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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Brian Laundrie used Gabby Petito’s bank card three days after she vanished

 

Brian Laundrie used Gabby Petito’s bank card in Wyoming just three days after the slain 22-year-old Long Island native was last seen alive, her family’s lawyer said Tuesday.

Petito was last spotted at a Wyoming restaurant on Aug 27, while Laundrie, 23, returned home alone in her van on Sept. 1 — and the boyfriend has since gone on the run from the feds.

“You can look at his state of mind by his actions,” Petito family attorney Richard Stafford said on the Dr. Phil show on CBS-TV.

“He ran, he stole her credit card, he used her credit card to get home, and then ran from the police,” Stafford said. “That’s going to show a lot what he was thinking back then.”

Federal authorities in Wyoming issued an arrest warrant for Laundrie on Sept. 23 for allegedly using a stolen card “on or about August 30, 2021, through and including on or about September 1, 2021” and “obtained things of value aggregating to $1,000 or more.”

The Blue Point native’s body was found at a campground at the Teton-Bridges National Forest in Wyoming, with her death classified as a homicide.

Laundrie lawyered up and refused to talk to authorities after he turned home without her on Sept. 1 and later disappeared from his parents’ Florida home.

The fugitive’s parents told police he went on a hike on Sept. 14 at the nearby Carlton Reserve and never returned.

On Tuesday, Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino said in a statement that “upon further communication with the FBI” they “now believe” that Laundrie left the house a day earlier, on Sept. 13.

Laundrie is the only person of interest in Petito’s disappearance and death and is now the subject of a massive FBI-led manhunt.

Petito was last seen alive with Laundrie on Aug. 27 at the Merry Piglets restaurant in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where witnesses said Laundrie flipped out at the staff.

FBI Declares "War on Parents" Who Protest School "Woke Policies"


 Parents and politicians are slamming the Department of Justice’s decision to bring in the FBI to investigate a spike in “threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” saying the Biden administration is likening their protests of “woke” policies such as Critical Race Theory — as well as mandatory mask wearing — to “domestic terrorism.”

“Dear @TheJusticeDept Merrick Garland and @FBI Director Christopher Wray,” Asra Nomani, vice president of investigations and strategy at Parents Defending Education, posted on Twitter. “This is what a domestic terrorist looks like? You are criminalizing parenting, and you owe the people of America a swift apology.”

She sarcastically signed the missive, “‘Domestic Terrorist,’ Asra Nomani.”

Nomani’s group has been researching how school boards across the US implement “woke” ideas into curricula, such as critical race theory. 

In recent months, dozens of parents have taken a stand in school board meetings against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in classrooms and to protest mask mandates, causing some to wonder what the FBI and DOJ are actually investigating. 

The DOJ move was spurred by the National School Boards Association asking the Biden administration for assistance, suggesting that there have been threats and acts of violence and equating those to domestic terrorism. 

In a separate tweet, Nomani claimed Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a “declaration of war” on parents when he announced the initiative on Monday. 

Another parent, Nicole Solas from Rhode Island, accused the FBI of being “the politics police,” while claiming any “legitimate” violence is already “sufficiently addressed by your local police.” 

“Arrest me,” she said in another tweet. 

B'Tzelem Activist Implicated in Attempt to Claim Settlers Were Behind Fire Set by Arabs.

 


B'Tzelem activist Basel al-Aderah was involved in an attempt to accuse right-wing activists of setting fire to a building which was in fact set ablaze by Palestinian Arabs, Channel 12 News reported.

According to testimony from the forces on the ground, during a riot by right-wing activists, Arabs tried to set fire to an structure and began shouting at a photographer accompanying them that Jews and soldiers had burned their homes.

But an officer who was at the scene and saw with his own eyes the arson attempt made it clear that the side responsible for the arson was the Arabs.

The head of the Mount Hebron Regional Council, Yochai Damari, responded to the publication. "The video clarifies who came to incite, who came to destroy and who for a long time has come to change the narrative and influence the High Court judges who are supposed to decide on the petition to remove them from the live-fire area which they invaded."

"Once an Arab was caught knocking himself down and sending pictures to the whole world as if he had been hit. And another time another Palestinian was caught setting fire to his own equipment warehouse and shouting that the Jews had caused it. If there were no cameras, then these provocations would be believed everywhere. I demand an immediate stop to all the quarrelsome instigators and the perpetrators of the provocations, such as the one photographed in the article who is known to the security forces," Damari said.

The Ad Kan organization stated that "we are not surprised by the exposure in which B'Tzelem activist set fire to a Palestinian structure while shouting that Jews did so, in accordance with the organization's policy of discrediting soldiers and settlers. This is another B'Tzelem blood libel against settlers and IDF soldiers. We call on the law enforcement authorities to prosecute the arsonist from B'Tzelem. As we have previously revealed, a key B'Tzelem employee in the same area was involved in the exposure of a Palestinian land seller to the security of the Palestinian precinct."

"It is important that the public and law enforcement agencies understand that this is an organization that produces violent provocations and should be treated accordingly," the organization added.



'Palestinian state will not be established'

 

Rebbetzin Shaked in UAE

The current Israeli government will not back Palestinian statehood, Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked (Yamina) said Wednesday morning during a visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Speaking with the UAE-based news outlet The National, Shaked ruled out talks on Palestinian statehood, both during Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s term, as well as after Yair Lapid rotates in as premier.

“The Israeli government won’t deliberate on the establishment of a Palestinian state under the present government of Bennett or Lapid when he comes into office under the rotational agreement,” said Shaked.

“There is a consensus among the parties [in the government] not to get involved in the issue, which could cause an internal rift.”

“We believe in economic peace as a means of improving Palestinians lives and to create cooperative industrial zones. But not a state with an army, absolutely not.”

Shaked pushed back on the description of Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as being “illegal settlements,” calling the area “disputed territory”.

The Interior Minister also slammed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as “hypocritical”.

“They’re anti-Semitic by opposing Israel’s right to exist. BDS is the new form of anti-Semitism.”


Closure at last? Grave of missing Yemenite child to be exhumed following landmark case

 

The Supreme Court ordered the Attorney General to allow the exhume a grave belonging to Yemenite newborn Uziel Khoury in the Petah Tikva cemetery.

Reshet Bet reported that researchers will examine whether the baby was actually buried at the cemetery approximately 70 years ago.

The ruling follows decades of speculation about a government plot to abduct Yemenite children, allowing parents of Ashkenazi descent who had lost family members in the Holocaust to raise these children as their own.

n February, 2018, a new law allowing families of Yemenite children who disappeared between the years 1948 and 1970 to obtain a court-ordered exhumation of their graves for genetic testing.

Since the 1950s, more than 1,000 Israeli families have alleged their children were systematically kidnapped from Israeli hospitals and given to Ashkenazi families for adoption in Israel and abroad. The claims of the families, mostly immigrants from Yemen, were generally dismissed by authorities as "baseless conspiracy theories."

The law was to remain in effect for the coming two years. Once an exhumation was approved, the state would cover the costs of the project. At the time, funds were allocated to open at least 300 graves and it was reported that "in many cases, the family does not know where their child’s grave is located, or the grave that has been identified has several bodies buried in it."

The law was proposed by Likud Party lawmaker Nurit Koren, the daughter of Yemenite immigrants whose cousin was among the children who disappeared.

Three government-appointed committees have looked into the Yemenite children affair, and each concluded that the majority of the children died in the hospital and were buried without the families being informed. Scholars have reached similar conclusions.

The law comes more than a year after Israel posted an online database featuring some 200,000 pages of declassified documents about the controversial Yemenite children affair.


In a Partial Victory Jerusalem Court Approves Jewish Prayers on Har Habayit

 


A Jerusalem judge has backed the right of Jews to engage in silent prayers on the Temple Mount, marking the first time a court has endorsed Jewish prayer on the holy site since authorities quietly began rescinding their de facto ban on all non-Muslim prayers.

On Tuesday, Justice Bilhha Yahalom of the Jerusalem Magistrates Court ruled that silent prayers on the Temple Mount cannot be construed as a criminal act, and ordered police to drop a restraining order imposed on Rabbi Aryeh Lippo, who had been barred from the Mount over his silent prayers.

“His daily visits to the Temple Mount indicate how important this is for him,” Justice Yahalom wrote in her decision.

Attorney Moshe Polski, a lawyer for the Honenu organization who represented Rabbi Lippo in the case, lauded the court for its ruling.

“We welcome the court’s decision, which effectively endorses what has already been happening on the Temple Mount over the past year, and is a de facto permit to Jews who already visit the Temple Mount and want to pray.”

“It is unthinkable that Jews of all people should be banned from whispering prayers even silently on the Temple Mount, while Muslims on the Temple Mount can do whatever they want – pray, give religious lectures, play soccer, and even to riot, while the police do nothing to prevent any of this, but Jews are made to feel like outsiders in this holy place.”

“We hope that from now on, the police won’t bar worshippers who are already on the Mount, a move which impinges on their basic civil liberties.”

While Israeli authorities have for years barred even silent prayer by non-Muslims on the Temple Mount – removing worshippers suspected of whispering prayers – this year, police have frequently turned a blind eye to discreet Jewish prayers on the holy site.

Over 1,600 Jewish visitors to the Mount were permitted to pray during the Tisha B’Av fast this July, sparking criticism from the United Arab List, a coalition member which condemned the prayers and warned they could spark a “religious war”.


46 get refusers in Israel - both men & women

 

The Constitution, Law, & Justice Committee of the Knesset, headed by MK Gilad Kariv (Labor), will hold a discussion on Wednesday regarding the implementation of a law applying sanctions to get refusers.

In advance of the discussion, the committee published data on the number of get refusers in Israel, obtained from the various rabbinical courts. The data do not distinguish between male and female get refusers.

Among the findings: There are currently 46 get refusers in Israel, 25 of which are new cases from the current year (2021). 9 cases date from 2020, 3 from 2019, 0 from 2018, and 9 from earlier years.

The data also reveals that the duration of divorce proceedings in the rabbinical courts in Israel (from when a case is opened until it is settled) is significantly shorter than divorce proceedings conducted via the secular courts.

When the two sides jointly submit a request for a get, divorce proceedings are usually concluded within 50 days of the submission. When the two sides come to an agreement during the process, the case is usually closed within 104 days on average. However, when a case is opened by only one spouse without the cooperation of the partner, the average duration of proceedings is far longer – 399 days.

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Lakewood Poiskim Come out against the Vaccine

 


Satmar Civil war in Bnei-Brak erupts in full swing ..as Satmar Chassidim Ignore Satmar Rebbe and Embrace R' Hersh Meisels ....

So Yom Kippur is over, and clapping "al chet" is b"h behind us, but the "git kvittel" in Satmar never materialized; not in Monroe and not in Bnei Brak.

Reb Aron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rav of Monroe, had a huge following in Bnei-Brak, and had appointed R'Hersh Meisels, his sister's son, as Rosh Yeshiva of all Satmar moisdois in Bnei Brak. He figured if he appointed family, he would be able to control the real estate etc..

As the yiddish saying goes... "a mentch tracht, in Gut lacht" loosely translated as "A person plans, but G-d laughs"

R' Hersh Meisels slowly developed a tremendous following in the community and they decided to call him "Rav" of the community elevating him from his previous "Rosh Yeshiva" position.

Well, that didn't bode well with R' Aron and like a schizophrenic, saw R' Hersh Meisels now as an enemy and unceremoniously booted him out...

This caused an outright civil war, and R' Hersh's followers numbering in the thousands totally ignored R'Aron's "fatwa" and are embracing R' Hersh.

In the video, one can hear R' Aron calling R' Hersh and his followers "ungrateful underworld gangsters" and "corrupt" and warns them that he will do everything to stop this rebellion...

Note that the fact that R' Aron called R' Hersh an "underworldnik" this derogatory term is something he never even used on the hated Zionists! R' Aron also calls his nephew, "Chief (Rosh) of the Rebellion" "a rodef" 

So I have two words of advice for the Monroe Satmar Rebbe

 Good luck!

Meanwhile in the video filmed on Simchas Torah even a blind man  can see that Bnei Brak Satmar Chassidim are embracing R' Hersh and could care less what R' Aron says or threatens...

But if I were a follower of R' Hersh I would take R' Aron's seriously, as he is no stranger to violence and had a Satmar Bais Medrish in Monroe burned to a crisp a while ago and in the video one could see the building burning and how they somehow managed to rescue the Sifrei Torah,..but not before they beat the hell out of each other in the Main Satmar Shul....

In the videos above and below, R' Aron Teitelbaum speaks and sounds like the tzaddik while his opposition are the aggressors, but in the video below you can see clearly the opposite.

It's all about power nothing to do about Torah!

Pass the popcorn but please don't burn it!


 

Mossad abducted Iranian general to locate Ron Arad

 

Agents from Israel’s Mossad agency abducted an Iranian general recently during an operation to locate a captured Israeli serviceman held in captivity since the 1980s, according to a report released Tuesday.

Rai al-Youm, a London-based Arabic news outlet reported Tuesday afternoon that the Mossad operation revealed by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett aimed at locating the lost Israel Air Force navigator Ron Arad had included a daring abduction and questioning of an Iranian general.

On Monday, Bennett said the Mossad had carried out “a successful operation” last month, "bringing the information to Knesset members,” though Mossad chief David Barnea said that the Mossad had failed to determine Arad’s whereabouts.

According to the Rai al-Youm report Tuesday, as part of last month’s operation, the Mossad captured an Iranian general in Syria and transferred him to an unnamed African country where he was interrogated. The Mossad agents involved later released the general.

The report claimed that Iran became aware of the Israeli operation after it was completed, and is believed to have obtained details on how it was undertaken.

A recent attempt by Iranian-linked operatives to target Israelis in Cyprus, the report added, may be part of a bid by Tehran to retaliate for the general’s abduction.

Ron Arad, a navigator onboard an IAF F-4 Phantom fighter jet during the First Lebanon War, was captured in October 1986, after the aircraft was damaged by a prematurely detonated bomb during an operation over Lebanon.

While Arad’s fate remains unknown and he is officially listed as missing, an IDF report in 2016 suggested Arad was likely killed two years after his capture, in 1988.

Facebook returns after six-hour outage

 

Social media giant Facebook resumed service Tuesday morning (Israel time), following the company’s worst system outage in years.

Facebook services, as well as services on the Facebook-owned Whatsapp cell phone app, were curtailed for six hours Monday night and early Tuesday morning, the longest lapse in service since 2019, when Facebook was inaccessible for a full 24 hours.

In a statement issued Monday night, the company blamed “configuration changes” to its routers, disrupting “traffic between our data centers”.

Rather than being the result of malicious actions, such a hack, the company claimed a faulty system update was to blame.

“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” Facebook’s Santosh Janardhan said in the statement.

“This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”

“We want to make clear at this time we believe the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change.”

“We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

Cloudfare, a web security company, said the outage was caused by a glitch in a string of recent Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) updates.

In a blogpost, Cloudfare claimed the faulty BGP updates had accidentally blocked the DNS routing information which allows outside networks to access Facebook’s content.

The BGP updates also apparently blocked Facebook employees working remotely from editing the changes to the router system

Fox News reported overnight that during the outage, employees on site were prevented from entering Facebook’s facility’s after their digital security badges suddenly stopped working.

2700-year-old toilet from First Temple period discovered in Jerusalem



 

A rare toilet cubicle from the First Temple Period, which was part of an ancient royal estate that operated at the end of the Kings of Judean period (7th century BCE), was discovered on the Armon Hanatziv promenade in Jerusalem, where the Israel Antiquities Authority and the City of David, about two years ago, uncovered the remains of a magnificent building which overlooked the City of David and the Temple Mount, including the private toilet cubicle.

The bathroom was hewn as a rectangular-shaped cabin, with a carved toilet, which stood over a deep-hewn septic tank. The toilet, made of limestone, is designed for comfortable sitting, with a hole in the center.

According to Yaakov Billig, Director of the Excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, "A private toilet cubicle was very rare in antiquity, and only a few were found to date, most of them in the City of David. In fact, only the rich could afford toilets. A thousand years later, the Mishnah and the Talmud raised various criteria that defined a rich person, and Rabbi Yossi suggested that to be rich is "to have the toilet next to his table."

Beneath the toilet, a septic tank was discovered, containing a large amount of pottery from the First Temple Period and animal bones. The finds were carefully collected, including the soil fill. Their investigation may teach us about the lifestyles and diets of the First Temple people, as well as ancient diseases.

Impressive architectural items were discovered in the excavation, including stone capitals designed by an artist, bearing a style typical to the days of the First Temple, and small architectural columns that served as railings for windows.

Archaeologists also identified evidence that a garden with ornamental trees, fruit trees and aquatic plants was planted near the toilet cubicle. All of these allow researchers to recreate

a picture of an extensive and lush mansion, apparently - a magnificent palace from the days of the First Temple, that stood on the site.

According to Eli Eskosido, Director of the Israel Antiquities Authority: "It is fascinating to see how something that is obvious to us today, such as toilets, was a luxury item during the reign of the kings of Judah. ​​Jerusalem never ceases to amaze. One can only imagine the breathtaking view. I am convinced that the glorious past of the city will continue to be revealed to us in the future and will allow us to experience and learn about our past."

Monday, October 4, 2021

Has the location of Noah’s Ark finally been proven using 3D scans?

 

In 1959, a cartographer named Ilhan Durupinar discovered a boat-shaped footprint on top of a mountain in the Dogubayazit region in Turkey. Now, American researchers and Turkish scientists of Noah’s Ark Discovered Project claim that they have proof that the biblical relic lies beneath the surface of Durupinar.

Using 3D scans of GPR and ERT technology, the researchers claim that they uncovered a man-made boat structure beneath the ground, before beginning any excavation. The formation identified in the scans, according to the team, matches the dimensions of the Genesis description of Noah’s Ark.

This week’s Torah portion tells the story of God’s instructions to Noah to build an ark and carry with him a male and female of each animal. The text carries specific descriptions regarding the size and structure of the vessel: length 300 cubits, breadth 50 cubits, and height 30 cubits. Cubits, a biblical term called Ama in Hebrew, means “forearm,” and is estimated to be approximately 18 inches, or about half a meter long.

The Torah further tells us that the Ark landed on the hills of Mt. Ararat, a dormant volcano near the east border of Turkey. The Durupinar site is approximately 30 km south of the mountain.

Researcher Andrew Jones and lead scientist Dr. Fethi Ahmet Yüksel of the Department of Geophysical Engineering, Applied Geophysics Department of Istanbul University believe that the results of the scans indicate a man-made artifact beneath the surface that could well be the Ark, and are eager to continue studying the location.

After getting $2 million "the Ungrateful " Lt. Col. Scheller Rejects Trump Support: ‘I Don’t Need or Want Your Help’

 

Prior to MAGA Trump supporters raising more than $2 million to help with his legal costs, Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller publicly denounced help from the former president and his son, saying he would “rather sit in jail” than accept their support.

Scheller became a household name among conservatives this past August when he publicly criticized the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan while demanding accountability from senior leadership. Immediately after his post went viral, Scheller was fired after 17 years of service. Last week, a Marine Corps spokesperson confirmed that Scheller was placed in military jail as he waits for a preliminary hearing.

Less than a week after Scheller’s arrest, the Pipe Hitter Foundation set up a fundraiser for the Marine and amassed over $2 million. As Insider noted, the foundation is “run by former Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, who was convicted in 2019 after posing with the dead body of an ISIS captive” until Trump granted him clemency in November 2020.

Prior to his arrest, Scheller issued a lengthy post on Facebook in which he criticized various political and military figures, including former President Trump and Gen. Michael Flynn:

President Trump. I was told by everyone to kiss the ring because of your following and power. I refuse. While I respect your foreign policy positions, I hate how you divided the country. I don’t need or want your help. You do not have the ability to pull US together. You may even win the next election. But your generation’s time is running out. Tell your son to stop tweeting about me. Your whole family knows nothing about US or our sacrifices. I could never work with you. I’d rather sit in jail and be released with a dishonorable than make compromises in my beliefs.

In the same post, Scheller criticized former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He also scolded Generals Michael Flynn, David Petraeus, and James Mattis.

Children less likely than adults to be reinfected with COVID-19

 

The Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee on Monday morning held a discussion on the new coronavirus rules, approving the Coronavirus Cabinet's decision to remove Brazil, Bulgaria, and Turkey from the no-fly list and ending the restrictions on leaving Israel for high-risk countries, Israel Hayom reported.

"Starting yesterday night, there are no countries which are not allowed to be traveled to," said MK Gilad Kariv (Labor), who chairs the committee. "The general public would do well to follow which countries have travel warnings, for the sake of everyone's health."

Senior Health Ministry official Ilana Gans said, "There are some countries in Europe which have enormously high infection rates, in particular Romania and Serbia, both of which are in the list of travel warnings. But as of today, travel is permitted to every country in the world."

Beit Shemesh apartment building evacuated after partial collapse

 




Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue Services on Monday morning evacuated a residential building in Beit Shemesh due to concerns that it would collapseIsrael Hayom reported.

The three-story building was evacuated by order of the firefighting team called to the scene, the site said. A source in the city's engineering office, who was called to the scene, approved the firefighters' decision.

At approximately 9:30a.m. Monday morning, a report was received from the building's residents, saying that part of the building at 6 Bialik Street had collapsed. Firefighting teams rushed to the scene, and scanning it, decided to immediately evacuate all of the building's residents until a professional examination can be completed.

According to Israel Hayom, police officers and municipal officials who arrived at the scene aided the evacuation and held a situational assessment, after which they decided that the building was in danger of collapse and that it should be immediately evacuated and passersby distanced from the area.

In a statement, Israel Police said that following the initial situational assessment, it was decided to evacuate the residents at this stage. Police forces at the scene began to aid the evacuation, together with firefighters, until such time as the professionals and municipal engineer complete their examinations.

Is Bennett a "Shomer Shabbat" or Not? Israeli Media debating

 Sorry it's all in Hebrew ... watch anyway, you will get the gist of it.


Old "Yerushalmer Kocker" Gives "musser" Speech to Policeman .. He is against "Mechon Weizman"



Eida Hachreidis Gangsters Protesting Against Chabad in Meron

 


Every Motzei Shabbos in Meron , Chabad bochrum show a clip of the late Lubavitcher Rebbes saying a "sicha'!

This doesn't bode well for the "Eida Hachreidah" hooligans and bullies, so they protested against the clip of the Rebbe.

None of the "eida" leaders come anywhere close to the Lubavitcher rebbe, not in learning nor in spirituality. Their leaders are by in large aged and totally out of it and they drag them kicking and screaming to their meaningless and irrelevant protests .....

So they try to stay relevant by protesting other frum Jews. The eida hooligans are also against other Jews that actually want Moshiach to come, that bothers them. 





Israel data: Boosters cut elderly’s risk of COVID death to 50th of unvaxxed rate

 

After boosters, elderly Israelis who are fully inoculated have just one fiftieth of the chance of COVID death compared to unvaccinated people in the same age bracket.

According to Health Ministry data for the last seven days of September, there were 6.43 daily deaths per 100,000 Israelis aged 60-plus. For older people who were vaccinated three times, the average was 0.13.

The statistics indicate that the shift from a two-shot to a three-shot regime has saved many lives. When elderly Israelis who are vaccinated twice get their third shot, they eliminate eleven-twelfths of the risk of death.

The daily deaths over the last seven days of September for the double vaccinated elderly was 1.5, compared to the 0.13 figure for the triple vaccinated.