From Brooklyn For A Safe Israel: April 2017

Monday, April 24, 2017

Corrrection Yeshiva Derech Hatorah is a local School not Shul.. no competition to Adath Yeshurun....

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Robin Ticker <faigerayzel@gmail.com> wrote:

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I feel terrible..

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Dear Member of Cong. Adath Yeshurun, amv"sh

You may or may not know Steve and Fran Epstein but you are familiar with Yeshiva Derech Hatorah because it is a local school. You may have received notices about this dinner and if this notice is redundant. Please forgive.

I had planned on sending this email out in time for a journal ad from Brooklyn Afsi including my friends from Shul in honor of Steve and Fran Epstein and then I realized that between Pesach and all the other worthy projects, I had not noticed that time flew and the Dinner was upon us.

The good news is that I just spoke to the Office of Yeshiva Derech Hatorah and they said that they can still include an ad insert from us into the journal if we submit it tomorrow day.

Better late than never.

Steve is Director of Zionist Museum and Education Center and Fran is his supportive right hand. Steve teaches Zionism at Yeshiva Derech Hatorah.

Steve Epstein and his Eishes Chayil Fran really deserve this honor. They have hosted many wonderful lectures on Zionism and Eretz Yisroel in the Fein lounge at Kingsway Jewish Center always with refreshing topics and refreshments included in the package. These meetings were always well planned and organized with Fran serving as the welcome person and there by the desk with a sign in sheet. Fliers are always distributed in advance of the lecture and posted around town so that there is always a respectable showing of loving activists for Israel at their events. The speakers were extremely dedicated and professional and men and women of action. They included our very own AFSI Chairman Mark Langfan, and AFSI Executive Director Helen Freedman, ZOA Eytan Sosnowhich, Honenu Shalom Pollack, Hadassah joint event featuring Palmach and Lipa Shmeltzer and we enjoyed the well researched and delivered lecture by the Morah D'Asra of Kingsway Rabbi Goldstein before he made Aliya and many many more illustrious names. Just ask Steve.... . STeve and Fran truly love the Land of Israel, and the State of Israel with a passion and their speakers reflect that love as well! There is a breath of fresh air, Avira of Eretz Yisroel, on these very special nights in Brooklyn when the Zionist Museum hosts their events.

In addition to being Director of the Zionist Museum Steve has developed a curriculum to teach Zionism in Yeshiva Derech Hatorah and I know that it is a labor of love focusing on the Biblical connection to the Land of Israel and not merely from 1948..

Often he will be asked to speak at other venues such as Senior Citizens centers on Zionism and he has spoken at Brooklyn Afsi events as well.

We have yet to find his match when it comes to passion and enthusiasm.

When Charlotte Wahl our dedicated volunteer at AFSI ob"m used to put together ads for Zionist causes and their Dinners she would ask members to contribute $36 towards the ad payable to the cause. She would call each of the members up individually to ask if they wished to participate.

Please see this email as a personal invitation as if I was Charlotte calling you up asking you to contribute to yet another worthy Zionist cause and join us in this group effort..

Yeshiva Derech Hatorah is truly a School that reflects Torah UMada, where students are taught Ivrit from when they were in Elementary school an offshoot of Mizrachi LeBanim. Zionism is the bread and butter of Yeshiva Derech Hatorah and their students grow up with a love of Eretz Yisroel because they are embued with a love of Torah and Eretz Yisroel from educators and teachers like Steve Epstein who talks the talk and walks the walk.

May he and his dear wife share many years of health and happiness together sharing their love and devotion for Eretz Yisroel with many young minds, and hearts, young in years and/or young in heart and actualize his most valued expression AM YISROEL CHAI VEKAYAM!

If you are interested in participating in a group AFSI AD please reply to this email that you will be doing so tonight and/or asap so I can include your name in the ad. Please make sure to let me know how you wish your name(s) to appear on the ad.

Then send your check in the amount of $36 payable to Yeshiva Derech HaTorah earmarked 37th Dinner in honor of the Epsteins 2810 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn NY 11229.

A copy of the ad will be sent to all iyh.

Yasher Koach and Tizku LeMitzvoth!
--
Sincerely,

Robin Ticker and Lori Fein co-chairs Brooklyn Afsi

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.

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Brooklyn Afsi Members Steve and Fran Epstein honored tomorrow night Tuesday Evening April 25, 2017 at Yeshiva Derech HaTorah Dinner Educator of the Year

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I feel terrible..

I had planned on sending this email out in time for a journal ad from Brooklyn Afsi, in honor of Steve and Fran Epstein and then I realized that between Pesach and all the other worthy projects, I had not noticed that time flew and the Dinner was upon us.

The good news is that I just spoke to the Office of Yeshiva Derech Hatorah and they said that they can still include an ad insert from us into the journal if we submit it tomorrow day.

Better late than never.

Steve is Director of Zionist Museum and Education Center and Fran is his supportive right hand. Steve teaches Zionism at Yeshiva Derech Hatorah.

Steve Epstein and his Eishes Chayil Fran really deserve this honor. They have hosted many wonderful lectures on Zionism and Eretz Yisroel in the Fein lounge at Kingsway Jewish Center always with refreshing topics and refreshments included in the package. These meetings were always well planned and organized with Fran serving as the welcome person and a sign in sheet. Fliers are always distributed in advance of the lecture and posted around town so that there is always a respectable showing of loving activists for Israel at their events. The speakers were extremely dedicated and professional and men and women of action. They included our very own AFSI Chairman Mark Langfan, and AFSI Executive Director Helen Freedman, ZOA Eytan Sosnowhich, Honenu Shalom Pollack, Hadassah joint event featuring Palmach and Lipa Shmeltzer and we enjoyed the well researched and delivered lecture by the Morah D'Asra of Kingsway Rabbi Goldstein before he made Aliya and many many more illustrious names. Just ask Steve.... . STeve and Fran truly love the Land of Israel, and the State of Israel with a passion and their speakers reflect that love as well! There is a breath of fresh air, Avira of Eretz Yisroel, on these very special nights in Brooklyn when the Zionist Museum hosts their events.

In addition to being Director of the Zionist Museum Steve has developed a curriculum to teach Zionism in Yeshiva Derech Hatobrah and I know that it is a labor of love.

Often he will be asked to speak at other venues such as Senior Citizens centers on Zionism and he has spoken at Brooklyn Afsi events as well.

We have yet to find his match when it comes to passion and enthusiasm.

When Charlotte Wahl our dedicated volunteer at AFSI ob"m used to put togather ads for Zionist causes and their Dinners she would ask members to contribute $36 towards the ad payable to the cause. She would call each of the members up individually to ask if they wished to participate.

Please see this email as a personal invitation as if I was Charlotte calling you up asking you to contribute to yet another worthy Zionist cause and join us in this group effort..

Yeshiva Derech Hatorah is truly a School that reflects Torah UMada, where students are taught Ivrit from when they were in Elementary school an offshoot of Mizrachi LeBanim. Zionism is the bread and butter of Yeshiva Derech Hatorah and their students grow up with a love of Eretz Yisroel because they are embued with a love of Eretz Yisroel from educators and teachers like Steve Epstein who talks the talk and walks the walk.

May he and his dear wife share many years of health and happiness together sharing their love and devotion for Eretz Yisroel with many young minds, and hearts, young in years and/or young in heart and actualize his most valued expression AM YISROEL CHAI VEKAYAM!

If you are interested in participating in a group AFSI AD please reply to this email that you will be doing so tonight and/or asap so I can include your name in the ad. Please make sure to let me know how you wish your name(s) to appear on the ad.

Then send your check in the amount of $36 payable to Yeshiva Derech HaTorah earmarked 37th Dinner in honor of the Epsteins 2810 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn NY 11229.

A copy of the ad will be sent to all iyh.

Yasher Koach and Tizku LeMitzvoth!

Sincerely,

Robin Ticker and Lori Fein co-chairs Brooklyn Afsi

Time Sensitive! Today Yom Hashaah Monday April 24 and Tomorrow April 25...Rena Ariel from Kiryat Arba Addresses Local Communities in Memory of Daughter Hallel Yaffa, Hy”d Kerem Hallel

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Background:

Monday, July 04, 2016
Hallel Yaffa Ariel, Videos: Hespedim and Funeral, . Mother Rina, Father Amichai and Netanyahu Speak Out.

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/07/videos-of-hespedim-and-funeral-of.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154255170156861&set=a.10151343303951861.1073741825.548196860&type=3

Rena Ariel Addresses Local Communities in Memory of Daughter Hallel Yaffa, Hy"d

http://jewishlinknj.com/community-news/bergen/18206-rena-ariel-addresses-local-communities-in-memory-of-daughter-hallel-yaffa-hy-d

...Today, Monday, April 24, they will be at the HAFTR middle school in the morning, followed by a presentation at Shulamith School in the afternoon. For more information about their Woodmere appearance tonight at 8 p.m., 859 Peninsula Blvd, Y.I. of Woodmere please contact ymorgenstern@gmail.com.

On Tuesday, April 25, they will speak at Lander College for Women from 1-2 p.m. At 4 p.m. they will be addressing the JCRC-NY, 225 West 34th Street, Suite 1607. That evening, they will be back in Teaneck to address the joint sisterhoods of Congregations Beth Abraham and B'nai Yeshurun at Beth Abraham at 8:30 p.m.

...Spreading the story of their young daughter's martyrdom gives Rena and Amichai Ariel tremendous measures of comfort as they fortify their own emuna along with their audience's. That was the purpose of their trip to the U.S. last September, which included a Teaneck presentation at Congregation Beth Aaron.
Rena Ariel has decided to visit additional Jewish communities in the Metropolitan area this April, once again accompanied by Elana Abelow-Kronenberg of Efrat. Abelow-Kronenberg, a proud mother of seven, first met the Ariels when she paid a shiva call to their home in Kiryat Arba. Her compassion for their grief knew no bounds and, with the kind assistance of her husband who agreed to "hold down the fort," she came to America with the Ariels to help spread their message.
The Ariel family invites the American Jewish community to partner with them in perpetuating the memory of their beloved Hallel Yaffa, Hy''d, by contributing to One Family/Kerem Hallel. To learn more about their projects and to arrange for additional U.S. appearances, please contact yekev.arielbyehuda@gmail.com or elanam77@yahoo.com.

https://www.facebook.com/elana.kronenberg

Rena Ariel , "To rise up from her ashes and to continue in Hallel's way, we are planning to build, with God's help, Kerem Hallel—Hallel's Vineyard—an educational center adjacent to our home. The center will invite visitors to come and hear Hallel's story, to visit the vineyards and family winery where she worked, and to support all of those who are settling the Land of Israel on a daily basis. In addition, as part of Kerem Hallel, we are also building Gan Hallel—Hallel's Garden—which will provide playground equipment for the school Hallel attended and where her sister currently attends. It is a small school that has experienced a great deal of terror. Through our efforts, we hope to revitalize it and give its students chizuk."

Please visit Kerem Hallel כרם הַלֵּל Ariel Family Winery https://www.keremhallel.com/ to be connected to this very special family and be a partner in their H-ly work.

Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

Israel Advocacy Calendar (www.IsraelAdvocacyCalendar.com).

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

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Saturday, April 22, 2017

Fwd: PROTEST TERRORIST MAHMOUD ABBAS' VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON MAY 3 AFSI Newsletter Thurs. April 20th, 2017

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Subject: PROTEST TERRORIST MAHMOUD ABBAS' VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON MAY 3
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PROTEST THE VISIT OF TERRORIST MAHMOUD ABBAS TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON MAY 3

Who is the Real Marwan Barghouti?

View A Powerful Video Of AFSI Chizuk Missions

AFSI Calendar of Events

PROTEST THE ANNOUNCED VISIT OF TERRORIST MAHMOUD ABBAS TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON MAY 3

The president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas has been invited to meet President Trump at the White House on May 3. This invitation should never have been extended to Abbas, a terrorist disguised as a politician and diplomat.

LET THE THE WHITE HOUSE KNOW YOU OPPOSE HIS VISIT.

You can leave a comment on the White House comment line at 202-456-1414 (although there may be a wait to get through to a person who will take your comment.)

You can also send a message through the website whitehouse.gov. Just click on the Get in Touch link at the top right of the homepage.

Here is a sample email sent today:

KEEP THE UNREPENTANT TERRORIST, MAHMOUD ABBAS, OUT OF AMERICA AND OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE

As a member of AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI (afsi.org), I urge you, President Trump, to WITHDRAW YOUR INVITATION TO THE TERRORIST MAHMOUD ABBAS to visit you at the White House.

In 1996, when Abbas' mentor, THE TERRRORIST YASSER ARAFAT, came to NY, it was Mayor Giuliani who had the moral rectitude and courage to have Arafat evicted physically from Lincoln Center's Philharmonic hall.

We suggest that until Abbas changes the PLO Charter calling for the destruction of Israel, and until he stops funding hate education in the PA schools, and until he stops paying salaries to terrorists who murder or attempt murder on Israelis, it is immoral to allow this terrorist into the U.S., and certainly NOT into the White House.

Just as you are finding it difficult to abrogate the Iranian "deal" which Iran NEVER SIGNED, because all the goodies were delivered up front, so it will be impossible to negotiate any kind of "peace" with Abbas once he is given recognition.

Let him prove his good faith BEFORE he is treated like a dignitary worthy of being a guest in the White House.

Your Name

The True Mahmoud Abbas:

Who is the Real Marwan Barghouti?

Much criticism--all of it fully deserved--has been directed toward the New York Times since it published an op-ed by convicted Arab terrorist/murderer Marwan Barghouti earlier this week. The Times had originally omitted any mention of Barghouti's history of terrorism and his conviction for murder, until it was hit with an uproar of protest for the omission.

Below is a short video summarizing the real Marwan Barghouti. What did he do and why is he in jail; all omitted by the New York Times.

In addition, CAMERA has just published an expose of New York Times reporting beginning at the start of 2017, detailing how readers of the Times' op-ed pages have been fed a steady diet of one-sided, anti-Israel rhetoric.

A summary of the CAMERA report can be read here:

CAMERA: Barghouti op-ed just the tip of the Times' iceberg

View A Powerful Video Of AFSI Chizuk Missions

Reservations are now closed for AFSI's historic May 2017 Chizuk Mission. However, AFSI will be returning to Israel in November during Parshat Chaye Sarah. Plan ahead and mark your calendars now!

Get a taste of an AFSI Chizuk Mission from our video on our website by clicking HERE.

AFSI Calendar of Events

(Additional events can be found at israeladvocacycalendar.com)

Thursday, April 20, 6:00 PM

ISGAP presents, "Violence Against Jews In The Unites States: A Historical Perspective And Analysis

Dr. Yehudit Barsky, ISGAP Research Fellow and Author;

At Columbia University, William and June Warren Hall, WJ Basement 107
1125 Amsterdam Ave., NYC

www.isgap.org

Sunday, April 23, 2:00 PM

Observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day

At Congregation Emanu-El, Fifth Ave. & East 65 St.

Reserve tickets in advance HERE.

Tuesday, April 25, 11:00 AM

Conference Call: The Israel Project (TIP) with Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY)

Topic: What Lies Ahead for the U.S.-Israel Relationship

Reply to carolinak@theisraelproject.org for dial-in information.

Wednesday, April 26, 6:00 PM

Annual NYC Gala for Soroka Medical Center

At the Pierre Hotel 2 East 61 St. NYC

For further info: 914-725-9070 or email AmericanFriends@Soroka.org

Sunday, April 30 - Tuesday, May 2

NYC's Upper West Side Celebrates Israel: Yom Ha'atzmaut 2017

A tremendous way to celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independance Day.

On NYC's Upper West Side.

For info, click HERE.

Sunday, April 30, 5:00 PM

CAMERA's Annual Gala

Honoring Stephen Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister

Info: 888-736-3672 or dinner@camera.org

Monday, May 1, 5:30 PM

Flag ceremony in honor of Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut

Downtown Manhattan at Bowling Green 30 Canyon of Heroes (Broadway & Morris St.)

Monday, May 1, 6:30 PM

Yom Ha'atzmaut Israel Independence Day Community Celebration

Manhattan's Upper East Side community celebration of Israel's Independence Day with a Megillah reading of Israel's Declaration of Independence, and an honoring of the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.

At The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center: One E. 65th Street, NYC

Registration 6:30 PM; Program 7:00 PM

Free; RSVP required; HERE.

Tuesday, May 9, 6:00 PM

21st Yeshivat Hesder Sderot Dinner

Guest speakers include Honorable Ayeket Shaked, Israel Justice Minister; Honorable Alon Davidi, Mayor of Sderot. The Honorable Ambassador Dani Dayan Consul General of Israel in New York, will be in attendance.

Terrace on the Park, Flushing, NY

www.sderot.org/dinner

CALL FOR VERY SPECIAL AFSI MEMBER PRICING! 212-828-2424

Thursday, May 11, 7:00 PM

Israeli journalist Matti Friedman in conversation with author Nicole Krauss

At NYC's Central Synagogue 632 Lexington Ave.

Click HERE for details.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Fwd: UNRWA Spreads the Word that UNRWA will Introduce New Curriculum of Peace But is it all Talk and No Substance? From David Bedein Near East Policy Research. Sounds like happenings in PSFC...

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In a similar vein..

We applaud Governor Cuomo for his Executive order to reject BDS from New York State.

We applaud the City Council for passing a resolution (law 1058-A) condemning BDS in New York City.

However, such condemnations have toothless and of no real substance. Otherwise we, the Committee to abolish BDS from the Park Slope Food Coop, would have an address in Albany or in the City Council to report the Park Slope Food Coop. The PSFC have shamelessly allowed BDS to occupy their office space and use PSFC name and resources to promote BDS bias in their bi monthly newspaper and reading groups and General meetings while at the same time have been quite successful to silence those who have tried to challenge their false and deceitful narrative. They have gone so far as having a BDS website and have even prosecuted members of the PSFC who have tried to stop them and suspended them from the Coop! This one sided pro BDS bias has been going on for 8 years in spite of the membership voting against BDS! Yet the Executive Order and the City Council resolution doesn't help us as nobody has returned our calls or responded to our letters....

From: Center For Near East Policy Research Lt <ctrforneareastpolicyresearch@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:19 AM
Subject: UNRWA spreads the word that UNRWA will introduce

new curriculum of peace
To: SehgalM@gao.gov

April 5, 2017

Attn:

Ms. Mona Sehgal

SehgalM@gao.gov

Assistant Director,

International Affairs and Trade

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

441 G St, NW, Washington, DC 20548

http://www.gao.gov

Dear Mona,

Wishing you success in the progress of your current GAO investigation of UNRWA.

Over the past week, UNRWA spread the word that UNRWA intends to introduce a new curriculum for peace and tolerance in the UNRWA school system.

However, UNRWA reports widespread popular opposition to such an initiative. (1)

The fact that UNRWA admits that there is a problem in their schools represents a newsworthy development in itself.

However, the Center for Near East Policy Research checked all public and private sources in UNRWA. No intention, initiative or program exists in the UNRWA Department of Education for any change in the UNRWA curriculum.

UNRWA curricula in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza remain under the supervision of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education, which makes it clear that no plans are afoot for any change in the Palestinian Authority Education System.

Successive PA Ministers of Education have made it clear that the PA Ministry of Education runs schools with a unified curriculum for UNRWA, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. The current war curriculum of the Palestinian Authority used by UNRWA speaks for itself. (2)

The presence of Hamas in UNRWA schools speaks for itself. (3)

Why, then, does UNRWA spread the word they intend to introduce a new curriculum?

This serves UNRWA image with a new US administration at the helm. The US, indeed, pays for 33% of the UNRWA budget, which has reached $1.2 billion. (4)

UNRWA presents the US government with good intentions of UNRWA, blaming popular opinion, which would not allow UNRWA to act in a noble fashion.

UNRWA has used this PR approach in the past.

Between 2008 and 2010, UNRWA spread the news that it was going to introduce holocaust education. UNRWA dispatched professional fundraisers to raise the finance needed to teach the holocaust to the next generation of Palestinian school children.

Yet UNRWA expressed regret in 2011 that it could not implement the holocaust education program because of "popular opinion".

However, The Center for Near East Policy Research checked out this development with Michael Kingsley-Nyinah, then the director of the executive office of UNRWA in New York, who replied to our query: "I am writing to clarify that there is no 'Holocaust curriculum' as such in UNRWA schools and there are no plans to introduce one."(5)

However, UNRWA earned praise in the Jewish community because of their "intention" to introduce holocaust curriculum for the next generation of Palestinian Arab children, although such a curriculum was never planned in the first place.

(1)http://israelbehindthenews.com/hamas-strongly-attacks-unrwa-intention-introduce-changes-curriculum-elementary-schools/15766/

(2) http://israelbehindthenews.com/jews-jewish-state-schoolbooks-used-unrwa-de-legitimization-demonization-indoctrination-war-2/15319/

(3) http://israelbehindthenews.com/unrwa-supply-line-hamas-next-round-fighting/15754/

(4)http://israelbehindthenews.com/jews-jewish-state-schoolbooks-used-unrwa-de-legitimization-demonization-indoctrination-war-2/15319/

(5) http://israelbehindthenews.com/there-is-not-and-has-never-been-a-plan-for-a-holocaust-curriculum-in-any-unrwa-school/7025/

With warmest regards,

David Bedein

Director

Israel Resource News Agency

Center for Near East Policy Research

+972-547-222-661

www.cfnepr.com