POWER OUTAGE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

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)

 POWER OUTAGE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

POWER OUTAGE

REVELATION 16:10-11
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast;(EU'S KINGDOM) and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

DON'T BE SURPRISED BY THESE BLACKOUTS AND ROLLING BLACK OUTS. ALEX JONES HAS ALWAYS BEEN SAYING. THE NEW WORLD ORDER NUTJOBS WILL BE DOING FALSE FLAG POWER OUTAGES AND ROLLING BLACKOUTS TO TRY TO CONTROL US AND KEEP US IN LOCKDOWN LIKE GOOD LITTLE SLAVES YEAR ROUND. SINCE THE KILLER SHOTS AND FAKE MASK BULL ISN'T WORKING ANYMORE. THE NWO WILL BE TRYING ANYTHING WITH MADE IN THE LAB KILLER SHOTS FOR US WORLDWIDE.

Power outages in North Carolina suspected as 'intentional vandalism': Sheriff

About 45,000 customers were left without electricity amid freezing temperature.ByBill Hutchinson, Aaron Katersky, and Matt Foster-December 4, 2022, 11:50 AM

Vandals are suspected of causing a major power outage across a North Carolina county that plunged about 45,000 customers into darkness amid freezing temperatures, according to authorities.Evidence of sabotage was found at multiple electrical substations following the massive blackout Saturday night, prompting the Moore County Sheriff's Office to investigate the incident as a "criminal occurrence."The power outages began at about 7 p.m. Saturday, and thousands of Duke Energy customers remained without electricity on Sunday after enduring freezing temperatures overnight."As utility companies began responding to the different substations, evidence was discovered that indicated that intentional vandalism had occurred at multiple sites," the sheriff's office said in a statement.No arrests have been announced.Duke Energy officials said utility crews are working to restore power by 10 p.m. Sunday. Several law enforcement agencies in Moore County were providing security as crews worked to repair the damage.A spokesperson for Duke Energy told ABC News the outages are likely to extend beyond Sunday as crews work to fix what were described as "indications of public interference and vandalism."The sheriff's office has scheduled a news conference for Sunday afternoon to update the public.Mike Cameron, Southern Pines' assistant town manager and fire chief, told the Raleigh News and Observer that Duke Energy officials informed him that two substations were hit with gunfire."Everything that I'm understanding is that it's not an accidental cause," Cameron told the newspaper.Cameron said several vehicle accidents were being blamed on the power outage, including a multiple car crash that injured several people at an intersection in Southern Pines."The car wreck was totally because the stop lights were out," Cameron told the News and Observer.Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, also lost power and was forced to switch to its backup generator, officials said.North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said in a Twitter post that he has spoken with Duke Energy and state law enforcement officials about the crisis."They are investigating and working to return electricity to those impacted. The state is providing support as needed," Cooper said.

More than 500 Ukrainian localities remain without power as temperatures plummet-Kharkiv region worst hit with 112 villages cut off, says minister, after weeks of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure; more attacks expected as freezing winter sets in
By AFP-DEC 4,22-Today, 3:10 pm 0

KYIV, Ukraine — More than 500 Ukrainian localities remained without power Sunday following weeks of Russian airstrikes on the electric grid, an interior ministry official said.“The enemy continues to attack the country’s essential infrastructure. Currently, 507 localities in eight regions of our country are cut off from electricity supplies,” deputy interior minister Yevgueny Yenin told Ukrainian television.“The Kharkiv region is the worst hit with 112 isolated villages,” Yenin added.Another 90 villages were cut off in the Donetsk and Kherson regions, he said, with others in the regions of Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and Lugansk.On Saturday, Ukrainian authorities — including Mykolaiv region governor Vitali Kim — had once again urged civilians to bear up in the face of continually deteriorating early winter conditions and regular power outages.Repeated daily power cuts have left millions of people without heat or lighting while outside temperatures have dropped below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit) in recent days.With further strikes on the network widely expected, Ukrainians fear a difficult prolonged winter as well as a flood of departures by refugees from a war now into a tenth month.Private Ukrainian energy operator DTEK said Thursday that nearly half of Ukraine’s electricity grid remains damaged after Russia began targeting Ukrainian energy facilities in October following a series of humiliating military defeats on the ground.

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru unleashes lava river in new eruption; no injuries reported-Monsoon rains erode and finally collapse the lava dome atop 3,676-meter volcano, causing eruption on densely populated island; several villages blanketed as-falling ash blocks sun-By AP-DEC 4,22-Today, 2:52 pm 0

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s highest volcano on its most densely populated island released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava Sunday in its latest eruption.Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari.Several villages were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported. Several hundred residents, their faces smeared with volcanic dust and rain, fled to temporary shelters or left for other safe areas.Thick columns of ash were blasted more than 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet) into the sky while searing gas and lava flowed down Semeru’s slopes toward a nearby river.Increased activities of the volcano on Sunday afternoon prompted authorities to widen the danger zone to 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the crater, said Hendra Gunawan, who heads the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.He said scientists raised the volcano’s alert level to the highest and people were advised to keep off the southeastern sector along the Besuk Kobokan River, which is in the path of the lava flow. Mohon Doanya semua untuk Lumajang, Erupsi Semeru sedang berlangsung. Di rumahku, seperti mendung mau hujan. pic.twitter.com/UBaHlDLkTT— NineInspire (@AnggraNing) December 4, 2022-Semeru’s last major eruption was in December last year, when it blew up with fury that left 51 people dead in villages that were buried in layers of mud.Several hundred others suffered serious burns and the eruption forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. The government moved about 2,970 houses out of the danger zone.Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times in the last 200 years. Still, as is the case with many of the 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, tens of thousands of people continue to live on its fertile slopes.Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 270 million people, sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines, and is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity.

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

7 YEAR PEACE TREATY

JOEL 3:2
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people(ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(UPROOTED ISRAELIS AND DIVIDED JERUSALEM)(THIS BRINGS ON WW3 BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED,WARNING TO ARABS-MUSLIMS AND THE WORLD).

WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week:(7 YEARS) and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

'We will continue to work with the Israeli government' Bahrain: Netanyahu believes in peace, we look forward to working with him-FM Al-Zayani indicates Gulf kingdom unconcerned by makeup of incoming government in Jerusalem, despite presence of far-right figures-By Lazar Berman-DEC 4,22-Today, 7:46 pm 1

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain gave a vote of confidence to Benjamin Netanyahu and his  presumptive incoming government on Sunday, as the kingdom’s foreign minister described the Likud leader as man of peace.“Allow me at this point to congratulate Israel for the successful election that took place,” Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdul Latef Al Zayani told Israeli and Bahraini journalists during a state visit by President Isaac Herzog. “And we truly in Bahrain look forward to work with the new government under the leadership of one of the major signatories and partners of the Abraham Accords.”Netanyahu has been piecing together a right-wing/ultra-Orthodox government, and so signing coalition deals with the far-right Otzma Yehudit, Religious Zionism, and Noam parties.Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir has pledged to seek to deport “disloyal” Arabs, impose the death penalty for those convicted of terror acts and ease security forces’ open-fire rules against Palestinian suspects. Religious Zionism chief Bezalel Smotrich has pushed for the dismantlement of the Palestinian Authority and supports annexing large parts of the West Bank without granting equal rights to Palestinians in those areas.Zayani, however, appeared unconcerned with the notion that Netanyahu’s emerging government would harm the Abraham Accords: “We believe that he firmly believes in peace, especially as stated in the Abraham Accords, and in the principles of the Abraham Accords.”Bahrain “will continue to work with the Israeli government to solidify the concept of peace,” Zayani pledged.Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir arrive for the swearing-in ceremony for the new Knesset, at the parliament building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)-He asserted that the Israeli people want peace, and that Netanyahu’s government would work to fulfill those aspirations.Though Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa did not specifically mention a Palestinian state during a public statement earlier in the day alongside Herzog, Zayani said Bahrain was “unwavering” in its support for a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem.In his prepared statements, Bahrain’s top envoy went out of his way to thank former premier Naftali Bennett and caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid for their efforts to bring peace to the region.Zayani, like King Hamad and Herzog earlier in the day, did not bring up Iran in his prepared statement, though the threat from Tehran is a key concern for Manama.In response to a question, the foreign minister said that Bahrain’s Iran policy is to pursue peace, and that he does not believe that the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal  between Tehran and world powers will be officially terminated.Zayani also downplayed protests against Herzog that took place in the leadup to the visit. “The president is very welcome here,” he said, arguing that protests are perfectly normal in a “democracy.”Freedom House calls Bahrain “one of the Middle East’s most repressive states,” accusing the regime of crushing a popular prodemocracy movement in 2011.Concerns around the protests against Herzog caused the sides to make slight changes to the president’s schedule.Protesters in Bahrain had chanted, “Death to Israel” at rallies against the upcoming trip on Friday. The protesters were affiliated with opposition groups that are supportive of Iran, the Ynet news site reported.Some carried signs with Herzog’s image that said “criminal” and “you are not welcome in Bahrain.” A Bahraini opposition outlet said the demonstrators burned an Israeli flag and squared off with riot police.Local authorities allowed the anti-Israel protests to take place, but would not permit similar events during Herzog’s visit, the report said.Herzog landed in Manama on Sunday for the first-ever visit by an Israeli head of state to the small Gulf island kingdom. He and his wife, Michal, were welcomed by Zayani and Bahrain’s envoy to Israel, Khaled Yousif Al-Jalahma.He then headed to the Al-Qudaibiyah Palace where a military band played the national anthems of both countries, as Herzog met King Hamad.At the beginning of their meeting, the president gave the monarch a silver mezuzah. According to Herzog’s office, the two leaders discussed ways to expand the bilateral relationship.Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, is played by Bahrain’s military band in front of @Isaac_Herzog and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the Al Qudaibiya palace in Manama. pic.twitter.com/wetagoe9uT— Lazar Berman (@Lazar_Berman) December 4, 2022-In his public statement alongside the king, Herzog opened his remarks in Arabic, thanking the monarch for his hospitality.Herzog also noted the Israeli business leaders in his delegation, representing organizations that include Israel’s Innovation Authority, Start-Up Nation Central, and the Israel Export Institute.“You are at the forefront of making history in the region, where Jews and Muslims can dwell together, the sons of Abraham, and move forward in peace,” said Herzog.Herzog’s two-day visit will also take him to the United Arab Emirates on Monday.Ahead of his departure from Israel, Herzog said the trip was “predominantly a message of peace in the region.”“Another historic step in the relationship between Israel and Arab states that signed the Abraham Accords, with the hope that more and more countries will be able to join the circle of peace with the State of Israel,” Herzog said in English.Writing in The Times of Israel on Sunday, Herzog said that he would be focusing on translating the Abraham Accords into tangible benefits for private citizens, including through a free trade deal with Bahrain.“I believe that the single greatest opportunity facing the Middle East is a warm peace with Israel — unlocking the latent potential of partnerships with our dynamic, vibrant economy,” the president wrote. “We cherish Bahrain as a trailblazer and pioneer in this regard, setting an example for the nations of our region.”He also published a similar piece in Arabic in Al Ayam, Bahrain’s largest newspaper.In the afternoon, Herzog met with members of the local Jewish community, after which he headed to an evening meeting with the Bahrain Economic Development Board.On Monday, the president will take off for Abu Dhabi to meet with his Emirati counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi ruler. Herzog will also attend the Abu Dhabi Space Debate, a forum on space exploration policy that will also feature Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The visit takes place as the Gulf has seen recent displays of anti-Israel sentiment, cracking the façade of widespread backing for normalization in both Bahrain and the UAE. Opposition to official government policy is rare in both countries run by authoritarian regimes, but support for the Abraham Accords has been declining in both places.Israel normalized ties with the UAE and Bahrain in 2020 as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords. The agreement paved the way for normalization with Morocco months later.In January, Herzog visited the UAE’s Abu Dhabi and Dubai on a two-day trip.Last month, Netanyahu held a phone call with Bahrain’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa.The pair expressed their desire to continue to deepen relations between the two countries, and Netanyahu invited Al Khalifa to visit Israel.In October, a delegation of Israeli paratroopers held a joint jump over Bahrain, alongside soldiers from the Gulf nation, the UAE, and the United States to mark two years since the signing of the Abraham Accords.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH IN NOAHS DAY(BECAUSE OF SIN,VIOLENCE AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

DEUTORONOMY 28:22-24
22  The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23  And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24  The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

EVIL INVENTIONS ARE PREDICTED IN THE BIBLE.

ROMANS 1:29-32
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

REVELATION 9:7-8
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Teaching about Jews in dominant cultures is very important'How a Catholic school amassed a treasure trove of Jewish artifacts from the Bronx-Fordham University, a private Jesuit institution with a growing Jewish studies center, has for 3 years been cataloging the once-thriving Jewish community in its neighborhood-By julia GERGELY-dec 4,22-Today, 3:27 am 0

New York Jewish Week via JTA — A Catholic university may be the unlikeliest place for what may be the largest depository dedicated to the Jewish history of the Bronx.But at Fordham University — the private, Jesuit institution in the Bronx — decades worth of archival documents and artifacts from the local US Jewish community have found a home, thanks to its Jewish studies center.For the last three years, Fordham has been collecting and cataloging items that detail a once-thriving Jewish community in the Bronx: yearbooks full of Jewish last names, bar mitzvah invitations, phonebooks full of Jewish-owned businesses — all the simple transactions that define an era in history.The archive at Fordham is one of the only physical collections of everyday material from Jewish residents of the borough, according to Magda Teter, the co-director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the university, who spearheaded the project.“It’s not only preserving a piece of New York Jewish history, but also a way of life,” Teter told the New York Jewish Week. “Bringing this voice to the dominant Christian identity of Fordham and teaching about Jews [as a minority] within the dominant cultures is very important.”During the first half of the 20th century, Jewish life thrived in the Bronx. There were 260 registered synagogues in 1940, and the borough produced some of the biggest Jewish names in show business, fashion, literature and more: designer Ralph Lauren, politician Bella Abzug, novelist E.L. Doctorow, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, Miss America Bess Myerson, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Robert Lefkowitz.At the community’s peak in 1930, the Bronx was approximately 49 percent Jewish, according to the borough’s official historian, Lloyd Ultan. South of Tremont Avenue, the number reached 80%. Most of the Jewish Bronx was of Eastern European descent; many were first-generation Americans whose parents had immigrated and lived on the Lower East Side, but who could now afford to live in less cramped neighborhoods with more trees and wider streets.Though there is a strong Jewish community in the neighborhood of Riverdale, most of the Jewish community moved out of the Bronx for the suburbs after World War II when mortgages for white would-be homeowners were being subsidized by the government and Black and Latino communities were steered to Bronx neighborhoods they couldn’t afford or that the city had chosen to neglect. The Jewish population of the Bronx dropped from 650,000 in 1948 to 45,000 in 2003. Many of the synagogues have been converted for other uses, and the physical legacy of the Jewish community there has begun to erode over time, making an archive all the more necessary.While Teter was always interested in collecting items from the Jewish Bronx, the archive got an unexpected boost from a member of the public. In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Fordham hosted a virtual event, “Remnants: Photographs of the Jewish Bronx,” which featured evidence of the area’s faded Jewish history gathered by writer and photographer Julian Voloj. (Voloj is the husband of the New York Jewish Week’s managing editor, Lisa Keys.)-The former synagague Beth Hamedrash Hagadol on Washington Ave. in the Bronx is now a church. This photo is part of the exhibit ‘Remnants of the Jewish Bronx’ from Julian Voloj, which is on view in the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research room at Fordham University. (Julian Voloj via JTA)-In the audience was Ellen Meshnick, who had grown up in New York and now lives in Georgia. Inspired, she offered Fordham a trove of material her parents, Frank and Martha Meshnick, had kept throughout their lives in the Bronx. The boxes included donated yearbooks from Morris High School and Walton High School, songbooks, bar mitzvah invitations, a marriage certificate, receipts for a flower delivery — even a document from the hospital from when she was born — mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s.The donation significantly bolstered what materials Fordham already had on hand, which included less personal but still unique items like matchbooks from kosher restaurants. Now, Teter is growing the archive through other private donations and occasionally by purchasing materials online — personal family archives, books about Bronx Jewish history, songsheets and the like.“They may not be the most beautiful things, but we are interested in what people actually used and lived with,” Teter said.Teter said that while the American Jewish Historical Society in Manhattan does collect the types of quotidian and personal items that American Jews kept with them in the last few centuries, they don’t have much that uniquely focuses on Jewish life in the Bronx.The entire collection is part of a greater effort by Teter, the Jewish studies center and the librarians at Fordham to increase awareness about Judaism and Jewish people. “I will not hide that I think it’s an important way to fight antisemitism — to teach Jewish history and Jewish culture in all its colors and in all its experiences,” she said. “It enriches the students’ appreciation and understanding of Jewish life beyond how Jews are usually portrayed.”The Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham is relatively new: The college began offering a Jewish studies minor in 2016, and opened the department in 2017. At the time, the highlight of the library’s archives was the Rosenblatt Holocaust collection, which was funded by an alumnus. Since 1992, the library has amassed over 11,000 titles, videos and artifacts on the Holocaust, according to Director of Libraries Linda Loschiavo.When Teter arrived, Loschiavo worked with her to bring in historical Passover haggadahs from all over the world. Fordham now possesses two Italian haggadahs from the 1660s, as well as Jewish artifacts from unexpected places, like playbills from Jewish Bollywood.Last month the university opened the Henry S. Miller Judaica Research Room on the fourth floor of the campus’ main library — named for one of Fordham’s first Jewish students, who graduated in 1968. Miller, a leader of a financial restructuring firm, is now a trustee of the college.Fordham President Tania Tetlow described herself jokingly as “a wannabe Jew” at the room’s unveiling. “I’ve understood how deeply intertwined Judaism and Catholicism are,” she said, “and the connections we have of the deep intellectualism of both faiths, of the desire to study text and the interpretation of text going back for thousands of years, of the love of ritual — and the central place of food and guilt!”“At the moment, we envision that the research room will be a space for exhibitions that would foster the curatorial skills of our students and that will bring Jewish art and artists to campus,” Teter said. “We would now be able to display their art and combine the exhibitions with some items from the Judaica collection.”The research room is currently displaying Voloj’s Bronx photographs, along with some of the recently acquired local archival materials, curated by sophomore Reyna Stovall, who is interning at Fordham’s Jewish studies center this semester.“It is really, really rewarding,” said Stovall, who is Jewish. Stovall became involved in the Center for Jewish Studies because of her interest in Holocaust studies, but as she began her internship, she was excited to work on the archives cataloging the once thriving Jewish history of the Bronx.“It’s pretty amazing that they have the collection to begin with,” she added. “It really shows Fordham’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity that they’re willing to take on this massive collection of Judaica, even though that’s not the religion that the school was founded on.”Teter estimates there are about 300 Jews among the school’s 15,000 undergrads. As a result, the Center for Jewish Studies and the research room offers students from all backgrounds the opportunity to learn more about Judaism — as well as marginalized communities in general, and connect their stories to their own lives.“Our identity grew to showcase Jewish studies at the intersection and in conversation with other fields and areas of study,” Teter explained.The Center’s goal, she added, is “to make students, faculty and the public realize that studying Jews is not just for Jews, and that they can learn so much about the areas of their own concern and interest by studying Jews.”“Something magical happens when you give students the opportunity to work with historical artifacts, and really touch history,” Teter said. “That’s what I think inspired the director of the library to devote that space to that kind of research and to that kind of student experience.”

Russia rejects G7 and EU capping oil at $60 per barrel, threatens to shut spigot-‘From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil,’ says Moscow official; Kyiv says limit doesn’t go far enough-By Jamey Keaten-DEC 4,22-Today, 10:48 am 1

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country’s oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed to analyze the situation before deciding on a specific response but that it would not accept the price ceiling. Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, warned that the cap’s European backers would come to rue their decision.“From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil,” Ulyanov tweeted. “Moscow has already made it clear that it will not supply oil to those countries that support anti-market price caps. Wait, very soon the EU will accuse Russia of using oil as a weapon.”The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, called Saturday for a lower price cap, saying the one adopted by the EU and the Group of Seven leading economies didn’t go far enough.“It would be necessary to lower it to $30 in order to destroy the enemy’s economy faster,” Andriy Yermak, the head of Zelensky’s office, wrote on Telegram, staking out a position also favored by Poland — a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.Under Friday’s agreements, insurance companies and other firms needed to ship oil would only be able to deal with Russian crude if the oil is priced at or below the cap. Most insurers are located in the EU and the United Kingdom and could be required to observe the ceiling.Russia’s crude has already been selling for around $60 a barrel, a deep discount from international benchmark Brent, which closed Friday at $85.42 per barrel.The Russian Embassy in Washington insisted that Russian oil “will continue to be in demand” and criticized the price limit as “reshaping the basic principles of the functioning of free markets.” A post on the embassy’s Telegram channel predicted the per-barrel cap would lead to “a widespread increase in uncertainty and higher costs for consumers of raw materials.”“What happens in China will help shape whether the price cap has any teeth,” said Jim Burkhard, an oil markets analyst with IHS Markit. He said dampened demand from China means most Russian crude exports are already selling below $60.The price cap aims to put an economic squeeze on Russia and further crimp its ability to finance a war that has killed an untold number of civilians and fighters, driven millions of Ukrainians from their homes and weighed on the world economy for more than nine months.The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that since Friday Russia’s forces had fired five missiles, carried out 27 airstrikes and launched 44 shelling attacks against Ukraine’s military positions and civilian infrastructure.Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the president’s office, said the attacks killed one civilian and wounded four others in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. According to the UK Defense Ministry, Russian forces “continue to invest a large element of their overall military effort and firepower” around the small Donestsk city of Bakhmut, which they have spent weeks trying to capture.In southern Ukraine’s Kherson province, whose capital city of the same name was liberated by Ukrainian forces three weeks ago following a Russian retreat, Gov. Yaroslav Yanushkevich said evacuations of civilians stuck in Russian-held territory across the Dnieper River would resume temporarilyRussian forces pulled back to the river’s eastern bank last month. Yanushkevich said a ban on crossing the waterway would be lifted during daylight hours for three days for Ukrainian citizens who “did not have time to leave the temporarily occupied territory.” His announcement cited a “possible intensification of hostilities in this area.”Kherson is one of four regions that Putin illegally annexed in September and vowed to defend as Russian territory. From their new positions, Russian troops have regularly shelled Kherson city and nearby infrastructure in recent days, leaving many residents without power. Running water remained unavailable in much of the city — and one resident was seen scooping up water from a dirty puddle.The city continued to suffer heavy shelling Saturday that left many residents disoriented, toppled power lines and dumped torn-off tree branches on the roads.“When we start to repair (electricity networks), the shelling starts immediately,” said Oleksandr Kravchenko, who is in charge of high-voltage networks in Kherson. “We just repair electric lines and on the next day we have to repair lines again.”Ukrainian authorities also reported intense fighting in Luhansk and Russian shelling of northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, which Russia’s soldiers mostly withdrew from in September.The mayor of the city of Kharkiv, which remained under Ukrainian control during Russia’s occupation of other parts of the region, said some 500 apartment buildings were damaged beyond repair, and nearly 220 schools and kindergartens were damaged or destroyed. He estimated the cost of the damage at $9 billion.Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Saturday in Minsk with the president and defense minister of Belarus, which hosts Russian troops and artillery. Belarus has said its own forces are not taking part in the war, but Ukrainian officials have frequently expressed concern that they could be induced to cross the border into northern Ukraine.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at the meeting that his troops and Russian forces train in coordination. “We ready ourselves as one grouping, one army. Everyone knows it. We were not hiding it,” he was quoted as saying by the news agency Interfax.

No details on whether new authority will be formed-Iran says ‘morality police’ scrapped after weeks of protest sparked by woman’s death-Country’s AG reportedly makes announcement at conference on religion, more than 2 months after Mahsa Amini died in custody; no comment from Interior Ministry, which controls force-By AFP and TOI staff-DEC 4,22-Today, 3:10 pm 1

TEHRAN — Iran has scrapped its so-called “morality police” after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code, local Iranian media said Sunday.Women-led protests, labeled “riots” by the authorities, have swept Iran since the 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin died in custody on September 16, three days after her arrest by the “morality police” in Tehran.Demonstrators have burned their mandatory hijab head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans, and since Amini’s death, a growing number of women have chosen not to wear the hijab, particularly in parts of Tehran.“Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary and have been abolished,” Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.His comment came at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked “why the morality police were being shut down,” the report said.It was not clear whether the so-called morality police would be replaced by another force or authority.The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the morality police, has not publicly commented on its status, the Reuters news agency reported Sunday.Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew Iran’s US-backed monarchy, there has been some kind of official monitoring of the strict dress code for both men and women.But under hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the morality police — known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or “Guidance Patrol” — was established to “spread the culture of modesty and hijab.”The units were set up by Iran’s Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, which is today headed by President Ebrahim Raisi.They began their patrols in 2006 to enforce the dress code which also requires women to wear long clothes and forbids shorts, ripped jeans and other clothes deemed immodest.The announcement of the unit’s abolition came a day after Montazeri said “both parliament and the judiciary are working” on the issue of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads needs to be changed.Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched “but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible.”Spreading corruption’The hijab became mandatory in 1983.Morality police officers initially issued warnings before starting to crack down and arrest women 15 years ago.The squads were usually made up of men in green uniforms and women clad in black chadors, garments that cover their heads and upper bodies.The role of the units evolved, but has always been controversial even among candidates running for the presidency.Clothing norms gradually changed, especially under former relatively moderate president Hassan Rouhani.But in July this year his successor, the ultra-conservative Raisi, called for the mobilization of “all state institutions to enforce the headscarf law.”Raisi at the time charged that “the enemies of Iran and Islam have targeted the cultural and religious values of society by spreading corruption.”Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia also employed morality police to enforce female dress codes and other rules of behavior. Since 2016 the force there has been sidelined in a push by the Sunni Muslim kingdom to shake off its austere image.In September, the Union of Islamic Iran People Party, the country’s main reformist party, called for the hijab law to be rescinded.The party, created by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, demands authorities “prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law.”As recently as Saturday it also called for the Islamic republic to “officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police” and “allow peaceful demonstrations.”Iran accuses its enemy the United States and its allies, including Britain and Israel, and Kurdish groups based outside the country, of fomenting the street protests.In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle and a trash bin are burning during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old -More than 300 people have been killed in the unrest, including dozens of security force members, an Iranian general said on Monday.Oslo-based non-government organization Iran Human Rights on Tuesday said at least 448 people had been “killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests.”Thousands of people have been arrested, including prominent Iranian actors and footballers.Among them was the actor Hengameh Ghaziani, detained last month. She had published on Instagram a video of herself removing her head covering. She was later freed on bail, Iranian news agencies reported.

Far-right party submits bill to hand politicians ultimate power to appoint judges-Otzma Yehudit MK would make 6 of the 9 Judicial Selection Committee members political appointees, nixing Israel Bar Association panelists
By Carrie Keller-Lynn-DEC 4,22-Today, 6:51 pm 6

An MK from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party submitted a bill on Sunday that would transform the Judicial Selection Committee, tipping the balance between the judiciary and legislature by putting ultimate power over the appointment of Israel’s judges in the hands of politicians.By current law, the nine-member committee is composed of four politicians, two representatives of the Israel Bar Association chosen by the Bar, and three Supreme Court justices. The bill, part of a series of radical judicial reforms planned by the presumed incoming government, would nix the Bar appointees in favor of two lawyers recommended by the justice minister and approved by the government.In lieu of a constitution, judicial appointments are governed by the quasi-constitutional Basic Law: The Judiciary. Critics and legal scholars have warned that moves by right-wing parties to curb the judiciary could disrupt the system of checks and balances between Israel’s branches of government.The explanation accompanying Yitzhak Wasserlauf’s bill states that it is meant to correct what it called the “moral distortion” of giving unelected Bar Association members a say in the appointment of judges.Instead, the proposed update would transfer that power from the Bar’s national council to the justice minister, a position that is expected to be filled in the next government by a member of presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud.Likud and its far-right partners Otzma Yehudit and Religious Zionism have attacked the Judicial Selection Committee — which also appoints Supreme Court justices — and have pushed for more radical changes to it.In its own sweeping judicial reform platform released in October, Religious Zionism said it would remake the panel’s profile to comprise 10 members instead of the current nine: seven politicians and three judges, two of whom would be selected by the justice minister. The justice minister would chair the panel, which would include the Supreme Court president as its only fully non-political appointment.Of the six lawmakers sitting on the panel, four would be from the coalition and two from the opposition. With the justice minister as the seventh, the committee would consist of five coalition politicians, two opposition lawmakers, two government-selected judges, and the Supreme Court president, giving a clear majority to government politicians and government-selected representatives.Under current law, seven out of nine panel members are needed to reach a majority. Religious Zionism did not specify what would constitute a majority in its proposed 10-member committee.In its platform, Religious Zionism also proposed gutting the Israel Bar Association by transferring its licensing power to the Justice Ministry and making the Bar a voluntary organization concerned with lawyers’ welfare.Likud in June introduced its own version of a bill to put judicial appointments under politicians’ thumb. Led by lawmaker David Amsalem — who has pushed himself as an unlikely candidate for justice minister — the bill would scrap the panel entirely and appoint justices on recommendation of the government, with Knesset approval.A similar proposal was pushed by outgoing Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked when she was justice minister, whereby the justice minister would appoint candidates to be confirmed by the Knesset. Shaked’s Jewish Home party failed to win seats in the November 1 election and she said she plans to exit politics once the new government replaces her.A political neophyte, Wasserlauf is expected to be Israel’s youngest minister once the government is confirmed. According to a coalition deal signed between Likud and Otzma Yehudit, Wasserlauf — second in the party to chief Itamar Ben Gvir — is expected to be minister in charge of development of the Negev and the Galilee.Before entering political life, lawyer Ben Gvir defended Jewish radicals in Israeli courts and was himself convicted of supporting a Jewish terror group and inciting racism. He first clashed with the Israel Bar Association when it tried to block his licensing exams on account of pending criminal charges, of which Ben Gvir was later acquitted.Shortly before the November election, Ben Gvir said he would support a bill to cancel Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial.

Trump calls for scrapping US Constitution, peddling false election fraud claims-Former president rails against big tech and Democratic party after emails released by US journalist show Twitter staff debating whether to allow posts on Hunter Biden laptop story-By Michael Horovitz-DEC 4,22-Today, 5:56 pm 4

Former US president Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, citing false claims that the 2020 presidential election results were fraudulent.Trump’s post appeared to be a response to “The Twitter Files,” released by journalist Matt Taibi in a series of tweets, which publicized email correspondence among Twitter staff deliberating whether to suppress a 2020 New York Post story on information regarding overseas business dealings and controversial material found on a laptop belonging to US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.“So, with the revelation of massive and widespread fraud and deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, and the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election?” the former president wrote.“A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” he added. “Our great ‘Founder’ did not want, and would not condone, false and fraudulent elections!”The article in the New York Post, published three weeks before the 2020 election, reported on emails that the newspaper said had come from Hunter Biden’s laptop and that it said it received from Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer.Twitter supposedly blocked the story from the platform at the time due to its policy on hacked and stolen materials, but later reversed the decision. Emails posted by Taibi showed Twitter staff were divided over the move.The White House slammed Trump’s remarks in a statement, saying: “You cannot only love America when you win.”“The American Constitution is a sacrosanct document that for over 200 years has guaranteed that freedom and the rule of law prevail in our great country. The Constitution brings the American people together – regardless of party – and elected leaders swear to uphold it,” Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said.“It’s the ultimate monument to all of the Americans who have given their lives to defeat self-serving despots that abused their power and trampled on fundamental rights. Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation and should be universally condemned,” he added.Since his loss in the 2020 elections, Trump has falsely maintained that the vote was rigged against him.Last month, Trump announced he would run again for the presidency in 2024, despite a poor showing among his handpicked candidates at midterm elections.Trump has recently been slammed for a dinner meeting with rapper Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. The former president expressed admiration for West, but said Fuentes had been brought along by the rapper and Trump did not know who he was, while declining to speak out against him.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.