Healing an Injured Phrase
From Rabbi Avi Shafran, Am Echad Resources “One of the 613 Mitzvot is ‘Tikkun Olam,’ to heal or repair the world,” declares the Social Action Committee of a Massachusetts temple. The assertion is characteristic...
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One for Rabbi Scherman
Bloghead ran a contest for ad copy for the ArtScroll Chrismukka. The winning entry is actually rather clever.
Elections, PA Style?
The folks at PowerLine claim that the following image is from an election rally in the PA. I haven’t seen this elsewhere, but the problem is that this is entirely too believable. As PowerLine’s...
Oops
Are we surprised? In the same week that the previously-mentioned op-ed from Peace Now attempts to blame Bush for the violence, a prominent Palestinian editor says that Arafat never intended to make peace at...
Look in a Mirror, Lady
Slack-jawed disbelief — it’s the only possible reaction. Those with rational minds will be amazed by this gem from the President and CEO of Americans for Peace Now. Peace Now, of course, is the...
Would Vilna have voted Kerry?
There’s a Reform Temple in Pennsylvania that, for several decades, blew a French Horn on Rosh HaShanah. Then younger members started agitating for the use of a real Shofar, instead. The old-timers responded with...
More Moronicism
First of all, my erev Shabbos entry didn’t give examples of violence between 1993 and 1996 that Carter manages to ignore. Alan Miller sent a letter to the NY Times (where Carter’s drivel first...
A Warm Place in Hell
George Bush once again demonstrated his understanding of terrorism and terrorists. He had nothing positive to say about Arafat, so he chose (wisely, as a head of state) to say nothing about him at...
Carter’s Bigotry
Jimmy Carter is the only president that I have seen in person. I recall visiting the Air and Space Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) as a boy, and there he was, waving from...
Arafat is Dead
R’ Avi Shafran, Agudah’s director of public affairs, forwarded the following comments: Jews don’t dance in the streets and fire weapons in celebration when their enemies die, but it would be disingenuous to say...
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