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Trumpeldor:
1. What is your opinion of Salman Rushdie?

2. I know you dislike AIPAC because you believe it is a New World Order organization and I agree that it wrong for pushing Congress to send money to Israel. We all know that Israel should be self-sufficient and should not be pressured to give up land.

On the other hand, AIPAC does many positive things. It is working hard to prevent U.S. aid to Hamas. It gets Congress to condemn and place sanctions on terrorist countries like Iran, Syria, and Libya. AIPAC also has made it illegal for multinational corporations to provide weapons technology to Iran. It gets resolutions passed when Israel is in a conflict. Lastly, it got Hizballah's TV Station designated as a terrorist entity.

Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks:
Blessings dear Chaim,

It is with a heavy heart that I must publicly disagree with you, in advocacy of another poster (YESHA). I do believe he's correct on eggs being a healthful food. Unless you have a rare genetic defect preventing your body from doing so, or you are poisoning your bloodstream with other unhealthy things, the human body breaks down dietary LDL (and in fact, cholesterol is needed by every single living thing on the planet). It is the presence of trans fats (synthetic oils similar to petroleum jelly) and refined carbohydrates in the bloodstream that completely skews cholesterol levels, not natural, unadulterated, Hashem-given foods for mankind. All of these "studies" damning butter, cholesterol, animal fats, etc. were funded by the soybean and shortening industries seeking to brainwash mainstream America into consuming their devil grease. The multinational food industry uses hydrogenated oils for cooking and demonizes natural, Hashem-given sources of energy and nourishment for the same reason the multinational corporations use illegals and outsourcing for labor--because it is CHEAPER. The entire medical establishment is bought off by "hydrodollars" in the same manner the entire media and government is bought off by petrodollars. Please check out the Campaign Against Trans Fats In Food (http://www.tfx.org.uk/); this British NGO is, quite arguably, the JTF of food health. It's very eye-opening and politically incorrect. A loving G-d would never provide mankind with poisonous foods and we do not need a microscope and laboratory to know what parts of natural foods are good and bad. If you want to criticize hormones, antibiotics, etc. in animal products that is something else--but I do believe Genesis when it states that all G-d made is good.

If you are skeptical, compare coronary disease rates in northern India (where basically 100% of dietary fat is from ghee) with that of contemporary America--or that of 1900 America (where vegetable oils, hydrogenated or not, were unheard of) with that of today.

G-d bless you and please know that I am not upset or telling you to change your diet,
Chaimfan

Dr. Dan:
Shalom Chaim- Thank you for answering my questions last week and your compliments. I hope the next two will be thought provoking for you and everyone on this forum.

1. A few weeks ago you had mentioned that animals have no control over their instincts and went on to mention a story of how a dog had become so hungry that it ended up eating a little baby.  While I agree with you so far on other examples of keeping animals away from the same domain as humans (with the exception of dogs who aid the blind, deaf, mentally impaired, lonely or desolate), I find the above example you gave about the poor baby to be flawed.  Now, I agree with you that, in principle, humans have the ability to control themselves better than animals.  However, technically, the dog did nothing wrong in eating the baby because it was, after all, trying to stay alive. Let me tell you why:  What if, Gd forbid, one of us was starving to death and in order to stay alive we had to eat Fido? Certainly, we are doing the right thing eating the dog. So who are you to judge the dog for doing the same for its survival? Eek! How grim!

2. Here's an unlikely scenario, but nevertheless a serious question about our responsibilities as Jews:

Let's just say a terrible thing starts happening in which ALL righteous non-Jews are being targeted and being sent to concentration camps where they are being gassed like Jews had been during the Shoah.  What would you do if one of them knocked on your door to save his/her life even though your own life would be in danger if you were caught? Let's say it was an Arab or Muslim being targeted for these gas chambers, would you risk your life? Irregardless of religion or race, who are we supposed to give our lives to for the sake of humanity? Who individually gets to receive our compassion when one asks for it? If your answer is for everyone who is righteous, how can you tell if a total stranger is righteous on the spot?

I'll answer my questoin by simply saying, one should not judge the poor by feeling sorry for him or blaming him; nor should one judge the rich for being swift/smart or arrogant.

Thank you.

Fruit of thy loins:
Dear Chaim,

Some of the most beautiful women I have ever met were black haired.  I wish that I could have had them.  My grades might have slipped but my degree isn't worth anything anyway.  I'd rather have taken those beautiful women to bed with me and died off from a disease by now.  Don't you think it's better to live to 30 being happy than to 90 being unhappy?

I have some kind of mental illness or degeneracy which causes me to behave in ways that other people find repugnant.  I am far too lazy to seek 'help' and too suspicious of the British health 'service' to put my faith in it.  G-d will not redeem me because I have abominated before His sight.  What is the best way to commit suicide?

jsullivan:
Yacov Menashe asked me to post this.

First Point: Thank you for answering my question about Meir Weinstein. I was under the impression that all the "JDL" chapters other than Shelley Rubin's now call themselves Bnei Elim. So my question is what is "JDL Toronto"? Is it a branch of Bnei Elim, is it a branch of Shelley Rubin's personal club cult, or is it independent?

Weinstein also attacked Esther Pollard and said that "from what he knows from her activities in Toronto that she isn't really doing any good for her husband". I think that anyone that attacks Esther is against Jonathan as well including Jonathan's own family members who have attacked her.

Second Point: Also, please respond to this claim from the Wikipedia article on JDL. Perhaps you may have heard of Weinstein as Meir HaLevi. He now calls himself National Director of JDL in Canada. Did JDL have a National Chairman in Canada when you ran JDL in The United States? If so, who was it?

The JDL has branches in Eastern Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Russia and the United Kingdom.

Meir Weinstein, also known as Meir Halevi, is the long-time leader of the JDL in Canada. The Canadian group resumed activities in 2006 after a long absence.[1] Since their reactivation they have counterdemonstrated against pro-PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi activists, picketed a conference on Israeli apartheid at the University of Toronto[2], protested the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation for considering support of a boycott of Israel.[12][13] and protested the construction of a mosque led by an alleged "Islamist"[3]

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