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General Category => Ask JTF => Topic started by: admin on August 25, 2006, 05:14:29 PM
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Thank you for answering my question about Ahmadi (Pronounced ACHmadi) Muslims. I banned Khaan, the Ahmadi Muslim, even before I heard your response because he was trying to stir up troubles between Jews and Christians on the forum in relation to Judaism and Christianity. He is Rhuan's friend. Rhuan thinks "he is beginning to doubt Islam and that's why he is saying the allegory nonsense and eventually he will leave Islam".
Here is my comment and question.
The Chabad guy at the t'fillin booth at The Kotel told me that The Rebbe disagreed with Rav Kahane on his actions against The Soviet Union on behalf of Soviet Jewry. The Rebbe allegedly preferred to deal with it diplomatically and said Rabbi Kahane freed some at the expense of Chabad's efforts to free all.
The man at The Kotel also said that The Rebbe also had Ruach HaKodesh and that is why I brought up Rabbi Kahane because I said Rabbi Kahane also had Ruach HaKodesh. The man disagreed with me on that. I asked if The Rebbe was like Rav Kaduri and he said The Rebbe was on a much higher level just like Moses. He said Rav Kaduri was a Kabbalist and that Moses and The Rebbe were on a higher level than Kabbalah so therefore didn't need Kabbalah.
What do you think about this? I thought Chabadnikim and Kahanists were the closest allies. Also, what is your opinion about people calling The Rebbe Mashiach? The most active Chabadnikim for The Land of Israel are Meshachistim while the Non-Meshachistim take a more Establishment approach towards The Land of Israel.
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Dear C.
Are there any colleges that you can reccomend?
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Dear Chaim,
Thank you for answering my questions each week.
My question this week is, has Baruch Marzel considered instead of spending what little money we have on TV and Radio instead Baruch and all the leaders of Hazit take their message directly to the people with public speaking engagements anywhere and everywhere. Whether its the Shtakhim, or Tel Aviv or Benai Brak. If the people hear a Torah true message, even if we dont have a slick campaign, their hearts will follow.
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Shalom aleichem rebbe Chaim,
You may not have a semicha, but out of respect for your great wisdom I refer to you as a rebbe.
I know that talking about shvartzes isn't really that interesting, but I'm just curious about one thing. Did Rav Kahane, zt"l, share similar views and sentiments about shvartzes? On past broadcasts you've attributed negative comments about shvartzes to HaRav Kahane, zt"l. And it sounds like something that he would definitely say. The eternal malcontents is certainly a more than apt description for shvartzes.
Also in terms of suggestions, there is a popular website among younger people called MySpace (http://www.mypsace.com) that has A LOT of visitors. I could easily set up a JTF MySpace page and design the layout to look identical to the JTF.ORG website. People who use MySpace on this forum can then place the page in their top eight "friend" list. That would be great free advertising.
Another suggestion, I think that some of the people on this forum should set up a free store with CafePress (http://www.cafepress.com) and sell replicas of the JTF.ORG t-shirt that David wore on past shows. The store owners could set up a reasonable mark-up price and distribute the profits directly to JTF. I suggested this idea on the old forum, but it never came into fruition. Please feel free to add your input.
Kol tuv.
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I am not going to ask another question, however I would like you to read the following statement.
I would like to apologise if you found that my question made you uncomfortable, I never wish to descriminate by religion, or any other means, I did not post that question with the purpose of courisng upset or seperation between Christians or Jews, it was just an issue I've been thinking about, that I particularly wanted to hear the Jewish view on, I am sorry if I caused you any discomfort or upset.
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Thank you Chaim as always for your hard work and answering my questions.
I know that you are strong believer in proper nutrition and excerise, so I assume you do not smoke. Do you support smoking bans inorder to promote better health not just for somokers, but also for people who have to breath in the 2nd hand smoke? Also why do you think Nazis were such anti-smokers?
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Dear Chaim
There are allot of conspiracy theories out there that state that 9-11 was an inside job. Some say that bush and his buddies knowingly shepherded al-quada terrorist into this country, He then helped them get flying lessons. Bush also signed documents saying hands off bin laden and Cheney told Norad to stand down. There are also reports that his political buddies were told not to fly that day. Other people say he just left the barn door open knowing that the attack would come eventually thus, giving him a pretext for war. There are so many other theorys that you may or may not subscribe to that it is impossible to mention. After listening to you in 1994 it seems like you have a insiders view on the issue so what is your opinion, thanks.
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By the way Chaim, your pronunciation of Scriabin last week is exactly how it is generally pronounced in non-Russian countries. I'm an American and I pronounce it the same way...Scree-ah-bin.
Thank you so much for your concern about this.
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Dear Chaim,
Do you prefer semi-automatic handguns or revolvers?
Shalom
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Hi I attend a college in the NJ area.
As you can imagine most of the professors are far-leftists but some are actually decent people. Most of the student body come from very traditional Catholic homes. My history professor gave me a very low mark even though I wasone of the the best students in class. Me thinks it had something to do with our frequent arguments about Israel.
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Hello Chaim,
I had watched this past week the television movie "Path to 9/11" and was wondering if you saw the film. If you didn't it was about in a nutshell it had to also do with FBI agent John O"Niel as you may know he too died in the collapsing of the Twin Towers yet he was a very vocal person prior to 9/11. All of a sudden we are getting movies after movies about 9/11, and each year I hear the word "memorial" of Sept. 11. And yes as well as we should remember, My question is what is the point of remembering when we don't act upon the real way instead of this game with the Arab and Muslims trying to "distict" who is the good one who is the bad one? If Islam has its way we would all be dead every single one of us. How come no one in our media, in our Government whether Republican or Democrat seem to get with it and realize by playing nice with Islamics that their only goal is to wipe out every infidel off the face of the Earth? What is the point of remembering 9/11 if we do not take our role in protecting our selves and our people seriously?
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What happened to the jocular no-holds-barred Englishman who used to speak with Vancier?
Is he still alive?
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Hi Chaim,
Great job as always. Hope all is well. This week I would like to ask your opinion on how secular Jews could best reconnect to their religion. As you mentioned, most American Jews are not very religious. I must admit I fall into this category even though my father is from Israel (actually Egypt orginially like your father). I was raised as a Conservative Jew and did go to Hebrew School through my Bar Mitzvah. Unfortunately, as the years went by, however, I began to lose touch even though I have always remained a very proud Jew culturally and always fought against anti-semitism in any form. I did try to join Hillel in college, but I was put off by the liberal atmosphere the campus organization fostered and the fact that all they seemed to talk about was the nature of tolerance and the Holoucaust, rather than taking a more proactive approach. I am now approacing 30 and would like to become more religious as I enter the next stage of my life. Any advice would be appreciated.
If you have time, I would also like to ask you about the best way to promote JTF offline, in addition to posting to message boards online. What do you think about flyers, visting religious organizations, college campuses and radio stations, and perhaps selling some merchandise to raise funds? I also think JTF supporters should call into radio or television shows, and try to slip in the JTF website, whenever they see Jewish or Israeli issues discussed in the media. This should help spread the word. Thanks and all the best.
Ari
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Chaim,
What is your opinion of Bob Dylan? His new album just came out, and he's on a bunch of ipod commercials now. Considering his early pro-civil rights, pro-communist protest songs, his conversion to Christianity and his later conversion back to Judaism, do you consider him to be a righteous Jew?
Thanks,
Patches
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Thank you for answering my previous questions Chaim – I have another one for this weeks show: What should be done about the pro-Arab ant-Israeli news media in U.K., U.S. etc. they portray a one-sidedness and are far-left and seem to be very sympathetic to the Arab side with phone ins and reports. In London a vicious filthy-stinking low-life more-on, George Galloway Y’’sh has a radio show – http://www.talksport.net – 8-10p.m. Saturday and Sunday [, I of course don’t listen to that ’Shabbat’ show or the Sunday show for that matter].
He is more pro-so-called “Palestinian” than those Arabs in Hamas-stan - he is an MP and is so radical-socialist anti-Israel leftist - I wish and hope he is assassinated. He has this powerful voice and is famous for his strong anti-Israel rants and vicious attacks on Israel, America, callers and centrist media- what exists in the U.K. WHAT’S TO BE DONE?
TODAH RABAH CHAIM – you should live ‘biz a haundraed in tzvantzig’ – ‘ad maeya ve’esrim’…
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Shalom Chaim,
This question pertains to saving America. Have you heard about the Senate race in Maryland? Two candidates are running for an open seat (no incumbent) and it could get interesting. The election features a conservative Republican versus a liberal Democrat.
Let me explain why JTF should articulate its position on this or devote a future 'Save America' broadcast to it.
The Republican is the current Governor, a black man named Michael Steele. JTF has a well-known history of supporting minority candidates, provided they are decent people, like Alan Keyes. Furthermore, Steele is running against long-time U.S. Representative Ben Cardin, who is a self-hating Jew. Steele overwhelmingly won his primary, while Cardin barely squeeked by his closest contender, a black NAACP [insert comment here].
Cardin is a self-hating Jew whose family-name was shortened from Kardonsky by his father, who did this to serve his own political career. The Cardin family is composed of prominent judges and politicians, who undoubtedly are greedy opportunists, as are most self-hating Jews. As an aside, Cardin's comments on his family's political dynasty are in direct contrast to what the founding fathers had in mind.
His political views can be found at this website: http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Benjamin_Cardin.htm
In short, Cardin is far left of center. Here are some of his views on the major issues
He strongly favors:
abortion (wikipedia is wrong, like usual)
affirmative action
gay marriage
higher taxes
amnesty for illegals
He strongly opposes:
prayer/religion in public schools
mandatory minimums
the Patriot Act
criminalizing drug possession
allowing churches to provide welfare services (instead of the federal government)
Basically, Cardin is a horrendous danger to this country, and he MUST be defeated. I'm not even from Maryland or DC and the prospect of him serving in the Senate frightens me. We need more people like Vito, who posts here.
Now, Steele is no Kahanist, but he's better than Cardin.
He is pro-life
Against civil rights for homosexuals
Favors lower taxes
Strongly opposes amnesty for illegals!!!
Favors alternative sources of energy!!!
There are some hiccups along the way, such as his support for affirmative action, his opposition to the death penalty and the Patriot Act. Still, the bolshevik media hates this man because of his other views and is trying desperately to smear him. Thus far they have been unsuccessful. Ironically, Cardin's campaign has endured some controversy for the publicly expressed racism and anti-Semitism on the part of a staffer, which not surprisingly has been swept under the rug by the news media.
Steele is somewhat of a free-thinker whose positions are in line with JTF on the most important issues, whereas his opponent, Cardin, is completely off the wall in terms of his liberalism and self-hating qualities. Ultimately, JTF should support candidates like Steele or else we are being unrealistic in our desire to save America.
This is one honest Jew's opinion and feel free to disagree,
Macaca
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India was okay until it abolished the caste system. You cannot civilize Dravidians.
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Chaim,
Some of the stuff that Craig Win says are kind of bizzare. I like his prophetofDoom site but his other site "Yada Hashem" has quotes like "May God damn all religions before religion damns all men" and it also says that God "revealed" things to him (Craig) which sounds kind of mad in my opinion. Please comment on this. Thanks
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I happen to like Craig Winn. I think he's a righteous person. It's okay to disagree with the content of his other books, but for the most part he has his head on straight. I visited Yada Ha'Shem and his central thesis is that G-d prefers a relationship over religion. Okay, whatever. He doesn't compel anyone to believe in what he believes in. And as a Christian fundamentalist, he sincerely loves the Jewish people and Israel. I find nothing wrong with him. I would hope that Chaim agrees.
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We had already discussed about India in detail in the following thread:
http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php?topic=37.0
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India was okay until it abolished the caste system. You cannot civilize Dravidians.
What do you know about Dravidians?
Caste system cannot be eradicated in India because it has religious roots.
Well Indians were soaked with socialism for decades and made to hate America, Israel and the West. In the early nineties only our late Prime Minister P.V. Narasimharao estabilished contacts with Israel. Israel helped India to win in 2 wars against Pakistan. Israel is the 2nd largest arms supplier to India. Even though the culture is backwards in India you cannot compare that with the Black culture in America.
I will post new topics about Jews in India, Israel-India relations, How Indians feel about Blacks and Islamic terrorism in the future!
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Chaim,
Do you know Gary Cooperberg personally? What is present his relationship with other Kahanist leaders like Noam Federman, Itamar Ben Gvir and Baruch Marzel? How close was Gary to Rabbi Kahane?
Thanks!
Christian Zionist
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Chaim,
What do you think about the study that was done several years ago that showed that Most Jews and Arabs share a common genetic heritage. It also showed that Jews and Kurds are the most closely related genetically.
Also what do you think about the theory that the Pakhtun a.k.a Pathan tribesmen of Afghanistan are originally Israelite lost tribes who were forced to convert to Islam. they themsleves have such a tradition and they follow many ancient Israelite customs. What do you think happened to the aseret Hashevatim?
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What can I tell all the Jews who think the Save Darfur cause is worthy and Jewish. It's amazing how much time and money they spend on this cause, yet they won't lift a finger for Israel. They tell me that genocide is going on in the Sudan and compare it to the holocaust. I respond by telling them that what goes on does not fit the definition of genocide because no specific group(s) of people are being targeted. They say action is required and I ask them what action they desire. I remind them that they are against the war in Iraq(which we are against for different reasons) yet they are protesting so the US can go to war in the Sudan. Many of them claim that this can be resolved without sending troops while others think it is a just sacrifice. I then remind them that they are only fighting to get US soldiers killed and tell them that these troops should either be home with their families or protecting our borders against illegal aliens. Sadly, I don't appear to be convincing any of them. What else can I tell them?
PS. I'm still working on getting JTF posted on other sites but ran into technical difficulty. I got banned from the two sites I tried. Looks like I was wrong about the constitution party.
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Hi Chaim
You answered my last question to my satisfaction. Thank you for that perspective.
I do recognise the importance and urgency of your message.
I am just searching and debating desperately for the strategies that will enable us to gain more support for our ideas because I recognise we need far more support inorder for our aims to be realised at all. I also recognise our survival is at stake.
It sometimes feels that we keep coming up against a brick wall. I suppose that is where faith in God comes in ?
The question is -- If you could brief a plan of action, what strategies do you think we need to start developing inorder to start being heard and having our ideas supported ? What do we need and what do we need to do to be successfull ?
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Shalom Chaim,
This week i wanted to ask if by the way things are going in Israel, there can be another "galut"? what do you think about it? its just that the situation here bears such a close resemblance to what was in the first and second "galuyot", that it only made wonder about it. i cant see Israel becoming a Jewish state in the next 50 years, i can only see more and more leftists, more and more sins and lack of justice.
i would also like to ask what were the main reasons that so many rabbis disagreed with rabbi Kahane. for me, one who only begins to enter real Judaism, its very interesting to also see what others think. for example, the "neturei karta" say something like waiting for the Mashiach to come first, then Jews can have a state (or its the general "Haredim" view of the situation- im not sure). its against what Kahane saw as real Judaism, but as i said in the first part of the question, its hard to see how can Israel continue to exist in the far future having all the problem she has.
Thanks.
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Dear Chaim,
I would be delighted if you could comment on Islam, and in particular on the circumstantial evidence that Islam is false. I refer to what seems to be abundant evidence that Islam was a scam invented just to satisfy Muhammad's own personal desires and whims. For example:
1) One day Muhammad took a fancy to his daughter-in-law. Coincidentally (!), 'Allah' promptly appeared and commanded him to have sex with her. Muhammad's poor son (adopted) had to divorce her straightaway.
2) 'Allah' supposedly allowed Muhammad to have unlimited wives (he had c. 14);
Ordinary Muslim men to have up to four wives; but
Muhammad's son-in-law (Ali) could have only one wife - Muhammad's darling daughter, Fatima.
It looks like a rule designed to slake Muhammad's own lust and treat daddy's little girl, does it not?
3) When in the early days the Muslims were weak and few, 'Allah' supposedly commanded 'let there be no compulsion in religion'. But later, when the Muslims were many and strong, 'Allah' supposedly commanded them to behead the infidels, ambush them etc!
Are the above just amazing concidences? I have a legal background and to me these seem like circumstantial evidence that Islam is false.
Regards from Noahide
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Dear Chaim ben Pesach, What do you think about thepope's statement's about Islam. Do you think this will start a world war? An arab paper based in london said this would lead to war. What do you think?
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Thanks for answering my question a few weeks ago. Anyway since I did mention that I haven't ate passover in over 10 years I do speak to my parents but just don't spend the holidays with them and they go away to Florida or other places and it would be difficult for me to go away to Florida for the holidays. Anyway, I was wondering what you felt of Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi an Itallian Muslim who believes that the Koran gives Ismael's decendents the desert of arabia and the Jews the land of Israel. (Of course Jews who lived in Arabia were murdered when Mohammed took power). I heard Palazzi on the Tovia Singer a few years ago although I am no longer crazy about Tovia I was wondering do you think Palazzi is sincere. Palazzi has also condemmed CAIR for what they do in the United States. Here are Palazi's comments on Koran night Journey Chapter 17 verses 100-104. (I will put the verses and the website after his comments.)
SHAYKH PROF. PALAZZI COMMENTS:
God wanted to give Avraham a double blessing, through Ishmael and through Isaac, and ordered that Ishmael's descendents should live in the desert of Arabia and Isaac's in Canaan.
The Qur'an recognizes the Land of Israel as the heritage of the Jews and it explains that, before the Last Judgment, Jews will return to dwell there. This prophecy has already been fulfilled.
These are the verses in the Koran. (I do have a Koran so looked them up and the translation is a little different although I could not understand what it was saying in my english translation of the Koran).
THE QUR'AN SAYS:
"To Moses We [Allah] gave nine clear signs. Ask the Israelites how he [Moses] first appeared amongst them. Pharoah said to him: 'Moses, I can see that you are bewitched.' 'You know full well,' he [Moses] replied, 'that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has revealed these visible signs. Pharoah, you are doomed.'"
"Pharoah sought to scare them [the Israelites] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him [Pharoah] together with all who were with him. Then We [Allah] said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land [the Land of Israel]. When the promise of the hereafter [End of Days] comes to be fulfilled, We [Allah] shall assemble you [the Israelites] all together [in the Land of Israel]."
"We [Allah] have revealed the Qur'an with the truth, and with the truth it has come down. We have sent you [Muhammed] forth only to proclaim good news and to give warning."
[Qur'an, "Night Journey," chapter 17:100-104]
http://www.templemount.org/quranland.html
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Shalom Chaim and thanks so much for your flattering remarks last week! I was really surprised and taken aback to receive such an enormous compliment from the great Chaim ben Pesach! I never thought that would ever be possible! I wanted to let you know that this past summer, I did post JTF's mission statement, vision, and seven point plan on many different Yahoo Israel and Jewish chat groups.
Anyway, I know that in the previous weeks, you've been urging as many of us to vote for John Spencer in the republican Senatorial campaign. Since I'm a registered democrat, I wasn't able to do so. But I did make it a point to vote for Hillary Sodom Arafart's opponent. I confess I did support her in the past, and I pound my heart and say, "Forgive me for I have sinned" as I say this. I am certainly not supporting her anymore. A big reason why I am not supporting her anymore is because her positions match the double-speak of her husband such as "I smoked but didn't inhale" and "I had an inappropriate relationship but not a sexual relationship." Hillary takes on positions that reflect this mentality on so many issues. She voted against the war even though she was against it, she's against burning the flag and cruelty to animals, yet is against supporting legislation to ban these actions. I will not support someone with this degree of hypocrisy. I will vote for Spencer in the general election and if she runs for president, I will vote against her too, and this is coming from someone who has never voted republican before. But the biggest reason I will no longer support her is how she intervened to pull your program off the air in Manhattan. What's up with that? With Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jang Il, and all the other evils in this world, I guess she must have figured that Chaim ben Pesach presented the biggest threat! I can understand her personal reasons for wanting to shut you the JTF program down. But I'm curious to know as to what "legal" grounds she had to shut down your program from Manhattan? How was she legally able to pull this off? Isn't this a censorship and a violation of the first amendment? What, if anything, did you do to fight this? I hope one day you will succeed in getting your program back on in Manhattan and defeat this ridiculous censorship. Thanks.
Daniel
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Shalom Chaim, kol tuv
I would like to know if there are any specific academic requirements to be a senator? I see that many politicians have gone to Yale, Harvard, and many other Ivy League schools, would I have to do the same? I hate to say it, but I don't feel I'm smart enough to attend such schools. Although, when I see that Jorge Bush went to Harvard, it makes me wonder. I have developed good debate skills in politics and history, but I doubt that's good enough.
I just have a few credits from college from some language courses, but that's it. Do you recomend any subjects I should major in? And which schools I should preferably attend?
Toda shehetzbata! (hope I said it right:)
Vito