BLM Mob threaten White Diners DEMAND They Raise Fist To Show Solidarity With Them.... Or Else

A large crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters have accosted white diners outside several Washington, D.C. restaurants, demanding that they raise their fists to show solidarity with the movement. 

Footage showing the demonstrators aggressively yelling at one woman in the Adams Morgan neighborhood went viral on social media and sparked a widespread backlash.  

Many accused the protesters of acting like an 'aggressive mob' and using 'intimidation tactics' to order diners into submission.  Responding to the footage, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough described the activists as 'horrible people'. 

The footage shows the woman, identified as Lauren Victor, being shouted at by white protesters after she refuses to raise her fist. 

The group crowded Victor's table, with two female demonstrators leaning down and shouting in her face. 

'Are you a Christian?' one of the women shout, outraged by the fact Victor was unwilling to raise her fist in solidarity.  

'No justice, no peace!' the large group of activists then start yelling. 

Victor later told Washington Post reporter Frederik Kunkle that she felt that she was 'under attack'. 

Ironically, Victor is a supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and has participated in many marches, but didn't want to be 'coerced' into showing support. 

'In the moment, it didn't feel right,' she stated. 

'I wasn't actually frightened. I didn't think they'd do anything to me. I'm very much with them. I've been marching with them for weeks and weeks and weeks.'  

Many on Twitter took issue with the race of the Black Lives Matter protesters accosting Victor. 

Almost all of those seen in the video were white, with several people accusing the activists of undermining the positive work that black organizers have been doing in recent months. 

'I see no black faces at all. These dopes will ruin this movement for all of us,' African-American TV anchor Derek McGinty wrote. 

Others stated that it would turn people away from supporting the movement. 

'You don't win supporters by screaming in people's faces and intimidating them. How many people have watched this video and been turned off? Is it about making a real change or just ego gratification? 

Another bluntly theorized: 'This gives Trump four more years.'

Meanwhile, other videos showed the protesters screaming at another couple at a separate restaurant, calling them 'trash' for refusing to raise their fists.

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In France Mosques Are flourishing While Churches are Closing Up

A traveller to Eastern Europe can visit the sites of once-famous yeshivas like Slobodka, Kelm, Volozhin Telze and Ponevech and mourn at seeing buildings that once echoed with Talmudic study and which are now either empty ruins or have been transformed into community centers or shops.

Those yeshivas, however, abandoned because of the Holocaust and prior periods of persecution, and the shuls burned to the ground by Nazis and their cohorts, have been reborn in Israel (and the USA)..Today, the sound of Torah echoes from thousands of voices, more than there ever were in the renowned European yeshivas.

One cannot say the same about what is happening to Christianity in Europe, with France at the head. 

The worshipers are no more, and now it is the turn of the buildings.

“Should we abandon the churches of our villages, victims of de-Christianization?”, asks Stéphane Bern, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron to protect French cultural heritage, in a new essay for La Reveue des deux mondes.

On its website, the Patrice Besse real estate agency, which specializes in historic buildings, lists thirty churches currently for sale. Per square meter, desecrated churches are the cheapest lots in the country.

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You may now infect the bride, the groom and all the guests!

Three banquet halls in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood appeared to be hosting Hasidic Jewish wedding parties less than a week after Mayor Bill de Blasio warned that a similar gathering there led to an “uptick” in coronavirus cases.

The Post saw celebrations involving as many as around 200 people each underway Monday night at the Torah Vyirah Hall, the Ateres Chaya Hall and the Ohr Hachaim Viznitz Hall, all of which are located along a 10-block stretch of 53rd and 54th streets.

At Torah Vyriah, the windows were covered with paper to prevent anyone from looking in, but people in formal attire were getting out of cars that pulled up near a side door on 54th Street through which they entered.

A waiter who was working the event said there were probably about 200 people inside.

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Man Murdered in Yerushlayim Yeshiva

A man in his 60s died Monday evening, after being hospitalized following an apparent attack late last week.

The victim had been living at a yeshiva in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood, near Meah Sharim, in Jerusalem.

Police are investigating the man’s death as a murder case, and have arrested one suspect.

The suspect, a man from the town of Mevaseret Tzion, west of Jerusalem, had also been staying at the yeshiva in question at the time of the incident.

Forensics teams were dispatched to the yeshiva, where they collected evidence suggesting the victim was in fact murdered.

Authorities then identified and arrested the suspected murdered, a man in his 40s.

The suspect is scheduled to be brought before a Jerusalem court Tuesday for an extension of his arrest.

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Teens find treasure trove of ancient pure gold coins in Israel

They really struck gold.

Two Israeli teenagers on their summer break unearthed a clay jar filled with hundreds of gold coins that had sat undisturbed for more than 1,100 years.

The 18-year-olds were volunteering at an archaeological dig near the city of Yavne last week when they made the “extremely rare” find of 425 complete gold coins, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement Monday.

“It was amazing,” said Oz Cohen, one of teens who made the discovery.

“I dug in the ground and, when I excavated the soil, saw what looked like very thin leaves. When I looked again, I saw these were gold coins,” Cohen said. “It was really exciting to find such a special and ancient treasure.”

The coins — which are made of pure 24-karat gold and weigh less than 2 pounds — date back to the end of the 9th century, when the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate controlled most of the Near East and North Africa, the IAA said.

The stash would have gone a long way at the time, according to Robert Kool, a coin expert with the authority.

“With such a sum, a person could buy a luxurious house in one of the best neighborhoods in Fustat, the enormous wealthy capital of Egypt in those days,” Kool said in the statement.

Finding such a trove is extremely rare, since gold was often melted down and reused by later civilizations, the experts said.

The coins were found “in excellent condition, as if buried the day before,” said IAA archaeologists Liat Nadav-Ziv and Elie Haddad in a joint statement.

Whoever buried the treasure “expected to retrieve it and even secured the vessel with a nail so that it would not move,” they said.

“We can only guess what prevented him from returning to collect this treasure.”

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Biden Camp apologizes to Muslim Democrats after condemning Linda Sarsour

The Joe Biden campaign appears to be publicly condemning anti-Israel activists while privately pandering to them.

Team Biden went into damage control Sunday to shore up support with Muslim-American Democrats after the campaign condemned controversial Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour and suggested she was an anti-Semite.

Top Biden aides made the mea culpa in a private phone call with dozens of prominent Muslim and Arab surrogates who had been angered by the campaign’s attempt to distance itself from the anti-Israel activist Sarsour, according to a report by the Middle East Eye.

On leaked audio of the call, Ashley Allison, national coalition director for the Biden campaign, said she understood the “pain” caused by the scathing statement Biden 2020 issued last week which Sarsour said was “disrespectful” and “hurtful.”

“I am sorry that that happened. And I hope that whatever trust was broken, that this conversation is one small step to help build back the trust, but that is not the last time we have this conversation,” Allison said, according to the report.

The campaign apology came after the Biden camp tried to deny ties with Sarsour, a Bernie Sanders surrogate and former Women’s March leader who spoke at a council meeting at the Democratic National Convention last week.

“Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement Tuesday about Sarsour.

“She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever,” Bates continued.

Sarsour has been vocal in her support for the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, sanctions movement (BDS) which calls for the end of international community’s support for Israel.

But the Biden campaign has been inconsistent in their handling of the progressive Brooklyn-born anti-Zionist who appeared on a call with Biden last month where the Democratic nominee railed against what he called “Islamicphobia.”

In a statement responding to the leaked phone call audio, Biden senior adviser Symone Sanders confirmed the meeting but said the campaign still rejected Sarsour’s views.

“We met to affirm Vice President Biden’s unshakable commitment to working with Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim Americans and to standing up against anti-Muslim prejudice, and to make clear that we regretted any hurt that was caused to these communities,” Sanders said.

“We continue to reject the views that Linda Sarsour has expressed” she added.

Sarsour and other prominent Muslims were already angered when they were snubbed at the Democratic National Convention before the Biden campaign totally disavowed her days later.

The activist could not be immediately reached for comment on Monday but spent Sunday boosting tweets of sympathy, including one from a support who said the convention “threw [Sarsour] under the bus.”

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Sarsour said the statement was “unfortunate” and “disrespectful.”

“The Democratic Party needs me and the communities that I come from more than we need them,” she said.

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Anti-Jewish Protests Outside Michigan Synagogue Protected By First Amendment, Federal Judge Rules

Anti-Israel protests outside of a synagogue in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are protected by the First Amendment and may continue, a federal judge ruled.

“Peaceful protest speech such as this – on sidewalks and streets – is entitled to the highest level of constitutional protection, even if it disturbs, is offensive, and causes emotional distress,” U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts of the Eastern Michigan District Court wrote last week in dismissing a lawsuit that sought to stop the protesters, the Ann Arbor News reported.

The protests outside of Beth Israel Congregation have been held weekly at the same time as Saturday morning services for nearly two decades, since 2003. The handful of protesters who show up plant signs on the grass that read “Resist Jewish Power,” “Jewish Power Corrupts,” “No More Holocaust Movies,” “Boycott Israel,” “Stop U.S. Aid to Israel” and “End the Palestinian holocaust.”

“They fill our sidewalks with hate speech to harass our worshippers, and then claim it’s just a good public location,” Rabbi Nadav Caine said in a statement following the ruling, according to the Ann Arbor News. Caine told the Detroit Jewish News earlier this year that the protests made it impossible for his Conservative congregation to take on activities such as hosting the homeless or helping refugees; he also said he thought the city had not tried to help the synagogue.

The groups named in the lawsuit as leading the protests are Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends and Deir Yassin Remembered, which the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2017 identified as a Holocaust-denying hate group. (The Palestinian village of Deir Yassin was the site of a massacre by Israeli troops in 1948.)

“There is no allegation that the protesters prevent plaintiffs from attending Sabbath services, that they block plaintiffs’ path onto the property or to the synagogue, or that the protests and signs outside affect the services inside,” the judge wrote. “Plaintiffs merely allege that the defendants’ conduct causes them distress and ‘interferes’ with their enjoyment of attending religious services.

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Kim Jong Un reportedly in a coma as his sister Kim Yo Jong takes control

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has fallen into a coma, a former South Korean official is claiming on the heels of reports that the northern leader has ceded over some of his power to his younger sister.

Chang Song-min, a former aide to late-South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, has alleged that the Hermit Kindom’s honcho has become seriously ill amid speculation about his limited public appearances this year, the Mirror reported.

“I assess him to be in a coma, but his life has not ended,” he told South Korean media.

The former aide added that the leader’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, was poised to help lead the country.

“A complete succession structure has not been formed, so Kim Yo-jong is being brought to the fore as the vacuum cannot be maintained for a prolonged period,” he said.

His claims come after South Korean spies revealed that the 33-year-old sibling now serves as his “de facto second-in-command,” though she has not been designated his successor.

In a closed-door meeting with lawmakers, the National Intelligence Service said the power shift partly seeks to “relieve (Kim’s) stress from his reign and avert culpability in the event of policy failure,” the Yonhap News Agency reported.

“Kim Yo Jong, the first vice department director of the Workers’ Party Central Committee, is steering overall state affairs based on the delegation,” the agency reportedly said.

Kim has only been seen in public a handful of times this year after rumors swirled that he was clinging to life in April due to a botched heart operation.

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Outrageous .....Crazy Biden Says He’d Shut Down Economy If Scientists Recommended

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers’ advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated.

“I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,” Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday night on ABC News.

Asked specifically whether he’d push a national shutdown if scientists said it was necessary, Biden replied: “I would shut it down.”

The former vice president has previously called for the nation’s governors to impose mask mandates in their states, effectively a national mask mandate. But when he made that call, Biden avoided saying he’d attempt to use a nationally applicable executive order himself.

Biden’s remarks came as part of his first joint interview with vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The pair accepted their party’s nominations during a virtual convention last week. On Monday, Republicans begin their convention to nominate Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for a second term.

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Dina Rosenzweig 19 from Cedarhurst Killed in upstate Car Crash

Dina Rosenzweig A”H, 19-year-old girl was R”L killed in a crash in upstate New York on Motzei Shabbos.

Dina along with a friend were both critically injured in the crash near Buffalo, NY, and rushed to the hospital. Dina was taken into emergency surgery, but was R”L Niftar on Sunday.

Dina lived in Cedarhurst (Five Towns), NY, and is survived by her parents Rabbi Menachem and Devorah Rosenzweig, as well as her siblings (she was one of 12 children). Her family belongs to Chabad of the Five Towns.

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Kellyanne Conway To Leave White House

Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s most influential and longest serving advisers, announced Sunday that she would be leaving the White House at the end of the month.

Conway, Trump’s campaign manager during the stretch run of the 2016 race, was the first woman to successfully steer a White House bid, then became a senior counselor to the president. She informed Trump of her decision in the Oval Office.

Conway cited a need to spend time with her four children in a resignation letter she posted Sunday night. Her husband, George, had become an outspoken Trump critic and her family a subject of Washington’s rumor mill.He has also resigned from the Lincoln Project. to be with the family.

“We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids,” she wrote. “For now, and for my beloved children, it will be less drama, more mama.”

She is still slated to speak at the Republican National Convention this week. Her husband, an attorney who renounced Trump after the 2016 campaign, had become a member of the Lincoln Project, an outside group of Republicans devoted to defeating Trump.

The politically adversarial marriage generated much speculation in the Beltway and online. George Conway also announced Sunday that he was taking a leave of absence from both Twitter and the Lincoln Project.

Kellyanne Conway worked for years as a Republican pollster and operative and originally supported Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican primary. She moved over to the Trump campaign and that August became campaign manager as Stephen Bannon became campaign chairman; Bannon was indicted two days ago for fraud.

Conway cited a need to help her children″s remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic as a need to step away from her position. She had remained a trusted voice within the West Wing and spearheaded several initiatives, including on combating opioid abuse.

She was also known for her robust defense of the president in media appearances, at times delivering dizzying rebuttals while once extolling the virtues of “alternative facts” to support her case. Conway was also an informal adviser to the president’s reelection effort but resisted moving over to the campaign.

Her departure comes at an inopportune time for Trump, who faces a deficit in the polls as the Republican National Convention begins on Monday. Her exit was first reported by The Washington Post.

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Mrs Ami says that There Is no Covid19 in Boro Park and Lakewood....

Mrs Ami aka Rechy Frankfurter is the senior editor of Ami Magazine, which is a very "responsible" position, since most of her readers don't get any news from the secular media  but from frum publications.

Every week in the "Living" section she writes a column titled "Dear Readers" where she summarizes the articles featured in that particular issue.

This week she didn't summarize anything but for some reason wrote about visiting her father that lives a mile away from her home.

She wrote about her walk thru Boro Park to reach her father's home:

"as I was walking - especially on 13th Avenue - I couldn't help marveling at how life seems to have reverted to pre-coronavirus days. Other than the occasional mask, the Brooklyn streets are bustling with people, the stores are full, and life appears to have gone back to normal. The same can be said for Lakewood, which  I recently visited."
(underlining is from Din)

I am all for opening up society ... I think that we shouldn't keep the economy shut ....

Having said that, I am shocked that she would actually publicize the fact that the frum communities could care less about Health regulations that require masks...and have a mindset that the virus is all but over .... 

and she continued to flout this, writing that it looks as if the virus "never happened."

"it occured to me that although it had seemed as if the coronavirus had never happened ....."

What?  ...... Helloooow.....just in the last two weeks of July, over 97,000 children tested positive for Covid-19, according to the  American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. this marks a 40% increase in pediatric cases. 

Believe me I am the first one who wants this to end...  

Rechy like her husband apparently doesn't do any serious thinking before writing  ...
writing as if she was texting her next door neighbor...

What's with these frum "writers?" 

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Avi Shafrin's Fetish With Biden/Harris Continues in Ami Magazine

In this week's edition of Ami Magazine, Avi Shafrin under the headline:"This Column Is Not About Your Vote," slobbers over Kamala Harris.

"The indictments of Harris are hogwash," he smugly writes.

So what are the "indictments of Harris" that he is writing about?

1. Harris "does not stand with Israel and the Jewish community" and that 

2. "she voted against an anti-BDS bill" 

3. Harris " refused to answer the pleas" of some Jewish organizations "to act against anti-Semetic activities on campuses, and that she wants

4.  "to put the US back into the disastrous Obama-Biden nuclear deal with Iran."

Before we go any further, know that the DNC Delegates voted to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and that though Biden condemned Linda Sourser, they allowed her to address the DNC Convention and gave her a platform....
and while Harris has been depicted by Shafrin, the useful idiot, as a moderate, her chief of staff, Karine Jean-Pierre was the national spokeswoman and senior advisor for MoveOn; the radical group has a long history of trafficking in anti-Semitism and attacking the State of Israel. 

We must never forget that when Ilhan Omar executed her first round of anti-Semitic remarks, Kamala Harris defended the racist politician against her Jewish critics by warning "that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk."  

In other words, what Harris is trying to tell us dumb Jews is that Omar's anti-Semitism wasn't threatening Jews, but Jewish protests were threatening the bigot. 

Then Harris insisted that, "there is a difference between criticism of policy ... and anti-Semitism," but Harris never bothered to explain how Omar's anti-Semitic tropes were mere "policy."
and while the Palestinian witch, Rashida Tlaib wouldn't endorse Biden she hailed Kamala Harris as Vice President, which tells us that Tlaib know a lot more about Harris than Shafrin does. 

Going back to Shafrin's nauseating "hidden" continual push to have naive Jews vote for Democrats, he chastises Harris's critics who claim that Harris "does not stand with Israel and that she voted against an anti-BDS bill."
The Liar Shafrin  calls this critique "hogwash," ignoring the facts staring him in his face.... 
The facts are that  Kamala Harris did vote against S.1 an "anti-BDS resolution," stating that this bill could "limit Americans First Amendment rights;" she was joined by Bernie Sanders and "Pocahontas" Warren.

Liar Shafrin writes  "hogwash" that Harris "does not stand with Israel and the Jewish Community...

Well let's look at what Harris actually believes:
She believes in a two-state solution, meaning she wants Israel cut up into small tiny pieces with enemies that want to destroy her living side by side.... (see what happened when we left Gaza)..and she was against the US recognition of the Golan Heights as Israel....which Israel needs for security... 

Finally, the liar, Shafrin, says Harris's position to put the "US back into the disastrous Obama-Biden nuclear deal with Iran," is no different than Trumps....
in other words, after calling this "hogwash" he admits that this is Harris's position.... but that he thinks that Trump would "also go back to the deal."

You see, puny Shafrin, thinks frum Jews are ignorant fools .....
We all know that it was Trump that pulled out of this murderous deal and, no, he is never going back to the Iran deal the way it was written...
Trump did say that he is willing to talk to Iran and drop sanctions....
but that is only when these murderers stop threatening the USA and Israel... 

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ISRAEL COVID CZAR: “No Flights To Uman For Rosh Hashanah, Period”

Israel’s Health Ministry recorded 1,140 new coronavirus cases over Shabbos. There are currently 22,393 active cases, with 398 patients in serious condition, of whom 119 are ventilated. Ten more deaths were recorded, raising the death toll to 819.

Israel’s coronavirus czar, Prof. Ronni Gamzu spoke about the controversial issue of Israelis traveling to Uman for Rosh Hashanah during an interview on Channel 12 News on Motzei Shabbos.

“Uman is not one of the Tishrei Chagim and is not a devar kodesh,” Gamzu said. “It’s a hillulah or party and it’s not necessary to do it. It can bring us closer to a lockdown. The whole government needs to be firm in order to earn the public’s trust and say to the chassidim – don’t travel during this time to Uman, it will endanger lives in Israel. I’m announcing – there are no flights to Uman – period.”

According to a Ynet report, Gamzu also sent a letter to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urging him to ban gatherings at Rav Nachman’s kever on Rosh Hashanah.

“A gathering of this sort, at such a fraught time can lead to a mass infection of tourists and local Ukrainian residents, causing a heavy burden on local medical systems, while thousands more are expected to come back to Israel and further spread the virus,” Gamzu wrote.

“I urge you to enforce a ban on these celebrations this year, as part of the entire global community’s effort to stop this horrific pandemic.”

Meanwhile, a Ynet report on Thursday said that thousands of Israelis have already booked flights to Ukraine for Rosh Hashanah.

The report said that the Ukrainian government is planning on enforcing strict health regulations for anyone who does visit Uman for Rosh Hashana, such as wearing face masks and social distancing guidelines. Anyone who violates the regulations will be deported and banned from Ukraine for at least three years.

Gamzu also spoke in the interview about the possible lockdown before the Yamim Tovim. “It’s not definite that there will be a lockdown on the Chagim. I believe that it’s possible to decrease the infection rate – there are four weeks until then. I want to avoid a lockdown. It’s true that I presented a possibility of a lockdown but we all need to create the possibility together of preventing it.”

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85th Yurzeit of Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l

Recently a good friend of mine suggested I read a book titled 

"Our Man in Jerusalem" by R' Nachman Seltzer that relates great stories from Rabbi Yisrael Gellis who is a tenth-generation Yerushalmi. 

Since I live in Bet Shemesh its not easy to get English Books, and so I decided to go into my local Sefarim store and ordered it ...I paid 122.00 shekels around $36.00.... 

well let me tell you it was worth every penny.

I found a fascinating story in that book on page 152 about Harav Eliyashiv z"l that speaks volumes about the greatness of Harav Kook z"l.

I will quote an excerpt verbatim...:

"During the final years of Rav Elyashiv's life, his sons and grandsons gathered in his succah on one of the nights of Chol Ha'Moed and discussed a specific halachic matter. One of those assembled quoted Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook's ruling, and one of the grandsons responded to the quote by saying dismissively, "Hot ehr gezugt." (This would be translated roughly as "So what if Rav Kook said that...")

His grandfather responded to that line as if bitten by a snake.

"What did you say? he asked his grandson.

"Hot ehr gezugt.." the grandson repeated.

"Leave the succah." Rav Eliyashiv ordered his grandson. "I don't want you in my succah!" 

It was the only time Rav Elyashiv had ever thrown someone out of his succah - and not just anyone, but a grandson.

The grandson had no choice but to obey. He left his Zeide's succah and sat down on the steps outside the apartment, where he cried bitter tears. 

To show true remorse at his remark and to make up for the lack of kavod haTorah he had shown Rav Kook z"l , the grandson established a night kollel in Tiferes Bachrim where the members study the monumental Torah writings of the renowned Rav Kook - the tzaddik and talmid chacham who was so universally respected by the greatest leaders of the yishuv.

After that move, the grandson was forgiven by his illustrious zeide.."

Yehuda Mirsky, the author of Rav Kook, relates that in April 1921, the third Gerer Rebbe, R' Avraham Mordechai Alter, came from Poland to visit Eretz Yisrael and visited Rav Kook. 

The two had a very respectful friendly conversation ... but when the extremists in Yerushlayim heard about the visit ..

they denounced the Gerer Rebbe in the "time-honored" Yerushalyim media .... with disgusting "paskevelim." 

The Rebbe was so taken back by the personal attacks from the "Yerushalmi tzaddikim" that he refused to meet with R' Diskin and R' Zonnenfeld's representatives ... The Rebbe only relented after being placated appropriately. 

During his return voyage to Europe, the rebbe wrote a letter to his chassidim, this letter became the "ultra-Orthodox pronouncement" on Rav Kook.

Contrary to how he has been depicted, the rebbe wrote, 

"Rav Kook was a man of real nobility, learned in all aspects of the Torah, and his admirable loathing of money was unmistakable, his love for Zion is boundless.... "

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Two of Larry King’s children have died in the past three weeks

Larry King has suffered a terrible tragedy, Page Six has learned.

We’re told that two of the legendary broadcaster’s children have died in the last three weeks.

Sources say that his son Andy passed suddenly a couple of weeks ago, and his daughter, Chaia, died Thursday after battling a chronic illness.

Chaia was 51 and Andy was 65.

Larry, 86, adopted Andy in 1962 after he married his mother, Alene Akins. Larry and Akins had Chaia in 1969.

“Larry and his three remaining children are distraught, and Larry’s still recovering from his own health issues from last year,” said an insider.

Added another, “He did two live shows [of Hulu’s “Politiking with Larry King”]. It’s his way of processing.”

The “Larry King Live” host is also the father to Larry Jr., from his second marriage, and college-age sons Chance and Cannon, from his most recent marriage to Shawn King.

Larry wrote a children’s book, “Daddy Day, Daughter Day” with Chaia in 1997, in which they both gave their perspectives on his divorce from Akins.

Larry remarried Akins in 1969.

Akins herself died in 2017, with Larry tweeting at the time, “ So very saddened over the passing of Alene Akins, who died peacefully with our children Chaia and Andy by her side. She was a grand lady.”

As Page Six first reported, eighty-six-year-old Larry nearly died last year after suffering a stroke.

He told us at the time that in spite of his illness, he was extremely happy to be spending time with his children.

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Zera Shimshon Parshas Shoftim

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Fly repeatedly lands on Michael Bloomberg’s face during DNC speech

Mini Mike couldn't swat the mini fly! Bad Oman ...

Twitter was abuzz Thursday night after an insect twice landed on Michael Bloomberg’s face during his speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

The flying bug, presumably a fly, first came to rest above the billionaire’s right eye before briefly stopping above his upper lip as the former Big Apple mayor ripped President Trump’s business acumen.

Some Twitter users considered the unexpected bug landing the highlight of the night.

“The fly on Bloomberg’s face stole the show tonight,” wrote one user.

Another said: “The fly on Bloomberg’s face has been the most interesting part so far!”

A third person, apparently unmoved by either 2020 presidential candidate, declared, “I would vote for the fly on Mike Bloomberg’s face.”

Despite the bug, Bloomberg continued his speech unimpeded.

The media mogul, 78, had a brief run for president this year, but dropped out of the race after several weak performances in the Democratic debates.

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Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg, Editor of Talmudic Encyclopedia, Passes Away At 89

The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the passing of one of the greatest Dayanim and Torah personalities in this generation, Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg at the age of 89.

Rabbi Zalman Nehemia was distinguished in so many facets of Torah. As a teacher and mentor, he taught in Kollelim for Dayanim and prepared an entire generation of Dayanim to serve in positions around Israel. He gave an astonishing number of shiurim every week, travelling the country to places like Beit El, Kerem B’Yavneh, Or Etzion and Sderot, as well as teaching in the Beis Midrash of Machon Lev and in the Harry Fishel Dayanus Program, where he taught for over fifty years. Many of his shiurim have been transcribed by his disciples and printed in books. He also taught in numerous Smicha programs and gave Smicha himself to hundreds of rabbis.

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