Gary Cooperberg, December 23, 2004

Antisemitism is growing all over the world. Jews in the United States of America are the last ones in the world who will be willing to recognize it. The American Jew, like his predecessor in Germany back in the late 1930s, has come to believe that the exile in which he is currently living is his real and permanent home. Unfortunately the German Jew discovered his mistake too late. Is there any hope for the American Jew?

Talk show host, Bill O'Reilly, has been accused of being antisemitic when all he was really doing was being honest. His recent comment to a Jewish caller was completely distorted by so called "Jewish interest" groups who always fight for paper causes and ignore the real threats to their Jewish constituents. Christmas trees have always been the recipients of the anger of the ADL. They have fought so hard to separate church and state that they have not only been the leaders in the successful battle to remove state funding from private schools, thus virtually nullifying the ability of poor Jews to give their children a Jewish education, but they have been instrumental in effectively taking G-d out of the American government. By so doing they are helping to bring about the fall of the United States of America, a country whose greatness only was achieved by her recognition of the G-d of Creation.

The United States of America permits freedom of religion to everyone. The fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans happen to be Christian gives them the right to express their religious beliefs in public. . at least as much as any other religion. If a Jew living in the United States feels that the display of a Christmas tree or even a nativity scene is offensive to him he does, as O'Reilly suggested, have the ability to move to a country which has Jewish national holidays. O'Reilly did not suggest deporting anyone for his beliefs. He just pointed out a factor which most Jews and Jewish organizations in the United States prefer not to think about. The State of Israel is not merely a haven for Jews with nowhere else to go. The reborn Jewish State is the beginning of the end of the two thousand year Exile of the Jewish People. It is the beginning of the fulfillment of an ancient Jewish dream in which Jews all over the world yearned for the day when we will be able to return home.

The American Jewish Congress; the B'nei Brith Anti Defamation League; The American Jewish Committee and too many other multimillion dollar organizations who claim to be fighting for Jewish rights, have in fact been denying the dream of Zion and depriving American Jews of the most important tool they need. . . a proper Jewish education for their children. They have created a Jew devoid of Judaism who has lost his purpose in life. The only thing the exiled Jew had to keep him going was his Judaism and his dream of Zion. These groups have taken both away from their constituents and thus we find that American Jews are rapidly disappearing as they melt into a new American identity which denies their purpose on this Earth.

Project Shofar is a small voice trying to call out against the vast majority of American Jews that being Jewish includes the yearning to come home. If you have lost that yearning then you have closed the door to Judaism behind you and will become lost to your people. If Bill O'Reilly has gotten the ADL to state that the idea of suggesting that Jews come home to live in their own homeland is antisemitic, then he has done a service to the Jewish community by exposing the fraudulent nature of these so called "Jewish" organizations. Keep up the good work!

Gary Cooperberg is a resident of the Jewish community in Hebron, Israel.

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