This email is being sent TO: major Jewish religious Organizations, Conference of Presidents, major religious Jewish Print Media, Rabbanim, CC:d to Hesder Yeshivoth and BCC:d to my email list and blog shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com .
"WE SHARE IN THEIR PAIN" after the fact is hypocrisy when we have the chance to prevent the pain and we didn't.
Let us prevent the pain NOW before it is a reality!
It takes approximately 1 hour if that much to destroy a shul. It can happen in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping. This is a test to see how much Jews care about their fellow Jews in the Shomron.
Where is the outcry at the impending destruction of a shul?
Let the media report that we are begging our major Jewish Organizations, and Rabbanim to take a public stand regarding this matter and use all their networking and databases of contacts, shuls and Rabbanim to stop this destruction in Yitzhar. Let their readership know that there are activists out there that are very upset at the Silence of the Rabbanim and the major religious Jewish Organizations for being Silent in their brothers time in need. We are relying on the Religious Jewish Media to report our disappointment in our Jewish Leadership and that we expect better and we know and believe that they are very capable and we know they are capable of voicing their opposition in a public way that will stop any such action. Only an outcry and the Areivus, intervention of Am Yisroel united can stop these evil decrees.
Each and everyone of us can send an email or make a telephone call regarding this matter thereby increasing the pressures on our Leadership to take on more of a leadership role.
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Evelyn Hayes <rachelschildren@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Will the OU ask the Israeli government to cease and desist from
demolition of a Yeshiva?
27 Iyar 5770
Dear Rabbi Weil, Rabbi Safran, Rabbi Weil and all other rabbinical leaders,I believe the request below is a very important one and I do not want Yitzhar Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva destroyed. It is achilul HaShem and it will further denigrate Jews all over the world and increase anti-semistism because Jew bashing Jews is okay for the Jews so why shouldn't it be for the enemies of the Jews. We have already suffered the increase in anti-semitism to world wide proportions because of Jews delegitimizing themselves and attacking "settlers"'. Remember HaShem told Abraham to "settle" the land and no longer sojourn. As we are no longer wandering why has the abuser turned into the politicians in the independent nation of Israel reformed with a miracle and a blessing ?As anti-semitism has increased to effect Jews everywhere, we must remember the wise words of Sir Moses Montefiore, "Whatever happens to Jews anywhere in the world effects Jews everywhere in the world." Sir Moses Montefiore intervened in the Damascus affair in 1841. Our leaders must interefere in the Yitzhar Yeshiva affair in 2010 because a possible destruction will lead to further destructions effecting every synagogue and every Jew. It will shame Bnei Yisael. It denies the roots of our Judaism. It is what happened in pogrom times. Attacking a yeshiva and not illegal Arab building even by foreign enemies even in Jerusalem is working for the goals of the enmey who wants to destroy Israel and the Jewish people everywhere.As we scream against silence and shout "never again", it is time to focus on speaking up and getting involved in damage control today.Let our students learn. Remember, when they knew not Yosef, Egypt enslaved the Jews. Remember Yosef. Save Yosef in the land Yaakov bought near Kever Yosef. Save Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva.Evelyn Hayescc: David Bedein
Shalom U'vracha.
"If the government of Israel would announce a decision to demolish a Reform
Temple under the pretext of a building permit violation,the leaders of the
Reform Movement - Rabbi Eric Yoffe and Rabbi David Saperstein -
would mobilize hundreds of Reform Rabbis to pressure the Israeli government to
cease and desist from any such initiative,and the Israeli government would back
off.
Yesterday, the Israeli government announced its decision to demolish the Od
Yosef Chai Yeshiva under the pretext of a building permit violation:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3887165,00.html
The urgent question:
Will the OU lodge a protest with the government of Israel to cease and desist
from demolition of a yeshiva (which cost it over $1,000,000), and will the OU urge its members to do so?
There is no question that the Israeli government would back off under pressure.
With warmest personal and professional regards,
DAVID BEDEIN
Director, Israel Resource News Agency and Center for Near East Policy Research
Ltd.
Correspondent, The Philadelphia Bulletin
Suite 107
Beit Agron International Press Center
37 Hillel Street
Jerusalem 94581 Israel
www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com
Tel. 972 547 222 661
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Sincerely,
Robin Ticker
This email is L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.
