From: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Follow Rabbi Abadie's Lead To Boycott Israel Day Parade If BDS Marches! Protest BDS marchers this Tuesday Rally, Tuesday, April 8th, flyering 4 pm, speeches 5:30-7 PM UJA-Federation Bldg., 130 E. 59 St., Bet. Lex & Park Aves
To: Howard Rieger <howard.rieger@ujc.org>, John Ruskay <ruskayj@ujafedny.org>, Joseph Kanfer <joseph@ujc.org>, Malcolm Hoenlein <malcolm@conferenceofpresidents.org>, "President Alisa R. Doctoroff" <DoctoroffA@ujafedny.org>, Ronald Lauder <rlauder@jnf.org>, Russel Robinson <rrobinson@jnf.org>, "UJA Federation President Jerry W. Lewin" <jwlevin@jwlevinpartners.com>, EGoldstein@paulweiss.com, Gabe Roth <groth@rubenstein.com>, Michael Mittelman <MittelmanM@jcrcny.org>, Noam Gilboord <GilBoordN@jcrcny.org>, Peter Kohlmann <kohlmann@jcrcny.org>, "President Ronald G. Weiner" <Ron@pwcpa.com>, MillerM@jcrcny.org
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Stay tuned to the big Yom Hashoa Rally against Iran which will be taking place on:Sunday April 27, 2014 at 11:30am in front of the UN IRANIAN MISSION 622 THIRD AVE (at EAST 40th STREET) NEW YORK, NY
For more information, please call: Yom Hashoah Committee: (516) 521-9333. See attachments.....
Dear Federation Organizers and JCRC Board Members:
First Yasher Koach on the good work that you do to help people find jobs, give people jobs and help the needy. Federation was out there by Hurricane Sandy. UJA is the Jewish social service communal infrastructure that must raise about $600 million a year to assist the needy. That includes indigent survivors who get home care, battered women in Borough Park, poor Jews in Canarsie and on the Grand Concourse, and so forth. So we don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water. On the other hand there is a lot that UJA/Federation supports, which accomplishes the exact opposite of what they are supposed to do. What comes to mind is giving a grant for a Tikkun Olam Shabbat Program for gardening and furniture building????? Quite the opposite of Tikkun Olam. Those with basic knowledge of Judaism knows that gardening and furniture building fall under forbidden Shabbat activities.
We would all be very sad not to have an Israel Day Parade. But at times, if necessary, if the old house has serious building violations endangering the occupants, one needs to stay away from the house until these violations are rectified..
Please read about Rabbi Abadie's call not to participate in the Israel Day Parade as long as the organizers, Federation and JCRC include BDS marchers under their big tent. No doubt he is under heavy pressure from UJA/Federation to backtrack.
Please visit the Algemeiner Post and see the large number of comments giving much deserved chizuk, support of Rabbi Abadie's decision to pull support for the Israel Parade unless anit-Israel BDS groups are barred from participating.
Read Rabbi Aryeh Spero's post and comment as well.
My comments follow:
Yasher Koach to the Algemeiner and to the Jewish Press for reporting the massive efforts underway spearheaded by Richard Allen of JCCwatch and Beth Gilinsky of Jewish Action Alliance to stop BDS groups and marchers. (To their credit, many papers and radio programs, for practical and economic reasons, don't want to put UFA/Federation in a negative light so they don't bother reporting the controversy. It takes a courageous paper to do so. A paper willing to lose revenue. Is it true that UJA-Fed gives or withholds advertising revenue money to the Jewish papers depending on their coverage of John Ruskay. I am not an insider but how else to explain lack of coverage of this protest on April 8th of many newspapers. If you are a paper or radio program with a conscience please report on this rally. Thanks! ).
Visit the links of the Algemeiner article and the Jewish Press article by Rabbi Aryeh Spero and comment so that the organizers at Federation and JCRC hear your voice.
In line with Rabbi Abadie's call, picture this scenario. Surely it paints a picture that unfortunately is quite realistic.
UJA Federation/JCRC stand firm and refuse to back down. They allow the BDS groups to march. Pro Israel and Zionist groups boycott the Israel Day Parade in Protest of BDS marchers. The only ones left are BDS marchers, the organizers UJA/Federation and JCRC, and the Neturei Karta protesters. The organizers UJA/Federation and JCRC then invite the Neturei Kara protestors under their big tent. The BDS marchers and the Neturei Karta both are anti Zionists and ideologically on the same page. The BDS marchers however, unlike Neturei Karta, pretend to be Zionists, marching in the parade etc... It's like Hamas and Fatah Lehavdil. At times they try to work things out with one another. One is honest about their true feelings towards Israel and one is deceitful about their true feelings but their anti Israel sentiment and goals are the same... Anyway the organizers, UJA/Federation and JCRC in democratic fashion, would like all to join under their umbrella. Uh oh... the Neturei Karta don't want women. But that's ok with the BDS supporters and their Muslim supporters who feel that women should not exist as per the recent declaration of the CII. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah. As the meeting concluded CII Chairman Maulana Muhammad Khan Shirani noted that women by existing defied the laws of nature, and to protect Islam and the Sharia women should be forced to stop existing as soon as possible. (bold added)http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2014/04/muslim-clerics-women-should-cease-to.html
The organizers at Federation and JCRC now have a big problem because they want women under their umbrella. After all they include everyone. So they get into a fight with BDS supporters. The BDS supporters tell the Organizers, Federation and JCRC that they are "occupying" their parade and that the Parade is now called the Palestinian Day Parade and all Jews are barred and that they, UJA/Federation and JCRC are by democratic rule ousted from running the Parade. Of course UJA/Federation insist that they have been running the Parade for years and that they have legal rights to continue to run the Parade and should have complete control as per how the Parade is to be run. The new group of marchers then go to the UN and the human rights council to protest the terrible injustice they are subjected to under the totalitarian organizers, whom they call "occupying organizers" of the Palestinian Day Parade.
So much for the big tent!
IT STARTS WITH BOYCOTTS
April 1933: Storm troopers outside a Berlin store posting signs: "Do not buy from Jews!"
Today, in APRIL 2014, there are Jewish organizations supporting the Arab boycott of Jewish businesses and their products made in the Land of Israel.
And UJA-Federation and JCRC are letting these organizations march in the Salute to Israel Parade!
JOIN US TO TELL UJA-FEDERATION:
DON'T LET BDS SUPPORTERS MARCH IN THE ISRAEL DAY PARADE!
Rally, Tuesday, April 8th, flyering 4 pm, speeches 5:30-7 PM
UJA-Federation Bldg., 130 E. 59 St., Bet. Lex & Park Aves
Nationwide Action Alert:
Call UJA-Federation at 212-980-1000
Email the UJA-Federation Leadership:
President Alisa R. Doctoroff: DoctoroffA@UJAFedNY.org
Chief Executive Officer John Ruskay: RuskayJ@UJAFedNY.org
CEO Elect Eric S. Goldstein: EGoldstein@PaulWeiss.com
Email the Jewish Community Relations Council Board:
President Ronald G. Weiner: Ron@PWCPA.com
Rabbi Michael Miller: MillerM@JCRCNY.org or call 212-983-4000
Sponsored by JCC Watch, AFSI, Z Street, Jewish Action Alliance, National Conference on Jewish Affairs, EMET, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, Coalition for Israel.
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Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch. May their memories serve as a blessing.
Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch. May their memories serve as a blessing.
Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com
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