Finally! All Beit Shemesh Residents Agree!!!!!! The Mayor is a Clossal Diasaster !!

 

Mayor Greenberg 

Remember when they shlepped Rav Landau the "Degel" the Spiritual Leader to Beit Shemesh to support the "Degel" candidate  Greenberg?

Rav Landau declared that it is a "chiyuv" to vote in the election, and it is a "chiyuv" to vote for "Degel!" Then he declared that this Mayoral Election is a "Milchemes Mitzvah!" And he ordered that all Bochrim of voting age must slam their gemmarras shut and come back to Beit Shemesh to vote. They chartered buses and shipped in the Bochrim from Yerushalyim, Bnei Brak and Ashdod to vote! 

Who was the opponent of Greenberg??? 

A Shomeret Torah and Mitzvois a frum Lady by the name of Dr. Aliza Bloch who as mayor did a phenomenal job!

Mayor Greenberg loves to run to Chutz Le'aretz every other Monday & Thursday, and in fact he was AWOL the entire Pesach! Meanwhile, the garbage is piling up all around Beit Shemesh and it won't be too long before it will look like the rat-infested Bnei-Brak! 

He caters to the extreme elements of the Charedie residents, though they almost slaughtered his entire family just a month ago at a wedding! 

This is what happens when you have Chareidim running cities! 

Netanyahu Slams Ronen Bar " a Liar "

 

1. Bar claims he activated the system on the night of October 7, but he failed to alert the Prime Minister and Defense Minister. Had he done so, “the massacre could have been prevented.”

He states he ordered the PM’s Military Secretary to be alerted at 05:15, but records show the call was only made at 06:13—minutes before the Hamas attack—despite having intelligence for over 3 hours. This alone, the statement says, is a disgraceful failure warranting dismissal.

2. Bar’s affidavit confirms that talks of his dismissal began as early as November 2024—contradicting the Attorney General’s claim that it came only in February after the Qatar investigation began.

“The dismissal wasn’t meant to prevent the investigation; rather, the investigation was launched to stop the dismissal.”

3. Contrary to Bar’s statement, the Prime Minister never requested a delay in his trial. On the contrary, he insisted it proceed without postponement.


4. Bar failed to address incitement against senior officials, including death threats against the Prime Minister and ministers. He also failed to prevent violent protesters from launching flares at the PM’s residence in Caesarea, nearly killing a security guard and setting the home on fire.
The government repeatedly demanded equal law enforcement against such incitement—not illegal actions. Despite this, Bar only reported Shin Bet activity without actual results.

Pope Francis dead at 88 Just after Having Met VP Vance

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday aged 88 

Over the past year, the Pope repeatedly criticized Israel during its war against Hamas, accusing it of crimes, genocide, and bombing children

The Pontiff spent his final hours with faithful, emerging to bless thousands of people in St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday after briefly meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance.

Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced that Francis had died at 7.35am local time (5.35am GMT) in a statement.

Francis had only recently left hospital under 'protected discharge' after suffering an infection that developed into pneumonia in both lungs earlier this year.

The Conclave - where cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor - will not happen for at least 15 days. 

Francis's body will lie in state in St Peter's Basilica during an official mourning period, and then - in contrast to most of his predecessors - he will be buried in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome's Esquilino neighbourhood.

Francis just yesterday greeted the Catholic faithful who had gathered to see him at St Peter's Square on Easter Sunday. He delivered his 'Urbi et Orbi' benediction from a balcony overlooking the square following mass to mark the high holiday.

On his way to the basilica, Francis met briefly with US Vice President JD Vance, who was spending Easter in Rome with his family. The Vatican said the encounter was 'brief' and lasted a few minutes.

Francis became the first pope from outside Europe in 1,300 years when he was chosen to replace the retiring Pope Benedict XVI. 

Despite several previous health issues and reduced mobility caused in part by his advancing years and expanding waistline, Francis had kept up a busy schedule until his final weeks.

In September 2024, he carried out a 12-day tour across south-east Asia and Oceania that included visits to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Singapore. 

Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, will be remembered for his comparatively liberal attitudes on some subjects that made him both popular and controversial.

He expressed tolerance towards divorcees, allowed priests to bless same-sex couples under certain circumstances, and put concern for the environment at the heart of his papacy.

And he said in 2023 that transgender people could be baptised as long as it did not cause a scandal or 'confusion'.   

But he did stand firm on the subject of abortion. In a text signed by Francis that was released by the Vatican last year, terminations were described as 'an extremely dangerous crisis of the moral sense'.

Is Witkoff breaking new ground - or repeating Biden’s errors?

Steve Witkoff, the real estate tycoon turned international negotiator, has become the subject of controversy with some conservatives attacking him and others rushing out to defend him.

“In a world left in chaos thanks to Joe Biden, Steve Witkoff is the diplomat America needs right now,” Sen. Jim Banks claimed.

Tucker Carlson hailed Witkoff as “the most effective American diplomat in a generation.”

But Witkoff, whatever his flaws, is far more honest than his PR men on X or Capitol Hill, and has never denied that he was just implementing the policies of the Biden administration.

In Jan, at Mar-a-Lago, Witkoff stated that

“the Biden administration is the tip of the spear” in the Hamas negotiations. Biden has “got a solid team, and I appreciated that they’re allowing us to be collaborative.”

“I think Steve Witkoff has been a terrific partner in this,” Secretary of State Blinken praised him on MSNBC.

Much later, Witkoff told Tucker, “When I first got in and I was talking to Brett McGurk, who was the envoy on behalf of Biden, he was a smart guy.”

“He said to me, ‘This is where I want to get to, Steve.’ And so when I went in there, I went in with the imprimatur of the president.”

“Steve became a close partner of mine, I think it’s safe to say a friend,” McGurk told PBS.

Whose deal was it really?

A Betrayal Beyond Repair: How the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist Movements Have Aligned Themselves with Antisemitic Violence - T

 

Vicious antisemite Amy Spitalnick

In an era already plagued by rising antisemitism and deepening divisions, one might expect Jewish institutions—particularly those with long-standing reputations for community advocacy and religious leadership—to be at the forefront of defending their people against hate. 

Instead, in what can only be described as a catastrophic moral failure, the Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist movements have chosen appeasement over protection, rhetoric over reality, and leftist politics over Jewish survival. Their recent alliance with pro-Hamas sympathizers marks a moment of profound betrayal—one that will be remembered as a dark chapter in the history of American Jewish life.

As Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Mag reported,

 Amy Spitalnick—formerly of J Street and now head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA)—has taken pride in leading a coalition of left-wing Jewish organizations that includes the Union for Reform Judaism, the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism, and prominent Reconstructionist groups. Together, they signed onto a letter that not only undermines Jewish safety on campus but extends a grotesque olive branch to individuals and groups who have openly incited violence against Jews, particularly in the wake of the October 7th Hamas massacre.

Dem Jamie Raskin threatens countries that support Trump: ‘When we come back to power … we are not going to look kindly’

 

Rep. Jamie Raskin threatened foreign leaders who “facilitated authoritarianism in our country” by currying favor with President Trump on issues like deportation, saying that Democrats will not “look kindly” on his supporters when they “come back to power.”

Referencing El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele specifically, Raskin (D-Md.), 62, suggested that Dems should keep score of foreign leaders who brownnose Trump, 78, during his second term.

“Implicit in it should be the idea that if and when we come back to power — and we will — we are not going to look kindly upon people who … facilitated authoritarianism in our country,” Raskin told “Pod Save America” host Tommy Vietor in an episode that dropped Saturday.

Vietor had told Raskin that a Latin American policy expert suggested to him that Democrats should “threaten to take action against any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”

Trump has tapped into warpowers under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rapidly deport alleged gangbangers outside of traditional deportation channels to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega prison.

So far, those deportations have pertained to illegal immigrants, but Trump has publicly mused about exploring the legality of shipping extremely violent criminals who are US citizens to foreign countries.

Raskin praised the concept of putting foreign countries on notice and called for cutting off foreign aid to El Salvador in response to its cooperation with the Trump administration’s deportations of alleged gangbangers via warpowers.

“The whole idea that Bukele doesn’t have any power to return an American prisoner who was sent to him under an agreement where he’s getting paid $6 million by America is ridiculous,” Raskin contended. “He’s our legal agent in this dubious arrangement they created. Of course, he’s got the power to return them.”

Last week, Bukele met with Trump in the White House, becoming the first Latin American leader to do so, and claimed that he lacked the power to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US, calling questions about returning him “preposterous.”

Abrego Garcia, 29, a citizen of El Salvador, had illegally entered the US in 2011, and was blocked from being deported back home in a 2019 court decision due to gang threats against him.

The Trump administration deported him to El Salvador last month in what its attorneys initially described as an “error.” Top officials have since defended his deportation and alleged that he’s had ties to MS-13, something his attorneys and family deny.

Raskin added that his party needs to engage “in far more work of transnational Democrat solidarity” to try and “prevent the spread of lawlessness and the fascist chaos that’s been unleashed against us.”

Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of Trump in Congress.

He had previously been a top defender of Hunter Biden from GOP-backed inquiries into the scandal-scarred first son.

A former constitutional law professor, Raskin argued that “we’re living in something like a gangster state right now” under Trump.

“We have to stop that, obviously, to prevent a slide into complete dictatorship,” Raskin said of the administration’s use of foreign prison systems.

“Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. Could he be sent off to a foreign prison?,” he mused.

“We’ve got to become the leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the descent into fascism in America,” he argued before pivoting to slamming tech guru Elon Musk’s kindred spirits in Silicon Valley.

“These people really believe that democracy is defunct. They say we live in a constitutional America.”

Two yeshiva students arrested for draft dodging while attempting to leave the country

 

Two students of well-known yeshivas were arrested on Sunday at Ben Gurion Airport while attempting to leave Israel due to stay of exit orders issued against them after they failed to report to the IDF recruitment center.

The men were taken to the IDF's Tel Hashomer Camp, where a hearing is expected to be held on the matter.

The "Lemaancha" organization, which assists yeshiva students with draft-related issues, reported that details of the case were immediately brought to the senior haredi rabbis, who instructed the organization's representatives how to act.

"We are closely, sensitively, and quietly accompanying the boys following the instructions from the rabbis," the organization stated.

In light of the incident, the organization warns against trusting the Interior Ministry's online system to check if there are stay of exit orders.

"There are sometimes discrepancies between the various data systems," the organization explained. "Refrain from arriving at sensitive locations, such as the airport, without conducting an in-depth inquiry beforehand."

This is just one in a series of similar cases in the past few months in which yeshiva students were arrested for alleged draft dodging.

‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex Charedi Jew in ‘Kugel’

 “I’m preparing a tea so we can talk with leisure,” Sasson Gabay says over the phone from Israel.

The Israeli film and TV star, now 77, wants to get comfortable so he can talk about one of his favorite characters from his 50-year career: Nuhem Shtisel.

If that surname sounds familiar, yes — it’s a character from the popular and internationally acclaimed series “Shtisel,” about an Israeli Haredi Orthodox family. Now, Gabay has reprised Nuhem for a prequel series titled “Kugel,” streaming in the United States exclusively on the platform Izzy.

And if kugel sounds familiar, yes — it’s referring to the Ashkenazi version of a casserole, not another surname. The new series follows Nuhem, who frequents a kugel shop in his native Antwerp years before the plot of “Shtisel,” as he and his daughter Libbi (Hadas Yaron) navigate familial and romantic struggles. Nuhem’s heart is in the right place, but the diamond dealer often finds himself at the center of financial shenanigans that threaten his place in his family and his community.

As complex as that character sounds, it didn’t take much convincing to get Gabay — who is also well known for starring in both the Israeli film “The Band’s Visit” and the Tony-winning Broadway musical based on it — on board for the poignant and wryly humorous series that, like “Shtisel,” was created by Yehonatan Indursky.

“I loved [Indursky’s] writing. I loved his plot. I loved this poetic element in all his writing — wise, human and brilliant in my opinion,” Gabay said on a recent WhatsApp call.

On April 28, Gabay will join “Shtisel” star Michael Aloni and “Kugel” producer Dikla Barkai for an exclusive New York Jewish Week conversation about the new show at Congregation Rodeph Sholom on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. For those who can make it in person, attendees will also be able to sample (what else?) some of the city’s best kugel, and even meet the stars at a VIP reception. For those who can’t make it, a livestream is available, and it will be recorded.

As a preview — a taste of the “burnt end” of the kugel, Nuhem might say — Gabay spoke with the New York Jewish Week about filming in Antwerp, playing a deeply religious Jew while living a secular life, and the state of the Israel film and TV industry since October 7, 2023.

Not Again! Congresswoman Going to El Salvador to get a "wife beater" back... Not One DemonRat Went to Gaza to get any Hostages Back

 

NEW: Congresswoman Maxine Dexter (D-OR) announces she will travel to El Salvador to “demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia”, a deported Salvadoran illegal alien alleged to be a MS-13 gang member, accused by his own spouse of being a repeat wife beater, and previously… pic.twitter.com/VzEjJZPITn

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 19, 2025

Iris Hotel in Brookline Canceled Large Pesach Seder to Accommodate Rashida Tlaib

 

Meet Anwar Faisal, dubbed Boston’s worst landlord. He owns the Iris Hotel in Brookline, an area with a large Jewish population just outside the city.

After learning that a large Passover Seder was scheduled to be hosted there, he canceled it - and instead hosted a gathering for… https://t.co/9ygZTi6ryq pic.twitter.com/c2QaqYdm8z

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 18, 2025

Qatar Upset About Video of the Construction of the Third Bais Hamikdash

 

Qatar's Foreign Ministry issued a statement of strong condemnation following an animated video simulating the construction of the Temple on the Temple Mount that will occur hopefully in our lifetime pic.twitter.com/baU747CcXu

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) April 20, 2025

Orthodox Jews Couldn't Care Less What the World Thinks of Them!

 

Did you ever notice how Orthodox Jews couldn’t care less what the world thinks of them?

Not a little. Not secretly.
They truly, completely, deeply don’t care.

They’ll walk through an airport looking like they time-traveled out of 1850.
Pray out loud in a hoodie or a hat while…

— AP (@AP_from_NY) April 18, 2025

Nikki Haley slams Tulsi Gabbard for claiming that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program-

 

🚨NEW: Nikki Haley slams Tulsi Gabbard for claiming that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program-despite stockpiles of near-weapons-grade uranium and evidence of covert weaponization efforts

“There is no room for Iranian sympathizers in the national security team of the US.” pic.twitter.com/5UXh8PF9m0

— Nikki Haley HQ (@NikkiHaleyHQ) April 20, 2025

"Not one person was vetted coming into the US ..DemonRats Want to Vet those Deported! LOL

 

TOM HOMAN ON MORNING JOE -- Not one person was vetted coming into America, now Democrats want to vet everyone we deport.pic.twitter.com/IC7IGiRGs8

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 18, 2025

Dalia Ziada an Arab Muslim Experiences her own "Exodus" from Egypt

 

While I am experiencing my own exodus from Egypt right now, I would like to share this personal note with you:

The Passover is one of my most favorite holidays in all religions. It is very linked to Egypt, and thus, my Jewish friends and I (an Egyptian) used to use it as an… pic.twitter.com/cRTOLdx59Z

— Dalia Ziada - داليا زيادة (@daliaziada) April 19, 2025

Harvard makes the case against itself

 

Harvard faculty members are finally upset about free speech and viewpoint intolerance. Hundreds of professors signed a letter of outrage over what they called an attack on the “rights of free expression, association, and inquiry” in higher education.

The cause for this outcry is the threat to end the university’s tax exempt status, freezing federal grants, and other punitive measures. Some of those measures raise serious concerns over academic freedom and free speech.

The problem is that Harvard faculty members have spent decades denying those rights to teachers and students alike.

Meet the Tren de Aragua gang members That Supreme Court Stopped Trump from deporting

 The Trump administration on Saturday released the rap sheets and photos of alleged Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members detained in Texas who the administration is trying to deport.

The suspects of the violent Venezuelan gang were going to be deported using the recently reinstated Alien Enemies Act of 1798 before the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled Saturday morning against deportations under the 18th century law.

In a decision in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union, the administration was barred from removing Venezuelans held in Texas' Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order of this court."

Left-leaning AP is out of step with the rest of the US

 

by Michael Goodwin NYP

As a lifelong journalist, I should be on the side of The Associated Press in its ongoing legal fight with the Trump White House.

And I would be if the AP were the neutral, fact-driven wire service it used to be.

Unfortunately, it has become just another outlet peddling leftist opinion disguised as straight news.

And as its fight with the White House demonstrates, it also reeks of a sense of elite entitlement.

The case involves the AP’s claims that its freedom of speech was violated when it was booted from its long-standing spot in the press pool, an elite, small group of legacy news outlets that get near-daily access to the president.

The AP was one of three wire services in the group, along with Reuters and Bloomberg.

Others getting special access include television and cable companies, photographers, radio reporters and rotating members from print outlets.

Refused to adjust

Because there was just one spot reserved for print reporters, most got only a monthly chance to question the president in small-space events, such as the Oval Office and Air Force One.

The AP got the boot from the group after it refused to change its influential stylebook and continued to refer to the “Gulf of Mexico” after President Trump officially changed the name to the “Gulf of America.”

I agreed with the federal judge who ruled the demotion unfairly punished the AP, but have come to admire even more the way the White House has used the case to carry out a much-needed move to democratize access to the president.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who at 27 is the youngest person to hold her job, took office wanting to open the door to new media outlets, including edgy podcasts, political influencers and specialized wire services.

DemonRats in Panic Mode after Biden's Disastrous Appearance

 

DIN: What the article below doesn't say is that Biden now gets $300,000 per appearance!

Former President Joe Biden’s return to the spotlight has some Democratic party insiders — including top aides —  fuming that his presence is only dredging up old wounds, according to a report.

After keeping a low profile, Biden reemerged Tuesday with an anti-Trump speech in Chicago, followed by private remarks at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. 

But the reaction from within the Democratic party was less of a celebration and more of a panic-inducing event, with party operatives, strategists, and Biden loyalists saying his presence came at the worst time, The Hill reported.

“I love both Bidens dearly, but staff loyalty means there is a responsibility to provide them with an honest situational awareness, especially when it comes to their public image, no matter how hurtful it is to hear,” Michael LaRosa, who served as Jill Biden’s communications director, told the outlet.

LaRosa argued that any advisors with a pulse on the Democratic party should have known that many people remain “furious or indifferent” to the former president.

While speaking at Harvard, Biden had to be corrected by his longtime adviser Mike Donilon when he mixed up Ukraine with Iraq when talking about the war with Russia, the Harvard Crimson reported.

After the 82-year-old former president bit into an ice cream bar at the event, the partially eaten dessert fell to the floor, the Crimson noted. 

“This was hard to watch,” one former White House official told the Post of the speech, where Biden also  reminisced about “colored kids.”

“It felt like seeing someone you care about start to regress. We just wanted him to enjoy retirement like other presidents — not go out like this,” the official said.

The mix-up only added to the Trump administration and conservatives’ attempt to use the unpopular ex-president’s appearance as a distraction from recent tariff turmoil, LaRosa added.

Biden’s return was a “lovely gift for the White House, President Trump, and conservative media at a time when they were playing defense and under the kind of heavy scrutiny over the botched tariff policy in ways we haven’t seen since Trump was elected,” he said.

LaRosa lamented that Biden’s handlers should recognize the end of his political career and act accordingly.

“It’s a heartbreaking and tragic ending to their time in public life, but it’s also the truth, and they should index the political realities into their decision-making,” the former aide continued.

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, 80, passes away

 Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of the Kisei Rahamim Yeshiva and a leading Sephardic-haredi rabbi, passed away on Saturday, on the last day of the holiday of Passover.

Rabbi Mazuz spent much of the past month in the hospital, and his condition deteriorated over the past week.

He taught thousands of students in all of his yeshiva's institutions. During the 2005 Disengagement, Rabbi Mazuz participated in demonstrations and signed a ruling from the YESHA Rabbinic Council supporting soldiers who refused to obey the orders.

In 2015, politician Eli Yishai left the Shas party and created the Yachad party, which ran in the elections together with Otzma Yehudit. Rabbi Mazuz was recognized as the party's spiritual leader, but the joint party did not pass the electoral threshold.

In 2021, ahead of the elections for the 24th Knesset, Rabbi Mazuz supported the Otzma Yehudit party, but the party failed to pass the electoral threshold.

Ahead of elections for the 25th Knesset, Rabbi Mazuz expressed support for the Shas party, but continued to support Otzma Yehudit as well.

Rabbi Mazuz is the cousin of retired Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz.

His passing was mourned by several government figures.

UTJ MK Moshe Gafni eulogized, "Together with all of Israel we mourn the passing of the great Torah giant, the saintly Rabbi Meir Mazuz. We send our condolences to the esteemed family, to his students and admirers. May you find comfort from Heaven, until the Resurrection."

Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf stated "Rabbi Mezuzah was a great man of the Torah and the world of Jewish law I our generation, he merited to raise many students and to instill the tradition of the house of his father of the Tunisian Jewry."

The Minister of Jerusalem and Heritage Affairs, Meir Porush, mourned "Rabbi Mazuz was a tent of Torah in the Holy Land, the leader of the Tunisian Jewry in the world, a guide to multitudes and a luminary of the generation. He stood steadfastly for the threefold perfection – Torah, People and Land of Israel – without fear and without compromise."

"I had the privilege of a warm personal relationship with him over the years, a relationship that has continued from generation to generation. His passing is a loss to me and to the nation."

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated "Together with the entire House of Israel I mourn the passing of the great Rabbi Meir Mazuz. The rabbi was one of the leaders of Sephardic Jewry and one of the great scholars of the generation. With his prodigious knowledge of Torah and with great humility, he led the masses of Israel."

The Shas movement mourned, "A great loss to the world of Torah and halacha. The Shas movement extends its condolences to his family, his brother and his sons, to his many students and to those who heard his teachings. May the Almighty heal the breach in His people and hasten our redemption."

Interior Minister Moshe Ariel lamented, "With deep sorrow, I bid farewell to the great scholar Rabbi Meir Mazuz. In our last meeting two weeks ago, he reminisced wistfully about the days when I had the privilege of studying Torah in his home over twenty years ago. The towering figure of the rabbi will be sorely missed by the Torah scholars and his followers. May his memory be blessed."

Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar eulogized Rabbi Meir Mazuz: "Rabbi Mazuz – a great rabbi of Israel, a figure of Torah, humility and Jewish fortitude. I was privileged to meet him, to be impressed by his personality and to be blessed by him personally. A clear voice of tradition and wisdom, who brought depth and rare honesty. May his memory be a blessing."