Jewneric: A New Platform for the Jewish Voice Archives: April 2008
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14 April 2008
Traveling Geeks - SF Bay Area Bloggers Travel the World, Starting With Israel
I have found myself following the likes of a few SF Bloggers who are now in Israel. There for the The Marker Com.vention, “famous” bloggers have banded together to post about their experience. I am impressed with their camaraderie and really love the aggregator, TravelingGeeks, which they have put together for easy follow-ability. [...]
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14 April 2008
The Abduction of David Zimlov
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf? Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
The three little pigs were still dancing and singing and hooting and whistling and playing their fiddles. The wolf had been dead for . . . [...]
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13 April 2008
Internet Predator Targets Jewish Students
A warning has been sent to Jewish communities concerning an internet predator that specifically targets religious Jewish students. The predator goes by the alias of either David Newman or David Goodman will frequently use social networking sights like Facebook to contact young Jewish men and women. Claiming to be a student from NYU, he will [...]
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12 April 2008
Prominent Westchester Rabbi and Wife Die in Tragic Accident
Rabbi Jacob Rubenstein, past president of the Rabbinical Council of America (the main Modern Orthodox rabbinic group) and Rabbi of Young Israel of Scarsdale, NY, and his wife Deborah died when their home burned down at 3:30 this morning. The fire was apparently caused by a bolt of lightning, and there were explosions heard from [...]
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11 April 2008
Bibleman vs. The Jews
While I have never really heard of Christian television, aside from things like “the 700 Club,” apparently there is a whole culture of Christian television. The Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian television network with over “275 television stations in the U.S. and on thousands of other cable television systems around the world in 75 countries” [...]
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11 April 2008
Justice Gabriel Bach: Eichmann Prosecutor
On April 10, 2008, Justice Gabriel Bach came to speak at Touro Law in Central Islip, New York. Who is he? He is a former Justice to the Israeli Supreme Court, and also was a prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann. Born in Germany in 1927, Justice Bach was educated in Berlin. [...]
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11 April 2008
Matzah and the Boston Marathon
Every year on Patriots Day, a Massachusetts holiday celebrating the start of the Revolutionary War in Concord, thousands of people run the Boston Marathon. While not as famous as its New York counterpart, over 25,000 runners take part. It usually falls on Pesach, many times Chol HaMoed, and Jews from all over the [...]
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10 April 2008
MTV Releases Holocaust PSA
A few weeks ago, MTV posted some interesting new videos as part of their Think Campaign, which tries to make it so that ” you, your friends, and your favorite celebrities can get informed, get heard and take action on the issues that matter to you most.” Two of these Public Service Announcements focus on [...]
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10 April 2008
“I would like to send my children to Jewish school and live comfortably, but I have to make more money. How can I get the highest job offer for the work that I do?”
I recently had dinner with an observant Jewish professional in his mid 30’s. He felt that to send one’s children to private day school, buy a house in the New York metro area and live comfortably, one needs a family income of at least $200,000 per year. Whether this is necessarily true or not, it [...]
