Sade finds “The Light”
In Answer to “Soldier of Love”
Using alphanumerics, the word ‘Love’ is actually a name for God as “El” and the Goddess as “Ve”, the letter “O”, in this case, representative of the circle of life, represented by the number 51, which scholars will tell you keeps the universe together, and represents an oath, as in a wedding band, denoting togetherness as in “Let the Circle be Unbroken”.
Although people use the word “love” in speaking of someone else, it is also known that “God is Love”, in this case, the new found Savior and Pharaoh has risen in the West.
We find these alphanumerics by using the numeric value assigned to each letter of the Alphabet, A = 1; B = 2, C = 3, etc.
‘Still waiting for LOVE to come … – Sade, from Soldier of Love
The letters “El” stands for the prefix of God’s name Elah as The Law Giver, followed by the letters “V” and “E”, to wit:
5 + 12 = 17 + 22 = 39 + 15 = 54, reduced to 5 + 3 = 8 + 4 = 12 + 6 = 18.
The total represents the 18th Dynasty in which I left as Amen Hotep, and also find my full name as 8.6.11 and 8.6.2. as well as 12.26.1956.
These computations are more readily found if placed in a vertical column.
We find the answer to ‘LOVE’ when rearranging the letters.
O = 15
V = 4
19
E = 5
24
L = 12
Total 36
The numbers 12 through 36 give us the month and day as being 12.26., as well as the numbers 24 and 12. The numbers 19, 5 and 24 represent the birth year when reduced as being 1956, for a date of birth as being 12.26.1956 while the numbers 9 and 5 clearly give the two time of birth zones as being 9AM (EST) and 5AM (GMT). We also find the numbers 23/14 as well as 25/16, with a full name in numerals being 26.15.11, which total 52 and reduced to a 25.
The significance of these numbers will become clear later as we go on toward the end.
The Wild, Wild West
Using alphanumerics as a science in uncovering hidden mysteries we would not be able to find ordinarily, the word “The” is a 33, the word “wild” is actually the alphanumerics of a specific person’s name as possessing the entirely unheard of triple Sevens by whom the Messiah must be blessed with if he is to solve society’s problems and “save the world from it’s sins’, the Ancient Egyptians called this being “thrice blessed” and gives a triple pay-off for him and his people in the last days.
We can locate this individual through the use of alphanumerics, history and the power of the spoken word, remembering that we have 26 letters in our alphabet, A = 1; B = 2; C = 3, etc. Let us begin with the phrase, The Last Days.
THE LAST DAYS
The word “the” is a 33, which is the alphanumerics of the name Amen and the 33rd Dynasty approaching as the Kingdom of God on earth begins, the last Dynasty being that of the 32nd with Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
The word “Last” is a numeric 25 once reduced, which is the number this individual must possess to rule securely as head of the 24 Elders.
The word “Days” is a numeric 49, and represents the 49th year period of the Jubilee Festival, in which the captives of the European Jews according to the Torah must be released from servitude. This individual must also possess this number, within his name or date of birth to operate unimpeded, as he is the one to handle the reparations which are due in repaying the Children of the biblical Ishmael, known as the American Blacks.
Therefore we have the numbers 33 + 25 + 49 = 107.
The prefix of God’s name being “El”, minus the letters AH for Amen Hotep (Elah, the name originally being in the bible some 800 times, but removed as such by the enemies of God) is a 17 (107).
Through this series of numbers we find the date of birth of the Messiah as being 12.26.1956 and a time of birth being 5AM (GMT) and 9AM (EST) as he was born in Yonkers, New York, the east coast of North America, here in the United States.
We also find the numbers 23/14, which will be discussed shortly.
Lastly we find the numbers 97, 24, a 25/16 and the number 29.
The number 97 (I once lived at 197 Ravine Ave., Yonkers, New York) is found in the name of AMEN HOTEP, Amen being a family name).
The number 25/16 being this individuals numbers contained using his first, middle and last name being reduced into double digits, as God’s name must equal a Seven (check Wikipedia).
We also have the number 29, which is incorporated in the name of the City of On, also known as Heliopolis, Egypt, where Amen was originally born.
The word “wild” denotes the history of the biblical Ishmael and Jacob/Israel (Amen Hotep) the names incorporated as the same individual.
The word “wild”, using reduced figures equals the number 21 as 7/14, Seven being his name reduced into a single digit, and the number 14 indicative of his date of birth reduced into double digits. In our case being 12.26.1956 and being reduced as 3.8.3., which equals a 14. These figures represent three Sevens for a “21”.
The expression “wild, wild west” is reduced to the numbers “6 + 13 = 19” and denote his date of birth and time of birth as 12 (3+9 = 12), 26, 1956 (12.26.1956) as well as the numbers 5 and 9 representing the two time zones concerning his time of birth.
This individual, therefore, has been assigned the care of the United States.
In the word “United”, using reduced digits we find the following:
3 + 5 = 8 + 9 = 17 + 2 = 19 + 5 = 24 + 4 = 28
Through this simple formula we find, 12.26.1956, the 9 and 5 time zones, the number 97. The total of 28 is how he signs his name as Eric R. Powell.
In the word “States” we find 12.26.1956 as well as a 39/21, as his initials are Per, which is a 39/21 reduced. The number 39 also a given for the word COBRA, and worn as such as a Pharaoh headdress denoting the power of the woman. It is also a 25/14 which incorporates my number as 25, and my date of birth, 12.26.1956 reduced to 3.8.3. which totals a 14.
The Last Days or ‘Doomsday’ begins 6,000 years after the creation of Adam and Eve, the first two members of the European Jews, which they will readily admit.
From Christ in the New Testament back to the beginning of Genesis when Adam and Eve were first created is a period of 4,000 years. We are now in the year 2010, which makes the full year period of 6,010 years.
God himself is known as “The Tenth”, since the European Jews were told to separate 10% of their income, produce and livestock for the Lord.
This therefore brings us to the year 6,010.
Many strange things are about to occur, indeed, they have already.
Adam and Eve were created on Friday the 13th, in the month of August in 4,000 BC, and were told, “do not approach this tree (family tree), nor the fruit thereof, lest you die the same day.”
The fruit being that of the Messiah himself, as possessor of the Holy Grail, the bloodline of the Pharaohs.
They ignored the warning, and ate from the fruit thereof (tried to kill him, even in these last days, as well as acting as they did in Sodom and Gomorrah with God and the prophet Lot, wishing to place their homosexual behavior into practice, and molest God in these last days.
The European Jews, even among the Catholic Church, are largely homosexual; this behavior cannot be condoned, and must be punished.
They also treat expecting mothers with too many hormones regarding the opposite sex within the fetus, altering their genetic make-up.
Usually a male child will have 60% male hormones and 40% female (and vice-versa), but in many instances this ratio is altered in order to raise the perversity, with their leaders in full control.
This too cannot be ignored.
In this case, God (a 26) has come back to take firm control of our society, and is known today as The Pharaoh.
In locating the individual, through the mathematics, as “God” on earth, we find his identity through using the letters in the word God as such:
The word "God", if reversed spells "Dog" and the brain subconsciously reads the word "god" in reverse.
Many Black American males use the expression, "My Dog" when speaking with someone in terms of friendship, or acknowledgement. Therefore we will find the identity of the one god under such terms.
D = 4
O = 15
19
G = 7
Total 26
Here we find 12.26.1956 and the time of birth zones of 5AM (GMT) as well as 9AM (GMT).
The number 6 is arrived at by adding the three numbers, 4.1.1 together.
We also find the number of AMEN HOTEP (97).
As a child I lived at 197 Ra - vine Ave., Yonkers, New York, demonstrating that the computations are correct, as the number 197 is clearly visible and is given to only one person.
Above we also find the numbers 76 as well as (5 + 1 + 1) the number 52.
The number 76 is found in the first two letters in the name POWELL, whereas the number 52 is found in the last three letters as 'in the word "WELL", which signifies the 'well' of Abraham, Ishmael and Hagar as well as the well of Jacob/Israel and the same well visited by Jesus in the New Testament.
Here we find 12.26 as being present as well as the number 19, 5 and 6 (1.4.1), as well as the number 97. I used to live, when I was growing up, at 197 Ra-vine Ave., Yonkers New York, these numbers being readily apparent as connected with the number 97 given above. The number 97 being that of AMEN HOTEP.
The significance of numbers
During the slave trade 25% of those captured and brought to America were Muslims. Islam came to America in 1400 AD.
The Pharaohs came to North America as Native Americans 14,000 years ago.
The earth use to wobble as it spun, it took 25,777 years to correct it, but now she spins perfectly.
This code is to be found in the name of the country of Egypt. The three center numbers of G-Y-P, representing 7.25.16, a 777, together with the first and last letters representing the number 25. I bear the number 25, as well as triple Sevens.
In order to create water upon the earth, the clouds and the rain, the earth had to be heated to a temperature of 5,000 degrees Celsius, which is 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Unbending the Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid, located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, is the most enigmatic of the approximately ninety pyramids to be found in Egypt. A unique example of early pyramid development, c. 2596 BCE. It is also unique in that its original polished limestone outer casing remains largely intact
The above figures here are the year 2596. The last two digits ‘96’ total a ‘15’, for the year of my birth as 1956, the numeral ‘25’ in the year 2596 represents my name number as a ‘25’, in so much that I am the Head of the 24 Elders (El as in God and in the name Powell, and the letters ‘Er’ as my original first to names being Eric Robert, and as the son of Judah, being ‘Er’, to whom the European Jews announced in the scriptures, ‘did wickedly, so God slayed him’, this is simply not true for I am He, and I am about to SLAY them.
Temples were designed as a mirror of the Earth, and the Earth is made of its own geometry. Take the axial wobble at the Earth's Pole (it's Precessional Cycle), which takes approximately 25,770 years to complete. Divide this by the Earth's equatorial circumference of 21,638 nautical miles. The ratio between the two is 5:6.
Since geometry is the expression of number in space, this ratio is equivalent to the pentagram: hexagram. Thus the Bent Pyramid is a reflection of the dynamics of the Earth, and it is this precise ratio that enables life to exist here, for the 5:6 ratio is only found on this planet.
But there's more. You'd expect this 5:6/pentagon/hexagon relationship to be reflected on all things that emanate from the Earth. In truth, all organic life is based on pentagonal crystalline structures— think starfish, seed arrangement in an apple core, etc. On the other hand, inorganic compounds, such as crystals, the structure of beehives, etc, are hexagonal. But there's one life form that emanates from the Earth which carries both geometries in its crystalline make-up.
When looking at human DNA under the microscope we see its amino acid crystals bind one to another in alternating pentagonal and hexagonal blocks. In other words, we are a reflection of the form that gives us life.
Since temples were designed to influence the behavior of people who entered them, the purpose behind the Bent Pyramid's 'angles of error' now become obvious: the temple was designed as an interface between humans and the Earth. When you consider that the entire building sits atop a magnetic node, the implications of its position and its function are startling.
The ancient formal name of the Bent Pyramid is generally translated as (The)-Southern-Shining-Pyramid. And in terms of mystery, it certainly shines. In ancient times, names and myths were generally metaphoric by nature, and concealed several layers of meaning. In Egypt, 'shining' is also a reference to the creator Gods, the 'Els' or Shining Ones. If we follow this line of reasoning then the structure is in some way involved with 'creation', 'form', 'manifestation', or all three.
The ancient Egyptians knew how the Universe worked. The ratios of the dimensions of the Earth, as well as the dissection of planetary geometries are hidden in the temples they erected. In a way the temples are mirrors of the perfection of the Earth and the solar system, hence why their designs are pleasing to the eye: they are perfect, just as the solar system is built on a precise relationship between geometry and its numerical mirror, mathematics. And the Bent Pyramid is no exception.
Using a simple mathematical equation (see left) the lower slope angle of the structure reveals itself to be the angle of a hexagon. The upper slope unfolds into a pentagon. These are two of the most over-used geometric shapes found anywhere, but seen together they have a profound meaning.
The Word
WORD = 23 + 15 = 38 + 18 = 56 + 4(00) years of captivity for the Children of Ishmael in America (who are the American Blacks, so named for the Land of Kemet (Egypt) which means, “The Black Land” (due to the richness of Kemet’s dark, black soil), as well as where it all began, - Egypt) so named for America’s Blacks.
Here we find his full name in alphanumerics as being an 8.6.11 reduced to an 8.6.2, as well as the numbers 25/16, an 88, as well as 12.26 1956, and a 9.5.
We also have the number 64 for HOTEP and a 23 for Re.
Let it be known that the name Er, or Re, has the same numerical equivalent
as Eric Robert, which is reduced to an 8.15 = 23.
In Sade's song "Soldier of Love", she exclaims, "Still looking for the light".
The word “The” equals the number 33, the same number as “AMEN”, the word "light" is broken down as follows:
12 + 9 = 21 + 7 = 28 + 8 = 36 + 20 = 56
Here we find the first, middle and last name of the One as 26.78.83, which totals a 187, which is reduced to a 97, that of AMEN HOTEP. We find a 25/16 as well as a 23/14, and of course, the birth year of the One as a 56. The number 78 is that of the ARCHITECT, known as HOTEP, therefore AMEN HOTEP.
I used to live, when I was growing up, at 197 Ra-vine Ave., Yonkers New York, these numbers being readily apparent as connected with the number 97 given above.
Jesus states, as recorded in Matthew 24:27:
“For just as the lightning (Greek, astrape: light, bright shining) comes from the east and flashes [Greek, phaino: shines] even to the west, so will the coming [Greek, Parousia: presence] of the Son of Man be. (NAS)
His words in Luke 17:24 read as:
“For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day.”
Locating the Pharaoh, who was given the title as Per'o, or the One to Come,
by the Pharaoh Amen Hotep and his father Tuthmosis III, in the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
Per’o
16 + 5 = 21 + 18 = 39 + 15 = 54
The word “Sun” is a 54, as Re is solar.
We also find 12.26.1956, 9AM (EST) vs. 5AM (GMT), a 39/21, a 23/14 and a 16/5 representative as the numeric equivalent of the God Pe (pronounced as ‘pay’), who assimilates and resurrects the souls of all great men who tasks were either not completed during their lifetime, or as a progression towards a further goal.
The name Pe, connected with the last name of Powell (Po) determines the next Pope.
The letters Pe stand for the first and last initials of one Eric Powell.
The name Pe is also found in the word “People”.
Another expression in the music video "Soldier of Love" is,
"I’ve lost the use of my heart"
The answer to a new ‘Heart’ therefore is found in the digits H through T, as 8 + 5 = 13 + 1 = 14 + 18 = 32 + 20 = 52
Here we have a 23/14 which is easily recognizable. Place these figures in a vertical column for easier reference.
These figures are reduced to:
13 + 1 = 14 + 9 = 23 + 2 = 25
Here we have a 23/14 and the reduced total figure of 25
These figures are reduced to:
4 + 1 = 5 + 9 = 14 + 2 = 16, where we find, again the birth time zones as 5AM (GMT) and 9AM (EST), the figure 14 and the total which is 16. Here we find the month, day and year of birth as being 12.26.1956, the time zones as 5AM (GMT) and 9AM (EST). We also have the corresponding numbers of 39/21. The number 39 also being found in the digits 25/14, being the number of the first, middle and last name as 25, combined with the D.O.B., being reduced to a 3.8.3 = 14.
All told we have 25/16, 23/14, the D.O.B. as 12.26.1956, 5AM vs. 9AM, as well as 25/14 and 39/21.
God as Pharaoh
In the word Pharaoh, we have the name of Phra, which is well known in the Sudan as the God Ra, also spelled "Re", both names pronounced as "Rah".
Next we have the name of Ra containing in the word Pharaoh with the corresponding letters "OH" as a reversed "Ho" as in HOTEP and HORUS.
Deciphering the identity of the Pharaoh using alphanumerics, we find the following five columns, the second, third, fourth and fifth columns being a reduction of the numbers using their single digits.
P - H - A - R - A - O - H
16 + 8 = 24 + 1 = 25 + 18 = 43 + 1 = 44 + 15 = 59 + 8 = 67
In our second column we find:
7 + 8 = 15 + 1 = 16 + 9 = 25 + 1 = 26 + 6 = 32 + 8 = 40
In the third column we find:
6 + 1 = 7 + 9 = 16 + 1 = 17 + 6 = 23 + 8 = 31
In the fourth column we find:
7 + 1 = 8 + 6 = 14 + 8 = 22
And in the fifth...
5 + 8 = 13
In the first column we find his identity markers as being born in his two basic times zones being 5AM and 9AM for EST and GMT respectively.
We also find the number of his residence (stolen from him by members of his family), as being 98 Vaughan Ave., New Rochelle, New York, as well as the number of his current residence as being "17" Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, New York.
We also find the alphanumerics of his full name reduced as being 8.6.11 and 8.6.2 found in the first three numbers of our model, as well as his date of birth being reduced from 12.26.1956 as a 3.8.3, which is the number 14 in the first four numbers given. We also find the number 67, which stands for the alphanumerics of the name of the biblical Ishmael, as the seed of promise, along with the number 52. The number 67 here is a reversed 76, which incorporates the letters "Po" in the last name of Powell. The number 52 being held as the word "well" in the name Powell. In this case, the word "well" stands for the well of Hagar and Ishmael which Abraham built, which is also known as the well of Jacob/Israel, known as Amen Hotep, the well also being visited by Jesus.
There is also the alphanumerics of the word "Architect" as being the number 87, the number of a residence he once held as a child as being 87 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York, which is a reversed 78, the number of his middle name of Robert. Note that a ROBER is a T (hief), which denotes being crucified between two thieves.
In the second column we can easily determine his month, day and year of birth as being 12.26.1956, as well as his full name being reduced into the figures 25/16, being that he is head of the 24 Elders as well as representing, in the number 16, an 8.6.2, which is indicative of the number 88 for the 88 known constellations of our universe.
In the other columns, we find the numbers 23/14 in the third and fourth columns. And in the third, the number 79, a reversed 97, which are the alphanumerics in the name AMEN HOTEP.
The numbers 85 in the last fifth column represent, when using the times table, the number 40, which usually denotes the age of wisdom.
His full name in reduced numerals being 8.6.2, whereas the number 3 is the square root of the number 6, therefore an 8.3.2, reduced to an 85.
Soldier of Love
The title “Soldier of Love” is reduced to a 21, and when not reduced, bears three Sevens, including my full name as:
Eric Robert Powell (8.6.11/2)
D.O.B. 12.26.1956
5AM (GMT) as well as 9AM (EST)
Within the title “Soldier of Love” we also find 12.26.1956, the 9.5 ratio, a 23/14 as well as 25/16. When adding the two words “of Love” we find the numbers 52/76, which is the numerical equivalent encompassed in the name PO-WELL, also found in the words “of Love” are the digits 25/14.
Again, we also find the number 49, which is indicative of the Festival of Jubilee, in which every 49 years, the Jews captives must be released according to the Torah.
One last phrase is her request to “Turn it all around”.
This phrase gives us other 21 figures such as an 8/13; a 9/12 and a 16/5.
Also found is the full name equivalent of the one who has been found as being 35/78/83 as well as the reduced figures of his full name as being 8.6.11 and an 8.6.2.
Sade, I commend you for a job well done, and the giftedness within you.
I would also like to say thank you for your Kiss-FM broadcast recently.
I have an exercise bike, like the number eleven and plan on buying some new clothes a.s.a.p.
In God We Trust
Lastly, the word God is actually a misnomer, it comes from the word “GOOD”, which one had to be if he wished to learn the mysteries and therefore enter what’s known as “The God-Head”.
Contained in the word “good” was a simple code of honor.
Which contains the first letter being a Seven (G), followed by the two eyes of Horus, the right eye representing the Sun, and the left eye representing the moon.
The letter “D” as a 4, represented the 400 years of Captivity of the Children of Ishmael here in the United States and the fact that those wishing entrance into the so-called “God-Head” must release them as per the prophecy once the 400 years were consumed, at such time the Second Coming of Jesus, known as the Egyptian Horus would manifest himself and lead his people to The Land of Promise, the State of Israel and a further home away provided for them in the Milky Way, The Land of Milk and Honey.
The Egyptians called the Milky Way “Milk” because it looked like Milk from a distance, but also used for other reasons.
In the word “milk” is found my full name as an 8.6.11/2, the number 49, as well as 12.26.1956.
The word “honey” goes back to “The Birds and the Bees” but more specifically we find the letters “H.O.” as in Horus and Hotep; the name of the Capital of Egypt being the City of On; the letter “N” which stands for my date of birth as being reduced into double digits (a 14), the name of the ONE, which means the City of On as well as the letter “E”, my nickname as shown as number one in doctors offices, also meaning “excellence”, as well as the letter “Y”, which represents the arms of justice, as well as the number 25.
It is here where we find the all too familiar 25/16, the 23/14, the 9.5 figures, the number 42 for the 42 Principles or Commandments of Ma’at and Amen-Re, as well as the number 67.
The word “doomsday”
Here we have the following code:
4 + 15 = 19 + 15 = 34 + 13 = 47 + 19 = 66 (this total representing the 6th day of creation in which Adam and Eve were created, as well as the 6,000th year) + 4 = 70 + 1 = 71 + 25 = 96
In the last three numbers we have 12.26.1956, also found in the word doom is my 5/9 time zones, as well as the numbers 23/14, the numbers 1956 as well as a 76 as well as a 52, the numbers 76 and 52 found in my last name as a Powell.
When the last part of the word “day” is added, we find the number 70, the number of family which will travel with me, as proscribed from the Pharonic days of Ancient Egypt, together with the all important 12.26.1956, the 9/5 time zones, as well as my 25/16 and the number 72, standing for the Horus name of Harahkte.
The word “doom” beginning with the number 4(00), together with the eyes of Horus, followed by the number 13 (also a 12.26.56 reduced).
Good-Bye for now. Please utilize the following site for more information, http://thereturnofthechrist.blogspot.com, and be sure to place it in your internets address bar rather than in the “search” bar.
Yours Truly,
The Messiah and Pharaoh,
Eric Robert Powell
Thursday, August 5, 2010
The Arrival of Amen; the Faithful and True Witness, The Messiah
The Arrival of Amen, the Faithful and True witness, Jesus Christ, the Messiah
“God himself will be with them and be their God …
‘… and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
… then he who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.’
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.’
‘But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” – Revelations 21:3-5
Proving the arrival of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, also known as the Amen, the faithful and true witness, is achieved through the alphanumerics of the letters (a-z being a total of 26 letters, a = 1; b =2, etc.) of the names and words given as a mathematical equation as well as the historical significance of the like.
With this mathematical equation we can prove the existence of the Messiah at this time in our society today.
Let us begin, we can determine his date of birth, time of birth and name through the mathematics of the alphabet, which originally began in Ancient Egypt.
AMEN
1 + 13 = 14 + 5 = 19 + 14 = 33
The last three series of numbers given are 1956 when reduced, as 19 + 14 (5) + 33 (6).
The last Dynasty of the Egyptians being held by Cleopatra VII, known as the 32 Dynasty, which ended in 30BC, we find the 33rd Dynasty resurrected with Amen, being the 33rd.
With this model, we find his time of birth as being 5AM (GMT) and 9AM (EST).
We also have before us the numeral 94, as the sun in our solar system is 94 million miles from the earth.
The name Amen, which means "The Hidden One" and "So be it", is also the family name of Amen Hotep.
The name Hotep, meaning Amen as the Architect, is a numeric 8 (H), 6 (O), 2 (T), for an 8.6.2., being representative of his first, middle and last name, which total a 16, with his first and last initials being E.P.
The Faithful and True Witness
In the word “Faithful” we have:
6 + 1 = 7 + 9 = 16 + 20 = 36 + 8 = 44 + 6 = 50 + 3 = 53 + 3 = 56
We also find the alphanumerics for the One to Comes’ first, middle and last name as being an 8.6.2.
We have the number 79/16 in which is contained the name of Amen Hotep, as well as the entire birth date as 12.26.1956.
The word TRUE
20 + 18 = 38 + 21 = 59 + 5 = 64
The number 64 is that of HOTEP, we also find the 9.5 ratio, which is known as Thoth.
The word WITNESS
5 + 9 = 14 + 2 = 16 + 5 = 21 + 5 = 26 + 10 = 36 + 10 = 46
Here we find 12.26.56, the 5.9 ratio of time zones for the time of birth, the number 42, first for the 42 Commandments of Amen-Re, known as the 42 Principles of Ma’at; the 42 Assistant Judges of Osiris and the 42 Nomes (cities) which were consolidated under the Pharaoh Menes, also known as Men, and pronounced Min, as well as the number 19 when these totals are not reduced, for a 1956.
JESUS
Here, we will take our mathematical formula into two columns, the first as the actual numbers equated with the letters in the name Jesus, and then reducing them into a second column, as all numbers in alphanumerics should, as a rule, be reduced.
J = 10 + 5 = 15 + 19 = 34 + 21 = 55 + 19 = 74
Through this model, we find the numerals 5 and 9 as in the previous model, as well as 94. Here we also find the attached numbers of 23/14, as Jesus is known as the son of God, but also as the Sun God (the light of the world) which equates his power to that of the sun God, known as Re (also known as Ra, with both pronounced as Rah.
It is here where we find the connection between Jesus’ name as Amen, and therefore Amen-Re.
Here again we find his identifying name in numerals as being 8.6.11 as well as 8.6.2, equating a name in numerals being a 25/16, as the number of God's name must equal as Seven (see Wikipedia).
In our reduction model for the numerals given above, where S = 19, as 1 + 9 = 10, the reductions are as follows...
10 + 5 = 15 + 10 = 25 + 21 = 46 + 10 = 56.
Here, the middle series of numerals are 25.21. and 46, through this equation we find his month and day of birth as being 12.26 respectively, as well as the series of numbers 25/16.
The CHRIST
3 + 8 = 11 + 18 = 29 + 9 = 38 + 19 = 57 + 20 = 77
Here, the numeral 77 stands for his date of birth as 14, the square root being Seven, as 12.26.1956 is a 3.8.3 in reduction, which totals the numeral 14, or doubles Sevens.
Here we find his identity as the all but impossible triple Sevens, which equate the number 21.
In Black Jack, also known as '21', triple Sevens demand a payout three times the normal winnings.
The Ancient Egyptians called this individual to come as being "Thrice Blessed".
Within the word "thrice" we find the name "Eric".
We also find the numeral 38.
On August 8, 2008 the Great Alignment took place, in which the entire cosmos formed a straight line from the Milky Way into our solar system as well as Sun.
This event only takes place every 25,777 years.
It should be noted here that the first name of Amen Hotep was originally, IRIS, and named so after a flower.
The MESSIAH
Usually given to mean, "to anoint with oil", the name MESSIAH has been completely misunderstood.
In the Egyptian language (and Jesus spent time in Egypt (“Out of Egypt I called my Son" - Hosea 11:1), the abbreviation for "Moses" as “the child" and the winnowing fan
story was "ms" and "mss', here however we find the letters 'mess' or "mses", which unmistakably refer to Ra-mses", and here he incorporates the letter "e", and this is the first letter of the name Eric, which means "rikr", or the one who rules alone, and "Lord". It also stands for excellence, also "the Pre-eminent One".
We also have the three letters "SIA", was had been attached to the Egyptian name of SIAMON, the Jewish Simeon.
Here we also have the three letters IAH, the Hebrew YAH, but in Ancient Egypt, known as IAH, with the Crescent Moon above his head, denoting wisdom.
Finally, we have the initials A.H., given for Amen Hotep.
The name IAH, and others, have been incorporated in the name of praise, known as HALLELUIAH, a composite name invoking the name of ELAH, ALLAH, IAH and AH, or Amen Hotep.
The Return of RAMSES III
Here we have the following computation:
R = 18 + 1 = 19 + 13 = 32 + 19 = 51 + 5 = 56 + 19 = 75
In the middle of the computation we find the month and day of birth in these times as 12.26, and the ending two sets of numerals being 1956.
We also find the time of birth given again as 9AM (EST) as well as 5AM (GMT), as well as 23/14 (Re and his date of birth reduced into double digits in these last days.
We also can easily find the two all important numbers of 39/21, the 39 representing the Egyptian COBRA, worn as a Pharaoh headdress signifying the power of our women, especially as given in these last days. Also found is the number 29, signifying the Egyptian City of On, also known as HELIOPOLIS, Egypt, where Amen Hotep was also born, as well as the number 33, and when reduced, the numbers 23/14.
In the expression "JESUS H. CHRIST" we find the connection between the Egyptian name of HORUS with that of Jesus Christ, proving the historical connection between both names.
The SAVIOUR
19 + 1 = 20 + 22 = 42 + 9 = 51 + 15 = 66 + 21 = 87 + 18 = 105
Here we can easily find 12.26.1956, the numerals 9.5., the all important 25/16, a 29 as well as 49 (called the year of the Jubilee, the interchangeable number of the "ARCHITECT" as an 87, reduced to 78, the identifying full name numerals of 8.6.11 as well as 8.6.2, as well as the all important number of 42, which represents the 42 Commandments of Amen-Re, the 42 Assistant Judges of Osiris (Lord of the Dead, who Judges deceased souls after the Judgment here on earth, as well as Menes consolidation of the 42 Nomes (cities) of Ancient Egypt, as well as the number 88 for the 88 known constellations of our universe.
Coming FULL CIRCLE
"There is a Destiny which makes us Brothers; none goes His way alone, all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own."
- Edwin Markham, THE CREED
A 360 plus 23 (Re) equals 3.8.3, which is the D.O.B. of the MESSIAH, 12.26.1956 reduced.
In the year of birth you also find the number of his name as well as the time as being 16 and 9.5.
In the word "FULL" we find 12.26.1956, a 39/21, the number 39 totaling the word "Son", and that of the Egyptian Cobra as well.
The Circle
The word “Circle” is a numeric 23/14, as well as the two time zones of birth being 9AM (EST) as well as 5AM (GMT) and contains the name Eric as well as “El”, meaning God.
The significance of numbers
The Messiah's date of birth significance is that in the number 12 we have the 12 signs of the Zodiac as well as the month of December, his month of birth.
In the number 26 we first have the illumination of the sun in the center of the Milky Way as being 26 times the illumination of our sun, and there are only 26 letters to our alphabet, signifying Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
In the word "beginning" we find at first the all elusive 7/14, while at the end of the word we find his triple 7's.
The word GOD also equals a 26.
According to the well known film, "The Greatest Story Ever Told", the Messiah musty be born, "In the City of God", known here as Yonkers, New York.
Encoded in the word Yonkers is "Er's", as the son of Judah, as well as the reversed name of Re, who is "the hidden one's" (Amen's) manifestation as Re.
We also have the name of Heliopolis as the City of On, as well as the letter "Y" for the number 25, as being head of the 24 Elders. The letter "K" is representative of the number 11/2, signifying his last name as an 11/2. We also have a 25/88, which is also a 25/16, as well as a 12.26 and a 1956.
The name Yonkers is, in its etymology, the name Jonas, also known as Jonah. The story of him being held in the belly of a "big fish", which all commentators recognize as a Whale, actually signifies the country of Wales, where the Powell family is from. John Powell established the State of Virginia 13 years before the May Flower.
It is stated that "April showers bring May flowers".
The name April is also a compound name meaning the word "Ap" (the Bull - Apis, as well as the letters "Ri" contained in the names Eric as well as Iris, denoting three nines in one name alone. The letter "L" denoting the 12th month of the year as well as the twelve signs of the zodiac, as Rasalhague is known as the 13th Sign, which is the name of the Sun in the center of the Milky Way.
The Land of Milk and Honey being the exact location.
The name of Powell was first put together by King Hywel of the 10th century, first by angelizing his name to Howell, and then, using the word "Ap" as meaning, "the son of Howell, contracted the word Ap by using the letter "P", thereby creating "A Powell".
The month of May is representative of the number 13 for the letter 'M', as well as the Pharaoh known as Ay, to which some joke over by saying that God cannot hear.
The expected time of The Judgment is set for May 21, 2011.
The name of Yonkers is also reduced to a 26/17, the number 17 denoting the name "El" as God.
When Amen Hotep left Egypt, not to return until now, he left the "Lord's Prayer for his people to rely upon until his return. As he was known as Amen-Re as well as Amen Hotep, the letters A.H. being found in the name Elah.
In the expression, THE END we find the number 33, for the 33 Dynasty contained in the word "THE" as well as the number of Re, 23 for the word END.
Both numbers total the year of his birth as 56.
In order to bring water upon the earth, the surface temperature had to reach 5,000 degrees Celsius, which is 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The number 14.
It was 14,000 years ago that the Pharaohs came to what is now known as North America, and settled it as Native Americans from Egypt.
The earth use to wobble like a raw egg while spinning; now it spins straight, taking 25,777 to carry out.
The City we founded as Pharaohs was Kandahar, Egypt, my actual name as Horus is Kanakht Werpehti. Here you will notice my initials as erp, and also as the God and souls of Pe. The name Kanakht Werpehti is an 88, as well as‘56/14 and my name in numbers as a 25/16.
The name of Canada is actually spelt ‘Kanada’ and is extracted from the name ‘Kandahar’, Egypt in case anyone has difficulties knowing who founded the land. The last three letters of the last name being Harakhti, which is also another Ehyptian name for Horus, or Lord of the Two Horizons.
Unbending the Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid, located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, is the most enigmatic of the approximately ninety pyramids to be found in Egypt. A unique example of early pyramid development, c. 2596 BCE. It is also unique in that its original polished limestone outer casing remains largely intact
The above figures here are the year 2596. The last two digits ‘96’ total a ‘15’, for the year of my birth as 1956, the numeral ‘25’ in the year 2596 represents my name number as a ‘25’, in so much that I am the Head of the 24 Elders (El as in God and in the name Powell, and the letters ‘Er’ as my original first to names being Eric Robert, and as the son of Judah, being ‘Er’, to whom the European Jews announced in the scriptures, ‘did wickedly, so God slayed him’, this is simply not true for I am He, and I am about to SLAY them.
Temples were designed as a mirror of the Earth, and the Earth is made of its own geometry. Take the axial wobble at the Earth's Pole (it's Precessional Cycle), which takes approximately 25,770 years to complete. Divide this by the Earth's equatorial circumference of 21,638 nautical miles. The ratio between the two is 5:6.
Since geometry is the expression of number in space, this ratio is equivalent to the pentagram: hexagram. Thus the Bent Pyramid is a reflection of the dynamics of the Earth, and it is this precise ratio that enables life to exist here, for the 5:6 ratio is only found on this planet.
But there's more. You'd expect this 5:6/pentagon/hexagon relationship to be reflected on all things that emanate from the Earth. In truth, all organic life is based on pentagonal crystalline structures— think starfish, seed arrangement in an apple core, etc. On the other hand, inorganic compounds, such as crystals, the structure of beehives, etc, are hexagonal. But there's one life form that emanates from the Earth which carries both geometries in its crystalline make-up.
When looking at human DNA under the microscope we see its amino acid crystals bind one to another in alternating pentagonal and hexagonal blocks. In other words, we are a reflection of the form that gives us life.
Since temples were designed to influence the behavior of people who entered them, the purpose behind the Bent Pyramid's 'angles of error' now become obvious: the temple was designed as an interface between humans and the Earth. When you consider that the entire building sits atop a magnetic node, the implications of its position and its function are startling.
The ancient formal name of the Bent Pyramid is generally translated as (The)-Southern-Shining-Pyramid. And in terms of mystery, it certainly shines. In ancient times, names and myths were generally metaphoric by nature, and concealed several layers of meaning. In Egypt, 'shining' is also a reference to the creator Gods, the 'Els' or Shining Ones. If we follow this line of reasoning then the structure is in some way involved with 'creation', 'form', 'manifestation', or all three.
The ancient Egyptians knew how the Universe worked. The ratios of the dimensions of the Earth, as well as the dissection of planetary geometries are hidden in the temples they erected. In a way the temples are mirrors of the perfection of the Earth and the solar system, hence why their designs are pleasing to the eye: they are perfect, just as the solar system is built on a precise relationship between geometry and its numerical mirror, mathematics. And the Bent Pyramid is no exception.
Using a simple mathematical equation (see left) the lower slope angle of the structure reveals itself to be the angle of a hexagon. The upper slope unfolds into a pentagon. These are two of the most over-used geometric shapes found anywhere, but seen together they have a profound meaning.
The Word
23 + 15 = 38 + 18 = 56 + 4(00) years of captivity for the Children of Ishmael in America (who are the American Blacks, so named for the Land of Kemet (Egypt) which means, “The Black Land” (due to the richness of Kemet’s dark, black soil), as well as where it all began, - Egypt) so named for America’s Blacks.
Here we find his full name in alphanumerics being an 8.6.11 reduced to an 8.6.2, as well as the numbers 25/16, an 88, as well as 12.26 1956, and a 9.5.
We also have the number 64 for HOTEP and a 23 for Re.
Let it be known that the name Er, or Re, has the same numerical equivalent
As Eric Robert.
In Gen.15:13-14 we find:
Then he said to Abram, “Know of a certainty that your descendents will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve ‘them’ 400 years, and also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
“And I will say to ‘Not my people, ‘You are my people’;
And he shall say, ‘Thou art my God.’” – Isaiah 2:23
“God himself will be with them and be their God …
‘… and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
… then he who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.’
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.’
‘But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” – Revelations 21:3-5
Proving the arrival of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, also known as the Amen, the faithful and true witness, is achieved through the alphanumerics of the letters (a-z being a total of 26 letters, a = 1; b =2, etc.) of the names and words given as a mathematical equation as well as the historical significance of the like.
With this mathematical equation we can prove the existence of the Messiah at this time in our society today.
Let us begin, we can determine his date of birth, time of birth and name through the mathematics of the alphabet, which originally began in Ancient Egypt.
AMEN
1 + 13 = 14 + 5 = 19 + 14 = 33
The last three series of numbers given are 1956 when reduced, as 19 + 14 (5) + 33 (6).
The last Dynasty of the Egyptians being held by Cleopatra VII, known as the 32 Dynasty, which ended in 30BC, we find the 33rd Dynasty resurrected with Amen, being the 33rd.
With this model, we find his time of birth as being 5AM (GMT) and 9AM (EST).
We also have before us the numeral 94, as the sun in our solar system is 94 million miles from the earth.
The name Amen, which means "The Hidden One" and "So be it", is also the family name of Amen Hotep.
The name Hotep, meaning Amen as the Architect, is a numeric 8 (H), 6 (O), 2 (T), for an 8.6.2., being representative of his first, middle and last name, which total a 16, with his first and last initials being E.P.
The Faithful and True Witness
In the word “Faithful” we have:
6 + 1 = 7 + 9 = 16 + 20 = 36 + 8 = 44 + 6 = 50 + 3 = 53 + 3 = 56
We also find the alphanumerics for the One to Comes’ first, middle and last name as being an 8.6.2.
We have the number 79/16 in which is contained the name of Amen Hotep, as well as the entire birth date as 12.26.1956.
The word TRUE
20 + 18 = 38 + 21 = 59 + 5 = 64
The number 64 is that of HOTEP, we also find the 9.5 ratio, which is known as Thoth.
The word WITNESS
5 + 9 = 14 + 2 = 16 + 5 = 21 + 5 = 26 + 10 = 36 + 10 = 46
Here we find 12.26.56, the 5.9 ratio of time zones for the time of birth, the number 42, first for the 42 Commandments of Amen-Re, known as the 42 Principles of Ma’at; the 42 Assistant Judges of Osiris and the 42 Nomes (cities) which were consolidated under the Pharaoh Menes, also known as Men, and pronounced Min, as well as the number 19 when these totals are not reduced, for a 1956.
JESUS
Here, we will take our mathematical formula into two columns, the first as the actual numbers equated with the letters in the name Jesus, and then reducing them into a second column, as all numbers in alphanumerics should, as a rule, be reduced.
J = 10 + 5 = 15 + 19 = 34 + 21 = 55 + 19 = 74
Through this model, we find the numerals 5 and 9 as in the previous model, as well as 94. Here we also find the attached numbers of 23/14, as Jesus is known as the son of God, but also as the Sun God (the light of the world) which equates his power to that of the sun God, known as Re (also known as Ra, with both pronounced as Rah.
It is here where we find the connection between Jesus’ name as Amen, and therefore Amen-Re.
Here again we find his identifying name in numerals as being 8.6.11 as well as 8.6.2, equating a name in numerals being a 25/16, as the number of God's name must equal as Seven (see Wikipedia).
In our reduction model for the numerals given above, where S = 19, as 1 + 9 = 10, the reductions are as follows...
10 + 5 = 15 + 10 = 25 + 21 = 46 + 10 = 56.
Here, the middle series of numerals are 25.21. and 46, through this equation we find his month and day of birth as being 12.26 respectively, as well as the series of numbers 25/16.
The CHRIST
3 + 8 = 11 + 18 = 29 + 9 = 38 + 19 = 57 + 20 = 77
Here, the numeral 77 stands for his date of birth as 14, the square root being Seven, as 12.26.1956 is a 3.8.3 in reduction, which totals the numeral 14, or doubles Sevens.
Here we find his identity as the all but impossible triple Sevens, which equate the number 21.
In Black Jack, also known as '21', triple Sevens demand a payout three times the normal winnings.
The Ancient Egyptians called this individual to come as being "Thrice Blessed".
Within the word "thrice" we find the name "Eric".
We also find the numeral 38.
On August 8, 2008 the Great Alignment took place, in which the entire cosmos formed a straight line from the Milky Way into our solar system as well as Sun.
This event only takes place every 25,777 years.
It should be noted here that the first name of Amen Hotep was originally, IRIS, and named so after a flower.
The MESSIAH
Usually given to mean, "to anoint with oil", the name MESSIAH has been completely misunderstood.
In the Egyptian language (and Jesus spent time in Egypt (“Out of Egypt I called my Son" - Hosea 11:1), the abbreviation for "Moses" as “the child" and the winnowing fan
story was "ms" and "mss', here however we find the letters 'mess' or "mses", which unmistakably refer to Ra-mses", and here he incorporates the letter "e", and this is the first letter of the name Eric, which means "rikr", or the one who rules alone, and "Lord". It also stands for excellence, also "the Pre-eminent One".
We also have the three letters "SIA", was had been attached to the Egyptian name of SIAMON, the Jewish Simeon.
Here we also have the three letters IAH, the Hebrew YAH, but in Ancient Egypt, known as IAH, with the Crescent Moon above his head, denoting wisdom.
Finally, we have the initials A.H., given for Amen Hotep.
The name IAH, and others, have been incorporated in the name of praise, known as HALLELUIAH, a composite name invoking the name of ELAH, ALLAH, IAH and AH, or Amen Hotep.
The Return of RAMSES III
Here we have the following computation:
R = 18 + 1 = 19 + 13 = 32 + 19 = 51 + 5 = 56 + 19 = 75
In the middle of the computation we find the month and day of birth in these times as 12.26, and the ending two sets of numerals being 1956.
We also find the time of birth given again as 9AM (EST) as well as 5AM (GMT), as well as 23/14 (Re and his date of birth reduced into double digits in these last days.
We also can easily find the two all important numbers of 39/21, the 39 representing the Egyptian COBRA, worn as a Pharaoh headdress signifying the power of our women, especially as given in these last days. Also found is the number 29, signifying the Egyptian City of On, also known as HELIOPOLIS, Egypt, where Amen Hotep was also born, as well as the number 33, and when reduced, the numbers 23/14.
In the expression "JESUS H. CHRIST" we find the connection between the Egyptian name of HORUS with that of Jesus Christ, proving the historical connection between both names.
The SAVIOUR
19 + 1 = 20 + 22 = 42 + 9 = 51 + 15 = 66 + 21 = 87 + 18 = 105
Here we can easily find 12.26.1956, the numerals 9.5., the all important 25/16, a 29 as well as 49 (called the year of the Jubilee, the interchangeable number of the "ARCHITECT" as an 87, reduced to 78, the identifying full name numerals of 8.6.11 as well as 8.6.2, as well as the all important number of 42, which represents the 42 Commandments of Amen-Re, the 42 Assistant Judges of Osiris (Lord of the Dead, who Judges deceased souls after the Judgment here on earth, as well as Menes consolidation of the 42 Nomes (cities) of Ancient Egypt, as well as the number 88 for the 88 known constellations of our universe.
Coming FULL CIRCLE
"There is a Destiny which makes us Brothers; none goes His way alone, all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own."
- Edwin Markham, THE CREED
A 360 plus 23 (Re) equals 3.8.3, which is the D.O.B. of the MESSIAH, 12.26.1956 reduced.
In the year of birth you also find the number of his name as well as the time as being 16 and 9.5.
In the word "FULL" we find 12.26.1956, a 39/21, the number 39 totaling the word "Son", and that of the Egyptian Cobra as well.
The Circle
The word “Circle” is a numeric 23/14, as well as the two time zones of birth being 9AM (EST) as well as 5AM (GMT) and contains the name Eric as well as “El”, meaning God.
The significance of numbers
The Messiah's date of birth significance is that in the number 12 we have the 12 signs of the Zodiac as well as the month of December, his month of birth.
In the number 26 we first have the illumination of the sun in the center of the Milky Way as being 26 times the illumination of our sun, and there are only 26 letters to our alphabet, signifying Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.
In the word "beginning" we find at first the all elusive 7/14, while at the end of the word we find his triple 7's.
The word GOD also equals a 26.
According to the well known film, "The Greatest Story Ever Told", the Messiah musty be born, "In the City of God", known here as Yonkers, New York.
Encoded in the word Yonkers is "Er's", as the son of Judah, as well as the reversed name of Re, who is "the hidden one's" (Amen's) manifestation as Re.
We also have the name of Heliopolis as the City of On, as well as the letter "Y" for the number 25, as being head of the 24 Elders. The letter "K" is representative of the number 11/2, signifying his last name as an 11/2. We also have a 25/88, which is also a 25/16, as well as a 12.26 and a 1956.
The name Yonkers is, in its etymology, the name Jonas, also known as Jonah. The story of him being held in the belly of a "big fish", which all commentators recognize as a Whale, actually signifies the country of Wales, where the Powell family is from. John Powell established the State of Virginia 13 years before the May Flower.
It is stated that "April showers bring May flowers".
The name April is also a compound name meaning the word "Ap" (the Bull - Apis, as well as the letters "Ri" contained in the names Eric as well as Iris, denoting three nines in one name alone. The letter "L" denoting the 12th month of the year as well as the twelve signs of the zodiac, as Rasalhague is known as the 13th Sign, which is the name of the Sun in the center of the Milky Way.
The Land of Milk and Honey being the exact location.
The name of Powell was first put together by King Hywel of the 10th century, first by angelizing his name to Howell, and then, using the word "Ap" as meaning, "the son of Howell, contracted the word Ap by using the letter "P", thereby creating "A Powell".
The month of May is representative of the number 13 for the letter 'M', as well as the Pharaoh known as Ay, to which some joke over by saying that God cannot hear.
The expected time of The Judgment is set for May 21, 2011.
The name of Yonkers is also reduced to a 26/17, the number 17 denoting the name "El" as God.
When Amen Hotep left Egypt, not to return until now, he left the "Lord's Prayer for his people to rely upon until his return. As he was known as Amen-Re as well as Amen Hotep, the letters A.H. being found in the name Elah.
In the expression, THE END we find the number 33, for the 33 Dynasty contained in the word "THE" as well as the number of Re, 23 for the word END.
Both numbers total the year of his birth as 56.
In order to bring water upon the earth, the surface temperature had to reach 5,000 degrees Celsius, which is 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The number 14.
It was 14,000 years ago that the Pharaohs came to what is now known as North America, and settled it as Native Americans from Egypt.
The earth use to wobble like a raw egg while spinning; now it spins straight, taking 25,777 to carry out.
The City we founded as Pharaohs was Kandahar, Egypt, my actual name as Horus is Kanakht Werpehti. Here you will notice my initials as erp, and also as the God and souls of Pe. The name Kanakht Werpehti is an 88, as well as‘56/14 and my name in numbers as a 25/16.
The name of Canada is actually spelt ‘Kanada’ and is extracted from the name ‘Kandahar’, Egypt in case anyone has difficulties knowing who founded the land. The last three letters of the last name being Harakhti, which is also another Ehyptian name for Horus, or Lord of the Two Horizons.
Unbending the Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid, located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, is the most enigmatic of the approximately ninety pyramids to be found in Egypt. A unique example of early pyramid development, c. 2596 BCE. It is also unique in that its original polished limestone outer casing remains largely intact
The above figures here are the year 2596. The last two digits ‘96’ total a ‘15’, for the year of my birth as 1956, the numeral ‘25’ in the year 2596 represents my name number as a ‘25’, in so much that I am the Head of the 24 Elders (El as in God and in the name Powell, and the letters ‘Er’ as my original first to names being Eric Robert, and as the son of Judah, being ‘Er’, to whom the European Jews announced in the scriptures, ‘did wickedly, so God slayed him’, this is simply not true for I am He, and I am about to SLAY them.
Temples were designed as a mirror of the Earth, and the Earth is made of its own geometry. Take the axial wobble at the Earth's Pole (it's Precessional Cycle), which takes approximately 25,770 years to complete. Divide this by the Earth's equatorial circumference of 21,638 nautical miles. The ratio between the two is 5:6.
Since geometry is the expression of number in space, this ratio is equivalent to the pentagram: hexagram. Thus the Bent Pyramid is a reflection of the dynamics of the Earth, and it is this precise ratio that enables life to exist here, for the 5:6 ratio is only found on this planet.
But there's more. You'd expect this 5:6/pentagon/hexagon relationship to be reflected on all things that emanate from the Earth. In truth, all organic life is based on pentagonal crystalline structures— think starfish, seed arrangement in an apple core, etc. On the other hand, inorganic compounds, such as crystals, the structure of beehives, etc, are hexagonal. But there's one life form that emanates from the Earth which carries both geometries in its crystalline make-up.
When looking at human DNA under the microscope we see its amino acid crystals bind one to another in alternating pentagonal and hexagonal blocks. In other words, we are a reflection of the form that gives us life.
Since temples were designed to influence the behavior of people who entered them, the purpose behind the Bent Pyramid's 'angles of error' now become obvious: the temple was designed as an interface between humans and the Earth. When you consider that the entire building sits atop a magnetic node, the implications of its position and its function are startling.
The ancient formal name of the Bent Pyramid is generally translated as (The)-Southern-Shining-Pyramid. And in terms of mystery, it certainly shines. In ancient times, names and myths were generally metaphoric by nature, and concealed several layers of meaning. In Egypt, 'shining' is also a reference to the creator Gods, the 'Els' or Shining Ones. If we follow this line of reasoning then the structure is in some way involved with 'creation', 'form', 'manifestation', or all three.
The ancient Egyptians knew how the Universe worked. The ratios of the dimensions of the Earth, as well as the dissection of planetary geometries are hidden in the temples they erected. In a way the temples are mirrors of the perfection of the Earth and the solar system, hence why their designs are pleasing to the eye: they are perfect, just as the solar system is built on a precise relationship between geometry and its numerical mirror, mathematics. And the Bent Pyramid is no exception.
Using a simple mathematical equation (see left) the lower slope angle of the structure reveals itself to be the angle of a hexagon. The upper slope unfolds into a pentagon. These are two of the most over-used geometric shapes found anywhere, but seen together they have a profound meaning.
The Word
23 + 15 = 38 + 18 = 56 + 4(00) years of captivity for the Children of Ishmael in America (who are the American Blacks, so named for the Land of Kemet (Egypt) which means, “The Black Land” (due to the richness of Kemet’s dark, black soil), as well as where it all began, - Egypt) so named for America’s Blacks.
Here we find his full name in alphanumerics being an 8.6.11 reduced to an 8.6.2, as well as the numbers 25/16, an 88, as well as 12.26 1956, and a 9.5.
We also have the number 64 for HOTEP and a 23 for Re.
Let it be known that the name Er, or Re, has the same numerical equivalent
As Eric Robert.
In Gen.15:13-14 we find:
Then he said to Abram, “Know of a certainty that your descendents will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve ‘them’ 400 years, and also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
“And I will say to ‘Not my people, ‘You are my people’;
And he shall say, ‘Thou art my God.’” – Isaiah 2:23
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Mabus Code and the Return of Ishmael
“God himself will be with them and be their God …
‘… and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
… then he who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.’
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.’
‘But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” – Revelations 21:3-5
The name Mabus has plagued many a scholar. Who is this man who will shake Israel to its very core and be labeled 'The Terror of Israel'.
Hollywood has taken the position that Mabus (pronounced 'May-be-us') is nothing more than another terrorist. But is he?
No, for it is a term used to describe the return of Jesus Christ as the Amen, to whom the Jewish majority already have labeled as a terrorist and this is because of all the horrendous evils that the state of Israel has done throughout their existence as a body of men and women who adhere to what is known as the Jewish Rite.
Before we begin, let us first ascertain who exactly Zion and Jerusalem belong to in these last days, using the mathematics of the letters of the alphabet concerning each name. We will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to whom the State of Israel, Jerusalem and Mount Zion belong to, as the identity of Judah and Shiloh have already been given. Is it the same person?
The name Jerusalem
12/26/1956
5.9.
23/14; 39/21; 98 (my present family's address, who have stolen my inheritance); 94, as well as my full name as a 35, 51, 83, which totals a 169.
The name Zion
12/26/1956
9.5.
Then we have 25/16; 23/14, and my full name as a 35, 15, and a 38 respectively, which total an 88/16. The number ‘88’ stands for the 88 constellations, which are comprised in my full name as an 8-6-2, respectively.
The name Israel
The name Israel, which name incorporates the three gods as Isis, (Amen) Ra, and El(ah).
12/26/1956, and the time zones of birth being 9 AM (EST) and 5 AM (GMT).
My full name in digits as 26/51/38, which total a 115, reduced to a 25/16.
Enter
Mabus
I’ve been on websites in order to ascertain exactly what knowledge exists concerning Nostradamus’s ‘Mabus’ and no one up to date has even explored, much less described what the name implies or a sure-fire way to identify this ‘Mabus’.
The correct pronunciation is not May-be-us, but “May-bue-‘s’”.
This is why.
The name begins with what any good scholar should know, that if this Mabus has connections with the Middle East (‘Greater Arabia’) then the first two letters of this name are short for what is known as ‘upholding the principles of Ma’at, meaning he is connected with the present Pharaoh who has risen, as the scriptures say, ‘in the west’, meaning North America and is also connected therefore, with the ‘Amen’ of the scriptures, for as lightning strikes from east to west, so shall the coming of the son of man be. Namely Amen Hotep, for it is a family name describing Royalty, and the Holy Grail discussed previously.
The City of Osiris and Horus was known as ‘BUSIRIS’, as Iris was Amen Hotep’s original first name, linking with Osiris and the constellation known as Siris, better known as The Dog Star.
Mabus is not a raving lunatic and Master of Terror as the Jews imply. They do so because they known that Amen and Mabus are one and the same.
Everyone knows that my name is Eric Robert Powell, which in alphabetical math, (letters A-Z totaling 26 letters) equal a 35-78-83, reduced to an 8-6-11, or an 8-6-2, which is rendered as a 25/16.
My date of birth is 12-26-1956, or an 3-8-3 = 14 by reduction. I was born in Yonkers, New York at 9 AM (EST) or at 5 AM (GMT).
Here is your Mabus:
13 + 1 = 14 + 2 = 16 + 21 = 37 + 19 = 56
Through this simple matter of alphanumerics, we find the day, month and year Mabus is born as 12/26/1956, we also find the times of birth as being 9 AM (EST) and 5 AM (GMT). We also find the numbers 25/16 as well as 23/14, (a 37/10) which means that the son of Judah (named Er in the scriptures) as a 23, the same as (Amen) Re, is born in the double-digit year of ‘14’.
His name is a seven, (25/16) and his birth-day, including month and year are double sevens (14), which grants this individual three sevens, and a triple payment for he and his people, this is what the Ancient Egyptians called ‘Thrice Blessed’.
The name also implies the ‘Ab’, which is defined as the ‘Heart’. Signifying that the religion of Ma’at and the heart of it all resides in the U.S.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the father, but by me.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the father: and how sayest thou then, shew us the father?
– John 14:6 -9
There is a difference between me being the father, and my father, whose name has now been changed from Oris (in this life, until he passed away and became Osiris, the Lord of the Dead, or spirit world who will judge you in the next life, or the spirit world.
In Nastradomus’s ‘Mabus’, there is one who is equated with him who enters Europe wearing a blue turban, this is straight out of the scriptures, but it also entails the return of Ishmael in the last days as the ‘seed’ of Abraham and The Last Days.
The following is from the book of Zechariah, and entails what is about to unfold to the State of Israel, those who fight against God for the State of Israel, and phony preachers.
For your pleasure:
"Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
And I said, let them set a new turban upon his head, so they set a new turban upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit with thee: for they are a good omen: for behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land
(the children of Ishmael in America) in one day.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
And the angel taht talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of sleep.
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof.
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my Lord?
Then he answered and spake unto me saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirir, saith the LORD of hosts.
Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; and his hands will finish it; and thou shalt know the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you
For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Then I answered, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
Then he said, these are the two annointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
Then said he unto me, this is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth (falsely) shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
... Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying behold the man whose name is THE BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
And they that are far off shall come and build in the tempke of the Lord, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If it be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,
- and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts
for the seed (of Ishmael) shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
- and I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion; shout, O Daughter of Jerusalem ...
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
As for thee also, by the blood of the covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is no (spiriual) water (for life).
Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
And the Lord shall be seen over them all, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with slingstones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled with blood like basins, like the corners of the altar.
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
And I shall sow them among the peoples: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again ...
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and gainst Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die: but the third shall be left therein.
And I will bring the third part throuh the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, the LORD is my God.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
For I shall gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people (which I mentioned) shall not be cut off from the city.
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
And his feet shall stand that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west. And there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver and apparel, in great abundance.
And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of Tabernacles.
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and cometh not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar (full of blood).
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seeth therein: and in that day there shall be no more the (Israelites) in the house of the LORD of hosts. - Zechariah 3:3 - 14:21
The people who were called ‘my people’ are not my people, and the people who were called ‘not my people’ are my people.
The word ‘people’ is derived from the God Pe, pronounced ‘pay’, the letters ‘Op’ as in Powell, and the word or prefix ‘El’ which means ‘Elah’, or the sovereign who brings the Law. It is the letters ‘op’ which stand for the name Ishmael, which is a numeric ‘67’.
“My People” equals a 105 for the word people, and a 25/13 for the word My, (meaning a 25/1956), or reduced to a 38 as my last name Powell, the 38 also standing for the date of August 8, 2008 (an 888) when all of the stars and planets in the universe formed a straight line here to our planet in what was termed, The Great Alignment, there is a saying, As above, so below.
If it were not for the ‘Elect’, which are the Children of Ishmael here in the United States who are also called the American Blacks, the war to come would annilate everyone and everything.
My dear people, you are ‘The Elect’, ‘The Chosen’ and the family ‘seed’ of Ishmael.
“And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
And said, By myself I have sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son (Ishmael – for Ishmael was his only son):
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all of the nations of the earth be blessed: because thou hast obeyed my voice.
So Abraham returned unto the young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. – Genesis 22:17-19
In the name Ishmael you find a 33, a 12/26/1956, my full name in numerals as 35/78/83, and the digits 67 and 52, which equate the name Po (76) Well (52).
In the scriptures, the mother of Ishmael was Abraham’s wife named Hagar.
Etymology of the word "hag"
From Barbara Walkers The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:
Hag: Originally wise woman, the Hag was a cognate of Egyptian, heg, a predynastic matriarchal ruler who knew the words of power, hekau. In Greek, she became Hecate, The Crone or Hag as queen of the dead, incarnate on earth in a series of wise-women or high priestesses.
Hag is a contraction of the Old English hægtesse, meaning "witch" or "fury". It is likely that the haeg element of the word is cognate with the Old English haga, meaning "hedge" or "enclosure"; witches once being known as "hedge-riders". Haga not only gives us "hag" and "hedge", but also "hawthorn" (hagathorn). From this we may surmise that the hedge-riders were powerful witches who had oracular and magical powers, and "rode the hedge" in that they were the intermediaries between the village (the world of man) and the wilderness that lay beyond.
My mother and I lived on Hawthorne Avenue in Yonkers, New York. In the front of the apartment building were a row of hedges, which is equated with bushes.
The element ‘ar’ in the name Hagar is the feminine aspect of Ra/Re.
In the scriptures, when Moses talked through the ‘burning bush’ to ask God what his name was, He replied ‘I AM’, which is short for I – M HOTEP (IMHOTEP).
I lived again on Hawthorne Ave., when the Mossad, in the guise of Cluster, Inc., in Yonkers saw a manuscript that I was writing entitled ‘9/11: The Bush Connection’ while I was not at home, writing a word with the letters spelt backwards. Soon after this occasion, I found a crucifixion symbol on the floor of my bathroom which was made out of matches with the sulfur tips taken off, as a cross with one match cut in half and affixed to the arms of the cross with the other ends that were left connected to the middle of the cross forming a hung on the cross symbol. Bob Jawkorski, the second in command at Cluster works for Army Intelligence through the Army Reserve and carries a dual passport for Israel and the United States.
The burning bush in the scriptures simply meant that George Bush was burning up mad about me. They then searched my background and decided to have me assassinated.
Also in the name of ‘Rasalhague’, the name of the sun in the center of the Milky Way, is the word ‘Hag’, signifying that my mother, known as Isis by the Greeks and as Aset in Ancient Egypt, took part in the creation of the universe. Also known as ‘Nuit’.
In the word ‘seed’ we have:
12/26/1956, a 5 and a 9, a 94 (our sun is 94 million miles away from the earth - a ‘25’, and a 33, for the 33rd Dynasty and the name ‘Amen’ (33).
The Chosen
In the word ‘The Chosen’ we have a 33 for the word ‘the’, followed by 12/26/1956, a 59, an 8,6,11/2 for my full name reduced, as well as a 67, for Ishmael. We also have a 25/16, which is my full name reduced into double digits and also a 23/14, or the name Re/14, also the biblical Er, the son of Judah who was not ‘wicked’ and died as implied by the European Jews with their interpolations of the scriptures. The number 14 representing my month, day and year of birth reduced into single digits as 3/8/3 from 12/26/1956.
We also have the numbers of my full name as 26/15/38, which totals a ‘79’, or the number of Amen Hotep, and lastly a 64, for the name of Hotep, the Architect.
The Elect
In the Glorious name of ‘The Elect’ we find a 12/26/1956, a 5/9, a 39/21, as they are my initials in full and then reduced, also the name for the Cobra in digits. A 23/14, and a 5/9.
The children of Ishmael here in the United States were prophesized to be taken to a foreign land (America) where they would be captives for 400 years, and then returned to their home in the Land of Canaan (currently called the State of Israel, which has been stolen from us along with our nieces and nephews in the Middle East.
It is now year 401, which symbolizes the number of my return as a 14.
Our kingdom of heaven on earth has returned.
Finally the dates of 7/11/10 through Friday the 13th, (August 13, 2010) will be a remarkable time here in America, as the total eclipse occurs on 7/11/10, disrupting communications, as well as an unexpected visit by Halley’s Comet.
“God himself will be with them and be their God …
‘… and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
… then he who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.’
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.’
‘But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” – Revelations 21:3-5
The Promise given to Abraham from God concerning the seed of his ‘only son’ Ishmael was that after 400 years of captivity, he and his descendants would be returned to their own country, the ‘Land of Canaan’, now known as Israel and its surrounding territory.
I am proud to announce my selection as the facilitator of this endeavor, as the reincarnation of Ahmose II.
Col. Gaddafi in Libya, and other Islamic countries will pay the Captive price for our safe return. America must also pay, along with the Jews and the Germans as well as the Roman Catholic Church, which has profited immensely from the Slave Trade to today’s economic meltdown as well as many other crimes waged against us.
Then they have the audacity to use a woman’s name who never wedded, or mated with my father Abraham by using the Jewish name ‘Sarah’, whose parents, especially her elderly mother, forbid the union because he was a BLACK EGYPTIAN from the land of ‘Ur of the Chaldee’s’
There are basically two different races on this planet, the hu-man race (hue means of color), and the race called man, who is white and possesses no color, or melanin.
Scientists have taken toddlers, over a 30 year time span, and have placed them in playful environments with other toddlers who possessed no color.
Time and time again, the little white toddlers would beat and steal from their little toddler opposites while the colored children would share with them, it made no difference, for they would even steal from the human children. The scientists came to the conclusion that because the little white children had no melanin, they acted very aggressively with their colored counterparts.
This then is the definition of ‘man’:
The Definition of ‘MAN’:
“hindering, impeding, obstruction; prevention, obviation, preclusion; prohibition; interdiction, ban, injunction; closure, stop, discontinuation, embargo; withdrawal, deprival, dispossession; withholding, detention”. -
The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J. M. Cowan, pg.1087.
The Destruction of the European Jews
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, …
for I am sorry that I have made them.”- Genesis 6:7
And to the European Jews who stole the Land of Israel (Canaan) he said this …
"It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. - Deuteronomy 28:63
"The LORD shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 29:20
“Man is but a puff of breath, great and small alike are worthless, put them on scales, and they weigh nothing, they are lighter than a mere breath.” – Psalms 62: 9
“You will not see my face again from this day until I take revenge on this race that came out of Egypt.” – Judith 6:5
From
Ezekiel 21:1-14
“The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophecy against the land of Israel and say to the land of Israel,
‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out from its sheath, and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked. Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out from its sheath against all flesh from south to north; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.
Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh with a breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes. And when they say to you,
‘Why do you sigh?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water, Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,’” says the Lord God.
And the word of the Lord came to me:
“son of man, prophecy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say:
A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished, sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning!
Or do we make mirth?
You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood. So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be handled; it is sharpened and polished to be given into the hands of the slayer …
It is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword of my people.
(you, my son, are) smitten therefore upon thy thigh, because it is a test …” -
Ezekiel 21:1-14
This is what happened to me, poisoned by Cluster Inc., at St. Josephs Hospital in Yonkers, New York, and then because of an infection, they cut me open for four days, the first with local anesthesia, and afterwards with none at all for the remaining three days, and did not close the wound with stitches, leaving a cross upon my thigh due to it being cut open with a scalpel.
This mark on my thigh centers on Jacob’s name being changed to Israel in Genesis, and also in the book of Revelation. See also, The Shepherd They Withheld, by Charles N. Pope.This proves that Amen Hotep was the biblical Jacob whose name was changed to Israel. The name is put together as Is(is), (Amen) Ra, and El(ah), which the Jews do not worship one iota.
I tell them now, Get your filthy, Goyim, murderous selves off my property.
‘… and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
… then he who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.’
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.’
‘But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” – Revelations 21:3-5
The name Mabus has plagued many a scholar. Who is this man who will shake Israel to its very core and be labeled 'The Terror of Israel'.
Hollywood has taken the position that Mabus (pronounced 'May-be-us') is nothing more than another terrorist. But is he?
No, for it is a term used to describe the return of Jesus Christ as the Amen, to whom the Jewish majority already have labeled as a terrorist and this is because of all the horrendous evils that the state of Israel has done throughout their existence as a body of men and women who adhere to what is known as the Jewish Rite.
Before we begin, let us first ascertain who exactly Zion and Jerusalem belong to in these last days, using the mathematics of the letters of the alphabet concerning each name. We will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to whom the State of Israel, Jerusalem and Mount Zion belong to, as the identity of Judah and Shiloh have already been given. Is it the same person?
The name Jerusalem
12/26/1956
5.9.
23/14; 39/21; 98 (my present family's address, who have stolen my inheritance); 94, as well as my full name as a 35, 51, 83, which totals a 169.
The name Zion
12/26/1956
9.5.
Then we have 25/16; 23/14, and my full name as a 35, 15, and a 38 respectively, which total an 88/16. The number ‘88’ stands for the 88 constellations, which are comprised in my full name as an 8-6-2, respectively.
The name Israel
The name Israel, which name incorporates the three gods as Isis, (Amen) Ra, and El(ah).
12/26/1956, and the time zones of birth being 9 AM (EST) and 5 AM (GMT).
My full name in digits as 26/51/38, which total a 115, reduced to a 25/16.
Enter
Mabus
I’ve been on websites in order to ascertain exactly what knowledge exists concerning Nostradamus’s ‘Mabus’ and no one up to date has even explored, much less described what the name implies or a sure-fire way to identify this ‘Mabus’.
The correct pronunciation is not May-be-us, but “May-bue-‘s’”.
This is why.
The name begins with what any good scholar should know, that if this Mabus has connections with the Middle East (‘Greater Arabia’) then the first two letters of this name are short for what is known as ‘upholding the principles of Ma’at, meaning he is connected with the present Pharaoh who has risen, as the scriptures say, ‘in the west’, meaning North America and is also connected therefore, with the ‘Amen’ of the scriptures, for as lightning strikes from east to west, so shall the coming of the son of man be. Namely Amen Hotep, for it is a family name describing Royalty, and the Holy Grail discussed previously.
The City of Osiris and Horus was known as ‘BUSIRIS’, as Iris was Amen Hotep’s original first name, linking with Osiris and the constellation known as Siris, better known as The Dog Star.
Mabus is not a raving lunatic and Master of Terror as the Jews imply. They do so because they known that Amen and Mabus are one and the same.
Everyone knows that my name is Eric Robert Powell, which in alphabetical math, (letters A-Z totaling 26 letters) equal a 35-78-83, reduced to an 8-6-11, or an 8-6-2, which is rendered as a 25/16.
My date of birth is 12-26-1956, or an 3-8-3 = 14 by reduction. I was born in Yonkers, New York at 9 AM (EST) or at 5 AM (GMT).
Here is your Mabus:
13 + 1 = 14 + 2 = 16 + 21 = 37 + 19 = 56
Through this simple matter of alphanumerics, we find the day, month and year Mabus is born as 12/26/1956, we also find the times of birth as being 9 AM (EST) and 5 AM (GMT). We also find the numbers 25/16 as well as 23/14, (a 37/10) which means that the son of Judah (named Er in the scriptures) as a 23, the same as (Amen) Re, is born in the double-digit year of ‘14’.
His name is a seven, (25/16) and his birth-day, including month and year are double sevens (14), which grants this individual three sevens, and a triple payment for he and his people, this is what the Ancient Egyptians called ‘Thrice Blessed’.
The name also implies the ‘Ab’, which is defined as the ‘Heart’. Signifying that the religion of Ma’at and the heart of it all resides in the U.S.
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the father, but by me.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the father: and how sayest thou then, shew us the father?
– John 14:6 -9
There is a difference between me being the father, and my father, whose name has now been changed from Oris (in this life, until he passed away and became Osiris, the Lord of the Dead, or spirit world who will judge you in the next life, or the spirit world.
In Nastradomus’s ‘Mabus’, there is one who is equated with him who enters Europe wearing a blue turban, this is straight out of the scriptures, but it also entails the return of Ishmael in the last days as the ‘seed’ of Abraham and The Last Days.
The following is from the book of Zechariah, and entails what is about to unfold to the State of Israel, those who fight against God for the State of Israel, and phony preachers.
For your pleasure:
"Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
And I said, let them set a new turban upon his head, so they set a new turban upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit with thee: for they are a good omen: for behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land
(the children of Ishmael in America) in one day.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
And the angel taht talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of sleep.
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof.
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my Lord?
Then he answered and spake unto me saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirir, saith the LORD of hosts.
Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; and his hands will finish it; and thou shalt know the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you
For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Then I answered, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
Then he said, these are the two annointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
Then said he unto me, this is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth (falsely) shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
... Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying behold the man whose name is THE BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
And they that are far off shall come and build in the tempke of the Lord, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If it be marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,
- and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts
for the seed (of Ishmael) shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
- and I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion; shout, O Daughter of Jerusalem ...
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
As for thee also, by the blood of the covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is no (spiriual) water (for life).
Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
And the Lord shall be seen over them all, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with slingstones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled with blood like basins, like the corners of the altar.
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
And I shall sow them among the peoples: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again ...
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and gainst Jerusalem.
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die: but the third shall be left therein.
And I will bring the third part throuh the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, the LORD is my God.
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
For I shall gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people (which I mentioned) shall not be cut off from the city.
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
And his feet shall stand that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west. And there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver and apparel, in great abundance.
And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of Tabernacles.
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and cometh not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar (full of blood).
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seeth therein: and in that day there shall be no more the (Israelites) in the house of the LORD of hosts. - Zechariah 3:3 - 14:21
The people who were called ‘my people’ are not my people, and the people who were called ‘not my people’ are my people.
The word ‘people’ is derived from the God Pe, pronounced ‘pay’, the letters ‘Op’ as in Powell, and the word or prefix ‘El’ which means ‘Elah’, or the sovereign who brings the Law. It is the letters ‘op’ which stand for the name Ishmael, which is a numeric ‘67’.
“My People” equals a 105 for the word people, and a 25/13 for the word My, (meaning a 25/1956), or reduced to a 38 as my last name Powell, the 38 also standing for the date of August 8, 2008 (an 888) when all of the stars and planets in the universe formed a straight line here to our planet in what was termed, The Great Alignment, there is a saying, As above, so below.
If it were not for the ‘Elect’, which are the Children of Ishmael here in the United States who are also called the American Blacks, the war to come would annilate everyone and everything.
My dear people, you are ‘The Elect’, ‘The Chosen’ and the family ‘seed’ of Ishmael.
“And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
And said, By myself I have sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son (Ishmael – for Ishmael was his only son):
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all of the nations of the earth be blessed: because thou hast obeyed my voice.
So Abraham returned unto the young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. – Genesis 22:17-19
In the name Ishmael you find a 33, a 12/26/1956, my full name in numerals as 35/78/83, and the digits 67 and 52, which equate the name Po (76) Well (52).
In the scriptures, the mother of Ishmael was Abraham’s wife named Hagar.
Etymology of the word "hag"
From Barbara Walkers The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:
Hag: Originally wise woman, the Hag was a cognate of Egyptian, heg, a predynastic matriarchal ruler who knew the words of power, hekau. In Greek, she became Hecate, The Crone or Hag as queen of the dead, incarnate on earth in a series of wise-women or high priestesses.
Hag is a contraction of the Old English hægtesse, meaning "witch" or "fury". It is likely that the haeg element of the word is cognate with the Old English haga, meaning "hedge" or "enclosure"; witches once being known as "hedge-riders". Haga not only gives us "hag" and "hedge", but also "hawthorn" (hagathorn). From this we may surmise that the hedge-riders were powerful witches who had oracular and magical powers, and "rode the hedge" in that they were the intermediaries between the village (the world of man) and the wilderness that lay beyond.
My mother and I lived on Hawthorne Avenue in Yonkers, New York. In the front of the apartment building were a row of hedges, which is equated with bushes.
The element ‘ar’ in the name Hagar is the feminine aspect of Ra/Re.
In the scriptures, when Moses talked through the ‘burning bush’ to ask God what his name was, He replied ‘I AM’, which is short for I – M HOTEP (IMHOTEP).
I lived again on Hawthorne Ave., when the Mossad, in the guise of Cluster, Inc., in Yonkers saw a manuscript that I was writing entitled ‘9/11: The Bush Connection’ while I was not at home, writing a word with the letters spelt backwards. Soon after this occasion, I found a crucifixion symbol on the floor of my bathroom which was made out of matches with the sulfur tips taken off, as a cross with one match cut in half and affixed to the arms of the cross with the other ends that were left connected to the middle of the cross forming a hung on the cross symbol. Bob Jawkorski, the second in command at Cluster works for Army Intelligence through the Army Reserve and carries a dual passport for Israel and the United States.
The burning bush in the scriptures simply meant that George Bush was burning up mad about me. They then searched my background and decided to have me assassinated.
Also in the name of ‘Rasalhague’, the name of the sun in the center of the Milky Way, is the word ‘Hag’, signifying that my mother, known as Isis by the Greeks and as Aset in Ancient Egypt, took part in the creation of the universe. Also known as ‘Nuit’.
In the word ‘seed’ we have:
12/26/1956, a 5 and a 9, a 94 (our sun is 94 million miles away from the earth - a ‘25’, and a 33, for the 33rd Dynasty and the name ‘Amen’ (33).
The Chosen
In the word ‘The Chosen’ we have a 33 for the word ‘the’, followed by 12/26/1956, a 59, an 8,6,11/2 for my full name reduced, as well as a 67, for Ishmael. We also have a 25/16, which is my full name reduced into double digits and also a 23/14, or the name Re/14, also the biblical Er, the son of Judah who was not ‘wicked’ and died as implied by the European Jews with their interpolations of the scriptures. The number 14 representing my month, day and year of birth reduced into single digits as 3/8/3 from 12/26/1956.
We also have the numbers of my full name as 26/15/38, which totals a ‘79’, or the number of Amen Hotep, and lastly a 64, for the name of Hotep, the Architect.
The Elect
In the Glorious name of ‘The Elect’ we find a 12/26/1956, a 5/9, a 39/21, as they are my initials in full and then reduced, also the name for the Cobra in digits. A 23/14, and a 5/9.
The children of Ishmael here in the United States were prophesized to be taken to a foreign land (America) where they would be captives for 400 years, and then returned to their home in the Land of Canaan (currently called the State of Israel, which has been stolen from us along with our nieces and nephews in the Middle East.
It is now year 401, which symbolizes the number of my return as a 14.
Our kingdom of heaven on earth has returned.
Finally the dates of 7/11/10 through Friday the 13th, (August 13, 2010) will be a remarkable time here in America, as the total eclipse occurs on 7/11/10, disrupting communications, as well as an unexpected visit by Halley’s Comet.
“God himself will be with them and be their God …
‘… and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.’
… then he who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.’
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.’
‘But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators and all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” – Revelations 21:3-5
The Promise given to Abraham from God concerning the seed of his ‘only son’ Ishmael was that after 400 years of captivity, he and his descendants would be returned to their own country, the ‘Land of Canaan’, now known as Israel and its surrounding territory.
I am proud to announce my selection as the facilitator of this endeavor, as the reincarnation of Ahmose II.
Col. Gaddafi in Libya, and other Islamic countries will pay the Captive price for our safe return. America must also pay, along with the Jews and the Germans as well as the Roman Catholic Church, which has profited immensely from the Slave Trade to today’s economic meltdown as well as many other crimes waged against us.
Then they have the audacity to use a woman’s name who never wedded, or mated with my father Abraham by using the Jewish name ‘Sarah’, whose parents, especially her elderly mother, forbid the union because he was a BLACK EGYPTIAN from the land of ‘Ur of the Chaldee’s’
There are basically two different races on this planet, the hu-man race (hue means of color), and the race called man, who is white and possesses no color, or melanin.
Scientists have taken toddlers, over a 30 year time span, and have placed them in playful environments with other toddlers who possessed no color.
Time and time again, the little white toddlers would beat and steal from their little toddler opposites while the colored children would share with them, it made no difference, for they would even steal from the human children. The scientists came to the conclusion that because the little white children had no melanin, they acted very aggressively with their colored counterparts.
This then is the definition of ‘man’:
The Definition of ‘MAN’:
“hindering, impeding, obstruction; prevention, obviation, preclusion; prohibition; interdiction, ban, injunction; closure, stop, discontinuation, embargo; withdrawal, deprival, dispossession; withholding, detention”. -
The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J. M. Cowan, pg.1087.
The Destruction of the European Jews
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, …
for I am sorry that I have made them.”- Genesis 6:7
And to the European Jews who stole the Land of Israel (Canaan) he said this …
"It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. - Deuteronomy 28:63
"The LORD shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 29:20
“Man is but a puff of breath, great and small alike are worthless, put them on scales, and they weigh nothing, they are lighter than a mere breath.” – Psalms 62: 9
“You will not see my face again from this day until I take revenge on this race that came out of Egypt.” – Judith 6:5
From
Ezekiel 21:1-14
“The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries; prophecy against the land of Israel and say to the land of Israel,
‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out from its sheath, and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked. Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out from its sheath against all flesh from south to north; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.
Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh with a breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes. And when they say to you,
‘Why do you sigh?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water, Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,’” says the Lord God.
And the word of the Lord came to me:
“son of man, prophecy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say:
A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished, sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning!
Or do we make mirth?
You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood. So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be handled; it is sharpened and polished to be given into the hands of the slayer …
It is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword of my people.
(you, my son, are) smitten therefore upon thy thigh, because it is a test …” -
Ezekiel 21:1-14
This is what happened to me, poisoned by Cluster Inc., at St. Josephs Hospital in Yonkers, New York, and then because of an infection, they cut me open for four days, the first with local anesthesia, and afterwards with none at all for the remaining three days, and did not close the wound with stitches, leaving a cross upon my thigh due to it being cut open with a scalpel.
This mark on my thigh centers on Jacob’s name being changed to Israel in Genesis, and also in the book of Revelation. See also, The Shepherd They Withheld, by Charles N. Pope.This proves that Amen Hotep was the biblical Jacob whose name was changed to Israel. The name is put together as Is(is), (Amen) Ra, and El(ah), which the Jews do not worship one iota.
I tell them now, Get your filthy, Goyim, murderous selves off my property.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Enemies of God and the Human Race; The Real 300 and their Co-conspirators
Members of the Committee of 300
Abergavemy, Marquis of.
Acheson, Dean.
Adeane, Lord Michael.
Agnelli, Giovanni.
Alba, Duke of.
Aldington, Lord.
Aleman, Miguel.
Allihone, Professor T. E.
Alsop Family Designate.
Amory, Houghton.
Anderson, Charles A.
Anderson, Robert 0.
Andreas, Dwayne.
Asquith, Lord.
Astor, John Jacob and successor, Waldorf.
Aurangzeb, Descendants of.
Austin, Paul.
Baco, Sir Ranulph
BalFour, Arthur.
Balogh, Lord.
Bancroft, Baron Stormont.
Baring.
Barnato, B.
Barran, Sir John.
Baxendell, Sir Peter.
Beatrice of Savoy, Princess.
Beaverbrook, Lord.
Beck, Robert.
Beeley, Sir Harold.
Beit, Alfred.
Benn, Anthony Wedgewood.
Bennet, John W.
Benneton, Gilberto or alternate Carlo.
Bertie, Andrew.
Besant, Sir Walter.
Bethal, Lord Nicholas.
Bialkin, David.
Biao, Keng.
Bingham, William.
Binny, J. F.
Blunt, Wilfred.
Bonacassi, Franco Orsini.
Bottcher, Fritz.
Bradshaw, Thornton.
Brandt, Willy.
Brewster, Kingman.
Buchan, Alastair.
Buffet, Warren.
Bullitt, William C.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward.
Bundy, McGeorge.
Bundy, William.
Bush, George.
Cabot, John. Family Designate.
Caccia, Baron Harold Anthony.
Cadman, Sir John.
Califano, Joseph.
Carrington, Lord.
Carter, Edward.
Catlin, Donat.
Catto, Lord.
Cavendish, Victor C. W. Duke of Devonshire.
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart.
Chang, V. F.
Chechirin, Georgi or Family Designate.
Churchill, Winston.
Cicireni, V. or Family Designate.
Cini, Count Vittorio.
Clark, Howard.
Cleveland, Amory.
Cleveland, Harland.
Clifford, Clark.
Cobold, Lord.
Coffin, the Rev William Sloane.
Constanti, House of Orange.
Cooper, John. Family Designate.
Coudenhove-Kalergi, Count.
Cowdray, Lord.
Cox, Sir Percy.
Cromer, Lord Evelyn Baring.
Crowther, Sir Eric.
Cumming, Sir Mansfield.
Curtis, Lionel. d’Arcy, William K.
D’Avignon, Count Etienne.
Danner, Jean Duroc.
Davis, John W. de Benneditti, Carlo.
De Bruyne, Dirk.
De Gunzberg, Baron Alain.
De Lamater, Major General Walter.
De Menil, Jean.
De Vries, Rimmer.
de Zulueta, Sir Philip.
de’Aremberg, Marquis Charles Louis.
Delano. Family Designate.
Dent, R.
Deterding, Sir Henri.
di Spadaforas, Count Guitierez, (House
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec.
Drake, Sir Eric.
Duchene, Francois.
DuPont.
Edward, Duke of Kent.
Eisenberg, Shaul.
Elliott, Nicholas.
Elliott, William Yandel.
Elsworthy, Lord.
Farmer, Victor.
Forbes, John M.
Foscaro, Pierre.
France, Sir Arnold.
Fraser, Sir Hugh.
Frederik IX, King of Denmark Family Designate.
Freres, Lazard.
Frescobaldi, Lamberto.
Fribourg, Michael.
Gabor, Dennis.
Gallatin, Albert. Family Designate.
Gardner, Richard.
Geddes, Sir Auckland.
Geddes, Sir Reay.
George, Lloyd.
Giffen, James.
Gilmer, John D.
Giustiniani, Justin.
Gladstone, Lord.
Gloucestor, The Duke of.
Gordon, Walter Lockhart.
Grace, Peter J.
Greenhill, Lord Dennis Arthur.
Greenhill, Sir Dennis.
Grey, Sir Edward.
Gyllenhammar, Pierres.
Haakon, King of Norway.
Haig, Sir Douglas.
Hailsham, Lord.
Haldane, Richard Burdone.
Halifax, Lord.
Hall, Sir Peter Vickers.
Hambro, Sir Jocelyn.
Hamilton, Cyril.
Harriman, Averill.
Hart, Sir Robert.
Hartman, Arthur H.
Healey, Dennis.
Helsby, Lord.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Her Majesty Queen Juliana.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrix.
Her Royal Highness Queen Margreta.
Heseltine, Sir William.
Hesse, Grand Duke descendants, Family Designate.
Hoffman, Paul G.
Holland, William.
House of Braganza.
House of Hohenzollern.
House, Colonel Mandel.
Howe, Sir Geoffrey.
Hughes, Thomas H.
Hugo, Thieman.
Hutchins, Robert M.
Huxley, Aldous.
Inchcape, Lord.
Jamieson, Ken.
Japhet, Ernst Israel.
Jay, John. Family Designate.
Jodry, J. J.
Joseph, Sir Keith.
Katz, Milton.
Kaufman, Asher.
Keith, Sir Kenneth.
Keswick, Sir William Johnston, or Keswick, H.N.L.
Keswick, William Johnston.
Keynes, John Maynard.
Kimberly, Lord.
King, Dr. Alexander.
Kirk, Grayson L.
Kissinger, Henry.
Kitchener, Lord Horatio.
Kohnstamm, Max.
Korsch, Karl.
Lambert, Baron Pierre.
Lawrence, G.
Lazar.
Lehrman, Lewis.
Lever, Sir Harold.
Lewin, Dr. Kurt.
Lippmann, Walter.
Livingstone, Robert R. Family Designate.
Lockhart, Bruce.
Lockhart, Gordon.
Linowitz, S.
Loudon, Sir John.
Luzzatto, Pieipaolo.
Mackay, Lord, of Clasfern.
Mackay-Tallack, Sir Hugh.
Mackinder, Halford.
MacMillan, Harold.
Matheson, Jardine.
Mazzini, Gueseppi.
McClaughlin, W. E.
McCloy, John J.
McFadyean, Sir Andrew.
McGhee, George.
McMillan, Harold.
Mellon, Andrew.
Mellon, William Larimer or Family Designate.
Meyer, Frank.
Michener, Roland.
Mikovan, Anastas.
Milner, Lord Alfred.
Mitterand, Francois.
Monett, Jean.
Montague, Samuel.
Montefiore, Lord Sebag or Bishop Hugh.
Morgan, John P.
Mott, Stewart.
Mountain, Sir Brian Edward.
Mountain, Sir Dennis.
Mountbatten, Lord Louis.
Munthe, A., or family designate.
Naisbitt, John.
Neeman, Yuval.
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Petty, John R.
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Piercy, George.
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Price Waterhouse, Designate.
Radziwall.
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Raskob, John Jacob.
Recanati.
Rees, John Rawlings.
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Rennie, Sir John.
Rettinger, Joseph.
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Rosenthal, Morton.
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Thompson, William Boyce.
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Verity, William C.
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Founded in Geneva in 1936 to unite the Jewish people and mobilize the world against the Nazi onslaught, the WJC is the representative body of Jewish communities and organizations in over 80 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe across six continents. It seeks to foster the unity and creative survival of the Jewish people while maintaining its spiritual, cultural and social heritage.
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Eduardo Elsztain
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Governing Board
Eduardo Elsztain, Chairman of the WJC Governing Board, was an unofficial ambassador for Argentina during the economic crisis, working with the World Jewish Congress in attempting to raise the issue of Argentinean economic reconstruction in international economic and financial institutions.
Elsztain has been a partner with Edgar Bronfman in building Hillel throughout Latin American universities and a founder of Hillel and campus activities at large; he became known to world Jewry through these important contributions.
Cobi Benatoff
Treasurer, World Jewish Congress
Born in Tel Aviv (Israel) on 15.04.1944
Living in Milan (Italy) since 1947
Married to Victoria Josefowitz for 36 years with 3 sons.
Educated in Milan up to Italian Scientific Bachelor.
Degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 1968.
Served in the Israeli army from 1962 to 1964 in Nahal and paratroops.
Managing international family business, with brother Ronn, active in industrial fishing, food industry, real estate and hi-tech.
Member of the Board of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1986 - present.
President of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1990 to 1998.
Member of the Board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 2002 to 2006
President of European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) from 1999 to 2003.
The ECJC is the representative organization of major Communities and Institutions from 36 European Countries sponsored by the Joint Development Committee (Joint), active in Community development, leadership training, networking and developing European projects in education, social services and Jewish heritage and culture.
During this presidency:
• promoted the concept of the European GA with 3 successful meetings in Nice (1999), Madrid (2001) and Budapest (2003);
• initiated the European Day of Jewish Culture (2000) that has since become a very important annual event throughout Europe;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Presidents of Jewish Communities;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Educational Professionals, ARACHIM, inBudapest;
• promoted, together with Joint, the 1st Leatid Program for Leadership training of European Lay Leaders and Professionals;
• obtained 1st European Representation in the World Jewish Congress Restitution Organization (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005) and in the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005);
• Member of the Executive Committee and Allocation Committee of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) from 2000 until 2005.
President of European Jewish Congress (EJC) from 2003 until 2005.
During this presidency:
• promoted relationships with small Jewish Communities and with Communities in Eastern Europe;
• promoted the article of the Financial Time co-signed by Edgar Bronfman attacking European Union’s Antisemitism;
• presided the 1st European Conference on Antisemitism in Brussels promoted by the European Commission and European Jewish Congress together with Romano Prodi and Elie Wiesel;
Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of World Jewish Congress (2005)
Vice-chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2006)
Chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2007 - present)
Member of the Steering Committee of World Jewish Congress (2006 – present)
For more than a decade, Cobi Benatoff’s name has been synonymous with Jewish leadership in Europe.
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Shai Hermesh
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Israel Branch
Shai Hermesh was born in Tel-Aviv in 1944.
He graduated from Tichon Hadash high-school and his military service was spent first in the Nahal brigade, and later in the paratroops brigade. As a member of the "Yegev" core of the Ha'Noar Ha’Oved (Labor Party youth movement), he joined Kibbutz Kfar Azza, on the Gaza Strip border.
Shai Hermesh is married to Hava, a teacher who specializes in computers, and is a father to 4 boys and a girl!
He earned a B.A. degree in economics and sociology and later an MBA in Business Management, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral studies in Jewish history at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Anita Shapira, were not completed, since in late 1987 he was asked to serve as Mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and Chair of the Executive Committee at the Negev College – later to become Sapir Academic College.
For 25 years, Shai has served in the military reserve in the paratroops brigade. In the Six Day War, he took part in the battle for Jerusalem, fought in the Yom Kippur War on the Suez Canal, and in Lebanon - in the 1982 Lebanon War.
Shai Hermesh has filled a range of public positions: he is a member of the National Security Council, the Broadcasting Authority Forum, the Negev Development Authority, leadership institutions of the Kibbutz Movement, the Histadrut leadership, as well as being an active director in several public companies.
He served as the mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council for fifteen years. During his terms of office, he worked to enlarge the Pinchas Sapir College of the Negev, and to establish the Sapir Academic College, which is now Israel’s largest regional college.
As mayor of the regional council and chair of Sapir College, Shai Hermesh formed close ties with Jewish communities in Europe and the USA that donated generously and helped build the college, in particular and encourage settlement along the Gaza Strip in general.
Shai Hermesh worked in tandem with "Amdocs" - one of the world’s leading software houses, to create a major development center – "Amdocs Negev" – in Sha'ar Hanegev/Sderot.
Until the outbreak of the Intifada in 2000, he worked to promote joint regional-development programs with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – such as founding an industrial park, utilizing sewage in moshavim, and programs to train professional personnel for the Palestinian Authority in courses at the college and in Gaza.
For six straight years the regional council, under Shai’s leadership, won the Gold Prize – a prize awarded by the Minister of the Interior for excellence in financial management.
Shai Hermesh was awarded the State of Israel’s Knight of Quality Government award, an award conferred by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, for setting a personal example as a public personage heading a regional community, attentiveness to national goals, outstanding financial management in a harsh economic climate, developing general and academic education, and for contribution to klitat aliya.
In June 2002, Shai Hermesh was elected Treasurer of the Jewish Agency.
In May 2006 he took his seat in the Israeli Knesset, as a member of the Kadimma party.
Moshe Kantor
President, European Jewish Congress
Prominent public figure, international philanthropist, entrepreneur and investor. He is committed to progress and has greatly contributed to revitalizing Jewish life in Europe and beyond.
Mr. Kantor is known for his extensive involvement in community life:
Since 2007 – President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC); 2004-2007 – Chairman of the EJC Board of Governors. The EJC is a leading Jewish secular umbrella organisation that co-ordinates 40 national Jewish communities in Europe, encompassing 2.5 million Jews. The EJC’s goal is to address the world’s most pressing issues: protecting human rights, fighting xenophobia and anti-Semitism, promoting interfaith dialogue, implementing cultural and educational programmes, and remembering the Holocaust and other tragedies that claimed millions of human lives throughout the world.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), a leading Russian secular organisation that represents the interests of the whole spectrum of modern Russian Jewry.
2005 – Initiated and organised the first “Let My People Live!” International Forum in Krakow, Poland, to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among the participants and guests at the Krakow Forum were representatives from 40 countries, including 24 official delegations, led by their heads of state and government.
Since 2005 – Founder and President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF), established following the Krakow Forum. The Foundation’s goal is to support Holocaust remembrance activities for the sake of preserving the historical memory of nations all over the world and preventing future tragedies. The WHF convenes “Let My People Live!” International Forums on a regular basis.
2006 – The second “Let My People Live!” International Forum took place in Kiev, Ukraine, in September 2006 to mark 65 years since the Babi Yar tragedy. The Forum enjoyed great support from leading international institutions and organisations, such as the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), as well as high-ranking politicians from many countries.
The Forum’s participants adopted a joint World Holocaust Forum Declaration, aimed at preserving the eternal memory of the Babi Yar tragedy and its lessons, as well as the memory of the millions of victims of World War II, the Holocaust and its legacy for generations to come. The document expressed joint support for the initiative to hold the next “Let My People Live!” International Forum in November of 2008 to commemorate 70 years since die Kristallnacht.
Since 2006 – Key founder and Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), which focuses on promoting Jewish life throughout Europe by supporting programmes to reinforce Jewish identity and Jewish pride, especially by re-connecting people with their rich and vital Jewish heritage. The Fund also focuses on addressing pressing concerns threatening Jewish life in Europe, such as assimilation, anti-Semitism and racism. The primary principle of the Fund is to maintain a round table where all members can speak openly and participate as equals.
2007 – Chairman of the Organising Committee of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, which was convened in Luxembourg in May of 2007.The Conference hosted an unprecedented gathering of leading international experts on nuclear non-proliferation. Over 50 of the most authoritative experts from 14 countries took part in the Conference, including Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei.
The vital importance of pressing nuclear security issues, the growing danger of the existing non-proliferation system, which is drifting toward collapse, and the reality of the nuclear threat prompted the initiative to convene the Conference.
The final Declaration of the Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe was presented in Moscow on December 18, 2007. This document was circulated to heads of state throughout the world, top-tier politicians and heads of major international organisations. The declaration contains proposals to prevent the collapse of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime and offers a set of practical steps to strengthen this regime, as a positive agenda for the future. The Luxemburg Conference was transformed into the permanent Luxembourg Forum.
2001 – Founded the International Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery. The Museum houses a diverse collection of works by outstanding Jewish artists of Russian origin who are internationally recognized for their genius. This project is an essential part of the concept called the Jewish Positioning System (JPS), created to promote a favourable public opinion of Jews based on positive examples, as well as underscoring their contributions to all realms of society. At the same time, the JPS programme is intended to strengthen the Jewish identity and prevent Jews from assimilating.
Initiator and supporter of a pan-European programme for effectively counteracting the escalation of xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in Europe, and for fighting extremism and other threats to civilization. The programme brings together various spheres, including education, culture and religion, and is endorsed by many political leaders and prominent institutions, such as the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Business and Science
After graduation, Mr. Kantor headed a leading Soviet laboratory engaged in developing spacecraft. A reflector satellite was designed using his research and subsequently launched into Earth orbit to illuminate the planet’s surface with reflected sunlight.
1993 – Took the helm at Acron agrochemical company. Under Mr. Kantor’s supervision, Acron has become one of the world’s leading fertilizer producers and distributors. The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have recognized Acron as ‘Best Russian Enterprise’ nine times.
1996-2000 – Economic Adviser to the Chairman of the Federation Council (the Upper House of the Russian Parliament) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
2000 – Contributed to founding the National Institute for Corporate Reform (NICR), a non-profit organisation uniting renowned politicians, business leaders and scholars to provide effective support for corporate reform in Russian industry. Kantor is currently President of the NICR.
Personal Data
Education
Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1976)
PhD (Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems, 1981)
Honorary Doctorate from Tel-Aviv University (2004)
Government awards of several countries
Order of Friendship (Russia, 1998)
Order of Merit (Poland, 2005)
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine, 2006)
Born on September 8, 1953, in Moscow, Russia. Has a son and a daughter.
Alexander Machkevitch
President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Dr. Alexander Machkevitch was born on February 23, 1954, in Bishkek city, Kyrgyzstan.
1976 — Graduated from the Kyrgyz State University
1981 — has got PhD degree in Pedagogic
2004 — has got DSC degree in History
1987 — became engaged in business activities
Currently Mr. Machkevitch is:
- Co-founder of Kazakhstan mineral resources corporation and Eurasian Financial-Industrial Company,
- CEO of Eurasian Bank (Kazakhstan),
- President of Eurasian Industrial Association (EIA, Kazakhstan).
Jewish activities of Mr. Machkevitch include:
Since 1999 — elected President of the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan (JCK),
Since 2001 — Executive Board member of the European Jewish Congress (EJC),
Since 2002 — elected President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),
Since 2004 — member of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Steering Committee,
Since 2005 — elected President of KEREN HAYESOD (United Israel Appeal) in the FSU.
Evelyn Sommer
Chair, North American Jewish Congress
Evelyn Sommer was born in Parana, Argentina, in 1937. She graduated in Latin American Studies from Columbia University, New York.
In 1967, she was appointed director of the Latin American Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel in New York, a post which she held until 1983. Two years earlier, she became the official representative of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York and its Commissions on Human Rights and on the Status of Women.
Since 1970, Evelyn Sommer has acted as vice president of UNICEF's NGO Committee. She has also headed various WIZO delegations to international conferences and co-chaired the Jewish Organizations Committee in Nairobi. Her role as WIZO representative to the United Nations has taken her to communities in the furthest places. She spent a month in the then Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Mrs. Sommer also regularly attuned meetings of the Economic Commission for Latin America, and twice met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In 2002, she was elected Chairman of the Jewish Organizations' Caucus at the UN. A year later, she presided over the 23rd World WIZO Conference attended by 1,000 delegates. Since the outset of her activities, she has undertaken a wide range of speaking engagements throughout the world. From 1985 to 1998, Mrs. Sommer was a director of the American-Israel Investment Corporation.
In 1990, the American Section of the World Jewish Congress elected her as Chairman, a post she held until January 2007. In 2001, she chaired the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Jerusalem and has since regularly presided over meetings of the WJC's Governing Board. Mrs. Sommer represented the WJC at important international meetings such as the OSCE conferences on anti-Semitism in Berlin/Germany (2004) and Cordoba/Spain (2005). In 2005, she was also nominated to the WJC's Steering Committee.
Evelyn Sommer is married to the architect Fred Sommer. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Jack Terpins
President, Latin American Jewish Congress
Personal
Name: Jack Leon Terpins
Date of birth: October 2, 1948
Place: Sao Paulo - Brazil
Married with Mrs. Denise Goldfarb Terpins
Sons (3): Rodrigo, Ticiana and Michel
Grandsons (2): Max and Fred
Professional
Civil Engineer. Armando Alvares School of Engineering, 1973.
Engineer in Labor Health and Safety. Oswaldo Cruz Higher Chemistry Institute, 1974.
Founder of Construterpins Ltda., Construction Terpins Ltda., 1999.
Community
Started his community activity in 1967, in Hebraica / Sao Paulo/BR.
At Hebraica, after being the Director of the Basketball Department, he became Director of the Sports Department, and in 1991, at 42 years of age, he became the youngest president of the institution. He held that position until 1993.
President of Hebraica / Sao Paulo Board, 1996 - 1997.
President of CONIB - Jewish Confederation of Brazil - 1997 - 2007
Vice-president of the Ashkenazi Jewish Organization(Beth El Synagogue).
Founder and Finance Director of Beth Chabad - Itaim Synagogue.
Elected Community Leader of the Year in 2000 (by the Jewish Congregation of Sao Paulo - Ledor - Vador). Award presented by Eli Wiesel (Nobel Prize Laureate).
Elected Volunteer of the Year in 2000, by Ten Yad.
Other Positions and Activities
President of the Latin American Jewish Congress
President of the Maccabi Brazilian Confederation.
President of the Latin American Maccabi Confederation.
Vice-president of Maccabi World Union
Merit Award of the Brazilian Ecumenical Brotherhood.
Great Masonic Recognition, Eastern Brazil.
Companion Paul Harris SP - Sumaré - Rotary Club.
Founding member of LICRA - International League against Racism.
Finance Director of Corinthians Paulista Sport Club.
Friend of the Brazilian Navy.
Representative of the Brazilian Government at the Durban Conference.
Governor of the Board, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Governor of the Board, Weizman Institute.
Director of the Friends of Israel Society.
Member of the Board, World Jewish Congress
As president of the LAJC, Terpins lead a project named ITINGA, which consisted in the adoption of a poor city in Brazil that will be sponsored by the Jewish Community. This project was developed in the framework of the national program “Zero Hunger”, created by president Lula da Silva. Itinga, which is a very poor city, received ambulances and an emergency room donated by the Albert Einstein hospital. They also gave food and water supply to the citizens. This project was example for other organizations and communities of the region.
RABBI YAAKOV BLEICH
Rabbi Yaakov Bleich challenges us to remember the Forgotten Jews of the former Soviet Union.
THINK QUICK. Can you name a country -- somewhere in Europe -- with a population of only 500,000 Jews, yet with nearly 20 Jewish day schools open year-round, educating the community's young for up to 8 hours a day; a community that refuses to become part of Jewry's "continuity crisis," but is receiving relatively little help in areas of financial resources and moral encouragement?
Let's face it, most of us can't. And the question we should be asking ourselves is: Why not?
One could, I suppose, answer "because the Ukraine is just so far away. Out of sight, out of mind. What do you really expect?"
But that's more of an excuse than an answer.
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A DECADE since I made my first trip to what was then the Soviet Union. Actually, a "pilgrimage" would be a more accurate description. We were 20 Chasidic youth in search of our roots in a faraway land that, during our formative years, had served as the setting whence our cultural heritage had been sprung; on whose ground our most revered sages had walked. We had come to draw inspiration; to pray at the grave sites of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chasidic movement, and his disciple, Rabbi Ber of Mezrich, and other greats, in order that they should act as our "proxies" Above. We prayed to the Creator for continued success in our endeavors and for a good life; for happy marriages and dutiful children.
As Karlin-Stoliner Chasidim, we were particularly excited to be visiting the burial place of the famed Beis Aharon, one of the Founding Fathers of our sect, who lays in the Western Ukrainian hamlet of M'linov. We were said to be the first Jews who would visit the site as a group since the outbreak of World War II.
But it was not to be.
Upon returning from prayer services on Shabbes morning, we were greeted by an official who promptly informed us that our permission to visit the site had suddenly been revoked. (The USSR in 1988, it must be remembered, had many towns and villages that were closed to outsiders. At any time -- and for any reason -- the authorities could simply cut off a region from the rest of the world. And nothing, absolutely nothing, could be done to rectify the situation.)
We chose an alternative location: the local and nearby cemetery in Kiev.
IT WAS A WEEK AFTER SUCCOS, a bitter cold Sunday morning. I remember the details well, as it was the highlight of our trip, and an epiphany for me.
The cemetery was like most in the USSR -- decrepit, yet other-worldly looking. Most of Kiev was sound asleep as our group made its way through the region's silent streets and countryside. But to our surprise, the eternal home for residents of this city, so rich with history and ideas, was fully packed with Jews. These were individuals who, for one reason or another, apparently could not visit before Rosh HaShana, in accordance with Jewish custom. Despite the spiritual starvation so rampant at the time, this custom, it seems, was for some reason never forsaken.
As we wandered about, we suddenly noticed ourselves being watched intently by the assembled. And for a flicker of a moment, we wondered if the Motherland, which had just put a damper on our other plans, had actually gone to the bother of sending so many of her dutiful "deputies" to watch us here as well. This was the Soviet Union, after all.
It didn't take us long to find out. Our group was suddenly surrounded from all sides.
An elderly, hunched-backed Jew wearing a tattered cap and supporting himself with a cane was the first to come forward. It was obvious that our presence had moved him. But in which direction?
He began to run his hands up and down the sleeves of my coat, trying to hold back tears that must have been welled-up just under the surface for a half-century. He asked in a gruff, thickly-accented Yiddish: "Are you real? Am I still on Earth? Is this some sort of dream?"
He wasn't kidding.
"I am very much real," I responded. "And there are many more like me from where I come."
An elderly woman then asked if she could hold my friend's prayer book. "The last time I saw one," she said, as hot tears ran down her wrinkled face, "was so, so many years ago."
Our encounter in Kiev left us moved. We had come here to go "grave-hopping," in the Chasidic vernacular. But we left with a lesson in geo-politics that even the most proficient professor could not have conveyed better.
IN KIEV, AT THIS TIME, there were some 150,000 Jews. And millions more were still trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Yet we knew so little about them, and they, of course, knew even less about us.
It's now almost ten years later. The world is, by all accounts, a far different place. The Soviet Union is no more. There are organized Jewish communities -- with synagogues, daily minyanim, and institutions of Jewish learning -- scattered all throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States. Yet I dare ask: Has the Jewish world really changed?
In the 1970s and 1980s, the struggle for Soviet Jewry united Jews the world over. In the early 1990s, after the fall of Communism and the fulfillment of the "cause," the USSR suddenly became a novelty to the West. It was sort of like opening a time capsule and taking inventory of what had survived and what had not, a mere amusement.
Of course, there are some establishment Jewish groups doing their part. But it sometimes seems that the only time the average Western Jew is reminded of our existence is in sensationalistic stories and coverage of visits by political leaders. Does the average Jew, in fact, care that the 7,000-member Jewish community of Lemberg has gone to great lengths to organize a Judaic renaissance -- complete with social service agencies, educational facilities and the like? Do the Jews of (relatively) nearby Riga deserve more attention than merely serving as a backdrop in a newswire story about a resident who will be receiving a check from the Swiss Holocaust fund?
There are still millions of Jews living behind the Plastic Curtain. It's a transparent partition. But who will be the ones to push their outstretched hands through?
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Rabbi Yaakov D. Bleich is Chief Rabbi of Ukraine. He will be writing regularly for JWR from Kiev.
©1997, Jewish World Review
Roger Cukierman
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
PHD in Economics, former CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, former president and honorary president of CRIF the umbrella body of French Jewish institutions, director of the Claims Conference, of the Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah, Vice president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
HELEN GLASER
The Guest List: Conference on the Jewish Future
By JTA Staff • July 16, 2007
Below is a list of participants in the Conference on the Future of the Jewish People, held in Jerusalem July 10-July 12.
From the United States:
Mark Charendoff (president, Jewish Funders Network)
Lester Crown (chairman, Henry Crown and Company)
Maxyne Finkelstein (chief executive office, Jewish Agency for Israel/North America)
Wayne L. Firestone (international president, Hillel)
Rachel Fish (student activist)
John R. Fishel (executive vice president, Jewish Federation of Greater L.A.)
Abraham Foxman (national director, Anti-Defamation League)
Howard Friedman (president, AIPAC)
Misha Galperin (executive vice president, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington)
J.J. Goldberg (editor in chief, the Forward)
Mark Goldberg (founder, United Israel Foundation)
Neil B. Goldstein (executive director, American Jewish Congress)
Richard Gordon (president, American Jewish Congress)
Sally Gottesman (president and founder, Eleemoysnary Group)
Steve Gutow (executive director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs)
Ronald Heifetz (professor of public leadership, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Roger Hertog (vice chairman, Alliance Capital Management and Sanford C. Bernstein)
Malcolm Hoenlein (executive vice-president, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organization)
Steve Hoffman (President and CEO, Federation of Cleveland)
Howard Kohr (executive director, AIPAC)
Morlie Levin (national executive director, Hadassah)
Glen Lewy (national chairman, the Anti-Defamation League)
David Makovsky (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Dan Mariaschin (executive vice president,B’nai Brith International)
Steve Nasatir (president, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago)
Steve Popper (professor, RAND)
Reinharz Jehuda (president, Brandeis University)
Jonathan Rosen (general editor, Nextbook)
Dennis Ross (chairman, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute; counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Shalom Saar (Kennedy School of Government,Center for Public Leadership,Harvard University)
Lynn Schusterman (chair, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation)
Barry Shrage (president, Combined Jewish PhilanthropiesBoston)
Carole Solomon (immediate past chair, board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel)
Suzanne Stone (professor of law, Cardozo School of Law and Director )
Harold Tanner (past chair, Conference of Presidents)
Mort Zuckerman (past chair, Conference of Presidents)
From Canada:
Irwin Cotler (House of Commons, former justice minister)
Hershell Ezrin (CEO, Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy)
Shimon Fogel (CEO, CIC)
From Europe:
Pierre Besnainou (outgoing president of the European Jewish Congress)
Ruth Deech (Baroness, United Kingdom)
Frederic Encel (senior lecturer of geopolitics at ENA, France National school of Public Administration)
Lord Young of Graffham (United Kingdom)
Nicole Guedj (former minister representing the French President for the Humanitarian Action, France’s Secretary of States of Victims Rights; vice president, the Paris Consistory)
Raphael Haddad (general secretary, UEJF)
Chaim Musicant (director general, CRIF)
Jeremy Newmark (executive director, Jewish Leadership Council United Kingdom)
Uriel Rosenthal (professor of government, Leiden University, Netherlands)
Rene Shmuel Sirat (former chief rabbi, France)
Shmuel Trigano (professor of sociology, University of Paris X-Nanterre)
From the Former Soviet Union
Oleg Budnitskii (professor of history, academic director, International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Moscow)
Mikhail Chlenov (Head of the Russian Vaad; secretary general, Euro-Asain Jewish Congress)
From Latin America:
Bernardo Kliksberg (chief adviser, United Nations Development Program for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Daniel Liwerant (co-chairman, Immigration and Absorption Committee of the Jewish Agency)
Judit Liwerant ( Head of the Graduate School of Social and Political Science of National University of Mexico)
From Australia:
Jeremy Jones (director of international & community affairs, Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council)
From Israel:
Aharon Abramovitch (director general, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Yaacov Amidror (vice president, Lander InstituteAcademic Center, Jerusalem)
Uzi Arad (professor, Inter-Disciplinary College)
Daniel Ayalon (former ambassador to the United States, co-chair, Nefesh B’Nefesh)
Yaakov Bar Simantov (professor, Hebrew University)
Aluf Benn (columnist, Ha’aretz)
Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Weinberg Professor of Political Sociology, Tel Aviv University)
Moshe Ben-Atar (director, Zionist Council in Israel)
Gabriella Blum (assistant professor, Harvard Law School)
Meir Buzaglo (The Institute of Arts and Letters; Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University)
Ruth Calderon
Ruth Calderon (founder and director, Alma Home for Hebrew Culture Tel Aviv-Haifa-New York)
Rivka Carmi (president, Ben-Guiron University)
Yuval Cherlow (head of Zevulun Hammer Yeshivat Hahesder in Petach Tikva)
Uzi Dayan (TAFNIT)
Isaac Devash (business and social entrepreneur)
Efrat Duvdevani (director general, Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee)
Oded Eran (representative in Israel, World Jewish Congress)
Sami Friedrich (CEO, Shaldor)
Ruth Gavison (professor of human rights at the Hebrew University)
Helena Glazer (president, World WIZO)
Yosef Gorni (professor emeritus of Jewish History and director of the Institute of Jewish Press and Communication, Tel-Aviv University)
Daniel Grossman (Israel drector, American Jewish Congress)
Jack Habib (director, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute)
Israel Harel (chairman, The Institute for Zionist Strategies)
Alan Hoffmann (director of the education department, Jewish Agency)
David Horvitz (editor in chief, The Jerusalem Post)
Avraham Infeld (president, Chais Family Foundation)
Benjamin Ish-Shalom (rector, Beit Morasha)
David Landau (editor in chief, Ha’aretz)
Eran Lerman (representative in Israel, American Jewish Committee)
Shalom Lipner (special coordinator for public diplomacy, Prime Minister’s Office)
Israel Maimon (government secretary)
Herzel Makov (director general, Begin Center)
Dan Meridor (former minister of finance and former minister of justice)
Sallai Meridor (Israel Ambassador to the United States)
Shlomo Molla (department head for Zionist Activities In Israel, WZO)
Isaac Molho (managing partner, E.S. Shimron, I. Molho, Persky & Co. Law Offices; former prime minister’s envoy to Chairman Arafat; chief Israeli negotiator at the Wye Plantation talks; chairman, Israel Museum)
Yaakov Neeman (founding partner, Herzog, Fox and Neeman Law Office; former justice minister of Justice and former finance minister)
Leonid Nevzlin (chairman, NADAV Foundation; chairman, International Board of Governors of Beth Hatefutso)
Avi Pazner (chairman of the executive, Keren Hayessod)
Haviva Pedaya (professor, Ben-Gurion University)
Sever Plotzker (economics editor, Yediot Aharonot)
Itamar Rabinovich (president, Tel Aviv University; former ambassador to the U.S.)
Avner Shalev (chairman, Yad Vashem)
Natan Sharansky (chairman, Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center)
Asaf “Asi” Shariv (incoming consul generalin New York)
Josh Schwarcz (secretary general, Jewish Agency)
Bambi Sheleg (editor-in-chief, Eeretz Acheret)
Saul Singer (opinion page editor, The Jerusalem Post)
Arnon Sofer (chair of Geo-Strategy Department, Haifa University)
Shimshon Shoshani (International CEO, Taglit-birthright Israel)
Zalman Shoval (former ambassador to the United States)
Moshe Vigdor (director general, Jewish Agency)
Ariel Weiss (director, Yad Hanadiv)
Moshe Ya’alon (retired major general; fellow, Shalem Center)
Aharon Yadlin (former education minister)
Ben Dror Yemini (opinion page editor, Ma’ariv)
JPPPI STAFF:
Yehezkel Dror (founding president)
Avinoam Bar-Yosef (director general)
Sergio DellaPergola (senior fellow)
Avi Gil (senior fellow)
Emmanuel Sivan (senior fellow)
Shalom Wald (senior fellow)
Chaim Waxman (senior fellow)
Ruth Yaron (senior fellow)
Simon Earlanger (fellow)
Dov Maimon (fellow)
Yehuda Mirsky (fellow)
Israel Pupko (fellow)
Einat Wilf (fellow)
Yogev Karasenty (associate fellow)
Ita Alcalay (projects coordinator)
SOLDIER OF JERUSALEM
33 years after the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War - which will be marked this coming Thursday - the road which links Jerusalem's French Hill and Pisgat Zeev neighborhoods will be named after the late General (Res.) Uzi Narkiss. Narkiss was Central Region Commander during the Six Day War and responsible for the liberation of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Day is celebrated as a national holiday on Iyar 28th, the day on which the city was re-united. As always, this year Jerusalem Day will be marked by a central ceremony to be held on Ammunition Hill, with the participation of Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The special Hallel thanksgiving prayer will be recited in synagogue services.
Upon his retirement from the IDF in 1968, Narkiss joined the Jewish Agency, serving as the Director General of the Aliyah Department. Later he was elected member of the Zionist Executive and served as chairman of the Information Department. From 1992 until 1995 Narkiss was the Chairman of the Zionist delegation to North America. He died in 1997.
Uzi Narkiss wrote two books on Jerusalem: One Jerusalem and A Soldier of Jerusalem, published by the Ministry of Defense, which is a personal description of the campaigns in which Narkiss participated from the time of the founding of the State.
From left to right: Generals Uzi Narkiss, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin entering the Old city of Jerusalem June 1967
ISRAEL IN ONTARIO
On Jerusalem Day, a mobile trailer will make the rounds of Jewish schools in Ontario and hold a variety of programs on the subject of Jerusalem and the State of Israel. Offer Isseroff, Jewish Agency emissary in Canada, emphasized that Ontario has an extensive Jewish education network, which encompasses 10,000 youngsters who attend Jewish day schools and another 5,000 who attend Hebrew school and Sunday school.
This week Ontario's Israel Festival drew to a close. As part of the festival, Jewish Agency youth movement shlichim in Toronto, set out for the six smaller communities between Toronto and the capital Ottawa - London, Evansound, Niagara, Saint Catherines, Waterloo, Kitchener and Peterburg, to organize various events about Israel.
According to Isseroff, there are 23 small communities in Ontario, some with just a few dozen Jews and others with hundreds of Jews. Unlike the Jewish communities in Toronto and Ottawa, these communities are not organized in federations, and obtain their Jewish services from the Canadian Jewish Congress.
During the course of the Israel Festival, which took place in recent weeks, Jewish Agency shlichim associated with the Young Judea, Habonim Dror, Hashomer Hatzair and Betar youth movements held a variety of Israel-related activities in each of the small communities. These include, Israeli history, songs and folk-dancing. At the end of each event, the six community leaders were presented with a book of pictures on Israel.
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WOMEN ASSUME LEADERSHIP
This week the first center for developing women's leadership opened in Israel, designed to train women for leadership roles in all areas of public life in Israel: politics, education, the academic world, business, industry, the economy and management. The center, which was established by the Jewish Agency in conjunction with WIZO Israel, will operate via two regional branches - one in Haifa and the other in Beersheva.
A hundred women, half from the north of Israel and half from the south, who were chosen from among 380 candidates, will participate in the center's year-long training program. Participants in the program represent all sectors of Israeli society: veteran Israelis and new immigrants, religious and secular, and women from minority groups. According to the figures provided by the Jewish Agency's Israel Department, 70% of the participants are veteran Israelis and 30% are new immigrants, including those from the FSU and Ethiopia.
The courses will be given by Israel's top lecturers, academics, MKs ministers, businesspeople, and experts on communications and organizational strategy. Those participating in the program will be able to obtain advice and support even after they have completed the course and entered public life.
According to Dr. Dalia Fisman, who heads the Jewish Agency's team for promoting initiatives, the program is designed to promote female leadership through social and cultural integration, and increase awareness in Israeli society of the importance of the integration of women in public life.
The project's inauguration ceremonies, held in Haifa and Beersheva, were attended by Paula Edelstein, who chairs the Jewish Agency's Israel Committee, Helena Glazer, Chairperson of the World WIZO Executive, Thelma Neri, who chairs WIZO Israel, MK Professor Judith Naot (Shinui) and MK Professor Naomi Hazan (Meretz).
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TORAH SCROLLS IN THE CELLARS OF THE NKVD
61 rare Torah scrolls, hundreds of years old, stolen from Russia's Jews by the Communist regime, were this week returned to the Jewish community with the assistance of the Jewish Agency. After being examined and carefully restored, the ancient scrolls were distributed among synagogues all over Russia, and will once again serve the worshippers, as in years gone by.
Alla Levy, head of the Jewish Agency delegation in Russia, reports that following lengthy negotiations an agreement was signed last week between the Russian National Archives, the Russian Jewish Congress, and Russian Jewish religious organizations. Under the agreement, the Archives transferred most of the Torah scrolls which had been held for more than 70 years, to the Russian Jewish Congress. In return the Congress agreed to provide financial support for projects at the Archives.
Congress director Zinovy Kogan, believes that the Torah scrolls originated in the NKVD Archives (the body that preceded the KGB), and which served the Communist authorities during the Stalin era. The Torah scrolls were probably brought to the archives during the 1930s, when Stalin ordered the closure of all synagogues in Russia.
According to Kogan, some of the scrolls were severely damaged: "I was brokenhearted when I saw that the parchment had been torn and burnt. These scrolls were written by Jewish artists generations ago. They were also severely damaged by what appeared to be footprints and other shapes. We hope to be able to raise the necessary funds to restore the scrolls to their former glory," said Kogan.
As a result of the return of the Torah scrolls, the Congress, led by Russia's Chief Rabbi Avraham Shayevich, is preparing to open a training center for scribes, to tend to the sacred books being returned to Russia's Jewish communities.
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ELECTIONS FOR RABBI OF GREATER KIEV
Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, chief rabbi of the Kiev's Brodsky synagogue, was last week elected as chief rabbi of the United Jewish Community of Greater Kiev. Avi Katzman, Jewish Agency emissary in Kiev, stated that this is the first time that a community rabbi in Ukraine has been democratically elected, rather than being appointed by overseas organizations.
18 leaders from Greater Kiev and six leaders of local Jewish organizations last Sunday unanimously elected Rabbi Azman to the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Community. Ephraim Smilanski, leader of the Ukrainian Jewish Congress who participated in the vote, said that the Jews of Kiev have been preparing for this event for 2 years, since the establishment of the United Jewish Community. Smilanski said that Rabbi Azman has been widely respected by the community for several years, but everyone wanted to wait for the completion of the renovations to the Brodsky synagogue, which was reopened several weeks ago.
Rabbi Azman is a representative of the Chabad movement, which runs Kiev's Brodsky Synagogue. The Ukrainian chief rabbi, Rabbi Bleich is associated with the Karlin Chassidic sect, which has a separate synagogue in the city.
According to Jewish Agency estimates, there are 105,000 Jews in the greater Kiev area, including 70,000 in the city. The Kiev district is spread over a 29,000 km. area, three times larger than the State of Israel. Since the beginning of the year 5,500 olim have arrived in Israel from Ukraine, 350 from Kiev itself.
THIS WEEK IN ISRAEL
With the completion of the IDF withdrawal from the security zone in South Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Bark warned that the IDF would react severely toward anyone who would harm communities in the north of Israel. During this past week, residents of the north spent much time in shelters, following heavy exchange of fire between the IDF and Hezbollah forces, during which five Lebanese civilians were killed. Many residents of Kiryat Shmonah, who left the town to stay with relatives in other areas following the tense situation, have not yet returned home.
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Thousands of South Lebanese Army soliders and their families who fled this week to Israel, will receive the status of foreign workers. Other SLA soldiers chose to surrender to the Lebanese authorities and to Amal and Hezbollah.
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A two-year old Israeli girl, Shalev Shabbat, was seriously burned all over her body at the beginning of the week, when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli civilian car that drove through Jericho. Three other passengers were lightly injured. In response, the Government of Israel, closed all territories under the control of the Palestinian Authority to tourists and Israeli citizens.
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A report published yesterday by Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein and State Attorney Edna Arbel concerning funds received by President Ezer Weizman from the billionaire Eduard Saroussi did not recommend indicting the President. Nonetheless, the report faulted Weizman's behavior. As a result of the report, opposition and coalition politicians are calling on Weizman to resign.
CHABAD RE-KINDLES JEWISH FLAME
The Jewish flame was re-kindled this week in Ukraine at Lag B'Omer festivities organized by Chabad. At a parade in Zhitomir, Ukrainian Minister of Religion, Viktor Bandarenka, noted with pride the fact that Judaism could be practiced unhampered and that the Jewish community felt free to openly march through the center of town.
Eight hundred youth and adults took part in the procession, displaying traditional Jewish symbols such as tefillin, tsedaka boxes, Shabbat candles, and prayerbooks. Signs in Russian called for the people to "Participate in Torah Study," "Eat Kosher," and the like. Also participating were Mayor Leonid Dimenchuk and Deputy Mayor Stanislav Karnatovsky, as well as Rabbi Shmuel Plotkin, the Chabad representative from Berdichev, originally from New York, and Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, the Chabad representative in Zhitomir, who organized the event.
Five hundred and fifty boys and girls, age 8 to 15, from 35 cities in western Ukraine, also took part in a traditional Lag B'Omer bonfire the previous evening in a forest clearing on the outskirts of the city. The sparkle in their eyes as they sat around the fire, singing popular Israeli and chassidic songs was but a reflection of the spark in their souls as they celebrated one of the most upbeat Jewish holidays, into the wee hours of the night.
Rabbi Wilhelm, an Israeli who has been in Zhitomir for six years, reports that Chabad has ongoing contact with over a thousand youngsters in 13 regions. Working through Jewish Agency shlichim, local communities, synagogues, and Jewish schools, the organization conducts a variety of activities such as Shabbat and holiday celebrations, summer camps, and the like.
Robert M. Goot
President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Robert M Goot AM SC is a barrister practicing at the NSW bar and was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2000.
He has held a number of leadership positions in the Jewish Community over the last 40 years, including:
• Secretary of the Hillel Foundation 1965-1972;
• Chairman of the Australian Campaign for the Rescue of Australian Jewry 1972-1980;
• Hon Secretary and Vice President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies 1972-1978;
• President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies 1978-1982;
• Hon Secretary of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry 1972-74, 1986-87;
Vice President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry 1978-1982;
• Vice President of Moriah College 1986-87;
• President of Moriah College 1989-1996;
• President Sydney Jewish Museum 1996-2000;
In 1988 he was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia for services to the Jewish Community;
In 1994 he was awarded the Jewish Community Services:
• Communal Leadership Award; and
• Outstanding Jew Award
On 26 November 2007 he was elected President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the elected
representative organisation of the Australian Jewish community.
On 26 January 2009 he was elected as a Vice President and member of the Executive Committee
of the World Jewish Congress.
In addition he is currently active as:
• Hon Life Member of NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (since 1986)
• Life Patron and Trustee of Moriah College (since 1999)
Lior Herman
Lior has been volunteering with the World Jewish Congress for the past 3 years. Through his capacity as a lay leader, Lior is heading the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps (WJDC) Durban II Task Force. The WJDC network engages young leaders in practical diplomatic advocacy to address the needs of Diaspora Jewry and extending the reach and scope of the World Jewish Congress. Lior is also a founding member of KolDor, a global network of emerging young Jewish leaders who are committed to shifting the existing paradigms in the Jewish world and strengthening Jewish Peoplehood.
He was co-opted onto the Executive Committee of the WJC at its meeting in Jerusalem in October 2009.
Lior Herman is a Fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) in Brussels and is a visiting lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2005, where he teaches European Political Economy and EU-Israel relations. He is a member of the boards of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration and of the Academic Board of the Munich European Forum, a non-for-profit society researching and teaching on a multitude of international and European issues. Lior is also a Director on the Board of the UK Friends of the Abraham Fund.
Between 2001 and 2005 Lior Herman was a senior government official at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, where he held the position of a Head of Department for Insurance Agencies and Agents at the Capital Markets Division, as well as Director for International Organisations and the European Union at the International Division. In his position at the International Division he was extensively involved in policy making, international negotiations and diplomacy with regard to Israel’s economic relations with the European Union and organisations such as the WTO and the OECD. He has been a non-resident member of Israel’s delegation to the WTO, with a particular focus on GATS negotiations, and had a leading role in negotiating Israel’s economic and trade chapter in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
Lior Herman has published in academic journals on a range of issues including Israel-EU relations, international trade, services, EU–Mediterranean relations, regional cooperation and international money laundering. He also serves as an adviser to governments and international organizations.
Lior is now completing his Ph.D. on international trade in services at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Flo Kaufmann BA
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Born: UK Married: Aubrey Kaufmann
Flo is Chairman of the Council of the European Jewish Congress.
She holds a number of offices on various Jewish international bodies: Chairman of the UK Friends of Haifa Foundation, Vice President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council. She is a member of the Jewish Human Rights Coalition UK, and has led the programme of lobbying various embassies concerning the Durban Review Conference Process. She sits on the advisory board of the Three Faiths Forum.
She is in regular contact with Her Majesty’s Government at a high level, and has visited many countries, including Israel, Russia, and Argentina, advocating for Israel and Jewish freedom of expression, meeting the political leadership, and leaders of Jewish communities.
She is in business partnership in real estate, with her husband, Aubrey Kaufmann. They have two grown up, married sons, two daughters-in-law, and 4 beautiful grandchildren.
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Dr. Tomas Kraus
Born March 19, 1954 in Prague
After graduating High School in Prague he studied English, German and Russian at the School of Languages in Prague.
1975 - 1979 studied at the Faculty of Law at the Charles University in Prague
Already at the time of his High-School studies he was active in the cultural life of the Czech capital, mainly in the Jazz Section of Musicians´ Union. He was in charge of production of the Prague Jazz Days and other festivals, he contributed with articles and interviews to the Jazz Bulletin and other music magazines. The Jazz Section was persecuted by the Communist regime and became a part of the Czech dissident movement.
After graduating Law at the Charles University in Prague he worked for Czech national record company SUPRAPHON where he was in charge of exports and, since 1984, headed the Music Video Department.
In 1985 ART CENTRUM, Czech agency for creative artists, offered him a position of a project manager for EXPO 86 World Exhibition, later he became the assistant to the General Manager and then the head of commercial department for audiovisual presentations, advertising, exhibitions and architecture.
In 1990 the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities asked Dr. Kraus to help him in revitalizing the life of Czech Jewish community. Since 1991 he is the Executive Director of the Federation in which position he was rebuilding the whole infrastructure of Czech Jewish Communities. He was in charge of legislation and by-laws, creating the position of the Federation visa-vis the Czech authorities as well as international Jewish organizations and other entities. He has been on a long-term basis also dealing with Czech and foreign media. His main task was, however, the negotiations for return of Jewish property and for compensation for Holocaust survivors. Under his leadership the Federation was among the first to achieve successfully the restitution of communal real-estate including the return of the Jewish Museum in Prague. The Federation was also able to initiate the adoption of legislative framework for individual restitution of Jewish property. Dr. Kraus participated in all efforts of rectifying the property injustice from the times of the Holocaust (Shoah) since the 90ies on national as well as on international top political levels. The Holocaust survivors – together with other Nazi victims in the Czech Republic – were enabled to receive several types of compensations and aid from various projects initiated or coordinated by the Federation.
Since 1999 Dr. Kraus is active also as a professor, teaching for New York University and other educational institutions and training programs in Prague. His subjects are mainly Holocaust and Jewish Studies.
Dr.Kraus served in several international Jewish institutions as a member of the executive, such as the European Council of Jewish Communities, the European Jewish Congress. He was elected twice the President of B´nai B´rith Prague Renaissance and the President of Czech Society of Christians and Jews. In January 2009 he was elected the Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress.
Both parents of Dr. Kraus were Holocaust survivors. His father, Frantisek R.Kraus, was a journalist before World War II, he was working with famous newspapers Prager Tagblatt, Prager Presse and others, he participated in founding the Czechoslovak News Agency CTK and the Czechoslovak Radio where he was active as editor and newsreader in German, English and French. He was a part of the famous Prague Circle, a group of Jewish intellectuals and writers such as Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz Werfel and others. His closest friend and teacher was the “Fierce Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch. He miraculously survived the Holocaust, though he was among the first to go to Terezin, later to Auschwitz and other slave-labor camps. Escaping from a death-march at the end of the war he was able to write a report about all events he went through. This book titled “Gas, Gas, then Fire …”, published in September 1945, was the very first Czech report on the Holocaust. Other titles followed, focusing mainly on the same subject (“…and Bring Back Our Disseminated Ones”, „David Will Live“, „The Changed Soil”, “The Hangman Without a Shadow” etc). In the fifties he was persecuted by the Communist regime, he had to leave CTK and Czechoslovak Radio and he could earn his living only by occasional writing. He died in 1967.
The mother of Dr. Kraus, Alice Krausova also survived the Holocaust in several concentration camps (Terezin, Auschwitz, Märzdorf, Kudowa etc), however as the only one from a large family of 7 children. After the war she was active in the Czech education and schooling system. She died in 1988.
Dr. Tomas Kraus is married, has three children.
Moshe Ronen
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Moshe Ronen is a Toronto-based lawyer, international business advisor and prominent community leader. Mr. Ronen is Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, National Chair of the Canada-Israel Committee and head of its special Missions Committee. By age 20, he was a well-known human rights activist, and later was the youngest president the Canadian Jewish Congress ever elected.
Mr. Ronen was educated at Toronto’s Associated Hebrew School and The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. He obtained a degree in political science and economics from York University and a law degree from the University of Windsor.
Mr. Ronen began his volunteer communal work in the 1970s when elected head of the Jewish Students’ Network, a national activist campus movement which represented students across Canada and the U.S. He later joined the World Jewish Congress Executive. In the interests of world Jewry and human rights, he has traveled to the former Soviet Union, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Latvia and India.
He advocated with Avital Sharansky for the release of her husband, Natan, and other prisoners of Zion and was active most notably at the first American-Russian super-summit, between Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s. In conjunction with Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, he led an international student protest to then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s 1985 visit to Bitburg, Germany’s cemetery which contained Nazi SS graves.
He has worked closely on public advocacy for Israel with a number of the country’s prime ministers, cabinet ministers and opposition leaders. He also has organized missions to Israel with Canadian government (federal, provincial and municipal), business, labour and ethnocultural community leaders.
Mr. Ronen is a charismatic public speaker, noted debater and media commentator on Middle East issues and public affairs. In 1996 Moshe was recognized by the Jewish National Fund with its prestigious Jerusalem of Gold Award for his outstanding communal service. Two years later, the Government of Ontario recognized him with a Volunteer Service Award, presented to that province’s most outstanding community leaders.
In early 1999, as President of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Mr. Ronen, a child of Holocaust survivors, together with his father, Mordechai, accompanied Canada’s Prime Minister on an official visit to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Later, under Mr. Ronen’s leadership, Holocaust memorialization in Canada achieved a major success when each Canadian province officially legislated and recognized Yom Hashoah as the day to remember and educate about the Holocaust.
Mr. Ronen is a member of the Board of Directors of two leading schools, the North York General Hospital, and several other major charities and institutions.
Mr. Ronen is a director of First Capital Realty Corporation, a growth-oriented publicly traded Canadian real estate developer and holding company with a growing shopping centre portfolio as well as a member of the Advisory Board of Skylink Aviation Group of Companies Inc., which specializes in emergency relief operations for the United Nations and many governments.
Mr. Ronen is an advisor to philanthropists Gerald Schwartz, Chairman and CEO of Onex Inc., and Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books and Music Inc., and is their Managing Director for Canada-Israel affairs.
Mr. Ronen is married to Dara, and the couple has two children, Sari and Shye.
Tamar Shchory
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Tamar Shchory, student leader.
Born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel.
Activism & Professional Experience:
Tamar has started her Activism at the age of 15 as an active member of BBYO, Bnei Brith Youth Organization. Tamar was elected as the President of the Southern District of the youth movement in Israel and ever since was active in different social fields and in many leadership positions.
Ben Gurion University:
During her University years Tamar was an active member of Hillel in Ben Gurion University where she held the position of a JCSC (Jewish Campus Service Corps), a coordinator for students' involvement and activism.
As a first degree student, Tamar was very active in promoting Social Justice while establishing two student groups; the first, for promoting women rights within the Israeli Society and the other, for promoting social justice for workers and weakened groups of society.
Tamar was a prominent student activist in her faculty and was elected as the Chairperson of the Ben Gurion Student association, the representative student body that's responsible for the welfare and for keeping the rights of the the17, 000 university students. Tamar has always emphasized the importance of contribution to society and as the Chair she was leading many processes to strengthen the connection between the students, the city of Beer Sheva and the Negev.
WUJS: Tamar has recently finished a two year term as the Chairperson of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS); a global, dynamic, grassroots umbrella organization for connecting & representing Jewish Students worldwide. During her term, Tamar has managed to prevent the organization from closing, after inheriting WUJS with deep debts that threatened its existence. Tamar has raised the needed funds both to cover all the past debts and to continue with the important activities for Jewish students.
As the Chairperson of WUJS, Tamar has represented the Jewish students in a variety of forums-
A Presidium member in "Hava’ad Hapoel" of the World Zionist Organization (WZO)
A member in the Directorate of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and its Education Committee
A member of the Jewish Agency's Education Committee as part of its Board of Governors
A member in the Board of Governors of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
Other Leadership activities:
A Presidium member of the National Union of Israeli Students
A member of the establishing committee of the Social-Economic College in Beer Sheva
A Member of the Excellence Program of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
An Israeli Representative in Student Delegations to Ukraine, Poland, the U.S etc
A representative member in the student council of the Political science department, Ben Gurion University.
An Active member of "Marot"; WUJS Leadership program
A graduate of the Jewish Social Leadership program of Hillel.
A Coordinator in "Gesher", an NGO for bridging gaps between various sectors in the Israeli Society.
A Youth Coordinator in a community center in Jerusalem.
Education:
Tamar is a student for MA in Law, in Bar Ilan University.
Tamar has BA in Political science and Israel studies from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and she's a graduate from the Hebrew University High School in Jerusalem.
Army Service:
Tamar is serving as an Education Officer in the IDF reserved duty. During Tamar's Military service she has served as the Education coordinator of the "Golani" 13th combat unit and as the Education officer of the whole area of Hebron. Tamar has also served as a Crew Commander in the Education Officers Training Course.
Awards & Achievements:
Award for Academic Excellence, Israel’s studies department, Ben Gurion University
Award for high Academic achievements, Political science department, Ben Gurion University
Award for an exemplary cadet, Education Officers Training Course, IDF
Award for an Excellence soldier, Education soldiers course, IDF
Contact info:
HYPERLINK "mailto:Tamarshch@yahoo.com" Tamarshch@yahoo.com
Tel: (+972)52 80-20-848
Rabbi Marc Schneier
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Rabbi Marc Schneier is a leading personality and spokesperson for the Jewish community. The Forward, in its annual survey of Jewish leaders, named Rabbi Schneier as one of the 50 most prominent Jews in the United States, and Newsweek Magazine listed him as one of America's top 50 rabbis. As one of the leading voices in the field of intergroup and race relations, reconciliation and understanding, he is at the forefront of strengthening ties among the Jewish, African-American, Latino and Asian-American ethnic communities, as well as promoting dialogue and cooperation among the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faith communities. Rabbi Schneier has been honored by the United States Congress and the State of Israel as an advocate for human and civil rights and religious and ethnic tolerance.
Rabbi Schneier is President and Founder of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and serves as Chairman of the World Jewish Congress American Section, as well as its Commission on Intergroup Relations. He is the past President of the North American Board of Rabbis, a federation of presidents and past presidents of rabbinical boards from more than 50 major cities across the United States and Canada, and is past president of the New York Board of Rabbi's, the world's largest interdenominational rabbinic body representing the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements. Rabbi Schneier is founding rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, and The New York Synagogue in Manhattan. He serves on myriad boards and executive committees, including the Drum Major Institute, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations and The Jewish National Fund.
In January 2000, Rabbi Schneier's book SHARED DREAMS was published, documenting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s relationship with the Jewish Community, which, along with the FFEU's companion student guide program, tells the tale of Black and Jewish cooperation in the civil rights era to more than 12,000 students in more than 500 high schools, Hillel houses and historically Black colleges across America.
Rabbi Schneier has published and lectured extensively on the subject of intergroup relations and is a frequent guest on television and radio, appearing on such television programs as: The Today Show (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), Good Day New York (FOX), CBS Sunday Edition, CBS Morning Show, CNN, Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, Religion & Ethics Weekly (PBS), on evening news programs WABC, WNBC, WCBS, FOX, WWOR, WPIX and radio programs on WABC, WBLS, WKTU, WCBS and NPR. He also played a rabbi in the Miramax motion picture, The Substance of Fire.
Rabbi Schneier is the recipient of many awards, including The Kelly Miller Smith Ecumenical Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, The NAACP Martin Luther King, Jr. "Measure Of A Man Award", The Ellis Island Medal of Honor, The Civil Rights Leadership Award in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal, the American Civil Rights Education Services Civil Rights Award, and the Interfaith Award from the Islamic Center of Long Island.
Rabbi Schneier is a graduate of Yeshiva University and resides in New York City and Westhampton Beach. He is married to Tobi Rubinstein Schneier and is the proud father of Brendan.
Edward (Eduard) Shifrin
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Edward (Eduard) Shifrin was born on 07 December 1960 in Dnepropetrovsk. He graduated from school in 1977.
From 1977-1983 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in 'physicochemical exploration of the metallurgical process', from where he qualified as metallurgical engineer.
From July 1983 to March 1993 he worked in varying positions at 'Dniprospecstal' in Zaporizhzhya.
In 1992 he received a PhD in metallurgy from Moscow's Institute of Steel and Alloys.
From 1993-1995 he worked in representative office of Linful International LTD”, in England.
From 1995 to 1998 he was head of representative office of Midland Recourses Inc in Canada.
From 1998 to 2004 he was Director General Midland Recourses UK (Great Britain).
Since 1999 to he has been co-President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine.
Since 2002 he has been Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
Since2004 he has been SB Associate Director of Zaporizhsta.
In 1999 he was awarded 'Laureate of State Prize in science and techniques' as co-author of the book 'Theory of metallurgical process'.
He is currently an active Member of Board of the Kiev City Jewish Community and Union of Jewish Religious Organization of Ukraine.
He provides financial aid to FJOR in Russia. He is the main Sponsor of the reconstruction of the Rosenberg Synagogue, Kiev, Podol, and of the building of the Yeshiva at the same location.
He is married and has 3 children.
MERVYN SMITH
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Sara Prusky de Winkowski
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Has a B.A. in Linguistic and a Ph.D. in Environmental Education. Was Assistant Professor at the University of the Republic of Uruguay and also worked for many years as a Translator for the United Nations Environment Program and the Center for Human Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Montevideo, Uruguay.
With reference to her community activities, is now:
• Immediate Past President of the International Council of Jewish Women
• Vice President of the World Jewish Congress
• Vice President of the Uruguayan Jewish Community (Kehila). First woman to be elected to this post.
• Member of the Board of Director of the Jewish Community in Uruguay
• Member of the Council of Jews and Christians, Uruguay
• Member of the Committee for the follow up of Democracy, Equity and Citizenship, the Uruguayan Women Umbrella Organization.
Has been:
• President of CEFIDU, the Jewish Women Umbrella organization in Uruguay.
• Member of COPREDI, the political advisory unit of the Board of Directors of the Uruguayan Jewish Community
• Member of the Board of Governors B’nai B’rith International
• Advisor to the International Women’s Council of Jews and Christians
• Vice President of International Council of Jewish Women
• Co chairperson, Committee on Development and Environment ICJW
• Co chairperson, Status of Women Committee ICJW
• Co chairperson, Latin American Regional Committee ICJW
• President of the Uruguayan Council of Jewish Women
• Member of the National Family Council (Ministry of Education)
• Member of “Friends of the Weizmann Institute”, where for many years translated, coordinated and edited a Scientific Magazine in Spanish.
Has actively participated in various World Conferences, including UN Women Conference in Nairobi and in Beijing, UN Environment Conference (ECO 92) in Rio de Janeiro, Beijing +5 and +10 in New York, UN Conference on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, UN Human Settlements Conference in Istanbul and in New York, as well as several other Environmental and Human Settlement conferences in Nairobi, Kenya, etc. Annually attends United Nations CSW Conference in New York.
Israel
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Steering Committee
Ronald Lauder President
Eduardo Elsztain
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Governing Board
Eduardo Elsztain, Chairman of the WJC Governing Board, was an unofficial ambassador for Argentina during the economic crisis, working with the World Jewish Congress in attempting to raise the issue of Argentinean economic reconstruction in international economic and financial institutions.
Elsztain has been a partner with Edgar Bronfman in building Hillel throughout Latin American universities and a founder of Hillel and campus activities at large; he became known to world Jewry through these important contributions.
Cobi Benatoff
Treasurer, World Jewish Congress
Born in Tel Aviv (Israel) on 15.04.1944
Living in Milan (Italy) since 1947
Married to Victoria Josefowitz for 36 years with 3 sons.
Educated in Milan up to Italian Scientific Bachelor.
Degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 1968.
Served in the Israeli army from 1962 to 1964 in Nahal and paratroops.
Managing international family business, with brother Ronn, active in industrial fishing, food industry, real estate and hi-tech.
Member of the Board of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1986 - present.
President of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1990 to 1998.
Member of the Board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 2002 to 2006
President of European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) from 1999 to 2003.
The ECJC is the representative organization of major Communities and Institutions from 36 European Countries sponsored by the Joint Development Committee (Joint), active in Community development, leadership training, networking and developing European projects in education, social services and Jewish heritage and culture.
During this presidency:
• promoted the concept of the European GA with 3 successful meetings in Nice (1999), Madrid (2001) and Budapest (2003);
• initiated the European Day of Jewish Culture (2000) that has since become a very important annual event throughout Europe;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Presidents of Jewish Communities;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Educational Professionals, ARACHIM, inBudapest;
• promoted, together with Joint, the 1st Leatid Program for Leadership training of European Lay Leaders and Professionals;
• obtained 1st European Representation in the World Jewish Congress Restitution Organization (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005) and in the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005);
• Member of the Executive Committee and Allocation Committee of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) from 2000 until 2005.
President of European Jewish Congress (EJC) from 2003 until 2005.
During this presidency:
• promoted relationships with small Jewish Communities and with Communities in Eastern Europe;
• promoted the article of the Financial Time co-signed by Edgar Bronfman attacking European Union’s Antisemitism;
• presided the 1st European Conference on Antisemitism in Brussels promoted by the European Commission and European Jewish Congress together with Romano Prodi and Elie Wiesel;
Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of World Jewish Congress (2005)
Vice-chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2006)
Chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2007 - present)
Member of the Steering Committee of World Jewish Congress (2006 – present)
For more than a decade, Cobi Benatoff’s name has been synonymous with Jewish leadership in Europe.
Office contacts:
tel.: 0039-02-7260541
fax: 0039-02-86996351
e-mail: graziaben@stnet.net
Shai Hermesh
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Israel Branch
Shai Hermesh was born in Tel-Aviv in 1944.
He graduated from Tichon Hadash high-school and his military service was spent first in the Nahal brigade, and later in the paratroops brigade. As a member of the "Yegev" core of the Ha'Noar Ha’Oved (Labor Party youth movement), he joined Kibbutz Kfar Azza, on the Gaza Strip border.
Shai Hermesh is married to Hava, a teacher who specializes in computers, and is a father to 4 boys and a girl!
He earned a B.A. degree in economics and sociology and later an MBA in Business Management, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral studies in Jewish history at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Anita Shapira, were not completed, since in late 1987 he was asked to serve as Mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and Chair of the Executive Committee at the Negev College – later to become Sapir Academic College.
For 25 years, Shai has served in the military reserve in the paratroops brigade. In the Six Day War, he took part in the battle for Jerusalem, fought in the Yom Kippur War on the Suez Canal, and in Lebanon - in the 1982 Lebanon War.
Shai Hermesh has filled a range of public positions: he is a member of the National Security Council, the Broadcasting Authority Forum, the Negev Development Authority, leadership institutions of the Kibbutz Movement, the Histadrut leadership, as well as being an active director in several public companies.
He served as the mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council for fifteen years. During his terms of office, he worked to enlarge the Pinchas Sapir College of the Negev, and to establish the Sapir Academic College, which is now Israel’s largest regional college.
As mayor of the regional council and chair of Sapir College, Shai Hermesh formed close ties with Jewish communities in Europe and the USA that donated generously and helped build the college, in particular and encourage settlement along the Gaza Strip in general.
Shai Hermesh worked in tandem with "Amdocs" - one of the world’s leading software houses, to create a major development center – "Amdocs Negev" – in Sha'ar Hanegev/Sderot.
Until the outbreak of the Intifada in 2000, he worked to promote joint regional-development programs with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – such as founding an industrial park, utilizing sewage in moshavim, and programs to train professional personnel for the Palestinian Authority in courses at the college and in Gaza.
For six straight years the regional council, under Shai’s leadership, won the Gold Prize – a prize awarded by the Minister of the Interior for excellence in financial management.
Shai Hermesh was awarded the State of Israel’s Knight of Quality Government award, an award conferred by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, for setting a personal example as a public personage heading a regional community, attentiveness to national goals, outstanding financial management in a harsh economic climate, developing general and academic education, and for contribution to klitat aliya.
In June 2002, Shai Hermesh was elected Treasurer of the Jewish Agency.
In May 2006 he took his seat in the Israeli Knesset, as a member of the Kadimma party.
Moshe Kantor
President, European Jewish Congress
Prominent public figure, international philanthropist, entrepreneur and investor. He is committed to progress and has greatly contributed to revitalizing Jewish life in Europe and beyond.
Mr. Kantor is known for his extensive involvement in community life:
Since 2007 – President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC); 2004-2007 – Chairman of the EJC Board of Governors. The EJC is a leading Jewish secular umbrella organisation that co-ordinates 40 national Jewish communities in Europe, encompassing 2.5 million Jews. The EJC’s goal is to address the world’s most pressing issues: protecting human rights, fighting xenophobia and anti-Semitism, promoting interfaith dialogue, implementing cultural and educational programmes, and remembering the Holocaust and other tragedies that claimed millions of human lives throughout the world.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), a leading Russian secular organisation that represents the interests of the whole spectrum of modern Russian Jewry.
2005 – Initiated and organised the first “Let My People Live!” International Forum in Krakow, Poland, to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among the participants and guests at the Krakow Forum were representatives from 40 countries, including 24 official delegations, led by their heads of state and government.
Since 2005 – Founder and President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF), established following the Krakow Forum. The Foundation’s goal is to support Holocaust remembrance activities for the sake of preserving the historical memory of nations all over the world and preventing future tragedies. The WHF convenes “Let My People Live!” International Forums on a regular basis.
2006 – The second “Let My People Live!” International Forum took place in Kiev, Ukraine, in September 2006 to mark 65 years since the Babi Yar tragedy. The Forum enjoyed great support from leading international institutions and organisations, such as the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), as well as high-ranking politicians from many countries.
The Forum’s participants adopted a joint World Holocaust Forum Declaration, aimed at preserving the eternal memory of the Babi Yar tragedy and its lessons, as well as the memory of the millions of victims of World War II, the Holocaust and its legacy for generations to come. The document expressed joint support for the initiative to hold the next “Let My People Live!” International Forum in November of 2008 to commemorate 70 years since die Kristallnacht.
Since 2006 – Key founder and Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), which focuses on promoting Jewish life throughout Europe by supporting programmes to reinforce Jewish identity and Jewish pride, especially by re-connecting people with their rich and vital Jewish heritage. The Fund also focuses on addressing pressing concerns threatening Jewish life in Europe, such as assimilation, anti-Semitism and racism. The primary principle of the Fund is to maintain a round table where all members can speak openly and participate as equals.
2007 – Chairman of the Organising Committee of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, which was convened in Luxembourg in May of 2007.The Conference hosted an unprecedented gathering of leading international experts on nuclear non-proliferation. Over 50 of the most authoritative experts from 14 countries took part in the Conference, including Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei.
The vital importance of pressing nuclear security issues, the growing danger of the existing non-proliferation system, which is drifting toward collapse, and the reality of the nuclear threat prompted the initiative to convene the Conference.
The final Declaration of the Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe was presented in Moscow on December 18, 2007. This document was circulated to heads of state throughout the world, top-tier politicians and heads of major international organisations. The declaration contains proposals to prevent the collapse of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime and offers a set of practical steps to strengthen this regime, as a positive agenda for the future. The Luxemburg Conference was transformed into the permanent Luxembourg Forum.
2001 – Founded the International Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery. The Museum houses a diverse collection of works by outstanding Jewish artists of Russian origin who are internationally recognized for their genius. This project is an essential part of the concept called the Jewish Positioning System (JPS), created to promote a favourable public opinion of Jews based on positive examples, as well as underscoring their contributions to all realms of society. At the same time, the JPS programme is intended to strengthen the Jewish identity and prevent Jews from assimilating.
Initiator and supporter of a pan-European programme for effectively counteracting the escalation of xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in Europe, and for fighting extremism and other threats to civilization. The programme brings together various spheres, including education, culture and religion, and is endorsed by many political leaders and prominent institutions, such as the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Business and Science
After graduation, Mr. Kantor headed a leading Soviet laboratory engaged in developing spacecraft. A reflector satellite was designed using his research and subsequently launched into Earth orbit to illuminate the planet’s surface with reflected sunlight.
1993 – Took the helm at Acron agrochemical company. Under Mr. Kantor’s supervision, Acron has become one of the world’s leading fertilizer producers and distributors. The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have recognized Acron as ‘Best Russian Enterprise’ nine times.
1996-2000 – Economic Adviser to the Chairman of the Federation Council (the Upper House of the Russian Parliament) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
2000 – Contributed to founding the National Institute for Corporate Reform (NICR), a non-profit organisation uniting renowned politicians, business leaders and scholars to provide effective support for corporate reform in Russian industry. Kantor is currently President of the NICR.
Personal Data
Education
Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1976)
PhD (Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems, 1981)
Honorary Doctorate from Tel-Aviv University (2004)
Government awards of several countries
Order of Friendship (Russia, 1998)
Order of Merit (Poland, 2005)
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine, 2006)
Born on September 8, 1953, in Moscow, Russia. Has a son and a daughter.
Alexander Machkevitch
President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Dr. Alexander Machkevitch was born on February 23, 1954, in Bishkek city, Kyrgyzstan.
1976 — Graduated from the Kyrgyz State University
1981 — has got PhD degree in Pedagogic
2004 — has got DSC degree in History
1987 — became engaged in business activities
Currently Mr. Machkevitch is:
- Co-founder of Kazakhstan mineral resources corporation and Eurasian Financial-Industrial Company,
- CEO of Eurasian Bank (Kazakhstan),
- President of Eurasian Industrial Association (EIA, Kazakhstan).
Jewish activities of Mr. Machkevitch include:
Since 1999 — elected President of the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan (JCK),
Since 2001 — Executive Board member of the European Jewish Congress (EJC),
Since 2002 — elected President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),
Since 2004 — member of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Steering Committee,
Since 2005 — elected President of KEREN HAYESOD (United Israel Appeal) in the FSU.
Evelyn Sommer
Chair, North American Jewish Congress
Evelyn Sommer was born in Parana, Argentina, in 1937. She graduated in Latin American Studies from Columbia University, New York.
In 1967, she was appointed director of the Latin American Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel in New York, a post which she held until 1983. Two years earlier, she became the official representative of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York and its Commissions on Human Rights and on the Status of Women.
Since 1970, Evelyn Sommer has acted as vice president of UNICEF's NGO Committee. She has also headed various WIZO delegations to international conferences and co-chaired the Jewish Organizations Committee in Nairobi. Her role as WIZO representative to the United Nations has taken her to communities in the furthest places. She spent a month in the then Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Mrs. Sommer also regularly attuned meetings of the Economic Commission for Latin America, and twice met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In 2002, she was elected Chairman of the Jewish Organizations' Caucus at the UN. A year later, she presided over the 23rd World WIZO Conference attended by 1,000 delegates. Since the outset of her activities, she has undertaken a wide range of speaking engagements throughout the world. From 1985 to 1998, Mrs. Sommer was a director of the American-Israel Investment Corporation.
In 1990, the American Section of the World Jewish Congress elected her as Chairman, a post she held until January 2007. In 2001, she chaired the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Jerusalem and has since regularly presided over meetings of the WJC's Governing Board. Mrs. Sommer represented the WJC at important international meetings such as the OSCE conferences on anti-Semitism in Berlin/Germany (2004) and Cordoba/Spain (2005). In 2005, she was also nominated to the WJC's Steering Committee.
Evelyn Sommer is married to the architect Fred Sommer. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Jack Terpins
President, Latin American Jewish Congress
Personal
Name: Jack Leon Terpins
Date of birth: October 2, 1948
Place: Sao Paulo - Brazil
Married with Mrs. Denise Goldfarb Terpins
Sons (3): Rodrigo, Ticiana and Michel
Grandsons (2): Max and Fred
Professional
Civil Engineer. Armando Alvares School of Engineering, 1973.
Engineer in Labor Health and Safety. Oswaldo Cruz Higher Chemistry Institute, 1974.
Founder of Construterpins Ltda., Construction Terpins Ltda., 1999.
Community
Started his community activity in 1967, in Hebraica / Sao Paulo/BR.
At Hebraica, after being the Director of the Basketball Department, he became Director of the Sports Department, and in 1991, at 42 years of age, he became the youngest president of the institution. He held that position until 1993.
President of Hebraica / Sao Paulo Board, 1996 - 1997.
President of CONIB - Jewish Confederation of Brazil - 1997 - 2007
Vice-president of the Ashkenazi Jewish Organization(Beth El Synagogue).
Founder and Finance Director of Beth Chabad - Itaim Synagogue.
Elected Community Leader of the Year in 2000 (by the Jewish Congregation of Sao Paulo - Ledor - Vador). Award presented by Eli Wiesel (Nobel Prize Laureate).
Elected Volunteer of the Year in 2000, by Ten Yad.
Other Positions and Activities
President of the Latin American Jewish Congress
President of the Maccabi Brazilian Confederation.
President of the Latin American Maccabi Confederation.
Vice-president of Maccabi World Union
Merit Award of the Brazilian Ecumenical Brotherhood.
Great Masonic Recognition, Eastern Brazil.
Companion Paul Harris SP - Sumaré - Rotary Club.
Founding member of LICRA - International League against Racism.
Finance Director of Corinthians Paulista Sport Club.
Friend of the Brazilian Navy.
Representative of the Brazilian Government at the Durban Conference.
Governor of the Board, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Governor of the Board, Weizman Institute.
Director of the Friends of Israel Society.
Member of the Board, World Jewish Congress
As president of the LAJC, Terpins lead a project named ITINGA, which consisted in the adoption of a poor city in Brazil that will be sponsored by the Jewish Community. This project was developed in the framework of the national program “Zero Hunger”, created by president Lula da Silva. Itinga, which is a very poor city, received ambulances and an emergency room donated by the Albert Einstein hospital. They also gave food and water supply to the citizens. This project was example for other organizations and communities of the region.
Honorary Vice-Presidents
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Matityahu Droblas
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Married +2
Born in Warsaw, 1931
1940 entered Warsaw Ghetto with sister and brother escaped from the ghetto in 1942, and wandered the forests and villages until 1945.
1946 left Poland. Uncles in Argentina brought him over there. In Argentina finished high-school and one year of university.
1950 Migrated to Israel.
Founded Mevo'ot Beitar Farm in the Jerusalem Mountains.
1968 elected as a Knesset Member to the 7th Knesset.
Served the 7th and 8th Knesset until 1977.
1977 elected to the Board of the Jewish Agency and to the World Zionist Movement as a member.
Appointed to be the head of the Settlement Division of the Jewish Agency, and served until 1992.
Founded 380 settlements all around the congress.
1995 appointed as chairman of the Zionist Archive until today
1995 appointed as chancellor of the Jewish Settlement Fund until today.
Chairman of the Executive of the Israeli Chapter of the World Jewish Congress until 2006
Lord Janner of Braunstone QC
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Greville Janner was born on July 11, 1928 in Cardiff. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London and during the war was evacuated to Canada, where he went to Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Quebec. He attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union and Chairman of the Cambridge Union Labour Club. He was also President of Trinity Hall’s Athletic Club. He had a Fulbright and Smith-Mundt scholarship to Harvard Law School. He was called to the bar in 1954 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1971.
In the House of Commons, Greville Janner represented Leicester North West (1970-74), then Leicester West until 1997 for the Labour Party.
He was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the main representative body of British Jewry, from 1978 to 1984, and has been a key international figure in efforts to seek compensation and restitution for Holocaust victims. He also chairs the Holocaust Educational Trust and is vice president of the World Jewish Congress.
He was instrumental in arranging the 1997 London Nazi Looted Gold conference. He was Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment from 1994-1996.
Greville Janner received a life peerage as Lord Janner of Braunstone in 1997 and since sits on the Labour benches in the British House of Lords.
In 1955, he married Myra Sheink from Australia, who died in 1996. He has three children and six grandchildren.
Lord Janner's hobbies include autograph collections, glass and other antiquities, swimming, speaking his nine languages and his family. He is a member of the Magic Circle and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Yehiel Leket
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Yehiel Leket was Co-Chairman of the Israel Branch of the World Jewish Congress and World Chairman of the Jewish National Fund ("Keren Kayemeth l'Yisrael", KKL). He has been member of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors since 1985. He served as acting Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency from 1994 to 1995. Previously he was as head of the Settlement Department of the World Zionist Organization and head of the Department for Rural and Urban Development of the Jewish Agency. He has also been head of Youth Aliyah. Between 1973 and 1979 Yehiel Leket was a member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for the Labor Party.
Involved in numerous cultural and educational institutions, Mr. Leket currently serves on the board of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He holds a BA from the Hebrew University, where he is presently studying towards an MA.
Maram Stern
Deputy Secretary General, Honorary Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Dr. Maram Stern is the Deputy Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress since 1996. In January 2005 he was also elected as an Honorary Vice President of the WJC. Dr. Stern is also responsible for WJC participation in inter-religious dialogue and consultations with the Christian churches and other faiths.
From 1983 to 1988 Dr. Stern served as President of the European Union of Jewish Students, the youth arm of the WJC. In 1988 he became Counsellor of the WJC and in 1989 was appointed Political Advisor to the President and to the Secretary General of the WJC.
Dr. Stern heads a representative and research office located in Brussels (Belgium).
Dr. Stern has extensive knowledge of and experience in Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, North America & South Africa. For over 15 years, he has nurtured relations with the government of the People's Republic of China, and with other governments in South East Asia (especially Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand).
In February 2004, Dr. Stern was decorated with the Golden Laurel Medal of the Republic of Bulgaria, and in September 2004 was appointed as Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Belgium (Province de Liège).
Dr. Stern holds a Doctorate in Medicine, a Doctorate in Dentistry and is a qualified maxio-facial surgeon. He has studied at the University of Vienna (Austria), Brown University in Providence (USA), the University of Erlangen (Germany) and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and was educated at the Lycée Français de Berlin.
Dr. Stern speaks English, French & German, and is currently learning Spanish. He is single, and has lived for the last 20 years in Brussels.
Kalman Sultanik
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Kalman Sultanik was born in Miechow in 1917. He studied at the Cracow University, at the University of Economics in Tel Aviv, and at the Columbia University In New York. Later he took up the study of law and graduated from LaSalle University in Chicago.
Before World War II he was active in Jewish communal and Zionist activities. During the war he participated in the underground activities against the Nazi oppresors. He was deported to a concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. He was subsequently transferred to a camp in Dresden, Germany, and then sent on a death march to Therezinstadt, from where he was liberated in 1945.
In 1946 he organized the General Zionist movement in Germany. He was elected Zionist delegate to the 22nd World Zionist Congress held in Basle in 1946 representing the D.P. camps in Germany. He initiated an aid program for support of the Jewish survivors. Through it he helped a number of Jews to get to Israel.
In 1947 he was elected to serve on the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, Germany. He was active in numerous Zionist organizations: General Zionist Constructive Funde - as Secretary General (appointed in 1948), World Confederation of General Zionists in Israel - as Secretary General (appointed in 1949) and Executive Director (in 1952), the World Confederation of United Zionists - co-President (elected in 1972), the Zionist General Council, the ruling body of the World Zionist Organization - member (elected in 1956), the Presidium of the Zionist General Council member (elected in 1961), the World Zionist Organization - member (elected in 1972, re-elected in 1978 and 1982). Since 1973 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the United Israel Appeal. He is also Chairman of the Theodor Herzl Foundation.
In 1977 he was elected Vice President of the World Jewish Congress. In 1980 he was elected President of the Federation of Polish Jews in the US. In the years 1981-1991 he served as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. There he chaired the Committee on Anti-Semitism. He was appointed a member of the Executive Committee of Holocaust Council under Elie Wiesel, and nominated by Professor Wiesel to the Holocaust Museum committee. In 1988 he was appointed member of the International Council of the Auschwitz Museum by the Polish government, and served as its Vice Chairman. As a Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Auschwitz Museum he managed to raise approximately $30 million from European governments for the preservation of Auschwitz. In 1995 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland.
Nowadays Sultanik is a lecturer and contributor to numerous publications both in the United States and abroad. Presently he performs three functions: the Chairman of the WZO American Section, Vice Chairman of the United Israel Appeal and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.
Professional Staff
Michael Schneider
Secretary General, World Jewish Congress
Michael Schneider served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) from December 1987 until May 2002. In this capacity he directed one of JDC's largest operations in the field of Rescue, Relief and Reconstruction.
Schneider, who was born in South Africa, began his career with JDC in 1978 after ten years of service as Chief Welfare Officer of the London Jewish Welfare Board. His first posting was as resident Country Director for Iran where he was based during and after the Khomeini revolution. After leaving Iran he continued to work on behalf of Iranian Jewry from JDC's offices in Rome. In December 1979 and 1980 respectively, he became Country Director for the Iron Curtain countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia and for Yugoslavia. In 1982 he was sent to Ethiopia following the expulsion of ORT by the Mengistu regime and obtained permission for JDC to work among the Jewish villages in Gonder Province.
Later, when he became Executive Vice-President, JDC would play a key role in negotiations with the Ethiopian government for the exit of 14,000 Jews during Operation Solomon. Schneider served as Director-General of JDC's Israel office from 1983 through 1987 when he moved to New York to become JDC's chief professional officer. During his administration JDC provided care and maintenance for 50,000 Soviet Jewish migrants in Vienna and Ladispoli. It returned officially to the Soviet Union in 1990 andestablished its "Hesed" welfare programs which ultimately served some 260,000 elderly, impoverished Jews.
Relief efforts in the Former Soviet Union were later repeated during the economic collapse of Argentina where JDC provided emergency services for some 40,000 destitute Jews. Under Schneider's direction negotiations were conducted with the Governments of Syria and Yemen for the mass departure of those countries' Jews to Israel and the United States.
JDC also succeeded in transporting both Jews and Moslems out of Bosnia during the siege of Sarajevo, after successful negotiations with the military commanders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. During his tenure JDC expanded its humanitarian outreach to non-Jewish communities. JDC provided emergency assistance for the Tutsi population during the Rwandan massacres, free pharmacies for the besieged residents of Sarajevo, rebuilt 40 war damaged Moslem schools in Kosovo and provided trauma counselling for pregnant Bosnian women who had been raped by Serb soldiers.
Michael Schneider stepped down as Chief Executive Officer in May 2002 to return to the field. He assumed the title of Hon. Executive Vice-President. He serves as a member of the Claims Conference Allocations Committee. He directed JDC's tsunami relief programs in Indonesia and an AIDS-related program in South Africa.
He is chairman of the finance committee of Limmud (Former Soviet Union.) He serves on the boards of the Abraham and Sonia Rochlin Foundation and the Chais Family Foundation for Jewish Education. In July 2005, he was named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour for life time humanitarian services.
Michael Schneider was appointed as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, in September 2007.
Maram Stern
Deputy Secretary General, Honorary Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Dr. Maram Stern is the Deputy Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress since 1996. In January 2005 he was also elected as an Honorary Vice President of the WJC. Dr. Stern is also responsible for WJC participation in inter-religious dialogue and consultations with the Christian churches and other faiths.
From 1983 to 1988 Dr. Stern served as President of the European Union of Jewish Students, the youth arm of the WJC. In 1988 he became Counsellor of the WJC and in 1989 was appointed Political Advisor to the President and to the Secretary General of the WJC.
Dr. Stern heads a representative and research office located in Brussels (Belgium).
Dr. Stern has extensive knowledge of and experience in Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, North America & South Africa. For over 15 years, he has nurtured relations with the government of the People's Republic of China, and with other governments in South East Asia (especially Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand).
In February 2004, Dr. Stern was decorated with the Golden Laurel Medal of the Republic of Bulgaria, and in September 2004 was appointed as Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Belgium (Province de Liège).
Dr. Stern holds a Doctorate in Medicine, a Doctorate in Dentistry and is a qualified maxio-facial surgeon. He has studied at the University of Vienna (Austria), Brown University in Providence (USA), the University of Erlangen (Germany) and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and was educated at the Lycée Français de Berlin.
Dr. Stern speaks English, French & German, and is currently learning Spanish. He is single, and has lived for the last 20 years in Brussels.
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
General Counsel, World Jewish Congress
New York lawyer and Jewish community activist Menachem Z. Rosensaft was appointed General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress in March 2009. Rosensaft, who drafted the organization’s new constitution which was adopted in January 2009 at the WJC’s 13th Plenary Assembly, will serve as an officer of the WJC and a member of its Executive.
Menachem Rosensaft received his J.D. degree from the Columbia University School of Law in 1979, after receiving an M.A. degree from the Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University and a second M.A. in modern European history from Columbia. He is Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School where he teaches a course on World War II war crimes trials. After clerking for the Hon. Whitman Knapp, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, he was a securities and international litigator at several national law firms and an international bank, headed a foundation engaged in cultural activities in Central and Eastern Europe, and was general counsel of a major New York Stock Exchange financial services firm. In the latter capacity, he was instrumental in guiding the firm through a period of intense regulatory and governmental scrutiny, and implementing good governance practices.
The son of two survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Rosensaft has long been a leader in Holocaust remembrance activities. He is the Founding Chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, a joint publishing endeavor with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and Vice President of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. In 1994, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, chaired its Content Committee, Collections and Acquisitions Committee, and Committee on Governance, and served on the Council’s Executive Committee from 1996 until 2003. He is also a former National President of the Labor Zionist Alliance and Honorary President of the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. His wife, Jean Bloch Rosensaft, is Senior National Director for Public Affairs and Institutional Planning at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and director of its New York museum.
A prolific writer, Rosensaft is the editor of Life Reborn, Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951, published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and co-author, with his daughter, Jodi Rosensaft, of A Measure of Justice: The Early History of German-Jewish Reparations, published as an Occasional Paper by the Leo Baeck Institute. His poems “Father” and “Poland” are featured, respectively, in the Reform Movement’s Mishkan T’filah, A Reform Siddur, and the Conservative Movement’s Siddur Tishah B’Av. He received the 2003 Elie Wiesel Holocaust Remembrance Award of Israel Bonds and was awarded the American Jewish Press Association’s 2006 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Feature Writing.
Mikhail Chlenov
Born in Moscow September 26, 1940. Graduated from Istitute of Oriental languages of MSU named after M.V.Lomonosov, candidate of history, professor, academician of State Jewish academy named after Maimonid (Moscow) and Academy of history and culture of Jews in Ukraine named after Shimon Dubnov (Kiev), author of 150 scientific publications.
In mid-1970’s Mikhail Chlenov became one of founders of the so-called "culture-mongering direction" in the independent Jewish monument. Over last decade of Soviet power he was one of the leaders of the Jewish movement, underwent prosecutions by official authorities and KGB.
In 1989 – elected co-chairman of Council of Confederation of Jewish organizations and communities at the First congress of USSR Jews in Moscow. President of Federation of Jewish organizations and communities of Russia (Vaad) since 1992.
A member of Presidium of World Zionist organization, in 1998 – a member of Board of directors of "Sokhnut" Jewish agency.
In 2002 – elected Secretary General at the founding convention of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in Moscow (Russia).
Serge Cwajgenbaum
Serge CWAJGENBAUM was born in Lyon, France in September of 1946. He is married with two children. He studied history at the University at Strasbourg from 1968 to 1972 and received his diploma from l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes de Strasbourg in 1973.
Mr. Cwajgenbaum served as president of the Strasbourg branch and national vice president of the French Union of Jewish Students from 1970-1973.
Serge Cwajgenbaum joined the World Jewish Congress in 1974. In 1979, he was elected Secretary General of the French Section of the WJC and in 1982, General Director of the European Branch of the WJC.
Since 1986, when the European Jewish Congress (affiliated to the WJC) was created, Serge Cwajgenbaum has retained the position of Secretary General. In 1994 the French Government awarded Mr Cwajgenbaum the medal of «Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur».
On March 21st 2008, the French government announced that Mr. Cwajgenbaum was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest decoration, in recognition of his merits, expertise and experience in promoting tolerance and respect for the rights and freedoms of all races and faiths, as well as of his contribution to strengthening the Jewish communities throughout.
Activities and actions:
Mr. Cwajgenbaum has been at the initiation of numerous programs and events. Amongst these are the “Committee for Holocaust Information for High School Students”, a program created in coordination with the French Ministry of Education to educate and inform French high school students about the Shoah.
In addition Mr. Cwajgenbaum is the founder of the CERA - European Center for Research and Action on Racism and anti-Semitism. More recently the European Commission against racism, which developed into the European Union Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia was launched at the initiative of the European Jewish Congress under Mr Cwajgenbaum’s direction.
The EJC also had active participation in the establishment of Medbridge -an organization gathering parliamentarians across Europe with the objective of forging a better understanding of the reality of Israel and ultimately a more balanced European political policy towards Israel.
In the area of interfaith dialogue, the EJC, at Mr. Cwajgenbaum’s initiative has been particularly active, most notably with the organization of the European Encounter between Jews and Catholics, held for the fourth time last year in Paris.
As well under Mr. Cwajgenbaum’s direction the EJC has developed, at all levels, increased cooperation and involvement with the activities of the European institutions, be it the Council of Europe, the European Union, the European Commission or the European Parliament.
In his position as Secretary General Mr. Cwajgenbaum is consulted and invited as an expert in the field of human rights and anti-Semitism to many conferences and seminars around the world.
Claudio Epelman
Born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1968.
Married to Carina Paluch.
Since 2003, he integrates the World Jewish Congress, as the Director of the Latin American branch, the Latin American Jewish Congress.
During this period, he participated in many meetings with chiefs of states and other important personalities in the politics field, representing the WJC and the LAJC. He also participated in UN, OAS and OSCE sessions.
In the inter-religious arena, he was the observer on behalf of the Judaism in the Fifth General Conference of CELAM in Aparecida, Brazil. He met with pope Benedict XVI and other catholic leaders. He is an active promoter of dialogue between Jews and Muslims in the region.
The Latin American Jewish Congress is the federative organization that represents the Latin American and Caribbean Jewish Communities. It works actively as part of the civil society, fighting against anti-Semitism, discrimination and xenophobia and supporting the development of the societies, based on education, fraternity and minorities inclusion. LAJC has its headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Previously, Epelman was the Executive Director of the Jewish Community of Córdoba, one of the main cities of Argentina.
Oded Eran
April 2007 – Present WJC Representative in Israel and the Secretary General of the WJC Israel Branch
Other current positions: Advisor to the Knesset Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs
Lecturer at the R. Lauder School of Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel
2002-2007 Israel's Ambassador to the European Union (covering NATO as well)
Head of Israel's Negotiation Team with the Palestinians
1997-2000 Israel's Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1992-1997 Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem (in charge of economic affairs)
1987-1990 Deputy Chief of Mission, Israeli Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1985-1986 Chief of Staff, Knesset Foreign and Defense Committee
1982-1984 Counselor for Congressional Relations,
Israeli Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1980-1982 Director, Egyptian Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
1977-1980 Deputy Director, Middle East Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
1971-1977 First Secretary, Israeli Embassy, London
1966 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1962-1966 Service in the IDF
Education
1959-1962 Political and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1973-1981 Ph.D. London School of Economics
Herbert Juli
Herbert Juli is the Executive Director of the World Jewish Congress Foundation that serves primarily as the fund raising entity for the worldwide efforts of the World Jewish Congress. His responsibilities include overall management of the Foundation’s national direct mail program as well as major donor cultivation and solicitation. He brings more than thitrty years of fund raising successes to the Foundation.
Raised in New York City in a traditional Jewish home by parents who were holocaust survivors, Herb brings a life-long commitment to human rights and Judaism. By working for the Foundation, he believes that his career arc has brought him full circle to a profession dedicated to causes so close to home and heart. Indeed, he is personally aware of the WJC’s seminal work in the field of holocaust reparation as his mother and father were recipients. He feels privileged to dedicate his talents to the WJC Foundation.
Betty Ehrenberg
Betty Ehrenberg is Executive Director for World Jewish Congress-United States and North America. She is also the editor of WJCs Iran Update.
Previously, she served as Executive Director and Director of International Affairs and Communal Relations for the Institute for Public Affairs, the political action and public policy arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Past positions she has held include Executive Director of Dor Hemshech, the young leadership division of the World Zionist Organization; Bureau Director for the Consul General of Israel in New York; Assistant to the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York; and Liaison Officer for the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations, among others. She has worked with many diverse organizations on international issues such as the Middle East, the United Nations, anti-Semitism, and on community, governmental, and interfaith relations. In 2004 she was appointed by the White House as a United States delegate to the OSCE Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism.
A graduate of the City University of New York and Yeshiva University, Ms. Ehrenberg has an extensive background in Jewish education and taught advanced Judaic Studies at the Ramaz Upper School and at other educational institutions. She speaks to many groups across the country on a wide variety of issues of importance to the Jewish community and her articles have appeared in Jewish publications.
John Malkinson, Director
Isabella Nespoli, Director
Chaim Reiss
Chaim Reiss was hired in 2006 to serve as the Director of Finance and Administration of the World Jewish Congress. Under Mr. Reiss’s leadership, the WJC has achieved tremendous improvements in the areas of internal control, financial oversight, governance, transparency, and administrative management. Mr. Reiss is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a member of the New York State Society of CPA’s, and serves on the Not-for-Profit Committee of the NYSSCPA’s. Mr. Reiss is also a member of the Financial Planning Association and has published articles in the areas of finance and taxation.
Mr. Reiss, a graduate of Brooklyn College, also received rabbinical ordination from the world renowned Mirrer Yeshiva.
Mr. Reiss is an accomplished and respected professional with over 25 years of not-for-profit experience and communal service. Prior to joining the WJC, Mr. Reiss served as the Vice-President of Finance and Administration of the American Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for 18 years.
Mr. Reiss has stated that his goal is to have the World Jewish Congress become an organization recognized not only for its service to the World Jewish Community, but also to be an example of “best practices” in all areas of financial management and governance.
Peleg Reshef
Peleg Reshef is WJC's International Director of the Future Generations Division and the Director of the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps network.
In this capacity Reshef's responsibility is to oversee the recruitment, training and active engagement of young Jewish professionals as a new cadre of young visionary Jewish leaders for the 21st century.
Peleg began his public career when he was elected as the President of the Haifa University Student Union between 2000-2001, where he studied Jewish History and was a member of the secretariat of the National Union of Israeli students.
In 2001 Peleg was elected as the President of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS), a position he held until March 2005 after having been re-elected.
In this capacity Peleg was a member of the Executive Board of the World Jewish Congress, the World Zionist Organization and a member of the Board of Governors for the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Peleg led numerous International delegations in many international conferences including the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, S. Africa, the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, S. Africa, the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva and many other initiatives for the benefit of world Jewry.
Laurence Weinbaum
Laurence Weinbaum (b. 1962) is the Executive Director of the Jerusalem-based World Jewish Congress Research Institute and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (which operates under the auspices of the Institute) and has served as Chief Editor of its thrice-annual publication, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs since it was established in 2006. Dr. Weinbaum joined the World Jewish Congress in 1993, and during his years with the WJC has written and edited more than 100 studies and policy papers on a broad range of issues of concern to world Jewry. During that time he also served as the associate editor of Jewish Communities of the World, editor of inter-religious bulletin Dialogues, and was a regular contributor to its Hebrew-language journal of Jewish affairs, Gesher.
Dr Weinbaum was raised in New York and is a graduate of the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington, DC (where he was an assistant of the late Prof. Jan Karski). He earned his PhD in history from Warsaw University and during his doctoral studies was the recipient of Fulbright and IREX scholarships.
Dr Weinbaum has written extensively on East Central European and history and contemporary affairs (particularly Poland and Romania and is the author of a book on the relations between the Zionist Revisionist Movement and the Polish Government in the late 1930s; and co-author of a book on the Yekkes - the German Jewish community in Israel. He has also translated several works from Polish into English, most notably the Ponary Diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz. Together with an historian in Lublin, Dr Weinbaum is completing a book on the historiography of the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) and its role in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. For over ten years he has taught courses on the history of the Holocaust as an adjunct lecturer at the Ariel University Center of Samaria.
In May 2008 Polish president Lech Kaczynski decorated Dr. Weinbaum with the Zloty Krzyz Zaslugi (Gold Cross of Merit) for his ongoing contributions in fostering Polish-Jewish relations. In 2002, he received the medal of the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Dr. Weinbaum is married and the father of two sons. He lives near Jerusalem.
He speaks English, Polish, Hebrew and German.
The Four Hundred Club
Name
Net worth (USD)
Sources of wealth
1▬
Bill Gates
$57 billion ▲ Microsoft, Cascade Investments LLC
2▬
Warren Buffett
$50 billion ▼ Berkshire Hathaway
3▲
Larry Ellison
$22.5 billion ▼ Oracle Corporation
4▲
Jim Walton
$23.4 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
5▲
S. Robson Walton
$23.3 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
6▲
Alice Walton
$23.2 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
7▲
Christy Walton & family $23.2 billion ▲ Wal-Mart Inheritance
8▲
Michael Bloomberg
$20 billion ▲ Bloomberg L.P.
9▲
Charles Koch
$19 billion ▲ Koch Industries
10▲
David Koch
$19 billion ▲ Koch Industries
11▲
Michael Dell
$17.3 billion ▲ Dell Inc.
12▼
Paul Allen
$16 billion ▼ Microsoft
13▼
Sergey Brin
$15.9 billion ▼ Google
14▲
Abigail Johnson
$15.9 billion ▬ Fidelity Investments
15▼
Larry Page
$15.8 billion ▼ Google
16▼
Sheldon Adelson
$15 billion ▼ Las Vegas Sands
17▼
Steven Ballmer
$15 billion ▼ Microsoft
18▼
Jack Taylor & family
$14 billion ▬ Enterprise Rent-A-Car
19▼
Anne Cox Chambers
$13 billion ▲ Cox Enterprises
19▼
Dana Shiraz
$13 billion ▼ Shiraz Corp.
20▼
Donald Bren
$12 billion ▼ Irvine Company
21▼
Carl Icahn
$12 billion ▼ Icahn Enterprises
22▼
George Kaiser
$12 billion ▼ BOK Financial Corporation
23▼
Forrest Mars Jr
$12 billion ▼ Mars, Inc.
24▼
Jacqueline Mars
$12 billion ▼ Mars, Inc.
25▲
John Mars
$12 billion ▼ Mars, Inc.
26▲
Ronald Perelman
$11.5 billion ▲ Revlon
27▲
Kirk Kerkorian
$11.2 billion ▼ Tracinda Corporation
28▼
Leonard Blavatnik
$11 billion ▲ TNK-BP
29▲
Edward Johnson, III
$11 billion ▲ Fidelity Investments
30▼
George Soros
$11 billion ▲ Soros Fund Management
31▼
Philip Knight
$10.5 billion ▲ Nike
32▲
Jeffrey Bezos
$10.0 billion ▲ Amazon.com
33▼
John Kluge
$9 billion ▼ Metromedia
34▲
James Goodnight
$8.7 billion ▬ SAS Institute Inc.
35▼
Charles Ergen
$8.1 billion ▼ Dish Network
36▲
Philip Anschutz
$8 billion ▲ Regal Entertainment Group
37▲
Steven Cohen
$8 billion ▲ SAC Capital
38▼
Donald Newhouse
$8 billion ▼ Advance Publications
39▼
Samuel Newhouse, Jr.
$8 billion ▼ Advance Publications
40▼
Dan Duncan
$7.6 billion ▼ Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
41▼
James Simons
$7.6 billion ▲ Renaissance Technologies
42▲
Harold Hamm $7 billion ▲ Continental Resources Inc.
43▼
Pauline MacMillan Keinath $7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
44▼
Cargill MacMillan Jr. $7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
45▼
Whitney MacMillan
$7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
46▼
Marion MacMillan Pictet $7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
47▼
Rupert Murdoch
$6.8 billion ▼ News Corporation
48▼
Eli Broad
$6.7 billion ▼ American International Group
49▲
David Geffen
$6.5 billion ▲ Dreamworks Animation
50▲
James Cox Kennedy
$6.5 billion ▲ Cox Enterprises
51▲
Henry Kravis
$6.5 billion ▲ Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
52▲
Blair Parry-Okeden $6.5 billion ▲ Cox Enterprises
53▼
Stephen Schwarzman
$6.4 billion ▼ Blackstone Group
54▼
Pierre Omidyar
$6.3 billion ▼ Ebay
55▼
Robert Rowling
$6.2 billion ▼ TRT Holdings
56▲
Charles Schwab
$6.2 billion ▲ Charles Schwab
57▼
Ira Rennert
$6 billion ▲ AM General
58▼
George Roberts
$6 billion ▲ Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
59▼
Eric Schmidt
$5.9 billion ▼ Google
60▼
Patrick Soon-Shiong
$5.8 billion ▲ APP Pharmaceuticals
61▼
Steven Jobs
$5.7 billion ▬ Apple Inc., The Walt Disney Company
62▲
Robert Bass
$5.5 billion ▬ Oak Hill Investment Group
63▼
Riley Bechtel
$5.5 billion ▲ Bechtel Corp.
64▼
Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
$5.5 billion ▲ Bechtel Corp.
65▼
William Davidson
$5.5 billion ▲ Guardian Industries Corp.
66▼
Sumner Redstone
$5.1 billion ▼ Viacom
67▲
Harold Simmons
$5.1 billion ▼ Valhi
68▼
Micky Arison
$5 billion ▼ Carnival Cruise Lines
69▲
William Cook
$5 billion ▲ Cook Group
70▼
John Menard, Jr.
$5 billion ▼ Menards
71▼
Paul Milstein & family $5 billion ▲ Milstein Properties
72▲
Henry Ross Perot
$5 billion ▲ Perot Systems
73▲
Samuel Zell
$5 billion ▼ Covanta Holding
74▼
Charles Johnson
$4.9 billion ▼ Franklin Resources
75▲
Lester Crown & family $4.8 billion ▲ General Dynamics
76▼
Ralph Lauren
$4.7 billion ▬ Polo Ralph Lauren
77▲
Robert Holding
$4.6 billion ▼ Sinclair Oil
78▲
Ray Dalio
$4.5 billion ▲ Bridgewater Associates
79▼
Bradley Hughes
$4.5 billion ▲ Public Storage
80▼
Ray Hunt
$4.5 billion ▲ Hunt Petroleum
81▼
Richard LeFrak & family $4.5 billion ▲ The LeFrak Organization
82▲
John Paulson
$4.5 billion ▲ Paulson & Co.
83▼
Stephen Ross
$4.5 billion ▬ The Related Companies L.P.
84▼
Gordon Moore
$4.4 billion ▼ Intel
85▲
David Murdock
$4.4 billion ▼ Castle & Cooke, Inc.
86▲
John Sall
$4.4 billion ▬ SAS Institute Inc.
87▲
Ty Warner
$4.4 billion ▲ Ty Inc.
88▼
Dennis Washington
$4.2 billion ▲ Washington Group International
89▼
Rupert Johnson, Jr.
$4.1 billion ▼ Franklin Resources
90▲
Patrick McGovern
$4.1 billion ▼ International Data Group
91▲
Richard DeVos
$4 billion ▲ Amway
92▲
George Lucas
$4 billion ▲ Industrial Light & Magic
93▲
David Sun $4 billion ▲ Kingston Technology Company
94▼
John Tu
$4 billion ▲ Kingston Technology Company
95▼
La'Qwan Chess $3.9 billion ▲ Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
96▼
Joan Tisch
$3.8 billion ▼ Loews Corporation
97▲
Kenneth Griffin
$3.7 billion ▲ Citadel Investment Group
98▲
Leonard Stern
$3.7 billion ▼ J.W. Childs
99▼
La'Donna Jackson $3.7 billion ▲ Ziff Brothers Investments
100▼
Dirk Ziff $3.7 billion ▲ Ziff Brothers Investments
101▼
Robert Ziff $3.7 billion ▲ Ziff Brothers Investments
102▲
Leonard Lauder
$3.6 billion ▲ Estée Lauder
103▲
Carl Pohlad
$3.6 billion ▲ Wells Fargo
104▼
Haim Saban
$3.6 billion ▲ Saban Entertainment
105▲
Dennis Albaugh $3.5 billion ▲ Albaugh Inc.
106▲
Leon Black
$3.5 billion ▼ Apollo Management L.P.
107▲
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
$3.5 billion ▲ Seagram Company Ltd.
108▲
Ronald Burkle
$3.5 billion ▬ Yahoo!
109▲
John Paul DeJoria
$3.5 billion ▲ John Paul Mitchell Systems
110▲
Stanley Druckenmiller
$3.5 billion ▬ Duquesne Capital Management
111▲
Richard Kinder
$3.5 billion ▲ Kinder Morgan
112▼
Herbert Kohler, Jr. & family $3.5 billion ▼ Kohler Company
113▼
Bruce Kovner
$3.5 billion ▬ Caxton Associates, LLC
114▲
E. Stanley Kroenke
$3.5 billion ▲ THF Realty
115▼
Theodore Lerner
$3.5 billion ▲ Lerner Enterprises
116▼
Donald Schneider $3.5 billion ▲ Franklin Electric
117▼
Richard Schulze
$3.5 billion ▬ Best Buy
118▲
Ann Walton Kroenke & family
$3.4 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
119▲
Ronald Lauder
$3.4 billion ▲ Central European Media Enterprises, Estée Lauder
120▼
Mitchell Rales
$3.4 billion ▲ Danaher Corporation
121▼
John Sobrato & family
$3.4 billion ▲ Sobrato Development Companies
122▼
Stephen Wynn
$3.4 billion ▼ Wynn Resorts
123▼
Charles Dolan & family $3.4 billion ▲ Cablevision Systems
124▼
Barbara Piasecka Johnson
$3.3 billion ▲ Johnson & Johnson
125▲
Paul Tudor Jones II
$3.3 billion ▲ Raptor Fund
126▲
Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler
$3.3 billion ▬ Gazprom Neft
127▲
Glen Taylor
$3.3 billion ▲ Taylor Corp.
128▼
Peter Kellogg
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The 700 Club
Genre Religious broadcasting
Starring Pat Robertson (1966-1987, 1988-present)
Kristi Watts (1989-present)
Terry Meeuwsen (1993-present)
Lee Webb (1993-present)
Gordon P. Robertson (1996-present)
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
Production
Location(s) Virginia Beach, Virginia
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Syndicated (1966-present)
CBN Cable/The Family Channel/Fox Family/ABC Family (1977-Present)
Original run April 1, 1966 – Present
External links
Official website
The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom (one male and one female) will host on any given day. Lee Webb serves as the CBN News anchorman.
Previous co-hosts over the years included Ben Kinchlow (1975-88, 1992-96), Sheila Walsh (1988-92), Danuta Rylko Soderman (1983-87), and Lisa Ryan. Tim Robertson served as host for a year from 1987-88 along with Kinchlow and actress Susan Howard while his father ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in the 1988 campaign.
The show presents news stories from Robertson's religious and political perspective, often relating stories to passages from the Bible which are generally followed by commentary from the hosts. Celebrities and other guests are interviewed about religious views. The news segments frequently emphasize an apocalyptic eschatology. The style of news reporting on the show has been criticized by many as unfairly biased.
Religious lifestyle issues are presented with a distinct Pentecostal/charismatic flavor. Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was an ordained minister with that denomination from 1961 until he surrendered his credentials in 1987 to prepare for his failed presidential bid in 1988.[citation needed]
In 2009, it became the first Christian television program to be televised in high definition, when it was shown on ABC Family since no Christian television networks were in HD at the time.[citation needed]
Contents
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• 1 History
o 1.1 1960s
o 1.2 1970s
o 1.3 1980s
o 1.4 1990s-present
• 2 The 700 Club Asia
• 3 The 700 Club in India
• 4 Controversy
• 5 References
• 6 External links
[edit] History
[edit] 1960s
In 1961, Robertson bought the license for WTOV, channel 27 in Portsmouth, Virginia. It had gone off the air five years earlier due to poor viewership. The station returned in October as WYAH, broadcasting twelve hours of Christian programming to the Hampton Roads market each day.
In 1962, the station suffered financially and almost closed. To keep the station on the air, WYAH decided to produce a special telethon edition of the show. For the telethon, Robertson set a goal of 700 members each contributing $10 a month, which was enough to support the station. Robertson referred to these members as the '700 Club' and the name stuck. The telethon was successful and is still held annually.
After the 1962 telethon, The 700 Club continued as a two hour a day local show. It consisted of a lot of music, preaching, group prayer, bible study, and some talk. The show started out as a Christian variety program. The music was hymns, instrumental pieces, southern gospel music, and urban gospel music. The show was run two or three times a day.
In addition, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker started on the channel in 1964 as hosts of a children's show, Come On Over. It consisted of prayer and bible stories aimed at children. The show also featured puppet shows and Davey and Goliath reruns. They also began hosting their own adult Christian talk show. Their Come On Over Show, much to their dismay, added Bugs Bunny and Casper cartoons and Little Rascals reruns into the mix, in 1967, but the show itself expanded to two hours. At that point WYAH went from being non commercial to commercial and added several hours of secular shows to its schedule. The Bakkers disagreed with the direction their show and the station overall was taking. By 1970, their shows were each cut to thirty minutes. The secular cartoons then aired as their own shows in a weekday afternoon block. Finally, the couple left WYAH in 1972 to join the Trinity Broadcasting Network where they developed the PTL Club. They soon left TBN as well to begin their own show taking the PTL Club name and inspirational channel. The PTL club began to be syndicated in 1975. In 1972, when the Bakkers left, some staffers at the station reportedly responded by destroying Bakkers' sets and puppets.[1]
Robertson evolved his 700 Club by cutting back on music and preaching and heading toward the talk show format developed by Bakker (though without the puppets) and transformed the 700 Club from a nightly religious themed telethon to a religious talk show (still with some music). At this point some Contemporary Christian Music artists visited the show as well.
While the organization was named the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), The 700 Club only aired on WYAH, as well as its sister stations in Atlanta (WANX) and Dallas (KXTX). The stations, including WYAH had mostly content similar to a general entertainment station (cartoons, Sitcoms, westerns, old movies), but with four to six hours a day of religious shows, including The 700 Club which aired three times a day.
[edit] 1970s
In 1974, The 700 Club entered national syndication, airing on stations such as WPIX in New York City, KTLA in Los Angeles, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, and WDCA in Washington, D.C., among others. The roster of stations carrying the program grew to over 100 markets by 1976. In some markets, the show aired on multiple stations, choosing between either the full 90-minute version or the edited 60-minute version.
In 1977, The 700 Club got on the air nationally on the newly launched Christian Broadcasting Network Cable Channel. That station only ran Christian programming 24 hours a day 7 days a week and ran no general entertainment, unlike CBN's broadcast stations.
Between 1978 and 1980, talk about current political issues became a part of the program. News segments were added in the first 20 minutes of the show. The 700 Club clearly endorsed a politically conservative agenda as the "Religious Right" movement was now becoming part of the CBN agenda. This had influence in the 1980 presidential election as well as congressional elections. The 700 Club continues to discuss current events from a conservative viewpoint to this day.
[edit] 1980s
In 1980, The CBN UHF stations began Sunday commercial operation from about 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. While these stations were predominantly secular programs on weekdays and Saturdays, Sundays were non commercial and only consisted of Christian programs prior to this time. The next year, CBN Cable added 15 hours a day of secular programming. While the CBN stations consisted of cartoons, sitcoms, and some recent off network fare, the CBN cable network consisted of health shows, pre 1965 sitcoms, westerns, old game shows, and family dramas. The 700 Club itself evolved to more of a magazine format rather than a talk/variety show. By 1983, The 700 Club had the same format it has today.
Later in the 1980s the UHF CBN stations were sold separately. During this period The 700 Club continued to air on CBN Cable as well as many commercial secular stations and Christian stations nationally. In 1987, the syndicated 700 Club was cut back to an hour, which it is today. Also, Trinity Broadcasting Network added The 700 Club to their schedule on weekdays at 3 p.m. that fall. The 700 Club still airs there at that time today.
[edit] 1990s-present
CBN Cable became known as The Family Channel in 1988. That network added more cartoons and family sitcoms in the 1990s. The Family Channel was sold to News Corporation in 1998, becoming Fox Family. The 700 Club continued its three time a day airings. Fox Family was sold to Disney in 2001 and at that time became ABC Family.
The 700 Club now airs on ABC Family, part of a contractual obligation originally made as part of the Family Channel's sale to News Corp.[2][3]
International versions of The 700 Club are Club 700 Hoy, broadcast in Latin America, and The 700 Club With Paul and Fiona, in Great Britain. Begun in October 2004, the latter is co-hosted by Paul Jones and Fiona Hendley Jones.
The Pat Robertson version also airs in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Revelation TV, Genesis TV, GOD TV, God Europe, Loveworld TV, Gospel Channel, OBE TV and KICC TV.
The 700 Club strongly supports Israel, especially in its disagreements with the Palestinians and the U.N. Among its frequent Jewish guests are Michael Medved and Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who share its conservative Judeo-Christian beliefs.
[edit] The 700 Club Asia
The 700 Club Asia
Genre Religious broadcasting
Created by CBN Asia
Directed by Derrek Adapon
Starring Peter Kairuz
Coney Reyes
Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan
Kata Inocencio
Felichi Pangilinan-Buizon
Alex Tinsay
Country of origin Philippines
Language(s) Filipino
English
No. of episodes (List of episodes)
Production
Camera setup multi-camera set-up
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel GMA Network
Original run 1995 – Present
External links
Official website
An Asian edition of the show, The 700 Club Asia, originally premiered in the Philippines in the mid-1990s on GMA 7. It was originally produced and hosted by Pat Robertson's son, Gordon Robertson, and co-hosted by broadcaster Mari Kaimo, and Philippine TV personality Coney Reyes.
In 1998, Reyes took over as host and producer of the show, with Tricia Amper Jimenez as co-host. When Reyes left the show in 2000 for medical reasons, it was retooled as The Club, hosted by Jimenez, Peter Kairuz and Carla Martinez.
In 2001, the show reverted to its old format and moved to ABS-CBN (a network unrelated to Pat Robertson's CBN), where it aired on its sister station, Studio 23. Kairuz remained as host with veteran singer Maria Teresa "Dulce" Llamedo-Cruz and TV personality Chat Silayan-Bailon (1959-2006), who later died of colon cancer.
In 2006, the show moved to GMA's sister station, QTV 11. Kairuz still hosts the show, with Reyes returning to co-host. The show also features Kata Inocencio, Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan, Alex Tinsay and Felichi Pangilinan-Buizon.
[edit] The 700 Club in India
An Indian Hindi edition of The 700 Club, named Ek Nayee Zindagi, airs daily at 6:30 am and 1 am (repeat) on Star Plus.[4]
[edit] Controversy
Main article: Pat Robertson controversies
The 700 Club has occasionally been the subject of controversy due to statements made on the show by Pat Robertson. Often, controversy centers on subjects of homosexuality. The LGBT community has expressed concern over the comments made on his show, fearing that it will provoke a violent reaction from potentially unstable individuals. Scott Roeder, who murdered the abortion doctor George Tiller on May 31, 2009, claimed that his murderous thoughts were influenced by discussions of religion and abortion on The 700 Club.[5]
Immediately after the 2010 Haiti earthquake Pat Robertson said that it was "what happened when people make a deal with the Devil."[6]
The U.S. National Better Business Bureau says of the Christian Broadcasting Network and 700 Club: "...unable to verify the organization's compliance with 5 of the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability"[7]
[edit] References
1. ^ Biography: Bakker, Jim
2. ^ ABC Family: Contact ABC Family
3. ^ ABC Family Repudiates Robertson 'Hit' - 8/23/2005 4:19:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable
4. ^ http://www.cbnindia.org/in/media/enz/
5. ^ Man Admits Killing Abortion Provider
6. ^ CBS News - Pat Robertson: Haiti "Cursed" After "Pact to the Devil"
7. ^ http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/Report.aspx?CharityID=1390
[edit] External links
• The 700 Club Official Website for UK & Europe
• The 700 Club at Trinity Broadcasting Network
• The 700 Club at the Internet Movie Database
• The 700 Club at TV.com
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White, Sir Dick Goldsmith.
Whitney, Straight.
Wiseman, Sir William.
Wittelsbach.
Wolfson, Sir Isaac.
Wood, Charles.
Young, Owen
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Americans for a Safe Israel.
Biblical Archaeology Review.
Bilderbergers.
British Petroleum.
Canadian Institute of Foreign Relations.
Christian Fundamentalism.
Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
Egyptian Exploration Society.
Imperial Chemical Industries.
International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Order of Skull and Bones.
Palestine Exploration Fund.
Poor Knights of the Templars
Royal Dutch Shell Company.
Socialist International.
South Africa Foundation.
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
Temple Mount Foundation.
The Atheist Club.
The Fourth State of Consciousness Club.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The Milner Group.
The Nasi Princes.
The Order of Magna Mater.
The Order of the Divine Disorder.
The RIIA.
The Round Table.
Trilateral Commission.
Universal Freemasonry.
Universal Zionism.
Vickers Armament Company.
Warren Commission.
Watergate Committee.
Wilton Park.
World Council of Churches.
Ronald S. Lauder
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About the World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress is an international organization whose mission is to address the interests and needs of Jews and Jewish communities throughout the world.
Founded in Geneva in 1936 to unite the Jewish people and mobilize the world against the Nazi onslaught, the WJC is the representative body of Jewish communities and organizations in over 80 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe across six continents. It seeks to foster the unity and creative survival of the Jewish people while maintaining its spiritual, cultural and social heritage.
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Membership in the WJC is open to all representative Jewish groups or communities, irrespective of the social, political or economic ideology of the community's host country. The World Jewish Congress is supported by those communities and individual members who as concerned Jewish citizens want their voices to be heard on matters of concern to the Jewish people.
With headquarters in New York, the WJC has affiliate offices around the world including Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Johannesburg, Moscow, Ottawa, Paris, Sydney and Jerusalem where the WJC's research institute is located.
As a global leader, the World Jewish Congress received special credentials and recognition at the United Nations making it unique among world-wide organizations as it enjoys a diplomatic seat in the U.N. and within many of it institutions, commissions and sub-bodies.
The core principle of the World Jewish Congress is that all Jews are responsible for one another. We seek to achieve this by governing with consensus and celebrating unity in our vast diversity.
As we have been for nearly three quarters of a century, the World Jewish Congress continues to be the permanent address of the Jewish people.
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Eduardo Elsztain
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Governing Board
Eduardo Elsztain, Chairman of the WJC Governing Board, was an unofficial ambassador for Argentina during the economic crisis, working with the World Jewish Congress in attempting to raise the issue of Argentinean economic reconstruction in international economic and financial institutions.
Elsztain has been a partner with Edgar Bronfman in building Hillel throughout Latin American universities and a founder of Hillel and campus activities at large; he became known to world Jewry through these important contributions.
Cobi Benatoff
Treasurer, World Jewish Congress
Born in Tel Aviv (Israel) on 15.04.1944
Living in Milan (Italy) since 1947
Married to Victoria Josefowitz for 36 years with 3 sons.
Educated in Milan up to Italian Scientific Bachelor.
Degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 1968.
Served in the Israeli army from 1962 to 1964 in Nahal and paratroops.
Managing international family business, with brother Ronn, active in industrial fishing, food industry, real estate and hi-tech.
Member of the Board of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1986 - present.
President of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1990 to 1998.
Member of the Board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 2002 to 2006
President of European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) from 1999 to 2003.
The ECJC is the representative organization of major Communities and Institutions from 36 European Countries sponsored by the Joint Development Committee (Joint), active in Community development, leadership training, networking and developing European projects in education, social services and Jewish heritage and culture.
During this presidency:
• promoted the concept of the European GA with 3 successful meetings in Nice (1999), Madrid (2001) and Budapest (2003);
• initiated the European Day of Jewish Culture (2000) that has since become a very important annual event throughout Europe;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Presidents of Jewish Communities;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Educational Professionals, ARACHIM, inBudapest;
• promoted, together with Joint, the 1st Leatid Program for Leadership training of European Lay Leaders and Professionals;
• obtained 1st European Representation in the World Jewish Congress Restitution Organization (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005) and in the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005);
• Member of the Executive Committee and Allocation Committee of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) from 2000 until 2005.
President of European Jewish Congress (EJC) from 2003 until 2005.
During this presidency:
• promoted relationships with small Jewish Communities and with Communities in Eastern Europe;
• promoted the article of the Financial Time co-signed by Edgar Bronfman attacking European Union’s Antisemitism;
• presided the 1st European Conference on Antisemitism in Brussels promoted by the European Commission and European Jewish Congress together with Romano Prodi and Elie Wiesel;
Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of World Jewish Congress (2005)
Vice-chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2006)
Chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2007 - present)
Member of the Steering Committee of World Jewish Congress (2006 – present)
For more than a decade, Cobi Benatoff’s name has been synonymous with Jewish leadership in Europe.
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Shai Hermesh
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Israel Branch
Shai Hermesh was born in Tel-Aviv in 1944.
He graduated from Tichon Hadash high-school and his military service was spent first in the Nahal brigade, and later in the paratroops brigade. As a member of the "Yegev" core of the Ha'Noar Ha’Oved (Labor Party youth movement), he joined Kibbutz Kfar Azza, on the Gaza Strip border.
Shai Hermesh is married to Hava, a teacher who specializes in computers, and is a father to 4 boys and a girl!
He earned a B.A. degree in economics and sociology and later an MBA in Business Management, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral studies in Jewish history at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Anita Shapira, were not completed, since in late 1987 he was asked to serve as Mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and Chair of the Executive Committee at the Negev College – later to become Sapir Academic College.
For 25 years, Shai has served in the military reserve in the paratroops brigade. In the Six Day War, he took part in the battle for Jerusalem, fought in the Yom Kippur War on the Suez Canal, and in Lebanon - in the 1982 Lebanon War.
Shai Hermesh has filled a range of public positions: he is a member of the National Security Council, the Broadcasting Authority Forum, the Negev Development Authority, leadership institutions of the Kibbutz Movement, the Histadrut leadership, as well as being an active director in several public companies.
He served as the mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council for fifteen years. During his terms of office, he worked to enlarge the Pinchas Sapir College of the Negev, and to establish the Sapir Academic College, which is now Israel’s largest regional college.
As mayor of the regional council and chair of Sapir College, Shai Hermesh formed close ties with Jewish communities in Europe and the USA that donated generously and helped build the college, in particular and encourage settlement along the Gaza Strip in general.
Shai Hermesh worked in tandem with "Amdocs" - one of the world’s leading software houses, to create a major development center – "Amdocs Negev" – in Sha'ar Hanegev/Sderot.
Until the outbreak of the Intifada in 2000, he worked to promote joint regional-development programs with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – such as founding an industrial park, utilizing sewage in moshavim, and programs to train professional personnel for the Palestinian Authority in courses at the college and in Gaza.
For six straight years the regional council, under Shai’s leadership, won the Gold Prize – a prize awarded by the Minister of the Interior for excellence in financial management.
Shai Hermesh was awarded the State of Israel’s Knight of Quality Government award, an award conferred by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, for setting a personal example as a public personage heading a regional community, attentiveness to national goals, outstanding financial management in a harsh economic climate, developing general and academic education, and for contribution to klitat aliya.
In June 2002, Shai Hermesh was elected Treasurer of the Jewish Agency.
In May 2006 he took his seat in the Israeli Knesset, as a member of the Kadimma party.
Moshe Kantor
President, European Jewish Congress
Prominent public figure, international philanthropist, entrepreneur and investor. He is committed to progress and has greatly contributed to revitalizing Jewish life in Europe and beyond.
Mr. Kantor is known for his extensive involvement in community life:
Since 2007 – President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC); 2004-2007 – Chairman of the EJC Board of Governors. The EJC is a leading Jewish secular umbrella organisation that co-ordinates 40 national Jewish communities in Europe, encompassing 2.5 million Jews. The EJC’s goal is to address the world’s most pressing issues: protecting human rights, fighting xenophobia and anti-Semitism, promoting interfaith dialogue, implementing cultural and educational programmes, and remembering the Holocaust and other tragedies that claimed millions of human lives throughout the world.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), a leading Russian secular organisation that represents the interests of the whole spectrum of modern Russian Jewry.
2005 – Initiated and organised the first “Let My People Live!” International Forum in Krakow, Poland, to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among the participants and guests at the Krakow Forum were representatives from 40 countries, including 24 official delegations, led by their heads of state and government.
Since 2005 – Founder and President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF), established following the Krakow Forum. The Foundation’s goal is to support Holocaust remembrance activities for the sake of preserving the historical memory of nations all over the world and preventing future tragedies. The WHF convenes “Let My People Live!” International Forums on a regular basis.
2006 – The second “Let My People Live!” International Forum took place in Kiev, Ukraine, in September 2006 to mark 65 years since the Babi Yar tragedy. The Forum enjoyed great support from leading international institutions and organisations, such as the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), as well as high-ranking politicians from many countries.
The Forum’s participants adopted a joint World Holocaust Forum Declaration, aimed at preserving the eternal memory of the Babi Yar tragedy and its lessons, as well as the memory of the millions of victims of World War II, the Holocaust and its legacy for generations to come. The document expressed joint support for the initiative to hold the next “Let My People Live!” International Forum in November of 2008 to commemorate 70 years since die Kristallnacht.
Since 2006 – Key founder and Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), which focuses on promoting Jewish life throughout Europe by supporting programmes to reinforce Jewish identity and Jewish pride, especially by re-connecting people with their rich and vital Jewish heritage. The Fund also focuses on addressing pressing concerns threatening Jewish life in Europe, such as assimilation, anti-Semitism and racism. The primary principle of the Fund is to maintain a round table where all members can speak openly and participate as equals.
2007 – Chairman of the Organising Committee of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, which was convened in Luxembourg in May of 2007.The Conference hosted an unprecedented gathering of leading international experts on nuclear non-proliferation. Over 50 of the most authoritative experts from 14 countries took part in the Conference, including Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei.
The vital importance of pressing nuclear security issues, the growing danger of the existing non-proliferation system, which is drifting toward collapse, and the reality of the nuclear threat prompted the initiative to convene the Conference.
The final Declaration of the Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe was presented in Moscow on December 18, 2007. This document was circulated to heads of state throughout the world, top-tier politicians and heads of major international organisations. The declaration contains proposals to prevent the collapse of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime and offers a set of practical steps to strengthen this regime, as a positive agenda for the future. The Luxemburg Conference was transformed into the permanent Luxembourg Forum.
2001 – Founded the International Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery. The Museum houses a diverse collection of works by outstanding Jewish artists of Russian origin who are internationally recognized for their genius. This project is an essential part of the concept called the Jewish Positioning System (JPS), created to promote a favourable public opinion of Jews based on positive examples, as well as underscoring their contributions to all realms of society. At the same time, the JPS programme is intended to strengthen the Jewish identity and prevent Jews from assimilating.
Initiator and supporter of a pan-European programme for effectively counteracting the escalation of xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in Europe, and for fighting extremism and other threats to civilization. The programme brings together various spheres, including education, culture and religion, and is endorsed by many political leaders and prominent institutions, such as the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Business and Science
After graduation, Mr. Kantor headed a leading Soviet laboratory engaged in developing spacecraft. A reflector satellite was designed using his research and subsequently launched into Earth orbit to illuminate the planet’s surface with reflected sunlight.
1993 – Took the helm at Acron agrochemical company. Under Mr. Kantor’s supervision, Acron has become one of the world’s leading fertilizer producers and distributors. The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have recognized Acron as ‘Best Russian Enterprise’ nine times.
1996-2000 – Economic Adviser to the Chairman of the Federation Council (the Upper House of the Russian Parliament) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
2000 – Contributed to founding the National Institute for Corporate Reform (NICR), a non-profit organisation uniting renowned politicians, business leaders and scholars to provide effective support for corporate reform in Russian industry. Kantor is currently President of the NICR.
Personal Data
Education
Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1976)
PhD (Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems, 1981)
Honorary Doctorate from Tel-Aviv University (2004)
Government awards of several countries
Order of Friendship (Russia, 1998)
Order of Merit (Poland, 2005)
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine, 2006)
Born on September 8, 1953, in Moscow, Russia. Has a son and a daughter.
Alexander Machkevitch
President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Dr. Alexander Machkevitch was born on February 23, 1954, in Bishkek city, Kyrgyzstan.
1976 — Graduated from the Kyrgyz State University
1981 — has got PhD degree in Pedagogic
2004 — has got DSC degree in History
1987 — became engaged in business activities
Currently Mr. Machkevitch is:
- Co-founder of Kazakhstan mineral resources corporation and Eurasian Financial-Industrial Company,
- CEO of Eurasian Bank (Kazakhstan),
- President of Eurasian Industrial Association (EIA, Kazakhstan).
Jewish activities of Mr. Machkevitch include:
Since 1999 — elected President of the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan (JCK),
Since 2001 — Executive Board member of the European Jewish Congress (EJC),
Since 2002 — elected President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),
Since 2004 — member of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Steering Committee,
Since 2005 — elected President of KEREN HAYESOD (United Israel Appeal) in the FSU.
Evelyn Sommer
Chair, North American Jewish Congress
Evelyn Sommer was born in Parana, Argentina, in 1937. She graduated in Latin American Studies from Columbia University, New York.
In 1967, she was appointed director of the Latin American Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel in New York, a post which she held until 1983. Two years earlier, she became the official representative of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York and its Commissions on Human Rights and on the Status of Women.
Since 1970, Evelyn Sommer has acted as vice president of UNICEF's NGO Committee. She has also headed various WIZO delegations to international conferences and co-chaired the Jewish Organizations Committee in Nairobi. Her role as WIZO representative to the United Nations has taken her to communities in the furthest places. She spent a month in the then Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Mrs. Sommer also regularly attuned meetings of the Economic Commission for Latin America, and twice met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In 2002, she was elected Chairman of the Jewish Organizations' Caucus at the UN. A year later, she presided over the 23rd World WIZO Conference attended by 1,000 delegates. Since the outset of her activities, she has undertaken a wide range of speaking engagements throughout the world. From 1985 to 1998, Mrs. Sommer was a director of the American-Israel Investment Corporation.
In 1990, the American Section of the World Jewish Congress elected her as Chairman, a post she held until January 2007. In 2001, she chaired the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Jerusalem and has since regularly presided over meetings of the WJC's Governing Board. Mrs. Sommer represented the WJC at important international meetings such as the OSCE conferences on anti-Semitism in Berlin/Germany (2004) and Cordoba/Spain (2005). In 2005, she was also nominated to the WJC's Steering Committee.
Evelyn Sommer is married to the architect Fred Sommer. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Jack Terpins
President, Latin American Jewish Congress
Personal
Name: Jack Leon Terpins
Date of birth: October 2, 1948
Place: Sao Paulo - Brazil
Married with Mrs. Denise Goldfarb Terpins
Sons (3): Rodrigo, Ticiana and Michel
Grandsons (2): Max and Fred
Professional
Civil Engineer. Armando Alvares School of Engineering, 1973.
Engineer in Labor Health and Safety. Oswaldo Cruz Higher Chemistry Institute, 1974.
Founder of Construterpins Ltda., Construction Terpins Ltda., 1999.
Community
Started his community activity in 1967, in Hebraica / Sao Paulo/BR.
At Hebraica, after being the Director of the Basketball Department, he became Director of the Sports Department, and in 1991, at 42 years of age, he became the youngest president of the institution. He held that position until 1993.
President of Hebraica / Sao Paulo Board, 1996 - 1997.
President of CONIB - Jewish Confederation of Brazil - 1997 - 2007
Vice-president of the Ashkenazi Jewish Organization(Beth El Synagogue).
Founder and Finance Director of Beth Chabad - Itaim Synagogue.
Elected Community Leader of the Year in 2000 (by the Jewish Congregation of Sao Paulo - Ledor - Vador). Award presented by Eli Wiesel (Nobel Prize Laureate).
Elected Volunteer of the Year in 2000, by Ten Yad.
Other Positions and Activities
President of the Latin American Jewish Congress
President of the Maccabi Brazilian Confederation.
President of the Latin American Maccabi Confederation.
Vice-president of Maccabi World Union
Merit Award of the Brazilian Ecumenical Brotherhood.
Great Masonic Recognition, Eastern Brazil.
Companion Paul Harris SP - Sumaré - Rotary Club.
Founding member of LICRA - International League against Racism.
Finance Director of Corinthians Paulista Sport Club.
Friend of the Brazilian Navy.
Representative of the Brazilian Government at the Durban Conference.
Governor of the Board, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Governor of the Board, Weizman Institute.
Director of the Friends of Israel Society.
Member of the Board, World Jewish Congress
As president of the LAJC, Terpins lead a project named ITINGA, which consisted in the adoption of a poor city in Brazil that will be sponsored by the Jewish Community. This project was developed in the framework of the national program “Zero Hunger”, created by president Lula da Silva. Itinga, which is a very poor city, received ambulances and an emergency room donated by the Albert Einstein hospital. They also gave food and water supply to the citizens. This project was example for other organizations and communities of the region.
RABBI YAAKOV BLEICH
Rabbi Yaakov Bleich challenges us to remember the Forgotten Jews of the former Soviet Union.
THINK QUICK. Can you name a country -- somewhere in Europe -- with a population of only 500,000 Jews, yet with nearly 20 Jewish day schools open year-round, educating the community's young for up to 8 hours a day; a community that refuses to become part of Jewry's "continuity crisis," but is receiving relatively little help in areas of financial resources and moral encouragement?
Let's face it, most of us can't. And the question we should be asking ourselves is: Why not?
One could, I suppose, answer "because the Ukraine is just so far away. Out of sight, out of mind. What do you really expect?"
But that's more of an excuse than an answer.
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A DECADE since I made my first trip to what was then the Soviet Union. Actually, a "pilgrimage" would be a more accurate description. We were 20 Chasidic youth in search of our roots in a faraway land that, during our formative years, had served as the setting whence our cultural heritage had been sprung; on whose ground our most revered sages had walked. We had come to draw inspiration; to pray at the grave sites of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Chasidic movement, and his disciple, Rabbi Ber of Mezrich, and other greats, in order that they should act as our "proxies" Above. We prayed to the Creator for continued success in our endeavors and for a good life; for happy marriages and dutiful children.
As Karlin-Stoliner Chasidim, we were particularly excited to be visiting the burial place of the famed Beis Aharon, one of the Founding Fathers of our sect, who lays in the Western Ukrainian hamlet of M'linov. We were said to be the first Jews who would visit the site as a group since the outbreak of World War II.
But it was not to be.
Upon returning from prayer services on Shabbes morning, we were greeted by an official who promptly informed us that our permission to visit the site had suddenly been revoked. (The USSR in 1988, it must be remembered, had many towns and villages that were closed to outsiders. At any time -- and for any reason -- the authorities could simply cut off a region from the rest of the world. And nothing, absolutely nothing, could be done to rectify the situation.)
We chose an alternative location: the local and nearby cemetery in Kiev.
IT WAS A WEEK AFTER SUCCOS, a bitter cold Sunday morning. I remember the details well, as it was the highlight of our trip, and an epiphany for me.
The cemetery was like most in the USSR -- decrepit, yet other-worldly looking. Most of Kiev was sound asleep as our group made its way through the region's silent streets and countryside. But to our surprise, the eternal home for residents of this city, so rich with history and ideas, was fully packed with Jews. These were individuals who, for one reason or another, apparently could not visit before Rosh HaShana, in accordance with Jewish custom. Despite the spiritual starvation so rampant at the time, this custom, it seems, was for some reason never forsaken.
As we wandered about, we suddenly noticed ourselves being watched intently by the assembled. And for a flicker of a moment, we wondered if the Motherland, which had just put a damper on our other plans, had actually gone to the bother of sending so many of her dutiful "deputies" to watch us here as well. This was the Soviet Union, after all.
It didn't take us long to find out. Our group was suddenly surrounded from all sides.
An elderly, hunched-backed Jew wearing a tattered cap and supporting himself with a cane was the first to come forward. It was obvious that our presence had moved him. But in which direction?
He began to run his hands up and down the sleeves of my coat, trying to hold back tears that must have been welled-up just under the surface for a half-century. He asked in a gruff, thickly-accented Yiddish: "Are you real? Am I still on Earth? Is this some sort of dream?"
He wasn't kidding.
"I am very much real," I responded. "And there are many more like me from where I come."
An elderly woman then asked if she could hold my friend's prayer book. "The last time I saw one," she said, as hot tears ran down her wrinkled face, "was so, so many years ago."
Our encounter in Kiev left us moved. We had come here to go "grave-hopping," in the Chasidic vernacular. But we left with a lesson in geo-politics that even the most proficient professor could not have conveyed better.
IN KIEV, AT THIS TIME, there were some 150,000 Jews. And millions more were still trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Yet we knew so little about them, and they, of course, knew even less about us.
It's now almost ten years later. The world is, by all accounts, a far different place. The Soviet Union is no more. There are organized Jewish communities -- with synagogues, daily minyanim, and institutions of Jewish learning -- scattered all throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States. Yet I dare ask: Has the Jewish world really changed?
In the 1970s and 1980s, the struggle for Soviet Jewry united Jews the world over. In the early 1990s, after the fall of Communism and the fulfillment of the "cause," the USSR suddenly became a novelty to the West. It was sort of like opening a time capsule and taking inventory of what had survived and what had not, a mere amusement.
Of course, there are some establishment Jewish groups doing their part. But it sometimes seems that the only time the average Western Jew is reminded of our existence is in sensationalistic stories and coverage of visits by political leaders. Does the average Jew, in fact, care that the 7,000-member Jewish community of Lemberg has gone to great lengths to organize a Judaic renaissance -- complete with social service agencies, educational facilities and the like? Do the Jews of (relatively) nearby Riga deserve more attention than merely serving as a backdrop in a newswire story about a resident who will be receiving a check from the Swiss Holocaust fund?
There are still millions of Jews living behind the Plastic Curtain. It's a transparent partition. But who will be the ones to push their outstretched hands through?
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Rabbi Yaakov D. Bleich is Chief Rabbi of Ukraine. He will be writing regularly for JWR from Kiev.
©1997, Jewish World Review
Roger Cukierman
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
PHD in Economics, former CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, former president and honorary president of CRIF the umbrella body of French Jewish institutions, director of the Claims Conference, of the Fondation pour la Memoire de la Shoah, Vice president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
HELEN GLASER
The Guest List: Conference on the Jewish Future
By JTA Staff • July 16, 2007
Below is a list of participants in the Conference on the Future of the Jewish People, held in Jerusalem July 10-July 12.
From the United States:
Mark Charendoff (president, Jewish Funders Network)
Lester Crown (chairman, Henry Crown and Company)
Maxyne Finkelstein (chief executive office, Jewish Agency for Israel/North America)
Wayne L. Firestone (international president, Hillel)
Rachel Fish (student activist)
John R. Fishel (executive vice president, Jewish Federation of Greater L.A.)
Abraham Foxman (national director, Anti-Defamation League)
Howard Friedman (president, AIPAC)
Misha Galperin (executive vice president, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington)
J.J. Goldberg (editor in chief, the Forward)
Mark Goldberg (founder, United Israel Foundation)
Neil B. Goldstein (executive director, American Jewish Congress)
Richard Gordon (president, American Jewish Congress)
Sally Gottesman (president and founder, Eleemoysnary Group)
Steve Gutow (executive director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs)
Ronald Heifetz (professor of public leadership, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Roger Hertog (vice chairman, Alliance Capital Management and Sanford C. Bernstein)
Malcolm Hoenlein (executive vice-president, Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organization)
Steve Hoffman (President and CEO, Federation of Cleveland)
Howard Kohr (executive director, AIPAC)
Morlie Levin (national executive director, Hadassah)
Glen Lewy (national chairman, the Anti-Defamation League)
David Makovsky (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Dan Mariaschin (executive vice president,B’nai Brith International)
Steve Nasatir (president, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago)
Steve Popper (professor, RAND)
Reinharz Jehuda (president, Brandeis University)
Jonathan Rosen (general editor, Nextbook)
Dennis Ross (chairman, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute; counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
Shalom Saar (Kennedy School of Government,Center for Public Leadership,Harvard University)
Lynn Schusterman (chair, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation)
Barry Shrage (president, Combined Jewish PhilanthropiesBoston)
Carole Solomon (immediate past chair, board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel)
Suzanne Stone (professor of law, Cardozo School of Law and Director )
Harold Tanner (past chair, Conference of Presidents)
Mort Zuckerman (past chair, Conference of Presidents)
From Canada:
Irwin Cotler (House of Commons, former justice minister)
Hershell Ezrin (CEO, Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy)
Shimon Fogel (CEO, CIC)
From Europe:
Pierre Besnainou (outgoing president of the European Jewish Congress)
Ruth Deech (Baroness, United Kingdom)
Frederic Encel (senior lecturer of geopolitics at ENA, France National school of Public Administration)
Lord Young of Graffham (United Kingdom)
Nicole Guedj (former minister representing the French President for the Humanitarian Action, France’s Secretary of States of Victims Rights; vice president, the Paris Consistory)
Raphael Haddad (general secretary, UEJF)
Chaim Musicant (director general, CRIF)
Jeremy Newmark (executive director, Jewish Leadership Council United Kingdom)
Uriel Rosenthal (professor of government, Leiden University, Netherlands)
Rene Shmuel Sirat (former chief rabbi, France)
Shmuel Trigano (professor of sociology, University of Paris X-Nanterre)
From the Former Soviet Union
Oleg Budnitskii (professor of history, academic director, International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Moscow)
Mikhail Chlenov (Head of the Russian Vaad; secretary general, Euro-Asain Jewish Congress)
From Latin America:
Bernardo Kliksberg (chief adviser, United Nations Development Program for Latin America and the Caribbean)
Daniel Liwerant (co-chairman, Immigration and Absorption Committee of the Jewish Agency)
Judit Liwerant ( Head of the Graduate School of Social and Political Science of National University of Mexico)
From Australia:
Jeremy Jones (director of international & community affairs, Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council)
From Israel:
Aharon Abramovitch (director general, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Yaacov Amidror (vice president, Lander InstituteAcademic Center, Jerusalem)
Uzi Arad (professor, Inter-Disciplinary College)
Daniel Ayalon (former ambassador to the United States, co-chair, Nefesh B’Nefesh)
Yaakov Bar Simantov (professor, Hebrew University)
Aluf Benn (columnist, Ha’aretz)
Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Weinberg Professor of Political Sociology, Tel Aviv University)
Moshe Ben-Atar (director, Zionist Council in Israel)
Gabriella Blum (assistant professor, Harvard Law School)
Meir Buzaglo (The Institute of Arts and Letters; Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University)
Ruth Calderon
Ruth Calderon (founder and director, Alma Home for Hebrew Culture Tel Aviv-Haifa-New York)
Rivka Carmi (president, Ben-Guiron University)
Yuval Cherlow (head of Zevulun Hammer Yeshivat Hahesder in Petach Tikva)
Uzi Dayan (TAFNIT)
Isaac Devash (business and social entrepreneur)
Efrat Duvdevani (director general, Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee)
Oded Eran (representative in Israel, World Jewish Congress)
Sami Friedrich (CEO, Shaldor)
Ruth Gavison (professor of human rights at the Hebrew University)
Helena Glazer (president, World WIZO)
Yosef Gorni (professor emeritus of Jewish History and director of the Institute of Jewish Press and Communication, Tel-Aviv University)
Daniel Grossman (Israel drector, American Jewish Congress)
Jack Habib (director, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute)
Israel Harel (chairman, The Institute for Zionist Strategies)
Alan Hoffmann (director of the education department, Jewish Agency)
David Horvitz (editor in chief, The Jerusalem Post)
Avraham Infeld (president, Chais Family Foundation)
Benjamin Ish-Shalom (rector, Beit Morasha)
David Landau (editor in chief, Ha’aretz)
Eran Lerman (representative in Israel, American Jewish Committee)
Shalom Lipner (special coordinator for public diplomacy, Prime Minister’s Office)
Israel Maimon (government secretary)
Herzel Makov (director general, Begin Center)
Dan Meridor (former minister of finance and former minister of justice)
Sallai Meridor (Israel Ambassador to the United States)
Shlomo Molla (department head for Zionist Activities In Israel, WZO)
Isaac Molho (managing partner, E.S. Shimron, I. Molho, Persky & Co. Law Offices; former prime minister’s envoy to Chairman Arafat; chief Israeli negotiator at the Wye Plantation talks; chairman, Israel Museum)
Yaakov Neeman (founding partner, Herzog, Fox and Neeman Law Office; former justice minister of Justice and former finance minister)
Leonid Nevzlin (chairman, NADAV Foundation; chairman, International Board of Governors of Beth Hatefutso)
Avi Pazner (chairman of the executive, Keren Hayessod)
Haviva Pedaya (professor, Ben-Gurion University)
Sever Plotzker (economics editor, Yediot Aharonot)
Itamar Rabinovich (president, Tel Aviv University; former ambassador to the U.S.)
Avner Shalev (chairman, Yad Vashem)
Natan Sharansky (chairman, Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center)
Asaf “Asi” Shariv (incoming consul generalin New York)
Josh Schwarcz (secretary general, Jewish Agency)
Bambi Sheleg (editor-in-chief, Eeretz Acheret)
Saul Singer (opinion page editor, The Jerusalem Post)
Arnon Sofer (chair of Geo-Strategy Department, Haifa University)
Shimshon Shoshani (International CEO, Taglit-birthright Israel)
Zalman Shoval (former ambassador to the United States)
Moshe Vigdor (director general, Jewish Agency)
Ariel Weiss (director, Yad Hanadiv)
Moshe Ya’alon (retired major general; fellow, Shalem Center)
Aharon Yadlin (former education minister)
Ben Dror Yemini (opinion page editor, Ma’ariv)
JPPPI STAFF:
Yehezkel Dror (founding president)
Avinoam Bar-Yosef (director general)
Sergio DellaPergola (senior fellow)
Avi Gil (senior fellow)
Emmanuel Sivan (senior fellow)
Shalom Wald (senior fellow)
Chaim Waxman (senior fellow)
Ruth Yaron (senior fellow)
Simon Earlanger (fellow)
Dov Maimon (fellow)
Yehuda Mirsky (fellow)
Israel Pupko (fellow)
Einat Wilf (fellow)
Yogev Karasenty (associate fellow)
Ita Alcalay (projects coordinator)
SOLDIER OF JERUSALEM
33 years after the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War - which will be marked this coming Thursday - the road which links Jerusalem's French Hill and Pisgat Zeev neighborhoods will be named after the late General (Res.) Uzi Narkiss. Narkiss was Central Region Commander during the Six Day War and responsible for the liberation of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Day is celebrated as a national holiday on Iyar 28th, the day on which the city was re-united. As always, this year Jerusalem Day will be marked by a central ceremony to be held on Ammunition Hill, with the participation of Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The special Hallel thanksgiving prayer will be recited in synagogue services.
Upon his retirement from the IDF in 1968, Narkiss joined the Jewish Agency, serving as the Director General of the Aliyah Department. Later he was elected member of the Zionist Executive and served as chairman of the Information Department. From 1992 until 1995 Narkiss was the Chairman of the Zionist delegation to North America. He died in 1997.
Uzi Narkiss wrote two books on Jerusalem: One Jerusalem and A Soldier of Jerusalem, published by the Ministry of Defense, which is a personal description of the campaigns in which Narkiss participated from the time of the founding of the State.
From left to right: Generals Uzi Narkiss, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin entering the Old city of Jerusalem June 1967
ISRAEL IN ONTARIO
On Jerusalem Day, a mobile trailer will make the rounds of Jewish schools in Ontario and hold a variety of programs on the subject of Jerusalem and the State of Israel. Offer Isseroff, Jewish Agency emissary in Canada, emphasized that Ontario has an extensive Jewish education network, which encompasses 10,000 youngsters who attend Jewish day schools and another 5,000 who attend Hebrew school and Sunday school.
This week Ontario's Israel Festival drew to a close. As part of the festival, Jewish Agency youth movement shlichim in Toronto, set out for the six smaller communities between Toronto and the capital Ottawa - London, Evansound, Niagara, Saint Catherines, Waterloo, Kitchener and Peterburg, to organize various events about Israel.
According to Isseroff, there are 23 small communities in Ontario, some with just a few dozen Jews and others with hundreds of Jews. Unlike the Jewish communities in Toronto and Ottawa, these communities are not organized in federations, and obtain their Jewish services from the Canadian Jewish Congress.
During the course of the Israel Festival, which took place in recent weeks, Jewish Agency shlichim associated with the Young Judea, Habonim Dror, Hashomer Hatzair and Betar youth movements held a variety of Israel-related activities in each of the small communities. These include, Israeli history, songs and folk-dancing. At the end of each event, the six community leaders were presented with a book of pictures on Israel.
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WOMEN ASSUME LEADERSHIP
This week the first center for developing women's leadership opened in Israel, designed to train women for leadership roles in all areas of public life in Israel: politics, education, the academic world, business, industry, the economy and management. The center, which was established by the Jewish Agency in conjunction with WIZO Israel, will operate via two regional branches - one in Haifa and the other in Beersheva.
A hundred women, half from the north of Israel and half from the south, who were chosen from among 380 candidates, will participate in the center's year-long training program. Participants in the program represent all sectors of Israeli society: veteran Israelis and new immigrants, religious and secular, and women from minority groups. According to the figures provided by the Jewish Agency's Israel Department, 70% of the participants are veteran Israelis and 30% are new immigrants, including those from the FSU and Ethiopia.
The courses will be given by Israel's top lecturers, academics, MKs ministers, businesspeople, and experts on communications and organizational strategy. Those participating in the program will be able to obtain advice and support even after they have completed the course and entered public life.
According to Dr. Dalia Fisman, who heads the Jewish Agency's team for promoting initiatives, the program is designed to promote female leadership through social and cultural integration, and increase awareness in Israeli society of the importance of the integration of women in public life.
The project's inauguration ceremonies, held in Haifa and Beersheva, were attended by Paula Edelstein, who chairs the Jewish Agency's Israel Committee, Helena Glazer, Chairperson of the World WIZO Executive, Thelma Neri, who chairs WIZO Israel, MK Professor Judith Naot (Shinui) and MK Professor Naomi Hazan (Meretz).
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TORAH SCROLLS IN THE CELLARS OF THE NKVD
61 rare Torah scrolls, hundreds of years old, stolen from Russia's Jews by the Communist regime, were this week returned to the Jewish community with the assistance of the Jewish Agency. After being examined and carefully restored, the ancient scrolls were distributed among synagogues all over Russia, and will once again serve the worshippers, as in years gone by.
Alla Levy, head of the Jewish Agency delegation in Russia, reports that following lengthy negotiations an agreement was signed last week between the Russian National Archives, the Russian Jewish Congress, and Russian Jewish religious organizations. Under the agreement, the Archives transferred most of the Torah scrolls which had been held for more than 70 years, to the Russian Jewish Congress. In return the Congress agreed to provide financial support for projects at the Archives.
Congress director Zinovy Kogan, believes that the Torah scrolls originated in the NKVD Archives (the body that preceded the KGB), and which served the Communist authorities during the Stalin era. The Torah scrolls were probably brought to the archives during the 1930s, when Stalin ordered the closure of all synagogues in Russia.
According to Kogan, some of the scrolls were severely damaged: "I was brokenhearted when I saw that the parchment had been torn and burnt. These scrolls were written by Jewish artists generations ago. They were also severely damaged by what appeared to be footprints and other shapes. We hope to be able to raise the necessary funds to restore the scrolls to their former glory," said Kogan.
As a result of the return of the Torah scrolls, the Congress, led by Russia's Chief Rabbi Avraham Shayevich, is preparing to open a training center for scribes, to tend to the sacred books being returned to Russia's Jewish communities.
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ELECTIONS FOR RABBI OF GREATER KIEV
Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, chief rabbi of the Kiev's Brodsky synagogue, was last week elected as chief rabbi of the United Jewish Community of Greater Kiev. Avi Katzman, Jewish Agency emissary in Kiev, stated that this is the first time that a community rabbi in Ukraine has been democratically elected, rather than being appointed by overseas organizations.
18 leaders from Greater Kiev and six leaders of local Jewish organizations last Sunday unanimously elected Rabbi Azman to the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Community. Ephraim Smilanski, leader of the Ukrainian Jewish Congress who participated in the vote, said that the Jews of Kiev have been preparing for this event for 2 years, since the establishment of the United Jewish Community. Smilanski said that Rabbi Azman has been widely respected by the community for several years, but everyone wanted to wait for the completion of the renovations to the Brodsky synagogue, which was reopened several weeks ago.
Rabbi Azman is a representative of the Chabad movement, which runs Kiev's Brodsky Synagogue. The Ukrainian chief rabbi, Rabbi Bleich is associated with the Karlin Chassidic sect, which has a separate synagogue in the city.
According to Jewish Agency estimates, there are 105,000 Jews in the greater Kiev area, including 70,000 in the city. The Kiev district is spread over a 29,000 km. area, three times larger than the State of Israel. Since the beginning of the year 5,500 olim have arrived in Israel from Ukraine, 350 from Kiev itself.
THIS WEEK IN ISRAEL
With the completion of the IDF withdrawal from the security zone in South Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Bark warned that the IDF would react severely toward anyone who would harm communities in the north of Israel. During this past week, residents of the north spent much time in shelters, following heavy exchange of fire between the IDF and Hezbollah forces, during which five Lebanese civilians were killed. Many residents of Kiryat Shmonah, who left the town to stay with relatives in other areas following the tense situation, have not yet returned home.
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Thousands of South Lebanese Army soliders and their families who fled this week to Israel, will receive the status of foreign workers. Other SLA soldiers chose to surrender to the Lebanese authorities and to Amal and Hezbollah.
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A two-year old Israeli girl, Shalev Shabbat, was seriously burned all over her body at the beginning of the week, when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli civilian car that drove through Jericho. Three other passengers were lightly injured. In response, the Government of Israel, closed all territories under the control of the Palestinian Authority to tourists and Israeli citizens.
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A report published yesterday by Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein and State Attorney Edna Arbel concerning funds received by President Ezer Weizman from the billionaire Eduard Saroussi did not recommend indicting the President. Nonetheless, the report faulted Weizman's behavior. As a result of the report, opposition and coalition politicians are calling on Weizman to resign.
CHABAD RE-KINDLES JEWISH FLAME
The Jewish flame was re-kindled this week in Ukraine at Lag B'Omer festivities organized by Chabad. At a parade in Zhitomir, Ukrainian Minister of Religion, Viktor Bandarenka, noted with pride the fact that Judaism could be practiced unhampered and that the Jewish community felt free to openly march through the center of town.
Eight hundred youth and adults took part in the procession, displaying traditional Jewish symbols such as tefillin, tsedaka boxes, Shabbat candles, and prayerbooks. Signs in Russian called for the people to "Participate in Torah Study," "Eat Kosher," and the like. Also participating were Mayor Leonid Dimenchuk and Deputy Mayor Stanislav Karnatovsky, as well as Rabbi Shmuel Plotkin, the Chabad representative from Berdichev, originally from New York, and Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, the Chabad representative in Zhitomir, who organized the event.
Five hundred and fifty boys and girls, age 8 to 15, from 35 cities in western Ukraine, also took part in a traditional Lag B'Omer bonfire the previous evening in a forest clearing on the outskirts of the city. The sparkle in their eyes as they sat around the fire, singing popular Israeli and chassidic songs was but a reflection of the spark in their souls as they celebrated one of the most upbeat Jewish holidays, into the wee hours of the night.
Rabbi Wilhelm, an Israeli who has been in Zhitomir for six years, reports that Chabad has ongoing contact with over a thousand youngsters in 13 regions. Working through Jewish Agency shlichim, local communities, synagogues, and Jewish schools, the organization conducts a variety of activities such as Shabbat and holiday celebrations, summer camps, and the like.
Robert M. Goot
President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Robert M Goot AM SC is a barrister practicing at the NSW bar and was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2000.
He has held a number of leadership positions in the Jewish Community over the last 40 years, including:
• Secretary of the Hillel Foundation 1965-1972;
• Chairman of the Australian Campaign for the Rescue of Australian Jewry 1972-1980;
• Hon Secretary and Vice President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies 1972-1978;
• President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies 1978-1982;
• Hon Secretary of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry 1972-74, 1986-87;
Vice President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry 1978-1982;
• Vice President of Moriah College 1986-87;
• President of Moriah College 1989-1996;
• President Sydney Jewish Museum 1996-2000;
In 1988 he was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia for services to the Jewish Community;
In 1994 he was awarded the Jewish Community Services:
• Communal Leadership Award; and
• Outstanding Jew Award
On 26 November 2007 he was elected President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the elected
representative organisation of the Australian Jewish community.
On 26 January 2009 he was elected as a Vice President and member of the Executive Committee
of the World Jewish Congress.
In addition he is currently active as:
• Hon Life Member of NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (since 1986)
• Life Patron and Trustee of Moriah College (since 1999)
Lior Herman
Lior has been volunteering with the World Jewish Congress for the past 3 years. Through his capacity as a lay leader, Lior is heading the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps (WJDC) Durban II Task Force. The WJDC network engages young leaders in practical diplomatic advocacy to address the needs of Diaspora Jewry and extending the reach and scope of the World Jewish Congress. Lior is also a founding member of KolDor, a global network of emerging young Jewish leaders who are committed to shifting the existing paradigms in the Jewish world and strengthening Jewish Peoplehood.
He was co-opted onto the Executive Committee of the WJC at its meeting in Jerusalem in October 2009.
Lior Herman is a Fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) in Brussels and is a visiting lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2005, where he teaches European Political Economy and EU-Israel relations. He is a member of the boards of the Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration and of the Academic Board of the Munich European Forum, a non-for-profit society researching and teaching on a multitude of international and European issues. Lior is also a Director on the Board of the UK Friends of the Abraham Fund.
Between 2001 and 2005 Lior Herman was a senior government official at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, where he held the position of a Head of Department for Insurance Agencies and Agents at the Capital Markets Division, as well as Director for International Organisations and the European Union at the International Division. In his position at the International Division he was extensively involved in policy making, international negotiations and diplomacy with regard to Israel’s economic relations with the European Union and organisations such as the WTO and the OECD. He has been a non-resident member of Israel’s delegation to the WTO, with a particular focus on GATS negotiations, and had a leading role in negotiating Israel’s economic and trade chapter in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
Lior Herman has published in academic journals on a range of issues including Israel-EU relations, international trade, services, EU–Mediterranean relations, regional cooperation and international money laundering. He also serves as an adviser to governments and international organizations.
Lior is now completing his Ph.D. on international trade in services at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Flo Kaufmann BA
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Born: UK Married: Aubrey Kaufmann
Flo is Chairman of the Council of the European Jewish Congress.
She holds a number of offices on various Jewish international bodies: Chairman of the UK Friends of Haifa Foundation, Vice President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council. She is a member of the Jewish Human Rights Coalition UK, and has led the programme of lobbying various embassies concerning the Durban Review Conference Process. She sits on the advisory board of the Three Faiths Forum.
She is in regular contact with Her Majesty’s Government at a high level, and has visited many countries, including Israel, Russia, and Argentina, advocating for Israel and Jewish freedom of expression, meeting the political leadership, and leaders of Jewish communities.
She is in business partnership in real estate, with her husband, Aubrey Kaufmann. They have two grown up, married sons, two daughters-in-law, and 4 beautiful grandchildren.
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Dr. Tomas Kraus
Born March 19, 1954 in Prague
After graduating High School in Prague he studied English, German and Russian at the School of Languages in Prague.
1975 - 1979 studied at the Faculty of Law at the Charles University in Prague
Already at the time of his High-School studies he was active in the cultural life of the Czech capital, mainly in the Jazz Section of Musicians´ Union. He was in charge of production of the Prague Jazz Days and other festivals, he contributed with articles and interviews to the Jazz Bulletin and other music magazines. The Jazz Section was persecuted by the Communist regime and became a part of the Czech dissident movement.
After graduating Law at the Charles University in Prague he worked for Czech national record company SUPRAPHON where he was in charge of exports and, since 1984, headed the Music Video Department.
In 1985 ART CENTRUM, Czech agency for creative artists, offered him a position of a project manager for EXPO 86 World Exhibition, later he became the assistant to the General Manager and then the head of commercial department for audiovisual presentations, advertising, exhibitions and architecture.
In 1990 the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities asked Dr. Kraus to help him in revitalizing the life of Czech Jewish community. Since 1991 he is the Executive Director of the Federation in which position he was rebuilding the whole infrastructure of Czech Jewish Communities. He was in charge of legislation and by-laws, creating the position of the Federation visa-vis the Czech authorities as well as international Jewish organizations and other entities. He has been on a long-term basis also dealing with Czech and foreign media. His main task was, however, the negotiations for return of Jewish property and for compensation for Holocaust survivors. Under his leadership the Federation was among the first to achieve successfully the restitution of communal real-estate including the return of the Jewish Museum in Prague. The Federation was also able to initiate the adoption of legislative framework for individual restitution of Jewish property. Dr. Kraus participated in all efforts of rectifying the property injustice from the times of the Holocaust (Shoah) since the 90ies on national as well as on international top political levels. The Holocaust survivors – together with other Nazi victims in the Czech Republic – were enabled to receive several types of compensations and aid from various projects initiated or coordinated by the Federation.
Since 1999 Dr. Kraus is active also as a professor, teaching for New York University and other educational institutions and training programs in Prague. His subjects are mainly Holocaust and Jewish Studies.
Dr.Kraus served in several international Jewish institutions as a member of the executive, such as the European Council of Jewish Communities, the European Jewish Congress. He was elected twice the President of B´nai B´rith Prague Renaissance and the President of Czech Society of Christians and Jews. In January 2009 he was elected the Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress.
Both parents of Dr. Kraus were Holocaust survivors. His father, Frantisek R.Kraus, was a journalist before World War II, he was working with famous newspapers Prager Tagblatt, Prager Presse and others, he participated in founding the Czechoslovak News Agency CTK and the Czechoslovak Radio where he was active as editor and newsreader in German, English and French. He was a part of the famous Prague Circle, a group of Jewish intellectuals and writers such as Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz Werfel and others. His closest friend and teacher was the “Fierce Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch. He miraculously survived the Holocaust, though he was among the first to go to Terezin, later to Auschwitz and other slave-labor camps. Escaping from a death-march at the end of the war he was able to write a report about all events he went through. This book titled “Gas, Gas, then Fire …”, published in September 1945, was the very first Czech report on the Holocaust. Other titles followed, focusing mainly on the same subject (“…and Bring Back Our Disseminated Ones”, „David Will Live“, „The Changed Soil”, “The Hangman Without a Shadow” etc). In the fifties he was persecuted by the Communist regime, he had to leave CTK and Czechoslovak Radio and he could earn his living only by occasional writing. He died in 1967.
The mother of Dr. Kraus, Alice Krausova also survived the Holocaust in several concentration camps (Terezin, Auschwitz, Märzdorf, Kudowa etc), however as the only one from a large family of 7 children. After the war she was active in the Czech education and schooling system. She died in 1988.
Dr. Tomas Kraus is married, has three children.
Moshe Ronen
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Moshe Ronen is a Toronto-based lawyer, international business advisor and prominent community leader. Mr. Ronen is Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, National Chair of the Canada-Israel Committee and head of its special Missions Committee. By age 20, he was a well-known human rights activist, and later was the youngest president the Canadian Jewish Congress ever elected.
Mr. Ronen was educated at Toronto’s Associated Hebrew School and The Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. He obtained a degree in political science and economics from York University and a law degree from the University of Windsor.
Mr. Ronen began his volunteer communal work in the 1970s when elected head of the Jewish Students’ Network, a national activist campus movement which represented students across Canada and the U.S. He later joined the World Jewish Congress Executive. In the interests of world Jewry and human rights, he has traveled to the former Soviet Union, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Latvia and India.
He advocated with Avital Sharansky for the release of her husband, Natan, and other prisoners of Zion and was active most notably at the first American-Russian super-summit, between Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s. In conjunction with Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, he led an international student protest to then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s 1985 visit to Bitburg, Germany’s cemetery which contained Nazi SS graves.
He has worked closely on public advocacy for Israel with a number of the country’s prime ministers, cabinet ministers and opposition leaders. He also has organized missions to Israel with Canadian government (federal, provincial and municipal), business, labour and ethnocultural community leaders.
Mr. Ronen is a charismatic public speaker, noted debater and media commentator on Middle East issues and public affairs. In 1996 Moshe was recognized by the Jewish National Fund with its prestigious Jerusalem of Gold Award for his outstanding communal service. Two years later, the Government of Ontario recognized him with a Volunteer Service Award, presented to that province’s most outstanding community leaders.
In early 1999, as President of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Mr. Ronen, a child of Holocaust survivors, together with his father, Mordechai, accompanied Canada’s Prime Minister on an official visit to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Later, under Mr. Ronen’s leadership, Holocaust memorialization in Canada achieved a major success when each Canadian province officially legislated and recognized Yom Hashoah as the day to remember and educate about the Holocaust.
Mr. Ronen is a member of the Board of Directors of two leading schools, the North York General Hospital, and several other major charities and institutions.
Mr. Ronen is a director of First Capital Realty Corporation, a growth-oriented publicly traded Canadian real estate developer and holding company with a growing shopping centre portfolio as well as a member of the Advisory Board of Skylink Aviation Group of Companies Inc., which specializes in emergency relief operations for the United Nations and many governments.
Mr. Ronen is an advisor to philanthropists Gerald Schwartz, Chairman and CEO of Onex Inc., and Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books and Music Inc., and is their Managing Director for Canada-Israel affairs.
Mr. Ronen is married to Dara, and the couple has two children, Sari and Shye.
Tamar Shchory
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Tamar Shchory, student leader.
Born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel.
Activism & Professional Experience:
Tamar has started her Activism at the age of 15 as an active member of BBYO, Bnei Brith Youth Organization. Tamar was elected as the President of the Southern District of the youth movement in Israel and ever since was active in different social fields and in many leadership positions.
Ben Gurion University:
During her University years Tamar was an active member of Hillel in Ben Gurion University where she held the position of a JCSC (Jewish Campus Service Corps), a coordinator for students' involvement and activism.
As a first degree student, Tamar was very active in promoting Social Justice while establishing two student groups; the first, for promoting women rights within the Israeli Society and the other, for promoting social justice for workers and weakened groups of society.
Tamar was a prominent student activist in her faculty and was elected as the Chairperson of the Ben Gurion Student association, the representative student body that's responsible for the welfare and for keeping the rights of the the17, 000 university students. Tamar has always emphasized the importance of contribution to society and as the Chair she was leading many processes to strengthen the connection between the students, the city of Beer Sheva and the Negev.
WUJS: Tamar has recently finished a two year term as the Chairperson of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS); a global, dynamic, grassroots umbrella organization for connecting & representing Jewish Students worldwide. During her term, Tamar has managed to prevent the organization from closing, after inheriting WUJS with deep debts that threatened its existence. Tamar has raised the needed funds both to cover all the past debts and to continue with the important activities for Jewish students.
As the Chairperson of WUJS, Tamar has represented the Jewish students in a variety of forums-
A Presidium member in "Hava’ad Hapoel" of the World Zionist Organization (WZO)
A member in the Directorate of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and its Education Committee
A member of the Jewish Agency's Education Committee as part of its Board of Governors
A member in the Board of Governors of the World Jewish Congress (WJC)
Other Leadership activities:
A Presidium member of the National Union of Israeli Students
A member of the establishing committee of the Social-Economic College in Beer Sheva
A Member of the Excellence Program of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute
An Israeli Representative in Student Delegations to Ukraine, Poland, the U.S etc
A representative member in the student council of the Political science department, Ben Gurion University.
An Active member of "Marot"; WUJS Leadership program
A graduate of the Jewish Social Leadership program of Hillel.
A Coordinator in "Gesher", an NGO for bridging gaps between various sectors in the Israeli Society.
A Youth Coordinator in a community center in Jerusalem.
Education:
Tamar is a student for MA in Law, in Bar Ilan University.
Tamar has BA in Political science and Israel studies from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and she's a graduate from the Hebrew University High School in Jerusalem.
Army Service:
Tamar is serving as an Education Officer in the IDF reserved duty. During Tamar's Military service she has served as the Education coordinator of the "Golani" 13th combat unit and as the Education officer of the whole area of Hebron. Tamar has also served as a Crew Commander in the Education Officers Training Course.
Awards & Achievements:
Award for Academic Excellence, Israel’s studies department, Ben Gurion University
Award for high Academic achievements, Political science department, Ben Gurion University
Award for an exemplary cadet, Education Officers Training Course, IDF
Award for an Excellence soldier, Education soldiers course, IDF
Contact info:
HYPERLINK "mailto:Tamarshch@yahoo.com" Tamarshch@yahoo.com
Tel: (+972)52 80-20-848
Rabbi Marc Schneier
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Rabbi Marc Schneier is a leading personality and spokesperson for the Jewish community. The Forward, in its annual survey of Jewish leaders, named Rabbi Schneier as one of the 50 most prominent Jews in the United States, and Newsweek Magazine listed him as one of America's top 50 rabbis. As one of the leading voices in the field of intergroup and race relations, reconciliation and understanding, he is at the forefront of strengthening ties among the Jewish, African-American, Latino and Asian-American ethnic communities, as well as promoting dialogue and cooperation among the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faith communities. Rabbi Schneier has been honored by the United States Congress and the State of Israel as an advocate for human and civil rights and religious and ethnic tolerance.
Rabbi Schneier is President and Founder of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and serves as Chairman of the World Jewish Congress American Section, as well as its Commission on Intergroup Relations. He is the past President of the North American Board of Rabbis, a federation of presidents and past presidents of rabbinical boards from more than 50 major cities across the United States and Canada, and is past president of the New York Board of Rabbi's, the world's largest interdenominational rabbinic body representing the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements. Rabbi Schneier is founding rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, and The New York Synagogue in Manhattan. He serves on myriad boards and executive committees, including the Drum Major Institute, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations and The Jewish National Fund.
In January 2000, Rabbi Schneier's book SHARED DREAMS was published, documenting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s relationship with the Jewish Community, which, along with the FFEU's companion student guide program, tells the tale of Black and Jewish cooperation in the civil rights era to more than 12,000 students in more than 500 high schools, Hillel houses and historically Black colleges across America.
Rabbi Schneier has published and lectured extensively on the subject of intergroup relations and is a frequent guest on television and radio, appearing on such television programs as: The Today Show (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), Good Day New York (FOX), CBS Sunday Edition, CBS Morning Show, CNN, Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, Religion & Ethics Weekly (PBS), on evening news programs WABC, WNBC, WCBS, FOX, WWOR, WPIX and radio programs on WABC, WBLS, WKTU, WCBS and NPR. He also played a rabbi in the Miramax motion picture, The Substance of Fire.
Rabbi Schneier is the recipient of many awards, including The Kelly Miller Smith Ecumenical Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, The NAACP Martin Luther King, Jr. "Measure Of A Man Award", The Ellis Island Medal of Honor, The Civil Rights Leadership Award in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal, the American Civil Rights Education Services Civil Rights Award, and the Interfaith Award from the Islamic Center of Long Island.
Rabbi Schneier is a graduate of Yeshiva University and resides in New York City and Westhampton Beach. He is married to Tobi Rubinstein Schneier and is the proud father of Brendan.
Edward (Eduard) Shifrin
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Edward (Eduard) Shifrin was born on 07 December 1960 in Dnepropetrovsk. He graduated from school in 1977.
From 1977-1983 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in 'physicochemical exploration of the metallurgical process', from where he qualified as metallurgical engineer.
From July 1983 to March 1993 he worked in varying positions at 'Dniprospecstal' in Zaporizhzhya.
In 1992 he received a PhD in metallurgy from Moscow's Institute of Steel and Alloys.
From 1993-1995 he worked in representative office of Linful International LTD”, in England.
From 1995 to 1998 he was head of representative office of Midland Recourses Inc in Canada.
From 1998 to 2004 he was Director General Midland Recourses UK (Great Britain).
Since 1999 to he has been co-President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine.
Since 2002 he has been Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
Since2004 he has been SB Associate Director of Zaporizhsta.
In 1999 he was awarded 'Laureate of State Prize in science and techniques' as co-author of the book 'Theory of metallurgical process'.
He is currently an active Member of Board of the Kiev City Jewish Community and Union of Jewish Religious Organization of Ukraine.
He provides financial aid to FJOR in Russia. He is the main Sponsor of the reconstruction of the Rosenberg Synagogue, Kiev, Podol, and of the building of the Yeshiva at the same location.
He is married and has 3 children.
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Sara Prusky de Winkowski
Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Has a B.A. in Linguistic and a Ph.D. in Environmental Education. Was Assistant Professor at the University of the Republic of Uruguay and also worked for many years as a Translator for the United Nations Environment Program and the Center for Human Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Montevideo, Uruguay.
With reference to her community activities, is now:
• Immediate Past President of the International Council of Jewish Women
• Vice President of the World Jewish Congress
• Vice President of the Uruguayan Jewish Community (Kehila). First woman to be elected to this post.
• Member of the Board of Director of the Jewish Community in Uruguay
• Member of the Council of Jews and Christians, Uruguay
• Member of the Committee for the follow up of Democracy, Equity and Citizenship, the Uruguayan Women Umbrella Organization.
Has been:
• President of CEFIDU, the Jewish Women Umbrella organization in Uruguay.
• Member of COPREDI, the political advisory unit of the Board of Directors of the Uruguayan Jewish Community
• Member of the Board of Governors B’nai B’rith International
• Advisor to the International Women’s Council of Jews and Christians
• Vice President of International Council of Jewish Women
• Co chairperson, Committee on Development and Environment ICJW
• Co chairperson, Status of Women Committee ICJW
• Co chairperson, Latin American Regional Committee ICJW
• President of the Uruguayan Council of Jewish Women
• Member of the National Family Council (Ministry of Education)
• Member of “Friends of the Weizmann Institute”, where for many years translated, coordinated and edited a Scientific Magazine in Spanish.
Has actively participated in various World Conferences, including UN Women Conference in Nairobi and in Beijing, UN Environment Conference (ECO 92) in Rio de Janeiro, Beijing +5 and +10 in New York, UN Conference on Sustainable Development, in Johannesburg, UN Human Settlements Conference in Istanbul and in New York, as well as several other Environmental and Human Settlement conferences in Nairobi, Kenya, etc. Annually attends United Nations CSW Conference in New York.
Israel
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Steering Committee
Ronald Lauder President
Eduardo Elsztain
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Governing Board
Eduardo Elsztain, Chairman of the WJC Governing Board, was an unofficial ambassador for Argentina during the economic crisis, working with the World Jewish Congress in attempting to raise the issue of Argentinean economic reconstruction in international economic and financial institutions.
Elsztain has been a partner with Edgar Bronfman in building Hillel throughout Latin American universities and a founder of Hillel and campus activities at large; he became known to world Jewry through these important contributions.
Cobi Benatoff
Treasurer, World Jewish Congress
Born in Tel Aviv (Israel) on 15.04.1944
Living in Milan (Italy) since 1947
Married to Victoria Josefowitz for 36 years with 3 sons.
Educated in Milan up to Italian Scientific Bachelor.
Degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 1968.
Served in the Israeli army from 1962 to 1964 in Nahal and paratroops.
Managing international family business, with brother Ronn, active in industrial fishing, food industry, real estate and hi-tech.
Member of the Board of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1986 - present.
President of the Jewish Community of Milan from 1990 to 1998.
Member of the Board of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 2002 to 2006
President of European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) from 1999 to 2003.
The ECJC is the representative organization of major Communities and Institutions from 36 European Countries sponsored by the Joint Development Committee (Joint), active in Community development, leadership training, networking and developing European projects in education, social services and Jewish heritage and culture.
During this presidency:
• promoted the concept of the European GA with 3 successful meetings in Nice (1999), Madrid (2001) and Budapest (2003);
• initiated the European Day of Jewish Culture (2000) that has since become a very important annual event throughout Europe;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Presidents of Jewish Communities;
• initiated the 1st European Conference of Educational Professionals, ARACHIM, inBudapest;
• promoted, together with Joint, the 1st Leatid Program for Leadership training of European Lay Leaders and Professionals;
• obtained 1st European Representation in the World Jewish Congress Restitution Organization (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005) and in the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) (Member of the Board from 2000 until 2005);
• Member of the Executive Committee and Allocation Committee of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) from 2000 until 2005.
President of European Jewish Congress (EJC) from 2003 until 2005.
During this presidency:
• promoted relationships with small Jewish Communities and with Communities in Eastern Europe;
• promoted the article of the Financial Time co-signed by Edgar Bronfman attacking European Union’s Antisemitism;
• presided the 1st European Conference on Antisemitism in Brussels promoted by the European Commission and European Jewish Congress together with Romano Prodi and Elie Wiesel;
Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of World Jewish Congress (2005)
Vice-chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2006)
Chairman of the Policy Council of World Jewish Congress (2007 - present)
Member of the Steering Committee of World Jewish Congress (2006 – present)
For more than a decade, Cobi Benatoff’s name has been synonymous with Jewish leadership in Europe.
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Shai Hermesh
Chairman, World Jewish Congress Israel Branch
Shai Hermesh was born in Tel-Aviv in 1944.
He graduated from Tichon Hadash high-school and his military service was spent first in the Nahal brigade, and later in the paratroops brigade. As a member of the "Yegev" core of the Ha'Noar Ha’Oved (Labor Party youth movement), he joined Kibbutz Kfar Azza, on the Gaza Strip border.
Shai Hermesh is married to Hava, a teacher who specializes in computers, and is a father to 4 boys and a girl!
He earned a B.A. degree in economics and sociology and later an MBA in Business Management, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral studies in Jewish history at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Anita Shapira, were not completed, since in late 1987 he was asked to serve as Mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council and Chair of the Executive Committee at the Negev College – later to become Sapir Academic College.
For 25 years, Shai has served in the military reserve in the paratroops brigade. In the Six Day War, he took part in the battle for Jerusalem, fought in the Yom Kippur War on the Suez Canal, and in Lebanon - in the 1982 Lebanon War.
Shai Hermesh has filled a range of public positions: he is a member of the National Security Council, the Broadcasting Authority Forum, the Negev Development Authority, leadership institutions of the Kibbutz Movement, the Histadrut leadership, as well as being an active director in several public companies.
He served as the mayor of the Sha’ar Hanegev regional council for fifteen years. During his terms of office, he worked to enlarge the Pinchas Sapir College of the Negev, and to establish the Sapir Academic College, which is now Israel’s largest regional college.
As mayor of the regional council and chair of Sapir College, Shai Hermesh formed close ties with Jewish communities in Europe and the USA that donated generously and helped build the college, in particular and encourage settlement along the Gaza Strip in general.
Shai Hermesh worked in tandem with "Amdocs" - one of the world’s leading software houses, to create a major development center – "Amdocs Negev" – in Sha'ar Hanegev/Sderot.
Until the outbreak of the Intifada in 2000, he worked to promote joint regional-development programs with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – such as founding an industrial park, utilizing sewage in moshavim, and programs to train professional personnel for the Palestinian Authority in courses at the college and in Gaza.
For six straight years the regional council, under Shai’s leadership, won the Gold Prize – a prize awarded by the Minister of the Interior for excellence in financial management.
Shai Hermesh was awarded the State of Israel’s Knight of Quality Government award, an award conferred by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, for setting a personal example as a public personage heading a regional community, attentiveness to national goals, outstanding financial management in a harsh economic climate, developing general and academic education, and for contribution to klitat aliya.
In June 2002, Shai Hermesh was elected Treasurer of the Jewish Agency.
In May 2006 he took his seat in the Israeli Knesset, as a member of the Kadimma party.
Moshe Kantor
President, European Jewish Congress
Prominent public figure, international philanthropist, entrepreneur and investor. He is committed to progress and has greatly contributed to revitalizing Jewish life in Europe and beyond.
Mr. Kantor is known for his extensive involvement in community life:
Since 2007 – President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC); 2004-2007 – Chairman of the EJC Board of Governors. The EJC is a leading Jewish secular umbrella organisation that co-ordinates 40 national Jewish communities in Europe, encompassing 2.5 million Jews. The EJC’s goal is to address the world’s most pressing issues: protecting human rights, fighting xenophobia and anti-Semitism, promoting interfaith dialogue, implementing cultural and educational programmes, and remembering the Holocaust and other tragedies that claimed millions of human lives throughout the world.
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), a leading Russian secular organisation that represents the interests of the whole spectrum of modern Russian Jewry.
2005 – Initiated and organised the first “Let My People Live!” International Forum in Krakow, Poland, to mark 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among the participants and guests at the Krakow Forum were representatives from 40 countries, including 24 official delegations, led by their heads of state and government.
Since 2005 – Founder and President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation (WHF), established following the Krakow Forum. The Foundation’s goal is to support Holocaust remembrance activities for the sake of preserving the historical memory of nations all over the world and preventing future tragedies. The WHF convenes “Let My People Live!” International Forums on a regular basis.
2006 – The second “Let My People Live!” International Forum took place in Kiev, Ukraine, in September 2006 to mark 65 years since the Babi Yar tragedy. The Forum enjoyed great support from leading international institutions and organisations, such as the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), as well as high-ranking politicians from many countries.
The Forum’s participants adopted a joint World Holocaust Forum Declaration, aimed at preserving the eternal memory of the Babi Yar tragedy and its lessons, as well as the memory of the millions of victims of World War II, the Holocaust and its legacy for generations to come. The document expressed joint support for the initiative to hold the next “Let My People Live!” International Forum in November of 2008 to commemorate 70 years since die Kristallnacht.
Since 2006 – Key founder and Chairman of the European Jewish Fund (EJF), which focuses on promoting Jewish life throughout Europe by supporting programmes to reinforce Jewish identity and Jewish pride, especially by re-connecting people with their rich and vital Jewish heritage. The Fund also focuses on addressing pressing concerns threatening Jewish life in Europe, such as assimilation, anti-Semitism and racism. The primary principle of the Fund is to maintain a round table where all members can speak openly and participate as equals.
2007 – Chairman of the Organising Committee of the International Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, which was convened in Luxembourg in May of 2007.The Conference hosted an unprecedented gathering of leading international experts on nuclear non-proliferation. Over 50 of the most authoritative experts from 14 countries took part in the Conference, including Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei.
The vital importance of pressing nuclear security issues, the growing danger of the existing non-proliferation system, which is drifting toward collapse, and the reality of the nuclear threat prompted the initiative to convene the Conference.
The final Declaration of the Conference on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe was presented in Moscow on December 18, 2007. This document was circulated to heads of state throughout the world, top-tier politicians and heads of major international organisations. The declaration contains proposals to prevent the collapse of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime and offers a set of practical steps to strengthen this regime, as a positive agenda for the future. The Luxemburg Conference was transformed into the permanent Luxembourg Forum.
2001 – Founded the International Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery. The Museum houses a diverse collection of works by outstanding Jewish artists of Russian origin who are internationally recognized for their genius. This project is an essential part of the concept called the Jewish Positioning System (JPS), created to promote a favourable public opinion of Jews based on positive examples, as well as underscoring their contributions to all realms of society. At the same time, the JPS programme is intended to strengthen the Jewish identity and prevent Jews from assimilating.
Initiator and supporter of a pan-European programme for effectively counteracting the escalation of xenophobia, anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in Europe, and for fighting extremism and other threats to civilization. The programme brings together various spheres, including education, culture and religion, and is endorsed by many political leaders and prominent institutions, such as the Council of Europe and the European Union.
Business and Science
After graduation, Mr. Kantor headed a leading Soviet laboratory engaged in developing spacecraft. A reflector satellite was designed using his research and subsequently launched into Earth orbit to illuminate the planet’s surface with reflected sunlight.
1993 – Took the helm at Acron agrochemical company. Under Mr. Kantor’s supervision, Acron has become one of the world’s leading fertilizer producers and distributors. The Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs have recognized Acron as ‘Best Russian Enterprise’ nine times.
1996-2000 – Economic Adviser to the Chairman of the Federation Council (the Upper House of the Russian Parliament) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
2000 – Contributed to founding the National Institute for Corporate Reform (NICR), a non-profit organisation uniting renowned politicians, business leaders and scholars to provide effective support for corporate reform in Russian industry. Kantor is currently President of the NICR.
Personal Data
Education
Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (1976)
PhD (Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems, 1981)
Honorary Doctorate from Tel-Aviv University (2004)
Government awards of several countries
Order of Friendship (Russia, 1998)
Order of Merit (Poland, 2005)
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine, 2006)
Born on September 8, 1953, in Moscow, Russia. Has a son and a daughter.
Alexander Machkevitch
President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
Dr. Alexander Machkevitch was born on February 23, 1954, in Bishkek city, Kyrgyzstan.
1976 — Graduated from the Kyrgyz State University
1981 — has got PhD degree in Pedagogic
2004 — has got DSC degree in History
1987 — became engaged in business activities
Currently Mr. Machkevitch is:
- Co-founder of Kazakhstan mineral resources corporation and Eurasian Financial-Industrial Company,
- CEO of Eurasian Bank (Kazakhstan),
- President of Eurasian Industrial Association (EIA, Kazakhstan).
Jewish activities of Mr. Machkevitch include:
Since 1999 — elected President of the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan (JCK),
Since 2001 — Executive Board member of the European Jewish Congress (EJC),
Since 2002 — elected President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),
Since 2004 — member of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Steering Committee,
Since 2005 — elected President of KEREN HAYESOD (United Israel Appeal) in the FSU.
Evelyn Sommer
Chair, North American Jewish Congress
Evelyn Sommer was born in Parana, Argentina, in 1937. She graduated in Latin American Studies from Columbia University, New York.
In 1967, she was appointed director of the Latin American Department of the Jewish Agency for Israel in New York, a post which she held until 1983. Two years earlier, she became the official representative of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York and its Commissions on Human Rights and on the Status of Women.
Since 1970, Evelyn Sommer has acted as vice president of UNICEF's NGO Committee. She has also headed various WIZO delegations to international conferences and co-chaired the Jewish Organizations Committee in Nairobi. Her role as WIZO representative to the United Nations has taken her to communities in the furthest places. She spent a month in the then Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Mrs. Sommer also regularly attuned meetings of the Economic Commission for Latin America, and twice met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In 2002, she was elected Chairman of the Jewish Organizations' Caucus at the UN. A year later, she presided over the 23rd World WIZO Conference attended by 1,000 delegates. Since the outset of her activities, she has undertaken a wide range of speaking engagements throughout the world. From 1985 to 1998, Mrs. Sommer was a director of the American-Israel Investment Corporation.
In 1990, the American Section of the World Jewish Congress elected her as Chairman, a post she held until January 2007. In 2001, she chaired the Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Jerusalem and has since regularly presided over meetings of the WJC's Governing Board. Mrs. Sommer represented the WJC at important international meetings such as the OSCE conferences on anti-Semitism in Berlin/Germany (2004) and Cordoba/Spain (2005). In 2005, she was also nominated to the WJC's Steering Committee.
Evelyn Sommer is married to the architect Fred Sommer. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Jack Terpins
President, Latin American Jewish Congress
Personal
Name: Jack Leon Terpins
Date of birth: October 2, 1948
Place: Sao Paulo - Brazil
Married with Mrs. Denise Goldfarb Terpins
Sons (3): Rodrigo, Ticiana and Michel
Grandsons (2): Max and Fred
Professional
Civil Engineer. Armando Alvares School of Engineering, 1973.
Engineer in Labor Health and Safety. Oswaldo Cruz Higher Chemistry Institute, 1974.
Founder of Construterpins Ltda., Construction Terpins Ltda., 1999.
Community
Started his community activity in 1967, in Hebraica / Sao Paulo/BR.
At Hebraica, after being the Director of the Basketball Department, he became Director of the Sports Department, and in 1991, at 42 years of age, he became the youngest president of the institution. He held that position until 1993.
President of Hebraica / Sao Paulo Board, 1996 - 1997.
President of CONIB - Jewish Confederation of Brazil - 1997 - 2007
Vice-president of the Ashkenazi Jewish Organization(Beth El Synagogue).
Founder and Finance Director of Beth Chabad - Itaim Synagogue.
Elected Community Leader of the Year in 2000 (by the Jewish Congregation of Sao Paulo - Ledor - Vador). Award presented by Eli Wiesel (Nobel Prize Laureate).
Elected Volunteer of the Year in 2000, by Ten Yad.
Other Positions and Activities
President of the Latin American Jewish Congress
President of the Maccabi Brazilian Confederation.
President of the Latin American Maccabi Confederation.
Vice-president of Maccabi World Union
Merit Award of the Brazilian Ecumenical Brotherhood.
Great Masonic Recognition, Eastern Brazil.
Companion Paul Harris SP - Sumaré - Rotary Club.
Founding member of LICRA - International League against Racism.
Finance Director of Corinthians Paulista Sport Club.
Friend of the Brazilian Navy.
Representative of the Brazilian Government at the Durban Conference.
Governor of the Board, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Governor of the Board, Weizman Institute.
Director of the Friends of Israel Society.
Member of the Board, World Jewish Congress
As president of the LAJC, Terpins lead a project named ITINGA, which consisted in the adoption of a poor city in Brazil that will be sponsored by the Jewish Community. This project was developed in the framework of the national program “Zero Hunger”, created by president Lula da Silva. Itinga, which is a very poor city, received ambulances and an emergency room donated by the Albert Einstein hospital. They also gave food and water supply to the citizens. This project was example for other organizations and communities of the region.
Honorary Vice-Presidents
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Matityahu Droblas
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Married +2
Born in Warsaw, 1931
1940 entered Warsaw Ghetto with sister and brother escaped from the ghetto in 1942, and wandered the forests and villages until 1945.
1946 left Poland. Uncles in Argentina brought him over there. In Argentina finished high-school and one year of university.
1950 Migrated to Israel.
Founded Mevo'ot Beitar Farm in the Jerusalem Mountains.
1968 elected as a Knesset Member to the 7th Knesset.
Served the 7th and 8th Knesset until 1977.
1977 elected to the Board of the Jewish Agency and to the World Zionist Movement as a member.
Appointed to be the head of the Settlement Division of the Jewish Agency, and served until 1992.
Founded 380 settlements all around the congress.
1995 appointed as chairman of the Zionist Archive until today
1995 appointed as chancellor of the Jewish Settlement Fund until today.
Chairman of the Executive of the Israeli Chapter of the World Jewish Congress until 2006
Lord Janner of Braunstone QC
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Greville Janner was born on July 11, 1928 in Cardiff. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London and during the war was evacuated to Canada, where he went to Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Quebec. He attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union and Chairman of the Cambridge Union Labour Club. He was also President of Trinity Hall’s Athletic Club. He had a Fulbright and Smith-Mundt scholarship to Harvard Law School. He was called to the bar in 1954 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1971.
In the House of Commons, Greville Janner represented Leicester North West (1970-74), then Leicester West until 1997 for the Labour Party.
He was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the main representative body of British Jewry, from 1978 to 1984, and has been a key international figure in efforts to seek compensation and restitution for Holocaust victims. He also chairs the Holocaust Educational Trust and is vice president of the World Jewish Congress.
He was instrumental in arranging the 1997 London Nazi Looted Gold conference. He was Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Employment from 1994-1996.
Greville Janner received a life peerage as Lord Janner of Braunstone in 1997 and since sits on the Labour benches in the British House of Lords.
In 1955, he married Myra Sheink from Australia, who died in 1996. He has three children and six grandchildren.
Lord Janner's hobbies include autograph collections, glass and other antiquities, swimming, speaking his nine languages and his family. He is a member of the Magic Circle and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Yehiel Leket
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Yehiel Leket was Co-Chairman of the Israel Branch of the World Jewish Congress and World Chairman of the Jewish National Fund ("Keren Kayemeth l'Yisrael", KKL). He has been member of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors since 1985. He served as acting Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency from 1994 to 1995. Previously he was as head of the Settlement Department of the World Zionist Organization and head of the Department for Rural and Urban Development of the Jewish Agency. He has also been head of Youth Aliyah. Between 1973 and 1979 Yehiel Leket was a member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for the Labor Party.
Involved in numerous cultural and educational institutions, Mr. Leket currently serves on the board of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He holds a BA from the Hebrew University, where he is presently studying towards an MA.
Maram Stern
Deputy Secretary General, Honorary Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Dr. Maram Stern is the Deputy Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress since 1996. In January 2005 he was also elected as an Honorary Vice President of the WJC. Dr. Stern is also responsible for WJC participation in inter-religious dialogue and consultations with the Christian churches and other faiths.
From 1983 to 1988 Dr. Stern served as President of the European Union of Jewish Students, the youth arm of the WJC. In 1988 he became Counsellor of the WJC and in 1989 was appointed Political Advisor to the President and to the Secretary General of the WJC.
Dr. Stern heads a representative and research office located in Brussels (Belgium).
Dr. Stern has extensive knowledge of and experience in Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, North America & South Africa. For over 15 years, he has nurtured relations with the government of the People's Republic of China, and with other governments in South East Asia (especially Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand).
In February 2004, Dr. Stern was decorated with the Golden Laurel Medal of the Republic of Bulgaria, and in September 2004 was appointed as Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Belgium (Province de Liège).
Dr. Stern holds a Doctorate in Medicine, a Doctorate in Dentistry and is a qualified maxio-facial surgeon. He has studied at the University of Vienna (Austria), Brown University in Providence (USA), the University of Erlangen (Germany) and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and was educated at the Lycée Français de Berlin.
Dr. Stern speaks English, French & German, and is currently learning Spanish. He is single, and has lived for the last 20 years in Brussels.
Kalman Sultanik
Honorary Vice-Presidents, World Jewish Congress
Kalman Sultanik was born in Miechow in 1917. He studied at the Cracow University, at the University of Economics in Tel Aviv, and at the Columbia University In New York. Later he took up the study of law and graduated from LaSalle University in Chicago.
Before World War II he was active in Jewish communal and Zionist activities. During the war he participated in the underground activities against the Nazi oppresors. He was deported to a concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. He was subsequently transferred to a camp in Dresden, Germany, and then sent on a death march to Therezinstadt, from where he was liberated in 1945.
In 1946 he organized the General Zionist movement in Germany. He was elected Zionist delegate to the 22nd World Zionist Congress held in Basle in 1946 representing the D.P. camps in Germany. He initiated an aid program for support of the Jewish survivors. Through it he helped a number of Jews to get to Israel.
In 1947 he was elected to serve on the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, Germany. He was active in numerous Zionist organizations: General Zionist Constructive Funde - as Secretary General (appointed in 1948), World Confederation of General Zionists in Israel - as Secretary General (appointed in 1949) and Executive Director (in 1952), the World Confederation of United Zionists - co-President (elected in 1972), the Zionist General Council, the ruling body of the World Zionist Organization - member (elected in 1956), the Presidium of the Zionist General Council member (elected in 1961), the World Zionist Organization - member (elected in 1972, re-elected in 1978 and 1982). Since 1973 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the United Israel Appeal. He is also Chairman of the Theodor Herzl Foundation.
In 1977 he was elected Vice President of the World Jewish Congress. In 1980 he was elected President of the Federation of Polish Jews in the US. In the years 1981-1991 he served as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. There he chaired the Committee on Anti-Semitism. He was appointed a member of the Executive Committee of Holocaust Council under Elie Wiesel, and nominated by Professor Wiesel to the Holocaust Museum committee. In 1988 he was appointed member of the International Council of the Auschwitz Museum by the Polish government, and served as its Vice Chairman. As a Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Auschwitz Museum he managed to raise approximately $30 million from European governments for the preservation of Auschwitz. In 1995 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland.
Nowadays Sultanik is a lecturer and contributor to numerous publications both in the United States and abroad. Presently he performs three functions: the Chairman of the WZO American Section, Vice Chairman of the United Israel Appeal and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress.
Professional Staff
Michael Schneider
Secretary General, World Jewish Congress
Michael Schneider served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) from December 1987 until May 2002. In this capacity he directed one of JDC's largest operations in the field of Rescue, Relief and Reconstruction.
Schneider, who was born in South Africa, began his career with JDC in 1978 after ten years of service as Chief Welfare Officer of the London Jewish Welfare Board. His first posting was as resident Country Director for Iran where he was based during and after the Khomeini revolution. After leaving Iran he continued to work on behalf of Iranian Jewry from JDC's offices in Rome. In December 1979 and 1980 respectively, he became Country Director for the Iron Curtain countries of Hungary and Czechoslovakia and for Yugoslavia. In 1982 he was sent to Ethiopia following the expulsion of ORT by the Mengistu regime and obtained permission for JDC to work among the Jewish villages in Gonder Province.
Later, when he became Executive Vice-President, JDC would play a key role in negotiations with the Ethiopian government for the exit of 14,000 Jews during Operation Solomon. Schneider served as Director-General of JDC's Israel office from 1983 through 1987 when he moved to New York to become JDC's chief professional officer. During his administration JDC provided care and maintenance for 50,000 Soviet Jewish migrants in Vienna and Ladispoli. It returned officially to the Soviet Union in 1990 andestablished its "Hesed" welfare programs which ultimately served some 260,000 elderly, impoverished Jews.
Relief efforts in the Former Soviet Union were later repeated during the economic collapse of Argentina where JDC provided emergency services for some 40,000 destitute Jews. Under Schneider's direction negotiations were conducted with the Governments of Syria and Yemen for the mass departure of those countries' Jews to Israel and the United States.
JDC also succeeded in transporting both Jews and Moslems out of Bosnia during the siege of Sarajevo, after successful negotiations with the military commanders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. During his tenure JDC expanded its humanitarian outreach to non-Jewish communities. JDC provided emergency assistance for the Tutsi population during the Rwandan massacres, free pharmacies for the besieged residents of Sarajevo, rebuilt 40 war damaged Moslem schools in Kosovo and provided trauma counselling for pregnant Bosnian women who had been raped by Serb soldiers.
Michael Schneider stepped down as Chief Executive Officer in May 2002 to return to the field. He assumed the title of Hon. Executive Vice-President. He serves as a member of the Claims Conference Allocations Committee. He directed JDC's tsunami relief programs in Indonesia and an AIDS-related program in South Africa.
He is chairman of the finance committee of Limmud (Former Soviet Union.) He serves on the boards of the Abraham and Sonia Rochlin Foundation and the Chais Family Foundation for Jewish Education. In July 2005, he was named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour for life time humanitarian services.
Michael Schneider was appointed as Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, in September 2007.
Maram Stern
Deputy Secretary General, Honorary Vice-President, World Jewish Congress
Dr. Maram Stern is the Deputy Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress since 1996. In January 2005 he was also elected as an Honorary Vice President of the WJC. Dr. Stern is also responsible for WJC participation in inter-religious dialogue and consultations with the Christian churches and other faiths.
From 1983 to 1988 Dr. Stern served as President of the European Union of Jewish Students, the youth arm of the WJC. In 1988 he became Counsellor of the WJC and in 1989 was appointed Political Advisor to the President and to the Secretary General of the WJC.
Dr. Stern heads a representative and research office located in Brussels (Belgium).
Dr. Stern has extensive knowledge of and experience in Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, North America & South Africa. For over 15 years, he has nurtured relations with the government of the People's Republic of China, and with other governments in South East Asia (especially Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand).
In February 2004, Dr. Stern was decorated with the Golden Laurel Medal of the Republic of Bulgaria, and in September 2004 was appointed as Honorary Consul of Bulgaria in Belgium (Province de Liège).
Dr. Stern holds a Doctorate in Medicine, a Doctorate in Dentistry and is a qualified maxio-facial surgeon. He has studied at the University of Vienna (Austria), Brown University in Providence (USA), the University of Erlangen (Germany) and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and was educated at the Lycée Français de Berlin.
Dr. Stern speaks English, French & German, and is currently learning Spanish. He is single, and has lived for the last 20 years in Brussels.
Menachem Z. Rosensaft
General Counsel, World Jewish Congress
New York lawyer and Jewish community activist Menachem Z. Rosensaft was appointed General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress in March 2009. Rosensaft, who drafted the organization’s new constitution which was adopted in January 2009 at the WJC’s 13th Plenary Assembly, will serve as an officer of the WJC and a member of its Executive.
Menachem Rosensaft received his J.D. degree from the Columbia University School of Law in 1979, after receiving an M.A. degree from the Writing Seminars of Johns Hopkins University and a second M.A. in modern European history from Columbia. He is Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School where he teaches a course on World War II war crimes trials. After clerking for the Hon. Whitman Knapp, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, he was a securities and international litigator at several national law firms and an international bank, headed a foundation engaged in cultural activities in Central and Eastern Europe, and was general counsel of a major New York Stock Exchange financial services firm. In the latter capacity, he was instrumental in guiding the firm through a period of intense regulatory and governmental scrutiny, and implementing good governance practices.
The son of two survivors of the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Rosensaft has long been a leader in Holocaust remembrance activities. He is the Founding Chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project, a joint publishing endeavor with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and Vice President of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. In 1994, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, chaired its Content Committee, Collections and Acquisitions Committee, and Committee on Governance, and served on the Council’s Executive Committee from 1996 until 2003. He is also a former National President of the Labor Zionist Alliance and Honorary President of the Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan. His wife, Jean Bloch Rosensaft, is Senior National Director for Public Affairs and Institutional Planning at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and director of its New York museum.
A prolific writer, Rosensaft is the editor of Life Reborn, Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951, published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and co-author, with his daughter, Jodi Rosensaft, of A Measure of Justice: The Early History of German-Jewish Reparations, published as an Occasional Paper by the Leo Baeck Institute. His poems “Father” and “Poland” are featured, respectively, in the Reform Movement’s Mishkan T’filah, A Reform Siddur, and the Conservative Movement’s Siddur Tishah B’Av. He received the 2003 Elie Wiesel Holocaust Remembrance Award of Israel Bonds and was awarded the American Jewish Press Association’s 2006 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Feature Writing.
Mikhail Chlenov
Born in Moscow September 26, 1940. Graduated from Istitute of Oriental languages of MSU named after M.V.Lomonosov, candidate of history, professor, academician of State Jewish academy named after Maimonid (Moscow) and Academy of history and culture of Jews in Ukraine named after Shimon Dubnov (Kiev), author of 150 scientific publications.
In mid-1970’s Mikhail Chlenov became one of founders of the so-called "culture-mongering direction" in the independent Jewish monument. Over last decade of Soviet power he was one of the leaders of the Jewish movement, underwent prosecutions by official authorities and KGB.
In 1989 – elected co-chairman of Council of Confederation of Jewish organizations and communities at the First congress of USSR Jews in Moscow. President of Federation of Jewish organizations and communities of Russia (Vaad) since 1992.
A member of Presidium of World Zionist organization, in 1998 – a member of Board of directors of "Sokhnut" Jewish agency.
In 2002 – elected Secretary General at the founding convention of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in Moscow (Russia).
Serge Cwajgenbaum
Serge CWAJGENBAUM was born in Lyon, France in September of 1946. He is married with two children. He studied history at the University at Strasbourg from 1968 to 1972 and received his diploma from l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes de Strasbourg in 1973.
Mr. Cwajgenbaum served as president of the Strasbourg branch and national vice president of the French Union of Jewish Students from 1970-1973.
Serge Cwajgenbaum joined the World Jewish Congress in 1974. In 1979, he was elected Secretary General of the French Section of the WJC and in 1982, General Director of the European Branch of the WJC.
Since 1986, when the European Jewish Congress (affiliated to the WJC) was created, Serge Cwajgenbaum has retained the position of Secretary General. In 1994 the French Government awarded Mr Cwajgenbaum the medal of «Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur».
On March 21st 2008, the French government announced that Mr. Cwajgenbaum was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest decoration, in recognition of his merits, expertise and experience in promoting tolerance and respect for the rights and freedoms of all races and faiths, as well as of his contribution to strengthening the Jewish communities throughout.
Activities and actions:
Mr. Cwajgenbaum has been at the initiation of numerous programs and events. Amongst these are the “Committee for Holocaust Information for High School Students”, a program created in coordination with the French Ministry of Education to educate and inform French high school students about the Shoah.
In addition Mr. Cwajgenbaum is the founder of the CERA - European Center for Research and Action on Racism and anti-Semitism. More recently the European Commission against racism, which developed into the European Union Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia was launched at the initiative of the European Jewish Congress under Mr Cwajgenbaum’s direction.
The EJC also had active participation in the establishment of Medbridge -an organization gathering parliamentarians across Europe with the objective of forging a better understanding of the reality of Israel and ultimately a more balanced European political policy towards Israel.
In the area of interfaith dialogue, the EJC, at Mr. Cwajgenbaum’s initiative has been particularly active, most notably with the organization of the European Encounter between Jews and Catholics, held for the fourth time last year in Paris.
As well under Mr. Cwajgenbaum’s direction the EJC has developed, at all levels, increased cooperation and involvement with the activities of the European institutions, be it the Council of Europe, the European Union, the European Commission or the European Parliament.
In his position as Secretary General Mr. Cwajgenbaum is consulted and invited as an expert in the field of human rights and anti-Semitism to many conferences and seminars around the world.
Claudio Epelman
Born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1968.
Married to Carina Paluch.
Since 2003, he integrates the World Jewish Congress, as the Director of the Latin American branch, the Latin American Jewish Congress.
During this period, he participated in many meetings with chiefs of states and other important personalities in the politics field, representing the WJC and the LAJC. He also participated in UN, OAS and OSCE sessions.
In the inter-religious arena, he was the observer on behalf of the Judaism in the Fifth General Conference of CELAM in Aparecida, Brazil. He met with pope Benedict XVI and other catholic leaders. He is an active promoter of dialogue between Jews and Muslims in the region.
The Latin American Jewish Congress is the federative organization that represents the Latin American and Caribbean Jewish Communities. It works actively as part of the civil society, fighting against anti-Semitism, discrimination and xenophobia and supporting the development of the societies, based on education, fraternity and minorities inclusion. LAJC has its headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Previously, Epelman was the Executive Director of the Jewish Community of Córdoba, one of the main cities of Argentina.
Oded Eran
April 2007 – Present WJC Representative in Israel and the Secretary General of the WJC Israel Branch
Other current positions: Advisor to the Knesset Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs
Lecturer at the R. Lauder School of Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel
2002-2007 Israel's Ambassador to the European Union (covering NATO as well)
Head of Israel's Negotiation Team with the Palestinians
1997-2000 Israel's Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1992-1997 Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem (in charge of economic affairs)
1987-1990 Deputy Chief of Mission, Israeli Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1985-1986 Chief of Staff, Knesset Foreign and Defense Committee
1982-1984 Counselor for Congressional Relations,
Israeli Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1980-1982 Director, Egyptian Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
1977-1980 Deputy Director, Middle East Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
1971-1977 First Secretary, Israeli Embassy, London
1966 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1962-1966 Service in the IDF
Education
1959-1962 Political and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1973-1981 Ph.D. London School of Economics
Herbert Juli
Herbert Juli is the Executive Director of the World Jewish Congress Foundation that serves primarily as the fund raising entity for the worldwide efforts of the World Jewish Congress. His responsibilities include overall management of the Foundation’s national direct mail program as well as major donor cultivation and solicitation. He brings more than thitrty years of fund raising successes to the Foundation.
Raised in New York City in a traditional Jewish home by parents who were holocaust survivors, Herb brings a life-long commitment to human rights and Judaism. By working for the Foundation, he believes that his career arc has brought him full circle to a profession dedicated to causes so close to home and heart. Indeed, he is personally aware of the WJC’s seminal work in the field of holocaust reparation as his mother and father were recipients. He feels privileged to dedicate his talents to the WJC Foundation.
Betty Ehrenberg
Betty Ehrenberg is Executive Director for World Jewish Congress-United States and North America. She is also the editor of WJCs Iran Update.
Previously, she served as Executive Director and Director of International Affairs and Communal Relations for the Institute for Public Affairs, the political action and public policy arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Past positions she has held include Executive Director of Dor Hemshech, the young leadership division of the World Zionist Organization; Bureau Director for the Consul General of Israel in New York; Assistant to the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York; and Liaison Officer for the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations, among others. She has worked with many diverse organizations on international issues such as the Middle East, the United Nations, anti-Semitism, and on community, governmental, and interfaith relations. In 2004 she was appointed by the White House as a United States delegate to the OSCE Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism.
A graduate of the City University of New York and Yeshiva University, Ms. Ehrenberg has an extensive background in Jewish education and taught advanced Judaic Studies at the Ramaz Upper School and at other educational institutions. She speaks to many groups across the country on a wide variety of issues of importance to the Jewish community and her articles have appeared in Jewish publications.
John Malkinson, Director
Isabella Nespoli, Director
Chaim Reiss
Chaim Reiss was hired in 2006 to serve as the Director of Finance and Administration of the World Jewish Congress. Under Mr. Reiss’s leadership, the WJC has achieved tremendous improvements in the areas of internal control, financial oversight, governance, transparency, and administrative management. Mr. Reiss is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a member of the New York State Society of CPA’s, and serves on the Not-for-Profit Committee of the NYSSCPA’s. Mr. Reiss is also a member of the Financial Planning Association and has published articles in the areas of finance and taxation.
Mr. Reiss, a graduate of Brooklyn College, also received rabbinical ordination from the world renowned Mirrer Yeshiva.
Mr. Reiss is an accomplished and respected professional with over 25 years of not-for-profit experience and communal service. Prior to joining the WJC, Mr. Reiss served as the Vice-President of Finance and Administration of the American Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for 18 years.
Mr. Reiss has stated that his goal is to have the World Jewish Congress become an organization recognized not only for its service to the World Jewish Community, but also to be an example of “best practices” in all areas of financial management and governance.
Peleg Reshef
Peleg Reshef is WJC's International Director of the Future Generations Division and the Director of the World Jewish Diplomatic Corps network.
In this capacity Reshef's responsibility is to oversee the recruitment, training and active engagement of young Jewish professionals as a new cadre of young visionary Jewish leaders for the 21st century.
Peleg began his public career when he was elected as the President of the Haifa University Student Union between 2000-2001, where he studied Jewish History and was a member of the secretariat of the National Union of Israeli students.
In 2001 Peleg was elected as the President of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS), a position he held until March 2005 after having been re-elected.
In this capacity Peleg was a member of the Executive Board of the World Jewish Congress, the World Zionist Organization and a member of the Board of Governors for the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Peleg led numerous International delegations in many international conferences including the UN World Conference against Racism in Durban, S. Africa, the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, S. Africa, the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva and many other initiatives for the benefit of world Jewry.
Laurence Weinbaum
Laurence Weinbaum (b. 1962) is the Executive Director of the Jerusalem-based World Jewish Congress Research Institute and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (which operates under the auspices of the Institute) and has served as Chief Editor of its thrice-annual publication, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs since it was established in 2006. Dr. Weinbaum joined the World Jewish Congress in 1993, and during his years with the WJC has written and edited more than 100 studies and policy papers on a broad range of issues of concern to world Jewry. During that time he also served as the associate editor of Jewish Communities of the World, editor of inter-religious bulletin Dialogues, and was a regular contributor to its Hebrew-language journal of Jewish affairs, Gesher.
Dr Weinbaum was raised in New York and is a graduate of the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington, DC (where he was an assistant of the late Prof. Jan Karski). He earned his PhD in history from Warsaw University and during his doctoral studies was the recipient of Fulbright and IREX scholarships.
Dr Weinbaum has written extensively on East Central European and history and contemporary affairs (particularly Poland and Romania and is the author of a book on the relations between the Zionist Revisionist Movement and the Polish Government in the late 1930s; and co-author of a book on the Yekkes - the German Jewish community in Israel. He has also translated several works from Polish into English, most notably the Ponary Diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz. Together with an historian in Lublin, Dr Weinbaum is completing a book on the historiography of the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) and its role in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. For over ten years he has taught courses on the history of the Holocaust as an adjunct lecturer at the Ariel University Center of Samaria.
In May 2008 Polish president Lech Kaczynski decorated Dr. Weinbaum with the Zloty Krzyz Zaslugi (Gold Cross of Merit) for his ongoing contributions in fostering Polish-Jewish relations. In 2002, he received the medal of the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Dr. Weinbaum is married and the father of two sons. He lives near Jerusalem.
He speaks English, Polish, Hebrew and German.
The Four Hundred Club
Name
Net worth (USD)
Sources of wealth
1▬
Bill Gates
$57 billion ▲ Microsoft, Cascade Investments LLC
2▬
Warren Buffett
$50 billion ▼ Berkshire Hathaway
3▲
Larry Ellison
$22.5 billion ▼ Oracle Corporation
4▲
Jim Walton
$23.4 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
5▲
S. Robson Walton
$23.3 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
6▲
Alice Walton
$23.2 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
7▲
Christy Walton & family $23.2 billion ▲ Wal-Mart Inheritance
8▲
Michael Bloomberg
$20 billion ▲ Bloomberg L.P.
9▲
Charles Koch
$19 billion ▲ Koch Industries
10▲
David Koch
$19 billion ▲ Koch Industries
11▲
Michael Dell
$17.3 billion ▲ Dell Inc.
12▼
Paul Allen
$16 billion ▼ Microsoft
13▼
Sergey Brin
$15.9 billion ▼ Google
14▲
Abigail Johnson
$15.9 billion ▬ Fidelity Investments
15▼
Larry Page
$15.8 billion ▼ Google
16▼
Sheldon Adelson
$15 billion ▼ Las Vegas Sands
17▼
Steven Ballmer
$15 billion ▼ Microsoft
18▼
Jack Taylor & family
$14 billion ▬ Enterprise Rent-A-Car
19▼
Anne Cox Chambers
$13 billion ▲ Cox Enterprises
19▼
Dana Shiraz
$13 billion ▼ Shiraz Corp.
20▼
Donald Bren
$12 billion ▼ Irvine Company
21▼
Carl Icahn
$12 billion ▼ Icahn Enterprises
22▼
George Kaiser
$12 billion ▼ BOK Financial Corporation
23▼
Forrest Mars Jr
$12 billion ▼ Mars, Inc.
24▼
Jacqueline Mars
$12 billion ▼ Mars, Inc.
25▲
John Mars
$12 billion ▼ Mars, Inc.
26▲
Ronald Perelman
$11.5 billion ▲ Revlon
27▲
Kirk Kerkorian
$11.2 billion ▼ Tracinda Corporation
28▼
Leonard Blavatnik
$11 billion ▲ TNK-BP
29▲
Edward Johnson, III
$11 billion ▲ Fidelity Investments
30▼
George Soros
$11 billion ▲ Soros Fund Management
31▼
Philip Knight
$10.5 billion ▲ Nike
32▲
Jeffrey Bezos
$10.0 billion ▲ Amazon.com
33▼
John Kluge
$9 billion ▼ Metromedia
34▲
James Goodnight
$8.7 billion ▬ SAS Institute Inc.
35▼
Charles Ergen
$8.1 billion ▼ Dish Network
36▲
Philip Anschutz
$8 billion ▲ Regal Entertainment Group
37▲
Steven Cohen
$8 billion ▲ SAC Capital
38▼
Donald Newhouse
$8 billion ▼ Advance Publications
39▼
Samuel Newhouse, Jr.
$8 billion ▼ Advance Publications
40▼
Dan Duncan
$7.6 billion ▼ Enterprise Products Partners L.P.
41▼
James Simons
$7.6 billion ▲ Renaissance Technologies
42▲
Harold Hamm $7 billion ▲ Continental Resources Inc.
43▼
Pauline MacMillan Keinath $7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
44▼
Cargill MacMillan Jr. $7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
45▼
Whitney MacMillan
$7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
46▼
Marion MacMillan Pictet $7 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
47▼
Rupert Murdoch
$6.8 billion ▼ News Corporation
48▼
Eli Broad
$6.7 billion ▼ American International Group
49▲
David Geffen
$6.5 billion ▲ Dreamworks Animation
50▲
James Cox Kennedy
$6.5 billion ▲ Cox Enterprises
51▲
Henry Kravis
$6.5 billion ▲ Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
52▲
Blair Parry-Okeden $6.5 billion ▲ Cox Enterprises
53▼
Stephen Schwarzman
$6.4 billion ▼ Blackstone Group
54▼
Pierre Omidyar
$6.3 billion ▼ Ebay
55▼
Robert Rowling
$6.2 billion ▼ TRT Holdings
56▲
Charles Schwab
$6.2 billion ▲ Charles Schwab
57▼
Ira Rennert
$6 billion ▲ AM General
58▼
George Roberts
$6 billion ▲ Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
59▼
Eric Schmidt
$5.9 billion ▼ Google
60▼
Patrick Soon-Shiong
$5.8 billion ▲ APP Pharmaceuticals
61▼
Steven Jobs
$5.7 billion ▬ Apple Inc., The Walt Disney Company
62▲
Robert Bass
$5.5 billion ▬ Oak Hill Investment Group
63▼
Riley Bechtel
$5.5 billion ▲ Bechtel Corp.
64▼
Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
$5.5 billion ▲ Bechtel Corp.
65▼
William Davidson
$5.5 billion ▲ Guardian Industries Corp.
66▼
Sumner Redstone
$5.1 billion ▼ Viacom
67▲
Harold Simmons
$5.1 billion ▼ Valhi
68▼
Micky Arison
$5 billion ▼ Carnival Cruise Lines
69▲
William Cook
$5 billion ▲ Cook Group
70▼
John Menard, Jr.
$5 billion ▼ Menards
71▼
Paul Milstein & family $5 billion ▲ Milstein Properties
72▲
Henry Ross Perot
$5 billion ▲ Perot Systems
73▲
Samuel Zell
$5 billion ▼ Covanta Holding
74▼
Charles Johnson
$4.9 billion ▼ Franklin Resources
75▲
Lester Crown & family $4.8 billion ▲ General Dynamics
76▼
Ralph Lauren
$4.7 billion ▬ Polo Ralph Lauren
77▲
Robert Holding
$4.6 billion ▼ Sinclair Oil
78▲
Ray Dalio
$4.5 billion ▲ Bridgewater Associates
79▼
Bradley Hughes
$4.5 billion ▲ Public Storage
80▼
Ray Hunt
$4.5 billion ▲ Hunt Petroleum
81▼
Richard LeFrak & family $4.5 billion ▲ The LeFrak Organization
82▲
John Paulson
$4.5 billion ▲ Paulson & Co.
83▼
Stephen Ross
$4.5 billion ▬ The Related Companies L.P.
84▼
Gordon Moore
$4.4 billion ▼ Intel
85▲
David Murdock
$4.4 billion ▼ Castle & Cooke, Inc.
86▲
John Sall
$4.4 billion ▬ SAS Institute Inc.
87▲
Ty Warner
$4.4 billion ▲ Ty Inc.
88▼
Dennis Washington
$4.2 billion ▲ Washington Group International
89▼
Rupert Johnson, Jr.
$4.1 billion ▼ Franklin Resources
90▲
Patrick McGovern
$4.1 billion ▼ International Data Group
91▲
Richard DeVos
$4 billion ▲ Amway
92▲
George Lucas
$4 billion ▲ Industrial Light & Magic
93▲
David Sun $4 billion ▲ Kingston Technology Company
94▼
John Tu
$4 billion ▲ Kingston Technology Company
95▼
La'Qwan Chess $3.9 billion ▲ Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
96▼
Joan Tisch
$3.8 billion ▼ Loews Corporation
97▲
Kenneth Griffin
$3.7 billion ▲ Citadel Investment Group
98▲
Leonard Stern
$3.7 billion ▼ J.W. Childs
99▼
La'Donna Jackson $3.7 billion ▲ Ziff Brothers Investments
100▼
Dirk Ziff $3.7 billion ▲ Ziff Brothers Investments
101▼
Robert Ziff $3.7 billion ▲ Ziff Brothers Investments
102▲
Leonard Lauder
$3.6 billion ▲ Estée Lauder
103▲
Carl Pohlad
$3.6 billion ▲ Wells Fargo
104▼
Haim Saban
$3.6 billion ▲ Saban Entertainment
105▲
Dennis Albaugh $3.5 billion ▲ Albaugh Inc.
106▲
Leon Black
$3.5 billion ▼ Apollo Management L.P.
107▲
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
$3.5 billion ▲ Seagram Company Ltd.
108▲
Ronald Burkle
$3.5 billion ▬ Yahoo!
109▲
John Paul DeJoria
$3.5 billion ▲ John Paul Mitchell Systems
110▲
Stanley Druckenmiller
$3.5 billion ▬ Duquesne Capital Management
111▲
Richard Kinder
$3.5 billion ▲ Kinder Morgan
112▼
Herbert Kohler, Jr. & family $3.5 billion ▼ Kohler Company
113▼
Bruce Kovner
$3.5 billion ▬ Caxton Associates, LLC
114▲
E. Stanley Kroenke
$3.5 billion ▲ THF Realty
115▼
Theodore Lerner
$3.5 billion ▲ Lerner Enterprises
116▼
Donald Schneider $3.5 billion ▲ Franklin Electric
117▼
Richard Schulze
$3.5 billion ▬ Best Buy
118▲
Ann Walton Kroenke & family
$3.4 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
119▲
Ronald Lauder
$3.4 billion ▲ Central European Media Enterprises, Estée Lauder
120▼
Mitchell Rales
$3.4 billion ▲ Danaher Corporation
121▼
John Sobrato & family
$3.4 billion ▲ Sobrato Development Companies
122▼
Stephen Wynn
$3.4 billion ▼ Wynn Resorts
123▼
Charles Dolan & family $3.4 billion ▲ Cablevision Systems
124▼
Barbara Piasecka Johnson
$3.3 billion ▲ Johnson & Johnson
125▲
Paul Tudor Jones II
$3.3 billion ▲ Raptor Fund
126▲
Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler
$3.3 billion ▬ Gazprom Neft
127▲
Glen Taylor
$3.3 billion ▲ Taylor Corp.
128▼
Peter Kellogg
$3.2 billion ▬ Goldman Sachs
129▲
George Mitchell
$3.2 billion ▲ Devon Energy
130▼
Steven M. Rales
$3.2 billion ▲ Danaher Corporation
131▼
A. Jerrold Perenchio
$3.1 billion ▬ Univision Communications, Inc.
132▼
T. Boone Pickens
$3.1 billion ▲ BP Capital Management
133▲
Steven Spielberg
$3.1 billion ▲ Dreamworks Animation
134▲
Lee Bass $3 billion ▬ Bass Enterprises Production
135▼
Sid Bass
$3 billion ▬ Bass Enterprises Production
136▲
Jeffrey Hildebrand $3 billion ▲ Hilcorp Energy
137▲
Henry Hillman $3 billion ▬ Hillman Co.
138▼
James Jannard
$3 billion ▲ Oakley, Inc., Red Digital Cinema Camera Company
139▼
William Koch
$3 billion ▲ Oxbow Group
140▼
Edward Lampert
$3 billion ▼ Sears Holding Company
141▼
Aubrey McClendon
$3 billion ▲ Chesapeake Energy
142▲
Ronda Stryker $3 billion ▲ Stryker Corporation
143▲
Donald Trump
$3 billion ▬ Trump Organization, Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc.
144▼
Ray Dolby
$2.9 billion ▲ Dolby Laboratories
145▼
Nancy Walton Laurie
$2.9 billion ▲ Wal-Mart
146▼
David Rockefeller, Sr.
$2.9 billion ▲ Standard Oil
147▼
Amos Hostetter, Jr.
$2.8 billion ▬ Comcast Corporation
148▼
Martha Ingram & family
$2.8 billion ▲ Ingram Micro
149▲
Peter George Peterson
$2.8 billion ▲ Blackstone Group
150▲
Melvin Simon $2.8 billion ▼ Simon Property Group
151▲
Steven Udvar-Hazy
$2.8 billion ▼ American International Group
152▲
Leslie Wexner
$2.8 billion ▬ Limited Brands
153▼
William Wrigley, Jr.
$2.8 billion ▲ Blackstone Group
154▼
Mortimer Zuckerman
$2.8 billion ▲ Boston Properties
155▲
William Conway, Jr. $2.7 billion ▲ The Carlyle Group
156▲
Daniel D'Aniello $2.7 billion ▲ The Carlyle Group
157▲
David Rubenstein
$2.7 billion ▲ The Carlyle Group
158▲
David Shaw
$2.7 billion ▲ D. E. Shaw & Co.
159▼
Tom L. Ward
$2.7 billion ▲ SandRidge Energy
160▲
Oprah Winfrey
$2.7 billion ▲ Harpo Productions
161▼
David Bonderman
$2.6 billion ▼ TPG Capital
162▲
Mark Cuban
$2.6 billion ▬ HDNet, Dallas Mavericks
163▼
Leonore Annenberg
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Edward Bass
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Jim Davis & family
$2.5 billion ▬ New Balance
171▼
Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson
$2.5 billion ▲ Sierra Pacific
172▲
Philip Falcone $2.5 billion ▲ Harbinger Capital
173▲
Gordon Getty
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Tom Gores
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David Gottesman
$2.5 billion ▬ Berkshire Hathaway
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William Barron Hilton
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Marianne Liebmann $2.5 billion ▲ Cargill Inc.
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Mary Alice Dorrance Malone $2.5 billion ▬ Campbell Soup Company
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182▲
Michael Milken
$2.5 billion ▬ Drexel Burnham and Company
183▼
Richard Rainwater
$2.5 billion ▼ Peak Oil
184▼
Edward Roski, Jr.
$2.5 billion ▲ Majestic Realty Co.
185▲
Lynn Schusterman $2.5 billion ▬ Samson Resources
186▲
Taylor E. Boeing $2.5 billion ▲ Boeing
187▲
Alan Casden
$2.4 billion ▲ AIMCO
188▼
William Randolph Hearst III
$2.4 billion ▬ Hearst Communications, Inc.
189▼
Jess Jackson
$2.3 billion ▲ Kendall-Jackson
190▲
Frank Batten, Sr.
$2.3 billion ▼ Landmark Communications
191▼
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193▲
H. Fisk Johnson
$2.3 billion ▲ Johnson Family Enterprises
194▲
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195▲
S. Curtis Johnson
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196▲
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201▼
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$2.0 billion ▼ Global Hyatt Corporation, Marmon Group
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The 700 Club
Genre Religious broadcasting
Starring Pat Robertson (1966-1987, 1988-present)
Kristi Watts (1989-present)
Terry Meeuwsen (1993-present)
Lee Webb (1993-present)
Gordon P. Robertson (1996-present)
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
Production
Location(s) Virginia Beach, Virginia
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Syndicated (1966-present)
CBN Cable/The Family Channel/Fox Family/ABC Family (1977-Present)
Original run April 1, 1966 – Present
External links
Official website
The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom (one male and one female) will host on any given day. Lee Webb serves as the CBN News anchorman.
Previous co-hosts over the years included Ben Kinchlow (1975-88, 1992-96), Sheila Walsh (1988-92), Danuta Rylko Soderman (1983-87), and Lisa Ryan. Tim Robertson served as host for a year from 1987-88 along with Kinchlow and actress Susan Howard while his father ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States in the 1988 campaign.
The show presents news stories from Robertson's religious and political perspective, often relating stories to passages from the Bible which are generally followed by commentary from the hosts. Celebrities and other guests are interviewed about religious views. The news segments frequently emphasize an apocalyptic eschatology. The style of news reporting on the show has been criticized by many as unfairly biased.
Religious lifestyle issues are presented with a distinct Pentecostal/charismatic flavor. Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was an ordained minister with that denomination from 1961 until he surrendered his credentials in 1987 to prepare for his failed presidential bid in 1988.[citation needed]
In 2009, it became the first Christian television program to be televised in high definition, when it was shown on ABC Family since no Christian television networks were in HD at the time.[citation needed]
Contents
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• 1 History
o 1.1 1960s
o 1.2 1970s
o 1.3 1980s
o 1.4 1990s-present
• 2 The 700 Club Asia
• 3 The 700 Club in India
• 4 Controversy
• 5 References
• 6 External links
[edit] History
[edit] 1960s
In 1961, Robertson bought the license for WTOV, channel 27 in Portsmouth, Virginia. It had gone off the air five years earlier due to poor viewership. The station returned in October as WYAH, broadcasting twelve hours of Christian programming to the Hampton Roads market each day.
In 1962, the station suffered financially and almost closed. To keep the station on the air, WYAH decided to produce a special telethon edition of the show. For the telethon, Robertson set a goal of 700 members each contributing $10 a month, which was enough to support the station. Robertson referred to these members as the '700 Club' and the name stuck. The telethon was successful and is still held annually.
After the 1962 telethon, The 700 Club continued as a two hour a day local show. It consisted of a lot of music, preaching, group prayer, bible study, and some talk. The show started out as a Christian variety program. The music was hymns, instrumental pieces, southern gospel music, and urban gospel music. The show was run two or three times a day.
In addition, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker started on the channel in 1964 as hosts of a children's show, Come On Over. It consisted of prayer and bible stories aimed at children. The show also featured puppet shows and Davey and Goliath reruns. They also began hosting their own adult Christian talk show. Their Come On Over Show, much to their dismay, added Bugs Bunny and Casper cartoons and Little Rascals reruns into the mix, in 1967, but the show itself expanded to two hours. At that point WYAH went from being non commercial to commercial and added several hours of secular shows to its schedule. The Bakkers disagreed with the direction their show and the station overall was taking. By 1970, their shows were each cut to thirty minutes. The secular cartoons then aired as their own shows in a weekday afternoon block. Finally, the couple left WYAH in 1972 to join the Trinity Broadcasting Network where they developed the PTL Club. They soon left TBN as well to begin their own show taking the PTL Club name and inspirational channel. The PTL club began to be syndicated in 1975. In 1972, when the Bakkers left, some staffers at the station reportedly responded by destroying Bakkers' sets and puppets.[1]
Robertson evolved his 700 Club by cutting back on music and preaching and heading toward the talk show format developed by Bakker (though without the puppets) and transformed the 700 Club from a nightly religious themed telethon to a religious talk show (still with some music). At this point some Contemporary Christian Music artists visited the show as well.
While the organization was named the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), The 700 Club only aired on WYAH, as well as its sister stations in Atlanta (WANX) and Dallas (KXTX). The stations, including WYAH had mostly content similar to a general entertainment station (cartoons, Sitcoms, westerns, old movies), but with four to six hours a day of religious shows, including The 700 Club which aired three times a day.
[edit] 1970s
In 1974, The 700 Club entered national syndication, airing on stations such as WPIX in New York City, KTLA in Los Angeles, WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, and WDCA in Washington, D.C., among others. The roster of stations carrying the program grew to over 100 markets by 1976. In some markets, the show aired on multiple stations, choosing between either the full 90-minute version or the edited 60-minute version.
In 1977, The 700 Club got on the air nationally on the newly launched Christian Broadcasting Network Cable Channel. That station only ran Christian programming 24 hours a day 7 days a week and ran no general entertainment, unlike CBN's broadcast stations.
Between 1978 and 1980, talk about current political issues became a part of the program. News segments were added in the first 20 minutes of the show. The 700 Club clearly endorsed a politically conservative agenda as the "Religious Right" movement was now becoming part of the CBN agenda. This had influence in the 1980 presidential election as well as congressional elections. The 700 Club continues to discuss current events from a conservative viewpoint to this day.
[edit] 1980s
In 1980, The CBN UHF stations began Sunday commercial operation from about 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. While these stations were predominantly secular programs on weekdays and Saturdays, Sundays were non commercial and only consisted of Christian programs prior to this time. The next year, CBN Cable added 15 hours a day of secular programming. While the CBN stations consisted of cartoons, sitcoms, and some recent off network fare, the CBN cable network consisted of health shows, pre 1965 sitcoms, westerns, old game shows, and family dramas. The 700 Club itself evolved to more of a magazine format rather than a talk/variety show. By 1983, The 700 Club had the same format it has today.
Later in the 1980s the UHF CBN stations were sold separately. During this period The 700 Club continued to air on CBN Cable as well as many commercial secular stations and Christian stations nationally. In 1987, the syndicated 700 Club was cut back to an hour, which it is today. Also, Trinity Broadcasting Network added The 700 Club to their schedule on weekdays at 3 p.m. that fall. The 700 Club still airs there at that time today.
[edit] 1990s-present
CBN Cable became known as The Family Channel in 1988. That network added more cartoons and family sitcoms in the 1990s. The Family Channel was sold to News Corporation in 1998, becoming Fox Family. The 700 Club continued its three time a day airings. Fox Family was sold to Disney in 2001 and at that time became ABC Family.
The 700 Club now airs on ABC Family, part of a contractual obligation originally made as part of the Family Channel's sale to News Corp.[2][3]
International versions of The 700 Club are Club 700 Hoy, broadcast in Latin America, and The 700 Club With Paul and Fiona, in Great Britain. Begun in October 2004, the latter is co-hosted by Paul Jones and Fiona Hendley Jones.
The Pat Robertson version also airs in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Revelation TV, Genesis TV, GOD TV, God Europe, Loveworld TV, Gospel Channel, OBE TV and KICC TV.
The 700 Club strongly supports Israel, especially in its disagreements with the Palestinians and the U.N. Among its frequent Jewish guests are Michael Medved and Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who share its conservative Judeo-Christian beliefs.
[edit] The 700 Club Asia
The 700 Club Asia
Genre Religious broadcasting
Created by CBN Asia
Directed by Derrek Adapon
Starring Peter Kairuz
Coney Reyes
Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan
Kata Inocencio
Felichi Pangilinan-Buizon
Alex Tinsay
Country of origin Philippines
Language(s) Filipino
English
No. of episodes (List of episodes)
Production
Camera setup multi-camera set-up
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel GMA Network
Original run 1995 – Present
External links
Official website
An Asian edition of the show, The 700 Club Asia, originally premiered in the Philippines in the mid-1990s on GMA 7. It was originally produced and hosted by Pat Robertson's son, Gordon Robertson, and co-hosted by broadcaster Mari Kaimo, and Philippine TV personality Coney Reyes.
In 1998, Reyes took over as host and producer of the show, with Tricia Amper Jimenez as co-host. When Reyes left the show in 2000 for medical reasons, it was retooled as The Club, hosted by Jimenez, Peter Kairuz and Carla Martinez.
In 2001, the show reverted to its old format and moved to ABS-CBN (a network unrelated to Pat Robertson's CBN), where it aired on its sister station, Studio 23. Kairuz remained as host with veteran singer Maria Teresa "Dulce" Llamedo-Cruz and TV personality Chat Silayan-Bailon (1959-2006), who later died of colon cancer.
In 2006, the show moved to GMA's sister station, QTV 11. Kairuz still hosts the show, with Reyes returning to co-host. The show also features Kata Inocencio, Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan, Alex Tinsay and Felichi Pangilinan-Buizon.
[edit] The 700 Club in India
An Indian Hindi edition of The 700 Club, named Ek Nayee Zindagi, airs daily at 6:30 am and 1 am (repeat) on Star Plus.[4]
[edit] Controversy
Main article: Pat Robertson controversies
The 700 Club has occasionally been the subject of controversy due to statements made on the show by Pat Robertson. Often, controversy centers on subjects of homosexuality. The LGBT community has expressed concern over the comments made on his show, fearing that it will provoke a violent reaction from potentially unstable individuals. Scott Roeder, who murdered the abortion doctor George Tiller on May 31, 2009, claimed that his murderous thoughts were influenced by discussions of religion and abortion on The 700 Club.[5]
Immediately after the 2010 Haiti earthquake Pat Robertson said that it was "what happened when people make a deal with the Devil."[6]
The U.S. National Better Business Bureau says of the Christian Broadcasting Network and 700 Club: "...unable to verify the organization's compliance with 5 of the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability"[7]
[edit] References
1. ^ Biography: Bakker, Jim
2. ^ ABC Family: Contact ABC Family
3. ^ ABC Family Repudiates Robertson 'Hit' - 8/23/2005 4:19:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable
4. ^ http://www.cbnindia.org/in/media/enz/
5. ^ Man Admits Killing Abortion Provider
6. ^ CBS News - Pat Robertson: Haiti "Cursed" After "Pact to the Devil"
7. ^ http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/Report.aspx?CharityID=1390
[edit] External links
• The 700 Club Official Website for UK & Europe
• The 700 Club at Trinity Broadcasting Network
• The 700 Club at the Internet Movie Database
• The 700 Club at TV.com
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