Friday, January 23, 2015

THE VOICE OF MODERATION CALLS ON ALL CHRISTIANS TO ...

... follow the lead of the Roman Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate in the year of the 50th anniversary. Amid the harsh wake up call for the French open border policy, the focus has been on the 12 Frenchman who gave their lives for liberty. All but those who think like Holocaust deniers realize that Islamic terrorism is a multi-state, multi-regional movement against western culture. But the stark imbalance of media coverage of the four Jewish people murdered at the Paris grocery store for no reason other than that they were Jewish is a stain on humanity. This is not to denigrate the price paid by the 12 Frenchman, but to elevate the plight the surviving 13 million Jewish people whose religion is the bedrock of all of Christianity and every democracy in the world. It is also the very reason that the 12 Frenchmen lost their lives to those, who like Hitler, condemn all of our values, including the Ten Commandments, the Torah, and the old and New Testaments. The media facade of lone wolves and workplace violence has been lifted. Now PJTN calls on all Christians to follow the Roman Catholic Church's unprecedented, unparalleled, historic Vatican II/Nostra Aetate, in this year of the 50th anniversary. The remarkable story of the Church’s examination and transformation is known by far too few Christians, Jews, and other people of conscience. In short, the Church acknowledged that Jews are not responsible for the death of Jesus, eliminating the deicide narrative, and that the Jews’ covenant with God for the land of Israel was not broken; that Christianity sprang from its Jewish roots and is inextricably intertwined with Judaism, and that Jesus and his disciples and many of his apostles were Jewish. The Church also unambiguously stated that it rejects anti-Semitism in every form. As long as some Christians continue to be at odds with Nostre Aetate, they perpetuate the vestiges of Christian anti-Semitism from the days when Jews were tormented, denigrated, and annihilated. The indiscriminate murder of Jews throughout the world are a consequence of those who continue to cling to those rejected beliefs. They and many others also ignore that the false claims against the Jewish people in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a book that has been an enduring threat for Jews since it's dissemination from Russia 100 years ago are at the roots of the recent explosion of global anti-Semitism.. The false libels contained in and spawned by that book were the foundation of the Nazi extermination of six million Jews and are at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. As we have seen, those who seek to annihilate our Jewish brethren also seek to do the same to Christians. Proclaiming Justice to the Nations also calls out to all Christians to denounce the book as the most insidious form of anti-Semitism in the world. Until Jews, Christians and all people of conscience shout the truths of our beliefs from every house of worship, peace and security will not be secure.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Fresh Controversy Hits 'Selma' ... Jews snubbed?

Fresh Controversy Hits 'Selma': Daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 'Shocked' by Exclusion of Her Father From Film | Black film maker changes history, eliminates MLK's Chief Jewish supporter .... A timely movie marred by the meaningful omissions and distortions of a well-intended, but short-sighted producer. To some of my people, denying the huge role played by Jewish people during the Civil Rights Movement is like denying the Holocaust. I was one of those who was involved. My reasons were simple, but profound. Black people are human beings just like me. I personally knew racism that we Jews had little power to defend against. We did have justice in the courts, while too many black people could not count on colorblind justice. We celebrated the opportunity to change institutional racism for black people, knowing that this country had fallen woefully short of God’s commandments and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. But, we also knew that marching with others who had been discriminated against would improve conditions in society for us as well. I understand the celebration of Dr. King’s leadership in that movement and that our country needed a symbol of independence from institutional racism, like George Washington is America’s symbol of independence from a monarchy. But part of me has always felt that we should have a Civil Rights Day, maybe on the anniversary of President Johnson’s signing the law, like we celebrate Independence Day. Without such a holiday, the contributions of millions of people, then and ongoing, will fail to be recognized by future generations. Will we always be searching for another MLK, or do we want all Americans to share the responsibility to defend everyone’s civil rights, as we do our Constitutional rights?

Monday, January 19, 2015

CRAZY TALK

Media preoccupation with the “backlash” of Islamaphobia is not only Crazy Talk, the word lslamaphobia itself is Crazy Talk. To decry “collective guilt”, as a result of atrocities committed by Muslim terrorists, is more Crazy Talk. It is a false narrative, intended to suggest that no other Muslim is complicit in those barbaric atrocities. But let's replace the Crazy Talk with some plain English. The perpetrators are NOT solely responsible. Their supporters, collaborators, and enablers … media, Muslims, Christians, and, yes, even some Jews, bear their fair share of the guilt. Ron Dolinsky

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

WHAT DOES I'M JEWISH MEAN?

Being Jewish is more than Judaism, more than the religion. Being Jewish is a also a culture filled with its rich traditions. But truly being Jewish is more than the culture and the religion … being Jewish is the heritage. If someone practices the religion, but doesn't cherish, preserve, and defend the heritage, then they have to relinquish their membership to The Tribe, and tear up their MOT card. If someone engages in the BWC (bread, wine, and candle) traditions (and let's throw in the potato latke part too), but not cherish, preserve, and defend the heritage, then they too have to tear up their MOT card. I know …those who don’t cherish, protect, and preserve the heritage will ask why I have the right to decide whether they get to keep their MOT card. And in the finest Jewish tradition, I answer that question with this question: Why do you want an MOT card anyway?

DON'T GIVE EVIL AN INCH

In the movie, The Usual Suspects, the character of Verbal Kint said, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.” Evil people are not stupid. Worse still, their genius is used to exploit your humanity to accept their inhumanity. Opposition to evil is not forfeiting one’s humanity; it is rather protecting it. The enemies of democracy and our freedoms co-opt these freedoms, and then pervert them and twist them to their own purposes and then demand the “freedoms” for themselves. The intent is to force someone into giving in to their demands or being a hypocrite. That’s a false choice. It is oxymoronic for us to grant rights to people who deny them to themselves.

IT"S ALL ABOUT THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, STUPID!

One might conclude that all of the reporting and analysis from media, pundits, Jewish Organizations, and Hagel and his “explainers/defenders” has as many different faces as all of the sidelets on all of the cubelets on a Rubik’s cube. But they all share a common core misconception. All of these people buy into/promote the false narrative of a “Palestinian-Israeli Conflict” with Israel as Goliath and “Palestinians” as David. It is and ALWAYS has been an Arab-Israeli Conflict. That Israel has been a miracle of agriculture, science, self defense, and democracy doesn’t alter the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Israel is David., and the giant Goliath has grown like Jack’s bean stalk. It is, and ALWAYS has been, about genocidal anti-Semitism. That some Israeli’s …citizens, government representatives, and IDF officers … buy into the PIC fable doesn’t make it so. And all of the liquefied dinosaurs under the Earth’s surface don’t either. Here’s the test question. If all Jews left Israel, would 15 million Jews who so far have survived several thousand years of genocidal anti-Semitism be then free from genocidal anti-Semites? Here’s another … If the “Palestinians” had every speck of Israel’s land, would the Islamists and Islamist terrorists put an end to their march from one believer to 1.5 billion believers to convert all non-believers? Those who continue to be distracted by the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict will never solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict., and in the end will have blood on their hands.