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• Mehuderet Update

  

  Back in August the Rabbanut of Jerusalem announced that it was forming a new hechsher called Rabbanut Mehuderet. It would be "less" than Mehadrin, but more... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• New State-run Kashrut Authority Being Formed

  The job of mashgiach kashrut has always been conflicted - on the one hand, everyone is trusting the mashgiach to get the kashrut right. On the other hand, they... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Badatz Calls for Prayers for Rain

  

  This winter has been a bit strange. It started off with a dry spell, and eventually led for a call for saying the prayer (Aneinu) for rain. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Whoops.. MK Ahmed Tibi Caught in a Lie While Acting Irresponsibly in Knesset...

  MK Tibi was the host of an outburst of heckling during the Knesset speech of Canadian PM Steven Harper. It was really inappropriate to act like that during the... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Attorney General Call for New Elections

  The Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein has called for new elections. Wait. that is old news, isn't it? In Bet Shemesh it is old news, but now Weinstein has... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Encouraging Yiddish Aliyah to Israel (video)

  World Mizrachi has gone on a Yiddish campaign to encourage aliyah among hassidim, especially Satmar, to Eretz Yisrael.. They have put out this video in Yiddish... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Breaking News: Rabbinic Organization (Tzohar) Forms Rabbinic Council to Discuss...

  

  The rabbinic organization Tzohar has now formed its own rabbinical council. Some see it as an alternative to the Rabbanuts rabbinic council, but Tzohar people... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• New RBS Abuse Situation Goes Straight to the Police

  It seems there is great improvement in the child abuse - sexual molestation scene. Perhaps all the lectures, the videos, the guest speakers, are actually raisin... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Uman Entry Fee Turns Rebbe Nachman's Grave into Uman Land

  

  Will Breslav hassidim stay home next Rosh Hashana instead of travelling to Uman? The Ukranian parliament is weighing a proposal that might make it... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Women to Put on Tefillin and Ask to Take Semicha Exams

  The issue of womens equality is in the news.. in some unexpected places.. 1. A couple of girls in a Modern Orthodox all-girls high school have requested... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Why the Palestinians Won't Accept Israel as a Jewish State

  

  Ever wonder why the Palestinians have refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish State? I have. I wonder what's the big deal in recognizing the reality, even if yo... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Caption Contest: Moshe Abutbol

  

  I do not know the source of the following picture, but I received it from a couple different people and saw it passed around a bit. I think it is a bit of a sad... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Technion Nobel Roots - Tu B'shvat 2014 Israel (video)

  Prof. Albert Einstein started a Technion-Nobel tradition in 1923 when he planted a palm tree at Technion's original campus. Since 2007, all visiting Nobel... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Canadian PM Steven Harper in the Knesset (video)

  PM Harper has been unwavering in his support for Israel, and he deserves all the love showered upon him by the Israeli public and the Knesset. Harper is even th... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Interesting Posts #528

  1. a nice article (in Hebrew) in the real estate section of Ynet describing the neighborhood of RBS 2. Haredi women want to run marathons - this woman is Chabad... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Summoned to Beis Din for Selling an Iphone

  According to this story on Kooker, and I have no idea as to the veracity of the story, the owner of a store selling cellular phones in Modiin Ilit has been... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Calling for Gas Tank Reform

  

  We woke up this morning to news of a terrible story in Jerusalem. A leak from a gas tank (a tank for supplying gas to a house) led to an explosion,. Part of... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Pope Might Allow Investigation into Church and Papal Behavior of the...

  The Pope has indicated that he may open the Vatican archives... no, he will not be returning the Menorah or telling us where it is (the myth that won't go... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Zionist Potatoes Caught Spying in Kuwait!

  

  January seems to be a bad month for Israeli vegetables. At least ones that are caught trying to spy in Arab countries. Last year in January some Israeli... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• One Chief Rabbi Bill Passes in Committee

  We are well on our way to have just one Chief Rabbui of Israel. Yesterday the Committee for Legislation approved the bill proposed by Ministers Tzippi Livni... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY