Small correction, Nadia Matar is coming with Yehudit not Ruth Matar on March 18th

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Sorry for the typo.  It's what happens when one is sleep deprived.  Ruth is truly unbelievable as well but only Nadia will be coming on this trip to the States with Yehudit Katzover and will be speaking in NYC,

March 18th 7:30 P.M.

Edmond J. Safra Synagogue

11 E 63rd St., Between 5th and Madison Ave. NYC

Kol Tuv, Robin

Purim Seuda Kever Rochel; In USA March 18th -- NADIA MATAR and YEHUDIT KATZOVER

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If you are in Israel then...

From: Evelyn Hayes

Sent: 09 March, 2009 00:10

Subject: Fwd: March 10- Purim Seuda at Kever Rachel

Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation

                                     054-224-2649

Rachelschildren.org,  rachelschildren@gmail.org

 

cordially invites you to join us for our

 

Annual Purim Seuda

 

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 

Buses 12 Noon  from Har Nof and Israel Center

to Beit Bnei Rachel, Rachel's Tomb Complex, Beis Lechem

 

Women's Special Shiur

sby Rebbitzen Tsippora Heller

 

Men's Partners in Learning Project

and Weekly with Beit Orot Yeshiva students.

 

RSVP Evelyn Haies, Pres RCRF and Bnei Rachel Corp 054-224-2649

 

Register for weekly Wednesday classes with Atara Gur, via Egged 10:10AM Bus #163

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If your are in the States on March 18th then this is a golden opportunity to meet with the real heroines of our generation!  Ruth Matar and Yehudit Katzover!  Yasher Koach to AFSI for sponsoring this event!

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM, afsi <afsi@rcn.com> wrote:

 

 

 

 

NADIA MATAR and YEHUDIT KATZOVER 

March 18th 7:30 P.M.

Edmond J. Safra Synagogue

11 E 63rd St., Between 5th and Madison Ave. NYC

 A Women In Green (http://www.womeningreen.org/) update as grassroots activism gains increasing influence on the global scene.

Three years ago, after the expulsion from Gush Katif, two veteran Land of Israel activist leaders joined together in an effort to re-ignite and reinvigorate the grassroots struggle against the post-Zionist expropriation of Israel. Most of the nationalist camp was exhausted and in despair, but they were not. Together, Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover initiated and led a host of new ventures to hold on to the Land of Israel and to strengthen Jewish Israelis' innate understanding that the Land of Israel belongs to them.

Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)is a rapidly growing grassroots movement of grandmothers, mothers, wives, and daughters; housewives and professionals; secular and religious -- all bound together by a shared love, devotion and concern for Israel.  Not affiliated with or supporting any particular political party, Women for Israel's Tomorrow has chapters throughout Israel and abroad, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Toronto. Many men are among their proud supporters.

Women for Israel's Tomorrow, a registered non-profit organization, has accomplished a great deal since its founding.  Women in Green insists that Israel remain a Jewish state and actively fights to preserve a united Jerusalem. They oppose abandoning the Golan Heights and pandering to Mahmoud Abbas. The movement is dedicated to the security and Jewish heritage of historic Israel, and they are outspoken in support of the cause. They are popularly known as the "Women in Green" because of the green hats they wear.

A leading Hebrew newspaper, Maariv, has described Women in Green as "the most authentic and exciting popular resistance movement to have arisen here (in Israel) in the last few years".

Please visit Women in Green website

 Born in Belgium, Nadia made aliyah at the age of 19.  In 1993, in response to the bombshell of Oslo, she founded Women In Green with her mother-in-law Ruth Matar.

  Yehudit and her husband Tzvi were one of the founding families of Kiryat Arba and have taken a large part in its growth and development.  Among other positions, Tzvi was mayor of Kiryat Arba for the past twenty years and Yehudit was vice-mayor from 1985 to 1990.

Yehudit was one of a group of women that opened Hebron to Jewish settlement despite an uncompromising governmental ban. In the early 80's Yehudit and her family moved to Yamit, to take part in the struggle against the abandonment of the Yamit region to Egypt. She led and participated in the different Land of Israel struggles like the struggle for the establishment of the Avraham Avinu synagogue in Hebron.

 In 2005, she led the very active Kiryat Arba-Hebron struggle against the Expulsion from Gush Katif, and since the Expulsion has worked with Nadia on a host of local and national struggles and projects:

At present, Yehudit and Nadia coordinate the struggle for a Jewish Shdema, the IDF army base, abandoned bythe government three years ago, located in area C under full Israeli control, 5 kilometers from Har Choma (Jerusalem), overlooking the single artery connecting Eastern Gush Etzion with Jerusalem- in danger of being taken over  by the Palestinian Authority.

In order to circumvent the leftist media, Yehudit and Nadia distribute the LaMaas –For the Struggle over Eretz Israel publication.

 Tireless, fervent, optimistic and devoted, Katzover and Matar work with Land of Israel activists from all overIsrael and from all parts of the populace- religious and non-religious, action committees, Women in Green,public figures, Members of Knesset etc…

 Admission is Free

Questions and Answers to follow

RSVP

afsi@rcn.com

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Fwd: NEWSPAPER TITLES - ENJOY! Happy Purim Sameach!

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Thanks Mar for forwarding, amv"sh

I really needed that! Happy Purim!

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From: Marilyn Safran <Marilyn.Safran@weizmann.ac.il>
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:14 AM
Subject: Fwd: NEWSPAPER TITLES - ENJOY!

NEWSPAPER TITLES

Proofreading is a dying art, wouldn't you say? :^) Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter This one caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and a call was made to the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day. I just couldn't help but send this along. Too funny. Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says No, really? Ya think? --------------------------------------------- Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers Now that's taking things a bit far! ----------------------------------------------------------- Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over What a guy! --------------------------------------------------------------- Miners Refuse to Work after Death 'good-for-nothing' lazy so-and-so's! ------------------------------------------------------ Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant See if that works any better than a fair trial! ---------------------------------------------------------- War Dims Hope for Peace I can see where it might have that effect! ---------------------------------------------------------------- If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile Ya think?! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures Who would have thought! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Enfield ( London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide They may be on to something! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges You mean there's something stronger than duct tape? Arkansas' new construction program! ---------------------------------------------------------- Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge He probably IS the battery charge! ---------------------------------------------- New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group Weren't they fat enough?! ----------------------------------------------- Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft That's what he gets for eating those beans! ------------------------------------------------- Kids Make Nutritious Snacks Do they taste like chicken? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half Chainsaw Massacre all over again! *************************************************** Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors Boy, are they tall! ******************************************* And the winner is.... Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead Did I read that right? *************************************************** Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle). We all need a good laugh, at least once a day! Need a job? Find employment help in your area.

Public Campaign against Obama Pressure on Yesha on Taanit Esther. Please forward

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Hachnosat 8 Sifrei Torah Celebration for the Kedoshim of Yashlatz and Yeshiva Harav Kook. Happiness and sadness fused

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HACHNOSAT 8 SIFREI TORAH by ANONYMOUS DONOR FOR 8 KEDOSHIM

On Rosh Chodesh Adar, on the Yahrzeit of the 8 Kedoshim, 5 from the Yashlatz Yeshiva a high school adjacent to Mercaz Harav Kook and 3 from the Beth Medrash of Mercaz Harav Kook a tremendous celebration took place.  If you are a Rebbe or Mechanech(es) please take the time to watch this celebration on the blevechad.com website and share it with your students. 

The best way to describe this celebration is intense emotional feelings of happiness and joy at the hachnasos Sefer Torah and the intense sadness of our loss simultaneously.

See the celebration at www.blevechad.com  The ceremony took place on Tuesday, February 24th at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav at 17:30 (5:30 PM).

Also please forward it to other Mechanchim to do the same.

The following material will serve as tremendous lessons in Emuna and Bitachon.  An utube of Rabbi Weiss speaking with his Talmidim immediately following the massacre and the transcript and an edited utube of an interview Rav Weiss had with Ilana Dayan, interviewer of Israeli TV

Part 1: Harav Yerachmiel Weiss talking to his students immediately following the Pigua not even knowing who had perished

Rav Weiss, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Yerushalayim L'Tzeirim (Yashlatz) is interviewed by Ilana Dayan on the Sunday after the Rosh Chodesh attack in which six of his students were killed. An edited version of this interview with subtitles can be found at

Part2:  Rav Weiss being interviewed by Ilana Dayan 
after the burial.

A  transcription of Rav Weiss's interview can be found on

Faith Through Tears  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125521

Lecture and Book Launch  (see attached flier)

PRINCES AMONG MEN

Memories of Eight Young Souls

A Memorial volume produced by the senior class of Yashlatz (the high school which lost six students in the attack) about the eight young souls that were taken from us in a storm last Rosh Chodesh Adar, containing a collection of impressions, recollections and divrei Torah written by family members, friends and teachers of the eight boys.

Lecture and Book Launch:

Efrat- Motzei Shabbbat Feb 28th at the home of Chaim and Chaya Lea Guggengheim, 22 Netzech Yerushalayim at 8:00pm

Bet Shemesh - Wed Mar 4th at Yeshivat Reishit at 8:30 pm

Yerushalayim - Motzei Shabbat Mar 7th at the OU Israel Center at8:30pm

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To RSVP or for ordering information please contact Yaakov:

email: memorialbook@yashlatz.com
telephone 050-833-1309
for details: www.yashlatz.com/book

Flier Sponsored by Feldheim and OU


Clarification:

5 of the Kedoshim were from Yeshivat Yerushalayim L'Tzeirim and not from Mercaz Harav Yeshiva.

Otherwise known as Yeshivat Yerushalayim L'Tzeirim, Yashlatz is a dormitory high school for 340 students. Although founded in the spirit of Rav Kook zt"l and adjacent to "Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav" in Jerusalem, Yashlatz is a separate institute of learning with an independent administration and student body.

On the night of Rosh Chodesh Adar Bet, March 6, 2008, the Yashlatz Bet Midrash was being set up for the traditional Rosh Chodesh party. A few dozen of the most diligent students walked over to the Mercaz HaRav library next door to continue their studies. At 8:30 pm, a terrorist entered the campus and went on a rampage, murdering eight students in and around the library.

Five of the boys killed were from Yashlatz, which a sixth was a recent graduate in his first year of studies at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. The other two young men killed both studied at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.

Excerpt:

from a diary entry of a fifth year, Mercaz HaRav student, written two days after the attack.

"My emotional state was stable all that evening, and the next morning.  But when I got to the yeshivah on Friday, took a look around the library, and went down to the dining room with everyone trying to decide which funeral to attend, a friend came up to me and said - "You know that Moses was murderd.  Your young friend. Avraham David."

Avraham David?!? There was no words to describe what overpowering emotions swept over me at that moment. 

Avraham David?!? What?! Avraham David?  How can that be?? He is such a tzadik! And so young! It  can't be!.....

Why did it have to be him?  Why not me?? For I was also there!  I also could have been murdered!  But he had to be murdered?!  If it had been me, it wouldn't have been so terrible because there are lots of boys like me. But he was so special, such a rare kind of boy.  I am not such a tzaddik.  I don't always do what I should, and I even sometimes do things that I later regret.  But him?! If I had been murdered I wouldn't have asked any questions.  But why him?!!" ....