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From the Exile: "Save the date: From the Exile is pleased to announce that Roz Rothstein, founder and Executive Director of Stand With Us will speak at Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center on September 10, 2008."

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Save the date: From the Exile is pleased to announce that Roz Rothstein, founder and Executive Director of Stand With Us will speak at Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center on September 10, 2008.

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From the Exile: Occupation 101 @ Caltech

From the Exile: Occupation 101 @ Caltech

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Judaic Mosaic

Judaic Mosaic

Rabbis for Sabeel
In the LA Jewish Journal of March 7, 2008 was published a letter signed by two rabbis who attended the Sabeel Institute conference in All Saints Church in Pasadena last month. In their letter they made a statement that they did NOT see any violent expression against Israel.
AMAZING GRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because I have a detailed summary of other participants of the one and same conference. It contains the mames of the presentors, names of movies presented, names of books sold and summaries of the different presentations. In all of them without exception Israel is the aggressor. No mention to the 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars that brought about the current situation. Just as I described in Anna Baltzer's presentation. Basically the following is the summary of the conference.

ISRAEL ACTS LIKE THE ROMANS DID TOWARDS JESUS (the facts that all the Jews were treated the same way, is not mentioned). THE INNOCENT PALESTINIANS DO NOT KNOW WHY THEIR HOMES ARE DEMOLISHED NOR THE REASON FOR THE CONSTRUCTON OF THE WALL (paid by American tax payers). ALL THE PEACEFULL PALESTINIANS WANT IS THAT THE ZIONISTS GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND LEAVE ALL THEY BUILT BEHIND INTACT.

I wonder why the presentors failed to mention the wars of 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973 that brought about the current situation. Why was there no mention to all the attempts of peace accords that were not signed by their leaders?

Well, I had the dubious honor of teaching the daughter of one of the "Journal Rabbis" many years back. Years later she became a teacher in one of L.A. Jewish high schools. She was fired soon after because instead to teaching according to the curriculum she spent hours telling her students about her wonderful experiences in the summers she spent in Palestinian villages and how she contributed more than just her time. She could never understand why the parents were outraged. It's no wonder, her father could find no wrong in the Sabeel conference either.

I wrote to the father, but received no response. Likewise, I wrote to the Journal editor, my letter was neither responded nor acknowledged. Well, TRUTH HURTS.



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CAMERA: CAMERA Letter in Los Angeles Times on Sabeel

CAMERA: CAMERA Letter in Los Angeles Times on Sabeel: "CAMERA Letter in Los Angeles Times on Sabeel



The Los Angeles Times published a CAMERA letter in response to an article about a recent Sabeel conference in Pasadena."

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JBlog Central - The Jewish Blog Network | Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center - PJTC, Sabeel: the neverending saga

JBlog Central - The Jewish Blog Network | Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center - PJTC, Sabeel: the neverending saga: "Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center - PJTC, Sabeel: the neverending saga
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Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center - PJTC, Sabeel: the neverending saga


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Judaic Mosaic

Judaic Mosaic: "New Breed of Enemy II
Continuation of the report

Settlements - Settlers are occuping Palestinian lands and building beautiful towns with schools and playgrounds for kids while Palestinians live in shacks.

Q: When did the settlers build the settlements? What was on that land before? Why didn't the Palestinians build schools and playground for their children in the past 60 years they lived on the land? Is it because they were prepping the kids to become suicide bombers?

Occupation - The Palestinians cannot move freely in their territories because of the many checkpoints guarded by Israel army."

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From the Exile: Pasadena Jews to Attend Sabeel Conference Despite Eshman Column

From the Exile: Pasadena Jews to Attend Sabeel Conference Despite Eshman Column

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From the Exile: Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater PJTC Interview in Los Angeles Times

From the Exile: Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater PJTC Interview in Los Angeles Times

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Mordechaj Anielewicz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mordechaj Anielewicz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mordechaj Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (English: Jewish Fighting Organization), also known as ŻOB, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Born to a poor family in Wyszków near Warsaw, he joined and became a leader of the Zionist-socialist youth movement "Hashomer Hatzair" after he completed his high school studies. On September 7, 1939, a week after the German invasion of Poland, Anielewicz escaped with his members of the group from Warsaw to the eastern regions in the hopes that the Polish would slow down the German advance. When the Red Army finally occupied Eastern Poland, Anielewicz attempted to cross the Romanian border in order to open a route for young Jews to get to Mandatory Palestine; however, he was caught and thrown into a Soviet jail. He was released a short time later, and returned to the Warsaw Ghetto.

When he heard that Jewish refugees, other youth movement members and political groups flocked to Vilna, Lithuania, which was then under Soviet control, he went there too and convinced his colleagues to send people back to Poland to continue the fight against the Germans. He returned to Warsaw in January, 1940 with his girlfriend, Mira Fuchrer, where he organized cells and youngsters groups, instructed, participated in underground publications, organized meetings and seminars and visited other groups in different cities.

In the summer of 1942, Anielewicz was visiting the southwest region of Poland – annexed to Germany – attempting to organize armed resistance. Upon his return to Warsaw, he found that a major deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp had been carried out and only 60,000 of the ghetto's 350,000 Jews remained. He joined the ŻOB, and in November he was appointed as chief commander. In early 1943, a connection with the Polish government in exile in London was made and the group received weapons from the Polish underground on the "Aryan" side of the city.


Mordechai Anielewicz and his girlfriend Mira Fuchrer in the ruined Warsaw ghetto. Painted by Shimon Garmize. Above the mural is the first line of the Partisan's Song "Zog Nit Keinmol" in Yiddish. "Zog Nit Keinmol" is shorthand for the phrase -- in English -- "Never Say You've Gone the Last Way/Path.In January 18, 1943, he was instrumental in the first Warsaw ghetto uprising, preventing the majority of a second wave of Jews from being deported to extermination camps. This initial incident of armed resistance was a prelude to the Warsaw ghetto uprising that commenced on April 19 and fought the German troops until its suppression on May 16, 1943. Anielewicz died fighting, along with his girlfriend and many of his staff, in the ŻOB bunker at 18 Miła Street[1] on May 8, when the Germans overran their position. His body was never found, and it is generally believed that his body was carried off to nearby crematoriums along with all the other Jewish dead. In early 1944 he had been posthumously awarded the Virtuti Militari, the Polish military cross, by the Polish government in exile.