Thursday, February 21, 2008

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me

bs"d  Thank you Evelyn Haies haze@rcn.com for forwarding this email regarding the anti-Semitic climate in France today.

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 not hing." 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 w as firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg and Marseil les; 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 20's 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 just 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-Semitic and, unlike them, 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 bestselling book in France is...."September 11: The Frightening Fraud," which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.
Please Pass This On, Let's not let history repeat itself, thank-you for your time and consideration


Brenda H. Mitchell
Executive Assistant to the Rabbis
bmitchell@templesinaiatlanta.org
Temple Sinai
5645 Dupree Drive
Atlanta, GA 30327
 

 





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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

TIMETODO4ISRAEL Action Campaign - Just a few minutes of your time.

Bs"d

 

Dear Family and Friends, amv"sh

 

A few minute Action Campaign to Save Judea and Samaria.  Please take a few minutes of your time to urge the major Jewish Orthodox Organization to mobilize on behalf of Judea and Samaria, Sderot and all of Eretz Yisroel.  Please copy and paste the following letter or your own version and send it to Agudath Yisroel of America, the Young Israel, the OU and Lubavitch Headquarters that have extensive email lists of Jewish Rabbanim, Jewish Institutions and Shuls reaching HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JEWS.   Then forward this email to your family and friends.

 

This is a call for Action for the major Jewish Institutions to act with a full  force. It has come to our attention that Agudath Yisroel of America is willing to march with a "display of torches" to Washington DC upon the direction of Rav Eliashiv but  Avi Shafran says that they are waiting for the initiative and directive to come from Eretz Yisroel from Rav Eliashiv and Rav Shteinman..  That is why it is so important that we ask Rav Eliashiv and Rav Shteinman speak out loud and clear knowing that Am Yisroel is behind them!!!

 

 If you want to see how the other side is engaging their children to fight on behalf of their "cause" please watch this shocking video http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/2008/02/meet-future-peace-partner.html of  Arab boys ages 6-12 being trained to use the M16 rifles which is an automatic weapon capable of major destruction. 
 

Please copy and paste the following letter or change it if you have the time and desire,  and send it with your name at the bottom of the letter to

shafran@agudathisrael.org
dzwiebel@agudathisrael.org
plerner@youngisrael.org
info@ou.org
execthw@ou.org
hq@lubavitch.com

 

 

B"H

 

Dear Distinguished Rabbonim and Askanim for Eretz Yisroel,

 

Please consult urgently with Rav Eliashiv Shlita and Rav Steinman Shlita and urge them to endorse a public proclamation, a KOL KOREI regarding Eretz Yisroel , from Moetzes Gedolei  Hatorah and other distinguished Rabbanim and organizations.  The suggested content of such a  proclamation would include that  Judea and Samaria  are an integral part of Eretz Yisroel, promised exclusively to Am Yisroel as an eternal inheritance.  It is suggested to also include that the nation of Israel in turn is obligated to keep the Torah and Mitzvoth and therefore the Two State Solution as proposed by President Bush and the State Department goes against the will of the Creator of the World. 

 

Ask these Rabbinic Leaders  if they could also  please endorse a massive letter writing campaign from hundreds of thousands of Jews, men women and children,  supporting this Kol Korei.  

 

An effective letter writing campaign will ask all Yeshivas and Jewish Days schools to ask parents and assign the children a HW or class assignment to write a letter to President Bush.  

 

In addition to being sent to the President of the United States, let's have the letters scanned, copied or cc'd to a central site for the purpose of publicly displaying online all of the letters written to the President, with personal identification of the writers omitted to protect privacy. 

 

It is our understanding that Rav Eliashiv Shlita and Rav Shteinman Shlita and other prominent Rabbanim and other Jewish leaders and organizations publicly support Israel retaining Yehuda and the Shomron and all of Jerusalem and Sderot because;

 

(a)    These are all integral parts of Eretz HaKodesh as explained in the very first Rashi in the Chumash and not "occupied" lands as our enemies contend

 

(b) Parshas Masei inter alia says that it is G-d Himself who delineates the Holy Land's boundaries which include Yehuda and the Shomron

 

(c)   Abandoning Yehuda and Shomron, G-d forbid, would put the Jews in the remaining Israel in  a real and present existential danger on a much larger scale than the Jews today in Sderot, Ashkelon, etc. who are faced with daily rocket attacks. 

 

 (d) This is not a "political" or "Zionist" matter. It is a matter of Israel's survival and, perhaps in turn, the survival of the Jewish people. 

 

 (e) What is at stake goes to the essence of retaining our connection as Am Hashem to Eretz Hakodesh, a holiness we witness and experience every day and even more so now during this Shmitta year.

 

Through your efforts now, Jewish lives and deaths being literally at stake, may Hashem bless your efforts with success to reverse the evil decree "in those days at this time" and to restore to the Jews in Israel and everywhere "Orah VeSimcha VeSasson Vicar".

 

Bichvod Rav, 

  ( write your name)

 

 

 

 





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Fwd: From AKIVA of Mysticalpaths Shocking! Arab boys ages 6-12 with M16

bs"d
 
by Akiva at Mystical Paths

(JPost - Feb 18) Olmert praised the 2005 disengagement from Gaza. "Despite the [continuing] Kassam fire, it was a very good move since there are no longer 30,000 soldiers protecting 1,200 citizens," he said.

A response to Olmerts statement
 
The following video in Hebrew with English subtitles will truly shock you. It is a video of the training  of Arab boys that look like they are around 9 years old training with M16 automatic weapons. We must know the enemy we are facing.
http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/2008/02/meet-future-peace-partner.html





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fwd: Israel Kaplan Save Sderot: Does anyone have an idea what shock does to...

Sent by Israel Kaplan israelkaplan@yahoo.com

Save Sderot:   Does anyone have an idea what shock does to a human being?   Now does anyone know what multiple shocks do to a person?  Now does anyone have an idea of what 7 years of shock does to an entire city?

update: 11 Suffer Shock in Sderot

12 Adar 5768, 18 February 08 09:45
by
(IsraelNN.com) Eleven people suffered from shock following rocket attacks in Sderot on Monday night.  Two rockets landed in open areas near the city. 
Terrorists have fired nine rockets and five mortar shells at Israeli towns in the western Negev since Monday morning.  Fifteen people have suffered shock, and buildings in Sderot were damaged.





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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Rabbi Mazuz, Leading Sephardic Rabbi to Shas: Tell Your Leader the Truth!

bs"d
 
 
Besides, Rabbi Mazuz, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, Rav Ovadia's oldest son also urges Shas to leave the gov't.
If you know anyone with influence within the Sephardic Community, please urge them to voice their concern regarding the possible expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Judea and Samaria, the constant barrage of rockets on Sederot, the influx of ammunition into the hands of terrorists and their opposition to the most recent talks regarding Jerusalem. How can we remain Silent when our brothers and our lives are on the line?

If you have not yet written to Shas, please do so.

If you have already written to Shas, please do so again!

 Here are the simple steps:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.)  Open a second email window

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.)  Copy and paste the following email addresses to the address line:
eyishay@knesset.gov.il, aatias@knesset.gov.il, eamsalem@knesset.gov.il, amncohen@knesset.gov.il, izchakec@knesset.gov.il, dazulay@knesset.gov.il, slomob@knesset.gov.il, ymargi@knesset.gov.il, amichaeli@knesset.gov.il, mnahari@knesset.gov.il, yvaknin@knesset.gov.il, nzeev@knesset.gov.il,
vegibud@gmail.com

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.)  Copy and paste the following to the Subject line:
Israel is Discussing the Division of Jerusalem – Leave the Government Now!

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.)  Type your name, city and state (in the U.S.) or name, city & country in the text of the message.  Then send it.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->5.)  Forward this email to everyone on your list, and urge them to do the same.

Please Note: If you have already written to Shas, but have not received a thank you from me, please send me an email with your name, city & state/country, so I may add you to the growing list of pro-Israel activists. 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Buddy Macy

Little Falls, NJ

973-785-0057

SHAS IN THE KNESSET
 
 
More Shas Contact Info:
Tel: 02-675-3550
Fax 02-649-6543
 
Current Composition
Chairman Yakov Margi
Number of Seats 12
 
Shas Members of Knesset:
 
1. Chaim Amsellem Tel:  02-649-6457 02-675-3474  fax 02-649-6527 eamsalem@knesset.gov.il
 
2. Ariel Atias  Tel: 02-675-3220 aatias@knesset.gov.il  Minister of Communications
 
3. David Azoulay Tel: 02-640-8184 02-640-8185  fax:02-675-3908 dazulay@knesset.gov.il
 
4. Shlomo Benizri Tel: 02-640-8196  02-640-8197  fax:02-675-3747 slomob@knesset.gov.il
 
5. Amnon Cohen Tel: 02-640-8372 02-640-8373 fax 02-640-8927 amncohen@knesset.gov.il
 
6. Yitzhak Cohen Tel: 02-640-8397  02-640-8398 fax: 02-670-6157 izchakec@knesset.gov.il
 
7. Yakov Margi Tel: 02-640-8187 02-640-8188 fax: 02-675-3759 ymargi@knesset.gov.il
 
8. Avraham Michaeli Tel: 02-640-8128  02-640-8129 fax: 02-675-3961 amichaelli@knesset.gov.il
 
9. Meshulam Nehari Tel: 02-640-8446 02-640-8447 fax: 02-649-6447 mnahari@knesset.gov.il
 
10. Yitzhak Vaknin Tel: 02-640-8106 fax 02-649-6027 yvaknin@knesset.gov.il
 
11. Eliyahoo Yishai Tel: 02-640-8406 02-640-8407 fax: 02-666-2909 eyishav@knesset.gov.il 
      Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
 
12. Nissim Zeev Tel: 02-640-8151 02-640-8152 fax: 02-649-6549 nzeev@knesset.gov.il
 
 The voice from America also makes a difference! 
 
Please  call influential Sephardic Leaders.  The following information may be helpful.
 
 
SFC  Sephardic Community Federation - President Sam Sutton
 
Some of the many Sephardic community leaders  includes Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Morris Bailey, Joe Cayre, Stanley Chera, Sam Sutton, Haim Dabah, David Hidary and Ronald Tawil.
 
David Greenfield is the Executive Vice President of the Sephardic Community Federation (SCF), the umbrella governmental relations and public policy organization of the Sephardic community. In that role, he works every single day with public officials at every level of government to improve the lives of not just the Sephardic community, but the entire Jewish community. He is also an experienced attorney who is an acclaimed community advocate.
 
Greenfield's inaugural fund-raising event for his City Council run was hosted by Paulette and Morris Bailey
 
In his remarks to the large crowd, Greenfield quoted from Rabbi Tarfon in Pirkei Avot who said, "while it is not our responsibility to solve the problem, we must still work towards solving it."
 
Before joining SCF, Greenfield served as Deputy Director of Finance to Senator Joe Lieberman's presidential campaign. Prior to that, he served as Chief of Staff to Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
 
The Jewish IMAGE Magazine is the official publication of Sephardic National Alliance - a non profit educational organization.
 
Ben-Gurion Matsas Publisher/Editor  Rochelle Matsas  Editor in Chief
P.O. Box 290-642
Brooklyn, NY 11229
 
Tel (718)627-4624
fax (718)627-4284
 




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