Israel takes gender fight to buses, billboards Reuters

I feel that this is taking religion to the extreme.What do you think ?

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"JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The women turned heads as they got on Jerusalem's number 56 bus.

Startled ultra-Orthodox Jewish men looked away as the group mounted a challenge to growing gender segregation in the holy city by boarding the public vehicle from the front door and sitting in its first rows.

As the male passengers averted their gaze, adhering to a traditional edict to avoid sexual temptation, a religious woman at the back of the bus shouted at the protesters: "Deal with the drugs, the crime and prostitution in your own communities first."

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What Do a Bunch of Old Jews Know About Living Forever?

What Do a Bunch of Old Jews Know About Living Forever?

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"Irving Kahn is about to celebrate his 106th birthday. He still goes to work every day. Scientists are studying him and several hundred other Ashkenazim to find out what keeps them going. And going. And going. The secrets of the alter kockers."

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End the unjust Jewish occupation of Arab land !!

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the lack of posts in the last few weeks. Been busy with holiday's work and more important the birth of my first grandson !

In the meantime .... I found this illustration quite interesting

Dr. MacEoin's Response to Edinburgh Student Association Motion to Boycott Israel

Following is a response by Dr. Denis MacEoin, a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly, in response to a motion to boycott Israel by the Student Association. In their motion, they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime. Dr. Denis Maceoin (a non-Jew) is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs. Here is his letter to those students.

Dr. Denis MacEoin addresses The Committee of the Edinburgh University Student Association.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain's great Middle East experts in their day.

I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University. Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel. That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel. I'm speaking of a hatred that permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel, precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law.

Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population). In Iran, the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why aren't your members boycotting Iran? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa. They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa.

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank. On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel, women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid. Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran, where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel. I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side. Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence. It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,
Denis MacEoin

Secretary of Hitler's YM"S Top Henchmen Breaks Silence after 66 Years

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"A secretary to one of Adolf Hitler’s top henchmen has broken a 66-year vow of silence, providing fascinating new details about one of the men at the center of the Third Reich.

Brunhilde Pomsel, now 100 years old, told the German newspaper Bild how Joseph Goebbels-Hitler’s top propaganda minister-dictated to her, among other things, the orders to rid Berlin of Jews"

Read more HERE 

 

Revealed: sex hormone plan to feminise Hitler

I've heard of plans to murder and poison Hitler but this tops it all !!

Read all about it HERE

London riots: 'A generation who don't respect their parents or police'

I was going to write a long blog about the mindless animals taking part in the recent riots, looting and arson but the UK Gaurdian newspaper has done the job for me.

More to follow soon

Read the article HERE 

Your second lesson in Yiddish

"Feh"  

Probably the shortest word in the Yiddish dictionary but it expresses so much  !

 View video clip HERE

Kochi, India - ‘Tenth Jew’ Dies, Only Nine Left

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"Kochi, India - The death of an 83-year-old Jew on the Sabbath leaves only nine Jews left in the Jewish Community of Mattanchery, a tourist area located in the Kochi, India region, formerly known as Cochin"

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Israeli orchestra to play Wagner in German

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"Hitler's theories of racial purity and exterminating Jews were said to be partly drawn from Richard Wagner's anti-Semitic and fervently nationalistic writings. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has observed an informal ban on the composer's music.
 

The news that Israel Chamber Orchestra and members of the Israel Symphony Orchestra will play a piece by Wagner at Bayreuth Festival, has aroused the hostility of Israeli politicians. The ensemble have also been threatened with funding cuts" 

Read more HERE

 

Your first lesson in Yiddish !

Short and sweet. More to follow !

View Video clip HERE

Lithuania - Site of Holy Ark Uncovered in Excavations of Great Synagogue of Vilnius

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"Lithuania - The site of the Aron Kodesh, or Holy Ark of The Great Synagogue of Vilnius dating back to the end of the 16th century, was recently uncovered in the excavations of this historically significant synagogue. Lithuania’s Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius visited the site Friday to view the synagogue’s excavated fragments and attend as 25 Jewish Lithuanian students of the local Beis Menachem school prayed there"

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Jedwabne, Poland - Ceremony Honors Jews Killed in Massacre by Their Neighbors

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"State and religious leaders are marking 70 years on Sunday since Polish villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors in a World War II massacre that caused painful soul-searching in Poland when it was revealed in 2000.

In an agonizing debate at the time Poles were forced to modify their belief, shaped by decades of communist-era propaganda, that they were always heroic victims — never collaborators — in Nazi-era atrocities.

The date of the massacre in the village of Jedwabne has entered Poland’s remembrance calendar and the state and church leaders have apologized. But it still remains to be seen to what extent the entire nation has acknowledged cases of Polish wrongdoing against the Jews"

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Chief Rabbi: Equality laws leading to new Mayflower exodus

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"New equality laws are forcing religious people to flee the country because they are being denied the freedom to live in accordance with their beliefs, the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, has warned.

The Orthodox Jewish leader claimed that anti-discrimination policies had fuelled an “erosion of religious liberty" in Britain that was leading to a new “Mayflower”, a reference to the flight of the persecuted Pilgrim Fathers to America in the 17th century."

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Warsaw - Poland Complains to Vatican over Priest's Anti-Semitic Remarks

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"Warsaw, Poland - A Polish priest and media mogul has sparked uproar in Poland by calling the country a totalitarian state that “hasn’t been ruled by Poles since 1939” — a statement many interpret as code for saying Jews are secretly running the country.

The Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, who has previously been accused of fomenting anti-Semitism through his politically influential, ultra-Catholic radio station Radio Maryja, made the comments at the European Parliament last week"

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Berlin, Germany - Schindler's List Creator Dies At 91

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"The man who typed up Oskar Schindler’s list which helped save more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis, Mietek Pemper, has died in Germany aged 91, the Bavarian city where he lived said Thursday.

Pemper died Tuesday in Augsburg, southern Germany, and is to be buried in the city’s Jewish cemetery Friday, when municipal authorities will order flags to be lowered to half-mast in his honour"

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Hitler model banned by eBay

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"An amateur model-maker has been banned from selling tiny figures of Hitler on eBay after the online auction site decided it could be classed as Nazi propoganda"

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Adolf Hitler’s first letter expressing anti-Semitism goes on public display

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"The four page letter, dated September 6, 1919 is signed by the man who later became the fascist leader of Germany responsible for World War II and the Holocaust.
 
Hitler wrote the letter when he was a 30-year-old army veteran tasked to investigate the 'Jewish Question' in relation to the German humiliation in World War I"
 
Read & see more HERE

The Smurfs are 'anti-semitic and racist'

"The Smurfs, the cuddly blue comic strip creatures loved by generations of children, are anti-Semitic and racist, treating blacks like moronic primates, a new book claims.
 
The claims by Antoine Buéno, 33, a lecturer at Paris' prestigious Sciences Po political sciences school, have been branded a "disgrace" that "soils the legends of our childhood" by an army of Smurf lovers"

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Poland braces itself for 'vulgar' British stag season

Although I live in Poland I’m proud of being British. I’ve made lots of friend here in Szczecin and I’m treated with the greatest of respect.

Once or twice a year we visit Krakow, it’s a great city and a good place to ‘chill out’ in some fine restaurants, Coffee houses and bars. Unfortunately we tend to avoid May to August due to the disgraceful behaviour of some of my fellow countrymen.

Read more HERE

Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says?

"President Obama has shown himself to be weak in his dealings with the Middle East, says Robert Fisk, and the Arab world is turning its back with contempt. Its future will be shaped without American influence"

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And NONE of them are Jewish. Although 2 were saving up in order to become so.

Hmm. Nice nice haircut!

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Nazis tried to train dogs to talk, read and spell to win WW2

The Nazis tried to train dogs to talk, read and spell to help them win World War II, it has been revealed.
 

The Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and attempted to build an army of fearsome 'speaking' dogs, extraordinary new research shows.

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Israels Borders

Continuing the debate on Israel's borders, watch this short video and judge for yourself

Watch HERE

Palestine ? ..... What's Palestine ?

I don’t involve myself in politics as I find it extremely boring. However I couldn’t help noticing the recent speech where Barack Obama's called on Israel to retreat to its 1967 borders to secure peace with Palestine. It was also very good to hears that the British Foreign Secretary William  Hague (who is so far up Obama's arse you can just about see his feet) supports these policies.

I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. I carried out an extensive search on Google Maps and several other reputable websites and none of them could even find Palestine, but they all found Israel with no problem. So I really can’t see how Israel can give land back to a country that doesn’t exist !

Read more HERE

Judgement Day ..... Update

I'm still here and sorry but all the T-Shirts are sold out

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Judgement Day

According to a number of sources this may be my last posting !

Read more HERE

But in case we are around tomorrow I'm taking pre-orders for these now .....

Ahmadinejad's enemies scent blood in Iran power struggle

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Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate - Klezmer Style!

Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate ..... Klezmer style !! Mazeltov to the happy couple.

Watch HERE

Boxcar Willy - is there a cure?

The experts ponder > HERE

Water for Elephants

It was Friday 13^th, so what do you do to stay out of trouble ? We decided to go to the cinema and see ‘Water for Elephants’.

Despite the negative review in the UK Guardian newspaper (and a number of other publications) we enjoyed the film. To quote the Internet Movie Database … “A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a travelling circus as their vet”

One of the 'Stars' of the movie is Rosie the Elephant who for some reason can only understand Polish commands but they don't explain why

I would only make two comments. (1) I don’t understand the relevance of the film title. (2) In my opinion Reese Withspoon is totally miscast.

Read the Internet Movie Database article HERE

Read the UK Guardian Newspaper review HERE

To view the official(ish) Water for Elephants blog click HERE

The Boys' Celebration of Life

A trib­ute to unique­ly in­spir­ing Holo­caust sur­vivors by their fam­i­lies. "The Boys" were chil­dren who out­lived the Death Camps and March­es and then em­braced life and the bonds of sur­vival ev­er-since.
 

This film tells a life-af­firm­ing sto­ry, that is tru­ly in­cred­i­ble, of jubilation and gen­eros­i­ty of spir­it.

Click HERE to view

Israeli conductor Barenboim holds Gaza 'peace concert'

"Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is due to lead an orchestra of European musicians in a "peace concert" in Gaza. It is the first-ever performance in the Palestinian territory by an international classical ensemble. Israel forbids its civilian citizens from travelling to Gaza, so Barenboim is entering via Egypt, along with 25 musicians. For years, Daniel Barenboim has used music to try to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians."

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Hitler had Jewish, African ancestry (DNA test)

As a follow-up from the news that Barack Obama has proven that he was born in the United States, it’s now been revealed that Hitler had Jewish and African ancestry.

As I have 100% faith in the media, if it’s in  the newspapers and on TV then it must be true.

More details HERE

Rosemary's Bubbeleh

More details HERE

Volkssturm Mk.2? Hmm. Seems like it could just be.

Click HERE for more.

Meanwhile for those interested in the history, while bearing in mind humans seem so reluctant at times to learn from it then try HERE

So Mr Howells, how about an apology then? Fat chance!

Click HERE for more

Michael Winner 1 & Harriet bloody Harperson, err ......... Nil. A right result!

"Michael Winner has described Harriet Harman and the Labour party as “politically correct lunatics” for calling David Cameron sexist following remarks made during Prime Minister’s Questions."

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The Royal Wedding

This is a Royal Wedding free zone apart from this article. Click HERE to read

Why an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor has become a heroine to young Africans

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Hilde Back's £10 donation to a Kenyan child inspired a move to improve scores of loves, a new documentary reveals

To her friends, Hilde Back was a quiet, elderly Jewish woman who used to teach pre-school children and had lived alone for 35 years. But to Chris MBuru she was "an angel who had walked into my life and fixed it".

Back, now 88, is the star of Jennifer Arnold's new documentary, A Small Act, after she unwittingly inspired the largest educational fund in Kenya.

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 Hilde Back (right) with director Jennifer Arnold and Chris Mburu

 

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Terrorism is a serious problem throughout the world but sometimes you have to take a lighthearted look at even the most serious problems. That’s what Jews Aloud is all about !

Jeff Dunham the ventriloquist and  Achmed the Dead Terrorist has been seen over 130 million times on YouTube. If you’ve seen it before here is your chance to enjoy it again. If you haven’t seen it before I hope you laugh as much as I did

Click HERE to view

Body of 'dead alien' found in Siberia. No Jews involved, apparently!

A video claiming to show alien remains in Irkutsk, Siberia has become a internet sensation, garnering more than a million hits. 

Click HERE to read more.

Those Russian guys are back again !

If you looked at my last post "Judaism is alive and well in Russia" and enjoyed it you will love this one. The Russian Choir Turetsky singing Hava Nagila

Enjoy the video clip HERE

 

Discover Poland: the best of the country and the cities

Following my article 'Living in Poland' I was going to write a glowing article on the sights, cities, countryside and coasts of Poland. Fortunatly the Guardian newspaper has written it for me and to be honest done a far better job.

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"Banish the grey and gloomy image. Savvy travellers know Poland offers a rich history, cool cities, stunning scenery and unusual activities"

Read more HERE

In the pink … explore Poland's Tatra mountains. Photograph: Alamy

Close Encounters of the Yiddish Kind

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Avigdor Lieberman pans Hamas in toilet interview

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Fukushima, Alfra Romeo and us Jews - not!. Or not yet anyway

One of the more curious aspects of the recent set of Japanese tragedies has been the inability (I caution against suggesting unwillingness) of both the Left Wing UK press and their friends in the Islington ‘chattering classes’’ glitterati to place the blame on Israel. I mention this because as a regular reader of  The New Statesman et al.  (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics ) I've become accustomed to all manner of global ills being laid at Israel’s door.

As an unashamed Yid I’m not ........