Sunday, June 13, 2021

Australian court rejects appeal to jail killer of Israeli student for life

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/australian-court-rejects-appeal-to-jail-killer-of-israeli-student-for-life-670855

A Court of Appeal in Australia dismissed a challenge by prosecutors to extend the sentence of the murderer of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe to a life sentence on Friday, keeping the murderer's sentence at 36 years with a chance for parole at 30 years, according to Australian media.

Codey Herrmann was sentenced to 36 years for murdering Maasarwe in Melbourne in 2019, as she was walking home after a night out with friends. Maasarwe was an Israeli-Arab from the city of Baka al-Gharbiya in northern Israel.

The Dark Side of the Elightenment by John V Fleming – review

 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/09/dark-side-enlightenment-fleming-review

 But these aren't the lines that Fleming returns to. Instead, he quotes the much less well-known opening sentence to Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1781. "Human reason," Kant wrote there, "has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which … it is not able to answer."

Friday, June 11, 2021

Formation of new government completed

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307905

 The Yamina and Yesh Atid parties have on Friday signed a coalition agreement ahead of the formation of a unity government for the State of Israel. The agreement concludes the work of assembling the new government, which is set to be sworn in this coming Sunday.

All coalition agreements were submitted to the Knesset Secretariat. The agreements, along with the new government's core principles, are open to the public and can be reviewed.

Prime Minister-designate, Naftali Bennett (Yamina) commented, "The signing of these agreements brings to an end two-and-a-half years of political crisis. We are faced with great challenges, and all the citizens of Israel are looking to us with hope."

"The government will work for the *entire* Israeli public - religious, secular, haredi, Arab – without exception, as one. We will work together, out of partnership and national responsibility, and I believe we will succeed."

Wave of Chareidi-Led Protests for Religious Female Refuseniks Jailed by Israeli Army Show Us The Way

Wave of Chareidi-Led Protests for Religious Female Refuseniks Jailed by Israeli Army Show Us The Way/

 Sivan, 5781 °° Parshas Korach °° June 10, '21 

This Sunday, another religious Israeli Jewish girl was arrested in wake of her refusal to enlist in the Israeli military. [Women serving in the Army is prohibited according to all leading Rabbis, from across the spectrum.] Today, Thursday, she was released, after serving a five day sentence in Military Prison. Her name is Loren B., known as Loren bas Miriam. She's a 19-year-old Israeli Bucharian Ba'alas-Teshuva*.  She had been languishing in Israeli Military Prison Ten, the newly constructed, one-thousand-bed jail in the Netanya area. She is to be married shortly, G-d Willing. In the early afternoon of Sunday June 6, the Israeli Army took Loren B. into custody, possibly after tracking her to the home of her future in-laws, whom she happened to be visiting at the time. While Loren was in their home, Israeli Police arrived with a search warrant, found Loren, and took her into custody. Subsequently she was incarcerated in Military Prison 10. Communication with those incarcerated in that jail is quite difficult. *(It appears from initial reports that Israeli Military officers involved may have seriously violated her rights to communication with family members, something perpetrated against other draft-refusenik girls.)

 

It's important to mention that, until recently, the Israeli Army understood that Bucharian girls simply do not serve in the Army, however religious the government considers them to be. Unfortunately, recently, the Army attitude has been changing, along with other forms of Draft Office escalation. This is yet another result of the silence of the political and media establishment of religious communities, in face of ongoing escalation of Army Draft Office tactics and strategies.

 

The public reaction was fast and furious. Multiple demonstrations were held on behalf of Loren on Sunday night outside Prison Ten, to encourage and strengthen Miss B. - and others being incarcerated there, who  endure the additional emotional deprivation of anonymity. Demonstrations were also held on Monday, including by the Tel HaShomer military base and holding facility where she had a hearing.  Furthermore, yesterday, a large demonstration, with hundreds of attendees, was held, with leading Rabbis speaking.

 

It's known that the emotional support provided by even a small contingent of the concerned public is vitally needed by these girls. The military prison authorities often try to break their will to resist the dictates of the Army Draft Office. The demonstrations often change that.

 

These demonstrations teach the world a vital lesson. Even when confronted with a dominant leftwing government, and a fraudulent opposition party (e.g., the many RINOs dominating GOP leadership), individuals can and must band together to intelligently take a stand for the individuals suffering the brunt of government- mandated / perpetrated travesty. Evil cannot long prosper when properly exposed.

 

This protest-benefit phenomenon is a source of potentially immense merit for protesters, as well as a tremendous obligation incumbent on those able to participate in any manner whatsoever. If our own communities can send tens of thousands to Meron, and if thousands demonstrate against antireligious affronts against religious neighborhoods (e.g. the Light Rail in Yerushalayim), why don't we see a hundred thousand Jews standing up against foundational assaults against the next generation of Jewish mothers, or against LGBT parades? ONLY because corruption within political leadership seeks to keep the large majority of the religious and  Chareidi public blinded by ignorance, and, perhaps more so, avidly distracted by battles and issues far less important than those two existential threats (the broad LGBT agenda and the female military draft). The past few days, and their vibrant demonstrations for this one girl - and other unknown incarcerated girls languishing in military prison -  highlight how much more the religious communities would protest these Israeli Army outrages if only properly alerted and guided to do so.

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In previous posts we've addressed some specific details of the legal evolution of this particular case.

However, that's all secondary. Fundamentally, the Israeli government has no right to force any girl or woman into the Army, as we explain below. "Legalizing" the mass-travesty of the female military draft doesn't mitigate the decades-long crime-wave involving the IDF drafting hundreds of thousands of potential Jewish mothers -- it compounds it manifold.

 

In addition, a primary reason that most of the girls that the Army drafts aren't "religious" enough for the secularist Draft Office mullahs is because of the of the educational brainwashing perpetrated by the Israeli Establishment.  The largely antireligious Israeli Establishment rendered the preponderance of these girls "non-religious" - via their flagrantly anti-Torah [non religious/ anti religious] Education System - and then proceeds to force these same girls into their immoral "Mizron Tzahali" military paradigm, on the pretext that they're not religious. "Rotzach'toh ve'Gam yorash'toh."

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Another issue is: According to the Army, precisely what avenue is available for a non-observant girl to rediscover her religious Heritage - a heritage intentionally stolen by the pervasive, dominant hedonism and secularism of the antireligious Israeli Establishment -  if she happened to have already started the enlistment process, in compliance with Israeli law?

 

Invariably, some will argue that the Army Draft Office must ferret out "fakers," who "falsely" claim to be religious. Firstly, even according to the religious Zionism to which the government pretends to pay a veneer of homage, the Israeli government has no right to draft ANY girl into the military - religious or not.

 

In truth, the very establishment of a religiosity criteria for exempting women from the Israeli Army is an incontrovertible abomination from a Torah standpoint. Additionally, from a pragmatic perspective, the very compromise of allowing the Army to prey on non-religious girls poses the gravest threat facing religious girls now. That's because the Army has been carefully escalating its assault against traditional - and even very religious girls - precisely by exploiting and abusing the religiosity criteria established in the draft law for girls.

 

Furthermore, it's a travesty of justice even from a secular perspective (Lehavdil) to draft any female into the military. One needs to go no further than the February 16, '21 report by Lilach Shoval in "Israel HaYom '' (a venue not known for "ultra-Orthodox" tendencies). She writes about the IDF's own report on an alarming jump in reported cases of sexual harassment and abuse in the military over the past year. By what right does any government arrogate the license to force any women into an Army, which by nature subjects innocent women and men to a multitude of hazards of illicit relationships?

 

Secondly, even assuming for argument's sake the mythical "right" to draft non-religious girls, who precisely is to determine the religiosity of a girl?  The antireligious Army Establishment? Secular and secularist draft officers? Self-hating "religious" officers? "Open-Orthodox" types (a-la "Yamina" leftist Naftoli Bennet), who see no incompatibility between their imagined contortion of Judaism and the promiscuous Army environment?

 

Thirdly, by what right does the Israeli government have to argue against "fakery" in claims of religiosity - while the entire female draft is predicated on one massive fraud after another? These frauds include the myth of the "need for women," while the true goals of the female draft have more to do with immorality than any national security need.*

 

(* unless, of course, we are unaware of the threat to Israeli national security posed by the apparent deficit of Bucharian girls in the IDF, in which case we apologize to the esteemed human-trafficking professionals of the Israeli Army Draft Office)

 

Remember, the Brisker Rov OB"M was even more opposed to the drafting of non-religious girls than religious ones, inasmuch as the former were in jeopardy of falling further and faster than the latter.

 

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“Nothing is to be more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.” — John Adams, 1812


° Some of these girls are being or had been blackmailed into submitting to a "Rayon Dat," a Religiosity Interview/ Interrogation. For these girls, that's not only prohibited by Torah Law, and practically hazardous; it's also inherently self-contradictory.  For girls who follow the historically mainstream Rabbinic position that a Rayon Dat is prohibited, the Army forcing them into one (a) constitutes antireligious coercion, and (b) is also legally incoherent - if not downright Orwellian --demanding these girls "demonstrate" their religious values by contravening them.

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°  We ought never forget that the merit of these heroic souls, and those who assist them, is truly incalculable - "L'fum tza'arah agrah" (Avos 5, end). And for that reason it's all the more incumbent on us to raise awareness to stand by those noshim tzidkaniyos (righteous women), in whose merit so many Jews are very possibly being saved from missos meshunos and untold tzoros.

 

See further:

 

https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/03/divine-restraint.html 

 

"Divine Restraint" https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/03/divine-restraint.html


(Posted Mar.12, '20)


https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-more-alone-mightier.html 

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Background:


The Israeli Army forces its female draft-age citizens to serve in the military. It's been doing so in flagrant violation of Torah law, for about 70 years. All leading Rabbis from across the spectrum prohibit girls and women from enlistment in the military. Leading Rabbis have even deemed refusal to enlist as "Yai'ho'raig v'Al Ya'avor," a prohibition we're obligated to sacrifice our lives to avoid.


The Israeli Army is also known for its flagrantly anti-Torah, exploitive and abusive treatment of women and girls, for decades (e.g. see Sexual Exploitation - Via Escalation of Religiosity-Interrogations: 

http://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/02/creep-state.html 

(11 Shevat, 5780 °°  Feb. 6, '20)).

 

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Some may try to dismiss the facts of the Israeli Army crusade against religious girls by pointing to the almost total public silence of some ostensibly Chareidi political interests within politics and media, who only speak up about the female draft on rare occasions (usually in the wake of an arrest of a girl from their types of social circles). To the extent that their overall silence plays a role in enabling the Israeli Army to continue to draft more and more girls, the following holds true:

 

"Simply put, thousands of Jewish girls are being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation, and otherwise engaging in prohibited immoral acts in the Israeli Army, in great measure due to ostensibly Chareidi political "leaders" enjoying government power and money."

 

Self-focused "leaders" like these (exemplifying Yechezkel 34) never belonged in the Israeli government to begin with. Perhaps one lesson of the devastating Meron tragedy is that these  ostensibly Chareidi MK's must go. The mantra their defenders employ - that the Army isn't targeting "our girls" (namely, girls from families within their social circles) - is antithetical to the Torah. In fact, according to the aforementioned, world-renowned "Brisker Rov" OB"M, the very prioritizing of saving religious girls over non-religious girls is incorrect, inasmuch as non-religious girls are at greater risk in the immoral Army environment than are religious girls (see sefer "Yeled Sha'ashuim," p. 350).

 

The aforementioned faux-Chareidi stance of silence, enabling the drafting of traditional girls, and religious girls on the social/ political periphery, is reminiscent of the dark era of the Russian Czar, when young, pre-teenage boys were drafted into the Russian Army - for decades at a time. Some wealthy and influential families used to exempt their own boys from this horrific draft by arranging for the boys from poor / peripheral families to be taken away instead. The same dynamic is at play now, but in a more organized manner, led by false leaders in our midst, who seek to vindicate their evil by a transparent veneer of religious rationalization.

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Another Wake-Up Call from BDS?

 

We all know that G-d isn't happy with our communal stance of overall apathy toward the ongoing drafting and persecution of girls, religious and otherwise, by the Israeli Army. We continue to live our lives and make money as if all is business as usual. Well, apparently it's not business as usual for everyone.

 

"Hundreds of anti-Israel BDS protesters prevented the unloading of an Israeli container ship from Asia at the Port of Oakland on Friday, with the cooperation of the local longshoremen's union, which refused to unload the vessel. The protest was sponsored and organized by a pro-Palestinian BDS group." (VINnews, June 6)

 

Is THIS new development about the ongoing economic war being waged internationally against Israeli businesses perhaps a wake-up call on this issue? I really don't know. It may be a wake-up call regarding other issues perhaps more specifically reflected in that BDS situation, as per Rashi on Brachos 5a.  Regardless, the aforementioned communal iniquity in ignoring the plight of all of the Israeli girls languishing in military prison is one that cannot ever be ignored. Further delay in repentance certainly won't gain us Heavenly protection from Divine Retribution. On the other hand, sincere repentance, even by individuals, and even if very limited, has a broad positive impact. May we all merit it soon.

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"... And if someone, like Pinchos, is one among a multitude, and every man is against him when he dares to speak out for truth and to fight for the Law -- the more lonely his stand, the greater the number of his adversaries, the more powerful is his word, the mightier his deed."


--  Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch OB"M (1808-1888), (in "Judaism Eternal," vol. 2, p. 293, writing on Pinchos, and those who follow his lead)

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Previous Posts of Interest:

 

°°  http://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/02/terrorizing-girls-into-army-spiking.html (BeShalach, 5780, Thu., Feb.6,'20)


°° Religious Exemption Without Religious Capitulation:


https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/02/religious-exemption-without-religious.html (Wed, Feb 5, 2020)

 

°° https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/02/delaying-redemption-1-girl-time.html (Feb 14, 2020, Yisro,5780)


°° https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/02/bds-blackmail-degrade-silence.html (Wed, Feb 12, 2020)

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For another view, we copy an edited form of a report from "The Sentry," of June 7:


"In the summer of 5773 the government passed a “Hachlatas Memshalah” ["Governmental Decision"- BF] (#638, paragraph 64), which is a form of law that demands of the Military to increase the enlisting of religious girls. And ever since, the military has tightened its scrutiny when issuing religious exemptions. Sometimes they refuse an exemption based on a microscopic legal snag. Other times they refuse the exemption without any legal basis, betting that many girls won’t have the strength and resources to fight the military’s bureaucracy. While many times, the fallout of this law goes unknown, here is a current story.


On Sunday afternoon, a group of military police descended on the town of Yahud. They were on a mission to the home of a bas Yisroel who was susceptible to the army draft. When they did not find her at home, they continued on their “vital mission” until they found and arrested her. Loren [bas Miriam] is a nineteen year old baalas teshuvah, who is engaged to be married in two weeks. The army has been hounding her for the past while, and now came to arrest her. 


The Ga'avad of Chug Chasam Sofer Rav Yosef Meir Altman shlit"a traveled with a group from Bnei Brak, to stand outside jail #10 and protest the incarceration. Just a few months ago, a chareidi girl from Beitar was arrested at the airport on her way overseas. [BF: The Israeli Army claimed then, apparently quite falsely, that her paperwork to receive an exemption was never filed.]  When protests were quickly held outside the jail, and threats were issued over additional massive protests, she was swiftly released. An officer revealed [what has become obvious to many -BF] that it was the protests that were indeed responsible for the release.``


To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/the-sentry/CA%2BLbpguhe-nZE5euXgpBynXsT84ty8jDY1dD1b6YYJwV3jXWrw%40mail.gmail.com.

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Kashrus supervision on food or place and activities

 שו"ת אגרות משה יורה דעה חלק א סימן נב
אם ליתן השגחה שלא ימכרו שם מאכלות אסורות במקום שא"א למנוע אותם מלמכור מאכלי חלב למי שרוצה לאוכלם אחר אכילת בשר.
כ"ג מרחשון תשט"ז. מע"כ ידידי הרב הגאון המפורסם מוהר"ר יעקב אביגדור שליט"א הגאב"ד מעקסיקא
בדבר הספארט צענטער /מרכז הספורט/ יהודי שנפתח במעקסיקא אשר מבשלים שם נבלות וטרפות ושקצים ורמשים וכתר"ה יכול לפעול שיכשירו המקום ויהיה תחת השגחת הרבנים במשגיח נאמן וגם שלא יבשלו בשבת אבל בתנאי שיניחו אותם ליתן למי שרוצה לשתות חלב וגלידה קרה הנעשית מחלב אחר ארוחת הבשר ואם לא יניחו אותם זה אינם רוצים כלל לעשות כשרות בהמקום ורוצה כתר"ה לידע חות דעתי אם להנהיג שם כשרות או לא.
והנה ודאי להתיר איסור דרבנן לרשעים שאומרים שאם לא יתירו להם יעברו איסורים החמורים דאורייתא ואף שישתמדו אין לנו לחוש לזה וכדומני /וכמדומני/ שהחת"ס באיזה תשובה הביא ראיה מהא דקידושין דף ע"ב שאמר רבי כי הוה ניחא נפשיה בירתא דסטיא איכא בבבל היום סרו מאחרי המקום דמקפי פירא בכוורי בשבתא ואזיל וצדו בהו בשבתא ושמתינהו ר' אחי בר' יאשיה ואישתמוד, שכוונתו בזה להורות שאין לנו לחוש מלאסור איסור דרבנן דצידה זו לא היתה אסורה מדאורייתא כיון דהציף הנהר הכוורי והיו ביבשה אף שאישתמוד ע"י זה. והוא דין ברור ופשוט וכדמשמע שגם כתר"ה סובר כן.
אבל בכאן איני רואה שום דבר שימנעו הרבנים מלהנהיג כשרות בשביל שיהיה שם אחד רשע שיעבור וימכור אחר אכילת בשר מאכלי חלב למי שרוצה, הרי אין ההשגחה והכשר הרבנים על האנשים המוכרים להעיד שהם צדיקים שידוע לכל שהם רשעים וחשודים לעבור על כל התורה, אלא שהרבנים יראו וישגיחו על המקום שהדברים שמוכרים שם יהיו דברים כשרים שימכרו להאוכלים רק מאכלי בשר כשר וכן מאכלי חלב כשר ולא יבשלו בשבת אבל על מה שיעשו היחידים בין המוכר ובין הלוקחים שיקנו מאכלי חלב בעת שאסור להם לאכול והמוכר יתן להם אף שאסור מדין לפני עור אין הרבנים אחראים לזה כיון שאי אפשר למחות כמו שאין אחראים על מה שעושין בביתם, ולא נראה כלל שהרבנים מקילין בזה שיבא מזה פרצה ח"ו כי לא ע"ז הוא השגחת הרבנים. וגם בהכתב שיתנו הרבנים אם ירצו להדביק שם הרי לא יכתבו שהמוכרים הם אנשים כשרים אלא שכל הדברים הנמכרים שם הם דברים כשרים שעומדים תחת השגחת הרבנים.
ולכן ודאי דבר גדול יעשה כתר"ה שינהגו שם כשרות במשגיח חרדי וגם צריך שיהיה בר דעת שידע איך להשגיח שלא יוכלו לרמותו מאחר שהמנהלים אינם נאמנים שצריך הבנה ודעת איך להתנהג עם אנשים כאלו לראות שתהיה ההשגחה טובה וברורה. וזכות גדול הוא לכתר"ה במה שיציל אלפי נפשות ממאכלות אסורות. ואף למנוע מרשעים מה שאפשר שלא יעברו על איסורים הוא מצוה גדולה דהא מתני' קרי להו צנועין. וגם הרמב"ם בפ"ט ממע"ש ונטע רבעי פסק שטוב לעשות כצנועין. ובפרט שהוא מניעה מהרבה אנשים ויש מהם גם הרבה שהם כעין שוגגין שאין יודעין חומר האיסור מחסרון ידעתם /ידיעתם/ שהם כתינוק הנשבה בין העכו"ם שודאי גם מחוייבין אנחנו למנוע מהם איסורים כפי שאפשר ואף רשב"ג יודה בזה. והנני ידידו מוקירו, משה פיינשטיין

שו"ת אגרות משה יורה דעה חלק ב סימן נ
אם מותר לאכול במקום שמאכיל איסור לרוצה לאכול איסור י"ב אייר תשכ"א. מע"כ ידידי מו"ה ר' יוסף יפה שליט"א.
הנה בדבר מקום שמאכילין שם טרפות למי שרוצה בטרפות אם יש להם קיטשען /מטבח/ כשר עבור אלו הרוצים לאכול כשרות פשוט שאסור לאכול שם דאין להם שום נאמנות כיון דחשודים לעבור על לפני עור דהא מאכילין גם לישראל הרוצה בטרפות. ואף אם היו מאכילין הטרפות רק לנכרים שאף שאסור גם זה משום שאסור לעשות סחורה באיסורים, מ"מ משמע שלא נחשדו להאכיל לישראל משום דחשוד לקל אינו חשוד לחמור כדאיתא בחולין דף ק"ו בהא דמים ראשונים האכילו בשר חזיר לפרש"י דלישראל היה מאכיל בשר שחוטה ולעכו"ם היה מאכיל איסורים להמפרשים דהיה רשע לדבר זה עיין בב"י יו"ד ס"ס קי"ז, נמי אסור לאכול אצל ישראל כזה דהא מאן מעיד על זה שאינו מוכר גם לישראל ואינו חשוד אלא לקל למכור לנכרים דסתם אדם המחזיק רעסטארן /מסעדה/ של איסורים מאכיל גם לישראל וצריך לידע בברור שאינו מוכר לישראל וזה אי אפשר. ובפרט במדינתנו שצריך לחקור ולדרוש היטב אף על אלו שמוכרין רק כשרות אולי הם חשודים כידוע בעוה"ר שודאי אסור לאכול אצל מי שמוכר גם טרפה. ידידו, משה פיינשטיין


Thursday, June 10, 2021

Mike Pompeo: F-35 sale to Abu Dhabi was 'critical' for UAE-Israel peace

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/pompeo-f-35-was-critical-to-uae-israel-deal-670609

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the sale of F-35 aircraft to the United Arab Emirates was "a critical part" of the normalization deal between Abu Dhabi, Israel and Washington.
In an interview in Yediot Ahronot, portions of which were published Thursday morning, Pompeo contradicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contention that the sale of the F-35 aircraft was not a core component of the August 2020 trilateral negotiations.
Netanyahu has tried to present the UAE deal as "peace for peace" to reject the paradigm in which Arab states only make peace or normalize with Israel if they receive land or some other benefit in return.
The prime minister has also de-emphasized his suspension of his plans to annex the West Bank on July 1, 2020, saying the option was still open to him - though the UAE has said its normalization deal took that completely off the table.

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Rabbi Gestetner's written reponsa which refutes the false statements made by Rabbis avi kahan and YY Jacobson in the Colive interview

5028 Gestetner Refutes Jaco... by yadmoshe

 https://collive.com/this-motzoei-shabbos-inaugural-of-gett-abuse-series/

 

Get after16 years - the other side

 https://ch10.co.il/news/674940/#.YMCfpExRU2y

 עו”ד יעל נגר, וטו”ר משה מיטלמן, המייצגים את אביו של הבעל, מסרו בתגובה: “למרבה הצער, מה שמוגדר על ידי דוברות בית הדין כ’סיפור הצלחה’ הינו למעשה כישלון קולוסאלי וחסר תקדים של אב בית הדין האזורי, הדיין הרב שלמה שטסמן, אשר במשך חמש וחצי שנים חצה כל קו אדום בהפרת זכויות אדם בסיסיות, ואף על פי כן לא הצליח להביא למתן הגט בישראל. הרב שטסמן החזיק בכפייה אדם מבוגר וחולה, תושב ואזרח ארה”ב, כבן ערובה וכקלף מיקוח בהליך הגירושין בין בנו לכלתו, אזרחי ארה”ב, באופן שכמעט הביא למותו. הרב שטסמן עיכב את יציאתו של האב מהארץ, הטיל עליו עונש מאסר שערורייתי בגין מעשי בנו, הטיל עליו קנס של 5000 ש”ח ליום (בשווי כולל של 2.5 מיליון ש”ח) עד למתן גט, ודחה כל בקשה אלמנטרית לחקור את הבן או לשמוע את עמדתו ישירות. בעקבות ההליכים שהתנהלו נגדו, אושפז האב מספר פעמים, במצב של סכנת חיים של ממש, לאחר שלקה בשלושה אירועים מוחיים, שני התקפי לב ואף חלה במחלה קשה, כשהוא מאושפז בימים אלה בבית החולים במצב סיעודי לאחר ניתוח מורכב.

“לאחר חמש וחצי שנים בהן גישתו הכוחנית של הרב שטסמן לא הביאו כל תוצאות והובהר שהסנקציות כנגד האב אינן משפיעות על הבן כלל, הוחלט כי הרכב מטעם בית הדין הרבני הגדול – הרב מימון נהרי, הרב אברהם שינדלר והרב לוז-אילוז – ינהל את תיק הגירושין, במקומו של הרב שטסמן. מאז שהוחלף ההרכב, ולאחר שעורכת הדין של האישה הודתה כי אין כל תועלת בסנקציות שמופעלות על האב, הבהירו הדיינים כי האב ‘מיותר’ בהליך הגירושין, ואף תהו ‘האם הטקטיקה לקחת את אבי הבן כבן ערובה כדי להציל את האישה מעגינותה, זאת הדרך הנכונה’. על כן, הורה בית הדין הגדול על בני הזוג לנהל מו”מ ישיר, ללא מעורבות האב. במסגרת המו”מ הישיר, ולאור העובדה כי הבן מאז ומתמיד סירב לקבל את סמכות בית הדין בישראל, החליטה האישה להיענות לדרישת הבעל, כפי שהוצעה לה כבר לפני שנים רבות, וטסה לארה”ב על מנת לקבל את הגט. ואכן, בשעה טובה ניתן הגט המיוחל בבית דין צדק בארה”ב, כדרישת הבעל, ללא מעורבות כלשהי של בית הדין בישראל. השמחה הגדולה על מתן הגט מהולה בעצב על הייסורים הרבים שעברו על האב ושוודאי היו יכולים להימנע כבר לפני שנים רבות”.

Bennett is an 'evil' and 'wicked' Reform Jew who will rot, say haredi MKs

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/shas-leader-arye-deri-warns-new-govt-will-destroy-jewish-state-670421

In a ferocious attack on Tuesday, the leaders of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties United Torah Judaism and Shas denounced Yamina leader and likely incoming prime minister Naftali Bennett as “evil.” They said his government would “uproot religion” and called on him to remove his yarmulke.
Speaking in the Knesset in a joint press conference, Interior Minister and Shas leader Arye Deri, UTJ chairman MK Moshe Gafni and Housing and Construction Minister Ya’acov Litzman (UTJ) said reforms to religion-and-state issues laid out in coalition agreements drawn up by the nascent government would destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

After 16 years, 'chained' woman finally gets divorce

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307741

A 16-year struggle to obtain a get reached its end today in a precedent setting case opened in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv which ended in the Beit Din (court of Jewish law) in Brooklyn, NY. The case had gained considerable media and public attention over the years due to the influential nature of the get-refuser’s father and the lengths the rabbinical court was willing to go in order to achieve this result.

The story began 16 years ago, when having been married for just several years, D traveled to Israel with their two young children to visit her parents. Shortly after her arrival, D suffered a serious stroke, leaving her in the hospital and diagnosed with neurological damage that would affect her mobility and overall function. Hearing the diagnosis, her husband made the decision to abandon the family, yet refusing to grant her a divorce.

 For well over a decade, D was left to fend for herself and her children all while struggling with her own health and rehabilitation. Her requests for a get (Jewish writ of divorce) were repeatedly denied.

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Haredi newspaper: 'Decrees of destruction by hostile gov't'

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307694

 Haredi newspapers have warned that the new government will "harm the status quo" on religious issues.

The announcement follows the publication of the coalition agreements between the parties forming the new government.

 Yated Ne'eman described the coalition agreements as a "ram of iron which gores at the walls of religion," while a subtitle claimed that "the wheels have evil have begun to move."

Hamodia claimed that "the basic principles threaten what is holy to Israel," and in a subtitle called the Draft Law, requirement to teach the core curriculum, public transportation on Shabbat (the Sabbath), the Western Wall Plan, and other issues "part of the decrees of destruction by a hostile government."

 That paper claimed that Yamina chief MK Naftali Bennett's declarations "as if he will promise not to harm the haredim or the religion of Israel are melting and dissolving as if they never were, in face of the papers and documents which are being exposed."

'Joints for Jabs': Washington state turns to marijuana giveaways to encourage residents to get vaccinated

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/06/08/washington-state-allows-free-marijuana-covid-vaccine/7598398002/

"Joints for Jabs" is officially a thing in Washington state.  

The state's Liquor and Cannabis Board said this week that it would allow state-licensed cannabis retailers to "provide one joint to adult consumers who receive COVID-19 vaccination at an in-store vaccination clinic."

The program is the latest vaccination incentive in a state that just days ago reached its goal of at least vaccinating 70% of state adults. Gov. Jay Inslee has said reaching that mark will allow elimination of most remaining coronavirus-driven restrictions across the state.

The board said it received multiple requests from cannabis retail licensees to help promote the state vaccination efforts. The approval for what the board called "Joints for Jabs" is effective immediately and will expire July 12. Others are calling the plan "poke and toke."

Kellogs's anti gender Pride cereal

 http://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/11984/20210526/madness-wokeness-now-indoctrinating-your-kids-through-kelloggs-breakfast-cereal.htm

The purple-themed breakfast cereal box comes with the tagline, "boxes are for cereal, not people," which encourages kids and kids at heart to explore one's identity. But not all people are happy with this new initiative.

 

Monday, June 7, 2021