How Zionists Saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews during the waning months of World War II.

Hungarian Jews During WW2

You will not find the following testimony in "der yid" or any "frum" publications.... Why? .... because it defeats their narrative...

In some "frum" articles I did find that they admitted that the Zionist organizations saved thousands of Jews... but they write that the Zionists  saved only Zionists.... 

Well... of course.... ,,,first of all, the "frummies' didn't believe that Hitler would come to Hungary and they also refused to cooperate with any Zionist organizations... which is well documented; second of all... people tend to first try to save those they know and are close to ... it's not that they refused on principle to save those that weren't Zionist but they did what all organizations do ...

I remember when Chabad did everything to get Chabad Chassidim out of Communist Russia, it's not that they wouldn't save any Jew but their priority, understandably was to Chabad Chassidim. In Williamsburg and Crown Heights I remember Satmar collecting money to send packages to Jews in Rumania.. so who got those packages? Of course Satmar sent packages to people that they knew who were followers.. and I have no doubt that they meant well .... but do you think that a Zionist Jew living in Communist Roumania got a Satmar package? I don't think so ....

Also I remember well when the Heimishe Rabbanim and All Roshei Yeshivos were against the Communist Russia protests in Manhattan ...

They never sent anyone to the protests but were there early to protest the Israeli Consulate ..

Turns out that all those who escaped Communist Russia praised the protests and said they were comforted to know that they were not forgotten .

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by Alex Sternberg

My Hungarian parents were both survivors of Auschwitz. I heard their stories often while growing up. I never asked, but always wondered why there was no resistance. Why did 600,000 Hungarian Jews go “like sheep to their slaughter?”

As we reflect 75 years after the end of World War II, we have much documentation about great resistance to the Nazis in many countries: Poland, France, Belgium, Greece, Albania and more. From Britannica to Wikipedia, there are long lists. But Hungary is missing. 

In fact, there was resistance in Hungary, as I discovered in my research for Recipes from Auschwitz, a book I wrote. I came across Brothers for Resistance and Rescue, by David Gur, a Hungarian Jew who was part of the Resistance. Rafi Benshalom, another leader, also described the resistance movement in We Struggled for Life.

I met with Gur in Israel and was inspired to learn more.

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Covid is Spreading in Frum Communities. Why are people still not wearing masks? ... "if it’s meant to be, I’ll get sick.”

 

A sign on a shoe store said customers would be required to wear masks. Inside, however, two women shopped with their faces uncovered.

At an electronics store nearby, a sign posted on the window instructed customers to wear masks “due to local mandates.” Still, a man was served, unmasked, at the counter.

The scene repeated itself Wednesday all over Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn where it’s common to see few people on the street wearing masks that are considered among the strongest lines of defense against transmitting the coronavirus.

In the New York borough’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, cases of COVID-19 are on the rise. New cases from six Orthodox neighborhoods, including Williamsburg, make up 20% of the city’s total, according to data released this week by the city’s Department of Health. Three more in Brooklyn — Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst — as well as Kew Gardens and Edgemere-Far Rockaway in Queens are the others.

While those neighborhoods encompass a wide range of Orthodox practice, including yeshivish Orthodox, Syrian and Hasidic communities, they have one noticeable attribute in common: Mask wearing is not consistent.

In Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community, mask wearing on the street is rare.

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Last year in Jerusalem

by Penny Cagan 

Last year I spent Yom Kippur in Israel. It was my first time in Israel, and I had neglected to check the calendar. When I booked my Jerusalem hotel and flight, I had failed to realize that coming at a time when everything was shut down for two days was not optimal.

I have never considered myself a religious person and was raised essentially as a “Yom Kippur Jew.” My family went to synagogue only on the High Holidays to mostly appease my grandparents who came to the United States from Lithuania. My paternal grandfather was deeply religious, and I never remember seeing him without a prayer book by his side. He terrified me because he had a deep stillness within him that was unknowable.

What does a non-religious Jew do on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem when there are no tours, or open restaurants or shops? I walked through the Old City of Jerusalem until I reached the Western Wall and I spent Yom Kippur afternoon there just sitting with all the women dressed in white. There was the same stillness in the air that I remember emanating from grandfather. It was one the quietest and most moving experiences of my life.

The moment I came home to New York, I started planning to return to Israel the following year. Unfortunately, with the pandemic, that will not happen this year. But I also started seeking a place in the Jewish community that I felt so disconnected from. I spent last Autumn visiting synagogues in the city each Friday night. New York City is blessed with so many diverse and inclusive synagogues. I visited the large, grand synagogues that are deeply established in the city’s Jewish roots and the small upstarts that hold services in church community rooms.  I finally found my place in the Romemu synagogue on the Upper West Side and became a member a week before the coronavirus shut down.

In early January I read about the Daf Yomi cycle where people from around the world read one portion of the Talmud each day. I jumped into the cycle with the hope I would discover the secrets of my religion and heritage, and everything that I found unknowable in my grandfather’s quietness. The journey has been difficult and at times I have been convinced that I cannot carry on and am not sure how much more of eruv concentric circles of 2,000 cubit feet I can bear. But I have come to connect with wonderful, dedicated, kind-hearted friends from around the world who are on the same journey. We have found each other in our common struggle to decipher the text and live our lives during the time of a pandemic. And through this all, I have found my Jewish center. I have traveled very far to come home.

Best wishes for an easy fast on Yom Kippur and your own coming home this year, wherever that will take you.

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Rabbanit Miriam Levinger passes away

 Rabbanit Miriam Levinger, the wife of the late Rabbi Moshe Levinger, passed away overnight Monday, at 83.

She had been evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Yom Kippur night in serious condition.

A spokesman for the Jewish community in Hebron, Noam Arnon, said, "The Jewish community in Hebron and all lovers of Hebron and the Land of Israel mourn the passing of Rabbanit Miriam Levinger, who passed away on the night of Yom Kippur. She was a symbol and role model of devotion and pioneering, and with her own hands brought about the redemption of the city.”

“Rabbanit Levinger's leadership and power led the settlement in the heart of Hebron and the historical return of the Jewish people to their first hometown. Her pioneering deeds will be written forever in the history of the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. Our condolences to her entire family.”Rabbanit Levinger led the return to the historic Beit Hadassah building in Hebron and the reestablishment of the Jewish community of Hebron in 1979. Residents of Hebron are currently praying for her recovery at the Cave of the Patriarchs while adhering to Health Ministry guidelines.

Rabbanit Levinger and her husband Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who passed away in 2015, have 11 children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 2019, Miriam won the Jerusalem Prize "for her blessed work over the decades with great dedication for the Jewish settlement in the city of Hebron."

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R’ Moshe Harari 46, Niftar From COVID-19, Twenty Others Hospitalized in Lakewood

 R’ Moshe Harari Z”L of Lakewood. He was 46.

Sourcess ay that he was Niftar from complications from COVID-19. He was taken to the hospital on Erev Yom Tov, and was Niftar on Yom Kippur.

R’ Moshe Z”L is the son of Chacham Eliezer, a prominent Rav in Flatbush.

He leaves behind his wife and two children.

Meanwhile, there were around twenty Lakewood residents hospitalized in the past few days, it what is clearly a “second wave”.

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Biden Predicted that He would be "Dead and Gone in 2020"

 

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Nadler "Craps" On Live TV

 

 I’m not kidding. I mean, look at the footage. 

It sure looks like something bad happened and he tried to scurry off as quickly as possible. 

There’s no way no one noticed obviously. First, he’s right there next to Nancy Pelosi. Second, he’s a top Democrat, chair of the House Judiciary Committee. And third, he’s front and center at the speaker's presser. That shuffle is not going to fool anyone. There’s no covert slide away from the Speaker of the House in any situation. Also, we all know that’s not how you walk, sir.

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Police pull infected worshiper from Jerusalem synagogue

 

Police removed a man who was infected with the coronavirus from a Jerusalem synagogue on Sunday, shortly before the start of the Yom Kippur holiday.

The man was apparently aware that he had the virus and was supposed to be in quarantine.

“A short time ago, police received a report of the presence of a diagnosed coronavirus carrier in one of the synagogues in the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood in Jerusalem,” police said in a statement.

“Police officers arrived on the scene, located him, wrote him a fine of NIS 5,000 and escorted him back to his home where he is required to stay in isolation,” police said in a statement.

Prayer services have become a bone of contention in Israel’s coronavirus policy, as cases surge during the Jewish High Holiday season.

Authorities fear group prayer services during the holidays could further spread the virus, but lawmakers were unable to agree on prayer and protest restrictions in lockdown measures approved by the cabinet last week.

Officials are reportedly worried about students in ultra-Orthodox yeshivas returning home to their families and infecting them with the virus after Yom Kippur, which ends on Monday evening.

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Kapporis on Zoom

 

Before you "shlug" kapporis with the above zoom ...

you need to ask a "shaaleh" from your local rav ...

I suggest you don't go to your frum orthodox rav ...

Why don't you google and search for a "Chickie poo" rabbi ...?

This kapparos on zoom is free .... but if you "dafka" want to give some money in leu of kapparos ... you can click on our ads ....

Gmar Chasimah Tova!

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Kol Nidrei .......

 If we could have those emotions by davening like this cello player ....how great would that be?

 

Shlomo Carlebach .........

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Seriously considering the “A” word?

 With Yom Kippur just around the corner, it seems as if the time has arrived to do an honest Chesbon Nefesh (self-searching) concerning the “A” word; Aliyah. In a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released earlier this year before the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic in the United States, about two-thirds of American Jews said they feel less safe than at any other time in the past decade.

The ADL survey also found that more than half of American Jews (54%) have either experienced or witnessed an incident they believe was motivated by antisemitism.

Wherever you look; broadcasters, sports celebrities, local politicians associated with the Democratic Party, social media activists, Black Lives Matter’s leaders, street anarchists, are all expressing with immunity and zero remorse, a common and seemingly coordinated message of hatred towards Jews, that Jews are somehow responsible for the Corona pandemic, and that Jews are financially behind much of the anti-government violence sweeping the streets of America.

The time tested and natural response by most Jews, albeit unconsciously has been to modify their’ daily routine and avoid public displays of Judaism so as to minimize the risk of being targeted. This pretty much sums up the reaction of most American Jews, even if they continue to deny or refuse to admit it. The natural inclination to move on as if nothing has changed is a time tested response by Jews that seems to no longer be relevant or effective in dealing the wide-spread anti-Semitism that has mushroomed everywhere.

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The Day that the Kloizenberger Rebbe z"l Arrived to Settle In the State of Israel

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Heshy Tischler Goes Insane And Causes Huge Chillul Hashem

Someone needs to step up to the plate and take this crazed guy to a hospital ASAP!

HESHY TISCHLER CALLS DR. MITCHELL KATZ A "JEW HATER", 

AND INSINUATED THAT HE IS A "KAPO".

 KATZ IS JEWISH AND IS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF NYC HEALTH AND HOSPITALS.

 THE FATHER OF DR KATZ WAS SADLY NIFTAR THIS WEEK IN ISRAEL FROM COVID-19. 

ANOTHER JEWISH MAN THEN ARRIVED AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE AND USED THE "N" WORD IN FRONT OF DOZENS OF NEWS CAMERAS AND NATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES.

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Everything You know About Amy Coney Barrett

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a wife, mother of seven and a devout Catholic — but how that may affect the presumptive nominee’s potential rulings on the Supreme Court remains to be seen.

Reportedly tapped by President Trump to replace the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg, the 48-year-old jurist has only sat on the federal bench for three years, after being successfully nominated by Trump to the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

She’s written more than 100 decisions and dissents, according to the Chicago Tribune. And while she maintains that her faith does not enter into her rulings on the law, Barrett twice joined with a minority of judges in dissenting opinions that favored reconsidering rulings that struck down state restrictions on abortion rights.

One case involved an Indiana law that would have required that the parents be notified when minors seek consent for the procedure from the courts, while the other — also passed in Indiana, her home state — banned abortions for reasons related to gender, race or disability, and also required that fetal remains be buried or cremated.

Although the Hoosier State only appealed the decision regarding fetal remains, Barrett and the other dissenters addressed the law’s other provisions, noting that “there is a difference between ‘I don’t want a child’ and ‘I want a child, but only a male,’ or ‘I want only children whose genes predict success in life.'”

“Using abortion to promote eugenic goals is morally and prudentially debatable,” the dissenters argued.

Both of those cases later wound up before the Supreme Court, which reinstated Indiana’s regulation of fetal remains and ordered a reconsideration of its parental-notification law.

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3 Orthodox Jewish men die of COVID-19 hours after arriving at NYC hospital

Three members of the city’s Orthodox Jewish communities died from the coronavirus over the last four days — all within hours of arriving at the hospital too sick to be saved, The Post has learned.

All three men were fatally ill with the disease by the time they sought treatment at the Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, one of the neighborhoods at the center of the Big Apple’s latest COVID-19 outbreak.

“There’s rampant COVID denialism and misinformation abound in the community,” one person familiar with the situation said. “People are not getting tested and are refusing care even when sick. This is deeply distressing.”

Not all of the deaths were elderly men, the sources added, though more specific information was not immediately available.

Maimonides is not the only hospital seeing an uptick, the sources said.

Mount Sinai’s hospital system — which includes Mount Sinai Brooklyn in nearby Midwood — has also seen the number of new patients admitted with COVID-19 jump to 40 over the last week, up from an average 20 to 25, the sources said.

“As has been reported, there has recently been an increase in the number of patients with COVID-19,” a spokeswoman for Maimonides said in a statement.

“The hospital otherwise declined to comment on the specifics of the story.”

Representatives for Mount Sinai declined to comment.

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Israel Restricts Outgoing Flights to Bolster Virus Lockdown

The Israeli government slapped restrictions on outgoing flights on Friday as part of a slew of measures to bolster a second virus lockdown imposed last week.

"The arrangement agreed upon enables leaving the country for whoever bought an airplane ticket prior to the beginning of the lockdown, i.e. today, the 25th, at 2:00 p.m.," Transport Minister Miri Regev said in a statement.

"People who buy a ticket beyond then won't be able to use it," she said, noting Israelis would be able to return to the country "without limitations".

From 2:00 p.m. local time, Israel will tighten its second virus lockdown, after the first week failed to bring down the world's highest coronavirus infection rate.

The new rules, which will close workplaces, shutter markets and further limit prayers and demonstrations, had yet to be finalized in parliament just hours before they were due to come into force.

The lockdown already closed schools and imposed restrictions on work and leisure.

Israel has recorded more than 215,000 coronavirus infections and 1,378 deaths, out of a population of nine million, with more than 7,500 new cases on Thursday.

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From a monastery in Sicily to a yeshiva in Jerusalem

 

Yochanan in Italy 

Yochanan grew up in a haredi home in Jerusalem, but was kicked out of the yeshivah system at a young age. As a result of the violence and abuse he was subjected to by family members, he decided to leave home and live on the streets.

When, not surprisingly, the street failed to provide him with the care and support he was looking for, he took an unusual step: He obtained a passport, put together a little money and with just the clothes on his back left the country forever.

But he abandoned more than his country. In an attempt to "get back" at those who'd hurt him, he decided to leave Judaism and convert to Christianity.

With that in mind, he headed for Italy. After touring the country and taking in the sights, Yochanan wound up at a monastery in the south, on the island of Sicily. The monk in charge welcomed him with open arms, and Yochanan took the following year to immerse himself in Christian teachings. At the end of the year, he decided to return to Israel to be baptized at the Jordan River.

In an act that was part defiance and part wanting to reconnect to his family, Yochanan sent a message to his mother announcing his planned arrival and its purpose. The mother was beside herself with anguish and called Yad L'Achim for help.

The organization understood that Yochanan couldn't be won over in a straightforward conversation on theology, and thought of another way to reach him, with his guard down.

In coordination with his mother, Yad L'Achim sent one of its people to the airport to pick Yochanan up and drive him home to Jerusalem. The driver, who grew up in a Christian family in Europe, trained to become a priest and became a senior missionary in charge of targeting Jews, started an "innocent" conversation with Yochanan.

Where was the young man coming from? Italy. And the purpose of his visit? To be baptized in the Jordan River.

In the casual conversation that ensued, Yad L'Achim's expert succeeded in opening Yochanan's eyes to a series of contradictions in Christian teaching that shook the foundations of what he'd learned over the past year.

By the time they'd reached their destination, the two had developed a relationship and were exchanging phone numbers. Yochanan asked if he could call later that night to continue their talk.

The conversation, which lasted until 5 a.m., probed theological questions and those relating to the meaning of life. By the time it was over, Yochanan had changed his mind about baptism, but still refused to hear anything about reconnecting to Judaism.

A Yad L'Achim staffer who'd heard about Yochanan's painful personal story rallied to the cause, arranging for him to see top psychologists and social workers. After a long process, during which he slowly began to feel acceptance and support, he decided to return to his family and his people.

Yad L'Achim helped him find a respectable job and, as of this past Rosh Chodesh Elul, he began coming nightly to a yeshiva study hall in the Old City of Jerusalem, where he engages in regular Torah study.

A leading Yad L'Achim official observed: "While the story of Yochanan isn't typical, not even for us, it is just one of hundreds of cases of precious Jews we save every year from the clutches of missionary cults operating in Israel. Every instance in which we bring a Jew back to his Father in Heaven moves us and instills in us renewed determination to continue this difficult work against a missionary operation that is extremely well-funded by Christian churches. Every success like this is a literal expression of 'Shuva banim shovavim.' "

These days, Yad L'Achim continues its efforts to save more and more Jewish souls. "These precious souls who have returned to their core, are the best defenders a person can acquire for himself on the Day of Judgment," the official continues.

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Do the Matriarchs Come to the Sukka As Well? Some Think So

 

Question: You think that the Avos come without their wives?

Well technically the Matriarchs are exempt from the sukkah..so maybe they leave them behind ...

But in either case there is now a campaign by our "nashim tzidkanios" to have their fellow "FeminineTzadkinios" print out this poster ...

What about the Beit Shemesh extremists that will not allow street signs with ladies names .... will they boycott the sukkah if they walk in and find Sarah or Rivkah Imanu sitting there sipping a tea?

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Zera Shimshon Parshas Ha'azinu Yom Kippur

 

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