Earthquake Means Hashem Expects Us To Work More Efficiently? | ChaiDomains.com

Earthquake Means Hashem Expects Us To Work More Efficiently? | ChaiDomains.com: " If this Website can garner about between 10-36 people who are willing to contribute some of their time, money, or ingenuity, or otherwise support some of the nobler intentions of this small family of websites, then you will be able to see the entire plan unfold before your eyes.
Without the Holy Temple and a unified Israel, or the greatly anticipated arrival of Moshiach speedily in our day, we can only interpret the various clue as they arrive. We can feel the earth move yet can we forge a true connection with G-d?
Aharon Moshe Sanders- Yes we all felt the earth move.
According to a reference I one heard, yes hearing can be a very reliable source, their are certain passages in the Zohar that can be read (or scanned) to prevent earthquakes."

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day: "in Israel, many of whom had fought in the ghettos or as partisans, wanted to commemorate the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - April 19, 1943. But this date on the Hebrew calendar is the 14th of Nissan - the day before Passover, a very important and happy holiday. Orthodox Jews objected to this date.
For two years, the date was debated. Finally, in 1950, compromises and bargaining began. The 27th of Nissan was chosen, which falls beyond Passover but within the time span of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Orthodox Jews still did not like this date because it was a day of mourning within the traditionally happy month of Nissan. As a final effort to compromise, it was decided that if the 27th of Nissan"

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SocialResearch

SocialResearch: ""Chairs were laid out in the village hall, each with a yellow ribbon round the arms. In front of a huge television screen those gathered caught their first glimpse of Shalit, stumbling out of a van, held up on either side by armed men, they let out a loud but controlled cheer. Three teenage girls, dark curls tumbling down their cheeks, burst into tears and turned away.
The television replayed over and over his first, tentative, steps, before switching to his unexpected and unwanted interview with Egyptian television.""

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Shalit says heard Israeli forces near his Gaza prison

Shalit says heard Israeli forces near his Gaza prison: ""I imagine that it was no picnic, to be in a situation where F15 and F16 aircraft are flying over you and bombing everything that moves."

The military campaign launched in June 2006, three days after Palestinian militants — including members of Hamas — captured Shalit in a raid into southern Israel, lasted five months and left more than 400 Palestinians dead.

Asked by a reporter to comment on Hamas assertions that Gilad had not been tortured, his father said that the Islamist group's statements should be taken with "a pinch of salt."

"At least at first he went through some tough things, I won't elaborate here," he said. "After the first six months to a year, his treatment improved."

He said that Gilad was kept in isolation, without seeing the sun for five years, but was allowed to listen to Israeli stations on the radio."

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Shalit says heard Israeli forces near his Gaza prison

Shalit says heard Israeli forces near his Gaza prison: "JERUSALEM — Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit heard the sound of battle around him during a massive 2006 military operation seeking to free him from his Gaza captors, his father said on Thursday.

"He was aware of the operation and everything that was going on," Noam Shalit told journalists outside the family home in the northern Israeli village of Mitzpe Hila, two days after Gilad was freed in exchange for a total of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.

"He was in immediate proximity to all the events and the sound of war," he said, adding that he did not ask his son how he felt at the time. "I imagine that it was no picnic, to be in a situation where F15 and F16 aircraft are flying over you and bombing everything that moves."

The military campaign launched in June 2006, three days after Palestinian militants — including members of Hamas — captured Shalit in a raid into southern Israel, lasted five months and left more than 400 Palestinians dead.

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The return of bread cast upon the water | Touch of Torah | NJJN

The return of bread cast upon the water | Touch of Torah | NJJN: "Our catch usually consisted of several fish known as porgies, which were bony and, my mother insisted, were not kosher. Occasionally, we caught a flounder or two, which we proudly brought home for dinner.

We spent most of the time talking philosophy in a speculative, but self-certain manner typical of boys our age. Because of our different backgrounds, we argued a lot about religion, God, the meaning of life, and how to know right from wrong.

In later years, I lost track of my childhood friend and forgot the specifics of those discussions. I remember that my family stayed in the Rockaways for the High Holy Days that year and I vaguely recall that just before Yom Kippur, I told Milton the story of Jonah and about a fish much bigger than our porgies and flounder."

Is Israel too Jewish for the Palestinians? | Op-Eds | NJJN

Is Israel too Jewish for the Palestinians? | Op-Eds | NJJN: "The next question is why the Palestinian Authority won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state. After all, even the hawkish prime minister of Israel recognized the Palestinian state shortly after President Obama’s speech in Cairo early in his administration. This just a year after Ehud Olmert’s generous peace terms were ignored by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Next month we will be celebrating the 64th anniversary of the UN resolution recognizing the Jewish state of Israel and, incidentally, a Palestinian state adjoining it. Two states for two peoples. Does this sound familiar?"