This commercial was a controversial one allegedly made by Honda for Israel. Suffice to say, if this commercial indeed was made by Honda, it was probably forced to take it down pretty quickly. Still, it’s one heck of a message.…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Yisroel Lamm in Rehearsal – Philharmonic Experience PART 1 (12/99)
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December, 1999
Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak – a sharp confrontation with Neturei Karta
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הרב אמנון יצחק – עימות חריף עם איש נטורי קרתא משת”פ האיוב. לעוד מגוון רחב של שאלות ותשובות בהידות בכל נושא שתבחר עם מנוע חיפוש רחב, תשובות כבוד הרב לכל שאלה שתשאל, כנס ל: http://www.shofar.net/site/faq.htm
Instructing a Gentile on Shabbos
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Many of us have learned that it’s actually Rabbinically forbidden on Shabbos to ask a non-Jew to perform forbidden activities on Shabbos for us. The category of this falls on a title of “Amira L’Akum” (speaking to a Goy), and…
Mizmor Shir L’Yom HaShabbos – coming or going?
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A couple of weeks ago it was Shabbos-Rosh Chodesh. At a Friday night Oneg on that Shabbos I had the Zchus of hearing Rabbi Azarya Berzon of Toronto Torah speak very nicely on the importance of Rosh Chodesh as a…
Waking up like a Lion
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A common misconception in Judaism has always been about waking up like a lion. Here I will clarify this. First, as for “waking up like a lion,” watch this video: This shows EXACTLY how a lion really wakes up, and…
Rabbinic Terrorism and the Internet
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This is already an old issue. Certain Rabbis, without fully knowing the technology, have whitewashed the Internet as a dangerous tool that Jews shouldn’t be a part of. There are many reasons to this, namely that anybody can post whatever…
Israel as a light unto the nations – Haiti
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While the other nations are providing money to the earthquake victims in Haiti, but not supplies, Israel is providing top-of-the-line medical supplies to those victims. WOW!!! Israeli Medical Corp in Haiti TodaysNetworkNews: HAITI: ISRAELI FIELD HOSPITAL WORKING AROUND-THE-CLOCK (U.N. MINUSTAH)…
‘Tefillin’ Prompts Scare On Plane
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What I find strange is that FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver said at a morning news conference that Tefillin are “something that the average person is not going to see very often, if ever.” What are we, in the middle ages? A…
My Zaida and the Rabbi with Horses
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When my Zaida (grandfather) was alive, one of the things that I noticed about him, was that in spite of him never having Smicha (Rabbinic ordination) he always found spare time to learn Torah, and oftentimes he tried to drag…