BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

The late but still great & unmatchable Rodney Dangerfield had a punchline that went "he was a quiet man." The patter went that this was the line you always heard about some psycho who shot up his home or hacked his neighbors. The one thing I learned when doing comedy - the truth, well said - it always the biggest laugh. Today, Rodney was right again. Man attacks passerby with machete; throws Molotov cocktails at police car A lunatic who randomly attacked a man with a machete fought off cops by hurling Molotov cocktails at them from the roof of his Queens home Tuesday, police said. Felipe Velasquez, 21, began the rampage that set a police car ablaze because "I had a bad day," he told police. Velasquez erupted about 5:30 p.m. when he whacked Bernard Hoffman, 45, in the head with the machete in front of the Richmond Hill home he shares with his uncle, police said. Using an umbrella, Hoffman, who was visiting the neighborhood, outdueled his assailant, disarming hi...

MORE MISOGYNY & STUPIDITY AGAINST ABUSE VICTIMS I read these and think, what were these rabbis thinking? Were they thinking at all? Obviously not. Just look at the results. This must stop. NOW. Rabbinic Rally Against Alleged Get Abuse By Shlomo Greenwald Jewish Press In what was billed as a rabbinic rally, about 40 people staged a protest outside the Brooklyn home of Rabbi Shlomo Blumenkrantz, whom the protesters claim has been enabling men to withhold gets from their wives and use extortion against them, as well as helping to obtain heter meah rabbanim for the men, all of these in ways that run counter to halacha. (Heter meah rabbanim is permission, based on the agreement of 100 rabbis, for a man to marry a second wife, circumventing the longstanding decree against a man marrying more than one wife.) At the rally were Rabbi Hershel Schachter, a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University´s rabbinical affiliate RIETS, Rabbi Kenneth Auman, rabbi of the Young Israel of Flatbush and a past ...

TORAH CLASSES IN QUEENS, NY ON BeMIDBAR (Numbers) with Rabbi Dovid Schwartz "The fourth book of the Torah, BeMidbar (Numbers) tells of the trials and tribulations of the "Desert Generation." Despite being the legendary "Generation of Perception" that witness the many miracles of the parting of the Sea of Reeds and the Revelation at Sinai, these were the Jews who never made it to the Promised Land. These Biblical narratives reveal both the heights to which the human spirit is capable of soaring and the depths of which it may plummet." CLASSES ON WEDNESDAYS (except where noted) Time: 8pm (door opens at 7:45pm) Place: The Jewish Heritage Center 68-29 Main Street, Flushing, New York CLASSES: JULY 18 - MIRIAM: PROPHET OR BUSYBODY? JULY 25 - I SPY: PUTTING YOUR MOUTH WHERE YOUR EYES SHOULD BE JULY 31 (Tuesday) - ALL LEVITES ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL AUGUST 8 - OF PERSUASION AND COERCION: MILKING WATER FROM THE ROCK Classes are FREE with RSVP (or $5 at the doo...

TOO CLOSE TO HOME! My kids play here... well, not any more! Blocks from my home... Pray for the family & our children. Conflicting playground tales in slay BY WARREN WOODBERRY JR. and ROBERT F. MOORE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Prosecutors were investigating the death of a 13-year-old boy who suffered a fractured skull on a Queens playground last week. Guarionex Montas, an honor student at Public School 127 in East Elmhurst, was at the school's playground with at least two other boys, including his 15-year-old brother, when he cracked his skull Friday. The injured teen went home about 5 p.m., complained of stomach pains and started bleeding from the mouth a few hours later. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where doctors found the fracture and a brain injury. The Queens boy died Saturday. His death was ruled a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the head. Witnesses, including the victim's brother, Jose Cepeda, told relatives and police wildly conflicting accounts ...