Friday, November 3, 2023
latest on greenblatt kaminetsy heter for adultery from Joe Orlow
Tamar Epstein: What role did Rav Shmuel and Rav Sholom Kaminetsky play in the giving of the heter to remarry without a Get?
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It is well known that the Kaminetskys have tried for years to obtain a Get for Tamar Epstein and free her from her marriage to Aharon Freedman. This includes:
2) Issuing a seruv against Aharon which calls for the public to pressure him into give a Get. Something which is not justified by halacha for ignoring a beis din when he and Tamar had agreed to use the Baltimore Beis Din. Finally a seruv doesn't require giving a Get even if it were legitimate - which it isn't.
3) I have testimony concerning a number of poskim who were approached by R Shalom Kaminetsy with a document which claimed that therapists found Aharon to be suffering from incurable personality disorders which made him impossible to live with. Included in that document was a request to pasken that the marriage was a mekach ta'os. He claimed that his father was agreed that the evidence was valid and was in agreement to ask for a psak of mekach ta'os.
4) Rabbi Shalom Kaminetsky - knowing that Tamar had not obtained a Get - has been reported as asking someone if they would be interested in a shidduch with her. When asked how she had been freed from marriage without a Get replied that if it were relevant to know the information would be supplied.
5) Rabbi Greenblatt who gave the heter said he relied on the evidence provided by the Kaminetsky's to justify marrying Tamar Epstein to her second husband without the first husband giving her a Get. He claimed that it was chutzpah to question the validity of what the Kaminetskys told him.
6) At no time has either R Kaminetsky objected to the heter being given.
House passes Israel aid bill despite Biden veto threat
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67304782
To offset the cost of the aid to Israel, Republicans proposed cutting $14.3bn in funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which collects US taxes.
However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said such cuts to IRS funding would result in less tax revenue, and increase the US deficit by nearly $12.5bn over the next decade.
"My Republican friends say they want to help Israel," said Democratic congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts.
"And so, what do they do? They condition the aid to Israel on essentially a tax break for millionaires and billionaires and corporations that cheat on their taxes."
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Tamar's Heter: Protecting Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky is more important than protecting the Torah

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Who is Patrick Dai, Cornell student accused of threatening Jewish peers?
https://nypost.com/2023/11/01/news/patrick-dai-cornell-student-accused-of-threatening-jewish-peers/
The Cornell University student accused of making violent threats against his Jewish peers is a 21-year-old engineering student who suffers from such “severe depression” that his mother worried he was on the brink of suicide just moments before his arrest.
Watch: The segment of President Herzog's BBC interview which did not air
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379495
In omitted section of the interview, Herzog challenged the interviewer's assertion that Israel is not allowing enough aid into Gaza: I don't want to go into whether the BBC has been objective or not.
IDF takes command of Hamas military stronghold in Jabaliya in Gaza
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-771045
Approximately 50 terrorists were eliminated by Israeli forces. Furthermore, Israeli fighter jets, under Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) intelligence, killed Ibrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas's Jabaliya battalion, and was one of the leaders of the October 7 massacre. Jabaliya is around four kilometers northeast of Gaza City.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
peace plan
Monday, October 30, 2023
Daas Torah update
Weighing Lives: Israel’s Prisoner-Exchange Policy and the Right to Life
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1308&context=mjil
Abstract
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Is Shidduch crisis the result of abuse?
Received an urgent call from America yesterday regarding an unmarried male of 39
The family discovered that their son's high school class has many unmarried older singles and people who have dropped religious observance
Question is 1) Could this be the result of sexual abuse? - the answer is clearly yes
Question 2) is could the trauma remain even decades later? the answer is yes?
Question 3) teachers and rabbis and therapists were consulted and they claim it is just a case of commitment anxiety? The answer is in most cases these people have no competence in dealing with abuse or commitment anxiety
Suggested solution - consult a therapist with solid track record of dealing with sexual abuse cases.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
A public relations disaster
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/379085
Ynet journalist Ran Boker wrote, "I'm really having a hard time recovering from this propaganda disaster. There are thousands of changes every reality show contestant goes through. People get a briefing before interviews. So a hostage who was held captive during a war?! Where is the person who is responsible for the propaganda? Terrible."
Then he showed headlines on the foreign channels that mainly cite the conditions in which Lifshitz was held. "Look at the headline of Sky News! It's unbelievable how Hamas schools us even in propaganda. Don't make live hostage statements. Don't hold press conferences. Only release recorded statements. They were held captive by a murderous terrorist organization. Where is the IDF spokesman? What is this crazy propaganda attack? This is delusional."
He made another claim. "The husband of the freed captive Yocheved Lifshitz is still in captivity - what can she say? We can only imagine what Hamas asked her to say and how they threatened her."
An Insane Number of Gen Zers Support Hamas's Slaughter of Innocent Israelis
Overall, Americans overwhelmingly support Israel over Hamas. A whopping 84 percent of respondents told pollsters they favored Israel, while just 16 percent favored Hamas. Among older Americans over 65, an astounding 95 percent supported Israel, and just 5 percent said their sympathies lie with Hamas. But among young people age 18 to 24, things looked quite differently.
Just 52 percent of this group said they supported Israel, while 48 percent said they supported Hamas. Yes, that's right: Nearly half of young respondents said they side with the terrorist group that just earlier this month purposefully targeted and slaughtered innocent civilians, including women, children, and infants, in a chilling and sadistic manner.