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Jewish internet dating rant

In an effort to relive the glory days of Frum Satire, before anyone actually read this blog I am re-posting certain posts with edits. This was originally published on June 25th, 2006 – the first day of this blog. It used to be that online dating was taboo for frummies every where, until our good friend Frumster came along — ...

Jewish Hockey Player Claims Anti-Semitism, Now a Senator

There would probably be more anti-Semitism in the National Hockey League if there were only more Jewish players. TMZ reports that the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks are being accused of abusing Jewish Player Jason Bailey. The 23-year-old was a 3rd round draft pick in 2005 and he “claims from the moment the Ducks assigned him to play for an affiliate team ...

New Year’s On Shabbat

The solar system doesn’t want me to party. It doesn’t want you to party either. If it did, it would somehow avoid putting New Year’s Eve on a Friday night.It’s been worse. I’m sure many of you Shomer Shabbat people remember that the new millennium was brought in on Shabbat. This is also known as the only time the TV ...

New Year’s Noshery and Navelgazing

Holy Moses, it’s almost 5772 and I haven’t made my honeycake yet!Life been as twisty as a ram’s horn lately as I recover from another trip out West (Dad’s rehab is going well) and continue to find the groove at the new gig (I launched The Civil Society Column last week. Hope my Marxist feminist dialectic brings all the Southerners ...

New Poll Reveals What Everyone Knows, or Should Know

An important new poll of Palestinian opinion was released last week to minimum fanfare. The poll confirmed what no one wants to hear: the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza is far from being ready to accept Israel’s existence or to conclude a peace treaty based on two states for two peoples.Nearly two-thirds (66%) of the Palestinians polled ...

New Old Torah

Chazal instruct us to approach Torah each day with the wonder and excitement of something new and fresh. This is both good advice and a tall order; familiarity and the sense of routine that accompanies it are hard to erase.A famous physician once passed through Bluzhov, and the Chassidim prevailed upon him to examine their rebbe. With some anticipation in ...

New Nesting Houses Mobile Kit In The Shop!

I’ve had his idea for a nesting house mobile ever since I designed my nesting dreidel mobile, and it has finally come to fruition! It’s a 25 page digital crafting kit with lots of fun pages that you print from your own computer. Mix and match the elements and have fun making some festive mobiles and decorations that you can ...

New Name for Conservative Judaism?

It’s not unusual for a company to change names following a high-profile scandal. Philip Morris famously changed to Altria, Blackwater became Xe, ValuJet became AirTran, and Andersen Consulting became Accenture following its involvement in the Enron scandal. Cingular became AT&T, and the WWF became the WWE. I wouldn’t be surprised if BP changed its name after the recent disastrous oil spill in ...

New from Talmudic Books: “The Kosher Kabbalah: Non-Esoteric Passages from the Zohar” Kindle Edition

New from Talmudic Books, “The Kosher Kabbalah: Non-Esoteric Passages from the Zohar” [Kindle Edition], Maurice Simon, Harry Sperling, Paul Levertoff, with Reuven Brauner (selection, preface and notes). $.99.This amazing book contains a carefully chosen selection of 837 of the non-esoteric portions of the Zohar, Judaism’s most fundamental and influential work of the Kabbalah, the corpus of Jewish mysticism.You can read ...

New Free Kinnos Kinnot Lamentations Elucidations for Tisha B’Av

Reuven Brauner wrote to us from Raanana, Israel about his new publication on the lamentations (Hebrew: kinnot or kinnos) for Tisha B’Av, “Key Notes for Kinnos.” The work is available in PDF format for free downloading at http://www.halakhah.com/:The Tisha B’Av poems of lament, the Kinnos, like all our Piyyutim and Selichos, were written in a poetic language and style containing hinted ...

New Books for Review on Jewish Prayer

We’ve bought or received these handsome new books on the subject of Jewish prayer.Our reviews will follow in due course.Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer Is Difficult and What to Do About ItInnovation in Jewish Law: A Case Study of Chiddush in HavineinuRead More: @ tzvee.blogspot.comYou might also like:Should we say kaddish for the New Yorker?How to ...

New Book: Rabbi Soloveitchik in the New World

The Van Leer Institute and Magnes Press have published a new academic book on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s impact on Judaism.The exciting new (Hebrew) book is based on a conference that was held in Jerusalem several years ago.Rabbi in the New World The Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture, Education and Jewish Thought Edited By Avinoam Rosenak and ...