Posted on 08/30/2010 2:09:42 PM PDT by onyx
Driving to Lancaster from Philadelphia Friday afternoon, my wife and I passed through a town named Ephrata. In was named after the town that, in ancient times, was part of the city of Bethlehem; today it is a thriving Israeli city of 8,000-plus. Friends and colleagues who were meeting us in Lancaster passed towns named Bethlehem, Nazareth, Lebanon, and Zion. Early Pennsylvanians believed, as many modern ones do, in the Divine promise that the exiled Jews would be returned to the land of Bethlehem and Zion. How appropriate, I thought, to help usher in our Shabbat with Governor Palin, an American political leader who, more closely than many, identifies with the Holy Land, ancient and modern.
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The Pennsylvania Family Institute, sponsor of the weekend event with Mrs. Palin, is a Christian conservative advocacy group whose positions on many issues are at odds with the liberal social views espoused by many American Jews. In other words, not the community with which one might expect Jews to be breaking challah. But the Institute’s web site raises concerns that many Jews share — that rapidly-rising rates of out of wedlock births, juvenile crime and drug use, and sexually-transmitted diseases are symptomatic of "a culture that is turning its back on the family."
Independent-minded American Jews, like their Christian counterparts, are justifiably alarmed by these phenomena and are searching for ways to return stability and morality to American family life. It was to in support of this goal that my organization, Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, set up a Shabbaton — a Sabbath gathering for meals, songs, prayers, and conversation — with the assistance of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, to be a part of their weekend with Mrs. Palin.
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No, the newspaper lineage of the old New York Sun ended in the 1960s when the New York World Telegram and Sun (formed from mergers of those three) folded.
The new Sun started up about a decade or so as a conservative newspaper, owned by Conrad Black, but all that remains is the Internet version.
Thanks for the information.
Hey, somebody who agrees with me that Sarah is Deborah. Warrior/Judge who was ruler of the Hebrew people before they had kings. Her song is considered the oldest piece of Scripture in the Bible by some scholars.
Ditto that. And Happy Rosh Hashana to all the Jewish FReepers.
C.O. you might be interested in this thread.
Thank you for sharing...good post.
Very inspirational.
Thank you
I am a Christian that observes the Sabbath.
I like to consider myself a completed Jew, although I was never jewish
Christ was a Jew and was the fulfillment of scripture.
thank you for this thread my dear sis
hoosiermama, I remember reading something like that also. I know you’re right that she has placed her life in His hands. I know I have no answers. I just pray.
Yes! Members have mentioned Deborah also, including WVNan on this thread! It’s almost as though Sarah Palin is destined. I am too hesitant to say ‘chosen.’
I am intrigued. Thank you, dear savedbygrace.
ping for later
Excellent. Thank you.
> “As the Jewish scriptures make clear, the name of God is holy and rabbis have believed and taught for many years that the name of God should not pass through the unholy lips of men.”
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But of course that ‘belief’ is grossly unscriptural!
God wishes his name to be on our lips incessantly, but not IN VAIN.
We are to use his name to call on him, but not to invoke sin.
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Yes, Deborah is the correct parallel.
Palin is very much our present time Judge and has risin to face challenges that the men in power (and thus, as per Daniel ch 4, appointed by God) have refused.
To date there exists no visible male effort to address the undoing of the past century of error that comes anywhere close to Palin.
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Interesting that it appears to be a near perfect mirror image of the currently used Shin....
Exactly. When I teach this, I have the luxury of more time to make points like this: that God used the customs and teachings of the rabbis to show his people the way to himself.
This is especially true of the customs that have developed around Pesach, Passover.
BTW, all religions have these wall building type rules. They are developed over the years by religious leaders trying to help the people under them avoid breaking God’s commandments and laws.
I could give some examples, if you’re interested.
> “They are developed over the years by religious leaders trying to help the people under them avoid breaking God’s commandments and laws.”
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Yet the combined meaning of all the laws, to love your fellow man, never seems to float to the top!
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