have continued to wreak havoc in Jerusalem in recent weeks, with protesters attempting to disrupt the Jerusalem marathon, a large event that drew 25,000 runners and thousands of spectators. Police also clashed with Charedim who hung IDF soldiers in effigy on Purim
“People need to go to learn and to work, and entire roadways are impassable because of the protests,” said Rabbi Teitelbaum. “A woman who is giving birth cannot get to the hospital. These actions are irresponsible and cause every resident of Jerusalem to suffer. There is no excuse for this type of behavior.”
Problems that affect the Charedi community are not unique to Israel, explained the Satmar Rebbe, noting that the recent issues that have arisen in regard to metzitzah b’peh have created enormous tension in New York.
“Yet it has never occurred to anyone to shut down the streets of Williamsburg in protest,” said Rabbi Teitelbaum. “It would be easy to create chaos by shutting down the streets in New York City but no one would ever do it, yet in Jerusalem they do. Who is allowing this? It is unacceptable.”
The Satmar Rebbe also noted that he is very troubled by a recent increase in Charedi enrollment in the army. He reiterated Satmar’s long standing opposition to military service and called on Charedi rabbonim to speak out strongly against joining the IDF.
Faced with these issues, Rabbi Teitelbaum called for Monday to be a day of prayer and urged his followers to pray for the draft to be annulled and for the violence and disruption to end, but made it clear that he in no way supported those who have been promoting disruptive protests.
“Our prayers today should not in any way be considered as an approval of the actions of these misguided zealots and their divisive riots,” said Rabbi Teitelbau. “Violence is not our way.”
Arrests and searches in Betar Illit, Bnei Brak, and Jerusalem for community sex crime cover up.
The Israeli Police announced an undercover investigation into sexual crimes committed in Charedi communities and in neighborhoods in Betar Illit, Bnei Brak, and Jerusalem. In the overnight operation police arrested 22 suspects and searched homes.
The crimes were allegedly committed over a period of two years. The ongoing investigation gathered evidence against suspects who carried out crimes within the communities.
Community members did not report the information to authorities or social workers and tried to cover up the sexual crimes that were being committed.
Members of the community preferred to employ "law of the jungle" methods to deal with the crimes. The incidents were documented by members of the community and police acquired this evidence.
The ages of the suspects arrested range between 20 and 60 years old.
Police were faced with disturbances in the Charedi communities during the arrests and damage was caused to police cars involved in the operation.
All suspects are being questioned at the Jerusalem police department and will appear before the courts based on the developments of the investigation.
Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the UN, on Monday afternoon spoke at the 2017 AIPAC policy conference in Washington, DC, and stressed that “there’s a new sheriff in town” at the United Nations.
“I was confused” when she saw that Israel was the focus of discussions on the Middle East at the UN, admitted Haley, adding she expected the discussions to focus on issues such as Syria, the Islamic State (ISIS) and Hezbollah, not on Israel.
“I didn’t expect an Israel bashing session. I knew they said it was bad, but until you hear it and see it, you can’t comprehend how ridiculous it is,” she added.
The Ambassador criticized the nuclear deal signed between Iran and six world powers.
“When the Iran deal took place, all it did was empower Iran and Russia and it emboldened Iran. We’re going to watch Iran like a hawk. We’re going to make sure that everything they do is watched, processed and dealt with,” promised Haley. “Why [the Iran deal] was ever allowed to go through, why it was ever passed, is beyond me. It’s terrible.”
She stressed that she’s not at the UN “to play. What I wanted to make sure is that the United States starts leading. Leading is not saying things when it’s comfortable. It’s saying and doing things when it’s not comfortable.”
The goal “is to have the backs of our allies”, said Haley, and ensure that something like the anti-Israel Resolution 2334, which criticized Israeli “settlements”, never happens again.
“When Resolution 2334 happened, and the U.S. abstained, the entire country felt a kick in the gut. Never before have we not had the backs of our friends. We don’t have a better friend than Israel. To see that happen was hurtful…today, everyone at the UN is scared to talk to me about Resolution 2334. I wanted them to understand that it happened, but it will never happen again.”
“The days of Israel bashing [at the UN] are over,” Haley declared. “We have a lot of things to talk about. There are a lot of threats to peace and security, but you’re not going to take our number one democratic friend in the Middle East and beat up on it.”
She cited two recent incidents at the UN in which the United States had Israel’s back and was able to get the UN to change its position.
“When they decided to try to put a Palestinian in one of the highest positions they had ever been given at the UN, we said no, and we had him booted out,” she said, referring to the UN’s decision to appoint former PA leader Salam Fayyad as its envoy to Libya.
“Until the Palestinian Authority does what it’s supposed to, there are no freebies for the Palestinian Authority anymore,” stressed Haley.
“Then they tested us again and this ridiculous report comparing Israel to an apartheid state comes out,” she continued, in reference to the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) report which accused Israel of imposing “apartheid” on Palestinian Arabs.
The first thing the American mission did in response to the report was call Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres and demand he pull the report, noted Haley. Gutteres indeed pulled the report and subsequently the head of ESCWA, Rima Khalaf, resigned.
“So for anybody who says that you can't get anything done at the UN, they need to understand that there's a new sheriff in town,” declared Haley.
She thanked the public, who welcomed her with warm applause, for their support, but stressed, “All I did was tell the truth.”
The Chareidie fooled the frum soldier into thinking that he was getting a blessing ...he then put his hand on the soldier's head to "give him the bracha" but instead called him "Chardak" "cockroach".. The soldier had enough of this crap and beat the hell out of the Chareidie... Some have claimed that the Chareidie is mentally retarded .....that is absolutely not true ....he had enough brains to fool the soldier .... Soldiers have to finally stand up and fight this insanity ....I'll bet this "mentally retarted" guy will never ever fool another Frum Soldier again ...
The Badatz Eida Chareidis and the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg have announced that they stand firmly behind the position of the "gangster" Auerbach in his battle against registering for and serving in the IDF.
The letter from the Bais Din Tzedek of Congregation Yetav Lev, speaks of the “Shouts heard in Eretz Yisroel from Acheinu Bnei Yisrael” due to the “government of Kofrim”, and talks about the “tens and hundreds of yeshiva Bochrim” that have been jailed.
As such, Monday erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan, Yom Kippur Koton, has been declared a special Yom Tefilla due to the situation in Israel.
“למען אחינו בנ”י הנתונים בצרה, קבענו יום תפילה וזעקה ואמירת יו”כ קטן בער”ח ניסן יום ב’ ויקרא הבעל”ט להצטרף עם אחנב”י בכל מקומות מושבתם ולהתאסף בבתי מדרשות לאמירת תהלים ולעורר רחמים להתחנן לפני אבינו שבשמים שיאמר לצרות ישראל די, ולהעביר ולבטל הגזירות הקשות, ויציל את השארית הנאמנה מיד הקמים עליהם, וכל היועץ עליהם עצה ומחשבה רעה תופר עצתו ותקלקל מחשבתו, וזרועות רשעים תשברנה ולא תעשינה ידיהם תושיה. והן קל כביר לא ימאס תפילת רבים”
The rebbe (the fool) added “Eis Ratzon Hi L’Yaakov due to the harsh gezeiros of the evil rule which seeks to swallow up all that is holy to us,” calling on anash to take part in the Yom Tefilla.
The official statements of support from the Eida and Satmar gives a significant push to the Peleg Yerushalmi branch in their battle against the IDF.
A registered sex offender from Rockland County admitted Wednesday that he repeatedly fondled a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark, federal authorities said.
Yoel Oberlander, 36, of Monsey pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark to assault with the intent to stalk, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick said.
Oberlander was sitting next to the victim and her mother on a May 29 El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Newark Liberty International Airport, Fitzpatrick said.
During the flight, he admitted Wednesday, he "touched [the victim] in the area of her chest, upper thigh, and hand without her consent, and that he did so with the intent to harass and intimidate her," Fitzpatrick said.
Records show Oberlander pleaded guilty in New York in 2002 to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. He was sentenced to six months probation and moved to Monsey in 2005, records show.
Oberlander also was arrested on trespassing charges in 2012 after police said he entered a boys' dormitory at a Catskills sleep-away camp for Orthodox boys 13 and 14 years old.
Fitzpatrick credited special agents of the FBI, along with Port Authority police. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Melissa M. Wangenheim and Joyce M. Malliet of Fitzpatrick's Criminal Division in Newark are handling the case.
The Coalition for Jewish Values today harshly condemned “specious accusations of anti-Semitism” coming from sectors of the Jewish community, directed at US government officials and the Trump Administration as a whole, dismissing these allegations as “unfounded, damaging and embarrassing.”
CJV Senior Rabbinic Fellow Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer remarked, “these recriminations are clearly motivated by politics, as they lack logic and defy objective facts. Critics are deliberately ignoring the Administration’s concrete actions of friendship and vocal support for the State of Israel and Jewish values.”
“We have seen this repeatedly,” said Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Director of the CJV. “Steve Bannon, Michael Anton, Sebastian Gorka, and President Trump himself. Unless you redefine anti-Semitism as ‘advocating conservative values,’ not one of these men qualifies.”
CJV Senior Rabbinic Fellow Rabbi Dov Fischer added, “Jewish Americans owe a profound and deep apology to these men and to so many others in American conservative circles who have been slandered as ‘anti-Jewish’ despite their profound, consistent, and lifelong support for Israel, the Jewish community and Jewish interests.”
Concerning the Trump Administration, the CJV pointed to the open friendship with Jews and Israel of the President, Vice President Pence, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, to cite but a few examples, and the extraordinary steps US officials have taken to counter anti-Semitic bigotry at the UN and restore close collaboration with the government of Israel.
“The accusations of Jew-hatred are contrived and hollow,” added CJV Senior Rabbinic Fellow Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, “and serve only to mask real Jew-hatred that is occurring throughout the world and which the Trump Administration is vigorously fighting.”
“There is something unprecedented and malevolent in these manufactured accusations,” said CJV Senior Rabbinic Fellow Rabbi Aryeh Spero. “False accusations against individuals with long histories of genuine friendship towards the Jewish people and State of Israel can cause nothing but alienation of our friends and allies.
But die-hard liberals seem not to care, showing that their primary loyalty is to the advancement of liberal politics and power over truth and the interests of the Jewish people. Their indifference to anti-Semitism from the Left affirms that their religion and worship is political liberalism.”
Bolstering this claim, Rabbi Gordimer added that “these same individuals endorse purported friends of the State of Israel who mouth vague platitudes of friendship while consistently stabbing Israel in the back.”
Rabbi Spero elaborated:
“Hypocritically, they have been absolutely quiet regarding vile anti-Semitism coming from Islamic groups, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. Keith Ellison, and were cheerleaders for Obama’s Iran Deal, though Iranian leaders boasted that the deal would enable it to destroy Israel and murder its Jewish citizens.”
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), a national organization directed by prominent rabbinic leaders, articulates an authentic Jewish perspective on current events, and promotes Jewish values through writing and teaching derived from traditional Jewish thought.
According to Bloomberg, the 2017 "Happiest Country Index" , The Zionist State of Israel rates as number 11 while the US, rates 14....... something to think about!
In respect to health, the Bloomberg 2017 "Healthiest Country Index"the Zionist State of Israel rates 9th, while the USA rates 34
This old bachelor, Shmuel Auerbach, the leader of the "Pelegs" and the Litvisher Al Sharpton, has gone off the deep end and called for his crazed sheep to close all main highways in Israel to protest the arrest of three of his folowers! It should be noted that ALL Gedoilim, be they litvish or Chassidish are opposed to him... some have even referred to him as a זקן ממרה
His followers are guys that never punched a clock in their entire lives and think nothing of stopping cars, buses loaded with working people attempting to get home to see their wives and children.
A Titan Airways flight from Stansted, London to Rzeszow, Poland had to make an emergency landing in Amsterdam on Sunday.
The flight was carrying mainly ultra-Orthodox Jewish passengers said to be on a pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, one of the founding rabbis of the Hassidic movement, who died in 1787.
When the cabin lost pressure the plane sent out a mayday call and ultimately landed safely Sunday morning at Schipol Airport in the Dutch capital, according to British media.
In pictures and videos from the incident, the passengers were seen wearing oxygen masks, praying and singing singing “Ani Ma’amin”.
None of the 272 passengers and crew were injured in the incident.
An airline spokesman said “there were no injuries amongst the passengers and crew but on arrival the aircraft was met by emergency service personnel as a precaution to ensure the welfare of the passengers.”
