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• Rabbis: Fundraising is about Inspiration and Conversation, So Be Involved!

  
  Tools for Shuls — Authority: 103
  I only vaguely remember a Chasidic story that influenced my feelings about fundraising (and if you’re aware of the citation, please let me know!).  The gist of it is that a certain rabbi has a relationship with a wealthy donor.  One day, the rabbi sees the donor learning in the study hall (beit ha-midrash). The ...
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• Cleveland: All about Chicago resources, Jan. 3

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Chicago genealogy resources are the topic at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland on Sunday, January 3, 2010. The meeting begins at 1.30pm, at Park Synagogue East. There is no fee. "Another City by the Lake: Jewish Genealogy Resources in Chicago," will be presented by Chicago historian, ...
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• Federal Taxes

  
  English Conversations — Authority: 109
  Download audio file (Federal Taxes.mp3) at albertopveiga First Guy: Prohibition ; it started many gangs you know? Irish gangs. Italian gangs. You know what I mean? In New York and Detroit and Chicago and all he big cities. And they were all pushing beer and they were driving up into Canada ...
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• Invention of the Week: Digital Synagogue Memorial Plaques

  
  Tzvee's Talmudic Blog — Authority: 478
  We were in a TV store recently and we got shelf-shock from the sheer variety of 42 inch and bigger digital displays at prices that went down by more than 50% in some cases in the past year. What does this video technology advance and price point mean for society? Is it good for the Jews? One Israeli company has ...
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• Mr. Municipal -- Put up that Menorah and Tear Down that Nativity Creche

  
  Tzvee's Talmudic Blog — Authority: 478
  Fairlawn NJ allowed the display of a Menorah in its Borough holiday display on public land a few years ago for the first time -- after debating the matter for a mere 30 years. Why was that a good thing? A Talmudic analysis will explain it. Like handshakes and holiday greetings -- seasonal trees and lamps can ...
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• NYT > World: British High Court Says Jewish School’s Ethnic-Based Admissions Policy Is Illegal

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Britain’s Supreme Court found a Jewish school guilty of racial discrimination for denying entry to a boy whose mother was a Jew by conversion, not birth.
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• British Court Upholds Ruling on Jewishness

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 150
  Britain’s Supreme Court found that a Jewish school was guilty of racial discrimination for denying entry to a boy whose mother was a Jew by conversion and not by birth.
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• Is Ben Bernanke Jewish?

  
  Tzvee's Talmudic Blog — Authority: 478
  Yes, Ben Shalom Bernanke is a Jew. He has now been named "Person of the Year" for 2009 by Time magazine , which said about him, "He didnt just reshape U.S. monetary policy; he led an effort to save the world economy." Bernanke has been Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve since ...
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• Love of the Land: Where Were Hamas and Fatah?

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 167
  Where Were Hamas and Fatah? Khaled Abu Toameh Hudson New York 15 December 09 While Fatah and Hamas have been complaining and crying over the past week about the torching of a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf -- an act allegedly carried out by extremist Jewish settlers – where were Hamas and ...
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• Asking for Money and Not Feeling Any Shame

  
  Tools for Shuls — Authority: 103
  The word for money in modern in day Hebrew is kesef. This word appears in the Bible and Rabbinic Hebrew as well. Interestingly, in those strata of Hebrew, kesef means both silver and shame. I’m guessing that the connection is that silver is a pale color and when we feel shame, blood drains from our [...]
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• Tales of success: How sweet it is!

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Back in June, Kevin Bowman in Ohio wrote to Tracing the Tribe about his Dutch Jewish ancestry, and shared information on the Akevoth database of Ashkenazim in 18th-century Amsterdam. He used the Akevoth database to find information on his EZEKIEL family. The photo below is Moses Jacob Ezekiel at the Virginia ...
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• Lashkar planning several Mumbai-style attacks on India

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Melbourne, Dec. 13 (ANI): The Lashkar-e-Taiba has reportedly been planning one or more additional Mumbai-style attacks on India. FBI and US Justice Department officials spent last week in India and Pakistan as part of an urgent effort to head off such an attack, sharing a wealth of information from their investigation ...
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• YouTube: Ancient Synagogues Explored

  
  Tzvee's Talmudic Blog — Authority: 478
  There are two levels of archaeology here. First, our video presents our commentary to our visits in 1983 to ancient synagogue sites in Israel. We broke the video into three segments so that we could post it to YouTube. We undertook a second archeological expedition in August 2009 to unearth and recover the video ...
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• UK: East end synagogue restored

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  The venerable Congregation of Jacob synagogue, founded in 1903 in Londons East End is one of only three still-active area congregations. An extensive renovation of the 107-year-old building has been completed. The building has been variously called a "valuable and venerable relic of Anglo-Jewish social history" and ...
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• The Policewomen of America’s Future . . . & the UK’s Present

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 673
  By Debbie SchlusselI always say that America to Britain is like Conservative Judaism to Reformed Judaism.  Both are watered down versions of something that in its purer form is good.  And one is just ten years behind the other in becoming even more watered down and farther from the real thing.America is only a ...
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• Romania: Jewish Museum genealogy resources

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  There is a Jewish museum in Bucharest, detailed as part of a website devoted to the countrys past and present Jewish life. If your research includes this once-large Jewish presence in many population centers, Tracing the Tribe highly recommends this website . The museum section of the site details the displays of ...
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• 5 Ways your synagogue or church is like Google

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Listening to on-line interviews and written reports of statements of the last few days made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it is tempting to see Google as a unique phenomenon. To be sure, Google, with its You-Tube and other subsidiaries ranks as one of the greatest and most inventive enterprises ever known to man. As I ...
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• Tel Aviv: Lithuanian synagogues exhibit opens Dec. 17

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  An exhibit of Lithuanian synagogue photos will open at Beit Hatfutsot (the Museum of the Jewish People) in Tel Aviv on Thursday, December 17. "Sounds of Silence: Traces of Jewish life in Lithuania" is under the auspices of the Embassy of Lithuania in Israel, and focuses on the remaining synagogues in the country. The ...
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• New Orleans: Jewish history exhibit

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  A New Orleans Jewish heritage exhibit is open through the first week in January at Tulane Universitys Louisiana Research Collection (LRC). The LRC was formed by the manuscripts department and the Louisiana collection department. One of its strengths are Jewish-related archives of local organizations and synagogues. ...
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• Flushings Free Synagogue need repairs

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 577
  From the Times Ledger : The Free Synagogue of Flushing, a rare remnant of the neighborhood’s past, has fallen into disrepair, but its current caretakers are beginning in earnest to pursue its full restoration. The 82-year-old temple is an example of an increasingly uncommon sight in downtown Flushing, a reminder ...
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