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On Israel’s 64th birthday, we ponder the question, “How can a country that overwhelmingly fears for its future existence be SO doggone happy??!!…

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Almost half of all Israelis believe that Israel is in real danger of being destroyed, yet Israelis consistently rank near the top of all countries when it comes to the happiness of her citizens…

On today’s show:

Just HOW happy ARE Israelis…And WHY???

Israel celebrates Independence Day/Yom HaAtzma’ut number 64…

Also…Sure, We’re really happy here, in Israel, but the world certainly does not like us…Why so unpopular internationally?…And…The status of women in the Israeli workforce…

Plus…Kazakhstan officially thanks Borat for their country’s tourism boost, Taglit/Birthright trips to Israel more than pay off for American AND Israeli Jews, what are American Jews thinking about as presidential elections approach, what do Israelis think is “Israeli”?…

All this and more on The Marty Roberts Show

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The so-called Arab Demographic Time Bomb threatening the Jewish nature of the State of Israel is nothing more than a big old dud…

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Spring festivals in the Jewish Homeland, Israel…

On today’s show:

The joy of a Jew living in our homeland, Israel…

Nothing quite brings it out like the Passover holiday season…Nothing reminds us more strongly just how lucky we are to be able to live here like celebrating Pesach in the Spring right here, in Israel…

From the joy of the seder night, to touring Israel’s National Parks and historic sites…

From the north of the country to the south…

And then, there’s Jerusalem…Walking the ramparts of the Old City…

or visiting the once-in-a-lifetime Ice City…

And nowhere else is the Priestly Blessing delivered more authentically…

All this is dependent upon Israel remaining the Jewish State…But because we are a secular, democratic Jewish State, all religions are free to celebrate their faith here, including the Christian Easter in Jerusalem…

The Left will have you believe that if we do not create a separate palestinian state, they will overwhelm the Jewish nature of Israel…This is simply not true, as I explain in today’s show (thanks to the wonderful work of retired ambassador Yoram Ettinger)

All this and more on The Marty Roberts Show

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“Israel-ism” vs. “Juda-ism”…Are they really one and the same thing?

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Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua made some interesting and controversial statements in a speech delivered last week in the U.S. He seriously questions the ability for some one to be a “complete” Jew while still living in the diaspora…A secular, but very Jewish point of view.

On today’s show…

An exploration of A. B. Yehoshua’s speech…What was he saying?…What did he mean?…Why?

Why should Jews live in Israel? (other than the fact that it’s a pretty good place to live, these days)…The Torah-Commandment, religiously observant point of view vs. the purely secular, zionist argument…And what did Ramban (Nachmanides) and other talmudic sages have to say about this issue?

Plus…A. B. Yehoshua and the Holocaust…Was it an unavoidable, tragic event in history, or was the Holocaust a “Jewish failure”?

Also…some comments about the murders of innocent Israeli children and their father in France, an ongoing story…

All this and more on The Marty Roberts Show

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Is Ahmadinejad Amalek?…Haman?

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On today’s show, a look at the parallels between the Purim Story in ancient Persia and what is going on today in modern-day Iran and Israel…What is the same, and what is different…

VERY different, including highlights of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to AIPAC in America this week…Purim revisited?…Never again!!!

Plus…The beauty of Purim in Israel…The Purim Holiday like you’ve never, ever experienced it in the diaspora…This should make you yearn to return home to Israel from exile…

Also…Wealth in Israel…Multiple surprising reports about the meteoric growth of wealth in the tiny Jewish State…

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Attacks on the proposed ban to criminalize Jewish ritual circumcision (brit milah) in San Francisco, California, USA spread to the legal and federal legislative fronts…

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But the King of the Zulus has requested (and received) Israeli aid in achieving his goal of circumcising 2.5 million adult Zulu males in the next 5 years…Purpose…To prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa…

And now, a serious move in The Netherlands to ban kosher meat, while the European Union attacks Judaism through labeling (again)…

Shakira

Also…Special coverage of the “Presidential Conference: Facing Tomorrow” in Israel…

Shakira debunks her alleged anti-Israel bias…

Shakira

But an album in Arabic?…Really?

Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman manages to restrain herself, while proposing a peace plan of her own…

Amos Oz, Daniel Kurtzer, Jimmy Wales, Tony Blair and others…

Plus…Israel…World leader in social networking, a daughter named “Like”…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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If any of you are still deluding yourselves that the “flotillas” coming with the “humanitarian” mission to break Israel’s blockade of the terrorists in Gaza have anything whatsoever to do with peace…

Please, think again…

Death threats against an Israeli musician by the organizers of the latest flotilla?
Can this have ANYTHING whatsoever to do with peace?
Can anybody involved with these violent assaults on international law and Israel’s sovereignty truly call themselves a “peace activist”?

Yuval Ron

I don’t think so…

Israeli musician cancels Istanbul concert

Death threats, allegedly from flotilla-organizing IHH, lead Yuval Ron to cancel performance in Turkey.

Reprinted from jpost.com

Death threats, allegedly from the Turkish NGO that helped organize the 2010 Gaza protest flotilla, led to the cancellation of a concert in Istanbul by Oscar-winning Israeli musician Yuval Ron, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Friday.

The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has denied making the threats, but confirmed that it did oppose the holding of the concert.

Ron, the leader of a musical ensemble that includes Muslim, Jewish and Christian artists, told Hurriyet on Friday, “I am very sorry, I had to cancel the concert because of the safety of my team members.

The cancellation of the concert will harm Turkey’s image in the world. But I want to return to Turkey and realize this concert [in the future],” said Ron, who won the 2007 Academy Award for Short Film for writing the music for West Bank Story.

The concert, which was scheduled for Thursday night in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet neighborhood, was canceled it because of threats from IHH, Hurriyet reported.

The demographics of the Jewish State are definitely looking up…

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And her citizens are, for the most part, happy with the Middle East’s only real democracy…The modern Jewish State of Israel…

Also…Nefesh B’Nefesh celebrates the year’s new immigrant babies…

“The Terminator”, Arnold Shwarzenegger speaks out on Israel…

And…Iran just went nuclear last week…Anybody notice?…Anybody care?…

Plus…Israeli super-model, Bar Rafaeli…#6 hottest woman in the world, according to Maxim, while Israel hosts fashion shoot after fashion shoot under the beautiful Israeli sun…At the same time, Israel hosts the Asian Physics Olympiad…and takes home the gold (and bronze and silver)

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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It’s sometimes very hard to tell…

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The American people have always overwhelmingly supported one of their closest allies, Israel, but, all too often, American government policy does not seem to bear this out…

Two cases in point recently were highlighted in the media…

Rosen and Weissman...Two Ruined Lives

The FBI’s unfounded pursuit and subsequent failed prosecution of AIPAC’s Steve Rosen…

And then there’s Condoleeza Rice’s massive espionage campaign against Israel…

How can this be?

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Then, there’s the granddaddy of them all…Jonathan Pollard…Imprisoned for 25 years…Time to let him go…

Shinya Maeda

Also…Israeli cuisine reaches new peaks as Chef Brueh retires in Tel Aviv, accompanied by world-renowned Gorden Ramsay protege Shinya Maeda from Japan…

And…Yeshiva Rabbis ban the new plague…cellular telephones…

David and Goliath

Plus…David and Goliath Redux, and Macy Gray is on the way (even if she does call some of her fans “assholes”)…

Macy Gray

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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Probably not as nice as it is now…

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When my wife pointed out that the new joy of my life, my Amazon Kindle, would not exist were it not for Israeli technology, I began to think…

Just what else would the world be missing were it not for the existence of the 100th smallest country in the world…the country that the world loves to hate…Israel…

The results were mind-boggling, even to me, who already loves the Jewish State…

Medicine, biotechnology, agriculture, communications, security, and, of course, computers…

You won’t believe just how much the world would be lacking were it not for the existence of the modern State of Israel…

Find out more right here…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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War is Helll

Coverage of recent events in Gaza…Only here, it’s the true story…Not some anti-Israel, anti-Jewish spin put out by the Arab enemies of Israel and swallowed whole by the mass media, the European Union and the rest of the (un)-civilized world…

Also…Countdown to abomination in Jerusalem?…Let’s hope not…A brief preview…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

Also…Jews forced to take off their shirts to enter an Israeli university…Think this is a joke???…Unfortunately, it’s not!!!!!

The Cave of the Patriarchs

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Even the Great Wall of China will be displaying Channukah candles this year,
not to mention Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem…

Also…More on the Talmud, Mishna and Gemorah…What is it?…Why do we need it, anyway?…What does it say about the Jewish calendar?…

Plus…Jews traveling for the holidays

All this and MORE…

Chanukah Starts Next Week!

Great Wall of China

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For better AND for worse

A film about life on a kibbutz…A film about life in Israeli prison..Both won acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival…Also…Love for the Land of Israel…Why and by whom?…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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What’s THAT all about???…

Also…Nasrallah’s Missile Threat to the North…

Do 12,000 missiles pointing at Israel from the North teach us anything about the future of the South???

All this and MORE…

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No expectations of anything but calm, peace and quiet
But what was that little incident in Manger Square a couple of days ago?…

Also…A Glimpse Into the Incredible World of Talmud
What is the “Pin Test”, anyway?
Are we really smarter than our ancestors?…

Plus…Free Christmas trees for all who ask

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