NYC Councilman Chaim Deutsch pleads guilty in federal tax fraud case

 

New York City Councilman Chaim Deutsch admitted Thursday that he defrauded the government of tens of thousands of dollars in taxes by concealing “his true business income,” federal officials said.

Deutsch was charged and pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Manhattan federal court to tax fraud for failing to report business income connected to his real estate company, Chasa Management, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. 

The Manhattan feds say the 52-year-old councilman evaded paying $82,076 in property taxes between 2013 and 2015. 

“As an elected official and community leader, Deutsch had a particular responsibility to follow the law,” said US Attorney Audrey Straus. “Instead, over a multi-year period, Deutsch concealed his true business income to avoid paying his fair share of taxes.”

The probe was a joint investigation of the city Department of Investigation, the IRS and Manhattan federal prosecutors. 

“It is dispiriting when a sitting City Council member is convicted of a crime,” DOI Commissioner Margaret Garnett said.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson called on Deutsch to resign saying he “betrayed that public trust by committing tax fraud.”

“Our constituents rightly expect the people they vote for to uphold the law. Deutsch failed them,” Johnson said. “To protect the integrity of the City Council and his Brooklyn seat, he must resign. He can no longer serve his constituents in good faith.”

Council spokeswoman Jennifer Fermino said the guilty plea was “incredibly troubling news.”

“As a result, we are looking at removing Council Member Deutsch from all his committees, including his position as Chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee, as well as his role dispersing discretionary funding,” she said.

The councilman is not required to give up his seat with the guilty plea, according to council sources. 

Deutsch, who was elected in 2014, has no plans to resign despite the conviction, his attorney said in a statement.

“Today, my client pled guilty to a one-count misdemeanor tax office of making a false statement on a tax return,” attorney Henry Mazurek said. “He accepts responsibility for his actions and intends to fully repay the $82,000 in taxes he owes.

“Mr. Deutsch’s dedication to public service will not be diminished, and he looks forward to completing his elected term.”

His current term expires at the end of the year.

The councilman faces up to one year in prison and a year of supervised release, as well as up to $100,000 in fines and restitution. 

He is due back for sentencing on July 29.

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New photos show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton’s White House

 

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were once White House guests of former President Bill Clinton, new pictures prove.

The images were published by The Sun, days after Maxwell’s last court appearance on sex trafficking charges in Manhattan, related to her alleged procurement of underage rape victims for the convicted pedophile.

The disgusting duo were invited to the White House in 1993, after Epstein reportedly donated money to have the Oval Office refurbished.

They toured the East Room and the presidential residence during a reception, the paper reported.

The pictures expand the timeline of Clinton’s involvement with Epstein and Maxwell.

Prior to their surfacing, some of the oldest photos linking the trio were from 2002, Clinton was photographed aboard Epstein’s private jet along with Maxwell and one of the late billionaires’ rape accusers.

The former president also reportedly had a private dinner with Maxwell in 2014 — long after Epstein was convicted of child sex abuse.

Clinton has denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island in the Bahamas, but accuser Virginia Giuffre has claimed to be on the island at the same time as the ex-president.

A book released last year claims that Clinton had an affair with Maxwell.

Clinton has maintained he was unaware of any sexual misconduct in his dealings with the wealthy financier. Epstein has also socialized with Prince Andrew — who Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with.

Epstein, facing a slew of sex charges, was found fatally hanged in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019.

The Florida mansion where he allegedly raped hundreds of girls and women was demolished last week.

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The story of the police unit that protected Eichmann

 

Adolf Eichmann led from his jail cell to the court, 1961

Throughout the period, the police documented Eichmann, and in the photos taken, the archvillain is seen cleaning the toilets in his cell, hanging laundry, brushing his teeth, being examined by a doctor or sitting on the iron bed in the cell, wearing slippers.

The documentation also appears in a new book slated to be released in a few weeks. Operation Iyar – The Activities of the Israel Police in the Eichmann Affair is, in fact, a second in-depth study by the police, after the first study into the work of Bureau 06, was published last year.

Both studies were written by Inspector Yossi Hemi, a historian and head of the Israel Police Heritage Center. For many months, Hemi searched the police archives and state archives and retrieved documents, correspondences, drawings and photographs documenting the behind-the-scenes of the trial, including the tight security arrangements, along with Eichmann's daily routine and interaction with his investigators.

"The current study presents the story of the Israel Police in the Eichmann case in all its aspects," says Hemi. "From the Iyar Unit, to carrying out the sentencing, together with the Prison Service. The role of the police went far beyond its area of responsibility, but few people know and appreciate what it did. I hope the two studies will reveal one of the most significant stories in the country's history and the history of the police in particular."

On May 23, 1960, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion took to the Knesset podium in one of the most historic speeches in Israel. He announced that Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution – the Nazi plan for the Jewish genocide –  had been captured in Argentina and brought to Israel two days earlier in a Mossad operation. Upon landing in Israel, Eichmann was taken into custody at the Israel Security Agency base in Jaffa. Ben-Gurion then tasked the Israel Police with his interrogation and security.

One of the first decisions of the then-Police Commissioner Yosef Nachmias was to turn the Jalama camp near Haifa (now the Kishon Prison) into a detention center intended for Eichmann alone. The place was named "Iyar Base", after the Hebrew month in which he was captured, and Commander Shaul Rosolio (later Israel's fifth police commissioner) was appointed commander of the base. He had only 48 hours to prepare for the transfer of Eichmann from the GSS, on May 26.

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Happy Earth Day !

 

This guy pictured above, Ira Einhorn, was the founder of Earth Day, and an environmental activist. 

In between his important work for the environment, he found time to kill his girlfriend and mummify her body. He was an advocate of  flower power, peace and free love.

Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the “composted” body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.

A self-proclaimed environmental activist, Einhorn made a name for himself among ecological groups during the 1960s and ’70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia’s head hippie. With his long beard and gap-toothed smile, Einhorn — who nicknamed himself “Unicorn” because his German-Jewish last name translates to “one horn”  —advocated flower power, peace and free love to his fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. He also claimed to have helped found Earth Day.

But the charismatic spokesman who helped bring awareness to environmental issues and preached against the Vietnam War — and any violence — had a secret dark side. When his girlfriend of five years, Helen “Holly” Maddux, moved to New York and broke up with him, Einhorn threatened that he would throw her left-behind personal belongings onto the street if she didn’t come back to pick them up.

And so on Sept. 9, 1977, Maddux went back to the apartment that she and Einhorn had shared in Philadelphia to collect her things, and was never seen again. When Philadelphia police questioned Einhorn about her mysterious disappearance several weeks later, he claimed that she had gone out to the neighborhood co-op to buy some tofu and sprouts and never returned.

It wasn’t until 18 months later that investigators searched Einhorn’s apartment after one of his neighbors complained that a reddish-brown, foul-smelling liquid was leaking from the ceiling directly below Einhorn’s bedroom closet. Inside the closet, police found Maddux’s beaten and partially mummified body stuffed into a trunk that had also been packed with Styrofoam, air fresheners and newspapers.

After his arrest, Einhorn jumped bail and spent decades evading authorities by hiding out in Ireland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and France. After 23 years, he was finally extradited to the United States from France and put on trial. Taking the stand in his own defense, Einhorn claimed that his ex-girlfriend had been killed by CIA agents who framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency’s paranormal military research. 

He was convicted of murdering Maddux and is currently serving a life sentence.

Although Einhorn was only the master of ceremonies at the first Earth Day event, he maintains that Earth Day was his idea and that he’s responsible for launching it. Understandably, Earth Day’s organizers have distanced themselves from his name, citing Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist and former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator who died in 2005, as Earth Day’s official founder and organizer.

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Camal'a Harris Finally greets migrant children ... But Only in a Book..... Veep herself nowhere to be found

 

Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to visit the border amid the burgeoning crisis there.  But her children’s book will be given to unaccompanied minors as they are housed in shelters after illegally crossing the U.S. border.

Illegal immigrant children who are being staged in a new shelter located in Long Beach, CA will reportedly receive a copy of Harris’ 2019 children’s book, “Superheroes are Everywhere” in their welcome packages. The PR move is ostensibly meant to normalize the situation and paint the Biden administration as caring for these unaccompanied minors. Thousands of children are still being packed into facilities for prolonged periods of time.

“Whenever there’s trouble, superheroes show up just in time,” Harris says in her book.

In March, border czar Roberta Jacobson admitted that the administration’s messaging to illegal immigrants has been inconsistent and has contributed to the surge across the border.

Harris visited a bookstore in New Hampshire on Friday and gave a speech on workforce training initiatives. 

She refused to take any questions from the press while she was there. Harris reportedly did not addressthe border crisis.

It has been more than 30 days since Harris was tapped by President Biden to lead the response concerning the crisis but she has yet to visit the border or even hold a press conference on the issue. The administration now claims that she will address the “root causes” that are causing illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors to come into the country, but not the actual surge itself.

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In Sanctuary NYC Illegal Alien Gang Members Charged with Hacking Young Mother to Death

 

Three illegal alien MS-13 gang members in the sanctuary state of New York have been charged with murdering a 31-year-old mother in a brutal attack.

MS-13 Gang members 20-year-old Rigel Yohairo, 22-year-old Allan Lopez, and 21-year-old Jose Sarmiento – all of whom are illegal aliens, Breitbart News has learned – were arrested and charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon, concealment of a human corpse, and tampering with evidence this month in the death of Nazareth Tamer-Claure, the mother of an eight-year-old boy.

Rodolfo Lopez, a fourth suspect who is also an illegal alien MS-13 gang member, has been arrested and charged with concealment of a human corpse and tampering with evidence.

Last week, Queens County prosecutors say Yohairo, Lopez, and Sarmiento beat Tamer-Claure with baseball bats before hacking her to death with machetes in the neighborhood of Far Rockaway. Then, the MS-13 gang members wrapped up Tamer-Claure’s body and stuffed her in the trunk of a car before taking off for Long Island, New York, according to prosecutors.

Days before the alleged murder, Tamer-Claure obtained a protection order against her boyfriend, 28-year-old Anander Henriquez, also an illegal alien MS-13 Gang member. Tamer-Claure had reported Henriquez for choking her on April 9.

Months before, in January, Tamer-Claure was allegedly punched in the face multiple times by Henriquez before he hit her with a metal pipe. Henriquez pleaded guilty for the attack.

Police said they witnessed the MS-13 gang members stuffing Tamer-Claure’s body in the trunk of the car and began tailing the suspects as a result. Tamer-Claure’s body was discovered after police pulled the suspects over.

All five MS-13 gang members are in police custody. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed to Breitbart News that all five suspects have detainers placed on them, a request that New York officials turn them over to ICE agents should they be released at any time.

New York, though, has one of the most expansive sanctuary state policies, whereby local law enforcement agencies are prohibited from cooperating with ICE and thus illegal aliens with pending charges against them are often released from police custody instead of being arrested and deported.

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Miracle of Two orphans who escaped the gas chambers and are reunited after 76 years

 

Jacques Weisser (right) and Bill Frankenstein (left) stayed together at the Meisjeshuis orphanage in Antwerp. Here they are aged three in August 1944 after Belgium was liberated 

Two young Jewish boys who narrowly escaped the Nazi gas chambers by being hidden in a Belgian hospital have met again for the first time in 76 years in an emotional Zoom reunion.

Jacques Weisser and Bill Frankenstein, now both 79, were among only 13 of 39 Jewish children from an orphanage in Antwerp to escape the Holocaust and survive the war.

Though they never knew each other until now, their remarkable story was immortalised on a handful of photographs taken in 1944 after Belgium was liberated, but which neither could remember being taken.

Their lives followed different, yet oddly similar paths; Bill in the US and Jacques, eventually, in the UK. Both had just one daughter and two grandsons.

Last month they joined six of the other Antwerp orphanage survivors, brought together by the painstaking detective work of a young Dutch researcher poring through dusty records and oral accounts to retrieve fragments of long-lost memories from war-torn Europe.

'We're like twins - two peas in a pod,' Jacques told MailOnline. 'I've always had this photo buried among others from my childhood, but didn't have a clue who the other boy was – now I've found out,' said Jacques.

'It's fascinating how fate had made some aspects of our lives so alike, particularly our children and grandchildren.'

Added a tearful Bill, born as Bernard Baron and now retired in Calabasas, Los Angeles: 'We spent so long together and went through so much, but I've only a few fleeting recollections, but none of them of Jacques, sadly. Now I'm so glad to know my brother from another mother!'

Bill was born in December 1941, Jacques in February 1942. After their parents were rounded up by the Germans, they were sent as orphans to the Meisjeshuis, an orphanage, in Antwerp.

All children there over the age of five were shipped off to the death camps of Auschwitz in late 1942, while fourteen younger children, were taken for safety elsewhere, ten of them, including Jacques and Bill went to the Sint-Erasmus Hospital and put into hiding among the dying patients. Of those 14, one was not so fortunate.

Alfred Goldstein, four, was initially saved from the orphanage and brought to the Sint-Erasmus hospital. However, he was found and arrested by the Germans in the hospital in October 1942 and sent to Auschwitz where he was murdered.  

At Sint-Erasmus Hospital, the Nazis would stage regular raids and take Jewish patients away, but somehow the nurses and other carers managed to keep the youngsters out of the way in cupboards or under piles of dirty linen with strict orders to remain silent.

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Israel records ZERO daily Covid deaths for first time in ten months

Israel has recorded no new daily Covid death for the first time in ten months as it continues to lead the world in its vaccination drive.

Figures show the country's coronavirus death tolls remained unchanged at 6,346 on Thursday.

The last time Israel recorded zero Covid death was at the end of June last year. Hospitals have now started closing its specialist coronavirus wards after daily death toll plunged in recent weeks.

Israel continues to lead the world in its vaccination drive, with more than 80 per cent of its adult population vaccinated.   

With only one death having been recorded the day before, it appears as though the rate at which people are dying from the virus in Israel is slowing. 

Israeli columnist Nadav Eyal Tweeted about the landmark achievement yesterday.

In the Tweet he said: 'For the first time in 10 months, no Israeli died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. 

'Special Corona wards have closed in all hospitals and share of positive cases stands now on 0.4% with dozens of thousands of tests per day, in a 9M population. #Covid_EndGame.'

The last time that Israel managed to record zero coronavirus deaths was 299 days ago on June 29, 2020, following a series of lockdown restrictions which helped contain the first wave of the virus. 

To date, Israel has recorded 837,892 cases of coronavirus, with 6,436 deaths 

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Frum Jewish Shark Tank Entrepreneur inks $2 million deal

 Ari Tolwin, a 6’4” Orthodox Jew who grew up and attended yeshiva in Detroit before going on to an MBA at Duke University, recently landed a $2 million Shark Tank deal with Mark Cuban.

Tolwin is the son of an outreach rabbi who parlayed his unique background into college business school and has since become a successful entrepreneur.

The deal with billionaire Cuban, who is also Jewish and came from a similar modest background, is for Tolwin’s "food tech" company NuMilk that makes plant-based milk kiosks.

NuMilk bills itself as “Plant-based milk made by you: Make delicious, nutritious and pure plant-based milks, lattes and protein shakes at the push of a button.”

Tolwin told website Jew in the City that he and partner Joe Savino happened upon the idea after a conversation about their shared love for the peanut butter grinders at Whole Foods. They realized that there wasn’t something similar for plant-based milk, which is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional dairy milk. They also realized that there were limited options in the market for non-dairy milk drinkers.

“Plant-based milk is unique for a few reasons…the ingredients are shelf stable. The second thing is that it’s mostly water,” he told Jew in the City.

They lucked into a German company who built a prototype for only $10,000. Eventually, after re-designing the machine several times, they hit upon a concept that worked. One of their investors encouraged them to audition for an open casting for Shark Tank.

We asked for a million dollars for five percent, and ended up with two million for ten percent,” he said.

Cuban was also their first choice for investor.

“To see a machine that works well, delivers, is cost effective and makes something that doesn’t exist in a market that’s big and growing very quickly, that’s what got them excited,” he added.

NuMilk’s store machines do not have a kosher certification, but don’t need one as their ingredients are all raw and plant-based. When their home counter machine is released in the near future, that version's milk packets will have kosher certifications.

During his appearance on Shark Tank, Tolwin explained, "We built a custom machine for grocery stores where shoppers can make pure, dairy-free milk at the push of a button. The milk has a 7-to-10 day shelf-life and it has to stay in the fridge."

On average, each store kiosk makes $50,000 in revenue per year. They hope with the help of Cuban’s investment, they can reduce manufacturing costs per machine from $30,000 to $15,000, as well as expanding their product line, according to CNBC.

In the summer of 2022, Numilk is planning to produce a smaller, home version that sits on the counter, retailing for $199.

Tolwin told Jew in the City that he brings Judaism to his work.

“I bring a lot of Tanach stories, even in secular context, in a lot of our conversations with investors and everyone else. I think of Chush ben Dan, I think of Nachshon ben Aminadav as a little bit of inspiration. Aharon Avinu making shalom…(doing) what Hashem told him to do. The (lesson) is that everyone wants to put their mark on stuff, and the answer is, just do it,” he said.

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Zera Shimshon... Parshas Achrei-Mos- Kedoishim

 

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FBI Arrests Brooklyn Yeshiva Boy Dovid Schwartzberg For Entering Capital on Jan 6

 

This is too funny to be true ....I had to re-read this story many times, because I thought this had to be a spoof..

The entire country is going to pot, on the verge of a civil war ... where it's dangerous to walk the streets if your white... a country that gave $27 million to the Floyd family, a criminal from the day he was born who physically abused and threatened his pregnant girlfriend with a knife, a country where a congresswoman no less a majority leader of congress thanks this dangerous criminal Floyd for sacrificing his life, a country that calls a cop who had no choice but to kill a 16 year old girl  who was about to be stab  another girl to death, ....a racist, and then allows blacks to loot and get free TVs. A country that praises hateful anti-Semitic organisations like BLM whose founder became a millionaire on the backs of her naive fellow blacks.

In the midst of this chaos & destruction, and while the country is burning, the FBI has the time to do a full federal investigation of  a yeshiva boy who decided to enter the Capital  on January 6! ....while allowing a rabble rouser an  elected Congresswoman, who is no doubt a  certified lunatic,   the ugly wench, Maxine Water, to incite and encourage her fellow blacks to riot and burn.. 

Guys pack up and move ... now.... there is a civil war brewing while you are calmly making plans to go to Orlando for Pesach next year...you think that goyim want you there with your $5,000 shaitlach? With your fancy, shape hugging Givenchy dresses? 

You think that the Goyim in Disneyworld love seeing your children with payes and tzizis, and matching outfts ? Do you really think that the goyim in Sullivan County are looking forward to the snoods, "pundulach"and filth this summer?

Seriously, do you think that the RBS"O loves watching Chassidic leaders building huge buildings in Chutz Le'aaretz? ....Bobov 48 and 45, Satmar Zilonie and Satmar Ahroini are trying to outdo each on who has the biggest building ... 

This my friends is a huge Chillul Hashem ... and those very leaders loudly scream and rant, with eyes rolled into their heads,  at the seder "Leshana Habbah Be'Yerushalyim"! Do you really, in your heart of hearts, think, that they want that? Do you want that? Be honest ...Do you want to be in Yerushalyim or do you want to be in Orlando next year?

 

The next time you guys run to Europe to the kevarim thereby helping and supporting the economy of the murderers and rapists of our relatives just 75 years ago,... stop off in Bobov, Ger, Belz,Lublin, Sata-mare, Siget, Volozhin, Mir, Radin, Telz, and Lubavitch ... do me a favour... stop off there and show us  all how their shuls are doing.... see how the  cows and goats  are grazing in some of them now .....

You don't even have to go to Europe to see our Moisdos Ha'Torahs' total destruction.

How are the Big  Beautiful Shuls in The Bronx, in Brownsville, East New York, Canarsi Lower East Side, Bensonhurst, doing? And this is just in New York alone..

These are subtle hints.from the One Above.. which you guys are ignoring...

Yes, we have problems in Israel..yes... but Hashem wants you in Israel with its issues...

Come now before its too late ... don't forget to give the blacks reparations on your way out the door...

  The FBI has charged a 19-year-old Brooklyn man for breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th protests in Washington DC.

Dovid Schwartzberg confessed to breaking into the building along with the pro-Trump mob and recording several videos. A tipster informed the FBI after security cameras and social media video captured images of Schwartzberg, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap, inside the Capitol building.

He turned himself into the FBI in New York on Tuesday and was released on bail.

Schwartzberg told FBI agents that he “wanted to be where the action was” and willingly entered the building on the day that Congress was meeting to affirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. The charges include violent entry, disorderly conduct and knowingly entering a restricted building.

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1,500 rabbis accuse J Street of 'anti-Semitic double standard'

 

In a letter sent today, Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) denounced J Street for employing “an antisemitic double standard.” It rejected as slanderous charges made by the long-controversial organization against Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), and accused J Street, rather than Klein, of demonstrating ugly bias.

The letter by CJV—the largest rabbinic public-policy organization in America—was sent to Jeremy Burton, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. It was prompted by a petition from J Street and allies demanding that ZOA be expelled from the umbrella organization; Boston’s JCRC Council is set to meet and consider that petition on April 27.

In the letter, the CJV defended Klein from J Street's accusations of bigotry, writing: "the complaint asserts that it is “bigoted” to describe Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib as hating Jews and supporting terror. It simply presumes that Mr. Klein’s objections are connected to their identity characteristics."

"This is absurd. David Duke does not back Ilhan Omar because of her identity, but because he shares her hatred of Jews. Mr. Klein denounces both Omar and Duke for precisely the same reason, and thus to pin his opposition to Rep. Omar’s skin color, religion or any similar factor is simply slander."

"Rep. Tlaib recently called Israel 'racist' because the Palestinian Authority refused to work with Israel to obtain vaccines for its citizens. Condemning this antisemitic lie is factual and not bigoted... while using her identity characteristics to try to reverse hater and hated most certainly is."

“For far too long, radical, partisan organizations that partner with and assist Israel’s enemies, like J Street, have gotten away with slandering anyone who represents or defends Israel,” asserted CJV Vice President Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld. “Fundamental justice obliges us to speak out against these false and hypocritical charges of bigotry.”

After reviewing what J Street’s petition described as “Klein’s recent bigoted statements,” CJV noted that it relied upon absurd assumptions: “not only that a particular opinion is correct, but that any opposition is inherently motivated by hatred and bigotry.” No evidence of actual bias against any group was presented, only strident condemnation by Klein of those making antisemitic statements.

Most of all, CJV highlighted J Street’s hypocrisy in demanding censure of Klein for “bigotry” while inviting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to address its national conference earlier this week. Not only has Abbas said that Jews “defile” holy sites with their “filthy feet,” he has given his blessing to ongoing bloodshed. Moreover, his organization, the Palestinian Authority, continues to provide generous monthly stipends to terrorists and their families.

“That J Street accuses Mr. Klein while simultaneously honoring Mr. Abbas,” averred the rabbis’ letter, “reflects an antisemitic double-standard of the first order.”

This is not the first time that J Street, which describes itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” has been accused of antisemitic bias. Last year, the group used a photoshopped montage of Jewish advisors and Benjamin Netanyahu standing over a seated Donald Trump, which then-U.S. Envoy on Antisemitism Elan Carr castigated as amplifying “#Antisemitism and crude anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” regarding Jewish control of government. The Simon Wiesenthal Center agreed that the image used “a trope deployed by anti-Semites,” and urged J Street to remove it, which J Street failed to do.

“There is no denying the antisemitic undertones in this case,” attested Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Chairman of CJV’s Rabbinic Circle. “If any group should be expelled from a coalition of Jewish organizations, it should be J Street for slandering and defaming an organization that actually combats Israel- and Jew-hatred and all other forms of bigotry.”

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What???? ......Top US general: Syrian ‘incompetence’ behind missile that landed in Israel

 

What's this guy drinking???

‘I do not believe it was an intentional attack but just rather lack of capability,’ says Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of US forces in the Middle East

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Rand Paul says Dr. Anthony Fauci is an elitist and a ‘well-intentioned liar’ who ‘thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us’

Sen. Rand Paul during an interview on The Water Cooler with host David Brody described National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci as an elitist and a well-intentioned liar.

“You know I think Dr. Fauci is well intended, but I think he’s like many liberal elites,” Paul said, remarking that Fauci believes “the common man is not smart enough to make decisions, so he will make these decisions for you. 

But in the process he may have to tell you a few lies because it’s for you, it’s for the betterment of mankind. 

These are sort of noble lies as Plato said. 

And these would be like telling you in the beginning that no masks work because he didn’t want you to buy the N95 masks,” Paul said, adding that Fauci also lied by saying that all masks work.

Paul said that cloth masks are not effective in shielding against COVID-19, but N95 masks do offer protection when used properly: “And really they only work in the hospital setting when you’re very careful, throw them away, wear gloves, wash your hands before and after, are incredibly cautious. But if you’re in the hospital and you want to go visit a COVID patient or you’re taking care of a COVID patient, the hospital will not let you enter the room with a cloth mask because they don’t work.”

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Dutch wine shop fined thousands of Euros for not putting the word “settlement” on a wine bottle

 

Dutch government inspectors fined a store for labelling wine made in an Israeli settlement as “a product from an Israeli village in Judea and Samaria.”

The Israel Products Center near Amsterdam received the $2,514 fine last week following its refusal to replace the label with one acceptable to the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, which requires such labels read “Product from the West Bank (Israeli settlement).”

The Israel Products Center, a shop and importer run by the pro-Israel group Christians for Israel, has had legal problems over labelling since 2019. The center’s director, Pieter van Oordt, wrote in a statement that he was “shocked” by the government’s actions, which he said were discriminatory.

At least four Dutch political parties have accused the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority of singling out Israeli products and ignoring controversial labels on products from other disputed areas, including Western Sahara and Northern Cyprus.

Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark has rejected the claim, saying last year that the policy of enforcing EU regulations on labels is being applied across the board. However, the Center for Information on Documentation on Israel, a Jewish community watchdog, said Wednesday that it had no information on any action taken on country-of-origins labels on products that were not made by Israelis. If you examine the actual EU regulations, you can see that it is political and inconsistent (autotranslated):

Since the Golan Heights and the West Bank (including East Jerusalem)  are not part of Israeli territory under international law, the statement ‘product from Israel’   is considered incorrect under the said legislation. and considered misleading.If the indication of origin is mandatory, another expression must be used, taking into account the way in which these areas are usually known.For non-settlement products from Palestine, a possible indication that is not misleading as to geographic origin and in line with international practice is’ West Bank product (Palestinian product) ‘  ‘ product from Gaza ”or “product from Palestine ”.

For products originating from settlements in the West Bank or the Golan Heights, indications limited to ‘Golan Heights product’ or ‘West Bank product’ are not sufficient. Even if the larger area or territory from which the product originates is stated, omitting the additional geographic information that the product originates from Israeli settlements would mislead the consumer as to the true origin of the product. In such cases, the expression “Israeli settlement” or equivalent should be added, for example, in parentheses. Thus expressions such as ‘Golan Heights product (Israeli settlement)’ or ‘West Bank product (Israeli settlement)’ could be used.

According to the regulations, one must be accurate in saying where the products come from. There is no nation called “Palestine” – yet Palestinian products may say that, instead of “Palestinian territories.” The areas where Jews live in the territories could be very accurately described as “Judea and Samaria,” which is what even the UN called it before Jordan’s illegal annexation of the territory. But instead, the Dutch regulations insist on a pejorative term, “Israeli  settlement,” whose only purpose is to help people boycott the products. 

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More Violence & Tear Gas in "geshmake second-seder" in Ponovitz

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More violence at the Ponevezh Yeshiva: Students from the 'haters' faction used tear gas against students from the 'terrorist' faction' during afternoon prayers in the Beit Midrash.

Police were summoned to the scene to break up the brawl and removed all students from the Beit Midrash.

The fight was the latest in a longstanding dispute between the two factions over control of the yeshiva and the division of its territory. The supporters of Rabbi Shmuel Markovitz on the one hand, nicknamed the "haters," and Rabbi Eliezer Kahaneman's rival camp, called the "terrorists" have long been at loggerheads and tensions frequently lead to violence.

On Tuesday, Rabbi Aryeh Kahaneman, the son of Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Eliezer Kahaneman, was beaten by students from the rival faction and taken to Tel Hashomer hospital.

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