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Beautiful realities—jewels for Passover
By Mindy Ribner
Imagine you are brought into a room filled with real diamonds, gold, sapphires and rubies, along with other jewels that are also beautiful but imitation. You are invited to take whatever you want, all that you want, to your heart’s content. Your dilemma is how to discern the real jewels from the imitation ones and then how to transport and carry these jewels to your home. This [...]
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Tagged Desire, immediate gratification, life challenge, passover, reb shlomo carlebach
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One Pesach’s Burning Issue
By Sheldon Abelson
Niskayuna
My wife is a volunteer at a used book store that raises money to help support the local public library.
Several years ago, she called me from the store to tell me that she had found a book by a Holocaust revisionist praising Hitler & minimizing the Shoah. ”Buy that piece of garbage and bring it home,” [...]
Sell your chametz, and get thee to a seder! — See community seder listings here!
Passover (beginning April 6) is fast approaching. It is very important to sell your Chametz and you can do so online or email rabbirubin@capitalchabad.com. The focal point of the holiday is the famed Passover Seder when families get together to celebrate our national and personal freedom. If you would like a sample Matzah or to purchase hand baked Shmurah Matzah [...]
Passover — an American saga!
Passover Guide for the Perplexed 2012
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
March 31, 2012
Based on Jewish Sages
1. David Ben Gurion, the Founding Father of the Jewish State (UN Commission, 1947): “300 years ago, the Mayflower launched its historical voyage. Do many remember the exact data of the voyage, how many passengers were on the Mayflower and what kind [...]
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B’nai B’rith wants essays on Holocaust denial
April 16 is deadline for B’nai B’rith Holocaust essays
This year’s essay topic for the local annual B’nai B’rith Holocaust essay contest for middle school and high school students is What Is The Meaning and Impact of Holocaust Denial?
The contest promotes Holocaust education, student research, and awareness, according to Robert Michaels, essay contest chairman. Winning students [...]
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Tagged holocaust, holocaust denial, holocaust essays, rith, ROBERT MICHAELS
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Jewish World’s publisher to be honored as “minyonaire”
Would that it were “millionaire”!
By JAMES R. CLEVENSON
I don’t really deserve the honor, but Beth Israel in Schenectady is including me in their recognition of “gemilut chasadim” (deeds of lovingkindness)—for occasionally attending morning minyans at the shul on Eastern Parkway in Schenectady.
It’s mainly a dinner to honor Rabbi and Rebbetzen Moshe and Karen Mirsky, on [...]
The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist
Defense and Retaliation – Not an Option
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought”
“Israel Hayom” March 12, 2012
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1534
The war on terrorism cannot be won by defensive – but only by offensive – means, notwithstanding the impressive performance of the Iron Dome missile defense system.
The Background
More than10,000 Gaza-based missiles have been launched, systematically and deliberately, at Israeli cities, kibbutzim and villages since [...]
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Tagged 1993 oslo accords, disengagement, missile defense system, mortar shells, terrorism
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Barack Obama is Such a Traditional Jew Sometimes
JEFFREY GOLDBERG – Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine’s advice column.
MAR 11 2012, 8:44 AM ET 57
Two weeks ago, after I finished interviewing President Obama on the subject of Iran and Israel, [...]
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Tagged Haggadah, jonathan safran foer, maxwell house haggadah, rebecca goldstein, story
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“Like” the JW on Facebook!
While this site was down, we provided some updates at www.facebook.com/thejewishworld… you can go there and “like” us… that will help!
