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I do not know what the Jewish religion has in the way of officially shunning or excommunicating a fellow Jew. However, I believe the Jewish community should shun Kissinger and treat him like the traitor he is.
Nice article, but does it really reflect any following in Israel? I mean, 40 municipal Rabbis signed the original letter, and more are joining. A survey published on Ynet yesterday said that 55% of Jewish Israelis support the letter. Isn't it time we reconsider whehter the UN had it right that Zionism is racism? Or at least most Zionists are racists? What a very sad situation...
yes, that is correct.
If the dream act is passed, and i hope it wont be, sorry.
Then the President MUST act on CIR.
Family unity , the dream act, worker program is all in the CIR bill.
Lets us NOT let him off the hook!
shame on him "Pressing for the dream act"
WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US?
i am a 4th gen american citizen (more if you count the Cherokee) my husband is from mexico.
He has to wait 10 for his visa to come to the united states!
CRAZY!
We need family unity!
I am disabled and we have 2 small children together who cannot go to see daddy anymore due to the violence in mexico.
I support the dream act, but i feel that american citizens should come first.
I am angry that the Pres would do this first! VERY angry.
And i like the guy, but now i am doubtful....WHAT IS HE THINKING?
EXECUTIVE ORDER, is this possible?
DO it!
i want my husband and the kids need their dad!
W. Hess
And today we have "realists" like Kissinger and Jim Jones... supporting no action against Iran's nuclear program. Where are your voices against this threat to the existence of every Jew in Israel.
Please see the information I have posted at the blog Hirhurim available here: http://torahmusings.com/2010/12/death-by-neurological-criteria.html . You will see that many who fulfill the Harvard criteria can be considered dead according to halacha. Sometimes additional testing should be done. You will also see that the position that you advocate actually does not make logical sense. One reason, for the mudslinging, although it certainly does not excuse it, is that the RCA has not been straightforward in it's presentation. While it claims to be presenting information, and the impression is that it is unbiased, they only give the medical information that opposes 'brain death', and do not include anything that supports it. I wish you hatzlacha and refuah shelama.
"It seems as if there are two organizations within the ADL. One focuses on Israel’s detractors and the second carries out the ADL’s mission: fighting bigotry and anti-Semitism."
The ADL undermines its credibility by taking contrary positions on how it believes the Israel should act and how it believes the US and Europe should act when confronted with the same problem.
The ADL, for example, considers it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel's building border fences to keep out illegal immigrants, terrorists, smugglers, and other undesirables. The ADL also considers it _appropriate_ to criticize what it sees as racist attempts by Americans to build a fence along our border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants, narco- and Islamic terrorists, drug smugglers, and other undesirables. Israel's fence is portrayed as a laudable effort to protect Jews, their culture, and their demographic majority; America's fence is seen portrayed as a physical manifestation of White paranoia and racism.
At best, contradictions such as this confuse ADL's message and impugn its credibility, at worst it opens the door to accusations of hypocrisy and, in some circles, anti-White racism.
The 'stealth jihad', or islamification, which you casually sneer at, is much further advanced in the UK. We have just woken up to the fact that most of our poultry and lamb is halal now, and it's impossible to tell which foods contain halal products and which do not. Labelling products as halal, or ritually slaughtered, or whatever, is deemed to be discriminatory. So we're all halal now. Animal welfare has gone to hell in a handcart. It is, literally, a bloody nightmare. You can afford to be a little smug because your kosher stuff has always been clearly labelled, and presumably will continue to be. But Islamification is advancing on many fronts.
Israel woke up. PeaceNownicks are dead wrong. Arabs hate any Jewish State more than they seek life. They have no compromise on this only tactical ploys to that end. Whenever they want to live with the Jewish State they will have peace. Only their hate is the barrier, not land, not boundaries not any policy of Israel. It is any Zionist Israel they will not tolerate.
Progressives' solution: So get rid of Zionism! I say: Go count your Jewish grandchildren. If you won't have more than 4, you have shown your lack of commitment to Jewish continuity and any right to speak as a Jew: you forgot to pay your dues.
If the Golan Heights is a part of Syria, Israel should give the land back to Syria.
Can you please explain why "gifted" is used in the headline? There's no mention of it in the article. The divorcés profiled seem like good people with a lot on their plates, but that makes them human, not necessarily gifted.
A lot of Jews make the same mistake as Kissinger. They try to separate themselves from their Jewish identity and seek to identify with 'America' or 'the world'. They hope to avoid the accusation by the larger society of 'dual loyalty' or 'your strange, different'. When Kissinger spoke to Nixon, it was NOT as a Jew. It was as a person indifferent to the plight of Jews; so in his eyes, America need not make the Jews of Russia an issue to fight for. The defect in Kissinger's thinking is that he is fearful of being himself -a Jew. America is great because we have the freedom to be who we really are. But expressing who we are takes courage, which Kissinger was lacking.
Frankly I am shocked that Rabbi Emert was forced to violate the Shabbat by two New York City police officers, in Brooklyn of all places. Don't they have more important things to do than accost a religious man on a Friday evening? I know that police officers are given sensitivity training, and should use some courtesy when dealing with a religious person, especially on Shabbat.
interesting article about angelica berrie in this week's Jewish week
The Kosher enforcement bureau of NY State is absurd and Obscene!
Why should the people of NY State be paying for any Religious organization's food requirements that not all people are using ???
I am sure NY Politicians are getting the vootes they deserve on this one too....it is a violation of Church and State laws !
I am brand-new to your site. It would be helpful and appreciated if Mr. Jonathan Mark was profiled or otherwise identified so that a new viewer would have a better idea of who he is as well as where he is coming from.
Under the current system most of the health care money is used up by layers of administrators,
managers,agencies,social workers, etc. What trickles down to Survivors is the worst kind of in home services. Most of the care givers recieve close to minimum wage. The patients have no authority and no input.
The only way that this type of program can be effective is if the Survivors have direct funding to hire and manage their own care giver.
This program is another text book example of how the Claims Conference is anti Holocaust Survivors by exploiting and subjugating the very people they say they are fighting for and helping. What hypocrisy. Without direct funding this program is a total failure.
Zay Gezunt
C Minuskin
http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/715783--interfaith-couples-finesse-the-holidays
I agree that it made no sense to offer Israel an incentive package of advanced warplanes to bring them to the negotiating table, but I don't agree that asking them to freeze settlements was inappropriate, or that the Palestinians were not asked to do anything. The Administration was asking the Palestinians to stop terrorism, and, indeed, they have apparently tried to do so and have achieved some success. Israel was not asked to do anything that could have adversely affected the country's security. Indeed, a halt to settlement construction would contribute to Israel's security by enabling them, under the cover of peace negotiations, to stop a practice that amounted to digging a deeper and deeper hole. Israel has now missed that opportunity, but any implication that the Administration offer, while, perhaps, not politically astute, was one-sided or inappropriate, misses the point of what they were trying to achieve.
Great comment! Thank you for your insight. I speak from experience when I concur that the issue is more about an identify crisis, search, confusion, disillusionment, or all of the above. When a young person is questioning or searching for their jewish identity, this process can become complicated when Israel, currently one of the most unpopular places in the world, becomes part of the search. I am 37 and have been living in Tel Aviv since 2006. Originally from Texas.
I will be the first in line to recommend a "balanced approach" (as suggested by J Street, many left wing Democrats and others) to the Israel -Palestinian conflict when one of the individuals who advise this solution can tell me how to rid my mind of the pictures of the Palestinians celebrating in the streets when the horrific pictures of the events of 9-11 were shown allover the world!
Rabbi:
I thank you for your letter. I am a retired US Army, and I am concerned for the current state of our foreign policy and, as an American who wants Justice, Security, and Fairness for all sides in the Is-Pal conflict, I want to see the US be respected by both allies and adversaries.
Thank you
There are a few other dimensions to the equation that should be noted.
There is a huge and consistent disconnect between what our youth are taught in religious schools and day schools about Israel and the state that it is. Much is taught about the wars, intifadas, and terrorism in general. Many of our youth and/or their parents think Israel is a dangerous place. It is somewhat analagous to foreigners visiting NYC with fear that they will be mugged or killed. While Israel has not seen a week of peace in 62 years, defense is a given there and life flourishes regardless. We don't teach enough of the latter and too much of the former.
Second, as the Israeli economic miracle has blossomed, we haven't learned how to engage Israel well in our communities. When Israel was a young state, a significant amount of American Jewish support was financial as well as increasingly political. Now that Israel's economy is in many ways stronger than our own, we haven't figured out how to stay engaged and partner in a way that insures that our descendants will continue to be supportive and help to insure Israel's survival despite this changing dynamic.
Third, on a worldwide level, we are losing the media war. Think of the most recent absurd contention from Egypt; i.e. that Mossad was potentially responsible for the shark attacks in the Red Sea. It is the "blood libel" revisited as reported by Reuters. We have become much better at identifying these biases in the news media and often successfully obtaining retractions, apologies, and better behavior moving forward. We have not figured out how to place Israel in a for more positive light worldwide. With minor exception, Israel is generally viewed as a pariah and this also weighs on support by our young people. We live in an global world with instant access to information.
Dear Editor:
It was extremely difficult to read Governor Patteron's statement that the elimination of the Kosher law Enforcement Bureau of the New York State was over budgetary issues. This is a smoke screen. The truth is, as was told to me and reported in the press, that the State is eliminating kosher law enforcement because of the legal battles they have had over kosher: the two challenges to kosher by the Commack butchers (the first of which toppled the New York Kosher Law and forced a rewrite to eliminate the word Orthodox and to eliminate the State deciding what is in fact kosher) and the horrific Hebrew National challenge which took years and was never settled.
The facts are that all lawyers used are on state payroll, and, while litigation is cumbersome, it is necessary to protect the citizens of this state.
Let us hope that despite the state's monetary problems, the new governor, Andrew Cuomo, will realize the importance of resurrecting the Kosher Law Enforcement Bureau to protect all citizens of the state from kosher fraud which had been prevalent until the enactment of the state's kosher law.
Rabbi Yosef Wikler
Editor, KASHRUS Magazine
Editor, New York Kosher News
Thanks!
Apparent Typo:
"I realize identifying and criticizing the most [UN]civil voices in the Jewish community – shaming them, in a real sense - is hard for any Jewish group, especially an umbrella organization like the JCPA."