Sunday, January 31, 2016

Action Alert: Please write letters to Defense Minister Yaalon, PM Netanyahu, President Rivlin on behalf of Meir Ettinger

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Dear Friends, amv'sh

See background info below.

Meir Ettinger, Rabbi Kahana's hy"d grandson's order of administrative detention  is coming due literally any day now. Please take a few minutes and do what you can to write Yaalon not to renew orders authorizing additional time.  Demand that they either hold a fair trial based on some charges or release him.  We have been told that letters especially from Rabbis or lawyers from America will make a difference so please do what  you can!   Thank you. 

Please send letters to: 
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon  pniot@mod.gov.il

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu  mankals@pmo.gov.il  pm_eng@pmo.gov.il   and  bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il

President Reuven Rivlin  public@president.gov.il
      
President Reuven Rivlin. Fax: 972-2-588-7225. Email:.public@president.gov.il.

Sample letters can be found on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Background information


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Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Fwd: PLEASE DAVEN FOR - Elidor ben Esther and Or benTziporah Givati Soldiers


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cheryl Jacobs Lewin <cjlpr1@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 2:59 PM
Subject: PLEASE DAVEN FOR -

I received this from Josh Hasten from Dodi Fishman Tobin who contacted him on Facebook.

Please daven for Elidor ben Esther and Or ben Tziporah - the two Givati soldiers wounded in the vicious terrorist shooting attack today in Bet El - They are friends of my son from his Yeshiva (Maalot) and are in his army unit (Givati). 

May Hashem smite our enemies now!!!!!!!




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Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Details: Tu B'Shvat Seder: You are invited: Brooklyn Afsi This Sunday at 5pm or if not, than Celebrate Tu Bishvat in your own Home or elsewhere... :)

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This Sunday January 24th,  Welcoming in Tu B'shvat  starting, 5pm Brooklyn AFSI invites you to participate at the Ticker Residence to celebrate Eretz Chemda Tova Urechava, the Beautiful Land of Eretz Yisroel


We can't compete with Eretz Yisroel,  but if you can't actually be in Eretz Yisroel for Tu B'shvat, please join us in Brooklyn! 

And if this is not practical, please celebrate Tu Bishvat  elsewhere or in your own home or community. 

Aish offers wonderful material about the TuB'Shvat Seder. There are great ads for Tu B'shvat Menus.  Even if like me, you never ever celebrated Tu B'Shvat in this manner, it's not too late to look into it (like I am doing)....

Kabbalistic Tu B'shvat Seder
On Tu B'Shvat, you can ponder a world-full of fruits for hours. From Aish

Tu B'Shvat Recipes
Creative Tu B'Shvat Recipes
With a Middle Eastern twist!

Tu B'Shvat: 7 Species Menu
Celebrate with these incredibly tasty dishes.

Beautiful Eretz Yisroel Videos

From Jewish Heritage Project: http://thejewishheritageproject.com/
Other Videos from Judea and Samaria
Biblical Path to Peace:  http://www.biblicalpathtopeace.org/ Moshe and Norah Elkman's facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/moshe.elkman
Brooklyn Tu B'shvat: Tentative Program

5pm: Business
    • Helping Jewish Duma Suspects: Report on various groups/organizations who are working on helping them (Let us offer financial and moral support to these organizations that are involved in their defense)
    • Biblical Path to Peace: Report on this Organization which is trying to make a real difference in the Knesset. They have been in touch with MK Tzippy Hatoveli (see link to video above)
      • Biblical Awareness re: Israel's right to the Land of Israel (what we can do here in the Diaspora)
        • Unite Rabbi's to speak out for Israel's Right to the Land based on the Bible
        • Unite Abrahamic Clerics to speak out for Israel's Right to the Land based on the Bible
      • Education and Awareness of the 7 Noahide Laws
    • Sign up to Brooklyn Afsi subcommittees
6Pm: Tu Bishvat Seder (We will follow Aish Guidelines see above) Including live and/or recorded music relevant to Eretz Yisroel and Tu Bishvat

7:30pm Videos (We will feature videos from above list as per requests. See Above List)  

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Please RSVP!  We need to know how many place settings to set up and how many people to prepare for! We will decide if this is sit down or buffet. Depends on how many of us show up. 

Participants: Let me know how you would like to help with the Tu Bishvat Seder.  Let us know if any of the recipes above looks appetizing and interesting and if you wish to be part of the food preparation committee. It would be greatly appreciated.  We are all new to this.  Our very own Rivky Helmus will help to prepare dishes for this event iyh.. She is looking into starting a business of her own,  preparing customized meals and/or salads to order and we are delighted that she is part of our Brooklyn Afsi  team helping with this event. This must be a joint venture.  We all must contribute our fair share.  Rivky is an amazing cook and you can sample some of her great recipes for future orders iyh.  Any donations to help Rifky and AFSI Brooklyn to cover costs for dishes for this Tu Bishvat Event is greatly appreciated! Contributions of Wine Fruits etc. is most welcome as well but please coordinate with us if you can! KT Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Parshat Haman! Say now. Close To Dusk EST. Parshat Haman, prayer for livelihood said traditionally Tuesday of Parshat BeShalach

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http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2013/01/parshat-haman-prayer-for-livelihood.html

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Friday, January 15, 2016

Shemittah Rediscovered: Duma Blood Libel thoughts. Hilltop Youth - Sacrificial Lamb Parshat Bo. Judea and Samaria the real picture! Shabbat Shalom UmeVorach!

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Duma Blood Libel thoughts. Hilltop Youth - Sacrificial Lamb Parshat Bo. Judea and Samaria the real picture! Shabbat Shalom UmeVorach!
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/01/duma-blood-libel-thoughts-hilltop-youth.html

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Save the Date! AFSI BROOKLYN EVENT TU BISHVAT Sunday Jan. 24th. Happy Month of Shvat!

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Mark your calendar for a Tu Bishvat Event at the Ticker Residence sponsored by AFSI Brooklyn. .

We are honoring the Agricultural Communities in Judea and Samaria!

We hope to feature 

THE SPRING OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA. Approx 1 hour

More Details to Follow.

Date: Sunday January 24th
Time: 5pm
Place: Ticker Residence 1552 E. 35th Street
Please RSVP  

Chava Shulman just sent out the following 

We just entered the Hebrew month of Shevat.

The world is currently in the era of the Atchalta d'Geula.... the threshhold of the Messianic era.

Shevat is a symbol of the subtle beginnings of spring and blossoming amidst the darkness and cold of winter.

May we soon merit the full blossoming and revelation of Hashem in the Geula Sheleima.  


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Photo of snow in Efrat, Israel 
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Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Fwd: Aharon Ackerman from Eilat Hesder Yeshiva speaks in NYC Tues 1/12


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Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:13 PM
Subject: Aharon Ackerman from Eilat Hesder Yeshiva speaks in NYC Tues 1/12
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Caroline Glick at Beit Orot Dinner; N. Korea/Iran: Par for the course
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Hesder
Don't miss! 
Aharon Ackerman, Deputy Director of the
Ayelet Hashachar Hesder Yeshiva in Eilat
Speaking in NYC Tuesday, January 12, 7:30 PM

AFSI and Congregation Adereth El in Manhattan present Aharon Ackerman, Deputy Director of the Ayelet Hashachar Hesder Yeshiva in Eilat, Israel.

Aharon will speak on: "How a Hesder Yeshiva changed the Eilat Community."

This event is being held at Congregation Adereth El: 133 East 29 Street, NYC (bet. Third & Lexington Aves.)





 
BeitOrot
A report from last night's
American Friends of Beit Orot Annual Dinner

At the Beit Orot Dinner
L-R: Judy Kadish, AFSI Co-Executive Director; Caroline Glick, Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post; Helen Freedman, AFSI Executive Director


Janet Lehr, longtime AFSI member and activist, reports from last night's Beit Orot dinner:

A brief word about the very exciting evening at The American Friends of Beit Orot's Annual Dinner. In the packed Crown Plaza Grand Ballroom, a throng of excited supporters celebrated the purchase of land for the future Hesder Yeshiva and residences by the Moskowitz Family. The property in East Jerusalem sits on the Mount of Olives ridge, ideal for the mission of the Yeshiva, to introduce visitors to Israel to Har Habayit in the Holy Basin. The evening with Caroline Glick, the Managing Editor of The Jerusalem Post and Mekor Rishon Columnist, and Seth Schreiber, Dinner Chairman, pulsed with excitement. Seth Schreiber announced that the building permit has been issued - a great triumph. Caroline Glick was no less restrained extolling the People of Israel.
 
"We, the People of Israel, in 68 years are able to meet the challenges of today. We are developing strategies to accomplish what we need and want to do. The Jewish People have never been so fortunate. We have the Jewish State with 6 million Jews; soon we will have over 1/2 of the Jewish population of the world. Everything about Israel is a miracle. Our partnership with Jews in the diaspora is important; we Israelis need to help these Jews. We are not reliant on others. We can solve our problems with LOVE, MONEY and ENTERPRISE. If I didn't believe we could do it, why would I write these columns? I made Aliyah in 1991. How many countries have grown as well in 20 years?"
 
Turning to problems of J Street, Jewish Voices for Peace and BDS proponents, Glick said, "There are anti-hate laws in the United States. USE THEM."
 
Closing, Caroline Glick beamed as she predicted: "In a decade, East Jerusalem will look different, Judea and Samaria will look different, the Galilee will look different, Yerushalayim will look different. LET US GO FORWARD!"

To which I say, Amen.


 
Par
Par for the course

North Korea claims it has successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb. These claims may or may not be exaggerated, but either way, additional danger now lurks on the horizon.

After all, as John Podhoretz writes in today's New York Post, both North Korea and Iran are very aware of how the United States and the rest of the world reacted over the decades to the North Korean development of nuclear weapons. 

Basically, this reaction has been to walk tall and carry a weak stick. In other words, Appeasement, with a capital 'A'.

To the great shame of the United States, the North Korean development effort spanned several decades and U.S. administrations, all of whom threatened the Koreans with action, but in the end, did nothing to stop their nuclear program.

Now, Iran is on the cusp of receiving more than $100 billion in sanctions relief. And what do they do? They perform illegal tests of nuclear-capable missiles. AKA, they spit in Obama's face.

And what does Obama do? He threatens Iran with sanctions and then back down. AKA, more appeasement.

What are we to make of this? Is this a Twilight Zone episode? A bad dream? A parallel universe?

Whatever it is, it is par for the course for our Commander in Chief. Walk tall and carry a big stick? Sure, make it a #3 Iron.




 
Calendar
AFSI Calendar of Events

for additional details on events below,
and for a complete schedule of Israel events

Saturday, January 9, 8 PM
Zehut International First USA Event  - with Moshe Feiglin and others
Lawrence, NY - for info call 516-330-4922

Tuesday, January 12, 7:30 PM (See event listing above)
AFSI and Congregation Adereth El present Aharon Ackerman, Deputy Director of the Ayelet Hashachar Hesder Yeshiva in Eilat, Israel.
Aharon will speak on: "How a Hesder Yeshiva changed the Eilat Community."

At Congregation Adereth El: 133 East 29 Street, NYC (bet. Third & Lexington Aves.)

Thursday, January 21, 7:30-9:30 PM
Dr. Eric Mandel at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, NYC on: Violence in Israel

Monday, January 25 (Tu B'Shvat), 7:00-9:00 PM
Book discussion: Seth M. Siegel, author of Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World 
At the Sixth Street Synagogue, NYC

Wednesday, January 27
If in Israel: Experience Sderot - Day Trip
Sponsored by International Young Israel Movement & American Friends of Sderot
Info: 02-650-5924; 054-945-2868; office@iyim.org.il


Thursday, January 28 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Princeton, NJ: Dr. Mordechai Kedar presents: The Academic Boycott of Israel

Hold the Dates! June 1 - June 8
Come to Israel with AFSI on our Spring 2016 Chizuk Mission. Celebrate Yom Yerushalayim in Israel with AFSI. Plan ahead!


 
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Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

Monday, January 4, 2016

Baruch Dayan HaEmes

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We regret to inform you of the passing of Lillian Stein,  the mother of Arlene Fox. The Levaya will be held at Shomrei Hadas in Borough Park, Brooklyn, 3803 14th Ave. tomorrow at 12 pm.
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים



Friday, January 1, 2016

More In Defense of Hilltop Youth. Torture of Jewish Duma suspects: Queens Jewish Link Defense of Article Defaming Hilltop Youth and letter back

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In defense of the Hilltop Youth: 

Attorney General approved torture of Duma suspects - Arutz Sheva

JPOST: Martin Sherman Into the fray: Duma, 'dirty dancing' & deeply disturbing detention

NO JEWISH TERRORISTS. Chronology of Events. So far conclusion is that Shabak is to blame for framing Jewish Kids. Hoshiva Shofteinu KaVarishona. Return OUR judges as of OLD. Veheishiv Lev Avot Al Banim... Eliyahu HaNavi will return the heart of the Fathers to the Children...


To my great disappointment Queens Jewish Link, QJL had a front page article putting the Hilltop youth into a bad light.  Totally inconsistent with QJL typical leanings which has been a strong backbone of the settlers.  This made it especially hurtful. Here is the give and take: Robin

Robin Ticker: Letter Queens Jewish Link re: Op Ed: Discussing Jewish Extremism; by Sergey Kadinsky. Editors: Why did you have to take the side against the Hill Top Youth???
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/12/letter-to-editor-queens-jewish-link-re.html
Fwd: Chava Shulman: Letter to QJL Re: "Jewish Extremism" and Duma ISA Torture: Take responsibility for what you publish: not everything is sensationalism!
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/01/fwd-chava-shulman-letter-to-qjl-re.html
Fwd: Sergey Kadinsky responds to Chava Shulman and Robin's Letters to QJL: 
 http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/01/fwd-sergey-kadinsky-responds-to-chava.html
Robin Ticker Letter back to Sergey Kadinsky
http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/01/letters-robin-ticker-to-sergey-kadinsky.html

Shabbat Shalom UmeVorach
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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing. 

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog.