across from the synagogue are the ruins of simon and peter's house. after his death it becamea meeting place for followers, one of the world's first house chuhes. here on the city of galilee, jesus performed 2 extrodinary miracles, both prophesied severatimes in the old testament, psalms said he would calm the storm, rule the raging of the sea, walk on the wings of the wind. book of job even predicted he would tread on the waves of the sea. hundreds of years earlier, isaiah had written the jewish messiah would also be a light to the gentiles. >> miracles happen and the awareness grows. he understands himself first of all to be sent to the lost sheep the house of israel, not to the gentiles. he is going to focus on israel. >> jesus met a gentile woman asking him to heal her gentile woman. >> can i even just have a crumb? you have so much to give jesus stops, what this woman says i arrests him and says this understanding has hitme to the core. because of this saying, he says your request is granted. the record is rama. what is it she has said to him? je

the church in hanover, the mosque in bavaria, and a new synagogue in dresden were all built over theic has brought out the coffee table book examining modern places of worship. >> in itself, a sacred building is one that has a meaning. it has to offer just more than space. it has to convey its substance. if you look at the history of architecture, the safe -- the sacred building has always been a place of communication. the cathedrals have huge paintings there to bring the christian message to a population that could not read. sacred buildings have to convey and have a narrative. >> a church for 6500 parishioners. the skylight represents the wounds of christ. this space is a reminder of the temple in jerusalem. there are stars of david. ♪ he is one of the architects of the munich synagogue. >> we were working in a safaith with no imagery. we tried to reference the basic architectural experience of the jews and transfer them metaphorically. we tried to use the pairing of concepts and deploy it architecturally. ♪ >> historically, synagogues and mosques have served as meeting places for

serena altschul pays a hanukkah visit to a synagogue. own mo rocca has his own takes on the wikileaks revelations. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 5th of december, 2010. in a rare saturday session of the senate republicans defeated the democratic effort to pass legislation limiting any renewal of bush era tax cuts solely to middle class tax payers. president obama is said to have told congressional democrats he'd consider permitting a temporary extension of the tax cuts for all income levels if the renewal of expiring jobless benefits is part of the deal. today's "new york times" is reporting that billions of dollars in bills faced by state and local governments across the country could be overwhelming in the next few years. a week after publishing those thousands of secret u.s. diplomatic cables wikileaks is struggling to stay online. this morning the website's main server in france went down. also lost its pay pal fund- raising account. the founder remains in hiding after enter polish uwed an arrest warrant on an unrela

i have one of the oldest synagogues in london in my district.ut largely that has moved away apart from those vibrant jewish community in my district. and the they are the largest community in europe. but because they like to live near their synagogues, because they have to walk to them, they stay put. so the traditional jewish are there. but like those you have in brooklyn are still there. but it's also hard to swing a large community of color originally a lot of people from the west indies, but now from south africa, south asia. vietnamese. they are in the district in fact, the real minority inmy district is white anglo sacksen. >> the paper, "the sun," and i just read this, white britain's the minority by 66 that's 2066. >> well, i think these are scare stories about migration are very wrong. and migration whether it's those who come to work in our financial services or french businessmen. whether it's vietnamese shop keepers. whether it's african parenters. london, like new york, is a great city precisely because of migration. i think there a

the jewish synagogue in the city center, a place associated with what she considers her most important work. in 1989, the photograph released her jewish portrait series, featuring pictures of holocaust survivors. the youngest of the group was 70 years old at the time. many have since passed away. >> i see myself as a person who naturally seizes on top yibs. not all of them are german but many are, that are socially important or reveal something about our culture and society. >> and motifs like german living rooms, she made her breakthrough 30 years ago with this photo book, a peak at private spaces. several years later, she took snap shots of different bedrooms around the world. >> i have motiffs that others see as ordinary. but i find something different in them and present them in a context where people think, ah hah, i've never seen it that way before. >> she doesn't consider her latest book a retro specttedive. she says her work isn't nearly finished and the 71-year-old photograph is working on a page of long range projects, more shots of the world through her own special lens. >>

. >> there are lots on the west side and people support development. 187 units that were for synagogue is not appropriate. to put in equation that we can solve the rest of the city's problems is unfair. >> i want more housing built on 800 (inaudible) way. it's one of the main streets on the southern part. i have heard of discussion between some people (inaudible) they want things to stay the way they are. i want them to build housing, frankly i don't give a damn, as long as they build it. >> there are so many people that have lived here and raised children and up and gone and moved in other houses in other states and they have 2000 homes that they can't maintain. and can't leave the neighborhood. we are trying to find senior assisting in the neighborhood. >> a lot of people can move in the facilities and their homes can be available for the families to better use 3000 square feet. >> i don't like high density housing. i don't want monterey blvd to be like. that >> i think one of the most charming parks of the sunny side is we are low density. i wouldn't want to be here with high densit

i said, you know this is what i think it's about book clubs and women's groups, synagogues, mosques and churches and an incredible amount of book clubs here in the bay view area and about people yearning for piece and looking for the answers of peace. any ways it's been really incredible and aspire together see people from all walks of life i really think can re late to promoting peace one child at a time. we got some news last month that the pentagon purchased 5,000 copies. let me finish it. and it's for counter intelligence training, 101 and mandatory reading for they're course encounter intelligence. this is in tan sa any a. i went there when i was three years old and my father founded a medical center and my mother started a school. it was a wonderful childhood. i went to school with children from two dozen countries. with jews and christians and hindus and for me that was the way the world was. finally it came time to come back to america. i was in high school and really looking forward to coming back to a place whether i heard about fourth of jewels lies anulies . i got beat up. t

the general population because most of us don't go to church, we don't go to the mosque, or the synagogue. we are indifferent to religion and we don't like it to be forced onto west. >> the lack of understanding between the religions, this leads to fear. >> yes. this is also competition. there are states where islam is the main religion. states where christianity is the main religion and they don't want to leave their access to power. these are patriarchal power systems. >> women are the ones who came to be the victims and any expression on either side of the problems comes to the women. >> to the women began stop wearing the veil in egypt. this is really alarming when you go to egypt because there are almost no women who are wearing the veil. >> i don't believe that the two religions cannot live together despite one being in a power position. if you look at the history of islam, christianity has had an existence in continuity. >> not in democracies but in dictatorships. under saddam hussein, christians feared -- >> if you look at jordan for instance, we were told that the parliament is d

this is california, for so many it is an indication how so many of us find the sacred not just in synagogue but nature to bring it into the prayer book puts so many pieces together. >> we have been talking a little about the innovation of the prayer book about the kinds of different prayers and i think what is important to say, for example, the shamu is a traditional prayer and the congregation has worked uniquely in that way just with the way you printed the prayer book there is the blue and black print. >> the blue is everything that is directly from the scriptures, and we wanted to exsent wait that so that in the -- excent wait that so that in the course of making our way through all the texts we make the priority of torah and we also have expanded the traditional, historic language, which speaks of the sons of israel, celebrating shack bat, here we have included the -- sha bat, here we have included all of israel, the communities of israel, we are trying in every way to say you belong here you are welcome here this is us. this is our -- all of our tradition and inheritance to refresh. i

when synagogues career is having a break from father frost she lives here in her own wooden house she's one of the city's most popular attractions and shows her visitors the much excitement of life see. ya several hopeless including a particularly entertaining them very well spoken cat and when the last children had gone home she was kind enough to offer me a private school. as you might expect for a snow maiden she has an entire room dedicated to christmas trees all made by children from local schools but also with a. still answer emails from around the world and as the star of her own fairytale she's surrounded by other characters from slavic mythology i want our forefathers believed that each of us has a guardian angel while at the end these are the helpers ancients lobby gods for example fido is the god of the labor helps us to work he has bestowed various crafts on us. is the patron saint of optic heroes. then one side whispered a few words of thanks to a particularly big gold it's nagorski said she was taking me to her favorite room in the house i should have expected this really.

we do not go to the synagogue. we are indifferent to religion, and we do not like it being forced on us. >> do you think the lack of understanding leads to fear? and i guess, it is not just lack of understanding. -- >> yes, and it is not just lack of understanding. as competition theory there are some where christianity is the main religion or islam is the main religion, and they do not want to lose their access to power. >> what about the idea that women are the ones who tend to be the victims and any expression on either side are problems that come to the women? >> yes, and if you look at what happened in egypt, women began to stop wearing the veil in the 1920's, and it is alarming when you go because there are almost no women who are not wearing the veil. >> i do not believe the two religions cannot live together, despite one being in a power position. looking at the history of islam, christianity has had an existence in continuity throughout -- >> not necessarily in democracy, but in dictatorship. dothat if you

the menorah, on loan from a new orleans synagogue devastated by hurricane katrina. "teen kids news" julie banderas, fox news channel in the classroom. >>> let's show a little state pride. here's kristen with some interesting facts about our state flags. ♪ >> reporter: in september 1783 american colonists and members of the british parliament signed the treaty of paris, officially ending the revolutionary war. part of that treaty granted a parcel of land to the united states known as the northwest territory. that territory would become ohio. in 1803 ohio was admitted as our 17th state. but it existed without a state flag for almost 100 years, until an architect named john eisemann came up with a most unusual design. >> the ohio flag is the only state flag of the 50 that is not a rectangle. it's a swallowtail flag that we usually see on a boat. what it is is it's a pennant, and it comes to two points, and they chose that to be distinct. they wanted ohio to look different from all the other state flags, and they certainly achieved that. they chose to use the red, white

national targeting center for cargo since they had come from yemen and were addressed to chicago synagogues, they most likely would have been identified for secondary inspection or primary inspection when they landed at jfk in new york. again, too late. the targeting would have picked out these dangerous cargos in the extreme of commerce but too late. so when you look at those three incidents and you put them in the context of your subject today and cbp's challenge regarding facilitation and security, what are the implications of that? the first is for customs and border protection, we must begin to see the borders not simply as lines on a map, lines in the sand that physically separate one country from another, showing where one jurisdiction ends and another sovereignty begins, but rather in addition to borders being physical boundaries and ports of entry, seaports, air ports or land ports, borders need to be looked at as flows of goods, people, ideas, capital and cultures across a global landscape. and it is by looking at borders as a combination of physical boundaries but also as flows o

respse to this protest in the streets, there are more interfaith dialogues going on at the local synagogue and at the local church as people try to figure out what is going on within the religious community. >> there's a correlation, isn't there, with what's happening to jobs and the economy and the fear a lot of people have about everything? and e.j., i wanted to ask you to move from this into the election of 2010, the tea party, and how some of these things appeared in the election returns. >> what was striking about the election overall is that it didn't shift religious alignments very much. i mean the democrats lost ground pretty well across the board, not only among more religious voters but also among more secular voters, partly because a lot of their people did not show up this time around. but the tea party is fascinating, because on the one hand the poll data makes it very clear that there is a substantial overlap between support for the tea party and support for the religious conservative movement. but there is also some iffence beeen the two. the tea party is mildly more secular

to blow up this dallas office tower, and four new york men apprehended for plotting to attack a synagogue in 2009. last week u.s. attorney general eric holder defended these types of stings. >> we are bound and determined to try to find those people and stop them in which ever way that we can. >> reporter: for those who criticize these cases as entrapment, the government says it won't back of off because these operations are protecting america. if convicted martinez would face life in prison. >> couric: armen keteyian, thank you. now turning to wikileaks, the website has made plenty of enemies by posting secret documents, including u.s. diplomatic cables. but it also has supporters, including it appears, an army of hackers. and today mark phillips reports they launched a cyber attack. >> reporter: wikileaks founder julian assange is still in jail, but his battle is still being fought. the same internet power that's been used to attack wikileaks is now being used in its defense. a cyber-war has broken out. the targets, commercial websites which have withdrawn services from wikileaks includ

muhammad there's nothing the printers interpretation about that if you put a if you put a swastika on a synagogue there's no there's no open interpretation of that it means what it is and that's what that's what we were saying is that there is clearly an anti christian animus here is that they were they took jesus they took a symbol of the christian faith and they demonized it in the put and so on and it was a gross appropriation. of what. is supposed to be something beautiful in everything that. goes on was never said madiao we but i didn't i'd like to respond first of all i was raised catholic i consider myself christian and i'm in no way offended by this piece secondly there are about ten seconds in an overall thirty minute video that show depictions of ants walking across a crucifix i don't know about you but growing up in the catholic church i saw far more frightening images as a child in church them itself especially traditional churches churches gothic churches art work is art work jesus has been. exhibit a in all sorts of scenarios to create a dialogue around artistic expression freedom o

on a double transplants and october 24th, 1998, and i looked at my parents, my father went to the synagoguee came back up and it was 5:15 and i looked at my parents and i said i cannot take this anymore and i was on dialysis and i gave up hope because i wanted to live so much but nothing was happening and i was sicker and sicker and i could not breathe, and i could not fool my heart and that evening on the 24th of october they called and said i was transplanted and i went from knowing i was going to die to knowing i was going to live and my surgeon came in to the room and my cardiologist and prayed with me and we thanked my donor family in our prayers for what they were going through, probably a horrible time and they donated life to me. and i went in to surgery and i said to my parents i will see you soon and 12 hours later i woke up they took the breathing tube out six hours after and from that day i have never looked back and i did the new york city marathon on my third anniversary. >>glenn: everything, give a spleen this christmas. >>glenn: and another book that is thought of but not ne

tonight across this united states, a people's movement is being born on college campuses, i schools, synagogues and churches. community centers around the country in support of the women and rolls of the condo, in support of the the invisible children of northern uganda. in support of the genocide survivors in par-4. we call this point in time the enough momentum when enough people have finally had enough of the deadly status quo and they demand the status quo change. the very peculiar thing is, and i don't think there will be a clear movement when we know whether not we have fully succeeded. one day a woman in eastern kondo will get up in the morning. she will send her daughter to school. she will go out and tender regard and. she will not live in fear of rape. she will not be abandoned by her community. she will not be driven from her home by a militia attack. our contribution in effect will be -- did not happen to her. so there is this enough moment at the international and national level in which movements, people's movements are combined with enlightened policy makers who have a history of

anyone can compete at the synagogue showdown from 6:00 to 8:00 at the museum in san francisco. he has given away hints and secrets. >> watch the rebounding. time now is 5:55. want to take a peek at the forecast. big changes coming soon. >> we will see changes late or and this morning more clouds and that's good news for the morning temperatures. 30s out there and no 20s and no worries about patchy frost. for the afternoon, areas north will see the best best showers and for the weekend, keep the umbrellas on stand by. you can see right now across the bay area, we have clouds and all the rain for now is to the north. this will drop to the south and it will weaken quite a bit as we head into tonight and early tomorrow, variable clouds and temperatures are pleasant south of san jose. 60s and 50s across the north bay. that is the most likely spot for today into the afternoon and off and on showers mixed with sun and hopefully they hold off for sunday morning. big holiday parade going on. see you can keep the showers for the afternoon. >> eye game day decision. it is grammy time and

he said, i know how to take care of the spirit rebuild the synagogue, a mosque, and a church. we have a great muslim community in texas. businessmen and women who are difference and supporters, a substantial number, weather is the indian house in houston, the very large pakistan a population that we have across the state of texas. i mean, and working together to build our state. i think it is very important, whether your a democrat or republican, independent, or don't want to be associated with any political party. the future of our country clearly lies in finding the things that bring us together and not separating ourselves by culture, religion, or what have you. recognizing clearly those that would use the religion in the wrong way, those radical islamists who would use that and that they are -- they are the enemy of all. yes ma'am. [inaudible] >> the tea party has been, you know, some have credit -- credited the two-party for the republican tsunami. i am just wondering how you see the movement going from here and now they have some citizen how do you think they're going to

historically in this country and tragically in europe, these situations are do breed the possibility of synagogues to say, well, your problems are related to them or them or them. the upsurge in antiimmigrant sentiment in this country now i think is indirectly or sometimes directly related to the economic pressures people feel. the upsurge in antimuslim sentiments. you know, the ironny is after 9/11, you didn't see the ugliness, the hatefulness that we are now seeing. you didn't see it after, well, we could go on and on and on. you get the point. it's happening in europe as well, an antiimmigrant sentiment, right wonk, nationalism, isolationism. we had it in the 1930s. we had the tariffs, lots of right wing and very left wing antiforeign upsurge in feelings. i worry that that kind of anger can be very dangerous for the economy and for society. >> president obama tells us, you know, that the band-aid across the financial system is holding. the stimulus spending is starting to have an effect, job numbers starting to creep up very slightly in recent reports, so he's telling us actually, you know, sti

you have federations, synagogues, you have jcrc. come together. what have the photo the, what they want to do? go to the local federation building and stand up in the evening, nice and quiet with a candle, showing silent support. the question to all of you is, can you help that? will you support and will you come? and bring people with you. [applause] >> that was not directed to me, but i will answer that partially. americans for save israel have chapters throughout the country, throughout the world. we have a chapter in miami, and my chair woman is right there. when issues such as what you just described, the flotilla issue, etcetera, i rise, we localize people and we try to get out on the streets, have our protests, and make the news and let people know that these actions are not acceptable, that we will protest. so i offer to you the opportunity to reach carroll, and of course anyone who would want to beat a chair person -- who would want to be a share person, just see me. we'd love to have your help. [applause] >> that was not directed to me,

tonight across united states people's movement is being born on college campuses, high school, synagogues and churches and in community centers around the country in support of women and girls of the congo. in support of the invisible children, number ugonda, in support of the genocide survivors and an darfur. we call this point in time the enough movement to become moment. when finally enough to leave people with had enough of the debt the status quo and demand the status quo has to change. the very peculiar thing is i don't think there will be a clear but when we know whether or not we have pish fully succeeded. one day a woman in eastern congo will get it in the morning, her daughter to school, go out, tend to her garden, she will not live in fear of rape, she will not be abandoned by her community, she will not be driven from her home by a militia attack. or contribution in effect did not happen to her. so there's this enough moment of the international and national level in which movements, people's movements are combined with enlightened policy makers who have a history of involveme

you have federations, synagogues, you have jcrc. come together. what have the photo the, what they want to do? go to the local federation building and stand up in the evening, nice and quiet with a candle, showing silent support. the question to all of you is, can you help that? will you support and will you come? and bring people with you. [applause] >> that was not directed to me, but i will answer that partially. americans for save israel have chapters throughout the country, throughout the world. we have a chapter in miami, and my chair woman is right there. when issues such as what you just described, the flotilla issue, etcetera, i rise, we localize people and we try to get out on the streets, have our protests, and make the news and let people know that these actions are not acceptable, that we will protest. so i offer to you the opportunity to reach carroll, and of course anyone who would want to beat a chair person -- who would want to be a share person, just see me. we'd love to have your help. [applause] >> that was not directed to me,

soldiers, or the plot to bomb synagogues in california and new york, or the plot to bomb the dc metro, we would have seen thousands of people lose their lives. i would disagree with you and say the fbi is critical. they are not commenting at tax, but offering themselves to be participants only if -- they are not fomenting a tax, but offering themselves to the participants only if -- it's intelligence collection. if the islamic community would be more forthcoming in terms of providing information to the fbi, it would not be the need for fbi informants. host: michael had been wrote this piece, fox news.com. he says, "if u.s. officials and the media can be believed, america faces an epidemic of home grown terrorism. yet from the u.s. army shooter assigned to faisal shahzad to the so-called christmas tree bomber, mohammad mohammad, all of these mass murderers believed they were working on behalf of the ford organization. guest: is an interesting thesis because home grown terrorism sort of a plot -- implies that is and ideologies from the united states. -- if it is an radiology -- it isn't

i have one of the oldest synagogues in london in my district, but largely that you're community has movedway, apart from a very vibrant hasidic jewish community that lives in my district and they're the largest such community in europe but because they like to live near their synagogues, they stay put so the traditional jewish communities are the hasidic like you have in brooklyn are still there. it's also hard -- originally a lot of people from the west indies, now people from africa. we always have people from south asia, vietnamese, very diverse district. the minority in my district is white anglo saxon protestants. host: there was an article in "the sun" and i read the headlines, "white britains are a minority in 2066." guest: i think these scare stories about migration are very wrong. migration has incredibly enriched london, whether it's american bankers who have come here to work in our financial services,, whether it's french businessmen, vietnamese shopkeepers, african painters, london, like new york, is a great city because of migration. the type of politician that wants to scar

announcement, but thank you for -- i had the opportunity to attend a global symposium for regulation synagogue not long ago. the only regret i have is that that prevented me from attending neighborhood. and so, i say that but i'm not sure my colleagues missed me because my colleague, commissioner copps, did such a wonderful job of chairing the joint boards and conferences. i want to publicly thank you for that. i heard you ended the meeting on time. it will be difficult for me to return to my post because they will have that expectation, and they won't get it. seriously, i want to thank you for stepping in and doing such a marvelous job for that. thank you. i appreciate it. thank you spent thinking, commissioner clyburn. >> i have -- first of all, i did get to go. i was very pleased to do that. it felt like home since with mr. clyburn, you here, sharon gillett as well. i do want to thank commissioner copps, commissioner clyburn, both of you for playing the role that you do on the joint board. commissioner baker. commissioner mcdowell. your turn will come. but it's a very important part of what

[applause] five years ago, when hurricane katrina hit, the synagogue was covered in eight feet of water. later, as the cleanup crew dug through the rubble, they discovered this menorah, caked in dirt and mold. and today it stands as a reminder of the tragedy and a source of inspiration for the future. and that feeling is shared by susan retik. it's a feeling they know all too well. after her husband, david, was killed on september 11th, susan could have easily lost herself in feelings of hopelessness and grief. but instead, she turned her personal loss into a humanitarian mission -- co- founding "beyond the 11th," a group that reaches out to afghan widows facing their own struggles. so on this second night of hanukkah, let us give thanks to the blessings that all of us enjoy. let us be mindful of those who need our prayers. and let us draw strength from the words of a great philosopher, who said that a miracle is "a confirmation of what is possible." and now i'd like to turn it over to susan, who by the way has been on this stage before, receiving a presidential award for her outstandin

last spring, and most recently, the yemen cargo plot in which two packages addressed to chicago synagogues were dispatched into the global supply chain with the expectation that they would blow up two cargo planes over the united states. let us analyze those three in light of the paradigm i'm suggesting to you today. in the first instance with abdul, the fat of the matter is bcp was prepared by risk manager proceed cheers and was prepared to take him into secondary when he arrived at the detroit airport. he had been identified for secondary inspection, but, of course, it would have been too late had he been able to ignite the petn in his underwear and explode the plane over detroit. the second incident with shahzad, he was identified and arrested boarding the plane by cbp officers because he was identified in targeting procedures because he had traveled to the area between afghanistan and pakistan and had traveled there frequently enough so that when he came back or be he a naturalized united states citizen born in pakistan, he was identified and a report was written up which then after he

i have one of the oldest synagogues in london in my district.d away, apart from a very vibrant hasidic jewish community that lived in my district. because they like to live near their synagogues because that to walk to them, they stay put. the traditional jewish committee has largely moved up, but the hasideans are still there. there are people of color, largely people from the west indies, from west africa, asia, vietnamese. the real minority in my district is white anglo-saxon protestant. >> there was an article in one of the papers here. the headline "white britain's a minority by 66" which is 2066. >> i think stories about migration are very wrong. the migration has dramatically enriched london. whether it is french vietnamesen, of dn shopkeepers, african painters -- london, like new york, is a great city because of migration. the politician likes to stir up is a about it, but inlanengland diverse country. >> is a a big deal that now you're not only a minority, but a minority in the government. as a labour party member for years, 11 years? t

children and they give it to their civics class and they give it to folks at church on sunday at the synagogue say this is the constitution. this is the living, breathing constitution. this is what the general welfare clause is. this is what it means to be unnecessary and improper and an infraction on our rights as americans. >> right. and one of the arguments that the congress used in building this thing, they said it falls under the commerce clause. >> right. >> that's something that our congress for a number of years has used as a catch all. any time we want to do something, let's say yeah, it falls under the commerce clause. >> well, what this judge did in a dispassionate, nonpolitical straightforward law based way was to say no. it doesn't fall under the commerce clause. and let's look at what he said in terms of the constitutionality here. he said the minimum essential coverage provision is neither within the letter or the spirit of the constitution. therefore, the necessary and proper clause may not be employed to implement this affirmative duty to engage in private commerce. so what ju

recent months when al qaeda in the arabian peninsula attempted to send explosives to the chicago synagogues. aqap as i greater threat in all likelihood the and the more well-known central al qaeda organization in south asia. at carnegie, christopher has shed new light on the unprecedented problems facing young men today. in addition to the research and al qaeda the government has to contend with the symbol war in the north and increasingly active session mixed movements in the south. the deepening economic crisis, dwindling water supply which is linked directly to much of the violence in the country, addiction to a wide spread of narcotics even more widespread corruption and the weak central government. as chris noted in his work, yemen as a country close to the brink of failure and if it were to fail, the ripples from that would certainly spread widely in the region. given the spectrum of the questions we are eager to hear answers to today are with the u.s. can do to help stabilize yemen, how was the counter terrorism policy adapting to this threat and how can the united states work with o

five years ago, when hurricane katrina hit, the synagogue was covered in eight feet of water. later, as the cleanup crew dug through the rubble, they discovered this menorah, caked in dirt and mold. and today it stands as a reminder of the tragedy and a source of inspiration for the future. and that feeling is shared by susan retik. its a feeling they know all too well. after her husband, david, was killed on september 11th, susan could have easily lost herself in feelings of hopelessness and grief. but instead, she turned her personal loss into a humanitarian mission -- co-founding beyond the 11th, a group that reaches out to afghan widows facing their own struggles. so on this second night of hanukkah, let us give thanks to the blessings that all of us enjoy. let us be mindful of those who need our prayers. and let us draw strength from the words of a great philosopher, who said that a miracle is a confirmation of what is possible. and now id like to turn it over to susan, who by the way has been on this stage before, receiving a presidential award for her outstanding work.

and those of you who go to synagogues, you know that these last few weeks, we've been reading the wholetory of abraham and isaac and jacob and joseph and how we've gone -- how they traveled from one place to another. and god's pmise over and over and over and over again to abraham and isaac and jacob that this is your land and your seed will inherit this land. and we have to believe in this biblical promise. we have to believe that this is what makes us unique. it's interesting. we're very, very good partners with evangelical christians who support us. and they are always quoting the bible and always giving us these bitof information from the bible. t jews don't do it. jews are embarrassed. it's a little embarrassing that we claim that we have a biblical right, that we are the special people, that we're chosen. sounds so arrogant. sounds so pompous. we don't want to be like that. but we're chosen to carry the torah to the world. it's a huge burden. you see whea a burden its been. look what's happened to us through the centuries, persecution and execution and suffering, untold suffering.

recent months when al qaeda in the arabian peninsula attempted to send explosives to the chicago synagogues. aqap as i greater threat in all likelihood the and the more well-known central al qaeda organization in south asia. at carnegie, christopher has shed new light on the unprecedented problems facing young men today. in addition to the research and al qaeda the government has to contend with the symbol war in the north and increasingly active session mixed movements in the south. the deepening economic crisis, dwindling water supply which is linked directly to much of the violence in the country, addiction to a wide spread of narcotics even more widespread corruption and the weak central government. as chris noted in his work, yemen as a country close to the brink of failure and if it were to fail, the ripples from that would certainly spread widely in the region. given the spectrum of the questions we are eager to hear answers to today are with the u.s. can do to help stabilize yemen, how was the counter terrorism policy adapting to this threat and how can the united states work with o

recent months when al qaeda in the arabian peninsula attempted to send explosives to the chicago synagogues. aqap as i greater threat in all likelihood the and the more well-known central al qaeda organization in south asia. at carnegie, christopher has shed new light on the unprecedented problems facing young men today. in addition to the research and al qaeda the government has to contend with the symbol war in the north and increasingly active session mixed movements in the south. the deepening economic crisis, dwindling water supply which is linked directly to much of the violence in the country, addiction to a wide spread of narcotics even more widespread corruption and the weak central government. as chris noted in his work, yemen as a country close to the brink of failure and if it were to fail, the ripples from that would certainly spread widely in the region. given the spectrum of the questions we are eager to hear answers to today are with the u.s. can do to help stabilize yemen, how was the counter terrorism policy adapting to this threat and how can the united states work with o