Monday, June 13, 2022
2 US Senators, 4 Congress Members Condemn ‘The Mapping Project’ that is planning a US "Krystalnacht"
US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) this weekend roundly condemned “The Mapping Project” – a detailed graphic aimed at illustrating all entities believed by its progressive creators to pose a threat to their version of society as they want it to be.
The project was created by a Boston-area pro-Palestinian Authority activist collective aligned with the international Boycott, Divest & Sanctions (BDS) economic war on Israel, one that is not only antisemitic but appears clearly dedicated to total anarchy.
“At this moment of rising anti-Semitism, racist attacks, and political violence, this ‘mapping’ of the Jewish community is dangerous and irresponsible. We strongly condemn anti-Semitism and will continue working for the safety of all vulnerable people at home and abroad,” Warren and Markey said in their statement issued Friday (June 10).
Why did the "Lakewood Scoop" Boycott the Lakewood Torah Event that had over 20,000 attending ?
Over 20,000 people streamed to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Sunday night to celebrate the historic partnership between BMG yungeleit and baalebatim, an initiative led by philanthropist R’ Lazer (Louie) Scheiner.
The 4-hour plus event, filled with joyous dancing, singing, and inspiring messages from gedolim, stressed the importance of the lomdei Torah who bring bracha to the world, subsequently enabling the machzikei Torah to support and empower them in their learning.
Speakers included BMG Rosh Yeshiva HaRav Malkiel Kotler shlit”a, HaRav Dovid Cohen, and HaRav Ephraim Wachsman.
Complete Betrayal At Fox News
Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer when my conservative news outlets don’t encourage parents to trans their little children. pic.twitter.com/1U84xx3ww3
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) June 10, 2022
Fox News highlighted the story Friday of a biological girl whose family encouraged her to identify as a boy, as part of its “America Together: LGBTQ+ Pride Month” series.
The video would be absolute despicable insane lunacy if I saw it on CNN or MSNBC.
To see it on Fox News is a complete betrayal of anything remotely resembling conservatism or decency.
Every element of this video is propagandistic, dangerous garbage. The report states that this biologically female child was choosing her gender before she could speak.
That is madness.
The report further states that Ryland’s parents began social transition at the age of five.
This is child abuse. The vast majority of children who display signs of gender dysphoria desist over time.
The report is absolute, horrifying propaganda.
Why is the Aguda and the entire Chareidie media Silent on Gerer Pogroms? Are the Moetzes Ha'gdolah frightened?
** This article was written right after the events it discusses, and its translation to English was only published three weeks later. In the interim, it is important to highlight those brave yet very few Rabbinic leaders who did condemn the violence, and in particular the Viznitz & Stoliner Rebbes.
The violence that broke on Charedi streets three weeks ago Shabbos terrified everyone. How, then, can we explain the deafening public silence that followed? The lies not in indifference and nihilism, but in our neglect of the public square.
Friday night. Hundreds of rioters gathered outside the doors, their cries clearly heard inside the Shul. Children clung to their parents, seeking shelter. Helpless adults recited Tehillim in helpless panic. One door is torn down, then another. Rioters unleash their fury, smashing furniture and hurling holy books to the floor, tearing them to shreds. An eight-year-old child looks up at his father and sees his head covered in blood. Nobody knows how the terror will end. After minutes that seem like an eternity, the prayers are answered and baton-carrying officers show up. Ranks of helmet-bearers divide between persecutor and persecuted.
This is not a quote from the annals of a Jewish community sometime in the distant past. The events described, without any exaggeration, happened in our own times. Moreover, they did not occur in some distant land but here, in the heart of Jerusalem. The events noted above are a very partial description of the pogroms of Bechukosai 5782.
On the nineteenth of Iyyar, the night before we read the Admonition of the “vengeful sword,” three years of wild incitement, separations between families, harassment of children, tire slashing, and myriad other methods of oppression reached their climax. The time to reap the fruits of hatred had arrived. Thousands of Gerrer Chassidim in several concentrations across Israel hit the streets on a mission: to beat, smash, and shatter the bodies and property of members of the seceding community, those who dared to follow the leadership of Rav Shaul Alter. The attack was not sporadic or coincidental; the incited masses were acting on the explicit instruction of Ger leadership.
Young men alongside venerable rabbis were beaten and wounded. Under the cover of an ostensible “peaceful protest,” rioters ran into the Shuls of the Pnei Menachem community, ransacking, beating, and wrecking all they saw in a violent rampage. From there, the campaign of destruction continued to private homes, where it was the women’s turn to suffer the wrath of the assailants. Fearing for their very lives, mothers called the police in the middle of Shabbos to save them. All this took place in the view of the public eye—in Jerusalem and in Bnei Brak, in Ashdod and in Beit Shemesh. Kollel students were ambushed, some suffering grievous injury; Rabbis were struck by naked fists. Ultimately, thousands of young men and Kollel students ran rampant for close to forty-eight hours, their eyes burning with hatred, letting their violent urges loose on their victims.
A Chilling Silence
Reflections On the Revolution in Gur
The struggle within Gur reflects a deep-set divide over community values: does the community service the individual or does the individual serve the community? In this sense, the dispute has significance far beyond the borders of Gur and offers a sense of direction for Charedi society as a whole.
The turmoil of Shabbos Bechukosa – a spate of violence that erupted in four major Charedi cities – has long subsided. The majority of Charedi society, multitudes who heard of the sordid affair from friends, acquaintances, or digital media channels, continued to live their lives as usual. Some were certainly shocked by the anomalous events on the Charedi street, yet the moral indignation did not last long. “After all,” people told themselves, “these are internal affairs of a closed Chassidic court; it’s not our business.”
In the following lines, I wish to argue that there is much more at stake than an internal struggle within Gur. The struggle, in fact, is between two conflicting mindsets, two distinct visions of how Charedi society ought to look. It is relevant for us all, even those who are ostensibly far from the front lines of the Chassidic unrest.
The “Gur revolution” is a breakaway more than a revolution, and the violence, in contrast with the French revolution alluded to in the title, has been perpetrated by the old guard rather than the new. Yet, there remains something of a revolutionary spirit about it. Certainly, it is worthy of reflection.
Community Over Family
Extreme Left and Extreme Right have one thing in Common they both hate Jews
Look close.
— Cartright (@Vandalay_Inc) June 13, 2022
"No GOP"
"No Racists"
"No Nazis"
"No Jews"
Politics is a circle and where the Left and the Right meet is at the Jews. pic.twitter.com/9iwTriU6VJ
Belzer Rebbe on his way out of his Grandchild's Engagement notices a Chasan who is an orphan and dances 15 minutes with him and his little brother
נעכטן איז געווען א תנאים פון א אייניקל פאר בעלזער רב שליט"א, אויפן וועג ארויס האט די רב באמערקט א חתן א יתום, און געטאנצט מיט איהם ארום 15 מינוט!. דערנאך האט די רב באמערקט זיין יונגערער ברודער א יונגל און האט געטאנצן מיט איהם אליין פאר נאך צעהן מינוט פארנט פון טויזנטער חסידים pic.twitter.com/hVyCNvcpS4
— Hasidic (@hasidic_1) June 12, 2022
Leader of Jerusalem cult found dead in prison cell
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| Women from the Ambash cult speak with reporters at the Knesset as they arrive to present their electoral slate to the Central Elections Committee on August 1, 2019. |
A polygamous cult leader was found dead in his cell at the Ayalon Prison in Ramle on Friday morning, the Israel Prisons Service said.
Paramedics that were rushed to the scene declared Daniel Ambash dead after resuscitation efforts had failed.
The prisons service says Ambash’s family was informed of his death and that the circumstances would be examined.
In 2013, Ambash was sentenced to 26 years in prison on 18 charges ranging from sexual offenses, abuse of minors, incarceration and sadistic violence in what has been described as one of the most shocking abuse cases in the country’s history.
He was slated to be freed in 2037. According to Channel 12 news, the parole board had been due to convene next week to deliberate Ambash’s request for an early release.
A Bratslav ultra-Orthodox Jew, Ambash headed what came to be known as the “Jerusalem cult.” He was married to six wives and had 14 children, who were all kept by Ambash and his assistants in slavery conditions, forcibly confined and routinely punished with rape, electric shocks and beatings.
According to the court ruling, on one occasion, Ambash took one of his wives outside the house, naked, in the middle of the night, and splashed water on her and dragged her by the hair. In another incident, he shoved the head of one of his wives into the toilet and flushed it as she suffocated.
He also raped his daughter on another occasion in front of his whole family, including several children, claiming it was “part of her duty in family life.”
The case was exposed in 2011 after one of Ambash’s wives spoke out about what was happening in the cult.
But most of his wives have never renounced Ambash. They still live together, view themselves as his wives and revere him, claiming the entire case against him was fabricated.
In 2018, four of them demanded that Israel grant them conjugal visits, claiming it was their “basic right” to meet Ambash and have more kids with him.
The request was largely denied, with the prisons service noting that the women are considered victims of an offense by the law and that their request was therefore invalid, according to the Walla news site. Ambash had appealed the decision.
The Israel Prisons Service also charged that Ambash was “taking advantage of his rights as a prisoner and maintaining control of his cult via phone calls.”
In 2019, the four wives officially registered as a political party to run in that year’s September elections, running on a political platform that advocated for individual freedom.
“We believe that if the Torah gives people the ability to choose their own life, the state has no place to intervene and prevent that. And we will fight for that right,” Ayelet Ambash, one of the four wives, said at the time, in an apparent reference to polygamous marriage.
Their party, Kama, which aimed to prevent government intervention in Israelis’ private lives, fell well short of the minimum vote total required to enter the Knesset.
Two More Iranian aerospace scientists die under mysterious circumstances
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| Mohammad Abdous, |
Two Iranian aerospace scientists died under mysterious circumstances just hours apart, according to reports by the state-controlled Fars outlet Monday.
On Sunday, Ali Kamani, a scientist who worked for the Iranian air force’s aerospace unit, was reportedly killed in a car crash in Khomein.
Iran’s Tasnim outlet hinted that the crash may not have been an accident, calling Kamani a “martyr” who died during a “mission to protect” Iran.
A day later, Fars reported that a second aerospace engineer working for the Iranian air force was killed while on a mission an air base in Semnan in northern Iran.
The second engineer was identified as Mohammad Abdous, who was reportedly working on the Iranian air force’s satellite program, drone aircraft, and ballistic missiles.
The Fars’ report did not elaborate on the circumstances of Abdous’ demise.
The two deaths follow a string of high-profile deaths of both Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps officers and Iranian scientists linked to the military’s aerospace unit.
Last month, Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a member of the IRGC's Quds Force in Syria, was shot dead outside of his Tehran home.
A second officer, Colonel Ali Esmailzadeh was found dead days later at his home.
In early June, Iranian missile engineer Ayoob Entezari was found dead in Yazd. According to some reports, Enterzari died after attending a dinner party. The host of the party allegedly fled the country shortly thereafter.
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Macy's Running a 100% Discount Sale.. Don't Miss it .. Send your Rebbetzin
Macy's is having another 100% discount sale. pic.twitter.com/qNITNMpeNU
— Anthony 🇮🇹🇺🇸 (@Antman0528) June 10, 2022
Israel has the highest population growth rate in the Western world
The Israeli real estate market will continue to climb in spite of inflation. 7 thoughts 👇
1. Simple supply and demand economics. In 2021 there were 63,000 construction starts, compared to at least 100,000 construction starts that the market needs to meet demand (according to the CEO of the Israeli Builders Association). True, you can take this number with a grain of salt but (see number 2 ...)
2. Israel has the highest population growth rate in the Western world. With over 3 children per mother on average, and with almost 40% of the population aged under 18, the next 20 years there will see many more singles, young couples and families that will need housing. And this without taking into account new immigrants and returning residents
3. The percentage of renters stands at 34%. That means 66% of the population are homeowners. In times of economic crisis (or in times of rising interest rates), investors are more available to sell investment assets. In contrast, homeowners who live in their own property will fight to keep it under their ownership. This means that only a third of the properties in the country may be sold for financial reasons only
4. Competition from investors abroad. There is no shortage of foreign investors vying for Israeli property, whether as holiday homes, investments or future residence - especially in high-demand real estate markets (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Netanya, Herzliya)
5. Extremely low mortgage risk in Israeli property market. The 2008 US real estate crisis occurred due to massive mortgage default in which people purchased real estate beyond their financial means due to extremely liberal mortgage terms on the part of the banks. Not here - Israeli banks minimize risk by demanding 30% down payments
6. Historical proof. In the last 40 years, the average price of an apartment in Israel has never dropped. At times the growth rate slowed, but the trend was always been on the rise. True, this provides no indication on the future but by comparison, the stock market's flagship index, the S&P 500, collapsed 6 times in that same period
7. Supply chain crisis driving up the price of construction materials. The war in Ukraine, the economic effects of the Corona, a decline in output of China's export market - all these and more have led to a spike in the price of basic raw materials. This drives up the price of building new buildings - regardless of the fluctuation in land prices
Tiger "shmeiger"
Duck vs tiger.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/dVYLgI02aO
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 7, 2022
If you are too lazy to pick it up, I'll just do it!
This is just a bear.. being a good citizen.. pic.twitter.com/WupQmIfuX4
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 11, 2022
Israeli firm develops radar which can ‘see’ through walls
Israel-based Camero-Tech company developed a next-generation portable, high-performance imaging system that can ‘see’ through walls.
According to a press release from Camero-Tech, it is launching the Xaver 1000 – the new generation of the company’s product line that offers unprecedented operational capabilities to military forces, law enforcement agencies, Intelligence units, and first responders.
The Xaver 1000 has an AI-based tracking algorithm of live targets and its own 3D ‘Sense-Through-The-Wall’ capability, enabling it to detect and ‘see’ people or static objects behind walls and obstacles. Live objects can be seen in high resolution down to the level of specific body parts. This includes whether an object is sitting, standing or lying down, even after they have been stationary for a long period of time.
The system also enables users to measure the height of objects and decide whether they are adults, children, or animals, resulting in a clear operational advantage and the ability to ‘step into the known’.
Operatable by a single user and ready for use with the push of a button, the Xaver 1000 is optimized for tactical and ISR operations, making this an essential system for military, law enforcement, search and rescue teams and intelligence units operating in various situations, including hostile urban environments and of natural disaster sites.
“The XaverTM 1000 determines the most suitable approach to ensure successful life-saving missions in a variety of operational scenarios, such as hostage rescue situations,” says Amir Beeri, CEO and founder of Camero. “A high-resolution 3D view and other powerful tools of the system provide an exceptional level of situational awareness. Being able to achieve a high level of sensitivity, the Xaver™ 1000 is a true game-changer for special forces and law enforcement teams conducting urban and rural operations that require reliable information regarding hidden live objects.”
The Xaver 1000 is controlled by an embedded 10.1’’ touchscreen display with a simple user interface for intuitive interpretation. The display also features easy menu navigation and integrated data recording and playback for post-mission analysis, training and debriefing. Completely radiation safe, the system meets human exposure international standards.
Saturday, June 11, 2022
US to lift negative COVID test requirement for air travelers
The Biden administration announced on Friday that it will remove the requirement for travelers to test negative for COVID-19 before entering the U.S.
The change will take place for air travelers entering the U.S. at midnight on Sunday, CNN reported.
The CDC decided the restrictions were no longer necessary after the travel industry asked for the rule change for the last few months, advocating that the measure was not needed “based on the science and data,” a senior administration source told CNN.
The restriction went into effect during early 2021, put in place by the Trump administration and then expanded by the Biden administration. It required air travelers entering the U.S., including American citizens, to provide a negative COVID-19 test before getting onto planes. U.S. land boarder crossings were not included in the regulation.
The measure was harming travel demand, the airline and travel industry had been telling the administration, pushing for the rule to be lifted. Politicians from both parties had been urging the administration to remove the requirement, saying it was not longer necessary and was negatively impacting the hospitality industry.
The CDC said that it will examine the move in three months in order to determine if it needs to be reinstated, according to CNBC.
Friday, June 10, 2022
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