Thursday, June 11, 2015

Fwd: AMERICAN JEWISH LEADERS MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. Allow me to add... Please do so with the Truth of Torah. Tikkun Chait Miraglim, Correcting the Sin of the Spies.

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Thank you Truth Provider and Isi Liebler for your interesting points.  Allow me to strengthen certain points you make yet differ with you on others. 

Netanyahu's position regarding a Palestinian State is very wobbly and here President Obama makes a legitimate point.

Our position must be consistent with Torah. As it says Lesheker ain bo raglayim.  Falsehood has no legs.  Only truth will stand on its own 2 feet!

The Truth is that the Land of Israel is the Biblical Homeland of the Jewish People. As the former Governor of Arkasas Mike Huckabee stated The boundaries of Israel are not given by the United Nations but by Almighty G-d.  And those boundaries can be affirmed by man but not reshaped by man. 

This affirmation of a Biblical Truth will dispute President Obama's claim that Israel is merely acting upon fear of an existential threat and that the Palestinians have a legitimate claim. 
For those of you who did not watch the Dayan-Obama interview, mentioned in the article, here it is:
Obama argues that if somehow Israel's security concern was addressed and eliminated, Israel and the people of Israel, would be convinced to try giving the 2 State Solution a chance to hopefully bring "true" peace as per President Obama's expectations. 

We can argue from today till tomorrow that such a solution is unrealistic. However,  we can stop the argument cold in it's tracks with a disclaimer that there is no confusion regarding the Status of the Land of Israel. 

Let us talk with clarity! The Land of Israel is our Jewish Heritage and birthright and should be settled exclusively by Bnei Yisroel, the descendants of Israel and those who qualify as Ger Toshav. We are referring to those who are descended from the twelve Tribes of Israel and to non Jewish residents who abide by the 7 Noahide laws, accept G-d's Sovereignty and Israel's Sovereignty over the Land of Israel.  Israel has obligations to protect and provide for all it's residents whether they are Israelite or Ger Toshav.  

By the way, according to Torah, peace in the Land  of Israel can only come about by keeping the Commandments in the Land.  If we give Judea and Samaria to peaceful Palestinians, will they keep the Commandments of Shemittah not to mention all the Mitzvoth pertaining to the Land such as Teruma,( gifts to the priests) Maaser (tithes to the Levites and the poor etc.), Leket, Shikcha Peah (produce in the field to be left to the poor)  in a non Shemittah year? According to Torah, Jews will be driven out of the Land for not keeping Shemittah and commandments pertaining to the Land and the curses will fall upon Israel and by extension to the rest of the world, for Israel not keeping the commandments. 

President Obama saw through Netanyahu's political flip flop regarding Israel's recognition of a Palestinian State.  Before the elections, Netanyahu was adamant that there will never be a Palestinian State under his watch.  After the Elections Netanyahu changed his tune.

What is the true position of Israel regardless of what the Prime Minister says?  

According to Torah the true position is that Israel is the Promised Land exclusively to the Nation of Israel as per the Covenant, G-d made with our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob as clearly spelled  and delineated in the Torah!

Now I ask...Where are the American Orthodox, Chareidi, Dati Leumi, Chabad, YI, OU, RCA Rabbanim??????WHY AREN'T THEY STANDING UP TO BE COUNTED?????

Aren't they required by Halacha to testify publicly before the Nations of the World as per the first Rashi of Breishis? 

Isn't now an auspicious time to stand up strong  behind Tzippy Hotoveli, deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, or alternatively will we be passive and allow a void created by our Silence to be filled in by Israel's enemies, the State Department, the Vatican, the EU, the UN, the American Supreme Court,  with legitimization and support of a false Palestinian Narrative?

What will our Jewish  Leaders say when after 120 years they will be facing the heavenly court who will shine the light of truth to all the souls attending.  How deep will be our shame and regret for not having stood up for G-d's Covenant and instead feared for our jobs and/or our positions of leadership and/or feared the wrath of the Nations of the world who lash out in a non trivial manner to those who speak the truth! Will we see the devastation of a nuclear War and the barbarity of Isis as the consequences of Israel's Silence to International condemnation of Israel's alleged war crimes and alleged illegal Occupation?  

  • Will we be held accountable for our Silence when Jerusalem was not recognized as the official Capitol of Israel according to the American Supreme Court. 
  • Will we be held accountable for our silence when Jews are refused permission to pray on Har Habayit yet soccer games are allowed and other sometimes false religions are allowed to pray with no interference.  
  • Will we be held accountable for our silence in the face of International condemnation and our failure to proclaim that Judea and Samaria are the true birthright and inheritance of the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin and Ephraim and Menasheh and Levites rather than Palestinians who are a trumped up people created only in response to Israel's return to Our Land. 

What was the end of the Miraglim in the Desert who discouraged the people from entering and conquering the Land of Israel? G-d forbid that any of us end up like them!!!!

Tzipi Hotovely Quotes Rashi In Telling Diplomats That All Of Israel's Land Belongs To Jews May 26, 2015 

Hotovely, who is the highest-ranking official at the Israeli Foreign Ministry due to the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu did not appoint a foreign minister, spoke of the need to return to the "basic truth" about who controls the land.
"The international community deals with considerations of justice and morality," she said. "We need to return to the basic truth of our right to this land."
Hotovely ended her address by quoting Rashi, who described how Hashem gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people.
There is finally a government that speaks words of Torah!  Isnt this what we have been praying for???
"Rashi says the Torah opens with the story of the creation of the world so that if the nations of the world come and tell you that you are occupiers, you must respond that all of the land belonged to the creator of world and when he wanted to, he took from them and gave to us," she said.
It is not too late!
 As the Torah clearly states that if we go with G-d with Kerry (Happenstance), G-d in turn will treat us with Kerry (happenstance) 

Thursday, November 14, 2013
"If you behave casually (Kerry) with Me " Going Happenstance with Hashem brings curses. (PARSHAT BECHUKOSAI) Ein Od Milvado 
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2013/11/if-you-behave-casually-kerry-with-me.html

Years ago I attended a collegiate gathering one Friday night in the home of Rabbi Yosef Grunblatt z"l, the Rav of the Queens Jewish Center in Forest Hills. Besides being a Rabbi,  Rabbi Grunblatt held a PHD in philosophy. 

At this gathering, I recall him saying that it was too early to comprehend the enormity of what happened in the Holocaust and to question G-d's ways.  Time he said will hopefully give us a better perspective.  

Now it is over 30 years later and we are on the cusp of another Holocaust Chas Veshalom G-d forbid.  Israel is surrounded by brutal barbarians, Isis and Iran or their proxies, rampant BDS and global antisemitism and condemnation worldwide. Surely, we must find some answers now before it is too late....

Surely Hashem does not want to bring upon us another Holocaust. Therefore we must conclude that it can be prevented. 





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From: Truth Provider <ynz@netvision.net.il>
Date: Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:32 PM
Subject: AMERICAN JEWISH LEADERS MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
To: faigerayzel@gmail.com





Dear friends,
The latest article by Isi Leibler contains a chronology of all the latest Obama deceitful manipulations and omissions.
Isi Leibler is far from being "right" wing zealot. He is a centrist who conveys the truth. In this case, the very unfortunate truth.
For those of you who did not watch the Dayan-Obama interview, mentioned in the article, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA-1Nl-5PX0
And here are a few points about the interview:
1) On several occasions Dayan provides Obama with an anti-Israeli or anti-Netanyahu opener, such as the "segregation" of "Palestinians" on busses which never got off the ground and had to do only with security issues not racial.
2) Obama mentions many pre-conditions demanded by Netanyahu for renewing the peace process. In truth, Netanyahu speaks only about two: The "Palestinians" must recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland (dah), and the "Palestinian" state must remain demilitarized (another dah).
3) Obama demands settlements freeze, but has not one single demand from the "Palestinians."
4) Obama says "I never suggested that Israel should compromise her security." Of course he "forgets" his demand that Israel should return to the indefensible 1949 Armistice lines, which Abba Eban named the "Auschwitz Lines."
Like Ilana Dayan, the American Jewish "leaders" that recently met with Obama were afraid to confront, challenge and stand up to him.
Now please read Isi Leibler article.
Your Truth Provider,
Yuval.
AMERICAN JEWISH LEADERS FAIL TO RESPOND TO OBAMA'S THREATS
Isi Leibler
It is time to stop making excuses for American Jewish leaders and their failure to respond to US President Barack Obama's latest charm offensive, expressing "admiration" for Jews and "love" of Israel as a mantle to cast moral aspersions against the democratically elected government of Israel.

Obama is clearly determined to undermine the standing of the newly elected Israeli government by embarking on a campaign to promote an utterly fictional narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict, even in advance of the June 30 deadline of the "negotiations" with Iran.
He orchestrated interviews with journalists Jeffrey Goldberg and Tom Friedman, whom he uses regularly to convey his distaste for Israeli policies - and Ilana Dayan of Israel's Channel 2 TV. Considered a tough investigative journalist, Dayan on this occasion acted as though she were launching an Obama fan club.
She failed to pose any challenging questions and instead provided openings for him to benevolently display his loathing for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama also gave a major address to a Jewish audience at Washington's Conservative Adas Israel congregation
One of his acolytes, David Axelrod, recalls Obama - who for many years belonged to a church with an anti-Semitic pastor - describing himself as "the closest thing to a Jew" who has ever served as an American president. At Adas Israel, Obama even described himself as "an honorary member of the tribe" and called on Israelis and Jews to concentrate on "tikkun olam - repairing the world," implying that universal humanistic values are more in keeping with Judaism than nationalism.

He repeatedly stressed the linkage between African- Americans and Jewish Americans and the struggle for civil rights and equality - deviously contrasting this with the manner in which Israelis supposedly treat Palestinians.

Stressing that he considers Israel's security paramount and that he "understands Israeli concerns and fears," he insisted that the Jewish state needed tough love from its friends, assuring his audience that he felt he had a better understanding of Israel's needs than Israelis themselves. He effectively called on American Jews to choose between his flawed evaluation of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the concerns about security and survival shared by the majority of Israelis.
Obama had the chutzpah to warn that the current Israeli government would alienate the people of America and the global community because it was diverging from the noble sentiments expressed in Israel's Declaration of Independence.

Intensifying his vendetta against Netanyahu, he effectively described him as a deceitful liar who could not be trusted. He constantly harped on two statements that Netanyahu had uttered in the heat of the election and had subsequently repeatedly repudiated. However, not even once did he condemn the Palestinian Authority for its daily incitement of hatred, sanctification of mass murderers, or criminalization of Israel at the UN.
He warned that Israel has become obsessed with fear, claiming ludicrously that the US had proposed solutions by which, given goodwill, Israel's security concerns could have been overcome. He urged Israelis to adopt "the politics of hope."
He chided Israel for being obstinate and inflexible, thus preventing the peace process from moving forward, and clearly held Israel responsible for the breakdown of negotiations - conveniently ignoring the fact that it was PA President Mahmoud Abbas who terminated the talks and breached the Oslo Accords by unilaterally seeking recognition at the United Nations and uniting with Hamas. He failed to make mention of Israel's major concessions, including a 10-month settlement freeze to pave the way for negotiations - to which Abbas only responded in the 10th month - and the wretched release of mass murderers who were subsequently feted as heroes and many of whom renewed their terrorist activities.
And to top it off, Obama even made the outrageous observation that Netanyahu "had so many caveats, so many conditions" that the Palestinian officials and others might not see Netanyahu as a reliable negotiating partner.

MELODRAMATICALLY, HE added that the "rights of the Jewish people compel me to think about the rights of a Palestinian child in Ramallah who feels trapped without opportunity," yet omitted any mention of Israel's withdrawal from all of Gaza or the fact that in the main cities of Judea and Samaria, beyond issues directly related to security, Arabs have complete autonomy.
Obama postulates that Israel must be more flexible in order to convince the world that it genuinely favors a Palestinian state. In fact, the vast majority of Israelis would be overjoyed if they could separate themselves from the Palestinians but realize that to do so now could result in self-destruction. For Obama to make such a call under the current circumstances is not merely disingenuous, it is effectively a clear message to the Arabs to intensify their demands and continue their policy of "we take, you give."

The US president is well aware of the mayhem and barbarism that prevails in the region. He knows that were Israel to cede additional territories, they would almost certainly be taken over by Hamas or even the more radical Islamic State group, leading to a breakdown of security and challenging the very existence of the Jewish state. No Israeli government would compromise the country's security in this manner.

But the truly chilling aspect of Obama's interviews was his undisguised threat that, unless Israel accepted his dictates, the US would cease employing its veto at the United Nations Security Council. In other words, a total diplomatic abandonment of Israel. In stating this, he is also openly encouraging the Europeans to intensify their campaigns to pressure and extend sanctions against Israel.

The most disconcerting aspect of these developments is that, aside from the Zionist Organization of America, there has been a total lack of response from the American Jewish leadership. Obama has floated trial balloons to test the American Jewish community's reaction to extending his confrontation with Israel. He clearly anticipates their support and recognition that he knows better than Israelis what is good for them.
Public opinion in the United States and the Republican- dominated Congress is highly favorable and strongly supportive of Israel. However, if Jewish communal leaders remain silent in response to such a biased frontal attack against Israeli policies, based on false premises, they are giving Obama the green light.

The role of a Jewish leadership is to lead and represent the Jewish community, which is committed to the survival and security of the State of Israel. Unfortunately, however, many American Jews have become so acculturated that they have no understanding of Judaism or the crucial relevance of Israel to their Jewish identity.
Moreover, it is unreasonable to expect Congress and friends of Israel to be more supportive of the Jewish state than the Jewish leadership. The silence of Jewish community leaders will also send a message to future presidential candidates that they will not be penalized by the Jewish community if they continue treating Israel in a similarly contemptuous manner.
The Jewish leaders' defense is that public criticism of the president would jeopardize the bipartisan approach of Congress toward Israel. However, if bipartisanship becomes an end in itself, the Jewish community will become paralyzed, lose its political influence and be considered politically impotent.

To maintain a modicum of self-respect and dignity, Jewish leaders must respectfully but forcefully condemn and criticize the propagation of factual errors, bias and threats conveyed by their president. If they fail to act, history will judge them harshly. When in 1944, in one of the most shameful chapters in American Jewish life, Rabbi Stephen Wise failed to confront President Franklin Roosevelt's refusal to come to the aid of European Jews, the Jewish community was weak and faced enormous anti-Semitism. The situation is very different today and there are no grounds for the Jewish community to be less outspoken than other Americans in criticizing their president when they consider he is acting against the best interest of the nation.
A failure by the American Jewish leadership to vigorously speak out against their president after he has effectively undermined and distorted Israel's role could have untold negative consequences, not only for Israel but for American Jewry itself. The time has now come for Jewish leaders to stand up and be counted.

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Saturday, June 06, 2015

Re: The Christianization of Zionism

On Jun 6, 2015 9:49 PM, "Paul Eidelberg" <foundation612.12@gmail.com> wrote:

The Christianization of Zionism

 

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

 

 

In Theodor Herzl's path-setting Zionist book The Jewish State, the Torah is reduced to a "religion," relegated to the home and the synagogue. Severed from Public Law, Zionism was rendered comparable to antinomian Christianity: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

 

This dualism is foreign to the Torah. It splits the mind, placing secular values, such as security, on the level of the spiritual values, such as morality. PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently said he wants to be remembered as having brought security to Israel.  That very much sums up the modus operandi of secular Zionism.

 

Therefore, it needs to be stressed that Zionism can't be secular without violating the original meaning of the term "Zion," which involves three interrelated ideas:  (1) the People of Israel, (2) the Land of Israel, and, above all (3) the Torah.

 

Hence, we should admit that if Jews, 2,000 years ago had "Zionist" leaders like Binyamin Netanyahu, the Jewish people would have become as extinct as the Phoenicians.  No serious person will dispute the fact that it was only the Torah that preserved the Jewish people during these past two millennia. 

 

Zionism suffered a crippling stroke when the Yitzhak Rabin signed the Israel-PLO Agreement of 1993. The coup de grace came when Netanyahu, on June 1, 2009, endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria. That marked the official death of Zionism.

 

The death of Zionism means that politics in Israel has no distinctively Jewish national goal. The "politics of peace" embraced by Israeli prime ministers has not only disemboweled the Jewish state. Notice that Netanyahu's insistence that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people has been met with contempt. It's as if the PA, the leaders of an "invented people," discerned that Netanyahu without the Torah lacked authenticity!  

 

Nevertheless, the Jewish people should not be disheartened by Israel's political decay. Never have so many Jews returned to the Torah. A veritable renascence is taking place in the study of Jewish law, the Halakha, revealing its great rationality and relevance. Moreover, scientists and mathematicians are engaged in fundamental Torah research, showing that the Torah is not only the paradigm of how man should live, but the paradigm of knowledge. The convergence of Torah and science is enfolding at a quickening pace, as is documented in my latest book Rescuing America from Nihilism: A Judeo-Scientific Approach. 

 

Meanwhile, more and more people in Israel realize that politics is incapable of solving any of the nation's basic problems. They are becoming increasingly aware of Israel's dysfunctional government, whose average tenure is only two years, a government, moreover, whose cabinet consists of 5 or 6 rival parties competing for a larger slice of the public treasury. Who does not see the absurdity of a political system where 30 and more parties vie for seats in the menagerie called Israel's "Knesset?

  

It should also be noted that more and more people are fed up with the aggrandizement of Israel's Supreme Court, which often trashes the abiding beliefs of the Jewish people. This "courtocracy" has made a mockery not only of democracy, but also of the rule of law, given its imperialistic and despotic dictum "everything is justiciable"! And this is not all. 

 

Who does not know that the Oslovian peace process is a fraud, a deadly fraud, for which no Israeli Government has been held accountable?

  

It matters not who is Israel's prime minister, whether he's a sharp-witted secularist like Binyamin Netanyahu, or a dull-witted secularist like Ehud Barak. Both have ignored the Torah's vital imperative, "Justicejustice shall you pursueso that you will live and possess the Land that Hashem your God gives you (Deuteronomy 16:20)

  

Absent the Torah, absent Jewish national identity and purpose, Israeli Prime Ministers will stagger like drunkards. The Government will genuflect to "the nations."  Jews will be despised, and the Jewish state will be deemed a pariah. 

 

We may therefore conclude that Israel's salvation requires a Torah-oriented statesman on the one hand, and a Judaic form of democracy on the other. Only when the two are conjoined will Israel transcend the Christianization of Zionism.☼

 

 

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Mike Huckabee famous line at the Concert: "The boundaries of Israel are not given by the United Nations but by Almighty G-d!"

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Mike Huckabee @ Israel Day Concert (Transcript)

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/06/mike-huckabee-israel-day-concert.html

The entire speech was magnificent!  But the most telling line in my opinion is The boundaries of Israel are not given by the United Nations but by Almighty G-d.  And those boundaries can be affirmed by man but not reshaped by man. 

Jews are too afraid to speak of our entitlement based on G-d.  We instead speak of International law, security etc.  These arguments have great value but they are so much more potent when prefaced with the given above as stated by Mike Huckabee! 

Prime Minister Netanyahu has a strong gov't. Yet he himself has weakened Israel's position by continuously reassuring America our desire to establish a Palestinian State so long as there is a peace partner.

Obama himself says that Netanyahu does not mean it. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/03/obama-rips-benjamin-netanyahu-again/ Why doesn't Netanyahu come clean and agree, rather than to continue a false narrative.  

Probably because then Obama will have reason to use it against Israel in the Security Council as he has threatened to do so.  

In any case, let us not be bullied. Let Netanyahu say that Israel has decided to cut it's losses with a failed Oslo, failed Peace Process.  We have invested much too much into something who by it's very essence is in contradiction with Truth and the Bible.  The truth of the Bible is that G-d promised the entire Land of Israel, inclusive of Judea, Samaria and Temple Mount and the entire Jerusalem to the Nation of Israel. We are not a racist country and all non Jews are welcome so long as they accept Israel's Soverignty and the 7 Noahide Laws the foundation of Universal morality. Using children as Suicide bombers against Israeli civilian population clearly do not meet this criteria. 

Is it any wonder that the "peace process"  and negotiations have failed and has brought  only more terror and destruction and less security to the people of Israel. In fact is has brought instability and the rise of radical Islam to the entire Middle East and has spread to the entire world.  

However, it is never too late!

The process of teshuva involves the following four steps:  http://www.aish.com/h/hh/gar/atonement/48954551.html

Step 1 - Regret. Realize the extent of the damage and feel sincere regret.

Step 2 - Cessation. Immediately stop the harmful action.

Step 3 - Confession. Articulate the mistake and ask for forgiveness.

Step 4 - Resolution. Make a firm commitment not to repeat it in the future.

We are not interested in pointing fingers....We all acknowledge that the pressures of the Gov't of Israel were and are very intense....None of us can say we would act or would have acted any differently had we been Prime Minister. 

Yet to continue in a suicidal fashion is not an option....When we are confident of our message, this confidence based on the righteousness of our claim to the Land of Israel and faith and trust in G-d, has protected us in the past and will protect us in the future.  It requires a great deal of  Emunah and prayer.

Hashem Oz LeAmo Yiten Hashem Yevaren es Amo Bashalom Hashem Oz - Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach - ה' עוז לעמו ייתן - רבי שלמה קרליבך  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ddkR4F2Ic&safe=active



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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

JCCWatch working on Tikkun (fixing) UJA Federation. Will UJA finally admit they are wrong? They have enriched, empowered Israel's bashers and enemies through their "Israel" funds.

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June 22, 2015
Most Criticized, Most Listened-To:Richard Allen in NYC 
by Susie Dym


April 30, 2015
Anti Israel Jews: Jewish Community Alert: 101 Shofar Rally Against The UJA-Federation for Promoting Boycott Israel Groups
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/04/anti-israel-jews-jewish-community-alert.html

By JCCWATCH - May 27, 2015
UJA-Federation Exposed: $6 Million Sent to New Israel Fund Via Wholly-Owned Subsidiary JCF Jewish Communal Fund.

BY JCCWATCH · MAY 28, 2015
UJA-Federation Funding Propaganda Films Against Israel with $300,000 in Donations

BY JCCWATCH June 3, 2015
Editorial Response: Promoting Disinformation at The Jewish Week

Is it no wonder the UJA is getting upset at JCCWATCH for exposing those among them who have been traitors to Israel!

Money does not make the world go around.  But G-d does!

The first step towards doing Teshuva is admitting one is at fault. 


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Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:37 PM
Subject: Promoting Disinformation at The Jewish Week
To: Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com>


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Gary Rosenblatt is correct that now is the time to support Jewish unity, as he wrote in an editorial published in The Jewish Week. But the rest of his screed directed against JCCWatch.org is just more disinformation.
Gary Rosenblatt defends those groups that wreak havoc on Jewish unity with their false charges against Israel, and fellow Jews. Has he denounced them for damaging Jewish unity -- or only the critics who call attention to their reckless lies against the Jewish state?
The New Israel Fund, that Gary Rosenblatt calls "progressive," directly funds Breaking the Silence, a non-profit that published anonymous accusations against Israel, accusing young soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces of war crimes as they defended our beloved Israel against Hamas's missiles and terror tunnels.
Today, the Israeli government lodged a formal complaint against the government of Switzerland, which, along with Norway, stands with the New Israel Fund to finance Breaking the Silence.
"We cannot accept the actions of an organization whose aim is to smear soldiers in the Israeli army in the international arena and to cause serious harm to Israel's image," an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman told AFP. If the Israeli government finds Breaking the Silence to be illegitimate, why should the UJA-Federation provide cover to send the group donations from America?
Last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council, which has always been a forum for those who hate Israel, heard from 10 New Israel Fund grantees that argued that Israel should be brought to justice for war crimes. Is that what The Jewish Week wants?
In this age of anti-Semitism, why does B'Tselem, which received $192,295 last year from the New Israel Fund, publish a major Op-Ed in The New York Times, the day after the Israel Day Parade, calling Israeli democracy a "charade"?
The real "charade," not mentioned even once in the article written by B'Tselem, "which monitors Israeli actions in the West Bank," as Gary Rosenblatt writes, is anything about the Palestinian Authority, whose elected president is now in the 10th year of his four-year term.
The Jewish Week would have you believe that the UJA-Federation has no control over the Jewish Communal Fund that sent $6 million to the New Israel Fund, which, in turn, financed the chaos wrought by Breaking the Silence and B'Tselem.
In fact, they control all of it. UJA-Federation is the only owner of the Jewish Communal Fund. Alisa Doctoroff, the UJA-Federation president, is on the board of the Jewish Communal Fund, and the bylaws spell out precisely their responsibilities to block donor recommendations that go against the Jewish community.
The board has two responsibilities according to those bylaws: to be "committed to supporting causes that promote the welfare and security of the Jewish community here and abroad" and to "deny any grant request where the purposes and activities of the recommended charitable organization are deemed to be adverse to the interests of the Jewish community."
Wouldn't charging Israelis with war crimes and calling the only democracy in the Middle East a "charade" be "adverse to the interests of the Jewish community"?
In supporting those interests of the Jewish community, Federations across the country publish Jewish newspapers. Truth be known, the UJA-Federation actually owned The Jewish Week and spun it off under court order as a not-for-profit whose assets, if ever liquidated, would be returned to the UJA-Federation. In addition, UJA-Federation board members also sit on the board of The Jewish Week  Neither of these two conflicts of interest were disclosed by Gary Rosenblatt to his readers when he writes in support of the UJA-Federation, but they should be.
Gary Rosenblatt must end this disinformation campaign. The Jewish Week readers deserve to learn the facts about how the UJA-Federation and its affiliates finance the "progressive" work of the New Israel Fund.



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Promoting Disunity
The Jewish Week Editorial of June 3, 2015
Wednesday, June 3 was designated this year as "Jewish Unity Day," established by the City of Jerusalem and Gesher, an organization that seeks to close the gap among Jews of different denominations. It comes a year after the kidnapping and murder of three teenage boys in Israel, a tragedy that, however briefly, brought the country together and linked Jews of the diaspora with their brothers and sisters in the Jewish state. To mark the occasion, Jewish Unity Prizes were presented to individuals and organizations from Israel and around the world, honored for strengthening communal understanding.
It's an inspiring concept and one we hope will become more widely known. Not surprisingly, JCC Watch, a local grassroots group that seeks to hold "Jewish communal groups accountable," according to its website, was not among the prize recipients. Far from it. The group has been conducting a campaign against prominent Jewish organizations and individual leaders for allegedly supporting BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel. JCC Watch seemingly sees no distinction between a gift to the progressive New Israel Fund, which advocates for equality among all Israelis, and calling for the end of Israel as a Jewish state.
Surely there are legitimate political and ideological issues at play in determining who is in or out of the Jewish communal tent. But the JCC Watch's latest effort may be its most brazen, announcing in a headline on its website that "your donations to UJA go to delegitimize the State of Israel."
That's quite a stretch, an irresponsible claim in the spirit of the McCarthy era. It's based on the notion that UJA-Federation is responsible for the personal donations made through the Jewish Communal Fund (JCF), a donor-advised fund. Operating like charitable funds at Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard, JCF is made up of more than 1,500 individual funds established by donors. Those donors recommend where their contributions should go and support charitable giving to thousands of organizations.
Some of those individual donations go to groups like New Israel Fund or B'Tselem, which monitors Israeli actions in the West Bank. Such groups are viewed by JCC Watch as destructive to Israel.
But UJA-Federation, which established JCF, does not provide any grants to the New Israel Fund, and has nothing to do with the JCF grant process, which is up to individual donors. JCF also has its own board and its own 501-c3 status.
JCC Watch knows all that but prefers to confuse the public. Not only does it stir up trouble in the spirit of communal disunity and discord, it does harm to the State of Israel we all seek to strengthen, each in our own way.


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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Kever Dovid at Risk? - Desecration at David's Tomb. Breslav Rabbi Shalom Arush and several of his hassidim pray at the site in an attempt to prevent the Christian prayer service

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June 1, 2015 
Arutz7 by Shimon  Cohen,  Ari Yasher and 
Watch: Christian Ritual 'Desecrates' King David's Tomb
Activist reveals how Greek Orthodox priests held Pentecost Mass prayers at tomb marker room in 'desecration of G-d's name
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/196110#.VWz1-c9Viko
Jerusalem activist Efraim Holtzberg, who was on scene during the ceremony and documented it, told Arutz Sheva about the incident..... see link to post for full story. In this link the article states:

"The institution of regular Catholic and Greek Orthodox prayers at the site are particularly sensitive because they constitute a severe breach of Jewish prayer rights. Rabbis have argued Jews will be prevented from entering the holy site altogether because Jewish law forbids using a building that is used for idol-worship - a category which the Christian worship, with its use of effigies, falls under according to Jewish law....

Holtzberg noted that in order to prevent the Torah scrolls at the site from being desecrated by their proximity to the ritual, Rabbi Arush's followers removed them from the grave marker chamber.

"The Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem need to wake up and together with the Chief Rabbis (of Israel) stop this disgrace," he urged. "The Christians say that Jesus was the inheritor of King David, and when the government of Israel gives them a permit to hold ritual ceremonies, it gives approval to their false claim.""

June 1, 2015  (a leftwing perspective)
Police evacuate scores of Jewish activists barricading in King David's Tomb
Hardline Jews barricade inside flash-point religious site, attempting to prevent Christian prayer service.

May 31, 2015
Hundreds of Protesters Block Christian Mass at David's Tomb by Ari Sofer

Protests erupt as Christian groups opt for controversial choice of site for Pentecost services; Mass moved to adjacent hall.
Hundreds of Jews have amassed outside David's Tomb in Jerusalem - among them prominent Breslov Hassidic leader Rabbi Shalom Arush - in an effort to block a controversial Christian Mass from being held there Sunday morning.

05/31/2015 CHRISTIAN NEWS By JEREMY SHARON  JPost
WATCH: Protestors attempt to prevent Christian worshipers at King David's tomb

More re: Kever Yosef 

A letter had been written 23 years prior signed by Rav Eliashiv zt"l and Rav Auerbach zt"l and signed again in 2014 by Rav Kook, Rav Shteinman and Rav Kanievsky. 

Letter signed by Chareidi Rabbanim  re: Kever Yosef

Signing in trepidation for the peace of our Holy city and pride
 
A. L. Steinman
Haim Kanyevsky
Simcha haCohen Kook
Signed in TShN"B also by HaGaon Rav Sholom Eyiashiv and HaGaon Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach

More on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com re: Kever Dovid

Last Year....

Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Outrage at the possible handing over of King David's Tomb to the Vatican.

May 3, 2014
Netanyahu 'Asked Rabbi to Allow Giving David's Tomb to Vatican'


Thursday, 01 May 2014 by Rabbi Lazer Brody
KING DAVID'S TOMB - JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE
Strong words by Rabbi Lazer Brody to Prime Minister Netanyahu
Our sages warned us that in the days before Moshiach comes, the world will be prevalent with lies and the truth will be difficult to find. How right they were...

The ink is barely dry on our post from yesterday, A State for Jews or a Jewish State, where we observed the hypocrisy of demanding to be recognized as a Jewish State while acting like anything but a Jewish State. Maybe our post jolted the Prime Minister, because he just made a declaration that he'll initiate legislation that defines Israel as a Jewish State.
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Many of us are King David's descendants.....

Not only was King David Hashem's anointed King of Israel, he is the great grandfather of Moshiach, may he come soon, amen. King David is the author of the Book of Psalms, the greatest bestseller of history. According to Kabbala, as King of Israel, his soul had sparks of all of Israel. That is why everyone of identifies with Psalms. King David is buried on Mount Zion. 

How can you be a Zionist if you give away Zion, and to those who engineered and supported the persecution and destruction of our people for the last 1200 years?

Hashem's Jerusalem and the holy gravesite of His anointed son David are not for sale. Think again, Mr. Prime Minister. 


April 30, 2014
Jewishpress.com by Hannah Levi Julian
Government Plan to Hand King David's Tomb to the Vatican?

Rumors prompted Minister Tzipi Hotovely to write a query on the matter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
 
19 Tishrei 5773

Tehillim at Kever Dovid HaMelech Eve of Hoshana Rabba as per instructions of the Frierdiker Rebbe
Tthe Chevras Thillim Olomis under the auspices of Collel Chabad will gather for the 70th time, at 10:00 PM, to say the entire Sefer Thillim at Kever Dovid HaMelech in Yerushalayim.  Chevras Thillim Olomis was founded by the Frierdiker Rebbe in 5702, and the Rebbe would send names to be mentioned during the Thillim recitation.
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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog.