Remember Yezidis at your Seder Table that they should be freed from slavery... From Vivienne Ziner and immediate action steps

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For better context for this email please view previous post....

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/03/zechariah-14-yezidis-speak-april-12-at.html

Zechariah 14:2

"And I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to wage war; and the city shall be captured, and the houses shall be plundered, and the women shall be ravished, and half the city shall go forth into exile-and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city."

There are some who say that this is a reference to 1948. 

 I wish to G-d that it was true and not foreshadowing current event or future events in the close future. 

Did all the nations gather to Jerusalem to wage war in 1948?  Isis has basically fulfilled this terrible prophesy on the Yazidis but not in Jerusalem....

What has happened and is happening to the Yazidis is truly horrendous.  Hashem Yishmor

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From: Vivienne Ziner <viv@urbanquestinc.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Yezidis Speak April 12 ..some ideas and some immediate action steps

the most important thing is not for people to come to this event;the most important thing is to give them an action to do that can result in helping the yazidis.

i suggest that you and geoffrey clearfield create a petition to go the canadian government asking the canadian government to:

1. get them out of iraq

2. give them preference in coming to canada and achieving refugee status

i will write a small piece here that you can e mail out to everyone to read at their seder table, should they be so inclined

here goes:

PASSOVER 2015

________________

"Yesterday I was a slave; today I am a free person"

That sentiment sums up The Jewish People's  self-perceived status in the world in 2015.

After the Exodus from Egypt, after years of progroms and hate and exile , after the heinous unfathomable crime of The Holocaust, we, the Jewish People, believe that we are, at long last, free.

It is not true.

We have reprieves, some shorter, some longer, that we have from virulent hate and antisemitism but it is still there, alway, lurking under the thin veneer of polite niceties, under thinly disguised contempt and seething hate.

We can never be complacent, indolent, unaware.

Within that context, we can never be unmoved, unhelpful, uninvolved when any minority is threatened, hurt, harassed….killed.

In this case, and at this time, most especially in the situation befalling the Yazidis.

An ancient, mysterious, monotheistic people, they are misunderstood, feared and scorned- just like the Jews.

Just like the Jews, they are hated for being self contained, with their own rituals and religion.

They are surrounded by people who hate them for being different, for not worshipping their G-d in their way….just like the Jews.

They helped the Americans and their coalition forces in The Iraqi War, to fight against intolerant and fanatical Islam at their own heavy costs to their wellbeing and safety.

And now, they are being slaughtered, beheaded, brutalized, raped and killed and no one is there to help them, no one is standing up for them and no one is asking for justice and no one is getting them out of harm's way.

And they are being made into slaves…just like we were.

At your seder table tomorrow and the night after,, please do the following-

1. Read out what I just wrote

2. Make a prayer to ask Hashem to help theYazidis 

3. After Yontev, make a commitment to sign this petition to ask the Canadian government to help The Yazidi, by getting them out of Iraq and to get First Rights to enter and remain in our beloved Canada.

Please remember- you cannot leave slavery and bondage if you leave deserving souls behind in shackles

Thank you

Am Y'Isroel Chai!

Chag sameach

Vivienne Ziner

Vivienne Ziner

President, UrbanQuest Inc.

1 Old Park Road

416 480 2001

On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:19 AM, arthurdstern@gmail.com wrote:

RANANAH if you could prepare a one page testimonial of the genocide that is ongoing so we can get it read at our Seder tables so we can be real with the Torah's mandate of " Do not Oppress a stranger " so we can be the sensitive people we have to be after experiencing the suffering in Egypt 
Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 21, 2015, at 11:44 PM, RANANAH GOLDHAR <rgoldhar2@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Dear Friends - please try to attend and please help send this around and spread the word!

YEZIDIS SPEAK

                    GENOCIDE AND ENSLAVEMENT IN NORTHERN IRAQ

             PERSONAL TESTIMONIES BY YEZIDIS NOW LIVING IN CANADA

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WITH YEZIDI LEADER MIRZA ISMAIL

Chairman of World Yezidi Humanitarian Organization - International

 

B'NAI B'RITH 15 Hove Street North York ON

Sunday April 12, 2015, 7:30 p.m. [enter through parking lot entrance] 

Suggested donation $5

Presented by Canadian Jews and Friends of Yezidis

for further information e-mail CanadianJewsandFriendsofYezidis@gmail.com

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
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