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NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater : Applications are now open for writers, editors or producers who report on theater and musical theater, for an 11-day Fellowship at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism in Los Angeles (May 17-27, 2010). Read More »

Culture Shuk »

In Judaism, the day begins and ends at sunset. But defining sunset can be complicated. However, for many aspects of Jewish life, such as the observance of Shabbat/holidays, prayer times and even the day on which a baby boy has his brit milah … Read More »

JMag »

Oy! Chicago makes the Tribune.Check it out HERE. And Check TGR out on Oy! Chicago. HERE. Read More »

The Great Rabbino »

Why yes – Palestinians have a HIGHER disposable income than their GDP. How is this possible? http: //www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7…845134,00.html From news article: The Palestinian economy is the only place in the world where the per capita GDP is less than half the disposable income per capita. This is the result of three factors: 1. Read More »

Israel Forum »

   We hold these Truths to be self-evident… The only trial on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King found the US government guilty of his murder . Corporate media did not headline this news, and history textbooks excise this essential understanding of Dr. Read More »

Examiner »

The cabinet-approved plan to reduce the number of foreign workers in Israel would lead to the destruction of the agriculture and construction sectors, Knesset Foreign Workers Committee Chairman Ya’acov Katz said Monday, as his committee met to discuss the issue. Read More »

Jerusalem Post »

Following Ynet report of plan to approve Jewish building in Silwan neighborhood, interior minister instructs filing of construction plan with district committee in effort to legalize site. Read More »

ynetnews »

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly has agreed in principle to hold indirect peace negotiations with Israel brokered by the United States. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Will there be a few months we have two mayors and two municipalities in Jerusalem? Certainly may do, it will be a significant change in the attitude of Palestinian town. Decided this afternoon's government, Dr. Read More »

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Kikar haShabat - כיכר השבת »

WASHINGTON (JTA) — North Korea and Iran are the countries posing the gravest threats to U.S. interests, Hillary Rodham Clinton said. The U.S. secretary of state was asked by CNN on Sunday which countries she thought posed the greatest threats to the United States. Read More »

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(((( wow, cool, with this answer, i achieve level 5 status here on Answers.Yahoo.com !!! ))) This piece of MIS-information gets repeated over and over again, and it is simply not true. Yes, Gd in the Bible commands us not to get a tattoo. Read More »

Hebrew Tattoo »

PT10:  The Digital Issue is about to launch — making it the first-ever magazine issue produced and released on Google Wave! Get ready to be a part of digital history by Waving into the conversation (and if you don’t have Wave, let us know so we Read More »

PresenTense »

Joel Pollack is running for the 9th District in Illinois against incumbent Jan Schakowsky http: //www.jstreetjive.com/2010/02/l…-congress.html Quote: Joel Pollak, stalwart for the United States and Israel, is running for Congress in Illinois’ 9th Congrerssional District. Read More »

Israel Forum »

Approximately 50 foreign nationals are currently residing in the West Bank and working together with Palestinian groups to disrupt and interfere with IDF operations, military sources said on Monday. Read More »

Jerusalem Post »

Mishpatim 5770. Read More »

Aish.com »

Superbowl Sunday ceremony celebrates vibrant examples of Jewish learning and leadership Read More »

JUF »

After Tehran announces plans to produce higher-enriched uranium, add 10 nuclear sites in a year, US Defense Secretary Gates and French President Sarkozy agree Islamic Republic should face ’strong sanctions’ over its nuclear program. Read More »

ynetnews »

One of the most remarkable things about England’s ongoing “Iraq War Inquiry” is how little has been written about it in the U.S. Read More »

Huffington Post »

Interior Minister Yishai confirmed a report that the Jewish-owned Beit Yehonatan building in eastern Jerusalem will remain standing. Interior Minister Eli Yishai confirmed Monday night that an agreement has been reached that will save the Jewish-owned Beit Yehonatan building in eastern Jerusalem from destruction. Read More »

Arutz Sheva »

Luis Lieberman, a former banker and well known financier, is to become the country’s first Jewish VP. He ran with Laura Chinchilla, a social conservative, who won the elections on Sunday.. Read More »

lubavitch.com »

Cantor Yaakov Rosenfeld with HamZamrim Choir Preform Yehi Ratzon from Yoselle Rosenblatt at a Bar Mitzvah Read More »

TheCoolJew.com »

“ Imma ,” ENG asked me this morning. “ How can you be friends with strangers? ” She was understandably concerned, because some of her siblings – {cough}MAG{cough} – had been joking about how I had gone to a stranger’s house to meet other strangers. Read More »

Our Shiputzim: A Work In Progress »

Last Friday afternoon, we worried that high tensions between Israel and Syria—most immediately prompted by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s threats to Syrian leader Bashar Assad—could lead to violence. Well, fortunately, they haven’t so far, and hot tempers have appeared to cool over the weekend. Read More »

Tablet Magazine »

This wasn’t so difficult. The icicle was melting pretty quickly and new droplets were forming in quick succession. I didn’t have to time the shot, I just had to click, and was pretty much assured of catching a drop dripping. (or is that a drip dropping?) Crossposted on Yourish…. Read More »

Soccer Dad »

Josh Williams, Sarah’s son (aka Aliyah06 from the Baka Diary blog) is at Shaarei Tzedek hospital. The doctors have induced a coma in order to control the siezures he has been having. Please keep him in your prayers. . Read More »

West Bank Mama »

Jordan’s King Abdullah is playing Chicken Little, touting the ‘fierce moral urgency’ of establishing a ‘Palestinian state’ before the ‘invisible line’ disappears and leaves his kingdom in danger of becoming the ‘Palestinian state’ as it rightfully should. Read More »

Israel Matzav »

The media elite can’t even get their history right, but that doesn’t stop them from harping on the theme-of-the-week, which is that America would be so much better off if it wasn’t for that damned democracy . Read More »

Yourish.com »

For the past month or so, I’ve been pretty obsessed with Chatroulette.com , and I’m not the only one. Read More »

Heeb Magazine »

The Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman has looked over test scores and class participation, and decided to fail President Barack Obama for his handling of the Middle East in his first year in office: “Since there are no prospects of talks Read More »

Tablet Magazine »

Look, you don’t want to stand by your man, that’s all right.   Not every ambitious woman has the Hillary gene.  But what bugs us is the grammar. “Mark was not thinking of the children and I”?  Good attempt at sounding smart.  Who educated you, Jesuits? suggested by MG . Read More »

What's Annoying Jews Today »

One interesting aspect of a large snowfall is the way the snow layers itself. Somehow it even can create a fabric like texture. Look at the way the snow drapes itself over the edge of this roof. I zoomed on this “fabric;” it came out even better than I realized. This is the same overhang; with the one on the left zoomed in. Read More »

Soccer Dad »

Does the Interior Ministry’s Oz Immigration Authority have the right to operate in the West Bank? Is the IDF allowed to make arrests in Ramallah, which is under Palestinian Authority administrative and security control? Is it allowed to make Read More »

Jerusalem Post »

After meeting with Russian foreign minister Khaled Mashaal says Israeli leaders block negotiations with PA, Syria and Lebanon by ‘bringing war and occupation,’ leaving Russia’s hopes of holding regional peace conference in doubt After meeting with Read More »

ynetnews »

Playing on the road can be tough in the NBA but not for Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to play in the league, who inspires Israelis and Jewish Americans from Tel Aviv to Telluride, reports Benjamin Hochman in The Denver Post. Read More »

JUF »

A lawyer for two brothers of Ajami director Scandar Copti said Monday that he plans to file a complaint with the Police Investigations Department, following an incident Saturday night in which the two men were allegedly beaten and sprayed with mace by Jaffa police. The two say police also showered them with racial epithets. Read More »

Jerusalem Post »

Dozens protest outside hostel where brothers who served time for child sex offenses live, demand their eviction. ‘They are sick people in need of rehabilitation, but I do not want my kids to get hurt,’ Hadar neighborhood resident says Dozens protest outside hostel where brothers who served time for child sex offenses live, demand their eviction. Read More »

ynetnews »

Two weeks before the European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, in mid January, Israeli skater Tamar Katz was sick in bed and going crazy. Read More »

JUF »

Jonathan Tobin previews a documentary called The Bombing of Germany, which appeared on PBS’s American experience on Sunday night. The last couple of paragraphs ought to be required reading for both American and Israeli decision makers. The most devastating line of the film is its last, in which historian Conrad C. Crane, director of the U.S. Read More »

Israel Matzav »

I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a memberGroucho MarxOn the other hand, it is interesting to note what groups Judge Richard Goldstone is a member of. Read More »

Soccer Dad »

The Rebbe going to the Mikvah in preparations for the Ohel. Read More »

Rebbe Clips »

Misha Galperin has notified the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington that he will leave his post as the federation’s CEO this summer to take a position at the Jewish Agency for Israel. Read More »

JTA blogs »

Jdate , Frumster , Sawyouatsinai , Jmatch  not getting you anywhere with your love life?  Have you recently been hooked on Millionaire Matchmaker?Well this Valentines Day perhaps it is time to go old school . Read More »

Bangitout.com Jewish Humor »

An American soldier was arrested and charged with child abuse, using controversial methods of torture used in interrogations, because she could not repeat the alphabet. Read More »

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Haaretz »

Mashal, today in Moscow Published: – According to a few days before the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, came to the city's delegation headed by senior Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshal organization. Read More »

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Haaretz »

Brooklyn, NY – As the March 23rd race for Simcha Felders vacated city council seat heats up, the candidates are spending their time drumming up as much suppo… Read More »

VosIzNeias »

Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Monday moved toward legalizing Jewish ownership of an East Jerusalem building, authorizing the Jerusalem District Council to take on the matter without first notifying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More »

Jewish Journal »

The NY Times wrote about our latest project and possibly the most interesting part are the comments. We won’t include the article here, you could read it HERE , but we thought we should include some of the comments that we found interesting. 6 . Read More »

Shemspeed »

Again, Islam disrespects law and order in this country: (IsraelNN.com) Arabs challenged Israeli authority in eastern Jerusalem on Monday, hurling rocks in violent riots that wounded five policemen, one of whom was hospitalized. Arab journalists also suffered injuries. Read More »

Tel-Chai Nation »

Well played. Focus on the Family dangled some tidbits of information to the media knowing that the chronically hysterical left would get, er, hysterical. And then came the commercial. Yup, that’s the 33 seconds that caused the pro-abortion fanatics to foam at the mouth. Read More »

Seraphic Secret »

Stephen Walt — actually permitting himself to title his post “I told you so ” — thinks he’s found something of a smoking gun in Tony Blair’s testimony before a British inquiry into the Iraq War: Probably the most controversial claim in my work Read More »

JTA blogs »

Having trouble finding all of your kosher ingredients? Kosher.com is an online kosher supermarket which ships anywhere in the US and offers free delivery of kosher groceries to the New York Metro region. Read More »

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The Jerusalem Post is reporting that a Pakistani diplomat name Miangul Akbar Zeb has been rejected by The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as becoming the Pakistani Ambassador, because his name apparently means “Big Genitals” in Arabic.  “A relatively common Muslim name, Akbar means ‘biggest’ or ‘greatest’ in Arabic. Read More »

Bangitout.com Jewish Humor »

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly has agreed in principle to hold indirect peace negotiations with Israel brokered by the United States. An unnamed senior Palestinian official confirmed the talks, which are expected to begin Feb. 20, the French news agency AFP reported Monday. Read More »

Jewish Journal »

Before booking a caterer, you should do research to ascertain price points and get recommendations from people who have had experience with the names you come up with. As with any estimate, the general rule is to contact three or four vendors that are appropriate to your estimated number of guests and budget. Read More »

Examiner »

Tallahassee, FL – The Florida Supreme Court has refused to halt the execution next week of a man convicted of murdering a state wildlife officer 26 years ago. Read More »

VosIzNeias »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday ordered his atomic scientists to begin enriching their stockpile of uranium in order to power a medical reactor, a move that accelerated Iran’s brinkmanship over its nuclear program by moving the country closer to producing weapons-grade fuel,� The New York Times reported. Read More »

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