Thursday, June 27, 2019

I'm Going Up (acoustic, Claire Lynch)

Hello Grafted In Readers,

First, I would like to wish Canadian and North American readers an early Happy Canada Day and Independence Day, nationally respective. Below, I am pasting an article of general interest and socially encouraging from "Breaking Israel News." It is not my intention to be divisive, but some of us with God's help endeavor to keep Torah.
Please Consider:

Straight Pride March set to take Place in Israel
By David Sidman June 27, 2019 , 8:58 am
If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing Exodus 20:13 (The Israel Bible™)

In an effort to counter the gay “pride” march, a group of Jewish Israelis from Haifa and the surrounding areas are embarking on something similar to the ‘Straight Pride March’ in Boston called Mitzad Hamishpacha (the Family March). 
The event’s main organizer, Attorney Naama Sela, told Breaking Israel News that the march was the initiative of both religious and secular Israeli citizens looking to emphasize the importance of traditional family values. “We feel that the country is being taken away from us by a gay lobby with a very specific agenda – to obliterate the nuclear family,” Sela said.
The move was the initiative of Sela, who is secular and Rabbi Yair Horowitz. Although Sela describes herself as a secular Israeli, she explained how appalled both she as well as many other secular Israelis like her are at how the LGBT special interest groups have infiltrated “every facet of Israeli society, especially education”. The organizer added how in her son’s school, on ‘Family Day’, the teachers teach them about how just about anyone can call themselves a ‘family’. “Israel’s educational system has completely lost their minds” she added. Sela noted how in junior high and high school, people from the LGBT community, with no background in education, come in and lecture the kids while injecting them with their (anti-family) propoganda”.
One of Sela’s goals in the march is to “wake up the silent majority in Israel and take our country back from this poisonous sentiment” she explained.
“The outpouring of love and support was overwhelming,” she said. “Thousands of people from all over the country flooded my office with phone calls and text messages praising our work” she added. Sela recalled a conversation she had with a 70-year-old man who felt as though his entire culture has been robbed from him and is glad that someone is finally standing up to these “bullies”. Even an Arab called her and “spoke with me for a half an hour about how he can’t take the gay agenda inserting their tentacles into every facet of academia”.
However, not everyone was so supportive. Sela also recalled Whatsapp messages that the people in her group got from the LGBT community threatening to perform “gay acts” at the march. Additionally, Facebook shut down the event’s page and wouldn’t allow invites to be sent out for the event. That’s why she has no idea regarding how many people will attend.
Back in 2010, the Jerusalem Police rejected a request from then-Deputy Mayor Yitzhak Pindrus to hold a ‘Donkey March’ as a counterweight to the gay “pride” march. Although Pindrus was hoping to greet gay parade participants with live donkeys to represent what he said was the “bestial” nature of the gay march, the police refused his request.

Note: May the face (presence of God) shine on us and ever be that which we find inviting and desired.

Mellow Rock
David C. Russell, Author

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Things To Celebrate This June

Hello Grafted In Reader,

In the faith practice world, we are just a few days away from the annual celebration of Shavuot or Pentecost. It is also called the Feast of Weeks, and celebrates the harvest, giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and Christians believe the Holy Spirit was fully manifest at this time, too. If you observe this time, may it be one of refreshment and renewal.

On June 5, Breaking Israel News reported on how ten million Parkinson disease sufferers look to Israeli research for help in understanding early detection. In essence early detection is noted by super-resolution microscopy.

On June 4, the BBC News reported that research in England is working on a patch for the heart to aid heart attack victims in having cellular restoration and fully functioning heart muscle. The patch is in its final development stages and could be available as soon as 2021.

There is much to be thankful for this time of year. Whether you are in winter or approaching summer, what goes on inside you will likely determine your response to things in life. Often, I need to "look to the hills" from whence comes my salvation, and agree with the author of the Psalms.

Thank you for stopping by, reading, and just maybe, leaving a comment.

Kevod Yeheveh, His presence be with us.

Mellow Rock