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Monday, December 14, 2015

J-GOP Meeting December 16 - Post Chanukah White Elephant party

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Friday, December 11, 2015

J-GOP Meeting December 16 - Post Chanukah White Elephant party

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

J-GOP Meeting December 16 - Post Chanukah White Elephant party

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Monday, November 16, 2015

J-GOP Meeting November 18 - Speaker: The NFIB's Patti Kurgan

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

J-GOP Meeting November 18 - Speaker: The NFIB's Patti Kurgan

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Watch: Child terrorist stabbers caught on CCTV

It is hard to know what is worse, that these children are so filled with lies and hate that they could do this, or that the security guard was forced to defend himself against an attack by children. Those who believe this is anything other than learned behavior, taught to children by evil people are simply full of crap. You know who you are! Watch: Child terrorist stabbers caught on CCTV - Arutz Sheva
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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Watch: Naftali Bennett's 'most anti-Israel interview ever'

Brilliant, amazing, frightening and disgusting all at the same time. A must see interview. #NaftaliBennett
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Ken Buck is right about the bad debt deal

Congratulations to Congressman Ken Buck for holding the line and taking a stand against the Washington DC status quo. Ken Buck is right about the bad debt deal
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Monday, October 26, 2015

Debate Watch - October 28, East Side Kosher Deli

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Colorado becomes latest US State to sign R&D deal with Israel

Finally, something we can agree with Gov. Hickenlooper on! It appears he is distancing himself with the Obama administration by actually supporting Israel in a for profit venture. Colorado becomes latest US State to sign R&D deal with Israel - Arutz Sheva
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Stabbing attacks foiled in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

Exactly what is the middle ground between calling for the annihilation of the Jews in Israel and a so called "Two State" solution? Stabbing attacks foiled in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv - Arutz Sheva
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Debate Watch - October 28, East Side Kosher Deli

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J-GOP Debate Watch Event!,The third Republican Presidential debate is scheduled for next week onWednesday evening, the 28th. We are having a watch party at East Side KosherDeli (499 S Elm St, Denver CO) for the debate currently scheduled for 6pmMountain time. The back room will have a big screen TV to view and somelight snacks will be available (you will be on your own for dinner, but theyhave a great menu there). You can sign up using Eventbright< > here if you would like to join us so we can gethead count. We look forward to seeing you there!Sincerely,Dan KopelmanPresident, Colorado Jewish RepublicansP.S. We are making some changes to the web site and communications. Pleasefeel free to make any suggestions on how to better communicate with you. Visit me at http://j-gop.com/
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Did an Israeli rap star just solve terror?

Finally, a rapper that is anti-bad guy rather than anti cop. Did an Israeli rap star just solve terror? - Arutz Sheva
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J-GOP Debate Watch Event!

Dear Colorado Republicans,
 
Well, the third Republican Presidential debate is scheduled for next week on Wednesday evening, the 28th. We are having a debate watch gathering at East Side Kosher Deli for the debate scheduled at 6pm Mountain time. We will have the back room and a big screen TV to view on with some light snacks available (you will be on your own for dinner, but they have a great menu there).
You can sign up using Eventbright here or feel free to reply to this email if you would like to join us so we can get  head count.
 
We look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
President, J-GOP
 
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Friday, September 18, 2015

Happy New Year! A story worth sharing and maybe even sending to J-GOP list or web site....


   

Jewish-Americans have a long history of finding role models who broke barriers, accomplished great things, or engaged in more mundane acts of heroism. Jewish religious schools are full of discussions of athletes like Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, or the legions of Jewish entertainers and scholars, as ways to demonstrate the accomplishments of American Jews.
But in all those stories many of us heard growing up, one set of brave heroes was never mentioned: the Schechter brothers of New York City. The Schechters were kosher butchers operating in the 1930s who stood fast to their commitment to the dietary laws of kashrut in the face of ferocious pressure and prosecution by a powerful government. They eventually took their case to the highest court in the land—and won—defeating one of the most popular and powerful administrations in American history.
One would think this story of Jewish heroism and commitment to Jewish values would be inspirational for generations of young American Jews. But the Schechter brothers were up against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
It was the Roosevelt administration's prosecution of the Schechters for violating the National Industrial Recovery Act, one of the pillars of the New Deal, that led the Supreme Court to declare the act unconstitutional in 1935. FDR was, and remains, so beloved by American Jews that the heroism of the Schechters has been lost as a story of Jewish moral commitment in the face of power. In her history of the Great Depression, The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes begins the process of rescuing the Schechter brothers from obscurity by spending an entire chapter on their challenge to the New Deal. In this article I build on Shlaes's account to provide some broader context for their story and draw some implications for Jewish Americans.
To understand the Schechters' story one needs to understand how the Roosevelt administration understood the causes of the Great Depression and thus developed its policy solutions. The dominant theory at the time was that the Great Depression was caused by "underconsumptionism." Capitalism was supposedly incapable of creating enough purchasing power to buy all that was being produced, and this claim was often tied to concerns about income inequality. The rich were thought to save too much and spend too little. Some argued this was due to excessive monopoly, others to excessive competition. We now know that these arguments are confused and incorrect, but at the time many saw the Great Depression as a fundamental failure of the coordinative features of market-based production, requiring a significant role for government to fix. The problems were seen not as "macroeconomic" but as much more fundamental structural failures of the market economy.
The advisers around Roosevelt, many of whom were academics familiar with these arguments, accepted that explanation and favored a radical reform of the economic system. They had in mind a much more extensive role for government in planning and organizing production, as opposed to relying (largely) on independent decision-making coordinated by prices and profits. Both agriculture and industry were to be fundamentally restructured by government.
The two pillars of FDR's first hundred days—the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)—came from this thinking. Each was designed to impose order on the market through government-mandated cooperation among producers and labor. It wasn't socialism, but it wasn't capitalism either. It was much closer to the economic institutions of fascism then in place in Italy. As Shlaes and others have documented, Roosevelt's advisers had been explicitly influenced by Mussolini, and he and Roosevelt had something of a mutual admiration society.
Roosevelt created the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to enforce the NIRA's provisions. It wrote or helped industries and labor write "codes" that governed production, prices, and labor relations. The AAA was a similar attempt to plan agricultural production. In the name of keeping prices up for farmers, millions of piglets were slaughtered and millions of acres of cotton were plowed under—while large numbers of Americans were hungry and cold.
Stores displayed the NRA "Blue Eagle" sign to show they were abiding by the codes, and consumers were encouraged to patronize only companies that did so. Thousands of inspectors checked for code compliance and initiated prosecutions against violators. Enter the Schechters.

Central Casting

The four brothers were born in Hungary before their parents made their way to the United States. With heavily accented, broken English, they were right out of central casting for the oft-stereotyped immigrant Jewish rube—and the Roosevelt administration treated them that way. The Yiddish version of their last name, Shochet, is also the word for their profession: butcher. More specifically, they were poultry middlemen, buying chickens from across the country, then butchering and selling them to the New York City market, mostly to retailers who then sold directly to consumers. Middlemen of course were exactly the sort of "problem" the NRA was designed to deal with, because in the eyes of the FDR crowd they profited off consumers while providing little in return. Additionally, prejudice against middlemen has been historically difficult to disentangle from anti-Semitism, since Jews have long performed this role and borne the brunt of ignorance about how trade creates value.
Most important to the story is that the Schechters ran a kosher butcher business. The Jewish laws of kashrut serve many purposes. Among them they specify how to safely kill and dispose of animals so as to avoid a variety of possible diseases. Also, they enforce a set of ethical obligations about how to treat animals that we kill and eat. The provisions about how to kill animals and what can and cannot be eaten helped the community avoid potentially unhealthy practices (and animals) and signaled that the animals sold had been inspected by recognized community authorities—namely rabbis trained to ensure that sellers followed the biblical rules. A certified kosher butcher has the equivalent of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval from the most respected members of the local community.
Tuberculosis was the major issue with chickens, making it crucial to inspect the lungs to make sure they were smooth and therefore healthy. The word glatt in the phrase glatt kosher means "smooth," which assures buyers no signs of tuberculosis were found. Importantly, customers at kosher butcheries could choose the birds they bought, which gave them the ability to enforce kashrut through their buying choices. So even if the birds were certified kosher by a rabbinical authority, customers could still exercise their own judgment about the quality of the chickens. Kosher butchers allowed this as a way to attract customers.

Straight Killing or Prison

The problem for the Schechters was that Section 2, Article 7 of the NRA's Code of Fair Competition for the Live Poultry Industry of the Metropolitan Area in and about the City of New York, which sounds like something out of Atlas Shrugged, mandated "straight killing," which meant that customers could not select specific birds out of a coop. Instead they had to select a coop or half coop entirely. The code thus directly contradicted kashrut. This put the Schechters in an untenable position: Abide by the New Deal or abide by kashrut. Do the former and lose your customers. Do the latter and get arrested.
In June 1934 the Roosevelt administration expanded NRA inspections, and prosecutions began in earnest. The poultry industry was targeted because of alleged corruption. It is worth noting that corruption was not alleged to have caused the Great Depression, and the law said little about it. As is often the case, power assumed by the government for one purpose is very easy to use for other, more nefarious purposes. That summer federal agents swarmed the Schechters' business. In July a grand jury delivered a 60-count indictment against them, including "threatening violence against agents and inspectors" and violating code rules about hours and pay. Most important: They were charged with violating code rules about the selection of chickens and knowingly selling a chicken unfit for consumption to a customer. They were also charged with conducting a "conspiracy to violate the NRA code." As Shlaes notes, once they were charged with selling a sick chicken, they were tagged as not just law breakers but also bad Jews.
During the original criminal trial, at which the brothers were each found guilty and sentenced to several months in jail, the prosecutors tried to play them as rubes. When they appealed, the media used the usual anti-Semitic tropes to make them look silly for bucking the all-powerful federal government, including invoking standard anti-Semitic stereotypes against their lawyer, Joseph Heller. Shlaes offers additional details in her chapter; most of the attempts to make the Schechters look stupid backfired on the prosecutors since the attempts only served to demonstrate how much the brothers knew about their own market and how ignorant the NRA code enforcers were. The Schechters were hardly the only business targeted, but they were among the larger ones and had the most charges leveled against them.
At the same time, criticisms of the NRA grew, not the least from the African-American community, which correctly saw attempts to raise wages as a means of shutting black labor out of the market. Writers at the Chicago Defender, the local black paper, referred to the NRA as the "Negro Run Around" and the "Negro Removal Act." The NRA's harm of black workers fits into a longer story how of labor market regulation was used for racist purposes. (See Art Carden and my October 2011 Freeman article, "Eugenics: Progressivism's Ultimate Social Engineering.")
On May 2, 1935, the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments. The federal government's case rested largely on emergency powers: There was a national crisis, and the government should have whatever powers it needed to fight it. At stake were competing interpretations of the Commerce Clause, which supposedly limited Congress's power to regulate commerce to interstate transactions. The government argued that the Schechters' business should be seen as interstate commerce in light of the Depression, while the Schechters' lawyer countered both that the business was not interstate commerce and, more powerfully, that the Schechters had never agreed to the NRA code, which interfered with their ability to best serve their customers. As Shlaes points out, attorney Heller was careful to explain the kosher practices in a way that avoided making them sound Jewish, again for fear of anti-Semitic backlash.
Part of the exchange between the Justices and Heller was over what "straight killing" meant for customers, leading to a discussion of reaching into chicken coops. The reaction in court was mostly amusement at the absurdity of the code, in both its level of detail and what it required of producers and consumers.

Unanimous Decision

On May 27 a unanimous Court ruled that the NIRA did indeed violate the Commerce Clause and that even in "extraordinary conditions" Congress may not exceed its constitutional limits. Specifically, Congress had no legitimate power to delegate what amounted to law-making power to the NRA.
This case and a related one that struck down the AAA ended the more radical provisions of what is often called the "First New Deal." FDR's reaction to the decision was his famous line about the Court taking the country "back to the horse and buggy age." That sentiment was one reason Roosevelt later proposed his "court packing" plan to expand the Court. This case was one of the last Supreme Court decisions to uphold this narrow reading of the Commerce Clause. The same set of issues is at stake in the case against the Obama administration's health care act.
There are many lessons one could draw from the story of the Schechter brothers, not the least of which is how much the Supreme Court's jurisprudence has evolved over the years. Back then Congress had to prove it constitutionally possessed the powers it exercised; the Court did not place the burden of proof on those who claimed the exercise of some power is unconstitutional.
The Schechters' story, however, raises other interesting questions. Why is it not better known, particularly among American Jews, that underdog immigrant small-business owners triumphed over a government that denied them the right to run their business according to their long-standing ethical-religious code? After all, this is the classic story of Jewish heroism: a group of Jews under siege by the State demonstrating grace under pressure by standing up for their beliefs.
It would seem that the overwhelming love that American Jews have had for FDR is likely one explanation. It might be difficult to hold up as heroes the men who helped bring down the First New Deal. The American Jews' love for FDR is also something of a mystery when one considers his administration's refusal to help Jews escape Nazi Germany as the Holocaust began to unfold.
The story of the Schechter brothers raises important questions about the power of the State. It's a story still waiting to be told in its entirety.
Steven Horwitz
Steven Horwitz
Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and the author of Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective, now in paperback.



Sunday, August 9, 2015

J-GOP Meeting Wed, August 19 - Speaker: Anne Carto

This month we have Anne Carto visiting with us to speak about the timely topic of one of Americas abundant and natural resource, Oil and Gas www.coga.org. It is something the Left has spend untold time and money to vilify yet, it is something that has contributed to making our Nation the most productive and prosperous in history.

Also, if you act now, you can attend the Coffee4Conservatives Annual Patriot Picnic on Sunday, August 16, 1:00pm at Tallman Meadow Park, 12335 Canterberry Parkway, Parker, CO (RSVP Margo at 303-263-7800 or margoknutson@gmail.com).

We will also have a group discussion of the issues of the day at the beginning of every meeting! This is your J-GOP and your opportunity to express your opinion on the myriad of issues facing our country and Israel in these challenging times!

Share your thoughts on the GOP Presidential Candidates now that the first debate has taken place.

Bring an issue or chime in as the moderator introduces a few of the topics that have dominated the news in the past month!  Bring a friend to join in the discussion!

The Jewish Republicans of Colorado is your place to go when your heart and mind is troubled by current events.  Remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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Please join us for the Aug 19 meeting and bring a friend as well as your questions and comments.

Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
J-GOP President
 
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

A bit of good news a long time coming...

 
 
 

Falling Star Power? Obama's Hollywood Base Choosing Israel Over New Iran/Obama Power Couple



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It's not surprising that it happened but it's very surprising that it took as long as it did, particularly given the large Jewish population in Hollywood. One would have expected that they would have come to the reality that Obama is the enemy closer to the time the rest of us figured it out, seven or eight years ago.
The important thing is that 190 Hollywood celebrities, including some big names, have finally come to their senses and signed a letter of support for Israel and in opposition to Hamas. Included in signatories are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammer, Bill Maher, Seth Rogan, Jon Lovitz and David Zucker. The letter, which was posted originally at Creative Community For Peace, the sponsoring organization, is below, followed by a complete list of the stars who signed it.
We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. We are pained by the suffering on both sides of the conflict and hope for a solution that brings peace to the region.
While we stand firm in our commitment to peace and justice, we must also stand firm against ideologies of hatred and genocide which are reflected in Hamas' charter, Article 7 of which reads, "There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!" The son of a Hamas founder has also commented about the true nature of Hamas.
 
Hamas cannot be allowed to rain rockets on Israeli cities, nor can it be allowed to hold its own people hostage. Hospitals are for healing, not for hiding weapons. Schools are for learning, not for launching missiles. Children are our hope, not our human shields.
We join together in support of the democratic values we all cherish and in the hope that the healing and transformative power of the arts can be used to build bridges of peace.

 
The Hollywood stars adding their names to the list of those in support of Israel are:
Orly Adelson, Marty Adelstein, Dan Adler, Lou Adler, Michael Adler, Dan Aloni, Avi Arad, Tom Arnold, Jeff Astrof, Craig Balsam, Gary Barber, Roseanne Barr, Jason Barrett, Elana Barry, Jonathan Baruch, Aaron Bay-Schuck, Lainie Sorkin Becky, Lawrence Bender, PeterBenedek, Steven Bensusan, Raphael Berko, Adam Berkowitz, Greg Berlanti, Jordan Berliant, Mayim Bialik, Joshua P Binder, Todd Black, Michael Borkow, David Boxerbaum, Scooter Braun, Dan Brecher, Eric Brooks, David Broza, Dan Bucatinsky, Naomi Bulochnikov, David Byrnes, David Caspe, Omri Casspi, Josh Charles, Liza Chasin, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Cynthia Cidre, Neil Cloud, Ayala Cohen, Etan Cohen, Joe Cohen, Jim Cooperman, Charlie Corwin, Marc Dauer, Robert Davi, Craig David, Douglas J Davis, Stephen Davis, Donald De Line, Matt DelPiano, Josh Deutsch, Kurt Deutsch, David Diamond, Leonard Dick, David Draiman, Minnie Driver, Jack Dytman, Lee Eisenberg, Doug Ellin, Diane English, Dan Erlij, Ron Fair, Erik Feig, Dave Feldman, James Feldman, Patti Felker, Erica Forster, Gary Foster, Doug Frank, Bryan J. Freedman, Geordie E. Frey, Michael Fricklas, Robert Fried, William Friedkin, Daryl Friedman, Rob Friedman, Ronald Friedman, David Gardner, Jeremy Garelick, Alan M. Gasmer, Ran Geffen-Lifshitz, Andrew Genger, Bob Gersh, Jody Gerson, Risa Gertner, Jami Gertz, Gary Ginsberg, David Glick, Jonathan Glickman, Michael Glouberman, Elon Gold, Evan Goldberg, Gil Goldschein, Tony Goldwyn, Nate Goodman, Howard Gordon, Mitchell Gossett, Marc Graboff, Kelsey Grammer, Trudy Green, Adam Griffin, Iris Grossman, Jay Gruska, David Guillod, Phil Hacker, J. Todd Harris, Lisa Harrison, Adi Hasak, Ned Haspel, Ken Hertz, David Hoberman, Jay Hoffman, Craig Hunegs, Andrew Hurwitz, Kathy Ireland, Neal Israel, Michael Jacobs, Bill Jacobson, Neil Jacobson, Nina Jacobson, Jonathan Jakubowicz, Patrick Joest, Declan Joyce, Nathan Kahane, Adam Kaller, Adam Kanter, Scott Karp, Zach Katz, Ryan Kavanaugh, Ron Kenan, David Kendall, Larry Kennar, Chris Keyser, Roslyn Kind, Kevin King-Templeton, Michael Kives, Courtney Kivowitz, Patrick Knapp, Amanda Kogan, Jeff Kolodny, Barry Kotler, Steven Kram, Eric Kranzler, Brad Krevoy, Erik Kritzer, Howard Kurtzman, Rick Kurtzman, Jeff Kwatinetz, Peter Landesman, Eriq La Salle, Sherry Lansing, Estelle Lasher, Michael Lasker, Keili Lefkovitz, Carol Leifer, Avi Lerner, Colin Lester, Ben Levine, Susan Levinson, David Levy, Shuki Levy, Linda Lichter, Josh Lieberman, Maryam Lieberman, Todd Lieberman, Jon Liebman, Jonathan Littman, David Lonner, Richard Lovett, Jon Lovitz, Charlie Lyons, Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Bill Maher, Joshua Malina, Rob Markus, Orly Marley, Ziggy Marley, Ori Marmur, Bill Masters, Barry McPherson,  Brian Medavoy, Jeff Melman, Scott Melrose, Jeffrey D. Melvoin, Willie Mercer, Rina Mimoun, Kevin Misher, Michael Morales, Rob Morrow, Robert Newman, Alan Nierob, Michael Nyman, Howard T. Owens, James Packer, Scott Packman, Bar Paly, Tom Parziali, Amy Pascal, Donald S. Passman, Brett Paul, Ann Peacock, Linda Perry, Richard Plepler, Amy Powers, Rob Prinz, Trevor Rabin, Dan Rabinow, Gideon Raff, Idan Raicel, Dean Raise, Bruce M. Ramer David Ready, Ivan Reitman, David Renzer, John Reston, Hanna Rochelle, Seth Rogen, John Rogovin, Lena Roklin, Lon Rosen, Rick Rosen, Bruce Rosenblum, Zvi Howard Rosenman, Bill Rosenthal,  Phil Rosenthal, Brian Ross, Michael Rotenberg, Rob Rothman, Robert Rovner, Susan Rovner, Odeya Rush, Haim Saban, Carole Bayer Sager, Nancy Sanders, Jonathan Schenker, Mark Schiff, Seve Schnur, Dean Schramm, Jordan Schur, Robin Schwartz, Sam Schwartz, Scott Schwartz, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Adam Schweitzer, Adam Shankman, Stacey Sher, Scott Siegler, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Chris Silbermann, Ben Silverman, Sarah Silverman, Michael Simon, Martin Singer, Stacey Snider, Aaron Sorkin, Steve Spira, Susan Sprung, Sylvester Stallone, Norman Steinberg, Fisher Stevens, Gary Stiffelman, Erwin Stoff, Ken Stovitz, Gene Stupnitsky, Nick Styne, Eric Suddleson, Geoff Suddleson, Ken Suddleson, Danny Sussman, DB Sweeney, Traci Szymanski, Nina Tassler, Adam Taylor, Arn Tellem, Nancy Tellem, Mitch Tenzer, Steve Tisch, Noa Tishby, Fred D. Toczek, Michael Tolkin, Bennett Tramer, Nancy Travis, Jonathan Tropper, Matthew Velkes, Paul Wachter, Nina Wass, Avi Wasserman, Steven Weber, Bernie Weinraub, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jerry Weintraub, David N. Weiss, David Weissman, Alan Wertheimer, Ron West, Nikki Wheeler, Jeff Wolman, Sharon Tal Yguado, Pete Yorn, Rick Yorn, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Rachel Zalis, David Zucker
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Monday, August 3, 2015

The Gift of a Leader (Israel v Hamas)

During a recent cease-fire, the leader of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, Khaled Mashal, sent a gift to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, in an elaborate box with a note.
 
After having the box checked for safety reasons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened the box and saw that the content was human feces.
 
He opened the note, handwritten in Arabic by Mr. Mashal, which said, "For you and the proud people of the Zionist Entity."
   
Mr. Netanyahu, literate in Arabic, pondered the note and decided how best to reciprocate.
     
He quickly did so by sending the Hamas leader a very pretty package with a personal note.
     
Mr. Mashal and the other leaders of Hamas were very surprised to receive the parcel and opened it very carefully suspecting that it might contain a bomb. But to their surprise they found it contained a tiny computer chip.
   
The chip was rechargeable with solar energy, had a 1.8 terabyte memory and could output a 3D hologram display capable of functioning in any type of cellular phone, tablet or laptop.
 
It was one of the world's most advanced technologies, with a tiny label "Invented and produced in Israel."
 
Mr. Netanyahu's note, personally handwritten in Arabic, Hebrew, French, and English, stated very courteously..."Every leader can only give the best his people can produce."

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Eighth Grade Salina, KS, exam from 1895


Geri Zahner came upon a terrific website put together by a fascinating gentleman, Barefoot Bob Hardison, who died in 2009.

You can find both of these PDFs at http://tipofthespear.net/issues_education.htm#19thCenturyEd

Here is the text transcribed by Barefoot Bob:

EXAMINATION GRADUATION QUESTIONS
OF SALINE COUNTY, KANSAS
April 13, 1895
J.W. Armstrong, County Superintendent.

Examinations at Salina, New Cambria, Gypsum City, Assaria, Falun, Bavaria, and District No. 74 (in Glendale Twp.)
Reading and Penmanship. - The Examination will be oral, and the Penmanship of Applicants will be graded from the manuscripts
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
Health (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Where are the saliva, gastric juice, and bile secreted? What is the use of each in digestion?
2. How does nutrition reach the circulation?
3. What is the function of the liver? Of the kidneys?
4. How would you stop the flow of blood from an artery in the case of laceration?
5. Give some general directions that you think would be beneficial to preserve the human body in a state of health.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

J-GOP Meeting Follow-up July

Hi Friends,

We, once again, had a great meeting at East Side Kosher Deli last night. For those who were there, we heard from leaders of Colorado Union of Taxpayers, Convention of States, Americans for Prosperity and Leadership Program of the Rockies. We heard from J-GOP member and HD 32 Candidate Al Jacobson as well. We had a great presentation and conversation with the Americhicks (Kim Monson and Molly Voght) and had an opportunity to individually call US Senator Michael Bennet to express our concern about President Obama's nuclear Iran deal.

Contact Sen Bennet at his Denver Metro Office, 1127 Sherman St., Suite 150, Denver, CO 80203 or Phone: 303-455-7600 or 866-455-9866.

I discussed the Western Conservative Summit and the Summit Shabbat services and Kiddush (Orthodox service and kosher Kiddush) under the supervision of Rabbi Zalman Popack and significant sponsorship from the Centennial Institute. The J-GOP initially sponsored the event by committing $250 and helped to organize a basic service in a room, but the Summit gratuitously carved out a significant budget making it possible to easily feed 60 to 70 Friday night attendees as well as a Saturday service and Kiddush. Please show your support by donating to Centennial Institute, Rabbi Popack and the J-GOP so together, we can make this an annual part of the Summit.

The Jewish Republicans of Colorado is your place to go when your heart and mind is troubled by current events.  Remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
J-GOP President
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P.P.S. You can pay your dues or simply donate to J-GOP at www.j-gop.com

PPPS - You can own [your_name_here]@j-gop.com email address!  For only $18 per year for members (or $36 per year for non-members) you can have your own, fully featured, private, secure, professional email account hosted by Network Solutions. Visit http://mail.j-gop.com to see more, but sign up through our PayPal to ensure our organizations benefits from your support.

Friday, July 10, 2015

J-GOP Meeting Wed, July 15 - Speakers: The Americhicks from KLZ

Hi Friends,

You may have heard about the flap at KLZ with some of the hosts, well that does not mean there are not others. Two, in particular, Molly Voght and Kim Monson, are known as The Americhicks. They are a dynamic duo and have plenty to say about how things are and how they should be.

After serving 16 years as a consultant to financial advisors, small business owners and their employee's, Molly Vogt began taking her advice directly to the communities, where she feels she will be most effective helping improve the quality of life for all Americans.

Kim Monson believes passionately in the American Dream because she's lived it. She arrived in Colorado, in an old Buick, with about a hundred bucks in her pocket and the belief, that in America, anything is possible. And it is. She started work at a bank, then as a stock trading assistant. She studied at nights and on week-ends for her investment broker's license. Hired at Boettcher & Company, an old respected investment

We will also have a group discussion of the issues of the day at the beginning of every meeting! This is your J-GOP and your opportunity to express your opinion on the myriad of issues facing our country and Israel in these challenging times!

Bring an issue or chime in as the moderator introduces a few of the topics that have dominated the news in the past month!  Bring a friend to join in the discussion!

The Jewish Republicans of Colorado is your place to go when your heart and mind is troubled by current events.  Remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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If you missed the Western Conservative Summit, you missed a lot. There was even a flash mob! You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB67D1EoS9o

Please join us for the July 15 meeting and bring a friend as well as your questions and comments.

Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
J-GOP President
 
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Lunch & Learn - Justice and the War on Terror


My friend and Rabbi sent the following invitation and asked me to forward it to anyone interested. I thought you might wish to participate if you have some time to do so:


We are now in the roughest three weeks on the Hebrew calendar beginning with the 17th of Tammuz, July 4th, which commemorates the siege of Jerusalem, to the 9th of Av, July 25th, which marks the destruction of the Jerusalem Temples. 

Please Join us as we dedicate the next two Lunch & Learns to discuss some of the hardest questions we currently face with the continues growth of radical terror across the world. This class is in connection with the JLI, Jewish Learning Institute. 

Date - Part 1 Wed, July 15th - Part 2 Wed, July 22nd
Time - 12:15 - 1:15
Location - 910 16th St. Second floor conference room
Cost - $18 Lunch included 

Warm Regards, 
Rabbi Zalman Popack



Sunday, July 5, 2015

Fw: Trivia Test

Six trivia questions to see how much history you really know.  Be honest; it's kind of fun and revealing. If you don't know the answer make your best guess.  Answer all of the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.  And, no, the answers to these questions aren't all Barack Obama.


1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
A. Karl Marx                    B. Adolph Hitler                  C. Joseph Stalin
D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above

 
2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few... and to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin                           B. Mussolini                        C. Idi Amin
D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above

3) "(We).... can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita  Khrushchev        B.  Joseph Goebbels            C. Boris Yeltsin
D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Tung             B. Hugo Chavez                    C. Kim Jong II
D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A.  Karl Marx                   B. Lenin                                C. Molotov
D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet                      B. Milosevic                           C. Saddam Hussein
D. Barack Obama            E. None of the above

 
Scroll down for answers...        

 

 
... and the answers are:
 

 

 

 

(1)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004

 
(2)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007

 
(3)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

 
(4)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

 
(5)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007

 
(6)  E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

 
She may be the next president if you don't share this!!!!!!

Sunday, June 14, 2015

June 26-28 - Shabbat at the Western Conservative Summit

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Dear Friends

This is not a J-GOP event, but one we encourage your attendance and participation.

Don't miss this opportunity to spend a weekend and connect with like-minded individuals from across the West!

Please join us for the 2015 Western Conservative Summit from June 26-28 at the Colorado Convention Center, hosted by Centennial Institute. Because there have been so many Jewish attendees, for the first time ever there will be a Friday evening/Saturday morning Shabbat service for our guests, under the supervision of Rabbi Zalman Popack.

Licensed child care will be provided; register by June 20th with the promo code 'Mishpocheh,' and you will receive a full weekend pass with a 50% discount.

For additional information, a full schedule, and to register for the event, please visit http://wcs15.co, or contact Dan Kopelman at shabbat@dankopelman.com.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

J-GOP Meeting Wed, June 17 - Speaker: William Perry Pendley

Hi Friends,

There are, unfortunately, few legal firms willing to defend individuals against the unlimited resources of Local, State and Federal government. Mountain States Legal Foundation is one of those few firms, we are honored to have the president of that organization, William Perry Pendley as our speaker this month. Mr. Pendley has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States as well as various federal courts of appeals; he won what Time called a "legal earthquake" when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor in the historic Adarand (equal protection) case. His monthly column, Summary Judgment, appears throughout the country; he is the author of four books: It Takes A Hero (1994); War on the West (1995); Warriors for the West (2006); and Sagebrush Rebel (2013).

You don't want to miss this great speaker who was featured in GOPAC issue training courses and who is truly devoted to protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States.

BACK BY (WE HOPE!) POPULAR DEMAND:

We will have a group discussion of the issues of the day at the beginning of every meeting! This is your J-GOP and your opportunity to express your opinion on the myriad of issues facing our country and Israel in these challenging times!

Bring an issue or chime in as the moderator introduces a few of the topics that have dominated the news in the past month!  Bring a friend to join in the discussion!

The Jewish Republicans of Colorado is your place to go when your heart and mind is troubled by current events.  Remember, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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We are once again promotional partners for the Centennial Institute's Western Conservative Summit on the weekend of June 26 through 28 (http://www.ccu.edu/centennial/western-conservative-summit/). This year we have not only purchased booth space, but have been working with the local Chabad to accommodate Jewish participants beyond having kosher meals to having an organized Friday evening candle lighting, minion and Kiddush as well as an early Shabbat service and Kiddush. For security and planning reasons, they can not have people at the conference center that are not attending the conference, however, anyone in the Jewish community who wants to come to the Summit and the Shabbat can get a Silver Pass (basic ticket into the Summit) for 50% off! Go to the Summit Registration website and select the Silver Pass 50% discount - it's typically just for veterans, educators, and clergy, but because many speakers would be missed by those attending services, they are making this discount available (use promo code "Mishpocheh").

For attendees, there is a special hotel rate at the Hyatt Regency directly across from the Colorado Convention Center (https://aws.passkey.com/event/11270643/owner/21829/home) and an assortment of event passes are available here: http://www.yesevents.com/wcs2015.

We have 4 credentials to the exhibitor area and need volunteers. Please let me know by replying to this email if you can help out during the weekend.

Please join us for the June 17 meeting and bring a friend as well as your questions and comments.

If you have not already done so, remember dues are due. If you have not paid the $36, please visit www.j-gop.com and do so at your soonest convenience. Anyone wishing to be on the board, or who would like to take on the role of outreach and/or programming should reply to this email.

Sincerely,
Dan Kopelman
J-GOP President
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