Archive for 'Pinchas' Category

The Solution To Terror

The sign reads “Leader (or Exalted) of the Generation Rabbi Ovadya Yosef, Shlita: ‘FORBIDDEN to continue the freeze – we must build in the whole country.’” Two points to whoever can dig up this old article – but around 13 years ago I spent a year here in Israel in Yeshiva. Bibi was Prime Minister [...]

Tisha B’Av 5770: Yet More Water at the Kotel

Five years ago, Rabbi Lazer Brody, wrote about water seeping out of the kotel. (I recall clearly the Jerusalem Post reporting water gushing – not seeping – out of the kotel, with photos, a few years prior to that.) Back then Rabbi Brody explained: By our own tradition, the moisture at the Western Wall of [...]

NBN Coming Attractions 2010

We Need More Jews Like This

Gaza flotilla convoy – explained

Let’s start at the beginning. It goes something like this…

Guaranteed By G-D Himself!

Yes, I’m reusing that photo yet again. Sorry, but it is SO perfect for this week’s Parsha which says: 25:18. You shall perform My decrees, and observe My ordinances and perform them; and you shall dwell securely on the land. 25:19. The land will give its fruit and you will eat to satisfaction; and you [...]

Super-Duper-Markets Come To Jerusalem

Call me lame but I’m someone that gets excited over nice supermarkets. I get even more excited when those supermarkets are in Israel. And when a new store opens that can rival a supergiant like Walmart or Costco, in size, service and value and it’s just a hop, skip and a jump away from my [...]

Overheard in Jerusalem

Man 1:  So how are you enjoying Eretz Yisrael? Man 2:  Thank G-d! I’m enjoying it very much. I tell you I was always very very afraid to come. I was very worried what it would be like here. But the standard of living is so much higher than I ever remember it. It’s really [...]

Video: Yom Hazikaron 5770

Siren Sounds 8PM on Yom Hazikaron in Jerusalem. Traffic, including buses and Jewish taxis stop and stand still in silence.

Hair and Parnassa

Shirat Devorah once posted this beautiful medrish on this week’s parsha: “If a mark of tzara’as appears on a person, he shall be brought to the Kohen” [Tazria 13:9] The Midrash Rabbah relates a story about a Kohen who used to examine individuals afflicted with tzara’as. The Kohen was extremely poor, however, and he was [...]