Yet another earthquake shakes Israel. Fourth tremor to hit the region in less than two weeks registers at 4.1 on Richter scale; epicenter is again the Dead Sea.
Read More +Received by email: Another earthquake hits Israel. (Warnings?) Third earthquake in less than a week shakes central Israel; no injuries or damage reported, but analysts warn nation unprepared for expected major quake. Follow-up to same email: The reason I mentioned “warning”, is that this comes BEFORE Olmertmakes official commitments – three in one week?? When have you remembered three in one week? Three LITTLE ones – just a warning. Unlike Katrina, where there was no warning, which first formed on the earth as a tropical depression exactly 2 1/2 hours after the last communities in Shomron were officially emptied of
Read More +From Ancient Documents Portend Major Earthquake: Tel Aviv University geologist Shmulik Marco said earthquake patterns along the Dead Sea fault recorded in historical documents indicate the region’s next significant quake might be imminent. Major earthquakes were recorded along the Jordan Valley in 31 BCE, and in 363, 749 and 1033 CE. “So roughly we are talking about an interval of every 400 years,” said Marco. “If we follow the patterns of nature, a major quake should be expected any time because almost a whole millennium has passed since the last strong earthquake of 1033.” “When it strikes – and it
Read More +From Israel Shaken by Second Quake in 8 days By Ezra HaLevi, Arutz Sheva News Service – http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com : The second minor earthquake in just over a week shook central Israel Sunday morning, causing no injury or damage. The Home Front Command has issued instructions in the event of a larger quake. The earthquake, which was felt at 11:25 AM, measured 4 on the Richter scale – slightly less powerful than the 4.5 quake felt last Saturday morning. Jerusalemites reported the tremors to local municipal hotlines in the minutes following the quake – the epicenter of which was in the
Read More +An earthquake registering 6.2 on the Richter scale rocked Greece today and was felt in many parts of Israel and Egypt as well. Director General of the Geophysical Institute of Israel Dr. Uri Frieslander said the earthquake hit the Greek island of Crete at 1:36 p.m. Israel has seen a number of earthquakes this past year, the strongest of which occurred in February and registered 5.1 on the Richter scale. Folks, as Rav Kook wrote, “The horror of an earthquake – which may uproot nations, wreak vast destruction, and bury thousands of people – raises deep questions for people throughout
Read More +Palestinian Authority religious leader Yusuf Abu Sneina, Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque, preached on PA radio that the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was Allah’s punishment to the U.S. for fighting Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the PA, and for threatening Iran and Syria. He also repeated a common theme that America will fall like such earlier powers as “Persia and the Byzantine.” Folks, if that is Allah’s punishment, I want to know where Allah was when Iran was devastated by earthquakes and hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed. Heh-heh.
Read More +by Emanuel A. Winston: After I watched Prime Minister Ariel (Arik) Sharon’s plans to deport Jews in order to make way for the Arab Muslim Palestinians in Gaza, I became furious with HaShem (G-d). For a long time in anticipation of this catastrophe, I and others I know who respected the Land HaShem had gifted eternally to the Jewish people over 3300 years ago, prayed for a miracle. Perhaps we didn’t deserve a miracle, but that was our prayer. I offered my string of suggested miracles, as follows: *Raise a cloud of fire to impede Sharon’s soldiers as You did
Read More +Folks, the following two linked articles illustrate what fueled my personal decision as to which organization I would donate tsunami relief money. Please keep in mind that I do believe that in this imperfect world, where there are volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, as Jews and Christians, we are obligated to respond to these crises by offering our help in any way that we can. That is what G-d has commanded us to do and that is what we should do. But we must be intelligent in how we respond. I’ll keep the name of the organizations to which I donated
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