Thanks 
again for your faithful prayers and support this year. We expect next year to be the best yet as we strengthen those who can reach the Jewish people in Europe while we make individual contacts and establish relationships with Jewish people who do not know Yeshua as Messiah. Please pray for us for wisdom and understanding for our next steps in Europe including finding a new apartment because our landlord decided to rent it to another couple after our being here two years because he thought somehow that we wanted to leave. Oy vey! Be blessed in the New Year.
A journalist from Holland who linked Jews to the recent outbreak of flu pandemics drew heavy criticism from a prominent Dutch Jewish organization, that claimed her words were tantamount to antisemitic blood libels.
Holland's largest daily, De Telegraf last week printed an interview with Désirée Röver, 61, who proposed the bird flu pandemic, caused by the virus H5N1, was part of an international conspiracy to reduce the world's population.
Röver is quoted as saying the conspiracy can be traced back to a group of descendants of the Khazars, a nation from the Caucasus believed to have converted to Judaism 1,200 years ago.
De Telegraaf quotes her as saying that these descendants are now "praying to another god; Lucifer, Satan, or however you want to call him" and "are called Rockefeller, Rothschild, Brezinski and Kissinger."
Ronny Naftaniel, who heads the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel (CIDI) - an local antisemitism watchdog, said that this is the first time he has heard such claims from Rover, and added that based on her words, "she does not seem to be right in her head."
Tales of Jews spreading disease "is nothing new and stories of Jews poisoning the water wells are known from many centuries ago and her words are giving rise to that antisemitism."
Source: http://www.haaretz.com/
As reported on the CFCA web site /www.antisemitism.org.il. Is it just me or are the lies of anti-Semitism just going postal. What do you think? Shalom. David Schneier
In response to Glen and Gary McCoys’s antisemitic, syndicated cartoon, The Flying McCoys, which appeared in Monday’s NY Daily News, Assemblyman Dov Hikind yesterday sent a letter to Daily News Publisher Mort Zuckerman “demanding a public apology from your newspaper for displaying this ugly cartoon.”
The Flying McCoys bills itself as a “delightfully absurd comic panel [which] takes superheroes, office humor, huggable animals and twisted relationships, blending them in a bizarre marriage of Gary Larson, The New Yorker, Conan O’Brien and Mad Magazine.”
Hikind, however, completely disagrees with this description. In his letter, Hikind wrote, “A father telling his son to, “Stand back, son. I think Rex has rabbis” with two men dressed in religious garb similar to how many Rabbis dress, including black hats, black coats, beards and side curls, standing on either side of a dog is not just demeaning, insulting and repulsive but surely smacks of antisemitism á la Goebbels."
Hikind, a child of Holocaust survivors continued, “The arrests last Thursday by the FBI of 44 individuals… [is] no excuse to slander the entire Jewish people. To imply that Rabbis have rabies and are therefore contagious is to indulge in the vilest type of character assassination.”
Source: http://matzav.com
A Romanian mayor has been criticized by Jewish groups after appearing in a Nazi uniform at a local fashion show.
Costanza mayor Radu Mazare and his 15-year-old son were both dressed in the uniform.
Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has called on Mr. Mazare to admit he made a mistake, apologies and resign.
Mr. Mazare says his choice of costume was inspired by the 65th anniversary of the 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler.
He says the uniform was a German army one, not that of an SS officer.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/
In 312 AD Constantine fought a battle to determine who would be emperor of the Roman Empire. Before the battle, in a French seaside town known as La Croix Valmer, Constantine prayed to Mithras, the sun god, for victory and he saw a vision of a flaming cross next to the sun and the words, "Conquer by this." Constantine was victorious and so he decided he was a Christian. He never stopped being a sun worshipper and his claim of Chrisitan faith is unsupportable. From this "revelation", the state and Christianity became one entity controlled by the Emperor. Three hundred years later the world was in the Dark Ages. For the Jews and Jewish believers in Yeshua, persecution was almost immediate as Constantine sought to rid all Jewish connections from Christianity. He also formalized the faith making home worship illegal. Now, to be legitimate, one had to have emperor style worship and liturgy in a basilica with professional clergy controlling religious experience and the Bible itself. His blunders affect believers today and if you want a great account of this transition read "The Messianic Church Arising" by Robert Heidler which can be found at www.glory-of-zion.org.
These two cartoons have caused a lot of controversy in the past weeks. The first one was highly objected to by the African American community because they felt the cartoonist was really depicting President Obama as the dead gorilla thereby bringing up the old racist stereotypes against African Americans and even promoting the President's assassination. Probably the cartoonist meant no such thing, but common sense should have dictated that this cartoon should not have been published by the NY Post. I support free speech but sometimes sechel (Yiddish for common sense) is a wiser path.
