ISRAEL (IINO)
[Ed.: Today, April 19th, is Holocaust Memorial Day]
April 18, 2023 – Holocaust survivor Miriam Tafulkrair and her granddaughter, Sergeant Roei Avital, sounded the siren together in the headquarters of the Home Front Command.
Today (Tuesday), the siren to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day was sounded by Holocaust survivor Miriam Tafulkrair and her granddaughter, Sergeant Roei Avital, who serves as an Operations Sergeant in the IDF’s Home Front Command.
Miriam Elizabeth Hanina Tafulkrair was born in 1945 in Amsterdam, Holland. Miriam is named after the Christian gynecologist who delivered her and provided her family with a hiding place from the Nazis. Miriam’s father, Max, was a painter. During the war he forged identity cards and passports for Jewish people as part of his involvement in the Dutch resistance.
Miriam decided to immigrate to Israel at the age of 22 out of a sense of Zionism. Today, Miriam lives in Even Shmuel with her husband, Haim, who immigrated to Israel from Yemen in 1949.
Miriam and Haim have five children, 13 grandchildren and one great-grandson.
Miriam and her granddaughter, Roei, arrived this morning to the Alert Situation Room of the Home Front Command, and together the two pressed the button that sounded the Holocaust Remembrance Day siren throughout the country.
Miriam Tafulkrair, Holocaust survivor:
“As a Holocaust survivor, I have a duty to all my family members who were murdered in World War II, to tell the story of their heroism and the horrors they experienced during the war. It is my duty to convey their feelings of constant fear and torment, and to cherish the feeling of freedom and security that comes with living here, in our land, the State of Israel.”
[Ed.: Video of the two of them standing during the siren via computer]
Israeli-made AI exposes international fake Viagra network By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
In addition to the fake erectile dysfunction pills, the international network was producing faux ADHD medication and ecstasy.
APRIL 19, 2023 – An Israeli startup has exposed an international network of counterfeit legal and illegal pills including Viagra.
Using artificial intelligence, EverC, a firm that combats cyber-fraud, traced the trail of over 1,000 websites selling machines used to stamp the dose onto the fake pills on the black market in China. In addition to the fake erectile dysfunction pills, the network was producing faux ADHD medication and ecstasy.
“Bad actors use sophisticated methods to disguise themselves as they conduct illicit activity online, and it is our job to expose them and allow law enforcement to deal with them,” CEO of EverC Ariel Tiger said.
Added Amit Kushmirak, senior manager at EverC: “A drug stamping machine costs $9,000 to $17,000 on the black market, but each of them generates huge profits for buyers thanks to the large volumes of counterfeiting criminals can produce by machine.”
[Ed.: Yes, but, fake Viagra produce fake erections!]
The genocide was more than a specific, contained, monstrous event. It was the successful culmination of six decades of fervent European efforts to rid the continent of its Jews By HAVIV RETTIG GUR
18 April 2023 – Western Holocaust commemorations have a peculiar uniformity to them. They speak of Nazism as a warning against intolerance and chauvinism; they frame the genocide as a single event with a clear beginning and end that for all its cataclysmic scope and impact was nevertheless short-lived.
This way of remembering is a tragedy in its own right. It downplays a long history of persecution, ignores the Holocaust’s deeper roots in favor of the emotional salve of simplistic moral lessons, and detaches the specific gas chambers and killing fields from a broader history of which they are an apotheosis, not an aberration.
There is a more Jewish telling of the Holocaust, one that notices that the 20th century was already among the bloodiest periods in Jewish history before the start of the genocide, that includes the flight of millions of Jews out of Europe and the way those who remained were delivered into the Nazi embrace by Western immigration quotas. It is a version of the story that begins not in 1939 or 1941, but in 1880.
Jews began their mass flight from Europe following the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881, an event that sparked mass popular pogroms in the Russian Empire and saw new laws enacted against its already oppressed Jewish subjects. These pressures from above and below slowly increased, culminating in the massacres of the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, which claimed the lives of well over 100,000 Jews.
Most of the Jews who fled westward in the six decades that preceded the Holocaust went to the United States. Their story is often swallowed up in the larger tale of American immigration, of millions of other Europeans who sought a new life and new opportunities in America. But the Jews were not like the Poles, Italians or Germans who arrived with them in New York harbor.
[Ed.: Never Again? Today, it’s not just Jews. They’re doing it to everybody!]
WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Story [5:36]
Watch and learn about the story Artemis, a Holocaust survivor who now has a grandchild serving in the IDF.
Artemis is a Holocaust survivor from Ioannina, Greece. She is now 94 years old. After the Nazi regime conquered her homeland, she immigrated to Israel to start a new life.
She now has a grandchild serving in the Israel Defense Forces, a dream she never believed would come true.
Watch as she tells her story, accompanied by her grandson.
The real reason for the war against Israel and the West
Lapid’s support for a Palestinian state compounds a disastrous error. Melanie Phillips
(September 22, 2022 / JNS) As soon as it emerged that Israel’s acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid would tell the United Nations General Assembly this week that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, he was engulfed by outrage, incredulity and dismay.
Critics charged that he was endangering Israel’s security by seeking to establish a terrorist state on land to which Israel is lawfully entitled. This, they said, would incentivize yet more Palestinian terrorism.
In his actual remarks, Lapid appeared to row back from an earlier briefing by an official that he would say, “Israel must move toward a two-state solution.” Maybe as a sop to his critics, he confined himself instead to bland support for a “peaceful” Palestinian state.
Nevertheless, this was the first time in many years that an Israeli leader expressed support for such a state at the U.N.—and at a time when Palestinian radicalization and terror attacks are increasing.
Faithful to Israel’s Declaration of Independence Yshai Amichai
The ‘faithful’ of Tel Aviv march to defend ‘democracy,’ so that they can bring down a democratically elected government. Op-ed.
Apr 18, 2023, 2:00 PM (GMT+3) – I spent this past Shabbat (April 14-15) in Tel Aviv with my family. I could write a few articles about what I saw there. I will focus on the most important part.
There are banners in Tel Aviv that attest to the ‘loyalty’ and ‘faithfulness’ of that city. The banners read: ‘Faithful to the Declaration of Independence (in Hebrew, ‘נאמנים למגילת העצמאות‘).
I saw those banners hanging from peoples’ balconies. I saw one tied down to a protest stage being erected on Shabbat in the middle of a major street. I saw those words spray painted on a wall. I saw people carrying Israeli flags and wearing t-shirts bearing those words as well.
The ‘faithful’ people of Tel Aviv
Apparently, people in Tel Aviv consider themselves to be very faithful. A few of them almost hit my kids in the head with the bulky poles of their Israeli flags. They were headed to protest the Israeli government and block the streets below our hotel. We were headed up to the hotel to rest on the Sabbath.
Now I’ve heard of many types of faithful people, but this is the first time I’ve come across folks who are faithful to a declaration of independence wave Israeli flags and block Israeli streets, disrupt the lives of Israelis and wreak havoc upon the Israeli economy, as a show of loyalty to the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Rather odd, don’t you think?
Music from the horror Hadassah Chen
‘Real Talk’ with Francesco Lotoro, the Italian composer who gave life to music from the death camps
Apr 18, 2023, 10:01 PM (GMT+3) – I was in awe when Francesco walked into our Arutz Sheva studio in Jerusalem with such simplicity, almost embarrassed to be there. I managed to get him away from Yad Vashem where he was very busy doing some research while on a five day trip to Israel from Italy, for a chat with me on camera on who he is and what he does with such devotion and love.
Born in 1964 in Barletta (Italy), Francesco Lotoro is a pianist, composer and conductor as well as being a piano teacher at the “Niccolò Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari. For the past 30 years, he has been tirelessly engaged in the retrieval, study, revision, archiving, performance, recording and promotion of thousands of works of concentration camp music.
He has recovered over 8,000 scores – often produced in a condition of deprivation of the most basic human rights, in concentration, extermination and civilian and military prison camps around the world between 1933 (opening of KZ Dachau) to 1953 (death of Joseph Stalin and amnesty for Gulag prisoners), i.e. from the rise of National Socialism to the end of Soviet Stalinism – 12,500 documents of music production in the camps (microfilms, diaries, music notebooks, phonograph recordings, interviews with surviving musicians) and 3,000 university publications, essays of concentration camp music and musical essays produced in the camps. A unique archive in the world created by traveling and meeting authors and guardians of these precious art testimonies imbued with humanity everywhere.
Tomb of Shimon Hatzaddik: Two wounded in Jerusalem terrorist shooting
Two Jews wounded in shooting in Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem.
Apr 18, 2023, 7:32 AM (GMT+3) – Two Jews were wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in eastern Jerusalem Tuesday morning.
The attack took place on Pierre Van Paassen Street in the Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood of the capital.
Witnesses say they victims are Breslover Hasidim who were gunned down while sitting in their car in front of the Tomb of Shimon Hatzaddik.
[Ed.: “Never again” is a mouth fart.]
The main lesson from the Holocaust is that only power helps us survive Karma Feinstein Cohen
It is impossible to provide security to the Jewish people without political, economic and military power. Op-ed.
Apr 19, 2023, 8:33 AM (GMT+3) – Every “Yom HaShoa” (Holocaust Memorial Day) we must repeat the main lesson. It is an unpleasant lesson, but it is the right one, and as time goes by, it only becomes starker, especially this year. It is impossible to provide security to the Jewish people without political, economic and military power.
We have had it all in the last two thousand years, except for military power. Therefore, we could not defend ourselves.
We were right. We did not hurt or threaten anyone. We contributed to all the countries and all the peoples we lived amongst, more than any other minority did.
In return we received oppression, expulsion and murder.
On Yom HaShoah, remember “Silence Is Despicable” Jeff Dunetz
Silence has normalized antisemitism and allowed it to rise. Op-ed.
Apr 18, 2023, 4:31 PM (GMT+3) – “Do Not Stand idly by while your Neighbor’s blood Is shed” -ayikra (Leviticus) 19:16
“Silence is despicable; it leads to a loss of flesh and blood.” -Ze’ev Jabotinsky
Between Monday night, April 17th, and sundown Tuesday, the 18th, is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Its full name is Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; in English, it translates to “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day.” The day is more commonly known as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה), a worldwide day of remembrance for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies. Part of the remembering is that as the news about Hitler’s extermination of the Jewish people began to leak out to the world—there was silence.
The hatred of Jews has afflicted people of diverse ethnicity, religions, and political views for over three thousand years, Ever since the Egyptian Pharoah enslaved the nascent Jewish nation.
Even in the U.S., a great nation that has always been an oasis of freedom for Jews, antisemitism is alive and well but mostly ignored. That silence allows the hatred of antisemitism to fester.
Antidefamation League Defames Substack Authors Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
April 19, 2023
Anti-Defamation League, Now Attacking Jewish People?
Despite the fact they say they’re against hate-based prejudice and Antisemitism, they’re attacking these high-profile Jewish people just because they don’t agree with what they’re saying. It breaks every one of their rules. Have they been infiltrated by the enemy?
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The Antidefamation League (ADL) was founded in 1913, with the mission of stopping “the defamation of Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all”
- According to the ADL, it was founded “with the clear understanding that the fight against one form of prejudice cannot succeed without battling prejudice in all forms,” and to this day, the ADL “continues to fight all forms of bias”
- The ADL has turned coattails and is now defaming and persecuting people with hate speech. It’s even attacking high-profile Jews, simply because they oppose official narratives on politics, religion, COVID, censorship and more
- April 4, 2023, the ADL published an article condemning and badmouthing 19 Substack authors, and called on Twitter to ban all Substack outlinks (external links to Substack) to prevent “hate speech”
- April 7, 2023, Twitter started blocking Substack outlinks. It’s unclear whether ADL had anything to do with it. Twitter may have retaliated against Substack for launching Substack Notes, which could become a primary competitor
[Ed.: Many of the so called leaders, are erev rav in their root, so they act accordingly. As written, at this time in history, as part of the final punishments of Hashem, He will give the erev rav to dominate over the Jewish people, and so it is in real time, especially in IINO!]
What effect did Nazi propaganda have on the German people? (cont.) Dr. Alex Grobman
Parts VI-VIII: A Gestapo report pointed out: It is easier to invite attacks on the Jews, than to persuade the public of antisemitism. Op-ed.
Apr 19, 2023, 8:41 AM (GMT+3)
For parts I-V, click here.
Part VI The Limitations of the Press
How did the Germans react to Nazi propaganda in the press, since as in all totalitarian regimes, the press plays a critical part in the “political socialization” of the masses? During the early years, there was serious competition between church journals and the party press, despite pressure from the government for the journals to adhere to a uniform message. For those “who could read between the lines,” David Bankier noted, church journals provided another source of information. This alternative to Nazi propaganda became necessary, because not long after Hitler assumed power, the German public had reached “a saturation point…and thereafter [it] went into decline: it was not long before a trend of outright rejection became manifest.”
A credibility gap continued to widen between those who rejected Nazi propaganda and the regime. A September-October 1934 report from the Rhine province (the Rhineland) stated, “the press and radio are not considered reliable.” In response to the distrust of the press, the public stopped reading a number of newspapers. Others depended on church periodicals or the foreign press, both of which experienced a significant increase in circulation. The inability to obtain large quantities of foreign newspapers, which were purchased as soon as they appeared, meant friends, relatives and acquaintances shared the papers until they became unreadable, David Bankier said.
Concern about Influence of the Church
The Auschwitz Album- Visual Evidence of the Process Leading to the Mass Murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau [5:41] Yad Vashem 2,903,696 views Nov 9, 2017
The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.
Five things you may not have known about Holocaust Memorial Day ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ
“He renews my life; He guides me in right paths as befits His name.” Psalm 23:3 (THE ISRAEL BIBLE)
APRIL 17, 2023 – On Monday evening as the sun sets and the 27th day of the month of Nisan begins, Jews around the world will be commemorating the somber Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day), or, as it is generally called, Yom Hashoah. On this day, we remember the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period.
Here are five things you may not have known about Yom Hashoah and the Holocaust.
[Ed.: ‘Blessed is the True Judge’]
Read reflections from Rabbi Sacks after his first visit to Auschwitz in 1995. > Read
Watch Rabbi Sacks’ address at the 2013 National Yom HaShoah Commemoration in London. > View
Discover some of the most significant questions that the Holocaust raises in this video series produced in partnership with the Holocaust Educational Trust in 2020. > Explore
Delve into the story of Janusz Korczak and the resilience of the human spirit in this Jewish News article by Rabbi Sacks from 2012. > Read
CEREMONY & CELEBRATION: FAMILY EDITION
Explore the Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, a comprehensive resource designed for families, educators, and students of all ages that offers key insights into Yom HaShoah. > View and download
