Three new sites, check ’em out.
Woman, Honor Thyself
Jordan is Palestine
The Thunder Run
New sites added to Smooth Stone’s blogroll
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Websites: Two new ones for you to check out
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I’ve added two websites to my blogroll today, Daf Notes and Simple To Remember. Check them out!
Website: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants
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From The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants is the umbrella organization of survivor groups and landsmanshaften located in North America that was founded in 1981. The mission of the organization is remembrance, education and commemoration. Immediately after the World Gathering of Jewish...
Haveil Havalim #115 is up
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Folks, Barbara’s Tchatzkahs is hosting Haveil Havalim this week and it’s a great round-up of posts from all over the JBlogosphere. I discovered some more blogs I hadn’t heard of before and even added the following to my blogroll cuz they were good enough for return visits: Barbara’s Tchatzkahs, Everyone Needs Therapy, Nuch Epes Ah Chosid, and The Shalvster.
Responding to the Winograd commission
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Folks, Soccer Dad has written an excellent rebuttal to the New York Times editorial on the Winograd commission. Read it here.
Moshe & Meir – 60 Years Later
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A Simple Jew has posted a wrenching article he received via e-mail from the Temple Institute about Moshe Barazani HY”D and Meir Feinstein HY”D.
Who were they?
They were two great Jewish martyrs who fell for the right of every Jew to live his life in freedom and dignity and in accordance to the will of the G-d of Israel.
Read their story here, on A Simple Jew.
Rare recording of Al Jolson singing Hatikva
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Click here to hear Al Jolson sing Hatikvah, found on Mt. Zion Congregation website.The following link goes to a recording introduced by NPR’s Scott Simon from 61 years ago. It features a reporter who was with the British army when they liberated Bergen Belsen in May 1945. In the midst of chaos, with dead bodies lying around them, the surviving Jews, some barely able to stand, joined voices...
Sweeping Anti-Semitism in South Africa Under the Carpet
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From the author of It’s Almost Supernatural: I have been waiting for weeks for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Jewish report to publicize the findings of the South Africa Anti-Semitism report,06 by the Institute of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. And I will most likely continue waiting until the Messiah comes so I have decided...
New site: Judeophobe Watch
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Folks, there’s a new site, Judeophobe Watch, which has an angle I can really appreciate. Judeophobe Watch allows for people of good conscience to debunk, refute, chastise, and debate anti-semitic postings from various Judeophobic web sites. Give it a looksee and add Judeophobe Watch to your blogroll.
New website: sixdaywar.co.uk
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2007 marks the fortieth anniversary of the war the West terms “The Six Day War”. The Arabs call it the “1967 War” or an-Naksah (The Setback). It has been said that for Israel this war was a question of sheer survival; for the Arabs it was one of credibility. Of course hindsight is a wonderful thing, offering immense clarity over what could or should have been done. It is...