31 Oct SPEAK YOUR VUES WITH THE VUES MASTER

WHO GUARDS WHOM?
Dear Vues Master:
A teacher in a Chareidi school got a special call
this week from an emotional woman who said she
does not observe the Torah and mitzvot who lives in
Jerusalem and shared this with him: I went into the
neighborhood grocery store to buy bread and milk
and among the products and the shelves I see a little
boy looking for something, I looked at him and saw
a small but noticeable “tag” on his shirt. I am a very
curious woman by nature, I continue to ask the boy
what is this “tag”? The sweet boy answers with a shy
face and a special purity, this is my soldier!!! what???
What do you mean? I asked… This is the soldier I am
responsible for, that he will return home to his mother
at the end of the war… How are you responsible for
him? I continued… and the boy answered: I pray for
him all day long, study for him, read Shma in bed for
him and so through the prayers he will return home.
Because he guards me near Gaza, I guard him from
Jerusalem.
AE
Vues Master’s Note: Wow! Heartwarming. May
we all be zocheh to bring back all the soldiers
beshalom!

REMEMBERING SHEYA MENDLOWITZ
Z”L
List of Sheya Mendlowitz Contributions to Jewish
Music: (in no particular order)
1- The concept of a Jewish music store (Mostly
Music)
2- Avraham Fried
3- Large venued concerts such as HASC
4- Themed concerts- see HASC, OHEL, Big Event,
etc
5- The Chevra album concept and later as a Chevra
Pesach Experience
6- The sampler- putting single track CDs to an album
by store registers to drive cd sales (first seen with
Shwekeys Shomati) which brought huge numbers to
the shomati album as a pioneer
7- Compositions
8- The Piamentas and their using a secular popular

song (Land Down Under) to reach more Jews
(groundbreaker at the time)
9- The Lipa Experience
10- Shlomo Simcha debut. I remember that Yad
Eliyahu Zcihron Menachem concert #2 show
11- Intro to Daagah Minayin- replicating MBDs
voice 8x
12- Matisyahu mainstreamed at HASC- the idea that
reaching more Jews with different genres is possible
13- Singing with a life sized version of Shlomo
Carlebach after he was no longer alive- vegas started
to do this 10 years later with performers
14- Hall of fame in Jewish music
15- Bringing chazans into large shows when it was
thought that was no longer correct and only exclusive
to cantorial shows
16- And of course, many, many productions of albums
with all of its innovative styles
A big Sheya fan, Adam M.
Vues Master’s Note: Shea is going to be missed by a
lot of people!!

UNSAFE ANTI SEMITIC COLLEGE
CAMPUSES
Dear Vues Master:
Throughout the country college campuses seem to
be the most unsafe place for a Jewish person. What
happened last week at Cooper Union and at Columbia
University should never happen! Presidents of all the
colleges should have security to stop this insanity. I
have no idea how any yid can go to a secular college
anymore. We are living in scary times! It’s time for us
all to move to Eretz Yisrael.
Vues Master’s Note: Ein lanu al mi lehishaein ela al
avinu shebashamayim!

DOUBLE STANDARD
Dear Vues Master:
Have you ever heard the phrase “Double
standard?” You do realize that applying one
standard to one group and another standard to
a second group is immoral and hypocritical,
right? So kindly explain to me how Hamas
fires tens of thousands of rockets aimed at
maximizing civilian death and not a word
from the global community. But when Israel,
who goes way out of its way to minimize
civilian deaths, attacks terrorists who are
using innocent people as their shields, and
innocents die, the world loses its sh_t?
“Israel shouldn’t stoop to their level.” “Israel
shouldn’t behave like Hamas.” You do
realize that is the literal definition of a double
standard, right? Did anyone tell England not
to attack Germany because they shouldn’t
stoop to the Nazi’s level? This is a war and in
war, innocents tragically die but if you don’t
say a word when Hamas targets innocents,
then go ahead and keep your mouth shut
when Hamas causes innocent deaths in Gaza
by using people to shield themselves from
Israel’s retaliation. Otherwise, you can open
the dictionary, search for the word hypocrite,
and expect to see your face. Don’t be a
hypocrite. Stop with the double standard.
Stand with Israel and support the IDF for
fighting a war so you won’t have to.
Hillel Fuld
Vues Master’s Note: The answer is from
Mount Sinai we became the hated Nation as
all other Nations are jealous! We are kept to
a different standard!

JEWS GET A GUN!
Dear Vues Master:
The Jews of Germany never thought
Germans would kill them. The Jews of
The Tree of Life Synagogue never thought
an American would kill them The Jews of
the South never thought the Palestinians of
Gaza would break through the fence and kill
them. They were all wrong. Antisemites,
whether they are Arabs, white supremacist,
or any other hater, they are coming to kill the
Jews. They might not be able to kill all of us
but they’re going to kill some of us. 1,400
of us were just killed because they were
Jews. Whether you live in Israel, America,
Europe or some small city in Russia you’ve
never heard of before, they’re coming to kill
you, me, all of us. Those with the means to
protect themselves will hopefully survive
the next attack, those without the means
to protect themselves have little chance of
being spared. Many people that had a gun in
their homes in the South were able to protect
themselves when Palestinian terrorists came
to their town and house. Those without a
gun had little chance. Guns are muktzeh
on Shabbat. I’ve carried a gun for the past
five years on Shabbat, both within the Eruv
and outside of it. In the back of my mind I
doubted whether I was doing the right thing

by carrying my gun on Shabbat. After the
“Simchat Torah Massacre” I am no longer
in doubt. Ask yourself this question, if
antisemites came into your home and you
have a gun, you can save yourself and your
family, if you don’t have a gun your last
thoughts will be regretting not having bought
a gun for whatever excuse you’re telling
yourself now for not buying a gun. Don’t be
irresponsible. Buy a gun, take lessons and be
ready for when the Jew haters come for you.
RUP
Vues Master’s Note: Ein lanu al mi lehishaein
ela al avinu shebashamayim!

GREAT STORY
Dear Vues Master:
A wonderful and inspiring story. Alex
Cornish from Issaquah WA is currently
studying at Hadar H’Torah Yeshiva in New
York. Because of the war currently raging
in Israel, he could not return to Mayont in
Jerusalem. Last Friday, he went on Mivtziem
in a park near Crown Heights. He went
around among people and suggested that
they put on tefillin. In the park there is an
area where people sit and play on chess
tables. He approached everyone who looked
Jewish and he offered them to put on tefillin.
One of those who was playing chess pointed
him in the direction of someone who was
old, and told him he is Jewish and will
soon be 102 years old. He suggested that he
would put on Tefillin. Alex approached the
Jew, and asked him Are you Jewish, the Jew
answered that he used to be a Jew, but he
is no longer Jewish. Alex continued to ask
him if he wanted to put on a tefillin. The old
Jew did not respond. So Alex suggested he
play chess (Alex is a chess champion) The
old Jew agreed to the game, and Alex added
on the condition that if he (Alex) wins, he
will agree to put on tefillin with him. The
Jew did not respond. And so the game began,
and within ten minutes Alex beat him. The
Jew rolled up his sleeve and showed him the
number from Auschwitz. He told him that
the last time he saw his father was when they
were playing chess. Since then he doesn’t
want to remember or know anything about
Judaism. And he added, in two weeks I will
be celebrating my 102nd birthday. But the
deal must be respected. The elderly Jew
rolled up his sleeves, and for the first time
in his life he put on a tefillin… Bar Mitzvah
at the age of almost 102… In an emotional
phone call, Alex told how he connected the
Parsha of the week, Avraham Avinu was
circumcised at the age of 99 – and this Jew is
doing a Bar Mitzvah at the age of 102.
GM
Vues Master’s Note: What an inspiration!

LEGAL
Dear Vues Master:
As terrorists butcher Jews in their homes
in Israel, their sympathizers in the United

Students and abroad are targeting Jewish
students on college campuses. Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP), WOL Palestine,
and similarly aligned student groups —
which exist to foment Jew-hatred and
demonize Jewish students — have been
rallying across the country as the Israeli
people are under siege. Many of these
rallies are not merely aimed at conveying
solidarity with Palestinians victimized by
the Hamas regime; rather, they publicly and
aggressively celebrate Hamas’s barbaric
attacks and justify the murder of Jewish
and Israeli people. Responses from campus
officials have generally been tepid at best,
leaving Jewish students feeling unsupported
and under threat. The Lawfare Project’s
lawyers are currently assisting numerous
Jewish student activists in the United States
and Canada who are experiencing hostile
environments on campus. We are helping
them navigate the situations and ensuring
their civil rights are being protected.
Moreover, we have mobilized our network
of over 600 lawyers and dozens of law
firms to provide pro bono legal services,
and we are preparing to file lawsuits against
campuses across the country. If legal action
is not yet available based on the facts, we
are working with the students to request
specific forms of support from campus
officials. If the officials fail to provide these
forms of support or effective alternatives,
we are documenting these acts to pave the
way for potential legal action, which we will
pursue aggressively. Additionally, at schools
where student groups like SJP have engaged
in particularly egregious conduct, we are
demanding a range of actions, including that
their recognition as student organizations
be revoked and they be deemed ineligible
to receive institutional funding, that these
groups and their members be disciplined
according to applicable school policies,
and that robust bias training specifically
aimed at protecting Jewish identity be
implemented. How can you help? (1) If you
know any students whose rights may have
been violated, please have them contact us
as soon as possible by submitting this form
on our website or emailing us at About@
TheLawfareProject.org. (2) If you know
attorneys who may be interested in working
with us, please have them join our legal
network via this form. (3) Please consider
making a tax-deductible donation to support
the legal battle. You can donate online or
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information. Beyond confronting this current
crisis, The Lawfare Project continues to work
tirelessly on its pending legal actions in the
United States and worldwide to enforce the
rights of Jews facing discrimination in the

workplace, ensuring antisemitic hate crimes
are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law, and much more. Now more than ever,
we need your support. In solidarity,
Brooke Goldstein
Executive Director, The Lawfare Project
Vues Master’s Note: We need the laws in the
country changed to stop these chants the
same way it is forbidden to scream FIRE in
a movie theater!

CARLEBACH
Dear Vues Master:
I heard from Sheya Mendlowitz zl that R’
Shlomo Carelbach came backstage during
a concert intermission, and Sheya asked
him why he sang KADDISH? He answered
bluntly and cynically; “ It was a Toteh Olam!
It was a dead crowd!
RMS
Vues Master’s Note: It’s sad now that we are
missing both of them!

REB SHEYA
Dear Vues Master:
Reb Sheya Z”L The nicest compliment that
I ever got was from Joe Leifer Travellers
Choice, who was a close friend of Sheya
Mendlowitz. He told me that Sheya would
always wait till I would dance in the concert
aisles with my dancing lights! Sheya felt that
now the concert would be lebedig. Wow!
Here’s someone who has all the pressure on
his head producing a concert, and took out
the time to compliment me. I was on cloud
9! I grew up with Sheya sharing the same
friends from 14th ave Pirchei and Camp
Torah Vodaath. He ran the choir in camp and
joined Shmuel Borger with Amudei Sheish .
He discovered Avraham Fried, and produced
“No Jew Would Be Left Behind” which we
played all day in camp. He would promote
it by the camp bus stop, giving it or selling
it to campers going up to camp. He also
produced MBD, especially the double album
Daaga Minayin, all sold out. I couldn’t find
a copy now in any music store. Whatever he
touched turned to gold. Whenever I saw his
signature on an album or concert, you knew it
was going to be professional & entertaining.
He also discovered Shlomo Simcha, another
superstar. He worked together with Yisroel
Lamm, Abi Rottenberg, Mona Rosenblum,
Yossi Green, Yerachmiel Begun, Yaakov
Shwekey, Shloime Dachs, Srully Wulliger,
Nachum Segal, Moish Laufer, Baruch
Levine, Dedi, R’ Shlomo Carelbach, R’
Baruch Chait, Bennie Friedman, and many
many more singers, composers in Hasc,
and other musical concerts and albums. He
brought the concert level up a notch with A
Time For Music at Lincoln Center- Carnegie
Hall. Sheya, I can’t thank you enough for
giving me the spotlight on the HASC video
when I led the Olam dancing in front of the
stage. That was my taste of Olam Haba and
Olam Hazeh. Now go up to Shomayim and

ask Hashem to build the Bayis Shlishi so
you will be able to produce the choir of
the Leviim singing the Shirah when there’s
Techiyas Hameisim and Bias Moshiach.
And when Eliyahu Hanavi finally comes,
perhaps we’ll dance together with colorful
lights to my composition “Hineh Anochi
Sholeach Lachem es Eliyahu Hanavi on
Yossi Rose and Mesorah Album Meir & Avi
Sherman. Yehi Zichro Baruch! We’ll miss
you Sheya!
RMS
Vues Master’s Note: Yes, Sheya was the
nicest guy with a good word and a funny
quip for everybody!

BOUNDARY
Dear Vues Master:
P ויחי Parshas (חתם סופר על התורה The
245) quotes the כוזרי that לבא לעתיד) in the
very near future) מצרים will be part of Eretz
Yisrael. At the הבתרים בין ברית, Hashem
promised the land to Avraham Avinu
extending the border all the way to מצרים
the & תרגום ירושלמי The נהר
translate תרגום המיוחס לר‘ יונתן בן עוזיאל
15- Breishis (מנהר מצרים – מנילוס מצרים
with agree others & אבן עזרא,רש“י (18
the תרגום. The border of Eretz Yisrael will
extend all the way to the Nile.(a) If Eretz
Yisrael will border the entire length of
מצרים נהר/ Nile (4000 miles) then Uganda
will also be part of Eretz Yisrael. Perhaps
Herzel wasn’t so wrong for wanting to
settle the State of Israel in Uganda.:) The
ז“רדב and other Rishonim argue and claim
מצרים נהר can’t be the Nile. (They seem
to hold מצרים נהר is possibly The Gulf of
Suez) (b)
MF
Vues Master’s Note: We can’t wait for Eretz
Yisroel to expand and we will all be a part
of it!:

CARLEBACH
Dear Vues Master:
One of Jewish music’s greatest stars was, of
course, Shlomo Carlebach. It is known what
a great impact he had on the Jewish music
world. What I don’t understand though,
is why he is a Reba. Why is he the Gadol
Hador? Yes, he had beautiful songs. Great
songs. I love them. There was never and
probably never will be any like him. But
we gotta know where to draw the line. He
wasn’t the most holy person. With all the
things that he did?? And we consider him to
be this big Rebbe? On his yahrzeit we make
big ceremonies by his grave? For what?! He
is known as “the Reba Reb Shlomo”. Why?
I think there are a lot of other people that
we can call them Rebas’ before Carlebach.
Especially with all the things he would do.
I don’t know from where he decided that
it was permissible. Yes, he had great songs
and stories that we all love. Yes, continue to

use them in davening, just don’t make a big
deal out of it. Use your brains. He wasn’t
the greatest that ever lived.
JMN
Vues Master’s Note: Why does it bother
you? He did teshuva Some people consider
him their Rebbe. To each his own.

NY TIMES HEADLINES
Dear Vues Master:
All of the lines below are recent headlines
from the garbage newspaper New York
Times- UN passes motion for Israel to
follow Hamas playbook to bomb and attack
civilians UN passed resolution demanding
Israel rape, mutilate, kill innocent men
women and children All countries agree
to build and locate military installations
in civilian areas, focusing on hospitals UN
criticizes Israel for not taking Palestinian
civilian hostages UN encourages all
repressed groups to attack and kill innocent
civilians Israel encouraged to surround their
troops with Palestinian civilians as they
move into Gaza American Indians want
their land back and indiscriminately attack
oppressive neighbors all around the US.
Canadian indigenous groups encouraged
to do the same. Mass murders and heinous
acts widely reported. US and Canadian
governments urged to show restraint
GW
Vues Master’s Note: Wait, it was just posted
on their website and then removed!

POGROMISTS
Dear Vues Master:
The Hamas tactic of using social media
to publicize videos of its atrocities against
Jews may seem to be a 21st century
innovation. But using cameras to boast
about genocide actually has a precedent, in
the Holocaust. Hamas and its supporters
have utilized various social media
platforms to show off scenes of October
7 pogromists kidnapping, torturing, and
sexually assaulting their Israeli victims.
In some cases, they have uploaded these
gruesome “trophy videos” to the social
media accounts of the victims, in order to
intensify the suffering of their distraught
families. Some of it was livestreamed
on Facebook. The technology is new,
but the mindset isn’t. The Nazis, too,
were deeply proud of their mass murder
of Jews. But they were concerned that
photographs of the atrocities might be used
as evidence in war crimes trials later. For
some reason, the pogromists from Gaza do
not seem to be worried about that. The
Nazis also thought that if evidence of
their genocide reached the Free World, the
Allies would intervene to rescue the Jews.
They needn’t have been concerned about
that. For those reasons, German officials
prohibited individuals from photographing
the killings. Only officially-assigned

photographers were given access to mass
killings, so that photos would not reach
outside eyes. But some leaked out anyway.
The reason the June 1941 massacre of Jews
in German-occupied Kovno, Lithuania, is
so well-documented is that German soldiers
watching a mob torture and murder Jews
took photographs for their own amusement.
Some of the photos were duplicated and
shared with other soldiers. Members of
Reserve Police Battalion 101, which played
a major role in the mass murder process in
Poland, often photographed themselves in
the act. Sometimes, as the scholar Daniel
Goldhagen points out, they used Jews “as
playthings for their own satisfaction,” by
posing for photos showing them cutting
off the beards of Jews, or compelling them
to don prayer shawls and cower on the
ground. “The photos capture [German]
men who look tranquil and happy, and
others show them in poses of pride and
joy as they undertake their dealings with
their Jewish victims,” Goldhagen writes.
Both the photos of the massacre process
and the posed humiliations “represented
the absolute mastery of the photographed
German over the Jew,” Goldhagen notes.
It was all “done in front of the camera’s
recording eye, ensuring that the victim’s
shame would be displayed to people for
years to come….This simple act conveyed
unequivocally—to the German, to the Jew,
to all who watched, contemporaneously
or later—the virtually limitless power
of the [German] over his victim.” The
photos taken by members of Reserve Police
Battalion 101 were “generously shared
among the entire battalion,” Goldhagen
points out. He cites a battalion member who
recalled: “They were laid out hanging on
the wall and anyone, as he pleased, could
order copies of them.” For Goldhagen,
the entire spectacle was reminiscent of
“travelers purchasing postcards or asking
for duplicates of friends’ snapshots that
have captured vistas and scenes from an
enjoyable and memorable trip.” Death
camp commandants delighted in assembling
photo albums that chronicled their
experiences. An album compiled by the
SS photographic department in Auschwitz
included scenes of Jewish men, women and
children being selected for death and lining
up for the gas chambers, alongside photos
of smiling Nazis and their families. Fifteen
such albums were created for the camp’s
high-ranking officers. Prisoners who
worked in the photo lab in the Mauthausen
camp were ordered to create a similar
album. One of the prisoners clandestinely
made an extra copy and smuggled it out of
Mauthausen to document what was taking
place. The album was later used in the war
crimes trial of camp commander Ernst
Kaltenbrunner—exactly what the Nazis
feared would be done with photos of their

war against the Jews. Kaltenbrunner was
convicted at Nuremberg and hanged. An
album belonging to Treblinka commandant
Kurt Franz bore the title “The Good
Old Days.” Franz was convicted of war
crimes in 1965, but sentenced only to
life imprisonment. He was released after
serving twenty-eight years. Among the
documents recently released by the Israeli
authorities is a recording of a telephone call
between a Hamas pogromist and his parents.
The murderer tells them excitedly: “Father,
look at your phone, I sent you pictures! I
killed ten Jews, Dad! I’m in a kibbutz,
the blood is on my hands, Father! Mom,
I killed ten Jews! Ten Jews with my own
hands!” The mother responds, “May Allah
save you, my hero.” In the background is
the voice of a Jewish woman, desperately
crying in pain just before she will become
another war trophy in the pogromist’s
souvenir collection—perhaps as part of an
album of images that he, too, will title “The
Good Old Days.”
Rafael Madeoff
Vues Master’s Note: Hashem Yishmor!

ARABS
Dear Vues Master:
The בחיי‘ר writes, (Breishis 21:14)
“Avraham Avinu saw with his nevuaah that
his children the Bnei Yisraael will suffer
in the future from Yishmaelim. No other
nation will hate the Bnei Yisrael as much
as the Yishmaelim, He therefore treated
his son as an enemy and supplied him with
bread & water, the way it says in
“משלי כ“ה אם רעב שונאך האכילהו לחם
ואם צמא השקהו מים
Even though the Nazis killed six million
Yidden, the Yishmaelim hate us even more.
The Nazis weren’t moser nefesh to kill
Yidden whereas the Yishmaelim commit
suicide and allow their own people to get
killed as long as they can ו“ח kill Yidden.
Perhaps this is what Avraham asked from
Hashem
would לו ישמעאל יחיה ” הלואי ישמעאל”
care & yearn life for his own people and
for himself. An enemy who is a Kamikaze
fighter is the most dangerous hateful enemy
one can have.
MF
Vues Master’s Note: May all these Arab
terrorists die a Misa Meshuna!