Breaking News: Rabbis Kanievsky, Edelstein, Cohen, and Avraham Elimelech Firer approve getting coronavirus vaccine and Shlomo’s final Chanukah wisdom from this lifetime and The fabulous Carol Burnett and Biden’s Putting That Old Anti-Israel Band Back Together By Jeff Dunetz and the Czech Republic to Open Diplomatic Office in Jerusalem - and Rabbi Kahane - All G-d wants is a little faith and a video showing some of Trumps accomplishments on this seventh day of Chanakah
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Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, and Rabbi Shalom Cohen,
three of the most senior rabbis in the ultra-Orthodox world, have recommended that those who are able to receive the coronavirus vaccines which will soon be approved by the Health Ministry and administered to the public, should do so. The decision was relayed by Avraham Elimelech Firer, chairman of the Ezra Lemarpe medical support organization, who issued a statement saying that the leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis had requested that he investigate for them the merits of the vaccine.
His statement will be published Wednesday morning in ultra-Orthodox media outlets. Firer said that "after I researched and investigated with the requisite responsibility and presented my conclusions to Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky,
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, and Rabbi Shalom Cohen, I can state that according to their opinions and in their names, anyone who is able to be vaccinated should do so." Firer added that the trials performed by the vaccine companies demonstrated that there was no danger to the public in getting the vaccine. He also noted that anyone who suffered from allergic reactions should consult with a doctor before getting the vaccine, a reference to adverse reactions some people with a history of severe allergic reactions have experienced when receiving the new Pfizer vaccine. A source close to Rabbi Edelstein confirmed that it was indeed his opinion that those who can get vaccinated should do so.
The Three Musketeers at the Kotel
TRUMP - DO YOU HEAR ME RUNNING by Justin Bellucci (mirror)
Trump speaks about courage, change, saving the children, creating a beautiful world for all again. Justin made a wonderful video nov. 9.2020 detailing Trump´s truth and actions. I made a part II: Do You Hear Me - DID YOU LSTEN it all began in 1775 : https://youtu.be/hpf9EXQMYeo
Shlomo's final Chanukah wisdom from this lifetime.
Kahane on the Parsha
Rabbi Meir Kahane- Parshat VaYetzei
ALL G-D WANTS IS A LITTLE FAITH
Regarding Jacob's ladder, the Rabbis comment (Tanchuma, Vayetzei 2): "G-d showed Jacob the archangels of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome climbing the ladder and then falling down. Said the Almighty, 'Jacob, why do you not climb?' Jacob was afraid and said, 'Just as those fell so shall I fall.' Said the Almighty, 'If you climb you will not fall.' But he did not believe and did not climb. Concerning this, Rabbi Shmuel Ben Yosina said, 'Nevertheless they sinned further, and did not believe in His wondrous works' (Psalms 78:32). Said the Almighty, 'Had you climbed and believed, you would never have fallen. But since you did not believe, your children will be enslaved to these four kingdoms...'"
G-d promised Jacob in his dream, "I will be with you" (Genesis 28:15), but Jacob was nevertheless scared when he left Laban's house and heard that Esav was approaching. And so, the Almighty sent an angel to wrestle with Jacob and wound him. As the Rashbam writes, "Jacob was stricken and limped because he fled [from Esav] even though G-d had promised [to be with him]. In general, we find that anyone who goes on a path that G-d does not desire, or refuses to go on a path that He does desire, is punished."
Fear of man is the key to lack of faith in G-d and none of us, not even the greatest, is immune from it. And it is this fear of human beings rather than trusting in G-d which is the source of the tragedy which, G-d forbid, will befall us. In the words of King Solomon (Proverbs 29:25-26), "The fear of man brings a snare, but he who places his trust in the L-rd shall be safe. Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's judgment comes from G-d."
Rabbeinu Bechaya in Kad HaKemach:
"And we have seen that the Torah warned us against fearing the nations: 'When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and a people more numerous than you, you shall not fear them; for the L-rd, your G-d, who brought you up out of the Land of Egypt, is with you' (Deuteronomy 20:1). The Torah further states, 'Who is the man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house' (ibid. 20:8). For the fear of the nations has conquered him, and while it is possible that he truly believes that everything is in G-d's hand, his heart is weak and his nature inferior because his soul did not grow in the element of trust...And there is no doubt that he who fears the might of flesh and blood is low of soul and he who fears man forgets the Almighty..."
The reality of our times. The fear of human beings and the erosion of faith in the Almighty so that we pay lip service to the general concept of trust in G-d but shrink from the reality of the steps we must take in every actual, individual challenge. And so we are terrified at the thought of losing American aid and President Bush and his Baker and his Dole send hysteria through the ranks of the Jewish rank.
We are convinced- in our lowness of soul- that we cannot survive without the gentile and thus are terrified at the thought of isolation. We see it as a curse when it is the greatest blessing imaginable. "And He shall drive them the enemy from before you and shall say:
'Destroy them! 'Israel shall then dwell in safety alone..." (Deuteronomy 33:27). And the Ohr HaChaim says: 'Israel shall then dwell in safety.' When? When he is alone..."
Isolation. That is the role and obligation and destiny of the Jew. And how we have lost our way...
The Jewish Press, 1990
Czech Republic to Open Diplomatic Office in Jerusalem
Israel welcomed the Czech Republic's announcement that it will open a diplomatic office in Jerusalem, the latest country to move its diplomatic activity in Israel to its capital.
The Czech Ambassador to Israel Martin Stropnicky delivered a letter to the head of the Foreign Ministry's strategic planning department Alon Bar announcing the opening of a Czech diplomatic office in Jerusalem.
According to Stropnicky, the opening of the diplomatic is the fulfillment of a promise made by Czech President Milos Zaman about two years ago.
Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček held a telephone call with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi.
"The Ministers followed up on their friendly exchange from the recent past," the Czech Foreign Ministry stated.
Petříček "expressed his hope in successful developments of the uneasy political situation in Israel and also informed his counterpart of a positive reinforcement of the Czech presence in Jerusalem, further to demand in that direction."
Ashkenazi expressed his appreciation for "the true friendship and strong support that Israel receives from the Czech government, as well as the common commitment between the peoples to strengthen the partnership through security, economic, commercial, tourism and technological cooperation and cooperation in the global fight against the Coronavirus."
"The brief and friendly call has confirmed the lasting positive and strategic relationship between Czechia and Israel. This will contribute to the fulfillment of the long-term EU vision concerning a peace arrangement between Israel and the Palestinians, with Jerusalem as a future capital of two states," the Czech Foreign Ministry stated.
Ashkenazi stated that the Czech Republic's decision to open a diplomatic office in Jerusalem is "a sign of the brave friendship between the Czech Republic and Israel and the strategic partnership between the two countries."
"This decision is a clear message to all countries: Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people," he underscored. "This is an important step that indicates the friendship between the peoples and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Jerusalem will remain our capital forever."
The Czech decision joins the wave of countries that have announced the opening of embassies in Jerusalem in the past three months, including Kosovo, Serbia, the Dominican Republic and Malawi.
The US and Guatemala in May 2018 relocated their embassies to Jerusalem.
Honduras, which has a commercial office in Jerusalem, said that it will relocate its embassy to the capital by the end of 2020.
Brazil has a trade office in the capital.
The Czech Republic has a cultural and trade center in Jerusalem.
Biden's Putting That Old Anti-Israel Band Back Together
Joe Biden's been saying he will appoint a staff representing diversity, and in a way, he has. Some of his appointees are anti-Israel. Others are both anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. Biden's been announced who will be on his team if he ends up in the Oval Office, and sadly, just as I predicted, his team is as anti-Israel as is much of his track record and the sentiments of the Democratic Party base.
The team he's announced so far includes Obama and Clinton retreads unfriendly to the Jewish state. The Joe Biden anti-Israel team includes Tony Blinken, Secretary of State, Reema Dodin Deputy Director White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Avril Haines DNI, John Kerry Climate Czar, Karine Jean Pierre Deputy Press Secretary, and Neera Tanden OMB Director.
Tony Blinken, Secretary of State, was deputy secretary of state during the last two years of the anti-Israel Obama administration. He was part of a team negotiating the JCPOA that put the U.S., Israel, and the Sunni Muslim states in danger of an Iranian nuclear attack, and deputy director of the state department that gave the Jewish State a going away smack down in the UN Security Council. He is one of the leading voices pushing Biden to get back into the JCPOA.
Blinken opposed designating the IRGC Terror Organization: In a 2017 CNN appearance, Blinken opposed sanctioning and designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization – even though terror is what IRGC's mission. The Iranian constitution established the IRGC to perpetrate terror against "enemies of Allah" (meaning, the U.S., Israel, and Sunni states) and expand Iranian Islamic sovereignty throughout the world. The IRGC's terror involvement include murdering hundreds of American troops in Iraq; Iranian nuclear proliferation and weapons delivery systems development; plotting to set off a bomb in a Georgetown restaurant (to murder a Saudi diplomat and innocent American diners); providing weapons, training, funding, and logistical support to Iranian terrorist proxies, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq-based militias, the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), and Palestinian Islamic Jihad; and numerous other major terror attacks, including on the Buenos Aires Jewish Center.
After anti-Semite Linda Sarsour spoke at the DNC, a Biden staffer sent an email disavowing her hatred. After the email went public, Blinken apologized to Arab and Muslim Democrats about Sarsour during a private phone call, "My apologies for what we did and what happened," acknowledging the "hurt and disappointment." Adding that "Historically, Republicans and Democrats have been quick to dismiss Muslim, Arab-American and especially Palestinian-American voices, and I want to reiterate on behalf of all of us our support for your communities."
Reema Dodin,Deputy Director White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Reema Dodin has excused Palestinian Terrorism and opposed U.S. support of Israel. Of Palestinian descent, Dodin joined with Palestinians and their supporters who used to routinely and openly justify the most heinous terror attacks, blowing up buses and pizza shops, and Passover seders. In 2002, during the height of the murderous Palestinian terror spree that was killing Jews daily, she spoke at a church in Lodi, CA, condoning the terrorism saying, "The suicide bombers were the last resort of a desperate people. During that same speech, Dodin falsely claimed that the Israeli government cuts off water supplies "to coerce the Palestinian population." In fact, Israel provides abundant water to the Palestinian Arabs – far more than specified in the Oslo accords. Dodin also falsely portrayed Palestinian Arabs (the recipients of the most generous aid in the world) as malnourished and denied medical care.
That Lodi speech was given a few weeks after one of the most violent of Palestinian terror attacks. A Palestinian homicide bomber blew up the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel, during a Passover seder. Thirty innocent civilians were killed in the attack, and 140 were injured.
As a staffer for Senator Dick Durbin, Dodin recommended an anti-American witness for a Senate "Muslim Rights Hearing." San Francisco-area activist Farhana Khera. He is the founder of Muslim Advocates, an organization that sued the Department of Justice to force it to disclose the FBI's undercover operations to disrupt terrorist activities inside radical mosques and advise Muslim witnesses or suspects to not talk to the FBI.
Muslim Mafia also outed Dodin as one of CAIR's cultivated contacts inside key Democrat leaders' offices. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was tied to international terrorism and Hamas during the Holy Land Foundation in 2008. And in a 2010 letter to Congress, then Assistant AG Welch reported that CAIR and Hamas are offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood and should be avoided.
Dodin condemned U.S. strikes against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, complaining that the military was 'just going to hit innocent civilians.'" (pages 181-182 of Muslim Mafia).
Avril Haines,Director of National Intelligence (DNI). An Obama loyalist and a John Brennan acolyte. Ms. Haines' appointment was endorsed by the anti-Israel group J-Street. She signed their letter to the DNC berating them for being "silent on the rights of Palestinians and on Israeli actions that undermine those rights.' As Daniel Greenfield noted in Front Page, the purpose of the letter that Haines signed was a sell-out of the pro-Israel community.
Greenfield also noted:
"Currently, Avril Haines heads up Columbia World Projects. A big part of the university's internationalization effort is the Obama Foundation Scholars initiative. Being a Foundation Scholar requires "a proven commitment to service and leadership within a community, region or country outside the United States," and, it ought to go without saying, the right set of political agendas.
The Obama "Scholars" at Columbia World Projects she manages include Mor Efrat, the head of the Occupied Palestinian Territories Department for PHR-I. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), despite its name, isn't really about medicine. It's an anti-Israel organization whose founder promotes BDS and seeks to try Israeli soldiers for war crimes. PHR-I's founder had urged a move to "integrate BDS in every struggle for justice and human rights by adopting wide, context-sensitive and sustainable boycotts of Israeli products, companies, academic and cultural institutions, and sports groups."
Even while at Columbia, Haines continued her political work as the co-chair of Foreign Policy for America. The board of Foreign Policy for America includes Jeremy Ben Ami, the head of J Street. In contrast, the Advisory Board includes Joseph Cirincione, the head of Ploughshares, a key Iran nuclear legalization pressure group, alongside Haines, and Rob Malley, the Obama adviser initially forced out for his Hamas contacts (and his father was a close friend of Arafat). He now heads Soros' International Crisis Group. Malley is also an advisor at Columbia.
John Kerry- Climate Czar. According to Biden's announcement, Kerry's climate activities including some international responsibilities. Along with his anti-Israel tenure in the Obama administration (if really you need an explanation, click here) and his belief that the Trump peace deals between Israel and Gulf Sunni states were impossible because no Arab state would make peace with Israel unless the Jewish State first made peace with the Palestinians (who refuse to make concession). Kerry's appointment as Climate Czar makes many think of the famous line in the play "Fiddler on The Roof" when Tevye's rabbi says, "May God bless and keep the Czar—far away from us."
Kerry has spent much of his post-Obama tenure trying to damage Israel and Trump's Foreign policy.
During interviews to promote his book in Sept. 2018, Kerry told an interviewer that he met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif three or four times since leaving office and that their talks touched on the international nuclear agreement which Kerry negotiated, and President Trump killed ( because it was such a bad deal for America). This was the first time Kerry admitted a Logan Act violation. However, many of his offenses were reported earlier.
In May of 2018, the Boston Globe reported that Kerry went to the U.N. to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways to save the Iran nuke deal. "It was the second time in about two months that the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings."
In January 2018, Israeli Newspaper Ma'ariv reported that John Kerry had given a message to Palestinian Authority Pres. Abbas, "that he should stay strong in his spirit and play for time, that he should not break and will not yield to President Trump's demands," because Trump will be out of office within the year."
Karine Jean PierreDeputy Press Secretary- Karine Jean-Pierre is a longtime campaign adviser chief of staff to Kamala Harris.
In an opinion piece she wrote for Newsweek in March 2019, Jean-Pierre praised Democratic politicians for not going to that year's AIPAC conference, saying, "boldly choosing to prioritize diplomacy and human rights over the power of a lobbying organization." In the same op-ed, she made other false accusations and statements about Israel and AIPAC. She accused AIPAC of "severely racist, Islamophobic rhetoric," and "trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes."
Jean-Pierre falsely slandered Israel when the IDF was defending Israeli citizens against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists. The terrorists set off explosives at Israel's border fence in an attempt to allow 30,000 Hamas-led Arabs to invade Israel and commit more violence. \She accused Benjamin Netanyahu's government of committing war crimes against the violent Gazan protester, citing a United Nations commission slander.
Karine Jean Pierre also condemned speakers at the 2019 AIPAC Conference who criticized the Antisemites and Israel-haters in Congress like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC.
Jean Pierre is the senior advisor and national spokeswoman for the anti-Israel progressive group funded by George Soros, MoveOn.org.
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Neera Tanden OMB Director The day after the 2015 Israeli election, when Netanyahu won a surprise victory in the national elections, Hillary adviser and President of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden, responded to a John Podesta note calling the Israeli govt, ruthless wingnuts.
Neera Tanden's tenure as the head of the Center for American Progress (CAP) was marked by Antisemitism. In the lead up to the 2012 election, Politico published a piece about how CAP, lead by Tanden, was fighting to change the Democratic Party to the anti-Israel party. Stories by CAP bloggers had appeared in the vehemently anti-Israel terrorist supporting publication The Electronic Intifada. CAP bloggers have also accused American Jews of dual loyalty, calling them "Israel-Firsters."
"There's two explanations here – either the inmates are running the asylum or the Center for American Progress has made a decision to be anti-Israel," said Josh Block, who at the time was AIPAC's spokesman.
….When it comes to the charges of being "Israel Firsters" and having "dual loyalty," we not only plead innocent but also counter-charge that these sponsored bloggers are guilty of dangerous political libels resonating with historic and toxic anti-Jewish prejudices.
These odious charges have been around since Henry Ford in 1920 said, "Wars are the Jews' harvest," Charles Lindbergh in 1940 condemned Jews for conspiring to plunge America into World War II, and "Jewish neocons" were charged with colluding with Israel to cause the 2003 Iraq War. Recently, University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby and Foreign Policy, has descended to making the accusation that American Jews — unlike American Poles, Italians, Greeks, Turks, Chinese, Africans, etc., etc. — exercise a uniquely malevolent influence over American foreign policy. ….
The Center for American Progress ought to stick to fair-minded discussion of serious issues about the U.S's future. It ought to disown immediately "Israel Laster" bloggers who take the low road and drag down policy debates into the gutter of individual and group defamation.
Sadly none of this is a surprise. Biden not only wants to appoint an anti-Israel team, he Vice President for the most anti-Israel and anti-Semitic president in my lifetime. But even before he joined Obama, when he was in the Senate making his own decisions, many of Biden's actions toward the Jewish state were negative and disturbing. For example, during his Senate years, Biden screwed up some easy ways to look pro-Israel. He didn't sign his name to non-binding pro-Israel letters supported by his senate colleagues' overwhelming majority. He also warned Israel that they should get used to a nuclear Iran.
As Obama's Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted, Biden has "been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." One of those foreign policy "wrongs" was his lack of support for America's closest ally in the Middle-East- Israel. He is putting together a team that will support his anti-Israel mistake.
FEATURED ARTIST OF THE WEAKCAROL BURNETT
Carol Creighton Burnett actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television. She is best known for her groundbreaking comedy variety show, The Carol Burnett Show. She has achieved success on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedic roles. She has also appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows. With its vaudevilleroots, The Carol Burnett Showwas a variety showthat combined comedy sketcheswith song and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodiesand character pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmyand Golden Globe Awards. During and after her variety show, Burnett appeared in many television and film projects. Her film roles include Pete 'n' Tillie(1972), The Front Page(1974), The Four Seasons(1981), Annie(1982), Noises Off(1992), and Horton Hears a Who!(2008). On television, she has appeared in other sketch shows; in dramatic roles in 6 Rms Riv Vu(1974) and Friendly Fire(1979); in various well-regarded guest roles, such as in Mad About You,for which she won an Emmy Award; and in specials with Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton, Beverly Sills, and others. She returned to the Broadway stage in 1995 in Moon Over Buffalo,for which she was again nominated for a Tony Award. Burnett has written and narrated several memoirs, earning Grammynominations for almost all of them, and a win for In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox.
Carol Burnett/Quotes Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. Comedy is tragedy plus time. Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. Because nobody goes through life without a scar. We don't stop going to school when we graduate. Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers. I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. Carol Burnett I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. Carol Burnett I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. Carol Burnett Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids. Carol Burnett
See you tomorrow bli neder on this seventh day of Chanukah
