Orthodox Jews

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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Women of the Wall

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 591
  Download audio file (1201094.mp3) Download MP3 A group called ‘Women of the Wall’ holds monthly prayer meetings at the Western Wall. Recently, a woman was arrested for wearing a prayer shawl and reading the Torah at the Wall. The group is pushing for more women’s religious rights within Orthodox Judaism. ...
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• Opponents of gay marriage speaking out as votes may near

  
  Blogging Religiously — Authority: 126
  The possibility of a gay-marriage vote today in Albany has opponents speaking out. New York State Catholic Conference Executive Director Richard E. Barnes just released this statement: ***** In the last several years, voters in 31 states have taken up the issue of changing the timeless definition of marriage ...
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• How Did Kashrut Become So Sexy?

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  Twenty years ago, if you met a mashgiach, you assumed he was not smart enough to be a rabbi. Working in kashrut certification was a low-paying, unprestigious job. Now it is a power center. It is a money-maker. The RCC has used kosher certification as a battering ram to bring the recalcitrant to bay and to shift ...
  3 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Becoming Jewish Three Times

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  I used to go to Ohr HaTorah with this guy. We reconnected at the first LimmudLA in February 2008. He lives in Jerusalem and looks chareidi. He’s the most genial guy, funny, and easy to talk to. Yes, most Orthodox Jews do seem intimidating to those who are less religious. They make you feel less than, a familiar ...
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• Les pages francophones du Samedi

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  Mor Karbasi, contre loubli du ladino: "Elle chante en ladino, une autre langue qui risque loubli, comme le yiddish." Pour présenter Mor Karbasi, avant son entrée en scène, Laurence Haziza, programmatrice du festival JazznKlezmer, pointe cette singularité de la jeune chanteuse israélienne, invitée le 19 novembre ...
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• Intel offers Sabbath peace-deal to appease protesters

  
  Interfaith — Authority: 128
  In an attempt to appease the wrath of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, Intel has pledged to only employ non-Jewish workers on the Sabbath at its offices in the city. The proposal was made following a protest by nearly 2,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Intel’s Jerusalem plant on Saturday. Demonstrators broke into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bad Dog, Big Sky

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  Assignment: Write about what people always say about you. Give it an Indian name. Bad Dog People always say I’m sarcastic. An Orthodox Jew. Are you Jewish? I get that question all the time. Were you born Jewish? You have a good vibe. Very sexual. Erudite. Funny. Insecure. Didn’t your parents give you enough ...
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• The Orthodox Jewish Rabbis Furious Anyone Thinks Theyve OKd Gay Marriage

  
  Queerty — Authority: 708
  A group of Orthodox Jewish rabbis in New York City are demanding Americans dont just think of the Mormon and Catholic churches as hateful places of worship, but synagogues too! Its unclear how many "prominent rabbis" are joining a memo published in the conservative Zeh Journal , or exactly who they are, but a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Intel targeted in Jerusalem’s Sabbath wars

  
  Interfaith — Authority: 128
  Ultra-Orthodox Jews raided Intel offices in Jerusalem this weekend in protest at the chip maker staying open on the Sabbath. Some 1,500 protesters gathered outside the offices on Saturday chanting “Shabbes! Shabbes!”, the Yiddish word for Sabbath. Before the protest, Intel ringed its offices with barbed wire. A ...
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• Vivivanes Corner

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  Djihad soudain ou « syndrome dextrême stress » à Fort Hood ?: Quand un musulman en Occident, sans raison apparente, attaque violemment des non-musulmans, il sensuit une discussion prévisible sur les raisons qui lont poussé à agir.LEstablishment – Force de lordre, politiciens, médias et monde académique- se ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rock the Casbah, ultra orthadox Israelis protest Intel working on the Sabbath

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 132
  More than a thousand ultra orthodox Jews protested noisily outside an Intel Israel plant yesterday and today over its continued production through the Sabbath. For you gentiles that was yesterday and today.  We used to have our own too, it was called Sunday. Intel Israel is one of that country’s largest ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 weeks ago

• The most abused expressions by frummies: “By”, “Baruch HaShem” and “Be Well”

  
  Frum Satire: Jewish Comedy — Authority: 500
  Y0u Jew Sure Do Talk Phunni! by Alan Busch I guess the current politically correct usage would call this a “rant”, but there are a few things some of us say in the observant community with such frequency that you just “wanna” strangle somebody while shouting at the top of your lungs: Okay let’s start ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• Rabbinical ruling causes havoc on elevators (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AP – The Jewish day of rest has become a bit more labor-intensive for Yosef Ball. Here is the original:  (AP)"> (AP)">Rabbinical ruling causes havoc on elevators (AP)
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• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  5 weeks ago

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