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Israel, Hamas Escalating Tensions Over Gaza Strip; `This Week` Roundtable Discussio Rep. Xavier Becerra, Newt Gingrich, George Will, Donna Brazile, and Jonathan Karl. By: AB news
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Artie Lange hilariously talks Rehab and Anne Frank on Opie and Jimmy - @OpieRadio Artie Lange makes rehab and Anne Frank hilariously funny. http://www.opieradio.com Twitter - @OpieRadio. By: Opie Radio
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Norwegian doctor vows to defy Israeli ban to enter Gaza A Norwegian doctor has vowed to defy an Israeli ban on entering Gaza. Dr Mads Gilbert, who denounces the occupation of Palestinian territories, was refused entry in October
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Posted By simmons on November 16, 2014
Orange picking in the Gaza Strip. Archive film 92876 Oranges being picked and packed by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Middle East, 1950 #39;s
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Busuk_Cruelty of posser punishment @Godong Jalur Gaza Crew #2 By: Afifi Elegant
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Jews and Holocaust Denial How do Jews feel about Holocaust denial.... They were able to shut down Rizoli TV in Framingham Mass. By: JJRIZO Rizoli
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Posted By richards on November 16, 2014
There's More Than One Way To Become a Rabbinic Sage
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Artists Rendering of Rabbi Tarfons Mind: It was said in the Talmud that the rabbi was a heap of walnuts.
Forward reader David Wexler calls my attention to an article in the October 10 issue of this newspaper about Greg Wall, a saxophone-playing, shofar-blowing, Talmud-teaching rabbi from Norfolk, Connecticut. In addition to being a Talmud khokhem, or smart man, the articles author, Jon Kalish, wrote, Wall knows a mainsail from a jib, having taught at sailing schools in New York and New Jersey.
Whats wrong with this? Two things. To begin with, the Yiddish expression is not Talmud khokhem but talmid kokhem (with the stress on the words first syllables), from the Hebrew talmid akham (with the stress on the last syllables). And second, the expression does not mean a smart man. It means, literally, a pupil [talmid] of a rabbinical scholar [ akham], and it denotes a learned Jew, someone who is such a scholar himself.
Kalish shouldnt be overly blamed for his mistake, because apart from the Talmud/talmid confusion its a common one, sometimes made even by people who know Yiddish or Hebrew, though not Jewish tradition, well. Its an understandable one, too, since if you take Hebrew akham to be an adjective meaning smart or wise, which is what it generally is, talmid akham would translate as a smart [or wise] pupil. However, in this expression akham is not an adjective but a noun, the giveaway being the expressions plural form. If talmid akham meant a wise pupil, the plural would be talmidim akhamim, wise pupils. But in fact its talmidey akhamim, a genitive construction that would normally, in contemporary Hebrew, mean pupils of the wise. Yet in the language of the Talmud and subsequent rabbinic literature, the noun akham, as we have said, most often refers not just to anyone who is wise, but specifically to a rabbinic sage.
The distinction in the Talmud between a rav or rabbi and a akham is one of degrees of knowledge. Although every akham is a rav, not every rav is a akham. Thus, a passage in the tractate of Gittin says that the late second- and early third-century rabbi Isi ben Yehuda ranked the sages [ akhamim] as follows: Rabbi Meir was a sage [ akham] and a Torah scribe. Rabbi Yehuda was a sage when he wished to be. Rabbi Tarfon was a heap of walnuts. Rabbi Yishmael was a store stocked with everything. Rabbi Akiva was a secret treasure. Rabbi Yochanan ben Nuri was a peddlers box. Rabbi Elazar ben AzarIiah was a spice box. All these akhamim, in other words, were more than ordinary rabbis, but not all were on the same level. Rabbi Yehuda was not consistently reliable in his opinions; Rabbi Tarfon was not well organized (ask for his opinion on something, and everything tumbled out like a pile of nuts when one is removed); Rabbi Yishmael could answer any question put to him; Rabbi Akiva knew even more but did not easily reveal it, etc.
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Posted By richards on November 16, 2014
Synagogue volunteer insists rabbi had hundreds of victims
The Georgetown rabbi accused of secretly videotaping women in a synagogue changing room appeared in court Wednesday, just days after being named one of the m...
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Remains of a South African being carried to one of the trucks | credits: Stanley Ogidi
The South African government on Saturday began the repatriation of the bodies of its citizens killed in the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Lagos building collapse.
Eighty-one South Africans were confirmed killed in a guest house owned by the church of popular televangelist, Temitope Joshua, on September 12.
The bodies were removed from Isolo General Hospital and Mainland Hospital, Yaba in Lagos State. The airlifting of the remains was scheduled for Saturday.
But, according to the Lagos State Chief Forensic Pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, the South African and Nigerian teams were only able to identify 66 bodies.
Weve so far identified 40 bodies at the Yaba Mainland Hospital mortuary and another 26 bodies were identified at the Isolo General Hospital, Obafunwa said.
The South African team, including military personnel, forensic experts and pathologists were said to have arrived in Nigeria around midnight and headed for the two general hospitals to identify and repatriate the bodies of their compatriots.
Speaking further, the Lagos pathologist stated, We have been busy since yesterday (Friday) in preparation for today (Saturday). We have been here for 24 hours, getting the bodies ready; the bodies tagged, in preparation for today. We have the bodies that were located essentially in two mortuaries; the few bodies in Lagos State University Teaching Hospitals mortuary were moved to Yaba Mainland Hospital. And we have some bodies at the Isolo General Hospital.
We knew the South African team would arrive today. They came in around midnight. They came with their military, forensic and autopsy personnel. Theres been cooperation between us and the South African team. They arrived here at 4am. We started by identifying the bodies and setting up tents and other things. By 6am we started picking each body, decontaminating them further and bagging them all these were done by the South African team.
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Posted By richards on November 16, 2014
The most wanted suspect in a 1980 bombing of a synagogue in Paris that killed four people is to appear in court over the weekend.
Hassan Diab, a 60-year-old Canadian of Lebanese descent, was extradited from Canada and arrived in Paris on Saturday. The professor of sociology has been living under judicial supervision since his arrest in Canada in 2008, according to his lawyer.
He had been fighting extradition since that arrest.
"My client maintains his innocence," Diab's lawyer, Stephane Bonifassi, told AFP news agency on Saturday. "We will continue the fight started in Canada so that his innocence is established."
On October 3, 1980, ten kilograms of explosives attached to a motorcycle parked outside a synagogue in Rue Copernic exploded as worshipers were expected to leave the synagogue.
French authorities accuse Diab of being a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - an extremist group that conducted armed hijackings of airliners in the 1960s and is believed to have carried out a number of deadly attacks in Europe.
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