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Sunday, January 19, 2020
Breaking: Arline Lester dies by forced euthanasia LI, NY
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Israel arrests alleged sex abuser Gershon Kranczer 10 years after he fled there
https://forward.com/news/438056/brooklyn-native-and-alleged-sex-abuser-gershon-kranczer-arrested-in-israel/
Israel arrests alleged sex abuser Gershon Kranczer 10 years after he fled there
An American rabbi who fled to Israel ten years ago after being
accused of sexually abusing female relatives was arrested by Israeli
police on Sunday, according to Israel’s Justice Ministry.
Jewish Community Watch, a watchdog organization that tries to combat
child sexual abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community, identified that
man as Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, a former principal of a Brooklyn
yeshiva. An American law enforcement official who has direct knowledge
of this case also independently confirmed Kranczer’s identity to the
Forward.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Lilat, Ziva https://savehischildren.blogspot.com/2020/01/hate-crimes-vs-religious-bas-cohen
BS"D
Hate Crimes Vs. A Religious Bas-Cohen
Update: Jan. 16, '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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We
reported on a religious young woman, Lital bas Miriam Cohen of Tel
Aviv, 26, incarcerated on Monday for her steadfast refusal to sacrifice
her religious principles and her personal purity by enlisting in the
Israeli Army.
She is now being persecuted in
jail for her fidelity to Torah Law, denied even a sheet to sleep on,
contact with an attorney entering the jail to speak to her and bring her
items from home, and in other ways. They are clearly trying to break
her. They're also apparently seeking to extend her incarceration without
appropriate due process.
Please stay tuned, we hope to post more updates throughout the week.
Please
daven and learn for Lital bas Miriam, intelligently circulate this
information, and protest any "frum" media venues who opt to
intentionally silence this story.
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UPDATE on Ziva bas Mazal
16 Jan. '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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A Follow up on this most recent post:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
We've reported on Ziva bas Mazal in the past (e.g. https://daattorah.blogspot.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
The Army chooses their victims judiciously, and apparently treats them with similarly thoughtful consideration.
° Ziva is currently suffering as a female, who is being persecuted with the overt intent to compel her to violate her personal modesty by enlisting in the notoriously exploitive and immoral Army.
° She is enduring what is nothing less than religious persecution, for her fidelity to the Torah prohibition against enlistment in the Army.
° She's enduring blatant mistreatment that appears more frequently in the cases involving those within the naturally less-advantaged Ethiopian community. (Some elitist, antireligious Ashkenazi bigots consider it their duty to integrate black Jewish girls into the military melting pot.)
° Additionally, the elitists in Maitav evidently feel it imperative that the entire family participate in this social-engineering draft process. Ziva's elderly parents, particularly her acutely infirm father, are being subjected to all of the pain of witnessing this ongoing, illegal charade against their daughter.
More soon BE"H.
Hate Crimes Vs. A Religious Girls In Israeli Military Prison
BS"D
Hate Crimes Vs. A Religious Bas-Cohen
Update: Jan. 16, '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit Updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
~~~~~~~~~
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~~
To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit Updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
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We
reported on a religious young woman, Lital bas Miriam Cohen of Tel
Aviv, 26, incarcerated on Monday for her steadfast refusal to sacrifice
her religious principles and her personal purity by enlisting in the
Israeli Army (https://daattorah.
She
is now being persecuted in jail for her fidelity to Torah Law, denied
even a sheet to sleep on, contact with an attorney entering the jail to
speak to her and bring her items from home, and in other ways. They are
clearly trying to break her. They're also apparently seeking to extend
her incarceration without appropriate due process.
Please stay tuned, we hope to post more updates throughout the week.
Please
daven and learn for Lital bas Miriam, intelligently circulate this
information, and protest any "frum" media venues who opt to
intentionally silence this story.
###
UPDATE on Ziva bas Mazal
16 Jan. '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
~~~~
A Follow up on this most recent post:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
We've reported on Ziva bas Mazal in the past (e.g. https://daattorah.blogspot.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
The Army chooses their victims judiciously, and apparently treats them with similarly thoughtful consideration.
° Ziva is currently suffering as a female, who is being persecuted with the overt intent to compel her to violate her personal modesty by enlisting in the notoriously exploitive and immoral Army.
° She is enduring what is nothing less than religious persecution, for her fidelity to the Torah prohibition against enlistment in the Army.
° She's enduring blatant mistreatment that appears more frequently in the cases involving those within the naturally less-advantaged Ethiopian community. (Some elitist, antireligious Ashkenazi bigots consider it their duty to integrate black Jewish girls into the military melting pot.)
° Additionally, the elitists in Maitav evidently feel it imperative that the entire family participate in this social-engineering draft process. Ziva's elderly parents, particularly her acutely infirm father, are being subjected to all of the pain of witnessing this ongoing, illegal charade against their daughter.
More soon BE"H.
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Devin Nunes Now Remembers Talking to Giuliani Associate Lev Parnas After Previously Saying He Couldn't Recall His Name
https://www.newsweek.com/devin-nunes-remembers-talking-lev-parnas-1482480
Speaking with Martha MacCallum on Fox News in the wake of the Parnas
interview, Nunes said the businessman was "someone who doesn't tell the
truth," and brought up his indictment on campaign finance charges.
Reminded
that he previously said he didn't "recall" a phone call with the
Giuliani associate, the GOP representative said: "If you recall, that
was brand new when it came out, when I was on your show. I just didn't
know the name. This name Parnas.
The White House Broke The Law By Freezing Ukraine Aid, Watchdog Says
https://time.com/5766471/watchdog-white-house-illegal-aid-freeze/
Administration officials on Thursday were quick to point out that GAO
is an arm of Congress and the administration is not bound by any of its
findings. A senior administration official on Thursday called GAO’s
decision “a pretty clear overreach as they attempt to insert themselves
into the media’s controversy of the day.”
“We disagree with GAO’s opinion,” OMB Spokesperson
Rachel Semmel said in a statement to TIME. “OMB uses its apportionment
authority to ensure taxpayer dollars are properly spent consistent with
the President’s priorities and with the law.”
But recently released internal government emails, as well as transcripts of closed-door depositions and interviews with TIME,
show that both Pentagon and OMB officials became increasingly concerned
that what they were being asked to do could violate this very law. The
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires the executive branch to spend
money as appropriated by Congress.
Under that law, the President “has narrow, limited
authority to withhold appropriations,” GAO General Counsel Thomas
Armstrong said in a statement on Thursday.
The White House budget office told GAO that it
withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent “in a manner that
could conflict with the President’s foreign policy.” The law does not
permit OMB to withhold funds for policy reasons,” Armstrong concluded.
GAO says Trump administration broke law by withholding Ukraine aid
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gao-says-trump-admin-broke-law-ukraine
The Government Accountability Office issued a legal
opinion on Thursday saying that President Trump's administration broke
the law by withholding defense aid to Ukraine -- the issue at the heart of the president's impeachment trial.
That
money — $214 million which had been allocated to the Department of
Defense for security assistance — was appropriated by Congress and
therefore the administration did not have the right to hold the money
just back because it disagreed with its allocation, the opinion from the
nonpartisan government watchdog said.
"Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to
substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted
into law," the opinion said. "OMB withheld funds for a policy reason
... not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that the OMB
violated the ICA [Impoundment Control Act]."
The OMB made clear Thursday, however, that it disagreed with the GAO report.
Lev Parnas Claims Yovanovitch Was Targeted to Get Her Out of Possible Biden Probe, Says Hyde Was 'Drunk the Whole Time
https://www.newsweek.com/lev-parnas-claims-yovanovitch-was-targeted-get-her-out-possible-biden-probe-says-hyde-was-drunk-1482462
Former Rudy Giuliani business associate Lev Parnas told MSNBC'S Rachel
Maddow Wednesday night that former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
was removed from her position because she was in the way of an
investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden, which was started at the direct
behest of President Donald Trump.
"That was the only motivation," Parnas said. "There was no other motivation."
Helping
Parnas monitor Yovanovitch's movements was Republican Robert Hyde, a
Trump supporter who is currently running for Congress in Connecticut.
Hyde's name was found in text messages to Parnas discussing Yovanovitch.
"I don't even know how to explain [Hyde]," Parnas said. "He's a weird character."
Robert Hyde Says He Was Only 'Playing' in Texts About Surveillance of Marie Yovanovitch
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-hyde-only-playing-texts-about-marie-yovanovitch-surveillance-1482511
GOP
congressional candidate Robert Hyde has denied being involved in
surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, saying he was
"playing" in texts to Lev Parnas released by House Democrats on Tuesday.
The
Connecticut Republican told Eric Bolling on Sinclair TV last night that
messages he sent to Rudy Giuliani's indicted associate discussing
surveillance of Yovanovitch were "just colorful," and said he was a
"little landscaper from f****** Connecticut" when pressed on whether he
had spied on the then-ambassador.
Hyde also denied being a "close associate" of Parnas, claiming he barely knew the businessman.
Documents released on Tuesday
suggested the supporter of President Donald Trump texted Parnas with
supposed notes on Yovanovitch, her whereabouts and what she was doing.
"She's
talked to three people. Her phone is off. Computer is off," one message
from March 2019 read. According to the documents, another pair of
messages said: "Update she will not be moved special security unit
upgraded force on the compound people are already aware of the situation
my contacts are asking what is the next step because they cannot keep
going to check people will start to ask questions.
Exclusive: ‘You Jews Vote for Trump’: 3 Teens Berate Jewish Girl on Subway
https://boropark24.com/exclusive-you-jews-vote-for-trump-3-teens-berate-jewish-girl-on-subway/
Yelling obscenities and anti-Semitic remarks, three youths confronted
a Jewish girl riding on the subway in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon and
threatened to harm her.
To the victim’s shock, transit police refused to file anything more
than a harassment report, despite the repeated references to “you Jews”
in the attackers’ ten-minute-long tirade.
“It made me feel very uncomfortable,” her father told boropark24.com.
“I didn’t go down there to Manhattan to just file a harassment report.”
Republican leader in Delaware ousted after blaming Jews for Trump impeachment
https://www.timesofisrael.com/republican-leader-in-delaware-ousted-after-blaming-jews-for-trump-impeachment/
A Republican Party leader in Delaware was fired after Facebook posts that were criticized as anti-Semitic.
The Sussex County Republican Party voted on Monday to oust its
vice chair, Nelly Jordan, the Dover Post reported. Her Facebook comments
singling out Jews as responsible for the impeachment of US President
Donald Trump came to light on December 31, according to Delaware State
News.
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TRUMP LIE Trump Says Migrants Getting Stuck Climbing New Border Wall Is A 'Beautiful Sight'—And Proof It Works
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-border-wall-migrants-stuck-top-cbp-1482253
Speaking to a packed crowd, Trump told supporters that "two days ago,
illegal aliens with drugs on their back were climbing the wall" and
"couldn't get off."
While it is true that three migrants did
recently get arrested after getting stuck trying to climb over the
border wall, that incident unfolded more than a week ago on January 5,
and there is no evidence to suggest that the migrants were carrying
drugs.
Appearing to describe that incident during his rally, Trump said:
"They go to the top, you know, that panel on top is called a 'climb
resister.' It's very slippery and very hot. It's very hot," Trump said.
"And they got stuck on the wall, they couldn't get off the wall. You see
that?"
Trump Says U.S. Troops Stayed in Syria 'Because I Kept the Oil'
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-us-troops-syria-oil-bashar-al-assad-kurds-wisconsin-rally-1482250
"People said to me, 'Why are you staying in Syria,'" Trump said
Tuesday. "Because I kept the oil, which frankly we should have done in
Iraq," he added, to cheers and applause from the audience. The president
has previously criticized his predecessors for not profiting off Iraqi
oil wells.
"So they say, 'Trump's in Syria,' I didn't pull out—I
did pull out," the president continued. "We have the oil, really secure.
We'll see what happens with it."
Trump's Middle East policy has
been erratic, in few places more so than Syria. The president has
repeatedly voiced his desire to bring U.S. troops home and disengage
from another unwinnable, long-running, low-intensity conflict there.
The
president abruptly ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from positions
in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey in October.
Lev Parnas Hits the Airwaves on the Eve of Trump's Impeachment Trial
https://time.com/5766061/lev-parnas-trump-impeachment/
Speaking publicly for the first time since the impeachment inquiry
made him a household name last fall, Ukrainian-American businessman Lev
Parnas alleged in a television interview that the President “knew
exactly what was going on” in the campaign to pressure Ukraine to
investigate Trump’s 2020 rival Joe Biden.
“He was aware of all of my movements,” Parnas told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “I wouldn’t do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president.”
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Tamar Epstein: Is Rabbi Hersehl Schachter making a farce of his own halachic positions?
Guest Post
Epstein-Flesicher, a coerced get, (and also kiddushai ta'us?): Is Rabbi Hershel Schachter making a farce of his own halachic positions?
Epstein-Flesicher, a coerced get, (and also kiddushai ta'us?): Is Rabbi Hershel Schachter making a farce of his own halachic positions?
An earlier post explained how Rabbi Hershel Schachter’s actions in the Epstein-Friedman case are contrary to halacha. Daas Torah Blog
But Rabbi Schachter's actions in the case are also completely contrary to his own publicly stated halachic positions on the matters involved in the case. Rabbi Schachter encouraged public pressure and demonstrations against Friedman even though the Baltimore Beis Din to which the parties brought the matter and which held hearings with the participation of both parties refused Epstein's demands for a get. Rabbi Schachter and ORA, of which he serves as posek, insisted on demonstrating against Friedman despite the Baltimore Beis Din's statement that such demonstrations were wrong. For good measure, they also demonstrated against the Washington Beis Din for refusing to intervene against Friedman. Rabbi Schachter even went so far as to call for violence against Friedman to obtain a get. But a get obtained through public presssure or coercion not sanctioned by the beis din with jurisdiciton would be inavlid.
Eventually Rabbi Schachter and his accomplices in the matter signed a purported "seruv" against Friedman.
On Tisha Ba'av in 2012, Friedman was attacked and beaten, in an attempted kidnapping as he dropped off the child at Epstein's house, an attack that endangered the lives of both Friedman and the young child. One of Rabbi Schachter's co-signatories on the “seruv” was Rabbi Mordechai Wolmark, who was alleged by the FBI to lead a so-called beis din together with Rabbi Mendel Epstein, that was actually a criminal gang which, amongst other criminal activities, attempted a kidnapping and beating of a non-existent man in order to obtain a get with regard to a non-existent marriage. Rabbi Wolmark and several co-conspirators pled guilty. Other co-conspirators, including Rabbi Epstein, were found guilty at a trial at which the attack on Friedman was alleged to be part of the Epstein-Wolmark gang’s criminal conspiracy. At least two of Rabbi Schachter's other co- signatories were alleged by the FBI to be part of the Epstein-Wolmark gang's criminal conspiracy, but, along with Rabbi Schachter, have not yet been charged.
Although Epstein consistently engaged in outrageous behavior, including abducting the parties' child, violating the orders of the Baltimore Beis Din in order to have her abduction of the child treated as a fait accompli in civil court, getting most of the child's time with Friedman rendered moot because he is shomer shabbos, and filing a contempt motion seeking to limit the child's time with Friedman to "supervised visitation," Rabbi Schachter and ORA did not just argue that Epstein should be given a get. Instead, ORA specifically argued that Epstein had acted completely properly throughout the entire matter. Furthermore, Rabbi Schachter himself appeared with Tamar at an ORA panel, at which Tamar was hailed as a heroine.
Rabbi Schachter's actions in the Epstein-Friedman case so directly contradict his earlier statement on the halachic aspects of these matters that it almost appears as if his earlier statement was specifically intended to protest against the very actions in which Rabbi Schachter himself would later engage.
"What is important to keep in mind is that whoever is chalashing for [wants]... a get must consult with rabbonim... with respect to issues of pressuring the other to give the get. You have to go to batai dinim and everything has to be done with a legitimate beis din. Sometimes people will go to criminals. Unfortunately there are criminals in every field. There are rabbis that are criminals also. Unfortunately, the husband or the wife will go to a Beis Din that has an awful reputation, and they will recommend things that are against halacha. You have to go to a reputable Beis Din and the Beis Din should give proper advice....
The Batai Dinim have a special obligation, the role of the Beis Din b'zman haze, is to maintain law and order. That people shouldn’t skin each other alive and that people should act decently towards each other."
https://web.archive.org/web/20131007060705/http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/739308/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Options_for_Helping_Agunot - at about 38 minutes in.
Rabbi Schachter has not made public his position on Epstein's annulment and remarriage, although ORA, of which Rabbi Schachter serves as posek, declared that Epstien is free. Although the use of kiddushei ta'us in this case would be contrary to halacha according to Rabbi Schachter, his endorsing the annulment and remarriage of Epstein-Fliescher would be consistent with his actions in the Epstein-Friedman matter thus far in consistently contradicting, and thus making a farce of, of his own halachic positions.
Rav Herschel Schacter: Kiddushei Ta'us - Making a Farce of the Halacha
The Ramban writes (in the introduction to his sefer Milchamos Hashem) that the study of Talmud is not like mathematics. In Talmud study, a halachic analysis is not a geometric proof and its validity need not be contingent upon accurate application of hard logic to unassailable axioms; nor is a halachic analysis deemed invalid only upon demonstration of incontrovertible logical errors or fallacious assumptions. What is significant in halacha is the approval or disapproval of halachic experts, implying the reasonableness or unreasonableness of the argument. One must have a strong tradition in psak halacha (rendering of legal decisions) or one can float so far off as to develop the most ridiculous ideas, all in the name of halacha.
The Torah prescribes the divorce procedure such that the husband must participate voluntarily. When he refuses to participate, his wife has no other means to be free of her husband, and while she remains legally married to him she may not marry another man. This situation, though unfair and tragic for the wife, is essentially the creation of a man who has shown himself to be an evil criminal, and is abusing his wife in this contemptible way. He has made her a virtual agunah as the husband alone has the authority to free her. Over the many years of our history the rabbis have done whatever they could for any woman so trapped in this lamentable predicament. Unfortunately, no categorical or general solution to the problem emerged.
About forty years ago an Orthodox individual proposed a solution. He reasoned that the woman requires a divorce only if she is married. Although annulment is not an option, it may be possible to find cause to invalidate her marriage by finding a fatal flaw in her wedding. For example, the wedding requires that the groom give the bride an object of sufficient value, one that the groom is entitled to give, while declaring his intent to thereby marry her, without deceit in any of the particulars, all under the watchful eyes of legitimate witnesses. If any of these conditions are not met then the wedding is fatally flawed. Likewise, if the bride or groom deceives the other in a material way, the other may legitimately claim that the entire wedding was under false pretenses and thus void. Thinking along these lines, the individual referred to above argues that if the bride and groom had realized that their personalities were incompatible, they would never have agreed to get married. Hence, the marriage was effected in error, lacking the requisite da'as (awareness) for a wedding, and no Get is needed to separate them because they were never married. At the time, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik declared this suggestion ridiculous. As the years went by, the ridiculous has become the sublime.[...]
To declare a marriage a kiddushei ta'us because the wife didn't realize that the husband would be unsuccessful in holding down a job and earning a living is simply unacceptable. To invalidate a kiddushin due to ta'us the halacha requires an extraordinary mum gadol (very significant defect), with a very obviousumdana d'muchach (compelling assumption) that no reasonable woman would agree to marry such a man (see Teshuvos Beis Halevi, vol. 3, pg. 23). [...]
Not only is it a mere impropriety on the part of any beis din to permit a woman to remarry based on such flimsy grounds; even bidieved- if a beis din granted a married woman permission to marry on these grounds- the ruling is ignored, and such a "heter nisuin" issued to the woman is meaningless. Only in the case of a neder do the rabbis have "power" to nullify a commitment by rendering it as a neder b'ta'us, even if it was not manifestly taken in error, as described above. However, in all other areas of halacha- particularly those of marriage and divorce- either the kiddushin falls apart by itself because there was a "mum gadol" and an umdenah demuchach that there was no da'as; or the marriage remains - notwithstanding what any rabbi or any beis din says. The special halachah of "hatarat nedarim" that empowers the beis din to undo a neder retroactively by proclaiming the da'as as a taus only applies in the area of "hafla'ah".
Moreover, even in the case of a sale that was canceled because of a mum, the Rambam wrote (Mechira 15:3) that if the purchaser continued to use the item after having discovered the mum, he cannot later claim mekach taus. Continued use of the item indicates that the level of the ta'us is insufficient to warrant voiding the transaction. Likewise, it is transmitted in the name of Hagaon Rav Moshe Feinstein zt"l, that even in the rare case of an unusual mum gadol, through which the wife would be able to remarry without a get because of the ta'us on her part at the time of the wedding, if the woman didn't walk away from the marriage immediately upon discovering the mum, the halacha of ta'us cannot be applied. [...]
It certainly is a great mitzva to help an aguna escape her plight, but issuing a heter nissuin (permission to get married) to a woman along the lines of heter nedarim is simply a farce. Let us not make a joke out of the Halacha.
Religious Persecution of Ethiopian Girl
BS"D
18 Teves, 5780 °° Jan.15, '20
Religious Ethiopian Girl Being Persecuted for Fidelity to the Torah
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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https://docs.google.com/
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Ziva
bas Mazal of Ashkelon is a religious 19 y/o Ethiopian girl who was
recently was jailed for about three weeks - ending over three months
ago, on Erev Yom Kippur - all for her refusal to enlist in the Army.
Despite being incontrovertibly religious, the Army insisted that she
first serve three months, and only then would they determine if she's
exempt on basis
of her religiosity. In honorable compliance
with Torah Law, Ziva refused. Just last week, she received notice from
Maitav (the IDF Draft Office) that the government rejected her appeal of
the Army's intial rejection of her petition for a religious exemption.
And again, the Army Draft Office failed to provide even a veneer of
legal justification for seeking to draft a religious girl. Since shortly
after her release from military prison on 9 Tishrei 5780, she's been
valiantly braving the threat of arrest and long term incarceration over
her refusal to enlist in the Army, and continues to do so.
Additionally,
on 11 Tishrei, when Ziva went to the Draft Offices to inform them of
her ongoing refusal to enlist, she was reportedly directed to sign a
document on the pretext that it was merely certification of her showing
up at the draft offices ("hit'yatzvut", which she did do). Afterwards it
was revealed that in fact she has been duped into signing onto a
document of enlistment ("hit'gay'sut") into the military, something to
which she's been in unwavering opposition to, from the very outset of
her process.
#####
Public Advisory:
1.
Do not sign anything without knowing from reliable, independent
sources what you're doing. And with regard to the Army Draft Office, the
general advice is not to sign anything.
2. Moreover, it's both prohibited and dangerous for girls to even enter the Draft Offices altogether.
######
What
makes this persecutory treatment even worse is that Ziva's elderly
parents, and especially her father, are not in good health, and this
ongoing torment exacerbates their condition. This writer is personally
familiar with about a half dozen similar cases, in which religious girls
with close family members who are seriously ill, have been targeted for
draft- related harassment and worse.
BasCohen Resists Hegmonist Draft
BS"D
Intolerable: A Religious Bas-Cohen Imprisoned For Her Refusal to Enlist in the Army
18 Teves, 5780 °° Jan. 15, '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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https://docs.google.com/
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FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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Although
Chanukah has passed, Maitav (the Israeli Army Draft Office) refuses to
allow concerned Jews to forget the timeless mesiras nefesh
[selflessness] of Yehudis, and her heroic brothers, even 21 centuries
afterwards. In yet another trans-generational reverberation of the
righteousness of Yehudis, on Monday Jan. 13, another religious Bas-Cohen, Lital bas Miriam, of Tel Aviv, 26, was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport, for not enlisting in the Army.
She
sent in her religiosity-certification about nine years ago. She was
then summoned for a Rayon Dat (Religious Interview/ Interrogation).
However, apparently, she never got a clear indication of her legal
draft status one way or the other. Before she set out to the airport to
travel abroad on Monday, she reportedly asked the Border Police if she
would be allowed to travel without any legal complications over her
draft status. They informed her that it was ok. However, on arrival she
was arrested, and is now in incarcerated in military prison for her
refusal to enlist in the military. Enlistment in the Army is prohibited
for all girls (regardless of level of religiosity) - according to
leading Rabbis across the spectrum.
Her
hearing has been postponed, and they're planning on keeping her in
prison at least till then. This callous extension of incarceration
traces a recently-established pattern of military prison treatment of
religious Refusenik girls and women over the past couple of months. They
tend to keep girls (e.g. Orpaz Ora bas Aliza) in jail on the pretext
that - for some reason - they are "unable" to arrange a hearing. This
apparent charade can continue indefinitely. Thereby, they punish and
pressure the young women to submit to enlist. B"H, they are often
unsuccessful, due to the fortitude of these special individuals and
their advocates.
In legal systems that venerate
G-d-granted individual liberties, non-violent infractions such as late
submission of documentation (not to mention simple failure to answer
arcane questions about religious observance) would not be grounds for
arrest, much less incarceration, and much less extended jail time due to
delays in the initial hearing. But the protocols of Maitav apparently
diverge from constitutional norms, standards which we in America
unfortunately tend to take for granted.
It
now appears that she's sitting in Military Prison simply because she
didn't answer one question correctly in her Rayon Dat nine years ago,
pertaining to Kriyas HaTorah (the weekly reading of portions of the
Torah). According to Jewish Law, women are generally exempt from Kriyas
HaTorah (except for the reading of the Remembrance of the Obliterating
of Amalek... and, according to some, Parshas Parah). To question
her religiosity over such an issue is ludicrous. To arrest her over that
should be criminal, but apparently raises no eyebrows.
Thank G-d, she's in contact with competent guidance, the Shomrei Torah organization, which is quite proficient at the providing quality information necessary to properly alert the public to the plight of incarcerated girls.
Thank G-d, she's in contact with competent guidance, the Shomrei Torah organization, which is quite proficient at the providing quality information necessary to properly alert the public to the plight of incarcerated girls.
What makes this all even more outrageous is that her brother is suffering a severe health condition, and this unwarranted persecution doesn't help that. In fact, the presence of a severe illness in the immediate family is a statistically significant factor present in a number of cases with which we are familiar. It appears that having an immediate family member severely ill tends to flag girls for arrest, incarceration and persecutory treatment by Maitav.
### Public Advisory: ###
A)
Anyone who has questions about his or her legal draft-status should NOT
rely on verbal statements of government staff - including law
enforcement officers.
B) Anyone who's draft status is questionable should not assume it's resolved until obtaining confirmation.
C)
Those unsure of their draft status who have serious illness in the
immediate family should exercise additional caution, because they can
least afford complications, and because they may be more susceptible to
being flagged for arrest by Maitav, if the opportunity presents itself.
That also means: drive extra carefully to avoid being pulled over, even
if you think you're not doing anything dangerous.
D)
Again, do NOT enter the Draft Offices for any reason, even if you
imagine that you'll "just be in and out" with your petur (exemption
certification) -- even if you see other girls who do manage to enter and
exit quickly with their exemptions. For all those girls who manage to
avoid complications, many others don't - some of whom tragically succumb
to the immense pressure to enlist in the Army.
Iran Air Flight 655
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board were killed.[1] The jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight's usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, the flight's stopover location. The incident occurred during the final stages of the Iran–Iraq War, which had been ongoing for nearly eight years. Vincennes
had entered Iranian territory after one of its helicopters drew warning
fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial
limits.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Trump's 'Phase One' Trade Deal With China Won't Stop Trade Wars From Being the New Normal
https://time.com/5764359/phase-one-us-china-trade-deal-war/
And so while a truce in the trade war suits both sides at the moment,
it won’t be long before that political calculation changes. The U.S. is
still demanding that China reforms its state-dominated economy despite
many of the subsidies Beijing provides firms also offered by the U.S.
Amazon, for example, was offered $3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to relocate to New York City before the deal collapsed.
Heter to sin?
Chagiga (16a) R. Elai the elder said: If a man sees that his [evil] inclination is prevailing upon him, let him go to a place where he is not known, and put on black garments,20 and wrap himself up21 in black garments, and let him do what his heart desires;22 but let him not profane the Name of Heaven publicly!
ספר אורחות צדיקים שער התשובה
אמר רבי אבהו משום רבי חנינא (קידושין מ א): נוח לו לאדם שיעברו עבירה בסתר ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא, פירוש, שלא ילמדו בני אדם ממעשיו. ואמר רבי אלעאי הזקן: אם רואה אדם שיצרו מתגבר עליו, ילך למקום שאין מכירים אותו, וילבש שחורים ויתעטף שחורים, ויעשה מה שלבו חפץ, ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא. ופירש רבינו חננאל: חס ושלום שהותר לו לעבור עבירה, אלא החכמים עמדו נגד יצר הרע שאינו מתאווה אלא אל האיסור ולמלאות תאוותו, וכיון שהולך למרחוק ולובש שחורים, אז לבו יישבר ויימנע מן החטא. אבל לעשות איסורים - כלל וכלל לא! אך מעשים הללו משברים רוע יצר הרע ומונעים אותו מלעבור, כדאמר רבי אילעי, כי יגיעת דרכים ואכסניות ולבישת שחורים משברות יצר הרע ומונעות את האדם מן העבירה.
אמר רבי אבהו משום רבי חנינא (קידושין מ א): נוח לו לאדם שיעברו עבירה בסתר ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא, פירוש, שלא ילמדו בני אדם ממעשיו. ואמר רבי אלעאי הזקן: אם רואה אדם שיצרו מתגבר עליו, ילך למקום שאין מכירים אותו, וילבש שחורים ויתעטף שחורים, ויעשה מה שלבו חפץ, ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא. ופירש רבינו חננאל: חס ושלום שהותר לו לעבור עבירה, אלא החכמים עמדו נגד יצר הרע שאינו מתאווה אלא אל האיסור ולמלאות תאוותו, וכיון שהולך למרחוק ולובש שחורים, אז לבו יישבר ויימנע מן החטא. אבל לעשות איסורים - כלל וכלל לא! אך מעשים הללו משברים רוע יצר הרע ומונעים אותו מלעבור, כדאמר רבי אילעי, כי יגיעת דרכים ואכסניות ולבישת שחורים משברות יצר הרע ומונעות את האדם מן העבירה.
'Are vaccines dangerous? The flu is much more so'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274582
Professor Hershko also discussed the dangers of the vaccine,
explaining that the complications of influenza are much greater and more
dangerous than the complications which might occur from the vaccines.
"The story with the opposition to vaccines is something that's always
beyond my understanding, because it's very well known in medicine, for
hundreds of years already, that the best medicine is preventive
medicine.
"Every medical treatment has its complications and the vaccine has
complications that you cannot ignore, but if we compare the danger of
the vaccine to the danger of flu, there's no comparison.... The vaccine
usually has no symptoms, while the flu, in the best case, is a febrile
illness which forces the person to stay home, and in a worse case it
involves severe bacterial pneumonia which takes advantage of the
infection, myocarditis, kidney or brain tissue complications, and more.
"I don't think there's a question what's safer. The vaccination is a
surefire treatment, and unfortunately this year a lot of people have
bought these stories that the vaccine isn't really safe, and we're
seeing the results in the hospital wards, with people who are very sick
and whose lives are now in danger."
Trump condemned for retweeting fake Islamophobic image featuring Pelosi
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/14/trump-retweet-fake-islamophobic-image-pelosi-schumer
Muslim groups in the US have condemned Donald Trump for retweeting a fake image showing leading Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi wearing an approximation of traditional Islamic clothing and standing in front of the Iranian flag.
New Jersey vaccines law defeated (for now) as parents cheer
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274550
A publication produced by students of Rabbis Shmuel Kamenetzky, Elya
Ber Wachtfogel, and Malkiel Kotler make their views on vaccination
known, writing that "Their view is not extreme. They do not advocate
against vaccination. They rule that vaccination is a parental choice,
and that parents may not be coerced into vaccination." The document can
be viewed here.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The unpleasant details of how Tamar Epstein deliberately destroyed her marriage with the encouragement of the Kaminetskys (part 2)
The terrible travesty of justice in this case is not just that Tamar decided to have custody litigated in court instead of in Beis Din – although this decision by itself is extremely troubling and contrary to halacha. The terrible travesty in this case is that the destruction of a family with a young child could have been avoided. And even if divorce was going to occur, it could have been settled amicably and quietly.
Instead of pursuing either of these two outcomes, the Kamenetskys encouraged the Epstein family to engage in no-holds barred warfare against Aharon, the Baltimore Beis Din, and even the very notion of halacha, and a Jewish community. This has included kidnapping the parties’ child and then getting that kidnapping to be treated as a fait accompli by violating several agreements between the parties, tricking Aharon into canceling a pendete lite civil court trial in which it was likely that the child would be returned in order to bring the case to Beis Din, committing perjury in court and the Baltimore Beis Din, violating the Baltimore Beis Din’s orders regarding dismissing the civil court case, and then successfully arguing in civil court that Aharon couldn’t contest the kidnapping because he had voluntarily cancelled the pendete lite trial to bring the case to Beis Din.
There is no low to which this campaign would not stoop or any level of crime in which they would not engage, including a vicious Tisha Ba’av assault (in which Cheryl Epstein [Tamar’s mother] signaled her henchmen to attack by telling the child to give Aharon a kiss) that endangered the life of the child, Federal capital crimes, and a capital crime under halacha.
Part 1 described what happened before the parties went to the Baltimore Beis Din.
The following describes what happened next:
The parties agreed to postpone the Court trial scheduled for December 2008 until January 2009 and then until June 2009 (at further prejudice to Aharon) in order for the Beis Din to hear and decide the case. Until the Beis Din issued an interim custody schedule in March, Tamar generally refused to let C spend time with Aharon (such as on holidays) other than the time explicitly required by the August 2008 Order, except for a brief period covered by the mediation agreement.
Beis Din heard the child custody issue in March, and said that the next step in the process was that Beis Din would issue a custody decision immediately after Pesach [Passover] in April 2009; Beis Din issued an interim custody schedule to cover the period before Beis Din was to issue a custody decision. Under this schedule, C was with Aharon four out of the six weekends (and starting on Thursday instead of Friday) covered by the schedule. Tamar opposed this custody schedule, arguing that it provided C too much time with Aharon.
Tamar later wrote Beis Din she had a settlement proposal that she would present in five days. Then, Tamar wrote Beis Din that she had a proposal and wanted to mediate. Aharon agreed to consider any proposal but said he would not enter into mediation if it seemed unlikely to work because he did not want the ruling of Beis Din to be delayed. Tamar took four weeks to submit a proposal, which Aharon believed indicated the parties were too far apart to reach agreement. Aharon wrote Beis Din that there was no agreement regarding C’s schedule, and asked Beis Din to rule that C return to Silver Spring. Tamar wrote Beis Din that she still wanted to mediate and falsely accused Aharon of lying as to whether the parties had an agreement regarding C’s schedule. Aharon again wrote Beis Din to rule that C return to Silver Spring again noting the urgency of Beis Din issuing a decision on the matter. Tamar wrote the Beis Din demanding a get, correspondence that was not then shared with Aharon. The Beis Din refused Tamar’s demand to order a get because there were no grounds upon which to tell Aharon to give a get.
Given that Beis Din had previously said that it would issue a custody decision shortly after Pesach and that it would hold no further hearings on custody, Beis Din’s decision on custody seemed to be imminent.
Without Beis Din’s permission, Tamar filed a motion and then a supplemental motion to postpone the June 2009 civil Court trial. Tamar’s grounds for postponement were that she needed more time to prepare for the civil Court trial and wanted a court-ordered custody evaluation (both of which were irrelevant if Beis Din was to decide the matter). Tamar specifically told the Court that the Court – not Beis Din – would decide the case. In filing these motions, Tamar violated the parties’ mediation agreement for Beis Din to decide the case, as well as the binding arbitration agreement. For Aharon to agree to this motion would have been to show his acquiescence in Tamar’s decision to disregard the Beis Din and have the court try the case. In addition, should Beis Din have decided that C return to Silver Spring, postponement of the civil trial would have made it much more unlikely that the Court would effectively uphold such a decision, given the further time that C would have spent in PA. Thus, Aharon refused Tamar’s request that he agree to postpone the trial so that Tamar could have more time to prepare for trial in civil Court and so that the Court could conduct a custody evaluation because the Court, not Beis Din, would decide the case. Tamar also filed suit in civil court for absolute divorce, in which she also demanded sole physical custody, without permission from Beis Din.
Tamar’s to’ain, Frederic Goldfein, a medical practice trial lawyer, was able to fool the Beis Din as to what Tamar was doing in civil court, which resulted in the Beis Din ordering Aharon to postpone the Court trial, even though Tamar had told the Court that the Court, not Beis Din would decide the case.
Aharon filed a motion to postpone the Court trial, despite the further legal prejudice (as explained above), in order to give Beis Din time to issue its decision. At that point, the Court had before it Tamar’s motions to postpone the trial so that she could prepare for a court trial and so that the court could order a custody evaluation so that the Court, not Beis Din, could decide the case, and Aharon’s motion to postpone the trial so that the Beis Din could decide the case. The Court denied the motion to postpone the trial.
Before the civil trial occurred, Aharon agreed to the Beis Din’s orders regarding dismissing the MD case before it went to trial. Tamar refused to abide by the Beis Din’s orders regarding dismissing the MD case before it went to trial.
The civil trial on custody and Tamar’s motion for divorce was held in June 2009. Tamar complained that the temporary custody schedule from the Beis Din provided C too much time with Aharon. Tamar’s sister and brother-in-law and Yael and Rabbi Ranan Cortell testified and harshly criticized Aharon’s parenting skills. But on cross-examination, both admitted that they had not spent significant time with Aharon and C (then nineteen months) for well over a year. Their testimony was so lacking in credibility that Tamar’s closing argument acknowledged that Aharon was a good parent, thus disavowing their testimony. Instead, Tamar claimed that the fact that Aharon generally davened with a minyan while the parties lived together showed that he wasn’t that interested in spending time with C. Tamar urged the Court to rule that C should remain in PA because Tamar had already kept her there for so long – in violation of the parties’ Reconciliation and Mediation Agreements. Tamar specifically argued that C should remain in PA because Aharon had agreed to postpone the civil Court trial from October 2008 to June 2009 (to take the case to Beis Din).
Tamar deliberately asked the Court to impose a custody schedule that would render moot most of C’s monthly time with Aharon because he is Shomer Shabbos [Sabbath observant]. Tamar requested that C be with Aharon on alternate weekends starting at 6pm on Fridays (instead of Thursdays) and that C and Aharon be restricted during such times to the vicinity of Tamar’s house in PA. Tamar also said that she should bring C to Aharon in Silver Spring for one additional Sunday each month. Tamar recognized very well that these alternate weekends would actually be limited to Sundays, as Tamar knew Aharon could not generally leave work early enough on Fridays to pick C up from Tamar’s house before Shabbos, even when sundown is late. In addition, Aharon would not generally be able to pick C up on Saturday night as he would not be able to leave Silver Spring early enough to arrive at Tamar’s house before C’s bedtime.
At trial, Aharon opposed Tamar’s motion for divorce. After the court heard evidence on whether Tamar had grounds for divorce under civil law at the trial, Tamar acknowledged that there were no grounds for divorce.
Goldfein again lied to the Beis Din as to how the matter came to be tried in civil court, correspondence that was not then shared with Aharon. After the civil Court trial, but before the Court issued a ruling, Beis Din ordered the parties to jointly dismiss the civil court case. Aharon agreed to follow Beis Din’s order and dismiss the civil case but Tamar violated the Beis Din’s order and refused to dismiss the civil case.
As Tamar had urged, that C had already been in PA for fourteen months at the time of the trial was largely the basis for the Court’s decision that C should remain in PA [“At this time, the child has spent fourteen months of her life in Pennsylvania with Defendant and her maternal grandparents and is undisputedly thriving. Uprooting the child from her current environment at this time is likely to have a detrimental impact upon her”], even though the Court concluded “both parties are fit and proper to have physical custody of the child” and that “Defendant has made minimal efforts to foster the relationship between Plaintiff and his daughter. The Court further finds that Defendant’s indifferent approach to C having a mutually awarding relationship with her father is rooted in spite and is not beneficial to the child.” The Court also criticized Aharon for davening with a minyan while the parties lived together.
The Court largely adopted the general custody schedule suggested by Tamar: C to be with Aharon every other weekend in the vicinity of Tamar’s house starting on Fridays at 6pm and one additional weekend per month.
On July 15, 2009, Tamar filed in court a motion to amend or alter, asking that the court even further limit C’s time with Aharon. The court denied Tamar’s motion. Aharon filed an appeal by way of an in banc review.
As Shabbos often starts before 6 pm and Aharon generally couldn’t leave work in Washington D.C. early enough to get to Philadelphia before Shabbos starts, that meant Aharon generally couldn’t pick up C until Sunday morning. Thus, every other weekend, that generally meant Aharon leaving Silver Spring at 5am (usually too early to daven) to pick up C and davening with tallis and tefillin at a rest stop on I-95. No matter the weather, Aharon and C generally spent the day at parks and shopping malls -- because they had no place else to go – until Aharon brought C back, not returning to Silver Spring until 11pm. Although Aharon eventually found a family to whose home in the general Philadelphia area he and C could come, Rabbi Sholom Kametnetsky put extreme pressure on that family to stop doing so. Rabbi Kamenetsky eventually forced that family to withdraw their hospitality.
The Baltimore Beis Din refused the demands of Tamar to rule that Aharon was obligated to give a get. The Baltimore Beis Din even refused to state that it was appropriate for Aharon to give a get. This was despite the Baltimore Beis Din being fooled by Tamar’s to’ain Goldfein as to how the case came to be tried in Court. The Beis Din had held three hearings into the case with the participation of both parties, and determined that there were no grounds to rule that a get must be given.
At Tamar’s request, the Washington Beis Din sent two hazmanos [summonses] to Aharon in September and October 2009. The summonses were signed by Rabbi Kalman Winter, brother-in-law of Shimon Glick, Tamar’s brother’s father-in-law. The head of the Washington Beis Din at the time was Rabbi Gedaliah Anemer, longtime leader of the Washington D.C. area Orthodox community. Aharon responded that Tamar had no right to involve another Beis Din given that the parties had brought the case to the Baltimore Beis Din whose orders Tamar had violated, causing severe damage to Aharon and C.
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