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The coroner probing the September 12 Synagogue building collapse in Lagos, Magistrate A.O. Komolafe, on Wednesday suspended further sitting till Friday, December 5, 2014.
Due to the abrupt suspension of the courts proceeding on Wednesday, Komolafe could not take the testimonies of all the witnesses that had been invited to appear before the court.
The decision to suspend sitting came after the Founder of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, Prophet T.B. Joshua, through his counsel, Mr. Olalekan Ojo, had informed Komolafe of a pending application before Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja.
In the said application, Joshua had asked for a judicial review of the coroners proceedings.
Among other things, Joshua also asked that the invitation served on him to appear before the coroner should be put on hold pending the outcome of the application before Justice Okunnu.
At the commencement of Wednesdays proceeding, Ojo reminded the coroner of the application, adding that he had just served it on the Lagos State Government.
Ojo said the application was not yet ripe for hearing because he had yet to serve it on all the other necessary parties to enable them reply as appropriate.
Responding, counsel for the Lagos State Government, Mr. Femi Adamson, confirmed that his clients had just been served and that they had not filed their reply.
The coroner said it was only proper to dispense with the application first before going on to take evidence from other witnesses.
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Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai (right), program director of STAR, at a Sukkot party hosted by the groups founder, Hyman Jebb Levy. Photo courtesy of STAR
Who knew that playing paintball and taking trips to the Santa Monica Pier could be so Jewish?
Since 1998, mixing social activities with Judaic values has been at the core of the nonprofit group Sephardic Tradition and Recreation (STAR). Thousands of the areas young Sephardic Jews have mingled with others like themselves while learning about their roots and having some serious fun in the process thanks to the Van Nuys-based organization.
We at STAR have one fundamental goal, and that is Jewish pride, said Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai, the organizations program director. As we like to say, empty pride is what has always been frowned upon by Judaism. We at STAR try to instill in our youth enough knowledge of their background, customs [and] history that when they do feel proud of their Judaism, its not just empty pride, but filled with history and knowledge.
The organization sponsors a host of activities for children ages 7 to 18, who are divided into four age groups. They gather for movie nights, parties, paintball, even trips to Israel all in the hope of instilling a sense of pride in the younger generation of Jews. A trip to the Santa Monica Pier for Chanukah, for example, might also include arts and crafts or a show-and-tell on how to press oil from olives, Sakhai said.
STAR is the brainchild of Hyman Jebb Levy, 88, a retired businessman and member of the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel in West L.A., who saw a need to connect young Sephardic Jews to their Jewish heritage. (Ashkenazic Jews are welcome to take part as well.)
Ive always been interested in Jewish education, and Ive always believed that if you dont educate the youth about their Jewish roots, you have no future, Levy said. So when I retired ... I saw there was no youth program in the Sephardic synagogues in the city, and so I got together with some friends in the community and we started STAR.
The key to STARs success, he said, has been working with children starting at a young age, and gradually sharing the beauty of Jewish traditions and cultures with them through different activities. The program focuses on six principles: community, tradition, values, preservation, Israel and pride.
At age 7 is when you want to start educating them about what it means to be Jewish, and they have a place where they can make other Jewish friends and just have fun, said Levy, who hosted a Sukkot party at his Encino home that drew about 120 people. Studies have shown that Jewish children who are more involved in the Jewish community at a young age typically tend to remain connected to Judaism as adults and marry other Jews.
STARs leadership said they try to offer a friendly approach without coming across as aggressive.
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Posted By richards on December 4, 2014
JTA - If it hadnt been for Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Lazer Lloyd thinks he wouldve been famous by now. On the other hand, he figures that by now, hed probably also be dead.
Back in 1994, Lloyd was a rising young blues musician with a deal at Atlantic Records when he met the famed songwriter and spiritualist, who invited to join a musical tour in Israel.
I was a really crazy blues rocknroller, he recalls. I had a lot of light, but my personality was like fire. I would go into a bar to play a show, and I could light the whole place up, but it would never end."
Instead, his tour with Carlebach set him on a journey that led him to embrace Hasidism and move to Israel. It also brought him to the green room of The Mint, a small music club in Los Angeles where he is about to close out a West Coast tour that ran from November 15 to November 24. A well-established blues guitarist in Israel, Lloyd, 48, has been actively touring in Europe and the United States for the past year and a half, trying to build an audience. He mixes gigs at synagogues and Jewish community centers with shows at mainstream music clubs, like the Mint.
Lounging in jeans, a purple shirt and a black felt hat, sporting glasses and a bushy brown beard edged with gray, Lloyd (born Lloyd Paul Blumen) makes the merger of Hasidism and the blues sound perfectly natural. For him, it all came down to the flat five.
The flat five refers to the taking the fifth note in an eight-note scale and flattening it by a half-tone, creating a distinctively mournful sound. Its a sound that appears prominently both in the blues and in European Jewish music. When Lloyd first heard Carlebach play a song with that flat five, he demanded to know why Carlebach was playing the blues. Carlebach explained that in fact it was a song by the Baal Shem Tov, and Lloyd was hooked.
[Carlebach] was giving over the hasidut, and the hasidut was all about connecting through music and how to connect to people, and really was how to connect to the blues how to heal a broken heart, says Lloyd, using the Hebrew term for Hasidism. Everyone has their own blues, and everyones heart is broken."
He adds, In this life, you got God and you got women. King David, hes writing the same thing."
As Lloyd speaks, his bassist for the evening rolls in, slit-eyed and reeking of marijuana. Lloyd greets him warmly. Although this evening he is content to stick with water, Lloyd is not generally a teetotaler.
As he later explains to the audience onstage, Im used to drinking a little bit of whiskey, but I just toured Russia three weeks ago and my liver is still recovering. He then recites a bracha into the microphone and sips his water.
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FILE - In this June 24, 2011 file photo, Bono, of British rock band U2, performs at Glastonbury Music Festival in Glastonbury, England. U2 on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 said it will hit the stage in Vancouver in May 2015 to open a 19-city tour, playing indoor arenas after a decade of larger outdoor shows. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)
Oy vey? Or mazeltov?
We're not sure what the more appropriate response is to the disclosure that U2 singer Bono -- who last month suffered serious injuries in a bicycling accident in New York's Central Park -- likes to don a rather distinctive disguise when he's out pedaling and shifting gears in public.
In a Wednesday interview with Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, U2 guitarist the Edge was asked why no photos were taken in the immediate aftermath of Bono's painful November bicycle accident.
After all, it was a busy Sunday afternoon in the largest park in Manhattan. How could Bono not have been recognized after his accident by anyone walking by?
"You know, when Bono goes cycling he likes to dress up as a Hasidic Jew," the Edge replied.
This response may raise more questions than it answers.
Namely, does Ozzy Osbourne go biking disguised as a Mormon missionary?
Does Taylor Swift dress up like an Amway sales representative for her anonymous jaunts in public?
And, of course, how long will it be before Sacha Baron Cohen or Weird Al makes a video of a Bono-like character, wearing semi-rabbinical attire, riding a bike, as he sings a mash-up of "Vertigo" and "Where the Streets Have No Name?"
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U2 frontman Bono was seriously injured last month while cycling in Central Park; he had to undergo a number of surgeries following the "high energy" accident. But one question lingered: how could no one notice Bono cycling and crashing in Central Park? The Edge has an answer: "You know, when Bono goes cycling he likes to dress up as a Hasidic Jew," said the fully-grown man who goes by the moniker The Edge.
The Edge, an adult, offered some choice details of what happened to Bono that fateful bloody Sunday on KROQs Kevin & Bean Show yesterday: "Were kind of lucky he was wearing a helmet so he didnt actually break Central Park," the guitarist said. "But hes made of of tough stuff and hes bouncing back. Hes so upset about the fact that, unfortunately were about to announce, were not going to be able to do the Acoustic Christmas because hes been told by his doctors that hes got to stay put. Hes back in Dublin right now and basically he cant move for the next couple of months."
Haaretz has a few more details from the interview:
Hes doing physio to keep the joints active twice a day, he added.
We still have so many questions: was The Edge joking? Does Bono dress up as a Hasidic Jew all over the world as a disguise? Does he have other disguises? Why are we the only people in the world who think "Discotheque" is kind of great? And has Bono learned his lesson about cycling where the streets have no bike lanes?
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Imagine you're walking in Central Park. A cyclist speeds by, dressed in full Hasidic garb, then skids out of control, toppling to the ground. His injuries are brutal: broken eye orbit, fractured shoulder, bone poking through the skin of his arm. He looks up at you as if to plead for help, and surprise! It's Bono!
In an interview with KROQ yesterday, The Edge revealed his messianic bandmate's weird strategy for evading onlookers while out for a ride. From Haaretz:
U2 last month posted a message on its official site informing fans that Bono had an accident, writing, "Bono has injured his arm in a cycling spill in Central Park and requires some surgery to repair it. We're sure he'll make a full recovery soon, so we'll be back!..."
When asked how no one managed to take a picture of Bono after the mishap, The Edge replied, "You know, when Bono goes cycling he likes to dress up as a Hasidic Jew."
If Bono wanted inconspicuous, he made an odd choice: New York's Hasidic community is not exactly known for its friendliness to two-wheelers. Do you think he wore the glasses?
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New Elections in Israel | Irvin Baxter Israel #39;s government has been disbanded and new elections are being called for. Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel needs a stable government not one that is rifled with dissension.... By: endtimeministries
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