There is a Jewish conspiracy at work. It is not the one portrayed in the pernicious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” It is not Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust hoax, or a Zionist plot to undermine Islam. Nor is it Jewish control of the media or the world economy as Jihadists, Ku Klux Klanners, neo-Nazi skinheads and Mel Gibson conjure up for themselves. It is not even the so-called apartheid security wall that so inflames Britain’s self-righteous, hypocritical, antisemitic academics and labor unions.
No, the only real Jewish conspiracy is the one aimed at undermining the future existence of Israel, and, consequently, the survival of the Jewish people worldwide. Iran, Holocaust deniers, the British left and all the rest of the mosquitoes carrying the antisemite bacillus are child’s play compared to this threat.
There is a Jewish conspiracy to prevent massive immigration of North American Jews to Israel.
The plot began when the word Zionism was hijacked by the professional Jewish and Israeli world and applied to every possible Jewish enterprise other than aliyah. Need a term for Jewish education in the Diaspora? Why not use Zionism? Need a word for patriotic Israeli spirit? Zionism. Need a word for Jews who contribute money, use Israel as a booster program for Jewish identity, or even just for tourism? Call all that Zionism, too. Nice, concise and misleading.
In a way exceeding the machinations of George Orwell, the word Zionism has morphed into newspeak to the point of losing its core meaning and providing an umbrella for any old thing that functionaries, bureaucrats, fundraisers and Jewish identity wonks can use to make a living. Having obfuscated the term’s meaning, the conspirators have set about suppressing the notion of aliyah.
What are the motivations? On the North American side it is simply to prevent the kinder from considering aliyah as an option and threatening the vitality of golden Diaspora. Birthright participants can see Israel as a museum, a Holocaust memorial, a refugee absorption center, the home of soldier-heroes and a catalyst for Jewish identity. They can meet generals, prime ministers and suffering Ethiopian immigrants.
But God forbid, don’t let them meet with people exactly like their parents who actually moved to and live in the real Israel, because they might get some ideas.
Israelis have preferred taking in American Jewish money over taking in large numbers of strong competitors laden with human and financial capital. The vested interests here are fully aware that many patterns of behavior would be very difficult to maintain if another half-million North American Jews made aliyah.
How would Moshe Safdie’s backward, environmentally unsound plan for developing West Jerusalem even emerge from committee? How would the Orthodox establishment hamstring conversion processes? How could politicians behave corruptly, impervious to notions of accountability? How could the education system continue to teach rote knowledge and base admission to university on psychometric puzzles, rather than on the skills of independent thinking, broad horizons and competent writing skills? How could the World Zionist Organization have its annual meeting and dream up all kinds of fatuous programs but not once mention aliyah?
Aliyah is the Occam’s Razor for so many problems, and yet it is the only solution not considered for any of them.
The Reform movement decries the conditions of its members in Israel? Send money, but sending more members, forget it. North American Jews have identity problems? Invest billions in convoluted educational programs that lead nowhere, but don’t give every American Jew a direct link to an actual cousin who lives in an actual Jewish state.
Jerusalem Day is conducted under the cloud of a lost Jewish majority in the city? Disenfranchise the Arabs of East Jerusalem, but don’t change the balance by actually getting more Jews here. Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust and says it was an excuse to create Israel? Hold conferences, speak indignantly, give him attention he doesn’t deserve, but don’t disabuse him and make his claims irrelevant by proving that masses of Jews want to live in Israel by choice, and not only as refugees.
When the history of Zionism is written, it will become clear that post-Zionism started when the word “Zionism” became an instrument of this conspiracy.
Unless organizations dedicated to — and only to — aliyah garner the lion’s share of Jewish philanthropy in place of expenditures on Jewish identity fetishes and continued waving at post-Zionist windmills, these philanthropic efforts will fail every cost-effectiveness test one can imagine. Unless young Jewish minds in North America are exposed to the idea that aliyah is a realistic option that can ensure the future of Israel and the Jewish people everywhere, the next century will find the Ahmadinejads, Ismael Haniyehs and Ken Livingstones of the world wondering why they worked so hard when the Jewish conspiracy succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
And no one will be left to read the Book of Lamentations.
David Chinitz, a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health in Jerusalem, made aliyah from Washington in 1981.
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It's a hard sell and I should know. Slowly we're doing our best to change attitudes. Year by year the numbers are rising from the US and other Western countries. For the first time there are Shlichim dealing specifically with the Reform and Conservative movements in an effort to change attitudes. Jerusalem wasn't built in a day....
we jews should build a man made island some where in the ocean and go and live there.........all we have to do is get a bunch of cargo ships to drop sand and stone in one spot in the ocean and then after alot of sand and stone has been droped in one spot in the ocean .....i island will be there and then we jews clame this island that we built ......and make it a new israel.....
Let you see the suffering Ethiopian immigrants in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,most of them stay(keeping) alliyah to israel in average 7-10 years,Oh ata abba shelanu oozer ammim shelha
It should be noted that in former times the typical 'oleh to Eretz Yisrael who arrived not as a refugee but as an idealist was a Yiddish speaker from Eastern Europe. In those days (before the Holocaust obviously), Yiddish speaking Jews had a clear and distinct national identity. They spoke their own language, had their own literature, their own cultural life and their own political parties. Even the anti-Zionists (notably the Bund) defined the Jews as a people, as a nation amongst the nations of the word. The Israeli identity is a direct continuation of that Jewish identity. This kind of reality does not exist anymore in the Diaspora. People like to speak about assimilation as if it's an ongoing phenomenon. It's already occurred, and it should be described only in past tense terms. An American Jew sees himself as an American - it's his home, his culture, his sense of belonging, and American English is his only language. American identity is his core identity, and one's Jewish identity is secondary at best (most Jews know very little about anything Jewish, and their Jewish identity is just a marginal aspect of life). The mostly Yiddish speakers who founded Israel saw the Diaspora Jews as a nation in exile, and indeed in Yiddish the word for exile (golus) is used in so many everyday expressions. But the Jews in America do not see themselves in "golus", and this very traditional Jewish term is actually quite foreign to them. Also the magic of the return to the Hebrew language doesn't really impress American Jews. Most don't even know how to write their names in Hebrew script! 'Aliya only makes sense for those whose central identity has remained the Jewish narrative. In order to promote 'aliya, the first item on the agenda is education in the USA. This has to be an education that is focused on Jewish peoplehood. It has to be a Jewish educational system whose graduates can read a book in Hebrew and can quote the Jewish sources. Such graduates will find Israel attractive, and see her as a source of Jewish creativity - not merely a haven for "other" Jews in plight. But I have no illusions. It won't happen.
This article is absurd. If 500,000 No. American Jews did, in fact, move to Israel, and these Jews were not welfare cases, or opportunists, or people with some agenda to change Israel, the results would be very positive. Let's be honest, you can fit all of Israel into one-half of San Bernardino County, Calif. or New Jersey. It's population is miniscule..and it's area is tiny. I mean, get real, over 1m Russians, many not Jewish, and not knowing anything about free enterprise, and capitalism, paranoid at best about secret police fears, having nothing in common with Israelis, have somehow managed to fit in. Some have moved back. American Jews will better Israel in a thousand ways., least of which are for some to go into the army..bring American dollar, retirement and pension plans, and just plain old liquid assets. I am sure that the only people who would really object, are the Arabs, who would cry foul and try to prevent it. That is one reason why it's a great idea.
Ben Levi, Thank you for sharing my thoughts. It was Herzle who said, translated from German into Hebrew: im tirtzu, ein zo agadah. If the Jewish community of North America really wished to be a part of the Jewish people, it would invest in it, especially in the education of the young. It would teach its children and youth about the concept of peoplehood as opposed to religiousity, and the sense of Jewish peoplehood - which is not mutually exclusive of being an American or Canadian - consisting of history, thought, literature, religion, Jewish languages, our affinity to our ancient homeland of Eretz Israel, but first and foremost our people's eternal language - Hebrew - which must be in use by every Jewish youngster, and later on adult as well. If the Jewish community had the will, it would find the way to realize it. It could diverty all the funds directed towards contributions - to Israel and to non-Jewish entities - into community Jewish education. But I question whether the community in North America, including its leadership, does have the the will. I dred thinking about the alternative, in the midst of which we are, the shrinking of the community, of a major component of our people. How sad, how sad indeed.
Chinitz whould do better to concentrate on the 500,000 Israelis who are currently in the United States(many with expired or non-existent visas).If things are truly so much better in Israel many of these natives would return.
Jack Garbuz claims "that Israel will not survive in the long run without American Jewry". I think the time has come to declare to the world that Israel's existence is not precarious, and it is not facing a situation of possible collapse. It is a stable, functioning state, and it has a rational and moderate political system that is capable of making and carrying out decisions. We can now finally change the subject! When I read the Forward, or when I talk with American Jews - I find it so sad to see that so few American Jews even understand what Israel is all about. For them it's a political-military crisis or a Jewish community in plight. However, the real story of Israel is her Hebrew culture. I don't know how to explain to people who have never read a Hebrew poem or who can't recognize a quote from Isaiah what it is that is missing in their Jewish lives. How do you explain music to the deaf? When you read the Forward, Israel seems to be a troubled society whose citizens are searching for a way out - and American Jewish life is so care-free and successful. It's really baffling. In America, an "educated" Jew is quite likely to be Jewishly illiterate. Most Jews do not participate in Jewish life and community. How is it that the Forward never has an editorial criticizing the low quality of Jewish life and educational achievements in America? It's just fine to criticize Israel - we criticize her ourselves - but it would be beneficial if once in a while a word would be said about what Israel has to offer Diaspora Jewry. First and foremost, as Avihu understands, is the success of the Hebrew language which is a most powerful cultural tool, vital in the preservation of Jewish collective identity.
At one time, the JEws were practically the only diaspora in the world. JEws are the oldest minority group in history, next to perhaps the Pheonicians or Greeks. We were seen, and rightly so, as an alien presence in whichever country gave us some respite for a while. In the last 500 years, and particularly since WWII, there have come into existence a multitude of minorities living away from their ancestral homelands. The English, Scots, Irish, Germans, more recently Koreans, Chinese, Pakistanis, Arabs, etc.,.. you name it. And especially in America. Being a member of an alienated diaspora is no longer an exclusively Jewish experience. But most of these other groups don't have the longevity of historical experience living in diaspora that Jews have. Most are beginning only now to experience the question of how to retain their physical and cultural uniqueness while still trying to "assmimilate" into this nebulous and relatively new national experience of becoming "an American." What IS an AMerican? Clearly, the template was the White Anglo Saxon protestant who settled and set the foundations of this country little over 200 years ago. To be an American was REALLY to emulate the WASP and become as WASPish as possible, to "fit in." Or at least to pretend to do so. Becoming a "true" AMerican was becoming a WASP, and not an American Indian. As the white community dwindles, and the demographics change, the question of what "an AMerican" really is becomes even more nebulous. Now the question becomes, what is "an Israeli?" What is the template you have to conform to to really "fit in?" Clearly, the new Israel was founded mainly be Russian and Eastern European Jews with their mindest and ideologies and even with yiddishisms transliterated into Hebrew. Now, the Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews have demanded and are rightfully finally getting their increased share in forming the evolving culture. But the American Jews are the largest group of JEws outside of Israel, but their input so far has been minimal. For American JEws to get a true hand in forming the Israel of the future, which they should be entiteld by now to do, they have to understand the Israeli political system and how it works (or doesn't work). The AMericans do not know nor understand the rules of the Israeli game, and so they can't play. You can't play soccer by the rules of American football and vice versa. And since the Israeli system is NOT going to be induced to change from without, it can only be changed from within. But it cannot be changed unless there is both a willingness to understand the system AND to play hardball! The fact is, that Israel will not survive in the long run without American Jewry, and American Jewry will not survive long without Israel. But without a 50/50 meeting of the minds, the future remains hazy, at best.
At one time, the JEws were practically the only diaspora in the world. JEws are the oldest minority group in history, next to perhaps the Pheonicians or Greeks. We were seen, and rightly so, as an alien presence in whichever country gave us some respite for a while. In the last 500 years, and particularly since WWII, there have come into existence a multitude of minorities living away from their ancestral homelands. The English, Scots, Irish, Germans, more recently Koreans, Chinese, Pakistanis, Arabs, etc.,.. you name it. And especially in America. Being a member of an alienated diaspora is no longer an exclusively Jewish experience. But most of these other groups don't have the longevity of historical experience living in diaspora that Jews have. Most are beginning only now to experience the question of how to retain their physical and cultural uniqueness while still trying to "assmimilate" into this nebulous and relatively new national experience of becoming "an American." What IS an AMerican? Clearly, the template was the White Anglo Saxon protestant who settled and set the foundations of this country little over 200 years ago. To be an American was REALLY to emulate the WASP and become as WASPish as possible, to "fit in." Or at least to pretend to do so. Becoming a "true" AMerican was becoming a WASP, and not an American Indian. As the white community dwindles, and the demographics change, the question of what "an AMerican" really is becomes even more nebulous. Now the question becomes, what is "an Israeli?" What is the template you have to conform to to really "fit in?" Clearly, the new Israel was founded mainly be Russian and Eastern European Jews with their mindest and ideologies and even with yiddishisms transliterated into Hebrew. Now, the Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews have demanded and are rightfully finally getting their increased share in forming the evolving culture. But the American Jews are the largest group of JEws outside of Israel, but their input so far has been minimal. For American JEws to get a true hand in forming the Israel of the future, which they should be entiteld by now to do, they have to understand the Israeli political system and how it works (or doesn't work). The AMericans do not know nor understand the rules of the Israeli game, and so they can't play. You can't play soccer by the rules of American football and vice versa. And since the Israeli system is NOT going to be induced to change from without, it can only be changed from within. But it cannot be changed unless there is both a willingness to understand the system AND to play hardball! The fact is, that Israel will not survive in the long run without American Jewry, and American Jewry will not survive long without Israel. But without a 50/50 meeting of the minds, the future remains hazy, at best.
David Chinitz should remember that, in the early 1950s, just after the Jewish state had been established, Ben Gurion challenged the American Jewish/Zionist community to make aliyah its number one prority. The response then, was to reject aliyah as a prime purpose of the American Zionist movement. However, they did not cancel the concept altogether. They created "plugat aliyah" (aliyah groups) within their youth groups and even sponsored Israeli shlichim (messengers of the Zionist movememnt)to work with these groups. A small but steady stream of young people came to Israel over the years; many returned to the US, but some stayed. The State of Israel accepted the tradeoff and took the money insted of the young people.
Excellent. I lived in Israel from 1982 to 1991, and fully congratulate the author on having been able to last in Israel as long as he has. I frankly don't know how much of a future Israel has without zionism or aliyah, from America in particular. But that is a Catch-22, as I don't see how any American oleh can remain in Israel for long with the system being as it is unless he is a religious fanatic. I'd hoped that after the fall of the Soviet Union, there was some hope for the fall of the bureaucratic leftist establishment in Israel too, but no avail. The "system" is endemic, entrenched and simply neither cognizant nor amenable to any change that might accommodate aliyah of "normal" Jews from the US in particular. They fear it and do not want it, as it threatens their own "seats." As you say, they want only the American dollars and not the American Jews.
Jack Garbuz seems to believe that a "normal" American Jew can't succeed in making aliyah and staying in Israel. He expresses wonder that David Chinitz has lasted so long. Mr Garbuz, just like Emily Hauser in her Forward article, is trying to convince us that his decision to go back actually makes objective sense. I am at a loss as to why intelligent adults feel that excuses have to be found for themselves - and why the need is felt to place blame on others for their own sense of failure. Needless to say, there are thousands of "normal" Jews in Israel who came here from the USA and made their lives here. They coped with bureaucracy, served for decades in the reserves (including going to battle), had successful careers and raised very normal Hebrew-speaking children. For them, Israel is home and her well-being is a matter of their personal responsibility - and their sense of normalcy.
It appears to me that before all else, the Jewish community in America must internalize that we, Jews, are a people, that Israel (Eretz Israel and the State of Israel) is our people's geographic center and we don't have another one, and that Hebrew as a living language is our people's language. Once realizing the above, education towards appreciating of all three components must start from day one of every Jewish child in the US and Canada, supported heavily - including of course financially - by the Jewish community, since without the realization of the above the Jewish community in America will continue to shrink. Based on good education will members of the Jewish community want to both visit and settle in Israel since Israel will be perceived by them as coming home. As an Israeli I look forward to the day that North American Jews will see in me a member of their people, in my country their own as well and we would be able to converse freely in our people's language, Hebrew. Will I be in a position of seeing this day, my fellow Jews in America?
The alleged claims that Israel prefers "only the American dollars and not the American Jews" is false one or at least totally wrong. Israelis got tired of asking / suggesting Jews to make Aliya. At the most they give every one a decent opportunity to do so. But at the first and last places, it's the one who wish to make Aliya to take decision and make the choice. Although most of those who make Aliya from America are religious ones I know some who are totally not. Israel is well sited on a wonderful human structure and sources and its vitality and prosperity are sure ahead. The inner grows of the Jewish population is the highest in the western world. Yet, any Jew who makes Aliya is blessed; he/she can contribute to the society and at the same time being contributed by himself. More than Israel needs the Olim (and she needs) the Jews need Israel, if they really want their successors to be Jews too. I also would say that more than Israel wants the Jews money, the diaspora Jews want to give that money as compensation and repentance for not participating in actual building of new Jewish state. People forgot or rejecting the fact that Israel is quite a progressing country (and not "religious fanatic" nor "bureaucratic leftist" as one suggest here) and technology, science and culture are well growing in high speed which we don't see in many other well modernized places.
Yes, blame the victim. It HAD to have been the fault of the unsuccessful oleh, that he failed to stay. It could not possibly have been anyone else's fault, only his. So this is why the overwhelming majority of American olim fail to stay! Amongst the American olim that was in my Absorption center back in early 1982, only ONE that I know of remained after TEN YEARS, was actually a Jewish convert to Christianity and missionary and his very nice Christian American wife who bore 5 children in Israel, and have been very happy ever since. They are a lovely couple and were amongst my best friends there. I don't want to launder a litany, because I remain a zionist and am hopeful that someday a million JEws will eventually come to Israel. My son was born there, but today is ii the US Navy. I KNOW that as long as the ISraeli system and culture remains as it is, the chances of mass aliyah from the US is minimal at best. How many will there be this year, a WHOPPING 3,200 out of 5 million? And this is considered a banner year for AMerican aliya? It's a bitter joke. If ISraeli society and government is incapable of recognizing its own shortcomings and keeps blaming the immigrants for their failures, I'm certain the hope for any substantive successful aliyah to Israel is but a silly hope. Short of the Islamofascists or neo-Nazis coming to power in America. NO, the main changes have to be made lies the ability of self-introspection in Israel, it that is at all possible! As long as they remain in denial, and choose to shift the blame to the Americans themselves ,there will be no substantial American aliaya. If they don't care, so be it. But if they do, they have go to CHANGE.
I share Avihu's thoughts. However, the sociological reality of American Jewry is simply that American peoplehood has replaced the historic sence of Jewish peoplehood that Jews had maintained for centuries. The American Jewish experience has mainly kept the Jewish religion as a tool for expressing Jewishness. I once met an American Jew working in the USSR who had labled a local Jew a "Russian". This Jew protested: "No - I'm a Jew, not a Russian!" I remember that the American Jew simply could not understand what was wrong, and why was this Jew so insulted. I tried to explain that in Eastern Europe (as in Israel), there are Jews, Russians, Poles, Ukrainians... Only in the American experience are there Jews, Catholics, Protestants... The abandonment of Yiddish is an important factor in the loss of peoplehood; when you speak your own language, your ethnic or national identity is simply obvious. When you speak only American English, the American national identity is obvious. What can be done? Well, obviously education is a possible answer, as Avihu suggests. But setting up an educational system that emphasizes a Jewish language (Hebrew), has an affinity to a particular territory (Israel) and defines the Jews as an ancient and distinct nation (not as Americans who might or might not attend a synagogue) would only be possible if there would be an American Jewish public that feels that a step has to be taken AWAY from assimilation. I don't think that there is such a public that feels that something has gone wrong.
First of all, as I originally said, I lived in Israel for over ten years, including even a year on a kibbutz back in the early 1970s. Despite having gone to yeshiva for 9 years in my adolescence, it nonetheless took me 5 years to be able to fully comprehend the newscast "Mabat" at night. I also had to sign many papers written in Hebrew that I could not fully understand even after 6 years in the country, despite six months in ulpan and having studied in yeshiva as a youth, as I previously noted. It is unfair that olim have to deal almost exclusively in Hebrew when it comes to official matters, even though the League of Nations Mandate om 1922 stated that the Jewish National Home must have THREE official languages: Hebrew, Arabic AND English. As for Hebrew, it is the national language and I certainly have no problem with it, but certainly English should be a third fully authorized national language so that English speaking olim not have to be cheated or unduly inconvenienced by legal language that they can barely understand in English much less Hebrew. Regarding Israel's future, it should be noted that Israel is nearly 25% NON-Jewish with a growing Arab minority. Of course Israel will continue to exist, even without American Jewish immigration, but whether or not it remains a JEWISH state down the road is debatable. The simple fact is that if Israelis don't care about American Jewish opinion I don't see why American Jewry should continue to care about the fate of Israel. There is no bigger zionist in the world than I am, but there is a degree of brazen chutzpeh that becomes intolerable even to the greatest advocate and friend of Israel.
Neil Wrote: "It's a hard sell and I should know. Slowly we're doing our best to change attitudes. Year by year the numbers are rising from the US and other Western countries. For the first time there are Shlichim dealing specifically with the Reform and Conservative movements in an effort to change attitudes. Jerusalem wasn't built in a day...." No, and Jerusalem wasn't built by Jews. It was originally built by the Jebusites, but it came down pretty fast in 70 AD. Mainly because of dissension amongst the JEwish factions inside. However regarding the issue of Reform and Conservative movements, while I have long ceased to be religious, the synagogue I DON'T go to, is Orthodox. I have to support the Rabbinate in Israel, in upholding traditional Jewish law, even if I myself am borderline atheist. Besides the fact that under the "Status quo" agreements made by BEn Gurion and the orthodox back in 1948 enabling them to retan the power to determine fundamental issues of "Jewishness" within the State, I believe the tribal shamans of any tribe, particularly that of a small tribe with a small country, have to stick close to tribal law, with discretion, of course. As for "Shlichim" actually caring about the olim, that'll be the day :) They care about their own interests, like all bureaucrats. No, what you have to understand is that in ISrael, ATTITUDES don't really change, ever. The only way change is ever effected in ISrael is by having a party in the Knesset that represents your interests, who can make coalition DEALS. Americans don't understand that, and probably never will. If your faction or group wants to get ANYTHING in Israel, you have to have a party that can EXTRACT it from the ruling parties by BLACKMAIL. Anyone waiting for "attitudes to change" in Israel should put his money on the Moshiach coming first. It's a much better bet.
all of us jews should start thinking about biulding a man made island some where in the ocean......
Shabbat Shalom, David Chinitz's article speaks my truth. Israel was a Jewish dream for too long and now I am here (born in NYC) for thirty years, dreaming and doing my best to make my dream into a reality for our children and theirs and theirs. Things are much harder here than in the USA for most of us; but who said that life is all about being easy? Is there nothing worth working hard for? Is self sacrifice no longer a virtue? Do we all gotta get our pie here and now? Mekonnen, you are right. It is a crime that the decision makers keep the aliyah so slow from Ethiopia. I wish they would decide once and for all who is eligible for aliyah and who is not and bring our brothers and sisters home as fast as possible. Tulsa Lou, who are you so angry at? Why? Jack Garbuz, I am about as far from being a religious fanatic as can be. I would be ever so grateful if you would take my hand, be my partner and make my burden a bit lighter as I try to create a better Jewish world for our children and our children's children. Avihu Yerushalmi: :) !! Abe Bird, thank you. Jack, in response to your comment from 30 June: please stop making this a "them or us" issue - please make this an "us" issue. Together we can make the necessary changes only if we are willing to pay the price. This is both a personal and national issue. I invite you back to our nation, I bless your need to change things, I am your partner. Jack, on 2 July you again separate us. Please cease this behaviour as it can bring only no-good. I believe that it was Stephen Stills in the sixties or seventies that said: "If you can't do it with love in your heart and a smile on your face then maybe it just ain't worth doing." In the song Exodus: "... so take my hand and walk this land with me..." Please, let's remember that we are we and not "us and them". Please make our partnership active. Our children might follow our leads but they won't adhere to non-behavioural preachings; let's be positive examples. Please, have a hug, David
America is an open and free society that is Jewish friendly.iN aMERICA jEWISH EDUCATION CAN COST UP TO $20,000.00 A YEAR.Temple membership can be a financial burden.It seems the only group that helps is Chabad but not all Jews lean that way.If a Jewish family wants to have 2 or more children going to Jewish camp(usually about $700 plus a week),Jewish day school and Temple membership and they are not upper middle class than they must beg for some financial relief...most do not and we have 50% plus inter-marriage and a static growth rate. Israel is the future of Judaism unless Jewish leaders in America provide subsidised Jewish education and camps. I have seen Jewish children going to Quacker camps because the Jewish ones were beyond affordability,I have seen Jewish children evicted from Jewish education because the parents could no longer afford education over housing. eventually Jews inAmerica may disappear like those living for hundreds of years in a tolerant Kiafang,China;where there were no Rabbi's toward the end and the people forgot Hebrew and assimilated out in the 19 century
NETUREI KARTA in N.Y. wants to biuld a man made island for the jews .....a new israel!!
the north pole belongs to us jews not russia.....
If zoinist realy care about the jewish poeple then thay will claim a part of the ocean and build a man made island there for the jewish people....for we jews need land.....
I am a Jew. I was born in the US. I live in the US. I do not want to make "aliyah" because Israel has no future. The prophets warned us about our behavior. Our treatment of Palestinian Arabs is disgusting. The Israeli government's actions mean that to be an "Israeli" is to compromise your identity as a human being and as a Jew who believes in Hashem's commandment for justice. I am a Jew and a human being. To make aliyah would force me to compromise at least one of these identities. NEVER.
aaron silverstein needs 2,000,000 to buy a cargo ship to start building a man made island for the jews ..... if you can donate please send a check to ..aaron silverstein p.o. box 1510 nederland CO 80446.
aaron silverstein,s address is 80466 not 80446
if your not a zoinist then your not a jew
we jews need to have a counrty
the zoinist saved us jews