Rav Lior's call to Rabbanim

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 Rabbi Lior calls for Rabbonim to forbid participation in any further evacuations of settlements. * The "leaders" are stupid because they eat non-kosher food *The Halachic ruling will be publicized in next weeks' copy of "Ertez Yisroel Shelanu"

Rabbi Dov Lior, Rav of Chevron and Kiryat Arba,has issued a Halachic ruling forbidding the hiring of, and renting of homes to Arabs anywhere in Israel. In an interview with Rabbi Lior in this weeks' "Eretz Yisroel Shelanu" newsletter, he states: "Being that we are dealing with a very obvious life threatening issue, as is clarified in the Halacha, it is absolutely forbidden to rent homes to Arabs, and forbidden to employ them. This pertains not only to yeshivos but includes hotels, factories, etc. This is particularly imperative in the light of the halachic injunction that "the poor of your city precede the poor of other cities".
Rabbi Lior offers an explanation for the irrational behavior of our political leaders: as our Rabbis state-the ingesting of non-kosher food causes befuddled thinking. We are under the rule of the Erev Rav. Being so close to the Geulah, we are witnessing a re-run of the sin of the spies who wished to reject Eretz Yisroel.
Rabbi Lior justifies not allowing PM Ehud Olmert to pay a condolence visit to Yeshivas Merkaz HaRav. "How can one host someone who acts in defiance to our holy Torah and continues to endanger the Jewish nation? Is it possible to honor such a person? Until this very moment he has not expressed one iota of remorse for all he done, and he is planning more of the same. Meanwhile they are unable to carry out their plot, but they strive towards it. Therefore it was proper not to have him visit at the yeshiva."
Rabbi Lior also commented on the halachic ruling that one may shoot into a populated area and possibly harm innocent bystanders. "There is no Jewish law that states that we must take 'innocent bystanders' into consideration during a war. We act out of defense, and therefore there is no problem. Obviously if we must stop the terrorist shootings, we are allowed to strike at innocent bystanders, if there is no other alternative."
Rabbi Lior attacked those Rabbis that didn't listen to the ruling of Rabbi Avraham Shapiro that one must not take part in the disengagement. If they would have followed the ruling of Rabbi Shapira and (yibodel l'chaim) Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, and ruled that one must refuse to participate in the disengagement, it is possible that the disengagement would not have happened. Unfortunately, so called "Rabbonim" ruled otherwise, and we are paying the steep price for this to this very day. "Those who take the advice of the Elders do not stumble".
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Blood Libel March 2008 in Novosibirsk, Russia.

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Thank you rosewalk@concentric.net for sending.  And there are those that still believe that Silence will stop antisemitism.

SOURCE http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3521307,00.html

Russian blood libel: Jews use children's blood for matzot

Hundreds of anti-Semitic pamphlets distributed in Novosibirsk,
Russia, warning residents of supposed Jewish practice of kidnapping
children to use their blood for Passover matza

Yael Branovsky Published: 03.19.08, 20:34 / Israel Jewish Scene

Hundred of anti-Semitic announcements warning Russian parents to
beware of the supposed Jewish practice of using children's blood to
prepare Passover matza were put up around the city of Novosibirsk,
Russia in southwest Siberia on Wednesday.

"Beware Russian parents. Keep watch over your children before the
coming of April 2008, the Jewish holiday of Passover. These
disgusting people still engage in ritual practice to their gods. They
kidnap small children and remove some of their blood and use it to
prepare their holy food (matza). They throw the bodies (of the
children) out in garbage dumps," the announcements read.

"Esther", a resident of Novosibirsk, told Ynet: "I saw the
announcement, however I won't be afraid of going to synagogue during
Passover. In my house, we will have matzot.

"Anti-Semitism exists in the city and it never disappears. You can
walk around in the streets and see derogatory sayings scrawled on the
walls of houses; 'Jews go home' and such. The announcement simply
disgusted me.

"These anti-Semites merely want to divert the attention of the city's
residents away from the problems that exist in the area and blame the
Jews for everything. I personally am not afraid because my children
are in Israel."

Approximately 13,000 Jews live in the Novosibirsk area, with most
living in the city itself.

Since the beginning of this year, Russia has experienced dozens of
anti-Semitic acts – including violent attacks on Jews, derogatory
graffiti and the vandalism of Jewish cemeteries.

Anti-Semitism on rise

Recently, the US government published its yearly report that stated
that anti-Semitism, which promotes hatred towards Jews under the
guise of criticism against the State of Israel, has increased in the
last 10 years.

The report claimed that the Belarus government openly disseminates
anti-Semitic material. It also said that government-controlled media
outlets in Saudi Arabia and Egypt broadcast anti-Semitic programs.

Additional acts of anti-Semitism were recorded in Poland, Russia,
Ukraine, France, Germany, the UK, Argentina, Australia, Canada and
South Africa.

"Contemporary anti-Semitism appears openly and in disguised forms in
place where there are Jewish communities just like in places where
there are few Jewish people. Violent anti-Semitic crimes are carried
out – beginning with from terrorism carried out against Jews to
desecrating and destroying Jewish property such as synagogues and
cemeteries," the report stated.

Amos Hermon, the Jewish Agency official in charge of the fight
against anti-Semitism, told Ynet following the incident in
Novosibirsk that "this is an appalling and extraordinary incident. I
really hope that we're not going back to the period at the beginning
of the previous century in which Jews were blamed and put on trial
for killing children.

"We hope and we are sure that the Russian government will find those
who distributed (the announcement) and work to stamp out the
phenomenon."

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letter from Yishuv Itamar near Shchem.Mayor, Rabbi Moshe and Leah Goldsmith

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 Anyone that wishes to contribute to this Yishuv, all  donations are gratefully accepted. Please contact Rabbi Moshe Goldsmiths parents in Brooklyn, Lester and Jeannette Goldsmith Shainsha@aol.com

 

Rabbi Moshe (also Mayor of Itamar) and Leah Goldsmith write:

Dearest Friends it has been a while since I wrote to you. It is hard to believe that we are celebrating Purim already. Wow! The year is flying by so quickly. I wanted to give you all a small Itamar update with a Torah thought and of course wish you all a happy Purim. Unfortunately, we have all been witness to some very tragic days here in Israel beginning with the terrible rocket fire on Sederot and culminating with the massacre of the boys in Mercaz Harav Yeshiva. Here on Itamar we had our share of security problems over the last few months as well. We have been suffering a lot of rock throwing at cars driving up our road and some infiltrations to our hilltops where sheep were stolen. In one incident, a rock hit a driver and caused a car accident where a guest visiting our community was hospitalized with moderate to serious injuries. Last Shabbat our security fence was cut and we were all put into high alert. There were also four shooting incidents at buses going through the nearby village; one took place last night. Thank G-d nobody was hurt but the busses were shot up.

 The struggle for building our nation in the holy land goes on. Many people are asking themselves - when is this going to stop? If it is any way consoling, let us remind ourselves that this madness has been going on with ups and downs when the students of the Vilna Gaon and the Baal Shem Tov started to make Aliya 200 years ago. Our sages didn't hide from us their teaching that the land of Israel is acquired through suffering. Ok, so we can't say that we didn't know that building the land would not be easy.  Nevertheless, why does it have to be this way? One simple answer is that nothing that is of any value comes easy. The greater the gift the more we have to work hard to attain it. Eretz Yisrael is the most precious thing in the world. Therefore, in order to acquire it we have to work very hard. The harder we work the greater reward we will eventually see. Many evil forces are hovering over the land of Israel that are trying to prevent us from reaching our goals. Every person that believes in Hashem, His Torah, and His people must act. We can't remain indifferent at such a special time. Life is too short and there is just so much that we have to do. As we read today in the Megillah  - Mordechai says to Queen Esther  -  "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will be lost. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?" Mordechai is telling Esther that she must realize that G-d placed her in a special position for a reason of furthering the redemption of her people. When someone reaches the heights of royalty it is very easy to fall into the trap of wealth, honor and pleasure and forget about the priorities of life. Mordechai's message was not only to Esther but it is for every one of us as well. Although G-d has blessed us greatly with a comfortable life, we can not sit back while our nation needs help! Every day, we must spend a few minutes thinking about how we can help build our land. Those who have the strength should consider making Aliyah there is nothing greater than returning home. Those that are not ready to make Aliyah at this time must get involved in some Chesed activity for helping build the land. Any small action adds up. We have all been witness to the fluctuations of the stock market and the dollar around the world over the last few months. People are panicking about loosing their fortunes. Let's put things into proportion, we have to thank G-d that we have food on the table and are not starving. After 120 years, a person is not going to take his dollar bills to the world to come. What he will take with him is the good deeds he did in this world.

I want to wish you all a happy Purim! Thank you for everything you have done for Itamar and Eretz Yisrael! Looking forward in seeing you here on Itamar.

 

Lehitraot, 

 

 

Moshe Goldsmith Itamar

 

 

 

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Action Alert: Please forward letter by Herb Zweibon to SILENT Religio Jewish Org

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Please forward to anyone on your list that has any influence on Agudath Yisroel of America, the OU, Young Israel and Chabad International begging and pleading them to speak up for the Torah Roadmap and our Biblical Covenant!!   Mr. Zweibon writes "Not realizing what lay ahead, the residents of Sderot were passive when the Sharon government forfeited their security by destroying the Jewish communities of Gaza."  Will we make the same mistake?

 

The relevant rabbis to contact r e s p e c t f u l l y  in this connection are:
* Rabbi Perlow, Rosh Moetzes Agudath Yisroel, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Rabbi Avi Shafran, and Rabbi Gertzulin - Public Affairs Department, Agudath Yisroel  212-797-9000  and anyone on the Board of Directors.
* Rabbi Pesach Lerner at The Young Israel 212-929-1525
* Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb of the OU 212-563-4000
* Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Headquarters  718 774.4000 / fax 718 774.2718
Please forward this article to: plerner@youngisrael.org, dzwiebel@agudathisrael.org, shafran@agudathisrael.org, execthw@ou.org, hq@lubavitch.com 

 

Sderot Now, Tel Aviv Tomorrow

 

Herbert Zweibon

 

On February 17 a Kassam rocket exploded near a preschool in Sderot sending several people into shock. A week earlier two brothers, Rami and Osher Twito, were on an errand to buy after-shave lotion for their father's birthday when a Kassam struck, leaving both boys lying in a pool of blood and severing 8 year old Osher's leg. In one four day period over 150 rockets exploded in Sderot and its surroundings. Nor are the citizens of Israel being targeted "settlers"—they live within the 1949 Green Line, an area not the subject of negotiations, that not even the most appeasement minded Israeli would call "occupied territory."

 

Desperate, people from Sderot demonstrate in front of the Prime Minister's Office, pitch tents before the Supreme Court, block the main entrance to Jerusalem, close the main entry road to Tel Aviv, anything to draw attention to their plight.

 

As Sderot teeters close to collapse, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert worries not about the lives of his people but that he might be impelled to do something. "I am fending off heavy pressure to launch a major ground operation in Gaza" he told Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik. His government does virtually nothing to perform its most basic task: protecting the security of its citizens. Yet as legal scholar Abraham Bell points out, under international law the right to self-defense authorizes Israel to initiate military action in Gaza, regardless of whether or not it is seen as having independent sovereignty.

 

The Olmert government's behavior is yet worse: it holds the people of Sderot hostage. Over 20% of the population has left and fearful of projecting an image of defeat, the government seeks to impel the rest to remain. It refuses to help those with mortgages to leave (under current conditions no one will rent or buy) and thousands living in public housing are in the same predicament, refused alternative accommodation elsewhere. Israel Schwartz, deputy director-general of the Housing Ministry, is candid: "Assisting Sderot residents and the Gaza envelope pay the rent is akin to declaring the evacuation of settlements."

 

Not realizing what lay ahead, the residents of Sderot were passive when the Sharon government forfeited their security by destroying the Jewish communities of Gaza. At present the Olmert government is preparing a similar fate for the residents of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and the entire coastal plain. It is negotiating the transfer of Judea and Samaria and much of Jerusalem to Fatah. What happens when the terrorists control the high ground of Judea and Samaria? What happens when a missile brings down an airplane flying into or out of Ben Gurion airport? Can there be any doubt that every single airline, with the single possible exception of El Al, will cease flying to Israel? What then happens to Israel's vaunted economy? And what happens—remember that Israel is a mere nine miles wide at its waist—when missiles fall on Netanya or Nahariya or Tel Aviv? The exodus of Jews that Arafat foresaw will become a rapid reality, as those who can most easily leave—Israel's most productive citizens—will rush for the exits, even as many of those who can leave, now flee Sderot.

 

Noting that Sderot has put the government's ability to protect its citizens to the test, Eeki Elner, who directs the Center for Leadership in Sderot, writes: "The collapse of Sderot would mark the Zionist vision's collapse. It constitutes the collapse of what is left of the trust in our national leaders. It would be the collapse of our hope and faith in our right to cling to our land."

 

The government's failure to protect the most populated parts of Israel—indeed its willful turning of Israel's heartland into a target for terrorists—will surely spell the total collapse of the Zionist vision.

 

Will the Jews of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem wake up like the Jews of Sderot – when it is too late?

 

 

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Action Alert:End the Silence regarding our Rightful Entitlement to Eretz Yisroel

The relevant rabbis to contact r e s p e c t f u l l y  in this connection are:
* Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Rabbi Avi Shafran, and Rabbi Gertzulin - Public Affairs Department, Agudath Yisroel  212-797-9000 
* Rabbi Pesach Lerner at The Young Israel 212-929-1525
* Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb of the OU 212-563-4000
* Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Headquarters  718 774.4000 / fax 718 774.2718
Please forward this article to: plerner@youngisrael.org, dzwiebel@agudathisrael.org, shafran@agudathisrael.org, execthw@ou.org, hq@lubavitch.com 

Please cc or bcc all communication with the above parties to faigerayzel@aol.com  and let me know how they responded to your plea to end their Silence regarding the Roadmap  and the 2 State Solution.  Why haven't they spoken out against the United States of America and the gov't of Israel who are directly or indirectly sending arms and money to our enemy that wishes to annihilate us.  Please ask them why they are not proclaiming the Torah Roadmap and our Biblical Covenant.  Please don't accept the message "We stand with Israel against terror" unless they add "We stand with Israel against the policies of the United States of America and the government of Israel that is aiding and empowering terror". We stand with our G-d and our Holy Torah and the Torah Roadmap! Am Yisroel has exclusive entitlement to Eretz Yisroel.  Only Am Yisroel is obligated in the Commandments in the Land. This alone will bring blessings to all of mankind, peace and prosperity.  Thank you Israel Kaplan for forwarding.

 

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This makes sense to me.   Today at shul a renowned brilliant and leading rabbi talked about the meaning of Shushan Purim - including taking the offensive to rid the world and ourselves of Amalek.  I asked him about teshuva in light of the Jerusalem attacks and he said that never before  - and because of the yeshiva attack - has there been such awareness of the need to take the stand to protect ourselves against Amalek.  When I asked about teshuva and whether we as a people did not need to do more - regarding this and the mentality which has allowed Sderot to be bombed -  his response included that he is not political. 

 

I didn't know what to say because the position of leading rabbis has been to be not involved in politics. But something didn't sit right.  Is this politics of the kind that one can afford to not be involved in?  Is this not a politics which demands involvement for the sake of our survival?  It's not the same kind of "politics" that we can afford to stay away from, but I didn't have the words.  And this arcticle provides what I was missing.

 

 

 

 

RABBI SHMUEL M. BUTMAN
The Jewish Press, March 14, 2008

Many who protect the insane policies of Israel's leaders hear the refrain: "We don't want to get involved in politics." However, our focus is not on trivial politics, such as who'll enjoy the cozy perches of power or receive the most government largesse. Our concern is lives — the safety and survival of our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land, and, by extension, our entire people's continued safety and security, even their very existence, in every corner of the world.

Over 40 years ago, with incredible miracles, Israel won the Six-Day War and gained an enviable position of strength. For the first time since independence in 1948, the Jewish state attained a position where its existence was not directly threatened. In the South, it gained vast territorial depth — the entire Sinai — insulating its heartland from direct Egyptian attack. In the North, it gained the dominating Golan Heights, so that Syrian guns could no longer threaten the whole Galilee. In the East, it gained Judea and Samaria, including the land's strategic central highlands and a straight, far more defensible, border along the Jordan.

Despite symbolic protests from the Soviet block and others, the world then was ready to let Israel keep all its gains and to settle Jews in all liberated territories - just as, de facto, it had acquiesced to Israel keeping its gains after the 1949 armistice with the invading Arab nations. But, Israel's leaders (for some inexplicable reason perhaps having to do with the perverted Jewish psyche. jsk), felt uncomfortable with their conquests. Right after the 1967 war, they sent messages to Washington that they were ready to relinquish all those territories!

Ever since, the situation has deteriorated, stage by stage. When the Arabs saw how Israel was embarrassed by its gains, they instantly ratcheted up their demands. It encouraged them to provoke the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which threatened Israel's very survival.

When Jimmy Carter decided he had to redeem his presidency by making a peace deal in the Middle East, Israel's embarrassment with it's conquests enabled him to twist Menachem Begin's arm to forfeit all the Sinai's strategic territorial depth — together with its flourishing Jewish settlements, its oil wells developed by Jewish ingenuity, and its lucrative tourist resorts. Israel exchanged all this for a worthless slip of paper promising peace, the terms of which Egypt immediately violated and has done ever since.

The Camp David Accords provided the model for all later pressure. If the IDF could forcibly evict Jews from their homes in Yamit, why not pressure Israel to do the same elsewhere? It encouraged the PLO to make terrorist attacks on Israel's north, from Lebanon and later the Arabs within the Holy Land to start the first Intifada. It encouraged the rest of the world to press for more and more Israeli concessions.

In 1982, Israel had no choice but to enter Lebanon. It had the PLO by the throat, but was too embarrassed to finish off the job, caving in to let them to leave for Tunisia. Yet, instead of letting them stay there, Israel's leaders, with incredible naivety, decided in 1993 to welcome the PLO "thugocracy" into the very heart of the Holy Land, raising them to the status of a quasi-sovereign government, arming them — with the na?ve intention of stopping own hoodlums from terror acts against Jews and awarding them generous funding!

Naturally, the PLO utilized these unexpected gifts to do their thing — to escalate terror against Jews to unprecedented highs. But, Israel's leaders still didn't learn their lesson. The PLO has never kept any of its agreements, so Israel has had every right to cancel them. But, Israel has been too embarrassed to show it does not meekly turn the other cheek. Instead, ever since, all its leaders again and again have rewarded the PLO with more territory, more arms, more funds and more concessions.

Even when Sharon decided — without any external pressure — to award them the entire Gaza Strip, although it meant uprooting many thousands of peaceful Jewish citizens from their homes, he gained no points with the Arabs, or with the rest of the world. Instead the area turned into a brand-new rogue state, a front for Iran and Al Qaeda, that commits daily aggression against Israel's citizens and threatens the stability of the whole Middle East and, potentially, of the entire world.

Have Israel's leaders learned their lesson yet? Of course not! They're still running after the PLO to agree to negotiate with them, and after Syria to agree to take back the Golan. Even when PLO leader Abbas boasts how he started the original violence against Israel and that he still intends to use violence when it will work, even when his Fatah and Al-Aksa brigadiers continue to commit terrorism — which could not be without his knowledge. Nevertheless, Israel's na?ve leaders are begging him for the honor of accepting everything they have to offer him.

Protesting against this stupidity is called politics? Inspired by the repeated prophetic warnings of the Rebbe over 25 years, we're just pointing out what any sane, objective person realizes on his own; that these misguided policies place the life of every Jew in the Holy Land in dire peril. First, it was the Jews beyond the "Green Line" — in Judea and Samaria. Then it's the Jews of Sderot, and gradually more and more communities in that area. Now it's already reaching Ashkelon. How long will it take to reach Ashdod and then Tel Aviv?

Furthermore, it's not that this doesn't affect us in the Diaspora. Anti-Semitic incidents are increasing frighteningly across Europe and around the world, because all Jew-haters everywhere are encouraged by their comrades' successes in the Holy Land. Let's call a spade a spade: This isn't politics! Our very survival is at stake. Israel's leaders are playing games while every Jew's future is burning!

In the meantime, the leading Diaspora organizations are too frightened and deliberately uninformed to accept the truth. Instead they use "not their right to get involved" as a cop-out. G-d forbid, they will sooner than later experience the dire consequences of this cop-out just as generations have done before thus contributing directly in their own demise.

 

 

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