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2008-04-15T15:01:00.000-07:00

The Call of the Entrepeneur

2008-04-07T04:56:00.000-07:00

Canadian shuls move to secede from USCJ

2008-04-02T04:41:00.000-07:00

Conservative shuls move to secede from USCJ By CAROLYN BLACKMAN, Staff Reporter Thursday, 03 April 2008 TORONTO — A number of Conservative congregations in Toronto and Montreal have recently voted or plan to vote to leave the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), the

Help the poor and homeless .... in Israel? ... Nope - America!

2008-03-17T07:53:00.000-07:00

Next time you see an ad to help the poor in Israel, ask if this is representative of America?

On the other hand, perhaps I need to help my poor American brethren. We don't see this in Israel. But America, with its declining economy and growing poverty, needs charity from Europe and Israel. Poor poor America. Poor poor Americans. It must be a third-world country based on this BBC report.

Intermarriage through Israeli eyes

2008-03-13T02:53:00.000-07:00

No country for businessmen - Haaretz - Israel News

2008-03-01T16:08:00.000-08:00

No country for businessmen - Haaretz - Israel News

1983 Time Magazine: JTS ordains women -- has the predictions come true?

2008-02-18T14:47:00.000-08:00

Monday, Nov. 07, 1983 Toppling a Jewish Tradition A Conservative seminary votes to ordain women rabbis When Susannah Heschel was growing up as a rabbi's daughter in New York City, she once attended a Simhat Torah celebration, during which men traditionally dance for joy while holding scrolls of Scripture. She wanted to join the dance, which is forbidden to women, and under the disapproving

What needs to be fixed before there will be aliya

2008-02-17T14:38:00.000-08:00

Until things like this don't happen, there won't be aliya. Zionists - fix this first (best by abolishing the bureaucracies in the first place and turning the government office into shopping malls and private-sector office buildings!)

Richard Cohen - Obama's Farrakhan Test - washingtonpost.com

2008-02-11T16:16:00.000-08:00

Richard Cohen - Obama's Farrakhan Test - washingtonpost.com

Just how ineffective is the Israeli welfare state

2008-02-10T12:49:00.000-08:00

I received this from a colleague:

Here is an interesting exercise to try to gauge how ineffective the Israeli welfare state is at tackling poverty. Just follow me: Take the State of Israel budget for 2007 Take all the so-called "social" expenditures (education, health, transfer payments plus few other minor line items) - 88 billion shekels. Now cut all these social expenditures by half - 44