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Online Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Kol Nidre services, on Video, on a Live Webcast 27 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
Our sincere and heartfelt best wishes to all our readers for a Year of Blessing and Health, Prosperity and Good Cheer. Rosh Hashanah 5774 - 2013 falls on Thursday, the 5th of September and will conti...
Is Sam Horowitz' Bar Mitzvah Dance Video Kosher? 18 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
Sam Horowitz performed a dance at the Omni Hotel in Dallas to celebrate his bar mitzvah. Sam danced on stage in November 2012 with eight (visibly taller) women dancers in a number that lasted less tha...
Is Carl Icahn Jewish? 14 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
Yes, corporate raider billionaire Carl Icahn is a Jew. Wikipedia says, "Icahn was raised in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, where he attended Far Rockaway High School. His family was Jewish in n...
Is Steve Lonegan, the anti-Spanish former Mayor of Bogota, Jewish? 14 Aug 2013 | 08:48 pm
No, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Lonegan is not a Jew. He is Catholic and attends St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Bogota. Back on 7/17/2006 here is what we posted on our ...
Selichot are Not Outcries 9 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
My teacher, Rav Soloveitchik taught that the selichot prayers are an outcry to God, a form of prayer that is out loud and hence a blatant public event. Outcry prayers he says, are different from more ...
Is Google NOW incredible or creepy? Is NOW kosher? 2 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
There sometimes is a fine line between incredible and creepy.The Times hints at this in a review of phone app technology that seems to know what you are thinking, especially Google NOW. Case in point...
Is Israel's National bird the Hoopoe - Duchifat - Hud Hud Kosher? 2 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
No, in fact Israel's National bird, the Hoopoe - Duchifat - Hud Hud, is not kosher. It is "an unclean animal that may not be eaten." The Times had an editorial in June 2008 that talked about the newl...
JStandard: My Dear Rabbi Talmudic Advice Column for August 2 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Published in the Jewish Standard, Dear Rabbi: Your Talmudic advice column Dear Rabbi, My son, his wife and children have decided to make aliyah to Israel. My husband and I understand their practical...
The Incredible Pebble Watch and the Free Caddie Golf App 30 Jul 2013 | 07:06 am
I play golf, I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 android smartphone. I started to use the Free Caddie app for determining distance to the green. The problem was that the phone is hard to see in the bright sun...
Is Ice Hockey Jewish? 28 Jul 2013 | 06:48 pm
I never thought of ice hockey as a Jewish sport, even when I played it as a kid in rented ice rinks at midnight or on those rare frozen winter days in central park. There simply were no Jewish profess...
