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Not to be outdone, Andrew Yang will be holding a Pesach Seder tomorrow night at Amnon’s Pizza on 13th Ave https://t.co/Hvfs2rnz9K
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After Jewish comedian and podcast host Sarah Silverman commended Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) “squad” of lawmakers on Wednesday, she was invited to join the group as a “progressive Jewess.”
On Tuesday night, Omar tweeted a photo of the progressive group of House representatives, which includes Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Ayanna Pressley (MA) and Cori Bush (MO). Fellow squad member, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), was not pictured.
Silverman commented on the image the following day, saying: “Love this group!! You give me hope! (Wish there was a progressive jewess in there … someday).”
When Omar responded, “You could run and join us,” along with a smiley face, Silverman replied: “my skeletons have skeletons.”
On June 10, the Minnesota Representative “clarified” her recent comments on Twitter comparing Israel and the US to Hamas and the Taliban, after facing criticism from a group of Jewish House Democrats and others in Congress.
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A Yiddish-language newspaper, where New York City agencies frequently place ads, published a column with racist overtones, sources told The Post.
Der Blatt, a widely read paper for one faction of the Satmar Hasidic sect, ran a column by Rabbi Shmuel Teller in its June 4 edition discussing the political crisis in Israel.
The rabbi likened the situation to two Black men — one described as a “dirty person” — throwing a Jewish man out of his own home, sources said.
The rabbi described one of the men with a derogatory term meaning “blackest of the black” that would be akin to using the N-word in English, sources said.
One member of the Hasidic community said he was appalled by the rabbi’s column.
“As a Hasidic father who tries to imbue my children with respect to everyone, writings like these destroy all my efforts,” he said.
A message left for Der Blatt was not returned.
A woman who answered the phone at Teller’s house said she was his wife and that her husband did not speak English well enough to comment.
Der Blatt in November wrote about how it kept quiet about the planned wedding of a grandson of Satmar Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, which saw thousands of people packed into a Williamsburg synagogue despite COVID-19 restrictions.
A spokeswoman for Mayor de Blasio could not immediately say how much the city spent to advertise in Der Blatt, but said it would stop doing so.
“We have zero tolerance for racism. Period. This column betrays the values of our city and as a result we will no longer advertise in the newspaper,” Avery Cohen said.
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The ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem was shocked to find out this week that Jen Komo, an American woman who has lived in Israel for several years working in the community by providing alternative medicine services and helping transport pregnant women to the hospital on Shabbat, might be a Christian missionary.
A week ago, a Haredi man turned to the Yad L'Achim organization, which works to spread Jewish values and battles attempts to convert Jews, and explained that for weeks his wife seemed troubled and "not herself" and finally admitted she was considering converting to Christianity. When he pressed to find out more details, his wife shared that Komo pressured her to do so.
"Jen convinced me that I was living a lie and said that Jesus gave up his life for all of mankind and that all my sins would be forgiven as soon as I accept him as my messiah," the Haredi woman said. "She took advantage of my emotional state and past traumas to push, pressure and convince me to convert."
According to the woman, Komo also asked her to keep their meetings secret. "I was worried my husband would begin to suspect, and she suggested I tell him that I meet with her to study Psalms and the Bible."
Yad L'Achim said Komo might indeed be a missionary. After the organization began looking into the matter, it found a video of her from 2014 giving a speech at a missionary church in the United States about her work in Israel.
"That's what I do with these people. I love on them, I teach them, be an example. They don't know that I'm shining Jesus' love all over them and through them. But it works. It works, because he works," Komo said in her speech.
In a conversation with Israel Hayom, she defined all claims: "I am not a Christian missionary. I have maybe spoken with one or two women about Christianity, but they are adults, over the age of 18. The video you mentioned was recorded a long time ago. I am not interested in getting anyone to convert. In any case, I mostly speak about the prophets in the way they are described in the Bible."
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Seniors at the Frisch School in New Jersey were treated to a surprise in their yearbook this year. An “In Memoriam” page listed more than a dozen names of men and women described as being “just a few of the many, many black Americans who were wrongfully killed by police.” The page was written in the form of an open letter, signed by the student editors of the yearbook. It was addressed to people such as George Floyd, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and ended with a call to the class of 2021: “Let’s change the world for the better.”
The reaction was immediate. “Right away, kids started ripping the page out,” one senior said. “Others were blacking it all out with sharpies.” According to the student, no one knew this page would be a part of the yearbook, but seeing the names of the signatories, no one was surprised either. “Everyone knows their politics. They are trying to speak for us,” he said with resentment, “but no one I know liked it.” He and his friends say they disagree with the letter and its claims. But perhaps more objectionable is the license given to a handful of students to use the class yearbook to voice their personal political views. “This was about them, not us,” he said.
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Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged on Friday that his pre-election statement that he would send the haredi community “in one wheelbarrow to a garbage dump” should not have been made.
“The statement was misunderstood, there was no intention here. It was perhaps not the most successful statement, but so be it,” Liberman said in an interview on the Ofira & Berkovic program which airs on Channel 12.
He rejected claims that the haredim should be concerned over his appointment as Finance Minister, saying, “They should not be afraid. We are doing what is good for them and the country. I do not want to interfere with their lifestyle, nor do I want them to interfere with my lifestyle. They should study core subjects, acquire a profession and not be dependent on donations their entire lives. It is inconceivable that the percentage of eligibility for matriculation in Modi'in is over 90%, and in Modi'in Illit 5.5%. We do not want to harm anyone, but that everyone will contribute to society and integrate into society.”
Liberman predicted that the new government would last for many days: “Before the election, we set three goals - a change of government and its leader, the removal of Shas and United Torah Judaism from the coalition, and that we will get the Treasury portfolio. New goals now need to be set, and the two important goals are to stabilize the coalition and approve the budget. Once we pass a responsible and serious budget and stabilize the coalition, the election will be another four and a half years from now.”
He was asked about his promise before the election not to be part of a coalition with the Ra'am party but ultimately joining a government with Ra'am.
“It was Netanyahu who legitimized Ra'am. Between the alternative of going to a fifth election or forming such an eclectic government, a government is better than a fifth election. I agree that we need to invest in infrastructure in the Arab sector as well,” said Liberman.
Asked whether he thinks Benjamin Netanyahu will return to power, Liberman replied, “Politics are like a wheel, sometime you're up and sometimes you’re down. I don't know if he will come back.”
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Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lior Haiat reacted to the election of Ebrahim Raisi as the next president of Iran.
"After the Supreme Leader effectively dictated to the Iranian public who they could choose, less than 50% of Iranian citizens eligible to vote have elected its most extremist president to date," Haiat.
"The butcher of Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi, has been rightly denounced by the international community for his direct role in the extrajudicial executions of over 30,000 people. He is designated by the U.S. Treasury for these heinous crimes.
"An extremist figure, committed to Iran’s rapidly advancing military nuclear program, his election makes clear Iran's true malign intentions, and should prompt grave concern among the international community.
More than ever, Iran’s nuclear program must be halted immediately, rolled back entirely and stopped indefinitely. Iran’s ballistic missile program must be dismantled and its global terror campaign vigorously countered by a broad international coalition.
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Maya Wiley campaign marred by evidence of her wealth and elitism
She’s not Maya from the block.
Maya Wiley has staked her claim to Gracie Mansion on unifying New Yorkers around her progressive bona fidesand hard-bitten personal story.
But it’s a tale that has often required looking past a number of silver spoons, and alleged hypocrisy, including:
“It worries me,” Shaquana Boykin, a Brooklyn district leader who is backing Dianne Morales in the mayor’s race, told The Post. “Wealth and economic status changes everything. You can be white, purple, yellow — if you come from a different economic status, your lived experience is different.”
Bhaskar Sunkara, founder and editor of the socialist magazine Jacobin, said, “I think the left in the future should be running actual working-class candidates,” noting Wiley’s gilded trappings made her less than ideal.
Wiley’s beau, Mandel, does well for himself as CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund, a self-described “not-for-profit investment fund.” Mandel earned more than $900,000 in compensation between 2017 and 2019, tax records show.
From 1996 to 1998, Mandel worked as deputy general counsel at the Open Society Foundations. Wiley also worked there in the late ’90s, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Asians had enough!
— 🤩🤩 Edwin 🌟🌟 (@EdwinVcity) June 18, 2021
And pushing back 🔥🔥👊
South Dallas last night. pic.twitter.com/UKadPVJUJJ
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Declassifying records, author Leah Garrett uncovers amazing story of X Troop, a unit of German-speaking refugee volunteers determined to outwit and outfight the Nazis at all costs
X Troop is the fiercest British World War II commando force you have likely never heard of.
Formally known as “No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, 3 Troop,” its 87 members were mainly Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who were hell-bent on exacting revenge on the Nazis who had destroyed their families and home communities. Some commandos were themselves survivors of incarceration in Nazi concentration camps.
Sworn to secrecy about their true identities for their own safety, these brave young men assumed English noms de guerre. Only one person, a secretary at MI5, who worked in the casualty division, had access to the list of the men’s original names and places of origin.
After a year and a half of intensive training in Wales and Scotland, the X Troopers were assigned to the spearhead of Allied forces that invaded Europe and fought into the heart of the Third Reich. Utilizing advanced combat and counterintelligence techniques, and their native German language abilities, they undertook dangerous missions to infiltrate behind enemy lines. In battle, they captured and immediately interrogated the enemy, providing invaluable information to the advancing Allied armies.
The X Troopers never fought as a joint force. They were seconded individually or in small groups to various Allied troops and divisions. Over half of them were killed, wounded or went missing in action.
“Nothing was going to stop them,” said Leah Garrett, author of a new book about this highly selective and motivated unit, whose exploits have largely been lost to history due to their clandestine nature.
Published May 25, “X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II” brings readers along on every step of these men’s journey from Central European teenagers to crack British commandos. The page-turning account is replete with heretofore unknown astounding feats thanks to the author’s success in declassifying long-sealed, top-secret British military records.
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Why?
According to the Fatwa, Walder reads secular books, so even though, Walder is in good company, with the Rambam, Ramban, Eben Ezra, and most Rishonim and Achronim and even Chazal, they are banning him...
The Eida is against the Zionist State, though they are headquartered in Yerushalayim, under the Zionist auspices, They are against anyone going to the army, they are against anyone voting in elections, they are against any secular studies.
In 2006, during a campaign against voting in elections, the Eida outrageously accused the Zionists of having played a role in the Holocaust, without mentioning that the Nazis murdered Zionists in the same gas chambers with Satmar chassidim. The Eida took this ridiculous assertion straight out of Arab anti-Semitic handbooks.
They officially do not take any funds from the government, though they have been caught on many occasions funnelling the "contaminated" Zionist funds thru other schools, by illegally registering their children in those other schools and then claiming that their "moisdois do not take Zionist funds"
They exist by schnorring from poor people all over the world and from their hashgacha business.
Speaking of the Hashgacha business, in 2019, Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Yosef said explicitly that the "hechsher of the Eida Hachreidis is the lowest quality of all the hechshers regarding meat."The Holminier Rebbe said years ago that Eida Hachreidis Hechsheirim are not reliable.
This past monday, I attended a chassidishe wedding in Ashdod and on the door was a huge notice "this establishment does not use any meats under the Hashgacha of the Eida Hachreidis."The place was full of Shreimlichs, Spodiks and everyone was eating like it was their "Last Supper"
What is interesting is that no one in the Eida has ever read any of Walder's books .....
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When asked about the atmosphere of his meeting with Biden he said he felt no pressure.
In response to an American reporter's question about political prisoners in Russia, referring to Navalny, Putin compared America's recent record speaking about 400 American political prisoners being held in what he described as under criminal persecution in solitary confinement by an US Government who are calling them"domestic terrorists."
He also spoke about Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman who, on January 6, threatened no one but was shot dead by a US official who has not been named or arrested.
He also spoke to the BLM riots as being in violation of US law yet were allowed to burn and destroy American cities.
Dubious Democrat actions and non-actions are coming back to bite them internationally.
When they tried to put a mirror up to Russia, Putin artfully turned the mirror around into America's political face.
Putin answered more questions in under an hour than Biden and Harris combined did in six months giving the impression he was more amenable to the press than the two top US officials.
It was a major diplomatic mistake by the United States to allow Putin to go first with his press conference. Biden's press meet was subsequently reactive.
They didn't hold a joint press conference because the Biden camp reckoned their guy would not have been able to compete with Putin. The optics would have looked bad.
The Putin conference went on for 55 minutes. Biden's 24.
Summarising the meeting, America got nothing back from Putin for the Russian cyber attacks, nothing for Biden lifting the sanctions on the Russian pipeline to Europe that boosts Putin's economy for decades and increases his power and influence in Europe.
By approving Putin's pipeline, Biden gave Putin trillions of Euros while simultaneously paying Europe billions of dollars to protect them from Russia.
Welcome to Biden logic even as Biden couldn't even get the return of imprisoned Americans in Russian jails from Putin.
America has surrendered the moral high ground on human rights, trapped by the Democrats' lying narrative of American"systemic racism" played back to them by China at their Summit in Alaska and now from Russia in Geneva.
The optics looked really bad in Europe.
America lost BIG TIME in Geneva.
Barry Shaw is Senior Associate at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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החשוד נתפס לפני כחמישה ימים, וכעת הוארך מעצרו בחמישה ימים נוספים, זאת לאחר שנציגת המשטרה אמרה בדיון כי החשד התבסס: "היחידה החוקרת ביצעה מספר רב של פעולות שחיזקו משמעותית את החשד הסביר נגד החשוד". פעולות החקירה לא קשורות לשיחות החקירה עצמן, בהן החשוד מקפיד לשתוק ולא להשיב לחוקרי המשטרה.
שופט בית המשפט המחוזי בירושלים האחראי על התיק, אלעד לנג, כתב בהחלטתו, המאשרת את הארכת המעצר השנייה, כי "קיים חשד סביר לביצוע העבירות המיוחסות למשיב". במהלך הדיון עלו פעולות עבר שביצע החשוד, בהן הפרות סדר וגרימת נזקים לעבודות הרכבת הקלה בירושלים, בבניין העיריה, לסמלי ישראל ועוד.
עורך דינו, רועי פוליטי, אמר במהלך הדיון שאין הצדקה להארכת מעצרו: "הוא אינו מסוכן ואין חשש לשיבוש מהלכי החקירה. המשיב עצור עוד יום ועוד יום וזאת לא עילת מעצר. יש סוג של פעולות שהייה שאפשר היה לבצע בתקופה שחיפשו אותו". עו"ד פוליטי ביקש לאשר את הרחקתו מירושלים, אך כאמור, עמדת המשטרה התקבלה.
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מדובר ברב פקד לי פרל בהירי, שמשמשת ביום יום כקצינת חקירות במדור חקירות במטה ארצי של המשטרה בירושלים.
בהירי, הייתה בדרכה לעבודה כשהמקרה התרחש, לדבריה, כאשר הגיעה עם רכבה לאזור לטרון, ניגש אליה אדם ושאל אותה אם היא יודעת לילד?.
לאחר הלידה המוצלחת בחסדי שמיים, אמרה הקצינה: "רגעי לידת התינוק היו כמו נצח עבורי, השקט בהתחלה היה מאוד מדאיג אבל אז הגיע הבכי שסימל הענקת חיים ונרגעתי. מעולם לא הרגשתי כאלה רגשות וכזו תחושה פשוט הייתי כלי בידי אלוקים".
לאחר יממה כאשר היולדת התאוששה רפ"ק לי פרל בהירי ביקרה אותה ואת הרך הנולד בבית החולים בירושלים.
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