The Long History and Rich Tradition of Cuban Jews

Cuba participa en los Juegos Deportivos Judios [Maccabiah Games-Jewish Olympics]

According to the website of the Jewish community in Cuba [Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba] only nearly a thousand Jews living in the island.

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Cuban athletes to join the Maccabiah Games for the first time

By Bethany Bell, Jerusalem

The Maccabiah Games, known as the Jewish Olympics, are taking place in Israel.

The contest, which takes place every four years, brings together Jewish athletes from around the world to take part in events from rugby to gymnastics, to cycling and rowing.

This year around 9,000 competitors from more than 70 countries are taking part in a competition that is as much about Jewish identity as sport.

This year, for the first time, a Cuban delegation is taking part - even though Cuba doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel. Sponsored by Jewish American donors, the players were helped by an easing on travel restrictions on groups leaving Havana. Rafael Gonzales, 24, who's competing in archery, says he is proud to be in Israel.

"It is the first time Cuba is participating - it is very exciting," he says. "It's the best for us as athletes, as Jewish athletes."

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Surprise! IRS Boss Who Targeted Tea Party and Jewish Groups Investigated Anti-Clinton Groups in the 1990s | A Time For Choosing

A Time For Choosing

By Gary P Jackson

It seems we can never escape these evil Nazi sons-a-bitches! Yes, I used the “N” word, because these kind of tactics were used extensively by the Nazis to intimidate and take away the rights of their political opponents. Of course, Hitler wasn’t the only one who did this, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, and other Marxist tyrants did the same. Add Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to the list.

What gets me is people knew at the time Bill Clinton had the IRS attacking his opponents, and yet, when impeachment time came, this was never part of the Articles of Impeachment. Had it been, the Senate may have convicted and removed Slick Willy from office.

It’s not like there wasn’t a precedent for impeaching a president over this sort of evil. Another liberal president, Republican Richard Nixon, was about to be impeached for doing the exact same thing both Clinton and Obama have done, turning the IRS on political opponents.

This makes impeaching Obama a must.

By now you’ve heard all about the IRS targeting and harassing the Tea Party, and many Conservative groups as well as Jewish groups. The IRS even turned over confidential data to radical leftist groups so they could use it to destroy Obama’s opponents.

It started out with the corrupt media portraying this as “rogue agents in Ohio” but we quickly learned that this went all of the way to the top of the IRS, and several top leaders lied about knowing of these attacks, which have been going on since 2010.

Now we learn that this isn’t IRS boss Steven T. Miller’s first rodeo. In addition to doing Obama’s bidding, attacking Conservatives, Miller played a similar role during the Clinton years, attacking anti-Clinton groups.

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Presentación del Libro «Otra Vez Adiós» de Carlos A. Montaner en Casa Bacardí

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Expectant couple dies in crash; baby born at scene

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Photo: Shimon Gifter

By Alexander Smith, BreakingNews.com, and Tracy Connor, NBC News

A young couple en route to a hospital to have their first child was killed in a car crash in New York City early Sunday but the baby was born at the scene and survived.

Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21 and Orthodox Jews, were using a car service to go to the hospital when another vehicle crashed into the side of theirs at an intersection in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Hasidic community activist and family friend Isaac Abraham said.

Nathan Glauber was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital, while his wife died at Bellevue, the New York Post and The Associated Press reported.

Pictures of the scene were posted on Vos Iz Neias, a news site that covers the Jewish community.

The couple's son was delivered at the scene and was taken to a hospital in serious condition, said Abraham, who is also a neighbor of Raizy Glauber's parents and lives two blocks from the scene of the crash.

Abraham said: "The child is in a serious condition in Beth Israel Hospital, in Manhattan. Now we just pray with the child that all medical efforts keep him alive."

He added: "I know Raizy because I saw her grow up from a child."

The driver of the vehicle that hit the couple's car fled, police told the AP. No arrests have yet been made.

The Post reported that a BMW was involved and that it was the driver of the BMW who fled the scene, at the intersection of Kent Avenue and Wilson Street.

The condition of the car service's driver is unclear, police said, according to the AP.

Woman Encounters Own Face On Canada's New Raoul Wallenberg Stamp

Justin Green 

Incredible story from Canada. Judith Weiszmann, a Second World War survivor, encountered her own face on a stamp honoring Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish man whose efforts saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from falling into the hands of Nazi Germany. Go read:

Look on the top left

Ms.Weiszmann rushed out to buy a couple booklets, tossed them in her purse, pulled them out later to take a closer look and practically fainted. The stamp features Mr. Wallenberg and a shutz pass, and not just any shutz pass, but one belonging to Judith Kopstein — age 14 in 1944 and age 83 now — and, more importantly, Ann Weiszmann’s mother.

“I couldn’t believe it,” she says. Neither could her mother, Judith, a retired structural engineer, Winnipeg resident and transplanted Hungarian Jew whose shutz pass — with picture included — is now immortalized on a stamp honouring a man she regards as the “greatest man” of the 20th century.

“It is just incredible that something like this would happen,” Judith Weiszmann says. “Wallenberg was fearless. He saved people’s lives by risking his own and having a stamp of him — that is very natural — but having my picture on it, that is something completely unexpected.”

Jews face down new extremism from Hungary’s far-right

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Balint Nogradi holds his son Shalom Doveber before the Sabbath in their home in Budapest November 30, 2012.

By Reuters

BUDAPEST - A week after a leader of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party called for lists of prominent Jews to be drawn up to protect national security, Janos Fonagy stepped forward.

"My mother and father were Jewish, and so am I, whether you like it or not," the state secretary of the Development Ministry told parliament, explaining he did not have dual citizenship with Israel and was not religious.

"I cannot choose, I was born into this. But you can choose, and you have chosen this path," he said, addressing Jobbik deputies. "Bear history's judgment."

It is only relatively recently that Hungary's Jews have celebrated their identity as openly as they did when Europe's largest synagogue was built in Budapest in the 1850s. More >>

’Miss Holocaust Survivor’ crowned in Israel

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Contestants stand during a beauty pageant for Holocaust survivors in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on June 28, 2012. The winner, Hava Hershkovitz, is on the right.

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Isaiah 9:10 Code suggests watchful eye on specific day

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WASHINGTON – If the world makes it through the end of the Mayan calendar this year, a pattern of recent economic disasters based on the Hebrew calendar portends what some suspect we will be the biggest U.S. financial calamity yet Sept. 13, 2015.

The No. 1 bestselling Christian book in America, “The Harbinger” by Jonathan Cahn, points out that the Americans two greatest financial shakings, occurred on successive Hebrew Shmitah years following the 9/11 Islamist terror attacks on the U.S., the key to the series of limited judgments the author sees as a result of America’s turning away from God just as ancient Israel did before the dispersion.

While Cahn prefers not to speculate on what, if anything, might befall America on Sept. 13, 2015, it will be the next Shmitah year – which occurs on Elul 29 every seven years on the Hebrew calendar. It is a time when debts are to be forgiven and the land, in the agricultural communities of ancient Israel were to be given a rest.

Sept. 17, 2001, was the beginning of the economic calamity associated with 9/11 when, two days earlier, Lehman Brothers, one of the nation’s largest financial firms, collapsed. Sept. 17, 2001, was Elul 29 on the Hebrew calendar. Likewise, Sept. 29, 2008, marked the next big crash. Sept. 29, 2008, fell on Elul 29.

All of this is laid out in a new documentary video called “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” the leading faith video in the nation and one of the top-selling documentaries of any kind, produced by Joseph Farah and WND Films.

Farah believes the date Sept. 13, 2015 bears close watching – though he is quick to admit he has no idea what, if anything, will happen in America.

“A clear pattern has been established,” he says. “I don’t believe it’s a coincidence what happened in America on Elul 29 in 2001 and 2008. It would be foolish to ignore the possibility that a greater judgment might be in the works – especially if America continues to move away from God and His Word.”

It’s also worth noting that Elul 29, 2015, represents the eve of the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashana at sundown. An unusual astronomical phenomenon, a blood red moon – or tetrad – is expected to occur that evening, according to NASA. The Feast of Trumpets begins a period known by Jews as “the days of awe” that lasts through Yom Kippur a week later.

Hebrew roots pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington state noted several years ago that a cluster of tetrads will occur in 2014 and 2015 – all of them on Hebrew high holidays. There won’t be any more for the rest of the 21st century.

Joel 3:31 says: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.” Other biblical references can be found in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12.

Whether or not anything significant occurs of a prophetic nature Sept. 13, 2015, Farah said he is immensely pleased with the documentary treatment of the message found in the best-selling book “The Harbinger” by Jonathan Cahn, which has remained on the New York Times bestsellers list for all of 2012.

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Islamic school in Toronto "apologizes" for anti-Jewish material in curriculum

The Canadian Press/ By Maria Babbage

TORONTO - An Islamic school in Toronto is apologizing for offensive material in its curriculum that called Jews "treacherous," contrasted Islam with "the Jews and the Nazis" and told boys to exercise so they are "ready for jihad."

The apology came a day after police and the Toronto District School Board said they were investigating complaints about the material, which was posted on the East End Madrassah's website. The school has since removed it.
The material should never have been part of its curriculum and a team of scholars is reviewing all texts and materials, the school said in a release.
"Our curriculum is not intended to promote hatred towards any individual or group of people, rather the children are taught to respect and value other faiths, beliefs and to uphold Canada's basic values of decency and tolerance," it said.
"We unreservedly apologize to the Jewish community for the unintentional offence that the item has caused."
Premier Dalton McGuinty weighed in on the controversy Tuesday, saying he's pleased both police and the Toronto District School Board were investigating whether the school was promoting hatred.
"There is no room for hatred or intolerance in this province," said McGuinty, who is expected to meet with Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday.
The complaint came from the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which found the material on the school's website and alerted the school that it had lodged a complaint.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs denounced the material as "offensive and abhorrent."
"Such slurs against the Jewish community violate the values that Canadians hold dear, such as goodwill and mutual respect," Sheldon Goodman, the centre's Greater Toronto co-chairman, said in a statement.
"Instead of promoting such values, this curriculum only serves to promote animosity, racism and hatred."
The school has a permit from the school board to teach lessons on Sunday from rented space in a public school in the city's east end.
The centre said the board should more carefully scrutinize who rents its space and take a closer look at what's being taught on its property.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak urged the minister of education to work with police to investigate the complaints and "prosecute this to the fullest extent of the law."
"Israel has no greater friend than Canada," Hudak said. "I'm proud of that and our province should be in the exact same position."
The school's apology isn't good enough, he added.
"It's not a matter of reviewing materials," Hudak said. "This is hatred. This is poison. This type of material has no place in our classrooms, no place in the province."

3,000-year-old artifacts reveal history behind biblical David and Goliath

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Yosef Garfinkel, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, shows off an ark, or stone shrine model, that was found during excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, an ancient settlement southwest of Jerusalem.

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Obama, Iran and the 1939 Syndrome

FrontPage Magazine/ By P. David Hornik 

1938: Pacto de Munich por Gran Bretaña, Francia, Alemania e Italia.

On Tuesday EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton announced that the group of six global powers—permanent UN Security Council members the U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany—were resuming nuclear talks with Iran at an unspecified time and place.

She announced it just as Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu was in Washington trying to convince the U.S. leadership that neither diplomacy nor sanctions were coming anywhere near stopping Iran’s push to nuclear weapons.

Ashton had earlier—on February 14—received a proposal for talks from Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. On Tuesday she said, “Today I have replied to Dr. Jalili’s letter….” What opportune timing.

And what a further blow to Israel.

Typical headlines have been saying Netanyahu told President Obama on Monday that Israel hasn’t yet taken a decision on attacking Iran. Yet, as described here and here, an “unnamed American intelligence official” has conveyed a different impression to Israel’s Channel 2 news.

Channel 2 reported on Monday night that the official said, “U.S. intelligence services believe that, in principle, Israel has already made the decision to bomb Iran.” According to Channel 2, the official warned that such an attack would entail thousands of casualties and spark a regional war or even World War III—in short, an all-out catastrophe. An official Israeli source dismissed these statements as “scare-mongering and psychological warfare.”

Just as there is a dissonance between the mainstream version—which says Israel hasn’t yet decided—and this apparent desperate attempt to bypass the Israeli leadership and scare its population silly via its most popular news channel, there is a dissonance between Obama’s words this week and what we read elsewhere.

In his AIPAC speech on Sunday: “I firmly believe that an opportunity still remains for diplomacy—backed by pressure—to succeed.”

And in Tuesday night’s news conference: “[Iran] understand[s] that the world community means business. To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss…how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful.”

Meanwhile IAEA chief Yukiya Amano says Iran has “tripled” its monthly production of 20-percent-enriched uranium since the IAEA’s previous report in November. That was the report that was seen as dramatically confirming Israel’s insistence over the years that Iran had never stopped working on the bomb.

Amano also expressed serious concern about the IAEA being denied, again, access to Parchin—the site where Iran has “built a large containment chamber” to “conduct high-explosives tests” that the IAEA considers “strong indicators” of nuclear-weapons development. That was according to November’s report. What’s going on in the chamber now? No one knows.

No wonder administration officials are so worried Israel will attack and trying to scare the Israeli people out of their wits about what will happen if it does. Seemingly it would make more sense for the administration—and the Western world as a whole—to get seriously scared about Parchin and drop the hang-up with Israel.

On Tuesday it was reported that Iran now says it will let the IAEA into Parchin—at an unspecified date. Even if that transpires, it will obviously be after Iran has had enough time to “clean” the site.  More »

NY rabbi meets with jailed American [Alan Gross] in Cuba

Arthur Schneier of the Park East Synagogue

HAVANA - A prominent New York rabbi met with imprisoned American subcontractor Alan Gross in Cuba on Tuesday, describing him as upbeat and concerned about family members back home.

Arthur Schneier of the Park East Synagogue said he spent about an hour and a half with Gross in the Havana facility where he is being held.

Photos on the rabbi's digital camera showed a thin, bearded Gross wearing glasses and a yarmulke, in a room with blue and white curtains and an air conditioner.

Schneier said he brought Gross a prayer shawl and hamantaschen, or three-cornered, sweet-filling pastries, and they prayed together to mark the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim.

"I found him hopeful, and Purim is a festival of miracles. So we all pray that a miracle will allow us to see a resolution of the pain and suffering of all involved," Schneier said.

He declined to comment further, saying a statement would be issued upon his return by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, which Schneier founded and which organized his interfaith humanitarian mission to Cuba.

Gross is serving a 15-year prison sentence stemming from his work importing satellite and other communications equipment onto the island under a USAID-funded democracy-building program. Cuba considers such programs to be attempts against its sovereignty, and he was convicted of crimes against the state.

Gross maintains that he was only trying to help Cuban Jews improve their Internet capability.

Gross, 62, who was heavyset when arrested in December 2009, has lost about 100 pounds, and his elderly mother and adult daughter are both battling cancer

He has received periodic visits including from U.S. religious and political figures, island Jewish community members and his wife, Judy.

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, met with Gross on Feb. 23.

Schneier, a Holocaust survivor who was born in Austria, has led the Park East Synagogue since 1962 and worked to promote peace, human rights and religious tolerance around the world. He received the 2001 U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal for service to the nation.

Correo: El Árabe y el Judío

Un judío trabajaba en un edificio como portero donde un árabe vivía en el pent-house.

El árabe sufría de  un problema de hemorragias ocasionales.

Un día va el árabe bajando por el ascensor y le da un ataque hemorrágico, cuando llega a la  planta baja el portero judío se da cuenta, lo saca del ascensor, llama una ambulancia y se va con él al hospital.

Al llegar al hospital dice el médico de guardia:

- Necesitamos urgente sangre 0+.

Y el portero judío accede a donársela, ya que justamente poseía ese mismo tipo de sangre.

Al mes  siguiente el árabe le dice:

- En agradecimiento por haberme salvado la vida te regalaré un auto Rolls Royce - con lo cual el judío quedó feliz de la vida.

Al año se repite la historia, le da el ataque, llama el portero una ambulancia y se va con él al hospital.

El doctor dice nuevamente que necesitaban urgente sangre 0+ y el portero otra vez accede a donar de la suya.

Al mes  siguiente el árabe le dice:

- En agradecimiento por salvarme la vida te regalaré esta moto Harley Davison.

El judío queda pensando por qué le había regalado un  auto tan caro el año anterior  y éste año sólo una Harley Davison, que tiene mucho menos valor... pero después llegó a la conclusión de que mal que mal, una Harley Davison es una Harley Davison.

Al año sucede lo mismo, le da el ataque hemorrágico al árabe, y como las veces anteriores, el portero llama la ambulancia se va con él al hospital, el doctor dice que necesita sangre 0+  que el judío accede a donársela.

Al mes siguiente el árabe le dice al judío que en agradecimiento por haberle salvado la vida, le regalará una bicicleta.

El judío entonces se decide a preguntar, para no quedarse con la intriga

- ¿Cómo es que me regalaste un Rolls Royce el primer año que te salvé la vida, el segundo año una Harley Davison y el tercer año sólo una bicicleta?. .......No lo entiendo.

Y el árabe le responde:

- Lo que pasa es que cada día tengo más sangre judía................

Toronto Jewish Synagogue Vandalized with Muslim Graffiti and Swastika

Since Anders Behring Breivik was not a Muslim, perhaps we should conclude that a blond-haired, blue-eyed Norwegian spray-painted "Islam will rule" on the synagogue. Above all else, we must remember that Muslims love Western democracy and have no intention of imposing Islam on anyone, especially Jews.

Toronto--A synagogue in the city's northeast end was the target of anti-Semitic graffiti.

Staff members of Beth Tikvah Synagogue on Thursday found the words "Islam will rule" and a swastika spray-painted on the exterior of their building.

According to a press release published by the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, police have been contacted and measures were taken to increase the security at the synagogue.

Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Canadian Jewish organization said in a statement that the primary concern is the safety of the staff and its congregants.

"We will remain vigilant in the wake of this disturbing and offensive event." (Source)

#Cuba Mr. Manicero [ #Carter ] complacido con "TODO"

Con los judios cubanos el Kaxtrizmo puede contar

Judíos en Cuba aseguran que no recibieron ayuda tecnológica de Alan Gross...

"Muslim-Only" cemetery in Long Island

NEWSDAY –On a sprawling plain in Mount Sinai, Muslims have turned a section of the Washington Memorial Park into the only large-scale Muslim burial ground on Long Island, NY with a few thousand plots.

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Of all places in Long Island to put a ‘Muslim-Only’ cemetery, they have to choose a place called Mount Sinai. BASTARDS.

Gaddafi Is Secretly A Jew?!

Gaddafi Is Secretly A Jew?! So Says the Arab Press

by Al Mutarjim The big story all over Arabic-language news outlets is that embattled Libyan president Mu'ammar Gaddafi is secretly a Jew.  This points to the general antisemitic attitudes of the Muslim and Arab world--else why would this... Read more..