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Monday, April 20, 2026

הסיפור האישי של אהרון ברק: איך הוא בירח מלמות בשואה וחזונו השלום / Israel's Former Chief Justice His Escape From The Holocaust And His Vision For Peace

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YNET: אהרן ברק חזר לילדות בגטו והזהיר מעתיד הדמוקרטיה: "אל תניחו שזה לא יקרה פה"
בערב "זיכרון בסלון" סיפר נשיא העליון בדימוס על הבריחה בשק מהגטו בליטא, הרעב והאימה - וחיבר בין הזיכרון האישי לתפיסת עולמו המשפטית: "אם הדמוקרטיה לא תגן על השופטים, הם לא יוכלו להגן עליה". לדבריו, ״צריך להתנהג לערבים כפי שהיינו רוצים שיתנהגו אלינו בשואה". ומה נותן לו תקווה? "הבחירות"
ליהיא גורדון | 13.04.2026

בערב "זיכרון בסלון" שנערך במרכז יצחק רבין ביוזמת לשכת עורכי הדין, התיישב נשיא בית המשפט העליון בדימוס, פרופ' אהרן ברק. לא כמשפטן, אלא כילד בן חמש מקובנה שבליטא. מול אולם מלא עורכות ועורכי דין, ובצל ימים מתוחים של מלחמה ואיומים ביטחוניים, חיבר ברק בין הזיכרון האישי מהשואה לבין השאלות הגדולות של משפט, דמוקרטיה וזהות ישראלית. "אל תניחו שזה לא יקרה אצלנו", הזהיר.
עשר אגורות (2¢):
יש לכבד את ניצולי השואה, אבל כדאי לנו להפסיק לתת להם אישור חופשי להגיד ולעשות כל מה שהם רוצים. יש להבין את דבריהם בהקשרם.

אנחנו עדיין סובלים בגלל השינויים שהוא ביצע במערכת המשפט שהפכו אותה לדיקטטורה שהיא היום. אי אפשר להתעלם מזה.אנו עדיין סובלים בגלל השינויים שהוא ביצע במערכת המשפט לדיקטטורה שהיא היום. אי אפשר להתעלם מזה.

אנו עדיין סובלים מהחוויות האישיות הללו שהשפיעו את התפתחותו, את מנטליותו, את גישתו לחיים ולממשל, שהם מונחים על ידי רגשותיו, מושפעים במידה רבה, אם לא באופן בלעדי, מהתרבות המערבית, כלומר תרבות הלא יהודית.
האירוע התקיים ערב יום השואה, והובילו אותו ראש לשכת עורכי הדין, עו״ד עמית בכר, וברק עצמו. הם שוחחו על הקשר בין טראומת הילדות בגטו לבין תפיסת עולמו המשפטית של ברק. ״הערב הזה הוא קודם כל הסיפור האישי שלך, אבל הוא גם סיפור התקומה הלאומי", אמר בכר בפתח השיחה.

ברק חזר לתחילת הסיפור: קובנה, 1941. הוא בן חמש, יושב בעגלה עם הוריו בדרכם לגטו. ״הדימוי שנוצר אצלי מהתקופה הוא של בית סוהר", סיפר. ״אנשים שנמצאים שם עם גזר דין מוות, רק שלא יודעים מתי יבוצע". הוא תיאר רעב, מוות יומיומי ואיסורים מוחלטים: "אסור היה ללמוד, אסור ללמד, אסור ללדת ילדים. ילד שנולד היה נרצח, וגם האם היולדת".

רגע השבר שלו הגיע ב"אקציית הילדים" ב-1944. "החיילים נכנסו לבתים והוציאו את כל הילדים מתחת לגיל 12. כולם נרצחו", סיפר. ברק עצמו ניצל בדרך בלתי נתפסת: הוא הוברח בשק ממפעל שבו עבד אביו אל מחוץ לגטו. "שמו אותי בתוך שק עם מדים. מעליי ישב חייל גרמני. אם הייתי זז, זה היה הסוף״, שחזר. כשהשק נפתח ברפת של איכר ליטאי, זו הייתה הפעם הראשונה שראה פרה. ״זו הייתה הבהלה הראשונה שלי״, אמר.

ברק ואמו הוסתרו אצל שני איכרים ליטאים, שהוכרו לימים כחסידי אומות העולם. שנים אחר כך, כשפגש את ילדיהם, שאל אותם ברק שאלה שמלווה אותו עד היום: למה הוריהם סיכנו את חייהם כדי להציל יהודים? התשובה, לדבריו, הייתה פשוטה: "אנחנו קתולים אדוקים. אם אדם זקוק לעזרה, צריך לעזור לו. אז מה בדיוק השאלה?״. ברק אמר בשיחה: "שאלתי את עצמי מאז, מה אנחנו היינו עושים במקרה הזה? ואין לי תשובה".
ברור. ייתכן שיש לגויים האלה זכות בשמים בכך שהם הצילו יהודים. אבל, אל תשכחו שהיהודים לא ניסו להשמיד את הקתולים.
ברק ואמו הוסתרו אצל שני איכרים ליטאים, שהוכרו לימים כחסידי אומות העולם. שנים אחר כך, כשפגש את ילדיהם, שאל אותם ברק שאלה שמלווה אותו עד היום: למה הוריהם סיכנו את חייהם כדי להציל יהודים? התשובה, לדבריו, הייתה פשוטה: "אנחנו קתולים אדוקים. אם אדם זקוק לעזרה, צריך לעזור לו. אז מה בדיוק השאלה?״. ברק אמר בשיחה: "שאלתי את עצמי מאז, מה אנחנו היינו עושים במקרה הזה? ואין לי תשובה".

לצד האימה, ברק הדגיש גם את האנושיות שנותרה בגטו. "הייתה אחווה. עזרנו אחד לשני. הגרמנים לקחו מאיתנו את החיים, אבל הם לא לקחו מאיתנו את הרוח. ולא את האנושיות״, הוא אמר.

לאחר המלחמה התאחדה המשפחה, נמלטה מאירופה ועלתה לישראל. ברק סיפר על ילדותו בארץ - ילד שאינו יודע עברית ונכשל בלימודים, אך בהמשך הופך לאחד המשפטנים הבולטים בישראל. דווקא המעבר הזה, מהשואה למדינה הוא שהפך, לדבריו, לבסיס תפיסתו המשפטית. "הלקח הראשון הוא החשיבות של מדינת ישראל כמדינת הלאום של העם היהודי", אמר. "אם הייתה מדינה כזו בזמן השואה, הדברים היו נראים אחרת לגמרי".
כן. כי היה לנו מקום לברוח ממנו שהיה מוכר בדיוק כמו שלנו. אפילו עכשיו אנחנו נאבקים עם ההכרה הזו, אבל לא רק מעמים אחרים, אלא גם מיהודים כמו ברק. הם רוצים את "מדינת ישראל כמדינת הלאום של העם היהודי". מצד שני יש יהודים שעובדים למען מולדת לעם ישראל, ואפילו מלכות בית דוד שתחזור למקומה בימינו. יש הבדל בין המטרות האלה. יש הבדל גדול.
אך לצד תפיסת הביטחון, ברק הדגיש גם לקח נוסף: מוסרי ואוניברסלי. ״אנחנו צריכים להתנהג כלפי הערבים כפי שהיינו רוצים שיתנהגו כלפינו כיהודים בליטא", אמר. "צלם האדם הוא מושג יהודי". לדבריו, תפקיד המשפט הוא לשמור על האיזון ״בין קיום המדינה לבין זכויות האדם. לא ללכת לקצוות, אלא לפתרונות מאוזנים".
מה בדיוק ברק מציע כאן? שהערבים נמצאים בסכנת גורל זהה בישראל כמו יהודי אירופה של שנות ה-40? זוהי אותה גישה מערבית שכשלה אותנו, שוב ושוב: שאנחנו פשוט צריכים לקיים יותר דיאלוג ולהכיר את הערבים מספיק, ולתת להם יותר מתנות, ואז יהיה שלום בינינו.

ובכל זאת, אנחנו שוב במלחמה עם חיזבאללה, עם חמאס, ואפילו עם הפרסים (האיראנים). הם לא ערבים, אבל כן מוסלמים.

רגשות הם מה שמנחים את עולם המערב. התורה היא מה שאמורה להנחות את עם ישראל.

"לא ללכת לקצוות" הוא סיסמא שמדבר על שומרי תורה ומצוות, ועל מי שמתיחס לתורה כמדריך לחיים. "פתרונות מאוזנים" הוא סיסמא שאומר לנו להמנע מלתת לתורה להשפיע על כל עניין. אלא לתת לגויים ולתרבותם להשפיע עלינו. כלומר, אנחנו נמצאים באותו כדור הארץ, ולכן לדעתו הגלובליזם מומלץ.
בהמשך הערב נשאל ברק האם מערכות חוק ומשפט עלולות להידרדר בעצמן לאי צדק, כפי שקרה בגרמניה הנאצית. התשובה שלו הייתה חדה: ״כן. אם זה קרה במדינתם של בטהובן ובאך, זה יכול לקרות גם אצלנו. אל תניחו שזה לא יקרה אצלנו. הכול יכול לקרות״. הוא הוסיף אזהרה ישירה: ״אם הדמוקרטיה לא תגן על השופטים, השופטים לא יוכלו להגן על הדמוקרטיה".
מה יכול לקרות אצלנו? הוא אומר "אם הייתה מדינה כזו בזמן השואה, הדברים היו נראים אחרת לגמרי". אז אם היהודים מוגנים בארץ משואה נוספת, אז האם הוא אומר שהוא מודאג על הגורל של הערבים? או על הגורל של החברה הישראלית החילונית?

הדמוקרטיה, שמקורה ביוונים, היא מערכת ממשלתית טובה לחלוטין... עבור הגויים, אשר נצטוו להקים לעצמם בתי משפט (אחת שבע מצוות בני נוח), בדגש על עצמם, לא עבור היהודים.

יש ליהודים כבר שיטת ממשל והיא מפורטת עבורנו בתורה.
ומה נותן לו תקווה? לקראת סיום, ביקש בכר תשובה אחת פשוטה: מה נותן לברק תקווה לעתיד מערכת המשפט והמדינה? הוא השיב בקצרה: "הבחירות", וזכה לתשואות מהקהל.
בסופו של דבר, בחירות לא יעזרו לו. אז כדאי להם להנות מהן כל עוד הן נמשכות.

כשאנחנו אומרים "לעולם לא עוד!" לשואה, אנחנו חייבים להתכוון לזה. אנחנו חייבים להפסיק לעשות את אותן טעויות שוב ושוב, ולצפות לתוצאות שונות. לאפשר לעוד גויים, אפילו לעודד אותם לעלות לארצנו, לקבל עוד גויים שטוענים שהם יהודים, לקבל גיורים מזויפים ותנועות של יהדות מזויפת. האלה לא יעזרו לנו אלא פוגעים בנו, ומובילים אותנו לשואה הבאה. (חו״ח)

הטעות היסודית שלנו היא לנסות לחיות כמו הגויים. בעבר הייתה לכך סיבה טובה. לא רצינו להכות, להאנס או לההרג. היינו צריכים לשרוד. וכדי לשרוד במדינות של המארחים הגויים שלנו היינו צריכים להסתדר איתם. וזאת אומרת להתבולל במידה מסוימת.

ניסינו להיות ספרדים טובים. אבל הספרדים אילצו אותנו להתנצר, לצאת, או לההרג.

ניסינו להיות פולנים טובים, כשהם קיבלו אותנו בברכה. אבל הפולנים עשו לנו פוגרומים.

ניסינו להיות גרמנים טובים. אבל הגרמנים דחו אותנו, אפילו כשהתנצרנו. הם דחו אותנו, אפילו כשהפכנו את היהדות להראות כמו הנצרות, למשל כשהתכנסנו בימי ראשון במקום יום שבת. (תודה לתנועה הרפורמית!)

בסופו של דבר, הגרמנים רצו לעשות לנו יותר מעינויים, גיור, וגירוש. הם לא רצו להרוג רק את הבנים שלנו כמו המצרים. הם לא רצו למנוע עוד יהודים להוולד כמו לבן הארמי. אלא הם רצו להשמיד אותנו לגמרי.

לדבריו של נשיא בית המשפט העליון לשעבר אהרון ברק:
"אם הדמוקרטיה לא תגן על השופטים, הם לא יוכלו להגן עליה".
בהיותי באחת ממערכות הממשל ההוגנות ביותר על פני כדור הארץ - כלומר, עד שקיים חוק הפטריוט, שהתחילה להרוס את ההגינות של המערכת - אני לא מבין איך יליד הארץ או כל יהודי שנכח בהקמת המדינה יכול להאמין שמדינת ישראל היא דמוקרטיה באמת.

אין ספק שנשיא בית המשפט העליון לשעבר, אהרן ברק, מבין יותר במדע המדינה ממני. זו לשון המעטה. אבל, זה בדיוק מה שכולנו צריכים לפחד ממנו. הוא יודע איך לתמרן מערכת ממשל דמוקרטית לכאורה, לימד רבים אחרים לעשות את אותו הדבר, והצליח לשכנע את האכלוסיה לקבל את חזון הדמוקרטיה שלו.

היהודים כמו אהרן ברק או לא מוכנים, או פשוט לא יכולים, לברוח מהגישה לחיים של עולם המערב שתקועה בראשיהם. אולי זה בגלל כל האסונים שאנו עוברים. אולי שה בגלל משהו אחר.

מרחמים עליהם. אנחנו לומדים שכמעט כל יהודי יכול לחזור בתשובה, ואפילו אפשר ביום מותו (משנה אבות ב,יג [י]; משנה תורה, הל׳ תשובה ב, ב). אני פשוט לא מאמין בעתיד טוב לכאלה.
אהרון ברק / Aharon Barak
 נשיא בית המשפט העליון לשעבר / Former Chief Justice
YNET: Israel's ex supreme court president, holocaust survivor, warns: ‘Don’t assume it can’t happen here’
Aharon Barak recounts childhood escape from Nazi ghetto, links Holocaust trauma to legal philosophy; warns democracy must defend judges, calls for moral treatment of Arabs, says elections give him hope

Lihia Gordon | April 13, 2026

At a “Zikaron BaSalon" event, a grassroots Israeli initiative in which people host Holocaust remembrance discussions in homes and public venues, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak spoke not as a jurist but as a 5-year-old child from Kovne (Kaunas), Lithuania.

Addressing a hall filled with lawyers at the Yitzhak Rabin Center, against the backdrop of ongoing war and security threats, he connected his personal Holocaust memories to broader questions of law, democracy and Israeli identity. “Do not assume this cannot happen here,” he warned.
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Holocaust victims should be honored, but no longer be given a free pass to say and do whatever it is they want. Their words need to be understood in context.

We are still reeling from his transformation of Israel's judicial system into the dictatorship that it is today. This cannot be ignored.

We are still reeling from these personal experiences which have shaped him, his mentality, his approach to life and governance, being led his feelings, influenced heavily, if not exclusively, by Western, ie. non-Jewish, culture.
The event, held on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, was led by Israel Bar Association head Amit Becher and Barak himself. They discussed how Barak’s childhood trauma in the ghetto shaped his legal philosophy. “This evening involves first and foremost your personal story, but it is also the story of national revival,” Becher said at the start of the discussion.

Barak started recalling: Kaunas (Kovne), 1941. He was 5, sitting in a cart with his parents on the way to the ghetto. “The image I carry from that time is of a prison,” he said. “People lived under a death sentence, never knowing when it would be carried out.”

He described hunger, daily deaths and strict prohibitions. “It was forbidden to study or teach, and forbidden to have children. A child who was born would be murdered, and so would the mother.”

His breaking point came during the 1944 “children’s action,” when German soldiers entered homes and took all children under age 12. “They were all murdered,” he said. Barak survived extraordinarily. He was smuggled out of the ghetto in a sack from the factory where his father worked. “They put me inside a sack with soldiers' uniforms. A German soldier sat on top of me. If I had moved, it would have been the end of me,” he recalled. When the sack was opened in a Lithuanian farmer’s barn, it was the first time he had seen a cow. “That was my first moment of fear,” he said.

Barak and his mother were hidden by two Lithuanian farmers later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, a title given by Israel to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Years later, Barak asked their children why their parents had taken such risks. “The answer was simple,” he said. “We are devout Catholics. If someone needs help, you help them..."
Sure. They may have merit for defying the Nazis. But, let us not forget, Jews were not trying to kill Catholics.
Barak said he has asked himself ever since what he would have done in their place. “I don’t have an answer,” he said. Alongside the horror, he emphasized the humanity that endured in the ghetto. “There was solidarity. We helped each other. The Germans took our lives, but not our spirit, and not our humanity,” he said...

...That journey, he said, shaped his legal outlook. “The first lesson is the importance of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people,” he said. “If such a state had existed during the Holocaust, things would have looked completely different.”
Yes. Because we would have had a place to flee that was recognized as ours. Even now we struggle with that recognition, but not just recognition from other nations.

Jews like Barak want the “State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.” On the other hand, there are Jews who work for a homeland for the Jewish people, and even for the kingdom of the House of David to return to its place in our own day. There is a difference between these goals. There is a big difference.
At the same time, he stressed a universal moral lesson. “We must treat Arabs as we would have wanted to be treated as Jews in Lithuania,” he said. “Human dignity is a Jewish concept.” He said the role of the law is to maintain a balance “between the survival of the state and human rights, not to veer toward extremes but to seek balanced solutions.”
What exactly is he suggesting here? That the Arabs are in danger of incurring the same fate in Israel as the Jews incurred in 1940s Europe? This is the same Western approach which has failed us, time and time again. If we only dialogue enough, get to know the "other" enough, and shower them with gifts, there will be peace.

And yet, here we are...again, at war with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Persia (Iran). Of course, the Persians are not Arabs, they are Muslims. Surprise.

I sound like a broken record, but feelings are what lead the West. Torah is what is supposed to lead the Jews.

"Not to go to extremes" is code for beware of anyone who keeps Torah and its mitzvoth, and who looks to Torah as his guide for living. "Balanced solutions" is code for do not allow the Torah to touch everything. Let the goyim have influence us, too. After all, we leave on the same globe, ie. globalism.
When asked whether legal systems themselves can descend into injustice, as happened in Nazi Germany, Barak answered unequivocally: “Yes. If it happened in the country of Beethoven and Bach, it can happen here. Do not assume it cannot happen here. Anything can happen.”
What can happen here? He basically just said that with a nation state of Jew, things would be different. So, if Jews are protected here from another Holocaust, is he expressing concern for the fate of the Arabs? Or, dare I suggest, the fate of secular, Israeli society?
He added a direct warning: “If democracy does not protect judges, judges will not be able to protect democracy.”
Originating from the Greeks, democracy is perfectly good system of governance,... for the nations, who are commanded to set up courts for themselves, one of the seven commandments on Bnei No'ah (Children of Noah), emphasis on for themselves, not for the Jews.

Jews already have a system of government. It is laid out for us in the Torah.
As the evening concluded, Becher asked a final question: What gives Barak hope for the future of Israel’s legal system and the state?

His answer was brief: “Elections.”
In the end, elections will not help you. So, enjoy them while they last.

When we say "Never Again!" to a Holocaust, we have to mean it. We have to stop making the same mistakes over again, expecting different results. Allowing more non-Jews, even encouraging them to join us here, acceptance fake Jews, fake conversions, and expressions of fake Judaism is not helping us; it is hurting us, and leading to the next Holocaust.

Our fundamental mistake has been to try and live like the goyim. The was good reason for this in the past. We didn't want to beaten up, raped, or killed. We had to survive, and that meant getting along with our hosts in their temporary refuges they provided us. and that meant to assimilate somewhat.

We tried to be good Spaniards. The forced us to convert, leave, or be killed.

We tried to be gooe Poles, when the welcomed us in. They made pogroms.

We tried to be good Germans. They rejected us, even when we converted to Lutheranism. They rejected us, even when we made Judaism look more like Christianity, even gathering on Sundays. (Thanks, Reform Movement!)

Eventually, the Germans targeted for more than just torture, conversion, and expulsion. They did not want to kill just our boys like the Egyptians. They did not want to prevent more Jews from being born like Laban the Aramaean. They wanted to exterminate us.

In Barak's own words:
"If democracy does not protect the judges, they will not be able to protect it."
Having come from one of the fairest systems of government on the planet -- that is, until The Patriot Act, which was the beginning of the end -- I question the understanding of democracy any native Israeli or any Jew present at, or near, the founding of the State.

Certainly, former Chief Justice Aharon Barak knows more of political science than I. That is an understatement. But, this is exactly what we should all be afraid of. He knows how to manipulate a supposedly democratic system of government, has trained many others to do the same, and has successfully sold his vision of democracy to the masses.

The Aharon Baraks among us are either unwilling, or simply cannot, escape their Western mentality. Blame PTSD. Blame whatever you like. Have compassion for them. We are taught that almost anyone can repent, and can even do so on the last day in This World (Mishnah Avoth 2:13 [10]; MT, Laws of Repentance 2:2).

I am just not very optimistic.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

עם יהודים כאלה... / With Jews Like These...

ראש החודש השני תשפ״ה
English follows the Hebrew.
YNET: ראש העיר הוד השרון, בטקס יום השואה: "אל לנו להחריש מול זוועות שמתבצעות בשמנו"
בטקס יום השואה שערכה עיריית הוד השרון רמז ראש העיר אמיר כוכבי כי זוועות מתבצעות גם ברצועת עזה, בזמן המלחמה. "59 חטופים עדיין בעזה. תאוות הנקם, הדם וההרס לא השיבה אלינו את המתים והחיים", טען. השר זוהר: "יריקה בפרצוף שורדי השואה"
עשר אגורות (2¢):
מי זה אמיר כוכבי? הנה כמה דברים מעניינים עליו מויקיפדיה:
  • ראש עיריית הוד השרון
    אמיר כוכבי
    כוכבי הוא מצאצאי רבי אלימלך מליז'נסק.
  • טרם כניסתו לפוליטיקה המוניציפלית, עבד כוכבי בכנסת לצד רוני בר-און.
  • בשנת 2008 הקים כוכבי את סיעת קצב – תנועה עירונית חברתית במסגרתה נבחר למועצת העיר בשתי מערכות בחירות.
  • בין 2008–2018 כיהן כיו"ר הסיעה, כסגן ראש העירייה וכחבר מועצת העיר.
  • בבחירות 2013 התאחד עם סיעת  [מפלגת השמאלנים] מרצ בעיר והסיעות רצו יחדיו ברשימת "קצב-מרצ".
  • בבחירות 2018 התאחדה הסיעה המשותפת עם סניף יש עתיד [של יאיר לפיד] בעיר ורצו יחדיו ברשימת "קצב-מרצ-יש עתיד".
  • [בשנת 2023] אמיר כוכבי הוא אחד מראשי הערים המזוהים עם המחאה נגד ממשלת ישראל השלושים ושבע [נגד הרפורמה המשפטית]
  • הוא כתב, ״חוסר חדשנות, ובעיקר חוסר בלימודים על האחר, על שוויון, על זכויות. ואיפה שאין שוויון וזכויות יש גזענות והדרה ואלימות״.
  • לא כולם בעיר אהבו את זה. (MYNET הוד השרון)
האם אתם מתפלאים? קדימה, כלומר בעד גירוש היהודים מעזה ומצפון השומרון. ואז מרצ ואז יש עתיד. כוון שיש ליאיר לפיד יותר השפעה בארץ ותמיכה בחו״ל? ואז הוא אחד ראשי העיר במחאה נגד הרפורמה המשפטית, כלומר בעד ממשל בית המשפט העליון במדינת ישראל בסגנון אהרן ברק.

והיום נראה שהוא משווה את השואה לפעולות צה״ל בעזה נגד חמאס כדי להגן עלינו מעוד רקטות ומעוד התקפות על ידי מחבלים. אבל אם אני הייתי אומר שנישואי תערובת הוא השואה הנוכחי שלנו אז המון אנשים כולל יהודים, אזרחים לא יהודים, וכאלה שחושבים שהם יהודים אבל האמת היא שהם לא, ייצאו למחאה נגדי. האם אמיר כוכבי מוכן להיות מנהיג במחאה כזו? ואיך הוא היה מציע שאני איענש?

אבל אמיר כוכבי לא הבעיה היחידה אלא גם שאין מספיק מבקרים אותו ודעות שלו.

ולא רק שה. כנראה הוא יזכה שוב בבחירות הבאות לראש העיר או אפילו לכנסת.
Arutz 7: Holocaust Memorial Day: Hod Hasharon Mayor's shameful speech
Mayor of Hod Hasharon Amir Kochavi speaks at the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony and compares Nazi horrors to IDF's activities in Gaza.

Israel National News, Apr 24, 2025

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
So, who is Amir Kochavi? Here are a few items, gleened from the highly flawed Wikipedia:
  • A young Amir Kochavi
    Kochavi is a descendant of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk.
  • Before entering municipal politics, Kochavi worked in the Knesset [with the Likud and Ariel Sharon's traitorous Kadima Parties].
  • In 2008 Kochavi founded the Ketzev – Social Urban Movement party, through which he was elected to the city council in two election cycles.
  • Between 2008 and 2018, he served as the party chairman, deputy mayor, and city council member.
  • In the 2013 elections, he joined forces with the [far left-wing] Meretz Party in the city, and the parties ran together under the "Ketzev-Meretz" list.
  • In the 2018 elections, the joint party united with the local, [Yair Lapid's] Yesh Atid branch and ran together under the "Ketzev-Meretz-Yesh Atid" list.
  • In 2023 Kochavi announced that he intends to lead protests against Israeli judicial reform and in support of women's rights, urging residents to participate in a women's march.
  • He wrote, "Where there is no equality and rights, there is racism, intimidation, and violence."
  • Not everyone in the city appreciated his stance, with some questioning why he was taking a side, arguing that he should be the mayor for everyone.

Is anyone surprised? Kadima, in other words, on the side of the 2005/תפס״ה Expulsion of Jews from Gaza and Northern Samaria. Then Meretz, but then Yesh Atid. Because Yair Lapid has more influence and support abroad? And then leadership in the movement protesting the Judicial Reform, in other words, in favor of the judicial oligarchy governing the State of Israel.

And now it seems that he compares IDF operations in Gaza against Hamas, which protects us from more rockets and other terrorist acts, to the Holocaust. Yet, if I suggest that Intermarriage is our current Holocaust, everyone would be up in arms, and I hazard to guess that Kochavi might be one of the protest leaders, calling for - oh, I don't know - any number of punishments to be enacted against me.

But people like Amir Kochavi are not the problem. Rather the problem is that not enough of us are criticizing him and his opinion, as it becomes accepted within the mainstream.

Not only that. He will probably get re-elected as mayor or perhaps even wind up in the Knesset (Parliament).

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

טוב או רע? לא יהיה שום יהודי באירופה בשנת 2050 / There Won't be Any Jews Left in Europe by 2050: Is that bad?

כ״ה לחודש העשירי תש״פ
English follows the Hebrew.
ערוץ 7: מייסד פורום השואה העולמי, משה קנטור, מזהיר כי ייתכן שאירופה לא תהיה יהודים עד שנת 2050
מייסד פורום השואה העולמי מזהיר כי אנטישמיות גואה עשויה להפוך ל"מדרון חלקלק "ל"קטסטרופה עולמית". 
ערוץ שבע, 22/01/20
עשר אגורות (2¢):
לשאלה, "טוב או רע? לא יהיה שום יהודי באירופה בשנת 2050" התשובה הקצרה היא:

מצב כזה יהיה טוב מאודד... ליהודים.

אפילו אם משה קנטור מזדהה עם השקפות חסידי סאטמר ונטורי קרטא שצריכים לחכות למשיח להגיע ולהקים מחדש את הריבונות היהודית על ארץ ישראל, ללא שום הכנות ישירות גופניות לפני הגעתו (תפילה ולימוד תורה בהחלט הכנות.) , אז אני לא מעוניין לשמוע שום דבר על חידוש הקהילות היהודיות באירופה.

לשמור להגן על חברי הקהילות האלה עד שהם יוכלו לעלות ארצה? כן בהחלט. לבנות מחדש ולהצעיר את הקהילות האלה מחדש? לא.

לגבי "קטסטרופה עולמית ", לתת לגויים לדאוג לגויים. לתת לאדום (המערב) לדאוג לאדום. לתת לישמעאל (ערבים / מוסלמים) לדאוג לישמעאל. לתת לפרס (איראן) לדאוג לפרס.

ולתת ליהודים לדאוג ליהודים, ולהתיחס לאדום, לישמעאל ולפרסי כהאיומים נגדנו, ולארצות שלהם כמקומות לא ראוים ליהודים. לתת ליהודים להשקיע במולדתנו האמיתית היחידה. והמולדת האמיתית היחידה של העם היהודי לא ארה״ב ולא אירופה הן ; אלא היא ארץ ישראל.

ציוני אמיתי מאמין שאנחנו לא רק חייבים להלחם למען ארץ ישראל כמולדת היהודים, אלא גם לעודד יהודים, כל היהודים, לגור שם בפועל.

ההפך מציונות הוא שמירת כלואים על יהודים בגלות, על מנת לשמור על תפקידים של כוח ויוקרה.
Arutz 7: World Holocaust Forum founder Moshe Kantor warns Europe may have no Jews by 2050
Founder of World Holocaust Forum warns that rising anti-Semitism could become a "slippery slope" to a "global catastrophe". 
Arutz Sheva Staff, 22/01/20 
Europe’s Jewish population of roughly 1.4 million people could disappear by the middle of the century, warned Russian-born philanthropist and Jewish activist Moshe Kantor, the founder of the World Holocaust Forum and president of the European Jewish Congress.

In an interview with Galei Tzahal’s Efi Triger which was aired on “Good Morning Israel” Wednesday morning, Kantor said the rise in anti-Semitism around the world – and the political polarization which has fueled that rise – could potentially result in a “global catastrophe”. (cont.)
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
To the question, "Would it be bad if there won't be any Jews left in Europe by 2050?" the short answer is:

No, it would not be in the slightest.

Unless Moshe Kantor identifies with the Satmar and Neutei Karta perspectives of waiting for Mashi'ah to arrive and re-establish Jewish sovereignty over the Land Israel himself, without any direct physical, pre-arrival preparations (Prayer and Torah study most definitely preparations.), then I am not in the least bit interested in hearing about re-invigorating European Jewish communities.

Protecting and defending the members of these communities until then can make aliyah (immigrate to Israel)? Yes. Re-building and re-juvenating them? No.

As far as a "global catastrophe" goes, let the non-Jews worry about the non-Jews. Let Edom (The West) worry about Edom. Let Yishma'el (Arabs/Muslims) worry about Yishma'el. Let Persia (Iran) worry about Persia.

Let Jews worry about Jews, and see Edom, Yishma'el, and Persian as the threats that they are, and places where Jews have no business residing. Let Jews invest in our only true homeland. Neither the United States nor Europe is the only true homeland of the Jewish People; the Land of Israel is.

If Kantor actually identifies as a Zionist, then he has got some hutzpah (gall, nerve). A real Zionist believes that not only is it the Jewish People's obligation to fight on behalf of the Land of Israel as our homeland, but also to encourage the aliyah of Jews, ALL Jews.

The opposite of Zionism is keep Jews imprisoned in galuth (exile / Diaspora), in order to maintain positions of power and prestige.

Monday, July 15, 2019

האם נישואי תערובת כהשואה השנייה? / Is Intermarriage Like a Second Holocaust?

י"ב לחודש הרביעי תשע"ט
English follows the Hebrew.
הארץ: שר פרץ בישיבת הממשלה: ההתבוללות היא כמו שואה
שנייה

בדיון על מצב העם היהודי, אמר שר החינוך מאיחוד מפלגות הימין כי נישואי יהודים עם בני דתות אחרות הובילו לאובדן 6 מיליון יהודים. בשנים האחרונות כינו אורי אריאל ואלי בן דהן את ההתבוללות כ"שואה" 
שירה קדרי-עובדיה 09.07.19 
שר החינוך רפי פרץ אמר בישיבת הממשלה שהתקיימה ביום ראשון שעבר כי ההתבוללות בקרב יהודי העולם, ובמיוחד יהודי ארצות הברית, היא "כמו שואה שנייה". פרץ אמר את הדברים בדיון על מצב העם היהודי. דוברו של פרץ אישר ל"הארץ" את הדברים. (המשך...)
עשר אגורות (2¢):
כמובן, אנשי השמאל לא אוהבים את מה שהרב פרץ אומר. זה נוגד את ההרגשות שלהם. והם הולכים לפי ההרגשות שלהם, בדיוק כמו עשו נהג עשו. הוא האח של יעקב אבינו, ולפי המלבי"ם, הצאצאים שלו הם תושבי עולם המערב. בניגוד לעשו יעקב אבינו הלך לפי התורה.

ומה כתוב בתורה לגבי נישואי תערובת?
הרב רפי פרץ יו"ר הבית היהודי
Rabbi Rafi Peretz
Chair, Jewish Home Party
וְלֹא תִתְחַתֵּן, בָּם: בִּתְּךָ לֹא-תִתֵּן לִבְנוֹ, וּבִתּוֹ לֹא-תִקַּח לִבְנֶךָ. כִּי-יָסִיר אֶת-בִּנְךָ מֵאַחֲרַי, וְעָבְדוּ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים; וְחָרָה אַף-יְהוָה בָּכֶם, וְהִשְׁמִידְךָ מַהֵר. (דברים ז,ג-ד)
ערב רב, הגרים המזויפיים שיצאו ממצרים איתנו, אין להם שום שייכות לארץ ישראל אלא רוצים לערבב ולהתערב עם עם כל הארצות העולם. הם רוצים לערבב גבולות. הם רוצים לערבב עמים ביחד. מה לדעתכם התוצאה תהיה אם הם יצליחו לעשות דברים כאלה? השמדת עם ישראל.

והאם אתם הייתם קוראים להשמדה כזו "שואה?"

אני כן הייתי קרוא להשמדה כזו "שואה."
Ha'aretz: Intermarriage Among Diaspora Jews Is 'Like a Second Holocaust,' Israel's Education Minister Says
American Jewish organization blast remarks by Rafi Peretz as 'inconceivable,' 'irresponsible and disrespectful' 
Shira Kadari-Ovadia , Danielle Ziri and The Associated Press Jul 09, 2019
Israel's education minister has likened intermarriage among diaspora Jews, and particularly North American Jews, to the Holocaust in a recent cabinet meeting. A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that "assimilation is like a second Holocaust." (cont.)
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
רב רפי פרץ בזמן גירוש היהודים
מעזה/גוש קטיף וצפון השומרון תשס"ה
Rabbi Rafi Peretz during the expulsion of Jews
from Gaza/Gush Qatif, and Northern Shomron, 2005
Of course the left doesn't like Rabbi Peretz's comments. It invalidates their feelings, and that's what they go by their feelings, just like Esau did. Esau was Jacob's brother, and according to the Malbi"m, the West. On the other hand, Jacob's will was bent toward following the Torah.

And what does the Torah say about intermarriage?
Neither will you make marriages with them: your daughter you will not give to his son, nor his daughter will you take for your son. For it will turn away your son from following Me, that they would serve other gods; so will the anger of the Lord will be enflamed against you, and He will destroy you quickly. (Deut. 7:3-4)
Erev Rav, the mixed multitude, the false converts, who left Egypt with us, feel no connection to the land of Israel. They want to mix with all the countries of the world. They want to mix boundaries together. They want to mix peoples together. What do you think the result would be if they could do such things? The destruction of the people of Israel.

Wouldn't you call that a Holocaust?

I would.

Thursday, May 05, 2016

Why do we Need a Holocaust Remembrance Day? (UPDATED)

כ״ז לחודש הראשון תשע״ו

That's actually a very good question.

Holocaust Memorial Day was established in 1951 by the Israeli Government,...a "Workers Party of the Land of Israel" government. In other words, Labor Zionists, whose goal has always been to de-Judaize both the People and Land of Israel, made up this day. The day is half way between Passover, the Jewish holiday of freedom and Israel's Memorial Day.

The date, the 28th of the Hebrew month of Nissan, which like Independence Day, the government has deigned to move around as needed to reduce Shabboth violations, is also supposed to [sort of, but not really] coincide with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which actually began Erev Pesah, תש״ג/1943.

28 Nissan also happens to mark the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp by the American army in תש״ה/1945. However, this sounds more like a time for celebration than mourning. Many Jews died during Israel's War of Independence and Six Day War, yet we celebrate on these days. Besides, no matter how particularly nasty the Buchenwald Concentration Camp was, there were many others.

Oh, wait a minute. I forgot. This camp's liberation appears to be an after thought. (See above in the first paragraph.)

The idea to add Holocaust Memorial to the public fast day of the 10th of the Hebrew month of Teveth, an already established day of Jewish mourning, is often shunned by Religious Zionists. The State has made a decision, and so they must abide by it. Even though the 10 b'Teveth was designated as a memorial day for all those whose day of death is unknown, by none other than the State of Israel's Chief Rabbinate.

The creation of this made up memorial day is nothing more than manipulation by the State to keep various factions fighting with each other, a simple divide and conquer strategy which has worked so well for so long, not to mention gradually detracting us from Torah, in favor of... well,...something else.

Even the so-called "Conservative Movement" has argued for the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av, to be designated as Holocaust Memorial Day, as it is the date upon which many Jewish calamities in Jewish history have occurred, not the least of which being the judgment that B'nei Yisra'el would not immediately enter the Land of Israel after being taken out of Egypt, the destruction of both the First and Second Batei haMiqdash (Temples), the defeat at Beitar, and the plowing over Har HaBayith (Temple Mount) by the Romans (Mishnah Ta'anith 4:6).

Modern events related to the Holocaust having occurred on the 9 b'Av include:
  • Germany entered World War I on August 1–2, 1914 (Av 9-10, AM 5674), which caused massive upheaval in European Jewry and whose aftermath led to the Holocaust.
  • On August 2, 1941 (Av 9, AM 5701), SS commander Heinrich Himmler formally received approval from the Nazi Party for "The Final Solution."
  •  As a result, the Holocaust began during which almost one third of the world's Jewish population perished. On July 23, 1942 (Av 9, AM 5702), began the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, en route to Treblinka.
Overall, this suggestion makes much more sense than a day in Nissan, a month in which Jews traditionally refrain from historical mourning practices. But, like I alluded to above, such an issue would not have concerned the Labor Zionists in the least.

So, the answer to the question as to why we need a Holocaust Memorial Day is that we do not need one. We already have one, two even. But, if I had written this at the beginning of the post, most of you would have stopped reading almost as soon as you had begun.

Instead of continuing to play the victim, to gain sympathy from the goyim (non-Jews), probably one of the only strategies the Israeli Government has left to delay the State of Israel's eventual destruction, what we really need is a Holocaust Prevention Day, which I wrote about back in 2009. This would involve the educating our children as to how to refrain from repeating our greatest historical mistakes, such as assimilation, intermarriage, and dependence on outside human forces for protection.

But, since the only way to do this would be to teach our children the Torah way of life, don't count on the Israeli Government to get on board anytime soon.

Friday, March 11, 2016

Do Jews Really Want to Destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ פקודי
ראש החודש השנים עשר ב׳ תשע״ו

YNET: Netanyahu mentions Mufti al-Husseini in speech
The Prime Minister spoke at an event marking the 100th birthday of late PM Yitzhak Shamir. He compared today's Palestinian terrorism to that of the 1920s, saying, "The Mufti claimed the Jews were going to destroy al-Aqsa."

Itamar Eichner: 02.29.16

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the Mufti Amin al-Husseini Sunday night at a speech in Jerusalem, comparing Arab incitement of the 1920s to the incitement of the current terror wave.

During his speech at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center marking what would have been late former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's 100th birthday, Netanyahu said that the "terrorism in the '20s, when my grandfather came to Israel, was also fed by the claim of Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini that the Jews were going to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque and build the third temple in its stead. Sound familiar to you?"

Last October, Netanyahu instigated controversy when he said, in a speech at the World Zionist Congress, that the Mufti inspired the Nazi final solution during a meeting with Adolf Hitler. According to that speech, Hitler intended on expelling the Jews from Europe rather than exterminating them, but his mind was changed, at least in part, by al-Husseini. After his words were widely condemned, the PM recanted.

This time, Netanyahu said, "the incitement is ongoing, and terror waves come and go, and the attempts to explain it with the despair and frustration of Palestinians are incorrect. That statement absolves them of responsibility for their actions, for their terror that has been accompanying us for almost 100 years, before the establishment of the state and before there were territories and settlements, when there was a diplomatic process and when there wasn’t. (cont.)
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
The Prime Minister was wrong to recant his statement about the Mufti's incitement and role in the Holocaust.

Grand Mufti Al-Husseini with Hitler ysh"w
May their names and memories be blotted out!

He was also way off when he said that "their [Arab] terror that has been accompanying us for almost 100 years." Just read the Tana"kh (The Bible) and Jewish accounts of history following it, and you will see that ever since the birth of the Arabs' forefather Yishma'el, who is described as פרא אדם, a "wild man" (Gen. ), the People of Israel have suffered at their hands.

The Prime Minister was right about how "...the incitement is ongoing, and terror waves come and go...."

It is all part of the same cycle...

(Click on the image to enlarge it.)

...which is why it is so frustrating that the Prime Minister, just like all of his predecessors, refuses to do all that is necessary to achieve a permanent end to Arab terror from within Israel,...ALL of Israel.

Now regarding the Jews' desire to destroy the mosques, aren't religious Jews supposed to believe that the Beth HaMiqdash (the Temple) will be re-built? Don't we pray three times a day for the coming of the Mashi'ah, who will rebuild the Beth HaMiqdash, if we fail to do so before his arrival?

Well, the answer to this question can be found in a humorous story I once heard...
Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d (left) was asked this very question regarding the mosques on Har HaBayith, and the rebuilding of the Beth HaMiqdash. Rabbi Kahane's response to this was not to bother to destroy the mosques, and just build the Beth HaMiqdash in between them. Why? Because if the mosques were destroyed (somehow), then the State would just end up building the Arabs bigger and better ones.
And there you have it, the perfect summary of both the State of Israel, and the state of Israel, more worried about how the non-Jewish, "international community" sees us, than how we see ourselves, let alone how The Almighty, sees us.

We are afraid, afraid of the State, afraid of the goyim. Even though we are only supposed to fear The Almighty,...The Holy One, Blessed Be He.

Monday, March 07, 2016

Abe Foxman vs. Donald Trump: It's A No Brainer

כ"ח לחודש השנים עשר תשע"ו
Times Of Israel: Ex-ADL chief: Trump’s ‘raise your hand’ gambit was deliberate, Nazi-style ‘fascist gesture’
Abe Foxman calls episode ‘about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America’; says Republican candidate knew exactly what he was doing

Eric Cortellessa, March 7, 2016


WASHINGTON — Former Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman excoriated Donald Trump for urging his supporters at a weekend rally to raise their right hands and promise to support him, a gambit Foxman said evoked echoes of Hitler salutes from Nazi rallies in the 1930s and ’40s.

“Let’s do a pledge. Who likes me in this room?” the Republican presidential candidate asked a large crowd Saturday in Orlando, Florida. “Raise your right hand: ‘I do solemnly swear that I — no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there’s hurricanes or whatever — will vote, on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president.'” (Trump misstated the date of the Florida primary, which will be held on March 15.)

As the audience enthusiastically complied with his request, the candidate told them: “Don’t forget you all raised your hands. You swore. Bad things happen if you don’t live up to what you just did.”

For Foxman, who was born in Poland in 1940 and was saved from the Nazis by his Catholic nanny, watching Trump whip up his supporters in this fashion was extremely disturbing.

“As a Jew who survived the Holocaust, to see an audience of thousands of people raising their hands in what looks like the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute is about as offensive, obnoxious and disgusting as anything I thought I would ever witness in the United States of America,” he told The Times of Israel.

“We’ve seen this sort of thing at rallies of neo-Nazis. We’ve seen it at rallies of white supremacists. But to see it at a rally for a legitimate candidate for the presidency of the United States is outrageous.” (cont.)
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Abe Foxman
Abe Foxman must be delusional. The gesture pictured above does not appear to be any different than that of the hand raising done everyday in court, when a witness is being sworn to provide truthful testimony, thus Donald Trump's chose of words, "I do solemnly swear..."

In another photo, some of those attending the rally did have their hands stretched out a little in front of them, but so what?


And now, invoking the Holocaust, to push a personal, political agenda?

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, Foxman is the one who is wrong here.

My eyes hurt from rolling them so much every time Foxman rears his ugly head. Why can't he just go away already?! He is the one who is offensive, and he most certainly does not represent me.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Iran Sanctions Lifted: Let's Make Lots of Money!

 ערב שבת קודש פר׳ יתרו תשע״ו

Now that sanctions against Iran are being lifted, are you really that surprised that the following consequences have begun to rear their ugly heads?
DEBKAfile: Greek refinery signs Iranian crude deal as Rouhani starts trip to Europe January 25, 2016
The largest refinery in Greece, Hellenic Petroleum, signed a contract on Monday to purchase crude from Iran's national oil company, becoming the first European firm to buy Iranian crude after the lifting of sanctions. No details were released on the amount of oil or the payment involved.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani kicked off a trip to several European countries to promote economic projects. He arrived in Italy leading a 120-member delegation... (cont.)
Euronews: Italy and Iran sign business deals, Rouhani says boosting economy will beat extremism January 25, 2016

...“Under the new conditions, we want to export 30 percent of what we produce in Iran,” he said, calling for rapid investment in “the safest and most stable country in the entire region”.

“If we want to combat extremism in the world, if we want to fight terror, one of the roads before us is providing growth and jobs. Lack of growth creates forces for terrorism. Unemployment creates soldiers for terrorists,” Rouhani added....
Jews get kicked in the tuchus by Italy once again.

I suppose that threatening to annihilate Israel is not extremist, and funding Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon is not terrorism. I would expect nothing less from Iran in the way of rhetoric. What concerns me is that The West appears to be buying it. Or are they?

...From Rome, Rouhani and his 120-strong delegation of business leaders and ministers head to (Muslim filled) Paris, with a major order of Airbus planes top of the list of wants.
Canada's new government, a radical shift to the left, refuses to be left out of the party...
CBC News: Canada to lift some sanctions on Iran, says Stéphane Dion
Foreign affairs minister said sanctions will be lifted in an 'effective' fashion

John Paul Tasker, Jan 26, 2016

Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion says Canada will begin to lift some sanctions on Iran now that a deal has been reached to curb that country's contentious nuclear program.

"It's true that the United Nations has asked countries to lift sanctions that were put in place to prevent Iran from using nuclear weapons for military purposes," Dion said in French during question period.

"Canada will lift its sanctions but will maintain a level of mistrust for a regime that must not have nuclear weapons, a regime that is a danger to human rights and is not a friend to our allies, including Israel," Dion said. "We will do this with our eyes wide open."
 And why does Canada intend to lift its sanctions?
"I would say the approach of the former government was ideological and irrational. What [the Tories] are proposing now in opposition is [for Canada] to be alone in maintaining sanctions that will affect Iran but surely it will affect business in Canada," the minister said.

When asked specifically about exporting civilian aircraft — Bombardier hopes to sell regional jets to the country's national air carrier, Iran Air — Dion said it made no sense to maintain sanctions that hurt such an important Canadian industry.

"If Airbus is able to do it, why will Bombardier not be able to do it? In which way is it helping Canada, or the Iranian people or Israel or anyone that Canada is hurting its own industry?"
And how does the Sate of Israel react to all of this?
Arutz 7: Edelstein shames world leaders for Rouhani visit
Knesset Speaker: 'Leaders should be ashamed for having Holocaust denying Iranian President visit on Holocaust Memorial Day.'

Hezki Ezra, 1/27/2016

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) said during a discussion in the plenum Wednesday that there are no words to describe the hypocrisy of world leaders, who invited Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to visit on International Holocaust Memorial Day. (cont.)
Seriously? Invoking the Holocaust, in a pathetic attempt at a guilt trip toward European nations which already hate us, is the best that the K'nesseth Speaker has got? For all I know, Iranian officials timed this trip purposefully to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sill, I would like to know if the Speaker of the K'nesseth also stuck his tongue out at European leaders, and the end of his speech.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Western leaders are naive to the threat from Iran, and buy into this crap about a boosting Iran's economy being the answer to extremism and terrorism, as if Iran is not already the epitome of of both. Forget about the existential threat to Israel. What about the apocalyptic vision Iran believes will come next after it tries to finish Israel off.

Worse still, the pseudo-refugees infiltrating Europe, on top of the Muslim threat already in place across the continent, are all Sunni, the bane of Iranian Shi'ite existence. If Iran believes that the only way to wipe this Sunni threat is to wipe out European civilization,  European leaders do not believe Iran will press the button? Or their simply not thinking that far ahead?

(Click to enlarge)
Are European leaders that naive and stupid? Do they just hate Israel so much that they do not care if Iran nukes us?

Personally, I am not so sure that either one of these reasons is Europe's, and now Canada's, primary motivation for entering into negotiations with Iran at light speed.

Rather, I believe that these world leaders are just greedy in a very hedonistic way. They are so greedy, that they simply do not care about anyone, but themselves, not even the next generation. Perhaps they have even reserved a place in one of the bunkers we actually know about (or in one of the bunkers we do not know about). So, they believe that they do not have anything to worry about.

Pretty shallow, huh?

Esau's descendants (Rome/The West) appear to be just as much into immediate gratification as he was.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Parashath Beshalah: Which 20% of the Jews Will Survive this Time?

מוצש״ק פר׳ בשלח תשע״ו

Leading up to the parting, and then crossing, of the Red Sea, the Torah teaches that...

...וַחֲמֻשִׁים עָלוּ בְנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל, מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם.(שמות יג,יח)
...and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. (Ex. 13:18)
חמושים (hamushim) here means "armed," explaining that we left Egypt with weapons (kli zayan/swords). It is no surprise that Hamush is used to mean the same thing today.

However, Rashi explains that this word can have another meaning, as well.
דבר אחר: חמושים אחד מחמשה יצאו, וארבעה חלקים מתו בשלשת ימי אפילה:
Another thing: hamushim - one out of five left; and four parts [out of five] died during the three days of darkness.
Hamush meaning "one fifth" is derived from the root word hamesh, meaning five.

Torah scholars have suggested that parallels exist between the exodus from Egypt and the future exodus from our current fourth, and presumably last, exile of Edom (Esau/Rome/The West).

One Torah scholar in particular, the Kol HaTor, the last hevrutha of the Vilna Ga'on, writes that the percentage of Jews surviving the exodus from Edom could be one of these parallels with the exodus from Egypt.

Think about it. As few as only 20 percent of the Jews from around the world might survive leaving Edom.

Fortunately, we are taught the rule of thumb concerning prophecy. Positive prophecies always come to fruition. We just do not always know exactly how and when.

Negative prophecies, on the other hand, do not have to be fulfilled at all. They might be. But, because of The Almighty's Mercy, and our through tefilllah, tzedaqah, and teshuvah (prayer, charity, and repentance), negative prophecies can be commuted, if not cancelled.

The classic example of this can also be found in Egypt. The Almighty informs Avraham Avinu that his descendants will be in exile for 400 years. But, a look at the timeline reveals that they were in Egypt for 210 years. So, was the prophecy wrong? No, of course not, The Almighty Himself having revealed directly to Avraham Avinu, that his descendants would be in a land not theirs (Gen. 15:13).

Rather, this sentence of 400 years in exile was commuted 210 years. This was done by moving the beginning of the 400 years all the way back to the birth of Avraham's son Yitzhaq, 131 years before his son Ya'aqov's descent into Egypt.

The percentage of Jews surviving the exodus from our current exile does not have to end up being as low 20 percent. If we merit having a higher percentage survive, the question is "How will The Holy One, Blessed Be He commute this sentence, reducing our punishment?

Will a countable number higher than 20 percent simply survive? Or will the commuting of the sentence be much more subtle, perhaps even hidden, from us?

Will each goy who has through a false conversion (ie. through a false beth din)? And thus, will her children who are believed to be Jews, but really are not, be counted against the lost 80 percent?

Will the goyshe children born to proudly intermarried couples save the same number of Jews from the exile of Edom?

What about those Jewish babies, who were aborted, counter to Torah Law?

Or, will we be subjugated to a different strategy?

Will Jews who run away from Israel (and perhaps obtain a foreign passport like former K'nesseth Speaker Avraham Burg), forsaking the Land and the final battles for it, simply be lumped into the lost 80 percent?

What about those who just cannot handle it here in Israel, for whatever reason? Will they be lost, too, or will they just have fight even harder to get back, when they realize they have made a big mistake?

Then, of course, there is the big one, the Holocaust. Will those lost in the Holocaust be counted against the 80 percent, saving millions of Jews this time around? (Shuqi)

I have no idea how this will pan out. But, besides tefilllah, tzedaqah, and teshuvah, I would like suggest that we remain calm, and know that who are ideally supposed to be here in Eretz Yisra'el, not in Egypt, and not in Edom (The West). And while here, we are not suppose to cry about it, like the Erev Rav.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Putin's Call to Jews: A Test and a Temptation, How Will You Fare?

י"א לחודש האחד עשר תשע"ו
Tablet: Putin to European Jews: Come to Mother Russia!
When members of the European Jewish Congress shared their concerns about heightened anti-Semitism at home, the Russian president invited them to ‘return’

Vladislav Davidzon, January 19, 2016

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Jews facing anti-Semitism in Europe to return to Russia. The comments, reported by the RBC, a Russian media outlet, took place during a meeting in Moscow with a delegation from the European Jewish Congress, which expressed concerns over the culture of anti-Semitism in Europe, “the worst since World War II,” said its president Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor. In reponse, Putin said: “During Soviet times they left, so let them return.”

Putin then made a “come here” gesture with his forefinger and, in an uncharacteristically gentle manner, instructed the Jewish delegation and the Jews of Europe, saying: “Here, to us. They should come to us.” (cont.)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Spain and Portugal have already made similar offers for Jews to return. Under German reparations for the Holocaust, an Israeli citizen may not be turned down for a German work visa. Germany, Austria, Poland, and presumably other countries, are offering opportunities for grandchildren of Jewish citizens who fled Europe during the Holocaust to apply for citizenship.

Muslim, Jew-hating violent France, not only has a chief rabbi who appears to be encouraging Jews to stay, but also has a former K'nesseth Speaker as one of its citizens, Avraham Burg.

Denmark's chief rabbi is also disappointed by calls for aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel).

Vladimir Putin is not the only Russian encouraging Jews to live in Russia. Rabbi Alexander Boroda, head of the Chabad-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, seems to as well.

So, you see, Putin's gestures to Russian Jews are nothing new. They are part of a larger trend.

In this week's Torah portion Beshalah, those of B'nei Yisra'el who survived the plague of darkness, have left Egypt, and are preparing to cross a Red Sea, which has yet to part miraculously.

Most are afraid, believing themselves surrounded by dangers, the Egyptian soldiers on one side, and certain death by drowning in the Red Sea, on the other. Some cry to return, "better to be slaves in Egypt and alive, than free and dead."

And now, we are standing at the edge of the same sea. However, many, if not most of us, have already made it to Eretz Yisr'ael (Land of Israel). Yet, there are still many of us who are tempted to leave, even more so, by the apparent welcoming, open arms of the lands of our previous exiles.

Can you imagine that? There are those Jews who are actually tempted to leave our Divinely Promised land? Those who prefer to have their hashqafoth (Torah perceptions) dictated by their feelings, instead of having their feelings influenced by the Torah?

Certainly there are heterim (permissions) to leave Eretz Yisra'el. But these are only for temporary periods of time. And if everyone leaves, at this crucial juncture, then who will be here to fight to keep our only true Homeland? No one? We will just wait around in exile for Mashi'ah to arrive and do all of the work, fooling ourselves that it is actually safe there in the first place?

The temptations from the outside, from our the lands of our exile are clearly a test, a filtering out. Only this time, instead of sticking around those lands, waiting to be taken by the plague of darkness, these Jews are actively seeking out the darkness, and subsequent death from it!

Friday, December 18, 2015

Exclusive! Yad veShem Department Planned to Take Staff to Restaurant on a Fast Day

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ ויגש תשע״ו

About Yad Vashem

"And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a "yad vashem")... that shall not be cut off."


(Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5)
As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of intergenerational and international encounter.

For over half a century, Yad Vashem has been committed to four pillars of remembrance:
  • Commemoration
  • Documentation
  • Research
  • Education
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
An anonymous source tipped me off this morning to a planned trip for some of the employees at Yad veShem, Israel's Holocaust memorial and museum.

The trip was planned for the staff at the archives department (and others?) Lunch at a restaurant was to follow an extensive tour of Israel's Channel 2 television station.

It was to take place this coming Tuesday, Asereth b'Teveth, the 10th of the Hebrew month of Teveth, the "Fast of the Fourth Month" (Zech. 8:19).

In all fairness to the planners of the event, it was changed after having the problem of planning such an event on this date was called to their attention.

But, I must ask why a "Jewish" organization would plan something like this on a fast day in the first place? And even more so, on a date significant to even many secular survivors of the Holocaust and the child of those who perished?
Wikipedia: 
The Chief Rabbinate of Israel chose to observe the Tenth of Tevet as a "general kaddish day" (yom hakaddish ha'klalli) to allow the relatives of victims of the Holocaust, and whose yahrtzeits (anniversaries of their deaths) is unknown, to observe the traditional yahrtzeit practices for the deceased, including lighting a memorial candle, learning mishnayoth and reciting the kaddish. According to the policy of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel, the memorial prayer is also recited in synagogues, after the reading of the Torah at the morning services. To some religious Jews, this day is preferable as a remembrance day to Yom HaShoah (28 Nissan), since the latter occurs in the month of Nissan, in which mourning is traditionally prohibited.
Meanwhile, Yad veShem itself has planned a full day of more appropriate activities for this day.

Is this just a simple matter of the right hand not talking to the left? Does Yad veShem need to do heshbon nefesh (personal inventory) on the inside before criticizing anyone else on the outside? Or is this just another example of a State which is Jewish on the outside, but just bacon on the inside?

Monday, May 18, 2015

Yitzhak Eldan Should Read ALL of the Writing on the Wall

ערב ראש החודש השלישי תשע״ה

YNET: Anti-Semitism in a liberal disguise
Op-ed: 'Liberal' activists from Europe's political center are leading efforts to outlaw key elements in Jewish life, demonizing circumcision and kosher slaughter and igniting hatred.


Yitzhak Eldan, May 13, 2015

The fifth Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism (GFCA) opened in Israel on Tuesday evening in the presence of senior statesmen, parliament members, diplomats, research bodies, Jewish community heads, religious leaders and international organizations from dozens of countries, led by the Foreign Ministry.

The state of anti-Semitism has never been as serious as on the eve of this forum. Seventy years since the darkest chapter in the history of Europe, anti-Semitism is reaching levels which have yet to be seen, and there is barely a single area in Europe which is free of hatred towards Jews. There are thousands of cases of anti-Jewish violence, anti-Semitic incitement and Holocaust denial.

One of the reasons is the export of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to European countries through extreme propaganda led by radical Muslim immigrants, who are intentionally blurring the distinction between Israel and the Jews. In addition, Jews in Europe have become the target of the radical and communist left, and at the same time we are witnessing the rise of neo-Nazi and radical right-wing parties.

The "liberal" or "institutional" anti-Semitism, which has developed from the political center, is also growing stronger in recent years, and it may be the most alarming type of anti-Semitism: "Liberal" activists are leading efforts to outlaw key elements in the Jewish life, presenting circumcision and kosher slaughter in a demonic way, thereby igniting the winds of hatred.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
This op-ed is really not much different than any previous piece on anti-Semitism.

Yitzhak Eldan reaches out to Jews and non-Jews alike, in quintessential hasbarah (Israel PR) fashion. Being an "ambassador," I suppose that he believes that he has to.

But, I say forget the opinions of the non-Jews already, and any reaching out to Jews should be only bring them back to our heritages, Torah and Israel.

There are only two things for which I believe Eldan can be commended: The mention of Jew-hatred and the delegitimization of Israel, albeit he is not the first to do so, and the mention of current level of anti-Semitism being comparable, if not greater than that leading up to the Holocaust.

There is no mention of the collaborative roll Jewish liberals play, and have always played, in the scheme of things. For the most part, it is not their fault, but simply a result of the influence galuth (exile) has had on our people over the past two thousand years.

We have striven to "fit in," to become the best Americans, French, British, even Germans and Russians, we could possibly be. Yes, even orthodox Jews have succumb to this influence, and I am not referring to seeing a movie once in a while, using the Internet, nor wearing fashionable clothing. I am referring to the galuth mentality, which has caused to us to despair over, in not forget, where our only true homeland is located. The homeland of the Jewish People is Israel. North North America and Europe are temporary dwelling places alone, just like Egypt was supposed to be.

And, of course, there is no mention of aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel) as the only solution, let alone a solution at all, to protect Jews from the rising levels of hatred and violence.

Instead, Eldan states that...
"Hatred of Jews is not a "Jewish" matter. It threatens the values of democracy, freedom, equality and harmony – all the things Europe sought to be after recovering from its destruction."
Although he is correct in pointing out European hypocrisy, it does not appear that he sees that he is just wasting his time.

Legislation against circumcision and kosher slaughter, hatred and violence, are only the beginning.

Non-Jews are simply pointing out to us Jews what many of us have forgotten, and now need to be reminded of.

We are not like them, and we do not belong in their lands, with emphasis on the word "their."

We are a people, separate and distinct from all other peoples, and have our own heritage to keep and to cherish. But, before we can do so, we must take full possession of it, our Land, all of us.

Only 20 percent of us made it out of Egypt, while 80 percent were lost. Let us not repeat the same mistakes of the generation of the Egyptian exile; let us not repeat the same mistakes of the 1930's European exile.

Friday, May 15, 2015

The 2015 Conference of European Rabbis

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ בחקתי תשע״ה

A past Conference of European Rabbis gathering in Berlin, Germany

Arutz 7: European Leaders to Take Part in Major Rabbinical Conference
Conference of European Rabbis to hold massive conference next week, attended by leading rabbis, politicians from Europe and Israel.


Ari Yashar, 5/8/2015

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) has finalized preparations for its 29th conference to be held next Tuesday in Toulouse, France, timed to mark 70 years since the Nazi Third Reich surrendered in France.

Attending the conference will be around 200 of the leading rabbis and dayanim (rabbinical judges) in Europe, led by the Head of the European Beit Din (EBD), Rabbi Chanoch Hacohen Ehrentreu, as well as Jewish organization heads from 32 countries.

EBD President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt said topics to be discussed at the event include fighting assimilation, Judaism among the younger generation, Jewish education and ensuring the safety and future of the Jewish people.

The conference is to last three days, with various discussions and lectures lasting until next Thursday.

It will start with Rabbi Goldshmidt and CER Vice-President Rabbi Haim Korsia, who is the chief rabbi of France, presenting French Prime Minister Manuel Valls with the Lord Jakobovits Prize for his warm relations with the Jewish community in his country - which is the largest Jewish community in Europe.

Another CER Vice-President, Rabbi Ya'akov Dov Bleich, who is the chief rabbi of Ukraine, will lead an event on preserving Jewish identity and fighting anti-Semitism on the first day of the conference.

It will be attended by Antonio Tajani, one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, as well as numerous EU dignitaries and politicians, and ambassadors of European nations.

Also speaking at the event will be Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud).

In an event Wednesday honoring the Jewish soldiers who fought in World War Two, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau is to deliver an address.

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
This conference took place yesterday.

Did the Conference of European Rabbis tell Jews in Europe that fleeing from France to England doesn't make one damn bit of difference, because if Britain is not as dangerous as France is now, then it will be soon? So much for the French Prime Minister's "warm relations with the Jewish community in his country." A lot of good that has done them!

But, I digress...

Did the Conference of European Rabbis tell Jews in Europe that Israel is their only true homeland, and that Europe is only a temporary dwelling place for them, just like Egypt was supposed to be?

I tend to doubt it. But, if I am wrong, then by all means leave a comment, correcting my belief. If anything, this certainly does not appear to be the Conference of European Rabbis policy.

I can only hope that Ashkenazy Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau, whose father Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau survived the Holocaust, will delivery these messages, and that Prime Minister Netanyahu will repeat his previous call for Jews to make aliyah.

The fifth Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism [GFCA] opened in Israel the day before the Conference of European Rabbis.
The state of anti-Semitism has never been as serious as on the eve of this forum. Seventy years since the darkest chapter in the history of Europe, anti-Semitism is reaching levels which have yet to be seen, and there is barely a single area in Europe which is free of hatred towards Jews. There are thousands of cases of anti-Jewish violence, anti-Semitic incitement and Holocaust denial.
But, have any of these European rabbis learned their lessons?

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Hungary: Not a Good Place for Jews.

כ״ז לחודש הראשון תשע״ה

Arutz 7: Hungary: Thousands of Jews March in Memory of Holocaust
WJC president denounces anti-Semitic Jobbik party at annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust.


Elad Benari, April 13, 2015

Thousands of people on Sunday joined Hungary's annual "March of Life" commemorating the Holocaust, as World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder denounced the country's surging far-right Jobbik party as "extremist", AFP reported.

Over 10,000 people took part in the march.

In a speech at the end of the procession, Lauder called Jobbik an "extremist party that promotes hate".

Condemning a Jobbik deputy who recently spat on a Holocaust memorial in Budapest, Lauder said the party damaged Hungary's image abroad.

"Jobbik may think they are true Hungarians trying to save Hungary, but Jobbik hurts Hungary," he said, adding, "The Hungarian Jewish community is not going anywhere. We march today to say: We are here. We are alive. And here we will remain.”

Condemning acts of anti-Semitism, Lauder said, “There are statues of shoes along the Danube. They are there as a memorial to the Jewish people who were murdered there. No one has the right to spit in those shoes. No one. In this great city we send one clear message to the entire world: The Hungarian Jewish community is alive and well.”

Around 600,000 Hungarian Jews perished in World War II. Only 100,000 survived the Holocaust, mostly in Budapest. (cont.)

Esser Agaroth (2¢):
Sure, it is important to remember. But, do we have to pour money into a foreign economy, in order to do so? I think not.

Furthermore, let us not forget the collaborating role of the Labor Zionists in the demise of Hungarian Jews.
Perfidy is a book written by Ben Hecht in 1961. The book describes the events surrounding the 1954–1955 Kastner trial in Jerusalem.

The book draws heavily on transcripts from the trial, and concludes that in 1944 Rudolf Kastner deliberately withheld from the Jews in Hungary that the trains the Nazis were putting them on were taking them to death by the gas chamber, not to a fictitious resettlement city as the Nazis claimed, and that Kastner then lied about it under oath. One of the supporting facts presented is that, in the Supreme Court appeal of the original verdict implicating Kastner, all five Supreme Court Judges upheld Judge Halevi's initial verdict on the "criminal and perjurious way" in which Kastner after the war had testified on behalf of Nazi war criminal Kurt Becher. Judge Silberg summed up the Supreme Court finding on this point: "[respondent Malchiel] Greenwald has proven beyond any reasonable doubt this grave charge."
Most still do not have a clue about such shenanigans, and those who do, still refuse to believe that their fellow Jews could ever have done such a thing.
Last summer, at the height of Israel’s counterterrorism Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, a town mayor linked to Jobbik was filmed ordering the hanging of effigies of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and former president Shimon Peres in protest against the conflict.
What on earth are Jews thinking, remaining in a country like this?

WJC President Lauder goes on to say... 
"The Hungarian Jewish community is not going anywhere. We march today to say: We are here. We are alive. And here we will remain.”
Physical danger or not, since when does a "Jewish leader" encourage Jews to remain in the land of their exile, when the gates to their only true Homeland have been thrown wide open for years now?

He doesn't.

What kind of Jewish "leader" forsakes his Divinely promised Homeland, and encourages his fellow Jews to do the same?

None.

Lauder is no Jewish leader.
Young people, said Lauder, have been flocking to Jobbik, which specifically rejects Jewish and Israeli investment in Hungary, but the party's supporters are not necessarily all anti-Semitic themselves, he said.
In other words, the goyim are doing for us, what we are supposed to be doing ourselves,...separating from each other.

Sorry to burst your "signs and wonders" bubble, but countless sources teach us that, due to our current, chosen path, Ge'ulah (Redemption) will likely come through natural means. I will add to this, by subtle means.

It is our job to pay attention, close attention.

Our Jewish brethren have been stubbornly remaining in the lands of our exile. How exactly do you expect that The Holy One, Blessed Be He, will bring us back to Eretz Yisra'el?

On wings of eagles? Well, he has certainly been trying to do just that. Unfortunately, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. Likewise, you can bring a Jew a giant eagle, but you cannot make him get on board.

They are called "airplanes," people.

It seems to me that we are in desperate need of a Holocaust Prevention Day, rather than a Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Friday, February 13, 2015

The British Nazis vs. the British Reform Movement

ערב שבת קודש פר׳ משפטים תשע״ה

Jews in Great Britain, and around the world, are all up in arms about this...
JPost: Neo-Nazis plan anti-Semitic rally in heart of London's Jewish community
In the Stamford Hill neighborhood, neo-Nazis plan to hold a rally on March 22.

JPost.com Staff, February 2, 2015

A British neo-Nazi group is planning a rally against the “Jewification of Great Britain” in one of London’s largest Jewish communities.

The group, Liberate Stamford Hill, veiled its planned March 22 protest as merely a protest against the Shomrim, a voluntary neighborhood watch program in the Stamford Hill neighborhood, which protects the community’s high concentration of Jews. (cont.)
But, not about this?
Time Of Israel: Brit synagogue puts Muslim on council
After Bradford’s Council for Mosques helped save the local temple, communities reinforce their ties
Judah Ari Gross February 1, 2015

The Bradford Reform Synagogue
(adapted from photo by John Yeadon, Wikimedia Commons)
British synagogue in the northern England town of Bradford last week appointed an unlikely candidate to its council: a Muslim man.

The Reform temple, which was built in the late 19th century, had fallen into disrepair by 2013 and only with the help of the city’s Council for Mosques did the Jewish community raise enough money to get it back in working order.

One of those who helped in acquiring funds was Jani Rashid, the head of diversity and cohesion at Bradford Council’s children’s services. To thank the Muslim community and solidify their partnership, the chair of the synagogue’s board, Rudi Leavor, told the British Jewish News outlet, “We thought it would be a splendid idea to co-opt Jani to the Council. When the proposal was put to him he assented immediately.” (cont.)
Esser Agaroth (2¢):
This is what I see in this report is that:
1. The so-called "Reform Movement" rejects the separate and distinct nature of the Jewish People, in favor of assimilation, and solidifying its "partnership" with goyim in galuth (exile), including Muslims. A Muslim was invited to be a guest speaker at a "Conservative" synagogue in Paris last Yom Kippur. No surprises here. A possible trend?

2. The Bradford Synagogue raised enough money to get it back into working order, only with the help of the Muslim community.

3. This community has now fooled itself into remaining in galuth, continue its investment in galuth and in the land of its exile, instead of working toward leaving for its only, true homeland, Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel).

4. This community is doomed, thanks to its "Jewish" leaders.
Many segments of the Jewish People are focused on the outside for its emotional and existential validation, but also when it concerns threats to its future. We are ready to slobber over "the other" in gratitude, or to blame "the other" any threats directed toward us. But, self-examination seems to be out of our reach.

The Nazis wanted to destroy us in one felled swoop.
Movement for Reform Judaism Statement on Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian Statehood

Monday, 19 September 2011

"Response to unilateral declaration of Palestinian state must be immediate bilateral negotiations" says Reform Judaism...

...Movement Chief Executive, Ben Rich, says: "Reform Judaism places the highest importance on respect for the 'other'. This is a core value of our Movement, which means that we support a two State solution for Israelis and Palestinians as the only possible basis for a just and lasting peace between our two peoples, and between Israel and its neighbours.

"As the two sides veer from violence to political paralysis, it is patently clear that the only way in which a just and lasting peace can possibly be achieved is through serious bilateral negotiations. We would not want to see the vote thwarting, or seen as a substitute for, the necessity for direct talks.

"We need to move past this moment to the meaningful, bilateral negotiations which are responsibility of everyone seeking peace in the region."

Movement Chair, Stephen Moss CBE, adds:

"Those of us who love Israel and value its security need to look beyond the current diplomatic issues to the long term based on a negotiated two state solution. "
Has Stephen Moss never seen this photo?

PA President Mahmud Abbas's "vision of peace," absent of Israel.
Grand Mufti Al-Husseini with Hitler
May their names and memories be blotted out!
What about Arafat's emblem of "Palestine," which encompassed ALL of Israel, not just Yehudah, Shomron, and Azza (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza)?

While, he and his flunkies want to chop up, and give away our Divinely promised homeland, which not ours to divide up and give away, the Arabs are giggling behind his back, decrying, "That stupid, pathetic Jew! What a sucker!"

Has Moss not heard of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem's collaboration with the Nazis? Or does he really believe that Arabs can change? How many more Jews have to be shot, bombed, or missiled,  before they "change," Mr. Moss?

There are nuances which separate the more conservative, UK Reform Movement from the UK Liberal Movement, and its counterpart in the U. S. and elsewhere. But, the overall approach of inclusion, rather than the Torah-dictated separation and distinction, and their joining at the hip through the World Union for Progressive Judaism [WUPJ], lead to the same results: through intermarriage, quasi-conversions, acceptance by many of patrilineal descent, assimilation, giving away of Eretz Yisra'el, one piece at a time, and supporting our sworn enemies, physical and spiritual, we are being destroyed from within.

I am continually dumbfounded by how these people are able to pass this kind of crap off as "Judaism." They forsake our Divinely promised Homeland. They reach out to Yishma'el (Arabs/Muslims) and attach themselves to Esau (The West in its various forms), attributes of the Erev Rav (Kol HaTor)

When Jews do make it to Israel, the minions of the liberal movements are here, ready, and waiting, and with their claws digging deeper into the Israeli public school system. The leftist, Israeli courts are enamored by them.

Organizations, such as Lehava and Yad LeAchim, are demonized as racist. Even though they fight to prevent Jewish women from entering a life of misery, and Jewish men from being seduced into a life without Jewish children, and even seduced into entering a trap, leading to their deaths.

Liberal Jewish, spiritual leaders, who are comically called "rabbis," are probably not even culpable for their actions. They are hardly aware that they have been designated as bearers of their masters' false message, panned off as a "legitimate Torah perspective," and brainwashed into believing that they are actually helping the Jewish People. Even though nothing could be farther from the truth.

They are just hapless pawns of the Erev Rav, set on our destruction from within.

The Nazis may have been conscious of what they were doing, while liberal Jewish leaders might not be. But, why should we be any less outraged by their pursuits, than by Nazis planning a march through a Jewish neighborhood in London?

The Nazis are at least carrying a message that the UK is not the home of the Jewish People, and encouraging goyim to stay away from us.

If only we would heed this message.