Get to Heaven Keep the Seven

Everybody wants spirituality. To be a good person means to walk in G-d's ways. How does that translate to reality? The only guidebook to spirituality that has stood the test of time is the Hebrew Bible. The Bible says that the Jews will be a light onto the nations. But if you are not a born Jew, you have to convert, which is not so easy!! If you do convert, it is a lot of work to be a Jew (three times a day prayer, keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath).

This blog will show you how to be Jewish without the work!!

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

11 Hollywood Jews open up about the Holocaust

Rabbi Yehuda Lave

Conceit vs. Inner Strength 

External displays of arrogance and conceit are signs of an inner feeling of weakness. An insecure person tries to hide that insecurity by bluffing strength.

The arrogant person should realize that all he has, even wisdom, is a gift from the Almighty. It is a gift entirely undeserved, since it comes from the source of all wisdom, given over to a being without any original intelligence.

Is there any basis for someone who receives a large gift to feel conceited, compared to someone who received a smaller gift?

Love Yehuda Lave

On the day before Cxxxtmas, here is yidish comedy show about Jews in a Chinese Resturant, that you will laugh your head off about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSLWauwwZM&list=PLskR9QmoFzUOG_49xXZ5o-jnYG5yVbg1r

Yehuda Etzion arrested on Temple Mount

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/yehuda-etzion-arrested-on-temple-mount-for-moving-his-hands-video/2015/12/22/

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12375992_10207848829768605_4453455819174123954_n.jpg?oh=637c530888b5de6dee6f5da2453dbe7e&oe=571FE725&__gda__=1456972689_47673072336c7adea0c8df63dd7c84af

The Oldest Video Footage of Jerusalem You Will Ever See

http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/the-oldest-video-footage-of-jerusalem-you-will-ever-see/


This video is a segment of the full 70 minute documentary "Jewish Life in Palestine", filmed by Noah Sokolovsky of the East Odessa Company in 1913 to be shown at the 11th Zionist Congress. Sokolovsky filmed in Tel Aviv-Jaffa (just four years before all the Jews of that city were expelled by the Turks), Petach Tikvah, where oranges are being picked and sent to Jaffa for export, religious Jews on the Sabbath in Zichron Yaakov the famous vineyard and winery town, the building of the famous Technion University in Haifa, the northern settlement of Rosh Pinna, the Sea of the Galilee, Tiberia and much more.
The company and film producer Sokolovsky spent 2 months filming and then created a movie translated into 3 languages for the Congress. After being presented at the Congress the film was lost. Interestingly enough, the original negatives of the film were found in 1997 in France. Restored by Israeli historical documentary filmmaker Yaakov Gross, the movie was shown at Jewish film festivals and reviewed by the New York Times.
This segment of the movie shows the ride on the train from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount where Jews were not allowed to enter, Chassidic Jews at the Western Wall ("Wall of Tears") on Passover, biblical sites east of the Temple Mount, the gravesite of Simon the Pious (from the Mishnaic period), school children from the Mizrachi "Ezra" schools, classes at the Bezalel School of Art of the Hebrew University.
The movie is narrated by famous singer and actor Yehoram Gaon and is truly a historical treasure not to be missed!

It's a warm winter in the northern hemisphere - so far. But what about the southern hemisphere?

The censored weather report

Not in the southern hemisphere it isn't

- See more at: http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/environment-1/the-censored-weather-report.html#sthash.IOa667vr.dpuf

It's a warm winter in the northern hemisphere - so far.

But what about the southern hemisphere?

Their winter takes place in our summer with their April roughly
approximating our September.

The Antarctic ice sheet is growing and Chile, Argentina, South Africa
and Australia were hit with record cold and never-before-seen snow fall.

Before you buy the Al Gore/Carbon Credits trading scam, you might take a
look at the global weather report.

- See more at: http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/environment-1/the-censored-weather-report.html#sthash.IOa667vr.dpuf

How eating fish can stop middle-age spread

How eating fish can stop middle-age spread

Japanese researchers at Kyoto University found that oil rich in omega-3 fats turned 'bad' fat cells into healthy ones, which specialise in burning off calories.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3364314/How-eating-fish-stop-middle-age-spread-Foods-rich-omega-3-help-burn-calories.html

21 December 2015

Iran Warns Turkey to Avoid Warming up Relations with Israel


Iran Warns Turkey to Avoid Warming up Relations with Israel
Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:52
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940930001061

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry asked the Turkish government to rethink its policy of gradual resumption of ties with Israel.

Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Monday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari referred to the May 2010 killing of 10 Turkish activists on board the Mavi Marmara ship by an Israeli raid on the six-ship flotilla and the darkening of bilateral ties between Ankara and Tel Aviv at the time, and said despite the incident, ties between the two sides still continued.

He warned Turkey about attempts to resume relations with Israel, and said, "The Muslim governments should adopt policies which meet their and the Islamic Ummah's interests as well as the rights of the Palestinian nation."

"The Turkish government shouldn't pursue a different path (in relations) with the Quds Occupying regime under such conditions that its relations with the neighboring governments have gone under certain developments," Jaber Ansari said.

He expressed the hope that the Turkish government would provide the ground for resolving the existing problems given Iran's resolve to manage and settle the regional crises.

His remarks came after officials from Turkey and Israel said Friday that both sides are poised to re-establish diplomatic ties after years of tense relations.

Top Israeli and Turkish officials met for secret talks last week in Switzerland, where they worked to complete a deal to restore relations that collapsed in 2010 after 10 people, nine Turkish citizens and one Turkish-American, were killed when Israeli commandos raided a Turkish ship carrying activists trying to break Israel's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip. ________________________________________
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis

11 Hollywood Jews open up about surviving Holocaust

'Looking at my four grandchildren: Hitler lost and I won,' Ruth Westheimer tells The Hollywood Reporter

By Gabe Friedman December 18, 2015, 3:06 am  

           

French-Polish film director Roman Polanski attending a press conference at the Bonarowski Palace Hotel in Krakow, Poland, October 30, 2015. (Adam Nurkiewicz/Getty Images/via JTA)

JTA — The Hollywood Reporter is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust with a feature on 11 survivors who went on to careers in American entertainment. The project, released Wednesday morning online and in print, includes emotional, revealing video interviews with all the subjects, including director Roman Polanski and sex therapist Ruth Westheimer.

Director Steven Spielberg, the founder of the USC Shoah Foundation, wrote an essay for the feature. Below is a look at each subject's testimony.

Roman Polanski, 82, director of seminal films like "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist"

Polanski, whom the US has repeatedly attempted to extradite from Europe on sexual assault charges, is wary of speaking to American reporters. But he spoke to Peter Flax, an editor at THR, for an hour about his Holocaust experience.

'…and the blood came out, like the little fountain that we have in the offices, you know, a bulb of blood'

Polanski tells the story of the first person he saw killed: "Some old woman was crying and wailing in Yiddish — I didn't quite understand because I did not speak Yiddish," he says. "And at one moment she was on all fours, and suddenly there was a gun in the hand of that young SS man, and he shot her in the back, and the blood came out, like the little fountain that we have in the offices, you know, a bulb of blood."

Flax was also allowed to view Polanski's five-hour testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation, which has never been made public. He describes Polanski's narration of the video, which filmed him walking through his native Krakow, Poland.

"He points out the spot where he slipped through barbed wire to escape the ghetto, tours the first ghetto apartment his family called home and muses about how opposite sides of a city street could demarcate life and death," Flax writes.

Branko Lustig, 83, Academy Award-winning producer of films like "Schindler's List" and "Gladiator"

Jewish-Croatian film producer, Branko Lustig. (Wikipedia/Jörg Reitmaier, Public Domain)

Jewish-Croatian film producer, Branko Lustig (Wikipedia/Jörg Reitmaier, Public Domain)

When the British army liberated Auschwitz, where Lustig was a prisoner at age 12, the sound of their bagpipes made him think that he "had died finally, and that was the angels' music in heaven."

Years later, he met Spielberg when the director was developing "Schindler's List."

"He kissed my number [from the concentration camp, tattooed on Lustig's arm] and said, 'You will be my producer.' He is the man who gave me the possibility to fulfill my obligation," Lustig says.

Meyer Gottlieb, 76, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films and producer of films like "Master and Commander," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "Tortilla Soup"

'The truth of the matter is that the weapons of massive destruction are not bombs — they're hatred, intolerance and bigotry'

After leaving Poland as a child in the early 1940s, Gottlieb didn't visit his native village — where most of his relatives were forced to dig their own graves before being shot by the Germans — until six decades later, in 2008.

"The truth of the matter is that the weapons of massive destruction are not bombs — they're hatred, intolerance and bigotry," he tells THR.

Robert Clary, 89, film, TV and stage actor best known for his role on the sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," set in a German POW camp

Robert Clary as Lebeau and Cynthia Lynn as Fräulein Helga from 'Hogan's Heroes.' (public domain)

Robert Clary as Lebeau and Cynthia Lynn as Fräulein Helga from 'Hogan's Heroes' (public domain)

Clary credited his natural joie de vivre and energy with sustaining him in the Buchenwald concentration camp as a child.

He sang and performed with an accordionist for German soldiers every Sunday.

"Singing, entertaining and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived," he says.

"I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with … I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that."

Leon Prochnik, 82, screenwriter and editor, known for adapting the script of the play "Child's Play" into a film directed by Sidney Lumet

Prochnik grew up the son of a chocolate factory owner in Krakow. He nicknamed the tub that filled with melted chocolate "milka" and thought it had magical powers. When he repeatedly visited it to steal chocolate, great things would happen: One time, his father connected with diplomat Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler" who help thousands of Jews leave Europe. Another time, a Nazi officer missed a Jewish prayer book in a search of the factory.

Ruth Westheimer, 87, sex therapist and TV and radio talk show host

Ruth Westheimer reflected on her Holocaust experience to The  Hollywood Reporter. (Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter/via JTA)

Ruth Westheimer reflected on her Holocaust experience to The Hollywood Reporter. (Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter/via JTA)

By the time the legendary sex guru was 10 years old, she would never see her deported parents again. By the time she was 17, she had moved to British-controlled Palestine to train as a sniper in the Haganah, a precursor to the Israel Defense Forces (even though she only stood 4 feet 7 inches tall).

"Looking at my four grandchildren: Hitler lost and I won," she tells the magazine.

Curt Lowens, 90, film and stage actor known for portraying Nazi characters, including the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele in the Broadway play "The Deputy"

After escaping Berlin and taking on a new identity in a small town in Holland, Lowens (née Loewenstein) joined a three-person Dutch resistance cell that saved 123 Jewish children by delivering them to families who hid them. After V-E Day, Lowens received a commendation from then-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for rescuing two fallen American airmen.

Bill Harvey, 91, cosmetologist to the likes of Judy Garland, Mary Martin, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Liza Minelli

'Maybe there have to be some bad things in order to appreciate all the good things that this world gives you'

After being transported from Auschwitz to Buchenwald on a frigid cattle car, Harvey fell unconscious and was left for dead in a pile of corpses stacked by the crematorium. Someone pulled him out days later. He was 21 years old and weighed about 72 pounds.

"My humble explanation for all the tragedies and the bad people who want just to kill is that maybe there have to be some bad things in order to appreciate all the good things that this world gives you," Harvey says.

Ruth Posner in 2010 (Ian Cole)

Ruth Posner in 2010 (Ian Cole)

Ruth Posner, 82, founding member of the London Contemporary Dance Company, actress and former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

One day, while living in the Warsaw Ghetto, Posner and her aunt casually crossed from the Jewish to the Aryan side of the street.

They shed their yellow armbands and assumed new identities. She would escape and keep her story secret for decades.

"Now when I talk about it, it seems like I'm describing my role in a play," Posner says.

Dario Gabbai, 93, actor in the 1953 war film "The Glory Brigade"

Gabbai is likely the last living former member of the Sonderkommando, a set of Jews forced to assist the Germans with various morbid tasks in the concentration camps.

'Even now, I like to cry to get it out of my system. But it doesn't go out'

"I have inside some stuff I can never tell," Gabbai says. "I saw so many things. Even now, I like to cry to get it out of my system. But it doesn't go out."

He recalls one time seeing two of his friends from his native Thessaloniki, Greece, in line outside a gas chamber. All he could tell them was the best way to stand inside to minimize their suffering.

Celia Biniaz, 84, supporter of the USC Shoah Foundation whose testimony was included in the DVD version of "Schindler's List"

Biniaz was on the list of Jews saved by Oskar Schindler. When Liam Neeson was first cast for the film, some involved in the production thought that he was too handsome for the role.

Mr. Schindler was very handsome, so he gets the job," Biniaz said.

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