Aguda's latest Chillul HaShem

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ע"ש פר' לך לך, יב מרחשון תשפ"ז, פרשת "וגם את הגוי אשר יעבודו דן* אנוכי"  

* ע' פי' ר"י על אבות א:טו מהרס"ג על "אמור מעט ועשה הרבה"

Linked* below is this week's LevinAt11 broadcast, Oct. 22, '26.

* https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

תכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, ערב שבת פרשת לך לך, תשפ"ז, תהא שנת פגר זדים

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Tefillah request, for refuah shelaima of:

1. Rav Yehuda ben Masha HaLevi (Levin);

2. Shimon ben Masha; 

3. Lea bas Freeda;  

4. Reuven ben Chava;

5. Yechezkel ben Feiga Zlota;

6. Neryah Dov ben Chana.

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Topics Included:

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1. Shlomo Werdiger, President of Agudath Israel, outs himself as a devotee of the interfaith-cult centered around Binyomin - aka Benjamin - Franklin - via his bizarre endorsement of Gov. Hochul (D)* - using the pretext of her opting in to a educational program that is mainly due to efforts by some prominent Republicans:

* https://matzav.com/agudah-chairman-goes-for-hochul-agudah-chairman-sol-werdiger-backs-governor-kathy-hochul-for-reelection-following-yeshiva-tuition-relief-decision/

This follows on the heels of Avi Schnall doing some pre-election plugging of Hochul on Talkline, using the same pretext.

2.  KJ exploits their girls school to perpetrate public chanifah of Hochul.

3.  This election in NY State will be seen - by those who matter within political class - as a referendum on murder - specifically, Physician-Facilitated Poisoning of the medically vulnerable (aka "Assisted Suicide") - which the NY legislature just passed, and which Gov. Hochul just signed, in this past legislative session.

4.  Regarding the massive, public Chillul HaShem endemic to frum campaigning - see the letter in the post of Parshas Beraishis, below. And see the letter in this week's MonseyMevaser.com on the topic.

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5. IDF Female Draft: 

How far can your donation go in saving girls from falling into the Israeli Army? 

In other words, for how little can you save one neshomoh?

A) FACT: For as little as TEN DOLLARS YOU CAN SAVE A TEENAGE GIRL FROM BEING DRAFTED INTO THE EXPLOITIVE ARMY!

FACT: GIRLS LOCATED FURTHER AWAY FROM CHAREIDI CENTERS CAN BE SAVED FOR A MERE 15 DOLLARS.

The cost of saving these neshomos is, in many cases, so low that it's scandalous that we're not seeing far more donations.  Inexcusably, most of the tzibbur is simply being kept in the dark.

U.S. Donations to Chomosayich:

(347) 661-0172.

••• See the half-page ad in the new Upstate Jewish Business Directory, see the blue Community Pages, page 17.

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Call Today.

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

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

Also see: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/levinat11-10-15-2026-broadcast.html

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A Good Shabbos to our supporters and partners, and wishes for a good, sweet, productive and uplifting Winter.

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

Help Rescue Our Children

Email:  torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com

845.642.1679

Direct: 771.215.8892

Israeli Helpline: 03.721.3337

Heard weekly on New Jersey's WSNR Radio 620AM, co-hosting the renowned Levin At Eleven program, every Thursday evening, 11pm to midnight (ET).

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Previous Programs:

פרשת נח: October 15, '26

* https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

Writeup: 

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/levinat11-10-15-2026-broadcast.html

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פרשת בראשית:

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png  

Write-up: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/levinat11-chillul-hashem.html

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Program of HoShana Rabba, posted Oct 2, '26

ערב שבת, הושענא רבה, תשפ"ז 

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

Summary/ write-up [recently posted version]: 

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/levinat11-10-to-save-girl-from-idf.html

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Preceding week's program:

ערב סוכות:

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

Writeup and supplemental material:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/09/levinat11-lawler-on-loose.html

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Broadcast of preceding week, Shabbos Shuva: פרשת האזינו

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

Write-up:  

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/09/levinat11-shabosshuva.html

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Link for Lech Lecha program:

 Levin 10-22-2026_HQ.mp3

Davidzon Radio:

davidzonradio.com / 718) 303-8000

Prosecutor drops BAD NEWS on Vivek amid ad scanda

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" by Haberman, Maggie; Swan, Jonathan

 "Privately, Kirk would tell associates that he was far more worried about what Trump might do than he was letting on in public, but recognized that airing those concerns could only backfire, reducing his ability to influence the President. As the leader of the nation’s preeminent organization for young conservatives, Kirk was constantly in touch with college-aged Republicans and he could see that many of them were turning against Israel. A rift was opening up inside MAGA. While older Republicans still overwhelmingly supported Israel, a sizable cohort of younger MAGA adherents were asking questions at Turning Point events that sounded remarkably similar to the types of questions floating at gatherings of young leftists. These young right-wingers wanted to know why America was supporting Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza, why the U.S. President was seemingly acting at the behest of a tiny client state. In darker corners of the movement—corners that were becoming more visible by the day—many of Trump’s supporters were becoming more brazenly antisemitic and conspiratorial about the role of Netanyahu and “world Jewry.” It wasn’t just the well-known white supremacist internet personality Nick Fuentes but enough other voices to cause rising panic among traditional pro-Israel lawmakers and donors in the Republican Party. Trump, however, was largely oblivious to this war within MAGA. He lived in a bubble, shuttling between his private clubs and the White House, and he was rarely shown anything but good news. He rarely browsed Twitter (now X), as he had in term one. His main inputs were Fox News, which was far more pro-Israel than the MAGA conversation on social media, and whatever snippets of information Natalie Harp printed out and brought him. Trump found Netanyahu exasperating, but the President was, some of his younger aides would say, a “Boomer” whose heart was with Israel. They speculated about whether he even cared so much anymore, knowing he would never have to again face the voters. He had the luxury now of thinking about his legacy. Few in the administration were more worried about the divide over Israel than Kirk’s close ally JD Vance. But as skeptical as the vice president was about Netanyahu, and as anxious as Vance was about a potential crack-up inside the MAGA coalition that could hurt him in 2028, the vice president had to be careful not to alienate Trump by pushing too hard against his instincts. Vance was worried about the U.S. getting pulled into an Israeli regime-change war in Iran—and his allies worked hard to make an anti-interventionist case to the President to counter Iran hawks like the right-wing commentator Mark Levin—but the vice president himself trod lightly. In a Situation Room meeting, he laid down a marker: “If we bomb their nuclear facilities, great. If we get sucked into a longer-term war, this will go down as a massive mistake.” But he became more reticent in front of Trump once it became clear that the President was moving closer to Netanyahu’s view."

Start reading this book for free: https://read.amazon.com/kp/kshare?asin=B0FH2K4T1C&ref_=kar_wh_ca

'This is beneath contempt': Geraldo Rivera on Ramaswamy ad against Amy Acton

'SICK and DEPRAVED': Mika SLAMS Vivek Ramaswamy over Amy Acton attack ad

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For Israel’s sake, Netanyahu has to go

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-israels-sake-netanyahu-has-to-go/

He failed us on October 7, and every day since by refusing to answer for it. He clung to power, and now promises the same shameful coalition, with the same divisive and dangerous policies

First and foremost: Israel was traumatized and changed forever by the Hamas massacre, and by the political and military leadership’s still unfathomable failure to see it coming and prevent it. The man on whom principal responsibility falls, the prime minister, is the only central figure who still has not acknowledged that responsibility and stepped aside.

Most national leaders who had failed to prevent the worst catastrophe in their country’s history, despite an abundance of evidence that it was imminent, would have resigned immediately. Especially if they had ignored multiple warnings from their security chiefs in the months before the attack, blocked repeated recommendations to target enemy leaders, championed the funding of the terror-controlled neighboring entity, and shared the tragic mis-assessment that the enemy was deterred.

But no leader whose true priority was the existential well-being of their nation would have obdurately remained in office for three more years, prevented the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into everything that had gone wrong, attempted relentlessly to pin blame on anybody and everybody but himself, and then sought reelection.

'We Now Deserve to Lose': Ramaswamy Ad Deepens GOP Panic in Ohio

 https://time.com/article/2026/10/21/ramaswamy-s-ad-of-acton-s-estranged-mom-jolts-ohio-races-across-the-ballot/

The fierce and bipartisan backlash to gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's decision to feature his opponent's estranged mother in an ad left Republicans in Ohio and Washington reeling on Wednesday, as both Ramaswamy and Vice President J.D. Vance doubled down on the divisive strategy.

Mike Murphy, a strategist who was in Sen. John McCain’s inner circle when he ran for President in 2000 and headed Gov. Jeb Bush’s super PAC in 2016, wrote a brutal assessment on social media, saying it “is looking more and more like political suicide.”

And former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who ran against Ramaswamy in the 2020 presidential primaries and was a frequent critic of him, was even more direct. “He’s a bad guy,” she said. “It’s a shame he continues to get away with it.”

The addition of this ad so close to Election Day roiled races in Ohio up and down the ballot. “I would not have run that ad,” Republican Sen. Jon Husted, running in a tight and expensive race for re-election against Sherrod Brown in Ohio, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Other players in the state's Republican circles say the ad has all the pieces of a misfire, especially among women.

Trump thought his biggest political trick made him invincible. Not anymore.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/10/21/trump-political-playbook-corruption-may-cost-gop-midterms/

For the past decade, President Donald Trump has operated as if he discovered the political cheat code to winning elections: entertain the base and feed it red meat. He’s so certain of the formula that he’s bragged it makes him invincible. In 2016, he claimed he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters. Earlier this month in Tennessee, he told a partially empty arena of MAGA faithful, “I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap.” The crowd roared with laughter and applause.

As the midterms approach, Trump’s luck is running out. His approval rating has hit a record low, with just one-third of adults saying he’s doing a good job. The incumbent president’s party almost always loses House seats, a trend usually exacerbated by a weak economy or an unpopular executive; in Trump’s first midterm, Republicans lost 41 seats, though the economy was chugging along.

It’s bad advice this year. Early voting is underway, and voters’ top concern apparently isn’t inflation or health care; it’s government corruption, according to a Fox News poll. A record-high 89 percent of Americans believe corruption is widespread in government, an increase of 30 points since 2006. And Trump gets the blame: An overwhelming majority of adults believe he prioritizes his business interests over the country and ordinary Americans. Nearly 60 percent think he’s done something illegal or unethical in the process. Voters expect politicians to maneuver for political advantage, but using elected office to get filthy rich doesn’t play well. In a democracy, casting a ballot in high-stakes elections should empower voters, not make them feel like easy marks. When that happens, the majority party pays.

Where Trump sees a deal, Putin sees a win for Russia

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/21/world/trump-putin-deal-analysis-latam-intl

If only Donald Trump were President of Russia, he would surely agree a quick and easy deal to end the brutal Ukraine war, even – he might suggest – in as little as 24 hours.

But, of course, Trump is not the President of Russia. That would be President Vladimir Putin, and the actual Kremlin strongman appears to have very little interest in compromising his stated war aims in Ukraine, either for the sake of Russian and Ukrainian lives or even for billions of dollars more in his state coffers.

It is a fundamental misunderstanding that has driven the Trump administration’s fruitless efforts to broker an end to the fighting, and which was again on show during the latest critical meeting in St. Petersburg between Trump’s business buddy-turned-top negotiator, Steve Witkoff, and Putin himself.

Ohio governor’s race takes ugly turn with viral video featuring Acton’s mother

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6161344-ramaswamy-ohio-governor-race-controversy/

A new viral video targeting Amy Acton is roiling the increasingly ugly Ohio governor’s race, where the Democrat is running against GOP nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.

The clip features Acton’s estranged mother, Donna Arthur, calling the Democrat “a liar” and urging Ohioans to vote against her. It’s unclear who is behind the 60-second spot, which did not appear to have aired on television as of Tuesday afternoon. 

Acton’s brother Philip Stearns slammed the Republican for “a despicable low.”

He said it was an “attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point” and noted he and his sister were removed from the custody of Donna Arthur.

Ohio governor’s race in uproar over ad featuring Democrat’s estranged mother

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/20/ohio-governors-race-uproar-over-video-featuring-democrats-estranged-mother/

Ohio’s bitter governor’s race got even uglier Tuesday when an attack ad surfaced featuring Democratic nominee Amy Acton’s long-estranged mother calling her daughter “a liar,” prompting Acton’s brother to accuse Acton’s Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, of turning childhood rape “into a political talking point.”

Ramaswamy’s campaign, in a statement from spokeswoman Connie Luck, echoed the claims in the video: “We don’t know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor.”

Meanwhile, Acton’s campaign provided extensive documentation, from court records and contemporary reports in local media, that corroborated her account that she and her brother were removed from their mother’s home after her second husband, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and indicted in 1978 and charged with rape of “Amy Stearns being less than thirteen (13) years of age.”

Karlin-Stolin Rebbe Attacked By Charedi Extremists Over Support For IDF Enlistment

 https://vinnews.com/2026/10/20/karlin-stolin-rebbe-attacked-by-charedi-extremists-over-support-for-idf-enlistment/

The Karlin-Stolin Rebbe, Rabbi Baruch Shochat, was attacked by a group of ultra-Orthodox extremists in Beit Shemesh on Sunday evening, with rioters hurling stones and other objects at his vehicle as he left a family wedding. The attack, apparently linked to his support for military enlistment programs adapted for charedi men, has sparked widespread outrage across the charedi community.

The attack is the latest in a series of confrontations between the Karlin-Stolin Hasidic movement and radical anti-conscription activists, who have repeatedly targeted the Rebbe over his willingness to cooperate with the IDF in establishing military service frameworks suitable for charedi men.

The hostility toward the Rebbe intensified after he held discussions with Defense Minister Israel Katz and military officials about creating specialized enlistment programs for members of his community. According to earlier reports, the proposed arrangements would allow approximately 200 Karlin-Stolin Hasidim to serve in the military under conditions designed to accommodate their religious lifestyle, including professional training, gender-separated environments and, potentially, service without conventional military uniforms.

Ramaswamy shocks with 'vile,' 'disgusting' ad featuring opponent's mother

To save the midterms, Trump is recharging the grievance politics that made him president

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/21/politics/trump-midterms-racial-religious-rhetoric

Donald Trump is playing one of his final cards in the midterm election race: fear of an American civilizational collapse.

It’s that White, Christian culture could be destroyed unless his Republican monopoly on Washington power is preserved in the midterm elections.

In one of the most foreboding closing arguments of any of his political campaigns, Trump is flinging racially charged rhetoric; conjuring Islamophobic paranoia; and stirring up false visions of kids being mutilated in mass transgender surgeries without parental consent. He’s also acting as an arbiter of others’ faith and American identify.

At his most vulnerable political moment in nearly six years as president, Trump isn’t responding with compelling, innovative defenses of his record on affordability or foreign policy. He’s intensifying the scorched-earth imagery that made his name and seeking to replenish power by weaponizing painful national divides.