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US- Israeli Misunderstanding led to breakdown of Gaza truce A misunderstanding between Israel and the US about Gaza Truce. By: Bobby Pate Ministries
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Egypt To Host Gaza Reconstruction Conference On October 12 The Egyptian foreign minister said on Tuesday that Egypt will host a donors conference on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip on October 12th in Cairo, following the recent conflict between... By: WochitGeneralNews
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Heroes of Gaza ~ Sheikh Said Rageah Heroes of Gaza by Sheikh Said Rageah. By: Muslim Scholars
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B #39;nai B #39;rith - AEPi International Convention Community Service Project (2014) Nearly 100 Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) brothers from North America, Europe and Israel gathered at the B #39;nai Brith Canada headquarters in early August to take par... By: B #39;nai B #39;rith
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6 Minute Tour of Israel Museum A Walk Through the Israel Museum. By: Aaron Osterbrock
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Posted By richards on September 9, 2014
Daf Yomi Moed Katan 24 Talmud Gemarra Rabbi Weisblum "
Talmud daf Yomi class for Tractate Moed Katan by Rabbi Dr. Moshe P. Weisblum. " ...
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Israel Moment #37 - What is the Talmud?
http://www.framingtheworld.com/m2z.html Paul Wittenberger and Steven L Anderson have just finished filming their latest documentary MARCHING TO ZION. We are hoping to have this film out by...
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Posted By richards on September 9, 2014
Take a look at your signature the next time you buy something with a credit card. Maybe you spell out every letter. Maybe you just put a squiggly line. The other day, I drew a tree.
Signing is a very old ritual, according to Rabbi Pinchas Allouche. He's a scholar of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish texts that's over 1,000 years old.
The Talmud not only mentions signatures; it has rules for them. "A scribble is prohibited," Allouche says. The name has to be legible. "Just yesterday, when signing a Toys R Us receipt, I thought of the Talmud," he says.
In ancient times, a signature was required for all kinds of economic transactions. If you wanted to buy a goat, you had to sign a document. And just like with credit cards today, sometimes you had to sign even for smaller purchases.
According to the Talmud, Allouche says, "the law that applies to one cent is the same law that applies to a thousand gold coins. In other words, we consider every purchase as a big one."
When the personal check came along, it came with a line at the bottom to sign on and banks needed to verify all those signatures. They had rooms of people devoted to looking at signatures and comparing them with the ones on file, says Ronald Mann, a law professor at Columbia University.
Mann visited one of those signature verification rooms. "It was an amazing thing to see," Mann says. "Look at the signature; look at the one on the check. People would do it very quickly, obviously, because they would look at more than a hundred signatures an hour."
Another problem: It could be hard to spot a forgery. Mann says he's seen court cases where experts looked at the impression the pen left on the page to try to tell if a signature is genuine. "But that's obviously not a useful way to run regular commercial transactions," he says.
Today, as far as we can tell, no one regularly looks at what you sign on the bottom of a check. That's true for credit cards, too. Companies electronically store their credit card signatures, but accessing them is not a regular occurrence, according to Carolyn Balfany of MasterCard.
She says signatures are retrieved mainly when a customer calls and says, "I don't remember buying that." The bank can show the person the signatures, and it can help jog the customer's memory.
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ST. PETERSBURG Sometimes people loathe each other because they're supposed to. But do they really know why?
"I don't understand why I wanted to kill you," one boy tells another after braining him with a baseball. "It's really bothering me."
Maybe it's worth it to try to understand. The Chosen, a life-affirming play opening a new season at American Stage in St. Petersburg, attempts to unearth the humanity behind the unsteady walls humans build around each other.
The play, which Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok adapted from Potok's 1967 novel, is hefty and meditative with a thread of sweetness that moves it along. The sumptuous set by Jerid Fox establishes the paradigm, twin offices on either side of the stage divided by the Brooklyn Bridge.
We're in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Two Jewish boys live five blocks apart, but their realities couldn't be more different. Reuven is Orthodox and dresses in current American styles. Danny is Hasidic and wears traditional garb of a black hat and suit with white threads at the waist.
The boys had never spoken before the baseball blunder, but discover they have things in common. They love studying the Talmud, the book of Jewish law. And Danny surprises Reuven with his interest in Freud and Hemingway, secret joys he keeps from his father.
Enter the complications. Danny's father (Joseph Parra) is an emotionally unavailable religious leader who expects the same life path for his son. Reuven's father (David Sitler) is an emotionally available scholar who wants his son to be a professor.
T. Scott Wooten, an American Stage veteran who has since moved to Washington, D.C., returned to St. Petersburg to direct The Chosen. It's a sort of companion piece to Potok and Posner's My Name is Asher Lev, which Wooten directed last year at American Stage.
The Chosen unfolds over a backdrop of World War II and the horrifying realizations of the Holocaust. It explores Zionism and fundamentalism but never feels overwhelming. And while the play's driving message of overcoming differences is almost too obvious, it stops just short of hitting us over the head.
The adults handle their roles forcefully with compassion. Dan Matisa plays an adult Reuven, tying the plot together with narration and wistfully watching his younger self grow. Parra and Sitler both feel powerful in different ways.
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