Shavuot, the Six-Day War and the sorry ‘status quo’ on the Temple Mount by Ruthie Blum and The campus wars against the Jews AND Your walking speed could indicate dementiaBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN

View in browser Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement. Love Yehuda Lave Join my blog by sending me an email to YehudaLave@gmail.com The Three Musketeers at the Kotel The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember. The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave. Your walking speed could indicate dementia By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A slower walk as you age has always been a warning sign of increasing frailty that could lead to falls and other disabilities, experts say. Emerging research in small groups of elderly subjects has also found that a slower gait from year to year may be an early sign of cognitive decline. That may be due to shrinking in the right hippocampus, which is the part of the brain associated with memory, according to studies. But not all signs of cognitive decline predict later dementia -- only 10% to 20% of people age 65 or older with mild cognitive impairment or MCI develop dementia over the next year, according to the National Institute on Aging. "In many cases, the symptoms of MCI may stay the same or even improve," the institute states. Now, a large, new study of nearly 17,000 adults over age 65 finds people who walk about 5% slower or more each year while also exhibiting signs of slower mental processing were most likely to develop dementia. The study was published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open."These results highlight the importance of gait in dementia risk assessment," wrote corresponding author Taya Collyer, a research fellow at Peninsula Clinical School at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. 'Dual decliners' at highest risk The new study followed a group of Americans over 65 and Australians over 70 for seven years. Every other year, people in the study were asked to take cognitive tests that measured overall cognitive decline, memory, processing speed and verbal fluency. Twice every other year, subjects were also asked to walk 3 meters, or about 10 feet. The two results were then averaged to determine the person's typical gait. At the end of the study, researchers found the highest risk of dementia was for "dual decliners," or people who not only walked more sluggishly but also showed some signs of cognitive decline, said Dr. Joe Verghese, a professor of geriatrics and neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, who was not involved in the study. "Furthermore, dual decliners had a higher risk of dementia than those with either gait or cognitive decline alone," Verghese wrote in an accompanying editorial published Tuesday in the JAMA journal.A slower gait as you age may be a symptom of future dementia, studies say.A dual association between walking speed and memory decline is predictive of later dementia, a 2020 meta-analysis of nearly 9,000 American adults found.Yet despite those findings, "gait dysfunction has not been considered an early clinical feature in patients with Alzheimer's disease," Verghese wrote. Exercise may help There are things we can do as we age to reverse the brain shrinkage that comes along with typical aging. Studies have found that aerobic exercise increases the size of the hippocampus, increasing some aspects of memory.Buried  deep in the brain's temporal lobe, the hippocampus is an oddly shaped organ that is responsible for learning, consolidating memories and spatial navigation, such as the ability to remember directions, locations and orientations.Exercise may protect your brain even if you have signs of dementia, study finds Aerobic exercise training increased the volume of the right anterior hippocampus by 2%, thus reversing age-related loss in the organ by one to two years in a 2011 randomized clinical trial. In comparison, people who only did stretching exercises had an approximate decline of about 1.43% over the same time period.Aerobic exercise means with "air," and is a type of workout where heart rate and breathing increase, but not so much that you cannot continue to function. Types of aerobic exercise can include brisk walking, swimming, running, biking, dancing and kickboxing, as well as all the cardio machines at your local gym, such as a treadmill, elliptical trainer, rower or stair climber. Shavuot, the Six-Day War and the sorry 'status quo' on the Temple Mount RUTHIE BLUM The tendency of mostly young male Palestinians to use any excuse to desecrate the site, the holiest in Judaism and third in Islam, has become commonplace.  Israeli and Diaspora Jews visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday to celebrate Shavuot—the holiday marking the revelation of the Torah to Moses at Mount Sinai—were greeted by angry Palestinians. The latter, mostly young men, have taken to rioting regularly on the compound where the Al-Aqsa mosque is located. It would be easy to attribute the behavior of the Muslim troublemakers to the occasion when Jews make a festive pilgrimage to the site of the two temples. It would be equally simple to attach significance to the Gregorian date, which coincided with the 55th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War. Though the two are indelibly linked, the tendency of mostly young male Palestinians to use any excuse to desecrate the site—the holiest in Judaism and third in Islam after Mecca and Medina—has become commonplace. And it's no wonder. Incited by the Palestinian Authority, with a little help from the king of Jordan, these guys get to cloak their violent energy in a veil of religious and political purity. The neat trick on the part of the leaders in Ramallah, Gaza and Amman to encourage terrorist activity is to perpetuate the bald-faced lie that Israel plans to storm the compound and destroy the mosque. The mendacity doesn't end there. The P.A. leadership also pretends that the presence of Jews in the ancient land of Israel is a myth, and that the story of the First and Second Temples is a fabrication. That the Bible and archaeology say otherwise is of no consequence to P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas, who determines what is published in the press that his people read and the curriculum in their schools. A central theme in the material that he disseminates is that the State of Israel is an illegitimate entity whose destiny is elimination. While his rivals in the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad openly aim for this goal, Abbas puts on a charade for international consumption. The act involves talking peace while fomenting hostility against his alleged partner on the road to a "two-state solution." Here's the rub. He insists that the stumbling block to this dream of Palestinian independence is Israel's grip on the territories that it occupied in 1967. The fact that anyone in Israel or abroad still buys this hackneyed baloney is mysterious, to say the least. In the first place, in all P.A. publications and ceremonies, the nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel's establishment in 1948, is the true culprit. This is a constant that hasn't changed a single iota during the past decades, despite Israel's many "land for peace" concessions, not to mention its complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Nor has Abbas curbed his "pay for slay" policy of stipends for Jew-killing terrorists and their families. Secondly, it was precisely Israel's attempt at reaching genuine coexistence after its victory in the Six-Day War that led then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to bestow control of the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf. Rather than calm tensions with the defeated Arabs and keep the site from becoming the source of a religious conflict with Muslims, the goodwill gesture has had the opposite effect. It's debatable whether Dayan could or should have anticipated the foolishness of the move. What is not a matter of controversy is the jubilation expressed by Mordechai ("Motta") Gur, commander of the brigade that breached the Old City walls, when the mission was accomplished. "The Temple Mount is in our hands!" he shouted breathlessly. These were famous last words, so to speak, as Dayan promptly reversed course. Not only did he order the army to remove the Israeli flag from the Dome of the Rock and exit the premises, but the government decreed that Jews would be forbidden from praying anywhere on the complex. This situation is known as the "status quo" that radicals accuse Israel of violating. It's a ridiculous assertion and everyone knows it, including Abbas. Even more preposterous is the prohibition of Jewish prayer, as though reciting the Shema in an open space is some kind of affront to Muslims reading the Koran in the mosque. Furthermore, the only people defiling Al-Aqsa are Muslims themselves. Amassing rocks and firebombs to hurl at Jews and police—while kicking around soccer balls on the carpets of the house of worship—isn't exactly religious observance at its finest. It is precisely such paragons who instigated the chaos on Sunday, as they do on an ongoing basis, especially when a holiday or anniversary comes around, including their own. This is the true "status quo" that the Palestinians and outside instigators insist on preserving. Ruthie Blum is an Israel-based journalist and author of "To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, and the 'Arab Spring.' " The campus wars against the Jews With an entire globe from which to choose, they pinpoint the Jews — only the Jews. The one country in the world with a Jewish majority. Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer It is rather a challenging time these days for committed, devoted Jewish college students on liberal American campuses. They don't know how to fight, seem only to defend and feel frightened, and their life experiences in being "nice" have left them utterly unprepared for the vicious Jew-hating, even Nazi-like, campaigning against them and Israel they have encountered in college. The academic campaign against Israel is Nazi-like. It is led by Arab Muslims, often backed by self-hating Jewish leftist stooges, most of whom — truly — are not even halakhic Jews. In today's America, as many as 40 percent of people who present as "Jews" are not Jews. In the anti-Israel camps, they predominate. Simply put, a Jew is someone born to a Jewish mother and therefore automatically Jewish or someone who converts to the Judaism of the Torah — conversion comprising both the Written Law and the Oral Law — a Judaism that includes kosher food and Sabbath observance. That definition has been the only definition of a Jew for more than 3,300 years. Anyone not born to a Jewish mother or otherwise born to a maternal line where the first "Jewish" matron actually "converted" without assuming the lifestyle of a kosher kitchen, Sabbath observance, and the like is not Jewish. Thus, for example, despite her fancy certificate when she "converted" to marry playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe was never Jewish. So the "good news" is that most "Jews" who oppose Israel are not even Jews in the first place. Twenty years ago, a leading Arab Muslim Jew-hater, Omar Barghouti, proposed a "BDS" program to boycott Israel, divest from corporations dealing with Israel, and to sanction Israel. The BDS campaign has failed miserably. More investors now put their money into Israel than ever before — billions and billions. They will continue doing so because Israel is an amazing investment vehicle, a start-up free-and- democratic nation with a uniquely educated and motivated population. But on American "progressive" woke liberal-arts college campuses, students are brain-fed radical-left Intersectionalist garbage. For example, we know they have no idea what Americais. They are fed falsified "1619 Project" history instead of true American history. They have no idea how Communism has murdered hundreds of millions. They don't know about the blood shed brutally by Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Castro. Even what little they know about Hitler is mostly perverted from the truth. That is how AOC, a standard-bearer for the Campus Ignorant, can compare the security agents on our southern border to German Nazis and can compare our shelters for the Undocumented, where Americans feed them and clothe them and even assure they have ample baby formula, to Dachau and Auschwitz. Ironically, many of these "progressive" anti-Israel college students actually are more Nazi-like than they realize. Remember: Not all Nazis murdered Jews with their hands or by building gas chambers or crematoria. Most Nazis simply voted quietly for Hitler and lined the streets cheering while Hitler's motorcades drove by. Yet they, too, were Nazis. They were the ones who gave him power to destroy. The Woke on America's campuses today, as did Hitler's minions, single out the Jews for BDS. They can't boycott Arab Muslim countries because those dictatorships don't produce anything meaningful. But college kids could boycott China, right? China is a hateful totalitarian dictatorship, the source of the Wuhan virus we call COVID, torturer of Uighur Muslims, suppressor of Hong Kong. If they sincerely cared about freedom and human rights, college kids could boycott Nike sports shoes, Apple iPhones, and all devices made in China, right? But they don't. Instead, like Hitler, with an entire globe from which to choose, they pinpoint the Jews — only the Jews. The one and only country in the world with a Jewish majority. That is their extent of foreign affairs activism. They try to mask their anti-Semitism by saying they are "only anti-Israel and anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish." Understand with crystal clarity: Israel and Zionism are core to Judaism. You cannot be "against anti-Semitism" but also against Israel and Zionism. It's not either-or. It's both-and. Anyone against Israel and Zionism by definition is anti-Semitic. Period. Open the Bible. Abraham was a Zionist. So was Isaac. And Jacob. And Moses. And Joshua. And the Judges. And Kings Saul, David, Solomon, and all the Biblical kings. And the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and all the Biblical prophets. And all the rabbis of the Talmud. And Maimonides. And Yehudah Halevi. Zionism is at Judaism's core. Yes, you can be against a particular government in Israel, just as American patriots can oppose Biden's miserable policies and utter incompetence in America. Those political preferences can align with deep loving attitudes towards America. Indeed, love for America can inform opposition to those whose foolish policies would destroy her greatness. In the same way, it is OK to oppose a Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu or Naftali Bennett government. So a person can love Israel, yet despise its government. But that is not what "BDS" is. BDS is a Nazi-like ideology that says the one Jewish-majority country in the world uniquely deserves to be boycotted, divested, sanctioned. None others. Not Cuba. Not Venezuela. Not Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Not China. Not Russia. And the thing is, Israel is a nation of goodness. Arab Muslims have full equal rights in Israel. The present governing coalition there exists because an Arab Muslim party gives them the determining majority. There is an Arab Muslim on Israel's Supreme Court. (How many in America?) Israel pays families a "child allowance" to encourage parents to have more kids. Guess what? Israel pays that same bounty to Arab Muslim Israelis to have more kids, too. Apartheid? Arab Muslims receive all the same benefits that Jews do in Israel. By contrast, for those searching for Mideast apartheid, Saudi Arabia has no synagogues. It also has no Jews. Almost no Christians or churches either. Arab Muslim countries expelled their 800,000 Jews and confiscated all their property in the 1940's and 1950's when Israel was born. Those Jews fled mostly to Israel. That is why, despite the Big Lie among the Woke, Israel's demography is majority dark-skinned Sephardic, not Caucasian Ashkenazic. Arab Muslim countries are virtually universally racist and bigoted. They truly are one-religion-only despotic lands. There are no Jewish parties in Qatar, Yemen, and those other lands. Even in the part of Judea and Samaria now called the "Palestine Authority," the only Jews are those who abandoned their Judaism and married Arab Muslims there. Otherwise, pure apartheid. A Jew is not allowed to purchase land there. Any Arab who secretly offers to sell land to a Jew gets executed. Apartheid, pure and simple. Certain student governments on certain woke liberal-arts colleges target Israel and only Israel. Consider: They call for bans of Sabra hummus, an American-Canadian chick-peas joint-venture company based in Astoria, Queens with factories in Southern California, Virginia, and Queens. Yet they are boycotted. Why? Their name. Sabra — the nickname for Israelis. So, since the hummus is "Israel-style," i.e. kosher Mideast style, it is Sabra. So boycott them. Even as these ignoramuses on campuses vote to boycott Israel, all their administrations respond by asserting there will be no boycotts nor divestments. But what about the committed Jews on campus? What about their voices? Their pro-Israel activism? Their problem is that they do not know how to fight. At best, they defend. They react. They never seize the offensive. It is painfully pathetic to watch. Except for American football, there is no sport where players conceivably can win merely by playing defense. In baseball, you can score only on offense. Likewise, in basketball and hockey. Even in American football, although you theoretically can win solely by scoring defensively — with "pick six" interception returns, recovering fumbles in the other team's end zone, and scoring safeties — that is no prescription for success. Ultimately, you cannot win unless you go on the offensive. Jews grow up, being taught to be nice. "Be nice, Marvin. Be nice, Seymour. Be nice, Sidney." Well, to win on college campuses, no one is going to beat these Nazis and their self-hating pseudo-Jewish quislings merely by being "nice." Rather, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, not the whining tire. Jews on campus need to fight. They need to fight hard and to take the fight to the Jew-haters, not just wait for the campus Nazis to attack. Don't wait for BDS resolutions to oppose. Instead, demand your own BDS initiatives against China. Demand BDS against despotic apartheid Muslim countries. Investigate and expose anti-Israel professors who violate campus rules by posting against Israel on official campus web sites. Until cancel culture is abandoned, why not demand canceling them? And, for G-d's sake, stop whining! Adapted by the writer for Arutz Sheva from a version of this article that first appeared here in The American Spectato See you tomorrow bli neder We need Moshiach now! Love Yehuda Lave Yehuda Lave, Spirtual Advisor and Counselor Jerusalem, Jerusalem  Israel 972-585043210 YehudaLave@gmail.com You received this email because you signed up on our website or made a purchase from us. Unsubscribe