Posted By richards on February 11, 2015
Judge rules Plano home can be used as synagogue
A small Jewish congregation got a big court victory Wednesday, when a Collin County judge ruled it can continue holding services in a Plano home.
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The Lagos coroner, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, probing the September 12, 2014 Synagogue Church of All Nations building collapse, has further adjourned till February 17, to continue the inquest.
The decision to further adjourn followed the non-appearance of witnesses and the low turnout of lawyers and other interested parties at the resumed sitting of the court on Tuesday.
Komolafe, however, expressed his determination to conclude the inquest within the next two weeks, just as he urged lawyers and interested parties not to employ delay tactics to further prolong the inquest.
Tuesday was the first time the court would be sitting this year following its last proceeding on December 23, 2014.
The court was unable to sit on the earlier adjourned date of January 6, 2015 due to the strike embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria.
Shortly before adjourning on Tuesday, the Magistrate said the remaining days in this week would be devoted to the viewing of the CCTV footages in the courts custody by lawyers for the purpose of cross-examining some of the earlier summoned witnesses.
One of such footages was the one submitted by the Chief Security Officer of SCOAN, Mr. Sunday Okogie, capturing the rescue events from September 12 to September 16, 2014.
Okogie, in his testimony, had pointed out that contrary to their claims, officials of both the National Emergency Management Agency and the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency had unrestrained and prompt access to the accident scene.
Showing the footages before the court, Okogie had submitted, My Lord, on the first day of the incident, as you can see, nobody prevented them from entering the compound. But as you can see from the video, LASEMA came with only one bus and no heavy duty equipment, as they claimed before this court.
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Up in Monroe, NY in a community called Kiryas Joel, citizens usually isolate themselves from the rest of the outside communities, yet own most of everything. I have done business with them when I used to work for a telephone and internet company nearby. There seems to be many health issues among them, many on Medicare or Medicaid. I never knew why and who was I to judge? While working for the telephone company, they would get a discount if they provided me with a copy of their Medicare or Medicaid cards. No exaggeration here, but 90% of the Hasidic community that I have dealt with were all on Medicare. Why? Some say theyre the richest people around. They buy land all over literally.They practically own all of Monroe, NY. Are they really disabled? Or is it about money?If they have so much money, then why do they need Medicare and welfare? Ive seen so many Medicare cards fly by my desk for approval and wondered what was wrong with all of them. Why do they have so many health problems? Or am I wrong? Are they really in need of government assistance?
Is it health or money?
From observations alone and by working for the local telephone company, they would provide me with a social security number, in order to open up a new account. (I totally disagree with giving a phone company your social security number, however it was their policy.) Most of the social security numbers were from a deceased loved one or a very young child. They used a dead persons identity or a childs, in order to open up an account. I didnt think much of it, because there are a lot of people who do that anyway. I wasnt going to say, all of them do this, because that would be wrong. Many of the residents of Kiryas Joel were found on fraudulent assistance from the government or using somebody else's identity from Medicare or Medicaid to get a discount. So the bulk weren't all "disabled" or "poor" --- they were using fake identification cards to get a lower cost.
In a New York Times article, it was reported that Kiryas Joel was the poorest place in the United States! That has to raise some eyebrows.
"About 70 percent of the villages 21,000 residents live in households whose income falls below the federal poverty threshold, according to the Census Bureau. Median family income ($17,929) and per capita income ($4,494) rank lower than any other comparable place in the country. Nearly half of the villages households reported less than $15,000 in annual income. About half of the residents receive food stamps, and one-third receive Medicaid benefits and rely on federal vouchers to help pay their housing costs."
In the headline news a few years back, there was a huge tax fraud problem in the Village of Kiryas Joel in upstate, NY.
Welfare burden, tax fraud"Kiryas Joel residents have been alleged to cheat on taxes by claiming that they have a temple, or a place of worship, in their homes.[citation needed] Obtaining tax relief as a house of worship means the property is excused from paying property taxes that support local services, such as public schools, roads, water and sewer, fire and police, and so on, including the funds which subsidize welfare payments.
It is the custom in Kiryas Joel for women who work outside the home to stop doing so at the birth of their second child.[4] Most families have only one income and many children. The resulting poverty rate makes a disproportionate number of families in Kiryas Joel eligible for welfare benefits when compared to the rest of the county; and cost of welfare benefits is subsidized by taxes paid county-wide.
Per the New York Times, because of the sheer size of the families (the average household here has six people, but it is not uncommon for couples to have 8 or 10 children), and because a vast majority of households subsist on only one salary, 62 percent of the local families live below poverty level and rely heavily on public assistance [government welfare], which is another sore point among those who live in neighboring communities."
Ive always questioned their culture and how they lived. Id never judge them, however they stand out alone when these issues come out into the open. With this community having and saved so much money, through tax exemptions, as well as buying property all over the state, how and why are they on Medicare and welfare? As many children as they bear, its no wonder that poverty sometimes comes into play. Or does it? I have mixed feelings about it.
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Ashkenazi Trop vs. Temani Trop: Keriyath Shema, Authentic Pronunciation
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Im looking at abstracts on Ashkenazi genetics from ASHG 2013 and SMBE 2014 by the same group, with Shai Carmi as the lead author. They did 128 whole genomes, 50x deep.
They concluded Ashkenazi Jews were about 50% Middle Eastern and 50% European. In the 2013 abstract, they were pretty specific: they estimated the European ancestry fraction at 55% , plus or minus 2%. ( In our book, we had a crude estimate of about 40% European ancestry.) They estimated the split between Europeans and Middle Easterners at about 9000 BC: which sounds about the right date for the entry of the Sardinian-like farmers. From other data (mtDNA) , and from the fact that you see almost zero WHG or ANE in Ashkenazi autosomal genes, one can conclude that the European admixture was mostly Italian, with some southern French. Very little German or Slavic by that time serious endogamy had set in..
By looking at IBD segments, they conclude that there was indeed a bottleneck in Ashkenazi ancestry, ~350 individuals, followed by a rapid expansion. IBD analysis should pin this down quite accurately. They estimate that this was about 800 years ago, but I would bet money that it was a little earlier more like 1100 years ago. In other words, the founding bottleneck, the time when the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews moved from Italy into the Rhineland, not a later persecution bottleneck. I dont think the population ever dropped that low in the persecutions. I say this because of what the history looks like to me, and because of certain things that suggest that our models of recombination may be a bit off. 350 isnt a terribly tight bottleneck, as long as it doesnt last long and its hard to see how any bottleneck could generate several unusually deleterious recessives that concentrate in a few metabolic paths. Or make you smart.
Many people looking at Jewish population history have boggled at the idea of a small group expanding to a few million in a thousand years or so, and have come up with various scenarios other than Italy -> Rhineland -> Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth model, such as Koestlers Khazar theory or Wexlers idea that the Ashkenazi Jews came from the East. Koestler and Wexler are both wrong, by the way the genetic evidence is quite clear.
There was never anything particularly particularly improbable about the Ashkenazi population expansion. Moderate prosperity, which the Ashkenazim had for most of their sojourn in Europe, easily allows a family to average 3 surviving kids. Given that rate of growth, a population increases by a factor of more than one million in 35 generations. Ask the French Canadians, or the Puritans, or the Boers.
But since anyone who cant understand this by now never will, I look forward to the first revisionist history of the Amish. Do you really believe that ~200 Mennonites landing in Pennsylvania in the 1700s could number a quarter of a million by 2010? Doesnt there have to be a deeper, more subtle explanation? Where do you think Martin Bormann ended up, huh?
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Posted By richards on February 11, 2015
We have my favorite politician from the States, Dr.David Duke speaking on how the Jews are genetically Israelite because they have always had their racist views of not mixing with gentiles, due to the interracial marriage that occurred between Jews in the past with Europeans. They speak so bad about the Nazis being racist for not wanting to "mix" Germans and Jews in the 1940's, yet you see Jews today don't want Jews to marry people of another race, they have always seen their religion as a race and that is why they rarely accept converts to Judaism. Even the Cohanim Jews descendants of Aaron Cohen (Musa's brother pbuh) do not marry Jews that have a non-Israelite or gentile mixture in the family, showing this is Jewish Supremacism, if not worst than White Supremacism that existed in Europe.
There are some theories claiming Jews are Khazars which is absolutely not true because the Khazar tribes live in West Kazakhstan and they have no cultural or genetic connection to the Jews, our predominant religion is also Islam like most Turkic people follow. After Bulan Khazar converted to Judaism, years later Kievan the Rus defeated the Khazars in a battle and introduced the Khazars to Christianity, years later they adopted Islam as their official religion as all Turkic people did during the Khazar Zog rule. Today you can come visit Kazakhstan and meet many Kazakhs of different tribes including the Uyghurs, Kipchaks and Khazars. Lastly, the Khazars rarely immigrated to other lands, the farthest they went to was to Eastern Ukraine which was around 200 Khazar warriors who immigrated to Eastern Ukraine. They do not have history of settling in Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands to claim all Ashkenazi Jews are Khazars. And even if they are real Israelites, they do not have the rights to re-claim Palestine 2,000 years later and kick out the inhabitants of that land, we didn't kick their ancestors out, it was the Romans so why should Muslims have to suffer under their expense. The Quran also claims that they lost the privilege of owning that land because of the sins their ancestors committed against Allah and Rasul Allah, so they are to be exiled throughout the world.
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Editors note: Pending an FDA decision, 23andMe no longer offers new customers access to health reports referred to in this post. Customers who purchased prior to November 22, 2013 will still be able to see their health reports, but those who purchased after that time will not. Those customers will have access to ancestry information as well as access to their uninterpreted raw data.
Ashkenazi Jews are one group that fall under the umbrella of European, but its clear from numerous studies that theyre genetically unique and distinct from the European population at large. Most people with Ashkenazi ancestry trace their DNA to Eastern and Central Europe, but also have Middle Eastern ancestry, which is just one reason for their genetic uniqueness.
Genetic Variation Between and Within Populations
Its clear that people with European ancestry are genetically distinct from those of Asian or African descent, but whats less obvious is that genetic variation also exists within European groups. In these plots from a study by Elimear Kenny, you can see the genetic variation between major ancestral groups (left) and within a population (right). Jewish groups fall into the European cluster on the left, but people with Ashkenazi ancestry (blue) form a unique cluster that is largely distinct from Caucasian (CEU; green) and other Jewish populations (various colors) on the right. Individuals who are part Ashkenazi fall in between the Caucasian and Ashkenazi clusters.
The challenging history of Jewish groups has also contributed to their genetic uniqueness. During the Jewish Diaspora or migration of Jewish people from the Middle East to other parts of the world the vast majority of Jewish individuals married and raised families within their faith. Many generations later this means that Ashkenazi Jews can appear more genetically related than they actually are.
This genetic isolation has had important implications for health. People with Ashkenazi ancestry are more likely to carry genetic factors that cause single-gene recessive Mendelian disorders where you need two bad copies of a gene to get the disease. Examples include Gaucher disease, Canavan disease, and Tay-Sachs disease. Because of this higher likelihood, screening for these genetic variants in prospective parents is standard practice for Jewish individuals starting families.
(23andMe tests for most mutations routinely screened in the Ashkenazi Jewish population for these conditions).
A number of multi-gene conditions (or those caused by genetic variation in a handful of genes) are also more common in people with Ashkenazi ancestry. One example is Crohns disease, which people with Ashkenazi ancestry are two to four times as likely to develop compared Europeans in general. Although its not yet clear why the rates are higher in this population, its likely that genetic factors specific to individuals with Ashkenazi ancestry play a role.
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Tel Aviv (dpa) - Israels attorney-general will indict a former chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, for accepting bribes and other alleged financial crimes, local media reported Tuesday.
Metzger was arrested in November 2013 after police said he pocketed more than 7 million shekels (1.8 million dollars) in bribes. He also reportedly tried to obstruct investigations against him.
Metzger, who denies the charges against him, served as the chief Ashkenazi rabbi from 2003 until 2013. Ashkenazi Jews generally hail from central and northern European countries.
Globes newspaper reported that Metzger used his chauffeur to collect the bribes. The driver then got a cut of the funds.
The report also said Metzger allegedly received money in order to convert people to Judaism, a process that is often complicated and lengthy in Israel.
He is the latest in a string of Israeli public officials in trouble.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert last year received a six-year jail sentence for bribery, while former president Moshe Katsav is serving a seven-year sentence for rape.
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Posted By richards on February 11, 2015
Marissa Jaret Winokur. Photo by Kyle Christy/TLC
She won a Tony award for Hairspray and has appeared in the movies American Beauty and Fever Pitch and TVs Dancing With the Stars, The Talk, and had recent recurring roles on the sitcoms Melissa & Joey and Playing House. Now Marissa Jaret Winokur is frankly talking All About Sex on a Saturday night talk show on TLC.
Im definitely the least experienced of the group for sure and the least comfortable talking about it than the rest of the panel, Winokur said, referring to a roundtable that includes Margaret Cho, Heather McDonald and Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry. But I dont mind talking about it. Ive learned that Im not as knowledgeable as I thought I was, but I never thought of sex as a shameful thing. We were told Dont do itI didnt listen, but I didnt hate myself for doing it!
The New York native and current San Fernando Valley resident has been married to writer Judah Miller for eight years, and they have a son, Zev, 61/2, a sports-loving kid who is very interested in his Jewish heritage. We go to temple because he loves it, and its forcing my husband and [me] to take a bigger part, said Winokur, who wasnt previously a synagogue member. But, she said, she has always felt strongly about her own Jewish heritage.
It sounds Fiddler on the Roof, but its about family; its about tradition. Sometimes we dont know why we do things, but we do them, and we honor the past. I talk to my son about being Jewish and what that means. He already knows about the Holocaust. You have to teach it so it doesnt happen again.
Winokur misses the stage and would go back tomorrow for the right show. But to pick up my life and move, its going to have to run for a year, or its just so good I have to do it. Meanwhile, she has started to write, working on a Web series with a partner and a book she described as love yourself, weight loss, self-help, but funny. Besides being fun, writing gives her the creative control she never gets as an actress. This is my next chapter, she said.
All About Sex airs Saturdays at 11 p.m on TLC.
In the FX series The Comedians, Billy Crystal and Josh Gad play fictionalized versions of themselves, comedy stars from different generations who are reluctantly paired on a new show. Its an instant clash of egos, comic sensibilities, and a hilarious send-up of Hollywood. Based on a Swedish series but tailored to the stars skills, it also reflects their Jewishness.
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