Julia Hyman, Jewish graduate of Cornell, killed in Manhattan shooting

Julia Hyman, a Jewish graduate of Cornell University, was identified on Tuesday as one of the four victims of Monday night’s shooting attack in Manhattan.

Hyman, 27, was murdered after the shooter, Shane Tamura, accidentally took the wrong elevator to her employer’s floor and encountered her, according to the New York Post.

Hyman had worked for Rudin Management, the company that owns the skyscraper where Tamura launched his rampage.

She graduated from Cornell in 2020 and had worked as a Rudin associate for less than a year, according to her LinkedIn page.

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff issued a statement in her memory on Tuesday in which he said, “Today, I join you in mourning the loss of Julia Hyman, a 2020 graduate of the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration, who has been identified by news reports as one of the victims in Monday’s horrific shooting attack in New York City.”

“Julia, a native of Manhattan and an associate at Rudin Management, graduated summa cum laude with a major in hotel and restaurant administration and a minor in real estate. Her first job after graduating was with Sagehall Partners, founded by a fellow Cornellian. Julia was on campus earlier this summer for her five-year reunion,” he added.

“We are devastated for Julia’s friends and family, including her parents and sister Ali, a 2017 graduate of the College of Human Ecology. We also extend our sympathy to the loved ones of the three other victims, including New York Police Officer Didarul Islam. We extend our deepest condolences to all the families whose loved ones were lost in this senseless act,” said Kotlikoff.

Hyman is the second Jewish victim of Monday’s shooting. Wesley LePatner had been named earlier as one of the victims.

The UJA Federation of New York issued an announcement on LePatner’s death, saying, "We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Wesley LePatner, a cherished member of the UJA community and a dedicated member of our board of directors, who was killed in yesterday’s mass shooting in Midtown."

Wesley was described as "exceptional in every aspect of her life — personally, professionally, and philanthropically. She was extremely engaged as a member of the Jewish community. She was a board member of the Heschel Jewish Day School on the Upper West Side. As a leader of rare talent and integrity in the financial world, she brought vision, intelligence, and deep compassion to all that she pursued."

After October 7th, she led a UJA solidarity mission to Israel, exemplifying her deep dedication to the Jewish people in times of heartbreak and need. She lived with courage and purpose, nurturing in her two children a profound love for Judaism and the Jewish community.

 

The UN refuses to feed Gaza civilians unless it feeds Hamas leaders first

 

The starvation blood libel gained new traction last week at the exact same time Hamas blew up the latest ceasefire talks, ensuring that the international media would dutifully report on alleged Israeli evils rather than Hamas guaranteeing the war would continue.

As if by magic, somehow the 90 million free meals, two million a day, delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in recent weeks left Gazans hungrier than ever, according to the propaganda. Meanwhile, the United Nations continues to let its own aid rot in Gaza rather than attempt to feed the very people it claims are starving.

The starvation myth is as much a lie now as it was when OCHA head Tom Fletcher claimed without evidence or a shred of truth that 14,000 babies would die of starvation in Gaza in 48 hours. After 48 hours had passed, the number of babies who reportedly died of starvation was zero. But the truth did not matter, only the lie Fletcher spread on behalf of the UN and on behalf of Hamas.

The Netherlands Banning Entry To Jews Again ..Now Banning Ben Gvir And Smotrich; Threatens Sanctions

 

The Dutch government on Monday evening announced that it has imposed an entry ban on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, along with a series of other anti-Israel measures.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp wrote in a letter to Dutch lawmakers that the cabinet has decided to “declare Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir persona non grata and will register them as undesirable aliens in the Schengen registration system.”

“This is because they have repeatedly incited settler violence against the Palestinian population, continuously advocated the expansion of illegal settlements, and called for ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip.”

Frum Lady Wesley LePatner Blackstone Executive, Identified as Manhattan Shooting Victim

 Wesley LePatner (Michal Ziva bas Aryeh Leib a”h), a senior managing director at Blackstone and a respected figure in New York’s Modern Orthodox Jewish community, was tragically killed in the mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan on Monday. She was 43.

LePatner, a longtime member of The Altneu shul, also served on the boards of the UJA-Federation of New York and The Heschel School. Her sudden death has left friends and colleagues reeling.

“Broken. The unspeakable has happened,” wrote a friend. “Our dear friend, mentor, community member & builder Wesley LePatner was killed in yesterday’s shooting… the kindest and sharpest human being.”

“Just a few weeks ago, we sat for lunch and spoke about the future, our children, women’s leadership, Torah, our love for Israel,” her friend wrote. “I looked up to her so deeply.”

In addition to her role at Blackstone, where she served as Global Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s Real Estate group, LePatner was widely respected in the business world for her sharp intellect and steady leadership.

She leaves behind her husband, Evan, and their children.

Levaya arrangements have not yet been announced.

Yehi Zichra Baruch.

To end food shortages in Gaza, the world should unite to end . . . Hamas

 

The plight of Gazan civilians lacking enough food has made headlines, but make no mistake: Whatever hunger exists in Gaza is Hamas’ fault — and the way to address it is to end Hamas. And thus, the war.

Claims of “mass starvation,” of course, are utter baloney. They’re based by all sorts of falsehoods, including, most recently, lurid, upsetting photos of supposedly sick, malnourished kids, whose protruding bones make them look like Nazi concentration-camp prisoners.

Numerous publications published one particularly disturbing photo, of a boy named Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, to show the effects of “widespread hunger.”

Only it turns out the boy is not malnourished but has a genetic disease; uncropped pictures show his well-fed brother nearby. 

It’s likely many Gazans have trouble getting enough food for their families day-to-day. But relying on any information out of Gaza about food supplies is a dangerous business.

Reports of “mass starvation” there have been circulating from early in the war. In May the BBC reported that “14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours,” yet that turned out to be a willful misreading of a projection by the United Nations (itself an unreliable source).  

Meanwhile, Israel is permitting truckloads of aid into Gaza, and facilitating air drops. This week it even paused military action for 10 hours a day to allow for humanitarian aid.

Remember, though, that food shortages in Gaza have largely been orchestrated by Hamas, which steals international aid for its own members and to resell to finance its war efforts.

And this morally perverse group actually wants its people to starve, so the world will blame Israel and pressure it to halt its attacks on . . . Hamas.

That strategy has been succeeding, which is why Hamas has refused to surrender or even agree to a cease-fire.

Just this weekend, for example, French premier Macron fecklessly “recognized” Palestine as a state.

That just rewards Hamas further, and encourages it to keep the war going. Expect only more suffering for Gazans. 

At least President Donald Trump is wise to the game: Last week, he pulled US negotiators back from cease-fire talks, saying Hamas “didn’t want to make a deal,” but rather “wanted to die.”

Spot on: The group is nothing more than a power-hungry death cult that gloats over the “martyrdom” of innocent people it hides behind. It built hundreds of miles of tunnels for its soldiers but not one shelter for its people. 

If the world wants to improve the lives of suffering Gazans, it needs to unify against Hamas, not Israel.

Once Hamas is defeated, the war can end and Gazans will be free of their true oppressors.

That will also bring about the best chances yet for long-term peace.

Rashi was an ardent Zionist

 

by Tzvi Fishman

This past Friday marked the yahrzeit of the great Torah commentator, Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki. Almost everyone is familiar with the famous first Rashi on the Torah. He asks - since the Torah is the Book of Law which Hashem gave to the Jewish People, why does it begin with the account of Creation and not with the commandments? 

Rashi answers the question by quoting a Midrash of Rabbi Yitzhak which explains that if the nations of the world claim that we stole the Land of Israel from them, we can answer that since the Holy One Blessed Be He created the world, He can give the Land of Israel to whomever He chooses.

Did Rashi have political savvy? 

Did he foresee the day when the Arabs, the European Union, the BDS, the United Nations, Hague, and the U.S. State Department would call Israel thieves, claiming that we stole Eretz Yisrael from the Palestinian Arabs? 

Maybe, but I don’t think he was stockpiling ammunition for Bibi to convey to the UN. Rashi didn’t write his commentary for the Gentiles - he wrote it to teach the Jews.

Rashi wants to teach us that without Eretz Yisrael there is no Torah, no Am Yisrael, nor Sanctification of Hashem in the world. 

Eretz Yisrael is the foundation of the entire Torah. The Torah was given to be kept in Eretz Yisrael. The Jewish People can only be a Nation in Eretz Yisrael. And the establishment of the Kingdom of Hashem - the goal of the Torah - can only be established in the world when the Nation of Israel dwells in its Land, all of the Jews in all of the Land.

Without Eretz Yisrael we are scattered Jews, not a Nation. We struggle to survive but assimilation eats away at us, threatening Diaspora Jews with extinction. Without Eretz Yisrael, the Jews are defenseless minorities in other peoples’ lands, dependent on the non-Jew for everything.

Rashi teaches that Torah is meant to be kept in the Land of Israel, the only place it can be observed in all of its fullness, with its many laws relating to the Land of Israel, the Kingship of Israel, the army of Israel, the justice system of Israel, and the Beit HaMikdash which you can’t build in Moscow, Berlin, of Brooklyn. 

He reminds us that we perform mitzvot in the Diaspora only so that we remember how to do them, for the commandments were given to be performed in the Holy Land (Devarim, 11:18).

 In several places in his Torah commentary, Rashi cites the Gemara which states that a Jew who lives in Israel is like someone who has a God, and a Jew who dwells outside the Land of Israel is like someone who worships idols (Vayikra 25:38).

If anyone still clinging to the Diaspora doubts that Hashem wants His children to dwell in the Chosen Land, he or she only glance at the upcoming Torah portion as we begin the Book of Devarim:

“‘Moshe began to explain the Torah, saying, ‘The Lord our God spoke to us in Horev, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this mountain - TURN AND TAKE UP YOUR JOURNEY - go to the Land of Israel! BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU, GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND THAT THE LORD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS, AVRAHAM, YITZHAK, AND YAACOV TO GIVE THEM, AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM” (Devarim, 1:6-8).

Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook explained to his students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem: 

“The Torah wasn’t given to be kept in Sinai, nor in Russia or America. The Torah isn’t a ‘religion’ like Buddhism or Christianity, God forbid. The Torah isn’t some abstract spirituality floating like a cloud in the sky. The Torah has an EARTHLY BASE. Not Sinai. Not Europe. Not the United States. The Torah is the DIVINE CONSTITUTION of the NATION OF ISRAEL, and every NATION needs its own LAND. And the holy CHILDREN OF ISRAEL have their own unique HOLY LAND.

“What is the first and fundamental message that Moshe explains when he teaches the Torah to Am Yisrael? Not Shabbos. Not kashrus. ‘Do you want to know what Torah is?’ Moshe asks them. ‘If you really want to keep it, GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND! That’s the basis of Torah. Only in the Holy Land will you be able to understand what the Torah is all about and only there can all of the Torah be kept.’”

That’s what Rashi is coming to tell us at the very start of the Torah. Hashem created the world and gave the Land of Israel to the Jews. Hashem wants His Children to live in the Holy Land and not scattered around the world.

May Rashi’s memory be for a blessing.

UN 'mobsters' barred NGOs from French-Saudi 2-State conference

 

The French and Saudi-led UN conference calling for the creation of a Palestinian State began today (Monday). The three-day conference is being held following French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial announcement last week that France would recognize a Palestinian State in September.

Professor Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Arutz Sheva - Israel National News that all NGOs were prohibited from attending the conference despite assurances that the event would be open.

"Today, the UN mob, led now by France and Saudi Arabia, went on a manic anti-Israel blitz. The closest analogy is the speed of October 7th itself. Nothing tells you more about how this international gang works than the manner in which this conference is being conducted," Prof. Bayefsky stated.

Qatar behind Hamas 'starvation' propaganda campaign

 

Israeli officials believe that Qatar is leading Hamas’ propaganda campaign about a "famine in Gaza," which is gaining widespread international traction, according to a report on Channel 12 News this evening (Monday).

The campaign portrays Israel as the direct cause of a "famine crisis in Gaza" and is being amplified by major media outlets around the world. Some Israeli media outlets are also echoing Hamas’ narrative, amid the circulation of disturbing images of severely underweight children in Gaza.

Just today, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) exposed the falsehoods behind Hamas’ "starvation" campaign and responded to accusations that Israel is responsible for the "starvation" of a 5-year-old boy from Gaza, Osama al-Rakab.

The photo, which went viral and was widely shared internationally, including by media outlets, showed the child in poor health, with claims that his condition was due to "starvation in Gaza caused by Israeli actions."

However, al-Rakab has not been starved by Israel, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) reported. In reality, al-Rakab suffers from a genetic illness unrelated to the war, which is responsible for his condition. And left Gaza with his mother and brother, and is now being treated in Italy.

"The Facts: Osama suffers from a serious genetic illness unrelated to the war," COGAT tweeted. "On June 12, we actively coordinated Osama's exit from Gaza with his mother and brother through the Ramon airport."

"He is now receiving treatment in Italy."

COGAT stressed: "Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions, but when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good. Don’t let compassion be exploited for propaganda. Check the facts before parroting blame."

“Nazi!”: Wounded IDF Hero Assaulted by Chareidim on Way to Rehab for Severe Injuries

 

A severely wounded IDF officer was verbally and physically assaulted by a group of young Chareidi men on his way to a rehabilitation center.

MK Hili Tropper (National Unity) revealed the disturbing account in a public post, sharing a message he received from the officer, who has spent the past year and eight months recovering from life-altering injuries sustained during Operation Swords of Iron.

According to the officer, the assault took place at the Bnei Brak junction, a major artery in the largely Charedi city. “About ten young charedim jumped on my vehicle,” he wrote. “They cursed, spat, called me ‘Nazi,’ broke the mirrors. I, an injured IDF officer on crutches, with a brace on my hand — can’t believe it.”

The soldier, who has undergone 12 surgeries and still carries shrapnel in his body, said he served without hesitation to protect Israel — only to find himself the target of hatred from within its borders.

“I did it without thinking twice. That’s how we were raised. And now I find myself surrounded by chants of ‘We’ll die and not enlist,’ by violence, by hate,” the officer wrote.

His message also accused Charedi leadership of enabling extremism through silence. “This doesn’t represent all charedim,” he said. “But when the leadership is silent, some take it to the extreme. We’re not asking for thanks. We’re asking for a state. One state. A state that we’re all part of — even when it hurts.”

Tropper, a former minister and centrist voice in the Knesset, published the officer’s message in full, calling it “a cry that cannot be ignored.”

No arrests have been reported in connection with the attack. Police have not commented on whether an investigation is underway.

Tehran Is Frantically Attempting To Rearm Hezbollah & Houthis

 

A Wall Street Journal report says that Iran is accelerating its efforts to rearm Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen.

According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, Iran has discovered a way to continue to transfer weapons to the Hezbollah terror group through Iraq and Syria. 

Instead of its past tactics of openly transferring truckfuls of weapons and missiles to Lebanon through Syria, it has recently begun using small vehicles for the same purpose and has succeeded in transferring Kornet anti-tank missiles and advanced weaponry into Lebanon.

However, not all transfer attempts were successful. According to the WSJ report, the new Syrian government has intercepted several arms shipments from Tehran to Hezbollah, including Grads rockets and other weaponry. Additionally, Lebanese armed forces have also intercepted weapons shipments, including Russian-made anti-tank missiles, through Syria.

“Iran is rebuilding its presence in the Levant by sending missiles to Hezbollah and weapons from Iraq to Syria,” said Michael Knights, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Washington Institute for Near East Policy with expertise in Iran’s militia allies.

Iran has also attempted to transfer advanced weapons to the Houthis in Yemen. 

Only weeks after a ceasefire was announced between Iran and Israel, forces from Yemen’s internationally recognized government intercepted a massive shipment of advanced military equipment—750 tons of missiles, drone parts, and warheads sent by Tehran to the Houthis. 

The shipment, which was concealed aboard a ship called a dhow under crates of air conditioners, was intercepted by the National Resistance Force, a military coalition aligned with the Yemeni government. 

The U.S. Central Command confirmed that it was the National Resistance Force’s largest seizure of advanced Iranian conventional weapons and included Iranian-developed Qader antiship missiles and components for the Saqr air-defense system, which the Houthis have used to bring down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones. 

“The timing and scale of this shipment strongly suggest Iran is moving quickly to replenish Houthi stockpiles depleted by U.S. airstrikes,” said Mohammed al-Basha, founder of U.S.-based Middle East security advisory Basha Report. It shows Tehran wants to “sustain their high operational tempo targeting Israel and commercial maritime traffic,” he said.

Goldkrap's Vile Remarks on Bereaved Families

 

Aryeh Ehrlich, editor of Mishpacha magazine, delivered a scathing rebuke of MK Yitzhak Goldkrap (United Torah Judaism) after the lawmaker suggested that the grief of religious-Zionist families who lost loved ones in the war with Hamas “should remain with them.”

In a weekend interview with Makor Rishon, Goldkrap stated:
“Their pain should remain with them, and our pain should remain with us. Don’t bring me your pain and pass it onto me. Let’s decide that everyone deals with their own package.”

Ehrlich condemned the comments on social media, writing:
“I am ashamed and humiliated by the words spoken by my representative in the Knesset. I literally bury my head in shame at such callous and un-Jewish quotes like ‘Don’t dump your pain on us’ or ‘Everyone with their own package.’ These alienating remarks go against everything our Sages taught us about the suffering of Israel, and about how when a Jew is in pain, the Divine Presence cries and says, ‘It is too heavy for My head, too heavy for My arm.’”

Ehrlich contrasted Goldkrap’s remarks with the example of Moses, who, despite being exempt from slavery, descended to witness and share the suffering of his brethren in Egypt.

‘This Tone Has No Connection to Haredi Thought’
While acknowledging deep disagreements over army enlistment, Ehrlich emphasized that the Torah approach demands empathy and solidarity:
“This tone-deaf attitude has no connection whatsoever to authentic Haredi thought as we received it from our rabbis across all communities—Sephardic, Lithuanian, and certainly Hasidic, who were raised on the foundations of Ahavat Yisrael. Our rabbis were horrified when Jewish soldiers fell on the battlefield. They declared fasts and held prayer gatherings.”

He recalled moments of communal unity, such as the prayer rally for IDF soldier Nachshon Wachsman in 1994, where Haredi leaders led thousands in fervent prayers. “Where has the basic Jewish empathy for the suffering of our brothers gone?” he asked.

Call for Introspection and Action
Ehrlich warned that statements like Goldkrap’s are not only harmful but contrary to Torah values:
“Such callous statements like ‘that’s your pain’ do not advance Torah study in any way. We must approach bereaved families with reverence and say to them: even if we don’t agree on the issue of yeshiva students, our hearts are with your pain—because the people of Israel are one body.”

He further criticized Haredi MKs for avoiding condolence visits:
“This avoidance breeds insensitivity toward others’ pain—an insensitivity that has nothing to do with our stance on the draft, and in fact, severely damages our concern for the status of yeshiva students.”

‘Silence Is Always an Option’
Concluding his remarks, Ehrlich urged Goldkrap to retract his comments and called on other Haredi representatives to demonstrate compassion:
“I sincerely hope that Goldkrap will find the decency to publicly retract his words—without asterisks, and without claiming ‘my words were taken out of context.’ If they’re not capable of that—then silence is always an option."

France Had been Collaborating With Hamas Murderers Since 2020

 

Paris has been carrying out “secret contacts” with Hamas at least since October 2020, when a high-ranking French intelligence official met two with senior Hamas figures in Doha, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Saturday.

The meeting, initiated by the French, came to Israel’s attention through a document captured by the IDF in Gaza, which provided a detailed report on the meeting.

On Oct. 16, 2020, the No. 3 in French intelligence met with Hamas senior officials Moussa Abu Marzouk and Khaled Mashaal, respectively the former and current chairman of Hamas’s so-called political bureau.

The captured document revealed the minutes of the Qatar talks.

“I am happy about this meeting. I come to it with President [Emmanuel] Macron’s approval. We don’t want to talk only to the Palestinian Authority, but also to you. We, the French, are historically close to the Palestinian struggle,” the French intelligence representative told the Hamas officials.

He also said France was highly critical of the way the United States was handling the Palestinian issue, Channel 12 reported.

 

Abu Marzouk and Mashaal replied: “Even if the international community supports the Zionist entity, be sure that we will defeat it. This land is ours, and our resistance and revolution have been going on for more than a century, and we will continue until victory.”

The document shows no mention of the French protesting the clear statements of Hamas’s intent to destroy Israel.

The revelation comes as Macron announced his intention to recognize a Palestinian state, posting to social media on July 24: “I will make the solemn announcement at the United Nations General Assembly in September.’’

In response to the Channel 12 report, a French diplomat denied the document’s contents. “These baseless accusations are apparently intended to undermine the legitimacy of our efforts toward a two-state political solution,” the diplomat said.

“Hamas is a terrorist organization that has carried out the worst antisemitic massacre of the 21st century. France will continue to work to permanently disarm it and exclude it from any political ‘day after,’ in Gaza and beyond,” the diplomat added.

Pained and Determined – Ichud Kehillos Rockland Against Skver Leadership

 

This episode features firsthand accounts from community members living through the devastating impact of Skver's policy of Sinas Chinam.

The Sinas Chinam is real, and it's hurting kehillos all around Monsey.

Listen. Share. Speak up.

We will not stop until every bit of this divisive behavior comes to an end.

 

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Trump says that Macron's words Cannot be taken Seriously

 

Zera Shimshon Parshat Matot-Masai

 

Iran suspects Israel is behind a recent wave of explosions

 

Iran suspects Israel is behind a recent wave of explosions targeting oil refineries and homes, the New York Times reports. While Iranian officials privately blame Israeli sabotage, Tehran has stopped short of direct accusations-likely to avoid pressure for retaliation.

Trump says Hamas wants to die! He finally figured it out

 

 Trump on Hamas and Gaza: 

"They pulled out in terms of negotiating. It was too bad. Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die."

Pilot Who Ejected Jewish Kids For Singing In Hebrew Trained Two 9/11 Hijackers

 

The antisemitic scandal surrounding Vueling Airlines has taken a mindboggling twist as it has been revealed that Iván Chirivella, a pilot who trained two of the 9/11 hijackers, was the captain who ordered the removal of 50 Jewish children from a flight between Valencia and Paris.

Vueling Airlines confirmed Friday that Chirivella, a native of the Canary Islands and a senior flight instructor at an independent aviation school, was in command during the incident. Chirivella was the flight instructor for at least two of the terrorists behind the September 11 attacks – ringleader Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi – at Jones Aviation in Florida in 2000.

Despite this alarming history, Vueling promoted Chirivella to a senior training role, placing him not only in the cockpit but in charge of mentoring other pilots.

Trump Tells Off Powell Straight to his face!

 

After months of criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump took the fight to the Fed’s front door on Thursday, publicly scorning the central bank chief over the ballooning costs of a long-planned building project. Powell pushed back, challenging the president’s latest price tag as incorrect.

Wearing hard hats and grim faces, standing in the middle of the construction project, Trump and Powell addressed the cameras. Trump charged that the renovation would cost $3.1 billion, much higher than the Fed’s $2.5 billion figure. Powell, standing next to him, shook his head.

The Fed Chair, after looking at a paper presented to him by Trump, said the president was including the cost of renovating a separate Fed building, known as the Martin building, that was finished five years ago.

The visit represented a significant ratcheting up of the president’s pressure on Powell to lower borrowing costs, which Trump says would accelerate economic growth and reduce the government’s borrowing costs. Presidents rarely visit the Fed’s offices, though they are just a few blocks from the White House, an example of the central bank’s independence from day-to-day politics.

“We have to get the interest rates down,” Trump said later after a short tour, addressing the cameras this time without Powell. “People are pretty much unable to buy houses.”

Trump is likely to be disappointed next week, however, when Fed officials will meet to decide its next steps on interest rates. Powell and other officials have signaled they will likely keep their key rate unchanged at about 4.3%. However, economists and Wall Street investors expect the Fed may start cutting rates in September.

Goldknopf Threatens Ultra-Orthodox Exodus Over Israel’s Military Draft Dispute

 

And where, pray tell, is a better place for frum Yidden? In Europe, with the rampant anti-semitism? In the UK, where the Dept of Education is trying to force their curricula on the private schools? Even the Goldene Medina, where BH, Yidden have freedom and equal rights, the anti-semitism is still strongly felt. And there is inrterference in our chinuch as well as many nisyonos. 

EY is a place that is blessed and it’s a mitzva to live there, even when it’s golus. There is no learning that equals Toras Eretz Yisroel. Its a hollow threat!

Israel’s United Torah Judaism leader, Ytzhak Goldknopf, sparked political uproar on Thursday after warning that the ultra-Orthodox community might consider leaving Israel if the government begins arresting yeshiva students who refuse military service. His remarks came after several Haredi draft evaders were recently detained, intensifying the already heated debate over conscription exemptions.

In an interview with the religious newspaper Makor Rishon, Goldknopf declared, “If there is no choice and the ultra-Orthodox have to leave the country, then they will leave the country. The ultra-Orthodox will not change their way of life because there is an army and a war. If the army is short 50,000 soldiers, go take the draft dodgers from Tel Aviv and Gush Dan.”