Friday, July 11, 2008

5768.10.8 Israel the Land of My Possession: Dialogue with The Chareidim, Action Alert...

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8 Tammuz 5768
Friday, July 11, 2008

This newsletter is dedicated to those that wish to follow the Rabbanim but pick Rabbanim who remain Silent regarding our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel.



1. Rabbi Moshe Tendler's visit to Temple Mount. Chareidi reaction. 102 comments before my own (see next item) which may or may not be published.

2. Robin Ticker's response to the comments on YWN Yeshiva World Network to above post on YWN.

3. Rabbi Chananya Weissman's reaction to the comments on YWN.

4. Meeting with Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander member of Sanhedrin Rabbinical Court of Bnei Noach in Brooklyn, NY

5. The negotiations- Rabbi Shalom Z Berger Knowing that our claim to the Land is true and that the enemy's claim is spurious is a precondition for rallying the support that is necessary for a successful engagement with the enemy.

6
. People of the Book - The Rebbe says that
the physical act is necessary: to settle the entire Land of Israel!-


 7. Dr. Roy Neuberger - Thought about Tammuz


8.  Lev U'neshama Help our Brethren in Tsefat

9. ACTION ALERT!!! MATTOT ARIM
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1. Rabbi Moshe Tendler's visit to Temple Mount. Chareidi reaction. 102 comments before my own (see next item) which may or may not be published. Go to link to read comments.


http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=20793

Reprinted from Temple Institute: 

(Click HERE for photos) Rabbi Moshe Tendler, rabbi of The Community Synagogue of Monsey, senior Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Professor of Jewish Medical Ethics and Professor of Biology at Yeshiva College, and son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, paid a visit to the Temple Mount on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, 5768, (Thursday, July 3, 2008), in the company of the Temple Institute's Founder, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, and Institute Director, Yehudah Glick. Joining them was Rabbi Tendler's grandson Avraham.

During the course of the visit the group recited prayers, including Kadish, Birkat Kohanim, and Barchu. The group also sat as a Bet Din, (Rabbinical Court) to perform Zecher Lekidush Hachodesh, ( a re-enactment of the Temple era pronouncement of the New Moon by the Sanhedrin).

Rabbi Tendler declared that he intends to encourage his students as well as members of his community to ascend Har Habayit (the Temple Mount).

2. Robin Ticker's response to the comments on YWN Yeshiva World Network.



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Thank you Rabbi Chananya Weissman for comment #102 (see below).  I too will not be afraid to sign my name.

 Ever since plans for the disengagement was announced, approximately following Pesach 2005, I and other lovers of Eretz Yisroel called and begged Rabbanim in Agudath Yisroel of America and MOetzet Gedoilei Hatorah and the Yeshivishe world to speak out for Eretz Yisroel.  We begged them to put a Kol Korei that Hashem promised Eretz Yisroel to the seed of Avraham Yitzchok and Yaakov exclusively as an everlasting inheritance and we in turn our obligated to keep the Mitzvoth such as Shemittah and other Mitzvoth read at Hakhel and all the Mitzvoth of the entire Torah which reach ultimate fulfillment in Eretz Yisroel, Eretz Hakodesh. 
 
Moshe Rabbeinu did not merit to lead Am Yisroel into Eretz Yisroel but he prepared them for Eretz Yisroel by teaching them how to live once they have entered the Land. All of Sefer Devarim is devoted to Mitzvoth Teluyot Baaretz and how we must live in the Land.
 
Is it mere coincidence that it was following the the Pesach  of the 4th year of the shemittah cycle, the year where Vidui Maaser is required, that that the decree of the expulsion was declared in the Knesset. Is it coincidence that the expulsion of Gush Katif came on Tisha Baav, the bitter yahrzeit of the Chait Hamiraglim? 

Gush Katif was a farming community with millions of Shekalim if not billions in exports.  I thought to myself, perhaps we should be concentrating on whether vidui maaser was done properly.  Let me stop my discussion by saying that this is in no way to denigrate the righteous Jews of Gush Katif.  Lehefach.  They have such love for Eretz Yisroel that puts the rest of Am Yisroel to shame.  Yet like all great and righteous people perhaps Hashem judges them with hairline precision.  No. Even if there was lapses in their observance of vidui maaser the fault was primarily with the rest of Am Yisroel who simply did not value Hashem's gift of Eretz Yisroel.  The fault I believe lies with the Hamonei Am that has failed to see that after 2000 years, with nissim geluyim that were so obvious in 1967, following the churban of Nazi Germany, there is finally Jewish Sovereignty and the possibility of actually observing Vidui Maaser in Eretz Yisroel.  The majority of the "frum" and secular in Eretz Yisroel and in the Diaspora did not join the 250,000 precious Jews that davened bitterly at the Kotel and in Nevei Dekalim and the other shuls in Gush Katif, crying to the Rebonei shel Olam begging Hashem to allow Jewish presence to remain on Eretz Hakodesh.  If there truly existed a yearning to keep the Mitzvoth teluyot Baaretz then surely the "frum" world would join with their brothers and cry to Hashem "but who will keep these Mitzvoth if not us?"  Will a peaceful state of Palestine practice Shemittah and bring the Kedusha and blessings to the entire world?
 
 I agree with the chareidim that Heter Mechira is not the answer to Shemittah but in all due respect the religious Zionists did not wish to sell Eretz Yisroel to the Goyim, they saw it as a temporary, symbolic selling recognizing the weakness in Emunah in our generation.  However, the "frum" world will yell about Heter Mechira, a symbolic selling,  but have no qualms about actually giving the land to the Goyim.  Where was their outcry by Annapolis when President Bush and Condeleeza Rice openly and proudly presented the 2 State Solution.   Shemittah for the "frum" community apparently can be observed w/o Eretz Yisroel.  Simply buy from the Arabs, paying ridiculously  high prices to benefit those that wish to destroy us.  Is this the proper spirit of Shabbat Haaretz? 
 
I suppose the Yeshiva world will argue that all this is not relevant.  The spirit of Shabbat in the Shemittah year is nice in theory alone.  How many tiyulim were there to all the fields that were declared hefker so that people could pick at will and then party with the Kiddush spirit of Shabbos?  I suppose these dreams are only for those who actually believe that the Torah means what it says and says what it means. It is only for young children who have Emunah Peshuta and read the Chumash and actually believe Peshuto shel Mikreh.
 
Well I personally went to the P'eylim Lev LAchim office in Coney Island Ave and asked the Executive Director Rabbi Joseph C. Karmel how come their map clearly shows that all the offices of P'Eylim Lev Laachim are within the green line and all of Yehudah and the Shomron are depicted in a different shade of green  and marked "Arab Populated Areas". Apparently, disengaging from Yehudah and Shomron by P'Eylim Lev Lachim preceded Annapolis and any talk of a 2 State Solution. They disengaged Judea and Samaria on their map. On their map there is not even one city marked in Yehudah and the Shomron. This map was proudly displayed in  a 22 page glossy advertisement/pr publication  for P'Eylim Lev L'Achim headlined as the Movement of Gedolei Yisroel, with pictures and names of 38 chashuva Gedolei Yisroel on the back cover who either were the organizers of P'Eylim Lev LAchim and/or sent blessings to P'Eylim Lev L'Achim. This  map was proudly displayed in their office in Coney Island Ave.  Fundraising for Peylim Lev L'achim was done in Yeshivot in Flatbush where unknowingly the young students including my own son were collecting for Jews of Eretz Yisroel but not for those that lived in the Shtachim. In fact doing Sherut Leumi, such a tremendous help to the Yishuvim were discouraged by Lev L'Achim's "kiruv" work as not being "frum" enough for religious girls.  Let the nurseries and kindergardens in the Yishuvim fend for themselves w/o the sherut Leumi girls.
 
 I asked Rabbi Karmel how come there were no offices in Yehuda and Shomron. I mentioned that I lived in Kiryat Arba in the 80's and I could assure him that there were very beautiful Jewish population centers and cities all the way from Hebron to Yerushalyim.  The most beautiful Torah communities imaginable.  How could they print a map of Eretz Yisroel and leave out Hebron or Shchem? 
 
I asked him what the Gedoilim had to say about the Disengagement of Gush Katif?  He answered me that Rav Shteinman was asked precisely this when he came to visit America and he himself was a witness to his answer. 
 
Rav Shteinman answered in 3 words, Rav Karmel proudly informed me.  Rav Shteinman answered in simply 3 words. These were the three words.  "NISHT INZERE SUGIA".    What? I said to myself.  Are you not embarrased to tell me this?  What about all the glossy PR for Kupat Hair, Vaad Harabbonim Le'inyanei Tzedaka B'Eretz Hakodesh, Agudas Bais Binyamin- A Tzedaka Organization led by Gedolei Hador shlita, Havaad Haarzi - Bais Vaad the Organization  for Families in Distress under the Direction of the Great Torah Sages of our Generation speaking about Kol Yisroel Areivim Zeh Lezeh.  Are the now poor people of Gush Katif who were originally prosperous now not qualified as being eligible because they simply came from a place that does not apparently exist?  How about all the thousands that had to flee Sderot because of their proximity to the new Arab populated Gush Katif.  Do the Gedoilim really share in their pain?  If so why is there such silence when 200,000 Jews of Judea and Samaria are slated for a similar fate of those of Gush Katif and the rest of Israel including P'Eylim Lev L'Achim offices within firing range of Judea and Samaria? 

 How will all these worthy Tzedakas raise enough money for their poor in Bnei Brak and other areas if they have to compete with the newly poor 200,000 people of Judea and Samaria.  The generous benefactors in Chutz Laaretz will be inundated with Tzedaka requests much too much to bear.
 
Since the Gedoilim do not go on the internet are the Gedoilim aware of the imprisonment of precious Jews like the Halamish Brothers, Rivka Meirchik, Shimshon Citron, and the Hilstein Brothers for the crime of protesting further expulsions from Eretz Yisroel? 
 
Why are the non Jews speaking publicly for a new USA/Israel foreign policy based on G-d's Covenant with Israel and the Gedoilim are not. (Hutchensin, Bill Hellman CIPAC, James Vinyard...) Torah is Torah even when quoted by non Jews.  These non Jew have written a resolution sent to Senator McCain stating that Oslo, the expulsion from Gush Katif, the Roadmap and the 2 State Solution are complete failures.  They see that any future Land for Peace deals are equally potentially disasterous and dangerous and they say so publicly. Therefore that put together a resolution asking for a New USA/Israel foreign policiy based on G-d's Covenant with Israel.
 
The Gedoilim apparently agree privately but publicly they choose silence. What do the followers  of Gedolei Yisroel believe? Just read these posts. Do they have a clue that Eretz Yisroel is their entitlement?  Have they rejected Hashem's precious gift to Am Yisroel as being irrelevent to their lives and to their Yiddishkeit.

  Torah can exist w/o Eretz Yisroel as it has for 2000 in Galus.  All their prayers for Yerushalyim and the Bais Hamikdash are for when Moshiach comes and not for now.
 
How then do they explain how the Jews were allowed to conquer Eretz Yisroel in the time of Yehoshua and the Shoftim and Neviim w/o a King?  Didn't the Neviim complain that they rejected the Mitzvoth? 
 
Do we really need Moshiach to keep Shemittah?  However we do need the Land to keep this Mitzvah.  This Mitzvah was not irrelevant in the time of Yehoshua. Shoftim.  Are the farmers in the parts of Eretz Yisroel within the green Land the only Jews that are obligated in Shemittah?  I suppose the other communities of Jews residing in Judea and Samaria are invisible not worthy even of a location marker on a map and their boundaries do not coincide with the boundaries of Eretz Yisroel delineated in the Torah.  Their map agrees with the politics of the present Israeli gov't and not with the delineated boundaries in Chumash.   Isn't it ironic that the Gedoilim do not make statements regarding our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel based on Torah.   They say such a statement is Politics and they do not make political staements/.
 
I do not know Rabbi Tendler personally but I do know some of the Rabbanim from Temple Institute.  I can attest to the fact that when these Rabbanim of Temple Institute davan and when their children davan and read Tanach the Torah is alive and relevant. Their Torah is real and not simply the Emperers cloths embellished in the imagination.
 
Sincerely, Mrs. Robin (Stern) Ticker
 
a mere woman that has gotten strength of conviction from Hevron Ir HaAvot our forefathers, true role models and recipients of Hashem's Covenant with Am Yisroel giving Eretz Yisroel as an everlasting Covenant for generation to generation on condition that we observe the Mitzvoth.

3. Rabbi Chananya Weissman's reaction to the comments on YWN.

Normally I do not post messages on blogs, since they are a waste of time and they seem to attract the lowest elements of our society. However, Rabbi Moshe Tendler is both a great man and my Rebbe, and I will not be guilty of allowing him to be degraded by vulgar people without protesting.
  1. And, unlike the vast majority of you bitter fools, I have no problem signing my real name to my comments and standing by my words.

    Shame on you.

    The self-proclaimed "Yeshiva world" blows a lot of steam about respect for Talmidei Chachamim and following "Da'as Torah". Of course, only certain yeshivos merit to be part of this exclusive "Yeshiva world"; other yeshivos are smugly looked down upon as not being "real" yeshivos or part of this world.

    Da'as Torah is code for the right to have an opinion about anything, and no one outside their narrow circles is so privileged. Yet, there are really no opinions in the world, only a party line. If the greatest of their Gedolim decided that studying science, working for a living, asking a girl out on a date, etc. is perfectly okay, he would be summarily stripped of his Da'as Torah. The same man who is assumed to be infallible and impossible to comprehend today would be thrown out like garbage tomorrow if he went against the party line. Da'as Torah comes and goes according to the pre-determined whims of an intellectual mob, who reserve the right to ridicule and abuse those they disagree with.

    The rabbinic leaders of this exclusive world are supposed to be universally revered without question, and any implication that they are less than perfect, let alone far less than that, is met with a violent response. Of course, rabbinic leaders who do not subscribe to the narrow-as-a-pin ideology of the "Yeshiva world" are not considered to be rabbis altogether, let alone leaders who should be respected. At most the "Yeshiva world" will derisively refer to such rabbis as leaders of Modern Orthodoxy, which is a clever way of feigning respect for them while simultaneously dismissing them as irrelevant to the "frum community". Yet, again, THEIR leaders are supposed to relevant to everyone, and pity the one who suggests otherwise.

    The "Yeshiva world" and its anonymous henchmen get to decide who has "Da'as Torah" and who doesn't. A clear formula has never been provided for us. We're just supposed to follow the crowd and cower before whoever yells the loudest.

    This is not a new phenomenon. I only wonder how this Olam Ha'sheker has gained such dominance and how those of us who know better have meekly allowed this to happen.

    Notice how Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a true Talmid Chacham and one of the finest people I have been privileged to encounter, is referred to in the most vulgar and degrading of terms by Chelmites who aren't worthy to shine his shoes. Notice how they presume superior knowledge, while presuming that Rabbi Tendler needs permission from their perverse "Da'as Torah" to make a decision.

    These same monkeys would throw a fit if anyone suggested Rabbi Elyashiv, or Rabbi Kanievsky, or some such figure were less than perfect, yet a Talmid Chacham outside their immediate comfort zone is fair game for the most disgusting of attacks.

    Did THEY consult their vaunted "Da'as Torah" before posting this "expose" on a great man who needs approval from no one, least of all anonymous fools? For that matter, didn't their "Da'as Torah" forbid the Internet?

    People, wake up. Our Judaism and our Torah have been hijacked by people who resort to intimidation and intellectual suppression to insure that their community speaks with one voice. They have created a perverse religion of "Da'as Torah" that continues to drift farther and farther away from the Torah, even as their proclamations in the name of Torah become louder and more shrill.

    No one from this community will stand up and defend Rabbi Tendler for the sake of Kavod HaTorah. Let our community, whose membership is diverse, contemplative, intelligent, educated, worldly, and self-supporting stand up for itself. Let us no longer allow others to proclaim themselves exclusive title-holders to a "yeshiva world", or "Da'as Torah", or frumkeit, or in charge of who is a Gadol and who is not even a rabbi.

    Who are these people anyway, and what gives them any influence if not our own cowardice?

    Well, YOUR cowardice, perhaps. They don't frighten me. But you do — if you will continue to stay silent.

    Signed as always,
    (Rabbi) Chananya Weissman, privileged to be a talmid of Rabbi Moshe Tendler

    Comment by chananya_weissman — July 10, 2008 @ 7:48 pm


4. Meeting with Rabbi Yeshayahu Hollander member of Sanhedrin Rabbinical Court of Bnei Noach in Brooklyn, NY and in Queens.

Rabbi Hollander, Rebbe and educator par excellence, member of the Sanhedrin and Rabbinical court of the Bnei Noach met with a group of activists in Brooklyn and the next day in Queens.   After a dvar Torah in Tehillim there was a very productive given and take between Rabbi Hollender and the activists regarding the collective silence of mainstream Jewish organizations and how we can effect change.   Rabbi Hollendar also met with the World Committee forEretz Yisroel the next day in Queens.  We walked away from the meeting feeling stronger and resolute.  Rabbi Hollander is a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, subject to controversy and mockery but they did speak with clarity against the expulsion from Gush Katif and for those that have been imprisoned because of their activism and protest to any Land for peace negotiations.


5. The negotiations Rabbi Shalom Z. Berger

The Shiur was given on Tamuz 5767
Written by the rabbi

Dedicated to the speedy recovery of
Yehudah ben Hadasah Hinde Malkah

...When Yiftah HaGiladi (Shoftim 11-12, a section of which is this week's haftarah) needs to defend Am Yisrael from the attacks of the Amonites, he responds not only with a successful military defense, but first and foremost with a historical refutation of the Amonites' claim to the Land. Knowing that our claim to the Land is true and that the enemy's claim is spurious is a precondition for rallying the support that is necessary for a successful engagement with the enemy.

In our own day it is essential that we be knowledgeable about the history of Eretz Yisrael - both ancient and modern - so that we will be able to refute the false claims of others, and even more so, that we will understand that it is our right and destiny to live there.

6. People of the Book

Weekly publication by True Peace on issues related to peace and security in Israel.  

    Issue no. 198 • 1 Tamuz, 5768 - July 4, 2008   www.TruePeace.org   E- Mail: LetsTalkPeace@TruePeace.org

 The obligation to settle the land Part 2 of 2

In his address of Pesach Sheini, 5738 (1978), the Rebbe

said that there is an immediate need to populate the entire

eastern border of the Holy Land, adding: "This is literally

a matter of security for three-and-a-half million Jews!"

The Rebbe always mentioned in his addresses the saying

of the Sages, "Action is the main thing." He also mentions

this saying in connection with the indivisibility of the Land

of Israel, which is an important and fateful issue. In his

public address of 13 Tishrei 5738 (1977), the Rebbe stresses

that action is the main thing with regard to the integrity of

the land:

The entire Land of Israel should be populated, along its entire

boundaries. This is similar to that which is said regarding Torah

and mitzvos — just as we must perform the actual physical act,

so must it be regarding the integrity of the Land of Israel — the

physical act is necessary: to settle the entire Land of Israel!

7. Dr. Roy Neuberger THOUGHTS FOR THE MONTH OF TAMMUZ

Dear Friends:

 

Now we enter the difficult days of summer.  Is it not amazing that the non-Jewish world looks upon these days as representing FREEDOM, HAPPINESS, VACATION, RELEASE FROM RESTRAINT, PLEASURE, and we - lehavdil - the Nation of G-d , look upon them as the greatest challenge of our year, the days during which our greatest tragedies have occurred.

 

Just to walk down the street in the summer is a huge test.  In Jerusalem last week, I saw a man with a cloth hanging down from the front of his hat to shield his eyes from what he should not see.  He was negotiating the sidewalk as best he could.  We must guard our eyes and our souls.  We must try to erase the pollution which is eating away at our souls. 

 

Under the burning sun of Eretz Yisroel, tragic and horrific events occurred during this season, and they did not occur for no reason.

 

Please, my dear friends, listen to the words of the Yom Tov Mussaf service, which we recently said on Shavuos: "Because of our sins we have been exiled from our land and sent far from our soil.  We cannot ascend to appear and to prostate ourselves before You, and to perform our obligations in the ... great and holy House upon which Your Name was proclaimed, because of the hand that was dispatched against Your Sanctuary."

 

Someone said on our return from Israel, "Welcome back to Golus." Do you think our Exile is over?  Is Exile only outside the Land of Israel? 

 

No, my friends, it is not so.  Ask anyone in Sderot if the Exile is over.  In Ashkelon! In the Golan Heights!  In Yehuda and Shomron! 

 

Ask any perceptive Jew in the heart of Yerushalayim or Bnai Brak ... or Borough Park ... anywhere!

 

Why did it happen?  "Because of our sins."

 

How will it be cured? Because of our teshuva, our repentance!  It's all in our hands.

 

My dear friends, the headlines proclaim, "Truce with Hamas."  On our recent flight an El Al stewardess said to me, "Now perhaps we will have peace."

 

LET'S WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

 

"Eichah... Alas, she sits in solitude.  The City that was great with people has become like a widow.  The greatest among nations the princess among provinces, has become a tributary. She weeps bitterly in the night and her tear is on her cheek."

 

We sit among ashes on the FORTY NINTH LEVEL of degradation, wandering aimlessly and leaderless, lost in Exile, a Nation almost devoid of unity and hope.

 

IS OUR HOPE TO MAKE A TREATY WITH A NATION THAT HAS HATED US SINCE THE DAYS OF OUR FATHER ABRAHAM?  HOW NAÏVE CAN WE BE?  HOW THIS SOPHISTICATED, BRILLIANT NATION GRASPS AT STRAWS! 

 

ALL BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO DO TESHUVA!

 

The Torah warns us [1] against making treaties with our enemies.  There is absolutely NO SECURITY in that.  ONLY ONE PEACE TREATY COUNTS: PEACE AMONG AM YISROEL AND PEACE WITH OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN!  IT IS ALL THE SAME, MY FRIENDS.  PEACE WITH G-D WILL COME IMMEDIATELY AS SOON AS THERE IS PEACE AMONG HIS CHILDREN. 

 

It is well-known that we are in Exile today because of Sinas Chinom [2] unwarranted hatred among the Children of Israel.  But the question is: do we believe it?  We pay lip service to achdus and ahavas chinom, love among our family, but do we live as if our lives depend on it? 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT: OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT!

 

There is NOTHING ELSE of importance except this!  NOTHING!  If we would become once again like "one man with one heart" as we were at Mount Sinai, and stand together before our G-d saying once again, "Na'ase v'nishma," we will live Your Torah, the Redemption would come in the blink of an eye!  The entire world would instantly be at peace, our internal and external enemies would have disappeared before we knew it, the Temple would stand upon Mount Zion and Moshiach ben Dovid would reign forever in Jerusalem the Holy City. 

 

IT IS UP TO US AND ONLY US.  HAMAS IS NOTHING!  IRAN IS NOTHING!  BIN LADEN IS NOTHING!  THEIR THREATS AND BULLETS HAVE POWER ONLY BECAUSE THE POISON REMAINS IN OUR HEARTS! 

 

As Kalev says to the Children of Israel: "You should not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has departed from them." [3]

 

TESHUVA!  ACHDUS!

 

THERE IS NOTHING ELSE, MY FRIENDS.  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!   MAY WE SEE THE GLORIOUS DAY OF OUR REDEMPTION THIS MONTH, AND BRING HEALING TO THE WORLD!

 

 

With love and hope, Roy S. Neuberger


8.  Lev U'neshama Help our Brethren in Tsefat


We are resending this invitation to remind you about our upcoming dinner in Denver as well as to correct the email address for reservations. Please note the correct e-mail address: tllidstone@aol.com

Lev U'Neshama
Heart and Soul
Tzfat, Israel
First Annual Benefit Dinner
Sunday July 27th, 2008
5:30 PM
East Side Kosher Deli, Banquet Room
499 South Elm Street
Denver, Colorado

Guest Speaker: Rabbi Yossi Serebryanski
Topic: Tzedakah, The other side of the coin
Silent Auction and Door Prizes
Reservations: Terre Lidstone
Phone: 303 750-1999
Email: tllidstone@aol.com
$36.00 per person
Proceeds to the Lev U'Neshama Food Fund

This invitation in its original format was sent to all our friends in Colorado. However we also want our friends and supporters outside of Colorado to know about this exciting event. The proceeds from this evening will be used to continue to provide the monthly food boxes for 144 needy families who are presently on our list.

We know that many people would like to attend this dinner but because of distance are not able to. However, if you cannot attend in person you can still be with us in spirit. We are planning a display that will include an empty plate to symbolize what many Tzfat families often face regardless of the time of year. This will be accompanied by a listing of those who have sent in donations to help us keep these plates filled. In this way you can join those who are attending the dinner.

Donations of any amount must be received by July 21st in order that your name and location will be included in the display. Please send your check payable to Lev U'Neshama to: Smolensky, c/o Quezada, 2285 Forest Street, Denver, CO 80207. If you want a tax receipt please contact Yaffa at: mortsmo@aol.com. Your participation will be gratefully accepted.

9. ACTION ALERT!!! MATTOT ARIM

29 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER -- YOU CAN HELP THEM

 

As you know, terrorists are about to be released into the streets of the free world, however, this "deal" is fortunately not yet final. The chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Zachi Hanegbi, caused a sensation when he revealed to Maariv this week that last time, 29 Israelis were murdered by terrorists who were released by the Sharon government, within only 18 months of the release date.

 

Be part of the solution -- not part of the problem. We can all help save the next 29 lives. Jot down the telephone number of Prime Minister Olmert's office on a piece of paper: 02-6705555. Then, call that office EVERY DAY unless G-d forbid you hear that Samir Kuntar and the other terrorists have been released. Say to the phone-person who answers: "I would like to dictate to you, a message for the Prime Minister". Dictate a short message, and ask the phone-person to please read it back to you to make sure it's right.

 

Thank you so much for caring. Incidentally you are helping not only innocent Israelis but ALSO the families of the soldiers, because when people pressure the government to release terrorists, foolishly thinking they are helping the families, the result is in fact the exact opposite (as disclosed by Maariv deputy editor Ben-Dror Yemini this week): the terrorist organizations immediately jack up their demands. So, do the right thing - make a daily phone call to Olmert with a message:  DON'T RELEASE TERRORISTS. You can fax, too: 02-6546717. Pass this on, please.

 

 

ARE YOU AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY TO ORANGE DEMONSTRATORS?

If you are against police brutality toward orange demonstrators, please join the people who attend the trials against violent policemen, who attacked young people (and some elderly people as well) in Amona, Gush Katif and other places where demonstrations were held. The next trial is this Wednesday in JERUSALEM. 9 July, 11:30 AM, Hashalom CourtHouse, Judge Berkley presiding. In case there are last minute changes in the schedule, call Evelyn at  0524831905 before you leave for the courthouse. Many thanks for participating in this and showing the justice system that there are people who care  (that makes the judges "sit up" and take these matters seriously)

 

RAMAT HA-GOLAN, WE LOVE YOU

If you love the Golan and can devote one-half an hour to the Golan, from the privacy of your own home, please contact mattot.arim@gmail.com write "RAMAT HA-GOLAN" in the subject line of your email, and indicate your place of residence and name. Thank you!

 

HEADS OF GUSH ETZION CALL MEETING RE SHDEMA

Friday, Tamuz 8 (11.7.08) at 10:00, meeting in Gush Etzion Matnas, Alon Shvut, re Shedma. Shdema, between Jerusalem and Gush Etzion,  is located in Zone C (under full Israeli control). Despite opposition by senior officers in the IDF, the government is favorably considering transferring the area to the Palestinian Authority -- a very dangerous precedent indeed.

Speakers: *       Shaul Goldstein, Head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council *       Rav Ya'akov Medan, head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva *       Rav Yaron Dorani, Rav of Nokdim 

At 11:00 -- bus to Shdema.  Estimated time of return: 13:00. Monday, Tamuz 11 (14.7.08): all night kumsitz (bonfire) at Shdema

 

For Particulars please call the committee for Jewish Shdema:

Ruti Walfish (Tekoa) 02-9964956   Anita Finkelstein (Tekoa) 050-5777254  Eli Rodan (Elazar) 054-4993529

 

SUNDAY, July 13th,2008, at 10:30 am, VIGIL IN JERUSALEM

The Levinstein -Harel brothers are rotting in jail for 40 and 30 months for planning to block a highway with a burning car as a form of protest against the disengagement. Using a section of the Law, Section 332, which is intended for perpetrators who INTENTIONALLY endanger lives, the brothers, who did not actually block the highway at all, hurt no-one, are fathers of young children and have no criminal record, were sentenced to 30 and 40 months in jail.  

*Vigil in front of the Presidents house in Jerusalem (Jabotinsky street) to demand their  release. For details call Ayelet 054-8147151

 

 



 

 






Thursday, July 03, 2008

5769.10.01 Israel the Land of My Posession. SHDEMA, Religious Parties have UNITED! Phil Chernofsky, Paul Eidelberg, Gimmel Tammuz


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Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5768
July 3, 2008

1. Shdema - A Must Read to Know who our Enemies are!   Investigative report of Sharon Katz in Voices! It is lengthy but a must read! If you are too sleepy make sure to go back and read it when you are awake. Campaign of Decolonization of the Jews.

2. Portions of Tanach in response to the investigative report above regarding Shdema. Not to be ignored

3. Religious Parties UNITED in Statement against Toeva Parade!!!!!he Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces i(I am sure Manhigut is also against this impurade but I'm not sure why their name was not on. (Robin))

4.Phil Chernofsky in Torah Tidbits. Re: Chareidim in IDF. Never too late to do Teshuva

5. Paul Eidelberg.  The Majority of Jews in Israel are against Land for Peace.  The Knesset does not reflect the will of the people due to a system which encourages bribery and no accountability of MK's to constituency.  Israel needs electoral reform. Shas is major culprit.

6. Gimmel Tammuz CROWN HTS WOMEN FOR THE SAFETY AND INTEGRITY OF ISRAEL  Today Thursday July 3rd. You can also see on archives!



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1. Shdema -

From: Nadia & David Matar [mailto:nmatar@netvision.net.il]
Subject: The struggle for a Jewish Shdema-

          Dear friends,

                     The following are new, and shocking, details on what is happening in Shdema and in the struggle for Shdema.

           First of all, mark the following dates, on which we are planning activities for a Jewish Shdema. Make every effort to come, and to bring additional activists who love Eretz Israel.

 A) Friday, July 11, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in the Gush Etzion community center (Matnas):

gathering and tour for a Jewish Shdema, with the participation of public figures, settlement secretariats, and activists from all over Israel

Details regarding the speakers at the gathering will be provided in the coming days.

           The gathering in the community center will be short and purposeful. At 11:00 we will travel together by bus to Shdema, where we will tour the area and plan the activities for the coming weeks.

 

          It is very important to attend the gathering and participate in the tour, in order to see with your own eyes what is happening at Shdema, and how international anarchists are attempting to take over the location (details below). Estimated return to the Gush Etzion community center at 1:30 p.m.

          Those planing to arrive for the gathering and tour are requested to send an e-mail, so we will have an idea of how many people will participate and order buse accordingly. Send an e-mail to:

eli7@womeningreen.org.il
 

B) Monday, July 14, 2008: a kumsitz and sleeping at the Shdema camp

          Reserve the date. Precise details of the program for the day will be sent by e-mail in the coming days.

          We will arrive at Shdema in the late afternoon, and we will repaint the buildings after the anarchists painted over what we had done about a month ago.

          With God's help, we will remain at Shdema until morning. It is important that many people come for this activity, as well.

          The more we engage in activities at Shdema and increase the Jewish presence at the site, we will succeed, with God's help, in returning it to our hands and turning it into a Jewish settlement.

           New details follow regarding Shdema and the anarchists involved in their activities there. A report by Hodayah Karish-Hazoni appeared in Mekor Rishon in the last Shabbat issue..

           We are grateful to Sharon Katz,  Efrat resident, the editor of the Voices magazine, who accompanied us on one of the tours to Shdema, discovered the activity by the anarchists, and wrote a lengthy investigative article on the subject in her magazine. A link to Sharon Katz's article in Voices will be available soon.

           Also enclosed is a letter signed by rabbis and public figures, mainly from the Har Homah-Gush Etzion-Kiriat Arba-Hebron area, who warn the Defense Minister of what is happening at Shdema, and demand that this be dealt with speedily.

 With the blessing of  "Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it" (Numbers 13:30)

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema

 for information:

Rabbi Yaron Durani, Rabbi of Nokdim

Yehudit 02-9961292

Anita 0505-777254

Nadia 0505-500834

Datia 0505-246770

 Shdema:

Shdema is the abandoned army camp on the Jerusalem-eastern Gush Etzion road, not far from Har Homah. Despite the camp being in Area C (Israeli control), the government gave the OK to the PLO  Authority to establish an Arab neighborhood there in the near future.

           About a month and a half ago we began the struggle for the establishment of a Jewish city at Shdema, and the security forces removed us. Since then, we have been returning in small groups to examine what is happening and to plan the continuation of the struggle. To our amazement, we recently encountered groups of international anarchists who are trying to take control of the location. Sharon Katz conducted an investigation of who these anarchists are, and the results are simply amazing.

           Actually, there are many international elements involved and mixed together.

          There is the CURE organization that builds hospitals in Muslim countries in order to "draw the Muslims closer" and the like. According to what is written in their site, they are building a hospital for the children of Beit Sahur in the vicinity of Shdema, but it is not certain that this is exactly where the army camp is located. They are the ones who tell us they have $16,500,000 to develop the hospital.

           And there are two more names: Paidia, Oush Grab

          Paidia is building the Forrest Adventure Gardens on "an abandoned Israeli army base."

          They call the Shdema area "Oush Grab."

           They work together with an NGO of very organized anarchists and artists (Arabs, Europeans, Americans, and at least one Jew from London named Eyal Weizmann) who set up a truly horrible web site based entirely on the ideology of decolonization. That is, a web site that analyzes the question, "How to deal with the great architectural problem: what to do with the remains of the settlements when they will be destroyed and dismantled in the future." Decolonization means, of course, the dismantling of the settlements. That is, we have here a band of Israel-haters who professionally plan the dismantling of our settlements.

          They write "Architecture is speculation, but we are providing real answers to what can be done on the ground." And, actually, anyone who enters the site sees that they have built an instructive professional plan, with maps, aerial photographs, and the like, of a considerable portion of the settlements: how to dismantle them, how to use the houses after being dismantled, etc.

           They are a group of dozens of people who meet on a weekly basis and discuss this issue.

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=40

           They say:

"We have chosen the settlement of Psagot as a test case, because it is close to Ramallah and el-Bireh."

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=39
     

          Eyal Weizmann explains the national need to, first of all, destroy everything that has been built by the settlers, and shows photographs of Shdema when the Arabs destroyed the military structures.

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=12

                     After the locals destroy, then comes the next stage: dismantling (or destruction).

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=49
       

          What to do with the settlers' houses - how to dismantle them and use them - to turn them into public buildings? into a school classroom?

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=48

And on and on.

          You should take a look at their site - it's a good idea to first take a pill against nausea.

           The chapter on "Vision" has photographs of Shdema and the "vision" to transform the army base into a gigantic site for the showing of movies, to give the Palestinians a good feeling about an area that was once occupied

and that this will become an area from which "Palestine can be seen."

http://www.decolonizing.ps/site/?page_id=11

                   And then there is the Paidia organization, which sends volunteer activists into the field to live with the Arabs and to help them. These are the same ones we met there. If we wondered what strange games they are playing, then here below is a  letter to their activists.

Clearly, using "games" and faking "educational projects" has become the anarchists' tactic to steal the land of the Jews and  to push their real goal:  the destruction of the settlement enterprise and ultimately the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel.

Their letter:

http://www.pidev.org/new.htm


2. Portions of Tanach in response to the investigative report above regarding Shdema. Not to be ignored. Thank you Rafael Rabinovitz for this link


(במדבר פרק לג, פסוקים נ עד נ״ו )

http://rafvrab.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html

Posted August 4, 2005

And HaShem spoke to Moses, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho, saying: Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan.

Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places; you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess. And ye shall take for yourselves the land as an inheritance by lot according to your families: to the many ye shall increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance: where the lot falleth to him, there shall be each man's [inheritance]; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye take for yourselves the inheritance. But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell. And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.

Numbers (Bamidbar) 33:50-56

3. Religious Parties have UNITED in Statement against Toeva Parade!!!!!he Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces (I am sure Manhigut is also against this impurade but I'm not sure why their name was not on. robin.)

Frum Parties Call on Authorities to Move To'eva Parade Indoors

A letter was sent to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the chief of police, calling upon them to move Thursday's scheduled to'eva parade in Yerushalayim to an indoor venue.

The Shas, National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and National Union Parties have joined forces in their effort, along with Israel's chief rabbis, seeking to compel authorities to move the event to an indoor venue to prevent the chilul Hashem associated with such a happening in the streets of Yerushalayim.

(Yechiel Spira ñ YWN Israel)

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=19936

4.Phil Chernofsky in Torah Tidbits. Teshuva for Chareidim...

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If the Chareidi rabbis had seen serving in the Israeli Army as a crucially important mitzvah, today's IDF would be a strong Torah Defense Force!

Judaism never accepts that things can't be fixed or changed. That's what tshuva, repentance, is all about. We must constantly strive for a higher level of Jewish Life and to correct our, yes, our, mistakes.

5. Paul Eidelberg.  The Majority are against Land for Peace.  The Knesset does not reflect the will of the people due to a system which encourages bribery.  Israel needs electoral reform.

Paul Eidelberg  To Disenfranchise or to Empower the Jewish People

Studies of the Guttman Institute indicate that 25% of Israel's Jewish
population is "orthodox," and at least 50% is "traditional."  No less
than 75% therefore identify with the Jewish heritage.  This
corresponds to the 76% of the Jewish electorate that voted against
the Labor Party's policy of "unilateral disengagement" in the January
2003 election-the paramount issue of that election.

Nevertheless, thanks to political bribery-facilitated by the system
of voting for party slates-the Knesset, by a margin of 67 to 45,
voted for territorial withdrawal and the expulsion of 10,000 Jews
from their homes!  Surely, few if any of the 23 Likud MKs would have
voted for that defeatist and criminal policy had they been
individually accountable to the voters in constituency elections.

This vividly illustrates how Proportional Representation in a single
nationwide electoral district undermines political accountability. It
also shows how PR has diminished Jewish sovereignty over the Land of
Israel and, to that extent, has undermined the Jewish heritage.  (I
have elsewhere cited polls going back to 1992 showing that a
substantial majority of the Jews have opposed surrendering Jewish
land.  See Ariel Center Policy Paper No. 172 for details.)

In view of the preceding facts, I conclude that Shas, by vetoing
constituency elections, perpetuates a system that disenfranchises the
people; and since most of the people identify with the Jewish
heritage and expect law-makers to uphold Jewish beliefs and values,
it follows that Shas, despite its religious orientation, has
undermined, to no small extent, Israel's Jewish character.

6. Gimmel Tammuz CROWN HTS WOMEN FOR THE SAFETY AND INTEGRITY OF ISRAEL  Today Thursday July 3rd. You can also see on archives!

Below is info about our special programs in honor of Gimmel Tammuz for this Thursday as well as an article about the child killer/terrorist Samir Kuntar who is, G-d Forbid, going to be released in the upcoming prisoner exchange the Israeli Knesset agreed to earlier this week.  You can call the White House Call-In line to protest its involvement in this travesty at 202-456-1111.  You can also call the Israeli Embassy in Washington--202-364-5500- to protest the Israeli government's disgusting behaviour in playing politics with the security needs of our fellow Jews both in Eretz Yisroel and outside.
 
 
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CROWN HTS WOMEN

FOR THE SAFETY AND INTEGRITY OF ISRAEL

INVITES YOU TO

                        A SERIES OF

GIMMEL TAMMUZ

SPECIAL EVENTS

 

 

The Shleimus HaAretz Talk Show

  Thursday, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3

     NOON TO 1:30PM NYC time ~ 7 to 8:30pm Israeli time

 

FEATURING

Shleimus HaAretz with the Lubavitcher Rebbe 

Live Interviews:

Rabbi Yaakov Cohen

 The Rebbe, The Arabs and Sheva Mitzvos

Dror Vannunu

  International Coordinator for The Gush Katif Committee

    On the latest housing crisis GK expellees face

Prisoner Release for Samir Kuntar?!--exposing the farce and tragedy of the Camp David Accords

Pidyon Sh'vuim Update  with Mrs. Elly Rodan

AND LOTS MORE!

 

TO JOIN US

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Beginning at 8pm 

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Come and share your learning, thoughts, and ideas for this inyan that means so much to the Rebbe. 

Light refreshments will be served. 

Open to the community, separate seating. 

Want to listen and join in:  Dial 712-451-6000, Access Code: 505946#.

 

The Shleimus HaAretz CD featuring 4 shiurim from the talk show given by Rabbis Shalom Ber Kalmanson and Heshel Greenberg.  You can find the CD on sale in Crown Hts. stores.

Questions/Comments?  Call 718-774-0914 or email Cadelstein@aol.com






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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Fwd: 5768.09.28 Israel the Land of My Possession - RCRF, YITZHAR,Gershon Messika, Money transfers to Hamas, Samir Kundar brutal, Petition to davan at Temple Mount



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28 Sivan 5768
July 1, 2008

 Women In Green update,
1, RCRF  at Kever Rachel Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd,  

2, Chizuk to Yitzhar July 8,

3. Samaria local council Head Gershon Messika! FANTASTIC, MI LAHASHEM EILAI

A7 article sent by Rafi

4.
PM's Office: Money-Transfers to Hamas Is Policy

5. Smadar Haran Kaiser: The World Should Know What  What Samir Kuntar Did to My Family.

6. Petition for Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount sent by Yosef Rabin.....
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Received from Women in Green:

1. RCRF  at Kever Rachel Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd,  

On THURSDAY, July 3, 2008, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, at 9:00 am at Rachels' Tomb- the Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation and Emunah of Jerusalem will have a Tenth Year Anniversary of the Dedication of the RCFRF Sefer Torah to Kever Rachel.

Appreciations by Rabbi Shalom Gold, Recollection by Mina Fenton, City Council of Jerusalem, Reflections and Remembering Adir Zik, Z'l, by Nadia Matar.

Buses will leave the Kings Hotel.
For details rachelschildren@gmail.com or call 054-224-2649


2, Chizuk to Mitzpe Yitzhar July 8, 2008

On TUESDAY, July 8, 2008, Women in Green and the "Rehavia women" will go on a CHIZUK (strengthening) trip to MITZPE YITZHAR in Samaria. We will leave Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem at 9:00 am and return approximately, please G-d, 2:00pm.

In Mitzpe Yitzhar we will visit the three pioneering familes living there. At 11:00 am Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf from Hevron will give a short shiur after which we will tour the area. As usual we will come to strengthen but we will come back strengthened.

Please order your seats by calling Anita 050-5777254 or Nadia 050-5500834

Latest political developments in Israel show  that unfortunately Israel will be stuck with Ehud Olmert as its Prime Minister at least for the next few months.

There is no doubt that Olmert will try to appease the leftists in power in the media and in the State Attorneys office by harming the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria.

The past few weeks have already seen an increase in destruction of so-called "illegal" caravans and homes of Jews living on hilltops in Judea and Samaria. Their so-called "illegality" is that they are defined as such by the US State Department, which ultimately regards even East Jerusalem's Jewish neighborhoods as illegal.

Last week the government came and destroyed some caravans in Yitzhar in Samaria. For a detailed account of what happened: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126557

Other places where the Olmert-Livni-Yishai government plan on destroying homes are Ofra, Har Bracha and Migron, Migron being a community of some forty families.

It is clear that our reaction must be determined and forceful. We must fight like lions for each caravan and each shack that they want to destroy making it clear that the days of Gush Katif are over. Making it clear that in Judea and Samaria nobody will be able to expel us. It must be made clear to the authorities that if destroying just one caravan takes hours and hundreds of security forces, they will, pleae G-d, never succeed in forcing us out of our communities.

In fact, a group of activists have started organizing the "Kol Yisrael areivim Ze la zeh" plan. (All of Israel are responsible for each other). The idea is to organize all over the country protests in reaction to uprooting and destruction of outposts. If for instance the Olmert government sends troops to destroy a caravan in Samaria, not only will local activists make the job very difficult for the troops, but in addition there will be a avalanche of reactions all over the country - protests, road blocking, etc.
Women in Green is joining this effort. We will update you on any uprooting or destruction and will inform you as to how you can join the protest whether it is by actually joining the demonstration or by sending faxes of protest to your local embassies in the States.

One of the local leaders who understand that now is the time to be tough, is Samaria local council Head Gershon Messika. When many more leaders will speak like Gershon Messika (see news item below) Israel will finally be in much better shape.

With Love of Israel,

Ruth and Nadia Matar
Women in Green


3. Samaria local council Head Gershon Messika! FANTASTIC, MI LAHASHEM EILAI

Samaria Leader: Migron will be 'Second Amona'
by Gil Ronen, IsraelNN.com
June 28, l008

Shomron Regional Council Head Gershon Masika said Wednesday that the struggle over the community of Migron, which the government has slated for demolition, will be "a second Amona" and will make that confrontation look like no more than an "opening shot."

In an interview for this weekend's issue of SOS-Israel's leaflet, "Eretz Yisrael Shelanu," Masika said: "The attempt to make ourselves look beautiful for the general public and show them that we are nice, not 'extremists,' and want to connect to them with love, doesn't work. The general public understands nuances and it understood that in the struggle for Gush Katif we were not determined enough to hold on to the land.

"The result of the policy that led to the expulsion is that nobody gives a hoot about the expellees. They were thrown to the dogs and they are down and out and humiliated in refugee camps. Experience has thus shown that we need to change the policy. Our line of argumentation is not political, but very simple: the Land of Israel is ours and we will not give up a single grain of sand. Besides that, the concessions cause Jewish blood to be spilled."

'Go on the offensive'
"It is time to switch to an offensive war and stop being on the defensive all the time," Masika said. "We need to shout that the emperor has no clothes. The governments took us from bad to worse, from concession to concession, and brought us down to the gates of hell. They have no ideological or security value anymore, and they only serve our enemies."

Asked about the events at Yitzhar last week, he said: "The evacuation did not proceed with ease. There was serious resistance with dozens wounded on both sides. And the main thing is that by the grace of G-d, on the same night of the destruction of the structure, the new caravan at Givat Shaked was built, which shows great determination.

"As council head I tried to be there and prevent the violence and rioting by the uniform-wearers against the wonderful, devoted and ideological youth that is worthy of all praise. We admire this wonderful youth, that is the pride of Judea and Samaria and gives us great pride."

Not lambs any more
"The lesson of Gush Katif is that going like lambs to the slaughter yields no benefit but only means going from bad to worse, to a complete destruction of the State of Israel, of the military, of the communities, a deep chasm through society and bleeding wounds that will apparently never heal."

Masika, who was elected in the aftermath of the Disengagement and is not considered a part of the old Yesha leadership establishment, explained: "When you demand your rights without caring about the cost, the treatment you will receive will be, at the very worst, what the Druze got and what the Bedouins in the Negev got. They don't give a second thought to anything and that is why they are not uprooted, even though this is not their land."

"If the country does not wake up at the last minute, Migron will be a second Amona, with all of the serious meaning that involves. The reason the residents of Gush Katif were thrown to the dogs was that the eviction was wrapped in promises that supposedly, it would improve the security situation, and also improve the evacuees' lives. In fact they saw that the eviction not only did not improve anything, it actually made security worse and the evacuees reached rock-bottom."

'Daring struggle' ahead
"We will fight for every clod of earth. As the Arabs ­ lehavdil ­ say, that the land is sacred and one may not give up a single grain. Our struggle for the land is an existential necessity. We received it from the Kadosh Baruch Hu rightfully and no one is permitted to give it up. And the main thing like I said is that this is simply a security matter for the lives of millions of Jews. The State of Israel also understands that the planned eviction will not go smoothly. There will be a determined struggle and daring here with no compromises, and Amona will seem like an opening shot compared to it.

"I learned two things from the Expulsion, Masika added: "The real field of battle is the political one. That is why we must unite all of the forces in a single bloc with no differences, and the uniting cry should be the one uttered by Mattityahu the Maccabee, "mi leHashem elai!" ("Whoever is for the Lord ­ let him come to me!"), and then we will be able to infuse the public with a new spirit.

"With HaShem's help, the day is not far when the leadership shall come out of the religious and hareidi public. Only we have the values, the clinging to Torah and Land and soil, as opposed to the alienated and disconnected secular leadership."



4.PM's Office: Money-Transfers to Hamas Is Policy

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126643

PM's Office: Money-Transfers to Hamas Is Policy

 
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) The Prime Minister's office has admitted, in a letter to the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center, that it is enabling the transfer of huge amounts of shekels into Hamas-run Gaza.

Asked about this issue by Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of human rights organization Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, the PM's office replied, "The transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip takes place with the knowledge of the Israeli government, for diplomatic reasons."

Notably, the letter states that the money is transferred to the PA, when in actuality, Hamas - not the PA - runs Gaza.

The PM's Bureau letter continues, "The money transfer takes place after consultations on the matter with the relevant elements, in which are taken into consideration various possibilities and ramifications of the stoppage of the transfers. At this stage, in light of the conclusion that was reached that it was an Israeli interest that the money transfers continue, it was decided to continue to transfer certain sums to Gaza."

Law Centers Demands Stop to Money Transfers
Shurat HaDin, an organization representing hundreds of terror victims in ongoing global battles against terror funding, had sent letters to the Prime Minister, the Bank of Israel and the Israel Postal Bank, demanding an immediate cessation to the transfer of funds to Hamas.

Israel Launders Hamas Money
A Law Center representative explained that the funds are transferred in two ways: "For one thing, trucks from Arab banks in Judea and Samaria bring new banknotes and shekels issued by the Bank of Israel to the Gaza crossings, where the money is exchanged for dollars and euros smuggled into Hamas under the Philadelphi Corridor from Iran and elsewhere.  This means that Israel is essentially laundering Hamas's smuggled money."

Replacing Old With New
"In addition, the Bank of Israel sends Brinks trucks to the Gaza crossings to replace old, unusable shekel banknotes.  It replaces the old ones with shiny new ones - and last November, just days after such an exchange took place, the whole world saw pictures of Hamas terrorists holding their Kalachnikov rifles kissing Israeli banknotes with pictures of Yitzchak Ben-Tzvi and Shmuel Yosef Agnon that they had just received as their salaries; they had not been paid in months, and the Hamas government appeared to be on the verge of collapse, when Israel stepped in with this delivery." 

"Without these criminal acts," the Law Center writes, "Hamas' financial hold on the Strip would collapse, and thus these measures are directly responsible for shoring up the Hamas control over Gaza and its continued terrorist activity launched from the region."

Shurat HaDin director Darshan-Leitner had sharp words for the government of Israel, saying it "cannot fight against the Hamas terrorist organization  with one hand, and continue to secretly finance it with the other. Hypocritically, the Prime Minister demands that governments around the world isolate and and embargo the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and stop transferring funds to them, while at the same time he authorizes the transfer of  Israeli currency into the hands of the enemy. "

"There can be no doubt," Darshan-Leitner said, "that the  Israeli government's policy of transferring shekels is assisting the  Hamas terrorists with their missile attacks on the Negev communities.  If the Prime Minister does not immediately halt the currency transfers to Gaza, Shurat HaDin will take all legal means available against the government to bring this terror financing to a close."

5. Smadar Haran Kaiser: The World Should Know What Samir Kuntar Did to My Family.

From: imra@netvision.net.il
Date: 27 June 2008 02:03:55 GMT+03:00
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Smadar Haran Kaiser: The World Should Know What Samir Kuntar Did to My Family
Reply-To: imra@netvision.net.il

The World Should Know What He Did to My Family
By Smadar Haran Kaiser
The Washington Post Sunday, May 18, 2003; Page B02
NAHARIYA, Israel
www.washingtonpost.

com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2740-2003May17

Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured
in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there are probably few who remember
why Abbas's terrorists held the ship and its 400-plus passengers hostage for
two days. It was to gain the release of a Lebanese terrorist named Samir
Kuntar, who is locked up in an Israeli prison for life. Kuntar's name is all
but unknown to the world. But I know it well. Because almost a quarter of a
century ago, Kuntar murdered my family.

It was a murder of unimaginable cruelty, crueler even than the murder of
Leon Klinghoffer, the American tourist who was shot on the Achille Lauro and
dumped overboard in his wheelchair. Kuntar's mission against my family,
which never made world headlines, was also masterminded by Abu Abbas. And my
wish now is that this terrorist leader should be prosecuted in the United
States, so that the world may know of all his terrorist acts, not the least
of which is what he did to my family on April 22, 1979.

It had been a peaceful Sabbath day. My husband, Danny, and I had picnicked
with our little girls, Einat, 4, and Yael, 2, on the beach not far from our
home in Nahariya, a city on the northern coast of Israel, about six miles
south of the Lebanese border. Around midnight, we were asleep in our
apartment when four terrorists, sent by Abu Abbas from Lebanon, landed in a
rubber boat on the beach two blocks away. Gunfire and exploding grenades
awakened us as the terrorists burst into our building. They had already
killed a police officer. As they charged up to the floor above ours, I
opened the door to our apartment. In the moment before the hall light went
off, they turned and saw me. As they moved on, our neighbor from the upper
floor came running down the stairs. I grabbed her and pushed her inside our
apartment and slammed the door.

Outside, we could hear the men storming about. Desperately, we sought to
hide. Danny helped our neighbor climb into a crawl space above our bedroom;
I went in behind her with Yael in my arms. Then Danny grabbed Einat and was
dashing out the front door to take refuge in an underground shelter when the
terrorists came crashing into our flat. They held Danny and Einat while they
searched for me and Yael, knowing there were more people in the apartment. I
will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered
about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades. I knew that
if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space
and we would be killed. So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could
breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had
hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. "This is just like what happened
to my mother," I thought.

As police began to arrive, the terrorists took Danny and Einat down to the
beach. There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of
Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see. Then he
smashed my little girl's skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That
terrorist was Samir Kuntar.
By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too,
was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her.

The next day, Abu Abbas announced from Beirut that the terrorist attack in
Nahariya had been carried out "to protest the signing of the
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty" at Camp David the previous year. Abbas seems
to have a gift for charming journalists, but imagine the character of a man
who protests an act of peace by committing an act of slaughter.

Two of Abbas's terrorists had been killed by police on the beach. The other
two were captured, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Despite my
protests, one was released in a prisoner exchange for Israeli POWs several
months before the Achille Lauro hijacking. Abu Abbas was determined to find
a way to free Kuntar as well. So he engineered the hijacking of the Achille
Lauro off the coast of Egypt and demanded the release of 50 Arab terrorists
from Israeli jails. The only one of those prisoners actually named was Samir
Kuntar. The plight of hundreds held hostage on a cruise ship for two days at
sea lent itself to massive international media coverage. The attack on
Nahariya, by contrast, had taken less than an hour in the middle of the
night. So what happened then was hardly noticed outside of Israel.

One hears the terrorists and their excusers say that they are driven to kill
out of desperation. But there is always a choice. Even when you have
suffered, you can choose whether to kill and ruin another's life, or whether
to go on and rebuild. Even after my family was murdered, I never dreamed of
taking revenge on any Arab. But I am determined that Samir Kuntar should
never be released from prison. In 1984, I had to fight my own government not
to release him as part of an exchange for several Israeli soldiers who were
POWs in Lebanon. I understood, of course, that the families of those POWs
would gladly have agreed to the release of an Arab terrorist to get their
sons back. But I told Yitzhak Rabin, then defense minister, that the blood
of my family was as red as that of the POWs. Israel had always taken a
position of refusing to negotiate with terrorists. If they were going to
make an exception, let it be for a terrorist who was not as cruel as Kuntar.
"Your job is not to be emotional," I told Rabin, "but to act rationally."
And he did.

So Kuntar remains in prison. I have been shocked to learn that he has
married an Israeli Arab woman who is an activist on behalf of terrorist
prisoners. As the wife of a prisoner, she gets a monthly stipend from the
government. I'm not too happy about that.

In recent years, Abu Abbas started telling journalists that he had renounced
terrorism and that killing Leon Klinghoffer had been a mistake. But he has
never said that killing my family was a mistake. He was a terrorist once,
and a terrorist, I believe, he remains. Why else did he spend these last
years, as the Israeli press has reported, free as a bird in Baghdad, passing
rewards of $25,000 from Saddam Hussein to families of Palestinian suicide
bombers? More than words, that kind of cash prize, which is a fortune to
poor families, was a way of urging more suicide bombers. The fortunate thing
about Abbas's attaching himself to Hussein is that it set him up for
capture.

Some say that Italy should have first crack at Abbas. It had already
convicted him of the Achille Lauro hijacking in absentia in 1986. Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi now wants Abbas handed over so that he can begin
serving his life sentence. But it's also true that in 1985, the Italians had
Abbas in their hands after U.S. fighter jets forced his plane to land in
Sicily. And yet they let him go. So while I trust Berlusconi, who knows if a
future Italian government might not again wash its hands of Abbas?

In 1995, Rabin, then our prime minister, asked me to join him on his trip to
the White House, where he was to sign a peace agreement with Yasser Arafat,
which I supported. I believe that he wanted me to represent all Israeli
victims of terrorism. Rabin dreaded shaking hands with Arafat, knowing that
those hands were bloody. At first, I agreed to make the trip, but at the
last minute, I declined. As prime minister, Rabin had to shake hands with
Arafat for political reasons. As a private person, I did not. So I stayed
here.

Now I am ready and willing to come to the United States to testify against
Abu Abbas if he is tried for terrorism. The daughters of Leon Klinghoffer
have said they are ready to do the same. Unlike Klinghoffer, Danny, Einat
and Yael were not American citizens. But Klinghoffer was killed on an
Italian ship in Abbas's attempt to free the killer of my family in Israel.
We are all connected by the international web of terrorism woven by Abbas.
Let the truth come out in a new and public trial.
And let it be in the United States, the leader in the struggle against
terrorism.
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Smadar Haran Kaiser is a social worker. She is remarried and has two
daughters.

6. Petition for Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount

From: Yosef Rabin <613yos@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Subject: Petition for Jewish Prayer on the Temple Mount

Our Goals!

1 Bring at least 600,000 Jews and lovers of Israel from all around the world together for an awesome, holy and Jewish cause
 
2 Spark a serious discussion throughout the Jewish world about the Temple Mount
 
3 Return Jewish Prayer to the Temple Mount
 
 
The first stage of this campaign will continue until after the fast of Tisha B'Av.
 
Tisha B'Av is the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the two Temples that once stood on the Temple Mount. The fast will begin at Sundown at 7:57pm on Saturday August 9th and will conclude shortly after sunset at 8:20pm on Sunday August 10th.
 
1st Temple was built by King Shlomo in 950BCE and was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE

2nd Temple rebuilt in 353 BCE and was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE
 

Please sign and pass on the petition!
http://www.petitiononline.com/har1/petition.html
 
 
PS. For the Halachic implications of  Aliyah L Har HaBayit please see the Rambam, Hilchot Beit Habichira, Perek 7 it can be found in Sefer Avodah.