The correct and only way to fight anti-Semitism.

bs"d

 

Anti-Semitism is created when there is a void.  Allow me to identify that void.

 

That void is Asserting and Protecting our Identity as Jews. When one fails to assert or protect their identity properly, one becomes an easy target for identity theft. 

 

The Palestinians, have recognized this void and have taken the golden opportunity to steal our identity. They claim that Israel is occupying their Land promised by Allah. It is their Land exclusively.  It is a holy War, Jihad to destroy the Jews.

 

We are G-d's chosen people, chosen to keep His commandments and to live in the Land of Israel where the Commandments can best reach their potential.  Through keeping the commandments of the H-ly Torah,  we become a vessel to receive all of G-d's blessings.  The nations of the world will be blessed since we are the conduit of blessings to mankind.

 

Therefore, the leaders of our generation, the Rabbis of our generation, must not be afraid to state openly that the Land of Israel is the inheritance of the Nation of Israel exclusively.  The entire world belongs to the Creator of the World. The Nation of Israel by keeping the commandments of the Torah in the Land of Israel,  will infuse the entire Land and subsequently the entire world with holiness.  Failure to do so results in a void, in a chillul Hashem which is the meaning of anti-Semitism.  (anti shem which refers to a nullification of G-d's name).  We fool ourselves in believing that we can fight anti-Semitism in any other way other than to assert our true identity.  Our identity and purpose and mission is defined in the Bible and spelled out in the Covenant between G-d and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and to their seed.  It is an everlasting Covenant for all generations. 

 

Malcolm Hoenein and his organization the Conference of Presidents, are excellent in tracking anti-Semitism throughout the world.  Unfortunately, they are blind to the fact that a Two State Solution, the Roadmap Plan following in the footsteps of Camp David and Oslo is the actual CAUSE of anti-Semitism..  Malcolm Hoenlein said that Oslo is an agreement that can not revoked.  Yet any agreement is null and void if its foundation is based on a false premise.  G-d's Torah on the other hand can never be revoked.

 

As I mentioned, Malcolm Hoenlein and the Conference of Presidents do a wonderful job tracking all the incidents of anti-Semitism throughout the world.  Over the past few years they themselves recognize a significant increase in the rise of anti-Semitism.  

 

Simultaneously, Malcolm Hoenlein and many of the Jewish organizations he represents, actively engage in activity that promotes and gives rise and perpetuates anti-Semitism! You are shocked no doubt!  What is their specific activity that has brought a rise anti-Semitism? The answer is that they are actively engaged in negotiating the rights to the Land of Israel away to our enemies. This is in direct conflict with G-d's Covenant.  G-d clearly gives exclusive rights to the Land of Israel to the Nation of Israel. The borders are clearly delineated. Malcolm Hoenlein may give the impression that this is a racist concept in today's modern world.  The Jews are above racism  he will argue.  Us Jews do not act like our enemies. We do not stoop to their level.  We treat all of humanity equally and humanely so we will give our Palestinian neighbors a fair share as long as there is reciprocity.  Mr. Hoenlein, that is not what the Torah says.  The Torah says that the borders of Israel are exclusively for the Nation of Israel. .  The borders of Israel are clearly delineated in the Torah. The Torah is real and relevant and Malcolm Hoenlein's perception is not real or relevant even though he will convince others to believe that he knows how we must face and how to deal in the "real" world and work with reality.  He will portray our position as being against progress for true and everlasting peace and goodwill with our neighbors.

 

So I beseech my dear Friends to call upon Malcolm Hoenlein and specifically JMINTHEAM nachum@wfmu.org , and all the wonderful Young Israels under the leadership of Rabbi Pesach Lerner  plerner@youngisrael.org such as the Young Israel of Midwood, Rabbi Shulman rabbi@yimidwood.org and the Young Israel of the West Side, Rabbi Dovid Cohen cohen.dovid@gmail.com who so proudly hosts Malcolm Hoenlein (see this coming Shabbos  Scholar in Residence December 21st) to look inward.  Why can't they see that they too are giving Malcolm Hoenlein a forum to promote the Two State Solution, Roadmap Plan. True you may argue that Malcolm Hoenlein promotes an undivided Jerusalem and is promoting the United Coalition for an Undivided Jerusalem including all of the mainstream Jewish organizations under this banner.  To this argument let me bring a Mishneh in Yuma Perek Gimel Mishneh Aleph.  Translation is Artscroll Mishneh Series. 

 

Here,  the Mishneh returns to the original topic of the tractate which is the order of the Yom Kippur Service.

 

1.The administrator said to them [to the assembled Kohanim]; 'Go out and see, if the time for slaughtering has arrived.'  If it had arrived, the one who sees [it] says 'Barkai.'  Mattisya ben Shmuel says[He was the administrator of the lots, as mentioned in Shekalim 5:1;]; 'The whole of the east has lit up.' "As far as Hebron" and he says, 'Yes!'

 

2.Why was this necessary?  Because one time the moon's light rose and they thought that the east had lit up, so they slaughtered the daily sacrifice, and then [had to] take it out to the place of burning.

 

There was a specially designated viewing station in the Temple where an observer went up to see whether day had dawned. In the Temple service, any slaughter performed at night is invalid, Day is reckoned from dawn - i.e. when the first shimmer of light is observed on the eastern horizon. The people in the Temple asked the observer "As far as Hebron?" i.e. Did you see the sky lit up as far as Hebron?' (Rambam, Rav)  Yerushalmi (2:1) says that they mentioned Hebron in order to allude to the merit of the Patriarchs who were buried there.

 

When I read these Mishnayos it made me so happy to see that the slaughtering of the sacrifices in the temple could not begin until the sky lit up as far as Hebron.  In fact once there was a mistake and the light of the moon was mistaken for light of daybreak and they slaughtered too early and it was invalid and had to be thrown away and burnt.  It came to mind that we too can mistake the light of Galus (exile, night) for the real morning light and our sacrifices will be for naught.  For the real thing we need to see till Hebron. 

 

So when we speak of an undivided Jerusalem, for real service of the Temple, we must speak of an undivided Jerusalem extending till Hebron.  Of course if we are merely speaking about a museum representing Jerusalem, Hebron is not that important. We are not striving to restore Jerusalem to the way it was but merely as a zecher LeChurban.  A remembrance.

 

Once there was a beautiful house of charity.  They had parties for combating Lung Cancer, and the Heart Association and Special Olympics and Meir Panim and Multiple Sclerosis to name a few.  They sent relief to all natural disasters all over the world. 

 

There was a homeless beggar outside this house that was clearly criminal.  The owner of the house fed him and let him in the house on those cold nights.  After all he liked the reputation of being charitable and was going to show the world that he was not cruel or inhumane to let that poor beggar suffer outside.  So he let the beggar into the basement. After a while the beggar trashed the basement.  The owner tried to explain to him that he took him off the streets and it wasn't nice of the beggar to trash the basement.  The beggar seemed indifferent and grew stronger day by day from the good food and shelter.  The beggar told him it's not fair that he, the owner,  has this beautiful house and that the beggar was only stuck in the basement.  The beggar demanded the upstairs as well. The beggar brought lots of friends into the house now.  The owner was intimidated.  He tried to negotiate with the new guests.  He told them that he absolutely refuses to give them the kitchen. In this kitchen they had prepared the most beautiful parties for all these charitable causes.  A fight broke out between the beggar and his "friends".  Some felt that the previous occupier of the house should have absolutely no rights to the kitchen.  The others argued  that of course they would never allow the previous occupier to cook in the kitchen but they would agree to letting them have some access. In basic principle the interlopers agreed.  The former occupier had to eventually leave.  Allowing the museum of the kitchen was simply a tactic to easily take over the upstairs.  Temporarily they would allow him to have a museum of the kitchen. It would give him the allusion of being in control.  Cooking of course is out of the question. Of course after they take over the entire upstairs, they'll have an easier time to get rid of the occupiers from kitchen as well.

 

By now I hope you have seen the analogy.  Where did the owner go wrong?  He should have banished the criminal beggar at the very start from coming in close proximity to his beautiful house.  He should have scared the heck out of him and if that didn't work should have gone one step further.  The house was a place of charity and peace.  By bringing in the criminal beggar he put the prosperity and peace of his house in danger.  Not only that, he let down and actually abandoned all the worthy organizations that can no longer be helped by this wonderful house.   He refused to assert his rightful ownership of his house and as a result, due to his own self righteousness and other vices destroyed all that he had. and ruined the goodness that he was capable of providing and actually did provide.

 

 

The following was sent to me by Evelyn Haies.  Anti-Semitism is reaching new heights especially in France.

Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:43 AM.  What is our proper response.  Shall we negotiate with the beggar criminal and cohorts?  Or shall we proudly proclaim our identity as Jews and the rights to the Land.  Lemaan Zion lo Echesheh!

 

Friends and Family,

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 nothing." 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 was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and
Marseilles; 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 20s 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
ju st 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-Semit ic and, unlike the m, 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 best selling book in France is...."September 11: The
Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon

 

 

 

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5768.12.21 Israel the Land of My Possession. Malcolm Hoenlein's Dirty Little Secret

bs"d

21 Elul 5768
September 21, 2008

Malcolm Hoenlein's Dirty Little Secret

Here is another example of Malcolm Hoenlein's betrayal to the Jewish People.  As you know, Malcolm Hoenlein and the Conference of Presidents endorse a Palestinian State and are active in the negotiations to establish a Palestinian State whose ideology is no different than Nazi Germany. How stupid of us to allow him to be our leading spokesperson for the War on Terror?   The disinvite of Palin shows the emptiness of his convictions and we can  predict the worthlessness of the Conference of Presidents in the fight against terror.

 Let's get ourselves some authentic Leadership for the Jewish People! Only when we speak out strongly against a Palestinian State and for the Sovereignty of the Jewish People of the Land of Israel based on the Torah we will weaken Ahmadinijad and Iran considerably.    At this point we must rely on G-d in heaven to help us.

Of course we are terrified about the proliferation of nuclear capabilities of Iran.

One single plane, not even a weappon of mass destruction wreaked havoc on 9/11.  Hurricane Katrina wreated havoc in New Orleans. 

G-d has many messengers.

Let us recognize that it is our own rejection of our birthright and our stupid endorsement of a Nazi like Palestinian State that can kindle the fury of G-d who has created the world and has chosen to give the Land of Israel to the People of Israel as a Divine gift.  

Ref: http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php

http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2004/060404.htm

Malcolm Hoenlein's Dirty Little Secret Revealed:
Tenet No Obstacle to Pollard Release

Source: JTA - CIA Chief George Tenet Quits by Matthew E. Berger

J4JP Release - June 4, 2004

For nearly a decade Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive VP of the Conference of Presidents, has kept a dirty little secret which may well have held the key to Jonathan Pollard's prison cell. Now, years later, Hoenlein has just revealed this secret (text below) - not to help Jonathan Pollard, but to praise resigning CIA Director, George Tenet!

In a June 3, 2004 interview with Matthew E. Berger ["CIA Chief George Tenet Quits", JTA, 06/04/04] Hoenlein describes a phone call he received from CIA Director, George Tenet, immediately after the Wye Summit in 1998. According to Hoenlein, Tenet called him because was genuinely upset about what had happened at Wye; and he denied that he had ever threatened to resign if Jonathan Pollard were freed.

By way of background: when President Clinton reneged on the U.S. commitment to free Jonathan Pollard as an integral part of the Wye accords in 1998, an excuse was created: "CIA Director George Tenet threatened to resign if Pollard goes free."

This was not only untrue, it was a ridiculous excuse. Its implausibility was vividly demonstrated a few months later when Clinton freed the FALN terrorists over Tenets' vehement objections and actual threat to resign.

In spite of the valiant efforts of the Pollard team to set the record straight, it became virtually impossible to overcome the White House spin in the media that Tenet's threat to resign nullified all efforts to free Jonathan Pollard. Over the years, this canard has become thoroughly entrenched and used by Jewish leaders as an excuse for inaction.

The only Jewish leader, it appears, who knew that this obstacle to Jonathan's release was utterly false, was Malcolm Hoenlein. Hoenlein is not a private citizen, but the Executive Vice President of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations - the one man with the position and the authority to act on this knowledge, to publicize it, to galvanize support and to garner the resources to lobby quickly, quietly and effectively for truth and justice.

Imagine if Mr. Hoenlein would have publicly revealed then, what he just shared now: that George Tenet himself swore that he never threatened to resign over the release of Jonathan Pollard. All of the excuses built around Tenet's objections at the time could have be stripped away. Israel and the American Jewish leaders could have been empowered to insist that Clinton honor the commitment made as integral part of the Wye Accords to free Jonathan Pollard. And Jonathan Pollard could have gone free nearly a decade ago.

Instead, a great dishonor was done to Israel and to the Jewish community when Hoenlein waited nearly a decade to reveal this critical piece of information. Worse still, he did so not in support of justice for Jonathan Pollard, but in praise of Pollard's nemesis, George Tenet.

In the same JTA article, it is worthy of note that many other Jewish leaders - who have been struck dumb about Jonathan Pollard - joined Hoenlein in lionizing Tenet.

Note also that, according to the reporter, Jewish leaders continue to speak of Jonathan's espionage as "treason" - a crime which Jonathan was never accused, indicted, nor convicted of.

Here is the excerpt from the JTA article "CIA Chief George Tenet Quits":

..."But Tenet's role in the Pollard affair was more controversial.

President Clinton had agreed to release Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who spied for Israel, as part of the Wye framework. But Tenet said he would not be able to face the intelligence community if Pollard was freed, and according to some reports, threatened to resign immediately. Clinton then took releasing Pollard off the table.

"We were really shocked at the vehemence he showed at Wye over that issue," said one former Israeli official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Tenet has denied he made that threat, and called Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, practically in tears the day the story broke.

"He truly was very emotional and very upset about it," Hoenlein said. "He said that was not the way he did things, and from our experience, that was not the way he did things."

But while the incident frustrated Jewish leaders who had sought Pollard's freedom, it did not sour their views of Tenet. Many said they understood that Tenet was speaking on behalf of an organization that sees no greater treason than espionage."

J4JP Concludes:

How troubling it is that Jewish leaders are so willing to "understand" the position of the CIA , that they have completely blinded themselves to the key elements of the Pollard case:

• a grossly disproportionate sentence
• a broken plea agreement (which Jonathan honored and the US violated)
• the use of secret evidence
• a false charge of treason
• ineffective assistance of counsel
• ex parte communication between prosecutors and judge
• a lack of due process
• a sentencing procedure infected by false allegations and lies

All of these add up to a double standard of justice which poses an immeasurable threat to the Jewish Community - a threat which is not going to disappear because the Jewish leadership chooses to ignore it. As long as Jonathan Pollard remains in prison, both Israel and the American Jewish community remain at risk.

In a letter dated March 10, 1987 - six days after Jonathan Pollard was unjustly sentenced to life, the Conference of Presidents sent a letter to George Shultz Secretary of State, pledging the support of the Jewish community and clearly signaling that the Pollard issue is of no consequence to the Jews. The Conference promised in that letter not to intervene on behalf of Jonathan Pollard - a promise which Jewish leaders have kept to this day. The revelation of Malcolm Hoenlein's dirty little secret is just the latest chapter in an on-going saga of betrayal.

cc: Jewish Activists for the Land of Israel

posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

 

Re: Hoenlein: AMERICAN ISRAELI ACTION COALITION - Please protest!

bs"d

Dear Barbara, amv"sh

Malcolm Hoenlein is a dynamic speaker who mesmerizes his audience.  He wears a Kipa, is knowledgeable and quotes Tanach.  Yet as Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations he has been a major force in promoting a 2 State Solution and is a master politician. 

Unless people attend this event in Jerusalem in order to protest his continuous involvement in pushing Oslo, Annapolis and President Bush's Roadmap then why honor him with a mesmerized respectful audience? Malcolm Hoenlein has misguided the major Jewish organizations and hundreds of thousands of Jews, if not millions, into accepting the lie that a working  relationship with Fatah proves our willingness to work for the advancement of peace and security. 

He has yet to proclaim the Jews exclusive entitlement  of the Land of Israel based on G-D's Covenant with the Jewish people and does not publicly discredits Fatah's claim to the Land. By this silence he perpetuates the lie that we, the settlers, are the occupiers and that Fatah has legitimate claim to Judea and Samaria.

Malcolm Hoenlein is the number one expert on antisemitism. Therefore if antisemitism would decline, then Malcolm Hoenlein would be underemployed. 

We all know that there are charismatic dentists who are unethical.  They won't tell you to floss or brush your teeth. Or maybe they will. But they will create problems in your teeth when there weren't any before and you as a layman haven't a clue.  Are they professional?  No question about it!  They know how to fix your teeth better than any other dentist. So not only won't you know that this dentist created your problems, you will come out of his office depending on him and showering praises upon him believing that he is the most capable fantastic dentist alive.

There are auto mechanics that are unethical.  They fix your car in such a way they you will have to come back to them for major repairs.  As a layman you haven't a clue. After all, the knowledgeable auto mechanic, he's the professional. He has fixed problem after problem like no other mechanic has done.  He teaches all the other auto mechanics and is well regarded and respected.
 
AIAC clearly has a political agenda and if you read their statement of principles, Judea and Samaria are disregarded and by omission, expendable. This non statement is a political statement!  It is definitely a political stand that has been the public position of the major Jewish Organizations in America such as Agudath Yisroel of America, or the OU and even the Young Israel who never publicly protested Annapolis or spoke out against a Palestinian State! By this they bring "unity and consensus"?

The statement of principles of AIAC are deliberately vague.  The work of a true politician.

As a Jewish people we must unite around our Torah. We must not be afraid to speak out for our Torah and against a Palestinian State based on our entitlement. If AIAC truly wants unity that will last it must focus on the Torah and G-d's Covenant with the Jewish people. 

Only then AIAC will become a non-political, non-partisan, issue-oriented NGO based on our heritage and not politics. 

My fear is that if AIAC is successful in effectively recruiting and activating the more than 250,000 expatriate American citizens in Israel in order to create a united voice that will be heard by the governments and people of the United States and Israel on issues that pertain to the continued safety and security of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide, they will send the wrong message for the Jewish People and for the world! 

Why is Jeff Daube involved?

Will AIAC invite Nadia Matar to speak?  How about Gershon Mesika? Their message is more consistent with our Jewish Heritage than is Malcolm Hoenlein's.

Robin
 

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Barbara Sommer <sommer_1_98@yahoo.com> wrote:

AIAC: AMERICAN ISRAELI ACTION COALITION

AIAC Co-Sponsors Presentation by Malcolm Hoenlein Saturday Night, February 21/28 Shevat AIAC: American Israeli Action Coalition Co-Sponsors Motzaei Shabbat Mevorchim Social Evening and Lecture at the Jerusalem Great Synagogoue 56 King George Street. 8:15 PM (doors open at 7:30) Speaker: Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice-Chairman of The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Topic: "After the Elections: What Does the Future Hold?" Admission is free. # # # AIAC is a non-political, non-partisan, issue-oriented NGO, which is devoted to effectively recruiting and activating the more than 250,000 expatriate American citizens in Israel in order to create a united voice that will be heard by the governments and people of the United States and Israel on issues that pertain to the continued safety and security of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. www.aiacoalition.org AIAC POB 7440 Jerusalem 94262

Fwd: URGENT:re: Malcolm Hoenlein & Jonathan Pollard

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From: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Subject: URGENT: My Previous Email, re: Malcolm Hoenlein & Jonathan Pollard
To: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>


Please send a brief note to Malcolm Hoenlein, Alan Solow & Richard Stone - malcolm@conferenceofpresidents.org,alan@conferenceofpresidents.org,rstone@law.columbia.edu - urging them to take critical action to gain Jonathan Pollard's freedom by the time President Obama visits Israel next month. Feel free to Bcc: vegibud@gmail.com to your email. Also, please forward this message to all activists on your list(s). Thank you so much.

Happy Purim (a very appropriate day for Jonathan's release!),

Buddy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Subject: Malcolm, re: YOUR QUOTE in the Times of Israel re: Jonathan Pollard
To: Malcolm Hoenlein iduartegray@jcrc.org

The following is an excerpt from this past Sunday's Times of Israel article:

Obviously, Israel could and should utilize its freedom of speech, and "people can call for the release of [jailed spy for Israel] Jonathan Pollard." But "do it respectfully," he [Malcolm Hoenlein] urged. "The American people don't like to see their president dissed. They don't want to see disrespect."

Malcolm, I'm so glad you have granted me and others permission to call for the freedom of a man who remains imprisoned solely because he is Jewish and the other country involved is Israel. However, I am curious: Why are you not leading the call? And, I find it especially troubling that you think the battle against vile anti-Semitism needs to be waged "respectfully", and that you felt obliged to issue a preemptive strike – in the form of a stern warning – against any one who would consider protesting Jonathan's continued cruel, sadistic treatment.

Yes, "do(ing) it respectfully" has worked wonders during the past 28 years for a heroic Jew who continues to sit in his cell in Butner, North Carolina, as his body withers away. If that's the best you've got, Malcolm, then we need someone else to lead the charge...a woman or man who embraces reality and understands that trying the same (safe!) thing over and over again will produce the same empty, agonizing results. 

 

Either, put your heart into it as you did in the Struggle for Soviet Jewry, or step aside, NOW!

 

Again, I urge the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to implement the strategy, below. Buddy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM
Subject: Malcolm - URGENT
To: Malcolm Hoenlein <malcolm@conferenceofpresidents.org>
Cc: alan@conferenceofpresidents.org, rstone@law.columbia.edu, Pesach Lerner <plerner@youngisrael.org>

Dear Malcolm, 

On December 10, 2012, the Conference of Presidents issued a press release in support of the Congressional appeal for the release of Jonathan Pollard. I urge you - in the strongest of terms - to follow through with that effort by devoting all of the resources of the Conference and its member organizations and ensure that President Obama takes Jonathan with him when he visits Israel next month.

Jonathan Pollard's continued incarceration in Butner, NC under the watch of numerous Administrations is a vile demonstration of anti-Semitism by the leaders of America. It is painfully obvious that the only reasons Jonathan has been in prison far longer than any other perpetrator of similar acts in American history are because: 1) he is Jewish; and 2) he was convicted of spying for Israel. This obscene and grossly inequitable treatment must be ended immediately!

You are known to have been a strong fighter for the rights of Soviet Jews a generation ago. I urge you to exert that same passion and effort in obtaining the release of Jonathan Pollard. Please do not respond internally by arguing that things must be done quietly: Jonathan's continued incarceration - for 28 brutal and gruesome years - has proved that that strategy has been a dismal failure. As you know, Jonathan is in extremely ill health. There is no more time for "behind the scenes" efforts on his behalf.

Requested action 

Issue an immediate, URGENT alert to all 51 member organizations urging their membership to rally outside the White House a week before President Obama is to leave for Israel. American Jewry must express our pain and demonstrate to President Obama that we care deeply about the welfare of all of our fellow Jews, and about the State of Israel. Half a million people outside the President's home demanding freedom for one of our own should make a huge impression on the President, and it should achieve the desired result.

Please advise me as to your progress in this endeavor and let me know how I may assist you in obtaining Jonathan's freedom.

Most sincerely,

Buddy Macy

973-256-3661

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Dov Hikind - Clearly against a Palestinian State but for the wrong reasons

bs'd

Tonight Malcolm Hoenlein was on the Dov Hikind Show.

 We all know that Dov Hikind is one of the biggest supporters of the people of Yesha.  He personally has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the people of Yesha before the Chagim.  He was out there in Gush Katif.  He is the voice for Sderot. There has been no politician that I can think of that has done more for Yesha than Dov Hikind.

Yet tonight, after hearing him speak with Malcolm Hoenlein, it was apparent that his focus was that the tragedy of the peace process is that  we do not have a Peace Partner to speak about.  I called in to the radio program with my comment.  I said "Why is our focus on not having a working "Peace Partner".  Why isn't our focus our Entitlement of Yesha and our Jewish Heritage?  When we focus on simply not have a "working Peace Partner, we are suggesting that we would be willing to betray our Jewish Heritange and give away our entitlement if indeed the Arabs would show reciprocity.

To this Dov Hikind replied that if indeed the Arabs would show that they were a true peace partner than he would be willing to negotiate.

This in fact has unfortunately been the position of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah.  They did not object to the giving away of Sinai or of Gush Katif since they believed it would perhaps bring peace.

This kind of reasoning I believe is the very source of our inability to hold on to our Land. 

Where are our principles?  Where is our entitlement, pride, knowledge,  and appreciation of the precious gift that G-d has given to the people of Israel, to our forefathers, to us? Where is our yearning and desire to observe the commandments like Shemittah, Teruma and Maaser etc on the LAND which the Torah explicity tells us will bring Security?????  The Land of Israel is exclusively for the Jewish Nation and all those that are willing to accept our Sovereignty and observe the 7 Noahide Laws.  Only this will bring Peace and Prosperity to mankind!

Knowing that  trespassers who are in ones basement wish to take over the house, which houseowner would agree to keep them in the basement as long as they agree not to throw him out.  Only a homeowner that doesn't really believe that his house truly belongs to him.

This kind of "peace negotiations" clearly show that the Baal Habayis, the Jews aren't convinced of their own entitlement.  It doesn't really matter that they paid almost a million dollars for the Beit Hashalom and with tapes and videos and that the Arab has his life in danger by admitting that he sold it to Jews.  The justice system clearly has no checks and balances so that judges are not approved by the Knesset by by themselves.  These judges have no problem giving away our homes that are ours and that we bought and built because they don't really believe that we are entitled to our homes.  Most probably they have convinced themselves that  the Arabs are right and we indeed are "occupiers".

Why is Dov Hikind praising Malcolm Hoenlein when Malcolm Hoenlein has been supporting these Peace Talks and never once said that OSLO was wrong?  During Annapolis, those of us that wanted to yell were quieted by the calming Malcolm who claimed that nothing of substance was decided.  All the mainstream Jewish groups were silenced as per his leadership. AFSI was protesting the Annapolis talks.

Yet tonight on Dov Hikind's show, Malcolm Hoenlein himself talked of the dangerous vote to be taking place in the UN, solidifying what was agreed upon in Annapolis.  Isn't it clear that our Silence and participation at Annapolis led to this point????

Annapolis made the world a much less safe place. It empowered the Palestinians, the Fatah "moderates" who rejoiced when the Mercaz Harav boys were slaughtered, and weakened the settlement in Yesha.  Since Annapolis, there is no Jewish expansion in many parts of Yesha, there is freedom of movement among the Palestinians with the removal of important security roadblocks but G-d forbid if Jews venture into some Arab communities w/o protection.  IDF has turned a blind eye to acts of aggression and those that defend themselves in Yesha are thrown into prison with felony charges against them instead of their perpetrators.  Jews are forbidden to live in parts of Yesha and are forbidden to buy houses in parts of Yesha.

Dov Hikind, listen to your wife Shani!  She asked Malcolm about Feiglin and why Netanyahu is afraid of him. 

It seems clear to me and I hope that I am not mistaken, that Moshe Feiglin has a fear of G-d and is proud of our Jewish Heritage.  He will speak out as per our entitlement of Yesha as opposed to asking for reciprocity.  That is why Netanyahu, who has betrayed us at the WYE agreements and with Gush Katif is afraid of him.  Not because as Malcolm suggests  this is a radical stand and will alienate the rest of the country but rather because Moshe Feiglin hopefully stands for Authentic Jewish Entitlement of all parts of Israel and he is not afraid to say so.

To even suggest that this is a radical approach is a betrayal of our Jewish Heritage and giving power to those that are willing to annul our Covenant.

Malcolm Hoenlein is unwilling to reneg on Oslo since he feels that we already commited to it but he is willing to reneg on our Biblical Covenant with Hashem. 

And we wonder why G-d isn't on our side?  Will we rely on the UN or NATO to protect us?

Urgent Action Alert! - PMW - Hamas and Fatah the same - Stop the "Peace" process and millions of $'s to PA

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Re: Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) Report

PMW monitors what comes out of the Palestinian media. It is crystal clear from their reporting that there is no significant difference between what Hamas teaches their children and what Fatah teaches their children. 

Besides working to stop funding to the PA, let's stop promoting the "Peace Process". 


Let us begin in our shuls and our very own Jewish Media and our very own Malcolm Hoenlein. .

Malcolm Hoenlein is a very well respected Jewish Politician.  The Yated and Hamodia promote Malcolm Hoenlein as does Nachum Segal.  There is standing room only in religious shuls when he speaks and the audience is mesmerized.  Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky values Malcolm Hoenein's opinion on foreign affairs.

Yet Malcolm Hoenlein, in spite of all his knowledge regarding antisemitism has supported Oslo and Annapolis and was an active member of the negotiating team in Annapolis.  He is actively engaged in negotiating and promoting the Peace Process and the organizations with whom he has close affiliation endorse the establishment of a PALESTINIAN STATE!  

Is it any wonder that the Yated and Hamodia did not take the side of the settlers when the Federman family were beaten and thrown out of their home in the middle of the night.  Is it any wonder that the Orthodox and Chareidi newspapers did not shout with outrage at the destruction of the Federman and Tor homes or  when Elisheva Federman was arrested a week later and dehumanized  when they took DNA samples from her for alleging kicking the police officer that perpetrated this immoral and illegal military operation against her family. 

Let us be a Jewish Media Watch and find out why the Jewish Press did not find the Federman story newsworthy (old news is not the same) and what kind of news coverage was reported by the Yated and Hamodia. 

Then ask Malcolm Hoenlein how come he considers Oslo binding (what about Bris Bein Habesarim - G-d's Covenant with Abraham) and why was he at Annapolis? If he clearly believes as a right wing Torah Believing Jew, what business does he have representing the Conference of Presidents whose very influential members are leftists who endorse the Peace Process and a Palestinian State. He is getting bashed by the left for not being enough of a leftist and by us for representing the left. 

Our suggestion to him is to quit his job and get off the fence and  stay true to his personal convictions.

The bottom line dear Jews is as follows:

As Orthodox Jews, readers of the Torah, how can we disregard G-ds Covenant with Israel?

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From: kati <kk77@012.net.il>
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:20 AM
Subject: Fw: URGENT: Please Take a Moment to Fight Anti-Israel Terror
To: chayawitkin <chayawitkin@bezeqint.net>, Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>

: Monday, November 10, 2008 4:00 PM

Subject: URGENT: Please Take a Moment to Fight Anti-Israel Terror

This email contains an action alert regarding an extremely critical situation, the crux of which may be understood in the following two sentences: "THE WORLD was incensed when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his vision of a world without Israel, and there were calls to put him on trial. Yet when Abbas's TV teaches Palestinian children the identical vision of a world without Israel, Western countries run for their checkbooks to keep funding him." (An excerpt from the linked article, "Why is West funding Abbas' hate TV?" by Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch -

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1225036822689&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull.

 

 

Please take this simple action:

 

1.)   Open a second email window

 

2.)   Copy and paste the following email addresses to the address line:
post@mfa.no, umin@mfa.no 

 

3.)   Copy and paste the following email address to the Bcc line: Polisanna2007@gmail.com

 

4.)   Copy and paste the following to the Subject line:
Norway: Stop Funding Terror!

 

5.)   Copy and paste the following to the text area of the email:
Norway's current government, as chair of the committee that co-ordinates international funding, has a moral obligation not only to immediately cease funding the PA hate machine, but to recommend that the entire international donors' group cease funding the Palestinian Authority, and make renewed funding conditional on the rewriting of PA schoolbooks and a change in the PA worldview.

 

6.)   Then type your name, city and state (if you reside in the U.S.) or name, city & country and send it. 

 

Please send this to everyone on your email list, and urge them to do the same.

 

Thank you for your past EFFECTIVE action, and in advance, for this one.

 

 

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5769.01.02 Israel the Land of My Possession - Shemittah the Solution to fiscal crisis, Moshiach soon!,Tefillin not allowed in Modiin, More on discussions with Rabbi and Reb. Kamenetsky and Rabbi Avi Shafran

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October 2, 2008
3 Tishrei 5769

1. Time to Bring Back the Ancient Shemittah Laws
2. Tefillin barred from Jewish School in Modiin????
3. Update on dialogues with Rabbi and Rebbetzin Shmuel Kamenetsky, and Rabbi Avi Shafran

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1. Time to Bring Back the Ancient Shemittah Laws
Modern Financial markets, despite their claim to sophistication, should
take a cue from ancient biblical law and bring back the Shemittah laws.
<http://www.envoyglobalresearch.com/time-to-bring-back-the-ancient-shemittah-laws/>
Envoy Global Research
<http://www.envoyglobalresearch.com>

2. Tefillin barred from Jewish School in Modiin???? sent by Yosef Rabin.

Jews across the world are shocked and horrified that a public high school in the Jewish city of Modiin would forbid Jewish children from both wearing Tefillin on school grounds! http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3603614,00.html

3. Update on dialogues with Rabbi and Rebbetzin Shmuel Kamenetsky, and Rabbi Avi Shafran

Shmuel Koenig spoke to Rabbi Kamenetsky. Rabbi Kamenetsky suggested that we contact Malcolm Hoenlein. Apparently Rabbi Kamenetsky supported the protest rally organized by the Conference of Presidents and Agudah were encouraging people to go to the rally against Ahmadinejad. Shmuel Koenig mentioned to Rabbi Kamenetsky that Malcolm Hoenlien was for negotiating with the PA and the establishment of a Palestinian State. Rabbi Kamenetsky did not believe that this was so. Apparently Rabbi Kamenetsky does not know all the facts about the intimate involvement Malcolm Hoenlein had with the Annapolis negotiations. He is most probably unaware that Malcolm Hoenlein believed that Oslo was a done deal and that the gov't of Israel was bound by Oslo and can not renege on their agreements.

I suppose that reneging on our Covenant with Hashem regarding our birthright is not a major problem for Malcolm Hoenlein.

But isn't the Torah position that the Land belongs to Hashem and not the personal property of Olmert and company?

Malcolm Hoenlein is getting positive press in Hamodia and I understand is a regular columnist in Yated. His latest concern is for the poor Jews and institutions in Israel that are suffering because of the latest economic crisis in America. Anything to raise his image and sidetrack us from his failing Foreign Policy and the political overtones in the protest rally against Terror..

Now how can he really be against terror when he is promoting a Nazi like ideology State in the heart of Israel? Rebbetzin Kamenetsky herself told me that everyone knows that the PA and Arafat and company have their roots with Housseini and his partnership with Hitler in the 1930s. They were the ones that insisted that no Jews go to Palestine from Eastern Europe. How can we stupidly act as if they are a partner in peace?

Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky said that after Yom Tov they will address this issue. We tried to explain that now, in Elul and in Aseret Yemei Teshuva we must admit that we made a mistake with Gush Katif and resolve not to repeat similar mistakes with Yesha. We explained that Condeleeza Rice with the blessings of Olmert is giving away Yesha at an alarming speed. It's Pikuach Nefesh and we can not wait.

I and other activists recently spoke to his Rebbetzin. We tried to convince her in whatever capacity we could, arguing, crying, pleading etc that it is imperative for her husband, a major member of Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah and as spiritual advisor to the Chofetz Chaim Heritage foundation to speak out for our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel and against the 2 State Solution. She told us that we should try to raise awareness as best as we can. We tried to explain to her that we do not carry the weight that Rav Kamenetsky does. We can not influence hundreds of thousands of Jews as Rav Kamenetsky. She said we must have Bitachon and Emuna and Daven. But we are not allowed to tell the Gedoilim what to do or what to say. She also mentioned that Rav Kamenetsky will not make a statement by himself without the other Gedoilim speaking up as well.

We tried to explain that of course we need to say Tehillim and Davan and have Emunah but we need to do our Hishtadlus. Didn't Nachshon have to jump into the Yamsuf? Doesn't a person that needs a shidduch also needs to meet potential partners? Davening is not sufficient. We must do our Hishtadlus.

We called up and emailed Rabbi Shafran, public spokesperson of Agudah.

Shmuel Koenig suggested to Rabbi Shafran that Agudath Yisroel initiate a march of Rabbanim in Washington DC similar to the Peter Bergson group in the 1940s expressing our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel and against the 2 State Solution and the PA who are find their ideological ally with the Nazi's and Hitler Yemach Shemo

Rabbi Shafran felt that we were single focused on our passion for Eretz Yisroel Hashlaima.. He said that Agudah's conception of Israel is not the same as contemporary Zionism and the Modern Day State of Israel. He suggested we try to convince other organizations like the Young Israel and RCA and OU to organize such a rally. He thought we were wasting our time with Aguda. .

We answer him as follows:

In all due respect, we are not focused on one "cause" or even on one Mitzvah in the Torah.

What is lacking is a desire to keep the Mitzvoth, commandments of the Torah. We both agree that we can not pick and choose. And when we focus on Eretz Yisroel we must focus on all the Mitzvoth of the Torah.

Perhaps it is Agudath Yisroel that has made Tzniut,modesty. and Lashan Hara, evil speech their main focus leaving all else out. Tzniut should not be taken out of context less we transgress on baal Tosif, adding to the Torah and masquerade it as a Mitzvah D'Orayta, a Mitzvah of Divine origin rather than Rabbinic prohibition . The Mitzvah of Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh, and your comp should be H-ly, does not refer to banning a separate seating concert. It refers to a Milchemet Mitzvah, a war for which we as Jews are obligated to fight, and the military camp must keep their camp H-ly. Isn't a Milchemet Mitzva according to Rambam a war that we are obligated to engage in when attacked by our enemies. Wouldn't attacks on Sderot be precisely that kind of war?

Why instead of focusing on life and death issues have the Gedoilim, the great leaders of our generation, united with their signatures on fliers, distributed all over, banning a separate seating concert with separate entrances. And what commandment is someone transgressing if they perhaps actually manage to meet someone to marry?

I have attended such concerts and have not been aware of any violations and quite the opposite. I was observing the positive commandment of VeSamachta BeChagecha the commandment to be happy on the Holiday. From the audiences responses I believe that I was not the only one who was observing the commandment of Vesamachta BeChagecha but it was the majority and not the minority.

I personally do not recall seeing any incidences of immodest behavior.

if we add to the Torah we come to subtract the Torah. In this case the Gedoilim, Rabbinic Leaders, have banned the internet and they and their constituencies lack understanding and knowledge regarding the struggle of the people of Judea and Samaria on a day to day basis,until they actually go on the internet or have material printed out for them from the internet.

Ours is a life threatening focus. It's not merely a passion.

As for your suggestion that we differ regarding our concept of Israel, I beg to differ on your analysis. My favorite aunt is a Satmar Chasid.(An anti Zionist Chasidic group), I am the biggest fan club of my brother and his wife and family and they are among the Vienner Chevra (Followers of the Vienner Rav). I went to Bais Yaakov in elementary school and I objected to singing the Hatikva because there was no mention of Hashem. I believe that the State of Israel was established with a flaw. This flaw was a rejection of Torah I am aware of the gross failings of the Zionist State in its early years against Torah observant, religious Jews.

On the other hand, the Chareidim, the ultra religious, believe that Torah can be kept in its entirety without Eretz Yisroel,the Land of Israel. Keeping Eretz Yisroel in our time is not relevant to observance of the Torah.

What is stopping the ultra religious, the Chareidim from moving to Eretz Yisroel,our H-ly Land en masse. They don't even need to make Aliya or get zechuyot, rights of the Oleh, the new immigrant from the Jewish Agency. One can easily buy a plane ticket and simply fly to Eretz Yisroel.

The flaw from 1948 is now turning into a crack and the entire State is falling apart. The gov't is a bunch of evildoers yet Shas, a religious party is still keeping it going.

By keeping silent regarding the establishment of a Palestinian State we are a cause, a grama in Talmudic terminology, to empower Amalek and allow a Nazi like State to take over. Effectively, the ultra religious are partnering with the antiZionists, the post Zionists, the gov't of Israel who are promoting a Palestinian State.

It is our position that Eretz Yisroel is intimately intertwined with Am Yisroel, the Nation of Israel and Eretz Yisroel, the Land of Israel. In 1948 Israel could have been a Torah State if the religious Jews would have asserted their desire to keep the Torah in Eretz Yisroel. But they were too weak and instead chose to use Zionsim to blame as an excuse for their own lack of desire for Eretz Yisroel. They refused to take the leadership role. In the early 1900's while Jews had the opportunity, did the Rabbanim encourage the Jews to settle Eretz Yisroel on a large scale?

In our generation we certainly do have the ability to move to Eretz Yisroel and live a Torah lifestyle.

Torah must take the lead. But Halacha such as banning separate seating concerts have nothing to do with Torah. Torah Shebaal Peh, Oral Law must have its basis in Torah Shebichtav, the written law, in order for the Nations of the World to recognize Hashem and they will then proclaim "Am Chacham VeNavon", a wise and smart Nation.

Rabbinic leaders are human. They err. We are first and foremost obligated to keep the Torah, the Mitzvoth Aseh, positive commandments and Mitzvoth Lo Saaseh and negative commandments. We can not turn a blind eye when our leaders fail to speak up. Ait Laasot LaHashem, Hefeiru Toratecha /Tehillim 119, 126. .It is time to do for Hashem for our Torah has been pushed aside, annulled. The Zionist or rather anti-Zionist government is committing crime after crime against our brothers and sisters.

Did you know that a person over 90 years old can not be a member of the Sanhedrin. Yet everyone is turning to Rav Eliashiv to speak up? Perhaps he has spoken up against all concessions and it's not being reported? Rabbi Karmel of Lev L'Achim quoted Rav Shteinman addressing his followers that "Gush Katif iz nisht inzere Sugia", that what happened with the people of Gush Katif is not of our concern. . Actions or shall we say inaction of the Agudah camp reflect this particular philosophy. I believe that Rav Shteinman is also over 90 years old.

Rabbi Shafran, Did you know that G-d is a Zionist? In the Rosh Hashana liturgy, the yearning for Zion and G-d remembering the Covenant with our forefathers is a recurring theme. Doesn't that make us all Tzionim, Zionists? Zion comes from the word Tzion which is the marking place for Har Habayit, the holiest place in the world. The Goyim, the Nations of the world, have turned this Holy place into a Chillul Hashem, a desecration, a mosque that claims that Yishmael was brought as a sacrifice rather than Yitchok. They desecrated Yitzchok's tomb in the Cave of the Patriarchs recently reported in chareidi newspapers as well..

We all have been praying for Zion long before 1948. How can you say that Agudah is non-Zionistic. Perhaps it is accurate to say that Agudah is against secular Zionism.But every member of Agudath Yisroel prays for Zion each and every day in the Shemoneh Esrah, the 18 blessings, Uvneh Yerushalyim, build Jerusalem and we say Vesechezena eineinu Beshuvcah Lezion.and our eyes should see our Return to Zion..

Is that just lipservice?. .

It is because we recognize the Leadership qualities of Agudath Yisroel and because it is now the time to do Teshuva, repentance and admit that Gush Katif was a disaster and we resolve not to be Silent and allow it to happen again in Yehudah and the Shomron. We recognize the abilities of Agudath Yisroel to raise the spiritual levels of our people. This is an investment of our time and not a squander of our time.

Let me give you an analogy. My 9 year old son wanted a dog very much. I told him NO WAY!. As the year progressed, my son did not apply himself to learning as much as we would have hoped. Came the PTA in spring and the Rebbe tells us that he is not doing well in class, that his behavior left much to be desired. His Rebbe suggested that typically when a student falls behind in his studies, the behavior as well is affected.. I knew that we had to motivate him. I came home and told Moishe, ok, if you learn 52 minutes every night until the end of the school year, we will agree to getting a dog. Moishe kept his end of the bargain. His grades improved and so did his behavior dramatically.

Now we had to get the dog. Moishe knew it was his responsibility of walking the dog and picking up the poop etc. We went to the shelter and got us a dog. Now that Moishe had the dog, guess who was taking care of it most of the time? The dog was a picky eater and not eating well, the doggies stool was loose etc. etc. After paying lots of money for the dog cage, the veterinarian, doggie training, doggie beds, trying all kinds of doggie food, doggie toys. doggie proof gates etc. Totty was shelling out lots of money and Mommy was getting into shape physically from all the exercise she was getting walking the dog before school to the bus stop and during school, after school to the bus stop, giving the dog adequate exercize until Moishe came home etc.

What is the analogy? Moishe was begging and pleading for the dog. Mommy did not want the dog at all. Moishe did not really take the best care of the dog but Mommy really does. The dog loves Mommy and follows her all over the place and Mommy loves the dog. She looks at me with her adoring eyes and has turned into a guard dog barking at strangers. She makes sure I get the walking exercise that I need for my pre osteoporosis bones and the aerobics is just what the doctor ordered. The children on the block love the dog and it's an icebreaker for the neighbors, Jewish and non Jewish. I am resigned to keeping the dog and it's only been 3 weeks and I have begun to see the Bracha, the blessing that this dog has brought into our home.

Finally to finish the analogy. I love Agudath Yisroel. I know of their inner strength. I admire the lifestyle of the people and I admire their Emunas Chachamim, their faith in the wise counsel of their leaders. I admire their Ahavas Yisroel, love of their fellow Jew.. I admire the Kedusha, holiness that is found in their homes. I am convinced that when the members of Agudath Yisroel will finally recognize that Eretz Yisroel is their Divine gift as well, there will be no limit to their joy and Avodas Hashem, service to G-d!. They will be the best caretakers of Eretz Yisroel and they will be the best role models for Am Yisroel and to all the Nations of the World. That is why we are persisting and persisting relentlessly.

These little drops of water will somehow penetrate....

Wishing you and yours a Gmar vachasima tova, a sealed positive outcome in Divine judgment.

Sincerely, Robin

Rabbanim in Brooklyn taking the lead from the Conference of Presidents rather than from Torah

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This is our conclusion  after numerous phone calls to local Rabbanim. 

With my encouragement, Shmuel Koenig, a resident of Flatbush, NY, a long time Eretz Yisroel Activist and a supporter of Neemanei Eretz Yisroel is busy making phone calls.  He is in the forefront of raising consciousness as per an innovative and different approach to the Middle East political scene.  He and I are promoting the possibility of a  Torah Autonomy in Judea and Samaria according to Torat Yisroel living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and harmony with Ahavas Yisroel as envisioned in Yeshayahu.  Yea right, I hear you say.  You guys are dreaming.  You are not grounded in the practical and reality of today's world.  

Our response to you is that when the Torah says " לא בשמים היא" that the Torah is not in the heavens but "בפיך ובלבבך לעשותו" for us to DO IT,  we takes these words to heart.  

Shmuel has been calling up the Rabbanim and educating them about recent happenings in Judea and Samaria whereby the government is harassing and demolishing Jewish Settlement in Judea and Samaria routinely and there are many more outposts slated for demolition.  The Jewish citizens living in these outlying budding communities, also know as outposts, Maachazim, are not adequately being protected either from the Arabs and very sadly often neither from the gov't of Israel and the civil administration under the military. They are literally relying on G-d's protections day by day.  That is reality and facts on the ground.

It is clear to us based on our discussions with the local Rabbanim that the Rabbanim in Flatbush, connected with Agudath Yisroel of America as well as other mainstream Jewish Organizations hold Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chairman of the Conference of President of Major Jewish Organizations in very high esteem.  "He is a good guy, a frum guy..," we are told over and over again.  "He is accomplished".  They rely on his good judgment to make such calls regarding Middle East politics and being overwhelmed with whatever is on their plate they generally feel that there is really nothing that they can  personally do about what is happening in Judea and Samaria. 

So they allow Malcolm Hoenlein and the Conference of Presidents to be in the Drivers seat so to speak.  

Where is the Conference of Presidents taking us?

Malcolm Hoenlein supports a 2 State Solution in principle.  He says he agrees with the Torah of course since he is a proud Orthodox Jew but he is  "realistic".  He makes it sounds like no one else is more knowledgeable than he.  No one is more capable and no one has better qualifications to address these very complicated issues facing the Jewish people.  He sees the broader picture and expects all reasonable Jews to rely on his judgement.  And the Jews do.  The Jewish media almost always puts him in a favorable light and he is a speaker in great demand attracting overflowing  crowds.

Along comes Newt Gingrich a non Jew who speaks truth that is consistent with the reality of Torah. Not only he but Michelle Backman and Rick Santorum all leading candidates of the Republican Party.  Let us not forget Mike Huckabee and John Bolton, John McCain and other leading Republicans who see a reality quite different from Malcolm Hoenlein and the Conference of Presidents.  They are avid Bible readers and take what the Bible says to heart.  They support Jewish Settlement in Judea and Samaria and do not support demolitions of these communities.  They courageously say that the Land of Israel is Promised to the Jewish People and the Palestinians are not the rightful occupiers.   They do not speak of painful concessions.  They know what G-d says in the Torah as per who is the Chosen People for the Land of Israel.  The Jews are. They sincerely believe that the peace and prosperity of the world is dependent on keeping the Word of G-d and supporting the Jewish People and their rights to the Land of Israel. 

Yet still the Jews go in darkness following a Jewish leader whose actions remind us of the Misyavnim rather than the  Maccabeem. 

Please read the following post by Lori Lowenthal Marcus and her dismay at the recent National Service honor awarded Amb. Susan Rice by the Conference of Presidents.  Susan Rice like Malcolm Hoenlein knows how to speak to Jews. Jews are hypnotized into believing that they are on their side.  

Actions defines reality more than politically correct and empty words. 

 

National Conference on Jewish Affairs

http://nationalconferenceonjewishaffairs.org/

NCJA Aghast at Award Given to US UN Amb. Susan Rice 
by Mainstream American Jewish Leadership Consortium

For Immediate Release
December 19, 2011
Lori Lowenthal Marcus 610.664.1184

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs (NCJA) released the following statement today:

The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice,slammed Israel in a speech at the UN Security Council that was watched by the entire world last February.  Although Rice entered the US veto against a Security Council Resolution condemning Israel building homes in areas Israel captured in a defensive war in 1967 - and this only after the US offered to sign a non-Resolution statement with the same message - Rice then conveyed in the strongest possible way both orally and with body language, that she believed the building of Jewish homes in those areas is an international crime, is the basis for the mistrust of the Arabs, and is the reason there is no peace in the region.  Rice said then that the US agrees "with fellow Council members - and indeed, with the wider world - about the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," but because signing on to the Resolution might lead to a hardening of the positions of both sides, the US "therefore regrettably" vetoed the Resolution.

That was February.  And yet the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations honored Amb. Rice with its National Service Award last week.  And in doing so, they allowed Amb. Rice to reinforce a current popular meme in this election season that President Obama has been the very best friend Israel ever had.  And when accepting the Award from a Jewish audience, in a private session, Rice pointed her vitriol at the halls in which she spends her official time - the United Nations.  Instead of treating Israel to a tongue-lashing, Rice instead called Israel's disgraceful treatment at the UN "relentless," "obsessive" and "ugly."  And indeed it is.  But Amb. Rice's own attitude towards Israel within those halls has not been that of a close ally, but instead a disdainful and detached fellow member, at best.

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs calls on Amb. Rice to use the words that seemed to come so easily to her before a Jewish audience, and repeat them in the building where she has joined the cacophonous condemnation of the Jewish State.  If she does so, perhaps then Rice will prove she deserves a service award from Jewish organizations which put the treatment of Israel before domestic partisan politics. 

The National Conference on Jewish Affairs is an umbrella organization of American Jewish leaders and groups which work to uphold the American Constitution and liberty, promote a strong and safe Israel and Jewish rights in the Land of Israel, initiate positive relations with our non-Jewish friends, protect our Jewish young people in educational institutions, and assert the rights and security of Jewish People across the globe.  NCJA is adamantly opposed to making concessions to terrorists in the Middle East or anywhere else across the globe.

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
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Until Malcolm Hoenlein publicly talks of the Biblical rights of the Land and denounces Oslo and Annapolis why do we give him a public forum?

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Years ago I heard Malcolm Hoenlein say that Oslo was a done deal and that the government of Israel is committed to abide by its agreements.  Sounds very responsible. After all the Jewish People must show that we keep our word.

I thought at that time, "What about G-d's Covenant with Avrohom, Yitzchok and Yaakov?  Isn't that a done deal?  How can we renege on our eternal commitment  to G-d's Covenant?".  Our commitment to Oslo is an annulment and direct negation of "Lezaracha Etain Es Haaretz", To Your Children the seed of Avrohom Yitzchok and Yaakov", will I give this Land.

I have heard Malcolm Hoenlein speak eloquently to standing room only audiences, mesmerizing the audience. He is a first class speaker.  He is the world "expert" on antisemitism.  He keeps track of the growth of antisemitism all over the world and he himself says that he is unable to sleep at night.  He is on first name basis with Presidents and  world leaders such as Bush and Putin

Yet his activism has been to promote the Roadmap and Annapolis and the concept of a two State Solution which has been a direct and major  factor in the INCREASE of antisemitism, .instability and rise of terrorism worldwide.  He calmed our fears at Annapolis by saying that nothing of substance was agreed upon.  How can he now explain the freeze and stagnation of Jewish building in Judea and  Samaria? Illegal  Arab building is happening at an alarming rate due to USAID and other monies flowing from European Union and Saudi Arabia.  No new Jewish kindergardens and overcrowding due to no new housing permits inhibiting growth.  Is this nothing of substance? What about removing security checkpoints as a confidence building gestures in promoting peace? Is this nothing of substance to those living in Judea and Samaria under the threat of unsafe roads?

Malcolm Hoenlein does not use Torah to claim our Land and has effectively neutralized all activism against a Palestinian State.  He talks of reciprocity and of the Arabs failure to keep their part of the bargain.  Sounds good? He does not speak out against a Palestinian STate but rather of the need to monitor Palistinian activity in order to ensure that they show reciprocity.  Many others, including PRime Minister Netanyahu err in this regard as well.

This approach works against us.  It implies that had we had a working peace partner then we would have a legitimate reason to give the Arabs parts of Eretz Yisroel. 

Malcolm Hoenlein says that Jews do not stoop to the levels of racism and acts of terrorism shown by the Arabs. We on the other hand, not like them,  work for peace and desire to raise the standard of living of the Palestinians. He speaks of our higher moral standard and to be the shining light among Nations..

This is a very lofty goal and indeed the Jewish Nation wishes to improve peace and prosperity of humanity.  But agreeing to give away our precious Land is doing the very opposite of what he wishes to accomplish.  It's like giving away the violin to someone that hates music in order to produce the most beautiful music.  Then we blame the new prospective owners of the violin of bashing the violin.  We put the blame on them and don't take any responsibility  for their actions, since we lack the understanding that it was our own unwillingness to hold on and protect our precious violin that gave rise to the unfortunate predicament that we found ourselves in. 

We foolishly tell the new owners that we are good sharers and they should learn from our example. They should learn from our higher moral standard and share the violin with us and we will show them how to play.  We are so self absorbed in our benevolence that we are blinded to the fact that they hate music and have no desire to produce music, have no  talent for music and merely wish  to destroy the violin. 

Why did we stupidly offer them the violin? just because they demanded it and threatened us with Kassam and suicide terror attacks if they did not get what they wanted.

The Land of Israel is G-d's precious gift to Israel alone.  There is no middle ground when it comes to the Land of Israel. The Land will not produce for any other people.

The story of Korach, this weeks Parsha in the Diaspora,  proves that when those claim that which is not legitimately theirs, are destined to suffer the consequences.  Korach and his congregation were Leviim, yet they wanted the Priesthood.  They desired the service of Aharon HaCohen, a service that was of a higher caliber  but not divinely designated for them. They coveted that which was not rightfully theirs.  They had their own respectable job to do.  But it wasn't good enough for them.  They wanted a job that was meant for someone else.   Their punishment was severe and a plague erupted.  Clearly, it was not to their benefit to do the Priestly Service.  Only Aharon Hacoehen had the moral character to wear the Choshen on his chest, with the names of all the Tribes on his heart always praying for their well being.  That is precisely why he was Divinely chosen for the job.  He was totally devoted in his love of his fellow Jew and his concern for them and through his  Priestly service was able to atone for their sins.

The Nation of Israel is the Mamlechet Kohanim, a Nation of Priests and a Goy Kadosh, a holy nation whose actualization is to be the Priests of the Nations of the world.  Our desire and yearning is for the betterment of mankind.  However, in order to accomplish our job we must safeguard our rights to the Land just like the priests had guard duty for their priestly  boundaries  and priestly service and the Levites for theirs.

If the Palestinians were given Judea and Samaria it would not be to their benefit.  The Torah clearly says that the Land does not produce for any other people other than the people of Israel.  The Land vomits out those who can not live up to the high levels of sanctity required in the Holy Land.

Malocolm Hoenlein is a gifted speaker.  He speaks of activism.  When heads of Nations gathered to speak of a Palestinian State he told us to be activists for a United Jerusalem neutralizing any activism against a Palestinian State. Then, when they spoke of Dividing Jerusalem he stopped his activism for a United Jerusalem. Instead he told us to speak against the desecrations of the Temple Mount.  Then when the Government of Israel willingly turned a blind eye to the excavations and desecrations on Temple Mount he stopped  speaking of  activism against the desecrations on Temple Mount and  told us to be activists to place greater security in our places of worship and to give charity to those institutions hit by hard economic  times.  Effectively, his activism stopped the activism that was necessary to fight the evil decrees at the time by directing it elsewhere. 

Why does the Gershon Jacobson,  Nachum Segal, Young Israel, Hamodia, Yated and other Jewish Media  give him a public forum?

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