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  • in reply to: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located #2312707
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    Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt’l:

    754. The Zionst leaders together with the Reform “rabbis” aided substantially in the destruction of the European Jews.

    In July 1938 President Roosevelt convened the Evian Conference to consider the problem of Jewish refugees. At that time a German offer was made to release Jews at $250 per person. The Jewish Agency, headed by Golda Meir, decided to ignore the offer.

    At this conference, the delegation from the Jewish Agency made no effort to influence the United States or any of the 32 other participating nations to open their gates to admit German Jews.

    755. When a shipload of Jewish refugees on the Danube river were refused permission to disembark anywhere, Henry Montor the leader of the United Jewish Appeal explained that they could not be allowed to sail the Holy Land because “Palestine cannot be flooded with old people or with undesirables”. (Feb. 1, 1940).

    768. Rabbi Weismandl sent urgent and impassioned appeals for small funds to stave off the deportation of thousands. The assimilationists and Zionists of Switzerland and other neutral countries and of the rich countries and of the rich communities overseas refused his request. The Reform “rabbis” and the disloyal, to whom the public Jewish funds were entrusted, scorned the messages which Rabbi Weissmandl smuggled out at the risk of his life, and they allowed the masses of Slovakian and Hungarian Jews to be transported to the German killing-centers.

    769. It was because European Jews put their trust in atheistic Zionist leaders that these leaders everywhere became the lackeys of the Nazis in all the Ghettos. They were the machinery, which served efficiently in the task of keeping the Jews docile and of persuading and coercing them to be sent off to their deaths. No Torah leader ever cooperated with the Nazis in the destruction machinery.

    in reply to: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located #2312706
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    Rabbi Yitchok Hutner Z”L:

    Sadly, even in our own circles, the mold for shaping public opinion lies in the hands of the State of Israel. An appropriate example of this dangerous process of selectively “rewriting” history may be found in the extraordinary purging from the public record of all evidence of the culpability of the forerunners of the State in the tragedy of European Jewry, and the sub-situation in is place of factors inconsequential to the calamity which ultimately occurred.

    To cover its own contribution to the final catastrophic events, those of the State in a position to influence public opinion circulated the notorious canard that Gedolei Yisroel were responsible for the destruction of many communities because they did not urge immigration. This charge is, of course, a gross distortion of the truth, and need not be granted more dignity than it deserves by issuing a formal refutation. However, at the same time as the State made certain to include this charge as historical fact in every account of the war years, it successfully sought to omit any mention of its own contribution to the impending tragedy. While the State omitted in its own version of history is the second of the above-mentioned new directions in recent Jewish history. It is that phenomenon which we must now examine.

    in reply to: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located #2312705
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    philosopher: I’ve provided numerous quotes from Rav Hunter and Rav Miller on this site, in the Coffee Room, well over ten years ago. You can easily find them with an easy search. But to be helpful I’ll reprint on this thread a couple of quotes from them, for your benefit.

    Virtually the entire secular Israeli society self-identifies as Zionists. Your attempting to redefine who is oumr isn’t a Zionists, even though those millions of Israeli folks themselves identify as Zionists, is simply not credible.

    And, of course, we are in Golus. That is equally true whether we live in America, Australia or in Israel. That will unfortunately remain the case until the coming of Moshiach. The problem is that Zionists think Golus is over. You can right over here on this site see how many dozens and dozens of times many posters here who identify as Zionists refer to Chutz l’aarerz as “Golus” and Israel they refer to as outside of Golus. I did not say America is safer. I disputed the Zionists frequent false assertions that their State of Israel is some sort of safe haven for Jews and is, despite all evidence to the contrary, safer for Jews than living in Australia, Canada, America, England, France, Russia, Argentina, Cuba, Morocco or even Iran. It is just as likely, if not more likely, that the Jews in Israel may need to flee the Zionist State of Israel to other countries than vice versa. The Brisker Rosh Yeshiva said exactly this just a year or two ago, as widely reported here and elsewhere.

    in reply to: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located #2312614
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    Dofi; Your comments are viewed the same as how we Jews look at Nazi’s critique of Jews.

    in reply to: עד אחד נאמן באיסורין #2312456
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    Reb Eliezer: Why does she need a divorce for the second one? As her first husband is alive, the marriage to the second was never valid in the first place.

    in reply to: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located #2312419
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    smerel: That’s a fair answer to the question in the OP. You are saying that it is worth sacrificing the lives of the hostages in order to destroy Hamas.

    philosopher: The State of Israel is part of golus. Jews aren’t safe there either (not that you need anyone to tell you that; you can simply read the news.) The problem lies when Zionists falsely claim that their State is the answer to golus and that their State is a safetynet for Jews around the world, when it is exactly the opposite.

    And is it Gedolei Yisroel zt’l such as Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l, Rav Yitzchok Hunter zt’l, the Satmar Rebbe zt’l and many others who publicly stated that the Zionists bear guilt for the Holocaust.

    Yes, the anti-Jewish terrorism *is* a result of Zionism. Prior to Zionism, which began around 1898 when Chief Zionist Theodore Herzl ym’s called to take over Palestine and thereby riled up the Arabic world, the Arab/Muslim world prior to Zionism (note that 1898 is an earlier date than the Zionists establishing their state in ’48) was much more Jewish-friendly and far less violent than the Christian/European world. Sure there were sporadic incidents of Arab/Muslim violence against Jews over the centuries; after all we are in Golus and there is NOWHERE to escape antisemitism until Moshia cubes. But the Arab/Muslim violence in 1,000 years leading up to the Balfour Declaration in 1917 was nothing even remotely close in quantity to the regular cycles of murder and genocide initiated against us Jews by the Christians in Europe, with their regularly scheduled blood libels, expulsions, Inquisitions, Crusades, Ghettos, annual Christmas-eve call to violence by their priests and bishops (hence Nitul Nacht), and, of course leading up to last but very much not least, their murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust in just this concluding century that our own grandfathers and grandmothers experienced and told all of us about.

    No, the Arabs and Muslims didn’t even come close to out -competing the Christians and Europeans. Our Jewish brothers and sisters living under Arab and Muslim rule did much much much better (until Zionism existed) than us Jews living under Christian and European rule.

    in reply to: Covering the collarbone #2312415
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    Square: You once again built a strawman with your false claim that Ashkenazic Gedolim have anything other than a very high opinion of Sephardic Gedolim.

    in reply to: Zionism #2312414
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    ReflectiveNotes: You missed the point. Zionism and the State of Israel have been devastating to Klal Yisroel. We would have been much better off if they never happened. What to do now is a separate question. Giving the State over to the Arabs now might be the wrong thing. But that doesn’t retroactively change the fact that the State should never have existed in the first place.

    This point needs to be stressed every time Zionists come here and elsewhere on the web and in real life pontificating that their State is the safest place for Jews (it is not) and the State is the greatest thing (au contraire).

    smerel: Brisk is extremely anti-Zionism. The Brisker Rov and the Satmar Rebbe were very close with each other. Notwithstanding any minor disagreements, as virtually all Gedolim will have with another.

    in reply to: Moderation Memos, Posting Tips, and Important Links 📝⬆️🔗 #2312413
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    Kat: What’s so interesting?

    in reply to: Mods? Mods? #2312412
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    Menachem: Did it go through on Take Two? I’m wondering which post it is.

    in reply to: Who Keeps the Wife Who Was Married Twice? #2312411
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    Ishpurim: Regarding מיתת הבעל מתיר, are you claiming that means that every wife in the world will be single after Techiyas Hameisim?

    And what if the wife passed away *before* her final husband?

    in reply to: Hatzulas Nefashos vs. Hatzalah #2312410
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    dkbmd: Your point is well taken. Wouldn’t it be equally applicable regarding Shmira?

    in reply to: Trump: ‘Israel will no longer exist if Harris becomes president’ #2312192
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    The State of Israel will no longer exist as soon as Moshiach arrives (if not earlier.)

    in reply to: Re: Geneiva is Geneva Switzerland according to AI #2312191
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    You must have been bored today.

    in reply to: Covering the collarbone #2311042
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    Toi, I told ‘ya that your back, despite your denying so.

    The only sad part is that, if this comment is any indicator, your hashkofos have moved leftwards.

    in reply to: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located #2310740
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    We see how great Zionism and the State of Israel is. The great and powerful IDF protects Jews from our enemies. Whereas all over the world outside our great Zionist homeland paradise, Jews are being slaughtered every day by the dozens, whereas in the State under the protection of the IDF, only six Jews were murdered this week.

    Previous terrorist attacks under the IDF’s watch, like 1,200 people on October 7 and other previous terrorists attacks killing Jews in our great and powerful State, were exceptions. But if you count the figures since the holiest date in the calendar, May 14, 1948 when our holy Zionist state was founded, through today, you will see the figures clearly show that Jews are safest in the areas where the IDF controls the “security”, versus other countries where many Jews live in, such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Iran, Morocco, France, Russia, and Argentina, where statistics show that since 1948 many many more Jews are maimed, murdered and die in wars than in the Great State of Israel.

    in reply to: Covering the collarbone #2309959
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    Yseribus: That’s completely false. It has always been men, specifically Rabbonim, who have regulated tznius.

    Should we discard all the Seforim HaKedoshim written by male Rabbonim and Halachos established by men and learnt on a regular basis by bochorim, yungerleit, baalei batim and Gedolei Rabbonim regarding the intricacies of tznius and other Hilchos Noshim?

    in reply to: Zionism #2309957
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    Simcha:

    Since 1948 the State of Israel has bore the largest victimhood of anti-Semitic violence, terrorism, war and deaths against the Jewish People. Nowhere else in the world, since 1948, have Jews suffered even a fraction as much of anti-Jewish death and violence as Jews have experienced under the Zionist Regime.

    in reply to: Yeshiva- Style davening in flatbush #2309754
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    There’s an official Chaim Berlin minyan a few blocks from there.

    in reply to: Zionism #2309711
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    It helped solidify the proof of what a tragedy Zionism has caused the Jewish people. The Zionist State has been the largest cause of anti-Semitic violence, terrorism, war and deaths r”l against the Jewish People ever since the rasha Theodore Herzl announced the Zionist goals and especially every since the rasha David Ben-Gurion and his henchmen established the Zionist Entity.

    Nowhere else in the world, since the State’s establishment, has suffered even a fraction as much of anti-Jewish death and violence as Jews have experienced in the so-called State of Israel.

    in reply to: Covering the collarbone #2309464
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    Chenkin is unreliable. He’s okay with mixed dancing, too.

    in reply to: רודף vs. גואל הדם #2309192
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    Bayit: Everything the Torah says is, by definition, moral and ethical.

    in reply to: 42nd Yahr Zeit of Satmar Rav Ztz’l כואב the 26th of Av #2308937
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    The loss to Klal Yisroel is still felt as strongly today as when the tzadik was niftar.

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2308768
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    X-CTL: Why not privatize all government schools and then let each parent choose which school to send their children to?

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2308722
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    yuda the maccabi: the love Zionists have for the Zionist Entity reminds me of the love Spanish Jews had for Spain, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella until the Inquisition, mass conversion of 50% of the Jewish population in Spain and expulsion of the other 50%.

    in reply to: רודף vs. גואל הדם #2308351
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    Beis Din protects the accidental killer from the time they declare he is subject to a revenge killing by the גואל הדם until the time Beis Din successfully gets him to an Ir Miklat.

    Also, even when the גואל הדם has the right to kill the the killer, and finds an opportunity to do so (outside the Arei Miklat), the killer has the right to defend himself by killing the גואל הדם in order to prevent the גואל הדם from his immediate attempt at killing him.

    in reply to: רודף vs. גואל הדם #2308013
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    The גואל הדם only has the right to revenge after Beis Din ruled so. Thus, it would be known in advance who was an accidental killer that is subject to revenge and who the relatives are.

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2307902
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    People shouldn’t be in kollel

    CA: Now THAT kinda opinion _would_ be controversial. But that ain’t what I said. Kollel and working aren’t a stira.

    Emotionally, they may not be ready until 10 years later.

    Dorah: Or until 20 years later, I suppose. Would you suggest young adults wait until their mid-30s to get married?

    Unless, as is frequently the case, the wife is smarter than the husband and can earn 2x or 3x as much so he can stay home, take care of the kids and learn.

    Well, there always might be that unicorn. But we’re talking about the norm, not the exceptional exception.

    Agreed. Drop them off with love and dignity and call them once a week.

    Is Zaidy and Bubby really only worth to you a remote once a week phone call?

    The frum oilom is EXTREMELY susceptible to propaganda and fake news.

    Yseribus: You’re living in the wrong circles. The real frum oilom are the least suspectable to any of that.

    I oppose school vouchers, if anyone wants to send their children to private schools then the taxpayer should not pay.

    X-CTL: Why should children be forced to suffer in failed NYC public schools rather than be given the opportunity to choose a private school that teaches successfully and without violence?

    A better idea (and one that fits what the OP of this thread is looking for) is that government should get out of the school business and let the free market operate and parents will choose winning schools that produce successful children.

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2307466
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    By default, barring proven extenuating circumstances, divorce, like marriage, must be mutually agreed to. A unilateral demand for it may be vetoed by the spouse.

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2307465
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    Children must be physically disciplined at times.

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2307270
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    1. Young adults should be ready for marriage at 18.

    2. Husbands should work, wives should stay at home.

    3. Young ladies who go to seminary after high school should do so close to home.

    4. Don’t dump Zaidy or Bubby into a nursing home.

    in reply to: What is your most unpopular/controversial opinion or hot take? #2307265
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    skripka: None of your expressed opinions here seem especially controversial or unpopular.

    in reply to: Lashon Hara/ Hate Speech #2306058
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    Dorah: Do you also go around saying that one man’s porn is another man’s art? And then insist on no “censorship” of such “art”?

    in reply to: Lashon Hara/ Hate Speech #2306056
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    CA: By time you hit the Loshon Hora button, you were already oiver the issur.

    in reply to: Lashon Hara/ Hate Speech #2306046
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    WB Toi!

    in reply to: Music on Tisha B’Av #2305777
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    There’s a software program that lets you enter your shaila as well as the answer to it that you want. It’ll then give you the name of a rabbi that says you can do what you want to do, as per the question you asked.

    in reply to: Baseball cap #2304719
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    Yeridos Hadoros

    in reply to: If moshiach came today (or tomorrow) #2303728
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    Dr. Pepper, I love your posts and commentary and have been an avid follower of you over the more than 16 years you’ve been active here. I look forward to continue reading your valuable shared knowledge and opinions.

    I wanted to mention that beginning with this election season, this year (and possibly late last calendar year), the tone, vibe and style of your comments have been unlike what I’ve been accustomed to over the past decade and a half. It’s just much different, I’m not saying better or worse. But I’m curious if anything might account for this change?

    in reply to: Venezuela Timeline #2303653
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    Kuvult: Yet, Lincoln, indeed did save the Union. And Lincoln is held up as a true American hero, ever since the end of the Civil War through today, by all sides of the partisan divide. So, perhaps, it can be argued that even the excesses you describe above may have been the right medicine for those dark times of war when the Union was threatened with disintegration — a fate Lincoln saved America from.

    in reply to: Israel Antagonist Kamala Harris #2303234
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    Yseribus: All three will say yes. A secular divorce has no significant meaning in Judaism and Halacha. A couple can live a fully kosher married life until 120 without ever having obtained a secular marriage.

    Also, your comment “has been separated for a year and has a get” is redundant. If a Get was given, it is halachicly obligatory to be separated.

    in reply to: Israel Antagonist Kamala Harris #2303158
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    Harris rejected Shapiro since, even though he isn’t particularly pro-Israel, he’s Jewish and the Arab/Muslim demographic of the Democrat Party (Michigan, etc.) didn’t want any Jew.

    in reply to: Killing lice on shabbos #2302944
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    I answered your questions. You missed the Rav Chaim?

    in reply to: Israel Antagonist Kamala Harris #2302861
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    Yseribus: Absolutely, positively, yes. A woman who hasn’t received a Get isn’t “divorced”. She is an eishes ish and married as much as your wife is married. And she most certainly is prohibited from dating.

    in reply to: Parking Meter Tickets – An NYC “Gotcha!” #2302862
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    Then there was the officer who, after issuing a motorist a ticket, was yelled at by the driver that he was giving it to him to meet his quota. The officer replied that he already exceeded his quota for the day and was now giving the ticket just for the fun of it.

    in reply to: Parking Meter Tickets – An NYC “Gotcha!” #2302758
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    I’m not following how a ticket can get lost before the meter maids come to check it; it is supposed to be put inside the car on the dashboard, showing from the windshield. I never saw anyone put it outside the car (on the windshield, with the wiper blades.)

    in reply to: ‘Lone Soldier’ #2302761
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    Thoughts are that he shouldn’t have volunteered in the first place.

    in reply to: Joseph #2302767
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    Who is this legend I keep hearing references to but is seemingly never seen? Do we really have such a whispering phantom in our presence? He or she must be the Hastur or Keyser Söze of the Coffee Room.

    in reply to: Israel Antagonist Kamala Harris #2302729
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    Josh Shapiro, who is auditioning in trying to get Kamala to pick him for her running mate, has apologized for having been pro-Israel in the past. A few days ago he apologized for his pro-Israel op-ed written while he was in college, saying he “was only 20” years old then and doesn’t hold those pro-Israel views today, anymore.

    in reply to: Israel Antagonist Kamala Harris #2302730
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    Yseribus: There’s no such thing as “only technically married”. Either one is married or one is unmarried. A married person who is separated is still married and just as prohibited from engaging in adultery as any other married person who isn’t separated.

    in reply to: Killing lice on shabbos #2302654
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    It has nothing to do with me. I didn’t call anyone an apikorus; I simply quoted to you the Rishonim and Achronim call them an apikorus.

    Take up your complaints against the Ran, Aruch Hashulchan, et al.

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