Can you find "expansionist" Israel among the Arab countries?

Can you find "expansionist" Israel among the Arab countries?
If the Moslems put down their weapons today there would be no more terrorism. If the Israelis put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel.

How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? (Psalms 137:4)

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. (Psalms 137:5)

Thursday 9 September 2010

The privilege of hearing the Shofar

When you hear the shofar this year take a moment to reflect what it was like to live at a time when such a simple Jewish action could not be taken for granted.

And if you think I am talking about way-back-when somewhere "Beyond the Pale" let me remind you that blowing the shofar in our own homeland, the Land of Israel, was for many years forbidden.

Next time you think that Israel should be prepared to "make painful concessions for peace" just remember what it was like when those "partners for peace" were in charge! From 1948 to 1967 the holiest place for Jews did not reverberate to the sound of the shofar at the culmination of Yom Kippur.

Shana Tova Metukah
Gmar Hatima Tova!

Watch this and be glad that there are always Jews who stand up to be counted!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIfLbkx4ZIM&feature=player_embedded

"Echoes of a Shofar" is the premiere episode in the "Eyewitness 1948" short film series produced by Toldot Yisrael and the History Channel.

Under a British law in Palestine passed in 1930, Jews were forbidden to blow the shofar at the Kotel, pray loudly there, or bring Torah scrolls, so as not to offend the Arab population.

Despite this restriction, for the next seventeen years, the shofar was sounded at the Kotel every Yom Kippur. Shofars were smuggled in to the Kotel where brave teenagers defiantly blew them at the conclusion of the fast. Some managed to get away - others were captured and sent to jail for up to six months.

Six of these men are still alive.

A few weeks ago, these six men returned to the scene of their "crime".

Armed with shofars, they recounted their individual stories and blewshofar again at the Kotel.

This is their powerful and inspiring story