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Jewish History Series (Part 68 of 68)
Timeline: From Abraham to the Founding of the State of Israel
by Rabbi Ken Spiro Four thousand years of Jewish history at a glance.
We have now reached the conclusion of this series and before we wrap up it is fitting for us to put into perspective the ground that we have covered.
Note that we are following the Jewish calendar for these events (and not the Gregorian calendar which is at times 150 years at odds with Jewish computations). For more on this issue see Part 21.
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Author Biography:
Rabbi Ken Spiro is originally from New Rochelle,NY. He graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Russian Language and Literature and did graduate studies at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He has Rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem and a Masters Degree in History from The Vermont College of Norwich University. Rabbi Spiro is also a licensed tour guide by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children where he works as a senior lecturer and researcher on Aish HaTorah outreach programs.
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| The Feast of Purim, the celebration of Queen Esther’s role in, and the deliverance of the Jews from Haman’s evil plot, begins at Sundown on March 4. I am in Israel, and have just visited with a rabbi who told me of the program to enlist the children to pray on Purim regarding the nuclear crisis with Iran. As you might imagine, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions and his hatred for Israel are of great concern to the Jewish people. He has declared that Israel should be “wiped off the map,” and his intent is to see his dream become reality. Would you do two things this week? Would you ask the children in your congregation to join with the children in Israel in praying for deliverance for the Jewish people from the hateful ambitions of this modern-day Haman? Would you send an email to your constituents and ask them to join in prayer for the people of Israel? My goal is to enlist 2 million families to commit to pray for the Jewish people during the Purim celebration from sundown March 4 to sundown March 5. Together we can see this goal met and exceeded. The Jerusalem Post published an article on Wednesday, February 28 outlining Dr. Evans’ call for six million worldwide to join in prayer with Jewish children during Purim. Click here to read the article in its entirety. Vote your opinion now
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By JOSEPH WAHED
August 22, 2006
A man brazenly shoots his way into the Jewish Federation of Seattle, kills a woman, and wounds four others, three critically. As he opens fire, the alleged assailant shouts, "I am a Muslim and I'm angry at
Israel," as if to indicate that his religious affiliation gives him permission to kill Jews.
In a second incident,
Mel Gibson, a
Hollywood director and actor, is arrested in
Malibu on suspicion of drunk driving. He allegedly screams at the officer, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," not realizing that nearly all today's wars are Islamic wars. He also asks his arresting officer, "Are you Jewish?"
While Jew hating is not a new phenomena, it has recently become the insult de riguer in many parts of our society. And it isn't just gun-toting rampagers or drunk celebrities — the hatred is evident in the streets. Nowhere is that clearer than in a third recent incident, in which Palestinian Arabs in the streets of
San Francisco chant proudly in Arabic and without fear of being castigated, "The Jews are our dogs."
It happened at an anti- Israel demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco on Thursday, July 12, organized by a Palestinian group called Al Awda. The demonstration was loud, boisterous, and passionate. Suddenly, demonstrators began chanting in Arabic " Al Yahud Kelabna," "the Jews are our dogs."
As troubling as it is to hear such sentiment voiced on a street in
America, it was even more distressing for me since it conjured up terrible memories of when I was a young boy growing up in
Egypt. These memories included Egyptian mobs descending upon the Jewish quarter of
Cairo chanting " Al Yahud Kelabna," followed by violence that left some Jews dead and injured and the community dazed.
Egyptian Muslim mobs no longer do this, but only because there is no longer an Egyptian Jewish community to speak of. We once were over 80,000. Today there are fewer than 50 Jews remaining in Egypt, according to one official tally. Indeed, once thriving Jewish communities in 10 Arab countries were likewise cleansed. Today, only about 5,000 Jews remain in the Arab Muslim world, mostly in
Morocco and
Tunisia. Arab sympathizers blame the creation of Israel, but in reality Middle Eastern Jewry began to deteriorate years before Israel was established.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Egypt was a much more cosmopolitan place than it is today. Whatever the broader ills of colonialism, Egypt under British rule was at least a place where Muslims, Jews, and Christians got along fairly harmoniously. But all this began to change as the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic group two of the offspring of which are
Hamas and
Al Qaeda, began agitating against both the British and the Jews.
Along with the rise of Arab nationalism and Arab independence, life for Jews in Egypt and other Arab countries became intolerable. All this started happening years before Israel was established. Within a 20-year period starting in 1945, nearly a million Jews were forced out of Arab countries. Being Jewish was criminalized in Egypt in the late 1940s. Other Arab states such as
Iraq,
Libya, and
Syria, passed similar laws. Jews began facing iron walls of discrimination and harassment by the authorities. Most of us were dispossessed. Our schools, homes, synagogues, businesses, farms, and hospitals, were all confiscated by Arab governments. Our rich, 3,000- year-old culture and heritage was decimated. No trial, no jury, no justice.
The demonstrators in San Francisco last week attacked Jews, not Israel. They did it in Arabic, perhaps thinking that only they would be in on the "joke." They didn't count on a group of indigenous Middle Eastern Jewish "dogs" being present at the counter rally across the street. In Arab culture, dogs are considered filthy, dirty beasts, and negotiating with "dogs" is not an option. Jews were often identified this way because for centuries we were living as a subjected people under the dominant culture of Islam.
We were a "protected" minority living under a religious caste system where we had to wear identifiable clothes, pay a special tax, were not allowed to ride horses, were forced to live in ghettoes, and were subjected to other indignities. Our fortunes fluctuated with the benevolence of whoever was ruling at the time. When the ruler was fair and just, Jews prospered. Otherwise, watch out. Massacres of Jews by Arab Muslims were not unknown. While most people know how European Jews suffered, little is known of the Jews of the Arab world.
Today, the Middle Eastern Muslim world is the most anti-Semitic of any region. Much of their media — television programs, cartoons, editorials — promote the kind of anti-Semitism not seen or heard since the time when Hitler walked the earth. In many mosques, too, throughout the region, religious leaders who are quick to take offense over such matters as cartoons about Islam regularly teach the vilest anti-Jewish defamation.
The effects of this "education" are seen and felt even in San Francisco, where a crowd of young Arab men and women feel perfectly free to chant " Al Yahud Kelabna." As long as Palestinian and other Arab children are taught such dehumanizing hatred of Jews, there is no hope for them, and there is no hope for us. Peace in the
Middle East will not come with the next ceasefire between Israel and
Hezbollah, but only when tolerance, compassion, understanding, and respect for religious freedom become the dominant value in Arab society. When Arab young people honestly feel too ashamed to chant about Jews being "our dogs," then there will be real hope.
Mr. Wahed is a co-founder of Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa.
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| | | February 22, 2007 | 
Anti-Semitism in Ukraine
After a Jewish memorial to the Holocaust was defaced and more than 300 Jewish graves desecrated in Odessa in southern Ukraine, ADL urged the Ukrainian government to take action to ensure that anti-Semitism does not regain a foothold in their society. More >>
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| | Anti-Semitism In The Arab World
Cartoon of the Week | |
|  Al-Watan, February 18, 2007 (Oman)
In Arabic: “Tomorrow.” The cartoon suggests a Jewish plot to undermine the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
| | Click to Enlarge | - European Party Brings Racist Message to U.S.
Leaders of a far-right European party that espouses stridently racist and xenophobic views are holding a series of meetings this week with anti-immigration groups in the United States. More >>
- Louis Farrakhan To Speak in Detroit
In advance of this weekend’s speech in Detroit by the anti-Semitic and racist leader of the Nation of Islam, the Minister Louis Farrakhan, ADL produced an new online backgrounder on Farrakhan and his group’s history of promoting anti-Semitism and hatred. More >>
- Wiesel Assailant, Alleged Holocaust Denier, Arrested
The arrest of an alleged Holocaust denier in an assault on Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel delivers a very clear message that Holocaust denial is unacceptable and must be taken seriously because it can have grave consequences.More >>
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- Polish Politician Publishes Anti-Semitic Diatribe
A pamphlet published by European Parliament member Maciej Giertych accused Jews of “jealously nurturing their chosenness” and suggested that Jews are a “tragic community … who did not recognize Jesus Christ as the awaited Messiah.” More >>
- Muslim Protests on Temple Mount “Deliberate”
Protests and violence from the Muslim world in response to Israel’s rebuilding of a ramp near the Al Aksa compound were part of a deliberate attempt to incite hatred against Israel. More>>
- Klan Report Cited by New York Times
An editorial in The New York Times on the issue of immigration cited ADL’s report on the resurgence of the Klan. “The Anti-Defamation League, acutely sensitive to the presence of intolerance, has detected an increase in Ku Klux Klan activity around the country, much of it focused on new immigrants,” the editorial noted. More>>
- Maine: Credit Union Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Ad
A credit union apologized to ADL and the Jewish community in Maine after publishing an advertisement in the Portland newspaper that used an anti-Semitic caricature of a money-grubbing Jew. More>>
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Boston Herald
- New York: Arrest Welcomed In Synagogue Attack
ADL praised the Niagara Falls Police Department, the FBI, and Niagara County’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for the arrests of two teenagers suspected of repeatedly vandalizing a local synagogue. More>>
- Arizona: Anti-Bias Training in Schools
Sedona Red-Rock High School in Arizona was the site for a district-wide A CLASSROOM OF DIFFERENCE™ anti-bias training. Eight educational facilitators worked with 140 student participants in a group assembly and break-out sessions devoted to issues of prejudice, racism, discrimination and racial and religious diversity.
- Media Watch
Israel and Evangelicals (USA Today) 02/12/07
Downplaying Anti-Semitism (San Francisco Chronicle) 02/20/07
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| | | March 01, 2007 | 
Farrakhan Promotes Anti-Semitic Tracts
While Louis Farrakhan has stepped down from his formal leadership of the Nation of Islam, he has not announced a successor, nor renounced his penchant for engaging in anti-Semitism. In an annual address to supporters in Detroit, Minister Farrakhan kept his anti-Semitism largely in check, but concluded by recommending several notoriously anti-Jewish books, including “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” which claims that Jews were the masterminds and financiers of the African slave trade.
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Detroit Free Press
Ynetnews.com
Haaretz | | | | 
| | Anti-Semitism In The Arab World
Cartoon of the Week | |
| Al-Watan, February 18, 2007 (Oman)
In Arabic: “Tomorrow.” The cartoon suggests a Jewish plot to undermine the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
| | Click to Enlarge | - UN Report on Israel “A Vicious Screed”
The latest report by the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, John Dugard, is "more a vicious screed than an official report.” More >>
- Christians’ Praise for Ahmadinejad A Betrayal of Christian-Jewish Relations
A Christian delegation’s praise of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a "shameful betrayal of American values and Christian-Jewish relations." After meeting with Ahmadinejad in Tehran, leaders from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA praised Ahmadinejad as a pious and witty man. More >>
- Croatia Investigates 'Hitler' Sugar Packets
A government investigation is underway in Croatia into the production and distribution of sugar packets bearing an image of Adolf Hitler and Holocaust "jokes," which appeared in some cafés in Croatia.
More >>
- U.S. Anti-Immigrant Groups Meet With Racist Europeans
Leaders of a far-right European party that espouses stridently racist and xenophobic views held a series of meetings with anti-immigration groups in the United States. Members of the Flemish Interest party spoke at various meetings attended by members of anti-immigrant groups and Pat Buchanan, among others. More >>
- Philadelphia: Candidates Should Avoid Appeals to Prejudice
ADL spearheaded a coalition of six community groups that has urged Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates to oppose negative appeals on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, and sexual orientation or identity. More >>
In the News: Philadelphia Inquirer
- Denver: Instructor’s Racist Essay Condemned
A graduate student and instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder penned a “white pride” essay for a contest sponsored by Stormfront, a racist Web site. The essay, urging white people to “take our society back” was condemned by ADL after the student’s authorship came to light. More>>
- LA: Law Enforcement Honored
ADL’s Pacific Southwest Region conferred the coveted “Helene & Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate” to four individuals and one law enforcement unit at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles. California Attorney General Jerry Brown spoke at the awards ceremony, which recognizes law enforcement personnel for making a significant difference in their communities. More>>
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- “Question Corner” Provides Early Childhood Answers
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- Media Watch
Mecca Accord Led to Failure in Jerusalem (NY Times) 02/21/07
An editorial missed the point as to why the Jerusalem summit made no progress.
Farrakhan's Legacy is Hate (Chicago Tribune) 02/26/07
The Tribune's report on Louis Farrakhan's speech failed to capture the hypocrisy of his call for the unity of faiths.
Hamas Refuses to End Terror (Financial Times) 02/23/07
Day in and day out, Hamas representatives reaffirm their refusal to accept Israel and justify the use of terror.
Iran's Holocaust Denial (NY Times) 02/23/07
Much more than "damage control" is needed from the mullahs in order to signal a real change in the approach of the Iranian political elite.
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 | | End of Week Review: March 2, 2007 Dear Friend of Jerusalem, Here are some of the leading headlines, from the One Jerusalem blog: Please, forward the video below and sign the petition at www.onejerusalem.org/t so that your voice will be heard. You can help save the Temple Mount from further Palestinian destruction. At this time in history, it is imperative that the Israeli government stand up for its rights! Please sign the petition and send it to your friends. ● VIDEO EXCLUSIVE :: A Tour of the Temple Mount: Stream Video Now! Watch this amazing OneJerusalem Special! This is a MUST-SEE for all friends of Jerusalem. Please forward this 7-minute video to others! and encourage them to sign the Temple Mount Petition. | Download Video...(read more) ● Once Again The Press Supports Islam: Wizbang makes an excellent point about the press treatment of Jerusalem.Why is it that the Boston Globe and other media outlets refer to Jerusalem as the third holiest city in Islam but never say it is the first holiest city...(read more) ● Beware: The United Nations Is Out To Save Jerusalem: There are news reports that UNESCO is rushing to the save the day in Jerusalem. This brought to mind a story told by radio talk show host Barry Farber. Mr. Farber has noted that when the world thinks Israel is losing...(read more) ● A Moving Tribute To Our Soldiers Fighting For Freedom: God Bless America. Please pass it along....(read more) ● You Can Do Something About Muslim Cabdrivers Who Refuse Passengers....: If you want to be heard on the subject of Muslim cabdrivers who refuse to pick up alcohol-carrying passengers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport then learn how at Little Green Footballs. Learn how to join the Pipes campaign here....(read more) Together we can win the fight to maintain a united Jerusalem! | The One Jerusalem Team | |  | | |
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Before mobilizing on the Gaza-Israel border for active duty,
Jeremy Gimpel embarks on a US speaking tour. | | | | Ari & Jeremy, commander and soldier in the Israeli Army reserves, have protected every border of The Land of Israel from Lebanon to Gaza. Together they host "A Light Unto The Nations" on Israel National Radio as well as write for The Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, and other periodicals. As religious Zionist Jews, they merge their comprehensive understanding of the Bible and Jewish history with their experiences in the battlefield and the forefront of Israeli activism. Jeremy is touring the US March 8th - 24th to share the truth about the situation in Israel and the spiritual roots of the conflict in the Middle East. With a clear mission to unite all those who believe in the Bible, Jeremy will spread the vision of "Biblical Zionism" and offer an authentic Jewish voice from Israel to all those who seek to understand the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jeremy is coming to infuse clarity and understanding into a complex and volatile situation that will inevitably have monumental effects on the entire world.
| | Jeremy's Speaking Tour Schedule | | Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat | | | | | | | | March 9 | | Columbia, South Carolina | | | March 10 | | Columbia, South Carolina | | | March 11 | | Cayce, South Carolina | | | March 12 | | Pensacola, Florida | | | March 13 | | Orlando, Florida | | | March 14 | | Fort Myers, Florida | | | March 15 | | Front Royal, Virgina | | | March 16 | | Front Royal, Virginia | | | March 17 | | Salt Lake City, Utah | | | March 18 | | Salt Lake City, Utah | | | March 19 | | Salt Lake City, Utah | | | March 20 | | Salt Lake City, Utah | | | March 21 | | Round Rock, Texas | | | | | | All events are purely educational and free of charge.
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A musical comedy about an unlikely romance arising from competing falafel stalls on the West Bank titled West Bank Story has won the Oscar for best short film (live action).
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Police in the United States have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with an attack on Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel earlier this month.
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esus' burial site found - film claims
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