Sukkot, the festival starting 5 days after Yom Kippur and lasting for 7 days, is going on. During this time many Jews build sukkas (shelters) in their backyards, balconies, beaches or other places. It is time of thanksgiving for food, asking for good harvest, remembering time when Hebrews lived on the desert escaping Egypt to enter promised land...
One may enter such sukka freely and be accepted warmly as expected guest. It is time of cherishing friendships and making new ones.
Today is the day when tens of thousands gather at the Western Wall for priestly blessing - with chief sephardic and ashkenazi rabbis presiding over it and participating in prayers. After the ceremony pilgrims are accepted by rabbis in their sukkas at the Wall.
The last day of Sukkot is Simcha Tora (The Joy of Tora) when holy scrolls are taken around synagogue in joyful, dancing procession and even children are aloud to touch them.
HAPPY SUKKOT TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!
Sunday 22 September 2013
Monday 16 September 2013
European Anti-Semitism
Here is an article published by Gatestone Institute about European antisemitism.
It has been written by Muslim writer, obviously caring for hi religion but also full of humanitarian ideals.
In my opinion the writer has a point. There are so many, many bloody and awful conflict around the world. To name a few think about Syria, Congo, former Angola war, Darfur and - oh - so many others!!!! Most people in Europe don't give a damn or if they do they are doing their job (sometimes good and needed) without much publicity.
There is one exception. The conflict in which Europeans en masse support aggressors picturing them as victims. The conflict not even remotely as bloody as most if not all others, yet pictured by European media as if it was the most viscous on planet. The conflict which aggressors (posed and described as victims) do not want to finish, yet it is blamed on the other side! The conflict in which EU regardless of the crises pumps millions of euro from the taxpayers money.
Yes, you have guessed correctly! It is the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. And I absolutely agree with the author of the above linked article that it is not because Europeans care for Palestinians (they are completely indifferent e.g. to the fate of those Palestinians who have been put to refugee camps in Syria or Lebanon and to the fate of those who are decimated in Syria). The reason this particular conflict is so cherished by European media and many Europeans is because it allows for expressing freely antisemitism in word and deed.
It has been written by Muslim writer, obviously caring for hi religion but also full of humanitarian ideals.
In my opinion the writer has a point. There are so many, many bloody and awful conflict around the world. To name a few think about Syria, Congo, former Angola war, Darfur and - oh - so many others!!!! Most people in Europe don't give a damn or if they do they are doing their job (sometimes good and needed) without much publicity.
There is one exception. The conflict in which Europeans en masse support aggressors picturing them as victims. The conflict not even remotely as bloody as most if not all others, yet pictured by European media as if it was the most viscous on planet. The conflict which aggressors (posed and described as victims) do not want to finish, yet it is blamed on the other side! The conflict in which EU regardless of the crises pumps millions of euro from the taxpayers money.
Yes, you have guessed correctly! It is the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. And I absolutely agree with the author of the above linked article that it is not because Europeans care for Palestinians (they are completely indifferent e.g. to the fate of those Palestinians who have been put to refugee camps in Syria or Lebanon and to the fate of those who are decimated in Syria). The reason this particular conflict is so cherished by European media and many Europeans is because it allows for expressing freely antisemitism in word and deed.
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