One Caveat About My New Book: I’m Not Glorifying The Real-Life Unseemliness In It

In a recent Facebook comment, I replied to someone:

“70 and 20 (as unseemly as it is) is nowhere close to any child being exploited by any adult. But go on 🙄: Julia Fosko was exploited at 18; Rosalia “Rosina” Korsch beginning at 14 at most (Samuel Munka was born in about 1848, and Rosina had Paul in about 1876); and Anna Munka about 12-14 (Michael Nagy Trudnak was about 24-26. 26-to 27-year-old Paul married about-20-year-old Anna Blasicsak, and Michael’s parents would’ve been horrified that their son married a girl instead of a woman. Michael’s own parents, the common-law spouses Maria Nagy and Mihály Trudnyak, were 31 and 28 when their oldest child, Aranka, was born; and Mária married off Aranka to an adult when Aranka was an adult. If Mihály Trudnyak were around in New Jersey in 1900-1902, Michael Trudnak would not have touched Anna Munka until she was at least 20.). 

“There were also cases in my family that were borderline (e.g., One of my great-grandfather’s cousins was 19 when she married one of my great-granduncles, whom was 27. What didn’t help is that she gave her age as 21 on the marriage license, even though she wasn’t turning 20 until the February after her wedding. Almost as unhelpful: on her own marriage-license application, my great-grandmother who was the sister of that great-granduncle claimed to be 21 when she was still 20.). 

“I’ve heard the excuses. I’ve seen the excuses. I’ve also seen the exceptions, and some of the victimizers’ parents were among the exceptions (Mihály Trudnyak brought his 15-year-old son to Pennsylvania in 1891, and so that the younger Mihály could avoid conscription. Michael Trudnak was in New Jersey near or with Anna Munka’s siblings Paul and Helen by 1900. In 1900, Michael and Anna lived under the name “Poornak”. In 1902, both Paul Munka and Anna Munka married.). 

“Either way that you (literally and figuratively) do the math, “Back in the day” is a poor and an unpleasant excuse, especially when quite a few people bucked certain trends (Two more examples: the older Mihály’s parents were married in, respectively, their 40s and 20s. Mária’s parents were born in 1822 and 1821; and while their own parents should’ve waited to marry them off, they at least married a teenager to a teenager. Mária’s oldest sibling was born in 1838.).”

The real-life inspiration for part of the book is as you thought and worse. The 1900 Census discusses an Anna and a Michael “Poornak”; and Michael was born “illegitimate” to Mária Nagy and Mihály Trudnyak. I get that both of my Trudnak great-great-grandparents needed to hide being Jewish, and that the Nagy-Trudnyak themselves cohabitated outside of legally-recognized marriage. In no universe does that justify a 20s-year-old man exploiting a child, especially when he had examples of adults whom married (including common-law married) other adults. Anna Blasicsak, by the way, was born in 1882 (per her gravestone).

 

In Memory of A Daughter Whom Still Holds A Family of Her Father Together

As Reilly and I go “night nights”, I think about the woman on the left (my uncle’s right side). The photo was taken on July 22, 1989, just before her 76th secular birthday. My parents’ marriage didn’t last, perhaps to her relief in some ways. Had I known that, that would’ve helped. What I do know is that she did what multiple women before her (even her in-law mother, with whom she had differences) did; and what’s lasted well beyond my parents’ marriage and divorce (and also beyond my dad’s second marriage and divorce) is that even though our family is still recovering from a lot of brokenness, she held our family together as much as she could do so.

That she held our family together still makes an impact, especially as I’m writing just past what was her father’s 150th secular birthday (June 7, 2026). The more that I think about it, the more that I realize that her impact was part of why I got into genealogy, for instance. I knew that I wanted to find out if I’m Jewish, and I could’ve been content with knowing that her husband was. Her part of my family history therefore contributed to my wanting to find out what I didn’t even expect that I would find out. I thus came to additionally find out, for example, that she treated me and her grandson with disabilities as human beings and as family members because she knew what being mistreated both within and outside of the family was. She knew the heart of a stranger because our ancestors had been strangers in all of the world, including in Ancient Egypt and in 19th-Century-CE Budapest. She felt the generational effects and the personal effects that the generational effects affected. 

She wasn’t a daughter of “Michael and Anna Monka Trudnak”, but of hidden Jews Mihály Nagy Trudnyak (the only and “illegitimate” son of Mihály Trudnyak and Mária Nagy) and Anna Munková (the surviving daughter Anna of Sámuel and Rosalia Korschová Munka). Only later would “Michael Trudnak” be Anna’s husband and their daughter’s father, as Mihály‘s own parents refused to marry in any church even as the Austrohungarian authorities kept persecuting and pestering them; whereas  Anna would pass for her previously-baptized sister, and be sent from Újpest to join Budapest-born Mihály Trudnyak in the United States. After a few older daughters came before her, the “daughter of ‘Michael and Anna Monka Trudnak’” would perfectly acceptably get the name of her younger paternal aunt (Mária Nagy, b. 1842 CE) as well as a maternal grandaunt (Mária Korschová Saxová, b. in the 1860s CE). Both were presumably alive by then, although neither name honoree (as far as I know) received the honor of meeting her namesake (Given, as I later found out, that Jews in the Hungarys originally used minhag Sefardi, Michael and Anna presented no conflict in their  use of a secular name for “Miriam”. As they were also Ashkenazi Jewish, they also named her for both of his grandmothers—the maternal one of whom certainly did not get the honor of meeting her name honoree, as she died before her daughter Aloysia Nagy Libich died in 1901.). 

Bu the way, I don’t exactly know what she’d think of Reilly Rosalita being partially a namesake of her maternal grandmother and of her sister Rosalie (Rosalia Munková’s double name honoree as well as Rosalia Duday Nagy’s name honoree). I can only hope that she’d understand and take it in good humor (which she probably would) when she’d be told that Reilly helps to hold me together on an individual level. 

יהי הזיכרון של מרים בת מיכאל וחנה לברכה.

 

All That the Trump Administration Is Doing Is Streamlining Religious Discrimination (Originally a Facebook Comment)

If the Trump Administration really cared about streamlined categorizations as well as the Constitution, they could’ve easily implemented a system of categorization such as: 

1) Judaism, Traditional/Non-Messianic:

    a) Rabbinic

        i) Orthodox

        ii) Conservative/Masorti

        iii) Reform/Liberal/Progressive

        iv) Other 

     b) Karaite

     c) Samaritan 

     d) Other

2) Judaism, Messianic / Christianity 

     (Scores of movements or denominations)

3) Islam

    a) Shi’a/Twelve Fold

    b) Sunni

    c) Sufi

    d) Other

4) Native American/Indigenous American

    (Scores of religions, movements, and denominations)

5) Indigenous Religions Other Than Indigenous American

   (Scores of religions, movements, and denominations—e.g., Slavic Neopaganism, African Traditional Religions, Māori Traditional Religion)

6) Asian and Indian Religions

    a) Confucianism 

    b) Buddhism

    c) Hinduism 

    d) Sikhism

    e) Taoism

    f) Jainism

    g) Other

7) New Age/Wiccan/Classified Outside Of Traditional Indigenous Religions and Neopaganism

   (e.g., Jedi and New Age Mysticism)

8) Agnosticism, Deism, or Ethical Culturalism (Adlerism [in reference to Felix Adler])

9) No particular religious or philosophical affiliation or classification 

10) Atheist/Secularist/Antireligious

11) Other

12) Unknown or Undisclosed (Contact next of kin if possible.). 

Forms, dogtags, etc. could easily read, e.g., “1aiii [Reform Jewish]”, “2…[e.g., 2a for Messianic Judaism/Jewish Christianity as a movement or denomination]”, “3c [Sufi Islam]”, and “4…[e.g., 4aiii For Western Cherokee/Navajo Nation/Four States/Diné Indigenous Religion].”

    

“For These Things, I Weep”—And My Blood Could Boil!

If blood could literally boil due to anger, my blood would be boiling. My paternal grandfather’s youngest paternal uncle, my particularly-tragically- and agonizingly-murdered great-granduncle Bernard Stanley (בנימין ‏שמריה הלוי בן יהודה ואסנת) Czarnecki never got a real chance to live. Born in 1920 to hidden-Jewish parents, Great-Granduncle Bernie received an ignominious “Thanks” from a government which already caused his parents and his brother Tony to keep hiding being Jewish: a “botched shrapnel-removal operation” due to Schizophrenia and PTSD in a 25-year-old WW2 veteran (How could that possibility have even occurred to Granduncle Tony, born in 1946 and being just under 17.5 years old on the secular calendar when his uncle died? Nobody told him, “Uncle Bernie had a lobotomy.” The death certificate began to show me for the first time what really happened, although Granduncle Tony got the answer from Great-Granduncle Bernie himself when he saw him again in 2014.).

The (per the 1950 Census) “mentally ill” Bernie Czarnecki would go on to die in the Lebanon, Pennsylvania Veteran’s Home and Hospital due to a coronary occlusion due to Schizophrenia on July 16, 1963. 

“‘It’s a shame what Jankie and Susi did to Bernie.’”

No kidding! Those two kapos exploited him into signing off his Social Security benefits to them when the benefits were supposed to go to their widowed sister, Alexandria Julia (who changed her secular and Hebrew names to honor her father after both of her parents died). Great-Grandaunt Alexandria took care of her brother even after her husband died, and she had a paternally-orphaned son whom she raised alone. Of course, from what I gather, nobody at the funeral home mentioned that the sister of a veteran whom shouldered much of the burden for everybody was exploited, too. 

At least Great-Granduncle Bernie is with his sisters (including אסנת יהודית בת יהודה הלוי ואסנת שרה בת יוסף הכהן, ז״ל) as well as nephews, nieces, and other relatives whom did appreciate his sacrifice, and away from Antisemites and bogdim. He’s also away from having to live every day dying a long and slow death because of what was done to him.

My Translation Of “There Is A Redeemer” (With Slight Changes)

יש גואל—

ישוע הבן של עצמו אל, 

שה אלוהים האהוב, המשיח,

והאחד הקודש.

תודה רבה, אבי

לתרה לנו את בנך יחיד

והשאיר רוחך עד

העבודה בכדור הארץ זאת שלמה.

ישוע גואלי,

הדבר שהוא מרומם למעלה השם,  

שה אלוהים האהוב, המשיח,

ותקווה שהרגה לחוטאים.

ֶ

תודה רבה, אבי

לתרה לנו את בנך יחיד

והשאיר רוחך עד

העבודה בכדור הארץ זאת שלמה.

כשאני אעומד בכבוד,

אראה את פניימו, 

ושם לנצח אעבדה למֶלכִי 

  במקום הקודש הזה.

תודה רבה, אבי

לתרה לנו את בנך יחיד

והשאיר רוחך עד

העבודה בכדור הארץ זאת שלמה.

There is a Redeemer— Jesus, God’s own Son, Precious Lamb of God, Messiah, Holy One.

Thank you, O my Father, 

For giving us your only Son And leaving your Spirit ‘til

Jesus, my Redeemer, the Word that is exalted above the name, the beloved Lamb of God, the Messiah, and the hope that was slain for sinners. Thank you, O my Father, 

For giving us your only Son And leaving your Spirit ‘til

The work on Earth is done.

When I stand in glory, I will see his face;

And there I’ll serve my King forever In that holy place.

[Melody Steiner Green wrote the original lyrics. I used Google, Milon, and Pe’alim to check my translation, look up words that I did not remember, and get the correct words to keep the context of the original lyrics.]

More Reflection On My Family And the Russian Part of the Holocaust

I still think about the fact that at least three of my cousins (including Witold Andrulewicz) risked their lives at Augustów knowing that they would probably never get the recognition that they deserved. Just a few years before, another one of our relatives (Aleksander the son of Jerzy and Wiktoria Staskielówna Andrulewicz of Bosse) was betrayed by maternal cousins (whom changed their name to “Shackel”) in Chicago (They knew exactly why he tried to hide that we’re Jewish, and their outing of him got him persecuted by the Chicago Railroad Board. “44–JEW” clearly read in the “Payroll” section of his employment card, and his employment was connected directly to his naturalization).

Witold and the two other cousins who I have in mind (Franciszek and Janina) died during the Augustów “Roundup” (which was really the mass kidnapping and murder by the Soviets at Augustów), and Franciszek and Janina (both from Bosse) lost their own parents during the German Part of the Holocaust. Franciszek and Janina also followed in the footsteps of their parents, Wincenty and Marianna Sawicka Andrulewicz, both of whom were part of the Resistance whom fought against the Nazis. Part of the reason that I get angry about Holocaust denial regarding the Russian part of the Holocaust is because the Stalinists were as intent on Antisemitic ethnocide as the Nazis were; and entire lines of my family were unjustly and unfairly cut off (Neither Franciszek nor Janina had the opportunity to have families of their own, and Witold was murdered right where he grew up in Posejanka.)

While Poland also possesses flaws regarding its treatment of the Jewish community in Poland, none of Poland’s flaws stopped my cousins from risking their lives to stop the Stalinists from continuing the Russian part of the Holocaust—and my cousins were acutely aware that Poles as well as fellow Jews of ours were under the same threat from the Stalinists that the Nazis perpetrated.  As one of our other cousins (Binyamin “Bolesław” Andrulewicz) put it in a letter to one of his brothers, “the Russian front” was as “horrible [of a] storm” as “Germany[, which, as he sardonically put it,] hosted [them] well for five years, so that [they] could not walk”.

Bolesław and his side of the family needed to hide on their own farm (in Orlinek) just to avoid the Nazis, and five of our other relatives are known to have died fighting against both the Germans and the Russians—and Bolesław made a point to distinguish us from “Poles” and “the Poles” without blaming them for the Antisemitism that Germany and Russia brought into פולין (“פה לין”), which means “here, dwell” in English.

“Not Just Katyn”, And Also Not Just Germany: One Victim Of the Holocaust In The Soviet Union

 

This is a picture of** my cousin Witold Andrulewicz (ה״י״ד). He was murdered with at least two other cousins, Franciszek and Janina (ה״י״ד) being among them (Both already lost their parents, ה״י״ד, at the hands of the Nazis, ימ״ש). All three were hidden Jews; all three were b’nei Aharon; and all three knew that they would probably never be recognized as Jews or Holocaust victims because they were hidden Jews and the Nazis didn’t murder them. They attempted to fight off the Stalinists (ימ״ש) at Augustów, anyway. As far as I know, they weren’t even thinking about the “You don’t count, anyway, because the Nazis didn’t murder you” drek when they attempted to stop the Holocaust in the Soviet Union from continuing in Soviet-occupied Poland.

According to multiple sources, Witold was born to Yosef (Jozef) Andrulewicz and his wife (Bronisława Pilecka Andrulewiczówa*) on April 25, 1925 and baptized on September 21, 1925 (which wasn’t the first or the last time that an Andrulewicz would have the apparent mortal sin of having a baptism delayed, either. If you understand that, you understand the date discrepancy.). He was born in the Jewish Exile in Posejanka, Giby, Poland; and he was resident there for his 20 short years. He was murdered during the Antisemitic and Polonophobic Pogrom at Augustów (“the Augustów Roundup”) between July 5, 1945 and July 22, 1945.

Shortly thereafter, the Soviet equivalent of what the Nazis named “The Final Solution” began; and it did not end until Stalin died in 1953, with the gulag closing in 1960 and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union ending only then. Witold and the rest of the Resistance at Augustów nonetheless prevented the Soviets from perpetrating more evil than they already perpetrated, and what would’ve been perpetrated had the  Resistance at Augustów failed to push back the Soviets can only be imagined. 

*I don’t know whether Bronisława was Jewish. I’d need to look into that, though I think that she probably was because most of us made sure to stick with fellow Jews (whether hidden or open). The Andrulewiczes also previously left hints of being kohanim. e.g., Cyprian Andrulewicz did not leave his married daughter an inheritance, although he did leave his minor children and his widow inheritances. Per Torah, b’nei Levi altogether are not to have permanent inheritances—notwithstanding that the Exile (and the New Covenant) changed this a little bit.

**I did the best that I could to restore Witold’s photo using Ancestry’s photo tools.

 

Because Facebook Wouldn’t Let Me Automatically Post This To Instagram And Threads…

 

This is (with a “Restore” filter from Ancestry) part of a scan of a print out of pictures that I received long ago. I believe that the unlabeled boy is (by secular name, as with the rest) George Nagy Trudnak (ז״ל. He died when he was under a year old.). John would eventually go on to marry Lillie Czarnecki, and the other boys had their own histories as well. Their dad, the maternal grandfather of my paternal grandfather, was Mihály Nagy, born “illegitimate” to hidden Jews Mihály Trudnyák (son of Jakab and Mária Krempaszka Trudnyák) and Mária Nagy (daughter of József Lázár and Mária Pretzelmayer Nagy). His two sisters were also “illegitimate”, with the older one being born at 39 Dohány Street. Even though his parents had to move off of Dohány Street, they made sure to never move out of Erzsébetváros. 

Eventually, teenaged Mihály Nagy had to move, take his father’s name, and immigrate with his father to the United States. Freedom was a joke in Budapest, and conscription was a very-real threat for especially Jewish boys (regardless of whether they were openly Jewish, and regardless of what they individually believed). His sisters never were able to take their father’s name, and the Dohány-born one (Aranka Zsuzsanna) married the equally-“illegitimate” Rezső Antal Pardutz (son of Anna Pardutz and Jakab Fuchs). I don’t know what happened to either sister after 1904, although I’m sure that everyone would’ve  been thrilled to see Viktor Orbán gone. I know that they didn’t like the Habsburgs, as my great-grandmother celebrated her birthday on July 28th, the secular day on which World War I began in the year after she was born (Her mother was similarly oppressed to her father, being the Lőcse-born and orphaned preteen Anna Munka—daughter of Sámuel and Rosalia Korsch Munka. She had to pass as a sister whom had been forcibly baptized before and died, and she emigrated from Újpest to immigrate to join Mihály Trudnyák in 1899.).

Great-Grandma (Mary Nagy Trudnak) herself was born on July 29, 1913, and she would marry Lillie’s cousin and John’s in-law cousin Tony (whom himself made the conscious decision to not celebrate his birthday on October 23rd, as he was born exactly on the secular date of the Kaniv Pogrom). One of my regrets is that I never thought to ask Great-Grandma any questions while she was alive. I just hope that she would be thrilled to know that her relatives whom had to remain in Budapest and vicinity, and anywhere else in Europe are never again having to live under the oppression of Viktor Orbán and/or the effects thereof.

לילה טוב, ויהי הונגריה להיות חופשית. 

To the NEPA Lady Whom Dismissed Relevant News As Not Local

 I was hoping that I wouldn’t see your comment like yours. I was almost pleasantly surprised. Then I had to sit and explain to you that just over 62 years ago, a Jewish man by the name of Tony Czarnecki succumbed to PTSD and Depression in Sugar Notch and couldn’t stop himself from driving up to Falls River in Exeter, Wyoming. Just over a year before that, I should mention, his brother Bernie (a native of Sugar Notch) died of a Schizophrenia-related coronary occlusion in LebCo. Before then, living on Freed Street, he was demonized as “mentally ill”; and the censustaker in 1950 couldn’t be bothered to not act like a Nazi or a Stalinist, because he was quick to define and demonize Great-Granduncle Bernie by his mental illness. 

Going back even a few more years, Great-Granddad (a hidden Jew who at least knew that something was wrong when his mother had a baby that was not his father’s baby) watched as his Schizophrenia- and PTSD-afflicted mother gave out due to trauma-exacerbated Bright’s Disease (in fact on April 6th 90 years ago this year). Meanwhile, his family was divided enough between parents, as his father was described as “an alcoholic“ and his sister Alexandria (as we are Ashkenazi and Sefardi Jewish) changed her middle name from “Alice” (for Sarah) to “Julia” (for my father’s paternal grandfather, Yehudah “Julian” Zernetzky or Czerniecki) after her mother (my paternal grandfather’s paternal grandmother, Asenat Sarah “Aleksandra Alicja/Ellen” Czerniecki née Andrulewicz) died (and Great-Great-Granddad was deceased as of 1922). 

When Great-Granddad’s son Jack moved from Sugar Notch and Pennsylvania altogether, generational and direct PTSD and Depression did not just go away. In fact, before he died and in one of our phone calls, he said to me that he was fine “if I can get out of bed in the morning…”. It didn’t click with me until after I had my own Depression flareup in which I could not get out of bed that I inherited Depression from him, and it in fact did not skip a generation. Elsewhere, an Andrulewicz cousin was denied naturalization several times and besmirched is having bad character. Based on what I know, he in fact had Schizophrenia.

Therefore, news from Arizona about a man whom killed his parents during a psychosis episode is in fact local to NEPA—especially when my paternal grandfather’s paternal family is enough proof that mental illness doesn’t care who you are or where you are. 

Schelley BERSIN Dardashti The “Sefardi” Fraud And Self-Hating-Ashkenazi Bully?

Unless she was a Talalay by blood, yes. Her maiden name was Rachelle Bersin (I kept remembering “Bresin” for some reason). She was a self-hating Ashkenazi Jews whom bullied fellow Jews, especially if we came from hidden and/or mixed-blooded families and did not fit her stereotypes. Sources include and are not limited to: 

1) Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.

License for Rachelle Bersin and Albert Dardashti from 1969

2) "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: High School of Music and Art; Year: 1963

Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Rachelle Bersin. The person in the picture obviously bears quite resemblance to Shelley if she herself was not Shelley.

3) Ancestry.com. U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Find a Grave. Find a Grave®. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

Albert Dardashti. Shelley is linked as his spouse. Assuming that this is her, she materially lied about her birthdate unless her parents reported her as three years old when she in fact was not so on the 1950 census in New York. If she lied about her birthdate, she would’ve been in fact been born in 1947 or Late 1946, and only slightly older than her husband—which she apparently made a big deal.

4)  Source Citation

The National Archives at Atlanta; Atlanta, Ga; ARC Title: Petitions For Naturalization, Compiled 1913-1991; NAI Number: 578688; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Record Group Number: 21

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1847-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Shelley was one of the naturalization witnesses, and Albert consistently gave his birthdate is January 21, 1948.

May (assuming that Shelley was not a Talalay in any way) Shelley‘s memory be for a blessing as an example of how not to be.

Some Of the “Heads Up” Content, Including the Videos

 1) At the last minute, the couple schlepped me off onto an Uber. Granted they paid for it, though they made essentially made clear that they never really wanted to help me. By the way, Uber has been known for sexual harassment. Apparently, the couple thought that their stuff was more important than I was.  One of the couple would give me a false prophecy. Needlessly to say, I have never again taken their so-called “class on Biblical dating and marriage”, unlike she prophesied, and I am also still single and waiting for God to send me the right man for me. I will (God willing) be revealing certain things within the coming weeks that do not deserve protection; and like all cults do, the MacArthurian “church” used confidentiality to try to protect themselves. e.g., The man even said that he understood the “passport bros“ phenomenon—a movement which dehumanizes, fetishizes, and exploits particularly women and girls from regions such as Southeast Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

2) As I have explained before, the lead “pastor” of the “church” openly identifies himself as “Gabriel Powell” and “G. Gabriel Powell” on the websites of “The Master’s Seminary”/“Grace To You”. As a public figure and as a clergy member, he absolutely deserves no anonymity. 

Heads Up Re Some Content In the Next Few Weeks (Preview/Examples and Original Video)

Examples of what I was discussing in the video: 

 1) My learners permit is currently suspended in Maryland, and I’m still trying to fight to get it reinstated partly because a judge actually took the side of a sexual harasser. My mistake was ever letting the comment of the harasser go until I realized that his comment in a student-instructor context is always sexual harassment. I also thought about anyone else whom either has already been or will be sexually harassed by that same driving instructor in the future. I would’ve been guilty if I didn’t speak up.

2) Especially in light of the Epstein files, I’m warning about one segment of society whom enabled people like Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump: the wolves in sheep’s clothing like the thankfully-belated John MacArthur. One of my own mistakes was joining one of John MacArthur’s dens of wolves for a time, and trying to separate the individual “church” from John MacArthur to give the “church” the benefit of the doubt.  The church subsequently supported predators like Steve Lawson, and they support known child abuser David Gray (See the judgement on the appeal of “The People [of California] v. David Grant Gray”).

PS To “Pastor” Gabriel “Gabe” Powell: If you ever actually took the time to read Scripture instead of just go off of what John MacArthur said, you would know that a country being under a righteous woman like Deborah in fact means that it is being saved. To compare Kamala Harris to Deborah alone is grossly misogynistic and Antisemitic; and I didn’t even think about the layer of Antisemitism when you were implying that Kamala Harris being the president would be a sign of the United States is under judgment. 

You clearly stated that a woman leading a country is a sign of God’s judgment: and by the way, you made those comments in a sermon before Donald Trump illegally attempted to repeal the Johnson Amendment. Just be aware that if someone has the courage to prosecute you, you could be up on serious charges—even if you will not be prosecuted while Donald Trump is the POTUS. 

Also by the way, I don’t need “all the facts” to know that abusing children in the most-despicable way possible is wrong (and I’ve realized that when I raised my concerns is when your “church“ began to hate me more openly). 

David Gray should be rotting in Hell with Jeffrey Epstein and John MacArthur, especially because he abused his own adopted kids—and potentially even adopted them just to abuse them, which is an occurrence that many adoptees will cite as to why they wish they’d never been born. That is, many adoptees won’t even go so far as to wish the Dave been aborted because they were adopted just have been abused. Based on my reading of the case involving David Gray, it’s pretty clear that David Gray adopted his children just to abuse them.

PPS “Pastor Gabe” is actually a public figure, and styled himself as “G. Gabriel Powell” while he was working directly for “The Master’s Seminary”, per their own website.  I am not talking about a clergy member whom is a private citizen or otherwise a person whom is protected from certain criticism.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026, Many Holocaust Victims and Survivors Are Continually Denied Recognition

 Way more than ~200,000 Holocaust survivors are living right now; and almost a century after Stalin (ימ״ש) began to perpetrate the First Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Putin (ימ״ש) began to perpetrate the Second Holocaust when he invaded Ukraine in full to commit ethnocidal crimes especially against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the rest of Ukraine’s Jewish community. Meanwhile, the last-known Holocaust victim whom was oppressed in Islamist-occupied Israel, Ran Gvili, was brought home today. For all that we know, there were probably people whom Hamas murdered and took hostage, and whom were never reported murdered or taken hostage. After all, in Islamist Iran, how many people (especially Jewish people) have been murdered, lawlessly imprisoned, etc. is only estimated. 

“Never Again” unfortunately became “What we hoped would never again occur” on February 24, 2022; and we owe recognition to all victims and survivors of the First Holocaust (c. 1922-1994) and the Second Holocaust (the Russian part of which began on February 24, 2022, and the Islamist part which began on October 7, 2023). As far as I know, Volodymyr Zelenskyy never thought that he himself would become a Holocaust survivor (and his parents were not previously given recognition as Holocaust survivors despite that Stalin, ימ״ש, intended to commit full-scale Antisemitic ethnocide). As far as I know, Shlomo Mansour (ז״ל וה״י״ד) never thought that he would become a victim of the Second Holocaust. As far as everyone should know and be concerned, every Jew from Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Shlomo Mansour to every other Jew who has endured acts of full-scale ethnocide against them, whether or not they survived, deserves recognition. 

PS Primo Levi, e.g., succumbed to PTSD. Multiple survivors of October 7th also succumbed to PTSD. One of my Andrulewicz cousins who needed to move around five times to avoid both the Nazis and the Soviets collapsed in 1970 at about the age of 58 years old, and being a hidden Jew and a kohen who happened to be a Catholic priest did not spare him. “Never Again” includes never again denying any part of the First Holocaust or the Second Holocaust.

My Response To David Wilber: Karaites and Other Non-Rabbinic Groups Reject the Talmud Overall For A Reason

 What do you make of this claim from a former rosh yeshiva Yaron Yadan, whom was Charedi and became chiloni? Yaron Yadan was a rosh yeshiva whom taught the Talmud for years, and eventually left the Charedi community altogether because he could no longer teach the following. On his website, he claims the following (the language which I have sanitized here because of how vile Yaron Yadan claims that the original language is):

“It is written in the Mishnah: “A girl of three years and a day…[redacted here because what’s in the passage is vile and not appropriate for Facebook]. If she is less than that (less than three years and a day), it is as one who sticks a finger into an eye” (Niddah 5:4). The sages of the Talmud explain the Mishnah’s simile “as one who sticks a finger into an eye”: Just as an eye, if poked by a finger…so is it when a man [harms a child]. This is why it is not called [crime of the most-egregious nature] (Niddah 45a).

“Thus did Maimonides rule ([specific citation; original language from Maimonides downplays the harm]): One who [harms] a girl younger than three is exempt from punishment, even if he [committed a crime against] his own daughter, and one who [harms] a boy of under nine is exempt from punishment, even if she [committed a crime against] her own son, and [a man or a woman who commits a crime againsr] a minor boy under the age of nine is exempt from the punishment written in the Torah…[per] (Leviticus 20:13).

“From what we have brought above, you can learn that Chazal and the religious arbiters treated [certain crimes against] a minor as a meaningless act. They completely ignore the psychological and emotional impact upon a boy or a girl who have undergone an irreversible trauma which can warp their entire lives.”

This is obviously not light stuff, and there is a reason that Karaites and other Non-Rabbinic groups reject the Talmud.