Archive for May, 2011

Justices say no to second appeal of convicted media executive

May 31, 2011, 10:00 pm

Washington (CNN) — The Supreme Court took a pass Tuesday on revisiting the corporate fraud conviction of onetime media executive Conrad Black. The justices last summer had opened the door slightly in Black’s favor, dismissing his 2007 conviction and ordering a lower court to reconsider the matter. Read More »

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Way to The Hague: Mladic landed in Holland

May 31, 2011, 10:00 pm
Way to The Hague: Mladic landed in Holland

Requested number 1 in Europe came to the Netherlands for prosecution for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Read More »

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Nana10 »

Washington Attorney General McKenna Has Eyes On Governorship

May 31, 2011, 10:00 pm

WASHINGTON – Rob McKenna who is the Washington Attorney General, is expected to soon be making an announcement to run for governor in the political election of 2012 and he is greatly a favorite even with many self-proclaimed in the liberal counties throughout the state. Read More »

European Jewish Post »

Cabinet marks Jerusalem Day

May 31, 2011, 9:58 pm
Cabinet marks Jerusalem Day

The Cabinet convened at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem, marking 44  years since the unification of the city. Read More »

Consulate General of Israel - Los Angeles »

Bashar al-Assad has announced an amnesty to all detainees, including "Muslim Brotherhood"

May 31, 2011, 9:58 pm

As Syria's state television reported, fall under the amnesty, including, and "all those who belong to different political movements, including the outlawed organization" Muslim Brothers ". Read More »

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NEWSru.co.il »

Britain academic union votes for Israel boycott

May 31, 2011, 9:58 pm

(JTA) – For the third time since 2007, Britain’s largest academic union has voted to adopt an academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
The resolution was passed Sunday at UCU’s annual conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Read More »

JTA »

Predatory device under Badatz supervision • First publication

May 31, 2011, 9:58 pm
Predatory device under Badatz supervision • First publication

Predatory device under Badatz supervision • First publication after months of intensive discussions, today launched a kosher • Barry Blackie first phase will limited number of instruments, sold only with the approval of rabbis • The cost? Overpriced! Me Schlesinger, in the anxious 18: 43 5. Read More »

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BeHadrei Haredim - בחדרי חרדים »

Counting Down to ‘Ben-Gurion’s Solar Revolution’

May 31, 2011, 9:56 pm

The homepage of the Arava Power Company’s website shows a clock counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to “Ben-Gurion’s Solar Revolution.” On June 5, in celebration of World Environment Day, the company will inaugurate Israel’s first commercial solar field at Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava Valley. Read More »

The Shmooze »

Obama’s mistaken approach to peace

May 31, 2011, 9:56 pm

Obama is trapped in a worldview that has become obsolete. He believes that Israel and the Palestinians must and can reach a final-status agreement that will solve all the issues. President Barack Obama is unable to succeed. He tries and misses. He wants to bless the peace process and ends up cursing it. Read More »

Haaretz »

Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)

May 31, 2011, 9:56 pm
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)

In honor of Yom Yerushalayim, I present: 4000 Years of Jerusalem in 5 Minutes Read More »

Israellycool »

4,000 Years of Jerusalem in 5 Minutes

May 31, 2011, 9:56 pm

Very well done, showing the history of Jerusalem using artwork, archeology, and written history. Read More »

SerandEz »

Illinois at Risk of Biggest Gambling Expansion in More Than Two Decades

May 31, 2011, 9:56 pm
Illinois at Risk of Biggest Gambling Expansion in More Than Two Decades

[JCUA is a member of the Task Force to Oppose Casino Gambling in Chicago, a group that has existed for 20 years– opposing every attempt to bring gambling to the city. Read More »

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs »

Chassidei Ashkenaz named Adolph?

May 31, 2011, 9:54 pm
Chassidei Ashkenaz named Adolph?

This is a flyleaf from a book published in 1747: Ed Ve-aluf (Witness and Leader) An essay entitled Ed Ve-aluf, written by the godly sage Father Adolph A fellow of the German Pietist Yeshiva in Moravia. Read More »

On the Main Line »

Kol Hashoneh Halachot Bechol Yom Muvtach Lo Sheh’hoo Ben Ha’olam Haba

May 31, 2011, 9:54 pm

L’ylui Nishmat Avraham ben Ester & Israel ben Rivka Z”L. From Yalkut Yosef: Mo’adim: 1. One should put most effort on Yom Shavuot to be englufed into Limud Torah (learning), as it says in Masechet Psachim “Half for Hashem, Half for you. Read More »

theCLD »

How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There?

May 31, 2011, 9:54 pm
How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There?

by Efraim KarshIsrael AffairsApril 2011The number of Palestinian Arabs fleeing their homes during the 1948 war has constituted one of the most intractable bones of contentions of the Arab-Israeli conflict, not least since the Palestinians have Read More »

Speedy's Media »

Parashat Naso (Numbers 4: 21-7: 89) VI

May 31, 2011, 9:52 pm
Parashat Naso (Numbers 4: 21-7: 89) VI

lukeford.net In the real world, jealous husbands beat their wives up or kill them. The Torah does not want that. Hence, the test for a woman suspected of adultery. Read More »

Your Moral Leader »

Assessment: Derek Root Killer will soon be set free

May 31, 2011, 9:52 pm
Assessment: Derek Root Killer will soon be set free

After years in detention and punishment relatively easy it is expected to be derived, export Moshe Ben Abgy free. Extradition? Not on the agenda. Read More »

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Nana10 »

Math is the only place where I hear a person buying 60 watermelons.

May 31, 2011, 9:52 pm
Math is the only place where I hear a person buying 60 watermelons.

glitterywhoreee : “Juan wants to buy 30 pounds of candy-“ “ I had 10 chocolate bars. I ate 9 of them. Read More »

You 're still the silence that remains »

Jewish trips to Joseph’s Tomb raises ire of Palestinian residents

May 31, 2011, 9:52 pm

While Israeli and Palestinian forces co-ordinate night-time pilgrimages to Jewish holy site in Arab city of Nablus, locals see the visits as political provocation Read More »

Home - The Globe and Mail »

Muslims Stone 19 Year Old Ukrainian Girl to Death

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm

Should Ukraine Regulate the Practice of Islam? by Bill Levinson Beauty queen Katya Koren stoned to death by Muslims for being in pageant A would-be teen beauty queen was stoned to death after her participation in a Ukranian pageant reportedly infuriated local Muslim youths. Read More »

Israpundit »

Poll: US social media users favor Israel

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm
Poll: US social media users favor Israel

Survey of hundreds of thousands of blogs, Facebook, Twitter posts after Obama’s Mideast policy speech reveals growing support for Israel
Survey of hundreds of thousands of blogs, Facebook, Twitter posts after Obama’s Mideast policy speech reveals Read More »

ynetnews »

Egypt: Where Moderates and Judges Endorse Terrorism

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm

In September, the leaves will start falling off the trees in the West. And so will their policies toward the Middle East. That month, Egypt will elect a radical and largely Islamist parliament. That parliament will write a radical and largely Islamist constitution. The new government will follow a radical and at least partly Islamist policy. Read More »

RubinReports »

Plyotkenitzeh – A gossip

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm

Plyotkenitzeh – A gossip Read More »

Alter Cocker »

"We are for peace, but how to move forward?", Cried out in pain Ahger"a

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm
"We are for peace, but how to move forward?", Cried out in pain Ahger"a

"We are for peace, but how to move forward?", Cried out in pain Ahger"a Ambassador, Matthew Gould, came to visit at Ahger"a Joseph – took an interest in peace programs • "How to advance their studies Achsabthoachneit calls Read More »

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BeHadrei Haredim - בחדרי חרדים »

‫ Haifa is a race winner is … ‬

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm
‫ Haifa is a race winner is … ‬

Haifa and first race of the 14th … which Barihon Netanya! Women's first place … Svetlana Bachmann Tzur Hadassah! A record number of runners swept the ridge axis Caramel Haifa Sakony traditional race held the 14th year in the city. Read More »

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Haifa Haifa חיפה חיפה »

Are Land Swaps The Magic Bullet?

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm
Are Land Swaps The Magic Bullet?

Maaleh Adumim: Israel want to keep this city deep inside the West Bank President Obama seems to think that “the 1967 borders, with mutally agreed land swaps” are the formula that can bring an agreement between Israel and the PA. But it all really depends on how much land, and which land. Read More »

Syd's Blog »

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Headlines Israeli Technology Conference

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm

Spacing out was encouraged at this year’s Limmud FSU, an annual cultural and education festival for Russian speakers in Israel. That’s because the history-making guest speaker was Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space when he exited the Voshod 2 ship for 12 minutes in 1965. Read More »

The Shmooze »

Dickie Silverstein’s Nasty Comment of the Day

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm
Dickie Silverstein’s Nasty Comment of the Day

In 2007, anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein was mentioned in the New York Times , bemoaning the level of nastiness of comments left on his blog. Yet he is consistently nasty to those who leave any kind of comments on his blog which question or contradict his assertions. Read More »

Israellycool »

Nation’s Prisons Face Soaring Demand For…Kosher Food

May 31, 2011, 9:50 pm

“In many prisons, those receiving kosher food do so as a group, which allows for prisoners to meet three times a day. In fact, in Washington State we had a whole group of Neo-Nazis claiming to be Jewish due to… Read More »

FailedMessiah.com »

Thoughts and feelings of some older people

May 31, 2011, 9:48 pm

When it comes to old age, at this moment in human history, "The Aging Population" has become a major social phenomenon, it is important to focus on a singular phenomenon. No single form of aging, each old @ has its particular way of growing older. Read More »

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forojudio.com »

Menachot 83 – Conclusion of the laws of the desperate situations

May 31, 2011, 9:48 pm

Previously, we compared all the victims of the Passover, and said that just as the paschal sacrifice of the common money, not money tithes, and all required sacrificed from conventional money. Read More »

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Talmud Illuminated »

Forget About The Bachelorette & Watch The Bentley Show, It’s Fabulous!

May 31, 2011, 9:48 pm
Forget About The Bachelorette & Watch The Bentley Show, It’s Fabulous!

Bentley Douchebag
This week’s episode opens with a clear example of why Chris Harrison is not needed on this show.  His one minute appearances are silly and the guys could read what he says off a television. Read More »

Jewish Journal »

Parashat Naso (Numbers 4: 21-7: 89) V

May 31, 2011, 9:48 pm
Parashat Naso (Numbers 4: 21-7: 89) V

lukeford.net Honor killings still occur among Muslims to the tune of thousands a year. In some societies, they’d uncover the woman’s breasts in such an ordeal or make her undergo Read More »

Your Moral Leader »

Austrian councilman resigns over Nazi tattoo

May 31, 2011, 9:44 pm

A member of a southern Austrian village’s municipal council has stepped down following an uproar over his Nazi-inspired tattoo. Read More »

Jewish Journal »

Nazi plan to teach dogs to talk uncovered

May 31, 2011, 9:44 pm

BERLIN – The Nazis supported a bizarre project to teach dogs to talk, according to a new book. The Local’s Moises Mendoza spoke with the author Jan Bondeson about the German fascination with “educating” the beasts for the Third Reich. Read More »

European Jewish Post »

How To Create a Right Wing Backlash [Video With Subtitles]

May 31, 2011, 9:42 pm
How To Create a Right Wing Backlash [Video With Subtitles]

The Spanish town of Salt absorbed a massive influx of Moroccan immigrants, and along with them, an upsurge in crime and unrest. The response of the local city council was to have programs to integrate the newcomers. Read More »

Globe Tribune.Info »

Ten Israelis: Building a Cultural Future

May 31, 2011, 9:42 pm
Ten Israelis: Building a Cultural Future

Aviva Haimovitz Weinshl organization established to promote music in the periphery. Read More »

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Nana10 »

Assad issues general amnesty to political prisoners

May 31, 2011, 9:42 pm
Assad issues general amnesty to political prisoners

Decree issued amid mounting protests includes outlawed Muslim Brotherhood members, crimes committed prior to May 31, 2011
Decree issued amid mounting protests includes outlawed Muslim Brotherhood members, crimes committed prior to May 31, 2011
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ynetnews »

Torah in 10: Why was The Mittler Rebbe Embarrassed?

May 31, 2011, 9:42 pm
Torah in 10: Why was The Mittler Rebbe Embarrassed?

We are pleased to present our Fifty First online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller. Read More »

CrownHeights.info »

Summer 2011 Modest Swimsuit Website Overview

May 31, 2011, 9:40 pm
Summer 2011 Modest Swimsuit Website Overview

B”H I have reported on modest swimsuits in the past, but I think it is time for an update.  At the time, two companies were just getting their feet wet (pun intended) in the modest swimsuit market–SeaSecret and Hydrochic , but now there are a few more companies around. Read More »

Israel Jewish News »

End of a New York era at Elaine’s

May 31, 2011, 9:40 pm

Elaine’s: a New York landmarkElaine’s, the Manhattan restaurant that hosted everyone from Norman Mailer to Jack Nicholson has closed its doors for the final time.
Opened by Elaine Kaufman on Second Avenue in 1963, it quickly became a New York landmark and the place for celebrities to dine under the radar. Read More »

The Jewish Chronicle »

Jerusalem Day: Reflections by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel

May 31, 2011, 9:40 pm
Jerusalem Day: Reflections by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel

The Temple InstituteTempleinstitute.org In the June, 1967 Six Day War, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was a young soldier in the paratrooper brigade, led by Gen. Motta Gur, which liberated Jerusalem’s Old City. He was one of the first soldiers to reach the Temple Mount. Read More »

Love of the Land »

Arden Lfsltinym: "Leave the water needs out of the conflict"

May 31, 2011, 9:40 pm
Arden Lfsltinym: "Leave the water needs out of the conflict"

Arden Lfsltinym: "Leave the water needs out of the conflict" The Palestinians accuse Israel of causing the water shortage but refuse to discuss the matter with Israel Minister Gilad Arden • France complains: "They do not want to talk even on the water needs" Sherry Roth, in the anxious 18: 31 31 / 05/2011 Gilad Arden. Read More »

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BeHadrei Haredim - בחדרי חרדים »

Why do we Daven for (יראת שמים) fear from heaven twice?

May 31, 2011, 9:37 pm

In the Birchas HaChodesh that we say monthly the Shabbos prior to Rosh Chodesh we say as follows: Chaim Sheyesh Bohem Yiras Shomayim V’Yiras Chet and then in the same paragraph we later say Chaim Shetehei Bonu Ahavas Torah V’Yiras Shomayim . Yiras Shomayim is the only thing that is repeated twice. Read More »

Jewish Life and Learning - Stack Exchange »

Rabbi Sholom Gold on Yom Yerushalayim

May 31, 2011, 9:37 pm
Rabbi Sholom Gold on Yom Yerushalayim

It’s Yom Yerushalayim and Jewish Israel’s Rabbinic Director, Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold, delivered a stunning and inspirational talk on the subject last year.  It’s well-worth listening to in its entirety and we have provided the links below. Read More »

Jewish Israel »

Elephant Assists in Tornado Clean Up

May 31, 2011, 9:37 pm
Elephant Assists in Tornado Clean Up

From the author: “While volunteering in Joplin May 28-29, we saw this very unusual sight. An Elephant being used to drag vehicles closer to the street so they can be removed. They were from the Picadilly Circus who where scheduled to perform but had to be cancel due to the venue being used as a hospital for Joplin victims”. Read More »

Gruntig! »

Jerusalem Undivided

May 31, 2011, 9:37 pm
Jerusalem Undivided

The Torah, given to Jews by Gd on Mount Sinai, makes clear the inheritance of the Land of Israel to the people of Israel. Yerushalayim, Jerusalem is indivisible and certainly not negotiable. Read More »

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Coisas Judaicas »

As New York's Hasidic community, Christian missionaries are trying to proselytize

May 31, 2011, 9:37 pm
As New York's Hasidic community, Christian missionaries are trying to proselytize

B "H Not only Israeli Jews or Jewish communities in Germany have their problems with Christian missionaries. At a recent article on my English blog, I received many responses, and the blog reader called interesting comments that I want to pass on this one. Read More »

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hamantaschen »

Hinduism’s Message to the Jewish People

May 31, 2011, 9:34 pm
Hinduism’s Message to the Jewish People

Gutman Locks has a simple message for Jews interested in religions of the Far East. Read More »

Gutman Locks »

Obama betrays Israel – Charles Krauthammer

May 31, 2011, 9:34 pm
Obama betrays Israel – Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer In every Arab-Israeli negotiations there is a fundamental asymmetry: Israel cedes territory or where there is tangible, while the Arabs are dedicated to making promises that belong to the order of the ephemeral. Read More »

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Casa de Israel - בית ישראל »

Rashi, and permission to predict the ketz

May 31, 2011, 9:34 pm
Rashi, and permission to predict the ketz

Summary : I offer up a different way of interpreting that famous gemara in Sanhedrin, that there is in fact NO  prohibition of predicting the ketz . Post : In Sanhedrin 97b, we read: What is meant by ‘but at the end it shall speak and not lie?’ {Chabakuk 2} — R. Samuel b. Nahmani said in the name of R. Read More »

parshablog »

Germany: US chopper flights whip Bavarians into fury

May 31, 2011, 9:32 pm

ANSBACH – Residents around the US Army base at Katterbach in Bavaria are locked in an escalating feud with the American military over late-night helicopter flights and so-called “Rambo attitudes” of the soldiers, media reported on Tuesday. Read More »

European Jewish Post »

Enrique Aglasias landed in Israel

May 31, 2011, 9:32 pm

Enrique Aglasias landed by while Izrael. The singer is expected to spend two days to appear tomorrow in Nokia Arena. The attention of fans: He was staying at the Hilton. Read More »

Automatically translated from Hebrew »

Walla Celebs וואלה! סלבס »

Finance Court: immediate injunction to physicians

May 31, 2011, 9:32 pm
Finance Court: immediate injunction to physicians

Ministry of Finance addressed this evening (Wednesday) The Labour Court please take an immediate injunction, requiring the doctors to stop the Aicomim starting tomorrow. Read More »

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nrg - Maariv »

Jazz: Hiromi

May 31, 2011, 9:32 pm

Jazz pianist and composer in a live performance.   Read More »

Jerusalem Blueprint »

First exposure: note that stopped the discussion about the Ofer Brothers

May 31, 2011, 9:30 pm

Tweet This! Gmail via this Email this Share Shareaholic on Facebook Get fully Lonfecah Visit Read More »

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nonews.co.il »

Bill Introduced to Require English for NYC Shop Signs

May 31, 2011, 9:30 pm
Bill Introduced to Require English for NYC Shop Signs

AP Concerned with the proliferation of foreign shop signs, two New York City lawmakers are sponsoring a bill that would require that store names and addresses be in English. Read More »

CrownHeights.info »

Video – Who owns the territories?

May 31, 2011, 9:30 pm
Video – Who owns the territories?

A widely Video – Who owns the territories? Aschkel and David Goldstein Tip! Put in full screen French Translation: David Goldstein http: //haabir-haisraeli.over-blog.com/ Subtitles: Aschkel http: //www.aschkel. Read More »

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Israël Flash »

Day of Jerusalem Yeshiva Mercaz-a-Rabbi "(Live)

May 31, 2011, 9:30 pm

In the Yeshiva Mercaz-a-Rabbi "opens the central ceremony to celebrate Jerusalem Day, with the participation of heads of government, the chief rabbi of the State Rabbinate and other officials. Live Broadcast. Read More »

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7kanal.com »