I guess you all know that the world is ganging up against us.  They want us to hang ourselves, give the Arabs terrorists our Land for another state.  It's history repeating itself.  Nobody defends the Jews.  The United States entered the fighting against the Nazis to salvage their own honor and help Great Britain and then European countries to roll  back the Third Reich.  Nobody cared that Jews were being slaughtered and tortured and murdered.

So, I'm a pragmatist.  I don't care what the world thinks.  I keep writing the same message over and over on Shiloh Musings.  I write about more mundane things on me-ander.  This blog is updated a couple a times a week with whatever post seems most timely.

Dry Bones has a brilliant, as usual, post about Hitler and Nazism.  The cartoon is minor in this one.  So read the entire post, please.It's so totally outrageous and immoral that people all over the world, including Israel, have no problems with the demand that parts of the world including the Jewish National Homeland, the Biblical Land of Israel, be judenrein, cleansed of Jews.  That's racist.  That's immoral.  And that's part of the Nazi ideology.  Connect the dots.

No matter how hard the media and politicians keep pushing the "negotiate with our Arab enemies" line, most Israelis do admit that it won't work.  This isn't like trying fly to the moon with paper wings, just foolish unless you count on the wings holding you up when you jump off a cliff.  If that's the case, it's suicidal.

Actually, the chances of real peace and security for Israel to be the results of a negotiated "peace treaty" with the likes of Abbas and his terrorist buddies really do compare with a safe and successful flight to the moon flapping paper wings.  Are you a believer?

I'll never forget how around twenty plus years ago I begged our school to stop teaching Hebrew reading and writing with the "Bli Sodot" method.  Not only did it remind me of the terrible method which had been used to teach English reading and writing to my eldest when we were in England, but it required very skilled fine motor coordination beyond the level of some kids.  When seeing frustrated and miserable little kids who couldn't cut the tiny words and sounds, I called it:

"No cuttee, no readee."

The school principal replied:

"But we just invested so much money in the videos."

Well, after many parents complained about having to invest in  assessments and tutoring, they finally went back to a more traditional and successful phonics method.

As hard as it may seen today to call these negotiations all off, it'll be harder tomorrow.  There's no light at the end of this tunnel.  One just must drill up and climb out.  They say that if you discover you're walking in a mind field go back exactly the way you came.  So, whichever method they choose, it's fine with me.  Just escape!

These negotiations won't bring peace! 

Things are heating up here in the HolyLand in more ways than one.  We are having one of the hottest and most humid summers ever.  G-d's in charge of that.  No doubt He's trying to remind us that we're supposed to follow the Torah and not Obama, the U.N., the media or any other fad or celebrity. If only the politicians would straighten up and clean up their acts.

I've written a lot more about things on me-ander and Shiloh Musings.  I'm sure you'll find something of interest there. There's a short post about one of the mitzvot (Torah Commandments)  in this week's weekly Torah Portion, returning lost objects.  Another worth clicking is about the recent digs at Tel Shiloh with some pictures.

But the big news is about negotiations with our enemies:

It's hard to believe that Rosh Hashannah is in Just a few weeks.  I had better start inviting neighbors for meals, or we'll find ourselves all alone! And since I'm mentioning food, maybe you'd like to check out the pre-Holiday Kosher Cooking Carnival, a round-up of blog posts from all over the world about kosher food. Another popular post is Judaism, 24/7.

As usual, I'd like to remind you that I post much more frequently on Shiloh Musings and me-ander.  Please check them out, thanks.  And now, for the "main attraction:"

 

Zionist Renewal

My dear friend Isramom sent a very inspiring video out to friends.  I trust that she'll, too, be blogging about it and explaining her connection.  You can probably connect the dots if you look at her gorgeous blog banner.

The younger generation of דתי לאומי dati le'umi, national religious Israeli Jews are doing amazing things all over Israel.  They have taken up the challenge of Zionism today and have the idealism and creativity of the very early Zionists who had left Europe, poverty, universities, great cities, and frequently traditional Jewish Life etc to reconnect with our historic Homeland building and planting. 

They thought that they needed to be "new Jews" and tried to replace Torah adherence and Jewish Law with a socialist "Utopian" Zionism.  A large proportion of their descendants now feel disconnected, disengaged from that very Land.

Davka, it's the religious Israeli youth who are the new pioneers.  They embrace both the Torah and the Holy Land.  They're planting a newer and better Zionism with strong roots.  Without celebrating our Torah and ancient Biblical history, our country will wither like the descendants of the early secular Zionists.

Chodesh Tov!  We're in the midst of celebrating a double (two day) New Moon; the month of Elul is upon us.  Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year is just a month away.

Women's Prayers at Tel Shiloh

 תפילת נשים בתל שילה

ראש חודש אלול יום ד' 9:30 11-8

Rosh Chodesh Elul Wed. 11-8, 9:30am

 Everyone's Invited כולן מוזמנות

 

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Chodesh Elul Tov, Tel Shiloh

See the light!

 

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If Jews can't live freely in Shiloh, what right do we have to live in Tel Aviv, Haifa or Beer Sheva?
Shabbat's soon, just a few more hours.   As usual I've been blogging (writing) much more frequently on my other blogs, Shiloh Musings and me-ander.  You are welcome to click their names and read.

 

I'm Not For Sale!

Every time I read about "financial compensation for the building freeze" my blood boils.  It's not about money.  Why should the Left, the media and the government think they can buy people off?  Granted that the building freeze has had a financial cost to many people and businesses, but that isn't the main problem with it.

Just like money can't compensate someone for loss of life, home etc.  Money can't substitute for time lost nor delegitimization of sovereignty.

I live in Shiloh because it is a Jewish historical site in the Jewish Land.  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's call for a Jewish only building freeze was not only immorally discriminatory against Jewish Israelis, it delegitimizes the entire State of Israel.  If Jews can't live freely in Shiloh, what right do we have to live in Tel Aviv, Haifa or Beer Sheva? And for the families who planned on building during the ten months, time was stolen from them.  How do you replace time even if the government completely lifts the siege against construction 100%?

Where is the logic behind the rabid destruction of Jewish buildings?  Does the state or innocent Israelis have no other enemies than the G-d fearing patriotic Jews who built the homes and synagogue Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered destroyed?

 We didn't move to Shiloh to take advantage of any financial advantages that were then offered, just like we didn't make aliyah to the Land of Israel for the inexpensive boat ride.

No money can compensate for discriminatory anti-Jewish policies.  I'm not for sale!