Showing posts with label Abraham Foxman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Foxman. Show all posts

Friday, September 5, 2014

Francis receives 'Noahide' rainbow artwork on flight LY514

Francis is presented with 'Faith-Visual Pray' a work by kinetic artist Yaacov Agam by a representative of El Al airline onboard flight LY514

Several things are worth mentioning about Yaacov Agam's upbringing before we write of the artwork which was given to Francis.  Yaacov's father Yehoshua, was a rabbi and a noted kabbalahist.  Agam was educated at a Talmudic religious school until he dropped out and his father hired a melamed (religious teacher) to tutor him at home.  Of his art Yaacov says, 


"I don't pray with words, I pray visually.  My works are, so to speak, a visual prayer."


Another interesting connection is the one with the Guggenheim family whom have helped Agam by purchasing his artwork and holding shows to promote his artwork at their museums.  The Guggenheim family was also responsible for bringing famous author Malachi Martin to America as well as bringing Marc Chagall to America.  Chagall is the artist responsible for Francis favorite piece of blasphemous artwork White Crucifixion.  

The work 'Faith-Visual Pray' by Yaacov Agam is in the color of the noahide rainbow.  Much of Agam's artwork uses the rainbow.  It contains the Magen David, the emblem of Zionism, and a  Menorah, which brings to mind the Talmudic tale of god being pleased with the Jewish people and their vainglorious celebrations.  Many towns and cities around the world have a public menorah dutifully put up by various Chabad-Lubavitch branches.  Agam is responsible for building the world's largest chanukah menorah for the Lubavitchers which is erected in New York City every year on at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.  The menorah is also the symbol of the Mossad, the intelligence and special operations division of Israel.  The work's message is that if Christianity will tolerate (be subservient to) Talmudic Judaism (by obeying the noahide laws) the messiah will come again.  This isn't first time one of Agam's works has been given to a pontiff.  In 2004, the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman presented Saint John Paul II a piece titled, 'Visual Prayer for Mutual Hope'.


'Faith-Visual Pray' by Yaacov Agam


page 208 from Agam: Beyond the Visual





When Pope Francis, and the hundred Vatican officials and international journalists who accompanied him to the Holy Land, boarded the specially outfit El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 777 flight LY514, clad with the Pontiff’s coat of arms, for the return flight to Rome on Monday, airline president David Maimon showered him with gifts.

A published book of greetings and messages sent via social media from El Al passengers around the world, a bottle of Altitude 720 kosher wine from Barkan Winery affixed with a special label with the date and flight number of the historic voyage, and a painting by 86-year-old Israeli artist Yaacov Agam called, ‘Faith-Visual Pray.’

Maimon told the Pope that the artwork integrated symbols of Judaism, including the Star of David and the Menorah, symbolizing the Holy Temple of Jerusalem and the seven churches of Christianity.

In an exclusive interview, Agam, one of the pioneers of the kinetic art movement, told The Algemeiner the story behind the special painting.

“El Al wanted to give the Pope a gift, and they looked to different galleries, and this was in Art Market,” a gallery in the port of Tel Aviv, he said.

“They chose this work of art because it expresses this idea, the feeling of being Jewish,” he said.

“The art work is very significant because you see the rainbow, and the rainbow is the expression of color. And the beauty of the rainbow is symbolizing – you have red and blue and yellow and violet. You have all the different colors, and they tolerate each other. And all together, they make a beautiful thing – a rainbow.”

“And this is symbolizing the world – if we tolerate each other there will be a great peace in the world and Moshiach [the Messiah] will hopefully come,” Agam said.

“At the same time, it represented some of the most Jewish values and also represented the State of Israel, with the Magen David [the Star of David] and the Chanukiah [Menorah], with seven branches, and there are also the seven branches of Christianity,” Agam said.

Reflecting on his role as an artist, Agam, who has been featured in retrospectives at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, in Paris, and at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York, said that in “Egyptian art, they represent their religion, their values – they’re not just works of art. They represent their religion, so I tried to make a good work of art that represents Jewish values.”

In Israel, where everything is imbued with ancient ideas, El Al said that nearly 66 years ago, when the decision was made to establish a national airline, in search of an appropriate name, they turned to the Bible for inspiration and chose “El Al,” from the book of Hoseah, signifying “to the most high.”

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Audio of Allen's speech to the ADL






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Call Me Jorge... covered this speech of John L Allen, Jr. to the Anti-Defamation League's National Executive Committee on 7 February 2014 under the entry Jews “basically won the lottery”.  Now we have what was actually said, not just notes from a reporter on the speech.  It is similar to the speeches Allen was giving while touring the world telling people who Francis truly is.  At the 16 minutes and 41 seconds Allen goes off his usual script and has a message just for the Jews.  He specifically mentions Abe Foxman a little after 22 minutes 16 seconds and tells him to assist the Vatican so Francis is coached in how to not accidentally offend the Jews during his (then) upcoming trip to Israel.


Less than 2 weeks later, listen to what Abe Foxman tells the media about Francis.



Looks like Foxman received all his wishes from Francis!







To see and hear Foxman in his own words say he is running a scam watch the excellent movie, Defamation by Yoav Shamir, below.

Monday, May 19, 2014

kosher saints understand need for a kosher state


A recent article in the Toronto Star, New saints understood need for Jewish state, by Rabbi Dow Marmur needs little comment as the rabbis see it fit to rid the Novus Ordo church of its façade and expose the Novus Ordo church for the Talmud worshiping non-Catholic religion it is.  Always the everlasting victims, Marmur and company take great pride in boasting of this Frankenstein of a golem they have spent years creating.


New saints understood need for Jewish state
Despite the canonization of two popes who recognized the importance of Israel, many rank-and-file members of the Catholic Church still find it difficult to accept.

By: Rabbi Dow Marmur, Columnist
Published on Mon May 12 2014 
Commenting on last month’s canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League in the United States, remarked that in the Jewish community the two popes “have already been saints for a long time.”

Other Jewish leaders spoke in similar terms. Rabbi David Rosen of Jerusalem, who has special links to the Vatican and was one of the 18 Jewish representatives given a place of honour at the ceremony in Rome, described the new saints as the great heroes of Catholic-Jewish reconciliation: “No two popes did more to transform the teaching of the Catholic Church toward Jews, Judaism and Israel from one of hostility to love and respect.”

Even though Jews don’t share the Catholic theology of sainthood, they were honoured to be afforded an opportunity to express their appreciation of what the two leaders had done, not only for Jews but for the entire world.

Angelo Roncalli, born in Italy in 1881, was Pope John XXIII between 1958 and 1963. He convened the Second Vatican Council that led to the historic document Nostra Aetate. It rejected the charge that the Jews killed Jesus and it condemned anti-Semitism. He also initiated the process that culminated in the Vatican’s recognition of the State of Israel.

Karol Wojtyla was Pope John Paul II between 1978 and 2005. He was 19 when in 1939 the Nazis invaded his native Poland where he witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust. The experience came to shape his ministry. His encounter with survivors at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, during his pilgrimage to Israel in 2000 is unforgettable, as is his visit to the Western Wall, the remnant of the ancient Temple, Judaism’s holiest site.

After visiting the synagogue in Rome in 1986, the first pope to do so after St. Peter, John Paul II declared: “I thank Divine Providence that I was able to visit our ‘elder brothers’ in the faith of Abraham in their Roman Synagogue! Blessed be the God of our fathers! The God of peace!”

This was a clear departure from Christian supersessionism. In place of the age-old insistence that Christianity has superseded and replaced Judaism, this pope affirmed God’s continued covenant with the people of Israel and thus provided the necessary framework for honest and mutually respectful Catholic-Jewish co-operation.

However, to reach Catholics in the pew, the Church must now go beyond theology and persuade its adherents that the Jews are a people, not only members of a faith community. John XXIII sensed it out of his deep understanding of the nature of Judaism. John Paul II knew it first-hand through his encounters with Jews in Poland, some of whom became his personal friends.

Both popes also knew that, to survive and thrive, a people must have a land. Though in recent times Jews had individually become integrated in many countries, the Holocaust made it clear that collectively they need self-determination to be able to live with dignity. The Vatican’s recognition of the State of Israel helped to affirm it.

Despite the canonization of the two popes who recognized not only Judaism but also the Jewish people — and with that the Jewish state — many rank-and-file members of the Catholic Church, and even more so members of other Christian denominations, still find this difficult to accept. Hence, in the eyes of many, their hostile attitude to Jewish sovereignty.

Christians who see Israel only as the Holy Land struggle when called upon to affirm the Jews as a people and Israel as the Jewish state. Pope Francis may help them when he visits Israel later this month.