Eugene M. Kravis http://jta.org/user/profile/57150 en-us rcsillag@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Lets go back to the shtetl. Many a rabbi and yeshivabocher spent his days at the synagogue study house pouring over the Torah and the Talmud, while his wife was selling merchandise in various shops to make ends meet. If there was discrimination, there is no religious or in depth historical justification for it. Those "back hats" should be reprimanded by both a Bet Din and aq civil court. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 What about the lands which the Jews purchased from the absentee Arab landlords - Stolen??? What about all the Jewish real estate and personal property expropriated by the various Arab governments, when they expelled the Jews after 1948 - Are they going to give it all back??? You commentators should not get caught up in the Right vs. Left political propaganda! You sound like 3 minute election day mudslinging TV ads. The administratio should cut out the nation building. Let the two parties work things out for themselves. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 When a USDA Veterinary Meat Inspector raises his hand, the plant stops!!! NO IFS,ANDS OR BUTS, That was the law when I was a young veterinary meat inspector in the 1960's. And that included the ENTIRE PLANT. If the meat products are shipped in interstate commerce, THE LAW is in effect. ENFORCE IT and the problems will go away. Eugene M. Kravis, DVM. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 How about 11 million, not 6 million? Lets start with 200,000+ gypsies and the whole families of Poles, who helped Jews. It is time we taught the Holocaust with proper historical perspective. Scholars in Germany, Israel, America and elsewhere have known the true facts for decades. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Amen to that, Doug. I would like to see the airborne visit be an American one, not an Israeli one, to show that it is an international response. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I am a teacher of the Holocaust with 25 years of experience in the subject. Most ordinary Americans, Jew and Gentile have been conditioned and developed an Auschwitz concept of the Holocaust. Except for historians and scholars, they are not aware of the Einzatzgruppen actions form 1939 to 1942. Read ORDINARY MEN by Christopher Browning. I will be using that text in my classes. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Shunning is not enough. Bring back Excommunication. A Bet Din, composed of 3 Rabbis, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform should be convened to pass judgement on all Jewish members of this shanda. If laws are not on the books, harsh civil/criminal penalties should be passed. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Shunning is not enough. Bring back excommunication. A Bet Din should be convened and pass judgement on any Jewish individuals involved. Also, if laws are not on the books, harsh civil/criminal should be established!!! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 The Federal Government and the new owners should make sure that the Federal Veterinary Meat Inspectors rule with a Iron Hand. I used to be one of them! I could shut down any plant, to which I was assigned, for any violation of the Federal 1906 Meat Inspection law,AND I COULD NOT BE FIRED!!! i worked side by side with Hekshers and approved the carcasses after they placed their Hebrew mark upon it. There was never any problem that could not be solved. Eugene M.Kravis, DVM 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 You should be ashamed to have given a hint of legitimacy to the so called "biological facts" in your above article. It is time that ALL rabbis enter the 21st Century. We wonder why the younger generation leave the synogogues. I will eat chicken parmesean and a glass of milk in front of any rabbi, and prove that my veterinary medical education has taught me more about healthy meat and milk than they ever knew! Eugene M. Kravis, DVM, Cornell, 1958 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Lest we forget - The first organized group to fight the Nazis were the Jewish "gangsters" of the Manhattan, N.Y. region. While the police conveniently were absent, baseball bats and tire irons in hand they disrupted German-American Bund meetings in a way the Nazis never forgot! Read about the Jewish underworld's contribution to the establishment of Israel: But He Was Good to His Mother by Robert Rockaway The Pledge by Leonard Slater 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 "Willie" the Killer Whale and "Flipper" are threatening to terrorize the Israeli beaches for being unfair to dolphins! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Pius XII was being blackmailed by Hitler, plain and simple. Hitler had the minority German Catholic community as hostage. At the war's end, there were 2000 Catholic priests and 400 Protesdtant minister inmates at Dachau. How the Pope would have responded if there was a major effort by the Allies to rescue the Jews, we may never know. Read the book: CHRIST IN DACHAU by inmate Fr. John Maria Lenz. The Vatican should open their confiential archives to recognized scholars, now. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 When are we going to get a legitimate film about the 11 million ( not only 6 million) inmates of the Nazi death camps. My best friend is a professorial survivor, honored by his academic colleagues, retaining his Aischwitz tattoo on his left arm,AND HE IS NOT JEWISH! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 It is a sad comment on historians, both Jewish and Gentile that they did not officially document 11 million Holocaust victims In addition to the Jews, the Nazis sent 5 million "enemies of the state" to the concentration camps and gas chambers. If the historians would have done their job, there would be no Holocaust denial controversy today. It is time for a UN declaration. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 On the non-fiction side, read, THE LUCIFER AFFECT, by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University. A collective canniot murder 11 million people withiout the cooperation of the community. Dr. Zimbardo graphically shows how it was done, and is still neing done today. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 All meat products shipped in interstate commerce is under the direct control and inspection by veterinarians of the USDA, accordig to the 1906 meat inspection act.. I know, because I was one of them. When I was in charge of a meat packing plant, I could shut it down by raising my hand,AND I COULD NOT BE FIRED!!!. Throughout the Agriprocessors/Postville debacle, I looked for comments by the USDA plant veterinarian(s). There were none. Something smells bad here, and it is not bad meat. Eugene M. Kravis, DVM. Former USDA Veterinary Inspector 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Israel has reached a point where the government has to make a decision (probably through a plebiscite) whether it wants to be a democracy or a theocracy. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 A "democratic dissenter"- a very apt description of her. From her history, sociologists would describe her as a "professional victim". She will always be a "rescuer'. Politically, Israel has given 30000 individuals the Rightreous Among the Nations medal. Certainly, there must be many unknown righteous heroes. She may be one of them. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Israel is rapidly coming to a point where the people have to decide whether they wish to be a democracy or Theocracy. If they choose democracy, then all groups must obey the law of the land or leave. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Bring Back Ebbets Field and bring the Brooklyn Dodgers back home. Some of us remember. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 For serious scholars of the Nazi years and Holocaust, the murderous activities of the Einsatzgrupen are well documented. Auschwitz is a"brick and mortar" museum of the horror. Some of the grasss covered pits of Eastern Jewish victims have been found. The total number may never be found. For an excellent discussion of interviews with the murderers read,ORDINARY MEN by Christopher Browning. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 By Law, no one should be allowed to go into tanks, holes, etc. that contains toxic materials, unless harnessed properly to a rope lift mechanism with 2 workers standing by to haul him out. OSHA - Where were you?! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 The science of genetics must be recognized. The genes iof the male parent must be given equal status as those of the female. Let us not go back to the dark ages. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 The verdict demeans the law. It is an impossibility. Why not life imprisonment without possibility of parole?! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 To Lawrence Rodgers: Read historian Robert N. Rosen's well researched and documented 2006 book,SAVING THE jEWS: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. I am 78 years old. My father, a staunch democrat, a loyal Roosevelt supporter, would never support an antisemite in government. Put your brain in gear before you open your mouth! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 One cannot fully understand the horrific behavior of the Nazi perpetrators if one does not acknowledge the total 11 million victims of the Nazis. instance, any Pole who gave help to a Jew was immediately taken with his entire family, including children and murdered in front of the entire neighborhood. Yet, according to Yad Vashem Poles are the largest recipients of the Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations. They should so be memorialized. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Am Israel Chai!!! Rememberrrrrr 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!!! We wouldn't want to waste a bomb. Would We? 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 American medical students have had this opportunity for financial support through the army and th navy since WW II. Without it, the students are saddled with $150,000.00 student loan debt. Guess who ends up paying it??? 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 To define the mass murder of 1,5 million people by a term that did not exist in any language at the yime creates a problem. It is necessary for the linguists, philologist scholars. and politicians to agree on a definition. Then proper actions can be taken. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 A small step for Palestine; a giant step for humankind! Am Israel Chai 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I have been involved in college level teaching of the Holocaust and genocide since the mid 1980s. It is my opinion that the subject will not be properly "internalized" until it is taught that 11 million, not 6 million people underwent the Nazi brutality, Ask any Jewish survivor, he/she will tell you that he/she owes his/her life to some act of a non-jewish inmate. It is true that Jews and Gypsies were selected for 100% extermination, but there was no discrimination amongst camp inmates. If anything, there were effective underground organizations that saved inmate lives, Am Israel Chai 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 What would have happened if, in 1937 their were 1 million + angry, exiled European Jewish young men , trained by British officers, sharpening their bayonets staring up the Italian boot at Hitler's and Musolini's soft underbelly. Worry about what the Arabs would do? Ha! Don't make me laugh. Except for the Lone Lion, Winston Churchill, British antisemitism contributed to the death of 45 million people, including a significant number of their own. So what else is new? 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 The late Barbara Jordan, chair of a blue ribbon committee established by the Federal Government to research and make recommendations on the immigration and "right to work in the USA. After extensive study, all she could comke up with is a statement, to wit,"There needs to be a system to determine and ID a person's right to work in this country." Nobody has dared to do it! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I have been involved with the teaching of the Holocaust and genocide on tghe college level since the mid 1980s. It is an undisputable fact that the Jews were targeted for total extinction. There is also significant informatiomn that if Hitler had succeeded, the Catholics were next. He had a gut fear of the strength of the Catholic Church and avoided confrontation. However, it did not stop him from mass slaughter of Catholic Poles. The record shows that at least 5 million gentiles were exterminated as "enemies of the state". Overall death toll from the Nazi era-WWII is aproximately 45 million. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Will the Muslim members of this coalition expunge all the admonitions to kill Jews in the Koran? I think not, or they would have done it long ago. This requirement is non-negotiable!. Until this happens,ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA BEWARE!!! Am Israel Chai 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Your title to this article is pure yellow journalism. I am a "Coughlin Christ Killer" and I resent the comparison. The title should have read "KORANIC HATE MESSAGE IN SPANISH". 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 No antisemitism in Russia??? Since when? Sholem Aleichem and "Tevya" are crying out from the grave. Abe Foxman and ADL get on this ASAP! Eugene M. Kravis 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 From the judge's bench: There was a trial of a Rockefeller Standard Oil executive for violation of the trading with the enemy laws. This executive was found guilty of shipping ship loads of aviation gasoline to Nazi Germany - to fighter planes which were being used against his own sons, pilots in the European Theater. It is a matter of record. Rockefeller industries had the opatents and the secret know how of manufacturing the "no knock" tetraethyl lead, which was an absolute necessity for hi test aviation gas. German planes could not perform properly without it. Germany sent its best IG Farben sales executives over to America to buy those industrial secrets. A loud warning was raised by certain American industrialists, "Rockefeller, Don't sell". It as ignored because of greed. Who was responsible of the notorious Air Battle of Britain, where 100,000s of British civilians died? You guessed it - Good old Free Enterprising Robber Baron Rockefeller (don't forget the other one, Henry Ford). We came close to raising the stiff arm salute, Heil in this country. The graves of American soldiers in France cry out in shame. It is a matter of record. Lest we Forget! Eugene M.Kravis 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 All military personnel have to become ideologues to be successful in their careers. If their psychological processes can support one ideology, they are conditioned to support others. BE CAREFUL!!!. For a fuller understanding of the above, read Dr. Philep Zimbardo's, The Lucifer Effect. Eugene Kravis 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Rabbi Kahana also did not care for political correctness. He offered solutions to the Arab-Israeli conlict (appropriate for his time and now). The "bleeding heart liberal Israeli establishment refused to listen, and, in classic Dr. Goebbrels fashion, demonized him. He never preached "hate the Arabs" only love the Jews and the Jewish state. Muslims should not have the right to vote, but have complete equality under Israeli law. Does that sound like "hate Arabs?!!!. I know this is true because Im have personally heard Rabbi Kahana speak and have had a few private conversations with him. Good luck Avigdor Lieberman, Hold your standards high and be proud to be associated with Rabbi Kahana. Am Israel Chi Eugene M. Kravis 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Tamar is right. There is more here than meets the eye. Get it all on the table. Keep stirring the pot. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Tamar is correct. If Demdanjuk was a native born ethnic German, the system would find a way not to bring him to trial. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Pope Benedict XVI, open the Vatican Archives completely,NOW, or stay out of Israel. Don't be a hypocrite! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Israel must protect itself from the hate indoctrination of the Koran. Mosques must be closed. Muslims must not have access to lethal weapons such as cars, bulldozers etc. If this is a hardship, there is an alternative -LEAVE! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 The two state solution IS the only solution.t was established in 1922 at the Treaty of Paris with the attendance and approval of yhe current Jordanian king's great uncle prince Feisal. All the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean was to be the Jewish homeland of the Balfour Declaration. All the rest of the ex-Turkish Middle East was to be given to the indigenopus peoples. Present King Hussein'sreat uncle Abdullah (Feisal's broyher) was made Emir of the Turkish Palestinian land East of the Jordan. Today, over 50% of the Jordanian population is of West Bank origin. Jordan IS the Muslim Palestine State.Stick to the original plAN and there will be peace. The alternative????> 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 It’s the Book, Stupid! As long as the “book” (Koran), with its message of hate and kill the Jews and other infidels, is held sacred by a collective (Muslims), that collective will be looked upon by the rest of the world with suspicion, fear and despised as the other. If and when said collective becomes powerful enough, the rest of the world powers will seek to protect itself by destroying the threat. We did such in WWII. We occupied Germany and Japan for 25 years, seeing to it that the hate ideology was thoroughly destroyed and replaced with humanistic philosophy and sound economics. Only then did the Allied powers leavc. There are signs of that approaching conflict – Muslim riots in Europe, the Mombai attack, 9/11 and the rise of Taliban (T) and Al Quaida (Q). T & Q have lessened their interest in Afghanistan and turned their eyes Eastward to Pakistan and its possession of 6 nuclear bombs. They will not stop their disruptive military tactics until they turn Pakistan into an Islamic state, governed by Sharia, and they have those bombs. I believe that Barack Obama and the American military are already committed to going into Pakistan before T & Q gets the bombs. The build up of the American forces in Afghanistan as a staging area has begun. A well equipped standing army in India ready to assist will provide a classic pincer attack. Once the neutralization of Pakistan occurs, all the pent up fear of the collective will erupt and spread violently to the sources of the hate, Saudi Arabia and Iran in particular. At this point members of the collective will realize that there is something basically wrong with their beliefs. There is something wrong with the “book” and jihad. After all, wasn’t it written by an ordinary man, sitting under a palm tree in the desert? Get rid of the book. Am Israel Chai Eugene M. Kravis 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Wilders is advocating destruction of paper with hate words on it, He is not calling for harm to a single human being. The case is a perversion of the law and should be thrown out. As long as that book, the Koran, with its blatant Jew hatred, is held sacred by the collective group(Muslims) that collective will always be held suspect, feared and treated as a underclass "other" by the Jews and enlightened people in the Western world. Read Dr. Philip Zimbardo's book, The Lucifer Effect. Am Israel Chai 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Three score years ago, our forefathers brought forth the reborn nation, Israel, in its ancient homeland, A house divided cannot stand. That nation of the Jewish people, by the Jewish people, and for the Jewish people shall not perish from this earth. So said Father Apraham - Abraham Lincoln. Am Isrrael Chai Avigdor, carry this banner high! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Three score years ago, our forefathers brought forth the reborn nation, Isrrael in the ancient Jewish homeland. A house divided cannot stand! That nation of the Jewish people, by the Jewish people and for the Jewish people shall not perish from this earth! So said Father Abraham - Abraham Lincoln 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Put some teeth into the sanctions abd embargo. Once the American boarders eyeballed the contraband weapons. The crew should have benn given time to abandon ship, and then it should have been sunk! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Read Robert Rockaway's book, But He Was Good to His Mother. An embarrassment to the staid, honest American Jewish Community, the Jewish gangsters fought the Nazi German American Bund with baseball bats and crowbars.Guess what? The police never showed up! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Since when is "a government of JEWISH people, by the JEWISH people and fo the JEWISH people not democratic"? And it "shall not perish from this earth." Lest we Forget! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Black & White: A parking lot is not a cemetery. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Amen, Rabbi Yoffie!!! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 End it! Unconditional Surrender and Occupation 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I personally believe that this media exposure of the Bielski story will have a tremendous impact on gun control thinking and legislation in this country. The NRA and the militias will love it. The left-of-center advocates of stronger controls will have second thoughts. What would have happened if the Bielsky brothers were not independent successful farmers with a working knowledge and possesion of firearms? (Oi vey, my Jewish mother would have had a fit if I , as a teenager, wanted to have a rifle in the house!} NEVER AGAIN - A VICTIM 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Pope Benedict, Open the Vatican Archives,NOW!!! 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 A Prayer for an Israeli Soldier God of Israel, I have fled to this place in order to worship You without molestation, to obey Your commandments and sanctify Your name. You, however , have done everything to make me stop believing in You. Now lest it seem to You that You will succeed by these tribulations to drive me from the right path. I notify You, my God and the God of my father, that it will not avail You in the least! You may insult me. You may castigate me. You may take from me all that I cherish and hold dear in the world. You may torture me to death – I shall believe in You. I shall love You no matter what you do to test me! [ Is Gaza and Sderot the test ???!] From the 1946 Warsaw Ghetto Yiddish Novella, Yossel Rakover’s Appeal to God, by Zvi Kolitz “Israel”: translation, “One who struggles with God”. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 There should be no shortage of Kosher meat. I am a former USDA veterinary meat inspector and a Jew. I worked alongside shochets who conducted kosher slaughter first on select days of the week. I witnessed the purple Hebrew inscriptions on the forequarters of beef and lamb. After the Kosher slaughter, non-kosher processing was done. This was all rabbinically approved. This could be done in every federally inspected meat processing plant in the country. When I was an inspector, there was no Agriprocessors. Eugene M. Kravis, DVM. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00