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| =====Gerim Defense League===== | =====Gerim Defense League===== |
| We are voluntary members of the "commonwealth of Israel", defending the rights of God-fearing gentiles among Jewish diaspora communities and also in Israel/Palestine. As our welfare depends on the safety and dignity of Jews in exile, and on their right to return and establish a Jewish state in their historic homeland of Palestine/Israel, we hold their safety, dignity, and rights as dear as our own. [[From the river to the sea]]. Anyone who wishes to contend is invited to respond in a [[Israel palestine debate]]. | We are voluntary members of the "commonwealth of Israel", defending the rights of God-fearing gentiles among Jewish diaspora communities and also in Israel/Palestine. As our welfare depends on the safety and dignity of Jews in exile, and on their right to return and establish a Jewish state in their historic homeland of Palestine/Israel, we hold their safety, dignity, and rights as dear as our own. From the river to the sea, [[The holy land is not for free]]. Anyone who wishes to contend is invited to respond in a [[Israel palestine debate]]. The Gerim Defense League is a separate organization from the RCIF, which is sharing space on their website, as we prototype [[http://www.gerimdefenseleague.org|www.gerimdefenseleague.org]]. This is a work-in-progress. |
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| ==== Prayers and Blessings for Noahides ==== | ==== Prayers and Blessings for Noahides ==== |
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| ==== Jewish Advocacy and responsa to Anti-Jewish Incidents ==== | ==== Jewish Advocacy and responsa to Anti-Jewish Incidents ==== |
| * [[libraries_should_recognize_passover_and_the_asian_heritage_month_of_nisan]] | * [[libraries_should_recognize_passover_and_the_asian_heritage_month_of_nisan]]. Passover was totally ignored at the Central library and three other branches I visited. |
| * I asked the Board to acknowledge Passover as a heritage week. | * I asked the Board to acknowledge Passover as a heritage week. |
| | * [[tishrei]] Totally ignored by the libraries in their feature book displays, were the biblical high holidays of rosh hashana and yom kippur, and the harvest festival of ingathering and booths "sukkot". |
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| * [[Seattle]] Iron Front | * [[Seattle]] Iron Front |
| * [[PSU]] | * [[PSU]] |
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| | Proposal for [[Campus Sukkot 2024]]. |
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| ===Harvard U=== | ===Harvard U=== |
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| [[Libraries should Recognize Passover and the Asian heritage month of Nisan]] | [[Libraries should Recognize Passover and the Asian heritage month of Nisan]] |
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| | [[https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2024/06/after-uproar-portland-teachers-union-removes-pro-palestinian-teaching-guide-from-website.html|After uproar, Portland teachers’ union removes pro-Palestinian lesson plans from website]] |
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| ==== Anti-Jewish Hate groups locally active ==== | ==== Anti-Jewish Hate groups locally active ==== |
| * The Jewish Voice for Peace (The [[Ex-Jewish Voice for War]]) JVP/xJVW | * The Jewish Voice for Peace (The [[Ex-Jewish Voice for War]]) JVP/xJVW |
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| Locally active groups focused on other issues, who have taken anti-zionist stances, while immersed in the systemically anti-Jewish ideologies of Enlightenment rationalism or Marxist historic materialism. Instead of taking account of their American privelege, they scapegoat Israel and project onto it the distinctly American sins of settler colonialism and systemic racism. Vis a vis the Palestine issue, most take their direction from the PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and from Samidoun, the international Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network of the PFLP. | Locally active groups focused on other issues, who have taken anti-zionist stances, while immersed in the systemically anti-Jewish ideologies of Enlightenment rationalism or Marxist historic materialism. Instead of taking account of their American privelege, they scapegoat Israel and project onto it the distinctly American sins of settler colonialism and systemic racism. Vis a vis the Palestine issue, most take their direction from the PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and from Samidoun, the international Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network of the PFLP, which are Marxist-Leninist terror groups. Since the 2020 protests, Samidoun affiliated groups have adopted the "police abolitionist" position, hijacking the protests, chanting "death to Israel" and "death to America" in the Portland plaza on July 1st at the "Palestinian Day of Rage", promoting riots, crime, and terrorism. They discredited and set back a decade or more the righteous cause of police reform and accountability, and the rioting effectively resulting increased funding for police departments across America. [[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-824756|Samidoun was designated a terrorist organization]] by Israel in 2021, by Germany in October 2023, and by the Netherlands, Canada, and the US in October 2024. [[https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/four-things-to-know-about-vancouver-based-terror-group-samidoun|Samidoun is based in Vancouver Canada]]. |
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| * Portland Public Teacher's Union | |
| * Graduate Teaching Fellows of PSU and UofO | |
| * Multnomah County Librarians | |
| * Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) | * Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) |
| * Party for Socialist Liberation (PSL) | * Party for Socialist Liberation (PSL) |
| | * Portland Public Teacher's Union |
| | * Graduate Teaching Fellows of PSU and UofO |
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| | ==== Libraries and Schools ===== |
| | Jared Essig publicly recognizing Jewish high holidays and sukkot at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SXSQgzQbD8?t=706|09.26.24 Regular meeting of Multnomah County Board of Commissioners 11.46]] |
| | Recognizing the new moon of the harvest month, and Proclaiming Oct. 3rd as the universal New Year's Day (Rosh haShana), day of trumpet blasts (Yom Teruah) and Day of Judgement (Yom haDin). God is the source of all good, and to him thanks are due. Thanksgiving will be held this year on Oct 17th, the full moon and 14th of Tishrei. |
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| | Now, O kings be wise, accept instruction o ye rulers of the earth (county commissioners, city councilors, university chancellors and officers of the faculty senate) Serve the LORD with fear, rejoice with trembling. (Psalm 2). The God of nature has through nature itself, rendered judgment through nature itself on our crops and gleanings. The fear of heaven comes more naturally to farmers and shepherds than it does to bourgeois liberal like us, who are insulated from the changing seasons by our technology, wealth, and power. Therefore cultivate fear, and prepare yourselves to receive the judgment on the coming year. Take a searching and fearless moral inventory, an audit, an annual budget review. Take an accounting of your soul. Recognize Tishrei as a universal heritage harvest month, in Multnomah County and everywhere (calling on libraries, public schools, and universities, and students and faculty unions, and other cities and states to make an equivalent or similar recognition) |
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| ==== Book Recommendations and Reviews ==== | ==== Book Recommendations and Reviews ==== |
| * America was founded on Christian anti-zionism. "A [[wp>City on a Hill]] cannot be hidden." | * America was founded on Christian anti-zionism. "A [[wp>City on a Hill]] cannot be hidden." |
| * [[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393270|Harvard student Shabbos Kestenbaum speaks at 2024 RNC]]. We endorse in part, and we condemn in part. We are "grateful", not proud, that God formed us according to his will, and Mr. Kestenbaum should be too. "Humility comes before honor, but pride comes before a fall". Not all Jewish values are American, and not all American values are Jewish. | * [[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393270|Harvard student Shabbos Kestenbaum speaks at 2024 RNC]]. We endorse in part, and we condemn in part. We are "grateful", not proud, that God formed us according to his will, and Mr. Kestenbaum should be too. "Humility comes before honor, but pride comes before a fall". Not all Jewish values are American, and not all American values are Jewish. |
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| | [[https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/08/05/venezuelas-maduro-accuses-international-zionism-for-protests-after-disputed-vote/|Venezuela's Maduro accuses international zionism for protests after disputed election]]. Jean-luc Melenchthon of La France Insoumise fails to denounce Maduro. |
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