Glazerson on Trump, Corona, Moshiach.

Matityahu Glazerson looks into Torah Codes and sees that Trump will be reelected to 2nd term. Hashem will save us from Corona. Moshiach will come, which is always the case. As always, everything is dependent on your our deeds now in the time of golus!

Kessin on upheavals Corona Trump Moshiach.

Wishing Shirat Devorah blog a full and healthy recovery (I don't know what happeneded, just see the blog is closed).  For the time beeing I'll post Rabbi Mendel Kessin's shiur here.

Really an incredible shiur.
June 2015 constitution is interpreted to mean same gender marriage is protected under the constitution. This seals the fate of the America and the world with it. The only way to " destroy America is to "restart it" meaning to bring the redemption of the world, so the not fun begins. The trumpets are sounded and Trump is elected to office.
Hear for yourself.

Message from Heaven about Moshiach.

I saw on whatsapp. If anyone can confirm a source for this please let me know.

Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet, Rabanit Zippora, the Wife of Rabbi David Basri shlita, a’h.
Yesterday she was in extremely bad health, with difficulty breathing.
 She had trouble sleeping.
Yet yesterday afternoon, she fell asleep for four straight hours.
 When she awoke, she said she went to heaven, and saw that there was great debate in heaven between the tzadikim and the angels.
The tzadikim asked God to redeem Israel immediately and bring mashiach, while there was opposition from the angels.
She said there was a lot of noise, and she got permission from the tzadikim to come down and tell the people of Israel what was going on there.
So they told her:
Go down and tell all the Jews to be in unity and love, and that is how salvation will come now.

* Rabbi Shlomo Basri Shlita asks*
 *Each and every one of us takes it upon ourselves to become more in unity now, thinking positively of each other *
*With a lot of warmth and love between us !!!! *

The Rabbi asked to publish
*The message to all the people of Israel *

His righteous wife passed away the next morning.

THE MIKVA CLOSED 😞

Alumni email by Rabbi Akiva Wagner shlita:

I think I shared this story in the past, but I’m not sure when:
R’ Mottel Chernobyler was once ill, and his father, R’ Nochum of Chernobyl (who was the eldest and one of the foremost talmidim of the Magid, as well as the mechutan of the Alter Rebbe), instructed him not to immerse himself in the mikva (due to the health concerns). Later, R’ Nochum heard that R’ Mottel had immersed himself in the mikva.
R’ Nochum confronted his son “Why did you disobey me?” But R’ Mottel defended himself: “You told not to go because of medical concerns. But I got permission from the feldsher”.
[The feldsher was the folk doctor or peasant doctor. He had, usually, limited education and skills, but provided most of the medical care for the rural folk].
R’ Nochum immediately summoned the feldsher. “How did you allow my son to use the mikva, when this was obviously dangerous for him (because of his health)?” But the feldsher, too, had a defense: “I heard”, he told R’ Nochum, “that the Baal shem Tov said that he takes responsibility for one tevilah (that it shouldn’t cause any damage), and on that basis I allowed him!”
R’ Nochum laughed. “I’m the Rebbe”, he said, “and you’re the doctor, and your basing yourself on a statement of the Baal Shem Tov?!”
But the feldsher insisted. “Indeed it is so, because I knew that the Baal Shem Tov could be depended on”. And he explained. “Once, one of the disciples of the Baal Shem Tov (by the name of R’ Dovid) spent Yom Kippur in our community. On erev Yom Kippur, during the seudos, I watched him consume 36 jugs of mashkeh (obviously genuine mashkeh…). And despite that, he davened before the omud for us, and was on his feet the entire Yom Kippur! So I said (to myself), if a talmid of the Baal Shem Tov can do that, then surely I can depend on the Baal Shem Tov himself!”
Which seems to raise a question: Why, in that case, did R’ Nochum forbid his son to use the mikva in the first place? R’ Nochum knew of the assurance of the Baal shem Tov, why was that not good enough for him? Especially considering the fact that the feldsher had, after all, a very primitive appreciation of the Baal Shem Tov (the greatness of the Baal Shem Tov, for him, was determined by the ability of his disciple to hold his booze). R’ Nochum, on the other hand, had a genuine appreciation of the greatness of the Baal Shem Tov. Why, then, was the promise of the Baal Shem Tov not a factor for him in his directive to his son?
I think the answer is: while it is unquestionable that the promise of the Baal Shem Tov is dependable and could be fully relied on (and in fact – seemingly – the tevilah did not do R’ Mottel any harm), still it is not medical and not nature. In performing a mitzvah, one must do it according the laws of nature (as we know from the story of the Alter Rebbe with the kidush Levana, and from the known sicha of the Rebbe in chelek hey etc.).
This is true about every mitzvah, and is equally true about the mitzvah of ונשמרתם מאד לנפשותיכם, - safeguarding one’s health. Although R’ Nochum could have unquestionably relied on the promise of the Baal Shem Tov – and undoubtedly R’ Nochum could have easily provided his own supernatural protection or cure for is son even without depending on the Baal Shem Tov – but that wouldn’t be performing the mitzvah within nature.
This explains a number of similar stories, for example:
RaSHaG (R’ Groinem, the mashpia in Lubavitch) once went to the mikva in a lake. He used tools to break the ice, and then removed his clothes, and proceeded to quickly immerse himself (before his feet could freeze to the ground).
Before immersing himself, being aware of the danger (there was also the danger of inadvertently moving slightly, while immersed, and finding himself trapped under the ice ch”v), he turned to the lake and declared “Know that you have no power to cause me any harm, because the Baal Shem Tov promised that one tevila will not cause harm!”
Chassidim related the story to illustrate his pure faith in the words of the Baal Shem Tov. And yet – when he was ill, the Rebbe Rashab forbade him from using the mikva, even on erev Yom Kippur (he was devastated, and he even sent other chassidim to intercede on his behalf to the Rebbe).
The Rebbe Rashab was well aware of the promise of the Baal Shem Tov. Yet, he demanded from the chosid to watch his health according to the laws of nature, and according to what medical professionals would require.
To be sure, there are times, many times, when our Rebbeim, or when tzaddikim in general, choose to bypass the laws of nature, when they disregard medical advice and heal us miraculously. But as a general rule, the require us to fulfill this important mitzvah, of caring for our health, within the parameters of nature.
Right now, the most important shlichus for us – seemingly – is the mitzvah of ונשמרתם מאד לנפשותיכם, - to safeguard our own health and those of others. And we need to do whatever is necessary to perform this mitzvah with the greatest hiddur. In Russia, the challenges were against chinuch, teaching Torah and spreading Yiddishkeit, and chassidim had to show mesirus nefesh to keep these mitzvos. Today, it seems, the biggest challenge is against our health, individually and collectively, and we have to be ready to show mesirus nefesh to keep this mitza properly.
R’ Avrohom Zhembiner passed away on chol hamoied Sukkos. On his last Yom Kippur, shortly before his demise, the doctors didn’t allow him to fast. He was very upset by this, and asked his friend and mushpa, (the above-mentioned) Reb Groinem, what he should do. RaSHaG told him that he must eat, reminding him that the magid, due to his health, was unable to fast for 13 (or 15) Yom Kippur’s. He told him: “Just as when you fast, you are fulfilling the will of Hashem and connecting with Him, so, too, this year, by eating, you will be fulfilling the Will of Hashem, and achieving the same manner of connection with Him”!
Generally, through being meticulous about davening with a minyan, and being careful about daily immersing ourselves in the mikva (even to the point of mesirus nefesh) we became connected with Elokus. In our current situation - for some of us – our not davening with a minyan, and not using the mikva (and the Magid was often unable toivel in a mikva because of his health, just as he was unable to fast Yom Kippur) we will be doing the Will of Hashem and reaching the greatest connection with Elokus.
[And it may even have an advantage. The Rebbe said about people who sometimes go on tahalucha and are not given the ability to speak, that it says מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו עשה. And the Rebbe said further that they even have an advantage over those who actually spoke. Because when someone speaks, you have to know if he said it well, and if he mixed in ulterior motives etc. However, when it is מעלה עליו הכתוב וכו', then you know it is being done in the best possible manner!]
Whether or not you can daven with a minyan or use the mikva etc. is a medical question. Just as in any case of any health concerns the Rebbe instructs to follow the advice of medical professionals, so, too, now, everyone must know what they are being advised by their doctors (preferably a rofeh yedid, and preferably a chassidishe doctor who can appreciate all angles of the question). But, once you know what that advice is, following it becomes your highest calling!
We’ve surely all seen shluchim who are busy with a big event, a huge event, their biggest event of the year. In such cases, the shliach is often so busy, preoccupied and pressured that he doesn’t even have the ability to daven with a minyan (some of us may even know shluchim who experience this more than once a year and even more than twice…). And he doesn’t feel bad or guilty about. He is not shirking any duties, on the contrary, he is preoccupied with his shlichus and העוסק במצוה פטור מן המצוה!
Right now, we all have to be busy with the most important shlichus and most important mitzva – of staying safe and staying healthy. The greatest shlichus now, greater than the biggest event of the year, the biggest event of the century, is to safeguard our own health and that of all others who may be affected by us. If minyan or mikva interfere with this shlichus, then we have to be very clear what our priority is, and be solely dedicated to it.
And just as with any mitzvah, and with any shlichus, we have to be doing it with the greatest simcha and the greatest enthusiasm, because this is the way we can now serve Hashem, and our עבדו את ה' has to always be with the greatest simcha!
Our mesirus nefesh and wholehearted dedication now has to be to our most important mission being healthy. And the Eibishter should grant us success in this shlichus, and give every single one of us complete health and good health and protection from all dangers (and then we can return willingly to the minyanim and mikvaos and all else)!
L’chaim! And – since the mashkeh is the most effective sanitizer (bGUR) – L’chayim some more! We should do our part to the best of our ability to stay safe and healthy, and the Eibishter should do His part to watch over and protect His nation, and remove from us כל פגע רע וכל מחלה, and cure us of the greatest illness – the golus – by granting us the only possible cure, - the immediate hisgalus of Moshiach Tzidkeinu NOW!!!
Rabbi Akiva Wagner
לזכות שד"ב בן מרים שי', לאויוש"ט מתוך בריאות הנכונה וכט"ס בטוב הנרוהנ"ג!
לזכות הרה"ת אהרן בן חנה, לרפושו"ק ואויוש"ט
לזכות הרה"ח ר' מ"מ הכהן בן חוה, לרפו"ש ובריאות הנכונה ואויוש"ט

Down With Chanukah by Rabbi Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir Kahane Writings (5732-33) (1971-73)

If I were a Reform rabbi; if I were a leader of the Establishment whose money and prestige have succeeded in capturing for him the leadership and voice of American Jewry; if I were one of the members of the Israeli Government's ruling group; if I were an

enlightened sophisticated, modern Jewish intellectual, I would climb the barricades and join in battle against the most dangerous of all Jewish holidays Chanukah.

It is a measure of the total ignorance of the world Jewish

community that there is no holiday that is more universally celebrated

than the "Feast of Lights", and it is an equal measure of the

intellectual dishonesty and of Jewish leadership that it plays along

with the lie.  For if ever there was a holiday that stands for

everything that the mass of world Jewry and their leadership has

rejected ­ it is this one.  If one would find an event that is truly

rooted in everything that Jews of our times and their leaders have

rejected and, indeed, attacked ­ it is this one.  If there is any

holiday that is more "unJewish" in the sense of our modern beliefs and

practices ­ I do not know of it.

The Chanukah that has erupted unto the world Jewish scene

in all its childishness, asininity, shallowness, ignorance and fraud ­

is not the Chanukah of reality.  The Chanukah that came into vogue

because of Jewish parents ­ in their vapidness ­ needed something to

counteract Christmas; that exploded in a show of

"we-can-have-lights-just-as-our-goyish-neighbors" and in an effort to

reward our spoiled children with eight gifts instead of the poor

Christian one; the Chanukah that the Temple, under its captive rabbi,

turned into a school pageant so that the beaming parents might think

that the Religious School is really successful instead of the tragic

joke and waste that it really is; the Chanukah that speaks of Jewish

Patrick Henrys giving-me-liberty-or death and the pictures of

Maccabees as great liberal saviors who fought so that the kibbutzim

might continue to be free to preach their Marx and eat their ham, that

the split-level dwellers of suburbia might be allowed to violate their

Sabbath in perfect freedom and the Reform and Conservative Temples

continue the fight for civil rights for Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Jane

Fonda, is not remotely connected with reality.

        This is NOT the Chanukah of our ancestors, of the

generations of Jews of Eastern Europe and Yemen and Morocco and the

crusades and Spain and Babylon.  It is surely not the Chanukah for

which the Maccabees themselves died.  Truly, could those whom we honor

so munificently, return and see what Chanukah has become, they might

very well begin a second Maccabean revolt.  For the life that we Jews

lead today was the very cause, the REAL reason for the revolt of the

Jews "in those days in our times."

        What happened in that era more than 2000 years ago?  What

led a handful of Jews to rise up in violence against the enemy?  And

precisely who WAS the enemy?  What were they fighting FOR and who were

they fighting AGAINST?

        For years, the people of Judea had been the vassals of

Greece.  True independence as a state had been unknown for all those

decades and, yet, the Jews did not rise up in revolt.  It was only

when the Greek policy shifted from mere political control to one that

attempted to suppress the Jewish religion that the revolt erupted in

all its bloodiness.  It was not mere liberty that led to the Maccabean

uprising that we so passionately applaud.  What we are really cheering

is a brave group of Jews who fought and plunged Judea into a bloodbath

for the right to observe the Sabbath, to follow the laws of kashruth,

to obey the laws of the Torah.  IN A WORD EVERYTHING ABOUT CHANUKAH

THAT WE COMMEMORATE AND TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO COMMEMORATE ARE THINGS

WE CONSIDER TO BE OUTMODED, MEDIEVAL AND CHILDISH!

        At best, then, those who fought and died for Chanukah were

naïve and obscurantist.  Had we lived in those days we would certainly

not have done what they did for everyone knows that the laws of the

Torah are not really Divine but only the products of evolution and men

(do not the Reform, Reconstructionist and large parts of the

Conservative movements write this daily?)  Surely we would not have

fought for that which we violate every day of our lives!  No, at best

Chanukah emerges as a needless holiday if not a foolish one.  Poor

Hannah and her seven children; poor Mattathias and Judah; poor well

meaning chaps all but hopelessly backward and utterly unnecessary

sacrifices.

        But there is more.  Not only is Chanukah really a foolish

and unnecessary holiday, it is also one that is dangerously fanatical

and illiberal. The first act of rebellion, the first enemy who fell at

the hands of the brave Jewish heroes whom our delightful children

portray so cleverly in their Sunday and religious school pageants, was

NOT a Greek.  He was a Jew.

        When the enemy sent its troops into the town of Modin to

set up an idol and demand its worship, it was a Jew who decided to

exercise his freedom of pagan worship and who approached the altar to

worship Zeus (after all, what business was it of anyone what this

fellow worshipped?)  And it was this Jew, this apostate, this

religious traitor who was struck down by the brave, glorious,

courageous (are these not the words all our Sunday schools use to

describe him?) Mattathias, as he shouted: "Whoever is for G-d, follow

me!"

        What have we here?  What kind of religious intolerance and

bigotry?  What kind of a man is this for the anti-religious of

Hashomer Hatzair, the graceful temples of suburbia, the sophisticated

intellectuals, the liberal open-minded Jews and all the drones who

have wearied us unto death with the concept of Judaism as a

humanistic, open-minded, undogmatic, liberal, universalistic (if not

Marxist) religion, to honor?  What kind of nationalism is this for

David-Ben-Gurion (he who rejects the Galut and speaks of the proud,

free Jew of ancient Judea and Israel)?

        And to crush us even more (we who know that Judaism is a

faith of peace which deplores violence), what kind of Jews were these

who reacted to oppression with FORCE?  Surely we who so properly have

deplored Jewish violence as fascistic, immoral and (above all!)

UN-JEWISH, stand in horror as we contemplate Jews who declined to

picket the Syrian Greeks to death and who rejected quiet diplomacy for

the sword, spear and arrow (had there been bombs in those days, who

can tell what they might have done?) and "descended to the level of

evil," thus rejecting the ethical and moral concepts of Judaism.

        Is this the kind of a holiday we wish to propagate?  Are

these the kinds of men we want our moral and humanistic children to

honor?  Is this the kind of Judaism that we wish to observe and pass

on to our children?

        Where shall we find the man of courage the one voice, in

the wilderness to cry out against Chanukah and the Judaism that it

represents-the Judaism of our grandparents and ancestors?  Where shall

we find the man of honesty and integrity to attack the Judaism of

Medievalism and outdated foolishness; the Judaism of bigotry that

strikes down Jews who refuse to observe the law; the Judaism of

violence that calls for Jewish force and might against the enemy?

When shall we find the courage to proudly eat our Chinese food and

violate our Sabbaths and reject all the separateness, nationalism and

religious maximalism that Chanukah so ignobly represents?  …Down with

Chanukah!  It is a regressive holiday that merely symbolizes the

Judaism that always was; the Judaism that was handed down to us from

Sinai; the Judaism that made our ancestors ready to give their lives

for the L-rd; the Judaism that young people instinctively know is true

and great and real.  Such Judaism is dangerous for us and our leaders.

We must do all in our power to bury it.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/3226

Truth about Pittsburgh

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger from Monsey.
Spoken like a true chosid. Must listen.

Does G-d Cry?

Rabbi Manis Friedman.

https://11213.org/2018/04/03/wow-boro-park-teens-hear-chabad-chassidus/

5777 (2017) the world is ready for Moshiach.

Trump and Moshiach

Famous Rabbi Sees Trump Rebuilding Temple

http://mobile.wnd.com/2018/04/famous-rabbi-sees-trump-rebuilding-temple/

Baruch HaTov VeHaMetiv!! Shalom Mordechai goes out from prison!!!

Mazel Tov!!! Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin goes out from prison!!
Now  for the geula Shlema!!

New story of Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg. --- Have a great Yom Tov!!!

2017-10-02, 10:43:59 AM: Ariella: I received this message in Hebrew and had to share it with others. Sometimes we just don't know how influential we are...
A story sent by Chani Dunin, sister of Rivki Holtzberg,
 I'll tell you something I've just heard from my husband:

Our Mendi studied in a yeshiva in Netanya, which was located in Hadera, and the structure there is one of the worst you've ever seen, that includes children making traps to catch mice and rats. This resulted in the municipality closing the Yeshiva due to faulty kitchen, etc., and the entire building had already been issued a demolition order.
Then the yeshiva moved to Netanya into the building of another Hassidic group. There, too, there were not good conditions.
From the start, we heard that his Yeshiva was moving to a new building and there was a casting / skeleton, etc.
A few years went by
But no money.
Rabbi Orenstein, Rosh Yeshiva, saved every penny for the new building, and in the middle of last year they entered the new building, even though it was not finished.

In recent days, Rabbi Orenstein has approached three professionals who gave him quotes for the construction of an institutional kitchen. Of course he had chosen the cheapest offer of all.

A person comes full of tattoos and for three days worked non-stop.
When he finished, he said to Rabbi Orenstein: I see that there are many unfinished things in the structure. Ornstein said to him: Yes, when we have money we will get to that, too.
The builder says: What do you care? Let me do this. You saw that I was significantly cheaper than the others.
Good. Rabbi Orenstein gave in.
He worked for a few more days.
Afterwards he presents to Rabbi Orenstein an invoice with NIS 200,000.
Rabbi Orenstein asks:
How many payments can I spread it out?

The young man looks at Rabbi Orenstein for a few minutes in silence, then takes the pen and writes on the invoice:
 *paid*

Rabbi Orenstein does not understand ???
what? Why?
The guy says to him: This is my old debt to Chabad.

And so he says:

As you see me many years ago I lived in India. I was dealing with drugs. I was a successful trader. And I took. One day they caught me. I was condemned to be in prison for very, very long years.
One night I sat in despair in the cell, suddenly the jailer opens the cell and whispers to me you have 2 minutes to get out.
I asked him: What? Why?
Pointed at a man at the end of the corridor and said get out!
I come out and saw a young rabbi whom I do not know, gave me a plane ticket, and told me to get in the taxi. Your flight will soon be flying to Israel and you will not come back here.
I told him: How much to pay you?
He said to me: You do not owe me anything, when the day comes you will return to the Chabad.
Then I knew it was Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg.
And now I am repaying the debt.

New pamphlet on Moahiach and Current Events. Where is Moshaich? Who is Gog u Mogog? Enjoy.

Proving the Existence of the Creator from Intelligent Design

In response to a letter from a group of students asking for proofs of the existence of the Creator, the Rebbe replied with a long letter,1 giving 3 different proofs. Historically, the first two proofs are well known and have been given in the past. But, the third is an innovation from the Rebbe.

Read further by clicking below;

Proving the Existence of the Creator from Intelligent Design

Hashem sends a storm to make a barrier between the holy land of Yisroel and lehavdil the butchers of "ISIS".

details here; http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/biblical-storm-cloud-dust-rain-9416953

Telling It Like It Wasn’t Former Times reporter looks back on coverage of the event, and what went wrong.

Telling It Like It Wasn’t

Former Times reporter looks back on coverage of the event, and what went wrong.

08/08/11

Ari L. Goldman

Special To The Jewish Week

Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991 — the night that Gavin Cato and Yankel Rosenbaum were killed — my editor called me at home to tell me that riots had broken out on the streets of Crown Heights. “We’re covered for tonight but I want you to start your day there tomorrow,” he said.

Over the next three days, working 12 hours shifts and only going home to sleep, I saw and heard many terrible things. I saw police cars set on fire, stores being looted and people bloodied by Billy clubs, rocks and bottles. One woman told me that she barricaded herself into her apartment and put the mattresses on the windows so her children would not be hurt by flying glass.

Over those three days I also saw journalism go terribly wrong. The city’s newspapers, so dedicated to telling both sides of the story in the name of objectivity and balance, often missed what was really going on. Journalists initially framed the story as a “racial” conflict and failed to see the anti-Semitism inherent in the riots. As the 20th anniversary of the riots approaches, I find myself re-examining my own role in the coverage and trying to extract some lessons for myself and my profession.

At the time, I was a religion writer at The New York Times and was well connected in the Lubavitch community, the predominant Jewish group in Crown Heights. I was one of probably a dozen Times reporters and photographers on the streets over the course of the riots. We were a diverse group, representing many religions and racial backgrounds.

My job was to file memos to the main “rewrite” reporters back in the Times office in Manhattan about what I saw and heard. We had no laptops or cellphones in those days so the other reporters and I went to payphones and dictated our memos to a waiting band of stenographers in the home office. The photographers handed their film off to couriers on motorcycles who took the film to the Times.

Yet, when I picked up the paper, the article I read was not the story I had reported. I saw headlines that described the riots in terms solely of race. “Two Deaths Ignite Racial Clash in Tense Brooklyn Neighborhood,” the Times headline said. And, worse, I read an opening paragraph, what journalists call a “lead,” that was simply untrue:

“Hasidim and blacks clashed in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn through the day and into the night yesterday.”

In all my reporting during the riots I never saw — or heard of — any violence by Jews against blacks. But the Times was dedicated to this version of events: blacks and Jews clashing amid racial tensions. To show Jewish culpability in the riots, the paper even ran a picture — laughable even at the time — of a chasidic man brandishing an open umbrella before a police officer in riot gear. The caption read: “A police officer scuffling with a Hasidic man yesterday on President Street.”

I was outraged but I held my tongue. I was a loyal Times employee and deferred to my editors. I figured that other reporters on the streets were witnessing parts of the story I was not seeing.

But then I reached my breaking point. On Aug. 21, as I stood in a group of chasidic men in front of the Lubavitch headquarters, a group of demonstrators were coming down Eastern Parkway. “Heil Hitler,” they chanted. “Death to the Jews.”

Police in riot gear stood nearby but did nothing.

Suddenly rocks and bottles started to fly toward us and a chasidic man just a few feet away from me was hit in the throat and fell to the ground. Some ran to help the injured man but most of us ran for cover. I ran for a payphone and, my hands shaking with rage, dialed my editor. I spoke in a way that I never had before or since when talking to a boss.

“You don’t know what’s happening here!” I yelled. “I am on the streets getting attacked. Someone next to me just got hit. I am writing memos and what comes out in the paper? ‘Hasidim and blacks clashed’? That’s not what is happening here. Jews are being attacked! You’ve got this story all wrong. All wrong.”

I didn’t blame the “rewrite” reporter. I blamed the editors. It was clear that they had settled on a “frame” for the story. The way they saw it, there were two narratives here: the white narrative and the black narrative. And both had equal weight.

After my outburst things got a little better. The next day’s report began like this: “Black youths hurling rocks and bottles scuffled with the police in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn last night, even as Mayor David N. Dinkins tried to personally calm the racially troubled neighborhood after two nights of violence.”

But the Times still had trouble changing its frame. Perhaps most troubling was an article written in the midst of the rioting under this headline: “Amid Distrust in Brooklyn: Boy and Scholar Fall Victim.” The article compared the life of Gavin Cato, the 7-year-old boy killed in the car accident that spurred the riots, and the life of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, who was stabbed to death later that night. It recycled every newspaper cliché and was an insult to the memory of both victims, but, again, it fit the frame.

“They did not know each other,” the article said. “They had no reason to know… They died unaware….” In the eyes of the Times, the deaths were morally equivalent and had equal weight.

The Times editorial page followed suit. “The violence following an auto accident in Crown Heights reminds all New Yorkers that the city’s race relations remains dangerously strained,” the editorial said. It concluded by praising Mayor Dinkins, giving him credit “for a hard night’s work” and doing “the job that New Yorkers elected him to do.”

The one who first broke the frame and spoke the truth was the fearless poet of the New York newspaper business in those days, Jimmy Breslin, then a columnist for Newsday. He was one of numerous reporters, photographers and television journalists who were beaten or otherwise injured during the riots. In Breslin’s case, he was dragged from a taxi by a group of rampaging young men, pummeled and stripped of his clothes. That night, he vowed to tell the truth of his humiliation, although he anticipated the resistance. “And someone up in the higher echelons of journalism, some moron starts talking about balanced coverage,” he said.

The other person who spoke the truth was the brilliant former executive editor of the Times, A.M. Rosenthal, who by 1991 had become a columnist for the paper. Rosenthal was one of the first journalists at the Times to call the riots what they were. “Pogrom in Brooklyn,” was the headline of his column on Sept. 3, 1991, just two weeks after the riots ended.

“The press,” Rosenthal wrote, “treats it all as some kind of cultural clash between a poverty-ridden people fed up with life and a powerful, prosperous and unfortunately peculiar bunch of stuck-up neighbors — very sad of course, but certainly understandable. No — it is an anti-Semitic pogrom and the words should not be left unsaid.”

It pains me to recall that not many people at the Times took Rosenthal seriously at the time. He had gone from being the editor of a great “liberal” newspaper to being a “conservative” columnist who seemed to return to the same issues over and over again: the security of Israel, anti-Semitism, the persecution of Christians in China and the war on drugs.

But Rosenthal was right about Crown Heights. In 1993, two years after the Crown Heights riots, an exhaustive state investigation sharply criticized Mayor Dinkins for not understanding the severity of the crisis. It also faulted his police commissioner, Lee Brown, for mismanaging the police during the riots.

The critical state report was widely covered in the press. “For the Mayor,” the Times headline said, “A Harsh Light.”

But another report, this one on how the press covered Crown Heights, got little publicity. It was written in 1999 by Carol B. Conaway, then an assistant professor at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and published in an academic journal called Polity. Her article is called “Crown Heights: Politics and Press Coverage of the Race War That Wasn’t.”

“Journalists and their audience alike rely on ‘frames’ when writing about and understanding newsworthy events because they provide cues for understanding others’ experiences,” Conaway wrote. But, she added, sometimes the frames are wrong.

She continued: “The New York Post, a tabloid, shifted away from the race frame to focus on black anti-Semitism within a few days of the initial rampages, while the New York Times persisted with the racial frame for at least two years.

“Yet,” she added, “one cannot understand the events [that unfolded in Crown Heights] without getting beyond the binaries of black versus white encouraged by the use of the race frame, and understanding the more complex dynamics of the conflict.”

As someone who saw the conflict unfold I can attest to this first-hand. I am telling my story in print for the first time because it is important that we journalists examine our mistakes and learn from them. Fitting stories into frames — whether about blacks and Jews, liberals or conservatives, Arabs and Israelis, Catholics and Protestants or Muslims and Jews — is wrong and even dangerous. Life is more complicated than that. And so is journalism.

Read more at http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/telling-it-it-wasnt#f8LIbXZlWju4Vflk.99

Iranian military official: We have 100,000 missiles in Lebanon ready to hit Israel.. Well let's hit them first this time. (seen on drudge-report).

President Hassan Rouhani said the last year’s nuclear deal “was the cheapest way to achieve Iran’s goals and interests.”

Speaking in Tehran on Saturday at an iftar meal breaking the Ramadan fast, Rouhani said the pre-Iran nuclear-deal era is past and Iran now needs to take advantage of the new atmosphere to pursue its “national interests more than before,” Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called for student associations to establish a “unified anti-US and anti-Zionist front” among the Muslim world’s students, Tasnim News Agency reported.

“By using advanced means of communication and in cyberspace, general campaigns can be formed by Muslim students based on the opposition to the policies of the US and the Zionist regime of Israel so that when needed, millions of young Muslim students create a big movement in the Islamic world,” he said.

read on..

Iranian military official: We have 100,000 missiles in Lebanon ready to hit Israel By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON Sun, 03 Jul 2016, 04:47 AM

the funny thing about it is that the Iranian regime is telling us exactly what they would like to do and what they are capable of doing, (Hashem will protect us) and we are not taking them seriously.

It's really a wonder how the world powers have lost their minds and are helping evil men to try to destroy the world.

Time to believe what they are saying and destroy the evil from the world.

ISIS, Obama and the Spies Our Greatest Crisis Is Not ISIS, But Our Denial of It By: Rabbi YY Jacobson

When faced with a gruesome enemy, there are two approaches: Retreat in fear, or go on the offensive.

But what if the enemy will pursue you wherever you are, so that retreat is ineffective? The only option then, it would seem, would be to take on your enemy and crush it; you’ve got no choice.

However, what if that goes against your entire way of thinking? If it runs contrary to everything you told yourself about the world around you? Then there is only one option left—and it is the most dangerous of all: deny the reality of the enemy; make believe he does not exist.

Two centuries ago, the French tyrant Napoleon Bonaparte was master of Europe. In Spain, an embattled English army under the Duke of Wellington was resisting his advance. One day a young lieutenant came into the British general's tent clutching a map in his trembling hands:

"Look, General the enemy is almost upon us!"

"Young man," the general replied coolly, "Get larger maps, the enemy won't seem so close."

This sums up the current mind set of many of our leaders.

read the rest here...