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Israel Alert Newsletter
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Jerusalem Day Edition
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26 Iyar 5772
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May 18, 2012
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Jerusalem Day: What Happened 45 Years Ago?
Jerusalem Day, or Yom Yerushalayim in Hebrew, is coming up this Sunday, May 20th. It is a national Israeli holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967. Jerusalem day was declared by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as a minor religious holiday, to thank God for the miraculous victory in the Six-Day War and for answering the 2,000-year-old prayer of "Next Year in Jerusalem".
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East Jerusalem: Why the capital "E"?
One of the things that I am most interested in within Israeli-Palestinian discourse is how prevalent language influences our ways of thinking on the subject. For example, I gave up on the usage of "West Bank" when I learned that the term was invented by the Jordanians in the middle of the last century.
Those of us who care about the Jewish people, and therefore care about the Jewish state, need to be much more cognizant of how the language that we use predetermines conclusions. If speaking of the “Occupation” with a capital “O” condemns the Jews of the Middle East before the conversation even gets started, then why should we use that language?
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June 1967: 'The Kotel is Ours' - A Personal Story
One of my neighbors is the sixth generation living in Jerusalem. That makes his children seventh generation.
He was in elementary school in 1967. He had not yet had his bar mitzvah.
In May of that year his father was called into the reserves. He didn't see him for a long time. Then one day his father appeared in school in his IDF uniform which was very dusty and extremely wrinkled. After a short conversation with the teacher he came over and took my friend out of class.
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Jerusalem - In the Eye of the Universe!
With Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Reunification Day) approaching, United with Israel is excited to share this powerful look at Jerusalem from the eyes and heart of singer/songwriter Dovid (David Green). The song entitled "Jerusalem - Eye of the Universe" is from his new inspirational album, "Journey to the Real You."
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Here's the text of full-page ads that Elie Wiesel took out last year in the The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times:
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It was inevitable: Jerusalem once again is at the center of political debates and international storms. New and old tensions surface at a disturbing pace.
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Becoming a Builder of Jerusalem
Help build a new community on the Mount of Olives to maintain and strengthen Jerusalem as the Eternal, United Capital of Israel.
This new Mount of Olives community is being developed by Beit Orot and is located in eastern Jerusalem, just outside of the Old City walls. Beit Orot has developed the first living Jewish presence in two millennia on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
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Watch this video in honor of Jerusalem day featuring original footage of the 1967 Six Day War. Israel won a miraculous and decisive victory and gained control of the Golan Heights, Judea, Samaria, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt Jordan and Syria lost strategic land that had threatened the very existence of the Jewish state since its inception.
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