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Friday, May 09 2008 @ 04:46 CDT

Israel Independence Day Marked by Protests

Friday, May 09 2008 @ 02:13 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
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BY FERN SIDMAN

As Jews around the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel as a modern state, the annual Yom Ha'Atzmaout (Israeli Independence Day) festivities in New York took place amidst a backdrop of controversy and protest outside of Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday evening May 7th.

At a gala, star-studded musical event sponsored by the UJA-Federation, thousands of supporters of Israel filed into the landmark edifice to hear a historic mix of all star talent including Israeli stars David Broza, Idan Raichel, Rami Kleinstein, Habanot Nechama and Yael Naim. Also appearing on the bill were top American performer and Hasidic reggae phenomenon Matisyahu, recent MacArthur Genius Award winner John Zorn and "Late Show With David Letterman" bandleader Paul Shaffer. The event also included a moving tribute to Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror as part of Israel's Memorial Day.

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JDL Protests Nakba-babooey Tomorrow in Canada/US Protest Next Week!

Friday, May 09 2008 @ 11:18 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
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While the Arabs go ahootin' and ahollerin' about their so-called "catastrophe," JDL will be there to tell the truth. If you are near these two cities, you must stand up with us against our enemies -- the enemies of the Jewish People and Israel!

Saturday, May 10 - 12:00 p.m. - NW corner University Ave. & College St. - Queen’s Park, Toronto, Canada
For more information, call 905-474-0555 or 416-736-7000.

Friday, May 16 - 1 p.m. - Dag Hammarskjold Plaza - across from the United Nations - New York City*
For more information, send us an email (you know the address by now).

Join us as we counter-protest the anti-Israel rally commemorating the so-called Nakba! Bring Israeli and American/Canadian flags - banners - signs - all your friends!

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Emor

Friday, May 09 2008 @ 07:34 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
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It is with love and thanksgiving to our G-d, that I feel honored to share ideas and lessons from this weeks parsha, which coincides with Israel at 60 celebrations. It is indeed an honor to be given the privilege by G-d to live during these historic times. Just over 60 years ago, European countries joined forces with Nazi Germany to murder Six Million of our fellow Jews. And while this took place, the rest of the world did nothing. In the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met on many occasions with Hitler to plan a program of exterminating the Jews there.

The Holocaust ended in 1945, and many Jews who survived that hell found the strength and determination to travel to Israel, and fight for an independent Jewish State. These survivors were driven by the memory of the chimneys from the concentration camps. And they joined with other Jews, determined to put into practice the title of Theodore Herzl's book, The Jewish State. And in 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed to the six hundred thousand Jews in Israel and Jews throughout the world, the birth of the State of Israel. Shortly after that historic proclamation, the Arab world -- with their millions -- went to war against Israel. And the Jewish People won! But the victory came with great sacrifice.

This week's parsha is called Emor. The basic translation for the Hebrew word emor is "say." The Sages point out that G-d told Moshe to emphasize to the Kohanim rules of conduct. The Kohanim were to represent the Jewish People to G-d. They were the ones to perform all the sacrifices and offerings in the Temple. The Parsha says, "They shall be holy before their L-rd, and they shall not desecrate the name of their L-rd, for the sacrifices of G-d, the bread of their L-rd do they bring, and they shall be holy" [Lev.21:6]. . . .

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Sending Israel a Greeting from the New Frontier

Thursday, May 08 2008 @ 11:46 CDT
Contributed by: Shelley Rubin
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The following has just come off the JTA wire service:

"American astronaut Garrett Reisman sent a greeting from space to Israel for its 60th birthday.

"Reisman, 40, a mechanical engineer from Parsippany, N.Y., is the first Jewish crew member on the international space station. He has been in space since March 11.

"'Every time the station flies over the state of Israel, I try to find a window, and it never fails to move me when I see the familiar outline of Israel coming toward us from over the horizon,' Reisman said."

There have been other Jewish astronauts, most notably Judith Resnik, the first American Jewish astronaut in space. She died in the 1986 Challenger disaster. The first Jewish astronaut was Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov, who flew in two Soyuz missions in the 1960s. Other American Jewish astronauts are Scott Horowitz; Jeff Hoffman, who took a Torah into the heavens with him; and David Wolf, who brought along a menorah and dreidl to celebrate Chanukah. . .

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My Jewish Nakba: For Israel's 60th Anniversary By Avrom Ben Gershon

Tuesday, May 06 2008 @ 09:48 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
Views: 57

The following piece is one of the best I have read on the new Arab phenomenon of "Nakba." Please read it closely and carefully. Please copy and send it to everyone you know. Be sure to give credit to author Avrom Ben Gershon. And please tell people where you read it first. -- Shelley

As Israel Independence Day approaches, so does the anguish of the Palestinians. Nakba: The Catastrophe. As Israeli Jews celebrate, Moslem Palestinian Arabs cry. In 1948, as the modern State of Israel was born, hundreds of thousands of Arabs left their homes and became refugees in the bordering Arab states. Whole arab towns got emptied. Five hundred Arab villages were abandoned. What a horrible disaster! Catastrophe! Nakba!

On their Nakba anniversary Palestinians living in Israel hold marches to their former villages, carrying keys from destroyed homes, old British property deeds, Turkish durmans. Palestinian flags fly over their heads. Little children carry posters with names of the villages stolen by wicked Zionists. They cry. They fast. They complain to reporters. Their Jewish leftist friends join the procession. They cry and mourn together.

Poor Arabs. Before May 1948, they were the majority in Palestine. They wanted British to leave, so that they would create a Moslem Arab State. Instead, Israel got created with a despised and powerless Arab minority, called "Palestinians." Truly, a Nakba!

Me, being a criminal racist “kahanist,” I still have a bleeding Jewish heart. I feel for poor oppressed Palestinians. I feel their pain. I admire their sense of history and remembrance. Let me imagine jumping in the procession too. Please, don’t kick me! Don’t shoot me! Don’t call me a Nazi! As you imagine your grandparents leaving their homes, let's visualize together. . . .

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What is happening in Durham NY

Monday, May 05 2008 @ 09:04 CDT
Contributed by: bstein
Views: 7

http://www.topix.net/city/durham-ny

This is a link to a blog in Topix on a local area of Durham. I was taken back when I saw this poll and read some of the comments.

Read the comments and the poll
Why everyone hates the Jews.

Will it ever end?

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Kedoshim

Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 09:31 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
Views: 27

This weeks Parsha is called Kedoshim. G-d told Moshe, "Speak to the entire congregation of the Children of Israel and tell them, 'Be holy, for I, your G-d, am holy'" (Vayikra 19:1-2). To be holy means to be special and separate. It means that we have a message to deliver to the world.

Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League, stated the following which applies to this parsha: "What is the Jew? Thanks to the Exile, we have lost sense of the original, authentic, Divinely ordained and ordered concept of what is a Jew. On the one hand, there are those who have rejected the authority, let alone the Divinity, of Torah and mitzvot. For them, the Jew is a 'people,' a 'nation.' On the other hand, thanks to the destructive nature of the Exile, and because events cut the Jew off from his land and from national existence, other Jews -- who clove unto the Torah and the mitzvot -- made Judaism into a 'religion.' Both are cripples, one limping on the foot of 'nationalism' and the other on the foot of 'religion.'. . .

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The Indiana Congressional Candidate the GOP Wishes Would Go Away

Wednesday, April 30 2008 @ 11:06 CDT
Contributed by: carlmintz
Views: 29

About a Hitler lover/Neo Nazi. The full article can be found at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353536,00.html. There, you can see what he looks like, but I'll post the story below.

On the face of it, Tony Zirkle looks like the perfect candidate for Congress: He attended the Naval Academy, he has a degree from Georgetown, and he went on to be a top prosecutor in Indiana, crusading against Internet pornography.

There’s only one problem — or maybe more than one, as far as the Indiana Republican Party is concerned.

Zirkle, who is seeking the GOP nomination for the state’s 2nd Congressional District, believes — among other things — that whites are victims of a "genocide," that the races should be segregated into different states and that pornography is a Jewish plot against women.

"We’d love for him to disappear — not for the sake of our party but for his own sake," said Jay Kenworthy, communications director for the Indiana GOP.

On top of all that, Zirkle accepted an invitation to address a group of swastika-wearing, Sieg-Heiling Nazi party members at a celebration of what would have been Adolf Hitler’s 119th birthday on April 20 in Chicago — birthday cake and all.

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The personal-injury lawyer says he’s running for Congress to combat "the genocide of the white race" that pornography is causing — an "unholy pornocaust" against white Christian women.

"We now have a small army of male black porn stars that are sifting through five, ten, fifteen thousand women," he said. "One man can now genocide the wombs of thousands of women," infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases that leave them barren.

He calls it "Porn mule womb slaughter . . . the most effective weapon of mass destruction."

In an interview, Zirkle told FOXNews.com he doesn't think he is too far out of the Republican mainstream. He believes the solution to STDs and out-of-wedlock births is to separate blacks and whites into segregated states, but he says that's fully in the tradition of the party.

"The original Republican party" felt the same way, he said. "Abraham Lincoln called for African-Americans to be deported back to Africa."

Not unpredictably, the Republican Party wants nothing to do with him.

"We don’t consider him a member of the party," Kenworthy said. "His views are not in any way, shape or form a reflection of the Republican party’s views."

But Zirkle captured 30 percent of the Republican primary vote in 2006, when he ran against an incumbent who went on to lose to a Democrat (Joe Donnelly) in November. With three candidates but no incumbent in Tuesday's Republican primary, some wonder if Zirkle will perform better this time around.

Zirkle, said he "just spoke off the top of [his] head" at the Nazi gathering, where he addressed the crowd in front of a giant portrait of Hitler. He insisted he had no prior connections to the group and that he’s not a member of the Nazi party.

"What most people don’t know about me is that I’m the father of three beautiful Jewish Christian children," he said, explaining that his wife had converted from Judaism to Christianity. "I’m obviously not going to be out for gassing innocent Jews."

Yet he blames Jews for much of the plight of white women in America. "The massive number of Jews in the [pornography] industry basically brag about it," he said, asserting that "most of the early porn stars were Jewish men."

Zirkle said he doesn’t expect to win on Tuesday, but "winning is not my primary objective. My primary objective is to educate and inform."

For its part, the Republican party has officially endorsed Luke Puckett, the owner of a small business who is running against Zirkle.

"We fully expect Luke Puckett to win with an incredible majority," Kenworthy said. "We think the rest of District 2 would be loath to vote for [Zirkle]. We don’t expect it to be close."

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Sefirot HaOmer

Friday, April 25 2008 @ 08:20 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
Views: 54

We are in a period called Sefirot HaOmer. During this time, we count the days from PeSach until Shavuot. It is a period of seven weeks. "You shall then count seven 'perfect' weeks after the day following the (Passover) Holiday when you brought the Omer as an offering, until the day after the seventh week, when there will be a total of fifty days" (Vayikra / Leviticus 23:15). And the Midrash comments, "Seven perfect weeks." When will they be perfect? When the Jews do the will of G-d (Medrash Rabbah 28:3)!

Shavuot is when we remember the giving of the Torah to the Jewish People. It was the climax of our preparation for the giving of the Torah. Every day leading up to Shavuot, we are to work on ourselves. To be better Jews. More worthy and more committed. This is what G-d demands from us, his chosen people. And this period is called Sefirot HaOmer, the counting of the Omer. And we should look forward to improving ourselves. It has recently come to the attention of the Jewish Defense League that the Muslim Students Association, the largest and most respectable Muslim Student group in North America will be having a teleconference with a man who advocates an intifada in North America. This is from their web site:

Upcoming Conference Calls

April 30, 2008 at 10pm EST: "The Etiquettes of Voting: Key Lessons for the MSA Worker" with Dr. Hatem Bazian

RSVP today by e-mailing msaconferencecall@msanational.org. Please note due to limited capacity RSVPs will be on a first come, first serve basis. Callers will receive the dial-in information on the day of the call. . . .

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Short Takes

Monday, April 21 2008 @ 04:14 CDT
Contributed by: Shelley Rubin
Views: 83

I hope everyone is having a happy and kosher l'pesach. I want to thank Albertson's supermarket and other markets that have made kosher for Passover products available and financially reasonable during these hard economic times. Albertson's literally gave away a five pound package of matzo -- that's right, FREE -- with a purchase of only $25 in regular purchases. Those of us on a budget (not all Jews are rich, although I wish we were) really appreciate the consideration!

If you live in or plan to be in the Los Angeles area on Sunday, May 18, please make plans now to attend the big Israel Festival in Van Nuys. As usual, JDL will have a booth, but our presentation will be different this year. The festival is a beautiful day of Jewish pride and celebration of the State of Israel. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the modern state of Israel. And this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Jewish Defense League. So please come to the Israel Independence Day Festival at Woodley Park and look for JDL's booth. The special of the day will be a SECOND YEAR of dues FREE with payment of regular membership dues (renewals OK, too) at the fair. JDL members will be there to celebrate and shmooze with you, too. . . .

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