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The Nation’s Largest Jewish Classifieds May 15th 2009 21 Iyar 5769
Deuteronomy 32:1
MAY TH E EARTH H EAR TH E WORDS OF MY MOUTH
IN THIS ISSUE: IDF Soldier Killed During West Bank Raid......... p g . 5
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War On Terror ........ pg.12 Market Still Brisk on Tel Aviv’s Quiet Streets... pg.13 Jewish Activists Fight Uphill Battle with Facebook ................. pg.15 US and Israeli Tax Amnesties ................ pg.19 Complacency: A Danger of American Jewry ....... pg.21 Annual Benefit Raises Funds for ‘Torah for Special Children’................... pg.23
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GREED... HOPES & DREAMS THE KING OF 2009: SHIMON KINGS HIGHWAY PERES COMES TO NEW YORK
RAV LAU DISAPPOINTED BY POPE’S YAD VASHEM SPEECH
Book Review: Just One Jew .......................... pg.25
5 Home Repairs You Shouldn’t Ignore....... pg.32 Israel Travel Report: Finding a Touch of Heaven..................... pg.40 Candlelighting for NY, NJ & FL Rav Lau greets Pope Benedict XVI, prior to his Yad Vashem speech.
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PAT BUCHANAN WEBSITE HOSTS HOLOCAUST DENIERS BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU Pat Buchanan, an American Catholic who is staunchly conservative but also is anti-war and in favor of a Palestinian Authority state, aids and abets Holocaust deniers on his website, according to Menachem Rosensaft, general counsel of the World Jewish Congress the founder of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. riting in the New York Daily News, he noted that Pope Benedict XVI, now visiting in Israel, told American Jewish leaders earlier this year that “any denial or minimization” of the Holocaust is “intolerable and altogether unacceptable.” Buchanan’s website includes a forum where registered viewers have denied the Holocaust with views such as, “The same blinded people that believe that the Germans intentionally killed Jews—also believe the myth of the Anne Frank Diary.” One contributor wrote, “Kosher and Halal ritual slaughter, belong in the middle east sands, where both barbaric practices were begun, after an instruction to the Hebrews and Islamics by their god voices, probably the same one. It’s a pity they cannot cut each others throats.” Another writer stated, “We have known for some time that the Auschwitz myth is of an exclusively Jewish origin.” Buchanan has a checkered background as an arch-conservative against homosexuality and immigration but also an opponent to the war in Iraq and a proponent of a Palestinian Authority state on Judea, Gaza and Samaria. He was an advisor to former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Robert Reagan and was a serious contender for
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Mary Tawil Foundation Hosts Successful Benefit for Bridal Fund for Ohr Hachaim .......................pg.26
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Shabbat to Grace Central Park Once Again ..... p g . 8
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World Swine Flu Fears Persist as Mexico Returns to Life ........ p g . 6
Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI’s speech at Yad Vashem ceremony, Buchenwald survivor and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau expressed his disappointment over the pontiff’s address, telling Channel 1 that while the first day of the pontiff’s visit has been altogether positive, he couldn’t deny a feeling of “a missed opportunity” at the speech which he said lacked a personal note of contrition.
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few points were missing in the pope’s address,” said Lau. “There was no mention of the Germans, or Nazis, who carried out the massacre. There was not a word of sharing the grief or of compassion or pain for the six million victims.” “Instead of the word ‘murdered,’ as the previous pope John Paul II used,” Lau continued, Benedict XVI used the word ‘killed.’ There is a very clear difference between the two verbs,” the former chief rabbi stressed. “He never said six million,” Lau empha-
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