Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.

 

American Uprising

Everything is about to change.

Daniel Greenfield

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This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.

It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.

They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.

They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.

The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin.

Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.

They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election.

They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.

They fought and they won.

This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.

Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.

They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.

They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.
And they changed everything.

Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.

He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.

And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.

 And America said, “No.”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264771/american-uprising-daniel-greenfield

God Is On Our Side!

Obama didn't make history after all. He wasn't a teleprompter demi-god standing athwart of history. He was Carter and Ford. He was there to be forgotten. He didn't change the world. He wasn't the messiah. He was merely mortal. Just another politician who will sag and age. Who will, in the end, be photographed like Bill Clinton, lonely and lost in a world that has passed him by.

The Obama Era is Over

Obama and his supporters loved talking about history. His victory was historic. They were on the right side of history. History was an inevitable arc that bent their way.

The tidal force of demographics had made the old America irrelevant. Any progressive policy agenda was now possible because we were no longer America. We Were Obamerica. A hip, happening place full of smiling gay couples, Muslim women in hijabs and transgender actors. We were all going to live in a New York City coffee house and work at Green Jobs and live in the post-national future.

The past was gone. We were falling into the gorgeous wonderful future of dot com instant deliveries and outsourced everything. We would become more tolerant and guilty. The future was Amazon and Disney. It was hot and cold running social justice. The Bill of Rights was done. Ending the First and Second Amendments was just a clever campaign away. Narratives on news sites drove everything.

Presidents were elected by Saturday Night Live skits. John Oliver, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee were our journalists. Safe spaces were everywhere and you better watch your microaggressions, buddy. No more coal would be mined. No more anything would be made. The end of men was here. The end of the dead white men of the literary canon. The end of white people. The end of binary gender and marriage. The end of reason. The end of art. The end of 2 + 2 equaling 4. This was Common Core time. It was time to pardon an endless line of drug dealers. To kill cops and praise criminals. To be forced to buy worthless health insurance for wealth redistribution to those who voted their way to wealth.

This was Obama's America. And there was no going back. We were rushing through endless goal posts of social transformation. The military fell. Then the police. Now it looks as quaint as anything from the 50s, the 70s or the 80s. A brief moment of foolishness that already appears odd and awkward. And then one day nostalgic. It wasn't the future. It's already the past. It's history.

Scalia died. Hillary Clinton was bound to win. And she would define the Supreme Court. Downticket races would give her a friendly Senate. And then perhaps the House.

But there is no right side of history. There is only the side we choose.

The Obama era was permanent. It was history. Now it is history.

Its shocking ascendancy has been paired with an equally shocking descent. The Obama era is done. It's gone. It's over. It was wiped from the pages of history in one night that left Congress and the White House in Republican hands.

It would have been bad enough if Jeb Bush had succeeded Obama. That would have been inconvenient, but not a repudiation. Instead Obama's legacy was dashed to pieces. His frantic efforts to campaign for Hillary did no good. The public did not vocally reject him. What they did was in its own way even worse. They brushed past him. They sidelined him. They gave him passable approval ratings while dismissing his biggest accomplishments. They forgot him. They made it clear that he did not matter.

And that is in its own way far more brutal and wounding. They didn't just destroy the Obama era. Instead they dismissed it as if it never existed.

Obama didn't make history after all. He wasn't a teleprompter demi-god standing athwart of history. He was Carter and Ford. He was there to be forgotten. He didn't change the world. He wasn't the messiah. He was merely mortal. Just another politician who will sag and age. Who will, in the end, be photographed like Bill Clinton, lonely and lost in a world that has passed him by.

The Obama era ends not with a bang, but with a whimper. With a national consensus that maybe he didn't really matter so much after all. And those to whom he mattered the most were his enemies determined to undo everything he did.

Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

And so this is how the Obama era of Hope & Change really ends...America Rejected Obama & The Establishment!

Trump victory is a win for the little guy over the elite

Obama's 'hope and change' has given us 'fear and loathing'

And so this is how the Obama era of Hope & Change really ends. With the world turned upside down, and with President Obama having to pass the baton to Donald Trump.

That is going to be one helluva inauguration.

Trump stands today as the greatest disrupter in modern politics, the winner of the biggest upset imaginable, but for most of the campaign, he was not even the best argument for his own candidacy. That distinction belonged to the millions upon millions of everyday Americans who found in him the bare-knuckled brawler they were desperately seeking.

Their choice started as a surprise, as Republican primary voters turned their backs on a parade of supposedly better-qualified candidates to make the TV celebrity with the funny hair their battering ram against an arrogant establishment.

Their movement grew and spread until, early Wednesday, as the key states swung red one after another on TV maps, the last walls of resistance came tumbling down. It was a hallelujah moment, the ultimate underdog leading the forgotten masses to triumph. All the more so because Trump’s voters often took great risks and were routinely insulted and demeaned for their passion.

But they wore those insults as badges of honor, proudly calling themselves the “deplorables” and the “irredeemables.”

They would not be deterred, and today they have taken back their country.

Trump’s remarkable victory is their victory. It is a victory for democracy, for the common men and women of America.

The factory workers, the veterans, the cops, the kitchen help, people who plow the fields, make the trains run, pick up the trash and keep the country together and keep it moving — they are all now winners. As one, these cogs of our daily life rose up in a peaceful revolution, their only weapons the ballot box and their faith in the future.

This, the greatest nation ever conceived on Earth, proved once again that America is exceptional because Americans are exceptional.

Trump voters had the courage of their conviction to go against all their betters, all the poobahs and petty potentates of politics, industry and, above all, the fraudulent hucksters of the national liberal media.

And who, at this extraordinary juncture, dares say that Trump is not worthy of victory and of the salute of his countrymen? He has done what nobody thought he could, overcoming the doubts and scoffs every incredible step of the way.

No candidate in modern times and perhaps ever has suffered such abuse at the hands of the dominant culture. Virtually every day, nearly all the front pages and broadcasters in the entire country vilified him in an attempt to destroy him.

The late-night comics made fun of him like so much trailer trash, Wall Street saw him as a threat, Hollywood looked down on him and even the pope added his two cents of disdain.

It was dirty pool, against any standard of fairness and decency, but that was not the would-be assassins’ biggest mistake. It was that failing to destroy Trump, the elite smart set unleashed its contempt on his supporters.

The effect was the opposite of what was intended. Instead of demoralizing the Trumpsters, the nonstop attacks hardened them and made them more determined to finish what they had started.

http://nypost.com/2016/11/09/trump-victory-is-a-win-for-the-little-guy-over-the-elite/

YU GEORGE FINKELSTEIN - GABBAI AT JERUSALEM SHUL - OHEL YITZCHOK

GEORGE FINKELSTEIN HANGS OUT IN SCHOOLS AND SHULS - THAT'S WHERE THE KIDS ARE

George Finkelstein is the gabbai in a shul in Jerusalem called Ohel Yitzchak. It is part of the multi-million dollar complex known as King David's Crown.

Why the Jewish Vote Is So Important to US Presidential Candidates

50% of the financial donations to the Democratic Party and 25% of those to Republicans come from Jews. Ten US senators are Jewish, as are three Supreme Court justices. And yet, Jews are a mere 2% of the American population. How did they become so influential, and why are most of them voting for Clinton—except for the Orthodox?(Disagree - Witness all the Hasidic sects)

US Jewry only makes up two percent of the electorate, so even if the entire Jewish community comes as one to vote (which won’t happen), it cannot in any way sway the outcome of the elections in favor of one nominee or another. And yet, “the Jewish vote” is a term that has been accompanying US election cycles over the years, and it appears there have never been so many efforts made to win the support of such a small community.

The simplest answer to the question why do US presidential candidates try to woo the Jewish community is that: Jews is news. It’s always interesting to know who the Jewish community supports, and what the overall mood within the community is.

But a closer, more in-depth examination reveals several more established reasons to the incessant courting of the Jews.



A study conducted by Prof. Gil Troy as part of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at Haifa University raises several reasons that could provide an explanation for Trump and Clinton’s pro-Israel speeches and statements.

“American Jews are relatively quite wealthy, they’re large donors and very politically committed,” said Troy, a US presidential historian and a history lecturer at McGill University in Montreal.

“According to estimates, the Jewish contributions to the current presidential election constituted 50 percent of the sum total of donations to the Democratic Party and some 25 percent of the sum total of donations to the Republican Party.”

Troy went on to note that in key swing-states, which help determine the outcome of the election, there is a high concentration of Jews, and they have a considerable influence relative to the community’s size.

The fact the overall voter turnout in the US barely passes 50 percent, while the voter turnout in the Jewish community is 85 percent, also increases the importance of the Jewish vote.

Another reason is that much like in Hollywood, there are quite a few Jews in key positions across the US. Beyond the Jewish share in the presidential candidates’ campaigns, there are also 10 Jewish senators, 19 Jewish Congressmen and three Jewish Supreme Court justices. It’s hard to ignore such a significant presence of members of the Jewish community in senior positions, and this presence has a cumulative, significant effect.

However, Troy claims that on the practical level—rather than the political one or in consciousness—the Jews only played a marginal role in most election outcomes. “Even with a high voter turnout and high concentrations of Jews in key states, there simply isn’t enough American Jews to affect the US elections,” he said.

Good news for Clinton

The Republican nominees can give warm speeches at AIPAC (the pro-Israeli lobby in Washington), embrace Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and make decisive statements against Iran and Israel’s enemies, but on election day they will almost always be disappointed. Since the 1928 elections, most of the Jews have been liberals, with some 70 percent voting for the Democrats.

In his study, Troy determines that the classic explanation for Jews’ support of the Democratic Party is the liberal nature of Judaism. Basic Jewish tenets like charity, justice and social justice find fertile ground in liberal ideology. In addition to that, many American Jews consider their liberalism part of their Jewish heritage—like an impressive immigration story, silver candlesticks, or grandma’s Matzah ball soup recipe.

Historically, it was President Franklin D. Roosevelt—a great liberal icon—who became the object of admiration for US Jews and brought them to the Democratic Party. And even though the Republican Party is more pro-Israel than before, and is even perceived as more pro-Israel than the Democratic Party, American Jews continue voting for the left, which represents their mentality, ideology and cultural identity.



In this regard, Troy notes that Jews tend to vote for liberal values more than for pro-Israeli stances. This doesn’t mean that American Jews aren’t pro-Israeli. On the contrary, they perceive the Democratic Party as taking a strong pro-Israeli stance.

“Today more than ever, many American Jews are sticking to their liberalism,” explains Troy. “They are united by their fear of the Evangelists, of the Donald Trumps and of the Tea Partiers. Their liberalism is defined by freedom and autonomy.”

All this is excellent news for Hillary Clinton. Recent history teaches that over 70% of Jews voted for Obama for both of his presidential terms, despite his many points of friction with the Israeli government, largely because of his support for marriage equality, healthcare and other subjects on the liberal agenda.

A party of gentiles

During the Democratic primaries, Clinton competed against Bernie Sanders, the first Jew to win a presidential primary. Despite his Judaism, Sanders’s views on Israel seemed closer to those of Obama. Sanders believed in Israel, but also said that we need to discuss “the needs of the Palestinian people.”

In contrast, Clinton has always maintained the classic strong position of supporting Israel—she has condemned Hamas, terrorism and Sanders’s ambivalence. During her time as a senator, she stood out as a dedicate supporter of the Jewish state. The bottom line is that, despite the historic title of “first Jew to…”it turned out that Clinton won two thirds of the Jewish vote in the primaries.

Now Clinton is positioned before the continuing Republican tendency in which politicians compete against each other to show just who loves Israel more. Trump was even quoted as saying that he couldn’t understand how his Jewish friends financially supported Obama when the president himself was so unfaithful to Israel.

Trump’s question has a complicated answer that Israelis won’t like hearing: Most Jews who vote don’t put Israel at the top of their list of priorities, but rather to prefer to stick with liberal values, which are not met by the Republican Party.

In addition, the revolution that began during the Reagan administration—during which time the complete identification with Evangelical Christians began—branded the Republicans as a party of gentiles, and despite their support of Israel, this group has an internal agenda that is seen as contrary to the Jewish agenda.


More Orthodox, more Republicans? Not Lately! (Disagree - Ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic goes Democrat!)

Trump himself doesn’t attract the typical Jewish voter. According to Troy, the candidate’s controversial pronouncements, combined with his personality and agenda on foreign and domestic matters, created cultural barriers and political disgust towards him within the liberal Jewish community.

Many American Jews see him as an existential threat and don’t hesitate to compare him to Hitler. His candidacy has conjured racist and anti-Semitic ghosts. With all this commotion, Clinton enjoys a significant advantage with voting Jews, and the Jewish consensus loyal to Democrats remains in place.

It’s difficult to fully segment the Jewish vote, as the sample size is relatively small. However, previous studies have shown that while the distribution of Jews is 70% voting Democrat and only 22% Republican, amongst Orthodox Jews the data are different. They are more included to vote Republican at 57% and only 36% Democrat. “We can say generally that the more the Jew is Orthodox, the more he tends to be Republican,” summarized Troy. (Not necessarily at all)

Whom are we against?

If you ask Israelis what characterizes Judaism in their opinion, the answer would be conservatism. But in the USA, the answer is the opposite. Troy explains that this comes from deep differences between the communities. “The history of Israeli Jews is not similar to that in the US. While in Israel, tradition is something that is present in everyday life and the rabbinate and Orthodoxy have a role in how Judaism is perceived, in the US, Judaism is the right to be free and completely voluntarily realize signs of religion or tradition.”

He continued, “Jews in the US are happy to be free. It’s an ancient Jewish dream to be like everybody, citizens of the large world. It’s not parallel to what we see in Israel or the challenges that stand before Jews in Israel. The liberal values and voting for Democrats reflects the mood of American Jewry.”

Troy struggled to see a future in which Jews left the liberal camp en masse: “Since Reagan’s victory in 1980, they’ve been saying that the time has come for Jews to cross over to the Republicans, but it hasn’t happened. True, there’s a Jewish vote in the right, but since 2000, we’ve actually seen the liberals increase. The prevailing view is that liberalism and Judaism are the same thing.

“We always think whom we’re for, but sometimes the question is whom are we against. The Jews came to the US in the beginning of the last century, and since then they’ve been free, and they’re afraid that the Christian right and their agenda will take America back to the 50s. More than half of the population see supreme value in the ability to be free in their lives, and this is threatened by the right.”

A few hundred thousand Israelis also hold American citizenship. Asked if there was such a thing as an “Israeli vote” in the US elections, Troy answered, “I think that we’re beginning to see that. We’re trying to build an Israeli-American identity, when it’s pretty clear that in this case, being pro-Israeli plays a central role, and it’s an important value at election time. Some mix between conservatism and secularism speaks more to this community.”

Jay Ruderman, President of the Ruderman Family Foundation that works to strengthen the ties between Israel and American Jewry, said, “While Israel is not the central issue for Jewish voters, it remains an important issue. Most Jewish voters want to elect a president who will support the Jewish state. Because the US is Israel’s biggest ally, it’s important for Israelis to follow and better understand American politics and its impact on them.

Ynet News

Dumb & Dumber!

Mishpacha Editor left - Hamodia Editor right

Hamodia vs. Mishpacha: Hillary doesn't belong on the cover

Hamodia editorial attacks Mishpacha magazine for publishing picture of Hillary Clinton on cover of most recent edition.

After Mishpacha Magazine published a picture of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on the front cover of its English edition, Hamodia wrote an editorial attacking them.

Traditionally, haredi news outlets do not publish pictures of women, as doing so is not considered modest.

"True haredi newspapers never have and never will publish pictures of women, even if they are in leadership positions," wrote Hamodia in their editorial. "Jews have their own view of everything that happens, especially when the subject is as important as elections. In the eyes of Jews, the US is definitely a 'kingdom of kindness' in our days and deserves recognition and appreciation for that."

Hamodia also claims the US government is doing as much as it can to ensure that political standings are in accordance with Jewish law.

"They understand that the fact we won't publish a picture of the Democratic candidate on the front page of haredi newspapers does not mean we don't support her, but rather stems from the fact we keep Jewish law," said Hamodia.

Last Thursday, Mishpacha Magazine published a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front page of their weekly English-language magazine. Even though the picture was a slightly shadowed profile, it angered the rest of the haredi media, since Mishpacha is considered to be a haredi publication. Its American edition is not the same as the Hebrew one that appears in Israel and has a different editorial board.

Mishpacha's English staff responded, "The Mishpacha English magazine follows the spiritual guidance of important haredi Torah figures in the US. Every decision is made after speaking with the spiritual committee of communal rabbis in America, and that is why we decided to publish the picture in the fashion we did."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219859

Anyone That Is A Victim Of Any Institution That Is Registered As A "College or University" With The U.S. Department of Education - Can File A Grievance Claim Against That Institution...I Am Informed That Every Claim Will Be Examined Carefully!

 Yeshiva Torah Temima made headlines when one of his teachers and assistant principal,^[6] Rabbi Joel (Yehuda) Kolko was charged in 2006 with sexually abusing two first-graders and forcing an adult former student to touch him during a visit to the school. Five former students also filed suit against the yeshiva, alleging the school administrators knew about Kolko’s molestation of students for decades but sought to cover it up and intimidate students who spoke out. Kolko later pleaded guilty to two lesser counts of child endangerment and was sentenced to three years’ probation,^[7] and has left the school.^[8] The suit also alleged that school principal Rabbi Lipa Margulies waged a “a campaign of intimidation, concealment and misrepresentations designed to prevent victims from filing lawsuits.”^[9]

Many Yeshivas and Catholic Schools are registered as colleges and universities so they can soak the government for federal funding...If your school is one of these fraudulent or "legitimate" entities....go get 'em!

 

Feds investigating Sandusky --- fine Penn State a record $2.4M

 

The U.S. Department of Education concluded that Penn State largely ignored many of its duties under the 1990 Clery Act. 

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Published November 03, 2016

 

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Jerry Sandusky in 2015.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) 

Federal officials looking into how Penn State handled complaints about Jerry Sandusky hit the school on Thursday with a record $2.4 million fine, saying it violated requirements about reporting campus crimes and warning people if their safety was threatened.

The fine was the result of a five-year investigation that began shortly after Sandusky's 2011 arrest raised questions about what administrators had known about the former assistant football coach, now serving decades in prison for child molestation. The report said Penn State officials disclosed in June that 45 people have claimed they were victims of Sandusky, who was convicted of abusing 10 boys.

The U.S. Department of Education concluded that Penn State largely ignored many of its duties under the 1990 Clery Act.

Ted Mitchell, undersecretary at the Education Department, said transparency about what happens on campus helps ensure that colleges and universities are safe.

"When we determine that an institution is not upholding this obligation, then there must be consequences," Mitchell said.

The Education Department found the school violated regulations when it didn't warn students and employees of the forthcoming charges against Sandusky, who was convicted in 2012 and is due in court Friday as he seeks to have the conviction thrown out or get a new trial.

"In short, a man who was about to be charged with violent crimes against defenseless minors was free to roam the Penn State campus, as he pleased," the report said.

Penn State said the report was being reviewed and noted that since 2011 it has implemented "robust" training and collection processes under the Clery Act.

The school said Clery Act procedures "cannot be an end unto itself, but is rather part of a broader culture of compliance. We will continue our numerous and vigorous efforts to create a culture of reporting, safety and accountability."

The Education Department said Penn State's police department concealed its investigation into a 1998 report involving Sandusky and a boy in a team shower. Police didn't record the matter on its daily crime log even though university policy required that the log describe the type, location and time of every criminal incident.

The university argued that police lacked the clarity to determine whether the interaction rose to the level of a sex offense, and because it wasn't clear that a crime had occurred, there was no need to record it on the crime log. But the Education Department noted that campus police recorded far less serious matters on their log, including a man sleeping in a stairwell and a slip-and-fall in a public shower.

"In light of these entries, Penn State's contention that the reported incident of a middle-aged man inappropriately touching an 11-year-old boy, while naked and showering with him, didn't rise to the level for inclusion in the daily crime log strains credulity," the Education Department wrote in its report .

Two senior administrators were charged in 2011 with covering up the report. The officials, then-athletic director Tim Curley and then-vice president Gary Schultz, still await trial along with former Penn State president Graham Spanier on charges of endangering the welfare of children and failing to properly report suspected abuse.

The report disclosed new details about the athletics staff, including that then-head coach Joe Paterno once had his secretary email Spanier and Curley to say he would take care of disciplining players involved in a 2007 fight at an off-campus apartment building.

Paterno (did a Margulies) then had a text message sent to players telling them that if they went to the university's judicial affairs to answer code of conduct complaints they'd be "thrown off the team," the report said.

The report said Paterno was seen during most of his tenure as a disciplinarian and generally didn't interfere in police investigations or ignore bad behavior by his players. But when the school began to reform its student disciplinary process, he "repeatedly resisted" efforts to apply the changes to the football program.

"What ensued was an overlong and dysfunctional standoff between the football program and student affairs officials with the president positioned somewhere between the two sides," the report said. "Some members of the football team, aware of the conflicts, took the program's attitude toward the student conduct process as license to break the rules."

The previous record Clery Act fine was $357,500 against Eastern Michigan University in 2007, reduced to $350,000 in a settlement.
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Four years after Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, was convicted of sexually abusing 10 young boys, the federal government is seeking to fine the university nearly $2.4 million for failing to alert the public about Mr. Sandusky’s conduct and other campus dangers.

In announcing the proposed fine — the largest ever for failure to comply with the Clery Act, a federal law requiring prompt public alerts about safety threats as well as annual disclosures of campus crime statistics — the United States Department of Education painted a damning picture of how university officials permitted Mr. Sandusky “unfettered access” to campus buildings and facilities even though officials knew he posed a danger to the campus community....

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 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/sports/ncaafootball/penn-state-jerry-sandusky-clery-act-fine.html?emc=edit_tnt_20161103&eml_thmb=1&nlid=32999454&tntemail0=y&_r=0

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/03/feds-investigating-sandusky-fine-penn-state-record-2-4m.html

An ultra-Orthodox Jew resident of Beit Shemesh in his fifties, was detained Tuesday and confessed to at least 15 incidents of sexual assault and rape that he remembered.

Father confesses to drugging, raping teenage daughter

Woman, 23, files complaint for acts committed when she was 15; investigators checking if her friend was also assaulted

An ultra-Orthodox man is brought to court after being arrested on charges of drugging and raping his daughter

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Police said Wednesday they had arrested a man after his daughter filed a complaint saying he drugged and repeatedly raped her over a two-year period when she was a teenager. 

An investigation was launched after the woman, 23, told police earlier in the week that she could no longer remain silent over the assaults, which she says began when she was just 15. 

The man, a resident of Beit Shemesh in his fifties, was detained Tuesday and confessed to at least 15 incidents of sexual assault and rape that he remembered.

He allegedly used sleeping pills to drug his daughter before she went to bed and then assaulted her.

The woman told investigators that she would go to sleep and vaguely remember her father coming into the room and committing sex acts against her.

A search of the suspect’s home uncovered over a dozen packages of sleeping pills of the same kind that he allegedly used to drug his daughter by putting them in her food and drink.

The man has another daughter; however, he is currently not thought to have assaulted her. His wife told investigators that she noticed her husband paying special attention to one of their daughters, but claimed to have no knowledge of his crimes, Channel 2 reported.

Police are investigating whether the suspect also sexually assaulted a friend of his daughter’s who would stay over on some occasions.

The suspect was to be brought before the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to be remanded in custody.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/father-confesses-to-drugging-raping-teenage-daughter/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=040cb33b71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-040cb33b71-55186525

http://jewsinprison.org/practicing.htm

Beit Shemesh man allegedly molests young girls who came to help clean the house while his wife was in the hospital.

'While she was giving birth, he was molesting young girls'

An act of kindness by neighbors looking to help was repaid in the cruelest fashion, when a father took advantage of his wife’s absence from the home to allegedly sexually molest two young girls.

The alleged incident took place in a haredi neighborhood of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem.

The mother of the family in question had recently given birth, and was still in the hospital. During her hospital stay, neighbors of the family sent two young girls, ages 11 and 12, to help out with chores.

According to haredi website BeHadrei Haredim, the father was supposed to be out of the house at the time, but was in fact there when the two girls arrived.

After the girls cleaned his house, the man allegedly began to molest them.

One of the girls, however, managed to escape and notify her mother of what had transpired. The girls’ mother quickly arrived, took her other daughter, and called the police.

An investigation into the incident has since been opened and the suspect arrested. Police say they are planning to request an extension for the arrest in a court hearing on Friday.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/219454

Holy Magic & Their Curse Dealers

"Magical thinking is sometimes symptomatic of a mental disorder. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychosis are just a few diagnoses that include magical thinking as a possible symptom. If the magical thinking suggests homicidal or suicidal associations, you should seek help."

 Sigmund Freud believed that magical thinking was produced by cognitive developmental factors. He described practitioners of magic as projecting their mental states onto the world around them, similar to a common phase in child development.^[12]


...Magical anthologies, like family recipe books, were typically supplemented from generation to generation by their inheritors, but in this case the publishers had gone beyond their predecessors in extensively restructuring the work.  

The deletions, however, and their rationale are what concern us here. The first edition had been published just months before the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin in 1995. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Israelis tried to understand how the “unthinkable” had happened. What were the precursors of the assassination? One of the most commonly noted was the placement of a magical curse upon the prime minister not long before the assassin struck. The media popularized the rather arcane fact that the curse had been none other than pulsa de-nura, the “fire-stroke,” turning this esoteric Aramaic idiom into a household word for the first time in history. The event was to become a canonical element of any recounting of the tragedy; even the brief official Israeli government biography of Rabin does not fail to mention the curse by name as part of its treatment of the assassination.

Even more surprising, perhaps, was the frequent obfuscation in public discourse of the distinction between curse as incitement to violence and curse as criminal ritual. Under such circumstances, the publishers feared that they might be vulnerable to prosecution as “curse-dealers.” In a flourish of political and financial acumen, the publishers released the new edition. Free of potentially incriminating curse formulae, it was also sans Kadoori and thus available on the open market. The late-20th-century publication of a venerable Jewish book of magic was thus the occasion for ambivalence and anxiety on all fronts: from Rav Kadoori, concerned that the book’s power would be abused, yet willing to consent to the printing; to the publishers, charged with a sacred duty to limit the sales of their merchandise by scrutinizing prospective buyers only to be subsequently spooked by the prospect of prosecution; to secular media and security services, now disposed to regard magical curses as threats to Israel’s very political stability.
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If Rav Kadoori is a distinctly late-20th-century Israeli phenomenon, then, the printing of magical materials has been a complicated affair for centuries. At once inviolable, sacred, and unlawful, magic is the object of what Sigmund Freud called “holy dread.” That magic was taboo, however, does not mean that its adepts were viewed as evil or in rebellion against the authority of Jewish tradition. Magical adepts could be cultural heroes, and magical prowess so attractive and impressive that its attribution to rabbinic saints was a sine qua non of hagiographical traditions. The move beyond “holy dread” to the practice of magic situated the practitioner in a transgressive but awe-inspiring position, at the nexus of the forbidden and the sacred. Such transgression need not have been viewed as the denial of the taboo, however, but, in Georges Bataille’s terms, as its completion or consummation. Bataille’s position has been well summarized by Michael Richardson:

Transgression is associated with the sacred, the moment of rupture when the excluded element that is forbidden by the taboo is brought into focus. In earlier societies, transgression was an inherent part of social life, given form in the festival, where transgression was given free play and so functioned as part of the regulatory function of the taboo. As Bataille says, “transgression does not deny the taboo but transcends and completes it.”

If most historical Judaisms have taken a transcendental approach to the magic taboo, the transgression-consummation dyad accounts for the simultaneous attraction and repulsion to magic one finds in so many Jewish sources. The highly charged polarity is responsible for producing myriad expressions of anxiety, the tracing of which may shed light on familiar facets of Jewish culture.

The binary status of magic gave rise to contested formulations of its cultural position among rabbinic authorities. Was magic the most profound degradation of the spirit, or the highest actualization of human potential? Medieval German pietists, whose eponymous piety may have been ultimately conceived as preparatory to engagement in magical activity, seem to have favored the latter evaluation, as did the Italian Renaissance rabbis who placed the study of magic at the apex of their ideal curriculum.

A charged polarity born of proximity and parallelism is already implicit in the biblical mirroring of prophets and forbidden diviners (see, e.g., Deut. 18:9–22) and surfaces with great clarity and sophistication in Talmudic sources. Although the rabbis set out to define forbidden forms of magic, they issue anything but a flat-out condemnation; on the contrary, they are well aware of how closely their highest values mirror forbidden paths and seem irresistibly drawn to making the parallels explicit. The difficulty of practicing “holy magic” is thus cause for lament; Rabbi Akiva would cry in frustration, we are told, when reminded of the relative ease of inducing “impure” as opposed to “pure” forms of spirit obsession. Yet such difficulty could not deter the truly righteous from wielding God-like magical power, creating a world if they so desired. Though much has been made of the euphemisms for magic (kishuf) found in Jewish sources because of the negative associations borne by the term, the Talmudic discussion in fact concludes unapologetically: The laws of magic (kishuf), like those of the Sabbath, distinguish between magic illegal and punishable, illegal yet not punishable, and permitted ab initio. Rav Hanina and Rav Oshaya are mentioned in this context as having practiced permissible kishuf when, at Friday afternoon meetings, they would create a third-grown calf and eat it (B.T. Sanhedrin 67b).

The exposure in print of “practical” techniques to produce ecstatic states of consciousness (as in works of the Abulafian school) or to manipulate divine forces (names, angels, demons, etc.) has been limited but not entirely suppressed by rabbinic authorities. A herem (ban) on the 16th-century publishers of the Zohar, including a call for the publishers to suffer the pulsa de-nura punishment, is evidence of such attempts to keep the genies in their bottles. The publication of practical (or “useful”) magico-mystical works—shimush (“usage”) being one of the most common terms for licit magic in the Jewish lexicon—has been done in a defensive mode, accompanied by distinctive rhetorical practices marking the profound ambivalences surrounding such projects. How might we understand a statement to the effect that a magical book “has never before been published due to its great holiness”? And what—in addition to a keen market sense—is to be made of the mixed message of holy books introduced by grandiose promises overshadowed only by dire warnings and guilt-ridden justifications? Indeed, centuries before the printing press, an elaborate preparation ritual in the Hekhalot literature had warned of the dire consequences of selling the manuscript in which it appears. The age of print amplified rather than invented admonitory tropes that had long flanked magical material.....

Standard tropes asserting that the techniques are not enough, or that the techniques are corrupted, or that the techniques require red heifer ashes, or that the techniques are mortally dangerous might then be viewed as an attempt to distance the ideal image of Jewish magic from its inevitably limited and even disappointing textual representations. R. David ibn Zimra (1479–1573) said this and more: The real stuff is not in the books at all.

And be exceedingly wary, my son, and refrain from using the Names. For you will squander your life with no help and no salvation, and you will dishonor the Holy Names. For no one knows anything about this, and nothing of what you will find of it written in books is reliable. Moreover, the essential has been omitted and left unwritten, as such matters are only transmitted orally.

At the very least, then, opposition to the distribution of this lore or warnings to keep the books closed were tantamount to an insistence that the effectiveness of Jewish magic was to be considered ex opere operantis [from the work of the doer] rather than ex opere operato [by the work done]. The inevitable hagiographical transformation of rabbinic sages into magical masters, a tendency that spared not even Maimonides, might thus be viewed as another expression of the conviction that, even more than in arcane formulae, Judaism’s magic resided in its saints.

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We must not let extremists from any sector the ability to dictate the direction our country goes in, nor put a stain in our society

Used diapers thrown at soldier by ultra-Orthodox

While leading a group of new olim who are slated to join the IDF as part of the Garin Tzabar program, Education Corps soldier Tamar Shadmi was assaulted by ultra-Orthodox with dirty diapers and eggs for being a woman in uniform.

A soldier from the IDF Education Corps was leading a group of new olim on the Garin Tzabar army program around the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, when the residents of the neighborhood began throwing used diapers, eggs, and water bottles at her. 

The soldier, Tamar Shadmi called the police who evacuated the group from the scene.

Her father Alon Shadmi wrote on President Reuven Rivlin’s facebook page about the incident with his daughter. He said that, with al due respect to the President’s vision of “uniting the tribes” (ie uniting all sectors of Israeli society), President Rivlin still doesn’t know how to live with people who are against him.

Tamar Shadmi

“My daughter Tamar went on a tour of Jerusalem with participants soon to be recruited into the IDF via Garin Tzabar. Tamar is a commander in the IDF Education Corps. She is a woman who was walking through the Mea Shearim neighborhood with a group of new olim, but had to escape with them with the help of the police after the residents threw water bottles, eggs, used diapers, along with a Jerry can at her – all because she was a woman wearing a uniform,” the father wrote.

His post continued, saying “I hope that our president knows how we can heal these rifts, how to heal the diminishing confidence between all of the ‘tribes’ – Amen.”

President Rivlin saw the post and replied, saying “It is with great sadness that I read about this outrageous incident which your daughter Tamar went through. No soldier in uniform should ever have to go through what your daughter went through. There is no proper response to give a parent who sends their child – with pride – to serve in the IDF and then have their child subjected to this kind of violence.”

The president continued in his post, saying “however, I remain a believer and hopeful, because I know that these aberrations don’t constitute the majority. While there are a handful of extremists, I’ve met many dozens of ultra-Orthodox rabbis, young adults who are building cultural bridges and real trust between the various sectors. These are righteous people who only see the good in everyone I believe, because every day I’m exposed to initiatives led by good people from every sector of Israeli society to create connections between the different sectors and cultures (in Israel). I believe because there are people who – such a as your daughter – who serve in the IDF Education Corps and instill good and just values within the members of the garin. This is of course difficult, but we must not let extremists from any sector the ability to dictate the direction our country goes in, nor put a stain in our society. I ask that neither you nor Tamar stop believing. Yours, Rubi.”

The father then responded, saying “I was very excited to read your words. Just like you, I believe in strengthening good, and welcome anything which brings closer and unites (the different sectors). I believe that the Presidency is the central public institution which works to strengthen and unite the connections between all of the tribes, and I really appreciate it. Thank you for your response.” 

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Lipa Margulies and Yudi Kolko Got Off Way Too Easy --- Even before Thursday’s ruling, the scandal had already cost Penn State well over $100 million in N.C.A.A. penalties, legal fees and settlements to victims of Sandusky’s sexual abuse. Sandusky was convicted in 2012 of sexually abusing 10 boys and was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison....

Mike McQueary Is Awarded $7.3 Million in Penn State Defamation Case

Mike McQueary, a former Penn State assistant coach, leaving a county courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., earlier this month. Credit Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

A Pennsylvania jury on Thursday, in a defamation case against Penn State University, awarded $7.3 million to Mike McQueary, the former assistant football coach who in 2001 told Coach Joe Paterno that he had witnessed Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a child in the locker room shower.

The jury, which deliberated for about four hours, found that Penn State had defamed McQueary with a statement in 2011 defending its former athletic director and vice president against a charge of perjury related to what McQueary said he had told them about Sandusky, a longtime defensive coordinator at Penn State.

Judge Thomas Gavin, who presided in the case, still has to rule on McQueary’s accusation that Penn State retaliated against him after he testified at Sandusky’s 2012 trial. McQueary was not allowed to coach at Penn State’s first game after Paterno was fired in connection with the scandal, in 2011, and McQueary’s contract was not renewed.

Even before Thursday’s ruling, the scandal had already cost Penn State well over $100 million in N.C.A.A. penalties, legal fees and settlements to victims of Sandusky’s sexual abuse. Sandusky was convicted in 2012 of sexually abusing 10 boys and was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.

McQueary testified to a grand jury in 2010 that in 2001 he told Paterno, and later Athletic Director Tim Curley and the university vice president Gary Schultz, that he had witnessed the abuse. The testimony helped prosecutors eventually charge Sandusky, who is now 72.

The Pennsylvania attorney general subsequently charged Curley and Schultz with perjury after they told a grand jury that McQueary did not tell them Sandusky had committed something as serious as sexual abuse. The perjury charge was dismissed, but Schultz, Curley and Graham B. Spanier, the former university president, still face criminal charges of failure to report suspected child abuse and endangering the welfare of children.

McQueary, testifying at a hearing a month after the scandal came to light in 2011, provided the first public account of his reporting the abuse to Paterno.

At the time he witnessed the abuse, McQueary, who was a backup quarterback for Penn State in the mid-1990s, was a graduate assistant.

McQueary’s testimony in December 2011 helped show that Paterno, one of the most successful and beloved coaches in college football history, had heard that Sandusky had abused a boy at least a decade before Sandusky’s behavior became publicly known. Court documents released this summer showed that Paterno heard such an allegation as early as 1976.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/sports/ncaafootball/mike-mcqueary-penn-state-verdict.html?emc=edit_tnt_20161027&eml_thmb=1&nlid=32999454&tntemail0=y&_r=0

Belzer Rebbe To Followers: It's Difficult For Me To Hide From The World - So You Hide For Me - 400 Pound Rabbi Lectures His Crowd About Human Weakness!

Belzer Rebbe: Smartphone owners are 'hiding from the world'

The Belzer Rebbe reiterates his ban on smartphones, says they are worse than television.

The Belzer Rebbe issued a scathing attack on smartphones and their owners during his annual post-Simchat Torah message to the Belz community, accusing smartphone users of attempting to "hide" and of suffering brain damage, according to the Kikar news site.

The Belz dynasty and its followers were almost totally decimated in World War II, but the one Rebbe who escaped Europe, Rabbi Aharon, re-established the Belzer hassidic court in Israel, where they grew to be one of the largest and most successful hassidic communities in the world, with congregations in the US, UK and Canada as well as Israel.

The Rebbe said that smartphones are "worse than television" because "they are so small, you can fit them in a pocket and they can put all sorts of impurities in the world, in the pocket, and in the brain."

"People like to hide with these devices and think that no one will notice they are using them, but the devices are not invisible."

The Rebbe's stance against smartphones applies even to those who need them for work.

The Belzer Rebbi has banned his followers from using smartphones for years. Only phones with special kosher filters to block immodest content are permitted. Even the popular communication tool WhatsApp has been banned.

Other haredi sectors and leaders have banned the use of smartphones.The Belzer Rebbe's ban follows closely upon the Vizhnitzer Rebbe who told his hassidic court the same in his post-holiday message. Last month one of the leading poseks (halakhic decisors) of non-hassidic haredi Jewry, Rabbi Haim Kanievsky, who lives in Bnei Brak, ruled that a bride must cancel her wedding if the groom owns a smartphone.

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Both lawsuits alleged the yeshiva and its leader, Rabbi Lipa Margulies, knew for decades that Kolko was molesting students, but chose to keep him on as an elementary teacher and “give him unfettered access to young children.”

Kolko and His Lawyer In Court

Brooklyn yeshiva settles with sexual assault accusers for $2.1M

A prominent Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn agreed to pay an unprecedented $2.1 million to two former students who charged their teacher — accused serial molester Rabbi Joel Kolko — of sexually assaulting them, The Post has learned.

Kolko’s case marks the first time a New York yeshiva has paid off victims of sex abuse, experts said.

“This is unheard of. I am not aware of any other settlements,” said Rabbi Yosef Blau, a spiritual adviser at Yeshiva University in Manhattan and longtime victims advocate.

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Secret settlements between Yeshiva Torah Temimah on Ocean Parkway and two boys — 6 years old when molested — were filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court a week ago when the yeshiva failed to make payments.

Lawyers for the two plaintiffs filed a judgment for $1 million — the total the yeshiva still owes both boys for the trauma they suffered.

Both lawsuits alleged the yeshiva and its leader, Rabbi Lipa Margulies, knew for decades that Kolko was molesting students, but chose to keep him on as an elementary teacher and “give him unfettered access to young children.”

Kolko allegedly had boys sit on his lap and fondled their genitals.

For 25 years, the yeshiva received “multiple credible allegations of pedophilia” against Kolko. It covered them up and even threatened families who dared to complain, the suits charged.

Kolko, now 70, got a controversial deal from then-Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes in May 2012: He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and did not have to go to jail or register as a sex offender.

In the newly revealed settlements, Torah Temimah in November 2014 paid one ex-student $900,000 and the other $1.35 million. The school admitted no wrongdoing.

The settlements could deter the protection of sex predators, Blau said: “If word gets out, other schools will think twice if they hear about abuse.”

Sex-abuse expert Marci Hamilton said cases are rare in New York because victims must sue predators before age 23 and institutions by age 21. A pending bill in the state Legislature would extend the statute of limitations.

“Even as teenagers, it’s impossible to process what’s happened to them by someone they trusted,” Hamilton said. “Asking them to come forward is much more than most of them can handle.”

Four other ex-students have previously sued Torah Temimah as adults, charging Kolko molested them at ages 11 to 13, but the courts tossed their cases as filed too late.

Yeshiva lawyer Avraham Moscowitz did not return several calls seeking comment.

Additional reporting by ­Kathianne Boniello

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LIPA MARGULIES - THE WORST OF THE JEWS

DOES IT HURT LIPA MARGULIES?

'Does it hurt?"

The boy and his teacher were in the front seat of the teacher’s blue Plymouth sedan. The boy was 12 years old, pale and shy, and new to Brooklyn—plucked out of another life in Toronto after his mother remarried. He’d lost his father when he was 7, and the promise of a fresh start had appealed to him—a new family, a new world to explore. But a few months had passed, and the boy was lonely. His new stepsisters ignored him; he had trouble making friends at his new school. So when a popular teacher who lived nearby took an interest in him, it seemed like welcome news....

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YISROEL BELSKY'S REAL LEGACY - TOO BAD HE'S NOT AROUND TO SEE THE DAMAGE HE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR!