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Just before his dastardly Gaza deportation of 10,000 Jews from their homes, ultra-Orthodox Jews invoked the Kabbalistic Pulsa d'Nura ("Lashes of Fire") curse against its instigator Ariel Sharon, that he should die within the year. As with his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin, who was also so cursed, and was killed one month to the day, Sharon was felled six months to the day of this cursing. The Pulsa's wording makes chilling reading: "On Ariel the son of Vera of the family Sheinerman, we request...
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"Up, Up, and Oy Vey" is a new book authored by Chabad Rabbi Simcha Weinstein. The book chronicles how Jewish history, culture, and values helped shape the early years of the comic book industry. The early comic book creators were almost all Jewish, and as children of immigrants, they spent their lives trying to escape the second-class mentality which was forced on them by the outside world. Their fight for truth, justice, and the American Way is portrayed by the superheroes they created. The...
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"Hear O Israel - the L-rd our G-d, the L-rd is one." (Deuteronomy 6:4) This is the central article of Jewish faith and commitment. But how does one conduct oneself in such a way as to exemplify the totality of G-d's oneness? We learn what declaring G-d's unity is all about from Rabbi Akiva. Ve'etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) - Parashat Ve'etchanan is read on Shabbat: Menachem Av 15, 5768/August 16, 2008 - source: www.templeinstitute.org
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Berel Wein has dedicated many years to promoting Jewish education and has now issued a series of DVDs and high-quality content to pass on Jewish history to a media-hungry generation. Here is a flash trailer to the video on The Rambam, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers and halachic expert in the last 1000 years. His main work - the Mishne Torah - remains to this day a basis for the Jewish understanding of the Biblical commandments. Maimonides's full name was Moses ben Maimon; in Hebrew he...
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Who is Vendyl Jones? An excerpt from the 1998 documentary "DIGGING UP THE FUTURE" - Vendyl Jones was born on May 29, 1930, and grew up in Sudan, Texas. Vendyl Jones, noted Biblical scholar and archaeologist will be the recipient of the Annual Noah Award at the upcoming World Conference of Noahide Nations in 2008. Ray Pettersen, organizer of the event, said today that Jones was being recognized for a life-long pursuit to unearth tangible Biblical truths and for his efforts to raise awareness...
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