Magen David Adom

MAGEN DAVID ADOM ADMITTED INTO INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETY

Complete story: http://www.afmda.org/site/PageServer

"Housewitz"

'Housewitz' director gets

40 hours labor

Dutch court sentences 23-year-old student to community service for making video clip inviting people to Auschwitz-themed party

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3254679,00.html

"The disgusting tale of a Dutch video clip...Racism?...Anti-semitism?...Just insensitivity and ignorance?...You be the judge..."
Marty Roberts podcast, June 1st, 2006 http://israelnewsradio.net/

The Video:
http://www.heretical.com/houswitz/index.html

Free Radical

Baruch Spinoza inspired Rebecca Goldstein.
So why is she out to betray him?

Interview by Stephen Vider


Betraying Spinoza, the fourth book in Nextbook's Jewish Encounters series, presents the 17th-century rationalist as both the first modern thinker and the original yeshiva dropout. Baruch Spinoza's rejection of traditional tenets—and his questioning of what it means to be a Jew—scandalized his Amsterdam community....

Rebecca Goldstein, a novelist and professor of philosophy at Trinity College, Goldstein dares to inhabit the mind of a man who preached objectivity, offering a lucid and often surprising exploration of how Spinoza's Sephardic roots informed his greatest work, The Ethics.

Entire Article:
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=263
Author's Portrait:
http://log24.com/log/saved/021217-goldstein.html

I Have a Little Dreidel — The True Story
by Susan Wolfe

Everyone knows the song, My Dreidel ("I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay…"). It’s the obligatory Jewish song tossed into the grammar-school Christmas concert to convert it instantly into a multicultural "holiday" program...and it’s the Jewish folk song seemingly so old that it’s no longer attributed.

When he was a young man living in Brooklyn Heights, eking out a living between the Kane Street Synagogue and the Bureau of Jewish Education of New York... Sam Goldfarb, wrote My Dreidel...

Along with his brother, Israel, he wrote many, many liturgical and holiday melodies, including the haunting Shalom Aleichem, the Friday night Kiddush (the blessing over the wine), Adon Olam,and the "traditional" Birkhat Hamazon (blessing after meals).

Complete Article:
http://beingjewish.org/magazine/winter2001/article4.html

http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=89