Jewish Singles And Other Events
Jewish Singles Lunch Party at Veggie Heaven Chinese Vegetarian Vegan
Restaurant
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/
Sunday June 15th, 2008 c.e. at NOON
Age Range Baby Boomers Give or Take A Few Years Or So in other
words: "Jewish Singles 40's,50's,60's"
1119 Route 46 East #8A Parsippany, New
Jersey, in a shopping center which has plenty of parking and is near
Route 80.
As always we never charge a fee for our events. Just pay for what you
order plus tax and tip. Just ask the waiters or waitresses where the
Singles table(s) are/is. This is a non-smoking restaurant. If we have
more than one table we encourage you to
table hop.Jewish Singles lunch at Veggie Heaven Chinese Vegetarian
Vegan
Restaurant
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/
in Parsippany, New Jersey at NOON on Sunday June 15th,2008 c.e.
1119 Route 46 East #8A Parsippany, New
Jersey, in a shopping center which has plenty of parking and is near
Route 80.
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/807856.html
There is never any charge for any of our events. When we go to
a restaurant you pay the restaurant directly for your meal plus tax
and tip.
You never pay us.
Veggie Heaven is a 100% non-smoking restaurant, is moderately
priced,has brown rice, does not use MSG or animal products, is Kosher
and totally vegetarian, has plenty of free parking and is easy to
reach from nearby highways.
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/807856.html
http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=2236
You do not need a reservation to attend
Simply show up at Noon Sunday June 15, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
all invite you to the Jewish Singles Lunch Party at Veggie Heaven
Chinese Vegetarian Vegan Restaurant http://www.veggieheavennj.com/
Sunday June 15th, 2008 c.e. at NOON event above
you do not have to be a member of
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
to attend
if you do decide to join
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
you may do so without charge
there is no charge to join
and no charge to be a member of
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
Please state that you are Jewish, Single, 21 or over, when you apply
to join the Jewish Singles Yahoo Groups at the websites the urls
below will take you to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
Do you have a Jewish single friend that you have not yet met in
person and may have been in touch with via email or telephone or
otherwise Why not invite that Jewish single friend to meet you at
one of the many Jewish singles events listed in our posts
Be sure to send your photo to your Jewish single friend, and to ask
your Jewish single friend to send a photo to you.
That way you can recognize one another when you meet at a Jewish
singles event.
Please state that you are Jewish, Single, 21 or over, when you apply
to join the Jewish Singles Yahoo Groups at the websites the urls
below will take you to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
We believe that it is vital for Jewish survival that single Jews
meet other single Jews, marry one another, and raise their children
as Jews. Because there is a hole in our calendar from Friday night
to Saturday night during which many single Jews go to non-Jewish
singles events, meet non-Jews, marry non-Jews, and have children
from those marriages who are not raised as Jews, the Jewish people
faces a very severe problem. We urge everyone who reads this to
contact his or her Rabbi and demand that his or her Rabbi hold
regular Jewish singles Onegs on Friday nights.
We feel that it is vitally important that single Jews go to Jewish
singles events and meet other Jewish singles at those events.
If you know anyone who happens to be Jewish who is hosting a
singles event please ask him or her to consider hosting events just
for Jewish singles.
We also offer the opportunity at our on line Jewish singles groups
to post your Jewish singles introductions and to respond to other
Jewish singles introductions.
Please do so regularly. Please state that you are Jewish, single and
over 21
in your introductions at our on line Jewish singles groups.
Please state that you are Jewish, Single, 21 or over, when you apply
to join the Jewish Singles Yahoo Groups at the websites the urls
below will take you to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
Eileen Roth erroth714@... erroth714 AT aol.com writes:
"Dear Friends ,
The Hirschorn Foundation has given the New Beginnings group at the
West Orange, New Jersey JCC, a program.
On Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 1 PM at the West Orange JCC on Northfield
Avenue in West Orange, New Jersey.
Bill Levy will present a program of " THE GREAT MUSICALS" .
The program will be about 1 hour long, from 1:30 to 2:30 and involves
trivia questions, prizes, and audience participation.
We will meet from 1 to 3. Coffee, tea, and.... until 1:30...
discussion after until 3.
We will be in the Schwartz Conference Room. There will be a $2.
charge
for refreshments.... cookies, cake, fruit ...
I would greatly appreciate response to my email address so that I can
have
sufficient refreshmants.
erroth714@...
Hope to see you there!
Eileen Roth"
Jewish Singles Lunch Party at Veggie Heaven Chinese Vegetarian Vegan
Restaurant
Sunday June 15th,2008 c.e. at Noon at Veggie Heaven Chinese
Vegetarian Vegan Restaurant Parsippany, New Jersey
Jewish Singles Lunch Party At Veggie Heaven Chinese Vegetarian Vegan
Restaurant in Parsippany, New Jersey
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/
at noon on Sunday June 15th, 2008 c.e. Age Range Baby Boomers Give
or Take A Few Years Or So, in other words: "Jewish Singles
40's,50's,60's"
1119 Route 46 East #8A Parsippany, New
Jersey, in a shopping center which has plenty of parking and is near
Route 80.
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/807856.html
http://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/new_jersey/parsippany/
http://www.happycow.net/reviews.php?id=2236
As always we never charge a fee for our events. Just pay for what you
order plus tax and tip. Just ask the waiters or waitresses where the
Singles table(s) are/is. This is a non-smoking restaurant. If we have
more than one table we encourage you to
table hop.Jewish Singles lunch at Veggie Heaven Chinese Vegetarian
Vegan Restaurant http://www.veggieheavennj.com/
in Parsippany, New Jersey at NOON Sunday June 15th,2008 c.e. 1119
Route 46 East #8A Parsippany, New Jersey, in a shopping center which
has plenty of parking and is near Route 80.
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/807856.html
There is never any charge for any of our events. When we go to
a restaurant you pay the restaurant directly for your meal plus tax
and tip. You never pay us.
http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3718160763
http://ziphip.com/Veggie+Heaven.9.62739752p.home.html
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=1119+Us-46%2C+Parsippany%
2C+NJ+07054
You do not need a reservation to attend
Simply show up at Noon Sunday June 15, 2008
Veggie Heaven is a 100% non-smoking restaurant, is moderately
priced,has brown rice, does not use MSG or animal products, is Kosher
and totally vegetarian, has plenty of free parking and is easy to
reach from nearby highways.
http://www.veggieheavennj.com/807856.html
If you were going to Veggie Heaven in Parsippany, New Jersy from a
very
familiar location of Jewish Singles: 18 Delaware St
Clifton, NJ 07011 which is the Clifton, New Jersey Jewish Center
you might wish to use the directions below:
15.4 mi – about 22 mins
1. Head north on Delaware St toward Barkley Ave 118 ft
2. Turn left at Barkley Ave 446 ft
3. Turn right at 7th St 328 ft
4. Turn left at Piaget Ave/ US-46 W
Continue to follow US-46 W 5.6 mi
5. Take the ramp onto I-80 W 7.4 mi
6. Take exit 47 to merge onto US-46 W toward Parsippany 1.6 mi
7. Slight right toward Baldwin Rd 387 ft
8. Turn left at Baldwin Rd 381 ft
9. Turn left at US-46 E 0.5 mi
To: 1119 US-46 East
Parsippany, NJ 07054
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=1119+Us-46%2C+Parsippany%
2C+NJ+07054
or you could simply use the directions below from wherever you start
out from:
Here are the directions to Veggie Heaven It is a Vegan Chinese
Totally Vegetarian Kosher Restaurant. The restaurant is located in
Parsippany, New
Jersey at 1119 Route 46 East #8A Parsippany, New
Jersey, in a shopping center which has plenty of parking and is near
Route 80.
The telephone numbers of the restaurant are 973 335-9876 and 973 263-
8331 the
zip code, if you are using Mapquest, is 07054.
From the West (I-80)Take I-80 East and exit at the Lake
Hiawatha/Whippany exit.
Make a left at the light at the exit go past the entrance ramp which
would put
you back onto Route 80 going west and make a left turn into the
shopping center.
From the South (I-287) Take I-287 North to the exit for I-80 eastbound
From the North (I-287) Take I-287 South to the exit for I-80 eastbound
Look for the signs for the Lake Hiawatha/Whippany Exit. Make a left
at the light
at the exit go past the entrance ramp which would put you back onto
Route 80 going west and make a left turn into the shopping center.
FROM THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY TAKE EXIT 145 TO
ROUTE 280 WEST THEN
Take the NEW RD exit- exit number 1. 0.15 miles Keep RIGHT at the
fork in the
ramp. 0.07 miles Stay straight to go onto NEW RD. 0.63 miles Turn
LEFT onto US-46 West.
DRIVING WEST ON ROUTE 46 Continue for two traffic lights (second
light is Parsippany-Troy Hills Shopping
Center)which is at the INTERSECTION of Route 46 and Beverwyck Road
AT
WHICH YOU COULD TURN RIGHT TOWARDS LAKE
HIAWATHA, INSTEAD OF TURNING
RIGHT HOWEVER TURN LEFT AT THAT INTERSECTION
ONTO SOUTH BEVERWYCK
ROAD,THEN TURN RIGHT INTO THE SHOPPING CENTER
ITSELF WHICH IS BEFORE
THE WEST BOUND RAMP TO ANOTHER HIGHWAY DO NOT
TURN RIGHT INTO THE
BANK BUT TURN RIGHT BEYOND THE BANK AND INTO THE
SHOPPING CENTER,
VEGGIE HEAVEN IS NEAR THE HEALTH FOOD STORE AND IS
IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH HAS PLENTY OF PARKING IF
YOU GET LOST CALL
THE RESTAURANT FOR DIRECTIONS IF YOU ARRIVE EARLY
YOU MAY WISH TO DO SOME SHOPPING AT THE PATHMARK
SUPERMARKET WHICH
IS IN THE
SAME SHOPPING CENTER.
From Route 80 Westbound get off at Exit 47 which will take you onto
Route 46 Westbound
and proceed to the Parsippany-Troy Hills Shopping
Center) which is at the INTERSECTION of Route 46 and Beverwyck Road
AT WHICH YOU COULD TURN RIGHT TOWARDS LAKE
HIAWATHA, INSTEAD OF
TURNING
RIGHT HOWEVER TURN LEFT AT THAT INTERSECTION
ONTO SOUTH BEVERWYCK
ROAD,THEN TURN RIGHT INTO THE SHOPPING CENTER
ITSELF WHICH IS BEFORE
THE WEST BOUND RAMP TO ANOTHER HIGHWAY DO NOT
TURN RIGHT INTO THE
BANK BUT TURN RIGHT BEYOND THE BANK AND INTO THE
SHOPPING CENTER,
VEGGIE HEAVEN IS NEAR THE HEALTH FOOD STORE AND IS
IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH HAS PLENTY OF PARKING IF
YOU GET LOST CALL
THE RESTAURANT FOR DIRECTIONS
The telephone numbers of the restaurant are 973 335-9876 and 973 263-
8331 the zip code, if you are using Mapquest, is 07054. The
restaurant is a non-smoking
restaurant and moderately priced. The restaurant states that it does
not use MSG and does not use any animal products at all. It is
certified Kosher
by United Kosher Supervision P.O. Box 317 Monsey, NY
10952 Phone: (845) 352-1010 Fax: (845) 352-0316
Rabbinic Administrator: Rabbi Yaakov Spivak
Reservations are NOT needed simply show up
Although you do not have to be a member of our Jewish Singles Yahoo
Groups to attend
our events we do hope that you will join them. You may post your
introductions to them whenever you wish. When you post your
introductions and when you respond to other introductions please
state that
you are Jewish, single and over 21. Feel free also to give your
approximate
age if you wish in your posts and your responses to other posts.
Please state that you are Jewish, Single, 21 or over, when you apply
to join the Jewish Singles Yahoo Groups at the websites the urls
below will take you to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesOfNJ/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/
The items directly below are from:
http://singles.meetup.com/1651/
NORTH JERSEY Jewish Singles40's,50's,60's
Meet other Jewish singles from Northern New Jersey in their
40's,50's and 60's in a familiar and friendly atmosphere at the
Clifton Jewish Center on
Delaware street in Clifton, NJ.
Most of our members are in their 40's -50's- 60's
TO KEEP UP WITH THE ACTIVITIES WE ARE PLANNING EACH MONTH: click
on "CALENDAR"
and you will see the monthly schedule! Please sign up as a member so
that I can plan the meetings.
Thanks! Martine
The Main entrance of CJC is at the Corner of Delaware Street,
DIRECTIONS: from Rte 46 East: Drive 4 blocks beyond the Hazel St/
Paulison Ave. Exit and make a RIGHT TURN at the BURGER KING onto
Delaware Street, the parking lot is on the left."
Clifton Jewish Center 18 Delaware Street Clifton, NJ 07011
(973) 772-3131
Meetup Group Event
Mailing List Address: singles-1651@...
singles-1651 AT meetup.com
http://singles.meetup.com/1651/
Merge onto US-46 E via
EXIT 154 of the Garden State Parkway toward CLIFTON. 0.7 miles Map
Turn RIGHT onto DELAWARE ST. <0.1 miles Map
End at 18 Delaware St
Clifton, NJ 07011-3151
Mailing List Address: singles-1651@...
singles-1651 AT meetup.com
http://singles.meetup.com/1651/
Martine, (973) 772-3131.
Phone: (973) 772-3131
Email:
contact@...
contact AT cliftonjewishcenter.com
http://www.cliftonjewishcenter.com/calendar.asp
on a personal note I attended the discussion with Rabbi Ari
Korenblit on Sunday May 25th
(Film/discussion Singles, 40s, 50s, and 60s, meet at the Clifton
Jewish Center to see a film) Rabbi Korenblit was extremely
interesting. I was particularly interested in his comments on the
dangers to the Jewish community of intermarriage.
I hope that he will post his comments to our Yahoo Jewish Singles
Groups.
Please stay in touch with and join http://singles.meetup.com/1651/
.to find out when their next events are.
another great Jewish singles resource is at:
http://www.jccotp.org/
where you may find items such as:
Wed, Jul 16
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
$26.00 Member
$26.00 Non Member
5 Minute Dating
Don't miss this chance to meet several different people one-on-one
for 5 minutes each in a casual atmosphere. Enjoy socializing with
everyone during our breaks. Reservations required.
Ages 40-55
$16 by June 25, $20 after.
To register after June 25, please call Ronit Gorelik at 201-569-7900
ext. 301
Sun, Jun 29
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
$16.00 Member
$20.00 Non Member
Adults & Singles > Singles 40-59
For more information contact:
Esther Mazor, Singles Director x460
emazor@...
Singles Schmooze Summer 08
Jun 22
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Jul 27
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Aug 17
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
$4.00 Member
$6.00 Non Member
Spend a casual evening getting to know other singles through
discussions on various topics determined by the participants.
$4 JCC Member/$6 Non-member per event.
5 Minute Dating Summer 08
Singles 40-55 only
Don't miss this chance to meet and date several different people one-
on-one for 5 minutes each in a casual atmosphere. Enjoy socializing
with everyone during our breaks. Men are encouraged to register.
Reservations required, call ext 301.
$16 by 6/26, $20 at the door (based on availability).
Sun, Jun 29
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
$16.00 Member
$16.00 Non Member
If you are Jewish and Single,
Midrash BEN ISH HAI presents:
DATEin8™
8 Minute Dating at its best!
We are happy to announce another of our extremely popular DATEin8™
(DATE in 8™) 8 minute dating events for Jewish Singles.
To submit your name for selection, please complete the form at:
http://www.midrash.org/singles/datein8
How it Works:
Participants are paired with Jewish singles, in their age range, for
one-to-one sessions of 8 minutes each. There is a break to enable you
to meet any of the participants at the event.
When is the next one?:
The next DATEin8(tm) event will be on Monday, June 16, '08 at 7:00
p.m. in Circa, NY in Manhattan.
What are the age groups?
It is for the following age groups: 20's, 30's & early 40's.
Participants are paired with Jewish singles, in their age range.
(Note, if you are not in this age group you may still submit this
form, as we hold separate events for different age groups).
What do I get and what does it cost?
In addition to the eight minute dating, the evening includes a dairy
Italian dinner and costs just $36, all inclusive.
Will there be room for me and how do I get selected?
Space is always extremely limited, and demand is high.Submitting the
form at the address below will put you on the list for the next event
as it becomes available. It does not automatically guarantee you
participation in the next DATEin8™ event, but we do try to
accommodate as many people as possible. Due to the nature of the
event, pre-registration and approval is required.
To submit your name for selection, please complete the form at:
http://www.midrash.org/singles/datein8
Please tell all your single friends about it.
Directions to the JCC
http://www.jccotp.org/
(Jewish Community Center) on the Palisades
411 East Clinton Avenue Tenafly, NJ 07670 201 569 7900
these directions were found at:
http://www.jcconthepalisades.org/template.phpsection=AD
FROM GARDEN STATE PARKWAY NORTH
Exit 161 to Route 4 East. Continue directions from Route 4.
FROM GARDEN STATE PARKWAY SOUTH
Exit 163 to Route 17 South to Route 4 East.
FROM NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE
Exit 18 to Route 46 East to Grand Avenue. Proceed North past Route 4
and continue as described below (from Route 4).
FROM I-80 EAST
To Garden State Parkway North to Exit 161 and then to Route 4 East.
FROM ROUTE 4
Exit at Grand Avenue/Englewood. Follow Grand Avenue North about 1
mile, where it
becomes Engle Street. Continue on Engle Street past Englewood
Hospital. 2nd
Traffic light past hospital make right onto E. Clinton Avenue. JCC is
approximately 1 mile on left.
FROM NEW YORK CITY & LONG ISLAND
Go over George Washington Bridge to Palisades Parkway North. Get off
at Exit 1,
Englewood Cliffs & Palisades Avenue. Make right and go to 1st light.
At light
make a right onto Route 9W No. At 4th light make a left onto E.
Clinton Avenue.
JCC is mile on right.
FROM SOUTH OR WEST
Take New Jersey Turnpike (95) No. or Route 80 East to Broad Ave.
Exit. Bear
right onto Broad Ave. toward Englewood. Broad Ave. will become Dana
Place. Take
Dana Place to end. Make right onto E. Palisades Ave. At 3rd block
(on left) make
left onto No. Woodland Street to end. Make right onto E. Clinton
Avenue.
JCC immediately on left.
FROM NORTH
Take Palisades Parkway South and get off at Exit 2. Make left off
ramp onto
Route 9W South. At 3rd light make right onto E. Clinton Avenue. JCC
is mile on right.
FROM TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE
To Exit 13 So. (Palisades Parkway So.) to Exit 2. Proceed as above
from North.
FROM CONNECTICUT (Stamford)
Route I 95 So. to 287 West to Tappan Zee Bridge. Proceed as above.
A free fantastic Jewish singles resource
can be found at the url below
http://www.thejewishpeople.org/
We have no connections whatsoever to the site,
but if you do post your photo there you may wish to
include the url where your photo may be found at that
site, in your introductions, and responses to other introductions,
that you post at our Yahoo Jewish singles groups.
http://www.jstandard.com/categories/Singles/
items directly below are from url directly above
sunday [june 15]
Barbecue Jewish singles, 20-40, from the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly and the JCC in Rockland meet for a barbecue at the JCC in
Rockland, 6:30 p.m. Register by June 7. Andrea, (845) 362-4400, ext.
153.
monday [june 16]
Support for widows/widowers and separated/divorced Therapist Judy
Brauner begins a seven-session group, "You Are Not Alone: Widows and
Widowers," at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, 6:30
p.m. "Uncoupling: Coping With Divorce and Separation" starts at 8:15.
Each group goes through July 28 and costs $105 for JCC members, $130
for non-members. Sponsored in part by the Edwin S. Soforenko
Foundation. (201) 569-7900, ext. 460.
monday [june 16]
Support for Orthodox divorced moms A support group for Orthodox
divorced mothers to share ideas and resources meets with social
worker Debbie Fox at Jewish Family Service, 1485 Teaneck Road in
Teaneck, 7:30 p.m. Laura, (201) 837-9090 or e-mail
thelivingroom@...
http://www.jstandard.com/categories/Singles
the items directly above are from the url directly above
Sunday, June 22nd
NEW: Jewish Speed Dating
when: Sunday, June 22, 2008, 6:30 PM
host:
JSDNY
where:
People Lounge, 163 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002.
dress code:
casual, nice
crowd:
Women 21- 33, Men 23 - 35
price:
$30 per event ticket.
rsvp:
online
rsvp/contact:
email
NY Minute Dating is having a speed dating event on June 22nd for
Jewish
singles from the NY metro area. Our speed dating events are the FUN
new way for
singles from the New York area to meet. Meet up to fifteen singles in
one
evening! There will be drink specials and lots of mingling. Each date
will last
5 minutes, and everyone will get their results by the following
morning!
Status:Accepting Registrations.
To register visit http://www.JSDNY.com
If you are Jewish and Single,
Midrash BEN ISH HAI presents:
DATEin8™
8 Minute Dating at its best!
We are happy to announce another of our extremely popular DATEin8™
(DATE in 8™) 8 minute dating events for Jewish Singles.
To submit your name for selection, please complete the form at:
http://www.midrash.org/singles/datein8
How it Works:
Participants are paired with Jewish singles, in their age range, for
one-to-one sessions of 8 minutes each. There is a break to enable you
to meet any of the participants at the event.
When is the next one?:
The next DATEin8(tm) event will be on Monday, June 16, '08 at 7:00
p.m. in Circa, NY in Manhattan.
What are the age groups?
It is for the following age groups: 20's, 30's & early 40's.
Participants are paired with Jewish singles, in their age range.
(Note, if you are not in this age group you may still submit this
form, as we hold separate events for different age groups).
What do I get and what does it cost?
In addition to the eight minute dating, the evening includes a dairy
Italian dinner and costs just $36, all inclusive.
Will there be room for me and how do I get selected?
Space is always extremely limited, and demand is high.Submitting the
form at the address below will put you on the list for the next event
as it becomes available. It does not automatically guarantee you
participation in the next DATEin8™ event, but we do try to
accommodate as many people as possible. Due to the nature of the
event, pre-registration and approval is required.
To submit your name for selection, please complete the form at:
http://www.midrash.org/singles/datein8
Please tell all your single friends about it.
DATEin8(tm) is a trademark of Midrash BEN ISH HAI
Roberta from Circle of Single Jewish Friends has advised
me that her next event is coming up. People who wish to attend should
RSVP Roberta at roger678@...
roger678 AT optonline.net or call Roberta at 908 668-8450 so that
she can arrange the seating. (The restaurant is NOT a Kosher
restaurant please
suggest Kosher restaurants to Roberta for her future events.)
Circle of Single Jewish Friends 49 plus
Meet and Eat Lunch
attendees should RSVP Roberta at (908) 668-8450.
Roberta at (908) 668-8450
has told me that her group's next event is coming up
Roberta from Circle of Single Jewish Friends has advised
me that her next event is coming up. People who wish to attend should
RSVP Roberta at roger678@...
roger678 AT optonline.net or call Roberta at 908 668-8450 so that
she can arrange the seating. (The restaurant is NOT a Kosher
restaurant please
suggest Kosher restaurants to Roberta for her future events.)
Circle of Single Jewish Friends 49 plus
Meet and Eat Lunch
Organization: The Circle of Single Jewish Friends
Age 49+ June 22, 2008 c.e. Sunday NOON Meet and Eat Lunch at a
restaurant located at
247 Raritan Avenue (Route 27)
Highland Park, New Jersey
Price of meal off the menu and tip, plus $3:00
Please RSVP Roberta at (908) 668-8450
247 Raritan Ave. (Rt. 27)
Highland Park, NJ
Highland Park, NJ
247 Raritan Avenue & 3rd Avenue
(732) 545-1778
Fax: (732) 545-6287
Directions
FROM ROUTE 287 NORTH & SOUTH
Take the Highland Park exit. Bear right at the fork off the exit.
This will put you on River Road. Take River Road to the end. Make a
left at the light. This is Raritan Avenue. Follow Raritan Avenue for
4 traffic lights. The restaurant is on the left.
FROM ROUTE 27 NORTH
Take Route 27 through Edison into Highland Park. When you get to the
monument in the center of town, Route 27 becomes Raritan Avenue.
Pass 4 traffic lights. The restaurant is on the right.
FROM ROUTE 27 SOUTH
Follow Route 27 through New Brunswick. Pass J&J (left) and the Hyatt
Hotel (right). Continue over bridge into Highland Park. Follow into
Highland Park. Go through 5 traffic lights, including the traffic
light at the end of the bridge. The restaurant is on the left.
FROM ROUTE 1 NORTH OR SOUTH
Take Highland Park exit. This will put you on Woodbridge Avenue.
Follow Woodbridge Avenue to monument in the center of town. This is
where Woodbridge Avenue becomes Raritan Avenue. The restaurant is on
the right at the 4th traffic light.
FROM THE NJ TURNPIKE
Take Exit 9, New Brunswick. Follow signs for Route 18 North. Follow
Route 18 to Highland Park exit. Continue over bridge into Highland
Park. Go through 5 traffic lights, including the traffic light at
the end of the bridge. The restaurant is on the left.
Cost: Price of meal off the menu tax and tip,
plus $3.00
Roberta from Circle of Single Jewish Friends has advised
me that her next event is coming up. People who wish to attend should
RSVP Roberta at roger678@...
roger678 AT optonline.net or call Roberta at 908 668-8450 so that
she can arrange the seating. (The restaurant is NOT a Kosher
restaurant please
suggest Kosher restaurants to Roberta for her future events.)
Circle of Single Jewish Friends 49 plus
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We believe that it is vital for Jewish survival that single Jews
meet other single Jews, marry one another, and raise their children
as Jews. Because there is a hole in our calendar from Friday night
to Saturday night during which many single Jews go to non-Jewish
singles events, meet non-Jews, marry non-Jews, and have children
from those marriages who are not raised as Jews, the Jewish people
faces a very severe problem. We urge everyone who reads this to
contact his or her Rabbi and demand that his or her Rabbi hold
regular Jewish singles Onegs on Friday nights.
We feel that it is vitally important that single Jews go to Jewish
singles events and meet other Jewish singles at those events.
If you know anyone who happens to be Jewish who is hosting a
singles event please ask him or her to consider hosting events just
for Jewish singles.
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We recently included some material which had been sent to one of our
favorite
Jewish groups: http://www.womeningreen.org
although that material "suggested" that a Moslem could not be a good
American
we differed with that opinion in a more recent post. Most Moslems are
good Americans,
just as most German Americans are and were good Americans even when
America
and Germany were at war in Two World Wars, and just as most Japanese
Americans are
and were good Americans even when America and Japan were at war, and
just as most
Italian Americans are and were good Americans even when America and
Italy were at war.
Currently some Moslems are at war against America, against Israel,
against Russia, against England, etc. etc. etc. The emphasis here
must be on some, rather than all
Moslems.
We are aware that Islam was "brought by the sword" historically to
many parts of the world,
just as the Roman Empire brought its religions, which varied between
the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, through state power. Will it
take a total victory against those
Moslems who are war with much of the civilized world, and with other
Moslems, to end this war? What do you think?
As Jews we can recall having to "pass" as non-Jews in more than one
period in history.
Is Barack Hussein Obama a former Moslem? Is he a secret Moslem, just
as some Jews were secret Jews when it was too dangerous to be openly
Jewish? We do not know.
We are concenred about his relationship with his pastor of 20 years,
Jeremiah Wright, who gave Farrakhan a life-time achievment award and
who travelled with Farrakhan to see Khaddafi in Libya. We do not for
a moment buy Obama's explanation that he saw no evil, heard no evil,
and could speak no evil in 20 years of sitting in Reverend Wright's
church.
Indeed Wright was a key influencer on Obama and played a key part in
important religious activities involving Obama's family.
In short we think Obama is lying to the American people when he
denies all knowledge of the nature of Reverend Wright.
An article suggesting that Obama has converted from Islam is below,
what do you think of it?
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html?
_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
May 12, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
President Apostate?
By EDWARD N. LUTTWAK
Chevy Chase, Md.
BARACK OBAMA has emerged as a classic example of charismatic
leadership — a figure upon whom others project their own hopes and
desires. The resulting emotional intensity adds greatly to the more
conventional strengths of the well-organized Obama campaign, and it
has certainly sufficed to overcome the formidable initial advantages
of Senator Hillary Clinton.
One danger of such charisma, however, is that it can evoke
unrealistic hopes of what a candidate could actually accomplish in
office regardless of his own personal abilities. Case in point is the
oft-made claim that an Obama presidency would be welcomed by the
Muslim world.
This idea often goes hand in hand with the altogether more plausible
argument that Mr. Obama's election would raise America's esteem in
Africa — indeed, he already arouses much enthusiasm in his father's
native Kenya and to a degree elsewhere on the continent.
But it is a mistake to conflate his African identity with his Muslim
heritage. Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can
understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such
thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an
exclusive faith.
As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim
under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no
difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he
renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran
his mother's Christian background is irrelevant.
Of course, as most Americans understand it, Senator Obama is not a
Muslim. He chose to become a Christian, and indeed has written
convincingly to explain how he arrived at his choice and how
important his Christian faith is to him.
His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is "irtidad"
or "ridda," usually translated from the Arabic as "apostasy," but
with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst
of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the
victim's family may choose to forgive).
With few exceptions, the jurists of all Sunni and Shiite schools
prescribe execution for all adults who leave the faith not under
duress; the recommended punishment is beheading at the hands of a
cleric, although in recent years there have been both stonings and
hangings. (Some may point to cases in which lesser punishments were
ordered — as with some Egyptian intellectuals who have been punished
for writings that were construed as apostasy — but those were really
instances of supposed heresy, not explicitly declared apostasy as in
Senator Obama's case.)
It is true that the criminal codes in most Muslim countries do not
mandate execution for apostasy (although a law doing exactly that is
pending before Iran's Parliament and in two Malaysian states). But as
a practical matter, in very few Islamic countries do the governments
have sufficient authority to resist demands for the punishment of
apostates at the hands of religious authorities.
For example, in Iran in 1994 the intervention of Pope John Paul II
and others won a Christian convert a last-minute reprieve, but the
man was abducted and killed shortly after his release. Likewise, in
2006 in Afghanistan, a Christian convert had to be declared insane to
prevent his execution, and he was still forced to flee to Italy.
Because no government is likely to allow the prosecution of a
President Obama — not even those of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the only
two countries where Islamic religious courts dominate over secular
law — another provision of Muslim law is perhaps more relevant: it
prohibits punishment for any Muslim who kills any apostate, and
effectively prohibits interference with such a killing.
At the very least, that would complicate the security planning of
state visits by President Obama to Muslim countries, because the very
act of protecting him would be sinful for Islamic security guards.
More broadly, most citizens of the Islamic world would be horrified
by the fact of Senator Obama's conversion to Christianity once it
became widely known — as it would, no doubt, should he win the White
House. This would compromise the ability of governments in Muslim
nations to cooperate with the United States in the fight against
terrorism, as well as American efforts to export democracy and human
rights abroad.
That an Obama presidency would cause such complications in our
dealings with the Islamic world is not likely to be a major factor
with American voters, and the implication is not that it should be.
But of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the
hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world's
Muslims is the least realistic.
Edward N. Luttwak, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, is the author of "Strategy: The Logic of War
and Peace."
Is Obama a secret Moslem just as many of our ancestors who were Jews
were forced in many periods of history to be secret Jews? We do not
know. What do you think? If he is a secret Moslem what other secrets
does he have? What is his relationship with Farrakhan?
What is his relationship with Syria? What is his relationship with
Libya?
What was his relationship with Saddam Hussein?
item directly below is from url directly below
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/
"Obama took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend
October's Million Man March in Washington, D.C. His experiences there
only reinforced his reasons for jumping into politics.
"What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for
African-American men to come together to recognize each other and
affirm our rightful place in the society," he said. "There was a
profound sense that African-American men were ready to make a
commitment to bring about change in our communities and lives"
item directly above is from url directly below:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/.
the item directly below is from the url directly below
http://www.adl.org/presrele/IslME_62/2651_62.asp
The Cynical Covenant of Farrakhan and Qaddafi
by Abraham H. Foxman
Last October, while Louis Farrakhan was basking in the afterglow of
the successful Million Man March on Washington, the Nation of Islam
leader announced he would be "keeping the momentum [of the march]
alive" by encouraging blacks across the country to become politically
active. His plans were welcomed by mainstream leaders and
organizations, and praised as a positive departure from NOI's long-
held tradition of shunning the American political scene. Now it turns
out that this seemingly legitimate political goal is fundamentally
tainted -- that Minister Farrakhan will work toward achieving black
political influence in partnership with the anti-American Libyan
strongman, Muammar Qaddafi .
On January 23, Minister Farrakhan and Colonel Qaddafi reached an
agreement to launch a campaign to exert black and Muslim influence in
the upcoming U.S. elections can only be viewed as a cynical covenant
between two haters. With the Nation of Islam leading the effort,
Colonel Qaddafi said that blacks, Arabs, Muslims and native Americans
will exercise their political muscle "and enter the election period
as a card stronger than the Jewish card in the elections campaign."
Colonel Qaddafi had already agreed to bankroll the effort: in
September he promised to spend up to $1 billion to launch a Muslim
lobby in America .
Until now, Colonel Qaddafi announced, "Our confrontation with America
was like a fight against a fortress from outside." After speaking
with Minister Farrakhan , however, "we found a breach to enter into
this fortress and confront it." Colonel Qaddafi promised that as it
battles America from the inside, the NOI will eventually fulfill one
of its fondest dreams: establishing a black state within America 's
borders. Ever the military man, the Libyan leader also predicted that
this new state will boast the"biggest black army on the planet."
Minister Farrakhan , "happy with the results" of his meeting with
Muammar Qaddafi , has now publicly forged an alliance with an
unrepentant international bully and an enemy of the United States For
years, Libya has sponsored numerous brutal acts of anti-American and
anti-Israeli terror. Despite United Nations sanctions placed on his
country four years ago, Colonel Qadaffi refuses to hand over for
trial two Libyan suspects in the bombing of a Pan Am 103 that killed
270 people. A fierce opponent of the Israeli-Palestinian peace
accords, Colonel Qaddafi has urged Arab countries to expel all
Palestinian refugees and workers from their lands as a way of
embarrassing the peacemakers; in September he followed his own advice
and began to expel hundreds of Palestinian workers from his country's
borders.
This is by no means Minister Farrakhan 's first encounter with the
radical Libyan leader. In 1985, Colonel Qaddafi granted the Nation of
Islam a $5 million interest-free loan, which Minister Farrakhan said
he used to launch his group's POWER personal products line. Months
later, Louis Farrakhan visited Libya to thank his benefactor
personally. The Nation of Islam leader and his lieutenants have
travelled on other occasions to Tripoli for meetings with the Libyan
dictator. One such gathering attended by Minister Farrakhan -- in
violation of a travel ban imposed on Americans by President Reagan --
offered training seminars on weapons and explosives. Minister
Farrakhan has called Colonel Qaddafi "a fellow struggler in the cause
of liberation for our people," and his organization's tabloid, The
Final Call, has hailed the Libyan leader as the "TRUE HERO of
liberation struggle."
To all who believe that the Million Man March was a turning point for
Louis Farrakhan , proving that he no longer harbors an extremist
agenda, his alliance with Colonel Qaddafi should serve as a wake up
call. His behavior in Libya fits a pattern that too many Americans --
black and white -- have ignored for too long. Louis Farrakhan 's
black separatist philosophy has always run counter to the American
vision of equality for all citizens. His unabashed displays of
friendship toward one of the world's bloodiest terrorists suggest a
troubling complacency toward violence and extremism.
In preparation for the Million Man March, Minister Farrakhan drummed
up support by reciting words of conciliation. He appeared to moderate
his often-harsh rhetoric with appeals to black community
responsibility, reconciliation and atonement. Such statements enabled
him to curry favor with the mainstream; they encouraged congressmen
and leading civil rights figures to pay homage to Minister Farrakhan
in speeches at the march.
But Louis Farrakhan has the last laugh now. Respectable black leaders
have proven willing to take a seat at Minister Farrakhan's meeting
table, most recently at the November 1995 African American Leadership
Summit. Nevertheless, it seems that Minister Farrakhan is only too
happy to stride both sides of the fence. He welcomes, even craves,
mainstream support, but is at the same time forges links to
terrorists and extremists.
In fact, Libya is not his only outlaw friend in the Middle East .
Minister Farrakhan has also cultivated ties to the Sudan , an Islamic
fundamentalist state notorious for harboring accused terrorists, and
also reportedly responsible for enslaving black African Christians.
His current tour included a cordial visit with the corrupt military
dictator General Sani Abacha of Nigeria .
Louis Farrakhan has long poisoned public discourse with malicious
words of racism and anti-Semitism. But recently, many Americans have
begun to overlook the rhetoric. Minister Farrakhan 's hate speech,
they seem to be saying, is old news. They believe he has progressed
beyond the scapegoating, beyond the divisiveness and has settled into
the mainstream. Minister Farrakhan 's eagerness to cut a deal with
one of the world's most violent leaders, should cause these Americans
to think again.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services
that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry
http://www.adl.org/main_about_adl.asp
material directly below is from url directly above
"The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 "to stop the
defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair
treatment to all." Now the nation's premier civil rights/human
relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry,
defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all."
http://www.adl.org/main_about_adl.asp
material directly above is from url directly above
Obama Tied To Organizing Million Man March With Farrakhan
Presidential Candidate and Senator Barack Obama has now been tied to
organizing and marching in the Million Man March with his pastor
Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan.
Earlier Obama claimed that he didn't accept the endorsement of
Farrakhan, but having worked with him in the past this plays as just
pure political theater.
To climb to the heights of power that Obama has, he needed help along
the way. The reality is that the help that Obama has had has been
through the extremists in the black community that hate America, are
anti-Semites and espouse hate at every turn.
Now that he has been called on the company he keeps, Obama figures he
can write it off with a few statements and press releases.
Is this really what we want in a president?
Some of the history of secret Jews, which may well include some of my
own
ancestors.is below:
source:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Inquisition.html
"The Inquisition
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The Inquisition was a Roman Catholic tribunal for discovery and
punishment of heresy, which was marked by the severity of questioning
and punishment and lack of rights afforded to the accused.
While many people associate the Inquisition with Spain and Portugal,
it was actually instituted by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) in Rome.
A later pope, Pope Gregory IX established the Inquisition, in 1233,
to combat the heresy of the Abilgenses, a religious sect in France.
By 1255, the Inquisition was in full gear throughout Central and
Western Europe; although it was never instituted in England or
Scandinavia.
Initially a tribunal would open at a location and an edict of grace
would be published calling upon those who are conscious of heresy to
confess; after a period of grace, the tribunal officers could make
accusations. Those accused of heresy were sentenced at an auto de fe,
Act of Faith. Clergyman would sit at the proceedings and would
deliver the punishments. Punishments included confinement to
dungeons, physical abuse and torture. Those who reconciled with the
church were still punished and many had their property confiscated,
as well as were banished from public life. Those who never confessed
were burned at the stake without strangulation; those who did confess
were strangled first. During the 16th and 17th centuries, attendance
at auto de fe reached as high as the attendance at bullfights.
In the beginning, the Inquisition dealt only with Christian heretics
and did not interfere with the affairs of Jews. However, disputes
about Maimonides' books (which addressed the synthesis of Judaism and
other cultures) provided a pretext for harassing Jews and, in 1242,
the Inquisition condemned the Talmud and burned thousands of volumes.
In 1288, the first mass burning of Jews on the stake took place in
France.
In 1481 the Inquisition started in Spain and ultimately surpassed the
medieval Inquisition, in both scope and intensity. Conversos (Secret
Jews) and New Christians were targeted because of their close
relations to the Jewish community, many of whom were Jews in all but
their name. Fear of Jewish influence led Queen Isabella and King
Ferdinand to write a petition to the Pope asking permission to start
an Inquisition in Spain. In 1483 Tomas de Torquemada became the
inquisitor-general for most of Spain, he set tribunals in many
cities. Also heading the Inquisition in Spain were two Dominican
monks, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martin.
First, they arrested Conversos and notable figures in Seville; in
Seville more than 700 Conversos were burned at the stake and 5,000
repented. Tribunals were also opened in Aragon, Catalonia and
Valencia. An Inquisition Tribunal was set up in Ciudad Real, where
100 Conversos were condemned, and it was moved to Toledo in 1485.
Between 1486-1492, 25 auto de fes were held in Toledo, 467 people
were burned at the stake and others were imprisoned. The Inquisition
finally made its way to Barcelona, where it was resisted at first
because of the important place of Spanish Conversos in the economy
and society.
More than 13,000 Conversos were put on trial during the first 12
years of the Spanish Inquisition. Hoping to eliminate ties between
the Jewish community and Conversos, the Jews of Spain were expelled
in 1492..
The next phase of the Inquisition began around 1531, when Pope Leo X
extended the Inquisition to Portugal. Thousands of Jews came to
Portugal after the 1492 expulsion. A Spanish style Inquisition was
constituted and tribunals were set up in Lisbon and other cities.
Among the Jews who died at the hands of the Inquisition were well-
known figures of the period such as Isaac de Castro Tartas, Antonio
Serrao de Castro and Antonio Jose da Silva. The Inquisition never
stopped in Spain and continued until the late 18th century.
By the second half of the 18th century, the Inquisition abated, due
to the spread of enlightened ideas and lack of resources. The last
auto de fe in Portugal took place on October 27, 1765. Not until
1808, during the brief reign of Joseph Bonaparte, was the Inquisition
abolished in Spain. An estimated 31,912 heretics were burned at the
stake, 17,659 were burned in effigy and 291,450 made reconciliations
in the Spanish Inquisition. In Portugal, about 40,000 cases were
tried, although only 1,800 were burned, the rest made penance.
The Inquisition was not limited to Europe; it also spread to Spanish
and Portugese colonies in the New World and Asia. Many Jews and
Conversos fled from Portugal and Spain to the New World seeking
greater security and economic opportunities. Branches of the
Portugese Inquisition were set up in Goa and Brazil. Spanish
tribunals and auto de fes were set up in Mexico, the Philippine
Islands, Guatemala, Peru, New Granada and the Canary Islands. By the
late 18th century, most of these were dissolved."
source:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Marranos.html
"
Marranos, Conversos, and New Christians
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Conversos and Marranos
The terms "Marrano" and "converso" were applied in Spain and Portugal
to the descendants of baptized Jews suspected of secret adherence to
Judaism. Converso, from the Latin conversus, meant literally the
converted. Various origins for the term "marrano" have been
suggested, which include the Hebrew marit ayin ("the appearance of
the eye"), referring to the fact that the Marranos were ostensibly
Christian but actually Jews; mohoram attah ("you are
excommunicated"); the Aramaic-Hebrew Mar Anus ("forced convert"); the
Hebrew mumar ("apostate") with the Spanish ending ano; the Arabic
mura'in ("hypocrite"); and the second word of the ecclesiastical
imprecation anathema maranatha. All such derivations, however, are
unlikely. The most probable is from the Spanish word meaning swine or
pig, derived from the Latin verres "wild boar." The term probably did
not originally refer to the Jews' reluctance to eat pork, as some
scholars hold; from its earliest use, it was intended to impart the
sense of loathing conveyed by the word. Although romanticized and
regarded by later Jewry as a badge of honor, the term was not as
widely used, especially in official circles, as is often believed. In
Latin America, as a rule, it is not found in official documents, and
there is little evidence of its unofficial use in most places. It is
not clear if the "Old Christians" only, or the secretly practicing
Jews also called themselves "marrano."
"Marranos" started appearing with the first riots in the Juderias of
Spain. Many were forced to convert to Christianity to save their
lives. The laws in 14th and 15th century Spain became increasingly
oppressive toward practicing Jews, and conversion was provded as an
alternative to death. Large numbers of middle class Jews outwardly
adopting Christianity to avoid the laws, while secretly practicing
Judaism.
"New Christians"
"New Christians" is a term applied specifically to three groups of
Jewish converts to Christianity and their descendants in the Iberian
Peninsula. The first group converted in the wake of the massacres in
Spain in 1391 and the proselytizing fervor of the subsequent decades.
The second, also in Spain, were baptized following the decree of
Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 expelling all Jews who refused to
accept Christianity. The third group, in Portugal, was converted by
force and royal fiat in 1497. Like the word Conversos, but unlike
Marranos, the term New Christian carried no intrinsic pejorative
connotation, but with the increasing power of the Inquisition and the
growth of the concept of "limpieza de sangre," cleansing the blood,
the name signaled the disabilities inevitably heaped on those who
bore it.
The New Christians who continued secretly to observe the precepts of
Judaism as much as possible after their conversion were not regarded
as voluntary apostates. The basis of this decision was the statement
by Maimonides that although one should allow oneself to be put to
death rather than abandon one's faith in times of
persecution, "nevertheless, if he transgressed and did not choose the
death of a martyr, even though he has annulled the positive precept
of sanctifying the Name and transgressed the injunction not to
desecrate the Name, since he transgressed under duress and could not
escape, he is exempted from punishment." In accordance with this
ruling, other rabbis ruled that those New Christians who remained in
their countries because they were unable to escape and flee, if they
conducted themselves in accordance with the precepts of Judaism, even
if only privately, were full Jews; their shehitah could be relied
upon, their testimony in law cases accepted, and their wine was
considered kosher.
Some authorities ruled, however, that if the Marranos of a certain
locality succeeded in fleeing to a country where they could return to
Judaism, while others remained there in order to retain their
material possessions, the latter were no longer presumed to have the
privilege of being regarded as valid witnesses or even Jews. Other
rabbis expressed more lenient views, and held that no one was to be
deprived of their rights as a Jew as long as they were not seen to
transgress the precepts of Judaism when there was no longer danger
involved. Talmudic scholar Moses Isserles, too, ruled that even those
Marranos who are able to flee but delay because of material
considerations and transgress Judaism publicly out of compulsion
while remaining observant privately, still are reliable Jews. The
Marranos who had lived among gentiles for more than a century usually
assimilated and intermarried, with the result that their children
were presumed to be non-Jewish unless it could be proven that their
mothers were Jewish.
The scholars of Safed headed by Jacob Berab imposed flagellation upon
Marranos who returned to Judaism as a punishment for transgressing
the prohibitions that rendered them liable to karet, excommunication,
in their previous condition. Yet, since flagellation can be imposed
only by ordained dayyanim (judges). Jacob Berab and his colleagues
wanted to enforce punishment when ordination was renewed (see
semikhah). A Marrano who escaped from his native land, but was not
circumcised through neglect, was prevented from participating in the
services in the synagogue until he was circumcised.
Movement From Spain
New Christians began to leave Spain in the wake of the mass
conversions of 1391, and Portugal after the forced conversions in
1497. The tide of emigration ebbed and flowed, but heightened during
the Inquisition in Spain in 1481, and Portugal in 1536 and after
1630. To slow the continuing exodus, as early as the last decade of
the 15th century, the authorities in both countries issued decrees
prohibiting the emigration of New Christians. Even the so-called
irrevocable permission to emigrate which the New Christians purchased
from Philip III in 1601, during the union of Spain and Portugal, was
short-lived, and rescinded in 1610. These decrees were frequently
evaded, however, and Marranos regularly left the Peninsula
clandestinely, or secured permission to take business trips abroad
from which they never returned. There were even cases of Marranos
leaving for the ostensible purpose of making a pilgrimage to Rome.
Once the authorities became aware of such stratagies they tried to
intercept Marranos as they moved through Europe to places where they
could practice Judaism openly, and men like Jean de la Foix in
Lombardy acquired notoriety for his inhuman treatment of those who
fell into his hands. There were instances where the highest
authorities in the Peninsula closed their eyes to New Christian
emigration, however, particularly when it involved their settling in
Latin America, where their skills and enterprise were desperately
needed. Furtively and openly, in trickles and in torrents, thousands
of New Christians left the Iberian Peninsula during the nearly three
and a half centuries of the Inquisition's power.
In Majorca, Spain, the community was converted in the 1430's and
called Chuetas, from "pork lard" since they regularly kept pork lard
boiling in cauldrons on their porches. They still called
themselves "Israelitas" in private, and families typically gave their
first born son to the Catholic priesthood as a means of gaining
protection from Church persecution. As a result, many of the priests
from across the Baleiric Islands are from Marrano families.
During the Inquisition's extended sway over the Peninsula, the
emigrating Marranos could flee to four different kinds of countries:
Muslim lands, Protestant territories as they came into being,
Catholic countries outside the jurisdiction of Spain and Portugal,
and Catholic countries within the peninsular orbit.
Muslim countries were the most natural places of refuge for Marranos
seeking to live openly as Jews, for they were the archenemies of the
Christians, with Spain and Portugal being particularly hated. Morocco
had already become a haven of refuge for both Jews and Conversos at
the end of the 14th century, but many more Jews and Marranos were
attracted to the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 15th century and
during the 16th. Sultan Bayazid II (Bajazet II; 1481–1512) mocked
King Ferdinand for impoverishing Spain and enriching the Ottoman
Empire through his expulsion of the Jews. In the 16th century,
numerous cities in the Ottoman Empire had Jewish settlements, among
them Cairo, Jerusalem, Safed, Damascus, Constantinople with some
50,000 Jews, and Salonika where the population of the Marranos
exceeded that of the other Jews and the non-Jews as well.
Protestant Lands
Next to the Muslim countries, the Protestant lands offered the best
prospects for Morranos, for here too the Catholics were detested, and
the Inquisition was a hated institution because it was no more
tolerant of Protestants than Jews. In places like England and
Germany, Marranos began their existence as titular Catholics and
secret Jews before the Reformation. They continued in this double
life long after those areas had broken with Rome, since the
Protestant authorities were not eager to grant official
acknowledgment to the Jews.
In Hamburg, destined to become one of the wealthiest and most
productive Marrano centers, the settlement of Jews was not officially
authorized until 1612 and Jewish public worship not until 1650. In
England, where Jews had been expelled in 1290, the Marranos who
originally settled in London and Bristol were never officially
acknowledged as Jews, the question was simply ignored and Marranos
were allowed to live undisturbed as practicing Jews. Actually this
connivance, or de facto resettlement through official silence, proved
salutary for the Jews, since the failure to grant official permission
for their presence made it impossible to impose particular
disabilities on them. From the middle of the 17th century at least,
the Marranos were treated like all other nonconformist citizens. In
1664, the crown granted Jews an official charter of protection, thus
further facilitating the development of the Marrano community. The ex-
Marranos and their descendants continued to be the dominant element
in British Jewry until the 19th century.
In Amsterdam, the Marranos did not arrive until around 1590, some 11
years after the Union of Utrecht (1579) and the birth of the United
Provinces of the Netherlands as a Protestant state. Here, too, they
had to wait until 1615 before Jewish settlement was officially
authorized, but the Marranos in Amsterdam differed from those in
other Protestant countries in that they openly practiced Judaism
almost from the moment of their arrival. Thanks to the Marranos,
Amsterdam became one of the greatest Jewish centers in the world in
the 17th century; it had some of the finest academies and produced
some of the greatest Jewish thinkers. During this time, Amsterdam
even became known as "the Dutch Jerusalem." The city was also a haven
for oppressed Jews from places other than Spain and Portugal,
including France in 1615 and Eastern Europe after the Chmielnicki
massacres in 1648.
Marranos from Holland were among the first settlers in Surinam and
Curacao, where a substantial Sephardi community came into being after
1650. Other former Marranos were also found in Barbados and in other
parts of the West Indies, including Martinique and the Leeward
Islands.
The Catholic lands outside the control of Spain and Portugal did not
offer as secure a haven as the Ottoman Empire or the Protestant
countries, but they had the advantage of being outside the orbit of
the peninsular Inquisitions. At the same tim,e these areas were not
without their inherent dangers, in the form of envy or rooted
prejudice on the part of the local population, pressures from the
Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions upon the local authorities, and
even the possibility of persecution galvanized by local initiative,
and, in the case of the Papal States, an indigenous Inquisition. As a
result, the existence of many of these Marrano communities, even if
unclouded and prosperous for a time, was seldom free from molestation.
Jews And Popes
In the Papal States, the Marranos' presence was noticeable in Rome
and, even more so, the seaport of Ancona, where they thrived under
benevolent popes Clement VII (1523–34), Paul III (1534–49), and
Julius III (1550–55). They even received a guarantee that if accused
of apostasy they would be subject only to papal authority. But Paul
IV (1555–59), the voice of the Counter-Reformation, dealt them an
irreparable blow when he withdrew all protection previously given the
Marranos and initiated a fierce persecution against them. As a result
of the anti-Marrano campaign, 25 Jews were burned alive in the spring
of 1556, 26 others were condemned to the galleys, and 30 more who had
been arrested were liberated only after they had paid a substantial
bribe. Thanks to the intervention of the Marrano patroness, Gracia
Mendes Nasi, the sultan at Constantinople secured the release of all
Marranos who were his subjects. Plans were laid to boycott Ancona and
transfer all the Marranos' former business to neighboring Pesaro, in
the friendlier territory of the duke of Urbino, but the project
failed, and the duke expelled the Marranos from his territory.
A document of 1550 indicates that there were some Marranos among the
Spanish and Portuguese merchants in Florence who traded on a large
scale with Spain and her colonies. In Ferrara, under the house of
Este, the Marranos formed a large and thriving community by the
middle of the 16th century, one of the most notable in their entire
Diaspora. The dukes protected them until 1581, when Duke Alfonso II,
bowing to ecclesiastical pressure, allowed many of them to be
arrested. Three were eventually sent to Rome to be burned at the
stake in February 1583. Marranos settled in Venice in the 15th and
early 16th centuries but were subjected to decrees of expulsion in
1497 and again in 1550. Thereafter the city policy began to change.
Venice not only welcomed Marranos but kept the Inquisition at bay.
Theologians like Paolo Sarpi even claimed that the Jews were outside
the jurisdiction of the Inquisition because they had been baptized by
force.
Equally fortunate was the situation in the grand duchy of Tuscany. In
an attempt to woo the Marranos to Pisa and Leghorn, Ferdinand II
issued a charter in 1593 granting them protection against harassment
in matters of faith. As it was in decline at the time, Pisa did not
attract many Marranos, but Leghorn did: the community there thrived
and by the end of the 18th century its population approached 5,000.
Emmanuel Philbert granted special privileges to induce Jews to settle
in the duchy of Savoy, intending mainly to settle Marranos from Spain
and Portugal in Nice to develop the city into a central trading port
with the East. The privilege enraged Philip II of Spain, who
considered the whole plan as seriously damaging Spain's interests in
the Mediterranean as well as an incitement to Marranos to return to
Judaism. The pressure of Spain led to the rescinding of the privilege
and, on Nov. 22, 1573, the duke ordered a group of Marranos who had
returned to Judaism to leave his territory within six months. This
decree was probably not put into effect until 1581 when Charles
Emmanuel I ordered the expulsion of all Portuguese Jews from the
duchy.
In France the Marranos had to maintain some semblance of Catholicism
for more than two centuries, but they were seldom molested in their
secret practice of Judaism. Though they were called "New Christians"
or "Portuguese merchants," their Jewishness was an open secret. In
the large settlements they lived in their own quarters, had their own
burial grounds, developed their own schools and communal
institutions, and even trained their own rabbis after first importing
them from abroad. They gradually reduced their Catholic practices and
eventually abandoned Church marriage and baptism. In 1730, they were
officially recognized as Jews. Their more formal communities were
situated at Bordeaux and Bayonne and there were numerous lesser
settlements in such places as Toulouse, Lyons, Montpellier, La
Rochelle, Nantes, and Rouen. Bayonne was the center of a cluster of
communities, including Biarritz, Bidache, Peyrehorade, and Saint-Jean-
de-Luz. In this last town, the Marranos had the misfortune of being
expelled in 1619, and then, after a partial return, seeing the town
captured by the Spaniards in 1636.
In the far-flung Spanish and Portuguese possessions, in the Aragonese
territories of Sicily, Sardinia and Naples, in Hapsburg territories
such as Flanders, or the colonial territories in the Far East and the
Americas, the situation of the Marranos was always precarious. They
lived continually under the shadow of the Inquisition; even where a
tribunal of the Holy Office was not in operation, episcopal
Inquisitions and occasional inquisitional "visitors" were sent from
the home countries to galvanize the search for heretics. Sicily and
Sardinia, with Inquisitions introduced in 1487 and 1493 respectively,
had no Jews living in them by the middle of the 16th century. There
was opposition to introducing the Spanish Inquisition into Naples,
but the papal Inquisition took over and managed to destroy most of
the Marrano community by the middle of the 17th century.
The situation of the Marranos was no less precarious in Antwerp,
where they began to arrive early in the 16th century, often before
moving to the Ottoman Empire. In 1526, New Christians' stay in the
city was restricted to a 30-day period and, though settlement was
fully authorized 11 years later, Judaism was strictly prohibited.
With the decline of Antwerp, the center of Marrano life shifted to
Amsterdam.
The Colonies
In their colonies the Portuguese set up an Inquisition at Goa and the
Spaniards established one in the Philippines. Episcopal Inquisitions
were always present in Latin America: Brazil never had a formal
tribunal, but tribunals were established in the Spanish colonies at
Lima, Peru in 1570, Mexico City, Mexico in 1571, and Cartagena in
1610. Latin America in particular attracted considerable numbers of
New Christians. The advantage of these territories was that they
offered the New Christians a familiar culture and the possiblity of
direct — even if infrequent — contact with the mother countries. For
New Christians wishing to live fully as Catholics, the distances from
the Peninsula and the sparseness of the population of most of the
territories aided in the obliteration of the record of their Jewish
origins. These factors also helped permit the Marranos to practice
Judaism.
Religious tolerance was important in determining the direction of the
flight of many of the Marranos, but also of great importance were the
economic and social opportunities available in the various lands open
to them at the time of their escape. These opportunities often made
it more desirable for Marranos to continue living as secret Jews in
Catholic lands, even those under Spanish and Portuguese domination,
than to seek a refuge where they could practice Judaism openly.
Conversely, in each of the territories where the Marranos appeared,
they were allowed to enter and remain because they served definite
economic, social, and political ends. In almost every one of their
new homes they quickly rose to prominence in international and
domestic trade, banking and finance. They helped to establish great
national banks and were prominent on the stock exchanges.
Marranos played an important role in large trading companies, such as
the Dutch East Indies and West Indies Companies. They worked in the
traffic of such commodities as coral, sugar, tobacco, and precious
stones. The Marranos' common background and culture, their presence
in the leading commercial centers, and often their ties of kinship,
enabled them to establish an efficient and closely knit international
trading organization. Great banking and trading families, such as
that founded by Francisco Mendes at Lisbon, had branches throughout
Europe. Marranos established manufacturing plants for soap, drugs,
and other items, and made signal contributions in minting,
handicrafts, armaments, and shipbuilding. The Marranos' international
connections served to stimulate communications between nations and
their separate competitive development. In this way the activities of
the New Christians fostered the stability of their countries of
settlement and facilitated their transition from a medieval to a
modern economy.
Jewish Professionals
The Marranos also attained prominence in the professional life of the
lands of their dispersion. From their midst came great diplomats like
JoCo Miguez, the duke of Naxos (Joseph Nasi), and his mother-in-law,
Gracia Mendes Nasi (Beatriz de Luna), who also distinguished herself
as a great philanthropist and patron of the Jewish arts, as well as
the equally colorful Diego Texeira de Sampaio (Abraham Senior
Texeira). The Marranos produced scientists such as Immanuel Bocarro
Frances, distinguished physicians like Amatus Lusitanus (Juan
Rodrigo), Elijah Montalto (Felipo Rodrigues), and Antonio Ribeiro
Sanchez, and a host of other distinguished names in secular
literature, theater, and music.
Reciprocally, many of the states and nations in their diaspora gave
the Marranos an opportunity to develop their own institutions and
culture; the printing press became an important instrument in the
development of this culture. Ferrara's press, which published a
famous translation of the Bible into Spanish, and Samuel Usque's
Consolaam as tribulaoens de Israel in Portuguese, in addition to
liturgical and other works, was the center of Marrano culture in the
middle of the 16th century. By the end of the 16th century, Venice
had the leading press. Other cities, too, like Leghorn, Hamburg, and
London, had important presses, and printing in numerous smaller
places helped to further spread Jewish culture.
A number of Marrano writers became well-known including apologists
such as Immanuel Aboab, Saul Levi Morteira, Lorenzo Escudero (Abraham
Ger or Abraham Israel Peregrino), Isaac Cardozo, Isaac Orobio de
Castro, and David Nieto; poets such as David Abenatar Melo, Daniel
Lopez Laguna, Solomon Usque, JoCo (Moses) Pinto Delgado, and Daniel
Levi (Miguel) de Barrios; playwrights such as Antonio Enriquez Gomez
and Antonio Jose da Silva; and versatile writers such as the prolific
Joseph Penso de la Vega, writer of plays, short stories, and one of
the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on the stock exchange.
Many Marranos also attained fame outside the Jewish fold. The
aristocracy of many societies in Europe and the Americas was enriched
by these people and their descendants. Frequently, as was the case
with Benjamin Disraeli, they attained the highest diplomatic,
military, and administrative positions.
In Portugal, the Marquis de Pombal officially abolished all legal
distinctions between Old and New Christians in May 1773. Comparable
measures were not enacted in Spain until 1860, by which time much of
the distinction had been eroded by assimilation and inquisitorial
repression. Pockets of social discrimination against New Christians
continued, for example, against the "chuetas" of the Balearic Isles.
A Marrano community was discovered by Samuel Schwartz in Portugal in
1917, and from time to time there emerge individuals or even groups
who do not identify as Jews, but who have retained some of the
practices and customs of the Marranos while unaware of their Jewish
ancestry. The most active Marranos are in the mountainous border
areas of the Iberian peninsula between Spain and Portugal, in towns
such as Belmonte. Jewish outreach in these areas is achieving success
in bringing them forward and restoring full Judaic practice, but many
still fear burning or other persecution if they go public with their
practices.
"Crypto-Jew" has now become the more politically correct term, as
opposed to Marrano, and refers to all Jews forced to adopt a certain
religion and political philosophy while maintaining Jewish practices
in secret. In modern times, outwardly Muslim Crypto-Jews are known to
be in Iran, and Turkey. Some Hispanics and Latinos, such as Rita
Moreno and Fidel Castro, have acknowledged their Marrano ancestry."
Obama's Syrian Connection
By Andrew Walden
FrontPageMagazine.com | 3/11/2008
Most politicians try to keep their financial backers un-indicted
until after the election. But Obama's biggest early sponsor, dual
U.S.-Syrian citizen Antoin `Tony' Rezko, is already indicted by a
federal grand jury. Now he is going to trial in a Chicago federal
court.
Rezko, along with co-defendants Ali Ata and Abdelhamid Chaib, face
federal grand jury charges presented in October 2006 by the U.S.
Attorney for Northern Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald. The case centers
on allegations of fraud between 2000 and 2004 in the sale of 17 Papa
Johns' Pizza parlors in Detroit, Chicago and Milwaukee. The case may
begin with pizza, but it leads to Europe, Syria, Iraq, and the UN Oil
for Food program.
Fitzgerald is the prosecutor who won perjury convictions against Vice
President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, in March, 2007.
Chaib is an officer of several of Rezko's restaurant chains including
Chicagoland Panda Express franchises. Ata was appointed Executive
Director of the Illinois Finance Authority by Illinois' Democratic
Governor, Rod Blagojevich. Ata was also a former president of the
Chicago Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
and had a financial interest in Rezko's restaurants. Ata reportedly
donated as much as $60,000 to Blagojevich and $5000 to Obama. Rezko
reportedly raised as much as $500,000 for Blagojevich and at least
$70,000 for Obama's various campaigns.
Arab American Media Services reports: "In 1997, Panda Express won the
right to open a lucrative concession at O'Hare International Airport
under the city's Minority Set-Aside program which directs large
contracts to companies owned by Women, African Americans or
Hispanics. The city awarded a 10-year contract for O'Hare Airport to
Crucial Inc. in 1999, which the city believed was owned by an African
American, Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of the late Elijah
Mohammad."
Elijah Mohammad led the Nation of Islam until his death in 1975.
Jabir Herbert Muhammad was sued in 1999 by boxer Muhammad Ali for
unauthorized use of his name in connection with the Muhammad Ali
Foundation. Rezko served as Executive Director of the Foundation.
According to the Associated Press, "U.S. District Judge Amy J. St.
Eve jailed Rezko Jan. 28, saying he had disobeyed her order to keep
her posted on his financial status. Among other things, he failed to
tell her about a $3.5 million loan from London-based Iraqi
billionaire Nadhmi Auchi – a loan that was later forgiven in exchange
for shares in a prime slice of Chicago real estate. Rezko gave
$700,000 of the money to his wife and used the rest to pay legal
bills and funnel cash to various supporters."
According to the ChicagoTribune December 24:
Rezko…began cultivating a friendship with Obama around 1990, becoming
a key fundraiser….
In June 2005, even as Rezko was widely reported to be under federal
investigation, the Tribune reports, "Obama bought a $1.65 million
South Side home on the same day that Rezko's wife purchased the
adjoining garden lot for $625,000. Obama and Rezko then engaged in a
series of private transactions to redivide and improve their
adjoining parcels.
The Times of London has uncovered "state documents in Illinois
recording that Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to
(an) Obama fundraiser in May 2005. Fintrade's directors include
Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr. Auchi's wife. Mr. Auchi's spokespeople
declined to respond to a question about whether he was linked to this
business."
Auchi, an Iraqi Chaldean Christian, was a life-long Ba'athist who had
been charged with supplying a machine gun for Saddam's 1959 failed
attempt to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qasim.
As Saddam's Baath party took power, Auchi prospered. He went to work
for Saddam's Ministry of Oil in 1967. He rose to be Saddam's Oil
Ministry Director of Planning and Development before leaving Iraq in
1979. His brother was apparently killed by Saddam's regime as were
family of many high-ranking Baathists. But there are also claims
that Auchi continued secretly working for Saddam's intelligence
services. What is certain is that Auchi prospered mightily
collecting "commissions" on sale of weapons and other goods to Iraq
in the 1980s and 1990s. Living in the UK, he is now listed as
Britain's 13th-richest man.
Auchi held an interest in the French banking giant PNB Paribas
through his General Mediterranean Holdings company. According to the
New York Times, "As recently as 2001, General Mediterranean Holdings
described itself in an annual report as one of largest single
shareholders in BNP Paribas." Until 2001 Saddam insisted that
all "Oil for Food" payments—$13 billion dollars—would pass through
Banque Nationale de Paris which in 2000 merged with Paribas to become
PNB Paribas. Auchi has played a role in PNB since the late 1970s.
Saddam used Oil for Food fraud to channel millions of dollars to
heads of state, activists, terrorists, and journalists who then
returned the favor by backing Saddam when the US finally invaded Iraq.
In 2003, Auchi was convicted in France for receiving about $100
million in illegal commissions as part of a scandal involving the
French oil giant ELF Aquitane. The UK Guardian termed the
scandal, "the biggest fraud inquiry in Europe since the Second World
War. Elf became a private bank for its executives who spent £200
million on political favours, mistresses, jewelery, fine art, villas
and apartments."
Auchi's General Mediterranean Holdings financed a 250 megawatt power
plant in the Kurdish town of Chamchamal, Iraq along with Rezko and
Iraq's former Minister of Electricity (and Chicago resident), Aiham
Alsamarrae.
Returning in 2003 to post-Saddam Iraq, Alsamarrae had been made
Minister of Electricity under the occupation government of Paul
Bremer. Alsamarrae escaped "the Chicago way" from the Green Zone in
December, 2006 after being held for four months in relation to a $2
billion Iraqi reconstruction corruption case. He is now living in
his Chicago mansion.
Writing in Human Events, John Batchelor reports on another Alsammarae-
Obama-Rezko connection:
"…in April 2005, one month before Mr. Alsammarae left his post, his
Ministry of Electricity signed a contract for $50 million with
Companion Security to provide training to Iraqis to guard electrical
plants by flying them to Illinois for classes.
"Companion Security was headed by a former Chicago policeman with a
troubled history, Daniel T. Frawley, in partnership with Mr. Rezko
and in association with Daniel Mahru, the lawyer for the original
contract and Mr. Rezko's former business partner. In April 2006, Mr.
Frawley entered negotiations with Governor Rod Blagojevich's staff to
lease a military facility in Illinois to be a training camp. In
August 2006, Mr. Frawley started negotiations with Mr. Obama's U.S.
Senate staff to complete the contract….
"The timeline of Companion discussions in 2006 is important to note:
April 2006 Frawley speaks to governor's office; August 2006 Frawley
speaks to senator's office; October 2006 indictment of Rezko
revealed; October 2006 Rezko arrested upon return from Syria; October
2006 Alsammarae convicted in Baghdad and makes his first escape
attempt; December 2006 Alsammarae escapes from Baghdad. …
"(In 2004) Mr. Auchi traveled by private aircraft to Midway Airport
in Chicago and then to a fete at the Four Season Hotel, where he met
with his business partner in Chicago real estate, Mr. Rezko, as well
as with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Also present that night,
according to a fresh report by James Bone and Dominic Kennedy of the
London Times, was State Senator Barack Obama, who had recently won
the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat…."
Jay Stewart of the Better Government Assn. in Chicago told the LA
Times: "Everybody in this town knew that Tony Rezko was headed for
trouble. When he got indicted, there wasn't a single insider who was
surprised. It was viewed as a long time coming. . . .Why would you
be having anything to do with Tony Rezko, particularly if you're
planning to run for president?"
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It's all the same to me"
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have you heard the updated version?
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it's all Hussein to me."
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