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 »
Son of Nazareth deputy mayor suspected of killing his wife
The son of Nazareth’s deputy mayor was arrested early on Sunday on suspicion of shooting his wife dead, hours after his father took part in a protest march against honor killings and domestic violence within the Arab Israeli community. Read More »
Israel minister denies saying sorry to Saudi diplomat
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on Sunday denied apologising to a senior Saudi diplomat before a rare public handshake between officials of the two states. Read More »
Friday Food Day Part 3
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 »
What Will it Take for You to Fulfill Your Soul’s Purpose?
What will it take for you to fulfill your soul’s purpose? Does God’s hand have to come down and push you towards the work you are meant to do? Does God have to hit you over the head with an opportunity? Does the One to whom you soul always is Read More »
Head of Iran's nuclear agency: we'll start producing nuclear fuel on
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second from right, head of the nuclear agency, Ali Akbar excuse, left, a day in Tehran: Iran Reuters on Tuesday will begin producing nuclear fuel enrichment of uranium to 20% – said today (Sunday) Prime Atomic Energy Agency Iran, Ali Akbar excuse. Read More »
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Super Bowl Sunday
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 »
Louisiana’s Legal System and Heritage
A little bit of trivia has been bothering me. I finally got around to looking it up. I was looking at legal software that stated that it was good for use in 49 out of 50 states. The one exception was Louisiana. The reason is that Louisiana uses the Napoleonic Code. Read More »
Why Israel should not form a commission of inquiry to examine the Goldstone allegations
Here’s yet another article arguing that Israel should not form a commission of inquiry to examine the Goldstone Report, this one by former Chairman of the National Security Council Giora Eiland. Eiland gives four good reasons why Israel shouldn’t set up the commission, but he leaves out the most important reason of all. Read More »
ADL gives Obama an ‘F’ for failing to deliver in ME
Two-and-a-half weeks after US President Barack Obama completed his first year in office, observers both in Israel and the US on Sunday gave his Middle East policy largely failing grades for efficacy. Read More »
Faithless football
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 »
Just A Reminder: Having Turned Gaza Into A Weapons Factory, Hamas Gearing Up For War [Video]
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OmriMere Rhetoric 05 February ‘10There’s an Al Jazeera expose at the bottom of the post, outlining the massive indigenous weapons industry that Hamas is running in the middle of the “world’s largest concentration camp” (because that’s exactly how Read More »
Dosing Up
I just found a list I’d written about 2 or 3 years ago. It’s a list of medications that my father had to take on a daily basis — I’d told my mother to recite all the meds and that we’d put it on a spread sheet, in a smaller form that she could tote with her. Read More »
Tasha Dishka Israel 60 Cool Birthright Video
Two amazing young Jewish girls visit Israel for the Birthright return program and make a cool music video – Tasha and Dishka celebrate Israel’s 60th Birthday by traveling across the country and singing a great song by Israel’s the Carsitters. Why don’t you join them in Israel for free! Check out http: //www.birthrightisrael.com. Read More »
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Would Haredim Make Good Terrorists? Some Thoughts on Radical Religious and Violent (Part II)
(Part I) It occurred to me that this argument, that successful terrorist organizations require agents with high defection constants and this is best accomplished by recruiting candidates with long histories of service to the group’s social welfare Read More »
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Water co Mekorot employees declare labor dispute
The employees are demanding job security. Read More »
German President visits Mumbai synagogue during official trip
MUMBAI (EJP)—German President Horst Koehler and his wife Eva visited the Keneseth th Eliyahoo Synagogue in Mumbai on Friday. Koehler is on a seven-day visit to India. Read More »
More on learning with Rav Samet and the Yeshivah Gedolah of Lod
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 »
The Resourceful Father
Welcome to another edition of Jack, the Resourceful Father. Actually this is the first edition of The Resourceful Father. I really like the name so be aware that if you take it without my explicit permission I will hunt you down and do something. Read More »
Multiple casualties in Connecticut power plant explosion
An explosion at a power plant in Connecticut has killed multiple people and an unknown number of people are injured. Al Santostefano, the deputy fire marshal in Middletown, told The Associated Press the explosion occurred at 11: 17 a.m. (1617 GMT) Sunday at the Kleen Energy power plant there and portions of the building blew away. Read More »
Arava Power signs solar deals worth NIS 2b
Arava Power has signed agreements with 15 kibbutzim in the Negev’s Arava Valley to build mid-sized photovoltaic arrays. Read More »
The Simplicity of Old Age
My grandfather came to my house for supper. He’s kind of hard of hearing, so conversation is louder than usual, and I had a headache. I turn the conversation back to a topic that interests me: the iPad. We sat deliberating the various pros and cons of this new gadget, and grandpa was all lost. Read More »
Kiryat Shmona to pilot telecom service over IEC fiber
The pilot will include 150 households, which will receive Internet access over IEC’s fiber optic lines. Read More »
Iran: uranium enrichment activities will begin the day after tomorrow
The Iranians did not count the international community: After this morning declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that his country would enrich uranium to a level of 20 percent and aroused the anger of the Western states, announced this evening (A) Read More »
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Report: Iran to start producing 20% atom fuel Tuesday
Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Agency says his country will inform UN nuclear watchdog of its plan to will start producing 20% enriched nuclear fuel Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Agency says his country will inform UN nuclear watchdog of its plan to Read More »
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Rumination on Higher Education
A truism of modern contemporary politics is that some strands of the polity think there’s a connection between their comparatively elevated degree of education and the inherent correctness of their political positions. (The NIF dust-up we’re having these days reeks of this). Read More »
A moral evaluation of the Gaza War
We in Israel are in a key position in the development of the customary international law of war because we are on the front lines in the fight against terrorism. Read More »
Communications Ministry battles for digital TV
The ministry wants to take DTT away from the Second Television and Radio Broadcasting Authority. Read More »
Khameini tells PA militants Israel’s obliteration is imminent
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Sunday that Western support of Israel was ineffective, telling a top Palestinian militant leader that its obliteration was imminent according to the will of God. Read More »
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The Only American – and Jew – On the International Court of Justice at The Hague
Michael Handelzalts reports: Last week the world commemorated the Holocaust, on a date set by the United Nations – January 27, the day on which, 65 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp and found some 7,000 emaciated survivors there. About 10 days before that, the Nazis started to evacuate the camp, ordering [… Read More »
Judge in Dwek Corruption Case Says Limits Have to be Put on the Power of Government
U.S. District Judge Jose Linares in his chambers in federal court in Newark. Newark, NJ – The image strikes Jose Linares at odd times. In his top floor office in the King building in Newark. Or on the bench in his courtroom, presiding over a complicated trial. Read More »
