tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post5626331894271862325..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: If God chose Trump, did God choose Obama? Mass Confusion about God's Choice For President!Paul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-32814968984726139862022-01-14T04:51:05.968-05:002022-01-14T04:51:05.968-05:00rav meir kahane said it is totally irrelevant who ...rav meir kahane said it is totally irrelevant who is elected president of the united states... (or made king or becomes prime minister what have you) it is solely a matter of what G-d wishes to do with His chosen people and yes with the entire world during the course of that upcoming four yr period or set to unfold over the reign of that monarchy et al...<br /><br />he said u could get the worst kind of jew hating king like achashverosh who was in league with haman to wipe out the entire jewish people... and if we were worthy and did tshuvah for our sins etc then nothing bad would occur and the jew hater would not be able to harm us... so fill in obama here... he hated us but so what...? Hashem did not permit him to destroy us during his two terms in office... <br /><br />why not...? because of the maxim... "lev melachim b'yad Hashem..." "the hearts of kings are in the hand of G-d..." He controls them... chazal teach us that because these kinds of leaders possess such awesome amounts of power and hold sway over such vast amounts of the world population so G-d removes some of their freewill and free choice and limit their ability to effect the whole earth against the will of G-d...<br /><br />take the opposite example... if Hashem wishes to punish His people for their sins He can take even the supposedly "greatest friend we ever had in the white house" and make him cause us grief... as happened when dubya reigned and he made israel unilaterally uproot itself from gush katif to the tune of great subsequent dire straits occurring for am yisroel... a peril that is still felt by us and is still reverberating down to this very day... ala all the wars we've had to wage to keep our enemies at bay there and with all the missiles raining down on us constantly from gaza by hamas ever since we tucked tail and left...<br /><br />so that's the story... the real story on elections... it all depends what we His people deserve over the next 4-8 yrs and as a result also what the world is deservant of experiencing in conjunction with us... truth.out...nikmatdam ~ humble servanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04765144425273984304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-72482700360601853002017-01-18T20:00:35.627-05:002017-01-18T20:00:35.627-05:00What's the story with molester Rabbi Shmuel Vo...What's the story with molester Rabbi Shmuel Vogel? He slipped under the public radar despite Jewish Week finding out about him through court filings. And whose playgroup was shut down?<br /><br />http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/in-lakewood-abuse-cases-a-parallel-justice-system/<br /><br />According to court papers and interviews with people close to the family of the boy allegedly abused by Kolko, a 34-year-old former teacher at Yeshiva Orchos Chaim in Lakewood who also worked as a camp counselor, the family decided to go to the authorities only after they had exhausted the options within the community and found no relief. Before doing so, they sought assistance from a community activist, Doniel Bernstein, and several prominent Lakewood rabbis, including Rabbi Mattisyahu Salomon, the “mashgiach,” or spiritual adviser, at BMG, and the “go-to” rabbi for all manner of communal issues in Lakewood, sources say.<br /><br />Rabbi Salomon, along with Rabbi Shmuel Blech, served for a time on a formal beit din, created by Salomon several years ago specifically to hear sexual abuse allegations.<br /><br />In addition to information directly relevant to the Kolko case, testimony from the hearings indicates that there have been other abuse allegations apparently deemed credible by rabbis, but that nonetheless went unreported to the police.<br /><br />In testimony in New Jersey Superior Court given in May of this year, Lakewood rabbi and activist Micky Rottenberg alludes to such a case, which The Jewish Week has learned involved allegations against the husband of a woman who ran a local children’s playgroup. The beit din found the allegations to be credible and publicized them, effectively shutting down the playgroup. However, the authorities were never notified and the accused remains in the community today.<br /><br />In his testimony, Rabbi Rottenberg also sheds light on the beit din’s inner workings.<br /><br />According to him, “[The Secretary] of the beis din [would contact] the victims … [and the] alleged perpetrator, discuss with them … beg them to do certain things. And if they don’t do it, [the secretary would say] ‘I’m going to report [to the beit din] that you don’t listen to us, and then we are going to … Take away your job. Send away your kids from schools.’ Whatever measures they would feel they have power to be able for the person to submit and accept the verdict of the beis din.”<br /><br />Rabbi Rottenberg also testified that he felt the beit din favored the accusers and was in fact involved in disbanding it at the behest of Rabbi Malkiel Kotler for this reason. Rabbi Kotler, through his brother, denied making any such request.<br /><br />In arguments at a court hearing, Kolko’s attorney, Michael Wilbert, refers to a Rabbi Shmuel Vogel who, he claims, was “charged with a violation” by Bernstein and “required to go to a social worker in New York … Mr. Sternstein.” Sternstein is Hillel Sternstein, coordinator of trauma services at OHEL, and a social worker with a private practice in Long Island.<br /><br />A source close to Rabbi Salomon’s beit din who consulted with its members on behalf of this reporter told The Jewish Week that they would not speak to the paper out of concern that “the ‘forces’ that led to the disbanding [of the beit din] are still ever present. They expressed fear that speaking about these forces will lead to personal reprisal.” The source acknowledged Rottenberg as one of these so-called “forces.”Lakewoodhttp://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/in-lakewood-abuse-cases-a-parallel-justice-system/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-13678340791558517522017-01-18T13:42:35.082-05:002017-01-18T13:42:35.082-05:00More proof that pro-toyava & seemingly anti-Se...More proof that pro-toyava & seemingly anti-Semitic Amazon.com is in fact anti-Semitic.<br /><br />British newspapers are reporting that an Amazon employee in England who is probably an Arab has been placing anti-Semitic notes in packages of Jewish customers. Amazon tried to ignore complaints & cover it up but were finally forced to fire the employee after a campaign on Facebook exposed them.<br /><br />Scotland Yard's hate crimes division is now investigating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com