Seventh Year Anniversary of my Blog

So, it is been seven years since I have started this blog. I must say a lot have changed since seven years ago when I started this blog. The biggest update that I have is that I have started my own law firm. I started my own firm about four months ago and I have started advertising in the Iranian community. The modo for my firm is "Making Complex Simple!" I am still working at the firm that I started about three years ago. I must say running two offices is no easy task. On top of that, working with Iranian clients is certainly time consuming. I have a lot to learn about Iranian community and their way of doing business because practicing law and running a firm as a business entity are two different issues.

Besides that, life has been pretty uneventful. I work about 14-15hrs per day. At the firm that I practice tax law, I have handled many interesting cases and I have had major settlements. I believe the biggest settlement I have ever achieved was Taxpayer owed IRS over $300K and we settled for only $2K. Taxpayer cried when I gave him the news. I have not been able to travel anywhere this year but it is my goal to visit Israel hopefully this December. I am going to try to keep up with blogging. Hopefully, I’ll start writing about tax law and different cases I am handling these days. I simply must say that finding the time to do so is the only contingent fact. I am still shocked that seven years has passed since I started this blog. It feels like yesterday that I started writing on this blog. I am very happy with where I am in life and where I have ended up as a result of it. It required a lot of hard work, but it totally paid off.

Stupid Argument of Terrorist-apologists about Naval Blockade of Gaza

Turkey and its Islamic Fundamentalist Ruling Party is demanding an apology from Israel and they are following it with an ultimatum. Click here for the article. I do not know whether Israel should do it or not for diplomatic reasons. However, my question is this: why should Israel apologize for nine dead Turkish terrorists who ignored all the warning and attacked Israeli commandos and took two of the injured soldiers as hostage? Plus, this stupid Islamic Government who is demanding an apology forgot the fact they ENCOURAGED this movement and they knew the terrorists and their intentions. However, my favorite part of this is the comment made by Islamic Fundamentalists and terrorist-apologists who argue that Israel should be sued because the event took place in international water. Funniest part is every time I read their comments they try to deceive the world with the word “international waters” and they try to base their argument on this fact. If these numb-nut morons and anti-Semites would have picked up a single book, based on the same international law that they LOVE to quote every time it fits their arguments, they would have learned that Naval Blockade enforced by a country does not have to take place in territorial waters. As a matter of fact, naval blockade and its enforcement HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH INTERNATIONAL WATERS. A country that is enforcing the blockage has the right to stop any vessel in international if it has REASONABLE BELIEF that the vessel is intending to violate the blockade. If the vessel fails to follow the warning and orders of the enforcing party, then the enforcing country has the right to engage the vessel. This was the simplest rule I learned in Maritime Law class I took back in Law School. Then the argument shifts to the issue of whether the blockade is legal in its totality which is a whole different argument separate from these idiots stance that it took place in international water.
Even if they want to argue from that angel, Israel will be the party who would prevail in that argument too. The naval blockade Israel is enforcing is legal due to the fact that Gaza Strip is considered hostile territory and Hamas has openly indicated that they are at war with Israel. Hamas is the ruling government of Hamas and in its charter it clearly specifies that they plan to destroy Israel. Therefore, Israel has all the legal necessity to enforce a legal blockade due to the fact that they have used these waters to smuggle in weapons that are used against Israeli citizens. Therefore, all these numb-nuts morons who have made a mockery of international laws at the world stage should first read the law before they try to quote it. But again, we are not dealing with people with common sense rather than we are faced with a group of people who are fueled by hatred.

"Captain Israel" Has Come to Rescue!

Remember the stupidity of “Foreskin Man” from the numb-nuts sex crazy weirdoes of San Fransicko who love to force their so-called ideologies on others based on the fact that they think they know better than everyone else? Well, if you don’t, to give you a quick review, the numb nuts in San Fransicko tried to pull a horrific 1st Amendment Infringement by outlawing circumcision based on the fact that they felt that their miserable already sex crazed life was missing some more sexual pleasures. Well, it’s not their fault, these guys up there are mostly on Anti-depressants or some sort of drugs and they are truly miserable. There is a void in their lives that somehow they cannot fill it and they try to blame on many different factors. Well, this time, they screwed up big time because they tried to outlaw circumcision through passing some sort of law in the city of San Fransicko. If it was not bad enough for such horrific move, they screwed up even further when they came up with a Cartoons called “Foreskin Man” that was incredibly Anti-Semitic by any standards. I mean anybody who saw it would just simply say, “This is F***ed up.” Well, here is the “Captain Israel” that has come to take care of "Foreskin Man".


I think it would have been better if "Captain Israel" would have circumcize "Foreskin Man." I completely agree with this Comic. This comic proves a very essential fact which is, if it was not for Israel, the Jews around the globe would not have enjoyed the respect and the prestige that they enjoy in today’s societies. The “Foreskin Man” Comic is a living proof that Jews could never ever trust or rely on any ideology regardless of its origins or source. From Extreme Right to Extreme Left or just simple Left, a Jew will never ever find a home. That home is in Israel and it is Israel that will defend the Jews. No one else! This goes to crazy Leftist numb nuts of Israel or Jews in America who have found refuge in this country and call this place home and say that Israel is not their Jewish Homeland, here is my message to you: you want to know what the Jews of Germany called Berlin? They called it their Zion (Jerusalem). That same “Zion” cooked them like animals not more two decades later.

Feel free to leave your comment and let me know what you think about this.

Thanks to Israelicool Blogger.

“Gay Orthodox Shabaton was like ‘heaven’”: WHAAAT!!!!

When I read this story, I could not stop laughing. I am a strong advocate of Gay/Lesbian Rights. The reason is very simple: nobody should be treated any different based on their sexual preferences. I am advocating for legal rights and equal rights in work places. People have the freedom to choose to do whatever they want. There should not be a discriminatory system that interferes with your sexuality. However, I am also very critical of Gay/Lesbian groups based on the fact that I believe they have abandoned the important fight which is equal rights in the society and they have decided to force feed the society and picking the “in your face” fight. For example, one is gay marriage. They are not fighting for equal rights for the gays. Instead, they have decided to change the definition of marriage. They could have easily fought for the same exact rights under the civil union.
However, this story blew me away. As I said, I could not stop laughing. I have very mixed feeling about this. I do not know whether to support it or not, but I know that it is very interesting. The only question that I have is this: how could these people who consider themselves “Orthodox Jews”, who are supposed to follow the strict rules of the Bible, justify the fact that the Bible clearly states its stance against Homosexuality and although affirm its existence in the society, it states that “G-d Deplores it.” I mean I would understand the acceptance of Reform Judaism for Homosexuality. However, under strict “Orthodox” rules, how could they justify it? I am just wondering. Here is the story:

Gay Orthodox Shabbaton Was Like ‘Heaven’
Usually, when Adam goes to shul, he feels like part of him is just not there. In the black-hat synagogue he attends with his children, he feels that he’s always guarding the secret that he’s gay. Although he grew up in the haredi community and attended its institutions, he no longer feels comfortable in that world, even as his children are very much integrated into the community. While he has come out to his ex-wife, his children still don’t know. Last month, he walked into Kabbalat Shabbat services at the Isabella Friedman Retreat Center and felt exhilarated, as the first-ever Orthodox gay lesbian transgender community Shabbaton was beginning. Gone were his fears of not being accepted.

Adam, who is in his 30s, said the minyan, with its mechitza, was in the Orthodox tradition, a “service that my own black-hat father would feel right at home in. There were literally people with black hats. There’s something so powerful about not having to withhold part of me. I hadn’t connected to a Friday-night tefilla, prayer, like that in many years.” That high continued through the weekend.

Others among the 140 attendees echoed Michael’s words. Participants included 40 women and 100 men of all ages, among them couples with children, people like Michael who grew up Orthodox and were struggling to somehow fit in, ba’alei teshuvah, converts, and those who left the Orthodox world and were now on its margins.

Some were very much in the closet, others were out, and some came out after the weekend. One male couple has a civil marriage and is now planning a religious ceremony, and invited fellow participants to join them. One haredi young man came from England, with the encouragement of a Reform rabbi in whom he confided.

The Shabbaton was organized by Eshel, a collaborative program established by individuals and organizations involved in the Orthodox gay Jewish world, including JQY (Jewish Queer Youth), GLYDSA (Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni), Tirtzah, Orthodykes and Neharim. Rabbi Steven Greenberg, director of Orthodox programming for Neharim and a member of the seven-person steering commission of Eshel, describes the Shabbaton as an “unmitigated success of the Orthodox gay community.”

Eshel was formed last summer, just around the same time, coincidentally, as a group of Orthodox rabbis issued the “Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community,” which affirmed that all human beings are to be treated with respect and urged that those Jews with gay orientation be welcomed as full members of the community.

The Shabbaton, meant to be a safe space for attendees to express themselves, was decidedly closed to the press. But shortly after the Jan. 21-23 event, organizers felt that “this was too important a moment not to share,” and invited a reporter to speak with participants. Like Adam, many of the people quoted here are referred to by pseudonyms to protect their privacy. The details of their lives are true.

Adam, whose marriage broke up years ago, is very protective of his children, and understands that the ramifications for them in the haredi community would be huge, if he were to come out. He’s now in a relationship with another man, who’s from a Conservative background and is accommodating to his religious needs. But he remains Orthodox, feeling “foremost a father. This is their world.”

As much of a high as the Shabbaton was, Adam says it’s just not the reality of his life. But the experience has motivated him to move more quickly toward finding a more integrated life. He’s begun the process of trying to figure out how to tell those closest to him, to change this “bizarre half-life that has eclipsed me.

“I feel strongly based on my personal experiences that the continuing push for non-openness — people say, ‘This is your issue, we’ll accept your struggle, but don’t talk about it’ — is so damaging,” he says. That’s what led me to make a very bad choice. At the end of the day I stood under the chupah.”

Sarah, who is in her late 20s and lives outside of Philadelphia, feels very isolated in her Orthodox community but believes there is room for “compassionate acceptance.” Being at the Shabbaton made her realize for the first time that a relationship with a Jewish woman who shared her religious commitment was actually possible.

For Hayley, 33, who is transgender, the entire weekend was “heaven, like walking through a dream. You didn’t feel like you were being analyzed or judged, no need to look around worrying about what other people were thinking.” She attended along with her wife Lena and 7-year-old son.

Hayley grew up as an Orthodox man in the Sephardic world, where he was taunted, not supported by the rabbis, and never felt like he fit in; he later served in the U.S. Navy and married. After five years of marriage, he told Lena about the cross-gender feelings that were making him feel miserable in his life. Lena supported his efforts to change sexes, and they have remained a couple.

Their son used to go to a yeshiva, but after Haley’s transition, they sent him to a public school out of concerns for his comfort and hope someday to switch him back. The couple prefers Sephardic-type services but rarely go to synagogue in their Brooklyn neighborhood, as Haley knows that some people in the community know about her, including some relatives, and “people in this community can be violent.” She adds, “I feel that rabbis and other should reserve their judgment until they’ve been in my shoes.”

Hayley, who punctuates her conversation with “Baruch Hashem,” thanking God, says that they would like to find a close-knit community where she and Lena could feel at home. She laughs and says that they have many more friends now that she’s a woman, and most are Orthodox.

Some participants cried on the telephone as they recalled experiences with rabbis who told them they were unwelcome to study in their yeshivas or that “suicide wasn’t such a bad outcome if therapy didn’t work,” or relatives who sent condolences as though they had cancer. Several spoke of being sent by family members and rabbis to reparative therapy — with the intention that they would be “fixed” or changed — and how painful and damaging that was.

For Yoshi, who grew up with emotional and physical abuse, the very rabbis who brought him deeper into a committed Orthodox lifestyle were the ones who rejected him once they learned of his sexuality, tore his belief away from him and fractured his relationship with God. He attended with his partner, and both are thinking of becoming rabbis.

Several participants said that they made their own peace with halacha, or were at least at peace with themselves, citing that very few people can strictly follow all of the laws, and that they try to live with integrity, according to Torah values. Some spoke of possibilities of different interpretations. One man admitted he had no good answers, and has both respect for the halacha and a strong feeling that “this is the way that God made me.”

Moshe, 45, who lives in the South and feels triply ostracized as Jewish, Orthodox and gay, says, “Orthodoxy needs to evolve, to embrace gays and lesbians in their midst. They are in their midst. Nobody here is trying to change halacha; we’re not trying to negate the Torah. We’re trying to ask, Will people please make room for us?”

A member of the group that built the gay and lesbian synagogue in Greenwich Village, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, Barry, 64, found that Orthodox liturgy speaks to him most and now belongs to an Orthodox shul on the Upper West Side. He has come out with his rabbi, and feels that many in the synagogue know about his status, even if they don’t talk about it, and have long been welcoming toward him.

Joe, a graduate student in psychology in his mid-20s from the New York area who identifies as Modern Orthodox down to the core, says that he gained a historical perspective on the issues by attending the Shabbaton. He now has great admiration for those who are generations older who had remarkable courage.

“I have the Internet — I would still be in the closet without it,” he adds.

Yehuda Greenberg, project director for Eshel, said that the Shabbaton exceeded expectations. While they had initially thought of it as an annual event, they will probably hold them more frequently.

“There has been a watershed change in the last 10 years in how this challenge is being addressed in the Orthodox community,” says Naomi S. Mark, a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in New York City who sees a lot of Orthodox LGBT clients as well as their families.

“The Shabbaton was a milestone in showing how the Orthodox gay community is getting organized, supporting each other’s efforts to stay connected to their religious roots even as they explore their identity in new ways.”

Mark sees the conventional Orthodox community as much more open than a decade ago, and encourages gay people to keep telling their stories to promote understanding. “It makes one hopeful for what can happen in another 10 years.

Click Here for the link to the story.

U.S. Supreme Court Court Hands over a Perfect Ruling

Today is a very slow news day. However, being a former law student and an attorney, I love to check the Legal News too. I was shocked to see this piece on MSNB.com. Click Here for the full story. The Supreme Court finally blocked this massive stupidity and corporate crushing law suit to go on. Lately, The Supreme Court (S.C) has been handing down very intelligent rulings with regards to businesses. This law suit was nothing more than a stupid tactic for Class Action Lawyers uniting with bunch of feminists who seems to have no connection to reality, to make some money. There are huge problems for females struggling in the job market to be treated and paid the same as the men; however this case was not addressing it. The S.C. saw right through it and they attacked the core issue of the problem which was: the claims are too scattered and this case is simply too big. Overall, good ruling on the part of S.C.

Class Struggle v. Justice and Fairness

First of all, I would like to say Happy Passover and Eide Nourooz to all the Jews and Persians around the globe. I would have written something earlier about it but thank to law school finals, I did not get a chance to do it any earlier.

Three Duke Players were finally exonerated and all the charges were dropped against them. From the beginning, the whole story was a joke and it was obvious that the case will not hold water. Any moron, without any knowledge of law or evidence or criminal procedure would have said, these stripers were lying. However, why did the D.A went ahead with pressing charges? What I loved the most was media's reaction and they jumped to conclusion and they were all portraying these players as three rich white rapist. What happened to Justice? Due Process? Reasonableness?

There are three categories of classifying this case: 1) Black V. White-Plaintiff(s) were black & Defendant were Black 2) Poor v. Rich-You could look at it lower class v. higher class where we have a striper who is from lower class going after a upper class rich guy 3) and my favorit of all Female v. Male-Rape.

All three of these categories of struggle are very clear in our society. This is a typical reaction that is the characteristic of Leftist think tanks or former or current communists believers. The leftist media picked up on this case and unfairly destroyed these guys' image. In this case, as much as the society hates it, the justice is residing with the rich white upper class males. Justice should not be affected by the societal struggles; rather justice should only empower the element of fairness and truth. In this case, the media and society automatically made up their mind that these three rich white boys were guilty and the poor black strippers were raped. Unfortunately, the D.A. felt into the same trap.

If you look at global politics, we see the same exact scenario. The society always side with the poor or less powerful. An example of it is Israeli Palestinian conflict. It is usually the practice of the Left and former or Marxists believers who think the weak is always right. Just because Palestinians are weak, they have the right to act or do anything as they please. Another example is world's view toward U.S. Anytime, U.S. tries to defend itself or defend its interest, irregardless of the other county's ruthlessness (such as Saddam) or its treatment of its citizens, the left and the rest of world would presume this act as a negative act. In another word, Justice is being sacrificed for a concept created by Marx called "class struggle" which is rich against poor, or strong v. weak.

I do not agree with it. I believe justice should be blind to any outside theory or struggle regardless of class, race, sex, or social status!

What do you think?