5768.12.16 Israel the Land of My Possession. Rabbi Hollander. The Hareidi Rabbanim have their hands tied. The public chooses their Rav Rabbi Hollanders advice to Moshe Feiglin. The Rabbanim did make a difference in 1943

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16 Elul 5768
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

1. Rabbi Hollander of the Sanhedrin speaks out for Yesha and against Silence.  Hareidi Rabbanim have their hands tied!

2. Rabbi Hollander advice to Moshe Feiglin

3, The Day the Rabbis Marched on Washington  in 1943 did make a difference.  This was also reported last week in Hamodia.

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1. Rabbi Hollander of the Sanhedrin speaks out for Yesha and against Silence!

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Rabbi Hollander writes:

In the laws of Sanhedrin it states that an very old man may not sit on the Sanhedrin [Sanhedrin 36b; Rambam Sanhedrin 2,3]. today the heads of the Hareidi world are very old men, in their 90's: Rav Eliashiv and Rav Steinman are in their 90's. They also know that the Great Rabbis in the not so distant past made grave mistakes in the first decades of the 20th century in opposing Aliya. Thus it is clear to them that being a great Torah Scholar is no guarantee that they have better political advice than a Torah ignoramus [Am Haaretz] like Zeev Jabotinsky.

Everyone is aware that 2000 years ago Rabbi Akiva also made political decisions and brought a catastrophe on Jews all over, especially in Eretz Israel.  

Since the Gdolim know this, they don't want to recommend political action, which may be misunderstood to be a Torah based decision = Halacha. They know that they do not have the knowledge to make political opinions into Halacha.

No Hareidi Rabbi dare make a statement not endorsed by Rav Eliashiv and/or Rav Steinman. The Hareidi Rabbanim therefor have their hand tied. 

It my my feeling that they would be very happy if the right decisions would be taken by others. The "right decisions" as taken by others would not be perceived as being "Torah Based" decisions = Halacha.

 

Rabbi Steinsaltz also does not believe he can tell the government what to do. He says he does not have the information the government has, so the decisions he can take are not as valid as those taken by the government.

 

It is the non-Hareidi people who must lead again. In Pirkei Avoth [Ch 1, M 6&15], both Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Perahya and Rabban Gamliel say "Asei Lecha Rav": it is the public who make the Rav. It is the obligation of the public and of every individual.

 

Besides Rabbi Steinsaltz, in the Sanhedrin here there is practically unanimity on political issues, and we have made several political statements in defence of EY.

 

Shalom for now,

2. Rabbi Hollander advice to Moshe Feiglin

Rabbi Hollander writes:

Moshe Feiglin is in the US. He has power, and he has to be encouraged to use it.
Now the analysis:
Netanyahu wants to "strengthen" the Likud by appealing to the "center". He is trying to buy back "leaders" who left the Likud for Kadima, and even Dan Meridor. He will have to promise them an important position, and he has not yet figured out how he can get carry this with his party. The renegades are highly unpopular. however, this is his purpose.
As part of this, he belittles Feiglin. Like last elections, he would like Feiglin off his slate. Certainly not in a position to make trouble. Netanyahu wants to be seen as a "Moderate" leader. That policy will only lead to catastrophe.

 

Translated to elementary terms, Netanyahu has to be forced to be what we would like him to be: a leader of the pro-jewish forces, not a waffler. He has to say NO!! to Condi. If he does, I believe he will get the blessing of the current President of the US.
Netanyahu has to be forced.

Moshe Feiglin can do it, if he wants to - in two different ways, in both Feiglin is a winner:
Feiglin has to announce that he will NOT take a back seat. He must state that he, Feiglin, demands an influential seat on the Government - in the Cabinet - and at least one other seat for another member of Manhigut Yehudit. He should say that if this is not promised publicly, contractually, he will take his people out of the Likud and set up the NEW HERUTH party: all the people true to the values of Menahem Begin: Eretz Yisrael for Am Yisrael, Jewish education and Jewish values. He, Feiglin will unite all the "right wing" splinter parties. He will make a coalition woth the Haredim, and may come out stronger than what is left otf the Likud.
This threat has to be real, and Feiglin has to make it into a real threat: he must begin negotiations with all these splinter parties - OPENLY. He must become the leader of all those of the Likud who do not want Meridor and his ilk back in the Likud. He must accuse Netanyahu of being weak - first towards the renegades, and this softness indicates that he is likely to be weak in his negotiations as PM with the US, with the "Quartet", with the Arabs. Feiglin should say that Netanyahu needs Feiglin at his right hand - Otherwise Netanyahu is weak. Like Netanyahu signed the Wye accords, so he is likely to sign any "agreement" of Olmert with the Palestinians. Feiglin must make it clear that if he is not in a policy determining position from within the Likud - he will be in such a position as a result of leaving the Likud and organizing the disorganized pro-Jewish spliter parties.
Support should be offered with this advice - and dependent on Feiglin's doing this. A weak Feiglin is no asset.

If you understand this and agree - tell it to Feiglin.

3, The Day the Rabbis Marched on Washington  in 1943 did make a difference.  This was also reported last week in Hamodia.

The Day the Rabbis Marched on Washington

THE DAY THE RABBIS MARCHED ON WASHINGTON

"Clear the way for those rabbis!" It was probably the first time the station master at Washington, D.C.'s Union train station had shouted those words. But then, the crowd before him was unlike any that had ever been seen in the nation's capital. Four hundred rabbis converged on Washington just before Yom Kippur in 1943, in a stirring display of unity to rescue European Jewry from Nazi extermination.

The march was the brainchild of 33-year-old Hillel Kook, a Jerusalem-born nephew of Abraham Isaac Kook, former chief rabbi of Palestine. Kook arrived in the United States in 1940 brimming with ideas on how to aid the Jews trapped in Hitler's Europe. His first step was to change his name to Peter Bergson. Purchasing full-page advertisements in major U.S. newspapers calling for the creation of a Jewish army, criticizing British limits on Jewish immigration to Palestine and pleading for Allied action to rescue Jews from Hitler. It was quintessential American political activism: utilizing the mass media to arouse the public's interest and thereby influence the Roosevelt administration to act.

One of Bergson's most spectacular initiatives was the march of the rabbis. Although the scion of a prominent rabbinical family ? Palestine's Chief Rabbi, Abraham Isaac Kook, was his uncle ? Bergson himself was not observant, nor were most of the activists in his group. They understood, however, the visual impact of hundreds of Orthodox rabbis, with their beards, black frock coats and black hats converging on the U.S. Capitol.

Gaining access to America?s Orthodox rabbinical leadership was no simple task. The elders of the Orthodox community in America were mostly European-born scholars who still retained their European ways. Many spoke little or no English, were generally unfamiliar with the cultural and political ways of the new world and had limited contact with non-Orthodox segments of the Jewish community. Bergson and his aides Samuel Merlin and Eri Jabotinsky used their fluent Yiddish and a good dose of name-dropping --that is, the names of Bergson's prestigious relatives-- to gain entree to the leadership circles of the Orthodox rabbinate. Their proposal for a march on Washington found a surprisingly wide range of support from such disparate and sometimes conflicting groups as the largely-chasidic Union of Grand Rabbis to the misnagdim of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis.

So it was that on October 6, 1943, two days before Yom Kippur, more than 400 Orthodox rabbis, organized by the secular Bergson group and accompanied by marshals from another secular Jewish organization, the Jewish War Veterans of America, marched solemnly from Union Station to the Capitol building to plead for U.S. government action on behalf of the Jews being murdered by Hitler. As passersby gawked and newspapermen snapped photos, the rabbis recited prayers of mourning for the dead, sang the traditional prayer for the nation's leaders to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner and read aloud a petition urging the creation of a special governmental agency to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.

The delegation then marched to the gates of the White House. On the advice of his aides, President Roosevelt avoided the rabbis by leaving the White House through a rear exit to attend an Army ceremony, and from there Roosevelt left for a long weekend in the country. Disappointed by FDR's failure to meet with them, the rabbis refused to read their petition aloud. The perceived snub of the rabbis added a dramatic flair to press coverage of the event, transforming it from an exotic protest rally into a full-fledged clash between the Orthodox community and the administration over America's policy toward Hitler's victims.

The march helped set in motion a series of events that would change American policy. Capitalizing on the publicity from the rally, Bergson's friends in Congress introduced a formal resolution asking the president to create an agency to rescue the Jews. The Senate hearings on the resolution then ignited a new controversy when State Department official Breckinridge Long presented wildly inflated statistics regarding European Jewish immigration to the United States that were demonstrated by contrary testimony to be false. Galvanized by the escalating scandal, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and his aides drew up a stinging report to the President about the State Department's stonewalling on rescue possibilities. Within days, FDR announced the establishment of the War Refugee Board, which during the final year of the Holocaust was responsible for rescuing tens of thousands of Jews from Hitler. Among other things, the Board sponsored the heroic rescue efforts of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.

Historians have noted the unfortunate religious and political conflicts within American Jewry that delayed a unified response to news of the Nazi atrocities. To the contrary, the collaboration between non-religious rescue activists and Orthodox rabbis in 1943, at least, offers a graphic example of how cooperation between different segments of the Jewish community helped advance a common, life-saving goal.

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5768.11.15 Israel the Land of My Posession. - Terror attacks on Yesha. IDF does nothing. Settlers demonized. -Women in Green, Itamar, Matot Arim - Silence of Gedoilim - Nationwide Student protest - Manhigut Meleveh Malka in Queens - Mental Preparatio

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15 Elul 5768

Monday September 15, 2008

 

1. Letter from Nadia Matar and Anita Finkelstein of Women in Green regarding terrorist infiltration to the Yishuv Yitzhar in the Shomron.  The IDF does nothing to protect its citizens form terror attacks.

 

2. Letter from Moshe Goldsmith from Itamar of the Shomron tells of terrible prejudice against the settlers who retaliate against the terrorist that are threatening their lives when the IDF turns a blind eye and  fail to go after the terrorists themselves.  Rabbi/Mayor Moshe Goldsmith makes the point that many of the residents of the Yishuvim serve in the elite units of the IDF.

 

3. Matot Arim - Settlers are being demonized with excessive "law enforcement" while there is No law enforcement against terrorists thereby encouraging more terror attacks.  Please support the efforts of Matot Arim who wish to distribute their reports throughout big cities in Israel.

 

4. More on Discussions with Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky and the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation.  The Silence of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah  is even a mystery to the Gedoilim themselves except that they can not bring themselves to make an individual public statement.  Are they really following the dictates of Rav Eliashiv who told Rabbi Morgetstern for everyone to speak out against concessions with one's full capacity?  Reminiscent chas vechalila of the weakness of the Rabbanim to challenge the establishment and their silence of pre Nazi Germany.

 

5. Meeting with Moshe Feiglin in Dougies standing room only in Kew Garden Hills. Queens. Fellow activists and supporters suggest that Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit focus their energies  to  promote and coordinate a unified protest against a  Palestinian State  and the threat to Yesha  The concern is that things are moving too fast with Condeleeza Rice, faster then Manhigut's campaign to take over Likud which is moving at a respectable pace but  that there might be no more Israel left to lead if a Palestinian State is actualized  A suggestion was to mobilize the Yesha Mayors and Rabbanim to unite with a plea to the major religious Jewish organization such as Agudath Yisroel of America, the OU, the Young Israel and Chabad International asking them why they are Silent when there is talk of  the abandonment of Yesha. " If we won't hang together then we will all hang separately."

6. NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT STRIKE
In response to the silence of the Jewish leadership on the planned expulsion of 300,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria, the division of Jerusalem and the abandonment of the holy Temple Mount, Jewish students across North America are saying,
Stand Up to Prevent… 3 No's!: No Expelling Jews! No Dividing Land! No Abandoning Har HaBayit!

 

7. Women in Green tour the Gush Katif Museum

 

8. Recha Sternbuch in 1942. Rabbis of Vaad Hatzalah and Agudahth Israel remained too weak to challenge Stepe  S. Wise...

9. Mental Preparation of the IDF for the Gush Katif Disengagement and ITS Aftermath in the IDF

 

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1. Letter from Nadia Matar and Anita Finkelstein of Women in Green regarding terrorist infiltration to the Yishuv Yitzhar in the Shomron.  The IDF does nothing to protect its citizens form terror attacks.

 

Dear Friends,

1) As usual when a dog bites a man it is no news. But when a man bites a dog...it makes the headlines.
And when that man is a Jew...oy vey...the media immediately attacks him!

Yesterday, on Shabbat, an Arab terrorist entered the Shalhevet-Ya neighborhood of Yitzhar Samaria. First he went to the Ben Shlomo house and burnt it down. Luckily the family was away for Shabbat but their entire house was destroyed, furniture, books, clothes, albums etc...burnt to ashes.
(see pictures in link below). Hardly any mention was made of that arson in the national news. But that is not the end of the story...

After burning down the house, the Arab terrorist continued on his one-man pogrom and tried to enter the orphan's home. Luckily the wife woke up and managed to scare him away. The Arab fled, but on his way he saw a 9 year old Jewish boy who had seen the fire and was on his way to call for help. The Arab stabbed the boy and threw him four meters down the wadi. After that he fled back to his Arab village. That stabbing attack also hardly made the news.

What DID make the news was the healthy reaction by the Yitzhar Jews. Upon seeing that the security forces once again were not doing anything serious to catch the Arab terrorist and his collaborators, tens of  Yizthar Jews walked to the Arab village and caused some good damage against property in the village.

This was not the first time that Arabs attacked Jews from Yitzhar. Over the past weeks Arabs have destroyed Jewish fields, putting fire to them and causing lots of damage. The Israeli security forces have done nothing to stop the Arabs. After a Jewish boy was stabbed (luckily the Arab did not manage to murder the boy as was his obvious intention), the Yitzhar Jews rightfully declared: enough is enough! Jewish blood is not cheap or should not be cheap. There must be a price for hurting Jews. Anyone who hurts Jews must pay.

Women in Green applaud and strengthen our brothers in Yitzhar who reinstalled Jewish pride in all of our hearts. At a time when our political and security leadership continues its talks with the Arab enemy and thus encourages Arab terror against Jews it is good to know that there are proud Jews who know how to defend our Land and our People.

For the story and pictures of the burnt house: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127608


Arutz 7 has put up an additional news story with an important short movie as to what happened in Yitzhar.
Please click on: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127610

In addition, after seeing the witch hunt by the media and the Israeli government against Yitzhar, Women in Green has put up a petition to strengthen our brothers in Yitzhar.

Please add your name to that petition. Let's show the world that we stand by our brave brothers in Yitzhar. Pass this email on to lists of friends and relatives in Israel and abroad.

http://yishuvnow.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=3

Women in Green thanks Dan Leubitz for setting up the petition so quickly.

Nadia Matar - Anita Finkelstein
Women in Green

 2. Letter from Moshe Goldsmith from Itamar of the Shomron tells of terrible prejudice against the settlers who retaliate against the terrorist that are threatening their lives when the IDF turns a blind eye and  fail to go after the terrorists themselves.  Rabbi/Mayor Goldsmith makes the point that many of the residents of the Yishuvim serve in the elite units of the IDF.

 

Dearest Friends and family how are you all? Leah and I are still getting settled in after our return from the States – there is just so much to take care of and the days are just too short! Here is an Itamar update that I feel I must get out to you all as soon as possible. This past Shabbat a terrorist infiltrated the near by settlement of Yitzhar and stabbed a nine year old boy after setting fire to a house in the community. Thank G-D the boy survived the attack having been stabbed numerous times in his back. The boy happens to be the son of one of my friends and fellow Rabbis that teach in the Itamar Yeshiva high school – Chitzim. Today some Arabs set fire to the Itamar forest intending to burn down some of our houses that border the forest area. What is absolutely ridiculous is that the Israeli news reported that it was Itamar that set fire to the forest in order to burn down olive trees and prevent the Arabs from yielding their crop. The army verified our account of the story. This of course did not stop the media from bad mouthing us as usual. (By the way this year alone tens of times the neighboring Arabs have fire bombed our fields and caused fires in our community's surroundings.) This terrible prejudice against the settlers unfortunately is too commonplace here. Olmert together with other government officials and the media are always so quick to put the blame on the settlers in every opportunity. I didn't hear a condemnation of the attempted murder of the boy and the burning down of someone's house that he just finished building. Instead they focused on the fact the house was built illegally and the retaliation by the settlers of Yitzhar. What is illegal about building on our precious homeland?  Let the truth be heard! The people of Itamar and the other communities in Shomron and Yehudah are wonderful. Their whole lives are devoted in building the land of Israel and holding on to it for all of Am Yisrael. The soldiers that live on Itamar and the surrounding areas serve in the most elite units in the Israeli army. No matter how much our youth are abused by the media and left wing – their spirit is always high and they choose to serve in the army in the most elite units endangering themselves! They have one goal in mind and that is to help Am Yisrael survive. They deserve a Yashar Koach. I will give you one small example my son , who serves in a very elite unit, did not stop his training  although he broke his finger and was told to rest up for a couple of weeks. Where is justice? Of course, the answer is with special friends like you all are, that love Israel with all your hearts and souls, I have no doubt that we will see very great things happening in Israel soon!

 

Lehitraot,

 

Moshe Goldsmith

3. Matot Arim - Settlers are being demonized with excessive "law enforcement" while there is No law enforcement against terrorists thereby encouraging more terror attacks.  Please support the efforts of Matot Arim who wish to distribute their reports throughout big cities in Israel.

 

HOW LEFT-WING GROUPS ARE KEEPING EVERYONE'S MINDS OFF TERRORISTS

- BY DEMONIZING ISRAELIS

 

 

Many left-wing groups are working to perpetuate a modern blood libel according to which  Israel does not enforce the law on SETTLERS. It is important to keep the record straight: in fact Israel does enforce the law against settlers, and does NOT enforce the law against TERRORISTS.

 

This came up this past weekend. Settlers were accused by left-wing Knesset members and others of being extreme because they spray-painted and shot in the air. But this was responsive to a serious terror attack in Yitzhar which was not dealt with by Israeli security authorities. In this attack, a young family's house was burned down (fortunately, the family, which has several small children, was at Grandma's house in Rehovot for the weekend). Also, a 10 year old was thrown off a porch 5 meters high after first being stabbed. Miraculously the child landed in a bush - the only bush in the area - and he is now recovering in hospital. Picture:  http://yeshanews.com/?id=61077 

 

Here are the facts about law enforcement in Israel:

a. Settlers are constantly indicted for the most minute trivia, such as holding placards outside of an official's home (among the dozens arrested for this very offense, a couple of weeks ago, were an 85 year old man and a baby in a stroller).

 

b. In contrast, Israeli Parliament Member Effie Eitam found out last year that the Israel Defence Forces have NO DATA about how many perpetrators of fatal terror attacks have actually been caught over the past decade, as opposed to how many still walk the streets. The Ministry of Defense does not want to find out: their official letter to Eitam asked this Knesset Member, himself a retired army officer, to withdraw the parliamentary inquiry so they would not need to bother to find out the answer.

 

c. Parliament Member Benny Alon found out last year that about 20 thousand separate terror attacks have been perpetrated against Israelis by Palestinians in a period of 5 years. Again, the Israel Defense Forces had not the faintest idea of how many of these perpetrators had been brought to justice and did not make any commitments to even try and find out.  

 

d. The same Parliament Member, Benny Alon, filed a parliamentary inquiry asking when would the Israeli government finally get around to dealing with Palestinian "president" Abbas's pronouncement, last year, according to which "all our guns, all our guns, all our guns" would be trained against Israel. The rules of Israel's parliament were summarily broken in order to deal with this challenging question: no governmental response was received by Mr. Alon.

 

e. Just a few weeks ago, an official speaking for "moderate" Salaam Fayad's office threatened the lives of settlers. His threat was reported in the Jerusalem Post, but no law enforcement officer took any action at all.

 

f. A few years ago, columnist Sara Hoenig of the Jerusalem Post found out that the Hamas terror group held a  public, festive gathering in ...the yard of an Israeli maximum security prison, of all places. Since that time, Knesset Member Eli Gabai has been trying to get a response on what was the name of the prison warden who allowed this to happen. No answers are forthcoming so far.

 

g. Please help the Israeli people protect themselves in this absurd situation by supporting private efforts. For example, Mattot Arim hopes to soon distribute information to the inhabitants of Israel's big cities explaining to them exactly what will happen to them if a Palestinian state ever comes into existence (answer: constant rockets everywhere -- like in Sderot). To do this we urgently need volunteer, Hebrew speaking GRAPHIC ARTISTS (please contact mattot.arim@gmail.com  and mark your email URGENT). We also need FINANCIAL GIFTS. As little as 200 NIS allows us to warn one thousand Israeli families. Ideally, we would like to  warn whole citiesful of Israelis, and that translates into huge printing and distribution costs. If you can help, write out your check to the Matteh leMaan Eretz Yisrael and send to: POB 1588, Rehovot Israel (please notify us of your generosity by email to sddym@bezeqint.net if possible).

 

Thank you for reading and for helping -- Mattot Arim, Israel

4. More on Discussions with Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky and the Chofets Chaim Heritage Foundation.  The silence of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah  are even a mystery to the Gedoilim themselves except that they can not bring themselves even individually to make a public statement.  Are they really following the dictates of Rav Eliashiv who told Rabbi Morgenstern to speak out against concessions with one's full capacity?  Reminiscent chas vechalila of the weakness to challenge the establishment and Silence of pre Nazi Germany.

Shmuel Koenig an activist that has taken it upon himself to call the Rabbanim writes:

DEAR ROBIN,

 

RABBI KAMENETSKY SAYS THAT IT APPEARS TO BE CHILUL HASHEM THAT RABBANIM  ARE NOT SPEAKING UP IN ERETZ YISRAEL AND HE DOESN'T KNOW WHY THEY ARE NOT SPEAKING UP.

 

HE SAYS THAT THE REASON THEY ARE WAITING FOR  THE RABBONIM IN ERETZ YISRAEL TO SPEAK UP FIRST IS BECAUSE OF DERECH ERETZ.

 

I SUGGESTED TO HIM THAT HE ALIGN HIMSELF WITH OTHER ACTIVIST RABBIS, INCLUDING RABBI YAKOV YOSEF,  RABBI SIMCHA HAKOHEN  KOOK, RABBI ARIEL AND RABBI ZUN.

 

HE SAID THAT RABBI KOOK IS A BIG  TALMID CHACHAM AND HAS STATURE AND HE KNOWS OF RABBI ZUN'S DREAM.  HE DOES NOT HOWEVER, WANT TO ALIGN HIMSELF WITH THEM.

 

THANKS,

SHMUEL

Shmuel Koenig called back and asked doesn't Pikuach Nefesh take precedence over Derech Eretz?  Look what's happening in Sderot. Rav Kamenetsky replied it's not that clear that it's Pikuach Nefesh.

In light of what Rav Eliashiv answered Rav Morgenstern that each and every Jew must do what they can in their capacity to stop the concessions and that concessions make the security situation worse, we asked Rav Kamenetsky how come the Chofets Chaim Heritage Foundation is not being directed under his leadership to speak out against a Palestinian State and the expulsion chas vechalila of over 400,000 Jews .  Rav Kamenetsky asked Shmuel Koenig why he works at another job and doesn't do this full time.  Shmuel Koenig answered because he has to make a Parnassa.  Rav Kamenetsky replied that the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation also has other jobs.  Rav Kamenetsky said that the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation's job is to bring Shalom.

I personally followed up this discussion with a call to the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation. Executive Director Michael Rothschiled was unavailable to speak with me. Instead I spoke with a women though I failed to ask her her name.   I asked her how come the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation is silent when Lashon Hara is linked so strongly with the Chait HaMiraglim and the failure of the Spies to encourage Am Yisroel to enter and conquer Eretz Yisroel. How can there be Silence with the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews are in the planning.  She told me that I should put all my points clearly in writing to rothschild@chofetzchaimusa.org,   I asked her how come we allowed the expulsion of Gush Katif?  She replied that we didn't cause the expulsion of Gush Katif but it was the secular government of Israel.  I replied that each and every Jew must express their desire for Eretz Ysrioel and our entitlement.  By our Silence we chas vechalila scorn our birthright.  Perhaps the Secular Gov't is only a messenger of Hashem because Hashem sees that the majority of Am Yisroel feels that practically  Eretz Yisroel is irrelevant or unnecessary to their practice of Judaism. She asked me if I read a specific Sefer in Emunah. How through Tefillah we must cry out to Hashem. I replied that by the time I read the Sefer in Emunah, Yesha can be taken away from us. I repled that we first must show our hishtadlus. Almost on cue, my son came home from Yeshiva with a Dvar Torah the weekly Parsha on the Pasuk "You shall not see the donkey of your brother falling and hide yourself, you shall raise it with him."  The Chofetz Chaim says, we learn from here that if a person tries to become better and puts in the effort, then Hashem will help him.  If however, he only davens and asks Hashem for help and does not himself do anything about it, for what reason should he be zocheh to Siata Dishmaya, help from Hashem.

6. NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT STRIKE

THURSDAY, September (Ellul) 18: NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT STRIKE
In response to the silence of the Jewish leadership on the planned expulsion of 300,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria, the division of Jerusalem and the abandonment of the holy Temple Mount, Jewish students across North America are saying,
Stand Up to Prevent… 3 No's!: No Expelling Jews! No Dividing Land! No Abandoning Har HaBayit!
Start time: 10 Minutes before first class. End Time: Up to the students (suggestion about 2 hours)
Instructions to students (Contact info: Yosef Rabin strike4eyisrael@gmail.com):
1. Organize your friends. 2. Invite the media; 3. Bring cameras for Internet posting; 4. Make/Bring signs;
5. Explain why/how Jews must protest; 6. End with Tehillim, Shofar blowing, singing & dancing.
Organized by The United Jewish Student Council - http://ujsc.org/
The flyer for the event http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df7mjrh_339k87k6dt
An article from Arutz Sheva http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127545

 

2) Below please find Gemma Blech's account and pictures of our Women in Green tour of the Gush Katif museum.
After the tour we went to the streets of the Mahane Yehuda shuk and distributed our Women in Green bumper sticker "The land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel". The sticker was gladly grabbed by the passers by who were thirsty for some Zionist message. Women in Green will continue to hand out our bumper stickers on a weekly basis. Join us!

With Love for Israel,

Nadia Matar

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7. Women in Green tour the Gush Katif Museum

WIG (Women in Green)  tour the new Gush Katif Museum
by Gemma Blech

Today Women in Green went to visit the [fairly] new Gush Katif Museum in the heart of Jerusalem. This small museum does wonders to show us the history of the Gaza area ­ from biblical times onwards; the return after the 6-Day war when the whole area was reclaimed from the desert, to become some 20 thriving towns, villages, and communities.

I was not there for the expulsion, but I made many trips there beforehand and this museum only shows in part the color, the vibrancy, the productivity and outright genius and commitment of so many to live on what before was just desert. Surely, "the desert shall blossom as the rose", wrote Isaiah.

Anyway, in their infinite wisdom Prime Minister Sharon and his lackeys decided that 'for peace' we should leave this southern stronghold and paradise, so in August 2005, the whole place was forcibly evacuated and bulldozed to rubble. Almost NONE of the promises of compensation for this piece of Jewish treachery and lunacy have been paid and there are still hundreds living in paper thin trailers, without jobs, land or income. The stories of the sufferings of the ex-Gush Katif Jews are endless and their dilemma is an endless Catch 22 situation with each committee, ministry, politician and worker passing the buck to yet another.

Maybe with this in mind WiG will pay a visit to the Shomron ­ the heart of our biblical homeland and which is next on this government's chopping block.

Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/gemmablech/WIGToGushKatifMuseum91408#

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24
Join WOMEN IN GREEN's chizuk trip to the outposts in Samaria. Join us for a special day where we plan on strengthening those amazing pioneers in the hilltops but as usual, we will come back strengthened. Exciting program:
   * 9:00 am departure from the Inbal hotel, Jabotinsky Street, Jerusalem
   * visit in Karnei Shomron to Halfon's new factory to build fast prefabs
   * visiting the outpost of Havot Yair next to Yakir
   * visiting the outpost of Mizpeh Nehemia
   * approximate return to Jerusalem around 4:00pm
We will only have one bus so order your seats now. Fee: 50NIS
Call Anita 050-5777254  or Nadia 050-5500834

Enjoy the Museum pictures and do get there as soon as you can ­ open 11.am-5.pm at 5 Sha'ar Tzadik St. [just off Agrippas]

Gemma Blech

8. Recha Sternbuch in 1942. Rabbis of Vaad Hatzalah and Agudahth Israel remained too weak to challenge Stepe  S. Wise...

This I received from Renanah Goldhar of Toronto.

Re: Recha Sternbuch in late 1942, sending telegrams with info. about exterminations -

" The few powerless Orthodox rabbis and leaders of Vaad Hatzalah and Agudath Israel - most of them recent refugees to American shores, unversed in English - were deliberately ignored by the Jewish establishment as an anachronistic element soon to be extincvt....As cable after cable arrived, further verifying the heart-rending facts of the initial Sternbuch vable...they could not contain their impatience.  On the other hand, they refrained from alarming the world because, at both meetings ... the leaders of the secular Jewish establishment threatened "excommunication" upon whomever would reveal the tragedy to the pressl.  All were sworn to silence.  The establishment's cooperation was needed and the rabbis of Vaad Hatzalah and Agudath Israel remained too weak to challenge Stepe  S. Wise...

...

 

The Orthodox leaders however were not silent.  Dr. Issac Lewin...urged:

Let the conscinece of the world be shaken, first of all that of the Jewish world.  We ask the leaders of the American Jewish organizations: What will you answer on the "day of retributions??  What will you answer should someone someday request an accounting of what you did at a time when the blood of your brothers flowed in rivers?:

9. Mental Preparation of the IDF for the Gush Katif and ITS Aftermath in the IDF

The brainwash that enabled the deportation and crippled IDF's combativeness against the enemy The entire report (H, 234 pp), can be downloaded from http://www.mentalpreparation.org/documents/Heb/mental_preparation_IDF_report_B&W_28_07_08.pdf

Both, the original (H) and English translation are posted also on the front page of http://www.eish-l.org/ English translation of the abstract can be downloaded from http://www.mentalpreparation.org/documents/Eng/MentalPreparation_in_IDF_for_Disengagement_Abstract.pdf

 

Addendum and Correction. to Massive Student Protest, Please edit before forwarding. Thanks.

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Dear Students, amv"sh

Please express our desire and yearning for Eretz Yisroel that it is not enough to simply learn about Eretz Yisroel and the Mitzvoth of Eretz Yisroel but it is our yearning and desire to actually do, observe, keep these Mitzvoth.  Now after 2000 year we as a nation,  finally have the opportunity to keep the Mitzvoth Teluyot Baaretz..  Will we give away our Land thereby making it virtually impossible to observe these very precious Mitzvoth?

Also, please note correction in reference:

The Avoda in the Bais Hamikdash can not begin without seeing the daylight in Hebron.   (Yoma Perek Gimmel Mishneh Aleph)

MASSIVE YESHIVA STUDENT PLANNED PROTEST TO STOP THE SILENCE!!!! PLEASE FWD!!

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PLEASE JOIN A YESHIVA STUDENT PROTEST TO STOP THE SILENCE

 

In response to the silence of the Religious Jewish leadership (Chareidi, Orthodox and Modern Orthodox)  on the planned expulsion of 300,000 Jews from Yehuda and the Shomron, the division of Yerushalyaim and the abandonment of the Har Habayit, Yeshiva students across North America are saying,

"No More!" 

Please join caring, religious Jewish students in Chareidi, Orthodox and Modern Orthodox yeshiva/high schools, girls schools and elementary schools who are Bezrat Hashem joining with a general Student Protest in States including New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois and California, and in Canada.  This is a campaign to mobilize fellow students in preparation for mass walkouts to protest the silence of the Jewish leadership. 

There will be a telephone conference call on Sunday September 7th at 6 PM New York time (EDST). It is very important that all interested students participate in this telephone meeting.

Conference Dial-in Number: (218) 339-4300       
Participant Access Code: 119403#

If you would like to voice your opinion at this meeting, please send an email to strike4eyisroel@gmail.com or strike4jerusalem@gmail.com and include your name, school and city. You will be emailed a number.  When questions are ready to be taken, your number will be called. This is being done for those who wish to remain anonymous.

(If you receive this notice after this scheduled meeting please send email anyway for further updates and information.)

As the representative of the protest group to the establishment, Yosef Rabin - Representative of the Student strike leaders, will present the following demand on behalf of the student leaders: 

The Jewish establishment must set into motion a serious plan to protest the expulsion by Tuesday, September 16th 12:00pm. The protest plan of the Jewish Establishment will have to be submitted for review to strike4eyisroel@gmail.com or strike4jerusalem@gmail.com no later than Friday September, 12^th at 11:00am.  

This campaign is very serious and the youth involved have been working hard to make it a reality. After the expulsion from Gush Katif three years ago many youth in America were shocked by what happened, and they have vowed not to remain silent in the face of another expulsion. 

Date, Time & Place for the Strikes:  

Date - Thursday, September 18th

Time - Starting 9:00am - TBD

Place - Yeshivas/High Schools, Girls Schools and Day Schools across North America (list of schools growing daily)

The ball is now in your court,

Yosef Rabin - Representative of the Student strike leaders

strike4eyisroel@gmail.com or strike4jerusalem@gmail.com

Parents and grandparents are urged to encourage the youth and also join them.

Please Note:

• The principle -- giving up  Yehudah and the Shomron & Giving up Yerushalayim is the same principle so if you concede the 1st, you will eventually be forced to concede the 2nd

• Giving away parts of Yehudah and the Shomron endangers Yerushalayim, so it is impossible to save Yerushalyim if Yehuda and the Shomron are ignored: -- if you have a Palestinian State chas vechalila, Yerushalyim is 5 minutes away from it so ostensibly hanging onto Yerushalyim is really meaningless, Palestinian state means (among other things) that Yerushalayim will not be livable for Jews.

•  The existence of the only Jewish state in the world is at stake -- giving up Yehudah and the Shomron and setting up a Palestinian State means NO ISRAEL.  The reason is because Lebanon (which was last summer's danger) imperils "only" Israel's sparsely populated north. Gaza (which is the current danger) imperils "only'  Israel's sparsely populated south. PAL. STATE IN Judea and Samaria IMPERILS ISRAEL'S VERY HEAVILY POPULATED CENTER REGION because it is just a bike ride away from there. many many people, all the business centers, sole International airport etc. so the country physically would not be viable.

• The Avoda in the Bais Hamikdash can not begin without seeing the daylight in Hebron. (Brachot, Perek 3)

These are points of the Lubavitch Rebbe, zt"l which are common sense.

The current situation in Israel is such that the duty to protest falls squarely on the shoulders of the Rabbis. This obligation falls upon all Rabbis who arbitrate practical matters of Jewish law, and especially those Rabbis who have at one time expressed an opinion on this issue, no matter where they are — whether in Israel or in the Diaspora. The ruling must be explicit and definitive, being the result of exhaustive consultation with present military authorities who have actual firsthand knowledge about these issues, and who express their opinions through purely security-oriented considerations, and not political ones. In order to save the Rabbis the trouble of researching the issues which are required for a ruling, the Rebbe informs us that he has already investigated the matter, and the conclusions are: Those involved in military affairs say that surrendering any portion of the West Bank and Gaza, places untold numbers of Jews in danger, G-d forbid. The past is well known (e.g., Golda Meir not listening to the Israeli Military Intelligence prior to Yom Kippur War). A ruling must be issued quickly, and a Rabbi must not wait until he is asked about the matter. Rather, he must see to it that the law is publicized everywhere — to the extent that "there will not be a single individual who has not heard of this ruling." This is because regarding these matters, "he who asks (rather than acts) is a spiller of blood, and the one who waits to be asked is contemptible" for not having publicized his opinion.[35] Similarly, one should publicize the decision of the "Great Assembly" of 1937 [36] which states that "it is forbidden to cede to a non-Jew, even a tiny strip of the Land of Israel." This should be publicized until the entire Jewish people are aware of this ruling. Every Jew, regardless of where he lives, is connected with every other Jews in the rest of the world. Therefore, according to Jewish law, he must protest any action taken by another Jew which is not in accordance with Jewish Law. Protest is required even if the forbidden action took place a great distance from him — because he is still obligated by the command, "Thou shalt not stand idly by thy brother's blood." At times the situation is such that there is nothing left to do but to protest. This is a precise indication that our task in this situation is to protest. The claim that protest will not affect the situation does not absolve any of the Rabbis, no matter where they are, from their obligation to publicize a clear ruling because: Who knows where we would be if no one were to speak up. Regarding the mitzvah to admonish one's fellow man, the Talmud says, "even one hundred times," meaning, if one unsuccessfully gave rebuke ninety-nine times, one is bound by Jewish law to engage in rebuke a hundredth time, for it could well be that the hundredth time will be decisive. The Rabbi must do his job and protest without fear, and without considering the reaction which may follow his ruling (such as being ignored); especially because this is an ongoing matter, which concerns saving Jewish lives. The obligation not to stand idly by while your brother's blood is being spilled, applies in every situation, even when one is uncertain that his protest will have any effect. Even if the chance that protest will assist is only one thousandth of a chance, or a fraction of that, one is obligated to protest, because this is the law in the Code of Jewish Law. Even if the majority remain silent, and those protesting are in the minority, nevertheless, the minority is taken into consideration. The Rabbis who remain silent cause the greatest damage. This is analagous to the Talmudic law concerning seventy Rabbinic judges who rule for or against a certain side, with one judge "abstaining." In such a case, Jewish Law requires the entire trial to be rendered null and void. The Rebbe's opinion is that were there to be a sustained protest, carried out with the greatest intensity — as the present situation clearly demands — it would eventually succeed, in the near future.

Veheishiv Lev Avos, Lev Avos Al Banim, Velev Banim Al Avosum. 

You the Students can bring a New Spirit to Am Yisroel!  Sing songs of Eretz Yisroel.  Talk of Mitzvoth Teluyot Baaretz, Ask your teachers and administration to join you.  United, Am Yisroel can prevail against our enemies.  Speak like Calev Ben Yefuneh and Yehoshua bin Nun.  May God give us the strength to spread the true message of Eretz Yisrael: "Aloh Na'aleh Ki Yachol Nuchal La."

More Comments and Dialogue re: and with Rav Perlow and Rav Kamenetsky

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Shmuel Koenig called up Rabbi Gedalia Weinberger, Chairman of the Board of Agudath Yisroel of America.  He reached him at the Agudah Office.

 

DEAR ROBIN,

 

RABBI GEDALIA WEINBERGER SAID THAT AGUDA FOLLOWS WHATEVER RABBI PERLOW SAYS.

 

HE SUGGESTED SPEAKING TO RABBI KAMENETSKY AND ASKING HIM TO SPEAK TO RABBI PERLOW.

 

I FOLLOWED HIS ADVICE.

 

RABBI KAMENETSKY TOLD ME HE WOULD SPEAK TO RABBI PERLOW.

 

Shmuel called Rabbi Kamenetsky again and told him that when we spoke to Hadas in Eretz Yisroel,  (Rav Eliashiv's sec'y and Rav Efrati, a close Rabbinic liason to Rav Eliashiv, they mentioned Rav Kamenetskys name as someone who would be a good choice in the Mishlachat to Rav Eliashiv.  This means that apparently Rav Kamenetsky's voice carries much weight.  Rabbi Kamenetsky said that Rabbi Aharon Schechter Rosh Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin has a strong connection with Rav Eliashiv.  If anyone of you has any connection to Rav Schechter please approach him and we'd appreciate his contact info.

 

SHMUEL

Shmuel Koenig also called up Rabbi Shmuel Bloom Executive Vice President of Agudath Yisroel of America. 

DEAR ROBIN,

 

I TOLD RABBI BLOOM THAT OLMERT JUST SAID THAT WE WILL GIVE UP 93% OF YEHUDA AND SHOMRON.

 

HE ASKED ME: " WHO TOLD ME THAT".

 

I answered from reliable sources.

 

HE THEN ASKED: "WHO DID HE SAY IT IN FRONT OF"

 

I SAID:"CONDOLIZA RICE"

 

THEN HE SAID: " ANYWAY OLMERT IS LEAVING".

 

I SAID: " WE MUST MAKE SURE THAT HIS POLICIES DON'T CONTINUE".

 

HE SAID THAT WE MUST VOTE IN AGUDAH.

 

I ASKED HIM WHETHER AGUDAH WOULD CAMPAIGN AGAINST LAND FOR PEACE. HE SAID THAT THE PLATFORM IS DECIDED BY THE GEDOLIM.

 

SHMUEL KOENIG

 

Rabbi Algaze writes in response to Rabbi Perlows comment to a caller regarding Judea and Samaria that Rabbi Perlow doesl not comment on the "political situation"

 

What do you mean the "political" situation? Is the redivision of Jerusalem "political"? Is giving away Eretz Israel not a matter for halacha? It seems to me that these Rabbis are hiding behind the word "political" to indicate why they do not wish to be involved! That's utter nonsense. The issue before them is whether they support the settlement of Eretz Israel or they would condone the transfer of Jews from all of Israel. In the final account, if they stand idly by while we remove Jews from Yehuda and Shomron, why would they act differently when Jews are removed from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv? I fear that if, has veshalom, the tragedy occurred and Jews were to be thrown out of Israel, their response would be, "Here, we welcome you in Philadelphia or Lakewood or whatever" What generous spirits! Spare me their kindness. Those who do not act now to prevent the tragedy should be held accountable for the tragedy when it occurs. Anyone in  a position of influence who does not use his power to stop the tragedy is an accomplice, even if by omission, of the crime. Period. I know that these are harsh words, but not as harsh as the suffering of the Jews of Gush Katif or the upcoming tragedy of other Jews in Israel.

 

David Algaze

 

 

Shabbat Shalom

 

Dear list.  There is a campaign in formation regarding striking Yeshiivot and perhaps other Jewish institution in protest of the Deafening Silence regarding Judea and Samaria.and Har Habayit and Jerusalem.  Please stay tuned for more emails regarding this very important matter.