Revised prayer list: Prayers for Men: Shalom Charles ben Gracia,
Daniel ben Rivka, Ephraim ben Mazel, Zev ben
Rachel, Yisrael Dovid ben Chaya Yenta,
Women: Karen Neshama bas Esther
Ruth, Chaya Melecha Rachel bas Baila Alta, Tsvia Simcha bas Devorah Yachad,
Miriam bas Irene Taita Malka, Shulamis bas Etta,
Chana Friedel bas Sara, Drorah Rivka bas Chana, Leah bas Sara, Esther
Georgette bas Misoda, Mine’ Dulah bas Maxine, Rachel Izel bas Sara, Devorah Rosa (row sa)
bas Freyda Leah
The following persons are recovering
from long term non-threatening injuries and need Psalms. Binum Benyamin Tuvia
ben Chana Friedel, Avraham HaCohain ben Yocheved, Melech
David ben Sulah Pearla, Menachem Mendel
Shlomo ben Chaya Rochel,
Parsha Shemos
After Levi died at the
age of 133, the 80 years of slavery began. Our Parsha basically begins right
after Beresheis ends and the rest of the Chumash is what happened in the 40
years of Nation building and receiving the Torah and Halachos.
1:1 Now
these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob;
every man came with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and
Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were
seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And
Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 And
the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied,
and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
They had very good land
in the land of Goshen and prospered.
8 Now
there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
There are two schools of
thought on "he knew not Yosef". The first is that he learned history
in a WOKE type generation where real history was not taught and sounded like
Obama and the "57 States". The other school of thought is that he
pretended that he did not know Yosef. The first is feasible to me as the
original Pharaoh might have been much older than Yosef and Yosef died perhaps
15 years or more before Levi, the last brother died and slavery started.
9 And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people
of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;
Have you ever heard the
arguments that the Jews run and control everything? Same principle here.
10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they
multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalls us any war, they also
join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of
the land.'
Did somebody every ask
you if you are an American or Brit – what happens if we are at war with Israel
which side are you going to be on? That was the thought here.
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to
afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities,
Pithom and Raamses.
The first name may have
been a historical figure or the place. Ramses was a Pharaoh and built up an
area on his name.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they
multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the
children of Israel.
They saw the Bnei
Yisrael giving birth to twins, afflicted more and got triples, etc. up to
sextuplets.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel
to serve with rigor.
The original slavery was
supposed to be 400 years but because the Egyptians oppressed and worked them
with rigor, the time was shortened.
With back-breaking labor: Heb.
בְּפָרֶ. With hard labor that crushes the body and
breaks it.
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard
service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in
all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor. 15 And
the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was
Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;
Rashi says they were Yocheved
and Miriam.
Shifrah: This was Jochebed, [called
Shifrah] because she beautified [מְשַׁפֶּרֶת]
the newborn infant. [From Sotah 11b] Puah: This
was Miriam, [called Puah] because she cried (פּוֹעָה)
and talked and cooed to the newborn infant in the manner of women who soothe a
crying infant. פּוֹעָה is an expression of
crying out, similar to “Like a travailing woman will I cry (אֶפְעֶה) " (Isa.
42:14).
Rashi on Sotah 11b explains that she played with the infant to soothe and amuse
him.
16 and he said: 'When ye do the office of a
midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son,
then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.'
This was Pharaoh's will
for his astrologers had warned him of somebody being born that would free the
slaves.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the
king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said
unto them: 'Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children
alive?'
They could get the death
penalty for defying Pharaoh.
19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh: 'Because
the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are
delivered ere the midwife come unto them.' 20 And God
dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very
mighty.
The best antisemitic
excuse = the Bnei Yisrael are like animals.
21 And it came to pass, because the midwives
feared God, that He made them houses. 22 And Pharaoh
charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall cast into the
river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.'
They had like a hospital
for women giving birth.
2:1 And
there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of
Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Goodly – he was born
circumcised.
3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took
for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she
put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
As soon as the Teva
touched the water, the river turned to blood and Pharaoh was informed but it
appears not the spot where Batya or Basya was. Why the daughter of god because
being the daughter of the god king Pharaoh that was her name.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what
would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to
bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw
the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.
Miriam hid herself for a
young child could move freely about in Egypt and not get the death penalty.
6 And she opened it, and saw it, even the child;
and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is
one of the Hebrews' children.'
He did not cry like an
infant but like a child.
She opened [it], and she saw him: Whom did she see? The child. Its Midrashic interpretation is that she saw
the Shechinah with him. [From Sotah 12b, Exod. Rabbah 1:23] And behold, he was a
weeping lad: [Even though he was an infant]
his voice was like that of a lad. [From Sotah 12b]
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter:
'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the
child for thee?' 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the
maiden went and called the child's mother.
Take the baby to the wet
nurse use this ring of the house of Pharaoh.
9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this
child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman
took the child, and nursed it.
Not only Yocheved nurses
the baby in safety but gets paid for it.
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto
Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and
said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'
Coming from the word to
draw or pull. This all might have been in Egyptian and the Torah translates the
name to Hebrew.
11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses
was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens;
and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And
he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he
smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Physically looked and also
looked if Gerim or Tzaddikim would come from him.
13 He went out
on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarreling, and he said to
the wicked one, "Why are you going to strike your friend?"
Two Hebrew men were quarreling: Dathan and Abiram. They were the ones who saved some of the manna [when
they had been forbidden to leave it overnight, as in Exod.
16:19, 20].
[From Exod. Rabbah 1:29]
14 And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? Think
thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said:
'Surely the thing is known.'
The Bnei Yisrael did not
see him but they know how to learn Pshat who killed the Egyptian.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay
Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of
Midian; and he sat down by a well.
I wonder if the wishing
well comes from the Torah. Eliezer finds a Shidduch for his master's son by a
well. Yacov meets Rachel at the same well and Moshe finds his wife also by a
well. To be continued.
My Nazi Grandfather would have shot me. By Jennifer Teege
https://www.aish.com/sp/so/My-Nazi-Grandfather-Would-Have-Shot-Me.html?s=hp1
Six-foot tall,
bi-racial and German-speaking, Jennifer Teege was noticeably different from
other students at the University of Tel Aviv in the early 1990s. Jennifer
herself didn't yet know just how different she truly was. She would soon
discover that she was the granddaughter of a Nazi mass-murderer.
Jennifer Teege’s
earliest years were harsh and difficult. Her German mother, Monika Goeth, was
estranged from her Nigerian father when Jennifer was born in 1970. Financially
struggling and suffering from depression, Monika deposited Jennifer at the
local Catholic orphanage when she was a month old. Monika and her mother, Ruth
Irene Kalder, visited intermittently, but showed little affection for the
child.
The visits tapered off
when Jennifer was fostered at three, and stopped completely once she was
adopted at age seven. Her new parents refused to allow Monika, who was in an
abusive marriage, to sully her life.
Jennifer would not see
her mother again until she was in her early twenties. In the intervening years
she was raised in a stable middle-class home. It was challenging to know that
her birth mother rejected her, and she felt humiliated when other kids raised
questions about the color of her skin (her adoptive family was white), but
Jennifer was a survivor. Gifted with intelligence and a fighting-spirit, along
with a supportive family, she overcame her own bout with depression at the age
of 20, and went on to study at the Sorbonne.
Her time in Paris came
to an unexpected end once she was invited by an Israeli friend to spend a
vacation at her parents’ home.
Surrounded by Jewish
friends, Jennifer loved Israel and knew she would miss it when she left. She
has described what happened as “a quirk of fate.” She overslept on the morning
of her planned return and missed her plane. One thing led to another and – with
an Israeli boyfriend thrown in – she decided to stay in Israel. She spent the
next four years at the University of Tel Aviv where she earned a degree in
Middle Eastern and African Studies, as well as becoming fluent in Hebrew.
Jennifer, who had
Jewish friends when living in France, didn't find it uncomfortable being a
German student at an Israeli University. More than 45 years after the end of
the war, she never encountered an anti-German bias amongst her (largely
liberal) peers and professors.
She had learned about
the Holocaust in school, and although it was taught as an academic subject –
she had never encountered its victims – she identified with the “new Germany”
that disconnected itself from its past.
When the film Schindler’s
List was released in Israel, she felt no urge to view it right away.
She eventually saw it. “It was shocking, horrific, but I related to it as a
human being, not as a German.”
And Jennifer gave no
attention to the fact that the arch-villain of the story, Amon Goeth, “the
Butcher of Plaszow”, shared her birth name. Jennifer bore the name of her
adoptive parents and had no reason to relate it to herself.
More than a decade
later, Jennifer Teege was living a full and rewarding life in Hamburg. With a
devoted husband, two young children and a good job, her uncertain beginnings
were long forgotten.
At the age of 38,
while browsing in a large library in her hometown, she unearthed a landmine
that threatened to explode the solid edifice she had built. All it took was a
book. Jennifer was drawn to a slim red book that had a strange title: “I Have
to Love My Father, Right?"
Why would anyone ask
this question? she wondered.
After flipping through its pages, Jennifer had her answer. The book had been
co-authored by the daughter of one of Nazi Germany’s most infamous killers,
Amon Goeth, the commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp, the villain
of Schindler’s List.
His daughter, whose
picture was on the book cover, eerily resembled a person she had once known.
Jennifer quickly
turned to the woman’s biographical details at the end of the book and her worst
fears were confirmed. The author, Monika Hertwig (the last name of her second
husband) was her birth mother.
That meant that Amon
Goeth was her grandfather!
A grandfather who was a heinous monster… a grandmother
who’d stood at his side… a mother who did not denounce him. Then later that day
German television broadcasted a PBS documentary called "Inheritance"
that featured Monika and Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, a Jewish maid who was
subjected to Goeth's barbarism. It was too much to process and her emotions
shut-down.
A shattered Jennifer re-entered the realm of depression
that had plagued her years before. Unable to face the world, her Jewish friends,
and most of all herself, she could see only darkness.
Months of intensive therapy and scathing introspection
would follow before Jennifer was able to remove herself from her cocoon of
anger, pain and guilt. As she began to extricate herself from its stifling
layers, she went to visit Plaszow where her grandfather had caused the death of
thousands of Jews. She visited Israel and spoke to Holocaust survivors. She
visited her long-estranged mother and heard the bitter truth about her
grandmother, Ruth Irene Kalder who was Goeth's mistress at his villa in
Plaszow. She had consistently denied Goeth’s wrongdoing until her final days.
Eventually, she was able to look it in the eye and say,
“It’s time to move on.”
In 2013, Jennifer wrote a memoir that chronicles her
journey, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me. Its title alludes to
the notion that Goeth would have shot her on account of her non-Aryan looks.
Jennifer has been able to escape the demons that control
Monika and many of the children of Nazis, whom she describes as “living with
the dead.” Responsibility is not the same thing as guilt. While she
acknowledges the gravity of the actions of her forbears, she has come to the
understanding that she is not to blame for their sins. “There is no Nazi gene,”
she writes. “We can decide for ourselves who and what we want to be.”
Today Jennifer is a full-time motivational speaker. She has
told her story to thousands around the world, using the legacy of one of the
most reviled men in history to inspire many to overcome the challenges they
face.
How Josephine Baker risked her life to fight Nazism
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Josephine Baker, the
American-born dancer who moved to France in 1925, has been in the news lately:
a coffin containing soil from the US, France and Monaco – the three countries
in which Baker lived – was placed in the Pantheon in Paris, the final resting
place for many of France’s greatest heroes.
If Americans recall
Baker today, it’s primarily as a dancer, one of the many American and international
artists who moved to Paris during the 1920s during what Hemmingway (another
American transplant in Paris who befriended Baker there) called “A Moveable
Feast” of camaraderie and artistic creation. Baker’s signature act in the
Parisian show called La Revue Negre made her famous in her adopted country.
Yet Baker was much
more than a dancer. Speaking at her ceremony in the Pantheon, French President
Emanuel Macron described her as “a war hero, fighter, dancer, singer… a woman
defending humankind….”
Baker became a French
citizen in 1937, two years before the outbreak of World War II. That same year
she married a Jewish Frenchman named Jean Leon. When World War II started,
Baker became a member of the French Resistance and did all she could to aid and
shelter Jews. She lived “a double life between, on the one side, the music hall
artist, and on the other side, another secret life, later becoming completely
illegal, of intelligence agent,” explained French historian Geraud Letang.
Born in 1906 in East
St. Louis, Baker had a horrible childhood. Her mother worked as a washerwoman
and Josephine began doing menial work when she was still a child. When Baker
was eleven, she and her mother were two of the 6,000 Black residents who were
driven out of East St. Louis after a horrific anti-black riot that spanned two
days, July 2 and 3, 1917. White rioters burned black residents’ homes, lynched
people and killed with abandon.
As Baker and her
mother fled along with 6,000 of other Black people across the Eads Bridge, she
witnessed one of her father’s friends shot in the face and saw pregnant women
disemboweled. “America was evil then,” Baker said shortly
before her death in a 1975 interview.
Baker married the
first of her three husbands when she was just 13 years old. They soon divorced
and Baker married her second husband at the age of 19.
Baker moved to Paris
in 1925 to dance and became wildly popular, stressing the perceived exoticism
of her Blackness. She often danced in skimpy costumes that evoked European
colonial myths of Africa, decorating her costumes with feathers or bananas. In
her private life, Baker embraced France, renouncing her American citizenship,
learning French and developing connections with people in high society. By
1939, on the eve of World War II, Baker was a French citizen, one of the
highest paid entertainers in all of France, and married once again, this time
to a French Jewish industrialist named Jean Leon.
Their marriage wasn’t
a happy one, and they divorced in 1940 – but not before Leon and Baker
witnessed the barbarity and antisemitism of France’s collaborationist Vichy
Regime. At the outbreak of World War II, Baker and Leon were living in a
beautiful chateau in the Dordogne region, on the border between occupied and
Vichy France. As citizens of Vichy, Baker and Leon had an up-close look at the
virulent antisemitism and anti-Jewish resolutions promulgated by the Vichy
Regime.
After Germany invaded
France in June of 1940, the Nazis established a military occupation in much of
the country. One exception was in the south of France, which was governed by a
supposedly “independent” French government known as the Vichy Regime, named after
its seat in the town of Vichy. The Vichy Regime replaced the French ideals
of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite (Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity) with the three-fold mantra of “Work, Family, Country”. Though Vichy
was ostensibly neutral, in reality it closely collaborated with the Nazis whose
values it shared.
Within months, the
Vichy Regime issued its own anti-Jewish ordinances, closely modelled on
Germany’s Nuremberg laws. Jews were fired from jobs in government and the
military and barred from working in most white-collar professions. In 1941, the
Vichy Regime began seizing Jews’ property and transferring ownership to the
Vichy government. Next, the Vichy Regime interred tens of thousands of Jews in
French-established and French-run concentration camps at Saint-Cyprien, Le
Vernet, Gurs, Rivesaltes and Les Miles. At least 3,000 died from the deplorable
conditions in these French camps.
With anti-Jewish laws
threatening her husband, Baker decided on an audacious course of action. Her
agent was the brother of Jacques Abtey, a high-ranking commander in the French
Resistance. She asked what she could do to help.
Jacques Abtey welcomed
Baker into the Resistance and became her handler in Baker’s newest career as
spy. Baker continued to perform and attend high society events, mixing with
French collaborationists and Germans (though she did notably refuse to attend a
command performance to the German governing authorities in Paris). After each
encounter, she reported what she’d learned back to Abtey.
Within months, Abtey
asked Baker to spy further afield. Baker embarked on a singing and dancing tour
of Spain and Portugal; she brought along a troupe of backup singers and dancers
– in reality French Resistance spies, including Abtey. A round of performances
in Nazi-occupied North Africa soon followed. In 1941 Baker became seriously ill
there for a time but refused to halt her performances and her spying
activities. By 1943, she was back in France, continuing to perform and conduct
espionage. She also raised money for the French Resistance, and donated much of
her considerable fortune – over $11million dollars in today’s money – to the
Resistance.
Even more dangerously,
Baker offered her Chateau, Chateau des Milandes, to the Resistance. Both
Resistance fighters and persecuted Jews hid there, evading Nazi forces.
In 1943, Baker joined
an all-female group in the Free French Forces Air Force with the rank of 2nd
Lieutenant. She flew to theatres of war to perform for troops and civilians,
and also maintained her spying activities, hiding secret communiques in her
sheet music. (On one flight, her plane crashed into the sea. Her log book
records that Baker was rescued by Senegalese soldiers who pulled her from the
water and brought her to land.) In 1945, with Allied troops moving across
Europe and liberating concentration camps, Baker followed their movements,
giving concerts to concentration camp survivors and other refugees in German
Displaced Person camps.
After the war, Baker
was offered the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award. She refused the honor.
If she was to receive a medal, Baker insisted, it should be a military award,
reflecting her service in the Free French Air Force. (At the time the Free
French Air Force unit in which she’d served wasn’t recognized in France as
having been a “real” military branch.) Baker continued to use her fame and
influence to lobby the French Government to recognize her Free French Air Force
all-female unit as a legitimate, official military group, and in 1957 her request was finally accepted – with a twist.
French President
General Charles de Gaulle presented Baker the Legion of Honor as a civilian. At
the same time, France’s Defense Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas awarded her the
Croix de Guerre with palms, a French medal awarded to troops who behaved
heroically in battle. It was a stunning double honor given to Baker, an
immigrant who started off as an exotic dancer and rose to the highest peaks of
French heroism and fame.
Josephine Baker
continued to speak out against injustice. She travelled to America in 1951 to
give a singing tour of the country, but she was outspoken in her opposition to
Jim Crow laws and refused to perform for segregated audiences. The FBI labeled
her a Communist and she was banned from returning to the US.
President John F.
Kennedy lifted that decree in 1963, and Baker returned, becoming the only woman
to speak at the March on Washington that year in which Martin Luther King Jr.
gave his “I have a dream” speech. She delivered her speech wearing her old Free
French Air Force uniform, recalling one of the proudest periods of her life.
Baker returned to
France and adopted 12 children from different countries, raising what she called
her “rainbow tribe”. (Oddly, Baker made a huge effort to adopt children from
different ethnicities in order to prove that people from diverse backgrounds
could get along. In 1954, she attempted to adopt a child from Israel, but her
request was denied.)
Josephine
Baker lived a life of excess in showbusiness, but when Nazis threatened Jews
across Europe, she rose to the occasion, risking her life to help defeat Nazism
and to help Jews. Her new distinction in France’s Pantheon is well deserved.
Nice Story – he wore a
wire to expose two murder plots of the KKK. https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-wore-a-wire-risked-his-life-to-expose-who-was-in-the-kkk/
Food for thought on the Parsha for
moms with young children. https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/5353211/jewish/Edible-Bricks-for-Parshat-Shemot.htm#utm_medium=email&utm_source=1_chabad.org_magazine_en&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=content
Did Peter the Apostle write a prayer
or do Teshuva? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318958
Milestone: Ernest Verduin, 94, last
Dutch holocaust survivor. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318756
Milestone: Rabbi & former MK
Eliezer Waldman, 84. https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/12/19/former-mk-rabbi-eliezer-waldman-dies-at-84/
Milestone: Shirley Zussman, 107,
mentor of Ruth Westheimer book with husband of "Getting Together: Guide
for sexual enrichment for couples". https://www.timesofisrael.com/pioneering-sex-therapist-shirley-zussman-dies-at-107/
Milestone: Eve Babitz, 78, Hollywood
bard, writer and reveler. https://www.timesofisrael.com/writer-eve-babitz-a-hollywood-bard-muse-and-reveler-dies-at-78/
Milestone: Baruch Levine, 91,
Professor NYU Bible Scholar. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319024
Milestone: Oldest modern recorded
person, 135, although I once heard on the news of somebody in India 154 or 156,
when I was a child. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319102
Inyanay Diyoma
4terrorists - 2 murderers and 2
helpers captured. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318853
Ra'am boycotts Shaked over
electricity law. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318851
Rockets fired at US Embassy in
Baghdad. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318850
One year of Israel-Moroccan relations.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1rm8ebcy
Joint cyber-defense drill US-Israel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-cyber-defense-unit-holds-drill-with-us-cyber-command/
Israel is still one of the leaders
in vaccination. https://www.timesofisrael.com/vaccine-grinches-are-wrong-israel-is-still-a-paragon-of-immunization-excellence/
Hamas and Jihad improving war
skills. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318849
2nd time Biden calls
Harris President Hmmm. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318825
Two Jewish Athletes win in
Argentina. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318833
NYC Comptroller urges Yeshivas to
teach secular subjects. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318830
I expect the Yeshivas to
give him a big fig (the fig is shaped like a zero).
Israel calls for limited military
force if talks fail. https://www.debka.com/calls-in-washington-for-limited-military-steps-against-nuclear-iran-white-house-sees-no-way-back-to-deal/
New Variant can't go abroad go take a hike. https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/hyc16bp5y
Young swimmer takes the gold. https://www.timesofisrael.com/anastasia-gorbenko-wins-israels-1st-ever-world-swimming-championships-gold/
Homeless man dies of cold as new
storm threatens. https://www.timesofisrael.com/homeless-tel-aviv-man-dies-of-hypothermia-as-israel-braces-for-major-storm/
Family does not quarantine infects
62. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318778
NJ Township pays $81,000,000 to
Yeshiva for land. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318828
No happy new year. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318842
If Israel existed in 1940. Syria's Auschwitz
Bombed. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/19/israel-bombs-auschwitz/
Calls in DC for a limited strike on
Iran. https://www.debka.com/calls-in-washington-for-limited-military-steps-against-nuclear-iran-white-house-sees-no-way-back-to-deal/
Arabs fire on the IDF. https://www.timesofisrael.com/troops-come-under-fire-as-they-ready-to-raze-home-of-suspects-in-terror-shooting/
3rd graders act out
Germans in WWII because Jews ruined Christmas. https://www.timesofisrael.com/dc-teacher-suspended-after-making-3rd-grade-kids-reenact-holocaust-scenes/
Ex-Mossad Chief shared State Secrets
with married mistress. https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-ex-mossad-chief-had-affair-shared-state-secrets-with-woman-and-her-husband/
Police filmed whipping protesters. https://www.timesofisrael.com/minister-to-probe-police-violence-after-cops-seen-whipping-anti-vaccine-protesters
Iranian Revolutionary Guards drill
against Zionist Enemy. https://www.debka.com/irans-rev-guards-kick-start-maneuvers-against-zionist-threat-in-gulf-hormuz-south/
Nearly 25% of households on the
verge of poverty. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rycm1zksf
Lebanon ready to return to talks
with Israel on border. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjm1o7kjy
Widow of terror victim appeals to PM
vs the desire of Defense Min. to destroy 'Illegal Yeshiva'. https://www.timesofisrael.com/widow-of-terror-victim-appeals-to-bennett-to-save-illegal-outpost-where-he-studied/
10 Israelis arrested for selling
missiles to China. https://www.timesofisrael.com/10-israelis-set-to-be-indicted-for-illegally-exporting-missiles-to-china/
100 Hamas operatives arrested in the
city of our forefathers. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-arrest-over-100-hamas-members-in-hebron-area-in-major-sweep/
Omicron 73% of US cases. https://www.timesofisrael.com/omicron-sweeping-across-america-now-73-of-all-us-covid-19-cases/
Covid cases pass 1300 in Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319012
Deri to resign from the Knesset but
will be able to run again. https://www.timesofisrael.com/deri-said-set-to-sign-plea-quitting-knesset-for-second-time-over-corruption-charges/
IDF to fire back at stone-throwers. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-begins-allowing-troops-to-shoot-at-fleeing-rock-throwers/
Child abuse – father of 5year old scantly
dressed in Yerushalayim arrested. https://www.timesofisrael.com/father-arrested-after-5-year-old-found-walking-alone-in-jerusalem-cold/
Israelis in Philippines appeal for
aid after Typhon. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-in-philippines-call-for-urgent-aid-as-typhoon-death-toll-climbs-to-over-375/
DIU kills 15year old in NY. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319001
Leftist Prof. better dead that a
Zionist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318994
Chile's new Pres. An extreme left
anti-Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318989
Professors condemn NYU Legal Journal
boycott of Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318996
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed Shlita
supports more liberal conversion. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319005
47% of extortion cases are from
Arabs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319004
Arab MK vows to topple government. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319002
Corona outbreak at Maalei Adumim
from unvaccinated teachers. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hyx347yok
Israel cannot rest on its laurels. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjgmn0035t
Ramming attempt thwarted as soldiers
jump out of way and shoot driver. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjljejysy#autoplay
IDF comes under gun fire. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318913
Lev Tahor cult kidnapping took the
FBI and Mexicans 3 weeks to find kids. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318899
Greensboro NC antisemitic incident. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/19/greensboro-nc-jewish-community-receives-vile-antisemitic-hatred-with-newspaper-delivery/
IDF-Shin Bet use new technology to
capture terrorists. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/19/idf-and-shin-bet-use-new-technologies-to-catch-terrorists-as-quickly-as-possible/
US-Israel joint anti-cyberattack. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/19/israeli-and-us-militaries-hold-joint-drill-to-thwart-growing-cyber-attacks/
NYC attacks against Jews and Asians.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/19/hate-crimes-against-jews-asians-spiked-across-new-york-city-in-2021-with-manhattan-seeing-highest-number/
Stopping errors in intensive care. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/19/israeli-scientists-develop-vr-platform-for-uncovering-errors-in-intensive-care-units/
Nuclear breakout is very short. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/17/us-sees-iran-nuclear-breakout-time-as-really-short-senior-official/
NYU unjust in school https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/17/law-professors-condemn-nyu-legal-journals-endorsement-of-israel-boycott-warning-of-political-censorship/
Down under antisemitic Covid tales. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/17/gaza-war-and-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-fuel-significant-rise-in-antisemitism-in-australia-during-2021/
Homeless man source of swastika. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/17/nyc-cops-arrest-homeless-man-for-lower-manhattan-swastika-vandalism-spree/
2 senators have Covid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318906
Bennett time is running out fifth
wave coming. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318875
Some areas distant learning. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sjpmlresk
Sen. Joe Manchin saves the US from
Build Back Better. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318900
Not tested but Israel OK's 4th
booster before its time. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/LKP3FWEP3
Biden sends Sullivan to war Bennett
of critical junction. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1daqdxst
Orthodox Detective from NYPD in
Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319041
Israel's first Omicron death. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319031
Biden actually thanked Trump. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319056
Bus Driver who may have harmed girls
turns himself in. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319065
Ancient treasure found. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319062
Ben Gvir cursed and threatened draws
gun. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319061
A lot of MDs
have come out against the 4th and clinically untested vaccine while
the 3rd is effective with antibodies. The famous vaccine pusher is
not giving us any hope as "even those who got the booster can't
gather". https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319122
PS I have gotten 3 vaccines no plans for 4th
yet. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/22/israel-to-offer-fourth-covid-shot-to-people-over-60/
Terrorist fires ammo at IDF now
Shachid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319113
Rosh Yeshiva arrested for violating
'disengagement law'. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319086
Wicked government new decrees
against Charedim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319078
Israeli muscle repair may help
cultivated meat. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318886
Female athletes criticize
transgender athletes. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318865
Biden plans to run in 2024. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319117
Covid spikes in NYC Jewish schools
again remote. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318892
New version of West Side Story a box
office failure maybe because of Covid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/318868
Omicron lower hospitalizations. https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-government-data-suggests-omicron-variant-milder-than-delta-report/
Christians 84% happy with being in
Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-christian-community-is-growing-84-satisfied-with-life-here-report/
Israeli Ministers should get on the
same Covid Page. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1ldawlst
Immigration to Israel up in 2021. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1xjmcgot
Turkey wants improved relations with
Israel. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1ucqwwif
FDA approves Pfizer Covid Pill. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/ryomfkzjy
Pregnant women at risk for Covid. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/22/fears-for-unvaccinated-pregnant-women-spark-renewed-covid-19-vaccination-drive-among-orthodox-jews-in-london/
Muslim soldier who collapsed has no
plan to leave military. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syta00uesf
Holocaust survivors on low pensions
food or heat not both. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/r1dcfma9y
Real Palestinian Persecution
(apartheid) in Lebanon not Israel. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mzdysk
Milestone: Oldest modern recorded
person, 135, although I once heard on the news of somebody in India 154 or 156,
when I was a child. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319102
Arab with long knife acted
suspiciously. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319161
CA Man dies when paramedics fear to
treat heart attack because of Covid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319153
3 Explosive devices found near
Yerushalayim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319143
Lockdown may be unavoidable. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319191
Ed-Op Lieberman's insensitivity. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syijaazok
Blinken discussed Israel – Indonesia
relations. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319186
Two dead in N. Hollywood, CA Store
Shooting. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319180
Sheryl Sandberg donates to Hatzalah.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sheryl-sandberg-donates-5-million-to-united-hatzalahs-womens-unit/
Good healthy and good
Shabbos,
Rachamim Pauli
