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Famous Canadian Rock Star Alanis Morissette opens up about Holocaust survivor grandparents
Seven-time Grammy winner and 90s rock sensation Alanis Morissette opened up about her holocaust survivor grandparents and secrets about Jewish roots that had been kept from her until adulthood.
The Canadian singer was featured on PBS “Finding Your Roots” hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and described learning she was Jewish at the age of 28, although her grandparents didn’t talk about their roots.
I think there was a terror that is in their bones and they were being protective of us and just not wanting antisemitism,” Morissette said.
She continued, “So they were doing it to protect us, sort of keeping us in the dark around it.”
Morissette described her grandparents’ ordeal during the Holocaust as “unfathomable” as her grandfather Imre Feuerstein made a desperate search to locate his brothers who, as was discovered later after consulting the archives at Yad Vashem, perished in Soviet Labor Camps.
After surviving the Holocaust, Imre Feurstein narrowly escaped being killed by Soviet troops during the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
Morissette explained, “They came off the train and someone had whispered to disembark from the other side, so they did. When they looked back, they saw everyone being executed.”
When Morissette’s mother was just 6, her parents intended to emigrate from Hungary to Australia, but Imre Feuerstein went out for a cigarette and missed the boat so the family headed for Canada instead.
When Imre Feurstein and his wife Nadinia Anna Lauscher/Gulyas, also a Holocaust survivor settled in America, they didn’t talk about the past.
What little Alanis Morissette found out was gleaned from her mother, Georgia Mary Ann Feuerstein.
“I’m appalled just thinking about it, and after hearing stories from my mother, it’s just inconceivable to me,” the singer said.
Not long after Alanis was born, her grandfather and his mother-in-law were killed in a car crash, and she recalls how her mother refused to talk about it and was determined to move on.
“She focused on raising her children and going back to work, never speaking about it again,” Morissette said.
“My grandmother was more open with me about it, mostly because I wouldn’t let it go.”
Court Threatens Magazine over Cartoon Bashing Esther Hayut
An attorney for the legal counsel of the courts system sent a letter to the management and editors of Shvi’I, a national-religious shul weekly magazine, demanding the removal of a cartoon (above) by Or Reichert showing former Supreme Court Justice Esther Hayut planting her flag on the back of a fallen IDF soldier.
The one below
was published in Ha’aretz recently, and shows Minister Orit Struk flying on her witch’s broom above Air Force warplanes and saying, “I smell leftists here.” It was a response to Struk’s daring to ask an IDF representative during a cabinet meeting about the rumors that some pilots refuse to support ground forces on conscientious grounds. Both cartoons are equally nasty, but only one received a special note from a public servant.
“This is a seriously dangerous item that may raise suspicion of incitement to violence,” wrote the legal hack, one Barak Leiser. “In addition, the publication may result in a suspicion of denigrating the court. … You are ordered to act immediately to remove the item from all the media under your control.”
The note from your friendly public servant concluded: “This letter does not constitute a waiver of the right to take any legal or other action, including filing a complaint with the authorized agencies.”
Those of us who grew up or spent some time in a Western democracy are invited to scream in rage, disgust, fear, and above all, astonishment. Yes, Virginia, in the Jewish State posting harsh cartoons of public officials past and present may get you a visit from the “authorized agencies,” and even land you in jail.
Needless to say, this cartoon (below), also by Haaretz cartoonist Amos Biderman, did not get the warning letter. It shows Hayut dumping Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the toilet. Classy.
‘How could we not come?’ American Jews flock to Israel to help
See that beige duplex? That is where a father sacrificed himself by drawing terrorists’ fire, allowing his wife and kids to escape from a second-story window.
That rooftop across the street, that is where a lone Jewish teenager took down terrorists who were dressed as IDF soldiers, ending their grenade attack against his neighbors.
On this corner is the bullet-riddled home of Rachel Edry, a 70-year-old woman who outwitted five terrorists by baking them cookies and chatting them up for 15 hours until a SWAT team could overtake them.
During her winter break, Sophie Katz, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., listened with awe and sadness as locals walked her through the small Israeli town of Ofakim, which Hamas terrorists besieged on Oct. 7, gunning down 56 people, most of them elderly, in a matter of hours.
“This could have been us. This could have been any of us,” said Sophie, who, on her first trip to Israel, was taking part in a Ramah Israel Solidarity Mission, a four-day opportunity for North American Jews to volunteer in the Jewish homeland as it mourns its dead and fights for its life.
The Ramah mission is one of hundreds of organized trips that are bringing thousands of Jewish volunteers to Israel to fill the needs of a society reeling from war.
Following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, which left 1,200 dead and at least 240 people kidnapped, Israel responded with a military campaign to destroy Hamas, remove the Iranian-backed terror organization from power in Gaza and rescue the hostages.
To that end, 350,000 Israelis were immediately pressed into service in the Israel Defense Forces, creating gaping needs in the tiny nation that only volunteers could fill.
And so Sophie joined the ranks of Jews from all over the world who have come to Israel to help.
New York financiers pack personal hygiene supplies for soldiers and reservists.
Canadian physicians make sandwiches for displaced families.
California attorneys work as farmhands.
Hamas deployed more than 170 children to the frontlines while terrorists ‘hide in shelters’
Hamas has been training children to join their campaign of terror and has even deployed the youngsters to the frontlines to “deliver messages and ammunitions.”
Israel Defense Force (IDF) released photos Wednesday that show the aspiring child soldiers posing alongside Hamas terrorists while holding semiautomatic weapons and manning deadly rocket launchers.
“Terrorism is not innate, it is learned,” IDF wrote in a post on X, alongside a video of children running through Hamas tunnels.
“During the ongoing war, Hamas has positioned children on the frontlines, sending them to deliver messages and ammunition while its operatives hide in shelters.”
Gazan children are taught in “schools, youth movements, and summer camps” that “killing Jews and Israelis is justified.”
Hamas runs summer camps, in which the children learn to shoot weapons, attack from a tunnel, fight against tanks and kidnap soldiers. The camps are early stages for military training in Hamas and integration into the military wing,” IDF told Fox News Digital.
The Israeli military also said Gazan children are “trained to fight in tunnels, shoot, and [to] kidnap.” The kids are handed explosives to hide and deliver to Hamas operatives to ambush Israel soldiers.
The footage was reportedly taken in Khan Younis in Gaza, IDF told Fox News.
“The transfer of explosives from place to place in Gaza by children, in vegetable bags and placing them in the Hamas ambushes,” IDF told the outlet. “Also, children are sent to the battlefields after an attack in order to assess the damage and report it to the terrorists who are hiding in shelters.”
More than 170 minors are working for Hamas and the Islamic Jihad throughout Gaza, it told Fox.
The revelation comes after Hamas claimed Israeli forces killed senior official Saleh al-Arouri, who was considered one of the founding members of the terrorist group.
Israel has not confirmed that Arouri was assassinated, but said they are “in a very high state of readiness in all arenas, in defense and offense.”
“We are highly prepared for any scenario. The most important thing to say tonight is that we are focused and remain focused on fighting Hamas,” IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on X.
Democrats are moving to bar Republicans from ballots nationwide
As the decisions disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election work their way through the courts, a new filing in Pennsylvania seeks the same “ballot cleansing” by barring Rep. Scott Perry.
It’s only the latest effort targeting congressional candidates as Democrats seek to bar opponents as “insurrectionists” for questioning the election of President Biden.
We have become a nation of Madame Defarges — eagerly knitting names of those to be subject to arbitrary justice.
Former congressional candidate Gene Stilp, who’s made headlines by burning MAGA flags with swastikas outside courthouses, filed the challenge.
Using the 14th Amendment to disqualify candidates like Perry is consistent with Stilp’s signature flag-burning stunts.
But what’s chilling is how many support such efforts, including Democratic officeholders from Maine’s secretary of state to dozens of members of Congress.
New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory for challenging the election before Jan. 6, 2021.
Rep. Cori Bush’s similar legislation to disqualify members got 63 cosponsors, all Democrats, including New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman and Ritchie Torres and Squad members Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
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