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Chief observer: Syria violence escalating – Israel News, Ynetnews . Syrian cities have witnessed ‘very high escalation’ in violence since Tuesday, head of Arab observer team says; dozens killed by security forces Friday Roi Kais and AP Violence in Read More »
The mixed doubles team of Andy Ram (ISR) and Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) lost in the second round to Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA and Horia Tecau ROU, 6-4, 7-6. Also eliminated in the second round of mixed doubles play: Scott Lipsky (USA) and Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE), defeated by Liezel Huber (USA) and Colin Fleming (GBR).6-3, 6-2. Lipsky [… Read More »
The Jewish Defence League is demanding the resignation of a small-town Quebec mayor who said the state of Israel should not exist. Read More »
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Rabbi Fishel Jacobs announced that a new app for Family Purity is now available. ‘I’ve been involved in supervising the halachic development of this online program from its beginning, watching it grow into the largest taharas hamisphacha site,“ says Rabbi Jacobs. Read More »
GM Headquarters in Detroit, MI. Photo: wiki commons. Washington Post – The nation’s on-and-off economic recovery has picked up its pace, the Commerce Department reported Friday, with the U.S. economy growing at an annualized rate of 2.8 percent for the end of 2011. Read More »
A few years ago Rabbi Garten was teaching Florence Melton School (adult Jewish education program) students a lesson on the process of conversion. He asked the class why people converted to Judaism and got the expected answer. Read More »
Jewish Federation hosts photographer The Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois will be hosting an event Monday at SIU Carbondale that gives people a glimpse into the lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel . Read More »
A 10-second teaser released shows a modern-day Broderick reciting a 25-year old movie line A mysterious YouTube user calling himself “chuckachucka2012” uploaded a 10-second clip on Thursday featuring Matthew Broderick enacting a scene from John Hughes’ classic film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Read More »
I’m writing this blog from the Annual JUF Rabbinic Mission, which this year takes us to Germany and Israel. Read More »
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The New York Post reported that Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney vetoed a bill that would have provided Jewish nursing homes in Massachusetts funding for kosher food. According to the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council, that funding would have respected Jewish seniors’ “special dignity. Read More »
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Students worldwide have the opportunity to learn more about the Holocaust thanks to a new educational tool, “online”, which was launched this Monday. Read More »
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So happy it’s Friday – a nice weekend ahead of rest and relaxation. We’ve been working hard all week to bring you new content, recipes and menu ideas. Here’s a mini round up of some of the articles featured this week. To be kept more up to date sign up to receive our daily recipe and our weekly newsletter . Read More »
This week, Ner Yisrael and the Baltimore community at large lost another of its great pillars. Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg, wife of Rosh HaYeshiva R’ Yaakov Weinberg, zt”l and daughter of Rosh HaYeshiva R’ Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman, zt”l passed away. A nice write-up summarizing the hespedim can be found here and full hespedim are available here . Read More »
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Sorry I’m so late… I was window-shopping online for Littlest Grandboy’s birthday. Time flies when you’re having fun – remembering how wondrous the world is when you’re three. I completely forgot I had left this in “drafts,” neglecting to actually post it. Read More »
From Al Arabiya: Fayyad and Peres at Davos The Middle East peace process is at its lowest point in two decades and the events of the Arab Spring have forced it down the world agenda, the Palestinian prime minister complained Thursday as EU foreign Read More »
From DG: 1) The fault lines of the ‘Arab Spring’ Jonathan Spyer in PJMedia ‘Arab Spring’ leaves a weakened Hezbollah : This investment in the survival of Assad indicates which of the four aspects of Hezbollah’s identity mentioned above are most important to it. Read More »
“Mitt Romney looks like everyone who ever fired your dad” as Jon Stewart put it. But maybe Jon was selling it short. Maybe Mitt isn’t just the guy who fired your dad, he’s the guy who killed your dad. And not in the “Mitt Romney is a serial killer” sort of thing that (not-)Colbert’s Super PAC said. No, this would be the rich guy who snapped. Read More »
Barry Rubin is sure that the Israelis will not attack Iran’s nuclear sites this year, and offers various reasons (pro-Israel reasons, by the way) why an attack shouldn’t happen. Read More »
Former Malaysian Deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim at the Pentagon in 1998. Photo: wiki commons. Anwar Ibrahim is a front runner to be Malaysia’s next Prime Minister. On Thursday, he was acquitted of sodomy charges after 6 years of imprisonment, following a political dispute he had with the country’s former leader over a decade ago. Read More »
Satisfied with the direction being taken by his acting career, Sharon Zundel enjoys his involvement in the play “Knock-knock” and your next job in the series “Triplets” and the movie “Erotica” by director Fernando Sarinana. Read More »
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Just wanted to highlight one of Elie’s points below from last week but on this week’s פרשה : י: ו וּמָלְאוּ הלמ”ד בשוא נע, לא לקרוא וּמָלוּ It is not absolutely essential to use the שוא נע . However, one must be very careful not to skip the שוא altogether and pronounce it וּמָלוּ . Surely, the locusts were not circumcising the Egyptians houses. Read More »
I can worship in God’s Tent with happy shofar sounds. I like this translation of Psalms 27: 6. Happy shofar sounds to all of us.Translation appears in Rediscovering Judaism: Bar and Bat Mitzvah for Adults by Rabbis Kerry M. Olitzkey and Ronald H. Isaacs, KTAV Publishing House, 1997, page 139. Read More »
Theresa Mintle and Evelyn Diaz were guest speakrs at the Jan. 23 Government Affairs Committee Meeting. Read More »
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(JERUSALEM) — The budgets are bare-bones and the talent pool is limited, but Israel has emerged as a surprising powerhouse in the foreign film industry. Read More »
A temple in Southern California asks Mel Gibson to prove he is not an Anti-Semite by donating money to their cause Congregation Beth Shalom, located in Corona California, sent a letter to Mel Gibson asking for a large sum of money that will aid in relieving their substantial debt. They have labeled their cause SOS: Save Our Synagogue. Read More »
FROM H-JUDAIC: From: Nick Block Sent: Thu 1/26/2012 8: 46 AMSubject: CFP: Cultural Perspectives on German-Jewish Reading Practices, = GSA, Deadline: Feb. Read More »
A number of things Jewish ancient Jewish documents recently found in northern Afghanistan has caused uproar among academics, who say the finding could unlock history has not revealed a side of the Jews in the Middle Ages. The approximately 150 documents, dating from the 11th century, were found in the Afghan province of Samangan. Read More »
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Over the past four years, the number of “questionable claims” involving staged car accidents has increased 100 percent since 2008. Armen Keteyian reports on a hidden camera investigation that has uncovered scam artists in the act. Read More »
This week’s Parsha discusses the Passover. There are three main translations of this word: 1. Pesach means jumping, HY rid the houses of the Jews when he killed the eldest born of the Egyptians. 2. Passover can be translated as having mercy. 3. Passover can be translated as Peh-Sach’s mouth relata. Read More »
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Hallelujah for local Jewish newspapers, and not just the venerable one that employs yours truly. read more Read More »
Shabbat Shalom This week’s Torah portion is Parshat is Bo (Exodus 10: 1-13: 6) Links to the Parshat are available at the following sites: Aish: http: //www.aish.com/tp/ Partners in Torah: http: //www.partnersintorah.org/parsha-partner/bo-5768 Torah.org: http: //www.torah.org/learning/parsha/summary/bo.html Chabad: www.chabad. Read More »
Have you ever sat at home in winter boots? No? That you do not know what a gale in sub-zero temperatures on the upper floors. I wanted to go buy a soft toy for ‘X’ – purely pofanatet at a concert, throw up on stage, but where there … in such weather. We’ll have to throw Sashka. Read More »
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Source: Haaretz Having resisted calls to boycott the South African artist William Kentridge visited Israel in 2011 for the retrospective was dedicated to him at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The artist is Jewish and has participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Read More »
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This is an articulation of a healthy, reclaimed Zionism. Sign on to this beautifully-written statement of Religious Ethical Zionism, co-authored by Rabbi Jack Moline, Agudas Achim Congregation (Conservative), Alexandria, and Rabbi Daniel Daniel G. Zemel, Temple Micah (Reform), Washington, DC. Read More »
The New York Daily News broke the sad news yesterday: the last H & H Bagel shop (on West 46th St.) is now closed. Legal troubles and economic woes are to blame. Oy. College Prowler ranks the best Kosher campuses. Brandeis is not (quite) first. Read More »
Adam Kleinberg, the young Mexican of 21, who last summer was the winner of Hallelujah music festival involving Jewish youth from 30 countries, recorded his first single in Israel. Read More »
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The Caravan , February 1, 2012 When I put my silver digital recorder on the table, Kidane Isaac, an Eritrean refugee, eyes it and shifts in his chair. He angles his broken straw fedora downwards, tipping the rim lower, as though to cover his face. Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, Hamas forces attacked a gathering of Shiites in Gaza, which some saw as a solid sign of the withering ties between Hamas and Iran. It is certainly true that ties between Iran and Hamas have weakened over the past few months. In fact, Iran has significantly increased its support of Islamic Jihad, Hamas’ main rival in Gaza. Read More »
GENEVA – More than 1 million children in the Sahel are at risk of severe malnutrition and urgent is needed to avert starvation akin to that in Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday. Read More »
Israeli startup looks to create buzz for the talent Israeli company Stagee recently launched a social network by the same name that is built around talent – where musicians, actors and other artists can socialize with agents and producers and increase their fan base. Read More »
St. Martin (AKA St. Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided in two: Half of it belongs to the French and the other to the Dutch. Although the island had a significant Jewish population back in the early/mid 1700s, the island has not had a permanent Jewish community since the last synagogue was abandoned in 1781. Read More »
Parashat Bo 5772, 2012: Achieving True Spiritual Growth Rabbi David Etengoff Dedicated to the sacred memories of my sister-in-law, Ruchama Rivka Sondra, my sister, Shulamit bat Menachem, and Shifra bat Chaim Alter, and the refuah shlaimah of Yosef Shmuel ben Miriam. Read More »
Steven Spielberg – Things Jewish According to Deadline Steven Spielberg (The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn) is very close to get all the details with Warner Bros.. to perform “Gods and Kings,” an epic about the biblical character of Moses. Read More »
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Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (if he or she emails me at mtracy@tabletmag.com with his or her mailing address). Read More »
by Evelyne Klein When our (fabulous) Membership Director asked if I would host a Shabbat dinner at our house, as a way to have long-standing members meet new members, I thought: What a terrific idea!! There were so many new members we did not know, and members we saw at temple events only. Read More »
The Jewish Transcript just released the winners in the Best of Everything Jewish poll. The Island is not represented (no big shock), and you may not agree with the selections, but it is a fun read and you never know when you may be in the market for a mohel that ” circumcises our region’s little boys with a steady hand and a light touch. Read More »
As I stand here at the World Economic Forum in Davos, surrounded by the world’s most powerful, wealthy and influential people, I realize my importance to them. If one of the thousands of people here was to suddenly begin choking or suffer from a heart attack, I would become that person’s “hero. Read More »
Shabbat shalom, indeed. Over the summer we moved from Brownstone Brooklyn to suburban Florida . While our three children are thrilled about year-round pool and playground access (which actually is pretty awesome), for me it’s been a rough transition. I miss my friends. I miss my kids’ friends. I miss my kids’ schools. Read More »
Ukrainian Jewish leader and real estate mogul Alexander L. Levin came to New York this week to launch the latest international Jewish organization with a grandiose name. Called the World Forum for Russian Jewry, this one aims to harness the power of Russian-speaking Jews the world over. Read More »
The Frum World often seems to be a Johnny-Come-Lately in certain regards. Part of this might stem from the dictum “Chadash Asur Min HaTorah”. Tradition by nature is very suspect of change, and people are uncomfortable in upsetting the apple cart. If it worked until now, we will not change it.Yet time moves on. Read More »
The last H&H Bagels store was evicted from its last New York location for failing to pay back rent, the New York Daily News reported. The iconic bakery outlet on W. 46th Street in Manhattan was chained shut Thursday after owner Helmer Toro failed to pay about $600,000 to the landlord the paper said. Read More »
Sukacki Simon Blanck Z “L passed away on Friday, January 27, 2012. The funeral will be Friday January 27 at 3: 00 pm The Shiva will be on Friday 27 to Thursday February 2. The prayers are in the morning at 7 : 30 am Sunday 8: 30 am, in the evenings at 5: 50 pm Wife: Rachel Blanck. Children: Zali Blanck, Blanck And Ada Chazan Shimon. Read More »
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Kiddush this week is sponsored by Adam and Heather Bohn Rob in honor of Heather’s birthday, Adam’s academic achievements, and the Yohrtzeit of Heather’s grandfather Israel Alperin. Shalosh Seudos this Shabbos is sponsored by Rabbi Yehuda and Channah Appel in memory of Rabbi Appel’s mother Zlata bas Moshe. Read More »
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