admin | November 22, 2019
Jews often focus on the hatred that is spewed upon us from outside our community, but there is also an insipid hatred that percolates within our own Jewish community as I recently witnessed first-hand. On the weekend of Nov
admin | November 22, 2019
For many Jerusalemites, this historic visit will be mostly remembered as the visit that caused some of the most gigantic traffic jams in a city already blocked by road works most of the day. Zalman Teitelbaum, the grand rabbi of Satmar the large, wealthy and very anti-Zionist hassidic sect arrived to visit his followers in Israel, sending the Jewish states capital into a frenzy to organize, secure, facilitate and some might say honor the visitor. Officially, Safra Squares attitude is neutral this is a visit that will demand a lot of attention, Thousands of members of the hassidic sect from their original hometown in Williamsburg as well as the thousands who live here require special police and security units, and there is no way anybody in charge will take any risk.The major aim of the visit is to bring money were talking about dozens of millions of dollars to the members of the several hassidic sects who form the Eda Haredit, better known as Neturei Karta
admin | November 22, 2019
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been recognised for calling out the UN for bullying Israel and pledging to recognise West Jerusalem as the nations capital. Australias leading Zionist organisation honoured the Prime Minister with theJerusalem Prizeduring a ceremony on Thursday night, praising Scott Morrison's unfailing support. Mr Morrison used the event to reaffirm his "strong stand" over Israel's treatment at the United Nations
admin | November 22, 2019
They havent changed. They never will.
admin | November 22, 2019
Palestinian police officers loyal to Hamas march during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, April 29, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
admin | November 22, 2019
I recognized that look in their eyes. It was the same look I received several times throughout my service with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Judea and Samaria. A look that showed the trauma of years of anti-Semitic indoctrination.
admin | November 22, 2019
With great fanfare and amid a festive atmosphere, the grand rabbi of the Satmar hassidic dynasty, Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum, distributed some $5 million on Wednesday night to approximately 150 institutions in Israel that do not receive funding from the state due to their anti-Zionist ideology.The rabbi was lauded by hundreds of his Hassidim as he entered the celebration hall to the sounds of rapturous music. He made his way up to the central platform to sit at the center of the ranks of leading rabbis from the Satmar community.A special new melody was composed for the occasion and put to the words of a song sung by a boys choir as the rabbi entered the hall.The Yiddish words of the song were taken from those of Satmars founding grand rabbi, explaining that when the messiah comes, he will point to the children who studied in institutions that did not take money from the State of Israel and say, These children helped bring the messiah.Teitelbaum is in Israel on a 10-day visit to meet and be greeted by his Hassidim, tour parts of the country, and to visit the Satmar communities in Israel, principally Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh.And of course, to distribute money.Teitelbaum distributed checks made out in shekels during the ceremony on Wednesday night called the Pure Shekel to the heads of the institutions selected to receive funding, who came up to the platform one by one to receive the money from the grand rabbi.The money, The Jerusalem Post was told, is wired from New York to Israel, and the checks are then made out individually to the receiving institutions, which include schools, yeshivas and kollels (talmudic seminaries for married men).The Satmar rebbe gives funds both to institutions belonging to the Satmar community, as well as those connected to the radical Eda Haredit association of various types of ultra-Orthodox and hassidic communities that have a similar anti-Zionist, isolationist ideology to that of Satmar.Of late, money is also given to the Jerusalem Faction, a radical splinter group from the mainstream, non-hassidic Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community.SPEAKING TO the Post at the Pure Shekel event, Rabbi Moshe Friedman, a senior and highly trusted secretary to the visiting grand rabbi, said that the Satmar community believes that if you take money from the State of Israel then the community will inevitably be influenced by the state, and therefore Satmar declines any funding.So this is why we come to give support to the people here who are needy and dont take money from the state, he said.Asked whether the messiah can come as long as the State of Israel exists, Friedman said no, and that the Zionist state must end in some way before the messiah can come.We hope of course that it should not come about through war or suffering this is, of course, not something we want, he said.
admin | November 22, 2019
Two of the Prime Ministers grandchildren were spotted at the procession that welcomed the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg to Jerusalem earlier this week.
admin | November 22, 2019
By Lawrence DavidsonA local legal hero: Meir Shamgar On 19 October 2019 Meir Shamgar died. He was 94 years old. Shamgar is not exactly a household name here in the West, but he was renowned in Israel
admin | November 22, 2019
Around 25-30 Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-led protesters chanted from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free during pro-Israel activist Hen Mazzigs Nov.
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