The Truth About Jerusalem In Islam [Video]

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This video is related to a posting on Globe Tribune.Info It is posted here to avoid its getting deleted from You Tube. It deals with the place of Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in Islam. Because of reports that the video is offensive to Mulslims, I screened it with extreme sensitivity to the issue of incitement. On this web site, Magedeburgerjoe.com and Globe Tribune.info there is a clear policy against bigotry and incitement. This video passes those tests. Indeed, it is most informative.

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Both Magdeburgerjoe.com and Rudistettner.com have been in existence since January of 2008. Both sites have followed an eclectic path, poth poliically and topically. The fact that both names are easily misspelled, as well as other technical issues have limited the growth of both sites. In response to this, a new site has been in existence since November of 2010. It is called GlobeTribune.info, and it can also be reached by the url "globetribune.com.

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The graphics of GlobeTribune.Info look a lot more like a news web site. Despite this, it will continue to encompass the mission of RudiStettner.com and MagdeburgerJoe.com, with an editorial policy against cutting and pasting articles from elsewhere, and instead introducing content with leadovers to original sources.

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Bully Video goes Viral

      Youtube has been repeatedly taking down this video, in which a bully finds out that it is payback time. I am posting it here, where it will be free from Youtube censorship

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Wartime Memories of a Jewish Boy in Uzbekistan

The former rabbi of my shul, Rabbi Laufer, told a story of his boyhood in Uzbekistan.  He teaches a class every week to a Bukharian congregation of orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. (Bukharians speak a dialect of Persian, not Yiddish.) In addition, he makes financial contributions to the upkeep of their synagogue. One day, one of the Bukharian congregants asked Rabbi Laufer as follows.
“You are from Poland. You speak Yiddish. Why do you come here to a congregation of Jews from Uzbekistan? What is your connection to us? Rabbi Laufer told them the following story

At the age of seven in 1939,   I was living with my  family in Poland. When Germany and the Soviet Union split Poland up( due to the Soviet German friendship treaty of 1939), we were on the German side. To save our lives, we escaped to the Soviet half of Poland. Our entire family was deported to Siberia. As presumed enemies of Germany, which was  then a friend of the USSR, we were deported to Siberia. In 1941, when Germany attacked the USSR, we were transferred to Uzbekistan, where food was scarce but the climate far more benign than that of Siberia.
As religious Jews, we immediately started a secret synagogue in a basement. We had no  sefer Torah( Torah scroll) and one Jewish book. It was the book of Leviticus, with the  weekday prayers bound in together with it. With time, the congregation was able to acquire a few prayer books. Going to synagogue was dangerous. One Rosh HaShanah (Jewish New Year) my father was arrested in front of the entire congregation, taken away in his talis and kittel. (Prayer shawl and white robe) Congregating for prayer was illegal, and there was plenty of room in labour camps for those who didn’t care that it was.
Before Purim, we always tried to read Parshas Zecher, preferrably from a Sefer Torah .(The portion dealing with wiping out Amalek, the sworn enemy of the Jewish people) We had no Torah scroll. A few short years ago, we had been back in Poland, with an openly functioning kheder (Jewish school) and a synagogue full of seforim. (Jewish books) It felt bleak.

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