Clips from author and radio host, Michael Medved's recent conversation with David Suissa, Jewish Journal of Los Angeles' publisher- at Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills. In his final days being carried by Salem Radio, partially for opposing Donald Trump's candidacy for the GOP nomination, how does he now regard the president?
Does he consider anti-Semitism triggered by Pres. Trump? Is it a bigger problem from the Right or Left?
Michael Medved on liberals' bigotry towards Republican Jews
Patriotic Jewish-American author and radio host, Michael Medved addresses the Jewish infighting over support for Pres. Trump.
Michael Medved: Jewish-themed movies I enjoyed in 2018 (and didn't) with L.A. Jewish Journal editor
discusses Jewish-themed motion pictures they liked or didn't. Mr. Medved explains what he didn't like about Steven Spielberg's "Munich." And why Zionistic movies aren't common from Israeli filmmakers. Medved will be replaced on Salem by a radio show from Sebastian Gorka.
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What were JooTube.TV's most watched stories & videos of 2018?
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| Opening night of the Israel Film Festival in Beverly Hills Jon Voight trusts Pres.Trump to help Israel de-fang Islamist global imperialists, Iran,Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab Emirates |
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| Gene ("KISS") Simmons at Friends of the IDF told Joo- Tube, ignore the anti-Semites, carry-on your business |
Since Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, we have presented an alternative perspective to the mainstream press and liberal-establishment, Jewish media.
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| Michael Masters heads the Jewish Federation's SCN Secure Community Network responsible for securing regional synagogues like Pittsburgh's Temple Etz Chaim/Tree of Life, prone to anti-Semitic attack from the right or left |
We also host videos on Vimeo (the ones which enemies of Israel get stricken off YouTube) as well as now on Facebook. Due to Facebook's change in policy to now no longer playing YouTube videos in Facebook's frame, we have expanded launching videos on Facebook, where we have generated an additional 20,000+ views on our publishing page.
Our interview with the infiltrators of the Students for Justice in Palestine national convention at UCLA in November became part of the viral video which has attracted 146,000 views, as of this final week in December.
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| A glimpse through the only 2 peer-able windows between Mosque and Synagogue atop Hebron's contentious Tomb of the Patriarchs |
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| Interview with city of Jewish Hebron spokesman Yishai Fleisher in Judean, sister city of Kiryat Arba |
Over the past 12-months, we traveled, gathered and disseminated news from as far as Judea, Israel, WashingtonDC, New York City, South Florida, Las Vegas, Nashville, and throughout Southern California.
We produce this informational news initiative (which articles are increasingly reshared on others' social media channels- even localized into Hebrew and French language) essentially at a debt. It is a full-time effort for which we have deferred salaries. We rely on viewer contributions - in cash and in-kind (especially for costs of traveling) and are grateful to those who extend hospitality. But audio/video, computer equipment and automobile parts require repairing, replenishing, and replacing.
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| Israeli former Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Wilshire Blvd. Temple in May |
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| Reporting from the Judean,Gush Etzion Junction Mall where Zionist activist, Ari Fuld, was stabbed to death in Sept |
Our 5 most-viewed original news stories produced in 2018:
LAX "Independence Day from Jihad on Jews" Memorial spotlights need to overcome political-correctness on Islamic anti-Semitism
Docu on how black & Jewish entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. navigated the turbulent '60's gets a little help from his friends - at L.A. Jewish Film Festival
This 77th anniversary of Iraq' "Farhud" pogrom - when the Holocaust migrated to the Middle East
Las Vegas Jewish community organizes memorial for the fallen heroes and martyrs of Zion
Watch Dr. Mordechai Kedar: 'How Israel's 70-year success must be a miracle'
Which do you think, out of all of of the stories in 2018, should be selected as the top story of 2018? Mention it in the Comments below.
Our 5 most-viewed videos produced in (or released) in 2018:
Rabbi confronts Christian proselytizing at Israeli Independence Fair in L.A.
"Why Israel at 70 must be a miracle"- Dr. Mordechai Kedar on Israel's 70th Independence Day
Meet the British rock'n'rolla who confronted Jewish leftists praying for terrorists the I.D.F. had to shoot
Hal Linden ("Barney Miller") on Jewish-American contributions to popular culture
Which do you think, out of all of the videos in 2018, should be selected as the top video of 2018? Mention it in the Comments section on the website.
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| IDF Lt. Mazal Zemru toughens Kfir Batallion men in the Jordan Valley, promoting F.I.D.F. |
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| Actor, Hal Linden ("Barney Miller"), discusses Jewish-Americans' contributions to American culture - at L.A. Jewish Film Festival opening screening of documentary on Sammy Davis Jr's life. Mr. Linden appeared with George Schlatter, producer of NBC's "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" |
Muslim "Miss Iraq" stands with Jews whose Muslim societies expelled 900k of them after losing invasion of Israel
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| Miss Iraq 2017, Sarah Idan, lights menorah after addressing ceremony at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in L.A. |
Los Angeles' Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel on December 4th commemorated the new, Israeli holiday commemorating Jewish refugees from Arab and Persian Lands.
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| Rabbi Tal Sessler, Nathaniel Malka, Sarah Idan, Larry Clumeck, Karin Pery, Amir Kashfi, (Bruins for Israel) |
The program was organized by the Israeli Consulate to the Southwest US with partners JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, 30 Years After, and the Iranian American Jewish Federation.
Israel and the Jewish world remember the fate of more than 850,000 Jews who were forced out of Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. The Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran was established four years ago by the Israeli Knesset, designating Nov. 30 as a day to remember the tragedy of Jewish people who were forced out of the countries where they had lived for millennia - because of their Jewish identity. Many Jews suffered from violence and persecution, and pogroms began in 1941 with the Iraqi "Farhud" in concert with German Nazis.
The date was chosen because it is the day after the United Nations adopted a plan to partition Palestine in 1947. Nov. 29 is also the UN-designated International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
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| Miss Iraq 2017 competes in the the Miss Universe pageant |
Former Miss Iraq still gets death threats, disses Miss Universe pageant by Doree Lewak 20 Dec '18 NY Post
Thousands of miles from Thailand, where the new Miss Universe was being crowned last week, the former Miss Iraq is light years from last year’s pageant, when a selfie controversy erupted over a charged selfie with Miss Israel. “Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel” was the Instagram entry seen around the world, nearly sparking an international incident.
Despite ongoing death threats — including from Hamas — Idan says she’s still tight with Miss Israel, who she FaceTimes and texts regularly. In recent weeks, Idan begged Miss Israel to seek safety as mortars were raining on Israeli civilians. It’s all part of the work she does for her LA-based organization, Humanity Forward. She even visited Israel in the spring to speak about the importance of dialogue and better relations, and the LA Consulate of Israel hosted her recently to speak on the history of Jews in Iraq.Here is Ms. Idan's speech, empathizing with Jewish refugees of Nazi-aided Iraq. Also on this video-playlist of speeches from the event, (click menu icon on the upper-right of the video screen) please watch: Larry Clumeck, Jewish-Egyptian survivor of The Six-Day War discussing Nazis advising Egyptian imprisoners of Jewish civilians, such as his father; Karin Pery (Israeli Consul to SW USA for Public Diplomacy); and JIMENA West Coast chief, Nathaniel Malka.
Current research estimates that the number of Jews living in Arab countries and Iran totaled more than 850,000 at the time of Israel’s independence. Some scholars even think the number is closer to one million. In the North African region, 259,000 Jews fled from Morocco, 140,000 from Algeria, 100,000 from Tunisia, 75,000 from Egypt, and another 38,000 from Libya. In the Middle East, 135,000 Jews were exiled from Iraq, 55,000 from Yemen, 34,000 from Turkey, 20,000 from Lebanon and 18,000 from Syria. Iran forced out more than 25,000 Jews.
Larry Clumeck, Jewish-Egyptian survivor of The Six-Day War discussing Nazis advising Egyptian imprisoners of Jewish civilians, such as his father.
S.J.P. anti-Zionist meeting-crashers stunned by retaliation by Students Supporting Israel and Reservists on Duty at UCLA
Watch Part 1 here
In May 2018, Students Supporting Israel at UCLA put on a club lecture featuring Jewish, Kurdish and Armenian people presenting their connection to their lands. Watch how Students for Justice in Palestine menaced and threatens the presenters and attendees, vandalized their personal property, and maliciously took-over the event.
To avenge SJP's busting-up SSI's "Indigenous Peoples United" Event at UCLA in May, leaders of Students Supporting Israel infiltrated the highly-guarded Students for Justice in Palestine conference - to unfurl an Israeli flag on-stage.
Rudy Rochman, founder of Coumbia Univ's "Students Supporting Israel" counters "Students for Justice in Palestine" convention at UCLA the obvious history that Jews living in Judea can't be considered occupying as they are the INDIGENOUS people of Judea.
We interview the other avenger, Ilan Sinelnikov, National President of Students Supporting Israel
IDF "Reservists on Duty" Yair Eliash stands outside anti-Israel SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) National Convention seeking dialogue, public or private, to address the differences between what each side sees first-hand.
In May 2018, Students Supporting Israel at UCLA put on a club lecture featuring Jewish, Kurdish and Armenian people presenting their connection to their lands. Watch how Students for Justice in Palestine menaced and threatens the presenters and attendees, vandalized their personal property, and maliciously took-over the event.
To avenge SJP's busting-up SSI's "Indigenous Peoples United" Event at UCLA in May, leaders of Students Supporting Israel infiltrated the highly-guarded Students for Justice in Palestine conference - to unfurl an Israeli flag on-stage.
Rudy Rochman, founder of Coumbia Univ's "Students Supporting Israel" counters "Students for Justice in Palestine" convention at UCLA the obvious history that Jews living in Judea can't be considered occupying as they are the INDIGENOUS people of Judea.
We interview the other avenger, Ilan Sinelnikov, National President of Students Supporting Israel
IDF "Reservists on Duty" Yair Eliash stands outside anti-Israel SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) National Convention seeking dialogue, public or private, to address the differences between what each side sees first-hand.
See presentations from first Limmud Israel:Tel Aviv at Night conference, "The Shared Destiny of the Jewish People"
Israeli decision makers and thought leaders came together on October 22, 2018 for the launch of Limmud Israel in partnership with the Jewish Federations of North America’s "General Assembly."
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| Staff for Limmud Israel poses with Eli Ovits, CEO, at Tel Aviv event |
"This launch of Limmud Israel is a momentous event for the Jewish people, convening participants from across the country together with communal leaders from across North America,” said Limmud Israel event chair and president of the Am Yisrael Foundation, Jay Shultz.
Each talk revolved around the broad concept of "The Shared Destiny of the Jewish People" and include a Q&A session with the audience. Most of the audience members were Anglo-Israeli citizens, at a greater proportion of dati'im than attending the General Assembly.
JooTube.TV chronicled a session in each of the evening's 3 time-slots.
Limmud CEO Eli Ovitz introduces Tel Aviv Councilmember Lior Shapira to present a welcome from Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai's office. (0:23)
Part 1: Tel Aviv Councilmember Lior Shapira presents remarks from the municipality. Allison Kaplan Sommer introduces Panel: "Torah & Technology - Towards Wealth and Wellbeing" - Michael Eisenberg (Alef VC) and Jon Medved (OurCrowd).Part (0)(13:32)
Panel : "Torah & Technology - Towards Wealth and Wellbeing" - Michael Eisenberg (Alef VC) and Jon Medved (OurCrowd); moderated by Allison Kaplan Sommer.
Israeli V.C. Michael Eisenberg's D'var Torah emphasizes ethics over avarice at Limmud Israel (16:24)
Financier, Jonathan Medved, explains how he sees foreign companies' visiting and investments in Israel validate biblical prophecy (25:41)
Second panel: “Israel At 70 - Looking Forward” Jewish Agency longtime, recently-retired leader, Natan Sharansky, interviewed by Times of Israel's David Horovitz on issues of Zionism and Aliyah. (48:32)
Third panel: "Investing In Shared Destiny- Economics & The Israel-Diaspora Relationship" Michael Freedman (Asquith Israel), Joanna Landau (Vibe Israel), Oren Charnoff (Hanaco Ventures) & Prof. Avi Weiss (Taub Center). (48:58)
"Investing In Shared Destiny - Economics and The Israel-Diaspora Relationship" with Prof. Avi Weiss (Taub Center), Joanna Landau (Vibe Israel), Oren Charnoff (Hanaco Ventures) -moderated by Michael Freedman (Asquith Israel). Economics & The Israel-Diaspora Relationship." (2:19)
“Heartfelt thanks to our partners,” said Limmud chief executive Eli Ovits. “We call on visionary organizations and individuals to join us in order to enable Limmud to reach a new level of impact across Israel.”
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| Socio-economist Dr. Avi Weiss (The Taub Center) |
Limmud Israel — Tel Aviv After Dark was produced in partnership with the Am Yisrael Foundation, Times of Israel, Jewish Federations of North America, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Brodt Center for Jewish Culture, Tel Aviv International Salon, White City Shabbat, Hillel Israel, Aleph VC, OurCrowd, Golan Heights Winery, Limmud, Limmud Jerusalem and Limmud FSU.
Limmud is a cross-communal, multi-generational, grassroots, volunteer-led international network of communities celebrating Jewish learning and culture. Founded in the UK in 1980, today there are 90 Limmud communities in 42 countries. The Limmud communities in Israel include Limmud Arava, Limmud Galil, Limmud Golan, Limmud FSU Israel, Limmud Haifa, Limmud Jerusalem, Limmud Modi’in, and Limmud Yeroham. (Some text adapted from Times of Israel with thanks).
In L.A.'s Boyle Heights, Latino theater group pays homage to L.A.'s Jews of old
Josefina López, producer and co-writer of the Remembering Boyle Heights said, “The show is a theatrical celebration inspired by the diverse stories, memories and experiences of Boyle Heights, an Ellis Island of the West, from the beginning of the century to right after World War II.
The show explores this time-period during which Mexican, Jewish, Japanese, Armenian, Italian, Russian and African-American communities co-existed in Boyle Heights.”
From the turn of the 20th century until World War II, Boyle Heights served as the hub of Southern California's Jewish community. Kosher delis, bakeries and other Jewish businesses dominated Brooklyn Avenue -- now Cesar Chavez Avenue. In the 1950s, the Eastside neighborhood's Jewish population began to decline, with many leaving for West Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. ("Event unearths the deep Jewish roots of Boyle Heights" - by Hector Becerra Los Angeles Times May 2018).
Under the direction Corky Dominguez (of Boyle Heights), who is also a
co-writer of the show, the Ensemble Cast will include: Michael Berckart (of Los Angeles), Joe Luis Cedillo (of El Monte), José Alejandro Hernandez Jr. (of South Central), Yvette Karla Herrera (of Montebello), Ángel Michel Juárez (of Montebello), Megumi Kabe (of Sylmar), Marcel Licera (of Koreatown), Jackie Marriott (of Inglewood), Roberta H. Martínez (of Pasadena), Allyson Taylor (of Valley Glen) and Raymond Watanga (of Glendale).Video transcript:
Urban anthropologist, Shmuel Gonzales: "Boyle Heights for many people has been kind of equated to the Lower East Side of New York. A lot of people who had come from New York or the Midwest or Canada who already had established themselves a little bit came to establish their families here. I think that's what's really just remarkable is how many families that came through Boyle Heights. Seventy-five thousand Jewish families came through Boyle Heights in the first half of the 20th century. One-third of the Jewish community of Los Angeles was located here in Boyle Heights, making it the largest and most important Jewish community west of Chicago.
Allyson Taylor, actress, in role of real-estate developer: "I want to modernize this neighborhood.""Congregation Talmud Torah, more commonly known as the Breed Street Shul, was a keystone in the Jewish community in Boyle Heights and nearby City Terrace from the 1920s through the 1950s. Architecturally, it was among the most monumental of the few dozen synagogues that were built in the area at the time, leading locals to nickname it "The Queen of the Shuls." Los Angeles Conservancy
Breed Street Shul (photo: Henry Briceno)
As herself: "Well (the show) talks about the fact that in Boyle Heights - all people live together. During the 1930's and '40s, during the restrictive era of housing, not only were Hispanics, blacks, and Chinese restricted from buying homes in Los Angeles, Jews were as well."
(Scene of early 20th century Jewish family, portrayed by Allyson Taylor and Micael Berckart, of son, portrayed by Jose Hernandez, Jr.) disavowing speaking Yiddish).
Jose Hernandez, Jr. actor: "The dynamics of the family with the father, the son, I have found it very natural and very similar to my experience with my father - it's the same argument."
(Scene of 20th century Latino family of daughter (portrayed by Yvette Karla Herrera) chiding parents for not speaking English).
(Scene of daughter (portrayed by Angel Juarez, telling Japanese mother (Megumi Kabe) about boyfriend she brought home (portrayed by Raymond Watanga). Angel Juarez: "I love him! I know that he's Colored."
Angel Juarez: "I didn't realize that there was a Jewish community (ever in my Boyle Heights). I used... there is a store and it has the Jewish Star, the Star of David and I always wondered why - why was it just there - out of nowhere? And when I came here I realized that this used to be a Jewish community! So it just opened my mind to a whole, a new world of Boyle Heights"
Marcel Licera, actor: "Faith and religion took place in Boyle Heights. Whether it took place in a church, in a temple or synagogue, or just in the home."
Corky Dominguez: "My experience attending a Seder, I lived with the Jewish family for several years. I brought my mom to it to the one of the Seder dinners. And it was really interesting to me and I knew that I wanted to have something like that story of a Seder and the guests being non-Jewish and to see what that was all about. Because I remembered that experience."
Raymond Watanga: "Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church spiritual gatherings with African-Americans for many weeks while Mama and I went to our first Passover Seder that my friend Josh Bernstein invited. It was dinner at the Bernstein's - a Jewish dinner!"
Allyson Taylor: "This is my favorite holiday it's about celebrating our collective freedom." (Recites bracha for Yom Tov.)
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| (Photo: UCLA's Mapping Jewish L.A.) |
Micael Berckhart: "Everybody went to Canters. Lined with pickle barrels, kosher butchers, bakeries, and delicatessen. The aromas were of corn beef and smoked fish, the smells, the tastes, the sounds of accents of Eastern European accents in Yiddish, the whole feeling was a visceral experience."
Corky Dominguez: "We end the show with Hava Nagila at our curtain call. And that just gets the crowd going! Right now the show is scheduled to go until Sunday, December 16th."
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