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Ask JTF For Motza'ei Simchat Torah, October 15.
habiru:
Yacov Menashe has moved this post here to see what Chaim has to say about France's JDL. It is not related to Rabbi Kahane's American JDL or the current fraudulent "JDL".
Small Jewish group with big muscle defends community against anti-Semitism
By Associated Press June 15, 2006
When a wave of rioting erupted across France last fall, a Jewish youth group swung into action -- to guard synagogues and community centers from possible anti-Semitic spillover violence.
Many Jews feel that such a reflex is needed these days in France, home to the largest population of both Jews and Muslims in western Europe and sporadically simmering with tensions.
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was greeted with a red-carpet welcome in Paris on Wednesday, he faced a France where anti-Semitic attacks have tumbled from a high in 2004, despite several dramatic incidents. Olmert called President Jacques Chirac "one of the world's great fighters against anti-Semitism."
But others within the Jewish community also are keeping watch.
Formed in 2000, the Jewish Defense League -- which has no ties to the U.S. Jewish Defense League -- groups about 100 to 150 Jewish teens and young men to protect their community, experts say.
"Jews are fed up," said a league member named Maxime who refused to give his full name, saying he feared for his safety. "We've been nice for 30 years. Now, we gather and fight back."
Maxime, a 22-year-old waiter, admits his group is not afraid to take justice into its own hands if need be. He bragged about a 2003 incident in which a Jewish Defense League member beat up pro-Palestinian university students, injuring one.
"If a (Jewish) kid gets beaten up at school a few times, we go there and talk to the guy who beat him up," he said. "If he does it again, we go back -- and it's another story."
"Investigations are useless," Maxime said. "We're a second police."
Group members are unarmed but train in Krav-maga, a form of close combat developed by the predecessor of the Israeli Army. Apparently tolerated by authorities, they patrol Jewish neighborhoods such as Paris' Marais and keep watch in community centers and even synagogues to keep any subversives at bay.
Members wear scarves or masks but not uniforms -- and move quickly to protect Jewish sites when they feel it necessary, like during the riots that spread through poor French suburbs last fall.
Jean-Yves Camus, a researcher with the European Center of Research and Action on Racism and Anti-Semitism, said the group epitomizes a new generation of young Jews.
"JDL is the symbol of a generation that says: 'We won't bow our heads,"' Camus said in an interview.
Analysts say the anti-Semitism threat is evolving. For years, far-right groups were the greatest concern. Now, the epicenter of anti-Semitism is reported to be among immigrants from North Africa and their French-born children.
League leaders fault what they say is the powerlessness of mainstream associations in stemming the periodic waves of anti-Semitism.
Early this year, a young Jewish man was kidnapped, tortured and left for dead by a gang allegedly led by a man from Ivory Coast. Last month, a group of militant young black men who call themselves the Ka Tribe swarmed into Paris' Jewish quarter shouting anti-Semitic slogans and scrapping for a fight with league members.
Celine Ruimy, a 45-year-old housewife in the Jewish quarter, is glad the group exists.
"It's important to show that there are some things we can't accept and there are things we are not willing to live through again," she said.
Butcher shop owner Linda Saada, 47, agrees.
"I told my nephews, who are religious, to wear a cap instead of a skull cap," she said. "I think it's more prudent," she said.
Roger Cukierman, who heads the umbrella Representative Council of Jewish Organizations in France, refused to comment on the Jewish Defense League.
Christian Zionist:
Chaim,
Once I read in an old JTF website that the Philadelphia branch of the Anti-Defamation League divulged information about some JDL members to the FBI. Can you give us more information about that? Were you one of them? How did the ADL get the details about those JDL members in the first place? Also who is Murray Young? Is he close to you? ADL website claims that he co-operated with the prosecutors, so his term was reduced to 5 years - Was that true?. What does Murray Young do right now?
Thanks!
Christian Zionist.
Yacov Menashe adds: The same self-hating ADL site on "JDL terrorism" also says that one of your co-defendants committed suicide in The Catskills. I think his name is Jay Cohen. You said he passed away. Why did they say he committed suicide? Speaking of the ADL hate page, they also accused the Jewish hero Robert Manning of killling someone with a letter bomb for a personal reason. David HaIvri of Revava told me that it was just a frame up to lock him up when they couldn't get him for the assassination of Alex Odeh, YM"S, by his fellow Arab Muslim Nazis.
YESHA:
:) :-[ :oThank you so much Chaim for taking your precious time and spending it here on ASK JTF week after week answer all questions so beautifully and being to the point. Now, I hope this is not drifting too much away from the show’s main theme for you to help me with a personal matter. I haven’t had anything to do with may father, whom I live with and my mother – his wife, for 2 or 3 years now, since we used to argue ands shout at each other a lot, things were never good between us since he had his stroke. I now want to get back and speak with him – which I haven’t done for several years, how do I go about that?[ I also don’t speak to my older unmarried brother who lives with me in the same house [for 6 years or so now], due to his narrow-mindedness, bigotry, stupidity, fanaticism, annoyance and everything else, even though lately he is saying ‘hello’ – I’m ignoring him!.] Thank you and Shalom. I hope you had a wonderfull Yom Tov and Chag.
shimonchaim:
dear chaim have you ever been interviewed by a major newspaper or magazine or website.
and out of curiosity how many clicks does jtf get each week
thank you
Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
Dear Chaim
My question for this week is- since (or if) Rabbi Kahane ruled that the Arabs in Israel ARE amalek, then why was his goal to transfer them? shouldnt it have been to whipe them out? I mean okay politcally you cant get anywhere saying that you want to whipe them out, but neither did transfering them solve anything politically.
I would also like to ask you that since the Vilna Gaon said that Germany IS Amalek ( even wayy before the holocaust) would Israel ( under the Kahanist, Halahic rulership), be obligated to start a war against Germany, or would it ( as im guessing) be obligated to start this war only after it concurrs the whole land of Israel.
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