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First blessing:
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לְהַדְלִיק נֵר חֲנֻכָּה
Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-he-nu Me-lech ha-olam a-sher ki-de-sha-nu be-mitz-vo-tav ve-tzi-va-nu le-had-lik ner Cha-nu-kah.
Blessed are You, Lord our G‑d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to kindle the Chanukah light.
Shabbat tonight then Channuka
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Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
Yes that is right after the sun goes down. I think I may have to work tonight but if not I will light the candles on out Menorah. Lighting candles is such a universal thing across religions and has still not last it's connection to the earth and magic. My siblings who are all bar/bat mittzvahed will give gifts and eat special food but that will be it for me. My Mrs and our kids and grandkids our not religious, but because we were born and live in a Christian country we will give gifts at Christmas and have the big family meal etc. She wants to go and hear some Carols so we will maybe go to midnight mass if she is well enough. It was not only the Devil who got the best tunes, so i can appreciate why she would like that. She also used to sing in the choir as a youngster and I love English churches. They are often built on ley lines or the location of pagan sites with a lot of history connecting them. Many of the best (Cathedrals) of course were built with Jewish money.;D
I will miss my Dad reciting the blessings, his Hebrew and singing/chanting voice is amazing, and it always feels special to here words that have been repeated unbroken over thousands of years. I think he may come and visit next year but Hanukkah will be no more important than Christmas here.
For some reason I thought you had said your father lived with you , I mustn't have been listening.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeanzQuote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
Yes that is right after the sun goes down. I think I may have to work tonight but if not I will light the candles on out Menorah. Lighting candles is such a universal thing across religions and has still not last it's connection to the earth and magic. My siblings who are all bar/bat mittzvahed will give gifts and eat special food but that will be it for me. My Mrs and our kids and grandkids our not religious, but because we were born and live in a Christian country we will give gifts at Christmas and have the big family meal etc. She wants to go and hear some Carols so we will maybe go to midnight mass if she is well enough. It was not only the Devil who got the best tunes, so i can appreciate why she would like that. She also used to sing in the choir as a youngster and I love English churches. They are often built on ley lines or the location of pagan sites with a lot of history connecting them. Many of the best (Cathedrals) of course were built with Jewish money.;D
I will miss my Dad reciting the blessings, his Hebrew and singing/chanting voice is amazing, and it always feels special to here words that have been repeated unbroken over thousands of years. I think he may come and visit next year but Hanukkah will be no more important than Christmas here.
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Originally Posted by Dark Lord AlFor some reason I thought you had said your father lived with you , I mustn't have been listening.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeanzQuote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
Yes that is right after the sun goes down. I think I may have to work tonight but if not I will light the candles on out Menorah. Lighting candles is such a universal thing across religions and has still not last it's connection to the earth and magic. My siblings who are all bar/bat mittzvahed will give gifts and eat special food but that will be it for me. My Mrs and our kids and grandkids our not religious, but because we were born and live in a Christian country we will give gifts at Christmas and have the big family meal etc. She wants to go and hear some Carols so we will maybe go to midnight mass if she is well enough. It was not only the Devil who got the best tunes, so i can appreciate why she would like that. She also used to sing in the choir as a youngster and I love English churches. They are often built on ley lines or the location of pagan sites with a lot of history connecting them. Many of the best (Cathedrals) of course were built with Jewish money.;D
I will miss my Dad reciting the blessings, his Hebrew and singing/chanting voice is amazing, and it always feels special to here words that have been repeated unbroken over thousands of years. I think he may come and visit next year but Hanukkah will be no more important than Christmas here.
No, he comes down and visits and stays with us quite often with my stepmother, and was going to come back to Cornwall ( where he grew up) to retire, but the house he was going to buy in Looe fell through. He still lives up in Kent. In the winter like many pensioners they will often go to Malta or Cyprus where it is warmer.
Is your father religious now? Does he go to the synagogue regularly up in Kent?
I like Jews they are like half Christians.
Yes he has always been and does his prayers and meditations every day whether he is in Israel, Palestine, Iraq or England.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
Awesome. I bet in Iraq he goes to the northern part near Kirkuk or Mosul.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeanzYes he has always been and does his prayers and meditations every day whether he is in Israel, Palestine, Iraq or England.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
Not sure if you have seen it but in Jersey City New Jersey and also in New York New York over the past three weeks there have been two separate murderous attacks on both Hasidic Jews and Orthodox Jews. not that it matters but both attacks were carried out by the Black Hebrew Israelites, a group of African Americans who claim that they are the original Jews and that the Jews such as the hasidics and Orthodox are fake or phony. I don't know where they got this philosophy from but it is beyond sickening and they are still permitted on all street corners in Brooklyn and the Bronx and Jersey City and Newark New Jersey to spout their hatred through megaphones and to harass the passers-by with their garbage and twisted philosophy in a very militant and hostile and aggressive manner. I myself have Tangled with them several times on the streets verbally.
The FBI is now busting their headquarters in the Bronx as we speak
The suspect in the stabbing attack in a rabbi's home pled not guilty to all charges. Here's what we know about him so far.
ijiang@businessinsider.com (Irene Jiang)
Business Insider December 29, 2019, 3:38 PM CST
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Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
The suspect arrested in connection with a stabbing attack in Monsey, New York, Saturday night has pled not guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary.
The suspect allegedly entered a rabbi's home during a Hanukkah celebration, brandished a machete, and injured five people before escaping by car. He was later apprehended by NYPD officers in Harlem, New York, who noticed his clothes were bloody and smelled of bleach. Here's what we know about him so far.
Grafton E. Thomas, 37, is a resident of Greenwood Lake, New York, where he lives in a house on Lake Drive with his mother, CNN reported. According to public records, Thomas previously lived in Brooklyn, New York.
Public defender Kristine Ciganek, who is representing Thomas in court, said that he has no criminal record. But records indicate Grafton has been arrested several times before, including one time for punching a police horse.
Michael Dugandzic, the prosecutor in the case, said that while Thomas had no ties to the community of Monsey, the suspect had been arrested earlier this year for "menacing and reckless endangerment".
https://www.businessinsider.com/hanu...9-12?r=US&IR=T
Grafton E Thomas is clearly a white supremacist in the best of disguises. After Mong in Blazing Saddles, and of course Roberto Duran, he is only the third person i have heard of who felt it necessary to punch a horse. I am not counting George Groves because that was his job. :beatdeadhorse:
It was MONGO from Blazing saddles not Mong ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beanz"Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
The suspect arrested in connection with a stabbing attack in Monsey, New York, Saturday night has pled not guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary.
The suspect allegedly entered a rabbi's home during a Hanukkah celebration, brandished a machete, and injured five people before escaping by car. He was later apprehended by NYPD officers in Harlem, New York, who noticed his clothes were bloody and smelled of bleach. Here's what we know about him so far.
Grafton E. Thomas, 37, is a resident of Greenwood Lake, New York, where he lives in a house on Lake Drive with his mother, CNN reported. According to public records, Thomas previously lived in Brooklyn, New York.
Public defender Kristine Ciganek, who is representing Thomas in court, said that he has no criminal record. But records indicate Grafton has been arrested several times before, including one time for punching a police horse.
Michael Dugandzic, the prosecutor in the case, said that while Thomas had no ties to the community of Monsey, the suspect had been arrested earlier this year for "menacing and reckless endangerment".
https://www.businessinsider.com/hanu...9-12?r=US&IR=T
Grafton E Thomas is clearly a white supremacist in the best of disguises. After Mong in Blazing Saddles, and of course Roberto Duran, he is only the third person i have heard of who felt it necessary to punch a horse. I am not counting George Groves because that was his job. :beatdeadhorse:
https://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfo...tid=5134&stc=1
I never punched a horse but if you went all out and hit with all your power I would think that would be an instant broken hand
Federal prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against the 38-year-old man suspected of stabbing five people with a machete at a Hanukkah celebration in a New York City suburb on Saturday night.
At the Greenwood Lake, New York, home of suspect Grafton Thomas, investigators recovered journals which had anti-Semitic sentiments including references to Hitler and "Nazi Culture" "on the same page as drawings of a Star of David and a Swastika," according to the federal complaint.
The day of the machete attack, Thomas' phone was allegedly used to access an article titled: "New York City Increases Police Presence in Jewish Neighborhoods After Possible Anti-Semitic Attacks. Here's What To Know."
On Thomas' phone were searches including "Why did Hitler hate the Jews," according to the complaint.
Sunday was the last night of Hanukkah. For Jews in Monsey and beyond, it can no longer be an evening of lightness and festivity. Gestetner told me he knows the father of Moshe Deutsch, the yeshiva student who was shot in Jersey City; the brother of Leah Mindel Ferencz, the other Jew who died there, sang at his wedding. There may be 2.2 million Jews in and around New York, but even in a city this big and this Jewish, every anti-Semitic attack can feel personal. “People feel their families [and] their friends are under attack,” he said. “A lot of people can identify with the attacks up close.”
There have been 13 anti-semitic attacks in New York City and New Jersey since the beginning of Hanukkah this year.
We should also use this sad time to pray for the PalestiniansQuote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
That's another thread. And shows you don't really want to pray for the Jews.
Saturday was the seventh night of Hanukkah, a holiday normally celebrated with singing and fried foods and the soft glow of lit menorahs. A gathering of Hasidic Jews at the home of a rabbi in Monsey, New York, instead turned into a nightmare when a man wielding a large knife rushed in and began attacking. Five people were reportedly stabbed and wounded. As of midday Sunday, according to law enforcement, two victims were still in the hospital.
“There’s a lot of horror,” Shoshana Bernstein, a community organizer and mother who lives in Monsey, told me. “It’s tapping into every fear.” Part of the shock is that this happened in Monsey, a densely Jewish community just north of New York City, in the metropolitan area that is home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel. Jews have been in New York since before the city got its name, and have deeply influenced its culture. At one point, they made up as much as a quarter of its population. Now, according to researchers at Brandeis University, roughly 1.7 million Jews live in the metropolitan area, nearly 10 percent of the population. By comparison, Jews make up roughly 2 percent of the United States population as a whole.
Here, of all places, Jews should feel safe. But the Monsey stabbing is just the latest in an escalating drumbeat of violence in the area. Less than three weeks ago, a pair of assailants allegedly murdered two Jews, a law-enforcement officer, and a clerk at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey. There have been at least 13 anti-Semitic incidents in New York State since early December, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, and at least 10 in the New York–New Jersey area in the past week alone, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The Monsey attack could mark a fundamental turning point for Jews in New York, and across the country: Jews are being targeted for violence, whether they live in the heart of Brooklyn or the suburbs of Rockland County, where Monsey is located. “I think the reality is seeping in,” Bernstein said. “It doesn’t matter who you are [or] what your religious affiliation is. We’re not safe as Jews in New York.”
@Beanz @walrus @Gandalf @greynotsoold if this doesnt bring tears to your eyes , one has no heart, no compassionQuote:
Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Hu0kLT59Q
here is the piece of shit
@Beanz see the shit we have to put up with in NYC? @walrus was it like this for you? @Gandalf @greynotsoold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZZnsJQRrd0
@Beanz I worked 100 meters from this corner for 3 years straight, 1997-2000 Imagine I had to pass these fuckers every afternoon TWICE @walrus @Gandalf @greynotsoold @ykdadamaja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdZqq18-K7k
That would get old really fast.