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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“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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
- This is talkback # 14 on “Soldier killed in West Bank knife attack” Read More »
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 »
This is a great d’var Torah…Baltimore Blizzard 2010 – A Torah Perspective on the Snowman Read More »
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 »
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 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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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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By Tamar Runyan for Chabad.org Hundreds of Scotlands Jews filled a hall in the Glasgow suburb of Giffnock for an exhibition extolling the variety of kosher foodstuffs in todays marketplace. Read More »
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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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
lubavitch.com ISRAEL — Some call it fate, but the Greenbergs prefer mission. The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenbergthere are seventeen in allwere 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 »
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 »
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 »
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