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012 A Voice From Tsiyon – We Will Survive by Jordan Chaviv

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012 A Voice From Tsiyon – We Will Survive

Jordan Chaviv is an extremely talented Judaen exile who has returned home to Eretz Yisrael in body and in spirit and he is worth knowing about. Jordan was born and raised in France, but after his father passed away when he was Bar Mitzvah age, his mother relocated his family to Montreal, Canada, in hopes of a better future. In his his late teens, Jordan began to get involved into music seriously and as each year went by he developed his talents and skills and portfolio further.

By the age of twenty four years old, Jordan Chaviv whose real name is Jordan Cohen, was burnt out, probably from lack of spiritual nourishment. He had everything else going for him, but just being a successful Judaen and making money and humanism and materialism was not nearly enough for his soul. One day, Jordan suddenly went to the one place on the planet that a Judaen exile can go to for healing, and that home to Eretz Yisrael.

Jordan found himself in Yerushalyim, the eternal Capital city of the the Tribes of Israel, where like many lost, Judaen exiles wandering the Middle Eastern Disney Land, it wasn’t too long that he found himself studying Torah in a Yeshiva and not too long thereafter keeping the Shabbat and other Judaic laws. It is fair to say that Jordan Chaviv became observant of Jewish law or in other words, a Ba’al Teshuva.

When the great Rabbis and the students of Yerushalyim heard Jordan’s voice singing words of Torah for the first times, there is no other way of putting it except that time stopped for many of them. Jordan was encouraged to sing and to perform and the rest is history.

Here is a video  / song by Jordan called We Will Survive. I like the song.

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The Third Temple in Jerusalem soon
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The Temple Mount

By Rabbi Meir Kahane, Zt”l

(from Uncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews, 1987)

israeli flag flying over masadaIt was the unforgettable, majestic, glorious day in June, 1967, as Jewish soldiers crashed through the walls of Jerusalem’s old city. Redeeming, reclaiming, liberating the ancient streets and alleyways; racing towards the Wall, scaling it and then – the electrifying words of the Commander, Motta Gur: “The Temple is in our hands! The Temple Mount is in our hands!”

There was not a Jewish heart that did not pound with a sense of Divine, historic moment. There was not a Jewish spine, so straight and proud after two millenia of being supine, that did not shiver in a sense of awe. There was not a Jew, though the most extreme of scoffers, who, at that moment, did not see G-d!

“The Temple Mount is in our hands!” Jerusalem of Gold, of holiness, of David; Zion, out of which the L-rd roared and uttered his voice. The Temple Mount, from which the trumpet the Holy One, Blessed Be He, blasted. “When our fee within thy gates, O Jerusalem” – we wept with tears of disbelief. For the Temple Mount was in our hands. . . “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the L-rd is round about people” – and we knew it to be true. For the Temple Mount in our hands. “Ye that stand in the courts of the House of G-d, praise the L-rd!” And we believed. For the Temple Mount in our hands!

Let me quote from a letter that appeared in the March 1979, issue of Maariv, Israel’s largest newspaper. It was written by a rabbinical student at Yeshivat Merkaz Harav and is obligatory reading for all those who, for Zion’s sake, will not be silent: “It was the Shabbat, when many Jews come to visit the Old City of Jerusalem. . . . Suddenly, after leaving one of the gates near the Temple Mount, the rioting began. Tens of Arabs, throwing stones and carrying knives and broken bottles, came at us. A storekeeper leaped upon me and I joined the others fleeing, as my hand bled profusely, eyeglasses left behind.

Beit Hamiqdash“How could it happen in the State of Israel today? Arab police are responsible for the safety of the East Jerusalem region. ‘Autonomy’ already exists when Arab police see Arabs throwing stones and nothing is done to arrest them. One who was arrested was a yeshiva student who kept calm and tried to help others. Before my very eyes, the police leaped upon him like wild beasts. This can serve to show us what we can expect in the future under `autonomy’… “

Jerusalem. Where in 1967, electric shocks of ecstasy, a national thrill of incredulity, swept the Jewish people throughout the world, as Israeli Jewish troops smashed into the Old City, sweeping terrified Arabs before them as chaff in the wind. Jerusalem, City of David, Jerusalem of the Temple Mount and Western Wall and Holy of Holies and Zion, was, once again, in Jewish hands – all of it, Jewish. By the tens of thousands Jews streamed through the alleyways of the Old City where just afew days before the Arabs had ruled and no Jew dared step. Now, the Arab – awed, shattered – groveled before the Jew whom he saw as being blessed by G-d and His miracles. Fear gripped the Arab in Jerusalem just as pride and confidence and certainty was the Jewish cloak in the wake of the awesome war of Six Days.

Jerusalem. Where, by 1986, less than 20 years later, Jews fear to go to the Wall by way of the Demascus Gate as Jews are stabbed and shot in the same marketplace and streets where a short time earlier they walked as Jewish giants on the earth. As night falls, only a handful of foolhardy Jews risk walking through what the Israelis allow to be called, still, the Moslem Quarter. No Harlem ever held greater fears for the Jew than parts of his own capital city. Nothing more underlines the obscenity of Jewish fears in their own capital than the picture report that appeared in the Jerusalem weekly, Kal Ha’Ir (August 4, 1984).

Three pictures; all taken in the Old City of Jerusalem. The first shows a hassidic Jew, surrounded by Arab youngsters, two of whom have snatched his hat from his head. The photo shows a policeman standing calmly by with obviously no intentions of intervening. He is, like the vast majority of police in the Old City, an Arab.

The second picture shows the Jew, watching helplessly as the Arabs taunt him. The Arab policeman has, by now, disappeared.

The third shows a large rock being thrown by an Arab youth at the Jew. It hit him in the head. Another day of Jewish pride in Jerusalem, Zion. The tragedy of Jewish glory turned into humiliation and fear by a Jewish policy that defies any normal logic and understanding.

Jerusalem, where the Jewish students on Mount Zion sign a petition of desperation, detailing not only sexual and criminal assaults on them by Arabs, but the cynical indifference and lack of any law enforcement by the local police – Arabs.

“We, the undersigned to this petition, are demanding security , for our lives and property. For the past ten years there have been ‘, thousands of incidents such as those outlined in this petition: Stabbings, rapes, attempted rapes, molestings, obscenities through indecent exposure, burglaries, vandalism. . . .” And the police do nothing. And Jerusalem becomes Arab autonomy. The tragedy of a Jewish policy that defies any normal logic and understanding.

A, Jewish policy? Say, rather a policy of Jews that was conceived in un-Jewishness and born in gentilized fear and timidity, a policy whose apex of humiliation is the desecration of Judaism’s holiest site – The Temple Mount. The very moment of glorious Jewish victory in 1967 was the beginning of a flight to shame.

It began immediately after the greatest Jewish victory and miracle in 2500 years. The terrified and cowering Arabs of East Jerusalem were approached by the Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Not enough that the Israeli government of 1967 committed the worst of mistakes by not driving out the Arabs who hated Israel and had tried to wipe her out. Not enough that in their fear of “world opinion,” of what the Vatican and Islam might say, orders were given by the Israeli army to the liberators of the Old City not to use artillery to shell Arab positions lest they damage a single holy Moslem and Christian place (and how many Jewish soldiers died because of that policy!). The fearful and timid leaders of Israel immediately approached the heads of the Moslem community to assure them that the Temple Mount – the holiest of holiest of Jewish places – would remain in their hands. Jews were forbidden to enter there to pray, on their holiest site, a site stolen from them by invading Moslems who desecrated Judaism by building two mosques there. (And can one imagine the reaction of Moslems if Jews, conquering Mecca, built, on the holiest site of Islam – a synagogue?)

When in 1967, on the Fast of Tisha B’Av, the national day of mourning for the Jews, the anniversary of the destruction of both Temples, Army Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren and 50 Jews went to pray on the Temple Mount. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan ordered the commander of the Central Command to prevent any further action that might incite the Moslems: “Honored Rabbi,” said the general, “if you will go up to the Mount again, I will be compelled to remove you by force.” The following day the Ministerial Committee in charge of the holy places met and unanimously forbade Jewish prayer that had been set for the following Shabbat. That was the beginning of a humiliating Jewish policy that stunned no one more than the Moslems who could not believe the manifestation of Jewish madness they had just seen.

From that day, the government of Israel, in a remarkable exhibition of masochism, has paved the way for a total change in Moslem attitude. From a frightened, cowering population, they turned into a confident, arrogant, dangerous one. From people who feared the Jewish conqueror, they became throwers of stones, knife stabbers, and grenade and bomb throwers. Most of all, the Temple Mount became once again theirs, this time returned to them by two-legged lemmings of the Mosaic persuasion – and they grow ever more passionately convinced that time is on their side.

The government, police, courts have all had a hand in the shameful, tragic Jewish descent into humiliation. Already on April 15,1969, responding to an order nisi against Police Minister Shlomo Hillel (who later went on to become Knesset Speaker), the State Attorney explained that Jews should not be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount because “premature prayer” (sic) there would raise grave security and international political problems. The years that followed saw police again and again forceably remove Jews attempting to pray on their holy site. Moslems watched in growing amazement, and growing arrogance and boldness, as the Jew who wished to enter as a tourist with camera and jeans was freely allowed access but the same son of Abraham entering with prayer shawl and prayer book was banned!

(In the years when American synagogues sold tickets for pews at High Holiday services, a rueful joke told of the Jew rushing up to the door without a ticket and telling the guard that he only wished to tell something to someone inside. Said the guard: “Fine, but if I catch you praying, I’ll throw you out.” The joke is alive and well today on the Temple Mount.)

Then, in 1976, a lower Jerusalem court, through Judge Ruth Or, ruled that Jews have a right to pray on the Temple Mount, but Police Chief Hillel blithely announced that he would continue to bar Jews. (This contempt for law is apparently endemic with Hillel as, nearly ten years later, in his capacity as Speaker of the Knesset, he announced that he would refuse to table certain bills by Knesset Member Meir Kahane, despite a High Court order to do so.)

The government hastily appealed the lower court order and on July 1, 1976, the Jerusalem District Court overruled Judge Or in a fascinating display of ghettoism. The court ruled that Jews who ‘ attempted to pray “demonstratively” (sic) on the Temple Mount were guilty of behavior “likely to cause a breach of the peace.” Jews had an unquestionable right to pray on the Temple Mount, but public order, ruled the court, overrules that right of prayer.

The decision was mindboggling, the product of thinking most Jews assumed had disappeared with the Warsaw Ghetto revolt. To state that Jews had a right to pray on their holiest site and then to declare that this should be prevented because of fear of Arab rioting, was a paean to the shtetl of Minsk, Pinsk or Casablanca. But not even this was enough for the Israeli government, which wished to remove the decision that Jews have a theoretical “right” to pray on the Temple Mount and an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court. Meantime, Interior Minister Dr. Joseph Burg (himself a leader of the National Religious Party) declared that “the law will be kept.” (Translation: Jews will not be allowed to pray on their holiest site.)

The astonished Arabs saw that the Jews, far from meting out to them the punishment they deserved and that they had given to the Jews when they ruled the Old City, were allowing them to retain all the power and authority that they would use later to demand total autonomy and independence. The Temple Mount served as the most glaring example of the fact that, despite Jewish protestations to the contrary, the land taken in 1967 was not liberated but “conquered.” The Jews had come not as returnees to their own borders, but as an occupation army. One who loses his property and then unexpectedly finds it does not allow it to remain in the possession of another. He leaps upon it joyfully and cries out: “It is mine!”

The Arabs correctly understood Jewish “concessions” to be the product, not of goodness and grace, but of timidity and fear. And so, from a cowering Arab, the Jews produced a sneering, openly hating, stick bearing, stone throwing, grenade tossing thing – a time bomb waiting to explode.

The newspapers described some of the events. In 1979, as a number of yeshiva students came up to the gate of the Temple Mount to pray (in front of and not on the Mount itself), they were showered with rocks. Soldiers hid behind cars because they had orders not to shoot, lest The New York Times and Time magazine feature them on their front pages. The head of the Central Command, General Moshe Levi, watched the mob. Levi, a member of the leftist Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz, was later to become Chief of Staff and won undying something-or-other with his statement during a speech in Tel Aviv (May 25, 1986): “To say that the Arabs are the enemy is simplistic and dangerous. For me the Arabs are not the enemy.” When the Jew excels, he outdoes all others-especially in madness.

I return to the newspaper account of the Arab riot in 1979: “‘Only in this state could such a picture emerge,”’ a police officer said angrily, yesterday, at the sight of the commander of the Central Command, Moshe Levi, and the head of the police central region, who entered the Temple Mount to meet face-to-face with angry Arab youths.

“The general walked over and asked them why they were holding sticks in their hands[!]. But during the entire conversation not one of them backed down and not one dropped his stick. ‘This is the real autonomy,’ muttered the same officer.”

Meanwhile, in 1980, the Knesset passed a new Jerusalem Law which declared in paragraph (3):

“The holy places shall be protected from any desecration or attack on anything likely to damage the rights of all members of religions to access to the holy places or their feelings concerning them.”

This paragraph which clearly – to all but those who would refuse to see – outlined the absolute right of Jews to access to their holy places, now seemed to guarantee that the High Supreme Court of Israel would order the government to allow Jews, on their holiest site, the same right of prayer that they allowed Moslems who had stolen the site. But no, the ghetto-shtetl syndrome remained part of the Israeli genetic code, proving once again that it is far easier to remove the Jew from the Exile than the Exile from within the Jew. On October 30, 1981, the High Court of Israel ruled on the issue. The following is the UPI wire service report:

“Jerusalem (UPI)–The Supreme Court today upheld the right of Israeli police to keep Jewish worshippers from praying on the Temple Mount because it creates a threat to public order, Israel radio said.”

A threat to public order. The Arabs might riot. Ah, if Meir Kahane were Prime Minister and the Arabs knew that the police had orders and full backing to use as much force as they desired to keep “public order” -is there one normal person who believes that there would be an Arab threat to public order?

Since then, the Arabs have systematically destroyed every vestige of Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, destroying valuable archeological evidence. A memorial to the Arabs killed at Sabra and Shatila is even placed on the Jewish holy site. The Temple Mount is on our hands!…

The lemmingism of the Israeli government is incredible! Who can count the ways? In February, 1985, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Sa’ad a-din Alamei, told the French news Agency:

“Any Moslem who will give up one inch of Palestinian land will lose without benefit of appeal, every attachment to Islam.”

The Mufti, by declaring a ban on any Moslem who sold land or houses to Jews, was clearly guilty of sedition against the Jewish state. On February 26, 1985, I wrote to the Chief of Police asking that criminal proceedings be opened against the Mufti and personally filed a criminal charge with the police commander of Jerusalem’s Old City. In my complaint I noted that if a Jew were to hand out flyers called on Jews not to buy from the Arabs of the Old City because they were enemies of Israel and pro-PLO, he would be arrested for sedition (indeed, a few months later, that is precisely what happened). On March 13, 1985, the office of the Chief of Police sent me the following reply:

“Your complaint has been investigated and it is clear that the material of the investigation does not indicate a criminal offense. Because of this, the police will not investigate the complaint.”

The successor to the other Mufti who in the twenties and thirties led pogroms against the Jews of the Holy Land and who in 1942 met with Hitler to discuss the “final solution” for the Jews there, should have been given a Nobel Prize for extraordinary ability to keep from bursting into hysterical laughter. And, indeed, the Moslem religious leader has good reason to believe that Jews are mentally limited.

When the PLO conference was held in Amman, Jordan, in November 1984, one of the telegrams sent to Arafat was from the Jerusalem Mufti. It read: “From Al-Aksa mosque (on the Temple Mount) we emphasize our support of your Council and renew our oath of loyalty to the man of struggle Yasir Arafat. . . . Continue forward on your path, we are with you.”

When the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel in January, 1986, called for a synagogue in the southeast part of the Temple Mount, Mufti Alamei declared: “Over the bodies of a million Moslems.”

The Israeli reaction? Timid and fearful silence, lest the Arabs, Moslems and world react. And so, a mentally unbalanced Jew, Alan Goodman, shoots and kills two Arabs on the Temple Mount declaring that he wishes to liberate the spot and “become king of the Jews.” Some thirteen years earlier, a Christian, Dennis Michael Rohan, set fire to the Al Aksa mosque. The Israeli court declared the Christian not criminally liable by reason of insanity. Yet Goodman, clearly unbalanced, received a life sentence plus two terms of 20 years. Once upon a time, in the Exile, the Jews would decide every major step by the proposition: What will the gentiles say? Then they created Israel, where Jews would be sovereign and free. . . . Laugh not, but rather weep for generations.

Jerusalem. Where the Palestinian autonomy and eventual state is being built. Jerusalem, which mirrors so much of the other desecration that fills the land. The Temple Mount is not in our hands. East Jerusalem is not in our hands. Judea and Samaria and Gaza and the Golan are not in our hands. The Biblical Eretz Yisrael which we liberated through G-d’s decree in 1967, is not in our hands.

“On Mount Zion which is desolate, there the foxes walk. . . (Lamentations 5).

The Temple Mount is in their hands, the foxes, the cunning Arab foxes. And the words of Motta Gur ring hollowly – and it is we who are to blame. We, who took a miracle and disdained it. We, who took holiness and profaned it. We, who were given a Zion, a Jerusalem, a Temple Mount – and gave it over to the jackal-foxes.

What we see today is a mini-renewal of Arab rioting, murder and pogrom of the twenties and thirties. Then, the Arab mobs surged into the streets shouting, “Addowlah ma’anah” (“The government is with us!”). They meant the British Mandatory occupation government. Today, the Arabs know that the Jewish “occupation” government, because of its fear of world opinion, has given strict orders to soldiers not to shoot. In that sense it has opened the door to Arab boldness and contempt and attacks on Jews. In that sense the Jewish government of occupation is also “with” them. The Arabs have smashed the dam of fear and it will spill over. If Jews are attacked on their way to the Wall, and if a Jew is seriously hurt, or, G-d forbid, murdered, and if the residents of the Jewish Quarter are in increasing danger-know that it is the Jews who are to blame.

He who controls the Temple Mount will control Jerusalem. And he who controls Jerusalem will control the Holy Land. And the desecration of the Land and of G-d is inconceivable. One shakes his head in utter incomprehensibility when reading the words uttered by Menachem Begin in 1977:

“If I become the Prime Minister, I will open the Temple Mount to Jews. I will not fear the reactions of the Christians and Moslems. ”

Begin became the Prime Minister. The Temple Mount is still in Arab hands.

Rabbi Meir Kahane on Jerusalem

It was the unforgettable, majestic, glorious day in June, 1967, as Jewish soldiers crashed through the walls of Jerusalem’s old city. Redeeming, reclaiming, liberating the ancient streets and alleyways; racing towards the Wall, scaling it and then – the electrifying words of the Commander, Motta Gur: “The Temple is in our hands! The Temple Mount is in our hands!”

Jerusalem of Gold, of holiness, of David ; Zion, out of which the L-rd roared and uttered His voice. The Temple Mount, from which the trumpet of the Holy One, Blessed Be He, blasted. “When our feet stood within thy gates, O Jerusalem” – we wept with tears of disbelief. For the Temple Mount was in our hands… “As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the L-rd is round about His people” – and we knew it to be true. For the Temple Mount was in our hands! “Ye that stand in the courts of the House of our G-d, praise the L-rd!” And we believed. For the Temple was in our hands.

The very moment of glorious Jewish victory in 1967 was the beginning of a flight to shame. Not enough that the Israeli government of 1967 committed the worst of mistakes by not driving out the Arabs who tried to wipe her out. The fearful and timid leaders of Israel immediately approached the heads of the Moslem community to assure them that the Temple Mount – the holiest of holiest of Jewish places – would remain in their hands. Jews were forbidden to enter there to pray, on their holiest site, a site stolen from them by invading Moslems who desecrated Judaism by building two mosques there. (And can one imagine the reaction of Moslems if Jews, conquering Mecca, built, on the holiest site of Islam – a synogogue?)

From that day, the government of Israel, in a remarkable display of masochism, has paved the way for a total change of Moslem attitude. From a frightened, cowering population, they turned into a confident, arrogant, dangerous one. From a people who feared the Jewish conqueror, they became throwers of stones. knife stabbers, and grenade and bomb throwers. Most of all, the Temple Mount became once again theirs, this time returned to them by two-legged lemmings of the Mosaic persuasion – and they grow ever more passionately convinced that time is on their side.

The government, police, courts have all had a hand in the shameful, tragic Jewish descent into humiliation. The years that followed saw police again and again forceably remove Jews attempting to pray on their holy site. Moslems watched in growing amazement, and growing arrogance and boldness, as the Jew who wished to enter as a tourist with camera and jeans was freely allowed access but the same son of Abraham entering with prayer shawl and prayer book was banned. The product of thinking most Jews assumed had disappeared with the Warsaw ghetto revolt.

The Temple Mount served as the most glaring example of the fact that, despite Jewish protestations to the contrary, the land taken in 1967 was not liberated but “conquered.” The Jews had come not as returnees to their own borders, but as an occupation army. One who loses property and then unexpectedly finds it, does not allow it to remain in the possession of another. He leaps upon it joyfully and cries out: “It is mine!”

The Arabs correctly understood Jewish “concessions” to be the product, not of goodness and grace, but of timidity and fear. The Arabs have systematically destroyed every vestige of Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, destroying valuable archeological evidence. A memorial to the Arabs killed at Sabra and Shatila is even placed on the Jewish holy site.

The Temple Mount is in our hands? When the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel in January, 1986, called for a synogogue in the southeast part of the Temple Mount, Mufti Alamei declared: “Over the bodies of a million Moslems.” The Temple Mount is not in our hands. “On Mount Zion which is desolate, there the foxes walk …” (Lamentations 5). The Temple Mount is in their hands, the foxes, the cunning Muslim foxes. The words of Motta Gur ring hollow – and it is we who are to blame. We, who took a miracle and disdained it. We, who took holiness and profaned it. We, who were given a Zion, a Jerusalem, a Temple Mount – and gave it over to the jackal-foxes. The Arabs have smashed the dam of fear and it will spill over. If Jews are attacked on their way to the Wall, and if a Jew is seriously hurt, or, G-d forbid, murdered, and if the residents of the Jewish Quarter are in increasing danger – know that it is the Jews to blame.

He who controls the Temple Mount controls Jerusalem. And he who controls Jerusalem controls the Holy Land…

011 Extremely in love with the One Above!

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Dov shurin

Dov shurin

Dov shurin


Extremely in love with the One Above!

If I had to describe Dov Shurin to you without the use of pictures or video, then imagine Chong, from the Hollywood movies Cheech and Chong, mixed with the Dalai Lama and an orthodox rabbi together with a bit of Mel Brooks thrown in, that is Dov Shurin to me.

Dov Shurin moved to Israel from America in 1984, and since his arrival to the Land of Israel he has been busy being an activist, a radio host, a musician, a Torah observant Hebrew, a husband, and a father of nine.  You may have seen Dov already on the front page of The Economist magazine in 1994 clutching an Uzi and a Torah atop a hill in the Judea and Samaria, or on the front page of the Jerusalem Post, walking with former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he toured the Jewish Quarter of Old Jerusalem.

I met Dov in 1991, while I walking through the Old City of Jerusalem one Summer day on my way to somewhere. Dressed in a Shtreimel and black coat Dov politely stopped me and half asked, half explained that he needed a tenth man for a minyan, which happened to be in his home nearby because he had his own sefer Torah and could I be that tenth man? It seemed like an “Alice in Wonderland, how deep does the rabbit’s hole go” kind of life moment. He seemed weird, but not sketchy or scary or sleazy. I didn’t get any sexual predator alarms going off in my head,  he just seemed “far out” in the 60′s kind of sense, which is why I agreed.

As it turned out, he had a table full of delicious food waiting, his wife doting on the kids who were running around like children do and one of the most interesting array of guests that could ever be assembled at a Shabbath table, which is  a story unto itself better left for another article. Dov’s nature is to sing and dance on Shabbath, intermixed with eating and drinking and talking Torah, and so frankly speaking it was an amazing Judaic experience. I had no idea who Dov Shurin was before that day but after that experience at his home I was convinced that Dov was someone.  The next time that I ran into Dov was years later in 1996, in downtown Jerusalem, where he had since situated himself and was still doing “his thang”, as they say.

Dov identifies with right wing opinions and wrote many of his songs in the spirit of fighting for Eretz Yisrael and the members of the Tribes of Israel’s right to return to all parts of it. The songs, such as “Halev Sheli B’Chevron” or “Zachreini Nah” were made during the period of terrorist attacks and the song “V’Lo Yintashu Od M”Al Admasam” was recorded during the period of disengagement debacle.

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Dov shurin

Dov shurin

010 Jewish Paramilitary Training in New York

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Kitat Kone’enut

By Joshua Andrews
Photos Kitat Konenut

Jewish Paramilitary Training Kitat Konenut is a new, New York based, Religious-Zionist organization of committed, young Jews who are devoted to defending their Jewish communities from antisemitic and terrorist attacks. The motto of the group is “Al ta’amod al dam re’echa” – Do not stand idly by while your brother’s blood is being spilled. Kitat Konenut in Hebrew means “readiness team”. That describes the nature of the group as all members are expected to be ready to be called up in case of an emergency at all times. Many of Kitat Konenut’s members are veterans of IDF combat units.

Kitat Konenut holds training camps in the summers where they teach things like Krav maga, Kung fu, Edged weapons training, Rifle training, Pistol training, Scoped Rifle and long range shooting. They also work on Endureance marches, Overnight wilderness hikes, Masa alunkot, 10-25 Kilometers, Histaarut, prat, kita and chulia, Identification of suspicious objects and how to deal with them. Kitat Konenut has held two successful training camps so far and this summer they plan to hold their third one and largest to date, since it’s membership has increased and activities have expanded. They claim that they now have an active Kita in Los Angeles and that other cities are in the planning stages.

This year’s training camp will include several new Mefakdim (commanders) who are all veterans of IDF combat units as well as several mid-level as well as higher ranked officers to provide lessons. The training this year will include urban warfare techniques, riot control, knife fighting, pepper spray, batons and other non lethal weapons use, fighting from a vehicle, counter terror techniques, identifying and dismantling IED’s, as well as intelligence techniques.

Jewish Paramilitary Training http://www.jewishmayhem.com There will be 2 Shabbatons which will include shiurim from Rav Chayim Shimon Wharman and other visiting rabbis. There will also be a lecture by an intelligence analyst working with the FBI and NSA to track and monitor Muslim terrorist groups in the United States. There will be discussions on relevant topics such as Zionism, Yishuv Eretz Yisrael, antisemitism, terrorist threats to America, assimilation, intermarriage, kiruv, the second amendment and many other topics.

Any Jew, male or female who is over 18 years old, physically fit and mentally sound, with no criminal record is elligible. Most campers will be between ages 18 and 26, but Jews of all ages are welcome to join. This will be Kitat Konenut ‘s second coed year. Sleeping quarters will be separate but all training will be coed. As the camp is religious, but Zionist in nature, campers are expected to behave in a manner of tzniut.

The cost of camp will be $400 per person. This will include all food, accommodation, gear and ammunition. To register please contact Zerach, the Mefaked Kita at zerach@kitatkonenutnewyork.org.

For more information log on to our website at www.kitatkonenutnewyork.org

*Note. Mefakdim will be periodically filming the training sessions through out camp. This is for future reference, community relations, and advertising of the activities of the Kita as well as to compare before and after shots of the training to see how campers have improved their fighting skills. If you for any reason do not want us to use your photos for our public relations please let us know and we will digitally blot out your face from all photos before uploading them on our website, publishing them in a brochure or sending them to anyone. If for any reason you categorically refuse to have your picture taken at camp despite our respecting your wish to not advertise your picture online then please do not bother coming to camp. This has caused a disturbance in the past and we do not wish to waste our time arguing with people over which pictures of the training to take or not take.

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009 The Last Prophet: Uncomfortable Questions For Comfortable Jews

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The Last Prophet 009 :

Rabbi Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir Kahane

Uncomfortable Questions

For

Comfortable Jews

By Rav. Meir Kahane
Written in 1988

“Defamation is the last refuge of frightened non-thinkers…Those who cannot respond…vilify.”

1. For nearly twenty centuries the Jewish people were without a homeland of their own and, thus enjoyed such minority “benefits” as Inquisitions, crusades, pogroms, and Auschwitz. FINALLY through G-D’s mercy, they have a land of their own, where they can determine their own fate and kept their own unique identity. But Israel is, of course a democracy, and you, as a good Jew, totally committed democracy, would never have it any other way…

Question: Do you, therefore think that Arab citizens of Israel have a right to peacefully and through coexistence, become a majority and, then, democratically, vote Israel out of existence as a Jewish state? The Arab birthrate is nearly three times higher than that of the Jews in Israel. The number of Jewish immigrants coming to Israel is at an all time low, while the many more Jews leaving the country for the west. (Note: Essentially, the Jewish population has only grown at the required rate because of immigration, while the Arab population has steadily grown because of a high Arab birthrate.) How many Arabs will there be in Israel in 10 years, in 20 years? How many will sit the Knesset? How many will sit on the committee on foreign affairs and security and listen to confidential reports from the Chief of staff on the Syrian threat? Perhaps the Chief of staff will be Arab? Why not, Democrat?

Question: The Declaration of Independence of Israel, of course, guarantees equal political rights for all its citizens, Jews and Arabs. This is democracy.
The Declaration of Independence of Israel guarantees that Israel shall always be a Jewish State. That is Zionism.
Under the first paragraph, of course, the Arabs have a right to democratically become a majority and create and Arab state just as Jews created a Jewish one in 1948. Under the second paragraph, of course, Jews have a right to prevent the Arabs from ending the Jewish, Zionist state even though they become a majority through democracy. Which paragraph do you read? Does the Declaration of Independence of Israel create a state of Jews or a state of schizophrenia?

Question: The Law of Return, passed by Ben-Gurion, grants automatic citizenship in the state of Israel to Jews only. Was Ben-Gurion a racist? Was Rabbi Meir Kahane ZT”L?
Rabbi Meir Kahane ZT”L sponsored a law in the Knesset forbidding the transfer of national land in Israel to non-Jews. The by-laws of the Jewish National Fund state that “the ownership of national land in Eretz Israel is that of the Jewish people forever. These lands are to be given to be worked and rented to Jews and shall not sub-leased.” Do you think that the Jewish National Fund is racist? Was Kahane?

Question: Rabbi Meir Kahane ZT”L sponsored a Knesset bill forbidding intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews. The Torah explicitly forbids the same thing (Deuteronomy 7). Rabbi Meir Kahane ZT”L bill was thrown out as “racist”. Will you therefore, throw it out of your synagogue or temple?

Thousands of Jewish women are married to Arabs and other thousands live with them, without the benefit of marriage. They have tens of thousands of children (Jewish by Jewish law, Arab in practice). The former Israeli President Chaim Herzog, has not only refused to condemn intermarriage in Israel between Jews and Arabs but has praised the mixed Jewish-Arab commune of Nve Shalom which is the center of assimilation in Israel, as a “ray of light in the Middle East” Are you proud of this man, who was also the first President to attend the Communist party convention where a message from Arafat condemning the aggressive Zionist state was read?

Question: As in the case of most Jews, you are convinced that the Israeli Arab is a loyal citizen of the country. Do you really think he loves living in a country that is officially proclaimed “The Jewish State”? That has a Law of Return, which applies to Jews only and not to Arabs? That has a national, Ha’tikva, which speaks of “the soul of a Jew yearning”? Do you think that on Independence Day he happily celebrates his defeat? Do you think that he is an imbecile?

Question: Do you think that by raising the Arab’s living standard – giving him electricity, plumbing, and higher education – he will be a “good” Arab? That you can buy his national pride with and indoor toilet? That when he becomes the majority he will allow Israel to remain a Jewish state? How much contempt can you have for the Arab?

Rabbi Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir Kahane

Question: Tens of thousands of ex-soldiers are unemployed in Israel because employers would rather hire Arabs at coolie wages. A wave of emigration from the county of those young soldiers is taking place. The Talmud proclaims: “The poor of your people come first”. Is that racist? Are you satisfied with the present situation? How many more Israeli taxi-drivers do you want to see in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles?

Question: Along list of Jews murdered within the boundaries of Eretz Israel and the pre-1967 boundary grows every week, as yet another one is murdered. Soldiers have been murdered as they hitchhike; Jews are afraid to travel alone at night, and parents do not allow their children to freely in the streets in the evening. Do you think that this is the Zionist dream? Did we leave the fear of the ghetto and exile to build a Hebrew-speaking ghetto of fear? How many Arabs have been murdered by Jews while hitchhiking? How many Arab children have been raped and murdered by Jews? Whose country is it?

Question: In every Jewish bus in Israel there is a little sign that reads: “Watch out for suspicious objects”. People look under their sears, nervously. If a suspicious object is found – panic breaks out, Jews flee, the police come, and the area is closed off. Have you ever traveled on an Arab bus in Hebron or in Shchem? Why is there no little sign in those buses? Is it not a pleasure to able to ride free from fear – on an Arab bus? Are we normal?

Question: The liberals and leftist of Israel and the U.S. say that the reason why there is no peace is because of the “occupied lands of 1967”. In the 1920’s and 20’s, the years before Kahane-Kach, Kahane Chai, the years before the State of Israel, the Arabs massacred, raped, liquidated hundred of Jews (including 67 in one day in Hebron). What did they want then, when there were no “fascists” and “racists” like Kahane to incite them? Do you think that the massacres of 1929 were caused by the refusal of the Jews to give up the “occupied lands” of 1967? When the Arabs turned down the U.N. plan for an Arab and Jewish state in 1947, was that because of their anger over 1967? Do you believe that there is a need for a national couch for the Jewish liberals and leftists?

Question: Do you know that when 800,000 Sephardic Jews began pouring into Israel from an Exile where they never knew crime – thanks to their religious values that gave them spiritual and national strength – they were deliberately placed in irreligious institutions and kibbutzim where Judaism was ripped from them? That this was because the leftists feared that the immigrants would vote for other parties? That because of this, the overwhelming majority of criminals in Israel today are Sephardic Jews who were spiritually destroyed by the left? Do you think that along with Israel’s Holocaust day that commemorates the physical destruction of Jews by gentiles, there might be a second Holocaust Day to perpetuate the spiritual destruction of Jewish souls, by Jews?

Question: Any number of arrogant ignoramuses – whether they know anything about Judaism or not – have flatly stated that “Judaism” preachers absolute equality between Jews and non-Jews and is committed to democracy. First of all, do you believe that people who do not observe Judaism have the moral intellectual right to bring down precepts of a Judaism they reject? Secondly, does the Reform or Conservative Rabbi who does not believe that the Torah is Divine, G-D’s Law, but who decides for himself (herself?) what is “ethical” and “right”, have any right to talk about “Judaism”? Or, if his name is Cohen, should be not rather speak for himself and quote “Cohenism”? If people invent “ethics”, why be Jewish? Why not be “ethicalist?”along with your rabbi? In fact, who then, needs rabbis?

Question: In this connection, if Judaism is not based on Divine Law that insists that Jews observe ALL the laws, and your child asks you why he/she should obey any laws, could you tell him/her? If he/she wants to put an end to “tribalism” and “differences” and wants to be not Jewish, but a “human being”, could you answer him/her? If the average secular and non-observant Israeli youngster met a gentile who he/she wished to marry, could the average parent give him/her a rational NON-RACIST reason not to? Could you give one to your child who asks: “If all human beings are equal, brothers and sisters, and if the Torah is not G-D’s absolute, direct word, does not the very fat that the leaders in the Reform – Conservative, insist upon being “Jewish” create a barrier between us and the non-Jews?” Is that good? Would it not be better to be “human beings with no barriers”? Why not marry a nice, ethical, intelligent, pretty or handsome gentile without conversion at all? Why not just be “ethical” without reference to Jew or non-Jew?

Question: The essential difference between torah Judaism and Reform – Conservatism is that Orthodoxy believes that the Torah AS IS was actually, literally given by G-D to the Jewish people at the literal Revelation at Sinai. Whether you agree or do not, it must be admitted that if that IS so, it is certainly the compelling reason to be a Jew and thus different from other people (and of course, to observe all the Divine Laws of that Torah). More. Despite the fact that Reform denies that G-D appeared at Mt. Sinai and literally Revealed Himself and the Torah, at their convention in Jerusalem (June 30, 1983) they declared: “We believe that G-D has ordained a religious purpose for the people of Israel which distinguishes it from the nations of the earth”. As liberal humanists, ARE YOU NOT appalled at this rank racism and parochialism? If G-D did not appear and tell us this, how do we know – that we were “chosen”? If the Torah is not Divine, absolute truth, how do we hallow books that have “barbaric” and “archaic” portions in them? If ethics are our yardstick are there not gentile works that are ethical and beautiful? Is it not an emotional cowardice on the part of the Reform – Conservative leaders and parents that prevents them from breaking with narrowness and becoming simply human being?

Question: According to Reform’s Lenn Report (1972), no less than 14% of your rabbis admit to being atheist or agnostics. What kind of RELIGIOUS movement can spawn such “rabbis”? Is it not better to have an honest atheist with no ties to a temple than this kind of confusion? Furthermore, another 14% admitted to a non-traditionalist belief in G-D, similar to that on one of Reforms leading rabbis, Roland Gittelson, stated: “I don’t believe in miracles; I don’t believe that G-D is a person or a discrete being… I believe that G-D is a force, an intelligence.” (Reform Judaism, Winter ’83)
Now, TRUTHFULLY, do you know what this means? Is it intellectually honest? Is it not more logical and honest to say as Orthodox do, that G-D controls all destiny, performs miracles, and is the G-D of History? Or just honestly admit that He does not really exist as someone you can pretty to and stop going to Temple?

Question: In the face of all this, would you be surprised to know that while Judaism commands us to respect the non-Jew who has accepted Monotheism and basin human laws, and enjoins us to treat him with love and ensure his basic, social, economic, and religious rights, it forbids and non-Jew from holding any position of authority in Israel? That a non-Jew cannot be a citizen or hold office in the Knesset or any other position of power over Jews? That a non-Jew who accepts this must be allowed to live with his basic personal rights in Israel and then treated with decency and respect, but one who is not prepared to accept this status is not allowed to live in the Land of Israel? Have you ever studied the Talmud and Maimonides? Would you like to check the sources? Has your rabbi? Would he even know where to begin to look?

Question: Does a Jewish state that is tottering, crumbling, and beset by crisis in every single sphere of life – the economic, the social, the military, the moral, not understand that Jewish destiny rests only on our commitment to G-D and Torah? That we Jews are not an ordinary people and our state not an ordinary state? That what will be for Jews and Israel, either glorious redemption or terrible tragedy, depends on our return to G-D? That a terrible, black cloud hovers over us and that time runs out?

Question: Judaism see the liquidation of the Exile and total Jewish return to the Land of Israel as a basic concept and commandment. More, it decrees that the Jewish communities that refuse to return home will not survive the Exile. Does the growing and burning wave of Jew-hatred in the world ring a warning bell? Will you follow the disastrous Jewish leadership, which was so silent during the Holocaust, so silent for 50 years on the Soviet Jewish issue? Will you let them destroy you too? Or will you follow Judaism and come home to Israel, NOW?

Question: Has any of this made any impression on you? Does your rabbi, Jewish leader. Synagogue, UJA fundraiser, raise these issues, or just money?

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