What a young mother wrote to an anti-Semite Who told her to "go back to Euope"

 

by Bruria Efune

I got told to go back to Europe. I’m not from Europe. But the Twitter warrior didn’t care, and just ranted on about the Jews leaving “Palestine” alone, and going back to wherever they came from.

So let’s talk about this. Where are the Jews from?

Take my family for example. I’ll start at an easy point: My grandparents on my dad’s side are from Iraq. We don’t have any family left there, because they were all either chased out, or murdered for being Jewish. Family records show that despite on and off persecution, they had lived there since the Babylonian expulsion, over 2,000 years ago.

My mom grew up in Argentina, where her parents were born. Most of their parents trace back to Ukraine, which they had fled during the 1918 pogroms that killed tens of thousands of Jews. It’s likely that many of them were previously from Spain, but had fled the Spanish Inquisition. One of my mom’s grandparents was not from Ukraine - he had fled Morocco, also due to pogroms targeting the Jews. Argentina was a relative safe-haven, despite antisemitism and discriminatory laws against them.

Now for my husband’s side, his grandparents are mostly Holocaust survivors, or escapees. On his mom’s side, his grandmother grew up in Vienna. At nine years old, she escaped to England with her sister on the kinder-transport. Her parents were murdered by the Nazis. She kept a family tree, tracing her ancestry back to the Maharal of Prague, a direct descendant of King David.

My husband’s father’s mother was also from Vienna. Her family managed to escape to France, where for four years of her childhood, she hid with her family in an attic, and then alone with her sister in a nunnery. When the war was over, she met a young man who had escaped Latvia, and asked her to join him with his family in South Africa. His last name was Yefuneh, since his family were descendants of the biblical Calev ben Yefuneh, but immigration officials in South Africa didn’t appreciate that, and anglicized it to Efune.

So here’s the thing, antisemites. You know where we’re from. You always did, and that’s why you always chased us out of wherever we tried to find peace.

We never forgot it either. For millennia, all my ancestors, all around the world, prayed the same prayer every day. No matter where they were, they faced Jerusalem as they prayed to be able to return in safety one day, soon.

Because we’re from Israel. Jews are indigenous to Israel. We belong in Israel.

The Romans may have burned down our Temple, renamed our land, slaughtered our people, and exiled most of the survivors into the diaspora, but the fire never stopped burning in our heart; we always painfully remembered where we belong.

And now we’re here. And I can assure you, we’re here to stay.

The Living Olive Tree that lived thru the exile and now the homecoming of the Jewish people and it still produces olives

 

The olive tree on the Island of Crete, has a trunk 15 feet in diameter, and is at least 2,000 years old, and could even be 2,900 years old based on the age of a graveyard nearby. 

This tree lived through the writings of the Tanach , the entire Talmud, Shulchan Aruch, and both the building and the destruction of both Bais Hamikdash, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust and now the great miracle of the Jews returning to the State of Israel.

It still produces olives!

Monkey Hitches a ride on a goat and shares some berries

 

David Blatt aka Jay Black a Singer known for ‘This Magic Moment,’ dead at 82

 

The reason I'm posting this because David Blatt grew up in Boro-Park. spoke yiddish fluently and when I was growing up, people said that he had learned in Torah Va'daas. I'm not sure about Torah Va'daas, but he did go to Yeshiva. In 1966 he recorded a yiddish song about the Holocaust, "Where is my village"

Jay Black, the lead singer of Jay and the Americans, died Friday at the age of 82, his family said.

Complications from pneumonia was the cause of death for the Brooklyn-born frontman, family told Rolling Stone magazine.

Black was the second “Jay” to front the group, following on from Jay Traynor. A third “Jay” fronted the band when they reformed in the early 2000s, the magazine reported.

The New York City ’60s doo-wop based pop-rock group announced the death of the vocalist, whose real name was David Blatt, on Facebook.

“We acknowledge the great successes we had with him both as a partner and as a lead singer,” the band wrote.

“We shared both wonderful and very contentious times, and much like an ex-wife, we are so proud of the beautiful children we created. We’ll always remember The Voice.”

Jay and the Americans were best known for Top 10 hits like “This Magic Moment” and “Cara Mia.”

“Jay Black was an iconic performer with a voice that was instantly recognizable anywhere in the world,’’ said John Catsimatidis, who recalled that Black helped run his campaign for mayor in 2013. “He left us too soon. We lost a tremendous talent today.”

Rabbi MEIR KAHANE SPEAKS - Talkline with Zev Brenner (1989) ... On His Yurzeit

 This interview was one year before he was murdered by an Arab Savage!

Shlomo Carlebach's last TV interview on Talkline with Zev Brenner

 

Shlomo Carlebach singing "Moshe V'Aharon" - משה ואהרון

 

This version of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach himself singThis version of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach himself singing the famous "Moshe V'Aharon" (AKA "Mizmor Ledovid") has become popular at contemporary cantorial concerts - especially the version sung by Shlomo Simcha and subsequently Chazzan Yitzchak Meir Helfgot in video below

Listen to Biden Shout like a Lunatic

 

Friday, Biden shouted that there are fewer democracies today than 15 years ago, during a public address on human rights for dedication of Dodd Center at University of Connecticut.

Pelosi's thinks "a lot about ruling the world"

 

"Never Again" - who will fight for that promise today?

 

Rabbi Meir Kahane was not afraid to come out against the dangers he saw facing the Jewish people, and he paid for that with his life.

Today's Hebrew date is the yahrtzeit (death anniversary) of a modern Jewish hero who was murdered on the evening of November 5th, 1990. Over 30 years ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane, (zt'l) died at the hands of a Muslim gunman in New York City. The Jewish people, even those who despised him, lost a true leader.

Look around you at those who today are considered the spokespeople for us in the USA. For our causes. For our survival. Rabbis, lay people, politicians who lay claim to be our saviors, our standard bearers in these tough times, none can hold a candle to Kahane. His phrase, "Never Again!" is often used inappropriately for inappropriate causes by people who never heard his name. But it refers to the silence of the world, and even Jews, to the Holocaust, and is a term we must familiarize ourselves with now in order to save our people from the catastrophe about which he prophesied so often - to deaf ears.

Rabbi Kahane was a born and bred New Yorker. He saw the frequent attacks on the city's Jewish elderly and the robberies of Jewish owned businesses by blacks. He looked on as black Mayor David Dinkins, ignored the violence. He reacted as a leader should and formed the Jewish Defense League (JDL) to protect his people. He wanted to encourage his people to fight back, to teach others that Jews must be respected.

Less than a year after his assassination, Al Sharpton led a black pogrom aimed at Brooklyn's Jewish community. And without Kahane's leadership, Jews and their mainstream organizations just stood by and watched as Dinkins purposely permitted the riots to flame out of their own accord. Kahane's failed efforts to awaken fat-cat Jewish groups to stand by their people was a motivating factor leading up to the pogrom.

Thirty one years after his death, nothing has changed.

Kahane also turned his attention to the plight of Soviet Jews. He formed the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, organizing marches on and rallies in front of the Soviet Mission to the UN. He fought the struggle to force Russia to permit Jews to immigrate to the United States. Eventually, under his leadership, Russia caved and Russian Jews were given the green light to flee Communist Jew hating.

Kahane also feared that Arabs, permitted to become citizens of Israel would eventually, through the democracy practiced in the Jewish state, combined with their high birth rate and Israel's super medical system would eventually turn the Jewish state into another Arab one by their increasing numbers. He suggested Israel pay Arabs good money to encourage them to leave.

For this he was called a racist. His idea was actually a brilliant one. We can only guess how he felt, from his perch in Heaven, as Israel's Arab citizens rose up against their own country during the recent Hamas attacks. Enemies within. He was right on the money.

Today we look sadly on as Israel still is a target for Jew haters around the world, even in our own country. We are helpless as our Progressive Jewish elected officials and lawmakers bow down to self acknowledged, vocal, outspoken Jew haters within the Democrat Party. They are weaklings, traitors to their own people and nation.

In Boca Raton, my home town, we have rabbis of major synagogues listed as T'ruah members. Look up the leftist, Progressive goals of that group here..and weep.

We know how Rabbi Meir Kahane would react. That's why we miss him and pay our respects to him, the modern Jewish prophet and the reincarnation of Shimon bar Kochba, the iconic Jewish fighter for Jewish independence during the time of Rabbi Akiva, who fought the Romans in 132 C.E.. We miss and need them both....now. Speak up!

Alan Bergstein, lecturer and columnist, is an editorial writer for The NY Jewish Voice and a retired NYC school principal A father of four, he is a Korean War veteran and Jewish activist who is President of the Judeo/Christian Republican Club of Palm Beach County, Florida.