Mo Gruber
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Mo Gruber
@MoCGruber
Accountant in professional life, political and sports enthusiast in private life.
Spring Valley, New York Katılım Temmuz 2014
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@YossiGestetner And somehow never speak up against the slaughter of muslins in Sudan, Syria and China
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@Briskerov I’ve heard those comparisons since 2016. Never understood how there could be a difference of opinion whether a king is מלך חכם or טיפש until he came along.
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The Trump/Achashverosh Parallel is just as good as the Tucker/Haman one
Zalmy Fogelman@thevillagerabbi
"There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom.
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“Did Tyler Oliveira Just Prove Why Living by Traditional Jewish Values Is Great for America?”
Many right-wing commentators complain about the way America has changed:
•America is too violent
•America is too secular
•America is too divorced (both literally and from its roots)
So it’s striking how many of those same people watched Tyler Goebbels Oliveira’s video on Kiryas Joel—a Jewish Orthodox village founded by the Satmar Hasidic community—and immediately cried foul.
The supposed injustice?
That many residents of Kiryas Joel are poor, have large families, and therefore receive government assistance.
But here’s the thing: T-Bag Oliveira didn’t expose fraud.
He didn’t expose corruption.
He didn’t expose crime (the way Nick Shirley actually did in Minnesota).
What T-Bag exposed is that Jews like having children.
He went so far as to label them “Jewish welfare queens,” a phrase that reveals far more about his ignorance than about Kiryas Joel… and in the process, he accidentally highlighted how closely this community aligns with the very traditional American values the right claims to champion.
The derogatory term “welfare queen” emerged to describe single mothers who were accused of having children out of wedlock in order to live indefinitely off government aid; often following divorce or abandonment, with no husband present.
That moral accusation hinges on family breakdown.
But in Kiryas Joel?
The percentage of divorced adults is under 0.5%.
Not the divorce rate.
The percentage of people who are divorced AT ALL.
That means the actual annual divorce rate is even lower.
Ask yourself honestly:
Does that sound like a community that rejects the sanctity of marriage?
Or one that takes it more seriously than almost anywhere else in America?
Yes, families in Kiryas Joel average very large household sizes (often cited around 6–7 children).
And yes, the community disproportionately adopts children, including children with Down syndrome.
For all the self-described “pro-lifers” who rail against abortion and condemn the near-eugenic elimination of people with Down syndrome in the modern West — is that not exactly the reverence for life you claim to praise?
This is not selective birthing.
This is choosing life… even when it’s hard.
Then there’s crime… or more accurately, the lack of it.
Kiryas Joel has exceptionally low internal crime, with most serious incidents involving external actors targeting Jews, not community members harming one another.
Children walk the streets freely.
The elderly do the same.
Emergency services, security, and aid organizations are largely volunteer-run, drawn from the community itself.
High trust.
High cohesion.
High responsibility.
Is that not exactly the kind of society the Founding Fathers would have admired.
Tyler Oliveira didn’t expose fraud.
He didn’t expose abuse.
He exposed something far more uncomfortable for modern cynics:
That traditional Jewish values work.
Don’t steal.
Don’t commit adultery.
Don’t commit violence.
Do be responsible for your neighbors.
Do treat life as sacred.
Do raise families.
Those aren’t foreign values.
They’re American values — forged in a Judeo-Christian moral framework that Judaism helped build.
So What Does It Mean to Be an American?
It’s not a look.
It’s not skin color.
It’s not even religion.
To be an American is to:
•Be strong in your values
•Love your family
•Use freedom without harming others
Everything else is window dressing.
So thank you, Tyler Oliveira.
In trying to shame Kiryas Joel, you accidentally proved that if more communities lived like this one, America would be safer, more loving, and more full of life.
You didn’t expose Jewish dysfunction.
You exposed Jewish values as American values.
Tyler Oliveira@tyleraloevera
Inside the New York Town Invaded by Welfare-Addicted Jews...
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@VaadHaBadchanim Well according to Rashi she was an innocent pastries seller
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Great #DafYomiCoincidence!
Daf today discusses Rachav during the first week of Shovevim!
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@AmitSegal @RepMikeLawler @shilofreid Very far cry from "US congressman dictating policy decisions to Bibi" or "Rep. Lawler telling Bibi to drop draft-related sanctions altogether"
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@AmitSegal @RepMikeLawler @shilofreid Dear Amit,
Avid fan of your Israeli coverage—this headline is grossly misleading. Rep. Lawler (heavily Jewish district) is diplomatically advocating for dual US/Israeli citizens—many his constituents or related—to return to US, like Israel's exemption for its citizens abroad.
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Congressman @RepMikeLawler is intervening in domestic Israeli politics on behalf of the ultra-Orthodox. That’s according to @shilofreid, who revealed this morning that back in September, the congressman for New York’s 17th District asked Bibi to ensure that Haredi Israelis who refuse to join the IDF are not affected by the proposed travel ban — so long as they have American passports.
How, you may be wondering, did Lawler get the idea to intervene in such an internal Israeli issue? For that he can thank ultra-Orthodox MK Meir Porush, who, Freid writes, “maintains connections with Hasidic communities in the United States and is mobilizing them to support the Haredi struggle against military conscription in Israel.”
Ok, but what was Lawler’s actual argument? “American citizens, like all citizens, deserve the full protection afforded by their nationality,” he wrote to the prime minister. I, for one, happen to believe that Israelis deserve an army with enough soldiers to protect them. But then again, who needs a secure Jewish state if Haredi men with American passports can’t visit New York?
Nevertheless, I must admit that I agree with the Haredim on this one — at least partially. “Just as Netanyahu could rely on Trump in the face of legal persecution against him,” Porush’s associates said, “we can rely on Americans regarding the legal persecution of Torah students.”
On X, I believe they’d call this FAFO (F*** Around, Find Out). Bibi got what he wanted with the president’s intervention into his legal troubles. But, as I’ve consistently warned, calling for American involvement in domestic Israeli politics is unnecessary, dangerous, and the beginning of a slippery slope.
And while Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox may be utilizing it for their benefit today, they won’t be in power forever, and neither will Donald Trump. One day, in the not too distant future, when a center-left government comes to power in Jerusalem and on Capitol Hill, they may well regret their attempts to drag American lawmakers into such divisive internal Israeli issues.


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@stetsondoggett Well only verizon is priority data. Dark Star isn’t terrible at $24.82, but for magenta flavored data, you’ll need Fi.
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@megynkelly @SethDillon Is it finally hitting home that it's not really all about Israel, as the groypers masquerading as America first activitists who are "just having questions" are claiming? You're bending over backwards to accommodate them and people are taking notice.
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@paulrevolution_ @Benignuman @tedcruz As a Tucker hater I agree with BH as well, it’s important to stick to the bad he’s actually spewing. He’s telling his audience NOT to call people Nazis, because if they truly are Nazis, they WOULD need to be killed as the great Bonhoeffer wanted to do.
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@Benignuman @tedcruz I would love to hear the proper interpretation.
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@YossiGoldstein8 Can’t agree more. He’s one of the smartest and most energetic and capable politicians I’ve seen recently, his awful policies notwithstanding.
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I'll say it.
It's time for republicans to realize why Mamdani is so popular and stop underestimating their opponent.
The guy is charismatic, he is a genius, and he puts in the work.
He is not just campaigning all day every day, but he is also putting in the work to understand different communities across NYC.
Many people seem to forget a simple thing: voters don't just vote for policies, they vote for someone relatable, likable, empathetic, and who has a big smile.
Zorahn Mamdani won the last debate with his smile, calm demeanor, and wit
Can he run the City? He will definitely run the city into the ground if he implements even just half of his policies.
At this point, it's over. I hope that by the next election, we will have someone like Mike Lawler to run against him, and not someone as hated as Cuomo.
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@IAPolls2022 Interesting observation, but it’s somewhat misleading to cite the top-line 2020 results without taking into account the 5.6% who voted for left wing independents on their first ballot and ranked Sara Gideon second.
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@stetsondoggett Interesting, I was actually able to add a new line to an existing account using only esim
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