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Thursday, May 13, 2021

The first part of the verse in Michah 3:11 discusses the corruptness of the rulers, priests and prophets and the problem that they assume they can rely on God, smugly stating that whatever they do they will be fine because after all “God is in our midst.”

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Was The Tragedy At Meron Preventable? It is always easy to dismiss the warnings.  No one wants to think anything he or she does puts ...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

As a result of their “innocence, there have been numerous reports of sexual abuse by rabbis and other male adults in ritual baths and yeshivot, even some cult groups in which “very observant religious leaders” assemble a harem of women who produce many children.

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  New Tel Aviv University study finds that Facebook and WhatsApp have significantly ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Two Israelis killed in Ashkelon rocket attack as Netanyahu threatens escalation More than 400 rockets have been fired at Israel since yesterday • IDF strikes more than 130 targets throughout the Strip

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  https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/cogat-announces-closure-of-gaza-border-crossing-over-rocket-fire-667730
Monday, May 10, 2021

In 2020 Americans failed to socially distance and test for the coronavirus and suffered among the highest infection and death rates in the developed world. Millions decided that wearing a mask infringed their individual liberty - We’re not asking you to storm the beaches of Iwo Jima; we’re asking you to walk into a damn CVS!

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  Our Pathetic Herd Immunity Failure   Could today’s version of America have been able to win World War II? It hardly seems possible. That ...
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Friday, May 07, 2021

These are critical conversations. We must talk about clergy who sexually abuse, and the people and institutions that cover for them...

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  Toxic leadership in the Jewish world goes beyond sexual misconduct. A reckoning must come.   We’re in the middle of y...
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Thursday, May 06, 2021

They might deny COVID-19 exists, then play it down, and eventually blame 5G and Jewish people for the pandemic.

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  Germany’s Anti-vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism Jewish people were blamed for spreading disease, and considered expendabl...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2021

" Mi K'Amcha Yisroel" Does Not Include Gross Stupidity! There is no reason and no justification for the victims’ deaths. There is no good that came from their deaths. No lesson for the collective Jewish people. No celestial or cosmic redemption to be earned from their loss. They should be alive.

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  Stop justifying the 45 deaths on Mount Meron!  To The "Divrei Chizuk" Crowd - There Is No Chizuk From This Traged...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2021

The Ingrates Blame the State They Do Not Recognize , but Milk it For Every Last Dollar They Can Squeeze Out Of The Government! But those now asking the state and the police to take over at Meron, those now questioning, openly and not-so-openly, their leaders’ wisdom and their community’s ethos of separation, will apply that lesson to other things in the future.

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  After Meron calamity, Haredim question the price of their own autonomy   Ultra-Orthodox media figures are calling for a commission ...
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Monday, May 03, 2021

A Fair Description of the Many Factors Leading up to the Mt. Meron Tragedy!

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  Mount Meron, following a fatal crowd crush during the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer, April 30, 2021....
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Friday, April 30, 2021

אתה לא צריך להיות פיזיקאי כדי לדעת שאתה לא יכול להכניס 100,000 אנשים למרחב שיכול להכיל רק 10,000 איש מקסימום------For more than a decade there have been concerns and warnings that the religious site on Mount Meron in northern Israel was not equipped to handle tens of thousands of pilgrims. In 2008 and 2011, reports by the state comptroller at the time warned of the potential for calamity there.

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  שוב, הטיפשים בהנהגה מעמידים את חסידיהם בדרך המוות Israel Mourns After a Religious Festival Turns Into Disaster There were warnings for ye...
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