Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2019
US presidential hopefuls kneel at the throne of Jacob Schiff’s depraved American Jewish Committee (AJC) and pledge their fealty to combat anti-semitism and defend Israel
Stay tuned... next week the candidates will pledge to protect the Vatican’s right to exist, agree to send them $10 million a day, and fight those who hate Christianity.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
A Holy Land Pilgrimage with Taylor Marshall
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Holy Land Pilgrimage, New Saint Thomas Institute, 206 Tours - Pilgrimages, 30 May 2019
The company Taylor Marshall is using, like himself, is into numerology this time it’s based upon the false apparitions of Medjugorje.
About 206 Tours, 206 Tours, 3 June 2019
‘Tay’ tells you all about the pilgrimage
This is your “Spiritual Leader” on the Holy Land Pilgrimage
Easter Harlem Shake, On This Rock, Fr. John Hollowell’s blog, 31 March 2013
Special Guests: Dr. Taylor Marshall’s Family...
Learn the meaning of Christmas — to ask for presents and wear immodest clothing!
This isn’t one-time errant immodesty...
The handbook for the pilgrimage...
Marshall’s book ‘The Crucified Rabbi’ will be the basis for explaining Christ’s life and the Holy Land on this pilgrimage. In this book Marshall rightfully point outs “there is a vast difference between the biblical Judaism of Moses and the Talmudic Judaism of the rabbis in the centuries after Christ” but then proceeds to ignore this for the remainder of the book. He quotes from a censored version of the Talmud, takes rabbis at their word going so far as to take rabbinical concepts with no relation to the New Testament and proceed to create them out of thin air. One example is the kippah worn by Talmudic Jews. Marshall explains this was done by Jews out of piety and imitation of the priests of the Temple hence Catholic clergy wear it, “because it is a sign that a man is wholly dedicated to the Lord.” As we have demonstrated on this blog quoting numerous rabbis, wearing a kippah is not biblical, it is Talmudic, and an outward anti-Christian sign. Besides the redacted Talmud, the author looks to a member of Opus Judei, protestant Bibles, rabbis, Maimonides, Jewish historians, and a Russian Orthodox priest to explain who Jesus was, the Sacraments, and the Church. Reading it one also sees that Marshall uses errors of Protestantism. In fact, his book is so filled with errors, it would take a book itself to correct them all. It should be apparent that with the few examples we gave and the screenshots above that Taylor Marshall doesn’t grasp much of the Catholic Faith or its practice. This shouldn’t be a surprise as in the book’s Acknowledgements he thanks — Hebrew-Catholics, Opus Judei members, and more than a few of the hierarchy caught up in the sexual crimes recently brought to light. It suffices to say that this is not a book one should read much less use on a pilgrimage to explain anything about the Catholic Faith.
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Monday, June 10, 2019
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Monday, May 20, 2019
Gene Simmons Gives Pentagon Briefing
“America Is The Promi$ed Land For Everybody”...
...but, “This [Israel] is home.”
He’s a male even thought he wears high heels and make-up.
KISS’ emblem with the ‘ss’ resembling the Waffen SS. Throught the years, Simmons has denied that KISS for ‘Knights in Satan’s Service’, ‘Kinder SS’, and ‘Kids in Satan’s Service’.
Gene Simmons born Chaim Witz at Rambam Hospital in 1949 in Tirat Carmel, Haifa, Israel dressed as his alter ego in the band ‘The Demon’ blowing fire.
Throwing the devil horns dressed as The Demon.
Raising money not for US soldiers but Israeli soldiers.
At Yad Vashem tribute.
Chaim Witz is fluent in Hebrew.
Chaim paying homage to the Indian goddess of Kali by sticking his tongue out.
Friday, November 16, 2018
Guess whom Francis covered his pectoral cross for again?
Hint: It’s a fellow Hasid...
If you guessed Rivka Ravitz, the Israeli Haredi mother of eleven and chief
of staff for the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, then you are correct!
The only thing Francis respects is Talmudic Judaism.
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Friday, November 2, 2018
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Francis meets with head of Zionist Union
Avraham “Avi” Gabbay updates Francis on the Middle East, the current situation in Gaza,
and brings letters from families of Hadar Goldin, Oron Shaul, and Avera
Mengistu to him.
On Monday, 2rd July 2018, Francis had an unusually long meeting with Avi Gabbay, an Israeli politician and the current leader of the Zionist Union and the Israeli Labor Party. Zionist Union is a political alliance in Israel made up of the Israeli Labor Party, Hatnuah and Green Movements which hope to unseat Benjamn Netanyahu in the 2019 elections. Gabbay is an alum of the elite Israeli Defense Force Unit 8200, which is an intelligence gathering group much like America’s NSA. (No word if the Moroccan-Israeli Jew is related to Rita (Gabbay) Katz, the public relations representative of ISIS whose father was hanged in Iraq for being an Israeli spy.)
During the meeting, Avi Gabbay gave Francis letters from the families Mengistu, Shaul, and Goldin asking Francis for help in the “name of peace” in getting their son and the remains of them back to Israel. Francis told Gabbay that, “he intended to act on the matter” and stated, “Anyone who attacks the Jewish people or attacks the very existence of the State of Israel is actually an anti-Semite. On the other hand, whoever criticizes one government or another that controls its policy in Israel is legitimate.” This was specifically a criticism of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS).
Francis, pledged to put pressure on Hamas to return the hostage and remains of the two Israelis to Israel. Here we have Francis willingly participating in a psychodrama of Israel, as Israel is responsible for Hamas existence much like they are responsible for ISIS.
Francis’ pledge to put pressure on Hamas is reminiscent of his, “heartfelt appeal to ensure that everyone is committed to respecting the status quo.” The status quo being the continuation of the Vatican’s policy of assisting the ethnic cleansing (i.e. de-Christianization) of Israel. It is not surprising though as the logos for Francis is the Holocaust and Talmudic Judaism — even when on the surface it appears otherwise. Just remember that non-judgemental Francis (“Who am I to Judge?”) becomes judgmental when it comes to his religion.
It’s also ironic that Francis who didn’t want to interfere in Argentine elections, has no problem meddling in the upcoming Israeli elections. All in all, it’s part of Francis’ double-minded inner-Jew. Speaking of inner-Jews, the Polish-Moroccan-Spanish-Israeli Jew Francis told this inner-Jew statement to, Henrique Cymerman, and whom also organized Francis’ trip to Israel, is the one who set up his private audience with Avi Gabbay. More in the coming years should gradually leak out as to what else transpired at this private audience
According to the Encyclopedia Judaica: the last name Gabbay comes from the Hebrew gabbai which is a “lay communal official“ and is derived from the Hebrew word gavah, meaning “to exact payment”. Nothing could be more apt than Avi Gabbay, a lay official, visiting Francis in the Vatican where he demands a payment to the self-chosen tribe and Francis happily pays up. That no one in the conservative Catholic and traditional Catholic medias has covered this meeting tells you all need to know about them, they are willing accessories in the Talmudists’ agenda. After all, this isn't rocket scientry, all one need do is check the AP Wire and RSS feeds for news like this.
Unfortunately, Asia Bibi’s family didn’t know Henrique Cymerman,so it took 5 years to get a 40 minute audience with humble Francis.
(bold is ours for emphasis)
Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay met Pope Francis in the Vatican Tuesday, and brought him letters from the families of Israelis held by the Hamas terror group in Gaza asking for his support in bringing them back home.
The pope discussed the situation in the Middle East with Gabbay and ways to advance peace in the region. The Zionist Union leader told the the head of the Roman Catholic church that it requires strong leaders who are prepared to take difficult decisions and not align themselves with extremists.
Gabbay updated the pontiff on the current situation in Gaza and the pope surprised him by speaking of a childhood friend of his who lives in an Israeli town near the border. The pope was given letters from the families of IDF servicemen Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose remains have been held by Hamas since the summer 2014 Gaza war, and from the family of Avera Avraham Mengistu, a civilian who is being held by the terror group.
“My world ended when my son, Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, was abducted in Gaza in 2014 by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas,” wrote Zehava Shaul. “His fate is uncertain although we know that he continues to be held captive by Hamas to this day. While the international community has long forgotten my son, I have not.”
She called on the pope, “In the name of the world peace that you and all of us seek,” to help return her son to Israel.
The pope promised to use whatever diplomatic means he could to help the families.
Francis also criticized the BDS Israel boycott movement, pointing out that there is a difference between legitimate criticism of government policies and those who deny the legitimacy of the Jewish state — the latter he decried as anti-Semitic.
Gabbay was accompanied by journalist Henrique Cymerman, who is close to the pope and who recently joined the Labor party.
Cymerman was involved in bringing the pope on an official visit to Israel in 2014 and helped arrange a subsequent prayer meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican.
Meeting Zionist Union chair, Pope vows to help bring Hamas-held captives home, The Times of Israel, (3 July 2018).
Francis looks to be having a good time. He must be telling another blasphemous joke.
Israel’s Channel 2’s coverage of the meeting
video source: mako.co.il, פגישת פרנציסקוס ואבי גבאי
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Being a Jewish gangster is “kosher” as long as you are good to your mother, follow Halakha, and help Israel.
the Kosher Mafia & “Shanda”
“It didn’t matter what [the Jewish gangsters] did in the outside world; it only mattered what they did and said in the Jewish world.”
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Something to ponder...
This entry was posted over at the Thinking Housewife blog last week. It gives one something to think about when compared to the dross that comes out of the idiot box. The occult is known for mocking its victims and how more of a macabre jest can one create than pinning crimes on an enemy, that you committed, while letting those in the know you are hoodwinking everyone?
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NASIM AGHDAM, the woman allegedly involved in what appeared to be a comically staged shooting at Youtube headquarters, does squats joyfully and energetically before her national flag, and to the tune of “Hava Nagila,” in this video. Miss Aghdam is probably on an island beach somewhere right now resting up from her “suicide.”
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source: Thinking Housewife, She Hava De Gun
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She Hava De Gun
April 6, 2018
NASIM AGHDAM, the woman allegedly involved in what appeared to be a comically staged shooting at Youtube headquarters, does squats joyfully and energetically before her national flag, and to the tune of “Hava Nagila,” in this video. Miss Aghdam is probably on an island beach somewhere right now resting up from her “suicide.”
“Hava de guns, Hava de guns, Hava de guns and we be happy.”
source: Thinking Housewife, She Hava De Gun
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Francis sends video message to Spanish religious
“Please, do not proselytize. Look for ways to open paths for the Lord to speak, so that the Lord can call. Do not campaign or run advertising campaigns because the call of God does not fall under the guidelines of marketing. It’s something else.”
— Francis
Francis’ video message for the 47th National
Week for Institutes of Consecrated Life
When a transcript is released CMJ will either link to it or post it below. Just know that Francis’ “great fear” is that the young will “lose their roots”. When Francis says “roots” he doesn’t mean the Catholic Faith, he means the revolutionary religion born out of the Second Vatican Council.
— video transcript —
“P. Martínez Oliveras y a todos ustedes que están reunidos reflexionando en este tema que nos lleva hacia el Sínodo: los jóvenes, las vocaciones, la vocación a la vida religiosa. Y, por supuesto, el telón de fondo es «faltan vocaciones». Y nos podemos quedar en esa lamentela; estar ahí con esa música de fondo de llorar glorias pasadas cuando el Señor nos dice: «Mira hacia delante y mira lo que tenéis que hacer». Pero no hagas proselitismo, por favor. Buscad maneras para abrir caminos para que el Señor pueda hablar, para que el Señor pueda llamar. No hagas campaña electoral ni campañas de tipo comercial porque el llamado de Dios no entra en las pautas del marketing. Es otra cosa. Así que, ¡anímense y sigan adelante!
Respecto de los jóvenes solo les quisiera sugerir una cosa que los puede ayudar. Me impresionó la traducción alemana del último libro de Z. Bauman (el original salió en italiano, Nacidos líquidos [Nati liquidi]) pero la traducción alemana puso: Sin raíces [Die Entwurzelten]. Mi gran temor es que nuestros jóvenes pierdan las raíces. Tengo miedo de eso. Quizás el trabajo de hoy sea preparar el camino para que se vea aquello que anunció Joel: «Los ancianos soñarán y los jóvenes profetizarán» (2,28). Y hoy más que nunca es necesario que los jóvenes tengan un diálogo con los ancianos. Mucha de la generación del medio, la de sus padres, está a mitad de camino.
Estamos a tiempo de recuperar raíces. También estamos a tiempo de y estamos a tiempo de hacer soñar a esos hombres y mujeres para que nos den después a los jóvenes la capacidad de profetizar. El diálogo entre los abuelos y los nietos es un diálogo intergeneracional de alto nivel. Y todavía estamos a tiempo: no lo perdamos. Y vean la manera de escuchar las inquietudes de los jóvenes y también la de los ancianos. Métanlos juntos y la cosa va a andar bien.
En cuanto al número de vocaciones que el Señor decida. Nosotros hagamos lo que Él nos pidió: rezar y testimoniar. («Yo quiero ser como ése». «Yo quiero ser como ésa»). Que Dios los bendiga. Recen por mí. Que se diviertan. No pierdan el sentido del humor”.
The Vatican News’ latest advertising campaign selling the brand of ‘Francis’ to the world with the political sounding slogan, “We bring Francis to the world”.
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
the neo-cons and the alt-right share the same rabbit hole
What do Nina Rosenwald, Henry "Scoop"Jackson, Richard Perle, Frank Gaffney, Henry M. Jackson, Larry Solov, John Bolton, Robert Mercer, Kellyanne Conway, Rebekah Mercer, Robert Spencer, David Horowitz, Pamela Geller, Milo Yiannopoulos, Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), Christine Brim, Alan Lake, Robert Shillman, Ben Shapiro, Ted Cruz, Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein, Mike Cernovich, Ghislane Maxwell, Charles C. Johnson, James O’Keefe, Charles Koch, David Koch, Rebecca Walter Dunn, Ginni Thomas, Laura Loomer, Robert J. Shillman, Jack Posobiec, Alex Jones, and Donald Trump have in common? A tangled spider’s web of connections.
Robert Spencer covering up his bald spot.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Why does Francis insists so strongly that Islam is peaceful?
“If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
After meeting with Talmudic rabbis, Francis most popular guests are imams and Islamicists. Every time he meets with one of the Moslems he says something along the lines of how peaceful the Moslem ‘religion’ is. Francis had a private audience with Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen this past Friday. The statement which has come out is no exception.
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al Othaimeen met with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican today, Friday, 16 March 2018.
During the meeting both sides emphasized the importance of interfaith dialogue and raising the voice of wisdom and tolerance to combat extremism and terrorism. The Secretary General emphasized to His Holiness that terrorism has no religion, and that OIC condemns all terrorist acts coming from any religion.
Al Othaimeen presented his thanks to the Pope for his stand on the issue of Al Quds [Jerusalem] and the basic rights of the Muslims and Christians in the holy city. Both sides were in agreement on the cause of Palestine and Al Quds [Jerusalem].
Al Othaimeen also appreciated the position of the Pope on many issues such as promoting human rights and migration, expressing his thanks to Pope Francis for his position on the Rohingya Muslims and their rights. The Pope from his side expressed his support to the basic rights of the Rohingya, adding that their suffering has been going on for a long time, and he thanked neighboring countries, specially Bangladesh for hosting them.
The Pope also appreciated OIC’s position against terrorism, and stressed that there is no link between Islam and terrorism.
The Secretary General also met with His Eminence the Secretary of State of the Vatican Pietro Parolin. They discussed cooperation and importance of dialogue between both sides and continuous contact.
‘OIC Secretary General Discusses with Pope Francis Terrorism, Rohingya and Quds Issues’, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, (16 March 2018)
Here we have a representative of the Moslems thanking Francis for his stand on Jerusalem. Francis said of Jerusalem, “I wish to make a heartfelt appeal to ensure that everyone is committed to respecting the status quo...” The status quo is the de-Christianization of Jerusalem and Israel. Why would Francis also stress,“that there is no link between Islam and terrorism”? The answer is a fairly simple one, Francis serves the machinations of the rabbis — therefore Islam is acceptable since it’s the fulfillment of the Noahide Laws — Christianity is considered Avodah Zarah (idol worship) and worthy of death. Hence, Moslems are given a free pass and Catholics who profess the Faith are condemned. Francis’ rabbinical buddies do not want non-Jews to covert to Talmudic Judaism instead the Talmudists want the non-Jews to convert to one of the acceptable forms of servile Noahidism. So now you know why Franis insists that Islam is peaceful.
“blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.”
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Coincidental Serendipity — the JFK Assassination
Jacob Rubenstein (aka Jack Ruby) & Abraham Zapruder attended services at Congregation Shearith Israel led by former Haganah member Rabbi Hillel Silverman
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Sunday, December 24, 2017
On this day in 1997 — Vatican Lights Its First Candle for Hanukkah
Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy lights the first candle of Hanukkah on behalf
of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican Gardens (24 December 1997). Hanukkah
songs and the Israeli national anthem “Hatikva” were sung.
Vatican Lights Its First Candle for Hanukkah
VATICAN CITY — Building on its ties with Israel and its effort to reconcile Roman Catholics and Jews, the Vatican celebrated Hanukkah for the first time Tuesday, lighting a candle in a sheltered garden where popes have strolled for centuries.
"There is much darkness in the world around us. There is much need of light," declared Cardinal Edward Cassidy before lighting the candle on Pope John Paul II's behalf, shielded from a late afternoon drizzle by an aide holding an umbrella.
"It is our hope that these celebrations will bring much joy to the people of Israel, light to those who govern the state and peace to all who live within its borders," the Australian cardinal added.
Hanukkah is the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, and this year it officially launches a year of commemorations of Israel's 50th anniversary as a state. Israeli officials said the leaders of 33 nations, including the United States, also heeded their appeal to light Hanukkah candles Tuesday in honor of the anniversary.
In his Hanukkah message, President Clinton offered optimism for prospects in the Middle East and said, "May the candles of the menorah light our way to a true and lasting peace."
The Italian government, in an act of atonement, held its Hanukkah ceremony under Rome's Arch of Titus, built to celebrate the Roman Empire's destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi used the event to urge Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians.
But of all the worldwide celebrations, the one here near the brick embattlement that enclosed the Vatican in the 9th century was arguably the most poignant. It was blessed by a pope who has done more than any predecessor to rid his church of anti-Semitism but still faces criticism for not doing enough.
"This is an important chapter in that historic process of reconciliation," Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, told a small gathering of dignitaries in the Vatican Gardens.
Hanukkah marks the victory by a small band of Jewish fighters 2,161 years ago over the Greco-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to impose its culture and adorn the Jewish Temple with statues of Greek gods.
According to legend, when the Jews tried to rekindle the temple's eternal flame, they found what they thought was enough oil for just one day. Instead, it lasted eight days. Jews celebrate the legend by lighting one candle on each of eight evenings on a ceremonial candelabra, or menorah, placed on windowsills in their homes.
Cassidy, head of the Vatican commission for relations with Jews, called the battle celebrated at Hanukkah "a victory of principle over compromise, of faith over power, of truth and sound moral living over the dazzling and seductive attractions of a wealthy and mighty empire, of the true God over false imitations of the divinity.
"These are values that Jews and Christians can and should share," he added.
The cardinal lighted a menorah that was borrowed from the Jewish Museum of Rome and set on a table by an olive tree. The tree was first planted in Jerusalem in 1965 to mark a retreat from the historic animosity between Catholics and Jews--the Second Vatican Council's declaration that Jews cannot be held responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
In June 1995, the tree was replanted in the Vatican Gardens as a symbol of Vatican-Israeli diplomatic relations, established 18 months earlier. Those ties were strengthened last month with an agreement placing Roman Catholic institutions in Israel under jurisdiction of Israeli law--a move that will make it easier for the church to acquire property there.
Since the start of his papacy in 1978, John Paul has reached out in other ways to Jews. On a visit to the site of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, he called the Holocaust the "Golgotha of our century." In Rome in 1986, he became the first pope to visit a synagogue.
And last month he declared that certain erroneous interpretations of the New Testament had fueled centuries of hostility toward Jews, to the point of numbing many Christians into passivity when they should have been resisting the Nazis' systematic slaughter of Jews across Europe.
"Our parents could certainly never have imagined that so much progress could have been made in [Catholic-Jewish] relations in such a short time after so many centuries of misunderstanding," said Tullia Zevi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, adding that she was "overjoyed and moved" by Tuesday's candle lighting.
But Zevi was quick to point out, in remarks to reporters, that Jewish leaders still expect a Vatican apology for its own silence during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was not mentioned in Tuesday's speeches here--by Cassidy and Msgr. Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican foreign minister, and by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Katzav. Neither did they discuss recent recriminations by some Jews against the Vatican for its alleged secrecy about its possible role in handling Nazi gold.
Instead, each side congratulated the other for its ecumenical spirit.
Unwrapping a Hanukkah gift from the Israelis, Cassidy found a brass menorah and admitted never having used one. He said he first realized he wanted one when Lindy Boggs, the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, arrived last week with hers--awarded seven years ago by New Orleans Jewish women for her ecumenical work.
"I was jealous of Lindy Boggs," the cardinal said. "I thought, 'That's very unpleasant for me, being in charge of relations with Jews and not having a candle stand.' Now I'm very grateful to have one."
Vatican: From left to right: Foreign Minister Tauran, Cardinal Cassidy,
Israel Tourism Minister Katzav, Israel Ambassador Lopez
Vatican: Cardinal Cassidy
Chanukah Ceremonies at Vatican, Arch of Titus Are Full of Symbolism
ROME (Dec. 24)
Chanukah was ushered in in Rome this year with two unprecedented menorah-lighting ceremonies — one at the Vatican and one at the ancient Roman arch that is the symbol of the Jewish Diaspora.
After Rome’s Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff chanted the blessings, Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro lit the first candle of a huge menorah set up underneath the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum, near the Colosseum.
The arch was built to celebrate the Roman victory over the Jews and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. On its inner side it has a carving showing the menorah from the Temple being carried by Jews brought to Rome as slaves.
That carving is one of the most infamous images in Jewish history — so much so that for centuries Jews would not walk through the arch. The menorah as shown, however, was the basis for the one that became the symbol of the State of Israel.
“This evening, a circle closes,” said Israel’s ambassador to Italy, Yehudah Millo. “We are here at the arch not as slaves but as representatives of the independent, free State of Israel.”
The ceremony at the arch, organized by the Israeli Embassy in conjunction with Italian authorities, was an hourlong extravaganza that marked not only the beginning of Chanukah, but also kicked off celebrations that will take place during the coming year to mark the 50th anniversary of Israel.
Italy’s political elite took part in the ceremony, which drew a crowd of hundreds, most of them members of the 15,000-strong Roman Jewish community.
Two hours earlier, just after sunset, Vatican, Israeli and Italian Jewish representatives lit a 2-foot-high silver menorah, on loan from the Rome Jewish Museum, in the Vatican garden.
The lighting, the first time that a Chanukah candle was kindled at the Vatican, also was aimed at celebrating the 50th anniversary of Israel’s founding.
The ceremony took place next to an olive tree that was planted there in 1995 to mark the first anniversary of diplomatic ties between the Vatican and Israel.
The Vatican delegation was led by Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, who lit the candle as the personal representative of Pope John Paul II.
Cassidy praised the development of Jewish-Catholic relations since the historic Nostra Aestate declaration of 1965.
“It is because of our common heritage and values as faith communities that we have come together here this evening,” he said before lighting the candle.
“There is much darkness in the world in which we live,” he said, expressing the hope that light and peace would prevail.
Aharon Lopez, Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See, said the ceremony symbolizes “the portent of the normalization of our mutual relations” and also represents “an important chapter in the historic process of reconciliation between the Jews and the Catholic Church.”
The past anti-Semitism of the Catholic Church, as well as the Vatican role’s during the Holocaust era, has long been a subject of controversy. The latest development came earlier this month, when the Vatican denied it had stored money and gold for Croatian fascists after World War II.
A Vatican spokesman rejected calls for the Holy See to open its archives from that period.
source: Jewish Telegraph Agency, Chanukah Ceremonies at Vatican, Arch of Titus Are Full of Symbolism
Vatican Hanukkah menorah lighting
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