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Good News Friday
As always, despite the bad or indifferent news of the past week, Friday ushers in Shabbat, and to accompany it, here is my latest Good News Friday post. London has been engulfed by fire in recent days: two kosher shops … Continue reading
Posted in History, Israel news, Slice of Israeli life
Tagged archaeology, British Jewish community, charity, fire, First Temple, Good News Friday, Haifa, haredim, London, Palestinians, Rambam Hospital
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Good News Friday
The chagim are now well and truly behind us, and it’s back to normal programming (or what counts for normal in this household!). Tomorrow is Shabbat Bereishit, the Shabbat when we start reading the Torah from the beginning all over … Continue reading
Good News Friday
It has been a very strange and difficult week this week, and I’ve been having doubts about posting a Good News friday installment. My father is currently sitting shiva for his sister who passed away on Monday. We had a … Continue reading
Destroying Jewish history
In the middle of the Six Day War in 1967, Motta Gur may famously have announced “The Temple Mount is in our hands“, but the truth is that this is far from evident today. The ongoing destruction at the hands … Continue reading
Posted in Mideast news, Terrorism
Tagged archaeology, Bet Hamikdash, destruction, First Temple, Har Habayit, Jerusalem, Judaism, Muslims, Old City, Second Temple, Temple Mount, Waqf
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Good News Friday
Here’s the latest installment of my Good News Friday series. First the bad news. There have been a few antisemitic attacks recently in Germany which led a leading German rabbi to advise Jewish men to avoid wearing kipot (yarmulkes) in … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism, Israel news, Judaism, Technology
Tagged anti-semitism, archaeology, Berlin, First Temple, Germany, Good News Friday, high-tech, Jerusalem, kipot, Shiloach, UK, yarmulkes
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