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Change clocks tonight Motzei Shabbos Daylight saving time in the United States ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 2:00 a.m. local time, when clocks "fall back" one hour to 1:00 am
- Sof Zman Krias shema/Gra Sunday morning 9: 03 am
- NYC Marathon Verazzano bridge closed tomorrow in both directions and upper level closed tonight
- President Donald Trump said negotiations with Iran were progressing but described Tehran as unreliable, claiming it makes deals and then withdraws. He said Iran would never obtain nuclear weapons and asserted that the US could address its remaining one or two sites within 10 minutes.
- Degel Hatorah Knesset members met with Rav Dov Landau and Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch for post election meeting as they decide on who to endorse for making a coalition. There's chatter of them going with the left in a supporting role if a deal on giyus is reached in which civil service can be counted.
- RCCS melava Malka fot Belz community at Yeshiva Mekor Chaim off Locust street in Lakewood
- Carlebach Kumzitz Melava Malka Motzei Shabbos 10:30pm at Caranetta drive Lakewood, NJ at DR. Rothkopf.
- Israel Electioms: No matter what twisted ideas you come up with, in the end, unity is the only solution. Journalist Amit Segal says the starting point for a unity government is Netanyahu and Smotrich with 33 seats, and Eisenkot and Bennett with 33 seats each. All other scenarios being promoted by journalists including coalitions involving Arab parties, caredi parties, and the left are simply not feasible in reality.
- Last day of Early voting is tomorrow at Lakewood town hall and Jackson Toms River Libraries polls open from 10am - 6pm.
Candidate Moshe Raitzik is running for a sear on the Lakewood township committee
- Candidate For Governor of New York Bruce Blakeman isits Rebbe’s Ohel ahead of Election
- BDE: Petirah of Rav Mordechai Dov Kreshinsky zt”l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Maayan HaTalmud in Yerushalayim on rechov Givas Moshe. He was 91 years old. He was a talmid of Rav Elya Lopian ztl a d founder of Hamesorah cheder in Yerushalayim
- A Orlando Man arrested Over threats to shoot up new frum Community Near Okeechobee Jerry Sneed, 31, was taken into custody by FDLE agents and the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
- President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke yesterday against the backdrop of tensions with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reports.
- Toms River Council took a tentative step toward approving an affordable housing plan for Toms River Oct. 28, when members unanimously introduced a measure approving zoning that would allow for 140 new apartments at the Jamestowne Village apartment complex. App
- Israel Opposition plans to change the knesset speaker along with help from the frum parties due to his toeva lifestyle. A surprise candidate for the position of Knesset Speaker is Gadi Eizenkot. In the Change bloc, they are interested in appointing someone who could in the future move from the position.
- Violent demonstrations by Islamists erupted across parts of Germany and France over the weekend, with masked protesters setting barricades ablaze, hurling projectiles at police and turning major city streets. In the French city of Lyon, footage circulating online appeared to show demonstrators burning Israeli and American flags.
Compilation of videos of police brutality at draft protest last thursday near Bnei Brak: https://youtu.be/M4-_Y8h_Ymk (graphic)
ReplyDeleteWhat do the people who send their naive followers day after day to block highways instead of sitting in the Beis Medrash think is going to happen to them? How would we feel if a group whose cause we strongly disagreed with insisted on blocking Route 9 every single day? What would we expect, I mean demand the police do about it? And much as I oppose the draft of Lomdei Torah when I saw this Shabbos, in the propaganda leaflets that this group leaves in my shul, that they proudly advertise protesting daily outside a voluntary civilian workplace associated with the IDF it made me wonder whether these people are even acting l’shem Shamayim anymore, or whether the protests and looking for a fight have become an end in their own right.
DeleteUh, I think you’re a little confused about what the protests are meant to accomplish. Obviously those that support the giyus are upset that they are blocking the streets. . . The protests are meant to 1. be a machoh against an evil thing the Israeli government is doing, even without a practical outcome and 2. create a disincentive to arrest chareidim which has been effective in the past like when the police officially changed their policy of handing people over to the military because they couldn’t handle all of the protests (which they recently reversed) and when the bochur who was the focus of this particular protest was facing 3 months in prison was released within 24 hours. Now, what if I was a rasha and someone was protesting some terrible thing that I was doing, would I shoot gas canisters at their heads? Well I guess it depends how big of a rasha I was, hence the video.
DeleteI understand perfectly well what the protests are intended to accomplish. The George Floyd rioters said essentially the same thing as you and thought exactly the same way. The rioters in France and Spain will tell you much the same thing. And the police who beat them will offer essentially the same justifications as the Israeli police.
DeleteProtesters and rioters always claim they are fighting injustice, while the police always claim they are maintaining law and order. That is the nature of the game.
If the tactics a group chooses for its macha'ah involve constantly blocking major highways and deliberately confronting the police, then the possibility of its members getting seriously beaten up is a consequence they knew about and accepted beforehand . The same way this group shows videos of themselves getting beaten up to gain sympathy , those who want to draft all Lomdei Torah also show videos of this group to gain support for their side . Only what they show is before the police arrive when they are blocking roads, disrupting traffic, and making life miserable for innocent people who have nothing to do with the dispute.
10:08 If this group wasn't also protesting and blocking highways in front of voluntary Chareidi enlistment centers and civilian work offices , many of which have higher standards of frumkeit than many Lakewood offices, maybe you could make your argument. But seeing that this group makes daily protests even there erases the claim that this is about the draft.
DeleteSo the question is this a good reason. . .
DeleteCompromise on giyus?
ReplyDeleteAt the Reb Shlomo yartzeit concert / kumzitz (in Central area) tonite (with seven guitars and other instruments) a proper Mimkomcha took a full ten minutes (I timed it.)
ReplyDeleteWhat's the proper way
DeleteHow many times did they sing the high part from Veynenu.. sirenah..
Nobody sings it better than the great r Shlomo z"l himself on his 1959 debut album, the best Jewish music album in history and it certainly will never be topped. Chas veshalom to have this great composer of some of the best, Jewish Niggunim, whose impact On all of klal yisrael gets larger every single day since his untimely death, On the cover of Ami or mishpachah magazine with a comprehensive article, that's long overdue. We can put every Israeli atheist on the cover, but not someone who brought tens of thousands back to yoddishkeit
DeleteCan you post the recording?
DeleteWhen did Degel Hatorah's Moetzes cease to operate?
ReplyDeleteSince the party was stolen away from Rav Shach and taken over by businessmen. Degel today is a new party reinvented stolen from what it was meant to be. They did everything to erase the name of Rav Shach who founded and built it
DeleteNot counting pre-election photo ops, when has it ever operated?
DeleteThe party continued its path as Rav Shach forged it.
DeleteHe placed the Moetzes members in their positions, and they continued his path. He appointed a Va'adah Ruchanis for the Yated, and when the editors decided not to listen to them, the Va'adah Ruchanis dismissed them. Their daas baaleibatim could not handle that, and they created a new party. Like Shearim and PAI, for those who remember.
And the vaadah opened a new newspaper.
DeleteSame in America.
DeleteRav Aharon z"l appointed his friends to the moetzet, and Rav Sherrer cooperated.
After he was gone, it became a personal moneymaking organization for the moetzet and Agudah leadership.
Why should the Israeli version of Agudah be any different?
Degel and Shas (also started by Rav Schach) were smart enough to get in on the action.
(Yes. Technicality, Degel and Agudah switched places.)
Shame on any Ben Torah who looks up to Carlebach
ReplyDeleteShame on a lot of things. So?
DeleteShame on any Ben Torah who looks up to Agudah (in America or Israel) or the Lakewood municipal leadership.
Delete(We look up to his songs and chazzanut, not necessarily he himself.)
Shame on any. Ben Torah who ignores his Titanic accomplishments in many different fields. This Great man. Continued to have more of an impact on yiddishkeit than many prominent roshei yeshiva. His great songs are on the hearts and minds of people haraving on a sugya, women during childbirth singing his songs, Old young single married boys, girls men, women. Everybody sings and is uplifted and inspired and becomes closer to hashem through his amazing talent and the rich legacy of songs that he left over. Perhaps you're not musical, but even so your comment is reprehensible and wrong and misguided
DeleteChoteh nizkar. He meant well, but that doesn't absolve him. Chazal sometimes condemn people who mean well, but in the process sin . Paradoxically sometimes they grant a 'get out of jail free'.
DeleteMany of us mean well and can accomplish an enormous amount. We're not willing to slip and sin to get there
Whatever he did or didn't do is bein adam lamakom and none of anyone's business. His bein adam lachaveiro was stellar and there is much to learn from him.
Delete9:43,
DeleteSince when" did or didn't do is bein adam lamakom and none of anyone's business" become a part of your religion?
Particularly when making someone Publicly acceptable / role model?!
We klap forgiveness so what other people do.
Do you give a Hashgacha to a food industry if it flouts Shabbos?
Not true, the hope is he was a tzadik who was mekariv hundreds of thousands of Yidden, give me a break, that's all bs.
ReplyDeleteSure, they will continue to pontificate how how much more Torah there is than ever before.It is cosmetics,window dressing, and back slapping.
ReplyDeleteUnderneath the system is reeling from its own glossed instabilities. NY / NJ are basically finished.
America was supposed to be the "leste stanzia".But we are not told how many relocations and where in America.
Those who are sincere should start preparing themselves eventually for the sake of Torah we're going to have to move and rebuild elsewhere.
The only hope is that all of us who are aware, will not need- yet again- to relearn these lessons of the injustices and tragic failures which caused the downfall of the dream in this region.