Hello and welcome to CMC Markets and this quick Monday update and a quick look at the week ahead on the 15th of May 2017. My name is Michael Pearson and I'd like to welcome you all to another week and hopefully another week of trading opportunities before I get started. Let's get going with the risk warning which I'd like you all to digest and take in and once we get the risk warnings out of the way we can we can then get on with the seminar itself or the webinar itself. So say once once that's done we can get started. Now we've certainly got a positive start to the week thus far and driven higher by a number of factors. What I was particularly struck by last week I think was the fact that US markets were a little bit how should we say heavy and certainly struggling to go to new all-time highs whereas what we've got is European markets particularly the the FTSE 100 and the DAX hitting new record highs. So a little bit of divergence there and this is despite the fact that I would argue that we've got slightly stronger euro and a slightly stronger pound which is rather counter or has been counterintuitive in the context of recent gains that we've seen in the DAX and the FTSE they've usually been in conjunction with a weaker pound and a weaker euro. So when do we go to from here well ultimately what we've seen with respect to the FTSE 100 is we are currently struggling to get much above 7450 we did break above that very briefly earlier this morning but if we look at the peaks that we saw in March the current move higher is a little bit is a little looking a little bit overextended now that doesn't necessarily mean that we can't certainly go an awful lot higher from here on in but what I am cautious about and I'm cautious about this simply because US markets are also showing some signs of topping out and generally despite what a lot of people would have you believe that European stocks are cheap certainly we're looking at the DAX and that's trading at record highs you look at the cat Caron that's trading at the highest levels that we've seen since 2008 2007 2008 so you you've got a situation here whereby you have equity markets in the US which is starting to look a little bit toppy you've got the FTSE 100 which is really struggling to gain a significant amount of traction much above 7450 and you've got a DAX that continues to go from strength to strength but it does it in a very incremental way and that does make me a little bit cautious about being overly aggressively long of equity markets particularly indices at these sorts of levels what I would be looking for is essentially a breaking of new highs for the US a breaking of new highs for the FTSE and a breaking new highs for the DAX now obviously we've seen the DAX and the FTSE 100 do that but we they're doing it in a way that makes me a little bit suspicious as to whether or not there's a significant amount of extra momentum in this particular move so that makes me a little bit cautious also I think one of the drivers of this particular rally is a rebound in metals prices as a result of that story over the weekend about China's new silk road investment projects $900 billion I think what you have to do though is you have to put that particular project in the context of being a long-term project as opposed to a short-term one we've coming off the back of a significant decline in commodity prices and that is prompting a little bit of a technical rebound in commodity prices and you're seeing that played out certainly in the context of copper prices today we've seen them bounce off significantly low levels in the middle of last week and since then we've gone quite a bit higher iron ore prices which have also come off fairly low levels after declining about 33% since March so I think you've got to look into that you've got to look at it in the context of a little bit of a technical rebound with respect to iron ore prices and commodity prices in general if we look at this particular chart here for iron ore despite the fact that we've seen this positive news out of China at the weekend iron ore prices are largely unmoved as a result of that a big infrastructure project you would think like a $900 billion silk road a long-term investment project you would have thought you'd have seen a significant bigger reaction in iron ore prices than the one you've just got the other news obviously is that news from Saudi Arabian and Russian oil ministers that they're looking to extend the output cap or the output freeze into March 2018 and that's had the desired effect in squeezing those crude oil short positions but ultimately we're still pretty much in the range that we've been in for the past six to nine months so for me while we've seen a significant rebound of the lows that we saw at the beginning of last week we're still pretty much in the broad range that we've been in and are still quite a way off those highs that we saw earlier this year and about $57 a barrel for Brent crude and ultimately I think when you get Russian oil ministers and Saudi Arabian oil ministers saying they'll do whatever it takes to stabilise the oil market I don't hear I don't think it's going to have the same effect that Mr. Mario Draghi's comments that he'd do whatever it takes to preserve the euro in quite the same light because ultimately for me I think it's going to be very problematic for Saudi Arabia or Russia to cut production to such an extent that US shale producers won't fill the gap that's left by those production freezes rig counts once again increased on Friday now up at 885 gas and oil rigs and that's seen that's another weekly rise and that's been a pretty much part of the course over the course of the past three to four months where it counts have been rising on a weekly basis and I think they're likely to continue to do so so with respect to crude oil it's once again I think a range trade play ultimately what I'm looking for here we've got the 200 day and the 50 day moving average here but above that we've also got these significant support level that we saw it in January and and in the first part of April which is likely to act as a little bit of resistance on the move higher so I think while we may see a little bit more upside in oil prices ultimately I don't think it's sustainable what I think we're getting is a little bit of rally ahead of the OPEC meeting which comes well which I think takes place on the 25th of May so that's in 10 days time also looking at US prices US crude prices and we've got a similar sort of story here as well we've got running into the 50 and the 200 day moving average it's quite significant here that the 50 day moving average is rolled over quite a bit which was just to me that once again the resistance level around about just above $50 a barrel on WTI is likely to be the key level there so we've seen some very strong gains here I think driven by a large amount of short covering which took place on a break below these March lows the market's been caught short between below this level here and now it's starting to stop itself out so while I think we could get a little bit of a further rebound back towards around about $50 and 40 or $53 on Brent crude I think ultimately we could start to drift back lower unless these OPEC and non-OPEC producers really do coalesce around some sort of agreement that will actually stick and I'm not sure that it will so looking looking at the oil picture for me I think there's a little bit of thought there's a little bit more upside in it but ultimately I expect that upside to run out of steam over the course of the next couple of days and start to drift back down towards the lower end of the range as for US markets if we look at the S&P 500 what I was struck by on this particular chart is the fact that we weren't able to sustain a move back above 2400 and that for me I think is significant I think if we're going to make further gains on the S&P then we really need to gain traction above 2400 thus far we haven't been able to do that and until such times as we do I'm a little bit reluctant to be aggressively long this particular market and ultimately while we're below 2400 I would certainly look to I would be very cautious about being overly long at these sorts of levels ultimately I think the play here really is 2380-2400 until such times as we get a break out significant break out of that range it's a similar sort of story on the US 30 the Dow it's more significant here with respect to the 21100 level there appears to be a decent barrier in and around that level but there's also a decent area of support around about the 20,775-20,780 level on the daily chart on the on the downside again I think this is pretty much tight range stuff it's not going to be significant I think in terms of overall moves higher or lower I think at the moment the markets a little bit unsure as to where it's where it wants to go to next and I think some of the data that we've seen out of the US has been the wrong side of pretty abysmal certainly I think if you look at US retailers and their sales numbers and those retail sales numbers that we saw on Friday which were I think singularly disappointing we're expecting a rebound of around about 0.6% for April retail sales we only we got barely less than half that and at a time when February and March were also weak there is a significant divergence between the confidence data that we're seeing out of the US and the actual hard data and that does make me a little bit suspicious despite the fact that US payrolls continue to be trending at a fairly decent level of 200,000 the unemployment rate is at multi-year lows the under-employment rate also fell and yet wage growth and inflation repressures still remain a little bit on the weak side so you've got all of these factors you've got a weak retail sector and let's not forget the US economy is largely driven by consumption so I think there you've got a little bit of a weak point and ultimately what I'm looking to see is any evidence that we could be starting to roll over a little bit markets are currently pricing in the fact that the US will raise rates in June I think the pricing in in pretty much as a done deal I still think that we could see another rate rise this year but I'm a little bit cautious as to call for a definite move on rates in June while I would suggest that it's very it's going to be very difficult for the Federal Reserve to dial back from that expectation and we can certainly see evidence of that in this in this probability of a hike that the market is pricing in for a hike at the June meeting when I look at the data I'm finding it very very difficult to make the case for a move in June which then presents us with a little bit of a problem because ultimately if you look at what the markets are pricing in and what the bond markets are pricing in you look at that Fed fund thing there 97.5 percent probability that we're going to get a rate rise in June okay so let's spin that round and let's look at what US yields are telling us now this chart here is quite interesting if you think that the Fed is going to raise rates several times this year then you'd have to argue that you need to be longer the dollar because ultimately interest rate differentials are going to favor the dollar more and more the more the Federal Reserve hikes rates and we've seen two rate rises already in the last five months one in December one in March and potentially we could get third one in June let's see it looks like what happened when the Fed raised rates in December yields peak and then yields came down the Fed raised rates here in March yields peak and the yields came down now the markets are pricing in a move in June but actually yields are starting to tail off and I can't square that that doesn't make sense to me if the market thinks the Fed is going to raise rates in June why aren't yields going up and it's this divergence in terms of what the bond markets are telling me and what the Fed funds probability of a Fed rate hike is telling me that's making me a little bit suspicious about being long of dollars and that suggests to me that ultimately we could actually see the dollar start to come off certainly if we look at the dollar index here we can see there's a clearly defined trend in place this is the Fed rate rise in December this is the Fed rate rise in March the dollar continues to decline we can draw a line this is the dollar index we can draw a line right through the highs so if you think the potential for the dollar to weaken is probably higher than it is to strengthen then ultimately you really need to be short the dollar against the currencies which would then argue that dollar yen needs to come lower euro dollar needs to go up and cable needs to go up because ultimately I think when you actually look at the interest rate policy for those particular central banks that's not going to change so it's really about expectations of what the Federal Reserve is going to do over the course of the next nine months and that could be why I think yields are starting to roll over well I think the market thinks there will be one rate rise this year they don't think there's going to be another one and really then it's just a question of timing so let's look at dollar yen and see whether or not we've got any further upside after the gains that we saw last week now this chart may look a little bit busy don't worry too much about it what we're particularly interested in is this bit of price action around here now we've seen a big rebound off the lows that we saw in April around about 108 we haven't I'm weren't able to get back above that 115 or 114 40 area 114 80 area that I talked about last week we had three successive peaks in or around 114 40 and then what we had here is what I would call a bearish engulfing day or a potential key reversal day made a slightly higher high this candle here engulfs the body of the previous day's candle and then we've broken lower now while in the short term I would expect to the 113 level to hold here let's drill this down because we're rolling over on the four on the daily stochastic let's drill down on this a little bit around about 113 through these series of peaks here we're probably going to have a little bit of support and we could edge back to around about the 114 area but I think while we're below 114 40 and this probably could come back up because it's oversold at the moment on the 4-hour chart we could edge back up to around about 114 114 20 I would be I would be surprised if we break back above 114 40 and as such I think there's the potential now for us to edge lower what we've seen here is these low these highs are getting lower what's more important is this series of support through here is broken and we've made a new low there so while we're below 114 I would expect for this particular downtrend to continue and for us to edge back towards 113 and then back to 112 40 over the course of the next week or so I think the dolly end has the potential to probably drift back down to around about 112 40 while we're below 114 40 so a slightly weaker dollar over the course of the next few days I think it's going to be a similar sort of story with respect to sterling dollar I'll come to platinum in a minute guys I've just been asked about platinum I'll cover that in a minute your brave trading platinum all I can say that tends to swing about quite a lot with cable again you know this there's not really much to say here apart from the fact I still remain fairly bullish on the pound longer term against the dollar as long as we hold above 128 I would still expect despite the fact that we got that week data last week and the Bank of England was fairly dovish we've got a host of data out later this week starting tomorrow with CPI UK CPI UK retail prices as well as well as unemployment data wages data and retail sales data so we've got a pretty data heavy week for UK inflation expecting that to come in around about 2.3% though there is a chance it might come in a little little bit weaker than expected simply because I think Eurozone inflation was a little bit weaker than expected last week and generally what happens is the same drivers that drive that generally tend to drive global inflation so and the fact that we've got slightly weaker we've had slightly weaker commodity prices over the last month or so as well so lower oil prices are likely to feed into that if we do get an upside surprise and there is a good chance that we might get an upside upside surprise because of the weakness of the pound then that could well support sterling and push it up towards the highs that we saw at the end of last week and if we do get a foothold through and above 130 then the triggering of stop losses should trigger a significant move back up towards 131 now the consensus for the pound for UK inflation tomorrow is anything between 2.1 and 2.6% so anything below 2.3 is likely to be slightly sterling bearish anything above 2.3 slightly sterling positive more importantly core CPI if that goes above 2% then it's going to really increase the pressure on the Bank of England start thinking about pushing interest rates up not that it will happen but that will that will be the direction of travel when it comes to arguing for a slightly tighter monetary policy before the end of the year also we've got unemployment for for the UK and again that is that is expected to remain at 4.7% and we've also got average earnings which is expected to come in or increase to 2.4% so I think the key driver this week for the pound will be the inflation data and obviously we have retail sales on Thursday which brings me neatly on to euro sterling don't worry I haven't forgotten about the platinum euro sterling is training in a very nice triangular consolidation at the moment with the top of it around about 84 90 so this is actually quite a nice potential potential opportunity for a short position maybe with the stop loss above 85 10 85 20 with a move back towards here if we do break out above this then the likelihood is we'll probably test these April highs that we saw here around about 85 30 but at the moment I still can't get overly enthusiastic about being long of euros unless it's against the dollar when we get a dip back to around about 109 or 109 or 108 108 80 109 with euro dollar again if we can maintain a foothold above 110 then we could get a significant break out towards the top side at and the highs that we saw in November but certainly we're still in a little bit of a range top of that range is around about 110 bottom of the range is 200 day moving average we've seen some really nice rebounds in the past couple of days but ultimately what I really want to see here is a breakthrough 110 on your dollar and a breakthrough 130 on the pound so that's that's your that's your weak dollar story okay so let's have a quick look at platinum for for you and that's an interesting one let's have a look at the server resistance levels here yeah well looking at this chart I would suggest that we're running into a little bit of a resistance zone around about 934 on this particular chart and let's add a let's add an RSI or a slow stochastic study studies and we've also got moving averages as well weekly chart see if that's giving us any clues really so the picture for platinum is that running into a little bit of a resistance zone likely to be a little bit of selling pressure coming in around about one nine thirty four nine thirty five also got a trim line coming in here so your platinum is running into a little bit resistance around one nine thirty five if that holds then we could well drift back down towards around about nine ten in the short to medium term while I'm on platinum have a quick look at gold getting a little bit of a bid on the back of a technical rebound and a little bit of dollar weakness we did break below this trend line support earlier this month so I'm going to remove that see if I can redraft it through there the thing with trend lines is sometimes you do have to redraw them you'll get a little bit of a technical break and then we'll come back here but what we certainly can see with respect to this is a little bit of dollar weakness a little bit of uncertainty and I think the cyber attacks over the weekend have prompted a little bit of uncertainty though when you actually look at the number of countries it's affected a hundred and fifty countries and two hundred thousand computers two hundred thousand computers really I don't think is that many when you consider how many computers there are in the world and they do appear to be only it does appear only to be affecting unpatched Windows XP computers well I still I stopped using Windows XP about five or six years ago so as probably have a lot of people so while it's likely to cause a little bit of disruption I don't expect it to cause a significant amount of disruption and would expect gold prices to come back and retest this 1240 area in the short to medium term before and while it's holding above this particular trend line here would expect to remain I think fairly well supported I certainly don't think it's going to fall off a cliff in the short to medium term so certainly would be looking to buy dips on gold as a preferred strategy rather than trying to go short of it okay so what else have we got this what else have we got this week obviously we also have preliminary GDP numbers from Japan on Thursday so that could be significant in the context of expectations around monetary policy that that could well certainly guide indications as to whether or not the bank the Bank of Japan is likely to remain fairly dovish in its overall outlook we also have flash GDP from the euro area that's on Tuesday at around about the same time or just after the UK CPI numbers also got Italian GDP I think the likelihood there is that we're probably going to find that Eurozone CPI and Eurozone GDP could well actually disappoint expectations I think there's a large expectation that some of the recovery that we've seen within the euro area could be the beginning of a significant rebound there is a concern and I have a concern and I did express it last week in that China's data has been singularly singularly easy for me to say singularly disappointing and I was confirmed this morning with that very weak industrial production data for April came in well below expectations and while retail sales were pretty much more or less as expected I think there is a concern that the tightening of credit policy that was instituted by the people's Bank of China over the past few months is starting to have an effect so the question is that I'm asking is whether or not the slowdown that we saw in the April industrial production is systematic or or an early warning sign of a slowdown in Chinese GDP in the second quarter of this year because it certainly doesn't appear to be being borne out in the European data but in the US data there is there is a little bit of a mixed picture so that's something that I'm particularly going to be keeping an eye on over the course of the next few days so I think really the key the key things that I'm looking out for this week is potential potential short-term top in oil prices slightly weaker US dollar if US yields continue to roll over at the moment US 10 years around about 232 and keeping an eye on the dollar index in particular and this series of lows that we saw last week because looking at this particular candle chart here it does suggest to me that we could be we could be in line for a little bit of a retest of the lows that we saw last week on the dollar index and if that does turn out to be the case that's likely to be that's slightly to underpin the euro it's like to underpin the pound and it's likely to act as a little bit of a wait on the dollar yen potential slowdown just been asked a question if there is a potential slowdown why is the Aussie dollar crude copper Australia 200 gone up well because they're rebounding from significantly low levels if I look at the Aussie dollar look at where we've come from on the Aussie dollar over the course of the past few weeks we've come down from peaks of 77 and then 75 we've hit a trend line support or just come in above a trend line support for the Australian dollar around about 73 and a half 74 now we're running into a little bit of a resistance area at the moment and we have rebounded two or three days in row but ultimately if you look at what commodity prices have done over the past week or so and in particular the commodities these the CRB index that's rebounded as well so they've rebounded from significantly oversold areas so there has been a slope that does appear to be a slowdown iron ore prices are off 30% in the past few months what we're seeing I think is a technical rebound in Aussie crude prices copper prices and the Australia 200 so hopefully that does make some degree of sense to you certainly that's the way I'm reading it in the context of why we've seen the technical rebounds or the rebounds that we've seen over the past couple of days if you look at the Australian index here this is a daily chart we've rebounded off support of 5,800 so again it's a technical rebound if we look at copper prices it's a similar sort of story a little bit of a technical rebound from very very low levels in the in the context of the last few weeks and the last few months so hopefully that explains why we've seen a bit of a rebound there does anyone have any other questions on anything that I've talked about yes no okay so in the absence of any further questions about any of the other markets I'd like to thank you all for your attendance today and I'll see you all same time same place next week thanks thanks very much for listening and I'll talk to you all again and good luck trading this week


What's the world y'all welcome back to the call game recap today was a very busy day in the NBA world man We had 25 point comebacks game winners overtime games a lot of things went on today. It was busy. I was also busy Believe it or not There are sometimes we'll have to allocate my time in other places other than basketball typically I come into this room at 6 o'clock and watch basketball until midnight today was not one of those days I had to do some other things that You will see eventually because it's related to some of the things you do around here But I'm telling you that because there are a lot of games on today's slate that didn't get a lot of attention from me Yep I might have tuned in for the last two to three minutes or not have tuned in at all So some games will not be talked about but y'all know long season I will eventually talk about your favorite team if that's what you're worried about Foggan today show I was on Duncan Robbins's podcast Which is a big moment for me cuz typically when I talk to NBA players I am the host but this time I just talked I just hopped in the zoom call. They were asking me questions I was being interviewed by Duncan Robinson NBA player so south of him and Davis for inviting me the long shot pot That'll be out on Thursday, so please show that some love Just let him know Kenny sent you and I think it'll go a long way if y'all show some love, right? Leave a like subscribe if you're new let's get into today's slater games everybody in the world Has your own personal pet peeves right for example my girlfriend's pet peeve is when our dogs lick themselves You know dogs do that all the time and lick themselves for a clink to clean themselves It's Clint the work to clean themselves and she hates the sound of it, right? My personal pet peeve is when people go on to Twitter to tell me what to talk about on this show It bothers me way more than it should because I think most people out there that watch these videos Understand that I am everywhere when it comes to the NBA world I Typically get to see a lot of the stuff and I bring it to attention right and sometimes it can't be helpful Right like I said I didn't watch every single game today, so I didn't watch Philly versus Houston So my I think it was my guy ninja bands. He was like you got to talk about my t-stibals defense I didn't watch the game. I know my t-stibals defense was great, but I know when I go watch this game tomorrow morning I'll pay a closer attention to my t-stibals defense So I really get a full grasp of what he saw right but the things that bother me is when people come into my mind to say man You better talk about Damian Lillard tonight When has somebody had a legendary performance and I put together a show and I didn't talk about it It doesn't happen. So please please refrain for from doing stuff like that. I told like it really bothers me more than it should Okay, let's talk about Damian Lillard though. Um yesterday This is how you know this bothers me because yesterday after he had his big-time shot He had another game-winner type shot somebody said Kenny You got to talk about Damian Lillard MVP candidacy. I told him no I will not talk about Damian Lillard's MVP candidacy not that he didn't deserve to be in the conversation because he definitely does It's because that one fan told me I should talk about it. I told him no But that one fan that was yesterday We'll talk about Damian Lillard's MVP candidacy as of right now The top three guys in no particular order is Damian Lillard Joel and B to LeBron James in my own personal book And if you watch my podcast, you know that we do every single season We do like who do we think is gonna win MVP rookie of the year? Yada yada Damian Lillard was my my MVP pick preseason And a lot of it had to do with the team being more complete around him Damian Lillard has done a lot of things with a lesser cash, right? They've been able to make the playoffs He's made big-time moments and stats is always incredible But they always find themselves Like on the bottom of the conference or they did have that conference finals run But they always find themselves in the middle of the pack is probably what I want to explain it But this year I think that Adam Robert Covington the way Gary Trent played in the bubble and use of knurkens being completely healthy I was like, yeah This can be a year where they end up top three in the Western Conference And if Damian Lillard still puts up the same type of numbers have the same type of moments I think he can win MVP and well Things haven't gone completely like that because they still dealing with a lot of injuries But the thing I love the most is it doesn't matter and Damian Lillard's post game interview He mentioned two things that were super interesting to me He said that the Portland Trailblazers landed in the world is three hours before tip-off went right to the arena and got a win That is crazy and the second thing the second thing that really brought to my attention was like he was saying Yes, we have a lot of injuries and things, but we don't care. We still believe every single night We are the better team even though we're missing so many guys This is amazing mindset to have man me and my guys are watching watching the game together Pierre asked a question It was 26 seconds ago. The trailblazers were in the time out He was like is Damian Lillard shot going in because everybody in the world knew the ball was going to Damian Lillard's hands He's on a hot streak.  I was like no He's already hit too many this one's bound to miss. It's just the way it's gonna work Nope, it's Damian Lillard. So never bet against Damian Lillard is what I'm saying They came in the fourth quarter thing. I gave myself when I was 12 years old I'm giving it to Damian Lillard because he can be 0 for 33 in the first three quarters Expect him to take over in the fourth quarter and potentially win that game and MVP candidacy is looking real good I think I think a lot of it What can help his case a lot is the team getting better Getting even better than what they are right now Right now they're closing out games even with all the injuries once they get back healthy Them winning way more games would definitely increase his chances because like the other two guys I mentioned are towards the top of their conferences with LeBron and Joel and B And at the end of the day whether you like it or not when it comes to the voting Those are the type of things people care about right you need to be a winning team to the highest tier except for like the Russell Westbrook year, but those are crazy circumstances, right overall No, they even though Damian Lillard did take over like he typically did does it was a great team win Robert Covington's the defense was very versatile today being able to guard Zion was for some possessions Then guard Brandon Ingram other possessions was was very well Well needed today. So a big win from them. I hated that last possession for the Pelicans Just really really bad. Just a bad bad last possession. We'll leave it at that day We literally continue to do your thing, bro. He called game. You know I'm saying he called game the next game Of course, I got to watch is a bulls game Can't miss those haven't missed those in years no matter what is going on in my life Expect me to watch the bulls and today was a very satisfying win to me Now the bulls have this thing where where they come out in a lot of games very very dry They've done it for a few years now And I was hoping it will be remedied with us having a new coach But maybe it's the personnel right and then they got down by 25 To the Detroit Pistons now every time the bulls play and they do something good I kind of have a hard time trying to figure out how much time I should spend on it Because I know that the bulls have a big fan base But I know I could talk about my bulls for hours. So I don't really know I'll give it a couple minutes I'm so they go about down by 25 against the Detroit Pistons and and though the Detroit Pistons at this point is our 8 and 20 They are way better than what their record says right? They've got wins against the Lakers the Celtics the 76ers They got quality quality wins and they basically begin better every single week in the NBA season for sure So I knew the bulls being the bulls This is not gonna be an easy game like you would expect it to be based off record Jeremy Grant is absolutely incredible Let's focus on them for a second Jeremy Grant is absolutely incredible I think personally the bulls defended him very very well tonight and he ended with 43 Did you hear me? The bulls defended him very very well tonight and he ended with 43 So please if you did not watch this game or just watch the Jeremy Grant highlights from this game Hella difficult shots so many difficult shots. So shout to Jeremy Grant He was trying to put his team on his back because nobody else was really showing up They had Player of the Weeks to dig Bay had a couple decent moments Other than that it was just them and then Josh Jackson want to be the tough guy And you know what I was rooting for you Josh Jackson But the moment you try to be tough against my bulls is when they get cut off But the bulls with a big big comeback man very satisfying win Zach Levine is a all-star lock I don't want to see a single comment that disagrees as he is a all-star lock And if you don't agree with that you aren't watching the bulls the bulls were down by 25 and In this man just decided he was going to take over the third quarter and bring us within single digits And then do it again in the fourth quarter to bring us the lead So that's my guy Patrick Williams man. He had three points going into the fourth They didn't turn into Kawhi Leonard in a fourth quarter. I love I loved a lot of things I saw today and even Kobe white right Kobe white was bad for a majority of this game He hit a very very clutch three pointer later I love Billy Donovan as a coach because when the team is down by 25 He felt okay with benching the guys that were playing bad Like I said Patrick Williams had three three points through the first three quarters Kobe wasn't hitting the shots So he went in with that is young he went with Garrett temple He went with the vets and the vets plus Zach Levine as defense plus offense Amazing run but then again He trusted them enough to put them in the game when it mattered the most and both of them performed Well, a brilliant coaching job from Billy Donovan. That's all I really want to say. All right Move on to the next game again, I can talk about the Bulls all day whether it's good or bad I could do it, but I'm happy today because we caught a win the next and I caught the end of the game between the Watch the Wizards and the Denver Nuggets. This is definitely game. I got to go back and rewatch because when I take the box score Davies Bertans 9 of 9 of 11 now we knew a game like this was gonna come eventually He's so good of a shooter to continue to be in the slump and this was a big time one and guess what? The Wiz Three-game win streak a guy if you don't know There's a guy who bet $10,000 Today or yesterday he bet $10,000 if the watch the Wizards will come back and win the championship And I forget it's an extreme amount of payoff I think it's like one point something million or even something like five million. I don't know But if they do win a championship that man is a genius 99.9% chance He's not a genius and he's actually an idiot because he just wasted $10,000 But what a great game the moments that I did see as Russell Westwick was very wild and I was like, bro, y'all need this win Y'all need this win slow it down slow it down, but um the Garrison Matthews making plays I don't want to parallel it to to Alice Caruso because it feels weird because they're both like white NBA players But but he was making a lot of Alice Caruso type plays It's like hustle plays things like that and those are the type of things that can keep you on the basketball Court at the end of the day and then the Denver Nuggets man What a what a disappointing start up, but I'm still giving them a pass until they get completely healthy It did help the Gary Harris was here. I mean to see him on the court. He didn't play well today Um, I don't know. I don't know very very very weird to see the Denver Nuggets continue to do like this this slide And right now they're 15 and 13 man A lot of teams this season are with their injuries and with the health of safety protocol It's hard to really gauge how good or how bad they really are right? But there are other teams where they've made it pretty pretty easy the Miami Heat man today was a weird one I did not watch the first Three and a half quarters of this game Actually, I was going to record this call game episode while that game was going on because I was like I didn't watch the first three quarters. I don't know was really going on But when I tuned in oh, I saw everything I needed to see Captain Ken Basemore the base guy decided to take off which is fun because I remember when Ken Basemore was like a rookie sophomore at Old Dominion and he was the one on the bench doing the dances You know, he was a benchmark guy. He didn't play but he was fun when something happened They'd pan over to see what Ken Basemore was doing and now he's making clutch and big big plays man The heat could not do anything on the glass They weren't doing a good job to fit and this messed up Curry didn't do a single thing for the first three quarters That's when I checked the box score. He was like 2 for 19 from 3 Yeah, that's what it felt like and then in the late in the fourth quarter in overtime He had some big old shots the heat are wow, bro It's so crazy. How far they've how much worse they look this season versus last and you know what? I'm not blaming this one thing particularly But it's the one thing I keep thinking about when I watched the Miami Heat. They could really use a J Crowder They could really use a J Crowder instead of the 10 mil that they gave Myers Leonard You know what I'm saying J Crowder here's a cool start about J Crowder in the last seven years J Crowder's played for four different NBA teams and oh, I guess five now when you count the the Suns Everyone in those teams have made the playoffs. He just has that thing now.  I don't know if they let him go or he walked out of yada yada But he's that he's a winning type player Especially to help you get to the postseason and they need that type of thing Kelli Olenek. Ah, I don't like to see him on the court In moderation he can be good, but starting and playing big minutes. No, not so much man It's it's rough. It's real rough shout out to the Warriors man. No Drake my green note No center whatsoever They got want to scuttle Anderson with a C by his name mean and he was a center tonight and they won a basketball game Team rebounding team defense and in the game where Steph Curry shot 5 for 20 from 3 Also, no Dreymon. Also, no Clay Thompson. They caught a win Wiggins a big time shot Kelly Ubrey continued to look better Hey, man, it's a big win. It's a big win in a terrible It's a big win for them and a terrible loss of Miami heat all the other games on the on the book I like some of these games I do want to watch like the Atlanta Hawks getting the win over the Celtics I know that the Celts were missing Marcus smart. They're missing Kimber Walker, but I do want to see the 40-point performance from Trey Young did somebody told me that this 76 versus Rockets game wasn't as close as the final score says But I still want to go back to watch that. Oh I'm glad I look back here I did watch the fourth quarter of Timberwolves versus Pacers and I was so upset when that shot a fourth quarter in overtime I was so upset set when a shot by Anthony Edwards didn't go in because I was I was ready to tweet Anthony Edwards called game The ball was in and you know how many shots we've seen a season for game winners that were in the basket But rolled out it was another one. It was another causing it sounds like the maze it but at the end of the day Malcolm Brogdon just got that clutch G man So bonus has another all-star performance after basically not being as good over the past couple weeks The stat line looks ridiculous 3617 and 10 With three steals, that's an amazing stat line But it was the big shots from Malcolm Brogdon late in that game and in overtime to put them over the hump But I think that this Timberwolves fans and this is it's for the few of y'all out there I think you're happy with some of the things that's going on. Yes You have only seen your best players play together five times in a year But like Carnegie Towns coming back and having a 30 Anthony Edwards didn't shoot the ball well But he he looked good again if that makes sense, right? Even a shot going in and out Malik beastly going to the bench so they could try to get more defensive versatility Looks solid He had 30 off the bench and Nasri Looked it like there are some things you can take away from what the Minnesota Timbers have right now Did you can be positive about at the end of the day? Like like that's what I could say. That's what I could say. All right. That's all I got call game


Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. I'm here tonight outside a bar called Hashchina, just outside of Mahinei Huda Market in Jerusalem. And I'm here tonight to check out a book event, an interesting guy called Ghol Kalev has written a new book. It's called Judaism 3.0. Its controversial treatise is that Zionism or support for the Jewish state has become the fulcrum of modern Jewish identity. Is that a good thing? How long is that being the case? I caught up with Ghol just before the event to ask him a few questions. Hello everybody. Judaism 3.0 is a book that is about the current state of Judaism. Judaism is going through a historic transformation and Zionism is becoming the anchor of Judaism. I'm showing how both people in Israel, Jews, non-Jews, people in America, people that are for and against all relate to Judaism through the prism of Zionism, including in the negative. The book is really a survey of Jewish communities, of non-Jewish communities of the world, touch points with the Jews to show that Judaism is transforming just like it had 2000 years ago, that Zionism is becoming its anchor. And then I spent time in the end of the book discussing what it means, what it means both in terms of the opportunities that it unleashes, but also in how it can address the threats to Judaism. First and foremost, the existential threat of Israel bashing anti-Zionism, if you will, that have replaced traditional anti-Semitism as the currency of opposition to Judaism. Do you think that Zionism is being more of a unifying force or divisive for Jews in Israel and the diaspora? I think Zionism has become the meeting point of the Jew with his Judaism, whether it's in the positive or the negative. Whether we like it or not, American Jewry, which is about 80% of the diaspora Jewry, is in a trajectory towards evaporation. There is very low things that, you know, most of them are not religious, most of them are denationalized. Survey says that the most common connector is Jewish food. 75% of American Jews are connected to Judaism because they eat Jewish food, but they also eat Chinese food and Italian food. It's not enough of a sustainable connection. But Israel and the national aspect of Judaism, Zionism is. So for example, a lot of my American friends connect to their Judaism when they see an article in New York Times about the settlement, they get upset, and they write a Facebook post as a Jew. I'm embarrassed about Israel or something along those lines. Zionism puts them back into their Judaism and it's true in all of the gamut of positions, through support and everything that's in between.   You can say, I agree, I disagree.  Nobody is asking you about Jewish food when you come into college campus or about the Holocaust anymore or about religiosity. Israel is where the Jew misses Judaism and where the outside world meets the Jews. And that's what this book is about. I'm showing, you know, how that is becoming a reality today in the 2020s. And what does it mean? That's your question. So sometimes Israel speaks in the name of world jury as, you know, we see our job as being defending Jews worldwide. A lot of people like me would say, that's not Israel's job. And also it's not fair for Israel to kind of force itself upon people who don't want to be associated with it. So how do you feel about that aspect? Sure.  I mean, this is, we live in a, in a world that there's choice, you know, in some part of the postmodern world. It's a, it's a world where you have a lot of identities. So of course, Israel doesn't represent you. I mean, Israel in our core, we feel responsible if you're ever in trouble as a Jewish person will come and save you. This is a core tenement of what, you know, the Jewish state is.  Does the Harvard Alumni Association represent you? You have your own identity in relationship with Harvard.   What Israel does, I think, is whether you like it or not, you are defined as a Jew through Israel, whether it's in the positive or in the negative. So it's not by design and it doesn't really matter. Let's go back to Herzl. He understood that Jews cannot escape their Judaism. Whatever is the most relevant aspect of Judaism, there will be the aspect of Jews, you know, that people will relate to you. Not the most relevant aspect of Judaism is Israel and Zionism. And you can bash Israel, it's not going to help. You're still going to be affiliated with Israel. And that's, so that's what I'm showing in the book. We are in a different phase of Judaism. And that's by the way why the anti-Semitic, traditional anti-Semitic attacks against Jews are, you know, sad and damaging. But the attacks signed by Jews against Israel are the ones that have an impact and can cause long-term damage to the sustainability of Judaism. Do you see any future for diaspora Judaism in general? I hope so. But, you know, I think the future goes through the vector of Israel. I think as it is, the diaspora Judaism, and which 80% of it is American Jewry, is not sustainable.  When the religious aspect, you know, was strong, then the religion was sustainable. That's no longer the case. And they did nationalize, they became, you know, they sort of reduced American Jewry to the Jewish church, but then became secular. So what it creates is that, you know, there's very little to hold on to that. I'm not saying it's not sustainable. Israel comes in and sort of, like, provides that blue to Judaism that other aspects of Judaism did not have before. Whether it's in the positive or to negative, again, this is what, whether you like it or not, that is the most relevant aspect of Judaism. Simple question. Zionism being the folk from a modern Jewish identity. Is that a good thing or bad thing? In my view, that is a great thing. That is the essence. In my personal view, this is, you know, it's a Herschel design. It is a Jewish concept. And, you know, there's somebody in the event here that, you know, so there's a religious aspect of it. There is, everybody can approach it. My book, you know, has people that are religious and secular and atheist and people from the left and from the right. Progressive, strong supporters, everybody. Zionism is designed by, he said, we have, we got Judaism in our hand. It is designed to serve as the focal point of Judaism as a mechanism for the Jews to return to their Judaism. And once they return, they can consume other aspects of Judaism, including the religious aspect. So, Zionism, in a sense, has saved Judaism, including American Jews that are critical of Israel, including those who claim they're anti-Zionism. Zionism is sort of a lifeline for them as well, back into the Judaism, assuming they want to stay Jewish. It's also, they're perfectly, you know, free if they choose to try to evaporate. But what I'm saying and showing in the book is that, even if they say we're evaporating, it doesn't work this way.  And that's why Zionism is the construct that allows you to... What's your book called, American People's Lives? The book is called Judaism 3.0, Judaism's Transformation to Zionism. It's available on Amazon and Book Depository and Barnes & Noble and all the online sites. And in stores, in Israel, it's available in pomerans, in various other bookstores. My pleasure. The basic premise is that Judaism is going through historic transformation. Today's Judaism is very different than the Judaism that we had about a hundred years ago. A hundred years ago and really for 19 centuries, since the Jews were exiled from this place, Jews lived in the Aspera, in the Aspera, and what I call Judaism 2.0, 1.0 being when they were here. And they had an internal glue of religiosity, repeating Judaism, meaning the synagogue and the halacha and the canonization of their altura. And then external glue of complete insularity. Jews simply cannot get out of Judaism. But both of those have eroded as Jews became secular today. 80, 90 percent of the Jews are not sufficiently religiously observant to make that an anchor of their identity. And the Jews are no longer insular. They're free to leave. They're free to assimilate out of existence if they want. But at the same time, the religious anchor of the Jewish nation religion was eroded. The national aspect has been dramatically augmented when the State of Israel was founded. So as I show in the book, the first 75 years of Israel's existence didn't lead to a transformation of Judaism. And that is because there were a lot of hurdles. For example, Zionism was associated with secularism and even rejection of religion that wasn't by design. It wasn't in Herzo's plan, but that's how it evolved. And other aspects, including the Haredis that we like to speak about. And the ultra-Azulaks used to be anti-Zionists. They're no longer anti-Zionists. I agree in my book that they're a poster child of Zionism, whether they like to admit it or not, but the fact of... So I talk about all those hurdles. And I talk about trends around the world and global trends, such as the trend to have multiple identities that you're no longer just boxed in a particular part of your identity. So if you're an American Jew, even 20 years ago, 30 years ago, it would be weird if you would say that I am an American Jew. I'm holding an American passport, but I'm also having an affiliation with another nation, the Jewish nation. That would be strange because in America of the early days, certainly, you had a homogeneous narrative, the Mayflower narrative. If you wanted to be like your neighbors, the Joneses and the Smiths, then you basically had to reduce Judaism to the Jewish church. So just like the Smiths go to their church, you go to your church, but that's it. Now your neighbors are no longer the Joneses and the Smiths. They're the Rubios and the Rizzas and the Haredas. People who are from various parts of the world who celebrate their national heritage and identification while maintaining the strong American identity. So Americanism is built on sort of multiple branches centered and anchored in a strong trunk of Americanism. So you see today, you know, Vice President Harris is proud of our affiliation, Jamaican affiliation, and our Indian affiliation, Makarubio and Ted Cruz, the Republican senators are proud of their Cuban national affiliation, not their Christian affiliation, but their national affiliation. So, and that's no longer in conflict with being, with being, you know, there's no issues of dual loyalty or anything like that. So I'm showing out trends like this in the book have affected the state of Judaism and the transformation of Judaism that could not have occurred 70 years ago because of all those hurdles is occurring now in the 2020s. A lot of people thought that they can escape Judaism. All we got to do is convert and become, you know, baptized.  So the same today, you know, you had something quite remarkable happen in the United States earlier this year, right around the time that my book came out, which is a synagogue in Chicago have got together to declare they are anti-Zionism, Zionism more so anti-Zionism is a core value of who we are and who we lead. And that's quite astonishing because it's exactly where so particular Zionism brings you back to your Judaism because American Jews, especially, look, you know, the ones who are not Orthodox, 90% of American Jews, Judaism is low in their hierarchy of identity. They don't go to sleep. They don't, you know, they don't think about the Holocaust. They don't do anything that is that serves as a very strong and sustainable anchor. But here comes Israel and Zionism brings you to your Judaism. Love or hate, I show that this is where the Jew meets his Judaism and where Judaism, that's how the arts and world perceive the Jews. So what does it mean? So on the one level, you know, I'm calling it the state of Judaism. So this is the state of Judaism, Judaism is transformed. Now we're in the Judaism 3.0 in Zionism, that's the argument. But I also spent time at the end of the book and also in many of my follow-up articles to ask what does it mean? And the way I see things right now is that the Judaism is under an attack, an assault. As it always been, there is always been illusions that the opposition to Jews is temporary. And her so identified something very, very strong. The European opposition, because at this time the Jews were mostly in Europe and the opposition to Judaism was European. Opposition to Judaism is chronic. It's permanent. It's not going away. It just evolves as European circumstances change and as Jewish circumstances change. So at this time, this is before the term antisemitism came, at this time people thought that Jewish entry is over. There's no more opposition to Judaism because that opposition used to be religious.  Once Europe became secular, a lot of people said this is it. End of history, no more opposition to Jews. So a few things that there's still Jewish to it. Here comes a new form of opposition to Judaism, which is a byproduct of the emancipation of Jews. Opposition to the Jewish is a nation because they're successful because they're this and that. This is what was dubbed later antisemitism. So antisemitism became the new form of opposition to Judaism. Today, traditional antisemitism, calling the Jews Rachel, control Hollywood, is damaging and it could hurt individual Jews, but it's not an existential threat to the continuity of Judaism. But Israel bashing is an existential threat to the continuity of Judaism. Israel bashing is also the primary reason the primary cause of attacks against Jews. I did an event with Michael Olin and said that 70% of attacks against American Jews, antisemitism attacks against American Jews in America are driven by Israel bashing or by Israel, by somebody being upset about Israel. So Israel bashing is both a threat to individual Jews, but also the survival of Judaism because Israel bashing has a mechanism to inflict severe damage. So for example, the international criminal court under the flag of Israel bashing is investigating all of us here today. They're having a broad investigation against Israel, you know, soldiers, people living in a settlement by the way Jerusalem is also considered a settlement on most international international law. So we're all potentially, who knows, we might go to Europe next year and get arrested. That's not happening tomorrow, but there is just, I'm saying that there is a mechanism today, there is no mechanism to take Jews, control Hollywood and convert them into an existential threat to the existence of Judaism. But there are mechanisms, you know, obviously other multinational organizations, you know, we're seeing what's happening now with this modern iteration of blood libel, you know, it used to be that we murder Christian children, then in the 1840s we murder monks, now we murder journalists. So, you know, we see how all of these energies are coming at the Jews this time through Israel. Now this doesn't say, you know, I'm very clear in my book that we should encourage criticism, even ones that are misinformed or I disagree with, but you know, the bashing of Israel, the lack of acceptability that we really have the right to be here, the right to defend ourselves, that is the form of Israel bashing that is an existential threat to not just individual Jews, including those who bashed Israel themselves, but to all of Judaism. So once you recognize that Zionism is the anchor of Judaism, then you can no longer hide behind this idea that you love the Jews, but you hate the Zionists. Just like maybe 2,000 years ago, or 1,000 years ago, you couldn't hide behind the idea that you love the Jews, you know, those that used to worship in temple and do the sacrifice and live in Judea, but you hate the Jews that celibate Hanukkah and were a kippah and stayed in Vishna and were in Abdel-Lachah, because that was the current iteration of Judaism. So you can say, once there was an acceptance that we're in Judaism 2.0, meaning that the religious aspect for winning Judaism is the anchor of Judaism, then you cannot no longer hide behind saying, I love the old Jews, but I hate the current iteration of Jews. Same thing today, you can no longer say, you know, once you accept this, once you accept it, and a lot of people do that we, that Zionism has become the anchor of Judaism, that I love the Jews that, you know, used to be religious and used to, but I hate the most relevant aspect of Judaism which is Zionism. And we have an asset, and the asset is that unlike in the past, it's no longer fashionable to say that you hate Jews. And the past was very normal. Theodore Herzl had friends who said that we're among the semi, I don't like the Jews, you know, for various reasons.  This is like a bad thing to say, but if you say you hate the Zionists, you know, that could get you higher. That's like the rights of passage in certain circles. So once you accept that we're in Judaism 2.0 and Zionism in Judaism, then you are, the existential threat to Judaism gets mitigated. That doesn't go away, but it's a better platform or a better framework to counter that. So that's the, you know, addressing the threat that also unleashes a tremendous amount of opportunities. I'll stop in a few minutes just so we can have an interactive conversation, or if you want to have an interactive conversation.  He understood that the Jewish state will exist not because of the moral obligation of the nations and of Europe, and not because we have a right which we do. And not because of the support we have from the Arab, you know, in his time, you know, the Arabs, the Mirafisal was a Zionist. And he understood that we will only exist if we will become the necessity of the world. He said the Jewish Jewish state will exist because the world will need it. It will be a necessity of the world. And Israel today has become such a necessity, but it's being hindered, you know.  You know, so we cannot spread the slide to the nations or other aspects that we have. We have this sort of like continuous assault at Israel that's not coming as much from the Middle East as much as it's coming from Europe and other parts of the international community. So once there's a recognition that, you know, we, Zionism is Judaism, then it opens and paves the door for much of the light that's emanating from Zion to be spread to the world and for Zionism to fulfill one of its mission, which is to be the light upon the nation of non-orthodox Jews today, Mary non-Jews. So that's the highest number. That's what defines you. Very similar to what you said. And the other one is criticism of Israel, because a lot of Jews are critical of Israel.  And they said, well, we have a horse in the game. We're getting attacked because of Israel. So we're trying to say, you know, yes, the Israeli Jews are the bad Jews, but we're the good Jews.  All those slurs that you, and this is visual rule over again, because the same thing, you know, when the German Jews had all the Russian immigrants came in, and some of the Germans, Jews said, yeah, you're right, the Jews, the Russian Jews are a problem. You see them everywhere, the beggars, the peddlers, and some of the Jews according to some research voted for Hitler, you know, because they thought the problem, they wanted to make sure that, you know, we're German Jews. We serve in World War I. We have no problem. So, you know, nobody buys this in the American Jew that kind of bashes Israel, puts himself at risk and bashes himself. He puts himself at risk because, as we mentioned, you know, according to that statistic, 70% of attacks against Jews is because of Israel. So, in a sense, when the American Jew says, you know, Israel is doing horrible stuff in Palestinians, he triggers, you know, those attacks against him. You know, if somebody, if he says, Jews control Hollywood, that's less of a, less of a trigger. So, if you have to say something at that Jewish, you better off saying that you control Hollywood and that you're, you know, greedy and rich, then you'll be safer. But worse than that, you know, he, nobody buys it. So, I've done, as part of the preparation for the book, I've done, I've visited some sites that could be perceived as anti-Semitic and some alt-triphile right websites, and I looked at one of the slurs that I used against the New York Times and George Soros, two people that are not suspected of being Israel lovers. I don't think any of them have Israel's flags in their font screen savers or anything like that. But the slur against them is Zionist. The Zionist New York Times, the Zionist George Soros. Because people don't make the distinction anymore between Zionists and Jews. That's, you know, so, baby, a lot of the people that saw this book saying, like, I don't understand fine, you're saying something that's obvious, you know, of course Judaism and Zionism. But so, you know, so you cannot escape.   You basically, the way that people hear it is that we, as Jews, are still doing horrible things.  In the 1940s, we killed monks. Now we kill journalists. So you can't, it's ineffective to make that distinction. But to get to the point of the book is that you are defining yourself your Judaism through Israel, whether, you know, in this case, in the negative. So that's, that's, that's what it is. You are the one, you're the American Jews, critical or sometimes bashing, bashing Israel. You're the one who's proving that this is here because you're defining your Judaism through Israel. I'd like to say it sometime. Another way, if you're math, if you take an American Jew and look at all of his interaction with Judaism, you know, in a given week or a given month.  You know, you're involved in other Jewish causes. But the majority, the 80, 90% of American Jews who are under-engaged, if you had to map out all the Jewish related activities, transactions in a week, Israel will be number one in a wide margin. Maybe it's a conversation in the bar about Israel. Maybe it's a positive thing. Maybe it's like, I want to consume Israeli wine. Maybe it's like, I'm proud of, you know, going to the Dan Lachovic concert. Maybe it's watching, watching Fauda or Stissel or something like that.  And the reason you get upset about the New Times article about Israel and some other area is because you feel Jewish. And as you're writing the Facebook post, as a Jew, I'm embarrassed. So you have, whether you're lucky or not, a connection to your Judaism through Israel and it's, and there's nothing you can do about it. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. You can continue, you know, the trajectory of the American Jews to bash Israel and to pretend that you can draw some sort of artificial wedge that nobody buys, or you can just own it. And don't put yourself and your family at risk.  Don't lie and don't invent stuff against us. Don't say we're killing Christian children or killing monks in Syria. Don't do that, because it's not helping you and it's just damaging you and putting you and your family in danger. Criticize us as much as you want. And the more you criticize us, that's fine, because that shows you care. Criticize us out of love. And that's what I think Judaism 3.0 is a platform to criticize Israel, to love Israel, to have issues with Israel, in whichever way you choose and whichever way you want. Europe's relationship with Jerusalem, with Israel, I view that as a 23-year 100, 2,300-year conflict. And I interact with it with my European diplomat friends, including very senior European diplomats and politicians who don't agree, but they interact. So I'm not saying this is like an angry kind of, you know, we have a conflict. There's an Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there's an Israeli-Arab conflict, but I think in thousand comparisons to some of the other world conflicts, the conflict in Spain, in Spain, in Catalonia, in Italy, in Tirol, Europe and Islam, we have a strong conflict, a big conflict between Israel and Europe that has lasted since the Greek invaded and tried to arrive and Judaism, tried to Hellenize us. The Romans started doing the same thing. And when we didn't work, when we refused to become Europeanized, then they destroyed our temple and kicked us out and kept us as refugees in Europe for 2,000 years, where they abused us and murdered us and deported us from one place to another. So that currency of hate always followed the relevant aspect of European society and the relevant aspect of where the Jews are. So what I'm saying is that when in 2,000 years in the diaspora, there was hate. And because Europe was religious, it had, you know, it made some clergy claim that Christianity or some, not just clergy, but the Christian researchers that Christianity was hijacked by European Jew hatred. So the hatred was expressed to Christianity, but it wasn't because that was the relevant currency of Europe. When Europe, as I said, became secular, then yes, I'm saying everything state, but it's staying in a different form.  Maybe two points.  They continue to hate us, right? That's basically like a core print, a core premise that you have. I can use hate, the oppose. Okay. And two, essentially what you're saying is recognize that that's not going to change. Thus we need to find a way to accommodate ourselves. So making us ourselves essential to them is a way not for them to, they won't stop hating or opposing us, but they'll lead us to them.  It's a battle. In a way, it's a battle. It's a battle. It's too strict. And that is, that is, I think, what I'm drawing for my rabbi, Herzl, you know, who recognized that, who recognized that this is not going away because it is time a lot of people, one of his rabbis or one of the people that inspired him, he read his book, Moshehe. He wrote a book called From Rome to Jerusalem and Herzl took that book in his journey from Europe to Jerusalem. And Moshehe stopped. This is it, you know, once the power of the Vatican gets reduced and once, you know, the Europe becomes secular, end of history. And, you know, of course, we'll have a Jewish state because Jews will be free.  So, you know, so I'm saying this is too strict because we have no other choice. And that peace to strike is not having, you know, nuclear weapons because we cannot outdo that is through our asset, which is the Jewish brain, which is, again, what Herzl and many Christian thinkers also in the 19th century identified that once the Jews would be emancipated from this European occupation of their mindset, they'll produce innovation that will alter humanity.   Go back to Europe and let us and our Palestinian friends work it out. We can advise you about your own issues and problems, which is a lot. I mean, you know, some of those things we see in Europe are horrific.  You know, there's not, you know, so there's issues in Europe that needs to be addressed. But those issues should not be directed at us. Europe should go home to Europe and stop funding all those, you know, anti-Israeli, anti-Palestinian organizations because they promote perpetuate conflict and hate to be planned. And we should help you in your struggles, but that is the path to peace. And not just peace without transparency. Peace between, you know, the conflict, the 23-year-old, 2,300-year-old conflict between Israel and Europe. And once that gets resolved, so to use your kind of framework, fine, maybe you want to call it, you know, messianic times or something like that, no problems. You know, some, an atheist might want to call it like the greatest time in our human progress that's fine, too. I wasn't pointing at it. You know, anybody can put their own framing into it. But I'm saying that we have to recognize exactly, as you said, that this is, that that position to Judaism is permanent. It is strong. We're still, you know, there is no, we're not going to address it by strong military or by others. We're going to address it by making, becoming the necessity of the world. And then over time, maybe the generations will forget it. You know, part of the issue is this sort of like religious arrest development that some Europeans had. You know, you know, it's a fastest-rising religion in the world is European atheism. This zealous, you know, like the reason that those Muslim women are being, what we call in the West, sexually assaulted by the police on the beaches of France is under the banner, it's a religious war in a sense. Because if we are a secular country and we're so secular and so atheist that if you're wearing, if you're not wearing your, if you're wearing your sneeze clothes, then we're going to make you take it off.  It says, I'm sorry, I don't do that because I'm a woman, I don't have physical contact with men, you're going to deny your citizenship. That's horrendous stuff for us. But, you know, this is done in the name of this, you know, extreme secularism. You can say it's just a, you know, coat name for, you know, we want for Islamophobia and other things, but they say, no, no, no, we are secular. Secularism is a value for us. So, you know, so we, and this gets back to what I said earlier, what Americanism versus Europeanism. Once there's acceptance that Zionism is not just about aliyah, but Zionism is broader than that paves the path towards Zionism becoming the act of Judaism. So, yes, there is a, there is a, in my view, when you're sitting in your home in New Jersey and you watch Fauda, or you drink Israeli wine, or you buy a post as a Jew and I'm embarrassed about Israel, you know, that connects you to your Judaism through Israel and you're not here. So, that's cool. And it used to be, you know, in the 1950s that we did every Jewish year, you know, when our conflict, you know, I don't view our conflict to be with the Arabs, I view our conflict to be with the Europeans and our long-term, multi-decade survival of Judaism. So, you know, it's no longer a game about how many Jewish bodies there are between the, you know, the Jordan and the sea. So, it's not only about we need every Israeli, every Jewish year and how dare you not come to Israel as a Jew. So, as I mentioned earlier, in Judaism 3.0, the connection of the Jew to his Judaism to Christianity is an organic one. The Jew initiates it, whether it's by choosing to watch Fauda or whether it's choosing to write a Facebook post as a Jew and I'm embarrassed about Israel.


In this video we will show you how to add the double opt-in feature in your suprofis webform. The double opt-in feature helps to ensure people submit a valid email address. Let's take a look at how you can add an email verification message and add the verification email. In your suprofis CRM, click on marketing in the navigator menu on the left hand side. In the marketing screen, click on the forms tab at the top of your screen. Then, open the webform you want to add the double opt-in on. For example, if you choose to work with the webform you have previously created, click on it in the recent tab. Next, click on edit in the top right corner to get the edit form dialog. Now, click on double opt-in in the menu on the left hand side. Click the activation switch to enable double opt-in. The tabs for message and email will now appear. You have to set up both tabs to activate the double opt-in feature. This is where you add a text explaining that in order to submit the webform, the email verification is required and that a separate link will be sent after webform submission. You can add your message text by clicking the open text editor in the dialog button here. This editor is helpful because it gives you a larger edit dialog to customize the content of your double opt-in message. You can use the text editor to customize your message by changing the font family, font size or to add links to additional resources if necessary. We have now created the email verification message. The next step is to create the confirmation email that will be sent after the webform has been submitted. Click on the email tab to continue. Start by adding the subject line to your email. Next, you have to include a sender address. Finally, you can add the actual confirmation text that you want to include in your email. Click the open text editor in dialog button to open the larger editor. Once you have added your text, you can also add the confirmation link. This is a link that suprof as webforms creates for you. Make sure the cursor is located where you want to add the confirmation link and click the insert confirmation link button. To change the text of the confirmation link, click on it and choose edit link. We recommend you not to change the URL but only change the text of the link. Once the person who submits the form clicks on the confirmation link, he or she will see your thank you page. Check the option open in a new tab if you want your thank you page to be visible in a new browser tab. Next, click update to save your changes. In addition to changing the text to the confirmation link, you can also change the style of the link to make it stand out. To do this, click on the link and choose the style button. This is where you can change the color and the thickness of the confirmation link. When your confirmation email is ready to go, click save and save again to finalize your webform. We have now shown you how you can add the double opt-in feature in your suprofis webform. For more information on how to improve your productivity with suprofis CRM, please visit our community website.


Jerry of the circus and he's just as good as any racehorse you ever saw the only trouble with blaze is he's got a reputation to live down And what do you mean mr. Rogers?  Well, I don't see why that's so bad Firehorses have to be fast. I'll say they do now that blazes as fast as any of them Just look at his long leg long and powerful Jerry you should see him break Well, what do you mean by that dad? I mean break away get started when he starts to go He goes right now.  You're right that time. My dad and I used to take care of some race horses out west a couple of years ago Oh, is that so uh-huh, and you must know something about them No, I was littler than and I didn't pay much attention to them, but I sure liked them They were just like children. That's a pretty fair way to explain them Jerry more like babies sometime how true a good Race horse is sensitive all right you have to handle them with care and pamper them if you want to get the best out of them Is blaze sensitive dad you bet he is just like Jerry said sometimes he acts just like a baby Oh, how do you mean oh sometimes he refuses to eat and then again? He'll stir around when I'm trying to brush him down and well just act up in general But why did they do that? Oh for many reasons Jerry they're intelligent these race horses, and they're even fussy about the way You talk to them there's times when you don't know exactly why they act up But they've got a reason for it and it might be that you said one word a little cross to them really sure thing You have to be very careful with them. Well blaze old fella. We'll just talk real nice to you Yes, we will He's a nice old horse. Yes, he is. Maybe you better not call him old Jerry He might be sensitive about his age You can't tell how old is he mr. Rogers eight years That's not old well it is for a race horse, but there's lots of horses eight years old that are racing Yes, that's true Jerry some of them last a good long time and keep up their speed Well, how old are all the other race horses in the breath in the big race? Oh, they're all ages son the big handicap races for four year olds and upwards are most of them around for that's right There's a couple around six years old But blazes the oldest in the race with eight long years to his credit Well, do you want me to just stand here and hold him?  No not until after his workout.  Well, that's one way of putting it but no matter how big his appetite. He won't get much breakfast Why not cause his big races tomorrow and I don't want blaze to be putting on any extra weight That's one thing I have to watch very carefully. Can't overfeed him Maybe you know we're talking about something to eat. Maybe Funny Warren isn't here yet Warren. Who's he mr. Rogers?  Yes, he should have been here 10 minutes ago You said he was a good jockey, didn't you? Yes, one of the best I was lucky to be able to get him to ride blaze. Is is he a regular jockey or for somebody from around for them? Oh, no, he's a regular jockey Tom. He's famous. He wrote it all the big race tracks at some time or other Yes, sir. I'm very fortunate in getting him. In fact without him I don't think blaze would have a chance why not well Warren seems to know the horse and all his little whims He knows just when to hold him down and when to let him out and how to talk to him and all that Oh, I see what you mean here. Let me take that blanket off. There. You're warm enough now. Aren't you boy? Well, I mean to put it in stable. No, never mind Tom. Just lay it over there on the bench She blazes. You're pretty all right. Yes, you can see more of them now with the blanket off. Can't you? I'll say he sure is a beaut mr. Rogers. Come on Tom We'll walk over to the track with blaze Warren will be along any minute now. Here comes somebody now Yeah, sure enough, and it's Warren. He's a little fellow. All right. Say how old is he dad? Oh about 19 or 20 I'd say morning Warren morning. This is my son Tom. How'd you do and this is Tom's friend Jerry glad to meet you I am we were just going to take blaze on to the track. Are you ready for the workout? I am if you are well come on then come on blaze. We'll go ahead and open the gate to the track Come on Tom. I'm right with you Jerry. It's matter with you this morning Warren get up on the wrong side of the bed No, why you look kind of down in the mouth. Don't you feel good? Sure. I feel all right, but what? Come on the gates open. We're coming boys.  He's not now. He never will be whoa blaze.  Oh, that's cause he's so spirited. Well, he's all yours Warren. Okay. I'll put him around until I get him warmed up All right blaze let's go take it easy I haven't seen all the rest of the horses yet, but I'll just bet there aren't any better looking than blaze Oh, that's a matter of opinion Jerry, but I'm inclined to think the same as you just look at that form He's a pretty animal all right. How long will warren try to marron before he tries him off for speed? Oh, just long enough to get him limbered up and warm there is sure is a lot to train and race horses Isn't there you bet there is more to it than I ever figured. Oh, I'll bet it doesn't seem like work though No, that's true son, but it's all very fascinating Here he comes back and look he's just itching to run warren sure is holding him back. Yeah Looks like he's raring to go Warren. He's all set. You ready to clock him. Yes. I'm already Warren I'll take him up to the line and come on Say, yeah, how do you time him mr. Rogers? Well I time him with this stopwatch I have in my hand. I love you boys. It better stand back off the track Well, how does it work?  I start timing him with the watch once around the track Is one mile. Oh here he comes now Oh You're sure right mr. Rogers. He sure gets away quick. Yes. He sure does See look notice the way he gets right over to the rail Sure does say he's making good time. Let's see if I can get his time at the quarter now Is that the quarter mile post he's coming to now? Yes, that's it Jerry now wait wait. Let me watch this close He just passed it 25 seconds flat say that's really wonderful. That's the best time. He's made yet for the quarter Gosh now if you can only hold that speed how long will it take him to run the mile if he does well Let's see that it'd be a minute and 40 seconds Say that it'd be just about perfect. Well, what are some of the other horses run the mile in well The best time so far is a minute and 46 seconds and it looks like blaze will do better than that Oh, we can't tell yet Jerry. He may tire when he gets to the stretch You mean just before the finish. Yes, just before he crosses the finish line. There he goes past the half mile post. Let's see 52 that means he did the second quarter in 27 seconds. Oh gee he's slowing down already. No not necessarily Tom Warren may be holding him back until he gets around the back stretch And starts for home then he may let him out and make up a few seconds boy He sure runs pretty well looks almost like he's flying now. He's running the back turn. Just look at him go Yes, he looks mighty fast today. Now watch him close boys. Watch him. He's coming down the stretch Say that's funny. What's funny mr. Rogers Warren doesn't seem to be letting him out He should burst out with a lot of speed right now. Come on. What's the matter with him? Is something wrong? Well, here he is coming down the stretch and no more speed than he had when he rounded that far turn Now he's going a lot faster see Yes, but it's too late now. He's about to cross the wire Well, that's that well, what was the time dad not as good as I expected so how long did he take? One minute 48 and a half seconds. Oh, I sure thought he'd do better than that He got off to such a good start here. He comes now. Oh boy Hey, what happened Warren nothing why what did we do it?  You took a minute and 48 and a half seconds. Sorry, that's all he had He's got to do better than that in the race tomorrow. We won't have a chance Say are you sure you let him out in the stretch Warren? Of course I did you kind of tell me how to ride Oh Warren don't take that attitude. I only asked a question Well, that's all blazes got in him just what he showed right then then that's as good as telling me We haven't got a chance here get out for yourself. Come on Well, maybe when he gets in there with the other horses in the race, it'll make a difference. That's the only hope Well, all right, take a saddle off and throw the blanket over him till he cools off Okay, close that door after me somebody. Yeah, what's the matter dad? Oh, don't worry mr. Rogers Maybe blaze will surprise everybody tomorrow. Well, I certainly hope so Jerry. We've got to win that race tomorrow It means everything to me and the Tom too $1,000 is a lot of money Jerry golly.  Come on. Let's see if we can be of any help. Hey Warren hurry up There's a fire in that lunch stand over by the entrance. Let's get over there.  We're coming Warren Oh say this is liable to be bad. Most parts of flying pretty high Hey, anything we can do to help I'll be here in a minute. I'm gonna turn in the alarm as soon as the fire started golly That's a hot bar all right Just roll water on it, but it doesn't seem to do any good Hey, how did it start kind of runs the place just got in there when it broke out Maybe with light and still Well, they'll get it out and hurry What do you know about that he broke out of his stall Warren Warren red please Oh, why did he have to break out that way?  He's used to doing it I don't you care what they say mr. Rogers. Oh, but oh, this is awful. Oh, no, it isn't dad Hey, wait a minute. I just got an idea what Jerry are nothing you'll see when the time comes


Bonjour. Hello. My name is Amber Marlowe. I'm the Extension Director for LeCoudre Ojibwe Community College and we are at the Sustainable Agriculture Research Station talking about our SARE project for the Beginner Farmer Rancher Program. Our project was looking at the five or looking at five Ojibwe reservations in Northwest Wisconsin that the college serves and the the challenge is that they're all at a different capacity so some have no agricultural starting you know they don't have any gardens or farm and then some have a very strong agricultural focus and they have a garden that they've had for over 20 years so our goal was to really look at what grew better on each of those reservations so we did a research plot and that plot was 30 by 30 feet and it was designed with native indigenous plants it was designed with a three sisters garden corns beans and squash and it also had other things that the community would be interested in potatoes tomatoes cucumbers things like that so we really wanted to look at you know did red cliff did they grow a lot of corn or did St. Croix just grow a bumper crop of beans and really look at you know is there something you know back in the day we facilitated and exchanged goods with each other and we wanted to look at how we could recreate that model and so LeCoudre would be a food hub and we would take in the products take in the veggies from the different tribes and then create some value-added product around that so the research that we were looking at was taking that plot and seeing what what would grow best and to help us with that we were able to provide all of the tribes with a couple rain barrels irrigation supplies seeds hand washing stations so things that helps them with their post harvest handling we also helped them with garden carts to carry their produce with things basic needs from gloves and knee pads to just basic garden tools so everyone had the supplies that they needed we tilled plots for them we didn't do any soil amending so it was just what their soil was like to look at what that base research would show us I think the biggest thing that came out of the project though was just the partnership building was that we really connected with those communities we reached out and had interns we hired interns to to help facilitate the the program and the growing and just talk about sustainable agriculture we also offered educational workshops in the communities so canning basic gardening demonstrations composting so really looked at each community what their needs were and then offered those specific programs so one of the main focus areas of why we wanted to do this project was to look at historically Ojibwe tribal people anybody was able to sustain themselves and grow their own food and we were truly looking at that key for what food sovereignty meant especially to tribal people and that it's been said that a tribe is not sovereign unless they can feed themselves and so our goal was really to empower these individual communities that they can you know start their journey of being able to sustain their community members and and helping them out and increasing capacity and just creating those partnerships was really the key and foundation to this project