Having just returned from another speaking tour in the United States I can truly say that the impossible mission of Project Shofar is as impossible as ever. It is still mind boggling to me how clearly my Christian Zionist friends understand what is going on, while my Jewish brothers haven’t a clue.
While spending Shabbat in a religious community I was awed to listen to a sermon by a Torah sage. I am not sure what his intended message was, but I was amazed to see in his words an unwitting recognition of what the future holds for us. The rabbi spoke of how Jacob is described as a sheep and that G-d is our Shepherd. Read More…
In the wake of the recent elections people are frantically trying to figure out how the results will effect the political direction of the USA. While clearly the big win for the republicans in the House indicates dissatisfaction with Obama’s leadership, the likelihood of affecting much of a change is minimal.
The pressure on Israel has not lessened. Netanyahu is already looking to continue negotiations with our enemies and is seeking to placate the Obama administration by pushing for negotiations even without pressure. Read More…
Once again I am about to leave Israel for a whirlwind speaking tour in the USA. As always I find myself asking myself, “Why am I doing this?” I am but one lone person making an annual trip for about ten days as a kind of self appointed ambassador for Israel. Am I crazy? I am not sure. Maybe I am.
I suppose the reason I keep coming back is because everywhere I go I know that I do make a difference. It is impossible to measure my accomplishments (or lack thereof), but the feedback I get from the people with whom I speak gives me tremendous encouragement. So even though I myself do not fully understand what it is that I am doing, I just know that it is important and that I must continue doing it as long as I am able. Read More…
On November 5, 1990, in a banquet hall of a New York hotel, Rabbi Meir Kahane was delivering a speech to initiate a new organization to encourage aliyah… Jewish homecoming. When he finished speaking a young man walked up to him, pulled out a revolver and murdered the rabbi in front of the entire crowd.
Rabbi Kahane dedicated his life to reaching out to Jews with the message, “It’s time to come home.” I am among thousands of others who heeded that message. I attended many of his speeches and was always inspired by them. He spoke with a purity and clarity that is hard to find anywhere. No one ever fell asleep listening to his eloquent presentations. Read More…
Project Shofar was established as a lone small voice declaring the reality of Biblical redemption to all who will listen. Those who look at Israel as just another country whose most admirable quality is that it is a democracy are completely mistaken. The Jewish State is clearly the beginning of fulfillment of Biblical prophesy which will continue unto completion because it is a G-dly process, not a natural one. Israeli leaders fail to understand this fact and have chosen to react to challenges in a political manner rather than assert our obligations as Jews. When Arab leaders are called upon to compromise, they have no problem refusing to abrogate their alleged obligations to Allah. Jewish leaders prefer to compromise and ignore their obligations to the Creator of the universe. It is this factor more than any other which creates genuine obstacles to peace and brings terror and tragedy in its wake. Read More…
As once again, for the 24th consecutive year, I sounded the Shofar on Rosh HaShannah at the Cave of Machpela in Hebron, I learned something new. It is not really new, rather something that I understood in a personal way for the very first time.
Our Rabbis tell us that whenever there is an event that is filled with sanctity, the Satan seeks to disturb that sanctity and discourage us from taking the right path. He creates what seem to be natural events in the effort to get us to give up on mitzvot. When our Father, Abraham, accepted the most difficult commandment of all, to sacrifice his only son, the Satan did all that he could to dissuade him from carrying it out. Read More…
Albert Einstein once defined insanity as performing the same experiment over and over with the expectation that eventually the results will change. Clearly the Israeli and American governments fulfill that definition as they continue to engage in, what they choose to call, a “peace” process.
Back in 1948, when the League of Nations agreed to the partition plan which granted recognition to a tiny part of what is today the Jewish State, the Jews accepted this precarious agreement, while the Arabs attacked us with the intent to wipe out the tiny new Jewish State. This was the beginning of the War of Independence. While many may choose not to believe it, this war is still going on. Israel has chosen not to win this war, rather to maintain the status quo. Believe it or not, the war is winnable. But when you have leaders who choose not to recognize the war it is nearly impossible to win it.
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One does not negotiate his homeland. Israel is not a piece of real estate that is ours to sell bargain or give away. Our enemies have no trouble telling the world that they cannot negotiate their homelands as it would go against their religion. Yet the Jewish State has never made such a claim, even though our claim is far more justified than theirs.
What is worse is the fact that a small band of Arab squatters from foreign Arab countries are living in Israel and claiming that it always belonged to them. They have created fact from fiction and succeeded beyond all reasonable expectations. The PLO has spent the last forty years murdering Jews and declaring their intention to establish a new Arab state upon the present Jewish one. Rather than simply obliterate this blight from our soil, our own leaders have decided to try to accommodate it!! Read More…
In today’s Jerusalem Post, Ami Ayalon, former director of Israeli national security services, proposed a new law which he is certain will bring us peace. The fact is that his proposal is not new. What is most amazing about his suggestion is that he actually seems to believe it.
Like most left wing politicians, this fellow clearly has no concept of the Divine element of the reborn Jewish State. To him the creation of the Jewish State was simply incredible luck which cannot last forever.
His solution is to surrender now before our enemies destroy us. He feels that if Israel withdraws from all of Judea and Samaria, even without a peace agreement, that the Arabs will be compelled to recognize our sincere desire for peace and thus welcome us as good neighbors in the lands we lived in prior to the Arab attack of 1967 which sought to destroy us when we did not have settlements in Judea and Samaria.
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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…
