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Chag sameach (redux!)noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Oct 04:00 PM Wishing those about to enter the final stretches of the holiday a Chag Sameach! Like   Tweet   Chag sameach (redux!) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Oct 04:00 PM Wishing those about to enter the final stretches of the holiday a Chag Sameach! I will not be blogging or tweeting until Tuesday night at the earliest. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More 10/16 Links: Natan Sharansky: How to stay Jewish thanks to Zionism; From Hitler to Putin: Palestinian habit of always backing 'wrong side' noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 16 Oct 12:00 PM From Ian: Isaac Herzog: Israel's president to 'Post': Reclaiming Zionism is our mission It is through Zionism, moreover, that the Jewish people can revitalize aspects of Jewish tradition in our ancestral homeland, endowing them with new meaning and allowing Jews to live in a Jewish space, in Jewish time, in Hebrew. Zionism is an indispensable mix of old and new, and it is through Zionism's link between land, people and state that we can connect to our deepest roots and tap into ancient reservoirs of meaning, fulfilling a millennia-old dream. Zionism, to borrow a famous phrase, does not mean the "end of history" for the Jewish people. Zionism has not solved the great dilemmas of Jewish history. It has not stopped the historical pendulum swinging between the demand for normality and the pursuit of individuality, the demand to blend into the family of nations and the pursuit of a unique Jewish destiny. Instead, Zionism created a platform for Jews to explore their identity as an independent political community. It created a "safe space," if you will, where the Jewish people could continue arguing and debating about their big questions, safe from the fears that had always haunted them: fears of antisemitic persecution on the one hand, and fears of the erasure of their distinctive culture on the other. No less importantly: Zionism is not just the mission of Jews living in our ancestral homeland. It is a collective endeavor...Read More The child and the bus: a tale of Israel in 15 seconds noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Oct 10:40 AM This video of a Jewish child, no more than 6, flagging down a bus in Beit Shemesh and getting on by himself is starting to go viral: Imagine a place where children could, without fear, go out by themselves and take the bus around town. It sounds utopian, doesn't it? And parents outside Israel would naturally flinch at seeing a video like this. So many dangers to worry about - kidnapping, abuse, or worse. But this is how the world should be. The reason Israelis can act this way in Jewish neighborhoods is because everyone is family. People aren't competing with each other - they are all on the same team, the same tribe, and they look out for each other. They have each others' backs. And this is what the anti-Israel activists want to destroy. They don't give a damn about Palestinian rights - their silence about Palestinians languishing in Lebanon and Syria makes that clear. The modern antisemites want to take away the Jewish right to live in safety and security. Their enemy is this little kid, his tzitzit openly visible, able to freely travel around his hometown on the local bus without his parents worrying that he'll make it home safely. Much of Israel, today, is the utopia that everyone else wants for themselves. And for some of them, their jealousy at Jews successfully building such a utopia is what animates them to want to tear it down. Don't believe the lies that they care about justice or international...Read More The Palestinian Authority is officially antisemitic. It calls all Jewish prayer "racist Talmudic rituals." noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 16 Oct 07:00 AM The Kotel last week during Sukkot The official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa, which reflects the official Palestinian Authority positions, reported about Jews worshipping at the Kotel, the Western Wall on Saturday. Not on the Temple Mount - but the Western Wall that Jews visit and pray at every single day. The article says: Hundreds of settlers performed today, Saturday, racist Talmudic rituals, at Al-Buraq Wall (the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque) . Our correspondent reported that hundreds of settlers stormed the western area of ​​the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals, on the sixth day of the Hebrew "Sukkot", under the strict protection of the Israeli occupation forces, which launched a reconnaissance plane in the sky of the city . There is no difference between the Shabbat prayers yesterday at the Kotel from the prayers at every traditional synagogue on Earth. The official position of the Palestinian Authority is that every Jew who visits the Kotel is a "settler." The official position of the Palestinian Authority is that every Jew who visits the Kotel is has no right to be there and is "storming" a Muslim site. The official position of the Palestinian Authority is that the term "Talmudic," which is the source for virtually every detailed Jewish law from kosher to Chanukah, is an epithet. The official position of the Palestinian Authority is that everyday Jewish prayer said...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company