JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
In first, female prisoners in Russia get Jewish prayer space-House of worship opened by Saint Petersberg chief rabbi and deputy head of federal prisons service-By JTA March 30, 2016, 9:13 pm-the times of israel
Rabbis in Saint Petersburg have opened Russia’s first prison Jewish prayer space for women.Inaugurated on Tuesday, the Jewish place of worship in the Number 2 Penal Colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia has a capacity of 20 worshipers, the Russian news website www.jewish.ru reported.Services in the space will be led by Rabbi Ifrah Abramov from Saint Petersburg.“Convicts of Jewish faith received with joy at the news about the opening of a prayer room in the colony,” he said.The opening ceremony was attended by the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Valery Nikolaev, and the chief rabbi of Saint Petersburg, Menachem Mendel Pevzner, as well as Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, who works with prisoners across Russia.Elsewhere in Russia, many prisons for men have prayer spaces and synagogues.Berel Lazar, a chief rabbi of Russia affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, visited the synagogue at eastern Moscow’s Butyrka Prison in December — previously a notorious penitentiary for dissidents of Russia’s Communist governments. The synagogue opened there two years ago and services 15 men, most of whom were jailed for nonviolent crimes.“Giving attention and religious services to people behind bars can have a much more profound effect on them than on other populations because these are people facing what is often the most difficult moments in their lives,” Lazar said after lighting Hanukkah candles there with prisoners.
Laptop found near terror suspects’ hideout held images of Belgian PM’s home-Officials request US authorities’ help to examine electronic devices seized in raids conducted after last week’s Brussels attacks-By Agencies March 30, 2016, 5:22 pm-the times of israel
An official linked to the investigation of the Brussels terror attacks said Wednesday that a laptop found near the hideout of the suspects in the March 22 airport bombing contained images of the prime minister’s official residence and office.The official, who asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing, said that at the moment there were “absolutely no” specific indications that Prime Minister Charles Michel was under threat from the attackers.He said the computer “was full of stuff” of many locations and information garnered from the Internet.The prime minister’s office has long been under special security review which been increased since the November 13 attacks in Paris.A total of 32 people were killed in coordinated suicide attacks that were claimed by the Islamic State group and which also hit Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels.On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Belgian officials had requested of US authorities to help examine two laptops and several phones seized from suspects in raids since the attacks in Brussels.As Brussels struggles to get back on its feet, criticism of authorities’ handling of the case has mounted after the sole suspect charged over the attacks was freed on Monday for lack of evidence.Prosecutors had charged the suspect, known as Faycal C., with “terrorist murder” and were investigating whether he was the third airport attacker who fled after his bomb did not detonate.But the hunt is now back on for the so-called “man in the hat,” seen in CCTV footage next to the two suicide bombers at the airport.The inquiry into the attacks has been dogged by accusations that Belgium missed a series of leads in cracking down on a jihadist network linked to the Brussels bombings as well as the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.Adding to the storm, Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said Tuesday that he regretted the release of the man identified by Belgian media as Faycal Cheffou, who claimed to be a freelance journalist.Hinting at suspicions that the man was a jihadist recruiter, Mayeur told French media: “There is a very thin line between an agitated radical and a radical recruiter, and in this case the judge probably didn’t want to cross that line.”The man’s lawyer Olivier Martins told RTBF television his client was let go because he had an alibi, based on telephone analysis, which showed he was at home at the time of the attacks.Under pressure at home and abroad over an apparent series of missed chances, the Belgian government has admitted mistakes were made.In the most damning revelation, Turkey has accused Belgium of ignoring warnings from Ankara after it deported airport suicide bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui as a “terrorist fighter” last year, following his arrest near the Syrian border.Two senior Belgian ministers offered to resign last week after the Turkish link emerged, but Michel refused to accept their resignations.In a development sure to raise fresh questions about whether enough was done to prevent the carnage, a Dutch minister also revealed that the FBI shared information with the Netherlands about El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid — the metro bomber — six days before the attacks.Justice Minister Ard van der Steur said the report contained “notification of Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid’s criminal backgrounds and Khalid’s terrorist background.”The following day “the issue came up during bilateral contact between the Dutch and Belgian police,” said Van der Steur.Raids and arrests in Belgium, France and the Netherlands since the Brussels bombings have exposed a complex web of jihadist cells, underscoring the need for better European coordination in the fight against terrorism.Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday that a French suspect — arrested in Rotterdam over the weekend in connection with a foiled plot to attack France — intends to fight his extradition to France.
Trump says nuclear Saudi Arabia may be inevitable-GOP front-runner calls for US to consider allowing allies to acquire atomic weapons as defense against rogue states-By JTA March 30, 2016, 9:01 pm-the times of israel
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said nuclear proliferation, including in Saudi Arabia, may be inevitable.Speaking Tuesday on CNN, Trump said he opposed nuclear weapons proliferation, but it may be inevitable, in part because of the nuclear deal reached last year between Iran and six major powers led by the United States. The Obama administration maintains that the sanctions relief for nuclear rollback deal keeps nuclear weapons away from Iran and will stop proliferation.“Iran is going to have it within 10 years,” he said, apparently referring to nuclear weapons capability. “Iran is going to have it.”Trump and his rivals for the Republican nomination — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich — appeared separately Tuesday night in Milwaukee at town hall meetings broadcast by CNN ahead of Wisconsin’s April 5 primary.Trump said at some point the United States should consider allowing allies like Japan and South Korea to acquire nuclear weapons as a means of defense against nuclear rogue states such as Iran and North Korea.Asked whether he would tolerate a nuclear Saudi Arabia, if proliferation is inevitable, Trump said he might, although he also said he would not be happy about it.“It’s going to happen, anyway,” the real estate magnate said. “It’s going to happen anyway. It’s only a question of time.”Trump also explained why his daughter, Ivanka, who has converted to Judaism, named her son born days ago Theodore.“Theodore Roosevelt is somebody Jared and Ivanka have long studied and respected, and it’s Theodore James,” Trump said.Ivanka is married to Jared Kushner, who like her is the scion of a real estate family. “Tough, strong, and it’s Theodore James, and that’s what they really had in mind.”At his meeting, Kasich criticized President Barack Obama for aloofness when it came to US allies, citing Obama’s refusal last year to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he spoke to Congress against the Iran deal, and his unwillingness to meet formally with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week in Washington.“The president of the United States — the first thing he did is he wouldn’t meet with our friend Netanyahu,” he said. “Now he’s snubbed another one. He’s snubbed a meeting with the president of Turkey. Do you know how important it is for to us have good relations with Turkey? They’re the gateway to the East.”The White House said Obama would meet informally with Erdogan on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington, DC.The Obama and Erdogan governments are at have been at odds recently over whether to support Kurds fighting the Islamic State in Syria.Separately, The Associated Press debunked an ad run in Wisconsin by a “super PAC” backing the presidential bid of Cruz alleging ties between Kasich and George Soros.Soros, a billionaire hedge fund manager, is despised on the right because of his backing for liberal groups, including the liberal pro-Israel group J Street.AP found that two investors who have had business relationships with Soros have backed Kasich, but that the investors have long contributed to Republicans and do not have political affiliations with Soros.Trusted Leadership, the political action committee backing Cruz, says in the ads that Kasich is backed by “hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros.”
Lufthansa to pay $1,400 in damages for forgetting kosher meal-Brazilian Jew claimed ‘moral damage’ after being forced to fast on 14-hour flight from Sao Paulo to Zurich-By JTA March 30, 2016, 7:43 pm-the times of israel
RIO DE JANEIRO – The German airline Lufthansa was ordered to pay nearly $1,400 for “moral damage” to a Brazilian Jewish passenger for not serving the kosher meal he had requested when booking his round-trip ticket between Sao Paulo and Zurich.Isaac Kopfler, who was awarded the damages by a court in Sao Paulo on Monday, said he had to fast during the 14-hour flight between Switzerland and Brazil on March 21, 2012. His initial lawsuit requested about $5,000 in refunds and damages.“The passenger has the right to receive what he paid for. It is a consumer relationship and, unlike what the airline claims, the nonexistence of kosher food, despite having been requested in advance, is not an accessory matter,” according to the court decision. The kosher meal “is of great importance and is based on religious principles,” it said.In a letter to the Exame news portal this week, Lufthansa apologized and committed to pay the damages.Lufthansa said the flight was operated by SwissAir, which belongs to the Lufthansa Group, and the “technical problem” is uncommon. The food reportedly did not board the airplane with the catering service and therefore was not served. Other alternatives would have been offered to the passenger, who may be contacted to receive further compensation in mileage, according to the airline.Brazil is home to some 120,000 Jews, half of whom live in Sao Paulo.
Garland holds first meeting with GOP Illinois senator-Mark Kirk’s 20-minute session with Supreme Court nominee provides Democrats with visual image to pressure other Republicans-By Alan Fram March 30, 2016, 8:37 pm-the times of israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Kirk on Tuesday became the first Republican senator to meet with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, criticizing GOP leaders’ refusal to hold confirmation hearings or a vote on the longtime federal judge and praising him as “one of the most eminent jurists in the country.”There was no sign the session would erode Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence on leaving the vacancy unfilled until President Barack Obama’s replacement names a selection after the November elections. Even so, Kirk’s 20-minute session with Garland provided Democrats with a visual image — and words — that they hope will pressure other Republican senators to end their blockade.“I think when you just say I’m not going to meet with him and all, that’s too closed-minded,” Kirk told reporters, all but explicitly rebuking McConnell, R-Ky.Kirk, who represents Democratic-leaning Illinois, is perhaps the most imperiled Senate Republican facing re-election in November. And when it comes to the battle over Obama’s pick to fill the court vacancy, Kirk has been one of the earliest and most outspoken outliers.He’s one of just three Senate Republicans to say the Senate Judiciary Committee should hold hearings on Garland. And he’s one of two GOP senators — along with Susan Collins, R-Maine — to say the full chamber should vote on the nominee, saying Tuesday he would “obviously” consider voting for him.The death last month of conservative justice Antonin Scalia created the court opening, and Obama is pressing to make his third appointment to the court.“By leading by example, I’m showing what a rational, responsible guy would do that really wants the constitutional process to go forward,” Kirk said.Kirk had an additional incentive to be hospitable to Garland: The longtime federal judge and former prosecutor is originally from Chicago.Matt McGrath, deputy campaign manager for Kirk’s November opponent, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said the Republican had done “the bare minimum” by meeting with Garland, and said Kirk should pressure McConnell to relent.Earlier Tuesday, Collins explained the basis for her desire to see the Senate begin considering Garland’s nomination by telling Maine’s WGAN radio, “The first thing I did is I read the Constitution.”Collins said there was “no basis” for flatly refusing to consider any Obama pick, as McConnell did, and conceded, “Obviously the leader is not real happy with me.” Arguing that a newly elected Democratic president might choose a nominee more liberal than Garland, she said of McConnell, “I’m a bit perplexed by his position.”McConnell spokesman Donald Stewart declined to comment on Kirk’s and Collins’ remarks.Underscoring the stakes in the nomination fight, Kirk’s meeting with Garland occurred the same day that on a 4-4 tie, the eight-strong Supreme Court handed liberals a major victory. That vote upheld a lower court ruling allowing a government employees union to collect dues from non-members, a fight they all but certainly would have lost were Scalia still a justice.That ruling prompted Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network, to warn that confirmation of Garland would create “a new liberal majority that will dominate the court’s decisions for a generation.”Democrats have insisted that the Senate go through the regular confirmation process for Garland, currently chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. With most public opinion polls showing majorities favoring Senate action on Garland, Democrats’ goal is to force GOP senators to buckle under pressure or make some facing re-election this fall pay the price on Election Day.At least 14 Senate Republicans have said they’d be willing to meet with Garland, though many have said they would tell him that he won’t get a vote.Earlier this month, Kirk said on a Chicago radio program that the Senate should “man up and cast a vote.”Garland has met with seven Democratic senators and plans to meet Wednesday with two more, Al Franken of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.
In wake of tragedy, a Passover seder in Nepal offers respite-A year after a devastating earthquake that killed thousands, Chabad aims to bring together Jews in Kathmandu to commemorate and celebrate-By Cnaan Liphshiz March 30, 2016, 8:41 pm-the times of israel
JTA — When the ground started to shake beneath Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz’s feet, he was praying near a doorway at the Chabad House of Kathmandu, where he lives with his wife, Chani, and their six children.Lifshitz, 42, an energetic redhead who was born in Israel, has served as the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s first permanent envoy to Nepal since 2000, when he and Chani opened the Chabad House in the earthquake-prone nation’s capital. Since then he has lived in expectation of tremors.But nothing could have prepared him for the 30 seconds of violent shaking on April 25 of last year, which was so powerful it shifted the whole of Kathmandu 10 feet southward. The city was devastated and some 9,000 people throughout the small, mountainous country were killed.In the days following the quake, Lifshitz conducted dozens of airborne rescue operations while his wife, staff and volunteers followed a contingency plan they had spent years preparing. The plan included building a cache of supplies (food and purified water, medical supplies, gasoline for the power generators) and setting up a network of emergency service providers, such as helicopter pilots and chauffeurs, who could be counted on in times of crisis.Last year, the Chabad House was transformed into an island of safety for hundreds of Israelis who were in the country, along with dozens of locals and tourists from around the world — Jews and non-Jews.‘A feast believed to be the world’s largest seder’-Now, in a country that even before the quake was ranked as Asia’s second poorest, the Lifshitzes are preparing to kick off a massive annual production that is among the highlights of their mission in Nepal: a feast believed to be the world’s largest seder, which attracts some 1,500 Israeli and Jewish backpackers each year.The event in Kathmandu comprises three, sometimes four, simultaneous seders — two in Hebrew, the rest in English. Some years, as is the plan for this Passover near the end of April, the venue is the 8,000-square-foot Chabad House compound – a heavily guarded fortress in the city’s touristic Thamel district. In other years the feast is hosted at a hotel, often the Radisson, whose kitchen is especially kosherized for the event.Two weeks ahead of the seder, Thamel’s guesthouses fill up with many hundreds of Israelis, mostly 20-something backpackers who have recently finished their army service. They’re drawn to Nepal in the spring, as it’s one of the best season for trekking in the Himalayas.At the seder, they are joined by a diverse melange of Israelis and Jews, including middle-aged hikers on unusual honeymoons and “homesick” drifters from India and Thailand – some on spiritual journeys, others on a different kind of trip. Sporting dreadlocks, bindis and Teva sandals, they descend on Thamel’s shops to buy the traditional Kathmandu seder uniform: white cotton shirts and loose-fitting salwar pants, though nothing stays white for long in the city’s thick smog, said Keren Singer, an Israeli participant in the 2012 seder.An interior designer in her 30s, Singer and her architect husband, Daniel, were in Nepal on a trip around the world that year. Both non-observant Jews, they had planned an intimate seder with four other friends — Singer said she was looking forward to cooking and to “get away from the Israeli crowd” they had met in tourist destinations across Nepal and India.But they went for the Chabad option “out of a desire to have a proper seder and because we didn’t have time to organize our own,” she said. Before the event, Singer joined dozens of other Israelis who each year volunteer to help prepare the event.“Being away from home for so long brought us closer to anything reminiscent of it,” she recalled.For the Lifshitzes, the Passover preparations are somewhat more demanding. Immediately after one seder they start fundraising for the next, as each meal costs north of $60,000. And while Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters provides much of the funding, the Lifshitzes still strive to collect as much as possible from private donors. It’s a struggle in a country lacking the kind of local philanthropists that bankroll Chabad activities elsewhere in the world.Four months before the big night, the Lifshitzes and their helpers kick off logistical efforts that include transporting into Nepal some 800 pounds of matzah, 2,000 kosher wine bottles and thousands of tins of fish. They also organize a schechitah, a kosher slaughter, of hundreds of fowl and some beef.The process is always challenging in a corrupt nation with a bad transportation system, but this year has been extra difficult because of the post-earthquake chaos, Lifshitz said.Describing Nepal as a “beautiful and uniquely spiritual,” Lifshitz also said that “misery here is enormous,” with “whole villages wiped off the map.”While some roads are blocked because of the earthquake, others are targeted by road thieves. The combination has complicated and delayed the process of shipping this year’s Passover necessities to Nepal from neighboring India.“We just had to begin earlier than usual,” Lifshitz said of the preparationsIn addition to readying for the event, the rabbi and his staff are helping rebuild a village that was destroyed during the earthquake.Another hurdle is Nepal’s gas shortage – the worst in recent history. The Lifshitzes had planned to offer a cold seder dinner — a major downgrade from previous years — because of the lack of fuel.However, the couple acquired enough butane to ensure warm meals. Lifshitz declined to specify how he managed it beyond saying that Chabad “still has some friends.”With Nepal’s already poor infrastructure in shambles, the tourist traffic to Nepal last fall – the other popular trekking season — was significantly lower than the previous year. So the Lifshitzes expect fewer guests this seder.But the event is on, as are the two other (and far smaller) seders being organized by the Lifshitzes in Nepal: in Pokhara, a city near the capital that is a point of departure for the famous Anapurna trail, and Manang, a trekkers’ hub at an altitude of 11,545 feet. According to the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, it is the world’s tallest.“Every seder in the world has four children,” Lifshitz said in reference to a passage in the Haggadah, the text that sets forth the Passover seder, that explores four attitudes to Judaism. “In Nepal, we have seders for the fifth child: the one who’s never home for seder.”
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)
JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)
EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
In first, female prisoners in Russia get Jewish prayer space-House of worship opened by Saint Petersberg chief rabbi and deputy head of federal prisons service-By JTA March 30, 2016, 9:13 pm-the times of israel
Rabbis in Saint Petersburg have opened Russia’s first prison Jewish prayer space for women.Inaugurated on Tuesday, the Jewish place of worship in the Number 2 Penal Colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia has a capacity of 20 worshipers, the Russian news website www.jewish.ru reported.Services in the space will be led by Rabbi Ifrah Abramov from Saint Petersburg.“Convicts of Jewish faith received with joy at the news about the opening of a prayer room in the colony,” he said.The opening ceremony was attended by the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Valery Nikolaev, and the chief rabbi of Saint Petersburg, Menachem Mendel Pevzner, as well as Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, who works with prisoners across Russia.Elsewhere in Russia, many prisons for men have prayer spaces and synagogues.Berel Lazar, a chief rabbi of Russia affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, visited the synagogue at eastern Moscow’s Butyrka Prison in December — previously a notorious penitentiary for dissidents of Russia’s Communist governments. The synagogue opened there two years ago and services 15 men, most of whom were jailed for nonviolent crimes.“Giving attention and religious services to people behind bars can have a much more profound effect on them than on other populations because these are people facing what is often the most difficult moments in their lives,” Lazar said after lighting Hanukkah candles there with prisoners.
Laptop found near terror suspects’ hideout held images of Belgian PM’s home-Officials request US authorities’ help to examine electronic devices seized in raids conducted after last week’s Brussels attacks-By Agencies March 30, 2016, 5:22 pm-the times of israel
An official linked to the investigation of the Brussels terror attacks said Wednesday that a laptop found near the hideout of the suspects in the March 22 airport bombing contained images of the prime minister’s official residence and office.The official, who asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing, said that at the moment there were “absolutely no” specific indications that Prime Minister Charles Michel was under threat from the attackers.He said the computer “was full of stuff” of many locations and information garnered from the Internet.The prime minister’s office has long been under special security review which been increased since the November 13 attacks in Paris.A total of 32 people were killed in coordinated suicide attacks that were claimed by the Islamic State group and which also hit Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels.On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Belgian officials had requested of US authorities to help examine two laptops and several phones seized from suspects in raids since the attacks in Brussels.As Brussels struggles to get back on its feet, criticism of authorities’ handling of the case has mounted after the sole suspect charged over the attacks was freed on Monday for lack of evidence.Prosecutors had charged the suspect, known as Faycal C., with “terrorist murder” and were investigating whether he was the third airport attacker who fled after his bomb did not detonate.But the hunt is now back on for the so-called “man in the hat,” seen in CCTV footage next to the two suicide bombers at the airport.The inquiry into the attacks has been dogged by accusations that Belgium missed a series of leads in cracking down on a jihadist network linked to the Brussels bombings as well as the November 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.Adding to the storm, Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said Tuesday that he regretted the release of the man identified by Belgian media as Faycal Cheffou, who claimed to be a freelance journalist.Hinting at suspicions that the man was a jihadist recruiter, Mayeur told French media: “There is a very thin line between an agitated radical and a radical recruiter, and in this case the judge probably didn’t want to cross that line.”The man’s lawyer Olivier Martins told RTBF television his client was let go because he had an alibi, based on telephone analysis, which showed he was at home at the time of the attacks.Under pressure at home and abroad over an apparent series of missed chances, the Belgian government has admitted mistakes were made.In the most damning revelation, Turkey has accused Belgium of ignoring warnings from Ankara after it deported airport suicide bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui as a “terrorist fighter” last year, following his arrest near the Syrian border.Two senior Belgian ministers offered to resign last week after the Turkish link emerged, but Michel refused to accept their resignations.In a development sure to raise fresh questions about whether enough was done to prevent the carnage, a Dutch minister also revealed that the FBI shared information with the Netherlands about El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid — the metro bomber — six days before the attacks.Justice Minister Ard van der Steur said the report contained “notification of Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother Khalid’s criminal backgrounds and Khalid’s terrorist background.”The following day “the issue came up during bilateral contact between the Dutch and Belgian police,” said Van der Steur.Raids and arrests in Belgium, France and the Netherlands since the Brussels bombings have exposed a complex web of jihadist cells, underscoring the need for better European coordination in the fight against terrorism.Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday that a French suspect — arrested in Rotterdam over the weekend in connection with a foiled plot to attack France — intends to fight his extradition to France.
Trump says nuclear Saudi Arabia may be inevitable-GOP front-runner calls for US to consider allowing allies to acquire atomic weapons as defense against rogue states-By JTA March 30, 2016, 9:01 pm-the times of israel
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said nuclear proliferation, including in Saudi Arabia, may be inevitable.Speaking Tuesday on CNN, Trump said he opposed nuclear weapons proliferation, but it may be inevitable, in part because of the nuclear deal reached last year between Iran and six major powers led by the United States. The Obama administration maintains that the sanctions relief for nuclear rollback deal keeps nuclear weapons away from Iran and will stop proliferation.“Iran is going to have it within 10 years,” he said, apparently referring to nuclear weapons capability. “Iran is going to have it.”Trump and his rivals for the Republican nomination — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich — appeared separately Tuesday night in Milwaukee at town hall meetings broadcast by CNN ahead of Wisconsin’s April 5 primary.Trump said at some point the United States should consider allowing allies like Japan and South Korea to acquire nuclear weapons as a means of defense against nuclear rogue states such as Iran and North Korea.Asked whether he would tolerate a nuclear Saudi Arabia, if proliferation is inevitable, Trump said he might, although he also said he would not be happy about it.“It’s going to happen, anyway,” the real estate magnate said. “It’s going to happen anyway. It’s only a question of time.”Trump also explained why his daughter, Ivanka, who has converted to Judaism, named her son born days ago Theodore.“Theodore Roosevelt is somebody Jared and Ivanka have long studied and respected, and it’s Theodore James,” Trump said.Ivanka is married to Jared Kushner, who like her is the scion of a real estate family. “Tough, strong, and it’s Theodore James, and that’s what they really had in mind.”At his meeting, Kasich criticized President Barack Obama for aloofness when it came to US allies, citing Obama’s refusal last year to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he spoke to Congress against the Iran deal, and his unwillingness to meet formally with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week in Washington.“The president of the United States — the first thing he did is he wouldn’t meet with our friend Netanyahu,” he said. “Now he’s snubbed another one. He’s snubbed a meeting with the president of Turkey. Do you know how important it is for to us have good relations with Turkey? They’re the gateway to the East.”The White House said Obama would meet informally with Erdogan on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington, DC.The Obama and Erdogan governments are at have been at odds recently over whether to support Kurds fighting the Islamic State in Syria.Separately, The Associated Press debunked an ad run in Wisconsin by a “super PAC” backing the presidential bid of Cruz alleging ties between Kasich and George Soros.Soros, a billionaire hedge fund manager, is despised on the right because of his backing for liberal groups, including the liberal pro-Israel group J Street.AP found that two investors who have had business relationships with Soros have backed Kasich, but that the investors have long contributed to Republicans and do not have political affiliations with Soros.Trusted Leadership, the political action committee backing Cruz, says in the ads that Kasich is backed by “hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros.”
Lufthansa to pay $1,400 in damages for forgetting kosher meal-Brazilian Jew claimed ‘moral damage’ after being forced to fast on 14-hour flight from Sao Paulo to Zurich-By JTA March 30, 2016, 7:43 pm-the times of israel
RIO DE JANEIRO – The German airline Lufthansa was ordered to pay nearly $1,400 for “moral damage” to a Brazilian Jewish passenger for not serving the kosher meal he had requested when booking his round-trip ticket between Sao Paulo and Zurich.Isaac Kopfler, who was awarded the damages by a court in Sao Paulo on Monday, said he had to fast during the 14-hour flight between Switzerland and Brazil on March 21, 2012. His initial lawsuit requested about $5,000 in refunds and damages.“The passenger has the right to receive what he paid for. It is a consumer relationship and, unlike what the airline claims, the nonexistence of kosher food, despite having been requested in advance, is not an accessory matter,” according to the court decision. The kosher meal “is of great importance and is based on religious principles,” it said.In a letter to the Exame news portal this week, Lufthansa apologized and committed to pay the damages.Lufthansa said the flight was operated by SwissAir, which belongs to the Lufthansa Group, and the “technical problem” is uncommon. The food reportedly did not board the airplane with the catering service and therefore was not served. Other alternatives would have been offered to the passenger, who may be contacted to receive further compensation in mileage, according to the airline.Brazil is home to some 120,000 Jews, half of whom live in Sao Paulo.
Garland holds first meeting with GOP Illinois senator-Mark Kirk’s 20-minute session with Supreme Court nominee provides Democrats with visual image to pressure other Republicans-By Alan Fram March 30, 2016, 8:37 pm-the times of israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Kirk on Tuesday became the first Republican senator to meet with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, criticizing GOP leaders’ refusal to hold confirmation hearings or a vote on the longtime federal judge and praising him as “one of the most eminent jurists in the country.”There was no sign the session would erode Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence on leaving the vacancy unfilled until President Barack Obama’s replacement names a selection after the November elections. Even so, Kirk’s 20-minute session with Garland provided Democrats with a visual image — and words — that they hope will pressure other Republican senators to end their blockade.“I think when you just say I’m not going to meet with him and all, that’s too closed-minded,” Kirk told reporters, all but explicitly rebuking McConnell, R-Ky.Kirk, who represents Democratic-leaning Illinois, is perhaps the most imperiled Senate Republican facing re-election in November. And when it comes to the battle over Obama’s pick to fill the court vacancy, Kirk has been one of the earliest and most outspoken outliers.He’s one of just three Senate Republicans to say the Senate Judiciary Committee should hold hearings on Garland. And he’s one of two GOP senators — along with Susan Collins, R-Maine — to say the full chamber should vote on the nominee, saying Tuesday he would “obviously” consider voting for him.The death last month of conservative justice Antonin Scalia created the court opening, and Obama is pressing to make his third appointment to the court.“By leading by example, I’m showing what a rational, responsible guy would do that really wants the constitutional process to go forward,” Kirk said.Kirk had an additional incentive to be hospitable to Garland: The longtime federal judge and former prosecutor is originally from Chicago.Matt McGrath, deputy campaign manager for Kirk’s November opponent, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said the Republican had done “the bare minimum” by meeting with Garland, and said Kirk should pressure McConnell to relent.Earlier Tuesday, Collins explained the basis for her desire to see the Senate begin considering Garland’s nomination by telling Maine’s WGAN radio, “The first thing I did is I read the Constitution.”Collins said there was “no basis” for flatly refusing to consider any Obama pick, as McConnell did, and conceded, “Obviously the leader is not real happy with me.” Arguing that a newly elected Democratic president might choose a nominee more liberal than Garland, she said of McConnell, “I’m a bit perplexed by his position.”McConnell spokesman Donald Stewart declined to comment on Kirk’s and Collins’ remarks.Underscoring the stakes in the nomination fight, Kirk’s meeting with Garland occurred the same day that on a 4-4 tie, the eight-strong Supreme Court handed liberals a major victory. That vote upheld a lower court ruling allowing a government employees union to collect dues from non-members, a fight they all but certainly would have lost were Scalia still a justice.That ruling prompted Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the Judicial Crisis Network, to warn that confirmation of Garland would create “a new liberal majority that will dominate the court’s decisions for a generation.”Democrats have insisted that the Senate go through the regular confirmation process for Garland, currently chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. With most public opinion polls showing majorities favoring Senate action on Garland, Democrats’ goal is to force GOP senators to buckle under pressure or make some facing re-election this fall pay the price on Election Day.At least 14 Senate Republicans have said they’d be willing to meet with Garland, though many have said they would tell him that he won’t get a vote.Earlier this month, Kirk said on a Chicago radio program that the Senate should “man up and cast a vote.”Garland has met with seven Democratic senators and plans to meet Wednesday with two more, Al Franken of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.
In wake of tragedy, a Passover seder in Nepal offers respite-A year after a devastating earthquake that killed thousands, Chabad aims to bring together Jews in Kathmandu to commemorate and celebrate-By Cnaan Liphshiz March 30, 2016, 8:41 pm-the times of israel
JTA — When the ground started to shake beneath Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz’s feet, he was praying near a doorway at the Chabad House of Kathmandu, where he lives with his wife, Chani, and their six children.Lifshitz, 42, an energetic redhead who was born in Israel, has served as the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s first permanent envoy to Nepal since 2000, when he and Chani opened the Chabad House in the earthquake-prone nation’s capital. Since then he has lived in expectation of tremors.But nothing could have prepared him for the 30 seconds of violent shaking on April 25 of last year, which was so powerful it shifted the whole of Kathmandu 10 feet southward. The city was devastated and some 9,000 people throughout the small, mountainous country were killed.In the days following the quake, Lifshitz conducted dozens of airborne rescue operations while his wife, staff and volunteers followed a contingency plan they had spent years preparing. The plan included building a cache of supplies (food and purified water, medical supplies, gasoline for the power generators) and setting up a network of emergency service providers, such as helicopter pilots and chauffeurs, who could be counted on in times of crisis.Last year, the Chabad House was transformed into an island of safety for hundreds of Israelis who were in the country, along with dozens of locals and tourists from around the world — Jews and non-Jews.‘A feast believed to be the world’s largest seder’-Now, in a country that even before the quake was ranked as Asia’s second poorest, the Lifshitzes are preparing to kick off a massive annual production that is among the highlights of their mission in Nepal: a feast believed to be the world’s largest seder, which attracts some 1,500 Israeli and Jewish backpackers each year.The event in Kathmandu comprises three, sometimes four, simultaneous seders — two in Hebrew, the rest in English. Some years, as is the plan for this Passover near the end of April, the venue is the 8,000-square-foot Chabad House compound – a heavily guarded fortress in the city’s touristic Thamel district. In other years the feast is hosted at a hotel, often the Radisson, whose kitchen is especially kosherized for the event.Two weeks ahead of the seder, Thamel’s guesthouses fill up with many hundreds of Israelis, mostly 20-something backpackers who have recently finished their army service. They’re drawn to Nepal in the spring, as it’s one of the best season for trekking in the Himalayas.At the seder, they are joined by a diverse melange of Israelis and Jews, including middle-aged hikers on unusual honeymoons and “homesick” drifters from India and Thailand – some on spiritual journeys, others on a different kind of trip. Sporting dreadlocks, bindis and Teva sandals, they descend on Thamel’s shops to buy the traditional Kathmandu seder uniform: white cotton shirts and loose-fitting salwar pants, though nothing stays white for long in the city’s thick smog, said Keren Singer, an Israeli participant in the 2012 seder.An interior designer in her 30s, Singer and her architect husband, Daniel, were in Nepal on a trip around the world that year. Both non-observant Jews, they had planned an intimate seder with four other friends — Singer said she was looking forward to cooking and to “get away from the Israeli crowd” they had met in tourist destinations across Nepal and India.But they went for the Chabad option “out of a desire to have a proper seder and because we didn’t have time to organize our own,” she said. Before the event, Singer joined dozens of other Israelis who each year volunteer to help prepare the event.“Being away from home for so long brought us closer to anything reminiscent of it,” she recalled.For the Lifshitzes, the Passover preparations are somewhat more demanding. Immediately after one seder they start fundraising for the next, as each meal costs north of $60,000. And while Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters provides much of the funding, the Lifshitzes still strive to collect as much as possible from private donors. It’s a struggle in a country lacking the kind of local philanthropists that bankroll Chabad activities elsewhere in the world.Four months before the big night, the Lifshitzes and their helpers kick off logistical efforts that include transporting into Nepal some 800 pounds of matzah, 2,000 kosher wine bottles and thousands of tins of fish. They also organize a schechitah, a kosher slaughter, of hundreds of fowl and some beef.The process is always challenging in a corrupt nation with a bad transportation system, but this year has been extra difficult because of the post-earthquake chaos, Lifshitz said.Describing Nepal as a “beautiful and uniquely spiritual,” Lifshitz also said that “misery here is enormous,” with “whole villages wiped off the map.”While some roads are blocked because of the earthquake, others are targeted by road thieves. The combination has complicated and delayed the process of shipping this year’s Passover necessities to Nepal from neighboring India.“We just had to begin earlier than usual,” Lifshitz said of the preparationsIn addition to readying for the event, the rabbi and his staff are helping rebuild a village that was destroyed during the earthquake.Another hurdle is Nepal’s gas shortage – the worst in recent history. The Lifshitzes had planned to offer a cold seder dinner — a major downgrade from previous years — because of the lack of fuel.However, the couple acquired enough butane to ensure warm meals. Lifshitz declined to specify how he managed it beyond saying that Chabad “still has some friends.”With Nepal’s already poor infrastructure in shambles, the tourist traffic to Nepal last fall – the other popular trekking season — was significantly lower than the previous year. So the Lifshitzes expect fewer guests this seder.But the event is on, as are the two other (and far smaller) seders being organized by the Lifshitzes in Nepal: in Pokhara, a city near the capital that is a point of departure for the famous Anapurna trail, and Manang, a trekkers’ hub at an altitude of 11,545 feet. According to the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters, it is the world’s tallest.“Every seder in the world has four children,” Lifshitz said in reference to a passage in the Haggadah, the text that sets forth the Passover seder, that explores four attitudes to Judaism. “In Nepal, we have seders for the fifth child: the one who’s never home for seder.”
