Are you smart enough to know you have nothing smart to say ? Then Mimes for Gaza is waiting for you!
Too dumb to know you have nothing smart to say? Code Pink just might be the right match. There is a veritable buffet of anti Israel hate clubs out there. For the rest of us, it should be reassuring to know that the Bay area is exceptional in America in it's red/green obsession with the destruction of the only democracy in the middle east
New York City might very well be the reverse of the spectrum. Even the ordinary grocery stores are full of Israeli products. You can buy your Dorot garlic without fear that it has been vandalized by some Kate Raphael wannabe. And you can buy it in both Key Food and the Supersol.
Why, yes, that is "Zohan" brand hummus in the handy squeeze bottle! Harry Potter in Hebrew? No problem. The NYC cable TV lineup includes JLTV, channel 120- a Jewish station with a strong Zionist bent. And Freedom Square Park in Queens is dedicated to Israeli Independence.
The base of this Flagpole in Freedom Square park in New York City reads "Theodore Herzl: Fighter for freedom". It is located in the Kew Gardens Hills Zionist District. And it has been there for years, without graffiti, without vandalism, without uproar. Ahavat Yisrael is so strong in some neighborhoods, that its increasingly common to find buildings faced with gleaming white Jerusalem stone.
Its easy to be a Jew, and a Zionist in New York. Much easier than here in the San Francisco Bay area, considered one of the 5 hubs of delegitimization of Israel by the Reut Institute.
5 comments:
when i was growing up in sf i remember being proud that its chosen sister city was haifa
the biggest problem with sf is that despite it being one of the hubs for jewish renewal during the 60s with karlbach and the house of love and prayer...it did not continue to grow, and as a result the religious community has remained tiny
if one wishes to provide for an education beyond hs one must send one's child away...and they usually choose not to return
and now, that wonderful open liberal beacon to the world has become a bastion of jew hate
as a gay muslim activist, i resent your comment! my girlfriend is jewish, and so is her parents!
To the previous poster:How do your parents feel about you dating a Jew? Would they prefer that you date a Muslim girl? Does your girlfriend get invited to your family gatherings?
I'm just curious.
Shalom. I am publishing a new book "Yeshiva Benei Anusim" and will like to use your photo of the kosher products for the kosher chapter. Will you please grant me permision? Toda raba. You can visit our draft website (not completed yet) at www.YeshivaAnusim.com
Permission granted. And good luck with your book.
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