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The Vort: Tzav – Transparency, Accountability, and the Priesthood
March 25, 2010We are in the thick of an entire set of parshiot dealing almost exclusively with priests. A large amount, especially when we consider the following how the fundamental aspects of Jewish life: sacred time, sacred family relationships, sacred eating, etc, are each given only have a few verses here and there. In total, these fundamental [...]
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Netanyahu Does Washington
March 24, 2010Bibi and Obama met in the White House’s Oval Office on Tuesday for about an hour and a half. Slightly before the meeting took off, reports surfaced of another controversial construction project approved in east Jerusalem, this time in Sheikh Jarrah. Netanyahu entered the meeting without being aware of the new building permit ‘
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Save Passover 2010
March 21, 2010Last year we launched Save Passover, a campaign of informal giving aimed at helping impoverished Jews out during Passover. I know for most of you, Passover is a time of family gatherings and abundance. But for others, especially many of my Jerusalem neighbors in Nachlaot and the Shuk neighborhoods, Passover is a time of stress [...]
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Building towered foresight isnt anything at all*
March 19, 2010Photo of the Price Tower from Wikipedia Nisan (aside from being my Hebrew name) is the month of that Hashem revealed himself.
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Evil Winds, Full of Anger, Rage and Ravage, Smash and Shatter
March 12, 2010With the opening of the second Israeli IKEA store and the first ever H&M store, this has certainly been a successful week for Swedish corporations. The Israelis never seem to disappoint, proving time and time again they are willing to go to any distance for discounts. I guess you can get more crap when you [...]
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1-800 Torah Scholars Cant Be Wrong?
March 3, 2010So, it turns out that Erev Rosh Hodesh (coming at you live the ides of March, in the evening) is a special time in the Jewish year. Thanks to a Frumster.com email, poor, sad, and unmarried girls like me got this stunning message, about this time of “significant opportunity for salvation and success.” Start filling [...]
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Classical numbers — where it hurts most
February 19, 2010The last time Hilary Hahn topped the classical charts, I reported that she was selling fewer than 500 copies a week. This time, after an appearance on the Tonight Show, Anne Midgette writes that she’s selling fewer than 1,000 - still peanuts on any pop scale.Anne quotes a Sony man who says classical accounts for three percent [...]
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INDIA ATTACKED AS FOREWARNED. US NEXT?
February 14, 2010Another day, another Jihadist terror attack. 10 died and 45 were wounded when a bomb blast ripped through Pune’s popular German Bakery located near Chabbad House and the OSHO Ashram. This time it seems that it was the Indian intelligence service which failed to connect the dots. The services should have known that initiating talks [...]
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A call to action, Cheshbon HaNefesh-style
January 22, 2010If you haven’t not read R Harry Maryles’ current post, Looking in the Mirror, I humbly suggest you do.
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Ohalah 2010, seen from afar
January 10, 2010This weekend, the ALEPH ordination programs community — students in the rabbinic, rabbinic pastor, hashpa’ah (spiritual direction) and cantorial programs — has gathered for a Shabbat retreat which culminates in our annual smicha (ordination) ceremony. Immediately after the smicha ceremony, the annual conference of Ohalah, the association of rabbis for Jewish renewal, will begin. Last [...]
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Read Write Prompt #106: repeat after me
December 24, 2009NEWBORN SESTINA I’m mesmerized by his form even when he rouses me in the dark. Nurse, burp, time for a change then nurse again: it’s all new, this rhythm, his needs. And for now, I’m his all: source of milk, familiar sounds, all the comforts of home. He forms cries reedy and grizzled, need which [...]