Dansk-Jødisk Venskab

DJV blev igen inviteret af Jewish Agency til en festligholdelse af nye statsborgere. Det var en lejlighed både med fest og vemod. Fest for de nye unge israelere der efter et 9-måneders indslusningsprogram nåede i mål som statsborgere; vemod for Danielle (som dog også glædede sig), vores kontakt i Jewish Agency, fordi hun delte mindelegater ud for sin afdøde fætter, Alon. Alon blev dræbt ved et skudangreb i Tel Aviv i januar. Familien har æret hans minde ved at sætte gang i masse velgørenhed. En flot respons til et terrorangreb. Tragisk nok skete det første store terroranslag siden Alons død samme aften i Tel Aviv. Fire mennesker omkom og mange blev sårede.

Se noget af festen med dans og musik, samt en bevægende mindetale for et terroroffer.

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I går og i dag mindedes den jødiske nation sine faldne siden statens oprettelse i 1948. DJV var med til en bevægende ceremoni med Lone Soldier Centret, hvor mindet om unge familiemedlemer der har mistet deres liv i kamp blev holdt i live. Også livshistorier om faldne fra tidligere krige blev fortalt. På den måde tillægger samtiden vægt og værdi til de der ikke er blandt os mere. Israel har dags dato lidt 23.477 faldne i sin 68-årige eksistens. Et relativt lille tal i sammenligning med de 6 millioner der gik til på de få år Holocaust fandt sted. Men hvordan kan verden så tro andet end at Israel vil kæmpe med næb og klør for sit land og aldrig gå på kompromis med sin sikkerhed? Prisen for en selvstændig stat, dyrkøbt som den har været, er for intet at sammenligne med at være overladt til nationers vakkelvorne velvillighed.

DJV havde rigtigt fine deltagere på vores tur, som var både seje, nysgerrig og medbragte højt humør til strabadser og oplevelser i det Hellig Land. Tak for en god tur. Følg med i bladet og på hjemmesiden for at se opslaget for den næste tur.

I dag havde jeg den glæde og ære at være kurer for DJV med det ærinde at overrække fødseldagsgave og buket til Ida Nudel. Idas livshistorie utrolig spændende, og det er hendes kamp for sovejtiske jøders rettigheder og ønske om at udvandre til Israel der især har kendetegnet Ida Nudels liv og virke.

Ida har en særlig plads hos DJV og vi er meget glade for at kalde hende vores ven. Tillykke Ida!

Læs mere om Ida her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Nudel

eller få fat på hendes bog “En hånd i mørket”, en enormt inspirende bog.

Afbrænding af brød som forberedelse til Pesach, den jødiske Påske.

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Lovsang ved gravhaven Påskemorgen. Jesus er der ikke, dvs, ikke i graven, men det er også hele pointen! Glædelig opstandelsesdag.

eDJV støtter Jewish Agency, den organisation der har ansvaret for diasporahkontakt og jødisk immigration til og integration i Israel. Læs om de sidste yeminitiske jøders hjemkomst og afslutningen på en historisk mission.

The Historic End of Yemeni Aliyah:

Final Group of Yemenite Jewish Immigrants Arrives in Israel

 Sharansky: “From Operation Magic Carpet in 1949 until the present day, The Jewish Agency has helped bring Yemeni Jewry home to Israel. Today we bring that historic mission to a close.”

PHOTOS: The final group of Jewish immigrants from Yemen arrives in Israel accompanied by an ancient Torah scroll, March 20, 2016. Photo credit: Arielle Di-Porto for The Jewish Agency for Israel.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The final group of Yemenite Jewish immigrants landed in Israel last night (Sunday, March 20, 2016) following a complex covert operation coordinated by The Jewish Agency for Israel, thus bringing the historic Yemeni Aliyah to a close. Some two hundred Jews have been secretly rescued from Yemen by The Jewish Agency in recent years, including several dozen in recent months, as attacks against the Jewish community have increased and the country has descended into civil war.

Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky said: “This is a highly significant moment in the history of Israel and of Aliyah. From Operation Magic Carpet in 1949 until the present day, The Jewish Agency has helped bring Yemenite Jewry home to Israel. Today we bring that historic mission to a close. This chapter in the history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities is coming to an end, but Yemenite Jewry’s unique, 2,000-year-old contribution to the Jewish people will continue in the State of Israel.”

Nineteen individuals arrived in Israel in recent days, including fourteen from the town of Raydah and a family of five from Sanaa. The group from Raydah included the community’s rabbi, who brought a Torah scroll believed to be between 500 and 600 years old. The father of the husband from Sanaa was Aharon Zindani, murdered in an anti-Semitic attack in 2012. The Jewish Agency arranged for Zindani’s remains to be brought to Israel for burial and also coordinated the immigration of his wife and children at the time.

More than 51,000 Yemenite Jews have immigrated to Israel since the country’s establishment in 1948. The majority of the community—nearly 50,000 individuals in total—was brought to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet in 1949 and 1950. Today, hundreds of thousands of Jews of Yemeni origin live in Israel, and many have had a profound impact on Israeli society, including singers Ofra Haza, Achinoam Nini (Noa), Gali Atari, and Shoshana Damari; Olympic medalist Shahar Tzuberi; former Knesset Speaker Yisrael Yeshayahu; and noted rabbi Amnon Yitzhak.

Attacks against Jews in Yemen have risen sharply since 2008, when Jewish teacher Moshe Ya’ish Nahari was murdered in Raydah. In 2012, Aharon Zindani was murdered in Sanaa and a young Jewish woman was abducted, forced to convert to Islam, and forcibly wed to a Muslim man. As Yemen has descended into civil war and the humanitarian situation in the country has worsened, the Jewish community has found itself increasingly imperiled. As a result, The Jewish Agency has undertaken numerous covert operations to spirit Jews out of Yemen and bring them to Israel, rescuing some two hundred in recent years.

Some fifty Jews remain in Yemen, including approximately forty in Sanaa, where they live in a closed compound adjacent to the U.S. embassy and enjoy the protection of Yemeni authorities. They have chosen to remain in the country without Jewish communal or organizational infrastructure. The Jewish Agency will continue to assist any Jew who wishes to make Israel his or her home.