Posted on: July 25th, 2013

פְּעִילוּת  listen and repeat Some of us like grammar, and some of us don’t. The word verb excites some of us, while daunting others or making them drowsy. But most of us know that a verb is a word that indicates action. In Hebrew, this is easy to remember, since the very word for verb itself – פֹּעַל ( listen […]

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

How manipulating shadchanim and even offering financial "incentives" to marry men off to older women is ethically sound or halachically permissible has yet to be explained.

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Posted on: July 24th, 2013

A rabbi who writes controversial things becomes international news.

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

He who gets to write the questions, wins the referendum.

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Posted on: July 24th, 2013

Have you never bought the wrong clothing just because it was on sale?

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

Doug interviews Peter Sims, author of Little Bets – How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries. Sometimes, a small idea can turn into something big if you are prepared to make a little bet, as many great inventors and successful businesspeople have found. Find out more by listening to this week’s podcast. ftp://84.95.247.123/GoG%20shows/2013/072213/INR%20GOLDSTEIN%20ON%20GELT%20PART%202%20072213.mp3 Podcast: Play […]

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

The EU Boycott of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is expected to adversely affect Palestinians.

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

The only real things keeping American cities from going bankrupt are inertia and some fancy cultural footwork.

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

Why does a opinion in the Talmud say the last verses in Devarim were not written by Moses? Was it the easiest solution to a very obvious problem?

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don't they fit him to perfection?

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

מוּטָב מְאֻחָר מֵאֲשֶׁר לְעוֹלָם לֹא  listen and repeat Yesterday my great-uncle had his בַּר מִצְוָה ( listen and repeat) - Bar Mitzvah. Yes, my great uncle. He’s 82. Because when he was 13, he was in Auschwitz, where they didn’t do בר מצווה ceremonies. En route, I told the cab driver about the event. He made his comment […]

Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

Get out the lollipops: Nefesh B’Nefesh reports today’s El Al Flight LY 3004 has more children aboard than any previous group flight.

Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

R’ Yaakov’s experiences once he left the cocoon of the Lakewood environment provided him with an entirely different perspective on what non Jews are really like.

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

Netanyahu: "The release of prisoners before the conference is not the path to peace, it is the path to terror."

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

בְּיַחַד  listen and repeat Today is ט”וּ בְּאָב ( listen and repeat) - the 15th of the Jewish month of Av – which is the Jewish day of love. The Hebrew word for together is בְּיַחַד ( listen and repeat) (alternatively and more formally, יַחַד ( listen and repeat)). For example: טִיַּלְנוּ בְּיַחַד בַּמִּזְרָח. We traveled together in the east.  listen   You […]

Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

According to Arab media reports, the show "focuses on the social, economic, and religious lives of the Jews, including ... the way they managed and controlled the [Arab] tribes."

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

To pardon terrorists mocks our love and our pain...

Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

Jewish sympathy for the African American struggle dates back to the abolitionist movement.

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

No one who was born after 1935 has walked on the moon. That period is swiftly becoming a historical relic.

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

The current peace talks raise some obvious questions, the answers are a little less obvious.

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