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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Smallest Sefer Torah in the World

 

Israeli team trains goldfish to drive


 

Move over, mudskippers. It turns out that goldfish, well-known dwellers of water, can in fact navigate on land. Israeli researchers have found that goldfish, when properly trained with food treats and provided with a suitable platform that includes the requisite water bath, can control a vehicle. 

A team of researchers at Ben-Gurion University developed what they call an FOV — a fish-operated vehicle — that is fitted with lidar, a remote sensing technology that uses pulsed laser light to collect data on the vehicle's ground location and the fish's whereabouts inside a mounted water tank. Add a computer, camera, electric motors and omni-directional wheels to give the fish control of the vehicle and voila: a fish that can "drive" a car.

Surprisingly, it doesn't take the fish a long time to learn how to drive the vehicle. They're confused at first. They don't know what's going on but they're very quick to realize that there is a correlation between their movement and the movement of the machine that they're in," said researcher Shachar Givon.

The researchers have so far taught six goldfish to pilot the vehicle. Each of them were provided around 10 driving lessons. And each time one of them reached a target set by the researchers, it was rewarded with food.

And, as is the case with humans, it turns out t

Emma Watson actress of Harry Potter is right about Palestinians being enslaved

 

She's right.

The territories where the Palestinian Arabs live are indeed enslaved. They deserve to be freed from the tyrannical rule of their oppressors – Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

The actress, best known for her role as Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" films, set off a firestorm in the world of social media this week with her Instagram post showing "Free Palestine!" banners and expressing "solidarity" with them. Hopefully, her declaration will stimulate a serious conversation about the cruel occupation that the international community has been ignoring.

The details concerning Hamas and the PA, which I cite here, are all quoted from the latest reports by two strongly pro-Palestinian groups: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. These are not "Israeli allegations." They are what the Palestinian Arabs' most vocal supporters are saying about the two Arab regimes that rule over 98% of the Palestinian Arabs.

Israel’s Daily Cases Skyrocket To Over 30,000, IDF To Assist Hospitals

 

IDF troops deployed to Haifa to fight in the war against COVID 

In what is becoming a daily occurrence, Israel reached a new record high number of coronavirus cases on Monday, with the Health Ministry confirming 21,501 cases among those who took PCR tests and another 10,000 who took antigen tests.

The test positivity rate also increased, standing at 13.3% on Monday. The number of seriously ill patients rose to 224 and the number of fatalities increased by 10, to 8,269.

There are currently 19 pregnant women and new mothers hospitalized with COVID, including one who is attached to an ECMO machine.

The majority of cities in Israel are currently “red.”

Abou 2,6500 medical personnel are currently in quarantine, of whom almost 2,000 tested positive for COVID. Health Ministry Director-General Prof. Nachman Ash said on Monday that IDF soldiers, paramedics and nursing students will be sent to hospitals to assist medical personnel.

Meanwhile, the number of COVID cases in the IDF has soared by five times in one week to over 5,000 cases on Monday. There are also 6,231 soldiers, officers and civilian employees currently in quarantine.

Monday, January 10, 2022

An Israeli restaurant in New Jersey becomes the target of the dumb #FreePalestine movement

 Negatively reviewing a Jewish owned restaurant in the diaspora wont free Palestine! Just Saying!

How a Jewish Waiter changed the life of a black Teenager

 Sidney Poitier, who passed away this weekend at age 94, chokes up as he tells CBS News Lesley Stahl about the elderly Jewish waiter who taught him to read, enabling his acting career to take off.

Frum Resha'im

 from the RationlistJudaism Blog


When Chaim Walder killed himself, the awareness of his terrible crimes had not yet become too overwhelming for anyone to deny. As is well known, there were various significant people and institutions maintaining his innocence (either because they genuinely believed it, or because they figured that they could get away with such a pretense). 

In the notorious obituary printed in Yated Ne'eman, it describes Walder's greatness in his Torah studies. As a child in Talmud Torah, he was known for being "blessed with talent," then in Mishkan Yaakov he was "greatly beloved to the Rosh Yeshivah." He then graduated to the famous Kol Torah yeshivah, where he "grew to glory." Then in Knesses Chizkiyahu he was "drawn to the deep shiurim of the Rosh Yeshiva."

A week later, Rabbi Moshe Meiselman claims that Walder "did not have much of a yeshiva background," didn't do well in either Kol Torah or Knesses Chizkiyahu, had "very little knowledge of Torah" and was not successful in yeshiva.

Well, which is it?

How a Rav and Poisik in the Chareidie Extremist movement and a father of 6 went off the derech

Unless the Chareidie movement starts changing rapidly, this will be the beginning of the end! Sorry the interviews is in Hebrew

These New Gedoilei Yisrael are a bunch of silly guys

 

HaRav Moshe Shternbuch Rules "Get Rid of Walder Books"

 

 Rav Shernbuch further conveyed orally that the obituaries on Walder published in the Charedi press [in Eretz Yisroel] constitute a CHILLUL HASHEM as were the hespedim that were given.  He (Walder) is a מאבד עצמו לדעת [and should not have been given them].

5 Shvat 5782

In regard to the question of the masses as to whether it is permitted to hold on to the books of Chaim Walder, I am responding [as follows]:

Who ever wishes that his sons and daughters be raised in the path of Torah and fear of Heaven, should not retain any of his books, neither in his home nor in his possessions.  For the ru’ach of the aforementioned author is contained in his books, and one may not read them.

And that which some are publicizing that one should explain to children that it is permitted to hold onto his books, Chash v’Shalom (Heaven forbid) to say such a thing, as Rabbis and Dayanim have ruled that it is forbidden to read his books and it is a Mitzvah to listen to the words of Chachomim.

[The aforementioned words do not apply to the sons and daughters of the author, they have received a proper chinuch in Yeshivos and houses of Chinuch and heaven forbid to hurt them.]

One who prays for much Divine Mercy,

Fortunate are you Israel, who raise their sons and daughters in holiness and purity!

!אשריכם ישראל שמחנכים בניהם ובנותיהם בקדושה ובטהרה

[Rabbi} Moshe Shternbuch

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Yiddish Blogger Discusses Chareidie Men that Sexually Abuse Their Baby Sitters and the prevalent incest in the community

 

דער חורבן פון בייביסיטערס אין חרדישע הייזער


I decided not to translate this because it's nauseating, but it seems from his podcast that the crap is going to hit the fan sooner than later!

98-year-old Rosh Yeshiva R' Gershon Edelstein diagnosed with COVID after receiving 4th vaccine dose.




 Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, one of the leaders of Israel's haredi community, has been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Rabbi Edelstein, who is 98 years old, received a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine over the weekend, people close to him said. This morning, he felt unwell and received a test for the coronavirus, which came back with a positive result.

Rabbi Edlerstein is the Rosh Yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva and the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah party.

Last night, the Health Ministry reported that 31,000 people had tested positive for the coronavirus. There was also an increase in the number of patients in serious condition.

Dr. Sharon Alroy Preis, the head of public health services at the Health Ministry, said last night that the government is considering shortening the quarantine period for people suspected of contracting the coronavirus, but no decision has been made yet.

Ami Doubles Down On It's Outragious Lie That the Israeli Government Wants to Close Down Rav Zamir Cohen's Yeshiva Because It is Doing Kiruv

 


On Dec 25 we reported the unmitigated lie that Yitzchok Frankfurter the publisher of Ami Magazine propagated. In that article Yitzy interviews Rav Zamir Cohen the rabbi of a Kiruv organization called "Hitabroot." An organization that gets funds from the Zionist State of Israel.

Rabbi Cohen had opened a "kiruv" Yeshiva in Ashdod and he was crying to Yitzy that the Israeli Government wants to shut down his school, because they are "afraid that this school would attract Chilonim and make them frum."

If you read the interview you would have learned that this new school is modeled after the Finnish School system, and is not a yeshiva at all and would not teach Torah but would have some tefillah and would have "Yahadut" as a subject in it's curriculum. 
We explained then that "Yahadut" is not related to Torah at all but is a code word for Jewish philosophy which includes Zionism.
So why would the Government want to close him down?
I don't know but what I do know is that  this explanation that Rav Cohen gave is a complete fabrication and a distortion of reality. 
The government like every government has rules and regulations that a school must follow in order to get their permit. Rabi Cohen probably decided that he was not going to follow the rules and so they yanked his license and so he ran to the fool, Frankfurter with his lies.

The Zionist government supports and allows kiruv schools to exist, schools such Ohr Samaich, Shuvu schools, Chinuch Atzmai schools, Rav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman's schools in Migadal Haemek etc. So why would they be afraid of Rabbi Cohen's schools that doesn't have Torah learning in their curriculum at all?

Ami must have gotten hundreds of Letters to the Editor expressing shock at these blatant lies, and some of those emails indicated to The Frank that they don't appreciate being made fools of, so Rabbi Cohen had no choice and sent his lap dog, Isaac Fried, the Chairman of the board of Hitabroot to write a letter to Ami to calm Ami readers (see above letter), down a bit.

But all this fool did was make matters worse, because he did admit in a small paragraph above the highlighted paragraph, that the government of Israel has no issues with the other Kiruv Schools that actually teach Torah as their main subject.

I highlighted the paragraph where he states unequivocally that the school follows the Finnish School system. It doesn't follow our holy mesorah at all.
So why is the government afraid of his secular school? Because they will mumble some brachos in the morning? My own wife teaches in a secular Zionist Public School, and all children have 15 minutes in the morning to pray.

But I do have to give credit when credit is do, in this week's issue he gives the Walder Story some space.

US Representative Andy Levin a Damn Liar!

 

Who is Rabbi David Rosenthal that is Harrassing a Married Woman?

 

New Campaign to Confront Abusers in Public and Shame Them


I don't really have the words this morning to describe what is happening.

This campaign has done more than raise awareness, it has given strength and a voice to people who have been hurt.
The first picture is an image of the home of a woman who harmed a number of young girls through " therapy" .
They went to her home and plastered it with these flyers. On the group they tell their stories and say this is the first time they feel any sort of healing or strength since she hurt them. (A police case was opened a few years ago but it hasn't gone anywhere and she's still practicing)
Numerous volunteers are going back to the places where they were hurt and putting a posters. I don't know if anything like this has ever been done before but it is absolutely monumental groundbreaking and is exposing the depth and breadth of this horrific horrific problem."

Lubav Chassan Sobs While Reciting "Yechi Adoneinu Melech Hamashiach"

 

Mishpacha Magazine Shames "Fat" Seminary Girls

 

The Jew Hating BBC Network Now demands identities of Jewish teens it libeled

 

The BBC has demanded that the victims of an antisemitic attack on a bus carrying Jewish teenagers reveal their identities before it responds to a complaint about its coverage of the incident, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Video footage from the incident, which occurred during the Hanukkah holiday, shows the young men yelling antisemitic abuse and threats at the open-top bus, while also attempting to smash its windows and spitting at it. and others made Nazi salutes.

Some of them also took off a shoe and hit the bus with it, which is an insult in Arab culture, as the bottom of the shoe is considered unclean.

The OU Response To Recent Events That Shook Klal Yisroel

 

The Chaim Walder saga that has unfolded over the past weeks has created upheaval across the Jewish world, as it must. Walder was one of those profoundly sick people who built trust in order to exploit it in manipulative and destructive ways, shattering an entire community’s sense of trust.

There has been a flood of responses to this tragedy. Some of those responses demonstrate a severe lack of understanding of sexual abuse, highlighting the work that remains to be done on abuse prevention, discovery of victims, and response to perpetrators. And many voices have spoken clearly to the issue, bringing to the fore the growing number of individuals who can be turned to and organizations that are doing real work in this critical area.