Ice-sculpted from chainsaws and blow-torches, menorahs illuminate celebrations

Chabad Rabbi Tzemach Cunin lights Chainsaw Chicks'
ice-sculpted menorah for Chanukah 2011 in L.A.

Artists craft, ignite, then, demolish giant ice-menorah in L.A. Chabad Lubavitch gives Los Angeles, a city more accustomed to sand-sculpting than ice-sculpting, its first hand-crafted ice-menorah. The menorah draws attention to the history of the Maccabean Jews of Judea who fought the Syrian Hellenists to rededicate the Second Temple in Jerusalem, 165 BCE.

Rabbi Tzemach Cunin leads the ceremony which featured traditional oil-cooked foods, potato pancakes and jelly-donuts. The Chainsaw Chicks crew wowed the attendees with their custom designed, outdoor crafted, ice-menorah- which for safety reasons, they publicly demolished as the conclusion of the festivities. The event is captured here on video.



In related news, YNet News, Danny Adeno Abebe reports that an 'Ice City' is to be built in Jerusalem

Israel's capital to host its first ever ice festival in March-April 2012, including frozen sculptures of important sites. 

Jerusalem will host the first ice festival in its history in March-April 2012. It will be held at the city's old train station plaza and will include an exhibition of Jerusalem's most famous sites, all carved in ice, and many attractions for visitors. 

The sculpture exhibition will display Jerusalem's most unique sites, including the Tower of David, the Israel Museum and the Light Rail. Visitors will enter the complex through an icy "Jaffa Gate" and pass through a route including ice slides and other attractions linked to the different displays.

To read entire article

We wish you a year of health and purpose. Democracy Broadcasting is supported by your generous donation. We would appreciate your donation of any amount to keep producing and providing you original video news stories for you about keeping society sane, safe, and stable. 

Muslim Brotherhood reveals make-up at Cairo rally "One day we'll kill all Jews!"

Arab hate: A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo's most prominent mosque Friday turned into a venomous anti-Israel protest, with attendants vowing to "one day kill all Jews."

Winds of Jihad Blog by Sheik Yer'mami:

“All Jews- not just Zionists, as the so-called “moderate Muslims” in the west keep telling us.  The world stands by in eery silence, just like 1938."

Some 5,000 people joined the rally, called to promote the "battle against Jerusalem's Judaization." The event coincided with the anniversary of the United Nations' partition plan in 1947, which called for the establishment of a Jewish state.

Speakers at the event delivered impassioned, hateful speeches against Israel, slamming the "Zionist occupiers" and the "treacherous Jews." Upon leaving the rally, worshippers were given small flags, with Egypt's flag on one side and the Palestinian flag on the other, as well as maps of Jerusalem's Old City detailing where "Zionists are aiming to change Jerusalem's Muslim character."

Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen, as well as Palestinian guest speakers, made explicit calls for Jihad and for liberating the whole of Palestine. Time and again, a Koran quote vowing that "one day we shall kill all the Jews" was uttered at the site. Meanwhile, businessmen in the crowd were urged to invest funds in Jerusalem in order to prevent the acquisition of land and homes by Jews.

Speaking to Ynet outside the mosque following the prayer, elementary school teacher Ala al-Din said that "all Egyptian Muslims are willing to embark on Jihad for the sake of Palestine."

"Why is the US losing in Afghanistan? Because the other side is willing and wants to die. We have a different mentality than that of the Americans and Jews," he said.

Eldad Beck is reporting from Cairo on behalf of Ynet and Yedioth Akhronot. Roee Nahmias contributed to the story. Published November 25, 2011 in YNet News.com


Your donation will enable DemoCast to continue compiling and disseminating these messages for you, your family, and our society:

Howard Stern comic icon, Melrose Larry Green, at the Menorah parade in liberal West Hollywood

At the completion of the Chabad L.A. Menorah parade, which aspires to spread light in the world, former L.A. mayoral candidate (and Howard Stern Show comic icon), Melrose Larry Green, taunts upper-middle class Hollywood liberals for insensitivity to Obama-era, lower-middle-class realities.

Is the Obama Administration Politically Manipulating the Poverty Data?

How Obama could abuse a new set of poverty statistics. by Tom Blumer in PJ Media

The Census Bureau’s recently created “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM) looks like a ruse to artificially show economic and poverty-reducing improvement in time for the 2012 presidential election. Longer-term, it appears to be a rigged mechanism for demonstrating how ObamaCare, assuming it survives legal challenges and attempts at repeal, is a resounding success. . . .

SPM’s consideration of taxes will help Obama’s reelection campaign if (and I believe it’s more like when) the Census Bureau surprises everyone and releases its related report in October of next year instead of November, as it did this year, and attempts with media help to give it greater credibility than the official measurement. 

Read it all 

Why Hamas Wants To Join the PLO

Why Hamas Wants To Join the PLO by Khaled Abu Toameh in Hudson-NY

Hamas' Ismail Haniya shakes with
PA Pres. Mahmoud Abbas

Hamas's decision to join the PLO is seen by some Western analysts and governments as a sign that the Islamist movement is headed toward "moderation" and "pragmatism."

But in 2012, if the agreement with Abbas is implemented, Hamas will take control over the PLO.

Hamas is joining the PLO not because it has changed, but out of a desire to make the Fatah-dominated organization stick to its true mission: the liberation of Palestine from Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea -- in other words, all the land that is currently Israel -- and to achieve the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees to their original villages and homes inside Israel.

Read it all

Exchanging gifts for Christmas

DemoCast seeks to conserve American traditions. Enjoy warmest wishes of the season with musical traditions we we videographed this holiday season.

Hollywood Holiday Sidewalk Serenade acapella by The Dickens Carolers of the Church of Scientology


"White Christmas" Dean Mora's Orchestra with Bing Crosby newphew- Johnny Holiday, Damon Kirsch, The Lindy Sisters, & Kayre Morrison. Composed by Irving Berlin.


Jonathan Stout's instrumental barbershop quartet plays Sweeney Todd's Barbershop party in Hollywood.


Despite the cost involved in producing and publishing, DemoCast has not charged fees for you to view the original articles or original videos we have created. Nor have we encumbered the website or videos with advertising. If you have derived benefit from DemoCast over the past year, please donate to support and continue our initiative. Thank you and G-d bless us, everyone!