Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed at Yad Vashem | The Times of Israel

It sounds as an unbelievable news coming from Israel: Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed at Yad Vashem | The Times of Israel. It is something new that we should learn from this while preparing for this week Parasha Shelach?

Let's wait and see the results of the police investigation. However, regardless of the results, it is still a sad reading for today.

How ignorant could someone be to praise the name of a criminal in this country? What do children learn in the school about the terrible time? How it is possible that some groups continue to spread hate against Eretz Israel in the very heart of Eretz Israel?

Maybe I ask too many questions for this early morning.

Update: The reaction of Yad Vashem officials

Who owns the land?

An interesting observation, by A.B.Yehoshua, which can be connected with the old and new discussion about Ulpana – and not only:

“But even the land bought and paid for in full does not compromise the nation’s sovereignty over it. Land is not only a commodity, but also a basis of an identity. Even if wealthy Saudi Arabians buy up all the land and buildings in London, the British people will still retain sovereign over it”.

Simon Wiesenthal Center to the Euro 2012 football fans

If you do not want that your money is going to anti-Semitic thugs in Lviv, you better listen to what the words of Simon Wiesenthal Center: Do not patronize restaurants featuring anti-Semitic themes.

I am still wondering why these two countries were considered for this European Championship...

Introducing Davka

I discovered the website of Davka accidentally, but I was surprised how it was possible to do not know more about this software before. Created in 1982, this company offers a couple of educational programs and applications for building up Jewish texts. For instance, you can create dedicated Daf Yomi texts and docs for educational use. Also, you can use various software programs for translating Haggadah, creating a transliterated Machzor or Siddur. You can find games for children, images for the holidays and resources of pictures from Israel. A special category is represented by the programs dedicated to learning or update various levels of the Hebrew language.

The programs are fit for both Mac and PC and the average price of the purchase goes around $20.

Learning tasks with the new Koren Bavli

First, I could not move my eyes from the cover, displaying one of the most mysterious fruits: the pomegranate. Second, I started to check what is the price and how much I should extra work for being able to afford all the volumes: around $2, 000, the usual price for a holiday overseas. Third, I was considering that maybe it is too simple for me and that in fact I probably need a very serious and deep learning program. But, in fact, I realized in the fourth stage of thinking about Koren Talmud Bavli that I can also order the black-and-white edition which is even cheaper. But what about the children, they will be happy to study the colourful edition, the fifth thought said. The iPad application is not ready, but I wish I can buy an iPad to study more regardless of the place I am as I can discretely go into a corner and spend an idle hour studying. But the inconvenience with the iPad is that I cannot study during Shabbos. And I ended up watching once again the video displaying a sneak peak of the edition. As I know quite well myself, I am more than sure that sooner or later I will end up by ordering the first volume and waiting for the other 40 more. I should have the Koren Talmud Bavli, I wish I had it, I must have the Koren Talmud Bavli.

Ulpana-a pawn on the political chessboard?

Will the situation from Ulpana change the political configuration? If all the outposts and settlements will be legalized by law it is a danger that the entire issue of settlements will be put under question and will start a global campaign of a new wave of contestation of the state of Israel? 

Till I will prepare a post about settlements and Ulpana, here is a YouTube video I watched today. 

Understanding in the process...

Meanwhile, in my dear Europe

After half an hour online, I gathered the following disgusting news:

A clash of neo-Nazi in Hamburg - I am too naive to wonder why such a gathering was allowed?

Jews attacked in France

The memory of Far-right Anti-Semitic politicians is carefully cultivated in Hungary

Poland and Ukraine, future hosts of the Football World Championships, are the old-time hosts of hate. If you are Jewish, Black and gay you better keep your money for charity than to spend for buying a ticket to those events.

The enlightened Europe is playing black games again...