Wednesday, September 16, 2026

yeshivitis in a nutshell

 

Midwest Agudath Israel Convention Begins

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Muslim Turks

 

In 1822, Muslim Turks captured two Greek Christian women in Naousa and attempted to force them to convert to Islam. They smeared them with honey on the head and tied them exposed, so as to receive the stings of wasps and of passersby. The first woman, wife of captain Zafeirakis, was then built into the wall up to the neck in the church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki. She was left there for days for the entertainment of the wild mob that went there cursing and hitting her head with sticks as it protruded from the wall. She did not back down for a moment, strengthened until her last breath by prayer, and she never abandoned her Christian faith. Her martyrdom lasted five days. A passing gypsy woman, to hasten her end, threw a large stone at her, and thus the blessed one delivered her heroic soul into the hands of God, Whom she did not deny. The other woman, Maria, refused to change her faith, and for this Ebub Lubut enclosed her in a sack with deadly snakes, where she was martyred. The historian Eustathios Stougiannakis writes: "The acute venom diffused into the veins of the martyr from the bites, however, killed her in sweet lethargy, praying until the last moment for her executioners and invoking the Most High and the Virgin." And Pouqueville describes in the darkest colors to the civilized world the dramatic scenes he saw with his own eyes there: "Many women naked were put up to the neck in sacks with cats, snakes, and mice…" The lifeless bodies of these holy women were eventually thrown into the sea. These events took place during the Naousa massacre. 13 April 1822 409 Greeks killed and over 400 enslaved. Homer Pavlos

-William Butler Yeats

 “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

-William Butler Yeats

great lakes

 


Chicago

Rippe🎯

@MichaelRippe


I moved to Chicago two weeks ago. Here are the highlights so far.


- Clean city

- Da Bears

- Great food

- West Loop is chiller version of NYC Soho/Meatpacking 

- No scaffolding on every other building like NYC

- September weather is elite

- Midwest nice (fake or not) is happening

- Golf courses everywhere


So far its 10/10 on the relocation. Ask me anything.



Wednesday, September 9, 2026

listen to rabbis?

Two months old. That morning she had her two-month vaccines: HepB, rotavirus, DTaP, Hib, PCV13 and polio. That night she was found unresponsive. She was declared dead just after 11pm.

The coroner ruled accidental asphyxiation while co-sleeping on the sofa. That is the official record. Families still look at the timing and ask why a well baby was gone the same day as a full load of shots.

7 December 2018 – 8 February 2019

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Jenny McCarthy just opened up about her son’s MMR vaccine injury and autism regression. Her doctor ignored and ridiculed her concerns. She said she had a bad feeling about it. But after the shot, her 2-year old son went into cardiac arrest. Then, “he lost all of his language.” That’s when he officially got an autism diagnosis. Doctors told her he “might not ever speak.” “He won’t be able to make friends.” “He’ll never have a job.” “He was really hit by this shot.”


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and hershel schachter kicks kids out of school for not getting vaccinated
and asher weiss condemns anyone who doesn't pump his kids with all the vaccines

and my rabbi said to do what most people do and get vaccines

you might start to wonder about this notion of having a rav and following the big rabbis
you might want to start thinking for yourself

I have a gut feeling

 https://x.com/SpectrumDads/status/2097750558816043271/video/1


This is heartbreaking. Jenny McCarthy just opened up about her son’s MMR vaccine injury and autism regression. Her doctor ignored and ridiculed her concerns. But after the shot, her 2-year old son went into cardiac arrest. Then, “he lost all of his language.” That’s when he officially got an autism diagnosis. Doctors told her he “might not ever speak.” “He won’t be able to make friends.” “He’ll never have a job.” “He was really hit by this shot.”