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The Ongoing Persecution of State-Kidnapee Amiram Ben Uliel

Ben Uliel still held under severe conditions

Thursday, March 31, 2022, 9:18 Amiram Ben Uliel filed an appeal with the Supreme Court on his conviction, and they are expected to hand down a decision soon. Currently, Ben Uliel is the most heavily guarded prisoner in the Prison Service. He is in an isolated cell, in a high security wing, and allowed to leave his cell for only two hours a day, and even then he is not allowed contact with other prisoners. He is forbidden to phone either his family or his attorney. He is allowed to receive a 45-minute closed visit, behind a partition, once every two weeks. The visits are limited to first-degree family members, among them his wife, Orian, and his daughter, Malchut. No physical contact is permitted with his visitors. He cannot hug his daughter or play with her. Requests from his family for open visits have been rejected time after time.

Recently, the Prison Service tightened the restrictions of the limited number of books Ben Uliel is allowed to keep in his cell, and he is not allowed to visit the prison library or other facilities in the prison. He is prevented from praying in a minyan, and allowed to hear a Torah-reading only once a year, on the Shabbat before Purim, Shabbat Zachor, due to the Torah-obligation of hearing parshat zachor read.

His wife said that on Purim he received a Megillat Esther, but he was not allowed a reading with a minyan, and he could not fulfill any of the other commandments of the day. She also said that recently, the Prison Service has allowed him to meet with another prisoner once a week to learn for one hour. This privilege was granted after Ben Uliel and his family turned to the court, who ordered the Prison Service to allow the meeting.

Orian Ben Uliel described the great difficulty of the isolation: “He has been alone for years, separated from the other prisoners, without phone calls – completely cut off. I hope that Amiram will return home and that this string of abuses will be over.”

Honenu is assisting Amiram Ben Uliel with receiving his rights from the Prison Service and stated that, “Amiram Ben Uliel was brutally tortured by the General Security Service. Unfortunately, the torture continues today, with extremely severe prison conditions that can be called the most severe in Israel. Unfortunately, the Prison Service has chosen to violate the rights of Amiram to the greatest extent possible by violating the most basic prisoners’ rights and discriminating against him more than against any other prisoner in the Prison Service. Heads of crime families, arch-terrorists, and the most dangerous prisoners – all of them receive better and more lenient conditions than Amiram. This situation harms not only Amiram, but also Orian, his wife, and his little daughter, Malchut. It appears that someone decided to harass Ben Uliel in the most unusual way. We will do everything we can to put an end to this disproportionate violation of his rights.”

On March 7, a hearing was held at the Supreme Court on an appeal to release Amiram Ben Uliel. At the hearing, Attorney Avigdor Feldman and Attorney Yehoshua Reznik, Ben Uliel’s attorneys, claimed that his confessions were extracted under torture, illegally, and therefore they are inadmissible in court.

As he left the hearing, Attorney Feldman said, “The General Security Service chose to apply severe physical means on the appellant, following which he supposedly made a confession. … The Supreme Court will have to ask itself whether we are about to be counted among the states that allow torture of interrogatees, or if we are a civilized country, and we understand that obtaining a confession is not the be-all and end-all.”

Since the July 2015 arson attack on the Dawabshe family’s house in Kfar Duma, Honenu has assisted many Jews accused of involvement with the crime. For a selection of posts describing Honenu Attorneys’ representation of defendants and GSS interrogees, see here. To familiarize our readers with the case, Honenu has gathered – see here – various articles and short videos on the subject.

From Honenu, here.

Turncoat Trump (Ann Coulter)

ANN COULTER On 2000 Mules: Dinesh D’Souza’s Stupid Movie

Ann Coulter 06/15/2022

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As much as I’m enjoying the January 6th committee’s careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a douchebag, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “STOP THE STEAL” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million, none of which was, in fact, used to fight election fraud.

It didn’t even go to the poor saps who got themselves arrested at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Instead, the $250 million seems to have been funneled exclusively to Trump businesses, family and friends.

And let’s not forget Steve Bannon’s “We Build the Wall” swindle; Trump sending out a fundraising appeal to raise funds for his new private plane; and a Trump-affiliated organization paying Kimberly Guilfoyle $60,000 to give a two-minute speech on Jan. 6 (introducing her fiancé, Don Jr.). Every time you think you have your arms fully around Trump’s con, you realize it’s unfathomably more cynical and far-reaching than you could have imagined.

Is there anyone in Trump World who isn’t trying to fleece the Deplorables? Haven’t they suffered enough?

Which brings me to Dinesh D’Souza’s movie 2,000 Mules. The movie tells Trump diehards (a dwindling crowd) that their man probably DID win the 2020 election!

Continue reading…

From Ann Coulter, here.

Some Jews Uglify Married Women (Due to Cursedian\Gnostic Distortion of ‘Holiness’)

Chasidic Women And Shaved Heads

By  Rabbi Ari Enkin – 

Many chasidic women have the custom to shave their heads after marriage. Some Chasidic sources call the practice “one which derives from our holy ancestors…it was a condition for marriage…it is only the ‘modern ones’ who say that just covering the hair is enough…”1 Other Chasidic authorities assert that “those who don’t shave their heads should be considered promiscuous.”2 Some Chasidic brides even shave their heads immediately following the chuppa ceremony though most wait until the following morning.3 It is customary in such communities to give a woman gifts on the occasion of shaving her head and sources tell me that in Boro Park this custom is often discharged with diamond earrings.4

It goes without saying that this practice is not halachically required and it is clear from the Talmud that it did not exist in ancient times.5 In fact, the Talmud itself declares it “repulsive” for a husband to be forced to see his wife without hair.6 Moreover, since biblical times, forcing a woman to shave her head was regarded as a form of punishment.7 Sefardic women have never had the custom of shaving their heads.8 It might even be forbidden for a woman to shave her head as doing so is considered by many to be a violation of the prohibition against imitating the practices of a man!9 Nevertheless, it is worth exploring the issue and trying to understand how the practice began.

There is some discussion in halachic literature that seems to suggest that a woman’s hair might be a chatzitza, a forbidden interposition between her body and the waters of the mikva in which she immerses each month.10 This, however, is only an added stringency and not a true halachic concern. Indeed, one does not find any objection in halachic literature regarding Chasidic women who go to the mikva before their wedding (which takes place before they customarily shave their hair) claiming that the immersion was invalid due to their hair!

Another reason for the practice is the concern that some of a woman’s hair might remain on the surface of the mikva water and not be fully immersed.11 So too, if a woman’s hair is too long she might be forced to crouch or position herself in an odd manner to ensure that all her hair is submerged under the water, which should be avoided.12 Similarly, knotted hair disqualifies a mikva immersion and the absence of hair ensures that this is of no concern.13 However, it is for reasons such as these that there is always an attendant present who observes the immersion and ensures that the entire body – including all hairs – is successfully immersed in the mikva simultaneously.

Some sources attribute the custom to shave the head to a mysterious passage in the Zohar which seems to suggest that a woman should shave her head before going to the mikva each month.14 This is based largely on the kabbalistic teaching that hair which grows during a woman’s nidda period is impure.15 Most others, however, simply interpret the passage as encouraging women to trim their hair each month before going to the mikva, similar to the practice of cutting their nails before immersion. In any event, this passage is not cited in any of the normative halachic codes as a reason for a woman to shave her head.16

Another explanation for the custom is based on a concern that a woman’s hair might become unintentionally exposed from under her wig or other hair covering.17 There is also a theory that women began to shave their heads to deter the rape which was rampant as part of the pogroms that Jewish communities suffered in Europe. It is even suggested that the custom evolved so that women do not accidentally violate Shabbat by squeezing out their hair if it were to get wet!18

Those who follow the custom to shave their head before going to the mikva generally do so three days before they expect to immerse. This three-day interval between the haircut and the immersion is to ensure that any loose or partially cut hairs which remained after the haircut would have fully fallen away by then. Otherwise, such hairs might constitute a chatzitza.19

Rav Ovadia Yosef goes to great lengths to prove that hair is not a chatzitza and that there is no halachic basis whatsoever for women to shave their heads.20 Rav Moshe Shternbuch says that the custom has no halachic source and concludes that it was probably instituted to ensure that none of a married woman’s hair ever becomes exposed in any way.21 It is also noted that women often do not get around to having their hair cut for quite some time after childbirth. As such, it is common for even Chasidic women to have long hair when immersing in a mikva for the first or second time following childbirth.22 A Chasidic woman who marries a non-Chasidic man is required to abide by her husband’s wishes if he does not want her to shave her head.23 Indeed, in all such matters a woman must follow the customs of her husband.

 

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  1. B’tuv Yerushalayim (Yadler) p. 58.
  2. Darkei Teshuva, YD 198:91.
  3. Minhag Yisrael Torah, EH 26:33. See Likutei Halachot, Kiddushin, EH 6:1 and Shulchan Ha’ezer 5:5:7
  4. Tashbetz 3:299; Invei Hagefen 9:171.
  5. Eruvin 100b.
  6. Nazir 28b; Shabbat 64b.
  7. Devarim 21:12.
  8. Darkei Teshuva, YD 198:91.
  9. OC 182:5.
  10. Shevet Halevi 4:109; Pri Hasadeh 3:188.
  11. Shiurei Shevet Halevi 198:5:2; Minhag Yisrael Torah, EH 21.
  12. Teshuvot V’hanhagot 1:518.
  13. Shiurei Shevet Halevi 198:5:2.
  14. Zohar, Nasso 127a. See: http://parsha.blogspot.com/2007/08/women-shaving-hair.html
  15. Zohar, Acharei Mot 79a; Pinchas 248b. See also Darkei Teshuva, YD 198:91.
  16. See Be’er Heitev and Biur Halacha to OC 75.
  17. Minhag Yisrael Torah, EH 21.
  18. Emek She’eila,Vayikra 96.
  19. Avnei Tzedek 107.
  20. Yabia Omer, YD 4:1.
  21. Teshuvot V’hanhagot 2:692.
  22. Chatam Sofer, YD 195.
  23. Igrot Moshe, EH 1:59.

From The Jewish Press, here.