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Ask JTF for Sunday, November 15, 2009.

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FreedomFighter08:
Dear Chaim,

- What do you think about right-wing Zionist rappers like Subliminal and Hazel? I know that Subliminal made a song named "HaTikvah", and Hazel made a song along with Subliminal called "The Last Zionist".

- What were Rabbi Meir Kahane's (may he rest in peace) economic and social views? Was he a Capitalist like you are?

- How do you feel about righteous Atheists? I mean people who are good, moral people who support Jews and strive to make the world a better place, but personally do not believe in G-D like Geert Wilders. Can you really blame people who were raised Secular and stay Atheists?

- Why do you think that the government should enforce morality? Personally, I don't see why the government feels the need to regulate television, since responsible parents can just put child blocks on the television. I grew up watching Scarface, Goodfellas, and the Godfather while in middle school on HBO, along with playing violent video games, and I don't feel the need to shoot people up because the guy in my video game did it. I think people who do this stuff are just sick in the head, there's no reason that we need to censor Grand Theft Auto brand video games because of "violence", our children are being too sheltered! These little white suburban kids who grow up sheltered are the only people I see who go crazy and shoot up schools. Whenever blacks do it, it's mostly because it's gang related, and nobody questions video games. To people living in the inner city, this is just life, so they don't get bothered by fake guns on the video games. I personally believe that we're being too soft on our kids and protecting them too much. What do you think?

- What do you think about extraterrestrial life? I've heard that there are trillions of billions of stars, and each of these stars have their own planetary system with multiple planets. When you think about it, there has to be some chance for life. That doesn't mean that aliens visit us but I'm talking about any type of life. Do you think there is only bacteria and other small life forms, or that there are possibly people like us? When you think about this stuff, it's really interesting. What if G-D created millions of planets with life forms like us on it, and is testing each of us to see which planet will become the most righteous and which will become the more eviler planet? I'm getting ahead of myself now, but what do you think about this topic? Is anything like this mentioned in the Torah?

PS: It's funny that how everywhere my family goes, we get money and great jobs, and then people take the money away. I mean it's really so sad that it's hilarious. After my Sefardic ancestors moved to Uzbekistan, we eventually became doctors and dentists in the Russian Empire. One of my ancestors got so rich that he built a feudal style manor in Tashkent, and had a lot of people working on it. Of course, the Bolsheviks took over his manor, put him in a work camp and nobody saw him again. This was the grandfather of my grandmother. My father's ancestors grew up pretty poor along with my father but then my father started up a small business and got money in Tashkent. After the Soviet Union collapsed, his house got robbed and the Jews got threatened to convert to Islam or die, our families left to the United States and some to Israel. I'm getting into business, and even in high school, I'm taking college level economics classes. I can assure you, if I continue our family legacy in America (hopefully and by G-D's will), you expect a mass donation that will make you into a mass movement. Hopefully no Communists or Muslims take away the fruits of our labor in America. Long live the JTF!

Nekama:
Dear Chaim:

Hope all is well.  Here are my questions for the week:

(1) Do you think that righteous people have the power to bless and curse in today's day and age?

(2) Chaim, I agree with you that we should be so lucky that oil become a worthless commodity due to a scientific breakthrough.  Wouldn't it be ironic if a Jewish scientist made such a discovery.  Anyways, I fear that aftermath if such a scientific discovery became a reality. The law of unintended consequences may take effect. Just imagine a world where oil is worthless. Arab and Muslim countries would be left without any source of significant income.  1.5 billion Muslims on the verge of starvation.  Mass emigration from these Islamic countries to Europe and America. Arabs sneaking into Israel for a chance to work, G-D forbid.    Liberals, leftists and Muslim lovers pushing through massive "humanitarian aid" legislation to help these people, driving the west further in debt.  Arabs in Europe rioting and committing acts of massive civil but more likely uncivil disobedience to pressure their governments to help their "brethren." And as Arabs and Muslims usually do, blame Israel and the "Jewish controlled West." Do you think this is a realistic assessment of what could happen and how should rightous people and government's react in such a scenario?

(3) How would Prime Minister Chaim Ben Pesach deal with discrimination against Sephardim and Ethiopians in Israel?  From what I read in the english Israeli newspapers, this is unfortunately not an uncommon problem, that our Sephardim and Ethiopian brothers suffer discrimination in the workforce, schools and other institutions in Israel.   What sort of legal action or legislation or other equitable remedies would you be in favor of? Do you think this is a real problem today?

chicagojew:
Shalom Chaim, does Israel have  single payer health care?

davinci:
Shalom Chaim

If a ferocious dog attacks a person, how does the Halakha, the Jewish law, punish the owner?

Do you think there is generally an increase of dog bites compared to the past?

And what is the best way to protect oneself in case of an aggressive dog?

Regards

davinci

patches:
Shalom Chaim,

I saw an infomercial for the organization, IFCJ (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews): On Wings of Eagles. According to them, "On Wings of Eagles helps rescue Jews from the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, India, Arab lands and other countries where they struggle daily against anti-Semitism and battered economies." Do you think this is a righteous organization?

Thanks,
Patches

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