The new school year and other obligations are keeping this mom busy, but I did get something interesting in my inbox and wanted to share it with you even though I don't have time to write a lengthier piece here to accompany these videos.  I am NOT happy to hear and report these dismal predictions about the end of America, however, I think it is important to listen, examine it, and make some decisions.

From an email I received:
"Russian Professor Igor Panarin says that events are continuing to confirm his doomsday prediction first made over 10 years ago, that the U.S. completely collapse like the Soviet Union before the end of 2010 & warns that the chaos could begin to unfold in as little as 2 months. (Read more from this article at the Wall Street Journal  and see the video below)

America Able To Collapse By 2010, Or Even In As Little As Two Months
 
Also:

Sen. Jim Inhofe, [Republican from Oklahoma] "I've never seen an administration so determined to destroy America." And he added that he "hope(s) this country can hang on another 16 months."  Now, take a look at this awful, horrifying video of what some Americans wouldn't mind seeing in the future (pay attention to the map shown in the video).  Oy va voy!

The End Of America

In a New World Order where there will be a one world government, they need to wear away the sovereignty of nations, especially that of the USA where people are used to freedom, own personal weapons, and are financially strong.  The USA needs to be weakened and broken.  When they are, they will have to come begging to the UN/world/international community to be saved.  Then they will be absorbed into the bigger order of (weakened) nation states, and that will be the end of America as we knew it.

Every time a country's finances tank, it's always somehow blamed on the Jews.  And I am afraid it will be no different in America. Don't depend on the law or the constitution to protect you.  The constitution is only as strong as the people willing to defend it, and it looks like it has already been trampled to the ground by the last two American administrations.

Now, if the prediction about the end of America turns out to be true, the question now is, will you sit there and wait, clinging to the old way of life in denial, or will you rise to the occasion and bring your family back home from the Exile, to Israel, the Promised Land?

Will you sink in the 'galut' (Diasporah) or will you sail off to your Jewish destiny, to the soil where your forefathers lived and are buried, to the land where our history is and where our kings reigned, and to the land where our future awaits us?

Don't be like our ancestors were in Europe. We were in denial, we had a much longer history in Europe than we do in the USA, and the Jews did not see the 'house on fire' there either.  They needed to swim, to make a physical action and flee from that sea of hatred to the Land of Israel and be saved and build a new future.

And now it is your choice.  You can open your eyes and see the blaze or you can close your eyes and continue by rote.  You can go to:  www.NbN.org.il  or you can write a nasty talk back here and make yourselves feel better.  Essentially, it comes down to this:  sink, or swim.

So many things to write about and so little time.  Well, here's some things I've been saving up for you to watch, some funny, some definitely not.  It's a lot to watch, so I won't bog down this blog post with too much text.

Batman meets the Joker:

 

 

And here's a youtube video that has gone viral, a dog who won't take any treats from Obama.

And look at this news item below...

Obama Blesses Muslim World on Ramadan

How do religious Jews date? Why do married Jewish women cover their hair? Why can't a married couple touch each other during certain times of the month?

Ever wonder what it's like to live the life of a religious Jewish woman?  I interviewed Allison Jospehs today from 'Jew In The City' , a website that answers questions about Jewish lifestyles and explains why Jews do the things they do in religious observance.  

From her website: Some have called her an Orthodox Carrie Bradshaw. Others say that she's the next Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. Allison Josephs (a.k.a. Jew in the City) doesn't focus much on comparisons, she simply wants to re-brand Orthodox Jews and Judaism. Both have gotten a very negative reputation over the years due to isolated scandals that have made the headlines as well as movies, books, and TV shows that have repeated and reinforced misconceptions and stereotypes about religious Jewish people and their lifestyles. (The hole in the sheet, anyone?)

Allison's website, Jew In The City lets her answer your questions about intimacy, modesty, holiness, and the inner goings-on of a Jewish woman.  Allison has also written, directed, and produced several videos for Aish.com and is a regular blogger on ModestlyYours.net. Her articles and blogs have appeared in The Washington Times, World Jewish Digest, Aish.com, and The Jewish Star.  She is also the Torah study partner for  Mayim Bialik, the actress who is famous for her 5 year run show called, 'Blossom". Bialik is finding her path towards observant Judaism as documented in this interview.  Here's one of Allison's videos below with a guest appearance from Bialik. It's cute and it's educational and you can watch more from Allison's site.

Listen to my interview with her this morning.  And since we are on the topic of educational videos, I have been saving this one for some time now, and though it's a little long, I absolutely LOVED it.  If you are a parent, stick with this one, it's worth it.

It's Saturday night here.  I just got back from a funeral.  Walking to the grave to bury my friend's mother, we passed many graves that were prepared and waiting for future use.  Looking at all these not yet occupied graves, I thought to myself, "Here is where it all ends. 

(This is a photo of a grave off the internet. I of course did not take any pictures myself.)

This is what waits for us all. All we take with us is the mitzvoth and good deeds that we do in this world while we still have the gift of life.

I am looking at the talk backs below in my previous blog post and all the misunderstandings between people, sarcasm, fear, etc. that one finds there.  Folks, let's concentrate on doing good, spreading goodness, being kind and loving, and give the benefit of the doubt to each other before clawing at each other's throats.  How much time do we have on this earth anyway?  Life is a gift.  The TIME we have on this earth is everything and I know I need to use it more wisely.

So do you hate me?  Are you angry with me because I believe that the safest place in the world for Jews will be in Israel?  Are you angry because I truly worry about people's safety and don't want a repeat of all the past tragic history our people have suffered in different host countries of the world where they also thought "It won't happen here"? 

You know, we were really prospering in Egypt when Yoseph (Joseph) was the Prime Minister and served the Pharoah.  Joseph saved Egypt from starvation, and we came to live in Goshen and sank our heels in and started living great. Things were really good! Yet even with our glorious contributions to Egypt with a former Jewish PM saving the country from ruin, things turned sour. It ended up that the Jews were put into harsh slavery, saw the horrible murder of our Jewish male babies and were cast into a future of a living hell. No one thought it would happen. But the good life all went south, as slowly, we were lulled into slavery without even realizing it, and then it was too late.  Pharaoh also closed the gates of Egypt on us and wouldn't let the Jews leave. Lesson learned? Apparently not.

Move up in history: We were doing great in Persia, the Jewish echelon were invited to the King's palace for a banquet and even kosher food was served. What an honor! We even had a Jew in the White House (sic) - Esther was married to the King! I mean, what could go wrong???  And then one day it all flipped around.  Anti-Semitism was on the slow cooker, and then the temperature was turned up and the next thing you know, notices were given to kill all the Jews, from babies to the elderly.  Boom, just like that. The Jews were scratching their heads wondering how this could happen!

Then there was  the golden age in Spain, Jews were prosperous, well to do, had Jewish schools and synagogues all over, and some even worked for the King and Queen as their advisors and/or  government officials. The Spanish / Iberian Jewish community remained the most important in the world especially with the decline of the Academies of Babylonia.  

Let's not forget Germany.  Germany was the most cultured and hip country in all of Europe.  Berlin was the city that swung.  Poets, philosophers, artists, homosexuals, and cabaret people sat at cafes smoking their cigarettes and philosophized about the world.  Life was good for Jews, especially those who assimilated and were just as German as the Germans.  In fact, they called Berlin the 'New Jerusalem'.  So how could anyone imagine that the most liberal, hip, sophisticated and cultured country in Europe, end up gassing Jews and burning them in ovens?  If you would tell the Jews of that time that this would happen, they'd call the men with white coats t come and take you away.

And now many Jews persuade themselves that nothing will happen to their good life in America, and that America is 'different'.

I watch trends.  I watch the headlines and the news, and I read the Tanach and what it says will happen if we follow, or don't follow the Torah.  I am also the daughter of a holocaust survivor, so I listen and am sensitive to the signs that I see.  I remember my father telling me that when he was a boy, that Jabotinsky, who came to warn the Jews that Europe was on fire and that they should leave and make aliyah, was banned from synagogues for being an alarmist. No one wanted to listen, because no one wanted to leave their comfort zones. It's hard, I realize it, but folks, the world is now on fire again.  it's not a blaze ...yet.  But once it does become a blaze, it will be too late.  Too late.  Too late.

So?  So I warn people about what is happening and what may happen to Jews if they stay stuck in the Exile.  Does that make me evil?  A nut case?  An alarmist?  Or does it make me someone who really cares and is trying to shake you awake from the deep slumber and denial most Jews have today regarding their future in the Diaspora? So I ask them, beg them, to come home to Israel.  If this is my crime, then so be it.  We are all sooner or later going to end up in the grave.  What will you take with you from the deeds you did in this world?  Will you go to shamayim (Heaven) saying you rejected the Land of our inheritance, the Land of Israel, our home, because you were too busy on the treadmill of life, running, running, running to work, classes, appointments, stores, and then to sleep, and then back to it again the next day?  What are you grooming your children for?  So they can grow up and go to a university and get an education so they can in turn make a lot of money and buy into the materialistic world and get up on their own treadmill and run like a rat, and then prepare THEIR children, your grandchildren, for the same? Do you really LIVE, or just EXIST?  Why is one's bank account more important than their future and their future generations?  Have we so succumbed to the materialist culture of the West that we have forgotten the true meaning of life? 

What is important, I mean REALLY important to you, that you would be willing to change your life for?  Or is leaving your comfortable life's routine and changing your life too hard for you?  Will you choose to stay behind in Egypt and die there, or follow that old 'crazy', alarmist and revolutionary, Moses, and march into the wilderness for the Promised Land? What would you have done if you lived at that time?  I think if it was me, I would have thought, "I don't know what awaits me in the wilderness, and I am scared of leaving everything I know in Egypt, but I know one thing, and that is, that whatever happens if I go, good or bad, easy or hard, I want to entwine my destiny with the Jewish people.  I want to follow what G-d says is best for me.  I am going to march forward, though I am scared, though I know not what awaits me, because I am a Jew, and that's the life I shall chose to live, - with my People!"

I will say it again, we are all sooner or later going to end up in the grave.  What will you take with you from the deeds that you did in this world?  Will you be happy with the life you chose to live, or will you kick yourself that you didn't break out and do what you truly knew what was right and good?  Your grave awaits.

Shocking video, yup, those who said it couldn't happen again, well, it's happening again.

I received this in an email today even though this took place some months ago already.

"In a Paris supermarket . CARREFOUR  50 Moslems are entering the supermarket, taking off the shelves all the produce, cosmetics and clothing imported from Israel, destroy these and calling for a  moratorium on all Israeli products.

The French police does not interfere, the supermarket managers are afraid to approach and the customers are in shock, but do nothing. This criminal, hate-spewing group is a grim reminder of how the destruction of 6 million Jews started in Europe 68 years ago.

As we sit idly by, are we to witness a re-enactment of the HOLOCAUST?

Watch this unfolding and please pass it on."

Watching this video, I was actually quite impressed about how many products we sell to France and other European countries.  Tomatoes and flowers I knew about, but shampoos diaper wipes, etc. etc. ??  WOW, we are such an amzing little country of only about 7million people.  There are several cities across the world with more people living in them!

But what I also gleaned from watching this video was the eerie similairy of the Nazis writing 'JUDE' (JEW) on store windows of Jewish owned stores so 'pure' Germans wouldn't shop there. 

The French video above sure looks like the beginning of pre-holocaust Germany.

Here are some of the comments left at youtube under the video:

"...A while back I saw another video where such an action group ran out of the supermarket with all the products and smashed them all on the floor..police arrived and arrested them."

"if you're serious about the boycott you must include the following which was invented and manufactured in Israel, panthium chip of your computers, wireless chips that makes it possible to use cellphones, that are few chips that were made in Israel inside your cell phone. boycott those! water purification, let's get serious and do it RIGHT. Stop using computers &cell phone, so Israel will get the message WE WILL NOT USE THEIR PRODUCTS! Let's go all the way! Let's not be hypocrites about it!!"

"I feel sorry for these people with plenty of hate in their heart and no love in their soul... if they really love the palestinians as they claim they do - let them fight Hamas that is turturing it's own people and who has caused Gaza disaster...As you know Israel left Gaza in 2006 and what did they got - pure terror..."

And my favorite comment there was something akin to: "I'd boyoctt Palestinian products, the only thing is, there aren't any!"

Watch this video below:

So where now is the future of the Jewish People?  It is not in Brooklyn, Boca Raton, Golders Green, or Melbourne.  It is definitely not in Paris or Los Angeles.  The future of the Jewish people is HERE, in ISRAEL.  This is where our past is, this is where JEWISH Kings ruled and are burried, this is where our history is, and THIS is the land that G-d gave to us as our HOME.  There is no future for the Jews in the Exile any longer.  Soon, the economy will get much worse, not better.  G-d wants us to come home, and he wants Mankind to turn to Him, not Materialism.  And if the Jews don't come home on their own, now, while they still have a chance to come with dignity adn whatever blessings they have at this time -not in 5 years time or 'when the economy gets better', then they will either be vomited out, or suffer whatever accounting their host country will suffer (G-d forbid) and I am not happy to see people suffer.

My brothers and sisters, you are so precious!  You have precious little darling children.  Don't be a slave to your job and your financial portfolio.  Come home and LIVE in Israel.  What other signs do you need to read the meter of anti-semitism and to know it is time to leave Exile and come home?  Are the news headlines not enough?  Are the arrests of and anger at high profile Jews not enough?  Is the financial collapse not enough?  What other sign do you need? 

Maybe you are waiting for a telegram from HaShem (G-d) saying,

"It's time to come home. --stop-- Go to www.NbN.org.il --stop-- Get a real estate agent to sell your house, then go to Israel and receive your check for whatever you get, in the mail. --stop--  This is your last warning before events may turn and make it almost impossible to get your kinderlach (children) and yourselves out before it is too late, and you join the fate of the nations, or worse."

Folks, open your eyes.  The Exile has come to an end.  The future of the Jewish People is in Israel.  We are waiting for you.  Maybe these haters in your friendly host country haven't reached your front door ...yet.  But why wait?  It's happening again!