Video: Once every 11 years The Aurora Borealis , known as the Northern Lights , have been visible over Scotland and large parts of northern England. Northern Lights: The Aurora Borealis visible over northern England and Scotland Wednesday, January 25, 2012 With thanks to “Common Cents” Aurora Borealis Feb. Read More »
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Sitting Shiva
Today in Tablet Magazine, psychoanalyst Simon Yisrael Feuerman reflects on his mother’s recent ...
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Gold: It's not just for investing anymore
Most people can agree that gold is beautiful when incorporated in jewelry, and gold coins can be a ...
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Check In and Haiku
2: 11 PM - Friday is my favorite time to post. Though I'm not sure why I ever write right here.Just ...
From the Heart
The other day Yishama our 5-year-old was laying in bed with my wife and Emunah out 2-year-old. Emunah reached over and caressed his cheek. Yishama remarked to Adina : I love it when she does that. It makes my heart hurt. You know Mami, when you heart hurts because you love someone so much. When Adina told me this story my heart just melted. Read More »
Kurds and sway
By Tony Badran If there is one group in Syria that embodies the trans-national currents running through Syrian society, and which is likely to have increasing influence in the post-Assad era, it’s the Kurds. Read More »
Friday Film: Exiles in Any Land
Once in a blue moon you get the chance to see a real talent in the making. That was my main thought after seeing first-time director-screenwriter Guy Yeroslavsky’s new TV pilot, “Forced Landing,” last October at the Haifa International Film Festival. Read More »
Layout – First B-day דף מעוצב – יומולדת ראשון
Hi,This is a new layout I made two weeks ago.The event is Yonatan’s (my younger son) first birthday party, and in the picture you can see Yonatan, my grandmother and myself.I made this layout for a color challenge in The Color Room website, but unfortunately I forgot to upload it to the website… oh well… Read More »
Latin American Jews
Latino issues have been prominent in media coverage of the upcoming Florida primary election. This week, from the J-Vault, and as part of our continuing background coverage of that primary: The Jews of Latin America (1918) In this section of the 1918 American Jewish Yearbook, Harry O. Read More »
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Submarine cable connected to Israel and Europe. The world expands possibilities for developing …
Bezeq International, Israel’s leading internet and international telecommunications provider, has selected Interoute Communications, owner and operator of the cloud services platform largest in Europe, to expand its network in the heart of Europe. Read More »
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Holocaust Memorial Day
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. I hurried home from work and watching on TV’s memory programs. Kofi Annan speaks and it is 100 years since the Swede Raoul Wallenberg was born. Read More »
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From darkness to light, an attitude.
BoEsta 5772 weeks start the month of Shevat, the month in which we have the new year for trees to be reborn and helps us bond with nature and our roots. In Jewish tradition every beginning of the month is as a sort of Yom Kippur, a day of evaluation and correction of norte. Read More »
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AP Exclusive Barrier Proposed As Israel Border
Ramallah, West Bank – Israel is proposing to essentially turn its West Bank separation barrier into the border with a future state of Palestine, two Palestinian officials said Friday, based on their interpretation of principles Israel presented in talks this week. Read More »
Flexing Its Muscles, Egypt Detains American
Detained in Egypt Son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Barred from Leaving Egypt -Leila Fadel Sam LaHood , director of the Egyptian program of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the son of Transportation Secretary Ray Read More »
In 2003, Romney vetoed funds for kosher meals
A report in the New York Post is highlighting a 2003 veto that Mitt Romney cast while he was governor of Massachusetts for denying $600,000 in additional funds for poor Jewish nursing-home residents to receive kosher meals. Read More »
More join President Obama on list of high profile Homeland Fans
President Obama started a TV trend as Read More »
Nu? This Week in Jews and Social Justice
In case you missed it, you can watch President Obama’s State of the Union address from this past Tuesday night on the White House website . But if you’re looking for Jewish justice insight into the state of the nation as Obama sees it, look no further than the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC). Read More »
Kazimierz Smolen, Auschwitz Survivor, Dies In Same Town On Liberation Anniversary
In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, visitors from around the world pass under the infamous Arbeit Macht Frei “Work Sets You Free” sign over the main gate at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, in Poland. Read More »
The TRI does not reach its goal
With expectations at top, and waiting for the medal but only in the final, open-class players, champions of the Pan-American continental Chile, Argentina 2007 finalists, finalists in Israel in the 2001 world medalist in the other world , champions of Read More »
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Video: Hitler and Ahmadinejad – We Can Not Forget, We Will Not Be Silent
MAP OF SEVERAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS ©21.04.2010 #DEATH STATISTICS# (alphabetical order) 1. Auschwitz-Birkenau (Vernichtungslager) : ±1,100,000 – 1,400,000 ±1,350,000 Jews, ±21,000 Gypsies, ±15,000 Soviet POWs, ±75,000 other Polish. 2. Belzec (Vernichtungslager) : ±600,000 – 800,000 3. Bergen-Belsen : ±50,000 4. Buchenwald : 56,545 5. Read More »
Ron Paul’s Former Associates Say He Knew About Bigotry in Newsletters
There is plenty of proof that Ron Paul knew what was in his bigoted newsletters, his defense of their content in 1996 , interviews where he explained their content, hand-written letters asking for money etc. But none of this satisfied his loyal cult-like followers so here are some more facts for the Ronulins to deny. Read More »
The call for Fox to bring back Glenn Beck
According to James Simpson in an article at American Thinker yesterday, a major call has been issued for Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck. The reason is the growing backlash against the influence of global financier George Soros at the network. Read More »
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Obama’s State of the Union: What it says about his relationship with Israel
Candidate Obama at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. President Obama has not returned to Israel. Obama’s State of the Union Speech -Barry Rubin “ Our iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history . Read More »
Portrait of the current anti-Semitic
Excerpt from the article “Portrait of the current anti-Semitism” published by the newspaper The Nation in 2009.Mucho has been written-and accurately-about the roots of antisemitism. The phenomenon has to his credit with a bulky effect: at least 2600 years, during which their discursive strategies have varied without losing customers or intensity. Read More »
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Bellicose Iran Threatens Cutting Off Oil to Europe
Iran struck a combative tone Thursday in its confrontation with the West over the nuclear issue, threatening to terminate oil exports to European nations even before their embargo takes effect this summer. Read More »
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Levi Yitzchak and Rivka ( nee Reinitz ) Spielman 1276 President St. Levi and Rochel Leah Greisman 701 Montgomery St. Read More »
Heading Home!
To all my dear friends who have been so supportive and encouraging to me during this hard time, I am happy to tell you that my husband’s condition is starting to improve and I’m going to be heading home on Sunday. Read More »
Jewish Man, 53, dies after getting hit by 2 vehicles Both drivers flee scene in Midwood, Brooklyn
The scene at Coney Island Ave. and Avenue K in Brooklyn where a pedestrian was fatally injured after being hit by two vehicles Thursday night. Marc A. Hermann for New York Daily News A 53-year-old man was left to die on a Brooklyn street after two motorists plowed into him in a grisly hit-and-run Thursday night, police sources and witnesses said. Read More »
Parshas Bo 5772- The Avodah of Wanting More
The Avodah of Want`ing MoreWe are now holding a few weeks away from arguably the biggest day of the year and we don’t even know it. Tu Bshvat is the official turning point for klal yisroel in our time period. Read More »
Newbusted: Experts Predict $5.00/Gallon Gas For Next Summer
Now here is a scary prediction, according to Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, experts are now predicting that gasoline prices will reach record levels in 2012, perhaps over $5.00/per gallon. That is going to royally screw up family vacations for this coming summer…well except for the family that lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Read More »
Random Musing Before Shabbat–Bo 5772–Lifting the Cover of Darkness
Eleven years ago, I wrote wondering why the Israelites had simply not left Egypt under the cover of darkness during the 9th plague. I wrote: Random Musing Before Shabbat – Bo 5771 – Cover of Darkness The question seems so obvious that this week even a 1st-grader asked it. That could be a good thing, but perhaps not. More on that later. Read More »
paprika roast chicken breast and sweet chili
Donna Hi is the new goddess, since I started watching her show aired on the food. I love the quick and simple access to her, I love the shortcuts, and I love the recipes. Most contain a minimum of ingredients and very easy to make. This recipe is an excellent example. So simple and fast! And excellent results. Read More »
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The Storyteller: “For the Sake of Tefillin” – by Nissan Mindel
CHABAD By Nissan Mindel Hershel was born in a small town, Dubova, near Munkatch, in the last year of the First World War. Munkatch was then part of Hungary, but after the war the whole region became part of the new state of Czechoslovakia. Read More »
Beware Woman with Gun
Video: The Work of an IDF Weapons Instructor Behind every good soldier is in an exceptional instructor. Cpl. Daniella Stepanoe, an IDF weapons instructor, talks about training soldiers and shows off her skills. Read More »
Germany commemorates the Holocaust
With a discourse of the literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Marcel Reich-Ranicki, before Parliament Germanic, Germany Holocaust recalled today to mark the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 . Read More »
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Movie Night Screening of Groundhog Day
In the week of the (somewhat unusual) American tradition of Groundhog Day, relive your memories of o… Read More »
“The peace agreement between Egypt and Israel is not threatened”
Ali Salem (76) is an optimistic man by nature. Tends to cling to the good signs that captures, though not at all indifferent to the problems which are logical reasons for fear. Read More »
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Police Bust Suspect Snatching iPhone’s from Jewish Teens in Brooklyn
iPhones such as this one were sought by Emanuel Simon who allegedly sold them to pay for his tattoos. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Brooklyn, NY – Cops have nabbed a Brooklyn iPhone bandit who stole the pricey Apple devices to support his tattoo habit. Read More »
Into The Fray: A study in impotence
By MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST Israel’s diplomatic reaction to recent charges that its water policy is racist exposes a preference for passivity over preemption. The politics of water in the Middle East By Courtesy Water reveals a new apartheid in the Middle East. The 450,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank use as much or more water than some 2. Read More »
Ethiopians Struggle To Maintain Israel Protests
Three weeks into the Ethiopian-Israeli protest campaign against racism, its leaders are frustrated by the apathy of the Israeli public and government and are planning to sound their grievances abroad, to the Diaspora and even the United Nations. Meanwhile, they have to contend with a competing social protest. Read More »
The Holocaust-uniqueness and universality
JUDITH BoKS Liwerant LINK EXCLUSIVE FOR JEWISH The Shoah, the Holocaust, Auschwitz. The different dimensions highlighted names designate their uniqueness and its universal projection through existential breakdown, conceptual and human behaved. Read More »
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Op-Ed: The Birth of Sensationalism
by Simon Jacobson – Meaningful Life Center One of the interesting byproducts of our paradoxical times is the birth of sensationalism. Read More »
Romney, Gingrich blame Palestinians for lack of peace
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich put the blame for the impasse in Middle East peace talks squarely on the Palestinians. The candidates were responding a a question at the latest GOP debate Thursday night, in Jacksonville, Fla., from an audience member, Abraham Hassan. Read More »
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Huh?, an Israeli “West Wing”?
With a name like “The Prime Minister’s Cabinet,” you’d think this television show was yet another British drama, a “Downton Abbey” sequel starring, say, Winston Churchill. But it’s not—no, it has nothing to do with Brits, but with, of all things, Israelis. Read More »
Food Tip #3: Girl Scout Cookie Mint Pie
It’s Girl Scout Cookie time, and you know what that means.That means I bought 3, count ‘em, only 3, boxes of Thin Mints. But wait, how do I manage even those 3 boxes which are so easily hidden away from my husband and children? It’s not even like I love Thin Mints. I would rather eat homemade chocolate chip cookies. Read More »
Being a part of Israel, Not apart© Parashat Va-era
Parashat Va-era: Being a part of Israel, not apart by Rabbi David Baum© A couple of weeks ago, we had the opportunity to learn from a Rabbi who teaches at the CY. In each one of his teachings, he ended with his personal take on the issue, his personal take on pre-martial sex, his personal [… Read More »
I never sign in support of Gustavo Sala
Yesterday I found a bulky requested that a group of cartoonists and artists Gustavo Sala supported by the alleged threats he had received to repudiate his controversial strip Página/12. Read More »
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Oh how i LOVE Israel!
At the beginning of the holiday season, i started to feel sad and homesick. I kept pondering what I should do for New Years. My thoughts kept going back to Israel! It is only a 4-hour flight and I could be with friends and family. I wasn’t sure if it was a great idea since I was just settling back into life in Ukraine. Read More »
George Mandel-Mantello, the power of friendship
Turin, a major city in northern Italy, a meeting place for a beautiful friendship (1930) coupled with the loyalty of two men who have passed into history by giving “The Value of Life yala Existence” of the individual. Can not write to Jose Arturo Castellanos without doing an important and just mention George Mandel-Mantello. Read More »
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IDF Honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day
IDF SPOKESPERSON Posted on January 27, 2012 Today, January 27, 2012, the IDF honors the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Designated by the UN General Assembly in 2005, this day marks the liberation of the Nazis’ biggest and deadliest death camp: Auschwitz-Birkenau. In this death camp an estimated 1. Read More »
Dutch plan ban on Muslim face veils next year
AMSTERDAM – The Dutch minority government plans to ban Muslim face veils such as burqas and other forms of clothing that cover the face from next year. Read More »
bean soup and meat
One of the things that delight and warm the body and soul in winter and when the soup is really cold, as happens these days we are looking to make soup a little heavier and thicker and here’s one. You can use dry beans after soaking over night and boil twice, or as I suggested here that saves frozen beans soaking and boiling. Read More »
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Leafing through the tape
And the author of articles about central heating right after. In fact right. You can assess the situation with the “plus” or “minus”, but that’s a doctor – a diagnosis, and patient case – decide to go under the surgeon’s knife, swallow a pill or go to ekstrasensu.Zamette, I’m not saying that there is a central heating system – it Evil or Good. Read More »
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Germans Honored for Keeping Jewish Culture Alive
A former Wehrmacht soldier was one of five Germans honored this year for helping ensure that local Jewish history and culture are not forgotten. Read More »
Fran Drescher Was Abducted by Aliens
The Nanny star reveals that she was abducted by aliens and can prove it. She has a chip implanted in her brain. ‘The Nanny’ and ‘Happily Divorced’ star, Fran Drescher, recently admitted to being abducted by aliens while she was in junior high school. Read More »
New From Artscroll: GPS! Navigation For Your Soul
It’s fun! It’s different!! And it’s authentic Torah!!! GPS: Navigation For Your Soul takes some of the brilliant concepts of Nesivos Shalom and “translates” them into contemporary terms. Read More »
Israel cricket rewarded for Peace project
The Israeli Cricket Association has won Read More »
Why Give Candidates a Forum at BRS?
By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg One of the nice things about living in Palm Beach County is the impact our votes have and the difference they make. Indeed, the entire 2000 Presidential election was likely decided by voters not only in our county, but perhaps even in our district. Read More »
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