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Davening Man Removed from Plane
2008-04-17 22:49:00 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 ... More About: News , Travel , Prayer , Plane , Halacha
The Limits of Freedom
2008-04-17 22:16:00 At the Seder we ask a myriad of questions. We are fortunate to have answers for most of our questions. One question however, has two seemingly contradictory answers. In the earlier stages of Magid, we claim that Matza is the bread of affliction that we ate in Egypt. We are eating ... More About: Philosophy , Freedom , Passover , Limits
Dream Jobs
2008-04-17 21:44:00 Many of us have dreamed of working in a high profile industry: sports, publishing, television or the movies. The work may sound exciting, almost like it is not work at all! Many do gain significant satisfaction by working in an industry that is glamorous and exciting. But remember, it is still a job and sometimes ... More About: Jobs , Workplace , Dream
Super Easy and Quick Flourless Chocolate Cake
2008-04-17 20:31:00 This is a favorite, not just for Pesach, but all year because it is so delicious. Small slices, please, it is very rich. Ingredients: 1 12 ounce package of bittersweet chocolate chips 1 stick margarine (4-ounces) 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup strong coffee, brewed and cooled 3 eggs Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Use a greased 8-inch springform pan. ... More About: Food , Super , Cake , Chocolate , Quick
Jewneric Comes to a City Near You Soon. Will You Be There?
2008-04-16 20:40:00 For a little while now, we, the Jewneric Partners, have been considering throwing a party. Well, actually, it would be a series of parties. Well, actually, it would be a series of phat networking events (I’m bringing back the word “phat”). Well, actually, it would be a ... More About: Business , Food , Community , Jobs , Announcement
The Trouble With Antisemitism
2008-04-16 19:21:00 The Trouble with Antisemitism Uploaded by Jewneric For more information on Rabbi Karsh please visit The Torah Learning Center More About: Philosophy , Israel , Hamas
Dvar Torah Fodder for the Seders
2008-04-16 01:28:00 Most people who read this website are probably also scurrying to clean their houses for Passover (leaven begone!) and searching high and low for divrei torah for the Seders. In the interests of satiating that need and self-promotion, here are my two suggestions for you if you want to rile up your family and friends. . . Are ... More About: Philosophy , Holidays , Torah
The Pope Goes to Synagogue
2008-04-15 21:42:00 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 ... More About: News , Passover
Family stress during the job search
2008-04-14 21:21:00 Searching for a job can be stressful, not only personally but with outside stress as well. Family and friends can often be insensitive with questions or comments such as ?Why aren?t you working yet?? or ?your still in that dead end job??. It is important to manage the stress as much as possible ... More About: Business , Jobs , Search , Stress
Crunching the Jewish Art Numbers
2008-04-14 19:18:00 For those of you who haven’t stumbled across the great toy in Google Trends, I highly recommend it. I’ve crunched the numbers below to try to illustrate where Jewish art stands. GT allows you to search up to 5 items, and “see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time.” In the graph ... More About: Numbers
Traveling Geeks - SF Bay Area bloggers travel the world, starting with Isra
2008-04-14 18:00:00 I have found myself following the likes of a few SF Bloggers who are now in Israel . There for the The Marker Com.vention, “famous” bloggers have banded together to post about thier experience. I am impressed with their camaraderie and really love the aggregator, Travel ingGeeks , which they have put together for easy follow-ability. ... More About: World
The Abduction of David Zimlov
2008-04-14 15:22:00 Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf? Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! The three little pigs were still dancing and singing and hooting and whistling and playing their fiddles. The wolf had been dead for . . . ... More About: Humor , Jewish , David , Kosher , Abduction
Internet Predator Targets Jewish Students
2008-04-13 22:33:00 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 ... More About: Internet , Student , Students , Announcement
Prominent Westchester Rabbi and Wife Die in Tragic Accident
2008-04-13 04:25:00 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 ... More About: Community , Wife , Tragic , Accident , Westchester
Bibleman vs. The Jews
2008-04-11 22:54:00 While I have never really heard of Christian television, aside from things like “the 700 Club,” apparently there is a whole culture of Christian television. The Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian television network with over “275 television stations in the U.S. and on thousands of other cable television systems around the world in 75 countries” ... More About: Video , Entertainment , Jews
Justice Gabriel Bach: Eichmann Prosecutor
2008-04-11 19:15:00 On April 10, 2008, Justice Gabriel Bach came to speak at Touro Law in Central Islip, New York. Who is he? He is the former Justice to the Israel i Supreme Court, and also was a former prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann. Born in Germany in 1927, Justice Bach was educated in ... More About: Prosecutor
Matzah and the Boston Marathon
2008-04-11 18:11:00 Every year on Patriots Day, a Massachusetts holiday celebrating the start of the Revolutionary War in Concord, thousands of people run the Boston Marathon . While not as famous as its New York counterpart, over 25,000 runners take part. It usually falls on Pesach, many times Chol HaMoed, and Jews from all over the ... More About: Holidays , Sports , Food
MTV Releases Holocaust PSA
2008-04-11 00:39:00 A few weeks ago, MTV posted some interesting new videos as part of their Think Campaign, which tries to make it so that ” you, your friends, and your favorite celebrities can get informed, get heard and take action on the issues that matter to you most.” Two of these Public Service Announcements focus on ... More About: Video , Education , Entertainment , Holocaust
?I would like to send my children to Jewish school and live comfortably but
2008-04-10 18:52:00 I recently had dinner with an observant Jewish professional in his mid 30?s. He felt that to send one?s children to private day school, buy a house in the New York metro area and live comfortably, one needs a family income of at least $200,000 per year. Whether this is necessarily true or not, it ... More About: Business , Parenting , Children , Jobs
The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines
2008-04-10 02:54:00 I just stumbled on a Wired article from November of 2004 which profiles Jonah Ottensoser, an engineer for the Star-K. “A retired helicopter engineer who is himself Orthodox, Ottensoser teaches Sabbath law to technical teams at companies like General Electric, Electrolux, and Viking. His job: to guide them in building electronic brains and mechanical guts ... More About: Holidays , Cooking , Tech , Machines , Geek
Mrs. Huffington Goes to Israel
2008-04-09 22:17:00 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 ... More About: News , Politics , Travel , Web 2
Knockin? On Zimmerman?s Door
2008-04-08 07:11:00 While my current employment in Jewish entertainment media has come up in my posts from time to time, I’ve never quite had enough gall to publish one of my playlists. I do so today on two counts. On the one hand, I know that if I had opened this up here, I would have ... More About: Philosophy , Music , Entertainment , Lists , Torah
Combating Anti-Semitism
2008-04-08 07:00:00 I was walking home for shul this Shabbos when a Lexus came to a stop about twenty feet away from me. Two kids, no more than seventeen, sat in the front of the car. As I walked by they rolled down their window and began to yell a series of anti-Semitic things at me. ... More About: Philosophy , Jewish , Anti-Semitism , Anti
Statistically Speaking?
2008-04-08 04:27:00 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 ... More About: News , Community , General , Speaking
Bedtime Stories
2008-04-07 22:04:00 When we watch the evening news, everything we hear and see will have already happened. The news anchors are telling us stories. We watch because we believe that knowing those stories will help us navigate the path from the present to the future. We hear the same story over and over again, told with slight variation. ... More About: Stories
?I am Sabbath observant. How do I tell a potential new boss??
2008-04-07 16:06:00 An often difficult question vexing potential new employees is bringing up the issue of Sabbath and holiday observance. I would suggest not bringing up the issue until late in the interviewing process. Wait until you are in the final stages of the interview or have received an offer. Clearly explain what time off you require and ... More About: Business , Boss
The Incredible Story of ?Natan Levy?/AKA Ted Riley Floyd
2008-04-06 06:36:00 In another proof that real life outdoes film in the sensationalism department, the ultra-orthodox community of Lakewood, NJ was shocked to learn that a member of their community had been exposed as a non-Jewish identity thief from Kansas. The young man, whom they had come to know as “Natan Levy,” was actually Ted Riley Floyd ... More About: News , Story , Incredible
The Incredible Story of Isaac Hersh
2008-04-06 06:06:00 Isaac Hersh, the son of the CEO of a prominent Orthodox organization based in Brooklyn, was recently rescued from a torture camp in Jamaica and brought home to America in what has to be the most sensational story to come out of the Orthodox world in a long time. I happen to have some inside ... More About: News , Story , Incredible , Isaac
Re: Kippot At Job Interviews
2008-04-04 20:19:00 I was going to write this as a comment to an earlier post by Lavie Margolin, “I regularly wear a Kippah. Somebody told me not to wear it on an interview. What should I do?” It got a little long and in-depth, so I thought I’d post it on its own. Here it ... More About: Philosophy , Interviews , Jobs , Workplace
Google, Yahoo & Facebook Officials to Attend Jerusalem Tech Conference
More articles from this author:2008-04-04 17:58:00 Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google , will be attending the upcoming technical conference arranged by President Shimon Peres, to be held at Jerusalem ?s Binyanei Ha?uma International Convention Center. Brin, as well as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Yahoo president Susan Decker will convene at a presidential panel on technology to be held ... More About: Politics , Israel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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