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Amil: Can you kindly share what tools CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, PBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post and all their like-minded Big Media siblings use to peddle their daily lineups of false narratives?
Or are you so blinded by them that you accepted them as your gospel.
Dofi:
Hatzalah, Shomrim, Chaveirim, Bikur Cholim and the vast majority of other chesed organizations were started by Chasidim. Then replicated elsewhere, by many others, across Klal Yisroel.
P.S. I’m not Chasidish.
ToShma: My descriptions so far have only been the tip of iceberg of the crimes Kastner committed against the Jewish people. There’s so much more to add, not the least of which was that even AFTER THE WAR when the Nazis had been defeated, Kastner went to the Nuremberg war crimes trials to testify ON BEHALF OF and IN DEFENSE OF his Nazi friends on trial. One of which whom he successfully helped win an acquittal.
Jobb, ha jiddisül magyarázod.
There’s no way for Kastner to receive mechila from the 500,000 Yidden he sold to Eichmann.
You need Chasidim to start Shomrim. Now that the Chasidim are in the process of almost overtaking a majority of the Lakewood population, you can probably expect a Shomrim of Lakewood.
What freedom of the press? Those not towing the Far Left lines are quickly booted from social media, virtually all of which is controlled by the Left, and were omitted from any reports in Big Media, purveyors of the so-called “mainstream media” that exists only to peddle what their Democrat puppet masters wish to be “reported”.
Rudolf Kastner was a quisling traitor who openly and unabashedly collaborated with the Nazis, and specifically with his smoking/coffee buddy Adolf Eichmann, who he was on intimate terms with and on a first-name basis, welcome to his office unannounced at any time.
You don’t need me to tell you any of this, it’s all documented in the Vrba-Wetzler Report, by Aushwitz escapees Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, who personally handed Kastner the report of what the Germans were doing to Polish Jews and were still planning to do to Hungarian Jews. As Vrba and Wetzler testified, Kastner ignored them and their report, refused to pass the information to Hungarian Jewry before the Nazis loaded them unto the trains to Aushwitz and instead buried the report and information.
Amil: mdd already provided a plausible response to your question.
CS: Rudolf Kastner is responsible for the genocide of 500,000 Hungarian Jews. Whereas he had ample opportunity to notify Hungarian Jewry what Adolf Eichmann was planning against them, as Kastner was intimately familiar with his genocidal plans and on friendly terms with Eichmann, instead he negotiated one train worth of rescue — that 90% was filled with his immediate and extended family and Zionist colleagues whereas the other 10% he sold for profit, including a seat sold at full price to the Rebbe.
Even the Israeli courts recognized the treason this quisling Kastner committed against his fellow Jews and he was dully assassinated by a Holocaust survivor, in Israel, for his murderous collaboration.
huju: Perhaps if Janet Reno didn’t send in the tanks, had David Koresh been given some more time, the Branch Davidians, like their Christian brothers, would have evolved from cult to religion.
mdd1 and BY1212 are both absolutely correct. Anyone who eats lock stock and barrel, accepting and believing everything the Western “Big Media” feeds them on their broadcasts and broadsheets, the so-called mainstream media that is part and parcel of the Far Left, or even believes everything the media spokesmen of the government and the leaders of the Western regimes say, is simply an unfortunate fool.
huju: Your description leads to the conclusion that Christianity and Islam were cults when still new, but evolved into religions with time.
smerel: My comment was very much in context whereas you’ve taken it out of context. As you surely noticed, my comment was clearly labeled as a response to Avira. Avira wrote that Rabbi Berland was once a respected Rov who had mainstream supporters whereas Rabbi Helbrans was never respected by the mainstream Rabbonim. My comment refuted that, as I demonstrated the greatest Gedolei Hador publicly supported Rabbi Helbrans. Whatever the context of their support was, it certainly indicates he was not considered to be fringe.
That’s all said above without in any way accepting any of the unproven wild allegations, mostly made online. Repeating lies often enough in news stories certainly leads to some believing everything they read. There absolutely is nothing motzey shem ra because there’s nothing conceivably wrong with Rav Pam’s and 20 other Gedolim’s righteous support of R. Helbrans, who was in the right in that situation.
Regarding the details of the story from the early 1990s, you have a number of the details very incorrect. The bochor was just Bar Mitzvah when R. Helbrans was involved. The bochor was under 15 years old for the entire duration of the controversy. The bochor learnt in R. Helbrans Yeshiva. He originally boarded in his home. His parents were indeed dysfunctional and divorced and fighting and not religious. The bochor became religious around the time of his Bar Mitzvah through Rabbi Helbrans. That’s when his father wanted him to stop being religious and leave R. Helbrans Yeshiva. R. Helbrans instead put him with another family to hide him from his dysfunctional family who wanted to stop him from being religious. R. Helbrans was charged with kidnapping. And Rav Pam, the Bobover Rebbe, the Skulener Rebbe, the Melbourner, YBL”C Rav Schustel and over a dozen other Gedolim publicly supported Rabbi Helbrans.
In the early days of the coffee room it was chock full of young maidelech. (Check the decade old threads.)
Avram, your last comment is legally incorrect. The ICC is an international agreement only binding upon its signatories. Its rules, statues and agreements are not international law or binding upon any non-signatories. That’s a legal fact that isn’t under dispute.
The ICC has no jurisdiction to indict or request extradition of any parties or state nationals, that committed any gruesome acts outside any jurisdiction not party to the ICC.
Avira,
Rav Avrohom Pam ZTVK”L signed a letter supporting R. Helbrans, YBL”C Rav Dovid Schustel Shlit”a made a parlor meeting in his house supporting R. Helbrans. So did the Bobover Rebbe, the Skulener Rebbe, the Melbourner, and twenty other Gedolei Yisroel come out in support of him.
Avram, Russia is not party to the Rome Statute of the ICC and its rules are not international law binding upon non-signatories.
Any credit card with the contactless feature (it’ll have that wireless symbol on your card), which is almost any card issued these days, can be used to pay the bus/subway OMNI system, without anything else. No smartphone or special card needed.
I live in Meah Shearim part of the year.
“I think you’ve been reading too many magazines.”
Probably AMI and Mishpacha.
Avira, your point is valid. But, unless I missed it, I didn’t see anyone saying Ukrainian citizens aren’t suffering.
Avira, well said.
I’m still using tokens to pay for the subway. Don’t know much about these newfangled stuff like MetroCards.
Ari, you’d benefit from having your father strange a shidduch for you with a girl’s father. Once the two fathers agree, you’d meet the girl. After the meeting and both agreeing, they set a wedding date for you.
Israeli chareidim don’t vacation. They use their money wisely. For the essentials. They don’t have much more than that, nor do they wish or need more than that.
Avira, what about Russian Yidden?
No.
Christianity is a cult. It’s founder, who claimed to be g-d, was a cult leader. It’s claims are as absurd as they get.
“I don’t recall the name of the Rov”
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky.
Good luck trying to get Russia to extradite Putin to the ICC.
The divorce rate in Frum communities where the parents are less (or not) involved in the Shidduch research and selection is significantly higher than in the communities where the parents are more involved.
Marxist: The Zionists collaborated with the Nazis. For example, Rudolf Kastner with Adolf Eichmann.
TS Baum, the Arizal is saying that they shouldn’t be longer than the beard; and if they are longer than the beard, then you should cut them to be less long than past the beard. But he writes to not to cut them before the point that they reach the beard.
Mods, Did my new thread entitled Keitzad Merakdim come through on Erev Shabbos?
don’t see it anywhere
Dr. Pepper, you are the kindest, most gentle, sensitive and thoughtful poster on this forum. By a wide margin. That’s without even speaking of your superior intelligence. (No offense intended towards squeak.) I’m very confident that telling a poster that he’s bitter (or worse) isn’t something you’ve previously directly said to anyone here. And doubtlessly you’ve had ample opportunities in the well over a decade you’ve graced us with your special presence.
If I’m wrong about the above I’ll eat my words. But I know that I am not.
All that said, addressing a person’s bitterness isn’t necessarily a negative. Indeed it can be helpful in assisting your interlocutor address that very issue that you’ve identified to him. Also note that while it was strong and sharp comparative to your previous comments, in the grand scheme of conversations it certainly was far from being a harsh comment. I merely noticed that it was outside the typical tone of a comment coming from yourself.
Ah Gut Shabbos and ah Gutten Chodesh!
Godol: Are you agreeing with me again? I must say that it seems to start becoming a trend with you.
Millhouse: But is it unheard of for a Lubavitcher to attend a non-Lubavitch chasuna? (i.e. I’m not referring specifically to Lubavitch.)
By the way, in Lubavitch the Kallah doesn’t go to the men’s section for Keitzad Merakdim?
Dr. Pepper, I must say that, firstly, your most recent comment is absolutely on target, appropriate and correct. But more pointedly I I feel compelled to note that this comment is the strongest, sharpest and most stinging comment I’ve ever seen you post in all your 13+ years of posting to this site — and I’ve certainly read the vast majority of what you’ve written here.
Again, justifiably so.
Warm up the Matzahs long after Pesach, and will feel and taste very fresh.
Warm up the Matzahs long after Pesach, and will feel and taste very fresh.
Warm up the Matzahs long after Pesach, and will feel and taste very fresh.
Leiby Wasser: You never saw a contingent of women come from the women’s section into the men’s section with the Kallah for Keitzad Merakdim?
And have you, ever, heard anyone insist everyone must have a Mitzvah Tantz, even if it was never their Minhag?
The famous picture drawing of the Baal HaTanya seems to show big Peyos. More than the typical Lubavitcher today.
Haaretz is the Zionist version of Der Sturmer.
The famous picture drawing of the Baal HaTanya seems to show big Peyos. More than the typical Lubavitcher today.
Haaretz is the Zionist version of Der Sturmer.
Wolf: Are these the kinds of jokes you share during laining? (One of your admitted aveiras is constantly talking during laining.)
P.S. Still waiting for your response in the King Charles and Queen Camilla thread.
And Keitzad Merakdim, when they bring the Kallah into the men’s section (and in the not so Frum circles dozens of other women slip into the men’s section with the Kallah) is more Tzniusdik??
@ujm
“Everyone must have a Rov.”“Source?”
Pirkei Avos. Common sense. And that’s how Klal Yisroel has always acted for thousands of years.
Ari: Because then you might become smitten with infatuation before finding out the match is inappropriate due to background reasons.