Young Israel of Flatbush
is Proud to Present
Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University
The Topic will be: Understanding the Muslim Mindset:
Schedule of Events:
Friday Night
Mincha: 5:25PM followed by Kabbalat Shabbat
Seudat Shabbat: 6:30PM (by reservation only*)
Oneg Shabbat: 8:15Pm – Open to all
Lecture: 8:30PM – Open to all
Dr. Mordechai Kedar
Women in Islam: Still Under the Burka
Shabbat Day
Shacharit: 8:45AM
Dr. Kedar will speak at the conclusion of the Davening (approximately 11AM) on:
Arab Intellectuals – Where are they?
Motza'ei Shabbat
Zayin Adar Seudah: 8PM
Lecture, Dr. Mordechai Kedar: 9:45PM – Open to all
Why Do Many Muslims Hate the West?
*Dinner reservations - $25 per adult, $10 per child under 12 (Maximum of $80 per family)
Call YIF office at 718-377-4400.
Last day for reservations, Tues. Feb 16.
Dr Mordechai Kedar: a renowned lecturer in the Department of Arabic of Bar-Ilan University and a reserch associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, also at Bar Ilan.
February 12 is the birthday of America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. Ponder his celebrated Gettysburg Address, which begins with these words: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Lincoln thereby dates America's birth not with the Constitution of 1788, but with the Declaration of Independence of 1776—and rightly so. The Declaration embodies the political philosophy—one may even say the political theology— of the American Constitution, the covenant of the American people.
The Declaration was embodied in many of the State Constitutions to sanctify their spiritual origin. The meaning of the Declaration is inseparable from the monotheistic culture in which it was incubated—the Judeo-Christian culture. This culture, as we see in the words of the Declaration, posits a "Higher Law" doctrine: "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God transcends the laws of men and nations. It is from this Higher Law, but therefore from God—the Creator of heaven and earth—that we derive our "inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
There is no moral relativism, no cultural relativism, no historical relativism in the Declaration of Independence; its principles transcend space and time. That's why the Declaration imposes limits on what governments may do. Which means the Declaration affirms the principle of limited government on the one hand, and the inviolable rights of the individual on the other. Therein is the credo of the American people, a credo rooted in the Biblical principle of man's creation in the image of God.
Now this credo is being denied and undermined by President Barack Obama. Like his college mentors, Obama is a cultural relativist. He rejects the credo of the Declaration. He replaces the immutable doctrine of natural rights with the evolutionary doctrine of "Progressivism." Progressivism animated his "Yes we can" presidential campaign oratory—which signifies monumental egoism on the one hand, and historical amnesia on the other—all so evident in Obama's teleprompter speeches.
So Americans should take this day of February 12 to relearn the teachings of their greatest President. As in former days, let American children learn to recite Lincoln's immortal Gettysburg Address. From there let American youth learn about their biblical roots, profoundly articulated in the Declaration of Independence.
Prof. Paul Eidelberg, President,
Foundation for Constitutional Democracy
Please read this letter from Chairman of Manhigut Yehudit:
Warning: Imminent Murder on Temple Mount
By Moshe Feiglin
