What's KOSHER in JERUSALEM ?

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See what's kosher in Jerusalem and which restaurants work with false certificates:

Kosher News Jerusalem

Update: My Radio Interview on the haredi demonstrations in Jerusalem

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Last July I was interviewed by Baruch Spier from "Rusty Mike Radio" of the AACI in Jerusalem. "Rusty Mike" put the interview on its site (podcast) but, unfortunately, it hasn't been activated until today. Now Baruch let me know that the radio has problems with its potcast but is trying to solve the matter.

Maybe you will be able listening to the interview soon:

http://www.rustymikeradio.com/podcast/rm_podcasts.php?entry_id=1247979960

Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library

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Books in Yiddish are available online. The signing up for an online library card is free of charge !

Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library

Picture of the Day

Photo: Sheik yer Mami

Too much in Haredi Society ?

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To be honest, I was intending to write about something completely different but I just had this, well, rather disturbing experience. So, I am bothering you with that and maybe someone has the RIGHT halachic answer.

Before I start telling this particular incident, I have to say that although I am not running around in a skirt all the time, I do agree with haredi Judaism. I agree to an extend of letting me not feel comfortable in a national religious synagogue. Especially not when the rabbi or the national religious community members are involved in haredi bashing, such as many "modern - Orthodox" communities in Jerusalem.

When I do go to a synagogue, it will be to 99 % a haredi one. No matter it litvish or chassidish. Furthermore, I cannot stand this national religious, Carlebach or whatever "Flower Power Style" such as freaky hippie clothes and waving the arms around while singing or praying; nor am I into special women's prayers.

I may be modern but I certainly do have a "fanatic" haredi side.

The incident just happened:

I wanted to sit on a chair in order to do something and a woman sitting in a public place was already occupying another chair nearby. Obviously she had put her plastic shopping bag onto the chair beside her. I asked her if the bag belongs to her, as then she may have taken it away because I wanted to sit on the other chair.

The modern - religious (Orthodox ?) "Flower Power" woman said that the bag doesn't belong to her.

I removed the "ownerless" bag for a few minutes from the chair in order to sit on it. Less than five minutes and while getting up, I put the plastic bag back on its former place.

During these five minutes the woman asked me to apologize to her because I had accused / assumed that the bag belongs to her.

I was stunned and said that there is nothing to apologize. I had just asked her with the intention that, if the bag belongs to her, she may take it away so that I can sit on the chair.

Then she started quoting me a certain Halacha that it is forbidden to accuse someone.

I responded that I didn't accuse her of anything and that there is nothing to apologize. I had just asked.

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I do have a problem with two things occuring here:

1. I am having problems taking a Halacha from this "Flower Power" woman because she is just not my religious style. Not that I want to sound arrogant but her thing (women's prayers and hippie) is just not for me.

2. Why do people have to go into every single little detail ?

I was asking a question and didn't just throw the bag off the chair.

If this had happened to me and there was such a Halacha, I would not bother another person with this and don't demand an apology. Simple because someone asked a question.

Thanks

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Thanks to all those who keep on sending me pictures, videos, links and niggunim !

Special THANKS to Tamar A., Rabbi Yechiel Goldhaber (Karlin - Stolin), the Vishnitzer Rabbi A.W., Yitz, Yitzchak, Yisroel and Yehoshua.

Furthermore to Joel Katz, the Hebrew University Library, the Olam Gershom Sholem, Rabbi Mordechai Machlis and Rabbi Chaim Eisen.

The Voice of "Jihad" on Facebook

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Israel is getting more and more isolated but the "Jihad" attracts the world.
Even on Facebook:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheJewishInternetDefenseForce/~3/mIi2mzqW7pk/powerful-online-voice-of-jihad-found-on.html

Anyone has an explanation about the world's latest stupidity ?

Wedding in Erloi

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A wedding took place in Chassidut Erloi. The festivities were in Bnei Brak and maybe someone can comment on who is getting married here !

The Erloi Rebbe from Jerusalem

All pictures may be viewed here:

http://www.bhol.co.il/news_read.asp?id=12849&cat_id=2

Against Xtian Missionaries: "Esav Exposed"

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New informative articles about the vicious Evangelical goals and further missionary groups on

ESAV EXPOSED !

"Killing Kasztner"

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Although I have not yet written too much about the "Kasztner Train" and the escape of the Satmarer Rebbe, I do have an opinion after reading through some material. Of course, I started reading "Perfidy" by Ben Hecht and you may claim that, due to that, I am prejudiced. However, when you look at all the circumstances in those days, the conclusion is not too far that Kasztner was working together with the Nazis and anything but the great hero many people claim. And in my eyes he was a traitor but this doesn't justify his murder.






KILLING KASZTNER: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis Official Movie Trailer - After receiving critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and an unprecedented theatrical release in Israel, American director Gaylen Ross "Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis" now poses the question to U.S. audiences: Was Rezso Kasztner a heroic rescuer of Jews or a villain colluding with the Nazis? Through accounts of the inflammatory political trial, startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztners' assassin, Zeev Eckstein, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztners daughter, Zsuzsi, audiences finally can decide the legacy of this forgotten man.
Soure: We Jew

Links:


Hungarian Jews and the "Kasztner Train"

Rebbe Teitelbaum and the "Kasztner Transport"

Haredi Bashing after Conversion to Judaism

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Frankly speaking:

Most of the time I refuse reading German Jewish blogs. When I read most of the content of so - called "Orthodox" Jews, I feel like throwing up. The worst are those who converted to Judaism and then claim their blog as "Orthodox".

"Orthodox" ? What kind of "Orthodox ?"

Haredi bashing is quite common and people even admit to eat Chametz during Pessach.

"I went to a restaurant and think that not eating Kidniyiot is just a stupid custom and doesn't apply to me !" - this is what one German "Jewish" blogger spread.

Others convert and still stick to their Christian ideas but call themselves "Jewish Orthodox" and even make Aliyah.

There are very very few German Jewish blogs which are interesting even if they were written by Reform Jews. About German Jewish history before and during the Holocaust, for instance, or warnings against Christian missionaries as well as giving advise about where to enjoy some Jewish life in Berlin.

I just wonder what those bashy converts were telling the Rabbis at their Beit Din ?

That the Halacha is a piece of old junk and that the Haredim are lazy, don't go to the army and that most Orthodox Jews are a bunch of nuts who don't know what is going on in today's world.

I don't care what those bloggers claim but it does make me angry when other people who truly look for some Yiddishkeit read such false opinions and may believe it. Especially when halachic issues are being misinterpreted.

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