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Donate to the Feiglin-Sackett Pesach Poor Fund

Dear Friends,

 

Over one year has passed since the last Knesset elections (March 17, 2015) and – as expected – we have received nothing but broken promises. Housing and food prices have not been lowered and poverty is growing each day. The phone calls I receive for financial help are heartbreaking. I know a woman who is homeless, living in a tent (with a young son) in Tel Aviv. I have been helping her the last few months and just last week she came to me crying… she was raped in her tent by an illegal Sudanese immigrant. A man in his 60’s who drives a taxi told me that due to the wave of knifings, tourism is way down and he can’t cover his basic costs. Yesterday he came to my house to show me that he is driving a taxi with NO INSURANCE since he cannot afford to pay it! I could go on and on…

 

Every year Moshe Feiglin and I try to make life a bit easier for these people. We raise money in an emergency Pesach appeal and we give this money directly to families in need. No salaries or commissions are taken. Every dollar donated is given to people who desperately need financial help in buying the most basic Pesach food. Our goal is to raise $30,000.

 

Please take part in this vital project and give the money now so we can get it to the people in time for Pesach.

 

CLICK HERE to donate to this emergency Pesach campaign. All donations are tax deductible in the USA.

 

You can donate by credit card, PayPal or check – simply CLICK HERE for all the details.

 

Thank you so much and Happy Holiday – “Chag Sameyach” – to all of Klal Yisrael.

 

CLICK HERE now.

 

With Love of Israel,

 

Shmuel Sackett

International Director

Manhigut Yehudit

Received by email.

Avoid Some Government Spying and a Slow Computer

Excerpt:

Never 10 is an easy to use utility which gives users control over whether their Windows 7 or 8.1 will upgrade itself to Windows 10.

The name “Never 10” is a bit of an overstatement, since this utility may also be used to easily re-enable Windows operating system automatic upgrading. But the primary reason for using this is to disable Windows’ pestering insistence upon upgrading Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10.

Many users of Windows 7 and 8.1 are happy with their current version of Windows, and have no wish to upgrade to Windows 10. There are many reasons for this, but among them is the fact that Windows 10 has become controversial due to Microsoft’s evolution of their Windows operating system platform into a service which, among other things, aggressively monitors and reports on its users activities. This alone makes many users uncomfortable enough to cause them to choose to wait. In line with this, a few months into 2016, Windows 10 started displaying unsolicited advertisements on its users’ desktops. Others dislike the changes Microsoft made by merging their failed “tiled” smartphone user-interface into the Windows UI. And, finally, some object to being force-fed whatever Microsoft wants and simply wish to choose for themselves.

In July of 2015, responding to the significant user backlash, Microsoft added features to its Windows Update facility which allow it to be configured, on a machine-by-machine basis, to not forcibly upgrade qualifying Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems to Windows 10. However, Microsoft did not make this configuration simple. It requires the use of the group policy editor (which is not present in some qualifying systems) and/or the system registry. In other words, they created some deep internal configuration options but chose not to provide a simple user-interface to give their users the choice. “Never10” provides that choice.

The elegance of this “Never 10” utility, is that it does not install ANY software of its own. It simply and quickly performs the required system editing for its user.

From GRC, here.

News on the Latest Jewish Kidnappees

Thursday, April 7, 2016, 15:15 The wife of one of the detainees said that no-one has any information about her husband’s status: “Based on the [ISA] torture a few months ago there is concern that the ISA is using all sorts of horrific methods also now. I have no information about what is happening with my husband – not about what he has been accused of and not about where he is.”

Dozens of the detainees’ relatives and friends protested opposite the residence of the head of the ISA, Yoram Cohen, in Jerusalem on Wednesday, April 6. The protesters called on the head of the ISA to allow the detainees to meet with an attorney and demanded that the ISA refrain from torturing the detainees held in the ISA facilities.

Several months ago a number of Jewish youths were detained and served with orders prohibiting them from meeting with an attorney. Then also a gag order was placed on publicizing details of the investigation. After the youths were interrogated in ISA facilities, without meeting with an attorney, it was revealed that during their interrogations, unusual means including torture, were used on them. Some of the youths were released after it turned out that they had no connection to the incident for which they were interrogated.

See also Administrative detainee to be released, not involved with incident attributed to him and Two Kfar Duma case detainees to be released.

Excerpts from Honenu, here.