Rabbi’s Blog: In Good Faith...
01/24/2024 07:03:42 PM
Jan24
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Dear OZ family,
The media is reporting about negotiations that are underway for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. We can expect Israel to be presented as the hardliners preventing a deal from being made. We can expect Arabs who are being held for acts of terrorism to be held as moral equivalents with Israeli hostages. Israel is expected to bargain in good faith with Gazan leaders who promise to visit Oct. 7th on Israel again and again. Israel is expected to bargain in good faith with leaders who speak in Arabic to their own people, how they will never recognize a Jewish State, and that they will never relinquish the struggle to drive all Jews out of Israel. Those in academia who call for the eradication of Jews from the “River to the Sea” side with these murderous leaders. Make no mistake, an Arab presence from the River to the Sea is genocide for the Jews. All you have to see to know that are the large signs that appear in front of Arab towns that warn Jews to turn back, because if a Jew drives into the town they will be killed. Israeli hospitals are filled with Arab doctors and nurses, Israeli courts have numerous Arab judges, A Muslim woman recently won the Miss Israel contest, and I can go on and on, and academia, media, and hundreds of anonymous government staffers call Israel apartheid. It’s Orwellian.
We cannot be silent as Israel is daily maligned. I am attaching below a list of politicians that need to hear from us. Let them know that Israel cannot be pressured into concessions with an entity that is still sworn to her destruction. I have also included below a list of soldiers who have been killed. The ration to the American population is like losing 10,000 soldiers and having 20,000 seriously wounded in a short time. These numbers are devastating, and we must redouble our efforts to help Israel in her time of need. If you can’t make it with us on our mission in February, please donate generously to the Israel advocacy fund, that will be distributed to the most needy places in Israel. Donations can be made to the OZ Chesed Fund and earmarked for Israel.
Stay well and be safe
Rabbi Allen Schwartz
Rabbi Allen Schwartz
Congregation Ohab Zedek
118 West 95th Street
New York, NY 10025-6604
Phone 212.749-5150, ext 200
E-mail ras@ozny.org
Website: www.ozny.org
Courage and bravery: These are the 221 soldiers who heroically fell in the war:
A list of the New York Congressional Delegation:
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R
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1530 LHOB
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(202) 225-3826
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Armed Services|Homeland Security|Small Business
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2nd
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R
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2344 RHOB
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(202) 225-7896
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Financial Services|Homeland Security|Ethics
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3rd
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- Vacancy
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1117 LHOB
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(202) 225-3335
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4th
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R
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1508 LHOB
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(202) 225-5516
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House Administration|Homeland Security|Transportation and Infrastructure
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5th
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D
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2310 RHOB
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(202) 225-3461
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Financial Services|Foreign Affairs
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6th
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D
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2209 RHOB
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(202) 225-2601
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Appropriations
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7th
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D
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2302 RHOB
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(202) 225-2361
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Financial Services|Natural Resources|Small Business
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8th
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D
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2433 RHOB
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(202) 225-5936
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9th
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D
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2058 RHOB
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(202) 225-6231
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Homeland Security|Energy and Commerce
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10th
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245 CHOB
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(202) 225-7944
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Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Fed Govt|Oversight and Accountability|Homeland Security
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11th
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R
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351 CHOB
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(202) 225-3371
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Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic|Ways and Means
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D
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2132 RHOB
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(202) 225-5635
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Judiciary
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13th
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2332 RHOB
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(202) 225-4365
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Appropriations|Budget
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250 CHOB
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(202) 225-3965
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Oversight and Accountability|Natural Resources
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1414 LHOB
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(202) 225-4361
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Financial Services|Select Comm on the Strategic Competition US and China
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16th
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345 CHOB
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(202) 225-2464
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Education and the Workforce|Science, Space, and Technology
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1013 LHOB
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(202) 225-6506
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Financial Services|Foreign Affairs
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1030 LHOB
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(202) 225-5614
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Armed Services|Transportation and Infrastructure
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1207 LHOB
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(202) 225-5441
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Agriculture|Transportation and Infrastructure|Small Business
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2369 RHOB
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(202) 225-5076
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Energy and Commerce|Science, Space, and Technology
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2211 RHOB
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(202) 225-4611
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Armed Services|Education and the Workforce|Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Fed Govt|Intelligence
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1022 LHOB
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(202) 225-3701
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Education and the Workforce|Transportation and Infrastructure|Science, Space, and Technology
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1630 LHOB
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(202) 225-3161
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Agriculture|Oversight and Accountability|Rules
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2349 RHOB
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(202) 225-3665
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Science, Space, and Technology|Ways and Means
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25th
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570 CHOB
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(202) 225-3615
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Appropriations|House Administration|Joint Committee of Congress on the Library
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26th
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Mon, April 29 2024 21 Nisan 5784
