Blogroll Destroyed. Putting it back together.
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5 times as large as the Torah (video)
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The GOP is attacking the Obama Health Care plan as presented by Nancy Pelosi
- the thing is a whopping 1990 pages long. Or as they are putting it, it is
5 ...
29 minutes ago
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Rabbi Lazer Brody on Shalom Bayis – Mp3
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Rabbi Lazer Brody inspired approximately 200 people on Sunday with a shiur
sponsored by Chazaq at the Beth Gavriel Community Center on Shalom Bayis. As
you...
1 hour ago
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My Daughter and the Times Table
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We had guests over on Shabbat. When I introduced them to the kids, I
mentioned that my two youngest are in first and third grade.
The littlest one spoke ...
2 hours ago
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Ukraine's Pneumonic Plague
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The Ukraine has effectively been shut down by the Pneumonic Plague - not swine flu, not H1N1 or H5N1 - but a new disease that is killing many and infecting a...
2 hours ago
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This May Or May Not Be My God
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A friend of mine told me that he remembers when a *ba'al teshuvah* (new to
observance) yeshiva in the 1970's removed its copy of Herman Wouk's *This Is
My ...
4 hours ago
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Why Live in Washington Heights When There’s
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the Jeanne D’Arc Residence on West 24th Street? And it’s only $500 a month.
Seriously, these things were made for us. Are there any other aging singles
who...
5 hours ago
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Why Did Avraham Call Sara His Sister To Avimelech?
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In this week's parsha after G-D destroys Sdom but before the Akeida, we have
the incident where Avraham and Sarah go to the land of Avimelech. There are
so...
7 hours ago
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Jewish divorce c. 1913
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**************** This is a film of a 1913 Bolshoi theater performance of a play, Sorrow's of Sara. As best as I can determine it belongs to the genre of Hask...
7 hours ago
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Music Review: Until When by Prodezra
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*by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths*
Jewish hip-hop, chassidic rap. Powerful fusion or desecration of holy tunes?
Until When by chassidic musician Prodezra is ...
8 hours ago
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Torah in Motion Classes
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Starting this week, Torah in Motion is offering a number of classes
free-of-charge. This series has an excellent selection, ranging from Shai
Secunda on “T...
8 hours ago
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R. Zecharia Frankel's 'Modifications of the Liturgy,' 1843.
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Voice of Israel May 12, 1843, pg. 166.
As always, context helps. See the following footnote and article to which it
refers in the May 26 issue:
שובר הר...
9 hours ago
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Depression and Suicide
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Once again the subject of mental illness comes up.
This time it hits us squarely in the pit of our collective stomachs as we
read of a Chasan married just ...
11 hours ago
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Of Rabbis and Poppies and Remembrance Day
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I’ve noticed more than a few people walking around with felt poppies
attached to their lapels over the past week, in honor of Remembrance Day
(November 11)...
13 hours ago
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Are US Democrats Really Friends of Israel?
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Of course they are.
But less than the Republicans, if we use the Goldstone Report as a
yardstick.
Last week, resolution HR 867 was brought to the US Hous...
20 hours ago
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America's obsession with sports
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I just came back from the US having spent a few weeks working there on site
for a customer (one of the big reasons why I haven't posted much).
Being in Ame...
20 hours ago
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Patience & Advertising
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(I'm sure Jon would appreciate this one.)Last night, we had a bright, handsome young man over for dinner. After dinner, he was calmly expressing his frustrat...
23 hours ago
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Rabbi Leib Tropper and EJF
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Rabbi Leib Tropper is known to many readers of this blog as one of the team
of people involved in engineering the ban on my books. He told the story
about...
1 day ago
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As Long as it is Smart
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Smart Noshery.
1 day ago
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20 Heshvan Geula Links
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Shirat Devorah
Tomer Devorah
Mystical Paths
This may tie into it too.
Also, don't forget about the Zohar Hadash in Balak (Ma'amar Darach Kochav
MiYa'ako...
2 days ago
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Bad Hebrew Tattoos.
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I spent a fair portion of Thursday at the AdTech trade show. While I was
there, I saw a person with Hebrew lettering tattooed on his forearm. The
tattoo co...
2 days ago
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KCET Visits PJC and Interviews Me
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KCET (the local PBS affiliate) has been working on a city-wide project. It
is called Departures and it focuses on the people and places that make the
neigh...
2 days ago
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40 days before
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Chazal (Sotah 2a) say that 40 days before yetziras havlad [the formation of
the embryo] a bas kol [heavenly voice] calls out, "Bas ploni leploni" [The
daug...
2 days ago
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Parsha Notes: Vayerah
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Mostly from last year, but with some additions.
- Internal Parallels (and antithesis)*
(a) *The angles visit to Abraham vs. their visit to Lot*
- The gu...
2 days ago
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Kosher Chicken on Sale in Brooklyn
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I generally try to avoid the kosher groceries, but once in a while they give
you a reason to patronize them.
Like today.
The Mrs told me that a store near ...
2 days ago
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The Solo Restaurant Experience
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Debbie & I went to Solo for her (mhm)th birthday, whose executive chef is
Hung Huynh, a winner of the Top Chef program. We hadn't been since their
merger w...
2 days ago
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the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth (II)
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This post is a continuation of what we started yesterday. What really drove
my thinking about the Rashi of Hashem changing the story for the sake of
shalom...
2 days ago
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Parshat VaYera
There are for Sedra Shorts on Parshat Vayera. Scroll down for each Dvar
Torah
- The Fate of Mrs. Lot
- She's my Sister – Again!!...
2 days ago
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Keep On Shlocking!
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Lenny Solomon writes:
Innovations continue to come from Shlock Rock.
Lenny Solomon and Shlock Rock have released their first Music Video from
their new al...
3 days ago
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Live Internet Classes - Free!
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I am thrilled to announce the launch of several series of live online Torah
classes! One will be on "Zoology and Torah," the other will be on "Science
an...
3 days ago
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Rashi and the Criterion of Shishim Ribo: Conditional on a Street or a City?
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I am sure that most of my readers are familiar with the *machlokas* whether
to apply the criterion of *shishim ribo*, to a city or to a street. The main
ar...
5 days ago
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The secret behind Chabads success
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From an interview with the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l in Jewish Forum (about
1960)
5 days ago
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The Responsibility of Leadership and the Teitel Arrest
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Egla arufa, recorded in Deuteronomy 21:1-9 is one of the Torah’s more obscure mitzvot. If a corpse is found in the vicinity of a town, that entire town, repr...
5 days ago
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Rif Bava Batra 15a {29b - 30a}
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15a
See the Rif inside here.
{Bava Batra 29b}
ההוא גברא דאמר ליה לחבריה מאי בעית בהאי ארעא
א"ל מינך זבנת' ואכלתה שני חזקה
א"ל אנא בשכוני גואי הואי
אתא לדי...
6 days ago
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Some Assorted Comments and a Selection from my Memoir, part 2
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*Some Assorted Comments and a **Selection** from my Memoir**, part 2*
*by: Marc B. Shapiro*
1. In a recent *Jewish Action* (Summer 2009), p. 21, Elli F...
1 week ago
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Seven Year Old Torah Reader
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Take a look at this video of my son, Netanel, reading from the Torah this
morning. He is chanting the text according to the Sephardi-Yerushalmi
melody. Alt...
1 week ago
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kalgas
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Today I heard on the news a word I wasn't too familiar with: *kalgas* קלגס.
The dictionary definition is "soldier", but the connotation seems to always
be ...
3 weeks ago
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MASS RABBINIC ARREST 2
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Remember 2007?
mass rabbinic arrest
mass rabbinic a.c.d.
mass rabbinic impact
mass rabbinic closure
*Well, they were at it again today!*
About 50-100 rab...
1 month ago