תיעוד נדיר מבית הדין היהודי בטהראן. הרב יהודה גראמי, רבה של הקהילה היהודית באיראן, קיים לאחרונה עם תלמידיו ששימשו כחברי בית הדין טקס חליצה לאשה צעירה מהקהילה. טקס החליצה התקיים לאחר שבעלה של האישה נפטר ללא ילדים וכדי לפטור את אחיו מחתונה עם אשתו (מצוות הייבום)
Israel’s Kan 11 television station broadcast an unusual clip from Iran of a Chalitza ceremony being performed in the Tehran Beis Din by Rabbi Yehuda Grammy, the rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community.
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As anti-Trump media seeks to widely disseminate data on the COVID-19 case increases in red states Florida, Arizona, and Texas, they are selectively ignoring data on hospitalizations and mortality rates compared to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York, according to Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, on Newsmax TV.
“That’s what they do: They lie, they misrepresent, and they’ve taken their lead – well, I’m not sure if they’ve taken their lead from the Democrats or the Democrats took their lead from the media, but either way they work together and they misrepresent the facts,” Gohmert told “Saturday Report.”
Gohmert told host Grant Stinchfield the narrative is spinning away from the reality that the virus started in Wuhan, China – something media once called a conspiracy theory – is one example.
Another is pointing to “upticks” in Texas, Gohmert’s state, since late May, while ignoring hospitalization and death rates in Texas vs. New York.
“We’re testing people like crazy here in Texas,” Gohmert adding to Stinchfield. “But, Grant, if you look at the deaths, the precious lives that have been lost, New York deaths are up over 8,000 in that period; Texas is up a little over 700.
“Every life is precious, but we don’t have a governor sending people with COVID to our nursing homes. We don’t have them killing and spreading the virus to people who are most vulnerable like Gov. Cuomo did.”
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What is it with these Mohalim? Are they the only ones with Herpes? All Mohalim should be tested immediately and exposed... I wonder how they got it??
A three-week-old infant, born to a Charedi family in Haifa, was brought to the Bnei Zion medical center in Haifa in serious condition. It is believed that the infant contracted the Herpes virus during his Bris Milah. The infection caused serious contamination in the young boy’s brain that caused seizures. Lab results showed that the infant was suffering from herpes.
Head of the Pediatrics Department in Bnei Zion, Professor Yitzchak Serugo said: “The infant has been hospitalized in serious condition. It appears that he has a brain infection that is causing prolonged seizures and a serious infection of his skin.”
The baby was rushed to the hospital by his parents who noticed the infection a number of days after his bris. During his time in the pediatrics department, the herpes virus was discovered in his spinal fluid, his brain, and on the lesions on his skin. The infant seized for the first three days after being hospitalized in spite of receiving anti-seizure medication.
According to Professor Serugo, the infant is receiving anti-viral treatment to remove the virus from his brain but will have to undergo continuing treatments for the next six months in order to eradicate the disease completely.
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel issued a statement in response to the incident: “The incident will be investigated by the committee that oversees mohalim on behalf of the Health Ministry and the Chief Rabbinate. All mohalim are instructed to tell the parents exactly how the bris will be performed and are responsible for disinfecting their mouths prior to performing the mitzvah.
From an initial investigation, it was found that the mohalim who conducted the bris has not conducted any others since this incident.”
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The silence of the Jews of America in the face of rising anti-Semitism is stunning.
Over the Shavuot festival on May 30, members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) carried out a pogrom in Fairfax, the oldest Jewish community in Los Angeles, largely populated today by ultra-Orthodox Jews. They vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools. Most of the Jewish businesses on Fairfax Avenue were looted.
As Daniel Greenfield reported at Frontpage, Allyson Rowen Taylor, a co-founder of StandWithUs, shared an account of the riots in which they chanted, “F**k the police and kill the Jews.”
Aryeh Rosenfeld, whose store was looted, toldTheJerusalem Post that when he came to defend his store there were people driving through the streets screaming “effing Jews” at the Jewish store owners.
Greenfield revealed that the Jews were not incidental victims in a larger night of “anti-racist” rioting by BLM. BLM in Los Angeles is led by outspoken anti-Semites with intimate ties to the virulently anti-Semitic Nation of Islam.
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The Americans Against Antisemitism organization on Sunday called on Fox Broadcasting Co. to immediately cancel the planned July 4 broadcast of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan which is scheduled to air on Fox Soul TV.
In a video posted to social media, the head of Americans Against Antisemitism Dov Hikind, said,
“How is that possible? How can Fox permit something like this? We call on Fox TV, we call on Fox Soul: Do not permit this man of the Nation of Islam, an organization that is classified as a hate organization, do not permit this hater to appear on your station, on national television.”
Farrakhan has blamed Jews for the trans-Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, accused American Jews of being part of the “Synagogue of Satan”, compared Jews to termites, warned of the eventual annihilation of whites, claimed that white people were artificially created by a mad scientist and calling them only “potential humans”, accused “the Jews” of helping Adolf Hitler “get the Third Reich on the road”.
Two years ago, he called the Talmud “filthy, so filthy,” and “ugly”, while deriding Jews as “Satanic people”.
Last year Farrakhan led a chant of “Death to Israel, Death to America” during a visit to Tehran.
In another incident, Farrakhan denied having ever used hateful or bigoted rhetoric, but once again referenced “Satanic Jews”, even though he said he did not believe all Jews fell into this category.
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As a new feature, inspired by my brother, I will begin to feature real "Gedoilei Hador" who quietly but purposefully supported the return of Jews to their homeland ......
Some of these greats you may know by name and may even have heard about, but what you don't know is that they supported Aliyah going against the Chareidie "staying in the galut mentality"....and going against the accepted norms of the "gedoilim" of their day ...
At the end of the day ... these "chalutzim" and pioneers of Jewish thought won the debate ...though the Chassidish/Yeshivash sheep will not admit it even with "reality" smacking them in the face..
One on those greats was none other than Rabbi Yeshayahu Shapira, a brother of the famous Piaseczna Rebbe, Rav Kalonymous Kalmish Shapirahy”d,the Aish Kodesh, who was brutally murdered in the Holocaust.
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Happy birthday to Mrs. Devorah (Dora) Appel, who just turned 101. Born in 1919 in Mszana Dolna Poland, her teen years were unfortunately spent within the horrors of several Concentration camps. Alone in the world after WWII, she found herself in a nearby village next to Auschwitz, at the mercy of a gracious gentile who let her live in his barn. Until one day, one of their boys, Ludvi'k, who befriended her, expressed to her that he knows she is Jewish "but don't worry I'm not going to disclose it to anyone and we will one day soon go to the city and get married". Fearful that he wouldn't leave her a choice, she escaped that same night far into the woods and spent weeks sleeping under a tree. "I cried to God every night, 'Please God save me from the two legged animals; I'm not afraid of the four legged animals'..." Dora was the sole survivor of 9 siblings. Her entire family was sent to their death. She came to America in 1949. She bought a grocery store in January 1959 and she’s been working in that grocery store ever since; same place, same store. As soon as I heard about her birthday, I decided to surprise her and reached out to @yaakov_lemmer to join me, to which he immediately said yes and brought his Antique Field organ to play for this special woman. He ran across the street to buy balloons, while I reached out to @mordygetz to get her a large print Tehillim gifted by @eichlersbp.
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A registered sex offender from Rockland County who spent a year in federal prison for assaulting a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark Liberty International Airport was sentenced Thursday to time served for sexually abusing a minor after his release, authorities said.
Yoel Oberlander, 39, of Monsey had served a plea-bargained year behind bars for the airborne May 2016 assault when he was arrested by Ramapo police in June 2019.
Oberlander later admitted that he’d picked up an underage victim for sex in his car during what was three years of federal supervised release, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
U.S. District Judge Esther Salas gave Oberlander another year in prison via videoconference for violating the terms of his release.
She ordered that he serve the sentence in home detention with a GPS bracelet, Carpenito said.
He will also be required to quarantine on house arrest for a period of 14 days once released from Essex County Jail, where he's been held since last year's arrest in Rockland.
Oberlander’s adult criminal history in the area traces back to 2002, when he was arrested in New York on charges of sexually assaulting a minor and was later sentenced to six years probation.
He was later convicted of assaulting a 22-year old woman who was seated next to him on a May 2016 El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Newark by touching her “in the area of her chest, upper thigh and hand” without her consent, Carpenito said.
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Satya Zamudio, 15, urged Oakland's school board to eliminate its police force.
Question: Where do these little Jewish twirps get this idea from?
Answer: From the home ... from their clueless progressive wealthy parents, "useful idiots"...... ...
so now who will she call when she gets molested?
This idiotic resolution will "reallocate funds to provide social workers, psychologists, restorative justice practitioners and other mental or behavioral health professionals.
The school board in Oakland, California, has unanimously voted to abolish the district’s police force in the wake of the nationwide protests against police brutality — with urging by teens at a city synagogue.
A large contingent of young people from Temple Beth Abraham, a Conservative congregation, was involved in pushing the board to adopt what was called the George Floyd Resolution, named for the Black man whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer sparked the demonstrations.
The resolution, which was passed Wednesday, will reallocate funds to provide social workers, psychologists, restorative justice practitioners and “other mental or behavioral health professionals, as the budget supports, to meet the needs of students.”
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Omer Yankelevich is the new minister of Diaspora affairs in Israel, meaning she’s in charge of managing the Jewish state’s relations with Jewish communities abroad.
It has never been an easy task, but tensions in recent years between Israel and the United States, as well as other international Jewish communities, have boiled to all-time highs over several high-profile social, political and religious disagreements. Among them: who can pray at the Western Wall and who Israel’s Orthodox Chief Rabbinate deems Jewish. The majority of an American Jewish community that in the main is liberal feels alienated by Israel’s right-wing government and its hawkish policies.
Yankelevich’s role is complicated by the fact that she is haredi Orthodox — part of a community that is at the heart of some of the issues putting a wedge between Israel and the Diaspora. She’s also the first haredi woman to hold a Cabinet position in Israeli government and is taking criticism for that – many in her community say her participation in politics is scandalous.
Many eyes are focused on the political newcomer. Will she work to bridge the divides that have widened between Israel and international Jews? Or will she compromise with the religious community in Israel to which she belongs?
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Tech-savvy people have discovered the little-known features on an iPhone that many never knew existed - including a hidden degree symbol in the keyboard and a 'secret' setting to adjust the brightness of your torch.
Here, FEMAIL has rounded up the handy shortcuts on the touch screen that will enable you to get the most out of your smartphone.
Whether it's to type the 'degree' symbol without spelling out the entire word or setting a timer at your fingertips, these tricks are sure to make your life easier.
The next time you want to talk about the temperature in a text message, there's a faster way to type out the degree Celsius symbol in your keyboard.
Just hold down the '0' (zero) in your keyboard for a second before a pop-up appears, showing an option for the ° character.
Adjust the brightness of torch
To adjust the brightness of the torch, simply swipe your screen up from the bottom (older iPhone devices) or from the top right (iPhone X or newer models) to view the Control Center, then tap and hold the flashlight icon.
A pop-up will appear, and you will be able to slide the bar up or down to adjust the brightness of the torch to your preference.
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On Gimmel Tammuz, the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Yom Hillula, let us draw upon the Rebbe’s wise counsel.
"It is forbidden to relinquish any part of Israel to a Gentile, no matter how small."
On several auspicious occasions the Rebbe called on Rabbonim and G’dolei Torah to assume their responsibility and take the lead in amending the situation with the issuance of a clear ruling, again and again, until it is well understood by all:
“That the entire Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish nation. It is forbidden to relinquish any parcel of real estate in Israel to a Gentile, no matter how small.
"Any compromise on this is forbidden, even more so when we speak of a city on the border. Today, every single city in Israel has the law of a city on the border.
"The one and only reason for this ruling is the danger [it brings] to Jewish lives, G-d forbid.”
(Lubavitcher Rebbe, 1978)
"May it be G-d’s Will that there should finally be the fulfillment of the verse: And the earth will be filled with the knowledge of G-d as the water covers the ocean bed.
"Resulting, immediately, in no longer fearing ‘what will the nations say’ or worrying over which policy they will favor; no longer will a Jew shake at ‘the sound of a driven leaf.’
"For G-d will help His nation to walk upright, with conviction and strength.”
(from the Rebbe’s letter to Israeli journalist and poet, Uri Tzvi Greenberg, the 22nd of Cheshvan, 1977)
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Slowly over my lifetime, I have come to be a skeptic about what experts tell me. I have lived long enough to know that what the experts told me 20 or 30 years ago about what was going to happen regarding the economy, political matters, international conflict, regarding almost everything, have been proven to be, in the main, false and misleading.
Of course, no one ever calls the experts to task. No one reminds them what they said 30 years ago. We just let them continue to be experts.
No people in the world equal the Jewish people in respecting knowledge, education, and thought. But again, no people in the world represent the idea of skepticism more than the Jewish people, of the fact that there may be another opinion, that the future is unknown. And, that it is the balance between those two that must occur whenever we judge things.
So, the experts tell us a lot of things, but who says they are right? Why should we rely on them?
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U.S. President Donald Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway told journalists:
"There are conversations being had in the White House on the matter of annexation. Obviously the President will have an announcement. He’s talked about this in the past and I’ll leave it to him to give you a big announcement."
Conway added that, "All the calamity scenarios of the past are gone. Let’s just see, because he wants to be an agent for peace in the Middle East and he’s trying to do that."
"There are conversations, and I can tell you what someone on the ground in Israel told me just this morning when I spoke with him, that if you look at the difference between what's being reported and the reality on the ground in Israel, they feel like these conversations could even be had without the last three-and-a-half years of President Donald Trump being the best friend to Israel, to quote Mr. Netanyahu, 'that Israel's ever had'," Conway said.
"We are having conversations, there are conversations being had. Obviously the President will have an announcement. He's talked about this in the past, and I'll leave it to him to give you a big analysis, and very happy these talks continue," she added.
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Yehuda Wachsman, the father of soldier Nachshon Wachsman, the soldier who was murdered by terrorists in 1994 after a failed rescue attempt, has passed away after a continued struggle with serious illness.
He leaves behind his wife Esther, 6 children and many grandchildren. The time of his funeral has not yet been set.
In an interview with Israel Hayom last year, Wachsman said that he missed the unity the Jewish people showed as they had prayed for his son's safe return.
"While Nachshon was abducted, a lot of people of all ethnicities came to the Western Wall – religious and secular – to pray he would be saved. There was great unity among the people. That's what I would like our leaders to learn from – that we have to come together to form a government soon, and remember the time of Nachshon's abduction."
"We're always in a war, and we don't have the luxury of such big [internal] divisions. Everyone needs to compromise so we can unite and strengthen the people who make decisions. We are surrounded by very strong enemies. They have missiles pointed at us, and Iran wants to wipe us off the map. At a time like this, we should split? Nachshon symbolized innocence."
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Eliot Engel was busy trying to unseat the President of the USA, instead of taking care of his constituents... so his constituents kicked him where the sun don't shine!!!
Now we will have another pro-Palestinian in Congress! Great Job, Eliot!
Jamaal Bowman from the Bronx, appears to have defeated 16-term Rep. Eliot Engel Tuesday night in the Democratic primary for that seat in Congress.
Although votes were still being counted due to the large volume of absentee ballots, many news agencies were announcing Bowman’s win, and the candidate himself declared victory in a rousing speech that evening.
Addressing supporters, Bowman paid particular attention to the idea of poverty in the United States. “We live in a country where despite our financial wealth, we have tens of millions of children still living in poverty,” he said.
Bowman expanded upon the subject, noting that poverty was not something that happened as a result of a person’s actions, but was more institutional.
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Yvette Clarke, a longtime congresswoman from Brooklyn’s 9th congressional district defeated multiple Democratic primary challengers this year.
She won her re-match against organizer Adem Bunkeddeko, who won 47% of the vote against her in 2018, and a challenge from Brooklyn councilman Chaim Deutsch.
Clarke won 62% with Adem Bunkeddeko finishing second at 18%. Deutsch received just 9.9%, only slightly ahead of Isiah James at 9.1%. In last place was Lutchi Gayot, who got just 1%.
The frum community represents about 15% of the voting age population in this Congressional District.
With the absentee ballots, Chaim will have received slightly more than 15% of the vote.
The outcome is as was and should have been expected from the get go. He had no chance!
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