Misheh Nichnas Adar Marbim B'Simcha!

May this be a year of the 2nd Purim when Persia is again defeated and the Jewish nation stands up against tyranny!

זָכוֹר אֵת אֲשֶׁר-עָשָׂה לְךָ עֲמָלֵק בַּדֶּרֶךְ בְּצֵאתְכֶם מִמִּצְרָיִם. אֲשֶׁר קָרְךָ בַּדֶּרֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּב בְּךָ כָּל-הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִים אַחֲרֶיךָ--וְאַתָּה עָיֵף וְיָגֵעַ וְלֹא יָרֵא אֱלֹהִים. וְהָיָה בְּהָנִיחַ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְךָ מִכָּל-אֹיְבֶיךָ מִסָּבִיב בָּאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה-אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה לְרִשְׁתָּהּ--תִּמְחֶה אֶת-זֵכֶר עֲמָלֵק מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח.

Israeli Democracy in Action!

Anti-Jewish Discrimination at Temple Mount

Discrimination against religious Jews who wish to visit the Temple Mount continues. A group was turned away today, as non-Jews passed freely through.

A small group of Jewish tourists from Los Angeles attempted to ascend to Judaism's holiest site this morning, after immersing in a mikveh and taking the other Halakhic precautions. They were stopped at the entrance, however, and told they could not enter because they did not have identification.

"The most frustrating part," said their tour guide, Yossi Maimon, "was that lots of other tourists, clearly not Jewish, were allowed up without even being checked." Maimon said he asked the local police commander about the discrimination against Jews, and was told that this is in fact the official policy.

Long-time Holy Temple activists Rabbi Yosef Elboim of Jerusalem and Yehuda Etzion of Ofrah said that this policy is a long-running one.

"Not only are there different rules for religious Jews and others," Rabbi Elboim told Arutz-7, "but the police treat the religious Jews with tremendous disrespect. Recently, a large group of students from the Birkat Moshe yeshiva in Maaleh Adumim wished to ascend [to the holy site], and the police took aside the Rosh Yeshiva [dean], who is not a young man, and totally checked every part of him. Would they ever treat a priest or a kadi that way?"

"A sheikh can call for world-wide Moslem rule from the Temple Mount," Rabbi Elboim continued, "but if a Jew whispers Yibaneh HaMikdash (a prayer that the Holy Temple should be rebuilt), they immediately take him away for questioning and restrict him from visiting the site again. Where are we living?!"

Read the rest HERE

Come and get 'em! More anti-missionary links!

This site is a refuge for those who wish to discuss the Temple, the Priesthood, and related topics ACCORDING TO JEWISH LAW. This forum is for Torah Observant Jews and open-minded Christians and Muslims. Missionary activity will not be tolerated.

Now Online! The Real Messiah by HaRav Aryeh Kaplan (ZT'L) in PDF format

Derech Emet
Messiah Page
Why Don't Jews Believe in Jesus?
Why Don't Jews Believe in Jesus? II?
The Problem of Paul
Rabbi Wade (Ad Meah V'Esrim Shana)
Simply Jewish

If you have any others, please post them in the comments section.

לֹא-יִהְיֶה לְךָ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים עַל-פָּנָי

In honor of the evangelical Christians or "Yidden for Yushke" who feel they need to post their conversion links to my site (see the tag board for an hilarious rant) I offer these anti-missionary links.

Enjoy!

Jews For Judaism
Outreach Judaism: Rabbi Tovia HaKohen Singer
A Jewish Response to Missionaries
Torah Life And Living
The Counter-Missionary Home Page
Pagan Origins of The Christ Myth
Keepers of the Covenant

For the thinking Gentile I offer these links:

Vendyl Jones Research Institute
7 Commands
Chavurath B'nai Noach of Fort Worth, Texas
Root and Branch Association
Hasidic Gentile (my favorite)

Israel's new neighbors

This is from Little Green Footballs (I love that site). They have a cached page from the Hamas website which shows an animated graphic of a Jewish Star being blown up by a nuclear bomb.

But hey, that's cool, since there are no cartoons of any prophets.

See the cached site HERE

Time for Israel to clean house

Arab Knesset Merger Calls For Islamic Rule, Praises Hamas

Two Israeli Arab parties have merged ahead of Knesset elections, launching their campaign by calling for Islamic rule in Israel and praising the Hamas terror group.

"Rule on earth, at least in Arab and Muslim land, should be by the Caliph [Islamic ruler and heir to Muhammad's authority –ed.]," chairman of the new merger between the United Arab List and the Ta'al Party Ibrahim Sarsour said Wednesday. "We believe in Islam and in the Caliphate and not in separation between state and religion."

Sarsour made the statement during a joint press conference with Arab MK Ahmed Tibi to announce the joint list's platform and party list.

The chairman took the opportunity to blame Zionists and the US government for a clash of civilizations being forced upon the Muslim world. "There is a hidden hand that acts in a bid to bring the world to a clash of civilizations," Sarsour said, referring to the cartoons of Islam's founder published recently in European newspapers. "I speak of that gang in the White House that tries to force one society's culture on another's. This is a part of a campaign against Islam, a campaign aimed at enlisting support in the West for military action against Iran."

Sarsour praised the Hamas terror group, which he said would lead the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority to "progress and achievements, not catastrophes [the Arabic word for catastrophe – Nakba – is how the Muslim world refers to the Arab defeat in the 1948 War of Independence –ed]."

Read the rest from Arutz Sheva HERE

Siman Tov and Mazal Tov. Religious Unity?

Religious Unity: NRP and NU; Degel and Agudah

With only hours to go before the deadline, the National Religious Party and National Union announced an election merger, as did the two Ashekanazi hareidi parties.
At 2 AM, representatives of the two leading religious-Zionist parties signed an agreement to run together as one bloc. The two parties are the National Union, comprising three factions, and the National Religious Party.

The first four places will be occupied by the leaders of the four factions, in this order: Benny Elon (Moledet and National Union Chairman, pictured on left), Zevulun Orlev (NRP, pictured on right), Tzvi Hendel (Tekumah), and Effie Eitam (Religious Zionist Renewal). In fifth place is Nissan Slomiansky of the NRP.

At a joint press conference today led by the above five, MK Benny Elon said, "We have united in order to lead the right-wing, and in order to lead the country - no less."

Me: It's about time! Pehaps a Jewish government will be able to prosecute those who did this:

Letter to IDF General: How Could You?
(click above)

I'm sorry.

I apologize for not writing this past week. I have just been so depressed with the situation in Israel and the world at large. I flip through the paper and see over and over again the coming war between the west and Islam. Iran, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan...

And then there's our brothers in Israel. Their own "government" has sold them out. They beat them and exile them from their homes and for what? To appease a Hamas governement next door? Missles injure babies, old women get stabbed on busses and Olmert responds by giving our enemies $52,000,000 while kids go hungry in Israel.

I would say the war is coming, but I sincerely think it's already here and there's no way to stop it.

The only thing keeping me sane is knowing that there is a G-d and that he will send His Messenger as promised. May Hashem have mercy on us.