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Thursday, July 03 2008 @ 10:59 CDT

Chukos

Thursday, July 03 2008 @ 10:29 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
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This week's Torah parsha is Chukos. In this parsha we read about the death of Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron and a prophetess in her own right.

The entire nation of Israel reached the Tzin desert in the first month. The people camped in Kadesh, and that is where Miriam died and was buried. There was no water for the people, and they gathered against Moshe and Aharon [Bamidbar (Numbers) 20:1-2].

Another one of those Torah ironies is about to occur. We are told that the well that followed the Jewish people in the desert for 40 years and that supplied all the water needs of the nation had been in Miriam's merit. Hence, its name -- Be'er Miriam -- the Well of Miriam.

What had Miriam done to be the source of this great miracle and fountain of life? The Midrash explains that it was Miriam who had watched baby Moshe after he had been placed in his basket and into the Nile river to avoid being killed by the Egyptians. She looked out for him to make sure no harm would come to Moshe, who she knew would be the future redeemer of the Jewish people.

After all, Miriam had been a prophetess, even at the tender age of 7 [Shemos 15:20, Seder Olam 3]. It was Miriam who had advised her father to re-marry her mother in order to have more children, from which Moshe was born [Sotah 12a]. "Pharaoh only decreed against males," she told her father, the leader of the generation, "while you have decreed against the females as well by not having any children at all."

Upon hearing her rationale, Amram, her father, kissed her on the head. However, says the Talmud, when they were forced to put Moshe into the river to save his life, Amram tapped her on the head and questioned her advice. Undaunted, she stayed with her opinion and went to the Nile river to see what G-d had in mind for the future redeemer. . . .

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Next Year in Kosovo

Monday, June 30 2008 @ 12:26 CDT
Contributed by: Shelley Rubin
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On a beautiful summer day in San Diego, the Jewish Defense League joined with our Serbian friends to mark National Kosovo Day. This event commemorates the birth of the Serbian nation as their warriors valiantly fought off Turkish Ottoman aggressors in 1389. The rally was capably organized by Jennifer Milanovich, a Serbian American activist. She contacted us after reading Kosovo: A Crying Shame on this blog. I want to thank the San Diego Serbian community for making us feel very welcomed at the event. And I'd like to thank JDL San Diego for showing up to support our Serbian friends at their rally. The following is the speech I gave there:

"It is a privilege and an honor to be here with you at the marking of Vidovdan, National Kosovo Day. My organization, the Jewish Defense League, is the only major Jewish organization that I know of -- and I think I know them all -- that has consistently supported the Serbian people and your right to your ancestral homeland.

"A couple of months ago, the Jewish people celebrated Passover the same way as we have done for over two thousand years. We read the same words, we eat the same foods, we sing the same songs -- every single year. And for over two thousand years, at every Passover seder in every Jewish household in the world, the Jewish people continue to end the story of our freedom from slavery with the phrase �Next year in Jerusalem.� Well, just as Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel � the homeland of the Jewish people, Kosovo is the homeland of the Serbian people. . . .

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Korach

Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 03:54 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
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This week's Torah Parsha is Korach. The focus on this parsha is leadership. A recent American population study, known as the PEW Population Study, reported that over 70% of American Jewish adults have no children! We have an obligation to examine our present day leadership. This week we will examine a very deep insight into this parsha by Rabbi Benyamin Kahane and then provide the readership with some of the JDL solutions to issues of our day:

"Fear of Hearing the Truth is Nothing New, but the Phenomenon Has Certainly Reached New Heights in This Generation. . .

In the introduction to the book Em Habanim Smaicha, which was written during the time of the Holocaust by one of the great rabbis of Hungary dealing with the obligation to live in the land of Israel, the following is written (page 37): "And so my words in this book are intended only for those who want to know the truth the way it really is, and for those who are willing to stop and listen to the words written here. I am not demanding: 'accept my views' . . . and whoever would like to refute what I say, let them refute only with direct proofs from the words of our sages as I have brought, and only then will I debate them, with the help of G-d."

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High Court: A constitutional right to a gun

Thursday, June 26 2008 @ 10:29 CDT
Contributed by: carlmintz
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From Wire Services. . .

Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one�s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, �it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.�

Examining the words of the Amendment, the Court concluded �we find they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weaons in case of confrontation� � in other words, for self-defense. �The inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right,� it added.

The individual right interpretation, the Court said, �is strongly confirmed by the historical background of the Second Amendment,� going back to 17th Century England, as well as by gun rights laws in the states before and immediately after the Amendment was put into the U.S. Constitution.

What Congress did in drafting the Amendment, the Court said, was �to codify a pre-existing right, rather than to fashion a new one.�

Justice Scalia�s opinion stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on carrying a concealed gun or on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded, on laws barring guns from schools or government buildings, and laws putting conditions on gun sales. . . .

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Israeli Baseball League

Monday, June 23 2008 @ 11:03 CDT
Contributed by: carlmintz
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Check it out: http://holylandhardball.com/. It's a movie about the forming of the Israel Baseball League. I think it's great and I met one of the directors at the Holocaust Museum. His name was Brett Rapkin.

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My Deepest Apologies

Friday, June 20 2008 @ 03:26 CDT
Contributed by: Shelley Rubin
Views: 230

I know there are people who feel it is a sign of weakness when one apologizes. I disagree. When one does something that one regrets doing, the proper thing to do is to apologize as soon as possible.

Yesterday, the Jewish Defense League held a demonstration outside a clothing store in Los Angeles. My behavior there was inappropriate and not representative of the Jewish Defense League as a whole. While I believe with all my heart that being there was the right thing to do, as there is no good reason for selling terrorist-inspired t-shirts and manufacturing a clothing line that pays homage to Hitler's Nazi militia, I must apologize for the hurtful things I may have said to others at the event. Additionally, I apologize to the members of my organization and our supporters -- and to my children -- for letting my anger get the best of me. . . .

It will never again happen.

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Do You Know About Directive 51?

Friday, June 20 2008 @ 01:25 CDT
Contributed by: jdlwi
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Directive 51:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMs733gFg-I&feature

What we choose to ignore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl1VIhdpl4c&feature

800 FEMA Camps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irRWjUGr24c&feature

Now search HAARP project!

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A Warning to Obama Supporters

Friday, June 20 2008 @ 12:44 CDT
Contributed by: jdlwi
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This is an e-mail that was sent to me.

Pause a moment, reflect back. These events are actual events from history.

They really happened!!! Do you remember?

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40.

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

8. In 1988 , Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists between the of 17 and 40.

12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by-- you guessed it-- Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. . . .

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Film Review by Fern Sidman: 'Refusnik' Refuses to Tell Whole Story

Friday, June 20 2008 @ 12:23 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
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The film 'Refusenik' is a seminal retrospective documentary chronicling the thirty year history of the struggle to liberate Soviet Jews from the spiritual shackles of bondage that was endemic to their existence in the former USSR. Told through the eyes and brave voices of such celebrity dissidents as Anatoly (Natan) Scharansky, Vladimir Slepak, Yosef Begun, Yosef Mendelevitch, Ida Nudel, Sylva Zalmanson, Alexander Kholmiansky and Yuli Edelstein, director Laura Bialis takes us on a multi-faceted journey of the creation of a revolutionary global grass-roots movement for freedom from tyranny and oppression.

Having been denied the right to live as clearly identifiable Jews by a repressive and often brutal totalitarian regime for several decades, a group of Soviet Jewish dissidents, also known as prisoners of conscience, courageously and overtly challenged the draconian dictates of the Politburo.

As Jews yearning to re-connect with their tradition and faith, their opportunities to express their Judaism were proscribed to them by the Soviets. They were prevented from attending synagogue, nor could they learn Hebrew, eat kosher food or conduct holiday rituals. All vestiges of Jewish life were expunged from Soviet society and any attempt to lead an observant Jewish life was classified as treachery. Any Jew who dared to practice the faith of their ancestors and challenge the monolith of Communism was publicly excoriated as a criminal and traitor. To solidify their position on the Jewish question to the general populace, the Soviets unleashed a vitriolic campaign of anti-Zionist propaganda that permeated both the educational system and the media. . . .

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Shelach

Thursday, June 19 2008 @ 12:34 CDT
Contributed by: JDL
Views: 67

This week's Torah parsha in Shelach. The central theme of this parsha is about the failure of Jewish leadership. The word Shelach is interpreted to mean "send forth." G-d allowed Moshe to send out men to spy out the Land of Israel. These men were to bring back a report about realities in the Land of Israel. The Torah states, "They returned from spying out the Land at the end of the forty days. They went and came to Moshe and Aaron and to the entire assembly of the Children of Israel. . . ."

The Sages comment on "They went and came" with, 'just as their returning was with evil counsel so was their going with evil counsel.' These spies brought back a report to the people that the Land of Israel was impossible to conquer. They brought back a report of fear. These were the same people that witnessed the exodus from Egypt and the splitting of the sea and the giving of the Torah. Yet, they had fear of leaving the "comfort" of the desert.

It is in this context that we understand the words of our Sages. The spies were to bring back a report to Moshe and not to convey their own false ideas. And the spies continued to tell the Jewish People, "The Land through which we have passed, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants.". . .

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