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Discussion of Jewish culture and religion. (Moderated)
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Bad news fro England
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Frightening stuff. Seems like the old anti-semitism is out of the bottle. • OPINION EUROPE • NOVEMBER 18, 2009, 4:49 P.M. ET Wall Street Journal Another Vast Jewish Conspiracy British media and society are gripped by lies about a "secret" Israel lobby controlling foreign policy. By ROBIN SHEPHERD... more »
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blas?phe?my
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blas?phe?my –noun, plural -mies. 1. impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things. 2. Judaism. a. an act of cursing or reviling God. b. pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton (Y=H-V-H) in the original, now forbidden manner instead of using a substitute pronunciation such as Adonai.... more »
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LIVING WITH MOSHIACH, Parshat Toldot
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B"H LIVING WITH MOSHIACH Weekly Digest About Moshiach PARSHAT TOLDOT, 5770 Kislev 3, 5770 Nov. 20, 2009 ****************************** ******************* * This week's issue is sponsored in part by: *... more »
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Mazal Tov Moshele!
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I had system problems, so I couldn't post yesterday. Yesterday, Moshe Holtzberg turned three, and his family celebrated his passage from babyhood to an educable child with an Upsherin. A wedding where not all of the couple's parents are alive to be there has their memory hanging over it. To the extent that here in the US,... more »
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Jew arrested for wearing tallit
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In Israel. At the Wall. Oops, sorry -- it was just a Jewish woman. Rabbi Ovadia said such women are stupid. So I guess that's OK. Headline: Police arrest woman for wearing prayer shawl at Western Wall Rest of story: [link] Wanna protest, or do you protest only when it happens in anti-Semitic... more »
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Face Off
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What is the Mona Lisa really thinking? Structurally unremarkable and noticeably unfinished, Da Vinci's most famous masterpiece has intrigued experts and laymen alike. One can spend hours gazing at the mysterious woman, wondering where she is looking, why she is smiling and, perhaps most perplexing, what is it... more »
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Swimming to Petra
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I'm sure I've heard stories of Israeli boys, young men, swimming or boating across the Dead Sea and visiting Petra, in the middle of the night, before there was any treaty with Jordan. The stories were interesting until I found out where Petra is 10 or 20 miles or more from the Dead Sea. So how could the story be possible?... more »
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Mishnah Hodu - Excerpts from Tractate Thanksgiving (repost)
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Mishnah Hodu - Excerpts from Tractate Thanksgiving Newly-translated fragments from the Chelm Geniza posted by Rick Dinitz, c.1997 "Hodu [Adoshem ki tov.(Eating) turkey for (the sake of Hashem is good.]" - Tehillim PEREK HEH - MISHNAH ALEF Hodu [Adoshem ki tov--keitzad. [Waving turkey (during Hallel), how is... more »
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Do Holy Writings lead the way to science fiction?
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[...] Can science fiction be part of Jewish culture? From fantasy we know? As I think of it, it begins to seem to me that it is and we do know. And the source? From where else? From the Hebrew source for every- thing. From the Bible. We have but to look through the Bible and see for ourselves. At the very start, with the first verse, we have, "In the beginning... more »
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