tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post372757961232776944..comments2023-08-17T06:45:58.317-07:00Comments on "Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse: Breaking: The Dream Team are set to bring down Kolko and the Moetzes.exposemolestershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300261898413798noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-81947158538335924172011-05-23T19:02:50.147-07:002011-05-23T19:02:50.147-07:001. Alcohol
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3. Preditory "earning&quo...1. Alcohol<br />2. Drugs<br />3. Preditory "earning"<br />4. Homosexuality<br />5. Gambling<br />6. Something for nothing/irresponsibility (xtianity)<br />7. Polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny (Islam)<br />Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO.<br />It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I am that real Second Coming.<br />What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.<br /><br />Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.<br />Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.<br />1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.<br /><br />Without the Holocaust the Nazis would have created an Eastern Block-style enviornment throught all of Europe until Reagan spent them into submission. But all Europeans would have received the extra time instead of just those from the east.<br />Chinese would have gotten more time, perhaps many decades more, if they resisted temptation when ultrasound promoted infantcide. Problem is the Chinese have a problem with growth and are stagnant. Their women are distracted and consumed excessively and it hurts the people as a whole.<br />Many Chinese may doubt infancide has hurt them, but typical of the god's tactics their punishment has already been administered:::::Western-style corporate capitalism.<br /><br />Only children go to heaven. By the time you hit puberty it is too late. This is charecteristic of the gods:::Once you realize what you have lost it is too late.<br />Now you are faced with a lifetime to work and prepare for your next chance. Too many will waste this time, getting stoned, "Hiking!", working, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-37259141275643339652011-04-07T21:06:27.976-07:002011-04-07T21:06:27.976-07:00My brother Mike is a molester. He molested both m...My brother Mike is a molester. He molested both me and my brother, both of which went on to have homosexual experiences.<br />He put me in an old hand me down dress.<br />Mike instructed both his young brothers (appx 3 years old) to copulate him.<br />He married a woman who is a dead ringer for a transsexual, enabing him to relive his role as molester every night. I understand he prefers copulation so much he has problems with traditional intercourse.<br />I think you know who he is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-3111905326671831112008-03-27T21:20:00.000-07:002008-03-27T21:20:00.000-07:00http://theunorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2008/03/aron-...http://theunorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/2008/03/aron-schachter-of-agudath-israel-and.html<BR/><BR/>Reported on UOJ blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-79088893447735809782008-03-27T21:06:00.000-07:002008-03-27T21:06:00.000-07:00Even the French have their limits. What the hell i...Even the French have their limits. What the hell is up with AIA. What the bleep? Can the story get any screwier then it already is? . Schechter - are you normal? What the ef is wrong with you? A. Fruchturtle - you're a rottin scum of the earth.<BR/><BR/>We don't have Rav Moshe zt'l and Reb Shamshon zt'l with us unfortunately. Klal Yisrael sorely lacks that kind of leadership today. Instead we have these so called "Rabbis" who are the total opposites. If anyone still trusts the moetzes they're totally out of their mind.<BR/><BR/>How the hell do these these frauds of Agudas Israel get away with such reckessless and criminal behavior? No wonder there are so many "teens at risk" out there. The "Rabbis" created them to begin with. Then they try to reap the credit for bullshit - like they're "saving" these "teens at risk." <BR/><BR/>Your a bunch of frauds!<BR/><BR/>People like =%#& effin shlomo mandel putz drek drwarf - abused boys when they were in his "house of horrors" - and then walks the streets on ocean pkwy only to find boys he once abused smoking a cigarettes on shabbos. How ludicrous!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-3616189260115385632008-03-27T17:41:00.000-07:002008-03-27T17:41:00.000-07:00Aron Schechter was mechubed with a bracha at a wed...Aron Schechter was mechubed with a bracha at a wedding of a 14 year old girl to a guy in his 30's.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-28289661840774174362008-03-27T16:35:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:35:00.000-07:00IF YOU ARE A VICTIM GO DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE AND ...IF YOU ARE A VICTIM GO DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE AND FILE A FORMAL COMPLAINT. DO THAT FIRST BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE! <BR/><BR/>IF YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE MAKING A REPORT AND WOULD LIKE SOMEONE TO GO WITH YOU; IT CAN BE ARRANGED. <BR/><BR/>REMEMBER TO FILE A POLICE REPORT FIRST AND FOREMOST. DON'T GO TO THE SCHOOL OR RABBI'S ETC. DO NOT TRUST THEM!<BR/><BR/>IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED ASSISTANCE REPORTING THE ABUSE TO THE POLICE - THEN PLEASE CONTACT ME AND WE WILL HELP.<BR/><BR/>MATZIL_NEFOSHOS@YAHOO.COM<BR/>=================================<BR/><BR/>http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=5159<BR/><BR/>News (march 27, 2008)<BR/>Rabbis urge victims to speak out<BR/><BR/>ASHLEY BROWNE<BR/><BR/>REPORTS of alleged sexual abuse by the former principal of the Adass Israel girls school have sparked Melbourne’s Orthodox rabbis into action amid reports that another high-profile figure within the community has been engaging in inappropriate behaviour.<BR/><BR/>The Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) has shored up its processes and is seeking to reassure the community that victims of abuse can come forward and seek assistance from qualified legal, psychological and rabbinical authorities in a confidential manner.<BR/><BR/>The high-profile figure in question is not affiliated with the Adass school or congregation, nor a member of the RCV, but the person’s identity and details of alleged inappropriate behaviour have been the subject of widespread speculation throughout Melbourne’s Orthodox community for the past few weeks.<BR/><BR/>It is believed the latest allegations involve both inappropriate physical contact, as well as improper financial transactions.<BR/><BR/>In a statement to The AJN, the RCV said: “We have been aware for some time now that there have been concerns regarding alleged abuse by a trusted official in the Jewish community.<BR/><BR/>“During this period, the RCV has continued to encourage alleged victims to come forward and confidentially present their issues to the RCV, so that halachic and legal counsel may be provided.<BR/><BR/>“In light of recent occurrences, the RCV wishes to make it known that its good offices are available for the purpose of assisting victims and alleged victims of abuse by trusted officials in our community.<BR/><BR/>“A small, but highly-qualified group of professionals has been engaged by the RCV to assist with legal and psychological counselling as required.”<BR/><BR/>It is believed that until late last week, there was division within the RCV as to how to deal with the community identity in question, and it was felt that this was deterring some of the alleged victims from coming forward and seeking assistance.<BR/><BR/>But this issue was resolved after a series of meetings over the weekend, so that a completely confidential environment can be created for those who wish to seek comfort.<BR/><BR/>“It needs to be made clear that if alleged victims do come forward, there will be no cover-ups and no sweeping of any issues under the carpet,” said RCV president Rabbi Meir Kluwgant.<BR/><BR/>“We’re equipped to offer whatever sort of assistance is required.”<BR/><BR/>The AJN understands that two high-profile community identities, who have previously held leadership positions within the general Jewish community, have agreed to work with the RCV and talk to individuals who may come forward seeking assistance.<BR/><BR/>All approaches on this matter should be made directly to the RCV on (03) 8517 5684 during business hours. All discussions will be treated in the strictest confidence and will be directed with the permission of the complainant to the appropriate venue.exposemolestershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300261898413798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-64579951487707863612008-03-27T16:23:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:23:00.000-07:00http://www.forward.com/articles/13037/U.N. Taps Am...http://www.forward.com/articles/13037/<BR/><BR/>U.N. Taps American Jewish Critic of Israel as Rights Expert<BR/><BR/>By Marc Perelman<BR/>Thu. Mar 27, 2008<BR/><BR/>As if relations between Israel and the United Nations had not deteriorated enough, a new cause for strain arose this week when a prominent American Jewish law professor, who accuses Israel of genocidal policies in the Palestinian territories, was named by the world body’s top human rights entity to monitor the situation in the Palestinian territories.<BR/><BR/>Richard Falk, an emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University, was appointed on March 26 by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council to become the next special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories. He will replace South Africa’s John Dugard, a staunch critic of Israel whose six-year term is about to end. On the same day, the council elected another departing special rapporteur — and nemesis of the Israeli government — Switzerland’s Jean Ziegler, to an advisory position.<BR/><BR/>Pro-Israel advocates have for years criticized the human rights apparatus of the U.N. for its perceived anti-Israel bias, and the latest nominations are likely to fuel their disenchantment with the U.N.’s recent vows to become more even-handed. That effort appeared to take a step forward with the creation in 2006 of the Human Rights Council to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission, but the new appointments are seen as a step in the other direction.<BR/><BR/>“Unfortunately it seems that right now, the council is not missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity,” said Sybil Kessler, director of U.N. affairs for B’nai B’rith International. “Change on the margins feels ever more challenging when member states select and promote experts with obviously biased views toward Israel…. The struggle for change has just gotten that much harder, I am sad to say.”<BR/><BR/>Falk’s appointment was reached by a consensus of the Human Rights Council’s 47 members, despite efforts by Jewish groups to have Canada and the European Union publicly oppose his nomination. The E.U. remained silent, and Canada did not block the consensus, choosing instead to issue a statement dissociating itself from the choice. The United States, which is not a member of the council, also took the floor to criticize Falk’s published writings.<BR/><BR/>The terms of Falk’s position, which was created in 1993, are to investigate “Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law” while excluding Palestinian actions. No such mandate exists to examine Palestinian violations.<BR/><BR/>Falk, who is also a visiting professor at the University of California, has an extensive written record on the Israel-Palestinian issue, most of it critical of Jerusalem’s policies over the past 40 years. A recent article that has particularly irked his pro-Israeli critics is titled “Slouching Towards a Palestinian Holocaust.”<BR/><BR/>In it, Falk writes that “it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust.’”<BR/><BR/>After describing the Nazi horrors, he asked: “Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty.”<BR/><BR/>The Human Rights Council overwhelmingly elected Ziegler, a Swiss socialist and university professor, to its 18-member advisory committee. He garnered 40 out of 47 votes. As the U.N. expert on the right to food for the past seven years, Ziegler was a fierce critic of Israel and the United States, prompting several Jewish groups to call for his resignation.exposemolestershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02097300261898413798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-11966774213026298752008-03-27T16:19:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:19:00.000-07:00Don't you dare blame me for this!-----------------...Don't you dare blame me for this!<BR/>-----------------------<BR/><BR/>Police uncover 'Taliban' sect in Israel<BR/><BR/>Published: 03/27/2008<BR/><BR/>A child-abuse scandal has brought an extremist, fervently Orthodox women's sect to light in Israel.<BR/><BR/>Police announced this week the arrest of a woman in her 50s from Beit Shemesh on charges of assaulting and neglecting her 12 children, some of whom are believed to have committed incest.<BR/><BR/>It soon emerged that the suspect is a leader of a religious community with bases in Beit Shemesh and other Israeli towns that believes Jewish women should be entirely covered from view and refrain from speaking to men.<BR/><BR/>Video footage of the suspect's remand hearing showed her hooded and swaddled in many layers of dark clothing, no skin visible, and apparently in need of physical guidance to see which way to walk.<BR/><BR/>Established Orthodox communities, including the fervently Orthodox Chasidim and haredim, have dubbed the sect "the Taliban" and described it a Jewish aberration. Some believe its members were secular women who in embracing religion took it to an unusual extreme.<BR/><BR/>The suspect has denied the charges against her, but her self-imposed strictures on communication have slowed the legal proceedings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-33662720231178482942008-03-27T16:15:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:15:00.000-07:00I told you so. You can't gossip about Koklo and Ma...I told you so. You can't gossip about Koklo and Margulies; it's a terrible crime.<BR/>-------------------------------<BR/><BR/>The campaign at the Jewish high schools has incorporated “shmirat halashon,” the Hebrew expression that translates to “guarding speech,” in a faith-based approach to fighting gossip.<BR/><BR/>According to the Torah, God forbids the sin of gossip, which is known as “lashon hara,” or “evil speech.” In the Talmud, some rabbis viewed the sin of gossip to be as grievous as murder.<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/nyregion/27gossip.html?ref=nyregionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-13892372826362839962008-03-27T16:11:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:11:00.000-07:00http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/1...http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125700<BR/><BR/>Rabbis Call on Gov't to Fulfil Promise to Bring Falash Mura Home<BR/>21 Adar Bet 5768, 28 March 08 <BR/>by Ezra HaLevi<BR/><BR/>(IsraelNN.com) A conference at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem Wednesday was dedicated to a call for bringing 8,000 members of the Falash Mura group from Ethiopia to Israel.<BR/><BR/>The Falash Mura are Ethiopian Christians of Jewish descent. Thousands are awaiting the chance to immigrate to Israel in the Gondar transit camp.<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Menachem Waldman, an expert on the Ethiopian community who heads the Shvut Am organization, told Arutz-7 that the Falash Mura are "Jews by any definition."<BR/><BR/>Responding to claims that the Falash Mura were simply regular Christians seeking a better life, Rabbi Waldman said, “I am embarrassed to even respond to such a foolish statement like that. They were checked mother after mother. There was a phenomenon of conversion to Christianity there, but now they have returned to Judaism and live as Jews."<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Waldman said that the Ethiopian religious leaders, known as Kessim, along with both Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar, have examined the subject and support bringing the Falash Mura to Israel.<BR/><BR/>The rabbi also dismisses claims that the 8,000 waiting in Gondar will soon transform into hundreds of thousands or even millions. “We are talking about a very specific group who was promised they would be brought by the Sharon government in 2003. On the basis of this promise they left their villages and camped in Gondar. At this time we are asking that this promise be fulfilled.”<BR/><BR/>Some Kessim Opposed in 2006<BR/>There are Ethiopian Jews who do not agree with Rabbi Waldman, however. A group of Ethiopian kessim and rabbis told a conference in Rehovot in 2006 that many of the Falash Mura conduct Christian missionary activity within the Ethiopian immigrant community. Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews attended the “Ending Missionary Activity in the Community” conference, claiming the Falash Mura have no desire to return to the Judaism of their ancestors.<BR/><BR/>“We came [to Israel] to be Jews,” said the community leaders. “We weren’t different from the Christians in skin color – we were different from them only because of our Judaism. The missionary activities have crossed red lines and could set the community aflame and cause bloodshed,” they warned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-7955220986755800012008-03-27T16:08:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:08:00.000-07:00The Rabbi of hate25/03/2008 Rabbi Yosef told his ...The Rabbi of hate<BR/>25/03/2008 <BR/> <BR/>Rabbi Yosef told his followers that Israeli soldiers need to be blessed by the Almighty for killing Palestinians.<BR/><BR/>By Khalid Amayreh<BR/><BR/>“So I believe that I act in the spirit of the Almighty God. By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924<BR/><BR/>“A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail” - Dov Lior, Rabbi of Kiryat Arba<BR/><BR/>“We will carry out a greater holocaust against the Palestinians,” - Matan Vilnai, Deputy Defense Minister, 1 March, 2006<BR/><BR/>Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, which represents Jews from the Middle East, has urged Jews around the world to pray for Israeli soldiers, not only on the Jewish Sabbath, Saturday, but also on Mondays and Thursdays.<BR/><BR/>According to the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, Yosef told his followers that Israeli soldiers need to be blessed by the Almighty for killing and maiming hundreds of Palestinians, mostly innocent civilians, in the past few days.<BR/><BR/>“Had it not been for them, would we have time to study the Torah? To turn the books,” Yosef was quoted as saying Saturday night during his weekly sermon in Jerusalem.<BR/><BR/>It is really lamentable that Yosef thinks that it is only through murder and genocide of Palestinians that Jews can sit down and study the Torah.<BR/><BR/>Jews, after all, have been studying the Torah for many centuries without “Jewish soldiers” engaging themselves in mass murder, mass terror and mass oppression. Does the rabbi think that linking Torah studies to mass murder in Gaza brings honor to the Torah and to Judaism?<BR/><BR/>Yosef, who on several occasions called Palestinians “rats,” is considered by many in Israel as one of the greatest living sages of the Torah. However, his enthusiastic support for ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinians caricatures a sinister man who quotes ancient texts to justify every conceivable crime against humanity and every abomination against God and man.<BR/><BR/>Yosef is not unaware of the Nazi-like atrocities the soldiers he is blessing have committed and are committing in Gaza.<BR/><BR/>He knows too well that an army that murders innocent civilians, including babies in their mothers’ laps, is not an army of righteous soldiers, but rather an army of thugs and criminals, not unlike the Gestapo and SS and wehrmacht.<BR/><BR/>I understand that some Zionist rabbis tend to believe in the horrible idea that in war time, there is no such a thing as “innocent civilians of the enemy.” In other words, “All’s fair in love and war.”<BR/><BR/>But this is a stunningly immoral concept that degrades man to cannibalistic savagery. Because then every mass murderer from Adolph Hitler, to Joseph Stalin, to Ariel Sharon, to Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak could justify the mass murder of civilians on the ground that in wartime, no holds are barred. Indeed, this would be the most comfortable justification for all the holocausts, genocides, pogroms and inquisitions in the world since Adam and Eve.<BR/><BR/>Well, I really wonder how these rabbis of evil, people such Yosef, Dov Lior, David Batsri, and many many others, would react if a Nazi apologist argued that the mass killings of Jews during the holocaust was a perfectly justified and legitimate act “since we viewed European Jewry as our number-1 enemy, and we were at war, and in wartime there is no such a thing as innocent civilians of the enemy.”<BR/><BR/>Now, what is the difference between a rabbi praying for and blessing an army that has just murdered and maimed hundreds of innocent people in Gaza, and a German Nazi priest praying for and blessed Nazi killers who had just carried out one of those pacification raids in central or Eastern Europe?<BR/><BR/>Does the rabbi think that a holocaust by Jews is kosher? Does he think that non-Jewish children and women and men are un-human, or lesser humans? What kind of Torah is he studying? Does he think that the Torah prohibition against murder covers only “Jews”?<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Yosef is more than just an unenlightened old man; he is actually an evil man. He is evil because in the name of the Torah and in the name of Judaism, he tries to make evil look good, ugliness look fair and cardinal sins against God and man look as great acts of charity.<BR/><BR/>It is really hypocritical that while many Zionists don’t stop denouncing Catholic religious leaders for supporting the Third Reich and for keeping silent in the face of the Holocaust, rabbis, even prominent rabbis, such as Yosef, are more or less indulging in the same evil behavior they are denouncing.<BR/><BR/>Yosef may be a learned man in matter of Jewish theology. But he seems to be a dwarf in understanding the moral messages of the Torah. Because if he were truly faithful to the true spirit of Judaism, he should realize that murdering innocent people-non-Jews as well as Jews- is the greatest crime under the sun.<BR/><BR/>Doesn’t he read “Thou Shall not murder”? Doesn’t he read “thou shall not oppress?” Is this his way of making “Tikkun Ha’olam,” or fixing the world, by blessing and encouraging child killers and mass murderers?<BR/><BR/>It is sad how men of religion who think they are hallowing the name of God are actually doing Satan’s work.<BR/><BR/>And we wonder why the world is in such a mess!<BR/><BR/>-- Khalid Amayreh resides in the West BankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-70824506125704748032008-03-27T16:02:00.000-07:002008-03-27T16:02:00.000-07:002008-03-28Appropriate response to killings rests i...2008-03-28<BR/><BR/>Appropriate response to killings rests in Torah<BR/><BR/>By Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg<BR/><BR/>The pain felt by the family and near environment of any murder victim is deep and traumatic. The murder of adolescents in an educational institution is horrifying. But a murder that takes place within the walls of the house of study, the yeshiva, amplifies and extends the grief and suffering beyond the families that lost their dear ones and beyond the victims' close surroundings.<BR/><BR/>We immediately associate this slaughter with the picture that has become fixed in our minds as Jews schooled in millennia of persecution: The bloodthirsty non-Jews kill us as we stand in prayer in the synagogue and as we sit learning Gemara in the house of study.<BR/><BR/>In this old-new picture it is quite clear what symbolizes each side: We are symbolized by prayer and study; they are symbolized by the sword, the gun and acts of violence. We sit in the tents of Shem and learn Torah, motivated by a moral drive, self-criticism and a desire to repair the world. They engage in "Esau's labor," raining down the blood and fire of destruction on themselves and on us.<BR/><BR/>But as we delve deeper into our minds to agonize over this painfully sharp image of murder in the house of study, our field of view is blurred by other pictures that interfere with the age-old world order. A gang of Jewish fascists goes on a rampage in the neighborhood of the murderous terrorist; several hours later, we are told, in the name of a leader of the ultra-Orthodox Torah world, that yeshivot are forbidden to employ Arabs.<BR/><BR/>At first sight, these two Jewish reactions are quite unrelated: The band of neo-Kahanists is light years removed from the Lithuanian world of Torah study; the person who informed the media of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's opinion had no inkling that the riot and the ruling would be connected in the press and later in the public mind.<BR/><BR/>The general public -- both the sector that condemns these responses and the sector that sympathizes with them -- perceives them as "religious Judaism's reaction to the murder." How do "religious Jews" react to the murder at the yeshiva? They take the law into their own hands and run amok in the neighborhood where the murderer lived or cast collective guilt on all Arabs and call for dismissing them from their jobs and depriving them of their livelihood.<BR/><BR/>But we could also witness an appropriate Jewish response of another type, which rests on loyalty to the views of the Torah and halacha, as recorded in the pages of the very books whose pages were perforated by the murderer's bullets.<BR/><BR/>We might hear that those of us who sit and learn in the house of study adhere steadfastly to a moral position that begins by isolating violent murderers from all other human beings. We might hear that we clearly distinguish between the absolute majority of the Arab citizens of Israel and the violent murderers among them.<BR/><BR/>As Jews, we have a different language, which is not the language of force; a different language that is not based on violence.<BR/><BR/>Halacha defines the right of minorities to live among us in peace and security, to determine their place of residence according to their needs and free choice, without posing a security threat to us and without our discriminating against them or harming them by deed or humiliating word.<BR/><BR/>As with the modern return to Zion, it was also clear at the first return from Egypt that the future Jewish kingdom would include a non-Jewish minority. Halacha states a fundamental principle about the residence of a non-Jew in the Land of Israel:<BR/><BR/>"One does not let him settle on the frontier or in an unhealthy place but only in an attractive place in the middle of the Land of Israel, where his crafts are marketable, as we read, 'He shall live with you in any place he may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you must not ill treat him'" (Deut. 23:17) (Tractate Gerim 3:4; also Sifre Tetze).<BR/><BR/>Halacha established dependence between the right of residence and the right of livelihood and insisted on the right of minorities to move up to a better neighborhood if they wished to do so. Developing from this statement of principle, the issue of the status of the non-Jewish minority in a Jewish state emerged as a broad and ramified halachic topic, with implications for security, employment, workers' rights, residential rights, welfare, commerce, agriculture and industry as well as for cultural ties and neighborly relations between Jews and non-Jews.<BR/><BR/>The Torah lays down the precept that we must provide for the basic livelihood and welfare of both Jews and non-Jews who live in the Land of Israel and strenuously insists that we not infringe the status and rights of the minority. All social rights, the laws against fraud and withholding wages, apply to both Jews and non-Jews.<BR/><BR/>Many halachic texts indicate that the Torah sees itself as the guardian of the minority and is careful to emphasize and define its rights in detail, because in the absence of a halachic fence to defend the minority, the majority is apt to discriminate against it.<BR/><BR/>According to the commentators, there are several reasons for this halachic stance:<BR/><BR/> * The acid test for the ethical nature of a Jewish majority society is how it treats minorities, or in contemporary terms, if we want the State of Israel to be a Jewish nation state we must meticulously respect the status and rights of the non-Jewish minority among us.<BR/><BR/> * As Jews, we have long experience of life as a minority and must display understanding of the pain of the minority. In the words of Sefer Hahinnukh (by Maimonides' disciple): "He reminded us that we have already been burned by that great pain, which is suffered by every human being who sees himself in the midst of strangers ... and we remember the great anxiety attached to this."<BR/><BR/>The widespread public expectation that religious or ultra-Orthodox Jews will conduct themselves in keeping with Jewish standards, that they will evince loyalty to the moral principles anchored in the precepts of the Torah, is manifested after every act of violence, corruption or immorality in which religious people are involved.<BR/><BR/>By the same token, what the two Jewish reactions mentioned above have in common is that they do not see the Torah as the source of obligatory moral behavior, whether toward ourselves or toward others.<BR/><BR/>They do not believe that we have a duty to present a clear alternative to the terrorists and murderers, an obligation to tell them: "You murdered innocent people who were learning Torah; you desecrated a holy place. But you will not deprive us of our values and essence.<BR/><BR/>"You may cry, 'Death to the Jews' and go out and murder. We will not respond with, 'Death to the Arabs' but with, 'He shall live with you' and with, 'You must not ill-treat him.'<BR/><BR/>You want to get us to assign collective guilt, to persecute and discriminate against all the Arab citizens on your account. But we, who have been victims of such an indictment, will endeavor, even at the height of the war you are waging against us, to improve the lot of the Arabs who live with and among us in peace."<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the rabbi of Har Adar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-20084488519700904582008-03-27T15:57:00.000-07:002008-03-27T15:57:00.000-07:00http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3524163,...http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3524163,00.html<BR/><BR/>On Wednesday morning two pashkevils ran the views of two of the most prominent rabbis belonging to the Lithuanian non-Hasidic ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. The first was a renewed publishing of a poster from 1991, the year in which Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach determined that the pronouncing one dead on the basis of brain death was tantamount to murder.<BR/> <BR/><BR/>The second poster was published solely in Elyashiv's name, and said: "As I have already stated, as long as the heart (of the prospective organ donor) is still pumping blood, even in the case of 'brain death,' it is not permitted to remove any organ from the patient.'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-65566209692513932962008-03-26T20:42:00.000-07:002008-03-26T20:42:00.000-07:00Elementary School Administrator Indicted on Sex Ab...Elementary School Administrator Indicted on Sex Abuse Charges<BR/>Last Edited: Wednesday, 26 Mar 2008, 10:41 PM EDT<BR/>Created: Wednesday, 26 Mar 2008, 4:14 PM EDT<BR/>Prosecutors say 39-year-old Shadrick Woods sexually abused a 6-year-old boy at Gaywood Elementary School in Seabrook, where Woods is the vice principal.<BR/><BR/>UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- A vice principal at a Prince George's County elementary school has been indicted on child sex abuse charges.<BR/><BR/>Thirty-nine-year-old Shadrick Woods, of Lanham, is charged with two counts of child sex abuse and two counts of third degree sexual offense.<BR/><BR/>Prosecutors say Woods sexually abused a 6-year-old boy at Gaywood Elementary School in Seabrook, where Woods is the vice principal. The incidents allegedly occurred between December 2007 and March 10.<BR/><BR/>Woods turned himself in to Prince George's County police Wednesday morning and is being held on a $50,000 bondAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-87264847431564214932008-03-26T20:36:00.000-07:002008-03-26T20:36:00.000-07:00http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/03/26/...http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/03/26/5104336-sun.html<BR/><BR/>Former teacher knew about sex abuse probe<BR/>By JOE BELANGER, SUN MEDIA<BR/><BR/>A retired London teacher -- whose body was pulled from the Thames River on March 15 -- was told by police shortly before he disappeared that he was being investigated for sexually abusing boys about 35 years ago, The Free Press has learned.<BR/><BR/>Bill Yates, 61, who was buried on Saturday, was interviewed by police a day or two before he went missing from his Hamilton Road home on Jan. 8.<BR/><BR/>Police Chief Murray Faulkner declined comment about specific allegations, but said: "We had an investigation underway of a criminal allegation, but it was not completed by the time he went missing."<BR/><BR/>But a 50-year-old former London man says Yates was one of two men he identified to police as his abusers in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<BR/><BR/>"This guy wasn't a nice guy and the world needs to know about that," said the father of two, who lives in the Toronto area.<BR/><BR/>"Everybody thinks this guy was such a nice guy. He ruined my life."<BR/><BR/>Friends and colleagues of Yates, who've organized the collection of donations to a memorial fund through the Thames Valley Foundation, were stunned.<BR/><BR/>"I never saw any evidence of that, ever," said Wendy Travnicek, who Yates taught when she was a Grade 7 pupil at Woodland Heights school.<BR/><BR/>"It's very difficult when this is an historic accusation and there's no way (Yates) can ever answer for it."<BR/><BR/>Travnicek's husband Bruce, a teacher, was mentored by Yates for three years.<BR/><BR/>"In my observations he was a remarkable man who did everything he could to be the best teacher he could be," Bruce Travnicek said.<BR/><BR/>"I cannot believe he would ever do anything to hurt a child."<BR/><BR/>But Yates's accuser remained adamant. At times yelling and swearing, and other times weeping uncontrollably, the man said he knows other boys were abused by Yates. He urged them to come forward.<BR/><BR/>"I'll go to my grave with this," said the man, who asked not to be identified.<BR/><BR/>"For me, it's about telling the truth and being held accountable for your actions. Children have a right to be protected."<BR/><BR/>According to the man, Yates and another man used to lure boys to the house where they lived near the corner of Waterloo and St. James streets, by giving them rides on their motorcycles or horsing around with them.<BR/><BR/>The man said he was in Grade 5 when he first encountered Yates and the other man. The abuse continued until he entered Grade 9.<BR/><BR/>He remembers riding on the back of a motorcycle to the school where Yates taught (Woodland Heights) to set up a science fair.<BR/><BR/>The man said he became infuriated reading media reports of Yates's friends, former colleagues and students describing him as a dedicated teacher who would spend hours looking for a special book for a troubled student, or even provide food.<BR/><BR/>"Just because he did all these special things for (his students), doesn't mean he's a good person," he said.<BR/><BR/>"If it wasn't for sex, then he was just over-compensating for what he did before."<BR/><BR/>But when Yates went missing after the police interview, the man became frightened.<BR/><BR/>"I was scared," the man said.<BR/><BR/>"That little boy in me was still scared of these monsters. He went missing and I thought the guy was coming after me."<BR/><BR/>On Monday, Robert Hall, 69, of Aylmer was charged with one count of gross indecency. He was previously charged with two counts of indecent assault on a male and two counts of gross indecency.<BR/><BR/>Police said the charge relates to the suspect's alleged involvement with school-age boys befriended in the area of St. James and Waterloo streets in the late 1960s and early 1970s as they walked to school.<BR/><BR/>Anyone with information is asked to contact London police at 519-661-5670.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-58446902911076434472008-03-26T20:25:00.000-07:002008-03-26T20:25:00.000-07:00I think this bill was drafted after Margulis took ...I think this bill was drafted after Margulis took my side.<BR/>---------------------<BR/><BR/>The bill by Sen. Jack Scott, D-Pasadena, passed the Senate Education Committee 6-0. The committee delayed action on another bill that would close certain loopholes in California's teacher licensing system, including one that allows some teachers to remain in the classroom after they have been accused of serious crimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-84721429920937877032008-03-26T20:14:00.000-07:002008-03-26T20:14:00.000-07:00http://bp3.blogger.com/_DCGOA_RlajQ/R-qXKuX5cWI/AA...http://bp3.blogger.com/_DCGOA_RlajQ/R-qXKuX5cWI/AAAAAAAABd0/kBBc5l3Totw/s1600-h/scan0002.gifAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-14442214060560890652008-03-26T19:43:00.000-07:002008-03-26T19:43:00.000-07:00Israel has the military capabilities of waging war...Israel has the military capabilities of waging war and defeating its enemies. Iran can be made into a speck of billowing dust within minutes. Syria, Nasrallah of Hizbollah, Hamas, Fatah, Jihad,and other Islamic terrorists all share in the same purpose, and that is to destroy Israel the State. You don't negotiate with evil, you defeat it! <BR/><BR/>The big problem is that the Israel Government is now run by a corrupt, cold blooded Prime Minister in Ehud Olmert. He botched up one Lebanon war and cost unnecessary loss of life. Every policy of this never ending love affair with appeasing bloodthirsty killers has failed miserably. Rockets and missiles fired at them on a daily basis. Subhuman; that's what they are. Mass murderers of men woman and children. <BR/><BR/>If Israel can get themselves a great leader, they can defeat, destroy, and obliterate Amalek.<BR/>Bye Bye Iran-<BR/>Bye Bye Palestinians-<BR/>Bye Bye Syria-<BR/>Bye Bye Hizbollah-<BR/>Bye Bye Hamas-<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Rosen said: "Those who slaughter students poring over their Torah, those who rain Qassams down indiscriminately on men, women, old and young, babes and sucklings - those who hail the destruction of Israel and dance on the blood, are Amalek in our generation," and therefore "only with hostility, and by conquering our humane emotions that are contrary to that, will we be victorious."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-66014966762178410542008-03-26T17:06:00.000-07:002008-03-26T17:06:00.000-07:00The Shmated has an ad this week on page 51 in whic...The Shmated has an ad this week on page 51 in which they are recruiting talmidim for Mesifta of Eatontown NJ.<BR/><BR/>WARNING: DO NOT take a risk by sending your boy there. The yeshiva's Rabbinical board include<BR/><BR/>Novminsker "don't want to get involved in saving lives"<BR/><BR/>Shmuel Kamenetsky "send a sex offender to molest in another city"<BR/><BR/>Avrohm "Ban" Schor AKA cult leaderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-59051163986213250822008-03-26T16:56:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:56:00.000-07:00http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=2...http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=29760<BR/><BR/>Between The Lines Newspaper<BR/>From issue number 1613<BR/>Return to PrideSource<BR/>Domestic abuse: Everyone pays the price<BR/>By Donald V. Calamia<BR/>Originally printed 03/27/2008<BR/><BR/>One by one 11 women spanning three generations quietly enter the theater. When each reaches the stage, she takes a seat and looks out at the audience with no hint of emotion. There is nothing to distinguish them from the dozens of women staring back at them from the audience.<BR/><BR/>But as a rabbi's voice is heard describing the rules that women under Orthodox Jewish law must follow, the 11 stand up and silently, respectfully shed their modern-day garments and assume the modest coverings of a strict Haredi community. And once the transformation is complete, the audience is transported to Jerusalem and the home of Yankele Sheinhoff, a much-respected rabbi and scholar, where a heated argument is heard offstage. His longtime wife Chana then emerges with a bloody nose, and frantically storms out of the house.<BR/><BR/>Two years later she returns, armed with a police escort and a rabbinical court order that grants her permission to visit the 12 children she abandoned.<BR/><BR/>The document proves worthless, however; most of the children have been removed from the apartment. So the besieged mother pleads her case to the female relatives and friends she finds waiting for her in the apartment. "You judge me," she both begs and commands, and with the arrival of a tenth woman - her supposed lover - a "women's court" is formed to do just that.<BR/><BR/>But the deck has been stacked against her.<BR/><BR/>In her powerful and often emotional drama "Women's Minyan," now playing at the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, novelist and playwright Naomi Ragen explores the strict rules that govern the lives of Orthodox Jewish women. But more importantly, she sheds light on the subject of domestic abuse in a close-knit, religious community that prefers to keep its dirty laundry hidden.<BR/><BR/>Ragen's script is at its best when it details the many layers of subterfuge embarked upon by both the rabbis and the family to demonize Chana and erase her from their midst. And while there's little time to fully develop each of her many characters, most are given brief moments that allow the audience into their hearts and souls.<BR/><BR/>But the script falls somewhat short in two areas.<BR/><BR/>Positive images of men are rare, and marriage is depicted mostly as an unhappy state.<BR/><BR/>One must also question the play's second act climactic shift: The women only acquiesce after they learn of Yankele's complete history of abuse and infidelity; weren't Chana's own tragic experiences enough to convince the minyan?<BR/><BR/>Excellent performances by director Shauna Kanter's superb cast ARE convincing, however.<BR/><BR/>Although too young and svelte to be a mother of 12, Inga Wilson immediately erases the discrepancy with an honest and heart-wrenching portrayal of a determined woman who will do whatever is necessary to regain access to her children.<BR/><BR/>Especially fine support is offered by Henrietta Hermelin as Chana's mother and Yolanda Fleischer as mother-in-law Goldie.<BR/><BR/>Moving such a large cast about the JET stage couldn't have been easy for director Kanter, and for the most part, she succeeds. But certain traffic patterns seemed unexpectedly congested on opening night, and a few scenes in which an actor downstage totally blocked from view another delivering lines upstage were somewhat irritating.<BR/><BR/>(FOR "REVIEW BOX")<BR/><BR/>REVIEW:<BR/><BR/>'Women's Minyan'<BR/><BR/>Jewish Ensemble Theatre Company at the DeRoy Theatre on the campus of the Jewish Community Center, 6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield. Wed., Thu., Sat. & Sun., through April 13. Tickets: $29-$39. For information: 248-788-2900 or www.jettheatre.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-194060438113533712008-03-26T16:51:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:51:00.000-07:00Now that Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum has dropped dead I d...Now that Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum has dropped dead I don't have to worry about him running his mouth about my involvement in the kolko cover-up. The only bad part is we lost someone who was against bloggers - because all they do is talk looshin hora.<BR/>--------------------------------<BR/><BR/>The Orthodox Jewish world mourns the loss of four prominent figures who passed away in recent days, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, Mr. Bentzion Dunner, Rabbi Moshe Fuller, and Rabbi Yitzchok Chinn, each of whom left a lasting contribution to the Jewish community at large.<BR/>Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, director of Torah Communications Network and Camp S’dei Chemed International, brought the letter and spirit of Torah to hundreds of thousands of Jews during his lifetime, which was cut short at age 67 on Sunday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-40082901198880401972008-03-26T16:45:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:45:00.000-07:0026/03/2008An Amalek in our times?By Nadav ShragaiP...26/03/2008<BR/>An Amalek in our times?<BR/>By Nadav Shragai<BR/><BR/>Purim 5768, just two weeks after the terrorist attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, transforms the annual, almost traditional, discussion over the image of Amalek and his offspring, Haman, into one that is more alert and pointed than ever.<BR/><BR/>The embodiment of the eternal evil, the one that attacked the weakness of the children of Israel as they left Egypt and which, according to a Torah commandment, must ostensibly be obliterated from the face of the earth (Deuteronomy 25:17-19), is each year associated by many in the religious public with Israel's enemies in contemporary times. The attack at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva intensified this association. Numerous sermons, articles and classes are being devoted this year to the relevance or lack thereof of the obliteration of the memory of Amalek in practical terms in our day and age.<BR/><BR/>The first to draw publicly the analogy between modern times and bygone days was Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, at the funeral of the murder victims. Then there was the resounding article published by the head of the Tzomet Institute, Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, who clarified, "Amalek as a concept and as the object of our battle and our hostility exists in each and every generation," and that "this does not refer to the ethnic Amalek, but to all those in whom there burns a deep and abiding hatred of Israel on a national or religious basis." The Holy One, Blessed Be He Himself, noted the rabbi, "with his own hands" confirmed the eternity of Amalek's hatred and the commandment to wage war against Amalek: "'Because the Lord has sworn by His throne.'" The hand of the Holy One, Blessed Be He, was raised in an oath on his throne that he will battle and be hostile to Amalek all over the world. We cannot, according to the rabbi, "flee from this Divine commandment even if we hide under the wings of 'the family of nations' and even if the commandment is difficult for us to bear and we have been discouraged."<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Rosen said: "Those who slaughter students poring over their Torah, those who rain Qassams down indiscriminately on men, women, old and young, babes and sucklings - those who hail the destruction of Israel and dance on the blood, are Amalek in our generation," and therefore "only with hostility, and by conquering our humane emotions that are contrary to that, will we be victorious."<BR/><BR/>The rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, also "has no moral problem with quashing the wicked - destroying Amalek from beginning to end," and Rabbi Dov Lior of Kiryat Arba also makes it clear that "whoever wants to overpower and destroy the Jewish people, the law of Amalek applies to him, with all that that entails."<BR/><BR/>'Abhor any bloodshed'<BR/><BR/>However, not everyone has an easy time with the practical application of the halakhic rules that apply when Amalek in our day and age is seemingly identified. One of them is the head of the hesder yeshiva in Holon, Rabbi Elazar Aharonson. Aharonson is perhaps not deterred by labeling as "Amalek" the terror that afflicts us in Sderot and in Mercaz Harav, but at the same time, he thanks God for the fact that today it is no longer possible to identify Amalek and says of himself that he is very uncomfortable with the prophet Samuel's command to King Saul: "Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not; and but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" (I Samuel 15:3).<BR/><BR/>"Are we even capable of that?" asks Rabbi Aharonson. "Are we capable of going and slaughtering and killing infants and children, men and women and old people? It's hard for me to imagine ourselves in such a situation and it is absolutely clear to me that this must be how we all should feel, it is a normal and natural feeling to abhor any bloodshed and to view extremely negatively any mass murder." In practice, Aharonson explains, we don't look for Amalekites in order to kill them, because the Oral Torah exempts from doing so, just as we don't marry our daughters off when they are young, because the Oral Torah forbids us to do so, even though the Written Torah permits it.<BR/><BR/>Over the weekend, Rabbi Daniel Shilo, a former head of the Yesha Council of settlements rabbis, clearly said some things in this same spirit: "As far as halakha is concerned, Amalek does not exist. No member of the ancient peoples can be identified today. There is no Amalek that exists today whose memory must be erased, and even in the ancient period, the obligation to erase Amalek does not apply to an Amalek that came to terms with Israel and accepted on itself the laws of the sons of Noah."<BR/><BR/>Shilo stresses that even in the original Purim "the reins were not released. The Jews fought only their tormentors, their enemies and those who hate them, the 'armies and country that oppress them,' and not innocent people and not as an individual act, but 'they gathered' a community that takes responsibility and has no isolated individuals who break through fences."<BR/><BR/>Shilo, like many of his colleagues who dealt with this subject after the attack at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, also wants revenge. Not the revenge of an individual, but rather "the revenge of a people, nation and army." Not revenge against random unfortunates and passersby, but official revenge against those who spur the killings, those who dispatch the murderers and those who encourage them, a "revenge of the mighty and not of the weak-minded."<BR/><BR/>The main thing, as far as Shilo is concerned, is the memory, and the understanding that even in our generation there may be a battle against an enemy with no conditions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-62483535268771968892008-03-26T16:41:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:41:00.000-07:00Saudi King Calls for Interfaith DialogueBy DONNA A...Saudi King Calls for Interfaith Dialogue<BR/><BR/>By DONNA ABU-NASR and ABDULLAH SHIHRI – 1 day ago<BR/><BR/>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi king has made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews — the first such proposal from a nation with no diplomatic ties to Israel and a ban on non-Muslim religious services and symbols.<BR/><BR/>The message from King Abdullah, which was welcomed by Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders, comes at a time of stalled peace initiatives and escalating tensions in the region.<BR/><BR/>Muslims have been angered by cartoons published in European papers seen as insulting the Prophet Muhammad and by the pope's baptizing on Easter of a Muslim journalist who had converted to Catholicism.<BR/><BR/>http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i74PhEcSf68r29q0MlS3rTiqddGQD8VKMR0O0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-45590730498282739922008-03-26T16:38:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:38:00.000-07:00Safed's chief rabbi: State should have hanged 10 s...Safed's chief rabbi: State should have hanged 10 sons of terrorist<BR/>Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 26, 2008<BR/><BR/>Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu called on the state to use brute force as a deterrent to future terror attacks, following the shooting at the capital's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva three weeks ago that killed eight students.<BR/><BR/>"A state that really respects the lives of its citizens would have hanged the 10 sons of the terrorist on a tree 50 amot [25 meters] tall, so that others would see it and be afraid," wrote Eliahu, referring figuratively to the Book of Esther's depiction of how the Jews of ancient Persia took revenge against Haman and his 10 sons.<BR/><BR/>Eliahu's comments will appear this weekend in a Hebrew-language pamphlet called "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu" [The Land of Israel Belongs to Us] that is distributed in thousands of synagogues across the nation.<BR/><BR/>"I am not talking about individuals," stipulated Eliahu. "I am talking about the State of Israel, which needs to make them hurt until they scream, 'Enough!' - until they lie sprawled on the ground groveling, 'Help us!'...<BR/><BR/>"We have to exact a revenge that is so painful, it will burn into their souls the message of all our enemies that Jewish blood is more valuable than gold and platinum."<BR/><BR/>Eliahu stressed that the aim of the revenge was solely to achieve deterrence. He added that the Torah's prohibitions against revenge referred solely to individuals, not to states.<BR/><BR/>"On the national level, "revenge is necessary. Every state that is attacked takes revenge. The US, Russia, Turkey and India, all European states and even Third World countries take revenge. Does the entire world have it wrong and only the Israeli Left have it right? The Israeli Left is tired. It has lost its will to live. We have to remove those tired leftists from political leadership and send them to the old age home, and choose leaders who know true morality," Eliahu continued.<BR/><BR/>Rabbi Gilad Kariv, legal adviser for the Reform Movement in Israel, said, "Jewish history is full of zealots whose zealotry has brought tragedies upon the nation while bringing about the moral corruption of the Jewish people.<BR/><BR/>"Unlike deterrence, revenge should be shunned by Israel as a democratic country of law and order and as the state of the Jewish people. It is hoped that the Jewish people, enjoying a renaissance in its land, will have the sense to expel from its midst dangerous extremists like Rabbi Eliahu," he added.<BR/><BR/>"Rabbi Eliahu's recent comments prove once again that the attorney-general made a big mistake when he decided to rescind an indictment against him for incitement to racism in exchange for a dubious retraction," Kariv said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28305689.post-27252496400405047462008-03-25T21:13:00.000-07:002008-03-25T21:13:00.000-07:00German group to Google: Pull hate videosPublished:...German group to Google: Pull hate videos<BR/><BR/>Published: 03/25/2008<BR/><BR/>A German Jewish group has demanded that Google pull hate videos from its YouTube subsidiary.<BR/><BR/>The Central Council of Jews in Germany filed a temporary injunction March 20 against Google, the U.S.-based search engine, in Hamburg District Court.<BR/><BR/>The injunction "is lying on their desk and they asked for some patience," Council President Stephan Kramer said of the court.<BR/><BR/>A court spokesman told JTA that it would not comment until Google representatives had replied officially, which was delayed by the long Easter weekend.<BR/><BR/>Among the offending videos was one in which a photo of the late president of the Central Council, Paul Spiegel, was burned against a background of swastikas. Kramer in a telephone interview Tuesday with JTA suggested this makes Google a collaborator in spreading hate.<BR/><BR/>Kramer said Google could handle the problem by "hiring more people and setting them down and letting them look through the 'Net for key words. And meanwhile [Google] can fiddle on technological developments."<BR/><BR/>Google Germany spokesman Stefan Keuchel told reporters last week that the firm agrees that such material is an abuse of the public forum and has been seeking ways to block it. He said the public should report potentially illegal videos, which experts review and can remove.<BR/><BR/>Keuchel said scanning lags because of the high volume of newly posted material, but once the material is banned a special filter prevents it from being reloaded.<BR/><BR/>YouTube, a free service, went online with its German edition on Nov. 8, 2007, one year after Google purchased the site. Observers of the far-right scene quickly found videos on the site from banned music groups, including Landser, and films that incite rumors about supposed Jewish conspiraciesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com