December 2011 Bulletin
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IM Issue 53 – December 2011
Canadians Rally Around Israel After Palestinian Success at UNESCOCanada joined the United States and Israel in cutting funding to UNESCO. The move comes after the vote by the 194 members of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to accept Palestine as a member. The Canadian government said it was withdrawing the voluntary contribution to the UN body in response to the recent decision to accept Palestine as a member.Click Israel Matters! 53 to read the complete issue.
The Ballad of Oslo’s Children
The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. In order to understand the following Latma parody, you need know the original song on which it was based, "Winter 1973", written by Shmuel Hasfari (formerly in Betar and DOV but for years gone far-left) and put to music by Uri Widislavski and first performed by an IDF educational entertainment group. It refers to the recruits of 1990-91 who were born in 1973 when, after the Yom Kippur War, a Yehoram Gaon song promised "this will be the very last war". See complete lyrics below. It was lifted from Yael Meir's poem. Yael resided in Ramat HaMagshimin in 1973-74. The song rips into the politicians who were interested in a Nobel Prize and left the population to die at the rate of two…
December 2011: If Our Seats Could Talk
Have you ever walked into services on a Friday night or Saturday morning and noticed the odd arrangement of seating? People seem to be spread out willy-nilly around the sanctuary with a few small clusters here and there. The front row is empty unless there is a Bar or Bat Mitzvah; there are some families, some singles, some couples in a seemingly random pattern, and a bunch of children in the back row. But if you were to take a mental picture (photography is not allowed on Shabbat, so we have to make do with our minds) and come back the following week, you would find that it is not so random and that people are generally in the same places. These are our assigned seats. (more…)
November 2011 Bulletin
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IM Issue 52 – November 2011- 250% more pages than in the Bulletin
Netanyahu Speaks at UN General Assembly. Israeli Prime Minister Responds to Palestinian Bid for Unilateral Statehood.On September 23rd, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the U.N. focusing primarily on the Palestinians’ statehood bid. Due to its significance, this online issue of Israel Matters! reproduces that speech in its entirety.click Israel Matters! 52 to read the complete issue.
IM Issue 51 – October 2011
Turkey Suspends Trade, Defense Ties with Israel Warns Navy Will Defend New Gaza FlotillaTurkey says it is “totally suspending” all trade and military ties with Israel as relations between the two countries continue to worsen. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the freeze, a day after Turkey ordered all senior Israeli diplomats to leave the country. Erdogan also said he may visit the Gaza Strip, but would finalize plans after speaking to Egyptian officials.click Israel Matters! 51 to read the complete issue.
A State is Born in Palestine
The opinions expressed on this webpage represent those of the individual authors and, unless clearly labeled as such, do not represent the opinions or policies of TBS. October 7, 2011 - By Ronen BergmanRonen Bergman is a senior political and military analyst for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Sixty-four years ago, in August 1947, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine presented to the General Assembly a startling and unexpected report, calling for an end to the British Mandate of Palestine and division of most of the territory into two independent states, with the Jewish state occupying the majority of the land. What came next, of course, is well known — a vote in the General Assembly on Nov. 29, 1947, in favor of partition, and the war that immediately followed. The decision is viewed in the Arab world as “the great crime,” and Palestinian leaders, including the current president…
Who is Sitting At The Table In Your Head?
I don’t know how grief feels to you. All I know is how it feels to me. Over the years, as I’ve lost more and more people, I find that grief has become very real, actually physical. I feel the grief in my stomach, in my chest. When it gets bad, I may not feel it every minute, but there are times in the day when it gets unbearable. And yet what we have to do is bear the unbearable, to go on and live and be happy despite these depressing and horrible feelings.
It is impossible to go on. And yet, somehow, we must.
Why Alexander Puts Out Fires
My grandson Alexander puts out fires. Like a lot of kids with active imaginations, he sees himself as a fireman. We’ve put out countless fires in houses, cars, and even this synagogue.
He knocked on my door one day, dressed as a fireman, and asked me if I had any problems. I didn’t understand at first, but then I saw that he was holding yellow caution tape in one hand and red danger tape in the other and he was ready to place tape wherever it might be needed in my life. He was there to protect me and fix anything that I needed.
In his world, fires occur, but he can deal with them. (more…)
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