Mikve Rein discussion on Torah Forum

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קיצונים תקפו מו"צ של "העדה החרדית" - וגזזו חלק מזקנו

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 קנאים תקפו את הגאון רבי אברהם דב ליטמנוביץ, מו"צ בבית הדין של 'העדה החרדית' ומחשובי רבני ירושלים, בשל מאבקם נגד מכשיר ה'מקווה ריין'; לפני יומיים שפכו דגים בואשים בפתח ביתו

 

Defend, Don't Draft Our Daughters

Defend, Don't Draft Or Debase  Our Daughters

7 Tishrei, 5782 / Sept. 14, '21 

by Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director of Help Rescue Our Children

On September 1, both the Senate and House Armed Services Committees voted to require women to register for the Selective Service. That means that, in event of a draft, G-d forbid, for ANY reason or pretext (global warming?), women - of age 18 to 25 - would be forced to serve in the [increasingly "Woke"] military. That also means young female conscripts will be forced to endure the Military's zero-tolerance for dissent, including non-compliance with its degressive "Equality" dogma. Take a minute or two to think about what exactly that means for your daughters, sisters, or granddaughters in very real terms, given all the godless dregs with whom they will be in close proximity, particularly overnight, especially in jungles, or other isolated areas, or in enemy captivity, G-d forbid.

Moreover, even if somehow we hypothetically knew from Eliyahu HaNovi that there would never be a draft in America - military, national service, or otherwise - the passage of proposed "Draft Our Daughters" amendments to the NDAA22 - that would require women to register for Selective Service - would ultimately have a corrosive if not devastating impact on the military. 

1. Eventually, the integration of women into military units, including combat units, would accelerate - rendering an already really bad situation alot worse.

2. With that, unwanted pregnancy and abortions would rise (although obvious to many, evidence of this has been addressed elsewhere).

3. Furthermore, that antimoral Armed Forces paradigm-shift would metastasize into a broader cultural shift, accelerating and exacerbating what's already happening in the remnants of American civilization.

4. This is in addition to the deleterious impact such Congressional legislation would immediately have by encouraging and boosting the ongoing escalation of the female draft in Israel - where the irreligious Establishment is, according to Chotam.org, actually pushing the female military draft (revealingly, at the expense of the female national service, "Sheirut Leumi").

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Now, if you're not already involved in combating this epic threat, would you please join? Please see below, and contact us if need be.  We have precious little time to stop this state-sanctioned abuse of women. 

But it can be stopped.

The key to success is focus. Decent people cannot afford to continue to be incessantly duped and distracted by diversionary tactics, as real as some of those diversionary dangers may be (as Mrs. Engel so succinctly observes in her email, appended below).

THE DEADLINE FOR LEGISLATION SUBMISSION BY HOUSE MEMBERS - TO STOP THE LAYING OF GROUNDWORK FOR THE DRAFTING OF WOMEN - IS THIS COMING TUESDAY, SEPT.14th 1PM ET.

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Organization of this Presentation:

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This presentation is divided into five [sections, not books]:

1] action items for individuals,

2] a section for activist leaders, 

3] a list of tips and background information and explanation,

4] supplemental information and a sample letter to a "Equality" proponent (and military vet),

5] a useful sample alert sent out by a leading activist involved in this matter

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1] ACTION NEEDED TODAY:

1) Please urge the public that it's truly urgent for each potential voter, and especially girls and young women, to do the following, ASAP:

a) Spread the word about this threat (see email and links copied below).

b) Each person, especially women and girls, should contact their own representatives in both houses of Congress, with the unequivocally strident message: 

"Don't draft our daughters - ever - for any type of "service" - for any reason, period." 

The Congressional Switchboard is 202-224-3121 [the switchboard operates 24 hours, but offices are only open during day hours, 9 to 5 or 6].

Please share this Action Center link of Concerned Women for America for individuals to easily contact their representatives about this issue:

https://www.votervoice.net/CWFA/campaigns/87862/respond

TIPS FOR CALLERS:

° There is a fact sheet from CWA, for background information (although I've not been able to review it myself).

https://concernedwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CWALAC-Fact-Sheet-Dont-Draft-Our-Daughters-2021-1.pdf

° Callers may want to add:

'No "if"s, "but"s, or "and"s -- Drafting women is Exploitation.'

° Do not take no for an answer. If the staffer obfuscates, consider replying "Precisely WHICH words didn't you understand?  Don't draft women to anything, period." 

° Those legislators who provide the excuse/pretext of "Equality" should be told (something along the lines of the powerful argument in section 4) this:

'Forcing women into combat is the worst form of Inequality: It puts them at risk of capture by enemies - who would certainly treat them with the worst forms of "inequality." '  It also exposes women to being targeted first by enemy forces (see https://www.c-span.org/video/?460117-1/national-commission-military-national-public-service-forum-day-2-part-1 at 1:13:58, Ms. Jude Eden, Thomas P. Kilgannon).

This is not rocket science. The offending legislators generally are aware of some of this, unless they're incredibly dumb. We need to put them on defense - that we know that they know it, and that they just don't care.

° If, despite rational arguments, a staffer or your Congressman argues that "Equality" trumps our concerns, you may want to consider being a bit clearer, by replying along the lines of:

"Why should we/ our daughters get molested by a six-foot brute with AIDS - just for your "DEquality"?

° Some staffers may try to throw callers off balance by sidetracking them, by mention of the Congressional ("Heck") Commission. Reply: "Don't sidetrack," and repeat your demands that women never be forced to serve in any national service, for any reason or pretext, period.

FYI, that 11-person panel wasted 45 million dollars over three years to encourage expanding national and military service to women for no good reason. Mention of the Commission is probably a diversionary tactic. One need not know anything about that Commission to know that their unhinged [and apparently predetermined] conclusion of drafting women - to any type of national service - especially in "Woke" America in 2021 - is a disaster of grave proportions. No foreign enemies could have perpetrated this against the United States, without the help of so many eager adversaries within.

c) It's important to please share feedback, i.e. responses of legislators, with us, CMR, CWA, et.al.

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2] ACTION ITEMS FOR LEADERS:

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1) Leaders, in addition to urging your followers to do the aforementioned, also please contact every Republican member, and the less radical Democratic members of the Armed Services Committees in BOTH houses (preferably considering how they voted on Draft Our Daughters in committee; please see futher in Supplement below). 

»» Urge them to submit legislation to remove ALL "Draft Our Daughters" language, including language redefining Selective Service, in the NDAA (the massive Defense legislation coming to a full floor vote very soon, perhaps the week of Sept. 20th!). The deadline for the House is this  Tuesday Sept. 14th. 

Here's the House language: https://houlahan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/amendment_mssa_houlpa.pdf (from: https://houlahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2272 )

Unfortunately, we don't have the Senate deadline yet, because they've not published their schedule. It seems that working on legislation in the House is the priority, at the moment.  Congress resumes this week, but thankfully they have other business to attend to as well. That means that we must work as if we have almost no time, but plan as if we may possibly have more time.

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2)  Please clarify to the legislators why it's so vital that they submit language that blocks the recent attempt - inspired by the aptly-named "Heck Commission" - to redefine Selective Service, to create other types of mandatory national service, and to draft women into those. Additionally, by creating other forms of national service, they aim to dodge grassroots objections to the abject lunacy of drafting women into combat units, by making it appear as if the entire Selective Service inclusion of women has nothing to do with combat (not that that would avoid our objections either).

3)  Thirdly, please spread the word as rapidly as feasible. We need to wake up the heavily-distracted public, and save them from the relentless diversionary tactics of the Left, be they Corona-related restrictions [arguably geared to evoke our distraction from culture-killing legislation like this], or otherwise.

4) Organize women's demonstrations, ASAP. That will get attention, and convey the gravity of the threat. 

5) Alert receptive Catholic organizations and activists to the threat, especially noting how a female draft would increase unwanted pregnancy and abortion (ask for our fact sheet on that). 

It's vital to immediately nurture a bipartisan tsunami of national outrage against drafting young women - for anything.

° Timing:

We especially need this massive awareness campaign NOW, in order to have civil outrage on social media before Tuesday, for two reasons: 

a) One is to ensure support to expedite the aforementioned legislation to stop Draft Our Daughters.

b) The second is to deter the Rules Committee from vetoing that vitally needed proposed legislation.

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°°° For more information: °°°

Please see the letter and links below, and the websites of the Center for Military Readiness, and Concerned Women of America.

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3] Background Explanation:

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° What's at Stake?

By nature, having women in the Military generally involves monumental harassment, exploitation, and abuse, as the Israeli experience so tragically testifies.

Some reasonable people may hypothetically subscribe to the notion that government has the right to draft women in extreme circumstances. However, we all would have to agree that in modern "Woke" America, it would be an absolute disaster, from a moral, religious, and human perspective. Forcing women into national service would ultimately devolve into legalized human trafficking, even if it perchance would not start off with that intent. Whatever possibilities that the federal government may have been able to mitigate the dangers of drafting young women have long been eradicated by the faux "Equality" movement, including it's horrific transgender agenda.

° This all applies to NON-combat positions. Combat positions elevate the threats to women to an entirely different plateau of lunacy, as explained previously, regarding the threat of capture by enemy forces not particularly interested in equal-rights protocols.

° Targeting Religious Values:

These dangers stand in addition to religious objections, which themselves introduce an additional set of monumental concerns, particularly for Jewish women. 

° Realize that the religious exemptions instituted in Israel, with good intentions on the part of Rabbinic leaders, are currently being (systematically) eroded, incrementally. In fact, the very same religious exemptions that were initially demanded to protect religious women are now being exploited to deny them their legal rights to automatic military service exemptions, as recently indicated by an Israeli member of Knesset:

"During the course of the Knesset debate, MK Betzalel Smotrich (leader of the Religious Zionism party) said that the requirement for females to serve in the army should be abolished altogether and should be on a voluntary basis. Smotrich added that the “procedure which girls who declare religiosity have to go through to receive their exemption in the last few years is humiliating and shameful. The army employs private investigators who track the private lifestyles of the girls including spying on their Facebook pages and pictures and creating an illogical barometer for religiosity.” ' {end of VIN News quote, https://vinnews.com/2021/07/01/415263 } "

Moreover, the world-revered "Brisker Rov," Rav Yitzchak Zev Soloveichik OB"M, was adamant against compromising on allowing the drafting of ANY girls, religious or not. In fact, he was even more opposed to the drafting of irreligious girls, inasmuch as they would fall spiritually further and faster than religious girls would fall in the morally corrosive military milieu (see "Yeled Sha'ashuim," Rav Aharon Soloveichik, p. 348-350, starting from the quote of Rav Michel Feinstein). If Israel would have followed his Torah directives, we would be spared so many horror stories we hear from Israeli girls and young women, both those caught in the Army and those religious resistors braving the specter of arrest and incarceration in military prison - to preserve their fidelity to the Torah and their personal purity (e.g. regarding the case of Orah Chaya and Moriah Leah R., Bnos Beruria (in the Summer of 5779) see https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2019/07/wonderful-opportunities-for-public.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FIjWSM+%28Daas+Torah+-+Issues+of+Jewish+Identity%29

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sct41kbjry0ph5m/BS.docx?dl=0 ).

Avoiding Replaying the Israeli Catastrophe:

We don't want to give any female draft proponent the backing of feeling that if drafting women is "good enough" for Israel, it's good enough for America. However, it's no secret that some female draft proponents like to raise the Israeli female military draft as a paradigm to emulate. You may recall the observation attributed to Einstein about the sign of an idiot being repeating the same actions -all while expecting different results.

Firstly, the ongoing, disastrous female draft policy in Israel has been perpetrated in flagrant violation of Torah Law. There is nothing whatsoever Jewish about it. Secondly, from a practical perspective, that female draft policy is actually all the more reason to ban the drafting of women, religious or otherwise.  For a sampling of reasons not to emulate the Israeli experience, see the wealth of information accumulated by an Israeli organization (one of an indisputable Zionist orientation), called "Chotam."

° For one telling sample of many, here's an excerpt of an eye-opening post that demonstrates how ripe for abuse the female draft is in Israel, despite it's genuflection to "religious rights." It reminds one of the saying, "be careful about you ask for - you might actually get it."

"The following is a link to a  Guidebook provided by the pro-Israel organization "Chotam." It's an English guide for religious girls to avoid enlistment in the IDF: 

https://www.chotam.org.il/media/61762/pinkaskis-orange-english.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1hBP9tHJxSIfF07n8ywx27I_kWn0jfd9EOBy7fYfRe1xNChBPBU4qLLo0 ; 

This very publication is a stinging indictment of the Israeli Army Draft Office, and the antireligious Establishment behind its escalating crusade to rob religious and traditional girls of their legal entitlement to a religious exemption from military service. The very need to publish such a guide speaks volumes of the danger posed to the next generation of Jewish mothers by "fellow Jews." The professional, psychological warfare techniques that these 16- and 17-year-old girls need to be trained to defend against, all alone - without even legal counsel or a family member - are almost as outrageous as they are anti-Torah. These techniques indicate how intent the Israeli military is on drafting increasing numbers of religious girls, and to what depths they're willing to stoop to do so. ..." 

It's noteworthy that the only way the antireligious Israeli Establishment avoided a civil war with swaths of decency-minded Jewish residents was to allow broad (automatic) religious draft exemptions for traditional and religious women. It should also be remembered that the only thing that stopped the antireligious social engineers of the Israeli Establishment from drafting ALL girls into their notoriously promiscuous Army was the very real promise of a civil war. That prospect was a corollary of the  obligation under Torah Law for girls to avoiding enlistment in the exploitive, abusive IDF even on pain of sacrifice of one's life (as per the directive articulated by leading Torah Sages, commonly known as "Yai'horaig Ve'al Ya'avor"). What stopped the powerful leftist government was the realization that many Jews recognized that there are certain core Torah values worth dying for, as directed by the Torah itself. A lesson that the Jewish People carry throughout history is that antireligious regimes and their despots ultimately cannot compete with properly applied self-sacrifice, "Mesiras Nefesh." 

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For some historical perspective:

Drafting women into the military is a policy that's generally been rejected on practical grounds, for thousands of years, even by governments led by very evil leaders.  Although some congressional representatives apparently have been misled, in fact they're serving as useful idiots for those who seek to sacrifice the personal purity, modesty, safety, and wellbeing of young females, along with American military readiness, on the altar of faux Equality.

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° Prospects for Success:

This is a war we can win, G-d willing, and one we cannot afford to lose. It's a war for the very soul of future generations.  It's a war that can be won with bulletins rather than bullets.

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Thank you! May the merit of taking a stand against the drafting of women stand in our merit. May we especially merit protection from that which the Prophets of the Bible prophesy about, regarding the great war of Gog and Magog. Many religious Jews read about this war on the upcoming Sukkos holidays, on Day One, from  Zechariah 14 [see verse 2 regarding the violation of women (cf. Radak, Metzudas Dovid regarding Gog)].  A few days later, on Shabbos, we read from Yechezkel (Ez. 38:18 and on).*  If we allow this type of depravity to be perpetrated against women now - what merit do we have to be saved then, when Divine Justice arrives in force? (See Radak on Zechariah 14:2,3.)

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(*The Mishneh Bererah (664:10) mentions what we know from earlier sources, in regard to the timing of reading from Yechezkel, namely, that (part of?) the war of Gog and Magog is to occur in the Hebrew month of Tishrei. This year, Tishrei ends Oct. 6. (The U.S. war against Afghanistan was launched 20 years ago in Tishrei.))

Help Rescue Our Children

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director

TorahJewsForDecency@gmail.com / public account

NathanAdvisors@gmail.com / personal account

USA: 845-642-1679 «» 

Israeli Helpline: 03-721-3337

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4] Supplemental Information:

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A perspective from a lucid Congressman:

‘Go straight to hell’: Texas Republican blasts both parties after amendment to draft our daughters passes committee:
https://www.rt.com/usa/533799-draft-daughters-congress-ndaa

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Armed Services Committee:  Who voted for Selective Service, from a very well informed source on top of this issue:

Most news reports were not accurate in reporting the House Armed Services Committee vote on the NDAA (HR 4350)  for 2022, which took place on September 1. 

Markup of H.R. 4350 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 | Committee Repository | U.S. House of Representatives

As shown in this roll-call record (Log 835), the ("draft our daughters") Houlihan amendment to HR 4350 passed 35-24.  Five (not four) Republicans unfortunately voted Yes:

1. Jack Bergman, a retired Marine Lt. General from Michigan, 

2. Mike Waltz, who has been on the wrong side of the national service issue for some time, 

3. Liz Cheney who is out of step on almost everything, 

4. Pat Fallon, who has a little AF experience and bills himself as a “conservative Republican,” and 

5. Rep. Scott Franklin of Florida.  Franklin boasted of his votes on the NDAA, but didn’t mention his vote to “Draft Our Daughters.”

Franklin Secures Key Amendments in 2021 National Defense Authorization Act | Representative Scott Franklin (house.gov)

Thankfully, one Democrat voted against the Houlihan amendment: Congressman Andy Kim of New Jersey:

About | Representative Andy Kim (house.gov)

On the Senate side, Republicans voting to Draft Our Daughters in S. 4049 included:

1. Senators Deb Fischer,

2. (self-described "combat vet") Joni Ernst, 

3. Thom Tillis, 

4. Dan Sullivan, 

5. Kevin Cramer, 

6. Rick Scott, 

7. Tommy Tuberville, and

8. (surprisingly) Marsha Blackburn.  

These Republicans need to feel some heat, especially in their district offices while they are not in session. Information on how to contact each one is here:

Find Your Members in the U.S. Congress | Congress.gov | Library of Congress  or here: List of Representatives and Senators - GovTrack.us.

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Slogans: 

Here are some suggested slogans to brand this campaign, and a few talking points or slogans for banners, etc.

Defend Our Daughters from Incremental Conscription

Defend, Don't Debase Our Daughters

Never Traffick American Women, Congress HATES Competition

Going Straight to Hell won't be necessary - Hell will be HERE, shortly - a bipartisan effort.

Uncle Sandusky Wants YOU

The Founders went to war against the English Superpower over far less than the mass-trafficking of women into the Army.

What would George Washington & his freedom fighters do to those who voted to draft women into the co-ed Military?

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Sample Letter to an "Equality" Proponent: (defeating them on their own turf)

"... Please recalibrate any previous considerations, and please vote against ANY measure that would require women or girls to register for the Selective Service - regardless of any redefinition - or De-definition - of "Selective Service."

Any such requirement on women threatens - in the long term, if not in the intermediate term - to subject women to the ultimate IN-equality: brutal abuse by enemy forces, if captured in battle.

In other words, to rob a woman of her "right to choose" to risk her own life and personal wellbeing to serve in the Armed Forces is antithetical to the very principle of "Equality" invoked by many proponents of the female military draft. That's because, for one - as you know perhaps as much as anyone in Congress - women captured by enemy forces are disproportionately likely to be subjected to sexual assault, far more so than male servicemen. 

Moreover, forcible enlistment of females in any way that would ultimately lead to military combat conscription unequally subjects them to the intolerable risk of that terrible aforementioned indignity. That's the worst form of Inequality -- one masquerading as Equality.

It's quite simple: America cannot guarantee "equality" of treatment when it's enemy armies calling the shots on how American POWs are treated, or, in this case, abused.

[Furthermore, in light of the tragic sacrifice made by 23-year-old Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee - captured in a photo cooing over a rescued Afghan infant last week - and subsequently slaughtered in Thursday's terror attack in Kabul, one need ask: are these the types of dangers which all draft-age women should ever in the future be FORCED to face?]

Now, one may argue that these combat-specific concerns aren't relevant if the Selective Service is redefined to - temporarily - exclude combat positions. However, that's not true.

Redefinition of Selective Service in effect helps circumvent public outrage over putting women into dangerous combat situations. Thus, it is incrementalism at its worst.  As one leader put it, "incrementalism plus consistency equals radical change."

Redefinition of S.S. would invariably be temporary, enabling the forces pushing for radical change to advance their full agenda on their terms (NOT ours) - whenever the dumbed-down or distracted public will more open to forcing women into combat.

Let's be honest and put it on the table. Radical elements want to force women into combat - when they can get away with it. We cannot allow them to play us, and trap us into enabling their long- term goals - by concealing those aims behind redefinition of terms.

There are multiple and formidable additional objections to redefining S.S. - above and beyond the specter of eventually drafting women into combat roles. However, this one objection should more than suffice to actively oppose it with all of one's might."

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5] A Helpful Alert from Mrs. Randy Engel:

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Date:09/09/2021 

From: Randy Engel, A U.S. Coalition for Life - National Alert

To: American Pro-Family Advocates

Re: Stop Congress from Requiring Young Women to Register for the Draft

Dear Friends,

 

The enemies of God, family and country never sleep.

 

While Americans are preoccupied and distracted by the Covid-19 Plandemic, Congressional bills  HR 4350 and S. 4049  (the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), are heading for a full vote in the House and Senate.  

 

Both the House and Senate bills carry a dangerous amendment to the Military Selective Service Act to require young women to register for the Selective Service System (SSS) Draft. Incredibly, this measure has attracted much bipartisan support. 

Like the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent, if this measure is allowed to pass, the way is open for drafting women into combat roles.

 

Proponents of the NDAA/Defense Budget bill argue that the current Selective Service ruling that legally requires only men (males) ages 18 to 25, to registered for the draft is “discriminatory,” and “unconstitutional.”  All references to men or males have been stricken in the amended version of the House and Senate bills and replaced with androgenous terms, aka, “persons,” “citizens,” “enlisted members, etc.

Republican Chip Roy of Texas, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who has a little girl, blasted his colleagues after they passed a mandate to require women to register for the draft. “All of D.C. – all of it- can go straight to hell!”  

The DOD ordered the Armed Services to lift the ban on women serving in combat roles in January 2013. In December 2015 the DOD announced that the  military would be opening all “remaining occupations and positions to women,” with “no exceptions,” effective January 2016. Joe Biden supports the draft mandate for women. If Congress now approves the draft for women, that will be the last nail in the American coffin.

PLEASE Act NOW. Contact your Congressman and Senators at their district/state offices or their Washington. D.C. office to express your opposition to any bill/amendment, including H.R. 4350 and S. 4049, that requires women to register for Selective Service. Be exact – NO DRAFT for WOMEN - INTO ANYTHING {-NSL} - NOT NOW – NOT TOMORROW – NEVER!

Please note that both the U.S. House and Senate are not currently in session. House members will be in session on September  20-24; 27-30. Senate members will be in session September 13-15; 20-24, 27-30.

This means that you can contact your Congressman and Senators at their district or state-wide offices now! Or you can leave a phone message or send an email to them at their Washington D.C. office where their staff will likely pick up the phone or see that your email reaches your Congressman or Senators.  

If you don’t know how to contact your Congressman or Senator in D.C. or at his district or home office, go to List of Representatives and Senators - GovTrack.us. When you fill in the state slot on the left side of the page  the list of  your state’s Congressmen and Senators will come up alphabetically. Click the name and it will bring you to your representative’s official website and give you all the information you need on his or her home offices, email address, etc.

Whichever method of contact you choose, please act now or as soon as possible as the NDAA will be coming to the House and Senate floor for a vote anytime after the House and Senate members return to Washington.

Please also send this mailing to all your email contacts, especially those who have young daughters. A letter or email from a young girl or young woman to their Congressman and Senators opposing the draft for women will probably be the most effective weapon we have in our profamily and prolife arsenal opposing the registration of women to the military draft.

Thank you for your help and cooperation.

Randy Engel, U.S. Coalition for Life  www.uscl.info 

 REFERENCES:

The text of the House version of the NDAA  is available at Text - H.R.4350 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

• A Copy of the amended section of H.R. 4350 stripped of all its male references is available at untitled (house.gov).
• For more background on the draft see  Will Women Have to Register for the Draft in 2021? – NewsWars.

Please send any feedback you receive from your Congressman and Senators to Randy Engel, the U.S. Coalition for Life at rvte61@comcast.net

Eitan Biran: Italy investigates 'kidnap' of cable car crash survivor

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58541644

Authorities in Italy have launched an investigation after a child, the only survivor of a deadly cable car crash in May, was taken to Israel by his grandfather.

 

Palestinian escapees begged for ride from Arab town to West Bank but were denied

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/fugitives-begged-for-ride-from-arab-town-to-west-bank-but-were-denied/

 The six escaped from Gilboa Prison in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, making their way out through their cell’s drainage system and an empty space underneath the prison.

The escape exposed a series of failures at the prison, and Public Security Minister Barlev said on Thursday that he had decided to form a government commission to probe the incident.

Among the apparent lapses were failure to learn lessons from previous escape attempts and several operational blunders, including unmanned watchtowers and sleeping guards.

Trial of Malka Leifer opens in Melbourne, 12 years after initial charges

 https://www.jpost.com/international/trial-of-malka-leifer-opens-in-melbourne-679301

 The trial of Malka Leifer opened in the Melbourne court on Monday morning, with the former principal being accused of 74 counts of child sexual abuse and rape.

Leifer escaped to Israel in 2008 after being accused of child sexual abuse and rape in Australia.

In 2012, Australia requested that she be extradited, and the process began in 2014. Leifer was arrested but claimed she suffered from mental illnesses which would prevent her from facing trial, and the case was dropped until 2018 when she was arrested for faking her mental illness to avoid

Novominkser Rebbe, shlita - don't bring up these long forgotten issues.

Below is the first page of the Novominsker Rebbe's strong denunciation of R' Eliach's three volume work on the Gra. R' Eliach's book has been banned by the Chassidim - and many stores will not carry it. Among other things it notes that most people are not aware of the issues so why bring them up and that since the Gra was seriously mistaken "maaseh satan" it is disrespectful of the Gra to mention his mistakes. He also asserts that R' Eliach does not present a balanced picture but only the nasty extreme statements said at the height of the controversy which later died out and everybody came to love and respect each other. The review goes on for another 10 pages. The violence of the attack on R' Eliach was such that one of the Novominsker's old friends Rav Katzenstein wrote and published a small volume of his correspondence with the Novominsker regarding this review.

Similar considerations prevented R' Betzalel Landau from publishing a chapter on the conflict in his work on the Gra. Ironically this was corrected when Artscroll published an English translation of the work and added the missing material with the aid of R' Jonathan Rosenblum. The Novominkser supported Artscroll in publishing this material in English.

[See also the opposing view of Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky, zt"l]

 

It is available from Hebrew Books Yeshurun vol 10 page 831

https://hebrewbooks.org/20399

Strange Lawsuit: Two Women Claim to Be Dead Man's Wife

 https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/strange-lawsuit-two-women-claim-to-be-dead-mans-wife/

 Demetra Street alleges that Wylie Funeral Homes committed some nefarious double-dipping, conducting two services for the same deceased person and pocketing money for both. She is suing the business for $8.5 million for breach of contract, negligence, fraud, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Democrats’ Jan. 6 commission is just a partisan ploy

 https://nypost.com/2021/05/21/democrats-jan-6-commission-is-just-a-partisan-ploy/

Yet as they talk about Jan. 6 — and maintain an armed camp around the Capitol — Dems remain remarkably incurious about what triggered a pandemic that claimed more than 600,000 American lives, prompted lockdowns that tanked the economy and rang up trillions in costs, which the nation will be repaying long into the future.

 That Congress seems reluctant to explore the origins of the coronavirus — despite pleas from nonpartisan scientists specifically to examine the role Chinese labs might have played in creating or spreading it — is nothing short of scandalous. Finding out the truth about COVID’s origins could help save lives, yet Dems prefer to focus on Jan. 6.

 America needs to get to the bottom of what caused this massive, once-in-a-century public-health catastrophe. If Democrats won’t probe even that, they certainly shouldn’t be wasting time and money on a partisan effort to keep talking about an “insurrection.”

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org.

Completing Tractate Sukkah: Nine Days Siyum

 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3401312/jewish/Completing-Tractate-Sukkah.htm

Tractate Sukkah discusses the various observances of the joyous holiday of Sukkot: dwelling in a Sukkah, taking of the Four Kinds, and the festive dancing and praying that characterizes the weeklong celebration.

The tractate concludes with the story of Miriam of the Bilga clan, who had married a Greek and then acted disrespectfully in the Temple, and how the Sages dealt with her clan.

Tzadik is required (Besht)

 זאת תהיה תורת המצורע ביום טהרתו והובא אל הכהן: יש להעיר בזה לשון תורת מצורע כי היה ראוי לומר משפט המצורע: ולקח למטהר שתי צפרים חיות טהורות ועץ ארז ושני תולעת ואזוב ושחט את הצפור האחת על כלי חרש על מים חיים ואת הצפור החיה ושלח על פני השדה: לפע"ד יש בכאן רמז איך שהתורה הקדושה נותנת עצה להצדיק איך להעלות נשמות של ישראל ולקרבם לה' וע"ד אנכי ארד עמך מצרימה ואנכי אעלך גם עלה כי כשאדם נופל ממדריגתו ויורד ח"ו לבחי' מצרים אז כל הבחי' שלו יורדים עמו הן תורתו וכל המעשים שלו וכן כשיש לו עליה אזי עולין עמו כל המדריגות שלו הן תורתו עם מעשים טובים שלו וכל העולמות שהוא דבוק בהן יש להם ג"כ עליה עמו וזהו זאת תהיה תורת המצורע היינו מי שנפל ח"ו ממדריגתו וגם תורתו היא ג"כ בבחי' מצורע וכן כל הבחינות שלו: ביום טהרתו כשהוא מטהר עצמו אז והובא אל הכהן היינו ממילא והובא תורתו אל הכהן דא קב"ה ויש לה עליה וכן לכל המדריגות שלו ממילא נמשכים עמה ואח"כ מפרש אופן טהרתו שיתדבק אל הצדיק ובמה יטהרנו הצדיק ולק' למטהר שתי צפרים חיות טהורות: כי כן שמעתי מאא"ז זללה"ה כי כל עליות של האד' א"א להיות כ"א ע"י ראשי וצדיקי הדור הן המדות של האדם הן דיבורים שלו הכל הצדיק יכול להעלות ויש שני בחי' בזה יש אנשים שהצדיק מעלה אותן בתורתו ותפלתו ויש אנשים שאינו יכול להעלותן כ"א בשיחה שלו ע"ד ועלהו לא יבול אפילו שיחת חולין שלו יש בו צורך אף שנראה שהם דברים בטלים ובאמת הצדיק מעלה אותו ע"י דיבורים שלו שמדבר עמו וכן שמעתי מאא"ז זללה"ה ולאו כל אדם זוכה לזה כמו שאמר אא"ז זללה"ה על המשנה ראוה מדברת עם אחד ודי בזה: וזה י"ל שמרמז הפסוק ולקח למטהר שתי צפרים לשון פיטפוטי דברים והיינו שתי צפרים פי' ב' מיני דבורים כנ"ל שבהם הוא מטהר לנשמות ישראל כ"א לפי בחינתו: חיות טהורות והיינו רק שיהיו הב' מיני דבורים הנ"ל בחיות ודביקות להשם ב"ה וטהורות מכל הפניות ועץ ארז ושני תולעת ואזוב ע"ד שכתוב אצל דוד המל' ע"ה עדני עצני כשהיה יוצא למלחמה היה מקשה עצמו כעץ וזהו עצני לנקום נקמתו וכשהיה עוסק בתורה היה מעדן עצמו כתולעת כן דרשו חז"ל נמצא היה לו ב' בחינות בחי' גבורה וגדלות ובחי' שפלות וזהו בכל צדיק שני בחינות אלו שנראה לבני העולם שמתנהג בבחי' גבורה וגדלות וזהו עץ ארז ארז הוא מספר יצחק שהוא בחי' גבורה ובאמת הוא אזוב היינו שפל ושני תולעת היינו כבחי' דוד מעדן עצמו כתולעת: ושחט את הצפור האחת היינו בחי' דיבור א' שהוא בתורתו ותפלתו על כלי חרש היינו לשם השכינה שנקרא כלי חרש יעסוק בתורתו ותפלתו על מים חיים היינו התורה שנקראת מים חיים מים נובעי' וע"י התורה מעלה אותם שהם אחוזים בשורשם בתורה ואת הצפור החיה היינו הדבור השני: ושלח על פני השדה היינו לעלות אנשים ריקים הנקראים איש שדה שאינו יכול להעלותם בתורתו כ"א בסיפורי דבריו כנ"ל: וזהו שהתורה הקדושה בנועם אמריה יהיבת עצה לחכימי דרא איך להעלות ולקרב נשמות ישראל להשם יתברך והבן:

Chabad - Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky & Messianic aspects

Yom Kippur as a vending machine

 I have been recently researching the issue of Avoda Zara. Contrary to popular believe it doesn't just mean avoiding bowing down to idols. It primarily means not ascribing the ability to grant benefit independent of G-d. 

One of the themes of the rav's Shabbos Shuva drasha was that tshuva means to return to G-d i.e. that He one alone provides us with what we need. 

 שׁ֚וּבָה יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַ֖ד יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ כִּ֥י כָשַׁ֖לְתָּ בַּעֲוֺנֶֽךָ׃ Hoshea 14:2

איכה ה׳:(כא) הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ ונשוב [וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה] חַדֵּ֥שׁ יָמֵ֖ינוּ כְּקֶֽדֶם׃

Even though this seems obvious.,however today there is a competing understanding. 

Acquiring enough zechusim so that G-d must give us what we want. This means by giving tzadaka to one  of several  particular causes, receiving a blessing from a pariculat tzadik or gadol or through segulos in particular saying Nismas for 40 day .

 This latter approach is basically viewing tshuva as a vending machine, once enough coins are inserted the desired result will happen. There is no concern or involvement of G-d.