Rich white wine drinking liberals cheering as illegal aliens leave their sanctuary city escorted by the national Guard. Every state should be using the NG to deport illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/9IVLe6zyyQ
— Col. Rob Maness ret. 1776 🇺🇸 (@RobManess) September 17, 2022
A hundred and twenty-five years ago, Theodor Herzl failed in his efforts to persuade ultra-Orthodox leaders to join the Zionist movement. Fifty years later, after the Holocaust and before the establishment of the State of Israel, the political leaders of the Agudat Israel movement decided not to remain in isolation, signed the Declaration of Independence and joined the Israeli political system. Today, 74 years later, we are at a crossroads regarding the question of isolation or integration of the ultra-Orthodox community into Israeli society. Any decision will have critically significant consequences not only for the ultra-Orthodox community but for the entirety of Israeli society and the country’s economy.
Fundamental to ultra-Orthodox society is its isolationist or “enclave culture.” The Haredi community fights for its autonomy in order to shield itself from the temptations of modernity and secular life, and focus exclusively on strictly religious life. This enclave culture poses five main challenges for Israeli policymakers.
In 1944, Faye Schulman, a young Jewish partisan, emerged from the forest into her hometown of Lenin, Poland, on a mission to burn houses the Nazis were using as their wartime offices. One of those houses, she soon discovered, was her own.
As she wandered through her childhood home, she spied an old potato peeler still on the floor. Schulman thought of the rest of her family — already murdered by the Nazis by that point — and realized, even if she survived the war herself, that she would never be able to live in that house again.
“Burn it,” she told her fellow partisans. She lit the match herself. Then she posed for a photograph among the ashes.
A poll by Prof. Camil Fuchs published by Channel 13 News on Friday gives the Netanyahu bloc 60 seats, an increase of one compared to a poll published on Wednesday.
As for the Joint List, which split right before the Knesset slates were submitted, Hadash-Ta'al wins 4 seats, but Balad falls below the electoral threshold with 1.2 percent support.
Likud increases by one seat to 32 compared to a poll earlier this week, followed by Yesh Atid, which again wins 24 seats.
The third largest party is still Religious Zionism, which receives 13 seats, unchanged from Wednesday's poll, while Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party has 12 seats. Shas wins 8 seats and United Torah Judaism wins 7 seats, both continuing to maintain their strength.
Labor and Meretz again win five seats each and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu remains stable with 6 seats. Mansour Abbas's Ra’am Party rounds out the list with 4 seats.
The Jewish Home, under Ayelet Shaked, remains below the electoral threshold with 2 percent support, as is Eli Avidar's Free Israel Party, with 0.4 percent.
A live look at the people of Martha’s Vineyard today pic.twitter.com/A6bCAXtZvm
— Frederal Bureau of Investigation (@Grand_handsomer) September 15, 2022
If 50 constitutes a humanitarian crisis in Martha’s Vineyard, what the hell is 4.2 MILLION? https://t.co/zdMshotEVW
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 15, 2022
They don’t want them. pic.twitter.com/qJFJk0onIJ
— NYCHomoCon (@NYCHomoCon) September 15, 2022
Fun Fact: The Obamas' 7 bedroom/8.5 bath Martha's Vineyard home could easily house all 50 illegal immigrants that were sent there.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) September 15, 2022
Martha’s Vineyard, population 15k, is freaking out over 50 migrants.
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) September 15, 2022
Del Río, population 36k, encountered *28,000* migrants in October 2021. pic.twitter.com/dkc38rNfAg
12 Stunning Martha’s Vineyard Vacation Homes With Plenty Of Room For Illegal Migrants https://t.co/09jzawzw9I
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 16, 2022
Senior Ashkenazic rabbanim in Eretz Yisroel have signed onto a letter decrying the recent practice of shuls making “musical selichos” with singers and instruments.
Led by the Ponavez Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Hagaon Rav Gershon Edelstein, the signers of the kol koreh wrote that those who engage in musical selichos are being “poretz geder” and turn selichos from a serious reflective moment into an “evening of entertainment.”
Besides for Rav Edelstein, the letter was signed by Rav Tzvi Weber, Rav Yehuda Silman, Rav Yitzchok Mordechai Rubin, and Rav Shariel Rosenberg.
🚨Breaking: Two migrant buses from Southern Border just arrived outside Kamala Harris residence at Naval Observatory in DC. pic.twitter.com/41QnF3p16W
— Real Mac Report (@RealMacReport) September 15, 2022
A recent Fox News investigation found that the Anti-Defamation League’s educational and “anti-bias” programs, which influence millions of American children, educators and officials, promote far-left and critical race theory concepts including “white privilege” and “systemic racism.”
The materials also promote groups such as the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter, despite the fact that these organizations and their leaders often take virulent Jew- and Israel-hating positions, and express support for the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
ADL programs call denying white privilege a “biased attitude,” encourage white children to view themselves as “oppressors” and include an article indicating that white women are “justly seen as oppressive” and “enjoy unearned skin privilege,” among other egregious claims.
This is a longstanding problem. Six years ago, our group, the Zionist Organization of America, documented that multiple ADL lesson plans encouraged students to join BLM protests in Ferguson, Missouri. At these same protests, calls were made for ending Israel’s existence, calling it an apartheid, genocidal state. The ADL further promoted BLM while ignoring the BLM/Movement for Black Lives organizations’ anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic platform.
JNS Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Tobin pointed out that the ADL’s announcement following the Fox investigation that it would review educational content “misaligned "with ADL’s values was “blatantly dishonest.” This was the case because the ADL’s woke leftist educational materials are, in fact, aligned with ADL’s woke far-left values, promoted under ADL CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt.
Tobin noted that the ADL publicly endorsed BLM and its racist “equity” agenda, defended anti-Semitic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), downplayed left-wing anti-Semitism, hired an outreach director who calls Jews racists and worked with tech firms to promote internet censorship.
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22 years after the murders of Rabbi Binyamin Kahane and his wife Talia, the Israel Prisons Service early release board is considering granting an early release to the murderer, Naji Abu Khamid, after Abu Khamid requested a hearing claiming ill health.
The terrorist was convicted not only of the murders of the Kahanes but also of a string of other offenses including the murder of Gadi Rejuan, who was killed in the Atarot industrial zone. Abu Khamid was sentenced to seven life sentences and a further 50 years behind bars.
The families of the victims were only very recently informed of the date of the hearing and both the son of Rabbi Kahane and the daughter of Gadi Rejuan have appealed to have the hearing postponed. Kahane and Rejuan are being represented by attorneys Ofir Steiner and Haim Bleicher of the Honenu organization, who are also demanding that their clients be permitted to make statements at the hearing against the early release of the man who murdered their parents.
Following their request, the Prisons Service agreed to postpone the hearing which would otherwise have taken place next Sunday and will set a new date for the convenience of the families.
Rabbi Ben Zion Mutzafi, a leading Sephardic rabbi, told a student not to eat the traditional apple dipped in honey on Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), Kikar Hashabbat reported.
On Wednesday night, one of Rabbi Mutzafi's students asked him, "Dear honored rabbi, do Sephardic Jews have a custom to eat an apple in honey on Rosh Hashanah? Because my grandfather said no."
In his response, Rabbi Mutzafi wrote, "'Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will inform you.' (Deuteronomy 32:7) The grandfather is absolutely right. To this day, we the sons of the communities of the east do not have a custom to eat honey on Rosh Hashanah. Rather, we cook some type of fruits or vegetables in sugar, and eat it."
He explained, "According to the Kabbalah, honey represents the trait of justice, which should not be aroused on Rosh Hashanah, because its color is yellowish gold. Its numerical value is also reminiscent [of this], with the letters shin and vav (equaling 306) from the letters of [the word] shofar, which are sweetened by the shofar blasts, and with 14 knuckles of the fingers which hold the shofar, which [together with shin and vav] are the numerical equivalent of shin and kaf (320), which are judgements as mentioned in Edera Rabba in the Holy Zohar. And [this is] as our teachers the Arizal (Rabbi Yitzhak Luria - ed.) and the Rashshash (Rabbi Shalom Sharabi - ed.) wrote, and you can look this up in Shofar Betzion."
Each of the Hebrew letters has a numerical value, called gematriya. The first ten letters represent the numbers 1-10, with the next letters representing 20, 30, 40, and so on, until the letter kuf, which has a value of 100. The three final letters, reish, shin, and taf, have numerical values of 200, 300, and 400, respectively.
US President Donald Trump offered Jordan’s King Abdullah II control over Judea and Samaria in January 2018, according to a bombshell report published Wednesday by The Washington Post.
The previously unreported offer was reported in a new book on the Trump residency due to be published next week, written by the husband-and-wife journalist team of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.
The Jordanian monarch apparently didn’t react well to the offer.
“I thought I was having a heart attack,” Abdullah told an American friend in 2018, according to the report. “I couldn’t breathe. I was bent doubled-over.”
Abdullah has had endless problems with his majority-Palestinian Authority Arab population, the newspaper noted.
According to the book, Trump thought he would be doing Abdullah a favor, “not realizing that it would destabilize his country.”
Former spy Jonathan Pollard is set to remarry, with the couple poised to make a formal announcement on their engagement.
Pollard, 68, got engaged to Rivka, a Jerusalemite and mother of seven, last week, but made no public statement regarding the event.
The couple are slated to make a public announcement sometime after the funeral of IDF Major Bar Falah, who was shot and killed during a gun battle with Arab terrorists in Samaria overnight.
On Tuesday, Pollard attended the Bar Mitzvah of Shahar Dagan, son of Samaria Regional Council chief Yossi Dagan.
In January, Pollard’s late wife Esther passed away, following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Pollard and his first wife, Anne, divorced in the late 1980s.
The official announcement reads:
How can I repay the Lord for all of his bountiful deals towards me? (Psalm 116 12).
With praise and thanks to G-d, we are excited to announce our engagement
We are full of gratitude to you, our friends and family members and our dear children for your love and hugs and first and foremost to Esther, may she rest in peace,. who in her infinite love even recognized us and allowed this miracle to happen. Her memory will always be with us.
The wedding will take place, G-d willing, in two months, after the High Holidays.
Queen Elizabeth has been eulogized by countless politicians and other leading figures across the globe. But in his tribute to the late monarch in the House of Lords, Baron David Wolfson used a new method of talking about the significance of her death: explaining a pillar of Jewish mysticism.
In a six-minute speech on Friday, Wolfson, a Conservative who served as a justice minister under Boris Johnson, walked his peers through several aspects of Jewish tradition — including gematria, the Jewish practice of finding meaning through the numerical value of words.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration’s failed border policies.
Flights to the upscale island enclave in Massachusetts were part of an effort to “transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations,” said Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ communications director.
While DeSantis’ office didn’t elaborate on their legal status, many migrants who cross the border illegally from Mexico are temporarily shielded from deportation after being freed by U.S. authorities to pursue asylum in immigration court — as allowed under U.S law and international treaty — or released on humanitarian parole.
Massachusetts’ Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, said he was in touch with local officials and that short-term shelter was being provided.
State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha’s Vineyard, tweeted: “Our island jumped into action putting together 50 beds, giving everyone a good meal, providing a play area for the children, making sure people have the healthcare and support they need. We are a community that comes together to support immigrants.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began busing thousands of migrants to Washington in April and recently added New York and Chicago as destinations. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has been busing migrants to Washington since May. Passengers must sign waivers that the free trips are voluntary.
DeSantis, who is mentioned as potential presidential candidate, appears to be taking the strategy to a new level by using planes and choosing Martha’s Vineyard, whose harbor towns that are home to about 15,000 people are far less prepared than New York or Washington for large influxes of migrants.
The move is likely to delight DeSantis’ supporters who deride Democrat-led, immigrant-friendly “sanctuary” cities and anger critics who say he is weaponizing migrants as pawns for political gain.
The Florida Legislature appropriated $12 million to transport “illegal immigrants” from the state consistent with federal law, Fenske said.
“States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies,” Fenske said.
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.@danielsgoldman SHAME ON YOU!
— Yeshiva Graduate Yossi Schlussel (@YossiSchlussel) September 13, 2022
If it weren't for Yeshiva Graduates you'd lose
Gratitude isn't a virtue, it's the utmost important trait.
You were elected for the sole purpose of defending your constituents when needed most. Instead, you chose to speak out and humiliate us. pic.twitter.com/wwKzoLq4Jx
She has no idea what she's talking about...😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/d2Td7mxnl6
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) September 13, 2022
