Jewish Pro-Life Foundation Newsletter 29 July 2017 - 6 Av 5777
Tisha B'Av - A Day To Mourn Jewish Abortion Deaths
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Tisha B'Av - the 9th Day of Av - is a day to commemorate catastrophic events in Jewish history.
On this day, HaShem chose to tack on 40 years of exile before the Jews could enter the Promised Land, a consequence of trusting the spies' negative report rather than trusting in G-d's provision and help. On this calendar date in later years, these catastrophes befell the Jewish people: the destruction of the First and Second Temples; t
he battle of Betar, in which approximately 500,000 Jews were massacred;
the Jewish expulsions from England, France and Spain; the commencement of WWI, which led to the Holocaust; Nazi formal approval for the implementation of the Final Solution; the mass deportation of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka Death Camp; and the AMIA bombing of the
Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Tisha B'Av has become a fasting day to mourn the loss of Jewish life and Yiddishkeit throughout our history. Traditional
remembrances on this day, however, overlook the tremendous loss of Jewish life from elective abortion in the Jewish community - over 800 Jewish deaths a week........
It's time we acknowledge this unbearably painful reality of Jewish modern history up until the present day........
30,000 Jewish abortions occur in Israel every year. Every week, 576 Israeli Jewish pre-born children die a violent death from abortion.* It is estimated that 2 million Israeli children have died in this way since 1948.**
1.3% of the weekly 23,000 US abortions are Jewish. Every week, nearly 300 US Jewish pre-born children die a violent death from abortion. It is estimated that 767,000 American Jews have died this way since 1973.***
The difference between this Jewish catastrophe and the others mentioned above is that this one is self-inflicted and entirely preventable. This Tisha B'Av, let us mourn our lost children and their descendants. Let us commit to take the actions necessary to change this madness. Contact us for our literature, which you can see in the Current Events section below. Invite us to speak in your synagogue or home. Take this message of life into your community - For unplanned and unwanted Jewish pregnancy, adoption, marriage or single parenting are better choices than destroying another precious Jewish life.
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Current Events
During the past two months, we've been preparing for our first ever Internet promotional campaign. We've improved our website, revised and reprinted our brochures, created beautiful and hopefully effective emails and banner ads, and purchased a host of pro-life gifts and information to give to anyone who donates to our mission, offers to volunteer to help us, or requests information.
The ads and emails are scheduled to run this coming week! Look for our banners on Aish.com, SawYouAtSinai.com, and VirtualJerusalem.com. This campaign functions as a test to understand the responses and interest of these Jewish viewers. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to incorporate into future campaigns. Here's a preview of the email landing page for our newsletter members.
Please click on the images to take a look at our revised brochures and contact us to get your brochures to distribute.
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Coming Events
The purpose of the festival is to give thanks for life, gather and celebrate the supporters, clients, and volunteers who have made Birthright a positive presence in Peekskill for over 40 years, and also to spread the word about the services and mission of Birthright.
We are looking forward to participating, and thoroughly endorse the excellent work of Birthright, not only for the help they provide, but because they do not evangelize. Jewish women can get help from Birthright without being exposed to Christian proselytization. In fact, I was able to volunteer for Birthright for several years because, at Birthright, volunteers do not have to sign a statement of Christian faith, as they do at other pregnancy care organizations.
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TODAY'S VIDEO
Planned Parenthood Medical Director: "Dismemberment" Abortion "Checkbox" Skirts Partial-Birth Law
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Gevalt! It IS alive before It's born!
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