Passover Rhapsody - A Jewish Rock Opera

Also: A Pesach Tale by the members of Temple Beth HaShem:

Here we go again.... with Drybones.

Attacks on Jews

Old Stupid Joke:

A guy goes to a doctor and says he sees spots.
The doctor says "�nteresting."
The fellow continues, "I hear a ringing in my ears."
The doctor nods.
"�nd I have a tingling feeling in my fingers !" says the patient.
"Have you had this before?" asks the doctor.
"Yes" says the patient.
"Well" says the doctor, "you've got it again."

* * * Well we've got it again.

-Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973

Syrian News courtesy of Dry Bones

As usual, Yaakov Kirschen hits the nail soundly on the head!

Syrian News

The aricle he bases this toon on: from the Syrian Arab News Agency:
http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2012/03/18/406623.htm

Myron Goldfarb Is visited by the Angel of Death: DryBones

Today's Golden Oldie is from 1992.
Twenty years ago this month!

A rare single-panel Dry Bones cartoon. It was a pessimistic view of the future. Unfortunately, it turned out that I was right.

-Dry Bones- Israel's Political Comic Strip Since 1973

Are We There yet? Drybones

It is obvious that something is going to have to be done before its too late.
As in the days of the Maccabees Israel is placing its future in the hands of those who are planning their destruction. Pray that the leadership of Israel does what must be done before its too late!

Do What Needs To Be Done Israel! Another Excellent Drybones!

Facing Iran

Revelation 11:1,2 Part B: Thus Say The Prophets

Shabbat Shalom everyone!

Here is the video feed for the latest episode of Thus Say The Prophets.

The complete version can be read, heard and/or watched on our website: http://jewtoo.org/prophecy

Welcome to Thus Say the Prophets!

The Revelation of Navi Y'shua HaMoshiach:
A Study in Authentic Messianic Judaism and Biblical Prophecy By Rabbi Yochanan Levine � 9.19.09 (last update: 02.05.2012)

Revelation 11:2

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We pray to HaShem, the Holy One of Israel, to fill our hearts with wisdom and understanding as we continue this study into the Revelation of our chief rabbi, Navi Y'shua haMoshiach.

We aren't going to offer an exhaustive look at the Beit HaMikdash here. We plan to do that in a future series. For our present purposes we are looking at the courtyard of the Beit HaMikdash and the statement that it will remain unmeassured and "trodden under the feet of the Gentiles."

Revelation 11:1 A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.
11:2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

This is a direct reference to a prophetic teaching of our Rebbe:

Luke 21:24 And they [i.e. the Jews] shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

For the rest go to http://jewtoo.org/prophecy

The Latest Species Slated For Extinction in Africa (and elsewhere)- Drybones

What Matters Most: The Rise of Imam Madhi and the US Pres Debate

What Matters Most:

The Rise of Imam Madhi

The US Presidential Debate 1.26.2012

Al Ikhwan Wins Control of Egypt -- Ho Hum.....

Ho Hum

SOPA: THE INTERNET MAY BE CHANGING FOREVER UNLESS WE ARISE!

The Obama junta is preparing to destroy the Internet as we have known it!

TODAY go to THIS LINK for more information.

This threat is REAL and sites like Wikipedia are shutting down for the day to get this message out;

TODAY GO HERE for more info

Corporate supporters of Senate 968 (PIPA) and HR 3261 (SOPA) demand the ability to take down any web site (including craigslist, Wikipedia, or Google) that hurts their profits -- without prior judicial oversight or due process -- in the name of combating "online piracy."

PIPA and SOPA authors and supporters insist they'd only go after foreign piracy sites, but Internet Engineers understand this is an attempt to impose "Big Brother" controls on our Internet, complete with DNS hijacking and censoring search results. Incredibly, many Congress Members favor this idea.

Try to imagine jack-booted thugs throttling free speech, poisoning the Internet (greatest of American inventions, the very pillar of modern democracy), and devastating one of the our most successful industries. Totalitarian, anti-American, massively-job-killing nonsense.

Tell Congress you OPPOSE Senate 968 "Protect IP Act" (PIPA) and H.R. 3261 "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA):

• Phone your Member of Congress via nifty Progressive Change app
• Contact Senators who are refusing to meet with constituents about PIPA.
• Reverse Robocall pro-PIPA & pro-SOPA MOC + Lobbyists (More at Ars Technica)
• EFF Action Center - Strike Against Censorship - Congressional Emailer
• ECA Congressional Emailer - Don't Censor Our Internet!
• OpenCongress Congressional Emailer - Oppose SOPA
• Generic Congressional Emailer (You'll need your Zip+4)
• Petition Congress - Protect Innovation, Dump SOPA (Progressive Change )
• Outside the US? Sign Petition Opposing US Censorship of Global Sites (EFF)

Supporters of PIPA and SOPA: RIAA, MPAA, News Corp, TimeWarner, Walmart, Nike, Tiffany, Chanel, Rolex, Sony, Juicy Couture, Ralph Lauren, VISA, Mastercard, Comcast, ABC, Dow Chemical, Monster Cable, Teamsters, Rupert Murdoch, Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Conyers (D-MI)

Opponents of PIPA and SOPA: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX)

Where does your Member of Congress stand on PIPA and SOPA? (Project SOPA Opera)

PIPA and SOPA Are Too Dangerous To Revise, They Must Be Killed Entirely

Congress needs to hear from you, or these dangerous bills will pass - they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from corporations experts say are attempting to prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet -- recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandora's jar of "chilling effects" and other unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequences.

Don't believe it? Monster Cable has labeled craigslist a "rogue site," earmarked for blacklisting and full-takedown under PIPA -- resale of stereo cables by CL users reduces Monster 's new cable sales. (reddit).

There is still time to be heard. Congress is starting to backpedal on this job-killing, anti-American nonsense, and the Obama administration has weighed in against these bills as drafted, but SOPA/PIPA cannot be fixed or revised -- they must be killed altogether.

Sen Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep Ron Wyden (D-OR) are championing an alternative to SOPA/PIPA called Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) that addresses foreign sites dedicated to piracy, without disrupting basic Internet protocols, or threatening mainstream US sites like craigslist.

Tim O'Reilly, a publisher who is himself subject to piracy, asks whether piracy is even a problem, and whether there is even a legitimate need for any of these bills.

Learn more about SOPA, Protect IP (PIPA), and Internet Blacklisting:

• Growing Chorus of Opposition to PIPA and SOPA
• Open Letter against SOPA from 83 Prominent Internet Engineers
• Why SOPA and Protect IP (PIPA) are Bad, Bad Ideas (Techdirt)
• Piracy not a problem, PIPA and SOPA are unnecessary (Tim O'Reilly on GigaOM)
• PIPA and SOPA News (Google News)
• PIPA Wikipedia entry ::::: SOPA Wikipedia entry
• SOPA FAQ (CNET)

The Regular Broadcasts of Temple Beth HaShem

Shalom friends,

Our latest Shabbat service for 1.6.12 is now uploaded.

The service for 1.6.12 can be seen on my blog:
http://jewtoo.multiply.com/journal/item/230/Last_Weeks_Shabbat_Service_from_the_NEW_Temple_Beth_HaShem

Or on YouTube here:
http://youtu.be/4V6oW_AyFiY

Rebbe Larry will now be broadcasting the Shabbat service live each week from Temple Beth HaShem in Fort Bragg, Ca. Here's how to watch:

The Live (7 PM Pacific) and/or most recent broadcast can be seen on our website here:
http://templebethhashem.org/shabbat.html

Or on Ustream within a few days of broadcast:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/temple-beth-hashem-shabbat-service

The weekly Parsha reading can now be seen here:
Live on our website (not usually posted on our YouTube):
9 AM Pacific with Rebbe Larry and Hakham Leah and again at 11 AM Pacific with Rabbi Yochanan and Hakham Ahuva:
http://templebethhashem.org/parsha.html

My ongoing pre-recorded series: "Thus Say The Prophets" is usually posted to JewToo.org by 1 PM Pacific on Saturdays (often the day before).
It can be watched, read and heard on my website:
http://jewtoo.org/prophecy

And is posted to our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/johnofallfaith

We hope you regularly watch our various broadcasts and we invite your comments and/or questions

We also offer a free online yeshiva or school of authentic Messianic Judaism here:
http://yeshivabethhashem.org

Shalom
~ Rabbi Yochanan Levine

Another Big Step Toward the One World Government

Al Ikhwan ("Muslim Brotherhood") Sheik and American junta leader Husein Obama is taking the Novus Ordo Mundi ("New World Order") one step closer to the establishment of the Novus Ordo Seclorum ("New Order of the Ages") over which the coming global despot (Antichrist, Little Horn, Son of Perdition) will rule. Here's a story on his latest globalist strategy.

This article by the controlled globalist media seeks to place this debate in political terms: Obama slashing government to disarm his junta leadership opponents in the upcoming "election" however that's not what's happening. The powers-that-be now appoint US presidents. If they want him in he'll stay, if they want him gone he'll go. This is about further consolidating the departments of government for the final merger of the former USA into the Global Union of Nations. Here's the story:

Obama wants export agency, closing of Commerce Department

SOURCE: Reuters: By Laura MacInnis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will ask Congress on Friday for authority to close the Commerce Department and create a new export agency, an overhaul that could save $3 billion and help inoculate him against Republican election-year charges that he is a big-government liberal.

White House budget official Jeffrey Zients told reporters the reorganization would fold together the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and other trade bodies now spread across Washington, giving businesses a single point of contact and ensuring federal spending goes further to boost exports.

Obama was set to deliver remarks at 11:20 a.m. on the new, yet-to-be-named department that would be tasked with achieving his goal of doubling exports in five years, a key part of his economic agenda as the November presidential vote nears.

The Democrat was expected to cast it as an effort to make the government leaner and more efficient, reducing bureaucracy for export-oriented companies.

The proposal - the first of a series of consolidation steps Obama is expected to pursue - comes amid growing concerns about huge federal deficits and the size of the government.

Obama wants to put the USTR, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, Overseas Private Investment Corp, the Trade and Development Agency, the Small Business Administration and parts of the Commerce Department under a new roof - something that has been under discussion for years.

Last March, he asked White House budget officials to examine whether to merge the groups as a way to save money and ensure that U.S. export promotion is as efficient as possible.

A White House official said on Friday the goal of the consolidation was to save $3 billion over 10 years. It may also lead to the loss of 1,000 to 2,000 jobs through attrition, the official said.

TRADE TIES

Obama will seek a vote in Congress within three months on the proposal, which may meet resistance from some lawmakers who have voiced concerns the risks of putting small, focused trade agencies into a large bureaucracy.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, one of Obama's fellow Democrats, and some other senior lawmakers have argued that the USTR, a cabinet-level agency of some 240 career employees, may lose its focus in a larger department.

But Obama is expected to say the move will help achieve his goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years - from $1.57 trillion in 2009 to $3.14 trillion by 2015. He has been trying to hitch the U.S. economy to faster growth in developing markets such as countries in Asia [and the Muslim world?] through closer trade ties.

With the election nearing, the White House has been working to highlight Obama's efforts to get things done in Washington in spite of gridlock in Congress. Resistance to the reorganization proposal would be cast by the White House as an example of Capitol Hill obstructionism.

"We think this is the sort of thing that should have bipartisan support," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

Obama's proposal appeared to catch Republicans by surprise. They said they were reserving judgment until they had seen more details of what he was proposing.

"After presiding over one of the largest expansions of government in history, and a year after raising the issue in his last State of the Union, it's interesting to see the president finally acknowledge that Washington is out of control," said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

"We'll be sure to give it a careful review once the White House provides us with the details of what it is he wants to do," he said.

Republican presidential candidates vying to face Obama in the November election have been focusing in their campaign speeches on the size of the federal government and U.S. deficits, saying they pose a risk to the U.S. economy.

(Additional reporting by Doug Palmer, Stella Dawson Susan Heavey, Editing by Ross Colvin and Philip Barbara)

The Global Poker Game: Drybones, insightful as always

Poker

Happy Chanukah! Light the First Candle Tonight!

Here's a good overview from Chabad (Source):

Chanukah in a Nutshell

With a Medley of Chanukah Links

Chanukah -- the eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev -- celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration, of spirituality over materiality.

More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G-d.

When they sought to light the Temple's menorah (the seven branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; miraculously, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.

To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah (candelabrum) lighting: a single flame on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when all eight lights are kindled.

On Chanukah we also add the Hallel and Al HaNissim in our daily prayers to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d for "delivering the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few... the wicked into the hands of the righteous."

Chanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil -- latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (doughnuts); playing with the dreidel (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, "a great miracle happened there"); and the giving of Chanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children.

Click here for the complete story of Chanukah, and here for a comprehensive "How To" guide for the observances and customs of Chanukah.

Just For Fun: I'm Keeping Kosher for Christmas

Just For Fun: I'm Keeping Kosher for Christmas

To learn the truth about Christmas See my: The True Meaning (and Origins) of Christmas

Oy to the World!

Revelation 7:3-9: The 144,000 Israelites, the Great Multitude and More

Welcome to Thus Say the Prophets!

The Revelation of Navi Y'shua HaMoshiach:
A Study in Authentic Messianic Judaism and Biblical Prophecy By Rabbi Yochanan Levine � 9.16.09 (last update: 12.17.2011)

Revelation 7:4-16
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We pray to HaShem, the Holy One of Israel, to fill our hearts with wisdom and understanding as we continue this study into the Revelation of our chief rabbi, Navi Y'shua haMoshiach.

Revelation 7:4 I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every house of the children of Israel:

Saudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft'

U.S. Pagans (and all other non-Muslims) beware! Islam is making major inroads within the USA!

Source: ABC News

A Saudi woman was beheaded after being convicted of practicing "witchcraft and sorcery," according to the Saudi Interior Ministry, at least the second such execution for sorcery this year.

The woman, Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar, was executed in the northern Saudi province of al-Jawf on Monday.

A source close to the Saudi religious police told Arab newspaper al Hayat that authorities who searched Nassar's home found a book about witchcraft, 35 veils and glass bottles full of "an unknown liquid used for sorcery" among her possessions. According to reports, authorities said Nassar claimed to be a healer and would sell a veil and three bottles for 1500 riyals, or about $400.

According to the ministry, Nassar's death sentence was upheld by an appeals court and the Saudi Supreme Judicial Council.

Philip Luther, the interim direct of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa program, condemned Nassar's killing, calling it "deeply shocking."

"The charges of 'witchcraft and sorcery' are not defined as crimes in Saudi Arabia and to use them to subject someone to the cruel and extreme penalty of execution is truly appalling," Luther said.

Luther said that a charge of sorcery is often used by the Saudi government as a smokescreen under which they punish people for exercising freedom of speech.

Nassar was not the first person to be executed for alleged witchcraft by the Saudi government this year. In September, a Sudanese man was publicly decapitated with a sword in the city of Medina after he was found guilty of the same crime.

According to Amnesty International, at least 79 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia so far in 2011, more than three times as many as in 2010. The human rights group condemned the kingdom's reliance on capital punishment.

"Where the death penalty is used, under international law it should only be applied to the most serious crimes," Luther said.

The Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Just for fun: Oy Holy Night!

This is very funny. I hope you enjoy:

What Matters Most: Senate Bill 1867 and the Iranian War

With this video we are changing the way we share our online material. The internet connection here (DigitalPath.net) seems to get worse every day and so we will no longer be attempting live, streaming broadcasts. Instead we will offer video presentations and post them to our sites so they are available before or at the normal time. Here's the first of these videos:

"What Matters Most" is slated to be online by 5:30 PM Pacific time each Thursday. It is posted to our website: http://templebethhashem.org/beliefs.html

What Matters Most: Senate Bill 1867 and the Iranian War