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28 May 2008
Canada and Israel
As a Canadian it made me so proud to hear Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s address on Israel’s 60th birthday. It made me proud because PM Harper stands by Israel in a stronger way than, perhaps, any other sitting Prime Minister ever has.
“Canada has stood with Israel even when it was popular not to and [...]
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20 May 2008
Ethnocentricity “and the Jews”
Thomas L. Friedman wrote an inciteful (or insightful - I’m still trying to decide) article in the NYTImes on May 18th. In fact, over a day after being published it is still the most popular article emailed (but not blogged, go figure).
The title: Obama and the Jews.
In my estimation, he could have left out the [...]
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24 April 2008
It’s Official: Israel Bombed Syrian Nuclear Reactor
US officials just confirmed what has already been widely reported since it happened in September: that Israel bombed a Syrian nuclear reactor which was being built with help from North Korea. The event was shrouded in secrecy until now, but the US Congress has been pressuring the Bush administration to publicly brief them (and the [...]
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17 April 2008
Davening Man Removed from Plane
On Wednesday night, an Orthodox man boarded a United Airlines flight from JFK to San Francisco. Before the flight took off, he went to the back of plane to daven, probably Mincha (Maariv could have waited). The crew asked him to sit for takeoff, but since he was in the middle of the [...]
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15 April 2008
The Pope Goes to Synagogue
Never in the history of the papacy has a pope visited a synagogue in America. In fact, popes have only visited two synagogues ever before, that is until this Friday. On Friday, April 18th, Pope Benedict XVI will make an historic stop at the Park East Synagogue for twenty minutes or so, late [...]
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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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9 April 2008
The Huffington Post Goes to Israel
Several influential bloggers have been taken on a tour of Israel courtesy of the Solomon Project. Writers from DailyKos, The Huffington Post, MyDD and several other progressive blogs were brought to Israel to see, first hand, what is going on with the current political landscape.
The Solomon Project, which is affiliated with the [...]
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7 April 2008
Statistically Speaking…
Today I met a fascinating man. Well, that’s deceptive. He’s rather nondescript. His job sounds, and probably is, rather boring. He works with numbers, though not financially. He analyzes data, though nothing classified or secret.
He is Yeshiva University’s in-house statistician.
His job is to analyze data in using advanced statistical tools (I’ve been in a [...]