On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:40:05 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote:


Andhttp://www.onejerusalem.org/for another. Read the comments and
articles...any of them.

I just went to the site, clicked on his obit there, and saw "0" comments. *IAC,
I'm not sure of your point. *I don't deny he was a supporter of Israel and other
Jewish causes.

TC,
R

I meant to read the comments after the news articles and in the forum
section. "Supporter" is a mild understatement.... words such as
'radical', 'virulent' and 'extreme' come to mind.

--riverman

GOOD LORD! It's a hotbed of radical Jews! I went back and quickly and randomly
clicked an article without really reading any headlines, so as to take as random
a sampling as possible. The one I happened to hit was, "Where is the Tomb of
Mordechai and Esther?" On the site proper, there were no comments, but the
article itself was off-site - it linked me to:

http://www.ou.org/index.php/shabbat_...article/51039/

It was short, so I scanned it and it ended with:

"After the area was liberated in Israel's War of Independence, a group of Safed
Jews went up to the tomb on Purim in 1949 and read the Megillah there to revive
the long-standing custom of previous generations.

Hence, we have two conflicting traditions as to where the protagonists of the
Purim story are buried, with one placing them in Persia and the other right here
in Israel, much closer to home.

And while we can not say with any certainty which of the two traditions is more
authentic or correct, of one thing we can all be su the deeds of these two
great Jewish heroes will never fade from our collective memory. As the Megillah
(9:28) itself tells us: 'and these days of Purim shall not pass from among the
Jews, and their memory shall not elapse from among their descendants'."

and the very first comment was:

"Is it possible that the tomb in Persia was the original resting place of
Mordechai and Esther, as the ancient Persians might have demanded, but at some
later date Cyrus, perhaps relatively secretly, reinterred them in Israel? There
is precedent; Joseph, the second in Egypt as Mordechai became in Persia, was
also reinterred in Israel when the Jews returned."

How can there ever be peace in the Middle East with folks having wantonly read
the Megillah at a tomb in 1949 and then this radical kook suggesting that some
ancient Persians might have demanded something?!?!?! Man, that kind of radical
talk can only lead to...to...to, well, sleep...or at least a bad case of the
yawns...

HTH,
R