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• Australian Businessman Accused of Fraud Flees Home

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  The JTA reports :   SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — A Jewish businessman accused of defrauding investors of $1.7 billion reportedly has left his home in Sydney fearing for his safety. South African-born Barry Tannenbaum has “relocated to what he perceives to be a safer location,” his lawyer, Darryl Ackerman, ...
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• Cantors behaving badly

  
  The Rebbetzin's Husband — Authority: 489
  Some dozen years ago, I was hired by a great mentor of mine to translate the Aruch haShulchans Laws of Shabbos. It was an incredible learning opportunity, on many levels - and one of those was intense exposure to R Yechiel Michel Epsteins views on halachic debates of his day. Here is one of my favorite passages, on ...
  3 days ago

• Vandals strike California Synagogue, Florida JCC

  
  Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism — Authority: 111
  November 11, 2009 (JTA) — Anti-Semitic messages and symbols were painted on a Sacramento-area synagogue. Police are trying to determine whether Tuesday’s attack on Congregation Beth Shalom was a hate crime, the Sacramento Bee reported. The vandalism included a swastika, the phrase “Kristallnacht still ...
  5 days ago

• How To Start a Blog in 14 Steps for Congregations

  
  Talance Friendly Web Tools Blog — Authority: 109
  The blockbuster conference for the Union of Reform Judaism was a somber affair, the JTA reported . Namely because synagogues are suffering attrition, budget cuts and shakier unions (the URJ was recently restructured). Now is time for congregations – no matter the faith – to take a lesson from the conference, ...
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• Must-See TV for synagogue rabbis, presidents, and anyone creating a community institution

  
  The Rebbetzin's Husband — Authority: 489
  This is it; this is the real deal: What if Starbucks Marketed Like the Church? Everything from the reserved parking spots (yes, I had one) to the locked doors to the overt emphasis on winning souls/converts to the harrassment-in-the-name-of-being-welcoming to the hard-sell for new attendees to the over-branding to ...
  6 days ago

• AM.MN: Rice speech protested outside temple

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 678
  The president didn’t authorize it, so by definition the protest Sunday of a speech by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might have been torture. More than 100 people picketed Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park Sunday ( Norm Coleman was inside, Coleen Rowley outside). Signs like “Try Condi Rice ...
  1 week ago

• Early symbol depicting Judaism found in Galilee

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday, reports Michael Ireland, сhief сorrespondent, ASSIST News Service.The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago ...
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• Yisroel Pensack: Britain’s Top Court Grapples with “Who Is A Jew?” and “Who Decides?”

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  The New York Times reports :  On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in ...
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• The Stories All Run Together

  
  Truth Surfer — Authority: 99
  Everyday there are stories...images that paint our world... The Lost Soul: Enuff said: Suspect Was to Be Sent to Afghanistan ArchAngels: Many blue dogs are opposed to health care for Americans because they are fiscally responsible…or so the story goes...but if that is really the reason then why does the ...
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• Prejean Sex Tape, Seacrest Stalker and Octo-Mel

  
  Things I Learned This Week - The Funniest News Show on the Net — Authority: 107
  Prejean Sex Tape, Seacrest Stalker and Octo-Mel These are the THINGS I LEARNED THIS WEEK Plus: Mini Me Threatens, the moral compass of Jon Gosselin and Dance Your Ass Off returns! Brought to you by NUTRISYSTEM DISCOUNT LINK – Get $25 off your first order. Just go to Nutrisystem.com/LEARNED ...
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• Spirituality at B’nai Jeshurun: Reflections of Two Scholars and Three Rabbis

  
  Synablog — Authority: 103
  This S3K Report on "BJ," features three fascinating pieces. Professors Ayala Fader and Mark Kligman undertook a very rich and revealing ethnography of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (BJ) on New York’s Upper West Side, back in 1998 under the auspices of then Synagogue 2000 and BJ itself. Ten years later, they present ...
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• Would you watch this movie?

  
  The Rebbetzin's Husband — Authority: 489
  [ This weeks Toronto Torah is now available here ! ] Here’s the movie review: “ The actors were stiff, their motions minimalist in the extreme. The movements the director prescribed to fill out the picture, to lend impact to their words, to convince the audience that they really meant what they were saying ...
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• WHATS A SELF-STYLED ZIONIST?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  ... As for "self-styled [Zionist]," I put it that way because they are not Zionists. This is spiritually deep. David was admittedly confused. Zion was more than he knew. He knew it was supposed to be peaceful. He blamed those outside for starting the fighting. The real Zion is the peaceful Heaven in your mind and ...
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• A Serious Man: An Ad for Rabbinical School?

  
  Tools for Shuls — Authority: 99
  My wife and I finally had a chance to see the Coen brothers’ new movie, A Serious Man. In addition to enjoying the Coen brothers’ movies, we had to see it because it’s set in our neighborhood (St. Louis Park, MN). Some scenes were shot in a local synagogue and the old Talmud Torah building in [...]
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• Inter-Faith Network of Calgary meeting at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue

  
  That We May Know Each Other: Calgary Interfaith Initiatives — Authority: 400
  On October 15, 2009 the Inter-Faith Network of Calgary (IFNC) met at the Beth Tzedec Synagogue.Azim Jivraj, the Muslim representative on the executive of IFNC, provided the following summary of the session:Topics to be discussed were "What is the spiritual significance of climate change and humanitys role in it; what ...
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• Restauration des synagogues dEgypte: entre indifférence et hostilité

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  reçu dEsther SedaouiLE CAIRE — Si la communauté juive a quasiment disparu dEgypte, elle a laissé derrière elle de nombreuses traces de son passé. Les habitants sont pour la plupart indifférents face à cet héritage, voire hostiles lorsque les autorités restaurent des synagogues, geste quils jugent trop ...
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• WATCH – The Douche and the Rabbi: Jon Gosselin’s probably gonna write a book about his spiritual journey

  
  starcasm.net — Authority: 596
  Whether or not Jon Gosselin is gettin’ drunk, gettin’ laid, or gettin’ spiritual, he wants to do it in the public eye, and I would be very surprised if he didn’t drop a book on us in the next few months about his “spiritual journey.” All he needs is a ghostwriter, and an Oprah interviewLast [...]Related ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shooting At American Synagogue

  
  OneJerusalem.com Israel News Blog Feed — Authority: 129
  This last Thursday morning at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue , in North Hollywood, a gunman opened fire and shot two people in the legs. The shooting happened at about 6:20 am, around the time of morning prayers, and the two casualties were both men in their thirties. This attack happened just 10 ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Is The LAPD And News Media So Cocksure The Synagogue Shooting Was Not A Hate Crime?

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  If this had happened at a mosque, do you think there is one chance in a hundred that they would’ve been so quick to declare this was not a hate crime? The Los Angeles Times reports this morning : Los Angeles Police Department detectives said today they have "strong leads" in the shooting that left two people ...
  2 weeks ago

• LAPD Turns North Hollywood Upside Down After Synagogue Shooting

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 785
  If only every shooting in Los Angeles got this kind of response.
  2 weeks ago

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