In first, Israel to honor transgender soldier with medal of honor
Sergeant Noam Shahar, 20, from Home Front Command’s rescue unit, will be one of 120 soldiers who will receive the President’s Medal during Independence Day state ceremony due to excelling in fulfilling her role and setting a personal example
Israel for the first time ever will honor a transgender soldier with special medal of honor during the country's annual Independence Day state ceremony, it was revealed Tuesday.
Sergeant Noam Shahar from Home Front Command’s mixed gender rescue unit will receive the President's Medal during the country’s 74th Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday.
Sergeant Noam Shahar
The 20 year-old soldier was chosen to be one of the 120 soldiers to receive the medal for “outstanding contribution to the State of Israel or to humanity”.
"I am very excited. My unit commander called me to his office, said I was unanimously selected as my platoon’s most outstanding soldier," said Shahar, adding she was then voted as the most outstanding soldier in her battalion.
"Finally they decided I will receive the President’s Medal. I was, and still am, in shock.”
Shahar will receive the award for excellence in fulfilling her role, going above and beyond her duties and setting a personal example for her fellow soldiers.
The soldier said she dedicated herself to setting an example even before joining Home Front Command. Last year, she chose to do her beret march- an arduous journey each IDF soldier goes through before being accepted to their respective corps - with the pride flag on her vest.
"Before I enlisted, it was clear to me that I would enlist in one of the combat units. I searched the Internet for information on transgender men and women and found nothing. I felt I had to prove it was possible," she said. "It was important to me to show our presence, that we are here," she added.
Shahar adds that while she was apprehensive at first, enlisting as a combat soldier was a dream she would not have given up on. “At first I was afraid of what they would say and how they would react, but I soon realized that most of the fears were in my head.”
"There are soldiers in the company with me who have never met a gay or a lesbian, and today one of them is my best friend."
To the Independence Day celebrations, Shahar will be accompanied by her parents.
"We salute her, she's amazing," said Shahar’s mother, Hedva. "I do not know how to contain all this excitement… Noam brings us a lot of pride, she loves what she’s doing, so I am happy. There is no one more worthy than her."
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No surprise that Putz-Thief Pinter is back in the news again
Sick "person".
She worked her baytzim off to get this honor!
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This is the original "$44 million" Federal judgement that Leib Pinter is finally in contempt on after giving the Federal Trustee the runaround for almost a full decade. Notice how all the relatives like his brother Shmelly Shmelka Pinter, the wives, the kids & beyond are all in on it and named as defendants.
The amount is in quotation marks because the FBI said $44 million is only a fraction of the true sum. Pinter created an intricate web of many 100s of shell companies to cover his thieving tracks which the most experienced investigators haven't been able to piece together.
Leib Pinter's Flatbush neighbor George Ribowsky profited off another nefarious Pinter scam, the one with the treif Baloney-Cheese sandwiches that Pinter sold as "Kosher". George sold Pinter some of the sandwich components.
George's brother Larry Ribowsky, VP of Bais Yaakov Queens, is a convicted embezzler & disbarred lawyer who was a fugitive hiding for years in Israel. These Ribowskys are mechutonim with infamous child rapists like Bryks & Brenner.
Larry's son is psychopath OU mashgiach Yanky Ribowsky in Queens. Yanky has spent many years slandering victim advocates and many others he doesn't agree with all over the internet. If memory serves correct, UOJ was instrumental in getting someone with Yanky's unique blogging style banned from the old Google+. UOJ is of course one of Yanky's favorite targets to slander. Lately, Yanky has been doing so on Yudel Shain's blog. Shain does not usually allow inappropriate slander but when it does appear there it's said that he's away on kashrus jobs and someone else is moderating. Ribowsky's latest shtick is to shout he has secret info that UOJ is a "molester". The readers are beating up on him for lying & deflecting the rampant pedophilia in his own family.
You defend Get refusers on his blog.
You seem to have a problem with voting for WZO. Can you kindly explain what's wrong with the WZO?
It's prudent to defend get refusers when the woman is an extortionist. And this is the halacha, besides being correct & moral.
UOJ does not answer every question posed on this blog, especially when there is no particularly compelling reason to.
The WZO question was either posed as a loaded question by that lunatic OU mashgiach in Queens so he can 'enhance' his UOJ bashing over at Yudelstake, or by someone who the mashgiach is confusing with his 'open season' to attack UOJ on a whole host of bizarre topics, including his preposterous lies that UOJ supposedly hates R' Yaakov Kaminetzky. (When it was proven that UOJ was in fact close to R' Yaakov, the liar mashgiach flipped 180 degrees with a new bogus conspiracy that UOJ only pretends to like R' Yaakov so as to create a veneer of credibility that he has a right to attack Shmuel Kaminetzky)
As someone familiar with UOJ's thinking, my educated guess is that UOJ may not have bothered to learn all the ins & outs of WZO like one would learn a Tosfos, but if he did he would feel it is no panacea, it is prone to flaws like any other org full of kovod zuchers. And that the senior talmidim of the Brisker Rov & R' Aron Kotler are no slouches, so when they recently attacked Shmuel Kaminetzky for getting areingemisht mit WZO, it was for good reason. After all, when was the last time old Shmuel was on the right side of an inyan since dumping molester Eisemann in the lap of his own rebbi Rav Ruderman?
Sounds like Ribowsky both needs to take a hike with Neuhoff and take turns wearing Shafran's dunce cap.
The Talmidim of R' Aron signed against because it's a Zionist Organization. No other reason.
I actually know the fellow that wrote all those comments on Shains blog and it ain't Ribowsky or anyone related to him in any way.
But this anti Zionist defender of get refusers that has one of the best imaginations in the world knows how to weave stories with made up details and names and some people here seem to believe whatever he says.
There were Tropper defenders who claimed that it wasn't him on the tape wanting to "SHQUEEZE" his "cutie pie" shiksa, despite that the tape was authenticated for the Edah in a Hollywood studio and that anyone who knows Tropper knows his mannerisms & quirks that can't be ascribed to anyone else.
Same thing with Ribowsky. His grubba fingerprints are all over the maniac outbursts against UOJ. And other victims of Ribowsky slander spent years tracking down who the serial big mouth was. There was a lot of evidence after he was surveilled goofing off while on his employer clock (some farce morning kollel), stepping out & furiously typing into his smartphone. Holier than thou hypocrite with a smartphone, yes. The comments came at those times with formatting that only could be from a phone.
There are enough unique meshugassen from this moron to fill a book. Just one example: The slanderer was blogging comments for years that both UOJ & Yudel are "WORSE THAN HITLER!" Yeah well, there is only one loudmouth shoyteh who talks like that offline - it's Yanky Ribowsky of Queens who is afternoon shift OU mashgiach at West Side Kosher in da Bronx.
Go chase headlights on the Jackie Robinson Parkway, you fat ferd Ribowsky! This isn't the first time you've lied away to deny it's you.
There is only one problem with all your rants. That the fellow commenting is not Ribowsky. As simple as that.
Ribowsky, stop denying it.
This is even better than when Dovid Hiller was outed on Lopin's blog as having a string of shoplifting arrests. (Dovid is son of convicted embezzler Shmuel Hiller who is prohibited by court order from stepping foot in Bnos Bais Yaakov Far Rockaway)
It was obviously Dovid - pretending to be someone else - who kept coming on the blog to whine to Lopin that his arrest records don't belong on a blog about molesters and that it's not the Far Rockaway Dovid Hiller, it's "the Lawrence Dovid Hiller" (there is only one Dovid Hiller & he's from Far Rockaway), and that it couldn't be the Far Rockaway one because trust me that he was spotted during one of the arrest incidents at a Brooklyn chassunah. He also added that whoever posted about Shmuel Hiller rolling around in the dirt in his langa reckel post-conviction outside the Kew Gardens courtroom is full of "hate".
Ribowsky's case is exponentially stronger than the common sense in Hiller's case, given Ribowsky's unique meshugassen and many other indicators that rise to the level of anan sahadi. Ribowsky has also posted information that almost no one besides him would know.
There is one problem with all your comments and fantasies. Namely that the commenter you are discussing is simply not Ribowsky. Full stop.
The fact that you post what you post when the truth is the opposite proves that anything else you post complete with all names and details is one big lie, fabrication of your imagination.
Ribowsky, the more you akshen zich in denial, the more apparent it becomes how deranged & evil you are.
At least when Margulies denied Kolko's molestation for decades as "sheker vechuzev", he didn't pretend he was someone else.
https://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2022/04/alert-shatnez-issues-new-right-place.html?showComment=1651684926468#c8650708614873953027
Kuckoo Gardens said...
OU mashgiach Yanky R's memory is short so he could use a zetz to his shvache brain to help remember how else he gave himself away.
He's been going around Queens for yeeeeearrrrrs, blabbering the same exact filthy shekorim in person as he types here, against "Shain" & "Paul" and many, many others who he is intent to inflict character assassination on them. Vedye lehuvin.
You are really starting to sound like an estranged individual. The fellow posting those comments is someone that I actually know and it is not Ribowsky. Repeating your theories again and again won't make that it is.
What else do you do with your life besides commenting on blogs against some guy in queens??
To this anti Zionist pro get refuser anti some unknown Ribowsky fellar: are you queer?
Ribowsky, a stubborn mule if there ever was.
There are many reasons why he >HATES< UOJ incidentally. One thing that really peeves him is UOJ getting "Fresser" into the public vernacular as defining Agudaniks. Ribowsky's brother is the achsanya for Fressing when the Agudah has their Far Rockaway Meet, Greet & Fress Shabbos.
You are totally unhinged. You are obsessed with this unknown fellow supposedly from queens and can't stop ranting about it on all different blogs. Maybe get a job and some sipuk in life?
No, just responding to Ribowsky who blogs everywhere to slander his countless targets.
The person commenting is not Ribowsky. But you are unhinged on this Ribowsky and it seems it's time to seek help. Or maybe to just take a break from reading and commenting on blogs.
Oh now you think I am this Ribowsky?
Gentleman, there are ways to help yourself. Go for it.
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