Orthodox Jews will do just about anything to pray on time and with a quorum of at least ten other Jews (minyan).
Here’s a great photo gallery and review (in Hebrew) of the now ‘famous’ train minyan that runs weekday mornings from Bet Shemesh to Tel Aviv. They even have their own Torah and Ark [...]
Here’s the Tefila Times for Tishrei to Nissan 5770 for the Bet Knesset Hamerkazi (Ashkenazi) in Ramat Bet Shemesh.
להלן זמני תפילה תשרי-ניסן תש”ע
Zemanay Tefila 5770 זמני תפילה תש”ע
Shiva House Guide – Making a Condolence Call to a Mourner’s House
Unfortunately, my father passed away this month. For the first time, I was a mourner.
Little did I know there’s a whole sub-culture to the mourning process. Here’s some advice from a recent mourner on what to do and what not to do at a [...]
This pashkevile is floating the neighborhood now as the mehadrin bus company has run into financial difficulty.
As mentioned before, it’s the usual format – bad guys vs. good guys. Do as we say and save the world, and get a blessing while you’re at it.
I love the flowery language of this one, these guys really [...]
Sometimes I sit back and read these pashkeviles (Haredi community notifications – usually plastered on poster boards) for the humor, sometimes just to see how far they’ve gone from the mainstream.
Pashkevile Format
They all follow more or less the same format – usually black and white, made to look like a death announcement, dastardly language about [...]
Rabbi Azouelos, Head of the Maskiot Pre-Army Mechina, said these very inspiring words at last night’s closing ceremony for this year’s students.
(Translated and paraphrased from Hebrew)
Israel has two seas. The Kineret and the Dead Sea.
The Kineret is a sea that only gives. It gives water, and fish, and provides [...]
Harav Shlomo Aviner, one of the leaders of the National Religious Movement, a settler himself, a Posek (halachik religious authority), and head of Yeshivat Ateret Kohanim in the Mulstim Quarter of the Old City, wrote in this week’s Torah pamphlet “Mayney Heyeshua” that the law is most important for a healthy society. He went [...]
Life In Israel has a Stormy debate on Refuting the problem in RBS
Some good news for a change.
This weekend’s Haaretz reports (in Hebrew) that the Haredi population in Israel, the fastest growing segment, now has an average of 7.2 births per family. Obviously, since this is an ‘average’, there are B”H many families who are having as much as 13 or 14 children each.
Ken Yirbu!
The word on the street in Israel is varied after Obama’s monumental speech in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. President Netanyahu is now faced with a monumental dilemma of choosing between his coalition and relations with the United States.
The United States symbiotic relationship with Israel is not in jeapordy, however without Israel’s obeying Obama’s new policy shift, [...]
