Rabbi Kalman Packouz / Aish Hatorah

YOUR GOLDEN YEARS REALLY CAN BE THE BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE
by: Ethel Warshafsky

THE PAPERLESS OFFICE
FALSE DREAM OR REALITY?
by: Jason A. Wach

JUDAH YOU ARE NOT ALONE
by: John Stembridge

Family Values and American Politics
by: Lawrence Alan Gottfried

Marlins on a roll
By: Tzachi Gadish /Photos by: Harry Linet

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
By Rabbi Kalman Packouz / Aish Hatorah

THE LOCKED BOX OR
LESSONS YET TO BE LEARNED
AN INTROSPECTIVE JOURNEY
Writen by: Rucha Laya

WHO IS AFFRAID OF PHOBIAS?
By: Tzachi Gadish

The South Florida Women's
Committee for Shaare
By: Jacob Sharon

THE AGE OF REASON
by: Erik Arnold

FEW IN NUMBER It has been prophesied in the Torah that Jews will survive as an eternal nation despite dispersion and being few in number: "G-d will then scatter you among the nations, and only a small number will remain among the nations where G-d shall lead you (Deuteronomy 4:27).

To every other people, a small population spells extinction. We know from the records that the Romans kept about 2,000 years ago, there were between 8 -10 million Jews living in the world. How many Jews do demographers say should be in the world today?

If in the same period of time, the Chinese went from a population of 30 million to over 1 billion people, there should be approximately 500 million Jews alive in the world today. After the Chinese and the Indians, the third largest ethnic group on the planet earth should be the Jews! But there are only 14 million Jews alive today. There are virtually no more Jews in the world today than there were 2,000 years ago and yet throughout all this time, the Jews remained a distinct people.

ANTI-SEMITISM
It has been prophesied in the Torah that Jews will be persecuted: "Among those nations you shall find no respite, no rest for your foot. There God will make you cowardly, destroying your outlook and making life hopeless. You will live in constant suspense. Day and night, you will be terrified, never sure of your existence.

In the morning you will say, 'If only it were night,' and in the evening you will say, 'If only it were morning!' Such will be the dread that your heart will feel and the sights that your eyes will see" (Deut. 28:65-67). No other form of racial hatred comes close to anti-Semitism in its virulence, its intensity and its irrationality.

As Professor Michael Curtis of Rutgers University put it:
"The uniqueness of anti-Semitism lies in the fact that no other people in the world have ever been charged simultaneously with alienation from society and with cosmopolitanism, with being capitalistic exploiters and also revolutionary communist advocators. The Jews were accused of having an imperious mentality, at the same time they're a people of the book.

They're accused of being militant aggressors, at the same time as being cowardly pacifists. With being a chosen people, and also having an inferior human nature. With both arrogance and timidity. With both extreme individualism and community adherence. With being guilty of the crucifixion of Jesus and at the same time held to account for the invention of Christianity." (Colloquium on anti-Semitism, 1987) If we look at the history of anti-Semitism, we see one unceasing chain of slaughter, pogroms, pillaging, expulsion, etc.

There are horrendous levels of violence that lead up to the worst thing that can be done to a hated people: Genocide. Most nations in history have not been subjected to even one genocide. But in almost every generation there's an attempted Jewish genocide somewhere in the world on a macrocosmic or microcosmic scale.