Archive for September, 2011

The shofar blasts “the shofar on Rosh Hashanah,” the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam – …

September 30, 2011, 4:00 pm
The shofar blasts “the shofar on Rosh Hashanah,” the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam – …

The shofar blasts “the shofar on Rosh Hashanah,” the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam – Netherlands. Painted engraving by Bernard Picart, and published the book “Ceremonies and religious customs of all peoples of the world” (XVIII Century). Read More »

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Por Terras de Sefarad »

Not only do clothes at home – in three cabinets, so also in three different homes in three different countries.

September 30, 2011, 3:58 pm

Not only do clothes at home – in three cabinets, so also in three different homes in three different countries. Read More »

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Awlaki, Al Qaeda Terror Leader, Killed in Yemen

September 30, 2011, 3:56 pm

Anwar al-Awlaki, a top al Qaeda leader in the Arabian peninsula nation of Yemen, has been killed, several news reports said, quoting officials. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Ayuno de Gedalías /Fast of Gedaliah

September 30, 2011, 3:54 pm

Ayuno de Gedalías En el 3er de Tishri,  el día después del segundo día de Rosh Hashaná, es el Ayuno de Gedalías. Esto realmente no tiene nada que ver con los días del temor o expiacion, salvo que se produce en medio de ellos. No es una ordenanza biblica mas bien resulta de la tradicion. Read More »

Sephardi Tree's Blog »

Iran: “We tried everything, all the stones were returned”

September 30, 2011, 3:52 pm

September 28, 2011: By Dominique Bourra for NanoJV: Gerard Araud is a man well-informed law and respected. … Read more X “. Read More »

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Israel Nouvelles »

Dzeni (Jenny) Gabaj: Looking for my ancestors in Thessaloniki

September 30, 2011, 3:50 pm
Dzeni (Jenny) Gabaj: Looking for my ancestors in Thessaloniki

We do question and answer with certainty. We imagine a movie and we settle for a picture. We we put together a life story to follow, throw doubts. That happened to me for 71 years. For years I thought no way to get exact dates of birth of my parents, not exact details of their marriage. Surely many people would feel the same. Read More »

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When “you can dig, but you can not dig,” this step is optional discouraged. And you want to

September 30, 2011, 3:48 pm

When “you can dig, but you can not dig,” this step is optional discouraged. And the extra motivation needed to, for example, leave the house. Get up to over the computer to sketch something on your face, something to wear on the body … And then there’s the weather abruptly failed. I am against such voluntarism. Read More »

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tcikuta »

A Graphic Novel for Kids About A Graphic Novelist Who Fled the Nazis as a Child

September 30, 2011, 3:46 pm

Trina Robbins uses documentary photographs and trademark Lily Renée drawings to tell this survivor’s story, and Miriam Katin reviews it in comic form. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

4 pro-Israeli proposals to Congress

September 30, 2011, 3:44 pm

September 28, 2011: By Meir Ben-Israel Hayoun 7: The chairman of World Likud and MP Danny Danone … More ». Read More »

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Israel Nouvelles »

Film Classic Friday Link-Up 9.30.11

September 30, 2011, 3:42 pm
Film Classic Friday Link-Up 9.30.11

Yay, your here to link up to celebrate true theatrical talent!  You know what I mean…back in the day where there were hardly any special effects, the backdrops were hand painted instead of digital and the talent was really talent…they did their own singing and dancing! We did not have cable… Read More »

Mar'ah »

Roma – handsome.

September 30, 2011, 3:40 pm

Hmm … 11 years already live in Israel, and the Zenith is still with me. Our youth team (s) Read More »

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Our Israel »

Anwar al-Awlaki no more?

September 30, 2011, 3:38 pm

Seems that he was reassigned to airborne attack branch of Al Qaeda. Good. Read More »

Simply Jews »

Wall Street Protest Can’t Match Israeli Tent Cities, For Now

September 30, 2011, 3:34 pm

A veteran of Israel’s tent city demonstrations visits the ragtag rally on Wall Street. Could it spread like the Israeli social justice movement? Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Enjoying sex toys, the ‘kosher’ way

September 30, 2011, 3:32 pm

September 13th, 2011 By Elka Looks for Haaretz: Orthodox Man Creates KosherSexToys.net to allow couples looking to purchase … Read more. Read More »

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Israel Nouvelles »

Assad regime. Beginning of the End …

September 30, 2011, 3:30 pm
Assad regime. Beginning of the End …

After six months of demonstrations and rallies against the government in Syria acquired features of a normal armed uprising. Law enforcement officers have ceased to be a hunter of dissidents, becoming a coveted target for fighters recently created structure that calls itself the “Free the army of Syria. Read More »

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Our Israel »

Things They Can’t Say

September 30, 2011, 3:28 pm
Things They Can’t Say

When I tell people that I’m an introvert, shy, slow to warm, their responses are- Predictable, “ But you blog! ” Thoughtful, “ And vlog!” And quick,  “Really??” But it’s true. I do put myself out there, but carefully. Today, however, is different. Today I’m over-the-moon to guest at the fabulous Shell’s place, Things I Can’t Say . Read More »

These Little Waves by Galit Breen »

Interview: Nobel chief sees ‘important’ 2011 Peace Prize

September 30, 2011, 3:22 pm
Interview: Nobel chief sees ‘important’ 2011 Peace Prize

OSLO – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be as “interesting” as the ones awarded to Barack Obama and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee told Reuters on Thursday. Read More »

Jerusalem Post »

Family History Seen Through Tiny Tenement Rooms

September 30, 2011, 3:20 pm

The Lower East Side of Manhattan was once the most crowded neighborhood on earth. Its history is meticulously chronicled by Katharine Greider in her wonderful family memoir. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Holidays in full swing

September 30, 2011, 3:18 pm

Original taken from gabblgob in holiday in the midst of … began receiving complaints from Turkish Jews who report that the Muslim businessmen are charging them “tax on Gaza” and “compensation” for “Mavi Marmara. Read More »

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Our Israel »

China’s Expert on Kabballah and Jewish Literature

September 30, 2011, 3:14 pm

Ying Han is a nice Chinese girl from Xi’an, the Chinese capital, whose focus has become the translation and dissection of Jewish American literature. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

New ballistic missiles Club-K

September 30, 2011, 3:12 pm
New ballistic missiles Club-K

Russian defense complex produced ballistic missiles “for the poor.” Russian missile system Club-K not only allows you to launch missiles from any ship, truck and rail platforms, but also makes these launches low-key, as disguised as a standard shipping container. Read More »

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Our Israel »

Why is the U.N. silent on Iran’s nuclear program?

September 30, 2011, 3:10 pm
Why is the U.N. silent on Iran’s nuclear program?

Why is the U.N. silent on Iran’s nuclear program? – By Colum Lynch | Turtle Bay . For European and American leaders, U.N. General Assembly debates would not be the complete without delivering a full-throated attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Read More »

A Sclerotic goes to War »

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September 30, 2011, 3:08 pm

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front lines »

VIDEO: Mark Rylance on appeal of Jerusalem

September 30, 2011, 3:06 pm

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One of the biggest hits on the London stage for years, Jerusalem, is about to make a return after an award-winning stint on Broadway. The play was both critically acclaimed and much loved by audiences, as was Mark Rylance in the central role of Johnny Byron. Read More »

BBC NEWS »

Answering For Primo Levi

September 30, 2011, 3:04 pm

Mass deportation of European Jews to the killing metropolis of Auschwitz began in spring 1942. By January of 1945, more than a million Jews had been murdered there by gas, torture, starvation, medical experimentation and “natural” causes. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Spend Sukkot Learning How to Eat the Ancient Way at Bel Ofri in the Golan

September 30, 2011, 3:02 pm

During the Sukkot holiday, visitors will be able to learn how to make olive oil, sweet wine, bread and cheeses the old fashioned way. Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival, is a time when Jews attempt to get closer to nature. … This is a teaser. Click the read more, or title to read the entire post. Read More »

Green Prophet »

Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the…

September 30, 2011, 3:00 pm
Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the…

Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the Prime Minister’s U.N. Speech Edits Read More »

frgdr.com »

Yemen: Terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaki killed – CBS News

September 30, 2011, 2:58 pm
Yemen: Terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaki killed – CBS News

Yemen: Terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaki killed – CBS News .   This Oct. 2008 file photo provided by Muhammad ud-Deen, shows radical American-Yemeni Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. (CBS) (CBS News)  Updated at 6: 15 a.m. Eastern . Read More »

A Sclerotic goes to War »

Fast and Famine

September 30, 2011, 2:56 pm

Fasting can prompt us to remember that famine is ravaging the horn of Africa, where the United Nations predicts that up to 750,000 people could die in the coming months. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Report: Israel scrambles IAF warplanes toward Turkish ship

September 30, 2011, 2:54 pm
Report: Israel scrambles IAF warplanes toward Turkish ship

Turkish media reports claim Israeli F-15s approached Turkish research vessel near contested Cyprus drilling area. Read More »

Haaretz »

‘Israeli jets fly low over Turkish gas exploration ship’

September 30, 2011, 2:52 pm
‘Israeli jets fly low over Turkish gas exploration ship’

‘Israeli jets fly low over Turki… JPost – Arts & Culture – Arts . Photo by: REUTERS By JPOST.COM STAFF AND REUTERS 09/30/2011 12: 33 Turkish media reports Israeli F-15 jets and helicopter “harassed” Turkish ship exploring for gas in disputed area of Mediterranean off Cyprus coast. Read More »

A Sclerotic goes to War »

Abbas wants to persuade Portugal The Vote “Palestinian” – European Parliament supports “Palestinian”

September 30, 2011, 2:50 pm
Abbas wants to persuade Portugal The Vote “Palestinian” – European Parliament supports “Palestinian”

In the desperation to get nine Security Council votes in favor of the proposal for UN membership as a state of right, the Palestinians develop into efforts and contacts to persuade some “undecided” to lend their support to the Palestinian cause. The Palestinian is great concern, since both the U.S. Read More »

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Shalom Israel »

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September 30, 2011, 2:48 pm
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FY Sabra »

Has Obama Lost the Jews? Don’t Ask the Polls

September 30, 2011, 2:46 pm

Are Jews deserting President Obama? If so, it’s probably because they want him to jump-start the economy, not anything to do with Israel, J.J. Goldberg writes. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Born Qaeda Leader, Is Killed in Yemen

September 30, 2011, 2:44 pm
Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Born Qaeda Leader, Is Killed in Yemen

SITE Intelligence Group, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Anwar al-Awlaki is seen in 2010 in a still from video. Read More »

IsraelAmerica »

Actress Holly Madison has insured her breasts for $1 million… and her acting abilities for 5 …

September 30, 2011, 2:42 pm

Actress Holly Madison has insured her breasts for $1 million… and her acting abilities for 5 bucks. The Friendly’s restaurant chain may file for bankruptcy. It turns out serving only oversized burgers and ice cream sundaes kills profits faster than it kills people. A new poll says if he were a CEO, President Obama would be fired. Read More »

Jake's Comedy Corner »

Cool Technology of the Week

September 30, 2011, 2:40 pm
Cool Technology of the Week

Clinicians have been adopting iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches so fast that they have become the most popular mobile devices at Beth Israel Deaconess.   One problem – how do you use these devices in the wet and messy world of medicine?The answer – a waterproof “case” called a Frog Skin . Read More »

Life as a Healthcare CIO »

Book review: Beyond Oil Bust: Investigating Oil Economics, Society and Geopolitics/i | Energy …

September 30, 2011, 2:38 pm
Book review: Beyond Oil Bust: Investigating Oil Economics, Society and Geopolitics/i | Energy …

Book review: iBeyond Oil Bust: Investigating Oil Economics, Society and Geopolitics/i | Energy Bulletin. A brilliant look at oil economics written by University of Nicosia Lecturers Dr.  James Leigh and his colleague Predrag Vokovic. Please take a look Book review:  Beyond Oil Bust: Investigating Oil Economics, Society and Geopolitics by Dr. Read More »

Let My People Know »

More Moses Than Job

September 30, 2011, 2:34 pm

In the poem “Dream,” Boris Slutsky laconically summed up two defining facts of his generation: “Nineteen is the year of birth, age twenty-two in year forty-one.” Best known in Russia as a poet of the Second World War, Slutsky belonged to the first — and last — generation of writers whose lives were spent completely under Communist rule. Read More »

Jewish Daily Forward »

There and Back Again

September 30, 2011, 2:32 pm

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. –Martin Buber I bought few souvenirs during our trip to Europe, but my heart is full, and so is my scrapbook of memories. Read More »

Front Pages »

New blog

September 30, 2011, 2:30 pm
New blog

I opened a new blog in English. I opened my blog, because I wanted the summer market / manage images from Helsinki tuttuni Sarah’s Market site. Sarah is very busy, and now have time to maintain the site, produce market, a market square in Helsinki images there is no more than one, but they are, then that new English blogissani. Read More »

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Akedah poems

September 30, 2011, 2:28 pm

Last year, as the cantorial soloist at CBI, I gave the sermon on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. In years past, our visiting cantorial soloists had offered a “sermon in song;” I offered a sermon in poetry, a cycle of ten poems arising out of the story of the akedah / the binding of Isaac, which is the story we read on that day. Read More »

Velveteen Rabbi »

Yael Naim

September 30, 2011, 2:24 pm
Yael Naim

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FY Jewish women »

teamillz:Apples & Honey

September 30, 2011, 2:22 pm
teamillz:Apples & Honey

teamillz : Apples & Honey Read More »

&! Kol Eliana; »

Yael Naim

September 30, 2011, 2:20 pm
Yael Naim

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FY Jewish women »

Rosh HaShanah 5772

September 30, 2011, 2:18 pm
Rosh HaShanah 5772

Rosh Hashanah is an important day of the Jewish calendar. On this day, we welcome the New Year and wish a good and sweet year, happy and enriching. A New Year makes us more optimistic, because we feel that a door is opened, a door that welcomes new opportunities, new directions, new hope. Read More »

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Comunidade Israelita! »

Report: IAF jets circled over Turkish ship

September 30, 2011, 2:16 pm
Report: IAF jets circled over Turkish ship

Turkish paper claims two F-15 jets crossed Cyprus’ airspace, approached Turkish coastline. IDF Spokesperson’s Unit: Incident unfamiliar
Turkish paper claims two F-15 jets crossed Cyprus’ airspace, approached Turkish coastline. Read More »

ynetnews »

Egypt’s envoy to PA: Israel wants to retake Sinai

September 30, 2011, 2:14 pm
Egypt’s envoy to PA: Israel wants to retake Sinai

Yasser Othman claims Israel trying to tarnish reputation of new Cairo government, show it is unable to control border with Jewish State as pretext to recapture Sinai Peninsula
Yasser Othman claims Israel trying to tarnish reputation of new Cairo Read More »

ynetnews »

Should one light Shabbat candles if Friday is yom tov?

September 30, 2011, 2:12 pm

Today is the second day of Rosh Hashana, and it happens to be Friday. The holiday will end after Shabbat begins. Read More »

Jewish Life and Learning - Stack Exchange »

The phrase of the week “Ten soldiers win and led 100 soldiers without charge.” Euripides

September 30, 2011, 2:10 pm
The phrase of the week “Ten soldiers win and led 100 soldiers without charge.” Euripides

The phrase of the week “Ten soldiers win and led 100 soldiers without charge.” Euripides Read More »

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Por Terras de Sefarad »

Advantage of the Toys, in order to hide

September 30, 2011, 2:08 pm
Advantage of the Toys, in order to hide

September 28, 2011: Article from the newspaper Haaretz, adapted to English, relayed and published by Harissa: An Orthodox Jew … More ». Read More »

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Israel Nouvelles »

“Mom, Dad and all the others,” Reuven Politi – killed in action 19 years

September 30, 2011, 2:06 pm

Mom, Dad and all the other “And when the night is over and the sun shines You know mom what our eyes have seen? Trees around a large tree trunk burn large buildings around but destroyed and dull color I walk on the rubble Mom And believe me there or here [… Read More »

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Haabir Haisraeli »

Voice of Ukraine

September 30, 2011, 2:04 pm

Winners of the X-factor Read More »

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tcikuta »

Palestine / UN: Israeli right-wing MPs want sanctions against the PA

September 30, 2011, 2:02 pm

September 28, 2011: By Guysen International News: Presidents of Parliamentary Groups Likud, Shas, National Union of Jewish Home and … More ». Read More »

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Israel Nouvelles »

Moussaka, a Greek and Turkish favorite

September 30, 2011, 2:00 pm

Moussaka may be pure Greek but as with many dishes of the region, there is also a Turkish version. After all, Asia Minor was very much a part of Greece when Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, while the Ottomans once controlled much of Eastern Europe. The intertwined history and… [[ This is a content summary only. Read More »

Food Bridge »

Israeli Researchers Create World’s First Brain to Computer Interaction

September 30, 2011, 1:58 pm

A new scientific breakthrough at Tel Aviv University is changing the conversation about what it means to be a “natural human being.” With 7 billion people consuming the earth’s dwindling natural resources, a rising number that is… This is a teaser. Click the read more, or title to read the entire post. Read More »

Green Prophet »

Eilat Voices Confronting turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit to Egypt, the first stage of a …

September 30, 2011, 1:56 pm
Eilat Voices Confronting turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit to Egypt, the first stage of a …

Eilat Voices Confronting turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit to Egypt, the first step in a journey that will take him in Tunis and Tripoli, is certainly the main topic for daily newspapers today. Acute observation of Lucia Annunziata, La Stampa, wrote that Erdogan has been able to grasp the difficult time the U.S. Read More »

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Viaggiare in Israele e non solo... »

Erdogan continues his gunboat diplomacy, the new destination is Cyprus / Gas Discoveries Add Fuel To

September 30, 2011, 1:54 pm
Erdogan continues his gunboat diplomacy, the new destination is Cyprus / Gas Discoveries Add Fuel To

דניאל דגן – A new, more dangerous conflict in the offing. It is very worrying, because he already bitter confrontation between the Christian-dominated West and the Muslim East threatens to worsen. In addition, it comes to mineral resources worth billions. A huge reservoir of natural gas that lies in the depths of the Mediterranean. Read More »

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Daniel Dagan »

Obama and Dems won’t cut spending to the UN

September 30, 2011, 1:52 pm

Claudia Rosset discloses that the US pays $7 Billion/year to the UN and that, Yet the chief effort currently on the table to reform the UN — Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s “United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act of 2011? — is playing in Washington as an utterly partisan issue. Read More »

Israpundit »

Hasidic Jewish pilgrim drowns in Ukraine

September 30, 2011, 1:50 pm
Hasidic Jewish pilgrim drowns in Ukraine

Each autumn thousands of Hasidic pilgrims flock to Uman which is famous as the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a venerated 18th century rabbi and a key figure in the Hasidic branch of Orthodox Judaism, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Read More »

European Jewish Press »