A Jewish woman from the Reform movement argues with ultra-orthodox Jews at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City (AFP)
The public war of words between Israel and the U.S. continued Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responding pointedly to the White House after the Biden administration again denied his claim the U.S. is withholding weapons from Israel amid its fight in Gaza with Hamas.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, pictured here in October 2023, questioned whether the Israeli government’s war aims can be achieved. Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN —
Israel’s top military spokesman has said Hamas cannot be made to “disappear,” casting doubt about whether the government’s war aim of defeating the militant group can be achieved and drawing a sharp rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The War Rabbis are campaigning for Trump, a convicted UNCLEAN felon who slept with a Porn Star and committed adultery -and is a INSURRECTIONIST who LIES about Biden stealing the election. The Wabbis attack Reform Judaism that was practiced in my Democracy by a Jewish Patriot, Francis Salvador, who rand for public office – and won! He was the first Jew to hold public office. He founded Reform Judaism in America.
I suspect THE WABBIS want Hamas wiped out to the last man – or they will vote Netanyahu out of office. I believe they want Biden out of the White House, so Trump will unleash The Holy Dogs of War – until DOOMSDAY, which is what Trump’s Christian-base wants – too!
One would think THE WAR OF WORDS would go better, and be MORE HOLY with God on both sides! NO DICE! I will explore – why! I study the Torah all day – too! Why can’t Holy Men conduct NORMAL WARFARE?
John
Nebenzahl’s words will bolster this line of argument. It doesn’t help that he’s just the latest in a string of haredi leaders to insult Reform and Conservative Jews. Haredi Knesset members have compared them to clowns and the mentally ill, and said they should be “thrown to the dogs.”
UN officials call for arms makers to stop supplying Israel
By REUTERS and TOI STAFF20 June 2024, 5:36 pm
GENEVA — A group of United Nations experts warns arms and ammunitions manufacturers against taking part in the transfer of weapons to Israel, saying it could make them complicit in alleged human rights abuses and violations of international law.
The group of 30 experts, including several UN Special Rapporteurs, says arms manufacturers supplying Israel should halt their transfers of war materiel, “even if they are executed under existing export licenses.”
“These companies, by sending weapons, parts, components, and ammunition to Israeli forces, risk being complicit in serious violations of international human rights and international humanitarian laws,” the experts say in a statement.
There is no immediate comment from Israel which has repeatedly denied carrying out abuses during its Gaza operations, saying it is acting to defend itself and is fighting Hamas terrorists who carried out the October 7 onslaught that started the war, not the Palestinian population.
Overall, nearly nine-in-ten U.S. adults who were raised Jewish (88%) are still Jewish today. This includes 70% who identify with the Jewish religion and 18% who don’t identify with any religion but who consider themselves Jewish in some other way, such as culturally, ethnically or by family background.
The religious reality in Israel is not what most people think. Reform Judaism there is growing, thriving, and winning greater acceptance every day. And ultra-Orthodox (Haredi ) Judaism is in crisis, beset by the cowardice and insecurities of its corrupt political leaders.
Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Slams Reform Jews as ‘Heretics’ — but Backs Western Wall Prayer Deal Anyway
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By Ben SalesFebruary 29, 2016
(JTA) — Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, former chief rabbi of Jerusalem’s Old City, is no fan of Reform and Conservative Judaism.
In a letter sent Thursday to Israel’s chief rabbis, the haredi Orthodox Nebenzahl calls the movements “heretical religions.” They are “uprooting the religion and hurting everything holy to us,” he writes. “Their war against the religion is hard, and we must congregate and stand for the Jewish soul.”
And that’s exactly why he wants to give them more space at Judaism’s holiest prayer site.
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In his letter, Nebenzahl endorses last month’s Western Wall compromise, which the chief rabbis oppose. The deal expands the wall’s existing non-Orthodox prayer section and creates a shared entrance with the Orthodox main section to its north. Women of the Wall, which holds women’s services in the Orthodox section, is to eventually move to the non-Orthodox section as part of the deal — which is backed by the Reform and Conservative movements, the Israeli government and the wall’s haredi managment.
Nebenzahl’s letter explains why the wall’s haredi rabbis agreed to a deal that Reform and Conservative rabbis also see as a victory. Accepting continued non-Orthodox control of the southern section, he writes, consolidates haredi control of the Orthodox section and locks the gates against a liberal takeover of the site.
The deal “guards the holiness in our prayer area on one hand, and on the other, directs them to what they had in the past, under the framework of ‘the lesser of two evils,’” Nebenzahl writes. “The Chief Rabbinate should work as much as possible to limit desecration, while making sure not to retreat at all from our prayer space.”
Essentially, Nebenzahl agrees with liberal critics of the deal, who argue it enshrines a haredi-dominated status quo. Original Women of the Wall has vowed to keep holding women’s services in the Orthodox section and refuses to recognize what it sees as a capitulation.
“A compromise speaks of two sides giving up and gaining, but the ultra-Orthodox Jews are giving up nothing at all,” writes Vanessa Ochs, a member of the group, in the Forward this month. “They get complete control of the Kotel. They will no longer have to tolerate the presence of Jews who do not pray as they do.”
Nebenzahl’s words will bolster this line of argument. It doesn’t help that he’s just the latest in a string of haredi leaders to insult Reform and Conservative Jews. Haredi Knesset members have compared them to clowns and the mentally ill, and said they should be “thrown to the dogs.”
But those politicians painted the Western Wall deal as a tragedy for haredi Judaism. For Nebenzahl — and the wall’s haredi authorities — it’s a relief.
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Zionists Offer a Military Alliance With Hitler
In early January 1941 a small but important Zionist organization submitted a formal proposal to German diplomats in Beirut for a military-political alliance with wartime Germany. The offer was made by the radical underground “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel,” better known as the Lehi or Stern Gang. Its leader, Avraham Stern, had recently broken with the radical nationalist “National Military Organization” (Irgun Zvai Leumi) over the group’s attitude toward Britain, which had effectively banned further Jewish settlement of Palestine. Stern regarded Britain as the main enemy of Zionism.
This remarkable Zionist proposal “for the solution of the Jewish question in Europe and the active participation of the NMO [Lehi] in the war on the side of Germany” is worth quoting at some length: /46
In their speeches and statements, the leading statesmen of National Socialist Germany have often emphasized that a New Order in Europe requires as a prerequisite a radical solution of the Jewish question by evacuation. (“Jew-free Europe”)
The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving the Jewish question. However, the only way this can be totally achieved is through settlement of these masses in the homeland of the Jewish people, Palestine, and by the establishment of a Jewish state in its historical boundaries.
The goal of the political activity and the years of struggle by the Israel Freedom Movement, the National Military Organization in Palestine (Irgun Zvai Leumi), is to solve the Jewish problem in this way and thus completely liberate the Jewish people forever.
The NMO, which is very familiar with the good will of the German Reich government and its officials towards Zionist activities within Germany and the Zionist emigration program, takes that view that:
1. Common interests can exist between a European New Order based on the German concept and the true national aspirations of the Jewish people as embodied by the NMO.
2. Cooperation is possible between the New Germany and a renewed, folkish-national Jewry [Hebräertum].
3. The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of maintaining and strengthening the future German position of power in the Near East.
On the basis of these considerations, and upon the condition that the German Reich government recognize the national aspirations of the Israel Freedom Movement mentioned above, the NMO in Palestine offers to actively take part in the war on the side of Germany.
This offer by the NMO could include military, political and informational activity within Palestine and, after certain organizational measures, outside as well. Along with this the Jewish men of Europe would be militarily trained and organized in military units under the leadership and command of the NMO. They would take part in combat operations for the purpose of conquering Palestine, should such a front by formed.
The indirect participation of the Israel Freedom Movement in the New Order of Europe, already in the preparatory stage, combined with a positive-radical solution of the European Jewish problem on the basis of the national aspirations of the Jewish people mentioned above, would greatly strengthen the moral foundation of the New Order in the eyes of all humanity.
The cooperation of the Israel Freedom Movement would also be consistent with a recent speech by the German Reich Chancellor, in which Hitler stressed that he would utilize any combination and coalition in order to isolate and defeat England.
There is no record of any German response. Acceptance was very unlikely anyway because by this time German policy was decisively pro-Arab. /47 Remarkably, Stern’s group sought to conclude a pact with the Third Reich at a time when stories that Hitler was bent on exterminating Jews were already in wide circulation. Stern apparently either did not believe the stories or he was willing to collaborate with the mortal enemy of his people to help bring about a Jewish state. /48
- Edieal J. PinkerDeputy Dean for Strategy & BearingPoint Professor of Operations Research
Written by Susie Allen
May 04, 2021
American Jews make up 39% of the global Jewish population—the largest group outside Israel. So demographic trends within the U.S. Jewish population have important implications for Jewish life everywhere—and for American public life, especially in places where Jews make up a significant portion of the citizenry.
And, according to new research from Yale SOM’s Edieal J. Pinker, major changes are underway: the American Jewish population is currently undergoing a demographic and denominational transformation. “If trends continue,” Pinker says, “50 years from now, the U.S. Jewish community is going to look totally different than you think of it today.”
At the heart of the changes is a major increase in the percentage of American Jews who identify as Orthodox, a number that is expected to swell from 12% today to an estimated 29% in 2063. Over the same 50-year time period, Reform and Conservative Jews, who tend to be more theologically and politically liberal, will go from being 50% of American Jews to 39%, and the total number of people in those denominations aged 30-69 will decline by 46%, the study projects.
“This is important information if you are running a Jewish nonprofit that’s active in trying to develop the health of the community,” Pinker says. “If you’re unaware of these trends, then you’re flying blind.”
Pinker’s projections rely on a detailed survey of American Jews conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2013, which surveyed nearly 5,000 people who either self-identified as Jewish or had a Jewish background.
Read the study:
“Pew is a snapshot,” Pinker explains. “It’s saying, ‘Here is what we’re seeing right now in the Jewish community.’ I used their data to project into the future what’s going to happen, or what could happen.”
He started by examining Pew’s data on American Jews who identify with the three major denominations—Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform—and also created broad categories for people who identify as Jewish but do not align with a particular denomination, as well as those who identified as partly Jewish (for example, people who think of themselves as culturally but not religiously Jewish).
“The Jewish community is very diverse in the U.S., and I wanted to have a big-tent approach here, to not exclude people because they didn’t formally identify with some established denomination,” Pinker says. “And I think that’s in line with how people today think of modern Judaism—that it’s moving away from labels.”
Marriage and child-rearing trends vary widely within these groups, according to Pew. For example, Orthodox Jews are the most likely to marry other Jews and raise their children as Orthodox. Orthodox families also have many more children than other Jews and the American population as a whole—around four, on average. Meanwhile, Reform and Conservative Jews have a smaller number of children and only a minority of them raise their children in those denominations. Those in the “partly Jewish” or “no denomination” categories are even less likely to raise children in the faith.
Pinker also used Pew’s data to calculate rates of movement between these denominational groups. For example, many people who leave the established denominations in which they were raised as children come to identify as partly Jewish in adulthood. This pattern helps to constantly replenish the number of people who identify as partly Jewish, despite the fact that their children usually do not identify as Jewish at all.
Projecting all of these trends into the future yielded an entirely new picture of American Jewish life. In the next half-century, the total Jewish population will dip slightly in the short term and then rebound, largely due to high Orthodox fertility rates. Moreover, by 2063, the numbers of Orthodox, Reform and Conservative, and partly Jewish and non-denominational Jews will be roughly equal.
The growth of Orthodoxy is particularly noteworthy, because it may, among other changes, upend long-held political assumptions about American Jews. “If the community as a whole becomes more traditional, it will be voting in a different pattern than we’ve become used to in the United States, where the Jewish community has been viewed as a very reliable voting bloc for Democrats,” Pinker says.
Moreover, Jewish institutions that have traditionally drawn leaders from the Reform and Conservative populations may need to build new relationships within the Orthodox community. “It may change their priorities,” Pinker says. “And there could be tension over that in some areas.”
Also important is the huge expected decline in Reform and Conservative Judaism—a shift that is already in motion. “If you ask people in this community, ‘How are membership levels in synagogues or enrollments in schools?’ they’ll say, ‘Well, they’re down.’ So they know they’re struggling, but to see it this starkly should be a real wake-up call.”
For people who care about the future of those denominations, Pinker says, the time to act is now, and understanding the patterns is an important first step. “I’m looking to provide a service to this community, by providing this data, and letting people take action,” he says. “The community that wants to take ownership of its destiny needs to be looking at data.”
Reform Judaism Born in Charleston
Posted on June 20, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
Five blocks from the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, is the Beth Elohim synagogue where Reform Judaism was born. RF took an oath that put the Return to Zion, in their past. The quest of their ancestors, was not their quest. These Sephardic Jews declared America their new ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ that God led them to. They wanted to resemble fellow Americans, thus they altered the orthodox way of worship. However, when organ music was introduced there was a schism and the formation of another Reform synagogue. What now united these two groups, was, they went down to the docks to look over the new arrival of kidnapped slaves. Perhaps they can get a deal.
There is a debate about how involved the Sephardic Jews were in the Slave Trade. They had cornered the indigo market. These slaves and their grandchildren filled the pews of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. These Africans also wanted to be like their fellow Americans, thus, they changed their ways.
Was it a year ago that worshippers were attacked and killed in a synagogue in Jerusalem?
“Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert went on a rambling tangent Thursday in Congress that started with his disagreement with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and spiraled into what was almost a sermon denouncing gay marriage.
Gohmert believes the United States was founded as and meant to be a Christian nation and that the laws of Moses and Jesus trump the Supreme Court. The Court is set to issue a ruling on gay marriage later this month.”
Gohmert does not know his Torah. There are no “laws of Jesus” and, Paul told his followers the laws of Moses are no longer applicable to his church. I have asked many times if Jesus founded a democracy – anywhere? If Jesus founded the United States, why then didn’t he bid his co-founders to give women the right to vote – and free white and black slaves alike?
To years ago I was not invited to the memorial of my good friend, Jon Gall. His mother had become a Christian, and, Jon had friends in Israel who conducted a dual-citizenship ceremony where Jon’s Jewish spirit was returned to Zion. Jonny was an atheist. His parents and I are no longer friends. Dual-citizenship ideas, must die! Ancestor and Antique Worship will not defeat ISIS, the new Slave Masters that are destroying many antigue, and driving very ancient peoples from their very ancient homes. It is time we unite under ONE BANNER. What does that banner look like?
Jon ‘The Nazarite’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/world/middleeast/killings-in-jerusalem-synagogue-complex.html?_r=0
JERUSALEM — The gruesome slaying of five Israelis at a synagogue early Tuesday left many residents of this city fearing that the worst is still to come, as Jerusalem descends deeper into a cycle of terror attacks and violent protest over its religious sites.
Many Israelis were especially stunned by the sense of violation created by the attack, in which two Palestinians armed with cleavers and a gun stormed a synagogue in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem and killed four rabbis: a Briton and three Americans, including a member of two of Orthodox Judaism’s most prominent families.
There are Crusader graves at the Golden Gate of the Temple in Jerusalem. I suspect my Rougemont ancestors are here – awaiting the Messiah?
King Solomon used this gate after allowing the Shekinah ‘The Light of God’ to enter and dwell wihtin. Where is that Light this day?
It is high noon. It is time to put away the dark dream of Slavery, and bury all its evil symbols – all over the world! It is time to forgive debts, and honor the poor, the widow, and the disenfranchised!
I posted the following four years ago.
Jon ‘The Highwayman’
The Promised Land
“For his first birthday I promised my Grandson, Tyler Hunt, a kingdom. American
Democracy has awoken from the demonic spell put upon it. Let the celebration
begin!”
On June 8, 2012, I got a call from a stranger, Samuel Josefa de Mattos, a
descendant of a famous Sephardic Jewish family. He said he had come across my
study on Rougeknights and said; “You appear to know more about my family then I
do.”
We talked about his ancestor, Francis Salvador who was killed by Indians. Samuel
said his kinfolk left the “Jews land” around the small town of Hodges due to the
hostile natives. The Rosamond family may have done the same, they moving to
Mississippi leaving their plantations behind. Did the de Mattos and the Rosmonds
know one another?
Samuel then informed me he had purchased sixty one acres near Plantation Point
that runs to the shore of Greenwood Lake. He had read about the “Jews land” the
Hodge family has once owned. He deliberately bought this land so it can be owned
by descendants of King David once again. I told Samuel about Samuel and James
Rosamond who fought under Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War. I asked for
permission to take my daughter and grandson to this land against owned by a
family whose genealogy is found in the Bible. Samuel replied;
“Jon, not only do you have my permission, but I am going to give you an acre of
this land!”
I felt faint. I could not believe what Samuel offered me, for it is the end of
my prophetic book, where I promise my grandson a kingdom, where I compare my
rosy story to the Sleeping Beauty Princess, named Rosamond. Here is the Return
of The King, in the Red Branch Knight prophecy to the Promised Land.
Here is what my great, great grandfather, James Rosamond says in his will;
To my three sons, Thomas, Benjamin, and Samuel, I leave the rest of my land; to
be divided equally amongst them and to be given to them as they come of age. I
allow my wife to have use of it while she lives, the tract of land that I now
live on. On her death, this land will be equally divided between Thomas,
Benjamin and Samuel.
That my acre will be next door to a descendant of King David whose kingdom the
Zionist Christians and Jews are trying to restore in Israel, is profound! In the
Peerage we read; Esther Montefiore is the daughter of Samuel Montefiore and
Grace de Mattos Mocatta.1 She married Judah Guedalla. This is the family of
Moses Montefiore whom Joaquin Miller built a pyramid monument to, suggesting he
was a moder day Moses! The new address of the New Promised Land is 339 Middleton
Road on the land known as Plantation Point. Was the Rosamond plantation located
here?
I blessed Samuel and his family and when we said goodbye he called me “Brother”.
I then -emailed my good friend Mark Gall, whose Jewish mother always had a
reserved seat for me at her table at the resthome, and she only asked for me to
take her to the Synagogue. She saw something in my eyes when we first met.
”
“It is a matter of a constitutional crisis when the Highest Court in the land not merely strikes down and says that their opinion is more important than Moses’, depicted up there in the center point of this room, more important than Moses’, depicted in the marble wall over the Supreme Court, holding the Ten Commandments,” the congressman said on the House floor.
“The Supreme Court says theirs is more important than the opinions established and stated by Jesus Christ when he said–and he was quoting Moses–that a man shall leave his mother and father, a woman leave her home, and the two will come together and be one flesh, and what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
He expressed paranoia that non-Christians were going to “take over the country.”
“The great thing is that, if a nation is established on Judeo-Christian beliefs, it allows anybody to live here and to function here and to do so without impediment to one’s beliefs because one can be an atheist, an agnostic, a Buddhist, a Muslim, Gohmert said, according to a transcript of his speech. “You can be any of those things, as long as you are not trying to take over the country like some would like to do.”
He said he isn’t “prejudiced,” citing his grief at the news of the terrorist attack in Charleston that took the lives of nine Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church members Wednesday.
“We are brothers and sisters in Christ. Skin color does not matter one bit. He killed my brothers and sisters,” he said.
He rambled that “nature makes it very clear” that even though children can be adopted and some great Americans came from orphanages or single parent homes, “the optimum is a mother and a father in a home.”
While calling supporters of marriage equality intolerant of differing views, Gohmert later said justices that vote against his own should be impeached.
“I know there are some who are involved in same-sex marriage. They are not able to love as I do. They hate anybody that disagrees with them,” he said.
A little later he stated, “It is probably sufficient grounds for impeachment for a Supreme Court Justice to violate the law so that they can force their will upon the American people to push through their legislative agenda even though they are not legislators. Probably impeachment would be in order. If they break the law in order to change dramatically the law, they shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court.”
Earlier this month, Gohmert took to the House floor to accuse President Obama of aiding and abetting terrorists.”
Francis Salvador (1747 – August 1, 1776) was a young English plantation owner in the colony of South Carolina from the Sephardic Jewish community of London; in 1774 he was the first Jew to be elected to public office in the colonies when chosen for the Provincial Congress. He had joined the independence cause and in 1776 was the first Jew killed in the American Revolutionary War, fighting with the militia on the South Carolina frontier against Loyalists and their Cherokee allies.[1]
Francis Salvador was born to Jacob Salvador and his wife in London ,[2] where a Spanish and Portuguese Jewish (Sephardic) community had developed since the 17th century. His uncle, Joseph Salvador, was a prominent businessman, the only Jewish director of the British East India Company. His grandfather Francis Salvador was the boy’s namesake. Francis’ father died when he was two, and his younger brother Moses was born soon after.[2]
The boys were tutored privately and raised in wealth. When the sons came of age, they each inherited ₤60,000.[2] Salvador became active with his uncle Joseph and the wealthy DaCosta family of London in plans to settle poor Jews and their family members in the New World.
Francis Salvador married Sarah Salvador, his first cousin and Joseph’s second daughter. Her father gave her a ₤13,000 dowry.[2] They had a son, John Lovel Salvador, and three daughters before the senior Salvador emigrated in late 1773 to South Carolina.[2]
Emigration to North America[edit]
In 1733 the London Sephardic community sent 42 Jews to Savannah with the first English settlers in present-day Georgia. When Spain attacked Georgia in 1740, most of the Jewish families fled north to Charleston, fearing the Spanish Inquisition might be imposed in Georgia. In the 1730s Sephardic Jews from London began emigrating to Charleston as a preferred destination. They were later joined by Jews from Germany, the Netherlands and the West Indies.
The Salvador and DaCosta families in London bought 200,000 acres (810 km2) in the new district of Ninety-Six (known as “Jews Land”) in the western frontier of the Carolina colony. They began to settle it.[3] The Salvador family was financially ruined by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, as they still held properties there, and subsequent failure of the East India Company, in which they had interests. They retained their land in South Carolina and little other wealth.[4]
Representative to the Provincial Congress[edit]
Francis Salvador acquired 7,000 acres (28 km2) in Ninety Six District, Carolina Colony, and emigrated intending to send for his wife, Sarah, and their four children as soon as he was able. Arriving in Charleston in December 1773, Salvador quickly joined the American cause. He became close friends with the rising leaders of the Revolution in the South, including Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge, William Henry Drayton, Henry Laurens, and Samuel Hammond.[5]
Buying African slaves to work his land, In 1774 Salvador settled at Coroneka (commonly called Cornacre), joined for a while by his friend Richard A. Rapley, as neither wanted to live alone.[2] They were both elected as delegates to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress; Salvador was the first Jew elected to public office in the Thirteen Colonies in North America.[1] He was re-elected to the second Provincial Congress in 1775, holding the post until his death.[4] At the time, Jews legally could neither hold office nor vote, but no colonists objected when Salvador and his friend Richard A. Rapley were elected as two among the several frontier representatives from Ninety-Six District to the Provincial Congress.[6] They were joined by Andrew Williamson, then a major in the militia.
When the Provincial Congress first met in Charleston in January 1775, Salvador was chosen for important committee assignments: drawing up the declaration of the purpose of the congress to the people; obtaining ammunition; assessing the safety of the frontier, and working on the new state constitution.[7] The group also framed a bill of rights and composed an address to South Carolina’s royal governor, setting forth the colonists’ complaints against the Crown. Salvador was appointed to a commission that tried to convince the Tories in the northern and western parts of the colony to join the American cause.
The second Provincial Congress assembled in November 1775. Salvador was one of the champions for independence; he urged his fellow delegates to instruct the colony’s delegation to the Continental Congress to cast their vote for independence. Salvador chaired the Ways and Means Committee of this second Provincial Congress, at the same time serving on a select committee authorized to issue bills of credit as payment to members of the militia. He was also selected for a commission to preserve the peace in the interior parts of South Carolina.[8]
Fighting in the American Revolution[edit]
Early in 1776 the British had induced Indian allies to attack the South Carolina frontier to create a diversion in favor of British operations on the sea-coast. On July 1, 1776, the Indians began attacking frontier families in Ninety Six District. Salvador rode from his lands to the White Hall plantation of Major Andrew Williamson, 28 miles (45 km) away, to raise the alarm. Salvador took part in the engagements that followed. On July 31, Major Williamson captured two white Loyalists. They led his 330-men militia into an ambush by their fellow Tories and Cherokee allies at the Keowee River.[9] Alexander Cameron, deputy to Captain John Stuart, led the Tory forces.[10] Salvador was shot and fell into the bushes, but was discovered and scalped by the Cherokee that night. He died from his wounds at age 29.
Concerning his death, Colonel William Thomson wrote to William Henry Drayton, in a letter dated “Camp, two miles below Keowee[a Cherokee town], August 4th, 1776, as follows:
“Here, Mr. Salvador received three wounds; and, fell by my side. . . . I desired [Lieutenant Farar], to take care of Mr. Salvador; but, before he could find him in the dark, the enemy unfortunately got his scalp: which, was the only one taken. . . . He died, about half after two o’clock in the morning: forty-five minutes after he received the wounds, sensible to the last. When I came up to him, after dislodging the enemy, and speaking to him, he asked, whether I had beat the enemy? I told him yes. He said he was glad of it, and shook me by the hand – and bade me farewell – and said, he would die in a few minutes.”[11]
A patriot journal, The Rememerance, wrote of Salvador: “he was universally loved and esteemed.”[5][12]
Salvador became caught up in the Revolution before he could bring his family to the colony. His wife and children stayed in London, aided by his estate and their families.[2]
Interestingly, a handful of these businesses were run by women who had been given “sole trader” status by their husbands. Under coverture laws, married women were the legal property of their husband, although they could be granted independent economic status by their husband through a legal document. The historian James Hagy found 48 Jewish women who were classified as “sole traders” between 1766 and 1827. Many helped run their husband’s business when he was away. Other times, women took over the family business from her husband when it was not doing well. Rebecca De Mendes Benjamin, the mother of future Confederate leader Judah P. Benjamin, was given sole trader status by her husband when his dry goods store was in dire financial straits. Rebecca took over the business. Later, she owned a store in Beaufort while her husband remained in Charleston. In a few instances, these women were able to pass their businesses down to their children. Hannah Hyams owned a dry goods store on King Street in the first decade of the 19th century; she later transferred the business to Judith Hyams, who was either her daughter or daughter-in-law.
Indeed, South Carolina’s 1790 constitution guaranteed religious liberty in the state and gave Jewish men the right to vote and hold office. Abraham Mendes Seixas served as a city magistrate after the Revolution. Charleston Jews reveled in their freedoms. In 1806, they wrote to London’s Sephardic synagogue looking for a new hazzan to lead services. In the letter, the congregation described life in the early republic for Jews, “in a free and independent country like America…, where in short we enjoy all the blessings of freedom in common with our fellow citizens, you may readily conceive we pride ourselves under the happy situation which makes us feel we are men.”
Although Charleston Jews were bitterly divided over how best to worship God, they were unified on the issue of the country’s growing sectional conflict. Charleston Jews had become well integrated in the city’s economic, political, and social life. Jacob De La Motta, an active leader of Beth Elohim, was a physician who was elected as secretary of the local medical society in 1824. Abraham Moise was a lawyer who served as a local magistrate from 1842 to 1859. Lyon Levy was state treasurer. A number of Charleston Jews served in the state legislature and as city aldermen. Jews were involved in local benevolent societies and did not seem to suffer any social exclusion.
Jews acted much like other white Charlestonians, including owning slaves. Jewish auctioneers like Abraham Mendes Seixas sold slaves along with other commodities. According to one study, 83% of Jewish households in Charleston owned at least one slave; this figure was slightly lower than the 87% of all white households in the city that owned slaves. Most of the slaves owned by Jews in Charleston were house servants. A handful of successful Jewish merchants in Charleston bought relatively small slave plantations in the western part of the state, but most lived in the port city as was the general practice for South Carolina’s planter elite. Mordecai Cohen owned 27 slaves who worked on his rice plantation. Becoming a slave-owning planter was a way to ascend the social ladder in Charleston, although it often became a significant financial drain for Jews. Although there is little evidence that Jewish slave owners tried to convert their slaves to Judaism, Beth Elohim’s constitution had a provision that banned black converts from membership. Charleston Jews thoroughly accepted the South’s defense of slavery. Jacob Nunez Cardozo was a local newspaper editor who was a staunch supporter of the South’s cause and slavery.
On June 7th. I ran into my Jewish friend Ron Freedman. It turned out we knew
Alix whose father is Russian Jews and a neighbor of Mark. These are math
wizards. Mark was the head of the Department of Education at the University of
Oregon.
Here is the proof that God is speaking through me as I have alleged. This is not
my will, but His will. That God has sent another Prophet, is more important then
The Land, for without God, The Land is worthless. This is God’s Message to you!
“These graves are right along a paved road in the woods (I mean, the stones are
right along the road). This cemetery is in bad shape. No one is taking care of
it. It is over grown in weeds, trees and with poison oak and ivy everywhere.
David, Mark and I ventured out into the cemetery a little ways. Couldn’t go to
each stone because the poison oak & ivy is soooo thick. There aren’t many
stones. Some graves are marked with field stones and doesn’t have any writing on
them, and some of the field stones looked as those they had been chiseled on but
you couldn’t read it. ”
Jon
The Resurrected Nazarite
My Dear Friend, Mark; Tuesday, June 8, 2010 4:52 PM
You may never recieve a more inporant e-mail, or letter, then this one. This is
historic and Biblical. Two hours a gentleman called me from South Carilona. He
was looking at the genealogy of his ancient family on my Rougeknight blog. He
told me I am a real scholar, that appears to know more about his family then he
does. His name is Samuel de Mattos. He descends from Sephardic Jews who are kin
to King David. His ancestor, Francis Salvadore found in the Revolutionary War,
and founded Reform Judaism where the return to Zion is abandoned. Francis
declared South Carolina the “land of milk and honey” that God has led His Chosen
People to. His kin taught Vincent Van Gough.
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Yesterday, Samuel bought sixty acres of land that my Rosamond and Hodges kin
called the “Jews land”. It was sold to the Hodge family by his kinfolk. This
acreage is near the town of Hodge. Samuel PROMISED me an acre of thos LAND so my
offspring will forever have a place to go. Mark, this is the Grail and the end
of my Quest, and the end of my Story, that will be a best seller. This is the
REAL DEAL. You will be in my story.
This RETURN of the Jews to their ancestral homes in Europe – and America – will
not happen over night, or by force! The Zionist Experiment with a Secular Nation
– is at an end! The True Zion is in South Carolina as I have stated many time in
my blog, and in e-mails to you. Being a Jew will consist of being a Child of God
without borders – once again. However, you can go on Pilgrimage to the “Jew’s
land” that Samuel said he will keep pristine. Just the deer and other wildlife
will dwell here by Greenwood Lake. I made the same promise.
I will foreward my e-mail to Samuel.
Your friend
Jon
Mark;
I ran into an old freind down by the river, Ron Freeman. He dated Marilyn. We
talked aobut seeing more of each other, and I questioned him about a mutual
activity. I asked him if he fished. He said no, but mentioned a young man who
needs to go fishing. I asked Ron what his name was, getting a clue.
“Alix,” Ron answered.
Ron is friend with your neighbors. Let us get together for Bar-B-Q at your house
where we can discuss some porjects for Alix during the summer. I mentioned model
boat making and sailing them in Alton Baker Park.
Jon
Who sees the future
http://www.growthingod.org.uk/jubilee.htm
http://www.cynet.com/jesus/PROPHECY/jubilee.htm
It looks like Jesus restored the Jubilee, but, Jesus did not come to liberate
and save Jews, he came for the Pagans. It must have been John the Baptist, a
devout Jew, who restored the Jubilee Law after is was done away with by the
Sanhedrin a hundred years before he was born. John freed indentured slaves and
returned their ancestral land to them. The War with Rome began when the Jews
began to burn the debt archives.
I wondered if the Rosamond family will be restored to their lands?
One week ago I awoke and heard my Angel. She told me I had found the Shekinah. I
wondered if she was saying I was very close to finding the Light of God. This
was not the case. I had arrived.
“You have found me.”
My heart beating, I went to my computer and picked up the thread of my study
where I had left off. I was looking at the “Jews Land” and the coat of arms of
Doctor Mendes de Costa whose family lived on St. Eustatius. Regrettably they
were heavily involved in the slave trade. I suspect they made the blue glass
beads that Ponce de Leon used to entice Native Americans into making bad deals,
as well as enslaving them. Noble Jews expelled from Granada accompanied de Leon
in his voyage. I believe the Lion in de Costa’s coat of arms represents the
kingdom of Leon. The fleur de leaves I suspect represents Burgundy as you will
later see.
“What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.”
David da Costa owned seven white servants. He bought three of them who were
felons. They were Christians. My ancestor John `The Highwayman’ Rosamond was a
felon sent from England to America and purchased by an un-known person in
Delaware. That the Rosamond family later bought land owned by the da Costa
family suggests the term of the indentured servitude had exspired, and having
served alongside the Jewish hero, Francis Salvador, perhaps the Rosamond family
was being honored and rewarded. Were they given a good deal on this land?
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Jewish genomes published in the prestigious Journal of Genetics. Your Sephardic
friend would be interested. It was in Newsweek June 3.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/03/the-dna-of-abraham-s-children.html
Abbeville – Ancestral Home of the Rosamond FamilyHere is a live-cam of downtown
Abbeville where my Rosamond ancestors used to walk.http://68.115.199.210/The
Walnut Grove Baptist Church is found at the center of the map above. The
Rosamonds were nextdoor neighbors of Francis Salvador who led a Sephardic Exodus
to a city founded by a Huguenot who made an Exodus from France.In the last two
days I found what I have been searching for for twenty years. I found a Jewish
Mayflower and a bloodline that descends from King David. This land was a
Promised Land. It was also the birth and death place of the Confederacy. I have
a book to write, and a kingdom to awaken.
I say, no Jew will go the World to Come until they publicly disown the
Evangelicals and their politicians, then apologize and make amends for their
part in promoting slavery in the New World. The Jews of the World are caught in
a evil duality. It is my hope to free them from this duality, this un-holy
ADVISARY, which is the meaning of the name, Satan.On the Nunez family crest you
find three fleurs-de-lis that are also found on the crest of Doctor Mendes da
Costa. I have traced his lineage to Narbonne France where for a little while a
Judaic Kingdom existed. That my ancestors purchased land from a relative of King
David, is profound, for I have compared my genealogical quest to the awakening
of Sleeping Beauties Kingdom.Van Gough has long been my favorite artist – and
religious person. His failed quest to be a Man of God, is a immortal tale. After
my death, I tried to paint again, but, I had a transcendence. I had overcome
Illusions and Duality and sought to translate the Beautiful Majesty of the
Heavenly Creation, as a Man of God. In 1989 I immersed myself in a river and
declared in writing I was a Nazarite. This is to say, I had converted to
Judaism.I endrose Obama for President of the United States.Jon
http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/nunez-family-crest.htm
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The Sephardic Jews Owned European SlavesThe Sephardic Jews of South Carolina
bought European convicts and put them to work alongside the black slaves they
owned. There is a good chance that John ‘The Highwayman’ Rosamond was owned by a
descendant of King David.The ancestor of the da Costa family, whom the Hodges
family bought their land from, was a victim of the Inquistion. Manuel da Costa
was accused of saying Jesus was not the true Messiah, and the real Messiah had
not come. I have proven this was not the case. However the anti-slavery mission
of Jesus the Messiah – was buried alive with the help of Jewish quisling like
Joseph Flavius, who took the name of his Roman slaver-master, Emperor Vespasian
Flavius. Did wealthy Jews like Joseph sell fellow Jews to Romans?One Sephardic
Plantation owner made his home his Synagogue. Was this the inspiration for other
plantation houses built in a Romanesque style?Jon Presco”Lisbon awoke one
sixteenth century morning to find many church doors plastered with placards
blaring out a blasphemous message:”The Messiah has not yet come. Jesus is not
the true Messiah.”A Maranno, Manuel da Costa, was accused of the heinous act. He
was arrested, tortured cruelly until he confessed his guilt. Then, with the
sophisticated methods developed over a century of producing excruciating
torture, Manuel was slowly and methodically agonized to death1.
The da Costas were among the Jews who fled from Spain into Portugal, and from
both Spain and Portugal into the Diaspora. The provenance of the da Costa family
is evident from the addition of “de León” to the surname of Abram da Costa de
León. Abram was instrumental in lifting the ban against Jewish residence in
Genoa in 1659, and for arranging for a group of Jews from Tuscany to settle in
Genoa.2
The Emcancipation of Indentured Alien Slaves
byJon Presco
Copyright 2006
Deuteronomy 24:20 “When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the
branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the
widow.Deuteronomy 24:19 “When you are harvesting in your field and you over look
a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and
the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your
hands.”Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your
plowmen and your vinedressers.””The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because
the LORD has anointed me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to
heal the broken hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of
the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn.” (Isaiah 61:1-2)
Joseph D’Acosta came to New Amsterdam in 1655. He was a leading merchant in
Amsterdam and was a principal shareholder of the slave-dealing Dutch West India
Company.On April 9th. I posted on the Sinclair Sleeping Beauty who I have longed
compared to the Shekinah.
On April 5th. I reposted my post on moving the Axis Mundi and the Shekinah to
Santa Rosa island. When I made these posts I said I was following the
instructions of my angel who speaks to me with a female voice. Is she the Queen
of Heaven, the Shekinah? Then there are my posts calling for a Exodus from
Israel to Texas to form a New Zion. Of course I wondered if I was mad when I
made these posts.
What has risen from the ground where my Rosamond ancestors are buried in South
Carolina was the Lost Truth, being, the Sephardic Jews had founded a New Zion in
America. And after doing this they founded Reformed Judaism. The Sephardic
rabbis of Charleston taught that the Jews had ceased to be in exile, and there
was no cause to feel they were in a strange land. The Reform Jews in South
Carolina taught their children that to prey for a return to a Jewish homeland,
was incompatible with the desire to be a citizen of a nation outside Zion, and
this would create a dual loyalty. They were Anti-Zionists until 1947, when the
secular nation of Israel were founded by the Jewish Freethinkers of Europe.
Today, in America, many Jews struggle with the notion they own dual citizenship,
and thus, divided loyalties.The Reformed Jews taught their children that the
dispersion was a necessary experience, and the temple in Jerusalem should never
be rebuilt. Instead the Jews would spread all over the world a Messianic truth
and morality. This is contrary to the teaching of the evangelical leaders who
prey the Jews go to war with their old enemies and rebuild the temple. Only when
they do this, will God take this temple from the Jews and give it to the
evangelical Christians so it can be used like a lifeboat, taking them up to
heaven to escaped the Great Tribulation. To this end the evangelicals claim they
are doing the will of God. They have ran for, and hold many offices in our
Government claiming they are upholding traditional American moral and religious
values. But, this is far from the truth.
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/2008/04/let-there-be-light-here-are-my-post-on.\
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Let there be light
(Images: Devil’s Tower. Devil’s Tower. Jews gathering at base of Mt. Sinai.
Scene from Close Encounter. Meher Baba.)
http://rougeknights.blogspot.com/search?q=nassau
Here are my post on the House of Orange and Nassau and Margarita de Castro de
Souza kin to the Sephardic Jews and Exilarchs. Scroll down to see older posts.
Here is evidence of True Prophecy. ‘The New Magi, Reformation, and the
Restoration of the House of Baux’ was posted June 6 2007. In this light it
appears God did bless America. Did He make it His new home? Meher Baba claimed
he was God and came to live in South Carolina.
Jon
The Visionary
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita_de_Castro_e_SouzaExodus 33:20-23
Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the
LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And
it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put theein a clift
of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take
away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
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Juda Guedilha DE MATTOS
ABT 1794 – 1 Feb 1857
BIRTH: ABT 1794, Amsterdam
DEATH: 1 Feb 1857, Amsterdam
Family 1 : Gracia BELINFANTE
MARRIAGE: Amsterdam
http://hzrabbie.home.comcast.net/~hzrabbie/g0000065.html
And still he went farther, and all was so quiet that he could hear his own
breathing, and at last he came to the tower, and went up the winding stair, and
opened the door of the little room where Rosamond lay. ”
For twenty years I had been studying the Bible, and took note what the wrong
people did to the Suffering of Jesus, the Scapegoat and Redeemer. I saw right
through the cloaks of invisibility worn by the Pretenders and Predators that
came to feed off Christine’s suffering, and her Death, they about the business
of Transferring my family history over to themselves, and then using our
misfortune and abuse as their eternal money-making slave!
I have come to take my dear sister Christine down from their evil cross!Here are
the main goals of the Go’el, the Redeemer1. Repurchase a filed which was sold in
a time of need. Buy back tht which had fallen into debt. Lev.25:482. Free an
Israelite slave who sold him/herself in time of poverty Lev. 25:483. Avenge the
blood for the murder of a close relative
Around 5:15 this morning I awoke to hear my Angel bidding me to rise, go to my
computer, and publicly condemn John Hagee as a False Teacher, Traitor, and
Terrorist, then Excommunicate him from the Protestant church.I tried to go back
to sleep, but it was too late, for `The Argument’ had began, which begins
with;”Who am I to do such a thing? What authority and power do I have? I am one
man, they are many”
I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep, but I started thinking about Pope
Adrien, the good friend of my ancestor, Godschalk Rosemondt. Why were Adrien’s
papal papers disappeared? Was he leaning towards the Reformation after
conculting with Rosemondt who was corresponding with Erasmus? What became of
Rosemondt’s papers? Surely he must have pondered over the reason Adrien was
anointed Pope. Was it because of the very large membership in the Swan Brethren,
as high as hundred thousands members all over Europe. Were many Swan Brethren
being trained as theolgins at Louvain college?
I looked forlornly at my clock and got out of bed. I rose as a Nazarite Judge of
Israel. I had taken the vow of the Nazarite in 1990. I immersed myself in the
McKenzie river in Oregon. There was not a soul around. But on my way back to my
campsite in the forest wilderness, here came my kin Michael and his three sons.
They had spotted my car in the campground. Michael gave me the Bible that
changed the course of my life. The timing of this is inexplicable.
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Dan Brown, Margaret Starbird, Laurence Gardner and others, claim the ‘Sleeping
Beauty’ legend is a Grail Quest for a Holy and Rosy Bloodline. Princess Rosamond
is associated with the Priory de Sion, Rennes Chateau, the Serepent Rouge, the
Sacred Feminine, and Fair Rosamond who dwelt in a Labyrinth and was discovered
by the clue of a rouge thead, and thus is associated with Ariadne.Is it just a
coincidence that my sister, Christine Rosamond Presco, her mother, Rosemary
Rosamond, and her mother Mary Magdalene Rosamond, loved to sew? After I located
the unmarked grave of my grandfather, Royal Rosamond, and placed a marker there
of two roses, did the existance of my sixteen year old daughter become known to
me – for sure. Have I cut through the roses and thorns and awakened a sleeping
kingdom of rosy weavers, or, has a troupe of Grail Writers found their way into
my Rosy Family Labyrinth and found the kingdom protected by roses – and the
needles of the rose?
For his first birthday I promised my Grandson, Tyler Hunt, a kingdom. American
Democracy has awoken from the demonic spell put upon it. Let the celebration
begin!
Rosamond Press 
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