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| Authentic Jewish Leadership for Israel |
The Jewish Leadership Weekly Newsletter
19 Kislev, 5768 (Nov.29) Issue 6809
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In this Issue |
- Stop Complaining, Take Action
- Where are the Demonstrations?
- Over the Counter Jewish Identity
Israel's Jewish Majority in Statistics
- Turnabout in Regional Elections
- Moshe Feiglin on You Tube
- War of Dreams Soon Available
- Announcements
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- Torah Sparks: Veyeishev
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 One after the other, the speakers rose to eulogize Ido Zoldon, may G-d avenge his blood. Almost all of them spoke about the same thing; Jewish leadership for Israel. The most articulate was MK Effie Eitam; "We will establish new leadership for the Nation of Israel," Eitan proclaimed. It was clear to him and to all those present that belief based leadership is the solution to Israel's woes.
Everybody seems to understand that Israel needs authentic Jewish leadership. But daily, frustrated and concerned Jews accusingly ask Manhigut Yehudit, "And what are you doing now to save Jerusalem?" Why aren't these people daily asking the right wing organizations why they are staging demonstrations instead of joining forces with those who are working on establishing alternative leadership?
The truth is, that while most of the right wing public has internalized that it can expect nothing from neither Right nor Left, it by and large has not yet integrated the consciousness necessary to lead. Israel's Jewish majority and particularly the Orange Camp, has not yet accepted the fact that it must literally take the reigns. The rightists don't believe Olmert -- but are not willing to fill his shoes. They prefer Olmert 2 or Olmert 3. They prefer to remain in the demonstration rut, feverishly changing their right sock with their left sock and back again until the bitter end.
What is Manhigut Yehudit doing today? Exactly what we did yesterday and what we will do tomorrow. We are focusing on creating the Jewish leadership alternative. Those people who ask what we are doing actually want to know how we are solving the problem within the familiar albeit failed parameters within which they feel comfortable. In other words, they want somebody to solve the problem without taking responsibility and without striving to lead. Our almost daily meetings with Likudniks, registration for the Likud and the progress along the muddy path that leads to leadership do not interest them. They want another spectacular demonstration and nothing that requires a major commitment.
Manhigut Yehudit does not have a solution for those people. The Yesha Council or one of its sub-groups will certainly organize nice demonstrations for them. Who knows? Maybe it will even organize a march around the walls of Jerusalem just like the march around the fences of Kfar Maimon?
There is no solution other than Jewish leadership for Israel. Our day to day efforts have been bearing fruits now, as the situation becomes more difficult and challenging. Our work to convince Likud members of the Jewish leadership alternative and the many people who had registered for the Likud through Manhigut Yehudit brought us almost one quarter of the votes in the recent primaries for chairman of the Likud. We are still working hard. With G-d's help, this constant effort will translate into Moshe Feiglin's high placement on the Likud Knesset list -- as a stepping stone to creating the Jewish leadership alternative.
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Where are the Demonstrations?: By Moshe Feiglin |
This article, translated from Moshe Feiglin's book, The War of Dreams, was written five years ago, but is even more relevant today.
22 Cheshvan 5763
November 20, '02
 What is wrong with us? Why don't we take to the streets? Why aren't we stopping traffic all over the country?
I field questions like these every day. Indeed, the entire country really should grind to a complete standstill. The government that entrusts the lives of its citizens and soldiers to the good will of an arch murderer really should be removed from the stage of history at any cost.
We really should surround government headquarters, lie down on all the highways, be arrested en masse and not let anything in this country move until the government resigns. We really should.
But we have one problem.
We have no better alternative.
It is not so pleasant to say it, but the ideological core; the settlers, the rabbis, the Land of Israel faithful, the Right, the National Camp or whatever you would like to call it has no better alternative!
This author has already blocked traffic throughout the country, has already done his time in jail and has already been tried in court time and again. And what has come of it?
We brought Netanyahu and then Sharon into power and they blithely continued with Oslo, handed over parts of Hebron to our enemies and continued to arm them. This time, with only one slight difference: This time, they are doing it as our representatives!
So what? Do you really think that we shouldn't protest? Should we really sit in our houses and bury our dead in silence?
Of course, it is important to protest, to go to demonstrations, to participate in any and all types of anti-surrender activities. But it is important to understand and remember one thing: If you do not create an alternative to the Right of Bibi and Sharon, they will continue with Oslo. In other words, in the final analysis, your protest will empower leaders who will continue with Oslo. And you, dear readers, will have a part in it!
It is not easy to say this and it's even harder to read it. But if you are willing to look the bitter truth in the eye, you have no choice but to reach the following logical conclusion: Netanyahu, Sharon, Silvan Shalom, and all the other right wing candidates are waiting in the wings. Just as Bibi did in the past, they will reap the fruits of your protests, be elected to office and stride on in the path that the Left determines -- the path of Oslo. "I am one of the only people who can bring peace today," Arik Sharon says to his attackers from the Left. Each and every one of us should remind ourselves of the retreat from Sinai and reach our conclusions about Sharon's intentions.
We have no choice. We must work with our heads and not only with our gut feelings. Protest -- yes. But should we once again abandon the steering wheel of our country to the Oslo gang from both Left and Right? Nothing doing!
So before you run to the intersection with your signs, wait just one moment. Bring along forms to fill out for membership in the Likud. Sign on and sign up your friends. That way you will know that you have empowered one candidate who will stand up for the truth against all the Right and Left wing Oslo candidates. You will have empowered a candidate who creates a completely new color wheel of values in the current political rainbow.
What are the chances that this will succeed?
That depends on you. We need 40,000 people to sign up for the Likud and to elect a belief based candidate to head the National Camp. Much less than that is needed to create a power base that will force the other candidates to re-think their positions. These numbers are far less than the numbers of Right wingers who come out to demonstrations. So don't ask what the chances are that it will succeed. It is entirely in your hands.
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| Over the Counter Jewish Identity: By Moshe Feiglin |
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 Last Shabbat, Foreign Minister Tzippy Livni went into her local Tel Aviv Super- Pharm to fill a prescription. The Arab clerk behind the counter identified the Foreign Minister and refused to serve her. The clerk was so incensed by Tzippy Livni's statement that "a Palestinian state is not only the solution for the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, but also for those Arabs who live among us," that he was unwilling to serve her, even at the price of his job.
As long as the rebellion of Israel's Arabs was "just" a matter of arson, car theft, robbery, rape, tax evasion, illegal building, forest burning, theft of road signs and monuments, wild driving and vandalism, Foreign Minister Livni and her friends preferred to turn a blind eye -- leaving Israel's citizens to fend for themselves against the fifth column threatening them from within the borders of the State of Israel. Even after we discovered the deep level of cooperation between Israel's Arabs and the terror organizations, Israel's leaders continued to close their eyes.
But now, Israel's Arabs are overtly attacking the definition of the State of Israel as a Jewish state. Tzippy Livni doesn't understand. Her irrelevant attempt to deal with the threat hanging over the Jewish identity of the State by re-channeling Arab nationalist ambitions to the Palestinian state that she is working so hard to establish in Jerusalem and Yesha is precisely what angered the Arab clerk.
Over the millennia, there have always been Jews who have remained faithful to the Divine directive to settle the Land of Israel. 120 years ago, these Jews began to return to the land and even established a state. But the Jewish nationalist movement chose to re-establish the state by disengaging from its original Jewish identity and replacing it with superficial "Israeli" identity.
The Arabs are on the other side of the historical stage. They never had a significant bond to the Land of Israel. From the time that Abraham expelled Ishmael to the desert, there was never a nationalist Arab movement that aimed to build its national home in the Land of Israel. For thousands of years, the Land of Israel was open to the Arabs. As long as the Jews were not here, the land did not interest them. But when the Jews began to make the deserted land flourish, foreign workers from the Arabian desert came to find work. That is how the "Palestinian nation" was created.
Today, the ancient Jews who attempted to establish a state without Judaism are on the defensive. Currently, they are pitifully trying to save the last remnants of their vacuous "Israeli" identity by giving Jerusalem and Israel's heartland to the Arabs. The new "Palestinians," though, are proudly on the offensive and a young and scornful Arab clerk happily dispenses with his Super Pharm job just so that he can express his national pride.
To understand this complex phenomenon, we have to look at its beginning. Israel's Foreign Minister -- the woman who represents Israel to the world -- does not hesitate to publicly desecrate the Jewish holy day, the Shabbat. But the Arab clerk would not let her get away with her denial of her Jewish identity. "No problem," he said to her with his actions, "if you do not honor your Jewish identity, there is no reason for me to take the Jewish state that you have established on my land seriously."
And just to emphasize how erratic Livni's Jewish identity really is, she hurried to announce at Annapolis that "The sides in the conflict have changed. There are no longer Arabs against Jews, but extremists against moderates." She really is no match for the Arab Super-Pharm clerk.
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| Israel's Jewish Majority in Statistics |
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 Manhigut Yehudit has been consistent in its claim that the majority of Jews in Israel closely identify with their Judaism. As reported by Israel National News, a new study by the Israel Democratic Institute proves that claim in numbers.
Israel Becoming Less Secular
12 Kislev 5768, 22 November 07 08:41by Hillel Fendel(IsraelNN.com)
An Israel Democratic Institute (IDI) demographic survey finds religious growth and secular decline - but most significant is that the proportion of religious in the public is highest among the youth.
The percentage of Jews describing themselves as secular has dropped sharply over the past 30 years, while the religious and traditional proportions have risen. The annual survey finds that the secular public comprises only 20% of the Israeli population - compared to 41%, more than twice as much, in 1974.
Nearly half the population, 47%, describes itself as traditional, while the hareidi-religious and religious together comprise 33% of the public.
The numbers were compiled based on a survey of representative sampling of 1,016 Israelis Jews.
It can be inferred from the numbers that Israel is a traditional society, and that it will become even more so as the years go by. 39% of those under age 40 are religious - more than those in their 40's and 50's (32%), and much more than those aged 60 and over (20%).
Country is Right-Wing; the Religious - Even More So
Politically, the religious are more right-wing, but so are the others. Among the religious, many more identify with the Right than with the Left, by a 71-8 margin; among the traditional, it's 49-21, and among the secular, it's 43-27. In total, 55% of the population view themselves as right-wing, and only 18% are to the Left.
Manhigut Yehudit needs your help now more than ever. You can also help create the Jewish majority revolution. Now is the time to support Manhigut Yehudit. Click here for our on line secure donation form. If you are in Israel, now is the time to volunteer to help. For more information, call (Israel) 02-996-1123. |
| Turnabout in Regional Elections |
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Tuesday's regional elections in the Samaria and Binyamin Councils signal a turnabout in Judea and Samaria. The two newly elected mayors of the two largest regions in Judea and Samaria, Gershon Mesika of the Shomron Regional Council and Avi Roeh of the Binyamin Regional Council, are a complete change from the old Yesha Council candidates against whom they ran. Both Mesika and Roeh are Likud members through Manhigut Yehudit. Although they are not actively involved in Manhigut Yehudit they both represent leadership oriented thinking and a new opportunity to wage a real battle for the Land of Israel. Both of the newly elected mayors have opened the doors of their settlements to the general public in their previous public positions, as opposed to the more closed approach of the Yesha Council. They have both displayed creativity and all-encompassing leadership ambitions. Manhigut Yehudit salutes Roeh and Mesika and wishes them much success as they assume their new positions in these complex and challenging times.
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Manhigut Yehudit Chanukah Conference in Haifa
Date: 7th night of Chanukah, Monday, 1 Tevet 5768 (Dec. 10)
Place: Heichal Binyamin Synagogue
Corner of Trumpeldor and Chanitah streets
Haifa
5:30 p.m. Ezra Yachin, author of "Elnakam"
Meet with Manhigut Yehudit leaders
7:30 p.m. Singing, dancing and lighting of Chanukah candles
Speakers: Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat
Moshe Feiglin: The Jewish State, Then and Now
Refreshments will be served.
Looking forward to seeing you!
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NEW! Now you can send email to Jonathan Pollard (in English only). The letters will be printed out and delivered to him. Just write to: mail2pollard@gmail.com |
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And now it's easier then ever -- you can sign up for the Likud via Manhigut Yehudit online. Click, and you are just one step away from joining the team! 4-5 days after you submit the online form a Manhigut Yehudit staff member will contact you to verify the information you have submitted and to bring you up- to-date with the latest information regarding the status of your membership. Click here to join the Likud now.
If you are already a Likud member and you would like to check your membership status, just email us at: likud@jewishisrael.org. Be sure to include your name, Israeli ID No., and a phone number where it is easiest to reach you. Or give us a call at our new "English Speakers" office: 02-996-1123 (
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If you are not Israeli citizen, then you are not eligible to join the Likud. But you can join many others and become a Manhigut Yehudit International Member.
Joining Manhigut Yehudit International is much more than just a donation. Now you're part of the team! And you don't need to be living in Israel to join. Join the team today! Click here to learn more! Let's spread the message! If you are interested in arranging a lecture or meeting in your community with Moshe Feiglin or Shmuel Sackett, either in Israel or in the USA, please contact Dovid Shirel at shir@manhigut.org, or call: 02-996-1123 (Israel), or 516-620-2475 (USA). |
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Torah Sparks: Veyeishev |
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also (in Egypt) I did nothing to deserve being thrown into prison. (Genesis 40:15)
 The Chassidic Rebbe, Rav Meir Yechiel of Ostrov, comments upon these poignant words of Joseph to Pharaoh's cupbearer. One who admits to coming from Israel merits to be buried there. One who does not admit his origins does not merit to be buried in Israel. This is the difference between Moses and Joseph. Moses, who was identified as an Egyptian by the daughters of Yitro does not make it to Israel. Joseph, who clearly identifies himself as a Jew coming from the land of Israel, is brought to his final resting place in Shechem.
But this is puzzling, says the Rebbe of Ostrov. Joseph was born in Israel, but Moses really was born in Egypt. Moses truly was an Egyptian. "From this we learn", says the Rebbe of Ostrov, "that from the time the Land of Israel was promised to Abraham, every Jew must see himself as a citizen of Israel." |
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