Saturday, November 12, 2011
Global Governance Zionism Pt 11: Crossing The Rubicon of The Jerusalem Old City Initative, Condi Rice Remembers
America's point of no return is hastily backstepping its foreign policy in attempt to regain an innocence of Middle East Peace passerby.
Clearly, as Condi's memoir recounts, everything was in play for peace in the Middle East, and yes, "JERUSALEM WAS TARGET ZERO".
No Atlantic Dr. Strangelove antics of Israeli nuclear warheads, but instead an ode to Clinton's Holy Sites Initatives and Judaism's Strange Gods as Michael Hoffman's current bestseller book has identified. This is all thats left in America's foreign policy grab bag at the county fair of world peace.
What will Javier Twitter witter next? Can Israel dismantle its nuclear arsenal in time or yet in step with Michael Bell's Jerusalem Old City Initative? Will the Holy Sites be Obama's...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Uncensored Babylonian Talmud Gittin 57a & Erubin 21b "Jesus Is In Hell Boiled In Hot Excrement"
Michael Hoffman Decrypts the Babylonian Talmud and reveals true uncensored Holy Writings of Judaics. BT Gittin 57a and BT Erubin 21b.
Click here for Michael Hoffman's Website , Blog, and his New Blog "The Truth About The Talmud"
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Fort Hood "Wink" Psychological Warfare On America's Golem/Goyim
Michael Hoffman Moves Beyond The Gatekeepers At Fort Hood And Unveils
An Interview with Michael Hoffman on the Fort Hood Shootings
Interviewer: Why have you termed it "Fort Hoodwink"?
Hoffman: The masons have many occult sayings that have become part of our common parlance, such as: on the level; square deal, hoodwink, etc. In masonry a hoodwink is a synonym for the secrecy with which masonic rites are kept from the prying, unhallowed eyes of the "profane."
Interviewer: What would you say is the most striking aspect of the Fort Hood shootings?
Hoffman: There are so many anomalies, things that just don't add up, but rather than going into hypotheses that would be difficult for most people to follow, I'll focus on something glaring, which is -- the rush to judgment of Hasan -- the total mockery of the ancient right of innocent until proven guilty.
Interviewer: You mean in naming Major Hasan as the shooter and the only shooter?
Hoffman: Yes, that's part of it. Even if he was the gunman, however, even if he was indeed another lone nut, the precedent that's been set here by the government's mouthpiece corporate media is dreadful. They report as fact whatever the government chooses to tell them. Notice too that the Glenn Beck anti-government rebels believe the government in this Texas case, just like Beck believes the government narrative in the 9/11 attacks. It's remarkable, this bipolar suspension of the suspicion of government when it comes to official accounts of shootings, wars and terrorist attacks.
Interviewer: Anything else?
Hoffman: In addition to proclaiming Major Hasan guilty until proven innocent, the effect of Fort Hoodwink on the public, as filtered through the media, is to induce in the American people one of the lowest, dumbest, golem-like mentalities of obtuseness.
Interviewer: That's insulting to your fellow Americans.
Hoffman: They insult themselves by their behavior. A friend in California who is one of the few honest attorneys e-mailed me and pointed out that if there were two or more shooters, as eyewitnesses initially reported, then it could be that one or more of them is one of the "victims" mourned by Obama today.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
All Roads Lead To Rome: The Pavement Of Babylonian Stratagem Eludes The Anglicans

Ron FraserColumnist
In a bold move, as swift and as sudden as a blitzkrieg frontal attack, Joseph Ratzinger, the Bavarian pope, has turned the tide against the wayward Protestant daughters of the Roman Catholic Church.
Striking at Anglo-Saxon Protestantism’s leading light, the Anglican Church, the pope took the battle right into Lambeth Palace’s front yard. In one sudden, surprise move, Ratzinger blindsided a weakened and divided Anglican community by offering a free ticket to Rome for all Anglicans who choose to reject the policies of their liberalized hierarchy. As has now been well publicized, the pope has offered membership of the church of Rome to those who choose to convert, with the historic concession that they may keep their Anglican practices and that married clergy may be accepted as priests in a newly established Catholic/Anglican community.
Click here for Ron Fraser's Most Excellent Trumpet article.
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Pope Benedict opens new front in battle for the soul of two churches
The pope's offer to Church of England members to switch to the Vatican was ill thought-out and could signal a struggle for the soul of both churchesOver the centuries, the great church councils of Christian history have normally been held in magnificent echoing basilicas and stately palaces – but the church moves with the times. In 2003 a luxury hotel in Dallas, self-proclaimed as the largest in Texas (now that's big), hosted a gathering of very angry conservative American Anglicans, determined to do something about the consecration of a gay man, Gene Robinson, as a bishop of the US Episcopal church, sister church to the Church of England.
As they dithered about what doing something might mean, the delegates were electrified to receive an encouraging message from no less a figure than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. This was remarkable, because Ratzinger was head of the Roman Catholic church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: what in less mealy-mouthed times was known as the Inquisition.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
The EU—Unstoppable!
“I will not sign Lisbon Treaty, says Czech President,” headlined the Times on October 13. “Germans seek to oust Czech President Vaclav Klaus over EU treaty,” declared the headline in the Sunday Times a week ago. Then on Saturday, the Telegraph ran an article under the headline, “Vaclav Klaus says it is ‘too late’ to stop Lisbon Treaty.”
Quite an about-face in just five days.
Whether the latter headline was a direct result of the threat from Germany is not a matter on which the popular press is reporting. Yet, given past results achieved by Teutonic political bullying within the European Union, one surely does not have to use much imagination to figure it out. As Klaus himself said, virtually declaring defeat in his one-man stand against the EU monolith, “I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic. However, the train has already traveled so fast and so far that I guess it will not be possible to stop it or turn it around, however much we would wish to” (Telegraph, October 17).
All that is now lacking, following the earlier capitulations by Ireland and Poland, is for Vaclav Klaus to allow his trembling hand to sign the document. Then once again it’s game, set and match to Berlin/Brussels on the most recent European imperial project, the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
Click here for entire Trumpet article
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
World's Gay Capital Unveiling Itself In Tel Aviv: There Is NO New Spirit Of The Lord In Them Grave Filled Dry Bones
Interesting...how kosher...how confusing to many American Churchianity.
Its not a paradox if you read Michael's book and understand that The Dry Bones prophecy HAS NOT been fulfilled. Those Dry Bones DO NOT have The Spirit Of The Lord in them, but are being held by the captive spirit of the old Babylonian belief system. And indeed many believers of Jesus Christ inside the hallowed halls of Christian Zionism are being held and set up, BIG TIME! Be forewarned. - Johnny
Tel Aviv Aims To Be World's Gay Capital
Travel agents from around world to arrive at International Gay, Lesbian Tourism convention to be held in Israel for first time. Participants to sightsee, visit gay community hangouts in effort to increase tourism
Danny Sadeh
Published: | 10.08.09, 15:30 / Israel Travel |
Tel Aviv making gay history. For the first ever time Israel will host an International Gay and Lesbian Tourism Association (IGLTA) convention, which will be attended by 20 travel agents from around the world specializing in gay tourism.
The conference will begin on Saturday and culminate in a symposium conducted at the gay community's center in Tel Aviv's Meir Park.
Click here for entire YNet article
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Can Gay Porn Save Israel's Image?
By Michael Kaminer, The Forward
Last update - 12:26 22/09/2009
The bearded receptionist wears a yarmulke.
In any other office, this wouldn't seem remarkable. But this is the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Lucas Entertainment, one of the largest gay adult film companies in the world.
The yarmulke - worn in memory of a recently departed grandmother, it turns out - seems weirdly apt once you meet Michael Lucas, the 37-year-old founder and CEO of the 11-year-old porn conglomerate, which in August released what it claims is the first gay adult film made in Israel with an all-Israeli cast.
Click here for entire Haaretz article.
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The Prop Masters - Act II: Exit Stage Left The Chicago Judaic Communists Enter Stage Right Vatican Global Governance
It could seem choppy at best to try to put these two articles together to formulate a connection toward Global Governance, but it becomes very easy when all referenced is laid out on the morning breakfast coffee table.
After all, when generally thought of, there is no Jewish - Black American relationship and after all there is no Black American - Catholic relationship. But under the praise and adoration of Global Governmentality, this euphemism has been defined. And, the serpent of old continues to wrap itself around humanity toward World Domination. - Johnny

March 8, 2007
Obama and the Jews
By Harold Brackman
One of the many paradoxes of contemporary American politics involves the Democratic Party's two most loyal constituency groups: African Americans and Jews. They have managed to stay under the same political tent even as their historic relationship has continued the long descent from the heights reached when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched side-by-side in Selma, Ala.
In the decade or so since Louis Farrakhan's 1995 Million Man March, the best -- or worst -- that can be said about the relationship is that it has pretty much moved from mutual alienation to mutual indifference as black newspapers rarely mention Jews except to take potshots at Israel, and Jewish papers can be relied on only to ritually invoke King on his birthday.
Bill Clinton, the ultimate political empath, became a favorite of both groups without really bridging the growing rift between them. A crowning irony of the next presidential sweepstakes is that the contender who may have the best chance of restoring Black-Jewish enthusiasm for the same candidate has the middle name "Hussein," after his paternal grandfather.
Everybody by now knows the outlines of Barack Obama's odyssey as the Hawaiian-born son of a white Kansas mother and a Kenyan father who was educated early on in Indonesia (the home of his Muslim stepfather) as well as Honolulu, worked as a community organizer in Chicago (his real political education), graduated from Columbia University, became president of the Harvard Law Review and spent six years in the Illinois State Senate before his nationally acclaimed speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention and election that same year to the U.S. Senate.
Click here for entire Jewish Journal article

Vatican Backs Obama’s Global Agenda
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | October 12, 2009
Some pro-life Catholics are acting shocked that the Vatican warmly greeted the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, who is pro-abortion. They don't seem to understand that the Vatican and Obama agree on most major international issues. This is the untold story-how Obama and the Vatican accept major ingredients of what has been called a New World Order (aka Global Governance).
Another untold story is how, despite a disagreement over abortion, the U.S. Catholic Bishops and the Obama Administration agree on major aspects of so-called health care reform.
These topics are mostly taboo in the liberal and conservative media. Liberal and conservative Catholics alike would prefer not to discuss how the Catholic Church, here and abroad, functions like a liberal/left-wing political lobby.
But the facts should not be much of a surprise. A majority of Catholics voted for Obama, despite the fact that his pro-abortion record was well known, and when he was honored at Notre Dame, the premier Catholic University in the U.S., only about one-third of U.S. Catholic Bishops publicly objected.
Click here for entire Cliff Kincaid article
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Foreign Policy - Playing The Jesus Card, The Truth About Christian Zionists
Decode encrypted Judaism by purchasing Michael Hoffman's "Judaism Discovered- A Study of the Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit", TODAY!
Playing the Jesus Card
Why is Netanyahu courting Christian fundamentalists?
BY M.J. ROSENBERG | JULY 24, 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu has a problem. The Obama administration is insisting on a settlements freeze, and the Israeli prime minister, who is resisting such demands, is not getting the support he might have expected from the U.S. pro-Israel community. Usually, when an American President makes any sort of demand on Jerusalem, pro-Israel (primarily Jewish) organizations compel Congress to pressure the president to cease and desist. It usually works. But not this time.
So what's an Israeli leader to do? Netanyahu is resurrecting a tried and true strategy: Call on Christian fundamentalists -- who see maintaining Israel's occupation as paramount -- to galvanize popular pressure against Obama. But just like the last time he played this trick, the tactic is unlikely to work magic for Bibi anytime soon.

The Truth About Christian Zionists
Why pro-Israel Christians really support the Jewish state, push for sanctions on Iran, and want the United States to stop pressuring Jerusalem.
BY DAVID BROG | SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Click here for entire Foreign Policy article.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Validate or Un-Validate Judaism Discovered: Just The Facts, Maaaam
Christian
Revisionist Historian
Landing On Opinion or Critical Analysis
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Herb Peters' investigative journalistic integrity has paved the way for an un-biased critical analysis of Bible Prophecy from a unique vantage point. And, in that respect, it is very understandable how the "thought conditioning process" in many circles of Christianity has diverted his findings under the premise of fiction. His ideas are against the grain of modern Christiandom. So let us un-validate Herb.
To justify fiction from non-fiction, opinion from analysis, any constructive critique to truly dis-miss Herb Peters would first have to be done with his book, Recommendation 666: The Rise Of The Beast From The Sea.
Before the onslaught of the internet websites, forums and blogs there were fortresses of books. These books, which more often than none, depending on subject matter and purpose, would be used to define the author's Fact from Fiction and afterward be placed in its appropriate category.
As this writer investigated Herb Peter's book, without question, hands down the analysis is secure on factually backed sources. Solid ground, period. And without question, his conjecture is securely stated and accentuated. You will differ between them both. His analytic published written work was validated. Now, let us un-validate Constance.
Constance Cumbeys' investigative journalistic integrity has also paved the way for an un-biased critical analysis of Bible Prophecy from a unique vantage point . And, in that respect, it is very understandable how the "thought conditioning process" in many circles of Christianity has diverted her findings under the premise of fiction. Her ideas are against the grain of modern Christiandom. So let us un-validate Constance.
Again, to justify fiction from non-fiction, opinion from analysis, any constructive critique to truly dis-miss Constance Cumbey would first have to be done with her book, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow.
Before the tsunami of the internet websites, forums and blogs there were shorelines of books. These books, which more often than none, depending on subject matter and purpose, would be used to define the author's Fact from Fiction and afterward be placed in its appropriate category.
As this writer investigated Constance's book on The New Age Movement, without question, hands down the analysis is secure on factually backed sources. Again, solid ground, period. And importantly, without question, her conjecture is securely stated and accentuated. You will differ between them both. Her analytic published written work, from this author's perspective, is thoroughly validated. Now, let us un-validate Michael Hoffman.
Michael Hoffmans' investigative journalistic integrity has paved the way for an un-biased critical analysis of Bible Prophecy from a unique vantage point. And, in that respect, it is very understandable how the "thought conditioning process" in many circles of Christianity has diverted his findings under the premise of fiction. His ideas are against the grain of modern Christiandom. So let us joyfully, un-validate Michael.
To justify fiction from non-fiction, opinion from analysis, any constructive critique to truly dis-miss Michael Hoffman would first have to be done with his book, Judaism Discovered: A Study Of The Anti Biblical Religion Of Racism, Self Worship, Superstition, And Deceit.
Before the storm of the internet websites, forums and blogs there were the replenishing rains of books. These books, which more often than none, depending on subject matter and purpose, would be used to define the author's Fact from Fiction and afterward be placed in its appropriate category.
At present, as this author investigates Michael Hoffman's book, without question, hands down the analysis is secure on factually backed sources. Once again, solid ground, period. And without question, his conjecture is securely stated and accentuated. You will differ between them both. So, from this author's current view his analytic published written work is validated.
Conclusion?
Landing on opinion and analysis, validating or un-validating published written works takes time and most importantly takes extra effort to confirm, re-confirm and confirm once more sources and opinions. So how can this author dare to compare all three differing spectral views solely based on the idea of verification of sources and differing facts from thoughts. In my opinion the answer can be substantiated by this statement.
"All three journalists, without a shadow of a doubt, state that their books are not the completion of the investigation. Each author states that they do not hold the final statement on the subject matter. Each author has been gifted with the foresight that more information will come to light."
Solely basing the investigative author's credibility and reporting on their internet websites does not paint the complete picture.
I will not criticize, I will not unvalidate until I investigate fully and thoroughly for myself.
If I am ready to throw all three books on the flame of discontent to warm my soul to that which I hold as cold, completed truth, then I too should be kindled as an un-validated ember.
Johnny
Monday, February 2, 2009
Vatican Talmudists
Monday, February 02, 2009
The John Paul II Theology of Pope Benedict XVI
www.RevisionistHistory.org
In addition to providing bureaucratic cover for something like half the serial sexual predation of children that occurred in the U.S., the pontificate of the late John Paul II institutionalized the Judas doctrine on Judaism that had been pioneered in the modern era by Pope Paul VI.
Much has been made of Benedict XVI's alleged restoration of the Church contra the innovations of John Paul II. However, the blogger who writes under the pen name Maurice Pinay shows just how wayward and gravely disordered is the theology of Pope Benedict. Nothing has changed in the post-conciliar Vatican except appearances. Pinay first quotes Benedict's recent statement kowtowing to the "Shoah" (Holocaustolatry), and then deconstructs it in light of traditional Catholic teaching and his reading of this writer's book, Judaism Discovered.
Bad Advice From the Pope --
Click here for entire article On The Contrary
Friday, December 26, 2008
A United Religious Nations - Happy New Year!

Christen,Juden,Muslime - Wem gehört der Urvater der Religionen?

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH RABBI YONA METZGER
'My Dream Is to Create a United Religious Nations'
Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, talks to SPIEGEL ONLINE about the Abraham as the father of all three monotheistic religions -- Islam, Christianity and Judaism -- and explains how that connection could be a starting point for a dialogue of peace between them.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Chief Rabbi, Jews refer to Abraham as "Our Father Abraham." How difficult is it for you to accept the fact that Christians and Muslims also call Abraham their father?
Metzger: This is not difficult at all. It fits very well with the Jewish religion. A close look at the word "Abraham" reveals that it is constructed from the words "father of many nations." So, if Muslims associate themselves with Abraham's son Ismael, or Christians associate themselves with Abraham's grandson Esau, or we associate ourselves with his other grandson Jacob, then three great monotheistic religions were born from him.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: What is Abraham's function in the Bible?
Metzger: The great Jewish philosopher Maimonides explained this very impressively. God created various objects in heaven. The sun, for example, or the moon and the stars -- they are all high above us. This was understood to mean that God wanted us to respect them more than the things which were created on Earth. Gradually things went wrong. Instead of praying directly to God, the people turned the objects into targets of their prayers.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: They worshipped idols.
Metzger: When Abraham came, he saw the sun rising, setting and the world turning and he thought, who is causing all these to move? There has to be someone above all these. So he essentially was saying: "You have stopped halfway. There is someone above these objects you worship! So why go to the ministers? Let's go directly to the king." And so he commenced a journey which touched many people. Together with his wife Sarah, he traveled from place to place and developed the philosophy of belief in one God. Slowly but surely many people gathered around him and today most of the population of the world is monotheistic: Christianity, Islam, Judaism ...
SPIEGEL ONLINE: ... 3.5 billion people ...
Metzger: Perhaps even more. I met with leaders of the Hindu religion, who I was certain were idol worshippers, but their leaders said they also believe in God -- it's just that they believe He has a way through the idols. And some Buddhists say that Buddha is only a worldview, and not a religious belief. We see that most of the world really follows the path of Abraham.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: But one gets the sense that the Jews think that they are the original and Christians and Muslims are only "copies."
Metzger: Well, from the historical perspective it was so. Jesus was a Jew. Subsequently Christianity came into the world and then Islam. These were the steps, historically -- not the other way round. When Jesus was in Jerusalem, he was not familiar with a church or a mass -- that is certain. He knew only one thing: the Holy Temple. After his time, the rest was developed by his disciples.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: But Christians stress that Abraham believed in God before he became circumsized and actually became Jewish.
Metzger: Abraham had no rabbi, no teacher. He was taught the law by his kishkes as we say in Jiddish, "from his own two kidneys." That is to say, he learned by himself and through himself. It is interesting to note that the Torah calls Abraham an Ivri, "a Hebraic."
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is it important for you whether Abraham was a real historic person? Historians and archeologists have not found any clear proof that Abraham has ever lived.
Metzger: I believe that the Bible represents fully the true history of the world. If historians or archeologists find proofs, we are delighted, but we don't need them.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: When you look at the historical perspective, much blood was spilled in the name of religion. So how can a dialogue be conducted between religions?
Metzger: Look, Abraham specifically is very helpful regarding dialogue -- and I will give you an example. Once I had a meeting with an Iranian leader. He was one of the heads of the Ayatollahs. Initially he did not want to shake my hand, but eventually I turned to him and asked him: "Do you believe that your forefather was Abraham?"
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Ibrahim, as the Muslims call him in Arabic.
Metzger: Yes. Ibrahim. And he answered, "Yes." I said to him that I also believe that my father was Abraham. So I asked him, "Do you believe that our forefather would be pleased today -- up in heaven -- seeing that one son kills himself in order to kill his other son? Which father would delight in such a thing?" He did not have an answer.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: So Abraham could serve as a vehicle for dialogue?
Metzger: Yes. Even if you have a brother who you believe is not a good person and you think that the world needs to be Muslim -- do not kill! If you want, speak, put it on the table and be cultured. Like every father Abraham would expect that his children sit down at the table instead of killing each other.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Can you give another example of dialogue?
Metzger: During a recess, in a conference which took place in Europe, one of the heads of the Muslim Courts in Jordan invited me to a cup of coffee in the lobby of the hotel. We sat for about half an hour. I began telling him about some of my problems; I told him about my family, my children, some issues with rabbis and the chief rabbis that are under me and the responsibilities I have. He told me about his problems. At the end he stood up, shook my hand and told me: "Now, after having told me all of your stories, and after I have told you all of my stories, I cannot hate you."
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you believe that religious people are better equipped to bring peace to the world?
Metzger: Definitely. My dream is to create a United Religious Nations -- just as there is the United Nations in New York. The diplomats did not succeed in bringing peace to the world. They need help. And this can come through religious language. Because a Muslim does not respect a person who is secular; he will only have respect if you are religious. This Religious United Nations would also include Hindus and Buddists. We religious people speak the same language.

Interview conducted by SPIEGEL Middle East correspondent Christoph Schult in the chief rabbi's Jerusalem office
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Who Is A Jew? Orthodox Judaism Says 40,000 Are NOT!
“... I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan." (Revelation 2:9).
Jesus spoke very clearly about the Babylonian traditions of men that weighed heavy over His people. It was later revealed to John, on Patmos, that the future would still deal with this issue.
Michael Hoffman's iron worded revelation book entitled "Judaism Discovered" deals in depth with the issue above and today's article form Fox News.com. They are one in the same. Students of Bible Prophecy will be foolish to ignore Hoffman's timely discovery. There is a pace that is converging to one point of humanities greatest fall, be forewarned. - Johnny
Israel's Rabbinical High Court Annuls 40,000 Conversions
Sunday, November 02, 2008

JERUSALEM — Raised without religion in Maryland, Shannon sought to make a new life for herself as a Jew in Israel.
In a rigorous conversion process, she studied religious law for a year, took a Hebrew name and changed her wardrobe to long skirts and sleeves as dictated by Orthodox Jewish custom. Finally, a panel of rabbis pronounced her Jewish.
But five years later, she and some 40,000 like her have suddenly had their conversions annulled by Israel's Rabbinical High Court. The court says the rabbi who heads a government authority set up to oversee conversions is too liberal in approving them.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Too Catholic! For Me Says Chief Rabbi Of Rome
Senior Rabbi Pulls Out Of 140-Hour Bible Reading Session
The Chief Rabbi of Rome claims the televised event, which begins with the Pope reading Genesis, will be "too Catholic"
The chief Rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni, has pulled out of a planned marathon reading of the entire Bible on Italian television with Pope Benedict XVI next month on the grounds that the event is "too Catholic".
The reading, which will last 140 hours, will be broadcast on RAI, Italian state television, over six days and nights starting on October 5. It will open with the Pope reading from Genesis. The pontiff will be followed by 1,300 readers drawn not only from Christian ranks - including Protestant and Orthodox churches - but also from Rome's Muslim community.
However, Rabbi di Segni said "The Bible is not the same thing for Jews and for Christians. For us, it is the Old Testament, but not the New Testament". He said he also objected to the choice of venue, the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme - one of the seven pilgrim churches of Rome - because it was where St Helena, mother of the Roman emperor Constantine, brought Christian relics such as fragments of the True Cross back from the Holy Land to underline the fact that the centre of the new religion - Christianity - was not Jerusalem but Rome.
Actually, this guy from Savannah USA comments with a little more honesty from the Times article Pope Benedict XVI Selects Rabbi To speak To Roman Catholic Synod
"Actually the most sacred book to us Jews is the Talmud which provides guidance in reading the Torah" (emphasis on the Oral Traditions, not Moses' Written Law)
Joe Applebaum, Savannah, USA
Thanks Michael Hoffman for this lead, enjoying your book! - Johnny