Prayers return to attacked synagogue – Video
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
Prayers return to attacked synagogue
CNN #39;s Atika Shubert reports from the synagogue in Jerusalem that was the scene of a terror attack this week.
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Hanan Ashrawi on CNN Video 2014 11 18 After Har Nof Synagogue massacre by Palestinian terrorists – Video
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
Hanan Ashrawi on CNN Video 2014 11 18 After Har Nof Synagogue massacre by Palestinian terrorists
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Synagogue victim's cousin speaks – Video
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
Synagogue victim #39;s cousin speaks
Michelle Hirschfield tells CNN that her cousin was one of the first to die in the Jerusalem synagogue attack.
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Tragic Report from Israel! Terrorist Attack on Synagogue— Update News 11-19-14 – Video
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
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ISRAEL Forces DEMOLISH a PALESTINIAN HOME in Wake of Attack on Synagogue – Video
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
ISRAEL Forces DEMOLISH a PALESTINIAN HOME in Wake of Attack on Synagogue
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Israel to Demolish Homes of Synagogue Attackers – Video
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
Israel to Demolish Homes of Synagogue Attackers
Tensions are rising as Israeli police on Thursday handed home demolition notices to families of four Palestinian attackers from east Jerusalem, including two assailants who killed five people...
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Defiant worshipers reopen Jerusalem synagogue following terror attack
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
JERUSALEM, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A day after a deadly attack at a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of West Jerusalem, defiant worshipers returned to reopen the religious facility.
Morning prayers were held Wednesday morning with a security guard standing watch at the Kehilat Bnei Torah Synagogue.
Knesset Member Dov Lipman attended the service "to send a message that Am Yisrael Chai [The people of Israel live] and that the terrorists accomplished nothing by their horrific murders."
Lipman said he was "inspired by the intensity" at Wednesday's prayers, which were held at the same time as Tuesday's morning attack.
Five people, including three Israelis with dual American citizenship, were killed when two Palestinian men stormed the synagogue, armed with a gun, knives and axes. Police shot and killed both assailants.
"We don't feel revenge is something we need to do," resident David Hershcovitz explained to CNN.
But Hershcovitz admitted "It's a huge shock that in a synagogue ... slaughterers come in with slaughter tools like butchers."
Tuesday's attack was the latest episode of violence amid rising tensions in the city. In the past month, Jerusalem has been the site of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis over access to the Temple Mount holy site, also known as Al Haram Al Sharif, and two attacks by Palestinians who drove their vehicles into pedestrian crowds.
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Moving and shaking: L.A. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, Beth Chayim Chadashim and more
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
From left: Sephardic Educational Center (SEC) director Rabbi Daniel Bouskila; SEC president, Neil. J. Sheff; and festival honorees Joelle Rimokh, Yehoram Gaon, Jack Rimokh and Ronald J. Nessim. Photo by Michelle Mivzari
Israeli Sephardic actor Yehoram Gaon, Los Angeles attorney Ronald J. Nessim, and philanthropic couple Joelle and Jack Rimokh were the honorees at the opening gala of the Los Angeles Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, taking home the Cinema Sepharad Lifetime Achievement Award, the Maimonides Leadership Award and the Sephardic Legacy Award, respectively.
The Nov. 9 event at the Paramount Pictures studio lot featured an array of activities, including a silent auction, dinner buffet, a screening of the film Operation Sunflower (starring Gaon) and an award presentation.
And the late-afternoon gathering marked, in celebratory fashion, the official kickoff of the annual Sephardic film festival in Los Angeles, which featured films depicting the Sephardic Jewish experience. The weeklong festival, which ended Nov. 16 at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills, featured films about Jewish communities in Iran, Morocco, Yemen and India, among others.
The Sephardic Educational Center (SEC), an international nonprofit education and culture organization that has its own historic campus in the Old City of Jerusalem, organizes the festival every year. Nessim, a former chairman of the center, is the son of the late Jose Nessim, the SECs founder.
Neil J. Sheff,SEC president and a Westside immigration attorney who helped create the film festival, also attended the gala.
Beth Chayim Chadashim (BCC) featured the Los Angeles premiere of social justice-oriented filmmaker Ann P. Merediths 2014 Holocaust documentary, Triangles: Witnesses of the Holocaust on Nov. 9.
From left: Triangles filmmaker Ann Meredith and her film subjects, Gabriella Karin, Eva Nathanson and Anne Berkovitz, appeared at Beth Chayim Chadashim. Photo by Glenn Berkovitz
The movie explores the lives of Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles and others who were victims of the Shoah, according to the films publicity materials.
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On Thanksgiving: Celebrating the leftovers
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
Published on November 20th, 2014 | by Chris Bonito
By Sydney Perry
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them -John F. Kennedy, Jr.
On Thanksgiving my extended family usually gathers at my sisters home. We look forward to a day of feasting; of watching the grandchildren play with their cousins; of family unity; of physical satiety and spiritual recognition of our many blessings. A veritable cornucopia of gratitude. And then we head home, each in our own direction, in time for the football games.
But there is something missing. We depart without leftovers for the next day. No leftovers from the enormous golden brown bird, no cornbread stuffing with sausage and chestnuts, or mashed potatoes, rich gravy, veggies or slices of the countless pies. Its almost a crying shame.
Because I love leftover turkey, because Shabbat inevitably follows the fourth Thursday in the month of November, we make a second Thanksgiving. My immediate family can enjoy our own sideboard, groaning with its burden of enormous quantities of food, in order that we can have sliced turkey sandwiches on challah rolls the next day, and turkey tacos on Sunday, turkey hash on Monday, curried turkey salad on Tuesday, shredded turkey moo shu on Wednesday and turkey gumbo soup from the carcas on Thursday.
Leftovers. Who, after all, were the men and women who celebrated that first Thanksgiving in 1621, a pilgrim re-creation of Sukkot done by leftovers of England? Look at American history. Who came to Georgia? To Virginia? The off-scourings of debtors prisons. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland? Those who couldnt conform to the religious norms in England? Who made up the waves of migration from Germany, Italy or Ireland? And later from Poland and Russia? Were they the prosperous? Far from it. They were the poverty-stricken, the downtrodden, the desperate outcasts.
The leftovers came to Americas shores as they still do today with nothing but hope. Hope for a better life, for religious freedom, for security from intolerance, for advancement for their children.
On the base of the Statue of Liberty is a quote from the Sephardic poet Emma Lazarus: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of our teeming shore, send these, the tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
The test of a great nation is what it does with the leftovers. Unless you are a Native American, every one of us is an immigrant whose family made the decision to risk the voyage in order to start a new life. As Jews, we have much to be grateful for in our lives in this great country as we sit down to our Thanksgiving meal.
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The Status Quo Myth
Posted By richards on November 21, 2014
The Temple Mount. File photo
With tensions still high in Jerusalem and throughout the rest of Israel, the latest buzzword that is being bounced around in the regional and international media is "status quo". More specifically, Israel is accused by the Arabs and their supporters of trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount while senior government officials in Washington praise Israel for easing restrictions to Muslim worshipers on the Temple Mount in order to preserve the status quo.
Similarly, within Israel itself various Jewish MKs criticize other Jewish MKs who insist on ascending the Temple Mount with charges that they're aggravating an already tense situation with the Arabs while the chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel goes even further and blames Jews who ascend the Temple Mount with provoking Arab terror and causing Jewish blood to flow (a charge which is akin to blaming the raped rather than the rapist).
In such a situation, how could anyone question the validity of the claim that Israel is trying to change the status quo, for if everyone talks about it, it must be true?
Nevertheless and with all due respect to the purveyors of disinformation, the truth is there is no clearly defined existing state or condition, otherwise known as a status quo, between the Jewish and Arab populations in Israel. In fact, one can argue that the very opposite is true and that the state of affairs between the two groups is not static but rather has been changing for years. Still further and contrary to the current claim, this ongoing shift in relations has been mainly to the detriment of the Jews, and not the Arabs.
Already for years the Arabs in many parts of the country have become increasingly brazen in their disrespect for any semblance of Israeli sovereignty. Although it's certainly not every Israeli Arab, overall there's a clear trend in the direction of growing radicalization and mounting anti-Israel sentiment amongst the Arab population of Israel.
Moreover, when one looks at the total bedlam engulfing the region ever since the beginning of the Arab Spring - the uprising, so we were told, which was to usher in a new era of peace and democracy in the region - the trend in Israel should not come as a surprise.
I personally witnessed this on a visit to a kibbutz in the normally tranquil Jezreel Valley two summers ago when our night-time barbecue was interrupted by the menacing sound of gunshots emanating from the nearby Arab village. When I asked one of the members of the kibbutz if this was something new, the young man, who for more than two hours was on the phone pleading with the police and regional security officers to get involved, explained that this insanity had been going on for more than three years and that despite the periodic direct hit of a bullet on a kibbutz home nothing was being done since the police were afraid to enter the Arab village.
He then explained, as did members of a nearby kibbutz the following day, that in addition to the occasional Arab attack, Arab thefts in the region were out of control and that nothing was being done to stop it.
This is just one small example, far from the Temple Mount, of what has been taking place in Israel in recent years. Once again, this is not to suggest that each and every Israeli Arab is becoming increasingly radicalized and aggressively hostile to Israeli sovereignty. There are plenty of Arabs in Israel that are not this way. Nevertheless, like their Arab brethren in other parts of the Middle East, they are practically irrelevant when it comes to halting the frightening changes that are taking place.
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