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Monday, May 31, 2021

Families that Lost Loved Ones at Meron Very Angry At Chareidie Leadership And Insist On a Government Investigation

 

The families finally speak out!

The sense that the Haredi political elite has spent the 30 days since the catastrophe desperately fending off any inquiry that might see it blamed for the tragedy is driving a new outpouring of rage at the Haredi leadership from within its own community.

When a Shavuot celebration on May 16 held by the Karlin-Stolin Hasidic sect ended in yet another tragedy as a grandstand collapsed under the weight of dancing worshipers — killing two, including 13-year-old Meir Gloiberman, and wounding over 200 — that anger could no longer be ignored.

And when news broke that some of the families of the Meron dead had been contacted by people claiming to be from United Torah Judaism asking if they would agree to sign a letter opposing a formal state commission, it boiled over.

On May 23, the families found their voice.

They formed an organization called “The Forum of the Bereaved Families of the Meron Martyrs” that sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with copies to Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai, as well as UTJ’s Gafni and Shas’s Deri. Their message was crystal clear.

“To our great anguish, there are those in recent days who have called for an investigation that isn’t an independent state investigation commission,” the letter begins.

“We want to say in a loud, clear, unequivocal voice, without ambiguity, all the families speaking as one, that we demand only an independent state investigation commission. We are convinced that only a state investigation commission will conduct a comprehensive investigation.”

Some families weren’t satisfied with the letter. Haredi radio station Kol Barama reported on Thursday that the family of Shraga Gestetner, an American who died at Meron, has threatened to involve the American government “if a state investigation into the disaster isn’t established in the coming days.”

When everything is at stake

No similar disaster in Israel’s history, nor even one with a quarter of Meron’s death toll, has failed to result in an investigation commission. Why do the Haredi parties believe they can hold the line? Why would they be willing to face the inevitable public condemnation?

So much of what went wrong at Meron — the bickering sects, the refusal to accept police safety regulations or government oversight, the mobilizing of Haredi political leadership to guarantee the event’s independence from state oversight — cuts to the heart of Haredi culture, to its sense that it has achieved a kind of purity and superiority over the surrounding society through its separatism and isolationism.

On May 17, a day after the Karlin disaster, the Haredi journalist Moshe Glassner of Kol Barama put the point bluntly:

 Haredi separatism is leading the community from one deadly failure to another.

“After yet another disaster in the Haredi community,” Glassner wrote, “it’s about time for all the various [Haredi] communities to grasp the message: Safety regulations, like health regulations, aren’t a ‘Zionist plot against religion.’ That anachronistic way of thinking cost us lives in the pandemic, at Meron, and again on Shavuot.”

The religious commandment to “guard your lives,” he added, “isn’t a mitzvah [just] for troubled youth, but an obligation from the Torah” that supersedes nearly all others.

In Haredi society’s terms, the politicians are protecting not just themselves or their religious sects. They are safeguarding the psychic walls that Haredi society has constructed around itself, the deep-seated ethos of resistance to state interference in their lives and communities.

For a growing chorus of critics in the community, however, the 45 dead at Meron are too high a price to lay at the altar of isolationism and self-regard.

As the May 24 walkout in the Knesset showed, secular Israel is no longer the primary threat to that isolationism. Likud and other factions proved willing to play along with the Haredi leadership’s efforts to stymie an independent investigation.

After a year of the pandemic’s devastation, followed in quick succession by the dual shocks of the Meron and Karlin disasters, it is now the families of the dead and the increasingly independent-minded media outlets of the Haredi world that are not.

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Have they no shame? The edge of the political cliff in Israel

 


by Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin

The end of Netanyahu's reign may be around the corner, so the media predicts! And perhaps exults.

Left, right, and center outside of the Likud and the religious parties - Aguda, Shas and Relgious Zionism - will be joining with the Arabs in the Knesset to oust one of Israel's most brilliant and illustrious leaders! Those responsible will be the following:

First and foremost, from the self-professed Right:

-At the head of the list, Yamina, whose chairman actually signed a a paper on Israel's national media saying he would never join with Yair Lapid or the Arab parties and whose party name in Hebrew means "right" Throughout the election campaigns, the party actually repeatedly promised to be to the right of Netanyahu!

Followed by so-called rightist parties:

-Yisrael Beytenu (Liberman), New Hope (Sa'ar)

From the left: 

Labor, Meretz

-From the left-leaning center: Yesh Atid, Blue and White

-From the Arabs: Islamist Ra’am

What can be more shameful than this? Israeli Jews from all political walks of life turning shaprly left and joinng Arabs who refuse to recognize the Jewish State to oust the longest-serving Israeli prime minister whose accomplishments include, among other things:

*Sovereignty in the Golan Heights

*The American embassy in Jerusalem

*4 peace agreements with Muslim countries

*5 years of attacking the Iranians in Syria to keep them from closing in on Israel

*Israel credit rating inot damaged despite the coronavirus, economy rebounding

*Tens of billion dollars trade agreements with India and Brazil

*12 years, according to the security system, with the least number of terrorist attacks

*Gas out of the sea, with Israels going to provide 10 % of all Europe's gas consumption and put billions in the country's coffers

*Under Trump, made the United States get out of the scandalous nuclear agreement with Iran

*Brought vaccines to Israel before the whole world so that Israel is now basically corona free

*Waged multiple wars against Hamas with successful Iron Dome and IAF operations doing enormous damage - only stopped this time by Biden

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Bennett's ultimatum to Shaked

 

Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett has reportedly placed an ultimatum on party leader Ayelet Shaked, stipulating that she must finalize a deal for the formation of a right-wing government by 10 PM tonight or he will agree to form a government with Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, Channel 12 News reported.

The report states that New Hope chairman Gideon Sa'ar has not responded to the offer made by the Likud on Friday for a rotation deal. Shaked's efforts are focusing on Sa'ar. If there are no dramatic changes, Bennett is expected to officially announce tonight his agreement to sit with Lapid.

Lapid is scheduled to announce tomorrow to President Reuven Rivlin that he has succeeded in forming a government.

Meanwhile, the division of portfolios based on the agreements and negotiations that have transpired over the past days has also been published. According to the publication, Bennett will serve as prime minister until September 2023, with Lapid taking over as head of state from until November 2025. Until then, Lapid will be the foreign minister and alternate prime minister.

Benny Gantz is expected to remain defense minister, Avigdor Liberman will be finance minister, Gideon Sa'ar will be justice minister, Ayelet Shaked will be interior minister, Labor chief Merav Michaeli will serve as transportation minister, Meretz' Nitzan Horowitz will be appointed health minister, Yifat Shasha-Bitton will be education minister, and Labor's Omer Bar-Lev will serve as public security minister.

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It's Official ..... BLM Founder Calls for "the end of Israel"

 This Black Lady is fighting for her race rights but denies others race rights


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Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Evil Demonic New York Times ....

 

by Prof. Phyllis Chesler

It was almost Shabbat. I deserved a rest of some kind. We all do. But no. I sit down, open my home town version of Pravda—and see that there’s no respite, no letting go, still no even-handedness, still no context, no expertise.

Friday, May 28th, the front page, front and center, there are 66 photos of innocent, sweet, dead children’s faces, eight rows across and eight rows down all, in color. With one exception, they are all children who lived in Gaza. The photo-montage is titled “They Were Just Children.” Three brief sentences follow: “At least 67 people under age 18 in Gaza and 2 in Israel were killed during this month’s conflict, according to initial reports. They had wanted to be doctors, artists, and leaders. Read their stories, Pages A 10-11.” (One photo is missing).

Four of the male faces are described as being sixteen or seventeen years old. Many boys are between thirteen—sixteen years old. Three of the girls are wearing hijab and their ages range from 13-17. A Bedouin girl, age 17, is not pictured. Two photos display two faces. One child’s face is missing. Only one Israeli child, 5-year-old Ido Avigal of Sderot is mentioned.

The Times does not mention that Hamas rockets often fell short and killed their own civilian “human shields,” including a good number of these children, nor does it mention that Hamas trains children as young as five years old to hold and fire guns, throw rocks, carry daggers. Perhaps these photos depict the only children in Gaza who had no Hamas-style paramilitary training, no indoctrination into hatred.

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Biden sucking up to criminal George Floyd's family'

 



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Hilarious Clip Shows Media Elitists Mocking Trump for Suggesting China Virus Came from a Lab

Grabien founder Tom Elliott released a supercut Wednesday that showed a series of media personalities dismissing the possibility that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab.

The video began with a few clips of people — such as Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and former President Donald Trump — suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 could have leaked from a Wuhan laboratory where bat coronaviruses were being studied. 

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Reporters Finally Asking Biden Tough Questions

 

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Brilliant Speech by Yair Lapid ...

 


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Dershowitz' lawsuit against CNN allowed to continue: They lied

 


Longtime legal scholar and noted ally of President Trump during his first impeachment trial Alan Dershowitz comments on his lawsuit against CNN and CNN's motion to dismiss being denied, and where the case may go from here.

- with Newsmax's Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith.
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Meir Kay Blindfolds Himself & Offers Free Hugs....See What Happens

 

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Saturday, May 29, 2021

U.N. Human Rights Council Puts Israel on Trial, Permanently


 The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted Thursday to establish a permanent “Commission of Inquiry” into Israel — and only Israel — in response to the recent 11-day war in Gaza, launched by Palestinian Hamas terrorists.

The resolution, which passed 24-9, with 14 abstentions, creates an ongoing independent, international commission of inquiry, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to investigate in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law leading up to and since 13 April 2021, and all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions, instability and protraction of conflict, including systematic discrimination and repression based on national, ethnic, racial or religious identity.

It is the first such permanent commission of inquiry, the latest in the UNHRC’s obsession with Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the UNHRC’s decision, and the U.S. condemned it as well.

The UNHRC’s 47 member states include China, Cuba, Russia, and Venezuela. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the UNHRC over its anti-Israel focus. President Joe Biden decided to rejoin the UNHRC, and the U.S. is now an observer, pending election to membership.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield boasted to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network last month that “we immediately re-engaged with the Human Rights Council, and have announced our intention to seek election to that body, so that we can advance our most-cherished democratic values around the globe.”

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Shopping in an Israeli Makolet... You get more than Chumos

 


I don't know who this guy is but he is doing a great "Mimkomcha' that Chazzan Shia Weider z"l wrote!

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Chucky Schumer "Where Are You"

 


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Explosive study Proves that "Trump Was Right All Along" that Chinese scientists created COVID


 

A bombshell new study claims to have proof that Chinese scientists created COVID-19 in a lab and then tried to reverse-engineer versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats.

British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger Sørensen wrote they’ve had primary evidence "of retro-engineering in China" since last year, but were ignored by academics and major medical journals, The Daily Mail reported Saturday, citing the soon-to-be-published study.

The study concludes: "the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small." The virus is still killing 12,000 people a day around the world.

Dalgleish is a London oncology professor known for breakthrough work on a vaccine for HIV. Sørensen is a virologist and chair of the pharmaceutical company Immunor, which developed a coronavirus vaccine candidate called Biovacc-19. Dalgleish also has a financial stake in that company.

It was during their COVID-19 vaccine research that the pair came across "unique fingerprints" indicating the virus didn’t come from nature, they said.  The telltale clue: a rare finding in the COVID-carrying virus of a row of four amino acids, which give off a positive charge and bond to negative human cells.

"The laws of physics mean that you cannot have four positively charged amino acids in a row," Dalgleish told the Daily Mail. "The only way you can get this is if you artificially manufacture it."

They also tracked published Chinese research, some done working with American universities, to show how the tools to create the virus were allegedly built. A good part of the work reviewed involved "gain of function" research, which involves manipulating natural viruses in a lab to make them more infectious, allowing scientists to study their potential effect on humans.

The U.S. put a moratorium on such research in 2014. But it’s impossible to know if $600,000 funding for medical research in China was used for gain of function research, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress last week.

"A natural virus pandemic would be expected to mutate gradually and become more infectious but less pathogenic which is what many expected with the COVID-19 pandemic but which does not appear to have happened," the scientists wrote.

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Mothers criticize BLM for profiting off their dead sons

 

Grief-stricken mothers who have accused Black Lives Matter of profiting from the deaths of their sons condemned the group’s embattled co-founder Patrisse Cullors after she announced she was stepping down from the movement.

“I don’t believe she is going anywhere,” Samaria Rice, the mother of a 12-year-old boy shot by Cleveland police while playing with a toy gun, told The Post. “It’s all a facade. She’s only saying that to get the heat off her right now.”

Lisa Simpson, a Los Angeles-based mother whose son was slain by police in 2016, also blasted Cullors.

“Now she doesn’t have to show her accountability,” Simpson, 52, told The Post. “She can just take the money and run.”

Cullors, the executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, announced on Thursday she was leaving the group a month after The Post reported on her $3.2 million real-estate buying spree and questions about the group’s finances.

Cullors did not respond to a request for comment. She has said her departure had been in the works for a year and was not tied to what she called “right wing attacks that tried to discredit my character.”

Rice, 44, told The Post she first sought out Cullors to enlist the group’s help in re-opening a federal investigation into her son’s 2014 death. She said she exchanged a few emails with Cullors over the years, but had never managed a face-to-face meeting.

“They are benefiting off the blood of our loved ones, and they won’t even talk to us,” said Rice, who has also blasted activists Shaun King and Tamika Mallory, whose speech at the Grammy Awards in March called on African Americans to “demand the freedom that this land promises.”

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Jewish Actors & Comedians Like Seth Rogen & Sarah Silverman Back Hamas Hoping that the Crocodile Will Eat Them Last


Those fortunate enough to be spared a daily bath in the sewers of Twitter may need to be filled in. 

Seth Rogen is to comedy as Chapo Trap House is to Henry Kissinger: a kind of stoned, dirtbag antidote to adulthood. He specializes in depicting that saddest of American male specimens, the pot-smoking, pot-bellied, moob-stricken man-child.

While I find it increasingly difficult to escape Seth Rogen, whether I like it or not, I was only vaguely aware of a music journalist called Eve Barlow until yesterday. This is because I am not greatly interested in most new pop music. I am, however, positively obsessed with anything Jewish. 

Yesterday, Tablet published an article by Barlow, describing the anti-Jewish abuse she had received on Twitter because she is a Zionist.

The moment you identify yourself as Jewish online, you receive a torrent of racist insults. Say anything positive about Israel and you double it. The intention is to bully, to intimidate you into silence.

The Twitter line of attack on Eve Barlow is to call her ‘Eve Fartlow’. It’s not much of a pun; perhaps it originates in a subliminal association about Jews and the release of gas. So many people called her ‘Fartlow’ on Wednesday night, that her name trended higher than the news of a mass shooting in San Jose. 

It was smart of Barlow to smoke out the bullies. By describing what they’re doing, she drew them out in the thousands. So eager were they to insult her that they forgot to don their implausible ‘Free Palestine’ fig leaves and got straight down to the Jew-baiting.

Enter Seth Rogen. 

He tweeted the ‘fart’ emoji, a little cloud of gas. 

In the silly system of values to which Rogen seems to ascribe, this is the epitome of ‘punching down’, which is a big no-no. 

Seth Rogen is Jewish. He has made a time-travel movie, An American Pickle, about an Orthodox Jew who falls into a barrel of pickle water, is preserved for a century and wakes up to meet his grandson in modern Brooklyn. Rogen plays both grandfather and grandson. He is completely unconvincing as the grandfather, a pious bruiser sustained by tribal loyalties, but alarmingly convincing as the grandson, a pear-shaped conformist who really can’t be bothered with being Jewish and spends his time tinkering with a dumb app.

Rogen expressed similar ambivalence about his American pickle when he was promoting the film and said he’d been ‘fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’ as a child and did his best to disavow any association with Israel.

 Another quasi- comedian, Sarah Silverman, did much the same last week after the American pogromchiks had moved from the screen to the streets. ‘We are not Israel,’ she tweeted, separating herself from her sister who is a rabbi in Jerusalem.

People are free to join or disavow whoever they like. 

Famous people have more to lose, so they’re petrified of getting cancelled. Comedians will say anything for a laugh. Combine those impulses and you have Seth Rogen saying that if an old joke is now considered inappropriate, it should be annulled — a racist or sexist joke, perhaps — and then making one of the oldest jokes in the book, a fart joke, at a young woman who’s being bullied.

Mark Ruffalo, who has raged against Israel with Arafat-like fury for years, seems suddenly to have realized that words have consequences, and that celebrity vitriol is volatile and more likely to have real-world consequences than the vitriol of those who, like Eve Barlow’s persecutors, must attain critical mass to really hurt someone.

Mark Ruffalo isn’t Jewish, but Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are. 

Their response to the attacks on Jews in America in the last couple of weeks, online or in the street, sends a message:

 they are following their people, the self-righteous anti-Jewish left, so that they can find out where the mob is going and position themselves at its head, the better to avoid being its target.

Only someone utterly lacking in awareness and desperate for acclaim — a comedian, say — would pursue this shortsighted, selfish strategy. 

Like Churchill’s appeaser, Rogen and Silverman are feeding the ‘bad’ Jews — the Israelis, the Zionists, the religious, the Eve Barlows — to the crocodile in the hope that it’ll eat them last.

 But its appetite is insatiable. And when it gets its teeth into Rogen, his protests shall be as a fart on the breeze. 

More at The Spectator

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"If I were A Rich Man" Grandfather takes biggest-ever Israel lottery jackpot of NIS 76m

 

A grandfather from the south scored the biggest ever lottery win in the history of the country on Tuesday when he won NIS 76 million ($23.4 million)

It marked a dramatic change in fortune for the man, who had been out of work for a prolonged period due to the coronavirus outbreak, when many lost their jobs during national lockdowns. 

In addition, recent fighting between Israel and the Gaza Strip left him sitting in a bomb shelter as the Hamas terror group rained rockets on the country, and in particular the south, until a ceasefire was reached Friday.

But things took a turn for the better when he left home to start a new job early Wednesday morning and decided to check his lottery tickets in the moments before he started the engine of his car.

In a statement from the Mifal Hapais organization that runs the national lottery, the man said that he initially saw that just one person had taken the first prize and thought to himself, “How great for the winner, perhaps it is me.”

The man had bought two tickets for the draw and the first one that he checked did not have a win on it.

But on the second, he had all six lottery numbers and the Powerball.

The prize for Tuesday’s draw was NIS 38 million, but the winner had purchased a double-up ticket, making his jackpot NIS 76 million.

The man said he called his son and kept shouting his name, alarming him because he was calling at an unusual hour and had woken up his daughter-in-law.

“‘I won the lottery, now you don’t need to earn a living,'” he said he told them. “They didn’t go back to sleep and came straight over.”

In the meantime, the man went back home to tell his wife, who was still asleep in bed.

Climbing in beside her, he began to sing, “Sometimes dreams come true,” a song by Israeli artist Svika Pick.

“At first my wife didn’t understand why I was so energetic,” he said, but finally, she realized what had happened.

He then called his new boss and told him that he would not be coming in to work that day.

“I will have to call him again and tell him that it seems I won’t be coming in at all,” the man said.

After taking off 38 percent in tax, he was left with NIS 47 million ($14.46 million).

His win topped the NIS 74 million that a winner took home in 2009. Israel’s lottery is capped at NIS 40 million, or NIS 80 million for a double-up ticket.

The man explained that he occasionally plays the lottery and rather than filling in the form himself he lets the ticket machine randomly pick numbers. Last week he found two ticket forms in a drawer that he had used in the past but did not win anything.

“I decided that was a sign that it was time to try my luck again, and used them again,” he said. A draw at the weekend won him NIS 90 on one ticket, which he took as a good omen and so, rather than buying new tickets, again submitted them for the Tuesday draw.

“It seems that was a significant one-off decision,” he said.

The man said he will divide the money up evenly between his children, enabling them to buy homes without taking out a mortgage. The family is also planning a long trip abroad.

“The children want Thailand, but I am leaning more toward the US,” he told Walla. “It looks like we won’t do one trip, but two.”

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Former ADL head Abraham Foxman cancels NY Times subscription After Recent Blood Libel



Former longtime head of the ADL Abraham Foxman has cancelled his New York Timessubscription after a lifetime of reading the newspaper, which has been accused in the last few weeks of exceedingly one-sided coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

“I am cancelling my subscription to NYTimes,” Foxman, who is 81, tweeted. “I grew up in America on the NYT- I delivered the NYT to my classmates- I learned civics- democracy and all the news ‘fit to print’ for 65 years but no more. Today’s blood libel of Israel and the Jewish people on the front page is enough.”

Foxman was the national director of the ADL from 1987 to 2015.

His tweet was followed by a tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, who said “me too.”

While there were the usual comments defending the New York Times and its coverage of the conflict, as well as those all too common on social media attacking Israel and spewing anti-Semitism, many Jews and non-Jews chimed in to also speak about how they too have cancelled their New York Times subscriptions.

“I too grew up w NYT, subscribed throughout college and after college. Canceled subscription a few years ago given their completely false reporting on the middle east [and other false reporting]. NYT no longer a source of news and facts,” tweeted Faw.

“I just cancelled my subscription too! After 40 years as a subscriber. I just couldn’t take their blatantly negative & biased coverage of Israel anymore,” wrote Lauri Baber.

There were also criticisms of Foxman for waiting so long to cancel the Times, which has been criticized for its anti-Israel coverage for years.

“Dov Hikind stopped reading them years ago. if it took you this long to wake up (you're) not a leader of anything,” tweeted NYCPHOTOG.

Still others criticized Foxman for his lifelong readership of the newspaper to begin with.

“With all due respect, why did it take you 65 years to come to this ‘realization’ when all you had to do is go back and look at how the NYT covered the Holocaust,” tweeted Follow The Money.

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