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Yerushalayim Levaya on Thursday from Tzipori Bones

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:14:23 +0000

Asra Kadisha and the Eida Chareidis will be holding a levaya in Yerushalayim on Thursday (25 Nissan) for the bones exhumed by archeologists in Tzipori. Read More »

British journalist held in Gaza released

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:14:21 +0000

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A British journalist held in Gaza for nearly a month was released. Paul Martin, a freelance journalist and filmmaker, was turned over to British officials on Thursday, according to the BBC. Martin, 55, has filed freelance reports for the BBC, Al Jazeera International, CNN and Britain’s Channel 4 News. He was arrested Feb. [...]

Will Yeshivos Have to Comply With New National Education Standards Proposed?

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:43 +0000

The question is whether Yeshivos across the nation will have to comply, although it seems likely that they will. Read More »

The Frozen Rabbi: Week 2, Part 4

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:40 +0000

Meanwhile he starved, though occasionally some sympathetic old baba yaga would scuttle forth from her kennel to spare him a stale pierogen or a potato as soft as a powder puff. These he would dine on for days, storing the leftovers under the burlap in the refrigerated casket to extend their relative freshness. Read More [...]

Noshin’: Jewish Foodie Fun in the Twin Cities this Weekend

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:38 +0000

If you’ve ever asked yourself, “What does Judaism say about food and our environment?” this Shabbat Synaplex weekend is for you. Read More »

I look forward to middle east diplomacy 103

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:29 +0000

In its Room for Debate blog the New York Times asked a number of “experts” about the Israeli challenge to the U.S.. A few of the responses are worth mentioning. Daniel Gordis: Israelis do not trust Barack Obama. Read More »

South Korea delegation to Israel seeks cleantech collaboration

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:26 +0000

Government officials and business leaders are here on an extensive visit. Read More »

Thursday Morning News Briefs from Eretz Yisrael

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:23 +0000

Homefront Command officials conducted air raid siren testing in the north beginning at 11: 00am on Thursday. **Speaking at a dinner sponsored by an American fundraising organization for the IDF, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gabi Ashkenazi raised $20 million for the IDF. Read More »

Video: The Dancing Twins at Mendel Raksins Bar Mitzvah!

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:10:20 +0000

Israel destroys West Bank building foundations

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:08:23 +0000

Israel’s Civil Administration accompanied by Israeli troops destroyed six new building foundations in Jerusalem’s Etzion bloc. Read More »

IDF Chief of General Staff Speech at F of IDF Dinner

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:08:21 +0000

On Tuesday evening, the Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, during his visit to the United States, spoke at the annual dinner hosted by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF). “I am telling you from this stage: We will triumph over those who seek to destroy us. Read More »

Peres asks leading rabbi to compromise on conversion bill

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:09 +0000

President Shimon Peres visited 98-year-old Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman at the Ponovezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak Wednesday in an effort to resolve the crisis over proposed conversion legislation. Read More »

An Interfaith Seder

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:07 +0000

What could be “interfaith” about a Seder? Aren’t Seders about gefilte fish and chicken soup, childhood memories of warm Jewish family gatherings, and a few Yiddish jokes thrown in? Related posts: Alef List: Happenings for Hip Jews Read More »

How to move the ‘peace process’ along

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:04 +0000

David Pryce-Jones argues that the ‘peace process’ is not getting anywhere because the ‘Palestinians’ are happy with the status quo. The Palestinians are happy with the way things are; they see no reason for change; the present situation is playing profitably into their hands. Read More »

Google gives city bikers bum steer

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:10 +0000

A helmet may not be enough to protect cyclists from Google Maps’ latest feature.The search engine rolled out a “bicycling directions” option yesterday that is filled with potentially fatal flaws, including routes that cut across Central Park’s treacherous tranverse roads and steer cyclists to truck-riddled thoroughfares. Read More »

The Wicked Son

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:07 +0000

With Pesach right around the corner, I, a father and a teacher, cannot help but think about the concept of the wicked son in the Pesach Hagada. (–You’ll please pardon my play on words with the picture I chose. This one’s from Al Gore’s book “The Wicked S u n”. Read More »

Victory in Iraq and other little hypocrisies

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:04 +0000

Joe Biden recently declared that “the victory in Iraq may be this administration’s crowning achievement.”Obama has often times rationalized his failure to turn around the economy as the result of Bush’s terrible economic policies (which he continued with tart and stimulus). He blames Bush for America still being in terrible times economically. Read More »

Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk the Torah Parashat Pekudei

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:14 +0000

B "H This whole week I tried to time for a clearer description of the famous Hasidic rabbi Elimelech of Lezhinsk be found, the Yahrzeit (anniversary of death), the Hasidic world celebrated on Sunday. Read More » Automatically translated from German »

A 90 second history of the Middle East

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:12 +0000

A very brief history of the empires and people’s who have ruled in the Middle East. Read More »

The Wright Stuff

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:09 +0000

When Frank Lloyd Wright, ever the plainspoken Young Turk of modern architecture, even at 86, declared that he would not design “a Jewish synagogue,” it was not the answer his interlocutor and prospective client, Mortimer J. Cohen, rabbi of Philadelphia’s Beth Sholom Congregation , had hoped to hear. Read More »