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Mosby's JournalWe should nationalize air travel.
We already pay for almost everything anyway, airports, NTSB, air traffic controllers, TSA etc etc.
Hanukkah Second Night: For Living in a Free Society
By Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, CAWe stand in humble gratitude to be blessed to live in a free society, free in ways our ancestors couldn't have imagined.
We acknowledge today, basking in the glow of Hanukkah's increasing light, that so many of the choices we are able to make are only possible because of the sacrifice of others who came before us.
In honor of the memories of those whose names we are blessed to know, and in memory of those countless nameless pioneers who bequeathed this free society to us all, we ask God's Blessing as we accept our parts in their great, sacred task of extending the dignity of freedom to others.
May we accept the bonds of citizenry, knowing that freedom is a responsibility we dare not expect without our collective investment.
May we give of our own light to continue building a society worthy of the freedom we've been granted.
May we remember to take pains for the sakes of those whose names we know and for the sake of those whose names we do not know, as we are only free if we are all free.
May the world be blessed to share in the blessings of human dignity and the glow of freedom's light.
Amen.
There is newer research
Coincidentally, Jewish DNA has been studied more than any other ethnic group in the world. And it shows what one would expect, thousands of years connection to the Levant, regardless whether the Jew is Ashkenazi, Mizrahi or Sephardic. Palestinian Arabs show DNA from the Persian gulf.
https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/1722032684086501716
A Prayer for Each Night of Hanukkah: First Night
First Night: For Religious Freedom
By Rabbi Mark Greenspan, Oceanside Jewish Center, Oceanside, NY
A Hanukkah Prayer: We are the Miracle!
As we celebrate the festival of lights
And this season of miracles
We are reminded
That the real miracle of Hanukkah
Is not the bit of oil that burned for eight days
Nor the military victory of the Maccabees.
We are the real miracle!
We are here to tell our story!
Empires have risen and fallen;
Our faith has been challenged.
Our people attacked.
Yet we are here to light the candles
That remind us who we are: a people,
United in history and in faith.
No matter our differences
We share a common bond,
We recall a single story,
We celebrate an ancient-modern land,
We speak a holy language,
We learn words that extend from Sinai to our own day.
With each passing year, may the light grow brighter,
And the challenge more compelling
To carry on not by might nor power
But through the spirit of nationhood and faith.
Amen.
No one knows the real death numbers.
Regardless what the real number is, its tragic that the Palestinian groups like Hamas insist on provoking Israel and causing all this loss of life.
The Palestinian terrorist groups like IBQ, Al aksa Martyrs brigade, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Lions Den, Hamas, DFLP, PFLP, Harakat al-Sabireen, PLF, should consider disbanding and ending their 75 year reign of terror against the Israelis.
That aljazerra article typifies muslim antisemitism.
Some of the loaded language:
First, they aren't settlers, second, they didn't force their way into anything, Jewish people are allowed to visit the Temple Mount, like anyone of any religion.
Again, Jewish people visiting the Temple Mount isn't a provocation, unless you think that the Muslim world is so intolerant of others that they can't handle non Muslims walking NEAR a mosque. It appears that Al Jazeera believes that the Temple Mount is strictly Muslim property, and others should be restricted.
"Talmudic rituals" is the term used by bigots to describe Jewish prayer. Antisemitic websites use this terminology, as well as Iranian state media.
The Silence From International Bodies Over Hamas' Mass Rapes Is a Betrayal of All Women
Note the article has very graphic descriptions of the attacks on Oct 7.Two days after the horrific Hamas attack of October 7, I met Rotem, a young mother of two small children from a Kibbutz on the Gaza border. I held my breath as she recounted how she ran with her children to hide while terrorists rampaged through their home, how they made it to the safe room and desperately held the door, praying the terrorists wouldn't enter.
Her terror echoed accounts I've heard from abused women, except now the threat was not from a violent husband. And Rotem was not alone; she is one of thousands of Israeli women who simultaneously faced murder and rape by Hamas terrorists on that fateful day.
At the President of Israel's Residence in Jerusalem, we are preparing for the day the United Nations General Assembly has designated the International Day for the Prevention of Violence against Women, which is observed every November 25. Every year, I host victims, civil-society leaders, activists, and scholars committed to women's rights and safety on this day.
But this year will be different. Many things changed on October 7 when thousands of Hamas terrorists massacred Israeli families, burnt children and the elderly, and kidnapped hostages. This deeply impacted our visceral understanding of the cruelty of gender-based sexual violence—and our faith in the international organizations that claim to care about women.
https://www.newsweek.com/silence-international-bodies-over-hamas-mass-rapes-betrayal-all-women-opinion-1845783
New video of tunnels under the Shifa hospital.
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1727409278636478519They've had 75 years to negotiate a permanent settlement
And they haven't, instead they embraced terrorism.
That's on them.
Are you and I blameless for Iraq? I didn't kill anyone nor did I vote for Bush. How about the overthrow of the government in Iran? Me and my family didn't have anything to do with that either.
The first step towards peace and reconciliation involves taking ownership for your mistakes, something that the Palestinians aren't even remotely interested in doing,in fact they still keep externalizing their locus of control, and create false historical narratives that absolve them of all responsibilities. Just look at what Abbas said recently denying that Israeli women and children were killed in the Oct 7th attack.
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