The Israeli Government has finally agreed to resettle the remaining 20,000 Falash Mura in Israel. 600 per month – double the current rate of immigration – will be brought to Israel until they are all resettled at the end of 2007.
What’s been the hitch that has held up Falash Mura aliya?
Money.
The Jewish Agency estimates that [...]
Entries from January 2005
January 31, 2005
The Long – And Expensive – Road Home
January 31, 2005
And A Felon Shall Lead Them
Tzemach Atlas has the results of the Crown Heights Community Council elections.
The biggest vote-getter and therefore the new chairman of the Council is Moshe Rubashkin.
Tzemach wryly notes that no explanation of the Chabad involvement in the Rubashkin Shechita-gate Affair will be forthcoming.
I would only add that a federal felony conviction for bank fraud is no [...]
January 30, 2005
Slifkin Ban – Make Your Voice Heard!
An online petition regarding the R. Slifkin Ban:
To be delivered to those rabbis who signed the ban.
January 30, 2005
All In The Family
Paul Shaviv has a fascinating post on Sir Isaiah Berlin and Slifkin-gate.
It seems that Sir Isaiah, Yehudi Menuhin and the 7th Lubavitcher rebbe were all equal Schneerson cousins and the rebbe’s wife, Chaya Mushka (and daughter of the 6th rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn) used to travel to London to see Sir Isaiah’s mother and attend [...]
January 30, 2005
UPDATE: The Times They Are A Changin’?
After two weeks of complete censorship, Aish HaTorah has returned a censored version of Dr. Gerald Schroeder’s article, The Age of the Universe to the Aish.com website and made it an Editor’s Pick in this week’s Aish.com e-mail.
What prompted this ‘change’?
Perhaps it was the reduced web traffic, disgust shown by (former) donors, and difficulty conducting [...]
January 28, 2005
Where Is Man? Where Is Rabbi Lazar?
Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chabad’s ‘Chief Rabbi’ of Russia and Vladimir Putin’s favorite Court Jew, has written a piece on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal.
What is most memorable about Rabbi Lazar’s writing?
Like his patron Mr. Putin, Rabbi Lazar’s commemoration of the
liberation of Auschwitz is memorable for what [...]
January 27, 2005
Putin Speaks At Auschwitz, Gets Chabad Medal, Doesn’t Mention Murdered Jews
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin stood at Auschwitz and received a medal from Chabad’s Russian Chief Rabbi and Mr. Putin’s favorite Court Jew, Berel Lazar.
Guess who Mr. Putin forgot to mention in his speech?
The 1.3 million Jews who were murdered in Auschwitz.
"It’s incredible," said one official, voicing his dismay that Putin
mentioned the 600,000 Russian soldiers who [...]
January 27, 2005
UPDATE: Who Are Rubashkin And His Rabbis Counting On? Could It Be Rubashkin’s Brother-In-Law Rabbi Milton Balkany – The Infamous ‘Brooklyn Bundler’?
In the news today along with his brother-in-law and sister-in-law of AgriProcessors in Postville, Iowa for bundling campain contributions to Florida Republican Katherine Harris, Rabbi Milton Balkany – dubbed "Robbi" by the NY Post – has a rather checkered past:
First, we have a scandal involving the misuse of almost $1,000,000 in Federal grant monies meant [...]
January 27, 2005
Which State? Whose Medal? Why? Putin Gets Chabad Medal – In Auschwitz
Mr. Putin’s Court Jew and Chabad Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar gave Mr. Putin his medal at Auschwitz a few hours ago.
According to the International Herald Tribune, it happened this way:
Toward the close of the ceremony and as darkness started to fall, the chief rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, presented Putin and the Polish [...]
January 27, 2005
Putin A VICTIM Of Antisemitism, Russia’s News & Information Agency Says
The Russian News and Information Agency has commented on the letter signed by members of the Duma (parliment) and others accusing the Jews of fabricating antisemitism to divide and conquer Russia.
The main victim of this modern-day Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Why, Mr. Putin, of course. Why? Because it might disrupt arms sales to [...]
January 27, 2005
Putin A VICTIM Of Antisemitism, Russia’s News & Information Agency Says
The Russian News and Information Agency has commented on the letter signed by members of the Duma (parliment) and others accusing the Jews of fabricating antisemitism to divide and conquer Russia.
The main victim of this modern-day Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Why, Mr. Putin, of course. Why? Because it might disrupt arms sales to [...]
January 27, 2005
Putin A VICTIM Of Antisemitism, Russia’s News & Information Agency Says
The Russian News and Information Agency has commented on the letter signed by members of the Duma (parliment) and others accusing the Jews of fabricating antisemitism to divide and conquer Russia.
The main victim of this modern-day Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Why, Mr. Putin, of course. Why? Because it might disrupt arms sales to [...]
January 27, 2005
Putin A VICTIM Of Antisemitism, Russia’s News & Information Agency Says
The Russian News and Information Agency has commented on the letter signed by members of the Duma (parliment) and others accusing the Jews of fabricating antisemitism to divide and conquer Russia.
The main victim of this modern-day Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Why, Mr. Putin, of course. Why? Because it might disrupt arms sales to [...]
January 27, 2005
Misuse Of Memory: Chabad Uses Auschwitz To Promote Putin – Is Putin Awarding Himself His Own Medal?
Ha’aretz reports more disgusting information on today’s Chabad-Putin-Auschwitz medal ceremony:
However, it is not quite clear where the medal comes from and who is bestowing it. At a news conference prior to the ceremony, Lazar said that he would present the medal together with Israeli President Moshe Katsav to express the gratitude of the entire Jewish [...]
