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Rabbi Carlebach Inspires “Return Again” at Sufi Camp

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:32 GMT

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Warshauer’s exploration of the shofar mirrors her own journey through Judaism. Raised in North Carolina in a Reform Jewish home, she experimented with Eastern religions and meditation. She found comfort in the universal teachings of Sufism, which focuses on the healing vibrations of sound. At a Sufi music camp, she encountered a melody by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, “Return Again,” which motivated her to return to her own tradition. “I had never heard of Carlebach,” Warshauer said. Now, she said, she “sees the world through Jewish eyes. That’s the spiritual door for me. Music is the way I can communicate the wisdom of our tradition both for Jews and non-Jews. I can do that in an honest and enriching way because it is my tradition, I haven’t borrowed it.”

Tags: sufism, judaism, music

blog: I <3 kale – love letters to our favorite produce

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:15 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks: Kale is one of my very favorite vegetables.

Clip Source: iheartkale.blogspot.com

I ♥ kale

Love letters to our favorite produce.

What's On Our Cookbook Shelf

Random books from my library

Tags: food, cooking, vegetables, berkeley, recipes

Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:08:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: First of all it must be the sign of bad taste to simply underscore somebody's religion, ethnicity, race, political believes, color of eyes or skin or hair, sexual preferences or affiliations with any social group. Hence make the life determining decisions on it. Any person is innocent unless convicted by Court of Law. And in any case deserve respectful approach. One can imagine how stressful and damaging this situation can be for teenager...

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question

LONDON — The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain’s Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself.

Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

David Lightman with his daughter, who was denied admission to the Jews' Free School because her mother's conversion was not recognized. But a court ruling has voided the admissions policy.

The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to the school, JFS. Founded in 1732 as the Jews’ Free School, it is a centerpiece of North London’s Jewish community. It has around 1,900 students, but it gets far more applicants than it accepts.

Because M’s mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew — nor was her son. It turned down his application.

Tags: jews, archaic perception, religion, state separation, education, judaism

She Sailed On

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:54:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The cathartic moment came when her sons gave her a computer for her 80th birthday -- and she started writing her story."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

For more than seven decades, Gretel Bergmann has been haunted by a recurring dream.

"I'm in the middle of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, with 100,000 people staring at me and it's my turn to jump, but I just can't, I can't move a muscle," she says. "My legs are like jelly."

The scene never happened: The Jewish high jumper, now 95, was robbed of the chance to take part in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which Adolf Hitler notoriously used to show off Aryan sporting prowess to the rest of the world.

Hers is the incredible story of an exceptional Jewish athlete exploited and then cast off by the Nazis, a saga complete with a last-minute rejection letter that ends with the words "Heil Hitler!" and a sexual identity scandal involving her replacement that has echoes of the recent uproar over South African runner Caster Semenya.

If it seems cinematic, it is. Her story has been brought to life by the recent movie "Berlin 36

Saul Akinsky & Obama must be related

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:11:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Alinsky studied criminology as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, during which time he became friendly with Al Capone and his mobsters. Ryan Lizza, senior editor of The New Republic, offers a glimpse into Alinsky’s personality: “Charming and self-absorbed, Alinsky would entertain friends with stories -- some true, many embellished -- from his mob days for decades afterward. He was profane, outspoken, and narcissistic, always the center of attention

Clip Source: www.discoverthenetworks.org

SAUL ALINSKY

Two of his most notable modern-day disciples are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left.

Though Alinsky is rightfully understood to have been a leftist, his legacy is more methodological than ideological. He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power. His motto was, “The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.”

Tags: alinsky, obama, marxism, two, peas, in, a, pod

West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:18:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.haaretz.com

09/11/2009

By Haaretz Service

Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel.

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book "The King's Torah" that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.

"It is permissable to kill the Righteous among Nations even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation," he wrote, adding: "If we kill a Gentile who has sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments - because we care about the commandments - there is nothing wrong with the murder."

Several prominent rabbis, including Rabbi Yithak Ginzburg and Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, have recommended the book to their students and followers.

Tags: gentiles, goyim, noahide law, od yosef chai yeshiva, rabbi yitzhak shapiro, the king's torah

Every Israeli PM has been an Ashkenazi Jew and NOT of Judaic Origin

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:06:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ....a most interesting Article about those who FERVENTLY claim Israel to be their Original homeland...when it's NOT.

Clip Source: pakalert.wordpress.com

The History Of The House Of Rothschild

So, next time you hear an Israeli Prime Minister bleating about the so- called persecution of the Jews, consider this, every Prime Minister of Israel has been an Ashkenazi Jew. Therefore when all these Prime Ministers have curried favour with the West for their re-establishment of a Jewish homeland, they have knowingly and deliberately lied to you, as they were never from that region, and they well know it, because it is they who call themselves Ashkenazi Jews.

Westboro Baptist Church Protests Outside Obama Girls' School

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:25:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As Sasha and Mlia are satanic spawn God is their Enemy.

Malia attends the Washington, D.C. Sidwell middle school, where the Phelps family protested Monday; they plan to protest Tuesday at the Bethesda location, where Sasha is a student.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that travels around the country holding anti-gay rallies, protested outside the school attended by President Obama's children on Monday morning.

The "church," run by Fred Phelps and composed largely of his extensive family, is known for staging its events for maximum publicity and controversy. In the past, members have demonstrated outside troops' funerals. Recently they have been targeting Jewish temples. Now they're aiming their vitriol at Washington-area schools -- including Sidwell Friends, where Malia and Sasha Obama are students.

A message on Westboro's website refers to the Obama children as "satanic spawn" of a "murderous bastard." Along with various schools, the church is also protesting outside the White House, the World War II memorial, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission field office.

Protesters were carrying signs with anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-Obama slogans, slowing down traffic all along Wisconsin Avenue.

Tags: christians, westboro baptist, hate groups, hate speech, free speech, obama family, children

Marla Sokoloff Wedding : Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:26:41 GMT

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Clip Source: willflip.blogspot.com

Marla Sokoloff Wedding : Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills

‘The Practice’ star Marla Sokoloff and her long-time boyfriend, Deadsy drummer Alec Puro, finally tied the knot in an intimate Jewish ceremony at Il Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills on Sunday (November 9).The “Practice” actress and her Deadsy drummer beau tied the knot at Il Cielo restaurant in a small, intimate ceremony including about 100 guests.

Dana Milbank Is, as Mark Levin Describes Him, "A Punk, a Liar and a Coward"

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:31:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Constitutional attorney, bestselling author and hit radio show host Mark Levin certainly doesn't mince words. Alerted to Milbank's latest hit piece in The Washington Post, Levin called Milbank out as a propagandist of the first order.

The reason: out of literally tens of thousands of patriotic signs and shirts at Thursday's Capitol Hill protest, Milbank picked out a handful as supposedly representative of a crowd he described as "hateful and gruesome."

An outraged Levin called Milbank a "punk, a liar and a coward" while challenging him to a debate on his show.

Here's a Nazi reference that Milbank might appreciate: I think of him as the Josef Goebbels of his age. He writes patent propaganda in service of the State. And I can prove it.

Bubba visited DC for the rally and wandered through the crowd for hours taking scores of photos. I created a montage -- click to zoom if you'd like read the dozens of visible messages -- from his collection.

Clip Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

In the front of the protest, a sign showed President Obama in white coat, his face painted to look like the Joker. The sign, visible to the lawmakers as they looked into the cameras, carried a plea to "Stop Obamunism." A few steps farther was the guy holding a sign announcing "Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds" [sic], accusing Obama of being part of a Jewish plot to introduce the antichrist.

But the best of Bachmann's recruits were a few rows into the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners proclaiming "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945." Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust victims, many of them children....

"Who knew a casual comment on TV could generate this?" Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) exulted as he stood in front of the Dachau banner.

Now, objecting to the health-care bill is one thing. But doesn't it send the wrong message for House Republicans to hold an event on the Capitol grounds full of hateful and gruesome words

Tags: democrats, extremism, msm, state media the washington post

Hungary's 'forgotten' war victims

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:07:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Back in his living-room, Arpad's three-year-old granddaughter, Jofie, brings me wooden elephants and antelopes to admire and stands quietly listening to our conversation.

On the table, Arpad has arranged photographs that he took on his trips east in search of the lost Hungarians.

"Maybe that one is your dad," Jofie tells him, wanting so much to be helpful and pointing to a group of men who are holding a cross on a small hill in the city of Baltsi.

"That hill," says Arpad, "is made of human bones."

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The deportation in 1944 of thousands of Hungary's civilians to the Soviet Union, although on a similar scale to the deportation of its Jewish people to the death camps, receives little official attention in Hungary, as Nick Thorpe reports.

Arpad Kovari stands at the top of the steps at Nyiregyhaza railway station, nearly two metres tall, scanning the faces of the new arrivals from Budapest. He hides his disappointment well as I shake his hand.

He was hoping for a whole television crew, not a lone reporter, to listen to his tale of what he dares to call the Hungarian Holocaust: the deportation of some 600,000 Hungarians to Soviet labour camps after the Second World War and the death of at least 200,000 in captivity

His father was one of them.

Many graveyards

Nyiregyhaza is as rich in tombs as it is in apples. There are nine graveyards.

'Hill of human bones'

For 20 years, Arpad Kovari has been trying to persuade the Hungarian state to create a day of remembrance for the Hungarian Holocaust

Europeans too selfish to have children

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:47:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Europe is “dying’’ because its secular residents are too selfish to have children, according to Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi.

The leader of Britain’s Jewish community claimed the continent’s population is in decline because people care more about shopping than the sacrifice involved in parenthood.

He blamed atheist “neo-Darwinians” for Europe’s low birth rate and said religious people of all denominations are more likely to have large families.

The Chief Rabbi, who entered the House of Lords last week, made his comments in a lecture on religion in the 21st century hosted by Theos, the public theology think-tank, on Wednesday night.

Lord Sacks said that faith had survived so far because it could provide answers to mankind’s eternal search for meaning in life - unlike the market, the state, science or philosophy, which underpin modern liberal democracies.

The Chief Rabbi warned that secular Europe is at risk, however, because its moral relativism can easily be defeated by fundamentalists.

Teens Vandalize Jewish Center

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:58:34 GMT

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Clip Source: wbztv.com

Three teenagers are accused of vandalizing a Jewish community center in Barnstable. Police say the teens caused extensive damage, and even downloaded images of Hitler on a rabbi's computer.

A witness saw two teens running from the Cape Cod Chabad Lubavitch community center late Wednesday morning.

When police arrived they found doors kicked in, the building ransacked, and several items missing. Anti-semitic images, including some of Adolf Hitler, were also downloaded onto the rabbi's computer during the robbery.

Rabbi Yekusiel Alperowitz. "I say to them, shape up and get serious about life, learn respect for others, respect for religion, culture and I hope you never do such a thing again."

They are charged with breaking and entering, larceny, willful injury to a church and damaging property for the purpose of intimidation based on religion.

Man of hatred shocks the land he calls home

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:10:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jewish terrorist.

Clip Source: www.smh.com.au

A Jewish extremist has put Israeli security in doubt, writes Jason Koutsoukis.

JERUSALEM: Yaakov Teitel is the new face of Israel's extreme right-wing religious movement. A fanatical Jewish settler from the tiny outpost of Shvut Rahel in the northern West Bank, Teitel flashed the peace sign as he was led from an Israeli courtroom this week.

But after confessing to a string of murders and hate crimes over the past 12 years, Teitel has emerged as anything but a peacemaker.

Branded a ''Jewish terrorist'', the 37-year-old father of four has already admitted to the murders of two Palestinians in 1997 and the pipe-bombing of the left-wing Israeli academic Zeev Sternhell this year.

Police also suspect Teitel of the shooting murder of two Israeli police officers on a West Bank highway nine months ago, a crime initially blamed on Palestinian terrorists. ''If the wheel were to turn back I would do it all again,'' Teitel told investigators after his arrest.

Tags: politics

vilnius tour guide

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:28:04 GMT

clipped by: Sightseeing Tours
clipper's remarks: highly recommended professional tour guide in Vilnius, Lithuania

Clip Source: www.ourexplorer.com

Vilnius Tour Guide – Marius

I had selected Marius to take me on a very important journey to the birthplace of my grandparents about 100 km. from Vilnius. I am Jewish, so there is a much larger, sad and tragic story. Marius researched this village in advance, and was extremely sensitive. In addition, he planned a day that combined sight-seeing and fun places with my other agenda. I am a professional curator in the United States, I can only give him the highest mark for tour skills. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Tags: tour guide, tourist guides, private guide, ourexplorer, sightseeing tours, travel, vilnius, lithuania

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Rabbi Carlebach Inspires “Return Again” at Sufi Camp

blog: I <3 kale – love letters to our favorite produce

I ♥ kale

About Your Kale Providers

Recipe Index

What's On Our Cookbook Shelf

Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?

She Sailed On

Saul Akinsky & Obama must be related

West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel

Every Israeli PM has been an Ashkenazi Jew and NOT of Judaic Origin

The History Of The House Of Rothschild

Westboro Baptist Church Protests Outside Obama Girls' School

Marla Sokoloff Wedding : Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills

Marla Sokoloff Wedding : Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills

Dana Milbank Is, as Mark Levin Describes Him, "A Punk, a Liar and a Coward"

Hungary's 'forgotten' war victims

Europeans too selfish to have children

Europe is “dying’’ because its secular residents are too selfish to have children, according to Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi.

Teens Vandalize Jewish Center

Man of hatred shocks the land he calls home

vilnius tour guide

Vilnius Tour Guide – Marius