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The part of HL’s article that bothers me the most, is when he said:

“Anyone who has spent time in these settings knows that gossip,
judging, and comparing are woven into the fabric of the culture.”

This bothers be because “gossip” is often Lashon HaRa
(which is one of the most destructive sins)
and also because Lashon HaRa becomes Motzi Shem Ra,
when people add false or inaccurate details
that make the victim seem even worse.

I have known, for many years, that this happens often
among Orthodox Jews and Chareidi Jews,
but HL’s article agrees with my own observations.

May G*D have mercy on all Jews, and help us to do
teshuvah sheleimah for all kinds of forbidden speech.

May G*D have mercy on all Jews,
and grant all of us a very easy fast on Tisha BeAv
and a very easy fast on Yom Kippur.

[1] President Bill Clinton [a member of the Democratic Party]
and President Barack Hussein Obama [a member of the Democratic Party]
both had the wicked Jeffrey Epstein at The White House.

President Donald Trump banned Epstein from all of his properties,
and made the phone call that led to Epstein’s arrest,

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[2] In 1979 CE, Jimmy Carter [a member of the Democratic Party]
purchased the endorsements of the Teacher’s Unions
by promising to establish the federal Department of Education.

At the time, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years later and 4.1 TRILLION DOLLARS later,
the USA was #46 in education and #1 in cost-per-student.

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[3] George Floyd was a drug addict and a violent criminal who was arrested 9 times.

To the Democratic Party, he was a hero.

With heroes like that, who needs villains?

How do we deal with comments that normalize denigrating Modern Orthodox Jews?

How do we deal with comments that normalize denigrating Sephardic and/or Mizrachi Jews?

How do we deal with comments that normalize denigrating older singles?

How do we deal with comments that normalize denigrating Baalei Teshuvah?

I copied this article exactly from Yeshiva World News.

This article was written on 2026 June 25, and was titled:
“NYC E-Bike Victims Sue Mamdani Claim
NYC Streets Have Become ‘Lawless”:
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http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2567369/nyc-e-bike-victims-sue-mamdani-claim-nyc-streets-have-become-lawless.html

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A group of New Yorkers injured by reckless e-bike riders
is suing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration,
claiming his decision to stop enforcing minor e-bike violations
has made city streets significantly more dangerous.

The lawsuit, expected to be filed Thursday, challenges
Mamdani’s March executive order that halted enforcement
of low-level e-bike offenses. Plaintiffs argue the policy
has created a “lawless free-for-all” where pedestrians
are increasingly being struck by s
peeding riders with little fear of consequences.

The suit is being brought by advocacy group NYC Common Sense,
several crash victims, and Staten Island Councilman Frank Morano,
who is participating in his personal capacity.

The legal challenge comes amid growing criticism of the city’s
expanding bike lane network and declining enforcement of e-bike laws.

Opponents say injuries involving high-speed electric bikes continue
to rise while City Hall prioritizes bike infrastructure over pedestrian safety.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

I copied this article exactly from VINnews.

This article was written by Joseph Feldman on 2026 June 21,
and was titled: “Orthodox Community Retailer Pulls
Electric Scooters From Shelves After String of Fatal Crashes”:

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MONSEY, N.Y. (VINnews) — The owner of a popular toy store chain serving Orthodox Jewish communities said he will no longer sell electric scooters and similar motorized devices, citing safety concerns following a series of serious and fatal accidents.

Yonason Schwartz, founder of Toys 2 Discover, announced the decision Sunday in a social media post, saying all electric scooters and Segways would be removed from store shelves at his New York and New Jersey locations.

Schwartz said the move will cost him thousands of dollars in unsold inventory but that he was willing to absorb the loss.

The decision follows several recent crashes involving young riders that have resulted in severe injuries and deaths, raising concerns among community leaders and parents about the safety of the devices.

Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group, who has led a public awareness campaign in recent months highlighting the dangers of electric scooters, praised Schwartz’s decision.

“Yonason deserves tremendous hakaras hatov for taking the initiative and being the Nachshon ben Aminadav on this issue,” Friedlander said.
“He’s willing to take a financial loss to help protect children and families. We should all recognize him for that.”

Friedlander said he hopes other retailers will follow Schwartz’s lead and reconsider selling the devices in light of the recent tragedies.

Toys 2 Discover is a well-known retailer in Orthodox Jewish communities throughout New York and New Jersey.

qwerty613:

Thank you for understanding me, in a world where
most people are very quick to judge other people,
but very slow to understand other people.

funnybone said:

“Typical mo mo (Modern Orthodox modus operandi)…”

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MY RESPONSE:

No offense intended, sir.

But with all due respect, your comment [which was
made with ZERO EVIDENCE] is a False Accusation
[Motzi Shem Ra] against many thousands of innocent
Modern Orthodox Jews, who are good people and good Jews.

I plead with you to do teshuvah, by retracting your comment
and apologizing to Modern Orthodox Jews, as soon as possible.

Do not think that this will cause people to respect you less.
On the contrary, this will cause people to respect you more.

Last but not least, False Accusations are NOT FUNNY,
especially when made against many thousands of innocent people.

Rabbi Chaim Vital says clearly in Shaar Hakdamos
that The Three Oaths only applied for 1,000 years.

I sympathize with the suffering of the boys,
which is the reason why I started this discussion.

But, in fairness to the yeshivah administrators:

What can they do, when most of their donors say
that they only want to donate to those yeshivahs
that are “the best of the best” or “the top 10%”?

If big donors would help all yeshivahs equally,
that might make it easier for yeshivah administrators
to accept average students.

But elitist donors force the yeshivah administrators
to practice elitist policies.

56 people were shot by ICE [the USA federal Department of Immigration
Control and Enforcement] during Mr. Barack Hussein Obama’s presidency.

But the American people never knew that, because the Democratic Party
was in power then, and because the MSM covers for the Democratic Party.

Always remember that ILLEGAL ALIENS cost American taxpayers
hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars.

Those dollar amounts are 12 DIGIT NUMBERS, like this: $850,000,000,000.

Democrats of the 1950s CE are rolling over in their graves
because of the insane Democratic Party policies of the 2020s.

Unfortunately, they are still voting from their graves,
which is how completely corrupt Democrats win elections.

When the state of California was a Republican Party state,
it had the strongest middle class in the world.

Now that California is Democratic Party state,
it’s middle class is destroyed,
and it has the highest percentage of homelessness of any state.

“Concentration Camps for American Jews”:
Texas Democrat’s Antisemitic Pledge Draws National Outcry

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2551805/concentration-camps-for-american-jews-texas-democrats-antisemitic-pledge-draws-national-outcry.html

A Democratic congressional candidate in Texas has pledged to imprison
“American Zionists” in an internment camp if elected.

Maureen Galindo, a therapist and housing activist running in
the Democratic primary runoff for Texas’s 35th Congressional District,
announced over the weekend that she would write legislation to
“turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists
and former ICE officers for human trafficking.”

“It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles
which will probably be most of the Zionists,”
she added in the Instagram post.

The pledge marks an extraordinary escalation in antisemitic rhetoric
from a candidate for federal office in the United States.

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida wrote on X,
“First current political candidate suggests concentration camps for American Jews.
This should be national news!”

Galindo has promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
throughout her campaign, drawing on some of the
oldest and most dangerous tropes in the anti-Semitic canon.

In a recent appearance on Texas Public Radio’s “The Source,”
Galindo denied being anti-Semitic but stated,
“I am against Zionist Jews.” She went on to assert that Zionists
“own the media, control the banking system and all politicians,”
including in San Antonio, and claimed that “we have Israeli Zionists
who are influencing our local politics and our South Texas politics.”

The claim that Jews control media, finance, and government
is a centuries-old conspiracy theory that has historically
been used to justify pogroms, expulsions, and genocide.

Galindo has separately claimed that Jews worship the
“synagogue of Satan,” a phrase widely deployed by
white supremacist and Christian nationalist groups
to dehumanize Jewish people.

In other comments, she has falsely asserted that ICE had
“headquarters and offices inside Israel” and described
American Jewish political engagement as
“an Israeli occupation of America.”

Galindo has also said her runoff opponent,
Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputy Johnny Garcia,
“should possibly be tried for treason because of his support for Israel,”
and accused his campaign of being funded by
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

In one Instagram post, she declared in all capital letters
that her opponent “is being paid to put Jews and Mexicans
in concentration camps via Zionist trafficking networks.”

Texas State Rep. James Talarico, a candidate for U.S. Senate,
told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
“this antisemitic rhetoric has no place in our politics” and
“we need leadership in both parties willing to stand up
and call out hate wherever it rears its ugly head.”
Talarico’s campaign confirmed he would not stump
for Galindo even if she wins the nomination.

Rather than retreat from her remarks, Galindo has doubled down.
In a follow-up video, she accused her critics of being MAGA supporters
and claimed Zionists are trying to create “white supremacist religion states.”

The video implicitly suggested MAGA supporters could also be targeted
for internment, framing the movement as “an American incarnation of Zionism.”

Galindo finished first in the March Democratic primary with 29.2 percent
of the vote, and faces Garcia in the May 26 runoff. Democratic leaders
in Washington and Texas have rallied behind Garcia,
but Jewish community leaders and observers have warned that
the very fact that a candidate with Galindo’s record advanced to
a congressional runoff, in a district that leans Democratic,
represents a deeply troubling moment
for American Jews and the Democratic Party.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

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MY RESPONSE:

Even with this amazing genocidal wickedness, American Jews
still continue to vote for the political party that HATES both
The State Of Israel and ALL Jews: The Democratic Party.

Not only does this not stop American Jews from voting for
The Democratic Party, it does not even slow them down a little.

Since year 2008 CE, when Mr. Barack Hussein Obama became
USA President, The Democratic Party has become worse and worse,
and more and more anti-Jewish, with each year that passed by.

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MY RESPONSE:

Maureen Galindo’s genocidal anti-Jewish attacks
sound almost exactly like the words of
The Neturei Karta & UJM & HaKatan & SomeJewIKnow.
(Yemach Shemam).

Always_Ask_Questions said this
on 2026 May 18 1:25 PM in a discussion titled:
“MATZAV INBOX: The Ache Of The Empty Seat“
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Rabbi Ya’akov Kamenetsky writes in his
Emes Le-Ya’akov Al Ha-Torah (Exodus 12:2 number 17):

“It is incumbent on us to understand that the establishment of
the State of Israel in our day, after the great destruction and despair
that overtook the remnant, and given the desperate and
destroyed status of Russian Jewry, God caused the establishment
of the State of Israel in order to strengthen the connection to Judaism
and to sustain the link between the Jews in exile and the Jewish nation.”

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MY RESPONSE:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for providing this valuable quote.

PLEASE repeat this quote, by itself,
together with the original Hebrew text
from which it was translated.

I thank you very much in advance.
I wish you a safe and pleasant Yom Tov.

Always_Ask_Questions said this on 2026 May 18 1:25 PM
in a discussion titled: “MATZAV INBOX: The Ache Of The Empty Seat“
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Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin was adamantly opposed
to the position of the Satmar Rav. He wrote:

“I was shocked to read in Chomoteinu of Cheshvan 5719
the slanderous notion that we are required to give our lives (limsor nefesh)
to frustrate and resist the efforts of the State of Israel
in its struggle against those who would rise up against them.

This was stated as a p’sak din based on what we learn that Israel
is restricted from rebelling against the nations (Ketubot 111A)…

Now all the Rabbis who were opposed to Zionism and the establishment
of a state took up that position until the time that it was officially founded.

Once the state was declared, anyone who plays into the hands
of the nations of the world, even where there is no imminent danger,
is clearly a moseir and rodeif.

Surely, those who recently emigrated must be very weary of
the state’s efforts to strip them of their Torah way of life,
but to proclaim that anyone who aids the state is a rodeif,
well such talk is the severest form of redifa.”

Seridei Esh, “Herzl, the Man of Religion”

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MY RESPONSE:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for providing this valuable quote.

PLEASE repeat this quote, by itself, together with
the original Hebrew text from which it was translated.

PLEASE give us chapter numbers and page numbers,
in addition to the names of the books quotes

I thank you very much in advance.
I wish you a safe and pleasant Yom Tov.