DATE: May 3, 2010 TIME 6:30-9pm PLACE: Earl Hall Auditorium, Columbia University FREE Dinner SPONSOR: Campus Media Watch TOPIC Relativism and Reporting On The Arab-Israeli Conflict RSVP contact@campusmediawatch.org CO-SPONSORS: SPME, Lionpac, Koleinu, Campus Watch, CPU
DATE: April 27, 2010 TIME 9am-5pm PLACE: Fordham University School of Law, 140 W 62d St, NYC LAWFARE : THE UN'S GOLDSTONE REPORT: THE DEFAMATION OF ISRAEL AND THE THREAT TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM; THE DEMONIZATION OF ISRAEL AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISTORTIONS; THE GOLDSTONE REPORT: UNDERMINING SELF-DEFENSE IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM; LEGAL WEAPONRY: THE PERVERSION OF INTERNATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE AND INSTITUTIONS; INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LEGAL RECOURSES: RESPONDING TO 'LAWFARE.'
SPONSORS: American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, and Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, along with The New York Legal Assistance Group, B'nai Brith, The Lawfare Project, The American Jewish International Relations Institute, The International Council of Jewish Women, World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues, Women's League for Conservative Judaism, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, The Endowment for Middle East Truth, Jewish Law Students Association of Fordham Law School
LUNCH PROVIDED : SEATING IS LIMITED AND PARTICIPANTS MUST PRE-REGISTER PLEASE RSVP TO kvboyko@gmail.com
CLE Credit: 1.5 credits for each of the 4 panel sessions or a total of 6 credits for the full program.
PREMISE: International law and legal institutions are being used to pursue strategic and political goals as a corollary to modern warfare. In the case of Israel and the threat posed by terrorism in the 21st century, "lawfare" can be as biased and lethal as any other form of weaponry. Attacks on the legitimacy of actions taken in self-defense by democratic states, in the halls of the UN and international and domestic courts, radically undermine the ability to protect the welfare of Israel, the United States and all democracies from the scourge of terrorism. This assault empowers and emboldens the enemies of democracy and encourages the intolerance and antisemitism at the root of the terrorist agenda. The Goldstone Report and the lawfare strategy it embodies, erode the legitimacy of international law and pose a clear and present danger to the right of all democratic states, including the United States, to defend themselves. This program will explore, examine and expose the fallacies of the Goldstone Report, and other manifestations of lawfare, as well as suggest strategies for fighting back.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: William C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, College of Law; Anne Bayefsky, Director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Abraham Bell, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law; Lt. Col David Benjamin, former Director of the Strategic and International Branch, International Law Department, Israel Defense Forces; Laurie Blank, Director, International Humanitarian Law Clinic, Emory Law School; Elizabeth Defeis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall; Samuel Edelman, Executive Director, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; Allan Gerson, Chairman, AG International Law, PLLC; Brooke Goldstein, Director, The Lawfare Project; Stephen Greenwald, President, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists; Peter J. Haas, President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; Malvina Halberstam, Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law; Martin Kramer, Senior Fellow, Shalem Center; Wexler-Fromer Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Richard Landes, Professor of History, Boston University; Nathan Lewin, Partner, Lewin and Lewin, Washington DC; Herb London, President, Hudson Institute; Kenneth Marcus, Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America, Baruch College; David Matas, Senior Honorary Counsel, B?nai Brith, Canada; Ed Morgan, Professor of Law, University of Toronto; Trevor Norwitz, partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Adjunct professor, Columbia Law School; Nicholas Rostow, University Counsel and Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York; Gabriella Shalev, Ambassador of Israel to the United Nations; Shmuel Trigano, Professor, Paris X University Nanterre.
DATE: May 3 PLACE: Columbia University TIME: 6:30-9:00 pm TITLE: Relativism and Reporting on The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Monday, April 26, 2010
Emanuel told Jewish organizations to stay away from rally for Israel
'Break the Silence' Speaker: Obama's 'Alice-in-Wonderland' Gov't
by Hana Levi Julian
A former aide to New York State Governor George Pataki slammed the Obama administration's treatment of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the State of Israel in a prelude to Sunday's “Break the Silence' rally, set to begin at 1:00 p.m. (EDT) outside the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan.
The event will take place rain or shine, according to organizer Beth Gilinsky, head of the Jewish Action Alliance.
Among those on the podium will be Jeff Weisenfeld of Bernstein Global Wealth Management, a long-time leader in New York's “mainstream” Jewish community who for years was also active in the National Committee for Jewish Education. Weisenfeld spent four years as chief of staff in the city administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat before becoming an aide to Governor George Pataki, another Republican.
Speaking late Friday afternoon in an interview with Israel National News, Weisenfeld called the current diplomatic crisis “the biggest accidental or deliberate miscalculation in American-Israeli relations made by any American president.” He added that the Obama administration's overtures to the Muslim world, and the contrast with its hostility to the State of Israel, had transformed the U.S. executive branch into a “complete Alice-in-Wonderland government. I don't want to make light of it here,” Weisenfeld said with some sarcasm, “but it's like Purim, when Mordechai becomes Haman, and Haman becomes Mordechai.”
He reserved special criticism for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Special Presidential Adviser David Axelrod, both traditonal Jews in the Obama administration who are among the president's closest aides. “I had positions like theirs, I worked for a governor, a senator... I always made sure that I was representing the Jewish community to the governor, and the governor to them. But there are some who see their power as an end in itself. They don't want to tell the boss when he's wrong. And they are the worst kind of people to have in government,” Weisenfeld said.
“Islam has evolved backwards, has become more violent than perhaps it was even in its inception, since they did not have the weapons then, that they have today. And you have Emanuel and Axelrod, who have bad judgment, and who do not see the need to fight this moral equivalency.”
Weisenfeld also noted that most “mainstream” Jewish community organizations did not – and could not – officially sign on to sponsor Sunday's rally for fear of retribution from the Obama administration. “The mainstream groups are about access and response to a direct threat from the White House.
“The [Jewish] Federations and their beneficiaries and subsidiaries have been warned by Rahm Emanuel to stay away from public criticism of the president on Israel. But unless the weather is horrendous,” he added, “there will be an abundance of “establishment-affiliated” people. Maybe we can wake up this president and pull him back from the abyss.”
by Hana Levi Julian
A former aide to New York State Governor George Pataki slammed the Obama administration's treatment of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the State of Israel in a prelude to Sunday's “Break the Silence' rally, set to begin at 1:00 p.m. (EDT) outside the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan.
The event will take place rain or shine, according to organizer Beth Gilinsky, head of the Jewish Action Alliance.
Among those on the podium will be Jeff Weisenfeld of Bernstein Global Wealth Management, a long-time leader in New York's “mainstream” Jewish community who for years was also active in the National Committee for Jewish Education. Weisenfeld spent four years as chief of staff in the city administration of former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat before becoming an aide to Governor George Pataki, another Republican.
Speaking late Friday afternoon in an interview with Israel National News, Weisenfeld called the current diplomatic crisis “the biggest accidental or deliberate miscalculation in American-Israeli relations made by any American president.” He added that the Obama administration's overtures to the Muslim world, and the contrast with its hostility to the State of Israel, had transformed the U.S. executive branch into a “complete Alice-in-Wonderland government. I don't want to make light of it here,” Weisenfeld said with some sarcasm, “but it's like Purim, when Mordechai becomes Haman, and Haman becomes Mordechai.”
He reserved special criticism for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Special Presidential Adviser David Axelrod, both traditonal Jews in the Obama administration who are among the president's closest aides. “I had positions like theirs, I worked for a governor, a senator... I always made sure that I was representing the Jewish community to the governor, and the governor to them. But there are some who see their power as an end in itself. They don't want to tell the boss when he's wrong. And they are the worst kind of people to have in government,” Weisenfeld said.
“Islam has evolved backwards, has become more violent than perhaps it was even in its inception, since they did not have the weapons then, that they have today. And you have Emanuel and Axelrod, who have bad judgment, and who do not see the need to fight this moral equivalency.”
Weisenfeld also noted that most “mainstream” Jewish community organizations did not – and could not – officially sign on to sponsor Sunday's rally for fear of retribution from the Obama administration. “The mainstream groups are about access and response to a direct threat from the White House.
“The [Jewish] Federations and their beneficiaries and subsidiaries have been warned by Rahm Emanuel to stay away from public criticism of the president on Israel. But unless the weather is horrendous,” he added, “there will be an abundance of “establishment-affiliated” people. Maybe we can wake up this president and pull him back from the abyss.”
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
RALLY for a UNITED JEWISH JERUSALEM
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Amcha Newsletter
April 20, 2010 / 7 Iyar 5770
In this issue:
*Rally for a United Jewish Jerusalem
* We Pray
* We Mourn
* Get Connected
* Shabbat Forshpeis: A Taste of Torah in Honor of Shabbat
**************************************************
Rally in Support of a Jewish Jerusalem
Protest Against the Continued Mistreatment of Israel
At 1:00 pm
On Sunday April 25, 2010
At the Permanent Mission to Israel in New York City (800 2nd Avenue)
**************************************************
We pray for the complete and speedy recovery of our brave IDF soldiers who were wounded in battle defending our homeland Israel and wherever they are. We would like to express our gratitude for their sacrifice and effort.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities
of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May Hashem cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is
Hashem, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Now let us respond: Amen.
**************************************************
We mourn our brothers in the US Armed Forces
who were killed fighting terror this past week:
Michael K. Ingram Jr., 23, of Newport, Michigan
**************************************************
If you are interested in learning more about the issues that our brothers and sisters are facing in Israel now, here are the links to the major Israeli newspapers:
• The Jerusalem Post: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-4zgJV/aggj8/E%405241554-C8cwVaNqWSgfU
• Arutz Sheva: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-AfftNzqnWBskA%405241555-cvd3SZ7lDzP8Q
• Debka File: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-JcoivfL8DhpKY%405241556-T/qJfZGZToRC%2e
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-kvpyMl1UjIL9w%405241557-aXh43J3QkG8zc
**************************************************
SHABBAT FORSHPEIS
A Taste of Torah in Honor of Shabbat
Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
The Lessons of Holiness Even in Death
April 23-24 2010 / 10 Iyar 5770
From a literal perspective, the names of portions are nothing more than the first major word of the part of the Torah that is read during the week. It can, however, be argued that deep meaning actually lies within the names themselves. The two portions we read this week-Acharei Mot that literally means after death, and Kedoshim that means holiness, are fine examples of this phenomenon.
What is the challenge that presents itself after death? In my early years of the rabbinate, I always felt that my challenge as a spiritual leader was to sit with bereaved families and help them undo the pain they were feeling. Death is a kind of darkness, a deep darkness. My role, I thought, was to remove that darkness.
But after my mother died, I stood before my congregation and apologized. Through that painful experience, I came to realize that the goal of removal is simply unrealistic. The goal is rather to find a way to cope with the suffering that comes with termination. I compared it to the following: Imagine walking into a dark room for the first time. Not knowing one’s way or one’s place, one trips over the furniture, unaware of which way to turn. However, after days and weeks and months and years, when one walks into that very same dark room, although the darkness still exists, with time we learn how to negotiate the furniture and we can make our way.
The truth is that after suffering a great loss, one is actually blessed if one constantly feels the darkness of the pain of termination. Such an emotion is reflective of the power of the relationship between the bereaved and the deceased. If there is no sense of darkness, it could mean that that sense of connection has been blurred-even lost. The challenge, however, as one continues to feel the darkness, is learning how to cope, to use the analogy, learning where the furniture is and while feeling the darkness, finding a way to move about.
The last time I was at my mother’s grave, my dear sister Suri, a woman of profound spirituality, turned to me and said, "Mommy is far away." I keep thinking of that comment. My mother died on Yom Kippur 1983. It is certainly a long time ago. In a certain sense my sister was right-with every year the soul seems to move further and further away.
While not denying that reality, our portions this week remind us that after life (Acharei Mot), there can always be Kedoshim - a sense of continuum that is expressed through holiness. How so? The challenge of death is to keep the person who has died alive in spirit. Indeed the Talmud says, there are some people who are actually living yet are not really alive-they're only going through the motions. On the flip side, there are others who, although physically dead, continue to live through the teachings they left behind and through those whom they have touched in life.
In Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man, his introductory page includes the Talmudic statement that in a moment of great personal conflict, the biblical Yosef (Joseph) looked up and, in the window saw the image of his father Ya’akov (Jacob). It was Rav Soloveitchik's way of saying that his writing and teachings continue to be powerfully influenced by his late father, Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik.
I bless you and ask you to bless me that we always remember those who have passed on, like walking through the darkened room full of furniture. And I pray that we always feel those who are closest tapping us on the shoulder and helping us along the complex path of life.
Rav Avi
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Amcha Newsletter
April 20, 2010 / 7 Iyar 5770
In this issue:
*Rally for a United Jewish Jerusalem
* We Pray
* We Mourn
* Get Connected
* Shabbat Forshpeis: A Taste of Torah in Honor of Shabbat
**************************************************
Rally in Support of a Jewish Jerusalem
Protest Against the Continued Mistreatment of Israel
At 1:00 pm
On Sunday April 25, 2010
At the Permanent Mission to Israel in New York City (800 2nd Avenue)
**************************************************
We pray for the complete and speedy recovery of our brave IDF soldiers who were wounded in battle defending our homeland Israel and wherever they are. We would like to express our gratitude for their sacrifice and effort.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities
of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May Hashem cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is
Hashem, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
Now let us respond: Amen.
**************************************************
We mourn our brothers in the US Armed Forces
who were killed fighting terror this past week:
Michael K. Ingram Jr., 23, of Newport, Michigan
**************************************************
If you are interested in learning more about the issues that our brothers and sisters are facing in Israel now, here are the links to the major Israeli newspapers:
• The Jerusalem Post: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-4zgJV/aggj8/E%405241554-C8cwVaNqWSgfU
• Arutz Sheva: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-AfftNzqnWBskA%405241555-cvd3SZ7lDzP8Q
• Debka File: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-JcoivfL8DhpKY%405241556-T/qJfZGZToRC%2e
• Jewish Telegraphic Agency: http://m1e.net/c?60317947-kvpyMl1UjIL9w%405241557-aXh43J3QkG8zc
**************************************************
SHABBAT FORSHPEIS
A Taste of Torah in Honor of Shabbat
Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
The Lessons of Holiness Even in Death
April 23-24 2010 / 10 Iyar 5770
From a literal perspective, the names of portions are nothing more than the first major word of the part of the Torah that is read during the week. It can, however, be argued that deep meaning actually lies within the names themselves. The two portions we read this week-Acharei Mot that literally means after death, and Kedoshim that means holiness, are fine examples of this phenomenon.
What is the challenge that presents itself after death? In my early years of the rabbinate, I always felt that my challenge as a spiritual leader was to sit with bereaved families and help them undo the pain they were feeling. Death is a kind of darkness, a deep darkness. My role, I thought, was to remove that darkness.
But after my mother died, I stood before my congregation and apologized. Through that painful experience, I came to realize that the goal of removal is simply unrealistic. The goal is rather to find a way to cope with the suffering that comes with termination. I compared it to the following: Imagine walking into a dark room for the first time. Not knowing one’s way or one’s place, one trips over the furniture, unaware of which way to turn. However, after days and weeks and months and years, when one walks into that very same dark room, although the darkness still exists, with time we learn how to negotiate the furniture and we can make our way.
The truth is that after suffering a great loss, one is actually blessed if one constantly feels the darkness of the pain of termination. Such an emotion is reflective of the power of the relationship between the bereaved and the deceased. If there is no sense of darkness, it could mean that that sense of connection has been blurred-even lost. The challenge, however, as one continues to feel the darkness, is learning how to cope, to use the analogy, learning where the furniture is and while feeling the darkness, finding a way to move about.
The last time I was at my mother’s grave, my dear sister Suri, a woman of profound spirituality, turned to me and said, "Mommy is far away." I keep thinking of that comment. My mother died on Yom Kippur 1983. It is certainly a long time ago. In a certain sense my sister was right-with every year the soul seems to move further and further away.
While not denying that reality, our portions this week remind us that after life (Acharei Mot), there can always be Kedoshim - a sense of continuum that is expressed through holiness. How so? The challenge of death is to keep the person who has died alive in spirit. Indeed the Talmud says, there are some people who are actually living yet are not really alive-they're only going through the motions. On the flip side, there are others who, although physically dead, continue to live through the teachings they left behind and through those whom they have touched in life.
In Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man, his introductory page includes the Talmudic statement that in a moment of great personal conflict, the biblical Yosef (Joseph) looked up and, in the window saw the image of his father Ya’akov (Jacob). It was Rav Soloveitchik's way of saying that his writing and teachings continue to be powerfully influenced by his late father, Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik.
I bless you and ask you to bless me that we always remember those who have passed on, like walking through the darkened room full of furniture. And I pray that we always feel those who are closest tapping us on the shoulder and helping us along the complex path of life.
Rav Avi
______________________________________
Amcha – The Coalition for Jewish Concerns
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
A call to action
A Call to Action By standwithisrael / A Call to Action: Leaders, Step Forward Now By Beth Gilinsky and Rabbi Aryeh Spero
forwarded with commentary by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
The nation of Israel has been under extreme pressure and intimidation to cave in to the Muslim Arab Palestinians’ demand by several American Presidential Administrations, including George Herbert Walker Bush, James Baker III, Hillary & Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush and now President Barack Hussein Obama.
The Jews of America were similarly pressured through attacks against AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and other Jewish organizations not to dare go to the American Congress or the Media to press for the cessation of pressure - in order to accommodate Arab Muslim Terrorist nations and their Terrorist proxies.
Let us never forget the pressure during WW2 for Jewish organizations to remain silent about Adolph Hitler’s massacres of European Jews. The threat was that protesting in public would give rise to anti-Semitism in America. Some Jews did protest to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt but most closed their eyes and mouths in fear. The Shame of their perfidious cowardly behavior still lingers and, regrettably, is repeated by today’s leaders of many Jewish organizations.
As Obama and his gang of pro-Muslim Arabs attack Israel once again, the silence (except for some outstanding exceptions) is deafening. Obama seems to be a reincarnation of Pharaoh, ignoring the Ten Plagues that made Egypt a miserable, poverty-stricken nation - even to the present.
Obama’s vicious Muslim-based hostility against the Jewish Nation/State is bringing new Plagues to America and the Free West countries as it once did to Egypt. Like Pharaoh, Obama’s heart is hardened against the Jewish nation until Americans also suffer terrible disasters, some of which have already occurred.
Please contact those Jewish organizations to step up and protect Israel - or to step out!
COMMENTARY BY EMANUEL A. WINSTON
###
By standwithisrael
IT IS TIME TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD.
RALLY TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL, FOR A UNITED JEWISH JERUSALEM,
AND TO PROTEST THE CONTINUED MISTREATMENT OF ISRAEL.
"WHERE THERE IS NO LEADERSHIP, STEP FORWARD AND LEAD"
DATE: Sunday, April 25th, 2010 TIME: 1pm
forwarded with commentary by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
The nation of Israel has been under extreme pressure and intimidation to cave in to the Muslim Arab Palestinians’ demand by several American Presidential Administrations, including George Herbert Walker Bush, James Baker III, Hillary & Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush and now President Barack Hussein Obama.
The Jews of America were similarly pressured through attacks against AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and other Jewish organizations not to dare go to the American Congress or the Media to press for the cessation of pressure - in order to accommodate Arab Muslim Terrorist nations and their Terrorist proxies.
Let us never forget the pressure during WW2 for Jewish organizations to remain silent about Adolph Hitler’s massacres of European Jews. The threat was that protesting in public would give rise to anti-Semitism in America. Some Jews did protest to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt but most closed their eyes and mouths in fear. The Shame of their perfidious cowardly behavior still lingers and, regrettably, is repeated by today’s leaders of many Jewish organizations.
As Obama and his gang of pro-Muslim Arabs attack Israel once again, the silence (except for some outstanding exceptions) is deafening. Obama seems to be a reincarnation of Pharaoh, ignoring the Ten Plagues that made Egypt a miserable, poverty-stricken nation - even to the present.
Obama’s vicious Muslim-based hostility against the Jewish Nation/State is bringing new Plagues to America and the Free West countries as it once did to Egypt. Like Pharaoh, Obama’s heart is hardened against the Jewish nation until Americans also suffer terrible disasters, some of which have already occurred.
Please contact those Jewish organizations to step up and protect Israel - or to step out!
COMMENTARY BY EMANUEL A. WINSTON
###
By standwithisrael
IT IS TIME TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD.
RALLY TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL, FOR A UNITED JEWISH JERUSALEM,
AND TO PROTEST THE CONTINUED MISTREATMENT OF ISRAEL.
"WHERE THERE IS NO LEADERSHIP, STEP FORWARD AND LEAD"
DATE: Sunday, April 25th, 2010 TIME: 1pm
Thursday, March 18, 2010
IF OBAMACARE PASSES, WHAT WILL HAPPEN BY ELECTION DAY
An Urgent Message From Our Sponsor, The League of American Voters
Urgent Message from Dick Morris
IF OBAMACARE PASSES, WHAT WILL HAPPEN BY ELECTION DAY
If the House Democratic majority passes Obama's healthcare proposals, one of two things will happen by Election Day, 2010 - and neither one will be healthy for the Democrats seeking re-election.
Either the Medicare cuts will take effect or they will be postponed by a terrified Congress.
If they take effect, physicians' fees will be slashed 21 percent and hospital reimbursements for Medicare patients will be cut by $1.3 billion. Tens of thousands of doctors and thousands of healthcare institutions - hospitals, hospices, outpatient clinics and such - will refuse to treat Medicare patients.
Entire cities will be without one doctor in important specialties who will take care of the elderly on Medicare. Particularly in fields like G.I. care or arthritic and joint pain, doctors will simply refuse to accept the low reimbursement rates they are being offered and hospitals will refuse all but emergency care to Medicare patients. In effect, the elderly will experience a doctors' strike against Medicare patients.
Congress, faced with this massive revolt coming right on the verge of the election, may back down and postpone the cuts. Originally, doctor reimbursement rates were scheduled to drop on March 1 of this year, but Congress postponed it until the fall. Now the Democrats in Congress will face not only cuts in doctors' fees but in all forms of Medicare reimbursement - the so-called "market basket" of cuts programmed into Obamacare.
Congress, being Congress, will probably seek to postpone the cuts until after Election Day. But in doing so, they would expose the deficit reduction and cost containment features of Obama's bill for the fraud that they are. The news media headlines would blare that Congress just voted to add tens or hundreds of billions to the deficit and the big spending, high borrowing image of Congress will worsen. All pretense that Obamacare is not a reckless spending bill will be stripped away and we will be face to face with the reality that it will add hugely to the deficit.
All this will come at precisely the time that House and Senate Democrats are scrambling to rebut the attacks of their Republican challengers over these very issues. If Congress votes to postpone the Medicare cuts, as a former Secretary of HHS predicted to me, they will have to answer for their fiscal irresponsibility right before the election.
Either poison - the cuts or the deficit - will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of House and Senate Democrats.
And these cuts will take place against a backdrop of continuing increases in health insurance premiums, no expansion of coverage (it doesn't kick in until 2013), and no tangible benefit from the Obama bill.
This is the prospect the House and Senate Democrats who vote for Obamacare will face in the fall of 2010. This is the record they will have to defend.
Or, they could save their political lives and vote no!
Help them to make the decision!
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Thank you.
Dick Morris
Urgent Message from Dick Morris
IF OBAMACARE PASSES, WHAT WILL HAPPEN BY ELECTION DAY
If the House Democratic majority passes Obama's healthcare proposals, one of two things will happen by Election Day, 2010 - and neither one will be healthy for the Democrats seeking re-election.
Either the Medicare cuts will take effect or they will be postponed by a terrified Congress.
If they take effect, physicians' fees will be slashed 21 percent and hospital reimbursements for Medicare patients will be cut by $1.3 billion. Tens of thousands of doctors and thousands of healthcare institutions - hospitals, hospices, outpatient clinics and such - will refuse to treat Medicare patients.
Entire cities will be without one doctor in important specialties who will take care of the elderly on Medicare. Particularly in fields like G.I. care or arthritic and joint pain, doctors will simply refuse to accept the low reimbursement rates they are being offered and hospitals will refuse all but emergency care to Medicare patients. In effect, the elderly will experience a doctors' strike against Medicare patients.
Congress, faced with this massive revolt coming right on the verge of the election, may back down and postpone the cuts. Originally, doctor reimbursement rates were scheduled to drop on March 1 of this year, but Congress postponed it until the fall. Now the Democrats in Congress will face not only cuts in doctors' fees but in all forms of Medicare reimbursement - the so-called "market basket" of cuts programmed into Obamacare.
Congress, being Congress, will probably seek to postpone the cuts until after Election Day. But in doing so, they would expose the deficit reduction and cost containment features of Obama's bill for the fraud that they are. The news media headlines would blare that Congress just voted to add tens or hundreds of billions to the deficit and the big spending, high borrowing image of Congress will worsen. All pretense that Obamacare is not a reckless spending bill will be stripped away and we will be face to face with the reality that it will add hugely to the deficit.
All this will come at precisely the time that House and Senate Democrats are scrambling to rebut the attacks of their Republican challengers over these very issues. If Congress votes to postpone the Medicare cuts, as a former Secretary of HHS predicted to me, they will have to answer for their fiscal irresponsibility right before the election.
Either poison - the cuts or the deficit - will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of House and Senate Democrats.
And these cuts will take place against a backdrop of continuing increases in health insurance premiums, no expansion of coverage (it doesn't kick in until 2013), and no tangible benefit from the Obama bill.
This is the prospect the House and Senate Democrats who vote for Obamacare will face in the fall of 2010. This is the record they will have to defend.
Or, they could save their political lives and vote no!
Help them to make the decision!
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Thank you.
Dick Morris
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Message from Florida Gov Charlie Crist re: Martin Grossman
Thank you for contacting me and sharing your concerns about the execution of Martin Grossman.
On December 13, 1984, Mr. Grossman violated the terms of his probation by leaving Pasco County and having a stolen firearm in his possession. In a routine stop, Florida Fish and Wildlife Officer Margaret Park found the weapon. When she reached for the radio in her patrol car to report him, Mr. Grossman attacked her with her own large flashlight, beating her over the head and shoulders 20 to 30 times. When Officer Park tried to fight back, Mr. Grossman took her .357 Magnum revolver and shot her in the back of the head, killing her.
Mr. Grossman took several carefully planned steps to cover up this horrible crime. The weapon was buried, and Mr. Grossman attempted to burn his clothes and shoes, which were later disposed of in a nearby lake. The following day, Mr. Grossman thoroughly cleaned the van and changed its tires to mislead law enforcement.
Officer Park’s autopsy revealed lacerations on top of her head, hemorrhaging inside the scalp and extensive fracturing of the skull. All of these injuries resulted from Mr. Grossman’s attack. The facts of this crime clearly meet the definition of heinous, atrocious and cruel, and his actions afterward demonstrate his well-reasoned attempts to cover it up.
The courts have fully reviewed Mr. Grossman’s legal claims, and his conviction and sentence have been affirmed by both the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Based on the facts and exhaustion of legal proceedings, and in accordance with Florida law, I signed his death warrant on January 12, 2010.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact me.
On December 13, 1984, Mr. Grossman violated the terms of his probation by leaving Pasco County and having a stolen firearm in his possession. In a routine stop, Florida Fish and Wildlife Officer Margaret Park found the weapon. When she reached for the radio in her patrol car to report him, Mr. Grossman attacked her with her own large flashlight, beating her over the head and shoulders 20 to 30 times. When Officer Park tried to fight back, Mr. Grossman took her .357 Magnum revolver and shot her in the back of the head, killing her.
Mr. Grossman took several carefully planned steps to cover up this horrible crime. The weapon was buried, and Mr. Grossman attempted to burn his clothes and shoes, which were later disposed of in a nearby lake. The following day, Mr. Grossman thoroughly cleaned the van and changed its tires to mislead law enforcement.
Officer Park’s autopsy revealed lacerations on top of her head, hemorrhaging inside the scalp and extensive fracturing of the skull. All of these injuries resulted from Mr. Grossman’s attack. The facts of this crime clearly meet the definition of heinous, atrocious and cruel, and his actions afterward demonstrate his well-reasoned attempts to cover it up.
The courts have fully reviewed Mr. Grossman’s legal claims, and his conviction and sentence have been affirmed by both the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Based on the facts and exhaustion of legal proceedings, and in accordance with Florida law, I signed his death warrant on January 12, 2010.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact me.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Lubavitch Francophone February 15 at 5:43 am Reply
By the grace of God,
the, 1 Adar (1)
Brooklyn, New York
I greet you and bless you,
... Our sages say that from 1 Adar, is made known to the Jews need to give the half Shekel and verify that different species do not mix in the field. We can explain the relationship between these two elements for the service of God in this generation heel of Mashiach.
According to Rabbi Joshua, Nissan is in the children of Israel left Egypt in Nissan they will leave this exile.
And we believe that the issue will actually take place in Nissan. We know, indeed, that the opinion of Rabbi Joshua is chosen whenever it opposes Rabbi Eliezer (...).
Rabbi Eliezer think, for its part, the issue will occur in Tishri. He acknowledges, however, that Nissan is a month of issue, during which came out of Egypt, the first complete issue.
Our Sages seek reasons and explanations justifying that our ancestors were freed from Egypt. And thereafter, "it is because of our sins we were expelled from our land." Therefore, no doubt, fix what happened and remove the reason for the exile. It then qu'interviendra issue.
According to Rabbi Eliezer, in fact, the issue is not whether the children of Israel do not have access to Teshuva. For Rabbi Joshua, however, God will spark a hard king whose decrees will be similar to those of Haman. Under his leadership, Israel will do Teshuva. Thus, both agree to recognize that teshuva must precede the issue.
During this exile, which is the last, he must first fix what is causing this situation. Our sages say, in effect: "Why was the Temple destroyed? Because of gratuitous hatred."The achievements of the Jews during this exile, therefore, will complete the transformation of matter and the Sanhedrin Treaty states that the son of David will come in a generation fully deserving or entirely criminal. Then, the mixture of good and evil, which resulted from the fault tree of knowledge of good and evil will disappear.
It is precisely the teaching of the Mishna at the beginning of Shekalim Treaty, which speaks of 1 Adar. The month of Adar, Nissan is preparing, that of issue. Indeed, Rashi explains that "the days of miracles" for the Jews, Purim and Pesach evoke.
The Rosh Hodesh, namely the 1st of Adar, is the head of the month, including in it all of it. That's why we say in prayer, "renews this month for us." Accordingly, the court announced what overall service of God this month, preparing for delivery.
This preparation includes two points.It consists, firstly, to give a half shekel, the same amount for all, as it is called "the rich will not give more, the poor will not give less." Thus, all together in the same manner and form only a single entity to offer a sacrifice to Gd. All Jews unite to put into practice the will of Gd and repair and the specific cause of this exile, which, as noted, the gratuitous hatred.
Moreover, it also recalls (1 Adar) the prohibition of mixing species in the field. Indeed, the forces of evil are the antithesis of holiness and we can not imagine a more serious mix of good and evil. It is in such cases, eradicate these species.
Thus we can put into practice the injunction of our sages that, when Adar begins, we multiply its joy. It must be so since the Rosh Hodesh and this injunction is also an assurance that it will be good as well. ...
With my blessing,
M. Schneerson
the, 1 Adar (1)
Brooklyn, New York
I greet you and bless you,
... Our sages say that from 1 Adar, is made known to the Jews need to give the half Shekel and verify that different species do not mix in the field. We can explain the relationship between these two elements for the service of God in this generation heel of Mashiach.
According to Rabbi Joshua, Nissan is in the children of Israel left Egypt in Nissan they will leave this exile.
And we believe that the issue will actually take place in Nissan. We know, indeed, that the opinion of Rabbi Joshua is chosen whenever it opposes Rabbi Eliezer (...).
Rabbi Eliezer think, for its part, the issue will occur in Tishri. He acknowledges, however, that Nissan is a month of issue, during which came out of Egypt, the first complete issue.
Our Sages seek reasons and explanations justifying that our ancestors were freed from Egypt. And thereafter, "it is because of our sins we were expelled from our land." Therefore, no doubt, fix what happened and remove the reason for the exile. It then qu'interviendra issue.
According to Rabbi Eliezer, in fact, the issue is not whether the children of Israel do not have access to Teshuva. For Rabbi Joshua, however, God will spark a hard king whose decrees will be similar to those of Haman. Under his leadership, Israel will do Teshuva. Thus, both agree to recognize that teshuva must precede the issue.
During this exile, which is the last, he must first fix what is causing this situation. Our sages say, in effect: "Why was the Temple destroyed? Because of gratuitous hatred."The achievements of the Jews during this exile, therefore, will complete the transformation of matter and the Sanhedrin Treaty states that the son of David will come in a generation fully deserving or entirely criminal. Then, the mixture of good and evil, which resulted from the fault tree of knowledge of good and evil will disappear.
It is precisely the teaching of the Mishna at the beginning of Shekalim Treaty, which speaks of 1 Adar. The month of Adar, Nissan is preparing, that of issue. Indeed, Rashi explains that "the days of miracles" for the Jews, Purim and Pesach evoke.
The Rosh Hodesh, namely the 1st of Adar, is the head of the month, including in it all of it. That's why we say in prayer, "renews this month for us." Accordingly, the court announced what overall service of God this month, preparing for delivery.
This preparation includes two points.It consists, firstly, to give a half shekel, the same amount for all, as it is called "the rich will not give more, the poor will not give less." Thus, all together in the same manner and form only a single entity to offer a sacrifice to Gd. All Jews unite to put into practice the will of Gd and repair and the specific cause of this exile, which, as noted, the gratuitous hatred.
Moreover, it also recalls (1 Adar) the prohibition of mixing species in the field. Indeed, the forces of evil are the antithesis of holiness and we can not imagine a more serious mix of good and evil. It is in such cases, eradicate these species.
Thus we can put into practice the injunction of our sages that, when Adar begins, we multiply its joy. It must be so since the Rosh Hodesh and this injunction is also an assurance that it will be good as well. ...
With my blessing,
M. Schneerson
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