Archive for July 30th, 2009

Well Qualified to Talk

In his latest column, Shmuley Boteach comments on the Rabbis in New Jersey accused of wrongdoing.
I won’t reproduce the whole thing here, but rather some interesting excerpts:
2. Our community needs a moral and spiritual renaissance. We are good, law-abiding, generous people, but money is becoming too important to us.
You mean like “Rabbis” chasing after celebrity [...]

The Day In Israel: Thurs July 30th, 2009

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According to Israel’s Channel 10, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has frozen a project for the construction of approximately 900 apartments in East Jerusalem, a day after his meeting with George Mitchell, Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East.
This news comes out on Tisha B’Av, the [...]

Surprise Article of the Day

Believe it nor not, I found this next piece on Ha’aretz.
Tisha B’Av will last forever,” promised Kamal al-Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, to thousands of cheering Muslims at the Temple Mount a few days ago. Even the hearts of Jews far from the mountain saddened. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas mocked us [...]

Tisha B’Av Takeaways

Today is the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av), on which a whole host of calamities befell the Jewish people (and the world), including:

The sin of the spies causing G-d to decree that the Children of Israel who left Egypt would not be permitted to enter the [...]