Rabbi Amichai Gordin, Yeshivat Har Etzion and Shaalvim High School
Holy and Secular - "Did you see how studious Yankel is?" one of the students of the yeshiva said to another. "He never goes to sleep before three o'clock in the morning, and then he gets up only two hours later to pray with the earliest minyan. He is in the Beit Midrash almost twenty hours every day. As far as I can see, there is nobody else in the yeshiva as studious as he is."
"Well, really, there is somebody!" The students were surprised to hear a voice behind them. They turned around and saw the old "Mashgiach," the rabbi in charge of the students. "Yankel is indeed very dedicated, but Shimeleh is more studious than he is." But the students were very surprised to hear this. "Shimeleh? But he goes to bed every night at ten o'clock!" And the Mashgiach smiled. "Gentlemen! The most studios one is not the one who spends the most hours studying. The most studious one is he who spends the most time during every hour. It is true that Shimeleh spends less total time in the Beit Midrash, but whenever he is there ...   more »

The letter was believed to have been sent to The Pope and The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams (below)
 Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the "survival of the world" is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.
In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders "to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Pope Benedict are believed to have been sent copies of the document which calls for greater understanding between the two faiths.
The letter also spells out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the Koran.
The Muslim scholars state: "As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes."
The phrasing has similarities to the New Testament passage: "He that is not with me is against me" - a passage used by President George Bush when addressing ...   more »