Rabbi Avraham Shira |
Rabbi Avraham Shira |
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Rabbi Avraham Shira |
Rabbi Avraham Shira |
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So the holy purim song that all sing with such deviekus was actually composed by a black Jazz singer, and I believe it's an old slave song !
Pass me a drink
The Chareidie guy took car cables and attempted to electrocute his wife the mother of his children.
The daughter heard the screams from her mother and called police. While in handcuffs, the tzaddik said that he was only trying to frighten her! I guess he will listen to the megilla in jail!
Belz the chasidic group, which is the second largest in Israel, has apparently agreed to include core curriculum studies in its schools as previously reported, according to a report by Actualic.
The Israeli ministry of education authorized the special framework of study for the Belz institutions which will enable them to receive government funding at a higher level in return for studying three basic disciplines at grade school levels: Hebrew, Math and English. If students can pass all three subjects, the schools will receive 100% funding as in other school systems in Israel.
The negotiations between Belz and the ministry were coordinated by Rabbi Yonatan Reiss, a Belzer chasid who established a network of yeshivos which enable chareidim to streamline their army service while maintaining their core values. Reiss himself was conscripted as a deserter at the age of 26 but then realized that chareidi soldiers do not have a proper framework to prepare them for the culture shock they encounter when joining the army. He established Chedvata, which prepares chareidi youth for technological service in the army and B’Tzavta, which prepares them for combat service while maintaining their religious lifestyle.
The “state chasidic” educational stream is expected to attract other chasidic groups who wish to maintain their unique educational style but to receive extensive government funding.
I have to say that the Ribbono Shel Oilom has a great sense of humor.
Remember when R' Zalman Leib, Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe, brought $5 million to Israel to distribute to Israeli Yeshivois that refused to take money from the Medina? Well that money lasted about 7 days. Most of those yeshivois had to start taking the money from the medina, otherwise the melamdim would starve to death. Belz has officially and publicly announced that they will comply with the "medina's educational requirement so as to get the funds.
So what did the Ribbono Shel Oilom do try try to put some sense into them?
He tested them back in their own turf in Williamsburg! The Satmar and other Chassidishe Moisdois all take money from the Medina, yes absolutely, they take money from the US Medina, but with taking money come strings attached; they will have to teach Math, English , Social Studies, Chas Ve'sholom!
When you guys mess with our "medina" Hashem will mess with your "medina"
The Board of Regents met today and received a presentation from the State Education Department about the new proposed regulations of private schools. It has already been reported that all of the non-Jewish schools in the State will be exempt under the new regulations, leaving only Yeshivas subject to the review and approval of local school districts.
At the last minute the State Education Department, led by Commissioner Betty Rosa, slipped in a section to the regulations that threatens jail time for parents who send to a non-complying yeshiva.
The new section is 130.14 and is titled Penalties and Enforcement. “Any violation of the compulsory education requirements contained in Article 65 of the Education Law is subject to the penalties prescribed in Education Law 3233.”
This bureaucratic language is threatening, not harmless. Article 65 refers to the compulsory education requirement that parents send their children to a school that provides substantially equivalent instruction. Education Law 3233 provides that a first offense is punishable by ten days’ imprisonment, and each subsequent offense by imprisonment not to exceed thirty days.
That’s right: These regulations threaten jail time for parents who send to a yeshiva that the local school district deems non-equivalent.
What about parents who continue to send their children to failing public schools? They are applauded and rewarded by the State.
As he shuddered with tears in his eyes, Ariel from Hungary clutched the tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries) bag he received moments before standing in front of the Western Wall. His counselor, Rabbi Asher Feit, ran over to him. "Are you alright?" he asked. "Yes, yes," Ariel answered. With his eyes filled with tears, he added, "It's just that I need help putting on this tefillin. I'm so overwhelmed standing here at the most sacred place of the Jewish nation. My mother and father gave me a note to put in the Kotel (Western Wall - ed.), but I have to put on tefillin, and tallit and I don’t know what to do first."
The counselor patted his shoulder, calmed him down and reassured him. "Put on your tallit, let's help you put on tefillin, and we will pray together. We will hear the reading in the Torah of Rosh Chodesh (the new Jewish month) and then you can put the note in the Kotel."
Because of the increase of anti-semitism, the Brooklyn askanim came out with a "kol Korah" in Yiddish asking parents to make sure their children not dress up in "blackface" or hang Haman or any other character on the streets; as not to provoke the goyim!
Vey nice, I'm in total agreement.
How about not provoking other Jews by burning the Israeli flag?
So it's ok not to provoke a goy but to provoke another Jew is ok, even though the Torah writes: ואהבת לרעך כמוך
When goyim burn the Israeli flag, Jews scream "Anti-semitism" but when a fellow Jew does the exact same thing then it's a "mitzvah"
The Biden fools are so hell bent to sign the "Iran/Satmar Deal" that they not only tolerated an attempted hit on the US Consulate in Erbil, Iraq but are making excuses for the Iranian murderers!
They must have hired Ezra Friedlander to give them these talking points!
But as I'm typing these words I get a News Alert that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took full responsibility for targeting the US Consulate. What will Biden say now?
Listen to Netanyahu below
Iran takes responsibility for missiles fired near US consulate in Iraq: report https://t.co/Z6yoIlbmYg pic.twitter.com/lXwNXYsbyN
— New York Post (@nypost) March 13, 2022
A woman stabbed her date whom she had met online in retaliation for the 2020 death of an Iranian military leader killed in an American drone strike, police said.
Nika Nikoubin, 21, has been charged with attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon and burglary, KLAS-TV reported.
Nikoubin and the man met online on a dating website, Henderson police wrote in an arrest report. The pair then agreed to meet at Sunset Station hotel on March 5, renting a room together.
While in the room, she put a blindfold on the man, police said. Nikoubin then turned off the lights, and several minutes later, the man “felt a pain on the side of his neck,” KLAS reported.
Nikoubin reportedly stabbed the man in the neck “for revenge against U.S. troops for the killing of Qassem Soleimani in 2020,” police wrote in a report.
U.S. forces killed Soleimani , a top general in Iran’s military, in a drone strike in January 2020. Soleimani headed the expeditionary Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. responsible for the Islamic Republic’s foreign operations. He gained prominence for advising Shiite paramilitary forces fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, before it was defeated in 2017.
After the stabbing, the man pushed Nikoubin off of him and ran out of the room to call 911, police said.
Nikoubin also ran out of the room, telling a hotel employee that she had just stabbed a man, police said.
When talking to police, Nikoubin told an investigator “she wanted revenge,” police said. She said she had listened to a song called “Grave Digger,” which “gave her the motivation… to carry out her revenge.”
The man’s current condition was not available, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.
Fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war is threatening Mark Vande Hei’s scheduled return to Earth from space at the end of the month.
The Benilde-St. Margaret’s and St. John’s University graduate is set to parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan on March 30 with two Russian cosmonauts.
But President Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia prompted threats from the head of the Russian space agency and ally to Russian President Vladimir Putin: In a Feb. 26 video, Dmitry Rogozin “threatened to leave Vande Hei behind in space and detach Russia’s segment of the space station altogether,” ABC News reported on Wednesday.
Vande Hei is orbiting about 250 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station, where for more than two decades, U.S. and Russian space agencies have collaborated on research and maintenance of the station.
NASA said Friday it continues to work with all its international partners, including the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, for the ongoing safe operations of the station and the return of crew members to Earth.
“On March 30, a Soyuz spacecraft will return as scheduled carrying NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov back to Earth,” a NASA spokesperson said in an e-mail to the Star Tribune on Friday.
“Upon their return, Vande Hei will hold the American record for the longest single human spaceflight mission of 355 days.”
Vande Hei completed his first space flight in 2018 as an Expedition 53/54 crew member, during which he conducted spacewalks, researched microgravity and measured the sun’s energy input to earth.
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I don't understand why everyone is getting bent out of shape by the director's statement. Isn't this the same policy of the feuding Satmar Brothers? Isn't this the policy of the Litvishe Velt in Lakewood?
Or is it only because a goy made that statement?
An Amnesty International official said that the organization is opposed to Israel continuing to exist as a Jewish state.
“We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people,” Paul O’Brien, the human rights monitor’s U.S. director, said in a luncheon this week with the Women’s National Democratic Club in Washington D.C.
Jewish Insider first reported the remarks.
O’Brien said late Friday on Twitter that his remarks had been removed from context, although he did not contest the quotes themselves.
“Jewish Insider’s headline claims that I and Amnesty questioned the right of Israel to exist,” he said. “I did not and Amnesty takes no position on the legitimacy of any state.”
O’Brien also said on Twitter that, “I said that while we recognize the right of self-determination for Jewish and Palestinian people as a basic human right, we take no position on the legal or political solutions that any people may take to exercise that right.”
Taking a position on whether and how an established state should continue to exist is unusual for organizations with responsibilities limited to monitoring compliance with international laws governing freedoms and human rights. O’Brien’s comments immediately drew a torrent of condemnation from Jewish groups.
“If there was any doubt about Amnesty’s credibility as a legitimate voice of authority, it is now abundantly clear that they are firmly entrenched in the cadre of extremist anti-Israel provocateurs,” William Daroff, the CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Friday in an interview, Earlier he had tweeted that O’Brien’s remarks were outrageous. “It is clear that their true vision is a Middle East without Israel as a Jewish state.”
The Biden administration is distributing close to $1 million to organizations to investigate claims of human rights abuses in Israel, Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
Sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon said that the State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) project will serve to delegitimize Israel.
The DRL is offering $987,654 to NGOs to "strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza.”
The grant notice posted on the State Department website calls for groups who would focus on “maintaining civil rights documentation to support justice and accountability.”
The groups who receive the funding will be tasked with investigating alleged abuses inside Israel, Judea and Samaria and Gaza, and to document these allegations.
This would include the “documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights” while also “[understanding and accessing] the forums and processes available to take meaningful action in pursuing truth, accountability, and memorialization; and/or provide psychosocial support to survivors of atrocities.”
Supporters of Israel in Congress were furious when they found out about the program, with accusations that the Biden administration is aiding the BDS movement.
Senator Ted Cruz called the funding “disgraceful.”
"The Biden administration wants to use American taxpayer money to subsidize the international NGO campaign to demonize and isolate Israel, which then serves as a basis for antisemitic efforts to boycott and wage economic warfare against Israeli Jews. Congress did not appropriate funds for this purpose and has repeatedly condemned such campaigns,” he told the Free Beacon.
Cruz called on the State Department to immediately cancel the program and investigate how it came about.