Sunday, May 31, 2015

Funny Flight Attendants and New York City Jews And Christie on Obama and construction of one wold trade center


Be Prepared To Admit Mistakes

Not a single person in the world has ever been totally free of making mistakes. There is no shame in a person's saying, "I made a mistake." But to stubbornly refuse to admit you made a mistake is shameful.

This is a character trait we can all work on.. We are constantly assaulted for things we do right so we put up our defense mechanisms and are not willing to admit we made a mistake..This can carry on for years instead of just saying it was a mistake and you want a do over!

Love Yehuda Lave


 
 
 
 




South West Airways - have a great landing
 

 
1. The first Jews to set foot in North America arrived in New York as a group of 23 in 1654.
 
2. Congregation Shearith Israel, founded in New York in 1654, was the first synagogue in the colonies. It was the sole purveyor of kosher meat until 1813.
 
3. By the late 19th century, there were over 5,000 kosher butchers and 1,000 slaughterers in New York.
 
4. In 1902, the Beef Trust raised the price of kosher meat on the Lower East Side from 12 to 18 cents per pound. After butchers boycotts proved ineffectual, 20,000 Lower East Side women stole meat from kosher butcher shops and set it on fire on the streets in protest. The Forward supported their efforts, running the headline "Bravo, Bravo, Bravo, Jewish women!"

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5. On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, the majority of whom were Jewish immigrants. Reporting on the tragedy, the Forverts wrote that the disaster is too great, too dreadful, to be able to express ones feelings.
 
6. When entertainer Al Jolson came to New York City at age 14, he held jobs in the circus and as a singing waiter. Born to a cantor, Jolson's career took off when he began performing in blackface.
 
7. In 1903, the Lower East Side Chinese and Jewish communities formed an unlikely partnership when Chinese organizers put on a benefit for Jewish victims of the Kishinev pogrom, raising $280.
 
8. In 1930, there were over 80 pickle vendors in the Lower East Side's thriving Jewish pickle scene. The briny delights were brought to America in the mid-19th century by German Jewish immigrants.

 

9. The egg cream is thought to have been invented by the Jewish owner of a Brooklyn candy shop. Musician Lou Reed was a famous admirer of the frothy drink.
 
10. From the beginning of the 20th century till the close of World War II, the Lower East Side's 2nd Avenue was known as the Yiddish Theater District, or the Jewish Rialto. It extended from 2nd Avenue to Avenue B, and from 14th Street to Houston. Considered Broadway's competitor, the Jewish Rialto was home to a variety of productions including burlesque and vaudeville shows, as well as Shakespearean, Jewish and classic plays, and were all in Yiddish.
 
11. The Jewish Rialto's most popular haunt was the Cafe Royale on Second Avenue and 12th Street, where one could find performers such as Molly Picon and Charlie Chaplin sharing blintzes.
 
12. Pushcarts were all the rage among Jewish vendors on the Lower East Side from the turn of the century until 1940, when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia banned their use. Jewish pushcart operators sold everything from vegetables to cigars to stockings.

 

13. At Sammy's Roumanian Steak House on Chrystie and Delancey, every table is provided with a bottle of chicken fat as a condiment; resident emcee Dani Luv entertains diners with renditions of Jewish standards and punchy Borsht Belt humor.
 
14. One of the first kosher Chinese restaurants in New York was Moshe Peking, whose all-Chinese waitstaff wore yarmulkes.
 
15. The Second Avenue Deli opened in 1954 in the then-fading Yiddish Theater District. It featured a Yiddish Walk of Fame on the sidewalk outside its original location on Second Avenue and Tenth Street, and served up such Jewish specialties as matzo ball soup and corned beef. In 2007, it closed and reopened in Murray Hill.
 
16. Famed music club CBGB was opened in 1973 by Jewish founder Hilly Kristal.
 
17. Mayor La Guardia, who served for three terms from 1934 to 1945, was born to a Jewish mother and descended from Rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto, but practiced as an Episcopalian.

 

18. The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center was named in honor of the Jewish U.S. senator, who served from 1957 to 1981.
 
19. Sig Klein's Fat Men's Shop opened in the late 1800s at 52 Third Ave., and carried plus-sized clothes for men. Its sign featured the slogan: "If everyone was fat there would be no war."
 
20. Abraham Beame was the first practicing Jew to become mayor of New York. He held office from 1974 to 1977.


21. The popular and proudly Jewish mayor Ed Koch, who served from 1978 to 1989, was known for the phrase "How'm I doing?" which he would ask passersby while standing on street corners or riding the subway. Newsday called him the ultimate New Yorker.


22. The erection of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 and the Williamsburg Bridge in 1903 catalyzed a Jewish exodus from the Lower East Side to Southside Williamsburg. Crossing the bridge on foot, the LES's Jews left in search of better living conditions.
 

23. By 1930, more than 40% of New York City's Jews lived in Brooklyn.
 
24. The Jewish-fronted band "The Ramones" was formed in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens in 1974.
 
25. Allen Ginsberg moved to New York to attend Columbia in 1943. He was purportedly related to seminal Zionist thinker Ahad Ha'am.
 
26. Poet and kabbalist Lionel Ziprin entertained visitors including Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, and Bob Dylan in his Lower East Side living room, expounding for hours on Jewish esoterica and history.
 
27. The bagel originated in Poland, and arrived in New York City in the 1880s in the hands of Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
 
28. Three hundred all-Jewish New York bagel craftsmen formed a trade union in the early 1900s, the Bagel Bakers Local 338, which established standards for bagel production and conducted meetings in Yiddish.
 
29. In December 1951, New York City was hit with what The New York Times termed the "bagel famine" when a dispute between the members of the Bagel trade union and the Bagel Bakers association led to the closing of 32 out of 34 of the city's bagel bakeries.

 

30. As a result of the bagel outage, the sale of lox dropped nearly 50%. Murray Nathan, who helped resolve an earlier lox strike in 1948, was brought in to mediate the situation. The outage lasted until February.
 
31. "Coney Island Bagels and Bialys", the oldest kosher bagel shop in New York, was set to close in 2011 until two Muslim businessmen, Peerzada Shah and Zafaryab Ali, bought the store and promised to keep it kosher. Ali had previously worked at the shop for 10 years.
 

32. Lou Reed was born in Brooklyn, and in 1989 released an album whose title, "New York" paid tribute to the city.


33. In a reinterpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven", Lou Reed asked the four questions at the Downtown Seder at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in 2004.
 
34. Musician Lenny Kaye was born in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in 1946. He met Patti Smith while working at Village Oldies on Bleecker Street and went on to become a member of the Patti Smith Group.
 
35. Starting in the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Jews left the Soviet Union for New York, many settling in Brighton Beach, which came to be known as "Little Odessa."
 
36. Established in 1927, Kehila Kedosha Janina at 280 Broome St. is the last remaining Greek Jewish synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.
 
37. Streit' s Matzo Company, the last remaining neighborhood matzo factory, stands at 148-150 Rivington St. Here is an update on this:

Sale of the Factory

On 20 December 2007, New York real estate blog Curbed, exclusively broke the story that the factory has been listed for sale for $25,000,000.[10] The Streit's family cited noise complaints, congested streets, and their desire to modernize its equipment, as the reasons for their eventual move. Its realtor, Massey Knakel Realty Services, commented "the building will most likely be torn down and converted into luxury condominiums."[4]

An offer was made on the property, above the $25,000,000 asking price, although was not finalized. The Streit's family said they would probably move the factory to New Jersey, where they already have a warehouse in Moonachie.[4] However, the sale appears to have been canceled or postponed

 
38. The oldest Orthodox Jewish Russian congregation in the United States, Beth Hamidrash Hagadol, is still active at 60 Norfolk St.


39. On the corner of Essex and Rutgers, down the street from the original Forverts building on Seward Park, the Garden Cafeteria served as a gathering place for Jewish actors, artists and playwrights such as Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer from 1941 to 1983. It became Wing Shing, a Chinese restaurant, in 1985, and now houses Reena Spaulings Fine Art.
 
40. Seward Park on the Lower East Side was created in 1900. New immigrants worked in the parks artisan market, and on special occasions such as elections, thousands gathered in the park to watch the Forverts flashing news sign in Yiddish.
 
41. Jewish gangs rose to prominence during the Prohibition; at a conference in New York in 1931, Jewish gangsters agreed to partner with Italian Americans, and together remained the most dominant groups in organized crime until several decades after WWII.
 
42. After an appeal from a New York judge, Nathan Perlman, Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky and members of Murder Inc. broke up Nazi rallies around the city for over a year, with the one stipulation that there be no killing.
 
43. Lines of a sonnet by Sephardic poet Emma Lazarus, who was born in New York City in 1847, are inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
 

44. The house that stands at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is the center and spiritual home of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Formerly inhabited by Chabad's late leader Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitchers have built replicas of the building all over the world to serve as movement outposts.
 
45. The first Reform congregation in New York City, Temple Emanu-El, was founded in 1845 by 33 mostly German Jews, and moved to its present location in 1929. Members have included Joan Rivers and Michael Bloomberg.
 
46. As large numbers of German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution made their homes in Washington Heights in the mid-1930s, the area was dubbed "Frankfurt on the Hudson."
 
47. Sweet n'  Low was invented in 1957 in Brooklyn by Benjamin Eisenstaedt.
 
48. Bronx-born Milton Glaser designed the "I NY" logo in 1977.
 
49. Eight Hasidic dynasties are headquartered in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
 
50. Outside of Israel, New York City is home to the largest population of Jews in the world.







Christie: Obama Only Stands Up to Our Friends

New Jersey governor blasts Obama for failing to stand up to evil and only standing up to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/195990#.VWg32EYj_Rt



-- Speaking of New York here is a time lapse movie of the construction of the tower to replace the World Trade Center

http://www.jewishpress.com/tv/video-picks/time-lapse-movie-of-one-world-trade-center-construction/2015/05/29/



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Friday, May 29, 2015

Jewish Mothers and difficult peace partners



The Greeting Of Peace

The Hebrew word for peace is "shalom." And this is the way that we greet people. We greet people with "shalom," when we encounter them. And we bless people with "shalom," when we say goodbye. And the traditional greeting when seeing someone for the first time or when seeing someone you haven't seen in a long time is, "Shalom Aleichem," which means "peace unto you."

The word shalom means both peace and harmony. And it is the same word as sholaim, which means wholeness. When there is an atmosphere of harmony, we feel whole and complete. And when a person feels whole, he is more likely to be at peace with himself and with others.

We bless people with peace. They should have inner peace and peace with others. When you have harmony, you function at your best. When two people work in harmony, they bring out the best in each other. And when there is harmony in an organization or a community, everyone brings out the best in each other. And we are all very different at our best than we are at our worst.

Love Yehuda Lave

Gershwin plays Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc&feature=em-share_video_user


TU Delft - Ambulance Drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc&feature=em-share_video_user


Each year nearly a million people in Europe suffer from a cardiac arrest. A mere 8% survives due to slow response times of emergency services. The ambulance-drone is capable of saving lives with an integrated defibrillator. The goal is to improve existing emergency infrastructure with a network of drones. This new type of drones can go over 100 km/h and reaches its destination within 1 minute, which increases chance of survival from 8% to 80%! This drone folds up and becomes a toolbox for all kind of emergency supplies. Future implementations will also serve other use cases such as drowning, diabetes, respiratory issues and traumas.


              MONA LISA'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"After all the money your father and I spent on braces, this you call a smile?"

 

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"I don't care what you've discovered, you didn't call, you didn't write."

 

MICHELANGELO'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"A ceiling you paint? Not good enough for you the walls, like the other children? Do you know how hard it is to get that schmutz off the ceiling?"


NAPOLEON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"You're not hiding your report card? Show me! Take your hand out of your jacket and show me!"
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Again with that hat! Why can't you wear a baseball cap like the other kids?"
 

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Next time I catch you throwing money across the Potomac, you can kiss your allowance good-bye!"
 

THOMAS EDISON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Okay, so I'm proud that you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off already and go to sleep!"
 

PAUL REVERE'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"I don't care where you think you have to go, young man, midnight is long past your bedtime!"
 
ALBERT EINSTEIN'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Your senior photograph and you couldn't have done something with your hair?"
 

MOSES'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Desert, schmesert! Where have you really been for the last forty years?"
 

       BILL GATES'S JEWISH MOTHER:
      "It would have killed you to become a doctor?"
 

 


Eight Words from President Obama

Eight Words from President Obama

"The Palestinians are not the easiest of partners." This is the heart of the issue.

by

President Barack Obama delivered a compelling and heartfelt speech on May 22 at a Washington synagogue.

He spoke directly to the concerns and aspirations of the Jewish people, identifying himself squarely with Jewish ethical values and the Jewish historical journey as a metaphor for the universal quest for peace and justice.

While not intended as a full-blown policy address, he did touch on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, asserting:

"Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people on their land, as well. Now, I want to emphasize that's not easy. The Palestinians are not the easiest of partners."

For starters, like a clear majority of Israelis, I have long believed that the Palestinians have such a right. It would serve not only Palestinian interests but Israeli interests as well, allowing the Jewish state to end an unsought occupation, dating back to 1967, and also shift significantly the demographic balance within its own borders.

But there is just one problem, and it is contained in eight words the president expressed: "The Palestinians are not the easiest of partners."

The audience's reaction was to laugh right after this sentence. But, of course, it's no laughing matter. Indeed, it's the heart of the issue, and has been for decades.

I don't say this as a debating point. I'm not trying to win an argument. I have only one obsessive goal: witnessing the day when Israel can live in peace, true and enduring peace, with its neighbors.

Nor do I say this to suggest that Israeli leaders, by their words and actions, have always conducted themselves in exemplary fashion.

Like politicians everywhere in democratic societies, they are human and, therefore, fallible; they are subject to the demands of the electorate and, in the case of Israel, the rough-and-tumble of coalition building, and they may have 20-20 hindsight but, alas, not 20-20 foresight.

Yet, at the end of the day, the intentions of Palestinian leaders are anything but obvious. Others, from Washington to Brussels, may seek to interpret Palestinian goals. But, in the quest to hasten a solution, they too often ignore, downplay, or rationalize those fundamental elements that would otherwise challenge their assertions.

Frankly speaking, the Palestinians could have had a state and become "a free people in their own land" on multiple occasions, yet, for reasons perhaps best known to their leaders, they chose not to do so.

To many, this sounds totally counterintuitive. After all, if the Palestinians have been clamoring for a state of their own and have been offered most of what they allege they want, how could it be that they remain without a nation?

And this is where it gets problematic.

Palestinian spokesmen and their enablers find every possible means to divert attention from their own substantial responsibility for the current state of affairs. And too often they find receptive audiences, all too ready to believe – the facts be damned! – that Israel, the convenient whipping boy, is the sole culprit here.

But then how to explain the turndown of the UN recommendation for two states, Jewish and Arab, in Mandatory Palestine in 1947?

Or the categorical refusal to engage with Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel proposed a land-for-peace deal?

Or the Palestinian unwillingness to learn from the examples of Egypt and Jordan, both of which achieved peace on favorable terms with Israel by acknowledging Israel's right to live in the region?

Or the flat-out rejection of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offers, fully supported by President Bill Clinton, in 2000 and again in 2001, for a two-state accord, instead triggering a bloody "second intifada" against Israel?

Or the failure to accept, or even to make a counteroffer, to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's two-state plan in 2008?

Or the current Palestinian violations of the 1993 Oslo Accords, by acting unilaterally, circumventing Israel and the bargaining table, and going to UN bodies where the votes are there for the asking?

Or the frequent Palestinian resort to incitement, incendiary language such as "genocide," and deification of terrorists with the blood of Israeli civilians on their hands?

Or the inescapable fact that a two-state agreement today is, in any case, rendered virtually impossible because Gaza is in the hands of Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist group whose charter calls for the obliteration of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas' security in the West Bank is anything but assured (even less so without the unheralded help of Israeli security forces)?

As a Jew, I understand that seeking peace is at the core of our identity. The words of the prophet Isaiah – "And nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war anymore" – define our DNA.

But that can't be the start and finish of the discussion. There is a second reality. I wish there weren't, but, alas, it stares us in the face. Invoking the nobility of Jewish values doesn't make it somehow go away.

Peace requires a partner who genuinely shares the goal of an end to the conflict, who is also ready to compromise for that aim, and who offers reason to believe the future can provide a promising break from the past.

Does Israel today have such a partner? The jury – or is it Jewry? – is still out. But when Israel does, then peace will become not only possible, but, I dare say, inevitable.


US Navy successfully test devastating new laser weapon

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/562154/US-Navy-successfully-test-devastating-laser-weapon





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Fwd: Jewish Mothers and difficult peace partners


The Greeting Of Peace


The Hebrew word for peace is "shalom." And this is the way that we greet people. We greet people with "shalom," when we encounter them. And we bless people with "shalom," when we say goodbye. And the traditional greeting when seeing someone for the first time or when seeing someone you haven't seen in a long time is, "Shalom Aleichem," which means "peace unto you."

The word shalom means both peace and harmony. And it is the same word as sholaim, which means wholeness. When there is an atmosphere of harmony, we feel whole and complete. And when a person feels whole, he is more likely to be at peace with himself and with others.

We bless people with peace. They should have inner peace and peace with others. When you have harmony, you function at your best. When two people work in harmony, they bring out the best in each other. And when there is harmony in an organization or a community, everyone brings out the best in each other. And we are all very different at our best than we are at our worst.

Love Yehuda Lave

Gershwin plays Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc&feature=em-share_video_user


TU Delft - Ambulance Drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc&feature=em-share_video_user


Each year nearly a million people in Europe suffer from a cardiac arrest. A mere 8% survives due to slow response times of emergency services. The ambulance-drone is capable of saving lives with an integrated defibrillator. The goal is to improve existing emergency infrastructure with a network of drones. This new type of drones can go over 100 km/h and reaches its destination within 1 minute, which increases chance of survival from 8% to 80%! This drone folds up and becomes a toolbox for all kind of emergency supplies. Future implementations will also serve other use cases such as drowning, diabetes, respiratory issues and traumas.


              MONA LISA'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"After all the money your father and I spent on braces, this you call a smile?"

 

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"I don't care what you've discovered, you didn't call, you didn't write."

 

MICHELANGELO'S JEWISH MOTHER:

"A ceiling you paint? Not good enough for you the walls, like the other children? Do you know how hard it is to get that schmutz off the ceiling?"


NAPOLEON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"You're not hiding your report card? Show me! Take your hand out of your jacket and show me!"
 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Again with that hat! Why can't you wear a baseball cap like the other kids?"
 

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Next time I catch you throwing money across the Potomac, you can kiss your allowance good-bye!"
 

THOMAS EDISON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Okay, so I'm proud that you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off already and go to sleep!"
 

PAUL REVERE'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"I don't care where you think you have to go, young man, midnight is long past your bedtime!"
 
ALBERT EINSTEIN'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Your senior photograph and you couldn't have done something with your hair?"
 

MOSES'S JEWISH MOTHER:
"Desert, schmesert! Where have you really been for the last forty years?"
 

       BILL GATES'S JEWISH MOTHER:
      "It would have killed you to become a doctor?"
 

 


Eight Words from President Obama

Eight Words from President Obama

"The Palestinians are not the easiest of partners." This is the heart of the issue.

by

President Barack Obama delivered a compelling and heartfelt speech on May 22 at a Washington synagogue.

He spoke directly to the concerns and aspirations of the Jewish people, identifying himself squarely with Jewish ethical values and the Jewish historical journey as a metaphor for the universal quest for peace and justice.

While not intended as a full-blown policy address, he did touch on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, asserting:

"Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people on their land, as well. Now, I want to emphasize that's not easy. The Palestinians are not the easiest of partners."

For starters, like a clear majority of Israelis, I have long believed that the Palestinians have such a right. It would serve not only Palestinian interests but Israeli interests as well, allowing the Jewish state to end an unsought occupation, dating back to 1967, and also shift significantly the demographic balance within its own borders.

But there is just one problem, and it is contained in eight words the president expressed: "The Palestinians are not the easiest of partners."

The audience's reaction was to laugh right after this sentence. But, of course, it's no laughing matter. Indeed, it's the heart of the issue, and has been for decades.

I don't say this as a debating point. I'm not trying to win an argument. I have only one obsessive goal: witnessing the day when Israel can live in peace, true and enduring peace, with its neighbors.

Nor do I say this to suggest that Israeli leaders, by their words and actions, have always conducted themselves in exemplary fashion.

Like politicians everywhere in democratic societies, they are human and, therefore, fallible; they are subject to the demands of the electorate and, in the case of Israel, the rough-and-tumble of coalition building, and they may have 20-20 hindsight but, alas, not 20-20 foresight.

Yet, at the end of the day, the intentions of Palestinian leaders are anything but obvious. Others, from Washington to Brussels, may seek to interpret Palestinian goals. But, in the quest to hasten a solution, they too often ignore, downplay, or rationalize those fundamental elements that would otherwise challenge their assertions.

Frankly speaking, the Palestinians could have had a state and become "a free people in their own land" on multiple occasions, yet, for reasons perhaps best known to their leaders, they chose not to do so.

To many, this sounds totally counterintuitive. After all, if the Palestinians have been clamoring for a state of their own and have been offered most of what they allege they want, how could it be that they remain without a nation?

And this is where it gets problematic.

Palestinian spokesmen and their enablers find every possible means to divert attention from their own substantial responsibility for the current state of affairs. And too often they find receptive audiences, all too ready to believe – the facts be damned! – that Israel, the convenient whipping boy, is the sole culprit here.

But then how to explain the turndown of the UN recommendation for two states, Jewish and Arab, in Mandatory Palestine in 1947?

Or the categorical refusal to engage with Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel proposed a land-for-peace deal?

Or the Palestinian unwillingness to learn from the examples of Egypt and Jordan, both of which achieved peace on favorable terms with Israel by acknowledging Israel's right to live in the region?

Or the flat-out rejection of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offers, fully supported by President Bill Clinton, in 2000 and again in 2001, for a two-state accord, instead triggering a bloody "second intifada" against Israel?

Or the failure to accept, or even to make a counteroffer, to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's two-state plan in 2008?

Or the current Palestinian violations of the 1993 Oslo Accords, by acting unilaterally, circumventing Israel and the bargaining table, and going to UN bodies where the votes are there for the asking?

Or the frequent Palestinian resort to incitement, incendiary language such as "genocide," and deification of terrorists with the blood of Israeli civilians on their hands?

Or the inescapable fact that a two-state agreement today is, in any case, rendered virtually impossible because Gaza is in the hands of Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist group whose charter calls for the obliteration of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas' security in the West Bank is anything but assured (even less so without the unheralded help of Israeli security forces)?

As a Jew, I understand that seeking peace is at the core of our identity. The words of the prophet Isaiah – "And nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war anymore" – define our DNA.

But that can't be the start and finish of the discussion. There is a second reality. I wish there weren't, but, alas, it stares us in the face. Invoking the nobility of Jewish values doesn't make it somehow go away.

Peace requires a partner who genuinely shares the goal of an end to the conflict, who is also ready to compromise for that aim, and who offers reason to believe the future can provide a promising break from the past.

Does Israel today have such a partner? The jury – or is it Jewry? – is still out. But when Israel does, then peace will become not only possible, but, I dare say, inevitable.


US Navy successfully test devastating new laser weapon

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/562154/US-Navy-successfully-test-devastating-laser-weapon





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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus


  For Peace Of Mind

Frequently, erroneous thoughts and illusions enter a person's mind and disturb his concentration. When you lack peace of mind, you will not be able to study Torah or pray properly. The best advice is to develop the following attitude:

"Want that which your Creator wants for you. Take pleasure in what you have, whether comparatively little or a lot."

Once you adopt this attitude, you will be able to find peace of mind and this will be therapeutic for both your body and soul. You will be able to find success - whatever the particular circumstances and challenges you find yourself in

Love Yehuda Lave

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Crossing the Line 2 the new face of antisemitism

Dentistry for poor people in India:

This Dentist Became Famous, Find Out Why...21971 views

New teeth, dentures or extractions not a problem at all for Pushkar and his old master Pyara Singh. They treat their patients in front of the train station of Jaipur, on the sidewalk under the pure sky, and they only charge 80 rupies! This short fi.. Read Mor



http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=14728



Male orangutan cuddles and bottle feeds three baby tigers

A male orangutan at the Myrtle Beach Safari has taken a liking to three tiger cubs, after watching his human caretakers nurse the three baby cats.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3078779/Gentle-male-orangutan-plays-Mr-Mom-three-baby-tigers-bottle-feeds-cuddles-like-one-own.html

13 May 2015




Easy Salmon Recipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXpG6Z4IkKc&feature=em-subs_digest


Everyone is Swimming in Jerusalem

Published: May 27th, 2015


Elephants in the Water

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

With temperatures soaring, everyone is getting in the water…

Bear in the Water

Kids in the Water






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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Frank Sinatra Tour of Israel and dealing with stress


All Events and Situations are Neutral Until You Have Self-Talk About it

Realizing that your self-talk is a key factor of the way you view any event or situation allows you to understand the power of your self-talk.

Your self-talk is the key factor that decides whether you will live a happy life or an unhappy life; whether you frequently experience positive things or negative things. Your self-talk is the key factor that changes encounters with kind, friendly, helpful people into encounters with cold, selfish, and uncaring people, or vice versa.

When someone really comprehends the power of self-talk, he understands on a deep level that his life experiences depend on how he views them. Your outlook is the key to the quality of your life. The difficulty involved with dealing with potentially challenging situations and people depends on your viewpoint and perspective. Your viewpoint, based on your self-talk, makes the situation harder to deal with, or easier.

When you have a "good eye" and see events and people in a positive light, you will have a totally different experience than someone who has a "bad eye." With a "bad eye," you see problems and hardships and difficulties everywhere. With a "good eye," people treat you better and life events will work in your favor. You see opportunities, where those with a "bad eye" see misfortune.


Love Yehuda Lave







Frank Sinatra loved Israel
65 year old Israeli woman gives birth


A young lady confidently walked around the room with a raised glass of water  

While leading a seminar and explaining stress management to her audience.  Everyone knew she was going to

Ask the ultimate question,

'Half empty or half full?'

She fooled them all.

"How heavy is this glass of water?"

She inquired with a smile.  

Answers called out ranged from

8 oz. To 20 oz.

She replied,

"The absolute weight doesn't matter.

It depends on how long I hold it.  

If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an

Ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you'll have to

Call an ambulance.

In each case it's the same weight,

But the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

She continued, "and that's the way it

Is with stress.  If we carry our burdens

All the time, sooner or later, as the

Burden becomes increasingly heavy,

We won't be able to carry on."

"As with the glass of water, you

Have to put it down for a while and

Rest before holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can

Carry on with the burden - holding

Stress longer and better each time practiced.

So, as early in the evening as you can,

Put all your burdens down. Don't carry them through the evening and into the night.  Pick them up again tomorrow

If you must.

1 * Accept the fact that some days

      You're the pigeon, and some days

      You're the statue!

2 * Always keep your words soft and

      Sweet, just in case you have to

      Eat them.

3 * Always read stuff that will

      Make you look good if

      You die in the middle of it.

4 * Drive carefully...

      It's not only cars that can

      Be recalled by their Maker.

5 * If you can't be kind,

      At least have the decency

      To be vague.

6 * If you lend someone $20 and

      Never see that person again,

      It was probably worth it.

7 * It may be that

      Your sole purpose in life is

      Simply to serve as

      a warning to others.

8 * Never buy a car you can't push.

9 * Never put both feet in your mouth

      At the same time, because

      Then you won't have a leg

      To stand on.

10 * Nobody cares if

        You can't dance well.

       Just get up and dance.

11 * Since it's the early worm that

        Gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

12 * The second mouse gets the cheese.

13 * When everything's coming your way,

        You're in the wrong lane.

14 * Birthdays are good for you.

        The more you have,

         The longer you live.

16 * Some mistakes are

        Too much fun to make only once.

17 * We could learn a lot from crayons.

        Some are sharp, some are pretty

        And some are dull.  Some have

        Weird names and all are different

        Colors, but they all have to live

        In the same box.

18 * A truly happy person is one

        Who can enjoy the scenery

        On a detour.

19 * Have an awesome day and

        Know that someone has

        Thought about you today.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY

20 *Save the earth.....

       It's the only planet with chocolate!*

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From my friend Alan Ziegler:


Ben Shapiro on the current state of Religion in the US....

Quote...."the entire family would prefer attending a Dodger game than sitting through a three-hour synagogue service. When religious leaders decided to require less, rather than more of their constituents, Americans decided religion was worthless. Religion is about upholding God's standards. Abandoning those standards means abandoning God. Religion cannot survive as a cultural totem rather than as an embodiment of the word of the Living God."

..."American religious practice can be traced not to the intransigence of America's religious institutions, but to their desperate attempts to "reach out" to young people by forsaking key values. Values alienate. Behavioral requirements alienate. Talk about sin alienates. Talk about heaven and hell alienates. And so religious institutions decided not to focus on such uncomfortable but eternal truths in order to fill pews. Major religious institutions across the United States decided that it would be more effective to draw constituents with honey rather than vinegar – forgetting, of course, that religion isn't either. Religion is fine wine: it may taste bitter when it first hits the tongue, but it is rich, sweet, and beautiful when you know what you're drinking. Religion without standards is kumbaya happy talk, requiring neither God nor church."

The entire article can be read here....  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/13/why-americans-are-abandoning-religion/
 

Top Khamenei Advisor: We Have Divine Permission to Destroy Israel


Author:

avatar David Daoud

Khamenei's Representative to the IRGC said that Iran has "Divine Permission" to destroy Israel. PHOTO: Al-Arabiya

An official close to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei asserted that his government has a godly ordained right to annihilate Israel, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday.

The "government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has divine permission to destroy Israel," said Mojtaba Zolnour, a Khamenei representative in the elite Revolutionary Guards.

According to semi-official state news agency Fars, Zolnour said that, "the Noble Koran permits the Islamic Republic of Iran to destroy Israel." He added that, "Even if Iran gives up its nuclear program, it will not weaken this country's determination to destroy Israel."

This is by no means the first time that Iranian political or military officials have threatened Israel with destruction.

Iran has raised the specter of "wiping Israel out of existence," since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in the country in 1979. Khomeini's animosity towards Israel was based on an ideological and religious opposition to Zionism, amplified by the challenge Israel's military and economic strength posed to Iranian regional expansionism.

Perhaps most famously, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" in a 2005 speech that he gave. More recently, in late March 2015, General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the commander of Iran's Basij militia – a volunteer paramilitary organization under the command of the IRGC – said that, "wiping Israel off the map is not up for negotiation."

Iran also actively finances and militarily backs proxy terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah that are ideologically opposed to Israel's existence.





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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Richard Kemp and AYAAN HIRSI ALI and President Obama speak out against the prejudice against Israel


Appreciate Your Wealth

It is human nature to want what you don't have. We always want to acquire more.

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have. View all that you have as a personal gift to you from our Father, our King, Creator and Sustainer of the universe. The outcome of mastering this is that you will live a joyous life. (Guaranteed!)

Love Yehuda Lave


Richard Kemp a retired British Military officer at his acceptance speech on his honorary Doctorate from Bar Illan University

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJDbnZjQik&sns=em

Now that you have seen his speech look at his bio on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kemp



Steve Harman from 60 Minutes does a beautiful story about a boy and his dis ceased army Dad.

The 20 Dollar Bill    -  It's a good one and only a couple minutes long. Click the link below.
 
Remember the story of the boy who found $20 and gave it to a soldier? - this is the follow-up. Be sure to watch to the end…

 

 

 



AYAAN HIRSI ALI - Anti-Semitism on Campus at Boston Premiere of Crossing the Line 2 (Full Speech) also powerful speech by black woman

Ayaan Hirshi Ali, she was once a member of Dutch parliament.
She went to the States,

Shalom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SzbNBHsly0&sns=em



President Obama wearing a Kippa speaks on Friday at Congregation Adas Israel in Washington DC.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?326204-1/president-obama-remarks-adas-israel


Never Too Old
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Never Too Old

At 102, Ingeborg Rapoport just passed her oral exam for her doctorate that the Nazis prevented her from get

A new Guinness world record has just been set.

It shows us how sometimes wrongs can be righted after many decades. It proves that it's possible for dreams to be realized even in the late twilight of our lives. It is heartwarming and inspiring. But perhaps most of all it reminds us that age is not an insurmountable barrier to great achievements.

Ingeborg Rapoport just passed her oral examination for her doctoral degree. At age 102, professors from the University of Hamburg questioned her for close to an hour on her thesis about diphtheria and were unanimous in their praise. True, the retired neonatologist who lives in Berlin had submitted her original scholarly work back in 1938 but after having her scientific conclusions validated she was not permitted to proceed with the oral exam for "racial reasons." With a Jewish mother, the Nazis considered her ineligible for academic advancement and her medical career was categorically suspended.

Emigrating to the United States, she would finally be able to achieve part of her dream. She got her MD, married and raised a family. Only her doctorate was stolen from her by the cruelty of Nazi anti-Semitism. But recently, fate intervened. A colleague of her son, a Harvard medical school professor, shared her story with present Dean of the University of Hamburg's medical school. Wanting to rectify the ancient wrong, the Dean allowed her now to qualify for the long denied degree. Nonetheless, she would have to pass an oral showing her knowledge of present-day advances in the field. And so Ingeborg, with failing eyesight, had friends read to her from the Internet all the current new information about diphtheria. She absorbed it all, retained it sufficiently to overwhelmingly satisfy her examiners and today occupies the unique record of being the oldest person, at the age of 102, ever to receive a doctoral degree.

Grandma Moses and the A Team

Of course old age is not always so kind. For many, Robert Browning's words to "grow old along with me, the best is yet to be" seem more wishful thinking than realistic possibility. Yet, it bears noting that some of mankind's most remarkable achievements came from those already far advanced in years.

Much has been written about Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known to the world as Grandma Moses, a woman who didn't begin to paint until the age of 76, when her hands became too crippled by arthritis to hold an embroidery needle. She found herself unable to sit around and do nothing, after a long life spent working on farms, and without any formal art training began a career spanning over a quarter of a century which would make her an internationally renowned figure whose paintings were praised by President John F. Kennedy as "inspiring an entire nation.".

There have been many others who made a powerful impact on the world even after becoming octogenarians. At 89, Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his greatest recitals in New York's Carnegie Hall. At 89, Albert Schweitzer headed a hospital in Africa. At 88, Pablo Casals was giving cello concerts. At 88, Michelangelo conceived some of his greatest architectural plans. At 85, Coco Chanel was the head of a fashion design firm. At 84, Somerset Maugham wrote Points of View.
At 83, Aleksandr Kerensky wrote Russia and History's Turning Point. At 82, Winston Churchill wrote a History of English Speaking People. At 82, Leo Tolstoy wrote I Cannot Be Silent. At 81, Benjamin Franklin negotiated the compromise that led to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
At 81, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe finished Faust.

But there is one more octogenarian who truly changed the history of the entire world. Grandma Moses may have inspired a nation but Moses the lawgiver, Moses the leader of the Jewish people, Moses who spoke "face-to-face" with the Almighty without doubt transformed all of mankind.

Read the biblical story and you may perhaps be amazed to note that Moses began his career at the well advanced age of 80. It was then that he stood at a bush which burned but miraculously was not consumed. It was then that he began his mission to free the Jewish people from the slavery of Egypt and to bring them to Mount Sinai to receive the words of God's Torah. It was then that he took upon himself the difficult role of leader, teacher and guide of the Jewish people so that they might become a light unto all the nations.

And perhaps of all the messages which Moses would bring to the world, the one most closely linked with his age at the time of embarking upon a new career in life might well be the most inspiring. Age brings with it its own list of infirmities. Yet it also endows us with a kind of wisdom unknown to the young. It continues to offer us challenges and new opportunities. We may be too old to run marathons but we are never too old to dream dreams – the dreams of Ingeborg Rapoport, of Grandma Moses, and of all those who showed us that life offers ongoing trials, opportunities and blessings.





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