Former New York Attorney General Robert Abrams Speaks at BYU Jerusalem Center
I am honored to participate in this historic ceremony.
Just as divine spirit impelled Orson Hyde to come to this very place 175 years ago to declare this to be the land for the gathering of the Jewish people, so has there been what appears to be a divine guidance in the initial outreach of my good friend Jim Hamula seven years ago, requesting me to organize a delegation of Jewish leaders from New York to visit leaders of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City. From that request have emerged significant events and relationship building.
Our group from New York included rabbis from the major streams of Judaism—orthodox, conservative, and reform—and representatives from the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the UJA-Federation of New York, and the New York Board of Rabbis.
We toured the various facilities of the Church and discussed sensitive issues in meetings with Church leaders, including Elder Holland and Elder Cook, aimed at creating greater bonds of friendship and understanding.
Subsequent visits to New York City by elders of the Church brought them in contact with other leaders in the Jewish community, including Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, who attended the Becket Fund dinner and then was invited to speak at Brigham Young University. Rabbi Soloveichik on another occasion provided a tour of Yeshiva University for myself and other Church officials. He also hosted Elder Cook and Elder Von Keetch as they visited the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States, Shearith Israel, and proudly showed them a Torah used by his congregation during revolutionary war days.
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, who, in addition to being the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, cohosts a weekly radio program, Religion on the Line, invited a spokesman for the Mormon Church to appear on the show to outline the wide array of activities and programs of the Church.
My wife and I had the privilege of sharing a Friday night Shabbat dinner at our home, where we shared the traditions of our 3,000-year-old faith with elders of the Church. The warmth, camaraderie, and mutual respect which flowed from the rituals performed—the prayer over the wine and bread, the washing of hands in preparation for the meal, the grace after meals, and the singing and sharing of stories during the meal—have left a permanent glow that lingers in the memory and hearts of all those who attended.
I have had the high honor of visiting three Mormon temples prior to their consecration in the Salt Lake City area, New York City, and Philadelphia.
On a visit to the Brigham Young Center on Mount Scopus with my younger daughter, she was given the surprise opportunity to play a melody on the organ, and she offered a spirited rendition of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
Elder James Hamula was a special guest of honor at the rededication of the sanctuary of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun after a devastating fire caused major damage to the building.
These events enabled me to learn more about the Mormon community and to discover that there are strong areas of common ground with the Jewish community. Each has a fundamental focus on family; each places a very high value on education; each has a strong commitment to charitable giving; each demonstrates humanitarian concern and response when there are international catastrophes such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis around the globe; each has a history of disproportionate success due to ability, hard work, and determination; and each has been subjected to fierce persecution and prejudice.
There is nothing more noble than extending the hand of friendship to fellow human beings. The world needs more understanding and respect among people, and it is encouraging to see the fostering of that core value here today.
Friendship and respect have always existed between our two communities, and it is heartening to see it being strengthened.
May we share many more opportunities of common efforts in the days ahead.
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The Times Square (The crossroads of the world) is famous for its electric, neon and illuminated signs, the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District.
United Nations Conference in Salt Lake City, Day 2
Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are hosting events in Salt Lake City this week associated with the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference. For the next several days, thousands of attendees are in Utah’s capital, the first city in the United States to host the annual event outside of the United Nations’ (U.N.) headquarters in New York City.
Tuesday evening, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square performed a private concert for conference attendees in the Conference Center.
Movie First Vision March 26th
For additional information, take a look at this website Working independently, John C. Lefgren and John P. Pratt give evidence for determining the date of the First Vision. Their evidence comes from these sources: (1) The personal account of Joseph Smith where he tells that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, appeared to him in the early spring of 1820 in a grove of trees near his father's farm. (2) The ancient prophecy from the Book of Enoch concerning the whole history of man. (3) The repeating cycles of time that are witnessed in the heavens by the orbits of the earth, the moon, and the sun. (4) the familiar 7-day week cycle and its function in the Calendar of Enoch. (5) The weather-dependent cycles for the production of 1,000 pounds of maple sugar that the Smith Family made in the early spring of 1820. (6) The world's first systematic national weather reports that the Surgeon General of the United States Army organized for 1820.
In 1820 the Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Lovell, commanded medical officers stationed at 14 army posts in the United States to record weather conditions three times a day: 7:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 6:00 p.m. Many of these original reports are found in the National Archives. In June 1820 the Surgeon General took these records and prepared the first weather report in the history of the world. His report was printed on July 27, 1820, in the National Intelligencer, the dominant newspaper of Washington, D.C. In that issue, the date for the First Vision is identified as the warmest and most beautiful day for March 1820 at Sackets Harbor, New York. This movie shows that Sunday, March 26, 1820, satisfies the criteria for the setting of the First Vision.
The Becoming Begins
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United States elected officials representing the citizens of New York State and New York City, that took an oath to uphold the Constitution and U.S. laws, have betrayed their oath by permitting U.S. laws to be supplanted. ...
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Bible Prophecy in Revelation- The New York and Babylon Connection: Part 1
Pastor Hill delivers a powerful and plausible answer to the curious question, where is the city of Babylon referred to in Scripture? Perhaps John the Revelator was not speaking to the literal ancient city, but a figurative representation of a modern city more closely defined not in name, but by the very specific attributes outlined in Revelation. New York, as Pastor Hill outlines, fits the bill of this spiritual city on 10 key point in the Bible. So enjoy and get ready! Jesus is coming back soon!
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Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet | James A. Cullimore
In an incredible testament to Joseph Smith’s divine calling, James A. Cullimore retells several events from the life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet.
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A man who had been in the penitentiary applied to Henry Ford for employment. He had decided to tell Mr. Ford about his past as he applied. He had not been honest on several occasions as he had applied and after he was hired and working, his employer had found out he had been in the penitentiary and let him go. So now as he started to tell about his past, Mr. Ford stopped him and said, “I don’t care about your past; start where you stand.”
Berton Braley put these thoughts to verse:
Start where you stand and never mind the past;
The past won’t help you in beginning new;
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’ve done with it, you’re through; . . .
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs;
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand;
The future is for him who does and dares;
Start where you stand. . . .
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead;
Start where you stand.
Repentance is one of the greatest principles of the gospel.
There is another important event that is often lost track of in the busy holiday season, or only little is made of it. I refer to the birthday of the Prophet Joseph Smith on December 23. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we recognize Joseph Smith as a prophet of God through whom the Church was restored in this dispensation. No one is more revered by us save Jesus Christ himself. Even though we revere him as our Prophet and the founder of the Church, it is unlikely that we fully comprehend his true greatness. May I share with you a few of the attributes and virtues that made him one of the greatest men ever to live upon the earth.
John Henry Evans wrote of him:
Here is a man who was born in the stark hills of Vermont; who was reared in the backwoods of New York; who never looked inside a college or a high school; who lived in six States, no one of which would own him during his lifetime; who spent months in the vile prisons of the period; who, even when he had his freedom, was hounded like a fugitive; who was covered once with a coat of tar and feathers, and left for dead; who, with his following, was driven by irate neighbors from New York to Ohio, from Ohio to Missouri, and from Missouri to Illinois; and who, at the unripe age of thirty-eight, was shot to death by a mob with painted faces.
Yet this man became mayor of the biggest town in Illinois and the state’s most prominent citizen, the commander of the largest body of trained soldiers in the nation outside the Federal army, the founder of cities and of a university, and aspired to become President of the United States.
He wrote a book which has baffled the literary critics for a hundred years and which is today more widely read than any other volume save the Bible. On the threshold of an organizing age he established the most nearly perfect social mechanism in the modern world, and developed a religious philosophy that challenges anything of the kind in history, for completeness and cohesion. And he set up the machinery for an economic system that would take the brood of Fears out of the heart of man—the fear of want through sickness, old age, unemployment, and poverty.
In thirty nations are men and women who look upon him as a greater leader than Moses and a greater prophet than Isaiah; his disciples now number close to a million; and already a granite shaft pierces the sky over the place where he was born, and another is in course of erection over the place where he received the inspiration for his Book. [John Henry Evans, Joseph Smith, An American Prophet, p. v]
Joseph Smith occupies a unique place among the prophets—his birth and his name, Joseph, were known nearly four thousand years before he came to the earth. Joseph who was sold into Egypt said of the great latter-day prophet:
“Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the lord unto me; a choice seer will I raise up. . . .
“. . . Behold; that seer will the Lord bless. . . .
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American Drug War
The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from legal drugs Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA. AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just dope fiends but an entire government. More importantly, it shows what can be done about it. This is not some 'pro-drug' stoner film, but a collection of expert testimonials from the ground troops on the front lines of the drug war, the ones who are fighting it and the ones who are living it.
One of America's Most Notorious Militias
We interviewed the founder of the notorious Michigan Militia to find out about its ties with Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bombing and more.
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Norman Olson is the founder of the Michigan Militia, the most famous/notorious/we-think-maybe-oldest? group of the early-90s citizens' militia movement. If you're too young to remember, that was this thing where guys in camouflage got together to train with their guns and guys with cameras pretended they were scary and racist. The movement hit a speed bump when it got blamed for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and Norm Olson didn't do much good for his own group when he tried to pass the blame to the Japanese—an idea which, if you subscribe to certain theories concerning the earlier sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway and the responsible doomsday cult's alleged connections to the Japanese Imperial Family, makes a limited sort of sense, but otherwise sounds like the craziest of all possible answers. With faith already shaken in his leadership, Norm then hitched the Militia's wagon to fears over that Y2K thing and by February 2000 the group was essentially defunct. However, as you may have heard from the Southern Poverty Law Center or one of the hundreds of press outlets who reprinted their press release as a story, right-wing militia activity is back on the upswing. And never one to look a media jizz-rush in the mouth, Norm and his old compatriot Ray Southwell are using the momentum to try and get a new militia started on Alaska's Kenai peninsula. So far it's been going kind of rough, but that didn't stop Norm and Ray from inviting us in for coffee and a quick flip through his big, yarn-bound book of Militia Mem'ries. Come join us, as we televize the nostalgialution...
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Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948-1998
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Community members celebrated Pioneros II, the story of the Puerto Rican pioneers who helped shape the story of New York City within a fifty-year period.
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College is curator of the book titled Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948-1998. The center celebrated at a Meet the Authors event with Virginia Sánchez Korrol, historian and Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College, and Pedro Juan Hernandez, archivist at Centro, on May 14, 2010. Pioneering Puerto Ricans and family members whose work was featured in the book were among attendees.
Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books (2002)
Jacques Martin Barzun (November 30, 1907 – October 25, 2012) was a French-born American historian. About the book:
Focusing on ideas and culture, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball and classical music, and is best known as a philosopher of education. In the book Teacher in America (1945), Barzun influenced the training of schoolteachers in the United States.
He published more than forty books, was awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was dubbed a knight of the French Legion of Honor. The historical retrospective From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), widely considered his magnum opus, was published when he was 93 years old.
John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American author.
He was born in New York City.[1] His father, Henry Grafton Chapman, was a broker who eventually became president of the New York Stock Exchange. His grandmother, Maria Weston Chapman, was one of the leading campaigners against slavery and worked with William Lloyd Garrison on The Liberator.[2] He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord and Harvard, and after graduating in 1884, Chapman traveled around Europe before returning to study at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1888, and practiced law until 1898. Meanwhile he had attracted attention as an essayist of unusual merit. His work is marked by originality and felicity of expression, and the opinion of many critics has placed him in the front rank of the American essayists of his day.
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
Rhode Island Most Catholic, New York Most Jewish
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Kenneth L. Woodward spent nearly forty years as religion editor for Newsweek magazine. What did his 750 articles—nearly 100 of them cover articles—his reporting from five continents, and his four books teach him about the place of religion in American society?
KENNETH L. WOODWARD served as Religion Editor of Newsweek for nearly forty years, reporting on a variety of subjects from seven continents. He is the author of more than 750 articles for Newsweek, including almost 100 cover stories. His numerous other articles, essays and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Commonweal, First Things, and America, among other publications. He has been a news commentator on NBC, ABC and CBS. His most recent book is Getting Religion: Faith, Culture and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump.
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Mormon Stories #781-782: A Final Evening with Grant Palmer
In this two-part episode we sit down a final time with Grant Palmer to discuss the release of his final book: Restoring Christ: Leaving Mormon Jesus for Jesus of the Gospels.
In part 1 we dig deep into two book chapters: one on Joseph Smith's possible treason against the United States government, and one on Joseph Smith's likely use of concubinage in addition to polygamy and polyandry.
In part 2 we discuss Grant's research into leaving Mormon Jesus for Jesus of the Gospels, and conduct a final Q&A with Grant.