CALL TO ACTION – a tzadik who is a Baal tzedaka, is languishing in jail with an unprecedented sentence of over 150 years! He is the true definition of a Pidyon Shvuyim (a prisoner to a non...
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Shiva Watch: Beeswax, Broads, & Babies
BURT SHAVITZ, (born Ingram Berg Shavitz of Great Neck, Long Island, NY), 80, passed away. Shavitz became famous three decades ago when his beeswax and other Burt’s Bees natural products became...
Ellen Luvs Them Bar Mitzvah Boys
You remember how Ellen Degeneres has invited 13 year olds (or Madonna lovers) with unique Bar Mitzvah videos onto her nationally televised talkshow? This week, she hosted 13 year old Jesse Kaufman of...
Speak on it, Rabbi
You know that earthquake that happened Friday night near Alhambra? Yeah, that was caused by the earth-shaking speech given by Rabbi Moshe Greenwald of Downtown Los Angeles’ Chabad. Just...
New Gal in Town
For such a small place, there is quite a large Jewish and Israeli community. Before I arrived, I started contacting people through various Facebook pages, and was pleasantly surprised to get such...
Bloomington Maccabees Consecrate a Rock
It started a few weeks ago, on November 23, in Bloomington Indiana, home of the Indiana University Hoosiers. A rock was thrown at the Hillel House and at the Chabad House. At the university’s...
The Festival of Freedom
There are many who note that while we are free, there are those who are enslaved. There are slaves in the Sudan, Southeast Asia, and other places throughout the world. Lacking in specifics, I will...
Some interesting resources
One of the nice things about the Raphael Golb story (the man who used pseudonyms to attack scholars) is that many sites and blogs have been covering it. As a result, I have discovered some...