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Shela HaKadosh: Real Men Can’t Cry? Do It Anyway!

The Ari Zal said whoever does not cry during the Yomim Noraim his Neshama is not good or complete. It is brought down in the name of the Shela that someone whose hard heart does not allow tears to flow naturally should make sounds as if he […]

f it relies solely on its newspapers for information, the haredi public will not even know what the next prime minister looks like, Arye Frankel, a veteran haredi ad man at the Gal BSD agency, said Sunday. ”You simply will not see a picture of Tzipi Livni in the haredi newspapers,” said Frankel. “And in some […]

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily says a combination of factors in the non-Jewish vote combined for the victory of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Wednesday’s Kadima party leadership election. Livni is expected to be given the first chance to form a new government, following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announced resignation. In his weekly appearance on […]

“If you eliminate short selling, you are saying that the only way you can make money is if a stock goes up,” the chief executive of Lightspeed Professional Trading, Stephen Ehrlich, said. “As a result, companies’ incentives to drive extra profitability might not be there.” Short selling, which is legal, is a useful way to hedge […]

ter many months of anticipation, the first volume of the Kleinman edition of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch was released just this week. Originally compiled in 1864 by Harav Shlomo Ganzfried, “the Kitzur” is a digest of the essential laws of Jewish living distilled from the massive, authoritative Code of Law. […]

 There used to be tens of thousands of diamond cutters in the Belgian port of Antwerp. Now there are only a few hundred. It is within the city’s Jewish community that most of the jobs have been lost - particularly among the Hasidic Jews who adhere strictly to religious laws. Out of about 2,000 Hasidic […]

The eighteenth day of Elul, or Chai Elul, marks the birthdate of both the Baal Shem Tov,[39] founder of the chassidic movement, and the Alter Rebbe,[40] founder of Chabad Chassidism. This day invariably falls either on or near the Shabbos during which the Torah portion of Savo is read.All Jewish festivals and auspicious occasions on the Jewish calendar are alluded to in the […]

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A Jewish family’s business survived the Civil War, but today’s economic crisis proved too muchLehman Brothers, the storied investment firm that filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, was no stranger to crisis. Early in its 158-year life, the firm was nearly crippled by the Civil War. But back then there was some cotton to cushion the […]

“The lines are being stretched in areas not overwhelmingly ultra-Orthodox. The secular residents of Kiryat Yovel claim the new metal poles around the neighborhood are an eyesore and a harbinger of a Haredi ‘takeover’ of their neighborhood. The ultra-Orthodox say they can’t trust the general Eruv, breached by disrepair and falling short of their standards […]

“A dispute between Sephardi and Ashkenazi rabbis over the appointment of Shas mentor Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s son has prevented the two camps from joining forces to take control of the Chief Rabbinate’s governing council. Next Tuesday, a voting body of 150 rabbis and public servants will convene to vote for the Chief Rabbinate’s governing council […]