WND has an article this morning titled Obama secretly pledges to divide Jerusalem.
28 Jan 2013
27 Jan 2013
International Holocaust Day
Israel Matzav posts The Sunday Times of London marks Holocaust Memorial Day with a despicable anti-Semitic cartoon.
On International Holocaust Day, Palestinian Media Watch documents that messages of Antisemitism and hatred of Jews continue to be transmitted by official Palestinian Authority TV.
Continue reading: http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=8465
On International Holocaust Day, Palestinian Media Watch documents that messages of Antisemitism and hatred of Jews continue to be transmitted by official Palestinian Authority TV.
Continue reading: http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=8465
Couldn't take it anymore
A 93-year-old Kansas City man has been charged with second degree murder in the death of his 95-year-old wife.
...* According to the Associated Press, neighbors of the couple said the wife had been in poor health. Some of the couple's seven children visited often.
...The couple celebrated 70 years of marriage a month ago. Grace Irwin turned 95 earlier in January.
http://news.yahoo.com/93-old-charged-stabbing-killing-95-old-wife-220300098.html
Dear husband of mine,
Please don't get any ideas.
Love,
Me
...* According to the Associated Press, neighbors of the couple said the wife had been in poor health. Some of the couple's seven children visited often.
* When asked for a motive behind the murder, Harry Irwin killed his wife because she was screaming at him and arguing all night. He "couldn't take it anymore" and "did her in."
...The couple celebrated 70 years of marriage a month ago. Grace Irwin turned 95 earlier in January.
http://news.yahoo.com/93-old-charged-stabbing-killing-95-old-wife-220300098.html
Dear husband of mine,
Please don't get any ideas.
Love,
Me
26 Jan 2013
Beliefs
An article about quarterback Colin Kaepernick describes his faith in G-d.
Kaepernick's faith is out there for the world to see. It's literally written all over his body. He has "faith" inscribed on his right bicep, and "to God the glory" on his right arm as well.
...Kaepernick knows his tattoos get scrutinized along with everything else.
"Number one is kind of my way of saying, I don't really care what people think about my tattoos," he said. "I got them for me and to show people this is what I believe in. God has brought me this far, he's laid out a phenomenal path for me and I can't do anything but thank him."
Rabbo Moshe Grylack discusses the issue of drafting yeshiva students into the Israeli army and rmearks, "What we have here is no less than an existential threat to the chareidi community in particular and the State of Israel in general. This is predicated on the deeply-held belief, rooted in the Torah, the Gemara, and the assurances of great Torah leaders of all generations, that Torah study literally shields the Jewish People from harm...."
In contrast, a secular professor opines, “Your arguments are nothing but deceit.”
19 Jan 2013
The search for a bone marrow match
A brother and sister's search for a
bone marrow match for their mother has led to a jump in the number of Jewish
people joining the Anthony Nolan Trust.
Jonni, 34, and Caroline Berger, 31, appealed on Twitter - #spit4mum - after Sharon Berger was told she needed an urgent bone marrow transplant in weeks.
Mrs Berger, 61, of Harrow, north-west London, has myelodysplastic syndrome.
Finding a match is proving difficult because of her best match is likely to be another Ashkenazi Jew.
The charity said 180 Jewish people signed up in the first two weeks of 2013, up from 31 in January 2012.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21089305
18 Jan 2013
Population growth
Sharon Otterman in the New York Times reports that Jewish Population Is Up in the New York Region.
The Jewish population in the New York area grew by 9 percent over the last decade, reversing a longstanding trend of decline, the study found. But the growth did not affect all Jewish neighborhoods equally. Two-thirds of the rise was propelled by two deeply Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn with high birthrates — Williamsburg and Borough Park. Some of the city’s more affluent areas, like Brownstone Brooklyn and the Upper East Side, saw declines in their Jewish population, according to the study.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/nyregion/reversing-past-trend-new-yorks-jewish-population-rises.html?_r=0
And it seems like Israel will increase its population by one as an Italian politician has announced her plans to make aliya.
The vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Fiamma Nirenstein, on Thursday announced her decision to make aliya.
Nirenstein said she doesn’t plan to run again in the Italian elections and in addition to making aliya, will return to her career as a professional journalist.
“I am going back to journalism and to Israel,” said Nirenstein, adding that these were “the two best things” in her life Asked by the Italian newspaper Il Giornale about her plans, Nirenstein said: “I want to come back to Israel and also to apply for citizenship.”
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=300008
The Jewish population in the New York area grew by 9 percent over the last decade, reversing a longstanding trend of decline, the study found. But the growth did not affect all Jewish neighborhoods equally. Two-thirds of the rise was propelled by two deeply Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn with high birthrates — Williamsburg and Borough Park. Some of the city’s more affluent areas, like Brownstone Brooklyn and the Upper East Side, saw declines in their Jewish population, according to the study.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/nyregion/reversing-past-trend-new-yorks-jewish-population-rises.html?_r=0
And it seems like Israel will increase its population by one as an Italian politician has announced her plans to make aliya.
The vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Fiamma Nirenstein, on Thursday announced her decision to make aliya.
Nirenstein said she doesn’t plan to run again in the Italian elections and in addition to making aliya, will return to her career as a professional journalist.
“I am going back to journalism and to Israel,” said Nirenstein, adding that these were “the two best things” in her life Asked by the Italian newspaper Il Giornale about her plans, Nirenstein said: “I want to come back to Israel and also to apply for citizenship.”
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=300008
17 Jan 2013
Jokes and tweets
A very nice blogger emailed me a link to a Jewish Press story about the Iranian media misinterpreting a joke made by Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett when he stated, "'Sarah
and I were mostly in terrorism course together,'” meaning she used to terrorize
him while he was working for her husband.
Now the Iranian Press TV, God bless their hearts, have picked up this story and delivered it with a straight face: “I was in terrorism class with Sara Netanyahu: Israeli party leader.'”
Read more: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/iranian-press-tv-bennett-and-sarah-netanyahu-were-army-buddies/2013/01/17/
Breitbart reports about Chuck Hagel.
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) infamously said: "I'm not an Israeli senator. I'm a United States senator." But Hagel, who is President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense in his second term, does take Israel very seriously--so seriously that he was chosen to address the first national conference of J Street, the far-left, George Soros-funded organization that lobbies Congress and the administration to get tougher on Israel.
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/16/Hagel-The-Senator-from-J-Street
After FreeBeacon and the Jewish Press reported about NYT columnist Nicholas Kristoff retweeting a MJ Rosenberg tweet which called AIPAC and the NRA the two most pig like lobbies, I thought the journalist would delete the retweet from his twitter account. As of now, it hasn't been deleted.
I found a retweet from J Street on Mr. Kristoff's blog, "J Street concludes "Smear a Bagel, Not Chuck Hagel" campaign by delivering bagels & a donation to local food bank."
Since he likes rhymes, how about this one?
To: the NYT editor
Re: retweet of Nicholas Kristoff
We are thoroughly _________ off.
Now the Iranian Press TV, God bless their hearts, have picked up this story and delivered it with a straight face: “I was in terrorism class with Sara Netanyahu: Israeli party leader.'”
Read more: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/iranian-press-tv-bennett-and-sarah-netanyahu-were-army-buddies/2013/01/17/
Breitbart reports about Chuck Hagel.
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) infamously said: "I'm not an Israeli senator. I'm a United States senator." But Hagel, who is President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense in his second term, does take Israel very seriously--so seriously that he was chosen to address the first national conference of J Street, the far-left, George Soros-funded organization that lobbies Congress and the administration to get tougher on Israel.
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/16/Hagel-The-Senator-from-J-Street
After FreeBeacon and the Jewish Press reported about NYT columnist Nicholas Kristoff retweeting a MJ Rosenberg tweet which called AIPAC and the NRA the two most pig like lobbies, I thought the journalist would delete the retweet from his twitter account. As of now, it hasn't been deleted.
I found a retweet from J Street on Mr. Kristoff's blog, "J Street concludes "Smear a Bagel, Not Chuck Hagel" campaign by delivering bagels & a donation to local food bank."
Since he likes rhymes, how about this one?
To: the NYT editor
Re: retweet of Nicholas Kristoff
We are thoroughly _________ off.
Retweeting
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is facing criticism after retweeting a controversial message that referred to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the National Rifle Association as “the 2 most pig like lobbies” in America.
Longtime Israel critic M.J. Rosenberg, who was dumped by the liberal Media Matters for America for his use of borderline anti-Semitic language, authored the controversial tweet Wednesday afternoon. It called to mind recently unearthed statements by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that referred to Jews as “pigs.”
“OBAMA told the 2 most pig like lobbies, AIPAC ; NRA, to drop dead in same month. Next: Chamber of Commerce,” Rosenberg wrote.
The missive was then retweeted by Kristof and a slew of others.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/nick-kristofs-piggishness/
Longtime Israel critic M.J. Rosenberg, who was dumped by the liberal Media Matters for America for his use of borderline anti-Semitic language, authored the controversial tweet Wednesday afternoon. It called to mind recently unearthed statements by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that referred to Jews as “pigs.”
“OBAMA told the 2 most pig like lobbies, AIPAC ; NRA, to drop dead in same month. Next: Chamber of Commerce,” Rosenberg wrote.
The missive was then retweeted by Kristof and a slew of others.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/nick-kristofs-piggishness/
16 Jan 2013
Questions at the State Department Briefing
Click here to read Morsi Claims ‘Descendents of Apes and Pigs’ Remark Is Out of Context — As New Vid of Him Slamming Obama Surfaces and to see video.
Spokesperson Victoria Nuland was asked a number of questions regarding Israel yesterday. Below is an excerpt from the State Department Briefing.
QUESTION: Egypt? I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about these comments that President Morsi made before he was President that were strident, shall we say, and vitriolic against Israel and Jews and even the U.S. President Obama. One, what do you think of them, and two, are these the words – as a leader who says something like this, can you really, honestly expect him to uphold the peace agreement with people that he describes as the descendents of pigs and apes?
MS. NULAND: Well, we obviously strongly condemn the remarks attributed to then Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi in 2010. The language that we’ve seen is deeply offensive; we completely reject these statements as we do any language that espouses religious hatred.
This kind of rhetoric has been used in this region for far too long; it’s counter to the goals of peace. And we want to see President Morsi make absolutely clear to his own people, to the international community, that he respects people of all faiths, and that this type of rhetoric is not acceptable or productive in a democratic Egypt from its President. So we are obviously raising our concerns with the Egyptian Government.
What I would say is that since he has been President, President Morsi has reaffirmed again and again Egypt’s commitment to the peace treaty, to working with, in both word and deed, he’s been willing to work with us and Israel on shared objectives, including the ceasefire in Gaza. He’s been committed to our bilateral relationship, so that is the basis on which we are continuing to work together going forward.
QUESTION: As you know, Israel is refusing – threatened to refuse to submit its Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights to the Human Rights Council. I’m wondering how strongly you think that this is a bad idea. What have you been telling the Israelis about it? And do you think that they should participate, even though the council – you have problems with the council, and they have serious problems with the council?
MS. NULAND: Matt’s referring to the fact that in the Human Rights Council, all states are reviewed every four years. The U.S. submits to these kinds of reviews as well. We think it’s important for all UN member-states to appear for their own Universal Periodic Review. Frankly, this is an opportunity for that member-state once every four years to report on its own views of the human rights situation inside of its country and to receive nonbinding, expert advice and recommendations on how to improve those conditions. We do it; we find it useful to us.
That said, we’ve also consistently registered our opposition to the council’s consistent anti-Israel bias. It doesn’t serve the interests of the council to single out any one country in an unbalanced manner. But nonetheless, we think it’s in Israel’s interest. Obviously, they’ll decide their own interest. But we think that Israel, like all countries, serves itself by coming and appearing.
QUESTION: You’re not suggesting that the Human Rights Council has been biased against Israel, are you?
MS. NULAND: Yeah. We do. We are. (Laughter.) We are, as we have consistently said. We have always been clear that we consider that the disproportionate and biased opposition to Israel within the Human Rights Council further politicizes that body and doesn’t serve the interests of the Human Rights Council. We’ve said that all along. As you know, almost every year we have to take issue with something that comes up in the Human Rights Council with regard to Israel.
QUESTION: So why – if you feel that way, what is the value of doing that, or asking Israel to appear before the council and submit a report?
MS. NULAND: I think I just went through this; that they’re going to do a report on every country once every four years. That country serves itself better by appearing and making its own case than being silent and letting this go forward without them. That’s our view.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2013/01/202846.htm
Spokesperson Victoria Nuland was asked a number of questions regarding Israel yesterday. Below is an excerpt from the State Department Briefing.
QUESTION: Egypt? I’m wondering if you have any thoughts about these comments that President Morsi made before he was President that were strident, shall we say, and vitriolic against Israel and Jews and even the U.S. President Obama. One, what do you think of them, and two, are these the words – as a leader who says something like this, can you really, honestly expect him to uphold the peace agreement with people that he describes as the descendents of pigs and apes?
MS. NULAND: Well, we obviously strongly condemn the remarks attributed to then Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi in 2010. The language that we’ve seen is deeply offensive; we completely reject these statements as we do any language that espouses religious hatred.
This kind of rhetoric has been used in this region for far too long; it’s counter to the goals of peace. And we want to see President Morsi make absolutely clear to his own people, to the international community, that he respects people of all faiths, and that this type of rhetoric is not acceptable or productive in a democratic Egypt from its President. So we are obviously raising our concerns with the Egyptian Government.
What I would say is that since he has been President, President Morsi has reaffirmed again and again Egypt’s commitment to the peace treaty, to working with, in both word and deed, he’s been willing to work with us and Israel on shared objectives, including the ceasefire in Gaza. He’s been committed to our bilateral relationship, so that is the basis on which we are continuing to work together going forward.
QUESTION: As you know, Israel is refusing – threatened to refuse to submit its Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights to the Human Rights Council. I’m wondering how strongly you think that this is a bad idea. What have you been telling the Israelis about it? And do you think that they should participate, even though the council – you have problems with the council, and they have serious problems with the council?
MS. NULAND: Matt’s referring to the fact that in the Human Rights Council, all states are reviewed every four years. The U.S. submits to these kinds of reviews as well. We think it’s important for all UN member-states to appear for their own Universal Periodic Review. Frankly, this is an opportunity for that member-state once every four years to report on its own views of the human rights situation inside of its country and to receive nonbinding, expert advice and recommendations on how to improve those conditions. We do it; we find it useful to us.
That said, we’ve also consistently registered our opposition to the council’s consistent anti-Israel bias. It doesn’t serve the interests of the council to single out any one country in an unbalanced manner. But nonetheless, we think it’s in Israel’s interest. Obviously, they’ll decide their own interest. But we think that Israel, like all countries, serves itself by coming and appearing.
QUESTION: You’re not suggesting that the Human Rights Council has been biased against Israel, are you?
MS. NULAND: Yeah. We do. We are. (Laughter.) We are, as we have consistently said. We have always been clear that we consider that the disproportionate and biased opposition to Israel within the Human Rights Council further politicizes that body and doesn’t serve the interests of the Human Rights Council. We’ve said that all along. As you know, almost every year we have to take issue with something that comes up in the Human Rights Council with regard to Israel.
QUESTION: So why – if you feel that way, what is the value of doing that, or asking Israel to appear before the council and submit a report?
MS. NULAND: I think I just went through this; that they’re going to do a report on every country once every four years. That country serves itself better by appearing and making its own case than being silent and letting this go forward without them. That’s our view.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2013/01/202846.htm
Acknowledging G-d
Devarim 1:
טז וָאֲצַוֶּה, אֶת-שֹׁפְטֵיכֶם, בָּעֵת הַהִוא, לֵאמֹר: שָׁמֹעַ בֵּין-אֲחֵיכֶם וּשְׁפַטְתֶּם צֶדֶק, בֵּין-אִישׁ וּבֵין-אָחִיו וּבֵין גֵּרוֹ. יז לֹא-תַכִּירוּ פָנִים בַּמִּשְׁפָּט, כַּקָּטֹן כַּגָּדֹל תִּשְׁמָעוּן--לֹא תָגוּרוּ מִפְּנֵי-אִישׁ, כִּי הַמִּשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹהִים הוּא; וְהַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר יִקְשֶׁה מִכֶּם, תַּקְרִבוּן אֵלַי וּשְׁמַעְתִּיו.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.'
Mike Cason reports on the swearing in of Judge Roy Moore on January 11th.
In a ceremony heavy on references to God and scripture, Roy Moore took the oath of office today as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
...An overflow crowd attended the investiture ceremony at the state judicial building to see Moore return to the office roughly nine years after he was removed for his refusal to follow a federal judge’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument that Moore had placed in the state judicial building. Moore has said that order was wrong.
He did not mention the controversy during today’s speech. He did quote George Washington from an inaugural address on the subject of acknowledging God. "It was right then to acknowledge God. And it will continue to be so," Moore said. He also said the foundation of the judicial system was laid in Deuteronomy 1:16-17. "We've got to remember that most of what we do in court comes from some scripture or is backed by scripture," Moore said.
Read more: http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2013/01/ten_commandment_judge_returns.html
טז וָאֲצַוֶּה, אֶת-שֹׁפְטֵיכֶם, בָּעֵת הַהִוא, לֵאמֹר: שָׁמֹעַ בֵּין-אֲחֵיכֶם וּשְׁפַטְתֶּם צֶדֶק, בֵּין-אִישׁ וּבֵין-אָחִיו וּבֵין גֵּרוֹ. יז לֹא-תַכִּירוּ פָנִים בַּמִּשְׁפָּט, כַּקָּטֹן כַּגָּדֹל תִּשְׁמָעוּן--לֹא תָגוּרוּ מִפְּנֵי-אִישׁ, כִּי הַמִּשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹהִים הוּא; וְהַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר יִקְשֶׁה מִכֶּם, תַּקְרִבוּן אֵלַי וּשְׁמַעְתִּיו.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.'
Mike Cason reports on the swearing in of Judge Roy Moore on January 11th.
In a ceremony heavy on references to God and scripture, Roy Moore took the oath of office today as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
...An overflow crowd attended the investiture ceremony at the state judicial building to see Moore return to the office roughly nine years after he was removed for his refusal to follow a federal judge’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument that Moore had placed in the state judicial building. Moore has said that order was wrong.
He did not mention the controversy during today’s speech. He did quote George Washington from an inaugural address on the subject of acknowledging God. "It was right then to acknowledge God. And it will continue to be so," Moore said. He also said the foundation of the judicial system was laid in Deuteronomy 1:16-17. "We've got to remember that most of what we do in court comes from some scripture or is backed by scripture," Moore said.
Read more: http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2013/01/ten_commandment_judge_returns.html
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