Archive for February, 2008

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner
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Stories of Rabbenu – Our Rabbi: Ha-Rav Tzvi Yehudah Ha-Cohain Kook - Our Rabbi and honoring of the State – Part 3
Shut She'eilat Shlomo - Questions of Jewish Law:
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The Knesset Finance Committee on Wednesday approved the transfer of NIS 475 million to Shas's Torah institutions.
The transfer was part of coalition agreement between Shas and Kadima.
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The United Methodist Church (UMC) is at it again, although other denominations have engaged in this abysmal behavior as well. Their 225-page report, "Israel-Palestine: A 2007-2008 Mission Study," likens Jews to "monsters" and compares the actions of Israelis to Nazis. Strange, indeed, when Hamas TV is currently running a kids' special suggesting that they...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Thursday that Iran was the world's "number one" power, as he launched a bitter new assault on domestic critics he accused of siding with the enemy.
"Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to families who lost loved ones in the...
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By Spengler
"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America.
We know less about Senator...
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Seventy-four year old Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has joined the chorus of those who speak of Obama in messianic terms.  Farrakhan did not specifically endorse Obama but in a rambling address in front of over 20,000 people, oddly enough in celebration of “Saviour”s Day,” he called Obama, “the hope of the entire world that America will change...
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Issue of Farrakhan 'endorsement' of Obama doesn't deserve answer
A spokeswoman for the president has evaded a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, about Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan's praise for Sen. Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential hopeful, at a Muslim religious event.
"I think we're just going to steer clear of...
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By Rabbi Avraham Pam
A penetrating essay on the requirements — and limitations — of faith and their real-life, political applications
“It happened at the end of two years.”                         —   Genesis 41:1
 The Midrash (Bereishis Rabbah 89:3) comments on this verse: ''Praiseworthy is the man who has made the Divine his trust...
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Israeli authorities have placed several signs near the Atarot area in northern Jerusalem recently warning travelers, “You are entering territory under the control of the Palestinian Authority.  Israelis are absolutely forbidden to enter!”  Approximately 25,000 residents of Jerusalem, some of them Israeli citizens, live in the areas now designated as PA territory.
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