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A COVID bureaucrat implied the religious practices of Jews on campus are all 'in the past,' and that despite their beliefs, their convictions, their faith, they need to abide by a system that negates all of it.“More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.” These poignant words were penned by Asher Ginsberg, a 19th-century Zionist thinker, more commonly known by his nom de plume, Ahad Ha’am (one of the people).For 25 hours each week, observant Jews withdraw from the chaos of the wider world. We do not use our phones, our computers, our iPads, our televisions....

Dennis invites you into his home as he conducts a virtual Passover Seder (recorded April 2020). Watch and learn as Dennis explains the meaning of the rituals, but if you want to participate along with Dennis, you’ll need the standard Passover accoutrements (one per person in your household): 1) Matzo 2) Salt water 3) Parsley 4) A hard-boiled egg 5) Horseradish 6) Charoset — a mix of nuts, raisins, and honey 7) Haggadah

Wow. Cool to see a pastor call the Calgary Police "Nazi-Gestapo-fascist-sick psychopaths" and run them out of his Church on Passover.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/299536, "Having [Sharon] Brous attend a Passover celebration is like inviting a medieval blood libeler to a seder." "Literally." "Brous' religion is politics, her diety is social justice, and her messiah is a community organizer."

The Biden administration is ruining everything. So it must ruin Passover. After twenty minutes of dead air, Biden's Virtual Passover got underway. Biden, who can only be counted on to remain coherent for short stretches of time before launching into a random tirade, only showed up briefly. And that was the only good thing about Virtual Passover. Virtual Passover, like the Biden administration, makes no sense. But the Biden administration can’t be expected to ruin every aspect of our lives, without also ruining Passover. Kamala Harris had been delegated to take over the border crisis, and so her husband, Brentwood...

Knowledgeable Christians and Jews know that Easter falls at the Jewish holiday because Christ was in Jerusalem with the twelve Apostles to observe Passover, and that the Last Supper Christians observe in Holy Communion and celebrate on Maundy Thursday was a Seder meal commemorating the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. After the meal, from which Judas Iscariot exited to collect his thirty silver coins, Jesus retired to the garden of Gethsemane, where he prayed until arrested by Roman soldiers. Until not so long ago, one television network or another played the classic film, The Ten Commandments, every year about...

When it comes to consuming matzah, the Jews of the former Soviet Union are in a league of their own. At the top of the chart are Azerbaijan’s 8,000 Jews, who this year are expected to consume 10 tons of the unleavened bread cracker that Jews eat on the week of Passover to commemorate their ancestors’ hurried flight out of Egypt. That’s a provision of 2.7 pounds per person — a ratio that’s nearly three times what’s on stock for the average soldier in the Israeli army. In Russia, home to about 155,000 Jews, the rate of consumption is somewhat...

Sone great hits from the "Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites" Welcome to the Weekend your host here with you for this worldwide meeting of Governmentalists Anonymous. My dependency on Government, Politics and Politicians is the Problem. I am the Solution when I exercise my Liberty that comes from the Higher Power. Indeed a spiritual time of the year, Passover and Easter. In the Good Book Pontius Pilate "washing his hands" of responsibility for the execution of Jesus and in the Present Republicans "washing their hands" of responsibility for mask orders.... ...I used to do voices of the famous like Dr. Henry...

Dennis invites you into his home as he conducts a virtual Passover Seder (recorded April 2020). Watch and learn as Dennis explains the meaning of the rituals, but if you want to participate along with Dennis, you’ll need the standard Passover accoutrements (one per person in your household): 1) Matzo 2) Salt water 3) Parsley 4) A hard-boiled egg 5) Horseradish 6) Charoset — a mix of nuts, raisins, and honey. 7) Haggadah

Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley lost his life at this week’s mass shooting when a man open fired at a grocery store killing 10 people including Officer Talley. President Biden and fellow Democrats are using the tragedy to push for gun control. But, Talley’s family is saying hold up as the slain officer was a Second Amendment advocate and would never want his name associated with gun control. Eric Talley was an 11-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department and a father of seven.

The “One-stop Shop for Kosher Groceries” A few days ago a Muslim Syrian immigrant to the United States walked into a Jewish Kosher grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, and shot up the place. Ten people are dead. The shooter is in custody.The individual arrested, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, is a Muslim and all ten victims were white. Alissa apparently has expressed pro-ISIS sympathies in the past. He has for many months complained about his belief that Muslim immigrants to the United States are subjected to discrimination. He is a staunch opponent of Donald Trump.

Why did he choose that particular King Soopers supermarket? Let's look at some facts. and check out this article from the New York Post. pay careful attention to the picture of the home. In fact, let me make it easy.Now that we have this knowledge, we can do a google search for grocery stores that are closer to the shooters home and we see that there were plenty of other targets that were closer. There was, in fact, a King Soopers that was located only 5 minutes away from him. Why drive 20 minutes away when there's a similar store...

As barely a Christian myself (i.e., spiritual but not into the rites), I can hardly lay claim to a detailed understanding of Jewish customs/stories. However, the idea of Passover might be useable here in regards to Beijing Biden being sworn in on Jan 20. As many of you might know (e.g., perhaps only from movies) during the original Passover Jewish households painted lamb’s blood on their entryways to “ask” God’s plagues to “pass over this place”. How about on Jan 20 we all place an upside down US flag near our entryway, or in a window? In effect, asking that...

This is the prayer that Jesus prayed to His Father God, recorded in the Book of John, Chapters 13:1, 17:9-26, just before the Passover Festival and before He would lay down His life to save the world. Lord Jesus, as at this time we worship and praise You for coming into the world, we also highly lift up and magnify Your Holy Name, the Name Above All Names, for obediently becoming that Perfect, acceptable ultimate Sacrifice so that anyone who believes on You will be saved. Thank You!!!!!

Prager U is looking at the impact of lockdown on our mental health and asking, "Was it worth it?" In the last 30 days, around 40% of people have reported mental or behavioral health issues, 30% anxiety or depression, 26% trauma and stress and 10.7% have considered suicide. You need to say it twice to stop yourself reading it like a shopping list. During lockdowns, one in ten people have considered suicide in the last 30 days. Look around you. One in ten. We also know that statistically these figures will be an under-representation. People do not willingly share this...

...Pierce started prophesying last September and then again in January about what the world is going through now. He said, "plague-like" conditions would hit the Earth through February, March, and April. In a new interview with CBN News on "The Prayer Link" show, he also had a word of hope about Passover. "This year would be the year that Believers would really have to understand Passover and that we will pass over!"..

Maybe you’ve seen the eyebrow-raising claims on the Internet or elsewhere in the media: rather than celebrating Jesus’ resurrection from the dead and triumph over crucifixion, Easter is really derived from a pagan holiday. Proponents of this theory point to symbols of rebirth and fertility, like eggs and bunnies, that we see at Easter as proof. But the foundation of the claim that Easter is a pagan tradition is the similarity in names: Easter, they say, is the English translation of Eostre, a Germanic goddess of fertility. (Others claim Easter got its name from the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, or the...

The 'This Year Together' online event will stream live on Facebook and YouTube on Thursday at 5 p.m. PT. On the second night of Passover on Thursday, stars Norman Lear, Debra Messing, Chrissy Metz, Emmy Rossum, Sophia Bush, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Mayim Bialik, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tichina Arnold and more will join together for an online seder. The 'This Year Together' virtual event, which will feature inspirational poetry, music and readings, led by life coach and spiritual counselor Ryan Weiss, will stream live at 5 p.m. PT on Facebook and YouTube. "Whether you are unable to spend the holiday with your...

As Jesus (Yeshua - Yahweh IS Salvation/Deliverance) the Messiah entered into Jerusalem for the Passover of the Lord - which had been rendered useless and reduced to a mere traditional religious lifeless skeleton of a feast, renamed the Passover of the Jews (Lev. 23, Matt. 23: 13-15, John 2:13, 5:1, 13:1), all the air was abuzz with the news of Jesus of Nazareth (Matt. 21:8-11, Luke 19:37-40)! As it were, Jesus had absolutely dominated the “news cycle” of His day for 3 ½ years! Jesus would have been constantly talked about in all of the newspapers and on all of...

Mrs. Yael Eckstein is the 35-year-old mother of four who is the President of one of Israel’s largest philanthropic organizations, The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. After serving in various senior capacities for a decade, Mrs. Eckstein took over the organization, founded by her father, the famous Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein upon his sudden passing just over a year ago. Yael now has the distinction of being one of the very few women in the world leading a religious non-for-profit and fewer still lead an organization with an annual budget exceeding one hundred million dollars.Interestingly, this Jewish-led organization is...