Who are the Israelis?

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Bernie Sanders on Jews and Israel.
by Eric Rozenman (January 2020)

Orthodox Boys, Bernard Perlin, 1948

Attempts to kosher Bernie Sanders for Jewish and pro-Israel voters in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries won’t work. They recall the scene in Duck Soup in which Chico Marx, pretending to be Groucho, demands of the ever-flustered Margaret Dumond, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” When it comes to the senator from Vermont, his chronic problems with Jewishness and the Jewish state are plain to see.

As part of his effort to claim an implicit political hechsher (kosher certification), Sanders published an essay, “How to Fight Antisemitism,” November 11 in the left-wing magazine Jewish Current. One might have been tempted to believe it had one not seen the senator bond with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), perhaps the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a few days earlier.

Omar made headlines early in 2019 for her assertion that congressional support for close U.S.-Israel ties “is all about the Benjamins”—campaign contributions from pro-Israel individuals and political action committees. She twice echoed the classic anti-Jewish dual loyalty canard. Before arriving in Congress, Omar repeated hoary Christian and Islamic depictions of Jews, this time as Israelis, as demonic: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

Not Kosher: Bernie Sanders on Jews and Israel

 

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^A month earlier, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi at New York City’s Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and a leader in the U.S. Reform Judaism movement, warned that “the crisis of antisemitism within the UK's Labour Party began with intense anti-Israel animosity at the party’s margins. That anti-Zionism increasingly devolved into the downright antisemitism of the Labour Party itself,” The Algemeiner reported. “I fear that a similar process is beginning here in the United States.”

Hirsch said “the Democratic Party is increasingly tolerant of voices that are opposed to Israel’s existence. To allow this process to go unchecked will cause irreparable harm to the bilateral U.S.-Israel relationship and to the Democratic Party itself.”

One trusts that Bernie Sanders, a Bourbon-like bobble-head—having forgotten nothing and learned nothing—when it comes to socialism, stands “on the wrong side of history.” It obvious that when it comes to antisemitism and anti-Zionism, he stands on the unkosher side of politics.

 

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Albert 'Amar & Sagiv Cohen - El Nora 'Alilah

 

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The Truth about the Jewish Temple Today
- Tenth of Tevet

 

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The Fast of the 10th of Tevet and the Four Fasts
- Rabbi Zamir Cohen

 

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Bernie Sanders on Jews and Israel.

by Eric Rozenman (January 2020)



Orthodox Boys, Bernard Perlin, 1948


Attempts to kosher Bernie Sanders for Jewish and pro-Israel voters in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries won’t work. They recall the scene in Duck Soup in which Chico Marx, pretending to be Groucho, demands of the ever-flustered Margaret Dumond, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” When it comes to the senator from Vermont, his chronic problems with Jewishness and the Jewish state are plain to see.


As part of his effort to claim an implicit political hechsher (kosher certification), Sanders published an essay, “How to Fight Antisemitism,” November 11 in the left-wing magazine Jewish Current. One might have been tempted to believe it had one not seen the senator bond with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), perhaps the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a few days earlier.


Omar made headlines early in 2019 for her assertion that congressional support for close U.S.-Israel ties “is all about the Benjamins”—campaign contributions from pro-Israel individuals and political action committees. She twice echoed the classic anti-Jewish dual loyalty canard. Before arriving in Congress, Omar repeated hoary Christian and Islamic depictions of Jews, this time as Israelis, as demonic: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”


Not Kosher: Bernie Sanders on Jews and Israel

1. I think it's time for the young generation of Jews in Israel and America to initiate a new contemporary channel for open meting for cultural and political discourse, that could give stage to talented representatives of the young generation.

2. Probably most already can't ignore their gut feeling that there's something critically big going on regarding everyone - no Jewish community was left out.

Rabbi Yitzhak, Rabbi Arush and many other already in the beginning of the last decade 'sounding the Shofar', covered their feet in dust of many cities abroad alerting people to get rid of their belongings and come to Israel as quickly as possible. Much of what they said then sounded like spooky stories, who can ignore now?

There uncomfortable things that need to be urgently discussed and clarified, between the nation dwelling in Zion and diaspora, things that cannot be pronounced by politicians, even those who evidently best of their intentions regarding the Jewish people.

We all need to have a talk, evidently urgent.

Not the one where Pres. Trump understands PM Netanyahu and the Arab world can understand both of them, while none of them can understand Bernie Sanders.

It's kinda on the same subject, but it's just not gonna happen there.
Want it or not but we will unite either by our own initiative or we'll keep getting hit with harsh reality that we will experience collectively, either thousand miles away, or in the land that bears our name.our choice and we're (still) free to make it, but can't ignore.

And essentially the question is where do we merit more collectively first and then personally?

Because Hashem has His choice as well. And at some point...whether we get out of Egypt or our babies will be buried as bricks of walls of Pharaoh's cities and drowned in the river, or we "Do the Listen" with the Mountain raised from the ground above our heads...


Do we listen...are we gonna approach it from understanding, or forced to react out of fear.

In other words are we still left with the privilege not to listen and notice what were're experiencing collectively as one, no matter how far or the amount of effort to run from ourselves.

Honestly, and I'm here not to be PC or represent anyone but my views, but imagine it from this angle - G-d gave us a country and 70 years, 3 generations to think what's actually going on

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This ^^^ is what I wrote on Thursday night, thought that I would edit it next day to make my thought clearer.

There was some urgency in the air, and various reports about 'something' significant developing on the ground...so I've put 4 coins to Tzdaka and went to sleep.
Next day it was confirmed Suleimani was eliminated.

My point is, I'm not sure Bernie is in anyway relevant anymore, in critical times there isn't much time left for convenient talks, if at all.

Ideally, in my view, the Israeli govt has to sound the Shofar with a clear warning,
and aggressively call for Diaspora Exodus from every tower and TV station.

But again, probably the time for that initiative is gone, those who got the message did and those who didn't can't run away - we will all experience what's already here and coming all together.

Question rather - how much virtue can the generation still gain in the coming days,
and will we know to hear the call of the hour.

 

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Who are the Israelis?
⁜→ et al,

Thought: hechsher (kosher certification),
That is something... I like that.


Most Respectfully,
R

 

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Return to Israel the Moment It's Possible,
Parshat Vayigash 2020, Beyond The 4 Amot



Israel National News - Parshat Vayigash: Return to Israel the moment it's possible


This is previous week...
gives an angle to more clearly interpret the essence of the recent events,
in the American Jewish community specifically, and well, all around the Western world.

 

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MIDRISH “YALKUT SHIMONI” (Yeshaiyahu 60):

“Rabbi Yitzhak said: The year that Melech HaMoshiach will be revealed, all the kings of the nations of the world will provoke each other. The king of Persia will threaten the king of Arabia and the king of Arabia will go to the king of Edom for advice.

Afterwards the king of Persia returns and destroys the world. The nations will be hysterical and frantic and fall on their faces and will be seized as by birth pains.

And the people of Israel will be frantic and hysterical and they will say, where will we come and go? Where will be come and go?

And Hashem will say to them: Do not fear my children, do not fear. All that I have done I did only for you. Why are you afraid? The time for your Redemption has come!"

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(Comment)

Put 4 coins in Tzdaka - make and effort now to do it each day,
3 as minimal common for a person and 1 extra for the entire House of Israel.

And each home can have a simple box especially for charity.
Coins can be of smallest nominal, what's is consistent effort.

Tzdaka is one of the three main ways of kindness,
specifically listed as capable of saving lives.

 

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Country Under Flood -Updates

'Dean and Stav were pure, you saw it in their eyes'

Yael Cohen, a cook who worked with Dean Shoshani of blessed memory at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, on Sunday spoke of her former coworker who was killed along with his partner, Stav Harari, in the Tel Aviv elevator disaster on Saturday.

"We would call him Dino, he was one of the leading cooks. Dino was very talented. You could see how much love he put into his food. He never compromised on the quality of the dish. It was as if he put his heart on the table. He had a talent that was acquired over time. He worked at several restaurants before he came to us. He flourished here and he brought new ideas. You always felt his hand in the food,” Cohen told Radio 103FM.

What were his plans?

"He opened his own new place. He was just at the start of his life and it was very unfortunate for us that he left. Two weeks ago he came to eat together with Stav and we talked about the new place and about wanting to come to eat there. You couldn't miss his presence. There was joy in him."

"We just came back from the funeral. There were a lot of people there. It shows how many hearts this couple touched. Lots of young and old people were there. Lots of people from the neighborhood came. They were surrounded by lots of people. If there is one thing that is most powerful is that they were pure, you saw the purity in their eyes. They were such kindhearted people that you couldn't miss it."

Man found dead in car carried away by flash flood
Flash floods claim another victim, after man found dead in car which had been carried away by flood waters.

"Venice in Nahariyah"


"Venice" in Tel-Aviv area


6/1/20 - Kineret (Sea of Galilee) raises by 9cm.
7/1/20 - Kineret raises by 5cm, overall 56 cm from the beginning of the winter season

Snow in Marom Golan

 

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In Jerusalem, the world of Talmud study fetes its newest superstars — women
Thousands of women gathered in the nation's buildings for the end of the Shas, an exciting event that takes place once every seven years.

3,300 women took part in the ending of the Shas in The Nation's Buildings in Jerusalem this evening (Sunday). The event was initiated by the "Encore" organization that accessed the Daf Yomi (Daily Page) study for women through podcasts and online lessons.

The Rebbanit Michelle Farber Cohen, of the evening Initiatives, who taught Shas over the past seven years, said that "In our world where women are progressing in the academic world and achieving achievements in all walks of life, it is important that even in the study of Torah and Judaism, we understand the depth and intellectual learning that underpins our religion. See the thousands of women arriving tonight from anywhere in Israel and around the world to attend the Shas graduation event."

"For me," said Farber Cohen, "this finale is the opening shot for the 14th cycle that opens this week.The Hadran Society was set up to make sure that in the next seven and a half years, thousands more women will come, for whom the Daf Yomi (Daily Page) study will be more natural and more accessible. "

Making History! Join us and watch the global Siyum HaShas for Women LIVE from Binyanei Hauma, Jerusalem

 

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The secret to bring Moshiach - The fast of the 10th of Tevet - Rabbi Alon Anava

Why do we fast on the 10th day of Tevet?
Find out what can be achieved on this day.

 

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Spiritually & Physically Protected ✡︎

Rudy Rochman Page

 

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When we get tired, we can close our eyes and lean on each other.

 

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Torah portion of this week:

THE FREEDOM TO SHAPE OUR DESTINY: PARASHAT VAYECHI

 

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From this week's Torah portion:

 

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Hayim Yisrael - Shabat Sheli (My Shabbat)

A fracture upon fracture on a heart that still remembers
Wants the innocence
The loneliness that still burns and Your image that remains again
She has a meaning
One ladder and angels asking
Please don't hide the countenance for the lovers

All the tears in the world
Everything is concluded complete and disappears
I breathe a little and here You are the Shabbat

My G-d how good
Here came my Shabbat to do me good
In my life I have cried enough
The voice of my beloved here is coming to save and guard me
And my beloved, and around me are walls and towers breaking from within my songs

The happiness surrounds, the Shabbat wraps me all and the heart remembers
Jumping with the verses and the songs raise, raise, and there's no hiding of countenance
And one great G-d, master of all deeds, kindness and mercy and light of life

 

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From Israel with love - peaceful Shabbat to all...