Yesha Rabbis Advise Soldiers Not to Help Destroy Outposts

BS”D

Sticky warning: New posts added below this post.

Hat tip: WeJew.com

Modeh Ani Lifanecha

BS”D

Mumbai Doctor Smashed Idols and Became a Jew with Holtzbergs

BS”D

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) In a powerful echo of the Biblical story of the patriarch Abraham, a Mumbai doctor smashed his father’s idols and eventually decided to become a Jew in the Land of Israel.

Dr. Aharon Abraham, left his position as Director of the ICU Medical Center at British Kennedy in Mumbai, India after terrorists murdered his spiritual guide and his wife, Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg one year ago.

Abraham was born Vagirds Frads to a Hindu cleric who worshipped idols, and a mother who prepared food for them.  As did the Biblical Abraham, young Vagirds could not understand how his father could honor a man-made statue, nor why his mother would cook for them. “Sometimes I eat it in secret,” he confided in an article that appeared in Hebrew in Sichat HaShavuah.

Unlike the patriarch, however, he waited until after graduating high school to confront his father, asking how he could believe “such nonsense.” But when there was no reply, his anger led him to take a hammer and smash the idols, exactly as Abraham had done. “The gods are angry!” his father shouted at him, he recounted, and recalled his reply: “If they’re angry, let them do something, reconstruct themselves…”

It was while studying medicine at the University of Mumbai that he first read a Bible, given to him by Christian students. Amazed, he read the story of Abraham and many others. “A new world opened before me,” he said.

Click here to read more

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

Archive Video: Funeral for Rabbi Gavriel and Rifka Holtzberg

BS”D

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

Rabbi Meier Kahane z”l

BS”D

 

Einli Eretz Acheret

BS”D

Gali Atari

Ninet Tayeb

Last but not least…

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

The mutually beneficial US-Israel relationship; security and economy

BS”D

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Death to Israel”

BS”D

Ahmadinejad can claim he only means to encourage a “regime change” in the region of Eretz Israel, that there is no such phrase in Farsi that would approximate the concept of wiping a nation off the map, thus he can hide behind linguistic technicalities. I have been wondering about this myself, though in either case, the man is not sounding too friendly towards the nation of Israel.

There are those who argue this point, but others are quick to point out that though that exact phrase was not uttered, that it was closer to “disappear from the pages of history”, Mr. Ahmadinejad was not using a passive tense, but an active tense, indicating more of an aggressive stance than he will admit to in the American press.

Well, there is no misunderstanding Mr. Ahmadinejad’s words in this video: “Marg bar Israel” or  “death to Israel”. Chas v’Shalom

So for those wondering if Mr. Ahmadinejad or the Iranian mullocracy is such a threat to Israel,  I think the answer is obvious.

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

A British Jew Committed to Prosecuting Israeli Leaders

BS”D

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) Attorney Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, chairwoman of the Shurat Hadin legal advocacy organization, told Arutz Sheva Radio on Thursday who exactly is behind the effort to prosecute former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon and other IDF commanders. He is Daniel Machover – a British lawyer who is also a former Israeli.

Machover, a co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, represents the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, based in the Hamas-run Gaza half of the Palestinian Authority. According to Leitner, Machover has dedicated his life to collecting evidence against IDF officers and political leaders in an effort to charge them with war crimes in Europe. He and the center he represents prepare legal ambushes for Israeli military and civilian leaders who visit European countries, hoping to bring about their arrest and prosecution.

“Attorney Daniel Machover is an expatriate Israeli, son of a Communist family that emigrated to England after the Six Day War,” Leitner said. The family left Israel because of what they saw as “the suffering of the Palestinians and the Israeli occupation. The family distanced itself from anything related to Jews and Israel and became close to the Palestinians,” Leitner continued.

According to the Shurat Hadin chairwoman, Machover has been trying to bring about the prosecution of Israeli officers long before the recent Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. “We have been following his activities for several years,” Leitner said. “Thank God, thus far he has not seen the fruits of his efforts and we hope that it will continue to be possible to foil his despicable efforts.”

The British Jewish lawyer Machover is one of a string of “former Israelis who hold hard Left opinions” who have set themselves up as enemies of Israel, Leitner explained. “The goal of people such as him is to undermine the Jewish identity and the Jewish people.”

Click here to continue reading

To learn about Machover’s father, read Stalin’s anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel lives on as strong as ever at the University of London: Professor Moshe Machover by Lee Kaplan

Cross-posted at Avid Editor’s Insights

Thirteen Basic Principles

BS”D

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

1. We believe in the prophetic vision of the Land of Israel promised to the Jewish People.

2.  We believe that the Government is only the custodian of the Land of Israel and therefore has no right to yield any part of this land.

3.  We call on the Government to abrogate the Oslo, Hebron and Wye agreements, which have been repeatedly violated by the PLO-Palestinian Authority.

4. We believe that the cherished ideas and values of the Torah should be emphasized in the nation’s systems of education, showing how these ideas and values constitute the foundation of Western civilization.

5.  We believe that the Jewish essence of the Commonwealth should be the paramount principle of its Government to which all other principles are subordinate.

6. We believe that an oath of loyalty to Israel as a Jewish Commonwealth should be a

precondition for participating in elections to, or holding any appointment in, any office of this Commonwealth.

7.  We believe that the Jewish people should have unrestricted access to the Temple Mount, subject only to Halakhic limitations articulated by a conference of Israel’s Torah masters.

8. We support electoral and institutional reforms to make Israel a Normative Democracy , one that derives its cardinal principles, Freedom and Equality, from the Torah’s conception of man’s creation in the image of God—which  alone can provide Freedom and Equality with ethical and rational constraints.  These reforms include:

a. Personal election of Knesset Members in multidistrict elections to ensure accountability and to raise the quality of legislation;

b. A Presidential system to replace the inept and corrupt system of multi-party cabinet government;

c. Termination of judicial imperialism by having the President nominate Supreme Court judges subject to confirmation by the Knesset in open public hearings.

9. We call on the Government to publicize Israel’s enormous contribution to the Security, Health, and Progress of the United States.

10. We believe in a free market economy to increase productivity, lower taxes, reduce government bureaucracy and increase the real wages and opportunities of our people.

11. We believe that Israel’s educational system, especially in the rigorous sciences, must be second to none.

12. We call on the Government to change the Law of Return to ensure that non-Jews will not flood Israel and endanger the Jewish character of the Commonwealth.  At the same time, we advocate the establishment of a “Blue Panel Commission” of outstanding Torah scholars aided by eminent layman to deliberate on the issue of conversion, and submit pertinent recommendations to the Knesset Law Committee.

13. We call on the Government to take firm steps to obtain Jonathan Pollard’s immediate release from prison as a matter of simple justice and national honor.

INSS Presents: Meet the Foreign Press – Are They Objective?

BS”D

more about “INSS Presents: Meet the Foreign Press…“, posted with vodpod