www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Australian-minister-resigns-after-Hong-Kong-bar-incident-438718
www.facebook.com/Sovereign-Union-340478969357448
www.facebook.com/amequality

习近平: With the New Year approaching, I, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, wish all the PLA Soldiers, Armed Police Forces, and reservists a Happy New Year.

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Carl in Jerusalem: a bill that would require Europeans who have visited Iraq and Syria (ISIS hotspots) to obtain a visa before entering the United States. At the last minute, Iran and Sudan (terror sponsoring states) were added to the list of countries that will cause non-Americans to need a visa to enter the US. Europeans are also said to be “alarmed.”

中国银行

Columnist: The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world.

www.shavei.org/communities/kaifeng_jews/articles-kaifeng_jews/a-chinese-jewish-new-year

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Mendel Kaplan: We have to prepare the ground. We have to make ourselves moist; ready. We have to soften ourselves to be able to absorb the energy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Null and Void

"In any case, I may have to declare our arrangement Null and Void."

Yum Kippur

The Color of War and Dread

Chaim Soloveitchik: ‎I realized that there was introspection, self-ascent, even moments of self-transcendence, but there was no fear in the thronged student body. Nor was that experience a solitary one. I have yet to find that fear present, to any significant degree. The ten-day period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are now Holy Days, but they are not Yamim Noraim - Days of Awe or, more accurately Days of Dread - as they have been traditionally called. What had been instilled in people from shtetlach in their earliest childhood, and which they never quite shook off, was that every person was judged on Yom Kippur, and, as the sun was setting, the final decision was being rendered (in the words of the famous prayer) 'who for life, who for death, / who for tranquility, who for unrest.' What was absent among the thronged students in their contemporary services and, lest I be thought to be exempting myself from this assessment, absent in my own religious life too - was that primal fear of Divine judgment, simple and direct.

‎"They say surrender is winter white—
Like the Day of Atonement
Like Adam, on the day of his making
And later, his unmaking.
I stare at the sky, not white or grey,
The setting sun is the color of war."
~ Rabbi Yehuda Hausman

tefilat hadeyrik

Back to Bataan

"The Land through which we have passed to explore is a land that devours yoshveha (inhabitants who sit still)" (Numbers 13:32).

NOTE: The Filipinim diaspora is the third largest in terms of population among overseas East Asian groups. Overseas Sinim {Chinese} are the largest, with about 35 million followed by Overseas Hodu {Indians} with 22 million.

The Traveler's Prayer:

יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְפָנֶיךָ ה' אֱ-לֹהֵינוּ וֵא-לֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ, שֶתּוֹלִיכֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם וְתַצְעִידֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם. וְתִסְמְכֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם. וְתַדְרִיכֵנוּ לְשָלוֹם. וְתַגִיעֵנוּ לִמְחוֹז חֶפְצֵנוּ לְחַיִּים וּלְשִמְחָה וּלְשָלוֹם וְתַצִּילֵנוּ מִכַּף כָּל אוֹיֵב וְאוֹרֵב וְלִסְטִים וְחַיּוֹת רָעוֹת בַדֶּרֶךְ וּמִכָּל מִינֵי פּוּרְעָנִיּוֹת הַמִתְרַגְּשוֹת לָבוֹא לָעוֹלָם וְתִשְלַח בְּרָכָה בְּכל מַעֲשֵה יָדֵינוּ, וְתִתְּנֵנוּ לְחֵן וּלְחֶסֶד וּלְרַחֲמִים בְעֵינֶיךָ וּבְעֵינֵי כָל רוֹאֵינוּ וְתִשְמַע קוֹל תַּחֲנוּנֵינוּ. כִּי אֵ-ל שוֹמֵעַ תְּפִלָּה וְתַחֲנוּן אתה: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה', שוֹמֵעַ תְּפִלָּה. 

May it be Your will, Eternal One, our G-d and the G-d of our ancestors, that You lead us toward peace, emplace our footsteps towards peace, guide us toward peace, and make us reach our desired destination for life, gladness, and peace. May You rescue us from the hand of every foe, ambush, bandits and wild animals along the way, and from all manner of punishments that assemble to come to Earth. May You send blessing in our every handiwork, and grant us peace, kindness, and mercy in your eyes and in the eyes of all who see us. May You hear the sound of our supplication, because You are the G-d Who hears prayer and supplications. Blessed are You, Adonai, Who hears prayer.

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age (17 years of age with parental consent) for male and female voluntary service; maximum enlistment age 42 (Army), 27 (Air Force), 34 (Navy), 28 (Marines); service obligation 8 years, including 2-5 years active duty (Army), 2 years active (Navy), 4 years active (Air Force, Marines)

Wo[e]manpower available for military service:

• females age 16-49: 71,880,788
• males age 16-49: 73,145,586
• total: 145,026,374 (2010 est.)

I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through a world of war
Ain't no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright land I'm headed for

I'm going there to see my Father
Says He'll meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

I'll soon be done with every trial
My body sleeps in the old graveyard
I'll drop this dross of self-denial
And enter on my great reward

I'm going there to see my Father
Says He'll meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through a world of war
Ain't no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright land I'm headed for

I'm going there to see my Father
Says He'll meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over

Home.

Better is one day in your House
Better is one day in your courts
Better is one day in your House
Than thousands elsewhere

Better is one day in your House
Better is one day in your courts
Better is one day in your House
Than thousands elsewhere

Better is one day in your House
Better is one day in your courts
Better is one day in your House
Than thousands elsewhere

Better is one day in your House
Better is one day in your courts
Better is one day in your House
Then thousands elsewhere!

"Lo, I will send you Eliyahu ha'navi before the coming of the great and awesome day of the L-rd, that he may turn the heart of the fathers back through the children, and the heart of the children back through their fathers ~ lest I come and smite the planet with utter destruction" (Malachi 3:23-24).

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Comfort Room Blessing aka cr