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Monday, December 7, 2020
Tragedy in Beit Shemesh When Daniel Madmon 14 year-old Chareidie boy falls and killed
A 14-year-old Chareidie boy, Daniel Madmon, fell from a height in the city of Beit Shemesh and was fatally injured. His death was determined at the hospital.
MDA paramedics were called to the scene, and provided the boy with medical treatment and evacuated him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
"Intensive resuscitation efforts were also continued by the trauma unit staff but they were forced to determine his death. We share the family's grief," the hospital said.
Beit Shemesh Municipality Spokesman Roy Lachmanovich said "the incident is under police investigation and investigation by the Municipality. The Municipality has implemented a comprehensive emergency procedure and the Department of Welfare and Psychological Services accompanies the family."
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Watch Donald Trump Catch Fake News Chuck Todd Lying About Him
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New Roads Pave Way For Massive Growth Of Israeli Settlements
In the coming years, Israelis will be able to commute into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from settlements deep inside the West Bank via highways, tunnels and overpasses that cut a wide berth around Palestinian towns.
Rights groups say the new roads will set the stage for explosive settlement growth, even if the incoming U.S. administration somehow convinces Israel to curb housing construction. The costly infrastructure projects signal that Israel intends to keep large swaths of the occupied territory in any peace deal and would make it even harder to establish a viable Palestinian state.
“This is not another hundred housing units there or here,” said Yehuda Shaul, an Israeli activist who has spent months researching and mapping out the new projects. “This is de facto annexation on steroids.”
Construction already is underway on a huge tunnel that Shaul says will one day allow settlers from Maale Adumim, a sprawling settlement east of Jerusalem, to drive into the city and onward to Tel Aviv without passing through a military checkpoint or even hitting a traffic light.
South of Jerusalem, work is underway to expand the main highway leading to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc and settlements farther south, with tunnels and overpasses designed to bypass Palestinian villages and refugee camps.
Palestinians will be allowed to drive on many of the new roads, but the infrastructure will be of limited use to them because they need permits to enter Israel or annexed east Jerusalem.
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Crispy Latkes In Time for Chanukah .....
Making crispy potato latkes is a skill every Jewish cook wants to master. It’s not a big secret — it just requires a few easy steps to ensure crispy, golden latkes every time. And we’ve got a short video to show you exactly how:
Classic Potato Latkes Recipe
Ingredients
• 5 large potatoes, peeled • 1 small onion • 2 eggs lightly beaten • ¼ cup bread crumbs, matzah meal or flour • 1½ tsp coarse salt (1 tsp if using kosher salt) • freshly ground black pepper
Directions
1) Grate potatoes coarsely or finely, according to your preference. Finely grate the onion.
2) Place grated potatoes and onion in a clean kitchen towel and squeeze tightly until all of the liquid is strained.
3) Place the strained potatoes and onion in a large bowl and add the eggs, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper.
4) Heat the 1-inch of oil in a large pan and drop 6 to 8 spoonfuls of mixture into hot oil. Using the back of a spoon, pat down each latke to flatten it. Put as many as you can in the skillet without crowding. Putting them too close together will make them soggy.
5) Fry 3 to 4 minutes on each side, until golden and crisp around the edges; repeat procedure until finished with all the batter.
6) Blot excess oil with paper towels and serve warm with desired topping.
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Incredible 180-year-old photos reveal Rome's ancient treasures before hordes of selfie-snapping visitors ruined the historic views
A collection of photographs thought to be among the oldest ever taken of Rome have emerged for sale at auction for a jaw-dropping £120,000.
The group of 78 images date back to between 1840 and 1860 and were taken by some of the most pioneering photographers of the time.
They feature historic and ancient sites still instantly recognisable to tourists today, such as the Colosseum and the Trevi Fountain.
The iconic locations have barely changed in the 180 years since they were taken, meaning the pictures look as though they could have been taken yesterday.
They have been amassed over a number of years by a European couple who collect antique photographs.
Now they are to go under the hammer with auctioneers Lempertz of Cologne in Germany.
Specialists there have given the set a combined estimate of around €130,000 (£118,000) and are expecting a huge level of interest.
Among the standout shots are several of the Colosseum taken from both inside and out.
The Roman Forum also features heavily as well as a number of churches, palaces and squares.
The pictures were taken by some of the earliest professional photographer, acting less than a decade after photography was invented.
They included Giacomo Caneva, Frédéric Flachéron, Eugène Constant, James Anderson and Robert Macpherson.
Many of them were already wealthy and visited Rome as part of their European grand tours.
They would have sold the prints of their photos to equally wealthy clients, ranging from travellers to art lovers.
Maren Klinge, a photography expert at the auction house, said: 'This collection is indeed something very special.
'The couple were very selective in their approach and only included material in their collection that met their high standards of quality.
'Because of the photographers represented in it and the different photographic techniques it offers a representative overview of the early period of Italian photography.
'The great rarity of the works should also be mentioned. The works date back to the early days of the medium, and most of the photographic production of these years has not been preserved.
'What also distinguishes this collection as a whole is the extraordinarily good condition of the prints.
'In general, prints from the early days of photography often show traces of usage or damages due to their age but in this respect the collection is truly remarkable.'
The sale takes place on December 7.
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Isaac Newton's Notes on the Secrets of the Pyramids are Set to be Auctioned Off ... Newton Tried To Figure out the Dimensions of the Bais Ha'Mikdash
Recently uncovered notes reveal that Isaac Newton attempted to uncover the secrets of the pyramids in Egypt while proving his theory of gravity.
The unpublished notes, thought to have been written in the 1680s and only discovered 200 years after Newton's death, are now being sold by Sotheby's and are expected to go for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Bidding closes on Tuesday.
Newton, who studied the pyramids in the late 17th century while at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, believed that finding out how the pyramids were made would unlock other secrets about the world.
He was desperately trying to work out the unit of measurement the ancient Egyptians used while making the pyramids.
Newton believed the Egyptians had been able to measure the Earth and believed that if he found how they had measured the pyramids, he would also be able to measure the world's circumference.
The notes appear burnt around the edges, which allegedly happened after his dog, Diamond, jumped on to a table and tipped over a candle.
Sotheby's manuscript specialist, Gabriel Heaton, told the Observer: 'These are really fascinating papers because you can see Newton trying to work out the secrets of the pyramids.
Newton also tried to uncover secrets in the Bible and hoped to be able to find the dimensions of the Temple of Solomon.
He was forced to keep his obsession with alchemy, turning and unorthodox religious beliefs a secret or he would risk losing his career.
And even though his respected reputation relied on his mathematical discoveries, Newton was more interested in alchemy and theology.
Manuscripts on these topics were found at Sotheby's in 1936 and some were bought by economist John Maynard Keynes, who described Newton as 'the last of the magicians'.
Mr Heaton added: 'The idea of science being an alternative to religion is a modern set of thoughts. Newton would not have believed that his scientific work could undermine religious belief.
'He was not trying to disprove Christianity - this is a man who spent a long time trying to establish the likely time period for the biblical apocalypse. That's why he was so interested in the pyramids.'
The papers are expected to go to a private collector but libraries may also place bids.
Mr Heaton added that scientific books and manuscripts have seen the biggest growth in sales.
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Teachers in San Diego are forced to attend 'white privilege' training ... Are told they're racist and to accept the US is built on stolen land
So if you are for "open borders' then why wasn't ok for the early white settlers to come to North America? I don't get it..
Open Borders is only ok for Mexican rapists and murderers? Open borderes for Arab Muslim refugees that want to reshape American and Western society?
So when whites decide to settle in land in the Americas that's not ok ..?
Hey ... and who did the Indians living in America steal the land from?
They were "indigenous"? I don't think so...
Teachers in San Diego are reportedly being required to attend a 'white privilege' training in which they are asked to commit to becoming 'anti racist' and acknowledge that they meet on stolen land taken from Indigenous peoples.
According to documents shared by journalist Christopher F. Rufo, the training is mandatory for all teachers within the San Diego Unified School District.
As part of the training, the teachers are told to discuss how they would feel if they were told: 'You are racist.'
Teachers were also asked to discuss how they'd feel if they were told: 'You are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.'
The documents, which were leaked by Rufo, show the outline of the discussion and the talking points, including how teachers must become 'anti racist' activists'.
In order to do this, teachers have to 'confront and examine [their] white privilege,' acknowledge 'white fragility' and 'teach others to see their privilege'.
During the session, instructors inform teachers that they will experience 'guilt, anger, apathy [and] closed-mindedness' due to their 'white fragility'.
In addition to the aforementioned, the seminar also included a section on 'land acknowledgement'.
'We acknowledge that we meet on stolen land, taken from Indigenous peoples. I am speaking to you from Kumeyaay land. We must acknowledge the hidden history of violence against Indigenous peoples in an effort to move towards justice,' one slide reads.
The acknowledgement was referring to the Kumeyaay tribe of Indigenous peoples who were forced off their ancestral lands. They lived at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the US.
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Rare, Engraved Menorah Discovered on Tomb Façade Could Date back to the Hasmonean Era
In the 1980s, during a survey initiated by the Staff Office for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria, a graffito of a seven-branched menorah at the entrance to a tomb on the outskirts of the Arab village of Mukhmas was discovered. The finding was archived at the Staff Office Archaeology Unit and has been brought to light by Dr. Dvir Raviv, of Bar-Ilan University's Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, most recently in a paper published in the archaeology and history journal In the Highland's Depth.
The menorah engraving found in Mukhmas dates back to the period between the Hasmonean era and the Bar-Kokhba revolt, and is considered a rare and unique find, as decorative use of the Temple menorah was rare during this period.
Drawing of the facade
The most prominent examples found to date include depictions of the menorah on coins of the Hasmonean ruler Mattathias Antigonus, on objects and remnants from Jerusalem, on a stone table in Magdala north of Tiberias, and on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
The use of a menorah to decorate the façades of Jewish tombs was quite common in ancient times, but this is only the second time that a menorah has been discovered on a Jewish tomb from the period preceding the Bar-Kokhba revolt. A long-known example is Jason's Tomb in Jerusalem, from the Hasmonean period, with small, schematic carvings on the walls of the entrance vestibule, unlike the large, decorated menorah discovered on the façade of the Mukhmas tomb.
The menorah engraving in the village of Mukhmas resembles paintings of two seven-branched menorot documented in the al-'Aliliyat caves, a group of caves nearby that served as a hiding place and refuge during the Second Temple period and the days of the Jewish revolts against Rome.
Due to the rare use of the menorah as an artistic decoration from the Second Temple period until the Bar-Kokhba revolt, and based on the contexts in which the menorot of this period were discovered, it has been suggested that the menorah may have been a motif related to the Temple and the priesthood that served in it during this time.
The depictions of menorot found on the outskirts of Mukhmas and the mention of Mikhmas (currently the village of Mukhmas) in the Mishnah as the place from which selected semolina wheat was brought to the Temple (Mishnah Menahot 8:1) may indicate that a priestly population lived there during the Second Temple period. Additionally, Mikhmas is mentioned as the dwelling place of Jonathan the Hasmonean, where he began to establish his status in Judea after the death of his brother Judah Maccabee (1 Maccabees 9:73).
"Jonathan's choice of the town as the base from which to consolidate his control of Judea may have been linked to the location of Mikhmas in a densely-populated area of Jews who supported the Hasmoneans during the years of the revolt," says Dr. Raviv. "Due to the difficulty in determining the exact date of the menorah’s graffito and the scarcity of explicit references to priests in Mikhmas during the Second Temple period, it is possible that a group reached the site only after the destruction of the Temple and lived there during the period between the revolts," he concluded.
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Georgia CongressDreck Hank Johnson Who Called Jews "termites" Campaigns For DemocRAT Senate Candidates in Georgia
Two Democratic candidates for Senate seats in Georgia held a campaign event over the weekend with a congressman who sparked controversy for calling Israeli Jews “termites”.
On Saturday, Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock held a “drive-in” campaign event in Conyers, Georgia, according to a website used by the Georgia Democratic Party’s get out the vote operation.
Warnock and Ossoff were reportedly joined by Georgia Congressdreck Hank Johnson, who represents Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District, which includes Conyers.
In 2016, Johnson was accused of anti-Semitism, after he called Jews living in Judea and Samaria “termites”, and accused Israeli Jews of stealing Arab land.
“There has been a steady [stream], almost like termites can get into a residence and eat before you know that you’ve been eaten up and you fall in on yourself, there has been settlement activity that has marched forward with impunity and at an ever increasing rate to the point where it has become alarming,” Johnson said at an event for the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, an anti-Israel organization which tries to gather support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
“You see one home after another being appropriated by Jewish people who come in to claim that land just because somebody did not spend the night there,” Johnson said,“The home their [Palestinian] ancestors lived in for generations becomes an Israeli home and a flag goes up,” he said, adding, “the Palestinians are barred from flying flags in their own neighborhoods.”
Johnson later apologized for what he called a “poor choice of words”, but doubled down on his criticism of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, which he said “undermine two-state solution.”
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Top Soros Employee Will get Cabinet Position in Biden Administration
The president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Patrick Gaspard, will resign, opening the way for him to take a possible position in the Biden administration.
Gaspard, who has served on the Hungarian-born billionaire’s foundation for three years, announced Friday that he will step down at the end of the year, Open Society said.
“Fundamental social change doesn’t customarily occur in a revolutionary moment. Instead, what is needed is the partnership of activists, government, and the nonprofit sector, collaborating over time and space in unity and solidarity,” he said. “This is what I worked to do at Open Society. My commitment now will be to re-enter the world of politics and ideas, where I can continue the struggle against oppression everywhere.”
Soros, a left-wing megadonor, praised Gaspard as a “champion of all rights: whether for workers, for women, or for underserved groups.”
“His dedication to those challenging power is precisely why I invited Patrick to join Open Society,” he said. “I have great admiration for the way he led the Foundations in a world beset by illiberalism, and I applaud him.”
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Vaad of Five Towns Now Gives Hashgacha on "Turkey Tushies"
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Biala Rebbe: Israeli Government Using COVID To Make You Forget Torah
He loves Teaneck and the 5 Towns where he stays by shaven "geveerim" for shabbos and holds tisch to the naive modern orthodox shmeggegies...
He does take money from the "medina" but now it suits him to deride them ...
The Biala Rebbe slammed the Israeli government for their gezeiros shutting down schools and yeshivos, comparing their actions to those of the Yevonim in the times of the Chanukah nissim.
Speaking at the pidyon haben of his grandson, the Rebbe stressed the necessity of having a seder kavuah for learning gemarah, especially in these trying times.
In translated remarks, the Rebbe called out the government’s edicts. “We find ourselves just days before Chanukah, and just like the Yevonim, they (the Israeli government) have made laws to make you forget the Torah… They have no concern at all for [taking care of] the body, they care only for [destroying] the neshama. And like the Yevonim, their edicts apply more to batei knesios and batei medrashos than it does to their parties.”
The Rebbe noted with pride that his four and half chasidim have continued their learning despite the hardships imposed on them.
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COVID-19 Relief Bill Won’t Offer $1,200 Checks
With time running out, lawmakers on Sunday closed in on a proposed COVID-19 relief bill that would provide roughly $300 in extra federal weekly unemployment benefits but not another round of $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, leaving that issue for Joe Biden to wrestle over with a new Congress next year.
The $908 billion aid package to be released Monday would be attached to a larger year-end spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown this coming weekend.
The cash payments were popular when they were first distributed after the pandemic hit, and Biden on Friday had expressed hope that a second wave might come after weekend negotiations.
But senators involved in the talks said the checks won’t be included as part of the compromise, even as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and others said that could cause them to oppose the measure.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, indicated that excluding the checks while assuring small-business aid and renters’ assistance was the only way to reach agreement with Republicans who are putting firm limits on the bill’s final price tag.
“The $1,200 check, it cost we believe nationally $300 billion to give you an idea,” he said. “The Democrats have always wanted a larger number, but we were told we couldn’t get anything through the Republicans, except this $900 billion level.”
The plan being worked on by a group of Republican and Democratic senators is less than half of the Democrats’ push of $2.2 trillion and nearly double the $500 billion “targeted” package proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Both he and Durbin said that McConnell has shown interest in the bipartisan effort, and Cassidy said he was hopeful that President Donald Trump would embrace it as well.
The proposal is expected to include about $300 per week in bonus federal unemployment payments, providing relief just as emergency aid payments at regular benefit levels are set to expire at year’s end. It would extend a freeze on evictions for people who cannot pay their rent and reauthorize the Paycheck Protection Program to give a second round of subsidies to businesses struggling through the pandemic.
Still, potential sticking points remain.
Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said last week they wouldn’t support the $908 billion proposal if it did not include checks for families, and were joined by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are also against shielding businesses from lawsuits claiming negligence for COVID-19 outbreaks, a provision pushed by Republicans.
While favoring the $1,200 checks, Biden said the emerging compromise was “immediately needed” and that additional assistance could follow later.
On Sunday, lawmakers involved in the negotiations said the direct payments would have to wait until after Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20. At that time, Biden will face a new Congress as vaccines are being distributed, with a narrowed Democratic majority in the House and a closely divided Senate potentially split 50-50 if Democrats are able to prevail in two runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sanders was not involved in the negotiations and “his characterization is just not accurate” about the potential liability protections for businesses. The direct payments, he said, will be a task for Biden.
“Every indication says more money is needed; we see that,” he said. “This gets us through basically the lifelines that people need and the small businesses that can survive and not go under.”
Manchin said Biden’s team, when in power, “can put together a different proposal that takes us further down the road for more recovery.”
Durbin spoke on ABC’s “This Week,” Cassidy appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” Warner was on CNN’s “State of the Union” and Manchin was interviewed on NBC’s “Meet the Press.
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Guy Caught Defacing "non tzneesdike" Posters from Bus
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Meah Shearim Residents Protest Against "Light Rail" ....
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
Listen to the Crazed Leftists .... Georgia Election Now Vital To Keep the USA Sane
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020
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Takeaways from Listening to CNN's Editorial Meetings for 2 Months
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Joe Biden’s Dangerous Delusion on Renewing the Iran Nuclear Pact
by Michael Goodin
The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist counts as a rare piece of good news from the mad mullahs’ gulag. It eliminates a key player in the bid to get nuclear weapons and creates a safer world.
The event is being celebrated by the Trump administration, which has been relentless in bringing Iran to its knees. Israel, which likely carried out the bold hit, is delighted by the demise of a man whose weapons threatened to wipe the Jewish state off the map. Also cheering are the Sunni Arab nations whose governments are targeted by Iran.
In short, the death of Moshen Fakhrizadeh is an unmitigated good thing to millions upon millions of innocent people. Yet to read The New York Times or listen to Joe Biden, the death is a bad thing because it complicates Biden’s plan to persuade Iran to rejoin the nuclear pact that President Trump wisely scuttled.
“Iran Pact’s Fate Dealt New Blow By Assassination,” read a mournful piece in the Times last Sunday.
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“YOU AND YOUR PRAYER BOOK CAN GET OFF”: Frum Woman WEARING MASK Thrown Off Delta Flight For “Davening” In Her Seat
****DIN: We are getting Info from people on the plane stating that SHE WAS NOT compliant with Delta's rules.... waiting to hear from Delta ...
A Frum woman was thrown off a Delta flight on Wednesday for not being compliant with mask-wearing. But the passenger tells YWN that she was 100% compliant, and thinks she was the victim of blatant anti-Semitism.
The woman – who wishes to remain anonymous at this point – says her experience was as follows:
“I was on Delta Flight 5610 from Chicago O’Hare to JFK Airport on Wednesday. I had my siddur open and was praying. The flight attendant, Erica Green, angrily pushed my siddur down and told me to pull up my mask to comply with guidelines. My mask was up but she walked away without allowing me to show her. I brushed it off assuming she didn’t see me correctly.
She came back with another flight attendant and they both got extremely angry at me. I was scared because I was doing nothing wrong. They knocked my siddur and told me I wasn’t being compliant, even though the other passengers could see I was fully compliant, and just praying. They said if I wasn’t going to be compliant, to tell them now. Some Frum men tried to help but the flight attendant did not allow them to speak.
When she finally stopped yelling at me I said “thank you for telling me, what’s your name?”
She swung around and a minute later the pilot announced we were turning the plane around to drop off a passenger who was non compliant. A woman named Kim Ford came on to the plane and told me that I was being non compliant and that if I did not get off the plane and continued speaking I would have a lifetime ban from flying Delta and security would drag take me off the plane. She said other passengers do not feel safe and the pilot did not feel comfortable having me on board. I was calm but scared, so I asked to speak with the pilot. She said I can speak with them when I get off the plane. Two pilots met me and I tried to explain that I was fully compliant and have witnesses. The flight attendant Erica Green cut me off and did not allow me to speak. I was crying and upset and the pilots seemed confused. Kim Ford said that if I calm down and don’t speak she would rebook me to NY on a different flight, but if I “keep this up” I would have a lifetime ban from Delta and be escorted out of the terminal.
I was holding my siddur the entire time.
As Kim took me back up the plane ramp the flight attendant Erica Green said “you and prayer book can get off”.
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