Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Religious Persecution of Ethiopian Girl
BS"D
18 Teves, 5780 °° Jan.15, '20
Religious Ethiopian Girl Being Persecuted for Fidelity to the Torah
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit Updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
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FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit Updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
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Ziva
bas Mazal of Ashkelon is a religious 19 y/o Ethiopian girl who was
recently was jailed for about three weeks - ending over three months
ago, on Erev Yom Kippur - all for her refusal to enlist in the Army.
Despite being incontrovertibly religious, the Army insisted that she
first serve three months, and only then would they determine if she's
exempt on basis
of her religiosity. In honorable compliance
with Torah Law, Ziva refused. Just last week, she received notice from
Maitav (the IDF Draft Office) that the government rejected her appeal of
the Army's intial rejection of her petition for a religious exemption.
And again, the Army Draft Office failed to provide even a veneer of
legal justification for seeking to draft a religious girl. Since shortly
after her release from military prison on 9 Tishrei 5780, she's been
valiantly braving the threat of arrest and long term incarceration over
her refusal to enlist in the Army, and continues to do so.
Additionally,
on 11 Tishrei, when Ziva went to the Draft Offices to inform them of
her ongoing refusal to enlist, she was reportedly directed to sign a
document on the pretext that it was merely certification of her showing
up at the draft offices ("hit'yatzvut", which she did do). Afterwards it
was revealed that in fact she has been duped into signing onto a
document of enlistment ("hit'gay'sut") into the military, something to
which she's been in unwavering opposition to, from the very outset of
her process.
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Public Advisory:
1.
Do not sign anything without knowing from reliable, independent
sources what you're doing. And with regard to the Army Draft Office, the
general advice is not to sign anything.
2. Moreover, it's both prohibited and dangerous for girls to even enter the Draft Offices altogether.
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What
makes this persecutory treatment even worse is that Ziva's elderly
parents, and especially her father, are not in good health, and this
ongoing torment exacerbates their condition. This writer is personally
familiar with about a half dozen similar cases, in which religious girls
with close family members who are seriously ill, have been targeted for
draft- related harassment and worse.
BasCohen Resists Hegmonist Draft
BS"D
Intolerable: A Religious Bas-Cohen Imprisoned For Her Refusal to Enlist in the Army
18 Teves, 5780 °° Jan. 15, '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit Updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
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FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~~
To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit Updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
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Although
Chanukah has passed, Maitav (the Israeli Army Draft Office) refuses to
allow concerned Jews to forget the timeless mesiras nefesh
[selflessness] of Yehudis, and her heroic brothers, even 21 centuries
afterwards. In yet another trans-generational reverberation of the
righteousness of Yehudis, on Monday Jan. 13, another religious Bas-Cohen, Lital bas Miriam, of Tel Aviv, 26, was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport, for not enlisting in the Army.
She
sent in her religiosity-certification about nine years ago. She was
then summoned for a Rayon Dat (Religious Interview/ Interrogation).
However, apparently, she never got a clear indication of her legal
draft status one way or the other. Before she set out to the airport to
travel abroad on Monday, she reportedly asked the Border Police if she
would be allowed to travel without any legal complications over her
draft status. They informed her that it was ok. However, on arrival she
was arrested, and is now in incarcerated in military prison for her
refusal to enlist in the military. Enlistment in the Army is prohibited
for all girls (regardless of level of religiosity) - according to
leading Rabbis across the spectrum.
Her
hearing has been postponed, and they're planning on keeping her in
prison at least till then. This callous extension of incarceration
traces a recently-established pattern of military prison treatment of
religious Refusenik girls and women over the past couple of months. They
tend to keep girls (e.g. Orpaz Ora bas Aliza) in jail on the pretext
that - for some reason - they are "unable" to arrange a hearing. This
apparent charade can continue indefinitely. Thereby, they punish and
pressure the young women to submit to enlist. B"H, they are often
unsuccessful, due to the fortitude of these special individuals and
their advocates.
In legal systems that venerate
G-d-granted individual liberties, non-violent infractions such as late
submission of documentation (not to mention simple failure to answer
arcane questions about religious observance) would not be grounds for
arrest, much less incarceration, and much less extended jail time due to
delays in the initial hearing. But the protocols of Maitav apparently
diverge from constitutional norms, standards which we in America
unfortunately tend to take for granted.
It
now appears that she's sitting in Military Prison simply because she
didn't answer one question correctly in her Rayon Dat nine years ago,
pertaining to Kriyas HaTorah (the weekly reading of portions of the
Torah). According to Jewish Law, women are generally exempt from Kriyas
HaTorah (except for the reading of the Remembrance of the Obliterating
of Amalek... and, according to some, Parshas Parah). To question
her religiosity over such an issue is ludicrous. To arrest her over that
should be criminal, but apparently raises no eyebrows.
Thank G-d, she's in contact with competent guidance, the Shomrei Torah organization, which is quite proficient at the providing quality information necessary to properly alert the public to the plight of incarcerated girls.
Thank G-d, she's in contact with competent guidance, the Shomrei Torah organization, which is quite proficient at the providing quality information necessary to properly alert the public to the plight of incarcerated girls.
What makes this all even more outrageous is that her brother is suffering a severe health condition, and this unwarranted persecution doesn't help that. In fact, the presence of a severe illness in the immediate family is a statistically significant factor present in a number of cases with which we are familiar. It appears that having an immediate family member severely ill tends to flag girls for arrest, incarceration and persecutory treatment by Maitav.
### Public Advisory: ###
A)
Anyone who has questions about his or her legal draft-status should NOT
rely on verbal statements of government staff - including law
enforcement officers.
B) Anyone who's draft status is questionable should not assume it's resolved until obtaining confirmation.
C)
Those unsure of their draft status who have serious illness in the
immediate family should exercise additional caution, because they can
least afford complications, and because they may be more susceptible to
being flagged for arrest by Maitav, if the opportunity presents itself.
That also means: drive extra carefully to avoid being pulled over, even
if you think you're not doing anything dangerous.
D)
Again, do NOT enter the Draft Offices for any reason, even if you
imagine that you'll "just be in and out" with your petur (exemption
certification) -- even if you see other girls who do manage to enter and
exit quickly with their exemptions. For all those girls who manage to
avoid complications, many others don't - some of whom tragically succumb
to the immense pressure to enlist in the Army.
Iran Air Flight 655
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board were killed.[1] The jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight's usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, the flight's stopover location. The incident occurred during the final stages of the Iran–Iraq War, which had been ongoing for nearly eight years. Vincennes
had entered Iranian territory after one of its helicopters drew warning
fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial
limits.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
Trump's 'Phase One' Trade Deal With China Won't Stop Trade Wars From Being the New Normal
https://time.com/5764359/phase-one-us-china-trade-deal-war/
And so while a truce in the trade war suits both sides at the moment,
it won’t be long before that political calculation changes. The U.S. is
still demanding that China reforms its state-dominated economy despite
many of the subsidies Beijing provides firms also offered by the U.S.
Amazon, for example, was offered $3 billion in tax breaks and other incentives to relocate to New York City before the deal collapsed.
Heter to sin?
Chagiga (16a) R. Elai the elder said: If a man sees that his [evil] inclination is prevailing upon him, let him go to a place where he is not known, and put on black garments,20 and wrap himself up21 in black garments, and let him do what his heart desires;22 but let him not profane the Name of Heaven publicly!
ספר אורחות צדיקים שער התשובה
אמר רבי אבהו משום רבי חנינא (קידושין מ א): נוח לו לאדם שיעברו עבירה בסתר ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא, פירוש, שלא ילמדו בני אדם ממעשיו. ואמר רבי אלעאי הזקן: אם רואה אדם שיצרו מתגבר עליו, ילך למקום שאין מכירים אותו, וילבש שחורים ויתעטף שחורים, ויעשה מה שלבו חפץ, ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא. ופירש רבינו חננאל: חס ושלום שהותר לו לעבור עבירה, אלא החכמים עמדו נגד יצר הרע שאינו מתאווה אלא אל האיסור ולמלאות תאוותו, וכיון שהולך למרחוק ולובש שחורים, אז לבו יישבר ויימנע מן החטא. אבל לעשות איסורים - כלל וכלל לא! אך מעשים הללו משברים רוע יצר הרע ומונעים אותו מלעבור, כדאמר רבי אילעי, כי יגיעת דרכים ואכסניות ולבישת שחורים משברות יצר הרע ומונעות את האדם מן העבירה.
אמר רבי אבהו משום רבי חנינא (קידושין מ א): נוח לו לאדם שיעברו עבירה בסתר ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא, פירוש, שלא ילמדו בני אדם ממעשיו. ואמר רבי אלעאי הזקן: אם רואה אדם שיצרו מתגבר עליו, ילך למקום שאין מכירים אותו, וילבש שחורים ויתעטף שחורים, ויעשה מה שלבו חפץ, ואל יחלל שם שמים בפרהסיא. ופירש רבינו חננאל: חס ושלום שהותר לו לעבור עבירה, אלא החכמים עמדו נגד יצר הרע שאינו מתאווה אלא אל האיסור ולמלאות תאוותו, וכיון שהולך למרחוק ולובש שחורים, אז לבו יישבר ויימנע מן החטא. אבל לעשות איסורים - כלל וכלל לא! אך מעשים הללו משברים רוע יצר הרע ומונעים אותו מלעבור, כדאמר רבי אילעי, כי יגיעת דרכים ואכסניות ולבישת שחורים משברות יצר הרע ומונעות את האדם מן העבירה.
'Are vaccines dangerous? The flu is much more so'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274582
Professor Hershko also discussed the dangers of the vaccine,
explaining that the complications of influenza are much greater and more
dangerous than the complications which might occur from the vaccines.
"The story with the opposition to vaccines is something that's always
beyond my understanding, because it's very well known in medicine, for
hundreds of years already, that the best medicine is preventive
medicine.
"Every medical treatment has its complications and the vaccine has
complications that you cannot ignore, but if we compare the danger of
the vaccine to the danger of flu, there's no comparison.... The vaccine
usually has no symptoms, while the flu, in the best case, is a febrile
illness which forces the person to stay home, and in a worse case it
involves severe bacterial pneumonia which takes advantage of the
infection, myocarditis, kidney or brain tissue complications, and more.
"I don't think there's a question what's safer. The vaccination is a
surefire treatment, and unfortunately this year a lot of people have
bought these stories that the vaccine isn't really safe, and we're
seeing the results in the hospital wards, with people who are very sick
and whose lives are now in danger."
Trump condemned for retweeting fake Islamophobic image featuring Pelosi
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/14/trump-retweet-fake-islamophobic-image-pelosi-schumer
Muslim groups in the US have condemned Donald Trump for retweeting a fake image showing leading Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi wearing an approximation of traditional Islamic clothing and standing in front of the Iranian flag.
New Jersey vaccines law defeated (for now) as parents cheer
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274550
A publication produced by students of Rabbis Shmuel Kamenetzky, Elya
Ber Wachtfogel, and Malkiel Kotler make their views on vaccination
known, writing that "Their view is not extreme. They do not advocate
against vaccination. They rule that vaccination is a parental choice,
and that parents may not be coerced into vaccination." The document can
be viewed here.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
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