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Around passover MTV aired two very good holocaust ads. They are here and here. Both of the ads are good at making people think.

It looks some anti-semites realised this too and modified parts of the ads to talk about the “holocaust” of the palestinians and to claim that the real holocaust never happened. I won’t link to these videos but if you use the related video feature on YouTube you should find them.

This got me thinking and I searched holocaust on YouTube, I have never seen such anti-semitism in my life. It really made me think about how many people out there who would like me dead. It also made me wonder why YouTube has done nothing about this. Youtube’s terms of use like Facebook’s state that it is forbidden to upload hateful and racist content, yet both of these sites have a lot of stuff against Jews and almost nothing up to refute the hate and obvious lies. Also both of these sites do almost nothing to remove anti-semitic content and they do a lot to remove anything that might be even remotely considered to be hinting at the fact that the palestinian Arabs are wrong. It is despicable.

Look at the Arab protest, then watch the Jewish response…
(this video is from march 2008, the Muslims are supporting this terrorist attack and the death of Jews, the Jews are singing songs of peace)

Over all I had a pretty good fast this year. I had pasta right before the fast and it seemed to do a good job of keeping me full.

On Yom Kippur night I went to Beni David and about half way through the service I met a very important person. No it was not Dad or my Uncle, it was the Mayor… Yes Antonio Villaraigosa the mayor of Los Angeles sat in front of me and talked with me for a good two minutes during the night time service.

The day time service was less eventful, I spent most of the morning in Shul, went back around 5pm and broke my fast on cake there, I then went home and had left over pasta from the night before.

Did you know that Israel is not the only place where Jews self govern? There is region in Russia where Yiddish is an official language and judaism is taught in the public schools. This place is called the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and even though Jews now make up only about 1% of its population they once made up more, also it looks like the Jewish community there is growing.

Israel recently decided to close up shop in Ethiopia and to stop facilitating the immigration of the Falashmura. Jews, who had been practicing Christianity. (look here for more info).

This decision kind of worries me, because IMHO these people are Jews, and even if they are not then they are stilled allowed into Israel because of the Law of Entry.