JERUSALEM NEWS
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Israel, Israelites, Judah, and Everyone Else
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Jerusalem News 863
3 Tammuz 5769, 24 June 2009
Contents:
1. Lebanon: Spanish UN Forces
Activally
Involved in Persecution of pro-Israeli Arabs!
2. Israel is the Frontline for ALL Western Nations
3. German Saviours
of Jews in the Holocaust:
THE LEICA
FREEDOM TRAIN
4. James Hardy Marks, RAF war hero.
5. The Rabbis Were Right: Back to Ancient Methods to Learn to Read
1. Lebanon: Spanish UN Forces
Activally
Involved in Persecution of pro-Israeli Arabs!
From: Steven Shamrak <stevenshamrak.e@gmail.com>
No UN Neutrality where Israel is Concerned. United Nations Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
may have been involved in arresting Lebanese citizens suspected of spying for
Israel . Video footage has been shown in which a Spanish UNIFIL commander states
that his troops worked with Lebanese troops to arrest alleged spies for Israel
in primarily Shiite Muslim areas. UNIFIL has been charged with ensuring that
Hizbullah does not rebuild its weapons supplies - a task at which it has failed
- but has not been authorized to take part in internal Lebanese affairs.
2. Israel is the Frontline for ALL
Western Nations
From: Steven Shamrak <stevenshamrak.e@gmail.com>
At Least one European MP Recognized the Truth. In April Wilders, Dutch MP at the
European Parliament, announced he was working on a movie sequel which focuses on
"Islamization in the West" and will show "how the forces of Islamization are
specifically targeting Israel in a fight against all free societies." He added:
"The film will demonstrate that the fight against Israel is not territorial, and
hence Israel is only the first line of defense for the West. Now it's Israel but
we are next. That's why beyond solidarity, it is in Europe's interest to stand
by Israel ."
Ugliness of PA's Family. Palestinian Authority (PA) police have arrested three
members of a family from the Samarian village of Hijah. Members of the
15-year-old boy's family tortured and killed him because he was cooperated with
Israeli authorities.
3. German Saviors of Jews in the
Holocaust:
THE LEICA FREEDOM TRAIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_Freedom_Train
Extracts Only:
The Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. It is a German product -
precise, minimalist, and utterly efficient. Behind its worldwide
acceptance as a creative tool was a family-owned, socially
oriented firm that, during the Nazi era, acted with uncommon
grace, generosity and modesty.
E. Leitz Inc., designer and manufacturer of Germany's most famous
photographic product, saved its Jews.
As soon as Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany in
1933, Ernst Leitz II began receiving frantic calls from Jewish
associates, asking for his help in getting them and their families
out of the country. As Christians, Leitz and his family were immune
to Nazi Germany's Nuremberg laws, which restricted the movement
of Jews and limited their professional activities.
To help his Jewish workers and colleagues, Leitz quietly established
what has become known among historians of the Holocaust as "the Leica
Freedom Train," a covert means of allowing Jews to leave Germany in the guise of
Leitz employees being assigned overseas.
Employees, retailers, family members, even friends of
family members were "assigned" to Leitz sales offices in France, Britain,
Hong Kong and the United States .
Leitz's activities intensified after the Kristallnacht of November 1938, during
which synagogues and Jewish shops were burned across Germany.
Before long, German "employees" were disembarking from the ocean liner
Bremen at a New York pier and making their way to the Manhattan office
of Leitz Inc., where executives quickly found them jobs in the
photographic industry.*
The "Leica Freedom Train" was at its height in 1938 and early
1939, delivering groups of refugees to New York every few weeks.
Then, with the invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Germany
closed its borders.
By that time, hundreds of endangered Jews had escaped to America,
thanks to the Leitzes' efforts.
...members of the20 Leitz family and firm suffered
for their good works. A top executive, Alfred Turk, was jailed
for working to help Jews and freed only after the payment of a large
bribe.
Leitz's daughter, Elsie Kuhn-Leitz, was imprisoned by the Gestapo after she was
caught at
the border, helping Jewish women cross into Switzerland. She eventually was
freed but endured
rough treatment in the course of questioning.
"The Greatest Invention of the Leitz Family: The Leica Freedom Train," by
Frank Dabba Smith,
a California-born Rabbi currently living in England.
4. James Hardy Marks, RAF war hero.
http://www.nfgs.essex.sch.uk/on/Jim%20Marks.pdf
5. The Rabbis Were Right: Back to
Ancient Methods to Learn to Read
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132024
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Extracts:
(IsraelNN.com) After Education Ministry investigations revealed that the system
used for teaching childhood literacy in Israel is faulty, a private religious
college has begun teaching the methods of the cheider or mori of traditional
Jewish childhood instruction.
The system for learning to read that has been in place in Israeli schools for 25
years, known as the Global Approach, is now believed to be less than optimally
effective. It does not seem to produce the desired results among children in
grades 1 and 2, according to the latest studies and investigations carried out
by the Education Ministry. The current system was an importation from the Far
East, especially Singapore, and is dependent on the visual memory of the shapes
of words or syllables.
In response to the need for more effective literacy teaching, the Rehovot campus
of the Orot Israel College recently announced a specialized series of courses
for teachers in which they will learn how reading skills have been traditionally
taught in religious Talmud Torahs (schools) and cheiders (classes for very young
children), and by the Yemenite mori of the past. The objective is to bring these
methods, which have been determined to be effective over generations, into
modern school environments.
The degree program will focus on the holistic traditional approach, including
the specific issue of reading skills, according to Yitzchak Sharbit, a senior
Orot Israel lecturer and specialist in the traditionalist teaching methods.
Based on the Mishna
"The system is based on the words of the Mishna in the 'Ethics of our
Forefathers' tractate: 'At five years of age, learning the Torah text; at ten
years of age, learning the Mishna....' A teaching which the giants of the
generations practiced, and whose educational and spiritual rationale was
explored primarily by the Maharal [Rabbi Yehuda Loew] of Prague and the Rabbi
Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook, in whose paths we follow," Sharbit explained. "In
teaching the Torah from age 5 to 10, the system emphasizes emotion alongside
knowledge and skills, and not just the cognitive element. This is because a
child at age 5 to 10 learns principally from the emotional experience and less
from the cognitive. The child learns with a melody and with a good understanding
out of an effort to cover as much knowledge as possible of the books of the
Bible. At age 10, the child's ability to distinguish between things and their
opposites begins to coalesce - cognitively and emotionally - and only then is he
taught Mishna, which deals with forbidden and allowed, exempt and responsible,
etc."
Aside from methodology, the Orot Israel course encourages a childhood learning
style and physical school environment modeled on the Talmud Torah. Children are
taught to read with "joy, music, repetition, rereading and reading texts
linguistically precisely, and according to pronunciations found principally in
the scriptural writings, as well as emphasis on the interaction between the
student and the class," says Sharbit.
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