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AddReply(256229,"new","Harriet","Netherlands","12/11/07","I didn\'t know the name Maccabim was derived from these words!\nSo good to read this story about chanukah,Tamar!\n\n");
AddReply(256090,"WW3 TO COME","Stan L Bowman Jr","Ontario Canada","12/11/07","Tamar I don\'t know were you get the Idea George Bush is Gog but this is not true. The Miracles that are going to occur are when Russia and the Muslims march to Israel to destroy use but GOD destroys 5/6th of the Russia muslim army instead. This is the true GOG U MAGOG WAR TO COME. Its not George bush. Ezekiel 38   39 are Russia and the Muslims not America. VS 5 of Ezekiel is IRAN,IRAQ,ETHIOPIA,LIBYA,VS 6 GERMANY,TURKEY,SUDAN AND AFRICAN MUSLIM NATIONS. do these really sound like American names...no these are muslim nations AND LEAD BY RUSSIA - EGYPT READ DANIEL 11:40-43.  ");
AddReply(256088,"I never heard that before","Phido","California","12/11/07","Cool story, I had not heard it before.  I don\'t know if the whole undressing thing would shock the regular world anymore.");
AddReply(256060,"Take your own advice","mike","Vienna, VA","12/11/07","What would the women of the Maccabees\' time have done after Amona?  How many Israeli generals and ministers would lie headless upon their beds?  How many Israeli soldiers and policemen would meet the fate dealt to the Hellenists by the Maccabees?\n\nYet today\'s Jews in the Holy Land will not even lift a hand to throw a rock at an Israeli occupier!  You will not even raise your voices to demand a Jewish State in Yesha!  You will not even peacefully demonstrate for one!  You still think yourselves to be Israeli!  Tell me, were the Hellenists, the Israelis of their day, kin to the Maccabees?  Did ahavat yisrael apply to them?\n\nOpen your eyes and see the world as it really is, not as you would like it to be!");
AddReply(255967,"Historical lesson","Paul S.","Toronto, Ont. Canada","12/10/07","One parallel we can take from this is to have Tsipi Livni take her clothes off in front of the Arab delegation at Annapolis and cry \"Notice me!\"  Perhaps not.  A more appropriate lesson is to remember that giving away chunks of land with no real guarantee of peace only encourages more land grabs.  One question can be asked: How small must Israel be before people stop asking it to be even smaller?  The answer of course is:  Any size is too big.  I\'m reminded of the line in Canadian author Irving Abella\'s book of the same title, in which a Canadian civil servant in the thirties, grumping about \"too many Jews\" trying to enter Canada was asked how many is too many.  He answered: None is too many.   Think about it.");
AddReply(255900,"According to some comments...","American","CHELM","12/10/07","Some people have been in the US TOO long.\nSome have been here TOO long.");
AddReply(255897,"Err... I dont understand","Moshe","Brooklyn","12/10/07","I thought the revolt started in Modiin, when Matisyahu refused to offer a swine sacrifice?");
AddReply(255879,"What is \"Assimilation\"?","Eliezer","USA","12/10/07","Whereas many consider assimilation to be the \"going out\"\ninto a non-Jewish Kulture, real assimilation is the \"taking in\"\nor internalization of a non-Jewish or non-Torah perspective.\nThe Greco/Roman or Hellenistic perspective, is predicated\nupon the Greek subjective theory, which posits truth is by\nconvention or decided on the basis of personal taste,\nlike one\'s favorite ice cream. The subjective theory\nlends itself to social conflict & chaos. This is from\nwhich moral relativism & social Darwinism are\nderived. The Nazis were Greco/Romanists &\nCORPORATE COLLECTIVISTS.\n\nThe Jewish/Torah perspective, is that ones perception\nOF G-d, or truth, comes by degrees. One has a more or less\nclear picture or discernment of G-d & His attributes, & how\nThese impact upon, or guide us. The Jewish perspective\n& mind is objective & inculcates a more linear, rather\nthan Greco/Roman cyclical view if history. As the\nphilosopher Voltaire writes, \"History, never\nrepeats itself, man always does.\" Once\nagain, this cyclical view of human\nhistory is predicated upon the\nGreco/Helleinist subjective\ntheory & mind which fails\nto learn from the past,\nthus repeating\n\"history.\"\n\nG-d\'s actions in history are often subtle. A single thought in\nthe mind of one man, or woman, can alter the entire course\nof human history, for better or worse. It is during Hanukkah\nwe regain more clearly, our vision, of what must be done.\n\nEliezer");
AddReply(255775,"The Truth is out there","Ezra","Toronto","12/09/07","Shalom Tamar\n  It is an excellent thing that you have chosen to write this. Those modern powers who are against Judea and Samaia, and our Jewish heritage will not succeed in the end. Even if they send their number one guy to Israel in January.\n        Best Regards \n                   Ezra");
AddReply(255769,"Thank You","Pnina","Kochav Yaakov","12/09/07","Thanks this opened my eyes to more of what happened on Chanukah.");
AddReply(255744,"Thank you Tamar for sharing some more","les","Ayr","12/09/07","Jewish history in your special words. You make the stories so vivid and pointed for us and easy to understand. Modern Hamens and Ishmaels will be overcome by Maccabim and true Jews with the help of G-d so thank you for keeping us strong in the faith   The ungodly world of blood and salty cheese will stand accountable we can be sure!  Let us not get too comfortable in our rich and leasure lifestyles and be judged as well. [thanks again]");
AddReply(255662,"This is great material for a movie!","Jewboy","New York","12/09/07","But Fishman would never allow it. Too bad!");
AddReply(255657,"i liked dan\'s humor","jew","in israel","12/09/07","it\'s channukkah which brings light not darkness.  it\'s ok to laugh sometimes and channukkah is a happy time.  humorous stuff, dan, and it\'s better than blood and cutting off heads. oh,,,,,,,,,,,, i just lost my lunch.");
AddReply(255655,"Dan, this is not the late show...","Yisrael","P\"T","12/09/07","This is how we or our kids or our kids kids will be leading our existence in the face of foreign troops in Eretz Israel and our own home-grown traitor hellenists.\n\nNow more than ever we see that these stories could apply to us soon.\nNot at all funny.\n\nRather, teach your kids love of H-shem\'s Honor and the Jewish people, Torah, self defense and war-strategies.\n");
AddReply(255649,"Top 5 reasons Yehudit killed Holofernes with a sword","Dan","Jerusalem","12/09/07","1. He lost his head\n2. He wouldn\'t eat the poisoned sufganiot because it would ruin his diet\n3. So Holofernes wouldn\'t have to tell CNN:  \"I wasn\'t with that woman.\"\n4. She didn\'t want to be a biblical copy-cat and use a tent-pin.\n5. She wanted to get \'ahead\'.");
AddReply(255638,"How to translate the column into present reality ?","Joseph . E","Givatayim","12/09/07","One way to do so is to establish Laws , Resolutions and policies that promote a massive jewish developement  of Judea with Samaria and likewise to counter each and every Leftists school of thoughts linked to the arab initiative and Road Map .");
AddReply(255637,"The Maccabees are not dead","louise","newton","12/09/07","As a religious feminist I am always happy to see these stories brought to the fore.\n\nIt seems that women in Tenach did as women throughout history have done.....taken a broom and swept out the mens\' dirty debris.  Then nagged them until they finally learned to clean up themselves.\n\nWe have our Maccabees today.....they are our Hilltop Youth, both male and female.  Just as the Maccabees were derided by \"proper\" people, 2000 years ago, so are our wonderful boys and girls  are truly their descendants.");
AddReply(255633,"Thanks","shoshana","PDX","12/09/07","Dear Tamar: Thanks for taking the time to tell us these wonderful stories of us wonderful Jewish women. Love, Shoshana");

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