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• Book Review: Historical Atlas of Hasidism

  

  A Guest Post by Dr Harold Goldmeier BOOK REVIEW: HISTORICAL ATLAS OF HASIDISM Author: Professor Marcin Wodziński Cartography: Waldemar Spallek Princeton... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Work for Teens

  An amazing thing about Israel (I just discovered and experienced) - a teenage kid can work as an usher at the Kotel, standing by the Kotel all day long helping... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Tweet of the Day

  Mahmoud Abbas has just spent a lot of time describing Israel's Nation-State Law—which codifies the country's Jewish identity—as "racist. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Interesting Psak: Converted Woman is Jewish

  A Jewish woman living in Georgia (the country, not the state), has decided to make aliyah but has met with resistance and refusal. Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Quote of the Day

  I am not allowed to tell you which candidate to vote for but you should vote for whichever candidate promises to bring me back to perform here every year! Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Picture of the Day

  

  credit to Chaim Goldberg ------------------------------------------------------ Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Synagogues of England (video)

  

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  Posted on 27 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Israeli Frenemies- Sep. 21, 2018 (video)

  

  this is not the first Israel Frenemies without Ari Fuld, HY'D, as he was away and replaced a number of times, but it is the first one post Ari Fuld... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Yonatan Razel & Mzansi Youth Choir - Our Soul Waits (video)

  

  this is fabulously colorful and energetic ------------------------------------------------------ Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Tweet of the Day

  this is referring to the traditional Birkas Kohanim at the Kotel on Chol Hamoed event.. Thousands of Zionist settlers have stormed al-Aqsa Mosque Compound to... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Book Review: Architects of Death

  

  NOTE: I was not paid to review this book. It is an unbiased and objective review. If you have a book with Jewish or Israel related content and would like me to... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• the Reform Are Trying to Take Over the Kotel (video)

  

  I am not sure I get the point but it seems to be saying that because the Reform are trying to take control of part of the Kotel, we should take control of the... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Picture of the Day

  

  Former PM Ehud Olmert came under a lot of criticism for this meeting with Abu Mazen a few days ago, and for what he said about it after the fact, but one point... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Tweet of the Day

  Translation of the post below: In the Rami Levy compound at the Gush Etzion junction there is a poor #Palestinian family in need. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Interesting Psak: Buying Lulavs from Gaza

  Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Safed (Tzfat), issued a psak today that people should not buy lulavs for the upcoming holiday that were grown in Gaza. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Quote of the Day

  After denials for many months, the plan of Deri and Lieberman to try to take control of Jerusalem has been exposed by running Moshe Leon again as a candidate - ... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• When Personalities Are the Issue

  The fighting between the different factions in UTJ (and add Shas to the picture) over municipal elections in various cities has gone from a minor, and even... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• and Now Ethiopians Can't Cook

  

  Phineas T Barnum supposedly said there is no such thing as bad publicity. The veracity of that expression is debatable, but both the Rabbanut and the Ethiopian... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Banning Separate Swimming in Rahat

  

  History has been made with the first "country club" being built and opened in the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel. "Country Club" in Israel usually... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Para Aduma Found, Now Looking for Kosher Kohen

  

  Another potentially kosher para aduma, red heifer, was recently born, this time in Israel. The Machon Hamikdah, the Temple Institute, is overseeing that it be... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY