http://www.templeinstitute.org/events.htm The Temple Institute extends Chanuka greetings to all our friends and supporters, the entire house of Israel, and to all who seek to honor the G-d of Israel: Chanuka Sameach - A Joyful Festival of Chanuka! |
 
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17: The ascent to the Temple Mount of a large assembly of Jews was prevented early this morning by the Israel police. The police provided no reason for their arbitrary decision. When pressed for an explanation the police response was contradictory and factually incorrect. At one point police responded that the Mount was closed due to the Moslem new year. Other police officials, when asked about this, stated that they were not aware of any Moslem holiday. (The Moslem new year, a one-day celebration, occurs, in fact, on Friday.) IN THE SIX DAY WAR OF JUNE, 1967, Israel liberated the eastern half of Jerusalem, and with it, the Temple Mount. Soon after, the government of Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem and extended Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount. Israeli law guarantees freedom of worship for all religions, and freedom of access to holy places. The government of Israel has traditionally stated, time and again, in international forums, with a great deal of justifiable pride, that freedom of worship is a reality in Israel, including Jerusalem, despite the existential threat that Israel faces at the hands of rejectionist Islam. YET, EVER SINCE MOSHE DAYAN, then Defense Minister, handed over to the Moslem Authority, (within days after the Mount's liberation), responsibility for the every day running of the Temple Mount, successive Israeli governments have systematically refused to apply Israeli law to the Mount. Jews are not granted freedom of access, nor are they granted freedom of worship on the Mount. Their freedom to enter the Temple Mount is routinely denied by the Israel police, and this in spite of High Court rulings on behalf of the would be worshippers. For reasons never discussed, let alone explained, the Israel police are given a free hand to hold the High Court of Justice in contempt. THE POLICE HAVE ADOPTED a curiously proactive stand in denying the rights of Jewish worshippers, routinely exhibiting provocative behavior toward the Jews, in a barely disguised attempt to incite them to violence, at which point the police could then "respond" with greater violence, justifying the closure of the Temple Mount to Jews, and ride the expected wave of media reports of "fringe elements" and "radicals who are contemptuous of the state of Israel," further hurting the image and the cause of the Jews seeking only their basic rights. UNFORTUNATELY, individuals and organizations which style themselves as defenders of the downtrodden and guardians of our liberty, fail to see the danger in the blind eye that they exhibit toward the trampling of basic rights which take place at the foot of the Temple Mount. For whatever reason these various champions of individual liberty decide not to apply their universal principles to the Jews who wish to pray on the Mount, their thundering indifference ultimately endangers the liberty of all. SO WE WHO SIMPLY wish to pursue our privilege and responsibility as Jews by ascending the Mount and praying on that spot, are caught between a rock and a hard place. If we remain silent in the face of the continuing injustice, we become, in fact, accomplices to it. If we allow ourselves to be taunted and badgered into a violent response we will likewise become accomplices to a crime committed against ourselves. Nor can protest be expected to be heard by an establishment that long ago turned a deaf ear to our plight. Only the thunder of many feet arriving every day at the gates to the Temple Mount will be heard by those who wish not to hear. Only the hush of prayer on the lips of thousands of Jewish worshippers atop the Temple Mount will shatter the conspiracy of silence against G-d, against the people of Israel, and against the nations of the world. ON AUGUST 28TH, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King stood before his nation, and quoting from the prophet Isaiah, declared that he had a dream. We too have a dream, and we too quote from the prophet Isaiah. We dream of the day that Jews living in the land of Israel will not be denied their right to pray as Jews upon the Temple Mount, just as all other worshippers are allowed to pray in their holy places in the land of Israel, and that some day, the destiny of the human spirit, as enunciated by Isaiah for all time, will be realized: "for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." (Isaiah 56:7)
Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute was among those who arrived early Thursday morning, intending to ascend the Mount. He stated: "Every freedom-loving person should cry out at this grave trampling of basic Jewish rights in the Jewish homeland. This is the time to act. The Temple Mount is the very essence of our lives. It is the core of the Chanuka saga. To willfully separate our people from their heritage, as a government policy, and this during the height of the holiday which commemorates Jewish religious freedom in our own land and the purification of this very place from foreign domination – it's just mind-boggling. Yet not a word is spoken in defense of our most basic human rights and this attack on Jewish dignity and the honor of the G-d of Israel. There is a direct connection between the building freeze in Judea and Samaria, and the "freeze" on the Holy Temple. How can we expect to build up our homes in the Land of Israel when we disregard the main home, the Holy Temple? Can't anyone connect the dots?" |
Friday, December 18, 2009
Jews not allowed worship on Temple Mount on Chanukah. Open only to Muslims? Ki Beiti Beit Tefillah..(Isaiah 56:7)
RCRF Singles and Couples Event - Motzei Shabbat, Melaveh Malka, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach Jewish Center 7:30pm Open to all, especially for Jewish activism
Od Yeshama? After it's all given away? Please do what you can to help publicize this event and better yet, come. Thanks!
bs"d
Dear Brooklyn activists, amv"sh
Evelyn Haze is having an event on Saturday night in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. She is targeting the Singles but couples are welcome as well. It would be nice to have people that could be there as shadchanim. I thought it was a good opportunity to encourage singles to come especially in order to promote activism against the settlement freeze in Judea and Samaria.
Anyone that can publicize this event to singles on the web or send to lists or wherever is encouraged to do so. Please come yourself!Please Forward to all Lists
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Please Post, Distribute, Bring Friends. Make Friends. 2 hours of learning plus tehillim. .
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Fwd: MESSAGE FROM RON NACHMAN, MAYOR OF ARIEL - Practical implications of a building freeze in Ariel
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
Let's learn from this how to treat the Palestinian communities in Judea and Samaria
The Jews of Judea and Samaria are paying taxes to a government that does not represent them with fairness and equality of other tax paying citizens. This evil government has no regard for the property of its loyal citizens! In one stupid vote by a Committee, the entitlement and ownership of ones property in Judea and Samaria in now a question mark . What heartless laws this government is enforcing on its loyal citizens which changes the direction of our Biblical Covenant.
Let us learn from these ruthless actions how to reverse Oslo and declare Oslo and the Roadmap null and void. We must show no mercy on those that wish to destroy the Land of Israel and the rightful settlement of the Jews in their Biblical Homeland. Palestinians communities should be frozen. They should not be allowed to build and grow. Businesses that choose to invest in the Palestinian Territories should be put on hold. 90% subsidies for childcare and nursery should be frozen forcing the young families to pay 100%. Let young couples move elsewhere. If International law dictates that the Government of Israel be ruthless to it's own citizens, we should definitely have no issues with acting with similar tactics to those that clearly educate their children to glorify martyrdom and aspire for the demise of a Jewish Homeland in Eretz Yisroel.
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Subject: MESSAGE FROM RON NACHMAN, MAYOR OF ARIEL
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Monday, December 14, 2009
A personal tefillah of mine for Har Habayit
Dear List, amv"sh
Here is the perfect opportunity to make a direct connection to Har Habayit. This is my own personal teffilah that I sent in.
Wishing you a Happy Chanukah.
Please go to http://www.tmpn.tk/ and send your personal tefillah!
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Yakov Menachem Mendel ben Henya (Helen)
FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah bas Sheindel
Pinchus Dovid Yeshayahu ben FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah
Chaya Tikvah Chana Orah bas FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Chetzibah
Moshe Mordechai Shmuel Shlomo Yitzchok ben Faige Rayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah
Sarah Leah Tova Emunah ShlomTzion Shulamis bas FaigeRayzel Tzipporah Cheftzibah
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Nadia Matar, Freeze decrees are declaration of war against Judea and Samaria,Senator Inhofe Let's review American History
"Make no mistake about it. This war is first and foremost a spiritual war. It is not a political war. It has never been a political war. It is not about politics. It is a spiritual war. It has its roots in spiritual conflict. It is a war to be fought to destroy the very fabric of our society and the very things
for which we stand..."
Please read this unbelievable speech presented in Congress by Senator Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma on December 4, 2001. In this historic speech he includes portions of the historic speech of Patrick Henry as he stood in the House of Burgess made a speech for them, made a speech for us today. In this address, Senator Inhofe presents 7 reasons as per Israel's rights to the Land and why the Land belongs to Israel. This speech is a must have for every Jewish acivist and non activist that is hesitant to put a claim upon our land.
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=CCBF26D9-1428-420E-AE7A-3B5C1643A8D9
Because this is a spiritual War the rulings of Rabbanim are crucial.
If you can not make it to the AFSI demonstration today at 11:00 and even if you can, let's be activists for Judea and Samaria at our Chanukah gatherings this week. Most friends and family members are clueless. How can we enjoy our own Chanuka celebrations when our Jewish brothers and sisters, 350,000 strong, can not have their own Chanukat Habayit? They can not expand. Their communities are being strangled.
When we as a people will come out strong in support of the Rabbinic ruling forbidding soldiers to expel fellow Jews, the government of Israel will be unable to impose their rule on us.
When we stand up for Tzvia Sariel and her individual struggle for Torah to be the law of the Land, we show that our prayers are relevant and not merely lip service.
As Nadia clearly says, peaceful demonstrations are not enough. We need to prevent another expulsion! Will we stand by for more expulsions and then offer after the fact expressions of "feeling the pain of our brethren" when it is too late and after the fact tehillim for the Matzav in Eretz Yisroel when are brethren are homeless?.
Nadia writes:
Dear friends, the freeze decrees not allowing any Jewish building in Israel's Biblical Heartland are a declaration of war against the Jews of Judea and Samaria. Let it be clear to all: the freeze decrees are the first step on the way to the elimination of all the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and the expulsion of 350,000 Jews from their homeland, for the purpose of establishing in their stead a Palestinian state, that, as is well-known, will constitute a threat to the little pre-67'State of Israel.
Our opposition to the freeze decrees is therefore a struggle for the survival of the entire state.
We must set forth on a resolute and uncompromising struggle against these decrees. Protests are important, but not enough. There was a large demonstration on Wednesday. It is important to raise our voices against the decrees, but we should not invest all our energy in this. The lesson of Gush Katif is that quiet, organized, and orderly demonstrations will not decide the outcome and will not change decrees because Israel is no longer a democratic country. In a country in which the electorate votes right and nevertheless receives policies of the left, politicians are not influenced by old-fashioned demonstrations; at least not here in Israel.
(In contrast, demonstrations in front of the Israeli consulates abroad are important, because they put pressure on Israel; see below, for details on the demonstration by Americans For a Safe Israel.)
Here in Israel, the government must receive a stiff message from the field, that we simply will not let this happen.
The blocking of the communities by tens of residents to the inspectors from the Civil Administration was a good start.
Now the struggle must intensify.
So that this time there will really be a struggle, and not a fake struggle as there was five years ago in Gush Katif, Moetzet Yesha (the Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) cannot be allowed to head the camp.
Moetzet Yesha is limited. It is dependent on government budgets, and therefore it is capable of engaging only in protests, large but quiet demonstrations (like Wednesday's), and political pressure. All these tactics were used in Gush Katif but did not prevent the expulsion.
The true struggle must be waged by extraparliamentary bodies.
What is struggle?
Struggle today is to rebel against the immoral and anti-Jewish decrees, to proudly violate them, and to send a clear message to all: Never again! They will never again succeed in carrying out a destruction program. Jews will never again be expelled from their homeland.
In our humble opinion, the main struggle now must be conducted in two arenas:
1) Construction, construction, and more construction throughout Judea and Samaria. A few days ago our movement, Women in Green, issued a call to establish a fund for light construction for couples and families on the hilltops. In the coming days we will, with God's help, distribute a short video that will exemplify and explain this step. God willing, the lovers of Eretz Israel will mobilize for this project, and we will succeed in erecting houses throughout Judea and Samaria,especially outside the boundaries of the existing communities. We must pass on a clear message: we will not agree to be ghettoized or limited. The Land of Israel belongs to the People of Israel and we will continue to settle, build and expand in it.
2) Expanding the phenomenon of soldiers who already today declare that they will not participate in the expulsion of Jews from their land and the handing over to the enemy of our land, our homeland. Women in Green gives its support to Rabbi Eliezer Melamed from har Bracha, who stated outright that if an order in the army conflicts with our loyalty to Eretz Israel - the order must be refused. We cannot leave the rabbis in the front lines. We, too, parents to soldiers, must send a clear message that we send our sons to the army to fight the Arab enemy, to defend the homeland and the people, and not, Heaven forbid, to expel Jews from their land. The greater the phenomenon of soldiers loyal to their people and their homeland who declare, already now, that they will not give a hand to the implementation of the policies of the extreme left, the faster the authorities will understand that they do not have the ability to realize their plan.
The more successful we will be in the two areas described above, the more it will put real pressure on the politicians and make it clear that unlike five years ago, when our camp was so well-behaved and docile during the expulsion of our brothers from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron, this time, we are determined to fight for the right of the Jewish People to their G-d given Biblical Homeland.
As Yair Stern wrote: we, the people, are in a "national war. The nation's war for its honor, its freedom, and its life." May it be His will that we receive inspiration from the heroic Maccabees, who did not fear and proved that the little Jewish people is capable of fighting and besting great empires. Like then, today as well, the struggle, unfortunately, is not only against the Greeks, but also against the Jewish Hellenizers who collaborated with the Greeks.
If we succeed in awakening and in understanding that the responsibility and obligation to join the struggle is incumbent on each and every one of us - then we will do and, with God's help, we will prevail.
A happy Hanukkah holiday and Shavua Tov,
Nadia Matar
Below please find the details about AFSI's important demonstration:
AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI will lead a demonstration on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, from 11AM-12 noon, in front of the Israeli Consulate, 42nd Street and Second Avenue, NYC.
People of conscience will gather to protest against the immoral, illegal, discriminatory construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, ordered by PM Bibi Netanyahu.
Participants will carry menorahs to signify that on this second day of Chanukah, the warmth and courage of the Chanukah lights will melt the freeze.
Signs will read, "Let My People Grow", "End the Freeze of Appeasement", "Likud - Honor Your Mandate to Preserve the Land of Israel", "Bibi - You were elected to save Israel, not sell it out," "Obama -Stop Iranian Nukes - Not Jewish Homes."
Speakers will be grass roots activists following the cry of Judah Maccabee - "All who are faithful follow me!"
Contact the AFSI office, 212-828-2424; 1-800-235-3658; afsi@rcn.com for additional information. http://www.afsi.org/
