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I’m glad that the truth about the purpose of the New Israel Fund has finally been revealed. Its agenda isn’t just a matter of civil rights . Foreign governments and international bodies have used The New Israel Fund to systematically empower and assist organizations whose aim is the weakening of the State of Israel. Read More »
Archive for February 7th, 2010
Beating the Dead Yoga Horse
by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths Oy dear friends, sometimes the battle seems endless. Yet, we do what we can and trust Hashem to help… A Noachide reader, who is Indian in Asia wrote (edited)…I wrote to Chabad.org regarding their current article (saying Yoga is ok), questioning from my background how they could say this. Read More »
More Wedding Fashions
This post is NOT part of my series on weddings in the religious Zionist community . I took this picture at a local children’s store: Regular Anonymous mentioned wedding dresses with see-through midriffs, so I found two samples. Read More »
1st Grade Homework
A friend sent this. I usually don’t care for forwarded e-mails but this one was way cute. A first grade girl handed in the drawing below for a homework assignment… After it was graded and the child brought it home, she returned to school the next day with the following note: Dear Ms. Davis, I want to be very clear on my child’s illustration. Read More »
Better Place Preps for Israel Launch: Partners, Demo Center
But this weekend the company took a couple steps forward in Israel . First, Better Place announced the opening of a slick demonstration center in Israel … Read More »
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer: Hhstftot low anxious workforce
Ben-Eliezer. Danger to the delicate balance the social fabric here in Israel Photo: Moran spring "the low participation of the Orthodox sector workforce in the sector affects not only himself but also the economy, its growth potential and above Read More »
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Jewish Gangsters? Maybe. But They Were Good to Their Mother!
The Tamar Yonah Show The Ford Foundation, The New Israel Fund, etc… Is foreign money funding anti-Israel organizations to the detriment of the Jewish State? And why isn’t this story hitting the prime time news? Sr. News Editor, Gil Ronen talks about what others don’t want you to know. Read More »
Mine injures five in northern Israel
Five members of an Israeli family were injured when a mine exploded in a northern Israel minefield. A family hiking near Kibbutz Merom Golan in the Golan Heights on Saturday accidentally entered what the Israel Defense Forces said was a clearly marked and fenced-off minefield area. Read More »
Israeli Court Gives Chabad Kids to Non-Jewish Father
By Yechiel Spira for the Yeshiva World News ISRAEL — Once again, Israel ultra-libertarian High Court of Justice has ruled in favor of tearing children away from yiddishkeit, ordering the return of two children, members of the Chabad community, to their non-Jewish father. Read More »
Mumps outbreak strikes Orthodox Jews in N.Y.
More than 300 people, nearly all Orthodox Jews and Chasidim, have contracted the mumps in an upstate New York county. The cases broke out in Monsey and New Square in Rockland County, about 25 miles from New York City, and have spread to Brooklyn and New Jersey Orthodox Jewish communities, according to The Journal News. Read More »
Why Do the Evil Prosper and the Good Sometimes Suffer?
The Tamar Yonah Show Jewish activist Shifra Hoffman says that those nations we call our friends are really our enemies. Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi explains the age old question why bad people sometimes are rewarded in this world, while the righteous sometimes seem to suffer. Read More »
Please Say Tehilim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima. Reuven Avraham ben Esther Stryia Read More »
Healthy Bread Recipes?
Looking for some healthy (but still tasty) homemade bread recipes. I have a bread machine…Any suggestions/recommendations? Read More »
Netanyahu: Israel wants peace with Syria
A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in Sderot. A Color Red alert sounded in Sderot and surrounding communities shortly before the rocket landed in an open field in Sderot on Sunday afternoon, according to reports. There were no injuries or damage reported. © Copyright 2010 The Jewish Journal and JewishJournal.com All rights reserved. Read More »
Soulful, Acoustic Melodies with Jewish Folk Duo Elyon
The Beat Eliezer Kosoy and Yonasan Hill form the duo Elyon and perform live on Israel National Radio. Yonasan talks about his famous father, D.A. Adam Schiff from TV’s Law and Order and how he gave up big Hollywood contracts to become hasidic. Read More »
Hashem Loves the Sounds of Little Children Learning Torah
This is what you frum people are paying for. This is the chinuch that your children are getting. This is the superior Jewish education that is so much better than public school. From here : My son is in 8th grade, and has been the victim of bullies since the beginning. Read More »
Posts so far for parshat Mishpatim
2009 Mishpatim sources , with links to an online Mikraos Gedolos, and many meforshim on the parsha and haftarah. Great for preparing the parsha. Now these are the laws … Is there room and legitimacy for a peshat commentary? This as a preface to Mishpatim, and so is part of the running commentary. When you purchase a Hebrew slave … Read More »
Weekly Torah Portion: Mishpatim
“All that the L-rd spoke we will do and we will hear.” (Exodus 24: 7) The very essence of our relationship with hashem: We will do even before we fully understand Gd’s word. Mishpatim (Exodus 21: 1-24: 18) Parashat Mishpatim is read on Shabbat: Shevat 29, 5770/February 13, 2010 Visit us: www.templeinstitute. Read More »
Mechitzahs & Talleisim – an MO love story
One of the best reasons to go to an MO shul is for the view. You just don’t get the same buzz going to a tiny shtiebel where the women’s section is somewhere behind floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a concrete wall or thick curtains that never move. Read More »
Evolution Research: chimpanzees were located altruists
Gore and his mother. The researchers were shocked to discover orphans who were adopted before weaned Photo: Reuters Scientists devote efforts to determine what distinguishes humans from other species of animals. Read More »
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Syria vows to respond to any Israeli ‘aggression’
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Sunday vowed to stand by Lebanon’s side against any Israeli “aggression,” in an escalating war of words between Damascus and Jerusalem. Assad’s remarks to Lebanon Parliament Speaker Nabil Beri were the latest in a renewed round of threats and counter-threats that began last week. Read More »
‘To Israel I am stained with blood’
Al-Mabhouh had been one of Israel’s most wanted people for 20 years and was accused of being responsible for a number of operations, including the … Read More »
Future with Israel forever entwined
Zionists did not create the Jewish State. The United Nations planned that situation. Immediately upon its creation, Israel was attacked by five Arab armies. … Read More »
28 Days, 28 Ideas #7: Central game portal for teaching Hebrew
Do you like playing computer games? You can play more than 10,000 different games on Kongregate.com , for free. More games are added to the site every day, written by a legion of programmers hoping to win fame… and perhaps a very modest fortune … by creating a popular game. Read More »
The Great Global Warming Collapse:
As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement Saturday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Saturday, Feb. Read More »
Lieberman Refuses to Back Down on Firm Position Regarding Syria
Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman told reporters that he is not engaged in a popularity contest and he is unwilling to retract his statements made regarding Syria “crossing a red line”. Read More »
A Spiritual Pitstop at Pitfire Culver City
A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in Sderot. A Color Red alert sounded in Sderot and surrounding communities shortly before the rocket landed in an open field in Sderot on Sunday afternoon, according to reports. There were no injuries or damage reported. © Copyright 2010 The Jewish Journal and JewishJournal.com All rights reserved. Read More »
Which is the Road to Damascus?
The recent escalation in rhetoric on both sides of the Israeli-Syrian border has, once again, raised the profile of the relationship between the two countries. Defence Minister Ehud Barak told a gathering of senior IDF officers last week that, in the absence of a peace deal, Israel could find itself at war with Syria. Read More »
Israel Navy Tests the [Suez] Waters
According to Arab media reports, two Israel Navy missile boats passed through the Suez Canal on Thursday amid heavy Egyptian security to ensure their passage was uneventful. Egyptian and other unconfirmed reports state the naval vessels may be heading to the Persian Gulf. Read More »
Stewart on O’Reilly: ‘thinnest kid at fat camp’
A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in Sderot. A Color Red alert sounded in Sderot and surrounding communities shortly before the rocket landed in an open field in Sderot on Sunday afternoon, according to reports. There were no injuries or damage reported. © Copyright 2010 The Jewish Journal and JewishJournal.com All rights reserved. Read More »