Archive for February 10th, 2010

Bernanke speech sends Wall Street declines

February 10, 2010, 11:58 pm

Leading indices traded on overseas stock exchanges this evening a negative trend: Dow Jones down 0.5% level of 10,008.00 points, the Nasdaq shed 0.62% to 2137.56 points and measured the s & P 500 lost 0.46% of its value to the level of 1065.56 points. Investors are waiting For details about the rescue of the financial crisis Greece. Read More »

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Open Your Source of Blessing through Humility: From the Desk of Ziva Kramer- Matchmaker and …

February 10, 2010, 11:58 pm
Open Your Source of Blessing through Humility: From the Desk of Ziva Kramer- Matchmaker and …

“Do Not Be Scornful of Any Person And Do Not Be Disdainful of Anything, For You Have No Person Without His Hour And No Thing Without Its Place.” Avot 4: 3   Dan was working as an intern at a prestigious Manhattan hospital and often spent Shabbos with my family. Read More »

The Jewish Press »

Who Was The Greatest?

February 10, 2010, 11:56 pm
Who Was The Greatest?

And the Winner is… Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz. That’s who I believe had the greatest impact on Orthodox Jewry in the 20th century. Back to that later.The poll closed yesterday and the results indicated otherwise. Read More »

Emes Ve-Emunah »

The Ageless Jewish Wonder Scott Schoeneweis

February 10, 2010, 11:56 pm

Why do we love Scott Schoeneweis? Because he eats up innings in MVP 2005. Also, because he never stops playing. Mr. Schoeneweis inked a minor league deal with the Brew Crew on Tuesday. If he makes the roster, the reliever and occasional starter will earn up to $800,000. For more info click HERE. TGR wishes Schoeneweis the best of luck. Read More »

The Great Rabbino »

Words, words, words

February 10, 2010, 11:54 pm
Words, words, words

Moshe ArensHaaretz09 February ‘10(It strikes me as a good summation of what’s been said in recent weeks and conclusions to be drawn. Y.) One might be inclined to brush off the recent verbal exchanges between Ehud Barak, Walid Moallem and Avigdor Lieberman as no more than Hamlet’s “words, words, words” that have little meaningful content. Read More »

Love of the Land »

West, East, West

February 10, 2010, 11:54 pm

I found here , this observation: The Palestinian submission to US pressure that Israel’s large West Bank settlement blocs be annexed to Israel against a fictitious land swap is another vindication of the Israeli belief that facts created are facts accepted. Read More »

My Right Word »

What’s the worst Jewish last name?

February 10, 2010, 11:52 pm
What’s the worst Jewish last name?

I was reading an article about the shidduch situation in Washington Heights the other day and one of the girls mentioned has the last name of “Nutkis” which in my mind beats out Shmukler and Lipshitz – the two worst Jewish last names I can think of. Read More »

Frum Satire »

B”H – Kol Hakavod Yossi Margalit. G-d bless you

February 10, 2010, 11:52 pm

- This is talkback # 14 on “Soldier killed in West Bank knife attack” Read More »

The Torah Revolution »

Why I made aliyah

February 10, 2010, 11:50 pm

Are you crazy? Why would you ever move here? What’s better Israel or the USA? These are the usual questions I encounter on a daily basis. Read More »

OyChicago! »

Link to Baltimore Blizzard 2010 – A Torah Perspective on the Snowman

February 10, 2010, 11:50 pm

This is a great d’var Torah…Baltimore Blizzard 2010 – A Torah Perspective on the Snowman Read More »

Modern Uberdox »

Blizzard Descending – Forecasts for 18 Inches of Snow

February 10, 2010, 11:50 pm
Blizzard Descending – Forecasts for 18 Inches of Snow

WEDNESDAY — If you think this is bad, just wait a few hours. We could get as much as 18 inches of snow by nightfall, forecasters have warned. The snow is forecasted to fall at a rate of about two inches per hour and wind gusting up to 40 mph. Read More »

CrownHeights.info »

Dear Dr. Yael

February 10, 2010, 11:48 pm
Dear Dr. Yael

Dear Dr. Yael: I would love your advice regarding an issue that came up recently.   My friend has been married for six years and her husband feels that he no longer has an interest in staying in kollel . He thinks it is time to move on, get a degree, and get a job. Read More »

The Jewish Press »

Attorney General announces official: No light Tchn chairman …

February 10, 2010, 11:48 pm

"The law clearly state that the CEO can not switch to serve as a director proposed by the committees until after a two-year cooling-off period." Makes it clear that today (Wednesday) the attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein. Read More »

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Why Head-Coverings Are Problematic (and Not in France)

February 10, 2010, 11:46 pm

First, I posted this .The there was a burkha robbery (here, too ). Ambassador calls for divorce after veil-wearing Muslim bride reveals a beard and crossed eyesThe would-be bride had hidden her face behind a Muslim niqab throughout their short courtship, meaning the diplomat had no idea what she looked like. Full Story and here, too . Read More »

My Right Word »

The 188th Crybaby Brigade Book Launch

February 10, 2010, 11:44 pm
The 188th Crybaby Brigade Book Launch

If you like funny things or Israel or books or Joel Chasnoff go to the launch party for Joel’s new book , The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah . So sayeth Joel: I will read to you. I will entertain you with a slideshow and movies if I can get my act together. Read More »

Jewschool »

Israeli tax calculator – updated!

February 10, 2010, 11:44 pm

A while ago, I released an Israeli tax calculator.  The 2010 version of that spreadsheet is now here .  (If the link does not work, go to http: //www.mediafire.com/?glmjco5cyz2 ) This spreadsheet allows you to check your paycheck and make sure you got the money you worked so hard to earn. Read More »

Shomer Shekalim »

First One Day Conference For Women On Using Social Media In Business To Be Held In …

February 10, 2010, 11:40 pm
First One Day Conference For Women On Using Social Media In Business To Be Held In …

Israel – Kishor, a Jerusalem based women’s professional networking group, will be holding the first one day conference for religious women on February 17th in Jerusalem. Read More »

VosIzNeias »

Palestine, More Of A Threat To Israel Than The Uprising

February 10, 2010, 11:40 pm
Palestine, More Of A Threat To Israel Than The Uprising

February 1989   The following article appears exactly as it was written by Professor Beres 21 years ago. It is especially important to reconsider at this moment, when U.S. President Barack Obama, still-embracing the so-called Road Map, pushes Israel to accept a Palestinian state via the five-part Mitchell Plan. Read More »

The Jewish Press »

U.S.: Iran gambling with lives of cancer patients

February 10, 2010, 11:38 pm

A senior U.S. envoy accused Iranian leaders of hypocrisy Wednesday for opting to pursue ever more dangerous nuclear technology instead of accepting an international plan to make sure that medical isotopes get to needy Iranian cancer patients. The sharp criticism from Glyn Davies, the chief U.S. Read More »

Haaretz »

Scottish Jews Celebrate Variety of Country’s Kosher Food

February 10, 2010, 11:36 pm
Scottish Jews Celebrate Variety of Country’s Kosher Food

By Tamar Runyan for Chabad.org Hundreds of Scotland’s Jews filled a hall in the Glasgow suburb of Giffnock for an exhibition extolling the variety of kosher foodstuffs in today’s marketplace. Read More »

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Kobashi domains

February 10, 2010, 11:36 pm
Kobashi domains

Suddenly a man stood up in the morning, went online to find someone had stolen his name, or more correctly, bought the domain name (domain) under the name – and made him cook. Typically, such cases happen to people, senior politicians first degree, large companies or political parties did not bother to maintain their Web presence. Read More »

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Former Jordanian diplomat argues for Arab claim to Haifa

February 10, 2010, 11:34 pm

The government-aligned Jordan Times has an op-ed by Hasan Abu Nimah, who is Jordan’s former UN ambassador and as such cannot be considered a mere flake. Read More »

Elder of Ziyon »

No dialogue today, thank you

February 10, 2010, 11:34 pm

Pope Benedict’s forthcoming visit to the UK is bound to stimulate discussion about Christian-Jewish relations in the UK. The fact of the matter, here as almost everywhere else in the world. is that contacts on the Jewish side with Christian partners in dialogue are almost entirely handled by Reform and Liberal rabbis and lay leaders. Read More »

The Jewish Chronicle »

Who Was The Greatest?

February 10, 2010, 11:32 pm
Who Was The Greatest?

And the winner is… Reb Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz. That’s who I believe had the greatest impact on Orthodox Jewry in the 20th century. Back to that later.The poll I had on my other blog EvE II closed yesterday and the results indicated otherwise. Read More »

Emes Ve-Emunah »

Where’s the fault. line.

February 10, 2010, 11:32 pm

It is not for me to say what Hashem thinks or why He does what He does. I will say only that there is record snow in Washington DC, and there was an earthquake in Chicagoland this morning. It’s not the first time Illinois, which sits on the largest fault line in the country, has experienced a quake. In April 2008, a 5. Read More »

Boker tov Boulder! »

So Liberal and Humanist Those Lefties

February 10, 2010, 11:30 pm

Last Yom Yerushalayim, my wife and I visited Bet HaChoshen on the way back from the Moskowitz Prize Ceremony. The ride we hitched was with Haggai and Debbie Segel and their son and family live in the building. Her post . Read More »

My Right Word »

The Update

February 10, 2010, 11:30 pm

As many of you have noticed I haven’t posted anything in almost 6 weeks. Even before that my posting has been off and on for at least 6 months. There are many reasons for this. I have written this post and held it in draft at least 10 times. I’ve felt this for a while [… Read More »

Life Of Rubin »

The Greenbergs 17: A Leader in Every Time Zone

February 10, 2010, 11:30 pm
The Greenbergs 17: A Leader in Every Time Zone

lubavitch.com ISRAEL — Some call it “fate,” but the Greenbergs prefer “mission.” The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenberg—there are seventeen in all—were raised in Bnei Brak, Israel. But today the family is dispersed around the globe in places as remote as Alaska, Ukraine, and Shanghai. Read More »

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CBS: Ma, pa & kids still the prevalent family structure

February 10, 2010, 11:28 pm
CBS: Ma, pa & kids still the prevalent family structure

The standard family structure of two parents and their children is still the norm in Israel, a study published on Wednesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics four days ahead of National Family Day has revealed. There are 1.73 million families in Israel and the average one contains 3.7 people. Read More »

Jerusalem Post »

IN PICTURES / New aerial photos of September 11 attack released

February 10, 2010, 11:28 pm

Newly released aerial photos of the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack show the towers coming down from a dramatic new angle. The photos were obtained by ABC News, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Institute of Standards and Technology last year. Read More »

Haaretz »