Israel: Don’t Marry U.S. Jews!

[VUVUZELA]

• AFP
• December 03, 2011 1:46PM

THE Israeli government has withdrawn an ad campaign after a rare backlash from major US Jewish groups for appearing to urge expatriates not to marry American Jews or raise children in the United States.

The ads struck a nerve in a community that has long debated the nature of the Jewish identity and struggled with issues of assimilation, intermarriage and tensions between religious and secular Jews.
The first ad showed a young Israeli woman wincing after her American boyfriend mistakes candles and music marking Israel's solemn memorial day for a romantic night in.
A narrator intoned: "They will always remain Israelis. Their partners won't always understand what that means. Help them return to Israel."
A second ad showed shock flashing across the faces of a pair of Israeli grandparents when their granddaughter shouted "Christmas" in English when asked what holiday she was celebrating during a video chat.
This time the narrator said: "They will always remain Israelis. Their children won't."
The ad campaign -- which also included billboards in Hebrew urging Israelis to come home before their children started calling them "Daddy" instead of the Hebrew term "Abba" -- rippled through social media sites and was picked up by the Jewish Channel and a number of influential blogs.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the ads be pulled "immediately" and a statement released by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, said the premier "deeply values the American Jewish community."
Ambassador Oren issued an apology for "any offense" caused by the ads, noting that while the campaign had the "laudable" aim of encouraging Israelis to return home it "did not take into account American Jewish sensibilities."


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[mfianchi]

By Allison Yarrow | The Daily Beast – 17 hrs ago: 12/01/2011

Jewish children reared in America grow up hearing one thing on repeat. It’s like a dull tuning fork in the ear, or an image that sticks in the brain. Marry a Jew. Over and over. As if each time is the first. The subtext is that each of us is responsible for all of us, and if we intermarry, we risk disappearing completely. American Jewspreach marrying each other in Israel’s name. The act does the Jewish homeland proud. A friend’s parent once told me that marrying a Jew would be great, but marrying an Israeli would be even better.
Unfortunately for American Jews, and all those niggling parents, it turns out that Israel might not be on our team in this marriage game. A middling and now infamous Israeli government department has forged a peculiar U.S.-based advertising campaign. In a series of videos and billboards, it is discouraging Israeli expats from marrying American Jews and imploring them to move back toIsrael.
The ham-handed effort isn’t targeting American Jews, but it is offending them. Outrage has been concentrated in the blogosphere. “I don't think I have ever seen a demonstration of Israeli contempt for American Jews as obvious as these ads,” writes Jeffery Goldberg in The Atlantic. Gal Beckerman, a child of Israeli expats who lives in Brooklyn, writes in The Forward that the ads are most disturbing because they are full of fear.
This public offensive voices what American Jews should already know, and should be angrier about: that many Israeli writers, thought leaders, politicians, and rabbis believe assimilated American Jews are not Jews at all. People who make it their business to say who is and who isn’t a Jew are as old as the religion itself. That paradigm is hardly a useful one. Nobody listens to people who only want to exclude. There are more of us here than in Israel. Questions of Jewishness may not permeate our everyday activities, but maybe that’s Israeliness and not Jewishness at all.
Besides, if there are no Jews here in America, who would be left to plant all those trees?

Mh hayo ni masaburi yao wana wa Israel kwa mungu wote ni sawa hakuna cha Israel wala Palestine wala Mwaafrika au Mzungu kwa hiyo isiwe issue

 

[Mafie PM]

Ajabu huyo Mungu wenu wa Kiyahudi, wao Wayahudi hawashirikiani na nyie kumuabudu ! Bado hutii akili !?

Haya mambo yatakuchanganya maana wewe ni yule mtu ambaye hafundishiki hata ukimtwanga kwenye kinu! Unajua anaitwaje huyo mtu? Yanini kubishania Mungu ambaye hata ukikataa kumwita Mungu bado anabakia kuwa Mungu tu?

 

[Ally Kombo]

Haya mambo yatakuchanganya maana wewe ni yule mtu ambaye hafundishiki hata ukimtwanga kwenye kinu! Unajua anaitwaje huyo mtu? Yanini kubishania Mungu ambaye hata ukikataa kumwita Mungu bado anabakia kuwa Mungu tu?

Ngoja nijaribu kukufundisha wewe unaelewa haraka '' Sifa zote njema zinamthibitikia Mwenyezi Mungu aliyeumba mbingu na ardhi na akafanya giza na nuru. Na juu ya haya wale waliokufuru wanamsawazisha na Mola wao (na waungu wengine wa uongo). Yeye ndiye aliyekuumbeni kwa udongo, kisha akaweka muda (wa kuishi). Na muda huo maalum
uko kwake. Juu ya haya bado mnatia shaka. QURAN: Al An'am 1-2.

 

[VUVUZELA]

Mh hayo ni masaburi yao wana wa Israel kwa mungu wote ni sawa hakuna cha Israel wala Palestine wala Mwaafrika au Mzungu kwa hiyo isiwe issue

Mkuu hapa umeongea point. Mungu wetu ni wa wote na hana upendeleo wa rangi wala taifa. Sote hapa duniani mbeleni kwa Mungu ni sawa

 

[Mafie PM]

Ngoja nijaribu kukufundisha wewe unaelewa haraka '' Sifa zote njema zinamthibitikia Mwenyezi Mungu aliyeumba mbingu na ardhi na akafanya giza na nuru. Na juu ya haya wale waliokufuru wanamsawazisha na Mola wao (na waungu wengine wa uongo). Yeye ndiye aliyekuumbeni kwa udongo, kisha akaweka muda (wa kuishi). Na muda huo maalum
uko kwake. Juu ya haya bado mnatia shaka. QURAN: Al An'am 1-2.

Siyo tunatia shaka Quran bali ni jambo lililowazi kuwa haitufai na inapotosha kweli, waachieni waarabu dini yao inayofungamana na majini. Ila ni kawaida ya mwanachama kusifia chama chake hata kama kinanyonya damu. Nafikiri huna ulazima wowote kunifundisha umuhimu wa dini ya majini maana mimi nina akili timamu na iliyotakaswa, tafuta waliokosa mwelekeo na ambao akili zao zimeghilibiwa na majini hao watakuelewa maana ni wana wa kupotea tu na walikusudiwa kupotea.

 

[Mafie PM]

Mkuu hapa umeongea point. Mungu wetu ni wa wote na hana upendeleo wa rangi wala taifa. Sote hapa duniani mbeleni kwa Mungu ni sawa

Hilo nalikubali maana Israel watahukumiwa sawasawa na wengine wowote, ila ninachojua ni kwamba Mungu siyo kigeugeu kwa maneno aliyoyatamka kwamba atakayeilaani Israel atalaaniwa na atakayeibariki atabarikiwa. Mungu husimama kwenye ahadi zake ndiyo maana alisema amebarikiwa yule atoaye kuliko anayepokea, haijalishi kuwa huyo mtu ni mwema au ni mbaya. Hiyo ndiyo fomula ya Mungu

 

[Marytina]

Wakuu hamjui kama Israel ni taifa lililolaaniwa. Mnashangaa nini.

unaugua.
Waisrael wa Marekani wanaoa israel ili kuongeza idadi yao America.
Viva Israel alaaniwe akusutaye

 

[Ndahani]

USA wako puluted, lol! Wanaonekana sio 100% katika kila kitu.

 

[Ally Kombo]

unaugua.
Waisrael wa Marekani wanaoa israel ili kuongeza idadi yao America.
Viva Israel alaaniwe akusutaye

Mungu wenu ni ndugu na Waisraeli hivyo lazima mjipendekeze ! Cha ajabu hao waisrael wala hawana shughuli na mungu wenu. Msipojipendekeza kwao na mungu hamna !

 

[Ally Kombo]

Siyo tunatia shaka Quran bali ni jambo lililowazi kuwa haitufai na inapotosha kweli, waachieni waarabu dini yao inayofungamana na majini. Ila ni kawaida ya mwanachama kusifia chama chake hata kama kinanyonya damu. Nafikiri huna ulazima wowote kunifundisha umuhimu wa dini ya majini maana mimi nina akili timamu na iliyotakaswa, tafuta waliokosa mwelekeo na ambao akili zao zimeghilibiwa na majini hao watakuelewa maana ni wana wa kupotea tu na walikusudiwa kupotea.

Uislaam ndio umbile aliloumbiwa mwanaadam ! Na ni dini ya Adam A.S na IBRAHIM na mitume wote ! Tumeumbwa makabila na mataifa tofauti ili tujuane tu. Hebu nijuze, nini chanzo cha majini ? Yanahusiana vp na Uislaam ?