Once you know the history of Sylvester Day, you will just consider 1 January just a regular day and not a day to party.
 Israeli calendar Israeli society flows according to the Jewish calendar. Schools and businesses are closed on Shabbat, and the whole country shuts down on Jewish holidays like Yom Kippur. For that reason the secular/Christian new year has little significance. Yet when some ultra-secularists discovered that most of the world holds a “New Years party,” they didn’t want to feel left out.Yet they couldn’t call it “New Years” because that title was already taken by Rosh Hashana. So the name Sylvester was adopted in its stead. Celebrate Falafel Day 18 January and really have a Party!! From Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Chapter 3 Law 2:
But why is 1 January named Sylvester Day? |
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 Siege of Jerusalem – Year 1187  Sylvester the Cat In many European countries this day was named after Saint Sylvester. There have been three popes named Sylvester (who later became Saints), but the one after whom the day is named is Sylvester I (314-335). Christianity grew under his rule and it is believed that he died on December 31. In addition, during his rule it was believed that he had been swallowed by the Leviathan sea monster and that the monster would return in the year 1000 to destroy and kill. When it did not, people were relieved and they celebrated. The year before the Council of Nicaea convened, Sylvester convinced Constantine to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem. At the Council of Nicaea, Sylvester arranged for the passage of a host of viciously anti-Semitic legislation. All Catholic “Saints” are awarded a day on which Christians celebrate and pay tribute to that Saint’s memory. December 31 is Saint Sylvester Day – hence celebrations on the night of December 31 are dedicated to Sylvester’s memory. Over the following centuries, the New Year reportedly brought much anti-Semitic activity: On New Year’s Day 1577 Pope Gregory XIII decreed that all Roman Jews, under pain of death, must listen attentively to the compulsory Catholic conversion sermon given in Roman synagogues after Friday night services. On New Year’s Day 1578 Gregory signed into law a tax forcing Jews to pay for the support of a “House of Conversion” to convert Jews to Christianity. On New Year’s 1581 Gregory ordered his troops to confiscate all sacred literature from the Roman Jewish community. Thousands of Jews were murdered in the campaign. Throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods, January 1 – supposedly the day on which Jesus’ circumcision initiated the reign of Christianity and the death of Judaism – was reserved for anti-Jewish activities: synagogue and book burnings, public tortures, and simple murder.  The 1899 poster called “The Rat Catcher,” which depicts Jews as vermin and an economic threat to the German people. Last week we celebrated Chanukah – the restoration of Jewish sovereignty, the restoration of once again living our national life according to our own calendar. And this brings us back to the 10th of Tevet, which this year coincides with the Gregorian new year. It is distressing indeed to see Jews celebrating this day – as if it has any significance for us whatsoever! It is bad enough when Jews in the USA and Europe and other countries of exile hold new year’s parties on the 1st of January. But mired in exile, forced by circumstances to live their lives according to the Gregorian calendar – what else can we expect? It is infinitely worse that Jews here in Israel have brought this paganism (yes, overt paganism) into our own country. We often hear the casual excuses: It’s not a religious celebration; it’s simply an excuse for a party; it has no Christian or pagan significance. It is usually possible to conveniently ignore the contradiction.  10 Tevet – Jerusalem Under Siege But this year, the decision is starker. This year, for the first time since 5699 (1939), the 1st of January, Sylvester, coincides with the fast of the 10th of Tevet.The choice is far more blatant. Fast or feast? Mourn over the destruction of Jerusalem? Or celebrate this highly unsavoury pope and “saint”, who was instrumental in convincing the Roman Emperor Constantine I, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, to prohibit Jews from living in Jerusalem. Live and celebrate according to a foreign calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII – as vicious a Jew-hater as any pope? Or live and mourn and celebrate according to our calendar, for which the Macabbees fought? Or think about the morning after drinking:Fiddler On The Roof quote: Golde (the wife) to her Husband: “Well, what happened last night, besides you drinking like a peasant?” |
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| Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler December 1941 Haj Amin al-Husseini who was, in many ways, as big a Nazi villain as Hitler himself. To understand his influence on the Middle East is to understand the ongoing genocidal program against the Jews of Israel. Al-Husseini was a bridge figure in terms of transporting the Nazi genocide in Europe into the post-war Middle East. As the leader of Arab Palestine during the British Mandate period, al-Husseini introduced violence against moderate Arabs as well as against Jews. Al-Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann in Palestine in 1937 and subsequently went on the Nazi payroll as a Nazi agent. Al-Husseini played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941 as he urged Nazis and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, trained pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and funneled Nazi loot into pro-war Arab countries. On 20 November1941, al-Husseini met the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and was officially received by Adolf Hitler on 28 November. Al-Husseini’s own account, as recorded in his diary, states that Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for World War I, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews, According to the official report of the meeting, on November 28, 1941, Adolf Hitler told Husseini that the Afrika Korps would “liberate” Arabs in the Middle East and that “Germany’s only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.” “SS leaders and Husseini both claimed that Nazism and Islam had common values as well as common enemies – above all, the Jews,” the report states. In fall 1943, it says, Husseini went to the Croatia, a German ally, to recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS. Der Grossmufti von Palästina vom Führer empfangen. Der Führer empfing in Gegenwart des Reichsministers des Auswärtigen von Ribbentrop den Grossmufti von Palästina, Sayid Amin al Husseini, zu einer herzlichen und für die Zukunft der arabischen Länder bedeutungsvollen Unterredung. 9.12.41 Presse Hoffmann |
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10 Tevet was chosen to also serve as a “general kaddish day” for the victims of the Holocaust, many of whose day of martyrdom is unknown.And the current history in Israel. |
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| Jan 1, 1952 – Jerusalem 7 armed terrorists attacked and killed a 19 year-old girl in her home, in the neighborhood of Beit Yisrael. | |
| Jan 1, 1965 – Palestinian terrorists attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier – the first attack carried out by the PLO’s Fatah faction. | |
| Jan 1, 2001 – A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in the shopping district in the center of Netanya. About 60 people were injured, most lightly. One unidentified person, apparently one of the terrorists involved in the bombing, died of severe burns. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. | |
Celebrate Falafel Day 18 January and really have a Party!!How Falafel Saved this Holocaust Survivor’s LifeRevenge of the falafel, of the Holocaust survivor19January2016 http://isrnosto.blogspot.com/2016/01/revenge-of-falafel-of-holocaust-survivor.html 71 years after the death march continues Dogo Leitner eat a double portion of the falafel in memory of that day • the private revenge, has become the operation of the hundreds of people.————————————————————————————————————————– On 18 January 1945, at noon, in the freezing cold of the 18 degrees below zero, the Germans took about 60 thousand people to a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau, I among them,” said Holocaust survivor David (Dogo) Leitner from Ashdod. “A boy of 14 and a half. Without food, no strength. This date is impossible to forget,” recalls David.
 “Falafel Today, the unwritten testament that he felt obliged to uphold is every January 18th is coming to falafel in Ashdod and indulging himself in two large doses, Until to abdominal pain. ‘This is the revenge of the Auschwitz-Birkenau My private. “Every year join the Dogo more and more people that own story reached them. And yesterday, January 18, arrived with Dogo, to falafel, hundreds of people. Today, his daughter and members of the “House of Testimony”, Nir Galim open in “Operation – Dogo” and call on everyone: “Go near falafel, ate and be documented with a sign” Am Israel Chai! ‘”. Dogo documented the “lamp January 18” as part of his exhibition “Taking at the age” that is placed in Home testimony to the heritage of religious Zionism and Holocaust education in Moshav Nir Galim near Ashdod. Since that exhibition, the legacy of Dogo ceased to be private, and many, as noted, are asking to join him. Leitner was born in 1930 in Hungary. During the war, his family was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The mother and two sisters had disappeared immediately, while Dogo and his father went to work. Dogo intended to be destroyed with another 4,000 children and even “won” two numbers stamped on his hands.On January 18, Dogo was to death march with the other prisoners in Auschwitz. He woke up in the hospital in Austria, saw the numbers on his hands and remembered who he is. Since 1990, follows Dogo groups to Poland. He tells to students: “From here, not leave sad. Am Israel Chai! Am Israel Chai and exists! Am Israel Chai and happy!” |
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