UPDATE: Thursday Night War News; Islamic Pogrom at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva; Kassam Slams Into Sderot Home; Arabs Attack Jews in Yesha

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Mercaz Harav Hit by Worst Terror Attack Since April 2006, by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post)

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A Palestinian terrorist opened fire at a central Jerusalem yeshiva late Thursday night, killing eight students and wounding 10 others, police and rescue officials said.

The 8:45 p.m. shooting at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood broke a two-year lull in terror in the capital and sent students scurrying for cover from a hail of gunfire – a reported 500-600 bullets – that lasted for several minutes. read more

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Barak Refuses Yeshiva Exemptions, Terror Murders at Mercaz HaRav

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Commentary;

A day which began with Ehud Barak’s repeat of his late 90s political circus on the heads of the religious, ends with a murderous Islamic terror pogrom on the heart of religious zionism. MB

An Assault on the Heart of Zionism, by Calev Ben-David (Jerusalem Post)

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Rarely have terrorists chosen their target with so much malicious care as in Thursday night’s attack on Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav Yeshiva.

In striking the flagship institution of the religious Zionist movement, a Jerusalem landmark whose history is linked with the founding and fulfillment of the Jewish national home in the Land of Israel, the gunman aimed his weapon at the heart of the Zionist enterprise. read more

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Police Response at Yeshiva Questioned, Off-Duty IDF Officer Kills Terrorist

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Commentary;

The trail of governmental irresponsibility and malfeasance inevitably passes through the Internal Security Ministry which holds command of Israel’s police force. Although police officers arrived on the scene within minutes of commencement of terrorist gunfire, they hesitated for a crucial 10 to 15 minutes before entering with the result being a presumably greater loss of life.

It took a courageous off-duty soldier who, by side-stepped police, entered the Yeshiva building and ended the tragedy by killing the terrorist. MB read more

Mercaz HaRav Terrorist: Arrested by IDF, Released After 2 Months

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Commentary;

The file on the Olmert regime’s malfeasance, nonfeasance, irresponsibility and abject neglect of the nation’s security is bulging in the case of the Islamic murderer who perpetrated the Thursday night pogrom at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.

Here is what we know to date;

1/ Barak of IRIS cites a Jerusalem Post report that the terrorist;

Alaa Abu Dhein was arrested by defense forces four months ago and then released two months later.

The [His] family say that he used to work as a driver at the institution. read more

Mercaz HaRav Pogrom: Arab With Weapon “President Peres Authorized”

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Commentary;

Once again, as has often been spoken about in the past, the point is made by the young Yeshiva student who shot the Arab terrorist when he was later interviewed by the BBC regarding the origination of killer’s Kalatchnikov automatic weapon. As reported below by David Bedein, the student spoke out that;

The Arab whom he had helped to kill was carrying a weapon that “President Peres had authorized” reminding the Israeli public that Mr. Peres, as foreign minister and prime minister, had authorized automatic weapons for Fatah members who were loyal to PLO leaders Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. read more

Why I am Endorsing and Voting Yachad on 17 March, 2015

Dear Friends;

Most of you who know me here in Eretz Yisrael know me to be outspoken on many issues affecting Am Yisrael, Torah, our Divine right and legacy to, and sovereignty in Eretz Yisrael.

In all of my years of following modern history, events, eras in Israel, I have found no other political entity, with the possible exceptions of Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit and our hopes when Menachem Begin led Likud to the prime ministership in 1977, so united and so expressive of a solid synthesis between Torah, Eretz Yisrael and national unity as I have seen in the coalescing of Eli Yishai and his Yachad faction with Baruch Marzel and Otzma Yehudit. read more

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Parsha Balak 5769: Agenda Behind Toleration of Evil in the Camp

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by Moshe Burt

In previous years when speaking about Parsha Balak, about Bila’am’s scheme to lure Jewish men to immorality and avodah zora, as well as connecting Pinchas’ action, in killing Zimri and Kosbi in the act of co-habitation before the Assembly, this author referred back to a posuk in Parsha Ki Tisa;

You shall annoint Aaron, his sons and their descendents as Kohanim…

But Pinchas was omitted by the posuk in Parsha Ki Tisa as he was born in Mitzrayim, before Yetziyot Mitzrayim, before Matan Torah, to Aaron’s son Elazar, heir to Aaron’s position of Kohen Godol. The Kohanic inheritance and lineage would only kick in after Matan Torah, thus by the annointment of Aaron and his sons, Pinchas Ben Elazar fell through the cracks. read more

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The Korban Pesach: Hashem’s Modern-Day Tests of Emunah?

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by, Moshe Burt

Rabbi Chaim Zev Malinowitz has repeatedly urged our Kehilla to internalize the Yetziyat Mitzriyim — the B’nai Ysrael’s leaving Mitzriyim, to internalize, to feel, to make part of our very being and our daily lives that “I am a Jew who left Egyptian enslavement.”

In giving much thought to our leaving Mitzriyim, it seems that integral to the Yetziyat Mitzriyim is that the Jews took the Korban Pesach — Egyptian lambs, an Egyptian deity, tied it to the bedpost overnight, slaughtered it, took its blood and applied it to their doorposts and devoured it on the night before they left Mitzriyim. read more

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Parsha Balak 5768: Expedient Toleration of Evil in the Camp

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A 2nd Parsha HaShevua by Moshe Burt

In previous years when I have talked about Parsha Balak, about Bila’am’s scheme to lure Jewish men to immorality and avodah zora, as well as connecting Pinchas’ action, in killing Zimri and Kosbi in the act of co-habitation before the Assembly, with a posuk in Parsha Ki Tisa;

You shall annoint Aaron, his sons and their descendents as Kohanim…

But Pinchas was omitted by the posuk in Parsha Ki Tisa as he was born in Mitzrayim, before Yetziyot Mitzrayim, before Matan Torah, to Aaron’s son Elazar, heir to Aaron’s position of Kohen Godol. The Kohanic inheritance and lineage would only kick in after Matan Torah, thus by the annointment of Aaron and his sons, Pinchas Ben Elazar fell through the cracks. read more

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Parsha Balak 5768: Killing the “Beast Used for Cohabitation”

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by Moshe Burt

From the title above, one might get the impression that we are referring to Bila’am and donkey, with whom he undoubtedly shared countless trysts of cohabitation — Not!

Yehuda Nachshoni’s discussions of our Parsha Balak cites the Ohr HaChaim’s question of “why Pinchas killed the women [Kosbi] when, as a non-Jewess, she was absolved of Jewish law.” (Studies in the Weekly Parsha Bamidbar, pages 1112-1117).

But before listing the citing, it seems important to clarify that the discussion is in the context of Zimri’s distorted perception of acting “for the sake of Shemayim” in preempting Avodah Zora by bringing the cohabitation with Moabite women into the camp so that men would not go looking for it outside where the cohabitation would be enticement to idolatry. read more

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