6.8 MILLION U.S JEWS - SURVEY

HEBREWS 11:11-12
11  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed,(Issac) and was delivered of a child when she was past age,(90) because she judged him faithful who had promised.
12  Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.(GODS PROMISE TO ISRAEL THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE ON EARTH WITH ALL KINDS OF THEIR OWN LAND)(AND ISRAELIS WILL MULTIPLY GREATLY THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.

Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

ROMANS 11:26
26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion (JERUSALEM)  the Deliverer,(JESUS MESSIAH OF ISRAEL) and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:(ISRAEL)
27  For this is my covenant unto them,(ISRAELIS) when I shall take away their sins.

Pew survey: 6.8 million US Jews, but majority intermarry

New study finds strong connection to Israel, but not to observance of Jewish law

By Uriel Heilman October 1, 2013, 10:29 am 1-The Times of Israel

NEW YORK (JTA) — First the good news: There are a lot more Jews in America than you may have thought — an estimated 6.8 million, according to a new study.Now the bad news: A growing proportion of American Jews are unlikely to raise their children Jewish or connect with Jewish institutions. The proportion of Jews who say they have no religion and are Jewish only on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture is growing rapidly, and two-thirds of them are not raising their children Jewish at all.Overall, the intermarriage rate is at 58 percent, up from 43% in 1990 and 17% in 1970.The data on Jewish engagement come from the Pew Research Center Survey of US Jews, a telephone survey of 3,475 Jews nationwide conducted between February and June and released on Tuesday.The population estimate, released Monday, comes from a synthesis of existing survey data conducted by the Steinhardt Social Research Institute and the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.While the estimate is likely to be a matter of some debate by demographers and social scientists, it is the Pew study that offers an in-depth portrait that may influence Jewish policymaking for years to come.Among the more notable findings of the Pew survey:* Thirty-two percent of Jews born after 1980 — the so-called millennial generation — identify as Jews of no religion, compared to 19% of baby boomers and just 7% of Jews born before 1927. Overall, 22% of US Jews describe themselves as having no religion, meaning they are much less connected to Jewish organizations and much less likely to be raising their children Jewish.* The emotional attachment to Israel has held steady over the last decade, with 69% of respondents saying they feel attached or very attached to Israel. Forty-three percent of respondents said they had been to Israel.* Far more respondents said having a good sense of humor was essential to their Jewish identity than observing Jewish law — 42% compared to 19%.

* Approximately one-quarter of Jews said religion is very important in their lives, compared to 56% among Americans generally. Among Jewish denominations, the Reform movement remains the largest with 35% of respondents identifying as Reform. The second-largest group is Jews of no denomination (30%), followed by Conservative (18%) and Orthodox (10%).As with other studies, the Pew study found that the Orthodox share of the American Jewish population is likely to grow because Orthodox Jews tend to be younger and have larger families than Jews generally. In addition, while past surveys showed about half of respondents raised as Orthodox were no longer Orthodox, the Orthodox retention rate appears to be improving, with just a 17% falloff among 18- to 29-year-olds.Most denominational switching among American Jews, however, remains in the direction of less traditional Judaism.In the Pew survey, 90% of those who identified as Jews by religion and are raising children said they are raising them Jewish. By comparison, less than one-third of those who identified themselves as Jews of no religion are raising their kids as Jewish.Among inmarried Jews, 96% are raising their children as Jews by religion (as opposed to ethnicity), compared to 45% among intermarried Jews.On Jewish observance, some 70% of respondents to the Pew survey said they participated in a Passover seder in 2012 and 53% said they fasted for all or part of Yom Kippur that year. The numbers represent declines from the 2000-01 National Jewish Population Survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America, which found seder participation rates at 78% and Yom Kippur fasting at 60%.While most of those surveyed by Pew said they felt a strong connection to Israel, and 23% reported having visited the Jewish state more than once, the respondents expressed significant reservations about the current Israeli government’s policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians.Forty-four percent said West Bank settlement construction hurts Israel’s security interests, and only 17% said continued settlement construction is helpful to Israeli security. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said the Israeli government is making a sincere peace effort with the Palestinians.The Pew survey also asked respondents about what it means to be Jewish, offering several options. The most popular element was remembering the Holocaust at 73%, followed by leading an ethical life at 69%.Fifty-six percent cited working for justice and equality; 43% said caring about Israel; 42% said having a good sense of humor; and 19% said observing Jewish law.Sixty-two percent of respondents said being Jewish is primarily a matter of ancestry and culture; 15% said it was mainly a matter of religion. Most Jews said it is not necessary to believe in God to be Jewish. In the survey, 60% said a person cannot be Jewish and believe that Jesus is the messiah.

MK Shaked Blasts Israeli Politicians for J-Street Attendance

"Your participation in the conference grants legitimacy to extreme and unbalanced criticism of Israel," warns Bayit Yehudi MK..-By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 10/1/2013, 2:28 PM-Israelnationalnews

Ayelet Shaked-Artium Degel

MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi/Jewish Home) had tough words Tuesday for the far-left J-Street lobby organization, and for fellow parliamentarians who attended a conference held by the group."In the past few days, the J-Street organization has held a conference in Washington," MK Shaked wrote on Facebook. "For those who are not familiar with it – the organization was established as a counterweight to AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobby, by elements in US Jewry who claimed that AIPAC toes a line that identifies with Israel too much.""J Street has taken upon itself the role of Israel's loudest critic," she charged."Among its actions are the leading of a media campaign against the placing of sanctions on Iran by the US Congress; denunciation of the Cast Lead operation and its definition as 'an illegitimate and even criminal operation'; defining the takeover of the Marmara as 'brutal and cruel'; support for the US administration's demand to freeze construction in Jerusalem; pressure on the US administration not to veto the proposal by the Palestinian Authority to denounce Israel for construction in Judea and Samaria and more.""In other words – you understand whom we are dealing with here," she said to her followers."To the conference held by this group – for which the definition of radical leftist is an understatement – came several Knesset Members, like Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, Yitzhak Vaknin of Shas, and Tzachi Hanegbi of Likud."And I am asking them – dear MKs, are these your friends? Are these the elements with whom you choose to identify? Your participation in the conference grants legitimacy to extreme and unbalanced criticism of Israel."Shaked added that it is clear, today, that the Obama administration's support for Israel is "less than absolute," and accused the MKs who attended the conference of "strengthening those who led Obama to these delusional places."

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

Iran FM accuses Israel's Netanyahu of 'lies'

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Tehran (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying in his rejection of Tehran's overtures to the West as a cosmetic "charm offensive".
"We have seen nothing from Netanyahu but lies and actions to deceive and scare, and international public opinion will not let these lies go unanswered," Zarif said in an interview with Iranian television broadcast on Tuesday.Zarif was speaking from the United Nations, where Netanyahu was set to the address the General Assembly later Tuesday, the same forum where last year he used a cartoon bomb as a prop to underline how close he believed Iran was to producing a nuclear warhead."For 22 years, the Zionist regime has been lying by repeating endlessly that Iran will have the atomic bomb in six months," Zarif said."After all these years, the world must understand the reality of these lies and not allow them to be repeated."Netanyahu headed to the United States determined to use his UN address and a White House meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday to expose what he regards as "sweet talk" from Iran about wanting to allay Western concerns about its nuclear programme.At the White House meeting, Netanyahu said it was vital that "Iran fully dismantles its military nuclear programme".He urged Obama to keep US sanctions in place throughout negotiations between Iran and the major powers over its nuclear programme.Zarif said that "Netanyahu was the most isolated man at the UN" as he prepared to give his General Assembly speech.Foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham echoed Zarif's comments at a press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday.
"The pressure coming from the Zionist regime is down to its isolation and its anger that the policy of the Iranian government has been well received," Afkham said.She said Washington now faced a "major test to show if it can stand up to the warmongers."

Netanyahu calls on senators to keep up pressure on Iran

Prime minister meets with Senate Foreign Affairs Committee after Obama talk; hosts farewell ceremony for Michael Oren

By Lazar Berman October 1, 2013, 8:40 am 1-The Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with members of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Monday evening, thanking them for their support of bills sanctioning Iran for its nuclear program, and urging them to continue to pressure the Islamic Republic.Netanyahu also informed the senators that he told US President Barack Obama in their meeting earlier in the day that it was the sanctions that brought Iran to the negotiating table.The bipartisan group struck a positive tone after the meeting, agreeing with the prime minister that tough sanctions are crucial to any chance of diplomatic success, The Hill reported.“Diplomacy without pressure is probably a futile exercise,” Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said. “He believes the sanctions are working, and I agree.”“He just said basically that he believes in the importance that there be cost if Iran continues its nuclear program,” Ben Cardin (D-Md) said. “What we’re doing now he strongly thanked us for and said it’s having an impact and making it possible for us to negotiate.”Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who heads the panel, said senators were united in hoping for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis, “but resolute that US national security objectives can never be compromised.”“Our resolve to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapons capability remains unchanged and we will not hesitate from proceeding with further sanctions and other options to protect US interests and ensure regional security,” Menendez said in a statement after the meeting. “While we welcome Iran’s diplomatic engagement, it cannot be used to buy time, avoid sanctions, and continue the march toward nuclear weapons capability. Compliance with the UN Security Council resolutions will be the ultimate test of Iran’s intentions. We proceed with an open hand, and an open mind, but remain clear-eyed that Iran must align its actions with its rhetoric.”Earlier in the day, Obama assured Netanyahu in a White House meeting that the US remains committed to preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, is keeping the military option on the table, and will not reduce sanctions unless or until it is clear that Iran is taking verifiable actions to match its purported willingness for progress.Netanyahu, for his part, told the president he appreciated the reiteration of that commitment to stop Iran, and advised that “sanctions should be strengthened” if Iran continues to move ahead toward the bomb. Iran, Netanyahu told Obama in their joint media appearance at the Oval Office, remains bent on the destruction of Israel.The White House meeting marked the first time the two leaders had sat together since Obama’s visit to Israel in March. More relevantly, it marked their first personal contact since Obama and his Iranian counterpart, Rouhani, spoke by telephone over the weekend. Israel was informed prior to the conversation, but not consulted on the content, Israeli sources said.After meeting Obama, Netanyahu attended a farewell ceremony for outgoing US Ambassador Michael Oren, at which he thanked Oren for his service. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and Minority Leader Steny Hoyer all spoke at the event.Raphael Ahren contributed to this report. 

Obama assures Netanyahu US will be ‘clear-eyed’ in talks to thwart Iran bomb

Netanyahu demands full dismantling of ‘military nuclear’ capacity, says sanctions should be strengthened if Iran keeps advancing; president says military option remains on the table

By Raphael Ahren and Times of Israel staff September 30, 2013, 8:38 pm 12-The Times of Israel

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama assured Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that the US remains committed to preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, is keeping the military option on the table, and will not reduce sanctions unless or until it is clear that Iran is taking verifiable actions to match its purported willingness for progress.Netanyahu, for his part, told the president he appreciated the reiteration of that commitment to stop Iran, and advised that “sanctions should be strengthened” if Iran continues to move ahead toward the bomb. Significantly, Netanyahu demanded the full dismantling of Iran’s “military nuclear” capacity, and made plain that he did not believe President Hasan Rouhani’s assurances that Iran constituted no threat to other nations. Iran, Netanyahu told Obama in their joint media appearance at the Oval Office, remains bent on the destruction of Israel.The two leaders, who spoke to the media after over an hour of talks, gave the impression of being at ease with each other and closely coordinated. They shook hands more than once; Obama patted Netanyahu on the arm at times; and the Israeli prime minister smiled warmly at the president.Plainly, Netanyahu did not want to be perceived as an intransigent leader blocking any chance of a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear standoff. Plainly, too, he was gratified to hear Obama stress that the option of military intervention to thwart Iran remains on the table — something the US president did not cite in a specific Iranian context during his speech at the UN General Assembly last week.Nonetheless, Netanyahu highlighted that, despite its moderate rhetoric, “Iran is committed to Israel’s destruction. So for Israel, the ultimate test of a future agreement with Iran is whether or not Iran dismantles its military nuclear program… The bottom line,” he repeated, “is that Iran fully dismantles its military nuclear program.”Obama, who said the US-Israel alliance and the US commitment to Israel’s security were “stronger than ever,” said he had to “test diplomacy” and approach Iran “in good faith,” but that the US was entering negotiations “very clear-eyed.”Said Obama: “We take no options off the table, including military options, in terms of making sure that we do not have nuclear weapons in Iran that would destabilize the region and potentially threaten the United States of America.”He added: “Given the statements and actions from the Iranian regime in the past, the threats against Israel, the acts against Israel, it is absolutely clear that words are not sufficient; that we have to have actions that give the international community confidence that in fact they are meeting their international obligations fully and that they are not in a position to have a nuclear weapon.” Iran would have to meet “the highest level of verification” before the international community could start “sanctions relief,” he added.He also promised to consult closely with Israel as the contacts with Iran move forward.It was imperative, for Israel and for world security, said Obama, that Iran not get the bomb. The US did not want a nuclear arms race in the most incendiary part of the world, he noted.For his part, Netanyahu stressed to Obama that, for the US, “there is no better ally, more reliable, more stable, more democratic other than Israel in a very broad, dangerous” Middle East, and that “the most important challenge” was preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.Netanyahu did not dismiss the idea of attempting diplomacy, but he said it was “the combination of a credible military threat and the pressure of those sanctions that have brought Iran to the negotiating table.” If diplomacy is to work, he said, “those pressures must be kept in place. And I think they should not be lessened until there is verifiable success. And in fact, it is Israel’s firm belief that if Iran continues to advance its nuclear program during negotiations, the sanctions should be strengthened. It’s the combination, I believe, that has guided your policy and our policy so far,” he said. “A credible military threat and strong sanctions, I think, is still the only formula that can get a peaceful resolution of this problem.”He said he appreciated Obama’s remarks “that Iran’s conciliatory words have to be matched by real actions — transparent, verifiable, meaningful actions.”

The two leaders also discussed the future of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said by unnamed officials on both sides to have made little headway over the past two months, and the Russian-brokered initiative to destroy Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons.On the Palestinian issue, Obama said he “commended” Netanyahu “for entering into good-faith negotiations with the Palestinian Authority,” and said the US goal was to facilitate an accord that led to “two states living side by side in peace and security. And we have a limited amount of time to achieve that goal, and I appreciate the prime minister’s courage in being willing to step forward on behalf of that goal.”Netanyahu said he remained “committed to peace talks with the Palestinians.” For peace to endure, he said, “it must be based on Israel’s capacity to defend itself by itself. And I hope that we can achieve a historic transformation that will give a better future for us and our Palestinian neighbors, and who knows, one day with our other neighbors as well.”On Syria, the president said, “We are both pleased that there is the possibility of finally getting chemical weapons stockpiles out of Syria, but I think we both share a deep concern that we have to be able to verify and enforce what has now been agreed to at the United Nations.”He said the US continued “to have concerns about what has happened in Egypt, but we also are committed to a constructive relationship with Egypt, in part because of the important role that the Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israeli peace has served not only for the stability and security of both those countries, but also for security in the region and US security.”The White House meeting marked the first time the two leaders had sat together since Obama’s visit to Israel in March. More relevantly, it marked their first personal contact since Obama and his Iranian counterpart, Rouhani, spoke by telephone over the weekend. Israel was informed prior to the conversation, but not consulted on the content, Israeli sources said.Netanyahu later met with Vice President Joe Biden. And afterward he headed over to the State Department for a meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry, before attending a farewell ceremony for outgoing Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren on Capitol Hill. Oren is being succeeded by Netanyahu’s former senior policy adviser Ron Dermer.After meeting with Netanyahu, Kerry spoke to the prime minister’s concerns, saying, “I also want [Netanyahu] to know that, as we reach out to respond to Iran’s effort to purportedly change its relationship with the world, we do so very aware of and sensitive to the security needs of Israel and the demands for certainty and transparency and accountability in this process.”In all Netanyahu’s meetings, Jerusalem’s concerns over the West’s apparent eagerness to engage with Iran were at the top of the agenda. Broadly speaking, Western powers have indicated a willingness to ease sanctions on Iran’s oil and banking industries if the regime limits its uranium enrichment and allows international inspectors access to its nuclear facilities to ensure its nuclear program has no military application. Kerry said Sunday that an agreement to resolve the nuclear standoff could be signed with three to six months and that Washington’s relationship with Tehran could “change dramatically for the better” if the Islamic Republic’s intentions turn out to be sincere.While Jerusalem is exceedingly skeptical, and Netanyahu has urged the international community not to be fooled by Tehran’s diplomatic “smokescreen” as it speeds toward the bomb, the prime minister sought in Washington to discuss the substance of that engagement, in order to define the parameters of a possible deal. Netanyahu has previously listed four demands of Iran: that it halt uranium enrichment, remove already enriched material, close the Fordo nuclear facility, and discontinue the plutonium track in Arak.While Netanyahu was in DC, Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin stayed in New York for meetings with several foreign ministers.On Sunday, Netanyahu held talks with Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird. Canada has traditionally been one of Israel’s staunchest allies and strongest supporters on the international stage.He also met with the foreign minister of Turkmenistan, Rashid Meredov. Israel’s diplomatic relations with Turkmenistan, a mostly Muslim country that borders Iran, date back to 1992, yet Shemi Tzur became Israel’s first resident ambassador in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, less than half a year ago.On Tuesday, Netanyahu, who was also accompanied to the US by Home Front Defense and Communications Minister Gilad Erdan, will be the last speaker to address the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York. After his speech, he will meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. A meeting with officials from the Jewish Federations of North America is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, after which the prime minister was originally scheduled to return to Israel. But on Sunday night, he decided to extend his stay in New York by one day, “to give interviews and briefings to the international press,” his office said.