admin | November 22, 2019
With great fanfare and amid a festive atmosphere, the grand rabbi of the Satmar hassidic dynasty, Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum, distributed some $5 million on Wednesday night to approximately 150 institutions in Israel that do not receive funding from the state due to their anti-Zionist ideology.The rabbi was lauded by hundreds of his Hassidim as he entered the celebration hall to the sounds of rapturous music. He made his way up to the central platform to sit at the center of the ranks of leading rabbis from the Satmar community.A special new melody was composed for the occasion and put to the words of a song sung by a boys choir as the rabbi entered the hall.The Yiddish words of the song were taken from those of Satmars founding grand rabbi, explaining that when the messiah comes, he will point to the children who studied in institutions that did not take money from the State of Israel and say, These children helped bring the messiah.Teitelbaum is in Israel on a 10-day visit to meet and be greeted by his Hassidim, tour parts of the country, and to visit the Satmar communities in Israel, principally Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh.And of course, to distribute money.Teitelbaum distributed checks made out in shekels during the ceremony on Wednesday night called the Pure Shekel to the heads of the institutions selected to receive funding, who came up to the platform one by one to receive the money from the grand rabbi.The money, The Jerusalem Post was told, is wired from New York to Israel, and the checks are then made out individually to the receiving institutions, which include schools, yeshivas and kollels (talmudic seminaries for married men).The Satmar rebbe gives funds both to institutions belonging to the Satmar community, as well as those connected to the radical Eda Haredit association of various types of ultra-Orthodox and hassidic communities that have a similar anti-Zionist, isolationist ideology to that of Satmar.Of late, money is also given to the Jerusalem Faction, a radical splinter group from the mainstream, non-hassidic Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community.SPEAKING TO the Post at the Pure Shekel event, Rabbi Moshe Friedman, a senior and highly trusted secretary to the visiting grand rabbi, said that the Satmar community believes that if you take money from the State of Israel then the community will inevitably be influenced by the state, and therefore Satmar declines any funding.So this is why we come to give support to the people here who are needy and dont take money from the state, he said.Asked whether the messiah can come as long as the State of Israel exists, Friedman said no, and that the Zionist state must end in some way before the messiah can come.We hope of course that it should not come about through war or suffering this is, of course, not something we want, he said.
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admin | November 22, 2019
Two of the Prime Ministers grandchildren were spotted at the procession that welcomed the Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg to Jerusalem earlier this week.
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admin | November 22, 2019
By Lawrence DavidsonA local legal hero: Meir Shamgar On 19 October 2019 Meir Shamgar died. He was 94 years old. Shamgar is not exactly a household name here in the West, but he was renowned in Israel
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admin | November 22, 2019
Around 25-30 Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-led protesters chanted from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free during pro-Israel activist Hen Mazzigs Nov.
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admin | November 22, 2019
The scene where a man was stabbed whilewalking to synagogue in Monsey Peter Carr, pcarr@lohud.com Fear gripped the greater Monsey area after Wednesday morning's stabbing of a man walking to synagogue. Shock, they said, should not be mistaken for surprise that such an attack would occur in an area that is home tothousands of Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. Many pointed to growing tensions between a generally secular Rockland and Ramapo's ultra-Orthodox community, an issue that bubbled up duringthe recent elections
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admin | November 22, 2019
NEW YORK (JTA) On our first date nearly nine years ago, my (now) husband resolved to improve Hasidic education. He had grown up in the Belz Hasidic community in Brooklyn, attending Belz schools from nursery through post-high school.
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admin | November 22, 2019
NEW YORK (JTA) Although it hasnt yet been determined whether the brutal stabbing of a young father on his way to morning prayers in Ramapo, New York, was a an anti-Jewish hate crime, it was described by the local police chief as a vicious, violent attack and would certainly fit the ugly pattern of violence against identifiably Jewish Jews over recent months. Like the 64-year-old rabbi who was hit in the head with a brick while on his daily morning walk in Crown Heights
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admin | November 22, 2019
NEW YORK Although it hasnt yet been determined whether the brutal stabbing of a young father on his way to morning prayers in Ramapo, New York, was a an anti-Jewish hate crime, it was described by the local police chief as a vicious, violent attack and would certainly fit the ugly pattern of violence against identifiably Jewish Jews over recent months.Like the 64-year-old rabbi who was hit in the head with a brick while on his daily morning walk in Crown Heights.
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admin | November 22, 2019
Tanqueray managed to get out of prison and secured a scholarship to the Fashion Institute of Technology. She hated attending the school but said she loved the fact that it led her to her real passion for designing clothes and costumes for strippers and porn stars in the old Times Square.
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admin | November 22, 2019
Israelis Maayan Kline and Ashriel Ashush may look like just another young tourist couple traveling around the United States in a van with their dog, a Belgian Malinois named Benzi. But these are no ordinary tourists. Two of them are also genuine heroes, and one of those heroes is the dog.
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