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Cordial chabat shalom à tous !!! August 30
La conférence de presse organisée dans un hôtel de Beyrouth, au cours de laquelle l’organisation de défense des droits de l’homme Human Rights Watch (HRW) devait présenter un rapport de 128 pages sur les violations, par le Hezbollah, des droits de la guerre lors du conflit de l’été dernier a été annulée, indique Libération. En effet, le Hezbollah a fait pression pour éviter la publication de ce rapport qui le met en cause. « Apparemment, certains sujets dérangent », déclare Nadim Houry, représentant de HRW au Liban qui dénonce la virulente campagne lancée par Al-Manar, la chaîne de télévision proche du Parti de Dieu. Le rapport, qui présente plus de 20 études de cas et s’appuie sur une longue recherche de terrain dans le nord d’Israël, dénonce des «attaques délibérées ou sans discernement contre des civils», responsables de la mort d’au moins 39 personnes.
August 29
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L’agresseur d’un jeune juif a été condamné mercredi 28 août par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris à neuf mois de prison, dont trois mois ferme, rapporte le Parisien. Le tribunal qui a condamné Nizar Ouedrani, incarcéré depuis cinq semaines, a retenu le caractère antisémite de l’agression alors que l’accusé n’a pas cessé de le nier. « Je ne savais pas qu’il était juif » a déclaré l’accusé alors que la victime était coiffé d’une kippa et que son beau-frère était vêtu d’un long caftan noir et d’un chapeau. C’est en se rendant à la synagogue de la rue Petit, fin juillet, que le jeune Yossef accompagné de son beau-frère et de son neveu, a été agressé alors qu’il traversait la rue. Son agresseur, tout en lui répétant « sale juif, je vais te finir », lui a donné des coups sur la tête et sur le bras à l’aide d’un tapis brosse d’aspirateur. Le jeune homme a eu le bras dans le plâtre, un plaie à la tête et quarante jours d’arrêt total de travail. Pour les avocats de la partie civile, la décision est « tout à fait correcte ». « Pour nous l’essentiel est que le principe du caractère antisémite de l’agression ait été retenu alors que l’accusé n’a cessé de le nier pendant toute l’audience », ajouté l’avocat de la Licra. | August 28
Autour d’un buffet avec le rabbin Jacquot Grunewald, samedi 1er septembre 2007 à 19h15 !
Toute la communauté est conviée à écouter le rabbin Jacquot Grunewald, habitant de Jérusalem, érudit plein d'humour, ancien directeur de Tribune juive, auteur de nombreux ouvrages et traducteur du Talmud Steinzalts.
Il nous parlera de la promesse du prophète Jérémie: « Dans les villes de Juda et les rues désolées de Jérusalem, on entendra à nouveau les cris de joie et d'allégresse, les appels du fiancé et de l'épousée…»
Il évoquera également sa vie à Jérusalem et répondra à nos questions.
Inutile de s’inscrire.
Participation aux frais libre (à remettre après la sortie de shabbath).
Lundi 27 août, le président de la République a prononcé un discours à l’Elysée devant les ambassadeurs de France. Il a donné l’orientation de sa politique étrangère.
Etats-Unis : Son discours marque une rupture dans les relations de la France avec les Etats-Unis. Nicolas Sarkozy « pense que l'amitié entre les Etats-Unis et la France est aussi importante aujourd'hui qu'elle l'a été au cours des deux siècles passés. Alliés ne veut pas dire alignés et je me sens parfaitement libre d'exprimer nos accords comme nos désaccords, sans complaisance ni tabou ».
Islam-Occident : Inquiet d’une confrontation entre l’islam et l’Occident et de la menace terroriste en France comme partout dans le monde, il souhaite « encourager, aider, dans chaque pays musulman les forces de modération et de modernité à faire prévaloir un Islam ouvert et tolérant, acceptant la diversité comme un enrichissement », « aider les pays musulmans à accéder à l'énergie du futur » et « traiter les crises du Moyen-Orient ».
L’Iran : Nicolas Sarkozy « réaffirme qu'un Iran doté de l'arme nucléaire est pour moi inacceptable », et « souligne l'entière détermination de la France dans la démarche actuelle alliant sanctions croissantes mais aussi ouverture si l'Iran fait le choix de respecter ses obligations ». « Cette démarche est la seule qui puisse nous permettre d'échapper à une alternative catastrophique : la bombe iranienne ou le bombardement de l'Iran », ajoute t-il en estimant que cette crise iranienne « est sans doute la plus grave qui pèse aujourd'hui sur l'ordre international ».
Proche-Orient : Se déclarant être « l’ami d’Israël » il insiste sur le fait qu’il ne transigera « jamais sur la sécurité d'Israël », tout en rappelant ses « sentiments d'amitié et de respect » envers « tous les dirigeants des pays arabes, à commencer par le président Mahmoud Abbas, qui sont venus nombreux à Paris depuis mon élection, et leurs peuples ». « Cette amitié m'autorise à dire aux dirigeants israéliens et palestiniens que la France est déterminée à prendre ou à soutenir toute initiative utile », affirme t-il en ajoutant que « la paix se négociera d'abord entre Israéliens et Palestiniens ». « Dans l'immédiat, nos efforts, ceux du Quartet et des pays arabes modérés, doivent aller à la reconstruction de l'Autorité palestinienne, sous l'autorité de son Président. Mais il est tout aussi indispensable de relancer sans délai une authentique dynamique de paix conduisant à la création d'un Etat palestinien. Que les parties et la communauté internationale se dérobent à nouveau à cette ambition, et la création d'un " Hamastan " dans la bande de Gaza risque d'apparaître rétrospectivement comme la première étape de la prise de contrôle de tous les territoires palestiniens par les islamistes radicaux. Nous ne pouvons pas nous résigner à cette perspective. La France ne s'y résigne pas », affirme t-il.
August 27
Lazer explains to a Nachal Haredi soldier at a Jordan-border checkpoint about saying Tikkun Klali and Perek Shira.
No rest for the weary. Just like harvest season is the busiest time of the year for a farmer, Elul or "teshuva season" is a rush time for Emuna Outreach. We now have 3 new books in different stages of printing (Garden of Yearning, The Worry Worm, and Little Nachman), 4 new CDs about to be released, and numerous public speaking commitments. In addition, we are doing our part, with Hashem's loving grace, to help enhance our soldiers' emuna, for emuna is not only Israel's best defense, it's Israel's only defense.
This coming Shabbat, G-d willing, I'll be leaving the comforts of my air-conditioned flat in Ashdod to spend Shabbat with a group of Nachal Haredi soldiers in the 102-degree weather of the Jordan Valley. Not only will we be praying together and learning together, but I'll be visiting the soldiers at their various duty stations along the Jordan border.
Next week, at a time and place that I'm not allowed to publicize, I'll be meeting a special group of Israeli airmen to pump some high-octane emuna into our air force.
Emuna Outreach wants to thank all of you who have been supporting "Operation Emuna," our activities within the IDF. May Hashem bless you with a happy and prosperous New Year 5768. |  |
August 24
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| (clarityandresolve.com) All the models are said to have served in the Israeli Defence Force |
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By Karima Saifullah
The Israeli government is desperate to improve its image and manipulate people who only link the Jewish state with wars, occupation and brutal aggression against the Palestinians. Recent polls show that Israel isn’t well-regarded in the country’s closest ally, the United States, where the majority of young men believe that the Jewish state is “too religious and too militaristic.”
In an attempt to improve its tainted image, the Israeli consulate in New York came up with what could be described as a cheap idea: resorting to pornography by publishing images of half-naked female soldiers in the U.S. men’s magazine Maxim; a move that was strongly condemned by Israel’s religious right, who said that the government was degrading the Jewish state and promoting sex tourism. "We found that Israel's image among men aged 18-38 is lacking, so we thought we'd approach them with an image they'd find appealing,” said David Saranga, consul for media and public affairs at the Israeli consulate.
Maxim magazine, which promises its readers "girls, sex, sports" and usually avoids politics, initially refused the Israeli consulate’s request to publish the photographs, but it changed its mind after it saw the pictures of 12 of Israel’s top models.
"The Israeli models", Saranga said, were a "Trojan horse" to present Israel as a modern country with pretty women.
The photo feature, entitled "Women of the Israeli Defense Forces", will be published in Maxim's July issue. One of four former female soldiers photographed in their underwear in the magazine, Yarden, describes how she enjoyed firing her M16 rifle before she entered the military intelligence corp. Israeli model Nivit Bash - who served in Israeli military intelligence – also says sthat her job in intelligence was so secret that she cannot talk about it.
According to The Guardian, most Israeli women do compulsory military service for two years from the age of 18. While they do not fight in combat units, they undergo basic training and can be seen at checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. However, there is nothing military about the indecent photographs, which were taken in different locations in Tel Aviv.
Not everyone in Israel is excited about this cheap tourism campaign. Zahava Gal On, the leader of the Meretz party, said it’s inappropriate for Israel to market itself using half-naked women. "It is unfortunate that the New York Consulate thinks that Israel's relevance will be expressed by the use of naked women who are treated as an object, and not as women of substance who exude achievement and success," she said.
Colette Avital, a member of the Labour party and the first woman to seek Israel’s presidency, described the move as a "pornographic campaign sponsored by the Foreign and Tourism Ministries to encourage tourism".
“Israel’s image has been tainted by sex-scandals involving high-ranking officials as it is. I wonder if the best way to encourage tourism is by advertising sex,” she said.
Avital has already approached Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and demanded an urgent meeting be called to discuss the campaign which Israel’s Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich said the ministry has nothing to do with.
It’s not the first time that Israel has used sex to advertise itself. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism has an advertising contract with Arsenal FC to promote Israel which features women in swimsuits. Israel wants to sell itself as a western country with beaches and nightclubs rather than a country full of religious sites which has been in a permanent state of emergency since its creation.
Despite the criticism over the naked photo shoot, Ambassador Arye Mekel, consul-general of Israel in New York, defended the consulate’s decision and said: “Israel is always mentioned in the context of wars and violence. We want to show there is a normal life. Among the beautiful things we have are our women.”
“This is the first time we used the word ’shoot’ in connection to Israel and we’re not talking about killing people,” he added.
Former Miss Israel Gal Gadot also defended the campaign, arguing that she just used her “assets” to improve Israel’s war-torn image.
One interesting fact is that all the outrage in Israel is focused on the idea of using women as sex objects to promote tourism. But what’s more shocking is that sex here is not just being used to "improve" Israel’s image, but also to promote Zionism and gloss over the bitter realities of Israel’s occupation and apartheid.
One of the models who took part in the photo shoot said that “this particular bit of bikini modelling draws from the same spirit as the original Israeli settlers.” She even said that it is “an act of Zionism.” "The fact that I can represent this country makes me proud," said Tali Handel, a 25-year-old former air force sergeant.
Although she said she’d never heard of Maxim before, Handel expected the article would be "serious" and encourage young Jewish males living in the United States to consider moving to Israel. "I don't see anything negative about it. Nothing else brings [people] here, not Jerusalem, not the beautiful nature. People are not interested. So, I think it's okay to use something else to bring them." Source: AJP
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The love story between French Jews and Israel has never been so intense. They throng here in record numbers, showering love and money on the country. For many of them, Israel is more like a first home, even if they live their lives in France. The moments of terror which French Jews have experienced recently have been replaced with euphoria.
Until Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France in May 2007, almost 8,000 Jewish families had advised their community institutions that they were considering emigrating to Israel. Had socialist Segolene Royale been elected president, or had the radical right-wing leader Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the second round of presidential elections, most of them would probably have done so.
Sarkozy, a friend to Israel and the Jews, was elected president and French Jews rejoiced. They no longer felt that France's soil was burning under their feet. His election reduced their dread but did not obliterate it completely. This is why in the last two years, Israel has been their primary tourist destination. Both because they see Israel as their real home and to let the whole world know that when the crunch comes, they have somewhere to go.
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| Israel no longer needs to tempt them to come. France's Jews arrive en masse both to visit and to realize their Judaism. In recent years they have turned this country into a large banquet hall. Anyone with money has come to hold a wedding or bar mitzvah or any other family affair. Even birthdays were a good excuse to fly to Israel, bringing friends and relatives along.
Gone are the days when official Israel urged them to pack their bags and immigrate before some disaster befell them. Only three years ago, Israel considered bringing thousands of Jews on an airlift, as though they were facing extinction. Muslim attacks on their Jewish neighbors in Sarcelles, in the northern suburbs of Paris, worried Israel. In June 2004, immigration and absorption minister Tzipi Livni met Jewish Agency chairman Salai Meridor and the director-general Prime Minister's Office, Ilan Cohen, to discuss the rescue of Sarcelles Jews.
They decided to send people to knock on the Jews' doors to urge them to pack their bags. The covert operation was scrapped after it was exposed by the Israeli media, triggering an angry response from the French authorities.
The only operations French Jews deal with today have to do obtaining a plane ticket to Israel. Almost all the flights are full and it's hard to find a seat. The Jewish tourists reserve their hotel rooms a year or even two years in advance and pay handsomely, even when the prices are exorbitant.
Almost all of them have relatives in Israel. Their visits to Israel give them an extraordinary spiritual experience. They hold their Jewish identity high, demonstrate their huge solidarity with Israel and invest here, preparing the ground for the day in which they, or their children, will stake their claim on Israel's soil. |
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| By Dan Ben-David
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The question of "who is a Jew?" has been debated since Israel attained statehood. It is a fundamental question for matters of citizenship and marriage here. But as with many other issues, the emphasis is not always on the primary essence of the question: We deal with matters of quantity, rather than quality. Even if we manage to solve the issue of quantity, and we find a way to integrate hundreds of thousands of olim who are not Jewish according to halacha - and Jews abroad find a way to slow the rate of assimilation in their communities - we will still be left with the issue of quality.
What will be the nature of the State of Israel in another generation or two? Democracy is a necessary but insufficient condition. There are currently three main alternatives struggling to define the nature of Judaism here. Should no changes be forthcoming, each one will bring about the end of Israel as the home of the Jewish people.
The first alternative is the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi). Is this the flag that could or should unite us? On the one hand, it could be argued that their uncompromising traditions may be the only glue that can prevent widespread assimilation, as seen in Diaspora communities. On the other hand, this population has produced no significant uprising against its rampant shirking of the draft in a country facing clear and present existential threats. It also has produced no large-scale, organized dissension against a leadership that prevents its grade-school students from receiving a core curriculum necessary to survive and thrive in a modern economy and society. Is this the enlightened Judaism that continues the path of Maimonides, who was one of our greatest rabbis - and also a physician?
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| The second alternative, that of the Orthodox Jews who serve in the army and work for a living, could have been the bridge between the modern world and traditional Judaism. These are observant Jews who excel in furthering Israel's society and economy. But where is the massive group organizing to save this population from a leadership with selective democratic principles when it comes to settling the whole of the Land of Israel, a leadership with no compunctions against encouraging its soldiers to rebel against orders not to its liking - even at the cost of fostering a behavioral cancer in the army that could rapidly spread to other parts of society that object to various policies of the elected government?
The third alternative trying to define Israel's Jewish character is that of the secular Jews. This is the Israeli version of the modern secular world. However, what added value does secular Judaism offer future generations, so that they will choose to remain in the Jewish state, and risk their lives and those of their children to preserve this nation? What kind of thread could bind sabras, who are strangers to synagogues, with their brothers abroad - be they Orthodox, Conservative or Reform - who are unfamiliar with a Judaism unconnected to the temple?
These three alternatives in their current forms - individually and as a group - represent a dead end for the Jewish state. If this country does not learn to separate between religion and politics - which corrupts religion - we will find it extremely difficult to create another alternative, where pluralism, defining the future character of Judaism, could flourish.
The author teaches economics in the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. |
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Even if the Halfon Committee's report on conversion, submitted yesterday, is implemented, and a national conversion authority is established, there is no reason for optimism. A conversion authority in itself will not solve the conversion crisis over immigrants from the former Soviet Union, just as the establishment of a conversion administration a decade ago did not solve the problem, nor did transferring the conversion system to the Prime Minister's Office a few years ago.
Bringing non-Jewish immigrants who moved to Israel under the Law of Return into the Jewish community is, in the opinion of many, a national challenge and a national mission. However, no structural change will lead to mass conversions as long as the rabbis do not really want to convert the immigrants and continue to demand that they accept a narrow and strict interpretation of the Torah and commandments.
A transformation of consciousness is required, along with recognition of the reality that has been created in Israel. Some 300,000 non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have joined the nation. The Israeli public treats them as part of it for all intents and purposes. They live among us, study, work and vote. They sing our songs and, of course, are drafted into the army and risk their lives. From the point of view of the Jewish community, these immigrants, defined as non-Jews, ceased being "them" a long time ago; they are "us."
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| In Judaism, public opinion has considerable power. The rabbis' attempt to keep these immigrants beyond the pale is an edict that the Jewish community in Israel neither wants nor is prepared to tolerate. It is enough to recall the harsh responses to a proposal by Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann and Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar to institute civil marriage for Israelis who have no religion - but only if they marry each other.
Immigrants from the former Soviet Union comprise the most secular public in Israel. Yet this group, of all groups, is being asked to live a lie and accept the Torah and commandments as a condition for entering Judaism. The solution to the problem of converting the immigrants must be a moderation of this demand: for example, a ruling that identification with the Jewish people, a desire to become Jewish and some knowledge of the commandments and the tradition are enough for a person to be considered Jewish.
Jewish leaders in the past knew how to show flexibility over issues more difficult than this. Today, the conversion challenge lies first and foremost at the door of former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his disciple, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar. To bring this group of immigrants closer, they must relax their demand that the immigrants accept the Torah and the commandments and urge this group to embrace Judaism. If they do so, thousands of immigrants will convert, regardless of whether or not a conversion authority is established.
If they do not do so, the rift in the Jewish people will grow, along with the demand for civil marriage. Moreover, the rabbis will have abused their office and their historic responsibility. Special challenges require extraordinary leadership. Rabbis Yosef and Amar demonstrated such leadership with regard to the immigration of Ethiopian Jews and the Falashmura. Will they also be wise enough to display such leadership when it comes to the immigrants from the former Soviet Union? |
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The report submitted to the prime minister on Monday on the state of conversion in Israel managed for once to unite nearly all religious authorities - from the Reform movement to ultra-Orthodox rabbis - in opposition to its recommendations.
The committee recommended setting up a new conversion administration that would include courses to prepare converts, and the special rabbinical courts that perform the conversion in practice.
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Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi, Shlomo Amar, would oversee the entire process.
A long series of bureaucratic and halakhic (Jewish law) obstacles has brought conversion almost to a standstill, with fewer than 3,000 immigrants per year converting, out of an estimated 300,000 who are unrecognized as Jews by the rabbinate.
"Converting the non-Jews is a national and strategic mission of vital importance to the future of the State of Israel," Immigrant Absorption Minister Jacob Edery said Monday.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked officials from Edery's ministry to come back with an operative plan for implementing the recommendations, including an estimate of how many converts would be added.
The committee was headed by Immigrant Absorption Ministry director general Erez Halfon, and represented all departments and agencies in Israel that deal with conversion, including the Chief Rabbinate, Israel Defense Forces, Jewish Agency and Education Ministry. It focused mainly on streamlining the entire conversion process, which currently takes more than two years and has a high dropout rate. Recommendations include adding 10 posts for rabbinical court judges (dayanim), and creating a volunteer-dayan post to boost the number of converts substantially.
But ministry officials concede that while they can perhaps solve bureaucratic problems, halakhic issues are within the rabbinate's province. Here they point with hope to Amar's consent to form a committee of dayanim to discuss the halakhic obstacles facing would-be converts, particularly various requirements to maintain a religious lifestyle.
The committee asked Amar to consider permitting conversion activity at non-religious schools with a large number of immigrants "in need of conversion"; not to require converts to transfer their children to religious schools; and to permit converts to appear before the court independently, without reference to a spouse's religious status.
A source close to Amar said yesterday that "the rabbi believes it is possible to rule on conversion matters leniently and remain within the realm of halakha," but declined to say how the rabbi would respond to the committee's requests.
Amar is expected to use the new posts to introduce like-minded dayanim, as a counter-weight to those who believe mass conversion should be discouraged.
The ultra-Orthodox daily Yated Neeman devoted two pages yesterday to attacking the committee's report. The paper, which is the mouthpiece for Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv - to whom many of the dayanim answer - blasted the report for enabling mass "fake" conversions.
For opposite reasons, Rabbi Gilad Kariv of the Reform movement's Israel Religious Action Center said that the committee's recommendations "do not herald any significant change. At best they are useless, and at worst they might deepen the ongoing crisis in the field of conversion, as a result of bolstering the involvement of the Chief Rabbinate and rabbinical courts in the conversion process." |
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Dr. Joel Mergui, the president of the umbrella organization of the Jewish community in Paris, said in an interview with Haaretz on Monday that he fears that a mass migration to Israel among French Jews could severely deplete the Paris community.
The fears Mergui expressed in his interview with Haaretz are held by quite a number of community leaders in the Jewish world, though few are willing to express them publicly.
"Out of 600,000 Jews living in France, only a third is in contact with the community, and educate their children in Jewish schools. A third is in the process of becoming assimilated, and another third is in the middle, on the fence - and we need to pull them in. All of the education of the Jewish community for years was based on ties and identification with Israel. My worry is that we succeeded too well, we worked so hard with the third of the community whose strong ties with Israel may possibly empty out the Paris community. This is not a fear of anti-Zionism," Mergui said.
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| Mergui has a few surprising figures, even for those who are used to seeing Israel's beaches filled with French Jewish tourists. According to his figures, there are 80,000 people with dual Israeli-French citizenship living in Israel today. Out of about 800 Jewish couples from Paris who married last year, about half held the wedding in Israel. Approximately 1,000 family celebrations of French Jews were held in Israel. Mergui said not a day passes without a funeral of a French Jew in Israel.
"It may be very heart-warming but the result is many fewer people passing through our synagogues in Paris and fewer use the community's services," he said. "You have to remember that for many Jews, the only time they go to the synagogue is for a wedding or bar mitzvah; and that is our chance to contact those Jews, and it is disappearing."
The affairs held in Israel cut into the finances of the community's institutions, in loss of revenue and of contributions related to the events. Also, a large percentage of the Jews called up to be honored in the Torah reading during the Shabbat and holiday synagogue service pledge money for Israel and the IDF, instead of for the local community.
There is a constant stream of almost 3,000 Jews a year coming on aliyah from France. In practice, it seems that the number is even greater since many Jews who move to Israel are not in a hurry to apply for Israeli citizenship.
Mergui met in Jerusalem with Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Minister of Immigrant Absorption Jacob Edrey and the chairman of the Jewish Agency, Ze'ev Bielski.
"I told them that all the years our goal was to help Israel; with contributions, tourism and aliyah. Now we need to think not only how to bring Jews to Israel but also how to maintain the community infrastructure in France. For 30 years I have been involved in the community as a Zionist, I am not against aliyah, but I want a realistic ideology. Our responsibility to Israel does not need to ignore our responsibility to our community. If it continues this way, in 20 years we are likely to lose half the community."
His goal, he explained, is to replace every Jew who comes to Israel with an uninvolved Jew he draws in. He added that he wants to reach the younger generation by expanding Sunday schools for pupils studying in non-Jewish schools. This requires investing large sums to make these schools much more prestigious; they have a poor image today, he said.
Mergui also intends to draw in college-age students by building a Jewish students' center near the Sorbonne and later placing a rabbi or Jewish intellectual at every large university in France. | August 22
Naissance de l'Association
Alors que le Rav Yaron chlita était en train de prier sur le tombeau de Yossef Hatsadiq, il fut sollicité par 7 nouveaux immigrants qui souhaitaient effectuer leur Brit Mila. Cette sollicitation se répétant pendants plusieurs semaines, il décida de créer sous le conseil des plus Grands Rabbanim l’Association Briti . Yossef car tout à commencé sur le tombeau de ce même tsadiq et Yits'haq car c'est le premier enfant parmi notre peuple qui accompli la Brit Mila à l'age de 8 jours.
Il dépêcha un groupe de mohalim (particulièrement qualifiés pour pratiquer des Brit Milot sur adolescents et adultes), afin de répondre gratuitement et à travers le monde entier à cette nouvelle demande de la part des jeunes et des moins jeunes, leur permettant ainsi à eux aussi de rentrer sous les ailes de la Providence et devenir des juifs a part entière.
L’Association Briti effectua depuis lors dans près de 44 pays et plus de 240 villes le nombre incroyable de 27 000 Brit Milot sur adultes et adolescents, plus de 32 000 si l'on inclus les nourrissons.
Notre objectif reste pour l'année en cours d'effectuer près de 3000 circoncisions. Si vous connaissez un ami ou un proche juif qui n'a pas encore été circoncis, quel que soit son age et son lieu géographique, contactez-nous dans les plus brefs délais.
Avraham Kadoch : +972 (0) 548455448 ou avraham@worldbrit.com
Un cours très interessant en video ici : http://dl.free.fr/aJ1ncUC9p/Brit-Mila-et-Incirconcis.wmv |  | |  |
August 21
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Question de orliovsky du Lundi 11 Juin 2007
 cher rav
tres souvent lorsque je lis les questions de ce site je trouve beaucoup de goyims .certains veulent meme se convertir .or nous avons 1 obligation de repousser les goyims de la conversion par 3 fois (meme si ils ont l air sinceres) de ce fait pourquoi les soutenez vous, les encouragez vous au lieu de les jetter ou de ne meme pas leur repondre .
je tiens a précicer que je ne cherche a vous faire aucun reproche. j ai au contraire 1 grande admiration pour la beaute de vos reponses. je cherche uniquement a comprendre
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Chalom Rivka,
Je ne sais pas d’où tu tiens qu’il y a une obligation de repousser les goyim de la conversion par trois fois même s’ils ont l’air sincères.
Le Choulkhan Aroukh traité Yoré déa chap 268 alinéa b concernant les lois de conversions dit la chose suivante :
Quand il vient se convertir, on lui demande :
-Pourquoi veux-tu te convertir ? Ne sais-tu pas que le peuple d’Israël, à notre époque est poursuivi, perdu, torturé ?
S’il répond : « Je le sais mais néanmoins je mérite à peine de faire partie de leur peuple », alors on le reçoit immédiatement et on lui enseigne les principes de la religion juive ainsi que quelques mitsvot légères, quelques mitsvot graves, et quelques sanctions. On lui dit qu’avant de venir se convertir, il peut manger des graisses interdites sans subir le caret, qu’il peut travailler le chabbat sans subir la lapidation… Mais maintenant qu’il se convertit, il risque pour ces péchés le caret et la lapidation, etc etc.
Le but de ce comportement est de vérifier sa sincérité et ainsi de l’empêcher de dire par la suite que s’il avait su il ne se serait pas converti. Il est vrai que nous rendons la tache dure aux candidats à la conversion car nous voulons vérifier la sincérité de leur démarche, mais cela ne provient que de la conjoncture actuelle. Quand quelqu’un m’envoie un mail et me parle de conversion, je lui souhaite bonne chance et le guide du mieux que je peux. Ce sera aux rabbins chargés de la conversion de vérifier sa sincérité et de mesurer s’il peut intégrer le peuple d’Israël ou non.
Nous ne sommes pas des prosélytes, mais il est clair que la conversion est une mitsva si la personne qui veut sincèrement se convertir.
Au revoir,
Rav Ron Chaya |
Reuven and Rivka Levy (London-Neve Daniel) sent me the following delightful story, that happened in their own community on Shabbat. I love these kind of stories...
Rabbi Shaw came out of his house on Shabbat morning and saw a taxi parked outside his neighbours house (the Snyders). That's a little unusual since Snyder doesn’t drive a taxi and cars don’t come into our settlement on Shabbat. So when he saw Snyder, he asked him where the taxi came from.
Here's what happened:
 Friday afternoon, Snyder flew back to Israel from abroad. The plane was a little delayed, but he had just about enough time to get from Lod Airport back to Neve Daniel. He jumped in the first cab and flew off. On the way, the cabbie turned round to him and said, "It's getting late! I'm a Sabbath-observing Jew. With all best intentions, it doesn’t look like I'm going to be able to take you as far as Gush Etzion and then make it back to my house before Shabbat sets in. Tell you what: I'll drive past my house in Bet Shemesh, jump out, and give you the keys. You drive the cab to Neve Daniel and I'll pick it up after Shabbat."
So that's what he did! Only in Israel... Mi Ke'amcha Yisrael…
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Israeli cab drivers are a bunch of hidden tzaddikim. I'm crazy about them. We have better discussions about emuna than I do with some rabbis. If you haven't read Meir's Story from last year, check it out. It's delightful. |  | |  |
August 20
Certaines parties d'une interview accordée par le secrétaire général du Hezbollah à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la guerre du Liban, où il affirme que le Hezbollah a combattu pour l'Iran, ont été censurées par la télévision iranienne, pour ne pas provoquer la colère des Libanais, nous apprend le Yedioth Aharonot.
"Nous sommes prêts à nous faire déchirer, à nous faire découper en morceaux, pour l'exaltation de l'Iran. Car si l'Iran demeure exalté, nous le serons aussi. Je suis un humble soldat de l'Imam Khamenei. Les jeunes du Hezbollah ont agi pour le compte de l'Imam Khamenei, avec l'aide de l'Imam Hussein, et ont envoyé leur bénédiction au peuple iranien.", a dit Hassan Nasrallah au cours d'une interview accordée au journaliste iranien Bijan Nobaveh, le jour de l'anniversaire de la deuxième guerre du Liban selon le calendrier perse. Nasrallah en a profité pour remercier le Président iranien Mahmoud Ahmadinejad et tous les "frères et soeurs" en Iran.
Dans cette interview, Nasrallah confirme qu'il sert les intérêts du chef suprême iranien (Khamenei) et que, l'été dernier, ses hommes se sont battus pour l'Iran.
August 19
Boum ! Quand mon coeur fait boum...
Trouvé sur le net, ce site nous concocte une liste de "traitres" à la cause juive . Un peu inquiétant tout de même, ces méthodes d'une époque que je croyais révolue...
Le président iranien Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a qualifié ce samedi le gouvernement israélien de "drapeau de Satan", dans une nouvelle déclaration incendiaire dont il est devenu coutumier.
"Le régime sioniste (Israël) est le drapeau de Satan et le porte-drapeau de l'agression et de l'occupation", a déclaré le président lors d'une réunion religieuse à Téhéran.
Depuis son accession à la présidence de l'Iran en août 2005, Ahmadinejab a lancé à maintes reprises des attaques verbales contre Israël demandant notamment l'éradication de l'État hébreu et sa délocalisation en Europe. (belga)
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