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• August 18, 2008
• 11:10

  The Night before Aliya

   » ‎ The Muqata
  This coming Monday morning, at 10:30 AM, another few hundred North American Jews will arrive at the JFK airport in preparation for their flight home.
  
  Its now slightly after 1 AM in NY, and I'm honestly very excited for the privilege to join this flight. I recall almost 18 years ago, the night before I moved to Israel. I couldn't sleep. Tossing and turning with anticipation, excitement, and a bit of trepidation, I could barely squash the jumble of thoughts which prevented me from sleeping.
  
  Songs danced around in my head. Homeward Bound, ושבו בנים, Take me home, אם אשכח ירושלים, and so many others.
  
  In the end, I didn't sleep. It was too much. I didn't sleep on the plane either...all the way home to Israel -- It was far too exhilarating.
  
  But that was almost 18 years ago.
  
  I spoke to one of the families tonight that I will be escorting home on tomorrow's flight. They had already put their kids to sleep, and were very excited about the flight...the culmination of their planning, hopes and dreams to return home.
  
  Please join me over the next few days as I blog about 2 families and their journey home.
  
  My thanks to Nefesh b'Nefesh and Webads for arranging this special trip.
  
  --Jameel
  
  PS; And special, special thanks to my wife and children, for their understanding -- while I "disappeared" for a few days to accompany this special flight.
  
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד
• July 21, 2008
• 17:38

  Muqata RoundTripping: Israel, NYC, Israel

   » ‎ The Muqata
  A few years back I had some cool ideas for livening up the JBlogosphere. I managed to implement a few; the Purim parody carnival or the Purim collaborative Purim Podcast, yet others never got off the drawing board (like the JBlogosphere Game Show idea, which I think is still a great idea, but don't have the time or advertising cash to make it happen yet).
  
  And then...this opportunity drops into my lap. Not only is it completely in tandem with my blog's goals and aspirations of promoting the good things about Israel, love for the land, and a general feeling of connection -- but the idea spans many blogs and bloggers.
  
  Nefesh b'Nefesh has offered to send me and other JBloggers to the US (and return back) on one of their aliya flights -- to accompany an oleh family and blog their experience before leaving, during the flight, and at the welcome-home reception at Ben-Gurion airport. In addition to helping share their personal aliya, there will be a JBlogger conference in Yerushalayim the next day.
  
  I'm not listed yet on any conference panels...because I haven't yet figured out how to keep the yellow smiley face on my head for so long...
  
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד
• July 13, 2008
• 16:35

  Disgracing My Religion

   » ‎ The Muqata
  One of the most cynical uses of religion in Israel is the "fashionable" wardrobe addition of a kippa -- on the heads of criminals.
  
  People that never before wore a kippa are suddenly wearing kippot on their way to courthouses for pre-trial hearings, during testimony, before sentencing, in jail, or anywhere possible they believe they can persuade people that they are "religious, do-gooders" deserving of leniency for being religious or that they aren't guilty in the first place.
  
  Let's take the 17 year old youngster at our left. He is accused (and has admitted to) stabbing and killing attorney Anat Plinner 2 years ago at her home in Ramat Hasharon in April 2006, in front of her young children.
  
  In all the pictures of him in the media that I've seen till now, he is always bare-headed. (see picture below on the right). However, today in court the youth decided to don a kippa, and vent at reporters outside the court prior to the hearing. His rants included rather foul language, swearing at the reporters, throwing a microphone in their direction and telling them to "get out of here." The suspect then said he was "sorry," before being hushed by his lawyer.
  
  Luckily for the kippa-wearing community, the Plinner family are no fools. They became enraged at the suspect's religious appearance and shouted "don't shame our religion," as the suspect left the court.
  

  "For two years, detectives were left without a lead in the case, until they arrested a boy for stealing a moped. A DNA sample taken from the suspect matched fingerprints taken by forensic officers from the murder scene. Police launched a major undercover investigation, which resulted in the suspect's arrest.
  
  After initially denying the killing, the youth confessed, providing police with details that proved he was at the scene during the murder. He later reenacted the slaying outside of Plinner's home, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball cap.(JPost)"
  

  Hiding behind religion in Israel is nothing new. Convicts have grown tzitzis and kippot overnight...newly added beards and black hats have been added to "frumify" the seedier members of society. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these people are not returning to the fold of religious Judaism, but cynically looking for clemency.
  
  In a similar vein, in the days of the Bible people attempted to hold on to the corners of the mizbeach -- the holy alter as a method of refuge from the law.
  

  Exodus/Shmot Chapter 21: 14: And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die.
  
  The Book of Kings/Sefer Melachim, Chapter 1: 50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 51 And it was told Solomon, saying: 'Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon; for, lo, he hath laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear unto me first of all that he will not slay his servant with the sword.' 52 And Solomon said: 'If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.' 53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.'

  Back then it was for refuge, and the expression has even been incorporated into modern Hebrew. "לאחוז בקרנות המזבח" To hold on to the corners of the mizbeach translates in today's terms, to cynically use a political, military, or Jewish spin as a means of circumventing justice.
  
  
  Picture Credits:
  Top picture, Ynet
  Second Picture Channel 2.
  
  
  Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד