Oct 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. ”American Eagle Outfitters Will Announce September Sales on Wednesday, October 8th to avoid a conflict with Yom Kippur. ” more@MarketWatch.com
via david-2.livejournal.com“On October 6, 1973 - Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar - Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel’s borders. On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. […]
“”Zecher is the part of something that is divorced from its immediate presence. It could be what’s left of a thing when the thing itself is gone, or specifically evidence of former existence. That’s why when something vanishes “without a trace,” it has disappeared “l’lo zecher.” (L’lo is a fancy way of saying b’li, “without.”) Similarly, […]
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 […]
At first the Debriciner Rov, Rav Moshe Stern (Be’er Moshe 2:9), thought that the Halacha is that you should make a Bracha of SheNasan Michvodo L’Basar V’Dam, on the President of the United States. The reason is because the Mogen Avrohom (224:5) says that you only say the Bracha on rulers if they have the power to kill. He learns from the Mogen Avrohom that “rulers” […]
“As water mirrors a face,
a heart responds to another.”
- Proverbs 27:1
The veiled bride wore a long white gown, the bearded groom wore a big black hat, and, with 300 friends, family, dignitaries and curious onlookers gathered by the lake yesterday in this Laurentian town, the two were married in an unusually public Hasidic Jewish ceremony. […]
A record number of kollel students will begin their studies this year: 63,000. This is nearly a two-thirds increase in a decade, Education Ministry data shows: There were 38,000 students at yeshivas for married men in 1998. In total, the Education Ministry will be funding 95,000 yeshiva students over age 18 this school year. This […]
“Customers really are willing to accept the ultra-Orthodox public, and the ultra-Orthodox [in the commercial] are shown in a positive light and become cool and trendy, part of the Israeli melting pot,” says a source at Trio, an Adler subsidiary that provides advertising consulting services for the ultra-Orthodox, Russian and Arab sectors. “There is no […]
Presenting Matisyahu the model
“The Hasidic world is rocked. Matisyahu, a singer who shattered all boundaries in Jewish music and became a legend in the US and the world, has launched a modeling career as well. He has recently become Kenneth Cole’s newest icon, representing the company’s take on diversity in America.” Ynet
“In the wake of an outcry from Chicago-area Jews, the Windy City’s only Jewish museum closed down a high-profile maps exhibition that parsed the issue of Israel’s borders and boundaries. The Spertus Museum, part of the 84-year-old Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, located on Chicago’s South Loop, announced June 20 that it was shutting down […]
“A new museum dedicated to the former Jewish settlements in Gush Katif is expected to open its doors in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Gush Katif settlers were evacuated during Israel’s unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip in 2005.” Ynet
(Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times. The Isaiah Scroll was one of seven ancient Hebrew texts discovered in 1947, and is the best preserved and most complete.)
“Its revival is often hailed as one of the greatest feats of the Zionist enterprise; today Hebrew is the first language of millions of Israelis, a loquacious and […]
