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Trump just one Shabbos:
JNS- Rabbi A.D. Motzen, Agudath Israel of America’s national director of government affairs, said he will be celebrating the national Shabbat, dubbing it “Shabbos 250.” “Shabbos 250 is an opportunity to celebrate the religious liberty we enjoy in this great country and to reflect on the gratitude owed to the United States by each and every one of us,” he stated. “We thank President Trump for recognizing the important role of the Jewish people and Shabbos in the history of the United States.”
Rabbi David Katz, executive director of the Israel Heritage Foundation, thanked the president and called his proclamation “historic,” noting that there was a time in America when Jews who “left work early on Friday to light Shabbos candles, or would not come in on Saturday to honor the Sabbath, often paid dearly.”
“They were told to choose between their paycheck and their faith,” he wrote. “How beautiful, how moving, how deeply healing it is to witness the opposite today.”
Rabbi Steven Burg, CEO of Aish, told JNS that he was “very moved” by the president’s message because it shifts the narrative from Jew-hatred to Jewish faith. “In a social media world, the overwhelming majority of the hate is coming towards the Jews,” he said. “The celebrating of Shabbos and everyone putting down their phones and putting down X, where all this hate lives, is actually really good and really healthy for society.”
- Tehillim for Avrohom Moshe ben Rivka a Lakewood resident in serious condition who ran into complications during a scheduled procedure and is having emergency surgery tomorrow morning.
- Adirei HaTorah: The Philadelphia basketball team was disqualified from the playoffs avoiding any potential games on Sunday May,31. The Philadelphia hockey team was also eliminated (Updated)
- Giyus: i24 news plays recording from Rav Dov Lando shlita that only the Torah learners are the ones saving us. When questioned about the Religious Zionist soldiers that are killedin battlehe said we are not learning enough and ‘They are being killed because their rabbis teach a distorted version of Torah.
- The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, strongly condemned the modernization of dancing and singing at chassidishe weddings. He said that disgusting songs are being played together with disgusting dances involving strange body movements. The Rebbe addressed both bochurim and youngeleit, declaring that this music is: שקץ תשקצנו תעב תתעבנו כי חרם הוא
utterly repulsive and forbidden.
- Rav Ezriel Auerbach is currently in Lakewood raising funds for yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel. The Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita will travel to South America tomorrow joining up with the delegation of gedolei Yisroel from Eretz Yiroel raising funds in behalf of Keren Olam HaTorah.
- BDE: ADL deeply mourns the loss of our longtime national director, Abraham H. Foxman z”l. Abe, a Holocaust survivor, served his entire 50-year career at ADL, becoming one of the world’s foremost voices against antisemitism and hate. May his memory be a blessing. He was 86.
- Adirei HaTorah: Harav Uri Deutsch shlita the rav of Forest Park shul will deliver the keynote address at the upcoming Maamad Adirei Hatorah on Sunday, May 31st in Philly.
- Gas in NJ could hit $5 by Memorial Day. A ‘70s-style gas crisis could soon follow, experts warn
- Edison yeshiva dinner tonight at Bellworks.
- A lawsuit was filed against the Manchester Township Zoning Board of discriminating against Pine Lake Park’s growing Orthodox Jewish community by denying a mikvah application despite extensive supporting testimony. The suit claims the decision violated religious land-use protection see full story at Faanews
- Giyus: Senior Charedi figure admits in closed conversations: "We are not satisfied with the draft law, it's hard to see it passing in the current knesset term also due to the question of the majority in the plenum. We have failed in our central mission in the Knesset." Reporter Ishay Cohen/Kikar
- People who lose weight on Ozempic are viewed worse than people who don’t lose weight at all: study NYP
- Major rally against antisemitism kicks off in London with thousands participating along Downing street.
- JetBlue is adding dozens of new flights from Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida to replace routes lost when Spirit airlines shut down last week.
- The weekly Chumash shiur by Rav Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik of yeshivas Brisk was canceled motzei shabbos after a resident allegedly sprayed pepper spray or another irritant at arriving bochurim, causing coughing and panic. Witnesses also said garbage and liquids were thrown at the residence amid ongoing tensions over the large weekly crowds.
Talmidim say a known, troubled man complains about thr gatherings at the RY home and still occasionally disrupts things and makes threats despite a prior arrangement. Bhol.
- Lakewood committeeman Meir Lichtenstein tells TVOL he opposed the planned ban on left turns along Route 9 and proposed an alternative traffic plan to the Department of Transportation. His proposal would have kept left-turn lanes while adding an extra lane in each direction by narrowing lanes and reducing shoulders instead of widening the road. The state rejected the idea, arguing that shoulders are needed for drainage, bicycle safety, and emergency vehicles. Lichtenstein expressed concern that banning left turns may not improve Route 9 traffic and could instead worsen congestion on nearby roads such as Route 88, South Clifton Avenue, and James Street.
- Affordable Homes New Jersey has opened a waiting list for 90 affordable rental apartments at The Sylvan, a residential development in Englewood Cliffs set to be completed this summer. The housing lottery is open to very-low-income, low-income and moderate-income households. Rentals range from $559-a-month studios to $1,766-a-month three-bedroom apartments
- Update from reporter Omri Maniv
Six directors at KKL-JNF submitted a proposed resolution for board approval stating that “the events described may give rise to suspicion of criminal offenses and are requesting that KKL-JNF freeze all engagements with the nonprofits mentioned in the investigation.
Israel channel 12 investigation: An investigation alleged that associates of Eretz Hakodesh and Degel HaTorah party gained senior positions in the JNF Keren Kayemeth Lyisroel and other Zionist institutions, after which nonprofit organizations linked to them received large amounts of funding for alleged Zionist activities. The report claims some of the activities may have been fictitious and raises concerns about conflicts of interest involving relatives or associates employed by the nonprofits. Following the investigation into KKL and Degel HaTorah, an external audit committee headed by former District Court Judge Esther Shitrit will examine the transfer of millions of shekels to associations linked to the Degel HaTorah party/and Eretz Hakodesh. The funds were allegedly allocated for fictitious activities, amid concerns over a possible conflict of interest according to Investigative journalist Omri Maniv.
MK Moshe Gafni responded that those are private individuals and not political figures, adding that the party involved is “Eretz HaKodesh and not degel haTorah.
MK Yitzchak Pindrus said that, under the guidance of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, he advised personell of “Eretz HaKodesh” five years ago, but later withdrew from involvement following instructions from Rabbi Dov Lando shlita.
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BREAKING JEWS: After ignoring BMG for 15 years, lakewoodpoop is reporting breaking news about Adirei.
ReplyDeleteThey must have made peace over the billboard and now gave scoop a breaking first report instead of Lakewood alerts.
DeleteDoes this mean the billboard is now kosher under the approval of BMG?
DeleteMatzav didn't post about adirei they should also make peace with them is there an amount??
DeleteKeep your nasty comments to yourself
DeleteWould be amazing if they serve smashouse burgers for the olam
DeletePeople are entitled to speak their mind, and it’s deeply condescending and insulting the way marketers treat adults in Lakewood as if they’re 2-year-olds. Manipulating people’s minds for clickbait and attention is sick. The constant gimmicks, emotional manipulation, and manufactured hype cheapen people’s intelligence and turn everything into a spectacle instead of treating the community with basic respect and kavod habriyos.
DeleteIt's about sharing a common enemy in the gutter of frum media platform infighting. United together to shut down the other nasty outlet
DeleteSumday we'll all be together!
ReplyDeleteWhat they did by the 9 & central is beyond STUPID!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you can't realize the benefit of what was done to alleviate traffic on Rt 9 you are beyond stupid.
DeleteThe oylam is feifing un and continue to make left turns
If they would follow the new traffic pattern it would save many people from sitting in traffic
People are selfish
The Adirei team seems out of touch, wasn’t this maamad supposed to be for youngeleit? There were no signs in yeshiva about Rav Uri Deutsch, but ironically the information was posted online first. Ticket sales were also handled online. Why is this considered appropriate when the event is meant for kollel guys?
ReplyDeleteIt's for the baalebaatim, to raise money for the kollel checks by recognizing the chashivus of Torah
DeleteThat's not what was preached over the last 4 years
DeleteBaalebatim are not impressed by a second rate event in Philadelphia.
DeleteBellworks or Met Life, maybe PNC would do. But Zucker is too smart to allow loud music in an inside location, MetLife is too expensive. Never been to PNC so I don't know. Maybe Prudential Center but that's also indoors.
Adirei Hatora is for the yungleit, like the Vaad is representing the people. Alts is gelt!!!
ReplyDeleteAbe Foxman was the child that was passed around like a Sefer Torah in Vilna
ReplyDeleteBube maiseh. He was born May 1, 1940, Baranavichy, Belarus.
DeleteWhat's your point, how does that make it a bubbe mayse?
DeleteThe Nazis occupied Vilna in June 1941.
DeleteThe Vilna Ghetto was established in September 1941.
The story happened after the war. Read it on his own words.
Deletehttps://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/one-familys-story-of-anguish-and-decision/
Nobody passed him around a like sefer torah.
DeleteMy parents answered some of my questions about Europe and the war with simple yeses and nos. But they were never able to explain what I saw as the biggest question of my life: How could they have given me away? I asked this sometimes in disbelief, and sometimes in anger. My parents were never able to explain this most unnatural decision, which not only saved my life, but theirs as well.
Another question that I struggled with while growing up – and that I ultimately was mature enough to ask my father – was the question of his unflagging and seemingly unquestioning faith in God. How, after everything that had happened to him in Europe, after the killings and the scenes of death he had witnessed, after the near-total annihilation of his family and of European Jewry, how could my father believe in and revere God? And how could he make the decision so easily to bring me back to my Jewish roots, my Yiddishkeit, after I had been returned to my parents for good?
I was born in 1940, in Baranowicz, Poland. Under the protection of my nanny, I had been baptized in Lithuania as a Catholic boy named Henryk Stanislaw Kurpi, the names of my nanny and my patron saint. I had gone to church every Sunday, and, when passing through the city of Vilna, I would cross myself when I passed a church. When I met a priest, I kissed his hand; when we saw a Jew, I had been taught to spit at him.
After the war my father slowly reintroduced me to my Jewish roots without apparent compunction, remorse, or anger at God. His decision was a great mystery to me until, years later, I asked him about his faith. The answer surprised me. He told me that the evil that had created the Shoah was not God’s – it was man’s….
The first time my father took me to shul was in Vilnius on Simchat Torah. I guess it was because he figured I’d like it, since it is a joyous festival full of singing and dancing. A Soviet officer in uniform, who was Jewish, came up to my father and asked if he could include me in the dancing. He put me on his shoulders and began to dance, saying, “This is the Jewish flag.” The Jewish children picked me up and danced with me, and I came home and told my mother, “Hey, I like the Jewish church!” It was the beginning of my return to Judaism.
Incidentally, 65 years later, I would meet this officer again. Unbeknownst to my family and me, the soldier had moved to the United States, where he became an Orthodox rabbi and an educator. We were reunited in his home in Detroit, Mich., in April 2010. His name is Rabbi Leo Goldman, and he was 91 at the time of our meeting.
Something else I didn’t understand for a long time was my parents’ insistence that I retain my fond memories and love for Bronislawa Kurpi, my nanny, the woman who saved my life. This was even after everything that had transpired to taint the relationship, and though we were unable to stay in touch with her after the war. Why, I wondered, would they permit me to keep her memory alive, and even to hold on to photos of the woman who once claimed me as her son, and who after the war had done everything to keep me from being rightfully returned to my parents? She had had me kidnapped twice, and had told terrible lies to the Soviet authorities about my father in an effort to have him imprisoned. There had been a painful custody battle, of which to this day I have no memory, so searing, so emotionally traumatic was this ordeal on the psyche of a 5-year-old boy. We had left Eastern Europe to get away from all of this and more, yet my parents obstinately insisted on keeping her memory alive.
The story supposedly happened in the DP camps post war, so yes it can be him.
DeleteVery very few children survived the war.
DeleteJust seeing a Jewish child survivor was reason for adult survivors to pass him around and celebrate.
And he was never in a DP camp.
Strai to Vilna, and from there to the treifene medina.
The picture on the cover of his fathers memoir of him with his parents was taken in a dp camp.
DeleteDoes anyone know how many tickets were actually available for purchase for Adirei HaTorah that it sold out so quickly? Why all this hype if hardly anyone can even go to the event?
ReplyDeleteMaybe like 5 thousand
DeleteStubHub does this all the time, despite everyone (including the performers) complaining.
DeleteBTW, what's with the teams that might be playing that day?
The Rt 9 and central mess will cause massive back ups and CV accidents
ReplyDeleteI got one will totally ignore the restarted new no turn sughns by the Lake?
ReplyDeleteA few years back when they redid the stretch of route 9 alongside the lake they should have widened it to four lanes
ReplyDeleteCan't, state environmental dept doesn't allow expanding the 9 over the lake.
DeleteThe new 9& central is 100% farcocked!
ReplyDeleteJust wondering......
ReplyDeletePrior to the establishment of religious needs what compels individuals to buy and settle in a particular town?
I understand an investor may purchase property as a prospective area for development. How and why would an end user purchase in the area prior to said establishment?
Montoya, an Italian goy, donated land in the development he was building in the middle of nowhere in Florida to build a shul, today one of the biggest shuls in the world. And today everyone know his name cause the street the shul is on is Montoya Drive.
Delete‘They are being killed because their rabbis teach a distorted version of Torah.
ReplyDeleteCan someone please clarify which version of Torah does protect. Brisk? Mir? Does Chassidish Torah protect? Does Daf Yomi Torah protect? Does it protect if you shave? Does it protect if you have a smartphone?
"he said we are not learning enough"
ReplyDeleteHas anyone noticed that more people get killed on Shabbos and YT and Bein Hazmanim ?
there are no philly teams left in the playoffs. Adirei has nothing to fear
ReplyDeleteFYI the phili hockey team was already eliminated
ReplyDeleteRegarding the wedding songs and dances, the Tashbetz Katan says that all our wedding minhagim are reminders of matan torah. So maybe these songs and dances are reminders of the celebrations at the eigel.
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