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WHY T.B. JOSHUA SYNAGOGUE COLLAPSED
After the collapse of T.B. Joshua #39;s building and how many souls seeking deliverance perished. Every other human logic is shallow after you watch this video. A simple Biblical truth reveals...
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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014
SYNAGOGUE BUILDING COLLAPSE
EXCLUSIVE: New CCTV shots of the synagogue church guest house collapse.
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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014
A little storefront synagogue west of Boca Raton has received a big bequest after battling with national Jewish organizations over the legacy of a South Carolina philanthropist.
Congregation Shaarei Kodesh, a Conservative synagogue at 19785 Hampton Drive, will get $2.1 million from the estate of Nathaniel Rosenfeld, who died in 1997. The money was not to be distributed until the death of his wife, Hannah, who died in 2012.
"We are over the moon, elated, grateful beyond words," Shaarei Kodesh co-president Amy Pessah said Wednesday. "It feels like a big hug from God."
Pessah said the disagreement had discomfited members of the congregation, since many are donors to the well-known organizations that were suing the synagogue, including Hadassah, which raises money for a hospital in Israel, and ORT, which offers education and job skills to the needy.
Rosenfeld, of Florence, S.C., allowed his sisters, who lived in Boca Raton until their deaths in 1999 and 2001, to choose which charities benefited from his millions. His sisters were among the founders of Temple Beth Tikvah, which merged with Shaarei Kodesh in 2007.
The siblings' family had been establishing synagogues for several generations. Their parents were among the founders of Temple Beth Israel in Florence in 1912, according to the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina.
The sisters decided Beth Tikvah should get 89 percent of their brother's bequest, with the Blumenthal Home for the Aged in North Carolina, Hadassah, ORT America and Americans For Peace Now getting the remainder.
The national groups challenged this distribution of the money, saying Shaarei Kodesh was not the legal successor to Beth Tikvah because the synagogue had not filed articles of merger with the state.
The legal sparring became especially bitter when Shaarei Kodesh asked a South Carolina court for sanctions against the national groups, including attorneys' fees and a contempt citation, for not complying with a judge's order to confer on the facts of the case.
Still, the parties decided to settle, with $1.9 million shared among the four groups: Americans For Peace Now gets about 13 percent, 21 percent to the Blumenthal home, 28 percent to Hadassah and 38 percent to ORT.
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October 08, 2014 12:01 AM
NEW BEDFORD The Kennedy-Donovan Center has purchased the former Ahavath Achim synagogue and officials said they are embarking on a $1,475,000 renovation plan to consolidate their facilities to one campus.
"This is a really important time for us," Kevin Rodman Conare, president and chief executive officer of the center, said at Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremonies. The center provides services to infants, children, adults and families with developmental disabilities in Bristol and Plymouth counties.
The renovation plan includes the $425,000 purchase of the synagogue property in November 2013, according to Ann Buono, the center's vice president for development.
The move consolidates operations to one campus, Buono said. The center is located on Hawthorn Street and the synagogue is across the street at the intersection of Hawthorn and County streets.
The project will also preserve the former synagogue, which was built as the Cornelius Grinnell Jr. Mansion in 1828, according to Buono.
Peggi Medeiros, a local historian, said the building is part of the County Street Historic District, a national historical designation that denotes a district, but does not protect individual buildings.
"That's really good news that they're not going to demolish it. That's really exciting news," she said.
"It could not have gone to a better organization," said Rabbi Barry D. Hartman of Orthodox Chavurah Minyan of New Bedford, whose congregation used the building as a synagogue from 1939 to 2012.
"There's a lot of history here," he said.
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The White Synagogue (right) and the Red Synagogue (left) before their renovations (photo credit: DykumuUgnis via Wikimedia Commons)
After seven years of renovations, a unique complex made up of two 19th-century synagogues opened to the public in the Lithuanian town of Joniskis.
The Joniskis Synagogue Complex made its official debut earlier this month, the Russian Jewish news agency AENreportedWednesday.
The complex in northern Lithuania comprises the Red Synagogue, which dates to 1865, and the White Synagogue, from 1823, according to the World Monuments Fund, which participated in the restoration.
The unique complex of Joniskis synagogues is an important cultural, historic, architectural, and social landmark, not only in the district of Joniskis, but within Lithuania and Eastern Europe as a whole, the fundwroteon its website.
It noted that in1970, the complex was declared a Cultural Heritage Object by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in Lithuania.
Countless Lithuanian synagogues were destroyed by the Nazis and later by the Soviet government. The Joniskis complex, with the Star of David decorating one of its facades, escaped a similar fate because it is surrounded by residential buildings, meaning that would-be vandals passed right by them without realizing they were there, the fund wrote.
After the war, the buildings were abandoned and reused for various purposes, according to the fund.
The synagogues were in a serious state of serious disrepair when restoration efforts began in 2007, it said.
The roof of the White Synagogue was replaced and the false upper-level facades on the sides of the building have been restored to their original configuration, the fund reported. In addition, the Red Synagogues foundations were repaired and made waterproof.
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Concierto de msica sefard de TAKSIM / Sephardic music concert of TAKSIM.
Fragmento del concierto de msica sefard del grupo TAKSIM en la Casa de Sefarad, en Crdoba, el 28 de septiembre de 2014. Ms informacin: http://www.taksimproject...
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Klezmer And Sephardic Tunes - 33 Traditional Pieces For Accordion - Merima Kljuco
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Spanish City Had 10 Shuls Before Inquisition
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Published October 08, 2014.
The city of Toledo in central Spain is launching a two-day cultural festival themed around the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
The festival, which ends on Oct. 12, will feature Sephardic music; workshops on how to build a sukkah a flimsy hut where Jews eat during the holiday in memory of their ancestors nomadic existence in the Sinai Desert; and Sephardic cuisine.
Its a way for this city to reconnect to a Jewish past that was so rich, it was a second Jerusalem, said Hugo dos Santos, a Portuguese man whose tourism firm, Meet Spain, is helping the municipality set up the Sukkot festival for the second year.
In 1391, there were five Talmudic schools and 10 synagogues in Toledo once home to one of the Iberian Peninsulas largest Jewish populations. The citys Jewish population was converted to Christianity or exiled in the following years as part of the Spanish Inquisition a campaign of religious persecution against Jews and other non-Christians led by the Spanish royal house and church. Today, fewer than 100 Jews live in Toledo.
Lawmakers in Spain and Portugal recently advanced legislation which would offer Spanish nationality to any proved descendants of Iberian Jews, or Sephardim. In parallel, dozens of municipalities that are rich with Jewish patrimonial sites in both countries have formed a network designed to promote the preservation and celebration of Sephardic heritage sites and culture.
Last year, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain asked the Spanish Catholic Church to hand over a museum which used to be synagogue and later a church.
Built 834 years ago, the Ibn Shushan Synagogue or Santa Maria la Blanca church is one of Spains most popular museums. It drew approximately 300,000 visitors in 2010, half of them locals.
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'Marcel Proust of Our Time' Haunted by Jewish History By Mia Shanley
Published October 09, 2014.
(Reuters) French writer Patrick Modiano, a Sephardic French novelist, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature as a Marcel Proust of our time, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday.
The academy said the award of 8 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) was for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.
Modianos works have centered on memory, oblivion, identity and guilt that often take place during the German occupation of World War Two.
You could say hes a Marcel Proust of our time Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told reporters.
Some of Modianos roughly 30 works include A Trace of Malice and Honeymoon. His latest work is the novel Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier.
Literature was the fourth of this years Nobel prizes. The prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, and has been awarded since 1901 for achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with his will.
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Posted By richards on October 9, 2014
Goga Ashkenazi, a billionaire from Kazakhstan, published a video of herself on Instagram along with a group of people by the Holuhraun eruption on Sunday. The video shows them walking about and dancing only a few meters from the lava, much closer than people are allowed to be. She has now deleted the video.
One photo that Ashkenazi published shows that they were using a chartered helicopter from Reykjavk Helicopters. The owners of Reykjavk Helicopters have stated that they're investigating the matter internally and that the responsibility falls completely upon the helicopter pilot.
Ashkenazi is known worldwide and is involved in various businesses, she inherited a large oil wealth and is a board member at the Vionnet fashion chain.
Reykjavk Helicopters has been selling helicopter trips over the volcano area to great success. They're not for everyone, as a trip for one costs 230 thousand kronur.
PHOTO/INSTAGRAM/GOGA ASHKENAZI
Vir Reynisson at Civil Protection.
Area is very dangerous "There's a reason for the travel ban, the area is very dangerous, it's outrageous that anyone would do this," states Vir Reynisson at Civil Protection.
"Gas emissions by the fissure has been measuring 130 thousand micrograms per cubic inch, which is borderline lethal doses. By comparison we've seen measurement from towns that are downwind from the plume reach 6000 micrograms," he adds.
A travel ban is still in effect and gas emissions from the volcano are at dangerous levels. Then there's the risk of steam explosions, sub-glacial eruptions, floodings and ashfall.
Police are investigating This is not the first time that tourists have trespassed in the area, and many are facing police charges. The fines can run into several hundred thousand kronur.
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