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✡️ Jewish History: Why Do Jews Place Stones on Graves Instead of Flowers?
If you’ve ever visited a Jewish cemetery, you may have noticed small stones resting on the headstones instead of bouquets of flowers.
This beautiful tradition has roots stretching back centuries.
In ancient times, Jewish graves were often marked or covered with piles of stones. Adding another stone helped preserve and identify the burial place.
Over time, placing a stone became a meaningful act of remembrance.
In Jewish tradition, flowers eventually wither, but stones endure. They symbolize the lasting memory of someone whose life continues to matter long after death.
Leaving a stone also quietly says, “I was here. You are remembered. You have not been forgotten.”
There is no specific Torah commandment requiring stones on graves, and the custom has several historical and symbolic explanations. Flowers are not universally forbidden, but stones remain the traditional Jewish expression of remembrance.
In Judaism, honoring the dead isn’t simply about mourning their absence. It’s about remembering their lives and carrying their memory forward.
May their memory be a blessing.
זיכרונם לברכה (Zichronam livrachah) 🕯️
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Isn’t Bafana Bafana over 90% Black African?
TWO BLACK AFRICAN PLAYERS IN A MATCHDAY 23. THE TARGET SAYS SEVEN 🇿🇦
Springboks vs Italy in Turin: 13 white (57%), 10 players of colour (43%), 2 black African (9%) Ox Nche and Siya Kolisi.
The starting XV gets close, 7 of 15. The bench is where it collapses: 6 white, 2 colour, none black African.💀
Is this the most transformed Bok era, or the most transformed-looking one? Be honest
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#Springboks #TransformationTargets #NationsChampionship #ScrumAtMe
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“Don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus, hanging on the dashboard of my car….”
Cool Hand Luke is the coolest Christ allegory.
Newman eats 50 eggs, representing the souls of the 50 prisoners, suggesting he’s taking on his fellow inmates' sins. After the “miracle,” he’s posed on a table like a crucified Jesus.
This film is peppered with biblical symbolism.
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Keith Scott retweeted
Before accepting BAT’s narrative on illicit trade in SA, stakeholders should read this.
Researchers examining BAT’s own leaked documents say its anti-illicit trade operations targeted competitors and created commercial opportunities.
The self-proclaimed victim deserves scrutiny too.
"New research into [British American Tobacco] company documents leaked years ago suggests its efforts to combat the black market served a different purpose: creating commercial opportunities, targeting competitors and influencing government policy."
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So in order to qualify as an artist you have to be self employed or employed by the private sector? Twaddle.
Javier Milei: “No tengo nada en contra de los artistas. Yo mismo tuve una banda de rock. Mi problema es que si necesitas una subvención del gobierno para hacer arte, ya no eres un artista, eres un empleado público.”
Milei es un número uno.
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Keith Scott retweeted
Eric Hoffer wrote this article about Israel almost 60 years go. It reads like it was written yesterday.
"The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.
The Swedes, who are ready to break of diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us."
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I think there is some confusion in certain quarters though about the difference between defending a right and supporting the associated cause. I would defend the right to a peaceful march through Skokie while hating everything Nazism stands for. I would defend the right to have a rugby tournament in which people sing Die Stem, but oppose the choice to do so. I would defend the right to form a Communist political party while opposing everything it believes in.
Also, the trouble with making the case that we are oppressed as a group and should therefore resist as a group is it’s exactly the justification for EE and BEE. The challenge for liberals is to recognize that group-based discrimination doesn’t have to be contested from the same premise, and to find ways to protect rights and deliver redress from a different premise.
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This man didn't care much for the opinion of others when it came to standing with the Jewish people.
His name was Lord Randolph Churchill and yes, he was the father of Winston Churchill.
When he came the parties and big events he was mocked and told: "What, Lord Randolph, you’ve not brought your Jewish friends?!"
To which Lord Randolph would respond by saying: "No, I did not think they would be very amused by the company."
His own family would criticize him for bringing Jewish people into their home for parties, but Randolph did not care. He was a man of principal and integrity.
Why does this matter so much?
Because it is in this home that the great Winston Churchill would be brought up in to be the man who would save Europe and the entire world from the tyranny of Nazism.
We may not be popular right now, but those who stand with the Jewish people through these difficult times will see courage installed in themselves and their families for generations.
We do not forget those who stand with us 💜
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I suppose SA X will become less deranged after the election. There’s so little to say about the election, though. DA majority governments are quite obviously the best way to maximize the chance of improved service delivery, growth and safety. They won’t all perform equally well, of course, but they will all perform better than the alternatives. I know it. You know it. I know you know it.
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Traditions in the West.
On the left we have a strand that runs from Rousseau through Robesspire and Saint-Juste and through Marxist-Leninism to Stalin, who had of course stopped any pretense at being for “the people” or the helping the hand of history and exemplified nothing more than the will to power. It ends with the Gulag.
On the right we have a tradition that marries attachment to authoritarianism (the pre-reformation church; monarchy) with the Romantic response to the enlightenment, which gave rise to the identitarian politics of the right, including nationalism, nativism and ultimately fascism. Again, it ends with the naked will to power. It ends with Auschwitz.
Then there is the liberal tradition, with a small “l”. Conservatives, social democrats, many western socialists and of course liberals with a big “L” belong to this tradition, which draws a belief in reason from the enlightenment and a belief in the uniqueness of individuals from Romanticism. This is the tradition that gives us the US Revolution, rather than the French version. It’s the tradition that gives us respect for reason, human rights, separation of powers, market economics, the welfare state (broadly defined) and universal franchise. It’s the tradition that gives us much of South Africa’s constitution, too.
That third tradition is the one that has delivered freedom and prosperity to the West, and for those non-western countries (South Korea, Japan, etc) that have embraced the universal values on which it is founded. And it is the tradition that needs defending now, from both anti-democratic, authoritarian left and ethno-nationalist, authoritarian right. It needs defending in the West, but also right here in South Africa.
This tradition is of course not without its own faults as the history of colonialism shows. Or as the person of Thomas Jefferson reveals. But as Barack Obama put it, it is in this tradition that the arc of history bends towards justice. The other two traditions, not so much.
So when people say they are defending “western civilization” it helps to be clear about which tradition they mean. One of those traditions needs urgent support. The other two need to be defeated, again.
And in South Africa you don’t do that by pitting your ethno-nationalism against someone else’s, or your nativism against someone else’s. You do it by holding the centre: individual rights, separation of powers, democracy, a market economy, a welfare safety net, due process, a dollop of respect for humanity. Basic human decency.
That’s how you stand up for civilization.
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I found myself thinking about something extraordinary today, and I felt the need to share it.
Judaism is one of the few major world religions with no ambition to convert humanity, conquer the world, or impose its beliefs on others.
In fact, we make it very difficult to convert to Judaism.
Think about the world around us.
Muslim supremacists seek to impose their interpretation of Islam on society, establish a caliphate, and govern people’s lives through Sharia law. They want to dictate how others live.
Christianity has historically sought to spread its faith across the world through conversion, at times using empires and political power to do so.
Communists have historically sought to spread their ideology worldwide, reshaping entire societies according to their political vision.
The Chinese Communist Party extends its authoritarian influence through surveillance technologies, censorship, economic pressure, and political control.
Ideological progressives increasingly demand conformity to their worldview, seeking to determine what people can say, what they should believe, and which opinions society will tolerate.
Qatar, whose citizens represent roughly 0.004% of humanity, invests billions in universities, media, lobbying, and political networks to expand its global influence. A tiny population with enormous resources and ambitions to shape institutions and public opinion far beyond its borders.
Imperialists have spent centuries conquering territories and imposing their cultures, political systems, and beliefs on others.
And then there are the Jews.
We don’t need anyone to become Jewish. We don’t ask Christians to observe Shabbat, Muslims to eat kosher, or the Chinese to study the Torah.
We don’t demand that other countries adopt Jewish law. We have no ambition to dictate how anyone else should live.
We simply want to live as Jews, preserve our traditions, raise our children, and live freely in our ancestral homeland. Nothing less. Nothing more.
Yet for centuries, we have been persecuted, expelled, massacred, and accused of plotting to control the world.
The people who have no ambition to convert the world are constantly accused of controlling it.
The people who simply want to preserve their identity are accused of threatening everyone else’s.
And the world’s one Jewish state is portrayed as a threat to world peace.
Perhaps the problem was never what Jews wanted to impose on the world.
Perhaps the problem is that Jews have consistently refused to surrender their identity to those determined to impose their worldview upon us.
We don’t want to rule the world. We don’t want to convert the world. We simply want the right to live in it as Jews.
And apparently, even that is too much for some to accept.
He should take a look at the recent ruling of a judge in BC Canada
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BC Supreme Court rules that helping people stay alive is not illegal; in fact, it is courageous.
People at VANDU are jubilant hearing this news.
What a welcome relief from the regular programming that attacks drug users and those who support them.
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Keith Scott retweeted
The #Russian way of waging war is simply barbaric. Intentionally targeting residential areas, raping, looting, murdering POWs, kidnapping thousands of #Ukrainian children, and “double tapping” medical facilities (an art they perfected in Syria). Now they’re targeting food supplies.
Why is Russia still on the UN Security Council? Why isn’t it kicked out of the UN entirely for its systematic barbarism?
Vladimir #Putin may be in charge (for now), but he is a PRODUCT (rather than the creator) of the sick, imperialist Russian “culture” that perpetrates these war crimes on a literally daily basis. – at Maryland, USA
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To the #Ireland football team, so you're going to wear black armbands against #Israel on Sunday? I say good, wear them. Wear them, because you deserve to be marked out. Marked out in front of the world as the shameful immoral hypocrites you are. But you have forgotten something. The black armbands are incomplete. They are of course missing the #swastika. Don't worry, you still have time to sew them on. You can thank me later. After all, don't forget your team proudly played the Nazis in 1936 at Dalymount Park. You didn't consider protesting then. Your side even performed the Nazi salute in Germany in 1939 when everyone knew exactly what the Nazis stood for. Today you are their worthy heirs and you have not let your side down. Your moral standards have not changed one iota. Hitler would be proud of you. Your brains are truly in your feet, because they're certainly not in your heads. You claim to be protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza, but let's face it, what your entire side know about what's going on could fit on a postage stamp, because you are ignorant morons. Where were you on October 7th? Where were you when 1,200 innocent Israelis - including footballer Lior Asulin, murdered at the Nova festival, and footballer Yaron Zohar murdered fighting Hamas terrorist invaders - were slaughtered? I don't remember seeing any comparable gesture from your team for the Israelis massacred then. So, your protest is disgusting, performative and a national disgrace. You are cowards and you belong in the dustbin of history, like your team in 1936. Go to hell. #IRLISR #COYBIG (Image: German and Irish football teams, Bremen, 23 May 1939. Photographer unknown. Reproduced for criticism/commentary)
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The image shows the England team performing the Nazi salute before their 1938 match against Germany in Berlin. It is not the Irish team from their 1939 match in Bremen.
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Keith Scott retweeted
I'm going to get piled on for saying this, but the reason I find the Jew-hate so disturbing isn't primarily because I'm Jewish. It's because it's so unbelievably obviously a symptom of a far deeper moral and intellectual rot. It stems directly from the mass importation into our societies of forms of third-worldist, conspiratorial, anti-Western bigotry that are absolutely commonplace in the Islamic world. It was always obvious progressives would cave in the face of that. But watching many conservatives so sheepishly capitulate too, and top influencers desperately go along with it to try and hoover up clicks and likes from a massive, mostly foreign Islamic social media base has been mind-blowing, if not entirely surprising with hindsight.
It's, obviously, not going to stop with the Jews. We can literally see the same people wiping out Christians in their hundreds of thousands, right now. The question is do our societies have the intellectual fortitude to deal with this relatively idiotic but deeply sinister new challenge?
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Honored to have my research mentioned by @netanyahu in his address to the UNGA. Israel has in fact implemented more civilian harm mitigation measures (many that no nation has ever even imagined/attemped) than any military in history.
The other facts in his speech were also spot on. Israel has not only implemented extraordinary precautions in urban warfare to prevent civilian harm while Hamas has done everything it can to increase civilian harm, there is no genocide, actually the opposite of genocide in Gaza, Israel provided tons of food, water, medical supplies, facilitated immunizations for the entire populations, field hospitals, built new water lines, electricity, got patients to hospitals outside of Gaza, and much more.
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On this day—September 25, 2017
The UN Human Rights Council finished calling Israel apartheid. Then it handed the microphone to a man who grew up in Hamas.
Mosab Hassan Yousef took the floor. His father helped found the terror group. He did not address Israel. He addressed the Palestinian Authority.
Where does your legitimacy come from? The people did not elect you. You kidnap students from campus and torture them. You torture your rivals. You are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people. If Israel did not exist you would have no one to blame.
The Palestinian Authority delegates had come for another hour of Israel-bashing. The looks on their faces as they had to sit through a man from Ramallah telling them they were the problem are priceless.