TheBearIsBack

The yeshivish community in the deVimy area is a small, but influential one (Rav Hirschprung was the rosh yeshiva for many years). Real estate is cheaper, but not that much cheaper, than in US cities, but the price of kosher food is very high. Very reliable, non-profit local kashrus – considered mehadrin outside Montreal.

Some problems with French extremists and Muslims, but still much safer than many other places. The French problem is one nut and one city legislator in the Chassidishe area, and Muslims who start up are dealt with very severely by law enforcement.

Cold winters, snow starts melting around Pesach if you’re lucky.

You CAN survive in the Yiddishe velt without French, but only if you stay exclusively within the community. To work outside it, you need French.

Isn’t Rabbi Emanuel’s first name Shaul?

While I disagree with and am sometimes annoyed with YWN’s moderation policy on one point (allowing zerods whose hashkafah is clearly YCT-conservadox to post here), I can honestly say that YWN is the only Jewish news source that clearly does NOT use shill posters to generate debate.

It becomes an aveirah when it is done for no reason at all, and you end up with a quota of patients you must visit in order to return to learning. It becomes a real aveirah when those patients don’t want to see you (it happened to me the last time I did organized bikur choilim because of a mistake on the Shabbos list the organizers gave us – that’s human error, but this would force patients to accept visitors.)

They don’t want compromise. These parties would CEASE TO EXIST and their DEMAGOGUE leaders would be getting bituach leumi the moment charedim perform some sort of service.

They need the charedi bogeyman to get ahead. They can’t fight Arabs, so they fight Jews. They know they have no real claim to the land, so they fight those who do.

However, “danta es dinam, ravta es rivam…and you know the rest” will apply here just as it applied in the days of the misyovnim who created the situation that finished with the ness of Chanukah.

Some yeshiva students, and especially koilel yingerleit, are already doing volunteer work. I saw some so-called “loafers” transporting a patient for Rav Firer on a flight that left at a time long before most Yidden daven Shacharis. That is quite typical, and it is also known that only charedim donate blood “stam” (with no reward and not for family members) in Y-m and even in TA, where men from the largely Gerrer community donate so often that the nurses assume every donor with a beard holds by the Gur strictures regarding tznius.

The lefties just start street protests because the medina won’t pay for their fifteen years of graffiti courses and reward them with luxury apartments for doing squat all day. What’s more, the few who do “volunteer” do so with organizations that promote Arab terror.

The medine is suicidal. It has to be. It is a loaf of bread on a Seder table, or a chozzer on the mizbeach.

It is very simple. The medine has lost its will to fight Arabs, because deep down it knows the Arabs are right and the tzioini experiment, which is failing, is a colonial imposition of a foreign culture in E”Y. Therefore, it fights those Jews who are not accepting of its foreign culture.

It will be business as usual, muddle-through and malaise, until the next elections – and then more of the same until the world does the will of Hashem and removes the tzioini aberration from EY (as it already is doing with boycotts, sanctions and divestment). When the tzioini experiment comes to its end, countries will be issuing refugee visas to “Israelis.”

And we, bnei Torah outside EY, will be the ones stuck with the burden of helping these refugees, just as many of the dregs of EY already show up on shul doorsteps throughout the world with sob stories (that are more often than not scam stories).

I do not think the IDF will ever draft the Sheinkin Street lefties. Most are druggies who can’t pass a physical or psychometric exam, and they truly earn their ” profil 21″ psycho exemptions or “profil 24” unsuitable ratings. Then they go abroad, and throw themselves on the mercy of Chabad Houses throughout the world. (I am no longer officially Chabad for many reasons, and this is one of them – I feel helping these shticklach erev rav is misplaced chessed as they just take, take, take. You don’t want to hear my stories of how the dati leumi travelers behave either, believe me.)

Weberman will be so lonely for the next century.

He needs Mondrowitz to keep him company in his cell.

Even if some of his message made some sense, Mr Emile Amsellem, whose smicha is valid only after shkia, is indeed a back-stabber. He did indeed try to build himself on the back of Shas, and he just kept saying whatever people wanted to hear until they realized he was as phony as a nine-shekel note.

I was living in peace with my neighbor. I have little in common with him, but we greet each other when we see each other and otherwise mind our own business. My building has three empty apartments. All of a sudden, a drug gang takes over those three apartments. The gang, which, it turns out, is run by a distant relative of mine, terrorizes me, but I stay put. Then, they occupy the whole building, demand protection from me, and ask me to help them blow up my neighbor’s building so they can build a second drug den. My neighbor gets confused, and starts pelting me with rocks because I am distantly related to the drug dealers. The dealers give me a hard time because they say that my blood ties to their leader are more important than living a quiet, peaceful and moral life.

They’ve made it impossible for me to work because they take protection from every business in my area and they’ve all been told not to hire me. They hit me up so hard for protection that I have no money left to do much on my own, so I take their leftovers just to stay alive.

I cannot rise up against them because they have become too powerful, and they can turn off my electricity and water. Regardless, I know I have nothing in common with them, and that they basically stole my apartment and my peaceful life, so I cannot in good conscience join them to fight my innocent neighbor.

I cannot give up either, because every inch of the building I live in really belongs to me and I have the deeds to prove it. The next-door building is probably legally mine, too, but I don’t need it and no one has lived in it for years. So long as the neighbor wants to live in peace, I have no interest whatsoever in proving he is a squatter.

Now, the drug gangsters, who can’t even get along with each other, started a fight between me and him, when in reality we never had any problems. Because the new crowd is so bad, he started to claim that he had squatters’ rights to his home, just so he can get help getting rid of the gangsters – and he’s so fed up he’d just as soon get rid of me too. Meanwhile, the real squatters are the drug gangsters, who may indeed be my blood relatives but whose ways are so far from those of my family that they endanger me and everyone who was around me and lived in peace until they came along.

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The above is the situation regarding charedim and the medine.

Charedim were living peacefully and quietly in EY before the tzioinim came along. It wasn’t the greatest life, but life wasn’t too good anywhere in those days. The Arabs were even willing to sell us land, as we made it clear we had no desire to do anything but make room for ourselves to live in peace as our numbers grew.

The tzioinim not only started with the British and the Arabs, but they mocked us and, like the misyovnim of old, tried to tear us away from Torah. They were nothing but schnorrers, and they were getting money to buy land for illegal purposes.

Now, they want us to join them in defending them against the neighbors with whom we lived in peace until they came along. (Hevron Tarpat -1929- was caused by tzioinim – zechor veal tishkach!)

Am Shavur (or Am Shilem) could have joined his friend Lipman and run on Lapid’s sinas chinam list. It does not look like Amnon Itzhak did too much damage to anyone.

As for the medine, EY is too important to leave in the hands of the Israelis. Torah Jews the world over should join with real bnei Torah in EY and negotiate with Arabs in private, so we are guaranteed a small, autonomous Torah yishuv and rights to daven in the mekoimois hakedoishim when the medine falls.

More of the typical malaise and indecision – and hopefully an exodus, particularly of chilonim, as the left and the leftist American administration embolden the Arabs to make life in EY miserable and the medine come to its well-deserved end.

Hashem Hu Malkenu.

The mechitza must be at least 17867 pixels high by 3698 pixels wide. (Hilchos Internet: Pninei Creedmoor: Simen 80:90)

There are Satmar businessmen who own or rent private jets. What’s more, you can buy a jet, lease it out, and it comes out almost free for your own use. I know several people who do just that, and if I did not fear flying in non-commercial airliners I’d probably look into this as a business venture myself.

Rest assured that none of the pennies you throw in a Satmar Bikur Choilim pushka, if those still exist, will go to pay for a private jet or use thereof. That is assuming the private jet story is even true. If it is, a private donor will pay for the jet.

Fweeky Fweedy – the man who put the twerp in Antwerp!

Fweeky Fweedy will do anything for attention.

He is also desperate for money. He is hoping that the girls’ school will give him some gelt so he will withdraw his children.

He is a classic sociopath, who even uses his own children in a quest for the attention he never got in yeshiva ktana.

The kehilla should have taken his kids into the school, to help them lead normal lives. However, it must be noted that Antwerp is in a financial crunch, and Fweeky Fweedy is not only unable to pay tuition, but he is a known cheat and fraudster. It may not have been possible for the school to take a chance on these nebach kids.

Since lesser forms of tsedaka don’t require a “haskomo,” why should this superior form?

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1) A haskomo is often needed for tzedoko – we don’t know who is who anymore with all of the competing organizations out there.

2) It is not inconceivable that an organization like the one that steps on feet could sponsor an innocuous-sounding “parnosso fair” when its real goal is chas vesholom to promote kefira.

This expo has proper haskomos. What goes on in Beit Shimush should stay in the beit shimush, as the events there have little to do with anything similar elsewhere – indeed there are all kinds of agitators there looking to make trouble.