Archive for December, 2011
hayehudihaortodoksi:shalom-salaam:thejewishhippiewithabeard: …
hayehudihaortodoksi : shalom-salaam : thejewishhippiewithabeard : Seriously, can we stop saying that Iran is trying to “destroy the Jewish people”? Jews in Iran are allocated a seat in the Parliament, there are 11 active synagogues in Tehran, 2 Read More »
Dead? No, an animal – a beast!
So said a lot about the protest, those inside and those outside. There were some who eulogized her, hung her such a woman or anyone else, I sat and grinned They do not understand something, it’s bigger than any man, not me, not her, not even he do with it, just have to let it move … Read More »
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Origin Of Love
The Creator created desire with the help of the Light . Light impacts the desire and delivers His qualities to it in a way that everything that is good in the Light becomes negative in desire. Good portrays itself as lack, need, demand, and emptiness; whereas inside the Light, the same things manifest themselves as a desire to bestow . Read More »
Musings From Mama
The College Admissions Game Read More »
Stop Zoomorphing the “Settlers”
The demonization of the “settlers” and the manner in which part of the Israeli society is gloating over their displacement will remain an indelible blot on Jewish history. They want to transform these idealistic citizens’ Maginot defense line into their Massada. Read More »
Is Free Agency For You?
It’s a major trend, and one way or another, it may affect your career. The work world is changing. If you’re working, you probably already know that. However, an ongoing study by Kelly Services has brought to light the speed and significance of that change. Read More »
State of the half – half
All stories exclusion of women and other feats of ultra-Orthodox extremists In the Land of Israel are seen in two ways: part of the public can see these phenomena nothing inherently wrong and puts the blame on the entire haredi public. Read More »
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Saba in Israel: Grandfather with Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Aweirbc – story
Saba in Israel: Grandfather with Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Aweirbc – Story: Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach’s introduction late in the period of Rabbi Israel Ber (Grandpa) with Rabbi Aryeh Levin (the teacher of prisoners) and grandfather had moved “the gates of mercy” for battle … N. Read More »
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WOW! this is one of the most interesting blogs I have seen in a long time!
Thank you! : ) Read More »
UIWU Founded 67 Years Ago Today
Sixty-seven years ago this very weekend at the “turning” of the Gregorian year 1943-44 the founding meeting of United Israel World Union took place in Waterville, NY. This tin y meeting of less than a dozen people was hosted in the home of Clayton and Ermine Burlingame at 405 Tower Street, Dec. 30, 31/January 1st (Thurs, Friday, Sabbath). Read More »
Video – Soulfarm Sephardic Music Festival in 2011
This is the record of the presentation of Soulfarm on December 22, 2011 as part of the Sephardic Music Festival 2011 in New York Highline Ballroom. Read More »
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In the Gaza Strip do not celebrate new year with champagne and Olivier
Ministry of Health, the Hamas government in Gaza reported an acute shortage of essential drugs in the hospital of Gaza, resulting in more than 30% of patients can not be given the necessary assistance. Read More »
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bb-goose:thejewishhippiewithabeard:I know this is a massive rant and I’m honestly not trying
bb-goose : thejewishhippiewithabeard : I know this is a massive rant and I’m honestly not trying to be rude or anything, I just feel really strongly about this: Banned from running for the knesset is what I meant, just to clarify. Read More »
Dozens of haredim came to pray there on Chanukah
Orthodox Temple Mount | Hanukkah Tsha”b and cleared the Mkdsich: Dozens of haredim came to pray there on Tuesday – Candles of Chanukah | severe police violence arrested for praying in front of the Temple Mount officer Avi Bitton | and released only Read More »
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2012 -
Welcome to what could turn out to be the most interesting year of our lives…. Read More »
Tuesdays with Morrie
In Hebrew. Read More »
Arrest made in Chile wildfire
(CNN) — Chilean authorities on Saturday arrested a 23-year-old man accused of sparking a wildfire that has consumed more than 27,000 acres of a national park, officials said. Read More »
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A Dream Fulfilled
A lifetime of support for Jewish organizations and a love for Israel culminates in an FIDF-San Diego Gala honoring Julian and Jenny Josephson Read More »
Glittering fireworks explode over Sydney’s Harbour Bridge
More than 1.5 million people watch pyrotechnic display. Seven tonnes of fireworks were fired from city buildings. Read More »
Chile detains Israeli on suspicion of causing massive wildfire
Hundreds of firefighters are fighting the blaze in far-southern Chile; Authorities evacuated 400 tourists, most of them foreigners. Chilean officials say they have detained an Israeli tourist suspected of causing a forest fire that has burned more than 42 square miles (11,000 hectares) in the Torres de Paine national park. Read More »
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(The Other) Coach Maddin
Helping professionals reach PEAK performance from within. It’s said we often act as our own worst enemies. If that’s the case, then 35-year-old Marty Maddin has found himself a good line of work. Maddin, who lives in Huntington Woods with his wife and 2-year-old son, is a leadership and business coach. Read More »
Friedman’s friends
The Algemeiner reports that Tom Friedman had breakfast last Friday at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York with Nawaf Salam, Hezbullah’s representative to the United Nations. Read More »
US considers handing over high-risk terror inmate in “peace negotiations”
It just shows how even the US under the Obama administration is willing to take some very dangerous steps that would not be guaranteed any true cooperation from the Taliban. Read More »
Israel and its critics
In a four part series in the Huffington Post, novelist and essayist Douglas Anthony Cooper examines the accusations of genocide that have been made against Israel by its critics. Part 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Read More »
“If the Russians celebrate Christmas, how can they be Jewish? […][T]he following morning, [I]…”
“If the Russians celebrate Christmas, how can they be Jewish? It turns out that while Christmas proper (“Rashdistvo” in Russian) was not sanctioned by Soviet authority, New Years (“Novy God”) was. Read More »
Late Bloomers
Adam and Marie are a loving couple that has overcome all the ups and downs of 30 years of marriage. … Read More »
Jewish community represented in Honours list
Queen Elizabeth has named Jewish philanthropists, scientists and artists in her annual New Years’ Honours List. In the charitable sector, founding chair of the Community Security Trust Gerald Ronson was named a Commander of the British Empire for his work in fighting anti-Semitism. Read More »
Math, Singapore Style
The national math curriculum of Singapore makes its way to San Diego via Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School Read More »
Bloody Good
The storied history of the Bloody Mary harkens back to 1934, when Fernand Petiot, a bartender at King Cole Bar at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, mixed up equal parts of tomato juice and vodka. Sophisticated New Yorkers weren’t too impressed, calling it a “bit bland,” so Petiot spiced it up. Read More »
Three 2011 Milestones
Not in chronological order; On June 1st 2011 “Images of My Thoughts ” was officially registered as a business in Israel. I closed a 23-year chapter in life to open a new one, focused on one of my strongest passions – photojournalism … which leads to milestone number two. Read More »
“Lazarov well remembers the first year when he wanted to celebrate the civil New Year in Israel, …
“Lazarov well remembers the first year when he wanted to celebrate the civil New Year in Israel, and asked where he could buy a fir tree. The reactions were hostile. They told him that it wasn’t nice, they reprimanded him, saying that it was a Christian custom, they told him it was forbidden. Read More »
500 Kurdish protesters rally against Turkish strike
Following a deadly Turkish air-raid that killed 35 Kurdish civilians in northern Iraq, some 500 Kurdish protesters have taken to the streets in the Iraqi city of Arbil, carrying flags, banners, photos of people killed in attack. Chanting anti-Turkish slogans they condemned the attack as an injustice against Kurdistan people. Read More »
Israeli Wedding Culture
Where Less is Simply Grand Read More »
Israel’s Population Rises to 7.8 Million
Israel’s population stands at 7.836 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS) indicated on Thursday as part of its year-end survey. Read More »
Cast Lead had the lowest ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in any asymmetric conflict in the …
Very Important information from New Statesman From an article by Jonathan Sacerdoti Cast Lead- the Israeli incursion into Gaza following thousands of rocket attacks directed towards Israel’s civilian population had the lowest ratio of civilian to Read More »
How to Talk to Teenagers
“Can you talk some sense into my kid?” I get this request pretty often. And my answer is: no. I can’t talk sense into people. If I could, I’d charge a lot more for what I do. I’m not in the business of convincing. I’m in the business of listening. I like to watch teenagers talk sense into themselves. It’s where the magic of therapy really happens. Read More »
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Museums: the interface between urban shopping centers share – an invitation to a lecture
This Tuesday (03/01/12), at 19: 00, Carmela’s lecture will be held Jacobi Walk in Jerusalem Artists’ House (Governor Samuel 12). Read More »
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One of the many highlights of my recent trip to Europe was my…
One of the many highlights of my recent trip to Europe was my visit to Dress Circle , the premiere retailer of theatre music in the world. I’ve wanted to visit this store for years, and it did not disappoint. I bought fifteen albums, mostly things that are either hard to find or prohibitively expensive in the US. Read More »
New Year’s Eve ushered in in New Zealand
Thousands cheer as country’s tallest building lit up. Auckland first major city to usher in the new year. Read More »
Flying High and Taking a Fall
The incredible, inspiring story of skydiver Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld Read More »
The Detroit Auto Show with Jewish Commentary
Born as a car show cum fishing and hunting show in Detroit’s Beller’s Beer Garden in 1907, the North American International Auto Show — NAIAS — has proliferated into a mammoth 750,000 square feet of display space in Cobo Center, including 25,000 Read More »
Most ridiculous lawsuits of 2011
Another year is ending, and with the transition comes the inexhaustible procession of lists. For your delectation, I offer a list of the ten most ridiculous lawsuits of 2011.The list was compiled by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), which conducted a survey at the website Faces of Lawsuit Abuse. Read More »
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Divergent Paths
The Torah describes various siblings and their relationships, and I am reminded about my own complicated relationship with my brother, my only sibling. Esav and Jacob, who had vastly different personalities, competed to receive their father’s blessing. Joseph’s brothers, out of jealousy, sold him into slavery. Read More »
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825 dollar fuck.
In this case, of course, it is necessary to write separately, rather than slitno.Vdohnovlennye Israeli practices, 20 million African men will be circumcised for HIV prevention ….. UN organizations UNAIDS and the administration of U.S. Read More »
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Neither By Day Nor By Night
Written by Avraham Raz, directed by Roy Horovitz, music by Daniel Salomon Cast: Lia Koenig, Erez … Read More »
Cambodian New Year fun begins on the beach
Festival held at one of the most beautiful bays in the world. 50,000 people expected to take part in the Sea Festival. Read More »
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learned never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Read More »
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Awesome front flip touchdown
Sunday is the last day of the NFL regular season (my guys have made the playoffs already and can wrap up home field until the Super Bowl with a win). Here’s an awesome touchdown from last Saturday’s Bengals – Cardinals game that has had more than four million hits already.Let’s go to the videotape.Wow. Read More »
Pops
After a day outdoors, in the beloved Barnim I am now back. Outside bangs it. I’ve drawn anything and wish I could just stay out there can. Away from the unnecessary noise, which is oddly caused primarily by people who have no money but apparently so. No, I have no sympathy for it, no matter whom. Read More »
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Worth A Read 31.01.2011 – And Quote of the Day
The Haredi worldview enters the mainstream Dati-Leumi theology – a must read (though not a must to agree with). Israel 2011: Better Than Ever – Yaacov Lozowick. The Haredi Reaction – Slifkin on the Haredi reaction to the ongoing Beit Shemesh saga. Read More »
Beneath the Layers of Filth
Being easily identifiable as a Jew in one of Michigan’s prisons, isn’t always the smartest thing to do since it makes the person a perfect target for every bigot with an attitude. I know. Read More »
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In Belgium “erase” Israel off the map and to criticism, the Mosque: “Hold on there, it’s not for
The possibly most important Francophone newspaper in Belgium, Le Soir, and usually very anti-Israel, did disappear for a few days in Israel on a map illustrating a section devoted to opinion pieces on the “Arab Spring”. Read More »
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Sex workers in Fiji: “I will never sell myself again”
A UNAIDS funded report, compiled by the University of New South Wales International HIV Research Group has found that the Fijian military are committing human rights violations against sex workers following the introduction of the country’s new laws contained in the Crimes Decree. Read More »
Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) with Professor Christine Hayes
Here’s both a terrific course to take online as well as an example of what Jewish institutions can and ought to offer, though they rarely do.This Yale College course examines the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) as an expression of the religious life and thought of ancient Israel, and a foundational document of Western civilization. Read More »
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