The American Jew is the most endangered species in our exile. Like the European Jew in the thirties, today's American Jew feels no desire to leave his home.
It seems more prudent to sit on the sidelines and just wait for the redemption to unfold. To do so, however, would be to shirk a vital responsibility. While nothing can stop the Zionist process, as it is a Divine one, our refusal to recognize it and work with it will bring forth much needless pain and suffering, G-d forbid. It is for the purpose of trying to prevent this awful consequence that Project Shofar has been established.
It is surrealistic to watch the incredible debates which take place in our schizophrenic Knesset. As reported in the Jerusalem Post, “the Knesset plenum voted 34 to 16 late on Tuesday night to strip MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) of some of her parliamentary privileges, following her participation in the Gaza flotilla aboard the MV Mavi Marmara.
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Gila Gamliel took the podium to explain why Zoabi’s actions undermined the democracy of which Zahalka spoke. “I hear MK Zoabi defining herself as a Palestinian and I ask – if you are a Palestinian, why are you a member of the Israeli Knesset?” Read More…
They should have sold tickets. It was truly a wonderful performance by two highly skilled used car salesmen. They patted one another on the back and declared how much they loved one another.
Obama got a lot of flack from the Jewish community and others over his shabby treatment of Bibi last go round. He needed to smooth ruffled feathers and he did a masterful job.
Bibi, for his part, needed to show his constituents that he could get back into good graces with the American administration without giving away too much. The both of them spoke glowingly of one another and how much they both want peace. Key phrases like “confidence building measures”; “risks for peace”; “concrete steps”; “move the peace process further along in a very robust way,” may have been loaded with heavy implications but were truly vague and undefined terms. Read More…
Mahmoud Abbas, the present leader of the PLO and protege of Yasir Arafat; the mastermind of the Munich Massacre which murdered Jewish athletes at the Olympic games; and author of a thesis to prove that the holocaust never happened, was recently hosted at a dinner by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace.
Abbas charmed his audience of American Jewish leaders with his soft-spoken conciliatory tone; his rejection of violence; his recognition of the Jewish connection to the Holy Land; and his desire for peace. Clearly this gentle, grey-haired grand-fatherly fellow would never consider being untruthful when speaking to American Jews.
One can only imagine, had this group existed back in the thirties, if they would have had a dinner for Adolph Hitler and entertained his vision for world peace. Read More…
With the passage of time it should be quite obvious that the process of Zionism, in the Biblical sense, is not a pragmatic one. It defies logic and is not given to political compromise. One cannot hope to achieve peace by compromising on Biblical ideology. The reason that the Jewish People exists is to prove to the entire world that there is a Creator and that His Torah is Truth.
The Living G-d of Israel decreed that His People, Israel, would wander in Exile and be dispersed all over the world. He also decreed that His People, Israel, would eventually be regathered from all over the world and return home to Zion, the Land of Israel, where they will rebuild Jewish sovereignty and conduct their nation according to the Law of G-d. Read More…
When a fellow Jew visiting from the states tells me how much he admires my courage and sacrifice for living in the Land of Israel, what he really is doing is trying to assure himself that he is normal. Deep in his heart he knows that he should be living here too. By painting me as an extraordinary hero, he can justify to himself the fact that he has chosen to remain in Exile. He is no hero. He is “normal”.
My son, Avi, related to me a story about Rabbi Kook, Z”tl, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel. When a group of religious Jews from Europe came to visit Israel they also visited with Rabbi Kook. The rabbi asked them why don’t they move here. They replied that they made a careful financial calculation (Cheshbon), and determined that it just was not possible for them. To this the rabbi responded with the Torah portion describing how, before they could enter the Land of Israel, the Children of Israel first had to vanquish Sichon, the King of Cheshbon. When it comes to the Land of Israel, the rabbi admonished, we cannot make a financial calculation. We must rid ourselves of “Cheshbonot” and just come home. The group chose not to heed the rabbi’s advice and they perished in the holocaust. Read More…
How does one begin to try to understand the outrageous comments by a ninety year old veteran White House correspondent? While she did resign from her job and supposedly apologized for her outburst, one still has trouble understanding why such a person would say such things. A person in her position cannot be judged as stupid or illiterate. Clearly she must be well informed and quite articulate to have achieved the position she was in.
The only explanation I can come up with is the completely irrational reality of antisemitism. Jew hatred is an ancient practice dating back to Biblical times and continuing throughout every generation. As it says in our Passover Hagaddah, “In every generation there arise those who seek to destroy us, and every time our Creator comes to rescue us from them.” Read More…
In a futile attempt to transform outright enemies of the Jewish State and the Jewish People into “peace partners” by accepting the fraudulent concept of a “legitimate” palestinian people who have some kind of rights in our homeland, it is the Israeli leadership which has placed us on a path which is destined to alienate us from friend and foe alike and accomplish the exact opposite of the alleged quest for peace.
If our own leadership is not willing to openly state that Israel is the exclusive homeland of the Jewish People, there are other entities which are all to happy to take it from us. It may sound nice to proclaim that we are both a Jewish and democratic state, where both Arab and Jew have equal rights. Yet such a statement is, in fact, a denial of both concepts. If we are a democratic state then all people living here have equal rights to determine how the country is run. If we are a Jewish State then only Jews can determine how the country is run. As a result of the confusion we have brought upon ourselves we have neither a Jewish nor a democratic country! It is we who have opened the door to our enemies to destroy us from within, and it should be no surprise that our enemies are all too happy to use all of the tools we have given them. Read More…
With all the worrisome talk about Iran, President Obama, the PLO and various assorted “friends” and enemies, it is easy to understand how people can become discouraged about the future of the Jewish State. The fact is that most of us have got the whole thing backwards. Israel is the only country in the world whose future is guaranteed by the Creator of the Universe. When we see that the most powerful nations of the world seem to be siding with our enemies it is easy to forget that guarantee and fear for our future. Yet it is precisely the fact that tiny, seemingly defenseless, Israel is being threatened so overwhelmingly that we should take courage. Certainly there are many other little, and not so little, countries in the world that are far more deserving of world condemnation than we. What makes us so special that anyone should even care what goes on here? There is no logical explanation for it. Only a Divine one. Read More…
Unlike most speakers whose primary purpose is to raise funds for a worthy cause, my primary purpose is to make people aware of the very real process of Biblical Zionism in our world today. While certainly I do need to raise funds in order to travel, the funds that I do raise enable me to accept speaking engagements in places where I may not raise money.
If you ever thought that you might want to invite me to your area, but were concerned about how to afford to invite me, think again. I am more concerned about reaching out to people than I am about raising money. If you have been thinking about planning aliyah and have friends who are like-minded and would like to speak to an American Jew who took his family home let me know. And if you have a group of friends who meet regularly in one another’s homes to ponder the amazing reality of Biblical Redemption and would like to invite me to join you please feel free to do so. Project Shofar is an independent non-profit organization with no political connections. Our purpose is purely to be educational and in service to our Creator. Read More…