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Jewish leader says, “We do not proclaim individuals to be kings.” Leaders offended after Long was wrapped in a sacred Torah scroll.  Read more and see video.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spoke to Jewish leaders who are highly offended and speaking out against a ceremony held Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in which Bishop Eddie Long was wrapped in a sacred Torah scroll and carried upon a throne.
“He’s a king. God has blessed him,” said Rabbi Ralph Messer before covering Long in a scroll “[that] may still have the dust of Auschwitz and Birkenau.” Messer referred to the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
A Torah’s use in a ceremony ordaining Long as “a king” is offensive to many Jews, said Bill Nigut, Southeast Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League.
The ceremony at Long’s Lithonia church, viewed more than 139,000 times on YouTube, “in no way represents any Jewish ritual that I’m familiar with,” Nigut tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We do not proclaim individuals to be kings.”
Messer said his parchment, a handwritten copy of the holiest book within Judaism, was 312 years old. His mention of Auschwitz-Birkenau implied the scroll was one of those recovered from the death camps when they were liberated by the Allies toward the end of World War II.
It’s impossible to authenticate Messer’s claim without examining the texts up close, said Rabbi Joshua Heller of Congregation B’nai Torah in Sandy Springs. While rare, Torahs can be easily purchased, even on eBay, he said.
“There are a fair number of Torah scrolls that survived the war,” said Heller, adding roughly 1,500 were rescued from Czechoslovakia alone.

More disturbing was the use of this particular Torah in an inappropriate setting, experts on religion say.
“The connection of the Torah scroll to the Holocaust and then to Eddie Long is incomprehensible to me,” said David P. Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University. Gushee is a scholar of the Holocaust and has visited Auschwitz several times.
“What was the point? Was it to signal that Eddie Long was suffering persecution like the Jews at Auschwitz?” Gushee asked.
Messer’s son, Minister Russell Messer of Simchat Torah Beit Midrash in Parker, Colo., said his father purchased the parchment and relied on the word of its seller regarding its provenance. “It came through that generation of Europe,” the younger Messer said.
Russell Messer said that in the next two days, his father — who has no formal rabbinical training — plans to post on his organization’s website the full video of his sermon along with additional comments regarding Sunday’s service.
When asked for comment about the event, New Birth emailed a statement Thursday in which Ralph Messer said critics misunderstood his intent.
“My message was about restoring a man and to encourage his walk in the Lord,” Messer said. “It was not to make Bishop Eddie L. Long a king.”
The YouTube video indicates otherwise, Heller told the AJC.
“We wouldn’t wrap a Jewish person in a Torah scroll and declare him king,” he said. “As a Jew, I find that use of symbols very off-putting.”
The messenger is as controversial as the message, Jewish leaders say.

Ralph Messer, according to a biography on his organization’s website, is “pioneering a work to bring the ‘Good News’ of Yeshua (Jesus Christ) in the Torah to the ends of the Earth.” He is active in the Messianic Judaism movement, which fuses evangelical Christian beliefs with elements of Jewish tradition.
“The Jewish community does not associate itself with the Messianic congregations,” Heller said. “We don’t feel like this does due justice to either the Jewish or Christian community.”
Messer’s biography says he has ties with prominent evangelicals including the Rev. Kenneth Copeland of Lubbock, Texas, and Paula White, pastor of a charismatic mega-church based in Florida. It says he has made frequent appearances on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
In his statement Thursday, Ralph Messer said Sunday’s presentation “was simply a way of bringing honor to a man who had given his life to the Lord and had given so much to his church, the Atlanta metro area and throughout the world.”
“Lifting him on the chair was to acknowledge and honor him,” he said, adding it is consistent with rituals performed at Jewish weddings and Bar mitzvahs.
Russell Messer said that his father and Long “just got to know each other in the last six months.”
Long was appointed New Birth’s pastor in 1987 when the church had only 300 members. By its 10th anniversary, New Birth reported a membership of roughly 18,000, peaking at 25,000.
But in September 2010, Long was sued by four former church members who alleged he used his influence, trips, gifts and jobs to coerce them into sexual relationships. The suit was settled in May. The church’s attendance has declined since the sexual coercion lawsuit was filed.
The bishop may have taken comfort in Messer’s message.
“You can’t attack [Long],” Messer said Sunday. “He’s sealed. Wherever he turns, the power of God is there. … It’s not him, it’s the king in him.”
As Long sat behind him, perched on a throne under a spotlight, Messer chanted repeatedly, “It’s a new birth,” eliciting cheers from the congregation.
Mercer’s Gushee said the service may have been an attempt to shore up Long’s standing in his ministry.
“A lot of things could have been done to shore that up, but this particularly bizarre ritual was deeply disturbing,” Gushee said. “One problem with Messianic Judaism, in which leaders attempt to fuse Jewish and Christian traditions and symbols, is that it can easily stray into profound insensitivity.”
Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, associate professor of Biblical studies at Interdenominational Theological Center, said that on viewing the video, “My first impression was, ‘Who is this individual who has the authority to make Bishop Long a king?’
“It’s something I’ve never seen or read within the Judeo-Christian tradition,” Hopkins said. “There’s nothing within Scripture that supports such a practice of this ceremony. It really just stands outside of the Christian faith.”

source:  eurweb.com

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Friday 2/3/12

Question:
Where did Elijah meet the prophets of Baal and Asherah?

Answer:
Mount Carmel               1 Kings 18:19

Thursday 2/2/12

Question: 
Who was the barren wife of Elkanah?

Answer:
Hannah

Wednesday 2/1/12

Question:
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” From which Old Testamen book is this quotation taken?

Answer:
Isaiah

Tuesday 1/31/12

Question:
What was the name of Simon Peter’s brother, who first brought Simon Peter to Jesus?

Answer: 
Andrew      see John 1:40-42

Monday 1/30/12

Question:
Where did Titus, to whom Paul wrote a letter, live?

Answer:
Crete

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Emerson McGee has spent most of his life living with a secret, and the first-year law student’s menacing struggle with his sexuality is only the half of it. His wife, Danielle, has her own scars of adolescent heartache—which she thinly veils behind her façade as an upper-middle class princess. The newlywed’s cookie-cutter marriage is abruptly interrupted when they make a reluctant move into the quaint house Emerson inherited from his deceased grandmother. Unbeknownst to them, there’s already something else living there: A malevolent entity hell-bent on exposing its connection to Emerson and the tragic secret they share. While a mysterious narrator recounts the details of his abject life, the McGees’ vengeful poltergeist pulls Danielle deeper into a mystery that has haunted an impoverished ghetto in South Baton Rouge—aptly called “‘Da Bottom”—for nearly a decade, and spills into the provocative world of New Orleans hoodoo. Before its final scare, Never Dead concludes with a bloody twist the McGees never saw coming.

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Graham, 19, was pursued by a team of police who had attempted to stop and question him.  Reportedly, police witnessed the youth adjusting the waistband of his pants on the street and immediately assumed he had a gun.  The youth, who had a prior arrest record for marijuana possession and burglary, ran from the officers who then gave chase.

The unarmed boy was tracked down by police in his residential second-floor apartment.  When Graham managed to make it inside his apartment, he reportedly ran inside the bathroom with two officers in hot pursuit.  A tussle ensued and one of the policeman fired a bullet from his .9 mm gun, hitting Graham in chest.  The name of the officer who did the shooting has not been released, but reports state that he is a 30-year-old, two-year veteran who has never been involved in a prior shooting.

According to sources, Graham was unarmed:

“He had some weed on with him,” a family friend told the Daily News. “It wasn’t a big deal. They shot him inside the house. … He didn’t have a gun.”

Police reports state that a small amount of marijuana was found in the bathroom and speculate that perhaps the teen had been trying to flush it down the toilet to avoid further arrest.

Graham was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Constance Malcolm, 39, who is Graham’s mother, witnessed the incident and is distraught over the death of her son.

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The defending CIAA Champion Shaw Bears are a unanimous #1 selection in the Boxtorow National Division II/NAIA HBCU Top 10 Basketball Poll.

Winston-Salem State’s loss to Saint Augustine’s on Saturday enabled the Bowie State Bulldogs to grab the #2 spot. WSSU fell to #3. Tougaloo and Xavier (La.) who combined was 3-0 last week, remained at the #4 and #5 positions, respectively.
The Central State Marauders moved up to spots this week to #6, while Voorhees, winner of two games, moved from tied for #10 last week to #7. Paine dropped one spot to #8, while Wiley remained at #9 and is tied with Saint Augustine’s, who moved up from being tied for #10 last week.
In the Division I poll despite losing to Coppin State, the Norfolk State Spartans remain on top. Norfolk State received all but one first place votes.

The Savannah State Tigers received one first place vote and remained at #2. The Tennessee State Tigers are winners of four in a row and remain at #3. Coppin State and Mississippi Valley State, who traded positions last week, trade positions again this week and are #4 and #5, respectively.

The voters are comprised of some of the top media members in the country who cover Division I and Division II/NAIA basketball. The poll is in its fourth year.
2011-12 Boxtorow National HBCU Division II/NAIA Top 10 Basketball Poll
Week 3: January 31, 2012
No. Team W-L Pts. Previous Rank
1. Shaw (14) 17-2 140 1
2. Bowie State 16-3 122 3
3. Winston-Salem State 15-4 108 2
4. Tougaloo 17-5 102 4
5. Xavier (La.) 16-6 86 5
6. Central State 13-6 56 8
7. Voorhees 14-5 50 T-10
8. Paine 11-7 26 7
T-9 Wiley 11-8 20 9
T-9 Saint Augustine’s 11-8 20 T-10
Others receiving votes: Tuskegee (10-6) 14, Texas College (13-8) 12, Benedict (8-8) 6, LeMoyne-Owen (10-7) 4.

2011-12 Boxtorow National HBCU Division I Top 5 Basketball Poll
Week 3: January 31, 2012
No. Team W-L Pts. Previous Rank
1. Norfolk State (12) 16-7 128 1
2. Savannah State (1) 11-10 106 2
3. Tennessee State 13-10 100 3
4. Coppin State 11-11 92 5
5. Mississippi Valley State 10-11 54 4
Others receiving votes: Southern (11-11) 36, Bethune-Cookman (9-13) 26.

Known as the Voice of Black College Sports, Donal Ware has covered historically black college and university sports and pro sports across the U.S. for years. He is the host of the nationally syndicated FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW which airs on SiriusXM Channel 141 Fridays from 1-2 p.m. and on radio stations around the country including Saturdays from 11-Noon p.m. on WAUG-AM 750 in the Triangle and from 1-2 p.m. at www.boxtorow.com. You can follow him on twitter @dware1 or @boxtorow

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