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Sunday, May 3, 2020

Belz Yerushalayim Finds Cure for Covid-19

Those of us who are blessed to live in Israel, know that unfortunately, the virus hit the Chareidie world like no other community, and that's because the nature of these communities is to constantly be together, be it three times a day in huge shuls, be it at a wedding or any other simcha that is B"H on a daily basis..

Kiryat Belz in Yerushalayim was especially hit hard, since the Rebbe continued with his tishim and continued with his minyanim...
So how do you get around this and keep the sheep grazing so that they are kept in the dark?

You simple remove the bad news from the newspapers!

The two hebrew newspapers that target the  Chassidishe world, Hamodia and  Hamevaser simply removed the fact that the Belz Community in Yerushalyim are dropping like flies ...

If it's not in the newspaper, then it didn't happen ...
I wonder why the secular news media hasn't come up with this cure?

Notice the newspaper that targets the Litvisher oilom, the Yated has the bad news in its by-line ...

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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Watch the Story Of the Biggest Pandemic Ever - In 1918





Here's a much longer, detailed documentary on the 1918 pandemic:


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The Virus has strengthened Americans' faith - but not for Jews'

To be honest I don't know how many those surveyed were frum, but this is very scary.... even if the ones surveyed weren't frum...

There is a virus out there that's killing people left and right...the economy shut down, malls and bars and nightclubs are shut down... and practically every country in the world is effected, yet there are Jews out there that won't make a "din ve'cheshbon" a self accounting? 

I think that there is something very wrong in our "religious" education. Even if you want to say that those surveyed were not  frum.... then we have to rethink the way we do  "kiruv"..
It seems that we are not reaching our brothers and sisters that have yet to become more observant. 


A new survey found that only 7% of American Jews feel that the coronavirus crisis has strengthened their faith, as opposed to nearly a quarter of Americans as a whole.

The survey, published Thursday by the Pew Research Center, found that Jews had the lowest percentage of respondents whose faith has been strengthened by the crisis. 

Along with the 7% of Jews whose faith has grown stronger, 69% say their faith hasn’t changed much and 22% say they weren’t religious to begin with. A very small percentage, not represented numerically in the study, say their faith has gotten weaker.

In the United States as a whole, 24% of people say their faith has gotten stronger, 2% say it’s gotten weaker, 47% say it hasn’t changed much and 26% say they aren’t religious. 

The group with the largest number of respondents say their faith has gotten stronger is black Protestants, 56% of whom reported strengthening faith.

Maybe we can "dan lekaf zchus'" and say that It’s possible that few Jews responded positively to the “faith” question because the question’s wording referenced “religious faith,” a terminology that tends to be less common among Jews than among Christians.
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B&H Photo furloughs 400 workers after resisting cuts during Pesach

B&H Photo & Electronics furloughed hundreds of employees this week — a move the iconic retailer had resisted for more than a month after its megastore in Manhattan was forced to shutter because of the coronavirus lockdown, The Post has learned.
The 47-year-old electronics seller — whose Manhattan flagship is known for its Orthodox Jewish staff and the elaborate conveyor-belt system that moves merchandise around the shop — furloughed about 400 of its 2,000 employees on Wednesday, sources close to the company said.
In a memo to affected employees, human resources director Izzy Friedman said B&H “waited as long as possible” before making the cuts, and noted the company had been paying and providing benefits for affected workers “through the Passover holiday break, and beyond to make this easier.”
B&H was likewise waiting to “evaluate the various stimulus benefits available,” but was forced in the end to furlough workers because the “crisis has continued with no clear end in sight,” Friedman added.
The furloughs came as a surprise to one B&H staffer, who said the company’s call center, which takes orders from customers across the US, has been “busy as hell” fielding demand for “computers, movie cameras and accessories for setting up a home office” as COVID-19 forces millions nationwide to work from home.
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B&H closed its two-story store at 420 Ninth Ave. at the corner of West 34th Street on March 16, but customers can still pick up their purchases at the side entrance within 30 minutes of placing an order, according to the website.
Owned by the Schreiber family — married couple Blimie and Herman Schreiber opened the first store in 1973 at 17 Warren St. in Tribeca — B&H waited longer than most retailers in the Big Apple to trim its ranks.
“It is our sincerest hope and prayer that this global pandemic and its economic impacts will be temporary, and that in the future we will be able to reverse many of these furloughs,” Friedman wrote in the Wednesday memo.

Friday, May 1, 2020

Kiryas Joel's Open Letter Supporting De'Blasio


This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who knows Satmar mentality ..... They are always  "rosh ve'rishon" first to write "open letters" to rashaim that want to destroy the Jewish people.

It wasn't long ago that the Satmar Rebbe, R' Aron Teitelbaum wrote and encouraged his naive Roumanian followers to write letters to congress backing the murderous Iran deal, that literally handed nuclear weapons to the Mullas of Iran who vowed to wipe Israel off the map! ....

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Zera Shimshon............ Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim




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Saudi Writer Attacks Palestinians: You Aren’t Arabs, The Land Belongs To Israel

During the last few days social media has seen a “tweeting war” between Palestinians and Saudis after Palestinian media published caricatures gloating over the Saudi losses from the sharp drop in oil prices. 

The Palestinians even mocked Saudi consort Mohammed Bin Salman and criticized them for broadcasting pro-Israel sitcoms. 

The Saudis, incensed at Palestinian ingratitude for their financial support, responded angrily. A prominent Saudi writer, Rawff Bin-a-Sa’in, harshly condemned the Palestinians.

Bin-a-Sa’in wrote: 
Palestinian, you are no Arab. You have no land and there is no such thing as the “Palestinian issue.” The land belongs to Israel. Yitzhak Shamir, Rabin, and Golda were heroes. Netanyahu is a coward. Netanyahu, burn these gangsters! Free us and the world from the presence of the Palestinians. Why leave them?
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Thursday, April 30, 2020

A Chasidic Woman in Israel asks: Will this Virus cause Many To turn their Backs to Religion?

One of the most highly regarded rabbis in the community said recently that the word “corona” — the first syllable of which means coldness in Hebrew — has “brought a great spiritual coldness into hearts.”
Before we start shivering, let’s clarify: 
spiritual warmth, or varemkeit, as it is called in Yiddish, is one of the essential components of the Haredi lifestyle, in studying the Torah, and in keeping the commandments. The great rabbi, the Chofetz Chaim, said: The only difference between people is that they are either cold or warm Jews. The ardor, or bren, in performing the commandments, the ever-renewing excitement, the devotion and the joy — this is the glue that binds the one who fulfills the commandments with the holy law, and with all others who perform likewise. The moment these actions turn into a recurring ritual, a technocratic exercise, they lose their taste and are in danger of dissipating.
But this is what the coronavirus has done. It has injected coldness into the entire system. When talk first surfaced about calling off the prayer quorums, I chuckled. I, not one of the fanatics, said to my friends: there’s no way they’ll stop praying in minyans in the synagogues; it just won’t happen. It hasn’t happened since the founding of the state.
But then it did. After a week of trying hard to digest the decree, followed by half a week of outdoor prayer, the daily rituals were then conducted in houses and on balconies. The ritual of skipping out thrice daily to the synagogue was severed! When you pray at home, you can abbreviate the service or skip over the arid passages or not pray at all. When a ritual starts to disintegrate, it keeps on disintegrating and does not stop at a pre-determined point.
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Germany bans Hezbollah, raids mosques

Germany on Thursday completely banned Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement from carrying out activities on its soil, as police raided mosques and venues linked to the group.
Like the European Union, Germany had until now only outlawed Hezbollah's military wing while tolerating its political wing.
But in a shift immediately welcomed by the United States and Israel, the German interior ministry said it now considered the entire movement a "Shiite terrorist organisation".
"Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation deemed responsible for numerous attacks and kidnappings worldwide," Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Germany's Bild daily.
The interior minister "has banned the operation of the group" in Germany with immediate effect, his spokesman tweeted.
"Even in times of crisis the rule of law is upheld," he wrote.
Raids were taking place in several places across the country, he added.
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Satmar Chassidim Go to Ben Gurion's Grave to Beg Forgiveness

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FBI Notes Reveal that they Deliberately Planned An Attack on General Flynn

FBI notes unsealed on Wednesday show that bureau officials discussed whether the goal of an interview with Michael Flynn just days into the Trump administration was “to get him to lie” in order to get him fired or in legal jeopardy, Flynn’s lawyers say.
“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Bill Priestap, who served as FBI’s chief of counterintelligence, wrote in the notes, according to a transcription from Flynn’s attorneys.
Sidney Powell, Flynn’s lead attorney, said Wednesday that the newly unsealed FBI documents show that the FBI “pre-planned a deliberate attack” against Flynn.
She said the records also show that FBI officials intentionally avoided warning Flynn that making false statements to the FBI is a crime.
U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea produced the documents to Flynn’s lawyers on Wednesday. They were discovered last month by the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Missouri, who has been directed to review the Justice Department’s handling of Flynn’s prosecution.
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U.S. Postal Service is Suspending Deliveries to Israel


The US Postal Service is temporarily suspending international mail for certain destinations due to service impacts related to COVID-19, including ISRAEL.

These service disruptions affect Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International, First-Class Mail International, First-Class Package International Service, International Priority Airmail, International Surface Air Lift, and M-Bag items.

In addition, any mail that does make it through is subject to these rules by Israel Postal Service.

Israel Postal Service advises that they will continue to process incoming and outgoing mail, giving priority to premium services such as express mail service and PRIME, and will make every effort to ensure regular distribution of mail.

However, due to government restrictions to minimize spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the post can no longer guarantee service delivery standards and is invoking force majeure with respect to any such standards. Additionally, a signature is no longer required for items requiring signature on delivery, and such items will be left at the door after being scanned and photographed to prove that delivery has been made.


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Vatican Archives Confirm What We Already Knew .... Pope Pius XII knew of Nazi killing of Jews


Researchers studying the newly opened Vatican archives of pope Pius XII have already found evidence that the World War II-era pope knew about the mass killing of Jews from his own sources but kept it from the US government, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing interviews with German scholars.
The archives were opened March 2, but closed soon after due to the coronavirus crisis. Many of the 200 scholars who had applied for access delayed their trips. However, a German team lead by award-winning religious historian Hubert Wolf from the University of Münster made a start and has already found some damning discoveries.

Some Jewish groups and historians have said Pius, who was pope from 1939 to 1958, stayed silent during the Holocaust and didn’t do enough to save lives. His defenders at the Vatican and beyond say he used quiet diplomacy and encouraged convents and other religious institutes to hide Jews.

Wolf last week told Kirche + Leben, a Catholic weekly in Münster, that his team found documents that were excluded from the 11-volume work compiled by Jesuits on the Holocaust four decades ago, apparently to protect Pius and his image.

In September 1942, A US diplomat gave the Vatican a secret report prepared by the Jewish Agency that documented the mass murder of some 100,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. It also said some 50,000 Jews were killed in Lviv in German-occupied Ukraine.
The US asked if the Vatican could confirm the report from its own sources among Catholics, but were told the Vatican could not.
However, in the week the archive was open, Wolf a specialist on the relationship of Pius XII with the Nazis, and his team, discovered a note confirming that Pius had read the American report and also two instances where the Vatican had independently corroborated the reports of the killings.
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One letter from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic archbishop of Lviv, Andrey Sheptytsky, sent a month before the American request, spoke of 200,000 Jews massacred in Ukraine under the “outright diabolical” German occupation.
In another case, an Italian businessman named Malvezzi told Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, the future pope Paul VI, of the “incredible butchery” of Jews he had seen during a visit to Warsaw.
Montini reported this to his superior, the Vatican’s secretary of state Cardinal Luigi Maglione, the report said.
These two reports were detailed in a memo by another staffer at the Secretariat of State, Angelo Dell’Acqua, who later became a cardinal, Wolf told the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit.
In the letter Dell’Acqua warned against believing the Jewish report because Jews “easily exaggerate” and “Orientals” — referring to Archbishop Sheptytsky — “are really not an example of honesty.”
“This is a key document that has been kept hidden from us because it is clearly anti-Semitic and shows why Pius XII did not speak out against the Holocaust,” Wolf told Kirche + Leben.
He said the previously published 11 volumes of documents had also mixed up the chronological order, making it difficult to understand the context of actions taken.
The report also said that researchers had found three photographs “showing emaciated concentration camp inmates and corpses thrown into a mass grave.”
A Jewish informer had given them to the Vatican ambassador, or nuncio, in neutral Switzerland to send to the Vatican, which confirmed reception of them in a letter two weeks later.
Ahead of the opening of the archive Wolf said he was anxious to discover the notes of Pius’s 70 ambassadors — the pontiff’s eyes and ears during his time as head of the Catholic Church between 1939 and his death in 1958.
There should also be records of urgent appeals for help from Jewish organizations, as well as his communications with the late US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
And while the 11 volumes already published have been deeply studied, some crucial pieces are still missing, including the pope’s replies to notes and letters — for example, those about Nazi horrors.
The Jesuits already published “documents the pope received about the concentration camps, but we never got to see his replies,” Wolf said in an interview with AFP. “Either they do not exist, or they are in the Vatican.”
Historians have already examined the 12 German years of Eugenio Pacelli, the real name of the future pope, which he used while posted to Germany as the Holy See ambassador in 1917-1929.
There, he witnessed the rise of Nazism, and then returned to Rome to become the right-hand man of his predecessor Pius XI, elected in 1922.
Past archives have revealed exchanges in which he was alerted about the extermination of European Jews once he himself became the pope.
“There is no doubt that the pope was aware of the murder of Jews,” Wolf said. “What really interests us is when he learned about it for the first time, and when he believed that information.”
On December 24, 1942, Pius XII delivered one of history’s most debated Christmas radio messages.
Buried in its long text was a reference to “hundreds of thousands of people who, without any fault of their own and sometimes for the sole reason of their nationality or race, were doomed to death or gradual extermination.”
Was his message — delivered in Italian and aired just once, and which never explicitly mentioned either the Jews or Nazis — heard and understood by German Catholics?
“The only ones who heard it were the Nazis,” said Wolf, noting that the radio waves were scrambled and that the pope could have spoken German — if he had really wanted to reach the German faithful.
Those who rise to the pope’s defense note that Pius XII was a former diplomat who was trained in prudence, anxious to remain neutral in time of war, and concerned about being able to shield Catholics from the unfolding devastation.
He simply could not be any more explicit, Pius XII’s supporters say. Historians estimate the Church hid around 4,000 Jews in its Roman institutions during the war.
Jewish groups and historians have argued for years that the Vatican had no business moving forward with Pius’ beatification cause until the Vatican’s full archives were opened. They have also asked that any beatification be put off until the generation of Holocaust survivors have died.
Pope Benedict XVI moved Pius one step closer to possible sainthood in December 2009, when he confirmed that Pius lived a life of “heroic” Christian virtue. All that is needed now is for the Vatican to determine a “miracle” occurred.
Pope Francis said in 2014 that the miracle hadn’t been identified, suggesting that the process would remain on hold, at least for now.

Frum Women Hanging Posters Warning Women Not to Wear Wigs!


מי התיר להם להזיק רכוש של אחרים?



Two "holy" women in Kiryat Herzog Israel, found their mission in life!

To destroy other people's property!

This glue that they used to hang up their message .... is almost impossible to remove without damaging the walls 
One of vandalizers is apparently still unmarried... 

Their message?
That "it's the women who wear wigs that are causing the Corona Virus! "
They want married women to wear those bee hives on their heads 

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Blue Angels Cockpit View .... Video


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USA Armed Forces Play "Hatikvah" to Survivor of Dachau


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Remember the Guy Who Drank Fish Tank Cleaner and Died? Police Think His Wife Killed Him

I'm old enough to remember when the sophisticated media like CNN and the New York Times blamed President Trump for this death ...... I remember how the anti-Trump social media trolls filled Facebook, twitter with this blood libel .......
How fast does the news cycle change?
The Mesa City Police Department’s homicide division is investigating the death of Gary Lenius, the Arizona man whose wife served him soda mixed with fish tank cleaner in what she claimed was a bid to fend off the coronavirus.
Gary Lenius, 68, died on March 22. Wanda, 61, told several news outlets last month that both she and her husband had ingested a substance used to clean aquariums after hearing President Donald Trump tout one of its ingredients, chloroquine phosphate, from the White House briefing room.
Though that report and others suggested the couple mindlessly followed the president’s medical advice to disastrous results, friends of Gary Lenius described Lenius as a levelheaded retired engineer and recounted a troubled marital relationship that included a previous domestic assault charge against his wife, of which she was ultimately found not guilty. They found it difficult to believe the man would mindlessly ingest fish tank cleaner and these doubts led to the police opening an investigation.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Must Watch ... Israeli Chareidie Yeshivos Instituting "Yom Ha'Zicaron" Curriculim ...



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Cantorial Yom Ha'atzmeot .... Aveenu She'bashamyim


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Father of Rav Deutsch the Head of the "Peleg" Crazies Referred to the Establishment of the State as the "Hischalteh De'Geulah"

The Deutsch Brothers... R' Asher and Rav Baruch 
A gigantic scandal has broken out in Israel, after a letter surfaced written by none other than the father of today's leader of the extremist Peleg Yerushalmi faction, Rav Asher Deutsch.

 The letter refers to the establishment of the State of Israel as the "Hischaltah De'Geulah"  the "Beginning of the Redemption." 

The Peleg Yerushalmi extremist faction that keep disrupting traffic in Israel and who refuse to register for the draft was founded by the late Rav Shmuel Auerbach ....

Rav Asher Deutsch took over the leadership of Peleg when Rav Auerbach passed on. Rav Deutsch is even more extreme than Rav Auerbach was ..

 Rav Deutsch's father, Rav Binyomin Zev Deutsch, signed this document  on the 3rd day of Iyur ..1949. 
The late Rav Deutsch was the right hand man to the late Rosh Yeshivah of Ponovitz, Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahanaman.

The letter was addressed to the then Mayor of Bnei-Brak Rav Yitzchok Gerstkorn.... 

The kicker is that the late Rav Binyomin Zev Deutsch wrote that they coordinated  the opening of Ponovitz Yeshiva on ....Yom Hatzmaot! 

In the letter he writes"
 
"We chose the 5th of Iyur to establish our Yeshiva, the very day that the State was established.

And just like we merited to see the "beginning of the redemption", so may we merit  to see the uplifting of Torah in our Holy Land and to see the complete redemption with the coming of Moshiach .."

"מתכבדים אנו להזכיר למע"כ, כי יום ה' אייר הוא היום שבחר לו לברכה להיות נציב הישיבה - יום הכרזת תקומת ישראל בארצו.
"מי יתן, וכשם שזכינו לראות באתחלתא דגאולה, כן נזכה לראותב הרמת קרן התורה בארצנו הקדושה ובגאולת ישראל השלימה בביאת משיח צדקנו בב"א".
Rav Deutsch is rolling in his grave ... ..
But one thing is very clear
Hashem has a sense of humor!
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