Shalom from the Great King's city,

That God's people have problems understanding God's judgments is not something new. The stork …knows her seasons; the crane and swallow watch the time of their coming; but My people do not know the judgment of YHWH…Behold, they have turned away from the Word of YHWH; and what wisdom is in them? (Jer. 8:7-9) God's people become blind to His judgements when they ignore His Word. And the context here is turning away from His law and the Old Testament [Tanach].

Paul agrees that by knowing His Word we guard our faith in these "perilous times," saying, continue in the things you have learned and been assured of… the Holy Scriptures [in context, Tanach], which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Messiah Yeshua. All scripture [Tanach] is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be mature, entirely furnished unto all good works. (2 Tim. 3:1, 14-17)

"New Testament theology" is actually a misnomer -

since all NT doctrines are grounded on what was revealed in the Tanach (2 Tim. 3:16). The need of Messiah's Body today is a Biblical theology which sees all of God's Book as a sacred unity.

We trust the God of Genesis as well as the God of Revelation, for He is the same (Mal. 3:6). And while the Levitical priesthood and sacrificial system were fulfilled by our High Priest Yeshua - His death on the Cross totally sufficient to cleanse and sanctify us - that does not erase the truth of what the Tanach says about how God sees sin and how sin must be atoned for. In fact, without the truths revealed in Leviticus, there is no theological basis to see the need for, and efficacy of, His cross!

If today's Church had the same reverence for the Tanach as for the NT, the debate over Israel - nation, people and land - would disappear, as God promises to give Israel this land over 200 times in the Old Testament. Yet disdaining the OT leads to disparaging His people, resulting on a curse coming on those of His Body doing this (Gen. 12:3; Gal. 3:17-18), which results in blaspheming His Holy Name. And it all starts with how one views the Tanach!

Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things out of Your Law…Forever, O YHWH, Your Word is settled in the heavens. Psa. 119:18, 89, 105

Brainwashed Palestinians

Palestinian Middle East [ME] scholar Bassam Tawil visited some of his people involved in the ongoing wave of terrorism against Israelis, and found that these murderers had been leading comfortable lives, with unlimited access to education and work.

Those from Jerusalem were permanent residents, having Israeli ID cards, and benefiting from all the rights of an Israeli citizen, except for voting. Yet they are not killing and dying because they want to vote in Israeli parliamentary elections. Neither were they driven by poverty and deprivation, but by Jew-hatred because of what their leaders, their media and mosques tell them: Jews are the enemy with no right to be in Palestine. So the conflict is not about Islamic holy sites or Jerusalem, or where Jews live, since to most Palestinians all of Israel is one big settlement that must be eliminated. This conflict is about Israel's very existence… These terrorists want Israel destroyed, Jews slaughtered, and the streets of Israel running with Jewish blood. ("What Do Palestinian Terrorists Want?" B. Tawil, Gatestone Institute, 15 Oct. 2015)

Palestinian leaders call the latest wave of stabbings, shootings and vehicular attacks… a peaceful popular resistance. Incredibly, this view has also been adopted by many nations. Yet it is plainly another wave of terrorism: targeting Jews for being Jews.

Tawil says killing Israeli Jews is part of the longstanding global jihad [holy war] against Jews, non-Muslims, i.e., infidels, and all other Muslims not agreeing with this standard version of Islam.

This current Palestinian jihad is based on the lies of Palestinian Authority [PA] President Abbas and his officials, that Jews are invading and desecrating Islamic holy sites when they visit the Temple Mount. This campaign of lies, distortion and fabrications is no less serious than the terror attacks. ("The Palestinian Jihad: Lies, Lies & More Lies," B. Tawil, Gatestone Institute, 24 Oct. 2015)

Today's Jihad vs. Israel - aka "The Knife Intafada"

Since Sept., Israelis have been attacked with knives, scissors, cement blocks, firebombs, vehicles, and recently, weapons fire. Yet the world sees terror against Jews as not really terror - at least not the same as the attacks in Paris or San Bernardino. And since, thank God, once again more terrorists are killed than innocent Jews - the world accuses Israeli security forces of using disproportionate force. This obvious blindness comes from being under God's curse when one curses His people and also when one rejects the truth (re: the spiritual principle of 2 Thess. 2:10-11).

Prime Minister [PM] Bibi Netanyahu, addressing the claim that this jihad is because of the lack of a political horizon said, We've been suffering terror attacks for the last 95 years, which peaked during the Oslo peace process. People said…these are enemies of peace, so then the terrorism was because peace was advancing. Now Israel is told, You have terrorist attacks because there is no peace. Neither is true. They're attacking us… because they don't want us here.

Addressing remarks by a US State Dept. spokesman, implying that Israel was using excessive force, Defense Minister Ya'alon asked rhetorically, If someone brandishes a knife in an attack and you kill him is that considered excessive force? (PM: Lack of peace process not behind recent violence," Israel Hayom, 16 Oct. 2015)

A month before the Nov. 13^th Paris terrorist attacks, Israeli officials rebuked a French UN Security Council [SC] proposal to put international observers on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, saying it would reward Palestinians for their anti-Israel incitement… for violence, and [it would] weaken Israel's sovereignty. Also, the proposal did not mention PA incitement or terrorism, but called for the internationalization of the Temple Mount ("France is rewarding Palestinians for terrorism," Israel Hayom, 18 Oct. 2015)

A senior PA official said the knife attacks are heroic acts of which he is proud. While they could conduct much larger scale attacks, he said, the world would reject buses blowing up in Tel Aviv. It does, however, accept the murder of IDF soldiers and Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria. That is the ugly truth. ("Hamas Orders Suicide Bombings in Jerusalem," Arutz 7, 19 Oct. 2015)

Does Abbas condemn the attacks? No, he attacks Israel for shooting knife-wielding assailants to stop them. Also, just before this jihad began, he said his people would not allow Jews to contaminate, with their filthy feet, our holy sites, adding, Every drop of blood that is spilled in Jerusalem is pure blood and all dead terrorists go to Paradise. Tawil: It is this kind of rhetoric, officially-sanctioned, that encourages young men and women to carry a knife and stab the first Jew they see. ("Palestinians: A World of Lies, Deception & Fabrications," B. Tawil, Gatestone Institute, 7 Nov. 2015)

The only hope for the Palestinians is Messiah Yeshua. If not, God will pluck up and destroy that nation… (Jer. 12:14-17)

Isi Leibler: The behavior of Palestinians has now descended to such barbaric depths that in a rational world Israel should have the unequivocal support of all civilized people. However, hypocritical global leaders…relate to Israel and those seeking its destruction with moral equivalence. Moral relativism has erased the ideals of good and evil to such a point that many global leaders condemn Israelis for defending themselves. ("A call for unity & expressing outrage," I. Leibler, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 12 Nov. 2015)

Peace now? With whom?

A NY Post editorial wrote that even as Israelis get stabbed and run over, US President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry still save their harshest criticism for Israel's settlement-building and its incitement to violence. Yet Abbas just asked the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, For how long will this protracted Israeli occupation of our land last? After 67 years, how long?

Sixty-seven years ago is 1948, Israel's rebirth, almost 20 years before the Six-Day War, when Israel captured Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Obviously Abbas sees all of Israel as occupied Palestine.

The inconvenient truth which the world rejects is that the real barrier to peace is the refusal of Palestinian leaders to accept the Jewish state's existence. All insist Abbas is Israel's best partner for peace. Sorry, he's not a partner at all. ("For [Abbas], all of Israel is 'occupied territory'," NY Post Editorial, 4 Nov. 2015)

Tawil noted how France backed a UNSC resolution, calling for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-67 lines by the end of 2017. So France supports creation of a 'Palestine' likely to be ruled by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, or by IS and its affiliates.

France also supported EU plans to label products from Israeli settlements, but, as the Paris attacks show, IS and its ilk are not impressed by anti-Israel moves. Islamic terrorists view settlements as a trivial issue compared to their chief goal, the death of all infidels and creation of a global Caliphate (Islamic theocracy).

Radical Muslims want Israel destroyed as they believe Jews have no right to be in the ME, and they want Europe destroyed because no one has a right to be anything other than Muslim. They don't care about an EU decision to label Israeli products.

The Paris attacks are what Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Israel have lived with for decades. Since the Oslo Accords, all Israel's territorial concessions and goodwill gestures have resulted only in increased terrorism against Israel, including us Arabs… Palestinians saw Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon and Gaza, and the release of prisoners, as a reward for terrorism.

Today, Israel fights a new wave of terrorism, yet there's been no real condemnation from the West, or even a demand for Abbas to renounce it. Western nations again send the wrong message - killing Jews is not an act of terrorism.

Israel has fought this war for more than two decades, yet with little backing. Europe must see there is no difference between a Palestinian who murders a Jew, and an Islamic State [IS] terrorist murdering innocent people in Paris. ("What France & Europe Might Learn," B. Tawil, Gatestone Institute, 15 Nov. 2015)

After seven years of Obama's new ME policy, Dror Eydar says only Israel remains stable, and that is because it has not accepted the advice of the White House…

Even after California was hit by terror, Kerry refused to be distracted from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, pressing Israel to act now. Why? Is the ME on the verge of peace? Syria and Iraq are fighting civil wars. Lebanon could easily be ignited by an Iranian-Shiite flame. Egypt's had two revolutions in three years, and Jordan survives only due to Israeli and American assistance. IS spreads terror globally and Turkey and Russia could start WW III. If there was ever a reason not to act, the current global geopolitical reality provides one…

Yet the peace process creates a psychological fixation that is hard to be free of, even if it has nothing to do with reality. Kerry is worried about Israel's demographics? Israel's Jewish birthrate is the only one in the West on a continual upward trend. And we expect a million new Jewish immigrants via aliyah soon. ("Beyond politics of the moment," D. Eydar, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 7 Dec. 2015)

Islamic immigrant invasion of Europe

Weeks before the Paris attacks, Guy Milliere warned about the increase of illegal migrants into Europe, with one study seeing 1.5 million in 2015. Western journalists depict them as 'refugees' fleeing war in Syria, yet statistics show only 25% are from Syria, with the rest from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Somalia, and Nigeria. Also, they do not leave in a panic; many have €20,000 or more in cash and new smartphones. Yet they do not have passports or IDs. Also, historically, when people flee to survive, men come with whole families: women, children, and elders. But of these migrants more than 75% are men under 50.

As Christians are now the main targets of Islamists (Jews fled or were forced out decades ago), people fleeing Syria should be mostly Christians." But they are only "a small minority…

Western Europeans' initial pity and openness to absorb them is fading. Central Europeans and their leaders were never eager to take them. Hungary's PM Orban spoke of an invasion, asking if there was another word to describe the massive, often brutal entry into a country of people who have not been invited… He said a nation has a right to decide who it allows in, and said the refugees are from a different culture, daring to suggest that Islam might not be compatible with European Judeo-Christian values. This is true, yet Western EU leaders condemned his remarks and the attitude of Central Europe… Thus there is an acute division growing between EU leaders.

Another division is between Western European populations and their leaders. Those who rebuilt Europe after WWII saw themselves as an enlightened elite who could sweep away the past and build a utopia where peace and perpetual harmony would reign. Because they thought democracy brought Hitler to power, they restricted democracy. They saw nationalism as the cause of the war, so they decreed nationalism was harmful and cultural identities must go - replaced by a new European identity. As Europeans had a colonial past, believing their cultures superior, Europe had to redeem its guilt by affirming all cultures equal. And as Islamic nations were often colonized, Europeans rejected all criticism of Islam, saying it could fit in with a multicultural Europe, yet not asking Muslims who were coming to Europe in increasing numbers to assimilate. Because two world wars began in Europe, they renounced the use of force, substituting instead diplomacy and appeasement to solve conflicts.

The result: Europeans still vote, but are deprived of most of their power: all important political decisions are made in EU offices, by technocrats and professional politicians…

Cultural identities are so eroded that saying Europe is based on Judeo-Christian values is now controversial. And criticism of Islam is viewed as a form of racism, a crime, or a mental illness.

Polls show most Muslims in Europe want sharia law imposed and reject efforts to assimilate. Many join Islamic organizations, or jihadist movements, and end up fighting in Syria or Yemen. Many have returned and are ready to act against Europe. And this was written before the carnage in Paris.

Illegal Muslim migrants usually join the Muslims already in Europe, and live in no-go zones. Many are from nations where Christians and women are mistreated; in Europe, they are already mistreating Christians and women. They come from countries where Western civilization is despised and where hatred of Jews is inescapable…For over two decades, almost all assaults against Jews in Europe have been committed by Muslims.

An IS goal to overwhelm Europe by a huge wave of migration was exposed early in 2015. So is IS behind much of this? ("Muslim Invasion of Europe," Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute, 22 Oct. 2015)

The spirit of Islam vs. the world

Green is the literal Greek for pale in Revelation 6:7-8. Is it symbolic of the rise of Islam, since green is Islam's official color? Also, about one-third of the world is under this spirit, and it uses the sword to kill. Verses 9-11 seem to indicate a mass slaughter of believers follows the green horse. This has begun in the ME and now spreads.

Sherwin Pomerantz, ex-president of the Assoc. of Americans and Canadians in Israel, wonders if WW III has begun. In June 2014, al-Adnani, official spokesman of ISIS, announced its name change to Islamic State, declared it a Caliphate, and renamed the leader (al-Baghdadi) as Caliph Ibrahim.

Al-Adnani added, The time has come for those generations, living in disgrace and humiliation, ruled over by vile people, to rid itself of dishonor. The dawn of honor has emerged. The sun of jihad has risen…The signs of victory have appeared.

He told Muslims to run to their new Caliph, to become kings of the earth, knights of war, and to know they fight for a religion Allah promised to support, for the Islamic nation, to which Allah has given honor, esteem, and leadership on this earth. They must reject democracy, secularism, nationalism, and all other Western ideas, and then the world would submit to them.

But they will not be able to preserve this trust and defend this land, except by fearing Allah secretly and publicly, and then by sacrificing, being patient, and offering blood.

Pomerantz: This is the enemy that so many in the West refuse to call Islamic fundamentalist extremism. Yet for a Caliphate to arise, all infidels must be destroyed. Seems to me…WW III has begun… ("Has World War III begun?" S. Pomerantz, JP Op-ed, 24 Nov. 2015)

Israeli political analyst Judith Bergman said the Paris attacks spurred a huge wave of solidarity, with mainstream media outlets, who never say terrorism for attacks in Israel, openly calling it that. France's AFP published a chronological list of worldwide terror attacks since 9/11, including…the Madrid and London bombings, Mumbai, Kenya and others. Only one country was completely missing from that list: Israel.

And that is the issue for Israelis. The world embraces France with sympathy and solidarity, understanding that terrorism must be severely dealt with; backing the types of retaliatory airstrikes it condemns Israel for. Why is Israel abused for daring to defend itself…? Why does the world say Israel must show restraint when it tries to protect its citizens from terrorism that stalks its streets? ("The same fight," J. Bergman, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 16 Nov. 2015)

History proves that the fearless defeat the feeble, says David Weinberg. Today's radical Islam is deeply devoted and daring… driven by intense religious-fascist fervor, and a purist-apocalyptic vision of a global caliphate takeover. It is confident and on the attack. This single-mindedness, linked with modern warfare technologies, could result in Islam defeating the West.

To fight back, a profound intellectual and moral rearmament is needed. Western society's foundations are weak, its people decadent" and its universities teach perilous nonsense against nationalism and nation-states.

Catholic historian and theologian, Prof. G. Weigel, roots the decline of Europe in its Christophobic culture… History is culture-driven, by what people honor, cherish and worship; by what societies deem to be true, good and noble; by the way they express those convictions in language, literature, the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.

Today, atheistic humanism, moral relativism, sanctification of personal choice, worship of wealth and the rejection of military might, have invaded Western thinking, leading to a huge crisis of civilizational morale. Most Western intellectuals and leaders have no fight left in them. Their avowedly complacent and 'peace-loving' principles leave the West easy prey for violent minorities with primitive, but evocative, ideological passions…

Western civilization will not defeat radical Islam without clear ideals to fight for. Rabbi J. Sacks says we need military arms to war against fanatics, and we need ideas to establish a lasting peace. A war of ideas against Islamic supremacism is needed, yet it cannot be fought or won until the West returns to the core values and identity commitments rooted in its Judeo-Christian religious and democratic traditions… ("Intellectual rearmament of the West," D. Weinberg, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 20 Nov. 2015)

Anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial & Iran

German political scientist, Dr. Mattias Küntzel, has investigated Islamic anti-Semitism, especially in Iran. Focusing on the Nazis' ideological influence, his latest book, Germany & Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold, explores Germany's past influence on Iran and Iranian anti-Semitism.

In an interview, he said, Being a German social scientist I tried to figure out how Auschwitz could happen. That brought me to the topic of anti-Semitism…The consequences of anti-Semitism during WWII are well-known. The consequences of today's Islamic anti-Semitism, however, are underestimated…

Iran is obsessed with Holocaust denial, because to destroy Israel one must destroy the Holocaust. Anyone who accepts the reality of the Holocaust cannot see the Jews as world-rulers and Israel as the root of all evil. Israel's annihilation, demonization of Jews and Holocaust denial form an ideological triangle. If any side is missing, the whole structure collapses.

Holocaust denial is the apex of anti-Semitism. If Auschwitz is a myth, then the Jews are humanity's enemy who for money, have duped the world for 70 years. Questioning the Holocaust suggests that most of the world's media and universities are controlled by Jews. In this way, the same sort of genocidal hatred gets incited that helped prepare the way for the Shoah [Heb: "the Holocaust"]. Every denial of the Holocaust thus tacitly contains an appeal to repeat it. And that is what the Iranian leadership does.

Defending the Iranian nuclear deal, Obama and Kerry implied that they see Iran's anti-Semitism as a minor issue. Others see it as a response to Israel's policies. Küntzel says both are wrong. First, there was always a strong anti-Jewish tendency in Shia Islam. Second, there is the fruit of Nazi propaganda. From 1939-45 Nazis broadcast into Iran in Persian anti-Semitic ideas daily, basing it on Islamic roots, radicalizing anti-Jewish Koranic verses, and linking them to the European phantasm of a Jewish world conspiracy. Ayatollah Khomeini, a regular listener, said in 1971, the Jews want to create a Jewish world state. This was a classic anti-Semitic Nazi idea.

While Iran spews hatred against Israel and Zionists, they say they have nothing against Jews. Yet they use Zionist in the same way Hitler used Jew, as the incarnation of all evil. Destroying Israel will halt that evil, as Iran's ex-President Ahmadinejad said, The Zionist regime will be wiped out, and humanity will be liberated.

This matches a 1943 Nazi directive: This war will end with an anti-Semitic world revolution and with the extermination of Jewry …both of which are the precondition for an enduring peace. Hitler's German peace was based on the destruction of the Jews, and Iran's Islamic peace is based on Israel's destruction. ("Q&A: Küntzel on roots and development of the Iranian regime's anti-Semitism," Karmel Melamed, Jewish Journal, 25 Aug. 2015)

The UN - an enemy of Israel, therefore an enemy of God

A UNESCO resolution condemned Israel for illegal ‎measures taken against the freedom of worship and access of Muslims to Al-Aqsa mosque and ‎other blatant lies, and also said the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem are Muslim sites.‎ For the ‎UN to so unequivocally and unabashedly aid ongoing Arab effort to delegitimize Jewish ‎connections to Judaism's holiest sites in Israel is an act of supreme perfidy. ("Israel must leave the UN," J. Bergman, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 22 Oct. 2015)

In Nov., during the current jihad, the UN General Assembly passed six resolutions - all condemning Israel! Not a single mention was made of Palestinian attacks… One resolution even attacked Israel for retaining the Golan, demanding its surrender to a Syrian regime slaughtering its citizens unmercifully. Another said Israel has no right to impose its sovereignty over the Holy City of Jerusalem. (Zech. 12:2-3) ("Amid terror wave, UN adopts 6 resolutions - all anti-Israel," Arutz 7, 25 Nov. 2015)

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon blamed Israel for recent attacks against Israelis, saying they have been bred by the Israeli occupation… He also accused Israeli settlements for the current deterioration in the ME. ("UN's Ban Ki-Moon accuses Israel of 'breeding' Palestinian terror attacks," JP, 16 Dec. 2015)

Let's boycott the Jews - again

Two days before the Paris attacks, the EU approved the labeling of Jewish-made goods from the occupied territories - Israel's biblical heartland - Judea, Samaria, the Golan and areas of Jerusalem liberated during the 1967 Six Day War.

Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned this move, exposing the shocking double-standard of labeling only Israeli products from disputed territories, while ignoring about 200 other territorial disputes in the world today. ("EU approves labeling Jewish 'settlement' goods," Arutz 7, 11 Nov. 2015)

Omer Dostri wrote that this decision is another anti-Israel ruling that stinks strongly of anti-Semitism. While EU leaders say it is not a boycott, people will see this as an EU directive to its citizens to not buy Israeli products. This is the new anti-Semitism, which attacks Jews by attacking Zionism. ("The EU's twisted message," O. Dostri, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 12 Nov. 2015)

Yet this move to alienate Israel is failing. This boycott looked silly compared to these Nov. events: Israel and China agreed to expand agricultural cooperation; Germany signed a cooperation deal with Israel…relating to the exploration of outer space, and Hungary, Greece and the Czech Republic all refused to submit to this EU labeling directive. ("BDS efforts suffer massive setbacks," ICEJ News, 16 Nov. 2015)

Prophetic signposts

Isi Leibler sees a bleak future for European Jews. Besides the invasion of Musilms into Europe, a majority of Europeans said in a poll, Israel represents a greater threat to global security than do Iran and North Korea…

Aliyah is the solution. While Israel has terror, Jews are safer here, protected by the Israeli army. This is a final wake-up call for European Jewry… Come home! ("European Jewry's bleak future," I. Leibler, Israel Hayom Op-ed, 19 Nov. 2015)

Brussel's chief rabbi agreed, saying there is no future for Jews in Europe. Fear prevails, and synagogues are closed, something not seen since WWII. The EU's economy also contributes to Jews wanting to leave. He thinks making aliyah to Israel is vital for every Jew. ("Chief Rabbi of Brussels says there's no future for Jews in Europe," ICEJ News, 24 Nov. 2015)

Israel was perturbed in Dec. as the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency closed a 12-year investigation into whether Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program. An Israeli Minister said this decision runs contrary to IAEA Director Amano's recent report saying that Iran was involved in researching and developing nuclear weapons until 2003, and continued some of its activity to develop a bomb until 2009…

Amano also said Iran had hidden its illegal nuclear activity…to disrupt the IAEA's investigation. So this decision appears to be politically motivated, and sends Iran the message that nations will turn a blind eye to their conduct in order to speedily advance the [P5+1] agreement and removal of sanctions.

This decision is doubly outrageous after a team of sanctions monitors…said Iran violated a UNSC resolution in Oct. by test-firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. Yet, all along, Iran has said it has no intention of complying with the restrictions on its missile program. ("Israel slams IAEA move to end Iran nuclear investigation," Israel Hayom, 16 Dec. 2015)

New Mossad Chief: We need God

Netanyahu's National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen is the new head of Mossad - Israel's global intelligence agency. In Dec., speaking at his synagogue, he said Israel was established with God's help and needs His help today just as much.

Without siyata de'shamaya ('Heavenly aid' in Aramaic) the state of Israel would not have been established… That was true then - and today too, we need siyata de'shamaya.

Ending, he quoted Proverbs 11:14, Where there is no wise direction, a people falls; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety, which is the Mossad's slogan. ("New Mossad chief: Israel still needs God's help," Arutz 7, 12 Dec. 2015)

There are many thoughts in a man's heart, nevertheless, the counsel of YHWH - that shall stand. Prov. 19:21

Chuck & Karen Cohen