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.
