Friday, May 20, 2016

Fwd: Meir Ettinger to be freed from administrative detention June 1


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Thursday, May 19, 2016
 
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Meir
Meir Ettinger to be freed from
administrative detention June 1



During Moshe Ya'alon's tenure  as Israeli Defense Minister, several of Israel's most devoted citizens were imprisoned for ambiguous reasons that never materialized. One of these persons is Meir Ettinger, who is the grandson of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, and who has been in custody for nearly 10 months. Besides being incarcerated under harsh conditions, Ya'alon even refused to allow Ettinger to leave jail for a few hours in order to attend his firstborn son's circumcision in Jerusalem. It is now being reported that Ettinger will be released from prison in Beersheva on June 1, which coincides with the beginning of this year's AFSI's Spring Chizuk Mission.

AFSI is proud to have stood by Meir Ettinger and provide chizuk to his family during his ordeal, along with other individuals still imprisoned with no charges or any proof of guilt.

While in administrative detention, Meir wrote the following beautiful poem in Hebrew, translated into English. We reprint it in its entirety.

You know, it's not easy for us to be heard
The media hardly allows us a word
And he who dares say that the media's wrong
Is ground into bits by their teeth and their tongue.
 
They have a system that's oiled to perfection
One schemes, one directs, then they pen a confession
And he who dares question their machinations
Will find out that his past needs "investigations."
 
Still, we will try to explain a thing or two
In the hope that you'll realize it all rings true -
No, I don't mind repeating our story to you
I'm in prison for months, there's nothing to do.
 
If you've listened to all the distortions of truth
Then you shudder at hearing the words "hilltop youth."
 
Someday we will tell you about the machine
That processes facts and decides what they mean
But for now, here's a message we hope will hit home
(We're writing our story in rhyme, like a poem.).
 
The hilltop youth - you won't hear in the news -
Have hearts filled with love for their fellow Jews
And when they noticed the emperor's clothes were awry
They couldn't, like others, just let him pass by.
 
In their young minds many questions arose
When they saw that the emperor lacked more than his clothes
True, they had no proper contacts and methods and means
But were willing to try - after all, they are teens.
 
The truth they were missing, that is what they sought
To fill the lacunae in what they'd been taught
To them life was simple, they needed no frills
They went out to find truth on the bare, rocky hills.
 
Down below was erudition, with all degrees listed,
Could that be the reason so much had been twisted?
Only when young can this search be undertaken
We could step back from the crowd and try to awaken.
 
Families murdered on roads? In our land? - we asked why
We know it's preventable, if you really try
Perhaps someone up there has a head that is hollow
That doesn't keep him from leading - but why do you follow?
 
And when no one could give us a good explanation
It deepened our fear for the state of our nation
And led us to feelings of isolation
If matters so crucial are covered in plaster,
It's no wonder foundations just crack all the faster.
 
Then many fine youths came to join and do good
Feel the pain of the nation - as all of us should
The establishment shunned them and on them heaped blame
And everyone else rushed to join in the game.
 
The youth on the hilltops were stunned by this ploy
Why the unleashed aggression, the need to destroy?
How could adults abrogate their own rules
And behave towards their children in ways that were cruel?
 
At first they had gazed on the children in wonder
But when truth posed a threat, they tore them asunder
For they know by themselves what we know very well
That power and honor is what makes their hearts swell.
 
We must have stumbled on some great mystery
Maybe someone is trying to rewrite history
Otherwise there is no way to fathom
What led them down to this moral chasm.
 
How turn evil into good and good into evil?
They gathered against us as if we're the devil
Why create a new story every few days?
When we'd watch the news, we'd be simply amazed.
 
True, we do dream of ending our people's disgrace
Hoping one day to see the Temple in its rightful place.
We believe that all of Israel is our eternal possession
And want our leaders to say no to secession.
 
This is what Jews prayed for throughout the years
Through gas and fire and blood and tears
So why do they treat us as if we're deranged?
What Jewish aspiration has changed?
 
Why did they arrest us with such needless violence?
And leave us to languish in cells of silence?
Police made a mockery of the law
And when they caused us pain, broad smiles we saw.
 
Why does terror continue despite Tzahal forces
While the world keeps silent and its media endorses?
Our leaders with stopping the terror just toy
But command the army, "Settlement hilltops destroy!"
 
This policy did not emerge out of the blue
With every new government, it's resurrected anew
Once again the British White Paper comes to pass
As each new government hopes that their power will last.
 
If someone notices that the emperor is sans his attire
He becomes a threat to be extinguished like fire
All the media join to burn the witch at the stake
With all of the threats and wild claims they can make.
 
You may feel that I am too rash in penning these words
But what we have here is a theater of the absurd.
 
Just one last question allow me to bring:
If my being free is the threatening thing
Maybe something very fundamental is the matter
If I, a singer at heart, am deemed the Mad Hatter.
 
All right, enough, I will silence my breath
Lest jailers administratively detain this bad poet to death.


 
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Calendar
AFSI Calendar of Events

for a full listing of events around town.


Sunday, May 22, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Jerusalem Post Annual Conference
At the Marriott Marquis Hotel, NYC (West 47 St. & Broadway)

Sunday, May 29, 9:30 AM starting time
The Annual Queens L'Chaim 5K Run/Walk for Israel
Starts at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, 83-10 188th St., Jamaica Estates, Queens, NY.
Click HERE   for details.

Tuesday, May 31, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN hosts the first-ever international summit at the UN on ways to confront national boycotts and delegitimization
Free; click HERE for info & registration.
At the UN, 1st Ave. at 46th St., NYC

Tuesday, May 31, 6:00 PM
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Chai invite you to celebrate the 37th Year of Ateret Cohanim
Gala Dinner Reception 6:00 PM, Program 7:30 PM followed by Dessert Reception
Special appearances by Danny Danon, the Honorable Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations and the Honorable Governor Mike Huckabee
Terrace On The Park 52-11 111 St. Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY
For additional information and reservations, please click HERE.

Wednesday, June 1, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friends of the IDF (FIDF) Five Towns & Greater Shore 5th Annual Community Event
At The Sephardic Temple, Cedarhurst, NY
Click HERE for details.

Sunday, June 5
Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day
Israel's national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in the aftermath of the June 1967 Six-Day War. Info: http://www.knesset.gov.il/holidays/eng/jerusalem_day.htm

Sunday, June 5
Noon: 
NYC Celebrate Israel Parade
The largest Israel Day Parade in the world, marching up Fifth Avenue, NYC

2:30-7:30 PM: The Parade is followed by the 23rd Annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park - The Concert with a Message!
Celebrate our eternal bond with the UNDIVDED capital of Israel, Yerushalayim
Free
Rain or shine at the Central Park Summerstage. Located at Rumsey Playfield, right off the 5th Ave. and 72nd St. entrance to Central Park.
 
Guest Speakers: Israel's United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon, Former U.S. United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, Fox News Analyst and Commentator Major Pete Hegseth, Joe Piscopo, and ZOA President Morton Klein
 
Starring: Lipa Schmeltzer, Eitan Katz, Shloime Dachs and Orchestra, Tal Vaknin with Shlomi Aharoni, Mati Shriki, Avi Kilimnick, Michoel Pruzansky, Dr. Meyer Abittan, Jerry Markowitz, Chaim Kiss, Izzy Kiefer & and Heshy R., White Shabbos and others
 
Special Appearance by: Ken Abramowitz, NCYI President Farley Weiss, RZA President Martin Oliner, Assemblyman David Weprin, Councilman Rory Lancman, Rabbi David Algaze, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, Rivka Abbe and others

 

Also following the Israel Day Parade: The Israeli American Council (IAC) presents the Celebrate Israel Unity Festival
On the Westside of Manhattan: Terminal 5, 610 West 56th St.
Click HERE for info and tickets

Sunday, June 5 - 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Chicago
Greater Chicago Jewish Festival 
If you can't be in Israel with AFSI this year, please stop by the AFSI table Sunday, June 5 (Yom Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Day), 10 am - 6 pm
If you would like  to volunteer to work at the AFSI table, please contact AFSI Chicago Chair Cheryl Jacobs Lewin at cjlpr1@gmail.com.

Wednesday, June 8, 6:00 PM Cocktail Reception, 7:00 PM Program
Washington, D.C.
The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) presents: Rays of Light in the Darkness 10th Anniversary Dinner
The Grand Hyatt 1000 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
Register by June 3 at www.emetonline.org

Sunday, June 26, 7:00 PM
Long Island's Annual Celebrate Israel
Eisenhower Park, Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater
Featuring a free concert with Dudu Fisher
 
Mark Langfan: Chairman
 Helen Freedman: Executive Director
Judy Kadish: Co-Executive Director
Jonathan Grauman: Research Analyst
 

Visit us on Facebook & Twitter   

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Friday, May 13, 2016

Fwd: Oh, the irony of it all. Afsi Newsletter May 12, 2016


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Date: Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:54 PM
Subject: Oh, the irony of it all.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
 
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AFSI is going to Israel! 




Our Spring 2016 Chizuk Mission June 1-8 is fully booked, but be on the lookout for news about our
upcoming Fall, 2016 trip.



An AFSI Chizuk Mission - There's Nothing Like it!
 
Irony
Oh, the irony of it all



President Obama will be visiting Hiroshima in late May, and will be the first sitting American president to visit the site of the U.S. atomic bomb attack that helped bring WWII to a close. The big question many are asking is, will he apologize to the Japanese? Whether he does or not, the whole scenario is dripping with irony. As Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy says,
"This will be an irony, that the President is heading off to Hiroshima to bray about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons," he said. "No President in our history has done more to catalyze proliferation - not just in the Pacific, but also in the Middle East, of course."

A damning indictment:

We do not expect the president to apologize to the Japanese, but if he did it would not be a surprise. What would be a surprise is if at the end of his eight year run as president, he apologizes to the American people for widening the racial, cultural and economic divides in the United States, and if he apologizes to America's allies for weakening and denigrating them while elevating America's enemies, and for causing chaos around the world, especially in the Middle East, leaving the world a much more dangerous place than when he entered office.


 
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Calendar
AFSI Calendar of Events

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


Tuesday, May 10 - Sunday, May 15
Upper West Side (of Manhattan) Celebrates Israel Week
Click http://www.uwsisrael.org/ for schedule of events

Thursday, May 12
Yom HaAtzma'ut, Israel Independence Day
There are so many great activities taking place throughout New York and environs to celebrate 68 years of Israeli statehood!

Check out: www.israeladvocacycalendar.com, the Israeli American Council website, www.israeliamerican.org, and the Upper West Side Celebrates Israel, 

Saturday, May 14, 9:00 PM - New Jersey



Sunday, May 15, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
Screening of the acclaimed movie, Israel Indivisible: The Case For The Ancient Homeland; produced by Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Founder and President of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations
At the Great Neck Synagogue, 26 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023

Sunday, May 15
Celebrate Israel's 68th Anniversary at the Suffolk County JCC, Long Island, NY
Come meet AFSI's Suffolk County Chapter Chairperson, Hanna Cohen and AFSI supporters on Long Island!
Check out the JCC website for additional info: http://www.suffolkyjcc.org/

Sunday, May 15, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) - Los Angeles
Los Angeles Celebrate Israel Festival
This year's theme: Israel: A Mosaic of Jewish Cultures
At Rancho Park, Los Angeles

Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 PM - Arizona

Sunday, May 22, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Jerusalem Post Annual Conference
At the Marriott Marquis Hotel, NYC (West 47 St. & Broadway)

Sunday, May 29, 9:30 AM starting time
The Annual Queens L'Chaim 5K Run/Walk for Israel
Starts at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, 83-10 188th St., Jamaica Estates, NY.
Click HERE   for details.

Tuesday, May 31, 6:00 PM
American Friends of Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Chai invite you to celebrate the 37th Year of Ateret Cohanim
Gala Dinner Reception 6:00 PM, Program 7:30 PM followed by Dessert Reception
Special appearances by Danny Danon, the Honorable Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations and the Honorable Governor Mike Huckabee
Terrace On The Park 52-11 111 St. Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY
For additional information and reservations, please click HERE.

Wednesday, June 1, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friends of the IDF (FIDF) Five Towns & Greater Shore 5th Annual Community Event
At The Sephardic Temple, Cedarhurst, NY
Click HERE for details.

Sunday, June 5
Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day
Israel's national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in the aftermath of the June 1967 Six-Day War. Info: http://www.knesset.gov.il/holidays/eng/jerusalem_day.htm

Sunday, June 5
Noon: 
NYC Celebrate Israel Parade
The largest Israel Day Parade in the world, marching up Fifth Avenue, NYC

2:30-7:30 PM: The Parade is followed by the 23rd Annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park - The Concert with a Message!
Celebrate our eternal bond with the UNDIVDED capital of Israel, Yerushalayim
Free
Rain or shine at the Central Park Summerstage. Located at Rumsey Playfield, right off the 5th Ave. and 72nd St. entrance to Central Park.
 
Guest Speakers: Israel's United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon, Former U.S. United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, Fox News Analyst and Commentator Major Pete Hegseth, Joe Piscopo, and ZOA President Morton Klein
 
Starring: Lipa Schmeltzer, Eitan Katz, Shloime Dachs and Orchestra, Tal Vaknin with Shlomi Aharoni, Mati Shriki, Avi Kilimnick, Michoel Pruzansky, Dr. Meyer Abittan, Jerry Markowitz, Chaim Kiss, Izzy Kiefer & and Heshy R., White Shabbos and others
 
Special Appearance by: Ken Abramowitz, NCYI President Farley Weiss, RZA President Martin Oliner, Assemblyman David Weprin, Councilman Rory Lancman, Rabbi David Algaze, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, Rivka Abbe and others

 

Sunday, June 5 - 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Chicago
Greater Chicago Jewish Festival 
If you can't be in Israel with AFSI this year, please stop by the AFSI table Sunday, June 5 (Yom Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Day), 10 am - 6 pm
If you would like  to volunteer to work at the AFSI table, please contact AFSI Chicago Chair Cheryl Jacobs Lewin at cjlpr1@gmail.com.

Wednesday, June 8, 6:00 PM Cocktail Reception, 7:00 PM Program
Washington, D.C.
The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) presents: Rays of Light in the Darkness 10th Anniversary Dinner
The Grand Hyatt 1000 H Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
Register by June 3 at www.emetonline.org

Sunday, June 26, 7:00 PM
Long Island's Annual Celebrate Israel
Eisenhower Park, Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater
Featuring a free concert with Dudu Fisher
 
Mark Langfan: Chairman
 Helen Freedman: Executive Director
Judy Kadish: Co-Executive Director
Jonathan Grauman: Research Analyst
 

Visit us on Facebook & Twitter   

Like us on Facebook  Follow us on Twitter
 
Visit Our Website
www.afsi.org


 



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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Come this morning 11:30 to Protest Park Slope BDS Workshop. Wear Pro Israel T shirts, Israeli Flags, Pro Israel posters, fliers....

bs"d  (NOT BDS)

Today at noon Park Slope Food Coop is having a BDS workshop  on the Displacement of Bedouin Palestinians in Israel and Soda Stream's role. Please come to protest

BDS and Economic Terror is funded by Hamas. 

Rationalization and false justification of BDS is fueled by "Peace negotiations".  

Camp David Accords,  the Oslo Agreement, The Disengagement from Gaza, also known as the Gush Katif Expulsion from Gaza and today's "Peace Process"  negotiations only serve to fuel terror by raising false hopes and expectations that suggest that our Biblical Homeland is subject to negotiation and that the Palestinians have a rightful claim. 

The accusation against Israel for stealing and Occupying Palestinian territory is based on a complete lie.  The entire Land belongs to G-d and G-d has Chosen Israel to inherit the entire Land of Israel inclusive of  Temple Mount, Judea and Samaria.  

It is clear from the Torah. Starting from the Exodus from Egypt, the Nation of Israel is yearning, aspiring to live and settle and keep the Commandments in the Land of Israel the Land of our Forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  

Thousands of years and nothing has changed.  The Bible, Our Hopes, Our Dreams, Our Prayers, Our People have remained the same! The Palestinians base their claim to Israel on a false narrative based on lies and victimhood when in fact they have been the ones who steal and terrorize, riot and then play victim.

Park Slope Food Coop empowers this evil.  , defiantly wants to erase the Bible,  and probably Israel with it's BDS pro Palestinian Agenda. 

The Displacement of Bedouin Palestinians in Israel. What is Soda Stream's role



ANTI BDS PROTESTERS WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
Notice to all Pro Israel individuals and  groups to come and picket this BDS Meeting which is unlawful according to the Park Slope Food Coop regulations: 

Protest the Park Slope Food Coop BDS Meeting at 782 Union Street, West of 7 avenue. Q to Seventh Ave., 2 3 to Grand Army Plaza.

B67, B69 to Union Stret, B41 to 7 Ave,

The BDS meeting is to take place at 12 noon. It would be a good idea if people arrived at about 11.30 so we could hand out fliers as people enter the coop. Please tell everyone. 

We Demand that the PSFC stop their terror funded BDS agenda items and present the truth. We expect them to hold meetings to present the following Agenda Items in answer to the Hamas terror funded BDS AGENDA. HATEFULE BDS Agenda must be banned from the PSFC (Park Slope Food Coop) because not only does it wish to destroy Palestinian and Beduins job opportunities, it promotes Terror and out to destroy Israel!


For  more on this topic:

Please protest another BDS promotion workshop at the Food Coop http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/04/re-please-protest-another-bds-promotion.html


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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. 

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Lawyer in Discrimination Suit: President of CUNY College Pressured Jewish Faculty Member to Withdraw Antisemitism Complaint | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/28/lawyer-in-discrimination-suit-president-of-cuny-college-pressured-jewish-faculty-member-to-withdraw-antisemitism-complaint/

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