Clean books for Satmar schools

The [Satmar] Rebbe was an eminently practical person. But there were principles on which he would not compromise. He had rules for this school. The first rule was about censorship: every year it was, and still is, a whole operation to carefully censor the books. It's hard to imagine the sheer size of the operation -- censoring books for thousand of students. It took weeks to do! Especially when new books came in.

The Rebbe had basic principles concerning what was unacceptable: 

Outright apikorsus.
Any kind of Divrei cheshek
Anything to do with radio or television
Anything that could have a negative influence -- including going to libraries and reading outside materials.

Interestingly enough, if a book had a picture of an X-mas tree, or if a story mentioned children going to church...those things weren't cut out. That wasn't a major issue to the Rebbe. He said it's enough just to put an X through those sections.

He told me, "One thing I'm sure of -- I'm not afraid our girls will, chas v'shalom, shmad themselves. Today, Artscroll and other publishers have begun producing customized readers for yeshivos, but even that is limited. It's the economies of scale. A company selling a few million books can afford to charge less. Those frum text books are expensive, and not every school can afford them. And even those books may not be acceptable by Bais Rochel standards. So just image how it was forty-five to fifty years ago, when there were no Jewish options. 

The Rebbe was very concerned about the whole issue of the books. He recognized that society had changed. Even the general population was more proper a decade or so earlier. The books published back then were not so corrupt. So the Rebbe came up with a plan. He sent me along with the rosh yeshiva, R' Nosson Yosef Meisels (close advisor the Rebbe who later was appointed Satmar Rav of London), to Colombia University Teacher's college to see if we could find some old textbooks that didn't need so much censoring. The pictures would be more modest in the older books.

We did succeed in finding some books that were more kosher. But we had a different problem: the books were out of print, and buying the rights to reprint them on our own was too expensive a proposition.

But the point isn't whether or not the plan succeed. The key point is just how practical a vision the Rebbe had. 

The Satmar Rebbe and the English Principal, Rabbi Hertz Frankel, pp. 46-47

It was not the land

It was not the land that Moses had been commanded to proclaim to his people at the outset of his mission as מורשה, as the inheritance they were to preserve (Ex. 6,8). The Law, to be translated into full reality upon that soil, was to be the true מורשה, the one true, everlasting inheritance, the one true center around which the nation and its leaders were to gather as one united community. Herein lay the goal and the destiny, the character and the significance of the people.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch "The Kehillah," Collected Writings, Vol. VI, p. 62

Another mother

Another mother who watched her children deteriorate after vaccination.

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Wisdom of the Satmar Rebbe

Excerpt:

And something many people don't understand about the Rebbe -- if to some people he seemed extreme, he was also very practical. He had an unerring vision. He told me he wanted the girl's division to be of good quality, so a balabatisher Yid could send his daughter to our school. The school wasn't one for extremists.

Why did he say "a balabatisher Yid"? Because, the Rebbe told me, "if the girls in the home will go to Bais Rochel, then the boys will also remain in Satmar schools. But if the girls go to other schools, eventually the boys also won't stay in Satmar."

The Rebbe doesn't need me to prove he was right. But I saw it firsthand. In Crown Heights, there was a whole group who sent their boys to the Satmar Talmud Torah. "Their daughters went to other schools. In the end, all the boys endued up in other yeshiovs -- not in Satmar!

Don't get me wrong. They went to other fine yeshivos. But we're talking about building up a community now. And 90 percent of the boys whose sisters did not go to Satmar schools did not continue in Satmar yeshivos. The whole household veered away from the community.

The Rebbe was absolutely right. He wanted a school where a balabitisher person could send his daughter and not say; "My wife doesn't let me send my daughter to Bais Rochel. It's too farchnyukt." 

"The Satmar Rebbe and His English Principal," Rabbi Hertz Frankel, p. 45

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The trend today, particularly in Israeli society is for schools to have extreme entrance standards, even schools for small children. It's like getting admitted to Yale law school. Parents beg sometimes for years to get into schools, which sometimes send spies around town to catch families doing something not approved of. One administator told me openly that he makes parents call dozens of times over months or years in order to be sure they really want to go to his precious school. The game is very unhealthy for the kids who develop a superficial frumkite. So here we see that Satmar, the pinnacle of frum standards, didn't work it that way at all. 

Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Cause Allergic or Autoimmune Diseases?

Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Vaccines Cause Allergic or Autoimmune Diseases?

Paul A. Offit and Charles J. Hackett
Pediatrics March 2003, 111 (3) 653-659; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.111.3.653

Excerpt:

Abstract

Anecdotal case reports and uncontrolled observational studies in the medical literature claim that vaccines cause chronic diseases such as asthma, multiple sclerosis, chronic arthritis, and diabetes. Several biological mechanisms have been proposed to explain how vaccines might cause allergic or autoimmune diseases. For example, allergic diseases might be caused by prevention of early childhood infections (the “hygiene hypothesis”), causing a prolongation of immunoglobulin E-promoting T-helper cell type 2-type responses. However, vaccines do not prevent most common childhood infections, and large well-controlled epidemiologic studies do not support the hypothesis that vaccines cause allergies. Autoimmune diseases might occur after immunization because proteins on microbial pathogens are similar to human proteins (“molecular mimicry”) and could induce immune responses that damage human cells. However, wild-type viruses and bacteria are much better adapted to growth in humans than vaccines and much more likely to stimulate potentially damaging self-reactive lymphocytes. Consistent with critical differences between natural infection and immunization, well-controlled epidemiologic studies do not support the hypothesis that vaccines cause autoimmunity.

Flaws in proposed biological mechanisms that explain how vaccines might cause chronic diseases are consistent with the findings of many well-controlled large epidemiologic studies that fail to show a causal relationship. 

Anecdotal reports and uncontrolled observational studies in the medical literature^1–18 and stories in the news media and on the Internet allege that vaccines cause chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, chronic arthritis, hay fever, and asthma. Because of these reports, some parents have chosen to delay or withhold vaccines for their children. In response to concerns by parents and health care professionals, the Institute of Medicine recently reviewed studies examining the relationship between multiple immunizations and immunologic dysfunction.¹⁹

We will discuss the pathogenesis of allergies, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, and chronic arthritis and the plausibility of biological mechanisms that explain how vaccines might cause these diseases. In addition, we will review well-controlled epidemiologic studies that investigate the relationship between vaccines and chronic diseases.

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Berlin before and after

Two incredible videos here.

Berlin in 1936 confident and bustling:

Berlin 1936 (in color, OV with english subtitles)

(warning there is some immodesty around 7:00)


In ruins after the war:

Berlin in July 1945 (HD 1080p color footage)


There are many lessons here such as never be in love with your success, never see yourself as invincible. Plus there is severe justice to those who try to destroy the Jewish people. 

Never force. Only through darchei noam - yeshiva world news

https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1852201/watch-harav-gershon-edelstein-bochurim-are-sleeping-in-never-force-never-criticize.html

Hagaon Harav Gershon Edelstein answered a chinuch question recently that is on the minds of many parents with teenagers at home during the current coronavirus era.

A parent asked. “There are children in the house above the age of 12 who aren’t keeping to a schedule because they’re in the house all the time. They’re going to sleep late and waking up late in the morning. How much should one be makpid with them on zeman tefillah and Kriyas Shema?”

Harav Edelstein answered: “Never force. Only through darchei noam.”

The parent clarified: “To nudge them with darchei noam?”

The Rav answered firmly: “No, no, no -never nudge – only darchei noam. The child knows what’s good for him. You should encourage him so he’ll have cheishek [to daven on time]. Force doesn’t have any influence at all. It causes an opposite effect. It’s assur to force a child – only through friendly means, with love.”

“In general, a child does what his father does,” Harav Edelstein emphasized. “It’s the nature of imitation. But if you force him, you’ll have the opposite effect. Only through darchei noam. He shouldn’t feel at all that he’s being criticized.”

“A child feels the criticism and it hurts him very much. It causes the child to throw off responsibility. The child should never feel criticized – this is an important rule in chinuch.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Aluminum in vaccines

http://www.thinktwice.com/aluminum.pdf

Excerpt:

Letter to the FCC from Dr. Yael Stein MD in Opposition to 5G Spectrum Frontiers

https://ehtrust.org/letter-fcc-dr-yael-stein-md-opposition-5g-spectrum-frontiers/

Letter to the FCC from Dr. Yael Stein MD of the Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel in Opposition to 5G Spectrum Frontiers Millimeter Wave Technology

“Please protect Public Health and vote against exposure of the public to harmful G5 technology.”

“Computer simulations have demonstrated that sweat glands concentrate sub-terahertz waves in human skin. Humans could sense these waves as heat. The use of sub-terahertz (Millimeter wave) communications technology (cellphones, Wi Fi, antennas) could cause humans to percept physical pain via nociceptors.”

To:

FCC Commissioners
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

July 9, 2016

Topic: G5 millimeter wave technology (Sub Terahertz frequencies/ Sub-THz)

A group of physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, together with several physicians, have researched “G5” millimeter wave technology (Sub Terahertz frequencies) and its interaction with the human body. I am a physician who participated in this research.

Human sweat glands as helical antennas:

The study of human sweat glands as helical antennas conducted by our group in Prof. Feldman’s lab, began by looking at images of the skin created by optical coherence tomography (OCT), which revealed that the tips of the sweat ducts that expel the sweat from the gland to the pore at the surface of the skin have a helical structure (Knuttel et al, 2004; Lademann, Otberg et al. 2007; Tripathi et al, 2015). This, and the fact that the dielectric permittivity of the dermis is higher than that of the epidermis, leads one to assume that, as electromagnetic entities, the sweat ducts could be regarded as imperfect helical antennas (Feldman, et al. 2008, 2009; Kawase and Hayashi, 2011; Yang, Donnan et al. 2011; Hayut et al, 2013, 2014).

continue:  https://ehtrust.org/letter-fcc-dr-yael-stein-md-opposition-5g-spectrum-frontiers/

Whooping cough outbreak closes Texas school despite 100-percent vaccination rate: officials

Whooping cough outbreak closes Texas school despite 100-percent vaccination rate: officials

herd immunity

Linda Niccolai is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale University. She confirms that fulll "herd immunity" is unachievable. "A good vaccine is, maybe, 80, 90 or 95% effective."

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Former head of CDC makes 20 million USD working for Merck

Another reason you can't trust the CDC:

"Julie Gerberding, MD, who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2002 to 2009,^{1 2} and joined Merck & Co. as president of Merck Vaccines division in January 2010,^{3 4} recently sold 102,073 shares of her Merck stock for approximately $$9.119 million. This represented just under half of her shares in the company.^{5 6 7}

"Following the transaction, which was completed on Jan. 13, 2020, Dr. Gerberding still owns 106,099 shares of Merck stock worth about $9.478 million.^7"

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Before taking the helm of the CDC, candidates should be required to sign an agreement that they will not go to work for Pharm cos at large salaries afterwards. This is retroactive bribery.

History of chicken pox may reduce risk of brain cancer later in life

https://www.bcm.edu/news/cancer/chicken-pox-may-reduce-risk-of-brain-cancer

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The chicken pox is one of those pesky illness that affects kids and pains their parents, but it may offer some positive health benefits later in life, experts believe – a reduced risk for developing glioma.

In one of the largest studies to date, an international consortium led by researchers in the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine reported an inverse relationship between a history of chicken pox and glioma, a type of brain cancer, meaning that children who have had the chicken pox may be less likely to develop brain cancer.

The Baylor team led by Dr. Melissa Bondy, a McNair Scholar and associate director for cancer prevention and population sciences at Baylor, and Dr. E. Susan Amirian, assistant professor in the Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor, reported their results in the journal Cancer Medicine.

In the study, the team reviewed information from the Glioma International Case-Control Study is a large, multi-site consortium with data on 4533 cases and 4171 controls collected across five countries.

They found a 21 percent reduced risk of developing glioma with a positive history of chicken pox.  Furthermore, they identified the protective effective was greater in higher grade gliomas.

The large study validates earlier studies showing this link, Bondy said. “It provides more of an indication that there is some protective benefit from having the chicken pox,” she said. “The link is unlikely to be coincidental.”

In the future, scientists may be able to apply the chicken pox vaccine to brain cancer research.

Others who contributed to the work include Michael E. Scheurer, Renke Zhou, Georgina N. Armstrong, Ching C. Lau all with Baylor College of Medicine; Margaret R. Wrensch with the University of California; Daniel Lachance and Robert B. Jenkins with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center; Sara H. Olson and Jonine L. Bernstein with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Elizabeth B. Claus with Yale University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Dora Il’yasova and Joellen Schildkraut with Duke University Medical Center; Francis Ali-Osman with Duke University Medical Center; Siegal Sadetzki with Gertner Institute and Tel-Aviv University; Ryan T. Merrell with NorthShore University HealthSystem, Faith G. Davis with the University of Alberta; Rose Lai with The University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine; Sanjay Shete with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Christopher I. Amos Norris Cotton Cancer Center; and Beatrice S. Melin with Umeå University.

Funding for this work was provided by the National Cancer Institute (Grant/Award Number: ‘P30CA125123_, ’P50097257_, ’R01CA139020_, ’R01CA52689_).

Aluminium in Brain Tissue in Non‑neurodegenerative/Non‑neurodevelopmental Disease: A Comparison with Multiple Sclerosis

The data reinforce a previous conclusion that the aluminium content of brain tissue in multiple sclerosis is elevated and support the suggestion that human exposure to aluminium may have a role to play in the aetiology of multiple sclerosis. 

Exposure and Health https://doi.org/10.1007/s12403-020-00346-9
ORIGINAL PAPER
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Aluminium in Brain Tissue in Non‑neurodegenerative/Non‑neurodevelopmental Disease: A Comparison with Multiple Sclerosis

C. Linhart1 · D. Davidson2 · S. Pathmanathan2 · T. Kamaladas2 · C. Exley3Received: 5 October 2019 / Revised: 7 February 2020 / Accepted: 15 February 2020 © The Author(s) 2020

Abstract

Human exposure to aluminium is a burgeoning issue. The brain is a sink for systemically available aluminium and a putative target of neurotoxicity. An increasing number of studies continue to confirm the presence of aluminium in human brain tissue though primarily in relation to donors who have died of a neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental disorder. Herein, we have measured aluminium in brain tissue in donors who died of a specific disease or condition though without showing any neurodegeneration. The donors were diagnosed as not suffering from multiple sclerosis. Herein, these novel data are compared with recent data on aluminium in brain tissue in multiple sclerosis. Brain tissues from all four lobes were obtained from the Multiple Sclerosis Society Tissue Bank. Tissues were digested using microwave-assisted acid digestion and their aluminium content was measured by transversely heated graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. Both are established methods in our laboratory. Detailed statistical analyses were used to compare new data with recent data for multiple sclerosis. Aluminium was found in brain tissue in each donor with a high proportion of measurements (189/291) being below 1.00 μg/g dry weight. The data for all cases (median and IQR) were 0.74 (0.48–1.28), 1.23 (0.62–1.63), 0.84 (0.45–1.14) and 1.01 (0.62–1.65) μg/g dry weight for occipital, parietal, temporal and frontal lobes, respectively. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between aluminium content of brain tissue and the age of donor. Comparison of data for this non-multiple sclerosis group with brain aluminium data for donors dying with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis showed that the latter had a statistically significant higher content of brain aluminium. The data reinforce a previous conclusion that the aluminium content of brain tissue in multiple sclerosis is elevated and support the suggestion that human exposure to aluminium may have a role to play in the aetiology of multiple sclerosis. Keywords Human exposure to aluminium · Aluminium in brain tissue · Aluminium in multiple sclerosis · Aluminium and neurodegenerative disease · Aluminium and neurodevelopmental disease  Read the paper here.

SIDS Largely Eradicated In Sweden & Japan by Doing This 1 Thing

SIDS Largely Eradicated In Sweden & Japan by Doing This 1 Thing

World renown medical expert: MMR can cause autism in some cases

Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, MD, is a world renown board certified pediatric neurologist specializing in autism. He was the director of the center for autism at Johns Hopkins medical school. His AB is from Princeton and his MD from Columbia University. He was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins and Harvard and a clinical professor at the University of Massachusetts. His CV, which appears in the linked article, is kind of mind blowing. He has had quite a career. His qualifications are top notch. 

In 2007, he was an expert witness for the Department of Health and Human Services in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. He told government lawyers that while in general there is no evidence of an association between the MMR vaccine and autism, "there were exceptions in which vaccinations could cause autism." He elaborated, "More specifically, I explained that a subset of children with an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, vaccine-induced fever and immune stimulation that exceeded metabolic energy reserves could, and in at least one of my patients, did cause regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder." (The comments are confirmed in an affidavit by Dr. Zimmerman).

So there you have it. If anybody claims that the MMR can cause autism, you can't call them an anti-science wacko who is a victim of propaganda. The question of frequency and the odds of it happening is a separate question and an important one. In medicine, one has to weigh risk-reward against the odds of each happening. But the hateful rhetoric against people who question the safety of vaccines really is out of line, particularly the claim that such people are anti-science, crazy, or illogical. When mothers say the kid was fine until the vaccine, they really might be right about that. 

The following article claims that the government covered up this part of Dr. Zimmerman's testimony. After the excerpt, I will link to the Respectful Insolence blog, which contains the very disrespectful diatribes of one Dr. David Gorski, MD, a very pro-vax surgeon who I hesitate to trust because his arrogance is so beyond the bounds of acceptability even for a physician. Neverthless, I try at least at times to share both sides of the story here, so I'm sharing his side. 

Government’s Own Pro-vaccine Medical Expert Admits There is a Vaccine-Autism Link That is Being Covered Up


Excerpt:

Earlier this year (2019) investigative independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson ran a report on Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a world-renowned pediatric neurologist whom the U.S. Government used in 2007 to testify in the U.S. Vaccine Court that vaccines did not cause autism.

However, Dr. Zimmerman also stated in an affidavit that vaccines can cause autism in a certain subset of children, but that testimony was suppressed.

From Dr. Zimmerman's affidavit:

8. I explained that I was of the opinion that there were exceptions in which vaccinations could cause autism.

9. More specifically, I explained that a subset of children with an underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, vaccine-induced fever and immune stimulation that exceeded metabolic energy reserves could, and in at least one of my patients, did cause regressive encephalopathy with features of autism spectrum disorder.

10. I explained that my opinion regarding exceptions in which vaccines could cause autism was based upon advances in science, medicine, and clinical research of one of my patients in particular. 

Dr. Gorski comments