Chief Rabbi Metzger: ‘Pope Agreed Vatican to Stop Missionizing Jews’
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Commentary:
This blog will not comment beyond this link to Pope Benedict XVI’s alleged past membership in Hitler Youth despite denials of same by a Vatican spokesman and assertions of reluctance to join by another spokesman.
But Israel’s Ashkenaz Chief Rabbi Metzger’s making a spectacle of himself with his headline announcement that the ‘Pope agreed that the Vatican would stop missionizing Jews’ is as phony an agreement as the document signed by freed, swapped terrorists that they would never again involve themselves in terrorism. And we know how quickly those signed documents of freed terrorists are discarded and how quickly many or most freed Islamic terrorists return to their terrorist deeds blowing up, injuring, maiming and killing more Jews.
“Disengagement” Authority Still Covering Up Abuse of Evicted Former Gush Katif Residents
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Commentary:
The State Commission of Inquiry formed to probe the treatment of “evacuees” has begun hearing testimony. This blog has referred and will continue to refer to the former Gush Katif residents by the more accurate terms, the expelled, the evicted, the former Gush Katif residents, rather than the regime politically correct term of “evacuees from the disengagement” because what happened in Gush Katif in August, 2005 was NOT a disengagement and the former residents were NOT “evacuated”, i.e. “evacuated from danger.” The people of Gush Katif had made homes, communities, had built businesses, society, communal and religious life there and had made a disaster area BLOOM.
Monday War News: More Terrorist Rockets, Mortars Slam Southern Israel, IDF Nabs Two Sinai Infiltrators; Police Shut Down PA Media Center, 6 Terrorists Nabbed, Stonings Spread to Inside Jerusalem, IDF Removes 2 Roadblocks Near Ramallah, 3 Jewish Autos Stoned Near Kedumim
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Kassam Fired From Gaza Hits Sdot Negev Region; None Hurt
Kassam Lands Near Kibbutz in Sha’ar Hanegev Region
Related report: Terrorists Hit Negev [Kibbutz Kfar Aza With Kassam] on Yahrzeit of Resident Killed by Rocket, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
IDF Captures Two Sinai Infiltrators [From Egypt], One Wounded (Jerusalem Post)
Arab Rock Attacks Spread to Jerusalem [Attack Near Gilo Neighborhood]
Police Suspect Terrorism in Gan Yavne Murder [50 Year Old Cab Driver, No Police Record, Found in Field], by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
Friday, Shabbos, Sunday War News: Hamas Claims New Stock of Grads, Israel Seizes Gaza Boat Which Refused Stop Order; Terrorist Caught with Knive Near Jerusalem, 471 Illegals, 6 Terrorists Nabbed, 4 Teens Injured by Rocks Thrown at Bus, IDF Force Fired on Near Ramallah
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Hamas Claims to Have New Grad Missile Stores
Israel Seizes Gaza Boat, Four Fishermen [off Coast Near Gaza City, Boat Refused Calls to Stop]
Palestinian Caught in Possession of Knife South of Jerusalem
[411] Illegal Arab Residents, [3] PA Suspects Arrested [in Ramallah Area]
Four Teens Injured When Stones Thrown at Bus Near Kiryat Haim
Roughly 60 Illegal Aliens Detained in Truck
Palestinians Fire at IDF Force [Near Silwad, northeast of Ramallah]
Parshiyot Behar/Bechukotai 5769: Connecting Shabbos, Shemittoh and Eretz Yisrael
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Parshiyot Behar and Bechukotai are another power-packed doubleheader emphasizing the connection between the Jew and Eretz Yisrael.
Our Parshiyot parallel the laws of Shabbos with Shemittoh. And so, six days you shall work and you shall rest, refrain from all manner of avodah on the seventh day… to keep it Holy, just as in emulation of Hashem’s creation of the universe. When the laws of Shabbos are paralleled with the laws of Shemittoh: ‘I will command My blessing during the sixth year and it will provide produce for three years’, we are able to understand the Hatam Sofer’s explanation;
Wednesday, Thursday War News: They’re Back! — Kassam and Mortar Attacks on South From Gaza, IAF Bombs Tunnels; 28 Terrorists Nabbed, Soldier Killed in Raid Near Ramallah, Police Kill Terrorist at Hevron’s Machpela Cave
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Commentary;
Can there be any great surprise at all at the return of rocket and mortar bombardment of Southern Israel from Gaza? How many more times will we see this predictable cycle repeat itself due to continued revelations of the weakness of a secular regime which has long ago lost sight of how and why they, we are here? How many more times will the masses watch this cycle repeat itself before they get their backs up and kick these spineless, corrupt, faithless rascals out — every last one of them? Bring on strong, faith-based governance. MB
Tuesday War News: Woman Wounded by Stoning Near Tekoa, Hebron’s Zion Route to be Opened to Arabs, 5 Terrorists and 17 Illegals Nabbed, IDF Post Hit by 4 Molotovs, Sunday’s Ramat Gan Terrorist Nabbed, 2 Pipe Bombs Found in Ramle
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Israeli Woman Lightly Wounded [in Car] by Stone Throwers Near Tekoa
IDF Arrests Five Terror Suspects [in Borin, South of Shechem and in Hussan, West of Bethlehem]
4 Molotov Cocktails Hurled at IDF Post in Beit Omar; None Hurt
17 Illegal Palestinian Residents Nabbed [in Rosh Ha’ayin]
Police Nab Ramat Gan Terrorist [for Sunday Stabbing of IDF Soldier], by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
Sunday, Monday War News: Mortar Attacks by Gaza Terrorists on Israeli Towns, Terrorist ‘Messenger’ Shot by IDF at Gaza Fence; 13 Terrorists, 282 Illegals Nabbed, Firebomb Attack on Buses, Chayal Stabbed in Ramat Gan Terror Attack, Israeli-Arab Terror Plot Foiled
Arab Intruder [Sent by Terrorists] Shot by Troops at Gaza Security Fence
10 Terrorists, 282 Illegal Arabs Arrested
Firebomb Attack [on Bus] at Beit Omer
Soldier Moderately Wounded in Apparent Ramat Gan Terror Attack, by Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)
Palestinians Hurl Molotov Cocktail at Israeli Bus Near Bethlehem; None Hurt
Parsha Emor 5769: The Kohen’s Purity in Joining Physical and Spiritual
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The positioning in Torah of our Parsha Emor, following last week’s Parsha Kedoshim gives rise to thought and contemplation.
In the previous 2 twin Parshas; Acharei Mos and Kedoshim and Tazria and Metzora before them, we learn about the Kohen as the only one Divinely invested with ruling as to Tumah or Ta’Hara regarding ones’ skin, hair, clothing or homes as well as with being the vehicle for Yom Kippur avodah in the Kadosh Kedoshim and as the model of Darchim for the entire B’nai Yisrael to ideally emulate as a model for all mankind.