Powerful letter to Rabbi Berman Director General OU Israel by Pesach Aceman

Dear Rabbi Avi Berman, Director-General OU Israel

Chessed United Program for Sderot

 Dear Sirs,

I have taken upon myself to write to you (as have others as noted in the letter to Mr. Diament immediately following this letter and that is followed by my own letter to OU USA) to point out a few hypocrisies that emanate from OU USA and OU Israel that will ultimately lead to the loss of kavod of your organization.

 As you know, the OU USA has aligned itself with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) which has come out for a two state solution???? to terrorism and the onset of 'peace in our time in our area of the world'!!!!  Despite all their words they still support the Americans who support such ideas as a two state solution – one Israel and the other Arab terrorists, that will lead to our destruction (and even if they are not aware of it, like the Judeenraat aided and abetted the destruction of Jews not too long ago, the American Jews will suffer a fate worse than us here in Israel).

 BUT WHERE IS OU ISRAEL IN ALL OF THIS???  To date I have not heard any rebuttal or separation of the OU Israel organization from such a stance and thereby by complicity, it too (OU Israel) becomes a TERROR SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION!!!

 What brought my attention to this HYPOCRISY is the advertisement/announcement in Torah Tidbits  802 titled "Chessed Unlimited" whereby you plan to "bring joy to the terrorized children of Sderot".

 What TOTAL HYPOCRISY this is!  One hand extended to the truly terrorized and frightened children (and you have other worthwhile programs going on in Sderot that provide support as well to other sectors of the city) AND THE OTHER HAND IS EXTENDED TO THE VERY TERRORISTS WHO HAVE CREATED THE SITUATION ALONG WITH OUR OWN HOME GROWN TRAITORS (OLMERT, BARAK, PERES, RAMON ETC ETC) BY SUPPORTING A TWO STATE SOLUTION!!!! ONE TO ALLOW THE ONGOING TERROR AND ANOTHER SO YOU CAN PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE VICTIMS OF THAT TERROR!!!

 HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT???

What this goes to show is that politics and funding rule the air waves which makes your efforts totally hypocritical!!!

 BUT WHAT REALLY GETS ME PERSONALLY IS THE FEEDING OF LIES TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION BY EVEN EXTENDING YOUR HAND AND BEHIND THEIR BACKS YOU ARE DOING THE EXACT OPPOSITE BECAUSE YOU ARE SILENT ON THIS ISSUE !  

 EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR MULTIPLE PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH (WHICH ARE EXCELLENT IN INTENT) IS GIVING A DOUBLE MESSAGE TO THE YOUTH. ONE SPOKEN "YES WE WANT TO HELP AND WILL HELP YOU" AND THE SILENT MESSAGE UNKNOWN TO THEM BECAUSE OF YOUR SILENCE, IS THAT YOU ARE A TERROR SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION THROUGH YOU SILENCE.

 YES THAT IS WHAT SILENCE DOES WHETHER IT BE AT HOME, AT WORK, OR IN PUBLIC. IT REEKS HAVOC!!

The American wing of OU supports terror and by being supporters of the two state solution of so called 'Jews who support Israel' and not taking an independent stand. So too the OU Israel by its alignment with OU USA is taking the same stand NO MATTER WHAT WORD YOU SAY NOTHING WILL BE HONEST UNTIL A STAND IS TAKEN.

 WHICH DO YOU VALUE MORE, YOUR FUNDING OR YOUR TRUSTWORTHINESS AS AN ISRAELI ORGANIZATION THAT IS A SUPPORTER OF ZION, ENCOURAGING RETURN TO BELIEF IN HASHEM (WHICH BY YOUR SILENCE YOU NEGATE), SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO STOP THE CHILDREN OF Sderot and other places from being terrorized night and day by those very people that would live in the other state that you by your silence, are supporting.

 I PERSONALLY DETEST HYPOCRISY, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE YOUNGER GENERATION WHO ARE SO TRUSTING AND ESPECIALLY AFTER SUCH TRUST BREAKERS SUCH AS THE EXPULSION FROM GUSH KATIF AND THE ONSLAUGHT OF VIOLENCE IN AMONA, HAVE WREAKED HAVOC WITH THE VERY SPIRITUAL FIBER OF OUR NATION.  

 Sirs, I have said enough. I could say more but I hope you get the message. Our younger generation needs to know that there is TRUTH in those they believe in. You do not have the right to destroy that trust because what will follow will be loss of faith – the very antithesis of what you stand for.

  pesach aceman    ôñç àééñîï

yishuv bar yochai  éùåá áø éåçàé

d n merom hagalil  ã ð îøåí äâìéì

israel        13912  éùøàì       

e-mail   pashra@netvision.net.il ã''à

 

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Diament,

 

Please explain to me why the OU chose to abstain from voting instead of voting against the position taken by the JCPA last week?

 

Furthermore, how much longer will the OU continue to besmirch it's previously good name by its recent actions or inactions on behalf of Israel and Jews across the world, starting from it's silence before the expulsion of perhaps 10,000 Jews from Gush Katif, which DIRECTLY led to the current shelling in Sederot and Ashkelon?

 

It is about time that the OU does the RIGHT THING by acting the way an Orthodox Organization, which supposedly takes its guidance from the Torah, should be acting, instead of trying to please every one of its constituents or supporters, no matter how misguided they are. With the holiday of Purim coming up soon, I urge you to review the Megillah and see what Mordechai told Esther when she was initially reluctant to follow his advice. Our Sages teach us that there is a very good reason why this particular Megillah was canonized and even proclaimed to be read out loud in the Synagogue.

 

Finally, why is the OU even in this group of non-believing Jews? I don't see any other Orthodox group, such as the Nat Council of YI, etc there. Didn't the late, great Torah leader, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein FORBID such an association?

 

Sincerely,

 

Izzy Broker

Staten Island, NY

917-912-1029

 

 

 

 

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From: Pesach [mailto:pashra@netvision.net.il]
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 9:18 PM
To: 'ndiament@ou.org'; 'execthw@ou.org'; 'howieb@ou.org'
Cc: Rena Cohen (reco@isdn.net.il); 'hebron.mail@hebron.org.il'
Subject: Subject: CLARIFICATION: OU POSITION AND ROLE ON JCPA

 

RE:  CLARIFICATION: OU POSITION AND ROLE ON JCPA

http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/clarification_ou_position_and_role_on_jcpa_resolution/
February 28, 2008

The Orthodox Union is a member agency of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) and participated in its annual conference this week.

As reported in the media, the JCPA debated and adopted a resolution with regard to the Israeli - Palestinian peace process. The media report, however, did not fully and accurately present the Orthodox Union's position and activities with regard to the resolution; we do so here.

The OU delegation engaged in the debate over this resolution by proposing and/or opposing provisions of or amendments to the resolution text. The following were the actions of the OU on this matter:

> The OU attempted to remove the resolution's text which would have, for the first time, put JCPA on record in support of the "two state solution" - but we were defeated by a vote of the delegates to the JCPA.

> The OU succeeded in inserting into the resolution's text the statement that "Israel's repeated offers to establish 'two democratic states living side by side in peace and security' have been met, time after time, by violence, incitement and terror."

> The OU attempted to remove the resolution's text calling for American Jewish support for any negotiations by the Israeli government over the re-division of Jerusalem - but we were defeated by a vote of the delegates to the JCPA.

> The OU succeeded in inserting into the resolution text which calls upon the American Jewish community to support Israel's insistence upon being recognized by the Palestinian Authority as a "Jewish state."

> The OU succeeded in defeating a proposed amendment to the resolution text which would have stated that the American Jewish community views the establishment or expansion of Israeli settlements as an "impediment to peace."

At the conclusion of the debate and amendment process, the OU delegation abstained from the vote on final passage of the resolution and informed the JCPA of our intention to file a formal, written dissent from the portions of the resolution with which the OU disagrees.

IS IT NOT TIME FOR THE OU TO TAKE A PRO ISRAEL STANCE IN SUCH MATTERS AND REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM ANY ASSOCIATION WITH SUCH ANTI- ISRAEL ORGANIZATIONS WHO CONTINUALLY LOOK OUT FOR THEIR OWN GOOD RATHER THAN WHAT IS BEST FOR THE JEWISH NATION/ISRAEL.  OR ARE YOU LIKE THE SHAS PARTY IN OUR COUNTRY AND OTHER HAREIDI PARTIES THAT CONSTANTLY CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN INTERESTS RATHER THAT ABOUT TORAH AND THE NATION/PEOPLE OF ISRAEL KNOWING FULL WELL THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS BENT ON DESTROYING THE NATION FROM WITHIN.

 

ARE YOU TO DESTROY IT FROM WITHOUT?   

 

I SUGGEST YOU READ THE FOLLOWING TO BE INFORMED AND FULFILL YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO AM YISRAEL (THE JEWISH NATION) AND NOT THE AMERICAN JEWISH NATION.

 

www.vbm-torah.org/archive/kuzari/17kuzari.htm      IT WILL INFORM YOU OF WHAT EACH AND EVERY JEW'S OBLIGATION IS VIS A VIS ISRAEL

 

 

pesach aceman    ôñç àééñîï

yishuv bar yochai  éùåá áø éåçàé

d n merom hagalil  ã ð îøåí äâìéì

israel        13912  éùøàì       

e-mail   pashra@netvision.net.il ã''à

 

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Nadia Matar's response to the OU clarification.

And now, after the OU's "clarification" (it reminds me of the "clarifications" the Shas MK's are giving as to why they are still in Olmerts' criminal government) -

So now, after the OU's clarification:

 can we ask the one million dollar question:

Why is the OU still part of the JCPA?

Where is the OU's outrage? the geshrei?

Why are they not resigning from the JCPA  which has now officially become the "Jewish  Council for Palestinian Arabs"....

 

Are Shas and the OU going to be remembered in the history books as those who gave the "badatz hechsher" to the creation of a PLO State in Erets Israel which, as we know, will bring about the destruction of Israel?

 

Nadia Matar

Women in Green

nmatar@netvision.net.il

 

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Buddy Macy's response to the OU Clarification

My response to Yocheved Goldberg's email:

 

Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: I am appalled by your collusion with the enemies of Judaism & G-d!

 

Dear Yocheved,
 
Thank you for forwarding me a link to the OU's official clarification relative to the JCPA statement (see below). 
 
In the end (which could very well be, THE END OF ISRAEL), you will be remembered as having been a part of the coalition that called for the destruction of the Jewish State.  Since you have been unsuccessful in your efforts to bring sanity, reality and Jewishness to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs from within, it is more than time for you to officially resign from that morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt body.
 
You will have the full support of reality-based, G-d loving Jews around the world, and we will help defeat the JCPA's obscene and gross distortion of Judaism from a position of strength, reason and Biblical authority.
 
Most sincerely,
 
Buddy Macy

973-785-0057

 

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Yes Odeleya, the OU has finally broken their Silence! Endorsement for Palestine!

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The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (including the OU) endorsed for the first time a
two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107213.html

 

We call upon each and every Orthodox Jew that is affiliated or not affiliated with the OU to call on it's boss or Rabbi and voice a complaint. The OU as an organization is not representing our Jewish interests.  Employees, voice your public disapproval even at the risk of being fired. Congregants, call upon your congregations to disassociate themselves from the OU Leadership.  Don't depend on your Rabbi. Insist that either he voices his dismay or you will voice it and risk your respect for him and perhaps even his job as your Rabbi. That will counter his fear of speaking out because he fears his position in the Orthodox Union political echelon.
 

Members of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs

American Jewish Committee http://www.ajc.org
American Jewish Congress http://www.ajcongress.org
Anti-Defamation League http://www.adl.org
B'nai B'rith http://www.bnaibrith.org
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life http://www.coejl.org
Hadassah http://www.hadassah.org
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Life http://www.hillel.org
Jewish Labor Committee http://www.jewishlabor.org
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation http://www.jrf.org
Jewish War Veterans http://www.jwv.org
National Conference on Soviet Jewry http://www.ncsj.org/
National Council of Jewish Women http://www.ncjw.org
National Jewish Coalition for Literacy http://www.njcl.net
ORT America http://www.ortamerica.org
Union for Reform Judaism http://www.urj.org
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America http://www.ou.org
United Jewish Communities http://www.ujc.org
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism http://www.uscj.org
Women's League for Conservative Judaism http://www.wlcj.org

Thank you Dovid Wilder of the Hebron Community for passing on this information.

 

Forwarded Message:

Subj: Fwd: BREAK THE SILENCE!!  Date: 2/28/2008 12:27:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time From: Odel216 To: plerner@youngisrael.org

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Forwarded Message:

Subj: BREAK THE SILENCE!!  Date: 2/28/2008 12:26:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time From: Odel216 To: yochevedg@ou.org

 

Dear Rabbi Weinreb,

    I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU AS A RABBI CAN REMAIN SILENT AND BY DOING SO KEEP SO MANY OTHERS IN THE DARK AS KASSAM

ROCKETS HIT , HURT, MAME AND KILL OUR JEWISH PEOPLE IN ISRAEL.  AS THE SO CALLED LEADERS IN THE ISRAELI GOV'T FAIL TO PROTECT AND SECURE THE JEWISH CITIZENS OF ISRAEL, AS THE PRESSURES FROM PRES. BUSH AND RICE CONTINUE ON ISRAEL TO GIVE LAND TO TERRORISTS , ENEMIES OF BOTH ISRAEL AND AMERICA,     YOU, RABBI WEINREB, AND THOSE WHO SIT WITH YOU,

DO NOT PUBLICLY CONDEMM ANY ACTIONS OF THE ENEMIES THAT WORK HARD TO DESTROY THE JEWISH IDENTITY , AND JEWISH MORALE IN ERETZ YISRAEL.  HOW CAN THOSE ,WHO HASHEM PLACES

IN HIGH POWERFUL POSITIONS  ACT IN SUCH WEAKNESS???

 

YOU WITH THE REST OF THE OU EXECUTIVES WERE VERY QUICK TO CONDEM RABBI WOLPE FOR WORDS THAT WERE TWISTED .  WHERE

IS YOUR PUBLIC ACTIVISM ON BEHALF OF YOUR JEWISH BRETHREN

THAT ARE HURT AND TRAUMATIZED???

 

YOU ARE A HISTORIAN AND UNDERSTAND THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IF WE FAIL TO LEARN LESSONS FROM THE PAST!

 

THE SILENCE MUST BREAK!  I URGE YOU TO DO RIGHT BY OUR JEWISH PEOPLE!!  THE TIME HAS COME FOR ALL OF US WHO BELIEVE

THAT THE JEWISH LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO UNITE IN ACHDUT ALL OVER THE WORLD AND FIGHT THE BATTLE TOGETHER IN ACHDUT AND IN STRENGTH!!

 

THERE IS MUCH TO DO AND THE SILENCE MUST BREAK!

 

WE MUST MOBILIZE OUR PEOPLE IN THE SHULS AND YESHIVAS AND INFORM THE KLAL OF THE DANGERS THAT WE ARE ALL IN.

 

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ANY JEW TO SIT BACK AND SMILE AND GO ON WITH LIFE AS USUAL WHILE IN ERETZ YISRAEL OUR JEWISH BRETHREN ARE ATTACKED, WITH INNOCENT CHILDREN LOSING

LEGS , ARMS, LIFE?????????? CHILDREN ARE BECOMING ORPHANS

AS KASSAMS CONTINUE TO RAIN IN  HUNDREDS OF THEM DAILY???

 

WE MUST ACT IN WAYS THAT HASHEM EXPECTS HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE TO ACT.  WE ARE OUR BROTHERS' KEEPER.  WE MUST NOT BE SILENT!!  PURIM IS COMING AND SO WE MUST BE MOBILIZED THROUGH OUR RABBIS, ORGANIZATIONS, YESHIVOT

IN MASSIVE TEFILA GATHERINGS   AND   ACTIVISM ON BEHALF OF OUR JEWISH BRETHREN!!  WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED AND EXPRESS

OUR OUTRAGE .  WE MUST HAVE A STRONG UNITED MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO EXPRESS TO THE WORLD THAT ERETZ YISRAEL INCLUDING YEHUDA AND SHOMRON BELONG TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THAT APPEASMENT TO TE ARABS WILL ONLY ENCOURAGE MORE EXTREMIST

TERRORISM AGAINST THE WEST AS WELL B/C THAT IS WHAT JIHAD

IS ALL ABOUT. 

 

THE OU HAS A CHOICE  EITHER YOU ARE WITH US IN THE FIGHT FOR

THE JEWISH LAND OF ISRAEL , OR YOU CONTINUE TO BE SILENT AND CHOOSE WEAKNESS OVER STRENGTH AND  PEOPLE WILL NOT FORGET!!

 

LET US ALL UNITE IN ACHDUT AND STRENGTH !! Rabbi Weinreb,

please take the lead to BREAK THE SILENCE !!     TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!

 

                                                                                                 Odeleya Jacobs

                                                                                                  WORLD COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL

 

 

 

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G-d help us from our leaders from ourselves. RED FLAG for Mishpacha Magazine.

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Mishpacha Magazine arrived this morning.  We all look forward to this wonderful magazine...but....

 

Point of View by Rabbi Moshe Grylak  Editor in Chief of Mishpacha Magazine is entitled Barack Obama and the Prophets.  page 12

 

 

The side bar reads "We also look at our fellow man and see him lonely and isolated, swamped by a sea of media messages, and hear his silent cry for change.  "Stand for Change," says Barack Obama, and it's no wonder the American collective is flocking after him. 

 

The other side bar is Food for Thought "Master of the Universe, I ask of You, redeem the Jewish People, And if You won't do that, then redeem the non-Jew (-Rabbi Yisrael, the maggid of Kozhnitz)

 

The last paragraph of Rabbi Grylak article is

 

"And this is the focus of our fascination at this moment.  For, if the evidence is not deceiving us, and America has freed itself of its mental block against a black man as their leader, that is proof that established norms can change.  If this can happen, then we shall surely also see the total change of human consciousness that our Prophets declared would occur, as explained by the author of Michtav Me"Eliyahu, ztz"l

 

The phenomenon of Barack Hussein Obama serves as a wonderful illustration of this truth."

 

The article describes Obama as a gifted speaker, maybe the best in the Democratic Party, drawing an ever-increasing following.  The article continues to ask Are the American people so inspired by his elegant outward appearance that they aren't bothering to look too deeply at what he actually has to offer his country in terms of policy on the issues?

 

The article however doesn't bother to address Obama's policy on the issues. 

 

Good Question Rabbi Grylak. Did Rabbi Grylak bother to investigate what Obama's policy might be regarding the establishment of a Palestinian State?  How about Obama's inner circle, the ones most likely to define his foreign policy.  The advisors that have history of aligning with anti-Semites.  I suppose such information was better left unsaid for reasons I can not really figure out.  I suppose the establishment of a Palestinian State is no big dea to Rabbi Grylak.  Neither was the expulsion from Gush Katif in 2005 prior to the disengagement to Rabbi Grylak. At that time I personally wrote Rabbi Grylak a letter begging the Gedoilim to speak out and he responded that we must follow the guidance of the Gedoilim even if we don't understand the whole picture. 

 

So, in my opinion this portrayal of Barack Obama put him in a very positive light. After all, he's quite a popular guy. 

 

Then on page 21 in Mishpacha magazine there was an article regarding Fidel Castro.  It quotes Rabbi Meir Lau.  "Fidel Castro is one big riddle to me.  He was very opposed to anti-Semitism, but on the other hand, he joined hands with our greatest enemies"  Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau.  There is a nice picture of Rabbi Lau viewing a box of Cuban cigars with Castro in their 1994 meeting. The article states, "As dictator of a country noted for atheism, Castro, surprised Rabbi Lau with his grasp of the Bible, displaying curiosity as to how seventy Jews could multiply into a nation of 600,000 in just 210 years in Egypt. "

 

The article ends with the paragraph

 

"Castro refused Rabbi Lau's request for permission to import kosher meat because he thought it would be showing favoritism to the Jews, in a country where meat is rationed, but he did permit a shipment of matzos, because matzos are "a religious product and not food."

 

Rabbi Lau. Is Castro really a big riddle?  Was Castro a bad guy  or a good guy?  The article portrays him as human just like the rest of us.  I suppose good and evil is really not that important anymore.

 

There was no mention in this page of being anti Israel. In fact the article puts Castro in a very human light. There is no indication that he was indeed our enemy.  In contrast an article by Hillel Fendel in A7 was much more negative.  Please visit http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125304 .  Here is an excerpt of the article.

 

" In October 1973, during the Yom Kippur war, not only did Castro break diplomatic relations with Israel, but he deployed thousands of Cuban soldiers, including helicopter pilots and tank crews to fight alongside the Syrians, The next year, Castro gave the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) an expropriated Jewish community center in Havana - and awarded the visiting Yasser Arafat with Cuba's highest award, the Bay of Pigs Medal. "

 

This is a red flag regarding Mishpacha Magazine.  Editor in Chief, Grylak is involving himself with politics and is not focusing on Torah.  Yet he has the title of Rabbi and the backing and support of the Chareidi Rabbanim.  He is the number one promoter of listening to Daas Torah.  We might get confused that all this politics is actually Daas Torah.

 

When a chareidi women was asked who she will vote for, she said, whomever I'm told to. 

 

We have been brainwashed not to think for ourselves. Our understanding of Torah is not as clear as our Gedoilim. 

 

So if Rav Perlow and Rav Malkiel Kotler and Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky and Rav Belsky etc. names are on a poster banning an all separate seating concert, a real evil that must be exorcised from our midst, that must take priority on the establishment of a Palestinian State putting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews in danger.   But what do I know? I'm just a female.

 

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