May 2012
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Must Read..Every Jew MUST READ and Help →
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“You don’t love fish. If you loved the fish, you would not have killed it...”
– Kotzker Rebbe
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“Where is God to be found? In the place where He is given entry”
– Kotzker Rebbe
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Business Halacha- Great Site →
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Great Learning Resource →
April 2012
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Homer = Omer →
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“Shabbat Shalom | Good Shabbos!”
“A rabbi who replies to people’s questions works harder than a doctor...”
– HaRav Posek HaDor Rabbenu Moshe Feinsten ztl quoted in the NYT May 5 1975
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Jewish Infographics...awesome link →
Wikipedia and learning
Via: Open-Site.org
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March 2012
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Chabad.org's Passover MegaSite →
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“Getting Ready for Pesach!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?”
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JWife.org The Greatest Website for Kollel and... →
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A Soldier's Final Gift
by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff A Bronze Star hero demonstrates genuine strength in an unexpected way.
A few months ago, three American soldiers were profiled in the New York Times. A black rectangular box draws attention to their names: Amaru Aguilar, age 26. Kevin Balduf, 27. Benjamin J. Palmer, 43. All killed while fighting in Afghanistan. The Times’ reporter, Bruce Wallace, decided to seek out...
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Animal Suffering: The Jewish View
by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir, Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem Animals and people are kindred spirits, but far from equals.
The question is often posed in informal discussions and ethical forums: Is it forbidden to purchase products that were produced due to animal suffering, such as cosmetics tested on animal?
Animals have always been an important part of human existence; from the dawn of...
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February 2012
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Five Ideas I Hope to Pass On to My Children
by Emuna Braverman Here’s my list. What’s yours?
1. There is one God and one power.
This idea is at the root of all others. Without this idea, the world is hard and cold and random. With it, there is hope and meaning and purpose. There is loving and giving and caring. It is the source of their recognition that there are moral choices to be made and their clarity on how to make them. This...
Kollel Finances! Please forward, this is great! →
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“In advance of a public Talmudic address, Reb Yisroel Salanter posted a list of a...”
– http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tprofile/rsalanter.html
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“Do the following once a day. (if this is too much, maybe do one/day)
1. Spend...”
– Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l
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A Quebec Jew
by Steve McDonald From Catholic Bloc Québécois MP to staunch Jewish activist.
By changing religion, was I reneging on part of my identity? Or was I adding to it? How were my family and my friends going to see me? Were they going to see me as “the Jew”?
How was my father, a deeply religious and practicing Catholic, going to react? My head was reeling as I thought of my mother, my sister, my...
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“After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a government official in...”
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Those Who Can, Teach
by Michael Steinberg I’m not a rabbi, I never studied in yeshiva, and there’s so much I don’t know. So why am I teaching Torah?
I’m almost 60 and I just started teaching Torah. I never expected to do this – but now I see that I can. In fact, I think I must. Let me explain.
I did not start out on the path of Torah. Growing up in Queens in the 1950s, my upbringing was secular: no God, no shul,...
January 2012
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Kosher Symbol →
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“Moses Montefiore z’l was renowned for his quick and sharp wit. At a dinner...”
– Wikipedia
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Shabbat Comes to the White House
by Aish.com staff Jacob Lew is appointed White House Chief of Staff. Is that good for the Jews?
First it was Joe Lieberman gaining notoriety as an Orthodox Jew running (unsuccessfully) for Vice President in 2000. Now comes the announcement of Jacob Lew being appointed by President Obama to serve in the powerful position of White House Chief of Staff.
Lew and his wife Ruth have a home in the...
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“Baruch Hashem!!! We had a baby girl in Jerusalem yesterday!!!”
– Benyamin Clayman
December 2011
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Daf Yomi Notes →
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Animated Gemara →
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Watch
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Israel Inside
by Tanya Strusberg
A new documentary on how Israel’s spirit and resilience brought them to the forefront of world innovation.
These days it can be pretty hard to find something positive about Israel in the media. In fact, the outlook is pretty bleak. There seems to be no limit to the amount of bashing Israel receives. On top of that, Jewish students on campuses across the country...
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November 2011
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A Blanket of Trust
by Howard Schultz
The chairman of Starbucks learns about life from Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt”l.
Nov. 8, 2011 - The Jewish world is plunged into mourning with the untimely passing of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir in Jerusalem.
I grew up in federally subsidized housing in Brooklyn. I was part of a generation of families that dreamed about the American dream. My...
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Libya
by Eliezer Schulman and Michal Ish-Shalom
After working with Libyan rebels, David Gerbi faced an angry mob at the ancient synagogue in Tripoli.
Dr. David Gerbi, a Libyan-born, observant psychologist living in Italy, spent the summer in a Libyan rebel encampment, joining the revolutionary forces and providing them psychiatric care. But their gratitude didn’t last for long. He was nearly...
October 2011
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Celebrating Diversity
By Yaakov Menken, on October 28th, 2011
I was also at a Shiva this week — a member of our community lost his brother, who lived in Israel, after a long illness. Their family is from Iraq, and praying in his home offered the opportunity to both hear the prayers and learn more about the minhagim, customs, of the Sepharadim, Middle-Eastern Jewry.
Baltimore may not be Brooklyn, but there are...