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Netherlands:MaTovu
.Prayerwrittenabouthowamancametocursethe

IsraelitesbutGodprotectedusandthemaninsteadbecameinaweofour
housesofworship.

JewscametotheNetherlandsaftertheSpanishInquisition.Theytriedto
keeptheiridentitiesasecretbecauseProtestantismwastheofficialreligion
oftheNetherlands.Whentheywerediscoveredabout100yearslater,many
JewsleftAmsterdamforsmallertowns.TheJewsmaintainedmostoftheir
freedomsthoughbecausetheywereservedimportanteconomicroleslike
beingmerchants,thereforeJewswereeventuallygivenmorerightsinmany
Dutchcities.Whileingeneral,EuropeanJewsisolatedthemselves
economicallyandsociallyaswellaspolitically,theJewsoftheNetherlands
enjoyed,asearlyastheseventeenthcentury,economicandsocialintegration
thattherestofEuropeanJewrywouldnotknowforhundredsofyears.

Professionslikemedicinebecameverypopular,andJewishphysicianswere
freetopracticeevenamongnonJews.Moreimportantly,theJews,
particularlytheSephardim,playedalargeroleintheeconomicexpansion
thatelevatedtheNetherlandstoaworldcenterinthe1600s.ThePortuguese
Jews,withtheirknowledgeoflanguagesandconnectionstotheinternational
tradenetworkofJewsandMarranos,becameimportantintheshippingand
tradingindustries.Theyevenbecamepartofthediamondbusiness!They
hadtheirowngoverningbodycalledthekehilla.DuringtheHolocaust,the
Netherlandslostaround20,000JewsincludingAnneFrank.Tothepresent
day,thenumberofJewsinAmsterdamhasheldsteadyatbetween25,000
and30,000.Whilethetotalnumbershaveremainedconstant,however,
levelsofobservancehaveincreased.Primarilyduetothepresenceof
Chabad
,therearecurrentlythreeJewishschoolsinAmsterdam,andthe
numberofJewsaffiliatedwithcommunitieshasgrownovertheyears.
Kosher
foodisavailableinAmsterdam,theHague,andseveralothercities
withJewishpopulations.Nonetheless,themajorityofJewsarestill
unaffiliated.

Brazil:BirchotHaShachar/BaruchSheAmar
.PrayersthankGodforallthat
hehasdoneforus.WearesothankfulthattheJewishcommunityinBrazil
hasthrivedforsomanyyears.

Whenthe
Inquisition
in
Portugal
tookholdin1497,Jewsfledtoplaces
throughouttheworld,includingBrazil.TheyarrivedinBrazilprimarilyas
NewChristiansorConversos(JewsconvertedtoChristianity),butmany
secretlypracticed
Judaism
andbeganacolonizationdrivetosettleonthe
land.DespitecontinuedpersecutionbytheBrazilian
Inquisition
,theNew
Christianssuccessfullyestablishedsugarplantationsandmills.By1624,
approximately50,000EuropeanslivedinBrazil,withNewChristians
makingupasignificantpercentage.Theywerebusinessmen,importers,
exporters,teachers,writerspoets,evenpriests.Inthatsameyear,Dutch
forcesarrivedinBrazil,takingoverportionsofnortheastBrazil.Dutch
toleranceallowedforJewishmigrationandtheopenpracticeofreligion.In
1636,JewsbuilttheKahalZur
synagoguein
theDutchcapitalofRecife.

In1947,Brazilvotedforthe
partitionofPalestine
andforthecreationofa
Jewishstateatthe
UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly
.ABrazilianstatesman,
OswaldoAranha,playedavitalroleintheadoptionoftheresolution.Brazil

recognized
Israel
inFebruary1949andopenedanembassytherethreeyears
later.

ModernDay
InAugust2004,themayorofSaoPaulodeclaredhercityasistercitywith
TelAviv
.In2001,thesynagogueinRecife,thefirstshuleverbuiltinthe
Americas,wasreopened,347yearsafteritwasclosedbyPortuguese
colonialrule.Aftertwoyearsofexcavationandrestoration,thesynagogue
wasabletohouseaJewishculturalcenterandhostafewreligious
ceremonies.Likemanyothercountries,Brazil'sreligiousobservance
encompassawidespectrum,fromliberalto
orthodox
withbothstrong
Sephardi
and
Ashkenazi
influences.
ChabadLubavich
hasgrown
considerablyinrecentyearswithschoolsand
synagogues
inseveralmajor
cities.ManyJewishschoolsandorganizationsareinBrazilsuchasBBYO.
Jewshaveimportantjobsinbusinessandinpolitics.

Israel: elu phinu

talks about our overwhelming gratitudes towards God.
Think about your relationship to Israel and how happy you are to have a
Jewishhomelandduringthieprayer.
Ethiopia: Halleljuah
The Ethiopian Jewish community is unique in that it

developed many of its own customswhichissomething wecancelebrate.

Additionally, since it was starting to decline in the 1990s the Israeli
government rescued the population and brought it to Israel. Hallejuhah is
all about praising God with all of our energy. During this prayer, praise
GodbecauseofthemiracleofsavingthispreciousJewishpopulation.
The Ethipoian Jewish community, reffered to as Beta Israel, the houseof
Israel is thought to have started between the 1stand6thcentury. Thereis
not consensus about whether the Jewish community was led under a
unified government or whether there were many small Jewish
communities. Since the Beta Israel community existed in isolation from
other Jewishcommunitiesaroundtheworld,theydevelopedauniquesetof
religious practicesin some ways quite different from what is typically

considered "Jewish." For example, an order of Ethiopian Jewish monks

was founded in the 15th century to strengthen the community's religious
identityandresist Christianinfluence.Thismonasticmovementintroduced
an organized approach to religious practice, creating new religious
literature and prayers, and adopting laws of ritual purity. Like today in
Israel, Ethiopian Jews celebrated
Sigd
, a festival whichcommemoratesthe
giving of the Torah. On this holiday, community members would fast,
climb the highest mountain in the area, and listen to the kessim chant
passages oftheHebrewBible,particularlythe
BookofNehemiah(describe
what that means) In the afternoon they would descend, break their fast,
and rejoice in their renewed acceptance of the Torah. On a number of
occasionsthe BetaIsrael'smonasticclergytriedtoescapethemissionaries'
influence by leading their communities to the Promised Land. By and
large,these journeysweredisastrous.Oneparticularattemptin1862ended
in largescale starvationanddeath.Between1882 and 1892the regions of
Ethiopia where the Beta Israel lived suffered from afaminethatkilled an
estimated one third to one half of the Beta Israel. Jacques.Faitlovich, a
student of a french Jew who first reported about the Ethiopian Jewish
community securedtwolettersfromrabbisabroadacknowledgingtheBeta
Israel asfellowJews.Thefirstletter,writtenin1906,calledtheBetaIsrael
"our brethren, sons ofAbraham,Isaac,andJacob,whodwellinAbyssinia"
and "our flesh and blood." The letter, which promised to help the
community in its religious education, was signed by 44 world Jewish
leadersincluding thechief rabbisofLondonandViennaandtheSephardic
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
Operation Solomon (Hebrew:
, Mivtza
Shlomo) was acovertIsraelimilitaryoperation toairlift
EthiopianJewsto
Israel in 1991. Nonstop flights of 35 Israeliaircraft, including
Israeli Air

Force
C130s and
ElAl
Boeing747s
,transported14,325EthiopianJewsto
Israelin36hours.

Britain:Barchu.
BalfourDeclarationannouncedBritainssupportfora

JewishhomelandinPalestinewhichgottheballrollingforothercountriesto
supportzionism.Barchuisacalltoprayerthatmarksthebeginningofthe
seriousandintensepartoftheservice.
ThefirstrecordedJewishcommunityin
Britain
wasbroughtto
England
in
1070byKing
WilliamtheConqueror
,whobelievedthatwhatheassumedto
betheircommercialskillswouldmakehisnewlywoncountrymore
prosperous.TwohundredyearslatertheJewswerenolongerwelcome.
King
EdwardIofEngland
passedthe
StatuteoftheJewry
(
Statutumde
Judaismo
)in1275,restrictingthecommunity'sactivities.When,15years
later,Edwardfoundthatmanyoftheseprovisionswereignored,he
expelled
theJewsfromEngland
.Theyemigratedtocountriessuchas
Polandwhich
protectedthem

bylaw
.
AsmallEnglishcommunitypersistedinhiding
despitetheexpulsion.JewswerenotbannedfromScotland,whichuntil
1707wasanindependentkingdom.In1656
OliverCromwell
madeitclear
thatthebanonJewishsettlementinEnglandandWaleswouldnolongerbe
enforced,althoughwhenRabbiManassehBenIsraelbroughtapetitionto
allowJewstoreturn,themajorityof
theProtectorateGovernment
turnedit
down.GraduallyJewseasedbackintoEngland,firstvisitingfortrade,then
stayinglongerperiods,andfinallybringingtheirfamilies.Inthe19th
Century,BenjaminDisraeliservedtwotermsasEuropesonlyJewishprime
minister.In1917,theBritishannouncedtheBalfourDeclarationwhich
statedtheirsupportofzionism.

Jamaica: Yotzare Ore/Ore Chadash

. Jamaica has a small Jewish population

that has persisted for centuries. These prayers are all about thanking God
for light, whichisalsoasymbolforhope.As wesingtheseprayers,think
aboutyourhopefortheJewishcommunityinJamaicatogrowandthrive.

In1494,a
MarranonamedLuisdeTorresarrivedonthe islandofJamaica
as the interpreterofChristopherColumbus.Jamaicawasa Spanish colony
fromthearrivalofChristopherColumbusin1494untiltheBritishconquest
in 1655. Numerous Portuguese Jews first settled in Jamaica during the
Spanish colonization. In 1530, the first ship load of PortugueseSpanish
Jews enteredJamaica.They settledin SpanishTown(formerlySt.Jagode
la Vega), the only operating town at that time. Many of the Jews that
arrived were Conversos, fleeing Europe to openly practice
Judaism
. Jews
were treated as second class citizens heavy taxes were imposed on them
and they were forced to work on Shabbat, however, Jews were still very
successful in the trade industry and plantation cultivation. In the 18th
century,manyJewsimmigratedfromGermany.AcommontrendinJewish
history is that when the economy starts to do poorly, antisemetism rises.
Jamaica is no exception. Thishappenedinthe 19th century thereandthus
many Jews left and went to England ortheU.S.Approximately200Jews
reside in Jamaica today, predominately in Kingston. While only a single
synagogue remains, the Shaare Shalom Synagogue in Kingston, there are
remains of the old synagogues on the island. The Shaare Shalom
synagoguecanaccommodate600congregants,thoughonlyabout75attend
High

Holiday
services.
Shma/VeahavataUgandacuzmelody.

The Abaduya sect owes its origin to Muganda military leader

Semei
Kakungulu
. Originally, Kakungulu was converted to
ChristianitybyBritish
missionaries around1880.Whenthe Britishbegantaking awayhis territory
however, he turned away from them and strated a sect of religion that
combined both Christianity and Judaism. He gradually began to believe
more strongly in the Torah. Around 1920 he founded a Jewishcommunity
and severed all ties with the British. he arrival of a foreign Jew known as
"Yosef" in 1920 whose ancestralrootsarebelievedto havebeenEuropean,
contributed much towards the community's acquisition of knowledgeabout
the seasons in which
Jewish Festivals such as
Pesach
,
Shavuot
,
Rosh

Hashanah
,
Yom Kippur
,
Succot
, and others take place. A source in the
Abayudaya community confirms that the first Jew to visit the community
was Yosef, who stayed with and taught the community for about six
[5]
months,
andwould appeartohavefirstbroughttheJewish calendartothe
[3
Abayudaya community.
Furthermore, the laws concerning
Kashrut were

first introduced to the community by Yosef. The community continues to

practice kashrut today. Yosef's teachings influenced Semei Kakungulu to
establish a school that acted as a type of
Yeshiva
, with the purpose of
passingonandteachingtheskillsandknowledgefirstobtainedfromYosef.
After Kakungulu's death from
tetanus in 1928, Samson Mugombe Israeli,
one of his disciples, became the spiritual leader of the community. They
isolated themselves for selfprotection and survived persecution, including
that of
Idi Amin
, who outlawed Jewish rituals and destroyed
synagogues
.
During the persecutions of Idi Amin, some of the Abayudaya community
convertedtoeitherChristianityor
Islaminthefaceof
religiouspersecution
.
A core group of roughly 300 members remained, however, committed to
Judaism, worshipping secretly. Besides the five synagogues (Nabugoye,
Namanyonyi, Nasenyi, Namutumba and Putti), Jewish schools have been
establishedwithoutsidehelpfromindividualsandorganizations.

Amidah
OsayShlaom

France:Mishebarch.statsfromSheila


Poland:MournersKaddash.Shoahstats
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While persecution took place across Europeduring the
Crusades
, inthe13

century, Poland served as a haven for European Jewry because of its

relative tolerance. During this period, Poland began its colonization
process. It suffered great losses from Mongol invasions in 1241 and
therefore encouraged Jewish immigrants to settle the towns and villages.
Immigrants flocked to Poland from BohemiaMoravia, Germany, Italy,
Spain and colonies in the Crimea. No central authority could stop the
immigration. Refugees from Germany brought with them German and
Hebrew dialects that eventually became Yiddish. In1264,Duke Boleslaw
issued the "Statute of Kalisz," guaranteeing protection of the Jews and
granting generous legal and professional rights, including the ability to
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become moneylenders and businessman. In the 14
century, opposition
arose to the system in which Jews owned land that would be used as
collateral for loans. By the mid1300's, hatred of the Jews existed among
the nobility. According to the C
hronica Olivska
, Jews throughout Poland
were massacredbecausetheywereblamedfortheBlackDeath.Therewere
antiJewish riots in134849 and again in 1407 and 1494 and Jews were
expelledform the cityof
Cracowin1495.Although therewasantisemitism,
Poland continued to be a thriving Jewish comunity. By the mid16th
century, eighty percent of the worlds Jews lived in Poland. Were now
going to jump ahead into more modern times. In 1918, Poland became a
sovereign state. Following Polands rebirth, a reign of terror against the
Jews began. Jews were massacred in pogroms by Poles who associated
Trotsky and the Bolshevik revolution with Jewry (Trotsky was
Jewish).Economic conditionsdeclinedforPolishJewsduringtheinterwar
years. Jews werenot allowed towork inthecivilservice, fewwere public
schoolteachers, almostnoJewswererailroadworkersandnoJewsworked
in statecontrolled banks or staterun monopolies.Before the outbreak of
World War II, more than 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland, the largest
Jewish population of Europe and second largest Jewish community inthe
world.Polandservedas thecenterforJewishcultureaapproximately3,200
JewsremaininPoland.

VeHavienu:uniting

Uruguay: Documentation of today's Jewish community dates back only to

1880. In 1905, there were various records of the Jews' arrival. The first
recorded
minyan was not until 1912. In 1909, 150 Jews lived in
Montevideo,thecitywiththelargestJewishpopulation.Despitethehistory
of settlement, the community did not open its first
synagogue until
1917.FormanyJews,Uruguaywasatemporarystoponthewayto
nd a diverse population ofJews fromall over Europe soughtrefugethere,
contributingtoawide varietyofreligiousandculturalgroups.Barely11%
ofPoland'sJews369,000peoplesurvivedthewar.Today,
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Hieveryone!WelcometotheGlobalJewryShabbatMorningSerivce.Howthis

willworkisthatbeforeeachprayer,Iwillgiveyousomeinformationaboutthe
Jewishhistoryofacertaincountryandthenconnectthattoaprayer.Afterour
servicetherearetwomoreprogramsthatIwilltellyoumoreaboutlater.WIthout
furtherado,letsjumpinMaTovu.

Informationwrittenonnotecards.40minutes
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3minutes
Netherlands:MaTovu
.Prayerwrittenabouthowamancametocursethe

IsraelitesbutGodprotectedusandthemaninsteadbecameinaweofour
housesofworship.TheconnectiontotheNetherlandsisthatalthoughtthere
hasbeenantisemetisminthecountrythroughoutmanycenturiestheJewish
communityhaspersistedtothrive.
showpicsofsynagougesshelter

JewscametotheNetherlandsaftertheSpanishInquisition.Theytriedto
keeptheiridentitiesasecretbecauseProtestantismwastheofficialreligion
oftheNetherlands.Whentheywerediscoveredabout100yearslater,many
JewsleftAmsterdamforsmallertowns.TheJewsmaintainedmostoftheir
freedomsthoughbecausetheywereservedimportanteconomicroleslike
beingmerchants,thereforeJewswereeventuallygivenmorerightsinmany
Dutchcities.Whileingeneral,EuropeanJewsisolatedthemselves
economicallyandsociallyaswellaspolitically,theJewsoftheNetherlands
enjoyed,asearlyastheseventeenthcentury,economicandsocialintegration
thattherestofEuropeanJewrywouldnotknowforhundredsofyears.
DuringtheHolocaust,theNetherlandslostaround20,000Jewsincluding
AnneFrank.Tothepresentday,thenumberofJewsinAmsterdamhasheld
steadyatbetween25,000and30,000.Whilethetotalnumbershave
remainedconstant,however,levelsofobservancehaveincreased.Primarily
duetothepresenceof
Chabad
,therearecurrentlythreeJewishschoolsin
Amsterdam,andthenumberofJewsaffiliatedwithcommunitieshasgrown
overtheyears.
Kosher
foodisavailableinAmsterdam,theHague,and
severalothercitieswithJewishpopulations.Nonetheless,themajorityof
Jewsarestillunaffiliated.

5minutesmaybedontinclude
BrazilBirchotHashachar
.PrayersthankGodforallthathehasdoneforus.

(afterprayer)Takeaminutetoreadtheenglishtranslation.Whar

connectionsbetweentheseprayersandthishistoryofthejewsofbrazildo
yousee?

Whenthe
Inquisition
inSpaintookholdin1497,Jewsfledtoplaces
throughouttheworld,includingBrazil.TheyarrivedinBrazilprimarilyas
NewChristiansorConversos(JewsconvertedtoChristianity),butmany
secretlypracticed
Judaism
andbeganacolonizationdrivetosettleonthe
land.DespitecontinuedpersecutionbytheBrazilian
Inquisition
,theNew
Christianssuccessfullyestablishedsugarplantationsandmills.By1624,
approximately50,000EuropeanslivedinBrazil,withNewChristians
makingupasignificantpercentage.Theywerebusinessmen,importers,
exporters,teachers,writerspoets,evenpriests.In1636,JewsbuilttheKahal
Zur
synago
goueinthecityofRecife.
In1947,Brazilvotedforthe
partitionofPalestine
andforthecreationofa
Jewishstateatthe
UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly
.
ModernDay
InAugust2004,themayorofSaoPaulodeclaredhercityasistercitywith
TelAviv
.In2001,thesynagogueinRecife,thefirstshuleverbuiltinthe
Americas,wasreopened,347yearsafteritwasclosedbyPortuguese
colonialrule.Aftertwoyearsofexcavationandrestoration,thesynagogue
wasabletohouseaJewishculturalcenterandhostafewreligious
ceremonies.
Chabad
hasgrownconsiderablyinrecentyearswithschools
and
synagogues
inseveralmajorcities.THereareManyJewishschoolsand
organizations.Jewshaveimportantjobsinbusinessandinpolitics.

5minutes
Israel: elu phinu
talks about our overwhelming gratitude towards God.

Think about your relationship to Israel and how happy you are to have a
Jewishhomelandduringthisprayer.
whyareyouthankfulforisrael?takehands

5minutes

Ethiopia: Halleljuah
The Ethiopian Jewish community is unique in that it

developed many of its own customswhichissomething wecancelebrate.

Additionally, since it was starting to decline in the 1990s the Israeli
government rescued the population and brought it to Israel. Hallejuhah is
all about praising God with all of our energy. During this prayer, praise
Godbecauseofthemiracle ofsavingthispreciousJewishpopulation.
pics
ofhowmanypeoplewereinplanesformivtzatshlomo

canyoufindanyconnectionsbetweentheethopianjewishcommunityand
otherprayers?
The Ethipoian Jewish community, reffered to as Beta Israel, the houseof
Israel isthoughtto havestarted between the 1stand6thcentury. Sincethe
Beta Israelcommunityexisted inisolationfrom otherJewishcommunities
around the world, they developed a unique set of religious practicesin
some ways quitedifferent fromwhatistypically considered "Jewish."For
example, an order of Ethiopian Jewish monks was founded in the 15th
centurytostrengthenthecommunity'sreligiousidentityandresistChristian
influence.On anumberofoccasionstheBetaIsrael's monasticclergytried
to escape the missionaries' influence by leading their communities to the
Promised Land. By and large, these journeys were disastrous. One
particular attempt in 1862 ended in largescale starvation and death.
Between 1882and1892theregionsofEthiopiawheretheBetaIsraellived
sufferedfrom afamine that killedanestimatedonethirdtoonehalfofthe
BetaIsrael.
Modertimeshappiernote
Operation Solomon (Hebrew: , Mivtza Shlomo) was a covert
Israeli military operation to airlift
Ethiopian Jews to
Israel in 1991.

Nonstop flights of 35 Israeli aircraft, including

Israeli Air Force
,
transported14,325JewstoIsraelin36hours.

2minutes

Britain:Barchu.
BalfourDeclarationannouncedBritainssupportfora

JewishhomelandinPalestinewhichgottheballrollingforothercountriesto
supportzionism.Barchuisacalltoprayerthatmarksthebeginningofthe
seriousandintensepartoftheservice.
ThefirstrecordedJewishcommunityin
Britain
wasbroughtto
England
in
1070byKing
WilliamtheConqueror
,whobelievedthatwhatheassumedto
betheircommercialskillswouldmakehisnewlywoncountrymore
prosperous.TwohundredyearslatertheJewswerenolongerwelcome.
King
EdwardIofEngland
passedthe
StatuteoftheJewry
(
Statutumde
Judaismo
)in1275,restrictingthecommunity'sactivities.When,15years
later,Edwardfoundthatmanyoftheseprovisionswereignored,he
expelled
theJewsfromEngland
.Theyemigratedtocountriessuchas
Polandwhich
protectedthem

bylaw
.
AsmallEnglishcommunitypersistedinhiding
despitetheexpulsion.GraduallyJewseasedbackintoEngland,firstvisiting
fortrade,thenstayinglongerperiods,andfinallybringingtheirfamilies.In
the19thCentury,BenjaminDisraeliservedtwotermsasEuropesonly
Jewishprimeminister.In1917,theBritishannouncedtheBalfour
Declarationwhichstatedtheirsupportofzionism.

4minutes
Jamaica: Yotzare Ore/Ore Chadash
. Jamaica has a small Jewish population

that has persisted for centuries. These prayers are all about thanking God
for light, whichisalsoasymbolforhope.As wesingtheseprayers,think

about your hope for the Jewish communityinsunny Jamaica togrow and
thrive.
Numerous Portuguese Jews first settled in Jamaica during the Spanish
Inquisition.In1530,thefirstshiploadofPortugueseSpanishJewsentered
Jamaica. They settled in Spanish Town(formerly St.Jagode laVega),the
only operating town at that time. Many of the Jews that arrived were
Conversos, fleeing Europetoopenly practice
Judaism
.Jewsweretreatedas
second class citizens heavy taxes were imposed on them and they were
forced to work onShabbat,however,Jewswere still very successfulinthe
trade industry and plantationcultivation. Approximately 200 Jewsresidein
Jamaica today, predominately in Kingston. While only asinglesynagogue
remains, the Shaare Shalom Synagogue in Kingston, there are remains of
the old synagogues on the island. The Shaare Shalom synagogue can
accommodate 600 congregants, though only about75 attend
High
Holiday
services.
picturesofsynagouges

4minutes
Shma/ VeahavataUganda.
The shma is the most important Jewish prayer that affirms
our faith in one God. In Uganda, the Jewish comunity was started by a military leader
who adapted both ChristianityandJudaismbuteventuallydeclaredhisfaithinJudaism.

(longbreathversion)bringkippot!

The Abaduya sect of Judasim owes its origin to military leader

Semei

Kakungulu
.Originally,Kakunguluwasconvertedto
ChristianitybyBritish
missionariesaround1880.WhentheBritishbegantakingawayhisterritory
however, he turned away from them and strated a sect of religion that
combined both Christianity and Judaism. He gradually began to believe
more strongly intheTorah.thearrival ofa foreignJewknownas"Yosef"
in 1920 whose ancestral roots are believed to have been European,
contributedmuch towards the community'sacquisitionofknowledgeabout
the seasons in which
Jewish Festivals such as
Pesach
,
Shavuot
,
Rosh

Hashanah
,
Yom Kippur
,
Succot
, and others take place. They isolated

themselves for selfprotection and survived persecution, including that of

Idi Amin
, who outlawed Jewish ritualsanddestroyed
synagogues
.During
the persecutions of Idi Amin, some of the Abayudaya community
converted to either Christianity or
Islam in the face of
religious

persecution
. A core group of roughly 300 members remained, however,
committed to Judaism, worshipping secretly. Besides the fivesynagogues
and Jewish schools have been established with outside help from
individualsandorganizations.

4minutes
Amidah/OsayShlaomdontfeelpressuredtositdownwhenothersdo.

3minutes
Poland: Mourners Kaddash.
The Mourners Kaddash isaprayerthatissaid

everyday for about a year after a loved one has died. When we say this
prayer, foreveryone that iscomfortable,pleasestandduringthisprayerand
pray for those who parished in the Shoah in Poland.
pic of # of
concentrationcamps

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WhilepersecutiontookplaceacrossEuropeduringthe
Crusades
,inthe13

century, Poland served as a haven for European Jewry because of its

relative tolerance. No central authority could stop the immigration.
Refugees from Germany brought with them German and Hebrewdialects
that eventually became Yiddish. In 1264, Duke Boleslaw issued the
"Statute of Kalisz," guaranteeing protection of the Jews and granting
generous legal and professional rights, including the ability to become
moneylenders and businessman. By the mid1300's, hatred of the Jews
existed among the nobility. According to the
Chronica Olivska
, Jews
throughoutPolandweremassacredbecausetheywereblamedfortheBlack
Death. andJews wereexpelledformthecityof
Cracow in1495.Although
there was antisemitism,PolandcontinuedtobeathrivingJewishcomunity.
By the mid16th century, eighty percent of the worlds Jews lived in
Poland. Werenowgoingtojumpaheadintomore moderntimes.In1918,
Poland became a sovereign state.Economic conditions declined forPolish
Jewsduringtheinterwaryears.BeforetheoutbreakofWorldWarII,more
than 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland, the largest Jewish population of
Europe and second largest Jewish communityinthe world.Poland served
as the center for Jewish culture and a diverse populationofJewsfromall
overEuropesoughtrefuge there, contributingtoawidevarietyofreligious
and cultural groups. Barely 11% of Poland's Jews 369,000 people
survivedthewar.Today,approximately3,200JewsremaininPoland.

4minutes
Ve Havienu: This prayer is allabout Jewsfromallovertheworlduniting.
After wesingthisprayerwewillhearfroma JewishgirlinUraguaywhos
youthorganiationhasapartnershipwithBBYO.
passouttallito

LetterFromDana:

BasicJewishLife
Ilivein Montevideo,thecapitalcityofUruguay,wherethe jewishcommunityis quitebigfor
such a small country. I go to a jewish school where I learn hebrewandIhave some subjects
related to judaismsuch asTanaj,or"masoret" (tradition). Dueto the fact thatIgotoa jewish
school,most ofmy friendsarejews, andI like that. OnSaturdays, justlikemost ofthejewish
teens in Uruguay, I go to ayouth movement.It's called"MacabiTzair"whereI'mcurrentlya
leaderIdo activities (similarto programs) aboutjudaism orthings relatedfor 7yearold boys.
Thereare7jewishmovementsinMontevideoanyway.
I go to the temple on jewish festivities like Rosh Hashana or Iom Kipur, and sometimes on
Fridaynightsforshabbat.
OnFriday nightsIalso have ashabbatdinnerwithmyfamilyat mygrandparent'shouse,where
wedotheblessings.
BatMitzvah:
Well, Ididtwothings:firstsomethingthatmyschooldoesthat'scalled"collectivebatmitzvah"
wherewediddifferentthingslikebakingchallahwith ourmothersandgrandmothers, wealso
did havdallah together, we went to different places to do tzedaka and then we did kind of a
showforourparentswherewedancedsinged andactedthingsrelatedtojudaism.Thatwasfun
haha.
Secondly, Ididapartyfor myfriendsandfamily,inwhichIlighted12candlesand"gave"each
candle toa group or tosomeonelike"thiscandleisformyfriends".Idon'tknow ifyoudothat,
butit'straditionhere.Apartfromthat,itwasjustaparty

Youthgroup
Well, MacabiisdifferentfromBbyoinmany ways.Firstly,it'snotjustforteens, so Ihavebeen
going to macabi since I was 4 years old. Teens are children'sleaders.Macabihas abuilding,
wherethenearly 500 people thatgotomacabi,goeverySaturday.DuringtheSaturday, leaders
likeme, do whatwecall"peulot" that areactivities,similartoprograms,thatarealmostalways
related to things connected to judaism (festivities, values, israel and zionism, among other
things.) throughgames andfun thingsdependingonthe ageofthepeopleyoulead(thatcanbe
from4to15yearsold).
In macabi, there is notsuchthingas bbg or aza,wegoalltogether,butwe'redividedingroups
by age. From the age of 4 to the age of 8/9 boys and girlsdo activities separatedly.(I'm the
leaderofa groupof7yearoldboys, forexample)andthen,theystartanewgrouptogethergirls
andboys.
Attheageof 18wego toIsrael for an year toimprovethewayofleading,experience Israel,
meet jewish teenagers from other movents around the world and other things which is
somethingthateverypersonthatgoes toMacabi(oranypersonthatgoestoajewishmovement
inUruguay,really)looksforwardtodoing.
Thenwehave2moreyearsinmacabi,andafterthat,weleave.
notthatdifferentfromourlifehere!

20 minutes Learning about anti semetism5minutestoreadtheinfo,10minutesto

recordonthestickynotes,5minutestoshare.

a few different stations around the room. each has information about a certain
antisemetic incident beginning with the Holocaust. People will be able to go to one
station and learn about the incident and record the important information on a giant
sticky note. They will then share the info with the rest of the group. The sticky notes
will ask for the title of the incident, when it took place, who was involved, why the
Jews were being targeted, how gentiles reacted, the outcome, and how it personally
resonated with them. It is best if people go to a station where they dont know a lot
abouttheincident.

questions for posters: title, major figures, conflict, result, interesting

facts/whatresonatedwithyouthemost

TheSituationofJewsinGermany:18701939

The situation of Jews in Europe after World War I varied. The status of
JewsinEasternEuropewasvastlyinferiortothatof
Jews in Western Europe, with differences from country to country. In
general,theJewsofWesternEuropefaredsimilarlyto
the Jews in the United States. The prominence of Jews in the Bolshevik
revolution that toppled the Russian Tsar created powerful antiSemitic

forceson both sidesof theAtlantic. Probablyinno country,however,did

theJewsdosowellorfeel
sosecureasintheGermanyofthe1920's.
According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, in Germany 44.8% of Jewish
marriagesbetween1921and1927weretoaGentile
spouse. Danger seemed remote. TheWeimarRepublicwasa liberalstate
whereJewswerefreetorisetothetopandmany
did so, especially in the arts, the sciences, business and the media. The
JewsofGermanyassimilatedrapidlyandoftentotally.
They felt themselves to be thoroughly German. The ablest Jews loved
Germanybecauseitwasthebestplacetoliveand
towork. Italsohadbyfarthebesteducationalsystem. Asanation,itduly
achieveduniversaladultliteracy.Between1870
and 1933, German universities were the finest in almost every discipline.
Moreover,between1870and1914Germanyemerged
as the most powerfulstateinthe worldandtheJewswere anintegralpart
ofthisachievement.Sohowdidthishighlycivilized
nationturnwithsuchviolent,organizedbrutalityagainsttheJews?

In Imperial Germany,Jewscouldnot possiblyimaginethattheywould be

persecutedinthefuture.Germanywasthenprobably
the most staid, lawabiding country in the world. The German Jews'
completeconfidenceinGermanywasexquisitelyportrayed
in Katherine Ann Porter's stupendous novel S
hip of Fools.
Germany was
defeated,humbledandeconomicallyruinedbyWorld
War I. It is a moral tribute to the Weimar Republic that it took15years
afterGermany'smilitarysurrenderin1918fortheir
persecutiontobegin.Asusual,theywerethemostconvenientscapegoat.

2.ArabAntiSemitismandtheArabResponsetoZionism:19202003

There waslittleAraboppositionto Zionism betweentheofficiallaunching

ofthemovementbyTheodoreHerzlinBaselin
1897 and the end of World War I, probably because most Arabs still felt
powerlesstofreethemselvesfromTurkish,British
orFrench colonial regimes duringthisperiod. ThefirstofmanyArabriots
againsttheYishuv,asPalestine'sJewishcommunity

was called before the establishment of the State of Israel, took place in
April1920.It'smaininstigatorwasHajAmin
AlHusseini. TheBritishsentencedhimto10yearsinprison,butreprieved
himin1921.Fromthenuntil1948manyhundreds
ofPalestinianJewswerekilledandthousandswoundedbyArabattacks.

SirHerbertSamuel, aJewandanardentZionist, was thefirstBritishHigh

CommissionerforPalestine(19201925).Britain
had received a mandate from the League of Nations to administer the
territoriesstipulatingthataNationalHomefortheJews
should be established there. Yet Sir Herbert appointed Haj Amin
AlHusseiniasGrandMuftiofJerusalemshortlyafterhis
release from jail in 1921. It was an attempt to appease Arabnationalism
andpreservethebalanceofpowerbetweenfiercely
rivalArabclans.ItprovedadisastrousmistakethatcostBritaindearly.

HajAmin AlHusseiniremainedGrandMuftiuntil1937. Hewasaviolent

antiZionistand,likemostfanaticallyreligious
Arabs, hated Jews intensely. He orchestrated the murderous antiJewish
riotsof1929,aswellasthosein1936,which
continued with some interuptions until 1939. These activities helped to
makehimaninternationalfigureandarallyingpoint
for antiBritish Arabs and the Middle East and for fascists around the
world.Eventually,hehadavalidclaimtobeing
instrumental in killing more Jews than any other Arab. From theMufti's
sanctuaryontheHarameshSharif(theTemple
Mount), he organized the first jihad against the Jews. He succeeded to
make anindependentArab PalestineandoppositiontoZionismapanArab
andpanIslamicgoal. Healsoorganizedthesystematickillingofelements
in Arab society that wished to cooperate with the Jews of the Yishuv for
thebenefitofbothpeoples.

In 1937,the violenceinstigatedbythe GrandMuftibecamesounbearable

toBritainthathehadtoescapefromPalestineand
found refugeinLebanon,wheretheFrenchwelcomed him. In1941,with
Germanencouragement,hehelpedtoorganizea
revoltoftheArabs inIraqagainsttheBritish. Whenitfailed,hemadehis
waytoBerlin,whereheremaineduntiltheendof
World War II as the guest of Adolf Hitler. Whilein Berlin,hebroadcast

NazipropagandatotheentireMiddleEast.He
organizedthe MuslimsinBosnia,AlbaniaandKosovofortheGermanwar
effortandagainsttheJews.Heconstantlyurged
theNazis toexterminatetheJewsofEuropeatafasterpace. Hishatredfor
theJewssurpassedHitler's.Atthe1946/47
Nuremberg War Trials, Adolf Hitler's deputy, Dieter Wisliceny, testified
"TheMuftiwasoneoftheinstigatorsofthe
systematic extermination of European Jewry and has been a collaborator
andadvisorofEichmannandHimmlerandthe
executionofthisplan."

After World War II, the former Grand Mufti managed to escape from
EuropeandensconcedhimselfinCairo.Fromtherehe
continuedtoencouragetheArabassaulton thePalestinianJews. In 1948,
Egyptian,Syrian,Iraqi,JordanianandLebanese
forces invaded Palestine but were defeated. The work of Haj Amin
AlHusseiniwascontinuedbyGamalAbdulNasserof
Egypt,whocreatedthePalestinianLiberationOrganization(PLO)in1964.

At first led by Achmed Shukairy, the PLO was soon taken over by the
GrandMufti'skinsman,YasserArafat.Arafat'sgoal
is to destroy the Jewish State. Hewantstocompletethe exterminationof
theJewsbegunbyHitler.Histerrorismpopluar
amongtheArabsandeveninsomeWestEuorpeancircleshasservedasa
modelforallotherterroristgroups,helpingthem
to recruit members and raise funds. Arafat's policy towards Arabs who
desiretocooperatewiththeJewsofIsraelisnoless
murderousthanthatofMufti'swas.

The Egyptian connection with the PLO easily survived the 1979 peace
treatywithIsrael.AnwarSadat,whosignedthis
treaty and was consequently assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists, was
nofriendoftheJewishState.Aftersigningit,he
explained to Hafez Asad of Syria that their strategicgoalswereidentical,
buttoachievethemIsraelhadtobedeprivedofthe
Sinai Peninsula. And in 1954, while editor ofAl Ahram,Egypt'sleading
newspaper,hesaidthattheonlythinghehadagainst
HitlerwasthathedidnotkillalltheJews.

Significantly, the peace treaty made no difference totheviciousoutbursts

againstIsraelinthestatecontrolledEgyptianpress,
including Caricatures of Jews modeled on the Nazi Der Sturmer. When
HosniMubaraksucceededSadattheprovisions
relating to normalizationandabstentionfromantiIsraelipropagandawere
systematicallydisregarded,perhapsbecauseIsraeli
governments took no steps to counter this (e.g. stopping the imports of
EgyptianoilorthreateningantiEgyptianpropaganda
in the United States.) Besides, Egyptians began to be persecuted for
advocatingnormalizationwithIsrael.Mubarakhasnever
visited Israel and probably feels contempt for Israeli leaders visiting him.
Butthepeacetreatymaysurviveforaslongasthe
UnitedStatesarmsEgyptandsupportsitfinancially.

Elsewhere in the Arab world, with the possible exception of Jordan, the
situationisnobetter.Everywhere(Jordanincluded),
the terrorist attacks of the two Palestinian intifadas have intensified the
hatredoftheJewishStateintheArabstreet.Terrorism
against infidels is popular. The hatred of Jews began with Prophet
Mohammed.Itispreachedinmosquesandtaughtat
school.Eradicatingitisawellnighimpossibletask.

The mediaeval charge that Jews drink the blood of Muslim children and
bakePassoverMatzotwithithasbeenperiodically
surfacing in the Arab world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Syria's
currentMinisterofDefense,MustafaTias,published
an Arab bestseller in 1983 entitled T
he Matzahof Zion.
It featured"proof"of
theveracityofthisbloodlibel.Afewyearsago,
Egypt's Al Ahram "reported" that the libel was "true". And in 2002 the
Egyptiantelevisionbegantobroadcastaseriesonthis
subject. There is no sign and nohopeofadeclinein ArabantiSemitism
duringthe21stcentury.ButifIslamreceivesamajor
militaryblow,itmaybeconcealedandlaydormantforawhile.

3.TheJewishConditionIn200370YearsAftertheRiseofHitler

A.Europe

For approximately fifty years after the end of World War II and the
Holocaust,antiSemitismseemed,atlonglast,aspent
force in the world's more enlightened societies. Exceptforthe Arabsand
Russia,allindicatorspointedtoadrasticdeclinein
antagonismtowardstheJews. Yetsubsequenteventsshowedthatthiswas

butatemporarysomnolencefromwhicharousal
waseasy. Thetwoidentifiablefactorsthatmainly contributedtothelatest
antiSemiticoutbreaksweretheArabIsrael
conflict and the Moslem attack on the United States on September 11th
2001.

An interesting difference between the current wave of antiSemitism and

previousonesisthatthemenacenowcomeschiefly
from thesocalledpoliticalLeftinsteadoffromtheextremepoliticalRight.
IneveryWestEuropeancountrythereare
shocking reportsofantiSemiticarticles, speeches, andactionsreminiscent
ofthetragic1930'sand1940's.AntiSemitism
is as rife in the France of today as it was acenturyagoat the time ofthe
DreyfusAffair.ItisresurgentinGermanyand
Austria,BelguimandHolland,ScandinaviaandEasternEurope.

The current antiSemitism is qualitatively different from the incitement

againstJewsbytheCatholicandLutheranchurchesin
the 19th century. It is the conjoined product of religious Islam and the
largelyatheistleft.
Byplacingterroristonthesame
moralplaneastheir victims, the leftdenies the Jewish Peopleof Israeleventhemoralrightof
selfdefense.

In Britain, the novelist A.M. Wilson published an article in the London

EveningStandardonOctober22nd2000statinghis
"reluctant conclusion" that the Jews of Israel have no right to exist as a
nation.AmorerecentarticlebyPetronellaWyattin
theLondonSpectorreportedthat"sinceSeptember11thantiSemitismand
itsopenexpressionhavebecomerespectableat
London dinner tables." Mrs. Wyatt also recounts being told by a liberal
memberoftheHouseofLords,"theJewshavebeen
askingfor it, and now,thankGod, wecansaywhat wethink atlast." The
BritishGovernmentinstitutedanembargoon
military equipment ordered by Israel. And British ambassador Sherard
CowperColeclearlyhadArafat'sterroragainstIsrael
in mind when he commented at a recent Highlevel conference in Berlin,
"Wecanallthinkoftimesinhistorywhentheuse
of terrorism has been justified." Recently, Prime Minister Tony Blair
invitedSyria'sdictatorBesharAssadtoLondonwhere

he was accorded red carpet treatment. Assad is undeniably one of the

world'sleadingsponsorsofterrorismmainlyagainst
Jews but against Americans too. Israel's Foreign Ministercouldnoteven
meethiscounterpartinLondon.

Oriana Fallaci, a 73yearold Italian journalist of great moral persuasion,

whoneverminceswordsorhankeredafter"political
correctness," wrote a brilliant expo on the antiSemitism sweeping
WesternEurope.InFrance,theytriedtobanherbest
selling book T
he Rage and The Pride
supposedly because it was offensive to
Islam.Itakethelibertyofquotingfromher
recentarticle
IStandWithIsrael:IStandWithTheJews.

"IfinditshamefulthatthestateruntelevisionstationsinItalycontributeto
theresurgentantiSemitism,cryingonlyover
PalestiniandeathswhileplayingdownIsraelideaths,glossingoverthemin
unwillingtones.Ifinditshamefulthatintheir
debates they host with much difference the scoundrels with turban or
kaffiahwhoyesterdaysanghymnstotheslaughterin
NewYorkandtodaysinghymnstotheslaughtersinJerusalem,inHaifa,in
Netanya,inTelAviv.

"I find it shameful that they are on the side of the very ones who
inauguratedterrorism,killingusonairplanes,inairports,
at the Olympics, and who today entertain themselves by killing Western
journalists.Byshootingthem,byabductingthem,
cuttingtheirthroats, decapitating. (There'ssomeoneinItalywho,sincethe
appearanceof
TheRageandThePride
would
like to do the same to me. Citing verses of the Koran he exorts his
'brothers'inthemosquetochastisemeinthenameof
Allah. To kill me. Or rather to die with me. Since he is someone who
speaksEnglishwell,I'llrespondtohiminEnglish:
'.F***you.'

"I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new
Nazismthatismoregrimandrevoltingbecauseitis
conducted and nourished by those who hypocriticallyposeasdogooders,
progressives,communists,fascists,Catholics,
or rather Christians, and who have the gall to label a warmonger anyone

likemewhoscreamsthetruth.Ihaveoftenhad
disagreements with the Israelis, and in the past I have defended the
Palestiniansagreatdeal.Maybemorethantheydeserve.
But I stand with the Jews. I defend their right to exist, to defend
themselves,nottoletthemselvesbeexterminatedthesecond
time. I am discusted by the antiSemitism of many Italians, of many
Europeans.Iamashamedofthisshamethatdishonors
my country andEurope. Atbest,itis not acommunityofstates, buta pit
ofPontiusPilates.Andevenifalltheinhabitants
ofthisplanetweretothinkotherwise,Iwouldcontinuetothinkso."

The events of September 11th 2001 acted as such potent catalyst of

antiSemitismbecausetheyledconsciouslyorsub
consciously,to anenormous fear oftheMoslemsinthe West. InWestern
Europethiswasaccentuatedbytheenormous
influx of Moslems often with extremist views and an admiration fortheir
terrorists,duringthelastfourdecades.Veryfew
of these Moslems became in any real sense part of Western society.
Usuallytheykeptthemselvesapart,livingaccording
totheirownsocial dictates forgedinthe distantpast,whileexpectingtheir
newhomecountrytoacceptandevenfinance
this, though considerable funds were invested by some Arab oil states
(especiallySaudiArabia)inbuidingmosquesand
other communalcentersforthem. TheindigenousWesternpopulationfelt
trapped.Expellingthesepeoplewasnot
feaseable, not only because it contravened the accepted ideas of open
bordersandglobalism,butalsosincetheWestneeded
Moslemoilandgas. Treatingthembadlyorwithsuspicionmightprovoke
terroristacts.SotheJewsagainassumedtherole
of a psychologically essential scapegoat for a detested situation they had
nothingtodowith.Basically,thesupportof
Palestinianterrorism againstIsraelhas similarroots: "Ifeartheymaydoit
toustoo!"

B.TheUnitedNations"TheMoralConscienceofTheWorld"

Jeanne Kirkpatrick was United States ambassador to the UN when it

equatedZionismwithRacismin1975.Shesaidthat
she was shocked by the intensity of the antiSemitism she encountered
there.TheresolutionaccusingIsraelofracismpassed
by an overwhelming majority in the GeneralAssembly,dispitestrong US
opposition.

Israel holds about onethousandth of the world's population. Yet despite

therecurrentmassacresinAfricainvolvingmillions
of people. Theconquest ofTibetbytheChinese, thebloodyconflictover
KashmirontheIndiansubcontinentanddecades
of slaughter in Indonesia and the Philippines, fully threequarters of all
resolutionspassedattheUnitedNationsduringthe
last 35 years involved the condemnation of Israel the sole beacon of
democracyandWesternvaluesintheMiddleEast.

The UN has become the leading instrument lending legitimacy to

JewhatredandthewaragainstIsrael.Thisworldwide
assaultisnotdirectedagainstthebehaviorofthe JewsofIsraelbutagainst
theirveryexistance.AntiSemitismtodayismore
powerful than ithasbeeneversinceitwentintotemporaryeclipsewiththe
liberationoftheNaziexterminationcampsin
1945. TheUN,insharpcontrasttoitspredecessor,theLeagueofNations,
whichapprovedtheBritishMandateofPalestine
on condition that a Jewish National Home be established there, has done
abouteverythingitcouldtomeettheterritorial
demands ofthePLOandSyriaandgive Israelindefensibleborders. Even
UNResolution194,whichwouldsubmergethe
JewishStatebeneathafloodofArabrefugees,effectivelydestroyingit,has
notbeenrevoked.IftheUNgetsitsway(which
owing to the US veto is bynomeans certain),wemight yetenter another
phaseofHitler's"finalsolutionoftheJewish
problem."

"The Arabs and their European sycophants are fostering a new, virulent
hatredoftheJewsandtheirState.Thisnew,Nazi
likeanimussinglesoutJewsnotonlyfordiscriminatorytreatmentbutalso
fortargetedterroristassault.Oneofthepeaks
of the current propaganda campaign was the UNsponsored antiRacisim
conferenceinDurban,SouthAfricainSeptember
2001. Theleadingdefamers werethe Arabstates,includingEgypt, which
signedapeacetreatywithIsrael.OtherMoslem
countries and many supposedly "progressive, human rights conscious"
Westernnongovernmentalorganizationssponsored
them. Terms such as "Nazi", "ethnic cleansing" and even "Holocaust"
havebeensubsumedbytheJewhatersagainstthe

Jewishvictimsof Hitler's crimestobenefit thePLOofYasserArafat. The

wheelhascomefullcircle.ForArafatisa
relative and spiritualsuccessorofHajAmin AlHusseini, theGrandMufti
ofJerusalemwhourgedHitlertoexterminatethe
Jewsfaster.

Theuseof theUnitedNationsforthemoralundermining ofIsrael isnota

trivialmatter.TheaimisIsrael'stotalisolation,
sothatattheappropriatetimeit may havetofaceoverwhelmingpowerful
forcesaloneanddisappearfromthemap.And
theresultingmassmurderofJewsmaynotbeconfinedtoPalestine.

AntisemetisminAmericanUniversitiesandColleges

The present administration of President George W. Bush is probably the

most supportive of Israel the US ever had. It is easy to imagine the dire
consequences of the loss of this support to Israel and the Jewish People.
However, large segments of US population are hostile to Israel and by
extension to the Jews. These include Moslem groups that have been
growing more rapidly than the rest. The only group which, as such, is
really friendly to Israel are the fundamentalist Christians, whose motives
are moral and theological. The iimportant weight within the Republican
Party influences the foreign policy of this party. On the other hand, the
Democratic party is slowly being taken over by radicalsandThirdWorld
elements who are viscerally proArab and antiSemitic. Nowhere has this
dangerous constellation of forces been more evident than on university
campusesamongbothfaculty membersandstudents. Asimilarsituation
existed in Germany during the halcyon days of the liberal Weimar
Republic in the 1920's. Then, the Nazi Partyflourished ontheuniversity
campusesofGermany butdidpoorlyatthepolls. ThevirusofJewshatred
is spreading from an increasing number of American colleges and
universitiestotheelitesoftheUnitedStates.
At some point, we should be prepared for US foreign policy and societal
norms toward Jews to be affected by this. One can only hope that the
situation of the Jews in America will not deteriorate to the level now
prevailing in Europe. The past three years have beenparticularlydifficult
forJewishstudentson Americancampuses. Therehasbeenasharprisein
the number of antiIsrael and antiSemitic demonstrations, posters, flyers
and speeches from coast to coast. Numerous ugly incidents are being

reportedandsupportersof Israelfeelthegrowinghostilityaroundthem. A
disturbingphenomenonis the appearanceof"AntiZionistWeek"onmany
campuses with the support ofacademic administrations. Jonathan Berg, a
21yearold senior at th University of San Diego, complained that much
"very, very antiSemitic stuff is passed around," from faked Talmudic
quotations saying that Jewish males may violate any nonJewish females
overtheageofthreeto
quotations from T
he Protocols of Elders of Zion.
At the University of Chicago,
Jewish students formed a coalition which is holding the university
responsiblefortheatmosphereofintimidationandhatefacedbytheJewish
students. They noted that the increase inantiSemiticincidentskeptpace
withthe escalation of violence in the Middle East and related that an
obviouslyJewishstudentwaswalkingonthecampusone
eveningwhen acardroveupbeside himitsinmatesshouting"Deathtothe
Jews. Hitler should have finished youoff whenhe hadthechance." The
group wrote: "These incidents are symptomatic of an increasingly alarm
problem for Jewish students [here]. Jews are being mistreated and
intimidated on campus. In the University of Chicago, antiSemitism has
been made acceptable, even fashionable, by a long processs academi
delegitimizingof IsraelandJudaism. Outburstsagainstotherreligionsand
ethnicities, including Islam, are not considered acceptable and they occur
much more rarely. [Responsible for] this delegitimizing are professors,
students, administrators,anda hostofinstitutionalpractices."OnMay7th
2002, a major antiSemitic incident occurred at the State University of
CaliforniainSanFrancisco.Professor
Laurie Zoloth, Director ofits JewishStudiesprogram attendedthe Hillel's
Peace in the Middle East rally with several hundred students, faculty and
members of the Jewish community who heard speeches supporting Israel
and sang Hebrew songs. Arab supporters advanced on a group of 50
students who stayed behind to clean up. Professor Zolothdescribedwhat
ensued: "As thecounterdemonstratorspouredintotheplazascreamingat
the Jews 'get out or we will kill you!'and'Hitlerdid not finishthejob,' I
turnedtothepoliceand toevery administratorIcouldfindandaskedthem
toremovethe
counterdemonstrators from the plaza, to maintain the separation of 100
feetthatwehadbeenpromised. Thepolicesaidthattheyhadbeentoldnot
toarrestanyone, and that iftheydid'it wouldstart ariot.' Itoldthemthat
it was already a riot This isnotcivicdiscourse,thisis notfreespeech,
this is the Weimar Republic with brown shirts it cannot control." She

noted that intheemail she circulatedthattheantiSemitic, antiIsraeland

antiAmerican atmosphere pervading the campus extended farbeyondthe
scope ofoneprotestthatspunoutofcontrol. Sheconcluded: "Afternearly
seven years as Director of Jewish Studies and nearly two decades oflife
here as student, faculty member and wife of the Hillel Rabbi ...I am
saddened toseetheSanFranciscoState Universityreturntoitsnotorityas
aplacethatteachesantiSemitism,hatredforAmericaandhatred....forthe
JewishStateofIsrael..."

Antisemeticskits7minutestoprepare,5minutestoshare
peoplestayin thegroupthattheywereinfortheposandareassignedareal
life anti semetic incident. they have to make a skit that shows how they
would resolve the incident. Tell people afterwards that these were real
incidents.
skits:
1. you read a passage in school entitled Genocide WithoutApology in

2.
3.

4.
5.

your unit about human nature. The essay states that Jews celebrate
thekillingoftheEgyptianchildren.Whatdoyoudo?
One of your facebooks friends posts a long post about whyhe does
not support Israel with a lot of false information. You are not very
closewiththisperson.Whatdoyoudo?
YouareatasummercampthatisnotJewish,buttherehappentobea
lot of Jews atthiscamp.Someone makesanoffensecommentabout
the fact that there are Jews at a camp is funny because ofthedeath
camps. The otherJewswhohearthiscommentdontseem tocareor
wanttosayanything.Whatdoyoudo?
You wear a magen david necklace to school and your teacher tells
you to take it off because it will most likely offend some people.
Whatdoyoudo?
Youre on a school feild trip and on the bus ride to the destination
yourclassmatesthrowpenniesatyou.Whatdoyoudo.

Poster 5 minutes Now that weve learned about the history of different
Jewishcommunities,antisemetism,andbrainstormedwaystocombat,take
a marker and write on this poster why you believe in the future of the
Jewishpeople.
Poster laid out in the room that says I believe in the future of the Jewish
peoplebecause.everyonewritestheiranswerontheposter

frontofroom=top
circles=chairs.Iwouldlikearound20chairs.Idontwanttheservicetobemuch
biggerthanthisifpossiblebecauseIwouldliketheservicetobemoreintimate.
trapezoid=basketoftallitot
rectangles=giantstickynotes
lines=pens
smallrectangles=notecards
Theroomdoesnothavetobeverybig.ThesizeoftheroomthatNogahadher
trackinatLSisfine.

Withthisoutlinepleasesubmitthefollowing
:
Ifanyoftheseareonadifferentdocument,pleaseputthelinktothatdocumentnexttothebulletbellow.

Aprogrammingscriptdescribingindetaileverysingleactivitythatwillbe
takingplaceand(ascloseaspossibleto)everythingyouaregoingtosayat
yourprogram

Atimetableofhowyourprogramwillrun(totheminute)

Alistofallroomsneededforyourprogram,andadiagramshowinghoweach
roomwillbesetup

o PreferredRoomsforyourprogram:
(listanyandallspecifications
youwantincludingsize,location,shape,orsetuppleaseberealistic
inyourrequests)
o DiagramofRoomSetup:
UseGoogleDrawingsbyclicking
Insert>DrawingORuploadaphoto
o ComponentsYouMustIncludeinYourDrawing:
Includeakeyinyourdrawing
Writeamountsoftablesandchairsbelowkey.
Specifywherethefrontoftheroomis
Specifywhereyouwantyoursuppliestobeatthestartofthe
program
Specifysizesoftables(bypeopleorbywhatyouwanttofitonit)
inkey

Alistofallindividualsneededtorunyourprograms,leadgroups,etc.

Acompletesupplylist,indicatingwhoisresponsibleforsupplyingeachitem
EVERYSINGLEITEM
YOUNEEDTORUNTHISPROGRAM,DOWNTOACOPYOFTHEPROGRAM
OUTLINEITSELF,MUSTBEINCLUDEDINTHESUPPLYLIST,WITHQ
UANTITY
,NOMATTERWHOIS
RESPONSIBLEFORSUPPLYINGTHEM!
O USESUPPLYDOC:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uvzoi0dj8l5yTtrTGej2fg6lEs
pp8kwgiRDXL_HQ/edit?usp=sharing