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The Barry Chamish Website ORTHODOX JEWS - WAKE UP OR YOU'RE THROUGH
by Barry Chamish
May 6th, 2010
I am a proud Conservative Jew who has stood up for the Orthodox for fifteen years, mostly because their Jewish oppressors, or the leaders of Israel, were much, much worse and they were far more moral than their enemies were. But how can I defend the Orthodox any more when they have become intellectually irrational. No, just plain wacky?
Look what happened in Jerusalem last
week. Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir, led a march of a couple of
dozen followers in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Three
hundred policeman accompanied them, and when riots broke out, seven
were hospitalized along with a few Arab protesters. Here is the
Marzel/Ben Gvir reaction: The ugliest example of the use Mazel/Ben Gvir was in the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif. Ben Gvir showed up at the headquarters of the demonstrators, was arrested, while his gang hung a poster reading, Muhammed Is A Pig. Inevitably the nearby Arabs rioted and the police moved in to arrest and remove the legitimate Jewish protesters. Which is precisely what happened in Silwan last week. Ben Gvir was not the only agent at work against the Orthodox of Gush Katif/Gaza. There were the leaders of the Yesha Council, Pinchas Wallerstein and Benzi Lieberman. Of Wallerstein, he recently quit his leadership position after no one backed his position that the housing freeze in Yesha was a terrific idea. Previously, Lieberman testified in court that he worked with Israel Police to assure that no protesters would ever make it to Gush Katif. Not a week before the evacuation, I was invited by three Gush Katif rabbis to give me inside information on the anti-evacuation spiritual leader "Rabbi" Shlomo Aviner. The "Rabbi" had made a mockery of protest by turning it into a hippie love fest. Young Gazan Jews hugged soldiers and held hands, while their parents were led to believe that the Jewish army would never remove them from their homes. The real Rabbis told me how the government had placed Aviner in their midst and some of the information was later widely published. Aviner molested young girl students who came to him for tutoring. He was a pedophile who was given a choice between sitting in prison for his perversion or betraying 10,000 Jews out of their homes. I knew Aviner personally. He paid me about $1000 to research why Jonathan Pollard was really sitting in prison for life. I took the money, went to work and discovered that PM Shimon Peres took Pollard's documents and blackmailed George Bush Sr. into creating what became known as Iran Contra. It was a breakthrough. But instead of using it, Pollard, a secular Jew, was dragged into the world of Orthodoxy by a phoney marriage and his fate was sealed. From my intent of utilizing documented facts to gain freedom, the Pollard people now did the usual Orthodox baloney like gathering petitions that nobody outside the signees read, or writing letters beginning, An Open Letter To The President or An Open Letter To American Jews, which was neither read by any President nor any non-Orthodox American Jews. They do this for everything and don't begin to ask why. It's part of their delusion.
Of delusion, look, just look at this letter I
received two days ago from the proud Gush Katif former resident who
received the coveted Moskowitz Award: When several different representatives of our wonderful caring super Gush Katifer cheering squad ladies from all over Israel nominated me for the distinguished Moskowitz Award for Zionism I was very embarrassed . There are certainly more worthy than I. Most important why expose what is best accomplished modestly and quietly? Then I suddenly realized that I was only the "front man". I would be representing all the amazing people of Gush Katif . I would be representing those amazing Jews "clean" ( as the mesilat yesharim calls it ) of an ulterior motive other than- Love of Israel . They are those who were there for us in Gush Katif as well those standing alongside us ever since.
This understanding made be proud to have this
honor and privilege of receiving this award ! Soon the multi foculed among us hooked up with the multifoculed all over Israel with klall yisrael neshamas and the most amazing projects came to life. So very many caring people became a part of the amazing efforts to aid, encourage, hug and then plough forward towards the building anew. There is a very long list of Jewish organizations and individuals in Israel and abroad who work with us and help us. Together we have brought a new light connecting Am Eretz and Torat Yisrael to our main artery, to ZION.
After the destruction of Gush Katif this new light
of construction and the encompassing value based efforts are, I
believe, part of our Shivat Tzion, the return of Zion, as we look
and yearn for our rebuilt Jerusalem , the light that will lead the
way for our people and the world...
*** Excuse me but is it just me or is this woman nuts? The Zionists throw her out and she honors them? The Moskowitz Award is no honor, it's a sick fantasy that no one, except the recipient, could care less about. This winner has convinced herself that 10,000 homeless, uncompensated people are now redeemed by a $7 trophy? And someone, somewhere in the Orthodox world actually agrees with her?? And the delusions get worse. One Shalom Rubashkin ran a kosher cattle butchery in Iowa that was the worst sweatshop since Upton Sinclair's time, employing hundreds of illegal, underpaid Latin American feudal semi-slaves and he got busted for it. Did the Orthodox community hide in shame, beg forgiveness, feel any guilt? Not in their mind state. They signed petitions no one will read to get this obvious "victim" of anti-semitism liberated.
My Lubavitch friend, who does not wish to be
identified in this article, was deeply ashamed of her community.
Read on: But it makes me wonder… did Shalom Mordechai not make a Cheshbon when he committed his crimes? Did he think he would not get caught? Perhaps he thought if he gave Tzedakah he would not get caught. My very first lesson at Beis Chana in Minnesota (not far from Iowa) was about a thief who paused to Daven before committing his crime. Or perhaps Shalom Mordechai did not know what the consequences would be. Maybe SMR did not know he could be scapegoated if he committed a crime. It is my hope that others take to heart the example that SMR has suffered. As long as people indulge in illusions of ˜pure anti-semitism," and feel it is the judicial system which is at fault, they are not going to be able to make educated decisions to determine their own actions. I pray that SMR is returned to his family in good time. It hurts me to see such a gem of a man, with such beautiful family, in such a terrible situation. What bothers me is the superstar image that has been generated around him. When I started getting e-mails from school aged children about SMR I became concerned. In Chabad we have holidays when we celebrate the release from prison of our Rebbeim. Do the children recognize the difference between why the Alter Rebbe was jailed and why SMR is being jailed? The popularity and excitement surrounding the SMR case are frightening. They portray SMR as the good guy and the court as the bad guy. To young people – it may be conveying the message that financial crimes are cool. Our country is far from perfect. We need to work to improve it. But it is still a fabulous country even the way it is. We want a court system and we want our courts to punish criminals. I received an email notice about SMR from a Shul newsletter. I e-mailed back that some note should be made that although we are doing what we can to release SMR, we do not condone criminal actions… even if those criminal actions are non-violent. The response I got from the sender of the email was that when they sent the first request on SMR's behalf they did mention such a thing and they feel that is suffice. Well… I did not see it the first time and I question a Shul and a Rav that support him without making that qualification. It worries me… do the youngsters involved in the campaign know to separate what is wrong and what is right. When I hear people say that when the operations of SMR's plant were closed down, it forced him to default on his loans and therefore he is not to blame. I am amazed. In other words, he would not have been caught. Maybe people feel that way because they know they told a few lies when they applied for their mortgage… and if so, it is a perfectly legitimate action. If we all do it, that makes it the right thing to do, right? Irrelevant. If you do it, you risk getting caught. And you should make your personal decision on the odds of being caught against the potential punishment for the fraud. There is also the moral factor. Is your illegal act immoral? I am trying to guess what the judge's perspective is as she deliberates on the sentence. If she gives too light a sentence it will give a message to SMR that his crimes were also light. She is no doubt aware of the widespread endorsement that surrounds the case. SMR sympathizers have sent messages to her and she wants to answer them. They have turned this into a public trial. She may recognize that she and the court have been demonized and that the SMR supporters continue to portray him an innocent victim.
How can we
change her attitude? I think we can serve SMR best by showing the
judge we have learned a lesson. We realize we need to respect the
law. We realize we need to respect the court system. In fact it is a
teaching of Our Torah to do so. If it were up to me I would initiate
– in the Zechus of Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin – a network of Shiurim
teaching the importance of business ethics. Summaries of the classes
at different locations could be sent to the judge. In addition to
adult classes, since high school children have been involved in the
campaigns for SMR, let the high schools teach these classes also and
assign reports. Let the judge see that the conviction of SMR is
enough to put our community on the road she wants us to follow. *** And the delusions just don't stop. The Orthodox hate Obama, and a movement thinks Sarah Palin is their savior. How can a woman who gets a million bucks an episode for a reality show, or takes $100,000 for a twenty minute speech be anyone's savior? Other people wrote me to, seriously I add, declare that the Icelandic volcano was God's wrath at England's policy towards Israel. These are the guardians of holy writ turning the Torah into superstition. But it's not their fault entirely. In Israel, their wisest rabbis were murdered one by one by the shadow government and I add, costing me some of my most reliable friends and informants. Replacing them were criminals financially backed to be their leaders.
But how can I defend the Orthodox when they
don't clean house and defend themselves? And in between serious alternative financial, health and scientific views, I add weird interludes, like The Book Of Daniel disproved by unlikely mathematical formulae or that Netanyahu has Nefilim in his family background. In short, I try hard to make the service useful, informative and even, funny. Where else can you get news like this?
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