Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Posted on: April 26th, 2012
Sections → Community → South FloridaThe days after Passover are referred to as sefirot, a semi-mourning period, marking a terrible plague that killed thousands of students of the great sage Rabbi Akiva. Tradition tells us that these deaths were the result of his students not being sufficiently respectful to each other.
Miami Hatzalah Recruiting Members
Posted on: April 26th, 2012
Sections → Community → South FloridaMiami Hatzalah is looking for new members who work or live in the areas of Surfside, Bal Harbour or Bay Harbor and Aventura. The group recently held an open house presentation in Surfside to help accomplish this goal.
Achim Academy Students Perform In Pesach Drama
Posted on: April 26th, 2012
Sections → Community → South FloridaThe Achim Academy Center for Education in North Miami Beach uses many unique approaches to teach its special students, and for Pesach a dramatic production in six scenes planted the important messages of the Torah in young minds.
Community Currents – April 27, 2012
Posted on: April 25th, 2012
Sections → Community → Community Currents.
Petition for London Olympics Moment of Silence Honoring Munich Athletes Needs Your Signature
Posted on: April 25th, 2012
News → GlobalAn online petition headlined "Tell the International Olympic Committee: 40 Years is Enough!" has garnered thousands of signatures. It is urging the Committee to honor at the Olympic Games this summer, the memory of 11 Israeli athletes who were murdered at the 1972 Olympics in Munich by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September.
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Posted on: April 24th, 2012
News → IsraelIsrael’s RedHill Biopharma announced success last week in a major clinical trial of a new drug to prevent nausea in cancer patients.
Israeli Startup Wins NYC Big Apps 3.0 Award
Posted on: April 22nd, 2012
News → News BriefsYooGuide, an Israeli startup, has won “The Investors Choice Application” award at the NYC Big Apps 3.0 competition for its app, The Funday Genie.
Olympic Committee Refuses to Commemorate Israeli Munich Massacre Victims
Posted on: April 22nd, 2012
News → GlobalA campaign by the widows of two Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre have had their petition for a memorial at the 2012 Olympic games rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Posted on: April 20th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriIn February, Chessed Yad L’Yad, Kiryat Mattersdorf’s local chesed organization, celebrated forty years of active involvement in the community. Beged Yad L’Yad, the Hand-Me-Down Pass-Me-On clothing gemach, was a natural subsidiary, especially with dozens of Anglo-Saxon families receiving clothing packages from abroad.
Posted on: April 20th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriLess than two weeks before Pesach and days after the Toulouse tragedy, where a woman lost her husband and two sons in a terrorist attack, my son and I were discussing another horrible tragedy that had befallen a family in Rehovot, a young woman who had lost her husband and five young children in a fire.
The Lax Family – Formerly Of Neve Dekalim; Now Of Nitzan
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
Sections → Features → Features On The Jewish WorldThe family: I was born in Israel and I’ve never left. My husband Moshe was born in Detroit, MI. His family made aliyah when he was 12 years old.
Marc Chagall At TEFAF Maastricht
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
Sections → ArtsJewish medals, several with Hebrew inscriptions and provocative imagery, were among the gems at The European Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, Netherlands, as I wrote in these pages two weeks ago. Another mini-trend at the fair, which will interest Jewish art aficionados, was an abundance of works by Marc Chagall.
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
Sections → Family → Marriage and RelationshipsDear Dr. Respler: At the recent wedding of my best friend’s son, I arrived for the chuppah early so as to secure a seat close to the front and by the aisle. I didn’t want to miss anything.
Israeli-Based “DogTV” For Dogs At Home Alone
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
News → IsraelThe new made-in-Israel US cable channel, DogTV, is scientifically designed to make dogs happy when they’re left at home alone, according to Israel21C.
The Kosher Grapevine: Exploring the World of Wine
Posted on: April 19th, 2012
Sections → BooksAuthor Irving Langer provides his own look at wine-making as well as the nature of the storage barrels used to age wines for taste perfection. He intersperses the book with Jewish historical facts and figures, a few jokes and photographs, and advice on how to pair wines with specific foods.
Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
Posted on: April 18th, 2012
Sections → Family → Chronicles of CrisesReflection, Rebuke and Reverberations…An open letter to Deborah Feldman
Community Currents – April 20, 2012
Posted on: April 18th, 2012
Sections → Community → Community Currents.
Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel
Posted on: April 18th, 2012
Sections → BooksUnlike formulaic biographies from popular publishing houses in the Orthodox Jewish world, Beyond Politics is not predictable. The vignettes of individual men and women who trekked through Ethiopia and Sudan, flew in from Austria, India, and Algeria, or were born on Israeli soil are gritty, adventurous, and heartwarming.
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