"Never...!"

The Great, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (Poland, late 18th century) wrote:

"Never despair. Never! It is forbidden to give up hope."

The Man, Bruce Springsteen, writes, in his most recent song, "Wrecking Ball,"

"Yeah, we know that come tomorrow, none of this will be here / So hold tight to your anger / Hold tight to your anger / Hold tight to your anger / And don't fall to  your  fear / Bring on your wrecking ball"

His song - Bruce's, that is - is available here, on iTunes. This song closed five nights at New Jersey's Giants Stadium - and was the arena's final performance, ever. "Never despair," indeed.

[Mykoff, Moshe, Naḥman, and Breslov Research Institute. The Empty Chair : Finding Hope and Joy : Timeless Wisdom from a Hasidic Master, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. Woodstock, Vt.: Jewish Lights Pub., 1994. ]

WSJ: "Where's the outrage for Ramallah's atrocities?"

From The Wall Street Journal:

"Senior PA official Haitham Arar was quoted in the Daily Mail more than a week ago openly discussing the abuses. That follows a Mail On Sunday report in January that detailed the Authority's regular use of beatings, whippings, attacks with electrical drills, and other methods of torture doled out to anyone seen threatening the authority of Fatah, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas. Murder and rape are also commonplace."

Read the op-ed piece below:
Palestine's Missing Critics

"500 tons of weaponry en route to Hizbullah"

Iran is at it again - Another severe violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1747.

"On Tuesday (November 3, 2009) a special Israeli naval force detained and boarded the Francop, a merchant ship flying the flag of Antigua, about 100 miles west of the coast of Israel and destined for the Syrian port of Latakia. Hidden among the dozens of other containers on board, and disguised as civilian goods, the ship contained thirty-six shipping containers with 500 tons of weaponry en route to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon. A total of about 9,000 mortar bombs of different types were seized, along with about 3,000 Katyusha artillery rockets, 3,000 recoilless gun shells, 20,000 grenades and over a half million rounds of small arms ammunition."

See all the proof, at the link below, courtesy of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. If you'd like their official email correspondence with links to all the photos and video, just email me.

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Iranian-exported_weapons_seized_4-Nov-2009.htm

Judaism and "La Cosa Nostra"

Rabbi Boteach makes an excellent point in the following op-ed piece:

"Peoplehood comes first and is completely independent of any kind of religious affirmation. Jewishness is not something that can be lost and it is not something that can be renounced. In this sense, Judaism is radically different from Christianity, which requires a conscious act of affirmation."

Judaism, in this regard, is not unlike La Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Once you're in, even (and perhaps especially) by conversion. You're in. And when you think you're getting out (by converting out), Jewish Tradition considers you to still be a Jew. In other words, you're never getting out. Just like the Mob.


Read the rest here: 
http://www.jewishjournal.com/rabbi_shmuley/item/the_british_dare_to_determine_who_is_a_jew_20091109/

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This is a test. If anyone is reading this, I'd be amazed.