Fwd: 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

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
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