Dad Saw Text on Son’s Phone Reminding Him to Complete Islam Assignment. Then He Opened Up the Textbook…
Real Clear Politics has a video of Jonathan Karl asking White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest about President Obama's remarks regarding the shooting at the kosher deli in Paris.
JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: Well, back to the question Jim was asking about his description of the shooting at the kosher deli in Paris as being a bunch of -- "randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris." I mean, this was not a random shooting of a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris. This was an attack on a kosher deli. Does the president have any doubt that those terrorists attacked that deli because there would be Jews in that deli?
JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: Jon, it is clear from the terrorists, some of the writings they put up afterwards what their motivation was. The adverb that the president chose was used to indicate that the individuals who were killed in there terrible tragic incident were killed not because of who they were, but because of where they randomly happened to be.
KARL: They weren't killed because they were in a Jewish deli, though, they were in a kosher deli?
EARNEST: Jon, they were not targeted by name. This is the point.
KARL: Not by name but by religion, were they not?
EARNEST: Well, Jon, there were people other than just Jews who were in that deli.
KARL: Is there any doubt that that deli was attacked because it was a kosher deli?
EARNEST: No, Jon.
KARL: This was not any random deli, it was a kosher deli.
EARNEST: I answered the question once, no.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/02/10/earnest_when_obama_said_attack_on_jewish_deli_was_random_he_was_talking_about_location_not_victims.html
State Dept. spox refuses to say Jews were targeted during kosher deli attack…then tweets this hours later
In the same briefing, Ms. Psaki was asked the following question.
QUESTION: All right. Secondly, there was a report yesterday about a group of people – Arab-Israeli mayors or Arab-Israeli officials – who are actively promoting the “Anyone but Netanyahu” campaign or involved in it somehow, who were given some kind of a special audience at the consulate and is it – what can you say about that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I’ve seen the reports. The article is filled with inaccuracies. We are firmly committed to the principle of nonintervention in Israeli elections. The details on this particular case – or the accurate details, I should say, are that some of the members of this group were coming to the embassy to receive their visas, something that we do on a regular basis. While they were at the embassy, they had a courtesy meeting with some embassy staff members. That kind of meeting is very common for community leaders like mayors as part of normal, ongoing embassy efforts to engage with the widest variety – widest range, I should say, of Israelis possible.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/02/237365.htm#MIDDLEEASTPEACE
11 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015
The scheme of things
Dovid Winiarz – My Brother, My Keeper
Overcoming NIMBY
Parashat Mishpatim: The Greater Scheme Of Things
The JewishPress has an article describing J Street's anti-Netanyahu ad, "No, Mr. Netanyahu, You Do Not Speak For Me."
Comments posted under the article include;
"You J Street's Ben-Ami don't speak for me! I am proud to be a Netanyahu supporter who protects each and every Jew even you!"
No J Street and Jeremy Ben-Ami you do not speak for me.
As J Street links to a petition, would anyone care to start a petition, J Street doesn't speak for me?
IsraelMatzav details some more of Brian William's words over the past few years. At least we can trust him with the truth in the opening words of the interview below;
Overcoming NIMBY
Parashat Mishpatim: The Greater Scheme Of Things
The JewishPress has an article describing J Street's anti-Netanyahu ad, "No, Mr. Netanyahu, You Do Not Speak For Me."
Comments posted under the article include;
"You J Street's Ben-Ami don't speak for me! I am proud to be a Netanyahu supporter who protects each and every Jew even you!"
No J Street and Jeremy Ben-Ami you do not speak for me.
As J Street links to a petition, would anyone care to start a petition, J Street doesn't speak for me?
IsraelMatzav details some more of Brian William's words over the past few years. At least we can trust him with the truth in the opening words of the interview below;
30 Jan 2015
Az Yashir
A relative told me an interesting item she read in the Koren siddur about Az Yashir, the song written in this week's parsha. If you look how it is written in the parsha, there is an arrangement of words similar to blocks.
The words, " הים ובני ישראל הלכו ביבשה בתוך הים" are written in the last line of the shir as such. - Fascinating!
Parshas B'Shalach - Destroying Amalek In Our Times
After receiving a volley of outraged complaints from viewers, the BBC has announced an internal investigation into a reporter who offensively phrased a question to a Jewish woman interviewee in the wake of the terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris earlier this month.
Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/29/bbc-to-investigate-reporter-over-antisemitic-comment-during-live-broadcast-from-paris-anti-terror-rally/
One of Britain’s best loved actresses has admitted that she is contemplating leaving the country amid a sharp rise in antisemitic attacks against the UK’s Jewish community.
...“When the going gets tough, the Jews get packing,” Lipman said.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/29/leading-british-jewish-actress-says-antisemitism-may-drive-her-to-leave-uk/
The face of evil (Beshalach, Covenant and Conversation 5775 on Ethics)
The words, " הים ובני ישראל הלכו ביבשה בתוך הים" are written in the last line of the shir as such. - Fascinating!
Parshas B'Shalach - Destroying Amalek In Our Times
After receiving a volley of outraged complaints from viewers, the BBC has announced an internal investigation into a reporter who offensively phrased a question to a Jewish woman interviewee in the wake of the terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris earlier this month.
Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/29/bbc-to-investigate-reporter-over-antisemitic-comment-during-live-broadcast-from-paris-anti-terror-rally/
One of Britain’s best loved actresses has admitted that she is contemplating leaving the country amid a sharp rise in antisemitic attacks against the UK’s Jewish community.
...“When the going gets tough, the Jews get packing,” Lipman said.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/29/leading-british-jewish-actress-says-antisemitism-may-drive-her-to-leave-uk/
The face of evil (Beshalach, Covenant and Conversation 5775 on Ethics)
29 Jan 2015
On behalf of others
Outsourcing Israel’s Security to Peacekeepers
I am currently reading a book called "Noa's Strength" written by Boruch Sikirsky about a woman who was stricken wth cancer who faced major medical from her youth. She pursued a medical career and got married, while confronting prolonged illness. Her husband relates a diary entry he found his wife had written during the period of her engagement in which she accepts upon herself certain things she wished to perform in preparation for her wedding.
She asks Hashem to help her succeed.
1. To give one shekel ad day on behalf of ..... and all the other Jews who are ill.
2. To say Shir Hashirim at least once a week... on behalf of all the Jewish men and woùen who are hoping for a good and appropriate shidduch from Hashem......
I must say I am inspired by reading details of her life.
I am currently reading a book called "Noa's Strength" written by Boruch Sikirsky about a woman who was stricken wth cancer who faced major medical from her youth. She pursued a medical career and got married, while confronting prolonged illness. Her husband relates a diary entry he found his wife had written during the period of her engagement in which she accepts upon herself certain things she wished to perform in preparation for her wedding.
She asks Hashem to help her succeed.
1. To give one shekel ad day on behalf of ..... and all the other Jews who are ill.
2. To say Shir Hashirim at least once a week... on behalf of all the Jewish men and woùen who are hoping for a good and appropriate shidduch from Hashem......
I must say I am inspired by reading details of her life.
A syllogism - a logical corollary
During the daily White House press briefing on Wednesday, Deputy Spokesman Eric Schultz had an exchange with ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl where he declined to label the Taliban not as a terrorist organization but instead as “an armed insurgency.”
Continue reading: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/networks-fail-cover-wh-spokesman-refusing-call-taliban-terrorist-organization
William Jacobson writes, "On Tuesday night, January 27, 2015, I spoke at the Rochester (NY) Jewish Community Center on the topic of Boycotting Israel – The insidious threat of the BDS movement."
Click here to listen to his lecture.
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki was queried by reporters about the attack on two Israeli soldiers yesterday.
QUESTION: You began your comments on this by reaffirming your belief that Israel has the right to self-defense, and then – which might be taken as that they have a right to defend against attacks like the one that killed the two soldiers, and now you say, however, that you encourage all sides to refrain from any actions that could escalate the situation. Which is it? I mean, do you feel that the Israelis should not take any actions that would escalate the situation, or do you feel that they have every right to attack in self-defense against such things?
QUESTION: Right. But there’s a problem, because if – because if you say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but then you say that you want all sides to refrain from any action that could escalate the situation, and you believe that the Israeli retaliation is escalatory, then you’re saying that you don’t think Israel should defend itself.
MS. PSAKI: I don’t think I said that, Matt. I said --
QUESTION: No, I am – it’s a syllogism. It’s a logical corollary.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/01/236853.htm
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a memo advising staff not to address any students as “Mr., Mrs. or Ms.” beginning this spring because some could find it disrespectful.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397296/cuny-dont-call-students-mr-mrs-or-ms-because-thats-maybe-disrespectful-katherine?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=dDkHZu&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter#%21dDkHZu
Continue reading: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/networks-fail-cover-wh-spokesman-refusing-call-taliban-terrorist-organization
William Jacobson writes, "On Tuesday night, January 27, 2015, I spoke at the Rochester (NY) Jewish Community Center on the topic of Boycotting Israel – The insidious threat of the BDS movement."
Click here to listen to his lecture.
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki was queried by reporters about the attack on two Israeli soldiers yesterday.
QUESTION: You began your comments on this by reaffirming your belief that Israel has the right to self-defense, and then – which might be taken as that they have a right to defend against attacks like the one that killed the two soldiers, and now you say, however, that you encourage all sides to refrain from any actions that could escalate the situation. Which is it? I mean, do you feel that the Israelis should not take any actions that would escalate the situation, or do you feel that they have every right to attack in self-defense against such things?
QUESTION: Right. But there’s a problem, because if – because if you say that Israel has the right to defend itself, but then you say that you want all sides to refrain from any action that could escalate the situation, and you believe that the Israeli retaliation is escalatory, then you’re saying that you don’t think Israel should defend itself.
MS. PSAKI: I don’t think I said that, Matt. I said --
QUESTION: No, I am – it’s a syllogism. It’s a logical corollary.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/01/236853.htm
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a memo advising staff not to address any students as “Mr., Mrs. or Ms.” beginning this spring because some could find it disrespectful.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397296/cuny-dont-call-students-mr-mrs-or-ms-because-thats-maybe-disrespectful-katherine?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=dDkHZu&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter#%21dDkHZu
28 Jan 2015
The actual world
KRAUTHAMMER: EUROPE HAS LOST ITS SHAME TOWARDS ITS ANTI-SEMITISM
Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch belonged to a student group that brought Jew-hating Palestinian terrorists to Harvard Law School every year she was a member.
Continue reading: http://gotnews.com/loretta-lynch-belonged-jew-hating-pro-terrorist-harvard-group/
A blogger at the Dish writes the reasons for stopping to blog.
The second is that I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger, and although it’s been a joy and a privilege to have helped pioneer a genuinely new form of writing, I yearn for other, older forms. I want to read again, slowly, carefully. I want to absorb a difficult book and walk around in my own thoughts with it for a while. I want to have an idea and let it slowly take shape, rather than be instantly blogged. I want to write long essays that can answer more deeply and subtly the many questions that the Dish years have presented to me. I want to write a book.
I want to spend some real time with my parents, while I still have them, with my husband, who is too often a ‘blog-widow’, my sister and brother, my niece and nephews, and rekindle the friendships that I have simply had to let wither because I’m always tied to the blog. And I want to stay healthy.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/28/a-note-to-my-readers/
Drink beer to ward off Alzheimer's: study
Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch belonged to a student group that brought Jew-hating Palestinian terrorists to Harvard Law School every year she was a member.
Continue reading: http://gotnews.com/loretta-lynch-belonged-jew-hating-pro-terrorist-harvard-group/
A blogger at the Dish writes the reasons for stopping to blog.
The second is that I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger, and although it’s been a joy and a privilege to have helped pioneer a genuinely new form of writing, I yearn for other, older forms. I want to read again, slowly, carefully. I want to absorb a difficult book and walk around in my own thoughts with it for a while. I want to have an idea and let it slowly take shape, rather than be instantly blogged. I want to write long essays that can answer more deeply and subtly the many questions that the Dish years have presented to me. I want to write a book.
I want to spend some real time with my parents, while I still have them, with my husband, who is too often a ‘blog-widow’, my sister and brother, my niece and nephews, and rekindle the friendships that I have simply had to let wither because I’m always tied to the blog. And I want to stay healthy.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/28/a-note-to-my-readers/
Drink beer to ward off Alzheimer's: study
Old and new
Anti-Semitism, Old and New
GotNews reports BUSTED: Obama Advisor Working To Defeat Nethanyahu Worked For Israel Hater
Britain’s Prince Charles, in a speech on Tuesday at a London memorial service, described the Holocaust as a lesson to all faiths and a means to help respond to turmoil in the Middle East.
70 years later, at Holocaust memorial events, what is it with speakers trying to universalize the victims?
Prince Charles and State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki opine below about the cataclysmic event.
Prince Charles
“[International] Holocaust Memorial Day is not just a memorial to those six million innocent Jewish men, women and children – it is also universal because the Jews in this story represent all of us,” he said. “That is why the Holocaust is not just a Jewish tragedy, nor merely a dark page from the Second World War, but a warning and a lesson to all of us of all faiths in all times.” http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/27/prince-charles-says-the-holocaust-is-a-warning-and-lesson-for-all-faiths-video/
Jen Psaki speaking at yesterday's State Deparment briefing
Today, we also mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 by the Soviet Army. As we face a global rise in anti-Semitism, it is more important than ever to remember these terrible death camps the Nazis created in order to wipe an entire race of people – men, women, and children – from the face of the Earth. They systematically swept up not only Jews, but millions of other innocents because of race, sexual orientation, disability, or political beliefs. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the United States joins many others in paying tribute to the millions of victims who lost their lives under the Nazi regime. We also honor those who survived but still carry its lasting scars and burdens. We owe it to these people to never forget what can happen when hatred is allowed to flourish unchecked.
On Monday and Tuesday, a journalist is met with obfuscation when asked a question about beheading during the State Department briefings.
QUESTION: Oh, well, can I then – if we’re on Saudi for the moment, is there an answer to my question from yesterday about whether the United States regards beheading as a form of capital punishment to be a human rights abuse?
MS. PSAKI: I don’t have anything new to offer. I don’t know if you had chance to look at the Human Rights Reports from the past. You said you may.
QUESTION: I will confess that I did not. Is there a section on beheading?
MS. PSAKI: There’s a lot going on in the world.
We don’t make concessions to terrorists
Getting back to the Bergdahl comparison, I mean, doesn’t it strike you as a little bit hypocritical that – for the U.S. Government to say it’s all right for us to make concessions in order to get one of our guys back, but we discourage other governments from doing the same thing?
Ms. Psaki also talks about UNWRA.
Well, let me first say the United States remains a steadfast supporter of UNRWA, which we believe plays an indispensable role in the region, particularly in Gaza.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/01/236800.htm
GotNews reports BUSTED: Obama Advisor Working To Defeat Nethanyahu Worked For Israel Hater
Britain’s Prince Charles, in a speech on Tuesday at a London memorial service, described the Holocaust as a lesson to all faiths and a means to help respond to turmoil in the Middle East.
70 years later, at Holocaust memorial events, what is it with speakers trying to universalize the victims?
Prince Charles and State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki opine below about the cataclysmic event.
Prince Charles
“[International] Holocaust Memorial Day is not just a memorial to those six million innocent Jewish men, women and children – it is also universal because the Jews in this story represent all of us,” he said. “That is why the Holocaust is not just a Jewish tragedy, nor merely a dark page from the Second World War, but a warning and a lesson to all of us of all faiths in all times.” http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/27/prince-charles-says-the-holocaust-is-a-warning-and-lesson-for-all-faiths-video/
Jen Psaki speaking at yesterday's State Deparment briefing
Today, we also mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 by the Soviet Army. As we face a global rise in anti-Semitism, it is more important than ever to remember these terrible death camps the Nazis created in order to wipe an entire race of people – men, women, and children – from the face of the Earth. They systematically swept up not only Jews, but millions of other innocents because of race, sexual orientation, disability, or political beliefs. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the United States joins many others in paying tribute to the millions of victims who lost their lives under the Nazi regime. We also honor those who survived but still carry its lasting scars and burdens. We owe it to these people to never forget what can happen when hatred is allowed to flourish unchecked.
On Monday and Tuesday, a journalist is met with obfuscation when asked a question about beheading during the State Department briefings.
QUESTION: Oh, well, can I then – if we’re on Saudi for the moment, is there an answer to my question from yesterday about whether the United States regards beheading as a form of capital punishment to be a human rights abuse?
MS. PSAKI: I don’t have anything new to offer. I don’t know if you had chance to look at the Human Rights Reports from the past. You said you may.
QUESTION: I will confess that I did not. Is there a section on beheading?
MS. PSAKI: There’s a lot going on in the world.
We don’t make concessions to terrorists
Getting back to the Bergdahl comparison, I mean, doesn’t it strike you as a little bit hypocritical that – for the U.S. Government to say it’s all right for us to make concessions in order to get one of our guys back, but we discourage other governments from doing the same thing?
Ms. Psaki also talks about UNWRA.
Well, let me first say the United States remains a steadfast supporter of UNRWA, which we believe plays an indispensable role in the region, particularly in Gaza.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2015/01/236800.htm
27 Jan 2015
The invitee
The BBC has been accused of "race-baiting" for inviting radical anti-Israel MP George Galloway to appear at a high-profile show hosted in Finchley and Golders Green, which is home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the UK.
Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190579#.VMfmppVATIU
The New York Times Reports the ‘Ordinary Life’ of a Palestinian Terrorist
Filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza pens pro-Netanyahu tweets such as "Liberal apoplexy over Boehner's speaking invitation to Netanyahu confirms what a great idea it was!" while Jeffrey Goldberg authors a piece titled The Netanyahu Disaster.
Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/190579#.VMfmppVATIU
The New York Times Reports the ‘Ordinary Life’ of a Palestinian Terrorist
Filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza pens pro-Netanyahu tweets such as "Liberal apoplexy over Boehner's speaking invitation to Netanyahu confirms what a great idea it was!" while Jeffrey Goldberg authors a piece titled The Netanyahu Disaster.
Parshat Beshalach
A reminder - Tuesday: Reb Mendel M’Riminov’s Segulah for Parnassah; Parshas Ha’mon
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Survivors Return to Mark Anniversary
The number of anti-Semitic acts doubled in France during 2014, with acts involving physical violence leading the increase, the country's main Jewish group said on Tuesday.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/anti-semitic-acts-france-doubled-2014-jewish-group-081538932.html
How to Process Sudden Death
Jonathan Tobin writes about J Street over here.
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Survivors Return to Mark Anniversary
The number of anti-Semitic acts doubled in France during 2014, with acts involving physical violence leading the increase, the country's main Jewish group said on Tuesday.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/anti-semitic-acts-france-doubled-2014-jewish-group-081538932.html
How to Process Sudden Death
Jonathan Tobin writes about J Street over here.
Segulah for Parnassah
Tuesday: Reb Mendel M’Riminov’s Segulah for Parnassah; Parshas Ha’mon
Last week many were quick to hail the United Nations conference on anti-Semitism as a hopeful step forward. The fact that just 37 of the 193 UN member states even bothered to send delegates should be demonstration enough of just how little many countries care about the modern-day revival of global Jew hatred.
Read more: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/01/25/delirium-anti-zionism/
After Krias Yam Suf the Bnei Yisroel arrived in Mara and had no water to drink because the water there was bitter. Hashem told Moshe to throw in a bitter tree and the water became sweet. After this incident the pasuk recaps and says "Sham Sam Lo Chok UMishpat VSham Nisahu"; in Mara Hashem gave them mitzvos and tested them. Why was it so important to test them?
The Netziv explains that the Torah is teaching us a valuable lesson for all generations about Bitachon and earning a living. Sometimes a person's finances come down to the last penny and it looks like he will have nothing to eat. The future looks bleak and there is no help in sight. Even then a person must be confident in Hashem that he will provide a way to support him. Hashem is "Kol Yachol" and His salvation can be provided from the most unexpected sources. Just like the bitter tree was the least expected solution to cure bitter water so too Hashem can bring your fortune from what appears to be the exact opposite, so don't ever lose hope. Hang tough, it is all just a test!
http://revach.net/tefila/article.php?id=1711
I was particularly saddened to learn of the petirah of Rabbi Shalom Arush's granddaughter this past weekend. May the rabbi, who has given so much comfort to thousands through his Emunah sefarim, find nechama, and may his son and family be comforted b'soch sha'ar availay Tzion v'Yerushalayim.
Last week many were quick to hail the United Nations conference on anti-Semitism as a hopeful step forward. The fact that just 37 of the 193 UN member states even bothered to send delegates should be demonstration enough of just how little many countries care about the modern-day revival of global Jew hatred.
Read more: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/01/25/delirium-anti-zionism/
After Krias Yam Suf the Bnei Yisroel arrived in Mara and had no water to drink because the water there was bitter. Hashem told Moshe to throw in a bitter tree and the water became sweet. After this incident the pasuk recaps and says "Sham Sam Lo Chok UMishpat VSham Nisahu"; in Mara Hashem gave them mitzvos and tested them. Why was it so important to test them?
The Netziv explains that the Torah is teaching us a valuable lesson for all generations about Bitachon and earning a living. Sometimes a person's finances come down to the last penny and it looks like he will have nothing to eat. The future looks bleak and there is no help in sight. Even then a person must be confident in Hashem that he will provide a way to support him. Hashem is "Kol Yachol" and His salvation can be provided from the most unexpected sources. Just like the bitter tree was the least expected solution to cure bitter water so too Hashem can bring your fortune from what appears to be the exact opposite, so don't ever lose hope. Hang tough, it is all just a test!
http://revach.net/tefila/article.php?id=1711
I was particularly saddened to learn of the petirah of Rabbi Shalom Arush's granddaughter this past weekend. May the rabbi, who has given so much comfort to thousands through his Emunah sefarim, find nechama, and may his son and family be comforted b'soch sha'ar availay Tzion v'Yerushalayim.
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