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Dayan (Rabbi) Osher (Usher, Asher) Zelig Weiss[1](1953- ) is the current Rosh Kollel of Machon Minchas Osher L'Torah V'Horaah. He grew up in a Klausenberger family in Borough Park, Brooklyn.[2]
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Shemittah, the Jewish Sabbatical year, brings security and blessing. The Torah says keeping this Mitzvah will prevent disaster and exile. Shemittah is Shabbat LaHashem. A taste of the World to Come. Learn about one womens quest for knowledge and rediscovery of this long lost Mitzvah according to the simple Torah reading of the text found in the beginning posts of this blog.
Daniel Greenfield's article: Democrat Backing for Anti-Semitism is Killing Jews |
Democrat Backing for Anti-Semitism is Killing Jews Posted: 15 Jan 2020 02:32 PM PST After a black nationalist attack on a Jewish supermarket in Jersey City, a member of the Jersey City Board of Education defended the murder of two Jewish people and a Latino employee. "Drugs and guns are planted in the Black community," Joan Terrell Paige ranted on Facebook. The two Black Hebrew Israelite killers, the former community organizer wrote, "went directly to the kosher supermarket. I believe they knew they would come out in body bags. What is the message they were sending? Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message? Are we brave enough to stop the assault on the Black communities of America?" While some Democrats called on Joan Terrell Paige to resign, others defended her hatred of Jews. The Hudson County Democratic Black Caucus argued that "her statement has heightened awareness around issues that must be addressed." "She said nothing wrong. Everything she said is the truth," declared Carolyn Oliver Fair, the head of the North Jersey Chapter of the National Action Network. The NAN is Al Sharpton's organization and has been addressed by every important Democrat from Barack Obama to Nancy Pelosi to Elizabeth Warren. Virtually every 2020 Democrat has appeared at the National Action Network including Warren, Andrew Yang, Julian Castro, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Bernie Sanders despite its ugly history even before Fair's support for murdering Jews. Sharpton had been the central figure in the Crown Heights Pogrom, he has a history of anti-Semitic slurs, and the NAN has blood on its hands. Unlike many contemporary hate groups, the National Action Network has the unique distinction of being the destination of choice for every major Democrat and for its role in the murder of 7 people. Those were the 7 who died in the Freddy's Fashion Mart fire, 5 of them Latino women, who were killed when a black nationalist gunman ordered black people to leave before opening fire and burning the store. The worst racist hate crime in New York City was preceded by Sharpton denouncing the store owner as a, "white interloper". Morris Powell, who had been on trial for breaking a Korean woman's head during a previous protest, had headed the National Action Network's Buy Black committee. Powell had chanted, "Don't give the Jew a dime", outside the store and praised the killer as, "A Black Man who struggled for his people to be free." The New York Times headlined its piece on the black nationalist killer as, "A Life of Resistance." The sympathetic profile of a racist monster who murdered seven people would never have been run about Dylann Roof or Robert Bowers. Nor would a racist massacre have been described as "resistance". But the New York Times quoted an Imam in the Believers Mosque in St. Petersburg who praised the racist arsonist as "the type of person who would encourage people to get involved." A former senior advisor to the Mayor of Tampa and Democrat campaign consultant described the killer as one in "a long line of people who thought it was up to them to stop talking, stop begging and start acting." Those comments closely echo Paige's justification of the Kosher market attack. It's why it ought to surprise no one that she has not resigned from the Jersey City Board of Education. And isn't likely to. Instead, John Flora, a Democrats running for Congress, defended her and urged other elected officials to "be prepared to demonstrate empathy. Was she still processing the event? Did it traumatize her?" Flora is running for Congress on a bold platform of the Green New Deal, gun control, legalizing drugs, abolishing the electoral college and hating Jews. With the backing of local Democrats, it appears that Paige isn't going anywhere. And Democrats won't stop appearing at National Action Network events. Not even after the murders of 7 and 3 people. The underlying problem is that the Democrats don't oppose racism or racial nationalism. They believe that under circumstances, such as a Jewish store in Harlem or in Jersey City, it might be justified. They have one standard for white nationalism and another for black nationalism. Had Dylann Roof been a black man shooting up a synagogue, we would be reading about his "life of resistance" in the New York Times. The tragedy of the Jersey City attack taking place on a street named after Martin Luther King is that while there are streets in every major city named after the civil rights activist, civil rights has fallen to identity politics. Where civil rights called for equality, identity politics is nationalism and supremacism. Democrats have used racial hatred for two centuries to appeal to a fractured electorate convinced of its own superiority and the unfairness of the system. That the electorate shifted races is a minor detail. The truly important thing to understand is that since 1828, the Democrats have gained and held on to power by convincing narrow groups that the deck is stacked against them and that only they can save them. This poison killed numberless black and white people across two centuries. It also brought countless wealth into the pockets of the politically connected. From slavery and segregation, to the fire at Freddy's and the shooting in Jersey City, countless acts of racial violence were perpetrated so that Democrats could keep their hands on the pork and graft that really makes government, local, state and federal, run. Radical politics added an ideological motive. But all politics, whether radical or moderate, from the Dixiecrat to the Communist, is ultimately about the acquisition of money and power. Racism, white or black, is just a means of tribalizing the struggle for money and power by playing on racial fear and hate. The victims of identity politics, killed and wounded in random lynchings, are the collateral damage of progressive racism. A few dead people, in this case Jews, are a small price to pay for power. The rise in anti-Semitism is not mysterious. It is what happens when political factions back fringe groups convinced of the fundamental unfairness of society and the need to bring it down, whether it's black or white supremacists, or Islamists, as weapons in a political war for control of the country. People are dying in racial violence across the country so that the Democrats can win elections. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Thank you for reading. |
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From Israel: It's Time... Time to touch base on Israel's political situation. I have studiously avoided writing about it for many weeks because the
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From Israel: It's Time...
Time to touch base on Israel's political situation.
I have studiously avoided writing about it for many weeks because the situation has been so in flux that whatever I wrote would probably have changed by the time most of my readers read my posting.
More to the point, perhaps, I found the entire situation to be terribly sad and in many respects simply disgusting because of the infighting on the right.
There has been some resolution now, as party lists had to be submitted by midnight on Wednesday. This is why I say it is time. But that does not mean I am buoyed by what has taken place. I am not.
Hopeful – prayerful – that in the end the result of what has transpired will be good, but distressed by much of what has taken place.
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The resolution: the New Right Party of Naftali Bennett (pictured) and Ayelet Shaked; Bayit Hayehudi, headed by Rafi Peretz; and National Union, headed by Bezalel Smotrich are running together as a bloc.
Bennett, who now finds himself in a good place in terms of the arrangements, will head this bloc – which is essentially Yamina from the last election come together again; he says it is a permanent right wing faction and not a political bloc that will separate after the election.
Kobi Richter/TPS
Left out of this bloc of unity is Otzma Yehudit, headed by Itamar Ben Gvir.
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That it took until almost midnight of the final day for registering lists for this to come together tells us a great deal about what has been going on. What follows is a brief, unsavory summary.
Bennett and Ayelet Shaked had announced that the New Right was going to run alone. Bennett made it clear that they would not seek to draw voters from Likud, but, rather, from Blue & White and Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu. That sounded good. They were confident that they would pass the threshold, particularly in light of Bennett's new prominence (and popularity) as Defense Minister.
The focus, then, was on a joint run by Bayit Hayehudi and National Union to ensure that these parties would pass the threshold. Negotiations that aimed towards achieving this did not go well, however. It was already clear that Peretz was insecure about his ability to retain leadership of the party and so had balked at an internal primary; this did not sit well with Bayit Yehudi membership.
In negotiations, Smotrich (pictured) was challenging him in certain regards – agreeing to a joint run now, with the demand that there would be primaries within the year. This likely would have brought the far more popular Smotrich to the fore. Peretz broke off negotiations with Smotrich and turned to Ben Gvir. In short order, Bayit Yehudi and Otzma had struck an understanding to run together.
Smotrich was not included – I believe was not even consulted or informed.
Credit: Hezki Baruch
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Smotrich, then, stood alone, facing the prospect that the National Union might not pass the threshold. He turned to Bennett and negotiated a join run with the New Right.
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Netanyahu, however, was exceedingly unhappy with the fact that there would be two different right wing blocs running – his fear, presumably, being that there might be lost mandates. The election is likely to be so close that losing any mandates becomes a matter of considerable concern. He pushed for the two blocs to merge.
At this point, Bennett made what I consider to be a most unfortunate comment on Facebook, directed at Ben Gvir:
"I will not include someone on my electoral list who has a picture in his living room of a person who murdered 29 innocent people."
This was a reference to a picture of Baruch Goldstein, which Ben Gvir had in his home. I will complete my narrative, and then explain why I found this comment so unfortunate. It was clearly directed at the centrists Bennett hoped to attract, who would be driven away by the inclusion of Ben Gvir.
This was already Wednesday. Bennett was adamant in spite of the huge pressure that was reportedly being brought to bear by Netanyahu. (There was even talk of threats, which Netanyahu denied.) Peretz (pictured) then had to decide, within hours, whether to stick with Ben Gvir, to whom he had given his word, or break that word and join with Bennett and Smotrich.
Credit: Oren Ben Hakoon
Netanyahu was also adamant. So much so that he met with Peretz and Bennett and Smotrich until it was almost the deadline. Enormous pressure was put on Peretz by the prime minister and others. And his final decision was to break with Ben Gvir and join with Bennett. He publicly apologized to "my friend Itamar Ben Gvir" for making the decision he felt he had to make save the national religious camp.
Ben Gvir (pictured) is not taking this well. "Peretz betrayed me and stabbed me in the back," he said.
Netanyahu says he "expects" Ben Gvir to withdraw Otzma from the race so as to avoid wasted mandates. I would not necessarily count on that.
Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg
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And so here we are. Bennett will head the list and Peretz will be placed second, followed by Shaked and then Smotrich in fourth place. Fifth place will go to Matan Kahane of the New Right and sixth to Ophir Sofer of Bayit Hayehudi. Seventh and eighth places will be given to Bayit Hayehudi and ninth place to the New Right. Beyond this, as I write I do not yet have information.
What I can report is that MK Moti Yogev, who was Peretz's second on the Bayit Hayehudi list resigned his candidacy in anger when he was placed way down on the joint list.
"There are those who took advantage of the situation and took over the party undemocratically, without cooperating with the current Knesset members," he declared.
Credit: Moti Yogev
While, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, of Bayit Yehudi, who was formerly a Deputy Minister, declared that his name had been put on the Yamina list without his knowledge.
"The word candidate is a little funny. They didn't even ask me and I was put on the list without being notified. I guess they needed names and put me on the list."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/274660
The two will be meeting to discuss options for improving the situation of Bayit Hayehudi. Observed Rabbi Ben-Dahan:"[Bayit Yehudi] has a voice that no other party has. It's a name with a tradition and it's reached its end unless we can revive it."
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I am eager to put this out in a timely fashion, and will return after Shabbat to write further about political happenings and other important news.
As to Bennett, Ben Gvir, and Baruch Goldstein:
Am I always comfortable with the positions of Otzma Yehudit? I am not; they are too far right for me. Do I believe they have a right to sit in the Knesset? I most certainly do. It has always struck me as beyond ludicrous that Ahmed Tibi, who was an advisor to Arafat and most certainly endorsed terrorism, is able to sit in the Knesset, while there is no room for Ben Gvir and his party.
If Bennett wanted to impress prospective supporters with his moderate credentials, he surely might have found a way to do this without dragging Baruch Goldstein into it.
Goldstein is routinely labelled as a "terrorist," which I would maintain is not the case. While Bennett avoided that term, he implied as much with what he said. But his statement was taken out of context, and I would suggest was not necessarily accurate on the face of it.
Following his IDF service, Goldstein, who was a physician, lived in Kiryat Arba adjacent to Hevron. He provided emergency medical services and treated Arabs as well as Jews. In the days leading up to Purim, which fell on February 25th in 1994, Hamas put out flyers advertising intention to massacre Jews on Purim day. This was openly known.
The IDF, however, had no intention of taking stringent action, rounding up all Hamas leaders, for example, to prevent this massacre. This was the heyday of the Oslo Accords, and stern action against Palestinian Arabs was not politically correct – perhaps seen as destructive to the "peace process."
What the IDF did do was go to Baruch Goldstein and warn him to be prepared to handle Jewish casualties on Purim day.
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One can only imagine how Goldstein felt in these circumstances – how desperate he must have been to stop the Jewish massacre, avoid the Jewish casualties. I recently cited the Talmudic dictum that when someone is coming to kill you, you should rise up and kill him first. While I can prove nothing, I am convinced, based on research I've done, that this is what Goldstein was trying to do.
He went into the Machpela, the Cave of the Patriarchs, into the section that is a mosque, and he shot Arabs. I cannot speak for why he selected this site, although I tend to suspect he had information. Bennett said 29 "innocent" people were murdered, but Bennett does not know they were innocents.
What I learned some long while ago, is that subsequent to the shooting weapons were found in the mosque in the Machpela, I believe hidden under prayer rugs. In fact, I learned that – what a surprising coincidence – on that very day a metal detector at the entrance to the Machpela was not working. Perhaps some of the 29 were innocent, but it would seem others were not – and were intent on murdering Jews who were innocents.
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What has always grieved me about this Baruch Goldstein story is how badly Israel had gone off the path of self-preservation because of infatuation with an imaginary peace process.
I would suggest (I don't know, I haven't asked him) that Ben Gvir had Goldstein's picture on his wall NOT because he admired a man who murdered 29 innocent Arabs, but because Goldstein was trying to protect Jewish life at a time when the system had failed to do so.
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