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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

 

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

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

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/

 

to attend

 

if you do decide to join

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/

 

you may do so without charge

there is no charge to join

and no charge to be a member of

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/

 

Please state that you are Jewish, Single, 21 or over, when you apply

to join the Jewish Singles at the websites the urls

below will take you to

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

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 at the websites the urls

below will take you to

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

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 at the websites the urls

below will take you to

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

JewishSinglesFromEverywhere/

 

 

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!

 

 

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

 

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

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 at the websites the urls

below will take you to

 

 

JewishSinglesOfNJ/

 

 

JewishSinglesinNJforIsrael/

 

 

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 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 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 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 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 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

 

Meet and Eat Lunch

 

 

 

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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You may post your own introductions there, with our without photos

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Everything there is free.

 

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 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? "

 

" You say tomato I say tomato. Tomato, tomato, potato, potato,

 

It's all the same to me "

 

is an old refrain

 

 

 

have you heard the updated version?

 

 

 

" Some say Obama, Some say Osama, Obama, Osama, Osama,Obama,

 

it's all Hussein to me. "

 

 

Make Obama Mad

 

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" You say tomato I say tomato. Tomato, tomato, potato, potato,

 

It's all the same to me "

 

is an old refrain

 

 

 

have you heard the updated version?

 

 

 

" Some say Obama, Some say Osama, Obama, Osama, Osama,Obama,

 

it's all Hussein to me. "

 

 

 

 

(Meshugeneh means crazy in Yiddish (so-called Messy an eck Jews,

they spell it

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