MAZON, A Jewish Response To Hunger is the only national Jewish Organization devoted solely to eradicating hunger in the US and Israel. Founded twenty-eight years ago by Leonard Fine, this (then) grass roots organization, headquartered in Los Angeles, has grown into one of the preeminent hunger fighting groups in the country. As part of The Jewish Justice Round Table, and in concert with all of the leading interfaith hunger- fighters, MAZON (the Hebrew word for sustenance) has become known as a “go to” source for effective leadership and direction in this vital area. While not formed as a disaster emergency response group, or emergency relief organization, MAZON’s over eighty thousand individual donors know that MAZON knows who has “boots on the ground”, and who does what best. They know how to direct donations for disaster relief so that the money goes to work immediately and most effectively.
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Honorees Josh Commer, an EMT worker, and Debbie Burack, an art teacher, who were critical in bringing support to all of Staten Island.
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Met Council Residents Director, Dena Johnson, who evacuated most of the 116 housing residence living in Abraham I and II in Seagate, Brooklyn. |
Staten Island resident, Lina, 31, sharing her post-hurricane struggles during the event.
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In the month since Hurricane Sandy hit New York, tens of thousands of lives have been dramatically changed. As the crisis of the initial weeks slowly gives way to the long recovery and rebuilding effort, Met Council took a moment to shine the spotlight on the everyday individuals who performed heroic acts in the face of disaster.
On Tuesday, December 4, 2012, Met Council held the Hurricane Sandy Heroes Recognition Event at the Solo Event Space, 40 Broad Street. The cocktail reception highlighted inspirational stories of heroism from the frontlines of the storm's aftermath.
The evening would not have been possible without our generous sponsors: Solo Event Space, Solomon Langer, Royal Wine Corporation, The FoxStone Group, Abe Ziegermann, The Real Deal, HMS Associates, and The Judy Networks.
Honored heroes included Josh Commer, an EMT worker, and Debbie Burack, an art teacher, who were critical in bringing support to all of Staten Island. Since day one, Josh and Debbie have been pinpointing homes in need and providing whatever clean-up and construction services they can. Together they have led more than 80 volunteers to the relief efforts in Staten Island.
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My friends, as you follow the deteriorating security situation in Israel, I wanted to bring to your attention that the Sheba Medical Center has been placed on emergency alert status, and is taking a series of urgent steps to gird itself for the coming challenges.
The first wounded of "Operation Pillar of Defense" are already at Sheba. We are treating the victims of the direct strike on a Kiryat Malachi home this morning - in which three people were killed. One of the people killed was a young mother, Mira Scharf. Her husband and four-year-old son are in serious condition at Sheba, and were both operated on this afternoon.
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The Obama administration is baffled by the Egyptian government's response to the Sept. 11 attack on the American embassy in Cairo. It took President Mohamed Morsi two days to denounce the assault on the embassy, and even then he placed the blame on a hitherto unnoticed clip posted on YouTube rather than on the attackers. For two days after the flag-burning, Egyptian security was absent while demonstrators threatened the embassy. "A single security vehicle was imaged making an occasional and completely feckless foray through the gathering area, during the early morning of 13 September in Cairo. No Egyptian police or military or other security personnel were present," the Nightwatch letter observed Sept. 13. The Muslim Brotherhood called for mass protests against the Youtube clip, albeit "peaceful" ones.
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PA’s President, Mahmoud (Abu-Maazen) Abbas. Accusing Israel of having disseminate drugs among thousands of Palestinian youth.
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO for Israel Sun |
NY -- On June 27, several Palestinian Authority (PA) officials accused Israel of having a policy to disseminate drugs among thousands of Palestinian youth. The District Governor of the cities of Ramallah and El-Bireh, Laila Ghannam, was reported as saying in a meeting with the Italian Consul-General, Giampaolo Cantini, that "the spread of the plague of drugs among the Palestinian young generation is a deliberate act by the Israeli occupation" and that the world's attention to "occupation's (i.e., Israel's) efforts to humiliate our youth, to break their willpower, and to distance them from their (Palestinian) cause and their principles, by spreading drugs among them...
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Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu (right), greeted upon arrival on one of his trips to Washington by Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren.
Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO for Israel Sun
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Washington, DC—Michael Oren, Ambassador of Israel to the United States, outlined the “array” and “magnitude” of threats currently facing the State of Israel at the B’nai B’rith policy conference.
Calling Iran’s nuclear ambitions “the greatest threat looming over our horizon…of monumental proportions,” Oren outlined the multifaceted nature of the threat. A nuclear-armed Iran would not only have the ability to target any Israeli city, but it could open the door for terrorists and other Middle Eastern nations to access nuclear arms as well.
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Ed Koch. The Times is now examining the sexual abuses taking place in the Jewish ultra-orthodox Hasidic community, primarily in Brooklyn. |
The crime of sexually abusing a child, including adolescents and teens, is so heinous that the public is immediately shocked and angered. For a number of years, we have read of sex acts involving Catholic clergy with adolescents and seminarians taking place in a number of countries, including the U.S. The New York Times, to its credit, has been relentless in keeping this situation under examination by its reporters over the years with front page stories devoted to exposing the abuses.
The Times is now examining the sexual abuses taking place in the Jewish ultra-orthodox Hasidic community, primarily in Brooklyn, and the response of the Brooklyn District Attorney, Joe Hynes. The Hasidim started in eastern Europe several hundred years ago. Each Hasidic sect often takes the name of the village where their rabbi once lived.
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On May 31, Israel delivered 91 bodies to the Palestinian Authority. The PA gave them full military funerals, complete with coffins draped in Palestinian flags and a 21-gun salute. While PA President Mahmoud Abbas didn't speak, he laid wreaths on the coffins and presided over the ceremony. The secretary-general of his office, Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, and the PA's state-appointed mufti, Muhammad Hussein, both gave eulogies, in which they declared that the souls of the dead were urging other Palestinians to "follow in their path."
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Jeremy Ben-Ami vs. William Kristol
You would expect towering areas of disagreement in a debate between Jeremy Ben-Ami, head of the liberal leaning J Street and William Kristol, the neoconservative editor of the Weekly Standard, and a board member of the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI). In fact, the debate held, May 15th, at the B’Nai Jeshurun Synagogue, on the upper west side of Manhattan was newsworthy by their shared views about Israel. Kate Press, the New York City Regional Director of J Street said that “the purpose of the event was to have a conversation of what it is to be Pro-Israel in 2012.”
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Confrontation in Beit Shemesh: Orthodox vs. secular.
Photo: Olivier Fitussi/Israel Sun |
In light of the recent spate of violent incidents and tensions in Beit Shemesh, the Jewish communities of Greater Washington and South Africa will support Jewish Agency programs aimed at encouraging dialogue and cooperation between the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) residents and the broader Beit Shemesh community.
The Jewish communities of Greater Washington (through the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington) and South Africa are sister communities with Beit Shemesh and central Israel’s Mateh Yehuda region via the Jewish Agency’s partnership program, Partnership2Gether.
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The Muslim Brotherhood hatred rally in Cairo.
Photo: J.Williams/Israel sun |
The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned genocidal rants at a rally involving 5,000 activists, convened Friday by the Muslim Brotherhood at Cairo 's most prominent Mosque.
"It is shocking to hear the Muslim Brotherhood 'activists' vowing to, 'one day kill all Jews' and 'Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Judgment Day is coming!' But the roar of their genocidal rants was matched only by a shocking silence of world leaders," charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO. "Without vociferous condemnation of such murderous hate, led by the United States , France and Germany , yesterday's rants may yet become tomorrow's official policy in a government in which the Muslim Brotherhood will surely play a pivotal role."
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The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Obama Administration to withdraw from the United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), following UNESCO's vote to accept the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a full member. UNESCO has become the first United Nations agency to accept the PA as a sovereign state since the PA launched its bid at the UN last month, in contravention of the Oslo Accords, to obtain a unilateral declaration of statehood without concluding a peace agreement with Israel. The U.S. provides UNESCO annually with $80 million, 22% of its total budget. Under U.S. law, the U.S. is prohibited from funding any U.N. body that accepts the PA as a member. As the Wall Street Journal notes, "This legislation is clearly worded and offers President Obama no waiver to get around the prohibition" (Editorial, ‘Back to Unesco's Future What the U.S. gets for its money at the U.N.,' Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2011).
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Top: (from left) Andrew Heiberger, Honoree; Ofer Yardeni, Chairman of the FIDF Real Estate Division. Center: Soldiers of the IDF. Bottom: (from left) Danny Hakimian; FIDF National Director, Maj.Gen.(Res.), Yitzhak (Jerry) Gershon; Michael Livian. |
The Real Estate Division of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) held its annual Real Estate Division Reception on Monday, December 12, 2011 at The New York Public Library. The honoree was Andrew Heiberger, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Town Residential LLC. Event chairs were Ofer Yardeni, Stonehenge Partners, Inc., and Chairman of the FIDF Real Estate Division; Chairmen Emeritus Moshe Azogui, MDA Holdings; Chairmen Emeritus Richard Born, BD Equities; and Chairman of Young Professionals Lenny Sporn, The Tavivian Sporn Group/Co Founder, Prudential Douglas Eliman.
Close to 450 people attended the Reception in support of the soldiers of Israel. Guests enjoyed cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, a buffet dinner, the opportunity to talk with soldiers of the IDF and bid on auction items such as a VIP tour of Yankee stadium, wine country vacation package, and attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and the Grammy's.
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Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt. Elected new President of the Conference of European Rabbis. |
London – Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi and Av Beit Din of Moscow, is the new president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
Rabbi Goldschmidt was elected by the CER’s Standing Committee meeting in London last week and succeeds the former chief rabbi of France (1987-2009), Joseph Hayim Sitruk, who had held the post since 1999. Rabbi Sitruk becomes Chairman of the CER Presidium.
Born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1963, Rabbi Goldschmidt studied at the prestigious Ponevezh and Telshe, and Baltimore Yeshivas, receiving semicha from the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem , Rabbi Yitzchak Kulitz in 1987.
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Ma’ale Adumim.
Photo: Daniel Bar-On/Jinipix for Israel Sun |
He is the soul of Ma'ale-Adumim! He devoted his life to this city which defends Jerusalem as the Israeli capital for eternity. For twenty years, he has been the mayor of this city and his prestige among its 39,000 resident is very high. I am referring to Benny Kashriel. He was offered to be a member of the Knesset many times, but he refused.
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My friends, before I talk about things about Israel, I want to say something about the scenes on television that I saw today and you have been seeing as well. When tragedy strikes America, Israel - Israel feels an immediate identification. And tragedy has struck America. In recent days floods and tornadoes have claimed the lives of hundreds of Americans, including today in Joplin, Missouri. All I can say is, America, we're with you on this day, on every day.
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