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Israel Alert Newsletter
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12
Kislev 5774
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November 15, 2013
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 Living Torah: The Eternal Wrestling Match
This
week's Torah
portion is "Vayishlach" (Genesis 32:4 - 36:43). In it, we
read one of
the most mysterious, if not outright mystical, episodes in the book
of Genesis:
Jacob's all-night wrestling match with a strange
"man."
Our
sages teach us that this was no ordinary "man," but rather, it was an
angel! Esau's guardian angel to be exact. It was a long and difficult night,
but in the end, Jacob ultimately prevailed, as he held his opponent hostage
until he ransomed himself with a blessing. What was that blessing that he
received? A new name. YISRA-EL - "to struggle with the Godly."
This mysterious wrestling match has many interpretations.
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 Kerry Tells US Senators to
"Ignore" Israel on
Nuclear Iran
US Secretary of State John Kerry, during a closed-door
briefing on Iran with
the Senate Banking Committee, told Republican senators to
"ignore anything
the Israelis say," according to the New York-based
Buzzfeed news website,
which was widely circulated in Israeli media. US
Secretary of State John Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry Details of the meeting
were provided by news
sites worldwide.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been
focusing on preventing a
"very bad deal" between Iran and the P5+1,
according to which
sanctions against the Islamic Republic would be removed.
Any deal that would
allow the Islamic Republic to maintain even a residual
capacity to enrich
uranium is extremely dangerous not only to Israel, but to
the global community,
the Israeli leader warned. On this issue, Israeli
politicians across the
political spectrum are united.
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 A Taste from Israel:
Cookie Tins for the
Holidays!
Exclusivity has a new name! A new and dynamic
gourmet food company called
Taste from Israel is supporting Israel by
offering exclusive kosher gourmet
food products emanating from the Holy Land.
Imagine over a century ago in the holy city
of Jerusalem... A young woman came
up with a cookie recipe -- no doubt through
Divine inspiration -- which had the
local population each morning waiting with
bated breath for just a whiff of the
intoxicating aromas seeping through the
cracks in the stone walls of her kitchen
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United with
Israel's IDF Chanukah Party - 2013
On Thursday
evening November 28, 2013 (Thanksgiving Day), the second
night of
Chanukah, American and Israeli families will join Israeli soldiers on
the Chatmar
Shomron Military Base to celebrate Chanukah and say "Thank
You" to our
beloved Israeli soldiers. This army base is just a short
distance from the
biblical city of Shechem, a Palestinian-run city in Samaria
known in Arabic
as Nablus, which has become a primary base for terrorist
operations.
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The Chanukah Story
Chanukah is a time to celebrate miracles, chief among them the miracle that
occurred after the Jews defeated the Greeks and returned to the Holy Temple.
Just as Greek philosophies promoted moral degradation, so too the Greeks
themselves literally defiled and desecrated the Holy Temple. In their wake,
they left just one small sealed vessel of pure Menorah oil, bearing the
stamped
certification of the Priest.
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Israelis Warn World Leaders About 'Bad
Deal' with Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is working
feverishly to prevent a "very
bad deal" between Iran and the P5+1 nations,
under which the Islamic
Republic would maintain its capacity to build a
nuclear bomb while being
relieved of crippling economic sanctions. As
widely reported, he has pleaded
with the world on several occasions regarding the
implications of a nuclear
Iran, including most recently - following the
first round of negotiations in
Geneva between Iran and the P5+1 nations - on CBS
News and at the General
Assembly of Jewish Federations in Jerusalem.
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Israeli
Invention for Diabetes Treatment
Could Save Countless Lives
One of Israel's latest
discoveries in diabetes treatment could make a
life-and-death difference for
sufferers around the world. Night-Sense, a
watch-shaped device aimed at
alerting a sleeping individual with a dangerously
low blood-sugar level, is still
in the prototype stage. diabetes treatment This
wristwatch includes a
non-invasive nighttime monitor that could detect
hypoglycemic danger in diabetes
sufferers. Clinical trials should take place
within months.
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