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1. CLINTON’S JEWISH HERITAGE, THE KHAZARS & UKHRAINE
   Hillary Has Jewish Roots
   AUGUST 6, 1999 / 10:59 AM / AP

   In New York, where one of every eight voters is Jewish, it certainly won’t hurt that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton can note the Jewish branch on her family tree.

   Mrs. Clinton, who is Methodist, “has very fond childhood memories” of the second husband of her grandmother, Max Rosenberg, a Russian-born Jew, said Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the first lady’s Senate exploratory committee.

   Wolfson said Thursday that he doesn’t “expect it will have an electoral impact, and we don’t see it in that context.”

   Mrs. Clinton’s maternal grandmother, Della, married Rosenberg in 1933, seven years after she and Mrs. Clinton’s grandfather, Edwin Howell, divorced, according to a weekly Jewish newspaper, The Forward.

   They had filed a petition for Max to adopt Della’s children, including Mrs. Clinton’s mother, Dorothy, but the attempt failed. Max Rosenberg died in Los Angeles in 1984.

   Mrs. Clinton angered potential Jewish voters last year by voicing support for a Palestinian state, but has recently told Jewish leaders she considers Jerusalem “the eternal and indivisible capital” of Israel.

   She has also said she favors moving the U.S. Embassy for Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The United States has never recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

   KHAZARS
   Khazars (Ukrainian: хозари; khozary). Seminomadic, Turkic-speaking people that appeared in southeastern Europe after the expulsion of the Huns in the 4th century and lived in the area until the 11th century. They were the eastern neighbors of the eastern Slavic tribes and then of Kyivan Rus’. There are various hypotheses on the origin of the Khazars; they considered themselves close to the Volga Bulgars, Oghuz, and Avars. The territory first settled by them encompassed the Caspian steppes between the Sulak River and the lower Don River. At first the Khazars were nomads and herders, but eventually some of them turned to farming and especially trade.

   From the second half of the 6th century the Khazars were ruled by the western Turkic kaganate. After the dissolution of the kaganate in the middle of the 7th century, the Khazars conquered some of the Bulgar and other Caucasian (eg, Alans) and Slavic tribes, and established the Khazar kaganate, the first state in eastern Europe. The supreme sovereign was the kagan, the high priest, but the actual ruler was the vicegerent or assistant kagan. The kaganate’s first capital was Semender (Samandar) in northern Daghestan. In the mid-8th century, under pressure from the Arabs to the south, the capital was transferred to Itil on the Volga River, near present-day Astrakhan. Itil became an important trade center between East and West. In 835 the fortified city of Sarkil was built on the Don River with the help of Byzantine craftsmen. Among its inhabitants were many Rus’, Greek, Iranian, and central-Asian merchants.

   The Khazar kaganate reached its zenith in the late 8th century when it gained control over Subcaucasia, the Sea of Azov steppe, and most of eastern Europe up to the Dnipro River. The proto-Ukrainian Siverianians and Polianians paid tribute to the Khazars. The kaganate dominated the trade routes between the Far East and Byzantium and between the Arabic Empire and the Slavic territories and Scandinavia to the north. Until the mid-10th century, Khazar trade with these centers was interrupted only by intermittent wars between these same powers.

   At the beginning of the 8th century, Jews from Iran and Byzantium settled among the Khazars in northern Daghestan. Although some Khazars soon converted to Judaism, it was only at the beginning of the 9th century that Kagan Obadiah proclaimed non-Talmudic Judaism the state religion. Prior to that (ca 735), Arabs had invaded the kaganate and forced some members of the ruling class to adopt Islam. Meanwhile, Byzantium tried to convert the Khazars to Christianity: in 860–1 Saint Cyril conducted a mission among them and a metropoly with seven eparchies was organized. The Khazars even played a role in spreading Christianity in Kyivan Rus’ before its official conversion under Volodymyr the Great. All of these faiths coexisted peacefully on Khazar territory.

   In the late 9th century the Black Sea steppes (southern Ukraine) that were under Khazar control were invaded by the Pechenegs, whose incessant raids on the kaganate considerably weakened the Khazarstate. From the late 9th century Kyivan Rus’ also emerged as a major opponent. According to the chronicles, Askold and Dyr’s Varangian troops liberated Kyiv from the Khazars in 862, and in 883–5 Prince Oleh freed the Polianians and Siverianians from Khazar rule. Prince Ihor’s army twice (913–14 and 943–4) marched through Khazarian territory to the Caspian Sea and brought back rich booty. In his 941 campaign against Byzantium, however, Ihor received support from the kaganate and there were Christian Khazars among his warriors.

   In 964–5 Prince Sviatoslav I Ihorovych inflicted the final blow to the Khazar state: he destroyed Itil and Semender, and annexed Sarkil and the northwestern part of Khazar territory to Kyivan Rus’ (see Tmutorokan principality). This action proved to be detrimental to Rus’, which became vulnerable to constant nomadic invasions from the east. In 985 Volodymyr the Great defeated the Volga Bulgars and Khazars and forced them to pay tribute. The Khazars are last mentioned in the chronicles under the year 1079 when they conspired to seize Prince Oleh (Mykhailo) Sviatoslavych in Tmutorokan and hand him over to the Byzantine emperor. After the fall of the kaganate, the Khazars gradually intermixed with the Turkic and Cuman populations and eventually disappeared as a distinct people.

   BIBLIOGRAPHY
   Rybakov, B. ‘K voprosu o roli Khazarskogo kaganatu v istorii Rusi,’ Sovetskaia arkheologiia, 18 (1953)
   Dunlop, D. The History of the Jewish Khazars (New York 1954)
   Artamonov, M. Istoriia khazar (Leningrad 1962)
   Pletneva, S. Khazary (Moscow 1976)
   Pritsak, O. ‘The Khazar Kingdom’s Conversion to Judaism,’ HUS, 2 (1978), no. 3

   Arkadii Zhukovsky
   [This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]

   JESUS WAS SEMITIC, A JUDEAN, BUT NOT A JEW.

   TODAY’S JEWISH RELIGION IS TALMUDISM

   Jesus was not a Jew, in the sense of the meaning of the word ‘Jew’ as ‘a person who adheres to the religious practice called Pharisaism or Talmudism’. At that time in history, there was no religious, racial or national group in Judea known as ‘Jews’, nor had there ever been prior to that time. Judahites subscribed to the Pharisaical dogma; they were Talmudists.

   When the word ‘Jew’ was introduced into the English language its one and only implication, inference and innuendo was ‘Judean’. However, from the 18th through 20th centuries a well organized and well-financed international ‘pressure group’ created a ‘secondary meaning’ for the word ‘Jew’ among the English- speaking people of the world. This ‘secondary meaning’ bears no relation whatsoever to the 18th century original connotation – meaning ‘Judean’. The secondary meaning today has practically totally eclipsed the original and correct meaning of the word. (from Facts Are Facts by Ben Freedman)

   Basically, it comes down to this: If Jesus was a Judean, it has no bearing on the religion practiced by the Judeans at that time, nor on the given-meaning today, namely that a Jew is:

   1) A person who professes the form of religious worship known as ‘Judaism’;

   2) A person who claims to belong to a racial group associated with the ancient Semites;

   3) A person directly the descendant of an ancient nation which thrived in Palestine in Bible history; and/or

   4) A a person blessed by divine intentional design with certain superior cultural characteristics denied to the other racial, religious or national groups, all rolled into one.

   JESUS WAS SEMITIC, A JUDEAN, BUT NOT A JEW.

   TODAY’S JEWISH RELIGION IS TALMUDISM
   Jesus was NOT a Jew in that sense of the word, and there is not a person in the whole English-speaking world today who regards a ‘Jew’ as a ‘Judean’ in the literal sense of the word. We will defer here to the learned Rabbis, in the definition of that religious practice. From Facts are Facts, we read:

   “Jesus abhorred and denounced the form of religious worship practiced in Judea in His lifetime and which is known and practiced today under its new name ‘Judaism’. That religious belief was then known as ‘Pharisaism’.

   The Christian clergy learned that in their theological seminary days but they have never made any attempt to make that clear to Christians.

   The eminent Rabi Louis Finkelstein, the head of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (often referred to as ‘The Vatican of Judaism’) in the Foreword to his First Edition of his classic The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith, on page XXI states:

   “… Judaism… Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name… the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered…

   From Palestine to Babylonia, from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia, and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered …

   … demonstrates the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious movement…”

   (Recall Moses Mendelssohn’s words “Judaism is not a religion. Judaism is a law religionized”.)

   “Rabbi Louis Finkelstein in his great classic quoted from above, traces the origin of the form of religious worship practiced today under the present name ‘Judaism’, to its origin as ‘Pharisaism’ in Judea in the time of Jesus.

   Rabbi Finkelstein confirms what Rabbi Adolph Moses says in his: Yahvism, and Other Discourses (in collaboration with Rabbi H.G. Enlow), published in 1903 by the Louisville Section of the Council of Jewish Women. Rabbi Adolph Moses, on page 1, states:

   “Among the innumerable misfortunes which have befallen… the most fatal in its consequences is the name Judaism . . . worse still, the Jews themselves, who have gradually come to call their religion Judaism . . .

   Yet, neither in biblical nor post-biblical, neither in talmudic, nor in much later times, is the term Judaism ever heard. . . To distinguish it from Christianity and Islam, the Jewish philosophers sometimes designate it as the faith or belief of the Jews. .

   It was Flavius Josephus, writing for the instruction of Greeks and Romans, who coined the term Judaism, in order to pit it against Hellenism…

   The Christians eagerly seized upon the name…

   The Jews themselves, who intensely detested the traitor Josephus, refrained from reading his works. Hence, the term Judaism coined by Josephus remained absolutely unknown to them. It was only in comparatively recent times, after the Jews became familiar with modern Christian literature, that they themselves began to name their religion Judaism”

   This statement by the world’s two leading authorities on this subject clearly establishes beyond any question or any doubt that ‘Judaism’ was not the name of any form of religious worship practised in Judea in the time of Jesus.

   Religious worship known and practiced today under the name ‘Judaism’ by ‘Jews’ throughout the world was known and practiced in Judea in the time of Jesus under the name ‘Pharisaism’… ”

   The form of religious worship known as ‘Pharisaism’ in Judea in the time of Jesus was based exclusively upon the Talmud. The Talmud today exercises virtual totalitarian dictatorship over the lives of Jews, whether they are aware of that fact or not. . . and Talmudic Law has been incorporated into U.S. and International law.

   From The World’s Troublemakers read carefully and consider the implications of the following paragraph from the Jewish Encyclopedia. Jews and Judeo-Christians alike, read each word as though it were highlighted, italicized, and underlined.

   “This is the continuation of Phariseeism, as acknowledged in the Jewish Encyclopedia under the word ‘Pharisee’:

   Henceforth, Jewish life was regulated by the teachings of the Pharisees.

   The whole history of Judaism was reconstructed from the Pharisaic point of view, and a new aspect was given to the Sanhedrin of the past.

   Pharisaism shaped the character of Judaism and the life and thoughts of the Jew for all the future.

   Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, in his book The Pharisee, confirms this and says:

   “The spirit of the ancient Pharisee survived unaltered!”

   On this basis, whenever the word ‘Jew’ is used we should remember that it refers to the Pharisees. This group believes now, as it did then, that it has been specially chosen by its own particular god to exercise dominion over all other groups, and that any means to this end has divine sanction.”

   From the Library of Congress’ Dead Sea Scrolls website we find another assertion that modern Judaism IS Pharisaism; that is… Talmudism:
   “… With the destruction of the Temple and the commonwealth in 70 C.E., all that came to an end. Only Talmudic Judaism of the Pharisees — Rabbinic Judaism — survived.”

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2. My comment…couldn’t get it to “take” at the site:

   Noted. Sigh. Tired old hag….

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