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Beef, anyone?

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Read here about R’ Rafi G’s experience shechting some cows and sheep up in the North (you will either think that this is very cool or very gross…)

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One Year Aliyah Anniversary

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

One year and one day ago we made aliyah on NBN’s Chanuka 5766 flight (lit candles for the third day of Chanuka in Kennedy Aiport, for the fourth day in Kochav Yaakov). Though I am too busy to write anything substantial in commemoration, I did put together a little list of every-day things for which [...]

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Thanks, John

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

If you haven’t heard, the United State’s representative to the UN, John Bolton, has submitted his resignation. He has been working for the last fifteen months in a temporary capacity, after the Senate sat on his nomination for a whole year. Bush has resubmitted his nomination, but last week, faced with a new Democratic lead [...]

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Interview with Rabbi Riskin on Aliyah

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Check out this interview of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin by my friend Go’el Jasper (host of the Aliyah Revolution show on Arutz Sheva radio).
Some of the highlights:
Let me tell you very, very seriously. A rabbi can never truly and effectively preach something he does not practice. Most of the rabbis who took non-mechitza [partition between [...]

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Interactive Map of Israel

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

I have long been hoping that Google will make a version of their Maps site for Israel. I always found it to be extremely useful when trying to visualize a driving route, find directions, etc. But though it is a technology hotspot, there are many other areas in the world that have higher revenue potential [...]

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