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A Rabbi’s Plea: Wave Money not Chickens
Sadly, today’s travesty of kapores transgresses major torah prohibitions and needs to be changed. When one participates in the custom of kaparos today one is actually committing the following...
A New Year’s Giveaway!
Seltzer: Addicted. Since childhood. And I’ve been halishing over a SodaStream since I first discovered one at my dear friends, the Hollanders z’l, in Jerusalem years ago. BTW (Haslishing...
Why do Jews Dip Apples in Honey on Jewish New Years?
The tradition of dipping apples into honey is explored by funny man Benji Lovitt. Most importantly, the issue in question is “why honey?” Surely in this modern age, we can come up with an...
Shalom HoneyCake: The Annual Recipe Roundup
I am fresh from my holiday challah baking class at Breads bakery with Chef uri Scheft and reading recipes. In North America, it is not even Labor Day Weekend, and national newspapers are printing...
Shalom, Asher!
If you haven’t yet seen the fabulousness that is the play, “My Name is Asher Lev,” one word comes to mind… go! “My Name is Asher Lev” is based on the novel by...
To Reform and Conservative Leaders: Please Stop Bashing the Orthodox
I do not like using a blog as a platform or a soap box for posting self serving opinion pieces. Everything that I have posted until now has fallen under the category of “features” rather...
Mercedes Benz Travels Back in Time and Kills Little Hitler
Tobias Haase, Jan Mettler and Lydia Lohse, film students at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany, created this fake Mercedes-Benz ad as their Thesis. Featured is Mercedes Benz’s Collision...
Québec is Ridiculous. Again.
Québec at its best is an open minded, tolerant and vivacious society, one that embraces and celebrates its diversity. Protective of its European distinctiveness but confident in its rightful place in...
The Fight for the Life of Young Idan Zablocki; Interview With NYC Republican Mayoral Candidate Joe Lhota
A young couple, Amanda and Akiva Zablocki, fight for the life of their child, Idan, and you can help at YouCaring.com; NYC Republican Mayoral candidate Joe Lhota’s sits down for an interview...