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16 April, 2023 Israel: Chaim Topol, the late Israeli film and stage actor who played the lead in “The Fiddler on the Roof,” worked for Israeli secret service (Mossad) during some of his international trips:
Chaim is survived by his wife Galia, daughter Adi and son Omer.
Israeli ingenuity is necessary for self-defense on the international stage.
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” – Famous whistleblower
“Nobody needs to justify why they ‘need’ a right. The burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right.”
“The majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority.”
We believe that privacy is a basic human right; individuals should be in control of their own intellectual property, data, information, as well as how it may be used. We take a stand against corporations and any entities that use individual data for purposes contrary to human rights. As such, we will update below some introductory information links to help our readers to take precautions.
Donation pages on our JTOD site use top security; our system is set up so that we never handle or see the credit card details.
What is data harvesting and how to prevent it: Jumpstart Mag
“Gmail was caught giving third parties full access to user emails and also tracking all of your purchases.
“Advertisers have been allowed to scan Yahoo and AOL accounts to ‘identify and segment potential customers by picking up on contextual buying signals, and past purchases.’
“Yahoo has been caught scanning emails in real-time for US surveillance agencies.” Excerpt from: https://restoreprivacy.com/email/secure/
“Have the recent privacy issues with WhatsApp convinced you it’s time to find a new messaging app?”
excerpt from:
RestorePrivacy.com: Alternatives to Whatsapp
SecurityTech.org review of Signal messaging app
PrivacyTests.org: A comparison of browsers used by phones & computers to view pages on the web
13 April 2023: The financial world was in shock this February, when the Swiss government used an emergency provision over the weekend to push a bank rescue for Credit Suisse, which fell in connection with other bank failings such as USA’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The Swiss gov’t plan was accepted by the higher house but rejected by the lower, larger body of its parliament.
Hansjoerg Knecht, upper house parliament member, said, ” The use of emergency law has reached a level in the last three years that is beginning to annoy me.”
Pray that parliament members and bank leaders will have wisdom to follow after righteousness.
13 April 2023: A source with ties to Iran’s religious leadership said: “The quake was a sad disaster but at the same time it was God’s help to us to help our brothers in Syria in their fight against their enemies. Loads of weapons were sent to Syria immediately.”
So, Iranians cynically use the UN aid system against the UN.
Israel responded with surgical attacks against targets, such as a specific weapons truck in a convoy of aid trucks.
13 April 2023: Lucy Dee has died within days of her daughters’ burial.
10 April 2023: Israeli daily paper “Israel haYom” goes full-page with the Dee family mourning the loss of two of their young adult sisters:
Their mother, Lucy Dee, remains in critical condition. This family will face struggles with their memories in years to come during each Passover. The father Leo Dee said, “When a simple family in Efrat is devastated, the whole country hurts.”
The Jerusalem Post usually places five to seven articles on its front page. This day includes the Dee family along with the broader views of the IDF preparations in regards to Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and Iran:
Pray for us in Israel.
9 April 2023, Israel: Muslim terrorists pulllng out all the stops in attempts to disrupt the Jewish celebration of the great Exodus from Egypt.
Syria fired missiles at Israel over the weekend. Last week, Lebanon and Gaza fired missiles. Is this reported in foreign news? Israel did respond to Syria by surgically blowing up the rocket launcher, which was hidden in what appeared to be a farming grove of trees.
And in other weekend news, this Shabbat evening an Israeli Muslim from an Israeli Arab town nearby tried to disrupt Shabbat by running over picnickers in a Tel Aviv park by the sea. Much as he tried to kill Jews, he ran over European visitors instead. An Italian man (age 35) died, three people were wounded moderately and four wounded lightly, British, and Italian citizens.
And on Hwy 90 a Muslim drive-by shooter waged war on a carful of Jewish women – like a real hero. Maia (age 20) and Rina Dee (15) died, their mother, Lea (48) was critically injured.
Like I said to my landlord this morning, we’re just going to celebrate and be happy no matter what they do.
Some Israelis darkly joked “Well, I guess the civil war will have to wait,” speaking of the protests against Knesset-proposed changes in the judicial selection process.
Pray for us. We carry on the work in a difficult part of the world.
7 April 2023, Samaria: Over 44 rockets fired from Lebanon and Gaza at Jews in Israel. This year, the Muslim 30-day holiday Ramadan overlaps the Hebrew Passover & Matza 7-day feast; see below for dates and explanation.
Rockets incoming from the South and the North simultaneously. This is unusual for Lebanon to get involved. In Lebanon, the Hezbollah (Hez b’Allah = “Party of Allah”) political party that rules over the government is, like Hamas in Gaza, an identified terrorist organization which is funded by Iran and supported by Syria. So – the only reason I can think – is that Hez b’Allah has received instructions from Iran to coordinate their rocket attacks and synchronize with Hamas, from Gaza in the south.
Currently, the entire Northern section and Southern section of Israel are opening up their public shelters (that’s one of the reasons why the rent is so much less in those areas, compared to here in the Center).
Islamic months go by the visible sliver of the moon, so Ramadan began March 23 (meaning, the evening on March 22) this year and goes until April 21.
To show the Feast overlap:
Passover (Biblical calendar – by the lunar Conjunction) started April 5 (just before sunset on the 4th) and goes until April 12.
Passover (Rabbinic calendar – by a Metonic cycle rather than observation of the moon cycles) started April 6 (around sunset on the 5th) and the Feast of Matzot ends on April 13.
Here are a couple of starting points for the Biblical calendar topic:
Wheel of Stars and Biblical Calendar
When is the Passover Lamb Eaten?
Leading up towards Ramadan, the IDF and Israeli polititians made extra effort to renew security cooperation with the PA (Palestinian Authority) security and police. Israelis knew that Ramadan could bring extra violence against Jews.
Fun fact: Muslims abstain from eating, drinking, sexual intimacy each day of Ramadan until sunset. Some also abstain from smoking, medicine, and chewing gum. Too bad they don’t all abstain from rockets, haha!! The public-facing English Muslim sites state that the monthlong holiday is for studying the Quran, donating money to the needy, and extra time for prayer. After sunset each day of the month, families and friends gather around a dinner table for “Iftar,” the meal for breaking the fast each day.
In my own experience, fasting from food/water for a meal or a day is helpful spiritually, but for extended fasts, the fasting doesn’t begin to become easier until after the third day of fasting with no breaks. Breaking a fast each night is making it more difficult than just going straight thru.
Thanks to all who send support as we seek to continue the work in difficult times.
5 April, 2023, Mabuim and Tzrifin, Israel: This year, the Muslim holiday Ramadan (a month of daily fasting together with nightly feasting) overlaps the Hebrew holiday of Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread.
On 5 April, around 7 am in Mabuim, as Israelis were in their final preparations preparing the feast and house cleaning for Pessach (Passover), rockets were fired at Jews. This would be followed by at least 44 more rockets on the following day.
On the same day, the Post reported a 21-year old Muslim from Hebron (the PA section) had stabbed two Jewish soldiers in their 20’s in Tzrifin near Rishon Lezion:
Thank you for your prayers and financial support, and may all have a safe and happy Pessach season.
2 April 2023, Hebron: Last night after Shabbat, a Palestinian Authority security force officer allegedly rammed a car into Jewish pedestrians in the road, injuring three.
Please pray about supporting us while we continue to work under difficult circumstances.
Four Calendar Laws:
1) The New Moon nearest the start of spring (time of Vernal Equinox) is always Abib.
2) The New Moon is defined as a Dark Moon, starting from the sunset that follows lunar conjunction.
3) Keep Shabbat where you live but Feasts on Jerusalem Standard Time.*
4) The Omer count begins on the 16th of Abib, ends on Shavuot 50 days later and can hit any day of the week.
Expanded in detail in this pdf:
– Andrew Gabriel Roth, Wheel of Stars.
Shareable link to this page:
https://bit.ly/JTOD-WheelStars
* Once the Feast has arrived according to JST, start the feast when the sunset arrives where you are for that JST day of the month. As for weekly Shabbats, they begin where you live when the local sunset ends the sixth day of the week.