7/18/2005 07:26:00 PM|W|P|Rabbi Yonah|W|P|Yiddish will be integrated into Jewish Day School curricula at three Los Angeles area schools thanks to gelt from the Spielberg Righteous Persons Foundation. That is good news for Jewish kids who have been denied access to Yiddish by generations that viewed Yiddish as the language of the old country, of backwards, superstitious, Fiddler-On-The-Roof kind of Jews and Judiasm. What lacks in this article in the LA Times is any acknowledgment as to why Yiddish was not taught to generations of assimilating Jewry, and the great prejudice faced by religious Jews in America that continued to keep Yiddish alive and well. In addition, there is no mention of the tens of thousands of children in the USAZ that study in Yiddish in religious schools in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Israel, and elsewhere. The moral of the story: No one likes to admit they made a mistake, least of all those that were responsible for removing the need for Yiddish, which directly caused the loss of Yiddish amongst the masses of Ashkenzi Jews.|W|P|112174008309787517|W|P|Spielberg Gets Kids Shmoozing in Yiddish|W|P|rabbiyonah@gmail.com8/11/2005 05:31:00 AM|W|P|Anonymous Anonymous|W|P|If you are alone, call this number 800-211-9293. Connect with Real Singles from your local area instantly for only $0.99/min with a $4.99 connection fee. A true Match is only one phone call away 800-211-9293. Meet people with common interests and desires now. Check it out. 800-211-92939/22/2005 10:58:00 PM|W|P|Blogger Rabbi Yonah|W|P|Uh I think that is spam. Not endorsed by the Rabbi that is for sure!7/18/2005 12:26:00 PM|W|P|Rabbi Yonah|W|P|
The association of former Poles in Israel has launched a public campaign against a bill to return private property to its owners that is now being discussed by the Polish parliament, charging that it grants de facto recognition to the Nazi regime's Nuremberg laws
The Polish Sejm is discussing a law, finally, to reach a compensation deal with thsoe who lost property in WWII and afterwards by the communists. The situatin is very hard for Poland to deal with in part because everyone lost property. Either to Nazis or to the Communists after the war. The Polish Jews in Israel are very upset about the new laws because it defacto recognizes that the Jewish property taken by the Nazis will never be returned. The fight for justice here is very hard. First you have the problem that the Germans, who really should be paying for this, are already paying larges sums to the victims and other insitutions, in the form of war reparations. They feel they are doign enough. The Poles have no strong leadership that can overcome the great prejudice against Jews in Poland still today. You can't be a Polish Politician and seem to "bow" to the Polish Jewish Association in Israel. Its a political deathwish. The issue of property should now go straight to the EU parliment and the Jewish claims should be addressed in the courts of the EU. This is the only hope for justice. Jewish losses are perhaps 30billion, and no Polish Sejm, nor the Poep himself, are able to restore that to the Jewish people.|W|P|112171523721306882|W|P|How to get Jewish Property back in Poland, for those who want it|W|P|rabbiyonah@gmail.com7/08/2005 07:34:00 AM|W|P|Rabbi Yonah|W|P|July 7th we arrived in Detroit. My hometown. We just flew here to visit my grandmother and family after a year hiatus. Arriving at Metro airport today is a whole other world. It the old days we straggled down long and dilapidated corridors of Detroit’s old terminal. A terminal so ugly, that even casual acquaintances made references that this was the ugliest airport they ever saw. Not only was impractical for all but the long-distance marathon runners. The distance between counter and gate could not be covered in a mere jaunt, but required an entire expedition. Today however, as part of the gigantic effort to revitalize the city, this terminal has been replaced by the ultra modern MacNamara Terminal, or Northwest Airline’s Worldport as they care calling it. One leaves the plane and walks a few feet to an automated raised tram that feels like the set of Willy Wonka. You run along these tracks high over the heads of the passengers standing in lines for difference gates. The only problem is that the place is a maze of elevators and walkways and escalators. It is impossible to go from the baggage claim directly for example to the rental car area without the use of two elevators (if you are anything other than a business traveler without bags. The elevators are just two, and the wait is great. So there we are waiting for the elevators for five ten minutes, then looking for another elevator, and then another, and finally we arrived at the place. But now that we have done it once I imagine that it will be easier the way back. All this is to say that I am sorry we have not had many posts, but we are virtually sealed off from the outside world at my aunt and uncles technologically challenged home. They don’t even have dialup. I haven’t had a chance to run to a Starbucks. Just now as we arrive at the home of my old friend Mark’s in Oak Park, do I have a chance to write down a few words. Gut Shabbos!|W|P|112143813032929520|W|P|Blogging from the Motor City|W|P|rabbiyonah@gmail.com