SQUARE_ROOT

to UJM:

By calling me a “Messianic Jew”, you have committed the sin of Motzi Shem Ra [false slander].
But forget about insignificant me.

Much more importantly, you cannot refute my most recent comment,
because my most recent comment is 100% true.

I will repeat my my most recent comment, and invite you to *** TRY *** to refute it:

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The fact that UJM even asked this question indicates that he is
hoping and praying for the complete defeat & destruction
of Israel and its army, even though that would certainly result in:

[1] Another Holocaust, with millions of Jews killed, including children and babies.

[2] The complete destruction of ALL Jewish holy places (including THE KOTEL)
in Eretz Yisrael, and the complete destruction of ALL synagogues
and Jewish cemeteries in Eretz Yisrael, which would ALL be bulldozed,
dynamited, paved-over with concrete and made into mosques.

[3] The complete destruction of ALL Yeshivahs in Eretz Yisrael, which would
ALL be dynamited, paved-over with concrete and made into mosques.

[4] Hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees, including children and babies.
And with many Jewish families accidentally becoming separated, as they flee.
There is NO GUARANTEE that ** ANY ** nation will accept Jewish refugees.

[5] Millions of goyim coming to the conclusion that G*D has abandoned
The Jewish People, which would be an international Chillul HaShem,
and inspire millions of goyim to persecute helpless Jewish refugees.

[6] Jewish individuals and Jewish institutions being overwhelmed,
to their breaking points, trying to handle a tidal wave of Jewish refugees.

These are the intentions and plans of UJM & HaKatan & the Neturei Karta.
They are ENEMIES of everything that is authentically Jewish, including:
The G*D of Israel, The People of Israel & The Torah of Israel.
That they are enemies of The Land of Israel is so obvious
that it should not need to be explicitly written.

Israel’s Foreign Minister recently condemned Kamala Harris. \

Asked about Kamala’s call for a two-state solution
during the debate, Foreign Minister Katz responded:

“I condemn anyone calling for a two-state solution,
which is a prize [reward] for terrorism”.

Daniel Greenfield said this:

Democrats have tried to reassure Jewish voters that they have
nothing to worry about despite Kamala’s harsh criticism of Israel’s war on Hamas.

To counter those concerns, the Jewish Democratic Council of America,
headed by Haile Sofer, Kamala’s old policy adviser,
rolled out a ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ online rally.

But while the Zoom rally flier may feature a photo of Kamala and her husband,
Doug Emhoff, awkwardly lighting a menorah,
the leading figures in the rally only raise more questions.

The two most prominent non-elected officials taking part in the rally
are Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers union,
and her [lesbian] girlfriend, Sharon Kleinbaum.

While [Randi] Weingarten is best known for her work in keeping school closed
leading to as much as a grade point of loss in education,
she is militantly anti-Israel and has used antisemitic rhetoric.

In response to a question from the JTA, a liberal Jewish media outlet,
about the power of teachers’ unions, [Randi] Weingarten launched into
an antisemitic tirade in which she claimed that
“American Jews are now part of the ownership class” who
“want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it.”
The American Jewish Committee had responded with
an op-ed urging her to “Counter, Not Inflame, Antisemitism”.

I have tried to reach out to ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’
to inquire if they agree with Randi Weingarten that Jews are
“the ownership class” who “want to take that ladder of opportunity
away from those who do not have it”, but have not received an answer.

Weingarten had befriended and defended antisemites including former
Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour,
calling them “friends” and “warriors for justice.” Mallory was an enthusiastic fan
of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who had praised Hitler.
She had described the creation of Israel as
a “human rights crime” and attacked Jewish groups.

[Linda] Sarsour had a long track record of antisemitism and support for Islamic terrorism.
After the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, the Islamic activist claimed that Jewish hostage posters
were entrapment and that Jews everywhere were watching them.
“So when you go home, they have their little people all over the place,
trust me I know them, I got a radar for them…
you think they’re ordinary people, trust me when I tell you they are everywhere.
They’re on your college campus, they’re outside the supermarket, they’re outside Grand Central Station.”

Not only did Weingarten not stand with Jewish activists against the Women’s March anti-Semitic leaders,
but she is a board member of the Americans for Peace Now BDS group whose CEO Hadar Susskind
praised Ben & Jerry’s decision to boycott Israel as a “principled moral stance which we fully support”.
APN [Americans for Peace Now] has platformed antisemitic figures
like UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese who
claimed that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby”.

Weingarten’s AFT [American Federation of Teachers] union has demanded
that Israel stop attacking Hamas in a resolution presented with
personal support from Randi at a convention where Kamala spoke.
The AFT defended the pro-terrorist mobs harassing Jewish students and faculty on campuses.

Randi Weingarten has repeatedly attacked Israel and tweeted a quote
claiming that “the Hamas attack was heinous;
the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza have been reprehensible.”

[Randi] Weingarten’s [lesbian] girlfriend, Sharon Kleinbaum,
and fellow participant in Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris is even worse.
After Kleinbaum read the names of Hamas terrorists alongside fallen
Israeli soldiers at the LGBTQ temple she formerly officiated at,
congregants left feeling that it had become pro-terrorist.
One departing congregant complained that it
“was essentially delivering Hamas propaganda.
… My partner and I are starting a family and frankly I don’t
want to raise my kids in a synagogue that’s praying for people firing rockets.”

Kleinbaum had co-signed a T’ruah letter together with anti-Israel activists
urging Biden not to allow Israel to finish off Hamas in Rafah
and claimed that Israel cannot “lay the full responsibility for the unimaginable
suffering of a massive population of trapped civilians at the feet of Hamas.”
The letter also called for Biden to impose sanctions on members of Israel’s government.

Weingarten and Kleinbaum are not outliers at Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris.

Sharon Brous of IKAR, profiled by Variety as a “trendy, progressive congregation”
whose wealthy congregants include Steven Spielberg
and appears to have some link to Kamala’s husband, is also on the list.
Brous had attacked the Jewish State before the Oct 7 attacks,
including in a hateful Yom Kippur address, claiming
that “there can be no democracy with occupation.”

[Sharon] Brous is a member of the councils of anti-Israel groups
like J Street, and the New Israel Fund. Worse still, IKAR has participated
in events with IfNotNow, an anti-Israel hate group
linked to many of the ugly protests against the Jewish State.

Sharon Brous has a long history of supporting antisemites,
attacking Jews for opposing Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar,
claiming that Jews “have spent years in hive mentality,
pouncing on indications of anti-Semitism among Israel’s critics”,
accused the Jewish State of a “52-year military occupation
of millions of Palestinian people” and ranted that
American Jews must “hear Palestinian voices.”

Like Weingarten, Brous attacked Jewish critics of the antisemitism
in the Women’s March leadership, falsely claiming that the criticisms were,
“a deliberate smear campaign from the far right to delegitimize the march itself.”
She complained that, “a much greater problem would be if the Jewish community
stepped out of activism because we’re afraid that
someone on the stage has a position on BDS different than our own.”

Lauren Holtzblatt, the final clergymember on the Jewish Americans
for Kamala Harris call, is a member of J Street cabinet (while also tragically
and inappropriately) serving as Hillel International’s director of campus
initiatives and has also been associated with
the anti-Israel group T’ruah and signed on to its letters.

Every single [fake] ‘rabbi’ presented by ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’
is also affiliated with anti-Israel groups. This raises troubling questions about not only
the anti-Israel extremism that had already infiltrated the
Jewish Democratic Council of America, but Kamala’s campaign.

Not only does ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ appear
to be co-hosted with the Kamala Harris presidential campaign,
but several of its anti-Israel clergy have ties to Kamala.

‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ shows that
the Kamala campaign, like the Obama campaign, calculatedly platforms
and normalizes anti-Israel activists while shutting out normative figures
in the Jewish community. It is not a coincidence that all of the clergy
at the virtual rally were anti-Israel activists. It also not a coincidence that
no pro-Israel clergy or members of more
traditionally religious denominations were on the call.

The ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ rally anticipates a Kamala
administration that will pursue anti-Israel policies
while surrounding itself with anti-Israel activists of Jewish descent.

Jewish Democratic Council of America has sent a clear signal that
the only Jews welcome by the Kamala campaign are those
that will join it in opposing the Jewish State.

SOURCE: article titled: “Every ‘Rabbi’ From ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’
Belongs to Anti-Israel Groups” by Daniel Greenfield
— 8 Av 5784 — 2024 August 11 www (dot) JewishPress (dot) com

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky (an Orthodox Rabbi
from the USA who made aliyah) recently said this:
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“…almost the entire Democrat [Party] establishment had collectively
lied to the American people for years about Biden’s incapacity
(including Kamala Harris); that Harris had been perceived by
that same establishment as a mediocrity who could not win or govern;
and the doubt that Dems could get away with not explaining
to the American people why Biden changed his mind so abruptly and how,
if he is too incapacitated to run for re-election,
he is still vigorous and lucid enough to govern.”

“These three statements are all true and on each score the Dems
have escaped accountability. Chalk that up to a compliant media
and a willfully blind public. How was it that Joe Biden swore that
only a direct message from God would cause him to drop out –
and then just days later he’s passing the torch to a new generation?
Who was it that kneecapped him with the torch?
Americans would surely know by now if they weren’t either
so incredibly docile or politically ossified into two rigid camps
in which each camper just votes for his or her team.”

“[Kamala] Harris is an unserious individual being adroitly handled
by serious people who want to win at all costs. They know
exactly how to market her, how to fool a gullible population,
and how to obscure her vulnerabilities, which primarily means hiding her.

She has made a career of failing upwards, the beneficiary of
social promotions with an undistinguished record in every office
she has held and placed in critical positions by powerful male patrons.
The disappearing trick can work not only because the American
voting public is easily manipulated
but also because of the weaknesses of her opponent.”
….
“Kamala Harris is even more inept, arguably a worse campaigner
except when reading a teleprompter, and flirts with incoherence
every time she opens her mouth without a script in front of her.”

“ONE DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES
IS THAT TRUMP HAS RULED OUT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
PALESTINIAN STATE AS IMPOSSIBLE AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY,
WHEREAS DEMOCRATS HAVE MADE IT THEIR PASSION PROJECT
REGARDLESS OF ITS EFFECT ON ISRAEL.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Election Enigma” by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
2024 September 13 www (dot) RabbiPruzansky (dot) com

Corey Walker said this in The Algemeiner:
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Doug Schoen, a former adviser under then-US President Bill Clinton,
revealed on Tuesday that he is not planning to vote for Democratic
presidential nominee Kamala Harris to serve as the next commander-in-chief
in the White House, citing her policies toward Israel
and combating antisemitism as the main reasons.
….
“At this point I cannot [vote for Kamala Harris],” [Doug] Schoen said.
“I would call myself undecided, at this point. But I can’t vote for her,
for reasons related to her changing position and also the Middle East
as we have talked about before. I do not believe she is
sufficiently committed to Israel and fighting antisemitism.”
….
She [Kamala Harris] has also expressed sympathy for far-left
narratives that [falsely] brand Israel as “genocidal.”

The Vice President [Kamala Harris] has additionally often
criticized Israel’s war effort against the [Iranian-backed]
Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.

[Kamala] Harris also pushed the unsubstantiated narrative
that Israel has intentionally withheld aid from the people of Gaza,
allegedly triggering a famine.

[Kamala] Harris has also expressed sympathy for anti-Israel protesters
on US university campuses, saying that they are
“showing exactly what the human emotion should be.”

SOURCE: article titled: “Former Clinton Adviser Says Harris Not
‘Sufficiently Committed to Israel and Fighting Antisemitism’”
by Corey Walker 2024 September 10 for www (dot) Algemeiner (dot) com

Jillian Michaels (a famous fitness guru) recently said this about Kamala Harris:

“I’m underwhelmed by what she [Kamala Harris] has done.
I don’t really understand what the major accomplishments are.”

SOURCE: Fox News, around 3 weeks ago

Dear UJM,

Your false version of Jewish History has been refuted many times,
both inside and outside this Coffee Room;
but you don’t know when to stop, because you are a
hate-filled, close-minded, stubborn, brainwashed fanatic.

You are also a De Facto ALLY of:
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran & the Islamic State (ISIS).

Here we go again:

[1] Mohammed, the founder of Islam,
beheaded more than 800 Jewish men,
and made their widows and orphans into slaves.

[2] The Koran, chapter 5, verse 82,
says that Jews and polytheists are THE WORST ENEMIES OF MUSLIMS.
Not just enemies of Muslims, but “THE WORST” enemies of Muslims.

[3] The Hadith (one of Islam’s most important holy books)
teaches that The Last Day cannot come until 100% of Jews are DEAD.

This means that ALL JEWS MUST DIE,
even those Jews who are non-Zionist, even those Jews who are anti-Zionist,
even women, even teenagers, even children, even toddlers, even babies.

The Hadith also teaches that when The Last Day comes,
rocks and trees will miraculously begin to speak, and say:

“Muslim! A Jew is hiding behind me! Arise, and slay [kill] him!”

Islam also teaches that Jews are dishonest & wicked & go to Hell.

[4] This is a very small sample of Muslim hate against Jews.
But I do not have all day to do this, so I will stop here,
because “a word to the wise is sufficient”.

Sincerely,
SQUARE_ROOT

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Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel
declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE]
Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts
were never far from Eretz Yisrael.

A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr
and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.

“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]
told the students, “I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

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In a conversation with the Satmar Rav, shortly after his talk
on the U.N. declaration, Reb Shraga Feivel [Mendlowitz]
was subjected to the sharpest criticism for his “Zionist leanings.”

Later he told his family, “I could have answered him [the Satmar Rav]
Chazal for Chazal, Midrash for Midrash, but I did not want to
incur his wrath, for he is a great man and a tzaddik.”

He added with a twinkle, “And besides, he has a fiery temper”…

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 335 to 336) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

In our times, the Left side of the political spectrum includes:
Liberals, Social Democrats, Marxists, neo-Marxists, Socialists,
Progressives, The Woke, and Social Justice Warriors.

What all of these people have in common, is that they want
to see the State of Israel 100% eliminated, and permanently.

They passionately want that there should NOT be ANY Jewish State,
regardless of its size and regardless of the shape of its borders.

Please allow me to make this perfectly clear:

For entire Left side of the political spectrum, it is not sufficient
to merely change the policies of the Jewish State;
they want to 100% destroy 100% of the Jewish State,
even though this would result in another Holocaust,
with hundreds of thousands of survivors as homeless refugees.
Obviously, all of the Jewish State’s synagogues and
holy places must be destroyed and converted into mosques.

Most of the world is DESPERATE to appease Muslims,
by *** ANY *** means possible.
This is one of the highest priorities in International Politics,
and this has been true for many decades.

If the only way that they can appease Muslims is by
sacrificing the Jewish State, and killing millions of Jews,
and making hundreds of thousands of survivors homeless refugees,
and destroying all Jewish holy places, they consider
those things to be a SMALL PRICE to achieve
the super-important goal of appeasing Muslims.

The Left side of the political spectrum (which includes
The Democratic Party) wants Israel 100% destroyed,’
100% DEAD, 100% gone, 100% vanished, 100% wiped off the map.

Therefore, when Donald Trump says that a Kamala Harris
presidency will mean the final end of The Jewish State,
he is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!

Stated another way, The Democrat Party is dominated
by their extreme Left members, whose attitude towards Israel
and American Jews, is 100% pure malice and hate.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2311508/rfk-blasts-kamala-as-not-worthy-of-presidency-questions-her-capabilities-video.html

If you believe that radical Muslims like Hamas and Hezbollah
can be trusted to negotiate honestly. or negotiate with honor,
or negotiate in good faith, then you DO NOT UNDERSTAND
the religious beliefs of radical Muslims, which teach that
negotiations with non-Muslims need not be honest,
and need not be sincere, and need not be complied with.

Any treaty that Muslims make with non-Muslims,
can be broken and violated at any time,
if it benefits Islam or Muslims.
THIS IS WHAT ISLAM TEACHES!! THIS IS WHAT ISLAM TEACHES!!

Hamas has intentionally broken 100% of the cease-fire
agreements that they made, over past 20 years.

Since Hamas has proven themselves to be completely dishonest,
and completely dishonorable, and completely untrustworthy,
there is no logical reason to criticize Israel’s government
for its flaws with negotiating cease-fires with Hamas.

If I remember correctly, Rabbi Avrahom Yitzchok HaKohen Cook [ZTL & ZYA]
famously taught that:

“Since the Beth HaMikdash was destroyed by Sinat Chinam,
the Beth HaMikdash can only be rebuilt by Ahavat Chinam,”
(Or something very similar to that.)

Please forgive me for not providing an exact source for this very important quote.

“He [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] never tired of telling
his students that that Eretz Yisrael is the natural place for every Jew.

Only there can a Jew flourish to his maximum potential.

A Jew’s life outside of Eretz Yisrael inevitably has a truncated,
unnatural quality. He is like a polar bear removed from
his Arctic habitat and placed in the Bronx Zoo.”

“Any Jew who does not at least dream of going up to Eretz Yisrael,
he said, is surely lacking something in his Yiddishkeit.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 25, page 322) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

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Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah
and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE.
His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years.
He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.”
He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.

“And he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] expressed
amazement that anyone who considered himself
a good Jew could possibly go seven days without
thinking of some way in which he could improve
the lot of settlers in Eretz Yisrael or otherwise improve the Land.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 25, page 322) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel declared
its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE] Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz]
thoughts were never far from Eretz Yisrael.

A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr
and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.

“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] told the students,
“I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

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Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah
and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE.
His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years.
He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.”
He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.

“… he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] also explained why
the secular Zionists might have been chosen to play
such a fateful role in the history of the Jewish people.

In every Jew, he explained, there is a spark of kedushah (holiness)
– dos pintele Yid – which is his inheritance from the Avos [Patriarchs].
Every Jew is both an individual and as part of the collective body of Israel.
As long as he does not sever his bonds to the nation,
that little spark is not extinguished, no matter how numerous his sins.

Divine Providence might have arranged that the secular Zionists
play a major role in the redemption of Eretz Yisrael precisely
in order to maintain their connection to Klal Yisrael.”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 335) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

Hearing his criticisms of Zionism, someone once told him
[Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz],
“I too hate the Zionists. They should be cursed.”

“Chas v’chalilah (Heaven forbid)!”
Reb Shraga Feivel [Mendlowitz] interjected.
“To the contrary: They should be blessed, along with
all those who are building up our Holy Land.
I only pray that they observe mitzvos.
But chalilah to curse or hate them.
They are tinokos shenish’bu (people who never
received a Jewish education and so were led astray).”

SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 16, page 228) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965

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Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah
and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE.
His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years.
He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.”
He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.

Would you consider sending this bachur to a Baal Teshuvah yeshivah?

This short article recently appeared on www (dot) matzav (dot) com:

“In a new letter, Rav Avrohom Schorr, the Rov of Khal Nezer Gedalyahu in Flatbush,
expressed deep dismay over the increasing extravagance observed at
Friday Toameha gatherings and at Kiddushim on Shabbos,
particularly highlighting the excessive drinking of alcohol
and the lavish spending associated with these events.

The letter, penned on Erev Shabbos Nachamu to members of his bais medrash,
serves as a clarion call for a return to the core values of simplicity and modesty.

Rav Schorr pointed out that the opulence of these events,
especially the overindulgence in alcohol,
not only shifts the focus from the spiritual and communal aspects of Shabbos
but also exacerbates financial pressures on families.
In light of the current economic challenges faced by many,
he emphasized that such overspending is particularly egregious.

Moreover, Rav Schorr noted that Toameha gatherings do not have any halachic significance.”

Jack Addes made this comment:

“Yeshivos can’t meet payroll obligations at the same time
that we’re making these lavish enjoyment times.
Rich people are allowed to spend their money as they wish,
but when their children’s mosdos are behind in paying
their children’s moros and rebbees,
this might be the time for introspection and recalibration.”

Anonymous made this comment:

Especially when it has led to destructive behavior such as
driving drunk and killing people (for anyone who is paying attention)
just amazing how we mask idiotic behavior by giving it a name
that makes it sound like a mitzva; all you have to do
is check their overall attitude towards Mitzvos that don’t “taste good”

SOURCE: article titled:
“Rav Avrohom Schorr Calls Out Excessiveness
at Kiddushim and Toameha Gatherings”
from 2024 August 17 www (dot) matzav (dot) com

Many people who fly on El Al are secular Jews.
Many people who fly on El Al are non-Jews.

You might want to consider that,
before you formulate policies for El Al airlines.

Kristine Parks of Fox News recently said this:

“Michael Rapaport [a Jewish actor and comedian], a staunch critic
of former President Trump, admitted he was previously
‘ill-informed’ about Trump’s record on Israel, the economy.”

Liberal actor and comedian Michael Rapaport announced that
he couldn’t vote for Vice President Harris in the November election
and that the Democratic Party’s treatment of Israel
had made him reconsider supporting former President Trump.

“I’m now a one-issue voter: my money and Israel,” he told
former ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele on the July 31 “The Sage Steele Podcast.”
“I’m not voting for Kamala Harris. I can’t do it,” he continued.
“I can’t support a party that is about all this bulls—.”

Rapaport has increasingly called out his own political party
for its stance on Israel. In May, he announced President Biden
had also lost his support in the upcoming election,
and he was considering voting for Trump.

The actor went even further on Steele’s podcast.

“I was wrong,” he said about his past criticism of Trump.
“I was first in line talking s— about Trump.”

While Rapaport said he still finds Trump’s rhetoric and
behavior unpresidential, he admitted he was previously
“ill-informed” about Trump’s record on Israel, Iran and the economy.

Rapaport stopped short of saying he was going to
vote for the GOP candidate in the election
but said the option was still on the table.”

At the end of the day, I want my interest rates down…
and Israel needs to be protected more than ever right now,”
he said about his two voting priorities.

Rapaport also called out progressives who protested
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month
when he gave an address to Congress.

“While there’s eight American hostages in Gaza, they didn’t show up,
proudly. Bernie and the burnouts, the Squad,
all these race-hustling con artists,” he blasted.
“They weaponize it to a point that it’s dangerous.”

“I don’t care what you think of [Netanyahu],” he continued.
“Israel is America’s biggest ally, while we’re under siege,
not just from Hamas…but also proxies from Iran. This isn’t just about Israel.”

Rapaport also slammed Hollywood and the sports world
for not speaking out on October 7 and demanding
the hostages be brought home calling the silence “embarrassing.”

“We speak out about everything. It could be climate change,
it could be women’s rights, it could be abortion rights, LGBTQ
—we say stuff about everything,” he said.”
The silence has been madly deafening,” he continued.

Back in May, Rapaport said that a comedy show of his,
set to take place in Madison, Wisconsin, was canceled
due to threats of violence in the wake of his support for Israel.

“I was extremely p—ed off,” Rapaport stated at the time.
“I didn’t imagine, didn’t think that it would get to a point
where my beliefs and me standing up for what I know is right,
regarding Jews, regarding Israel, regarding being Jewish
and just the right thing, would get to a point where a club
would cancel my show because they are afraid of an incident happening.”

The venue, Comedy on State, reportedly explained to ticket holders
in an email that the show was canceled due to safety concerns
stemming from “escalating protests” and the
“contentious nature of the dialogue” surrounding the conflict in Gaza.

SOURCE: article titled: “Media Comic Michael Rapaport says
Harris lost his vote over Israel: ‘Can’t support party that is for this bulls—‘”
by Kristine Parks, Fox News, 2024 August 1

matzav (dot) com recently said this:

Senator Tom Cotton strongly criticized Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, labeling her as both “naive” about Tehran and lenient toward Hamas. The Republican senator from Arkansas, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” condemned the Democrat presidential candidate’s stance on Israel following the October 7 attack by Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of around 250 others to Gaza. Cotton argued that Harris’s actions reveal her lack of readiness to lead the nation as commander in chief.

Cotton, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence, Armed Services, and Judiciary Committees, accused Harris of blindly accepting Hamas’ reports regarding the number of casualties in Gaza, despite these figures being provided by the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians.

He stated that “Israel has to strike on occasion at places like hospitals and schools, because Hamas uses them for command and control or to fire mortars and rockets. There are civilian casualties in Gaza, no doubt, but those are solely the responsibility of Hamas, not Israel.”

Despite acknowledging the complexity of the situation, Cotton criticized Harris and President Joe Biden for exerting more pressure on Israel than on Hamas from the onset of the conflict.

He also reproached [Kamala] Harris for not fulfilling her constitutional role as president of the Senate by avoiding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent address to Congress, which was attended by 128 Democrat members of Congress.

“She refused to preside over the joint session, her only constitutional duty as president of the Senate, she refused to have a meeting in public with [Netanyahu, although she did meet with him in private], and she came out and again blamed Israel for the civilian casualties in Gaza, only emboldening Iran and Iranian-backed terrorists,”
Cotton remarked. “And what did you have two days later?
Hezbollah, another Iranian-backed terrorist [organization] shot rockets to Israel and blew up children playing ball at a playground.”

Reiterating his criticism, Cotton declared that “Kamala Harris is naive, and she’s not prepared to be the commander in chief.”

While acknowledging that [Kamala] Harris had affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself, Cotton argued that she undermined this position by immediately adding conditions. “

And what comes after the ‘but’ with Kamala Harris is always implying that Israel is responsible for all the civilian suffering in Gaza, not Hamas, that Israel is the one being provocative when it’s waging a defensive war after the October 7 [2023] atrocity and that Israel is the one that should pull in its horns, as opposed to supporting Israel and standing strong against Iran and Iranian-backed terrorist throughout the region,” Cotton concluded.

SOURCE: article titled: “Senator Cotton: Harris ‘Naive’ on Iran,
Not Tough on Hamas” 2024 August 12, www (dot) matzav (dot) com

maskildoresh said:

“Participant There is only one thing that Trump cares about and that is Trump.
That is the key to understand everything he says and does.”

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MY RESPONSE:

Even if what you said is 100% true, how does that make Donald Trump
any different than: Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama,
Chuck Schumer, and all the elected officials of the Democratic Party?

Even if what you said is 100% true, how does that make Donald Trump
any different than the CEOs of America’s corporations and landlords?

Even if what you said is 100% true, how does that make Donald Trump
any different than the average American?

UJM, I never heard that before, but it could still be true.

UJM, If you want us to accept what you just said,
then you must give us the exact source where it is located.

Until then, you might be interested in reading these two
definitions of Sinat Chinam, that I researched a long time ago:

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Tehillim, chapter 69, verse 5:

“Greater than the numbers of hairs on my head,
are those who hate me without cause…”

Metsudath David on this verse explains:
people hated him [David], even though he never harmed any of them.

If I read this Metsudath David correctly, he seems to imply that
the definition of Sinat Chinam is hating someone who never harmed you.

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Rabbi Binny Freedman said:

The Talmud tells us that the second Temple was destroyed
through blind, wanton hatred, or sinat chinam. It is difficult
to understand how any hatred can ever be chinam,
which seems to mean “for no reason at all.”

The Netziv suggests that this wanton hatred refers to
disliking or even detesting someone because their views are different.

SOURCE: article titled: “Jewish people have a different set of priorities”
by Rabbi Binny Freedman, 2022 July 13, www (dot) TheJewishStar (dot) com

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If anyone has more definitions of Sinat Chinam,
with exact sources, then we are all eager to read them.

How quickly we Jews forget that President Donald Trump
was not merely pro-Israel; he was THE MOST
pro-Israel USA President of all time.

How quickly we Jews forget that President Donald Trump
was not merely pro-Jewish; he was THE MOST
pro-Jewish USA President of all time.

As USA President, Donald Trump was more pro-Israel
and more pro-Jewish than the majority of USA Jews!

In the next USA Presential election, THE MOST pro-Israel
USA President of all time, Donald Trump, will compete against
a person who wants to become the MOST anti-Israel President
OF ALL TIME, Kamala Harris.

Given that the MOST pro-Israel candidate OF ALL TIME is
competing against the MOST anti-Israel candidate OF ALL TIME,
you might think that American Jews would ALL vote for
the MOST pro-Israel candidate OF ALL TIME, and reject
the MOST anti-Israel candidate OF ALL TIME.

But no! No! No! No! A thousand times NO!
That would be too logical!! That would male too much sense!!

American Jews have become very distracted by countless other issues,
many of them of minor importance or even totally irrelevant.

Because of these numerous distractions, and the confusion they create,
a large percentage of American Jews will vote for
the MOST anti-Israel candidate OF ALL TIME, and reject
the MOST pro-Israel candidate OF ALL TIME.

This a super-massive mistake, especially when Israel
is under intense attack, not only militarily, but also from:
the international news media, the International Criminal Court,
and as always, the United Nations Organization, and many others.

Michael Goodwin of The New York Post said:

The grumbling that Kamala Harris is avoiding reporters like the plague
led to a headline on Fox News that demanded:
“Liberal media minions need to do their jobs.”

Ah, but they are doing their jobs. Their assignment, as they see it,
is to stop Donald Trump from becoming president and no effort is being spared.

If they had another goal, they would be furious as Harris
ignores them and their questions. But meekly accepting
her cold shoulder is all part of a dishonest day’s work.

They will do whatever it takes to elect her.

All of which means Trump shouldn’t hold his breath waiting
for Harris to be exposed during a tough round of interviews.

He may be right, as he said Thursday, that “she can’t do a news conference.”
He said that during a long question-and-answer session he held to draw a contrast with her.

But he, too, misses the larger point: Harris could do an endless loop
of interviews and press conferences and it probably wouldn’t matter.

She’ll choose friendly outlets where Democrats with
press passes will throw her big juicy softballs.
If she swings wildly and misses, they’ll declare it a home run.

If she dishes up one of her zany word salads, she will
be deemed a genius beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals.
And her annoying cackle will be proclaimed endearing.

FIXED ON THE PRIZE

America is experiencing a remarkable series of events,
featuring the shooting of the Republican candidate
by a would-be assassin and the pressured removal
of the Democratic president from his reelection campaign,
yet the media hasn’t blinked.

They remain fixed on the prize of making certain
Trump doesn’t get back to the Oval Office.

The mission includes turning away from the attempt to assassinate him.
You don’t have to be a historian to marvel at how little interest there is
about the background and motivation of the 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Crooks.

Nor is there much detail about an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump
that, we recently learned, had been broken up by the FBI
just the day before the Pennsylvania shooting.

Crooks reportedly had three foreign email accounts
but we are assured by anonymous “official” sources
speaking to leftist outlets there is no connection between the two plots.

PBS, a reliable indicator of the radical mindset, put it this way:

“US officials acknowledged last month that a threat on
Donald Trump’s life from Iran prompted additional security
in the days before a Pennsylvania rally in which
Trump was injured by a gunman’s bullet.
That July 13 shooting, carried out by a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man,
was unrelated to the Iran threat . . . a law enforcement official said.”

So there was “additional security” in Pennsylvania,
but still Crooks was able to fire at Trump
from an open rooftop just 130 yards away?

This, of course, is the same Secret Service that dropped
its probe into a bag of cocaine found at the Biden White House
because it couldn’t find the perp in two weeks.
The Keystone Kops were more diligent.

If the assassination plots involved Biden or any Democrat,
the media would treat them as earth-shattering stories.

Every rumor, speculation and tidbit of information would be
blasted out in breathtaking fashion about a national security crisis.

UNFAIR PLAY

Republicans would be lashed with harsh denunciations
about overheated political rhetoric and accused of sparking violence.

But when Dems and the media repeatedly declare Trump
a threat to democracy and then he narrowly avoids death,
and when a foreign power also assigns an agent to kill him,
the page is quickly turned.

There is no outrage toward Iran, nor does the media express
any curiosity about why Iran wants to kill Trump but not Biden.

The reason is obvious, but to spell it out
would be to expose Biden’s appeasement policies.
Recall that Trump droned Iran’s terror chief and put tough sanctions
on the mullahs’ oil, while Biden lifted the sanctions and keeps trying
to bribe Iran to rejoin the failed nuclear pact that Trump scuttled.

Even after Iran loosed its terror proxies on Israel and the groups
killed three American service members in Jordan,
wounded others in Iraq and took Americans hostage in Israel,
Biden pulls his punches and demands Israel do the same.

Then came Friday’s reports that Iran is using fake news sites
and other online activity to interfere in the fall election.

Not until the third paragraph does the AP note that
“US officials have previously hinted that Iran
particularly opposes former President Donald Trump.”

A more honest way to write the same story would be
to say upfront that Iran wants to help elect Harris.
That’s how it would be written if Iran was trying to help elect Trump.

Here’s another comparison: If JD Vance were accused of
“stolen valor” by his former military comrades, would
the media circle the wagons around him the way
they are protecting Tim Walz against the same charges?
The question answers itself.

Sadly, even tragically, there is nothing new in the media jihad
against Trump. It started in 2016 and hasn’t stopped.

The big outlets tried to drag Hillary Clinton over the finish line,
but couldn’t do it. So many newsrooms, so many tears.

In 2020, they were happy to let Biden hide in his basement.
They knew then he was in decline, but believed it better
to have a decrepit Democrat in the White House than the evil Trump.

During his tenure, Biden set a modern record for the fewest
press conferences and interviews. It should have been treated as a scandal,
but even as Biden ignored them, reporters ignored his cognitive decline.

DIFFERENT STANDARDS

When the president scolded the press for mild criticism,
they remained loyal to his re-election.

He said publicly his son Hunter Biden did nothing wrong,
and they didn’t bother to note that it was improper for a president
to comment on a case pending before his Justice Department.

He let it be known he wanted Trump prosecuted and thrown in jail,
which should have been met with thunderous outrage, but instead, crickets.

Actually, it wasn’t crickets. There was a very loud applause
because that’s what the media wants, too.

They stuck with Biden until it was clear he would lose,
then flipped on a dime and led the charge to replace him.

They didn’t know who Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and
the megadonors would replace him with — and didn’t care.

Any Democrat who increased the odds of beating Trump would do.

To judge from reports about Harris’ “joyful” campaign,
many in the media are giddy that she is generating
so much enthusiasm and, according to polls, is now beating Trump.

That makes it extra delusional for anyone, including him,
to believe the press will jeopardize her chances
by holding the two candidates to the same standards.

If Trump is going to win, he’ll have to do it the way he did it in 2016:
despite the media.

SOURCE: article titled: “The liberal media will do anything
to get Kamala Harris elected – which includes not questioning her”
by Michael Goodwin 2024 August 10 www (dot) NYPost (dot) com