Just what we needed. This will have the Israeli extremist Lefty media wallowing in self righteous moral equivalency. Not to mention the apologists for Islam. It is to Islamic intolerance what Timothy McVeigh was to Islamic terrorism. It gives the Islamists and their apologists a place to hide.

‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis

Punishment for performance in front of “mixed audience.”

A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at bringing Jews “back to religion” (hazara betshuva), has made it his recent mission to fight against musical performances for both men and women.

His “judicial panel,” with Rabbi Ben Zion Mutsafi and another member, sentenced Erez Yechiel to 39 lashes in order to “rid him of his sins.”

In a video clip of the court posted on the Shofar Web site, Ben Zion said that those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come.

He displayed a leather strip he said was made by his father from ass and bull skin, with which Yechiel was to have been whipped.

Yechiel, who said, “I accept upon myself the lashing for my sins,” was ordered to stand by a wooden poll with his head facing north (“from whence the evil inclination comes”), his hands tied with a azure-colored rope (“a symbol of mercy”), and served his “sentence.”

Jewish wedding ceremonies – joyous occasions, are marked by sorrow over the loss of Jerusalem. The groom recites a biblical verse from the Babylonian Exile: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning,” and breaks a glass in commemoration of the destruction of the Temples.

Canaanite tribes were the first settlers in what was then appropriately named Canaan. In the second millennium BC, twelve Hebrew tribes, originating in Mesopotamia, settled in the land, establishing the Kingdom of Israel.

In 638 AD, Jerusalem was conquered by the Muslim Caliph Omar. In 691 AD, the Omaia Caliph Abed El-Malik built the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount. After this theft of a holy site Muslims started claiming that it belongs to them. Jews, of course, have been hoping for centuries that the stolen property would be returned. Read more >

We have heard Caroline Glick speak. She projects passionate logic and focuses on the really big picture. The  Center for Security Policy‘s Senior Middle East Fellow gave the following extraordinary address on her acceptance of the Ingeborg Rennert Foundation’s 2009 Guardian of Zion Award in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, the Eternal Frontline

Center for Security Policy | Jun 01, 2009

By Caroline Glick

Good evening. Members of Knesset, President Moshe Kaveh of Bar Ilan, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, former Guardian of Zion award winners Prof. Elie Wiesel and Arthur Cohn, and honored guests, thank you all for coming here today. I would also like to thank some very important people who made a special trip to join me here this evening. Thank you to my parents, Sharon and Gerald Glick who came here from Chicago. Thank you to Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington and my dear colleague, and his wife Marisol for flying in from Washington to be here. Thank you to Professor Avi Bell from Bar Ilan University Law School, my friend and intellectual sounding board for delaying your flight to New York where you’ll be presenting a paper at a law conference tomorrow, to be here with me tonight. Read more >

From 1648 to 1649, Officer Bogdan Chmielnicki, with an army of Russian Cossacks, local peasants and the support of the Tatar Khan of the Crimea, killed more than 300,000 Jews in the Ukraine. That wave of destruction is considered the first modern pogrom. From 1939 to 1945, Corporal Adolph Hitler, with an army of Nazis, sympathizers, and the deafening silence of the whole world, exterminated six million Jews in Europe. From 2005 to 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, worked feverishly to build a couple of nukes with which to kill six million Jews in Israel. From 2008 to 2009, Comrade Carlo Strenger, Professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, with an army of local secularists, inspired pogroms in Ramat Aviv to scare away Orthodox Jews. (Added by Mordecai)

I would hereby like to nominate Professor Carlo Strenger, from the department of psychology at Tel Aviv University, for the Philistine of the Year Award.

Strenger is a far-leftist hater of Israel and Zionism who regularly explains to Haaretz readers why Israel is a horrible state unworthy of existence, but the Hamas is really misunderstood (A collection of Strengerism can be found here). But today Strenger goes beyond that to support hooligan violence against Orthodox Jews! Really!

The background to this is the continuing campaign of intimidation and violence by ultra-secularists in Ramat Aviv, where Strenger lives and where his Tel Aviv University is located, against Orthodox Jews. The ultra-secularists claim there is a cabal by the Orthodox to “take over” the neighborhood. You know, like the Elders of Zion. Read more >

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Every blessing,

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His name is Rabbi Chaim Lefkowitz and he just loves the camera. Notice, in the background, the flag of this generation’s Amalekites, the ones who are literally dying to orchestrate the next Holocaust.

Where are his giant glasses? Using contact lenses?

It is not the fault of the Arabs, the Muslims, the Jews or Judaism. Everybody lived in peace and harmony until the Zionists came. His grandmother told him how Muslims and Jews babysat each others children in the good old days, when Palestine was ruled by Muslims. Of course, the Palestinian-Arabs disagree with this clown’s assessment. Their story is that Jews drank the blood of Arab babies.

Time has a way of making idiots forget. The persecution, the pogroms, the Jizyah head-tax, the random killings, have all been whitewashed. Again, the giant glasses! It must be a look.

This clown gets his fifteen minutes on Al Jazeera. In fluent Arabic he argues that the Jews were happy as Dhimmis under Muslim rule. If the Jews would only let the Arabs run things there will be peace.

Let’s hope he does not live in Israel. We would not want anybody to hurt him or break his giant glasses.

Yisroel Dovid Weiss (born 1956), a United States Haredi Rabbi, is an activist and spokesman for Neturei Karta International, an anti-Zionist group based in Monsey, New York. He may be a great Talmudic scholar, but he clearly knows bubkas about history. One gets the feeling that Rabbi Weiss just likes being notorious, basking in the limelight, chilling with Ahmadinajhad and the Mullahs. Bet ya he keeps video clips of his TV appearances. Hey dude, what’s up with the giant glasses?

He fantasizes that the Ummah was one happy multicultural utopia for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Long live the Caliphate! Because of Rabbis like him there are hardly any Jews left in the world.

No, this is not another article about Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein or Neve Gordon. In a way, this is much more troubling. Here is a collection of videos that illustrate that mental illness is non-denominational. It is a story about misguided Jews who willingly, by educated choice, serve this generation’s Amalek.

The Amalekites inhabited various places in or near southern Canaan (Num.13:29), Seir (1Chron.4:39-43), between Canaan and Egypt (1Sam.27:8) etc., but at times they are also found in other places, such as the middle of the territory of Ephraim (Jud.12:15). They were a semi-nomadic people who could dwell in a specific area for long periods if conditions were suitable. They had two distinguishing characteristics: cruelty and cowardice. Like today’s Palestinians, they were not noble warriors.

In Exodus 17:8-16, the Amalekites “came and fought with Israel”, and the Lord was so furious with the them that He swore to “have war with Amalek for all generations.” God’s particularly intense anger seems puzzling in its severity based on the account of their sin in Exodus. The real crime which provoked God’s wrath, was revealed by Moses in his last sermon to Israel 40 years later. In Deuteronomy 25:17-19, Moses illuminates the incident with the additional fact that Amalek “smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.” The Amalekites slaughtered women, children and the disabled, those too weak to protect themselves. Until Joshua put a stop to it with a devastating counter-attack (Ex.17). Where is today’s Joshua?

A particularly vile lunatic pines for the good old days when Muslims ruled and Jews knew their place. His entire argument is built on lies. Starting with how wonderful it was to live under Islam and climaxing with the claim that the Jews have no right to “Palestine.” People say that studying the Talmud makes one smart. Let’s hope so, because these people are definitely not wise. Ignorant is more like it.

Note the giant prescription glasses!!!