Prime Minister Ehud Olmert steps up attempts to pursue the Saudi peace initiative. Anarchy rules the streets of Gaza and the Negev town of Sderot suffered heavy barrages of rockets. Israel responds harshly and strikes Hamas headquarters and Kassam rocket cells in Gaza and in the shadow of all this turmoil Jerusalem marks its 40th anniversary.05/18/07.
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An Israeli woman has died in a Palestinian rocket attack, hours after fatal Israeli strikes on targets in Gaza.
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A series of Videos to provide background for people considering converting or for baalei teshuvah (returnees to Judaism).
The Festival of Shavuot First fruits Hag Habikorim
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Jewish life in Kovno, Riga, and Lvov 1929
[No Audio] Kovno ,also known as: Kaunas (Lithuanian) Kovna, Kovne
Between 1920 and 1939, Kovno (Kaunas), located in central Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. It had a Jewish population of 35,000-40,000, about one-fourth of the city's total population. Jews were concentrated in the city's commercial, artisan, and professional sectors.
Kovno was also a center of Jewish learning. The yeshiva in Slobodka, an impoverished district of the city, was one of Europe's most prestigious institutions of higher Jewish learning. Kovno had a rich and varied Jewish culture. The city had almost 100 Jewish organizations, 40 synagogues, many Yiddish schools, 4 Hebrew high schools, a Jewish hospital, and scores of Jewish-owned businesses. It was also an important Zionist center.
Riga :
After the Germans invaded Riga, the balance of political power was destabilized and again Jews were reproached. The peace which followed would be short lived, as the rise of Hitler loomed forebodingly on the political horizon.
When the Red Army entered Riga in June 1940, many Jews scrambled to the USSR, for faith in the West was lost. During this period, Jewish leaders were arrested and deported to Siberia and never returned.
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Jewish Life in Kolbuszowa 1930
Before World War II, Kolbuszowa was mostly inhabited by Jews. During the war, German troops burned down a part of the city and about half of the Jewish population perished. After World War II, Kolbuszowa was rebuilt. New school districts were created, as well as a library and Museum of Culture.
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Jewish Life in Kolbuszowa 1930
Kolbuszowa is a small city in south-eastern Poland, with 8,800 inhabitants.
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Jewish Life in Lithuania 1920
[No Audio] - Lithuanian Jews ,in Yiddish Litvish, are Ashkenazi Jews who were historically associated with Lithuania.
Lithuanian Jews are almost all Ashkenazi Jews and many are Misnagdim who were opposed to the new inroads of Hasidism.
Lithuania was historically home to a large and influential Jewish community that was almost entirely eliminated during the Holocaust.
The Lithuanian Republic was occupied by Soviet Union in 1940, and soon afterwards captured by the Nazis. During World War II, the Nazis killed around 91% of Lithuanian Jews, almost all the Jews who had not managed to leave Lithuania and its environs. This was one of the highest casualty rates in the Holocaust.
The only European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust was the Mir yeshiva. With help of the Japanese consul in Kaunas Chiune Sugihara, its leaders and students managed to escape to the Shanghai ghetto. [Text as per Youtube uploader ]
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Jewish Life in Vilna 1939
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Jewish Life in Bialystock 1939
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising, April 1943
In January 1943, Warsaw ghetto fighters fired upon German troops as they tried to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation. Fighters used a small supply of weapons that had been smuggled into the ghetto. After a few days, the troops retreated. This small victory inspired the ghetto fighters to prepare for future resistance.
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans.
The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. (more)
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising, April 1943
Plans to isolate the Jewish population of Warsaw and its nearby suburbs in a ghetto first circulated immediately after the German occupation of Poland in 1939.
At the time, the German administration of the General Government had not been fully organized, and there were conflicting interests among the three major players: the civilian administration, the military, and the SS. Under these circumstances, the Jewish Council, or Judenrat, headed by Adam Czerniaków, was able to delay the establishment of the Ghetto by one year, mainly by appealing to the military to consider how Jews were a valuable labor resource.
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Warsaw Ghetto 1942
[No Audio] - The first phase of the Final Solution was Operation Reinhard, with the goal of destroying the Jews of Poland. Construction started on the Treblinka extermination camp in May of 1942, and it was completed in July, when the wholesale liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto was to begin.
On July 22, 1942, the Judenrat was informed that all Jews except those working in German factories, Jewish hospital staff, members of the Judenrat and their families, and members of the Jewish police force and their families would be "deported to the East".
As ordered on July 22, 1942, mass deportations of the inhabitants started; in the next 52 days (until September 21, 1942) about 300,000 people were taken to the Treblinka extermination camp. During the remaining days of July, the Jewish Ghetto Police were responsible for carrying out the deportations, a total of 64,606 Jews were transported to the death camps that month. From August onward, the Germans and their allies took a more direct role in the deportations, with over 135,000 Jews deported in August alone.(more)
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Warsaw Ghetto [II]
[No Sound] - During the next year and a half, Jews from smaller cities and villages were brought into the Ghetto, while diseases (especially typhoid) and starvation kept the inhabitants at about the same number. Average food rations in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw were limited to 253 kcal, compared to 669 kcal for gentile Poles and 2,613 kcal for German people.
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Warsaw Ghetto [I]
[No Sound] - The Warsaw Ghetto was finally established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16, 1940. At this time, the population of the Ghetto was estimated to be about 380,000 people, about 30% of the population of Warsaw. However, the size of the Ghetto was about 2.4% of the size of Warsaw. Nazis then closed off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world on November 16th that year, building a wall.
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Jewish Life in Munkacz (Hungary)1933
The rebbe of Munkacs (or Munkatch), Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira (who led the community from 1913 until his death in 1937) was the most outspoken voice of religious anti-Zionism.
He had succeeded his father, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Spira, who had earlier inherited the mantle of leadership from his father Rabbi Shlomo Spira. This Hasidic dynasty was based in the town of Mukacheve, known as "Munkacs", "Minkatch" or "Munkacz" in common Jewish usage.
In the spring of 1944 there were nearly 15,000 Jewish residents of the town. This ended on May 30, 1944 when the city was pronounced Judenrein (free of Jews after ghettoization and a series of deportations to Auschwitz).
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Jewish Life in Krakow 1939
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GLENN BECK ON MICKEY THE KILLER MUSLIM MOUSE
Unbelievable, the Palestinians have a Mickey Mouse character, they would have gladly allowed him to star in a children's television show for years, showing children how to hate, and want to kill Jews and Americans.
Yet The story breaks and all of a sudden Palestinian representatives are 'appalled' in a broadcast to the West., The leaders are 'appalled', by this Mickey Mouse Character.
They bring attention to a 'possible mistranslation. Fox news stops showing the clip whilst it is shown to an Arabic tanslater.
Who are they trying to kid? Are we supposed to believe them? Has the world lost all sense of decency?
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Farfur is teaching Palestinian children the ABCs of terror on Hamas' official television station, Al-Aqsa TV.
The message seems to be working. Poems and songs submitted by young viewers contain violent imagery. "Rafah sings 'Oh, oh,'" one caller says as Farfur mimes carrying a rifle. "Its answer is an AK-47."
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The New President of France
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Memri TV project:
Iqra TV examines Public attitudes twoards Jews
Iqra TV (Saudi Arabia)
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Some how, if he doesn't dislike Mondays already,
one gets the feeling he will by this Monday.
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Rav Shmuel is a Rabbi who drinks beer, has six kids, and thinks of himself as a rock star! Fans of Jack Johnson, Barenaked Ladies, Sublime and Phish will want to add this CD to their collections.
Rav Shmuel has a beard and sidelocks and loves The Dead! He does not see an inconsistency between those two identities. Rav, who has taught Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at various universities, has also toured the USA with Gelfilte Fish, his first stateside band, playing sold-out parking lots before and after Phish shows.
Born in Brooklyn, Rav spent seven years in Jerusalem teaching by day and playing in the clubs at night. Rav moved back to New York in 2004, quickly becoming a house favoorite at The Sidewalk Cafe, which has produced such stars as Beck, Hamell On Trial, and the Moldy Peaches.
So what we're talking about here is a forty-something Orthodox Rabbi who is currently rocking out the East Village's freshest scene and will soon be rocking out colleges, the internet, and media near you!
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Sarit hadad's Sh'ma Israel.
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Where the Hell are Matt's Outtakes.
Most people have seen Where the Hell is Matt, these outakes are just as good
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Where the Hell is Matt.
IF you haven't seen 'Where the Hell is Matt' here it is,
dont forget to check out the next video
which are the out takes, the out takes are just as good
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