Rosh Hashanah 5771! Happy Jewish New Year!

On Wednesday evening, the Moscow Jewish community centre will host a celebration of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) led by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rav Berel Lazar. Worshippers will light holiday candles and hold a prayer service for the New Year, featuring a famous cantor from New York City, Rav Shneur Zalman Baumgarten, a spokesman for the FEOR told our Interfax-Religion correspondent.

During the prayers for the New Year, believers must bring before Almighty God an accounting of the year just past, repent of all the evil deeds they committed, and come back to God. They greet one another with the words, “May you be written and sealed for a good year” (ketiva ve-chatima tovah). On the same day, there will be a concert at the community centre featuring the male Jewish choir Хасидская капелла (Hasidic Cappella), and on Thursday, there will be a festive worship service where the faithful will gather in the courtyard of the centre for the blowing of the shofar, a special ceremonial horn. The sound of the shofar reminds believers that they must be mindful of the Kingdom of God. In ancient times, the sounding of the shofar celebrated the coronation of kings. Jews date their calendar from the traditional date for the creation of the world, and the coming year will be 5771 [according to their reckoning].

Jews celebrate the New Year for two days, they believe that God weighs the deeds of mankind and determines the fate of each person for the coming year. Ancient Jewish tradition teaches that the name of everyone living on earth is written in the Book of Life in Heaven. During the days of Rosh Hashanah, God writes in this book the fate of all living people on earth, “who shall live and who shall die, who shall rest and who shall wander, who shall have pleasure and who shall have pain, and who shall have want and who shall have plenty”. Jewish believers set a festive table for the New Year, but the ceremony of blessing the meal (Kiddush) doesn’t begin as on regular days, it begins with bread and salt, then, bread with honey. After the Kiddush proper, there’s a blessing over fruit, and one then eats apples dipped in honey. As they do so, Jews say, “Thy will be done, O God of our Fathers, give us a good and sweet year”.

Rav Berel Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia, marked the New Year (Rosh Hashanah) on the Jewish calendar. In his address to the faithful, he pointed up that repentance was the overriding theme of this holiday. “Many people are afraid of the word ‘repentance’, they think that it’s much too difficult and painful, it’s beyond their strength. In fact, nothing is more natural for a man to do. Repentance for a believing Jew isn’t loud lamentations or self-punishment, it isn’t torturing yourself with fasting, or other such exercises”, Rav Lazar said in a statement released by his press office on Wednesday. “Rather, it means to honestly admit to yourself what you’ve done wrong, and to honestly promise to God and yourself that you shall not continue to commit such acts, you’re going to set a positive programme of action for the morrow. Having rejected unjust actions, a man returns to God and to himself, to his own human nature. It’s obvious that everyone wants good things in their life and everyone wants respect! Everyone wants to be closer to God! So… don’t be afraid to repent, it’s not a great trial, but, it’s a great relief to find the road to happiness and peace for your soul”, he said.

NB: The intro takes about a minute before the music proper begins…

Rav Lazar reminded us that we sound the shofar during these holidays in all the synagogues to awaken people “from their spiritual slumber, to help them heal. What’s more, the sound of the shofar symbolises the cry of the human heart that knows that it can and should live differently, and it knows, with God’s help, that it can restore every splendid detail of its spirituality, righteousness, joy, and happiness. In the coming year, I wish that every one of you makes a true return to God, and through this joyous return, to find yourself, your true spiritual nature”, Rav Lazar concluded.

The Jewish community in Russia makes a significant contribution to the preservation of our national and cultural diversity, to an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding in our society.

President Dmitri Medvedev

President Dmitri Medvedev greeted Russian Jews on the Jewish New Year, the 5,771th since the creation of the world. “Russian Jews, in accordance with their ancient religious beliefs, especially honour this holiday of spiritual purification with bright hopes for the future. It leads to the encouragement of creativity and moral perfection, to mutual understanding, kindness, and love for one’s neighbour. These values are dear to all religious believers. Over the centuries, they’ve been the basis for good-neighbourliness, peace, and harmony in our country”, according to the President’s telegram, as released by the Kremlin press service. The message went on to emphasise, “Today, in a revival of its rich traditions, the Jewish community in Russia makes a significant contribution to the preservation of our national and cultural diversity, to an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding in our society”.

8 September 2010

Interfax-Religion

http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=37257

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George Soros Donated 100 Million to So-Called “Human Rights” Group

Here’s George Soros… the flip side of the Tea Party… he’s just as bad and just as evil…

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Well-known businessman and philanthropist George Soros plans to donate 100 million dollars (3.088 billion Roubles 78.45 million Euros 64.61 million UK Pounds) to the so-called “human rights organisation” Human Rights Watch (HRW) over the next decade. “Human Rights Watch is one of the most effective organizations I support”, Mr Soros said. According to HRW, the gift from the Soros Open Society Foundation “will be the largest gift that the Hungarian-born American investor has ever made to a non-governmental organisation”. However, to get this money, HRW itself must collect a matching amount. HRW would use the money from the Soros Foundation to hire new staff and expand its international network. Furthermore, in accordance with this plan, as it said in a statement, over the next five years HRW will expand its annual budget from 48 million (1.483 billion Roubles 37.656 million Euros 31.013 million UK Pounds) to 80 million dollars (2.471 billion Roubles 62.76 million Euros 51.528 million UK Pounds). Currently based in New York, HRW is represented in nearly 90 countries around the world; it employs nearly 300 people. In an interview with The New York Times, Mr Soros said that the HRW gift is only the first of a series of large charitable contributions that are in the works. “Part of the reason for this is my age. At first, I planned to distribute all my money during my life, but, later, I abandoned this plan”, the BBC quoted him as saying.

8 September 2010

Voice of Russia World Service

http://rus.ruvr.ru/2010/09/08/19315261.html

Editor’s Note:

The blowhards of the Left are as dangerous as the blowhards on the Right. There’s no difference between them… Eric Hoffer was right, “We few will tell you many what to do”. George Soros is EVIL. When you support George Soros, you support the Grad bombardment of sleeping civilians in their beds. When you support George Soros, you support Uniate thugs bashing in the faces of Orthodox priests with iron bars. When you support George Soros, you support Kosovars pissing on the altars of destroyed Orthodox churches. When you support George Soros, you support shrinky-dinks and judges taking kids away from their families.

Any questions?

BMD

Militants Wearing Iraqi Army Uniforms Killed Two American Soldiers

THIS is why American troops in Iraq are unsafe… they’re there to make things sweet for Halliburton, Blackwater, and other corporate interests. It’s why Iraqis are willing to fight them…

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On Tuesday, militants wearing Iraqi military uniforms opened fire on US soldiers in the province of Salah al-Din in northern Iraq. As a result, two were killed and nine wounded, and the assailants were killed in the ensuing shootout. The incident occurred at a US military base in Tuz, only a week after the USA formally announced the end of the Iraq operation. In March 2003, the USA sent troops into Iraq, using the pretext that Saddam Hussein’s régime possessed weapons of mass destruction. No evidence of such was found during the years of the war. By the end of August 2010, 90,000 American troops had withdrawn from Iraq, leaving less than 50,000 in-country. The remaining forces will remain until the end of 2012, to ensure the safety of American civilian experts and diplomats, as well as to train Iraqi security forces.

8 September 2010

Voice of Russia World Service

http://rus.ruvr.ru/2010/09/08/19275215.html

Editor’s Note:

Unfortunately, the “withdrawal” from Iraq was a sham, as the forces left are some 40 percent of their previous strength. There shall be more of this until US forces leave the area… the Iraqis don’t take well to Americans raping their country of its movable wealth (for instance, the electrical grid is still unrepaired… they’re only wogs, after all). Sadly, for the troops involved, it’s still “the same bat-time and the same bat-station”.

Demjanjuk Being Crucified to Mollify “Holocaust Industry” Lobby

This book is available from Amazon… on the whole, it’s a good read. The poor bastard was tried and found innocent… but, in spite of “double jeopardy”, they kept dragging him to court. Doesn’t the ADL and the Wiesenthal Centre realise that it’s grist for the anti-Semitic mill? I wouldn’t call that very bright…

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I warned him, if you follow this, you’re going to get in trouble… because you’re going to expose the American intellectual community as a gang of frauds, they’re not going to like it, and they’re going to destroy you.

Naom Chomsky

It has taken me some time to absorb what I should always have known, that in my whole approach to the study of the destruction of the Jews I was pitting myself against the main current of Jewish thought.

Raul Hillberg

Read this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_trying_demjanjuk;_ylt=Ag.A7i5WgInEv3oyTqkMGll34T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTMyNDM0dDc4BGFzc2V0Ay9hcC8yMDEwMDkwOC9hcF9vbl9yZV9ldS9ldV9nZXJtYW55X3RyeWluZ19kZW1qYW5qdWsEcG9zAzUEc2VjA3luX3RvbWJzdG9uZQRzbGsDZGVtamFuanVraGVh

This is a judicial farce. Earth to Wiesenthal Centre and all other loudmouth “Holocaust pimps”… Mr Demjanjuk is NINETY-YEARS-OLD. John Demjanjuk was a perimeter guard at Sobibor… since he was a Slav, the Nazis considered him untermenschtum… “subhuman”. He made no decisions, he gave no orders, and he had no one underneath him. That is to say, he was an ordinary spear dragger, who was as much a victim of the situation as any other (after all, he was trying to escape a German POW camp for Soviet troops, which were well known as death traps). He wasn’t RESPONSIBLE for anything in legal terms.

This is why I despise the Holocaust Industry and agree wholeheartedly with Norman Finkelstein’s thesis on them. They’re nothing but pimps and bloodsuckers. For example, I question the very term, “Holocaust”… in English, a “holocaust” is the sacrifice of a spotless animal for the expiation of sin, such as occurred in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem before AD 70. The Jüdenmord (Murder of the Jews) was not expiation for anyone’s sin nor were the Jews of Europe any more or less innocent than other ethnic group. It was a sin, it was an enormity; it was wicked, vile, and beyond words. However… reflect on this… it was NOT a crime. A crime is a violation of statute law, full stop. It should give us pause that this evil act was NOT illegal… it was quite legal and it was state policy. There is a distinction between sin and crime, and one does violence, not only to the language, but also to morals themselves, if you conflate them.

To seek redress in the courts for this evil, to seek to punish people for following the law, is a perversion of the very concept of legality. Mind you, I do NOT care for anti-Semitism… yet, I know that I will be charged with such for disagreeing with this or that Jew. So be it… I have no control over what others think of my ideas or me. Nazi Germany was defeated in war… the camps were dismantled, the slave labourers were set free, the looted goods were returned (if they still existed), and Germany lay in ruins. In short, it paid the normal price of the vanquished. The Nazi régime was destroyed… mostly, a victim of its own racist and hateful agenda (such as the Tea Party shall self-destruct because of its roots in hatred and bigotry).

Indeed, up until the 1980s, there was no prominence for the Holocaust Industry. People knew that the Nazis had perpetrated an enormity… they knew that four to six million innocents were done to death merely for being Jewish. Why was there a change? Perhaps, I could cite the GI Bill… the first sizable cohort of educated Jews in America came after World War II, and many didn’t reach positions of higher authority in academe until the 80s. There was no conspiracy… anyone who believes that deserves a long rest in a home for the feebleminded. It was simply a “meeting of the minds”, a collection of the likeminded. It was also the first generation to come of age without direct knowledge of World War II, which meant that jumped-up frauds such as Elie Wiesel had malleable minds to prey upon (simply because one had survived the camps doesn’t automatically confer any special status or wisdom on one).

As for me, I agree with Raul Hillberg. I’ll tell you who were FAR MORE guilty than John Demjanjuk in the slaughter of European Jewry… the members of the Judenräte (Jewish Councils). They cooperated with the Nazis… the killing would’ve been far less without their collaboration. That’s the TRUE taboo subject on the topic… no one is allowed to say that prominent Jews bought their survival at the cost of their own people’s lives. You want to drag someone into court? Go after these soulless wankers (or their descendants). They sent others to die so they could survive. They sent others to die so that they could live to profit in future. In short, they were the personification of Shylock… only the “pound of flesh” that they demanded was from their own people. That’s nasty and unforgivable. The reason why it’s a taboo subject is clear… some of those in the Holocaust Industry were related to such people or were such people themselves.

I have known many lovely people who survived the German camps (and the GULag as well)… most of them didn’t want to talk of it. If you pressed them, the most they would say was, “It was evil… what more can you say?” I remember the photo of John Demjanjuk with his Israeli guards when they were informed of the decision of his release from prison. The Israeli guard shook his hand and smiled… he was GLAD for Mr Demjanjuk. I can hear the Israeli guard, talking to his bros that night over a beer, “Poor bastard… he got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. He wasn’t a bad sort”. His mate would say, “You’re right, Avi, the higher-ups will always send one of us to hell if they fuck up. It’s a crazy world… have another drink”.

That’s the long and the short of it. John Demjanjuk is guilty of NOTHING. He should be allowed to go home and live the rest of his life with his family. Those who are behind this judicial charade are soulless pigs and we should treat them accordingly. It’s not against the law for me to express my opinion of them, nor is it libellous. God help us all, especially the poor Demjanjuk family.

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Wednesday 8 September 2010

Albany NY