JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 18 chareidi girls returning to the US from the Ukraine were detained at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and claimed to have suffered antisemitic mistreatment for no reason. The girls were told to pay a huge fine of $3000 after it was claimed that they had brought food onto their plane in violation of COVID-19 guidelines.
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After a concerted effort by senators and Jewish activists in the US including Rabbi Yisrael Kahane of Monsey and Heidi Moses, daughter of former MK Menachem Moses, the girls will fly to Antwerp in time for Shabbos. Senators Chuck Schumer and Gregory Meeks were also involved in the negotiations which enabled the girls to leave.
The Chabad local emissary in Amsterdam brought kosher food to the girls during their long sojourn at the airport.
The girls claimed that during the flight the attendants singled them out for not wearing their masks even though other passengers who weren’t wearing masks were not similarly criticized. They were also punished for eating and for every other infringement. They were not allowed to order a new flight and were essentially held hostage because they did not have the requisite $3000 to pay the fine until the intervention of activists enabled them to leave.
Thank you goes to Chabad for being there for Yidden wherever they are.
Didn’t know you can’t bring food on planes.
I flew United many times during covid when they didn’t supply kosher food. No one said a thing. Very strange. Which airline was this?
They are actually in Antwerp Belgium for shabbos.
Stay home, there is plenty of good places to go here in NY. Hashem hears our תפילות from anywhere. It’s time to stop this non sense
Sounds like it was the Delta varient…
I’ve flown internationally during Covid and haven’t heard of designated eating times. The airline I was on put out snacks to be taken and eaten at any time throughout the flight. However, wearing of masks is required by all airlines throughout the flight at all other times. If the girls did not wear their masks, as required, then they deserve censuring, as do any others who did the same. They may have very well been singled out due to anti antisemitism but I doubt had they acted appropriately (i.e following the rules of the airline/give no reason to others to look down at us) they’d not have gotten into this situation. As yidden we have no excuse to act inappropriately just because others weren’t either. We’re always being scrutinized and must be at our best behavior. We need to act modestly and not conceited, not be too loud, not disturb others, clean up after ourselves, be considerate and respectful. There are those within our community who have yet to understand that just because we do something within the privacy of our community doesn’t make it acceptable when among others. Traveling and vacationing are opportunities for us to show those who have little real life exposure to bnai Torah that we are worthy of being the am hanivchar.
Yes it is a federal offense and a felony to disobey orders from flight attendees…
Face it,
The girls admit being hilarious, having fun and misbehaving with utter Chutzpa and Chillul Hashem, stop crying antisemitism falsely, it’s firing back.
Which airline did they travel on? I hope they didn’t pay alot for such treatment.
Zev Brenner had a whole segment on this an hour ago. As usual, though, it provided little useful information.
Even so, people might wish to find a recording of it, maybe from his website or YouTube or somewhere.
Does anyone know why the girls were in Ukraine?
This is ridiculous. Too much of this Jew picking on all these airlines. Monsey Tours needs to buy a few planes.
Anti-semitism is alive and well…nfortunately.
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