Our Ancestors of Judah: The Big Family Of the Smallest World Group of People

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                

Moses, born way before in 1391 BCE, to Jochebed and Amram from the tribe of Levi, the 3rd son.so he is closely related, the closest brother to Judah.  Joshua, the successor of Moses, was from the tribe of Ephraim, who was the younger son of Joseph, of the tribe of Judah.  Aaron, the brother of Moses, became the high priest, decided by Moses, and the DNA of this line  of the tribe of Judah is called the Cohen line or J1 of which we also find in Arab men.  As centuries pass by, the DNA picks up little mutations in the dna, making it easy to follow from father to son, so Arabs do have a few dna changes from the Jewish line because of the time difference today, as their dna tests are read.   This direct line goes back to Noah and from Noah to Enoch.                  

Jacob's AKA was Israel. The name change happened after an experience.  Through this wrestle with an angel, Jacob proved what was most important to him. He demonstrated that he was willing to let God prevail in his life. In response, God changed Jacob's name to Israel, meaning 'let God prevail. He was married to Leah, the older sister of Rachel.  His father was Isaac and Jacob's brother was Esau, who joined the other people and parted from his tribe. That's how Arabs are distant cousins of the Jews.  Isaac was the son of Sarah and Abraham, so since then, their male descendants  have carried the same DNA segments that show their paternity origin.  It's how science and the genetic history of our ancestors agree.  

Our ancestors of Judah were from the son of Leah and Jacob's 4rd son, Judah. It was he who received his father's   patriarchal blessing.  The area he was assigned to by Joshua  was one of the largest in Canaan and it eventually absorbed also, the inheritance of Simeon in the Negev.   From him came his clan before it became tribe, and that tribe came to include of the the tribe of Benjamin in the days of King Solomon, maybe even before. In 721 BCE, the Assyrians had attacked the 10 northern tribe and had carried away over 1,000 people.  The southern end of Israel was Judah, who remained untouched, with some of Benjamin.

Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob by Rachel, her first son. He would also be of the tribe of Judah.   

Benjamin was the 12th son of Rachel and Jacob, her 2nd, and then Rachel died in childbirth.  Benjamin's tribe occupied territory between Ephraim and Judah which included Jerusalem.  Saul, 1st king of Israel, was a Benjamite.  That means that Saul and David were cousins.  

David, king of Judah from 1010 BCE to 970 BCE was of the tribe of Judah, made up of people of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin.  Since his DNA is passed down from father to son, Solomon was also from Judah.  Jews come from the tribe of Judah.  It's said we're all 30th cousins.  

Hillel, born in 1st century  BCE, comes from the dynasty of our Patriarchs.  Many of us claim our heritage from Hillel. He was a Jew of ancestors that were taken from Judah to Babylonia in 597 and 586 BCE in another great attack that also took prisoners with them.  Hillel was born in Babylonia but returned to Jerusalem, working as a laborer while going to school to learn all he could about Judaism.  He was such a good student, becoming a rabbi, that he became the president of the Sanhedrin.  

RASHI or Rabbi Solomon Yitzhak ben Isaac was born in 1040 in France, studying in the Rhineland, and died in 1105.   Lots of today's Jews also have him on their tree. He's known for his many comments on the Bible and Talmud.  

Albert Einstein b: 1879-d: 1955 born in Ulm, Germany,  educated in Switzerland was a physicist and deemed having the highest IQ of 180.  Average IQ is 100.  He was an active supporter of Zionism.  His interest in Israel was its scientific institutions, especially the Hebrew University which he was a trustee.  After Weizmann had died in 1952, he was offered an invitation to stand for election as the next president, but he turned that job down.  He's known for his theory of relativity.  Y-DNA analyses with various members of Albert Einstein's paternal line were able to determine his haplogroup. The result also confirmed his Jewish ancestry. Albert Einstein belonged to haplogroup E (subgroup E-PF1952) in his paternal line.  This is a very large Jewish haplogroup, and in my family, the 2 I know of are very musical.  They are connected somehow to the Cohen line which seems to be the largest group.  

Kirk Douglas  b: 1916-d: 2020, Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch Belarusian: Іссур Даніелавіч, Russian: Иссур Даниелович) in Amsterdam, New York, on December 9, 1916, the son of Bryna "Bertha" (née Sanglel) and Herschel "Harry" Danielovitch. His parents were immigrants from Chavusy, Mogilev Governorate, in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus),and the family spoke Yiddish at home. Douglas was the fourth child of seven children and the only son born to his parents. He had six sisters, three older and three younger: Pesha “Bessie”, Kaleh “Katherine”, Tamara “Mary”, Siffra “Frieda”, Haska “Ida”, and Rachel “Ruth”. Douglas embraced his Jewish heritage in his later years, after a near-fatal helicopter crash at the age of 74.  He lived to be 104.  

One thing I notice is that this line produces some outstanding people.  They show their intelligence in many ways, being leaders in many fields, though they have shrunk in size, not in brains.  Almost half of todays Jewish population live in Israel with 45.3% of it.  There are only 15.2 million Jews in the world which is 0.02 of the world population.                   

  Scattered all over the world, the family is coming together in Israel.

About 5 or 6 million live in the USA which is 2% of the population.  For such a small group of people, they are suffering from a great amount of anti-semitism these days, I note mostly happening on the East Coast of the USA. To combat hate, the best thing is to know the history of your people, and be proud of it and yourself for it.  Like they say, I'm okay and you're okay.   

Resource;

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.jns.org/jewish-world-population-rises-to-15-2-million-45-3-live-in-israel/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjbyYBhCdARIsAArC6LIdVD5EyAK9HK73_kj_QxiB-45MAvzI3tQnPGW1Iz6ln8zBnkUKc50aAk50EALw_wcB

Joe Biden Against a Palestinian State Recognition At UN and Why

 Nadene Goldfoot       

FLAME                                         

This article is from FLAME.  I tried up upload it onto facebook, but it didn't work, so here it is;  too factual to ignore.

Why Biden was right to reject a Palestinian state at the UN Security Council

Dear Friend of FLAME:

Last week, the Palestinians indicated they intend to seek UN Security Council recognition of a Palestinian state in next month’s meeting.                                     

The Biden administration promptly implored Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to abandon the idea, and threatened a veto should the matter come to a vote.

Why would President Biden—who just last month on his Middle East trip often repeated his commitment to a two-state solution—now quash the idea of UN recognition?

Four reasons explain why the U.S. does not—and should not—recognize a Palestinian state today.

       116th Congress of January 2019: Thursday’s House speaker vote and opening of the 116th Congress set up a striking visual moment in the lower chamber: On Democrats’ side of the aisle, a historically diverse class of women and people of color were clad in bright outfits as they were sworn in, while on the Republican side, a relatively homogeneous group of mostly white men wore nearly identical dark suits.                

Palestinians throw stones at Israeli soldiers during an anti-Israel protest over tension in Jerusalem, at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, on May 11. ABBAS MOMANI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

1. Violates U.S. law: First, the U.S. Congress has passed several laws over the years that would cut direct U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it obtains status as a UN member absent a peace deal with Israel.                              

2. PA refuses reasonable negotiations: Second, while the U.S. supports two states, it firmly believes that a two-state solution must be arrived at through direct negotiations between the PA and Israel—and that there are no shortcuts to that route. Biden’s State Department has made that clear.

While Israel has generally shown willingness to participate in serious peace talks with the PA, the Palestinians have outright rejected peace offers in 2000, 2001 and 2008 that would have given them a state in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and a capital in Jerusalem. Those offers were crafted jointly by Israel and the U.S.

Since that time, the Palestinians have walked out on or refused peace negotiations proposed by the U.S.—most recently by Presidents Obama (in 2010 and 2014) and Trump (in 2020).

In 2014, Abbas rejected Obama-sponsored peace negotiations unless Israel agreed to three standing PA demands: 1) No recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, 2) full “right of return” into Israel for Palestinian refugees and millions of their descendants, and 3) refusal to commit to an “end of the conflict”—terminating additional Palestinian demands of Israel after a peace deal.

Suffice it to say, these demands are deal-killers for Israel—since each undermines the very sovereignty and foundation of the Jewish state. The PA knows this and uses these demands as excuses to block any peace negotiations with Israel.

     Hamas's name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic 

Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1988 after the 

beginning of the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against 

Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Under 

its charter, it is committed to the destruction of Israel.

3. Dueling dictatorships cannot reconcile. The third factor that makes a Palestinian state currently impossible is the bitter, often-violent conflict between the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria and Hamas in Gaza.

Today’s PA is a corrupt, teetering autocracy with no heir apparent to the 87-year-old Abbas. It’s widely believed that the PA would collapse into the hands of Hamas without Israel’s security support, let alone the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into it annually by Western nations.

Gaza is effectively already a self-governing statelet. Hamas—a group designated as terrorist by the U.S. and European nations—is financially supported largely by Qatar and Iran.

In fact, both governing factions are dictatorships, ruling their territories with no elections and repressive iron hands. A Palestinian state today would have no defined borders, no unified government, and no sustaining economy. To declare a Palestinian state would sanctify a civil war between outlaw rivals and embroil Israel in the bloody crossfire.                      

Children at a Palestinian summer camp tear pictures of the American flag and US President Donald Trump as a counselor sets them on fire, in a video posted on Facebook by the Palestinian Authority Higher Council for Youth and Sports, July 3, 2019.

4. Disrespect for United States interests: The fourth reason the U.S. should refuse overtures by the PA to perfunctorily form a state is the lack of respect the Palestinians have shown toward its benefactor, America.                                  

Consider that since 1994, the United States has contributed 7.8 billion taxpayer dollars to Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and Gaza, making us the most magnanimous and consistent funder of the Palestinian national movement. (Overall contributions by the UN, the EU and EU member states amount to an additional $27 billion.)

You might fairly ask, “What has the U.S. received for this massive ‘investment’?” The fairest answer would be, “Nothing.”

Indeed, politicians have justified these billions in aid by arguing that we are supporting development of a stable Palestinian society. The hope has been that that the Palestinians will become functional enough to actually launch and manage a state . . . and flexible enough to negotiate peace with Israel.

Both hopes have failed utterly.

Not only has Palestinian society become more fragmented and financially bankrupt, but its governments have become increasingly more corrupt and oppressive.

This has not stopped the Biden administration, which in the last five months has restored funding cut by President Trump, resuming $235 million in assistance to the Palestinians in April and then an additional $316 million in July.

Perhaps every more curious—and insulting—in the face of such American generosity, the Palestinians have consistently scorned U.S. interests in the Middle East and globally.

Palestinian leaders, for example, have a tradition of supporting anti-American, authoritarian tyrannies.

Just last month, when U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, risking Chinese disapproval, Mahmoud Abbas’ office issued a statement supporting the Chinese position.

When the U.S. invaded Iraq to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat opposed us and supported Saddam Hussein. In response, Kuwait expelled some 400,000 Palestinians who lived there.

During the Cold War, the Palestinians supported Russia, not the U.S. Today they support Russia against Ukraine.

The Palestinians have consistently backed North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un, while the North Koreans have returned the favor, lauding the Palestinians for opposing U.S. policies.

During the rise of Adolf Hitler and during World War II, Palestinian mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini aligned and met with the German dictator to discuss plans for expanding the genocide of Jews to the Middle East.                            

Palestinian Leader Denounces Trump’s Peace Plan

When Donald Trump presented his peace plan—including an $80 billion development package—to the Palestinians in 2020, President Abbas angrily responded with “a thousand no’s.”

Resource:

https://www.factsandlogic.org/

Six Hundred and Thirteen Laws To Find Inner Peace

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

        Straight from Ha Shem to Moses

The Jewish tradition that there are 613 commandments (Hebrew: תרי״ג מצוות, romanized: taryag mitzvot) or mitzvot in the Torah (also known as the Law of Moses) is first recorded in the 3rd century CE, when Rabbi Simlai mentioned it in a sermon that is recorded in Talmud Makkot 23b.   

Baraita designates a tradition in the Jewish oral law not incorporated in the Mishnah. Baraita thus refers to teachings "outside" of the six orders of the Mishnah.                                          

                                        Rambam

Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimon ben Joseph (1110-1165),was a scholar and pupil himself of Joseph ibn Migas.  He was the dayyan in his native Cordova and author of an Arabic commentary on the Bible. 

He was the  father of  Maimonides, AKA The Rambam, and lived from 1135 to 1200 in Spain.  Maimonides,  had a lot to do with collecting these 613 laws and putting them together.  He was a philosopher, halakhist and medical writer. 

Maimonides's son was Balmes Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186-1237), a court physician to the Sultan Alkamil.  He wrote many works in Arabic including the Book of satisfaction for the Godfearing, an encyclopedic work on Judaism and commentaries on the Pentateuch, the Talmud and his father's books.  He was the succession to his father, and issued ordinances to strengthen the community.  

At age 13, most likely after his Bar Mitzva, he left his native Cordova with his family to  escape the Almohade Persecutions.                     

 The generally harmonious relations that prevailed between the Muslims and Jews throughout the Muslim world in the early medieval period were brutally interrupted with the emergence of a fanatical sect in the twelfth century in North Africa: the Almohads (al-Muwahhidun, “unifiers,” i.e. strict believers in the unity of God). There was fighing between the different Muslim, Christian and Jewish groups.  

Maimonides was a court physician under the Fatimids and Saladin’s Ayyubids in Old Cairo and was not the subject of persecution in this period of his life. But he would never forget the Berber Almohades and their invasion of southern Spain in 1145. Maimonides, then a boy, faced death under the Almohades if he did not embrace Islam. Not long after the invasion of the fanatics, the great philosopher and legal mind settled in North Africa. But it was controlled by the same Almohades Muslims, and it is likely that his family was forced to convert to Islam but practiced Judaism in secret.

When Marrakesh was captured, according to one source, the Christian church there was destroyed and a great number of Jews and Christian militia were killed. When ‘Abd al-Mu’min conquered Ifriqiya (Tunisia) in 1151, he gave the Jews and Christians there the option of conversion to Islam or death.  Abu Ya’qub Yusuf was the first Almohad ruler of al-Andalus [Andalusia) (1153-1184), establishing a dynasty that lasted there until 1227. 

As may be seen from a letter of Maimon (father of Maimonides), a religious judge (dayyan) of the Jewish community of Cordoba, persecution of the Jews had begun by 1160. For the most part, however, this consisted of pressuring the Jews to formally convert to Islam, which necessitated merely the recital of the Muslim creed. In his letter, Maimon urged Jews to perform what they can of the commandments of the Torah. Meanwhile, however, many Jews were fleeing the cities held by the Almohads…                             

After a period of wandering in Northern Africa, Moses ben Maimon reached Palestine in 1165, having already written treatises on the Jewish calendar, called Sepher ha-Ibbur on intercalation in 1158, and works on the technical terms of logic, as well as establishing a list of the 613 Precepts.  Here are the 1st 10 that Judaism 101 has listed.  They have all 613.    Jews have the Torah (5 books of Moses) and the bible called aTanakh.  Mine was bought in Israel, called the Tanach of the Stone Edition, an ArtScroll series from the Mesorah Heritage Foundation.

1. To know that G-d exists (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6) (CCA1). See What Do Jews Believe?.
2. Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal (Ex. 20:3) (CCN8). See What Do Jews Believe?.
3. Not to blaspheme (Ex. 22:27; in Christian texts, Ex. 22:28), the penalty for which is death (Lev. 24:16) (negative).
4. To hallow G-d's name (Lev. 22:32) (CCA5). See The Name of G-d.
5. Not to profane G-d's name (Lev . 22:32) (CCN155). See The Name of G-d.
6. To know that G-d is One, a complete Unity (Deut. 6:4) (CCA2). See What Do Jews Believe?.
7. To love G-d (Deut. 6:5) (CCA3). See What Do Jews Believe?.
8. To fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20) (CCA4).
9. Not to put the word of G-d to the test (Deut. 6:16) (negative).
10. To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9) (CCA6).
    
    
    

Being unable to settle in Palestine, then still suffering from the aftermath of the Crusades, the family went on almost immediately to Egypt.  In a document of 1167, Maimon appears as one of the signatories of a decree issued by the Egyptian rabbinical authorities and soon became spiritual head of the Cairo community.  Now, rabbis usually had a trade as a means of making a living, and what he did was trade in jewels with his brother, David, but when David died, Maimon became a physician to the viceroy of Egypt in 1170.  

Resource:

https://www.jewfaq.org/613_commandments

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-almohads/

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia 

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/maimonides-on-jewish-humiliation-under-islamic-rule-622050

The Deal of the Century: Watching Naive Plans With Duplicitous Iran's Nuclear Program

 Nadene Goldfoot                                          

         New President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran, from 3 August 2021

If inspectors continue to investigate undeclared site, President Raisi of Iran has said that there won't be any agreement of the nuclear deal, and Israel has said that if that happens Israel will have to carry out their counter threat of destroying Tehran's nuclear program.  Raisi has countered that by saying, "If Israel decides to carry out its threats to destroy Iran’s nuclear program,  “it will see if anything from the Zionist regime will remain or not.”

Prime Minister Yair Lapid has slammed the emerging deal, saying the negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks. Israel believes Iran intends to build a nuclear bomb and has published intelligence it says reveals the Iranian weapons program.  JERUSALEM, Aug 24 (Reuters) - A new nuclear deal between world powers and Iran would allow other nations to avoid sanctions and give Teheran $100 billion a year to destabilize the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said on Wednesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency for years has sought for Iran to answer questions about man-made uranium particles found at undeclared sites.

US intelligence agencies, Western nations and the IAEA have said Iran ran an organized nuclear weapons program until 2003. Iran long has denied ever seeking nuclear weapons.  EU-coordinated negotiations on reviving the deal began in April 2021 before coming to a standstill in March and picking up again in August. The Biden administration has repeatedly said it believes diplomacy is the best way to resolve the crisis.  President Biden, they've been trying diplomacy since 2003 and it hasn't gotten us anything but frustration.

David "Dadi" Barnea (Hebrew: דוד (דדי) ברנע; born 29 March 1965) is the current Director of the Mossad, having taken over from Yossi Cohen in June 2021.

Mossad Director David Barnea will travel to Washington next week and will appear before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee as part of Israel's campaign to thwart a return to the Iran nuclear deal.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened Israel constantly when he was in office from 2005 to 2013.  He called the USA the big Satan and Israel the little Satan. In July 2015, the Iran nuclear deal was reached by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, the European Union (EU), and Iran. The deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was supposed to resolve concerns about Iran’s nuclear program—but it did not. 

The deal ended with President Donald Trump in 2018. 

 Iran has threatened the existence of Israel many times, doing so in many ways. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was President of Iran from 3 August 2005 to 3 August 2013, and during that time had repeatedly made contentious speeches and statements against Israel. Ahmadinejad refused to call Israel by name, instead calling it the “Zionist regime”. He has called for the "elimination of the Zionist regime". Ahmadinejad took part in a protest called "The World Without Zionism" and has derided Israel on numerous occasions. He has urged regional powers to cut diplomatic and economic ties with Israel and halt oil sales.                           

He said that since Germany caused the Holocaust-if this story is true, then they should provide the Jews with a country.  On 11 December 2006, at the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust," a gathering of Holocaust deniers in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said: "Thanks to people's wishes and God's will the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is [headed] downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want. The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom

On Israel's 60th birthday in 2008, Ahmadinejad said:  Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."                       

Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the third and current Secretary General of Hezbollah

      Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon doing Iran's bidding

 Tensions have risen over Iran's nuclear program. He has also provided funding, training and arms to what are widely regarded as terrorist organizations;  Hezbollah and Hamas, which are sworn enemies of Israel and waged war against Israel.                                

Hezbollah fighters hold flags as they attend the memorial of their slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, South Lebanon, February 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

 Israel said the attack had been planned as an assassination attempt in retaliation for the kidnapping and death of missing Israeli servicemen in 1986 and the abduction of US Marine and UN peace-keeping officer William R. Higgins in 1988.Abbas al-Musawi 26 October 1952 – 16 February 1992) was an influential Lebanese Shia cleric, co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah. He was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in 1992.

The deal fails to guarantee the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program—rather, it gives Iran a clear pathway to nuclear weapons.  Iran accepts temporary nuclear restrictions in exchange for front-loaded, permanent benefits such as a $100 billion dollars every year.  United Nations (U.N.) sanctions and some EU sanctions have been lifted, enabling Iran to access previously frozen assets. Remaining EU sanctions will be lifted in 2023.

Ahmadinejad's remarks have been criticized by various world bodies and governments, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Nations. 

Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Rouhani were each elected president for two terms. Ebrahim Raisi is the current president, being elected in the June 2021 presidential election.

Resource;

Israel AM, daily news

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/iran-nuclear-deal?gclid=CjwKCAjwx7GYBhB7EiwA0d8oe16Vh8DFQ_1e3BjkigdKEGWm-6rDaI6Ngqe7g6yKwueIZWNAg5BbpBoCfowQAvD_BwE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/foreign-policy/iran-deal#:~:text=Currently%2C%20Iran%20has%20a%20uranium,needed%20to%20create%20a%20bomb.