3/10/2008
Dear Friends and Motorcycle Riders,
Please help me raise $10,000 for the National holocaust Endowment Fund, the group we are honoring this year at the Omaha Ride To Remember!! <<< details here
Our goal is $10,000 from the Atlanta Sabra Riders.
Donation Form
New fund to offer college courses on Holocaust
Carol Katzman, Editor of the Jewish Press
Another player has entered the field of Holocaust education in Nebraska. Like the Anti-Defamation League/Community Relations Committee’s Institute for Holocaust Education, the goal is enlightening more people about this horrific period of history.
Sam Fried, a Holocaust survivor who has long been involved in speaking about his wartime experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz, helped form the National Holocaust Education Fund (NHEF) along with his wife, Frances. Their objective is to raise funds to provide college-level programs at five Nebraska institutions of higher learning.
“If Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Holocaust teach us anything,” he noted, “they teach us that people of goodwill must face unpleasant truths and stand up against all forms of virulent racism and bigotry.”
Fried was a teenager in Auschwitz, arriving with the Hungarians, the last group of Jews to be captured. Interviewed by his granddaughter, Maggie Fried, when she was a staffer for her high school newspaper, he told her, “I remember listening to the BBC radio about Hitler. A kid hearing adults talk about it was like it was another planet.”
Hearing rumors about the impending invasion, Fried added that a friend helped him devise an escape plan. But he returned home at the last minute and watched in horror as his parents were led away by the Nazis and neighbors who had been family friends began ransacking his home.
Please help whether you are riding to Omaha or not, every little bit helps. Members of the Hillels Angels have been routinely collecting $1,500 to $4,000 per rider. Let’s show New Jersey and the other clubs what Atlanta and the Sabra Riders can do!!!!!!
This is the first, of an eMail sent to my by a member of our congregation. I thought it was so poignant that is needed to be seen by more people.
Following a decision by the national union of journalists in the UK ( a trade union) to boycott Israel , many British journalists across the board ridiculed the decision, some even canceled membership, but by far the most interesting article to come out of all this is the one below.
This was in The Daily Sport - British version of New York Post
Subject: If you're going to boycott Israel - do it properly!
OK. So I understand that you are ticked off at Israel , and in love with the Palestinians. That's fine with me, as long as you have truly weighed all the facts. So, you want to boycott Israel ????? I'll be sorry to miss you, but if you are doing it - do it properly. Let me help you. Check all your medications. Make sure that you do not have tablets, drops lotions, etc. , made by Abic or Teva. It may mean that you will suffer from colds and flu this winter but, hey, that's a small price for you to pay in your campaign against Israel , isn't it?
While we are on the subject of your Israeli boycott, and the medical contributions to the world made by Israeli doctors and scientists, how about telling your pals to boycott the following.....
An Israeli company has developed a simple blood test that distinguishes between mild and more severe cases of Multiple Sclerosis. So, if you know anyone suffering from MS, tell them to ignore the Israeli patent that may, more accurately, diagnose their symptoms.
An Israeli-made device helps restore the use of paralyzed hands. This device electrically stimulates the hand muscles, providing hope to millions of stroke sufferers and victims of spinal injuries. If you wish to remove this hope of a better quality of life to these people, go ahead and boycott Israel .
Young children with breathing problems will soon be sleeping more soundly, thanks to a new Israeli device called the Child Hood. This innovation replaces the inhalation mask with an improved drug delivery system that provides relief for child and parent. Please tell anxious mothers that they shouldn't use this device because of your passionate
cause.
These are just a few examples of how people have benefited medically from the Israeli know-how you wish to block. Boycotts often affect research. A new research centre in Israel hopes to throw light on brain disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. The Joseph Sangol Neuroscience Centre in the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel HaShomer Hospital , aims to bring thousands of scientists and doctors to focus on brain research.
A researcher at Israel 's Ben Gurion U niversity has succeeded in creating human monoclonal antibodies which can neutralize the highly
contagious smallpox virus without inducing the dangerous side effects of the existing vaccine.
Two Israelis received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Doctors Ciechanover and Hershko's research and discovery of one of the human cells most important cyclical processes will lead the way to DNA repair, control of newly produced proteins, and immune defense systems.
The Movement Disorder Surgery program at Israel 's Hadassah Medical Centre has successfully eliminated the physical manifestations of Parkinson's disease in a select group of patients with a deep brain stimulation technique.
For women who undergo hysterectomies each year for the treatment of uterine fibroids, the development in Israel of the Ex Ablate 2000
System is a welcome breakthrough, offering a non-invasive alternative to surgery.
Israel is developing a nose drop that will provide a five year flu vaccine.
These are just a few of the projects that you can help stop with your Israeli boycott. But let's not get too obsessed with my ducal research, there are other ways you can make a personal sacrifice with your anti-Israel boycott.
Most of Windows operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel. So, set a personal example. Throw away your computer! Computers should have a sign attached saying Israel Inside. The Pentium NMX Chip technology was designed at Intel in Israel . Both the Pentium 4 microprocessor and the Centrum processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was d enveloped in 1996 in Israel by four young Israeli whiz kids.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R. & D. facilities outside the US in Israel .
So, due to your complete boycott of anything Israeli, you can now have poor health and no computer.
But your bad news does not end there. Get rid of your cellular phone. Cell phone technology was also developed in Israel by MOTOROLA which has its biggest development centre in Israel . Most of the latest technology in your mobile phone was developed by Israeli scientists.
Feeling unsettled? You should be. Part of your personal security rests with Israeli inventiveness, borne out of our urgent necessity to protect and defend our lives from the terrorists you support. A phone can remotely activate a bomb, or be used for tactical communications by terrorists, bank robbers, or hostage-takers. It is vital that official security and law enforcement authorities have access to cellular jamming and detection solutions. Enter Israel 's Net line Communications
Technologies with their security expertise to help the fight against terror.
So all the noise about the USA listening to our private telephone calls, you should know it is ISRAEL who is doing the listening for us.
A joint, non-profit, venture between Israel and Maryland w ill result in a 5 day Business Development and Planning Conference next March. Elected Israeli companies will partner with Maryland firms to provide innovation to the US need for homeland security.
I also want you to know that Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita - 109 per 10,000 - than any other nation.
Israel has the highest number of start-up companies per rata. In absolute terms, the highest number, except the U.S. , Israel has a ratio of patents filed.
Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies outside of Silicon Valley. Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds, behind the USA
Israel has more museums per capita.
Israel has the second highest publication of new books per capita.
Relative to population, Israel is the largest immigrant absorbing nation on earth.
These immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom or expression, economic opportunity, and quality of life.
Believe it or not, Israel is the only country in the world which had a net gain in the number of trees last year.
Even Warren Buffet of Berkshire-Hathaway fame has just invested millions with Israeli Companies.
So, you can vilify and demonize the State of Israel. You can continue your silly boycott, if you wish. But I wish you would consider the consequences, and the truth.
Think of the massive contribution that Israel is giving to the world, including the Palestinians - and to you - in science, medicine, communications, security.
Pro rata for population, Israel is making a greater contribution than any other nation on earth.
Pass this on to everyone you know, whether pro-Israel or
not..............
What do you think the Palestinians have contributed
to the world? -30-
webmaster added this - Suicide bombers. Now that is a contribution