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Every year the Women in Green organization (led by Ruth and Nadia Matar) lead a massive march of Jewish people in a circle around the entire Old City Walls - it is one of the most inspiring of experiences - and often draws in excess of 10,000 participants. Here is a video from the march in 2007. Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av) is a full day of mourning and prayer commemorating the destruction of the Jewish Temples on the Har HaBayit (Temple Mounts). It is the only other full day of fasting...
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Eurovision 2008 Israel Boaz Mauda (1st Semi-final)
Boaz Mauda (b. April 23, 1987) is an Israeli singer. He won the fifth season of Kochav Nolad ("A Star is Born"), the Israeli version of Pop Idol, and represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, finishing in 9th place.
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CRAIG NEWMARK ISRAEL SPPECH - One of the most successful of websites in the history of the Internet is Craig's List (craigslist.org) founded by Craig Newmark, a Jewish enterpreneur originally from Morristown. The service was founded in 1995 by Newmark for the San Francisco Bay Area. After incorporation as a private for-profit company in 1999, Craigslist expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four each in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. As of September 2007, Craigslist had established...
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On March 25, 1911, 146 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City--mostly female Jewish immigrants--perished when fire engulfed their factory. Death came in many hideous ways: Some workers were trampled to death in the panic. Others suffocated on the smoke-filled ninth floor. More than 50 chose to jump to their deaths rather than burn once they discovered the emergency doors had been locked by their employer to keep them from leaving work early. Though nearly forgotten...
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KOSHERTUBE video "Torah in Stone" based on Rabbi Moses Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishna: THE NINTH ROOT is that this transcription, meaning that this Torah, and no other, was transcribed from the Creator and that we may not add to it or remove from it, neither in the Written Torah nor in the Oral Torah, as it says, ". . . you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it" (Deuteronomy 13:1).
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