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Batya Medad made aliya from New York to Israel in 1970 and has been living in Shiloh since 1981. Recently she began organizing women's visits to Tel Shiloh for Psalms and prayers. (For more information, please email her.) Batya is a newspaper and magazine columnist, a veteran jblogger and recently stopped EFL teaching. She's also a wife, mother, grandmother, photographer and HolyLand hitchhiker, always seeing things from her own very unique perspective. For more of Batya's writings and photos, check out:
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Tishrei 16, 5770, 10/4/2009
Hiking To Possess Our Land Since my flight schedule was changed, I made it to the beginning of this year's Hike the Land in Memory of Avihu Keinan, HaYa"D, a Shiloh boy killed by Arab terrorists. He was in the IDF, a soldier who excelled and taught hand-to-hand combat. But he didn't have a chance, because his officers planned an action to minimize injury of Arab civilians at the expense of our Jewish Israeli soldiers. Moshe, Avihu's father, vowed to march to Jerusalem and protest outside the Presidnt's Residence. We did that during Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of) Succot, and since then, every Succot we march from Shiloh.  For the first few years, we marched to Jerusalem, but the past few years, we marched in the vicinity of Shiloh. These are all pictures I photographed from the beginning of this year's march.     G-d willing, next year, the Moshiach will be here, and we'll all celebrate together with Avihu and all the other victims of Arab terrorism and those dead from other causes. Tags: Inside Israel ,Jewish World |
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Tishrei 12, 5770, 9/30/2009
Taking On A New Mitzvah
In terms of jblogging news, the latest Kosher Cooking Carinval is here. There are most posts on Shiloh Musings. Pay visits and enjoy. It's free, why not?
It's rather risky, making plans for an 89 year old, but my family is planning a mitzvah very new to us. We're working hard to bring my father to Israel. Our empty nest won't be filling with our progeny, but with the family patriarch. My children and grandchildren, too, are helping as much as possible, no, more than you can ever imagine. We're filling in forms, finding documents etc to fulfill the requirements of Nefesh B'Nefesh and JAFI. That's what's behind my blogging slience recently. Last night when I couldn't sleep I posted the latest Kosher Cooking Carnival. I'll be jetlagged before I even board the plane. G-d willing my mother will join him here in a few short months and they should both live out their lives, until a 120, surrounded by children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Tags: Inside Israel ,Aliyah & Absorption |
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Tishrei 9, 5770, 9/27/2009
Gmar Chatima TovahI only have a few minutes before we eat, and I want to wish all of you a wonderful year and apologize if I've personally injured any of you. May G-d forgive us all, our prayers are in the plural, for our sins against Him. And may we find ways to ask forgiveness from others and may we be forgiven. I'm not copy/pasting my recent posts from Shiloh Musings. You can read them there. Sorry, no time. May we have the strength to do what's right and not what is sometimes easier. May G-d bless us all and our loved ones with health and good judgement. Tags: Jewish World ,Health |
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Tishrei 7, 5770, 9/25/2009
Bibi's UN Speech, Tease and Fizzle
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Bibi's UN Speech, Tease and Fizzle Our Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, addressed the United Nations yesterday. Bibi is a very gifted speaker, and he's more knowledgeable about history and political science than most professors. I've heard him answer difficult questions without any opportunity or need to prepare, and of course he's not dependent on staff-written speeches displayed on a teleprompter.There were some good things in his UN speech, but there were also things I find very troubling. In an address to the General Assembly earlier in the day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel heatedly denounced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran for frequently rejecting the Holocaust as a historical fact.Mr. Netanyahu also spent considerable time denying that Israel had committed war crimes during its three-week military attack on Gaza last winter, as it was recently accused of doing in a report by a fact-finding mission from the Human Rights Council.The problem is that Netanyahu gave facts but came to the wrong conclusions. Bibi should have tied all of these things up with a different conclusion. Netanyahu blasted the international community for encouraging Israel to leave Gaza, and then condemning Israel in the Goldstone Report when it responded to the rocket attacks that resulted: “This biased and unjust report is a clear-cut test for all governments. Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists? We must know the answer to that question now, and not later. Because if Israel is again asked to take more risks for peace, we must know today that you will stand with us tomorrow. Only if we have the confidence that we can defend ourselves can we take further risks for peace.”Prime Minister Netanyahu should have stated that Israel is no longer going to "take risks for peace." We have been doing it for decades and it has only brought us war, terrorism and condemnation. The world hasn't changed since Hitler's Nazi Germany began their systematic discrimination against Jews, which gradually built up to mass murder, the Holocaust. During that time, no foreign country condemned the Nazis nor defended the Jews of Germany and later of Europe. United States President Franklyn D. Roosevelt even sent back German Jews fleeing the Nazis. Bibi's speech was a big tease. It fizzled, rather than concluding with a strong message. What a wasted opportunity and what a waste of potential leadership. Bibi is proving no better than his predecessors. Tags: Defense/Middle East |
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Tishrei 6, 5770, 9/24/2009
Consensus? Dangerous Delusion
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 Unfortunately, this dangerous philosophy can even be heard in parts of Judea and Samaria. Gush Etzion has been one of the strongholds of this "cult." The general feeling projected is that, as long as they're "included in the consensus," they feel safe and satisfied. Of course there are exceptions, opponents, most notably two women, Nadia Matar (Women in Green) and Sharon Katz (Voices Magazine.) They are today's Ruth and Chana, struggling to change the world. Our enemies, internal and external, don't accept the distinction. For former Minister of Education MK Yuli Tamir, a small Jewish community in Gush Etzion is just as dispicable, unacceptable as one overlooking Shechem.
I'm not surprised that she said that. As obnoxious and inaccurate as her statement/insult was, it was totally consistent with her ideology. Periodically, when the world and many in Israel think that towns like my Shiloh are about to be destroyed, the target moves to the Golan Heights. In the forefront of the struggle to stop the pressure are many of the same Land-loyal Jews who support Jewish Life in Judea and Samaria. And then we hear from the Golan: "We're not settlers, like them."In a smaller scale, this is no different than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's mistaken policies. By trying to diplomatically compromise, our projected legitimacy is weakened. You Remember fellow Jews, fellow Israelis: We're all One People in One Land, and we must work together. Tags: Inside Israel |