Yes Odeleya, the OU has finally broken their Silence! Endorsement for Palestine!

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The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (including the OU) endorsed for the first time a
two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107213.html

 

We call upon each and every Orthodox Jew that is affiliated or not affiliated with the OU to call on it's boss or Rabbi and voice a complaint. The OU as an organization is not representing our Jewish interests.  Employees, voice your public disapproval even at the risk of being fired. Congregants, call upon your congregations to disassociate themselves from the OU Leadership.  Don't depend on your Rabbi. Insist that either he voices his dismay or you will voice it and risk your respect for him and perhaps even his job as your Rabbi. That will counter his fear of speaking out because he fears his position in the Orthodox Union political echelon.
 

Members of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs

American Jewish Committee http://www.ajc.org
American Jewish Congress http://www.ajcongress.org
Anti-Defamation League http://www.adl.org
B'nai B'rith http://www.bnaibrith.org
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life http://www.coejl.org
Hadassah http://www.hadassah.org
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Life http://www.hillel.org
Jewish Labor Committee http://www.jewishlabor.org
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation http://www.jrf.org
Jewish War Veterans http://www.jwv.org
National Conference on Soviet Jewry http://www.ncsj.org/
National Council of Jewish Women http://www.ncjw.org
National Jewish Coalition for Literacy http://www.njcl.net
ORT America http://www.ortamerica.org
Union for Reform Judaism http://www.urj.org
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America http://www.ou.org
United Jewish Communities http://www.ujc.org
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism http://www.uscj.org
Women's League for Conservative Judaism http://www.wlcj.org

Thank you Dovid Wilder of the Hebron Community for passing on this information.

 

Forwarded Message:

Subj: Fwd: BREAK THE SILENCE!!  Date: 2/28/2008 12:27:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time From: Odel216 To: plerner@youngisrael.org

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Forwarded Message:

Subj: BREAK THE SILENCE!!  Date: 2/28/2008 12:26:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time From: Odel216 To: yochevedg@ou.org

 

Dear Rabbi Weinreb,

    I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU AS A RABBI CAN REMAIN SILENT AND BY DOING SO KEEP SO MANY OTHERS IN THE DARK AS KASSAM

ROCKETS HIT , HURT, MAME AND KILL OUR JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL.  AS THE SO CALLED LEADERS IN THE ISRAELI GOV'T FAIL TO PROTECT AND SECURE THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF ISRAEL, AS THE PRESSURES FROM PRES. BUSH AND RICE CONTINUE ON ISRAEL TO GIVE LAND TO TERRORISTS , ENEMIES OF BOTH ISRAEL AND AMERICA,     YOU, RABBI WEINREB, AND THOSE WHO SIT WITH YOU,

DO NOT PUBLICLY CONDEMM ANY ACTIONS OF THE ENEMIES THAT WORK HARD TO DESTROY THE JEWISH IDENTITY , AND JEWISH MORALE IN ERETZ YISRAEL.  HOW CAN THOSE ,WHO HASHEM PLACES

IN HIGH POWERFUL POSITIONS  ACT IN SUCH WEAKNESS???

 

YOU WITH THE REST OF THE OU EXECUTIVES WERE VERY QUICK TO CONDEM RABBI WOLPE FOR WORDS THAT WERE TWISTED .  WHERE

IS YOUR PUBLIC ACTIVISM ON BEHALF OF YOUR JEWISH BRETHREN

THAT ARE HURT AND TRAUMATIZED???

 

YOU ARE A HISTORIAN AND UNDERSTAND THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IF WE FAIL TO LEARN LESSONS FROM THE PAST!

 

THE SILENCE MUST BREAK!  I URGE YOU TO DO RIGHT BY OUR JEWISH PEOPLE!!  THE TIME HAS COME FOR ALL OF US WHO BELIEVE

THAT THE JEWISH LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO UNITE IN ACHDUT ALL OVER THE WORLD AND FIGHT THE BATTLE TOGETHER IN ACHDUT AND IN STRENGTH!!

 

THERE IS MUCH TO DO AND THE SILENCE MUST BREAK!

 

WE MUST MOBILIZE OUR PEOPLE IN THE SHULS AND YESHIVAS AND INFORM THE KLAL OF THE DANGERS THAT WE ARE ALL IN.

 

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ANY JEW TO SIT BACK AND SMILE AND GO ON WITH LIFE AS USUAL WHILE IN ERETZ YISRAEL OUR JEWISH BRETHREN ARE ATTACKED, WITH INNOCENT CHILDREN LOSING

LEGS , ARMS, LIFE?????????? CHILDREN ARE BECOMING ORPHANS

AS KASSAMS CONTINUE TO RAIN IN  HUNDREDS OF THEM DAILY???

 

WE MUST ACT IN WAYS THAT HASHEM EXPECTS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO ACT.  WE ARE OUR BROTHERS' KEEPER.  WE MUST NOT BE SILENT!!  PURIM IS COMING AND SO WE MUST BE MOBILIZED THROUGH OUR RABBIS, ORGANIZATIONS, YESHIVOT

IN MASSIVE TEFILA GATHERINGS   AND   ACTIVISM ON BEHALF OF OUR JEWISH BRETHREN!!  WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED AND EXPRESS

OUR OUTRAGE .  WE MUST HAVE A STRONG UNITED MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO EXPRESS TO THE WORLD THAT ERETZ YISRAEL INCLUDING YEHUDA AND SHOMRON BELONG TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THAT APPEASMENT TO TE ARABS WILL ONLY ENCOURAGE MORE EXTREMIST

TERRORISM AGAINST THE WEST AS WELL B/C THAT IS WHAT JIHAD

IS ALL ABOUT. 

 

THE OU HAS A CHOICE  EITHER YOU ARE WITH US IN THE FIGHT FOR

THE JEWISH LAND OF ISRAEL , OR YOU CONTINUE TO BE SILENT AND CHOOSE WEAKNESS OVER STRENGTH AND  PEOPLE WILL NOT FORGET!!

 

LET US ALL UNITE IN ACHDUT AND STRENGTH !! Rabbi Weinreb,

please take the lead to BREAK THE SILENCE !!     TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!

 

                                                                                                 Odeleya Jacobs

                                                                                                  WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL

 

 

 

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G-d help us from our leaders from ourselves. RED FLAG for Mishpacha Magazine.

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Mishpacha Magazine arrived this morning.  We all look forward to this wonderful magazine...but....

 

Point of View by Rabbi Moshe Grylak  Editor in Chief of Mishpacha Magazine is entitled Barack Obama and the Prophets.  page 12

 

 

The side bar reads "We also look at our fellow man and see him lonely and isolated, swamped by a sea of media messages, and hear his silent cry for change.  "Stand for Change," says Barack Obama, and it's no wonder the American collective is flocking after him. 

 

The other side bar is Food for Thought "Master of the Universe, I ask of You, redeem the Jewish People, And if You won't do that, then redeem the non-Jew (-Rabbi Yisrael, the maggid of Kozhnitz)

 

The last paragraph of Rabbi Grylak article is

 

"And this is the focus of our fascination at this moment.  For, if the evidence is not deceiving us, and America has freed itself of its mental block against a black man as their leader, that is proof that established norms can change.  If this can happen, then we shall surely also see the total change of human consciousness that our Prophets declared would occur, as explained by the author of Michtav Me"Eliyahu, ztz"l

 

The phenomenon of Barack Hussein Obama serves as a wonderful illustration of this truth."

 

The article describes Obama as a gifted speaker, maybe the best in the Democratic Party, drawing an ever-increasing following.  The article continues to ask Are the American people so inspired by his elegant outward appearance that they aren't bothering to look too deeply at what he actually has to offer his country in terms of policy on the issues?

 

The article however doesn't bother to address Obama's policy on the issues. 

 

Good Question Rabbi Grylak. Did Rabbi Grylak bother to investigate what Obama's policy might be regarding the establishment of a Palestinian State?  How about Obama's inner circle, the ones most likely to define his foreign policy.  The advisors that have history of aligning with anti-Semites.  I suppose such information was better left unsaid for reasons I can not really figure out.  I suppose the establishment of a Palestinian State is no big dea to Rabbi Grylak.  Neither was the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005 prior to the disengagement to Rabbi Grylak. At that time I personally wrote Rabbi Grylak a letter begging the Gedoilim to speak out and he responded that we must follow the guidance of the Gedoilim even if we don't understand the whole picture. 

 

So, in my opinion this portrayal of Barack Obama put him in a very positive light. After all, he's quite a popular guy. 

 

Then on page 21 in Mishpacha magazine there was an article regarding Fidel Castro.  It quotes Rabbi Meir Lau.  "Fidel Castro is one big riddle to me.  He was very opposed to anti-Semitism, but on the other hand, he joined hands with our greatest enemies"  Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau.  There is a nice picture of Rabbi Lau viewing a box of Cuban cigars with Castro in their 1994 meeting. The article states, "As dictator of a country noted for atheism, Castro, surprised Rabbi Lau with his grasp of the Bible, displaying curiosity as to how seventy Jews could multiply into a nation of 600,000 in just 210 years in Egypt. "

 

The article ends with the paragraph

 

"Castro refused Rabbi Lau's request for permission to import kosher meat because he thought it would be showing favoritism to the Jews, in a country where meat is rationed, but he did permit a shipment of matzos, because matzos are "a religious product and not food."

 

Rabbi Lau. Is Castro really a big riddle?  Was Castro a bad guy  or a good guy?  The article portrays him as human just like the rest of us.  I suppose good and evil is really not that important anymore.

 

There was no mention in this page of being anti Israel. In fact the article puts Castro in a very human light. There is no indication that he was indeed our enemy.  In contrast an article by Hillel Fendel in A7 was much more negative.  Please visit http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125304 .  Here is an excerpt of the article.

 

" In October 1973, during the Yom Kippur war, not only did Castro break diplomatic relations with Israel, but he deployed thousands of Cuban soldiers, including helicopter pilots and tank crews to fight alongside the Syrians, The next year, Castro gave the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) an expropriated Jewish community center in Havana - and awarded the visiting Yasser Arafat with Cuba's highest award, the Bay of Pigs Medal. "

 

This is a red flag regarding Mishpacha Magazine.  Editor in Chief, Grylak is involving himself with politics and is not focusing on Torah.  Yet he has the title of Rabbi and the backing and support of the Chareidi Rabbanim.  He is the number one promoter of listening to Daas Torah.  We might get confused that all this politics is actually Daas Torah.

 

When a chareidi women was asked who she will vote for, she said, whomever I'm told to. 

 

We have been brainwashed not to think for ourselves. Our understanding of Torah is not as clear as our Gedoilim. 

 

So if Rav Perlow and Rav Malkiel Kotler and Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky and Rav Belsky etc. names are on a poster banning an all separate seating concert, a real evil that must be exorcised from our midst, that must take priority on the establishment of a Palestinian State putting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews in danger.   But what do I know? I'm just a female.

 

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Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh! Banning the Lipa Shmeltzer Concert in Madison Square

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh! Banning the Lipa Shmeltzer Concert in Madison Square.

 

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Why was this concert targeted rather than the Hasc Concert or others?  I understand that the fear was that Lipa adapts his music from Goyish Music and this might affect adversely on his fans, many from the insulated and sheltered chareidi community and will give them a taste for Goyish music. 
 
Which Mitzvah DOrayta, Biblical commandment, is being violated? According to the poster they quote the Mitzveh "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" , and your camp shall be holy. The source is Devarim/Deuteronomy 23:14-15  The Torah is referring to a military camp.  "You shall have a shovel in addition to your weapons, and it will be that when you sit outside, you shall dig with it; you shall go back and cover your excrement.  For Hashem, your G-d, walks in the midst of your camp to rescue you and to deliver your enemies before you, so your camp shall be holy, so that He will not see a shameful thing among you and turn away from behind you." (Stone Edition translation).
 
This verse is specifically referring to a military camp that needs to be free of sin in a time of war so that Hashem will find us worthy to rescue us from our enemies.

 

So why are the Rabbanim focusing on the Mitzva of " Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh?"  Perhaps this Mitzva is precisely the one they should be focusing on.  Our enemies are surrounding us.  There is an arsenal of weapons that is being smuggled and now openly being brought to Gaza and Lebanon.  The military will attest to this.  The Hizbollah has restocked in the north and Al Qaeida and Hamas have stocked up in Gaza.  Sederot is daily being attacked and  within close rocket range after the expulsion of Gush Katif and anti missiles are ineffective at such close range.  The Rambam states that a Milchemet Mitzvah, a war that is a commandment, is one which we are obligated to fight when we are attacked.  So perhaps the Rabbanim could be focusing on seeing to it that the Machana, the military camp, remains Kadosh, holy in a time of war.  Nachal Chareidi (the Chareidi battalion) does that.  Women are not  allowed in combat or in military positions that would compromise on Tzniyut (modesty) , distracting the soldier from doing his job.  There are the laws regarding covering excrement, etc. It is the job of the Rabbanim to advise us on the many Halachoth (laws) regarding these  matters.
 
Speaking out against the present Israeli Government, the American Foreign Policy and Bush's Roadmap and the 2 State Solution in a United Torah Roadmap Campaign signed by these same 33 Gedoilim seems like Daas Torah, a Torah perspective,  to me. In fact "VeHaya Machanecha Kadosh" is the perfect theme.  

 

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Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh! Banning the Lipa Shmeltzer Concert in Madison Square.

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This past week posters were plastered around Boro Park and Flatbush banning a concert that was to take place March 9th in Madison Square Garden to benefit needy couples that were to be wed in Eretz Yisroel.  I understand an ad was placed in Hamodia as well, banning this concert.  The ban also included any media advertising this concert .

 

Why then was this concert targeted rather than the Hasc Concert or others?  I understand that the fear was that Lipa adapts his music from Goyish Music and this might affect adversely on his fans, many from the insulated and sheltered chareidi community and will give them a taste for Goyish music.  However, these Rabbanim did not simply advise their people not to attend,  they publicly declared this concert  against Daas Torah and it seems from the text of the ban that all such concerts are not allowed following the rulings in Eretz Yisroel by Gedoilim (which banned Simchat Beit Hashoeva concerts).

 

Now, Is this really Daas Torah? 

 

What we have to ask is how come all these Rabbanim are publicly blasting a separate seating concert where it is hard to find which Mitzvah DOrayta is being violated. They quote the Mitzveh "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" whose source is Devarim 23:14-15  The Torah is referring to a military camp.  "You shall have a shovel in addition to your weapons, and it will be that when you sit outside, you shall dig with it; you shall go back and cover your excrement.  For Hashem, your G-d, walks in the midst of your camp to rescue you and to deliver your enemies before you, so your camp shall be holy, so that He will not see a shameful thing among you and turn away from behind you." (Stone Edition translation).

 

This verse is specifically referring to a military camp that needs to be free of sin in a time of war so that Hashem will find us worthy to rescue us from our enemies. I wonder seriously if it was referring to  going to a separate seating concert with only Jewish music to raise up our spirits.  And if you say it is forbidden to dress up Goyish music and turn it into Jewish music, then why is the Levush of these same communities adapted from 1800 Polish Nobility?  And would it be so terrible if on the way to the concert, perhaps on the subway, a boy met a girl and eventually actually became engaged and went on to build a Bayit Neeman Beyisroel filled with Kedusha.  But Tzepast Nisht.  I suppose the way Yaakov Avinu met Ruchel Imeinu and the way Moshe Rabbeinu met Tsipporah was Tsepast Nisht as well. Maybe it's because that was before Matan Torah.  Now we know better.

 

So why are the Rabbanim focusing on the Mitzva of " Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh?"  Perhaps this Mitzva is precisely the one they should be focusing on.  Our enemies are surrounding us.  There is an arsenal of weapons that is being smuggled and now openly being brought to Gaza and Lebanon.  The military will attest to this.  The Hizbollah has restocked in the north and Al Keida and Hamas have stocked up in Gaza.  Sederot is daily being attacked and  within close rocket range after the expulsion of Gush Katif and anti missiles are ineffective at such close range.  The Rambam states that a Milchemet Mitzvah is one which we are obligated to fight when we are attacked.  So perhaps the Rabbanim should be focusing on seeing to it that the Machana, the military camp, remains Kadosh.  Nachal Chareidi does  that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzah_Yehuda_Battalion   Women should not be allowed in combat or in positions that would compromise on Tzniyut, distracting the soldier from doing his job.   The Mitzvoth of covering excrement, etc. It is the job of the Rabbanim to advise us on the many Halachoth regarding these  matters. 

 

How come the Rabbanim have united to come out with a Public Statement regarding a Jewish, all separate seating concert, yet these Rabbanim were silent when the property of 10,000 people, were stolen, destroyed, for no reason in Gush Katif?  Dead bodies were interred to other places.  Shuls and communities destroyed.  Families torn apart. Parnassa lost with no easy way to reestablish and retrain in another profession. Kids uprooted from their homes, the family structure undermined.  Once stable successful teenagers now suicidal, depressed and/or on drugs.  How come these Rabbanim are not focusing on Pikuach Nefesh and Al Taamod Al Dam Reiacha and the shameful abandonment of the government of Israel to the people in Sederot ordering the army not to fight back effectively. Let us not forget that this situation is a direct result of the Government's policies to uproot the settlements from Gush Katif.  Not learning a lesson, the government is still pursuing the evasive dream of "peace" with their desire to establish a State of Palestine and slice away Yerushalayim like one slices a salami leaving the rest of Israel, including Chareidi population centers, to become like the next Sederot.

 

Are these Rabbanim uniting to pressure Shas to leave the gov't?  Are they working to unite with parties that are against territorial concessions to the Arabs and in fact promote a government based on our Torah Heritage and Torah values and  Torah based Judicial system?

 

Speaking out against the present Israeli Government, the American Foreign Policy and Bush's Roadmap and the 2 State Solution in a United Torah Roadmap Campaign signed by these same 33 Gedoilim seems to be more like Daas Torah to me. In fact "VeHaya Machanecha Kadosh" is the perfect theme.  

 

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BEIT OROT Promotes JMINTHEAM who promotes Malcolm Hoenlein who promote Palestine

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Hurrah!  THERE IS A NEW FLOOR AND CONSTRUCTION ON HAR HAZEITIM.  I would love to believe that this is all good.  In fact there was a super crane overlooking the area showing to all that there is now construction going on in this part of Jerusalem.   And JMINTHEAM deserves a lot of the credit for bringing Yerushalayim into the minds, hearts and souls of all of its listeners.  Shlomo Zwickler could not say enough good things about JMINTHEAM.

 

I too promote JMINTHEAM for their wonderful Jewish music and wonderful promotion of worthy Jewish Institutions such as Hebron and Beit Orot, Rachel's Children and for wonderful speakers such as Rabbi Benjamin Yudin etc.

 

Every year for the past several years my husband has been sending in $72 to JMINTHEAM in honor of my birthday. I love their T shirts and wear them all the time (they are long sleeves and comfortable and were for free) I love their free CD's.  There is lots that I love about JMINTHEAM.  Nachum Segal is a fantastic host and promoter and the entertainment is first class.

 

Yet, I am not blinded to other very serious matters about JMINTHEAM that I find very disturbing and dangerous to Am Yisroel.  They have been quiet along with mainstream Jewish Media about being critical of the American Foreign Policy in promoting the establishment of a the Two State Solution in accordance with President Bush's Roadmap Plan and the policy of the State Department.  So while Nachum Segal will promote Hebron and Beit Orot, he will at the same time promote Malcolm Hoenlein who will speak out against anti-Semitism yet is busy negotiating for a Palestinian State Chas Vechalila which has been the number one cause for anti-Semitism throughout the world. 

 

I was at the Beit Orot Dinner where Nachum Segal was honored and was the MC.  While we all stood at attention singing Hatikva yet there was not one mention at that Dinner regarding the dangers of the establishment of a Palestinian State and the evil destructive policies of the Olmert Administration to the settlers and the girls from the hilltop youth that were in jail. I don't remember them being critical of the Israel gov't for allowing the Kassam rockets to continuously fall on Sderot.  Why mar an elegant dinner?

 

Also the Hebron dinner was MC'd by Nachum Segal.   We saw the Mesiras Nefesh of all the Jews living in Hebron and in Beit Hashalom.  Who in America could even compare the Mesiras Nefesh for Eretz Yisroel than the Jews in Hebron and the Jews Beit Orot.   I myself included can not compare with the Mesiras Nefesh of these Holy Jews in Hebron.

 

Maybe we can say the Young Israel is the best of Jewish Mainstream groups in the States to speak out for Jerusalem.

 

Yet none of these organizations have united to publicly condemn American Foreign Policy and the establishment of a Palestinian State.

 

Yes, Beit Orot has a nice new floor and a big crane showing everyone that yes there is now construction going on in East Jerusalem, Yes, finally Beit Hashalom now has windows and the women and children and babies don't have to freeze anymore and they can now save the $30,000 a month on heating bills. And yes the Young Israel just accepted a large donation from the Jewish Agency for their educational programs.

 

And yes the Silence regarding the establishment of a Palestinian State and the two state solution "Roadmap" continues.  So what will having a new floor and several new buildings in East Jerusalem and even a warm Beit Hashalom building accomplish, if within the year there is the establishment of a Palestinian State and we know from experience that the bulldozers can destroy new and old construction within a few hours.  It doesn't even have to take a bulldozer.  An earthquake can be equally as effective. 

 

What about the Torah Roadmap?  If I was on the dark side I would say to myself, whatever the price for installing a temporary  new floor for Beit Orot and new windows for Beit Hashalom and the new educational programs for Young Israel, it's a steal in order to SILENCE all opposition to the greater goal of establishing a New Palestinians State (hurrah) (hu ra).  Cause once WE get into power, there will be no Beit Orot and no Hebron.  When we Silence the Pioneers themselves, then effectively we Silence them all.

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Enougt! LIKE PARTIES UNITE!!!! SURVIVAL!!!! No more each for oneself

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Why wasn't Moshe Feiglin invited to speak at the Jerusalem Conference?  I would email this to all the participants that are like minded and ask them this question.   What's with the New Jewish Congress that was initiated on the Day of Annapolis?????? (see attached)  There are those out there that would like nothing better than to see the right divided.  It is perhaps their intentions that the internal politics will hopefully destroy one another.  I am afraid that they are chas vechalila succeed unless we take serious intervention. They will fund each party separately and it is their interest that there be strong opposing forces in the right camp in order to destroy themselves.  Perhaps their strategy is, let the right fight it out and neutralize each other. 

 

Why can't Benny Elon, Moshe Feiglin, Tsafrir Ronen, Paul Eidelberg, MK Eldad unite in a unified voice for Eretz Yisroel. This is an appeal to Women in Green and Matot Arim to insist that like minded parties unite because that is our only hope for a collective survival. 

 

Each wonderful Settlement, Yishuv, Yeshiva, Organization must stop working only for themselves.Let us focus on the source of the evil confronting us rather than simply go from symptom to symptom that is manifested.  Why is Sderot only talking about Sderot?  Why are the people for Gush Katif only promoting building up the lives of the people of Gush Katif?  Why is Hebron only talking about Beit Hashalom.  Every Dinner promotes their own institution. True each organization has their particular focus.  But each is based on our rights to Eretz Yisroel based on Torah, our common denominator.  

 

There is American Friends of Beit El, and American Friends of Hebron, and the American Friends of Itamar and the American Friends for Gush Katif, and the American Friends for Sderot etc. etc. etc. yet they have yet to join together and make a joint statement based on the Torah for our collective survival.   Why is there a Tsafrir Ronen talking about the "Land of Israel"  but fails to unite with Moshe Feiglin of Manhigut Yehudit that basically agrees with him as well as Benny Elon from NRP or visa versa.    

 

In a message dated 2/24/2008 10:24:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, stevenshamrak.e@gmail.com writes:

Jerusalem Conference – What a Waste!

by Steven Shamrak.

I visited and reviewed an official website of the Jerusalem Conference which took place last week. The only thought that came to mind was "What a waste!" The waste of time, human and financial resources and the waste of opportunity to set the agenda for reaching a Jewish National Goal and uniting Jews and our true friends around the world behind it.

The site stated: "The Jerusalem Conference openly deliberates core issues that will determine Israel's future as a viable modern democratic Jewish State. The Jerusalem Conference provides a broad public forum for diverse viewpoints to freely discuss issues of national importance. Topics range from national affairs and security to social welfare and economics, from Jewish education to Aliyah, Israel as a Jewish State to its functional relationship with its neighbours and nations of the world."

Very fine words, but only words!  While I was reading an itinerary of the conference, I recalled the conversation between Alice and scarecrow in "Alice in Wonderland". She asked him which road to take, but did not know where she was going. His answer was: "Take any, it will get you there!" For many years, the leadership of the Jewish people has lost the vision of the modern Zionist pioneers and, unfortunately, has been pushing Israel toward self-destruction!

The Jerusalem Conference discussed wide range of topics: Strategic Threat from Iran, Syria, Lebanon & Gaza; Importance of Aliya, Jewish migration to Israel; Israel's and the World's Economy; even the possibility of the World War III was discussed. Arab terrorism, the Palestinian Media and Education, The Winograd Commission, the new wave of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel Media bias also were mentioned.

I was surprised that one subject, which has been completely neglected and even sabotaged by governments of Israel for decades, was correctly defined: "Hasbara: Just Confused or Deliberately Non-Existent?"

Nobody booed Tzipi Livni or left in protest when the foreign minister of Israel told participants that she talks with Palestinians with "tears of paratroopers at the Western Wall" in her mind. "Time is not on Israel's side, and we will eventually have to concede parts of the country" she said. I wonder, were they crocodile tears? It is her government which, by exhibiting a total lack of self-respect and an absence of any determination to pursue the Jewish National Goal, has made "Time is not on Israel's side" a current ugly reality. She has no interest in and is completely ignorant of the fact that any reality can be changed by the setting of objectives and an enduring determination to achieve them!

Livni continued with her scare-mongering tactic saying that Israel would be faced with giving up its identity as a "Jewish, democratic and secure state" if it does not agree to a land-for-peace deal with the PA. She and all of those political hypocrites dishonour the memory of the Israeli paratroopers who liberated Jerusalem!

There were many distinguished people at the conference. Some of them tried to impress others with 'innovative' idiocy such as US Senator Sam Brownback who advocated a confederation of Judea and Samaria, historical Jewish land, with Jordan. He does not care how detrimental it would be for the future of the Jewish people to lose all hope for reunification of Eretz-Israel. No one had pointed out to him that neither Jordan nor the PA is interested in this stupidity, but they are quite focused on the destruction of Israel. Alternative ideas like the Sinai Option or organising a transfer of all of the hostile population from all Jewish land to Arab and Muslim countries were not even raised.

How can we reach our goals if we are not even setting them? How can we find the best solution to a problem if we are not considering all options? So many important people attended the Jerusalem Conference – What a Waste!

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The best answer to anti-Semitism in France

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neshamaart@earthlink.net writes,

I believe, the answer is go back to Israel.

Hillel Levin writes,

Dear Faige,

I read with interest the letter that was received from Andy, the correspondent in France.

One thing that I see lacking in that letter is the fact that Today, unlike 75 years ago in 1933, when the Nazi Party began to grow, there is a refuge for the world's Jews.

While we have seen an increase in the number of French Olim, maybe it is time for all the Jews to bail out of France and come home to the Land that G-D gave to Father Abraham as an inheritance.

The members of the Religion of Peace can have France. Let the French deal with them.

Brothers and Sisters in France, come home. We are waiting for you.

--
Hillel Levin
Shiloh, home of the Mishkan for 369 yrs.
Connecting with my brothers!
http://aliyahtoshiloh.blogspot.com/

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Pidyon Shvuyim.Plan of Action to Deal with Mass Arrests of Spprters of Israel

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If you would like to help please email pidionshvuim@gmail.com and please forward to your lists. Robin

Dear Friends,

Women in Green received this important article from IsraelJustice.com

Very often, friends of Israel who reside out of Israel, contact us and ask: "what can we do to help Israel?". Below is an email giving you at least one activity all of you can be part of.

 Written by a group of Israeli citizens with American citizenship, it is an appeal for U.S constituents to join a network to call their congressman about the arrest of Jewish protesters in Israel.

 Please circulate this appeal far and wide.

 With love of Israel,

 Ruth and Nadia Matar

Women in Green

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 Protecting Our Children
A Plan of Action to Deal with Mass Arrests of Supporters of Israel
by IsraelJustice.com

The Threat:
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    Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, saved by the United States from his domestic rivals in wake of the Winograd Report, is under tremendous pressure to dismantle Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Olmert has promised to help Bush in the U.S. plan to establish a Palestinian state in Judea and  Samaria by 2009. This will demand the destruction of first the so-called unauthorized outposts, followed by communities established in the early 1970s.
    The government offensive has been planned by a triumvirate of Vice Premier Haim Ramon, Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter and Justice Minister Daniel Friedman. Friedman's job is crucial as he heads the effort to maintain a legal system meant to quickly stifle peaceful protest against the government plan. As a result, Friedman and his chief aide, Shai=- Nitzan, are preparing a crackdown on all dissent, including a ban on assembly, speech, movement and prayer in holy sites. The government has introduced new laws to prosecute political dissent on the Internet and cellular phones while building new prisons to handle the thousands of demonstrators expected to be arrested under the crackdown.

The Timetable:
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    Olmert has sought to delay the offensive against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria . But he has become more vulnerable than ever, given the growing threat to Israel from Iran , Syria and the Hamas regime in the Gaza
Strip, which he believes would require increased support by and coordination with Washington . Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been meeting with Israeli officials and demanding that steps be taken in early 2008 that
would lead to a Palestinian state.

The Experience:
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    The Olmert government, and its predecessor, Ariel Sharon, have singled out Jewish supporters of Israel for special punishment. The feeling is that punishing Jewish dissidents, particularly residents of Judea and Samaria as well as their supporters, generates support from the governments of the United States , the European Union as well as their clients among the Israeli Left. Olmert and Sharon have pointed to the crackdown on the Jewish residents of the territories as proof of his willingness to take political risks to satisfy the international community.
    As a result, the government has refused appeals to pardon the thousands of Jews arrested prior and during the Israeli expulsion of Jews from their homes in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria in 2005. The prosecution has refused to close the more than 700 indictments that stem from those cases. Today, Jewish minors, particularly girls, are held for months without charges because they refuse to cooperate with authorities. In all of the cases, the defendants were not accused of violent offenses. In January, several people were grabbed off the streets of Jerusalem for talking to foreign journalists during the visit by President Bush and charged with sedition.
    Experience has shown that the politicians are either afraid of Olmert and the police. Indeed, many Knesset members are threatened by police investigations or scandal that could turn into indictments at any time. The major print media, with interests in government-controlled companies, have ignored the Jews. Even Israeli human rights organizations, financed by the European Union and U.S. foundations to defend Arabs, have refused to become
involved. Members of the organized Jewish community in the United States have feared to speak out because they do not want to be seen as opposing an Israeli government propped up by Bush.

The Proposal:
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    Some Americans in Israel -- whose children or friends have been among the detainees -- have found one pressure point on the Olmert government that actually works: telephone calls from members of Congress or their staffers
to the Israel Embassy in Washington to request information about Jewish protesters arrested in peaceful demonstrations. Within hours, these detainees have been released from Israeli police custody.
    We would like to help build a network in the United States that would expand on this success. The network of supporters of Jewish rights in Israel would demand accountability for those arrested or beaten by police in peaceful demonstrations, including attempts to pray at holy places.
    The network would have two channels: One channel would focus on grassroots support; the other on political activists who have access to members of the House and Senate. The network, designed to generate constituency complaints, would encourage members of Congress to question the Israel Embassy in Washington and perhaps even the State Department to clarify alleged human rights violations of Jews. Supporters of this initiative would not need to take any position on the future of Judea and Samaria -- merely to call on Israel to account for reports of police brutality, arrest without charges and refusal to release Jews on bail for non-violent protests.
    We are hoping to build this network so that we can stop the impending Olmert offensive against the Jews in the coming weeks. We urge you to help us establish this network or set up your own pressure group. As few as five
people per congressional district willing to telephone a member of Congress can make a difference.
    The prospect of turning to the U.S. political system to intervene is something we don't relish. But we have to face facts: Olmert, whose approval ratings have approached zero, has survived purely because of the Bush administration and its hopes that the prime minister will unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria and establish a Palestinian state over the next year. Indeed, when Bush visited Israel in January, Olmert called the U.S. president "my confidante."
    Our goal is to deter Olmert from draconian measures meant to destroy the Jewish community in Judea and Samaria and parts of Jerusalem . A network that monitors the arrests of Jews, particularly Americans, and asks members of
Congress to seek clarification could buy valuable time. It could also move American Jewish leaders to quietly warn Olmert that he cannot continue to trample on Jewish rights without a backlash from American Jews and their
supporters in Congress. Every Jew who is released is a Jew redeemed one of the most important mitzvot in the Torah. Can anything be more important?

Please send comments, suggestions or offers to be part of this network to pidionshvuim@gmail.com

 

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Why are you keeping this girl Tsivia from Elon Moreh in Jail?

 

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Dear Sirs,

 

Why are you getting rid of a fly on a forehead with a sledgehammer?  This girl's "crime" was threatening to throw stones at what she felt was a provocation and danger to her own security.  It's like locking up a 4 year old kid in her room for days for "hitting and threatening" her older much stronger and armed brother who is bullying her. And here we are not even talking about an older brother that is bullying but a neighbor who is with her brother who acts mean and threatening. 

 

Your definition of justice is quite the opposite.  In addition, it's an act of bullying and cowardice.  Picking on a young girl because she dared to rightfully question the legitimacy of those who are supposed to protect her (aka IDF) who in fact demonstrates the exact opposite by bringing to her territory, strangers and aliens from a people who have shown in the past the desire to harm her people and her loved ones.  Shame on all involved!!!!  Well you and the IDF showed her all right.  You sure did a suburb job of protecting her.  Now she is convinced that your motive as well as the motive of the IDF was pure and their desire and your desire is truly to protect her and her family. 

 

This girl is being sentenced in jail without even a trial.  Another proof of a bunch of bullies masquerading as law officers and representing a corrupt judicial system.

 

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Pidyon Shivuyim - Releasing an 18 year old girl from prison from Elon Moreh

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Thank you MATTOTARIM@eretz.org for sending this out. Please write a letter of protest.

 

18 year old Tsvia from Elon Moreh  has been in an Israeli prison for more than 2 1/2 months. Her story: 2 IDF reps, one Arab and one Jewish, escorted 3 Arab men into her hometown, Elon Moreh, to harvest olives. 3 girls, among them Tsvia, were shocked and angered at this disregard of Elon Moreh's safety: only 3% of Judea and Samaria is reserved for Jewish towns (although fully 15% of the total Judea/Samaria population is Jewish). So, why allow the Arab men to harvest olives right in the middle of the Jewish town, instead of finding them a land alternative outside of the slivers of land allocated to Yesha's Jews. This was not a racist concern but a safety concern -- in view of the fact that a recent Pew Research poll found fully 70% of Palestinians supportive of homicide bombings against Jews.

 

Tsvia had no-one to turn to, since the authorities (via the 2 local IDF reps) were themselve plainly siding with the 3 Arab men. She pushed and pulled at the 3 Arab men in a vain effort to get them to leave Elon Moreh. She was charged with trespassing (how does this make sense if the indictment does not even claim that the land the 3 men were given access to, is actually theirs?), with "assaulting" (pulling and pushing) the 3 men, with "frightening and insulting" the men, and -- with saying she would throw stones at them. In contrast, just this week, the Shomron Regional Council chairman Gershon Mesika told Army Radio that dozens of stoning incidents per day have been occurring lately, in which Palestinian men and boys throw rocks and cement blocks at Jewish drivers and their families. These potentially fatal attacks have NOT resulted in arrests of the Palestinian Arab perpetrators nor does the State provide  an IDF escort to the Jewish drivers – as opposed to the 2 IDF reps assigned to escort the 3 Arab men.

 

Write to the following email addresses to make the following 3 points (exactly as written here or  -- BETTER! - in your own words):

Dear Sirs, I would appreciate your prompt response to the following:

(a) It is absurd for someone to be in jail for minor offenses: When does the State plan to free Tsvia, the 18 year old girl from Elon Moreh?  

(b) It is hard for us to detect criminal intent in Tsvia's actions: It is indeed dangerous for the State of Israel to insist that Arabs can penetrate Jewish communities, so as to harvest olives right there, since the Palestinian Arab affinity for suicide bombings has been determined to be as high as 70% of the general Palestinian population. For the small number of Palestinians who are truly able to prove they own property inside otherwise Jewish communities, offer similar property elsewhere.

(c) Equality before the law: One Jewish girl talks about throwing rocks and is jailed for 2.5 months (so far). Dozens of Arab men throw rocks (not just threaten to throw -- actually throw) daily, not one of whom is ever arrested. This is not equality.

 

Write to the following senior Israeli officials and embassies (do not worry if a few of the addresses don't work): sar@justice.gov.il,sar@mops.gov.il,sar@moit.gov.il, sar@moc.gov.il, pm_heb@pmo.gov.il,rani@mops.gov.il, yhadar@mops.gov.il, shukil@justice.gov.il, menim@justice.gov.il,livnat@justice.gov.il, shain@justice.gov.il,inbalr@justice.gov.il,yehoshuas@justice.gov.il,tovas@justice.gov.il,rachelschieber@justice.gov.il,moshes@justice.gov.il,women@pmo.gov.il,

meitan@knesset.gov.il,oschneller@knesset.gov.il, rabbis@rabbinate.gov.il,rabbia@rabbinate.gov.il, bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il, yor@knesset.gov.il,

roi.lahmanovitz@moital.gov.il, zelkin@knesset.gov.il, mgafni@KNESSET.GOV.IL, nzeev@knesset.gov.il, ithakl@knesset.gov.il,drotem@knesset.gov.il,zorlev@knesset.gov.il, nachum@nachumsegal.com, Emb-sec3@israelemb.org,ashariv@newyork.mfa.gov.il,info@philadelphia.mfa.gov.il,atlanta@israel.org,contactus@chicago.mfa.gov.il, 

consular.dep@houston.mfa.gov.il,info@miami.mfa.gov.il

 

 

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Call or email the Public Affairs Dept. of Agudath Yisroel of America and other rabbinical leaders (contact information below) and r e s p e c t f u l l y   ask them to speak out! 

 

* From Odelia Jacobs, E"Y activist: "I just finished speaking with Rav Kook, Chief Rabbi of Rechovot. Rav Kook told me that he met personally with Rav Elyashiv, Rav Shteinman and ... Rav Perlow and they all urged us to do our hishtadlus in tefila and actions on behalf of Eretz Yisrael. They mentioned that these are dangerous times, worse then pre-Holocaust!"

 

What has already been done: A crucial statement on behalf of Jerusalem in the Agudah convention in November: http://theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/12165/contact: "NOW, THEREFORE, the delegates to the 85th national convention of Agudath Israel of America hereby resolve that Agudath Israel of America, under the direction of its rabbinic leadership, should communicate to appropriate government officials the organization's strong belief that, for the reasons set forth above, Israel should not relinquish parts of Jerusalem to Palestinian sovereignty, and the American government should not pressure the Israeli government into doing so."

 

What still needs to be done: R e s p e c t f u l l y  ask major rabbis to please end the Silence regarding Judea and Samaria and the establishment of a Terror State Chas Vechalilah right next-door to Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Ben-Gurion airport.

 

Example letter (even better – write your own):  

 

BH

Dear Distinguished Rabbonim,

 

Please consult urgently with Rav Steinman Shlita and Rav Eliyashi Shlita and other prominent Rabbanim and other Jewish leaders and organizations as to whether to publicly support Israel retaining Yehuda and the Shomron in addition to all of Jerusalem because;

 

(a)    These are all integral parts of Eretz HaKodesh as explained in the very first Rashi in the Chumash and not "occupied" lands as our enemies contend

(b) Parshas Masei inter alia says that it is G-d Himself who delineates the Holy Land's boundaries which include Yehuda and the Shomron

(c)   Abandoning Yehuda and Shomron, G-d forbid, would put the Jews in the remaining Israel in  a real and present existential danger on a much larger scale than the Jews today in Sderot, Ashkelon, etc. who are faced with daily rocket attacks. 

 (d) This is not a "political" or "Zionist" matter. It is a matter of Israel's survival and, perhaps in turn, the survival of the Jewish people. 

 (e) What is at stake goes to the essence of retaining our connection as Am Hashem to Eretz Hakodesh, a holiness we witness and experience every day and even more so now during this Shmitta year.

 

Through your efforts now, Jewish lives and deaths being literally at stake, may Hashem bless your efforts with success to reverse the evil decree "in those days at this time" and to restore to the Jews in Israel and everywhere "Orah VeSimcha VeSasson Vicar".

 

BeChavod Rav, (YOUR NAME)

 

The relevant rabbis to contact r e s p e c t f u l l y  in this connection are:
* Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Rabbi Avi Shafran, and Rabbi Gertzulin - Public Affairs Department, Agudath Yisroel  212-797-9000 
* Rabbi Pesach Lerner at The Young Israel 212-929-1525
* Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb of the OU 212-563-4000
* Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Headquarters  718 774.4000 / fax 718 774.2718
By email: plerner@youngisrael.org, dzwiebel@agudathisrael.org, shafran@agudathisrael.org, execthw@ou.org, hq@lubavitch.com 
Please cc or bcc all correspondence to faigerayzel@aol.com 

  

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Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me

bs"d  Thank you Evelyn Haies haze@rcn.com for forwarding this email regarding the anti-Semitic climate in France today.

I received this post from a friend in NY. One of his friends is living in France and posted this to him with the request that Andy distribute it to his American friends.
 
Andy prefaces with: "Once again, the real news in France is conveniently not being reported as it should. To give you an idea of what's going on in France where there are now between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews, here is an email that came from a Jew living in France.

Please read!"
 
"Will the world say nothing - again - as it did in Hitler's time? He writes, "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do not hing." Nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France: In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center w as firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseil les; so was a Jewish school in Creteil - all recently. A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" were painted. In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.
"According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews." A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20's were beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne, France The woman was pregnant; a Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France . This was just in the past week.
 
 "So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, to do, at least, these three simple things:
 
"First, care enough to stay informed. Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of what Pastor Neimoller said in World War II: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me".
 
 Second, boycott France and French products. Only the Arab countries are more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes and their foodstuff s. Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of  well-directed pressure.
 
 Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your co-workers. Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them know that you and the people that you care about  need their help.
The number one bestselling book in France is...."September 11: The Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.
Please Pass This On, Let's not let history repeat itself, thank-you for your time and consideration

Brenda H. Mitchell
Executive Assistant to the Rabbis
bmitchell@templesinaiatlanta.org
Temple Sinai
5645 Dupree Drive
Atlanta, GA 30327 

 

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