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amom – why is the covid vaxxine worst invention you should be happy that there is a vaccine for a virus that requires booster shots every 2 months!

Gadol you mean for a change you agree. Because I’m always right

Just lookin, what is the source. Is the Gemara saying Hashem made a wrong decision in creating humans?

ujm-“RW: The smallpox vaccine literally saved tens of millions of people.”

-and the Covid vaxx?

Avram I agree Kol Peh is a bit inconsistent with font size ( which I still like because it makes it interesting and kind gives the small font a feel of importance), however there are newer versions with a modern clear and revised font which come in the medium size siddur. The thing is they changed some or one of the birchos hashachar to a different version from the previous. I think there is some machlokes in the Ashkenaz birchos hashachar.

Also I’m the classic Kol Peh al hamichya, the al hagefen is listed before al hamichya. Is there a source for that version or simply a mistake of the order.

Ujm, not the Covid vaxx?

Air conditioner, refrigerator as some of the best inventions?

Ujm, is it? I’m not sure but there are plenty of other things that can transfer such as toenail fungus, foot fungus or any other nasty germs.

ujm i ask because i realized how long ago i went and thought about wearing those germ infested shoes they force you to wear and was like, not for me. It made me ponder if bowling has gone out of style along with roller rink. Ice skating will likely always be an attraction.

Is it all about explanations that make a siddur?

@emes, what destabilization did Trump bring, do you mean Biden?

Smerel “While it is possible that the situation in the US could rapidly change just like it did in Germany that possibility exists in other countries as well so there is no reason to go running to them.”

-although the US is the empire of the world currently and has the most Jews. I don’t think anyone is worried about Zimbabwe’s approach to Jews.

“Another factor to consider is that the US has far more things decided on a local level than most other countries. It is possible that some of the more liberal states will become unlivable for Orthodox Jews but not the US a whole”
-what makes you think states such as Mississippi and Kentucky are more welcoming to Jews let alone frum Jews?

Avira where do you get this information? The land itself always belongs to the Jewish people it cannot be forfeited since it’s promised to be ours.

Whats funny is that even the Black leaders in Apartheid South Africa were against Israel and said that South Africa can never be free while the “Palestinians” are still suffering and not free. Go figure.

ujm, more than German Golus? Maybe if you are including the Churban and all the years before and after. Second of all noone is saying life is perfect in Israel, in fact its far from that due to government and other. But dont you agree that Israel “the land” is the only land where a Jew can rightfully say that land belongs to them? I just feel that no matter what anti semitism in a land of goyim is scarier than in a land that is part of you. In other lands its called anti semitism, in Israel its called war.

@Zaphod,”As for the omg we’re all gonna be wiped out if we stay here sentiment, sorry to burst your bubble but the average citizen isn’t as dumb or hateful as you might think.”

Sorry to burst your bubble but I think the average citizen already proved you wrong (the whole COVID era) by taking pictures of people, especially Jews not wearing a mask and posting it everywhere just because the government told them to. And if they dont start off hateful since they are just following orders, they later do become hateful. And that was without even being offered a reward they were just being “good helpful citizens”.

I personally had some dope take a picture of me and other Jews inside a fast food place and it was before the mandates, it was up to the store policy and that store didnt have a mask policy. Im sure you’ve seen the countless other photos of “maskless” Jews all over even if those situations didnt require mask wearing.

We arent saying pack your bags, but its a fact that anything can happen, and fast.

Ujm Australia and Canada aren’t known for their love of Jews.
Amilzola, I haven’t planned yet and hoping it won’t ever come to that but obviously the only safe place for Jews to go is likely Israel. Yes the government is bad and it’s surrounded by Arabs but it’s the only place on earth where the land is rightfully welcoming to Yidden.

Avirahdeara, good observation, if you ever read Elie Wiesel’s personal account in the book Night, as he entered Aushwitz he told his dad, surely the crematoriums can’t be real right, they can’t be burning people in the 20th century how would the world let this happen! And his father replied, the world has no care for us Jews, anything is possible even in these modern times.

It was so unimaginable to the mind that even seeing it with their own eyes was barely comprehensible. Wiesel also narrated how when they rounded up the Jews of Hungary and lined them up it was surreal and felt he was seeing something out of the churban Beis Hamikdash and not reality.

So it’s not as if “back then” a Holocaust was expected and unsurprisng. 70 years ago which is not that long ago, the times were very modern, there were big yehivas and shuls, congregations, doctors and businesses. And most never could have imagined such a thing would take place.
Actually the most frightening part of Wiesel’s account was when he mentioned a specific person who would collect tzedaka and was well known in the community, was suddenly rounded up along with all other Jewish “foreigners” and was taken to an area where they all had to dig their graves and shot one by one. He managed to survive and went back to the town to warn all the Yidden. They refused to believe him. He said I don’t want money or anything I just fought my way to get back here only to warn everyone. But they ignored him and called him crazy. Until the day where the whole community was rounded up and transported, and he ran to the houses and yelled “I tried to warn you”!

Lehavdil elef havdalos and that nothing even remotely similar should ever take place anywhere in the world, but always keep on mind our history and look at the patterns. The Jews always lived in big Empires of the world and those countries always turned on them eventually, despite how difficult it would be to believe that something could happen.

By1212 actually there is a solution and the only solution is by ignoring them just as Trump did. Say what you want about him, and even though he changed his narrative recently and said it’s the Israelis who are the problem, back then when he was in his right mind and heart he realized the Palestinians are just playing games and have no interest in peace which is why he spoke about a ONE state solution being Israel and nothing else.

That strategy worked so well that we didn’t hear of the Palestinians for 4 years, they lost all hopes and confidence that they kept their mouth shut and accepted reality. This is how it works with them and if you don’t believe it just look at day one of Biden they suddenly woke up and made it known how much they want to make peace and start negotiating. What a coincidence.

Ignoring them has worked for all the Muslim countries surrounding Israel including Jordan who has killed and banished around 25,000 Palestinians in 1971 known as “Black September”. But nobody raised an eyelash to that. The Arab countries cannot stand the Palestinians and hate these rejects thats why they don’t take them in. But they also hate Israel so it works great for them to encourage the Palestinians to make life he_l for the Israelis and they just laugh on the sidelines.

What will giving Gaza and west bank do how would they get across would they build a bridge between the “countries”? Because crossing through Israel would mean they need to be citizens or get a visa wouldn’t it? Aside for the fact that they will only fight for more since they “believe” that all Israel is Arab Palestine. Or at least that’s what they want to believe.
I think someone should tell them how the country was renamed as Palestina by the Romans before Islam was even created. So how can they have any connection to the land.
And if they say too bad the Jews lived there and got exiled out then we lived there so it’s ours(even though Jews lived there as well throughout the years). Well to that I answer the Jews lived there and got kicked out so too bad for them, then you”took over”, and now the Jews are back so too bad for you. Isn’t that the way this game works?

Smerel it’s true that if you aren’t exposed to every incident you won’t think of it as much. However the times got a little worse since when did you have literally thousands at pro Palestinian rallies, all who hate Jews not just Israel. And when did you have people burning shuls and yeshivas. The attacks have gotten more brazen and more frequent in my opinion. Also the fact that covid happened and was scapegoated on Jews whether being the ones who created it or the ones who spread it around to people, and having the NYC mayor and governor labeling all Jewish neighborhoods as red danger zones is a little disturbing of how fast things can escalate.

Charliehall, you really think you are making a difference? I dont think Tlaib, Omar or anyone else want to have their minds changed about what they are fighting for. At the end of the day its just a waste of energy and emotions.

Alwaysask, as usual im not sure what you are replying to because not only do I not have Meta, I dont have any social media. And no YWN is not social media its a forum and those have been around many years and are not as problematic as social media.

If there isnt any good from it and only negativity, then why do frum Yidden still hold on to it? It is destroying peoples minds, marriages, relationships and much more and only evokes jealousy, anger, bitterness, which leads many to depression and anxiety whether they are aware of these feelings consciously or sub-consciously.

Even if there is any little good on there like being able to share a shiur, there is so much bad that in my opinion it outweighs any little good that it may offer. Besides there are so many other ways to share videos and messages that this is just an excuse to use the platform since everyone else is using it. It is so destructive that even the non Jewish world are aware of it but nobody is stopping it and it is only gaining more power and evolving into the way of life.

“Article in Wall Street Journal”

There’s Apartheid in the Holy Land, but Not in Israel
Palestinian law makes selling land to Jews a crime punishable by death, often without trial.
By Eugene Kontorovich
Feb. 8, 2022 6:36 pm ET

The report by Amnesty International accusing Israel of apartheid—a likely preview of similar moves at the United Nations and the International Criminal Court—has been widely debunked, including in these pages. Yet what is remarkable about its 200 pages of distortions is the evidence of real apartheid-like policies that Amnesty leaves out. There are reasons to be concerned about the emergence of apartheid in the Holy Land—but not the ones Amnesty cites.

The defining characteristic of apartheid—what distinguishes it from generic racial discrimination—is the rigid separation of groups in public spaces and positions of power. This is the apart in apartheid.

Thus, a sign of apartheid could be a government policy that bans real-estate sales or transactions to the disfavored group. Apartheid is suggested by policies that carve out massive zones where the disfavored group cannot live or work, create ethnically homogenous zones, and restrict the disfavored group to ghettos. One might consider it apartheid if a government enforced a policy of extrajudicial execution of members of a disfavored group.

All these policies are practiced in the West Bank and Gaza—by the Palestinian Authority government against Jews. What makes the “Israel apartheid” meme particularly despicable is that is not just a lie, it is an inversion of the truth. In all areas controlled by Israel, Jews and Arabs mix openly. Yet the Palestinian Authority has for decades ruled over Gaza and about half the West Bank—and all the areas under its jurisdiction are Jew-free.

There isn’t a single Jewish community living anywhere under Palestinian control. This isn’t because of Jewish preferences. Jewish communities exist across the world; they would certainly exist 10 minutes from Jerusalem if it weren’t for the Palestinian Authority’s policies of excluding Jews and inciting violence and prejudice against them.

Palestinian law makes selling land to Jews a crime punishable by death, often without trial. Nor does the authority recognize any Jewish titles to private property. Last year a Palestinian religious official said on Palestinian TV that “this land is a pure right of its Muslim owners, the people of Palestine.” A senior Palestinian Authority figure said in an official publication, “Whoever sells real estate to the enemy . . . is considered a traitor to the religion, the homeland, and the people, and all those who commit this must be punished.”

In Israel, by contrast, Arabs enjoy full property rights, enforced by the courts against Jews. Perversely, Amnesty cites as an example of Israeli apartheid a series of legal proceedings in which Jewish property owners in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah seek (thus far unsuccessfully) to evict squatters who happen to be Arab. In Amnesty’s alternate universe, Jews enforcing their property rights is apartheid; Jews being denied the right to own property isn’t. The South African government used death squads against blacks. The Palestinian government pays terrorists for killing Jews—the more people killed, the bigger the bounty. It regularly imprisons the few brave Palestinians who speak out against its policies.

In all the territories controlled by the Palestinian government, Jews are prevented from worshipping at their holy sites, despite explicit provisions in the Oslo Accords requiring the Palestinian Authority to protect such worship. When Jews manage to visit such shrines, they must come in the middle of the night under armed guard. And even in areas under Israeli control, like the Temple Mount—Jews’ holiest site—the Palestinian Authority prevents public Jewish prayer by threatening mass violence if Jews “defile” it with their “filthy feet,” in the words of President Mahmoud Abbas.

All this is part of a larger vision. The Palestinian Constitution defines Palestine as an exclusively “Arab nation,” with Islam the official religion and Arabic the sole official language. At the same time, Palestinian officials and educators deny any Jewish history or connection to Israel. In Israel, on the other hand, though it is the only Jewish-majority country in the world, Judaism isn’t the official religion. Both Hebrew and Arabic enjoy official status. Yet Amnesty claims that merely identifying as a “nation state” of a particular people is an apartheid practice—but only when it comes to Israel.

Apartheid is not merely a term of opprobrium, it is a crime created by and defined in international treaties. As a legal matter, while Ramallah’s treatment of Jews is discriminatory and violates human rights, it is impossible to say it formally qualifies as apartheid. The standard for apartheid has been set so high by the international community, that thus far only South Africa has been deemed a clear case. But by the standards implicit in Amnesty’s report, the Palestinian government is guilty.

-Mr. Kontorovich is a professor at George Mason University Scalia Law School, and a scholar at the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem think tank.