Itshak Holtz Frum Artist Passes Away At 93

Itshak Holtz, a realist artist whose iconic paintings of Jewish scenes adorn thousands of homes, as well as art galleries and museums, passed away Friday, December 21, 2018. He was 93. 

Born in Skiernewice, Poland in 1925, Holtz had a passion for art from the age of five. After studying in art academies in Jerusalem and New York, Holtz embarked on an artistic career that would span more than a half-century. 

During his lifetime, he was called the greatest living Jewish artist, with his paintings commanding six-figure sums, by far the costliest and most sought-after of any Jewish artist. 

Why Are The Satmar Kestenbaums Hounding Blogger "Lost Messiah?"

Joel Kestenbaum

Louis Kestenbaum

                   

There is a blogger out there called Lost Messiah that is being hounded like a dog by a bunch of rich Satmar Chassidim......

She is Julie Globus,  recently unmasked and outed by the Satmar Kestenbaums that own a company called the Fortis Property Group. 

For two and a half years, the Rockland County resident -- a  wife, mother and attorney -- wrote an anonymous blog under the name Lostmessiah and started investigating the company the Kestenbaums own, The Fortis Property Group, and must have hit the jackpot,  she must have touched a raw nerve.

The Satmar Kestenbaums engaged a major law firm to bring a defamation and libel suit against her, to seek to shut her up. This law suit demanded that their very own documents used to justify their lawsuit be sealed by the court from public view.????

Questions: 
Is there something sinister going on with the Kestenbaums that they are so frightened of Julie Globus??

Why are they insisting that the documents they filed to sue Globus, be sealed????

What are the Kestenbaums hiding???? 

Why are the Kestenbaums threatening anyone that dare ask questions??? 

Why do they insist on hounding Mrs. Globus???

Julie Globus has set up  a GoFundMe page to cover her attorney costs to get the Kestenbaum documents unsealed, if you can find it in your heart to help her out financially, it would be appreciated...
You can donate "anonymously."

ARCHAEOLOGISTS CONFIRM: Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone falling from the sky

A group of archeologists and other scientists say they have discovered strong evidence that the region of the “Middle Ghor,” where the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are believed to have existed, were in fact destroyed by a meteor that exploded in the sky above, raining down superheated matter and raising temperatures to thousands of degrees, a theory that matches the account of the cities’ destruction contained in the Book of Genesis.

According to the theory, the meteor exploded at low altitude with the force of a ten megaton atomic bomb at an altitude of about one kilometer over the northeast corner of the Dead Sea, and obliterated all of civilization in the 25-kilometer-wide circular plain that constitutes the “Middle Ghor.”

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's Daughter Suing Rabbi For Calling Her "Reform."

A law suit in Israel seeks to have the term "Reform" officially recognized as a defamatory insult.

In the libel suit brought by Adina Bar Shalom — a daughter of the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef – against Rabbi David Benizri, a prominent supporter of the Shas movement whom she said defamed her, the adjective “Reform” is listed among the slights.

The dispute began just after a woman, Dr. Aliza Bloch, was elected mayor of the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh, which has a significant Charedi population.

Bar Shalom spoke in favor of women’s rights during the campaign, sparking the rabbi’s fury, according to an article published Dec. 16 in the news site Srugim.

Naming the late Yosef, Benizri wrote in a letter to followers:

 “I pity his Reform daughter, the accursed wicked woman, who came here and spoke in the name of the Rabbinate and for the so-called Women’s Council of Beit Shemesh. Bitter will be her day of judgment, bitter will be her day of reproach.”

Benizri, brother of a former Shas lawmaker, quickly realized he had crossed a line in what he wrote about Bar Shalom, whose father was a seminal leader of Shas, and apologized in an op-ed published in the Keren Or local news site.

“I had a complicated few days, including insomnia,” he wrote in a rare apology for a rabbi of his stature. “I never should have said what I did and I feel bad about it. So I want to convey here an apology and I hope she accepts it.”

But Bar Shalom said she has no intention of burying the hatchet, telling Ynet she is preparing a libel suit for $80,000 against Benizri.

“I am not Reform and his intention was to defame me and my family. I will not let it go,” she said. 

“People like him harm the Charedi public terribly and he should learn his lashing out has its price.”

Poisoned Kugel Served At A Kiddush in Beitar Illit!

Mispallalim at the Darchei Torah Shul on HaHozeh M'Lublin Street in Betar Illit detected a chemical flavor in the kugel served at the end of Shabbat morning services, the Kikar Shabbat website reported.

According to the report, some worshipers began to vomit. Shul officials came to the kitchen to examine the scene and discovered a can of K300 insect spray on the kitchen floor.

Shul officials suspect that boys entered the shul's kitchen late on Friday night and sprayed the kugel with poisons they found in the shul's warehouse as a prank.

Shul officials are considering filing a police complaint.

The Israel Poison Information Center of the Health Ministry is the National Poison Center of Israel. They provide expert advice on poisonings to the general public via a telephone hotline that operates 24/7. 

They also answer questions on drugs, their effects, and allergic reactions. The Poison Hotline's number is 04-854-1900.

Day Yoimie Snippets ... Chullin 19, 20, 21,22, 23, 24, & 25

You can copy and print this without my consent, since Torah belongs to all of us..... 

See  previous Daf Yoimie Snippets 

"דף י''ט.."רובו ככולו     

Page 19  Mesectas Chullin  

"If You Did Most of a Task, It's As If You Completed It" 

One of the Halachois that is discussed the most in Mesactas Chullin, is the concept of "רובו ככולו" .    

This principle was established by the rabbis, because in some instances, if one does most of a particular  mitzvah, he is exempt from completing it ... and he gets the credit as if he did the entire mitzvah.

Press "read more" immediately below to continue to the rest of the dafim!

Belzer Rebbetzin on Her Wedding Day!

Is Trump pulling all US forces out of Syria "Good For The Jews??"

How are we to understand a move that seems to advance the interests of all of the US’s worst enemies at the expense of its closest allies?

US forces were first deployed to Syria in 2014 as part of an international anti-Islamic-State coalition. At the time, then president Barack Obama was engaged in negotiations with the Iranian regime toward the nuclear deal.

Obama’s embrace of Iran was part of an overall strategic realignment of the US away from its traditional Sunni Arab allies and Israel toward Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. As Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told an audience of pro-Obama activists at the time, Obama viewed his embrace of Iran through nuclear talks as the central policy of his second term.

Since Sunni ISIS was perceived as hostile to Shi’ite Iran, by fighting ISIS, Obama was achieving two goals: He was helping Iran by getting rid of a powerful adversary in Iraq and Syria, and he was selling the idea to the American public that Iran was their ally in a common war against ISIS.

US forces in Syria were given a very narrow mandate. They were prohibited from taking any action against Iran or Iranian-backed forces.

100 Year Old Still Drives & Works ......

Toronto Group Say Kaddish for Palestinian Terrorists!

May they continue saying Kaddish for Terrorists until all of the Terrorists gets killed!

ifNotNow is a relatively new Jewish organization that opposes the policies of the Israeli government, voices pro-Palestinian positions, and criticizes the Jewish establishment in North America for its “silence” over Israel’s “crimes” against the Palestinian people.

DIN READS YOU MIND >>>>> SO DON'T MESS WITH ME!

Veronica Brooks Teaches Us A Lesson In Life!

Muslims Decapitate Two Girl Tourists in Morocco But Media Covers It Up and Call it "Stabbings"

Two female tourists from Scandinavia have been found dead in Morocco, local police announced today.

The bodies of the women, from Norway and Denmark were found near the town of Imlil in the High Atlas mountains with knife wounds to their necks. A Muslim man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the Moroccan Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation.

Victims Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, of Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were discovered stabbed in the neck Monday by other tourists.

The killings have shocked Morocco, a popular tourist destination where such attacks on foreigners are extremely rare.

The Rabat public prosecutor's office said in a statement Wednesday that the only captured suspect has affiliations to a terrorist group, without naming the group.

Footage of the horrifying attack shared on social media shows a blond woman screaming while a man cuts her neck with what appears to be a sharp kitchen knife.

“This is for Syria, here are the heads of your gods,” a man can be heard saying in French in the video

Moroccan media outlets say there is footage showing three suspects putting up a tent near the victims’ camp and leaving the area after the murders. 

Earlier reports said the killings were sexually motivated.

Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss Engaged!

Satmar Rebbe Prediction in 1967 that there "will be no Torah Institutions in Israel in 20 Years" Proves False!! RECORD NUMBER: 124,450 Avreichim And Yeshiva Bochrim In Eretz Yisrael

When I talk to my Satmar buddies, they keep pointing out to me how R' Yoel Teitelbaum, founder of Satmar Chassidus SHIT'ah was proven correct vis a vis  the status of the State of Israel.....

I cry and I laugh when I hear this silly naive remarks ....

I cry because his prediction in 1943, that Hitler ym"s would never enter Hungary and Romania may have inadvertently caused the deaths of thousands of his followers ...... 

Of course, how would he really know as he himself admitted in a Shalosh Seuda drasha on Parshas Shlach in 1967 that he "is not a novie and not the son of a novie" (why he dragged his father into this.. we will never know) and he added that he doesn't have "Ruach Ha'Koidesh.!

It's too bad that instead of taking some blame and blaming other Torah Leaders  of that time that made similar predictions, he blamed ........

who????

Who did he blame  for the Holocaust????

Oh ... I know ..... the Nazis ym"s ....

Nope.... Guess again......

Rav Avraham Yitzchok HaKohein Kook z"l......?

No .... you silly goose .....

He blamed ..... yup .......

He blamed ....... The Zionists!!!

What ... you crazy idiot ....The Zionists didn't have an army, didn't have a state ....had nothing ..... how could  Zionists who  just had some little fragmented groups be responsible for what the Nazis did to the Jews in 1944? 

Aha.......I know it makes absolutely no sense, but they believe that Hashem decided to have the Nazis annihilate 6 million innocent Jews because there were people out there that wanted to return to our homeland and build a country!!!

But but but ....... 

Weren't Jews murdered in crusades, in pogroms, expelled from Spain, Portugal, Brazil and England hundreds of years before Zionism was ever thought of .....??

They answer... "Don't confuse us with the facts." 

And I have to laugh when I listen the CD of R' Yoel Teitelbaum's prediction in 1956 and then later in 1967 that there will absolutely be no Torah Institution in the Zionist State of Israel in "20 years."

He added in that very same drasha that all the Jews living in Israel will no longer be "Shomrei Torah Umitzvois."

There is a record-breaking number of Yeshiva Bochrim and avreichim in Israel, a number that has not been reached since the establishment of the state in 1948. According to the Israel Democracy Institute, in 2017, there were 124,450 bochrim and avreichim sitting and learning in yeshivos nationwide.

According to the 2018 Israel Democracy Institute’s annual report, based on official data from the Central Bureau of Statistics and the government ministries, the IDF and the National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi), there was a sharp increase of more than 30 percent in the number of talmidim compared to 2014. According to the data, this is a new record reflecting a 21% jump in three years.

The ratio vis-à-vis 2013 is due to a decline in that year, when it was a decline of 12.5%, and a year later fell another 3.5%. The following year, the trend reversed and was a 19% jump back to the familiar numbers. Since then, the numbers have continued to rise, and in 2017 the record was set.

The data also indicate that concurrent with the large increase in the number of students in yeshivas and kollels, there is a halt to the entry of chareidim into academic studies, and their number has dropped by 200 student

LEV TAHOR CULT LEADERS ARRESTED IN MEXICO!

Nacham Helbrans right ......Meir Rosner left

Several leaders of the Lev Tahor Cult have just been taken into police custody, YWN has learned exclusively.

They were apprehended in Mexico, in a joint operation between Interpol and the FBI. Police raided two out of three Lev Tahor owned properties in the country in the middle of the night.

The five people in custody are:

• Nachman Helbrans
• Meyer Rosner
• Chaim Yankel Rosner
• Uriel Goldman
• Arye Malka

Additionally, there are a few families of Guatemalans that became Geirim through Lev Tahor but eventually left the cult after learning first hand how horrific the lifestyle was. 

NIKKI HALEY TAKES ON UN’S ANTI-ISRAEL STANCE IN FIERY FAREWELL SPEECH

In the final monthly session of the year, Haley made it absolutely clear that the United States has run out of tolerance for the body’s hostility towards one of America’s biggest allies. 

“The UN has shown itself to be hopelessly biased,” Haley told the body. “This biased obsession is not the path to peace.”

Haley also made it clear that proposed one-sided peace agreements were not acceptable.

“It’s time we faced a hard truth: both sides would benefit greatly from a peace agreement,” Haley said. “But, the Palestinians would benefit more and the Israelis would risk more.”

Haley’s fiery speech included a parting shot at the anti-Semitic passions that are widely believed to be the driving factor being many United Nations’ resolutions.

“Israel is a thriving, strong, prosperous country. It has always wanted peace with its neighbors,” Haley said. 

“No UN resolutions, anti-Semitic boycotts, or terrorists change that.

New York Useful Idiot "Shul" hosts Jew-haters Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory

The Foolish Yentas With the Openly Anti-Semitic Sarsour & Mallory

 Leftist Jews do not represent the Jewish people. 

They are useful idiots for our enemies. As if we don’t have enough people gunning for us — these “Jews” are the public face of “acceptable” antisemitism. 

Linda Sarsour has called for jihad against President Trump, as well as for the slaughter of Jewish families. She has warned against “humanizing” Jews. She avidly supportsthe Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement, an economic boycott of the tiny Jewish state, which mirrors the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in the lead-up to the Holocaust. 

Preceding Kristallnacht, the Nazis held several days calling for Germans to boycott Jewish-owned businesses. BDS is no different. Sarsour was outraged when a police officer and an FBI agent shot and killed a young black Muslim named Usaama Rahim in Boston on June 2, 2015, when Rahim lunged at them with a military-style knife as they attempted to question him about suspected terror-related activities. 

Naturally, Sarsour said: “At the end of the day, a Black man was shot on a bus stop on his way to work and we should treat this like any other case of police violence.” Usaama Rahim was involved in a plot with two other Muslims — their goal was to behead Pamala Geller(see below). And about Sarsour, there’s much more.

Islamic Jew-hatred: it’s in the Quran, and it’s propagated by Linda Sarsour. And now it’s legitimized by Randi Weingarten.

More information on this far-left rabbi here.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), editor-in-chief of Geller Report and Amazon best selling author of the here FATWA: Hunted in America , The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

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Media Celebrates 11-Year-Old Boy Dressing In Drag And Having Dollar Bills Thrown At Him As He Dances In Bar in Brooklyn

I’m pretty sure we as a society would be aghast that this happened in any other circumstance, but it appears that since this event happened in a gay bar and the boy is a famous drag queen then everything that occurred here is somehow a societal positive.

According to the DailyWire, 11-year-old Desmond, known to many as “Desmond is Amazing” appeared at a gay bar in Brooklyn, NY, and danced on stage as patrons threw dollar bills at him. Desmond performed “I’m Just a Girl” by No Doubt, dressed up as a Gwen Stefani-lookalike. 

The Daily Wire reported that even some of the patrons found the entire scene a bit disgusting and left as a result, but many stayed and encouraged the performance by throwing money at the child like a stripper:

Rona Ramon Widow of Astronaut talked about her personal tragedy "How I rose from the ashes'

Rona Ramon was born in Kiryat Ono in 1964.She died from cancer this week at the young age of 54.

She served as a paramedic in the parachute unit in the IDF.

Rona and Ilan Ramon got married when she was 22. They had four children.