Des Moines Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, 1 pm, Nov. 21

 From Rabbi David Kaufman,  Temple B'nai Jeshurun   dkaufman@aol.com

 

 

Community Interfaith

Thanksgiving Service

 

Sunday, November 21^st

 

1 pm

 

at Temple B’nai Jeshurun

5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines

 

 

JCRC, DMARC, AMOS, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Rev. Dave Nerdig of Faith Lutheran Church, Temple B'nai Jeshurun and I, Rabbi David Kaufman, among others would like to invite you to attend the annual (or at least almost annual) Thanksgiving Interfaith Service, to be held this year at Temple B’nai Jeshurun [5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines] at 1:00 p.m. on Nov. 21. We missed having it last year! It is an inspirational event.

 

This year, the service will be held at the same time as the Temple’s Chanukah Happening event, so participants and attendees will have the opportunity to experience that event and shop at the vendor tables!

 

Faith leaders from a number of religious organizations will participate and a good time will be had by all. Thank you so much for your willingness to engage in the interfaith religious life of greater Des Moines.

 

 

For more information please call the Temple’s office at

515-274-4679

 

This is a free event, open to the public

 

David Jay Kaufman
Rabbi
Temple B'nai Jeshurun
Des Moines, Iowa
www.templebnaijeshurun.org
www.rabbikaufman.blogspot.com
515-274-4679
dkaufman@aol.com

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service in Des Moines, 1 pm, Nov. 21

 

Community Interfaith

Thanksgiving Service

 

Sunday, November 21^st

 

1 pm

 

at Temple B’nai Jeshurun

5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines

 

 

JCRC, DMARC, AMOS, the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, the Diocese of Des Moines, Rev. Dave Nerdig of Faith Lutheran, Temple B'nai Jeshurun and I, Rabbi David Kaufman, among others would like to invite you to attend the annual (or at least almost annual) Thanksgiving Interfaith Service, to be held this year at Temple B’nai Jeshurun [5101 Grand Ave in Des Moines] at 1:00 p.m. on Nov. 21. We missed having it last year! It is an inspirational event.

 

This year, the service will be held at the same time as the Temple’s Chanukah Happening event, so participants and attendees will have the opportunity to experience that event and shop at the vendor tables!

 

Faith leaders from a number of religious organizations will participate and a good time will be had by all. Thank you so much for your willingness to engage in the interfaith religious life of greater Des Moines.

 

 

For more information please call the Temple’s office at

515-274-4679

 

This is a free event, open to the public 

 

 From: Rabbi David Kaufman   From: DKaufman@aol.com

Rennert: A willful disregard for Jewish ownership of land in Jerusalem

Har Homa was built on Jewish-owned land                                                            

 

[Comments by Israel Matzav on an article by Leo Rennert]

 

Lost in the argument over building in Jerusalem, writes Leo Rennert, is the fact that Har Homa, where most of the new apartments are being built, is built entirely on land that has been owned by Jews for nearly a century.

What is utterly ludicrous about this concocted tempest in a Jerusalem teacup is that the bulk of the new apartment units are to go up in Har Homa, a Jewish neighborhood of some 12,000 residents in southeast Jerusalem. Two thirds of Har Homa is on land purchased by Jews after the First World War. The other third is owned by Arabs. The entire existing Harm Homa neighborhood was built on Jewish-owned land and plans for additional housing units also are confined to this part of Har Homa. None of this appeared in media reports or in the criticism leveled by Obama, the State Department and the European Union.

Nor did they bother to point out that, under any realistic scenario for a two-state solution, even with a division of Jerusalem, Har Homa will remain on the Israeli side.

With typical historical amnesia, these Israel-bashers also failed to point out that, during Israel's War of Independence, Jordanian forces attempting to eliminate the Jewish state used Har Homa as a vantage point from which to fire on the Old City of Jerusalem and other neighborhoods of the city.

In their cramped and selective sense of history, none of this matters. Their historical perspective begins with the last day of the Six-Day War in 1967 when Israel prevailed over Jordanian and other Arab armies intent on destroying it, and in the process reunified Jerusalem.

Thus, Washington Post correspondent Joel Greenberg describes Har Homas as an "area of the West Bank annexed to Jerusalem." New York Times correspondent Isabel Kershner, in similar vein, calls it a "Jewish residential development in southern Jerusalem in territory that Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war, and then annexed."

So never mind that Har Homa has been on Jewish owned land from well before Jordan illegally occupied it in 1948, in clear violation of the 1947 UN two-state partition plan.

All that history is brushed aside. ...

 

Source: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/    11/11/10

From Beth El Jacob: Sunday event honors the Bergs, Dr. Koslow and John Wild

 Sunday November 7 program honors the Bergs, Dr. Koslow & John Wild

 

There are still  a few seats available for Beth El Jacob Synagogue's dinner on Sunday.

 

The reception is at 4pm, presentation at 5pm and dinner at 6:30pm.

Dinner is $54 per person, and reservations can be made via emailing or calling the office.

 

E-mail your reservation to:  office@betheljacob.org

or call Valerie E. Cohen, Administrator  at (515) 274-1551

 

N.B.  The telephone system at Beth El Jacob is under repair.  There is a very long delay in phone transfers, but the voice mail takes messages after a minute or a bit more.