Daily Archives: February 2, 2006

Israel’s Identity Crisis: Liberal or Jewish?

A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes. A clear sense of mission and purpose keeps the soul healthy; without it we decompose like a body without a backbone that collapses into a meaningless heap of bones. Nations are like people, with a healthy sense of mission they thrive; without it, they flounder and fade away.

Israel is floundering. Israel’s greatest threat today is not from without rather it is from within. Its greatest risk comes, neither from Hamas nor from the bloody Intifada, rather it comes from its lost sense of mission. The Jewish people have survived for 3800 years only because it had a strong sense of mission. At Mt. Sinai the Jewish people were charged with the mission of being a light onto the nations, volunteering to become a nation of prophets and priests who will teach the world right from wrong.

Kosher Bread – Target of Prejudice in Mogilev

The most recent target of anti-Semitism in Russia occurred in Mogilev in the Belarus region. Two local newspapers called residents to confiscate the ‘Blominskei’ bread. The articles added letters written by locals blaming the bakery for ‘turning the entire region into a Jewish community’. To combat this, the newspapers demanded that production of kosher bread be forbidden and boycotted.

One of the letters publicized declared that the koshering process is done with the use of blood of animals brought for an offering. Other reporters based their support of outlawing kosher bread on other sources.

Straphangers Sack On Track

It’s hard to find a subway car without a lawbreaker on board.

A day after The Post told the tale of a Brooklyn woman who was slapped with a $50 summons for putting her groceries on the seat next to her, plenty of other commuters were ripe for bagging.

Virtually every subway car The Post visited had at least one passenger defying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority rule that makes it illegal to plop packages on an empty seat.