Friday, December 27, 2019
Kurdish Commander Calls on Trump to Prevent ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/16/kurdish-commander-mazloum-abdi-trump-prevent-ethnic-cleansing-kurds-turkey/
Since Turkish President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s army and proxy forces swept into northeastern Syria in
October, the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army—a loose group of Syrian
rebels founded by defectors from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s
army—has terrorized the local population. Although
a series of cease-fire agreements have halted the large-scale assault,
there are regular reports of atrocities at the hands of the force,
including regular arrests, looting, and executions. Abdi recently met
with a group of local residents who said the Turkish-backed fighters
seized their property and forced them to flee.
The Jews should not keep quiet anymore
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/273621
His newest book "The Jews Should Keep Quiet" explores the
relationship between FDR and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, American Jewry’s
leader at the time.
He explains to Eve Harow that new research and declassified
information have led to shocking revelations and the inescapable
conclusion that the US president was a racist and anti-Semite whose
personal attitudes led to Jews getting caught by the Nazis instead of
finding refuge in the US.
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Politics Editor at Evangelical Publication The Christian Post Resigns Over Pro-Trump Editorial
Nazworth, who had worked at The Christian Post for eight and a half years, says he would have been fine publishing the pro-Trump piece as an op-ed.
“As the politics editor of The Christian Post I have always welcomed diverse voices. I’ve published many op-eds I disagreed with,” he tells TIME. It was only once he learned the paper planned to publish the piece as an editorial, making it the position of the newspaper as a whole, versus that of an individual writer, that he felt he had to resign.
Christianity Today‘s editorial kicked off a firestorm of a
debate both among and beyond the evangelical community. President Trump
hit back at the publication on Twitter, writing “I guess the magazine, Christianity Today, is looking for Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or those of the socialist/communist bent, to guard their religion.”
In an open letter addressed to the paper, nearly 200 evangelical leaders condemned the op-ed. Meanwhile, Christianity Today has reported its subscriptions increased after the op-ed was published, and defended its position in a subsequent editorial on Sunday.
“Of course, we appreciate the support and listen humbly to the criticisms,” the second editorial titled “The Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT’s President” said. “But at the end of the day, we write for a readership of One. God is our Tower. Let the whirlwind come.”
“I was actually kind of shocked that [the Christianity Today editorial] got so much attention. In 2016 they had a similar editorial,” Nazworth says. He adds that The Christian Post also published an anti-Trump editorial in 2016, titled “Donald Trump Is a Scam. Evangelical Voters Should Back Away.”
“People don’t realize there is a pretty big contingent [of evangelicals] that don’t support [Trump] as well,” he tells TIME.
Make your mind up, Rudy! Giuliani attends midnight mass at St Patrick's in NYC one day after saying he was 'more Jewish' than Holocaust-survivor George Soros, as Mayor de Blasio calls the Trump attorney an 'anti-Semitic disgrace'
Rudy Giuliani attended midnight mass at the Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral for Christmas after an interview revealed how he slammed liberal financier George Soros by questioning his Judaism - even though the Hungarian-born billionaire is a Holocaust survivor.
The former New York City mayor posted a photo on his Instagram page of Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, blessing the alter.
'Cardinal Egan blesses the altar at midnight to begin the sacrifice of the Midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. His homily on the meaning of midnight was a beautiful description of the significance of the birth of the son of God,' Giuliani wrote.
Giuliani was blasted for his comments in the interview with NY Magazine, which he gave while drinking Bloody Marys at the posh Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side of New York City.
Modern Day " Yehudis" Heroism
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BS"D
Third Day of Chanuka, 5780, Parshas Mikaitz, 5780
Modern Day "Yehudis" Heroism
by Binyomin Feinberg
Nowadays, we are witness to many individuals who exhibit exemplary courage in standing up to the female military draft in Israel. In various ways, they exemplify the very type of mesiras nefesh which we celebrate on Chanukah. The following articles provide a mere sampling of the immense self-sacrifice employed by girls throughout Israeli society today.
Here we cite selected, recently circulated reports on the crisis of conscription of girls & women into the Israeli military:
{The first two links below appeared in the weekly email of the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) in the week of Parshas Vayishlach, on Dec. 12,'19. Most of the remaining links listed below appeared therein in preceding weeks.}
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Thu, Nov 7, '19)
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Breaking the Very Laws They Make:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Wed., Nov 6, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Wed., Oct 30, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Tue., Oct 8, 2019)
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Violating the Vineyard:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(28 Aug.,'19)
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[Update]
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(4 Ellul, '79; see Jewish Press, Sept.13,'19)
https://daattorah.blogspot.
http://daattorah.blogspot.com/
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Thu, Nov 7, '19)
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Breaking the Very Laws They Make:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Wed., Nov 6, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Wed., Oct 30, '19)
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https://daattorah.blogspot.
(Tue., Oct 8, 2019)
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Violating the Vineyard:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(28 Aug.,'19)
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[Update]
https://daattorah.blogspot.
(4 Ellul, '79; see Jewish Press, Sept.13,'19)
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Chanukah Update:
This week, on Chanukah, we were informed, by a reliable source close to the case, about a girl, A. S., who claims the following:
She was ordered to enlist on July 14, '19. When she arrived that day, she witnessed what was going on there. She realized that she cannot possibly enlist. She left, and three weeks later she gave herself up, and was incarcerated for six days, starting on Sun. Aug. 4. After her release on that Friday, Aug. 9, she was ordered to enlist in the Army the day after Tisha B'Av, Aug. 12. B"H, she refused, and has been officially absent-without-leave since then. She is currently being assisted by activists.
In addition to the Torah prohibition against females serving in the military, even from a secular perspective, one can understand why no girl should ever be forced into a military environment. Thus, the problem Israel has here isn't the secular element as much as the anti-religious element, which avidly promotes morally and socially subversive policies that even many secularly oriented people are not necessarily pushing for. These policies include forcibly enlisting girls into the promiscuous military.
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On June 30, '19, Noa M., a religious girl, underwent a Rayon Dat (a religiosity-interrogation, apparently unaware of the Halachic objections to such procedures). She expected to receive a religious exemption, but was subsequently told by the Army that her religious exemption was being denied, reportedly. Her draft date was set for Dec. 22, '19. Reportedly, she is now being summoned to another interview, which is unusual after the draft date passed. What types of games is the military playing with people's lives? Is this another ploy to pressure religious girls into enlisting?
May we merit the Ultimate Redemption speedily, in the merit of assisting these heroic souls.
Gateshead's Orthodox community bucks declining trend to double in decade
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Gatesheads-Orthodox-community-bucks-declining-trend-to-double-in-decade-612081
The Orthodox Jewish community of Gateshead, England, is thriving in sharp contrast to many British communities, thanks to outstanding Jewish education, a dynamic New York rabbi and cheap housing.
Like most northern English cities, Gateshead, located on the River Tyne, has struggled since the 1980s with the loss of the manufacturing industries that once made the region Britain's economic powerhouse.
Brooklyn Rabbi and Sons Accused of Sexually Abusing Daughters
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ny-rabbi-and-sons-accused-of-sexually-abusing-daughters/1904517/
A Brooklyn
Hasidic rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of sexually abusing
at least four of the rabbi's daughters after the eldest victim confided
in a co-worker at a Jewish school, police said Friday.
The 58-year-old father and his 21-year-old son fled to Israel two days ago and are wanted for questioning in the case, police said. They were apparently driven there by the mother.
The 58-year-old father and his 21-year-old son fled to Israel two days ago and are wanted for questioning in the case, police said. They were apparently driven there by the mother.
while this is an old item
I was told last night that apparently they are still in Israel after escaping with the aid of prominent Brooklyn rabbis
37% of immigrants in last eight years not Jewish, updated data show
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/37-percent-of-immigrants-in-last-eight-years-not-Jewish-updated-data-show-612008
Following the disclosure of erroneous figures on the identity of immigrants to Israel, the Interior Ministry has released new data demonstrating that 37% of immigrants over the last eight years have not been Jewish.
Of those, the overwhelming majority – some 85% of all non-Jewish immigrants – came from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Was George Soros an SS Officer or Nazi Collaborator During World War II?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/
That Soros was only nine years old (born in 1930) when the war broke out and all of 14 when Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945 hasn’t dampened his detractors’ enthusiasm for spreading these rumors, including the absurd claim, which first surfaced in November 2016, that Soros literally served as an officer of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) in Germany.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump
So yes, George Soros is a billionaire with ties to
progressive causes. But he is not a Nazi. Or a Nazi sympathizer. At all.
Despite what one might see on Twitter (or Reddit or Facebook) — or even
hear from members of Congress. When one Republican Congress member suggested to Vice News
that Soros had funded the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,
VIrginia, last summer in an effort to discredit the right, he made sure
to add that Soros ”turned in his own people to the Nazis.”
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2336951905
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2336951905
CLAIM: Democratic philanthropist George Soros was a Nazi soldier
AP’S
ASSESSMENT: False. A photo said to be George Soros as a Nazi soldier is
actually a photo of Oskar Groening, a former SS sergeant at Auschwitz
Birkenau, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, operated
from 1940-1945 in Poland.
THE
FACTS: A photo circulating widely on Facebook is not Soros, but a young
Oskar Groening, a former SS sergeant who became known as the
“Accountant of Auschwitz.,” according to information provided to The
Associated Press by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in
Poland.
Soros,
who was just 9-years-old when Hitler’s army invaded Poland, was not a
member of the Nazi party, despite what the photo said. Soros, who is
Jewish and Hungarian, was 15 during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. He
would have been too young to join the Hitler Youth, an organization that
recruited and trained 16- and 17-year-old boys to fight.
According
to false information with the photo, Soros was an SS in the National
Socialist German workers party and served under Adolf Hitler and
Heinrich Himmler. The information also claimed,”He said it was the best
time of his life. The destruction and agony around him was euphoric to
him.”
Soros did
not say that the destruction and agony was “euphoric” to him. This quote
derives from Groening’s testimony in 2015, when he said his enthusiasm
for the Nazi objective had evolved into “euphoria.”
הותר לפרסום: רב שתקף 4 ילדים בבית כנסת נשלח לכלא
https://www.kikar.co.il/341435.html
שלום חזן, אב לילדים וסב לנכדים, המשמש כרב בית כנסת בירושלים, ניצל את ההערצה אליו - וביקש מכמה ילדים וילדות שיעזרו לו, תוך שהוא תוקף אותם באופן חמור • גזר דינו: ארבע שנות מאסר
Nearly 180 Evangelical Leaders, Including Billy Graham's Granddaughter, Condemn Anti-Trump Editorial in Letter to Christianity Today
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelical-leaders-letter-condemn-christianity-today-anti-trump-op-ed-1478742
"The editorial you published, without any meaningful and immediate regard for dissenting points of view, not only supported the entirely-partisan, legally-dubious, and politically-motivated impeachment," the letter read, "but went even further, calling for Donald Trump not to be elected again in 2020 when he certainly survives impeachment."
"Your editorial offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations," it continued.
The group, who called themselves "Bible-believing Christians and patriotic Americans," went on to say that they are grateful that Trump has "sought our advice" to advance policies that "protect the unborn, promote religious freedom [and] reform our criminal justice system."
Rudy Giuliani: I'm more of a Jew than George Soros
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/273589
Speaking with New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi in an interview released Monday, Giuliani accused Soros of effectively orchestrating the ongoing Democratic effort to impeach President Trump.
“He put all four ambassadors there,” said Giuliani, “and he’s employing the FBI agents.”
The former mayor then accused Soros defenders of deflecting criticism of the billionaire’s influence in politics and his political positions with allegations of anti-Semitism.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” said Giuliani, saying Soros is ‘hardly’ Jewish, an ‘enemy of Israel’, and a ‘horrible’ person.
“Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”
Population Authority dismisses claim 85% of immigrants to Israel aren’t Jewish
https://www.timesofisrael.com/population-authority-dismisses-claim-85-of-immigrants-to-israel-arent-jewish
Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) on Monday rejected claims that the overwhelming majority of new immigrants to Israel are non-Jews.
The information, published earlier in a report by an Israeli group based on documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request, asserted that only one out of seven immigrants over the past eight years had moved to Israel as a Jew.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Speak Truth to Trump
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/october-web-only/speak-truth-to-trump.html
Most Christians who support Trump have done so with
reluctant strategic calculation, largely based on the president’s power
to appoint members of the Supreme Court. Important issues are indeed at
stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other
religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even
if they are in the cultural minority.
But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own
form of idolatry—an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor
of the causes we support. Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel
and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer
strength—the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome—at the expense
of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of
God’s manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the
oppressed. Strategy becomes idolatry when we betray our deepest values
in pursuit of earthly influence. And because such strategy requires
capitulating to idols and princes and denying the true God, it
ultimately always fails.
Christianity Today made a moral case that Trump needs to go. He responded by proving its point.
https://www.vox.com/2019/12/20/21031611/christianity-today-trump-removal-editorial-response-mark-galli
Trump began by falsely describing Christianity Today,
which has a mainstream audience, as “far left” and “very ‘progressive.’”
(Although it’s true the publication has been critical of Trump for years,
that’s very different from being far left.) He claimed, without
evidence, that the magazine “has been doing poorly.” He took gratuitous
shots at the Democratic presidential candidates, comparing their faith
unfavorably with his own — and ignoring the fact that if the Senate
removes him from office, Vice President Mike Pence, not a Democrat, will
take his place.
Christianity Today “knows nothing about reading a perfect
transcript of a routine phone call and would rather have a Radical Left
nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than
Donald Trump as your President,” Trump tweeted. “No President has done
more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not
get anything from those Dems on stage.”
רבני ב"ב נגד ההפגנות בשבת: "הדבר מוסיף חילול שבת לכוחות הביטחון"
https://www.jdn.co.il/j_world/1246512/
גדולי רבני בני ברק יוצאים במכתב נגד ההפגנות המתקיימות לאחרונה בשבתות
בפאתי העיר כנגד חילולי השבת המתרבים באזור גוש דן: ''אך דא עקא שבמחאות
אלו כרוכה סכנה של פיקוח נפש, כי הדרך מובילה לכמה וכמה בתי חולים ראשיים"
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Orthodox Jews Raise $1.5 Million For Family That Owned Jersey City Grocery Store
https://forward.com/news/national/436927/hasidic-fundraising-jersey-city-shooting/
The shooting last Tuesday devastated this growing Hasidic community
of about 100 families. Two gunmen, a man and a women, fueled by
anti-Semitic beliefs, charged into the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin
Luther King, Jr. Drive in Jersey City. Though a quick police response
may have saved the lives of the dozens of children in the Jewish school
next door, it took hours — and hundreds of bullets — before the
assailants were killed and the stand-off ended. Five people, including
the assailants, lost their lives. A police officer also died in an
earlier confrontation with the shooters.
Paris appeals court agrees: Killer of Jewish woman 'too high' to be guilty
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Paris-appeals-court-agrees-Killer-of-Jewish-woman-too-high-to-be-guilty-611546
The Paris Appeals Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling
that a Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor will not face trial
because he was too high on marijuana to control his actions.
Friday, December 20, 2019
American Jewry and the Trump impeachment
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/American-Jewry-and-the-Trump-impeachment-611504
Many were the Jews in America who certainly applauded the decision to impeach Trump on Wednesday. Many, as well, are the Jews concerned – as Jews have been throughout history in times of crisis and change – about how this will impact on antisemitism and on the Jewish community.
And, as the Ami poll showed, there are also Jews in the US – an integral part of the fabric of the American Jewish community – who think differently. American and Israeli Jews are not the only ones divided on Trump. There is a split – though by no means an equal one – on the matter within the US Jewish community as well.
Israeli-American backpacker loses appeal in Russian drug smuggling case
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-american-backpacker-loses-appeal-in-russian-drug-smuggling-case/
A Russian court on Thursday rejected the appeal of Naama Issachar, a US-Israeli woman who was sentenced to over seven years in prison in the country for a minor drug offense.
Issachar, who has been held in Russia since April, was arrested after a small quantity of marijuana, some 9 grams, was found in her luggage during a layover in Moscow.
The judges discussed the decision for roughly 20 minutes and ruled against the appeal in a one-sentence statement, Channel 12 reported. The rejected appeal means her years-long punishment will be upheld.
URGENT: danger of govt sponsored service - for both genders - Last Call: Submit a Public Comment by December 31
Kislev 5780 / December '19
URGENT: Danger of gov't mandated "national service" etc. - for both genders - potentially becoming obligatory, that too for boys and girls.
° Imagine the leftist influence over what types of policies volunteers will need abide by.... even hospital volunteers could eventually be compelled to somehow participate in assisted killing, for example.
° Imagine the LGBTQ Tolerant Tyranny regime at work within National Service...
See below: Last Call: Submit a Public Comment by December 31.
THANK YOU all,
Follow Up Alert Re National Service
BS"D
21 Kislev, 5780
[Follow-Up] Alert:
Public comments are urgently needed by Dec. 31, addressing, among other things, "Should all Americans be required to serve?"
The "National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service" is taking public comments addressing questions about whether America should encourage or even require various types of public service, including Military, National, and Public Service.
The moral hazards are formidable, see a previous post: https://daattorah.blogspot.
This is from their email of about a month ago:
"One month left to share your thoughts on the following:
Does service have inherent value?
If so, what is it?
How does the U.S. increase the desire for Americans, particularly young Americans, to serve?
What are the barriers to participation in military, national or public service?
How can the U.S. increase participation in military, national, and public service by individuals with critical skills to address national security and other public service needs of the nation?
Is the military draft or draft contingency still a necessary component of U.S. national security?
Are modifications to the selective service system needed?
Is a mandatory service requirement for all Americans necessary, valuable, and feasible?
Submit a public comment by the December 31, 2019 deadline via:
mail your comment or any material you see fit to 2530 Crystal Drive, Suite 1000, Box #63, Arlington, Virginia 22202,
or email your response to:
The national conversation on these important issues begins with you. ..."
It's important our voices be heard. We're all for serving the country, but only in a manner consistent with serving G-d.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Man who refused wife divorce demands embryo in return for annulment
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Man-who-refused-divorce-demands-embryo-in-return-for-annulment-611484
But the husband, knowing he can not father any more children, demanded, in return for granting a divorce, his wife either undergo fertility treatment herself to have the last remaining embryo implanted, or to give him ownership over the embryo so he could have another child through a surrogate mother.
The judges of the rabbinical court, rabbis Avraham Shemen, Avraham Avidar, and David Grozman issued a ruling that the embryo did not belong to either parent and the husband’s demand his wife get pregnant from the embryo was not reasonable.
The unique life story of Rabbi Berel Wein, a scholar of the past
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/The-unique-life-story-of-Rabbi-Berel-Wein-a-scholar-of-the-past-611432
Throughout his stories and lectures, Wein attempts to impart one basic message. “In my opinion, Jewish history is the key to faith and to belief, and to explain what we’re doing here in Israel. If you have no idea of where you are coming from, you have no idea where you are going.”
‘Jew coup’: The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories surrounding Trump’s impeachment
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jew-coup-the-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-trumps-impeachment/
While the president himself has never suggested that a Jewish conspiracy is the root cause of the impeachment process, experts on anti-Semitism and the relationship between hate and violence say that he has fostered an environment in which that type of discourse has been deemed acceptable.
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