Stephen Oschweritz Sued

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Luke Ford

I just found out about a new lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Stephen Oschweritz: BC390688 CASE NAME: SHALOM MOZES ET AL VS STEVEN OSCHEROWITZ ET AL.

Shalom Mozes is a Holocaust survivor in the Fairfax/La Brea side of town.

His attorney is my old friend Aviv L. Tuchman who responded via email March 31 to my polite inquiries on a different case: "Please do not email or telephone our firm. The case is a matter of public record. We do not have any further information other than what is in the public record."

Michael & Alona Horowitz had a secured claim for about a million dollars on Oschweritz’s property.

Michael & Alona Horowitz have also sued Stephen Oschweritz. Michael is the son of Richard Horowitz, the lay leader of Aish Ha Torah West Coast.

Shalom Mozes wanted Oschweritz to pay him. Oschweritz somehow removed Michael Horowitz’s lien on the property and placed Shalom Mozes’s lien on the property.

Did Oschweritz forge a signature?

This is weird. Oschweritz somehow got rid of Michael Horowitz’s lien on his property.

You go to sleep one night thinking you’re a secured creditor and you wake up finding you’re an unsecured creditor.

Horowitz sued Oschweritz in bankruptcy court to remove the Mozes lien.

This created a mess.

Mozes didn’t do anything wrong.

Mozes has now sued Oschweritz.

Here are some related documents: here and here

Before Steven Oschweritz filed for bankruptcy, he apparently transferred a ton of money to various Orthodox institutions.

Does anyone know anything about bankruptcy law and lawsuits for the recovery of preferential transfers and fraudulent conveyences?

A bankruptcy judge has the right to order that all transfers out of the estate on the eve of bankruptcy are to be brought back into the estate for distribution.

Just before declaring bankruptcy, this Steven Oscherwitz bloke apparently transferred a ton of assets to yeshivas and other Jewish institutions and individual Jews.

Chapter Seven trustee for Universal Merchants Inc, David L. Ray, has now initiated over 100 lawsuits to recover assets.

Here’s the recovery action against the Spinka Hasidim.

Here’s a note from point 12 of this lawsuit: "The Trustee’s investigation reveals that, for many years pre-petition, Mr. Oscherowitz commingled his personal and business finances, including those of UMI. Mr. Oscherowitz transferred substantial amounts of funds both to and from these entities and, in many instances, credited and charged personal expenses to advance accounts."

From point 14: Pllaintiff believes…the Debtors transferred…no less than $15,000 to the defendant.

Here’s the recovery against Yeshiva Gedola of Los Angeles. The plaintiff alleges the defendant transferred no less than $32,000 to the yeshiva.

Here are some of the other parties getting sued: YESHIVA RAV ISACSOHN ACADEMY, BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (Los Angeles), KEHILAS YAAKOV, EZER YELADIM, LA BREA KOSHER MARKET, CONGREGATION CHAKAL YITZCHOK, JERUSALEM TOURS, SHOCKWAVE MARKETING, CONGREGATION NOTZER CHESED, BNOS CHAYIL, BAIS YAAKOV OF ADAS YEREIM, ASHER AROM, CAMP RAV TOV, MIFAL CHESED, INC., A NEW YORK NOT-FOR-P, CENTRAL RABBINICAL SEMINARY, SHALOM TORAH CENTERS, CHEDER OF LOS ANGELES, CBP MOSAD, GEMACH ZICHRON SHMIEL ZANVEL, CONGREGATION ADAS YEREIM, KOLLEL TIFERES YAAKOV YOSEF, GEMACH TZEDAKA VECHESED, KOLLEL NER AVROHOM, BNOS MENACHEM, YESHIVA IMREI JOSEPH OF SPINKA, OHR YAAKOV YOSEF, CHEDER MENACHEM, BETH HAMEDRESH RACMAY HAUB, BNEI SHIMON YISROEL D’SHORAN, CONGREGATION BETH CHAIM, CONGREGATION BNOS MOSHE, CAMP MACHNE DIVRIE YOEL CORP., OHR YAACOV,KEREN CHASANIM D’SATMAR, INC., COL HITZTACHAS, RABBI SHLOMO ALGAZ, MOSDOS SPINKA, YESHIVAS YOSEF D’KROLA, CITY GLATT, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, YESHIVAS OHR YAAKOV, CONGREGATION BAIS MOSHE OF KORUV, YESHIVA BNEI SHIMON D’SHOPRON, MOSDOS HACHESED, AGUDATH CHASIDEI SPINKA, CONGREGATION CHEVRA KADISHA, MID-CITY CHABAD, INC…

I shelled out the big bucks and got this comprehensive information from web pacer.

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Conversion Controversy

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Luke Ford

Eytan Kobre writes:

Below I share with you (with very minor changes) the e-mail letter I sent today to Dina Kraft, a JTA reporter, responding to her article on the JTA website regarding the controversy over the ruling of an Israeli beis din revoking a conversion performed many years ago. I hope to share with you any further correspondence between us in this matter as well.

Please note that I am entirely unfamiliar with the facts and opposing positions in this case. But, then, my letter isn’t really about this case, but about how journalists striving for objectivity, balance and moderation ought to go about their tasks.

Dear Ms. Kraft,

I read with interest your 5/6/08 article on the JTA website regarding the controversy over a rabbinic court ruling revoking a convert’s 15 year old conversion, and I have several questions and comments to which I would appreciate your response:

1) You write that the ruling is “prompting thousands of converts in the country to worry if their conversions to Judaism are at risk of being revoked.” How do you know this?

And, since the ruling at issue was based, as you write, on the convert’s acknowledgement “that she is not religiously observant today,” does your reference to “thousands of converts” being worried mean that you are aware of thousands of converts in Israel who made a religious commitment at their conversion but are no longer observant?

2) Could you elaborate on what you were referring to in writing that the ruling prompted, in addition to an emergency Knesset hearing, “public outrage and confusion both in Israel and the Diaspora”?

The only reactions you cite are a “stinging rebuke” by the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) and statements by Ms. Rouaux, a convert, Rabbi Seth Farber of ITIM and Rabbi Feuerstein of Tzohar. That doesn’t seem to add up to evidence of “public outrage and confusion both in Israel and the Diaspora.” Such may, of course, have taken place, but can you kindly provide more detail about such reactions?

3) You use the term “tolerant” several times to describe the views of those against the ruling. You refer to Rabbi Druckman as one who has “been charged with overseeing a more tolerant, open conversion process in Israel.” Similarly, you describe Tzohar as a group of Zionist rabbis that “seeks to present to Israelis a more tolerant face of Orthodox Judaism.”

As I understand it, the issue at hand is one of Jewish legal interpretation, with the court that issued the ruling presumably having found that the relevant texts, decisors and precedents of the Jewish legal system requiring them to find as they did. Thus, the word “tolerance” seems irrelevant. The notion of tolerance is one with emotional and psychological relevance, but seems quite out-of-place as applied to what I believe the court, and, I assume, its opponents as well, regard as a legal dispute.

As someone schooled in both American and Jewish law, I can tell you that a serious legal scholar would not invoke the notion of “tolerance” in a discussion of legal issues unless the relevant legal code specifically validated its relevance.

Indeed, to use a rather commonplace example, even a layperson would not refer to a traffic court judge who applied the law as written and refused to dismiss a speeding ticket as having acted with “intolerance.” I should note that the term “moderate” which you also use several times, is indeed appropriate for the context in a way that “tolerant” is not.

Perhaps even more importantly, due to its emotive connotation, your use of the term “tolerance” seems to imply a value judgement on your part as to which side you’d like the reader to take in this particular controversy, as well as regarding an overall approach to Orthodox Judaism. Whatever your personal views in these regards may be, I trust that, as an ethical journalist, you wish this article, which is news reportage rather than an editorial, to remain resolutely objective, presenting a full and fair account of the facts and views at hand to allow readers to reach their own conclusions. Is that, in fact, your aim?

4) A final observation: You quote the statement of the RCA which accuses the rabbinical court ruling of being “beyond the pale” of halacha, violating “numerous Torah laws,” creating a “massive desecration of G-d’s name,” insulting “outstanding rabbinic leaders,” and being a “reprehensible cause of widespread conflict and animosity with the Jewish people in Israel and beyond.” You quote Rabbi Farber as saying the that the “ultra-Orthodox . . . are willing to sacrifice on the altar of Jewish history” legitimate converts, and are engaging in an “anti-halachic battle.”

These speakers are, of course, fully entitled to their opinions, but their verbiage does come across as very angry and overheated, or as they put it nowadays, “over the top.” Intolerant, or at a minimum, immoderate, shall we say? Yet, ironically, according to your article those making these statements are the “more moderate” Orthodox opposing the “more zealous” Orthodox. Within the context of this article, at least, these terms begin to seem rather slippery.

I must add that you, as well, employ a bit of overheated language in describing the controversy as a “war” between the two sides. A war consisting of what, one press release? Besides, at least from what you’ve cited in your article, this would appear to be a “war” being waged by only one side. Shouldn’t we at least wait until the opposing army has issued a press release of its own beforing declaring war? Then again, that’s quite a strident press release, so perhaps . . .

Speaking as one writer to another, beware of verbal and written inflation; once one applies such literary hyperthermia to a disagreement like this one, what is left for circumstances truly deserving of such description?

I appreciate your efforts to cover events of import to our people, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Sincerely,

Eytan Kobre

Jeff says: "You don’t have the slightest idea of what’s at stake since many of the families haven’t “come out” yet in fear of being exposed. Any convert through the dati leumi world went to R. Druckman and Avi-Or, and now all our kids are being threatened, kids who went to yeshiva their whole lives. In our case we were sent to R. Druckman and Avi-Or by our roshei yeshivot in Israel. Any conversion case (including children adopted by childless parents from the USSR, etc) of the dati leumi world went to R. Druckman. So instead of being such a smarmy reflexive defender of the radicalized rabbinate (who did this for obvious political reasons) you should have a heart and a bit of neshama. You have NO IDEA how much suffering this is causing a very large number of dedicated dati people, and you should do a major act of teshuva after posting this."

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Brick Lane Is A Beautiful Film

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

From its opening scene all the way through to the picturesque end, this is a sweet humane story. Video

I kept fearing that things would get ugly but they didn’t. Sure there was pain, but this movie is about people who love each other.

Every scene builds to the next and the film ends in a satisfying climax.

Everybody seemed to leave the media screening in a happy mellow state.

Chris Docker writes on imdb.com.

From Sony Classics:

Published to great acclaim in 2003, Monica Ali’s debut novel Brick Lane garnered rapturous reviews and
countless award nominations both in the UK and internationally. A sharply observed story about the life
of a Bangladeshi immigrant girl who comes to London to marry, it is ultimately a universal story about life,
love, cultural difference and the power of the human spirit.
On reading the novel, producer Alison Owen was immediately attracted to the story and saw its potential
as a film: “I read ‘Brick Lane’ and I fell in love with it, and enquired about the option straight away.
However, it wasn’t an easy project and so I didn’t follow it up immediately, but it just haunted me for the
next couple of months. I kept thinking about it and eventually I just gave into the urge, bought the rights
and started putting the package together.”
Once a first draft of the screenplay had been completed, Owen could see the direction that the project
was taking, but realizing that it still needed a lot of work, she thought it a good time to bring a director on
board, and approached Sarah Gavron. Explains Owen: “Sarah’s a director with extremely strong vision.
We sent her a copy of the script as well as the book, which it turned out she’d already read and was
passionate about.” Adds Gavron: “I read the draft and thought it showed lots of potential and came on
board at that stage. What really appealed to me was Nazneen’s journey. The story of a woman finding
her place in the world, and finding a voice, so beautifully told, with such compassion, wit and emotional
depth.”
Trying to condense a 500 page novel which focuses on the inner thoughts of its central character into a
screenplay, that still maintained the heart of Nazneen’s voyage of discovery, was always going to be a
challenge, but Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan made some bold decisions. Says Gavron: “We tried
to be very faithful to the spirit of the book. But it was impossible to include everything. It’s a very
complicated process because there’s so much that you do want to include. But in the end, we chose to
compress the time frame of the novel and set it all in 2001 with some flashbacks and back story – and
that unlocked for us the scriptwriting process. We went through many drafts before we made that
decision, and it was rather daunting. There’s so much wonderful texture to the novel, but in terms of the
narrative, really it kicked off in 2001 when Nazneen met Karim and her life began to change.”
Adds Morgan: “If you’re trying to distil something down then you have to be quite disciplined with yourself
about what’s really essential, and the film is a very simple journey of a woman finding herself and finding
her own voice. Somehow, that felt like it could be contained in 2001 with 9/11 being the catalyst, so that
the wider world starts to reflect Nazneen’s inner, personal world. There was also a very simple,
organising principle in terms of that complete year, that we could start in spring and end in winter, and I
love the idea that we have a very vivid, bright Bangladesh of her childhood at the beginning set against
the cold, snowy, clean landscape of London at the end of the film.”
Gavron found her collaboration with writer Abi Morgan extremely satisfying: “Abi’s a wonderful, instinctive
writer, who has very strong ideas and lots of rather ingenious solutions. It was a very involved, close,
fulfilling process.” Adds Morgan: “Sarah’s really a writer’s director and Alison Owen is very good at
getting the right alchemy of people together, and I think that was the biggest attraction for me.”
With the final draft of a screenplay in hand, the next hurdle was to find a cast who could take on such
interesting and unusual roles.
THE CASTING PROCESS
Abi Morgan outlines: “The relationship between Chanu and Nazneen was so beautifully and wittily written
in the book, and with such compassion. It was a gift to have a character like Chanu, who is so funny and
didactic, and you set that character against that of Nazneen who is so contained and sophisticated in her
thinking and the collision of that with Karim, this empowered, young, sexual man and it’s very potent. Key
in the film was this notion of two kinds of love; the young, passionate love that takes your breath away
and that changes things, and then, ‘The kind that you don’t notice at first, but which adds a little bit to
itself every day, like an oyster makes a pearl.’ It was essential therefore, to cast the film with actors whose
performances could bring out the nuances, complexities and demands of the roles whilst depicting
characters that are already known to the book reading audience.
To this end, a worldwide search began. Says director Gavron: “We spent a long time casting and looked
very, very widely, watching the work or meeting up with every possible actor in Britain, India, Bangladesh
and some from the United States. We even met non-actors and did some street casting. When you’re
adapting a book, it feels like you’ve got much less leeway in the casting process, because you know the
characters so well. So it was very hard to find the right people for the right parts. We really met
wonderful people and I think the cast we’ve got reflects that process actually, because we’ve got some
Bangladeshi Muslim actors, some who were born in India and some non-actors who are acting for the first
time.”
Casting Nazneen was obviously extremely crucial and a challenge for any actress to be able to depict so
much inner emotion with relatively few words. Producer Chris Collins explains: “We saw a lot of actors for
the role of Nazneen and interestingly the very first person we saw when we did our first casting trip to
India was Tannishtha Chatterjee, and because she was the first person, even though we thought she was
fantastic, we then saw everyone else and saw her several times more before we actually cast her. It
seemed too good to be true, that she should walk in first thing on the first day.”
Tannishtha Chatterjee trained at the National School of Drama in Delhi and is known in India for a variety
of film and theatre roles. She has already appeared in two European films in Germany and France and
has toured in theatre around Europe. She was thrilled when she found out that she was to play Nazneen,
explaining: “It’s a dream role for any actress – from the beginning of her journey to the end is a drastic
change, but the challenge is to make her changes subtle. Her story is universal to a lot of women I have
met in Britain. They come here and marry someone. They leave home, feel lonely and don’t speak the
language. It’s a new world for them and so different from their previous lives. Nazneen was lucky that
her husband was a nice person. She starts off as someone who is unsure of herself and through her
strength she becomes independent, questioning things out of her experience in life, which is something
very unique.”
When Chatterjee arrived in the UK she immediately set her mind to preparing and researching the role.
To this end, she met a lot of Bengali women and spent time walking around the Brick Lane area, steeping
herself in the Bengali-UK cross culture. She says: “The language was something I had to work on.
Though I am Indian, I speak English in a different way from the way Bengali women here speak. And I
also wanted to research the religious part of it, because Islam has a different lifestyle the moment you go
to Bangladesh, Islam changes as there are different influences.”
Working with a British director for the first time, Chatterjee was pleasantly surprised by how collaborative
Sarah Gavron was: “She is not a dictator. She doesn’t tell you to walk three feet here, look right and
express this. She lets you do something first and then she says what she likes and what she doesn’t. So
as an actor I feel like I’m also a creative artist here, where I am continuously giving my input.”
The role of Chanu was an equally difficult one to cast, given that his character requires a comic
physicality but also the need for dramatic gravitas.
The production team were extremely fortunate to find Satish Kaushik. Explains Chris Collins: “Satish is
an actor who’s very well known in India for his comic parts but for the last four or five years he’s been
directing, so he didn’t immediately appear on the radar of any of our casting directors. But, at the very
last minute, an inspired leap of imagination from one of them led to a call and a weekend dash to Delhi
and instantly Sarah and I knew that he was Chanu.”
Kaushik feels that his comic background stands him in good stead for the challenge of playing such a
different role: “I’ve played a lot of comic parts in India, but talk to any actor and they will tell you that tragic
parts can be played by comic actors. Tragedy comes out of comedy, and comedy comes out of tragedy.
So I think that being a comic actor helped me to get into the skin of Chanu, because he is a character
who can be very funny.” He continues: “There is a little bit of Chanu in everyone, especially people who
come with a lot of dreams, hopes and ambitions. I can relate to Chanu in terms of a bigger canvas –
Chaplin, Roberto Benigni in ‘Life is Beautiful’, Willy Loman in ‘Death of a Salesman’. These are all
dreamer characters, like Chanu, who lives on hope. He’s an optimist and yet he is a failure. But he
doesn’t show that failure to people or to his family – and that is where you feel for Chanu.”
Tannishtha Chatterjee was delighted to have the opportunity to work with Kaushik: “Satish and I are from
the same drama institute in India. Although obviously he’s my senior and I knew of him, we’d never
worked together. But it’s really nice that we come from the same theatrical background, so we were able
to improvise things, and when you have such an innovative actor performing with you it enhances your
performance. He is also such a funny person and always kept us entertained.”
Christopher Simpson / Karim
The character of Karim provides an important bridge between the Bengali and UK Bengali culture,
between tradition and progress and between duty and passion. To that end it was essential that the role
be filled by somebody who could combine such dichotomies.
Christopher Simpson was aware of the challenges of the role that he took on because of Karim’s
importance in the narrative. He explains: “Karim is a young man from the streets of London with great
aspirations both for himself and for his community. He’s a young radical, but also a character with a great
deal of compassion for Nazneen, and I think in many ways he is a catalyst to her discovering herself. I
see his role in the film as very much being someone who invites her to speak for herself and to discover
herself.”
Simpson was always concerned with ensuring that he motivated the character effectively and describes
how Sarah Gavron helped him: “There were times in the process of filming that I felt deeply frustrated
because I wondered whether Karim had all the ire, the anger, the frustration and the sense of being
disaffected, of not having a voice and whether all of this was translating onto the screen. Sarah was very
keen to point out to me that we do know the angry young man, that we have seen him everywhere in film,
books and culture. So for her, what was more interesting was to see a potent ally and at times a volatile
youth who is politically engaged and who does have aspirations for himself and for his community, who
has the edge of the street, but who is also compassionate enough to be able to elicit from a very delicate
woman her story and her heart. I think that’s part of his charm for me.”
brick lane
Brick Lane is a real street located in East London in the shadow of the City (financial district) with its modern
tower blocks dedicated to the world of business and its ancient historical roots that go back to Roman times.
The street itself can be seen as the symbolic heart of the film, ever changing and evolving into something
new.
Brick Lane has offered refuge to immigrants into London for 400 years and these communities have all left
their own distinctive mark on the area over the centuries. Since the late 1950s and early 1960s, the street
has become the centre of the biggest Bengali community outside of Bangladesh, mainly from the Sylhet
region.
The area has always been regarded as a safe haven for those escaping persecution from abroad. During the
17th and 18th centuries the Protestant Huguenot population were terrorised in Catholic France and many fled
to England, settling in the Spitalfields area close to Brick Lane. The Huguenots were fine craftsmen and
weavers, and these wealthy refugees built new homes for themselves with a wonderfully distinctive
architecture, many of which can still be seen today in the roads around Brick Lane, particularly Fournier
Street.
By the late 19th century a new wave of immigration brought Jewish families escaping from Holland, Germany,
Russia and Poland and, for the next century, Brick Lane was the centre of the East End Jewish community
and the heart of the rag trade.
It was to work in the clothing factories around Brick Lane that the young male Bengali workers arrived in the
late 1950s and through the 1960s. As they prospered, many brought over their families and established a
new community in Brick Lane.

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West Coast Chabad Leader Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin Gets $18 Million From Roland Arnall’s Estate

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

Many of L.A.’s biggest rabbis were salivating at the shiva for subprime billionaire Roland Arnall.

Rabbi Cunin got the biggest jewish payout.

Roland’s son Daniel holds the $3 million note for the loan Roland extended to Shalhevet. Daniel could call it in and Shalhevet would be in big trouble.

From another report:

SHMAIS.com has learned that Chabad of California will IYH soon be the beneficiary of an $18,000,000 donation from the late Roland Arnall. Mr. Arnall, who passed away before Purim of this year at the age of 68 was the CEO of Ameriquest Mortgage. According to our source, before his passing he told Rabbi Shlomo Cunin that he would give a $18,000,000 donation for Chabad of California and a short while later sent in a down payment of $180,000

This would be the 3rd largest single contribution made to a Chabad Moisad in history. In the mid 1980’s Chabad of California was left with $21 million from the estate of Hermine Weinberg and in 2005 Chabad of the Palisades was left with $30+ million from the estate of Herman S. Stern.

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Feast Your Eyes Upon Orit Arfa’s Literary Works

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

On Tishu B’Av 2001, Orit Arfa came to my hovel and gave me a bracha.

She told me she was working on a book on Genesis.

I was fascinated. I wanted to learn more about her views on the first book of the Torah.

I wanted to study it with her.

I wanted to make her my rebbe.

Unlike most men, I was far more interested in Orit’s mind than her body.

The vessel will decay and fade away but her soul will live forever.

As part of my preparation for the Sabbath, I was just checking out OritArfa.net and found these inspirational messages:

Orit Arfa was born and raised in Los Angeles. She immigrated to Israel in 1999. She has lived in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Orit is now based in Jerusalem where she works as a journalist covering travel, lifestyle, nightlife, arts and entertainment and politics. In addition to writing, Orit paints large scale Biblical portraits.

Orit is a regular correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. Her articles and columns have also appeared in Israel Insider, Israel21.com, Israel National News, The Forward, New Jersey Jewish News, and The Jewish Chronicle. Orit has already developed a respectable legion of loyal readers and fans.

In the past Orit has worked as a publicist for The Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem, The Israel Museum and Muzik School of Creation and Production in Tel Aviv.

She holds an M.A. in Bible and Jewish Thought from the Jewish Theological Seminary and is an independent scholar of the work and ideas of Ayn Rand. She has studied art at Mission Renaissance, UCLA, and Yeshiva University.

Orit’s Debut Novel: The Dance of Dawn

Orit’s debut novel, The Dance of Dawn, tells the story of Sarah “Shachar” Dakar, a 21-year old resident of Gush Katif, an agricultural settlement bloc in Gaza, who is forcefully evacuated with her family from her home as part of Israel’s Disengagment from Gaza in 2005. The evacuation creates within Sarah a crisis of faith– in her country and in God—for how could the Jewish State and her God destroy a vibrant Jewish community?

Sarah discovers Atlantis, the hottest Tel Aviv nightclub—a perfect place for her to actualize her rebellion and escape the pain of her loss. To enter this new, liberal world of freedom, music, sexuality, and style, she suppresses her settler past and develops a romance with the “king of nightlife”, Ziv Harel, owner of Atlantis. A series of tragedies hit Atlantis that force both Sarah and Harel to examine their choices and deep-seated values.

Dael Mark, Sarah’s cousin and talented musician, encourages Sarah to develop her voice and never to hide who she is. DJ Elman, the resident DJ of Atlantis, encourages Harel to be the father of a new, vanguard culture in Tel Aviv in which Jewish values and Zionism play no part.

What happens when the world of Gush Katif and the world of Tel Aviv nightlife collide?

About The Dance of Dawn

The Dance of Dawn was first conceived in 2002 as a modernization of The Book of Esther. Since then it has undergone many incarnations and revisions. In addition to drawing from The Book of Esther, the novel has also been inspired by a more modern classic, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

Orit’s Future Works

Currently Orit is working on a literary comparison of The Book of Esther and The Fountainhead as well as a futuristic novel set in Israel inspired by Atlas Shrugged. Her long-range works include a philosophical exegesis of the Book of Genesis and central passages of the Book of Deuteronomy that formulate a systematic, individualistic interpretation of Judaism.

Since 1996 Orit has embarked on a series of biblical portraits. Each painting takes years to complete (taking into account breaks in the painting process), and each canvas seeks to express visually and artistically the artist’s views, values, and visions. In addition, Orit has painted a variety of other portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes.

 

Rebecca, 2000, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Orit’s first Biblical painting portrays the Biblical heroine Rebecca as she draws water from the well to give to Abraham’s servant, who was sent to find a suitable wife for his son Isaac.

Queen Esther, 2002, Oil on canvas, 110 x 160 cm

Using her feminine grace and sexuality, Queen Esther convinced the decadent King Ahasuerus to avert a plot to murder all Jews in ancient Persia. Noticing many similarities between parties described in the Biblical story of Esther and nightclub raves, Orit chose to paint Queen Esther as "Queen of Nightlife" in a modern nightclub setting. The world of Ahasuerus and the world of nightlife both glorify beautiful women, drinking, and hedonism. The painting combines iconic images from ancient Persian architecture with images from the contemporary nightclub.

Pinchas, 2002, Oil on canvas, 135 x 165 cm


And when Pinchas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation and took a spear in his hand, and he went after the man of Israel to the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. And the plague that struck the children of Israel ended. (Numbers 25: 7-9)

Orit’s saddening personal experiences in Israel during the tragic Intifada prompted her to paint her first politically-tinged painting. Pinchas, her first male portrait, is filled with paradox and provocation – it contains political messages associated with the religious camp, but using erotic images acceptable to the more liberal, secular sensibilities. Pinchas committed a seemingly brutal act, but was it justified in light of all the lives he saved? At what point is the use of force a desired and moral option?

(Due to the sensitive nature of this painting, a portion of the photograph is covered by Orit.)

Michal, daughter of Saul, wife of David, 2007

Self Portrait, 1996, Oil canvas, 45 x 50 cm

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Rabbi Nachum Sauer’s Mom Died

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

The Levaya (saying goodbye ceremony) for Chana Bas Akiva will take place tonight at 8:20 PM at 7211 Beverly Blvd, Kehillas Yaakov.

Rabbi Sauer is a leading Los Angeles authority on Jewish Law.

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Southern California Savings & Loans Holding On

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

This is not good for the Jews. The Gentiles are gonna get restless and who will they blame?

The Los Angeles Times reports:

Investors are increasingly throwing in the towel on Southern California-based savings-and-loan mortgage lenders IndyMac Bancorp, FirstFed Financial Corp. and Downey Financial Corp.

Defaults keep climbing on the nontraditional mortgages made by the companies, and bond buyers still shun securities backed by such loans. The companies — which operate IndyMac Bank, First Federal Bank of California and Downey Savings & Loan — have managed to survive long after nonbank sub-prime lenders such as Ameriquest Mortgage Co. of Orange and New Century Financial Corp. of Irvine melted down more than a year ago.

IndyMac shares slid 37 cents to $3.06, a record low. IndyMac’s quarterly report shows its bank unit is at risk of falling from "well capitalized" to merely "adequately capitalized" as defined by its federal regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision.

After an $88-million contribution from the parent company, IndyMac Bank’s core capital ratio was 5.74% and its risk-based capital ratio was 10.26%, compared with the benchmarks of 5% and 10%, respectively, for well-capitalized thrifts.

During a conference call with analysts, Chief Executive Michael Perry said IndyMac hoped to rebuild its core capital to 7% and risk-based capital to 11% by year-end.

To help it to do so, Perry said, IndyMac might sell its "reverse mortgage" business, Financial Freedom. The thrifts also were major specialists in so-called pay-option adjustable-rate loans, which gave borrowers the option of paying so little that the loan balance rose.

Downey executives couldn’t be reached for comment Monday.

Unlike IndyMac, which sold nearly all its loans, and Downey, which sold some of them, FirstFed kept nearly all its loans on its books, giving it perhaps the best business model for a mortgage lender in the current environment, in which many home loans are hard to sell to investors, Cannon said.

Although critics question whether quirks in accounting rules have allowed FirstFed to exaggerate its strengths, its stated capital ratios are about twice the well capitalized benchmarks — 10.23% for core capital and 19.63% for risk-based capital.

In the first quarter, FirstFed lost $69.8 million, or $5.11 a share, compared with net income of $32.4 million, or $1.92 a share, a year earlier, after setting aside $150.3 million on its books for loan losses.

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Monsey’s Yeshiva Of Spring Valley Fires Rabbi For Sexually Abusing Kids

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

The victims were under ten years of age.

The firing happened a few weeks ago.

It’s been kept hush hush at the Orthodox co-ed educational school.

I want to learn more details before I publish the rabbi’s name.

Oct. 2010 update.

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Leah Kleim Vs. The Daily Yid

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Luke Ford

About a year ago, the Daily Yid reached out to Leah Kleim to get help sending traffic to his new blog (DailyYid.com).

They met in person but she didn’t realize it at the time. Only after he emailed to identify himself.

The Daily Yid is a father of about eight kids in Williamsburg. He has payos. His first language is Yiddish. He’s unemployed. His late father was rich, according to what the Daily Yid told Leah Kleim.

Leah says the Daily Yid’s emails became disturbing. There was stuff about his sexual preferences. She says he said that he abused his kids.

Last week, I asked the Daily Yid about this accusation.

He said that he told Leah he abused his kids by spending so much time on his blog, not that he did anything nefarious to them.

Leah does not buy that explanation.

She told him to get help or she would expose.

Daily Yid called her a whore.

Their friendship fallout started going online about two weeks ago.

A week ago, the Daily Yid closed his website to avoid exposure.

Leah Kleim cooperated with various Satmars who then posted May 8 the Daily Yid’s guilty emails to DailyYidden.blogspot.com along with his real name, address and phone number.

I’m not going to publish that personal information.

On May 9, that DailyYidden site was closed to the general public but all its info is reposted here: http://vosisneis.blogspot.com/.

The emails were in Yiddish. I understand they were highly embarrassing to the Daily Yid.

Leah has taken to referring to him on her blog as an "alleged child molester."

Aside from his own emails, there is no public evidence I know of that shows the Daily Yid is a predator.

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Leah Kleim Is Live In My Chat Room

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Luke Ford

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maven:  I have a musical recommendation for you the new Sébastien Tellier album
guest117:  IS IT GOOD
YourMoralLeader:  maven, go to the israel fest yestereday?
guest117:  SO YOUR THE GUY BEHIND THE VOICE ON THE PHONE ?
maven:  its kind of a mix of 70s singing and warm beats.
YourMoralLeader:  who r u 117?
guest117:  LEAH KLEIM
YourMoralLeader:  no way!
YourMoralLeader:  awesome
guest117:  YEAH WAY
YourMoralLeader:  thank you!
guest117:  HOW R U ?
maven:  vas sagsta?
guest117:  GOURNISHT
maven:  leah, alles in ordinung?
YourMoralLeader:  good, how are you?
guest117:  ALLE IZ GOOT
guest117:  GREAT
maven:  az di bist yetz in boro park?
guest117:  NAIN, ICH BIN IN ILLINOIS
YourMoralLeader:  I liked our interview, did you?
maven:  yo ishtenem, das is emesdik di leah kleim
guest117:  YEAH IT WAS COOL
YourMoralLeader:  A lot of yidden have told me I’m the male Leah Kleim
YourMoralLeader:  I’m really happy to see you again!
guest117:  ALOT OF GUYS THINK THEY R
YourMoralLeader:  I want to help you! lol
guest117:  START BEATING OFF THEN
YourMoralLeader:  How’s the Daily Yid holding up?
guest117:  I HAVENT TALKED TO HIM, I GOTTA EMAIL HIM
YourMoralLeader:  He didn’t want to get help?
maven:  leah, di retz oych ungarish?
guest117:  HE SAIS HE DOES THEN HE GOES OFF ON ME, I THINK HES BIPOLAR
guest117:  BESELNI MUDYARU ?
maven:  you ishtenem, meg mondom neked
guest117:  I KNOW LIKE 4 PHRASES, TEKEL FAY BEVAGNIE ?
guest117:  NELEG DA VISBE
maven:  same here. I grew up around Bobov, so I get where you are at.
guest117:  HUDNEKEDLEDYE MI KER DESNY
maven:  udjal nekem voloni eni
guest117:  I JUST REMEMBER MY MOTHER SHRIEKING IN A FUNNY LANGUAGE
maven:  same here. Where was she from?
guest117:  ICH FARSHTEY NISHT UNGARIAN !
guest117:  MY GRANDMOTHER WAS FROM BUDAPEST
maven:  Oh, my mother is from Slovakia, but spoke (or yelled) in Magyar
guest117:  I WAS RAISED ON KOKOSH CAKE AND FRIED CHICKEN SKIN
maven:  No leszo?
guest117:  THEY ALL YELL, THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO TALK
guest117:  LESZO?
guest117:  THEY TRIED TO FORCE TAILEY ON ME (HOME MADE YOGURT)
maven:  That’s how Hungarian is spoken. I once dated a hungarian girl in college and she spoke just like that
User guest117 changed their name to Leah.
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, do you know a Rabbi ….?
maven:  Luke, we wouldn’t know these Litvaki rebbes
YourMoralLeader:  ahh
YourMoralLeader:  Did you take those photos of the frum beach party, Leah?
maven:  Enough crazy stuff going on in Boro Park
Leah:  no, why should I ?
Leah:  I think there cute
Leah:  I remember wild days in BP,
YourMoralLeader:  they’re great photos
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, I heard this: Satmar which has 2 rival groups got on his case because DailyYid was of one faction, the Zaloinim and was against the Aronim
Leah:  If ppl think that something is wrong with me posting those pictures, they can go f**k themselvs,
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, is there a criminal investigation of Daily Yid?
Leah:  Daily Yid is to new of a blog to matter or have impact, just recently he started getting 1,000 hits a day, when he first contacted me he was lucky to see 250 in a week, I dont think Satmar or anyone for that matter was on his case about anything.
YourMoralLeader:  Do you know the Daily Yid’s real name?
Leah:  no I dont
maven:  But isn’t der yid the local yiddish paper?
Leah:  I think so
maven:  So he just lifted the name of the Satmar paper?
Leah:  there two different names, "the daily yid" and "der yid"
maven:  but similar enough, I suppose. "iceberg, goldberg, what’s the difference" (old joke)
Leah:  so they have a berg in common, big deal, it dosent make em the same
maven:  that;s the joke about the anti-semite who blames his parents death on the Jews because they died on the titanic
Leah:  theres also auschwitz and horowitz
maven:  In israel I met an Russian immigrant named Chemelnitzky
maven:  and the nazi philosopher was named Rosenberg
maven:  So Leah, you were always Satmar? You lived in W-berg
YourMoralLeader:  She’s Chabad
Leah:  From what I know about the daily yid, he’s pretty much jobless, bored, in the closet, miserable and depressed and started a blog as something to do, he gained 40 lbs since he started, so he must have been  putting alot of time into it, while fressing on
maven:  that’s what happened to Luke!
YourMoralLeader:  he’s bi?
Leah:  I was never Satmar, my family was back in hungary, Im a Chabadnik, I grew up full fleded Lubavitch
Leah:  yeah he likes girls, and boys with toys
maven:  A hungarian lubavitcher? I thought that was against the law
Leah:  jumbo shrimp?
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, how long do you plan to stay in Illinois?
Leah:  there are a few hungarian Lubavitchers, a strange breed, vodka on top of all that screaming makes for the need for more vodka
maven:  Vodka with slivovitz chasers sounds good
Leah:  I duno, I should be in NY in a few weeks, why ?
Leah:  vodka and goulash
guest131:  what are you doing in Ill?
maven:  sounds like the usual kiddish at the hungarian shteeble
Leah:  Im sitting on my front porch drinking a glass of wine, sucking on a ciggarett and talking to you
guest130:  where in IL are you living
Leah:  in the middle of no where, population 8oo goyim
YourMoralLeader:  how do you like that?
guest130:  dude that is nasty dont do that on cam
guest130:  lol
YourMoralLeader:  are most of your friends jewish or goyish?
YourMoralLeader:  sorry
Leah:  thanx Luke, Ive watched many ppl do many things on cam, now Ive seen a guy across the country blow his nose too
Leah:  Jewish, all of my friends are Jewish, most of them frum, I have no goyish friends
Leah:  and u think its funny
guest130:  luke blows
Leah:  i saw, and heard
YourMoralLeader:  why no goyisha friends? not enough in common?
YourMoralLeader:  so how do you stay sane surrounded by goyim?
Leah:  you should advertize, "whatch a jewish guy blow live !" youll get tons of hits
guest131:  Luke, you had mentioned that "this is how you make a living" with your blog
YourMoralLeader:  yes
guest131:  how do you make a living form your blog?
guest130:  lol
Leah:  I dont get along with goyim, there goyim, they have no heart
guest130:  you might get even more hits if you let them know that you are blowing yourself
YourMoralLeader:  advertising and the SEO opportunities and stuff it brings me, like a TV reality show
Leah:  my blog is a non profit job 😉
YourMoralLeader:  escorting with readers
Leah:  MTV is calling ! the Luke blows show ! live from Cali !
guest131:  so how do you pau the bills?
Leah:  I dont
guest131:  who does?
guest130:  with that beard you can do the chabad telethon next year too
Leah:  my husband
guest131:  I thought he was gone
YourMoralLeader:  i pay the bills from my savings from writing on porn and credit card debt
Leah:  with that beard he can be santa clause at the mall
Leah:  not gone yet, divorce is a long messy process
maven:  He’s Charlton Heston playing Moses
YourMoralLeader:  I also have a part-time job picking up kids from school
guest130:  I wouldnt let my kid sit on his lap
YourMoralLeader:  why not?
Leah:  I wold kill myself if I had to pick a bunch of kids up from school
YourMoralLeader:  they can be terrors
YourMoralLeader:  but I have a lot of authority as a moral leader
guest130:  you put them on leashes for the walk home
Leah:  tell me about it, I have 3 and when they see me, they dont actually see a person, they see prizes and toys, or a doormat
YourMoralLeader:  The will of man’s heart is evil from his youth
maven:  That’s universal, Leah.
palestine4ever:  Where is Leah?
YourMoralLeader:  Gday palestine, I got your girl Leah in here
palestine4ever:  Leah, hi!
Leah:  and what kind of authority is that ? the right to blow yor nose on cam and have ppl actually watch it?
YourMoralLeader:  P4E is in chicago
YourMoralLeader:  yes Leah
palestine4ever:  Big fan, here, big big fan
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, do you do mixed dancing? If so, could I have this dance?
palestine4ever:  LONG TIME LISTENER, FIRST TIME CALLER
Leah:  fan of what ? chutzpa ?
YourMoralLeader:  DDs
palestine4ever:  I’m a fan of the Leah Kleim brand in general
guest130:  you asking for a lap dance?
Leah:  thats pretty much what I am, a brand
Leah:  Lubavitch girls give the best lap dances
palestine4ever:  Regretfully I am married, but otherwise we could get married and sing Ebony + Ivory at our wedding
palestine4ever:  A whole medley of star-crossed lover melodies
Leah:  Im never getting married again
palestine4ever:  Do not let the womb grow cold and bitter as aspirin, gentle flower
palestine4ever:  DO NOT BE AFRAID TO LOVE AGAIN!
Leah:  and I bet after all that mushy mucky stuff we would live happily ever after, with kids who were well behaved and never got dirty
Leah:  Im not affraid of love, Im just not dumb enough to fall for that crock of crap again
palestine4ever:  Well, they’d be the only kids that sang Havah Nagila on the way to bombing a stripmall, at least
Leah:  In a perfect world they would sing chabad nigunim
palestine4ever:  Leah, why do the Chabaders only appear in the Gold Coast?
Leah:  Luke are you playing with yourself there?
YourMoralLeader:  I’m a Torah Jew!
palestine4ever:  I always think of Luke when they ask me if I’m Jewish.
YourMoralLeader:  no fooling
Leah:  your hand seems to be creeping lower and lower and your nipple is looking perky
palestine4ever:  It’s just the southern california breeze
YourMoralLeader:  you needed me
Leah:  now your helping me !
palestine4ever:  Anyway, he licks his finger before doing that
Leah:  help me help me big daddy luke
palestine4ever:  Kendra taught him the Force powers of the pornlette.
guest130:  he can blow all night long
Leah:  I bet he can
guest130:  looks his bag of tricks
Leah:  now Im hittin the Vodka, its people liek you and places like this that make life more fun the Lubavitch way, through vodka
guest130:  vodka goes a long way
iwantamoralleader:  done with sleaping?
Leah:  what do you think is in his bag of trix?
guest131:  Wine tastes so much better
palestine4ever:  User:iwantamoralleader, identify yourself.
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, I want to be your moral leader
guest130:  tweezers
Leah:  I dont really like wine
palestine4ever:  Luke is only taking female apprentices.
guest130:  magnifying glass
Leah:  You can be my moral leader
YourMoralLeader:  Thank you!
YourMoralLeader:  I am honored!
Leah:  vasaline?
guest130:  shaving cream
iwantamoralleader:  >->
guest130:  no he is a masocist
Leah:  shaving cream ? whip cream is way better dude
iwantamoralleader:  chocolate cream?
Leah:  na, that resembles s**t
guest131:  Leah, you have photos or vidoe’s on your blog drinking winde but never vodka
guest130:  lol ok ok was thinking of the aweful beard
iwantamoralleader:  but doesnt taste like so
palestine4ever:  Is "drinking wind" what they call it now?
iwantamoralleader:  lol
palestine4ever:  I can’t keep up with the youth
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, do you like a beard or a clean-shaven look?
Leah:  I had a video on you tube with a few bottles of vodka , it got kicked off
guest130:  use more lube next time you use a vodka bottle
Leah:  a little scruff
guest131:  so you tube is anti-lubavitch?
Leah:  chas vi shilim
guest130:  you dont like the planet of the apes look
Leah:  anti drunk driving i guess
Leah:  nope
Leah:  add some vodka to that
guest131:  what’s the end with daily yid
guest131:  he  in jail yet?
Leah:  hes showing us his stuff
Leah:  no hes probably watching some young boy and jacking off
guest131:  hate to see the case go cold
Leah:  his time will come
Leah:  patience is a virtue in this twisted world
guest131:  but the time is now
Leah:  so get him
guest131:  duno how
Leah:  but the time is now ! find out
Leah:  C’mon soldiar, get on the front line !
guest131:  wish I knew how to do that
Leah:  thats why I say patience is a virtue, its not about giving the "frum" world some more Loshon horah to spread around the shabbos table, its about actually stopping him, weather it goes noticed or not
Leah:  now luke is thinking ! see the look on his face
Leah:  this is serious !
guest131:  the dalyyidden blog has listed his name – duno if it’s true but if yes why can’t he be picked up
Leah:  or maybe he’s watching the pamela and tommy video again
Leah:  that blog is only open to invite
guest131:  but before they closed they had listed his name
Leah:  I think he’s a Ron Jeremy fan
guest131:  and address
Leah:  send it to me
Leah:  I’d gladly knock on his door and see if its him
guest131:  you could recognise him if you had seen him again?
Leah:  yeah
guest131:  the address was in williamsburg so you would have to be back first
Leah:  Ill be there soon
Leah:  here he goes again !
Leah:   luke blows !
YourMoralLeader:  getting over a cold
Leah:  Luke, how do you have the patience for this ?
YourMoralLeader:  I’m a gentle easy going soul
Leah:  so now my question gets even more serious, how do you have the patience for this?
YourMoralLeader:  I’ve done my productive work for the day
Leah:  and that was?
YourMoralLeader:  I enjoy talking with you Leah and P4E
YourMoralLeader:  some SEO stuff and blogging
palestine4ever:  Luke, are you sure a wife is what you want?
Leah:   here we go with the yidish and giberish
palestine4ever:  I can’t get used to this redecorating thing.
palestine4ever:  And everything in my house smells of flowers.
palestine4ever:  A man should have a place where he can be surrounded by his own stink.
Leah:  ok kool, thanx. LUke why does your house smell like flowers
palestine4ever:  Luke’s house smells like old Jews and fiberous smoothies. Mine smells like daffodils.
Leah:  mine smells like play dough and choclate chip cookies and dirty tennis shoes
Leah:  he told me his father has alot of $, does cheskel who the f**k ever haave $ ?
guest131:  this was posted on the blog – which is now only by invite
Leah:  do you have an email address for the blogger?
guest131:  they say his father is dead
palestine4ever:  Oh lawd is dat some Lashon Hara?
palestine4ever:  I’m ashamed of all of you.
Leah:  he never told me his father was dead. he talks about his mother like she’s a $5 hooker though
guest131:  they had a starnge email which I think is invalid on gmail
guest131:  it had a dot and I think gamail does not allow
Leah:  If you dont like loshon hora, move to a cave in the dessert. but this is not loshon horah
palestine4ever:  first they came for the pederasts, and I was not a pederast so…
palestine4ever:  I’m just concerned that Our Moral Leader is engaging in moral relativism
guest131:  this is the email for the blog owner which they had – [email protected]
palestine4ever:  This is the slippery slope to buggering animals.
palestine4ever:  But I fear the harmful effects this will have on Luke.
palestine4ever:  He hasn’t finished his Torah training and a sophisticated blogger could easily turn him to the dark side
Leah:  Read up on the chofetz chaim and youll find the true meaning of loshon horah , and aloso when it is permitted, and not considered loshon horahm BTW loshon horah also applies to the one listening to it, you are equally as guilty, so RUN TO CAVE !
palestine4ever:  Telling an Arab to "run to the cave" has a WHOLE different meaning 🙂
Leah:  H’es the son of a preacher, gimmy a break, we all know about those kids 😉
palestine4ever:  We were cool with caves until Tora Bora
Leah:  run to a cave with the karan and be holy
palestine4ever:  Now, you say "run to the cave" and they’re all like OH SO WHAT ARE ALL OF THESE GUNS FOR HUH
palestine4ever:  WHY ARE YOU SHOOTING THEM OFF ARE YOU SOME KIND OF TERRORIST
Leah:  Tell them, to kill people
Leah:  say yes
Leah:   honesty is the best policy !
palestine4ever:  I just tell them I’m a hillbilly
palestine4ever:  It used to work but doesn’t anymore THANK YOU RACIAL PROFILING
Leah:  bring a CD player, some Jack Daniels and pump some good country music outa your cave, Toby Keith and Willy Nelson
palestine4ever:  Part of al-Qaida training was learning to do the Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky dance
palestine4ever:  Few people know that
YourMoralLeader:  Wherever you go in the world, Leah, no matter how many times you get naked for the camera, you’ll always have a home in this chatroom.
Leah:  not the makeraina ?
palestine4ever:  UGH LUKE GET CUPS PLEASE
Leah:  Thanx I feel so loved now
palestine4ever:  macarena = too ethnic
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, does it offend you when I drink out of a kedem bottle or would you prefer me to use a glass?
Leah:  Just tie a towel oaround your head and sing the israeli national anthem
palestine4ever:  Luke did you ban RevDesFord yet?
palestine4ever:  That guy is like instant buzzkill
YourMoralLeader:  Yes, but let him back in the next day
Leah:  No it dosent, Im a Lubavitcher, we ll share
Leah:  every Lubavitcher thinks if they drink out of the vodka bottle no one else will dring it and they can have it all, and the vicious cycle of us all drinking each others germs continues. We always look at the bottle and wonder though… Did I really drink all that?
palestine4ever:  a rare show of modesty, Luke
YourMoralLeader:  We have a lady in here.
palestine4ever:  They just don’t want to buy their friends a drink
palestine4ever:  (cough cough cough)
Leah:  Luke you should go to the local Chabad House and invite a bunch of chassidim over and have a vodka filled farbrengen and live stream it
palestine4ever:  Luke’s religious beliefs prohibit him from sharing a cam with anyone.
palestine4ever:  It’s a sole discipline and improves character.
Leah:  what happened to ahavas yisroel ?
Leah:  poor guy is tired, from the hard work of blogging
Leah:  say something funny, Luke
Leah:  the silence is killing me
palestine4ever:  Luke, I have two words that will solve your financial distress
Leah:  I have ADHD I cant focus on nothing
palestine4ever:  "Fan Fiction"
palestine4ever:  Witness Peter Chimaera: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Peter_Chimaera
Leah:  I have two words that will solve your financial disteress
Leah:  MORE MONEY
YourMoralLeader:  so what do you do all day leah?
Leah:  Im a Mommie
YourMoralLeader:  ahh
Leah:  aka dormat
palestine4ever:  This is sad.
YourMoralLeader:  It must be invigorating to have some stimulating adult conversation!
palestine4ever:  Of the three of us, Luke has an active career but possibly the worst financial intake.
YourMoralLeader:  lol
palestine4ever:  Give up work, luke, walk the land like the cat in Kung Fu
Leah:  I take, abuse, neglect and sorrow, pain, regret and sadness, all day long and dont get paid a nickle for it, and I got to bed happy. yEAh iM CrAZy
Leah:  LUKE, you poppin pills?
palestine4ever:  spread Torah, conduct good deeds, save kittens from trees, etc.
palestine4ever:  He has a whole battery of pills, Leah
YourMoralLeader:  clonidine
Leah:  I get a monthly goody bag
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, how long into your marriage till you realized it was a mistake?
palestine4ever:  And that’s not going into the fun ones
Leah:  last year
Leah:  every cyber junkie gets pills
YourMoralLeader:  was there one moment?
Leah:  yeah
Leah:  he blows !
palestine4ever:  So much for modesty
palestine4ever:  TOO LATE LUKE WE SAW YOU HONK
Leah:  when he does that, we can talk about him behind his back !
palestine4ever:  Leah, what was that moment?
palestine4ever:  I wouldn’t pry but Luke already did and now it’s hanging there…
Leah:  He was b**chin about somethin’ or other, and I thought to myself screw this
Leah:  It wasnt that complicated
palestine4ever:  Oh.
palestine4ever:  That’s kind of anti-climactic.
palestine4ever:  I was hoping the police were involved, or an ambulence or something.
YourMoralLeader:  is he gay?
palestine4ever:  But it’s GOOD THAT THEY WEREN’T
palestine4ever:  (even if the story would have been better)
Leah:  oh well, I dont have some great story about that special moment when SUDDENLY ! BAM ! it all hit me, and I realized that I was an individual, and I had needs, wants and rights too
YourMoralLeader:  when did you get your DDs?
Leah:  and this was not fair
Leah:   and I could be someone
Leah:  bla bla bla
palestine4ever:  Ariana Huffington already turned one Republican gay, do you want to be next Luke?
Leah:  I dont speak cyber lingo what is DDs
palestine4ever:  So it was kind of a Gloria Gaynor moment
Leah:  not really
YourMoralLeader:  your breasts
Leah:   I didnt sing a song about it either
Leah:  about 4 years ago
palestine4ever:  How long were you married?
Leah:   I had E’s 5 years ago though, natuarlly
palestine4ever:  We have here the three stages of romance
Leah:  9 or 10 years
palestine4ever:  Luke (before) me (during) Leah (after)
YourMoralLeader:  When did you get the implants? 9 years ago?
Leah:  all we need are some dead ppl now
Leah:  4 years ago
YourMoralLeader:  ok
palestine4ever:  But I prefer to concentrate on the things that unite us, not divide us!
Leah:  well Im sure glad its OK with you
YourMoralLeader:  Leah, does it bother you when men look at you as a sexual object?
palestine4ever:  Like I’m pretty sure we all hate Asians.
YourMoralLeader:  not me
Leah:  no, its been that way since I was 14
YourMoralLeader:  I’ve got yellow fever
palestine4ever:  Well, you kind of are one.
YourMoralLeader:  This cam is a sex free zone, Leah.
Leah:  I see that
palestine4ever:  A few longitude north and you’re dipping everything in soy, Luke.
palestine4ever:  Um, latitude
Leah:  I hate chineese ppl
Leah:  I hate black ppl
palestine4ever:  PLEASE STRIKE MY STATEMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC IGNORANCE
Leah:  I hate mexicans
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Leah:  Yes I am a racist
palestine4ever:  LEAH I LOVE YOU
Leah:  your crazy
palestine4ever:  RIGHT ON, SISTER, PREACH IT
palestine4ever:  I freely admit that I have an envy of the startling intellect and access to capital that our Asian and Jewish friends have
palestine4ever:  (present company excluded)
palestine4ever:  (sort of)
Leah:  I gotta go get some more vodka, BRB, if your still here, cool if not oh well, Ill go write something with my tainted sence of humor and bad spelling
YourMoralLeader:  XOXO
palestine4ever:  ROCK ON, LEAH.
YourMoralLeader:  What a chick
palestine4ever:  hmm
YourMoralLeader:  How you been?
palestine4ever:  She’s less crazy without the bright red text
palestine4ever:  or seems that way
palestine4ever:  or maybe… she’s not crazy at all
palestine4ever:  I JUST BLEW MY OWN MIND
YourMoralLeader:  I had a long meeting with a rabbi today, I’m learning about holy speech and not shaming people
palestine4ever:  I thought Rabbis were all about shaming people
palestine4ever:  is he afraid you’re cutting into his business?
palestine4ever:  oh wait
palestine4ever:  was this one of those "Levi, come into my office" kind of meetings?
palestine4ever:  the ones right before they kick you out?
YourMoralLeader:  i’m getting a chance to be a mentch
palestine4ever:  Hmm
palestine4ever:  He’s taking a chance on you
palestine4ever:  So this could mean he believes you’re able to be molded into a More Perfect Jew
Leah:  thats not fair ! aand you should tell them that, and be bold and in there face when you tell it to them !
palestine4ever:  Could I perk your interest in a spell of fire-breathing Wahhabism?
palestine4ever:  I mean, they might chop  your tongue off but definitely wouldn’t do that.
Leah:  I think that you should write about…
palestine4ever:  He’s running out of shuls, Leah.
palestine4ever:  He insists on clinging to this community that clearly does not want him
palestine4ever:  and desires to expel him like a heretic of old
ver:  if they still burned people at the stake, Luke would be their Jan Hus
Leah:  Its Asur to push another Jew away ! espscially a ger ! a ger is considered a yossom, a yossom needs to be treated better than the rest and accepted and loved !
palestine4ever:  Preach it, Leah
PicoPal:  what is a yossom?
palestine4ever:  Even one that listens to "Boys of Summer" over and over and over again?
Leah:  I try, they dont care though because the reality is they dont give a damn about halocha they care about yichus
PicoPal:  is that one of the words i have to look up google myself?
palestine4ever:  In fact, I believe these folks called the NAZIS felt "uncomfortable" around certain people too

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