Unlike most speakers whose primary purpose is to raise funds for a worthy cause, my primary purpose is to make people aware of the very real process of Biblical Zionism in our world today. While certainly I do need to raise funds in order to travel, the funds that I do raise enable me to accept speaking engagements in places where I may not raise money.
If you ever thought that you might want to invite me to your area, but were concerned about how to afford to invite me, think again. I am more concerned about reaching out to people than I am about raising money. If you have been thinking about planning aliyah and have friends who are like-minded and would like to speak to an American Jew who took his family home let me know. And if you have a group of friends who meet regularly in one another’s homes to ponder the amazing reality of Biblical Redemption and would like to invite me to join you please feel free to do so. Project Shofar is an independent non-profit organization with no political connections. Our purpose is purely to be educational and in service to our Creator. Read More…
The German Jew back in the early thirties was a loyal German citizen. He was the last person in the world to dream that Germany could ever become the hellish nightmare that it became. He may even have voted for Hitler, believing that he was good for Germany. He deliberately refused to believe his own ears when Hitler began to demonize the Jews. He was born in Germany and loved the country as his own. . . much like the American Jew loves America today.
But the Jew already has a country. He was Exiled from his homeland over two thousand years ago. He did the best he could to make his home in just about every country in the world. As much as he tried to become a part of the Exile, he was always looked upon as “different”. For a time he was welcome, but that welcome eventually wore thin and, in nearly every place he tried to make home, he was eventually expelled again. Read More…
Jewish holidays are far more than festive meals and celebrations. They are living reminders to us of what it means to be Jewish. We remember miracles that happened to our ancestors, and we are reminded that there are miracles yet to come. And, if we are really aware, we should also notice the miracles we live every day.
Passover, more than any other Jewish holiday, is truly a time for us to consider our past and, especially, to reexamine the role we Jews were created for. On all of our holidays and in most of our daily prayers we remember the miracle of being redeemed from slavery in Egypt. Why did our G-d take us out of Egypt? The answer to that question is to be found at the end of the Shema Yisrael that we recite every morning and evening and before we go to sleep at night.
“I am the L-d your G-d who took you out of Egypt to be your G-d. I am your G-d.”
We were slaves unto Pharaoh in Egypt. We had no natural way to ever escape. When our G-d performed miracles and took us out, it was for a reason… not simply to set us free, rather to transfer our servitude from the Egyptians to Him. He took us to Mount Sinai and gave us His Torah to show us how to serve Him. Read More…
Whether or not you like it, Mrs. Clinton, Israel is the sovereign Jewish State. How would you feel if our foreign minister condemned you for building homes in Arizona because it may offend the sensitivities of Indians who hope to eventually build their own homes there? It is an absurdity.
Madam Secretary, you certainly have the right to express opinions which vary with ours, but you have no right to issue demands as to where we may or may not live in our own country, nor how we conduct our efforts to defend our citizens from murderers. You certainly have no business telling us to release murderers who we have already caught and imprisoned! And you have the gall to tell us that by deciding to build Jewish homes on a barren mountainside adjacent to an existing Jewish city in the Jewish State that we insult you?! Read More…
It is always so heartwarming to hear American leaders telling us that they know better than we where our best interests lie. If we were talking about tourism or financial investments perhaps we could benefit from such advice. But when we are talking about our obligations to our Creator, not to mention dangers to our very existence, clearly no outsider has the right to tell us where our interests lie.
Israel is a very tiny country and located about as far as possible from the United States. Even if the USA is our very best “friend”, clearly that country has plenty of its own problems to solve rather than spend so much time and effort to bring us peace. Do they really love us so much as to put aside their own pressing needs simply to help us out? I think not. Read More…
Why would the PLO and other Arab haters-of-Israel object to having the Cave of Machpelah put on a list of places Israel seeks to renovate? Surely, even from their perspective, such activities will benefit them as well. In fact the Israeli government has already spent much time and money to make Machpelah a place where both Arabs and Jews can worship in a peaceful and comfortable environment.
Let’s look at the other side of the coin for a minute. How is it that the Israeli government “understands” why Jews should be forbidden to pray at our most sacred site in the world, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? It is hard to fathom how Arab violence at our holiest site has achieved its goal with the collusion of the Israeli government, effectively preventing Jews from praying there. Although this site, much like the Cave of Machpelah, was liberated by the IDF in June of 1967, today it remains under exclusive Arab custody. Read More…
About thirty years ago my wife and I and our three young daughters came home to Israel. There was only one reason why we came. It was because Israel is the only home of the Jewish people and we wanted to be there.
It certainly was not a simple move. Any move, even across the street, is a major trauma. To take your family into a different country with a different culture and a different language clearly makes it even more traumatic. And when you are moving to a country which is at war, and when the government insists that we must live together with enemies who seek our destruction, then it takes a tremendous amount of faith to stand up to these challenges.
We did not move to Israel because it is a “democracy” (which it really isn’t). We did not move here because we have a government which cares about the country (which it doesn’t). And we certainly did not move because our life wasn’t good in the USA (which it really was). We came home simply because it is our homeland and, while our grandparents could not move here, we could. Read More…
In the 1930s, a Jew by the name of Ze’ev Jabotinski traveled throughout Europe warning his fellow Jews that they were sitting atop a volcano that was about to erupt. He begged them to get up and leave the Exile while they still could and come home to "Palestine" (which in those days was a Jewish concept, not an Arab one). Jabotinski was ridiculed for saying things that people preferred not to hear; millions perished for their refusal to face reality.
I daresay that the American Jew today stands in the same shoes as the Jews of Europe did in the 1930s. I was born in the United States and was always proud of my American citizenship. As American as anyone, I never dreamed of comparing that wonderful country with Germany or with any other country for that matter. America was different. It was the land of opportunity and equal rights. The founding fathers of the United States of America had lofty ideals and had founded their new country upon Biblical principles. It granted freedom of religion to all. Democracy granted freedom of speech and implied that all men were equal.
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It must be stated, clearly and unequivocally, that the blackmail of the Jewish State via Hamas kidnaping a Jewish soldier is a direct result of Israel’s policy to negotiate with those who seek our destruction rather than destroy and remove them. In truth we are only negotiating with ourselves. The Arabs have no intention to abandon their goal to destroy Israel under any circumstances. Every time we make a “gesture” for peace we are hammering another nail into our national coffin.
Why do our leaders consistently talk about giving away parts of our country to our enemies? When Sharon gave away Gaza to the PLO he had no illusions that peace would result. He stated from the outset that not one Jew would remain in Gaza. Is that a vision of peace? And, even worse than that, he ordered all Jewish graves dug up and the remains removed for reburial outside of Gaza. Is that a vision of peace? Our leaders know very well who our alleged “peace partners” really are, yet they continue to pretend that we are engaged in a peace process. Our enemies are at war with us and we continue to make peace. Clearly our continued existence is nothing less than miraculous. Read More…
Chanukah is a joyous Jewish holiday. The Festival of Lights was meant to remind us of the miracles performed for our ancestors when our Jewish way of life was seriously threatened from both foreign enemies and Jewish traitors. Unfortunately too many of our leaders, while celebrating this holiday with joy and pride, fail to recognize its significance.
Today we are living under circumstances remarkably similar to those days. While, indeed, we do enjoy self rule in our own country, our hapless leaders have seen fit to compromise Jewish principles and values in a futile effort to curry favor with powers they deem greater than us.
What they choose to call “democracy”, a concept whose values change with the wind, has become a foreign god which demands total obedience, even when its values clash with Jewish ones. Read More…