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Guest Post from Yeshivaorthodoxy [A"H]:

Two questions on the Boro Park “riots”:

Another question: With orthodox Jewish leaders demanding answers to very serious charges: Where are all the large, outspoken Jewish ‘leaders’ and their organizations, (ADL, Reform and Conservative groups, Foxman, Yoffi, etc.) who can’t make a statement quickly enough when a charge of racisim/discrimination is made by minorities or woman or gays?
Their silence is deafening.
Their agenda is loud and clear.

Pic courtesy of Chaptzem!

WND:

Israel must withdrawal from the West Bank, otherwise Arabs will soon outnumber Jews and threaten Israel’s Jewish character, former Prime Minister Shimon Peres claimed in an interview. “For us, [Israel must withdraw from the West Bank for] two reasons,” said Peres, speaking with top American radio host Rusty Humphries. One we don’t want to govern the lives of other people. The second one is we must be careful demographically to withdraw from some places or we may lose our majority.” Peres’ statements come in spite of a new study presented to the U.S. Congress last month which contends Israel’s withdrawal policy is based on erroneous Palestinian population data and predicts that in 20 years Jews will outnumber Arabs by two-to-one….

There is a Jewish School that will beging accepting Gentiles into it’s School.
The story is here:

TotallyJewish:

Arutzsheva:

A routine check of the stones of the Western Wall was carried out yesterday. Archaeologist Dan Bahat and engineerYossi Gordon oversaw the work. In addition, the thousands of notes and prayers wedged in between the stones were collected and removed, as they are done twice a year.Also in Jerusalem, the city’s neighborhood rabbis were authorized yesterday to sell the city’s chametz – leavened products that are not allowed to be eaten or owned by Jews during the upcoming Passover holiday. Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky and several neighborhood rabbis visited the home of leading sage Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, and the mayor gave them the authorization. Rabbi Elyashiv said that city residents should sell their chametz only via neighborhood rabbis.Because of the expected onslalught of visitors to the capital during the Passover holiday, private vehicles will not be allowed to enter the Old City from April 14 until April 18. Shuttles will be provided from the Supreme Court building and the Central Bus Station, and public bus service to the Old City will be stepped up.

JTA:

Filmmakers working on a documentary on bar and bat mitzvahs are looking for videotape submissions. The project grew out of “Bar Mitzvah Disco,” a book cataloging bar mitzvah pictures, stories and memorabilia from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The spinoff film — titled “Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Video” — is supported by American Apparel, an L.A.-based clothing store and manufacturer. Video submissions can feature any hallmark of the American bar mitzvah — from candle-lighting ceremonies to renditions of the song “YMCA” — and will be returned after use. For more information, e-mail…..

Perhaps someone can enlighten me, and give me a reason why someone decided to black this kids face out? Is there something inappropriate?

 

ROL:

Aides sitting vigil with Satmar Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan say he’s still gravely ill, but he has improved since Tuesday.”His blood pressure is holding up. All other tests are improving,” Joseph Deutsch, the rebbe’s personal paramedic, said yesterday morning outside the intensive-care unit where the 91-year-old spiritual leader lies unconscious. “So there is hope.”Anxious aides and family members spent a second day in a waiting room outside the Mount Sinai intensive-care unit. Among them was the rebbe’s former butler, Moshe Wertheimer, who said Teitelbaum had regained some ability to breathe on his own.The vigil has brought into uncomfortable proximity two sons of the grand rebbe who are bitter rivals and potential successors. About 10:30 a.m. yesterday, they narrowly missed crossing paths on the steps outside the Upper East Side hospital.As Zalmen Teitelbaum, chief rabbi of the main Satmar congregation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was about to be driven away in a black SUV, his older brother, Aron, leader of the dominant Satmar congregation in Kiryas Joel, arrived in front of him on Fifth Avenue in a black Cadillac and swept into the hospital with his entourage. No words were exchanged….

NY1:

In the wake of Tuesday night’s riot in Borough Park, one local Assemblyman is looking to take the investigation a step further. State Assemblyman Dov Hikind is asking that all amateur video from the riot be handed over for investigation. Hikind and other community leaders accuse NYPD Chief of Department Joseph Esposito of using racial slurs against the crowds of Jewish people who rallied behind a member of their community. Esposito acknowledges using swear words, but insists no racial slurs were uttered. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is defending him. “I have total confidence in Chief Esposito. Those things, they initially start in a disorderly way,” said Kelly. “I thought it was brought under control fairly quickly and I thought the appropriate tactics were used and the appropriate number of arrests were made for the situation…………

Forward:

The main union of Modern Orthodox rabbis in America is preparing to vote on whether to admit graduates from an upstart Manhattan seminary.Most of the 1,000 members of the Rabbinical Council of America are graduates of Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship institution, Yeshiva University. But the RCA’s executive committee is scheduled to vote in June on whether graduates of the seven-year-old Yeshivat Chovevei Torah — which was founded as a response to Y.U.’s perceived rightward shift — would be allowed to join the rabbinic organization. Other than prestige, benefits for RCA members include placement assistance and a pension program.“The RCA is a very highly respected, and rightly so, rabbinic body,” said Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, a YCT instructor and a member of the RCA’s executive committee. “As a Modern Orthodox institution,” Helfgot said, YCT should “be part of that.”The degree to which YCT would be welcomed by mainstream Orthodoxy has been a subject of significant discussion for years, seen primarily through the lens of its strained relationship with Y.U. At one point, rabbis connected to Y.U. attempted to block YCT students from getting jobs. The chairman of YCT, Howard Jonas, declared in a 2004 speech that Y.U. had been allowed to shift to the right through “a combination of the gutless and the spineless in a coalition with the mindless and the senseless.”In the past two years the tensions have lowered, with YCT students facing less resistance from pro-Y.U. elements in obtaining jobs. A decision by the RCA — an organization strongly linked to Y.U. — to accept graduates of the new school could mean an end to a feud that some thought could split the Modern Orthodox community.Since its creation, in addition to the standard Orthodox dedication to studying ancient and medieval rabbinic texts, YCT has displayed an emphasis on pastoral counseling, a liberal attitude toward Halacha, and a dedication to expanding the role of women in religious life — though it has stopped short of the ordination of women, which some assumed would be part of its mission………

“RASHAH MA HU OMER??!!”

Mlive:

It’s one of Judaism’s many evocative and long-lived traditions, a ritual meal that recalls the way God delivered the Jewish people from slavery in ancient Egypt. But some Christian churches are putting their own stamp on the Seder. A number of area churches will serve Seder meals this pre-Easter season leading up to the Jewish Passover (Good Friday for Christians), the traditional time for the Seder. “It’s a growing thing,” said the Rev. David Krueger, pastor of Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church, 7399 Miller Road, Swartz Creek. “More and more churches are doing it.” Hope will play host to a three-hour Seder for churchgoers and the public Sunday that will head in a nontraditional direction, showing what Krueger calls parallels between the Jewish ritual and the death of Jesus. “There are a lot of strong parallels,” Krueger said. “They are not just chance things; they are something set up by God and put in the Jewish ceremonies and festivals to point

Arutzsheva:

Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, the spiritual leader of the hareidi-religious Lithuanian community, met on Thursday in his Jerusalem home with Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, expressing his support for him in light of calls from Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that the chief rabbi step down.Mazuz earlier this week announced that a criminal indictment would not be filed against Rabbi Metzger who was under investigation for receiving free services from Jerusalem’s David Citadel Hotel. Nevertheless, Mazuz called upon Rabbi Metzger to step down from his post, threatening to convene the committee which selects rabbinical judges to oust him from his post. Rabbi Elyashiv and other members of the hareidi-religious committee are standing behind Rabbi Metzger, supporting him in light of the fact he is not being indicted for alleged criminal wrongdoing…….

For all those who have never been to a Hand Matzoh Bakery and would like to see how its done: CLICK HERE to watch a video.

A MUST READ!!

DailyNews:

The trouble in Brooklyn between the Hasidic community and the police brings us to the point of discussing yet another episode of unrest. It also pushes us smack-dab into the complex subject of favoritism toward Jews or that old favorite, anti-Semitism. Well, which is it? Is the Jewish community treated too well, too harshly or neither? Reality is far more complicated than convenient stereotypes would suggest. Some will always sneer that everyone knows that Jews get away with almost anything in New York because of their money and political power. Such people will point at the cops who are hopping mad because there were only a few arrests, even after protesting Hasidic Jews set fire to garbage in the street. There is the feeling that a decision was made to go easy on them, something that would not have happened in Spanish Harlem or black Harlem or East New York or … you get the point. One cop says that whenever a new officer comes on the force, the unwritten law of where and when you can use force is made clear, usually in whispers. “You find out,” says an officer, “that there is less risk if you crack open a black man’s head or have to rough up some guy with a Spanish last name. Neither one of them might be ‘connected,’ and being connected to someone in power is the name of the game.” Such stories persist – as do others that foment distrust on the flip side of the ledger. Some veteran black cops will say, off the record, that they know Jewish cops who have bumped up against prejudice within the NYPD. That is why they are not represented near the top in the kinds numbers that Irish and Italian cops are. Hmm. And lest we accept the favoritism line, hook, line and sinker, some will remind us that being Jewish is no guarantee that you will not be shot down like a dog. Recall the mentally ill Gidone Busch, who, while wielding a hammer, was fired upon 12 times by police. The accused police officers were acquitted. Beyond the suspicions, the stereotypes and the counterstereotypes, what we have is a big fat mess in which the cops are accused of using excessive force to arrest an older Jewish man who officers claim was talking on a cell phone while driving and refused to come along quietly. Two other men who put in their two cents worth were also arrested. Then the anger spilled into the streets. We will get through it, but few of the people who the police feel should have been arrested will end up behind bars. Perhaps that is less about money and power than it is about having uncharacteristic unrest in a typically quiet community. If that is the case, the neighborhood was allowed to slide for a relatively good reason. It is hard to tell when and if simplistic false impressions will give way to complex realities. We can be sure, however, that it will be a long time before many give up the notion that Jewish lives get special treatment, regardless of what laws are broken. I think that is a crock, but it is too well-loved an assumption for many to surrender – regardless of all evidence to the contrary…….

The Jewish Week Has an article about the Satmar Rebbe in critical condition, and the “Zalman Leib / Aron” fight for succession…..They have some facts totally wrong, but that’s understandable being that they are not “in the loop”!
Also last I’ve heard, the Rebbe was feeling a little better and was breathing mainly on his own.
Again, kindly be Mispallel for Moshe Ben Brucha Sima.

All of these sites are just repeating the same story, so feel free to browse through the links…

NYPost: Slive: ABC: NYTimes: Forbes: Foxnews: NYSun: Israelinsider: Dailynews: LATimes:

Click HERE to see a video interview with Mr. Arthur Schick.

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“Boro Park Goes Meshuggeneh”

Dailynews:

There is no place in New York City for the type of hooliganism that swept Borough Park, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night on the false rumor that police had brutalized an elderly member of the largely Hasidic community. Neither is there any place for cries of “Nazi Germany! Nazi Germany!” – which not only is a shameful insult to the NYPD, but also an obscene trivialization of history. In the streets of Borough Park, fires were set, one patrol car was trashed and another was set ablaze. Abominable conduct under any circumstances, and attempts to justify it by alleging police insensitivity do a terrible disservice to the city. Several community leaders stepped forward yesterday to acknowledge that the police did, indeed, handle a hot-button situation with cool heads. But attributing the disturbance primarily to kids who had a holiday from school is not an excuse.To be sure, this was not a riot. If you look closely at photographs of the crowds watching the fires, you will notice that many are standing around casually, and they are smiling, as if they were at a marshmallow roast. These are not rampaging masses requiring aggressive police response. In fact, the cops deserve thanks. It is they who were slandered and assaulted after the lie was spread that they beat an elderly motorist who had been talking on a cell phone and refused to give a patrol car the right of way. Arrested he was; beaten he was not. Into the mix yesterday came yet another instigation: Councilman Simcha Felder claiming to have been an earwitness to Chief of Department Joseph Esposito’s saying, “Get these f—–g Jews out of here” while attempting to clear the crowd. Esposito insists he said, “Get these f—–g people out of here,” and he acknowledged that the vulgarity was inappropriate. In these quarters, he gets the benefit of the doubt. If anything, the people of Borough Park should be thanking the 66th Precinct for making their neighborhood far safer. Over the past two years, crime there is down by 18%; over five years, by 27%, and over the last 13 years, it has decreased by an astounding 77%. Repeat, 77%. Such results are not produced by a force that has no respect for the community, its religion or traditions.

Forward:

Bucking the advice of their rabbis, about 30% of voters in Israel’s main Chabad-Lubavitch stronghold cast their ballots for a candidate who advocated the mass expulsion of Arabs, branded Israeli leaders traitors and called for the execution of some liberals.Baruch Marzel, running under the banner of the National Jewish Front, failed to reach the 2% threshold needed to qualify for a Knesset seat and, perhaps more strikingly, failed to win a single vote in dozens of municipalities throughout Israel. Even in the West Bank, where opposition to Israeli territorial concessions is much higher than it is in Israel, Marzel — a 46-year-old Boston native and a disciple of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane — managed to win significant support in only a few of the smallest, most extreme Jewish settlements in the West Bank.But in Kfar Chabad — the Lubavitch town located inside Israel proper, just east of Tel Aviv — Marzel won almost a third of the 1,714 votes cast, even though the local rabbis had urged residents to back parties with a realistic chance of winning Knesset seats. His next-best showings inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders were in the historic Galilee city of Tzfat (8%) and the working-class southern city of Kiryat Malachi (4%), two municipalities with sizable Chabad communities.Marzel’s support from Chabad voters poses a potentially embarrassing development for the global network of emissaries loyal to the vision of the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson….Chabad officials in America seemed reluctant to comment for the record on Marzel’s results, even as they tried to dismiss his success among their followers as a protest vote against the other religious parties. Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Chabad’s representative in Washington, stressed that the rabbinical court in Kfar Chabad had directed followers not to vote for Marzel…..

DB:

After receiving reports from various Jewish groups that anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments are rampant on college campuses, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted this week to recommend that the Department of Education take steps to protect Jewish students. The commission, which studies and reports on civil rights issues and makes recommendations based on its findings, decided to recommend that the Department of Education more stringently enforce Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which authorizes the withdrawal of federal funds from public institutions that practice discrimination. But some members of the local Jewish community said the commission’s conclusion is not applicable to the UCLA campus. Of the many universities he has visited, Rabbi Yonason Quinn, with the Jewish Awareness Movement on campus, said he finds UCLA students to be significantly different from students at other schools…..

What happened to Paskesz?

Sunsen:

From chocolates to jellybeans to other sugary delights, observant consumers have a wide selection of kosher candy from which to choose.The Orthodox Union certifies a host of popular treats that are available in supermarkets and movie theaters, including Nestle’s Crunch, Double Bubble gum, Mike and Ike, Hot Tamales, Zours, Teenee Beanee, Just Born Jelly Beans, Mars, Snickers, Three Musketeers, M&M’s and Hershey’s.One of the most popular kosher candy producers is California-based Gimbal’s Fine Candies (800-344-6225, www.gimbalscandy.com), which sells Gummi Bears, Sour Worms, Sour Fish, Fruit Slices and 34 flavors of gourmet jellybeans including fruit punch, pink grapefruit, toasted marshmallow and pear.In addition, local companies create gourmet kosher sweets…..

WNYC:

Mayor Bloomberg says residents of Borough Park acted inappropriately by rioting after the arrest of an Orthodox Jewish man. But he says the Police Department will look into its handling of the incident…..

OK, I agree. They acted totally out of line. But what about the Chief Of The NYPD using filthy laungage while referring to the jews? Is that just going to be “looked into”? How about suspending him until they have investigators question all of the people who heard him say it?