Uncle Sam Poster Disclaimer

In reference to the poster of Uncle Sam posted yesterday in an INN news article - while I agree with the underlying message that America and US President Bush's "Road Map" Piece Plan to slice the Land of Israel into pieces, divide Jerusalem, and create what is certain to become a terrorist state, is nothing but an insidious plan to harm the Jewish People and an unparalled act of evil - I would not put a poster like this on the streets of Jerusalem.

May the Almighty save us from this most recent betrayal of the Jewish People, and from all forms of anti-Semitism, no matter how elegantly disguised they may be. May all those nations who seek to divide our Land have their own lands divided instead, and may all of their evil intentions turn back against themselves.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?    

The Burning Bush

Please circulate this poster over the web. Click on the poster to email.

The Burning Bush

Bush, Read Your Bible!

Yesterday, INN posted this article written by Baruch Gordon. Please circulate this poster wherever you can.

In the upcoming days, billboards all over Jerusalem will be plastered with a new poster on the eve of U.S. President Bush’s visit to Israel. Pictured in the poster is a gigantic Bible, towering over the walls of the Old City.

The caption says: “Bush, read your Bible. God gave Israel to the Jews.”

This poster will welcome US President Bush to Jerusalem
Photo: Am K'Lavee Organization

Tzvi Fishman, of the Am K’Lavee organization, and an Arutz 7 blogger, says “The poster is designed to refocus Israel’s opposition to further withdrawals back to our Divine claim to the Land of Israel, as documented again and again in the Bible.”

Am K’Lavee organizes the annual mass parade to the Kotel on Jerusalem Day, which is attended by tens of thousands. It is joining a broad spectrum of grassroots organizations that are planning protests during Bush’s three-day visit to Jerusalem.%ad%

“The Biblical claim of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel was recognized by the British in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which called for the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine,” Fishman states. “The British believed in the Bible and what was written in it, and that was what guided Lord Balfour in winning the support of the British Parliament.

"America also believes in the Bible,” Fishman says, “and therefore, it is totally unreasonable that America and its G-d-fearing President should act against the Bible, the pillar of Christian belief.” Through the poster, Fishman is embarking to remind President Bush that God’s plan for the world supersedes his plan.

How to conduct its public relations campaign has long been a matter of debate among Jewish leaders in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha). Am K'Lavee has chosen what they call "the irrefutable argument." Fishman explains:

"I remember the day some twenty years ago when the leaders of the settlement movement decided that they weren’t going to speak any more about G-d’s gift of the Land of Israel to our forefather, Abraham. Instead they decided to base the importance of settling Judea and Samaria on practical military and Zionistic reasons. The trouble with this strategy is that when you bring a big general to warn the public about the dangers of surrendering portions of Yesha to the enemy, the political Left parades out their line-up of big generals who say the very opposite. That’s what happened with the 2005 Disengagement Plan.

"People thought they could trust the famous military hero, Sharon, when he assured the nation that there was no security risk in evacuating the Jewish towns of Gush Katif. The military question can be argued this way and that, but our Biblical claim to the Land is irrefutable. Bush, America, Europe, and all the Christian world have to be reminded that in pressuring us to give up the Jewish towns of Yesha and divide Jerusalem, they are going against the Bible and G-d.

Fishman says that Bible lovers all over the world have to join the fight to save the Holy Land. "It's not just about saving the Jewish villages of Yesha and safeguarding the unity of Jerusalem, but also preventing the wanton destruction of shrines and churches sacred to their religions as well," he argues.

“It isn’t enough that this poster fills the streets of Jerusalem,” Fishman asserts. “It has to be circulated all over the Internet, on every Christian, Baptist, Evangelist, Catholic, and Jewish site. A vast part of the world still believes in the Bible, and if these hundreds of millions say no to the ‘Road Map’ and email the poster to the White House, they can help us save our Holy City and prevent the Holy Land from turning into a haven for Islamic terror.”

Am K'Lavee invites activists to email the organization to receive a hi-rez version of the poster for distribution.

Couch Potatoes, Bye Bye

I never intended to become a therapist for Diaspora couch potatoes. From now on, we will be keeping a low profile, down at the bottom of the A7 blog line-up, just keeping things warm, like a Shabbos platter. Over the past year, we have focused on the two things that most people don’t want to hear: the imperative for a Jew to live in Israel, and the parallel imperative for a person to clean up his sexual life. For those who got the message, Baruch Hashem, and for those who didn’t, “Zoy gatis,” as my grandmother would say, “That’s the way it goes.”

Couch Knishe - Some can even type with their toes!

With Bush coming to Israel to keep Olmert in office, and with the nations of the world united against Jerusalem and Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land, the real battleground is here in Israel and not on the web. So I hope to turn my attention to the Hebrew-speaking public in Israel, write some books, put out some posters, make some movies, help some groups who are working in the field, and support the kids, which you can’t do by writing blogs for Arutz 7.

Along with my blessings and a fond “L’hitraot,” here is an insight into this week’s Torah portion of Shemot. The whole purpose of the Exodus from Egypt was to bring the Jews to Eretz Yisrael, as it says, “And the L-rd said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows, and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of Egypt, to bring them up out of that land to a good and large Land, to a land flowing with milk and honey….” (Shemot, 3:7-8).

With all of the tremendous importance of Sinai, receiving the Torah at Sinai was only a temporary station on the way to the Land of Israel. A Jew can only be true to himself and his destiny in the Land of Israel. For, as we have noted again and again, and as the Torah itself makes clear, the commandments were given to be observed in the Land of Israel. In addition, the Jewish People can only be a nation in the Land of Israel, and the Nation of Israel can only truly keep the Torah, in all of its entirety, in the Land of Israel, as it says, “From Zion shall come forth the Torah, and the word of G-d from Jerusalem,” and not from Virginia, or Monsey, or Manchester, England. In the Diaspora, we are scattered individuals and impotent communities with no power at all. For the nearly 2000 years that we were doomed to wander in exile, we had no choice but to live in foreign lands. But now that G-d has given us back our cherished Holy Land, there is no excuse for clinging to gentile lands. That’s the truth, and all of the whinings and rebuttals are just a lot of blah, blah, blah, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
           

Nationality Test

אני עוסק בחינוך ובייעוץ, בעל משפחה וחי באושר עם אשתי וילדיי, אבל אני חי בשני עולמות. מאז שגיליתי את האינטרנט, אני צופה באתרים לא כשרים. אני יודע שזה אסור, אבל כוחותיי לא עומדים לי. הקושי הגדול שלי הוא שתלמידים באים להתייעץ איתי, ואני נותן להם עצות איך לצאת מזה, ואני קרוע מהשקר שאני עושה בנפשי. אני מתחנן שתושיט לי יד לצאת לחירות

תשובה

בכל דור ודור הקב"ה שולח יצר הרע המיועד לאותה תקופה, והוא מפיל חללים רבים. בזמנו, היה זה יצר הרע של עבודה זרה. הגמרא מספרת על המלך מנשה שאמר לרב אשי בחלום: אילו היית בדור שלי, היית

Hebrew speaking children identifying with their Hebrew speaking Forefathers in Hevron