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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Guest Post: JTA vs Judaism

(a guest post by Mr. Cohen)

The JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) recently chose to give valuable free publicity to Frankel's, a new Jewish-owned delicatessen in New York City which is NOT KOSHER.

At the same time, JTA also published an opinion article by Seymour Rosenbloom, urging Conservative Rabbis to officiate at interfaith weddings. Interfaith means Jews marrying non-Jews. The article portrayed the inexcusable abomination of interfaith weddings as if they were perfectly normal marriages.

At the same time, JTA also published an article about two allegedly-Jewish women “marrying” each other. The article portrayed the inexcusable abomination of same-gender marriages as if they were perfectly normal marriages.

Since I believe in Torah, I will [bli neder] strive to stop visiting the JTA website, and instead visit web site of JNS, the Jewish News Service (www.jns.org).

I sincerely hope that JNS is better than JTA. Today's date is: 2016 April 11
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OTHER BLOG POSTS BY MR. COHEN:

Quick Bible Quotes from Joshua and Jeremiah:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-joshua-chapter-23-verse-12.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/guest-post-jeremiah-chapter-17.html

Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html

Rambam Rejected Childless Messiah:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/08/rambam-rejected-childless-messiah-by-mr.html

Why Muslims Hate Jews:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/guest-post-why-muslims-hate-jews.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-moynihan-1982.html

Forgotten Muslim Oppression against Jews:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-forgotten-oppression.html

Seven Times Stronger

(a quick quote about American anti-Semitism during the Holocaust):
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-seven-times-stronger.html

How a Reform Rabbi Become Orthodox (true story):

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-did-reform-rabbi-become-orthodox-jew.html

Sephardic Jews Reject Reform Judaism:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/07/sephardim-reject-reform.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/08/guest-post-persian-rabbis-decree.html

Greek NYC Jews and Syrian NYC Jews:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/greek-jews-syrian-jews.html

How to Convict the New York Times:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-how-to-convict-new-york-times.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-nyt-erases-israel-from-map.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-postnyt-vs-israel.html

Why Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/04/guest-post-why-pray-for-idf.html

How to Pray for Tzahal-IDF:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/how-to-pray-for-tzahal-idf.html

Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html

Friday, April 8, 2016

Guest Post: Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman

Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman ZTL
a guest post by Mr. Cohen

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INTRODUCTION:
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This message is about a short-but-memorable conversation
I had with Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman (of blessed memory)
in year 2004 CE. I believe that it is my duty to publicize
this little story, so it should not be forgotten.

Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman, despite his Ashkenazi name,
served as the spiritual leader of one of the largest
Syrian synagogues in New York City for several decades,
starting in year 1958 CE.

He was also personally involved in attempting to repair
almost every troubled marriage in NYC’s Syrian-Jewish
community for several decades [so I was told].

He also taught at Yeshivah University.

Finally, he also served as an Av Beth Din
[leader of the Rabbinical Court] for that
community for several decades, even though
other Rabbis in that community had the same title.

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MY SHORT STORY:
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One fine day in year 2004 CE, I saw
Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman and I asked
him where he was coming from.
He explained to me that he had just spent
most of that day attending an agunah conference.

I asked him: Does your community really have an agunah problem?

He answered me: YES.

I asked him: How many agunot are there in the Syrian community of NYC?

He answered me: ONE.

Somehow the subject of wife-beating arose in our conversation.
Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman told me confidently that since
he started serving NYC’s Syrian-Jewish community
in year 1958 CE, there had been exactly ONE case
of wife-beating, and that was in year 1959 CE.

In other words, there was exactly ONE case of wife-beating in 46 years, and this statistic came from a Rabbi who was personally involved in attempting to repair almost every troubled marriage in NYC’s Syrian-Jewish community [of 85,000 people, at that time] for several decades.

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LEARN THIS:
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His answers made a great impression on my mind, so great that I still remember that conversation 12 years later. He was an extremely busy man; there were many legitimate ways he could have chosen to spend his time.

Yet he chose to spend many hours attending an agunah conference, even though nobody paid him to attend, and even though his community of 85,000 Jews [at that time] had only ONE agunah!

Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman understood even ONE agunah is one-too-many! And he did not merely understand that as a theory; he LIVED that understanding with his actions.

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MY STORY 2:
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In the 1990s I had a short-but-memorable conversation with a Jew who was born in Syria and moved to New York City in 1959.

He insisted with great emphasis that when he left Syria in year 1959 CE, 99% of Jews in Syria observed Shabbat; and there was NOT EVEN ONE Jew in all of Syria who was a public-Shabbat-desecrator [Mechalel Shabbat Bepharhesia].

Maybe this happened because the Syrian Jews never accepted Reform or Conservative.

There was never a Reform or Conservative Syrian synagogue; only Orthodox.

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“One [New York] Times opinion editor, Matt Seaton,
even admitted last year [2014 CE] that the newspaper
has a policy of veering away from criticism of Palestinians.”

SOURCE: Final sentence of article titled:
“New York Times Editor: Coverage of Israel
Most Criticized Aspect of Opinion Pages”
by Shiryn Ghermezian, 2015 October 14,
found in: The Algemeiner.

www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/14/new-york-times-editor-coverage-of-israel-most-criticized-aspect-of-opinion-pages/
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PAT CONDELL SAID:

“Like all things Islamic, the Palestinians long-been
have been officially above criticism in the West…”

SOURCE:
Useful idiots for Palestine by Pat Condell,
2011 November 4 (available for free on YouTube)

MICROBIOGRAPHY:

Pat Condell is an atheist, who was born in Ireland around 1950 CE, and raised in England as a Roman Catholic, and educated in Church of England schools.
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