“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Friday, January 25, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Naftali Moster "crying" That Isaac Abraham is Threatening Him!
I don't like complaining or playing the victim card, but I think occasionally it's important to share with the public the stress affiliated with my work because I do count on your support and encouragement to get by. I usually don't show it, but at times it's pretty unbearable.
Every single day I worry where the next attack or threat will come from. There are times where I obsessively have to check our security cameras and check on family members to see if they're ok.
I know people are accustomed to this and practically expect me to be the target of attacks, both character attacks and potentially physical ones. Friends ask me all the time what precautions I take to ensure mine and my family's safety. When I go around speaking in synagogues and other places I often get asked point blank “how are you not dead?” But none of this is normal, and it's sad that we expect so little professionalism and restraint from our opponents who are defending the status quo in the Yeshivas. My counterparts in other advocacy groups, such as Alliance for Quality Education, don't receive these threats (I think). My counterparts at Masbia don't face these threats (I imagine). Unfortunately to the contrary, it's people like the father & son Rappaport who attack me daily.
I have spent a lot more time on the phone and in person with police and detectives than I'd like to or than I should have to. And these things aren't clear cut. When you find the person who made a direct threat at you, you don't really get to celebrate or make an example out of them.
Like that time I got an explicit death threat in Yiddish in a voicemail. No one knows this part of the story: The police tracked him down to a home in Williamsburg. He begged me not to press charges, so I asked him to make a public apology. He wrote me a letter apologizing, but in it he begged me not to make it public because he's a divorcee and in his community that's already a huge stigma which would be exacerbated. What am I going to do? Ruin his life? He's a victim of the system.
Then there was an incident that happened a few weeks ago when someone emailed Yaffed and cursed me to get a disease and die a painful death. Many people saw that email. What you don't know is that less than 24 hours later a man by that last name showed up at my home while I was away and dropped off a strange little package of homemade food with my unsuspecting wife (who didn't know his last name matched the one of the email sender). The terror that I experienced when I got the innocent call from my wife that some nice guy dropped off food for me, and me realizing that other than that email I don't know anyone by that last name. So we spent Friday night filing a complaint with a police officer because we weren't sure what was in the food. The crazy thing is it may have been a fan, someone who meant well. And that's the most disturbing thing that we can't appreciate a good gesture (if it was). Again, there's no resolution to that mystery.
Then there's this “spokesperson,” Isaac Abraham (see pic) and his not-so-subtle threat. And the army of Twitter trolls, including an elected official from Rockland county, who share my pictures, my cell number, my former home address, my salary etc. Now they're going over old tweets and stuff. You wonder how much money they spend trying to dig up or fabricate dirt on you, to destroy you, so that you can't keep up your work.
If there's one person out there who can handle this kind of stress, I'm sure I've proven to be that person. But why should I have to?
Again, if we expect this from them, it's because we've gotten used to it and have a low regard for the community and/or its leaders. I, for one, don't accept the status quo, and I expect there to be a certain level of professionalism where we can argue and disagree on the issues without intimidating and attacking those advocating for change.
Sorry for the rant.
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“Schnapps vs. Wine” For Kiddush Day ... A Halachic Analysis
Rav Moshe Feinstein rules that you may make day-time kiddush on any alcoholic drink you would serve a guest. This leniency is because daytime kiddush is only of rabbinic origin, while night-time kiddush is of biblical origin.
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
It can be called the Great “Schnapps vs. Wine” Wars.
Well, my father, and his father, had this minhag from Europe!”
“Yes, but the Mishna Brurah, holds that -”
“I don’t care what the Mishna Brurah says – that was written for those people without a family minhag!”
These arguments have been heard in shuls since this author was a child and probably long before that too.
It is Shabbos morning. You desperately need to hear Kiddush in order to eat or drink something or you will nearly pass out. Someone offers to make Kiddush for you and does so – on a small one ounce Schnapps glass of whiskey. What is the halacha?
THE KIDDUSH OBLIGATIONS
In this week’s Parasha, we lein the Aseres haDibros – the Ten Commandments. In commandment number four we read, “Remember the Shabbos day to keep it holy.” From here, the Rabbis derived that there is a Torah obligation to sanctify Shabbos with Kiddush. The Kiddush on Shabbos day (as opposed to the Friday night Kiddush) is a Rabbinic obligation. On both Kiddush obligations, the Rabbis obligated its recitation upon wine (Psachim 106a) – when available. On the Friday evening Kiddush, however, if wine is not available – it may be recited upon challah or bread.
Frum Family Kicked Off American Airlines Flight After Passengers Complain About Body Odor
The following is via Local10:
A family vacationing in Miami told Local 10 News they were booted from their flight after passengers complained about their body odor.
“There’s no body odor that we have,” Yossi Adler said Thursday morning at Miami International Airport. “There’s nothing wrong with us.”
Adler, his wife and their 19-month-old daughter were preparing to fly back home to Detroit on Wednesday night when they were escorted off their American Airlines flight.
“All of a sudden, as soon as they took us off, they closed the gate and then they said, ‘Sorry, sir, some people complained you had body odor and we’re not letting you back on,'” Adler recalled.
The Adlers said they were told their luggage would be taken off the plane, but that didn’t happen, leaving them with only the clothes on their backs.
“They have our car seat, stroller, everything,” Jennie Adler said.
American Airlines sent a statement to Local 10 on Wednesday night acknowledging the reason for their removal.
6 Biggest Losers of Last Week’s Fake News Fiasco
This is an analysis of “reputational damage,” meaning organizations and individuals who have damaged (or further damaged) their public standing.
For that reason, you won’t find CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC News, or Bill Kristol on this list. As reprehensible as their behavior has been over the past week, their reputations are already in the toilet.
But there were those with residual integrity who did take a hit, and in some cases, a major one.
BuzzFeed’s fake news about President Trump suborning perjury and the media jihad to demonize the innocent boys of Covington Catholic High School came with a real cost.
Democrat Presidential Hopefuls Court Anti-Semite Al Sharpton, Ignore That He Was Responsible For Killing Yankel Rosenbaum
Dumb Jew Bloomberg hugging the Jew Murderer |
Democratic presidential hopefuls are courting Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network (NAN) as they jockey for support in the increasingly crowded 2020 primary field — ignoring Sharpton’s controversial history.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg both joined Sharpton and NAN for a breakfast in Washington, DC, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day on Monday morning.
Sharpton has a long history of controversial racial rhetoric. In the notorious Tawana Brawley case in 1987, Sharpton backed a teenager’s false accusations of rape, stirring racial divisions in New York and across the country. When he was successfully sued for defamation, he refused to pay the judgement, and supporters had to step in on his behalf. Sharpton still refuses to apologize for his role.
In 1991, Sharpton helped incite riots against religious Jews in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn after a black child was killed in a car accident. An enraged mob murdered a visiting Jewish religious student, Yankel Rosenbaum.
Rosenbaum’s brother told Breitbart News in 2012: “I have never seen a person be able to avoid being held accountable in substantive terms for his various and significant serious otherwise well publicized misdeeds over such a prolonged period of time, as Sharpton. This is truly an indictment on all those who have done so in the past and continue to do so.”
In another riot in 1995, Sharpton led protests against Freddy’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned store in Harlem, after it was forced to raise the rent on a sub-tenant, a black-owned record store. (Sharpton called the owner a “white interloper.”)
One of the protesters later shot four employees and set the store on fire, bringing the death total to seven.
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PAID NIS 502M TO TERRORIST PRISONERS
The Palestinian Authority spent at least NIS 502 million in payments to terrorist prisoners in 2018, according to a report released Thursday by the Israeli research institute Palestinian Media Watch.
PMW has provided the Ministry of Defense with its calculations ahead of a first-time implementation of the Stern Law, an Israeli law that was approved in July 2018 and that is supposed to be implemented for the first time in January 2019.
The law mandates that the government deduct on a monthly basis one-twelfth of the sum given to support terrorists and their families from the taxes and tariffs Israel collects and transfers to the Palestinian Authority based on the amount distributed in the previous year – in this case, in 2018.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Chareidim in Brooklyn, All Supported Democrat Candidates And Now They Are Set To Legalize Abortion Up To Birth
It is a sad and evil day when the murder of our most innocent and vulnerable is celebrated with such overwhelming exuberance.
We SHOULD be supporting and encouraging the building of families which are fundamental to any society.
now your wives and daughters will able to abort right until they are about to give birth ....
Did you guys ever give any thought when you guys pushed these pro-gay/lesbian, transgender, candidates?
Is it only about how much money you guys get for the "moisdos?'....
Don't Jews stand for Torah values anymore?????
Stop screaming about "Gius" and how the Zionists are "shmading" Klal Yisroel in Israel....
Hypocrites ...first clean up your own filthy houses!!!
New York state enacted one of the nation’s strongest protections for abortion rights Tuesday, a move that state leaders say was needed to safeguard those rights should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Democrat-led Senate and Assembly passed the bill Tuesday, the 46th anniversary of the Roe decision. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo immediately signed it into law. At his side at a hastily arranged signing ceremony was Sarah Weddington, the Texas attorney who successfully argued Roe before the nation’s highest court.
Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky Will Have A 3rd Goy While Preaching "Abortion" to the "Shvartzas"
While her Jewish husband Marc Mezvinsky is busy breeding more Goyim, his wife preaches to the "Shvartzas" they should abort....
Its ok for her to multiply like a rabbit but not for her black sisters!
Chelsea Clinton is pregnant.
It will be the third child for Clinton and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, who married in 2010 and have a four-year-old daughter Charlotte and two-year-old son Aidan.
The former first daughter shared the news on Twitter, writing: 'Marc and I have loved watching Charlotte be such a wonderful big sister and we’re excited to watch Aidan become a big brother! We cannot wait to meet our newest addition later this summer.'
Clinton, 38, later noted that her parents are 'thrilled' to be welcoming a third grandchild.
She had been seen with her mother and Mezvinsky, 41, last week, catching a performance of The Ferryman on Broadway, where they were joined by Barry Diller and Annette de la Renta.
Partial List of Deliberate Fake News to Destroy Trump!!!
Press "Read More" Immediately Below To Read The Rest
Messiach will come before the elections in Israel ....Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
Let's keep in mind that Yaakov Aveenu didn't reveal when Moshiach will come ;;;;
I guess we live in a different world!
I guess we live in a different world!
Egypt May Solve Its Shidduch Crises With Polygamy
What? Are they totally wrong?
(i'm talking about Goyim, of course, even though in Judaism bigamy or polygamy is prohibited only by the "cherem Rabbeinu Gershom")
There could be an argument that most women would like to have children in their lives, the solution in the west is for them to sleep around and be single mothers, which is not good for anyone, or they just grow old alone and gather a bunch of cats as surrogates.
Allowing multiple wives maybe a more moral way for dealing with this issue, it's not for everyone obviously, but for some people it seems like a solution!
(i'm talking about Goyim, of course, even though in Judaism bigamy or polygamy is prohibited only by the "cherem Rabbeinu Gershom")
There could be an argument that most women would like to have children in their lives, the solution in the west is for them to sleep around and be single mothers, which is not good for anyone, or they just grow old alone and gather a bunch of cats as surrogates.
Allowing multiple wives maybe a more moral way for dealing with this issue, it's not for everyone obviously, but for some people it seems like a solution!
From Palestinian Arab to Charedi yeshiva student
Eleven years ago, Ibrahim, a 14-year-old Palestinian Arab from Judea, came to pre-1967 Israel for the first time.
Today, Ibrahim is Avraham, a yeshiva student at a Charedi yeshiva in Bnei Brak.
When he first crossed the pre-1967 Green Line, Avraham was an illegal worker residing in the coastal city of Netanya.
After moving to Israel, Avraham – then still Ibrahim – became acquainted with Jewish law, Jewish tradition, and the Charedi community through a friend an employer who provided him with a place to stay, and eventually introduced Ibrahim to his family.
“I met a man who really helped me. He gave me a place to live. I worked for him for a very long period of time. He introduced me to his family, a Charedi family – they’re religious,” Avraham told Hadashot 12.
Spending his teenage years among haredi Jews in Bnei Brak and Netanya, Avraham picked up the basics of Jewish culture and tradition.
Fake News Speaks With Forked Tongue .... Made An "Alter Kocker Indian With A Drum" A Big Hero :)!
A group of Catholic high school kids from Kentucky participated in the “March For Life” last weekend.
They were waiting for their bus to pick them up at the Lincoln Memorial. They wore red “MAGA” caps. An older Indian gentleman happened to show up and he was beating on a drum. He walked right up to one of the kids and banged his drum within inches of the kids face while chanting in his native tongue in an effort to intimidate. Turns out, he’s a far left professional agitator and funded by Deep State outfits such as the Rockefeller Foundation.
The far lefty twitter mobs instantly began calling for the murder of the ‘racist’ young men claiming the “racist” MAGA kids were taunting and surrounding an Indian “veteran”. This assumption was biased on an edited video that was used to frame the young kids. One verified Twitter user tweeted that that they wished the young children’s school should be burned—with the kids locked inside. Twitter was OK with this. Another called for them to be put in wood chippers. We’ve heard these cries of violence from the left before. They scream out the ‘crime’ of racism toward targeted conservatives and then pronounce the sentence of violence.
The left is trying to turn Trump’s phrase, “Make America Great Again” into a meme of hate. MAGA hat wearers are called ‘white supremacists’ or ‘Nazis.’ That makes it OK for the left to dox Trump supporters and get them fired from their jobs and make them targets of violence. Their tactic is based on lies. Making America Great Again is open to all races and it will benefit everyone. The Deep State doesn’t want that. The Deep State wants us to be divided, fighting each other.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Iran Spending $7 Billion Annually to Destroy Israel.....
This is the same Iran, that R' Aron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe Monroe, supported, by writing to US Congressman not to invite Bibi Natanyahu to address Congress and warn them of Iran's Murderous Intentions...
This is the Iran, that Ezra Friedlander, supported by writing letters to the Frum Jewish Community that they should support Fat Nadler in his quest to bolster the murderous "Iran Deal."
Iran is trying to act against Israel from within Yehudah and Shomron, using funds in its annual budget that are dedicated to operating a terrorist network throughout the Middle East, Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, revealed Tuesday to a special session of the Security Council on the Mideast situation.
Chareidie Mother of 10 convicted of injecting healthy son with insulin for welfare $$$
The Jerusalem District Court on Monday convicted a resident of the city of abusing her infant son after she repeatedly injected him with insulin in June of last year, even though he does not have diabetes.
The woman, a 30-year-old ultra-Orthodox mother of 10, admitted as part of a plea deal that she injected her one-year-old son on four occasions while he was hospitalized at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, causing his blood sugar levels to drop dangerously.
The mother supposedly did this to create the appearance that her child had diabetes in order to falsely claim welfare benefits. Though the police investigation involved suspicions that the mother had taken similar action with several of her other children, the eventual indictment only dealt with the infant’s case.
Her sentence will be given at a later date.
Police said at the time of the indictment that the woman and her husband, who was also arrested but later released, received some NIS 800,000 ($220,000) in total and that the benefit claim would be investigated.
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