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Odense: "We are only Danish on paper" by Esther (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 3:10:00 AM
Odense: “We are only Danish on paper” Information’s journalist Hana AlKhamri, who is from Yemen and had lived most of her life in SaudiARabia, visited Vollsmose and met the neighborhood’s residents. She recounts her meetings with the neighborhood in this series. “I am back in the Arab World. That is my first impression of the meeting with the Odense neighborhood of Vollsmose. However the place doesn’t remind me of any other Arab country I know. It’s as if Arab Vollsmose is stuck in the way of life that the first immigrants brought with them to Denmark, while the Arab counties continued to develop.” ——— School principal Olav Nielsen made the news last year when he said he would advise Jewish parents not to enroll their children at his school. At the time, blogger Uriasposten pointed out that Nielsen supported the Boycott Israel campaign. In this article, it seems he also has a Palestinian flag in his office. It’s unclear whether his theoretical advise to Jewish parents is due to his students’ antisemitism, or his own. Going down the hall at Humlehaveskolen (Humlehave school) in Vollsmose, I meet a girl of at most eight. She’s wearing a headscarf. This is the first time in my life that I’ve such a little girl wearing a headscarf. Even in Saudi-Arabia, where I grew up, I’ve never seen such a thing. A teacher tells me that the girl’s parents are doing everything they can to protect their children from the influences of Danish society. In Humlehaveskolen, around 90% of the students have an immigrant background. And the girl with the headscarf is a very good example of the battle which is constantly going on in the school and the children’s heads. The boys and girls I meet at the school all recount how complicated and bewildering it is for them to live up to the expectations, norms and demands their families make, and at the same time honor the demand of Danish society to integrate and get an education. The school’s principal, Olav Nielsen, is a familiar figure in Vollsmose. Besides his job as a school principal,
he also works with young prisoners – several of which were previously students at the school. “The children from many of our immigrant families come from rough situations. Several have seen their fathers killed before their eyes. Others have parents who were tortured or traumatized by war experiences,” he says. On the wall behind him hangs a Palestinian flag and pictures of his former students. There’s also a bird cage with a parrot in the office. Olav points at it with a finger and says: “This parrot belongs to one of my students. He’s serving a prison sentence and I promised him to take care of his bird until he comes out again.” Olav explains that the student’s background makes them vulnerable: “The mothers rarely have any educations, since they were married off at a young age. Most of the families who live here in Vollsmose, suffer from some form of injury: physical, psychological or mental. We even have some young people and older children who fled alone or with their siblings to Denmark.” Olav takes me into a 9th grade class. There are 18 students, not one of them has an ethnic Danish background. They can all tell similar stories of how they ended up in Denmark. Most came here very young. I ask why so many of the older boys become troublemakers. “I think they cause crime and problems because these boys have a difficult situation in their families,” says Khaled and adds that he feels he only does what his family wants of him. His voice is sad. Khaled’s teacher says that Khaled has good parents who are interested in their son’s future. Amojgar, who comes from Iraqi Kurdistan raises his hand and says: “Some have lost their fathers in war. Other comes from divorced families. They cause so much trouble to show that they are strong and can handle what goes on in the streets.” But Khaled interrupts him and says that he thinks that the teenage boys who are causing trouble are reacting mostly against their strict families, which always tell them what they must and should do, who they should hang out with etc. “All the time they’re told no. They always decide for us and therefore
there are many young boys who become defiant and disobedient. As a form of protest against their families,” he says. Khaled’s family doesn’t want him to have Danish friends. He doesn’t know why. “They don’t listen to me. They just want to do what they think is best for me.” Several of the boys in the 9th grade wear hip-hop clothes. The pants hang so low that you can see their underwear, and when they go down the corridor, they make hand-signs to each other all the time. I ask them what they want to be in the future. Five boys immediately say: “I don’t know,” while three answer that they want to be businessmen or lawyers. Khaled says that he wants to go to university, since then he can realize his parents’ dream. I note that the boys are the ones who answer most of my questions. The girls rarely speak, but I want to know what they think. Even when I directly ask the girls a question, nobody answers. Olav Nielsen, school principal, suggests that the boys leave the classroom. When I’m alone with the girls, I ask why they didn’t want to say anything next to the boys. “We are shy, and some times we get comments from the boys if they don’t like our opinions,and we don’t want that,” says Asia, a Somali girl with a little headscarf on her head. Six of the girls are veiled, three aren’t. I ask if their families treat them differently than their brothers, but before any of them has a chance to answer, Olav interrupts. He says that his daughter, the same age as the 9th grade girls, asked him one day if she could sleep with her boyfriend. Some of the girls smile, others look surprised and uncomfortable, as if they don’t approve that Olav gave his daughter permission to go to bed with her boyfriend. “It’s Danish culture. Parents should say their honest opinion, but we should respect our children’s individual choice, and I will respect my daughter’s,” he tells the girls in the class. “Maybe your parents will now tell you that my daughter is a whore, and at I’m a bad father, but that’s the way we respect our children and raise them as equals in the eyes of the law.” Olva leaves the class and leaves me alone with the girls.
“I’ll never be able to say that Olav’s daughter is a whore. But Danes are from another culture than ours,” answers Asia, when I ask what she they think of Olav’s story. “It’s true that the boys are treated differently in our families, but if girls got the same freedoms as boys, they could be a few problems, for example, if they get pregnant. We have a lot to lose, that the boys don’t,” she adds. But Najah, who is Palestinian, says that “The boys’ problems are because they have so much more freedom than we.” Hafsa, a Somali girl, disagrees. “It’s because the family’s control gets on the boys’ nerves, that they cause all the trouble.” Hafsa presents herself: “I’m from Denmark”. But then changes her opinion: “No, that was wrong. I’m from Somalia.” Her friends begin to laugh, especially when she emphasizes again that she’s not Danish. The girls in the class come from Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Somalia. “We are only Danish on paper,” says Hafsa. “Not in reality.” Source: Information(Danish), h/t Hodja Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Denmark: DPP wants non-Western immigration stop Denmark: DPP wants non-Western immigration stopThe Danish People's Party wants to stop all non-Western immigration. During the party's summer convention, the party's leader Pia Kjærsgaard and the l... • Berlin: Looking forward to a future of unemployment benefits Berlin: Looking forward to a future of unemployment benefitsA summary/ translation of an interview with Heinz Buschkowsky, the mayor of the immigrant-heavy Neukölln district of Berlin.Buschkowsky says... • Denmark: Free Press Society president charged with racism Denmark: Free Press Society president charged with racismThe Copenhagen Public Prosecutor decided to press charges (DA) against the president of the Free Press Society, Lars Hedegaard, for racist rema... Original post source
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Oxford University chancellor lies about Gaza by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 5:24:00 AM
Even people with academic robes can lie. In an article at European Voice, entitled “ The Gaza Prison,”current Oxford chancellor( also the last British governor of Hong Kong and a former European commissioner for external affairs) Chris Patten parrots lies about Israel and Gaza. Here’s just one paragraph: When I was in Gaza before the Second Intifada, there were many examples of entrepreneurial activity – factories and farms. Most of that has been stamped out. As the assault on Gaza ended in 2009, Israeli military bulldozers flattened factories. The imposition of a border zone has gobbled up 29% of the strip’s agricultural land. This single paragraph illustrates everything wrong about how Gaza is portrayed by purportedly wellmeaning, educated people. It contains not only Palestinian Arab lies that Patten swallows whole, but also a lie that he himself wants to push. Patten waxes eloquent about Gaza’s economy before the second intifada (that he helpfully capitalizes, indicating perhaps a bit of approval for that spree of terror.) Then he states how bad it is now – implying that it is because of Israeli actions in 2009. This is a lie. The Gazan economy went south as a direct result of the intifada, not because of Israeli actions. There are two major reasons that 34% of Gazans are unemployed today. One is because Israeli companies pulled out of Gaza in the wake of the wave of
terror that came out of Gaza starting in 2001 – including many attacks on the factories themselves. The Erez Industrial Zone limped along for a couple of years but finally had to shut down. The other is that Hamas violently took over Gaza in 2007. A chart of unemployment in Gaza from 1999-2006 shows clearly the effects of the first: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Unemployment in Gaza 17 19.5 34.1 38.1 29.2 35.4 30.3 34.8 I don’t have the detailed breakdown of unemployment since then, but between 2006 and today the rate had increased to over 40% – around the time of Hamas’ takeover of Gaza – and is now back down to 34%, the same level it was at the start of the intifada. In other words, the blame for Gaza’s economic woes should go to the terrorist organiations that operate out of, and now run, Gaza. And the implication that Israel purposefully “stamped out” Gaza’s industries is not only a lie, but a calumny. Where did Patten get the information that Israel viciously and wantonly “flattened factories” at the end of Operation Cast Lead? While Goldstone claimed that there was no military purpose for Israel’s damaging the Al Badr flour mill and the Sawfeary chicken farms, the IDF disputes both those accounts – and even Goldstone didn’t claim that Israel worked to flatten factories after the fighting was largely over. The idea that Israel maliciously flattened factories in Gaza is a lie. This is a product of a fevered imagination, not what one would expect from a leader of an institution of higher learning who should know the difference between facts and propaganda he was
fed during his visit to Gaza. Finally, the supposed “fact” that Israel’s buffer zone in Gaza – one whose purpose Patten is mysteriously silent about – takes up 29% of Gaza’s agricultural land is also an easily proven lie. What could cause a respected British academic and former diplomat believe – and propagate – lies about Israel? How much is his own willingness to believe those who lie to him, and how much is his desire to spread his own versions of these easily debunked lies? Perhaps most importantly, why is Patten silent on any possible reason that Israel might have to treat the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as a less-than-friendly territory? Putting these questions together indicates that Patten is not just clueless, but malicious. It is more than sickening that a person in such a position of prestige has no qualms about writing such a shoddy and transparent piece of anti-Israel propaganda. (h/t Paula from Philosémitisme Blog) UPDATE: R-MEW has some background on Patten:
The ICG is led by former EU Commissioner for External Relations and current Oxford University Chancellor, Chris Patten, along with former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour. Patten you may recall, rejected an inquiry in 2003 into the diversion of European taxpayer funds to finance Palestinian suicide bombers because he “needed an investigation like a hole in the head”. In recent years, Patten’s Oxford has been the recipient of over $300 million in donations from the Saudis. Arbour is famous for having originally endorsed the wildly antisemitic and oxymoronic Arab Charter of Human Rights while with the UN. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Congress sends letter defending Israel’s role in flotilla incident to President by vad_levin Congress sends letter defending Israel's role in flotilla incident to President WASHINGTON, D.C. - Six of the seven members of Connecticut's congressional delegation were among the ove... • The Torah in Haiku: Balak by Ed NickowTemple Chai, Long Grove, IL(Originally published in The Torah in Haiku) A talking donkey!Is this Balak in TorahOr Shrek on the screen? Both Balak and ShrekHave donkeys as...... • Helen of Troy – Telefon Tel Aviv Starring Erika Wolfel, Nicholas Karabinis, Cut Jade and Cut West. Directed, filmed, edited by Joshua Eustis Music taken from the current Telefon Tel Aviv album "Immolat... Original post source
Iran’s Thug-In-Chief thinks 9/11 death toll exaggerated by Robert (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 3:37:46 AM
Iran’s Thug-In-Chief thinks 9/11 death toll exaggerated Might as well build a mosque there, eh? “Iran’s Ahmadinejad doubts Sept. 11 attack toll,” by Robin Pomeroy and Ramin Mostafavi for Reuters, August 7 (thanks to all who sent this in): TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday the September 11, 2001 attacks were exaggerated in a fresh broadside at the United States just days after President Barack Obama voiced willingness to talk to Iran. Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the hardline populist Ahmadinejad also repeated
his denial of the Nazi Holocaust in which six million Jews were killed. Ahmadinejad said the September 11 attacks with hijacked airliners on New York and Washington D.C. had been trumped up as an excuse for the United States to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Speaking at a Tehran conference, Ahmadinejad said there was no evidence that the death toll at New York’s World Trade Centre, destroyed in the attacks, was as high as reported and said “Zionists” had been tipped off in advance. “What was the story of September 11? During five to six days, and with the aid of the media, they created and prepared public opinion so that everyone considered an attack on Afghanistan and Iraq as (their) right,” he said in a televised speech.
No “Zionists” were killed in the World Trade Centre, according to Ahmadinejad, because “one day earlier they were told not go to their workplace.” “They announced that 3,000 people were killed in this incident, but there were no reports that reveal their names. Maybe you saw that, but I did not,” he told a gathering of the Iranian news media. There is a published list of September 11 dead from more than 90 countries available online…. Posted by Robert on August 8, 2010 3:37 AM | 4 Comments Print this entry | FaceBook | Email this entry | Digg this | del.icio.us
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Islamic supremacist Ground Zero Imam Rauf traveling to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar for State Department by Robert (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:53:03 AM
Islamic supremacist Ground Zero Imam Rauf traveling to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar for State Department Besides being an open advocate for Sharia and restrictions on the freedom of speech in his book What’s Right with Islam, Rauf has refused to denounce Hamas. He has lied about his commitment to religious dialogue. He has lied about whether the Islamic center planned for the Ground Zero site will contain a mosque or not. And he has lied about whether or not the project is getting foreign funding. He is involved with a group that helped fund the jihad flotilla against Israel. “News Flash: Ground Zero Imam Heading to Saudi Arabia, UAE …,” by Claudia Rosett at Pajamas Media, August 7 (thanks to Inexion): Next stops for Feisal Abdul Rauf, imam of the plan for a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero: Courtesy of the U.S. State Department, Rauf — a.k.a. Imam Feisal – is scheduled to spend the rest of the summer on a swing through the petro-dollar palaces of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain, and Qatar. For more details, here’s the column in which yesterday evening I broke this bit of news (I have not found it reported anywhere else so far —
which leaves me wondering why, amid the emoting and editorializing splashed all over the MSM by defenders and commenders of Rauf, no one seems to be asking where he’s actually disappeared to): “Further Travels of Imam Feisal.” Rauf’s summer itinerary suggests odd priorities for a man who, in the name of harmony and bridgebuilding, has stirred up a furious debate in the U.S. — and then quietly left the country last month, leaving many questions unanswered about such matters as where and how he plans to raise the $100 million he’ll need to realize his dream of a highrise Islamic hub right up the street from where the Twin Towers stood. Neither Rauf nor the State Department seems eager to publicize his summer trip to Saudi Arabia and points nearby, though his tour appears imminent — as in, he’ll probably be touching down in the Middle East this coming week, and he’s not due back till early September. My source for this information is the New York office of his Cordoba Initiative foundation, and his wife and codirector at the Cordoba Initiative, Daisy Khan. But they didn’t exactly volunteer the information unbidden. Rauf himself came briefly to the phone last week, at his Cordoba Initiative office in Malaysia, when I tracked him down there on a hunch — after his New York office said he was traveling, not feeling well, and
could not be reached. As soon as I asked about funding, he said he was in an “important meeting,” and got off the phone. Since then, Rauf has been “unavailable” at his Cordoba Initiative office in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. When I phoned there and asked for him earlier this week, one of his assistants told me: “All media requests have to go through his office in New York.” At the New York office, I was told they were giving no more interviews, and for questions about the Malaysian office, I was referred back in a circle to the Cordoba Initiative in Malaysia. Finally, uninvited and with no appointment, I called the mobile phone of his wife and work partner, Daisy Khan. In answer to my specific questions, she said that Rauf was about to visit Saudi Arabia, etc., on a trip hosted by the State Department. In response to further questions, she allowed as how the State Department was sending her, as well, on a trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi later this month. She said there would be no fund-raising on these trips. But no one at the Cordoba Initiative seems ready to rule out the possibility of taking large sums of money from these places, should it at some point happen to be offered. As for the State Department: After three days of my repeated questions and phone calls, State by Friday’s close of business had yet to provide
any response to my request for confirmation of Rauf’s trip, Khan’s trip, or details about their Statesponsored summer outreach excursions to the Middle East. Apparently, it takes quite a while at State to get “clearance” for disclosure to the American public of such basic details as who, exactly, is engaging in public outreach at our expense and on our behalf…. Read it all. Posted by Robert on August 8, 2010 4:53 AM | 8 Comments Print this entry | FaceBook | Email this entry | Digg this | del.icio.us | Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • An Independence Day Message From the Father of Gilad Shalit... • "Every Muslim should become the killer of blasphemers""Every Muslim should become the killer of b l a s p h e m e r s " . . . • Hezbullah tunneling into northern Israel? Hezbullah tunneling into northern Israel? The IDF is concerned with the possibility that Hezbullah could tunnel under the border between Israel a... Original post source
Wikipedia alters Robert Spencer quotes, completely changing their meaning by Robert (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:20:53 AM
Wikipedia alters Robert Spencer quotes, completely changing their meaning I make a point not to look at my Wikipedia biography, as full as it is of spurious material, criticism from clueless dhimmis and lying Islamic apologists presented as if it were from credible sources, and tendentious misrepresentations of my positions. But this morning Jihad Watch reader James alerted me to something even worse: the Wikipedia biography now actually alters quotations from me to make me say things that I have never said and do not believe: He asserts that “Islam is a monolith, and characterizes all Muslims as terrorist or given to violence. Calling attention to the roots and goals of
jihad violence. Any Muslim who renounces violent jihad and dhimmitude is welcome to join in our anti-jihadist efforts. Any hate in my books comes from Muslim sources I quote, not from me. Cries of “hatred” and “bigotry” are effectively used by American Jewish advocacy groups to try to stifle the debate about the terrorist threat.”[4] Yes, this is incoherent — probably arising from the fact that the quotes are tampered with. The source points to this Jihad Watch page, where you can see how what I said has been changed. Did I say that “Islam is a monolith,” and characterize “all Muslims as terrorist or given to violence”? Nope. Actually, I said: “Islam is not a monolith, and never have I said or written anything that characterizes all Muslims as terrorist or given to violence.”
Did I make this anti-Semitic statement? “Cries of ‘hatred’ and ‘bigotry’ are effectively used by American Jewish advocacy groups to try to stifle the debate about the terrorist threat.” No. This is what I really said: “Cries of ‘hatred’ and ‘bigotry’ are effectively used by American Muslim advocacy groups to try to stifle the debate about the terrorist threat.” Did I ever say that Wikipedia is a trustworthy source for information about anything, rather than an ideologically-driven smear machine? No, I did not. Posted by Robert on August 8, 2010 4:20 AM | 4 Comments Print this entry | FaceBook | Email this entry | Digg this | del.icio.us
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Escaping the Internet’s Echo Chamber by Honest Reporting (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 1:57:00 AM
HonestReporting’s social media editor, Alex Margolin, contributes occasional posts on social media issues. He oversees HonestReporting on Facebook. The rise of social media has made it easier to share information and to promote important ideas. Even a short amount of time spent on Twitter or even Facebook will reveal a massive number of posts containing links to online content people want to share with their friends and online acquaintances. Increasingly, people are getting their news from these sources instead of traditional media outlets. In many cases, people no longer feel they need to follow traditional sources of information at all. If something is worthy of their attention, they reason, it will ultimately find its way into “the conversation” online. This sort of democratization of media – where everyone can post a link to an article or blog post, or even write their own article or blog post – is often cited as one of the biggest
benefits of the social web. Indeed, thanks to Google’s PagerRank algorithm, every link is viewed as a “vote” for content on Google’s search engine, the most important aggregator of content on the Internet. But the increase in available content has also generated a parallel need to filter information. With so much content coming from every direction, people have found it essential to limit their consumption of media to sources they trust and value. One popular form of filtering is known as “ personalization.” This is one of the fundamental principles of sites like Facebook, where our “news stream” shows us what our friends are doing, but nothing else. Personalization is appealing because it keeps us connected with the people we trust most. At the same time, personalization contributes to a different phenomenon increasing across the Internet – the atomization of audiences into narrow affinity groups, many of which never interact with one another online. The result is a form of echo chamber, where we hear our own opinions echoed back to us by like-minded people. The effect strengthens our convictions on many issues, but
closes us off to alternative viewpoints. It even happens on sites with no agenda other than to sell us things we like, such as Amazon.com. The site personalizes its services by storing information about their visitors and creating individualized recommendations. As such, people see more of what they have purchased before, and less of everything else. In the book, The Wisdom of Crowds, published in 2004, a few years before sites like Facebook and Twitter had even been created, James Surowiecki warned about the need for diversity in groups. Homogenized groups become cohesive more easily than diverse groups, and as they become more cohesive they also become more dependent on the group, more insulated from outside opinions, and therefore more convinced that the group’s judgment on important issues must be right. These kinds of groups share an illusion of invulnerability, a willingness to rationalize possible counterarguments to the group’s position, and a conviction that dissent is not useful. The current trends on the Internet, however, make diversity within
groups more difficult. On the other hand, the Internet also provides a smorgasbord of opinions from the widest possible spectrum. All that’s needed is a willingness to look for it. Previously in Alex’s series: Google Earth and the Rise of “Neogeography” Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • US-Israel relationship is as tight as ever, Obama and Netanyahu say After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Tuesday, Obama disputed that there is any coolness in the US-Israel relationship. President Barack Obama wal... ... • Song of Songs – Jewish Papercut Art – Page 1 ArchieGranot.com Song of Songs Papercut by Jewish Papercut artist Archie Granot.... • Beth Israel Synagogue roots run deep Beth Israel Synagogue (Kingston, Ontario) is celebrating a milestone. It has been 100 years since its formation and members and former members are gathering for a homecoming weekend.The history of the... Original post source
Tony Judt, May His Memory Be for a Blessing by Richard Silverstein (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 2:13:24 AM
Tony Judt z"l 1948-2010 (John Rifkin) Today, we have lost one of the bravest public intellectuals engaged in the Israeli-Arab conflict. I just noticed in his NY Times obituary that he was born in that seminal year, 1948, an irony that undoubtedly would not have been lost on him. During Operation Cast Lead, he was one of the first of the “celebrity intellectuals” Jerry Haber and I approached to sign a petition we organized. He signed willingly. I remember his famous (or notorious depending on one’s point of view) op -ed in the Times in which he advocated a one-state solution. I thought his essay at the time a bit Pollyannish, and I still maintain profound skepticism of the notion. But it reminds me of the old saying about democracy: it’s the worst form of government–except for everything else. Unfortunately, the bankruptcy of the present political situation renders the two state solution ever less credible. And Tony Judt looks
smarter every day. I first learned he was ill when I invited him to speak at an event I planned about Israel-Iran relations last December. The news came as a deep shock. I can only articulate my profound respect via the Jewish form of honoring the dead: zichrono livracha(“may his memory be for a blessing”). Related posts:
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HaTachana, Tel Aviv’s Old Railway Station by admin (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 1:56:10 AM
A seaside promenade notwithstanding, Tel Aviv is not known for its open spaces. But this concrete condition has improved considerably with the gleaming transformation of HaTachana, the Hebrew name for the old Jaffa railway station, into the city’s newest marketplace. Constructed in 1892 as the terminus for the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, it’s become an instant hit with locals who, like Manhattanites, never say no to a piece of the sky or a new hipster nook. HaTachana offers both, and the location couldn’t be better: between the beach and Neve Tzedek, the city’s first Jewish settlement outside Jaffa and now a lively district of renovated pastel houses and designer boutiques, especially along Shabazi Street, which ends where the HaTachana complex begins. With its upscale jumble of refurbished rail cars, freight terminals and train tracks to nowhere (and how’s a bit of defunct British air base
for an extra shot of atmosphere?), HaTachana raises Tel Aviv’s style bar. There’s even a disused cement factory, circa 1905, that has been repurposed as retail space. The best introduction to the vibrancy of the place is the creative souvenir emporium Made in TLV. The brainchild of Dafna Dannenberg, a Tel Aviv television producer, and the Israeli actor Yuval Abramovitch, its wares are 180 degrees away from your typical tourist tchotchkes. There are fantastic razor-thin aluminum wall clocks designed by Ofek Wertman with color facsimiles of the city’s street art (around $40), snazzy belts imprinted with images of Tel Aviv by night taken by the Israeli photojournalist Ziv Koren ($65), stylish T-shirts and enough curated curios to keep you happily in extended browse mode. HaTachana – The Old Railway Station Next to Made in TLV is a coffee bar and, behind it, a spa-style Ahava boutique selling beauty products made from Dead Sea salts (and soon salt sculptures). Chain stores may be the scourge of other commercial areas in Tel Aviv, but the boutiques here
keep things local. Israeli designers are especially well represented. For women there’s Ronen Chen, Naama Bezalel, Ido Recanati, Hella Ganor (jewelry) and Charlie Paloma; on the men’s side, Sketch is a streetwise standout. (No sign of a David Sassoon boutique yet, but one can hope.) There are a half-dozen or so restaurants, too, either Israeli, like the tapas spot Shushka Shvilli, or Italian. All are al fresco, which makes the ambience as far away from food court as you can get. Café Greg is separated by a high floor-to-ceiling glass wall from Tzomet Sfarim (House of Books), an art-book store where you can also peruse a good selection of new Israeli fiction, in English, by literary young guns like Assaf Gavron and Etgar Keret. The retail therapy here is sophisticated and smooth, the hours inviting (10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily). But the best part may be what happens outdoors. Every Thursday from 7 p.m. to midnight is Unique night, when Israeli designers, artists and concept creators converge for a roofless trade show that’s open to the public. Live music and D.J.’s
accompany the exhibitions. And at the Orbanic (“urban organic”) market on Friday morning (Friday in Israel is like Saturday in the States), the city’s cool crowd snaps up tangy tomatoes and artisanal olive oil to the tune of chill-out electronic beats. It’s like being on the fast track to Tel Aviv’s new-school cool. [via NY Times] Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Talmud Eser Sefirot, Volume 6, Part 16, page 1912, item 43 Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-0319Video: ENG 34.3MB Audio: ENG 6.11MB ... • Geneva: Proposal to ban all religious clothing Geneva: Proposal to ban all religious clothingThe radical party in Geneva (FDP) want to revise the law on external manifestations of worship. They want to ban the residents of the canton from weari... • Is Turkey a fifth column in NATO? Is Turkey a fifth column in NATO? Is Turkey a fifth column in NATO? Michael Rubin presents a pretty good argument that it is. ... Original post source
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Dozens of Americans murdered in Israel missing from US State Dept. award offers by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 5:19:00 AM
Dozens of Americans murdered in Israel missing from US State Dept. award offers The US State Department maintains a website called Rewards for Justice, which offers rewards for the arrest and conviction of persons involved in terror attacks against American citizens around the World. The page that deals with our region is here. It’s called Violence in Opposition to Middle East Peace Negotiations. It hasn’t been updated since 2003. And it’s missing an awful lot of victims. Dozens of names are missing from the list, according to a compilation on the Jewish Virtual Library list of American victims of terror. It is not known if the families of the victims have contacted the State Dept. Among the missing names are Nachshon Wachsman, who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in 1994; Dov Driben, an American Israeli who was killed at his farm in 1996; and Eish Kodesh Gilmore, an American Israeli who
was killed while guarding the National Insurance Institute in Jerusalem in 2000. The State Dept. list concludes with a suicide bombing in May 2003 and does not include at least seven subsequent terrorist attacks that have killed or wounded American citizens. The attacks include the 2006 murder of Florida teenager Daniel Wultz at a Tel Aviv food stand; the bombing of an American convoy in Gaza in October 2003; and the September 2003 suicide bombing in Jerusalem
that killed David Applebaum and his daughter Nava, originally from Cleveland. Also missing are the names of several wounded in the 2002 suicide bombing at Sbarro’s Restaurant in Jerusalem. Gilmore actually is included. The picture is Dr. David and Nava Applebaum HY”D. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:19 PM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Rabbi Weiss, Outside Annapolis Peace Confab, Rips Zionism On Nov. 27, 2007, in Annapolis, MD, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for the Neturei Karta International, ripped into Zionism. He blasted the Zionists for its sup... • Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu hail ‘unbreakable’ bond of US a… Barack Obama yesterday backed calls by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli premier, to resume direct peace talks with the Palestinians as both men hailed the "unbre... ... • Hebrew Love Image taken on 2007 -07-05 12:00:45 by ImageMD.... Original post source
Mais pourquois? by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 3:18:00 AM
Mais pourquois? French President Nicolas Sarkozy has appointed a former French ambassador to Syria and Egypt to act as a mediator between Israel and Syria. Sarkozy is hoping to restart ‘negotiations’ that would see Israel give up the strategically significant Golan Heights in return for vague paper guarantees of ‘peace.’ The British newswire cited the French Foreign Ministry, saying a spokesman confirmed that JeanClaude Cousseran, a former ambassador to both Damascus and Cairo, would take on the position. Cousseran was appointed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in an apparent effort to re-start peace talks between the nations. Syria hopes for a return of the Golan Heights, occupied and annexed by Israel from Syria in 1967, while peace with Syria would likely guarantee Israel increased stability in the region, and would bode well for peace talks with Palestinian sides. “I can confirm that (Sarkozy) has
charged Jean-Claude Cousseran with a mission concerning the relaunch of the Israeli-Syrian part of the (Middle East) peace process,” Reuters quoted the ministry’s spokesman as saying. Funny, I haven’t seen much about this in Israeli media. Perhaps they forgot to tell us. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:18 PM
Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • IBD on CAIR: “No matter the circumstances, bowing to such a radical group — one with proven terror ties — is a new low in political correctness, even for the Army” IBD on CAIR: "No matter the circumstances, bowing to such a radical group -- one with proven terror ties -- is a new low in political correctness, even for the Arm... • The Annual Pilgrimage to Baba Sali ?Burial Site Tomb in Netivot Every year Jews, mostly from Moroccan origin, are coming to pray over the tomb of the respected rabbi known as a miracle maker by the Religious Jews. Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira , known a... • Israel has never lacked enemies but now it risks losing its friends | Jonathan Freedland Netanyahu went into his meeting with Obama believing he has time on his side. But he's wrong: the clock is tickingThe advance word was that this was to be a "holding meeting" and not much more. Barack... Original post source
Doug Giles to CAIR top dog: "What’s next, Awad? Are you going to demand a Nidal Malik Hasan Avenue on Ft. Hood’s military base?" by Robert (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 3:41:54 AM
Doug Giles to CAIR top dog: “What’s next, Awad? Are you going to demand a Nidal Malik Hasan Avenue on Ft. Hood’s military base?” Doug Giles addresses Islamic supremacist thug Nihad Awad, CAIR’s cofounder and executive director, in “The Separation Between Muslims and Taste,” August 8: Building a mosque at Ground Zero is like OJ’s mom putting a glamour shot of Orenthal over Nicole Brown’s gravestone. In other words, it’s very wrong and extremely disgusting, as every person with a lick of decency would agree. What’s next, Awad? Are you going to demand a Nidal Malik Hasan Avenue on Ft. Hood’s military base? What about an Abdulmutallab Upgrade Package on Northwest Airlines?… Read it all. Posted by Robert on August 8, 2010 3:41 AM | 2 Comments Print this entry | FaceBook | Email this entry | Digg this | del.icio.us | Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • TLC’s ‘Take Home Chef’, Curtis Stone, with Me and Zohar Image taken on 2007-01-02 01:31:26 by Monica D.... • Future Biographies by Former Members of Congress Congressmen, if there's one thing they do well, it's take your money. But once they're out of office and deprived of the power to make bad laws for good money-they'll have to find another way to do ... • Gaza: The Killing Zone – Israel/ Palestine See full film here: www.booserver.com May 2003 life in Gaza is a constant gauntlet of Israeli sniper fire, military rockets and army bulldozers. No one is safe. In ligh... Original post source
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Hamas leader met with Israelis? by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 2:52:00 AM
Hamas leader met with Israelis? The pan-Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awswat reported on Saturday that senior Hamas terrorist Omar Abed al-Razek met with Israeli officials in Netanya on Tuesday. According to Palestinian sources quoted in the report, the former Treasury Minister in the Hamas government of Ismail Haniyeh, Omar Abed al-Razak was taken from Nablus, in the West Bank, to the Israeli city of Netanya on Tuesday. The Palestinian sources say the meeting was held in order to warn Hamas against kidnapping Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The Israel Defense Forces recently said that intelligence has shown Hamas leaders in Damascus are pressuring followers in the West Bank to abduct Israeli settlers and citizens. But that may not have been the reason for the meeting. The Palestinian sources did not give reasons for the meeting, but the officials apparently discussed the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, who has been kept captive by Hamas for over four years, or the recent rocket attacks in Eilat,
But I thought that "settlers" stole all the water! by Elder of Ziyon (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:06:00 AM
Ashkelon and and the Negev. And al-Razek denies the meeting took place altogether. Abed Al-Razak reportedly denied the reports and said, “This information is totally false and lacks basis. We are prohibited from entering 1948 territory.” Hmmm. posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:52 PM Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Denmark: Medina should change her name Denmark: Medina should change her nameStripping, bare legs
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Just 3% of Arabs empathize with Holocaust victims by Carl in Jerusalem (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:25:00 AM
Just 3% of Arabs empathize with Holocaust victims Here’s another datapoint from that survey of Arab opinion that the mainstream media would like you to ignore. Just 3% of the Arabs surveyed empathize with Jewish Holocaust victims. It asked respondents, “When you watch a movie or a program about the Jewish Holocaust, which of the following is closest to your feelings…” The most popular response, from 59 percent, was “Resent it as I feel it brings sympathy toward Israel and
the Jews at the expense of Palestinians and Arabs.” Another 29 percent said they had “mixed feelings. Rounding out the bottom, a mere three percent of Arabs say they “Empathize with the Jews who suffered under the Nazis.” James Kirchick has a review of the entire poll (which is being touted by Leftists all over the web to prove that the Arabs are ready for peace with Israel) here. Here’s his conclusion: Last year, I wrote an essay for Commentary Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Heeb Olympics I found these kosher-style Olympic video clips by Heeb Magazine pretty entertaining.
There are four Heeb Olympic events online:The Yarmulke TossPenny Pick - U p G e f i l t e F i s h WrestlingDisconnecta YentaAnd ... • Lag Baomer in Miron 2008 Lag Baomer in Miron 2008... • Unique Rosh Hashanah gift baskets, kosher gift baskets LeMehadrin, Badatz. Beautiful and unique gifts for the Jewish New Year by edseloh Unique Rosh Hashanah gift baskets, kosher gift baskets LeMehadrin, Badatz. Beautiful and unique gifts for the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah Gifts & Rosh Hashanah Gift ... Original post source
From Ma’an: Palestinian Authority police have dispersed two fights in the southern West Bank city of Hebron and the nearby Nuba village, detaining 15 suspected of involvement. Police said a fight broke out at a public swimming pool, where suspects used clubs and pelted one another with stones. Five sustained various injuries, and five others were detained. You mean, Hebron – the town of 70,000 Arabs held hostage by a few hundred Jews – has a swimming pool? But I thought that the settlers stole all the water of the West Bank for their own wasteful swimming pools and the poor Palestinian Arabs had none to drink, let alone swim in! Here’s a photo of a pool in Hebron that I somehow managed to find last year when the BBC had written a story about how Palestinian Arab water was all taken by evil Israelis. And that is hardly the only swimming pool in the territories. Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Jerusalem planning council to meet next week; ‘east’ Jerusalem on the agenda Jerusalem planning council to meet next week; 'east' Jerusalem on the agenda For the first time since Vice President Joe Biden's visit here in Ma... • Insight Into Klezmer Music The Klezmer music is the traditional Jewish music originated in Eastern Europe in the last centuries. In fact, the term Klezmer is a yiddish word which is a contraction of two He... • PA minister accuses Israel of “silently massacring” prisoners Palestinian Authority Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe has been busy lately spreading blood libels about Israeli prisons.Palestine Press Agency quotes him as saying that there are 18 prisoners... Original post source
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Norway: Iranian stoning case lawyer seeks asylum by Esther (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 5:40:00 AM
Norway: Iranian stoning case lawyer seeks asylum Via Earth Times: Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has defended a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, has arrived in Norway where he has applied for asylum, reports said Sunday. Mostafaei was due later Sunday to address a news conference organized by the Foreign Press Association, Bjorn Lindahl, a board member of the association, told the German Press Agency dpa. One of Mostafaei’s clients is Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been convicted of adultery and murdering her husband and sentenced to be stoned to death. ( more) Hija del Zion para Israel Support
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Precious Life in Israel and Gaza by Roni (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:46:53 AM
Precious Life in Israel and Gaza A new documentary illustrates the Israeli Palestinian conflict through the story of a 4 months old baby suffering from a rare immune deficiency. The baby was saved by a $55000 treatment at an Israeli hospital with money donated by a Jewish family after appeal on Israeli TV. The infant’s mother than blurts out that she hopes he’ll grow up to be a suicide bomber to help recover Jerusalem. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2010/08/08/opinion/08friedman.html Hija del Zion para Israel Support
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Part 2: The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter "Lechlecha", item 373, lesson 22 by Bnei-Baruch (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 1:40:47 AM
Lecturer: Rav Michael Laitman Date: 2010-08-06 Text: ENG 0.56MB Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Are Sephardim ‘black’ and Ashkenazim ‘white’? Marc Shapiro writes here:I read about the outrage taking place in Emanuel, where in the local Beit Yaakov Sephardi students are being segregated from Ashkenazim to the extent that the two are not even...
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U.S. travel warning gets it wrong, says Israel | Reuters by israel (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:09:00 AM
U.S. travel warning gets it wrong, says Israel U.N. supports Israeli assertion on Lebanon clash Israel threatens harsh response to any attacks Gaza militants ma… Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel • Lecture at the Study ?enter "Kabbalah for the Nation", "Israel and the nations of the world" Lecturer: Rav Michael LaitmanDate: 2010-07-20Video: ENG 81.99MB Audio: ENG 14.61MB ... • UK: First female Muslim appointed to cabinet UK: First female Muslim appointed to cabinetBaroness Warsi has been named as chairman of the Conservative Party, as party leader David Cameron continues to choose
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Part 2: The Book of Zohar – Selections, chapter "Lech-lecha", item 382, lesson 23 by Bnei-Baruch (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 1:40:47 AM
Lecturer: Rav Michael Laitman Date: 2010-08-08 Text: ENG 0.56MB
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rosh hashanah dinner by paraisrael (Hija del Zion para Israel - Daughter of Zion for Israel) Submitted at 8/8/2010 4:20:23 AM
rosh hashanah images I found: rosh hashanah dinner Image by meaduva Happy Rosh Hashanah! Image by Templar1307 Hija del Zion para Israel Support Israel
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