How ‘anti-racism’ made antisemitism fashionable by JONATHAN S. TOBIN & Playing Defense, the story of Samuel Leibowitz BY ALLAN LEVINE & The rotten edifice of ‘humanitarianism ’UNRWA should be prosecuted for complicity with war crimes by Melanie Phillips & What Really Transpired at the Wannsee Conference? & Rabbi Schwartz jokes

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. What Really Transpired at the Wannsee Conference? What Really Transpired at the Wannsee Conference? - The Jewish Link. There is much confusion about what transpired at the Wannsee Conference, held on January 20, 1942, in a villa in a suburb of Berlin. The conference "was about responsibilities and cooperation," and perhaps an effort to centralize the Final Solution, according to German historian Christian Gerlach. Historian Yehuda Bauer argues the meeting was barely a conference at all. A group of bureaucrats at the level of interagency secretaries of state was invited by SS General Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), to implement an order by Adolph Hitler to murder some 11 million Jews living in enemy and neutral countries including Europe, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden. In other words, the Wannsee Conference was not where these Nazi functionaries decided on the Final Solution. Decision to Murder the Jews Playing Defense Before acclaimed criminal attorney Samuel Leibowitz earned a national reputation defending everyone from Al Capone to the Scottsboro Boys, he represented small-time crooks like 'Izzy the Goniff' and used his knowledge of gefilte fish to win a client's acquittal BYALLAN LEVINE Playing Defense - Tablet Magazine Samuel Leibowitz, seated at left, speaks with Haywood Patterson, one of nine men charged with the rape of two prostitutes on a train. The other defendants are standing behind Leibowitz and Patterson. The subsequent trial would be known as the Scottsboro Boys case. GETTY IMAGES How 'anti-racism' made antisemitism fashionable by JONATHAN S. TOBIN "The New York Times" presents IfNotNow activists as liberal idealists. But beneath the surface of their rhetoric is contempt for Jews and indifference to Jewish genocide. A backlash against terror victims It was clear from the moment the news spread of the largest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust that the reaction from much of the chattering classes in the West, as well as elite intellectuals, academia, popular culture and the fine arts and left-wing political activists, would be exactly what Hamas intended. Rather than creating a backlash against the barbaric nature of Palestinian national "resistance" (and a recognition that the widely popular Hamas movement's goals truly were the extinction of Israel and the genocide of its Jewish population), the crimes of Oct. 7 did the opposite. Even before the Jewish dead were buried or the Israel Defense Forces began its campaign to root out the terrorist forces from their fortified positions in the Gaza Strip, the plight of the victims of mass murder, rape, torture and kidnapping was largely forgotten by most of the international media. Instead, a worldwide campaign to delegitimize Israel was launched—one that sought to attack not merely Israel's right to defend itself in the war Hamas had launched but its very existence. To the shock of American Jews, fashionable opinion on the left now regarded the Jewish state as a whole—and not merely familiar right-wing punching bags like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "settlers" or religious Jews—as inherently wrong, if not evil. Far from this being merely the sentiment expressed by radicals dwelling in the fever swamps of the far-right or the far-left, such ideas have become commonplace in the pages of the Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC and other bastions of contemporary progressivism. The reason for this is easily seen in the way people like Borgwardt and her companions have helped set the tone for much of the discourse about Israel. The path to anti-Israel activism for this child of an affluent St. Louis Jewish family came about through her support for the BLM movement. BLM began to gain momentum in 2014 after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., fueled by myths about the incident. It then went mainstream in 2020 after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, creating a moral panic about racism that spawned a summer of mass demonstrations and "mostly peaceful" riots that shook the nation. The BLM arguments about America being an irredeemably racist nation dismiss the enormous progress made in race relations since the triumph of the civil-rights movement in the 1960s. Worse than that, they seek to worsen racial harmony by putting forward a vision of the world in which all people are categorized as belonging to one of two immutable classes that are locked in perpetual conflict: white oppressors and victimized people of color. How 'anti-racism' made antisemitism fashionable - JNS.org Pro-Hamas activists wheel a mock tank into Freedom Plaza during a "March for Gaza" on Jan. 13, 2024. Credit: Philip Yabut/Shutterstock.J The rotten edifice of 'humanitarianism' UNRWA should be prosecuted for complicity with war crimes. MELANIE PHILLIPS The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 RABBI SCHWARTZ'S FUNNY THANK YOU JOKES OF THE WEEK Yankel was thinking about how good his wife was to him, so he prayed to gG-d to give thanks. To the man's astonishment, the booming Hashem spoke to him. Yankel:" : "Hashem, I'm so grateful that you gave me my wife. If I may ask, my Lord, why did you make her so beautiful?" Hashem-" I made her so beautiful so that you could love her, my son." Yankel:" : And why did you make her so kind-hearted? Hashem: "I made as such so that you could love her, my son." Yankel:" And why, did you make her such an amazing cook? Hashem: "I blessed her with the talent of cooking so that you could love her, my son." Yankel: "Thank you, Hashem but forgive me but I must ask one more question. Why, did you make her so dumb? Hashem "I made her dumb, my son, so that she could love you." Thank God we don't need to hunt for food anymore. I mean, I have no idea where pizzas live in the wild Only in Israel will you find someone that tells you when you ask his affiliation "Baruch Hashem I'm an atheist"… Wait... There is this atheist swimming in the ocean. All of the sudden he sees this shark in the water, so he starts swimming towards his boat. As he looks back he sees the shark turn and head towards him. His boat is a ways off and he starts swimming like crazy. He's scared to death, and as he turns to see the jaws of the great white beast open revealing its teeth in a horrific splendor, the atheist screams, "Oh God! Save me!" In an instant time is frozen and a bright light shines down from above. The man is motionless in the water when he hears the voice of God say, "You are an atheist. Why do you call upon me when you do not believe in me?" Aghast with confusion and knowing he can't lie the man replies, "Well, that's true I don't believe in you, but how about the shark? Can you make the shark believe in you?" The Lord replies, "As you wish," and the light retracted back into the heavens and the man could feel the water begin to move once again. As the atheist looks back he can see the jaws of the shark start to close down on him, when all of sudden the shark stops and pulls back. Shocked, the man looks at the shark as the huge beast closes its eyes and bows its head and says, "Baruch Ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech Ha'Olam…" Right after takeoff, a pilot comes on the microphone to welcome his passengers. "Thank you for flying with us. The weather is...." Then he suddenly starts screaming while still on the mic, "OH MY GOD! IT IS BURNING!!, IT IS BURNING!" Then silence. A few seconds later, he comes back on and says, "I'm terribly sorry about what happened. I spilled some scorching hot coffee on my lap...you should see my pants!!" A voice from the back of the plane yelled, "Why don't you come back here and see ours?" Berel is at a looking to buy a horse, the horse trader leads him to a majestic white stallion. The horse trader said: "This horse can understand three commands, if you want it to walk, say "Praise Hashem", if you want it to gallop say "Baruch Hashem" and if you want it to stop say "Please Hashem". Berel did not believe the horse trader, so he requested to try it out. He got onto the horse and then said: "Praise god." The horse started walking. He then said "Baruch Hashem" and the horse started galloping towards the end of the cliff. Berel panicked and forgot the phrase to stop the horse, it looked as if he was about to fall, he shouted out of fear: "Please Hashem" the horse stopped. Berel, being relieved, said "Baruch Hashem" Thank you, student loans, for helping me get through college. I don't think I can ever repay you. "No thanks. I am a vegetarian." is a fun thing to say when someone hands you a baby. "Thank you for calling the NSA..." "The only government organization that **actually** listens to you!" Be thankful for midwives. They really help people out I want to thank everyone here for teaching me the word "Plethora" It means a lot I'd like to thank my legs for supporting me. My arms for always being by my side and my fingers... I could always count on them. I once thanked a French guy to death It was a merci killing Thank you weight loss surgeons. What you do takes guts See you tomorrow bli neder We need Mashiach now! What is disliked by you, don't do to others. Be nice and kind and smile! 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