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24 September 2019

Where have all the birdies gone?

North America has lost 3 billion birds 
since 1970
Biggest losses were among common species such as sparrows, warblers, starlings
A new study has found that there are 2.9 billion fewer birds in Canada and the U.S. than there were in 1970. That includes the loss of two out of every five baltimore orioles. (Gary Mueller/Macaulay Library/Cornell Lab of Ornithology) cbc.ca

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There are 3 billion fewer birds in North America 
than there were in 1970
Bird populations in the United States and Canada have declined by 29% in the past 50 years.
Of the nearly 3 billion birds lost, many were sparrows, warblers, finches and swallows.
"Can you imagine a world without birdsong?"

They'd been on our planet for millions of years, but 2018 was the year several species officially vanished forever.

Three bird species went extinct last year, scientists said, two of which are songbirds from northeastern Brazil: The Cryptic Treehunter (Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti) and Alagoas Foliage-gleaner (Philydor novaesi), according to a report from the conservation group BirdLife International.

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According to BirdLife, the other extinct bird is Hawaii's Po'ouli (Melamprosops phaeosoma), which has not been seen in the wild since 2004 (the same year the last captive bird died). A disturbing trend is that mainland species are starting to go extinct, rather than island species: “Ninety percent of bird extinctions in recent centuries have been of species on islands,” said Stuart Butchart, BirdLife’s chief scientist and lead author on the paper.

(Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Critics fear animal extinction: Trump overhauls Endangered Species Act

“However, our results confirm that there is a growing wave of extinctions sweeping across the continents, driven mainly by habitat loss and degradation from unsustainable agriculture and logging," he said.  An additional species of bird – the Spix’s macaw, which was made famous in the 2011 animated movie "Rio" – was declared extinct in the wild. Only a few dozen captive Spix's macaws are alive. That species was wiped out in the wild because of deforestation and other factors such as the creation of a dam and trapping for wild trade.


Site of Super Bowl LII is a death trap for birds
usatoday:  The problem: the stadium sits within a migratory bird pathway, and reflective glass that gives the stadium a spectacular look also leads to fatal collisions for birds that mistake glass for sky.
The state-of-the-art stadium, deemed worthy to host Super Bowl LII, should leave Minnesota feeling proud — except for the dead white-throated sparrows, the dead ruby-throated hummingbirds and 20 other species of birds that have been found dead upon impact with the 200,000-square feet of exterior glass that creates a mirror-like facade.

“Birds are dying there and they will continue to die until something is done,’’ 

150K penguins dead as colossal iceberg 
dooms rest of colony
usatoday:  An Antarctic iceberg the size of a major city that's blocked access to the sea since 2010 for thousands of Adelie penguins threatens to completely wipe out the colony.

Once 160,000 strong, the flightless birds now number only 10,000 after being forced to waddle some 40 miles in search of food, according to new research from the Climate Change Research Center at Australia’s University of New South Wales. Scientists predict the colony will vanish in 20 years unless the ice breaks up or the giant iceberg, which measures 1,000 square miles, is somehow dislodged.

22 September 2019

Jews or Israelis?

The 1992 elections brought Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres to power. It was a close election but Labor was put over the top by a deal made with the Arab parties. Before the hard-fought election campaign, Rabin received an assurance of support from the Arab parties against the Likud and Yitzchak Shamir. The details of the deal were not made public but the results were a Rabin victory.

So what could Rabin have promised the (anti-Zionist, pro–PLO) Arab parties?

The answer came rather quickly.

Despite Rabin's campaign promise to the Jewish public that he would never consider recognition of a "Palestinian" state in the Land of Israel, and never recognize the PLO as legitimate, he dumbfounded the country with the Oslo accords and Arafat's triumphant entrance into the heart of our land. This development was the greatest surprise to date in Israeli politics and has had the greatest repercussions on the Jewish state since its birth. Today, the Oslo gamble and its horrific consequences are widely denounced by the majority of the Israeli (Jewish) public.

Since the 1992 Rabin/Peres–Arab secret Oslo deal, the Arab parties have not offered that same recommendation to form a coalition for any other Jewish candidate.

Until 2019.

When a PM candidate considers the choice of parties that he wishes to join his coalition, it is important to note which party receives his first phone call. Ganz decided that the party that encourages terror against Israeli soldiers and denies the legitimacy of a Jewish state most deserved the honor of the first call.

Benny Ganz and his "Blue and White " party made his first post-election call to Ayman Odeh, the head of the thirteen seat strong United Arab party

The details of that conversation are not known; but why do I keep thinking of 1992?

In 1996 when Peres lost a tight election to Netanyahu he was asked, "who lost”?  
He said "the Israelis”,  
and who won?  
"His answer;'the Jews”.

Take that in for a long moment.

It says a great deal about the national and personal identity of those living in the Jewish state today. Historically, deals with Arab parties and with Arab local "vote contractors" were something done but were well concealed for fear of great embarrassment even accusations of treachery to the Jewish people and state

No more.

It does indeed seem increasingly like" the Jews versus the Israelis."

Close cooperation between extreme anti-religious Israeli Jews (by birth) and anti-Israel Arabs is an open alliance whose time has come in the evolution of Israeli society.

The Jews will have to deal with the Israeli challenge


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You Should Know . . .

One of Trump’s top White House aides disputed the notion of a fractured policy process. “With every decision he makes, there is a deliberative, coordinated policy process and ultimately the president makes the best decision in the interest of the American people,” said Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary. “No president has had more success in his first 2½ years than President Donald J. Trump. In spite of 93 percent negative news coverage, this president has built a safer, stronger, and more secure America, including record job gains, economic growth, fair and reciprocal trade, criminal justice reform, energy independence, combatting the opioid epidemic, lowering prescription drug prices, and restoring our standing in the world.”

US President Donald Trump lashed out at the media in a post on Twitter on Saturday night and accused it of publishing “numerous phony stories.”

“The LameStream Media had a very bad week. They pushed numerous phony stories and got caught, especially The Failing New York Times, which has lost more money over the last 10 years than any paper in history, and The Amazon Washington Post. They are The Enemy of the People!” he wrote.

“The Fake News Media nowadays not only doesn’t check for the accuracy of the facts, they knowingly make up the facts. They even make up sources in order to protect their partners, the Democrats. It is so wrong, but they don’t even care anymore. They have gone totally CRAZY!” added Trump.

While the tweets did not specify what reports he was referring to, both the New York Times and Washington Post have published stories that drew Trump’s ire over the past week.

One of those stories, first reported by the Washington Post, claimed that a whistleblower revealed an alleged troubling conversation between Trump and a world leader later reported to involve Ukraine.

The New York Times reported about new sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The newspaper later had to retract the report when it was revealed that Kavanaugh’s alleged victim does not even remember the incident. ArutzSheva

20 September 2019

Ki Savo – “I Don’t Do Angry"

“I DON’T DO ANGRY”
By Roy S. Neuberger

I actually enjoy going to the dentist. Maybe it’s Bina, the amazing hygienist, who tells me divrai Torah as she cleans my teeth. Maybe it’s the dentist. He told me a story recently which I cannot get out of my head.

Several years ago, he was walking with his father, a Holocaust survivor, who said to him:

“Your mother was right.” 

“What do you mean, Dad?”

“I was always worried. I worried about money. She told me not to worry.

“And I was angry. It doesn’t pay to be angry. In the end you are in the same place.”

This man had been through the Shoah. He had everything to be angry about, but he found out that anger doesn’t help. Those words had a profound effect on his son. Recently, the son encountered a man who wanted to get into an altercation, so he said to him, “I don’t do ‘angry.’”

That was it. It stopped right there. 

My friends, this is an angry world. 

We read this week the unbearable words of the Tochecha, made even more unbearable by the fact that they have actually come about. If we were not serious about Yomam Noraim until now, when we read these words we are going to become very serious. Our lives hang in the balance.

The current golus, which has torn our hearts out for two thousand years, resulted from sinas chinom, unwarranted hatred between Jew and Jew. (Yoma 9b) Bayis Shaini was destroyed by anger. It’s so simple and so catastrophic. And we have not learned.

“[Anger] is a terrible trait, and a person must distance himself until the extreme, and teach himself not to become angry even when called for.” (Rambam, Hilchos Deos 2:4)

My friends, it is within our power to stop it. The tzaddik whose story I told above is teaching us. 
His name was Meir Yaakov ben Yitzchak. His neshoma should have an aliyah, and it will have the greatestaliyah if we all follow his example. 

Is it so hard to say, “I don’t do ‘angry’”?

And Moshiach will come. Yes, that will bring Moshiach. Bayis Shaini was destroyed because of sinas chinom,and “it will be rebuilt because of unwarranted love.” (Nechmad Mi Zahav, quoted in Artscroll Yoma 9b, footnote 18)

The Novi says in this week’s Haftara, “Arise! Shine! For your light has arrived, and the glory of Hashem has shined upon you …. No longer shall violence be heard in your land, [nor] plunder and breakage in your borders, but you shall call [Hashem’s] salvation your [protective] walls, and [His] praise your gateways…. I am Hashem! In its time I will hasten it!” (Yeshiah 60:1ff)

“[Hashem] will hasten it,” but we have to give Him an opening.

This is in our hands. We can hasten the geula if we listen to the words of the tzaddik Meir Yaakov ben Yitzchak. Hashem is waiting for us. “Y’hai shlomo rabo … May there be abundant peace from Heaven.”(Kaddish)  May we see it soon in our days!

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Roy Neuberger, author and public speaker, can be reached at roy@2020vision.co.il.

© Copyright 2019 by Roy S. Neuberger

Rabbi Kahana – Ki Tavo These Are Exciting Times

BS”D 
Parashat Ki Tavo 5779
Rabbi Nachman Kahana

Navigating with our periscope

A young man, son and grandson of a very special family, was just commissioned as a lieutenant after graduating our naval officers school and will serve on a submarine. He was honored in the community with a kiddush on Shabbat. He studied several years at the Bnei David Yeshiva in the settlement of Eli and decided that the time had come for him to actualize his love for Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael which he had acquired from his family and the yeshiva.
I addressed the young officer saying: “a submarine prowls in a hostile environment, deep below the water’s surface. It is guided not by the senses of the crew, but by instruments created in a far different place than the sub itself. And when the commander wants to see the light of day, he says ‘up periscope’, and the beautiful sight of light and life comes into view. But in fact, we Jews are all submariners in a sense; because this material world is hostile to the holy neshama that HaShem has placed within us, and we navigate not by our senses but by the instrument called “Torah” that guides us to safe shores. And when we wish to see the light of our existence, we look through the periscope of Torah wisdom that takes us beyond the stark reality of our humble existence.”
In a closed and threatening environment such as a submarine, there exists a bar or a level of anticipated performance from the commander down to the most junior sailor, where each must perform at peak ability. So too Hashem anticipates that his nation will conduct itself in a very unified, unique manner.

These are exciting times

Rosh Hashana is quickly approaching and we who value life and the quality of life are making preparations to honor the highest court’s subpoena to appear on the first day of Tishrei (and the second day by Rabbinic decree) for judgement. The court action will be followed on the tenth of Tishri by beseeching our heavenly Father and Judge for compassion, pity and clemency, if indeed on Rosh Hashana our conduct during the past year was found wanting.
We cannot fathom the depth of HaShem’s judgement which takes into account our past, present, and future, and the implications of our actions on our own lives, on the lives of those close to us, and on the lives of those who we know – even faintly. It’s like a three-tier chess game being played without the boards by memory alone.
However, we do know the criteria according to which HaShem judges the Jewish nation. HaShem sets a bar of behavior 613 mitzvot high for the Jews as a nation and quite lower for individuals, because no one can perform all the Torah mitzvot, many of which do not apply to all individuals. The bar consists of the 613 Torah mitzvot, Rabbinic decrees and local customs which are also halachically binding.
But the matter becomes confusing with regard to the bar of expectations that HaShem sets for gentiles. Well, one might say that the bar is placed seven Noachide mitzvot high. However, that is problematic in the face of the Gemara in Avoda Zara 2b that discusses the status of non-Jews vis a vis HaShem’s requirement of them. After debating the issue, the conclusion is reached that HaShem saw that as a group they are incapable of fulfilling even the basic seven Noachide mitzvot, so he retracted the requirement and replaced it with the principle that a gentile who performs one of the mitzvot would receive a reward as one who performs a voluntary mitzva, which is far less than the reward for one who performs a mitzva which is incumbent upon him.
So, this leaves the gentile world with no spiritual minimum requirement to even merit a bar. This is a bad situation. However, I suggest that HaShem did place a single compulsory mitzva on the nations of the world: it is the way in which they treat the Jewish people as individuals and as a nation.
Accordingly, world history can be reduced to one simple principle: a nation which is helpful to the Jews will prosper and flourish, whereas those who are detrimental to the Jews will descend from the stage of history and will be found only in museums, and the examples abound.
In our times we see phenomenon that seemingly contradicts this principle, that despite the cruelty of the Christian world of Europe and sadistic Islam they are flourishing today. But everything has a reason.
Both the Christian and Moslem worlds are opposed to our return to the holy land and are far from touching the bar that HaShem set for the gentiles. Nevertheless, both societies are large in population and in wealth because they have an important role in the not too distant future.
After they will join hands in attempting to expel the Jews from the holy land, they will destroy each other in a world war; that is; Esav and Ishmael will eliminate each other from the future history of mankind.
What is transpiring at this very time between Iran and Saudi Arabia, with worldwide repercussions, will not go away. Israel cannot escape the consequences, as we are at the crossroads of three continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, right in the middle.
These are exciting times. No one can predict what will happen. Israel (hopefully) will have a new government after today’s elections. HaShem’s timing is coming through again.
The Jews of Eretz Yisrael can breathe a sigh of relief and thank HaShem that we are here to be major players in the future of the world.
Shabbat Shalom,
Nachman Kahana
Copyright © 5779/2019 Nachman Kahana

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When you come into the Land . . .

"When you come into the land which HaShem, 
your G-d, gives you”

Elul 20, 5779/September 20, 2019


"And it will be, when you come into the land which HaShem, your G-d, gives you for an inheritance, and you possess it and settle in it, that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring from your land, which HaShem, your G-d, is giving you. And you shall put them into a basket and go to the place which HaShem, your G-d, will choose to have His Name dwell there. 
(Deuteronomy 26:1-2)

The beauty and the pageantry of the bringing of the first fruits to the Holy Temple is unsurpassed. It teases our imagination and beckons to us. It is an irresistible invitation for intimacy with haShem. But where are we coming in from when we "come into the land," and where are we going to when we "go to the place which HaShem, your G-d, will choose to have His Name dwell there?

We are coming from exile, we are coming from a wilderness, a harsh and unsympathetic reality, a strange and perilous land that we entered into many, many eons ago. And we are entering into a familiar place, a place we knew well long, long ago, a place where it all began for us.
We are, in effect, returning home. The Holy Temple stands - it lives - it breathes - in the place of the Garden of Eden. It is the place where Adam, the father of all humankind, was formed and breathed life into. It was to this place, the place of the great earthen altar, that G-d first gathered the dust from the four corners of the earth and shaped it into man.

We are, in effect, returning to the scene of the 'crime,' the ultimate crime, the crime that set us upon our long journey. It was in this place that G-d said "No,"and Adam said "Yes," and with Eve, ate from the forbidden fruit, and hid in fear from the consequences. And when G-d said, "Where are you?" and "Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" (Genesis 3:9,11) Adam did not own up, did not accept responsibility, but passed along the blame to Eve, who passed it on to the serpent. A breach in trust was created, a breach in faith, a tear in the Divine fabric that binds man to G-d and G-d to man. And so Adam had to leave home and make his way in a harsh and unsympathetic reality, a land of "thorns and thistles" (ibid 3:18) a strange and perilous journey through space and time.
When we do teshuva - when we repent of an error and seek to make amends we are instructed to first admit to our error, then to place ourselves into the same situation in which we first committed our error, but this time to do the right thing, and finally to ask forgiveness from the injured party. The commandment to bring the first fruits is G-d's invitation for us, we, the sons and daughters of Adam, to do just that. G-d wants us back where we belong and has lovingly laid out the path for us to return with honor and with love. We return to G-d His first fruits, the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge which we were forbidden from taking in the first place. We do so in the very place where we first committed the crime, as prescribed by the rules of teshuva, and then we make our confession and, unlike Adam, own up to our crime:
"'I declare this day to HaShem, your G-d, that I have come to the land which HaShem swore to our forefathers to give us'... And you shall call out and say before HaShem, your G-d, 'An Aramean sought to destroy my forefather, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there with a small number of people, and there, he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation... '" (ibid 26:3-5) And so it begins, a description of Israel's journey through a long and torturous exile, concluding with "'And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground which you, HaShem, have given to me.' Then, you shall lay it before HaShem, your G-d, and prostrate yourself before HaShem, your G-d Then, you shall rejoice with all the good that HaShem, your G-d, has granted you and your household you, the Levite, and the stranger who is among you." (ibid 26:10-11)

It is done! the estrangement between man and G-d is over and done. G-d has lovingly welcomed us back into the Garden of Eden, the Holy Temple All is forgiven. Man and G-d are united as before.
The commandment of the first fruits is our invitation to relive this moment every year, to participate in the rectification of Adam's crime, to bear our responsibility as essential links in the great chain of humanity. Who needs thorns and thistles when G-d and the Garden of Eden are beckoning? Bring to G-d your first fruits, the very best of who you are and what you have to offer, and put a cosmic smile on G-d's face, on G-d's infinite, endless love for His creation.

Rabbi Winston – Parshas Ki-Savo

And it will be, if you do not obey G–D, your G–D, to observe to fulfill all His commandments and statutes which I am commanding you this day, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you. (Devarim 28:15)

IT IS HARD not to weigh in on the issue, even though there is always a danger in sending out such an opinion to such a wide, unknown audience. Once upon a time, I thought all religious Jews thought the same way. I found out, the hard way, that this is not the case. Nevertheless…
Many things do not mix well with politics, but the least of all is stupidity. It’s like giving a loaded gun to a child, which can never be safe. Add to this biased self-interests and you end up with a potent combination and tragic perversion of history, which in the end, is never good for the Jews. 
I’m talking about, of course, the invoking of the Holocaust to bash Trump and his policies. I come neither to support or dispute them, just to emphatically make a point against those who have and continue to bring the Holocaust into the discussion. 
To begin with, in spite of all the killing that has happened since man first stepped out of the Garden of Eden, the Holocaust is unique, for SO many reasons. It was a singular event and hopefully it will remain that way. Clearly there have been other instances of genocide through history, but none match the Holocaust in terms of numbers, method, and hatred. 
Secondly, the Concentration Camps were not way stations or housing for the poor. They were death chambers in their own right. German cattle lived better than the Jews of the Holocaust. The Jews had only WISHED their death barracks had been actual deportation stations. As inadequate as the American deportation stations at the Mexican border might be, they are NOT inhumane.
Furthermore, the Jews did nothing illegal to be treated as they were. They were LEGALLY loyal citizens of their host countries. Their only “crime” was that they were born Jewish, and in spite of how they contributed to the betterment of their societies, they were dehumanized and ruthlessly murdered. Does ANYTHING even come close to this?
In 1982, the Israelis invaded Lebanon. It was called “Operation Galilee” because it was designed to remove the upper Galilee from the danger of rocket attacks from the north. It seemed totally justifiable, given that the UN did NOTHING on its own to protect Israel.
Instead, the attack was heavily criticized, especially in the media. I remembering reading a Newsweek article about it, which, to my horror, made a comment that went something like this: Israel can no longer use the Holocaust as an excuse to justify its military campaigns. The Holocaust is over, and Israel must be held accountable for its military ventures like any other country.
I was really taken aback reading this. It was the first time I had ever read such a comment from “mainstream” media, seemingly so willing to forget about the Holocaust and relegate it to the past. They hadn’t suffered it, and had little trouble moving on. Why not the Jews also?
Today, such comments are more than just commonplace. But if you can recall what the world was like back in 1982, you would appreciate what such a comment meant about the direction of world history, and how it would affect the Jews. It was clearly a historic turning point, and I remember telling a friend of mine, “Wow. If they’re already saying this now, just wait to see what they will be saying in 10 and 20 years from now.”
Why is it so important to preserve the terrible uniqueness of the Holocaust, and make it un-invokable, except to avoid future ones? That’s what this week’s parsha is about.
There are 98 curses for disobedience in this week’s parsha. Curses, not punishments. What’s the difference when the net effect seems the same: pain, suffering, and death?
The difference is: tikun versus destruction. Punishment is tikun, and is meant to rectify what remained unrectified. That’s why it is basically reserved for the NEXT world, after history has come to an end. That’s when it is clear that a person will no longer be able to rectify themself. 
Destruction is purely a thing of this world, a terrible effect of a terrible cause. This week’s parsha is saying, “Know that if you do not live by Torah and mitzvos, the world will result back to the destructive reality null and void, as commanded (Shabbos 88a). It will not simply continue on peacefully without Torah being learned by the Jewish people, as many of them as possible.”
If you don’t believe in God, or if you believe in Him but not in Hashgochah Pratis, then you will also believe that the Holocaust was just an example of how murderous man can naturally be. The belief is that it had NOTHING to do with God, just the savage part of man, of those who perpetrated it and of those who stood by and did nothing to stop it. 
If you do believe in God, and you believe in the Torah and its messages, then you also believe that the Holocaust had EVERYTHING to do with God. It may have taken advantage of man’s worst nature, but it was God ALL the way. As this week’s parsha says, and the Talmud elaborates, HE made the world this way; HE made the safety of the world dependent upon the Torah of the Jews. 
Generalize the Holocaust and you destroy this all-important message, eliminate the responsibility of the Jewish people for the direction of history, and endanger ALL of mankind. Those who are doing it think they are getting away with murder, but they are actually doing exactly that which leads to it. 
People and groups have a right to complain and protest against what they think is wrong. But, to legitimize their claims by invoking the Holocaust is not only “history theft,” it is HIGHLY destructive. And not just for the Jews, but for their enemies as well, as the Nazi movement found out for themselves. Over 72,000,000 people died in WW II alone.
Of course, the people making this historic error are not going to read this parsha sheet and take note of its message. But they don’t have to in order to rectify the situation. What they do is more like a spiritual thermometer of where the Jewish people are holding. It’s OUR trivialization of Torah events and ideas that open the door for others to do the same thing. 

That too is part of the message of this week’s parsha. This is why we, as a people, have to weigh in on the issue, for ourselves. We have to look at what is going on the world, and reflect it back to us as a people. If we take the message to heart, and try to do whatever we can as individuals to rectify, then God will take care of the rest.

Meat to be Outlawed

Meat To Be Outlawed by Soros' Weaponized Vegan Army: Animal Rebellion + Bill Gates’ Geoengineering



As Solar Minimum-induced extreme weather continues to plague modern agriculture, we find ourselves trapped in between a rock and a hard place, with a literal army of weaponized vegans called "Animal Rebellion," funded by Soros, aligning with Antifa and Extinction Rebellion to demand an end to animal agriculture. The media also continues to push Geoengineering to "stop global warming." Christian breaks down how these agendas are in fact one and the same: control the population by controlling the food supply.

See also: Researchers Against Earth Food









Amazing Polly/ Impossible Foods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xfcd..






19 September 2019

Moshe Holtzberg's Hanachos Tefillin

B”H Moshe Holtzberg's Hanachos Tefillin



The pool side event featured performances by Jewish singers including Benny Friedman, Eli Marcus, and Lipa Shmeltzer, who made a grand entrance with Moshe’le on a helicopter.


Lipa Schmeltzer and Yanky Green 
Pre-Bar Mitzvah for Moshe Holtzberg


Article and photos by CrownHeights.info



Moshe’le Holtzberg, the son of Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg H”YD who were murdered by terrorists while on Shlichus in Mumbai India, celebrated his Hanachos Tefillin on Tuesday this week in Stony point, New York.

The celbration was attended by family and friends, many who flew in special for the occasion.

During his visit to New York, Moshe’le visited the Ohel and put on tefillin there.






Mosquito Apocalypse

We Warned About This! 
Genetically Modified Mosquito Apocalypse Plan 
BACKFIRES Big Time In Brazil

An experimental trial to reduce the mosquito population in Brazil through the deliberate release of 450,000 genetically modified mosquitoes has failed miserably and may have even created a genetic hybrid super species.

British biotech company Oxitec conducted a 27-month long experiment in 2013 Jacobina, Brazil, aimed at reducing the local mosquito population by 90 percent while preserving the genetic integrity of the local insect population.


Global Delay in Flu Vaccines and More

Flu Vaccines to Reach Israel only in *November, report says.
as reported at arutzsheva 


What is With This “Pandemic" Flu Vaccine (as pictured)


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Mercury, Neurotoxin, Pregnancy, Thimerosal, Vaccine - Immunization

How the CDC Uses Fear to Increase Demand for Flu Vaccines

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims that tens of thousands of people die annually from the flu, but what the public isn’t told is that these numbers come from controversial models that may greatly overestimate, which happens to align with the CDC’s stated aim of using fear marketing to increase demand for flu vaccines. CHD


CDC Study Shows Up to 7.7-fold Greater Odds of Miscarriage After Influenza Vaccine
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of The Children’s Health Defense Team. The CDC has just published a seismic study (Donahue et al.) linking spontaneous abortions in women to flu vaccines. The study reviewed data for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 flu seasons. Women vaccinated with the inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) in the 2010-2011 season had 3.7-fold greater odds of experiencing a spontaneous […] See: HERE

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Commenter: Remember this report, and watch the cases of influenza start skyrocketing after November

Researchers Against Naturally Grown Food

Vegetarian Diets not always the most climate-friendly, 
researchers say

“*Raising dairy cows for milk, butter and cheese requires large amounts of energy, land and chemical inputs, emitting greenhouse gases"
  • NOTE: headline negative to vegetarian diet, but sub lists meat and dairy. 
  • OBJECTIVE: to get “humans” to eat GMOs and artificial food disguised as “vegetarian alternative” manufactured with (whose?) DNA, yeast, and more. it will be impossible for kosher observant Jews to eat this dribble, let alone allergy and gluten sensitivity individuals.
This is science run amok of truth and creation

news.trust = Thomson Reuters Foundation:  ROME, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It may be possible to help tackle climate change while still munching on the occasional b,acon sandwich or slurping a few oysters, a new study suggested on Tuesday. [below is entire article because its contents are important to know]

Scientists found that diets in which meat, fish or dairy products were consumed only once a day would leave less of a footprint on climate change and water supplies than a vegetarian diet including milk and eggs, in 95% of countries they analysed.

That is partly because raising dairy cows for milk, butter and cheese requires large amounts of energy and land, as well as fertilisers and pesticides to grow fodder, emitting greenhouse gases that are heating up the planet, the study said.

Diets that contain insects, small fish and molluscs, meanwhile, have as similarly small an environmental impact as plant-based vegan diets but are generally more nutritious, said researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.

They calculated greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater use for nine different diets - ranging from one meatless day a week and no red meat, to pescatarian and vegan - in 140 countries.

Many climate activists and scientists have called for a shift to plant-based diets to keep climate change in check and reduce deforestation, since producing red meat requires a lot of land for grazing and growing feed.

Agriculture, forestry and other land use activities accounted for nearly a quarter of man-made greenhouse gas emissions from 2007-2016, the U.N. climate science panel said in a flagship report last month.

the aim is to get people off of “real” food we are accustomed to 
into the “fake” food world

But there is no one-size-fits-all solution, said Keeve Nachman, assistant professor at the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who led the study on diets.

In low- and middle-income countries such as Indonesia, citizens on average need to eat more animal protein for adequate nutrition, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

That means diet-related heat-trapping emissions and water use in poorer countries would need to rise to reduce hunger and malnutrition, while high-income countries should reduce their consumption of meat, dairy and eggs, the study said. [this is dribble]

On average, producing a serving of beef emits 316 times more greenhouse gases - including methane - than pulses, 115 times more than nuts, and 40 times more than soy, it added.

According to the World Resources Institute, a U.S.-based think-tank, diners in North and South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union make up only a quarter of the global population but ate more than half of the world's meat from ruminants - such as cattle, sheep and goats - in 2010.

The latest study also found that producing a pound of beef in Paraguay contributes nearly 17 times more greenhouse gases than in Denmark, partly because in Latin America, it often involves cutting down forests to clear land for cattle grazing.

A typical diet in Niger has the highest water footprint, researchers noted, mainly due to millet production and crop residues that cannot be consumed.

(Reporting By Thin Lei Win @thinink; editing by Megan Rowling. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, and property rights. Visit www.trust.org)

*the only gases being uploaded in our atmosphere are coming from Bill Gates’ diabolical schemes.

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Plant-based eggs are starting to compete with the real thing

The change was swift. In only the last few years, plant-based foods have suddenly snapped up market share in both the dairy and meat markets with alternative versions of milks, yogurts, and convincing faux beef patties.

They’re popular insurgents, this band of peas, coconuts, cashews, bananas, almonds, oats, and soy. As grocery store upstarts move into new aisles, they’re igniting plant-based coups that have reshaped supermarket economics.

Now, the humble mung bean has set up camp in the egg section,
and it’s starting to make some noise.

When people buy eggs at the grocery store, they typically choose the kind that come in shells. Liquid eggs—the kind that come in cartons, yolked or yolkless—are very much a smaller category. But in that smaller pool of competitors, the plant-based liquid egg alternative created by one Silicon Valley-based company, JUST, is performing pretty well.

let’s hope the kashrut industries do not join in this farce

According to Chicago-based market research company IRI, JUST’s mung bean liquid egg product, JUST Egg, is at least the second-best performing in the category. […] The mung bean-based egg is one of the products JUST has been looking to develop since the company’s inception in 2011 (back then, it operated under the name Hampton Creek). The product remained elusive for the company for years: Its line of vegan eggless mayonnaise and cookie doughs came first.

To create its newest product, JUST essentially de-hulls and mills mung beans to produce a bean flour. According to Food Navigator, the company’s food scientists mix the flour with “water and a food-grade de-foaming agent to form a slurry,” which undergoes pH adjustments and extractions until they isolate a protein ‘curd’ that can go into all kinds of products, including the liquid eggs. The product’s full ingredients list can be found on the company website. [this is GMO=genetically modified]

The mung bean isn’t just making waves in American retail outlets. The Canadian quick-service restaurant, Tim Hortons, is now serving up the liquid egg alternative in at least 60 of its locations. JUST spokesman Andrew Noyes says the company is also speaking to several large national quick-service restaurant brands in the US, though he would not name any of them.

Flora Ice Cream

The next big ice cream aisle addition will be dairy-free…kind of

qz.com:  Soon, one of Silicon Valley’s most talked about food tech companies [beware of them] will wade into grocery store dairy sections with a bold line of new foods. Perfect Day—which in 2014 year found a way to use yeast to make milk protein without ever needing a cow—announced today (July 11) that it will be scaling up its microbial technology with the help of some of the food industry’s biggest companies. In the process, the Bay Area startup is creating a whole new category of food. You’ve heard of plant-based foods; next, you’ll be able to eat “flora-based” food.

To Meat Or Not to Meat

The biggest problem for plant-based meat companies might be the very thing that defines them. For years, they’ve worked to create products that look, feel, and taste just like conventional meat. [same qz site]

Real Vegetarian and Vegan diets made from real vegetables and not science lab modified and created is what the human digestion was created to absorb. Eating “fake” food will alter the digestion system and not produce the necessary nutrition for the inner workings of the human body and brain. This is my estimation. One must read all label ingredients and/or the website listing of ingredients and/or contact the company for those ingredients.

18 September 2019

Hostility and Aggression Increases Upon New York Jews

TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK: 
Please understand that you are becoming victims of rampant hatred, violence, antisemitism. You are ALL POTENTIAL VICTIMS. Be careful what you do, what you say, and how you appear to those around you. Protection CANNOT be guaranteed from the authorities for individual, lone attackers. Because they are emblazoned and soon to be a majority, your way of living is threatened. Update all passports, prepare “exit-suitcases” (with all required documents) in the event you have to leave suddenly. Those who understand should make preparations and connections as to where you need to flee to.

“As quickly as one strikes a match it sparks a fire . . .”

VIRAL VIDEO: Jewish Woman Assaulted In Target Department Store In Flatbush

YWN:  A video viral on social media is making waves in the Jewish community, Monday afternoon.

screenshot from YWN
The video shows what appears to be an Orthodox Jewish women being assaulted multiple times, by a black woman inside the Target Department Store in Flatbush.

[the video shows victim being slapped repeatedly by this rabid antisemite YWN]

According to the video, the attacker admits numerous times that she was upset that the victim did not say “excuse me”, and reached over her child to get something from the shelf. This caused the attacker to become enraged, and hit the victim at least three times on camera.

At the end of the video, the woman asks people to call for security.

One person told YWN that the NYPD reportedly refused to press charges and instead they actually assisted the attacker in filing harassment suit against the victim who was was assaulted.

YWN has been unable to verify if this is in fact the case.

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Man Chokes Williamsburg Shomrim Member

[another rabid antisemite:] A man was arrested after he choked a Williamsburg Shomrim on Monday morning. The incident surrounded a dispute regarding a parking issue. While the Shomrim member was talking to the truck driver (suspect), the man suddenly grabbed the Shomrim member, choking him. YWN [screenshot from YWN]




THE FACT THAT “THEY” BELIEVE THEY CAN NOW PHYSICALLY ATTACK A JEW IS A STEP CLOSER TO THE UNTHINKABLE.







A Hasidic man was assaulted and robbed by several African-American youths in Williamsburg Tuesday night. It happened at around 10:00PM on Warsoff Place near Park Ave. Security camera footage shows the group of three thugs attack the victim, punch him in the face, and take his cell phone. Thankfully, the victim was not seriously injured. Shomirm & NYPD searching for the attackers. [screenshots from YWN]









UPDATE: Flatbush: Bullets Hit Jewish-Owned Vehicle During Shootout . . . An NYPD source tells YWN that it does not appear that the vehicle was a target, but simply caught in crossfire. [caught in crossfire is also being caught up in the aggression] YWN

A ‘Floating Chernobyl’?

Russia's First-Ever Floating Nuclear Power Plant 
Reaches Arctic Port



After a 5,000-km sea ride, Russia’s pioneering floating nuclear power plant has reached its final destination on the Arctic coast and will soon deliver megawatts and gigajoules of energy to consumers on land.

The Akademik Lomonosov was towed from Murmansk, a major port city in northwestern Russia, all the way to the far eastern region of Chukotka, reaching a small town called Pevek on Saturday. The trip lasted 22 days and required a couple of tow boats to move the barge, which lacks its own propulsion, and an icebreaker to deliver the convoy safely through the chilly Arctic waters.





The ship is the first in what Russia hopes will be a series of floating nuclear power plants, factory-ready to supply electricity and heat to remote spots like Chukotka, where cheaper alternatives are not available. Isolated islands and large offshore oil and gas rigs are among the potential clients. So are ports scattered along Russia’s Arctic coast servicing the North Sea Route, a waterway that Moscow pitches as a viable alternative to the Suez for maritime traffic between Europe and Asia.



Pevek is one such outpost, but was chosen largely for the pilot deployment due to its unique energy situation. The entire area is serviced by two old power plants, one coal and one nuclear, which both need to be decommissioned soon. The floating generator will serve as a stopgap, allowing these facilities to be phased out and replaced with something modern without rushing.

Incidentally, Chukotka will for a while be the first Russian region with two different nuclear power plants operating simultaneously once the addition to its energy system is running. Usually, if more electricity is required in an area, additional reactors can be built at the same plant to meet the demand.

The Akademik Lomonosov has two KLT-40S reactors derived from a time-tested design used for Russia’s nuclear-propelled icebreakers. They have relatively low output, generating 35MW of electric power each, but still can supply a city with 100,000 residents.

The second floating nuclear power station will use a different type, RITM-200M, which produces more power and requires less space, which means the ship carrying them can be made smaller and thus easier to tow and dock without compromising safety.

Article sources (and pics) from rt.com and DAHBOO777

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