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    Jerusalem
    Jerusalem
    Jerusalem
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    Jerusalem

    By Ernest Hunt

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    Joseph B. Ashur, a young idealistic Jewish lawyer in Manhattan feels so badly about the terrible October 7th invasion of Israel by Hammas, that he believes he should travel to Jerusalem to be of some kind of assistance, perhaps filling in as a lawyer for a person there called up to fight in the Israeli Reserves. He tries to persuade his lawyer girlfriend Sarah to join him but she claims she has too many New York City law cases. After wrestling with his parents to accept his decision, he prepares to leave for Israel and meets another lady at the JFK airport named Deliah, who he believes at first to be a true patriot. Unfortunately, after their intimacy she likens him to be her Samson, and in his mind she betrays him. Through the advice of a relative, he meets another young female lawyer, an American in Jerusalem named Naomi, who is honest with him and helps him in a Hebrew law firm, taking the place of a man who has been called up to fight. He meets her family and the two with the help of her father and mother prepare to be married amidst the terrible ongoing war, a blessing in the midst of horrible combat.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrue Troy Press
    Release dateAug 12, 2024
    ISBN9781977277343
    Jerusalem
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    Ernest Hunt

    The Very Rev. Dr. Ernest E. Hunt, born in Oakland, California, is a Stanford University graduate with a BA and MA. He graduated from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas, MDiv and DD. He is also a graduate of Princeton Seminary, DMin. He has been married to Elsie Beard Hunt for more than sixty years and has one son, a daughter, and four grandchildren. He served in the Salinas Valley, California, for seven years, in West St. Louis, Missouri, for six years, and in New York City, Manhattan, at the Church of the Epiphany, for sixteen years. He also served in Dallas as dean of the Cathedral of St. Matthew for four years, then dean of the American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris, France, for ten years. He retired in 2003. He served as Army Reserve chaplain for ten years and is a Knight in the Order of the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem.

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      Jerusalem - Ernest Hunt

      Jerusalem

      All Rights Reserved.

      Copyright © 2024 Ernest Hunt

      v1.0

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      The opinions expressed in this manuscript are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or thoughts of the publisher. The author has represented and warranted full ownership and/or legal right to publish all the materials in this book.

      This book may not be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in whole or in part by any means, including graphic, electronic, or mechanical without the express written consent of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Chapter One - Decisions

      Chapter Two - Encounters

      Chapter Three - The Quest

      Chapter Four - The Unexpected Divisions

      Chapter Five - You Are My Samson

      Chapter Six - The New Israeli Tort Lawyer

      Chapter Seven - Overwhelmed by Delilah

      Chapter Eight - Changing Lives

      Chapter Nine - Well, You Caught Me Out

      Chapter Ten - The Cacophony of Loud Warfare

      Chapter Eleven - Why Do You Think, Dummy?

      Chapter Twelve - Seeing Is Believing

      Preface

      The American Episcopal Church, as part of the Anglican Communion headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has in its Prayer Book a Burial Liturgy, a reference to the word Jerusalem. The priest precedes the pall bearers in carrying the body of the deceased to the cemetery from the church and says or sings the following anthem in which the last verse goes like this:

      "Into paradise may the angels lead you. At your coming may the martyrs mourn you, and bring you into the holy city, Jerusalem."

      Why a mention of Jerusalem in our Christian liturgy? For what reason is the name so highly respected even today, as if it were like heaven itself? Well, over the centuries that name has indicated a holy site of all Western religions: Hebrew, Christian, or Muslim.

      Historically, for the Hebrews, King David in 1000BC conquered the city named Jerusalem from the Jebusites and made it his capital for the Hebrew nation. That city produced in due time the mighty moral prophets and their writings like those of Isaiah and Elijah. Many of the psalms were written during the time of David and King Solomon which are also part of the Christian liturgy.

      For Christians, Jerusalem was where Jesus the Jew was declared guilty of heresy and treason, was tried, crucified and was raised from the dead, as our members believe. For the Muslims Saladin the Great, Sultan of Syria and Egypt, conquered Jerusalem in 1187 AD and that initiated many Palestinians to become part of the Muslim faith.

      Over the centuries there were several extended battles between Muslims and Christians claiming Jerusalem as theirs, until the World Wars of the 20th century. In the First World War the British conquered Jerusalem and occupied it until the Second World War. Then, the murder of six million Jews by Chancellor Adolph Hitler of Germany during World War II brought many escaping Jews from various countries into Jerusalem in 1945 when the modern Israeli nation was born.

      Today Jews still dominate the nation even after Hamas leaders from the Gaza Strip on October 7th 2023 wickedly attacked innocent and unsuspecting, even unarmed Jews on the street, in their homes or at a special musical celebration nearby. They especially picked on women and sexually tortured, mutilated and raped many, beheading some, burning others alive in front of their families. They cut off parts of their bodies and burned many old ladies slowly while still alive. Worst of all, wild men murdered and tortured screaming children in front of mothers and fathers, a massacre of the innocent that no Israelite could ever forget. Now there is a war between Israel and all the proxies of the nation of Iran who it is believed were financed by that country. Earlier in time Iran had imprisoned all American embassy staff in a revolution against its president that placed a Mullah named Ayatollah Khomeini in charge of the nation.

      End of Preface

      Chapter One

      Decisions

      Joseph Benjamin Ashur was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of his father, Samuel, and of his mother, Abigail . After years of schooling and as a graduate of Columbia Law School, Joseph found employment at Malache Brothers. This was a small firm located at 14th and Park Avenue, where Joseph hoped to make the firm more profitable since he was filled with ideas from law school of how to expand a small firm into a large one. His girlfriend, Sarah, was also a lawyer but, compared to him, she was in a much larger, quite plush law firm , and her family was also more affluent than his own. Yet, he really liked her and respected her talents.

      After reading of the horror raining down upon Israel by Hamas’ crazy militants, however, he became tempted by an all-consuming notion of leaving the new law firm to travel to Israel to help his people of heritage fight Hamas. One of the first things he would have to do would be to inform his parents, but knowing that his father would probably oppose his decision, he decided to tell his girlfriend first and even ask her to join him. Consequently, he invited her to dinner in upper Manhattan, not far from the Cosmopolitan Club on East 66th Street, In fact, this was right across the street on Lexington Avenue. For their date the two were seated in a cozy inside corner of the French restaurant, enjoying their chat with each other after a long and often hard-pressed day at their firms. Then, after dinner while having a last drink: Joseph, a pricy scotch on the rocks and Sarah, a glass of Monterey chardonnay, her favorite. He decided to make her aware of his decision to travel to Jerusalem and volunteer himself to the leaders fighting Hamas. He quietly asked if she would consider joining him. She stared at him in disbelief and quickly formed her decision which was definitely no. In fact, she asked,

      Are you crazy? I have so many cases in my firm to solve that I could never leave! If you want to go, I think that is great of you; in fact I admire you for thinking about that! You could help the Prime Minister with all your good legal knowledge. I mean, what is your education for if not just to earn us some money? Well, here is an opportunity to do something more in life. But you have responsibilities here too in your legal position, so many things to do first or maybe now, so when? But as I said, I think you are a real mensch to think about going to the heavenly city of Jerusalem, even if, once there, the PM or his friends send you to another city like Tel Aviv or into some very unholy place. I would hope he or the generals will not ignore you. What do you think? That is, if you go, as you say you are.

      Looking disappointed, he replied,

      Well, that is a shock. You seemed so happy that Benjamin Netanyahu is now the Prime Minister of Israel. I thought you might be interested. But your cases must come first, I suppose; yes, I am going one way or another.

      He took a sip of his drink and then began to tell her of another reason why he decided to go to Jerusalem.

      "I have an aunt in Israel that I did not know lived there, but I have recently found out from my Mom that she was taken hostage by the terrorists! I

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