The Passover Story as told in "The Prince of Egypt" still relevant after 3,323 years

Happy 3,323rd Birthday to People of Israel by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu in Israel National News

The Passover holiday recalls the days of slavery in Egypt under the new pharaoh and the Exodus to freedom, which is the theme of the traditional Passover Seder.

However, the freedom of the Jews also marks their birthday as a people.

It was none other than Pharaoh whose mention of the “People of Israel” is the first such Biblical reference, 3323 years ago, using calculations based on information in the Torah.  Serbian-born Eliezer Shulman, who was exiled to Siberia by the former Soviet Union in the 1930s, recently showed how he was able to calculate it.

The redemption of the Hebrew children of Israel from the Exodus from slavery outside the Promised Land is brought to life in Disney's animated "Prince of Egypt." 

First, "Deliver Us" ("Hoshia' na") shows the experience of Moses and the Jewish people's exile from Israel into slavery.



The second song, "When You Believe" ("Eem Na'amin"), shows the experience of the Almighty returning the caretakers of His law and His land to their guardianship of the Promised Land.




The Prince of Egypt's composer, Stephen Schwartz, delivers perhaps the most important message through the song "Through Heaven's Eyes":

"How can you see what your life is worth or where your value lies? You can never see with through the eyes of Man - you must look at your life - look at your life through Heaven's eyes. . . ."

"How do you measure the worth of a man in wealth or strength or size? In how much he gained or how much he gave? The answer will come to him who tries to look at his life through Heaven's eyes. . . ."



"How do you judge what a man is worth by what he builds or buys? You can never see with your eyes on Earth - look through Heaven's eyes. Look at your life - through Heaven's eyes!"

The 28 different languages that "The Prince of Egypt" soundtrack was recorded in (for distribution in 50 countries) is testament to the universality of the story of the Jewish children of Israel and our G-d.

Christian media luminaries encourage Christians to visit Israel, support the Jewish people and Jewish self-determination

Religious media producers and distributors from around the world convened for the 2011 National Religious Broadcasters (N.R.B.) Association conference in Nashville, Tennessee over the weekend of Feb 26, 2011.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, while Jewish tourists accounted for 39% of the 2.7 million visitors to Israel, Christians in 2009 accounted for 54%. In its outreach to the Christian market, Israel's Ministry of Tourism provided an Israel Prayer Breakfast at the N.R.B. featuring Israeli culture and talks by Christian leaders about Israel's spiritual and experiential value. JooTube spoke with some of the Christian luminaries regarding their relationship with the Jewish State.

Dr. Frank Wright, NRB President

NRB President Dr. Frank Wright extols Israel as a transformational destination for Christians, encourages pilgrimages, and endorses the close relationship between Christians and the Jewish State.

Kay Arthur, Precept Ministries

Mrs. Kay Arthur of Precept Ministries cautions that any nation or politician which attempts to intervene in Jewish guardianship of the land of Israel (including removing Jews to provide Muslims exclusivity) defies G-d's will and provokes G-d's wrath.

Rev. Robert A. Schuller

Rev. Robert A. Schuller delineates several reasons why he encourages all Christians to visit Israel as a spiritually transformational experience which influences their understanding of life.

Dr. Woodrow Kroll of "Back to the Bible"

Back to the Bible's Dr. Woodrow Kroll, who has traveled to Israel more than 40-times, presents a comprehensive overview of a Christian's responsibility to support Israel, the Jewish people, and Jews' sovereignty over Israel.

Explosion at Chabad of Santa Monica triggers a bonfire of vanities from all sides; But will it awaken Jews to confront the tide against us?

Fire fighters work atop a roof next door to
the Chabad House in S. Monica.
(Photo: KTLA Live Video)

The Chabad of Santa Monica synagogue was one of the targets of an American-Muslim, homegrown terror plot which was reported about in DemoCast.com 4-years ago.

The phenomenology surrounding today's news about a real explosion at the Santa Monica Chabad illuminates perspectives which warrant analysis.

From an objective view - about the media-incited atmosphere conducive for hostile attacks against Jewish interests - and the gut reaction that an explosion at a Chabad would be a "hate-crime" or act of terrorism.

From the media's perspective - how eager they are to deny that it would be a hate-crime or terror-act (presumably committed by a militant Muslim) thereby negating their beliefs of Jewish-overreaction; or their fear that Islamophobia is a rational fear and really not racism.

And from Jews' perspectives - either an invalidation of the idealistic rationale that we are accepted as Americans and don't have anything to fear, provide deterrence against, or avenge against our enemies. As Rabbi Issac Levitansky once told me when I requested armed security be posted outside the synagogue during High Holy Day services "Even if anyone were to attempt to harm us, Hashem will protect us."  Another Jewish reaction is the rude proof that our enemies are not subscribing to our fantasy, and that naturally an explosion at a Chabad would be an act of  terrorism against Jews.

Particularly now, in the wake of the media and political complacency following the Samaria massacre of the Fogel Family of Itamar, Samaria, (when CNN's Piers Morgan interviewed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with impudence and without chastisement) there is an atmosphere that Jews are 'fair game.' Guy Milliere addressed this issue yesterday in his essay in Hudson New York, listed below.

FoxLA Reporters are eager to allay presumptions that Santa Monica Chabad explosion was anti-Semitism or terror

The Real Meaning of the Murders in Israel by Guy Milliere in Hudson-New York  April 6, 2011

While so many tragedies and disruptions have fallen on Japan and the Middle East in recent weeks, a singular event went almost unnoticed: the extermination of a Jewish family in Itamar, Samaria.Although this event could seem insignificant -- there were only five victims -- it was nevertheless indicative of what is at stake in the Middle East, and how the world views it.

The borders between anti-Semitism and "anti-Zionism" are increasingly blurred, perhaps allowing Europeans feel less guilty about what they or their parents did in World War II. If Zionists are Racists and Jews are Nazis, then Europe can tell itself that it actually did the world a favor by sending six million sub-humans to crematoriums.

In this context, neither photos of babies whose throats have been slit, nor facts, nor any kind of proof even count anymore. If the trend continues, they will mean even less.

Other books, by writers such as Natan Sharansky, Léon Poliakov, Alan Dershowitz and Giulio Meotti speak of "demonization," and explain how it works: portraying people, such as the Jews in Europe, as less than human, preceded and made possible the slaughter that followed. Israel is now treated as "the Jew among nations." The intentions of the killers are clear and unambiguous: They would like to be able to commit genocide. What they lack is not the will, but the means.

Those in the West who remain silent about that willingness, who refuse to see even the most damning evidence put before their eyes, are accomplices.

The massacre of Itamar, the way it was minimized or widely ignored by politicians and the media, showcases the distressing degree to which attitudes have shifted towards what cannot, indeed, be called anything other than complicity. 

If the number of Jews killed is not higher, it is not because the desire to kill them is lower; it is only because the hatred has yet to spread some more, and the means to commit mass murder is not – yet – in the hands of those who would like to carry out these acts.

This follows Barry Rubin's theory about the media's downplaying that Egypt's revolts might benefit Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood.

I now understand that the purpose of the mass media is to report on things that don’t fit the agenda only after they have happened and are so blindingly obvious that ignoring them is impossible. Oh yes, and by then it’s also too late to avoid catastrophes.

In their inability to distinguish Islamism from Islam, the press mollifies the public to the realities of Islamism (including its anti-Semitic precepts), resulting in the perception that Jews are "crying-wolf" flingers of anti-Semitism allegations, while Islamists exploit the absence of deterrence as open playing field for Islamism and anti-Semitism to thrive in liberal society.

Noble, Muslim student shocks U.N. Human Rights Council for stoking anti-Semitism with its anti-Israel obsession

British Muslim university student, Amran Hussain, represented the European Union of Jewish Students in contending the U.N. Human Rights Council's biased resolutions as stoking global anti-Semitism.

Watch video from United Nations Webcast www.un.org/webcast

Zionistic Christians, PJTN, invoke "never again" to Islamists exploiting anti-Zionism to gain empathy & power

American radio personality, Janet Parshall, delivered a rousing acceptance speech, in being awarded Proclaiming Justice to the Nations' 2011 Ed McAteer Tree of Life Award. PJTN founder, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, introduces Mrs. Parshall at an awards ceremony and special screening of PJTN's "The Forgotten People" at the 2011 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

Ed McAteer was so strongly Zionistic that in October 2004, upon his passing, Joseph Farah eulogized him this way in World Net Daily:

McAteer is best known, perhaps, as the founder and president of the Religious Roundtable. But, among his friends, he is better known as a champion of the Jewish state.

"When Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud Olmert, remarked some years ago that Ed McAteer 'should be America's ambassador to Israel,' he was right on the mark," said Herb Zweibon, president of Americans for a Safe Israel.

In fact, I know first hand that when Olmert made that suggestion to McAteer that his response was: "There's no job on Earth, including president of the United States, that I would like more."

McAteer is best known, perhaps, as the founder and president of the Religious Roundtable. But, among his friends, he is better known as a champion of the Jewish state.

"When Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud Olmert, remarked some years ago that Ed McAteer 'should be America's ambassador to Israel,' he was right on the mark," said Herb Zweibon, president of Americans for a Safe Israel.

In fact, I know first hand that when Olmert made that suggestion to McAteer that his response was: "There's no job on Earth, including president of the United States, that I would like more."

Mrs. Parshall called on Christians to overtly stand against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, deeming them sins against G-d.  She called for Christians' unconditional support for Israel and the Jewish people in these testing times.

Also addressing the assembled audience of Zionists was Rabbi Gerald Meister. He talks of his recent experience talking with Christian Arabs in Judea and Samaria, Israel.

Israel's Amb. Hon. Michael Oren inspires Israeli-American Leadership Council to remain vigilant

Recorded live at the Israel Leadership Council Gala at the Beverly Hilton, March 20, 2011.

Newly-independent, Israeli Defense Forces' Chief Gabi Ashkenazi encourages American supporters of Israel

Recenly retired IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gavriel Ashkenazi called for political, policy, and social support for Israel from Israeli-Americans in his address to the Israeli-American Leadership Council in Los Angeles, at its annual Gala on Sunday March 20, 2011.



Lt. Gen Ashkenazi expresses pride in IDF strength and ethics. He offers recommendations on how civilians can help Israel defeat the forces which oppose it - particularly the campaign to delegitimize Israel's sovereignty and the threat from nuclearizing Iran.

Lt. Gen Ashkenazi attested a personal commendation for Israeli Leadership Council Executive Director, Shoham Nicolet, recognized during his days in uniform.

Jewish Fogel family's virtues - and the immorality of the Muslim culture which instigates Jewish-child slaughter - acknowledged at L.A. memorial service to slain Israeli family

Los Angeles Jewry held a memorial to the Jewish family of Rabbi Ehud & Ruth Fogel and their 3 children, slain by Palestinian terrorist hands in their home in Itamar, Samaria on Friday 11 March 11. The event was held Thursday 17 March '11 at Temple Bnai David Judea, officiated by congregational Rabbi Joseph Konefsky and organized by Fogel-family acquaintance, Shlomo Mirvis of Bnai Akiva. Mirvis presented this eulogy of a family so piously Zionistic that they hosted in their home a Bnai Akiva Oneg Shabbat of 30 children. 

Mr. Mirvis adds that Rabbi Ehud, though exempt as a father of 6 children, chose to serve his people's defense one-month annually in the Israel Defense Force reserves.

'How moral is a culture which inspires the slaughtering

of children in their own parents' faces,' queries Rabbi Hier

In this JooTube exclusive video, Museum of Tolerance's Rabbi Marvin Hier warns Palestinian slayers of the lambs of the G-d of Israel that history has shown that their acts against the G-d of Israel are wicked, immoral, futile, and will eventually backfire onto them.

Roz Rothstein, Executive Director of StandWithUs, denounces the slaughter of 5 Fogel family members by the 'premeditated evil and hate' advocated by Palestinian leadership against Israel.
Mrs. Rothstein portrays the Islamist crusade against Israel as an objectionable continuation of the Nazi movement against the Jews - which ultimately results in strengthening Jewish resiliance.

Touching, music video tribute to Itamar's Fogel family from Shmuel Schwartz and Daniel Sultan

Five members of an Israeli family were slaughtered Friday night when a Palestinian terrorist broke into their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar and stabbed them all to death. The innocent victims were Rabbi Udi Fogel, his wife Ruth, and three of their children Elad, Yoav and Hadas.

Composed and Sung by Shmuel Schwartz, Arranged and Performed by John Sawoski, Video by Daniel Sultan
Lyrics:

Itamar massacre: the result of culture of hatred by Fiamma Nirenstein

Itamar massacre: the result of culture of hatred - Fiamma Nirenstein

Responsibility for the attack is claimed by the “moderate” side of the Palestinian political spectrum, the Brigades of Al Aqsa, the armed branch of Fatah, founded by Marwan Barghouti. Word has it that a meeting has also been held in Khartoum by members of Hamas and sundry Muslim Brothers, attended by Palestinians, Egyptians, Tunisians and even English people: they supposedly coordinated a large-scale international plan for Islamic terrorist attacks to be headed by Iran, the primary target of which would be Israel.

The background to the attack carried out the other night is on one side that of the revolution occurring in the surrounding Arab countries, and on the other side that of the most traditional form of hatred. The leadership of Abu Mazen and Fayyad is in a state of alarm, which led both of them to adopt aggressive, unwavering attitudes toward Israel in a bid to win over the masses who are threatening their power on Internet and out in the streets. They call Abu Mazen the slave of Israel and of the Americans and their campaign has been dominated by the call for unity with Hamas. The social networks act as a sounding board, praising the “resistance” and rejecting any peace projects, including the largely unknown new interim project which Netanyahu intends presenting at Washington to facilitate a return to the negotiation table. At any rate, Abu Mazen and Fayyad have already said they are not interested. 

They also issued indignant denials of stories revealed in the "Palestinian papers", which actually only stated that negotiations were underway with Olmert’s government. Current opinion has it that to be a pure and real Palestinian, you cannot be involved in negotiations and therefore they deny any evidence, even of speaking with the Israeli. As a matter of fact, the Palestinians have no intention of negotiating for "two States for two people": to them, Palestine is a single entity that includes Israel.

 Read more: Massacre- the result of culture of hatred by Fiamma Nirenstein

Are recent global events G-d's alarm bell to complacency to Islamists' intentions to scorch the earth- starting with Israel?

Melvin Bledsoe at son Carlos's graduation before Islamism

"God help us, God help us!" pleaded Homeland Security Committee Hearing witness Melvin Bledsoe, the father of Muslim-radicalized, Memphis teen, Carlos Bledsoe, accused of murdering one U.S. soldier and wounding another in attacking an Arkansas military-recruiting office.

Pennsylvanian Rev. John McTernan, author of As America Has Done to Israel, points out a correlation between political acts to interfere with the safety of the Jewish people, and natural acts of disaster.  McTernan points out that since Hitler's times, “God is trying to warn America. We are in a collision course with Him.”  Key verses in the Bible to which deal with this are Genesis 12:3, Joel 3:2, and Obadiah 1:15 which says, “The day of the Lord is near for all nations. As you have done (to Israel), it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.”

Even recently there has been a noticeable correlation between political acts against Jews and natural disasters. Only days ago, as Iranian warships bearing anti-Israel missiles destined for Syria approached the Suez Canal on Feb 21, the Suez was struck by an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, tremoring for 27 minutes.

Yesterday, as the US House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing to expose Islamic radicalization within America's mosques (which disproportionately affects Jews and Jewish targets, from the terror attacks at the El Al counter at L.A.X., to the Seattle Jewish Community Center shootings) both leftists in the hearing as well as the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced media commotion surrounding it- attempted to de-rail the message exposing anti-Semitic, Saudi Wahabist extremism hijacking Islamic institutions and teachings.

Only hours later, the Pacific Ocean was struck with a mega 8.9 Richter earthquake, causing a great tsunami whose waves touched upon the American shores of Washington, California, and Oregon.  What an ironic coincidence?  A connection?  Who can confirm that the events are unrelated?  There is an ironic pattern of coincidence of Mother Nature making her voice heard around issues affecting the Jewish people's safety and guardianship of the Holy Land.

Rabbi Fogel's family, relocated from Gaza, slain in their bedrooms (both parents, 3 children) in Itamar, near Awata

A terrorist slaughtered Gush Katif refugees, Rabbi Udi & Ruth Fogel, along with 3 of their 6 children, slain erev Shabbat inside their bedrooms in Itamar. The terror act was claimed by Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade.

The surviving Fogel children are Tamar, 12, Ro'i, 8, and Shai, 2. Until August 2005, the Fogel family had resided in the Netzarim Gaza community in Gush Katif.

Israel expelled Jewish communities in Gaza, in a move partly geared to demonstrate the Palestinians' ability to live in peace with Jews outside of their border.

A film was made by Israel's National Religious Party, cautioning that removing the IDF from Gaza would imperil Israelis inside Israel - because the Palestinians' inculcated hatred of Jews and quest to remove them from all of Israel, and not borders for Israel, is the obstacle to safety for Jews.



Now that Pres. Barack Obama pressed Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to remove checkpoints on the West Bank, terrorists also have freer movement to kill

Is the girl in the first clip the same weeping Tamar as in the second clip?