Showing posts with label funeral. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Billy Graham to Lie in Honor in US Capitol Rotunda, Funeral Will Be Under a 'Canvas Cathedral' - CBN News

Billy Graham
Billy Graham to Lie in Honor in US Capitol Rotunda, Funeral Will Be Under a 'Canvas Cathedral

02-21-2018 CBN News

Billy Graham will finish the same way he started – under a large white tent in front of thousands of people. 
Graham's private funeral service will be held Friday, March 2, at noon in a canvas tent set up near The Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. 
Before that, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has announced that on Wednesday, February 28, Graham's body will be brought to the US Capitol, where he will lie in honor in the Rotunda until Thursday, March 1.
Members of the public will be allowed to come and pay their respects to the late reverend while he lies in rest in the Capitol.
Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will also take part in a special memorial service for Graham.
The funeral service on March 2 is private and will include family members, friends, and community leaders who were touched by Graham's ministry. Approximately 2,300 people will be invited to attend the 90-minute service. 
Graham personally approved the planning and details of his funeral arrangements years before his death and made sure the focus will not be on him, but on the gospel. His son, Franklin Graham will give the funeral message, while his brother and three sisters will speak briefly to honor their father. 
Graham's preaching ministry first gained national prominence in 1949 when he held a crusade in downtown Los Angeles under a large white tent, also known as a "canvas cathedral." 
"His family and team members thought it would be fitting to also conduct his funeral service under a tent as a reminder of how his public ministry was launched," Mark DeMoss, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said. 
Graham's casket was hand-made by Angola Prison inmates in 2006, at his request. 
The famous evangelist will be buried next to his wife Ruth, who died in 2007, at the foot of the cross walkway at the Billy Graham Library. 
Graham died at 7:46 a.m. Wednesday morning. His nurse was the only one present. His personal physician, Dr. Lucian Rice, arrived about 20 minutes later and described his passing as "peaceful."
DeMoss said Graham's last few months were spent in and out of consciousness. Graham had endured cancer, pneumonia and other health problems. DeMoss quoted Rice as saying "he just wore out."

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Shimon Peres funeral, 27 Elul, the day the Oslo Accords were signed - ARUTZ SHEVA 7

Shimon Peres funeral, 27 Elul, the day the Oslo Accords were signed

The architect of Oslo has been called to give account in the Heavens today, during the period when all Jews are judged for their past actions.Today's date is Elul 27 which fell on September 13 in 1993, the very day the Oslo Accords were signed.
Rabbi Yoel Domb, 

Two weeks ago, on September 13th 2016, Shimon Peres suffered a fatal stroke culminating in his death two weeks later. Peres will be buried on Friday in the presence of many foreign leaders including Bill Clinton, who together with him and  Yitzchak Rabin initiated the Oslo peace process with the signing of the peace agreement on September 13th 1993, exactly 23 years ago. The Hebrew date on Friday is 27 Elul. A quick check reveals that in 1993, 27 Elul was the very day, September 13, when the Oslo accords were signed.

This cannot be a coincidence. More than any of his considerable life achievements, Shimon Peres was proud of the fact that he succeeded in turning the PLO from a mortal enemy of Israel into a partner for peace. Peres believed that making peace with the Palestinians would ultimately lead all the surrounding Arab countries to lay down their arms and initiate peace with Israel.

The core of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian problem and the refugee issue could only be resolved in his view by negotiations with a Palestinian leadership. When such a leadership did not present itself, Israel endeavored to negotiate first with King Hussein of Jordan and then the more dovish elements in Israeli politics, spearheaded by Yossi Beilin but aided by the older and more prestigious Peres, decided to break the taboo against dealing with terrorist organizations and to negotiate with the PLO over the future of the West Bank.

The mere idea of negotiating with the Tunis-based terrorist leadership seemed utterly incomprehensible to many. The PLO had fought Israel since 1964, well before the Six Day War returned Israel to Judea and Samaria. It was a sworn enemy of Israel with clauses in its charter calling for the destruction of Israel and creation of a Palestinian state between the Jordan and the sea. In 1982, after a protracted campaign in Lebanon, Israel had succeeded in ousting the terror group from South Lebanon, where it had disrupted normal life in the Galilee for a decade.

Yassir Arafat and his henchmen were dispatched to Tunis where it was hoped they would not trouble Israel again too soon. To make overtures to such murderous enemies seemed to add insult to the significant injury they had already caused Israel.

Yet Peres and his advisors felt that the first intifada had demonstrated the futility of achieving a modus vivendi with the indigenous Arab population of Judea and Samaria. They naively assumed that just as giving a schoolboy troublemaker a position of authority may cause an improvement in his churlish behavior, a long shot at best, bringing the PLO to prominence in the 'West Bank' might reform its attitude to Israel and even transform the erstwhile terrorists into lawmakers and policemen.

The accords were signed in 1993 and after huge public protests arose in Israel, the Knesset ratified the accords by a single vote - that of Alex Goldfarb who was presented with a Mitsubishi in honor of his crossing party lines to approve the accords.

Peres and Rabin ignored the opposition and even mocked them at times. They ridiculed the notion that terror might erupt in Gaza, that rockets might fall in Ashkelon and that the 'West Bank' might serve as a platform for attacks on the center of Israel.

The first signs that things were not going to go as planned were visible in 1994, the year Peres and Arafat received the Nobel peace prize for their efforts. Arafat's PLO refused to abrogate or even modify their charter, meaning that their signatures on the peace treaty were not an assertion of Israel's right to exist but merely a hudna, a tactical treaty designed to enable the Palestinian Arabs to establish themselves in Judea and Samaria before continuing their offensive against Israel.

Arafat may have mouthed condemnations of violence to the foreign press but he made no attempt to stop incitement against Israel in the Palestinian Authority media, nor did he try to curb extremist groups from performing attacks on Israelis unless they challenged his authority. Moreover he made no secret of the fact that Jewish settlement in the entire Judea and Samaria was illegal in his eyes and therefore the settlers were legitimate targets for indiscriminate terror attacks even from the ranks of his own Fatah organization. These attacks were met with little political criticism from the ranks of the ruling party, despite the fact that the Oslo accords did not make settlement illegitimate and left decisions on future withdrawals contingent on final status talks.

At this juncture the Oslo accords required the Israeli authorities to arm the Palestinian Authority police set up by Arafat. Huge protests arose in Israel at the anomaly of Israel providing weaponry to people still openly hostile to large segments of Israeli society. Notwithstanding the fact that policemen are responsible for maintaining the peace and not for fighting wars, the policemen were outfitted with rifles.

In the ensuing years, these weapons would be turned on Israelis, who unwittingly would pay for their own deaths by providing their killers with the means to murder them. The poetic injustice however was lost on the Oslo designers who still continued to maintain their whimsical dream of a lasting peace being achieved.

That dream was rudely shattered in the spring of 1996, ironically while Peres himself was prime minister after Rabin's assassination. In the wake of the assassination of Yihya Ayyash, mastermind of many of the dastardly bus bombings which had rocked Israel during the years after the Oslo accords, a new spate of suicide bombings drove public opinion against Oslo and its chief architect Peres and despite the shock of Rabin's murder half a year previously, Peres was driven from power.

The Oslo process received its death knell five years later. After Ehud Barak offered by far the most generous concessions ever presented by an Israeli premier and Arafat had soundly rejected them, it became clear that even the most moderate Palestinian Arabs were not peace partners for Israel, much as Peres still wanted to believe they were. The second intifada killed off any hopes that the Palestinian Authority would do anything to prevent terror activity in Judea and Samaria, while many Fatah members actively participated in attacks on Jews.

The educational materials being disseminated in the Palestinian Authority as well as their media and clergy constantly incited against Israel. The voice of peace and conciliation was only heard on the Israeli side, while no moderate voices emerged among the Palestinian Arabs. Peres' dream of a New Middle East was rapidly crumbling.

With the Gaza disengagement and the rise of Hamas as the vibrant political force there, it has become increasingly clear that there is no partner capable of negotiating any kind of peace agreement with Israel. In Lebanon, Hizbullah exploited the vacuum left by Israel to expand their terrorist base and rocket system. In Gaza Hamas dig tunnels and prepare rockets to shoot much further than Ashkelon. Syria, riven by a bloody civil war, is in no condition to make peace. And the feckless Palestinian Authority has neither the will not the capability to contain more radical elements.

In his lifetime Peres knew many resounding successes. He was responsible for Israel's military rearmament after the War of Independence, as well as establishing Israel's nuclear capability and had a part in directing the incredible Entebbe operation. But when he is called to give his final account on Friday, 27 Elul, he will be forced for the first time to acknowledge the resounding failure of the 23-year Oslo experiment.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Jewish Rabbi: Another Forgotten Victim of Palestinian Terror - CHARISMA NEWS

Ultra orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Toronto-born Rabbi Haim Rothman in Har Nof, Jerusalem on Oct. 24, 2015.

Ultra orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Toronto-born Rabbi Haim Rothman in Har Nof, Jerusalem on Oct. 24, 2015. (YouTube)


Standing With Israel


Jewish Rabbi: Another Forgotten Victim of Palestinian Terror




After every Palestinian terrorist attack, the news media report the names of those killed and the number of those wounded. The names of the injured are almost never mentioned. In many cases, they are maimed for life, but nobody outside their immediate families will ever know their names or remember what happened to them.
The one tragic exception to this Rule of the Forgotten Victims is if someone who is injured in an attack later dies from his wounds. And so the name of Rabbi Haim (Howie) Rothman briefly entered the consciousness of world Jewry this week, when he passed away from the devastating injuries he suffered in the November 2014 Har Nof synagogue massacre.
Rabbi Rothman left the comforts of Toronto in 1985, to make his home in Jerusalem, where he and his wife raised 10 children and became beloved members of the Har Nof community. On Nov. 18, 2014, the Palestinian terrorists Uday Abu Jamal and Ghassan Muhammad Abu Jamal burst into a Har Nof synagogue, swinging axes and firing automatic weapons.
Some of the worshippers may have known the Jamals. The two cousins worked in one of the neighborhood's grocery stores. Some people probably see the fact that Palestinian Arabs take jobs in Jewish businesses as a sign of peaceful coexistence. Not in this case.
The Jamals murdered four rabbis (three of them American citizens) and an Israeli policemen. They also wounded seven others. Rabbi Rothman was one of those seven anonymous "others." He lingered in a deep coma for 11 months.
A fitting way to honor Rabbi Rothman and the other Har Nof victims would be to take some concrete action against those who sponsored the attack. In Gaza, Hani Thawabta, one of the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), announced that his group claimed "full responsibility for the execution of this heroic operation." Another PFLP leader, Jamil Mizher, told reporters, "We bless the operation and the two young men who carried it out, but we have not received any confirmation that it was planned by the PFLP, even though it was consistent with the history of the PFLP." Yet another PFLP official referred to the Udays as "PFLP comrades."
The PFLP is the second-largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is also chairman of the PLO. The PFLP has never been expelled from the PLO, despite the fact that it continues to carry out periodic terrorist attacks against Israel. On June 29, 2015, for example, the PFLP claimed responsibility for a drive-by attack on Israeli motorists near the community of Shvut Rachel. One of the Israelis was killed, four others were wounded.
The Obama administration should demand that Abbas expel the PFLP from the PLO. If he refuses, he should be declared partially responsible for the Har Nof attack, and he should be put on the "U.S. Watch List," which prohibits terrorists from entering America.
The Palestinian Authority has a policy of paying salaries to the families of Palestinian terrorists who are killed in action. Meaning that the families of the Jamals, the Har Nof killers, are now being subsidized by the PA. And since the U.S. gives the PA $500 million annually, it means that the killers' families are in effect being paid by American taxpayers. The U.S. should deduct those amounts from the PA's aid package, and send it to the families of Rabbi Rothman and the other victims.
American Jewish organizations need to press for steps such as these as quickly as possible—before Haim Rothman's name, like so many others before him, is forgotten.
Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He writes this from a tense Jerusalem.
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Soccer Fans to Flood Lone Soldier's Funeral

Soccer Fans to Flood Lone Soldier's Funeral

A Haifa soccer club called on its fans to attend the funeral of lone soldier Nissim Sean Carmeli.

By Yaakov Levi  ARUTZ SHEVA   ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
First Publish: 7/21/2014

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IDF Spokesman



In a heartfelt call to fans, the Maccabi Haifa soccer club called on its fans to “do a mitzvah (a good deed) and attend the funeral of fallen IDF soldier Nissim Sean Carmeli, so that his funeral will not be empty.”

The funeral for lone soldier Carmeli, whose parents live in Texas, is set to take place later Monday night, after his parents arrive in Israel.


Carmeli is one of the 13 combat soldiers who were killed in the close fighting at the Battle of Shejaya Saturday night and early Sunday.

A lone soldier from South Padre Island, Texas, Carmeli was born to a secular Israeli family which along with him, became more religious over the past several years.

Named for his grandfather on his mother's side, Carmeli, 21, was studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva before joining the IDF. He had been given the opportunity to avoid service in Gaza because of a foot injury, but insisted on going anyway.


Carmeli's two sisters live in Israel as well, but that is apparently the only family he has in Israel – so officials of Maccabi Haifa decided to step in and provide an “honor contingent” to accompany the fallen hero to his resting place.


In the call to fans, the soccer club said that “Carmeli was a lone soldier, and we don't want his funeral to be empty. Come to his funeral Monday night to pay respects to a man who died so that we could live. This is the least we can do for him and for our nation,” the message said.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Bob Jones Passing Celebration - Show Me Your Face Lord - Don Potter



Don Potter sings at Bob Jones Celebration, Feb. 21, 2014 in honor of his passing 
on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2014, at age 84.

More videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/loveforhispeopleinc

Video by Steve Martin, Love For His People



Bob & Bonnie Jones 2013

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Where Were These People Marching 100 Years Ago in Jerusalem? To a Funeral, Apparently

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)


Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:42 AM PDT
A procession -- but to where?
As we post this feature, the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is taking place in Jerusalem with more than half a million mourners. 

To mark the sad event, we are reposting a two year old feature. The pictures here were photographed more than 100 years ago in Jerusalem.  What was the occasion?

"A Jewish procession to Absalom's Pillar" is the caption on the Library of Congress' photo, which as dated sometime between 1898 and 1946.  That's a huge window of time.  The procession is walking down a ramp from the southeast corner of the Old City wall into the Kidron Valley. Presumably the hundreds of Jews came out of the Old City through the Dung Gate or the Zion Gate.

Why was there a procession to the tomb of King David's rebellious son, Absalom?  It's not a very popular destination for Jerusalemites today.  Some historians relate that there was a custom to take children to the shrine and throw rocks at it to remind the children to behave.  Were there so many mischievous children?  The long dresses on many of the people in the procession suggest many women were also involved.  


An enlarged segment of the procession picture
 
Luckily, the Library of Congress site provides a TIFF download that permits enlarging the photo and provides incredible detail.  And the enlargement shows that the procession consisted almost entirely of ultra-Orthodox men wearing their long caftans.  
 

The funeral near Absalom's Pillar
 Also fortuitous was discovering another picture elsewhere in the massive Library of Congress collection entitled "Various types, etc. Jewish funeral."  It shows a funeral party at the bottom of the Kidron Valley moving up the Mount 

of Olives.  It may very well be the "flip side" of the same procession, with two photographers on either side of the valley.  The shadows suggest that the time of day -- morning, with the sun shining in the east -- was nearly the same.  The second picture, however, does include women walking up the ramp from the Valley.  And yes, the women are Jewish. Despite the dark scarves on their heads, they are neither nuns nor Muslims.
Women heading back to the Old City





Lastly, while the Library curators recorded a number, 4340, on the first negative, they missed that the second photo, dated between 1900 and 1920, had the number 4343, suggesting that the two were part of a series. 

This match was pointed out to the curators who will finally pair the two photos after almost 100 years.

Today, this notation appears on the caption:LoC: "May be related to LC-M32-14232 which has "4340" on negative. (Source: L. Ben-David,Israel's History - A Picture a Day
 website, August 19, 2011)

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Reposting:  The Library of Congress' photo collection also includes this 1903 (1908?) photo of the "Funeral services for a Jewish Rabbi, Jerusalem."  
Is it possible to determine where in Jerusalem the photograph was taken?  Most definitely. 

1903 funeral in the Old City of Jerusalem
The building is the Rothschild building in the Batei Machaseh compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, donated by Baron Wilhelm Karl de Rothschild of Frankfurt.  The building still bears the Rothschild family's coat of arms.

The compound was built between 1860 and 1890 to provide housing for Jerusalem's poor.  An old lintel stone nearby reads "Shelter home for the poor on Mt. Zion." 

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies at 93 - 800,000 attend funeral - (Jerusalem, Israel)

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder of Shas and Sephardic sage, dies at 93


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Posted: Monday, October 7, 2013 9:17 pm
TEL AVIV - Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, has died.
Yosef died Oct. 7 at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. He was 93.

He served as Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi from 1973 to 1983, and extended his influence over the ensuing decades as the spiritual leader of Shas, which politically galvanized hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Israelis, though Yosef himself never served in Knesset. In 1999, at its height, Shas was the third-largest Knesset party, with 17 seats.
Though he adhered to a haredi Orthodox ideology, Yosef, a charismatic speaker, published relatively liberal Jewish legal rulings and drew support both from traditional and secular Sephardic Israelis. Known to his followers as Maran, “our master” in Hebrew, Yosef’s main Jewish legal goal was to take diverse Jewish practices from the Middle East and North Africa and mold a “united legal system” for Sephardic Jews.
As his influence grew, Yosef presided over a veritable empire of Sephardi religious services. Shas opened a network of schools that now has 40,000 students. Yosef managed a kosher certification called Beit Yosef that has become the standard for many religious Sephardim. And he was a dominant power broker when it came to electing Sephardic chief rabbis and appointing Sephardic judges in religious courts. This year, Yosef’s son - and preferred candidate - won the Israeli Sephardic chief rabbi election.
Through his work, Yosef hoped to raise the status of Israel’s historically disadvantaged Sephardic community, both culturally and socioeconomically. He dressed in traditional Sephardic religious garb, including a turban and an embroidered robe, even as most of his close followers adopted the Ashkenazi haredi dress of a black fedora and suit.
As a scholar, Yosef was known for his ability to recite long, complex Jewish tracts from memory. His best-known works, “Yabia Omer,” “Yehave Da’at” and “Yalkut Yosef,” cover an array of Jewish legal topics.
“He was a character that people capitulated in front of, a man of Jewish law that created a political entity with strong influence on Israeli politics and culture,” said Menachem Friedman, an expert on the haredi community at Bar-Ilan University. “It raised up Middle Eastern Jewish culture, gave legitimacy to Middle Eastern Jewish traditions.”
Outside the religious community, Yosef was best known for his sometimes controversial political stances. His authority within Shas was virtually absolute, and even in his ninth decade he remained closely involved in the party’s decisions.
While Yosef favored policies that served the religious community’s interests, he also supported peace treaties involving Israeli withdrawal from conquered territory. He argued that such deals were allowed under Jewish law because they saved Jewish lives.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Shas joined left-wing governing coalitions multiple times, allowing for the advancement of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process -  though Yosef opposed the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip because it was done unilaterally.
In his later years, Yosef also stirred controversy with a number of inflammatory statements, often made at a weekly Saturday-night sermon. In 2000, he said that Holocaust victims were reincarnated sinners, and in 2005 he said that the victims of Hurricane Katrina deserved the tragedy “because they have no God.” In 2010, Yosef said, "The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews."
"Rabbi Ovadia was a giant in Torah and Jewish law and a teacher for tens of thousands," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Oct. 7. "He worked greatly to enhance Jewish heritage and at the same time, his rulings took into consideration the times and the realities of renewed life in the State of Israel. He was imbued with love of the Torah and the people."
Ovadia Yosef was born Abdullah Yosef in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 23, 1920. Four years later his family moved to Jerusalem, in what was then Palestine, where Yosef studied at the Porat Yosef yeshiva, a well-regarded Sephardic school. At 20, he received ordination as a rabbinic judge, and at 24 he married Margalit Fattal. She died in 1994.
Yosef began serving as a rabbinic judge in 1944, and in 1947 moved to Cairo to head the rabbinic court in the Egyptian capital, returning in 1950. He continued serving as a religious judge until becoming Sephardic chief rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968, a position he held until he was elected Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel in 1973. During that period, he began publishing his well-known works, beginning with his Passover Haggadah, “Hazon Ovadia,” in 1952. In 1970, the government awarded him the prestigious Israel Prize in recognition of his books.
Yosef defeated a sitting chief rabbi in the 1973 election, itself a controversial move. In the wake of the Yom Kippur War that year, he ruled that women whose husbands were missing in action could remarry. Later in his term, he endorsed the Ethiopian Jews’ claim to Judaism, helping them immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return.
Yosef founded Shas in 1984, one year after finishing his term as chief rabbi. The party now holds 11 Knesset seats.
Save for four years, Shas was part of every governing coalition between 1984 and 2013, acting as a kingmaker in Israeli politics. Because the party represents both haredi and poor Sephardim, it advocates a unique mix of dovish foreign policy, conservative religious policy and liberal economic policy. Yosef took an active role in shaping Shas through this year’s elections, heading a council of rabbis that chose the party’s slate and mediating leadership conflicts.
What was most impressive about Yosef, says Friedman, was his influence over almost every aspect of Sephardic religious and political life – making it unlikely that another rabbi will be able to take his place.
“He’ll create an empty space politically and an empty space religiously,” Friedman said. “He was a source of strength and great control in Middle Eastern Jewish religious society. I don’t know what will happen.”



In memory of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef


Over 800,000 Israelis attend Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's funeral


Mourners crowd streets, sidewalks, rooftops and balconies in Jerusalem, blocking traffic • More than 300 receive medical treatment, 15 evacuated to hospitals • Police arrive from all over Israel to control crowds • "We are left without a father."
Yehuda Shlezinger
More than 800,000 Israelis attended Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's funeral in Jerusalem on Monday night
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 Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel