Monday, August 3, 2015

Brooklyn AFSI: TOMORROW, TUESDAY NIGHT- ZE'EV JABOTINSKY MEMORIAL EVENT! at Fifth Ave. Synagogue 5 E 62nd St. 7:30-9:00pm

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Dear Brooklyn AFSI Friends, amv"sh

Thank you Judy Kadish Freedman for forwarding this very important AFSI announcement and newsletter!  

Judy would appreciate a rsvp for tomorrow's event.  We want a large  Brooklyn contingent! RSVP please! 212-828-2424 or judy@afsi.org

Please email Judy and ask her to put you on AFSI's email list. judy@afsi.org.  (Tell her that you are from Brooklyn and you are a big fan of AFSI and are looking forward to becoming more and more involved in the Brooklyn Chapter to help AFSI as much as possible in their terrific work! 

I hope to be driving. Please let me know if you need a ride.  I'm leaving around 6:15pm.  I have an 8 seater van. First come, first serve. txt or email. The subway is a fine way to travel as well if it's accessible. 

This year Ronn Torossian a public relations professional will be one of the speakers. Here is an article in the Jewish Press by Ronn Torossian from March, 2015, especially appropriate today, just a few months later:

fyi  As an Israel activist you might find this other post of Ronn's very helpful and informative as I did.  We need to upgrade our social media skills to be an effective activist. 

Generating Media Attention using Social Media and Newsjacking

Please remember to make those phone calls to Senator Schumer and to other elected officials! Put a reminder on your phone....




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Zeev
TOMORROW!
TRIBUTE TO ZE'EV JABOTINSKY

Join AFSI and the Nordau Circle

In a Memorial Event Commemorating

The 75th Yahrzeit of Ze'evJabotinsky

 

Tuesday, August 4th, 7:30 PM

At the Fifth Avenue Synagogue - 5 East 62 St., NYC

 

Special Guest: RonnTorossian, one of America's most prolific and well-respected public relations experts; life-long student and follower of 

Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

 

Special Feature: To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the expulsion from GushKatif, we will be showing a film about the expulsion and its aftermath.

 

Join us at this important event! 

RSVP please!

212-828-2424 or judy@afsi.org


Here is an article in the Jewish Press by Ronn Torossian from March, 2015, especially appropriate today, just a few months later:

 

 

 
Chuck
Decision Time for Chuck Schumer



The following op-ed by Rabbi Avi Weiss likens the effort to gain Congressional votes against the Iran nuclear deal to the battle to pass the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. This piece was published in "The Hill", an important news site for Members of Congress and staffers.

 

All eyes are on Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). He has emerged as the key senator in the congressional Iran nuclear debate. If he opposes it, chances are it will be defeated.

 

Whenever I've heard him speak, he always plays on his name, and its relationship to the Hebrew term "shomer" - guardian. Over and over he'd say he will always be a guardian of Israel.

 

By and large, he's been true to his word. He was a leading figure in the movement to free Soviet Jews and throughout the years a great advocate for Israel.

 

In fact, in my recent book on the Soviet Jewry movement, Open Up the Iron Door, a random picture of a Soviet Jewry rally was chosen for the cover. Only after the book's publication did we realize that right there, in the middle of that picture, raising a voice for beleaguered Soviet Jews was a young Chuck Schumer.

 

Not that Schumer has always been easy. He is so intent to help that at rallies I've led he has been amongst the most aggressive politicians, insisting that he be the first to speak.

 

But now he faces one of the biggest decisions of his political life. He's hoping to be named Majority Leader if the Democrats retake the Senate. It's likely, however, that if he votes against the president on the Iran nuclear deal, that dream will wash away.

 

Senator Schumer's pending decision reminds me of a story from the Soviet Jewry movement that I record in my memoir. Forty years ago, the Nixon administration, bent on detente with the Soviet Union, strongly opposed the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which tied "most favored nation status" and trade credits from the United States to freedom of emigration from the Soviet Union. Some leading Jewish figures, fearful of a presidential backlash, supported Nixon's position. Opposing a sitting president touches upon the insecurities and sensitivities that diaspora Jews have acquired over the years.

 

Other Jewish leaders stood up to the president, recognizing that as economic sanctions could break the apartheid South African regime, it could also break the Soviet Union.

 

In the end, it looked as if the Jackson-Vanik Amendment would pass when word spread that Jacob Javits, the senator from New York - who like Schumer, was Jewish and a strong advocate of Israel - was vacillating.

 

I was at the meeting between Javits and a Jewish delegation to discuss the matter. Never will I forget the moment when Rabbi Gil Klapperman turned to Senator Javits and recalled the story in the Book of Esther when Queen Esther declines Mordechai's request to intervene for the Jews.

 

Mordechai tells her: do not for a moment think you can escape your responsibilities as a Jew. If you intervene and make a difference, you will be blessed. If not, relief will come from elsewhere, and you will have lost your opportunity.

 

Javits was deeply moved. He signed on, and Jackson-Vanik passed.

 

Schumer is in a similar quandary. He can vote along with the administration - or vote against his personal aspirations and find the strength to say no.

 

If he buckles, he may realize his dream of becoming Senate Majority Leader. If he stands strong, as Javits did forty years ago, he will forever be remembered as having done the principled thing, spoken truth to power, and as his name attests - been a guardian of Israel.

 

And for that matter, a guardian of America.

 

Weiss is the founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. He is the former national chairman of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ).
 

 

Source article:
 Sen. Schumer: Now's the time to be a true guardian of Israel...and America



 

 
Action
 WE MUST CONTINUE TO ACT
AGAINST THIS TERRIBLE DEAL!

 

CALL U.S. SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER AND YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSPERSON - Ask your family and friends to call today and every day - URGE THEM TO VOTE DOWN THIS ACCORD IN DC.

 

Call Senator Chuck Schumer (or your US Senator from your own state) and your local Congressperson to demand leadership in the fight against the "deal".

 

Call Senator Chuck Schumer at:

New York (212) 486-4430

Washington (202) 224-6542

 

Call your local Congressperson:

www.contactingthecongress.org

 

You can also contact your Senators and Representatives via the following links:

U.S. Senate: Senators of the 114th Congress 

 

Contact your Representatives here:

U.S. House of Representatives Directory 

 

 

 

Calendar

Calendar of Events

   

Tuesday, Augst 4, 12:45 PM

Secret Immigration to Palestine 1947 - How a group of daring Jews smuggled thousands of Holocaust refugees and others into Palestine past the British blockade. With Murray Greenfield

Former New Yorker Murray Greenfield was a volunteer sailor aboard one of the blockade-running ships. He became a well-known businessman and public figure in Israel, and is the author of several books, including the acclaimed "The Jews' Secret Fleet" about the blockade-running. This is a rare opportunity to hear the real story from the man who was there.

At the JASA CLUB 76, 120 West 76th Street (between Amsterdam & Columbus Avenues), in the West Side Institutional Synagogue building, ballroom level.

Free admission.

Information: (212) 712-0170.

Come at noon, and enjoy a delicious kosher lunch for only $2.50!


Tuesday, August 4, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Americans For A Safe Israel and the Nordau Circle host an evening commemorating the 75th Yartzheit of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the 10th Anniversary of the Expulsion of the Jews of Gush Katif.
Featured Speaker - Ronn Torossian!
New film not yet released about Gush Katif to be shown!
At New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue 5 East 62 Street.  

Tuesday, August 11, 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Proclaiming Justice to the Nations presents: Addressing the Rise of Global Genocidal Anti-Semitism and Vatican II's Nostra Aetate
At the United Nations 1st Avenue & 41st Street - Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, Conference Room 1

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