The Burning of Mid-Pesach Chametz

These are the posters calling on Jews to come protest the liberalization of the non-display of Chametz legislation that was eased due to a recent municipal court decision, backed by Attorney-General Menni Mazuz.







The demonstartion is set for Tuesday at 5PM at Kikar Shabbat.

Jewess Recognition Award

This week's "Jewess Recognition Award" goes to Danielle Leibowitz:-

Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim: Rabbinical Seminary of America for over 65 years, passed away Tuesday, April 15 in his 89th year.

The rosh yeshiva was born Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz in the town of Selechnik, on the border between Poland and Lithuania. It is not entirely clear what year he was born, but his American passport says June 2, 1918. Rabbi Leibowitz’s first wife, Pesha Leibowitz, died in 2002. He had no children, and is survived by his second wife Danielle Leibowitz.

Video of chupah here Danielle can be seen at 3:11 and here's another video where she can be seen. One of the aidim was a classmate of mine - Rav Avraham Semel.

Do the math.

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Temple Mount Bad News

Mazuz declines case against Waqf

Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided to suspend criminal proceedings against the Jerusalem Waqf, in the wake of a complaint lodged by some 150 people. The complainants accused the Waqf of causing repeated damage to the antiquities on the Temple Mount, and to the nation's heritage. Mazuz ruled that the offenses listed by the complainants were "forced," and that they tried to define them "artificially" as criminal offenses. He cited former chief justices who advised caution in enforcing the law on Temple Mount.

To them he grants immunity from prosecution.

What an idiot.

Pollard Pokes Olmert Via Lindenstrauss

Lindenstrauss issues court order for PM to testify about Pollard

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has issued a court order against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert which would force the premier to testify before the comptroller on the matter of Jonathan Pollard and his continued incarceration in the United States on charges of spying for Israel...

In December, the Knesset State Control Committee asked Lindenstrauss to investigate the Pollard affair...

Well, now we are getting somewhere.

What Did You Expect?

These are the fun and games when you have too much money and too much time on your hads, I guess.

Rigorous Research (They Claim)

A new book is out.

Bad News From Israel by Greg Philo and Mike Berry of the Glasgow University Media Group.

The book, the authors assert, is

based on rigorous research

and is an

authoritative book [which] examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion.

...the authors focus on television news. They illustrate major differences in the way Israelis and Palestinians are represented, including how casualties are shown and the presentation of the motives and rationales of both sides.

The book explores the processes that shape the news. It looks at patterns of ownership and at how public relations, information control and the close political links between the USA and Britain affect what we see and hear in the media.

Funny, but this description and the Glasgow connection impress me most negatively. I smell BS.

Luttwak's Thinking (And On Black-eyed Virgins)

In response to a critique in the Times Literary Supplement, Edward Luttwak had a letter published and I submit an extract:-

...Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s theory that Islamic orthodoxy blocks development, inducing violent expressions of frustration and humiliation because Islam simultaneously promises superiority in all things to its adherents – a frustration especially acute for the Arabs, whom the Koran itself names as the world’s best people. Enzensberger’s theory can certainly be criticized (e.g. the violence started before any frustration – Muhammad himself was as much raider as preacher) but not, as it happens, with the argument advanced by Hegghammer: “If the Muslim world has been retarded for a thousand years, why does the violent reaction come now?”.

That is unhistorical twice over: first, the Muslim world was doing very nicely c1008; second, when relative decline did become manifest centuries later, the seething resentment of almost all Muslim populations, which made it easy for truculent clerics to infuriate mobs into violence, became the salient hazard of travel in Muslim lands long before al-Qaeda. So it is not “now”.

Hegghammer does note his serious reservations about Robert Pape’s theory that suicide attacks have nothing to do with Islam as such but are merely responses to occupation, and mostly by non-Muslims. Pape’s numbers are fatally flawed by the inclusion of the Liberation Tigers of Sri Lanka, a sui generis case, and by the odd classification of Hezbollah and Hamas as territorialists rather than Islamists. But then Hegghammer fails to point out the central error of Pape’s reductionism, shared by many others: the minimization of the specifically Islamic incentive to fight and if necessary die (not suicidal attacks per se), which happens to resonate especially with young men trapped in forced celibacy: a promised paradise of orgiastic sex with both women and boys.

Muslim preachers in conflicted lands are much less bashful than Western commentators in specifying what Allah himself will provide to dead Jihadists: Koran 51–55, “ . . . We shall wed them to dark-eyed houris”. Koran 55:56–57, “ . . . bashful virgins neither man nor Jinn will have touched before. Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?”. Koran 55:57–58, “Virgins as fair as corals and rubies . . .” . Koran 55:70–77, “ . . . Dark eyed virgins sheltered in their tents . . . ”. Koran 78:31, “. . . gardens and vineyards, and high-bosomed virgins for companions . . . ”. Later jurists universally condemned homosexuality, and no preacher would now proffer it, but the text is explicit: Koran 52:24, “Round about them will serve . . . boys handsome as pearls well-guarded”. Koran 76:19, “ . . . boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls”.

I for one genuinely do not understand why the centrality of the sexual promises to Jihadist mobilization is so persistently ignored, or even explicitly denied, by most Western analysts, hardliners very much included. There is no such hesitation among the protagonists themselves: outwardly at any rate, death in fighting the infidel is not mourned by their families and friends but celebrated as a zawaj, a wedding.

EDWARD N. LUTTWAK
4510 Drummond Avenue,
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815.

As for the matter of Sex and the Suicidal Muslim, see here. Fromt the transcript:-

Saudi Cleric Omar Al-Sweilem Extols the Breasts and Thighs of the Black-Eyed Virgins of Paradise

Harith Ibn Al-Muhasibi told us what would happen when we meet the black-eyed virgin with her black hair and white face – praised be He who created night and day. What hair! What a chest! What a mouth! What cheeks! What a figure! What breasts! What thighs! What legs! What whiteness! What softness! Without any creams – no Nivea, no vaseline. No nothing! He said that faces would be soft that day. Even your own face will be soft without any powder or makeup. You yourself will be soflt, so how soft will a black-eyed virgin be, when she comes to you so tall and with her beautiful face, her black hair and white face - praised be He who created night and day. Just feel her palm, Sheik! He said: How soft will a fingertip be, after being softened in paradise for thousands of years!

There is no god but Allah. He told us that if you entered one of the palaces, you would find ten black-eyed virgins sprawled on musk cushions. Where is Abu Khaled? Here, he has arrived! When they see you, they will get up and run to you. Lucky is the one who gets to put her thumb in your hand. When they get hold of you, they will push you onto your back, on the musk cushions. They will push you onto your back, Jamal! Allah Akbar! I wish this on all people present here. He said that one of them would place her mouth on yours. Do whatever you want. Another one would press her cheek against yours, yet another would press her chest against yours, and the others would await their turn. There is no god but Allah. He told us that one black-eyed virgin would give you a glass of wine. Wine in Paradise is a reward for your good deeds. The wine of this world is destructive, but not the wine of the world to come.

Wow, closest I've come to pornography.

Celebration for Yehoshua Bin-Nun

Wednesday, April 30 11 PM to May 1 5:00 AM.

(They are going to catch flak as it's Yom HaShoah v'HaG'Vurah)

The Mormon Moms

The fundametalist version:-



We have the Burkha Babes and they have the Mormon Moms.

Ten Bushes and One George W.

Story is that:-

President George W. Bush signs a presidential proclamation Tuesday, April 15, 2008, in honor of Wednesday's Education and Sharing Day, and highlighting the important work of the Chabad Lubavitch movement

You noticed they were a minyan.

Another Statistic

According to Lubicom, a marketing firm for the kosher food industry, about 350,000 households in the United States keep kosher kitchens year-round, a number that has gone up by 3 percent to 5 percent every year since 2005 as some American Jews have become more observant.

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A First

The above is a joint poster, sponsorod by the IDF's Central Comman, the SHAI Police Unit and The Yesha Council, informing those who will be hiking all around Judea and Samaria how to do so in the most safe and secure manner.

Thank God for Photoshop

My good friend JudyL sent me this:-

Jimmy Carter Arrested on Terrorism Charges

It's from here.

Consider this opinion:

Carter’s proposed meeting will also violate part of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 which prohibits any US citizen from knowingly providing “…material support or resources” to a foreign terrorist organization (18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)). The phrase “material support or resources” includes “expert advice” which is what former presidents provide. A citizen found guilty of violating this law could be imprisoned for life.

The State Department has legally defined Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization based on three criteria: it is a foreign organization, it engages in terrorist activity, and it threatens the security of US nationals or the national security of the US.

The Latest Pesach Film

Found here.

We'll be Monitoring

You will remember the few incidents when Israelis soldiers shot and killed Britons?

Tim Hurndall - Here and here.

James Miller - Here.

Well, be on the lookout to monitor how this incident will be addressed by UK officials and the family:-

...three foreign teachers, a Briton and two Kenyans, were killed by Islamist insurgents during a midnight raid on one of the few English-language schools in south-central Somalia.

A spokesman for the Shabab militant Islamist group said the teachers were killed by accident after they were caught in cross-fire. But several residents of Beledweyne, the town where the attack happened, said Mr. Daud and the other teachers might have been singled out because they were suspected of preaching Christianity.

Is That Amy Winehouse at Kiddush?

Kiddush

Interesting Stats

Newark does not instantly evoke images of Kosher Central, but a warehouse district on the city’s outskirts has been the home of Manischewitz’s core production since it consolidated three plants into one in 2006. And all those seemingly nontraditional products reflect the way kosher food has become a growth area in a country whose Jewish population is more or less stagnant.

The company says there are now 86,000 kosher-certified products, the market is growing between 10 and 15 percent annually, and more than 14,000 new kosher products have been introduced in the United States and Canada over the last five years.

Non-Jews make up the market’s fastest-growing segment, the company says...

...matzo baked in a separate one with its 150-foot, three-zone tunnel oven churning out almost a thousand matzos a minute.

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How The Irish Make A Very Small Demo Very Big

Deir Yassin Day in Ireland:-




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Such Semantics!

What is this?

"physical infrastructure enhancements"

A fence.

What does "operational control" mean?

"the prevention of all unlawful entries...including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband."

What does "Reinforced fencing" mean?

"2 layers of reinforced fencing, the installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors—

(i) extending from 10 miles west of the Tecate, California, port of entry to 10 miles east of the Tecate, California, port of entry;
(ii) extending from 10 miles west of the Calexico, California, port of entry to 5 miles east of the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry;
(iii) extending from 5 miles west of the Columbus, New Mexico, port of entry to 10 miles east of El Paso, Texas;
(iv) extending from 5 miles northwest of the Del Rio, Texas, port of entry to 5 miles southeast of the Eagle Pass, Texas, port of entry; and
(v) extending 15 miles northwest of the Laredo, Texas, port of entry to the Brownsville, Texas, port of entry.

Amazing, eh?

Scarf Barf

Very clever.