Posts Tagged: Talmud
Egyptian Islamist Station Airs Anti-Semitic Depiction of Stereotypical Jew (VIDEO)
An Islamist channel in Egypt, Al-Hafez TV, recently aired an anti-Semitic segment depicting a stereotypical looking Jewish man instigating strife Egypt. The actor, with posters of...
Isaac Stern and the 10,000 Hours Rule
Legend has it that famed violinist Isaac Stern (1920-2001) was once confronted after a concert by an admirer who said the following to him:...
Free John Bates
"Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who bestows kindness upon the vulnerable, and who has bestowed goodness on me." —Traditional...
Angry Birds, Jewish Wisdom
I had a teacher many years who was very effective at his job. He communicated his ideas well and had a pleasant affect. One...
Competition in the Name of Excellence is Divine
"May the One who causes His Name to dwell in this house cause love and brotherhood, peace and camaraderie to dwell among you." — BT Brakhot 12a...
The Witch Hunting Mentality
The American women gymnasts won the team gold and the team captain Aly Raisman ended their performance with a flawless dance routine to the...
Profits and Prophets
There are few more blazing passages in the whole of religious literature than the first chapter of the book of Isaiah, the great "vision," chazon,...
Fifty Shades of…
I was thinking of writing a bestselling novel called Fifty Shades of Black about a young Hasidic man in Williamsburg who decides to buy a...
Higgs Boson and God
In 1964 the physicist Peter Higgs suggested that there had to be a crucial particle (a boson) that helped explain how matter could emerge...
Centuries Old Synagogue Found in Israel With Hebrew Inscribed Mosaic Floor
A splendid synagogue from the Talmudic period was unearthed recently during excavations at Khirbet Hukuk in the northwestern Galilee on the site where...
Doctor David Granet of Glasgow: Keeping the Light Alive
It is very hard for one generation to fully understand the zeitgeist and the unique circumstances of another. This is certainly true of Jewish...
Jordanian Journalist: Jewish Scripture Says to Use Christian Blood for Matzah
A Jordanian journalist recently wrote an article describing that the Talmud instructs Jews to kill Christian children and use their blood to bake...
10 Great Jewish and Israeli Quotes
The Jewish people are known as the people of the book. For me, as a Jew, a father, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, a proud...
Encyclopedic Wisdom: Britannica and the Talmud
Many of us marked with sadness the recent news that after 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer be available in hard copy. It...
