Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Fwd: Re. Video: Free Speech challenged at UC Irvine 2/8/10

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The question remains is why is America pushing a Palestinian State when the majority of the Palestinians agree in theory with the goals of Hizbollah and Hamas which is the  elimination of Israel from the map and name their schools after martyrs and Jihadists.  Why is the Leftist Press and even Netanyahu not facing the reality of this crowd but choose instead to give credibility and  legitimacy to the Palestinian "refugees" .  It is only  UNRWA who has been keeping Palestinian "refugees" as refugees rather than recognizing  them to be  villages that have received billions of dollars of aid from NGO's all over the world.  Watch this video!
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Israel Ambassador Oren
Defends Free Speech at UC Irvine
By Roz Rothstein

This video shows you what an elegant man Michael Oren is,
in the face of hostility.


CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO

Muslim students tried to silence Israel's U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren when he spoke at UC Irvine's Pacific Ballroom on Monday afternoon, February 8.

Ambassador Oren had come to share his historical and personal perspective on the U.S.-Israel relationship. An author, professor of history, and diplomat, Ambassador Oren is politically centrist and regarded as an expert on many issues of vital interest today. But the Muslim students were determined to silence him, deny him the right to free speech, and deny the audience the right to have civil, intellectual discourse at UCI.

The Muslim students had carefully planned their tactics. Shortly before the event began, large numbers of them gathered for prayers outside the Ballroom. They then entered and scattered throughout the room in order to disrupt the speech from different locations. They did. After every few of Ambassador Oren's sentences, a student would stand up and scream unintelligibly at him while the other students involved raucously clapped and howled. The student whose turn it was to disturb the event would then walk proudly out of the Ballroom, escorted by police, while glaring at the understandably upset and frustrated audience of over 500 people who had come to hear the Ambassador's remarks.

After at least ten interruptions, the uncivilized demonstrators marched outside to a spot closest to the wall of the Ballroom. From there, they shouted more slogans, hoping they could continue to disrupt the event.
But they could not.

The Muslim students angered the audience and embarrassed the UCI administration. They ignored pleas and reprimands from UCI officials who took the microphone. They ignored Ambassador Oren's request that he be granted the civil hospitality due to a guest of the University. They ignored his urging that they raise their concerns during the Q and A. The good news is that Ambassador Oren refused to be silenced. He had come to UCI to share his thoughts and did not abandon his right to free speech even as dozens of students coordinated this hostile demonstration. With his elegant manner, he remained calm, and stood his ground.
He stood up for free speech.

There are lessons to be learned from this event. The University will need to identify the participating students and decide what consequences they will suffer for their uncivilized behavior. The organizers of the protest were seen coordinating the screams from their seats by text messaging on their cell phones, and the Muslim Student Union president may have been among the eleven arrested for disrupting the event. The UCI administration will need to consider sanctions for the MSU since it was clear to everyone in the audience that the MSU had orchestrated the raucous effort to prevent free speech.

Every speaker can learn from Ambassador Oren's example. Whether the speaker is a U.S. General, an academic, or a representative from another country, his or her right to free speech may very well be challenged. We have seen this pattern spread throughout the U.S., especially this past year. Just a few hours before Professor Oren's event, Israel's Senior Legal Advisor, Daniel Taub, had spoken at the UCLA Law School, and also faced a disruptive demonstration. Like Ambassador Oren, Mr. Taub responded with calm, dignity, and a sincere invitation to the demonstrators that they ask questions during the Q and A. Instead, they, too, refused to cooperate, and marched out, escorted by the police.

The main lesson from Ambassador Oren is that we must stand up with dignity and eloquence for free speech. If we do not, if speakers give up and walk off the stage, we risk sacrificing the civil dialogue essential to education and a bedrock of American values.


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Friday, February 05, 2010

Upcoming Events to be posted on Community Calendar for Eretz Yisroel in New York Area. Please post. Thanks

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Thursday, Feb 11 - 7:30 pm Member of Knesset, Dr. Arieh Eldad - will be speaking on Israel's Survival Strategies at the West Side  Institutional Synagogue, 120 W. 76th Street, between Columbus & Amsterdam Avenues. Free admission. Reservations are required. Call 212-828-2424 or email: afsi@rcn.com


On Saturday, February 13th, 8:00 pm The World Committee for the Land of Israel will host MK Dr. Arie Eldad, a prominent member of the Israeli Knesset in a program intended to update the audience on the challenges facing Israel in the year 2010. This program is co-sponsored by the Queens Jewish Community Council and is being  publicized throughout the New York area. The lecture will take place at  the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills,  70-11 150th Street, Kew Gardens Hills, on Saturday February 13th at 8 pm.  Dr. Eldad is a published medical doctor who holds the rank of Brigadier General in the Israeli Defense Forces and was its Chief Medical Officer from 1997 until 2000. The entire community is invited to hear this articulate defender of Israel and to show support for the State of Israel.

On Sunday Feb 14, 2010 at 6:15pm Manhigut USA Brooklyn Branch Meeting
Ave. N. Jewish Center 321 Ave. N. corner E. 4th Street
RSVP Yocheved 773-597-7690 usaevents@jewishisrael.org

On Monday March 1, 2010 (15 Adar 5770 Shushan Purim) Manhigut Yehudit Dinner 6:30pm
Yankee Stadium Legends Sweet, Bronx
For more info Tel: 516-295-3222 email: huvie@jewishisrael.org


Upcoming Event: May 9-17, 2010  Join the AFSI Chizuk Support Mission to the endangered lands and people of  Israel
AFSI has been leading Chizuk missions for over fifteen years to the threatened communities of Israel. By doing so, we have created strong ties with the land and the people who have been expelled from Gush Katif, and those who are facing expulsion from Judea and Samaria. Believing in the biblical road map, which charts a whole Israel, and an indivisible Jerusalem, we know it is our duty and responsibility to continue our program of first-hand identification with our beleaguered brethren. We urge everyone who believes as we do to join us on this trip.
 
There is limited space for the Mission. Dont be left out of this opportunity to be a witness to history in the making!!

Americans For a Safe Israel 1751 Second Avenue (91st Street) New York, NY 10128
T
el: 1-800-235-3658, Fax: 212-828-1717
www.afsi.org; afsi@rcn.com


 

For Distribution: TZC-Newsletter-Feb-5-2010-PDF Format Parshat Bo Shabbat Shalom

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Dear List, a

Excellent Newsletter.  Print before Shabbos, if you can print out mpl copies and bring to your shul and read. Kol Tuv!

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SHABAT SHALOM!

: NYU debate - from Jeff Daube ZOA - correction, it's Tuesday Feb 9th



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Dear List, amv"sh

In NYU on Tuesday Feb 9th (mistake on last notice which read the 8th. Thanks Helen Freedman for correction) there is a debate, (you can buy a ticket which is selling fast),  with a motion for the US to step back from its special relationship with Israel.  You can vote online before the debate.
Vote on-line against the Motion!

The following was sent by Jeff Daube forwarded by Barbara Sommers of ZOA
Jeff Daube
Director, Israel Office
Zionist Organization of America
Tel: 052-5380840


Intelligence Squared Debates presents an all star lineup of Roger Cohen, (CU Prof) Rashid Khalidi, Itamar Rabinovich, and Stuart Eizenstat in a debate at NYU next Tuesday, February 8th, called, "THE US SHOULD STEP BACK FROM ITS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL: For or Against the Motion."
http://intelligencesquaredus.org/




Wednesday, February 03, 2010

A Voice for the Temple Mount!; By Yosef Rabin .... eternally linked to Hebron and Marriage ps. by Robin Ticker

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A Voice for the Temple Mount!

I would like to begin with a quote from the Book of Haggai "Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying: Is this the time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house sits in ruins?" As Israel capitulates to America and enforces a building freeze in Judea and Samaria, the words from Haggai ring loudly in our ears! Since the liberation of the Temple Mount in 1967 there has been an ironclad freeze on anything Jewish on theTemple Mount. No Jewish prayer or study and certainly no building. It is no wonder that the freeze has now spilled over to the rest of Israel. I do not blame the Arabs; I blame the Jewish Nation for not stepping forward and reclaiming the Temple Mount. How can we talk about building the Land of Israel when we have allowed its center to remain in ruins?

I have been privileged to visit our Temple Mount numerous times. Each time that I go to the Mount of God, I think of the verse from Psalms 24, "Who will go up to the Mount of the Lord and who will stand His holy place? One with clean hands and pure heart." Before I can enter the Holy Mount, I am given a stern warning from the police, "If we catch you, swaying, praying, singing, dancing, bowing or closing your eyes, you will be arrested for incitement to violence."  Aside from the humiliation of being barred from praying on our holiest site, we also have to go through a humiliating ritual of having to stand in a corner while all secular and non-Jewish tourists get to go up first.   

Once on the Mount I have to watch as the foreigners (Arabs), desecrate it. Did you know that Arab children play soccer and families gather for picnics, on the Holy Mount? So aside from the grave insult of being prevented from praying, I am forced to watch these obscenities take place.

From the very place that the Temple priests brought the holy sacrifices, Arabs now gather for picnics. From thevery place that the Levites sang the sweet praises of the Lord, the Muslim leaders call for the death of our people and the destruction of our State. The place of Oleh Regel (pilgrimage) has become the place for Kadur Regel (soccer) by Arab children.

Are these the type of people that should be allowed up on the Mount of the Lord? Are these the type of people who should be standing in His Holy Place?  I say enough! The time has come to end this humiliation.

It is time to demand that Jews be allowed to ascend and pray unrestricted on the Temple Mount! It is time to demand that the police put an end to the soccer games and the picnics, make the Arabs respect our holiest site! It is time to demand that the police arrest and put on trial the Muslim leaders who use the Mount to call for our destruction! Does the verse say "And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" or "the word of Mohammad". Perhaps I am becoming confused?

However the silence is deafening! Where are the rabbis, communal leaders and Knesset Members? Why are they not speaking and crying out? How can we remain silent as the Arabs with the consent of the Israeli government, destroy the very remains of the Temple itself? How do we justify protesting for the Sabbath, while ignoring theMount. Does not Maimonides teach "As it is written: 'My Sabbath you shall guard and my Temple you shall fear', just as guarding the Sabbath is eternal, fearing the Temple is eternal as well".  

We must bring the Temple Mount back into our national heart and mind and begin to restore her to her former glory. Yes this will be a long difficult path, but so was our return to Zion after 2,000 years of exile. Our parents, grandparents and great grandparents had their mission and we have ours. The question is what can we do?

1.      Learn the laws of the Temple Mount and come! Bring your family and friends and strengthen Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.

2.      Contact public officials and Rabbis and urge them to visit the Mount and to vocally support unrestricted Jewish prayer and ascent.

3.      Urge Knesset Members to pass a law that will place the Temple Mount under Rabbinic instead of Islamic control.

4.      Flood the courts with petitions demanding the right for Jewish Prayer on the Mount and for unlimited Jewish access 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

5.      Write letters to the newspapers and call into radio shows and speak about the Mount.

6.      Jews outside of Israel must protest to the Israeli government in every legal way possible. Petitions, call-ins, letter campaigns and yes even peaceful protests outside of Embassies and Consulates. 

7. Everyone can send their financial support to Temple Mount Organizations, we need fuel to fight the good fight!

 When we as a nation act, then we will have regained our national pride and sanity. Until then I cry for our self-inflicted shame.

Yosef Rabin 

Liaison to North American Jewish Communities

HaTenu'ah LeChinun HaMikdash (Organization for Temple Renewal)


Linking to Hebron.....and committed Marriage..... ps by Robin Ticker


Thank you Yosef  Rabin for that heartfelt  message that carries with it strong emotional pain.

Har Habayit is eternally connected to Hebron.  The light of the morning sun signals from Hebron to start the daily sacrifices.  Yerushalyim and Hebron are linked permanently .  I just listened to a fantastic lecure by HaRav Meir Goldvicht distributed by the Hebron Fund  which beautifully links Hebron to Yerushalyim. 

Adam and Chava are buried in Hebron. When the 3 Malachim come to visit Avrohom he accidentally came across the Cave of Machpela chasing after a sheep and finds the burial place of Adam and Chava with the lights burning.  Avraham connected with the past , Adam and Chava and Avrohom's  life's work was a tikkun, a correction,  of the original sin of Adam and Chava.  Avrohom Avinu bought the property in Hebron and Efron tells him that he has the Land, the field and the tree for 400 Shekel keneged, a reminder from G-d regarding  the Land of Israel which is 400 Parsa by 400 Parsa.  It says in the Gemara Kicha Kicha Misdei Efron, just like the field was bought so to a marriage is acquired with buying. The tree reminds us of the Mitzvah to plant trees when we come to the Land.  Hebron connects us to our G-d, our forefathers, Temple Mount and to each other. The Covenant to Abraham takes place in Hebron. The Covenant is then repeated to Yaakov at Har Hamoriah.  Har Hamoriah the way it is spelled (with a vav, maleh when Shlomo Hamelech builds the Temple) is Hebron in Gematria.  The first marriage in Tanach takes place in the field of Hebron with Yitzchok praying, connecting to his ancestors and to Hashem.  It is not surprising that marriage is linked to the purchase of that exact place of where the first Torah marriage occurred between Yizchok and Rivka.  Yehoshua and Kalev when they tour the Land start in Hebron. Judea, Samaria and Yerushalayim are eternally bound together as are Hebron and Temple Mount.  Od Yeshama BeArei Yehudah Uvechutzot Yerushalyim........ We are yearning for that marriage we had at Sinai to once again occur in a monogamous relationship with Hashem linking us to our field in Chevron, Har Habayit to our Father up in Heaven to the gates of Heaven and to Gan Eden...