The Jewish People are now in the crucial time between Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur.  It's our last chance before G-d seals the Book of Life for the upcoming year.  Our family has, bli eyin haraa (keep away the evil eye) started the year well, Thank G-d.

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We must pray for wisdom, for us and those running the Israeli Government.

Peace? Get Real!

There are too many lies clouding people's minds.  This sort of New York Times pro-Muslim propaganda reminds me of the joke about the person who murdered his parents and then asked the court for mercy, because he was orphaned.  It's full of lies and distortions.

While Israel marches blindly into the snare of "negotiations," the Arab terrorists continue to attack us.  Get real!  What's the point?  You can't "make peace" with people who want to annihilate you, so why hasn't the Israeli Government told Obama, Clinton, Blair etc to get packing and leave us alone?  Instead, Israel is considering yet more suicidal "gestures" to the terrorists.

All those smiles make me very nervous.  They remind me of Little Red Ridinghood's wolf!

What will it take for our Israeli politicians to wise up and face reality.  That's no grannie in bed!

May we be blessed by G-d with a wonderful New Year governed by wise leaders...

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Back To The Real World
It doesn't look like the Arabs are preparing for peace. Does it?

My three day news moratorium has ended.  It was so easy and pleasant to fill myself with holiness during the Rosh Hasanna + Shabbat long escape from reality. The "good news" is that we'll have these three day escapes quite a few times in the next ten years, but the "bad news" is that the rest of the world doesn't change.

This past Friday, as good Jews all over the world were begging G-d to accept our repentance and forgive us, U. S. President Barack Hussein Obama was pounding away with his mantra that Israel must discriminate against Jews and forbid us to build in our HolyLand.  Obama's agenda is clear.  Jews must leave the Land of Jewish History, where the Bible narrative took place and give it to the very same Arabs who want to destroy us.  Hey, wake up hypocrites near and far.  That's blatant racist and religious discrimination.

And back here, closer to home, not all Israelis had a quiet Rosh Hashannah.  Gazan Arab terrorists fired rockets into southern Israel over Rosh Hashannah.

It doesn't look like the Arabs are preparing for peace.  Does it?

It's hard to believe that we're just a few short, always too short, days to Rosh Hashannah, The Jewish New Year.  We don't greet our new year in a drunken stupor.  It's the only two day holiday in the Jewish Calendar.  We spend it in prayer, festive meals with symbolic foods and allow to sound of the shofar to shake our souls out of their complacency.

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Looking Forward to The Three-Day News Moratorium

Bad news can wait and good news is just as good delayed

At last year's Second International Jewish Bloggers Conference (will there be a third?) David Horowitz, Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post spoke about the news business.  He said that now that the paper is online, work can't cease for a minute.  The Jerusalem Post only closes for Yom Kippur, but he and his family are keeping more of Shabbat for their own sanity.  They need the break from the unpleasant realities of news.

As the resident hausfrau here in the jblogging capital of Shiloh, I don't really enjoy all the domestic preparations for the upcoming three day (2 days of Rosh Hashannah plus Shabbat) Jewish Holiday weekend, but I do enjoy the subsequent silence of the news, the media, the telephone etc.  Bad news can wait and good news is just as good delayed.  I like to concentrate on the here and now of the prayers and community.

This is a reminder that the One in Charge is G-d Almighty, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, not Bibi, Obama nor Hillary.  This World, Olam HaZeh,  עולם הזה is fleeting, temporary, just preparation for the Next World, Olam HaBa עולם הבא and determines where G-d will place us.  Our actions buy our tickets. Next Wednesday, before the sun goes down, we'll turn off and unplug the computer.  I'll light the first set of candles, take out my Machzor (Holiday Prayerbook) and pray to G-d that our Israeli politicians will transform into wise leaders and that G-d will forgive all our sins whether we properly repent or not.  We're only human, not angels.  We're riddled with faults and weaknesses.

Abbas, in a televised speech on Sunday night, expressed hope that the Palestinians would find a partner in Israel “that would be capable of making major and responsible decisions to end the occupation and ensure real security for both Israelis and Palestinians.”

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Abbas noted that the Quartet statement had “stressed the need to end the occupation that began in 1967, including that of east Jerusalem.” (complete article)

I try to keep my blogs interesting with a variety of posts.  Read about a strange visit we had our first Succot in Shiloh and some thoughts about the sound of the Shofar, kol shofar on Shiloh Musings and  about an interesting improv theater perfomance on me-ander.

As this year winds up, there 's still a lot of unfinished business, like freeing Gilad Shalit from his Arab terrorist captors.  I've written about it a number of times.  It seems to me that there's something very wrong in how it has been handled.

Gilad Shalit's Family, Barking Up The Wrong Tree

This morning the radio was on at the Shiloh Swimming Pool.  Every little while I could hear the announcement by Aviva Shalit, Gilad's mother, reminding us that tomorrow will be Gilad's fifth birthday in captivity.  She then invites us all to protest after Shabbat.  So far, so good, but then she announces that the protest's slogan is that Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must free Gilad.

Duh!?!  Did I miss something here?  Is Bibi Netanyahu holding Gilad prisoner?  No, well, if that's the case how does she expect the Prime Minister to free her son?

Bibi wasn't even Prime Minister when Gilad Shalit was captured.  There's something very fokokt in the Shalit family's tactics and logic.

Didn't Hamas kidnap Gilad Shalit?  Yes, it did.  So the focus of the demonstrations must be on the agencies, organizations, countries etc that represent Hamas.  There should be a constant vigil against the International Red Cross, European Union and the United Nations for their laxity and hypocrisy in not demanding to visit and assist Gilad Shalit in returning home.

It's obvious that the Shalit family is mixing their own anti-Likud politics in with their personal pain.  They are wasting precious time by fudging the issues here.  They should be working with the government to pressure those who support Hamas to return Gilad home.