Bishop Richard Williamson, who plunged the Vatican into crisis earlier this year by denying the Holocaust in a television interview, may face a €12,000 fine. But he told SPIEGEL that he never intended his interview to be broadcast in Germany. Denying the Holocaust can be expensive. That, at least, could be the lesson facing […]
“Here we go again: A paper published by two researchers at the University of London claims to prove that music affects our responses to visual images. In “Crossmodal Transfer of Emotion by Music,” Joydeep Bhattacharya and Nidhya Logeswaran report that people who look at a picture of a human face can be influenced in how […]
“The Rosh in his peirush on Chumash tells the story of how the first Golem was created. He says the people of Enosh’s generation asked him, “Who is your father?” He answered that it was Sheis. “And who was Sheis’s father?” He answered, “Adam”. Who was Adam’s father, the wanted to know. He told them […]
“A group of Jewish rabbis and students from Jerusalem Yeshiva, view gravestones in an old Jewish cemetery in the town of Volozhin, 60 kms (37.5 miles) northwest of Minsk, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, during their two-day visit to Belarus. ” DayLife
“On Monday, a secret Hezbollah munitions bunker in South Lebanon blew up under mysterious circumstances, injuring a senior official in the organization. This is the second such incident in recent months. The first occurred on July 14, when an explosion destroyed a major Hezbollah munitions dump in the South Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim. Hezbollah […]
“It produces the most popular automatic rifles in the world but the company that makes the Kalashnikov, or AK-47, is in trouble. It has had to deal with a slump in arms exports and competition from the makers of copycat versions around the world. Now a shady businessman has filed bankruptcy proceedings against the company.” […]
“We’re canning.
This two-century-old technique of preserving food—or “putting up,” in canning-speak—is making a big comeback.
The worst recession in decades and a trend toward healthier eating are inspiring many Americans to grow their own food. Now the harvest season is turning many of these gardeners into canners looking to stretch the bounty of the garden into […]
We conclude the prayers over the new moon with a special request that Hashem restore the moon to its perfect brilliance and then we recite the following passage “And the Jewish People will seek Hashem and their King Dovid”. Once again we discover King Dovid as an integral part of our Rosh Chodesh service. Our […]
“TV In Aron haKodesh” Jewish Museum of Florida
“Art Deco Magen David” Jewish Museum of Florida
“Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Ravid ruled Tuesday that the mother from Mea Shearim suspected of starving her toddler son will remain under house arrest and will not be separated from her children. Judge Ravid, however, ruled that she and her children must remain outside of the Jerusalem haredi neighborhood and that they will be […]
“We all know that Succos should really be on Pesach because that is when we came out of Mitzrayim. The Vilna Gaon says however that the 15th day of Tishrei is really the appropriate time. Succos commemorates the Nes that Hashem surrounded us with the Ananei HaKavod and protected us in the harsh desert. When […]
