Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever settle dispute over Israeli ice cream

 

Unilever said Thursday that its litigation with the independent board of Ben & Jerry’s over the sale of its Israeli ice cream business has “been resolved.”

The company did not provide details of how the litigation had been resolved.

Unilever in June sold its Ben & Jerry’s ice cream business in Israel and the West Bank to its local licensee, Avi Zinger, for an undisclosed sum. The next month, Ben & Jerry’s filed a lawsuit against a Unilever subsidiary to try to block the sale.

The Vermont-based ice cream brand said last year it no longer wanted to sell its products in the occupied West Bank because it was inconsistent with its values. Ben & Jerry’s products have been for sale in Israel for decades.

In an updated lawsuit filed in September, Ben & Jerry’s said it was seeking damages and wanted the trademarks returned. The company also asked a judge to stop Zinger from selling the ice cream in the West Bank.

Ben & Jerry’s declined to comment and Ben & Jerry’s independent board did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“I am pleased that the litigation between Unilever and the independent Board of Ben & Jerrys has been resolved,” Avi Zinger said in a statement on Thursday.

Chareidim Riot Like Arabs in Bet Shemesh "Bet" Throwing Stones on Buses with children inside and Putting Trash Bins on Fire .Rabbanim Refuse to Condemn them!

 

As I explained previously, Beit Shemesh is huge with a population of over 120,000 bl"eh. 

There is a neighborhood that is called Beit Shemesh Bet, where the majority of the residents are extremists. 

If you met them one on one, they are the nicest guys but when they are together, they are dangerous, just like a match and a powder keg.

About two weeks ago, a couple of these guys decided to take a bus to Yerushlayim and burn down a store that sold Kosher cell phones, that refused to pay the Chareidie Mafia... "bakshish" bribe money!

There was a family of twelve living upstairs on top of the store, and they barely got out with their lives; the entire store burned to a crisp.

After an investigation, the Zionists were able to identify who the "tzaddikim" were by examining the nearby "tumedikeh" video cameras. They discovered that the arsonists lived in Beit Shemesh Bet!

They arrested the arsonists who should have been charged with attempted murder, but the cursed Zionist judge who had misplaced mercy on these "achzorim" only held them for arson. 

Since their arrest, there has been violent protests every single night, where grown men and bochrim block traffic in their very own communities for hours on end,  to try to get the judge to release them. 

No one would actually care except that there are wedding halls in this neighborhood, and people from other surrounding areas need to go there if they want to go to the simchas. Some stopped going to simchas to avoid the hassle. 

 The residents or people, if you want to call them that, by in large support these terrorists, since they do nothing to stop them, they just munch on "garinim" and gaze at them like they would at monkeys in a zoo. 

Last night they took these riots to a new level, having learned from their Palestinian cousins, that to make the news, you have to step up your game, so they threw rocks at the windows of the buses that were just sitting there, trapped like mice in a cat's jaws, with innocent, men, women and children and even infants sitting inside... For some color, they put the garbage bins on fire..

Hashem must have been watching, because miracle of miracles, no one got hurt.

While this was going on, a group of maybe 100, hired taxis to take them to a brand-new neighborhood in Beit Shemesh, called Beit Shemesh Dalet to continue their mischief. 

Beir Shemesh Dalet will eventually be the largest neighborhood in Beit Shemesh, and these hooligans trying to discourage Dati Leumi Jews from moving in (there are hundreds of Dati Leumi families living there already) protest there every night and scribble "tzniyois" graffiti on the brand-new walls.

Last night they stepped up the game over there too and started spitting on the girls and grown woman that walked by and proceeded to draw Palestinian flags in the brand-new elevators. 

Spitting for them is nothing new, in 2011 they spat and verbally abused a little girl going to school. They got a lot of flak for this huge Chillul Hashem and to stop the national outrage they marched out one of their Capos, a guy by the name of Moshe Friedman who brazenly made a statement denying the entire incident, though he did admit to "yelling" at this little girl, even though there were others who witnessed the incident.

He said at that time that they would continue to yell and harass the little girls because the school she attended was in their neighborhood. The school is actually on the border, (I know, I lived around the corner) and even if it was in their neighborhood, why should a little frum girl going to yeshiva in Israel, in a Jewish country, be yelled and screamed at? And why can't a frum Dati School be anywhere in Israel? If they don't like it, they should move to Ramallah,

In Dalet, there are none of their schools there yet, B"H, and yet they take taxis to spit and yell at girls and Jewish mothers, that don't even live in their neighborhood.

The "spitter" was arrested last night but the Zionist judge let the "shtick drek" off with a warning.

The residents in this new neighborhood, seeing that the Zionists police wouldn't do a damn thing, have decided to fight back, and are taking the law into their own hands and now there is a war every night in Dalet, and I hope no one gets killed.

The protestors don't even live there, they live in BET! 

I think that the Beit Shemesh community should do the following:

(A) Stop shopping in BET, let the shopkeepers know, that things can go two ways

(B) DALET residents should jot down the license plate numbers of the vehicle transporting these vermin and call the Taxi companies and tell them they will not be responsible for what happens to their tires

(C) Sue them personally! 

Do people really hate Charedim?"

by Rationalist Judaism Blog 

I’m always astounded at the frequent charedi claim that the widespread antipathy towards them is motivated by some sort of deep-rooted hatred of Judaism/ Hashem/ Torah. Some people describe it straight-out as antisemitism.

Really? Is there no other possible reason why resent charedim? You can't conceive of anything else?

Americans on alert as tech-savvy criminals use Apple AirTag to stalk, steal

 

Strange chirping sounds and alerts on iPhones have put some Americans on high alert over the last year and a half as they try to figure out why an unknown device is tracking their every move.

 It’s one of the latest crime trends that tech-savvy criminals are using to carry out car thefts and stalkings, which has pushed police departments across the nation to warn residents to watch out for the new tactic.

 "In a traditional stalking case, typically you have people who are making contact or unwanted contact with a victim, repeatedly,"

 Dearborn, Michigan, police Sgt. James Isaacs told Fox 2 earlier this year.

 "They're following them where they work, where they go to school, where they are going to eat. Using the AirTag is just another way for them to do that in a more surreptitious way." 

 Dearborn is among the slew of police departments that have warned the public since last year to be on high alert for criminals using Apple AirTags to steal or illegally follow people. 

 Apple released AirTags in April of 2021 as the latest way to find lost personal items such as keys or handbags, and billed with the instructions "Ping It. Find It." AirTag owners can clip the small disc-shaped device to something they often misplace, and simply ask Siri to track the AirTag, which has a built-in speaker that chirps when engaged, or use an iPhone to track its exact location.

Discovery of King Hezekiah’s Inscriptions

 

Archaeologist Prof. Gershon Galil on Wednesday night revealed on Channel 14 what they believe to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time in Israel, which they say presents a breakthrough in the study of the history of Israel in the biblical period.

As Prof. Galil put it: “I managed to decipher five new monumental royal inscriptions of King Hezekiah of Judah, which together include dozens of lines and hundreds of letters. The inscriptions mention the name of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and summarize his main actions in the first seventeen years of his reign, among them, the quarrying of Nikbat Ha’Shiloah and its pool; the ritual reform; the conquest of Philistia; and his accumulation of great wealth.”

The most crucial aspect of his discovery, according to Galil, is the fact that “the inscriptions indicate the exact date on which the Ha’Shiloah project was completed: 2 Tammuz, year 17 of Hezekiah, or 709 BCE.”

According to him, “It is now clear that the chronology dating the start of Hezekiah’s reign in 726 BCE is to be preferred,” which was the point of his 1996 book, “The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah.”

Chareidie Who spit on Women and drew Palestinian Flag Arrested Finally

 

משטרת בית שמש עצרה אדם חרדי בחשד שצייר את דגל פלסטין ורשם 'ציונים החוצה' ובהמשך ירק על אישה

אתמול (שלישי) עצרה משטרת בית שמש תושב העיר בחשד שצייר את דגל פלסטין עם הכיתוב "ציונים החוצה" על דגל מעלית.

עוד עולה כי באירוע נוסף פגש אישה וירק עליה תוך כדי שהוא מקלל אותה. בית משפט השלום החליט בדיון הבוקר לשחרר את החשוד למעצר בית.

בפתח הדיון בבית משפט השלום בירושלים שם ביקשה המשטרה להאריך את מעצרו, אמר נציג המשטרה שמדובר בעצור שנעצר על בסיס צו והוא נחשד ע"פ החשד בשני אירועים.

האירוע בגינו הוצא צו המעצר לחשוד הגיע בעקבות האירוע בו על פי החשד הוא שם דגל של פלסטין במעלית ורשם "ציונים החוצה".

כאמור, באירוע נוסף על פי החשד פגש באישה וירק עליה תוך שהוא מקלל אותה. לאחר שבעלה של האישה הגיע למקום, המשיב נמלט מהמקום.

המשיב נחקר-לגבי האירוע הראשון עם האישה, המשיב הודה כי היה לו עימות עם אישה, אך טען כי היא קיללה אותו והוא אמר לה "איכסה" וכי הוא אויים ע"י בעלה באמצעות סכין.

עורך הדין רועי פוליטי המייצג את החשוד אמר בדיון כי יש שני אירועים כאשר אחד מהם, הוא השחתת פני מקרקעין. לטענת עורך הדין, העבירה היא בטח לא עבירה שמקימה עילת מסוכנות אם הדברים נכונים.

על המקרה השני אמר עורך דינו של החשוד כי "אם הם שמעו ממנו שאיימו עליו בסכין ולא קרה שום דבר מעבר לזה זה חמור ביותר. האישה והבעל לא נחקרו תחת אזהרה אני מניח ולמעשה מי שאמור להיות עצור נמצא בחוץ. לאור הנסיבות, חומרת העניין, חלוף הזמן והחשד הסביר הנמוך, אבקש לשחרר אותו בתנאים".

בסיום הדיון החליט השופט לשחרר את החשוד למעצר בית בן - 4 ימים ומספר תנאים נוספים

New Survey Says that 80 percent of Charedim use the internet

 

A new survey conducted by the Israeli Internet Union and the Haredi Institute for Policy Research has released its latest findings on internet use among Israel's haredi population, relating to the year 2021. The survey shows that around 80 percent of haredim use the internet, even though around half have no home internet access.

Haredim from the Lithuanian stream use the internet more than Chassidim or Sephardim, while Sephardim are more likely than the other two haredi streams to access the internet via a mobile phone, and haredi women are more likely to access the internet via a mobile phone than haredi men are.

The survey also revealed the main concerns limiting internet use among haredim. Topping the list is the fear of becoming addicted, followed by worries of time-wasting and concern of the detrimental impact on children. Haredim are not particularly concerned that use of the internet will impact their family's matchmaking prospects or getting their children accepted into schools.

The Death of the Baal Teshuva Movement?

 

When Jews left Judaism and Orthodoxy in droves during the 1800s and early 1900s, the great sages of the generation took strong action. Great sages, from the great Chafetz Chaim to several Lubavitcher Rebbes, From Sarah Schnirer to the Alter of Novardhok and R’ Meir Shapiro, addressed the problems, did their best to implement improvements and remedies and fought heroically to fill the historic role Jewish leaders have taken throughout the generations to preserve Yiddishkeit through the countless challenges we have faced as a people.

They were not labeled as anti-Charedi for not towing party line or saying that everything is perfect; they acknowledged the problems and addressed them.

This being said, it is important we acknowledge the new reality of our generation, and that is that the Baal Teshuva movement, as we knew it is dead. It is no longer here. This is not just something that has to do with the world of Jewish outreach, it also can tell us a lot about the state of orthodoxy, and the rapidly changing world we are living in.

Elaine Mehler 56 from Englewood Drowns in Biscayne Bay in Florida

 

A 56 year old Englewood Orthodox Jewish woman drowned yesterday afternoon while swimming in the waters of Biscayne Bay.

 56 year old Elaine Mehler, an employee at Three Pillars Recruiting, was taking part in a company retreat and was on a boat near Miami’s Jungle Island when she decided to go for a swim sometime after 4 PM.

Witnesses said that she disappeared in the water, prompting calls to both 911 and the Coast Guard called to help locate the missing woman.

Mehler was located near Jungle Island at approximately 5:15 PM and airlifted to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.

Chesed Shel Emes worked through the night to preserve kavod hames and to arrange for Mehler to be transported back to New Jersey on Wednesday evening.

The funeral will be held on Thursday with burial to follow in Israel.

Beit Shemesh Residents Fed up With the Protestors Beat the Living Daylights Out of Them

 

Why are Kosher Food Vendors Ripping off Frum Families Who Cannot afford these Crazy High Prices

 

Look around at any Jewish neighborhood and you’ll find families struggling. Not one or two, but dozens. I’m talking about families not being able to cough up the money to keep their homes heated. And some can’t even buy food.

The food part is what troubles me most. It’s not a secret that inflation has taken a chunk out of everyone’s bank accounts. Everything we need to buy is more expensive; from cheaper items to large expenses, costs have soared for everyone. But this problem appears to be much more acute in the frum community.

Take a look at food prices. The prices of eggs, chicken, meat, dairy – literally everything – has shot up way beyond the amount that prices have gone up in non-kosher supermarkets. Yes, everyone is paying higher prices, but why are we paying 20% more than the already inflation-affected prices in Walmart, ShopRite, and Costco?

What really needs to be asked, and I don’t intend to create a firestorm, is: are kosher food manufacturers using inflation as an excuse to jack up prices well beyond what they need to stay profitable? Have they found a way to enrich themselves off the backs of hardworking, struggling fellow Jews?

I could be wrong. Perhaps they have no option, for whatever reason, but to raise their prices beyond what non-kosher stores are hiking them to. I can’t say for sure. But if that is true, I’d like to know why and I want to know how it can be fixed. There are too many families unable to put food on the table for this crisis to be ignored. There are too many families relying on Tomchei Shabbos for us not to demand answers.

Chaim F. – Lakewood, NJ

Moshe "langeh booooord" Isenberg Refuses to Give his wife a Get

 

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Elka Rothman, Haredi Matriarch of 2,000 Offspring, Dies at 97

 

Amram Blau 

Elka Rothman, daughter of the late anti-Zionist founder of Neturei Karta, Rabbi Amram Blau, passed away in her home at Batei Broida in Jerusalem at age 97, leaving behind 13 children and some 2,000 grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, whose own grandchildren are in the process of getting married.

Rabbi Blau’s first wife, Hinda (née Weber), died in 1963, and due to a shrapnel injury, he was not allowed halachically to marry a woman who was Jewish from birth. He thus married a convert in 1965, Ruth Ben-David, who was 26 years younger than him.

Thousands of her offspring attended Elka Rothman’s funeral procession. She was born in 1925 and eventually married Rabbi Israel Rothman, who passed away in 1984.

Her neighbors and family members recalled her as a righteous woman who was especially concerned with making every Jew feel welcome in her home. Jerusalemites used to say that Elka was the grandmother of half of Jerusalem, and as a result, her name appeared every week on invitations to celebrations in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. It got to the point where printing shop owners would ask every customer, “With or without Elka?”

She was buried on Har Hazeisim

Williamsburg Being Duped by Their Rebbes & Askanim to Attend a Dinner In Honor of Democrats on "Chuf Alef Kislev" December 15

 

The typical Chassidisher Yid living in Williamsburg, knows nothing on what is going on behind their backs and how they are being misled by the Askanim and even their Rebbes. 

They, just like their grandparents back in Hungary and Romania are being led to be slaughtered like sheep. 

When I say slaughtered, I mean spiritually. 

Every child in Williamsburg knows that both Satmar Brothers hate each other's guts, but what they don't know is that these brothers and their askanim, colluded in a scheme to destroy the Chinuch of the "tinokas shel bais rabban," in order to get Federal and State grants.

To facilitate this massive "Chillul Hashem" they called for a dinner on December 15 to honor the leaders of the Democrat Party, which will include Senator Schumer. 

All those Democrat leaders have voted for laws that are directly detrimental to Jewish Values. They have voted to mandate having LGBT agendas, and subjects that include introducing and allowing  transgender woke ideas to the holy vulnerable innocent heimishe children. 

The askanim and the rebbes have sold their souls to these degenerate politicians all for Federal and State funds.

The Headline above the "Kol Korah" in a message to the leaders, reads:

Hypocrites, Judenrat, Kapos

Ben-Gvir Tells the US what to do with their "demand for 'accountability'"

 

National Security Minister-designate MK Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) pushed back Tuesday morning, after the US State Department called for “accountability” following the accidental shooting of a Palestinian Arab teenager during a gun battle between IDF forces and Arab terrorists in the northern Samaria city of Jenin.

“The comments by the American government are distressing,” Ben-Gvir said.

“When hundreds of bullets were fired by terrorists at IDF soldiers and Border Police officers, we cannot judge our soldiers as if they are working in a laboratory situation.”

“Without a doubt, the teenage girl’s death is a tragedy, but there is also no doubt that any other army in the world would have completed the kind of operation we carried out in Jenin with dozens of hostiles killed, and not with measured, pinpoint operations.”

“I call on the residents of Jenin and the civilian population there not to leave their homes when terrorists are shooting at IDF soldiers. I give my backing to the IDF soldiers and Border Police officers. They have the right to defend themselves.”

On Monday, State Department spokesperson Ned Price called for “accountability” following the death of a 16-year-old Palestinian Arab girl during Sunday night’s clashes in Jenin.

“We do express our profound condolences to the family of Jana Zakarneh, the young teenage girl who was killed. This – it is a tragic incident. It’s a heartbreaking incident any time you hear of a civilian being killed in these types of operations.”

“We understand the IDF is undertaking an investigation into what happened. We hope to see accountability in this case. I did note that outgoing Prime Minister Lapid did offer his condolences to the family of Jana Zakarneh, and we note that that her tragic death comes in the context of the escalating violence in the West Bank that we’ve noted and lamented for some time now,” he added.

“It is this alarming increase in Palestinian and Israeli deaths and injuries, including injuries to numerous children and now the death of a young Palestinian teenager – we reiterate the need for all parties to take steps to de-escalate the situation. It’s vital that the parties themselves take urgent action to prevent even greater loss of life,” said Price.

The IDF has said Zakarneh was likely killed by an IDF sniper who mistook her for a terrorist, due to her proximity to a group of terrorists during the Jenin gun battle Monday.

Just in time for Chanukah! Rare wood box containing silver coins from the reign of Antiochos IV found in an excavation

 

Evidence for a dramatic moment in the history of the Jewish people was uncovered in the Judean Desert:

A rare wooden box containing a small hoard of 15 silver coins, dated to the days leading up to the Maccabean Revolt.

The box was hidden in Muraba‘at Cave in the Darageh Stream Nature Reserve about 2,200 years ago, and it was discovered in excavations carried out there last May.

The coin hoard has since been researched, and it will be exhibited to the public over Hannukah in the Hasmonean Museum in Modi‘in, in the context of Israel Heritage Week that takes place on Hannukah.

The rescue excavation was carried out in Muraba‘at Cave in March–May 2022 in the framework of the Judean Desert Excavation and Survey Project run by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Archaeological Office for the Military Administration of Judea and Samaria, in cooperation with the Ministry for Jerusalem and Heritage.

Among the many finds, the unique lathe-turned wooden box was discovered in a crack in the cave.

When the lid was removed, it turned out that the upper part of the box was full of packed earth and small stones. Below this earth layer, a large piece of purple woolen cloth was found, covering the 15 silver coins that were arranged with pieces of sheep’s wool in the lower part of the box.

Incredible voice of a Child singer

These are voices we don’t get to hear every day.

 Brothers Moshe and Yehuda Brezel perform Avraham Fried’s Shtaar Hatanaim and Yossele Rosenblatt’s famous Shir Hamaalos.

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Mossad Director Reveals Last Telegram Of Israeli Spy Eli Cohen

 

Mossad Director David Barnea on Monday publicly revealed for the first time the last telegram the intelligence agency received from spy Eli Cohen prior to his capture in Syria.

The telegram, which was revealed during the dedication of the Eli Cohen Museum in Herzliya, is dated Feb. 19, 1965, the day on which Cohen is believed to have been captured. In it, Cohen reports on a Syrian General Staff meeting held the previous evening with the participation of then Syrian President Amin al-Hafez.

“I will honor this holy place and reveal, for the first time, following in-depth research that was carried out recently, that Eli Cohen was not captured due to the quantity of his transmissions or pressure from headquarters to transmit too frequently,” said Barnea. “Eli Cohen was captured because his transmissions were simply intercepted and triangulated by the enemy. This is now an intelligence fact.”

Cohen’s capture has been the subject of conjecture over the years, with some arguing that he was caught because the Mossad demanded that he transmit too much information, compromising his position.

“Eli Cohen was among our best agents,” said Barnea. “He continues to influence us and instill in us a fighting spirit, courage, values and devotion—even from the depths of history,” said Barnea. “He is a source of inspiration not only to today’s agents but to all Mossad employees in their various positions. We all learn from him, even today. From his Zionism, his sacrifice and his dedication.”

"Herzl is our George Washington and Thomas Jefferson all wrapped in one'

 If the above video makes you feel pride, you are an external Zionist. But if the video brings you to tears, then you are an internal Zionist, and that is eternally beautiful.

"Today, Theodor Herzl is best known for his beard, not his books," laments Gil Troy, editor of "The Zionist Writings of Theodor Herzl," in his introductory essay to a new edition of Herzl's diaries.

Troy, a professor of history at Canada's McGill University now living in Israel, wants to make Zionism's founders come alive for the next generation. His latest effort is a three-volume collection of Herzl's writings.

The brainchild behind the series is Matthew Miller, owner of Koren Publishers, a Jerusalem publishing house producing mainly religious texts. Drawing inspiration from the Library of America, a publisher of notable American classics and historical works, Miller decided to create a Library of the Jewish People to bring together the best writings from Jewish history in the fields of religion, the arts and politics.

"The Zionist Writings" are the first titles in that ambitious effort. They include a fairly comprehensive collection of Herzl's diaries and other works, including his play "The New Ghetto" (1894), of which Herzl biographer Alex Bein said, "Herzl completed his inner return to his people"; Herzl's 1896 manifesto "The Jewish State"; and important essays, like "The Menorah" (1897), showing how, through Zionism, Herzl reconnected with his Judaism.

Holocaust Denier Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi Being Sued by Bennett

 

"Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi, the infamous Holocaust denier will have to make a public apology, not for denying that 6 million Jews were murdered but because he claims that Bennett's mother wasn't Jewish.

YossieMizrachi had admitted that he is no Rabbi and never received "smicha' from anyone. This arrogant "am haaretz" was previously condemned by the Noveminsker z"l, hYossi also claimed that Jewish women posed nude for the Nazis before being gassed. 

I cannot believe that this lunatic and mental midget has a following!

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has embroiled himself in legal wranglings with his detractors, determined to overcome the "poison machine," as he calls it.

According to a report in "Weekend News," Bennett has sent a warning in advance of a legal suit against prominent Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi, whose Torah classes are broadcast in Israel and across the world. Bennett is demanding that Rabbi Mizrachi apologize and also pay him compensation of 100 thousand shekels, after the rabbi said in one of his classes that Bennett isn't Jewish as his mother is not a Jew.

The class in question was uploaded to the rabbi's Youtube channel. In it, he says (in English) that, "No one can bear him [Bennett] - not a single person. There's no one as hated as him because of what he did. He broke all the promises he made, deceived everyone, deceived all his voters, joined up with the Muslim Brotherhood, and betrayed Israel."

Rabbi Mizrachi then added, "And furthermore, we found out just this week that his mother isn't even Jewish. In other words, he's not Jewish himself."

Bennett's lawyers emphasize that if Rabbi Mizrachi refuses to publish an apology, delete the videos in which he makes the statements, and pay compensation, they will open a court case against him and demand far greater compensation.