Thanksgivukkah

B'H

Thank G-d that Thanksgiving and Chanukah will not coincide again for something like 80,000 years, because I have HAD IT with “Thanksgivingkuh” or whatever people are trying to call it.

I admit that it probably makes a lot of sense for people living in the US, but once you move out of goy-land (as my husband calls it) and live in a Jewish country, filled with Jews, and Jewish customs, and even these “secular” holidays don’t exist, you see that there is no such thing as “secular” – there is “Jewish” and there is “other.” The other category has better and worse – the more idolatry the worse it is – but all of it is non-Jewish, and no matter how much you try to find some “Jewish values” in it (again, some things easier than others) you eventually see that still, there is Jewish and other and no in between.

And mixing them just makes me sick. You want to celebrate US secular Thanksgiving? I can't stop you.
But the whole point of Chanukah is recognizing that the wisdom of the nations is DARKNESS compared to the wisdom of the Torah, which is the wisdom of G-d Himself. So please do not put something secular/non-Jewish with something Jewish during the time SPECIFICALLY when we are supposed to delineate between the two! Uch.

That being said it is sorta ironic, since in place of Thanksgiving turkey, I usually make turkey on Shabbos Chanukah. Chanukah is a time for “hodu v’hallel” – thanking and praising Hashem. Hodu also means turkey in Hebrew. And I do not plan on making turkey this year because I have no energy to make anything, let alone a turkey! (btw finding a whole bird here, except in meat places that cater to Americans, is also next to impossible). If I am lucky I will make stuffed chicken. Maybe.

2 Major Shifts in Anti-Semitism in the US

B'H

These two items, pointed out in the article below, are so terrifying, and so overtly anti-Semitic and frightening, that I had to forward them on…

http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/society/current_affairs/prime_time_jihad.aspx?id=23927&language=english

Main points:

1.      Rolling through the streets of San Francisco and Chicago recently were city buses with the words “My Jihad” plastered on the side. It showed photos of young, attractive people next to such headlines as “My Jihad is to build friendships across the aisle. What’s yours?” and “My Jihad is to stay fit despite my busy schedule. What’s yours?”
But when I first saw photos of the buses with the headline “My Jihad,” I immediately thought of its direct German translation:
“Mein Kamph.”

2.      To bring its pro-jihad propaganda to prime time America, Al Jazeera bought Al Gore’s Current TV cable network for a reported $100 million. What’s almost more alarming is why Al gore sold his Current TV network to Al Jazeera:
 
In a written announcement of the sale, Current TV CEO Joel Hyatt wrote that he and Al Gore chose to sell Current TV to Al Jazeera, because “Al Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current: To give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the important stories that no one else is telling. Al Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a better understanding of the world around us."

Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but if these 2 facts are indeed correct, anti-Semitism in the US just went from being quietly undercover, to completely overt – albeit perhaps trying to fake like it is something else. But it is now there, in the spotlight, on buses and a major TV channel in the US!!!