Month: December 2006

Chanukah in Homesh: Mounted Police Knock Down Woman

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Black-uniformed police in riot gear, backed by mounted police, confronted 1,000 supporters of Jewish life in the destroyed community of Homesh Monday night. One horse ridden by a policeman knocked down a woman, who threw sand in the animal’s face to prevent it from trampling her.

The crowd, including former residents of the community which was among those destroyed by the government last years, out-maneuvered soldiers and police who tried to prevent them from reaching the site. They lit Chanukah candles and vowed to rebuild their homes. read more

Qassam Falls in Western Negev; No Injuries

IDF Arrests Tanzim Fugitive Near Bethlehem

Two Kassams Land in Western Negev; None Wounded

Foiled Terrorist Plan to Kidnap Israelis, 3 Arrested

Shin Bet Announces Hamas Terror Cell Bust

Soldiers Stop Knife-Wielding Terrorist

IDF Finds Three Bombs Near Gaza Security Fence

Border Police Kill Top Tanzim Man Near Tulkarm

IDF Soldier Lightly Hurt Near Gaza Fence

Special Forces Shoot Fleeing Shechem Terrorists, Kill One

Explosives Device Hurled at IDF Troops Near Jenin read more

Parsha Mikeitz/Shabbos Chanukah 5767: A Message of Yosef: Never Assume That The Nations Accept an Obligation to the Jews

By, Moshe Burt

Three years ago, this author spoke at the Shul’s Shabbos Chanukah Oneg saying a vort about Yosef based on Jay Shapiro’s book “Almost Midrash.” The story of Yosef was encorporated into a fictional story entitled “Duaf of Memphis” from Shapiro’s book and this author dealt with the contrast of Yosef in Mitzrayim and the dialogue of Page 13 A & B of Gemora Megillah Esther (the dialogue between Achashveirosh and Haman resulting in the evil decree against the Jews). The point of the Torah Vort at that time was that with longevity in Shushan and throughout Achashveirosh’s Empire, as with Mitzrayim, the Jews were disparaged as either useless or too powerful. In both cases, the antagonists conveniently forgot about Yosef. The point was made as a lesson to the secular which sadly has been unlearned and the error repeated again and again throughout history in different ways whenever Jews got comfortable, complacent in where they were at the time and forgot who and what they are. In forgetting, they assimilate and, in our time, Chanukah evolves into “spin the dreidel”, cutsie, yet shallow assemblies in Conservative Synagogues to make it seem like they are doing something for Jewish youth, yet totally miss the meaning and message of what Chanukah is really all about. That was the focus of the Rav Kahane article circulated last Chanukah. read more

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More Amona’s to Come??

Northern Samaria Declared “Closed Military Zone”

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Northern Samaria, including the community of Shavei Shomron, has been declared a closed military zone due to attempts by the former residents of Chomesh to visit what was their home today.

The junction between Highways 60 and 55 near Kedumim was closed first to Jewish traffic and then to Arab vehicles. Around seventy people have so far reached this area. No skirmishes with police have been reported, although verbal confrontations are going on. read more

Stones Thrown at Car in Ramallah: No Casualties

Qassam Rocket Lands Next to Orchard in Western Negev; No Injuries

MK Eitam: Leadership Must Stop Deceiving Citizens

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MK Effie Eitam (National Union-NRP) said after Mossad Chief Meir Dagan’s briefing of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, “Israel is faces severe security threats.'”

MK Eitam added, “A leadership is needed that will stop deceiving the citizens and will allow the IDF to gain back security control.” read more

Another Tack: Permanently High Plateau, by Sarah Honig (Jerusalem Post)

“The collapse that threatens us… is far more horrendously final than insolvency, with no comebacks or meaningful retrospection likely thereafter.”

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Once upon a time there was a very prolific star economist named Irving Fisher. Always inordinately confident of his astute clairvoyance, he was among the forerunners of the modern breed of celebrity financial gurus.

His most famous prediction – in October 1929 – was that “stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” But a mere few days later, alas, reality confoundedly interfered with Fisher’s rosy forecast and the stock market uncooperatively crashed. read more