Combining Modern Living in Traditional Jerusalem A unique and prestigious residential project in now being built in Mekor Haim Street in Jerusalem.
Medieval Jews Fleeing Persecution Took Refuge in Ottoman Empire
Posted on: July 18th, 2013
Blogs → United with IsraelTurkey became home to Jews expelled from Hungary in 1376, from France in 1394, and from Sicily in the early 15th century.
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Goal of the BDS Movement: Delegitimize Israel
Posted on: July 17th, 2013
Blogs → United with IsraelThe Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s real goal is to delegitimize Israel through slander and attacks on its cultural, economic, and academic relations.
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How to Get Back Into the Workforce Without Fear
Posted on: July 17th, 2013
Blogs → Goldstein on GeltWhat happens when a woman has been out of the workforce for several years, and now she wants to get back in? Advances in technology and different expectations in the labor market can make going back to work very scary. Yehudit Sidikman, director of El Halev, a center for women’s self-defense, talks about how to […]
Tisha B’Av- The Lessons of Jerusalem 5773
Posted on: July 16th, 2013
Blogs → Guest BlogEvery year, one of the greatest challenges going into Tisha B'Av is the statement of the Gemara Yerusalmi “A generation in which the Temple is not built is considered to be one in which it was destroyed"
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Posted on: July 16th, 2013
Blogs → Sultan KnishEvery aspect of life was industrialized, regulated and militarized, but it wasn't the fictional militarization that frenzied pacifists imagine, but real life militarization.
Meeting the Challenge of Tisha B’Av: a Proposal
Posted on: July 16th, 2013
Blogs → Fink or SwimCan we hear the agony in his words? Can we step into his shoes and experience his torment?
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IDF Chief of Staff: Israel’s Military Will Be Smaller but Stronger
Posted on: July 16th, 2013
Blogs → IDF BlogIDF forces will be smaller, far stronger, far more skilled and far better equipped.
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Religious Zionists Are Amalek? Just Shoot Me Now!
Posted on: July 15th, 2013
Blogs → Emes Ve-EmunahThe rhetoric that has accompanied the proposed legislation to subject Charedim the draft seems to be bordering on hysteria.
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Posted on: July 15th, 2013
Blogs → A Soldier's MotherIrena Sendler is a reminder that in the darkest of times, a small light of humanity and hope brings forth the greatest hopes.
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Long Way from Cancelling Tisha B’Av Mourning
Posted on: July 15th, 2013
Blogs → Shiloh MusingsThere has been a perversion of Judaism in the name of the Torah which is very frightening.
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How to Say ‘Compromise’ in Hebrew
Posted on: July 15th, 2013
Blogs → Ktzat Ivritפְּשָׁרָה listen and repeat An important tool for conflict resolution is compromise. The Hebrew word for a compromise is פְּשָׁרָה ( listen and repeat), while to compromise is the reflexive-intensive הִתְפַּעֵל verb, לְהִתְפַּשֵּׁר ( listen and repeat). (To compromise in the sense of compromising safety is לְסַכֵּן ( listen and repeat) - also to endanger.) The root of these two is clearly פ.שׁ.ר (p.sh.r)… but exactly how […]
Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → Sultan KnishIt's about a black leadership that is more interested in posturing as angry activists and shaking loose some money than in healing the problems of their own communities.
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We Cannot Allow Pain to Drive the Jewish Agenda
Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → Emes Ve-EmunahUnlike the survivors of abuse that took place at YU, I do not want to see YU close down.
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Muslim ‘Youth’ Looting the Dead at French Rail Crash
Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → Atlas ShrugsA police spokesman described groups of local people “picking through the wreckage” on Friday night and looting from the bodies of victims.
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Southern Israel New Frontier for Jewish Immigrants
Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → United with IsraelThe average monthly cost of living for a family in central Israel is $5,000, while in Southern Israel it is only $3,890.
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Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → Goldstein on GeltOn this week’s Goldstein on Gelt podcast Doug talks to Stanley Barg, tax law and estate planning specialist, and chairman of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), about cross-border inheritances and how to make sure that you are doing the best thing for your children, no matter where they live. Tune in to find […]
Neo-Nazism on the Temple Mount
Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → A Banner Raised HighLikewise, thousands in Kafr Kanna demonstrated this month in support of Morsi. Arabs near Hevron raised the swastika outright in May.
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Watching Malala Yousafzai at the UN I Kept Wondering…
Posted on: July 14th, 2013
Blogs → Shiloh MusingsOn Friday, before the Jewish Sabbath began we had the news on, the international TV channels, and they showed Malala Yousafzai speaking at the United Nations. Malala Yousafzai, Girl Shot by Taliban, Makes Appeal at U.N. In a speech at the United Nations on her 16th birthday, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head […]
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Post-Racial and Racially Obsessed
Posted on: July 12th, 2013
Blogs → Sultan KnishBigotry is the bugbear of the moment, but next year it might be salt or short hair. Racism just happens to be easier to rally against.
Posted on: July 12th, 2013
Blogs → Emes Ve-EmunahSatmar has long ago established itself as anti Israel and everyone knows it. Standing on the same stage creates the perception of endorsing their views.
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