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בס''דCopyright © R. Kossover, 2011 Running a country is a lot like running a household.  We earn our money and we pay our bills.  If we don’t earn money, and don’t pay our bills, we find ourselves in a heap of trouble.  That trouble usually comes in the form of a wolf, the Wolf of Debt. Lots of people dance and sing about how “debt is not a problem” or how “debt is meaningless”.  These people

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בס''ד Published originally in Blogcritics Magazine, 26 June, 2009 Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009, 2011 My father*, may he rest in peace, was born in Russia-Poland in 1908. Many of the adults he knew, the Jews in the village of Yenzhiveh where he lived, were veterans of the disastrous Russo-Japanese War that had occurred only a few years before he had been born. Some of these veterans came home

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בס''ד Originally posted in Facebook as a Note on 19 August, 2011Copyright © R. Kossover, 2011 Pninah Means Millson Mason wrote in a post on Facebook today (19 August, 2011)  "It is a command that when we return to the land, that we are to clear it of all the detestable things and all abominations.  [Ezekiel 11:17-21]. It is to be cleared of the evil, INCLUDING idolatry." We have not done this,

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בס''ד י'א בתמוז, התשע"א   13 July, 2011Copyright © R. Kossover, 2011 A letter to a friend, the person who got me interested in the End of Days. Good morning, Like good bread, this is done while you sleep. My, oh my, look where your interest in the End of Days has led us!  What terrible awareness! Yeats wrote,    "Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

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בס''ד Copyright © Karate Champ TV & Paris David Blumenthal, 2011  Let's discuss the world Economic Fiasco. Are you brave enough to watch and listen? The State of the World's Economy is explained in detail. Paris David Blumenthal discusses this and more at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. From the USA to Europe and where the economy is heading. Will there be a recovery? Watch

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בס''ד Posted originally as a "note" in Facebook 6 July, 2011- ה בתמוז, התשע''א Copyright © 2011, R. Kossover My wife, a Minnesota girl, woke up from a dream not long ago.  She was dreaming of the Great Minnesota Get-together, the Minnesota State Fair.  Or so it seemed at first. She was trying to get home from the Fair, which is right on Snelling Avenue in Falcon Heights, a small suburb

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בס''ד Originally published in Facebook as a "Note" on 21 June, 2011. Copyright © R. Kossover, 2011 In looking at the articles one sees here on Facebook and elsewhere in that whiny, complaint-filled Augean Stable known as "the Jewish world", all we see is whining and complaining. Do Jews do anything to merit the respect they whine they do not get? What are we doing to command respect? Are we

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בס''דPublished at Facebook, 6 June, 2011. Copyright © 2011, R. Kossover 6 June, 2011 - ד בחודש סיון, התשע"א Recently, we have all read of the decision of the West Dunbartonshire Council in Scotland to boycott Israeli products. It is time to boycott the boycotters and pay them in their own currency of disdain and refusal to purchase their products - even if we all have to sober up just a wee

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בס''ד Copyright © R. Kossover, 1994, 2011 One night last fall, my wife was busily retching up dinner, lunch, and most of the previous week's meals while suffering a nasty bout of stomach flu. For three hours, she had been sitting in a chair covered in a blanket with the chills complaining of nausea. Our youngest, Eric, would ask every couple of minutes, "Mommy, are you going to throw up?" or "

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בס''ד Copyright © R. Kossover, Avi Kossover, 2001, 2011             Our cat, Flash is a very valued member of the family.   Let me be more specific.  It cost us $89 to bring him on the El Al flight here.  It cost another $89 for the box that held his stuff, a box additional to the twelve we were allowed to bring.  It cost $20 for a veterinarian’s examination, $22 for the USDA to certify that

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בס''ד Published as a "Note" on Facebook Copyright © R. Kossover, 2011 Manhigut Yehudit, led by Moshe Feiglin, has been warning of this for a long time. Manny Winston of Chicago, has been warning of this for over a decade, as has Barry Chamish and anybody else with open eyes. The future very likely holds war and very possibly a holocaust - in the form of an invasion by either NATO or the

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בס''דCopyrght © R. Kossover, 2011 Next Monday evening at sundown, folks here are going to celebrate the 63th anniversary of the departure of the British High Commissioner from Eretz Yisrael and the declaration in Tel Aviv by David ben Gurion of the State of Israel. In Hebrew, this day is known as Yom Atzma'út - Independence Day. The first time I came to this country was for a parade on Yom

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בס''דOriginally Published as a Note in FacebookCopyright ©, R. Kossover, 2011   This morning (24 April, 2011) a Jew went to pray at the Tomb of Joseph near Sh'khém a few kilometers north of where I live in Samaria.   Joseph is the ancestor of the Yusufzai and the Afridi, and probably the Khattak at the very least, amongst my Pashtun brothers and sisters.  He was the favorite of our ancestor,

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בס''ד Published on Facebook, 3 April 2011 by Paris David Blumenthal and Reuven Kossover, Copyright © 2011, R. Kossover and Paris David Blumenthal The Consequences of UN Resolutions to Abrogate the 1920 San Remo Resolutions on Palestine and Create ex-Nihilo, a "Palestinian" Arab State in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria In 1967, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt attacked Israel. Six days later the Israel

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בס''ד Originally published in my Notes section at Facebook; Copyright ©, R. Kossover 2010by Reuven Kossover on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 10:48pm It should be evident by now to all but the most blind that the world is facing an economic holocaust.  The euro, wracked by the budgetary debt of the European nations on the periphery of the "eurozone", threatens collapse.  The US dollar is so

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בס''ד  Published originally at Facebook in my Notes section; Copyright ©, R. Kossover 2011. by Reuven Kossover on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 10:20pm In all truth, it was a relatively simple affair. Eric and Ella made it, as I had mentioned. But they picked out a hotel from a chain that is gobbling up the other chains here, and according to others, the food was delicious ( I thought it was

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בס''ד  Originally published at Facebook under my Notes there:Copyrght ©, R. Kossover 2011 by Reuven Kossover on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 1:06am It was a rotten day in Israel Wednesday.  When a Grad rocket struck Be'ersheva early that morning, residents found that the shelters they were to flee to were locked. But that wasn't the worst of it.  On Tuesday, rockets hit Ashdod, and struck

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בס''ד Published at Blogcritics, 15 July 2010 Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010   On Monday morning, 5 July 2010, I was interviewed on the Tamar Yonah Show on Israel National Radio [Download the interview here; interview starts in the second half of the program].  Prior to the interview, I typed up a number of talking points, and gathered together data that I had received and sent out in the prior

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On Monday morning, Israel time, I was interviewed on the Tamar Yonah Show on Israel National Radio [Download the interview here; interview starts in the second half of the program].  Prior to the interview, I typed up a number of talking points, and gathered together data that I had received and sent out in the prior 30 or 40 hours since the Sabbath went out on the night of 3 July. First my

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FINAL REPORT: WARNING ON THE BP OIL SPILL GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THE GULF AND ATLANTIC COASTS AND OUT OF FLORIDA!! -----------------------FOURTH EMAIL------------------------- This e-mail will be the fourth and last of my series of warnings on the BP oil spill.  The next piece I write on this will be a compendium piece that will be the first of several that will deal with the general theme of

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בס''ד The copyright for this essay belongs to the successors in interest of Rav Binyamin Kahane, z"l, hy"d, the martyred son of Rav Meir Kahane, z"l, hy"d.  I'm copying this article from a comment I posted in 2008 at Desicritics.org.  No copyright infringement or financial harm is intended in republishing that comment to this blog-site.  My purpose is solely to have a URL to use to quote from, as

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בס''ד Published as a Newsflash at Blogcritics Magazine, 23 June 2010,Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010 Iranian forces are on alert against alleged Israeli and American troop concentrations in Azerbaijan. These reports come form two sources, Arutz Sheva and Debkafiles. The details differ in both reports, but the bottom line appears to be that the Revolutionary Guard has been massing

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בס''ד This article was originally published at Blogcritics Magazine, 23 June 2010; Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010. When the world's media mugged Israel before, during, and after its resistance to the Turkish terrorists attempting to break its blockade of Gaza, Caroline Glick, a leading Israeli news commentator writing out of the Jerusalem Post, displayed the kind of guts and moxie sadly lacking

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בס''ד This improved and consolidated version of a three year old series of articles has been published in Jewish Indy (Indianapolis, USA), Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury's Weekly Blitz (Bangladesh).  I am attempting to have it translated into Hebrew in hopes that my Israeli friends and neighbors will see a painful summary of all that we have lost in the dark and scary Shadow of Six Day War.

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בס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 10 June, 2010Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010Writer's note - thanks to Ed Driscoll, for the quote of Al Capone used in the movie Goldfinger.BackgroundWhen one uses the term "media" in reference to news these days, one has to realize that it refers to any medium of communication between a relatively small group of individuals and a far larger

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בס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 7 June 2010Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010Part I - We Con the WorldLife Imitating ArtLife has a funny way of imitating art. Caroline Glick, a prominent Israeli news commentator who produces "Tribal Update" as part of her "Latma TV" satires on YouTube, featured a "Captain Stabbing", the "Love Boat" captain of one of the "Free Gaza" flotilla

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בס''דOriginally published at Desicritics.org, 22 May 2010Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010It was late April on a warm night in Jerusalem. The room on the third floor of the Israel Center in Jerusalem filled up. Dr. Asher Eder introduced the evening as the master of ceremonies. His opening remarks were to serve to introduce Lowell Gallin’s new book, Cracking the Qur'an Code: God’s Land, Torah and

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בס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 28 April 2010Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010The news out of the Middle East these days is not very heartening or happy. Rumors are flying that there will be a war this summer or next. The mood here is dark and foreboding, with folks waiting for the other missile shoe to drop. There are stories like this one, detailing how Iran is getting hold of

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בס''דThis book review is of Lowell (Aryeh) Gallin's groundbreaking work, Cracking the Qur’an Code: God’s Land, Torah and People Covenants with Israel in the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition. The review was written by Fazal ur-Rehman Afridi, a Muslim journalist in Paris active in human rights in his native Pakistan. I contributed to this book and helped edit it, so I do not get to do book reviews on

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בס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 17 March 2010Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010When we first moved to Israel, we lived at an absorption center in southeastern Jerusalem. As I got more familiar with Jerusalem, I got to realizing that the main drag in southern Jerusalem was the Hebron Road that leads to – Hebron - and turns into Highway 60 south of the city. The bus to the center of

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בס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 9 March 2010.Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010The Sunday (07 March 2010) edition of the Hebrew daily, Ma'ariv, carried this headline, Obama's deputy [Vice President Joseph Biden] brings clear message to Israel: 'Don't attack Iran'" There was a time, some forty years ago, when such messages would have been conveyed behind closed doors. Indeed, in

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בס''דThis article was originally published as a Newsflash at Blogcritics Magazine on 10 February 2010.Copyright © R. Kossover, 2010On Sunday night (7 Feb. 2010), at Oxford University, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon delivered a lecture to an angry crowd of students, faculty and others. The harassment he received there from many in the audience was pretty standard for what Jews and

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בס''דCopyright © R. Kossover, 2010This article was originally posted on 1 February at Jewish Indy.Introduction to the Jewish Indy article: (added)As pointed out below, we need to look for the red herrings in the American milintel. But we also need to look further than that to seek out the positive aspects of what can look like a very negative situation. Let's look back on the rocket assault

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בס''דThis article was written by Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi, a Pathán researcher into the history of the People of Israel. As a Pathán, he is a descendant of the tribe of Efraim (Afridi in Pashto), which used to live in the Samarian mountains that surround me. He is not a Jew, but as my friend and colleague Lowell (Aryeh) Gallin points out, he is one of 40 million Patháns who claim descent from

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בס''דOriginally published as a comment to the article "Confrontation at Ma'ale Levona", 14 December 2009;Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009Some of you may have read the first article I ever wrote for Blogcritics Magazine, depicting the events Hanukkah celebrates for what it really was - a civil war.Four years later, on 11 December, a secular Jew, David Brooks, wrote a similar article as an op-ed

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בס''דOriginally published at Desicritics.org on 11 December 2009Copyright ©, R. Kossover 2009A couple of weeks ago, I got a call at night. The conversation was in Hebrew but since most of you reading are not familiar with the language.... "Ruvy?" The fellow sounded familiar, but I couldn't place him. "Yes?" I waited. "Ruvy, we have target practice scheduled for next week. You have a

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בס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 7 December 2009 Copyright© R. KossoverTraveling up the road to Ma’ale Levona from Sinjil at 17:30 in the evening, the vehicle I was riding in was confronted with and the road blocked by two Israel Police vehicles. After some discussion, the police agreed to move the vehicles and allowed the

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בס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 4 December 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009There is no more effective way to stifle opposition than setting up your own opposition — something that was done in East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary during the era of Soviet imperial rule there. The government of Israel, which in many ways reflects the culture of Stalinist Russia and the

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בס''דPublished 27 November 2009 at Blogcritics MagazineCopyright © R. Kossover, 2009Warnings from Politicians I picked up this little item from Arutz Sheva Thursday morning (26 November 2009). Ynetnews carefully avoided mentioning MK Danny Danon's (Likud) warning that Barak and Netanyahu are leading us to civil war in its coverage of a meeting of leaders from Judea and Samaria. Later that day,

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בס''דThis is taken from an article at Pajamas Media by David Hornik complaining about Israel being bashed in the media. What I'm publishing here is not the article itself but a comment by a person who is obviously a Muslim, expressing his view as a Muslim, a view colored by his religion, not by the hatred the Wahhabi spill continuously against us.  It is worth reading, and worth struggling with,

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בס''דOriginally Published at Blogcritics Magazine on 25 November 2009.Copyright ©, R. Kossover, 2009The bad news started coming to my doorstep about three weeks ago. On Thursday afternoon, a young lady knocked on our door asking for charity. She was staying at the girls high school in Ma’alé Levoná after being ejected from her home in Ramat Migron the day before. I did not know where her family

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בס''דThis article was originally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 11 May, 2009.                 Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009Author's note:  This article was written before the elections in the Islamic Republic that exposed the fundamental instability of this régime.  If régime change can be accomplished from within to remove the existential threat to the Jewish State, then thoughts of

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בס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 10 May, 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009In a couple of days, traffic will be jammed in Jerusalem and the life of the average Jerusalemite will be totally miserable. Why? The sitting Bishop of Rome will make his presence known in our land. Like other bishops of Rome, he will do all he can NOT to recognize Jewish sovereignty over this nation,

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בס''דכג' תמוז תשס''ט14 July, 2009Copyright 2009, R. KossoverEarlier today at Arutz Sheva, I saw an article introducing a brand new organization, which hopes to pump some new energy into the moribund Zionist movement. Since they were nice enough to list Ruvy's Roost on their blogroll, I thought I would write a few words of Welcome to Z Street! Z Street is an organization that believes in No more

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נס''דOriginally published in Blogcritics Magazine, 30 April 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009This is a developing story, and from the standpoint of news, the who, what and where of what I write here will be outdated by the time it is published. I learned about the swine flu while sitting in the doctor's office on Monday, 27 April 2009, looking at a commuter paper called yisraél hayóm, Israel

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בס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine, 27 April 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009 We still go to a doctor in Jerusalem, even though we live in the mountains to the north in Ma'ale Levona. It's a 2½ hour trip and a pain in the neck, but being the old codgers we are, we stick with folks we know and trust. In spite of having gone to the same family doctors for nearly

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בס''דOriginally published on 23 April 2009 in Blogcritics Magazine.Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009In March 1933, Adolf Hitler took power in Germany after a rigged election where his thugs had burned down the German parliament building and had blamed the main opposition, the Communists, in order to gain more votes. He instituted a dictatorship in Germany and tried to bring his country out of the

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בס''דOriginally published at Desicritics.org on 2 April, 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009My youngest son was on the computer, working on the layout of a book I'm editing. His older brother was already asleep, hugging the wall as is his wont. I watched Avi as he manipulated boxes from one end of the page to the other, fitting the text I had edited in them. He was impatient, like his father is,

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בס''דOriginally published at Blogcritics Magazine on 5 April, 2009Copyright © R. Kossover, 2009This writer has been relatively quiet on events occurring here in Israel. The new Netanyahu government installed here a few days ago did not seem very different from the old one that just left. Terms like "right-wing" or "hard-line" found in the mass media are just not accurate in describing the new

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בס''דThis was pulled up from AOL News and these are my "grades" for Mr. Obama. A few points here. There was no "F" option that I remember - so he got "D"'s in their stead. In essence this man needs to improve his performance from what is, in reality, a failing grade. He impressed me as good with the public appearances - I didn't count his stupid remarks on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno as a

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בס''דThis came to me as an e-mail. I'm copying it in its entirety so as to make clear how Moslem mobs act - not in Cairo or Sakhnin or Ramallah - in Manahttan. Read and understand. Jews in America need to do a whole lot more than go to pro-Israel parades or demonstrations.Jews need to come home. At least here there is the possibility of a Jewish soldier to protect us. A friend of mine, who

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בס''דCopyright ©, R. Kossover, 2008Published originally as part of an article at Desicritics.org29 December, 2008Tzvi ben Gedalyahu writes at Arutz Sheva, Tanks Deployed at Gaza Barrier; Barak: War to the Death.In this article, Barak gets plenty of exposure as the tough grim-faced leader, the man who is serious at defeating his enemies. Since he is the Security Minister, and the IDF is sitting at

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בס''דOriginally published at Desicritics.org27 December 2008Copyright © R. Kossover, 2008On Saturday, striking Arab terrorists on the Jewish Sabbath, the Israel Air Corps attacked the Hamas compounds in Gaza City. According to Debkafiles the attacks began a half hour before noon, Israel Winter Time, and have continued throughout the day, with the latest attack occurring this evening (27 December)

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בס''דI wrote this letter to the following individuals:The Governor of MinnesotaThe Sheriff of Hennepin County, MNThe office if the Adjutant General of MinnesotaThe Board Clerk of Hennepin County, MNState Senator Sandra PappasThe City Manager of Bloomington, MNThe Chief of Police of Bloomington, MNThe Fire Department of Bloomington, MNHere's hoping that in the light of the attack on Mumbai by

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverOriginally published in Desicritics.org,3 December 2008As Mumbaikars mourn their many dead and comfort their many injured, Rabbi Holtzberg and his pregnant wife were buried in Jerusalem today. It may not be clear what the Haba"d does or why. Let this tale from my own life be an illustration. When I was living on the streets of Saint Paul twenty-five years

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Aryeh Gallin, a friend of mine who is the head of Root & Branch in J-lem, had to travel back to the States to watch over his ailing father. He was there for quite a while, and his father experienced a complete recovery, thank G-d. He called me up a while ago when he got back to tell me of his experiences at the various airports he had been to, Kennedy, Heathrow and Ben-Gurion. This is

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine19 November 2008Background - Four Thousand Years Ago The tall man stood before the council of the city. The elders of the Children of Heth listened patiently as the man who had lived for decades among them stood, grief stricken but dignified, as he explained his request. The man standing before the Hittite council had grown

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Desicritics.org7 October, 2008I first read Uri Avnery's work, Israel Without Zionism: A Plan for Peace in the Middle East in 1971 or 1972, not long after it was published. At the time, Avnery was the publisher of the Hebrew newspaper העולם הזה ha'olám hazé - This World. The title of the publication was not without irony. Jews pray for

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine7 October, 2008 Amidst reports of the Israeli government handing over part of the Russian Compound in Jerusalem to the Russian government and "crime minister" Olmert talking about shrinking Israel to its pre-1967 size, some good news came out of the Holy Land recently. Several news source reported Sunday and Monday that a

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בס''דCopyright © R. Kossover, 2008Published 14 September in Blogcritics Magazine While Americans have been paying attention to their presidential race, things have been happening around them. Perhaps with the Palin wet t-shirt party raging in the press, nobody really wants to know. Sarah Palin brings everything a newsman wants in a story, controversy, sex and a pretty face. So, it falls to this

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine8 August, 2008 - 7 Av, 5768It was three years ago this Tish'a b'Av that the units of the Israel Police and the IDF destroyed 21 Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip and four in northern Samaria in what the Israel government called hehitnatkút m'áza – the "disengagement" from Gaza. A total of 10,000 citizens were driven from

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 23 July 2008When I was just a kid in Williamsburg, the Satmar Hassidim, long back-coated Jews with beaver hats and and long sidelocks, reacted en masse to threats to their community - particularly by the Puerto Ricans who shared the slum I grew up in. When there was some kind of danger, they would shout "goyim

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 3 July, 2008Backstory As reported on 2 July, an Arab "went postal" along the Jaffa Road, killing three and injuring at least 40 people. When I was riding towards Jerusalem's Central Bus Station Wednesday, planning to go to the phone company to clear up a bill, I heard the 12:00 news on the semi-official Voice

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineJerusalem, 2 July, 2008Jerusalem, Israel 13:34, IST At the construction site of Jerusalem's light rail system near Bank Le'umi on the Jaffa Road, an Arab drove a construction vehicle, described by some as a tractor, left the site itself and entered into oncoming traffic, crashed into a bus stop with passengers, crashed into

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 8 June, 2008When Barry (it's time to give him a nice American name, don't you think?) Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for the American presidency, he gave a speech before AIPAC, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee. And boy, was it a stem-winder, let me tell you. He said all the right things,

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics MagazineMa'ale Levona, 6 March 2008At approximately 8:30 this evening (20:30) on 6 March, two terrorists entered Merkáz haRáv Yeshivá in the Kiryát Moshé neighborhood of Jerusalem and killed eight students and wounded approximately forty people, as they sprayed the yeshiva with several hundred rounds from Kalashnikov rifles they

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בס''דCopyright © 2008, R. KossoverFirst published at Blogcritics Magazine Author's Note: About an hour after this article was published, my wife called. She was able to get the SIM card into her phone and so her phone was again in order. She is safe. She will be able to downtown from the Central Bus Station, which is northwest of the city center. But those who live in the south of the city,

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בס''דThis previous week has been dominated by the news of the return of live Arab murderers for two dead bodies kidnapped by HizbAllah in 2006. It is evident that the Israeli government knew for quite some time that that Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, ז''ל, הי''ד, were already dead. Why they were willing to return a live murderer for dead bodies puzzles me.I have no diffficulty with the idea

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בס''דAuthor's Note: It is now 12 July, 2008. The Winograd Report has been successfully watered down and Ehud Olmert was spared the spearing he deserved in it. But his corruption appears to be catching up with him at last. As for the scenarios outlined at the end of this article, Shim'on Peres is now State President, and has fancy parties, welcoming all sorts of foreign dignitaries here.

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בס''דAuthors Note: This is now 12 July, 2008, and I am picking up articles at Blogcritics Magazine that should have been posted here a long time ago but weren't. At this writing, the country looks forward to a new elections, as the sitting "crime minister" is under threat of indictment and has been questioned by police now three times. Whatever purpose Ehud Olmert may have served for his

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בס''דIn spring, shortly after PessaH (Passover), there are two memorial days which reflect the recent history of the saga of the People of Israel. The first is the day on the rabbinic calendar, 27 Nisán 5703, the day that effective organized resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended, twelve days after it began on the first day of PessaH, 1943. While effective organized resistance ended

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בס''ד Ma'aléh Levoná, Israel29 January, 2007I did patrol duty last night in Jerusalem (28 Jan.). It was much easier than the usual duty of standing in the cold (or heat) with a rifle. I got to sit in my partner’s vehicle, where it was warm, watching the heavy downpour of rain and driving wind as people tried to flag down rides at one of Jerusalem’s trampiadas. It was cozy in the car. All that

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בס''דA number of months ago the state president of Israel was accused of rape. Complaints were made, accusations were made; the state president asked the attorney general to investigate and to clear his name. For six months, Moshe Katzav has been silent as the press has attacked him, as the police have attacked him, and as power hungry fools known as politicians have attacked him. Wednesday

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בס''דWriting on this subject is very tricky. “Destiny” implies something far more than a mere political analysis. The truth is, the more I think about it, it is the destiny of the people of Israel that I am meant to pay attention to. But before I go further, I need to set down some definitions, so that you, the reader, know exactly what I’m talking about. Otherwise the semantic confusion can

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בס''דMy mother passed away 20 years ago about this time of year. I’m this unspecific because while on the Christian calendar, she died on 13 January 1987, on the Rabbinic calendar that we use to commemorate holidays, births, deaths, weddings, anniversaries, etc, she died on 12 Tevet 5747, which came out on 2 January of this year.Thinking about my parents, both of whom have died, is painful not

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בס''דCopyright © December 1995, December 2006, R. KossoverWriters note: This was written eleven years ago, when we still lived in St. Paul, MN. My younger boy, a strapping, tough bundle of muscle now, was all of four or five years old then. But even then, he was a remarkably patient listener.I wrote this from the viewpoint of an American, a fellow who had finally succeeded in buying a nice

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בס'ד Copyright © R. Kossover, November 2006 You never know who you will meet in the small world that is the Jewish community. Appearances are very deceiving. An old man, or someone who looks like an old man, may be a treasure trove or a genius. I have met several people like this as a police volunteer who are members of our unit. I originally met Alan Novins on a bus traveling to the

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בס''ד  Copyright © R. Kossover, November 2006 Ma’ale Levona, Israel 11 Heshvan 5767; 1 November, 2006 In the Hebrew Bible, in the book bamidbár, known in English as Numbers, Bila’am, the seer hired by King Balak of Moav to curse the Children of Israel, tells his employer, “I shall advise your people what this people will do to your people in the End of Days” (bamidbár/Numbers 24:14, in part).

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בס''דReflections of Jewish Destiny: Getting From Here to There – Emerging From the First flowering of Our RedemptionNote: this was first published in Jewish Indianapolis in 2005 as two articles. The two articles have been combined into one for this on-line magazine, and, G-d willing, will be republished in Jewish Indianapolis in the same format.Part I: “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up!” In our

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בס''דLiving In Israel – How the Hebrew Press Distorts Our Lives HereCopyright © R. Kossover, October 2006Reading the Google News Site, one could easily forget that people live real lives in countries other than America. In Israel, we buy food, pay rent, pay for electricity, buy gas balloons, pay health insurance costs, bus fare, school tuition and the phone bill, and have to work to make the

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בס''ד Author's note:  This was written three years ago in the aftermath of the war in Lebanon.  The European fleet stationed off Lebanon is still there, though its composition may have changed. The American administration certainly has changed, and its Leader is pursuing actively the reversal of Truman's "strategic mistake"  in 1947. In other words, the

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בס"ד Copyright ©,R. Kossover, July, 2008 Author's Note: In 2004, I delivered a lecture at the Israel Center in Jerusalem dealing with this basic topic – Looking at History through a Jewish Lens: the War of Tish’a B’Av. Below, I’m going to review some of the essential points of the lecture, and add a couple of points that drive home the essential premise. The majority of the people I spoke

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בס''ד Copyright © R. Kossover, 2006 On Saturday afternoons I usually doze. The wine from the Sabbath meal, along with all the other medicines I take, usually does me in. I sleep, and usually find myself waking up around sunset. This Saturday afternoon, after lunch, I didn’t doze. I tried to keep the thoughts of finances and money worries away from the edges of my mind, aware that after the

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בס"ד Copyrights © Avi Kossover, 2004, 2011 & Reuven Kossover, 2006, 2011. Twice, I have been faced with the insouciance with which our younger child deals with terror in this country. The first time was a year and a half ago in November. My younger son wrote this account of the story he told around the dinner table. "Almost doesn't count, except in horseshoes and car accidents." This is one of

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בס''ד Copyright ©, February 2002, Reuven Kossover Copyright ©, June 2011, Reuven Kossover Author’s note: This was written four years ago about this time of year right before the holiday of Purim, which is celebrated this year on 14 - 15 March. Purim celebrates the rescue of the Jewish people in the Persian Empire from the evil designs of Haman the Agagite, a man descended from King Agag, the

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בס''דLife After Death; Scientific Evidence for Death as the Beginning of a New Stage of LifeDr. Gerald Schroeder at the Israel Center 1 July, 2004Copyright © July 2004, R. Kossover for the Root & Branch Assn.Author’s note, Feb. 2006. In July 2004, Dr. Gerald Schroeder came to speak on this topic. While the lecture itself was delivered 18 months or so ago, its relevance remains immediate. We are

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בס''דCopyright © January 2006, R. KossoverPublished at Blogcritics MagazineFor those who live inside Israel, particularly in Jerusalem, the accession of Ehud Olmert to the post of acting prime minister elicits only groans. Olmert, before he became mayor of Jerusalem, was known as a Likud activist and as a corrupt and generally incompetent lawyer. The foreign press knew about the Likud activist

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I AM A JERUSALEMITEWhat happens when a man leaves the land of his birth - but his heart stays there?When I was a young man living in Brooklyn, I knew a printer who showed me a letter http://www.csuohio.edu/tagar/city.htm. This was in the late 1960's. The letter was entitled "A Letter To the World From Jerusalem." That letter and knowledge that a Jewish army had conquered and liberated all of our

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ISRAELI POLITICS: ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND The “first with the burst,” to quote “Stranger in a Strange Land,” was DEBKAfile at 12:42 12 December http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=1422, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/656781.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=94661.At the time, the idea was floating around to attempt to form an “anyone but Sharon coalition.”That was about

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LOOKING AT EARTH FROM ABOVE - GOOGLE EARTHGoogle Earth:Imagine a computer program where you enter the location you want to look at on the planet and see it from above – or from a variety of different angles.Really!I have this program and can look at my childhood public school in Brooklyn from a height of 90 feet or so. I can look at the apartment building I used to live in there as a child and

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Elections are 28 March 2006. But this time we're seeing a new phenomenon that we've never really seen before. Kol haZével Kofétz l'Otó Pahh - All the Trash is Jumping into the Same BinCopyright ©, Reuven Kossover 2005It's always fun to look out the window and write an article while a sandstorm blows in from the south. It contributes to one's sense that what one writes is clarifying rather than "

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בס''ד Originally published at the now defunct website,  Isralert.com Copyrights © 2004, 2005, 2011, R. Kossover Before I went on patrol Sunday night, 12 Sept 2004, I wrote a brief description of the first wedding on the Temple Mount to take place there in over 1,900 years. It had taken place on the previous Thursday. The Arabs were so enraged over it that they were practically

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בס''ד   Copyright 2005, 2011, R.Kossover Israel has much to learn from General Metaxas. He did not temporize,  compromise or set up commissions. HE SAID "NO." "Okhi" is Greek for "no." One bright day in the autumn of 1940, while the Fascists were still in control in Italy, after the Italians had annexed Albania, Benito Mussolini, the prime minister and dictator, decided to expand his new

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