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From: Shalom Pollack <shalompollack613@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:45 AM
Subject: Yom Kippur
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From: Shalom Pollack <shalompollack613@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:45 AM
Subject: Yom Kippur
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ts just a few hours before Yom Kippur, the one day in the year when Jewish Israel shuts down.
There is something very special about being greeted with the traditional wishes for a good and blessed year, from just about all stripes of Jews. This is the largest extended family on earth and today it is felt.
This family has had a rough summer and aftermath..The Gaza "war" with its sacrifices and a continued feeling of continued dangerous exposure to an enemy not convincingly defeated, has resuscitated the old hopefull term, "it will be ok"
Of course Yom Kippur is the anniversary of the Yom Kippur war of 1973 which .Israel did not preempt as it did in the 1967 Six Day War. This was to please a world that can not seem cure itself of its problem with Jews defending themselves.
Because of our desire to please, we almost lost it all in 1973. Israel has never been the same after that trauma and Yom Kippur has never been the same here since then.
Clearly, Israel is a miracle and God's chosen stage for a world in need of a light to follow. Sometimes, I wish our current leaders better understood this and the responsibilities that accompany the status.
Lately, there have been increasing Arab assaults upon Jews especially in Jerusalem.
Just yesterday In Jerusalem , three women in their car were surrounded by an Arab mob and stoned at very close range. They were lucky to escape with only light injuries. No police to protect them.
Jerusalem! Its OUR police! Jewish police.
In the last few months a number of Jews have been murdered by Arabs; murders that the police have immediately announced were not "nationalist" crimes but normal criminal acts.They were proven wrong in each case.
They want to keep things quiet and not expose the real threat to Jews by our Arab neighbors. They kick it under the carpet.This make believe policy comes from very high up in government.
I have personally been told more than once by police that "it is dangerous for them to go to those (Arab areas) places"
Please! I had that in Brooklyn. This is home, my home. My last stop.
Just imagine what would happen if Jewish "youth"would riot and stone and injure Arabs .The Minister of police would probably announce a national day of mourning
It used to be safer. What has happened?
I think most of us know .
Let us pray that this year, God in His mercy, gives us the leadership who will retire the phrase, "It will be OK" and replace it with the faith and strength to be what we are meant to be in our beloved Land..
May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life
Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
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