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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Special “Pre-Pesach/Passover” Edition of The Marty Roberts Show…

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This time the Palestinian “scholars” are not only distorting history and the Bible, but their own Koran!!!…Will anybody buy their lies??

On Today’s show:

The dangers of Passover…to your body, your children and your waistline…

And what to do about it…

Plus…The REAL Exodus from Egypt…Queen/Freddy Mercury style…a hot new video by Aish HaTorah…See it right here…

And…5+1 REALLY hot videos for Pesach…Watch them all right here…

Google Exodus…

20Things to Do With Matzah…

Dayenu, Coming Home…

Jake Gyllenhaal and the Afikomen…

Are You Smarter than a 10-Year-Old…

Plus a special Passover message from South Africa…

Also…Hot mobile apps for Passover…

And Israel sells her chametz/leaven to an Israeli Arab Muslim…

Plus…Jethro Tull, Lady Gaga, Guns n’ Roses, Red Hot Chile peppers, mMdonna and Demi Moore…What have THEY got to do with Israel?…find out…

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Russian Missile Sale to Syria: Just WHO Will These Weapons Be Used Against??? (Duhhhh!!!)

Also…The Preparations for Passover 2005 Continue…Where, Oh Where have all the Chametz (Leaven) (and the Jews, too) Gone???

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Who Are the Proud Owners of All of Israel’s Bread Today???

The traditional sale of Israel’s chametz (leaven) to Husan Ismael Jibar of Abu Gosh is a done deal. “Boy, do I have a deal for you!!!…”

Is This What Swords Beaten into Plowshares Look Like???…Putin’s Front Door

Russia is selling Israel’s neighbor, Syria, SA-18 anti-aircraft missiles. Whose civilian airliner will be the first to be brought down (G-d forbid)??? U.s.??? Israel??? England???…however…Russian presidential security…courtesy of, who else???…Israeli technology!!!

Did We, or Didn’t We???

In spite of Syria’s public denials, the Israeli Navy DID, indeed, (and continues to) assist in the rescue of Syrian and Egyptian seamen from the Syrian ship that went down this week off the coast of Israel

The Rain Turned Red: Modern-Day Plague, or Paint-Factory Pollution???

Are the “red rains” that are falling in Russia the Divine answer to Middle East weapons sales to Israel’s enemies? What about the blood-red drinking water appearing in Israel???

The Safest Beaches in the World???…Well, Sure…Now that the pollution and the sharks have been dealt with!!!

Leaving Egypt

Why do so many Israeli Jews want to go back there for Passover, even in the face of terror warnings??? G-d SAID that we were a stiff-necked people, didn’t He???…

Happy Passover, a Happy and Kosher Pesach to You and Yours, from Marty Roberts and Israel News Radio!!!

Obesity: Whether or not you have this morbid disease may depend more upon WHEN you were weighed than HOW MUCH you weigh!!!

Also…The Passover-Eve Search for Chametz (Leaven): Why is this year different from all other years???

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Tonight We Search for Chametz (Leaven)

Since Passover starts right after the Sabbath this year, a lot of the rules and customs leading up to the holiday are different. Better get started early, or you might miss it!!!

Is This a Sign of Danger???

Just how dangerous is obesity??? And what does it mean to be obese, anyway??? Apparantly, the government health agencies can’t make up their minds, so you might as well weigh yourself, and wait and see until they decide that your weight is healthy…in the meantime…

Mike, the Headless Chicken……Danger…Danger!!!

Beware of Chicken-McAnything…And Beware of That Potential Killer of Youth…The Deadly “Petting Zoo”!!!

Fat…And Happy!!!

Or maybe, just sit back and enjoy the ride…Don’t Worry, Be Happy!!!

“Happy Passover, a Happy and Kosher Pesach to You and Yours, from Marty Roberts and Israel News Radio!!!”

The fact of the matter is that most Israelis, even if they would not be classified as “orthodox” Jews, respect and honor Jewish tradition. Most celebrate the Jewish holidays and perform the rituals of the Jewish cycle of Life…Bar/Bat-Mitzvah, Brit Milah, Jewish wedding, Jewish burial…
The Passover Seder is celebrated by most Jewish families, and a vast majority of Israeli Jews respect the Jewish Law and do not eat chametz (leavened products) during the week-long Passover holiday.
The first chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Kook, used to say that the average, non-religiously observant Jew living in Israel performed more mitzvahs (Torah commandments) every day than the average “orthodox” Jew living in exile. Just look at the kosher food in his fridge, etc. etc…
One more reason to come home, my brothers and sisters…

Poll: Most Israelis won’t eat chametz on Pesach

Nearly half of Jewish secular public plans to conduct traditional seder, abstain from bread

Reprinted from Ynetnews.com

Most of the Jews in Israel say they do not plan on eating bread during Passover, according to a Ynet and Gesher survey held ahead of the holiday.

The majority of the Jewish public also plans to conduct a proper seder, which will include reading the haggadah. The survey was conducted among 300 Jewish adults residing throughout the country.

Asked whether they planned to eat chametz on Passover, 69% said no and 19% said they would only do so in the privacy of their own homes so as not to offend the religious public. Only 12% said they would eat bread in public.

When separated into sectors, the poll revealed that 49% of secular Jews would not eat chametz, a surprisingly large figure. As expected, 100% of haredim polled said they would not eat bread.

To the question of how they planned to celebrate Pesach, 63% said they would hold a traditional Seder, which includes reading the entire haggadah, while 23% said they would only read up to the dinner part. Just 4% said they would not read the haggadah at all.

The survey also asked whether those polled would be willing to hold the seder abroad, and specifically in Turkey. Forty-two percent said they would not hold the seder abroad and 34% said they would, but not in Turkey. Just 17% were willing to spend the holiday in the recently alienated country.

Of the seculars polled, 71% would not mind spending the seder abroad, but 49% would not choose Turkey as their destination.

Ilan Geal-Dor, the general manager of Gesher, was satisfied with the results. “More than 90% of the public marks the Seder – that’s an incredible figure!” he exclaimed.

He said his organization had been studying the Israeli public’s regard for the holiday for three years and that it was consistent in honoring the Passover tradition. “Israeli society wants to mark Passover in the public sphere,” he said.

“Sometimes it seems the Israeli public has thrown off all Jewish characteristics, but this survey proves that this is not the case. Israeli society wants Jewish identity in the public sphere. It doesn’t want oppression, though, and that is why Judaism must be left to each person’s free choice.”

A Mormon Passover seder? Only in the US, I guess. Never heard of this one. Then again, my Mormon friends never did mention any fun kinds of ritual observance in their faith, so I guess they must have thought that our Seder was a good one to add to their religious arsenal…A lot more fun then going door to door and having your little booklets rejected by everyone.
Seems they also thought it was kind of fun to wear the little beanies on their heads during the seder, so they adopted THAT one from us also…wearing yarmulkas on their heads.
One slight problem, however…an important, in fact, esssential part of a kosher Jewish Passover seder is the drinking of 4 cups of wine by all in remembrance of the 4 Redemptions that are mentioned in the Torah. Needless to say, this adds considerably to the festive atmosphere of said kosher Jewish Passover Seder. But Mormons don’t drink, so they have to get by with Paul Newman brand grape juice…
Another reason I am happy to be a Jew…

US Mormons mark Passover with seder


Members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hold their own traditional meal retelling biblical story of Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt. Jewish leaders in Utah say not offended

Reprinted from Associated Press/Ynetnews.com

On Monday evening, Jews around the world began the holiday with a seder, the traditional meal during which the biblical story of the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt is retold. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be holding one of their own this week.

Avraham Gileadi, a Mormon who is also a Hebrew scholar, will direct “A Passover for Joseph and Judah” at Provo’s Scenic View Academy on Friday.

Gileadi, 69, is affiliated with the seder’s sponsor, The Hebraeus Foundation, an organization promoting biblical scholarship. He said that Mormons and Jews share similar attributes and that while Passover isn’t an LDS tradition, it could be.

“A lot of LDS people are also part of that heritage,” Gileadi said. “It’s as much about us as it is about Jews.”

Gileadi said the evening also will feature a children’s choir and a performing harpist.

“We’ve kind of enriched this event to be a family experience,” he said.

Like Christianity and Islam, the Mormon faith has ties to Judaism. “The Book of Mormon,” which members of the religion abide by, along with the Old and New Testaments, says that Israelites migrated to the New World and were the ancestors of American Indians.

Latter-day Saints believe that church founder Joseph Smith Jr. translated the holy book from golden plates he discovered through an angel in the 1820s and restored authentic Christianity. The book follows the story of a family who leaves Jerusalem for the Americas around 600 B.C. In 1841, Smith sent apostle Orson Hyde to Jerusalem to dedicate the land for Smith’s prophecy of the return of the Jews. A park on the city’s Mount of Olives commemorates Hyde’s pilgrimage.

Brigham Young University has hosted seders open to the public for nearly 40 years, and this year’s Provo Passover is its fourth in a row.

Attendees are coming to Provo for a combination of religious and educational reasons. Eric Palmer, 60, owns a small business in the area and is drawn to the Jewish tradition as a way of understanding his own Mormon faith.

“I think this is an undeveloped area of our religion. It’s our history, and we’ve lost it,” Palmer said. “It’s an important tradition to a lot of people in the world, and I’d like to understand it better.”

The relationship between the faiths has been strained over the Mormon practice of posthumous baptisms, which have included the baptism of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps.

‘As kosher as possible’

Some Holocaust survivors have said the church repeatedly violated an agreement barring the practice. Mormon church leaders have said they are making changes to their genealogical database to make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy.

Jewish leaders in Utah say they aren’t offended when Mormons sit down to a seder.

“I don’t find it insulting; I say that it just validates that much more the preciousness and the richness of our heritage,” said Rabbi Ben Zippel of Utah’s Chabad Lubavitch congregation. “I think that the best form of flattery is imitation.”

Hebraeus Foundation board member Charlene Stott said there will be plenty of that at the Seder, where the familiar trappings and trimmings of the meal, such as the unleavened bread, matzo, are part of the experience.

“We keep the dinner as kosher as possible, although the kitchen wouldn’t qualify,” Stott said in an e-mail.

Mormon men will also wear yarmulkes on their heads. Everyone will follow along in a Haggadah, a reading at seders retelling the Exodus narrative.

The one major exception, Stott said, was that wine won’t make it onto the dining tables since many Mormons abstain from alcohol.

“We serve Paul Newman’s Own grape juice,” Stott said. “Great stuff, and we still have fun.”

For more than 1000 years, the Jewish capital city of Jerusalem was the focus of THE happening for Jews around the world. During the 1000+ years that the Jewish Temple was standing on Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem, this week, the week of the Jewish festival of Pesach/Passover, was one of three weeks throughout the year that all Jews would travel to the Jewish capital and camp out for a week of barbecues, eating, drinking, merriment and spirituality unmatched anywhere or anytime.
Passover was one of the three times every year that Jews were commanded for “aliyah l’regal”, or pilgrimage to the Holy Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. All the Jews would set up their tents and spend the week in prayer and festivities, eating the barbecue of the roasted sacrifices, enjoying kosher wines and celebrating the closeness of the Jewish people to the Creator.
Today, in the modern Jewish State of Israel, the Temple has not yet been rebuilt, but the Jewish people are keeping the tradition. Passover week continues to be a week of family celebration and trips through the length and breadth of Israel. Festivals abound in all parts of the Holyland, spiritual happenings, musical events and concerts, treks into the wonders of nature…Israel comes alive for the entire week as Jews of all levels of religious observance celebrate the week of the Jewish Holiday of Freedom in our Homeland, each in his or her own way, in the cities or in the Negev Desert, in the holy hills of Safed or on the heights of the Golan overlooking the Kinneret, Sea of Galilee.
And many of us yearn for the days, soon to come, we hope and pray, when we will once again be able to all go up to Jerusalem to visit the Third Holy Jewish Temple, may It be built speedily in our days, and enjoy the Festival of Passover fully once again…

“Jewish” wine, that is, wines from Israel, have become far more than the syrupy sweet Manischewitz cough syrup that my generation grew up with at home and at synagogue.
Israel grows and processes a wide variety of very fine wines of all types, available at all prices.
We will be enjoying them at our Passover seder…no reason for my Christian friends not to enjoy a nip or two to celebrate the Easter holiday…

Wines of Israel for Easter


Easter is almost upon us and with such, my wine thoughts often turn to wines from Israel.

Reprinted from wine.about.com Stacy’s Wine Blog

At ProWein this week I had the opportunity to taste through a series of wines from Israel with my favorites being Tishbi from the Negev region, Golan Heights and Galil Mountain from the upper Galilee region. Many of the wines from these specific wineries would make an authentic and delicious addition to your Easter dinner.

The wines of Israel are no longer being reserved only for traditional Jewish culture, but are being readily imported to both New World and European markets alike. And for good reason – they are not the sugary, sweet grape juices of old. Many of Israel’s wines boast numerous awards and accolades and are being well represented in international wine competitions on an annual basis.

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The 10 Plagues of Egypt Strike Again???!!!
(or at least plague #2)

…but THIS time, it’s not frogs descending upon Egypt from the Nile…It’s EXPLODING TOADS invading Germany…

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Anti-Semitism Rears It’s Ugly Head in Russia…and nobody seems to be doing anything about it!!!

The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights is reporting alarming increases in ant-semitism and xenophobia in Russia. What does it mean?

Why aren’t the authorities taking action?

Why aren’t the JEWS taking action?

Is this (G-d forbid) “been there, done that” again? (remember the early 1900′s, anybody???)

The 10 Plagues of Egypt Strike Again???!!!

(or at least plague #2)

…but THIS time, it’s not frogs descending upon Egypt from the Nile…

It’s EXPLODING TOADS invading Germany…

Could it be???…

Naahhhhh!!!!

(Must We Really) Let Freedom Ring (in Australia)

What if YOUR next-door neighbor decided to fly the Nazi flag in his backyard?

Why can’t we do something about THIS???

Where does freedom end, and anarchy begin???

Just how much do we have to put up with in the name of democracy??

Jonathan Pollard is a hero. He risked all to protect Israel. He did nothing, really, to betray the United States, Israel’s strongest ally, yet he is paying dearly for his loyalty.
Almost 25 of his 55 years on earth spent in horrible conditions in a US prison. This is how America treats a “spy” for an allied country? For America’s closest friend, Israel?
Spies of enemy nations have not received such harsh treatment.
America, please, release Jonathon Pollard NOW!!!

Special ‘Pollard Haggadah’ Issued


The holiday commemorating G-d’s redemption of His firstborn nation from Egyptian bondage is approaching, and a new Haggadah dedicated to Jonathan Pollard was issued Monday for the occasion.

Reprinted from INN Hillel Fendel

Pollard, 55, is now in his 25th year of incarceration in the United States, sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on one count of transferring classified information to US-ally Israel.

The publishers of the new Haggadah – the ritual text used to guide the annual festive Passover “seder” meal – say that Pollard’s extended imprisonment “is a test for us all regarding the extent of the mutual responsibility that lies at the base of our very national existence. Jonathan Pollard, may G-d strengthen him, has been decaying in U.S. prison for over 24 years, and if we are not privileged to see his release soon, this coming Seder night [March 29] will be his 25th in the prison of that ‘friendly nation.’”

This coming Sunday will mark 8,888 days that Pollard has been in prison.

Some 20,000 copies of the Haggadah will be printed, “and if we need more, we’ll print more,” said Asher Mivtzari, one of the forces behind the project. The book will be distributed in towns all around Israel as soon as it comes off the presses, and will be sold for the token price of ten shekels.

The Haggadah was edited by Rabbi Gabi Kadosh, the rabbi of the northern Negev town Shomriyah, where several dozens expelled Gush Katif families have made their home; he was the rabbi of the Gush Katif community of Ganei Tal for many years. Rabbi Kadosh compiled what many rabbis and public figures have said about Pollard, as well as Torah thoughts on the tremendous importance in Judaism of Redemption of Captives.

Passover was traditionally a time when extra efforts were made to redeem captives. The Book of Our Heritage, by Rabbi Eliyahu Ki-Tov, cites a traditional practice in many Jewish communities “that on the morning of Passover eve, the leaders of the community would go to the jails in and around their town, checking to see if there were any Jewish prisoners, whom they would then attempt to free.”

Asked why no English edition is available, Mivtzari explained that the first priority in the campaign to free Pollard is Israel, where it is hoped that public pressure will be exerted on the government to work for his release. “In addition, the entire project was done amazingly quickly and there was no time to think of adding anything else,” Mivtzari said.

The name of the new publication is “Freedom Haggadah: Let’s not ‘pass over’ our brother Jonathan.” Volunteers will sell it door-to-door, and copies can be ordered at .

From the book’s introduction:
“Jonathan sacrificed his freedom for me, for you and for all of us, so that we would be able to live as free people in the Land of Israel, with our children forever. He simply wanted us to live and not die, that we should not fall victim to the evil schemes of those who hate us and want to destroy us… He is paying a terrible price: separated from his wife and imprisoned in disgraceful conditions that impair his health and endanger his life.”

I hope that we can avoid an international incident with Israel’s close allies, the Americans…On the other hand, I REALLY want my gefilte fish on Passover…

Clinton will try to free fish for Passover

US Secretary of state to try to resolve trade dispute holding up huge shipment of American-caught fish destined for seder dinners in Israel

Reprinted from YNet

Free the gefilte fish! Just in time for Passover, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will try to resolve a trade dispute holding up a huge shipment of American-caught fish destined for seder dinners in Israel.

Clinton drew chuckles from a congressional panel when she said that getting nine containers of Asian Carp filets from an Illinois fishery to a processing plant in Israel in time for the Jewish holiday “sounds to me like one of those issues that should rise to the highest levels of our government.”

She made the pledge Thursday to Rep. Don Manzullo, an Illinos Republican. Manzullo said Israel slapped a 120% import duty on the fish, and he asked for help before the first seder on March 29.

“I will take that mission on,” she said.

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Russian President Putin Visits Israel and the Middle East…The new Santa Claus of the Islamic Jihadists announces “Weapons for ALL”, as long as you are an enemy of Israel!!!

Also…Who Built the Pyramids of Egypt???…

New evidence and historic/biblical facts about Jewish slavery in Egypt and the Exodus to Freedom and Redemption!!!

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