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Ask JTF for Sunday, November 15, 2009.

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dreidelhead:
Shalom Chaim,

Thanks for smacking around Libs, Jew-haters, and various other vermin for the rest of us.

Last week someone asked about the Alex Haley‘s “Roots”. There was an excellent article recently at American Thinker that describes what a fraud Alex Haley was and that his character Kunte Kinte was a fabrication. His "nonfiction" Pulitzer Prize-winning book was plagiarized from a fictional one. Haley was sued in a U.S. District Court for copyright infringement, and in the trial he was totally exposed as a liar. Under threat of being prosecuted for perjury, his lawyers counseled him to settle for $650,000, which was a lot back then. The settlement got almost no media attention, and still today few people know these facts. Surprised? Story here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/before_dreams_there_was_roots.html

1)  Mark Steyn (not Jewish) is a very bright and witty writer and commentator, and his politics are solidly conservative and pro-Israel. His excellent book “America Alone” was a clarion call for Europe and America to wake up to the threat of Islam. Have you read “America Alone”? Do you have an opinion of him or his work?

2)  As America’s crack up accelerates, would it be wrong, or a type of loshon hara to rub it into the faces of liberal morons and say, “Told ya.” I have lib friends who are losing their jobs and going through rough times. I try to sympathize with them, and resist kicking them when they are down. But you must surely understand the temptation! They still don’t think Obama has had anything to do with it. Is there anyone more dense, more moronic, than a Liberal? Other than, of course, a Jewish Liberal?

3)  Rashi makes mention of a belief that when the stones were hewn for the Beit Hamikdash, a small creature known as the ‘shamir’, was used. The creature, he says, was able to penetrate and crumble stones along a drawn line. Do you know anything more about this fascinating creature? What’s the meaning behind this?

Thanks and Chazak v’emahtz!
Dreidlehead

Yaacov Ben Yehuda:
shalom Chaim

what is your over all feeling about this recent skirmish between the two Korean navies?  do you see a possible nuclear war stemming from Korea?

Also, do you think that ehud barak will lose the labor party leadership if they go to primaries in 2010, and if how would that affect pee pee netanyoyo's coalition?

one last thing...where is the tomb or gravesite of Yehuda Ha Macabbi?

thanks and G-d Bless!

The One and Only Mo:
Dear Chaim,

     What do you think the world will be like in the next 5 years? Any major events etc.
     Also, I read in one of my textbooks that the civilization of Islam "arose in the Near East in the 7th and 8th centuries, it very quickly became the most sophisticated and advanced civilization west of China. In about 150 years, Islam spread throughout the Middle East, into parts of India, all across the north of Africa, and even into much of Spain. In addition to making a stark comparison with faltering Europe, Islam cut off Europeans from easy travel to Asia and Africa, isolating them even more."  Is this the same Islam that we are battling today?
Thanks and may Hashem help us.

shmu:
Dear Chaim:

I just went to a screening of the movie REFUSENIK, It chronicled the movement for the release of soviet jews. I was aastonished that no mention was made of Rabbi Meir Kahane in the movie. Is Rabbi Meir Kahane still so villified in the minds of movie makers that they dont dare mention his accomplishments no matter what? What is the history of his involvement with the movement to release soviet jews?

WestCoastJTF:
Chaim,

Last week you mentioned that when you were a young man in the JDL, Rabbi Kahane had a book list and you were required to read books on that list.

What books were on the list? 

God Bless!

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