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March AGAINST Madness

March 28, 2025

Spring has sprung and flowers are in full bloom - it is most definitely the month of March in our beloved Tennessee. That means it is also time for ‘March Madness,’ across the US of A — the annual NCAA basketball tournament which leads to a national collegiate ‘hoops’ champion.

In the midst of this sports phenomenon in which millions of folks of all ages, all locales and all social strata participate, a small band of us are walking the streets of Nashville, TN, every Sunday, just as we have been doing for over a year. We hold signs reminding anyone who takes notice that hostages, Israeli and otherwise, are still being held in Gaza after the brutal and hellacious attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023. We remember them, in prayer and by name, so that the world will not forget. 

More than a few kidnapped on that ‘date which will live (for Israel) in infamy,’ have been murdered—including a mother and her two little children. The husband and father of this, the Bibas family, practically starved in captivity and was finally released, along with others, resembling a Holocaust survivor.

So, on this March—against the backdrop of ‘March Madness’ and flowers in bloom — we march; Israelis, Americans, Jews, Christians, younger and older—standing together, irrespective of what may be our differences, in solidarity with the victims of this barbarism—an assault not only on God’s people, Israel, but also on all of western civilization and the values held by liberty loving people.

Therefore, until all the hostages are home—whether alive or deceased…we will continue our ‘March AGAINST Madness’; the madness of murder, rape, kidnapping and the dark and demonic hatred of Jews by the sworn enemies of Israel—and the civilized world. Add to this the madness of Hamas’ bringing death and destruction upon their own heads and upon the heads of their families and neighbors, and there is…and will be…every reason to ‘march,’ even if it is all we can do. Of course, we ALL can pray…and will do so until our prayer—and plea to heaven—is answered. 

This spring, as March moves into the Passover season—the ‘season of our FREEDOM and REDEMPTION,’ let us echo the words spoken so long ago to another who, in defiance of the God of Israel, held our people ‘hostage’:

‘LET MY PEOPLE GO!’

Am Yisrael Chai! May the people of Israel live!! ‘Baruch Haba B’Shem Adonai!’

Blessed is HE who comes in the NAME of the LORD!!

In HIS Shalom,

Marty and Jenny