Tikkun Olam

No need for more words. We strive to overcome, we build, we create, we live :  This is who we are: ...and this is who our partners for peace are:

Contrast this with the subject of my previous post.  Thank G-d we Jews have real humanitarians out there who do not hurt , but selflessly help others in need--regardless of whether they are co-religionists or not. See what Chabad is doing to help the victims of the devastating F5 tornado which hit and devastated the town of Moore, Oklahoma yesterday, as published in The Jewish Press .  For the entire story, click on the link above. Chabad to the Rescue for Oklahoma Residents There are only about 5000 Jews in the Greater Oklahoma City area, but the Chabad of Oklahoma City is working around the clock to provide assistance to anyone in need. By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus Published: May 21st, 2013 print tell a friend Entire neighborhoods were flattened by the tornado that struck outside Oklahoma City, OK on May 20, 2013 The devastating tornado that struck just outside of Oklahoma...

I am feeling contemplative at the end of this special holiday season which began with Rosh Hashana, ten days later the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur-the Day of Atonement-and culminated in the very festive and special holiday of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret--23 days of prayer, introspection and celebration--and after almost  a month of no blogging, I decided to finally blog, after having read a post by Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman about the nations of the world converging on Jerusalem, to show their support for Israel and the Jewish People. My last post was about the savagery and inhumanity of Islamic extremists. I have written before of the world 's antisemitism and Israel's seeming isolation among the nations of the globe. We read in the Torah portion read on Sukkot that in the end of days, all the non-Jewish nations will come to Jerusalem to serve Hashem. This sounds like a fantasy, because in today's world,  Israel is being vilified and denigrated, mocke...