My father, Rabbi Dr. Samuel I. Cohen, zt'l served with distinction as the Executive Vice President of the Jewish National Fund of North america for over 25 years. On March 1, 1983, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, in New York City, long before he was seeking the Presidency, my father and Charlotte Jacobson were privileged to present the JNF's most covetous award, the "Tree of Life Award" to Donald Trump in appreciation of his outstanding dedication to the cause of American-Israeli friendship and for his support of Israel. Here is the plaque that hangs prominently in Mr. Trump's office. I was at the banquet honoring Mr. Trump, and I recall his impassioned words about Israel. Afterwards, I recall my father telling me what a pleasure it was to deal with Mr. Trump. You can see the importance that Mr. Trump placed on this award, as it overlooks his desk in his office.
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Imagine (There’s No Islam), sorry John Lennon....
Imagine there’s no Islam
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no jihadis
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no Islam too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no Islam too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no jihad
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Saturday, November 14, 2015
What Is Neturei Karta? Why Ultra Orthodox Jews Are Protesting Benjamin Netanyahu And Befriending Iranian Leaders
Carlos Barria/Reuters
A cadre of Orthodox Jews with brimmed hats and long sidelocks greeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the White House earlier this week, carrying a banner telling the premier to go back home. Some of the demonstrators wore cards pinned to their lapels with the Israeli flag crossed out in thick red as they stood quietly, raising signs with the phrase “Judaism Rejects Zionism.” It was a bewildering sight for passersby: observant Jews, some draped with black-and-white checkered Arab scarves, standing side-by-side with pro-Palestine activists railing against the Jewish State.
The religious movement known as Neturei Karta demands Palestinian statehood, calls for the “peaceful dismantling” of Israel and has forged friendships with Israel’s top enemies, including the leadership of Iran. They're a decentralized group with just a few thousand supporters worldwide and are considered extremists by most of the Jewish community. But as violence has spiraled in Israel in recent months, the movement has grown increasingly visible and has found new supporters in Orthodox communities, ruffling feathers in the Jewish establishment.
Michael Kaplan
Founded in the early 20th century to counter the Zionist movement that wanted to establish a Jewish state in Palestine -- and ultimately succeeded -- Neturei Karta has held firm to its belief that Jews were expelled from the Holy Land by God, and are forbidden from ruling again until the messiah arrives. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews share their theological belief, but have distanced themselves from Neturei Karta [which literally translates as “Guardians of the City” in Aramaic], as the movement has promoted controversial views and has adopted a long list of Palestinian grievances.
"The Zionists say the final word is not in the hand of God but in the hand of their law system," Rabbi Moshe Dov Beck, a leading religious scholar in the movement, said, his comments translated from Yiddish. "Fundamentally, they're turning their back on the Almighty, so they have no right to carry on themselves the name Israel. Their land is not a Jewish land, it's a Zionist land."
As violence has spiraled in Israel in recent months, some analysts say the group is attracting more supporters. Much of the violence has focused around the al-Aqsa mosque, the site of ancient biblical Jewish temples, where some right-wing Jewish activists wish to pray. Palestinians widely insist there are plans to divide the mosque -- a belief rejected by Israel -- and have staged protests across Israel and the West Bank over the last two months against what they consider incitement.
The demonstrations have seen thousands of people injured and dozens killed in clashes with Israeli security forces. Israel has seen sporadic knife attacks by Palestinians, and a number of Israelis have been killed. Traditional Orthodox Judaism opposes prayer at the site on theological grounds, and Neturei Karta has become a loud opponent of those calling for prayer at the contested site, staging at least 10 protests in the U.S. in October.
Ammar Awad/Reuters
Beck, an aging religious scholar with a scraggly white beard, who often wears a pinstriped garment, is today a symbol of the movement. He grew up in Budapest, Hungary, and remembers as an adolescent hiding with his brother and sister in a bunker with 25 other Jews for about half a year to avoid being taken by the Nazis. His mother was killed in Auschwitz, and after the war, he said he found refuge in the newly established state of Israel. There, he studied in religious schools that were opposed to the secularism of the new state, and ended up close with leading anti-Zionists in Neturei Karta.
Beck left Israel in 1970, and now lives in the quiet upstate New York town of Monsey, home to one of the largest communities of Orthodox Jews in the U.S. The largest group of Neturei Karta's supporters are believed to live in religious neighborhoods of Jerusalem, but they are also scattered throughout religious Jewish communities across the world. They lead insular lives, frowning upon secular education, and discourage leisurely watching television or using the Internet.
Those features make Neturei Karta similar to other ultra-Orthodox communities. But it's the group's connections with the outside world, and its penchant for protest, that has stirred uproar in a wider community that usually shuns direct political involvement.
Suhaib Salem/Reuters
Beck and other leaders of the movement have been hosted by Hamas in Gaza, have met with the popular pro-Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Qatar and consider the fervently anti-Israel former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a personal friend. Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for the movement, has a shelf in his dining room dedicated to gifts from Muslim leaders, including an opulent pen case offered to him by the head of Iran's parliament, with whom he said he and five other rabbis met during the United Nations General Assembly in September.
"Whoever we’ve met with, and I’ve met with tens and tens of top government officials, top religious officials in [Iran], and they all, as one, are very clear they respect the Jewish people, and they respect Judaism," Weiss said. "But even if it's true they are anti-Semitic, the proper approach is to meet with the people of this land and try and bring peace."
Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
But some Jewish civil rights organizations insist something sinister lies behind Neturei Karta's popularity. The rabbis have become fixtures of pro-Palestine events, and opponents of Israel have pointed to the group as proof that they have no problem with Jews, just Israel.
"One of the disturbing parts of Neturei Karta is they offer a shield for a lot of anti-Israel advocates, and even anti-Semites in their ranks, because they point to Neturei Karta and say, 'Look these Jews are with us so we can't be anti-Semitic'," said Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defemation League's Center on Extremism. "Their presence and their views enable others to be more extreme."
Samuel Heilman, a professor of sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York and an expert on Orthodox Judaism, said the group attempts to bloat its numbers, and survives more on media coverage than support. "They're a little bit like the Westboro Baptist Church, which turns out to be a single family, and it's lifeblood is the news we hear about them, and the extreme protests they carry out -- Neturei Karta is the Jewish version of that," Heilman said. "They're a symbol and they're very picturesque and they go against what most people think about Hasidim and what Jews are."
Michael Nagle/Getty Images
As for Beck, who is now 81 years old and noticeably growing frail, he plans to continue protesting against Zionism. "I'll continue for as long as God gives me the strength," he said.
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Civil trial attorney Baruch C. Cohen meets Professor Nahum Rockover in Rechovot, Israel
Professor Nahum Rakover is retired professor of law from Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities and now serves as president of a small college in Israel. In the past he served also as deputy attorney general for the State of Israel. He is an expert in Jewish law. In the early 1990s he held a side position as deputy legal advisor for the government of Israel, this in the days of the Rabin-Peres government and the initiation of Oslo appeasement.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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Sickening new ISIS video shows caged prisoners lowered into a swimming pool and drowned, shot with an RPG and blown up with explosive-filled 'necklaces'
Vile jihadis fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have brutally murdered five prisoners by locking them in a metal cage and lowering them into a swimming pool.
Filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, the sickening seven minute long video uses expensive underwater cameras to film the terrified men as they sink below the surface with no hope of escape.
Shortly afterwards the cage is lifted back out of the water, with the dying men - who are understood to have been accused of spying - seen foaming at the mouth as they lie motionless on the floor of the cage, piled on top of one another.
Elsewhere in the video, ISIS militants are filmed brutally killing prisoners by locking them in a car and shooting them with a grenade launcher, while another group of jihadis chain a set of prisoners together with explosive necklaces which are then detonated.
Sickening: Filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, the horrific seven minute long video uses expensive underwater cameras to film the terrified men as they sink below the surface with no hope of escape
Lowered: Standing up straight with their legs bound, the men look reasonably calm until the moment the cage is slowly lowered into the pool by the depraved Islamic State militants
Horrific: As the water begins to enter the cage, the victims panic and start praying and pacing the cell
Brutal: Once the cage is submerged, the video cuts to high-tech underwater cameras, which - in images far too horrific to publish - show the men thrashing around until they lose conciousness and fall to the floor
The barbaric video is a new low for the terror group, whose catalogue of horrific filmed murders includes the savage beheading of several British and American hostages, the burning to death of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh and numerous clips of people being shot and stoned to death.
The main section of the film begins with the stomach-churning sight of five men being locked in a tiny metal cage that has been suspended above a luxury swimming pool somewhere in the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Nineveh province.
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Standing up straight with their legs bound, the men look reasonably calm until the moment the cage begins to be lowered into the pool.
As the water begins to enter, the victims start to panic, praying and pacing the tiny metal cell.
Once completely submerged, the video cuts to the high-tech underwater cameras, which show the men thrashing around until they appear to lose conciousness and fall to the floor.
The cage is then removed from the pool, with the dying men seen foaming at the mouths as they lie piled on top of one another under the blazing Iraqi sun.
Bound: The full seven minute video actually begins by showing a group of men wearing orange jumpsuits being led into a desert clearing. They are then locked in an Opel car, which is destroyed by a grenade launcher
Moments from death: The as-yet-unnamed victims were filmed sitting in the locked car before it is destroyed
Cowardly: Moments later a masked Islamic State jihadi appears carrying a huge grenade missile launcher
Fired from close range: The grenade launcher is fired towards the vehicle, causing it to burst into flames
Smoke: The car is seen in flames meaning the badly injured victims are likely to have burned to death
ISIS OFFER YAZIDI SEX SLAVE AS A PRIZE FOR MEMORISING KORAN IN SICK 'CELEBRATION' OF RAMADAN
Jihadis fighting for the Islamic State have held a Koran memorizing competition in which the top prizes include a Yazidi sex slave.
The photograph of an ISIS advert, believed to come from the northern Syrian state of Hasakah recently emerged on social media.
As well as sex slaves, the advert promises cash rewards for fourth and fifth prize.
The competition is set to be held in several ISIS mosques in Syria, including the Osama bin Laden mosque.
The seven day competition is set to finish on 27 June and is being held to celebrate the Muslim festival of Ramadan.
The advert addresses ISIS militants in Syria, congratulating the jihadis in their fight and wishing them a blessed Ramadan.
The footage is actually divided into three separate sections, with different horrific punishments reserved for each group of doomed prisoners.
The full seven minute video actually begins by showing a group of men wearing orange jumpsuits being led into a desert clearing, before being locked in an Opel saloon car.
Moments later a masked ISIS jihadi appears carrying a huge grenade launcher, which he uses to fire a missile into the vehicle, causing it to burst into flames and burn the badly injured victims to death.
The film then cuts to interviews with another set of prisoners, where they 'confess' to the crimes they have been accused of and discuss how they have been treated by the Islamic State.
Next comes the harrowing drowning segment, which is followed by more interviews with prisoners.
The seven men are subsequently seen being led out into a field, where explosive cables are tied around their necks.
Seconds later the explosives are detonated, with HD cameras capturing the murder in full detail.
Several of the men are clearly decapitated by the massive blast, while others suffer horrific and fatal upper body injuries.
Doomed: Another harrowing sequence shows prisoners chained together with explosive necklaces
Sick: The seven men are led out into a field, where explosive cables are tied around their necks and detonated
Terrified: An ISIS militant checks the victims' explosive necklaces are secure before detonating them
Torture: The seven minute film includes interviews with prisoners, where they speak about the crimes they have been accused of and how they have been treated by the militants fighting for the Islamic State
ISIS STRING UP TWO BOYS FROM A BEAM AFTER ACCUSING THEM OF BREAKING THE RAMADAN FAST
Savage jihadis fighting for ISIS in Syria tied two young boys to a beam by their wrists and left them hanging for several hours after accusing them of breaking the Ramadan fast.
The shocking incident took place in the village of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor province and involved boys 'aged under 18', according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
It is understood ISIS' religious police force, known as the Hisbah, seized the two boys at some point over the weekend and suspended them from a pole in a public square.
A placard was placed alongside them informing passers by that the pair were being punished for eating during daylight hours.
'They broke the fast with no religious justification', the notice said.
Throughout the month of Ramadan, which began on Thursday, the majority of Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn until sunset.
The latest sickening murder video was released by ISIS' Ninevah branch, which is based in the terror group's stronghold, Mosul.
Yesterday it emerged that a US airstrike near the city killed an ISIS operative who was a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said Ali Awni al-Harzi of Tunisia was killed on June 15.
The US Treasury and the State Department had designated him as a terrorist operating for radical groups.
'His death degrades ISIL's ability to integrate North African jihadists into the Syrian and Iraqi fight and removes a jihadist with long ties to international terrorism,' Warren said referring to ISIS.
Harzi was considered a person of interest in the militant attack on the US mission in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on September 11, 2012, that killed the American ambassador and three other Americans.
In its terrorist designation in April, the US State Department described Harzi as a 'high-profile' member of a radical group in Tunisia who helped recruit volunteers to fight in Syria.
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Monday, June 8, 2015
Civil trial attorney Baruch C. Cohen meets Larry Elder at the 2015 Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture, “The New Black Anti-Semitism”
Larry is a nationally syndicated radio host, best-selling author, and cultural critic. His daily broadcast reaches millions of listeners — drawing an audience that ranks his show as one of the top political talk shows in the United States. Larry recently was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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