THE JEWISH VOICE AND OPINION Promoting Classical Judaism
December 2014
Vol. 28 • No. 3
Kislev 5775
In Jerusalem, the PA Incites to Violence, Wants Jews off the Temple Mount; Jews Want to Pray There; Bibi Wants the Status Quo While some reports described the
Nov 18th shooting of three AmericanIsraeli rabbis, one British-Israeli rabbi, and an Israeli-Druze police officer in the Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue in Har Nof in western Jerusalem as the apex of Arab violence in Israel’s capital, it was hardly the first terror incident in the city. There had been bloodshed in Jerusalem throughout most of the fall. At the beginning of October, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat sent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an open letter in which the mayor used the word no one had dared utter publicly: Intifada. In the letter, he stressed that Jerusalem had experienced “a significant rise
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17 acres and still no room for Jewish prayer on Judaism’s holiest site
In His Speech to the UN General Assembly, Israel’s Ambassador Ron Prosor said, “J’Accuse!” to the Europeans November 24th, 2014 Mr. President, The fact of the matter is that when members of the international community speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a fog descends to cloud all logic and moral clarity. The result isn’t realpolitik, its surrealpolitik. The world’s unrelenting focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an injustice to
tens of millions of victims of tyranny and terrorism in the Middle East. As we speak, Yazidis, Baha’i, Kurds, Christians and Muslims are being executed and expelled by radical extremists at a rate of 1,000 people per month. How many resolutions did you pass last week to address this crisis? And how many special sessions did you call for? The answer is zero. What does
this say about international concern for human life? Not much, but it speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of the international community. Free Arabs in Israel I stand before you to speak the truth. Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, less than half a percent are truly free—and they are all citizens of Israel. Israeli Arabs are some of
the most educated Arabs in the world. They are our leading physicians and surgeons, they are elected to our parliament, and they serve as judges on our Supreme Court. Millions of men and women in the Middle East would welcome these opportunities and freedoms. Nonetheless, nation after nation, will stand at this podium today and criticize Israel—the
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Inside the Voice Justice for Holocaust Survivors............5 Kol Ami: Jewish State Law?................. 6 The Current Crisis............................... 7 Carlebach Off-Broadway................10 New at Holy Name...........................12
Visit with “Wiesenthal”...........................14 Kosherica Lineup....................................20 The Log..........................................................24 Just in Time for Chanukah.............28 School and Camp Open Houses.29
Mazal Tov.............................................30 Ess Gezint: Spiritual Cooking...............38 Index of Advertisers ........................41 Honor the Professional...................43 Letters to the Editor ........................44