‘After The Rabbi (Rabbi Yosef) Spoke, My Wife, A Bereaved Mother, Cried For 24 Hours’

 

Rabbi Tamir Granot 

 “It would hurt me if anyone said this but when I hear it from a rabbi, a leader, who represents all of the Jewish nation, it hurts more,” says Rebbetzin Avivit Granot, the wife of Rabbi Tamir Granot who heads Yeshivat Orot Shaul and the mother of Captain Amitai Tzvi who fell in battle on the 15th October. She is referring to the recent statement by Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef that “The tribe of Levi are exempt from army service and cannot be taken under any circumstance. If they force us to go to the army, we will emigrate abroad.”

Rabbi Granot said that he was forced to respond “for the sake of the honor of the Torah and for the sake of my wife’s tears. Your words about conscripting yeshiva students caused her to cry for 24 hours.”

“I ask you, honored rabbi- Did Amitai err? Is he lying under the ground of Mt. Herzl for nothing? Should he and all of his friends lying there with him have stayed in yeshiva and left the Mesirus Nefesh to the secularists? Or should he have gone abroad to study Torah and not enlisted?

Chassidishe IDF Soldier Talks "Peeeeeeerim" to the Soldiers

 

Wow Wee! Douglas Murray Destroys Vicious Antisemite

 

In this Climate ...Satmar Sues the Town of Ramapo Because They fly ..Guess What? The Israeli Flag !

 

DIN: How cruel are people? Let me rephrase that question: "How cruel can Frum Jewish people be to each other?" How can a group that boasts that they do "chesed" go and file a lawsuit against Goyim that want to show comradery with the Jewish people? 

All agree that what happened to the Jewish people on October 7 was the worst atrocity perpetrated against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Millions of people around the entire world are protesting and participating in supporting Hamas yet here we have a tiny village that wants to show support for the Jewish people, come a bunch of gangsters who call themselves "Chassidim" and are followers of the Vayoel Moshe filing a lawsuit to get the flag removed. You can be sure that if the flag flown was a Hamas flag they wouldn't say one word. 

What are those goyim thinking? That we ourselves hate Israel? A country that now houses the majority of the Jewish people. 

Where is the Moetzes Gedoilei HaTorah now? Where is their protest? Where are the Rabbanim of Monsey? Not one word! 

This flag, like it or not, is the symbol of the Jewish people! The total Jewish population number less than the entire first grade in China! Yet, there isn't a person on this planet that will not recognize that flag.

 I wonder what Leibish Illovitz the chayeh that filed the lawsuit would have done if it was his wife that was raped in front of his daughter, I wonder what Leinish Illovitz would say if Hamas chopped off the heads of his babies. I wonder what Leibish Illovitz would say if Hamas grabbed his old grandmother and paraded her in the streets of Gaza. What would be the reaction of Leibish Illovitz if his children were mutilated, all because they were Jewish. 

You know what Leibish? Take your chicken soup and stick it where the sun will never ever shine! 

What a Chillul Hashem. These are the students of the Vayoel Moshe who quote him all the time! 

A Ramapo Satmar Rabbi says it is illegal to fly an Israeli flag on government property in the Town of Ramapo.

Leibish Iliovits claims in a lawsuit filed Monday in Rockland County Supreme Court that the Town of Ramapo is violating New York State law, which prohibits flying the flag of another country. Town Supervisor Michael Specht is also named as a defendant.

The lawsuit relies on Section 141, Chapter 44, Article 5 of the New York Public Buildings law, which prohibits flying a foreign flag on government property absent an applicable exception.

The Total Disconnect of Chareidie Jews and the Rest of Klall Yisrael. Aguda releases Statement and leaves Our Holy Soldiers Out!

 

The above letter to Klall Yisrael from the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah is proof-positive that the Chareidie World with their Rabbinic Leaders are disconnected from the vast majority of the Jewish people, especially with other frum Shomrei Torah Umitvois!   

The letter does include the Hostages, but not a word for those sacrificing their lives for the Jewish people. 

Let that sink in!

Is it any wonder that most Jews, I repeat, MOST JEWS cannot understand why the Chareidim have absolutely no empathy for those who were murdered on October 7. 

Is it any wonder that the vast majority of the Jewish people living in Israel resent the Chareidim! 

Is it any wonder why Chilonim who must send their children, and husbands to the front resent Yeshiva Students?

האחיכם יבאו למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה "Shall your brothers go out to war while you just sit here" cried Moshe Rabbeinu!

In that question is also " Don't you care? Don't you have any empathy?"

And even if you are not sending your children to war, where is the respect for those who do? 

Recently I heard that the Girl Seminaries in Israel have asked their students not to say Tehillim for any specific soldier!  I want to know which Rabbi gave that idiotic psak? 

I want to know which Rav sat in his study in leather chair holding a hot herbal tea munching on a few dietic crackers and came up with this perverted idea?

Are they worried that the girl saying Tehillim for a specific soldier will get feelings for him? Is that it?

How sick and perverted?

 By extension every single man should refrain from saying Thillim for any lady not his wife or daughter, every lady should refrain from saying Tehillim for any man even a Gadol if she is not married to him! 

And let's just say that she would develop feeling for that soldier, chas Ve'shaom, that she is davening for, is that an "aveirah?" Isn't that the purpose of saying tehillim for a specific person to feel his or her pain, to connect with that neshama? How low have we sunk, when a Rabbi is afraid that a Jewish Heimishe girl saying tehillim is developing romantic feelings for that soldier? Is that what he thinks of his girl students? What is in that perverted head of that rabbi? What does he think about all day? 

This week, I had the opportunity to join a group to visit NOVA, the site where Hamas raped, murdered and mutilated hundreds of Jews.  I managed to gather 10 Jews to say a kaddish for these "kedoshim." When I finished I proceeded to make a "Keil Molah Rachmim" becoming very emotional. The commander of the IDF forces that was assigned to NOVA came over to me and asked me if I lost anyone here, I answered in the affirmative "Yes, all those murdered were my family." He looked at me with tears in his eyes visibly touched, and said "I didn't think that Chareidim really cared" 

As I was about to leave I noticed a Chareidie dressed like the Arelich with the striped bekesha and I asked him in Yiddish what he was doing there? He pointed to his wife a few meters away all bent over a memorial for a murdered girl, sobbing, and she looked as if she was inconsolable. He said that she is crying over their daughter murdered and probably raped on October 7, and that his wife insists that they come there three times a week, she has 12 other children. I asked him if she cries like this every time she visits, and he answered yes, but understand, he said, that in our community she couldn't and can't get any comfort from anyone, as the neighbors didn't even come to be "menacheim aval" they would come if someone ,G-d forbid, takes their own life but not if Hamas murdered her. 

We spoke about the disconnect that the Chareidie World has to October 7, and he admitted that if it wasn't for his own daughter murdered, he probably would have never even given a thought to coming, and he added that this has to change. He made an interesting observation, he said that this push to connect, cannot come from the top, from the leaders, it has to be grass roots as the rabbis will never understand. 

Let me finish with a word from the megilla. The very last pasuk states:

כי מרדכי היהודי משנה למלך אחשורוש וגדול ליהודים ורצוי לרוב אחיו דרש טוב לעמו ודבר שלום לכל-זרעו

"Mordechai the Jew, was viceroy to King Ahasuerus; he was a great man among the Jews, and found favor with the multitude of his brethren; he sought the good of his people and was able to speak in peace with all his children"

Commentaries say that the very last verse talks about Mordechai's accomplishments and his virtues. 

He managed becoming the second in command in charge of the entire Persian Empire, no small feat. He was also held in high esteem amongst his own people, and was able to be liked by the majority of his brethren, also no small feat, and in fact it is usually an impossible task and situation, in a addition, he made an effort to find the best in everyone, and finally, he spoke in peace with his very own children.

Commentaries say, that as the list of his accomplishment and virtues progresses in the verse, the virtue mentioned next, is far more important.

In other words, though being a viceroy to the King was a huge accomplishment, the fact that he was held in high esteem by the Jews was a greater virtue and so on and so on. The last accomplishment was that he "spoke to his children in peace" that according to commentaries was his greatest accomplishment. 

Why?

I am sure that Mordecahi  may have not approved of everything his children were doing or how they were leading their lives,(this is actually hinted in the Even Ezra.) But nevertheless he was able to speak in peace with them. That in fact is a great accomplishment and shows what kind of person Mordechai really was. 

We say everyday:

ובא לציון גואל ולשבי פשע ביעקב

We pray that Moshiach comes, but when he does come he is coming to the פשע ביעקב as well!

Moshiach will come to those who are not Shomrei Torah Umitzvois as well. They will be included. 

If you don't agree, cut this verse out of your prayers ...

Aguda Shame On You!

Jonathan Glazer the self -hating Jew made a Movie About the Holocaust but there isn't a single Jew seen in the entire movie!

While the evil of Nazism is an abstraction in the movie, out of sight and out of mind, viewers are invited to identify with the daily life of the family Höss. The lush images of the film convey an idyllic family life, with an immaculately clean house and bountiful garden. The Nazis loved their children and their pets. They played the piano.

 Glazer has explained that his goal was to show that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were not monsters but humans, just like us. It could have happened anywhere: to anyone, by anyone. Viewers are invited to consider that as we go about our mundane lives, evil is taking place somewhere behind a wall, which we chose not to look over.

But the whole idea of making a Nazi pastoral film is historically misleading and frankly offensive. As Israeli film critic Avner Shavit has pointed out, Glazer has managed to make a film about the Holocaust in which we never see any Jews.

Woman, 25, announces her own death from cancer in viral final letter

A 25-year-old woman who’d been healthy and active until she suddenly developed bile duct cancer has written a final, poignant message announcing her death and urging people to “enjoy the little things in life.”

Daniella Thackray’s funeral was held on Monday, March 18, her fiancé, Tom Calvert tells TODAY.com.

“I LOVED my life. Everything I had achieved was what I wanted. I loved my job, my fiancé, my family, my friends and my dog, and the house we were going to buy and the future we were making for ourselves,” Thackray wrote.

“I chose not to mourn the life I was losing despite being so devastated, but to instead enjoy every moment I had left.”

She worked as a people administrator for an advertising agency in Leeds, England, describing herself as “very healthy and active” until she was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a cancer that forms in the bile ducts, in July 2023.

Even though her life was never the same again, she wrote, she chose to focus on everyone and everything she loved.

“We can’t control what happens to us, (but) we can control how we react,” Thackray added.

“You should enjoy the little things in life and cherish every moment! Romanticise your life! Do whatever makes you happy and don’t let anyone take the joy of life away from you.”

She finished the letter with a message to her fiancé: "Go enjoy your life now, you deserve it."

The 25-year-old was the most enthusiastic and cheerful person, Liz Reynolds, her manager at 26 Agency wrote when announcing her death. The company is fundraising for St Gemma’s hospice in Leeds in her memory.

Feuding Satmar Brothers Asking Their Followers To "maaser" To tattletale All Who Use the Eirav!

 

While most Jews living in Chutz Le'aaretz are careful how they walk the streets, afraid of being beaten by their Goyishe neighbors, and while Jews in Israel are being attacked from the South and the North, what are the Brothers - Satmar doing? 

They can't plan trips to the State of Israel, because they wouldn't G-d forbid travel on El AL, as the Ribbono Shel Olam made sure that only El Al flies to Israel. Hashem has some sense of humor!

Are they urging their followers to write letters pressuring their Congressmen and Senators to lay off Israel? 

In fact I'm old enough to remember When R' Aron Teitelbaum backed Obama's Iran Deal, , I posted  back in 2015, Satmar's perfidy against the Jews people living in Israel, asking their followers to write letters to their Congressmen to back the Obama's Iran Deal!

So during all this turmoil what are the Satmar Rebbes worried about?

They want their followers to tattletale on their neighbors if they see them carrying on Shabbos using the Eirav! The Zalonis (top photo) are even providing a phone number to call! 

When it comes to sexual predators they don't allow "mesirah" the victims are prohibited to "ma'sar" on their perpetrators, but to "ma'sar" on a neighbor who uses an Eirav permitted by Gedoiei Hador then "me'sira" is permitted and encouraged! 

Hamas Beat the Crap Out of Old Man Because He Took Some Food Off a "Humanitarian" Truck

 

Rebbe Talks to G-d With His Eyes Rolled Back into His Head! Big Huge Tzaddik!

 

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Yad Binyamin: The entire yishuv went out to the streets with Israeli flags in memory of the hero Daniel Peretz who fought on October 7th.

 

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Huge Headache Ben & Jerry's getting the boot from parent after years of political controversy

 

Multinational conglomerate Unilever, the owner of some 400 brands, announced Tuesday it is spinning off its ice cream business — including major names like Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Magnum, Popsicle and Klondike — after more than a century.

The consumer goods giant said the move was part of a growth strategy that would create a leaner business. At the same time, by shedding Ben & Jerry's, Unilever is ridding itself of a longtime headache.

Since its founding in 1978, Ben & Jerry's has been known for its left-leaning advocacy, and the Vermont-based ice cream maker was able to maintain an independent board of directors to continue its progressive activism even after it sold to Unilever in 2000.

But in recent years, the unique structure of the deal that allowed Ben & Jerry's to wade into controversial issues without interference has pulled Unilever into the fray, too.

Candace Owens endorses outlandish antisemitic conspiracy theory alleging Jews are ‘drunk on Christian blood'

 

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Candace Owens, a prominent figure at the Daily Wire, recently expressed support for an ancient conspiracy theory alleging that Jewish religious leaders engage in the ritualistic consumption of Christian blood.

Owens, who has been increasingly critical of Israel and the Jewish community, has sparked controversy with her remarks.

In a public spat with fellow commentator Ben Shapiro, Owens made remarks interpreted as antisemitic. She declared, "You cannot serve both God and money," a statement widely viewed as an antisemitic shot at Shapiro.

Owens has further stoked tensions by attributing the rise in antisemitism to "political Jews" and suggesting a conspiracy involving a "small ring" of Jewish individuals in Hollywood and Washington, DC.

She concluded, "All of us Black, Spanish, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, all Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister."

BBC’s anti-Israel bias becoming very dangerous

 

Story by Danny Cohen

BBC News is plunging new depths when it comes to its reporting of the Israel-Hamas war. In doing so, it is bringing shame on a publicly-funded organisation.

Earlier this month, BBC News CEO Deborah Turness was asked in Parliament about a column I had written for this newspaper about the anti-Israel bias of journalists working for its heavily promoted BBC Verify brand. An investigation had found that a source used by the BBC for its Gaza coverage was a journalist who apparently worked for a news agency associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which is committed to Israel’s destruction. The journalist’s social-media timeline also contained anti-Semitic material.

When challenged on this at a House of Lords committee, Ms Turness’s response was very revealing. First, she dismissed the reporting because it was “positioned in a hostile media outlet” – The Telegraph. This is a remarkable thing to say. It suggests that the BBC’s approach is to ignore legitimate criticism if it does not like where it comes from.

The idea that you can dismiss evidence of journalistic malpractice because it is in a newspaper you don’t like reveals institutional arrogance and political bias. It enables the BBC to remain immune to criticism rather than act to remedy the problems with its reporting of the war.

Even worse were the BBC News CEO’s claims of transparency. Ms Turness told the Committee that the BBC is “very clear about where it sources” its reporting from and that the BBC had been “transparent in our account and in our journalism”.

Meshiginar Deri Asks Hostage Delegations to Wait Till After Shabbos

 

DIN: Personally the entire staff of DIN is against "Hostage Negotiations" even on a regular Sunday! "Hostage Negotiations" is not going to end this war it will only prolong it! But the fact that Deri wanted Israel to wait till after Shabbos shows you the total disconnect between Chareidim and the rest of the Jewish people. I will bet that if the hostages were "Shomer Shabbat" he would have told the government to NEVER stop negotiating. Besides, Deri's statement is a huge Chillul Hashem! 

Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri sparked controversy over the weekend by reportedly asking members of the War Cabinet to delay the departure of an Israeli delegation for hostage negotiations in Qatar until after Shabbos.

In response, opposition and Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid tweeted a link to a Hebrew media report of Deri’s alleged demand along with the caption: “If this isn’t pikuach nefesh, then what is?”

For his part, Yisrael Beiteinu Party chief Avigdor Liberman tweeted: “Deri, what is more pikuach nefesh than returning the kidnapped?”

Liberman included a quote from Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 252:3: “Every moment that one delays unnecessarily the ransoming of a captive, it is as if he were to shed blood.”

The backlash prompted a vehement denial from Deri, who accused his opponents of trying to score political points at the expense of the captives held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Former Shas lawmaker Chaim Amsalem told JNS that if the negotiations have a realistic chance of succeeding, then “violating Shabbos can be done and should be done by the highest religious authorities. Delaying it is a very serious offense.

“Once those involved confirm the urgency of the situation, we must enforce halachah,” said Amsalem, while qualifying that he could not himself make a determination on this specific issue because he is not privy to the details of the talks.

“Just like how a rabbi can’t assess whether a person is fit to fast on Yom Kippur [and only a doctor can],” he noted.

JNS spoke with several rabbis who all stressed the importance of erring on the side of caution—namely, life—when determining when pikuach nefesh applies.

Tefillos for Yigal Calek, Famed Founder of London School of Jewish Song

 

The famed composer and director of the London School of Jewish Song, Yigal Calek, is in need of rachamei Shomayim. His name for Tehillim is Yigal Yisrael ben Blima Gittel.

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Yigal led London School of Jewish Song. The Israel-born mechanech had a flamboyant style and exceptional ear for music that propelled his young proteges into stardom across the Jewish world.

Curiously, although Yigal is undoubtedly an innovator, he is also deeply traditional. Thus, while his songs have always been very much in tune with modernity and the zeitgeist, they are nonetheless firmly embedded in the music of the Jewish yesteryear.

Audiences flocked to the choir’s concerts in London, Paris, Yerushalayim, New York and Los Angeles – among countless other cities – and the albums became the musical backdrop for that generation.

That generation all hummed Yigal’s tunes, used them for tefillos, danced to them at weddings, and played the LPs until the scratches rendered the records unplayable.

Yigal, as is well known, has always been a demanding, exacting perfectionist. His rehearsals famously lasted for hours. Every note had to be perfect, every harmony flawlessly synchronized. But it was all worth it in the end. The results were stunning, and the audience appreciation gushing.

And so it continued for a few more years, until eventually Yigal disbanded his choir and turned to other things. From time to time he would reappear with a new group to belt out a few hits in a tribute medley at a variety concert, but that was it. The London School of Jewish Song was no more.

More recently, Yigal has suffered some very difficult health issues and word went around that he needed tefillos: Yigal Yisrael ben Blima Gitel. And so it was that a few of the old choir “boys” decided to arrange an evening of song and nostalgia to cheer his spirits. On the last night of Chanukah in 2021, the impromptu gathering took place – just a couple of dozen guys around a table at someone’s home in Golders Green. Most of them are already grandfathers, all of them were there to cheer up their childhood hero.

Watch the clip below:

Despite War, Israel Ranks 5th in World Happiness Report

 Despite five months of war with Hamas, Israel ranked fifth in the 2024 World Happiness Report, which was released on Wednesday.

The annual report ranked the happiness of 143 countries based on life evaluation, positive emotions, and negative emotions, among other factors.

Anat Panti, a happiness policy researcher at Bar-Ilan University University in Ramat Gan, explained,

 “Even this year, which was one of the most difficult in the country’s history, Israel is ranked in the top five of the international happiness index. The reason for this lies in the fact that life satisfaction, the index by which the level of happiness is measured, is a stable index over time and refers more to the characteristics of the country itself such as the strength of the economy, the degree of social involvement, and the health services in the country, than to fleeting feelings.”

Finland was ranked as the happiest country for the seventh consecutive year. Israel finished behind Denmark, Iceland and Sweden.

Afghanistan edged Lebanon as the least happy country.

“In order to give a more accurate picture of the state of happiness in all countries, the editors of the report refer to the average life satisfaction in the last three years when calculating the ranking. Therefore, Israel’s ranking in fifth place in the happiness report marks the stability in life satisfaction in Israel over the last few years, and not only in this one,” Panti explained.

“For example, even during the Corona period, which was traumatic all over the world, it was still possible to see that the top ten of the global happiness ranking includes more or less the same countries every year.”

The annual report is based on data from US market research company Gallup, and analyzed by international experts led by the University of Oxford.

In addition to self-assessed evaluations of life satisfaction, analysts also assess each country’s healthy life expectancy, freedom, GDP per capita, social support and more.

Unbelievable: Fani Willis Said that Jesus Told Her to Go After Trump!

 

The Georgia criminal defense attorney who alleged an “improper” relationship between Fani Willis and Nathan Wade called out the Fulton County District Attorney over a speech she made claiming “Jesus” told her to prosecute Trump.

Ashleigh Merchant, who filed a bombshell motion alleging Willis’ relationship with Wade, whom she appointed special prosecutor on the case, appeared on Megyn Kelly’s show Tuesday where she told the host that she “still [hasn’t] gotten over the church remarks.”

“When someone says that Jesus himself told them to prosecute this case, how do you defend against that?… That’s insane. I’ve never dealt with that… Nobody says this. This doesn’t happen. People don’t take to the pulpit,” Merchant told Kelly.

Merchant filed the suit against Willis on behalf of her client, GOP political operative Mike Roman.

Only in New York Can a Landlord Get Arrested For Changing the Locks While the Squatters Remain

 

A New York City property owner recently ended up in handcuffs following a fiery standoff with a bunch of squatters she has been trying to boot from her family’s home, tense footage of the ordeal shows.

Adele Andaloro, 47, was recently nabbed after she changed the locks on the $1 million home in Flushing, Queens, that she says she inherited from her parents when they died, ABC’s Eyewitness News reported.

“It’s enraging,” the homeowner said of the squatter saga. “It’s not fair that I, as the homeowner, have to be going through this.”

Andaloro claims the ordeal erupted when she started the process of trying to sell the home last month but realized squatters had moved in — and brazenly replaced the entire front door and locks.

Request passports and ID’s (te’udot zehut) online

The Knesset plenum approved the Interior Minister's proposal to allow citizens to submit online requests for biometric passports, without needing to go to the Population and Immigration Authority.

On Tuesday the Knesset plenum accepted Interior Minister Moshe Arbel's proposal for passport reform, enabling the issuing of passports and identity cards (te’udot zehut) online.

The proposal was approved by a temporary order for six months and can be extended by another six months.

The new process will go into effect on April 31st and will allow any citizen over the age of 18, who has a biometric identification document and whose fingerprints have been stored in the biometric database, to submit a remote application and receive an identity card (te’udat zehut) which will be valid for up to five years.

The new procedure will not apply to those who have never issued biometric passports and IDs, nor to children under the age of 18.

In addition passports may be issued online only if they have expired within the previous six months or are valid for a year ahead, as well as for those who are in Israel at the time of submitting the application.

Interior Minister Arbel said, "This is a dramatic step initiated by the Interior Ministry and the Population and Immigration Authority, to meet the needs of citizens and provide a solution for a large sector of the population, who will not have to go to the official offices and will be able to order a passport or identity card (te’udat zehut) without leaving their home. We have set a goal to improve services to the citizens of Israel and I am pleased to take another step forward to achieve this national goal."