Sheldon Silver dies in prison at 77

 

Sheldon Silver, the Democratic powerhouse who ruled Albany with an iron fist until he was busted and later convicted on federal corruption charges in a stunning fall from grace, died Monday in prison. He was 77. 

The disgraced politician died at the Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, Massachusetts, while serving out a six-and-half-year sentence at a nearby prison after he was convicted for accepting nearly $4 million in bribes while in office, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed. 

His official cause of death will be determined by a medical examiner but the longtime kingmaker had a history of chronic kidney disease and cancer. 

Biden Calls a Fox Reporter a "Stupid SOB"

 

President Joe Biden responded to a question about inflation on Monday by calling a Fox News reporter a vulgarity.

The president was in the East Room of the White House for a meeting of his Competition Council, which is focused on changing regulations and enforcing laws to help consumers deal with high prices. Reporters in the room shouted a number of questions after Biden’s remarks.

Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Biden about inflation, which is at a nearly 40-year high and has hurt the president’s public approval. 

Doocy called out, “Do you think inflation is a political liability ahead of the midterms?”

Biden responded with sarcasm, “It’s a great asset — more inflation.” Then he shook his head and added, “What a stupid son of a bitch.”

His comments were captured on video and by the microphone in front of him. Doocy laughed it off in a subsequent appearance on his network, joking, “Nobody has fact-checked him yet and said it’s not true.”

The White House did not immediately responded to a request for comment.

The White House has insisted repeatedly that it is focused on curbing inflation, with Biden reorienting his entire economic agenda around the issue. But the president has also shown a willingness to challenge a media that he deems to be too critical, especially Fox News and Doocy.

At his news conference last week, Biden said to Doocy with sarcasm, “You always ask me the nicest questions.”

“I have a whole binder full,” the reporter answered.

“I know you do,” Biden said. “None of them make a lot of sense to me. Fire away.

Zionists Ministries Meet To Plan Possible Airlift Of Ukrainian Jews If Russia Attacks

 

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is greeted by an honor guard upon his arrival in Ukraine, 

Do you think that any of the Satmar Yiddish weeklies will report on this?

I think not! But fabricate hate that is now being used by antisemites around the world, they have no problem reporting! Satmar propaganda made up a story that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis! What they didn't write was that it actually saved Jews. 

And who will be doing the airlift? The IDF! Not the Kollel guys, the IDF!

Top Israeli government officials and leaders of Jewish organizations held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the possibility of evacuating Jews from Ukraine if Russia invades.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been amassing troops at the two countries’ borders since the fall, reportedly including the placement of weapons such as ballistic missiles, with some estimates of an impending crossing or invasion early this year.

According to a report in Haaretz, the meeting was held with members of the National Security Council, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, and the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety.

It also included representatives from the Jewish Agency for Israel and Nativ, which maintains connections with Jews in former Soviet countries.

Jewish organizations estimate that some 75,000 Ukrainians living in the eastern part of the country, many of them elderly, are eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, which allows immigration to those who have one Jewish grandparent

Walder and Parshas Mishpatim

 

 This Parsha appears immediately after Parshas Yisro, the Parsha where Klall Yisrael receives the Torah. At this point, the story of the Meraglim, the story of the spies had not occurred yet . For all practical purposes, the Jewish people were going to be in Eretz Yisrael in a matter of weeks. 

If you had written the Torah, which mitzvah would you have written last in Pashas Mishpatim? 

I thought about this and I would have put the halchos of slaves last.

We were heading to Eretz Yisrael, we would  need to know all the halachos of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael?

 No one owned any slaves and none would own any slaves in the near future. We would need to know the basics of manufacturing Tefillin, what color should the be? How many compartments? What shape? We would need to know halachos of Terumois Umassrois, Leket, Shikcha and Peah, at least the basics...

Nope!

 The Torah chose to put the halchos of slaves first, number one , and gave this priority over all the 613 mitzvos.

Why?

Because it was a "teachable moment!"

Klall Yisrael had just been slaves merely weeks before and the tortures they had experienced were very fresh in their minds. It was "davka" at this time that Hashem chose to teach them how to treat slaves.

There were many who claimed that after Walder was exposed as the monster that we all learned he was, and then having decided not to give his victims "closure" by killing himself, we should all "protect" our children by not telling them what really transpired. 

We learn that the juxtaposition of the Halchos of slavery immediately after Matan Torah, draws an entirely different picture.

The Torah is telling us that when an incident occurs, the lessons learned should be immediately applied, while the story is still fresh!

We need to teach our children President Reagan's dictum "trust but verify." Children need to know the dictum of the Talmud  

אין אפוטרופות לעריות meaning you cannot trust any one when it comes to sexual matters. Not your rebbe, not your Rosh Yeshiva, not your therapist and not even a grandfather or even a father, unfortunately!

I also suggest that when it comes to children up to 12 years old,  halachos of Loshon Hara should not be taught to them at all.  Children should not be encumbered by halachos that can actually harm them. 

We as parents want to know every single thing that happens to them in school. We want to know if they are being bullied, we want to know if they are being sexually abused and even verbally abused. And children should be told very sternly that if they they are being touched inappropriately by someone in school, they should never report this to anyone in authority or anyone on staff in school, but to come home and report that to you.

We don't teach children Halachos of Niddah or even Aveilus. Don't teach them Hilchos Loshon Hara, I am positive that the Chafetz Chayim didn't write these Halachos for toddlers .

Yeshivas Now Hiring Stand-Up Comics to teach them how to treat and respect Women

The video below captured the comedian mocking Women EMTs'

How will these boys who will be in shidduchim very soon now think of women in a professional setting?

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Toldos Avraham Rebbe and R' Shimon Dov Brandsdorfer Stand by as Their Followers Break Down a Kosher Cell Phone Store!

 

הויז פעקל גנב pic.twitter.com/m8ypDSgaSD

— Hasidic_3 (@Hasidic_3) January 23, 2022

This storekeeper doesn't sell any smartphones at all, he sells only Kosher phones but refuses to be intimidated by the Eida Hachreidis Terrorists!

Hundreds of Chassidim of the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak sect demonstrated outside a cellular phone store in central Geula Sunday evening. The chasidim were dispersed by police, who used water cannon and other dispersal methods on the  gathering .

Initially police attempted to protect the store from the angry protesters, who included the Admor of Toldos Avraham Yitzchak as well as other senior members of the sect including Rabbi Shimon Dov Bransdorfer and Rabbi Shmuel Bransdorfer who spoke to the gathering.

After the rabbis spoke the crowd sparred with police. Some of the assembled protesters succeeded in bypassing police and breaking open the door of the store. Six protesters were arrested and traffic was backed up on Malchei Israel street as police dispersed the demonstration.

Police released a statement saying that ” a short time after the beginning of protests at the site, tens of rioters began creating a public disturbance and blocking the street. Later they caused damage to a store, attacked police and damaged a police van. After police told them to disperse and they continued to demonstrate, police arrested three suspects for allegedly causing damage and public disturbance. Two policemen were lightly injured and received treatment at the scene.”

Demonstrators have stepped up their struggle in the last few weeks against three stores selling non-kosher phones in the Geula neighborhood. Some of the protesters explained to Kikar Hashabat that they simply wish to prevent their children from being exposed to internet. “Those who want to sell non-kosher phones can do so on Jaffa street, we don’t know why they come to our neighborhood. We’re not demonstrating against all stores in Jerusalem.”

A few weeks ago one of the three stores was targeted by protesters who attempted to set it on fire. Another store had its window smashed but continues to be active in the neighborhood.

Brave Frum Brooklyn Woman Chases Away Package Thieves

 

הויז פעקל גנב pic.twitter.com/m8ypDSgaSD

— Hasidic_3 (@Hasidic_3) January 23, 2022

Having Thrown Victims of Abuse Under the Bus the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah Releases Kol Korei on Decrees of Israeli Government

 

Instead of cleaning house in their own institutions and moisdois, the Agudah releases this useless irrelevant statement condemning the Israeli Government.

Does anyone out there really believe that Bennett after reading this Kol Korah, will call  an emergency meeting with his cabinet to discuss the points in this rebuke?

Does anyone out there seriously think that Lieberman will now shiver in his boots because some rabbis in New York are not happy with the government?

Now, I am not happy with the government either and yes precisely because of the points brought up in the Kol Korah, but is this the way they will change even one MK's mind?

If they, the Moetzes keep covering up and looking away at serial sexual abusers, at thieves and refuse to clean up their own moisdois why in the world should  the Israeli government give two bits and take seriously what the Agudah is concerned about?

And who exactly respects what the Moetzes says or does?

Satmar? Chabad? Belz? Klozenberg? 

Who do they represent? Ed Koch, former mayor of New York once said about the Chassidic community, "They are a minority of a minority," The Moetzis represents a minority of a minority of a minority!

And now I'll let the Moetzes into a little secret. The Chareidie Parties said last week on Kan 11 an Israeli TV Station  that should the government collapse they are ready to sit with Lapid! 

With Lapid? The Rasha Me' Rusha? who they called Hitler ym"s? Yes with that very Lapid ...and do you know something, they would sit with Lieberman too , if only he gave the moisdis some money!

Guys.. It's all about the rent!

Agudath Israel of America, today, shared a Kol Korei from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America:

(Free translation)

Shevat 5782

We hear cries of pain from our brothers who dwell in Eretz Yisroel as the Israeli government plans decrees that will seriously affect the Torah population there. Examples include:

 

• desecrating the Kosel HaMaaravi – the last remnant of the Beis Hamikdash and the place from which the Divine Presence has never left – by permitting in it mixed prayer services and desecrations of our holy religious values;
• acting to remove the safeguards for modesty accepted by the chareidi population upon themselves with respect to the use of “kosher” phones;
• spreading Shabbos desecration such as in public transportation and the like;
• canceling oversight over kashrus;
• intruding into the education systems of chareidi institutions;
• conspiring to undermine the yeshivos by forcibly conscripting their students;
• and, most pressing now, acting towards weakening Jewish identity and holiness by allowing any community the authority to perform conversions. This will result in invalid conversions where the convert does not properly accept upon himself the obligations of Torah and mitzvos.

 

The ultimate outcome of all this will be to uproot the Torah from its status as the foundational identity and eternity of the Jewish people, and to turn the Jewish people into a nation like all others.

We address the Israeli government: You have no right to intrude into the realm of Torah, mitzvos, or Jewish education. These are the pupil of the eye of the Jewish nation. We will object strongly against these plans, just as our ancestors have over the course of history stood against any who have attempted to turn us away from Torah law.

To the G-d fearing religious public we say: This is a time fraught with danger for the Jewish nation, and we must cry out – from the depths of our hearts – that Hashem save us. We are obligated to increase our tefillah until Hashem awakens a heavenly spirit by which these edicts will be cancelled.

May it be Hashem’s will that the words, “They shall do no evil nor any destruction in my entire holy land,” (Yeshayah 11:9) speedily be fulfilled, and may we merit the day when the Glory of Hashem fills the world.

Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America

Harav Mordechai Bari the Head of Chinuch in Elad Arrested For Molesting Students When he was a Rebbe in Modiin Elite

 I was sitting on this story for over a week , but couldn't divulge his name because of the strict libel laws in Israel.

But he must be a dangerous guy since the police now gave the media permission to expose him. This is because they want other students, and women that he molested  to come forward ..This is a very unusual move, usually the name can only be made public after a conviction. 

This menuval is very well known in Chareidie circles and it seems that Rabbanim in Modiin Elite knew all about him..

Also this morning in Beit Shemesh, a young Chareidie man was arrested for rape.

מנהל אגף החינוך בעיריית אלעד, מרדכי בארי, נעצר בחשד לשורת מעשים

 מגונים בתלמידיו בזמן שהיה מורה. כך הותר לפרסום בצהריים (ראשון). המשטרה קוראת למתלוננים שנפגעו ממנו להגיש תלונה.

החקירה נפתחה בשבוע שעבר, ובמסגרתה נאספו כמה תלונות מתלמידים לשעבר של בארי על כך שפגע בהם מינית כשהיו בני פחות מ-14. המעשים נעשו לפני כמה שנים, בזמן שהיה מורה בבית ספר במודיעין עילית.

בדיון שהתקיים ביום חמישי התיר בית משפט השלום בפתח תקווה לפרסם את שמו של החשוד, וכן האריכה את מעצרו עד ליום שלישי.

המשטרה מבקשת מגברים ונשים שהחשוד פגע בהם לדווח למשטרת מודיעין עילית בטלפון 08-6447200 או במוקד 100, ובכל תחנת משטרה אחרת.

Antisemites Now Using The Old Satmar Outrageous Lie that "the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis"

 

The fact is that the Zionists did in fact "collaborate" with the Nazis but not in deporting Jews to the death camps and murdering them, but the Zionists were making deals with the Nazis to save Jews. In fact they were successful many times.

The Satmar liars say that yes the Zionists succeeded in saving Jews but the Jews that they saved were Zionists, as if to say that Zionists weren't Jews. 

What the Satmars won't tell you that their very founder of their movement, R' Yoel Teitelbaum z"l was saved by the Zionists in one of those deals. 

The Satmar Liars say that the Zionists saved only young people that would fight for the State...which is a brazen lie since we all know the roster of people that were on the Kastner train. And even if it were true? So what ? What's wrong with that? 

There is a two-volume book called 'Hidden in the Heights" by the Holocaust historian Esther Farbstein who is in fact a Satmar apologist who writes in detail of all the attempted deals and negotiating deals that Chareidim did or tried to do with the Nazis!

And who do you think they were trying to save by making deals with the Nazis? 

I'll let you into a little secret ... they were trying to save only Jews that were frum and Chareidie rabbanim, and if they would have had to make a choice ala Sofia's choice,  they  would have never chosen the  Jews whose sympathies were with the Zionists, they would have allowed the Zionists to rot in Poland and other countries overrun by the Nazis, they would have done the exact same thing, given the opportunity.

Instead of praising Jews that saved Jews they twisted the entire story to say that the "Zionists collaborated with the Nazis"

When Rav Weismandel tried without success to get to Eichmann that was ok but when the Zionists did it.. it's "collaboration"

Well now the goyim, the antisemites are taking the Satmar talking points and using them against all Jews, whether they be Chassidim, Litvaks, Safardim, Ashkenazim, Dati Leumi, Chilonim and Zionists.

Love when “antizionists” bring up an agreement between Zionists and Nazis to save thousands of Jews and all they can see is “agreement between Zionists and Nazis” https://t.co/c5qjw2rIw2

— אמיר-Amir (@AngrySemite) January 22, 2022

Mordy Gelfand from Lakewood Missing.. Police Searching in the Mississippi River

 

After 11 days of searching for Frum Jackson resident Mordy (Michael) Gelfand, who went missing during a business trip to New Orleans and never returned home, the New Orleans Police Department now sadly believe that an unfortunate accident has taken place and Mordy seems to have tragically drowned in the Mississippi River R”L.

A massive search and recovery effort is underway and the Achiezer organization who is leading the efforts has released a message to Jewish organizations requesting groups to step forward with manpower and logistics, to quickly and honorably bring Mordy to proper Kevuras Yisroel.

Local authorities are welcoming all the help that is being offered.

Harry Rosenberg ..May You Rest in Peace ..You Changed My life!

 

Singing Carlbach in Krestir

 

מוצאי שבת אין קרעסטיר.@MordyGetz @DovyMeisels pic.twitter.com/J3ysep1n4t

— Hasidic_3 (@Hasidic_3) January 23, 2022

TV Host Melissa Harris-Perry Says That Children Should not Belong to Parents They Should belong to the State

Apparently, this clip from 2013 is being recirculated because this is what is happening now - school boards, teachers, Democrat politicians, and the Biden administration all believe that your kids are theirs to educate and control. & if you try and have a say in what they're being taught, who's teaching them or how they're being taught (remotely, with masks), you'll be threatened, silenced and punished.

 

Jerry Wittenstein, Who Developed Half Of Apollo 11’s Trajectories Makes Aliyah

 

pic.twitter.com/ISewssuKcD

— Chaskel Bennett (@ChaskelBennett) January 20, 2022

South African chief justice given 10 days to apologize for defending Israel

 

South Africa’s Judicial Conduct Appeals Committee issued a statement on Thursday giving former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng 10 days to make an “unconditional apology for becoming involved in political controversy.”

“I’m under an obligation as a Christian to love Israel, to pray for [the] peace of Jerusalem, which actually means the peace of Israel, and I cannot, as I Christian, do anything other than love and pray for Israel, because I know, hatred for Israel by me and for my nation, can only attract unprecedented curses upon our nation,” Mogoeng stated in July 2020 during a webinar discussion with South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein that was hosted by The Jerusalem Post.

"Did Israel take away our land or the land of Africa? Did Israel take our mineral wealth? We’ve got to move from a position of principle here,” he said.

The anti-Israel group Africa4Palestine, the South African branch of the BDS movement, filed a complaint over the chief justice’s comments, accusing him of breaching the judicial code of conduct.

Jordanian Document Proves Jerusalem’s Disputed Sheikh Jarrah Properties Are Jewish-Owned

 An English-language document from Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates proves that properties in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood (today known as Shimon HaTzaddik) are Jewish-owned.

The contract between the Kingdom of Jordan and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in 1954, published last year by Jordan’s official Petra news agency, documents an agreement for an “urban housing project of Sheikh Jarrah Quarter, Jerusalem.”

The official Jordanian document proves Jewish ownership of the currently disputed homes in the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood, with up-to-date official stamps proving its legal truth.

A Devastating Week For the Chareidim as Many Are Arrested For Molestation

 This video below is in Yiddish, but he is reporting about a deluge of  arrests this past week of Chareidie molesters including a Chassidishe rebbe. 

The Chareidie world knew about these people for years but kept quiet. 

I have to laugh at these people that say about Walder, well there wasn't a real Bais Din, there were no witnesses, leave him alone he is dead! 

If the Chareidie leadership knew about these perverts for years and did nothing why are they upset about the two reporters from Haaretz? They actually did a very good thing, saving the lives of many Chareidie victims.

א רבי אראסטירט א מבול פון חרדישע מאלעסטערס

Woman who told kids ‘Hitler should have killed you all’ arrested: cops

 

⚠️ UPDATE in anti-Jewish Hate Crime involving 8YO child. Thanks to help from the public, HCTF Detectives, assisted by Bklyn South Warrants,
arrested:
Darling, Christina 21
Brooklyn

Charges:
Aggravated Harassment/Hate Crime
Act in Manner Injurious to Child<17 x3
Menacing/HC https://t.co/ZGC4AVvAwG pic.twitter.com/iKeAKuHi65

— NYPD Hate Crimes (@NYPDHateCrimes) January 21, 2022

 The woman who allegedly told three Jewish kids “Hitler should have killed you all” before spitting on an 8-year-old boy in Brooklyn has been arrested, cops said Friday.

Suspect Christina Darling, a 21-year-old student at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, was busted Friday morning and charged with aggravated harassment and menacing, both as hate crimes, and acting in a manner injurious to a child, NYPD Hate Crimes said.

“I’m glad she was found & charged with a crime but what in G-d’s name is going on in this country that an adult would target innocent kids with such hatred?” former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn raged on Twitter.

Darling is accused of storming up to the boy, who was with two other kids, around 12:30 p.m. Jan. 14 on Avenue P near Coleman Street in Marine Park, about five blocks from her home, police said.

She snarled at the kids, “Hitler should have killed you all. I’ll kill you and know where you live,” cops said.

Rep. Boebert has Ezra Friedlander's "number" and asks him If He Was There for “Reconnaissance”

 

What won't Ezra "the capo" do for publicity?

Rep Boebert figured him out in seconds just by looking at him and asked him in an elevator if  "he was there for reconnaissance." LOL!

She really had him pegged!

Well Ezra the one who asked Holocaust Survivors to back the murderous Iran plan, endorsed Fat Nadler, and orchestrated a Congressional Medal of Honor to the late Anwar Sadat, a murderer of over 2,100 Jewish young Israeli soldiers , didn't like this one bit and is now crying that this was an "antisemitic incident."

He ran like a poisoned rat to his enabler the Yeshivaworld news blog, the website that refused to write anything about the rapist  Monster Walder.

Ezra had also re-tweeted a comment from a clueless dope that Ami & Mishpacha Magazines should not write about Walder because they were "Family Magazines" ... the fact that Walder broke up "families" went completely over his "langeh rekel" ...

Monster Walder was a bigger antisemite than Reb Boebert!

Ezra's tuchislekker the YeshivaWorld wrote the following about this non-incident!

Friedlander, a Hasidic Jew from Boro Park Brooklyn, who is a professional lobbyist, says that he and a group of people – including another Orthodox Jew – were being escorted by Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York. In the elevator, Boebert looked at them “head to toe” and then asked if they were at the Capitol to do “reconnaissance.”

“You know, I’m not sure to be offended or not,” one of the group members told Buzzfeed News. “I was very confused.”

“When I heard that, I actually turned to the person standing next to me and asked, ‘Did you just hear that?’” he said.

Friedlander tells YWN that Boebert clearly profiled them. “I am not a Rabbi, nor claim to be a Rabbi, but I dress in a long Hasidic grey suit, wearing a Yarmulka and a beard”, Ezra told YWN.

For her part, Boebert said that she was making “a joke” in reference to Democrats’ claims against her that she provided tours of the Capitol to Jan. 6 rioters, and had nothing to do with the group being comprised of Jews.

“I saw a large group and made a joke. Sadly when Democrats see the same, they demonize my family for a year straight,” Boebert said.

“I’m too short to see anyone’s yarmulkes,” she added.

Friedlander told YWN that her response of “being too short to see my Yarmulka”, is pathetic, as I have a long suit and beard and can’t be mistaken for anything else other than an Orthodox Jew.

The attached photo (Ezra with Rep Hakeem Jeffries) was taken less then five minutes after the incident. Friendlander says it is “clear as whistle that I am an Orthodox Jew and she chose to make it her duty to make a disparaging remark”.

This is how she sees Ezra Friedlander the lobbyist – doing reconnaissance”, he added.