It is with a great deal of accomplishment and satisfaction that I read that Yeshiva University had officially adopted the Torah-U'maddah emblem as its official designated emblem.The committee did modernize it,by creating a blue background,as well as some minor changes.
When the University tried to abolish the emblem for a generic flame,I waged an almost one man campaign with the blog,petitions,newspaper articles and speeches to restore this historic emblem.
I made many enemies fromn within the leadership of YU,and was told by many that I was DEALING WITH AN IMPOSSIBLE REQUEST.
I am grateful that the YU leadership after a cooling off period,recognized that there is no other institution in the world that symbolizes our way of life-Torah U'maddah- as YU
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I was listening to Gen. Petraeus discussing the deaths of Afghani civilians who were held against their will by the Taliban,and died when US planes attacked the "bad-guys" . SURELY the Taliban were at fault for forcing these innocents to act as hostages.Of course we would look into the matter, and anyway the numbers were exaggerated.
No one yelled "WAR-CRIMINAL" or UN investigation.
Note the double standard for the Israel-Hamas conflict!
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The concept of coupling a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict with the Iranian march to a nuclear bomb s defies all logic.THE PERSIANS ARE NOT ARABS.THEY CARE LITTLE FOR THE PALESTINIANS EXCEPT AS PAWNS IN THEIR BATTLE AGAINST THE US.
Gen. Jones,the NSC advisor has never been a friend of Israel, and looks at Israel as part of the problem.
The suggestion by the WH that Israel should give up their nuclear weapons is luidicrous,as is the suggestion nthat there can be no natural growth of areas where 300,000 Jews reside, in Yehuda AND SHOMRON.
IN ADDITION THE THOUGHT THAT AREAS of JERUSALEM ARE SETTLEMENTS MUST BE RENOUNCED EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY ARE RAISED.
