Jerusalem – Joy erupted throughout Ohel Sarah as news Shmuel Veisfish’s release to his home spread Wednesday. His friend Binyomin Blatt was likewise freed after having been arrested at the demonstration in Shabbos Square this past Monday.
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A Jerusalem court judge ordered their release after not seeing a reason to continue their incarceration. Nevertheless, the legal proceedings against Veisfish will continue. The release was granted under limited conditions: no entry to Jerusalem for 30 days, and prohibition to approach the Space retail shop for 180 days. Additionally, Veisfish had to pay a bail of 20,000 shekels and an additional bond of 15,000.
Veisfish’s friends, who arrived to greet him upon release, escorted him home with song and dance. One member of the Veisfish’s activist group spoke to a Chadrei Chareidim reporter over the sounds of music, saying “This is a big day—it’s a day of victory for Hashem and His Torah over heresy. It’s a day of victory of light over darkness,” adding, “This only encourages us to continue guarding Jerusalem’s purity. ‘Ka’asher yaanu oso, kein yirbeh v’chein yifrotz.’ ”
In recent days demonstrations and violent events were held in light of Veisfish’s ongoing incarceration. Several streets were rocked by burning garbage cans, while Shabbos Square turned into a center of violence where protestors clashed with police.
Shmuel Veisfish had been arrest ten days ago on suspicion of being behind the acts of violence against the Space and Greentech stores fronting Shabbos Square. The “offenses” of said establishments included selling “tamei” MP4 players and videos by frum producers the Growise Brothers. Daily protests continued outside the stores even after Veisfish’s arrest.
Additionally, police suspected that Veisfishwas connected with activities undertaken at the behest of the Mishmeres Hatznius. Although police have linked the arrests of Meyerovitch, Buzaglo and and Veisfish, and the activities of the Mishmeres Hatznius as well as the anti-store protests, there is no apparent connection and the two are entirely separate groups.
At the meeting between Av Beis Din Rabbi Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss [Gave’d] head of the Edah Hachareidis and police representative held last weekend, the release of the arrestees was agreed upon in exchange for the restoration of calm and the stoppage of protests and garbage-can burnings. In return, police did not request an incarceration extension for Veisfish, and he was freed.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmulik Ben-Ruby stated: “The release of Veisfish was carried out as all avenues of investigation did not demosntrate a reason to keep holding him. As far as the police are concerned, the next step is to present a list of offenses against the arrestees for suspicion of illegal activities under the auspices of the Mishmeres Hatznius. The police are keeping their eyes wide open and do not intend to compromise on public order in the streets of the capital.”
someone please shoot them!!! Mishmeres Hatznius would work if it would be “leshem shomyim”, except as Bezeq can attest, there more high speed internet lines going into Me’ah Shearim than to any one neighborhood in Jerusalem… they tell the world it is Leshem Shomayim, but they ar ea bunch of wife beaters, and deserve to die. i hope the police find and convict each one of these Reshoim.
Picture reminds me of Samir Kuntar celebration in Lebanon….
The reason for the Highspeed internet is for phone service which you may not get otherwise in addition to having USA numbers
How disgraceful to compare Samir Kunter to these guys whether you agree or disagree
1:41 – those high speed internet lines are mainly for the apartments occupied by american bochurim in yeshivas mir to connect to american dsl phone lines
This is simply the biggest chillul Hashem possible.
HOW DARE ONE COMPARE HIM TO SAMIR KUNTAR- TERRORIST AND BABY KILLER????!!!!!!!! I’m not judging if he is guilty or not. But a comparison like that????!!!
To 1:41
I agree that what they are doing is not leshem shamayim, but I would not go so far as to wish their death. Even if we do not not agree with their tactics, we still have to have ahavas yisroel.
Our job is to say Tehillim for their neshamos, so they will eventually realize that their actions are counterproductive, I’YH.
These mishmerert men will get their payback in olam haba. G-d does not like liers and abusers.
Baruch hashem that they are out of jail this is realy pidyon shevuyim. No one can say if they mean it l’shem shomaim or not only hashem himself and will pay them what they earned. Was it l’shem shomaim they will get credit if not then not. On the other hand the writers here who write bad things about another jew and curse them here for sure are not l’shem shomaim. so watch what you’re doing.
I guess someone is enjoying to have on his shoulders the “behind” that sat on that poor lovely womans face!!!!!
how is it leshem shomayim to physically and verbally abuse women. We must not become the new Iran!
What they really need is a park and a TV. If they spent their free time playing basketball or watching a baseball game they would not be interested in roaming the streets looking for some action.
mayer doesn’t know what pidyon shvuim is. The police were doing the correct thing.
Hopefully this will teach the vead hatsnius a lesson.
let them stop being g-ds assistants
pooring bleach at women wearing sheitels walking thru mea shearim and ruining their clothes!
pinching ladies on the buses…..
all of this is lshem shomayim……..
why dont they all get jobs and be busy educating their children to be working and productive instead of harassing fellow jews!
jo jo
What lesson ? is it that as soon as they are arrested they will be released then followed by a parade ?
What a bunch of brave men – in a group they can beat up girls and women and damage property.
Oy but serve in Tzahal they can’t find the time to break away from learning!
Let’s see what they can do in a uniform against an armed PA/Hamas terrorists.
Bet they run like a bunch of “girlie-men”.
Its not a victory its a shanda.
Diane
Since i don’t know pidyon shvuyim is can you please exlain it ?
ITS UNBELEIEVABLE THAT THERE ARE SUCH IDIOTS ROAMING THE STREETS LOOKING SO “CHASSIDISH” ON THE OUTSIDE AND ARE AS ROTTEN AS CAN BE!!! THE WILL YET SUFFER ON THE OTHER WORLD!!!!!
These “people” (and I use the term with extreme generosity) are not heroes and it is just as disgusting to make a parade for them as for the gays. What a chillul Hashem. Throwing acid at women and setting shops on fire will not make even one neshomah “frimmer” but it will cause many people to hate so-called “Haredim.”
anon 3:28
Instead of writing curse language etc. Write that elul is around the corner and they should be zoiche to do tshuvah with all of us and mushi’ach should come.
What a Chilul Hashem. Each one of them should have their payos cut off. What a sick buch of individuals with lots of time on their hands. The entire orginization should BURN. There are so many problems in the world, This is not what we need fanatics, If they would stop looking
woman & start looking 2 themselves,maybe we could have a better world. Let them take a Gemara & learn instead of sitting in streets looking for woman to spray bleach on. They are no better than the taliban.
CRAZY CRAZY REBELLIOUS WHO DESERVE TO BE IN JAIL. THROW AWAY THE KEY
Had they known that the photographer is going to post pictures on the internet….
He would have been carried on their shoulders….. In a coffin!
Can someone here please explain to me the following.
Chachumim tell us, BEN ARBUIM LBINA, one achieves some sense of Logic/Balance at 40. Let alone the Yetzer Hora is pretty vibrant and vigorous for many years after that.
How IN THE WORLD DOES THE BADATZ, SORRY TO SAY, stick up for young guys like the ones in the pictures; some even don’t have a chasimas zuken BUCHIRIM as them representing TZNIUS IN MEA SHEURIM!
THEIR YETZER RUNS AT 100 MPH + and they are supposodely the ones responsible for KEDUSHA VTAHARA IN YERUSHULAYIM?
How patethic! PURIM IN AUGUST!
WHAT A KIDDUH HASHEM LETS ALL GIVE OUR HANDS TO THE MISHMERES HATZNIUS
Mishmeres HaCHITZPA writes
How IN THE WORLD DOES THE BADATZ,
sorry but the badats are all big lomdim they know alot more then you and they know what to do. should you have question as why they do things you have the full right to give them a call and ask before you condemm them in public. and remember elul is around the corner so watch what you writs.
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To 1:41
I agree that what they are doing is not leshem shamayim, but I would not go so far as to wish their death. Even if we do not not agree with their tactics, we still have to have ahavas yisroel.
Our job is to say Tehillim for their neshamos, so they will eventually realize that their actions are counterproductive, I’YH.
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Last time i check the chumash its says someone who enters your home (BO B~machteres then your allowed to kill him YES he should DIE.
Are you holier then a n open pasuk in chumash?
Sad when justice gives in to violent demos.
Simple Chumash;
Look in Rashi;
only if he comes with intent to kill you, (not harm you), can you kill him!
im not going to say i told you so
Have you seen the recent Kol Kore’s here in our midst; HOW MANY OF THOSE RABBUNIM CLAIMED NOT TO HAVE SIGNED. Both by Lipa & NR.
In these things, POLITICS carries the day! NO LOMDES OR PIKCHES is necessary. Young babies like those in the pictures have absolutely NO business dealing with such issues. THEY NEED SHOMRIM !
Even if these men are guilty of hooliginism, it does not justify the angry, hateful responses here. Do you guys have temper tantrums every time you hear about a thug commiting a crime? Do you get so worked up by the white collar crime, so much more prevalant among frum yidden? This is merely a good excuse for anti-charedim to vent against the ehrliche yidden. The thuggery is regretable, the hateful response is outragous and loathsome.
Very Sad – What these hooligans do, the Yidden that justify or support them, the rabbeim that sit by silently, and all the publicity they get.
earl- so a reaction to these people is worse then what theyre doing? its not only what theyre doing but theyre also destroying the name of frum yidden everywhere-how many non frum jews are going to look at that and say -gee i want to be frum too?????
so bikitzur all your doing is absolving these thugs of wrongdoing and laying the blame on people who speak out against it-does that make any sense to your twisted mind???????
Hey anonymous folks…not comparing Veisfish to Kuntar with the offenses, rather, the crowd ‘celebrating’ looks to me like the Arabs who celebrate when Quassams kill jews. Rather sickening, I think. These folks are like Arabs with payos. They have no Torah within. very sad.
Last time i check the chumash its says someone who enters your home (BO B~machteres then your allowed to kill him YES he should DIE.
Are you holier then a n open pasuk in chumash?
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hey you obviusly didint even bother to learn rashi al asar that says that the guy you KNOW FORSURE is coming to KILL YOU.. ass oppsed to harrass you/ask for his money back/anything else..
please dont show the world whata am hooretz you are
btw you are talking about YERUSHOLAIM al pi kabala its YIRA SHOLEIM.. this is not NYC
that is why the standard there is much higher all you commentators here, get a clue..
do you really want jerusalem the HOLY city to become like NYC?
Gentlemen and lADIES,
I simply cannot understand how any of u can condone a physical attack on other jews who disagree. The question is like with AGri- are these boys guilty of attacking people?
they should be tried and incarcerated together with any party who they were conspritorial with intheir actions. My relative became a baal tshuva and is a excellent world class radiologist.
He now learns a half day and reads X-rays fom the US via transport on the internet for a number of hospitals including chassidic jews in NY. He has a flat 32 inch screen on the wall to read these medical hotos. Because his window was open, he was beat up by a bunch of well-meaning chareidee jews who put him in the hospital thinking he was watching TV (which he does nothave). There is a big difference from protesting boycotts to physically touching people. Where are the rabbis of orthodoxy or your so-called Rabbi eliyashuv or grand Rabbi Kaminetzky or the Belzer Rabbis or the Rabbis of GUR? Our Rabbis at least try a Hechsher tzedek despite many of our constituents not keeping kosher and at least they mean well even if they might be mistaken. But the silence of your so- called Gedolei Hatorah to unite and forbid physical attacks and harassment of non-religous people should be condemned.. This is not there country alone andf now we have your boys from bnei brak lighting fires in a forest in violation of the law fighting with the rangers while their rabbi said zilch. This is whatleads to the hatred of non-orthodox to their orthodox . The fear of imposition in a dmocratic society. nothing else
good to see u both back and kicin- Unfortunately,
I reluctantly have to agree with u both.
As extremely chassidic as I am-thes guys should be tried, and dealt the severest penalty allowed under the law. Period not debate with u guys on this! I am embarrassed to be a chassidisher yid with such shekotzim regardless if it was leshem shomayim.
There are methods to protest and take legal actions in a democratic secular society we live. The Aguda, chasiddic rebbes and roshei Yeshiva are also a disgrace who worry about concerts and Lipa but not for the disregard of law and the physical attacks on people all over Israel and especialy Beit Shemesh. A shanda! They should issue a kol Koreh against this sort of behavior and other illegal acts . I can’t believe we are on the same side 1000%. Period!
dont misunderstand me -i take no pleasure in seeing frum jews acting like this and im not gloating but frum jews cant honestly think theyre better then us with people like this and all the frum people out there who cheat and dont show consideration for other people …….
in fact i can safely say most non frum people show more consideration for others and are more menchlicht then most frum people
although 9:21 sounds empathetic and probably is what frum jews SHOULD be like but unfortunately probably disagree with him because he realizes ultra orthodoxy is far from perfect
Ahavis achim, my brothers – we need more.
their days are numbered either god will get them or … will people will pay for protection and when they pay they will get it and when they get it this vaad will pay with their life one after another untill they learn they now brought the devil into their midst
look Says:
Last time i check the chumash its says someone who enters your home (BO B~machteres then your allowed to kill him YES he should DIE.
Are you holier then a n open pasuk in chumash?
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hey you obviusly didint even bother to learn rashi al asar that says that the guy you KNOW FORSURE is coming to KILL YOU.. ass oppsed to harrass you/ask for his money back/anything else..
please dont show the world whata am hooretz you are
08-27-2008 – 8:29 PM
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Let me understand this .
If a total stranger enters your home are you gonna ask him if he plans on killing you or are you gonna run to your rabbi to ask him what to do or will u just shoot him ? DONT ANSWER PLEASE. what a nit wit whAT U ARE
As long they get moral, economic & political support these do gooders will continue to terrorize anyone and anything they don’t like!
HAYUDAIM YEDEI EISEV says our Tora Hakdoishe! there’s NO exceptions to this, EXCEPT FOR >>>>>>>>>>>> NONE WHATSOEVER!
The same Badatz who felt it important to ISSUE a letter of PROTEST agains BELZ, why? cause Elish Englander gives them MONEY the same Badatz supports these TERRORISTS for simple POLITICS OF POWER!
If belz would giver ME or any of YOU the same rough treatment as Englander got on the TZION, do you think for ONE moment the BADATZ would issue the same LETTER OF PROTEST?
I do not condone any hooliginism. I merely feel that they should just be treated as regular thugs. If someone erupts with rightous anger towards all charedim, it is because he is venting and letting off the hatred he feels towards all charedim.
When I served in the US Army, we were taught not to do anything that would bring shame to our uniform.
When Yidden “wear the uniform” of the frum, such as payos, hats and other clothing unique identifiers of their group, they should be especially aware of what impression their actions leave with others.
As for more strongly condemning those among us who commit aveiros, the reason is that we “expect more from our family,” just as we hold our children to a higher standard.
If you wish death on another Yid, you’re just as bad as the guy you’re cursing.
TO LOL:
I DONT CALL SUCH PEOPLE YIDDEN