If Hamas doesn't get the message today, it'll get it tomorrow

  -- PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Best comment seen online was that Netanyahu must have sent the message via the post office...

I normally do not manually check my blog and look for comments. I get email notifications. Suddenly the notifications stopped coming and I actually wondered why suddenly I was not getting any comments to the blog, but I did not really spend time looking into it.

I have no discovered that Blogger has a glitch right now and many blog sites have been affected by it. The glitch has caused the comment notifications to not work. They are working on a solution, and int he meantime have posted workarounds and temporary solutions, which I have now implemented.

I apologize for not responding to any comments - it isnt that I was ignoring them, but had not known they existed. I will go back somewhat, time permitting, and look for comments I might respond to, but I will mostly concentrate on moving forward and trying to ensure this doesnt happen again

הקרנה פמיניסטית של חצי גמר המונדיאל עם המשמרת הצעירה בת"א והחוג הפמיניסטית של מפלגת העבודה ועם חברי @ZouheirBahloul כי הגיע הזמן שנבין שכדורגל זה לא סתם וזה לא שטויות, זה כח. וגם אנחנו רוצות. #WorldCup2018 #semifina #socker #כדורגל #מונדיאל2018 #מונדיאל2018 #girlpower pic.twitter.com/ms08NomBwo

— Merav Michaeli מרב מיכאלי (@MeravMichaeli) July 10, 2018

translation:
Feminist screening of the World Cup semifinals with the youth division in Tel Aviv and with the Feminist faction of the Labor Party and with my friend Zohar Bahloul, as the time has come that we should understand that football is not nothing and it is not nonsense, it is power, and we also want some.

idiocy. you want to go have a good time, go have a good time. I am not sure how watching football is power, and nobody ever stopped a woman from watching football. Arrange watch parties and go have a good time. There is really no need to turn a sporting event, one that you are only watching anyway and your country is not even involved in, into a political or social power event. Gei gezunt. Go have a good time, and if watching some Europeans kick a ball around makes you feel empowered, more power to you!

I find this story a little bit humorous, as an outsider, as sad as the situation might be.

A case has come before the courts about a yeshiva trying to throw a boy out of yeshiva but the boy being unwilling to leave. The yeshiva administration is trying to get a restraining order against this young man that would force him to keep a distance from the yeshiva.

So what did this fellow do that the yeshiva so desperately wants him gone?

According to the director of the yeshiva, associated with the Gur chassidus, this young man has basically wrought destruction upon the yeshiva. He has started fires, he has destroyed property, he has leveled threats of physical violence against people. According to the director, this young man has caused over 120,000nis worth of damage to the yeshiva plus damage to the yeshiva's reputation and good name.

According to the director this has been going on for a while. They have given him many chances, as per his requests and begging, they've tried to go to beis din, they've tried many things and now it is time to throw him out of yeshiva.

The young man's lawyer presented his client's case saying the young man is willing to leave, but only if the Admor of Gur says so - he wants the Admor to hear the case and make a decision as to what should happen. The director of the yeshiva has thus far refused to involve the Admor saying he has thousands of chassidim, is elderly, and cant get involved in such matters.

The young man's claim to stay is that he follows the rules, the takanon, of the chassidus, to the letter. he does not have a cellphone, he does not go to swimming pools, and does not work on the side. These rules, he claims, are of supreme importance to the Rebbe, and his adherence to them should protect him.

the court has thus far rejected the request for a restraining order and is hearing the arguments.
source: Kikar

Far be it from me to say whether this young man should be allowed to stay in yeshiva or to be forced out. That is them to work out. While normally it would, I think, require extreme situations, it is possible this has gotten to that point. I am not sure why in a chassidus with so many rules, they cannot have rules or instructions as to how to deal with such situations, and if they really do not, perhaps they should sit with the Admor and work out the situation and rules for similar situations in the future.

Anyways, throwing the young man out of yeshiva might be necessary from the perspective of the yeshiva, he really needs to get help and learn to deal with his violent tendencies or anger or whatever it is that is causing his behavior. I hope they don't just toss him to the curb but give him some direction, help him find the right place that will help him grow and deal with his problems.

10 Buildings that it wouldn't be so bad if they were destroyed in an earthquake

  -- Haaretz

ok

looks like an interesting film..