Thanksgiving Weekend 2008 to follow in November, the Chabad House (Nariman House) in Mumbai will be one of the targets of a multi–pronged terrorist attack in Mumbai. The Chabad Rabbi and his wife, plus two mashgicachs in Nariman House for Mincha (Jewish evening prayer) plus two additional Jewish individuals inside at the time, will all be murdered within 24 hours of the initial assault. Moshe, the bloodied 2–year–old son of the rabbi and his wife, will be scooped–up by the nanny/cook as the assault unfolds, and rescued from the bloodbath.

2008 CE:  POPE BENEDICT TO BRING BACK ANCIENT LATIN MASS

–calling for the conversion of the Jews (and others) to Christianity.

The Latin mass had been abolished by Pope John in the Nostre Aetate period.

Clearly, a retrenchment by the Vatican from the pre–Benedict status quo ante.

The Auschwitz peak murders (1942) are now 66 years ago…

As the Vatican keenly knows, the overwhelming majority of the surviving Jewish inmates are now dead or dying…… so, now only 20 years to go for the Vatican,  when there will probably be less than 100 living  witness–survivors….

A source of tension between Jews and the Vatican has been Pope Benedict’s decision to bring back the ancient Latin mass which calls for the Jews to recognize Jesus. Following worldwide Jewish protests and the announcement by Italy’s Jewish community that they were