Guest Post: Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman
===============INTRODUCTION:===============This message is about a short-but-memorable conversation I had with Rabbi Zevulun Leiberman (of blessed memory) in year 2004 CE. I believe that it is my duty...
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Nothing More Long-Lasting than "Temporary" or a "Narrow Coalition"
Oct. 20, 2012 - Source: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images EuropeAll this talk that has been in the news all over the world, including of late Yahoo!News, about the fragility of Prime Minister Binyamin...
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Guest Post by Atara Snowbell on חרות Herut
Atara Snowbell, MatanEarlier in the week I posted Shiloh Musings: For a Good Jewish Theological Discussion, You Need Hebrew!, which I sent to my Tanach/Bible teacher Atara Snowbell. Although she...
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Tel Shiloh on Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Nissan
Today, until nighttime, was Rosh Chodesh Nissan and Shabbat. All the years I've been going to Shiloh Hakeduma, Tel Shiloh on Rosh Chodesh, we never did it on Shabbat. That is until today. One of the...
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Ya'alon Demoralizing the IDF
As Minister of Defense, Moshe Bogie Ya'alon should be perceived as supporting Israel's IDF soldiers in a most difficult situation/war against our enemies, including the terrorists. Instead he has...
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How Many Arabs would Allow Jews to Live in Their Buildings?
Now the news has been full of the results of a poll:Poll: Half of Israeli Jews would not live in apartment building with Arabs49 percent of Israeli Jews said that they would not live in the same...
View ArticleGuest Post: JTA vs Judaism
The JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) recently chose to give valuable free publicity to Frankel's, a new Jewish-owned delicatessen in New York City which is NOT KOSHER.At the same time, JTA also...
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חרות Cherut/Herut is Not Freedom!
We all know by now that the modern, popular accepted definition of חרות Cherut/Herut is "freedom," but that is not what it means in Jewish theology.For a Good Jewish Theological Discussion, You Need...
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Hillary Clinton Will Say Anything for A Vote!
I am not joining the bandwagon all excited about Hillary's latest pro-Israel line.Clinton: 'Unfair' to put onus on Israel for peace talks failureDemocratic presidential frontrunner signals to Jewish...
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More Dumb Israeli Overconfidence
Shades of post-1967 Israel, when the movers and shakers were so certain that our neighboring enemy Arabs had been beaten so badly, that they would never ever dare attack us again and therefore refused...
View ArticleGuest Post: Shabat Table Derech Eretz
Many years ago, I visited a very fine Orthodox family for the Shabbatdaytime seudah.Something happened there that surprised me.When the mother summoned her children to the table to hear kiddush, she...
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Know Where You Are When Reporting Danger/Attacks!
It must have had been last year, when I was on a public bus, late at night on my way home from work, and the the bus was stoned by Arab terrorists. As the driver continued driving, the safest thing to...
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Bernie Sanders, More Radical Leftist than Jew
You can call Bernie Sanders a "mehadrin radical Leftist" and a shanda, too. And even though many Jews in the USA and Israel may find this hard to accept, he would not be good for Israel if elected...
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UNESCO's Anti-Jewish Policy Due to Israel's Ambivalence
From my visit/ascending to Har Habayit almost two years agoThere has been a big hue and cry here in Israel about the UNESCO's Anti-Jewish Statements re: Israeli/Jewish connection to our holy sites by...
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Today’s Reality of Christian Missionizing in Israel
In the most recent Musaf Shabbat supplement of the Hebrew language newspaper, Makor Rishon, two articles were published, regarding Israel’s and the Jews’ relationships with the Christian world. ... more
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Of Israeli Messianics with Pigskins
Dear fellow Israeli Jews, your children are being tackled by missionaries. JewishIsrael states this both figuratively and literally. ... more
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Pre-Passover Rant
Let's start with the basic and true that I'm an awful housekeeper, always was and I guess I'll always be one.my kitchen in Passover modethis is chametzA lot of what's accepted as "cleaning for...
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Deja Vu, Arab Terrorists Blowing Up Buses and Innocent Jews
Yes, again.Yesterday at work, one of the staff, who gets news alerts suddenly reported a bus explosion/bomb/terror attack. At first the police tried to explain it away as a simple "malfunction," but...
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Sidney Spiegelman, 1920-2016, 5680-5776
Baruch Dayan Haemet ברוך דיין האמת My father, Sidney Spiegelman, passed away yesterday after a long active life.He was born in Brooklyn, NY, to parents born in Nasielsk, Poland and Rogotshov,...
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My Father, Sidney Spiegelman, Z"L
I am sitting shiva for my father until Friday noon. His funeral will be in New York on Friday, but I'm not traveling in for it.My parents and I over ten years ago or more, maybe even twenty years ago....
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