Zionism and American Jews

Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics

      

Merry Christmas, and
OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!
  

by Carol A. Valentine
          

President, Public Action, Inc.
      

http://www.Public-Action.com
          

Copyright, May, 2002
          

May be reproduced for non-commercial purposes

May 15, 2002  -- Why have I only now found out about this?

We can argue about who is most to blame, but the facts remain the same:  Congress and the White House have been helping to establish a theocracy in America.  That's right, in America -- the nation that used to be a land of religious freedom. 

          

The would-be leaders of new theocracy:

  • Want to abolish Christmas,
  • Call Christians "idol worshippers,"
  • Demand Christians give up their religion or be put to death,
  • Preach that Jesus practiced sorcery, worshipped stone idols, and was sexually immoral,
  • Want to establish a caste system in the US based on heredity and religion,
  • Want to force US citizens to embrace a synthesized "religion" invented for a servant class.

And now, since the advent of the 9-11 war, the would-be leaders of this theocracy are stronger than ever.  Little stands between them and the realization of their plans.  

This may sound incredible, but it is as real as the ground beneath your feet, and as serious as a heart attack.  I can document everything I have said.  Let me fill you in on the details.

The would-be theocratic leaders that Congress and our presidents have been promoting are members of a sect called Chabad Lubavitch, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.  Chabad, (sometimes spelled "Habad"), is an acronym for three Hebrew words:  Chochma, Binah and Daas, which mean "wisdom, understanding and knowledge."  Chabad and Lubavitch are functionally synonymous.  Chabad describes the movement; Lubavitch is the name of the town (sometimes said to be in Lithuania, sometimes in Russia) where the movement was headquartered during the nineteenth century. 

Lubavitchers are a subset of the Hasidic (sometimes spelled "Chasidic") Jews. Doctrinally, Hasidic Jews rely on the Talmud, on the Zohar (the basic book of kabbalah or "calabah"),  and on the Tanya (or "Hatanya") written by the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics, Rabbi Shneur Zalman.  [See Footnote 1 .]

The Chabad Lubavitchers also rely on the works of renowned Jewish teachers such as Maimonides.  Of course they rely on the Torah; but note that the word "Torah," in Jewish religious discourse, is somewhat elastic; it can denote (1) the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), (2) the Old Testament in its entirety, (3) the Old Testament in its entirety, and the Talmud, and (4) the entire body of Jewish religious literature. 

Reviewing the above, we can see that, doctrinally, Lubavitchers are not an aberration within Judaism.  They are as much part of Judaism as the Dominicans are part of the Roman Catholic Church.  It would be misleading to call the Lubavitch movement a "cult" as some have done, without so naming mainstream Orthodox Judaism. 

IMPORTANT LUBAVITCHERS

For contemporary Lubavitchers, the most admired is late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the "Lubavitcher Rebbe," or simply "the Rebbe." (Jewish people call a rabbi with whom they have a close and personal relationship their "Rebbe."   Since I feel as though I have a close and personal relationship with him -- having read much about him -- and since I am not Jewish, I will use the Americanized form of the word and call Rabbi Schneerson "the Reeb." )

Some Lubavitchers consider the Reeb their Messiah and await for him to return from the dead;  other say that the Messiah is really the Jewish people themselves.  If all that is beginning to sound weird and fringy, realize that the Lubavitchers do not confine themselves to Brooklyn, New York.  They have immediate and constant access to the President of the United States: George Bush's Press Secretary, Ari Fleischer, a Reform Jew, works the Lubavitcher mission. 

The most prominent backer of the Lubavitchers on Capitol Hill is Senator Joseph Lieberman (D.Conn.), an Orthodox Jew, and the former candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States.  The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), has commended Chabad Lubavitch "ideals" in a Senate floor statement.  Jewish members of Congress regularly attend seminars conducted by a Washington DC Lubavitcher rabbi.  The Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, the Comptroller of the US Department of Defense, Dov Zakheim (an ordained Orthodox rabbi), and Stuart Eizenstat, former Deputy Treasury Secretary, are all Lubavitcher groupies.

WORLD WIDE LUBAVITCH RESOURCES

According to the Jerusalem Post of October 19, 2001, "Chabad is a potent force: 2,600 institutions around the world, large numbers of English-speaking rabbis, control of most of Judaism in Italy as well as the chief rabbinate of Russia (its Russia budget alone is $20 million a year). It is an organization with immense world-wide financial resources . . . In fact, Chabad is a movement of monumental importance. Observant Jews are profoundly dependent on its emissaries all over the world . . .  its rabbis dominate or are poised to dominate Jewish communities in a startling number of countries."

http://jewishtribalreview.org/cha.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jtr
original article at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jp-berger

The Jewish Virtual Library tells a similar story: "More than 3,700 emissary couples work in more than 100 countries worldwide. Since 1995, more than 400 shlichim (emissaries) were assigned to new posts and more than 500 new Chabad institution [sic] have been established, bringing the total to nearly 2,600 institutions (seminaries, day camps, schools, etc) worldwide. According to headquarters, almost one million children participates [sic] in Chabad activities worldwide in 1999."

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Judaism/Lubavitch_and_Chabad.html
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/howmany

LUBAVITCHERS ARE NOT DILETTANTES

Baruch Goldstein, the American-Israeli who shot 29 Muslims to death as they prayed during Ramadan at the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron in 1994, was a Lubavitcher.  Lubavitch rabbinates are hereditary, passed from father to son, sometimes from father to son-in-law:

His [Goldstein's] family ancestry, through his mother, went back eight generations to the Baal Hatanya founder of the Lubavitch dynasty.

One Year Later -- Purim Hebron 1994 Remembered, by Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann http://www.newkach.org/special/baruch/04.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-baruch-lubavitch

Now back to Lubavitcher Ari Fleischer, the Bush press secretary who is one of the most active Lubavitchers in Washington, DC.  This from the (Baltimore) Jewish Times of October 26, 2001:
Like that of most high-ranking White House officials, press secretary Ari Fleischer's life has been an exhausting blur since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But he took a few hours off last week to pick up  an award from American Friends of Lubavitch, and to help boost the group's extensive Jewish outreach efforts on Capitol Hill -- efforts that Mr. Fleischer, a former congressional staffer, has supported from the beginning.

He was given the group's Young Leadership award and Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) was the night's honoree at a dinner that drew hundreds of Washington political bigwigs, Capitol Hill staffers and Washington money people. Mr. Fleischer was an early leader and co-president of Chabad's Capitol Jewish Forum, which brings together lawmakers and congressional and administration staffers for Jewish events study . . . In a show of bi-partisanship, both Mr. Fleischer and Mr. Lieberman lavished praise on the active Chabad effort that emphasizes the army of young staffers in government and political jobs.

("Ari Fleischer: Reform Lubavitch," by James Besser, Baltimore Jewish Times, 10/26/2001, V.262,  N.8, p. 30. as quoted by The Jewish Tribal Review.

http://jewishtribalreview.org/cha.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jtr
(Original article not to hand.)

So we see the Lubavitchers are focused people, whether they're committing mass murder or controlling American Congress and the White House.

LUBAVITCHERS ARE NOT INTEGRATIONISTS

The Lubavitchers are proselytizers, but of a different sort. They want to make all Jews -- Reform, Conservative or Orthodox --hyper "Jewish."  Thus we see Orthodox Jews like Lieberman and Reform Jews like Fleischer standing side-by-side working the Lubavitcher program.  Lubavitchers don't want to convert non-Jews to Judaism -- they want Jews to understand they are a class apart from everyone else. 

In a letter he wrote in 1964, Schneerson deplored intermarriage of Jews with non-Jews, calling it "spiritual cremation," and called the concepts of freedom, equality, and integration "misconceived ideals."

http://www.therebbe.org/wisdom/letters/
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-reebletter

This is particularly amusing, inasmuch as in the Jews led the movement to forcibly integrate the South which resulted in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  The Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism tells us that "During the Mississippi Summer of 1964, Jews made up half of the young people who volunteered in the effort to end segregation."
http://www.rac.org/issues/issuecr.html

Obviously, integration and mixed marriages are for the Gentiles, not the Jews.  We'll see why, as we go along.

LUBAVITCHER GURU IS MIGHTY FINE

In 1995, Schneerson became the first religious leader ever to be awarded the United States  Congressional Gold Medal.  Just this March, Bush II entertained a delegation of Lubavitchers to mark  Schneerson's 100th birthday and issued a glowing statement about Schneerson in a White House Proclamation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020325-4.html
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-bush-2002

We will have a chance to look at this more closely later, but first let's learn something of the religion the Lubavitchers have dreamed up for thee and me.

THE TOUCH AND FEEL OF YOUR NEW RELIGION

Let's start our journey at a website run by "Jews and Hasidic Gentiles—United to Save America" ("JHG-USA").  The purpose of the website is to popularize Schneerson's plans for Gentiles.   Schneerson's  plan calls for non-Jews to be converted into "Hasidic Gentiles," a lower life form in the cosmology of America's future.  The Reeb's photo is at the top left side of the homepage.

http://www.noahide.com/
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-homepage

In the Lubavitch cosmology, rabbis are naturally the top dogs.  Then come the rest of the Jews.  Next come former Christians or other non-Jews who have been converted to "Hasidic Gentiles;" those folk can have a share in the good life provided they forget Christ (or Buddha, etc.) and obey the laws assigned to them by the rabbis.  At the bottom of the heap are those who refuse to conform to the system; those people may be lashed, punished, and executed.  Read on.  I will support everything I have just said.

As you read the Jews and Hasidic Gentiles—United to Save America (JHG-USA) website, be aware of the sliding definitions.  The Hebrew word "Moshiach," (sometimes spelled "Mashiach"), is the word for "Messiah."   Sometimes "Moshiach" connotes a person, but often it connotes the Jewish people as a whole and the Utopia they will bring to the world through their transcendence over lesser beings.

CHRISTIANS ARE IDOL WORSHIPPERS
CHRISTMAS MUST BE ABOLISHED

Here is the flier the Lubavitchers are circulating. 

http://www.noahide.com/xmas.htm
I have cached the page at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-xmas1

The ad reads: "Campaign to Abolish X-mas celebration by gentiles . . .  according to the known Jewish ruling that Christians are idol worshippers. (Likkutei Sichos 37:198)"  

What is the "Likkutei Sichos"?  Look at this page:

http://www.eichlers.com/826605079.html
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-likkutei

We see that the "Likkutei Sichos" is a printed and bound anthology of talks given by Schneerson. 

O.K.  So now we have established what the Reeb thought of Christians and Christianity.  What should be done about people who follow Jesus Christ?

CELEBRATE "X-MAS" AND DIE

Go back to the anti-"X-mas" flier: 

http://www.noahide.com/xmas.htm
I have cached the page at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-xmas1

"A gentile . . . is liable for the death penalty . . . if he has invented a religious holiday for himself . . .  The general principle is we do not allow them to make new religious rituals and to make 'mitzvahs' ["commandment;" sometimes "good deed or blessing"] for themselves by their own devices . . . if he does make some new 'mitzvah,' we lash him, punish him, and inform him that he is obligated [sic] with the death penalty for this." (Rambam Mishne Torah--Hilchose Melachim 10:9)

So Christians or non-Christian Gentiles, according to the "Rambam Mishne Torah" should be lashed, punished, and put to death if they insist on following their own religious practices, including celebration of non-Jewish religious holidays, such as Christmas.  

What is the Rambam Mischne Torah?  The Rambam is none other than Maimonides, the well-known Sephardic Jewish writer who lived in Spain between 1135 and 1204 AD, one of the great fathers of Judaic thought; the Mishne Torah is one of his best known works.  See the "Sephardic Sages" webpage,

http://www.sephardicsages.com/rambam.html

mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-rambam

"Maimonides [Rambam] was the author of the Mishneh Torah, one of the greatest codes of Jewish law, compiling every conceivable topic of Jewish law in subject matter order and providing a simple statement of the prevailing view in plain language. In his own time, he was widely condemned because he claimed that the Mishneh Torah was a substitute for studying the Talmud," Sephardic Sages tells us.

Maimonides is regarded as a great teacher throughout Judaism.  Yet these are his words: 

" . . . A gentile . . . is liable for the death penalty . . . if he has invented a religious holiday for himself. "

So to be fair to the Reeb, the idea that Christmas celebrants be put to death did not originate with him.   Indeed, we need to go back further to understand the roots of the "Gentiles must be put to death" phenomena. 

KILL THEM ALL

The central book in Judaism is the Talmud, which contains the teachings of the Pharisees -- those people on whom the New Testament spends so many words.  Jesus called their teachings "the ways of men," an abomination, and he condemned them; for doing so, He was crucified.  At the time Jesus lived and up until several hundred years after His death, we are told, the teachings of the Pharisees were not written down, but were memorized, added to, and passed around by word of mouth.  This is called the "oral law."   

"The Jewish religion as it is today traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees.  Their leading ideas and methods found expression in a literature of enormous extent, of which a very great deal is still in existence.  The Talmud is the largest and most important single piece of literature . . . and the study of it is essential for any real understanding of Pharisaism."

--Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1948, Vol. 8, pg. 474.

The original Hebrew Babylonian Talmud (Soferim 15,  Rule  10) cites Rabbi Simon ben Yohai:  "Tob shebe goyyim harog." Translation:  "Even the best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed."

This passage is not taken from the commonly available and accepted Soncino edition of the Talmud.  According to the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1903,  the phrase "the best among the Gentiles" has been altered to read "the best among the Egyptians." Quite an improvement, eh?

(See the 1903 Jewish Encyclopedia,  published  by Funk and Wagnalls and compiled by Isidore Singer, under the entry, "Gentile," Vol. 5, p. 617).

Thus we see that the "Gentiles must be put to death" concept was originated before the Reeb, and even before the Rambam.  The "kill all Gentiles" concept  can be found in the Talmud, the basic book of Judaism. 

OTHER GENTILE HOLIDAYS
TO BE DECLARED VERBOTEN

See: "The Law Is Only a Minimum," and you will learn that observance of other Christian religious holidays constitute idolatry and will be banned.  Christian holidays to be banned include:

  • Good Friday
  • Easter
  • Ash Wednesday
  • All Saints Day,
  • And "probably even the 'new year.'"

http://www.noahide.com/minimum.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-minimum

SPECIAL DEAL ON ANTI X-MAS FLIERS

Later, we will learn that the "idol-worshippers" who refuse to give up their religious observances will be put to death by beheading.  But for now, be aware that Jews and Hasidic Gentiles—United to Save America (JHG-USA) are offering a special discount on those anti-"X-mas" fliers.  Normally they sell for 25 cents a piece -- now they are selling for 15 cents a piece.  Hurry to order!

http://www.noahide.com./xmas2.htm
mirrord at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-xmas2

;-)

THE LUBAVITCHERS ON JESUS

Bush II claims to be a Christian.  Want to know what Bush's Lubavitcher friends think about Jesus?   Read the "Who Was Jesus" page:

http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jesus

You will see that Jesus is called a "dangerous" false prophet who "repeatedly broke the Law by committing terrible sins, while openly challenging the G-d given authority of the rabbis of the Sanhedrin."

The "Who Was Jesus" page also cites the Talmud -- the references in parentheses are the specific books.  The quote begins here:
The Talmud (Babylonian edition) records other sins of 'Jesus the Nazarene':

1) He and his disciples practiced sorcery and black magic, led Jews astray into idolatry, and were sponsored by foreign, gentile powers for the purpose of subverting Jewish worship (Sanhedrin 43a). 

2) He was sexually immoral, worshipped statues of stone (a brick is mentioned), and was cut off from the Jewish people for his wickedness, and refused to repent (Sanhedrin 107b; Sotah 47a).

3) He learned witchcraft in Egypt and, to perform miracles, used procedures that involved cutting his flesh -- which is also explicitly banned in the Bible.  (Shabbos 104b).
Such is the blasphemy against Jesus coming from the friends of Bush II.  If Jesus Christ stepped into the America Bush is helping to create, Jesus would be put to death again -- by Jewish law.

A LUBAVITCH WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION

Not only did Bush issue a proclamation, he actually held a White House reception for the Lubavitchers to celebrate the Reeb's 100th birthday. 

Bush Meets Lubavitch Rabbis to Mark Rebbe's 100th Birthday. 

U.S. President George W. Bush hosted a delegation of 10 leading rabbis and officials from the Lubavitch Hasidic movement at the White House yesterday. The 90-minute meeting took place in the framework of events organized by the movement to mark the 100th birthday of the late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson . . . Bush added his signature to a document declaring the late Rebbe's birthday 'The day of education and charity.'  [Avraham] Rabbi Shem-Tov thanked the president for his support of Israel and presented him with a Passover Haggadah.

--Reported in Haaretz [Israeli newspaper], March 26, 2002, as quoted by The Jewish Tribal Review
http://jewishtribalreview.org/cha.htm
mirrored at:
http://Public-Action.com/x/nh-jtr
(Original article not to hand.)

Now let's step back for a moment and imagine we are one of these Lubavitchers at Bush's 90-minute reception on March 25.  Recall that the fundamental book of the Chabad Lubavitch movement is the Tanya or Hatanya.  The late Hebrew University professor Israel Shahak says this about the Hatanya:  

According to this book, all non-Jews are totally satanic creatures 'in whom there is absolutely nothing good.'  Even a non-Jewish embryo is qualitatively different from a Jewish one.  The very existence of a non-Jew is 'inessential,' whereas all of creation was created solely for the sake of the Jews.

(Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion , Pluto Press, London, 1994, pg. 27.)

Several years later, Shahak cooperated with Norton Mezvinsky to write the "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel." The authors said this of Schneerson:

The late, highly revered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the 'Lubavitcher Rebbe' who headed the Chabad movement and wielded great influence in Israel as well as in the U.S., explained that, 'The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: ‘Let us differentiate.’ Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather, we have a case of ‘let us differentiate’ between totally different species. This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world [i.e., Gentile people] . . .  A non-Jew’s entire reality is only vanity. It is written, ‘And the strangers shall guard and feed your flocks’ (Isaiah 61:5). The entire creation [of a non-Jew] exists only for the sake of the Jews . . . '

("Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel," by Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky.  London.  Pluto Press, 1999; as quoted by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2000.)

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0300/0003105.html

mirrored at:
http://Public-Action.com/x/nh-wrmea-brownfeld

So here is my question:  Why are these pure and G-dly Lubavitcher rabbis willing to hang out with a satanic, pork-gobbling idol-worshipper from . . .Texas?  Or was the stink of Bush's Christianity covered up by the perfume of Raw Power? 

I wonder if the rabbis explained to Bush their plans for him and his kind?  Perhaps they did not need to do that.  Perhaps George W. Bush is not really a Christian but is secretly a Hasidic Gentile.  He sure acts that way.

THE SON OF GOD IS . . . 

So we have now learned Jesus was not the Son of God, but a false prophet.  Who is the Son of God, then?

In the book of Exodus, G-d openly proclaims His son to the world: "Thus says the L-rd: My firstborn son is Israel.  'Israel' is the Jewish people -- all of them.  The Jews were chosen by G-d to be His special 'son,' to be, in the words of the Bible, 'a kingdom of priests and a holy nation' for the whole world . . .

Read "Who is the Son of G-d?"
http://www.noahide.com/son.htm
mirrored at:
http://Public-Action.com/x/nh-sonofgod

So the Jewish people -- individually and collectively -- "a kingdom of priests and an holy nation" whose jurisdiction is the whole, wide world . . .

But once more, out of fairness, I must point out that this view that the Jewish people are the Son of God is not specifically Lubavitcher.  Let's return to the Talmud once more:

If a heathen smites a Jew, he is worthy of death . . . He who smites an Israelite on the jaw, is as though he had thus assaulted the Divine Presence; for it is written, 'One who smiteth man [I.e.,  an Israelite] attacketh the Holy One.'   (Sanhedrin, 58b.)

A Jew -- any Jew -- is the Divine Presence, the Holy One.  Get it, dummy?

KING REEB . . .

The Rebbe is a direct descendant of King David and has received a true prophecy from G-d that we who are alive in this generation shall be the first in history to see the coming of the true messiah.  Many Jews are eagerly anticipating the Rebbe's resurrection from the grave, ready to re-establish the Sanhedrin and anoint the king.

http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jesus

Do you think we need courts run by rabbis to give us trials like they gave Jesus (Matt. 26:57-67)?  Do you think we need a King to rule over us?  No thank-yew.  We are AMERICANS.  We do not recognize an established state religion, and we are a republic, not a kingdom.  

 HE HAS THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS

In our generation, the spiritual leader of the Jewish people--and therefore of the whole world--is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (known as the "Lubavitcher Rebbe"), in New York . . .

Did you catch that -- the Reeb is the leader of the Jewish people AND THEREFORE THE WHOLE WORLD.  So now we see how the Pyramid of Power is shaking out. 

From "Who is the Son of G-d?"
http://www.noahide.com/son.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-sonofgod

CONGRESS AND BUSH INVENT HISTORY

Now let's go back in time to the reign of Bush I, when Congress passed, and Bush signed, Joint House Resolution 104, Public Law 102-14.  In House Joint Resolution 104, the birthday of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, March 26, 1991,  was designated as "Education Day, USA." You may have noticed that in 2002, the Rebbe's birthday was on March 25, not March 26.  More of that later.  Here is JHR 104, Public Law 102-14:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c102:H.J.RES.104.ENR:
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-hjr104

Let's look at the first clause:

Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded . . .

Ah!  You think they're going to mention, perhaps, the great Christian precept "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," or even the Ten Commandments? 

Or perhaps the principles of liberty espoused by Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, or George Mason?  Or  quote the words of Thomas Jefferson in a letter to his friend Charles Thompson, dated January 9, 1816, when he said:

I am a real Christian . . . a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus . . .

To see Jefferson's comments in context, go to: < http://christianparty.net/tjchristian.htm >.

Certainly Congress had wonderful material at their fingertips to reaffirm the "ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded . . . "

But let's see what Congress did. Here is the second clause of HJR 104:

Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws . . .

Naugahyde Laws?  No, that's not Naugahyde, that's Noahide . . .  Never heard of them!  What are they?

WOULD YOU BELIEVE . . .

Explanation No. 1:  "Noahide" is the adjectival form of "Noah." So perhaps God passed down laws to Noah that somehow we overlooked?  No, I just scrutinized Genesis in my King James version, and on two Bible Internet search engines. God did not pass down seven laws to Noah, and Noah did not pass down seven laws to anyone else. 

Explanation No. 2: Let's go to a Lubavitcher website -- surely they know from where these laws came.

http://www.noahide.com/7laws.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-7laws

All of these laws are derived from specific passages in the Torah, which G-d gave to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai.

Let's try to be logical.  Noah lived and died in Genesis.  Mt. Sinai is not mentioned in Genesis.  Moses lived in Exodus and beyond.  God handed over the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mt. Sinai, in Exodus. Therefore God could not have given Noah these laws at Mt.  Sinai, for Noah had already died, back in Genesis. 

It seems that Bush's friends, the Lubavitchers, the people who call Jesus a false prophet and idol worshipper, can't even keep the Bible time-line straight.  I wonder what Bush's pastor would think of Bush lavishing praise on the Lubavitchers?
 
Explanation No. 3:  According to the  Encyclopedia Brittanica, the Talmud claims the Noahide laws were given to Adam.   ". . .  also called Noachian Laws,  a Jewish Talmudic designation for seven biblical laws given to Adam and to Noah before the revelation to Moses on Mt. Sinai and consequently binding on all mankind."
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=57402&query=noahide

Let's be realistic.  These seven laws which God (allegedly) gave to Adam were never ever written down in the Bible.  However, the descendants of Adam passed the laws down verbally to their descendants ("oral law"), and so on and so on . . . until several hundred years after the death of Jesus the Pharisees started writing them down in the Talmud. 

If your Grandma told you a story she claimed had been passed down through the family -- orally -- from the time of Adam, would you believe her?  No, of course not.  The story is preposterous.

Explanation No. 4:  So now let's turn to the Talmud for an explanation of the Noahide laws.  In a footnote to Yebamoth 62a, the Talmud gives the Scriptural source of these seven Noahide laws:  Genesis 9:7.  In Genesis 9:7, God says to Noah: 

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 

But as you can see, there is not one mention of seven laws in that verse, despite what the Talmudic sages tell us. 

Explanation No. 5: Wait, I've overlooked something. Let's return to the Jews and Hasidic Gentiles (JHG USA) website:

http://www.noahide.com/7laws.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-7laws

All of these laws are derived from specific passages in the Torah, which G-d gave to the Jewish people at Mt. Sinai.

Ah!  The operant word is "derived." The Pharisee scholars derived, or reasoned, the laws into existence.    So . . . just as Athena sprang from the head of Zeus, so the Noahide laws sprang from the heads of the Pharisees.

Naugahyde is man-made, vinyl coated-fabric; it is artificial leather.  These Noahide laws are man made, Pharisee-coated, artificial laws.  As Naugahyde is to leather, so the Noahide Laws are to the Bible.   

Explanation 6: This is proof of the pudding:  Sanhedrin 56a and 56b says:

Our Rabbis taught: seven precepts were the sons of Noah commanded: social laws; (5) to refrain from blasphemy, idolatry; adultery; bloodshed; robbery; and eating flesh cut from a living animal (1) . . .

Footnote 5, for the above passage, says: "I.e., to establish courts of justice, or, perhaps, to observe social justice (Nahmanides on Gen. XXXIV, 13): Hast. Dict. (s.v. Noachian precepts) translates 'obedience to authority.'"

Listen up here, fellow Gentile!  "Obedience to authority" is your moral duty.  Guess who the "authority" is?   

Footnote 1, for the above passage, says:

These commandments may be regarded as the foundations of all human and moral progress. Judaism has both a national and a universal outlook in life. In the former sense it is particularistic, SETTING UP A PEOPLE DISTINCT AND SEPARATE FROM OTHERS (emphasis added) by its peculiar religious law. But in the latter, it recognises that moral progress and its concomitant Divine love and approval are the privilege and obligation of all mankind. And hence the Talmud lays down the seven Noachian precepts, by the observance of which all mankind may attain spiritual perfection, and without which moral death must inevitably ensue. That perhaps is the idea underlying the assertion (passim) that a heathen is liable to death for the neglect of any of these . . .

Let's pause here for a moment and notice the phrase I put in emphasis:  " . . .  setting up a people distinct and separate from others . . . "

Now we can put at least some of it together.  The rabbis derived the Naugahyde laws from Genesis 9:7, by  which they grant to themselves the power to establish courts and demand obedience to their authority from all other races and nations.  Later on, in Exodus, God gives Moses the Ten Commandments.

You don't have to be a triple Ph.D. to figure out that, theologically speaking, laws given by God supersede any laws derived by men.  But the Pharisee Talmudists still prefer the laws derived by men (themselves.)  That's why they mention these man-made laws in JHR 104 PL 102-14 and ignore the Ten commandments.

In Footnote 5, the rabbis have granted themselves the authority  ". . .  to establish courts of justice, or, perhaps, to observe social justice . . . translates obedience to authority." In Footnote 1, " . . . That perhaps is the idea underlying the assertion (passim) that a heathen is liable to death for the neglect of any of these . . . "

Now we see why JHR 104 PL 102-14 did not cite the Ten Commandments.  The Ten Commandments don't give authority to rabbis to set up courts and rule over the rest of mankind, nor give the rabbis the authority to put to death those who will not follow their dictates.

The Naugahyde laws do exactly that.  The purpose of the Naugahyde laws is to establish the supremacy of Jews over others, under pain of death.  House Joint Resolution 104 (PL 102-14) seems to have granted the Naugahyde laws the status of THE fundamental law of the land, only to be tested by the US courts. 

Now we can also understand why, in 1964, the Reeb wrote that intermarriage between Jews and Gentiles was "spiritual cremation" for Jews, while at the same time organized Jewry was urging forced integration between Gentiles of different races.  One race/religion will be permitted to survive, and that is the race/religion of the Jews.  All Gentiles must lose their sense of belonging to a distinct race, owning a distinct culture, owning a distinct history, and practicing a distinct religion. The Gentiles must be homogenized.   The Gentiles must be made Naughahydes, and Naughahydes only. 

No White Pride.  No Black Pride.  No Yellow Pride.  That is racism.  Only Jewish Pride.  That's not racism.  That is God's will.  [Footnote 2. ]

MEET YOUR NEW RELIGION, PART II
NO PRACTICING YIDDONI
NO MEETING WITH GHOSTS

The seven Naugahyde laws can be found here:
http://www.noahide.com/7laws.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-7laws

For an insightful discussions of the Naugahyde laws, visit:
http://www.watch.pair.com/law.html
and
http://www.truthbeknown.com/theocracy.htm

But for now visit Lubomyr Prytulak's Ukranian Archives with me. 
http://www.ukar.org/gore10.shtml  Mr. Prytulak points out that the seven laws have "proliferated into 30, and even 66," and that "Americans may be filled with unease, or even outright trepidation, at some of these laws.  Some of the laws are mysterious . . . " See what he is talking about:

http://www.noahide.com/lawslist.htm
mirrored at
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-lawlist

Now the 30 Naugahyde laws prohibit conjurers (Law 25); prohibit consulting with the dead (Law 30), and prohibit eating a limb taken from a living creature (Law 15), prohibit Molech worship (22), but permit the offering of ritual sacrifices (19). 

Phew!  That's a relief.  We might not be able to live without being permitted to offer ritual sacrifices.  

In case you think this is all funny, try this:  Rabbinical courts will administer the death penalty by decapitation (Law 16).  That's not so funny. 

In the set of 66 laws, there is a prohibition against practicing Ov (Law 7); against practicing Yiddoni (Law 9); and "Against causing our children to pass [through the fire] in the worship of Molech"  (Law 7).  So we see Molech worship is a no-no in both sets of laws -- at least for the Naugahydes.

Molech worship may not have been a big problem for Christians, but remember, it has been a big problem for the Jews.  Read Isaiah or the other Biblical prophets to corroborate this.

But don't believe for a moment that rabbis prohibit Jews from worshiping Molech.  Read the Talmud, (Sanhedrin 64a-64b) to discover the conditions under which Jews may sacrifice their children to Molech. 

The Talmud always provides a way around the rules.  That's the Talmud's job -- to split hairs and twist original intent, just as the supreme Court splits hairs and twists the original intent of our Bill of Rights.  It's a coincidence, isn't it, that Talmudist Jews are so heavily represented in American jurisprudence?   

FREEMASONS ARE NAUGAHYDES

The entry Noachidae, found in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FREEMASONRY states the following: 'The descendants of Noah.  A term applied to Freemasons on the theory, derived from the 'legend of the craft,' that Noah was the father and founder of the Masonic system of theology.  And hence the Freemasons claim to be his descendants, because in times past they preserved the pure principles of his religion amid the corruptions of surrounding faiths.'

Notice how closely the Masonic symbol resembles the Star of David.  Trace its outlines. It resembles one half of the Star of David.  Does that make the Freemasons half-baked Jews?

http://tracingboard.com/noachites.htm
(search in google cache)
mirrored at
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-freemasontracbrd

So in their own words, Freemasons declare themselves Naugahydes.

NO OBJECTIONS TO CONGRESSIONAL AND
PRESENTIAL ENDORSEMENT OF TALMUDISM

Search for official protests to the 1991 Joint House Resolution 104 Pl 102-14 and the Congressional and Presidential endorsement of the Talmudist Noahide laws from the mainstream Christian churches, the evangelical churches, and the Catholic Church.  I could find none.  

The US Government endorsement of Talmudism should have brought cries of protest from the American Civil Liberties Union on the grounds that JHR 104 PL 102-14 violated church-state separation.  The ACLU was silent.  And what of Conservative, Reform, and Orthodox rabbis and congregations, who are so sensitive to establishment of religion when it comes to the public displays of Christmas creches?  No, they did not object to JHR 104 either.  What of the American Jewish Congress, the Anti Defamation League, the Jewish Defense League?  Not a whisper . . . 

SCHNEERSON-MAS IS A MOVABLE FEAST

Ours is the last generation of the year of sin and evil and the first of the Messianic Era.  Indeed, for the first time in history, there is a growing consensus of leading rabbis willing to name the most suited to be the Messiah, and they are agreeing that he is the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson . . .
http://www.noahide.com/yeshu.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jesus

In 1978, the House of Representatives declared the Reeb's 76th birthday as "Education Day, USA." According to the Chabad webpage, "President Jimmy Carter signed the proclamation into law and Education Day U.S.A. has become an annual tradition."

http://www.chabadcenter.org/dedication.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-chabadcntr

Did you notice that Congress and Bush I celebrated "National Education Day USA" and the Reeb's birthday on March 26, 1991:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c102:H.J.RES.104.ENR:
(Make sure to include the colon at the end.)
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-hjr104

Bush II celebrated the now transmorgified "National Education and Sharing Day U.S.A." and the Reeb's birthday on March 24, 2002:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020325-4.html
and
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-bush-2002

If you go to: http://www.ukar.org/gore10.shtml you will see Ronald Reagan (who mentioned the Naughahyde laws in his Proclamation) announced April 2, 1985, was National Education Day.  Reagan says " . . .in honor of his [the Reeb's] 83rd birthday, which falls this year on April 2 ."

March 26, March 24, April 2 . . . The Lubavitchers obviously keep the Jewish/Babylonian lunar calendar, and therefore the American presidents keep it, too. That's why the Reeb's birthday wanders and that's why National Education and Sharing Day wanders, too.     

For "Education and Sharing Day" is merely the deceitfully disguised celebration of Schneerson's birthday.  Plan on Christmas being dropped as a public holiday soon, and replaced by Schneersonmas, a/k/a Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.

OK.  All together now, let's practice : "I'm dreaming of a White Schneerson-mas . . . la la la."

FREEDOM, EQUALITY ARE
"MISCONCEIVED IDEALS"

Hey, let's think back to Bush's March, 2002,  proclamation again, just to savor his words . .  . words to the effect that EVERY child, no matter what his BACKGROUND, ETHNICITY, or FAITH,  get the best education possible, and Bush's praise of Schneerson in the same breath.  Schneerson was adamant: he wrote that equality was a misconceived ideal.  How the Lubavitchers must have laughed and joked among themselves after they left the pork-gobbler's little party on March 25.

Later on, we will have a chance to examine the Lubavitcher's own ideas about education.  Once we do, you'll probably laugh at George Bush with the Lubavitchers  -- he is one dumb pork-gobbler.

THE CASTE SYSTEM:
JEWS ARE MASTERS, GENTILES SERVANTS

Many people migrated to America to escape the tyranny of the Old World's ubermensch-
untermensch social system.  My European ancestors did so.  America was long cherished, not just for its liberties, but as a land of opportunity.  One could rise to any social status on the basis of skill and hard work because America was free and had no caste system. 

Now Bush II is helping to destroy whatever remains of that open system.  The Lubavitchers and their Jewish establishment backers intend to set up a caste system, with Jews at the top of the heap. They'll have us believe it is God's will, of course.  Here is a sample: The Ten Commandments apply only to the Jews.

At Mt. Sinai, G-D gave the Ten commandments (and hundreds of others) to the Jewish people. These laws apply only to the Jews in their special role as the world's spiritual leaders.

From "Who is the Son of G-D?'
http://www.noahide.com/son.htm
and
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-sonofgod

The Law contains two parallel (but separate) paths for the world: 613 commandments for the Jews, and 66 commandments (contained in the 7 Noachide Laws) for gentiles . .  . Non-Jews may not observe Shabbos (or holidays) in the manner of Jews . . . or be called up for a public Torah reading in a synagogue.

From "The Law is Only a Minimum,"
http://www.noahide.com/minimum.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-minimum

So here we have more of the same: The two-tier society, Jews on the top tier, Gentiles on the bottom. 

These Seven Commandments (mitzvos) [the seven Naugahyde laws] are not arbitrary laws, but rather G-d's plan for Mankind . . . (The Seven Universal Laws of Noah have only been replaced for the Jewish people, to whom G-D gave the entire Torah [teaching] as their Law.  They therefore have a special responsibility--with special commandments--to be the priesthood of the world, a 'light unto nations.')

(Notice that "Torah" in this context means the entire body of Jewish teachings.)

From "What is Noah's Covenant?"
http://www.noahide.com/covenant.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-covenant

That's why the Jews who run the American Civil Liberties Union don't want the Ten Commandments posted in public places.  The Ten Commandments are not public property -- they are owned by the Jews.   Let the Gentiles eat Naugahyde Laws.

How long will it be before Jews complain of copyright infringement when Gentiles quote the Ten Commandments?

 TWO-TIER SYSTEM OF LAW --
NAUGAHYDES GET BOTTOM TIER

The Noahide communities require . . . . courts of justice, led by rabbinically trained righteous judges, which will function similarly to Jewish batei dinim [Jewish courts] . . .

From "The Final War for Jerusalem (Why Permanent Israeli Victory Is Now Within Reach)"
http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

A search of the Talmud's Sanhedrin reveals that a Naugahyde is to be tried by one judge, on the testimony on one witness only, and is executed even if no formal admonition preceded his offense.  On the other hand a Jew is tried by a court of 23, on the testimony of at least two, and executed only after formal admonition.  (Footnote 5 of Sanhedrin 71b.)

KEEP THE GENTILES IGNORANT

The Naugahyde children must be kept ignorant.  That's the system in slave-based societies, of course. 
Right now, a supplemental daily home-schooling Torah program is being developed and used to teach Noachide children . . . This approach to education . .. drastically minimizes secular studies (math, science, history, English, social studies, computers & other technical studies) in favor of total immersion in Torah, the Word of G-d.

"The Law is Only a Minimum,"
http://www.noahide.com/minimum.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-minimum


Not just socially, but technically and economically the Naughahydes are the bottom dogs.  Without racial, cultural, or historical identity, they are the servant class.  Left only with the Naughahyde Laws -- remember, the Ten Commandments and all the rest are for Jews only -- how much "total immersion in Torah" will the Naughahydes get?

Contrast this to Bush's 2002 Schneerson Birthday Proclamation:
America's future depends in part on ensuring that EVERY child in America receives a quality education . . . Education has always played a vital role in the success of our Nation.  It has provided hope through the principle that ANY citizen can realize the American dream, regardless of BACKGROUND, ETHNICITY, or FAITH. (Emphases added.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020325-4.html
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-bush-2002

What a bold lie.  Bush is praising the universality of education on Schneerson-mas -- when Schneerson's followers want universality of education destroyed.
HASIDIC LUBAVITCHER

"UNOFFICIAL" RABBI OF
CAPITOL HILL

Now let's revisit the influence the Lubavitchers have in this country.  On July 3, 1999, The Washington Post ran an article entitled "Hasidic Outpost In D.C. (New Lubavitch Center Raises Profile of Popular Director)."

http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-wp-outposthasidic.html

The American Friends of Lubavitch has opened a $2 million center in Washington's embassy district, solidifying the Hasidic sect's presence in the diplomatic community and increasing the visibility of its director, Levi Shemtov, already considered by many to be the unofficial rabbi of Capitol Hill . . .

Most Washingtonians familiar with Shemtov know him for his work on the Hill.  He meets privately with Jewish members of Congress and staffers--almost always at their invitation--and holds monthly or bimonthly Capitol Jewish Forums on such issues as ethics, holiday traditions and the relationship between religion and government . . . [Rep.]  Cardin, 55, called Shemtov "a real asset for the Jewish members and Jewish staffers on the Hill . . .

From the context, it would seem these Capitol Jewish Forums to discuss "the relationship between religion and government" are held in Capitol Hill meeting rooms; that is, public facilities are being used for brainstorming sessions on how to turn America into a Talmudist theocracy.

I can enlighten you on the "relationship between religion and government" that will pertain in the new theocracy: High priests will run the courts and pronounce death sentences and our prayers will be subject to government laws.  For Jews, their religion and government are synonymous.

Last September, when Republican House leaders scheduled votes on the impeachment of President Clinton during High Holy Days, Shemtov visited the office of Rep. Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) and persuaded him to change the schedule . . . ( http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-wp-outposthasidic.html )

Incredible.  Here we have a Constitutional crisis in our country, a crisis for which Congress was putting aside all other national business to consider.  Yet Congress changed the date of a vote to impeach the President of the United States because a Lubavitch rabbi, scarcely 30 years old, asked them to do so. 

The  Lubavitchers expect the Gentiles to "respect" Jewish religious holidays, but they would have Christians put to death for observing Christmas.  See how "Equal Justice Under Law" works for Jews?
   
The Post features two color photos of the "unofficial rabbi" of Capitol Hill, a dweebie-looking, even-featured young man with a fuzzy black beard.  Beside him, we see the menacing glance of the Reeb, schneering down from a portrait on the wall.

http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-reebndweeb.gif

POLITICAL "ADVERSARIES"
MEET AT SHEMTOV'S

On October 22, 20001, The Jerusalem Post also paid a gushing tribute to Shemtov.  There's nobody who doesn't love him, it seems.  In Washington, he is very popular with the whores on both sides of the street.

'In political Washington, it's very easy to get caught up in your job,' says Ari Feischer, Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush' spokesman, who met Shemtov while working for a Republican senator from New Mexico.  'Your focus can wander from your religion.  He made it easy for me to find even more of a Jewish life on the Hill.'

Adds Thomas Kahn, House Budget Committee Democratic Staff Director and a frequent guest at Shemtov's Shabbat dinners, which famously bring together Jews who could be natural political adversaries on CNN's Crossifre during the week: 'There's nobody who is more widely respected and warmly received in Congress, the administration, and the diplomatic corps.  A large part of it is just his force of personality and also a tribute to Habad.'


I have captured the October 22, 2000, Jerusalem Post article, curiously titled: "Miriam Frifeature, send to EDITORS/FRIDAY FEATURES AFTER PROOF," at:
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/09/29/Features/Features.13020.html
(or try google cache.  Mirrored at:)
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jpost

 

 

PART II
IT'S ABOUT WORLD
DOMINATION, STUPID!

By now we have seen extraordinary things:  American presidents and the American Congress are setting up a theocratic, non-Biblical, Talmudic state that will replace the one founded in 1789.  Americans will be ruled by Jews.  Christmas, Easter, Good Friday -- certainly Ramadan -- will be outlawed.  If citizens don't follow the synthetic religion designed for them by rabbis, they will be beheaded.  What else is there to learn?

Now you are ready to read
"The Final War for Jerusalem
Why Permanent Israeli Victory Is Now Within Reach"

http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm

mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

Much of this article is a paranoic rant about the persecution of the Jews: Karl Marx wanted the Jewish nation destroyed, and the Commies have been after them ever since.  Stalin ordered the Commies to bring Hitler to power, and helped Hitler implement the Holocaust.  American Presidents have been/are conspiring against the Jews.  Amaleks have been conspiring to take the Jews out for thirty-three continuous centuries, etc.  Finally we read the truest statement on JHG-USA website:

THIS IS A WORLD WAR

"In simple terms, we are at war.  It is not a struggle merely for power, wealth, or some other material advantage; it is a titanic clash over the future of world civilization . . .  This war has already spread into every nation, ever social institution, every human activity.  It has thus become a world war in the ultimate sense," say the Lubavitchers. 

http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

Well, that clears matters up.  Jews are going to wipe out all other civilizations in the world and replace them with one of their own design.  They intend to rule the world. 

The Jewish people have the unique power of victory, to liberate the world from its current road to complete self-destruction.  Since we are now in the last generation of the Jewish exile and the first generation of Moshiach our actions are guaranteed to produce miraculous success.

GENTILES NEEDED AS LABORERS IN
WAR OF JEWISH SUPREMACY

But there is not a sufficient number of Jews to bring about global victory of the Jews over others.  Weenies are needed to help.  Now we see the purpose of the Naugahydes:

And as the Lubavitcher Rebbe has explained, by transforming the gentiles we can quickly create a vast army of supporters who will help us reveal Moshiach [Messiah: that is, the Jewish people] and bring all Jews back to the Torah. 

Specifically, the Rebbe has emphasized that the 'peace process' in Israel will be defeated only through our influence on the gentiles — especially through the campaign to teach the Noachide Laws (see Sichos in English, vol. 16, [19 Kislev 5743]). 

    REEB WANTED WAR WITH PALESTINIANS

Note, above:  The Reeb demanded the Middle East peace process must be "defeated." Allan Brownfeld Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 2000 says:

Rabbi Schneerson always supported Israeli wars and opposed any retreat. In 1974 he strongly opposed  the Israeli withdrawal from the Suez area. He promised Israel divine favors if it persisted in occupying the land. After his death, thousands of his Israeli followers played an important role in the election victory of Binyamin Netanyahu. Among the religious settlers in the occupied territories, the Chabad Hassids constitute one of the most extreme groups. Baruch Goldstein, the mass murderer of Palestinians, was one of them.

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0300/0003105.html

http://www.public-action.com/x/nh-wrmea-brownfeld/

As you will see below, two prominent Jews in the Department of Defense -- Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and DoD Comptroller Rabbi Dov Zakheim, pay public homage to the Lubavitchers and share public podiums with them at their events.  Does that help to explain why there is no peace in the Middle East?  On the basis of this admonition from Schneerson, who is the aggressor?

Clearly stated, then, the synthetic Naughahyde religion has another practical advantage: It ensures Gentile Americans are politically motivated to endorse the genocide of the Palestinians.

CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS
WILL DISAPPEAR

How will this Final War for Jerusalem be fought?  First, the opposing forces will disappear.

The Messiah [the Jews] will teach the Word of G-d to all nations, causing Christianity and other religions to disappear.  The bible says that everyone will become a Hasidic Gentile . . .

"Who is the Son of G_d?"
http://www.noahide.com/son.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-sonofgod

Now we see what role the Gentiles in the US military will play in the "Final War for Jerusalem." The US military will help Islam to "disappear." 

On September 11, 2001, remote-controlled planes were used to crash into the WTC and Pentagon sites.  The hits were carried out with the full knowledge and consent of the North American Aerospace Command and blamed on Muslim terrorists.

http://www.public-action.com/911/noradsend.html
http://www.public-action.com/911/noradsend2.html
http://www.public-action.com/911/bumble.html  

Know that the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) is a supporter of Chabad Lubavitch.

http://levin.senate.gov/floor/052501fs1.htm
cached at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-levin-loves-lubavitch

We can now understand why, on September 13, 2001, just two days after the catastrophe, Levin allowed Gen. Richard B. Myers, Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 11, 2001, and a former NORAD commander, to bob and weave and lie about events that day.  After watching him so perform, Levin and his committee confirmed Myers as the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  We can understand why, on October 25,  Sen. Levin allowed Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, commander of NORAD on September 11, 2001, to bob and weave and lie about events that day.  Levin was protecting, and will continue to protect, the two treasonous American generals who helped forward the cause of world Jewish domination.

Without presenting any evidence or granting due process in any recognized court of law, Bush & Company declared the terrorist acts were committed by Muslims, and bombed Afghanistan.  Meanwhile, in Palestine, the Israelis began to move their tanks into the West Bank.  The significance of the 9-11 terror becomes more obvious each day. The purpose of the 9-11 terror was to springboard the "Final War for Jerusalem."

 

WOLFOWITZ SHARES PODIUM
WITH LUBAVITCHER RABBIS

On December 9, 2001, the US Assistant Secretary of Defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, who gives public lip service to the Middle-East "peace process," lit the "National Menorah" on the Ellipse.  He shared the podium with Lubavitch Rabbis Abraham Shemtov and Levi Shemtov.  Levi Shemtov, of course, is the unofficial rabbi of Capitol Hill, the rabbi acclaimed by the Washington Post and the Jerusalem Post.   The lighting of the menorah was reported by the Washington Post, "The Warm Glow of Hope," December 10, 2001. 

The Post quotes one of the attendees: "This year, it's more important than ever to celebrate our freedom.   . . It's important for my kids to see that we can practice our religion openly in this country."

Yet if the Lubavitchers have their way, Christians and Muslims will be put to death for practicing their religions in this country.  And George Bush, the "Christian," honors the Lubavitch Rebbe as a great humanitarian.  If Jews think Gentiles are cattle willing to be led to slaughter, can you blame them?

Come to think of it -- we have just read about a high US official lighting the National Menorah.  Have you read any articles about high US officials visiting the National Nativity Creche?  In fact, do we even have a National Nativity Creche?  No, that would violate the principle of the separation of church and state. Right?

GENTILES READY TO ADORE
THE REAL SON OF G-D

As Christianity spirals downward into strife and theological confusion, it becomes a vacuum unable to defend itself against either the lies of Amalek [members of an ancient nomadic tribe reputedly descended from Esau's grandson] or the truth of Torah.  Amalek can exploit the worldwide collapse of Christianity only by default — that is, only when the Jewish people do not seize the unprecedented opportunity.

" . .  essentially all six billion gentiles are quite ready to ask the Jews for spiritual leadership in these times of darkness," we are informed. 

Nearly two-thirds of Americans describe themselves as 'born-again' or fundamentalist Christians, most of whom believe that the coming of the Messiah is imminent (despite their confusion as to his identity), and that, as the Bible clearly prophesied, the forces of evil are waging war against Israel.

However, "In essence, the Torah is showing us that Moshiach cannot come until tile (sic) entire world- including the gentile nations--is ready.  On the other hand, the gentiles are essentially ready now, requiring only a small Jewish effort to complete the task."

http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

DR. LAURA SCHLESSINGER,
THE JUDAS GOAT

Let me repeat those words from the page above:   "While Christianity spirals downward into strife and theological confusion . . .  all six billion gentiles are quite ready to ask the Jews for spiritual leadership in these times of darkness."

People like Dr. Laura Schlessinger have an important role to play in this scenario.   Dr.  Laura, of course, is a famous talk show host who defends so-called traditional values.  She has been an outspoken critic of homosexuality, pornography, sex before marriage, etc. etc., and a defender of all that is Good And Holy.   For this she is very popular with Catholic and Protestant Christians. 

Meanwhile, Dr. Laura publicly proclaims that she follows Orthodox Judaism.  What does Orthodox Judaism have in common with the so-called traditional Christian values Dr. Laura champions? 

Turn to Sanhedrin 54b to see just one of the many Talmudic discussions of pederasty.  Rabbis Rab and Samuel are arguing about sex with children.   Rab's words are followed by footnote, as follows:

Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. (2).

We now turn to Footnote 2:

I.e. Rab makes nine years the minimum; but if one committed sodomy with a child of lesser age, no guilt is incurred.  Samuel makes three the minimum.

This from another subdivision of the Talmud, the Kethuboth (11b). 

When a grown up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this [less than three years old] it is as if one puts the finger into the eye . . .

Another footnote explains that as "tears come to the eye again and again, so does virginity come back to the little girl under three years."

Remember, Dr. Laura is an Orthodox Jew.  Orthodox Jews accept the teachings of the Talmud as the righteous interpretation of Scripture.  In practice, it replaces the Scripture.  Yet while she is on the air, Dr. Laura does not tell her listeners that the theology of her religion permits the sexual abuse of young children.  Surely her listeners would be interested in knowing.

Dr. Laura is a Chabad Lubavitcher.  According to an article cited in the Jewish Tribal Review, she and her family attend the Chabad of the Conejo, in Agoura, California.

http://jewishtribalreview.org/cha.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jtr

Dr. Laura fills a void for those who believe in "traditional values," of course.  I know a number of "traditional value" Christians who look up to Dr. Laura. 

Dr. Laura fills a void for those who believe in "traditional values," of course.  I know a number of "traditional value" Christians who look up to Dr. Laura.  Dr. Laura is on national radio to offer "spiritual leadership" to these Gentiles, holding out Judaism as a wonderful ideal.  But she is a Judas goat, preparing her listeners to be led into their Naugahyde pens.  Do you notice how much wiser she is than all the dummies who call it?  Dr. Laura is an important player in the Lubavitch program.

Now let's see how the leadership of one denomination of Christians, Roman Catholic Church and  Pope John Paul II, is helping the Lubavitchers with their program on another front.

IS THE POPE A CATHOLIC?

When referring to Christianity disappearing, no doubt the Lubavitchers are referring to preachers like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson who have done much to convert American Protestant Christianity into worship of the state of Israel.  See:
http://www.public-action.com/911/chrzion.html

But the Lubavitchers have other friends, working from the inside, making sure Christianity "spirals downward into strife and theological confusion." Recall that earlier in this article, we learned from the Jerusalem Post of October 19, 2001,  that the Chad Lubavitchers control most of Judaism in Italy.  With this in mind, meet Pope John Paul II.

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he . .  .
--Proverbs 23:7.

Being Jewish is a mental state, sometimes induced by an inherited family culture, sometimes induced by believing lies concerning Jewish history and Jewish religion, or sometimes induced by imbibing too much popular culture and TV.

This writer was brought up in the Roman Catholic Church when Catholics were taught their Church was the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church; that the Pope was Christ's Vicar on Earth and that he sat on the throne of Peter.  Whether or not one agrees with the teaching, it is clear as a bell. 

Please read a 1999 cnn.com biography on Pope John Paul II, "The early years: an unhappy childhood."
http://europe.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/pope/bio/early/
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-cnn-pope

NONE DARE CALL IT APOSTASY

In that CNN article we are told this Pope, Christ's Vicar on earth, calls Jews "our elder brothers." This is a metaphor: younger brothers of course look up to elder brothers because elder brothers have something to teach.  The word "our" of course connotes Catholics or Christians: those who follow Jesus Christ. 

Christians believe Jesus was God made flesh, and that he was not conceived in the ordinary manner. Mary's virginity is one of the fundamentals tenets of Christianity.  It is part of the Apostle's Creed.  Jesus was "born of the Holy Ghost, conceived of the Virgin Mary . . . "

But Jews don't believe that.  They believe Jesus was conceived in the ordinary manner.  Not only that, but the Jewish belief is that the Virgin Mary was a harlot, that she "played the harlot with carpenters," (Sanhedrin 106a).  There are many such references to Mary's sluttish character in the Talmud and other religious Jewish writings.

The Jewish legends in regard to Jesus are found in three sources, each independent of the others--(1) the New Testament apocrypha and Christian polemical works, (2) in the Talmud and the Midrash, and (3) in the life of Jesus  ("Toledot Yeshu") that originated in the Middle Ages.  There is the tendency of all thee sources to belittle the person of Jesus ascribing to him illegitimate birth, magic, and a shameful death. (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1903, VOL 7, pg. 170.)

Moreover, the people Pope John Paul II calls "elder brothers" -- today's Jews -- belong to a religion that "traces its descent, without a break, through all the centuries, from the Pharisees."  (Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1948, Vol. 8, pg. 474.)

John Paul II pays homage to those who had Christ put to death 2,000 years ago, and, as we have seen in this examination, have stated their intention to put his followers to death as soon as they are in power. 

Those who deny Jesus Christ, who call him a bastard born of a harlot, a false prophet, a sorcerer, and idol-worshipper -- cannot be the "elder brothers" of those who believe he is the Son of God and follow Him, despite what the Pope says. 

GEE, THE POPE DIDN'T KNOW . . . "

Those who will wish to defend Pope John Paul II may tell you, "Gee, he just didn't know all of that . . ." Such a statement would be disingenuous.  The Pope is Polish, and the Polish Catholics and Polish Jews have had a somewhat tortured history.  It is highly unlikely that, as a Polish Catholic prelate, he would have been ignorant of Jewish beliefs.  And even if he was ignorant of Jewish beliefs when he was elected, he has lived in the Vatican for years.  The Vatican is a storehouse for Church history, staffed by some of the most erudite Catholic scholars in the world.  No, that excuse won't fly.

MARY'S VIRGINITY "MISTRANSLATED" 

On November 29, 2001, the British newspaper, The Independent, published an article.  The title merits our close examination: 

"Publishing's new sensation: Dead Sea Scrolls.
Source material: The blockbuster papyrus that
exposed Mary and shocked theologians -- now
available in 37 scholarly volumes."

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=106705
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-independent-scrolls

Notice the phrase  " . . .  that exposed Mary and shocked theologians . . . "

So the Blessed Virgin Mary is being exposed -- as what?  And why would theologians be "shocked"?  These sound like headlines on a supermarket tabloid.  What are we in for?

The article goes on to say said that the Qumran Project of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, which has been studying the scrolls for years, recently concluded that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was not a virgin. 

The completion of publication is a landmark for academics and for Christians and Jews, whose most dearly held beliefs have been challenged by the scrolls -- including that of the Virgin birth of Christ, which arose from the use of the word for virgin in early Greek versions of the Bible.  The scrolls reveal that this was a mistranslation: the original Hebrew word used simply meant young woman.

When you read the entire article, you will notice that the reporter does not mention ONE Jewish belief that is being "challenged" by the scrolls -- the only belief being challenged is one that is fundamental to Christianity. 

If you visit the URL for the Oxford Centre's Qumran Project, you will learn that the scrolls are being published, and that the editor in chief is Professor Emanuel Tov of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/ochjs/qumran/
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-action.com/x/nh-qumran

The Independent mentions that the Oxford Centre's Qumran research director is Geza Vermes, and that the scrolls are under the control of the Antiquities Authority of Israel.

You can see a listing of the Oxford Centre's staff here:
http://associnst.ox.ac.uk/ochjs/staff.html
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-oxfordstaff

The president is Peter Oppenheimer; the staff:  Glenda Abramson,  Martin Goodman, Ronald L. Nettler, Emanuele Ottolenghi,  David Rechter,  Alison G. Salvesen, Joseph Sherman, Piet W. van Boxel,  Joanna Weinberg, Tali Argov, John Elwolde, Miri Freud-Kandel, Kerstin Hoge, Jeremy Schonfield, Norman Solomon, and Sara Sviri.  As of this writing, the photos of these individuals appear on the Oxford Centre URL given above.  Many of the staff people are experts in Talmudic or Rabbinical studies.  Many of the staff people are Jews.  All in all, the Dead Sea Scrolls project is a Jewish/Israeli/Talmudic project.

These Jews and Israelis now challenge the translation of a single word.  For 2,000 years, the word has been translated as "virgin."  Now it means "young woman." The Independent's headlines tell us this has "exposed" Mary.  Exposed her as what?  Perhaps -- exposed her as not a virgin; perhaps -- exposed her as someone who "played the harlot with carpenters," just as the Talmud says?

VATICAN DANCES THE JEWISH JIG

What did the Vatican do in face of this "discovery"?  According to The Independent:

Now the completion of the scrolls' publication coincides with an admission by the Vatican that it is to revise parts of the Bible accordingly, a task likely to take five years.

We await to learn how the Vatican will explain away Luke 1:34, wherein Mary talks about her virginity in no uncertain terms. When told of her pregnancy, Mary says:

How shall this be, seeing I know not a man. (Luke 1:34)

If the Vatican is willing to rewrite the Catholic Bible to accommodate the Talmudists who run the Dead Sea Scrolls project, Talmudists who believe Mary was a harlot and Jesus was a bastard, we are on a slippery slope.  It's easy to see where it's going and what the Vatican will  do to the Apostles' Creed, give or take a few years:  I can see it now:

"I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
    the Creator of heaven and earth,
    and in Jesus Christ, who was really an ordinary human bastard: 
Who was conceived by an unknown person,
  And born of to a harlot by the name of Mary . . . "

Remember what we read above about Christianity spiraling "downward into strife and theological confusion, becoming a vacuum unable to defend itself . . ." You see it happening before your eyes, with a little help from the inside.

POPE MOUTHS LUBAVITCHER PROPAGANDA

Realize that by calling Jews "our elder brothers," the Pope is repeating the Lubavitcher line, taken straight from the Lubavitcher program:  "All people are G-d's children, of course, but the Jews are like a 'firstborn son' who brings G-d's word to his younger brothers . . . "

http://www.noahide.com/son.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-sonofgod

DEFILEMENT OF CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY

As the Christian doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ is being destroyed, so also are the relics of His birthplace being destroyed.  For information on the Pope's role in the staged siege of the Church of the Nativity media event:
http://www. Public-Action.com/911/stagedsiege.html

LUBAVITCHERS PROVIDE
SMOKESCREEN FOR POPE/VATICAN

Now if the Pope is following the Lubaviticher program for world domination -- and he seems to be doing so -- you can bet the Lubavitchers are providing a smokescreen to hide the Papal role -- and they seem to be doing so.  What better smokescreen than a staged "struggle" between Jews and the Pope/Vatican? 

Visit the Jewish Tribal Review.  It hosts a page that is devoted to reproducing stories about this so called struggle, all the while failing to mention Papal and Vatican cooperation with the Lubavitcher program as I have outlined above.  The URL to visit is this one:

http://jewishtribalreview.org/pope.htm

When I visited the page on May 10, this story was one of the features:

Two Held for Curse Ritual Against the Pope
Jerusalem Post
March 23, 2000
Former Habad activist Meir Baranes of Safed, who was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of putting a religious curse on Pope John Paul II, was remanded for five days yesterday by the Acre Magistrate's Court.  A second suspect was arrested yesterday, and will be brought for remand today. Three haredim took part in the pulsa de nura ('lashes of fire') ceremony in a Safed cemetery, aired on Channel 2 on Monday just before the pope's arrival and broadcast on foreign networks worldwide.  Police are searching for a third suspect. Last night, Itim reported that police investigators suspect that the ceremony was staged in cooperation with Channel 2, which denied the charge . . .  The midnight rite, which Channel 2 said was enacted last Thursday in a cemetery in Safed, recalled rabbinical curses cast on prime minister Yitzhak Rabin prior to his 1995 assassination by Yigal Amir. Participants in the ceremony, sounding ritual calls on ceremonial ram's horns, cursed the pope as a 'hater of Israel.'

There are a number of remarkable aspects of the story.  The first is that those who performed the curse were well-connected enough to have the performance aired on Channel 2 in Jerusalem and then on foreign TV networks throughout the world.  The alleged culprit(s) were not insignificant cranks; these people were well-connected to the world-wide Jewish media infrastructure.  The second remarkable feature is that  the state of Israel would grant enough credence to "a religious curse" to arrest anyone for its performance. 

I found the complete Jerusalem Post story on Usenet archives, and have reproduced it here:

http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jp-popecurse.html


Note that curser Meir Baranes is described as an expelled Habad member.  The alleged expulsion gives Habad deniability, of course.  And it gives the world the impression that there is Jewish opposition to the Catholicism of Pope John Paul II; no one notices that he is following the Lubavitch program.  Everyone wins including the Pope and the Vatican.  Full deniability all the way around.

FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT?  

http://europe.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/pope/bio/early/
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-cnn-pope

When you re-read the above-cited cnn.com article, you will also learn John Paul II was the first Pope to visit a synagogue, the first to visit Auschwitz, that he did not share the "anti-Semitic" views of many other Poles, one of his playmates was a Jew, etc.  That Jewish playmate is quoted:

The people in the Vatican do not know Jews, and previous popes did not know Jews, but this pope is a friend of the Jewish people because he knows Jewish people.

The Pope's boyhood friend is an ignoramus or a liar.  Many Popes in history knew "the Jewish people," and knew what made them tick.  

From the time of Pope Innocent III, the Talmud was burned at the stake in nearly every century from the 11th to the 18th in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and may other countries . . .  (Babylonian Talmud, Rodkinson translation, "The History of The Talmud," pg. 2 of Introduction. )

But this CNN biography of the Pope would have us believe John Paul II is ignorant of the history of the Roman Catholic Church and its confrontation with the Talmud and Talmudists.  If John Paul was so ignorant of Church history when he was a Polish prelate, surely one of the cardinals on the permanent Vatican staff would have tapped him on the shoulder by now and clued him in. 

VATICAN STAGES PEDOPHILIA CIRCUS

The Pope and Vatican officials are clearly cooperating in another campaign to make  Christianity disappear.  The Catholic policies on priests who break their vows of celibacy -- whether with women, young boys, or great wooly mammoths -- has been established by the Vatican for centuries. Priests are not permitted to do that sort of thing, and their bishops are not supposed to look the other way when they find out about it.  Catholics are expected to obey the laws of God and His Church, and the law of the land, in that order.

If Catholic priests and prelates in the US have not been doing their jobs, there is no need to stage a media event.  The proper policies should now be applied with penalties, as appropriate. Certainly the Roman Catholic Church has the infrastructure to make these corrections.   In a world full of telephones, faxes, and e-mail interfaces, there is no need to have the American cardinals travel to Rome to meet with the Pope and stage a media event. 

But on April 24, 2002, both the Washington Post and the Washington Times carried a front-page, large colored photos of the Pope, head characteristically lopped over to one side, sitting on a dias flanked on either side by at least a dozen and a half cardinals. The caption under the Washington Times photo reads: "Vatican voice: Pope John Paul II addressed the closed-door meeting with American cardinals yesterday . . . "

But the meeting was not "closed door" at all.  The Associated Press was invited inside the private library; the Pope and cardinals posed in their respective positions before the picture was shot.  A double paged, almost identical photo appeared in the May 6 edition of Newsweek, pgs. 24-25.  We may assume the room was full of newsmen, popping, snapping, flashing, buzzing, and calling instructions for poses.

What is the most likely effect of this?  The effect could only be the demoralization of Catholics worldwide.  "As Christianity spirals downward into strife and theological confusion, it becomes a vacuum unable to defend itself . . . "

The pedophilia circus will help bring about the disappearance of Christianity; disappointed Christians will  turn to the Jews, become Hasidic Gentiles, and solidify the Jewish Empire.  Just as the Lubavitchers said. 

  

THE FINAL CURTAIN:
RABBINICAL COURTS TO RULE THE WORLD

Upon seizing the reins of government, the new Noachide leaders will move quickly to implement a full agenda of reform. All economic and technological aid to the Communist Bloc, including the PLO, will be terminated immediately. Full support will be given to Israeli forces to reinvade PLO-controlled areas, with military assistance offered where necessary.

Jewish courts (the batei dini of the rabbis) will be granted full legal sovereignty over Jewish citizens within each country, who will no longer be subject to the authority of gentile courts. The pre-existing Noachide judges and courts will replace the existing court system of each country, and the legal code will be drastically rewritten to conform to halacha [Jewish law] . . .  And law and order will be fully restored through the establishment of internal security measures, again in accordance with Torah law.

http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

Look at this sentence from the above quote:

Jewish courts (the batei dini of the rabbis) will be granted full legal sovereignty over Jewish citizens within each country, who will no longer be subject to the authority of gentile courts.

This is no less than a plan for insurrection.  The Jewish fifth column is in place; when the rabbis give the word, it will jump out and overturn whatever is left of our system of justice, based as it was on the principles of Anglo-Saxon law.

And law and order will be fully restored through the establishment of internal security measures, again in accordance with Torah law.

This is the police state, with Hasidic Gentiles used as front men, Lubavitchers as commissars.

DENIAL, PLAUSIBLE AND OTHERWISE

Should any officials of Chabad Lubavitch be questioned about statements from the "Jews and Hasidic Gentiles--United to Save America (JHG-USA)," these officials may deny that JHG-USA is officially connected to them.  Similarly, the White House, Ari Fleischer, Joseph Lieberman, etc., will also perhaps distance themselves.  But they cannot distance themselves from the Rambam, or from the Talmud.  No, what you have read here represents the age-old beliefs and ambitions of Judaism. 

FUN BIRTHDAY PARTY
AT SLAUGHTERHOUSE

WASHINGTON, (March 11 (JTA) [Jewish Telegraphic Agency]  --  Lubavitch rabbis from across the United States and 40 countries launched their 100th birthday commemoration of the spiritual leader,  Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, by marking the six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

A photo of the ubiquitous Rabbi Levi Shemtov appears in the article.  The caption tells us that the memorial service/birthday celebration was held outside the Pentagon.

Why are the Lubavitchers combining the celebration of a great and holy man with the service of mourning for the deaths of 125 Americans?  What could these two events possibly have in common?   An American Friends of Lubavitch publication, "15 Minutes," reported that 500 Lubavitch emissaries were at the Pentagon that day.   Five hundred. 

Five hundred is not the fringe.  Five hundred is the carpet.  Once again: Why was 9-11 so significant an event for the Lubavitchers?

http://www.15minutesmagazine.com/events_0204-07.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-15minutes

Now back to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

Standing Monday in the cold wind and bright sunshine across from the crash site at the Pentagon, the rabbis sang 'Oseh Shalom' and 'God bless America' at 9:38 AM, the time that the hijacked passenger plane hit the center of the American defense establishment . . . .

If you search google on "Oseh Shalom" and "lyrics," you will discover a number of translations similar to this one: "May he who makes peace in high places, make peace for us and for all Israel, and let us say, amen."

Officially, the 9-11 terrorism had nothing to do with Israel, nothing at all.  Factually, however, the dream of the Reeb and his followers for Jewish world domination had everything in common with Bush's war on Islam.  By this war, the Jews hope the US will annihilate Islam, the most vigorous religious rival to Judaism.
 
And how does "peace for Israel" relate to 9-11? Think back to the massive slaughter of Palestinians Israel has been able to effect since 9-11. There is no sweeter peace to be found than at the graveyard of one's enemy . . .

Dov Zakheim, the US undersecretary of defense and reportedly the leading candidate to become the next president of New York's Yeshiva University, quoted from the Torah and said that to 'tie the freedom of the country to the memory of the rebbe is a marvelous thing.'

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency "Lubavitch Recall Sept. 11 Attack")
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=11027&intcategoryid=4
http://www.jewish.com/news/lubav0315.shtml
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jta

Zakheim mocks everything America has stood for by mentioning "the freedom of the country" at the Schneerson birthday party/wake.  Schneerson did everything in his power to destroy Bill of Rights traditions in our country, and Zakheim violates his oath of office by endorsing Schneerson.  According to "15 Minutes:"

Calling America 'the greatest country in the world,' Zakheim delivered a dvar Torah (sermon), expounding on the halachic (Jewish law) requirements of a poor man bringing a meal offering in the Temple,

http://www.15minutesmagazine.com/events_0204-07.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-15minutes

This is a concatenation of the bizarre.  Dov Zakheim is the Comptroller of the Department of Defense.  If you do a google search on him, you will learn that he is also an ordained Orthodox rabbi, and was a contender for the presidency of Yeshiva University.  And here he is, lecturing on Jewish law --- on a trivial topic -- at a birthday kickoff for the Reeb-come wake for the Pentagon victims . . . 

Your search on Zakheim will reveal that he publicly deplored Jonathan Pollard's treason and incurred Israeli ire when he opposed the US production of Israel's Lavi jet fighter planes.  Zakheim  said the production of these planes for Israel would cost the US taxpayer billions of dollars.

Rabbi Zakheim sounds like the guardian of the public purse and quite a patriot, doesn't he?  
On the other hand, Zakheim lauds Schneerson, and says that to "tie the freedom of the country to the memory of the rebbe is a marvelous thing."  Rabbi Zakheim is familiar with the Reeb's work.  He knows about the Naughahyde laws.  He knows about Schneeron's life-long dedication to destroy the Bill of Rights, to create a Talmudist theocracy where Christians and others can be put to death for following a non-Naugahyde religion . . . 

I suspect Rabbi Zakheim is not a guardian of the public purse.  I suspect Rabbi Zakheim is not a patriot at all -- at least not an American patriot.  DoD Comptroller Zakheim stands with his hand in the Pentagon's till.  What a wonderful ruse.  Perhaps Rabbi Zakheim poses as a "good Jew" publicly, but behind our backs he is robbing us blind and siphoning US tax dollars to the Lubavitchers and Israel.  Given his endorsement of Schneerson, given Schneerson's exhortation for Jewish world domination, why wouldn't Rabbi Zakheim do exactly that?  You think he'd be worried about Donald Rumsfeld looking over his shoulder? Funny name, that one.  Rumsfeld.  RumsFELD . . .  You don't suppose?  Naw . . . .

Now here's what Rabbi Levi Shemtov while at the October 11 Birthday kickoff-Pentagon wake:

"It was not the rebbe's[Schneerson's] goal to be Maschiach," the messiah, "but it was his goal to bring Maschiach by making the world a better place."

http://www.jewish.com/news/lubav0315.shtml
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jta

From Shemtov's lips, we learn Schneerson did not use "Mashiach" to mean a person, but the Jewish people.  And we have already seen Schneerson's goal was bring the rule of the Jewish people over everybody on Planet Earth...  That certainly would make the world a better place -- for the Jews.  And the Jews are the only people who really matter.   Gentiles are a different species . . .  

By their own actions and words, the Lubavitchers tell us that 9-11 would have been Schneerson's dream: Their actions and words lead us to an almost inevitable conclusion: 9-11 was a Lubavitch event.  That's why they "launched" the celebration of Schneerson's birthday outside the Pentagon ruins.

By their own actions and works, the Lubavitchers tell us they are the vanguard of expansion and consolidation of the international Jewish Empire.  Their enforcement arm is the office of the Presidency of the United States, the US military, and Congress.   

MANY CHRISTIANS LIKE AZTECS

Now let's briefly visit the sixteenth century.  In what we now call Mexico, there lived a civilization of fierce warriors, the Aztecs.  Aztec legends said that one of their gods, Quetzalcoatl, who was tall, light skinned, and had a beard, had been put out to sea by a rival.  Aztec prophecies predicted Quetzalcoatl's return. 

Cortez was tall, light-skinned, and had a beard.  When he sailed up the Aztec coast and came ashore, the Aztecs thought he was Quetzalcoatl.  So instead of fighting their new conquerors, the Aztecs became slaves to their returning "god." Cortez's small band of Spanish soldiers conquered Montezuma's thousands easily.  ("The Conquest of New Spain," Bernal Diaz, 1963 translation published by Penguin Classics.)

Moving forward to our times: Jews can read the Book of Revelations as easily as Christians.  How simple it is for the Jews to create and enact scenarios which parallel Biblical prophecies.  Christians become convinced that "End Times" are around the corner and welcome the Jews as the harbingers of Christ's return.  So instead of resisting their Jewish conquerors, many Christians welcome them and eagerly become their serfs.

Our Jewish conquerors are well-versed in Christian myths about the End Times -- they have read the New Testament, they take minister's courses, they even write books and tell Christians how to interpret the symbols in Revelations.  Is it any wonder that so many Christians think the salvation of Heaven requires the Jews to be well set up with all the wealth imaginable, including whatever they want in the Middle East?  Is it any wonder that many Christians think that a slaughter of the Moslems is what God wants?

Even if others are sucked in by this manipulation, there is no need for the rest of us to follow.

WHAT DO TO?

As the Lubavitchers point out, "Judaism has always been a conquering religion . . . "

http://www.noahide.com/finalwar.htm
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-finalwar

We know Jews will not live side by side with their non-Jewish neighbors and share the good life.  Jews must control and dominate.

Again, as the Lubavitchers have pointed out, Jews cannot achieve world domination without help from Gentiles.  They must induce Christians and non-Christian Gentiles to act like the Aztecs did before Cortez -- Jews must create a willing untermensch.  They must create Naugahydes.

Now comes hope.  History has shown time and time again that the Jewish Supremacists overplay their hand.  That is why, historically, the Jews have been expelled from one country after another.

I suspect they are overplaying their hand again.  I suspect that if enough Americans, both Christians and non-Christian, discover the true plans of the Jews, the conquest may be thwarted.  I believe it is possible to stop these tyrants.

I recommend that all non-Jews buy a copy of the Soncino translation of the Talmud's Tractate Sanhedrin (Tractates are subdivisions within the Talmud).  I suggest the Soncino translation because it is accepted and unchallenged by Jewry, having been translated into English by Hebrew-speaking rabbis.  The Sanhedrin will cost you $29.95.   You can order it at:

http://www.soncino.com

You can also order through amazon.com and other bookstores.

Verify what I have quoted in this article and read the hundreds of other astounding statements.  (For example, look at the conditions under which grown men may have sexual intercourse with three-year old girls (Sanhedrin 55b, 69a.)  Pressure your minister to buy the Sanhedrin and become familiar with its contents.  Ask him to buy the full set of the Talmud volumes for your Church library ($850 for a 30-volume set).

Every non-Jew and every Christian needs to know what the Talmud contains.  There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Qur'an since 9-11.  Now it's time to discuss the Talmud. 

YOU WILL BE MET WITH DECEIT

We have already seen examples of premeditated and deceitful programs have been carefully executed over decades.  Recall that Schneerson's birthday has been observed by the government of the United States since 1978, artfully disguised as Education and Sharing Day.  But let's put another face on all this.

We have already seen that Lubavitch missionary Ari Fleischer was a leader in the organization of the Chabad Lubavitch Forum on Capitol Hill, and that Fleischer "lavished praise on the active Chabad effort that emphasized the army of young staffers in government and political jobs."

We have seen that Ari Fleischer praised the Capitol Hill rabbi, Levi Shemtov, thus:  "In political Washington, it's very easy to get caught up in your job.  Your focus can wander from your religion.  He [Shemtov] made it easy for me to find even more of a Jewish life on the Hill."

Now see  what Fleischer told the Jewish Times (Baltimore, Md.) on January 5, 2001:

'I believe deeply in my religion and I believe in the principles of my party.  I don't commingle the two.'

http://www.jewishtimes.com/scripts/edition.pl?now=5/25/1999&SubSectionID=31&ID=1361
mirrored at:
http://www.Public-Action.com/x/nh-jt-ari-lies

But Ari Fleischer, by his deed and words, has made it clear that his religion and his party are one and the same.  His on-the-job- purpose is to destroy what remains of our First Amendment and whatever remains of traditional American culture, and replace it with theocracy run by Pharisees.  Truth means nothing to folks such as Fleischer. 

Review what you have read here: According to both classical Judaism and contemporary Chabad Lubavitch,  Christians should be put to death (beheaded) for the practice of their religion.  Obedient Naughaydes will be deprived of education in math, science, history, English, social studies, computers and other technical studies and be fashioned into a permanent underclass.

Yet see what Ari Fleischer told the Jewish Times on January 5, 2001:

'The Jewish religion teaches people to be responsible, to be open-minded and to care about others . . . '

If you have your $29.95 copy of the Tractate Sanhedrin, you will be impervious to lies such as these.  You will be able to read for yourself what the Jewish religion really teaches.

STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK YOUR BONES
BUT NAMES WILL NEVER HURT YOU

You may be called "anti-Semitic" for discussing the Talmud and other Jewish religious works.   Should this happen, ask this question: "Is it anti-Christian to read and discuss the Gospels?"

Point out to your accusers that Jewish doctrines demand "idol-worshippers" (Christians) be put to death, and that set of 30 Naughahyde laws specify they be put to death by decapitation.  Then ask them:

What is anti-Semitic about reading classical Jewish religious literature and protesting plans for my own decapitation?

Follow that up with this question:

What is American about forbidding this discussion?

Key Lubavitch doctrines have been captured and are available through the mirrors I have provided in this article, and supplemental documentation on Lubavitcher goals is plentiful on the Internet.  I propose that we make mirrors of those websites; please feel free to mirror this article.

HOW TO GET THE WORD OUT

But, you ask, how can we let the truth be known to those not already aware?

I propose we circulate fliers which we can print out on our own printers or have professionally duplicated. The fliers should say this, no more, no less:


Learn about the campaign to

ABOLISH CHRISTMAS

and the political forces behind it --
Bush White House connections

http://www.Public-Action.com/christmas.html 


Each of us live under different circumstances.  But each of us know people of good will, friends and neighbors or casual acquaintances, people who enjoy the good cheer and conviviality of the Christmas season -- people who want to live in Liberty, and who want to live at peace with one another. 

Most of these people have access to computers.  These are the people we must reach.  Good, honest, decent people will be awaken from their sleep.

The first step in any program for constructive reform is awareness.   We must awaken good, honest, and decent people by reaching them with our fliers.   Our future depends on us getting the word out.



Footnote 1.   Some consider the Zohar the basic book of magic in Judaism, but in fact the Talmud itself focuses heavily on sorcery, demonology, astrology, necromancy, etc., giving credit to even earlier Jewish manuscripts.  

For example, The Talmud's Tractate Sanhedrin tells a story of two rabbis who spent every Sabbath eve studying the laws of creation and then created a calf and ate it  (65 b and 67b); of one rabbi who created a man (65b);  of a rabbi who gave enchanted water to a woman and turned her into an ass.  "He then rode upon her into the market.  But her friend came and broke the charm [changing her back into a human being], and so he was seen riding upon a woman in public."  (67b); the correct way to conjure up the dead (65b);  determining whether the hour is "propitious" to make purchases (65b); etc.

The Sanhedrin can be purchased individually, or as part of a 30-volume set of the Talmud, from Soncino Press, http://www.soncino.com .  The Soncino Talmud was translated from Hebrew by rabbis and is the accepted standard translation.

Footnote 2:  See pages of related interest: Visit the homepage of Kevin McDonald, author of number of works about the sociological aspects of Judaism, including "A People That Shall Dwell Alone," and "Separation and Its Discontents,"   http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/ and   http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd . Kevin MacDonald's "Shaping America's Immigration Policy," is available at: http://www.p-m-s.freeserve.co.uk/texts/USpol.htm

(This page updated June 11, 2002.)


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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0300/0003105.html 

 

MARCH 2000, pages 105-106

Book Review

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel

By Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky. London:Pluto Press,1999, 176 pp.List: $18.95; AET: $16.00

Reviewed by Allan C. Brownfeld

In recent years there has been a dramatic growth of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel which has manifested itself in vigorous opposition to the peace process and has played a key role, as well, in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the murder of 29 Muslims at prayer by the American-born fundamentalist, Baruch Goldstein.

Few outside of Israel have been properly informed about the extent of the fundamentalist movement or the theology upon which it is based. American Jews, in particular, seem unaware of the narrow ethnocentrism which is promoted by the movement’s leading rabbis, or of the traditional Jewish sources they are able to call upon in drawing clear distinctions between the moral obligations owed to Jews and non-Jews.

In an important new book, Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel , Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinksy provide a thorough assessment of this phenomenon in modern Israel. The authors trace the history and development of Jewish fundamentalism, examining the various strains, and identify the messianic tendency which they believe to be the most dangerous.

Israel Shahak, an Israeli and a Holocaust survivor, is a retired professor at the Hebrew University and a leading human rights activist. Norton Mezvinsky is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University who has written and lectured extensively on the modern Middle East.

The authors point out that “…the adherents of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel oppose equality for all citizens, especially non-Jews.” The respected Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling, citing evidence from a study conducted by other scholars, declared: “The value of the [Jewish] religion, at least in its Orthodox and nationalistic form that prevails in Israel, cannot be squared with democratic values. No other variable—neither nationality, nor attitudes about security, nor social or economic values, nor ethnic descent and education—so influences the attitudes of [Israeli] Jews against democratic values as does religiousity.”

What particularly concerns the authors is the total contempt which Jewish fundamentalists show toward non-Jews. Rabbi Kook the Elder, the revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism, said, “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews—all of them in all different levels—is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”

Rabbi Kook’s entire teaching, which is followed devoutly by, among others, those who have led the settler movement on the occupied West Bank, is based upon the Lurianic Cabbala, the school of Jewish mysticism that dominated Judaism from the late16th to the early 19th century. “One of the basic tenets of the Lurianic Cabbala,” the authors write, “is the absolute superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and body. According to the Lurianic Cabbala, the world was created solely for the sake of Jews; the existence of non-Jews was subsidiary. If an influential Christian bishop or Islamic scholar argued that the difference between the superior souls of non-Jews and the inferior souls of Jews was greater than the difference between the human soul and souls of cattle, he would incur the wrath of all and be viewed as an anti-Semite by most Jewish scholars regardless of whatever less meaningful, positive statements he included.”

The scholarly authors of books about Jewish mysticism and the Lurianic Cabbala, such as Gershon Scholem, have, the authors charge, “willfully omitted reference to such ideas. These authors are supreme hypocrites. They are analogous to many authors of books on Stalin and Stalinism. Until recently, people who read only the books written by Stalinists could not know about Stalin’s crimes and would have false notions of the Stalinist regimes and their real ideologies.”

According to the ideologies which underlie Gush Emunim, the militant West Bank settlers group, and Hasidism, non-Jews have “satanic souls” Shahak and Mezvinsky note that “the role of Satan, whose earthly embodiment according to the Cabbala is every non-Jew, has been minimized or not mentioned by authors who have not written about the Cabbala in Hebrew. Such authors, therefore, have not conveyed to readers accurate accounts of general NRP (National Religious Party) or its hardcore Gush Emunim politics.”

Common to both the Talmud and Halacha, Orthodox religious law, is a differentiation between Jews and non-Jews. The late, highly revered Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the “Lubovitcher Rebbe” who headed the Chabad movement and wielded great influence in Israel as well as in the U.S., explained that, “The difference between a Jewish and a non-Jewish person stems from the common expression: ‘Let us differentiate.’ Thus, we do not have a case of profound change in which a person is merely on a superior level. Rather, we have a case of ‘let us differentiate’ between totally different species. This is what needs to be said about the body: the body of a Jewish person is of a totally different quality from the body of [members] of all nations of the world…A non-Jew’s entire reality is only vanity. It is written, ‘And the strangers shall guard and feed your flocks’ (Isaiah 61:5). The entire creation [of a non-Jew] exists only for the sake of the Jews…”

Rabbi Schneerson always supported Israeli wars and opposed any retreat. In 1974 he strongly opposed the Israeli withdrawal from the Suez area. He promised Israel divine favors if it persisted in occupying the land. After his death, thousands of his Israeli followers played an important role in the election victory of Binyamin Netanyahu. Among the religious settlers in the occupied territories, the Chabad Hassids constitute one of the most extreme groups. Baruch Goldstein, the mass murderer of Palestinians, was one of them.

Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, who wrote a chapter of a book in praise of Goldstein and what he did, is another member of this group. An immigrant to Israel from the U.S., Rabbi Ginsburgh speaks freely of Jews’ genetic-based, spiritual superiority over non-Jews. “If you saw two people drowning, a Jew and a non-Jew, the Torah says you save the Jewish life first,” Ginsburgh states. “If every simple cell in a Jewish body entails divinity, is a part of God, then every strand of DNA is part of God. Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA…If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value.”

Shahak and Mezvinsky point out that, “Changing the words ‘Jewish’ to ‘German’ or ‘Aryan’ and ‘non-Jewish’ to ‘Jewish’ turns the Ginsburgh position into the doctrine that made Auschwitz possible in the past. To a considerable extent the German Nazi success depended upon that ideology and upon its implications of being widely known early. Disregarding even on a limited scale the potential effects of messianic, Lubavitch and other ideologies could prove to be calamitous…The similarities between the Jewish political messianic trend and German Nazism are glaring. The Gentiles are for the messianists what the Jews were for the Nazis. The hatred of Western culture with its rational and democratic elements is common to both movements… The ideology…is both eschatological and messianic. It resembles in this respect prior Jewish religious doctrines as well as similar trends in Christianity and Islam. This ideology assumes the imminent coming of the Messiah and asserts that the Jews, aided by God, will thereafter triumph over the non-Jews and rule over them forever.”

Members of Gush Emunim argue that “what appears to be confiscation of Arab-owned land for subsequent settlement by Jews is in reality not an act of stealing but one of sanctification. From their perspective the land is redeemed by being transferred from the satanic to the divine sphere…the Gush Emunim rabbis assert that this one messianic sect has to handle and lead the ass-like Jews, who have been corrupted by satanic Western culture, with its rationality and democracy and who refuse to renounce their beastly habits and embrace the true faith. To further the process, the use of force is permitted wherever necessary.”

The Jewish fundamentalists believe that God gave all of the Land of Israel (including present-day Lebanon and other areas) to the Jews and that Arabs living in Israel are viewed as thieves. Rabbi Israel Ariel, a fundamentalist leader, published an atlas that designated all lands that were Jewish and needed to be liberated. This included all areas west and south of the Euphrates River extending through most of Syria, much of Iraq, and present-day Kuwait.

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, another spokesman, said, “We must live in this land even at the price of war. Moreover, even if there is peace, we must instigate wars of liberation in order to conquer it [the land].”

Mordechai Nisan, a lecturer at the Hebrew University, expressed this view in an official publication of the World Zionist Organization. Relying on Maimonides, he said that a non-Jew permitted to reside in the land of Israel “must accept paying a tax and suffering the humiliation of servitude.” He said that non-Jews must not be appointed to any office or position of power over Jews.

When it comes to Baruch Goldstein’s murder of 29 Palestinians at prayer, fundamentalists refuse to acknowledge that such an act constitutes “murder” because, according to the Halacha, “the killing by a Jew of a non-Jew under any circumstances is not regarded as murder. It may be prohibited for other reasons, especially when it causes danger for Jews.” When asked if he was sorry about the murdered Arabs, militant Rabbi Moshe Levenger declared: “I am sorry not only about dead Arabs but about dead flies.”

For the fundamentalists, Goldstein became a hero. Military guards transported his coffin to Kiryat Arba through Palestinian villages. Rabbi Dov Lior in a eulogy stated that, “Goldstein was full of love for fellow human beings. He dedicated himself to helping others.” Authors Shahak and Mezvinsky write that, “The terms ‘human beings’ and ‘others’ in the Halacha refer solely to Jews.”

Although messianic fundamentalists constitute a relatively small portion of the Israeli population, their political influence has been growing. If they have contempt for non-Jews, their hatred for Jews who oppose their views is even greater.

The murder of Yitzhak Rabin, the authors show, is one in a long line of murders of Jews who followed a path different from that ordained by rabbinic authorities. They cite case after case, from the Middle Ages until the 19th century.

One typical example was the assassination by poison of Rabbi Avraham Cohen in Lemberg, Austria on Sept. 6, 1848.

Assuming his rabbinical position in 1844, Cohen initiated changes in Jewish life. His most important initiative was his attempt to abolish taxes on kosher meat and sabbath candles which Lemberg’s Jews paid to Austrian authorities. These taxes were burdensome for poor Jews but were a source of income for many Orthodox Jewish notables.

The Austrian authorities accepted Cohen’s request and abolished the taxes in March 1848. The five Jewish notables of the town began a total struggle against Rabbi Cohen. Critics argued that the “law of the pursuer” applied to the rabbi. One placard said: “He is one of those Jewish sinners for which the Talmud says their blood is permitted” (that is, every Jew can and should kill them). On Sept. 6, a Jewish assassin successfully entered the rabbi’s home unseen, went to the kitchen and put arsenic poison in a pot of soup that was cooking. Both Rabbi Cohen and his small daughter died. The Hassids and their leaders did not attend the funeral, but celebrated.

It was precisely the same Talmudic laws that caused Rabbi Cohen’s death which were used to murder Yitzhak Rabin. Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin, cited the “law of the pursuer” (din rodef) and the “Law of the informer” (din moser). The first law commands every Jew to kill or to wound severely any Jew who is perceived as intending to kill another Jew. According to halachic commentaries, it is not necessary to see such a person pursuing a Jewish victim. It is enough if rabbinic authorities, or even competent scholars, announce that the law of the pursuer applies. The second law commands every Jew to kill or wound severely any Jew who, without a decision of a competent rabbinic authority, has informed non-Jews about Jewish affairs or has given them information about Jewish property or who has delivered Jewish persons or property to their rule or authority.

The authors write: “The land of Israel has been and still is considered by all religious Jews as being the exclusive property of the Jews. Granting Palestinians authority over any part of this land could be interpreted as informing. Some religious Jews interpreted the relations that developed between Rabin and the Palestinian Authority as causing harm to the Jewish settlers. In this sense, Rabin had informed.”

For the future, the authors fear the growth of such fundamentalism just as the prospects for peace have dramatically improved. They note that, “It should not be forgotten that democracy and the rule of law were brought into Judaism from the outside. Before the advent of the modern state, Jewish communities were mostly ruled by rabbis who employed arbitrary and cruel methods as bad as those employed by totalitarian regimes. The dearest wish of the current Jewish fundamentalists is to restore this state of affairs.”

This book should be a wake-up call to many Americans, particularly Jewish supporters of Israel who are not aware of the nature of the fundamentalism which is growing strong in that country. This fundamentalism is increasing in influence as a result of Israel’s electoral system, which bestows power to minority parties far beyond their representation in the population. The authors declare: “We believe that awareness is the necessary first step in opposition.” Professors Shahak and Mezvinsky have done a notable service for men and women of goodwill of all religious traditions by pointing to the ideological roadblocks to genuine peace which must be overcome.

 

From:

Rense.com

The 50 Most Influential Jews In America
The Jewsweek Fifty
 
Jewsweek.com

7-29-2

Influence is a funny thing. It can mean so many things - power and inspiration to others just to name a few. Some of the people on this list are influential because of their positions (Alan Greenspan) and some people are influential because of their personal impact on the Jewish community (Shlomo Ressler). Both are important.

When compiling this list, we went to the influential people themselves - asking a panel of celebrities, politicians, educators, and "average" Jews who they thought should be on this list. We realize that this list may cause some controversy, by virtue of some of the people we included and by the exclusion of others. That's fine. We just hope to get the ball rolling on this national discussion.

Something to consider when perusing this list: You will see some "small local" people higher up on the list than some of the big power brokers. That's because being an influential Jew means touching people's lives and helping promote the Jewish ideal of "being a light unto the nations." That is why you'll see Rebbetzin Miriam Feldman (13) ahead of say, Mortimer Zuckerman (14) because of the intense impact she has within her community. As the Talmud teaches, those who save one life have saved a world entire.

Finally, keep this in mind. If you didn't make it on the list this year - keep trying.

1. Alan Greenspan

The country is in an economic downward spiral. Since January, companies have announced 652,510 layoffs - and more are announced each day. People are not looking to Superman to save the day. They are looking to one person, and one person only. As Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan is, hands down, the most influential Jew in America. He is, some would argue, the most influential person in America. With each interest rate cut - another is expected this week - this 74-year-old contains the key to an economic turnaround in this time of recession. When he speaks, the world listens. Besides that, he's the economy's most optimistic cheerleader. "With all our concerns about the next several quarters, there is still, in my judgment, ample evidence that we are experiencing only a pause," he said in a speech recently.

2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The buck stops with Justice Ginsburg. And so did the election. In Bush v. Gore, Ginsburg helped shape the national agenda for the next four years. And with the Supreme Court making significant decisions on a daily basis, her role as part of the elite group of top decision-makers in this country makes her all that more influential. What's more, the Court's recent decision in Good News Club v. Milford Central School, as well as President Bush's unwavering desire for faith-based initiatives, takes issues of religion off the back-burner.

3. Gerald Levin

Gerald Levin holds a lot of power over you. Name an industry and he has his hand in it. As the second-in-command at AOL Time Warner, he controls what you watch on television, what books you read, how you surf the net, and how your news is delivered - just to name a few things that he can do.

4. Senator Joseph Lieberman

OK, so he's not the Vice-President, but this Connecticut senator still wields much power in the Washington beltway. His religiousness serves as the backbone for much of his legislature including his continued war against Hollywood. As a politician, he stands tall as a moral epicenter in an oft-immoral business.

5. Steven Spielberg

Consider the following: Spielberg's Dreamworks SKG has finally put a dent into Mouse House's animation with its blockbuster film "Shrek"-which just passed the $200 million mark and could easily take the Oscar in the new Best Animated Film category. The pre-buzz on his latest film "A.I.," due out this week, is already good. And the third installment of the phenomenally successful "Jurassic Park" franchise is stomping on theaters later this summer. But we already know that Spielberg is a success in Hollywood. It's the fact that he's an influential Jew that puts him on this list. His Shoah Foundation continues its noble crusade to videotape any Holocaust survivor willing to tell their tale. His Righteous Persons Foundation (formed with the profits from the 1993 blockbuster, "Schindler's List"), has been focused entirely on the flip side of charity: giving money away. Mr. Spielberg set up the foundation with a mission of promoting Jewish learning, advancing intergroup tolerance and "using arts and media to engage broad audiences on questions of what it means to be Jewish."

6. Julie Wiener

As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's lead writer on issues of Jewish education, synagogues, spirituality, philanthropy, and the Jewish federation world in the United States, Wiener sets the agenda - and tone - for national Jewish issues of import.

7. Ari Fleischer

When we're living a country where the president isn't always the most succinct person, his press secretary becomes even more important to help convey to us his message. And that person would be 40-year-old Ari Fleischer. Jews were heavily represented in the Clinton Cabinet and White House, but Fleischer is one of the few Jewish faces in a Bush administration. "I believe deeply in my religion and I believe in the principles of my party," says Fleischer. "I don't commingle the two." The son of New York Democrats, Fleischer has spent two decades on Capitol Hill as a Republican party spokesman, and reached the pinnacle of his profession earlier this year when he became White House press secretary. "The Jewish religion teaches people to be responsible, to be open-minded and to care about others," he says. "And I hope that people see that in me as I do my job."

8. Michael Bloomberg

Self-made media mogul Michael Bloomberg has founded a global financial-information company in his own name, grown his net worth to equal the gross national product of a small Central American country, and helped the FBI battle computer hackers and extortionists from Kazakhstan. What's a billionaire to do next, but run for mayor of New York City, one of the highest-profile jobs in American politics outside the presidency? The 59-year-old entrepreneur, whose company provides financial data that pops up on 160,000 desks worldwide, is one of the riches people in the world. Bloomberg is reluctant to give out his net worth but press reports estimate he's worth $4 billion. He recently gave $100 million to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University. He sits on the boards of scores of institutions, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund. As he told the New York Times in January, "I'm a great American dream."

9. Rabbi Herman Neuberger

Neuberger has been the executive director of the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore for more than half a century. Although he comes across as a low key and humble individual, he is one of the most politically well-connected Jews in the Beltway. Additionally, he is viewed as one other top Orthodox leaders in the country, which is the reason why many pulpit rabbis consult with him when they have important issues to discuss.

10. Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer took over as chief executive of Microsoft from Bill Gates six months before a federal court ordered the breakup of the company. As he waits for an appeal decision, Ballmer is guiding the software giant through one of its busiest and most challenging years ever. The CEO has proven he's not afraid to ruffle feathers, like when he hired an outsider -- Rick Belluzzo -- to rescue its MSN Internet service, and then promoted him above company vets to the post of president. Ballmer may be humbled, but he's as confident as ever. He reportedly has no contingency plan if the appeals court upholds the breakup ruling. Oh yeah, one more thing. He's the 13th richest person in the world with a net worth of $16.6 billion.

11. Rabbis Nosson Scherman and Meir Zlotowitz

In the summer of 1976, these two friends published an edition of the Book of Esther and now, 25 years later, they run one of the most successful Jewish publishing houses in the world. As if icing was needed on that cake, their Artscroll Publications has been the catalyst for countless people to begin their return to traditional Jewish observance. "When historians look back to the latter part of the 1990s and trace what has become an extraordinary explosion of Jewish learning in the Orthodox community and beyond, a lot of that has been attributable to Artscroll," says David Zweibel, executive vice president for government and public affairs of Agudath Israel of America.

12. Brad Turell

While Turell was the head of communications for The WB television network, he began a religious odyssey that transformed he and his family into observant Jews. Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways. In April, he was promoted to the top communications slot for all of Turner Broadcasting which includes TNT, TBS Superstation, The WB Network, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, Turner South and Boomerang; the CNN News Group Networks, which include CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News, CNNfn, Accent Health, CNN Airport Network, College Television Network (CTN), CNN Radio Network, CNN.com, CNNfn.com, CNNfyi.com and MyCNN.com; and Turner Sports, which includes the Atlanta Thrashers, The Goodwill Games, CNN/SI, CNNSI.com and Nascar.com. With all of the recent claims of CNN's alleged media bias against Israel, it will be interesting to see how Turell handles the position.

13. Rebbetzin Miriam Feldman

Miriam Feldman does not stand in the shadows of her husband, Rabbi Ilan Feldman of Congregation Beth Jacob in Atlanta, Ga or her late father, Reb Yaakov Weinberg. She rightfully stands on her own. The mother of eight, she is a beacon of inspiration to all who know her. Her Torah knowledge, genuine piety, and sincerer faith only begin to scratch the surface. She has helped influence an entire community by starting, single-handedly and against all odds a top-notch girls high school in the heart if the South. Not only that, but by stubbornly maintaining its standards, she has set the bar for all other girls-only high schools to follow.

14. Mortimer Zuckerman

Mortimer Zuckerman brings clout and cachet to the chairmanship of one of America's most influential Jewish groups. In a staggering 46-6 vote, the media and real estate baron was elected as chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Zuckerman also received bipartisan support from Israel's two most recent prime ministers, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition, the he owns U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News and is presumed to have some degree of influence over those publications' news coverage and editorials.

15. Abraham Foxman

Living in America, Jews are inevitably exposed to anti-Semitism. From vandals to the Klan, Jews are unfortunately still persecuted. To counter-attack those hate mongers, America's Jewish community has a knight in shining armor and his name is Abraham Foxman. As the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Foxman leads a collection of local ADL offices in the fight against anti-Semitism in America. From the Marc Rich scandal to the Charlie Ward fiasco, Foxman is called upon to set the tone for how the rest of American Jewry responds.

16. Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Rabbi Benjamin Blech is no idiot - but he's hoping that you are. The mild-mannered, 60-something rabbi, with his perfectly coiffed white hair and pearly white smile, is an internationally recognized scholar and media darling who has appeared on Oprah and in the pages of Newsweek. He also spent almost 37 years as the spiritual leader of a New York synagogue. He's an author and an educator at Yeshiva University. But what he's most known for now is penning the Jewish installments to "The Complete Idiot's Guide" series including "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Judaism" and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish." Blech has written eight books, four in the last two years, and a couple more are on their way. "These books reach out to everybody," says Blech. "People are not offended by the title, but rather consider it a way of saying that no matter what level you're at, you'll be able to learn."

17. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Mention Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's name and you either hear cheers or groans. Nonetheless, the New Jersey-based rabbi is the face of rabbinic Jewry to most of America. Whether he's hanging around Michael Jackson or on television talking about kosher sex, this controversial rabbi remains influential - despite all the scandals that continue to pile up on him. And just when you thought he had nothing else to write about, he just co-authored a new book with spoon-bender Uri Geller entitled "The Psychic and the Rabbi."

18. Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Controversial radio host Dr. Laura may have the largest audience of anyone who claims to speak from and for Jewish tradition. A Jew by choice and self-described follower of Orthodoxy, Dr. Laura often invokes the Hebrew scriptures in her "tough love" stands against premarital sex, divorce, single parenting, abortion, feminism and, most notoriously, homosexuality. Earlier this year, she received the "National Heritage" award from the National Council of Young Israel. Moshe Bryski, Dr. Laura's rabbi, says that there is a sense of responsibility being the spiritual leader of such an influential person. "At times she'll call me about specific questions and I realize the answer is going to be broadcast to 20 million people, and I better get it right," he says.

19. Jon Stewart

Comedian Jon Stewart, 38, is not your average funnyman. Stewart gets paid $1.5 million to do a fake news show every night on Comedy Central - and it might just be the smartest thing you'll see on television. Proof, they say, is in the pudding. The show won a Peabody Award. To top it off, the New Jersey native has made being Jewish hip, by frequently commenting on his religion during his show. By referring to Christians as "you people" and generally pontificating on social satire through a Jewish lens, Stewart - in his own twisted way - has made it ok to come out of the closet with Jewish pride. More on this story Why I Think Reb Shlomo Carlebach Should Be On This List by David Sacks * Reb Shlomo is one the 50 most influential Jews, because he blazed a new path in serving G-d, thereby transforming the way Jews approach their spirituality today. The awareness that Judaism is spiritual is revolutionary enough. But most thought that aspect was the domain of the Hassidim only. Through Reb Shlomo's melodies, and the Torahs he rescued from the vanished worlds of Kotzk, and Ishbitz, of Belz, Breslov, Karlin and Riminov (to name but a few) Jews from across the entire spectrum of religious observance are realizing that a Jew's heart has to be on fire in the service of their Creator, that for a Jew to be superficial today is a criminal offense, that it's not enough to define your Judaism by what you're against-you have to be for something!

There is a famous parable about a king who has to send a message behind enemy lines. He can't send his emissary dressed in royal finery because the messenger will never make it. Therefore he disguises his messenger as a commoner, guaranteeing that he will go unnoticed. Reb Shlomo was that hidden messenger. Had the world known in his lifetime his true greatness in Torah and avodas Hashem then he never would have been able to travel to and reach the places he needed to in order to send Hashem's message of hope and comfort to the world. Now since his death, for the first time, the world is realizing that Reb Shlomo was one of the undisputed leaders of the generation.

David Sacks, a television writer and member of the Happy Minyan, resides in Los Angeles.

 

20. Clark Howard

Clark Howard was always a hero. In his hometown of Atlanta, his radio talk show brought new meaning to consumer advocacy. Anything from helping listeners get the cheapest airfare to calling a misbehaving landlord - it was all in a day's work for the self-proclaimed geek. The mere mention of his name brought corporate bigwigs to their knees. Now, besides his consumer advocacy books, his radio show has crossed the border by becoming a nationally syndicated three-hour afternoon show.

21. Robert Wexler

Elected in 1996 to represent Florida's 19th congressional district, after a decade in the state legislature, Mr. Wexler quickly established himself as a force on Capitol Hill, sponsoring high-profile investigations into the poor conditions at the F.B.I. crime lab and the high price of matzo in south Florida. By the fall of 1998, the congressman from Boca Raton was emerging as a national figure, the only House member to attend the signing of the Wye Accords and one of President Clinton's most articulate defenders during the House impeachment hearings. Smart, telegenic - he's become a permanent fixture on the cable news-and-chat circuit - and Jewishly aware (he's a graduate of the Wexner Heritage adult Jewish learning program), Mr. Wexler, now 39, is poised to become one of the most important Jewish voices in Washington. What secured his inclusion on this list, however, was his passionate defense of voting rights in his Palm Beach County district, home of the infamous butterfly ballot. In the coming year we predict he will be playing an increasingly visible role as a voice of the Jews of South Florida, America's third-largest Jewish community.

22. Jay Schottenstein

Schottenstein's name has become synonymous with philanthropy. The Columbus, Ohio native has turned giving charity into an art form. His name is attached to college dormitories and university sports arenas. More importantly, he has attached his family name to Jewish education. Besides giving money to local institutions, he is a frequent call on the list of Jewish day schools across the country. And, perhaps even more importantly, he has become a de facto sugar daddy for Artscroll Publications, helping them publish the entire Talmud in English.

23. S. David Freeman

Freeman is an engineer and the head of the Los Angeles Municipal Power Department. He said, "I see it as my duty to provide enough power for Christmas lights, even though I am Jewish." Freedman, now 75, has headed public power authorities in several states. Freedman was an adamant opponent of California's deregulation policy and lobbied hard that to make sure that municipally owned systems were left out of deregulation. Now he is smelling like a rose, because the city of Los Angeles, with its' own power plants, is insulated from the widely-publicized California electric power crisis. Freeman is both a civil engineer and an attorney.

24. Daniel Goldin

Daniel Goldin has been head of NASA since April, 1992. Despite some difficulties, critics rate his tenure as head of NASA to be very successful given the budget restraints his agency works under. In a time when millionaires are paying for trips to space and there are renewed relations with the Russian space station Mir, Goldin's role becomes even more important. Not to mention the fact that someday soon, space travel will be available for non-astronauts.

25. Rabbi Avi Shafran

Rabbi Avi Shafran, the director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, and is slowly becoming the de facto voice of Orthodoxy in America. The right-wing and outspoken rabbi is often cited in news articles to form the Orthodox opinion on any given matter. In addition, his recent watershed cover story for Moment magazine called "The Conservative Lie," Shafran outlines how the Conservative movement has become a "failure" and called the denomination "superfluous."

26. Calvin Klein

When people hear his name, they immediately think of fashion. Earlier this month, the American designer won a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He is a true trend-setter and a tremendous influence in the world of fashion industry.

27. Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald

The brainchild of the National Jewish Outreach Program, Buchwald has his hand in more people's return to traditional Judaism than anyone else in recent memory. His "Turn Friday Night into Shabbos" and "Read Hebrew America" programs have the set the bar high for success for other outreach organizations.

28. Rabbi David Ellenson

The new president of the Reform movement's seminary is a scholar known for his work in Jewish religious thought, ethics and modern Jewish history - and for his popularity as a teacher. Rabbi David Ellenson, a professor at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Los Angeles campus since 1979, will be the college's eighth president. Ellenson, 53, replaces Rabbi Norman Cohen, who had served as acting president of HUC since December, when Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct. The new president assumes the reins of HUC at a time when many are looking to the college - which has grown dramatically in recent years and also has campuses in Cincinnati, New York and Jerusalem - to address the significant shortage of rabbis, cantors and other professionals in Reform Judaism. With 906 member congregations, Reform is the largest stream of Judaism in North America.

29. Michael Ovitz

Once hailed as the most powerful talent agent in the world, Michael Ovitz is poised for a comeback. Last winter he formed AMG, the Artists Management Group, and has gone head-to-head with his old company -- and emerge victorious. Already many big CAA names have crossed the line in the sand to join AMG. Claire Danes, Lauren Holly, Minnie Driver, Marisa Tomei, Mimi Rogers, Syndney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, and Robin Williams all have been plucked from the CAA waters. Ovitz is now poised to hoist his newest big project even higher than CAA. The opportunity requires a huge amount of industry expertise, a fantastic reputation, and some hefty nerve. But if the past is any predictor of the future, Hollywood had better take shelter: Ovitz is back in town.

30. Edwin Black

Edwin Black is on a crusade. In an age where we are ruled by the gods of technology, his striking factual account of how the biggest computer corporation aided Hitler in his final solution is nothing short of mind-numbing. His book, "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" has caused quite a stir. "Because of IBM and the Holocaust, we will never look the same way at the issues of U.S. and international corporate complicity in the Holocaust," said Rabbi David Saperstein. The Washington, D.C.-based writer, who himself is the son of Polish survivors, is also playing an integral role in the Holocaust reparation payments.

31. Neil Thalheim

In a time when the term "solidarity" is being used in countless articles about Israel, Neil Thalheim is answering that cry. Together with his wife Susan and a business associate, Jacob Haller, Thalheim created a grassroots effort in Great Neck, NY called the Israel Emergency Solidarity Fund in October 2000. The organization has since gone national, holding Walk-a-Thons (walk4israel.com) to help aid the families of terrorist victims. "Being silent while Jews are being murdered is a mistake we cannot afford to repeat," says Thalheim.

32. George Hanus

George Hanus is a visionary - and sometimes his vision is a little blurred. The high-powered Chicago businessman came up with an idea a few years back: He wanted every American Jew to bequeath five percent of the value of his or her estate to mega-endowment funds intended to cover the costs of yeshiva and day school tuition. The campaign's thesis is that every Jew has a stake in subsidizing full-day Jewish students because these students to a large extent are our future. Dubbed "Operation Jewish Education," Hanus' initiative barely picked up steam. However, his clout still keeps him on this list. Besides, everyone is waiting to see if his next project, the Jewish Broadcasting Network - a Jewish television network set to launch this summer - will take off.

33. Aaron Sorkin

The Emmy-winning writer of the hit television show "The West Wing" has created a new Camelot in the psyche of America. In the fictitious Bartlett White House, Sorkin provides America with a weekly does of the kind of government he thinks we should have. In addition, he's Jewish - and spiritual - ideologies make their cameos on the show - including an episode where a top White House staffer gets advice from a rabbi on Shabbat morning about the death penalty.

34. Rabbi Martin Weiner

As the new head of the Reform movement, this San Francisco pulpit rabbi has the power to help Reform Judaism continue its turn towards a more traditional approach to religion.

35. Mel Brooks

Although Brooks hasn't had a hit in what seems like a millennium. But he made a comeback this year -- and he made it big. His new Broadway show "The Producers," which recently garnered a record 12 Tony awards, has a waiting list so long, your grandchildren might not even get in. And the show has made Nazi-bashing in style again.

36 & 37. Evan and Jaron Lowenstein

Evan and Jaron Lowenstein are more than just a pop duo. Yes, they're frequent guests on MTV. Yes, People magazine listed them in their 50 most beautiful people in the world issue. That's not what makes them special. The 27-year-old identical twins are a role model for Jewish teenagers. The twins are observant Jews and not ashamed of it. They never play on Shabbat and require kosher meals wherever their tours take them. "Sometimes I'm so burnt from partying and playing, I wish it [the Sabbath] lasted for three days," Jaron told the New York Times last month. Legions of teenage girls - mostly Jewish -- log on to the folk duo's Web site on a daily basis to discuss the ins and out of the band. One recent post was by a Jewish girl who had decided to observe a fast day, which she had never done before, simply because Evan and Jaron were doing it. "They believe God will protect them," said Jordan Burger, the band's booking agent, of the secret to their success. "And you know what? It seems to have worked out that way."

38. Leon Wieseltier

The author of the groundbreaking book "Kaddish," this D.C. socialite also serves as the literary editor of The New Republic. In Judaism's elite intelligencia, Wieseltier is their pied piper. His book revealed the history and law of kaddish to an audience of people who had not heard of it otherwise. This white-mained maverick, married by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a non-conformist in all sense of the term. His new approaches to Jewish texts allow an entry point for secular scholars to study and examine halachah.

39. Rabbi Marc Schneier

The author of "Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community," is taking his work seriously. Besides just writing a book on the topic of black-Jewish relations, Schneier is doing something about it. Earlier this month, Schneier - the president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding - met secretly with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. The session was a first step toward repairing Farrakhan's relationship with American Jews and bolstering the historical civil-rights alliance between that group and African-Americans. One more thing: He has the ear of the Hollywood elite. His New York synagogue in the Hamptons - complete with a helipad in the parking lot - is where stars like Spielberg like to daven when in town.

40. Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

A Holocaust survivor, Jungreis has created a Jewish awakening. Her weekly lectures in Manhattan draw hundreds of Jewish singles. As well, she lectures all over the world, inspiring them with her tales of triumph. In a society that is fast leaving their roots, Jungreis - and her message to restore and renew the core values of Judaism -- is a force to be reckoned with.

41. Aaron Goldsmith

In the heart of middle America, Aaron Goldsmith is a microcosm. In the tiny town of Postville, Iowa, this Lubavitch city councilman is serving as a role model for interfaith relations. The way he interacts with the locals in his town serves as a barometer for the rest of the country.

42. Tamir Goodman

Dubbed "The Jewish Jordan" by Sports Illustrated, Goodman has made an indelible mark on the world of collegiate sports. He's also a role model for Jewish kids growing up showing them that they can follow their dreams without having to compromise their Judaism. When he travels, says a family friend, Jewish children sometimes accompany him to shul to watch him daven, or pray. He wears his Judaism on his sleeve -- literally. The Sports Illustrated pictorial on him contained photographs of him wearing tefillin. On the court, the 6-foot-3, 155-pound lanky Goodman is compared to the great Pete Maravich. What Sandy Koufax was to Yom Kippur, Tamir Goodman is to Shabbat. He never plays on the day of rest. Towson bucked ACC conformity by not scheduling any games between sundown on Friday to sunset on Saturday to accommodate Goodman. Once, when the team was on the road and sundown was approaching, Goodman got out of the team van and walked three blocks to a house where he was staying for Shabbat. "They see me fasting on some days, and they learn about Havdalah and kosher food," Goodman says. "It's a great opportunity to teach them about Judaism." At a recent game, his yarmulke falls off his head during a scramble for a rebound, and before dribbling the ball up court, he pauses to bend down and puts it back on his head. The crowd roars its approval. "I'm still only a kid," Goodman once told a reporter. "I'm just Tamir."

43. Joshua Hammer

In 1999, Hammer, a Newsweek reporter, published the controversial autobiographical book "Chosen by God: A Brother's Journey" about how he coped his brother's choice to become ultra-Orthodox. Two years later, Hammer is now the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for Newsweek. It is through his eyes that the rest of the world views the Israeli conflict. Earlier this month, Hammer himself made news when he, along with a photographer, were kidnapped during a routine interview with a militant Palestinian group. "The kidnapping had indeed been symbolic," wrote Hammer in a Newsweek piece after the incident. "But with its eerie echoes of Western hostage-taking in neighboring Lebanon during the civil war, it mainly symbolized a new stage in the ever-worsening conflict."

44. Sharon Tzur

Sharon Tzur, director of Media Watch International, is the mastermind behind HonestReporting.com. The fledgling, New York-based outfit has quickly gained a devoted following by pouncing on media outlets they feel either are reporting inaccurately on Israeli-Palestinian violence or engaging in flat-out anti-Israel bias. "The media says it is committed to fair and accurate coverage, and what we're trying to do is to hold them to that standard," says Tzur.

45. Yitta Halberstam

Yitta Halberstam is a worker of small miracles - literally. The author of the wildly-popular "Small Miracles" series, Brooklyn resident has inspired millions with her tales of divine intervention. Her inspirational books have sold millions of copies, the publishing equivalent of Jurassic Park. "All my life, I grew up hearing these Chassidic tales of God's divine intervention in people's ordinary lives," says Halberstam, 50.

46. Richard Allen

Richard Allen is a top soap opera writer. He has twice been nominated for the daytime Emmy award. He cannot attend the awards because they are held on the Sabbath and he and his family are Sabbath observant Jews. "We're very observant toward religion," he says. "The way I justify it is, anyone who does anything immoral on the show gets punished twofold. Terrible things wind up happening to them. Nobody on a soap opera escapes justice." He now writes for "As the World Turns". He was chief writer for "The Days our Lives". The story gets better. For the last eight years he has been teaching radio/television writing at Texas Christian University, a quite conservative institution. Allen is concerned about the morality in soap operas, as befits someone who is a religious Jew teaching at TCU.

47. Lavi Greenspan

If it were up to Lavi Greenspan he would not be on this list. While enrolled in a joint program with the Yeshiva University rabbinic ordination program and the Fordham School of Law, the New York native became inflicted with a rare disease and went completely blind at the ripe age 26. Most people would take that as a deterrent, but Greenspan has taken his personal tragedy and turned it into a public victory. While blind, he completed his rabbinic ordination and finished law school, passing the NY bar -- hard tasks even with eyesight. Now, the 29 year-old works as in-house counsel for IDT, a technology firm in the Big Apple. Over the past three years, Greenspan has spoken at more than 100 organizations across the world sharing his story of triumph and inspiration with thousands of Jews. All who have listened to his heroic story have left a better person.

48. Ilene Busch-Vishniac

Born 1955 in Philadelphia, Professor Busch-Vishniac is the Dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering. When she was appointed, in 1998, she was said to be one of less than ten women in America who serve as the dean of a university engineering school. She is the holder of several patents, including telecommunications patents.

49. Richard Meier

Meier is a world famous contemporary architect. Besides being awarded the prestigious Pritzker prize, he was the chief architect of the Getty Museum and many other notable buildings. An interesting note, his firm was selected to design the "2000 Church" by Pope John Paul II. This is the millennium church for the city of Rome. Surely, Jewish architects have designed churches before. But a project of this importance has to be unique.

50. Shlomo Ressler

In September 1995, Shlomo Ressler was an advisor for the Los Angeles chapter of NCSY (National Council of Synagogue Youth). As part of his volunteer duties, the Israeli native wrote an article about the weekly Torah portion for the chapter newsletter called "Bible Babble." Two people read his first installment. As time went on, and the Internet took shape, people started telling their friends about Ressler's weekly e-mails, now archived conveniently at weeklydvar.com. Like a virus, his legions of readers grew -- and grew. As of this printing, Ressler's e-mail list has ballooned to more than 15,000 in 2001, and all by people referring their friends. Single-handedly, and without being affiliated with any particular organization, Ressler is able to reach more people than most full-fledged organizations. "We should all use what we have for something good, and this is my way of doing something good with the Internet," says the 29-year-old Information Architect who now resides in New York. "Hopefully people will use these weekly e-mails to enhance their lives."

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December 14, 2002

Zionism Unbound

by ANN PETTIFER

 

In the spring of 1986, Gore Vidal, novelist and chronicler of US history, published an essay in The Nation which became instantly notorious. Called "The Empire Lovers Strike Back," its subject was the relationship of American Jewish neo-conservatives to the state of Israel. He chose as exemplars of the phenomenon, Commentary magazine editor, Norman Podhoretz, and spouse, Midge Decter (mother-in-law of Elliot Abrams of Iran Contra infamy; Abrams, a racial purist who disdains intermarriage, now serves as White House Director of Middle Eastern Affairs). Podhoretz and Decter had once been liberals, but an aggressive Zionism led them to pitch their tent in the Republican Party. Their aim was to use US economic and political heft to advance Israel's interests in the Middle East. The essay was vintage Vidal and it greatly provoked his critics. To ensure that no one took seriously what he had to say--to silence the debate before it started--he was rubbished as the worst kind of anti-Semite.

So, exactly what had Vidal said to earn this most feared of labels? In recent weeks we have heard a good deal about the cynical alliance between fundamentalist Christian Zionists in the US and Jewish settlers (supported by the right-wing Likud party) in the Occupied Territories. Sixteen years ago in a display of considerable prescience, Vidal wrote: "since spades may not be called spades in freedom's land, let me spell it out. In order to get military and economic support for Israel, a small number of American Jews, who should know better, have made common cause with every sort of reactionary and anti-Semitic group in the United States, from the corridors of the Pentagon to the TV studios of the evangelical Jesus ChristersS all in the interest of supporting the likes of Sharon as opposed to the Peace Now Israelis whom they disdain."

Central to Vidal's case was the indifference to US history which he discerned among these Jewish neo-conservatives. When he was writing a play set during the American Civil War, he recalls Norman Podhoretz asking him, "Why are you writing a play about, of all things, the Civil War?" When Vidal explained that this was/is "the great, single tragic event that gives resonance to our Republic" Podhoretz replied, "To me, the Civil War is as remote and irrelevant as the War of the Roses." Vidal calls Podhoretz and his ilk Fifth Columnists (Israeli division) to indicate their extra-territorial priorities. They pursue political power not in order to make the US a better place, to right wrongs or to fight inequality here, but to promote Israel's pre-eminence in the Middle East, to confine Palestinians to a couple of Bantustans or, better still, engineer their expulsion to Jordan. Judith Shulavitz, writing last month in The New York Times about Podhoretz's new book, The Prophets: Who They Were And What They Are, observes that for Podhoretz the biblical prophet's message is: "the Jews are the people chosen to redeem the worldS They will perform their divinely appointed duty only if they cling to the Covenant between God and themselves and support Zionism." Any appropriation of the prophets in support of social justice he dismisses as false--a Christian overlay or redaction.

The influence of old-guard Jewish neo-cons, such as Podhoretz and Decter, was exercised mainly through journals of opinion they edited or owned (in addition to Commentary, Martin Peretz's New Republic comes to mind). Now, however, a new generation has its hand on the tiller of power. In September, Bill Keller profiled Deputy Secretary of Defence, Paul Wolfowitz, for The New York Times' Sunday Magazine. Wolfowitz and fellow Jewish neo-cons Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have emerged as the Pentagon's Paladins, their aim being to subdue the Islamic world through decisive, pre-emptive use of American military superiority. While Wolfowitz is pressing for war against Saddam Hussein, Keller notes his "scholarly detachment" from the disastrous Vietnam War (as remote as the War of the Roses?), in which, while eligible, he had chosen not to serve. Wolfowitz first formed ties to Israel when he accompanied his father there for a sabbatical year. He is known to have close links to Israeli generals and Likud politicians. Keller, somewhat hesitatingly, discloses that there are people in Washington who hint at Wolfowitz's "dual loyalties." The (London) Guardian columnist, Hugo Young, is less reticent: "Only in Washington does one get a true sense of the obsession of these Pentagon civilians. Conversationally, it is common talk that some of them, not including Rumsfeld, are as much Israeli as American nationalists. Behind nervous, confiding hands come sardonic whispers of an American outpost of Likud. Most striking of all, however, is how unmentionable this is in the liberal press."

If dragons' teeth are being sown by American foreign policy in the Middle East, the urgent question is why a craven liberal press is not addressing the Israeli nationalism of the policy's architects. Thinking I might find clues, I trawled through a piece by Cliff Rothman in The Nation, entitled "Jewish Media Stranglehold?" At the outset, Rothman delegitimizes the question by reminding us that it was Richard Nixon who first posed it; he then proceeds to associate it with White Power rhetoric, trailer parks and compounds in Montana. Nothing of substance emerges. There was, however, an interesting exchange with Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harpers, whose essays are surely some of the best political writing in the US. When the question was put to him, Rothman writes that Lapham "ventured onto the treacherous terrain of hypothosizing a unique Jewish sensibility impacting the media because of the sheer number of Jewish editors and writers. But, Lapham then recoiled: 'If I am going to take shit, I may as well write my own column.'"

About three years ago, Nightline's Ted Koppel came to the University of Notre Dame to give the Red Smith journalism lecture. I remember summoning every ounce of courage during question time in order to express my concern about the importance of even-handedness in the US media when reporting on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Then I asked Koppel how he felt, as a Jewish-American, about a foreign policy team which at that time was overwhelmingly Jewish. Madeline Albright and her spokesman, James Rubin, were at the State Department, Sandy Berger was Security Advisor and William Cohen Secretary of Defense; Richard Holbrooke was Ambassador to the UN. I was sure that had the shoe been on the other foot--had the team's composition been almost entirely Arab-American--the issue of fairness would most certainly have been raised. Koppel was nonplussed by the question and responded that in the US gifted individuals, regardless of background, could rise to the top--an answer that did not address my concern.

Each week, I have a marathon phone conversation with a Jewish friend, an octogenarian whose mental vigor remains undiminished. A retired college teacher, her take on virtually every political issue of importance is exemplary. Our friendship is very close and has easily survived occasional squalls over the one topic on which we have some disagreement, namely Israel and the Occupation. After reading something I had written on the neocon Zionists at the Pentagon, she gave me a no-holds-barred dressing down. In identifying Paul Wolfovitz, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, the Pentagon troika planning the war against Saddam Hussein, as Jewish-Americans, I had crossed the line into anti-Semitism. Go after them as bad guys, not as Jews, she said. After all, there were lots of Jews, herself included, who find the troika a frightening bunch. For days I brooded about her comments, but in the end I demurred. Sure these are bad guys, but it is as Zionists that they are pursuing their war aims. The connections Gore Vidal was making in 1986 still need to be made in 2002.

Robert Dreyfus, a senior correspondent at The American Prospect, came close in a first class expose on how the Pentagon's "well-placed hawks" are muzzling the CIA so that intelligence data that contradicts the case for war is not presented to the White House. Dreyfus is blunt: "For Perle, Wolfovitz and FeithSan attack on Iraq is a strategic necessity, not because Saddam Hussein is a threat, but because America needs to display an overwhelming show of force to keep unruly Arabs and Muslims all over the world in line." However, Dreyfus still cannot mention the elephant in the room, namely that these well-placed hawks are Jewish-Americans and it is their hard-core Zionism that is shaping American foreign policy. Zionism is fast becoming a poisoned chalice, yet the US is poised for a war largely propelled by its agenda. Most of the country is ignorant or in denial, and the mainstream media either too conflicted or in cahoots to sound the alarm. In the meantime, Richard Perle, addressing British members of parliament even as UN arms inspectors were returning to Iraq, asserted that the US will go to war no matter what. And on the BBC World Service, The Washington Times' Barry Fein proclaimed war as absolutely necessary, saying that from now on the US would decide what constituted international law. There is real madness here, but who will stop it?

Do I think the case against Zionism could be made more effectively by Jews themselves? Certainly, but the evidence suggests it is not any easier. In the early 1960s, there was a bitter correspondence between two German Jews, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem, the great scholar of Kabbalah. Much of the disagreement turned on Arendt's rejection of Zionism which led the Zionist Scholem to accuse her of having no love for the Jewish people. Arendt acknowledged that she had no love for any nation or collective--believing, as she did, that love of humankind trumped tribal or parochial affections. Insofar as Zionism had led Jews from belief in God to belief in themselves, she continued, "in this sense I do not love the Jews."

Ann Pettifer is a freelance writer and a the publisher of Common Sense, the alternative newspaper at the University of Notre Dame. She can be reached at awalshe@nd.edu 

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