Name Your 5 Top News Stories for 5771
Which 5 of these news stories would make it to your top 5 for 5771?
Please reply in the comments.
- Yemeni cargo headed toward Chicago
- Rockets from Gaza
- Yerushalayim bombing
- Syrians infiltrating
- Fogel massacre
- Daniel Viflic
- Bin Laden executed
- Leiby Kletzky
- Cairo embassy riot
- Migron destruction
- Terror in Eilat
- Rahm becomes mayor
- Wikileaks
- Rav Amsalem
- Minha Gedola of 6th millennium
- Goldstone's partial retraction
- Bibi speaks to congress
- Bibi speaks to UN
- Palestinians attempt statehood
- Blago convicted
- Yoel Goldstein is released
- US Mid-term elections
- Obama-care passes
- Blizzard in NY
- Blizzard in Chicago
- Fire in Carmel
- Australia floods
- Birds and fish dying
- Japan earthquake and tsunami
- New Zealand earthquake
- Grimsvotn volcano
- Spain earthquake
- Hurricane Irene
- Eastern US earthquake
- Egypt
- Tunisia
- Syria
- Iran
- Bahrain
- Yemen
- Libya
- Ivory Coast
- Turkey-Israel relations
- Rav Yehuda Mualem
- Rav Lefkowitz
- Rav Koppelman
- Rav Stein
- Rav Menashe Klein
- Baba Elazar
- Rav Lifshitz
- Spinka Rebbe of Yerushalayim
- Ongoing incarceration of Jonathan Pollard
- Ongoing incarceration of Gilad Shalit
- Ongoing incarceration of Sholom Rubashkin
- Ongoing incarceration of Alan Gross
- Ongoing incarceration of Jacob Ostreicher
- Ongoing incarceration of Yaakov Yosef Gruenwald
- Ongoing destruction of the Beit Hamikdash
תכלה שנה וקללותיה
תחל שנה וברכותיה
posted by yaak @ 9/28/2011 11:38:00 AM
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4 Comments:
the ongoing mideast turmoil for sure
off the top of my head my gut reaction is to say leiby kletzky and baba elazar for sure. the fogel massacre comes to mind next. that they were one on top of other adds to the feeling that s/t is wrong in our world. the japan earthquake, tsunami and volcanic eruption and continuing nuclear disaster surely seemed a wake up call to Hashem's power. As did the eastern us earthquake...maybe just my bias as i happened to have felt it in baltimore....that certainly shook me up both literally and figuratively....i maybe crazy but i always have a small flashlight in my purse now....definitely felt lo derech ha teva for our neck of the woods.....
1. Fogel massacre
2. Ongoing incarceration of American held prisoners of Tzion, Yehonatan Pollard and Shalom Rubashkin
3. Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster on the exact same day of the Fogel massacre, but a few hours beforehand. It came 11 days after the Japanese FM promised the Iranian FM nuclear fuel rods for the Iranian nuclear reactor.
4. Queensland, Australia being under water for one month just three weeks after FM Kevin Rudd publicly stated that it is the official position of the Australian government that Yerushalayim should be divided. He has since partially retracted his original comments.
5. The destruction of 3 homes in Migron which was followed 3 hours later with Hurricane Lee kindling 57 wildfires in Texas which over a three day period burnt over 1500 homes to the ground. Remember the demonization of Migron began during the Gog W. Bush, Jr. administration. And that Ehud Barak is a paid employee of the US State Dept.
6. The East Coast earthquake and the cracking of the Washington Monument and the US National Cathedral: Divine hints that the serving of G-d for the sole purpose of prospering days are now over forever precisely because we have reached Mincha Gedolah of the 6th Millennium. Baruch HsShem.
I would add the burning down of London during shavua she'chal bo and on Tisha B'Av itself. And the stock market crash on Erev Tisha B'av in the US warning Americans in general and Jews in particular what one should expect in the very near future. And you forgot the massive F-5 and F-4 tornado season over about a six week period starting on Shabbat HaGadol. There were at least 6 major tornado systems during that period including the F-5 tornado that destroyed 70% of Joplin, MO after Obama officially divided Jerusalem while Netanyahu was enroute to Washington, DC just before Lag B'Omer. I believe Ya'ak that 5771 has been the most naturally disasterous year in recorded history, expected for the Year of Hoshana Rabba.
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