Friday, August 7, 2026 / כ״ד אב תשפ״ו ערב שבת פרשת ראה מברכים חודש אלול
Candle lighting 7:45pm
Shkiah 8:03pm
Weather: 92° Sunny A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Heat index values as high as 101. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 20%.
Tonight
A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Chance of rain is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Shabbos day 91° mostly sunny A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Heat index values as high as 101. Chance of rain is 20%.
Rosh chodesh Elul is Thursday & Friday
- Governor Mikie Sherrill:
Every mom and baby deserves access to the care and support they need to thrive.
My Administration is expanding our nurse home visitation program to all 21 counties – putting New Jersey on track to become the first state in the nation to offer universal, free nurse home visits and helping more families get a healthy start
- New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced that the state Division on Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, which is owned and operated by The GEO Group, Inc. The investigation will focus on whether any action or inaction by GEO Group employees violated the civil rights of people detained at the facility, following several reports of recent deaths.
- Chabad Takes Leadership Role at Historic Park East Synagogue
Chabad of the Upper East Side and the historic Park East Synagogue announced Friday a broad new partnership that will bring Chabad’s rabbinic leadership and a number of its growing programs into the 136-year-old congregation, marking a significant new chapter for Jewish life on the Upper East Side.
Beginning this Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Ben-Tzion Krasnianski, who has led Chabad of the Upper East Side for 35 years, will serve as Associate Rabbi of Park East Synagogue alongside its longtime Senior Rabbi, Rabbi Arthur Schneier
Anash news.
- The Justice Department is appealing the new ruling against President Trump’s White House ballroom project, escalating the legal fight just hours after a federal appeals court sided against the administration.
- A federal Appeals court has just ordered President Trump STOP all construction on the White House ballroom before he gets Congressional approval
- The Skulen rebbe shlita of Lakewood will be spending shabbos in Yerushalayim for a family simcha and the birth of a einikela kiddush will take place at the Skuken BM in Yerushalayim.
- Again, road closures and construction in Lakewood around Pine Street and Cedarbridgehave created unnecessary gridlock. Drivers were trapped on streets that suddenly closed, with no sensible detours and little to no notice. This ongoing lack of planning is hurting residents' quality of life. Township officials are AWOL.
- United Airlines is expected to restart service to Israel on September 8 with two daily flights between Newark and Tel Aviv
- For the 3rd shabbos in a row Several Yerushalayim kehillos, including Perushim, Breslov, and Zichron Moshe, have announced a joint Shabbos protest against Shabbos desecration. The hafgana is scheduled for Shabbos at 10:30 a.m. outside a coffee shop on Rechov Agripas that is operating on Shabbos
- Powerball lottery Estimated Jackpot $856 Million drawing motzei shabbos
- There's no Yated Neeman or Lakewood shopper newspaper this week publication will resume next week
- BDE: Tragedy in Yerushalayim mizrachi Singer and paytan Avishai Levy Z"L, 46, was killed Friday after his vehicle rolled backward and pinned him against a pole on Adoniyahu HaKohen Street. According to initial reports, he had exited the vehicle to help unload passengers' belongings when it began rolling. Magen David Adom crews performed CPR and transported him to Hadassa Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police are investigating the circumstances of the accident.
- The director of the Freehold borough’s public library was fired Wednesday night for what the Board of Trustees alleged was her failure to address employee safety and security concerns before and after a shooting at the facility on April 30. APP
Giyus: Video Satmar billionaire meets the Gerrer Rebbbe to discuss petitioning ICC against draft dodger arrests by Israeli military.
How can you petition the ICC against draft dodger arrests by Israeli military? Putting aside mesira and putting aside that Israel does not recognize its jurisdiction, the ICC has a very limited jurisdiction. It prosecutes individuals, not countries for international crimes. They do not claim they have the ability to prosecute internal affairs. More importantly, if you go to the ICC for judgement and they rule that it is correct to draft Lomdey Torah that means you accepted your legal obligation to do so. The ICC is not going to prosecute a case when the plaintiffs are not committed to accepting their ruling.
ReplyDeleteThat is incorrect. The ICC is little more than a busybody organization. As such they do not require the plaintiffs to accept their ruling. They only accept cases from (1)sovereign countries (2)the UN security council or (3) if their prosecutors decide to intervene. Once (3)happens, the person who went to them trying to convince them to do so is not under any obligation to accept it's ruling. You are correct that the ICC about mesira and that the ICC prosecutes individuals. Not countries. And only for international crimes.
DeleteThe ICC could accept whatever they so desire. But it's highly unlikely..
DeleteTheir aims are to promote a more global secularist edifice. Even though they'll misuse highfalutin terms. [They're not blanket anti-israel per se. When they happen to be, it's actually a positive.]
Hence it's highly unlikely they'll care to hit Israel from this flank.
Petition on its self would be a major kiddush hashem, and would take away some of the charon Af
DeleteSo now the crowd whose entire haskafa revolves around non stop kitrug on Klal Yisroel is claiming to care about Charon Af? After endlessly being melamed chovah on every Yid whoever doesn't share their view and finding every excuse to speak against Klal Yisroel, they now bring up Charon Af? אין זה אלא לגלות פנים בתורה שלא כהלכה — להשתמש בחרון אף as a slogan when it serves their agenda, while ignoring that they themselves have been מעורר it nonstop.
DeleteMuch bracha to the tzadik reb yoel landau for fighitng the shmad, so it is true that Netanyahi should be arrested.
ReplyDeleteWas your bein hazmanin cut short for some reason? Usually you only post during the zman.
DeleteIf you can't say something nice, just avoid posting. We won't miss you.
Deletea little history, certain rishonim thought that the rambam's philosophy (moreh and hamadah) was apikorsus so they went to the catholic church which for the first time the inquisition excommunicated a Jewish book, and they were burnt in 1233 limisparam, a few years later in 1239 Nicholas Donin yms decided to follow suit with the talmud. bringing reshayim into internal jewish disputes is never a smart move.
Delete12:51
DeleteIf and only if the dispute were solely internal!
In the present situation it is fair to contend the opposite! Zionists subtly and less subtly will use the outside world! At every opportunity! Check even in your small world how often they pontificate to non-jewish media & on substack * "objectively"[sic] against "draft dodging", etc.etc. Incessantly.
Then they will insist we must do a,b, &/or c, because the outside world demands it from us.
So much so, it's a major factor of global horizons we subconsciously greet every morning.
Hence that pretense of historic analogy is cute,but foolish & null.
*The budget available for such is enormous.
Since an analogy is desired: R Leizer Silver was against public protest vs Israel,as he said we in the past never made for internal issues public protests in front of the goyim. But nobody else of stature agreed!
Rav Yaakov Kamentsky also opposed the public Satmar protests. And even the Satmar Rebbe himself never asked for assistance from anti-Semites. In the book writing recorded private conversations he had, R' Amram Blau (of all people!) made the observation that the non-Jewish opposition to Zionism is political whereas his is based on his view of Torah, and when you mix Torah with their political aspirations all you will have is a political movement...
Delete7:26AM sleight of hand twisting,
DeleteR' Y K held strongly everybody should attend the Asifas vs nascent Israel in Washington Irving HS. Later on, he was very pro the public netuchei meisim protests of the late '60s. He instructed bochurim to shave during sefirah to show up to protest, during that hippie era, well groomed!
& he wasn't even against every single Satmar-only protest.
So much for that!
Next,the SR had little problem cutting political deals with anti-semites, prior to the holocaust.Agudah in Poland too.
Next,
cherrypicking R Amram Blau is relevant? Trying to obsfucate that we're dealing an internationally aggressive secular jewish [with or without kippot] agenda, with the non-jewish aspect a rather minor element?!
Cherrypicking some comment of the post-holocaust era? RAB worked with the french Ruth in anti-zionism even before she became jewish?! So much for that!
Are you too submerged combatting Yaakov Shapiro types?
7:26am,et al.
DeleteComical that your ilk always fall back to preach to the other side how not to go to the goyim. When will you turn around to tell to your own side?
10:21 You are saying for me to respond to everything so I'll just say this. Does anyone think the idea of going to the ICC came from inside the Beis Medrash or did the idea come from copying and imitating the non-Jewish antisemitic world? Enough said. I will concede to you on one point however. Seeing what happened to Yaakov Shapiro, a person I once greatly respected, after he got too caught up in first Jewish and then non-Jewish anti-Zionism is in fact a major factor in why I oppose these type of things so strongly.
Delete12:25 Can you tell me when me and my ilk are running to goyim against other Jews that you want me to tell them to stop?
DeleteLet Yoeli stick to the nursing homes where he has syata dishmaya. This would create such a chillul hashem and would help nobody and defeintly wont stop the current gius problem. Highly doubt this idea is going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteChilul who's shem?
DeleteAren’t there many stores in Yerushalayim open on Shabbos? Why are they only protesting this one?
ReplyDeleteporetz geder
Deletethe editor of The Kefira Times claims it comes from the Torah — from none other than Moshe Rabbeinu himself! He writes as follows:
ReplyDeleteThe first way appears in Parashat Matot, and it was Moshe’s idea. He said to the two and a half tribes who wished to settle outside the Land, on the east bank of the Jordan: fight for Israel, fight alongside your brothers, and you will remain full members of the national tribal confederation. They agreed, and so it was, then and now. There is no greater demonstration of commitment than service in Tzahal or Sherut Leumi.
This is such a gross falsification of the Torah that it reads like a Purim spoof of Religious Zionism. But Ben Zvi isn’t joking; he’s really trying to pass this off as authentic Torah. It’s as twistedly Reform an approach to “interpreting” the Torah as this.
Besides, IDF cultists are not losing courage because of those who refuse to enlist. They may be getting ground up faster than they otherwise would be — which is highly debatable — but they wouldn’t leave the IDF if their life depended on it, in this world and the next.
Why are you all so surprised the IDF would betray you like this? You're worse than Charlie Brown expecting that next time Lucy won't pull away the football, only you're gambling your bodies, souls, and lives on it. You're the intelligence failures. Am Yisrael Chai! LOL.
There is no comparison between biblical Jewish armies and the IDF. It doesn’t even get off the ground.
Indeed. It's incredible to see that no matter how badly the state abuses them they will not reconsider their slavish devotion to their oppressors, not even slightly.