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Mark Twain said that it is easier for a lie to work its way around the world before the truth can put its pants on. And that was 80-100 years before the Internet. Now it's even faster. My office is continually inundated with hoaxes that sound real. The Internet makes it easy. More ... REHOVOT- The blood of young Israelis continues to be spilled at Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip where two truck drivers were murdered recently. This was hardly unexpected because Nahal Oz has long been one of the flash points between the Jewish state and the Hamascontrolled Gaza Strip. More ... During my first trip to Israel in 1983, the director of our program stood at the front of the bus and said, "I don't know if you've heard the news, but overnight you've all become rich and we've all become poor." It was the first time I had heard the term devaluation, but its meaning was clear. The value of Israeli currency was not what it had been. More ... Lag B'Omer marks the 33rd day of Sefirat HaOmer (the counting of the Omer period), which begins on the second night of Passover. During this time, the 24,000 students of the great sage Rabbi Akiva passed away. More ... Who doesn't love a mystery? Police procedurals, historical whodunits, hardboiled detective stories, cozies, female sleuths…the subgenres of mysteries seem endless. And Jewish authors are wellrepresented in all of these. More ... OK, I've made it through six months as the member of a gym. And I'm watching with a tiny bit if smugness the Jennycome latelies who arrived just after the dawning of the New Year, while I signed on before the resolutions rush. More ... The most exciting development in the Jewish web world this month is happening right here at the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. We've launched a newly redesigned website, with a new web address - www.jewishvoicesnj.org. More ... This past week the headlines again screamed about our environment and how we may even be poisoning our own bodies. Now it seems it is the plastics we use to store our food in and the plastics our food is packaged in from the market that may be hazardous to our health and the environment. More ... |
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