Tamar Yonah thinks that the next Holocaust is a very loaded topic. It is up to us to see the signs, signals, and trends, and then immediately act in earnest.
In her opinion one can’t "beat" or win, against the wave of anti-Semitism.
History has shown us this, and has taught us that the only real way to survive and live in safety is to move, and Israel is the only home for the Jewish People, and the safest place to be.
Tamar dishes it out and pleads for her brothers and sisters to see the signs, and realize that not even in the academic world, on college campuses, can a Jew be free.
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This article isn't an April fools Joke .... they are very serious...but you know what? It's a great distraction to all the crazy stuff going on in real life.
Sure, they’reout there, but should we be looking?
Michio Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at City College of New York and all-around pop-science icon, has issued a warning about extraterrestrials — and efforts to seek them out.
“I think that’s a terrible idea,” the 74-year-old astrophysicist said.
Kaku, perhaps best known for his contributions to string theory, spoke to the Guardian about his new book, “The God Equation,” which covers contemporary movements in science and technology.
But his interview took a spacey turn.
In the past, Kaku has theorized that humans may meet their extraterrestrial counterparts within this century. While the prospect might sound thrilling for many, Kaku is more cautious than eager to make contact.
“We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago,” he said, alluding to the disastrous demise of the 16th century Aztec emperor, which was instigated by what seemed to be a friendship of convenience with Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
Cortés’ amiable acquaintance would devolve into the fall of the Aztec Empire as Spanish colonizers usurped power over native peoples — all based on what historians describe as a big miscommunication between the disparate cultures. Or, that Cortés lied to the Spanish monarch as justification to wage war against the Aztecs.
Either way, those worlds colliding ended in tragedy for some 200,000 Aztecs.
And, like the European settlers to the Americas, Kaku hypothesizes that our other-worldly visitors may also approach amicably, although they could harbor more insidious intentions.
“Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly, but we can’t gamble on it. So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.”
And the potentially disastrous meeting could also happen sooner than you might think.
“Soon we’ll have [NASA’s James] Webb telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization,” Kaku said.
Recently, Kaku made another alarming prediction for the near future: self-replicating robots. In a 15-minute video for Big Think, the scientist discussed the prospect of sending clone bots to help build-out Mars for galactic colonization.
While discussing Elon Musk’s plans for a “multi-planet species,” by sending about 1 million humans to colonize Mars via Musk’s SpaceX rockets, Kaku notes that the job would also require “a million hammers” and “a million saws.”
“You have to have fleets of workers to begin the process of building things — unless you create the first self-replicating robot … until you have an army of these robots that can build cities on Mars,” he told Big Think. In his vision, these robots “can make copies of themselves by mining the minerals that are already on Mars.”
“And then beyond that, who knows? Maybe our destiny really does lie in outer space,” he concluded — that is, if the robots don’t wise-up and turn against us first.
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The first argument in the newly sworn-in 24th Knesset took place on Wednesday morning between the first Reform Rabbi to become an MK,Gilad Kariv(Labor) and Noam MK Avi Maoz.
Kariv spoke from the plenum about the state of Israel cultivating a commitment to all Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora – to all streams of Judaism.
“As long as the state of Israel isn’t willing to recognize all the streams of the Jewish people, Israel’s investment in the Diaspora won’t be of benefit,” Kariv said. “Because despite the investment people won’t accept being told that they’re second-rate or third-rate Jews.”
MK Avi Maoz responded: “A Jew is whoever the highest halachic authority, which is the Chief Rabbinate, determines is a Jew. There’s a difference between individual Jews and streams or movements. There are no streams in Judaism. There’s one Yahadus according to the Torah. And these streams are new, but Yahadus is over 3,000 years old.”
“It’s impossible to mislead the public and say that everyone can establish their own Judaism. Just like I can’t establish an academic institution and call myself a professor, it’s the same thing in Judaism. There is only one Judaism.”
Kariv interjected: “You’re a small minority. This is a Jewish and democratic state, not a halachic state.”
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Scan the people below. These are the featured speakers that JSTREET will have... not one is pro-israel and most are actually antagonistic.
And the JStreet liars call themselves "Pro-Israel".... they are not fooling anyone ......Goebbells would have loved to have them at his rallies.
Azzeh is a member of the PLO...enough said ...
She was rated as +2 by the Arab American Institute , indicating her pro-Arab ,pro-Palestinian voting record.She is a stanch supporter of Ilhan Omar
He tweeted criticising Israel's vaccine policy, repeating the lie that Israel wasn't vaccinating Palestinains but then removed it. He was endorsed by AOC and Bernie Sanders who have been openly critical of Israel.
He doesn't hide his hostility towards Israel and indicated that he would restrict Israel aid over annexation.
Repeated the lie that Israel isn't vaccinating Palestinians
She refused to condemn BDS, is for a two-state solution , which even the Arabs don't want
He ran against Lindsay Graham and was defeated, he is for BDS , supports the Iran Deal, and a two-state solution, also was against the US Embassy move to Jerusalem
He said that the ICC probe against Israel is "legitimate" ...enough said
She is a self-hating Jew who is dating a Palestinian Arab.. see our post
He finally under pressure backtracked his outrageous claim which he made on on live TV on CNBC that Israel is "burning down Palestinian villages," he is a clueless Jew Hater.
Kim stupedly questioned why Trump had Soleimani, an Iranian murderer of thousands of innocent women and children, killed. He also signed a letter opposing Trump's peace plan in the Middle East. He isn't one of the sharpest knives in the drawer.
She isn't even hiding that she is Anti-Israel and is a BDS backer and called for Israel to go back to the suicidal 1967 borders
Knowing zero about the Middle East this clueless Latino advocated for a two-state solution that even the Arabs don't want... ..
Instead of being busy with the sick political situations in Cuba and Venezuela, she is busy with the Jewish State.. I don't know if she is a "beast" but she is certainly no "beauty". But JStreet is featuring this political ignorant fool as a "confirmed" speaker.
Has advocated for a two-state solution that even the Arabs don't want... the Arabs are all for a one state being Arab.. This Jew in name only visited Shomron and while there blasted Israel ..something that no Israeli politician would do in the USA..
This naive useful idiot for JStreet supports the Iran deal, and supported UN's Goldstone report that falsely accused the Israel military of targeting civilians, charges that Goldstein himself who wrote it, admitted was inaccurate.
She is the leader of the Dying Labor Party, the Labor Party are the wonderful folks that gave us the suicidal Oslo calamity, and she promises Israelis a "feminist paradise" whatever that means. Oh did I mention that she is for a two-State solution. All of Israel including the far leftist media are still wondering how she got a seat.
This beauty supports the Iran deal, a two-state solution, and was against the US Embassy move to Jerusalem, a move that was overwhelmingly supported by both parties. In 2019 he voted against Strengthening America's Middle East Security Act which, strengthened Israel's security and allowed a state or local government to adopt measures to divest its assets from entities that boycott Israel.
She was endorsed by AOC and Bernie Sanders .. which tells you everything you would want to know about her but know that she is one of the most vocal anti-Israel Democrats in Congress and repeated the lie that Israelis weren't vaccinating Palestinians. On her website she has 12 points which has demands on Israel but has only one for the Palestinians. She opposes making BDS illegal in the USA... and was against the Embassy move to Jerusalem. She claims that her husband is Jewish so that gives her the license to bash them.
He is a fancy Arab lawyer but don't get fooled by this smooth talker as he heads the Joint Arab List that vows in its charter the destruction of Israel, but Left-wing American Jews adore him, regardless, even though he also hates the USA..... But JStreet believes he would be a great speaker at their "pro-Israel" convention.
Was Prime Minister and resigned in 2009 in disgrace after being indicted and then convicted over corruption, he sat in jail, he is for giving back most of Israel even land that the Arabs are not claiming. Instead of crawling under a rock he writes a column in The Jerusalem Post every single week that only bashes Israel.
Claims he supports Israel, but is all for the Iran deal, that gives and gave the Iranian murderers money even though they vowed countless times to wipe Israel off the map. They also stage rallies with thousands of people chanting "Death to America, Death to Israel." He is for a two-state solution and loves matzo ball soup.
The Nazis would have loved him in their cabinet and the minute he would have become useless to them, they would have fed him alive to the fiery furnaces of the Concentration Camps, since he is Jewish, but don't let his Jewishness fool you as he hates everything about it and hates the State of Israel, married a shiksa, honeymooned in Soviet Communist Russia and all his children are goyim.
She is not only ugly as sin, she a vicious Israel hater and advised the Student BDS movement at UCI, she supports Israel's enemies in Congress and on Campus; she cannot be trusted but she will speak at the "pro-Israel" JStreet Convention.
Warnock is not only anti-Israel, but is anti white, he claimed that Israel is deliberately polluting the water in Gaza making it undrinkable in an effort to kill Palestinian children. This past Easter Sunday he even mocked Christian theology regarding the resurrection of Jesus.
She is all for a two-state solution and calls for Israel to give up the West Bank where over a half million Jews currently live... she isn't asking anyone in the entire world to give up their homes except for Israelis ..she was nicknamed Pocohantos by Trump because of her lying claim that she had Native American blood... she, who is whiter than white, benefited financially from that claim in many ways ... she is not only a liar and a thief.. she is also an annoying "klafta"
This lunatic said the Trump's Jerusalem decision to move US embassy was " provocative and counterproductive"... which turned out to be one of the most stupidest comments ever uttered in the halls of congress.
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The "distorter" of Jewish History Michael Fischbach
Michael Fischbach's book review in "American Jewish History" is a vicious screed that challenges the very legitimacy of Israel's existence and justifies the anti-Israel "right of return."
It may not be news anymore when a Jewish professor bashes Israel. But there should still be outrage when a respected US Jewish academic journal publishes a virulent attack on Israel disguised as scholarship.
The journal in question, American Jewish History, is published by the American Jewish Historical Society, a distinguished scholarly organization. Its latest issue features heavily footnoted essays on topics like healthcare workers on the Lower East Side in the early 1900s and the debate among Orthodox Jews over family planning in the 1950s.
And then, sticking out like a sore thumb is Michael Fischbach's tirade against Israel, presented as a normal, scholarly book review.
Fischbach is a professor of history at Virginia's Randolph-Macon College.
He writes that the "settler movement creating a Jewish state out of 77% of Palestine/Israel" caused "the permanent exile of 80% of those who had lived there."
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Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform, launched a Yiddish course on Tuesday.
The site teaches Yiddish through game-like lessons that take five to seven minutes a day. Lessons and exercises are adapted to the user's learning style, and students are tempted to stay motivated by earning virtual coins, unlocking new levels and watching their "fluency score" rise as they master a new language.
According to Duolingo, some 10,000 students have already signed up to learn Yiddish – a language that originated during the 9th century in Central Europe.
Meena Viswanath, whose family includes a number of prominent Yiddish scholars, was the project's expert in blending academic Yiddish with the everyday vernacular spoken by Jews worldwide, primarily Chassidic Jews whose roots go back to Eastern Europe.
"We used mostly the spelling and grammar that's a little bit more formalized among the secular Yiddishists," she said, according to JTA. "But then when we recorded the audio, we used the pronunciation that is used in the vernacular among students, specifically in Borough Park in Brooklyn and so forth."
"So many people, especially Americans, are aware of Yiddish. But their awareness is often limited to stereotypes or a few phrases here and there that they heard their grandparents or neighbors say," she said. "I really hope that those people will open the course and start doing it and realize, 'Hey, Yiddish is a real language, it's got grammar, it has a vocabulary.'"
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Israel informed the United States it struck Saviz, an Iranian-flagged ship, in the Red Sea on Tuesday, Saudi news network Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday, citing a report in The New York Times. The attack reportedly came in retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels, as the maritime shadow war between the Jewish state and the Islamic republic has been slowly coming to light.
The Saviz, long known to the international intelligence community as a spy shio operated by Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps, was attacked in the Red Sea by limpet mines attached to the hull, Iranian media reported.
"The vessel Iran Saviz has been stationed in the Red Sea for the past few years to support Iranian commandos sent on commercial vessel (anti-piracy) escort missions," the Tasnim news agency said.
The New York Times cites an unnamed American official as saying Israel has informed the US that it had, indeed, struck Saviz.
"The Israelis had called the attack a retaliation for earlier Iranian strikes on Israeli vessels, and that the Saviz had been damaged below the waterline," the report noted.
According to Al Arabiya, the Saviz is officially listed as a general cargo vessel. However, the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy described the 'Saviz' in a report as the "Iranian mother ship on station located in Eritrea's contiguous waters."
It said: "The ship has signals intelligence domes and antennae. It is visited by all Iranian ships moving through the Red Sea, nominally to coordinate anti-piracy measures. At least three speedboats are based on deck, which are used to ferry personnel to Yemen."
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On the eve of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day there is currently just over 174,500 Holocaust survivors and victims of anti-Semitism during the Holocaust living in Israel, according to a report byIsrael Hayom.
Since last year’s Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, 14,264 Holocaust survivors have passed away, with an average of 41 dying every day.
Of the 174,500 Holocaust survivors and victims of anti-Semitism during the Holocaust currently living in Israel, 83% of them are over the age of 80, according to the report. Roughly 18%, or approximately 31,000 people, are over the age of 90, and more than 900 are over the age of 100. Some 60% are women, or 105,000.
The average age of Holocaust survivors and victims of Holocaust-era anti-Semitism is 84.5.
Sixty-four percent were born in Europe, including 63,500 people, or 36% of the total, being born in the former Soviet Union, making it the largest group. The second largest group are the Romanian-born at roughly 20,500, or 12% of the total, followed by Polish-born with 9,600 (5.5%), Bulgarian-born with 2,500 (2.7%), and Hungarian-born (1.5%).
Thirty-six percent were born in Asia or North Africa, with 32% originating in Morocco or Algeria, where the French Vichy regime ruled as a Nazi puppet government during the Second World War.
Eleven percent, or roughly 19,200 people are immigrants from Iraq, where they suffered from anti-Semitism during the Second World War, most notably during the 1941 ‘Farhud’ pogrom.
A further seven percent, or 11,000 people, are Tunisian or Libyan-born, and suffered under the racial purity laws imposed during the war, with many being sent to forced labor camps.
Haifa is home to Israel’s largest population of survivors with 12,100 people listed, followed by Jerusalem with 10,800, Tel Aviv with 9,500, Ashdod with 8,700, Netanya with 8,500, Beer Sheva with 7,600, Petah Tikva with 7,000, and Rishon Letzion with 6,900.
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With Republicans reduced to hecklers, Albany Democrats, oblivious or reckless or both, are marching toward the cliff in an Alfred E. Neuman, What, Me Worry? Way. The rising chorus of “Stop!” goes unheeded.
Washington is sending train loads of money to blue states to bail out their high tax, high spend habits. As longtime government guru Dick Ravitch writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Congress has been generous, allocating more than $12 billion to New York state, $6 billion to the city, $6 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and $9 billion to the state’s schools.”
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