Using The Dead Language

My handsome Jewish son!
How do you tell in Hebrew
To a Palestinian girl's soft heart
'I love you and we're not foes anymore
Only lovers? '

*To His Excellency Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu for your kind perusal!

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

quote by Arthur Hertzberg
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

quote by Theodore Bikel
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Chanukah And Christmas

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2100 years ago a band of Jews defeated the Greek army
And drove them off their land, reclaiming the holy temple
In Jerusalem and rededicating it to the service of god.
when they sought to light the temples menorah
They found only a single cruse of olive oil that
escaped contamination by the Greeks.
Miraculously the one day supply lasted eight days.
The sages instituted the festival of Chanukah
To publicize these miracles.
The Dreidel which is a four sided top with a
Hebrew letter on each side which means
“ a great miracle happened here”
was used later on in the years to give thanks to god
Without the enemy knowing that they were praying.
Chanukah, the Jewish festival of rededication, also known as the festival of lights, is an eight day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev.
Chanukah is probably one of the best known Jewish holidays, not because of any great religious significance, but because of its proximity to Christmas. Many non-Jews (and even many assimilated Jews!) think of this holiday as the Jewish Christmas, adopting many of the Christmas customs, such as elaborate gift-giving and decoration. It is bitterly ironic that this holiday, which has its roots in a revolution against assimilation and suppression of Jewish religion, has become the most assimilated, secular holiday on our calendar.

Christmas and Chanukah are known world wide

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poem by Louis Rams
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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

quote by Isaac Mayer Wise
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Holocaust Latvia Begins

Holocaust Latvia begins
on June 22,1941 when
the German army invaded
the Russian Soviet Union;

and the Baltic States
of Lithuania, Latvia,
and Estonia which had
by Soviet military forces;

recently been occupied
after a proud period
of independence after
World War One finished.

Murders of Jews
Communists began
almost immediately
by Einsatzgruppen;

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Jewish people, no matter where they are, they become the best in the world.

classic quote by Josef Mengele
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And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

quote by Chris Matthews
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Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

quote by Anton Rubinstein
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To be a Jew is a destiny.

quote by Vicki Baum
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First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

quote by Benjamin Netanyahu
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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

quote by Yitzhak Rabin
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gaza israeli conflict
a cracked pot of God
men and their land

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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An Oak Wood Piano on Kristallnacht

The SS guard hit Zindel Grynszpan on the head and he fell
Into a ditch. Father, he heard the voice of his son, you must
Go on. Zindel took the hand of his son and climbed out of
The trench. With his wife, a son and daughter on his side
They continued the march. But the SS guards did not stop
The savage whipping of the deportees. Blood was flowing
On all sides.

The Grynszpan family were Polish Jews from Hanover.
When the Nazis came to power they became outcasts.
In October 1938 they were expelled from Germany
And deported to Poland in a group of 12,000 Jews.
They were taken by train to the frontier town Neubenschen
And from there on foot to the German-Polish border.
When they reached the border heavy rain started to fall.

The Nazis confiscated their money. They had no food to eat.
Polish officers arrived and began to inspect their papers.
They admitted the refugees with Polish passports,
Housing them in military stables. Old, sick and children

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poem by Paul Hartal
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My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

quote by Anita Diament
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Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

quote by Julius Streicher
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Jesus Dedicated The Law Of Baptism

Jesus took bread blessed broke it
gave it to his disciples and said
'Take, eat; this is My body.'

Jesus took the cup gave thanks
gave it to his chosen disciples
saying 'Drink from it, all of you.

For this is My blood
of the new covenant,
which is shed for many
for the remission of sins. ' Matthew 26: 26-28.

Jesus becomes Christian Covenant

it was necessary
copies of utensils in heaven
should be purified

Christ entered not

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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I’ve always felt I was a Jew. It’s an internal feeling. I also feel I’m a Russian Romanian Jew because my father’s people were from Kiev and my mother’s people were from Iaşi, meaning I love mămăligă and I love borscht and vodka. Also, I think there’s a specific humor I’ve always been attached to, and there’s no other way to put it. I have a Jewish sense of humor.

quote by Dustin Hoffman
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When Paul went to the Jew first, it was not because it seemed that Israel might yet accept Christ and His kingdom, but simply because God would leave Israel no excuse for rejecting Messiah. Paul confirmed Peter's message, and mightily contended with the Jews everywhere that 'Jesus is the Christ.' And miracles accompanied this confirmation testimony--greater miracles, indeed, than Peter himself had wrought. But, unlike Peter, Paul never offered the kingdom to Israel. His ministry among them was not to turn the nation to Christ, but to save any from among them who might believe, receiving salvation by grace, and to leave the rest without excuse. Thus God was concluding Israel in unbelief and, even at that early date, mightily using Paul to proclaim grace to the Gentiles.

quote by Cornelius Stam
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