Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
Synagogue Attack Survivor: #39;They #39;re Not Gonna Stop Me #39;
Dr. Norm Heching describes his escape from two attackers inside Kehilat Bnai Torah synagogue.
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer Talks about Recent Attacks in Jerusalem Synagogue
Attack Raises Fears Israelis Not Safe in Their Own Nation Israel has been dealing with a string of lone-wolf terror attacks this year. However, this week #39;s cold-blooded attack at a Jerusalem...
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
The Portuguese Synagogue, also known as the Esnoga (Ladino: ), or Snoge, is a late 17th-century Sephardic synagogue in Amsterdam, completed in 1675. Esnoga is the Ladino word for synagogue. The Amsterdam Sephardic community was one of the largest and richest Jewish communities in Europe during the Dutch Golden Age, and their very large synagogue reflected this. In January 2012 Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described this as "one of the most beautiful synagogues I have ever seen." The synagogue is a popular tourist attraction.
The Jews were expelled en masse from Spain in 1492 by the Alhambra decree. Many who fled to Portugal were forced to convert to Catholicism in 1496, while Jews who did not convert were expelled from Portugal in 1497. For hundreds of years, the Inquisition continued to investigate the converts and their descendants in Spain and Portugal on suspicions that in secret they still practiced Judaism (see Crypto-Judaism, Marrano).
Some of those who wished to enjoy a freedom of religion found refuge in Amsterdam. During a substantial migration that took place in the 17th century, these Jewish refugees from the Iberian peninsula called themselves Portuguese Jews. They wanted to avoid being identified with Spain, which was at war with the Dutch Republic at the time (see Eighty Years' War).
On December 12, 1670, the Sephardic Jewish community of Amsterdam acquired the site to build a synagogue and construction work began on April 17, 1671, under the architect Elias Bouwman. On August 2, 1675, the Esnoga was finished.
The inscription above the entrance is from Psalm 5:8: "In the abundance of Thy lovingkindness will I come into Thy house". The sign also contains "1672", the year the building was intended to be completed, and "Aboab", the name of the chief rabbi who initiated the construction project.
The building is free-standing and rests on wooden poles; the foundation vaults can be viewed by boat from the canal water underneath the synagogue. The entrance to the main synagogue is off a small courtyard enclosed by low buildings housing the winter synagogue, offices and archives, homes of various officials, the rabbinate, a mortuary, and noted Etz Hayim library. The interior of the synagogue is a single, very high rectangular space retaining its original wooden benches. The floor is covered with fine sand, in the old Dutch tradition, to absorb dust, moisture and dirt from shoes and to muffle the noise. Only five synagogues in the world have a sand floor, and this is the only one with such a floor surviving outside the Caribbean region.
During the 19551959 renovation, the former Etz Hayim seminary auditorium was redesigned as a winter synagogue; central heating and electric lighting were added. The benches were taken from a synagogue originally built in 1639 and the Hechal dates from 1744.
Baruch Spinoza was expelled for his writings from this synagogue community.
The spacious interior is filled with benches
Interior view from tebh (bima) towards hekhl (ark)
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
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An Israeli police officer has died of his wounds from an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue by two knife-wielding Palestinian men earlier today, bringing the death toll in the assault to five.
The attackers also killed four rabbis, three of them American.
The officer was critically wounded when two Palestinian men armed with knives, axes and a pistol burst into the synagogue during morning prayers. He later died of his wounds.
The two alleged attackers were identified as cousins, Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal, from East Jerusalem, according to a police spokeswoman. Police said they shot and killed them at the scene.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would reply harshly after police said Palestinian assailants wielding knives and axes killed five people after attacking a Jerusalem synagogue.
After the attack, Netanyahu ordered the demolition of the alleged attackers homes and arrested multiple members of each mans family. He told reporters he would also demolish the homes of other Palestinians accused of recent attacks against Israeli citizens.
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers, said Netanyahu.
This the first attack of this kind on an Israeli synagogue.
Netanyahu earlier had denounced the attack as a "cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers."
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Israeli emergency personnel walk past blood on the floor in a synagogue that was the scene of an attack by two Palestinians on Israeli worshippers in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Last Updated Nov 18, 2014 11:05 AM EST
JERUSALEM -- Two Palestinians stormed a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, attacking worshippers praying inside with meat cleavers and a gun, and killing four people before they were killed in a shootout with police, officials said.
Three of the victims -- Aryeh Kopinsky, Calman Levine, Moshe Twersky -- were dual American-Israeli citizens, a police official confirmed to CBS News. The fourth, Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, was a dual British-Israeli citizen. All four were also rabbis. A fifth victim, a policeman, died of his wounds later, CBS News reported. He was identified in the Jerusalem Post as 30-year-old Zidan Saif.
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Four rabbis killed in deadliest attack in Jerusalem in years as tensions soar.
In a statement, President Obama condemned the attack, but urged for calm on all sides.
"At this sensitive moment in Jerusalem, it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence, and seek a path forward towards peace," Mr. Obama said.
It was the deadliest attack in Jerusalem in years and was bound to ratchet up fears of sustained violence in the city, already on edge amid soaring tensions over a contested holy site.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel will "respond harshly" to the attack, describing it as a "cruel murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by despicable murderers." U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he spoke to Netanyahu after the assault and denounced it as an "act of pure terror and senseless brutality and violence."
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Posted By richards on November 23, 2014
A Very Hasidic Christmas
A Very Hasidic Christmas Vincent DeMayo 2014 T.A. Productions Released on: 2014-07-12 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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Palestinian man shot in Gaza near border with Israel There is anger in Gaza after the first deadly Israeli shooting there since a 50-day war ended in August. A Palestinian man has been shot dead near the border with Israel
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Posted By simmons on November 23, 2014
Urgent Appeal to Palestinian President and Government: PCHR Warns of Consequences of Fuel Shortage at Gaza Hospitals and Expected Suspension of Health Services at UAE Red Crescent Hospital The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warns of the disastrous and grave deterioration that may affect the Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip due to the lack of fuel that is necessary to operate electricity generators as an alternative power supply in light of prolonged outages. PCHR calls upon the Palestinian President and government to immediately intervene to ensure the prompt supply of fuel needed for the operation of generators in health facilities in the Gaza Strip. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, hospitals, clinics and first aid centers suffer a real crisis due to the lack of diesel needed for the operation of generators, especially the UAE Red Crescent Hospital in Rafah, which may stop offering medical services within hours because it has run out of the diesel used for generators
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Posted By simmons on November 22, 2014
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