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Archive for February 5th, 2010
Video – New York Braces For Winter Snow Storm
NEW YORK — The east coast is gearing up for the worst as a parts of our area prepare for the coming winter blast. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch from 6 p.m. Friday through Saturday afternoon for areas in New York, with parts of the Garden State under a Blizzard Warning until 7 p.m. tomorrow. “It’s a big storm. Read More »
Were Should I Get A Hebrew Tattoo?
I am wanting to get A hebrew tattoo but I canno deside were to put it , i have thought about one the shoulder like angelina jolie’s hebrew writing on her shoulder. And I would like it going down my spine. Read More »
Srugim: Imagine a Jewish Sex and the City
Srugim was a really popular show in Israel that was about the modern orthodox singles scene of Jerusalem, and now you can watch it on the Jewish Channel – it looks super interesting and very funny, albeit a bit complicated. Finally someone is starting to realize that hava nagila and manishevetz just won’t cut it anymore. Read More »
Why Does My Old Neighbor Have A Tattoo Of Numbers On Her Arm? Is That A Jewish Tradition?
Perhaps it is her Social Security number… getting forgetful and needs it handy for the doctors office…… If i were you, I would tactfully ask her about it. If it looks neatly done, chances are it is something else. If it appears to have been done poorly, yes, she may be a survivor of a concentration camp. Is it a Jewish tradition..uhhhhh . Read More »
8-year-old was injured in a shooting incident medium Lod
8 year-old girl shot tonight (and) back during the exchange of fire following an ongoing dispute between clans. She was taken in fair condition Assaf Harofeh Hospital, and police opened an investigation. Read More »
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Opening Session of the International Kinus Hashluchos
The opening session of the 22nd International Conference of Shluchos took place Thursday night in the main ballroom of Oholei Torah. Read More »
NYC Yeshiva Students To Get Free Computers
At a TEACH NYS sponsored forum this week in Boro Park, yeshiva representatives throughout New York City received good news from the New York City Department of Education (NYC-DOE) that thousands of yeshiva students will be receiving brand new computers through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Read More »
Video – Yeshiva Student Save Women From Fire
By Kemberly Richardson for ABC7 Eyewitness News BROOKLYN — A second-alarm fire ripped through a home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn Thursday morning, and some students at a nearby school are being hailed as heroes. The fire broke out on East 35th Street just after 10: 30 a.m., and heavy smoke spewed through the area. Read More »
Rabbi Tropper resigns!
Rumors are abound that Rabbi Leib Tropper, the Threesome Rabbi, has resigned from Kol Yaakov, his yeshiva! Eternal Jewish Fraud writes that because Tropper fears, a full scale rebuke by Monsey Rabbi’s and a possible jail sentence as well as Read More »
Samaritans mourn their high priest
Samaritan High Priest was eulogized by both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. Interesting that his office is the oldest in the world. Quote: Snow flurries drifted to the ground on Mount Gerizim overlooking Nablus on Thursday, as mourners gathered to bury the spiritual leader of the Samaritans, who passed away the previous day. Read More »
Deputy Education Minister Visits Belz Building Complex in Yerushalayim
Deputy Minister of Education R’ Meir Porush visited a building site in Kiryat Belz in Yerushalayim on Thursday, the home of the new Belz talmid torah. His tour of the area was reported as “comprehensive”, the daily HaMevaser reports. From there R’ Porush visited the current Belz talmid torah, in Zichron Moshe, built some 40 years ago. Read More »
Moment of Silence at Crown Heights Public School
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen for the Forward For the Good of the Children: Avraham Frank says the students of P.S. 191 benefit from a moment of silence. CROWN HEIGHTS — At the border of Crown Heights and Brownsville, in an impoverished corner of Brooklyn, stands the hulking, tan brick building that houses P.S. 191, the Paul Robeson School. Read More »
What do my mother and todd palin have in common?
Their spouses have both gone rogue. My father’s new Nissan Rogue…. Read More »
Say Something Different
Prepare a dvar Torah (words of Torah) relating to the Haftarah to share with your family at the Shabbat Table. Read More »
Qitzur Shulchan Arukh – 184: 5
ה: יֵשׁ עוֹד הַרְבֵּה דְבָרִים בְּעִנְיַן נִזְקֵי שְׁכֵנִים אוֹ לִבְנֵי רְשׁוּת-הָרַבִּים. Read More »
Goldstone Chosen Because He is a Court Jew
IDF Central District Commander Major-General Avi Mizrachi announced that Justice Richard Goldstone was selected to head the fact-finding mission to Gaza simply because he is a Jew, adding “I would not wish to be with this man in my country nor would I wish to include him in a minyan”. Read More »
Have A Great Shabbos
It’s been a shock to the system, this post vacation week of school. A poem I wrote a few years ago returns to mind. Read More »
Israel and Syria In Crisis
You might want to head into this weekend hoping for peace in the Middle East. Not just peace in some not-too-distant future, but peace, like, this weekend . Possible enemy: Syria. Read More »
News Roundup – Fri. 2/5
The high priest is dead , and the nation mourns as the search for a new kohen gadol begins. The doors to the arei miklat , the cities of refuge, can now be opened. The deceased was High Priest Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq. He died on Thursday, and was buried on… hold it… Mount Gerizim? Sorry, wrong high priest. The Samaritan one. Read More »
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Tomorrow Belongs To Who?
A few years ago, the great screenwriter Robert Avrech wrote a column, “Help, I’m a Hollywood Republican,” about his predicament as an Orthodox Jewish conservative trying to write certain kinds of scripts. Everything he said is as true today is as when he wrote it. Read More »
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Red on Wall Street agree
Last trading day of the week is currently being falls goals. Dow Jones lost 0.56% to 9945.88 points, the Nasdaq down easy at the rate of 0.16% to 2121.96 points and the S & P 500 down -0.68% at a level of 1055.85 points yesterday locked gates sharp falls in trading: Dow Jones dropped by -2.61% to 10,002 points, the Nasdaq shed 2. Read More »
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Australia Stops Shipment Intended for Iran’s Nuclear Program
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd released a statement that his country intercepted several shipments intended for Iran’s nuclear program, HaMevaser reports. Australian Defense Minister John Faulkner took “appropriate actions” when learning of several suspicious containers. Read More »
Time keeps on tickin’
Judaism is a clock. Look at your watch, you may think of where you were yesterday at 3. Open your calendar (or your iPhone, Palm or Blackberry), you can recall what you were doing last Monday, or back in November, or over summer vacation. Read More »
Israeli Slang for V-Day
Tu B’Av is the Jewish version of Valentines Day. Although it’s still months away, we wanted to give you the in with our resident Israeli (i.e. smooth, suave), Yishai. Take notes as he shares some tips on how to woo your mate. Israeli Slang 101 – “Shalom, Mahmi” from Birthright Israel NEXT on Vimeo . Read More »
Group says anti-Semitic acts soar in France in ‘09 The Associated Press Wednesday,
Group says anti-Semitic acts soar in France in ‘09 The Associated Press Wednesday, February 3, 2010; 3: 35 PM PARIS — A group founded to protect France’s Jewish community says anti-Semitic acts in France soared 75 percent last year – many coming as Israel pressed an offensive against Hamas in the Middle East in January. Read More »
Time to Worry
Mere Rhetoric: Obama is blocking sales of Apache helicopters to Israel because Israel used them against Hamas-in-Gaza last winter. Caroline Glick: “The latest developments are menacing.” …. Iran’s unelected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to open up a new round of hostilities on February 11. Read More »
Will Dubai Issue a Warrant for PM Netanyahu’s Arrest?
Regarding the murder of terrorist Mahmoud a-Mabhouh in a luxury Dubai hotel, Hamas continues to point the finger of blame at Israel and the Mossad, yet silence remains golden in Yerushalayim. Read More »
Israel: Sharp Increase in Terror Last Month
According to the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet), there was a sharp increase in terrorist incidents last month, January 2010, reporting 80 attacks as compared to 51 in December 2009, representing a 57% increase. This was the case in Yehuda, Shomron, Gaza and Yerushalayim, the agency reported. Read More »
The world is changing
And here is some serious proof. Ketchup will never be the same. . Read More »