Elahn Zetlin – Hanukkah in Jerusalem
An evening pause: Music by Hicham Chahidi.
As I watched this I could not help think once again of the Jewish saying that practically describes all Jewish holidays: “They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat!”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: Music by Hicham Chahidi.
As I watched this I could not help think once again of the Jewish saying that practically describes all Jewish holidays: “They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat!”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Hanukkah Sameach, Mr Z
A saying that has all too much resonance this week, alas.
I had not considered it, but Driedels have been in use since I guess 2nd century? In Isreal, it is Nun (for Nes – a miracle), Gimmel (for Godol, great) Hay (for Haya, happened, but really means was) and in Isreal it is a Peah, for Po, here. Outside Isreal it is a Shin, for Shom (There). (A great miracle happened here/there)
So for almost 2000 years a childs toy pointed at Isreal as the place of the Jews. And we are the colonizers… Right…
Related:
GETTING NEAR THE TIME WHEN AMERICA MUST MAKE REAL FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES
“First things first, America (and the Western world) has a problem with ISLAM!
Or more correctly Islam has a problem with America and the West and by the directions of their what I consider a military holy book of conquest. There is a substantial cadre of their believers who are directed very strongly to usurp (and kill) all and everyone and destroy everything that they determine are offensive to it and them. Not all but a significant number of them.
THIS IS A PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PBD: Chicago Muslim Leader Declares Islam “Always Superior,” Rejects Co-Existence: https://youtube.com/shorts/euzuNO8faAM?si=hUxwzClsD25uZqJL
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/opinion/teachers-union-pushes-neopronouns-but-claims-name-america-is-a-problem/
Earlier this month, the National Education Association held an “Advancing LGBTQ+ Justice” event.
“The NEA is not entirely sure this whole “America” thing is going to stick, so they refer to it as “what we know as the United States of America” and “what we now call the United States of America” in multiple slides. Apparently xeopronouns are rock-solid but a 249-year-old country might just be a fad.
Also, sorry, gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA.
Why?
The NEA touts over 3 million members, many of them teachers in our schools.
The union steeps the teachers in this leftist brain rot, and the teachers spread it at schools across the country.”
These people in these TEACHERS UNIONS and a segment of teachers have demonstrated that they have no business dealing with talking to or teaching young minds in any capacity and they all need to be disbanded! They are abusers of children and any society that allows such abuse is doomed!
And where does this “ASSISNNIY” Leftist, anti-America, anti-white, anti-Jew, pro Marxist irrational attempt at social engineering come from? Right from the halls of “higher education” in America: Meet Scout: https://youtube.com/shorts/2mRCvclkQ-o?si=atFmVtxIozD3k0Uo 1 min.
This must ALL be dealt with in a sane and rational but a very, very strong manner. And this is ALL done in concert with the Democrat party leadership!
Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 12/17/25
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It was a very welcomed google name alert that brought me to this page.
I made the Hanukkah in Jerusalem video. That was the first time I’ve seen it in over 10 years and was a much needed warm and fuzzy hug memory.
Thank you for sharing!
Elahn
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GOLBALIST AGENDA: TURN POLICE INTO OBSERVERS OF VIOLENCE: KEEP THE PEOPLE SCARED AND CONTROLLED
“You have seen and heard how the radical Left and “progressives” mainly Democrat party leadership in America cry to end the need for police or they support a movement to defund the police. You are aware of it you have seen and heard it. And why is that what they desire? Sound reasonable to you?
And this “progressive” cry for “Social Justice” and or “Restorative Justice” in America is based on some real and mostly perceived and extreme examples of police brutality, primarily against young black men. Keeping in mind young black men by the numbers and by the data commit multiple times the number of violent firearm related homicides (and crimes in general) then are committed by “others”.
The “Defund the Police” movement promoted by the now radical Democrat party leadership in America sacrifices overall public safety for a policy that seeks to abandon the disincentive of real consequences and a jail sentence for violent people and keeping the general public from being their victims for a race-based / political criteria agenda. Too many young black men who apparently tend to be more violent and murderous as the data indicates in jail in other words. And that is a sad statistic for sure, but to allow by policy their behavior for a political agenda is just not reasonable, it is insane.
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Then we have a situation like in Australia where an immigrant father and son terrorist suicide team were determined to gun down and kill Jews on Chanukiah.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/17/bondi-beach-survivor-says-cops-prevented-her-from-fighting-back-against-terrorists/
“A woman who survived the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Australia said on Monday that police officers seemed less concerned about stopping the attack than they were about keeping her from fighting back.”
“I tried to grab one of their guns,” Miller said. “Another one grabbed me and said ‘no.’ These men, these police officers, they know who I am. I hope they are hearing this. You are weak. You could have saved so many more people’s lives. They were just standing there, listening and watching this all happen, holding me back.”
(You / I could comfortably argue that the police in Australia were held back purposefully by policy so that these immigrant terrorists indiscriminately killing Jews on the beach on Chanukiah needed their rights to do so observed. And the more who were killed would better serve the government’s argument to further disarm the public. Remember: Politics and governments are not as someone in the Public Realm assumes in the truth and morality business. They are in the power and control business.)
And what do these two examples demonstrate to a rational person? Many of the police departments controlled around the world as a function of an overarching agenda formulated by the likes of the U.N. and their 2030 agenda and Globalist Socialist social engineers are in the process of redistributing dissimilar cultures through forced immigration and they are creating an atmosphere where the most violent among them are encouraged to become violent and destabilizing force and fostering fear within the body of the public.
This policy of making the police paranoid that they may be arrested and prosecuted and to live in fear related to doing their jobs and protect the general public with deadly force in an extreme situation spells the death of a doomed society and civilization.
This irrational law and justice situation within America and we can see it pretty clearly in this last terror attack that was apparently allowed to continue unconfronted are offered as the proof of evidence of what I propose here.
This forced insanity being employed by many politically empowered political actors and governments all around the world who are in the process of forcing people into their Globalist obedience model spells a tumultuous confrontation between the rational among us and the media meme-controlled lemmings among us in the future IMO. Something must eventually give.
Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 12/18/25
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