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Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Chasdei Hashem! Meir Ettinger BH to be released on June 1. Poem by Meir Ettinger translated.... Please Note how This News is Reported by Arutz7 and JTA

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Administrative detainee Meir Ettinger to be freed in 2 weeks.  

As reported in ARUTZ7: 

Right-wing Jewish activist imprisoned for months without charge won't have his detention extended, attorney announces.
 

Op-Ed: An administrative detainee's poem: The Hilltop Youth

Meir Ettinger wrote this poem in Hebrew, with literary merit and flowing rhymes. Recently sent to Arutz Sheva, the English translation preserves the ideas, so readers can get to know the writer's feelings, but is not on the level of the Hebrew. 



As reported on JTA

Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger to be released from detention | Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Further comments: 

Shin Bet has been under tremendous flack for keeping Meir Ettinger and hilltop youth under administrative detention with nothing on them other than forced confessions.  

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt"l sent a telegram on behalf of Rabbi Meir Kahane ob"m  hy"d (Meir Ettinger's grandfather), asking the Israeli gov't to release Rabbi Kahane from Administrative detention. 

Exclusive to Jewish Press November 21 to November 27 1980:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjNm5WX2tGbkNPclVUOV9WZlhPenpXczhSaTdV/view?usp=sharing

In 1980 the Posek and Gadol Hador, HaRav Moshe Feinstein, took an active stand to free Rabbi Meir Kahane from Administrative Detention based on humanitarian concerns as well as concerns for his physical danger.  



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Wednesday, April 06, 2016

More about Meir Ettinger in the News: Yeshiva World News, Vosiznaias, Jewish Press, Arutz7

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Lichvod HaRav Aharon Feldman, and Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky shlita  

I wanted to share with you some relevant articles to this case that has been in the news in Yeshiva World, Vosiznaias,  the Jewish Press and Israel National News.  As you can see this matter is very upsetting to many Jews from a wide spectrum ranging from Chareidi religious, Dati Leumi Religious and secular. This is just a drop in the bucket.....

Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah can be a real game changer in how this is played out in securing Meir Ettinger's release from prison. Thank you for listening!  

Kol Tuv. 

Mrs. Robin Ticker


From Yeshiva World News

Meir Ettinger's Wife: "We Will Not Hold the Bris in Prison"
(Monday, April 4th, 2016 02:30 AM)

On Sunday 24 Adar-II, Beersheva District Court Judge Yisrael Pablo Axelrod rejected the petition filed by Honenu Attorney Sima Kochav on behalf of administrative detainee Meir Ettinger and ruled that he will not be permitted to participate in his son's brit milah, which is expected to take place the following day. The Prison Service suggested that the bris be held at the prison. Moriya Ettinger, the wife of administrative detainee Meir Ettinger, stated that the family refuses to hold the bris milah at the prison, which the court conditions on the presence of only 15 people who will undergo meticulous searches by the Prison Service before entering the prison.

Other members of Ettinger's family stated that they will refuse to hold the bris milah in prison in a manner in which not all of Ettinger's siblings and close relatives will be able to participate in the event, and whoever will able to participate will be forced to undergo humiliating searches.

"This is not our private matter, but rather the struggle for Jewish identity, for the differentiation between friend and foe, and between Israel and the nations. With G-d's help, the bris milah will take place at its time, with Meir. I call on everyone to support our struggle," said Moriya Ettinger. Ettinger also wrote a letter to the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef' requesting their assistance in obtaining furlough for her husband to participate in their son's bris milah.

Supreme Court Justice Mani Mazuz scheduled a deliberation for 9:00 A.M. today, Monday 25 Adar-II at the Supreme Court Building for the urgent appeal filed by Honenu Attorney Adi Kedar on the matter of Meir Ettinger's participation in his son's bris milah. A panel of three judges will rule on the appeal.

Friends of the family were shocked that Justice Mazuz scheduled the deliberation for Monday, the day of the bris and not Sunday when it was requested.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

From Vosizneias


Jerusalem - Supreme Court Rules: Meir Ettinger Will Not Attend Son's Brit

Jerusalem - The Supreme Court rejected Monday afternoon the appeal of Jewish radical activist Meir Ettinger for leave from prison to attend his son's brit mila. 
The ceremony, for Ettinger's first son, was scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon. 
Ettinger has been detained on administrative detention for close to eight months, having been arrested in August following the infamous Duma terrorist arson in which most of a Palestinian family was burned to death. 
He has however not been charged with any crime. 

A panel of three Supreme Court justices rejected Ettinger's appeal to attend, saying that he is a dangerous individual, and that the only solution they would agree to is to conduct the brit mila in the prison where Ettinger is being held with the participation of 15 guests. 
Ettinger's family said yesterday they would not agree to such an arrangement, labeling it "humiliating."
A brother of Ettinger shouted at the justices following their verdict, calling them "Bolsheviks," said the Honenu legal advocacy organization, which is representing Ettinger and provides legal representation for Jewish militants and settlers accused of violence against Palestinians.
He was subsequently removed from the hall by security officials. 
Attorney Ariel Atri, representing Ettinger, said the decision was "outrageous," considering that it was based on the Prison Service's assertion that it could not prepare the security logistics for the event, "in light of the fact that we requested [from the Prison Service] to stage the event eight days ago."
The Ettinger family has invited the public to the brit mila ceremony in Jerusalem, where several public figures are expected to attend, including rabbis from the hardline national-religious community.

From Jewish Press


{Originally posted to the author's website, Israel Thrives}


Writing in Israel National News, Shlomo Pyotrkovsky tells us: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210228#.VwVJOfkrJdg

Be'er Sheva district court judge Yisrael Pablo Axelrod on Sunday rejected the petition to release Meir Ettinger from his administrative detention for several hours on Monday so as to attend the brit milah (circumcision) of his firstborn son.

Ettinger has been held for the past eight months without trial or charges against him on administrative orders, a relic from the British Mandate which has almost exclusively been used against Arab terror suspects.

Meir Ettinger is the grandson of the much despised Meir Kahane… who many Jews confuse with the Devil. Kahane's Kach Party was, in the late 1980s, deemed a racist political party and the government barred members from running for the Knesset.

Ettinger is what is commonly referred to as a "Hilltop Youth." That is, he is among the generation of young Israelis who believe strongly for religious reasons in the connection of the Jewish people to our traditional homeland and are willing to risk the unhappiness of the government by settling non-annexed outposts in Judea and Samaria beyond that Holy of Holies, the "green line."

I am the kind of guy who is often accused of thinking that Israel can do no wrong. In fact, I have plenty of criticisms concerning Israel and the fact that they are holding people in prison without charge is one of them.

I don't care if the person is an Arab or a Muslim or a Jew or a Rosicrucion, it is a violation of the most fundamental premises of the political Enlightenment for a government to detain anyone for an extended period of time without charges being brought against the person.

This is a little thing that we in the West like to refer to as Habeas Corpus.

There is no right derived from the European liberal tradition more basic than the right to not be thrown into the clink without charges being raised, without access to an attorney of law, and without being allowed to face one's accuser.

Perhaps I am just biased towards the Constitution of the United States and its fourth amendment within the Bill of Rights that guarantees that the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…"

In other words, it is against the law in the United States to throw anyone in prison without due process and due process requires a trial by jury.

There are certain things that anger me about Israel, such as its policies in regard the Temple Mount, but this issue is something that I can agree upon with the most virulent demonizers of Israel.

It violates basic standards of human decency to hold people without charge for months on end. It is simply wrong and, to the extent that people are held in detention within Israel without access to a fair trial, the practice must end.

It may have been a story around Meir Ettinger that caught my eye, but the fundamental principle of a right of trial by jury needs to be extended to every citizen of the State of Israel no matter what their ideological beliefs.

Pyotrkovsky writes:

Ettinger is being imprisoned in extreme conditions of solitary confinement and is not being allowed any phone calls except to several close family members, even though there has been no evidence or indictment presented against him for any crime.

I would not care if this guy was the grandson of Yassir Arafat, this is unacceptable.

About the Author: Michael Lumish is a PhD in American history from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught at PSU, San Francisco State University, and the City College of San Francisco. He regularly publishes on the Arab-Israel conflict at his own blog, Israel Thrives (http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/). Lumish is also the founding editor of the scholarly on-line discussion forum H-1960s. He can be contacted at mike.lumish@gmail.com.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Rabbi Mordechai Tendler writes letter on behalf of Meir Ettinger!!! Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah Meeting today 4 Nissan 5776. Rabbanim called upon to make a Statement to Free Meir Ettinger from Jail under immoral Administrative Detention Orders

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Rabbi Mordechai Tendler's letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu. 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B86sGl9yfinjdEJQck1aTmR1bzl1WE0yQzdQNzduSWh4NUxZ/view?usp=sharing

We hope and pray that HaRav Feldman will bring up the plight of Meir Ettinger in todays meeting with the members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. We understand that due to our lobbying efforts, Rabbi Aharon Feldman has also written to PM Netanyahu on behalf of the incarcerated Meir Ettinger.

Both Rabbi Mordechai Tendler and Rabbi Feldman chose to follow in the footsteps with Gadol Hador HaRav Moshe Feinstein ZT"L  who in 1980 sent a telegram on behalf of the Late Rabbi Meir Kahane, Meir Ettinger's grandfather ob"m yh"d,  on humanitarian grounds who also was sitting in Administrative detention.  

We hope and pray that HaRav Feldman will be Matzliach in raising the consciousness of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah with the goal to make a public appeal from the Prime Minister to release Meir Ettinger,

fyi Background information

We believe that an appeal by the MGH on behalf of Meir Ettinger by members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah will bring much needed unity among Am Yisroel especially between Dati Leumi community and Chareidim and this will  have a tremendous rippling effect on the side of Zechus for Am Yisroel!  Shuva Elai VaAshuma Aleichem. Hashem tells us we need to take the first step. (As heard from an amazing Chazaq Torah Lecture by Rabbi Paysach Krohn https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChazaqOrganizationUSA/posts/UeQREfDnkYc?cfem=1 ).  Such a preemptive action on the part of our Gedoilim BaTorah will surely trigger great upheaval in the heavenly court now in the process of judging Am Yisroel. 

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky expressed his reservations that this proposal would be received with open arms among the members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah.  Shmuel Koenig asked him why not? but did not receive a clear answer.  

We can only guess that there are differences of opinion among the members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. We have tried to contact each of the Rabbanim individually who seemed amenable to lobby on Meir Ettinger's behalf.  It is our impression that HaRav Perlow tends to lean toward a more Satmer, Neturei Karta like position and we did not approach him but it is entirely possible that our judgement call was not accurate.  Satmer and Neturei Karta holds that the time is not ripe for Israel to have its own independent Sovereign State and we must wait for Moshiach. Neturei Karta has gone so far as to demonstrate with Palestinians chanting "Free Free Palestine" and is considered by many Jews as being traitorous. The Satmer community puts much emphasis on insulation and Kedusha and is at odds for the gov't of Israel for being secular and for not representing a Torah perspective. . In fact, given the way the gov't has been treating the hilltop youth, hilltop youth have good reason to have grievances against the  State of Israel as well.  
However, notwithstanding the position of many members of the MGH like HaRav Sternbuch in EY, regarding their opposition in ascending Har HaBayit bizmaneinu, which differs from Rabbi Moshe Tendler, see below, holding someone in jail without charges or due process such as habeas corpus seems like it is a travesty of justice according to Jewish and secular law.  Rabbi Tendler is of this opinion.

Members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah are:

          Rabbi Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld

·         Rabbi Dovid Feinstein

·         Rabbi Aharon Feldman

·         Rabbi Yosef Frankel

·         Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful

·         Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky

·         Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler

·         Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Levin

·         Rabbi Yaakov Perlow

·         Rabbi Aaron Schechter


Shmuel Koenig a  dedicated and persistent activist for Eretz Yisroel has been calling the Gedolim on a daily basis.  Shmuel is a very Temimisdic (sincere and idealistic with a touch of innocence and Emunah Peshuta)  person who yearns for the return of the Sanhedrin and for Moshiach to come now in our days. Perhaps it is for this reason, many of the Rabbanim have been amazingly gracious and have been taking his calls in spite of their very hectic schedules.  Shmuel Koenig is persistent in calling upon Members of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah to speak up in a forthright manner against a 2 State Solution and for our entitlement of Yehudah and the Shomron based on the Torah and the Covenant Hashem Promised to our Forefathers Avraham Yitzchok and Yaakov.  

His efforts have been reaping positive results.  HaRav Mordechai Tendler and HaRav Feldman agreed to write a letter to PM Netanyahu on Meir Ettinger's behalf.  We of course would love if HaRav Feldman would publicize his letter. 

If any of you receiving this post can lobby these prestigious Rabbanim on Meir Ettinger's behalf it would be greatly appreciated!  

 Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth sincerely yearn for a government in Israel based on Torah.  It seems to me that this yearning is consistent with the Marienbad Resolution of Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah in 1937 

 Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah re: Jewish State, Oct. 1937   http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2008/02/moetzes-gedolei-hatorah-re-jewish-state.html
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Rabbi Mordechai Tendler is Rabbi Moshe Feinstein grandson. His father is Rabbi Moshe Tendler the son in law of Rav Moshe Feinstein.  
Rabbi Tendler Ascends Temple Mount https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk9jkrzKb9k

Kol Tuv!

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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Fwd: Letter to Editor Jewish Press Re: Meir Ettinger....His Grandfather would have been proud of him!


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:27 AM
Subject: Letter to Editor Jewish Press Re: Meir Ettinger.
To: meirmatt@hotmail.com, Naomi Mauer <naomi36@aol.com>
Cc: Yaakov Klass <yklass@jewishpress.com>

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Dear Naomi Mauer and Matt Solomon, amv"sh

I have been in touch with Libby Kahane and she suggested I contact you personally.

I know the Jewish Press always was and continues to be a great supporter of Rabbi Meir Kahane ob"m and now you have been in the forefront in support of his grandson Meir Ettinger who is continuing the legacy and struggle of his namesake his grandfather ob'm hy"d Rabbi Meir Kahane. Please do whatever is in your power to offset the slander, and any pretexts for slander with positive speech regarding Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth. Especially now, as Meir's extension of Administration Detention is up for Review, Feb. 21 2016. 

Can you please print this as a letter to the Editor. 

Subject: Embracing Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop Youth: Free Meir Ettinger from Administrative Detention!

Dear Editor, amv"sh

It is crucial that we put a stop to the slander on Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth. It has become literally a blood libel of Jews against their fellow Jew.  Either there is a fair and just trial for those incarcerated or under house arrest, or these Hilltop Settlers should be released. Dear Readers, Please write letters to Netanyahu  and Yaalon and ask your Rabbi and Spiritual leader to encourage a massive letter writing campaign to PM Benjamin Netanyahu mankals@pmo.gov.il, MK Moshe (Bogy) Yaalon myaalon@knesset.gov.il asking for the release of Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop Youth under Administrative Detention.

 In the meanwhile we need to counter the blood libel with the opposite, with positive speech about the hilltop youth.  There are so many positive things to say about them.

They are beautiful kids, idealistic,

They love the land with all their heart and soul.
They love the Torah and they love their fellow Jew. 
They are hard working kids who have learned the art of construction and farming and shepherding.
They lead a wholesome simple life.
Many of them have experienced serious trauma being thrown out of their homes or are friends with kids who were thrown out of their homes
They are subjected daily and have experienced first hand, horrific terror attacks or attempts on their lives either on family members or friends and/or neighbors, living in Judea and Samaria. 
The government has been lax about their security and the security of their families as
They are second class citizens living under Civil Administration under the Military rule of law and therefore
They do not have the same rights as other Jews or even Arabs.  There is a bias against the Settlers in Judea and Samaria. 
Arabs build illegally yet in comparison significantly fewer such homes are demolished. 
Arabs continuously throw rocks, firebombs, shoot at innocent Israeli's and
Jews are at risk if they try to defend themselves.  On the other hand
They are under terrible scrutiny all the time, under surveillance, as if they were the ones who were perpetrating hundreds of terror attacks weekly as documented in HaKol Hayehudi. 

 This alienation in turn has alienated them from the mainstream Rabbis and the government who betrayed them and their families by allowing this modus operandi to continue. 

On top of all this...Seeing their friends, under house arrest or incarcerated, tortured under administrative detention doesn't help endear the kids to the establishment.   

Meir Ettinger is a selfless Jew like his Grandfather Meir Kahane ob"m whose only concern is for the people of Israel. 
He loves Jews,
He loves Torah and
He loves Eretz Yisroel.
He wishes to actualize yearnings of the Jewish people for a government that is governed according to Torah.

Naomi and Matt, amv"sh

Thank you so much for your consideration of all this material...

Please take some of your precious time to watch these video's of the Jewish Heritage Project under Ezra Ridgely of Toronto whose most recent video addresses a Compensation Peace Plan similar to Rabbi Meir's Kahane's plan and Moshe Feiglin's  plan to pay Arabs who are interested to leave the Land of Israel.  
Please interview Ezra as did Tamar Yonah of Arutz7. 
For the benefit of all those CC'd above, I am providing links to Rabbi Meir Kahane's ob"m hy"d words and lessons that have been featured on the pages of the Jewish Press for 40 years.  .
Six months ago, Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu wrote of Meir Ettinger's arrest.  August 4, 2105
Investigations by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) have led to the arrest of 24-year-old Meir Ettinger, grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, on suspicion of nationalist crimes...It can easily be speculated that interrogations of the suspects exposed enough evidence for the Shin Bet to arrest Ettinger.  ...The Nationalist Crimes Unit [of the Shin Bet] was created three years ago by Tzipi…to eradicate nationalist crimes, i.e. actions of what are known as Jewish 'rebels' who, for their part, feel that they are acting to prevent the further deterioration of the state of Israel.


On August 16, 2015 you published an article by Donni Fuchs in Defense of those under Administrative Detention and whose photo was of Meir Ettinger, grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane, seen at Magistrate's Court in the northern city of Nazareth. 
... Far more upsetting to me are those who purport to be right-wing, (even religious!) who adopt the language and behavior of the worst elements of the left. I cannot abide that those who endure blood libels from gentiles are quick to perpetuate the same against fellow Jews. Netanyahu and his crony Yaalon are using the abusive tools of the British Mandate, the notorious Administrative Detention, to harass Jews. They are desperate to pin "crimes" on "hill top youth." It suggests that Netanyahu is ready to embark on another campaign of appeasement and that he is trying to quell resistance to any future territorial concessions to the Arabs....

A young man named Meir Ettinger, the grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane (may G-d avenge his blood!), is now being held in administrative detention, and in accordance with the draconian tenets of this abuse of power, they can hold him for six months without charges and without a trial. After six months of enduring whatever abuses the Shabak puts him through, they can renew his detention for another six months under the same Bolshevik conditions. And it is my understanding that they can indefinitely continue this process. During this time, the Shabak and other nefarious agencies of the Israeli government will surely torture him physically and psychologically and try to extract a confession.
Like grandfather like grandson. If Meir Ettinger is being held for the same reasons as his grandfather, then one thing is for certain: his grandfather would have been proud of him and the other Jewish freedom fighters being detained. He too was innocent of the many unwarranted charges against him. Rabbi Kahane's sole "crime" was speaking the Torah truth, regardless of the consequences.
Again, it must be emphasized that were there ANY evidence of criminal activity, they would have all been charged. That is what is so grotesque about this whole process. Administrative detention is used precisely when there is no evidence. It is a means of punishing those they deem to represent examples of Jewish militancy and extremism. The intention is to crush any vestige of Jewish resistance to the culture of surrender and appeasement. The use of this immoral punishment is proof that there was no crime!
Shame on Netanyahu and Moshe Yaalon, the purveyors of this latest "Hunting Season." Shame on Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, the darlings of the loyalist, weak-kneed religious right, for partaking in this immoral hunt against Jews. They are acting as the Left did during the notorious hunting season when they preyed upon heroic fighters and handed them over to the British to be tortured and killed. Jewish history will remember their roles in this sin. Additionally, they are inciting the Arabs with their own propaganda, and the end result will certainly be more murdered Jews. There will be no atonement.

Honenu legal aid attorney Yuval Zemer, who represents Ettinger, stated that his client had been subjected to shaking, harsh interrogations and violence while in Shin Bet custody...When a prisoner complains of torture, the Attorney General orders an initial investigation of the complaint to clarify whether the case fits the "necessity defense" which exempts the interrogator of responsibility. As of now, initial internal investigations have prevented thorough, independent investigations of all the complaints PCATI has submitted on behalf of prisoners.
Sworn affidavits of prisoners who underwent interrogation since the above ruling reveal that the license given by the Court to Shin Bet interrogators to employ their independent discretion in certain cases has allowed them to continue employing violent methods of interrogation.
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Robin Ticker

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Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Israel a Police State? Please contact HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch. 2 horrifying examples of a Police State. Can we remain Silent? Meir Ettinger life is in danger according to his grandmother Libby Kahana and a family suffers severe Police misconduct for suspected possession of Marijuana.

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 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Update on Duma Suspects and Hilltop Youth. 

If you are in the Chareidi camp this is what you can do!

Please ask HaRav Moshe Sternbuch Shlita, Posek HaDor,  if he can help Meir Ettinger.   We have here a situation of Pikuach Nefesh and Pidyon Shvuyim.  Rabbi Daniel Travis of Har Nof is in close contact with HaRav Sternbuch.  Rabbi Travis can be reached at livingonrabbi@gmail.com

In response to the Har Nof Massacre, according to Rabbi Daniel Travis, HaRav Sternbuch said that such tragedies do not come in a vacuum and that we must be introspective. If we go beKeri with Hashem, in happenstance, then so will Hashem go beKeri with us.  

One of the Tikkunim Rav Sternbuch mentioned was to end Machlokes.   

It is my hope that Rav Sternbuch would express solidarity with the Dati Leumi community, and especially Meir Ettinger who is imprisoned under dangerous conditions, as it surely would be a stepping stone in uniting two religious yet diverse communities who are Shomrei Torah UMitzvoth! The Chareidi community whose emphasis is on keeping Kedusha within the camp and the Dati Leumi community whose emphasis is reaching the actualization of the Mitzvoth of the Torah in Eretz Yisroel. These might seem like conflicting paradigms but indeed they are merely different perspectives which can be reconciled. 

Dear Chareidim.  This requires education and an open mind on your part. Don't simply rely on what people are saying, Dibah Raah, about Meir Ettinger and on the hilltop youth. 

Is Meir Ettinger worthy of nonstop Administrative Detention and does he indeed pose a threat to the people of Israel.  Read the following: 


Sunday, September 13, 2015
Meir Ettinger a Jewish Terrorist? Read what he has to say and judge for yourself. 

 Agreed that his call for a Torah court, does pose a threat to the existing non Torah court system.

I suspect  Rabbi Sternbuch privately would agree with what Meir Ettinger wrote:  

However, my guess is that even if he would agree with Meir Ettingers statement, he probably would be afraid to voice these sentiments because he is extremely concerned as per the backlash of the Goyim. 

The Goyim would get very hostile and angry and feel threatened by a Torah gov't.

This, as I see it,  is the main point of contention between Rav Sternbuch and Meir Ettinger.  Because everything Meir Ettinger is saying is consistent with our prayers and fulfillment of Torah ideals. 

In order to understand Har Sternbuch's approach please read the following: 
Hagon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch Opposes Agudath Israel's Lobbying Efforts Against Iran Nuke Deal August 23, 2015

There are many who would argue with HaRav Sternbuch's Psak.   We are now reaping the terrible consequences of the Iran Deal. Iran is now endangering the entire Middle East as they are on the verge of acquiring over 100 billion dollars  formerly tied up under sanctions.  

Hashem showed Har Nof, Rav Sternbuch's community in a very tragic way,  the evil that awaits Kedoshim by the hands of evildoers.  A wakeup call. 


On the morning of 18 November 2014, two Palestinian men from Jerusalem entered Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue, in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel, and attacked the praying congregants with axes, knives, and a gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Jerusalem_synagogue_attack

Going back to Iran, can you imagine the havoc they can create with billions of dollars at their disposal?

So it can surely be argued that being complicit and quiet merely buys time but in the end is much more dangerous than nipping the threat in the bud even when it will cause an immediate hostile backlash.

Moshe Rabbeinu confronted Pharaoh and insisted that the Jews leave Mitzraim to worship their  G-d.   This in turn triggered an immediate backlash and Pharaoh worsened the conditions of the Jews.  The fear is real.  Moshe Rabbeinu indeed was extremely upset at this development and  went back to HKB"H and demanded "Lama Haraiosa", why did you make things worse?  

No one will argue now, that Moshe was mistaken to have confronted Pharaoh in spite of the backlash.

Rabbi Daniel Travis from Har Nof in his recent lecture in the Agudah of Madison in Brooklyn, in Rabbi Reisman's shul, mentioned that there is a Mishne which says that Eliyahu comes when we do whatever we can. He quoted Rabbeinu Efraim which says that Hashem demands we do actions to bring Moshiach.  Rabbi Travis emphasized that according to the Gedolim the most important thing is Ichpatiyut, which means that we feel the pain of our fellow Jew and connect with their suffering and empathize with what is going on. He also emphasized the need to strengthen our Emunah. 

 I see here an opportunity for Rabbi Sternbuch to end Machlokes and show how true unity can be accomplished. 

Please show him Libby Kahana's Op Ed in Arutz7.  Surely he will not be indifferent to the cries of a Tzadekes a true, Yiddishe Bubby. Also please forward to him, her grandson's words, Meir Ettinger's article in HaKol Hayehudi. 

The court system in Eretz Yisroel is not the way it should be.  Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth are trying to change the status quo.  But they are bearing the brunt of the struggle on their own. Some of them minors. Literally tortured. It is too much to bear.  Hashem would love to send His Tzivos Hashem to their aid, to answer their prayers, but Am Yisroel needs to be worthy.  Hamonei Am needs to truly desire Hashem's Kingship over the world, the reinstatement of Malchus Beis David, and the renewal of the Avoda in the Beis Hamikdash.  

 HaRav Sternbuch and the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah have in their power to inspire Teshuva and bring Hamonei Am to a level of yearning for these lofty goals of generations of tears and prayer.  Meir Ettinger and his followers aspire for all these things yet he and the Hilltop Youth are being blood libeled and persecuted. 


Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Rabbi Sorotzkin Teshuva - Tikun of ending the Golus - yearn for recognition of G-d's Kingdom, yearn for Davidic Kingdom and yearn for return of Temple Service. Msg following Har Nof Massacre   http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/06/rabbi-sorotzkin-teshuva-tikun-of-ending.html

Action Item: Pikuach Nefesh.  Please forward and publicize.  Please plead for Meir Ettinger's immediate freedom. If they can not bring charges then free him.
The Prime Minister holds the buck as the expression goes "The buck stops here!" 
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: Fax 972-2-6703398. Email:  pm_eng@pmo.gov.il    Best e-mail: mankals@pmo.gov.il 
Please write individually written letters to PM Netanyahu...the more the better.

 It takes only the signature of the Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon to decide Meir's future:
Send emails and faxes to Minister Yaalon, Fax: 972-2-5303506. Email: pniot@mod.gov.il

Your pleas to the  President will help too:    
President Reuven Rivlin. Fax: 972-2-588-7225. Email: public@president.gov.il.


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Another horrible example of a Police State in Israel.  Thank you Rob Muchnick for sending...

My aliyah dream turned into a nightmare by 
Jay Engelmayer

Even if teens in this family were guilty of selling Marijuana, and it is clear from this article that they were not,  is this the Torah way to deal with it?
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Meir Ettinger Court Hearing Tomorrow Feb 23rd. Let's bombard Netanyahu with letters. It makes a difference at least up in Shamayim. pls fwd. Please read Rebbetzin Libby Kahane, grandmother plea.

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My last email erred in that it said the Court Hearing was supposed to be on Feb. 21.  Meir Ettinger's wife says it's tomorrow.  Do we want his incarceration on our heads that we stood by and did nothing?  Please davan for Meir Dovid Chai ben Tova. Please fwd this to your Rabbi as well as Letters from Rabbi's and influential people from Chutz LeAretz especially make a difference we are told. 

Rebbetzin Libby Kahane,  his grandmother, writes: The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense. If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court."

Please write a letter to the Prime Minister that if there is evidence he should be charged openly and let them conduct a fair and honest trial.  Otherwise they should free him!

Quantity of letters is important. Please send your emails to:


Tizku LeMitzvoth!



Op-Ed: Trial by the media?

The grandmother of one of the administrative detainees in the Duma story tells her side.

Published: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:36 PM


Libby Kahane was married to Rabbi Meir Kahane from 1956 until his murder...

On July 31, 2015 a house in Duma, an Arab village in Samaria, was firebombed by unknown persons and a child was tragically killed. The entire gamut of Israel's "Who's Who" condemned the unknown persons, whom they labeled "Jewish Terrorists" because of questionable graffiti in Hebrew.

The condemnation was not enough to satisfy the New York Times, which quickly published an article titled, "Israeli Justice in West Bank Is Seen as Often Uneven." This was picked up by all the foreign media and our government was pressured into taking hasty, precipitate action.

Among those arrested was my grandson, Meir Ettinger, named for his late grandfather, Rabbi Meir Kahane, who had a reputation for promoting unpopular opinions. He was the perfect scapegoat. He was arrested on August 3 and interrogated using illegal physical force, including punching and shaking him. On Sunday, August 9, he was taken before a judge to extend his arrest, but the court hearing he should have had was cut short by the arrival of an administrative detention order straight from Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon.

Administrative detention means detention without a trial, meaning it does not allow the accused to challenge the allegations against him.

Leaks to the press by the Shin Bet (the Israel Security Agency), had prepared the ground for Yaalon's order so as to gain public acceptance for this undemocratic act, On August 3, when Meir was first arrested, Israel's Channel 2 television broadcast a lengthy, detailed report that named Meir Ettinger, "the primary target of the Shin Bet." As Meir himself said in a televised report from court, there was no truth in the declaration that the Shin Bet considered him a "primary target." When he was arrested they did not even know that one of his sidelocks, payot, had been torn off while he was working on a construction job. It happened when his right payah was caught up in an electric drill and in all the photos of him in court the length of his payot are uneven, which makes him look unkempt.

There are many inaccuracies in the Channel 2 report, possibly intentional.. For one thing, it claimed that Meir was suspected of writing a document found in his computer titled "The Uprising." In itself, even had this been true, this is a purely ideological statement.

However, as revealed by the weekly magazine Olam Katan (February 12, 2016), there is another document, written by someone else who has no connection with Meir Ettinger. That document, "A Guide to Harming Arabs," calls for violent acts against Arabs. The Shin Bet knows who wrote it. He is currently in prison, being held until his trial ends. But they deliberately leaked parts of that document as if it were part of the document found in Meir Ettinger's computer, creating a negative impression about him in the eyes of the public.

The TV report implied that Meir and a group of young people "invaded" Kusra, an Arab village in the Binyamin area, in order to destroy property there. Actually, they were hiking far from the village, completely unarmed. Police were unable to find any evidence of paint cans, brushes, tools or any weapons that could be attributed to them. The Kusra villagers attacked them and bloodied them and they were photographed by Reform rabbis visiting the village. One photo showed Meir comforting one of his friends who had put a kerchief over his bloody nose. This became a photo of "Meir Ettinger and a masked man."

The report on Channel 2 hinted that the Shin Bet had implicated him the firebombing of a Christian church near the Sea of Galilee and it quoted a "friend of his" saying, his voice disguised, that Meir had charisma and was "cunning and devious."

He has been in jail for six months on an administrative detention order and the Shin Bet has asked the court to approve four more months. The judge said he would issue his decision in 20 days, i.e. February 23. The court proceedings are held behind closed doors; only one judge is shown the "evidence." Neither Ettinger nor his lawyer are told what the charges are and there is no way to argue in his defense.
 
If the Shin Bet had even one iota of of evidence that Ettinger allegedly committed an illegal act they would have, and should have, charged him in open court.

Instead of being tried in court, where there are rules of evidence and procedure, Meir Ettinger is the victim of a media trial, subjected to a stream of rumors, perhaps even spread by the Shin Bet, creating a false media image of Meir Ettinger and demonizing him. This should sound a red alarm to all honest, decent people.

Anyone can read what he has written openly on his Internet blog. What he has done is not considered a crime in any democratic country. He expressed unpopular views in a blog he wrote on the Hebrew website "Hakol Hayehudi."  When his case came to court for review after his first three months in administrative detention, the judge ordered his imprisonment continued. The reason he gave was that Meir had not changed his views. The Honenu lawyer said, "If the judge wants him to change his opinions, he can send him to Korea, there they know how to make people change their opinions.

One can disagree with the opinions he has expressed but his right to express them is completely legitimate in a state where even the Hezbollah is permitted to freely express its intention to destroy that state, Israel.

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Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Open Letter to the Gedoilim: Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rabbi Feldman, Rabbi Aharon Kotler and Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch re: Meir Ettinger Latest update Administrative detention extended. Davan for Meir David Chai ben Tova

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Update: Meir Ettinger Latest update Administrative detention extended by Moshe Yaalon.  See news item writeup in Arutz7 at end of this email. (Since many in Chareidi circles do not use the internet but do read emails I am embedding the links)

PS: bh Evyatar Slonim will be released from prison but still not totally free....

Lichvod HaRabbonim, Shlita

I am obviously no Posek, but I do have a big  Zechus that I have lived in Kiryat Arba within close proximity to Chevron for several years. My energy and drive comes from the Ruach Acheret of Chevron. 

It seems to me that here is an amazing opportunity for the Gedoilim BaTorah to be Mekayem multiple Mitzvoth d'Orayta. 

Alternatively,  I am afraid we will have to answer in a heavenly court and we will be held Chayav Bidei Shamayim for being silent when such an injustice is happening!  Let us remember Kamtza and Bar Kamtza.   It's not too late for us...Please don't turn a blind eye to the suffering of a fellow Jew....

Mitzvoth D'Orayta that obligates us to speak up on Meir Ettinger's behalf.  Protest a miscarriage of justice!

1. Pikuach Nefesh physically and mentally. Meir Ettinger is surrounded by terrorists mamesh.  He is in isolation in the highest security wing in Israel. He is on a hunger strike for 14 days to protest the conditions of his jail sentence.   He is weak according to his wife.
2. Pidyon Shvuyim.  How can we allow a fellow Jew waste away in Jail when there are no charges or evidence of wrongdoing to deserve it?
3. Rectfying Dibbah Raah, Slander about them.  The media has spread blood libels against him. If he is guilty then let him be brought up on charges and have a hearing and a trial. 
4. Al Taamod al Dam Rayacha. How can we be Silent when his blood is being spilled? Slandering a person is similar to spilling ones blood...
5.  Show Ichpatiyut as per the Gedoilim's own directive.  Please show Am Yisroel that the Gedoilim baTorah truly care about each and every fellow Jew even if they are not from their immediate circle.  Ichpatiut is most valuable before someone gets hurt! Chas Veshalom we should wait and tragedy strikes....
6.Meir Ettinger is fighting for Torah, for a govt based on Torah, to actualize the Gedoilim BaTorah's resolution at Marienbad in 1937.  Is our prayer Hoshiva Shofteinu keVarishona mere lip service. 

Since Moshe Yaalon extended the administrative detention  for Meir Ettinger we must do whatever we can to protest and fight this evil decree.  Apparently in Judea and Samaria there is only military rule of law.   Is Yaalon a despot with absolute power over constituents of Judea and Samaria? Justice based on the whim of the Defense Minister who is above the law? Is there nothing in place to keep the Defense Minister in check?  

What Rabbanim and Gedoilim BaTorah can do to rescind this Gezera

  • Send an open letter Yaalon and Netanyahu  and President Rivlin, protesting the extension of Meir Ettinger's administrative detention. (email addresses below in Libby Kahana's letter below)
  •  Counter the Dibbah Raah, the slander and blood libels against Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth.  Surely that would make a ton of difference.  Even if the gov't harden's its heart, still up in Shamayim we would not be Chayav.  This means that instead of Dibbah Raah we need to speak in a very positive way about Meir Ettinger and the hilltop youth.  The Emes is that he and they are not Jewish terrorists, lehefech, they are righteous, genuine Yidden with deep love of Torah and Am Yisroel and Yiddishkeit.  This positive speech would bring much awaited Achdus and unity between Dat Leumi and Chareidi communities. This will be mezakeh the Klal and surely Hashem will shep much nachas.  
  • Give words of chizuk to support Meir Ettinger's plea for a government based on Torah law that is not tainted and corrupted by politics.  Any money received from the gov't to silence our sincere and genuine yearning for Malchus Shamayim, Malchus Beis Dovid  and the Avodah in the Beit Hamikdash is blood money and should be seen as such. 

Proverbs 3:17 states, "Deracheha darchei noam vechol netivoteha shalom – Its ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace."


Rabbanim:  Please educate yourself regarding this matter and read Meir Ettinger's words below

Judge for yourself if he indeed is a terrorist.  

Again Lichvod HaRabbanim.... who am I to teach you words of Torah and please forgive me if I am too forward.  But isn't there a Gemara  in Baba Kama that talks about Grama that if a person has testimony and withholds it that they are Chayav Beyedei Shamayim? Can't the Rabbanim testify as experts in Halacha that they are, that according to Jewish Law, Administrative Detention, holding someone without charges or a trial and taking away their civil rights and inflicting them with  physical and emotional abuse as has been practiced in Israel against these hilltop youth is against Halacha.  

Meir Ettinger's words to the Court: In the end you will repent  

BY MEIR ETTINGER ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2015 CAUSES, JEWISH IDENTITY

The following are the words of Meir Ettinger said during his hearing on Sep. 10th, 2015. This hearing was the third and final hearing that the court will hear before officially approving his administrative detention. It is important to note that receiving the approval of the court is a mere formality for administrative detention and does not involve an actual trial.

I would like to speak before the court and have my words recorded in the minutes. At the same time, I reiterate that this is not because I recognize the authority of this court. I don't recognize the validity of laws that are against the Torah and I see no reason to defend myself against accusations based on false laws that were created by man today and will be changed by him tomorrow.

Rather, because of our sins, instead of having a court based on the holy Torah, the word of G-d, we have been taken captive by false courts. These captors are the prosecution, the media, and the false courts of today that have waged war against the land of Israel, the Torah of Israel, and those who fear the G-d of Israel. Their goal is to foster the growth of a foreign culture in our midst to replace the way of the Torah and service to G-d in the land of Israel.

It is therefore a Chazakah [predetermined]what this court will decide in this hearing. One way or another, the results are known in advance and I therefore have no desire to play a part in this game. It is merely a pathetic attempt by the government to pretend that their decision is based on justice and democracy. 

Nonetheless, this hearing provides me the right to speak and I will exercise the right to tell you what bothers you so much, what you are fighting, and what was the reason for my arrest.

I cannot discuss in this short time all of the ridiculous media stories. According to the media, I am somehow the number one target of the Shabak.

It should be noted that the targets of the Shabak are not established in order to preserve public safety or ensure calm, but instead are based on a political agenda and focus on protecting the culture of 'equality' that they force down the throats of the public.

Therefore, instead of discussing 'public safety,' I will explain my activism and why my actions are so upsetting to the confused establishment.

In their accusations they used the phrase, "changing the regime." So what does that really mean? What exactly is this mysterious 'group,' which I supposedly lead, doing to further that goal? The truth is that we are dealing with very basic statements that were made freely available to all. Yes, I admit it- I, like many other Jews, have dreams, hopes and desires of establishing the Kingdom of Israel. The 'group' I am a part of, was founded during the exodus from Egypt and the receiving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. There the Jewish people were chosen to be a nation of priests and a holy people in the land of Israel.

So what is this 'Kingdom of Israel'? For 2000 years in exile, Jews around the world said in their prayers "Let me witness the return to Zion" and concluded with the words, "blessed is He who restores His glory to Zion." These Jews did not merely want to return to the land of Israel to build fields and buildings. They wanted more. They wanted to restore G-d's presence in the land by creating a state that would spread the name of G-d throughout the world.

In the current 'Jewish' state, there is complete democratic freedom for all sorts of crazy ideas, except for Judaism alone which is declared illegal. In Israel today, the Torah's solution to security problems is racist, the Torah's views on international relations are incitement, and anyone who supports the Torah's opinion over the laws of the state is an anarchist. Those who struggle with love for the land of Israel are arrested and their homes are destroyed.

In the State of Israel today we have leaders who do not understand the Torah and no one dares explain to them what a true Jewish state looks like, why the Jewish people to the land of Israel, and what right the Jewish people have to the land. Not only are we victims of this unfortunate situation, but you are too- you, the judge, and the prosecutor. All of us are captives of this reality. Each of us has a G-dly soul that wants to live a Jewish life and we all feel alone in our opposition to the state.

Administrative detention orders were issued against me and other Jews not because of a concern for the good of the public as you [the government]have claimed. It is actually you who place no value on Jewish blood and thereby harm the public. You released terrorist murderers and removed checkpoints, both of which have placed many Jews in danger. One could hardly accuse you of caring for other Jews.

We all know that the incident in Duma is merely being used as an excuse for dictatorial actions by a supposed democratic government. Fortunately for you, the public is so accustomed to your lies that they don't bother refuting them.

Not for nothing did you gather all of the media to inform them before carrying out the orders. In truth the administrative detention orders are not meant to silence me, but to silence yourselves, to silence the Jewish voice emanating from your heart.

Your hysterical actions and discrimination against Jews in enforcing the law, your shocking neglect for the values of democracy when dealing with Jews who love the land of Israel, appears strange to many people. However it is not strange to anyone who recognizes that these actions are done in order to silence your inner, yearning Jewish voice. This is part of your general schizophrenia.  It is obvious that these actions will backfire and have the opposite result. You will not manage to silence the voice inside you, anymore than you could expel your Jewish soul from your body. In the end, even you will repent for your actions and your Jewish soul will take over to help bring the redemption.
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English Translation 
An Open Letter to the Public: Written by Moria Ettinger,  the Wife of Meir Ettinger
My Brothers and Sisters, Am Yisroel

The Way You Know Of My Husband Comes From Suppression Of True Discourse. The complete letter Moriah Ettinger, 17th day of Shvrat 5776,  01/27/16


Have you ever heard of Meir Ettinger?

Dangerous with horns?

Let me paint you another picture.

My husband, Meir Ettinger, is gentle, soft, shy and quiet. Entirely pleasant.

He is the person who helps all friends, finds a child lost to its mother on the street and listens to those who need.

He does not know how to yell or get angry, but above all, he is a Jew who seeks good for his people.

For all of his life, his money, his time,  his abilities and his honor, he has invested for the people of Israel.

He is a person who does not see himself at all but rather the community.

It's almost six months that he and two friends- Evyatar Slonim and Mordechai Meyer (who was released after five months in jail after it emerged that he was imprisoned due to misinformation) are in detention without trial, in solitary confinement in Beersheva. My husband was placed in the the most guarded wing in Israel, with absolute solitary confinement and severe restrictions. In adjacent cells to his are [Arab] terrorists who killed several Jews each.

The way you have gotten to know my husband has been the result of suppressing real debate that he is trying to create for our nation.

This silence is fear, a fear of words that are great and true.  This same fear is one that  has tried to silence all free thinkers who dared to go forward and lead our world to better places.

This is the same fear that silenced Harav Kook, the giants of Chasidus, Yair Stern and others. 

And this fear presents you with a picture of my husband,  a figure with horns, in order that you agree that this free spirit be shut in isolation behind bars, and so as not to  continue the dialogue between you and her.

Last Chanukah, when I lit Chanukah candles, all the neighbors came out as well.. they lit and proudly sang about the heroic and brave Maccabees. Everyone sang for these admired free thinkers. I looked you in the eye -  My husband is a Maccabee just like them.  Then why is he and his friends imprisoned, tortured and despised?

In another week, the administrative detention which put my husband in jail will end. The order for his detention will end, but the desire to silence the man who speaks gently, measures and weighs each word before he utters them, will not end. The man whom from every book of his that you will open in his  home, will drop scraps of paper in which are written densely packed reflections, parts of them songs/poems and thoughts of our Jewish life here.

I am writing you this letter in order to share with you reality
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To ask not to believe everything you've heard about Meir.

The order is about to expire thank G-d, but they can extend it again, and it's up to us.

It will depend on us how long we agree to continue to legitimize the silence of the most severe violence of all. The violence against true Jewish dialogue.

That is the truth. This is not about him. This is us. How do we want our life to be.

And until you can meet him and talk to him, I invite you to read his blog on HaKol HaYehudi,  - and hear his ideas truly. Recognize the clear voice that wishes to invite Israeli discourse with real souls. It challenges us to new thinking, outside the box... I'm not unrealistic... I do not expect that after reading his blog, and be introduced to this, that you necessarily agree with all his ideas.

There could be disagreements between us on the road and even on some of the goals. But it is clear to me that none of you would accept Jews treating other Jews in this manner. 

We all want our government to take care of security and settlement and instead [the government] restricts Jews and abuses some of them.

I think once you get to know Meir, you will identify with his ideas, even if you do not agree with him, you will not be silent and you  will help me to  bring my husband home.

Login to the website, read his blogs, circulate this letter and sympathize with me on Facebook "Jews do not torture Jews". "יהודי לא מענה יהודי"

With Love of Israel, Moriah Ettinger



אחי ואחיותי, עם ישראל

אשתו של העצור המנהלי מאיר אטינגר במכתב גלוי לציבור: הצורה שבה אתם מכירים את בעלי היא תוצר של השתקה של השיח האמיתי. המכתב המלא
מוריה אטינגר, י"ז בשבט תשע"ו, 27/01/16 21:54


שמעתם פעם על מאיר אטינגר? 
המסוכן עם הקרניים?

תרשו לי לצייר לכם ציור אחר.
בעלי, מאיר אטינגר, הוא איש עדין, רך, ביישן ושקט. כולו נעימות. 
הוא האדם שעוזר לכל החברים, מוצא אמא לילד אבוד ברחוב ומקשיב למי שצריך. 
הוא לא יודע לצעוק או לכעוס, אך מעל הכל, הוא יהודי דורש טוב לעמו.
את כל החיים שלו, הכסף, הזמן, הכישרונות והכבוד שלו הוא משקיע בעם ישראל.
אדם שלא רואה את עצמו בכלל. רק את הכלל. 

כבר כמעט ששה חודשים הוא ושני חבריו- אביתר סלונים ומרדכי מאייר (ששוחרר לאחר חמשה חודשי מאסר לאחר שהתברר שנכלא עקב מידע מוטעה) יושבים במעצר מנהלי ללא משפט בבידוד בבאר שבע. בעלי נמצא באגף הכי שמור בארץ, בבידוד מוחלט והגבלות קשות. שותפיו לאגף בחדרים מצדדיו, הם מחבלים שרצחו כל אחד כמה יהודים.

הצורה שבה אתם מכירים את בעלי היא תוצר של השתקה של השיח האמיתי שהוא מנסה לייצר בעם שלנו. 
ההשתקה הזאת היא פחד, פחד מהדברים הגדולים באמת. אותו פחד שניסה להשתיק את כל ההוגים החופשיים שהעזו ללכת קדימה ולהוביל את העולם שלנו למקומות טובים יותר. 

זה אותו פחד שהשתיק את הרב קוק, גדולי החסידות, יאיר שטרן ואחרים. 
והפחד הזה הגיש לכם ציור של דמות עם קרניים, כדי שאתם תסכימו שהרוח החופשית הזאת תהיה סגורה בבידוד מאחורי סורג ובריח, ולא יימשך השיח בינכם לבינה.

בחנוכה האחרון כשהדלקתי נרות כל השכנים יצאו גם כן, הדליקו ושרו בגאווה למכבים הגיבורים והאמיצים, כולכם שרתם להוגים הללו בהערצה. הסתכלתי עליכם בעיניים כלות- הרי גם בעלי הוא מכבי כזה, אז למה הוא וחבריו כלואים מעונים ומבוזים?

עוד כשבוע, ייגמר המעצר המנהלי שהכניס את בעלי לכלא. הצו יגמר, אבל הרצון להשתיק את האיש שמדבר בעדינות, מודד ושוקל כל מילה לפני שמוציא מפיו, לא יפסק. האיש שמכל ספר שתפתחו בביתו ינשרו פיסות נייר כתובים צפוף צפוף בהם כתב הגיגים, חלקי שירים ומחשבות על החיים היהודיים שלנו פה.


 
כתבתי לכם את המכתב הזה על מנת לשתף אתכם באמת.
לבקש שלא תאמינו לכל מה ששמעתם על מאיר. 
תוקף הצו עומד להיגמר בעז"ה, אבל יש באפשרותם להאריך אותו שוב, וזה תלוי בנו.
זה תלוי בנו עד כמה תימשך הסכמת השתיקה והלגיטימציה שלנו לאלימות החמורה מכל.
אלימות נגד שיח יהודי אמיתי.
וזו האמת. לא מדובר בו. מדובר בנו. איך אנחנו רוצים שהחיים שלנו יראו.

ועד שתוכלו לפגוש בו ולשוחח איתו, אני מזמינה אתכם לקרוא את הבלוג שלו באתר הקול היהודי - ולשמוע את רעיונותיו באמת. להכיר את הקול הצלול שמבקש להזמין את עם ישראל לשיח נשמות אמיתי. זה מאתגר אותנו בחשיבה חדשה, מחוץ לקופסה. אני לא פתטית. אני לא חושבת שאחרי שתקראו את הבלוג שלו, ותוודעו לדמות הזו, אתם בהכרח תסכימו עם כל רעיונותיו.

יכול להיות שיש בינינו אי הסכמות על הדרך ואפילו על חלק מהמטרות. אבל ברור לי שאף אחד מכם לא מוכן שכך יהודים יתנהגו ליהודים.

כולנו רוצים שהשלטון שלנו ידאג לבטחון והתיישבות ובמקום זה הוא מגביל יהודים ומתעלל בחלק מהם. 
אני חושבת שאחרי שתכירו את מאיר, תזדהו עם הרעיונות שלו, גם אם לא תסכימו איתו. 
עכשיו אתם כבר לא תשתקו. אתם תעזרו לי להחזיר את בעלי הביתה. 
"יהודי לא מענה יהודי".
                                                                                         
                                                                                         באהבת ישראל, מוריה אטינגר
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A letter by Libby Kahana, Meir's grandmother:

 


Op-Ed: My grandson is in danger

Administrative detention can be renewed forever.

Published: Sunday, January 24, 2016 9:50 PM


Libby Kahane

The imprisonment of my grandson Meir Ettinger brings back difficult memories for me. I don't know how many people remember that my late husband Rabbi Meir Kahane, zt"l was jailed under those same despicable administrative detention orders in May 1980.

An administrative detention order deprives a person of his basic rights. He can be held for six months without being charged or tried and the order can be renewed indefinitely.


Simply put, the powers-that-be don't like the way he thinks.
If there were any evidence that my grandson Meir committed a crime, he should be put on trial in an open court. He has not been tried in court because he has not committed any crime.

What he has done is not considered a crime in any democratic country. He expressed unpopular views in a blog he wrote on the Hebrew website "Hakol Hayehudi." Simply put, the powers-that-be don't like the way he thinks.

When his case came to court for review after his first three months in prison, the judge ordered his imprisonment continued. The reason he gave was that Meir had not changed his views. The Honenu lawyer said, "If the judge wants him to change his opinions, he can send him to Korea, there they know how to make people change their opinions."

The administrative order imprisoning Meir can be renewed by the simple signature of the Minister of Defense for another six months, and another and another – life imprisonment by installments.

Is Israel turning into a totalitarian state? What is happening to our beloved Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East?

With two weeks left of the six months decreed by the Minister of Defense Yaalon, my grandson Meir began a hunger strike on Wednesday, January 20. I hope and pray it will succeed in touching the hearts of the powers that be, but I am concerned about the harm to his health


 
Please plead for Meir Ettinger's immediate freedom. It takes only the signature of the Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon to decide Meir's future:

Send emails and faxes to Minister Yaalon, Fax: 972-2-5303506. Email: pniot@mod.gov.il

Your pleas to the Prime Minister and the President will help too:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: Fax 972-2-6703398. Email:  pm_eng@pmo.gov.il          

President Reuven Rivlin. Fax: 972-2-588-7225. Email: public@president.gov.il.
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In the News from Arutz7: 

'A political arrest in Israel's worst prison branch' 

Meir Ettinger's administrative arrest extended another 4 months without trial as he hunger strikes - his wife tells all.

By Shimon Cohen
First Publish: 2/1/2016, 5:34 PM


Nationalist activist Meir Ettinger had his administrative detention extended on Monday by an additional four months by Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud). He has been held since last August 3rd without trial, charges or evidence against him.

Monday also marked the 14th day of Ettinger's hunger strike, during which he has already lost consciousness once while protesting his draconian detention. Ettinger is a grandson of former MK Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated by an Arab terrorist in 1990, and who called to transfer Arab residents out of Israel.

Ettinger's wife Moriya spoke with Arutz Sheva on Monday, describing the difficult jail conditions her husband is being held in without even being told what he is being detained for.

Moriya Ettinger noted that while her husband lost consciousness several days ago, currently he "feels okay thank God. He faints now and then. He is weak, but he's okay relative to someone who is hunger striking for 14 days."

She reports that after he lost consciousness and then came to, he asked the prison guards for help and they just laughed at him, adding, "it really was funny for them. Apparently if it was an Arab it wouldn't have been so funny."

Ettinger emphasized that her husband is not being held on connection to the lethal arson in the Arab village of Duma, a point that has been acknowledged by officials after they initially made vague hints at a possible connection.

"He is hunger striking in protest of his jail conditions in the most heavily guarded prison wing in the country with the most dangerous people (prisoners) in the country, people who were convicted of the most severe crimes... people from crime and terror organizations. He is there in that wing with no trial. Now they want to extend his detention. We rely on God that he will be released, but we know that an effort must be made in order for him to be freed."

"Thought police"

Addressing her husband's opinions in favor of a state ruled by Torah law, view for which he was apparently was arrested, she said: "I know that my husband's ideas are unique ideas that not everyone can identify with 100%, but everyone for whom the land and the Torah are important to them, if they hear my husband's words without the distortion and demonization that they are doing to him - I'm certain they will identify with him.

"This is the thought police - putting a man in jail because of his opinions."

Describing his ideology, she said, "all of his ideas are from consultation with the opinion of the Torah, mostly with Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh who he nurtures his ideas from... To jail someone on their opinions is a scandal and it is not Jewish. They did a great injustice when they turned a gentle and caring person into an awful monster."

"I can quote from the papers, they spilled his blood. You have to protest this bloodshed, which enables the political arrest he is in," she said.

Further outlining how her husband is being portrayed, she said, "the Shabak (Israeli Security Agency) itself, we know, has briefed people from the media as to how to present this detention and to invent things and define him as the most wanted man. That shows us that this is a political arrest and not a legal arrest. My husband is not guilty of anything that justifies sitting in jail."

"Complete isolation"

Ettinger explained that only due to her husband's previous hunger strike was he finally allowed to talk with his close family members over the phone. He was also allowed to have one half-hour visit every two weeks, in which he can talk with his visitor through glass via a telephone under the observation of guards.

"Most of the prisoners are in open branches with other prisoners in conditions that allow them to go out to the courtyard. My husband is in the 'national separation branch;' it's the most severe branch in the country, for prisoners convicted of the worst offenses - people who were found guilty on several counts of murder, people who organized numerous robberies and break-ins."

She described his conditions as "complete isolation. He's in a room alone. You can't be silent over something like that. We (Jews) are all brothers."

"It is clear to us that all is in God's hands. It is clear to us that all the security members and Shabak members are nothing and only God can determine what will be and all is in His hands, but at the same time, there is an obligation on every Jew to help Jews in distress and do all they can."

Ettinger concluded by speaking about her husband's spirit, which she is able to learn about from his lawyer, the only person he is allowed to freely talk with.

"I know that he maintains his happiness and faith and trust in God. We have moments when it is hard for us, but Meir is a happy man and a great hero, and isn't close to breaking or being sad."
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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

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