Jewish American Heritage Month?

May, Jewish American heritage Month has come and gone. Although  I worked in a more than a few public schools in Florida I never saw one lesson plan or poster disseminating that information. There weren’t any morning announcements informing students of the people and heritage being honored as is the norm during the month honoring a different culture.   May, like February, which is African American History Month was designated and signed into law by Congress and signed by George W. Bush in 2006. A question every Jew should be asking is why black history is shoved down the throat of every school child and our Jewish heritage and contributions ignored.Goodman

During the month of February, bulletin boards are festooned with reports and drawings of Matthew Henson, Mary Mc Leod Bethune, and of course Martin Luther King. Students are never taught that the civil rights movement was supported and  propelled  by Jewish lawyers, rabbis, and students. Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwermer were murdered because they stood with Martin Luther King for integrating the South and registering blacks to vote. Their deaths are never mentioned. How many people know that the NAACP was started by Jews, for the benefit of blacks, who at the time found no insult in being called “colored.”

How many children will graduate from high school believing that blacks were the only people taken and owned as slaves and never learn that slavery is still perpetuated around the world? I’m disgusted that school children know the name of Crispus Attucks as the first man to be killed in the Revolutionary War, but don’t know the name Chaim Solomon, who financed the war and died broke. Why don’t children learn that the first Jews arrived here in 1654 and that Charleston, South Carolina had the largest and most prosperous Jewish population in the US in the 1800’s.

Why don’t our children learn how Jewish doctors vanquished the scourge of polio by discovering the polio vaccine and that Jewish scientists like Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Teller helped win World War II  from Los Alamos. Why don’t they learn about the beginning of Hollywood and the immigrants who came from nothing and built an entertainment industry rivaled nowhere in the world?.  Seventh Ave. was the home of the schmatta business and where Ralph Lauren, nee Lipschitz and Calvin Klein got their starts. Jews are intrinsically linked with the freedom and wealth of this country and instead of celebrating our achievements we not only diminish them, but disregard them.

Federations put a lot of money into  “ Holocaust studies” Funny how that works.  Although students are treated to the horrors of concentration camps, the terror European Jews faced on a daily basis, and the result of anti- Semitic hatred ,jewmogulit not only continues but is perpetuated by lies against Israel.  Federations and Jewish education groups like CAJE, grant money and resources to groups like the New Israel Fund that are Jewish in name only.  It’s time that these organizations finance an education that teach young Jews to be proud of their heritage and gentiles to respect our contributions to this country.  Otherwise, just like in Germany, Poland, and Russia, we will be crying  and wondering how such hatred and horror could happen again; this time  in the country where  Irving Berlin, a Jew ,wrote the words to ” G-d Bless America.”

Is It Too Late Again?

Years ago , in 1987 to be exact, I  made a huge mistake.  I believed my alcoholic former husband would have rachmunos , or what Christians call  mercy, in our divorce. I actually believed his declarations of undying love. Since I was the mother of his children and (fictionalized here). I naively thought he understood that his behavior was detrimental to our family and so I mistakenly conceded all for “peace.” Foolishly, I didn’t even ask for alimony. Unfortunately, I did not recognize that he had declared war until it was too late. That was my personal “Never again!” moment.I Hate Jews

When are American Jews going to have theirs?  The signs of mounting anti- Semitism, anti- Zionism, or just plain Jew hatred are everywhere. For instance, the PLO terror trial that granted more than 250  billion dollars ( more than 600 according to the Terrorism Law) to the families of  terror victims didn’t even break a 24 hour news cycle. This historical decision should have made newspaper headlines, breaking news, and every talking head announcement. Instead, there wasn’t even a blip. Perhaps it was because the PLO and PLA were found guilty of inciting and paying terrorists to murder and mutilate innocent Jewish civilians. Now Mahmoud Abbas and his henchmen can’t be called moderates The families of murdered loved ones were finally heard and documentation of “Palestinian” leaders showed incontrovertible evidence that they were accountable for jihadi mayhem. Unfortunately, for our Islamophilo administration and its media hacks that evidence belies the myth of a peaceful“ two state solution.”

In the case of the Arab Bank, which was sued for funding terrorism, our State Department sided with the Bank, against the survivors and families of the victims of terror! Once again, a historical case was propelled to page 15 or a minor headline on the internet. Due to the hard work and vision of Shurat Ha Din Law Center and the legal work of Motley Rice, this was the first time victims of terrorism successfully brought charges against a financial institute that knowingly supported terror. Although the Arab Bank is appealing, this landmark decision is a warning to other banks that if they fund terrorism that they will be held liable according to US Terrorism law.

How about all the “pro Israel” organizations that fund Israel’s demise? Not just JStreet and Peace Now, but the UJA which supports the New Israel Fund. The NIF is a far left organization who works for “progressive change in Israel.” Just like the progressives transformed America into a country that is no longer a republic, but on the cusp of being a totalitarian dictatorship, they want to transform the  tiny  Jewish nation into its death throe.  One of the tactics these faux pro-Israel organizations support is the toxic BDS movement. Unfortunately, many college students are faced with discovering that anti- Zionism is just a cover for Jew hatred. ( here).

We have Democrats who refused to attend the Netanyahu speech.  Muslim Brotherhood members and Islamo sycophants like John Brennen, Valerie  Jarrett, Huma Abedin, and Mohammed Eliabiary work in crucial  government agencies, and the “ paper of record” the New York Times has to make corrections about  its scandalous Israel reporting almost daily.  We’re cautioned by our “elites” that Islamophobia is  something  real and causes violence against the Muslim community.  The problem with this is that it’s a big lie. As of 2012, according to the FBI there were 5 times as many crimes against Jews than Muslims.  Our president, Barack Hussein Obama, ignores terrorism against Jews by declaring  it random and once again Jews go back to sleep. Why not?  Our esteemed government decided that there is  no anti- Semitism on California campuses and the ADL assisted their argument.here

We forget there was a time in this country when we weren’t welcome.  We forget that hotels and restaurants had signs that said no Jews or dogs allowed. We forget that our ancestors were told they could be Jewish but not too Jewish, and that Henry Ford was a huge anti- Semite. Unfortunately, we’re being reminded and too many Jews are still asleep. It’s time to wake up before it’s too late-no Jews again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orwellian Anti-Semitism

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Many  pundits and  Intellectuals  use the term Orwellian to describe all the lies and ridiculous policies of our  government.  In Orwell’s masterwork, 1984, the word for this is “doublethink.” An example of this is when the world watched amd applauded the Charlie Hebdo international “protest march.” In reality it was a travesty.  The two biggest Jew haters, Abbas and Erdogen, pretended that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with them. Both of them incite their people to maim and murder Jews and afterward celebrate the murderers as heroes. When a Muslim jihadist stabbed 13 people on a Tel Aviv bus, Abbas, who was no longer marching for the cameras, said nothing. Instead,  Prime Minster Natanyahu made a statement about the unprovoked attack:

“,,,is the direct result of the poisonous incitemen by the Palestinian Authority against the Jews and their state.”  He continued “[Abbas] is responsible for both the incitement and the dangerous move at the ICC”

 The leaders of France, Britain, and Germany walked arm In arm to demonstrate their stand against terrorism (or something like that). Yet  when 13 people were stabbed  by a  Muslim jihadist on a Tel Aviv bus there was only  silence. Of course, down the “memory hole” went the fact that all three countries have a history of  anti-Semitism. France can feign outrage but the government ignored the cries of Jews that they were being abused, beaten, and murdered for fifteen years, starting with the torture and murder of Ilan Halimi. England fought the Jews and allied with the Arabs in mandated Palestine, betrayed its own Balfour Declaration, and according to a recent report, no Jew has won a discrimination lawsuit in more than ten years. Germany has a well known history of Jew hatred, but many people are unaware of the extent France collaborated with them during WWII

Many of us are used to historic events, like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the Bo Bergdhal travesty, and Seal Team Six to mention a few,of being discarded down the “memory hole”but the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was shocked that her father was missing from the movie Selma. She was shocked because her father was an advisor to Martin Luther King and walked arm and arm with him during that march. Jews were in the front line of the civil rights movement. Young Jewish men were murdered registering black voters in the segregated south..This is history. Rabbis from many synagogues joined the Freedom March because they believed it was a religious obligation. So did King. It all went down the “memory hole.”

Words like transparency and marriage have lost meaning because society has adopted the Orwellian“newspeak” which is eerily similar to political correctness.  When our president says ISIS is not Islamic that’s newspeak. When  terrorism is called “manmade disasters” and the public is told that Al Queda is “on the run”  that is also Orwellian.

But there’s  a salient fact that nobody mentions. In Orwell’s 1984 everyone must participate in  a daily” two minutes of hate.” The crowd  works itself into a frenzy. Interestingly, the hate is directed at the villain, Emmanual Goldstein. The name makes it obvious that he is a Jew.  Orwell, who understood the power of language, chose that name for a reason. Interestingly too, 1984 is 1948 backwards. That was the year Israel became a country.

Orwell was a visionParis Marchary and believed in the importance of words and how they shape culture.. “Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind” Anti-Semitism  is once again respectable.  Israel endures more than two minutes of hate daily and Islam is “a religion of peace.” Islam makes murder respectable by blaming their vicious barbarism on Israel. Even though this is 2015, it sure feels like we’re living Orwell’s1984.

 

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The Charlie Hebdo Hypocrisy

Dead_rabbiThe Charlie Hebdbo massacre by Islamic jihadists was horrific. So was the massacre at the kosher market that , and the murders of the rabbi and three children in Toulouse, France in 2012. How about the Fogel family who were all slaughtered in their beds, the three young men kidnapped and then executed, and the bloodbath of the five rabbis praying at synagogue in Har Nof? On that day the brutal savages  created five widows and 24 orphans. All of these terrible and nefarious murders were perpetrated by people with one thing in common. They were Muslim jihadists.

An editor of a popular Jewish newspaper writes that there hasn’t been this much Jewish emigration from France since World War II. Jews in France are scared and why shouldn’t they be? France has the dishonor of having many Nazi collaborators during WWII and  shipping many Jews  to concentration camps. After this latest evil scenario, with dead bodies scattered around  Paris and the discovery that a Jewish school was an earlier target, authorities closed the Great Synagogue  but left the Mosque open. That may sound cautious and caring, but the Jews had to form minyans (prayer groups) hiding In fear, while the Muslims weren’t inconvenienced at all.

Mahmoud Abbas, the right hand man of terrorist leader, Yasser Arafat, marched in a prominent place arm in arm with leaders of the free world. This is the same Mahmoud Abbas, who enjoins his people to kill Jews. How insane is our world? This is the same man who gives out candy when Jewish babies are killed and celebrates the “martyrs” who murder Jews; however, it was Netanyahiu who they didn”t want

Cartoonists were murdered because they drew pictures of Mohammed and the world suddenly noticed. Immediately there was a hashtag #JesuisCharlieHebdo and millions of people converged on Paris to show solidarity for free speech and against terrorism. Leaders from all across the world smugly joined together arm-in -arm , but nothing will change. Just like Europe collaborated with the Nazis, it Is doing the same with Islam.  At least Obama isn’t a hypocrite.  He showed the world exactly where he stands and validates what he wrote in his  book when he told a Muslim immigrant group, “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” – See more at: http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/02/i-will-stand-wi.html#sthash.it7CFigY.dpuf .  It’s time to look at the world the wy it is, not the way we want it to be. je-suis-juif-e1420980995698