Davening Ma'ariv in the Shomer Shabbos Shul in Boro Park Brooklyn, NY

Friday Night Music Project - 1-Mar-2008 (c) Harris/Schaffer Performed at Kol Haverim, Glastonbury, CT USA. Video by Ryan Marinelli

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005882.html Lawyer seeks police probe into removal, publication of note Obama put in the Western Wall By Eran Azran, TheMarker Correspondent A Jerusalem lawyer petitioned the attorney general Sunday asking him to order a police investigation into the removal and subsequent publication of a personal note left in a crack of the Western Wall by U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama during his visit to Israel last week. The presidential hopeful visited the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, at the end of a two-day visit to the region on Thursday. It is believed that requests written on notes and placed between the holy stones of the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, will be granted by God. Attorney Shahar Alon asked attorney General Menachem Mazuz to launch an investigation against the editor of Israeli daily Ma'ariv, who published the content of the note last week. Obama reportedly wrote in the note "Lord - protect my family and me. Forgive my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will." "By making the note public," Alon wrote to Mazuz, "the newspaper violated the law protecting holy sites, several clauses in the penal code and also infringed upon the basic rights of a person's honor and freedom." Alongside his petition, Alon also initiated a boycott of the newspaper. In a letter he published, Alon called on all those who felt that the newspaper offended them by desecrating the holiness of the Western Wall, or felt that Obama had been personally disrespected, to refrain from purchasing the newspaper or cancel their subscriptions. In a conversation with TheMarker on Sunday, Alon said "if no one prevents people from opening notes written at the Western Wall, the wall will turn into a marketplace instead of a place for prayer. It is important the Ma'ariv understands that it violated the holy status of the Western Wall. Every person has the right to write a note based on the knowledge that it won't be read by the public." The boycott will be lifted," Alon went on to say, "after the newspaper publishes a notice, both in Hebrew and in English, apologizing for its lack of sensitivity and for its violation of Senator Obama's privacy and honor." Ma'ariv issued a response Sunday, saying that "Obama's note was published in Ma'ariv and other international publications following Obama's authorization to make the content of the note public. Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outlets when he left his hotel in Jerusalem. Moreover, since Obama is not Jewish, there is no violation of privacy as there would be for a Jewish person who places a note in the Western Wall." On Friday, The BBC reported that senior rabbis had also become outraged by the newspaper's publication of the note written by the Senator, saying that its content was a private matter between Obama and God.

the opening for the MA-ARIV service a cantorial masterpiece I originally heard from Cantor Rosenblatt.

In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House." Rahm Israel Emanuel (Hebrew: רם עמנואל‎) was born in Chicago, Illinois.[29] His first name, Rahm, means "high" or "lofty" in Hebrew,[30] while his last name, Emanuel, means "God is with us." According to his father, his son is the namesake of Rahamim, a Lehi combatant who was killed.[31] Rahms surname was adopted by his family in 1933, after Rahms paternal uncle, Emanuel Auerbach, was killed in a skirmish with Arabs in Jerusalem.[32] His father, the Jerusalem-born Benjamin M. Emanuel, is a pediatrician and former member of the Irgun,[31] a militant Zionist group active in the British Mandate of Palestine between 1931 and 1948. His mother, Martha Smulevitz, worked as an X-ray technician and was the daughter of a local union organizer.[6] She became a civil rights activist; she was also once the owner of a Chicago-area rock and roll club.[32] The two met in Chicago in the 1950s.[33] Emanuel's older brother, Ezekiel, is an oncologist and bioethicist, and his brother Ari is a talent agent in Los Angeles who inspired Jeremy Piven's character Ari Gold on the HBO series Entourage.[6] Emanuel himself is the inspiration for the character Josh Lyman on The West Wing[34]. Emanuel is a first cousin of Howard Stern show writer Benjy Bronk. [6] Emanuel also has a younger adopted sister named Shoshanna, 14 years his junior.[6][32]

Dutch recall spy from Iran fearing U.S. attack http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110167.html The Dutch intelligence service stopped an espionage operation in Iran because of an "impending U.S. attack." A top agent was recalled from what was described as a successful operation to infiltrate and sabotage the weapons industry in Iran because it was believed he would be inside one of the targets of the alleged attack, according to an Aug. 29 report in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. The newspaper quoted a source as saying that the agent was recalled "because the U.S. was thought to be making a decision within weeks to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft." The Dutch intelligence service reportedly shared information from the operation with the CIA. Israel's daily Ma'ariv reported Aug. 29 that Israel has made an independent decision to attack Iran if diplomacy fails to halt its nuclear program.

http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/290808Iran.htm http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186494776&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country's De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday. The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been "extremely successful," and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were "connected with the Dutch espionage action." The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft "within weeks," the report claimed, quoting "well placed" sources. The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the De Telegraaf report. According to the report, information gleaned from the AIVD's operation in Iran has provided several of the targets that are to be attacked in the strike, including "parts for missiles and launching equipment." "Information from the AIVD operation has been shared in recent years with the CIA," the report said. On Saturday, Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff General Masoud Jazayeri warned that should the United States or Israel attack Iran, it would be the start of another World War. On Friday, Ma'ariv reported that Israel had made a strategic decision to deny Iran military nuclear capability and would not hesitate "to take whatever means necessary" to prevent Teheran from achieving its nuclear goals. According to the report, whether the United States and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.

Olmert`s Hebrew Criminal Investigation Protocol from Olmert Staff for Israeli Papers to inform his longtime close associates Uri Messer and Shula Zaken in the case.His partners Shula Zaken & Uri Messer chose to exercise the right to remain silent. http://www.4law.co.il/Olmert708.pdf תמלילי חקירת אולמרט שנמסרו ממטה אולמרט לעיתונים ישראלים לדווח לשותפיו על חקירתו שותפיו שולה זקן ואורי מסר שומרים על שתיקה בחקירתם Jerusalem Post 28/7/08 on this video Police chief: Leaks didn't come from us Jul. 28, 2008 JPost.com staff and yaakov lappin , THE JERUSALEM POST Dep.-Cmdr (ret.) Boaz Guttman, former head investigator at the National Fraud Unit, said there could be no question the extended transcripts that appeared in Yediot Aharonot and Ma'ariv last week of detectives' interrogation sessions with the prime minister came from "Olmert's people," who were trying to show the other main suspects in the probe - especially Olmert's longtime close associates Uri Messer and Shula Zaken - that Olmert had not "ratted them out," and that they should therefore refrain from cooperating with police. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331116848&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Israel National Anti Fraud Unit http://www.4law.co.il/isra1.html היחידה הארצית לחקירות הונאה יאח"ה

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Rahm has already apologized to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee on behalf of his family. Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 2:19 pm Rahm Emanuel's Father Problem Posted by michaelscherer | Comments (82) | Permalink | Trackbacks (4) | Email This Rahm Emanuel is his own man, with an identity distinct from his father's. He is not responsible for the actions or opinions of Benjamin Emanuel, a Chicago pediatrician who worked in the 1940s with Irgun, the militant Zionist group that committed acts against Palestinian and British targets that have been widely categorized as terrorism. (In 1938, according to the scholar Avi Shlaim, members of the group attempted to ambush an Arab bus, an attack that failed when a grenade did not detonate. In 1946, members of the group bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people.) But that does not mean that Rahm Emanuel, or Barack Obama for that matter, can easily ignore the fact that Benjamin Emanuel recently said a nasty thing about Arabs in the Israeli press. This is from the Jerusalem Post's account of an interview Benjamin gave after news of his son's appointment to the Obama administration was announced: In an interview with Ma'ariv, Emanuel's father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, said he was convinced that his son's appointment would be good for Israel. "Obviously he will influence the president to be pro-Israel," he was quoted as saying. "Why wouldn't he be? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House." In a letter sent Tuesday to Rahm Emanuel, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee asked the congressman to "disavow and repudiate these remarks publicly." Over the weekend, I asked Rep. Emanuel's congressional office if they had any response to Benjamin Emanuel's comments. An aide sent me this statement: When it comes to Israel's security and America's partnership with Israel, President-elect Obama doesn't need Rahm Emanuel. President-elect Obama's commitment to Israel is steadfast and unwavering. It is unlikely to be the last word on this subject. UPDATE: Statement from Rep. Rahm Emanuel's office (released Thursday afternoon): Today, Rep. Emanuel called Mary Rose Oakar, President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, apologized on behalf of his family and offered to meet with representatives of the Arab-American community at an appropriate time in the future." http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/11/13/rahm-emanuels-father-problem/

http://infowars.net/articles/august20... http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellit... Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country's De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday. The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been "extremely successful," and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were "connected with the Dutch espionage action." The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft "within weeks," the report claimed, quoting "well placed" sources. The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the De Telegraaf report. According to the report, information gleaned from the AIVD's operation in Iran has provided several of the targets that are to be attacked in the strike, including "parts for missiles and launching equipment." "Information from the AIVD operation has been shared in recent years with the CIA," the report said. On Saturday, Iran's Deputy Chief of Staff General Masoud Jazayeri warned that should the United States or Israel attack Iran, it would be the start of another World War. On Friday, Ma'ariv reported that Israel had made a strategic decision to deny Iran military nuclear capability and would not hesitate "to take whatever means necessary" to prevent Teheran from achieving its nuclear goals. According to the report, whether the United States and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.