Now things are really getting interesting 😳 Can’t wait to see how the woke mob tries to spin this!
— Gays Against Gr██mers (@againstgrmrs) October 11, 2022
Video from @/wakeupwithlinda on IG pic.twitter.com/NWQE2ragKX
“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
Now things are really getting interesting 😳 Can’t wait to see how the woke mob tries to spin this!
— Gays Against Gr██mers (@againstgrmrs) October 11, 2022
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Thank you for making me laugh, Terrance. This is good! listen until the end. https://t.co/Vkpyf6hek6
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) October 11, 2022
I think I figured out who Kamala's speech writer is... pic.twitter.com/QbYxZa4dst
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) October 11, 2022
What is she talking about? pic.twitter.com/7AYM45P8Zb
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 11, 2022
Brilliant commentary. pic.twitter.com/aaicoBNx6g
— Eric Matheny 🎙 (@EricMMatheny) October 11, 2022
Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Sukkot to hear the king of Jerusalem read aloud from the Torah.
In 2022, there’s no king and no Temple, and more than half of all Jews live far from Jerusalem — but the ritual is still inspiring Jews around the world to gather together. In fact, the tradition, known as hakhel, appears to be seeing a resurgence of popular interest.
In Northampton, Massachusetts, Abundance Farm will host an outdoor festival with tree planting, music, pickles and cider to mark the end of the seven-year cycle of the shmita or agricultural sabbatical year to which hakhel is tied.
At Mount Zion Temple, in St. Paul, Minnesota, community members will learn and share Torah verses that inspire them and move them to action.
Mitsui Collective, a Jewish community-building organization, is hosting an online “in-gathering” in honor of hakhel. Other congregations and communities will host events online and in person that include Torah study, social activities and reflection on the next seven years of Jewish life.
Beit Shemesh has a population of over 120,000 B"H. There is a small area in Beit Shemesh called "Bet Shemesh Bet" that is populated by a bunch of extremists. There are protests there practically every day, blocking traffic, burning trash bins, screaming "Naziis" at Traffic Police that are there to protect them.
This past week a female soldier was murdered by terrorists, and yesterday Ido Baruch, an IDF soldier was murdered while protecting a group of Yeshivah Boys that were marching in honor of Succos in the Shomron.
This did not stop hundreds of Chassidim that call themselves "aarahlach" from abusing and shouting "Nazi" at a young frum female IDF soldier that mistakingly walked into their neighborhood. They were hurling glass bottles and metal cans aiming for her head; she barely got out alive. The riots continued for hours, I know I was in traffic and couldn't move for hours.
So while Jewish children in uniform are dying to protect their fat "tuchis'" other "frum" Jews dressed in golden bekeshes and wearing racoon hats tore themselves out of shul to lynch other Jews, because they are in uniform.
זו תורה וזו שכרה
In a terrorist drive-by shooting which occurred near the community of Shavei Shomron in Samaria on Tuesday morning, an IDF soldier was shot and killed.
Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, a 21-year-old member of the Givati infantry’s brigade reconnaissance unit, was seriously injured in the shooting and taken to the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba where he was declared dead. Baruch was securing a march by local residents from Shavei Shomron to Sebastia, the site of the ancient city of Shomron.
Tali, a close friend of Baruch’s mother, remembered him as a “magical child full of love, values and generosity.”
“I had the privilege to work with him at a few events and saw how he made children happy. It is impossible to stop the tears and describe the pain.”
A former teacher of Baruch’s told the Walla news site: “Everyone who knew him, loved him.”
A Bar Mitzva celebration was held in Meah Shearim, for Shmuel Roth, the son of Noa Roth who is the oldest daughter of former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s grandson is a precocious student who completed the entire Shas Bavli at his Bar Mitzva party.
Shmuel studies at Darkei Shmuel a Talmud Torah affiliated with the Jerusalem Faction and named in memory of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach zts’l, the founder of the faction which broke off from Degel Hatorah and refuses any compromise on military service.
Shmuel’s melamed (teacher) said at the event that he has been teaching for ten years and has never encountered a child blessed with such genius and talent as Shmuel Roth. The melamed added that Shmuel was incredibly diligent and studied at all times including recess. He began studying Shas Bavli at the age of 10 and completed it at his Bar Mitzva three years later, a remarkable feat.
A Russian Jewish soldier whose sister lives in Israel has been taken captive in Ukraine, Ynet reported.
Sergey H., 31 years old and from St. Petersburg, was drafted into the Russian army at the end of September as part of the general draft. He did not have military training and had not previously served in the army. Prior to his enlistment in the army, Sergey, who does not have academic education, worked as a builder.
Sergey was immediately sent to the front lines as a private, and fell into captivity in the Lyman area, which the Ukrainian army had succeeded in retaking from the Russians.
Sergey's sister immigrated to Israel in April, two months after the war broke out. A second sister lives in Finland. Their mother died in St. Petersburg less than a year ago.
The sister who immigrated to Israel, Esther, said that she spoke to Ukraine's Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman, asking that he help her brother.
Rabbi Asman said that just before the holiday of Sukkot (the Festival of Tabernacles) began on Sunday evening, he held an emergency meeting with senior officials in Ukraine's special service, who are responsible for the issue of holding captives. Rabbi Asman offered to take custody of the Jewish soldier, as well as the other Jewish soldiers who may fall into captivity in Ukraine, and hopes to meet with Sergey in the near future.
According to Datali, a Russian-language Israeli site, nearly all of Sergey's company was killed, and the commander abandoned the unit and escaped towards Luhansk. Sergey survived by miracle but was caught by the armed Ukrainian forces on October 1. He was interrogated by the Ukrainians, who made contact with his sister Esther and sent her a video clip to prove that his health is good.
Journalist Shimon Breeman of Datali, who first reported on the issue, said that Rabbi Asman hopes to meet Sergey this week, adding that, "According to my information, the Jewish Russian who was taken into captivity is a unique case and the first of his kind."
"Prior to this there were thousands of Russian captives, but he is the first with documents to prove his Jewishness and also with a relative in Israel. He is not completely religious, but both he and his sister are Jews from their mother (their father is a Russian). This is a Jew who assimilated, without any Jewish education. His sister became religious in the St. Petersburg synagogue and today she lives near Jerusalem in a religious neighborhood. It was very hard to speak with his sister - she is suffering a real crisis, and she really needs help."
An IDF spokesperson has announced that the bodies of Private Binyamin Aryeh Eisenberg and Private Yitzhak Rubenstein have been found by the IDF unit for location of missing soldiers.
Eisenberg and Rubenstein were killed in the battles at Yad Mordechai during Israel's War of Independence in 1948, and their place of burial was not known. Their bodies were found after over a decade of intensive efforts by the IDF's unit for locating missing soldiers.
During the War of Independence, at the conclusion of the battle to protect Kibbutz Yad Mordechai on the night between May 23-24, 1948, just a few days after the State of Israel was declared and while evacuating a wounded comrade, a group of three Palmach fighters was taken into captivity. Among the group were Eisenberg, who was lying wounded on a stretcher; and Rubenstein and medic Libka Shefer, who were carrying Eisenberg's stretcher.
In 1952, then-IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren declared the three to be fallen soldiers whose place of burial was unknown.
Between 2012-2018, there has been an ongoing investigation to locate the soldiers' bodies, and it was discovered that in 1949, Shefer's body was located and buried in a mass grave in Nitzanim. This was confirmed in 2018, and Shefer's name was added to the list of names at the grave.
Recently, the investigation revealed that at the same time that Shefer's body was found and brought to burial in the mass grave at Nitzanim, Eisenberg's and Rubenstein's bodies were also found and buried in the mass grave at Nitzanim.
Eisenberg was born in Poland in 1927, and immigrated to Israel in 1946, on a ship of illegal immigrants. In 1947, he joined the Palmach, and he was among the defenders of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai during the War of Independence. He was killed while defending the kibbutz, on May 24, 1948.
Rubenstein was born in Ukraine (then Galicia) in 1913, and immigrated to Israel in 1938, on a ship of illegal immigrants. He joined the Palmach and was among the defenders of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, where he was killed during the War of Independence on May 24, 1948.
Eisenberg's and Rubenstein's families were notified Friday morning of the completion of the investigation.
In the coming weeks, a ceremony will be held to reveal their headstones, and their names will be added to the list of those buried in the mass grave at Nitzanim.
Major-General Yaniv Asor, who heads the manpower department, said, "Every Hebrew mother should know that we will not cease until we bring all our sons for burial in Israel and discover the place of burial of all our fallen whose place of burial is not known."
"The fighters of the generation of 1948 dreamed of the State and fought for its founding. Some of them are Holocaust survivors who fought with courage in fierce battles against the Arab armies, for the sake of the State of Israel's independence. Determining the grave of the fighters whose place of burial is not known, even 74 years after they fell, is a deep and authentic obligation that the nation of Israel and the IDF have.
"Today, the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces fulfill an ethical obligation to declare the graves of Binyamin Aryeh Eisenberg and Yitzhak Rubenstein at the mass grave at Nitzanim."
A 25-year-old Palestinian man, Ahmed Abu Maria, who fled to Israel and was granted asylum two years ago due to his sexual identity, was reportedly abducted and taken back to the West Bank city of Hebron, where he was beheaded yesterday.
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) October 6, 2022
May his memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/EDd5xf7IDl
New York Governor Kathy Hochul was photographed alongside a Democratic Party fundraiser with a history of sharing antisemitic social media posts, Fox News reported on Friday.
According to Fox, the photos of Hochul alongside Maher Abdelqader were taken at the Harvard Club fundraiser event in New York City last month and posted on his Twitter account.
Abdelqader – vice president of the New York City-based AI Engineers – removed the photos after Fox questioned Hochul’s campaign.
“A great fund raiser by a small group of entrepreneurs and business leaders at the prestigious Harvard Club of NYC for NYS Governor Kathleen Hochul,” Abdelqader wrote in his now-deleted tweet. “Governor Hochul is an American politician serving as the 57th Governor.”
Fox reported that Abelqader previously shared a video claiming that Jews are “satanic,” control the media, and questioned whether six million Jews really died in the Holocaust.
He also advocated for the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign while promoting posts that claimed Jews are not really from Israel.
New York’s gubernatorial election pits Hochul against Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is Jewish.
This morning, I took a look at my calendar to discover there are only 23 days until Israel’s national elections (and 30 until the US midterm, which is a different ball of knotted yarn). To mark this day, Ma’ariv and Panels Politics on Friday morning published a poll that points to an already established trend: while Likud is losing a few mandates compared to its standing in the summer, the right-wing bloc as a whole is increasing, and so, Benjamin Netanyahu should be able to forge a coalition government of (at least) 61 Knesset seats.
The US has stocked up on radiation sickness drugs just weeks after Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons against the West.
Officials said the deal — worth $290million — was ‘part of ongoing work’ and ‘has not been accelerated’ by the Kremlin leader's escalating rhetoric.
The US Health and Human Services (HHS) - whose motto is to 'improve the health, safety, and well-being of America - announced the purchase of romiplostim Tuesday.
Sold under the brand name Nplate, it is used to reduce bleeding caused by acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness.
Putin issued a chilling warning late last month that he was prepared to use Russia’s nuclear arsenal to protect Ukrainian territory annexed after sham referendums.
But the US Health and Human Services (HHS) said the drug order was ‘part of ongoing work’ and ‘has not been accelerated’ by Putin’s warning.
However, the timing will likely raise questions given that this is the first time the US Government has bought Nplate.
It is unclear how many doses the order covers, but the drug normally fetches between $1,000 and $2,500 per dose.
Israeli support is growing for the possibility of a ministerial post for right-wing Otzma Yehudit chair and MK Itamar Ben Gvir, as seen in the latest poll by Israel Hayom and Ma’agar Mochot conducted at the start of the week — but the deadlock between the right and left remains.
The question arises in light of Israel’s upcoming national elections on November 1 — the fifth time Israelis are being asked to cast their ballots in less than four years.
In the poll, 44 percent of those surveyed responded that Ben Gvir’s appointment as a government minister would be “legitimate.”
The administration of US President Joe Biden has expressed its adamant opposition to any appointment of Itamar Ben Gvir as a minister in the next government.