Friday, August 25, 2023

Parsha Ki Teitzei, two stories, news

 The following have recovered: Baruch Mordechai ben Hinda Malka and Michael ben Liebe Leah. Slipped by me for prayers with all the names Nathan Chaim ben Emunah and Asher Shalom ben Devora and seriously injured in the terror attack Arieh Lev ben Ella.

 

 

Ki Teitzei

 

 

Our Parsha is the third of four Parshiyos in the Drasha of Moshe Rabbaynu. It is consistent in that it starts off with the concept of going off to war and ends with the war on Amalek throughout all generations. This is tied in nicely with last week’s Parsha about the Cohain that is anointed to lead people into battle. 20:4 for the LORD your God is He that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.' 

For HASHEM is with you to fight your battles. If you win it is with HIS help and if you lose it is HIS will because you have done something that has aggravated HIM.

 

21:10 When thou go forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivers them into thy hands, and thou carry them away captive, 11 and see among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and would take her to thee to wife; 

 

Did you ever notice that this Parsha occurs either in Elul or near Elul when we are thinking of Teshuva before the Heavenly Judgement of Rosh Hashanah? The Yetzer always appears in goodly form. A few years ago, a famous Chazan was giving a singing concert in a certain town far away from home. A rival Chazan hired a student escort to visit him and discuss his music. She visited his hotel room and filmed herself with him after she seduced him. All the more so a soldier in battle with a beautiful woman taking her. Although there is no approval of the Torah of this act in the heat of the moment, the Torah tries to make her ugly for him.

 

This was the convention of war of that day and there is a story of Resh Lechish. Another story from the days of the Talmud is the story of Martha the daughter of the Rosh Yeshiva Shmuel being captured and getting her husband to convert and producing a brilliant son who was a Torah Scholar.

 

12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 

 

You won the battle with the enemy lost the battle with the Yetzer when you humbled her. Now you want her for your wife, let her sit in mourning for her family and wait a full month. Maybe she will spite the man who captured and humbled her and he will let her go or she will desire him and become a real wife in every sense of the word.

 

14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her. 

 

If the captor does not like living with the woman (maybe she had a wonderful body and an empty skull, maybe she is a nag or always complaining or screaming) he shall let her go free. Once free she can do what she wants or decide that being a wife is not so bad.

 

15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; 

 

Since this is in conjunction with the captured woman, perhaps she was such a woman and after the initial fling does things to hate him or eventually produce a rebellious son.

 

16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born; 17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the first-fruits of his strength, the right of the first-born is his. 

 

Nowadays, there is a high divorce rate. It is possible that the first born comes from the first wife whom he put away whither he hated her or parted amicably. The second or maybe third wife he fared better and he loves her. However, since the son of his first wife is the original Bechor; he gets the double portion. Both Rabbi Davis, Rabbi who retired from Young Israel of Fort Lauderdale still on a FL Beit Din, and I have included daughter(s) in our will; the contract had to be approved by a Beit Din. Still if there were two women involved, the Bechor would come from the first wife.

 

18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not hearken to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.' 

 

Every parent wants their children to be better than them. But sometimes there is a child who is the black sheep of the family. However, if at the age of 13 to 13.5 years old he is a thief and a drunkard, we are afraid that he might grow up to become a mafia character and we take him to the Beit Din. Today there was in the news (see below) a ‘hill-top’ youth that regretted his actions and was sent into a group to bring him up to army discipline behavior.

 

21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 

 

The rebellious son is so bad that he is a danger to society and is put to death before he can endanger society like we see with the protection racket and the various murderous in the Arab sector.

 

22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; 23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is a reproach unto God; that thou defile not thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. 

 

The man shall be hung to warn others not to act wickedly but is buried for man was created in the image of G-D and desecration of the dead is like the desecration of G-D.

 

22:1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother require it, and thou shalt restore it to him. 3 And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found; thou mayest not hide thyself. 

 

This is with a neighbor or acquaintance but if an enemy all the more so.

 

4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertains unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever does these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 

 

Homosexuality is an abomination before G-D cross dressing too and transgender nonsense is even a more disgusting abomination.

 

6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; 7 thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 

 

The Talmud says that this is the lesser of all the Mitzvos. The showing Chesed to the Dam when taking the young birds either for food or cultivating for more and food is permissible. This little Mitzvah will lengthen your days. If not in this world then in the next world.

 

[The Parsha has 74 Mitzvos and I am leaving the option open for more comments next week but right now closing the Drasha as I fast forward towards the end of our Parsha.]

 

…25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets; 12 then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity. 

 

It is natural for a woman to jump, kick, hit, or take something to defend her husband. However, that is not our case here the woman grabs on to the man’s private part. This is not the way of a modest Jewish woman. If she kicked him there it would be in the realm of normal but what is she doing with her hands there! She obviously is an immodest woman and deserves a fine. Currently, we do not wear the same clothing and usual wear underwear so this would not occur. Still a black shadow is cast on the morals of this woman.

 

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. 15 A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 

 

It is a Mitzvah to have standard weights and measures. We already had the sentence “Ephod Tzedek, Hin Tzedek” when we regard weights and measures.

 

16 For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. 17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; 18 how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou were faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given you rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.

 

Amalek attacked the people of G-D right after leaving Egypt and they are the first of the antisemites and therefore they must be fought.

 

 

5258 Shofar Blasts during Rosh Hashanah on stage in Spain. 2 minute You Tube. https://aish.com/defiance-the-astonishing-shofar-blowing-during-the-spanish-inquisition/

With thanks to Dr. Yvette Miller

 

 

The worth of Miracles by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles

http://ascentofsafed.com/Stories/Stories/5783/1341-48.html

 

 

My saintly maternal grandmother - the Rebbetzin Rivka, wife of the Rebbe Maharash, told us that a certain aguna (a woman abandoned by her husband) once came to her father-in-law, the saintly Rebbe (the Tzemach Tzedek). She brought along her son, who was a lad of eleven or twelve. The boy was totally mute, and also hard of hearing.

 

This was during the time when agunot were only permitted to enter the antechamber, while the door (to the Rebbe's room) remained open. The Rebbe would sit there and listen to each one's petition and history. Then, he would reply to the attendant, Reb Chaim-Dov,[1] "Tell her to travel to such and such a place" or "tell her to consult Rabbi so-and-so," etc.

 

This aguna would come to the Rebbe several times a week, bringing her son. At the same time, she would bring food.[2] Several weeks passed, but so many people had come that her turn to enter had not yet arrived.

 

Once, she placed her son under the table in the room where the Rebbe received people for yechidus, (private audience), cautioning him that when the Rebbe began to receive people, he should rise from his hiding place and hand the Rebbe her petition. The lad followed his mother's instructions, and sat under the table, hidden by the tablecloth and unseen by anyone.

 

The procedure was that the attendant would stand near the table, while the other attendant- Reb Elia-Leib[3]- would assign the order in which the chassidim were to enter. Suddenly, the lad emerged from his hiding place. Reb Chaim-Dov became very angry and shouted, "Sheigetz!"

 

To this, the Rebbe remarked, "Simple faith lights up the eyes; greatness is given to certain individuals only for the good of the Jewish people.[4]"

 

He then turned to the lad and uttered the following holy words: "Go and tell your mother that your father is still alive. She should travel to Denenburg."

 

"This agunah had been sitting in my home and weeping about her misfortune. Her husband had been missing for seven years. Now, several rabbis had given her permission to remarry, but only on condition that the Rebbe agreed.[5]

 

"Suddenly, her son entered and cried out in a loud voice, 'The Rebbe told me to tell Mother that Father is alive, and that she should travel to Denenburg.' At this, the agunah fainted.

 

"This double miracle -- the prophetic information about the husband's whereabouts, and the mute boy's suddenly regaining his speech -- caused a great commotion. At this, my mother-in-law, Rebbetzin Chaya-Mushka (wife of the Tzemach Tzedek), remarked:

 

"'Just look at what everyone's gotten so excited about! At my father's (the second Rebbe of Lubavitch) and my grandfather's (the first Rebbe of Lubavitch) court, miracles lay scattered about, and no one bothered to pick them up. Just look at what is happening, and what's caused so much excitement! Grandfather said that he would prefer it if people understood Chassidut. As for getting excited about miracles, we leave that for the Polisher and Hungarian [6] chasidim!

 

Translator's note: I heard an addendum to this story, told by elder chassidim. The Tzemach Tzedek used to admonish his sons when they sent people to him for a miracle, for he claimed that he was not a Vohlynian Rebbe who performed miracles. When they reminded him of our present story, he denied that any miracle was involved. Rabbanin and other communal officials of many different cities would visit him regularly for yechidus, and they would tell him of the recent doings in their hometown, and so, when he read the aguna's description of her missing husband, he realized that it was a man whom a recent visitor from Denenburg had described. His son, the future Rebbe Maharash, then reminded him of the mute boy who suddenly regained his speech. To this, the Tzemach Tzedek replied, "I had no idea that the boy was unable to speak!" In other words, the miracle had not been deliberate, for he had been unaware that one was even needed. But, the moment the Rebbe uttered the words, "Go and tell your mother…" that the boy automatically regained his speech.

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Source: Compiled and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from the English translation in Chayenu (Shoftim 5771/2011) of an excerpt of a letter from the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef-Yitzchak Schneersohn (grandson of Rebbetzin Rivka) dated 2 Av 5688 (July 19, 1928) that was published in "Igros Kodesh of the Rebbe Rayatz," vol. 2, #394.

 

Connection: Marriage and Divorce are topics presented in the weekly Torah reading, Ki Teitzei.

 

Biographical notes:
Rabbi Menachem-Mendel Schneersohn, the 3rd Lubavitcher Rebbe [29 Elul 5549 - 13 Nissan 5626 (Sept. 1789 - April 1866)], the third Rebbe of Chabad, was known as the Tzemach Tzedek, after his books of Jewish Law responsa and Talmudic commentary called by that name. He was renowned not only as the Rebbe of tens of thousands of Chasidim, but also as a leading scholar in his generation in both the revealed and secret aspects of Torah.

 

Rebbetzin Rivka Schneerson (1833- 10 Shvat 1914) a maternal granddaughter of Rabbi Dov Ber, the 2nd Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, at age 16 married her first cousin, Rabbi Shmuel, who later became the fourth Lubavitcher Rebbe. Surviving her husband by 33 years, for many years she was the esteemed matriarch of Lubavitch, and Chasidim frequented her home to listen to her accounts of the early years of Lubavitch. She is the source of many of the stories recorded in the talks, letters and memoirs of her grandson, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe). Today's Beis Rivka network of girls' schools, founded by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak in the 1940's, are named after her.

 

Footnotes:

[1]Reb Chaim Dov served as the Tzemach Tzedek's gabbai-attendant for 36 years. He was famous for keeping absolutely secret anything he happened to overhear.
[2]Apparently, for the other people waiting for yechidus.
[3]He was the Tzemach Tzedek's secretary, who later became his personal attendant.
[4]I.e. all this ceremony at the Rebbe's court resulted from the Tzemach Tzedek's greatness. But this greatness was given to him "only for the good of the Jewish people." And who deserved it more than this agunah, with her simple faith in Tzadikim?
[5]Apparently, there was some sort of evidence that the husband had died. The rabbis deemed this evidence sufficient to permit her to remarry, but they were not absolutely certain. Therefore, the permission was given on condition that the Tzemach Tzedek agreed.
[6]Compiler's note: In the original, "chasidim of Vohlynia." (Volhynia is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between southeastern Poland, southwestern Belarus, and western Ukraine. -Wiki) I took the liberty to update it to the contemporary colloquial expression. --YT

 

 

The Journalist who stood up to Hitler by Kylie Ora Lobell

https://aish.com/the-journalist-who-stood-up-to-hitler/

 

 

Dorothy Thomson was the first journalist that Hitler expelled in the lead up before the war, and she used her voice to advocate for the Jewish People.

 

In 1931, Dorothy Thompson, an American journalist stationed in Europe, was writing a profile piece on a new leader emerging in Germany: Adolf Hitler. This was two years before he was to be elected chancellor of Germany, become a dictator, start World War II and eventually murder 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.

 

When Thompson first met Hitler to write the profile, she said she “was convinced that I was meeting the future dictator of Germany.” But after less than a minute of talking to Hitler – the man who failed to rise to power during the Beer Hall Putsch and then wrote the hateful “Mein Kampf” in prison – she determined that he was a nobody.

 

“It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog,” she wrote.

 

During the interview, Hitler admitted that if he did come to power, he would establish an authority-state: “Everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above, discipline and obedience below,” he said.

 

The profile piece turned into a hit piece; Thompson, a former women’s rights activist with the suffrage movement, said this “magnificent propagandist” was “inconsequent and voluble, ill-poised, insecure. He is the very prototype of the Little Man.”

 

Thompson’s profile, titled “I Saw Hitler!” appeared in a 1932 issue of Cosmopolitan and then was reprinted into a book of the same title.

 

Several months after the article was published, Hitler came to power. Realizing that she had woefully underestimated this evil man, Thompson wrote a number of negative articles about him, which caught his eye – and ultimately losing her position as a foreign correspondent.

 

In 1934, the secret police visited Thompson in her hotel room, and she was given an order to leave Germany within 48 hours. She was the first foreign journalist expelled from the country, and she landed on the front page of papers around the globe.

 

“As far as I can see, I was really put out of Germany for the crime of blasphemy,” she said. “My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. That is a crime in the reigning cult in Germany, which says Mr. Hitler is a messiah sent of God to save the German people.”

 

Though Thompson had to leave Germany, due to her expulsion, her career skyrocketed. She started writing a column for the New York Herald Tribune that was syndicated to more than 100 different newspapers, and she was a guest on NBC radio and wrote a regular column for Ladies’ Home Journal. In her writing and radio work, Thompson constantly criticized Hitler and the Nazis and advocated for the Jewish people to establish their own state.

 

In 1938, the journalist released a book called “Refugees: Anarchy or Organization?” where she fought on behalf of refugees from both the Spanish Civil War and Germany, saying, they “could bring to a new country resources of skill which would increase its wealth and trade.”

 

When Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish German student, killed a German diplomat – which led to Kristallnacht – Thompson broadcasted, “I want to talk about that boy. I feel as though I knew him, for in the past five years I have met so many whose story is the same — the same except for this unique desperate act. Herschel Grynzspan was one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees whom the terror east of the Rhine has turned loose in the world.”

 

Americans heard Thompson’s broadcast and raised $40,000 for Grynszpan’s legal defense. Unfortunately, the trial never ended up being held. The Gestapo seized him and he was presumed to have been killed; what really happened still remains a mystery.

 

The next year, when Nazi sympathizers hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939, Thompson disrupted it by laughing during the speeches, and the police had to remove her for her own safety.

 

She repeatedly brought up the horrific atrocities Nazis were inflicting onto the Jews and urged the American government to take action.

 

In a broadcast, she stated, “They are holding every Jew in Germany as a hostage. Therefore, we who are not Jews must speak, speak our sorrow and indignation and disgust in so many voices that they will be heard.”

 

Thompson was not afraid to speak out against Hitler in a time when others were. She was dubbed the “First Lady of American Journalism” and became almost as influential as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. One biographer wrote that Thompson became “the leading American voice in the war against fascism.”

Though the journalist quickly rose to fame, after the war, she did not retain her celebrity status. She also had opinions that landed her in hot water with her publishers and she changed her views on Zionism.

 

However, her influence cannot be understated. She risked her own safety to stand up to pure evil – and will forever be remembered for her bravery.

 

As Thompson herself wrote, “There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.”

 

 

Milestone: Yacov Nimrodi, 97, first military attaché to a friendly Iran. https://www.timesofisrael.com/yaakov-nimrodi-israels-first-military-envoy-to-iran-dies-at-97/

 

Milestone: Chana Anita Rubin Ausubel,  Chana Anita Rubin Ausubel passed away Tuesday in Jerusalem. Before making aliya, she was a national field director for Emunah Women of America. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375915

 

Milestone: Andrea Pancur, 54, singer German and Yiddish. https://www.timesofisrael.com/andrea-pancur-singer-who-bridged-german-and-yiddish-song-traditions-dies-at-54/

 

 

Inyanay Diyoma

 

 

Aug 19th

 

Even if you violate the Torah to observe Shabbos and keep it holy, why do you violate the command of guard your life very much. Father and son enter Huwara for six hours go to a car wash and are executed by a terrorist who got the scoop that Jewish Israelis were washing there. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1yg3tr3n There was also a shooting at a military roadblock.

 

Protest continues. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-august-19-2023/

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/air-force-suspends-several-senior-reservists-as-overhaul-protests-roil-military/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-reportedly-advancing-plan-to-legalize-155-wildcat-outposts-in-west-bank/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/arch-of-famous-caesarea-aqueduct-collapses-official-we-repeatedly-sounded-alarm/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/young-girl-among-7-killed-in-russian-strike-on-ukraines-chernihiv/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-flee-huge-wildfire-closing-in-on-capital-of-canadas-northwest-territories/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-ufc-fighter-pummels-online-troll-who-supports-holocaust-denier-nick-fuentes/

150 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-755355

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/one-person-killed-one-seriously-injured-in-shooting-in-northern-town/

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-officials-report-5-deaths-flesh-eating-bacteria-tampa-bay-january

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/tracking-hurricane-hilary-california-southwest-saturday-tropical

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-announces-death-of-syrian-accused-of-shiite-shrine-bombing/

 

Inside IDF intelligence room. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-755122

 

Vivek Ramaswamy candidate for Republican Nomination was to cut aid to Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375784

 

Aug 20th

 

It is now coming out about the almost needless deaths in Hawaii that the Federal Government did not give money to the electric company to clear the underbrush by the electric lines helping create a fire-wall. Instead pressure was put on to go for wind and solar energy instead of normal required maintenance. To add sin to the crime, the water works was not allowing enough water into the pipes for “conservation of water resources”. How many died because of these Avoda Zara green energy nobody will know.

 

IDF most go on the offensive in Yehuda and Shomron. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375799

 

Ramming attack. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375782

 

Iran and the Saudis establish diplomatic ties. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375778

 

Trump to skip first Presidential Debate. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375780

 

A protester against the judicial reform uploaded to the internet footage from a vacation in Thailand during which she verbally attacked Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and his family. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375802

 

Demanding more and varied check points near Huwara. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375790

 

ZOA against Jack Lew for Ambassador. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375801

 

Woman burnt severely in Yerushalayim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375795

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-very-different-covid-19-variant-detected-in-israel-denmark-and-us/

 

Aug 21st

 

Kindergarten teacher gunned down by Arabs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375866

 

Arieh Lev ben Ella. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375878

 

Hashomrim volunteers caught two illegal infiltrators red-handed as the infiltrators attempted to break into vehicles using sophisticated equipment. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375877

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/via-modern-medical-silk-road-israeli-doctors-are-saving-the-lives-of-afghan-kids/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-rat-infestation-in-ultra-orthodox-bnei-brak-could-reawaken-its-democracy/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/riots-break-out-at-2-prisons-allegedly-over-arab-crime-bosses-isolation/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/deluge-from-tropical-storm-hilary-hits-california-after-landfall-along-mexico-coast/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-tanker-unloading-suspected-embargoed-iranian-oil-despite-tehrans-warnings/

 

Gangland murder from 2021 solved. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375823

 

Hamas UAV yesterday and today. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375837

 

Former rabbi of Ramat Gan and president of the Hutam organization, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel published a message of support for the decision not to open the light rail on Shabbat. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375821

 

Man dies in car fire. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375833

 

IDF shoots masked Israeli rock thrower. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375806

 

Mark Meadows asks Federal Courts to stop GA. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375846

 

Record number of Zionist Yeshiva Students. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375841

 

Jew goes into Arab village almost lynched. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375840

 

Los Angeles police are investigating a series of burglaries in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of the city in which thieves appeared to have targeted several kosher restaurants, ABC7 reported on Sunday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375849

 

The Prime Minister's Office clarified on Sunday that Israel will not agree to any of its neighbors having a nuclear program. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375845

 

Chabad flag waver released from Egypt. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375830

 

Aug 22nd

 

Apprehended. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375898

 

Israeli Air Strike in Damascus. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375887

 

US still equates the stone throwing incident with premediated murder. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375891

 

No blank exemption for all Charedim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375883

 

Former US President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday night that he would turn himself in on Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375892

 

Haley blast Ramaswamy. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375886

 

Fatah movement's military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, claims responsibility for the terror attack on Monday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375883

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-unveils-armed-drone-claims-it-could-reach-israel

/https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-ministry-launches-new-plan-to-stub-out-worrisome-rise-in-israeli-smoking/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/teva-to-pay-225-million-to-settle-cholesterol-drug-price-fixing-charges/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/you-were-all-light-funeral-held-for-israeli-woman-killed-in-hebron-terror-shooting/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/high-court-rejects-government-request-to-delay-hearing-on-reasonableness-law/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-teenager-said-killed-during-clashes-with-idf-near-jenin/

152 https://www.timesofisrael.com/director-general-of-arab-municipality-killed-drawing-call-for-shin-bet-intervention/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/guatemala-elects-progressive-arevalo-who-studied-in-israel-as-president/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/x-briefly-allows-anti-leo-frank-community-note-as-antisemitic-content-spikes/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/madagascar-sentences-israeli-caught-smuggling-tortoises-to-two-years/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/redesign-of-hitlers-birth-house-in-austria-to-start-in-october/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-lightly-hurt-in-blast-during-landmine-clearing-operation-on-jordan-border/

 

NASA Helicopter flies on Mars. https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-755476

 

Arab worker serious stabbed Jewish worker earlier this month. https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-755591

 

Masked Israeli Settlers attack Arabs-police. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-755753

 

British military intelligence said on Tuesday that a weekend drone attack on an airfield deep inside Russia which Moscow blamed on Ukraine is highly likely to have destroyed a TU-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber. https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/article-755732

 

Russia destroys Ukrainian spy vessel. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-755670

 

The USS Zumwalt just arrived at a shipyard in Mississippi to be fitted with hypersonic weapons, according to a Saturday report from the United States Naval Institute (USNI). https://www.jpost.com/international/article-755443

 

Is the moon still volcanic? https://www.jpost.com/science/article-755583

 

Race for water on the moon. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-755680

 

A Galaxy within a Galaxy. https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-755667

 

Did wild fires cause extinction of certain mammals? https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-755491

 

Vaccination may slow down Alzheimer. https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-755360

 

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/21/israeli-women-win-gold-silver-medals-windsurfing-world-championships/

 

Aug 23rd

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/security-cabinet-meets-as-far-right-advocates-sharp-crackdown-in-west-bank/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/firefighters-in-greece-find-the-bodies-of-18-people-in-area-burned-by-major-wildfire/

 

159-162 Victims. Mayor of Taibe quits race over threats. Mayor of Rahat under threat 5 political murders in Arab-Druze sector. Shin Bet finally steps in as Protection Racket also targets the whole country. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375934

 

Wardens at the Ofer security prison on Tuesday thwarted an attempt to smuggle five mobile phones into the prison. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375942

 

Woman arrested for threatening to kill Trump. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375943

President Yitzchak Herzog continues efforts to reach a compromise between the coalition and the opposition on the issue of judicial reform. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/375938

https://www.foxnews.com/media/wapo-columnist-changes-mind-calls-joe-biden-be-fully-investigated-hunters-business-dealings

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/security-cabinet-meets-as-far-right-advocates-sharp-crackdown-in-west-bank/

 

Aug 24th

 

The main Israeli headlines will be followed by my impression of the Republican Debate minus Trump. By not showing up Trump let the others break out a decision he might regret. Comments on the bottom.

 

4 Israeli Arabs received IED’s from Hezballah for criminal activity but it may be more sinister than this for Jews. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376037

 

5year dies, girl loses toes among 8 injured in Dead Sea land slide. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-755981

 

Debate Nikki Haley calls out Vivek Ramaswamy. https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-755976

 

Russia shoots down private plane of Wagner Chief. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-755959

 

Israel will increase gas export to Egypt. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-755982

 

Largest solar fusion plant. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/energy-and-infrastructure/article-755924

 

Shin Bet to help find Arab mafia murders. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-755850

 

Rudy surrenders in Trump Georgia case. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-755952

 

Ten days after a woman nine months pregnant with twins collapsed, she has passed away surviving twin in critical condition. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376015

 

Arieh Lev ben Ella improving. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376032

 

A 58-year-old woman who suffered a heart attack while driving home is alive today thanks to a passerby and the rapid response of Magen David Adom. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376035

 

Asa Hutchinson wore US and Israeli Flag. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376030

 

Next year relations with Saudi. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjy0ovna3

 

China-US dispute hurts Intel and Israeli Company. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkhcnsxa2

 

Malka must pay the price for her abuse. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376018

 

Rabbi Yitzhak Zilberstein, a leading rabbi of the Lithuanian-haredi Degel Hatorah movement, explained that the government's statement that the light rail will not operate on Shabbat" is “honoring the Torah and sanctifying Hashem’s (G-d's - ed.) name.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376012

 

Neo-Nazi running for Athens Mayor. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376016

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-officer-stabbed-10-arrested-at-tel-aviv-protest-over-hit-and-run-case/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/india-becomes-4th-nation-to-put-spacecraft-on-the-moon/

 

The candidates who took part are North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former Vice President Mike Pence, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376001

 

My impression Hutchinson, Burgum, Pence are old time professional politicians. Chris Christie tore Ramaswamy to pieces but seemed mainly anti-Trump. Vivek Ramaswamy gave me the impression of being slimy.

 

I left with a good impression of DeSantis, Haley and Scott left positive impressions on me.

 

Aug 25th

 

No Arab arrests prisons too full! https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376072

 

Russia on Thursday extended the detention of Jewish American reporter Evan Gershkovich. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376068

 

Op-Ed Dr. Martin Sherman – Betrayal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/376073

 

Op-Ed Michael Freund for peace need more Jews in Shomron. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-756085

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/were-on-cusp-of-entry-into-us-visa-waiver-program-israeli-official/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-bnei-brak-womens-rights-march-angry-rhetoric-drowns-out-haredi-secular-dialogue/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-excoriates-ben-gvir-claim-that-jews-security-trumps-arab-freedom-of-movement/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-surrenders-at-atlanta-jail-over-2020-election-charges-is-booked-and-released/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/40-year-old-women-killed-in-suspected-hit-and-run-in-northern-israel/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jailed-jewish-extremist-released-for-rehabilitation-at-pre-military-program/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-to-death-at-alabama-moving-company-warehouse/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/suspect-arrested-in-quadruple-murder-in-abu-snan-shin-bet-said-to-exit-probe/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/explosion-in-gaza-kills-member-of-hamas-military-wing/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-terror-chiefs-in-gaza-said-taking-precautions-for-fear-of-israeli-attack/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/kosovo-inaugurates-wall-of-honor-for-23-albanians-who-rescued-jews-from-holocaust/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-forensic-investigators-identify-jewish-resistance-hero-80-years-after-execution/

 

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/24/new-jersey-town-nearing-settlement-state-antisemitism-lawsuit/

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/24/no-foreign-policy-experience-candidates-clash-israel-first-us-presidential-debate/

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/24/jewish-center-university-michigan-vandalized/

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/08/24/cuny-hires-extremist-anti-israel-professor-where-is-the-outrage/

 

Popular Songs of the US Right:

Rich men north of Richmond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro

Small Time Boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9yRC-LWhU

 

 

Have a healthy, peaceful and restful Shabbos,

Rachamim Pauli