Hello,

I'm confronted with the question if in modern Hebrew the diphtong "ua" is always written as  וו (waw-waw)?
For example: My dictionary says for "Ecuador" אקוודור. But could it also be written as  אקודור ? (Only with one ו. The a in Ecuador would then be an unwritten vowel).

Maybe both is correct?

Thank you for your help.

How to understand "those maps" on Modern Israeli History!

For example, that well known pro Palestinian Arab falsehood propaganda image doing the rounds on the Internet, that has four maps on it falsely-purporting a "Shrinking Palestine", and for which there is an answering image debunking the allegations. But for those who are unfamiliar with modern history, a short and handy list can briefly provide the necessary information to understand such maps: 

Firstly, the image debunking the pro Palestinian Arab falsehood propaganda image falsely-alleging a "Shrinking Palestine":



Debunked image (above) of four maps entitled "Palestinian loss of land 1946 to 2000":
(Maps from left to right.)

i. First map: 1922 to 1948 - “British Mandate Palestine”. The name “Palestine” had not been used politically since the time it was imposed by the Romans, and now resurrected for the British Mandate. 
Both the Romans and the British being rule by a foreign imperial power. 
ii. Second map: 1947 - “United Nations proposed Partition Plan (attempt at a two state solution) under resolution 181, rejected by the Palestinian Arabs, who:
Started a civil war to oppose the U.N. Partition Plan, take ALL the land and expel or murder the Jews.
iii. Third map: 1948 to 1967 - The illegal-occupation by Transjordan (since Jordan) of Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”) and East Jerusalem, and the illegal-occupation by Egypt of Gaza.
iv. Fourth map: 1995 - The Oslo Accords (attempt at a two-state solution); afterwhich the Palestinian Arabs:
Claim ALL the land, continued with terrorism, fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, and committed the October 7th, 2023 massacre of Israelis. 


Handy list to briefly assist people to understand Modern Historical maps of the land of Israel:

The Romans attempted to rename the land of Israel, “Palestine” which means Philistine (referring to a much smaller area of the land of the by then, defunct Philistines), and which is pronounced Philistine (Filistine) in Arabic: 
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bar_Kochba
Once on the webpage search for the text (without the quotes) “In the aftermath of the war". 

The Ottoman Empire did not call their occupation of the land of Israel “Palestine”, but Ottoman-occupied Israel was within the Ottoman province of “Syria”: 
Image: List of Ottoman Turkish provinces called “vilayets”, which the reader can see includes “Syria”: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ves%29.png

The name “Palestine” was used politically only twice: By the Romans and later it was resurrected for the Mandate awarded to Great Britain; both of these being foreign imperial powers: 
https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine
Once on the webpage search for the text (without the quotes):
"After the Crusades the name remained"

There are some old maps entitled “Palestine”, but if you look on the map itself the name “Palestine” does not appear and instead you see the correct names “Judah” and “Samaria”: 
Example: 
https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histori...a_1849.jpg

The British Mandate 1922 to 1948 (British Mandate Palestine) was rule by a foreign imperial power.

Under the British Mandate both Arabs and Jews could become “Palestinian” citizens, a citizenship which ended with the end of the British Mandate in 1948: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians
Once on the webpage search for the text (without the quotes):
"During the Mandatory Palestine period"

In 1947 the United Nations passed a proposed Partition Plan under resolution 181 (attempt at a two-state solution): 
https://documents.un.org/doc/resolution/...003888.pdf
This was accepted by the then Jewish Community but it takes both parties to form any agreement. The Palestinian Arabs started a civil war which intensified 1947 to 1948 to: Oppose the U.N. Partition Plan, take ALL the land, and expel or murder the Jews.
Surrounding Arab states invaded to militarily support the Palestinian Arab aims. 
https://www.britannica.com/event/1948-Arab-Israeli-War

In 1948 the consequential Jewish defense resulted in the Re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty - Israel,
while at the same time Transjordan (since Jordan) illegally-occupied Judah and Samaria (from which time it became wrongly-known as “West Bank, the”), and East Jerusalem from which the Jordanians expelled the Jews. Egypt illegally-occupied Gaza:
(See previous Link.)

In 1967 Israel recovered its ancestral-lands of: Gaza, Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”), and East Jerusalem: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War

In 1995 as an attempt at “land for peace” and a two-state solution under the Oslo Accords in 1995, Israel granted the Palestinian Arabs autonomy of part of the "West Bank" (40%) and the whole of Gaza. Thereafter the Palestinian Arabs: 
Claimed ALL the land (Palestinian National Charter, and their education system), continued with terrorism, fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, and committed the massacre of Israelis on October 7th, 2023. 


Conclusion:

There has never been any indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel upon which the Palestinian Arabs could base any claim to any part of Israel.
Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral-homeland as can be seen from a map of the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom - see below.

Internationally-recognised history shows that the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel (Roman-imposed name “Palestine”), prior to the
RE-establishment of Israel in 1948, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom. It included Judah and Samaria (what is now referred to as the “West Bank”), Gaza, and Golan Heights.
Capital (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg

First night with below 0°C and hoarfrost outside and frosty news in the media. Why not dream?

Sun shining from the blue sky and nice summer temperatures.

Some close friends around.

Music and good food.

...

Link of Interest
Researchers Present Findings from the Oldest Synagogue Outside of Israel - Israel365 News

Hi, I am a Christian, non-Jew.    I live in the USA.

Here in the USA there is sandwich called a BLT sandwich.   Which stands for Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato sandwich.

Bacon of course is a non-kosher food for Jews.   So I am not suggesting such a sandwich for Jews.

A few years ago I was thinking about those three letters and came up with something that is food spiritually for Jews and that would be compatible with Judaism.

BLT

Believe God

Love God

Trust God

Jewish History from long ago

The Seal
Jewish seal from 2,700 years ago found in Jerusalem, Israel announces - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

The Inscription 
2,700-year-old Hebrew inscription found in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel

More seals!
Huge Kingdom of Judah government complex found near US Embassy in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post here. I hope this is the correct forum but please let me know if not.

I've been saying (I don't sing!) the Eshet Chaiyl to my wife in our Shabbat evening services for the last 45-odd years, but I really have problems with the translation, and in general the meaning of this poem -  It's really not appropriate to our lives in this age.

Can anyone suggest an alternative poem that I could read to her that's more in keeping with a wife as an equal partner.

Failing that I may have to make one up, and nobody would want to hear that

Thanks

Violence in Netherlands against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans of November 8, 2024:

Only in regard to Israeli citizens, do the International Media seem to become "confused".

A video emerged, by a Dutch photographer Annet De Graaf (female) which appears to show: 
a mob running. 
At first this was reported generally, as pro-Palestinians attacking (a) Maccabi Tel Aviv fan(s). 

Now the media are fact-checking this to state, at the photographer's (the photographer who made the video in question) insistence, that the mob were instead Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attacking a Dutch man.
On the following DW webpage it also states that another video taken from a different angle, confirms De Graaf's claim. 
On France 24 English they claim the mob are identified because one man was wearing yellow.

My concerns:
Although the Dutch photographer Annet De Graaf claims the people shown on her video were Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, there is no indication as to how she so identified the people shown on her video. 
Although there is apparently another video taken from a different angle allegedly confirming De Graaf's claim about the identity of the people shown on her video, again there is no indication how this other video confirms the people's identity, any more than the De Graaf video.
France 24 English claim one man was wearing yellow, but the yellow clothing I saw them show, did not confirm that this was the yellow and blue typical of Maccabi Tel Aviv.

[Heading:] "Fact check: Amsterdam video doesn't show attack on Israelis": 
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-amsterd...a-70763374
However, if the reader cares to scroll down that webpage, in fact right down to the bottom of it, they can see that it also states the following: 

Quote:'The exact identity of the men in the video remains unclear. A spokeswoman for the Amsterdam police said in an interview with DW that the video taken by the Dutch photographer is the subject of an ongoing investigation. At present, the police cannot provide any information about the identity of the perpetrators seen in the video.'

Source:
See latter link.

Quote:One attacker:
'For the children, for the children M*F*, for the children.'
Victim:
'I give you my money, I give you my money.'
Same attacker:
'Free Palestine now. Free Palestine.'
Another attacker:
'Free Palestine, free Palestine.'
[Remaining audio unclear.]

Source for video:
See latter link.

The international Media are generally pro-Palestinian Arab and anti-Israel and therefore the Media typically do not recognize the Palestinian Arab war of terrorism against Israeli Jewish civilians in Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”). This bias in favor of the Palestinian Arabs leads to what I will refer to as “time-preference” propaganda. For example, the Media prefer time to start with reports of Jewish villagers (aka “settlers”) attacking Palestinian Arab property, NOT with the PRIOR terrorist attacks by the Palestinian Arabs.

“Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel” [including upon Israeli Jewish villagers in Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”)]:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/com...-in-israel


The Media bias in favor of the Palestinian Arabs is set against the background of, and is also due to, the politically-biased and unjust United Nations resolutions labeling Jewish habitation in various parts of the Jewish ancestral-homeland of Israel, as “illegal occupation”. Typically this refers to Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”), and “East” Jerusalem.

The political bias in the United Nations produced "unjust law" being resolutions:
> describing any part of the Jewish people's ancestral-homeland of Israel as in "Israeli Illegal Occupation",
> that manifestly wrongly recognizes Arab usurpers as having the right to self-determination within the Jewish ancestral-homeland, yet devoid of any historical objective-evidence in support, while not recognizing the same right to the Jewish people! 

Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral-homeland. Internationally-recognized history shows that the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel (Roman-imposed name “Palestine”), prior to the RE-establishment of Israel in 1948, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom. It included what is now referred to as the “West Bank”, Gaza, and Golan Heights. Capital (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg

People tend to be mislead by the “halo-reputation” United Nations. The U.N. and its structures have for many years had a built-in pro “Palestinian” Arab bias. The “Palestinian” Arabs start-off in U.N. votes by enjoying a block-vote in their favor of up to 56 Arab and additional Islamic-aligned countries (e.g. U.N. member states that are also members of the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation” and follow its policies when voting in the U.N.), and influence of Arab oil money with consequential trading power; compared to Israel being just one country.

Under the British Mandate (1922 to 1948), both Jews and Arabs who applied for citizenship became "Palestinian":
This citizenship, using the name "Palestinian", ceased with the end of the British Mandate.

The Arabs within the land of Israel only started using the name "Palestinian" for themselves from about 1960.

The “Palestinian Arabs” dropped the name “Arab” because they do not want you to understand they mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate, to take advantage of higher wages through Jewish returnee-exiles. I have discussed this in more detail together with extract quotes and sources, here:
"Are the Palestinian Arabs really as they claim, native (aka indigenous), to Israel?": 
https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/show...hp?tid=789

The Arabs in Judah and Samaria, and Gaza, those who are neither Israeli citizens nor have Israeli "residence", are present only by way of the Oslo Accords which provided for autonomy. 
(The Oslo Accords allowed Israel to build homes (aka "settlements") in Area C of the "West Bank".)

The Palestinian Arabs in Judah and Samaria breached the Oslo Accords because they continued with a war of terrorism against Israel Jewish civilians. If a Palestinian Arab terrorist murders an Israeli Jew and the terrorist is imprisoned by Israel, the “Palestinian Authority” aka “Fatah” and the “Palestinian Liberation Organisation” (the P.A. funded by the “European Union” and the U.S.A.), pay a reward-“pension” to the family of the attacker. This fund is referred to as the "Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund": 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinia...rtyrs_Fund

The Palestinian Arabs in Gaza breached the Oslo Accords by putting Hamas in power which never recognized the Accords, and who over many years fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, and who on October 7th, 2023 carried out a barbaric attack on Israeli civilians (while in south Lebanon Hezbollah were planning a similar attack on Israeli civilians in northern Israel).

Many Egyptians entered Gaza as new "Palestinians" under the illegal-occupation of Gaza by Egypt 1948 to 1967 -  copies of two such passports issued by the then Egyptian illegal-occupiers of Gaza: 
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3ofilrrsl...s.pdf/file

The Palestinian Arabs have no valid historical claim over any part of the land of Israel.
There has never been an indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel upon which the “Palestinian” Arabs could base any claim to any part of Israel.

Being in breach of the Oslo Accords the Palestinian Arabs (not having Israeli citizenship nor residence) are squatters and thus illegal-occupiers.

There are Media articles complaining about “far right” Israeli government Ministers who it is alleged wish to “push out” Palestinian Arabs from the “West Bank”.

What does "far right" mean in politics?
According to WordNik, it means: 

Quote:'The most conservative or reactionary part of a political or religious grouping.'

Source:
https://www.wordnik.com/words/far right

A son of Israel was murdered because he defended himself today
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-execu...f-defense/
3 Heshvan 5785
2 rabbis also died on this date
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day...zhiner.%22

Take warning for it was only one death that lead to the deaths of 6 million brethern

On 12 April 1933  16 Nisan 5693 

4 Jews were shot by the SS At Dachau  (3 killed and 1 died of wounds)

*The first two days of Passover (April 12 and 13) and the last two days (April 19 and 20) have restrictions. The middle days of the eight day holiday do not.

Haman has no mercy toward jews even before 7 october 2023   22 Tishrei Shemini ATzeret

Flee to Israel to live...or suffer the consequences 

Jewish Leadership and their communities actions
Jewish Leadership moral responisiblty (thehebrewcafe.com)