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Monday, April 07, 2008
Fwd: WHERE IS AMERICAN JEWRY by Elyakim Haetzni
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Thank you Israel Kaplan and Zvi Katzover, mayor of Kiryat Arba for forwarding Elyakim Haetzni's article Where is American Jewry? (see below)
So why is Agudath Yisroel of America, the Young Israel, the OU and Lubavitch Headquarters silent regarding our rights to the Land of Israel based on the Torah and the Prophets? Where is a massive calling campaign protesting the dismantling of roadblocks in Yesha or against the State of Palestine and protesting the impending incarceration of the Chalamish brothers who believe that they have a right to defend themselves against Arab Aggression especially when the gov't of Israel has abandoned their security. It has been told to me by insiders that the reason for the silence is NOT because these established organizations are in favor of a Palestinian State G-d forbid. It is simply because they are afraid of jeopardizing their not for profit tax exempt status if they were to speak out against American Foreign Policy. They are afraid their entire organizations would fall apart.
Now let's assume this is there is truth in this assumption. That explains the Silence on the part of the mainstream Jewish Organizations.
So where do we go from here?
This is my advice. Why not say that we will take the mantra of the Breslev Chasidim and rely on Rak Hakadosh Baruch Hu, only on the Holy One Blessed be He. G-d is forcing us to choose our loyalties. Do we put our faith first and foremost on America or on Hakadosh Baruch Hu and His Holy Torah? We know that choosing G-d's Torah will bring blessings to all of mankind especially to America which has been a Medina Shel Chesed, a State built on charity, One Nation under G-d.... True we have much to be grateful to America. Yet, what is good for Israel is good for the world including America.
Let us speak the truth irregardless of the possible political ramifications and risk loss of funding from Federal sources for our schools, our school books, libraries, school bus transportation, special ed services, insurance for infertility treatments, etc. running into the millions of dollars, and even possibly risk losing our jobs and our political clout.
This is the message of Shemittah. We rely totally on Hakadosh Baruch Hu and the graciousness of our fellow brothers and sisters and we are promised much blessings. We will not starve.
The alternative approach, which is to continue to remain silent brings with it the risk of G-ds wrath which can be in the form of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of our enemies, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis etc.
At the very least, if these organization are afraid to take this courageous step to speak out for our ancient homeland, let the public know and understand the reason of their silence. Let us clear up any misunderstanding that the reason of the Silence regarding a Palestinian State is not because the Arabs have a legitimate claim to the Land of Israel. The silence is simply because the mainstream Jewish organization are afraid to lose their tax exempt status by speaking contrary to American Foreign Policy and are therefore Silent.
Please call and discuss the points of this article "Where is American Jewry?" with your Rabbanim and ask them to direct their concerns regarding the deafening Silence of American Jewry to
Thank you Israel Kaplan and Zvi Katzover, mayor of Kiryat Arba for forwarding Elyakim Haetzni's article Where is American Jewry? (see below)
So why is Agudath Yisroel of America, the Young Israel, the OU and Lubavitch Headquarters silent regarding our rights to the Land of Israel based on the Torah and the Prophets? Where is a massive calling campaign protesting the dismantling of roadblocks in Yesha or against the State of Palestine and protesting the impending incarceration of the Chalamish brothers who believe that they have a right to defend themselves against Arab Aggression especially when the gov't of Israel has abandoned their security. It has been told to me by insiders that the reason for the silence is NOT because these established organizations are in favor of a Palestinian State G-d forbid. It is simply because they are afraid of jeopardizing their not for profit tax exempt status if they were to speak out against American Foreign Policy. They are afraid their entire organizations would fall apart.
Now let's assume this is there is truth in this assumption. That explains the Silence on the part of the mainstream Jewish Organizations.
So where do we go from here?
This is my advice. Why not say that we will take the mantra of the Breslev Chasidim and rely on Rak Hakadosh Baruch Hu, only on the Holy One Blessed be He. G-d is forcing us to choose our loyalties. Do we put our faith first and foremost on America or on Hakadosh Baruch Hu and His Holy Torah? We know that choosing G-d's Torah will bring blessings to all of mankind especially to America which has been a Medina Shel Chesed, a State built on charity, One Nation under G-d.... True we have much to be grateful to America. Yet, what is good for Israel is good for the world including America.
Let us speak the truth irregardless of the possible political ramifications and risk loss of funding from Federal sources for our schools, our school books, libraries, school bus transportation, special ed services, insurance for infertility treatments, etc. running into the millions of dollars, and even possibly risk losing our jobs and our political clout.
This is the message of Shemittah. We rely totally on Hakadosh Baruch Hu and the graciousness of our fellow brothers and sisters and we are promised much blessings. We will not starve.
The alternative approach, which is to continue to remain silent brings with it the risk of G-ds wrath which can be in the form of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of our enemies, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis etc.
At the very least, if these organization are afraid to take this courageous step to speak out for our ancient homeland, let the public know and understand the reason of their silence. Let us clear up any misunderstanding that the reason of the Silence regarding a Palestinian State is not because the Arabs have a legitimate claim to the Land of Israel. The silence is simply because the mainstream Jewish organization are afraid to lose their tax exempt status by speaking contrary to American Foreign Policy and are therefore Silent.
Please call and discuss the points of this article "Where is American Jewry?" with your Rabbanim and ask them to direct their concerns regarding the deafening Silence of American Jewry to
Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky, Rosh Yeshiva at the Yeshiva of Philadelphia and spiritual mentor of the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation 1-215-477-1000
Rav Perlow, the Noveminsker Rav, Rosh Agudath Yisroel of America.
* 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
plerner@youngisrael.org, dzwiebel@agudathisrael.org, shafran@agudathisrael.org, execthw@ou.org, hq@lubavitch.com
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From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Subject: WHERE IS AMERICAN JEWRY
To: IZZY <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
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From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Subject: WHERE IS AMERICAN JEWRY
To: IZZY <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
HOW DO YOU FIND THIS ARTICLE ?TOO DISRESPECTFULUNGRATEFUL TO THE DIASPORADISRESPECTFUL TO RABBIS IN NORTH AMERICAI REMEBER WITH GREAT CLARITY ARTICLES SIMILAR TO THIS THAT WERE WRITTEN MONTH AND WEEKS PRIOR TO THE EXPULSION OF JEWS FROM GAZA. I REMEMBER LONG AFTER IT WAS SHOWN THAT THE JEWS OF GUSH KATIF IN FACT WERE NOT GIVEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INREPERATIONS THAT MOST WOULD NOT DEAL WITH THE TRAGEDY. AND NOW AS THE DAILY TORTURE OF SDEROT CONTINUES AND AS A RESULT OF THE REMOVAL OF JEWS FROM GAZA THAT THE JEWS OF AMERICA CANNOT BE RELIED UPON TO SAVE ERETZ YISRAEL .Where Is American Jewry?
By: Elyakim Haetzni
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Complaints we have in Israel against American Jews are not directed at the various George Soroses or Noam Chomskys, or at those Jews uninterested in the fate of the Jews in the Jewish state. We address our cries to those for whom Eretz Yisrael still holds a place in their hearts – and to their organizations and institutions. We ask them the following: Where are you in our hour of need? Don't you know that if we sink, the ground beneath your own feet will quake? Have you not yet learned that the very fact that the Jews have their own country has buttressed your status in the Diaspora?Until this very day you regret your silence during the Holocaust, which derived from your great admiration for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and from the fear of being accused of dual loyalties. Today when you weigh those fears against the annihilation of the millions, you see matters in their proper proportions. Yet today your conscience is called upon once more to make a similar decision – albeit one much simpler, for today's America is not like the anti-Semitic America of that time.Don't you understand the danger looming over Israel? The entire world, led by the United States, is hunting Israel down to wrest from it Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, the Land of the Bible – its entire raison d'etre as a Jewish state.Don't you see how the entire Negev and the country's south are being shelled or are under threat of shelling from rockets and missiles as a result of the Gaza withdrawal, the destruction of dozens of settlements and the transformation of 10,000 Jews to refugee status? Did their outcry touch your heart? Do you hear today's cries coming from Sderot and Ashkelon?Don't you know that while the rockets are falling in the south, Syria and Hizbullah in Lebanon are preparing an attack from the north, and that at this moment tens of thousands of their missiles are aimed at the heart of our country?Take note that only the center of the country still enjoys calm. The only reason for that is that the army controls Judea and Samaria, and that is because there are hundreds of Jewish towns there ("the settlements," in the language of our enemies). And now, the United States is pressuring your Jewish brethren in Israel to dispense with even that defense. President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have sworn to establish a Palestinian terror state right next to Tel Aviv, Netanya, Hadera and Haifa before year's end – and toward that end, expel 300,000 of our Jewish brothers and sisters.And faced with all this, you remain silent? Worse, most of your organizations support this anti-Jewish, pro-Arab policy! Today, missiles are flying from the ruins of Gush Katif and landing in the Negev. On the day that missiles are being launched from the ruins of the Jewish towns in Samaria, please don't say, "We didn't see. We didn't hear. We didn't know."You knew very well! The Annapolis Conference, in which a blind, stumbling, defeatist Israeli government open to American pressure knowingly consented to commit national suicide, occurred in your country. Rice, whose total identification with Palestinian interests is patently obvious, is applauded by your audiences. And you call President Bush, the man with the "vision" of a Palestinian state that will endanger every city and village in Israel, "the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House." You say this when in reality (and history will be the judge) he is the first president openly and explicitly raising the demand and exerting heavy pressure to establish in our midst a devil, a dragon, a dybbuk – in the form of an Islamic, Arabic, radical terrorist state called by the false name of "Palestine." That state would transform every day in the life of the Jewish state to Hell. And all this for the sake of a fictitious people and a fictitious land that never existed throughout history.Other voices in the Republican camp, namely Vice President Dick Cheney, senators and congressmen, have not enjoyed support from most of American Jewry, and have subsequently become silent. Quite the opposite, countless Jewish organizations have been supporting the Palestinian agenda.Many Jews in America have good reason to be embarrassed that the only organized American community supporting the rights of the Jewish people to its historic homeland in Judea and Samaria and its eternal capital, Jerusalem, consists of non-Jews. They are the Evangelical Christians. For Jews faithful to their patrimony, some Christian churches are more open today than many Jewish temples. Their organizations and media are more open to nationalistic Jews than are the mainstream Jewish establishment. They visit Hebron, Shiloh and Beit El – places that many Jewish leaders stay away from.Everyone talks about the political power of American Jewry, but from here we see only the weakness and lockstep obedience to every presiding administration. We ask ourselves, "Why do Christian pastors have no inhibitions about criticizing their president regarding his policy toward Israel, while Jewish rabbis wouldn't dare?"Today, money is not the critical factor. It is political pressure capable of meeting the enormous Arab pressure. Regarding your historic omission during the Holocaust, when you failed to exercise your power as Queen Esther did in her time (ignoring the risk to her own life), you have tried to atone with money. Yet all the money in the world cannot bring back to life a single Jewish child. Even today, it is not money that can save us, but rather the political power that you are afraid to exercise. It looks like today, when the American Jewish community is flourishing as never before and enjoying the height of acceptance by the public at large, you do not feel secure enough; hence you are doing the only safe thing – swimming with the flow and cheering on the regime, even at the expense of your besieged brethren in the Holy Land.I conclude with two requests: First, that those Jews who support the Palestinian line should at least not emphasize their Jewishness, and add the weight of their "Jewish witnessing" to the brunt of pressure being applied on us. Second, that the not insignificant number of Jews who, like Mordechai in the Scroll of Esther, do not bow down before the president of the United States when he sets out to replace the vision of the prophets with the "vision" of Palestine, should organize themselves and establish an organization paralleling the Jewish protest organizations that in Israel face off with the government and block with their bodies the slippery slide down the Palestinian slope.Today, like the air we breathe, we need an organized Jewish political force in the United States that, together with our non-Jewish friends in America and the Jewish nationalist camp in Israel, can breach the siege that is closing us off.Attorney Elyakim Haetzni, among Hebron's original settlers, is a prominent publicist for Eretz Yisrael causes.Send comments to Zvi Katzover, mayor of Kiryat Arba, at Rivka@kiryat4.org.il.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
ACTION ALERT: Protest Condeleeza Rice's American Foreign Policy
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Protest Condeleeza Rice's granting freedom of movement to terrorists! Only Am Yisroel in entitled to the Land of Israel! The Palestinians are terrorist trespassers and their intention to destroy the entire Israel is not even a secret. Go to Palestinian Media Watch, Itamar Marcus for exact details. http://pmw.org.il/Latest%20bulletins%20new.htm
Call, write the President of the United States, Your Congressmen, Your Senators, Your Assemblymen and ask Condeleeza Rice to Bug off.
Call established Major Jewish Organizations such as Agudath Yisroel of America, OU, Young Israel and/or Chabad Headquarters, and ask them to use their Washington DC Liason and connections to protest Condeleeza Rice's efforts on behalf of the terrorists. How can we be SILENT while the lives of our brethren are hefker. Are we waiting for another Mercaz Harav massacre?
The relevant rabbis to contact r e s p e c t f u l l y in this connection are:
Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky at the Yeshiva of Philadelphia 1-215-477-1000
and ask him to encourage the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation to mobilize the schools and shuls to protest the removal of the Roadblocks. This has put the lives of our brethren in Yesha in harms way.
Rav Perlow, Rosh Agudath Yisroel, leave messages at the Agudath Yisroel office.
* 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
AT AN EMERGENCY MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE TORONTO ZIONIST COUNCIL OFFICES TODAY (SUNDAY MARCH 30th), WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN VIA LONG DISTANCE FROM ISRAEL TO MK ARIEH ELDAD. WITH HIS LIMITED INSIDER INFORMATION (WHICH IS MORE THAN OURS) ATTEMPTED TO SHARE WITH OUR GROUP EXACTLY HOW FAR THE CURRENT ISRAELI GOVT. IS GOING TO ENSURE THAT JERUSALEM IS/WILL BE DIVIDED. IN HIS OPINION IT IS THE ISRAELI LEFT WHICH IS HELL-BENT ON BACKING THE DISMANTLEMENT OF JERUSALEM AND THAT THE U.S. IS BEING ASKED TO PUSHED TO SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED ISRAELI GOVT. THE MAJORITY OF JEWS WORLD WIDE NOW HAVE A CHOICE. TO DO WHATEVER IS IN THEIR POWER TO STOP OR AT LEAST ATTEMPT AT STOPPING THIS FROM HAPPENING OR PAY A VERY HEAVY PRICE FOR THEIR SILENCE. IF YOU CHOOSE THE GODLY WAY THEN PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A FOLLOW UP MEETING NEXT SUNDAY AT A TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED.
IN CANADA CONTACT
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WAITING FOR THE NEXT MAJOR TERROR ATTACK, THANKS TO RICE: THE STAGE IS SET: HEAVILY ARMED AND TRAINED TERRORISTS ON THE LOOSE, WHILE ROAD BLOCKS ARE REMOVED
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From: Israel Kaplan <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
To: IZZY <israelkaplan@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: WAITING FOR THE NEXT MAJOR TERROR ATTACK, THANKS TO RICE: THE STAGE IS SET: HEAVILY ARMED AND TRAINED TERRORISTS ON THE LOOSE, WHILE ROAD BLOCKS ARE REMOVED.
We know from bitter experience that we can expect the first murders within hours of taking down the roadblocks. What those screaming "Apartheid" at Israel, including Condoleezza Rice, do not know or do not admit or do not care about, is that before Oslo, when there were no territories controlled by "peace partners" like the "moderate" Fatah-dominated PLO, and the only force in Judea, Samaria and Gaza was the Israeli military, there were no roadblocks and no restrictions on "civilian" traffic and no roads where Arabs were not permitted to travel. If they truly want to improve the conditions of life of the "innocent Palestinian civilians" they should favor the return of exclusive Israeli rule. The "occupation" was the best government they have ever had.
50 Roadblocks, Better Security
23 Adar Bet 5768, 30 March 08 08:17by
(IsraelNN.com) Israel will give up 50 roadblocks and the Palestinian Authority promises better security in return, according to US officials traveling with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The deal was revealed in a statement released after a trilateral meeting between Rice, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Sunday in Jerusalem.
"This is a program that will improve the daily lives of Palestinians and help make Israel secure," said the statement, which did not specify which roadblocks would be removed. The PA will increase security forces in Jenin; Barak already said last week he agreed to the deployment of 600 Jordanian-trained officers there.
PA's Only Commitment is to 'Work to Prevent Terror'
23 Adar Bet 5768, 30 March 08 08:20by
(IsraelNN.com) The agreements reached in talks between U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and PA "Prime Minister" Salam Fayyad include a series of concessions by Israel and only one commitment by the PA. "For its part, the Palestinian Authority will deploy security forces to provide law and order, and work to prevent terror," the statement issued by the American delegation said.
The statement went on to say that "both sides are committed to success of the Bethlehem investment conference and special arrangements will be made so that international visitors may attend." In addition, "the parties have completed connection of 27 Palestinian villages in [Judea and Samaria] to the Israeli power grid and, in an unprecedented action, have connected Jericho to the Jordan power grid."
Among other gestures, Israel "offered to expand significantly opportunities for Palestinian workers and businessmen to travel to Israel from [Judea and Samaria."
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