Tues June 30 '09

Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem #34: Return to Joseph's tomb

(Joseph's Tomb/Kever Yosef - June 23 '09) Jews again access Yoseph's tomb. See also "Rising From The Ashes - Trailer" here. (Yosef HaTzadik/Joseph the Righteous' tomb is located in the Shomron, the West Bank.)

After visiting the Tomb of Joseph, Kever Yosef, and witnessing its disgraceful condition, Ari and Jeremy speak with David Ha'ivri, head of The Shomron International Liaison Office.
AssociatedPress

Mark Lester, godfather to Michael Jackson's kids, says Jackson was 'bubbly' with excitement about his upcoming shows, that he never saw Jackson abuse drugs and that the entertainer would never take his own life.

AlJazeeraEnglish

The latest news from Al Jazeera

CBS: Stem Cells And Weakened Hearts
Over a million Americans suffer heart attacks every year and, as Bill Whitaker reports, a new procedure involving stem cells may potentially hold the key to rebuilding damaged hearts.

whitehouse

President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announce several actions that will promote energy efficiency and save Americans billions of dollars per year. The announcement includes major changes to energy conservation standards for lighting, as well as $346 million from the Recovery Act that will accelerate the development and use of energy efficient technologies in commercial and residential buildings. These improvements will create jobs and help decrease carbon pollution
(See also the plug and play solar panels for the masses here

ReutersVideo: Business Update: Gas prices stall
American car drivers have paid the same at the pump for the last two weeks and low demand is expected to hold prices down this summer.

ReutersVideo: Israel approves 50 settler homes
(Was there ever really peace talks or is it being used as weapon against Israel??? Stifling Jews to stunt growth can be compared to WWII's gas chambers)

TheRealNews

Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami calls to punish leading rioters firmly and without mercy

TheAutoChannel

Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc., announced the launch of AirProtect, the most innovative and groundbreaking safety feature everoffered in a car seat. Developed in conjunction with Kettering University'srenowned Crash Safety Center, Air Protect(TM) is designed to protectchildren in side impact collisions, putting a state-of-the-art layer of airprotection where it's needed most, around the child's head.

(A favorite...)

Mon June 29 '09

60 Minutes: Mind Reading

Neuroscience has learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that it is now possible - on a very basic scale - to read a person's mind. Lesley Stahl reports.

(Science fiction into plain science - Scary if misused and possibly useful if communicating with a comma patient)

Reuters: Israeli solar power plant goes hybrid

More here

AlJazeeraEnglish

CBS: Artists In Exile
Iran's defeated Presidential candidate Mousavi is being supported by many Iranians in America, some of whom are expressing anger and frustration with art. Seth Doane has more.

bbcworldnews: Nato and Russia renew military ties
Russia and Nato have agreed to resume military co-operation, after nearly a year of difficult relations that followed Russia's conflict with Georgia.

The power of speech differentiates man from all of creation. And with the power of speech comes the power to bring good into the world and sanctify creation, or to bring evil into the world, and denigrate creation. Moshe used speech to achieve the former. Bilaam, the heathen prophet, used speech to achieve the latter.

Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9)
Parashat Balak is read on Shabbat:
Tammuz 12, 5769/July 4, 2009
http://www.templeinstitute.org/

Sunday June 28 '09

Dead Sea scrolls come to Canada

Video also available here
CBCNews.ca: Dead Sea Scrolls ready for Canadian exhibit

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RoyalOntarioMuseum

(Ad for the exhibit)

bbcworldnews: Iran attacks Obama 'interference'

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has fuelled the war of words between Iran and the US by reprimanding President Obama for 'interfering' in his country's affairs.

AlJazeeraEnglish

The latest news from Al Jazeera. June 27 '09

AlJazeeraEnglish

The latest news from Al Jazeera

March of the Living in Vilna

3rd day: April 21 '09 - Yom HaShoa/Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Vilna, Poland by the train station and train tracks - speaker in the video while walking with friend, speaks about family members that died at that location. He mentions that now we are a free people while back then, people were transported with no clothes and what it must have been in their mind at the time...with no knowledge what it and how would happen, knowing that it was it. Memorial services held at the site as well.

bbcworldnews: US policy shift on Afghan poppy farms
The US has announced a turnaround on their drugs policy in Afghanistan at a G8 foreign ministers meeting.

bbcwolrdnews: Brazil raids illegal loggers
The environmental police in Brazil have seized truck loads of tropical hardwood in a major raid on illegal loggers in the Amazon

AlJazeeraEnglish

The Russian government is trying to prevent future unrest over unpaid wages and unemployment.

Many towns in Russia depend on one or two factories, but as companies struggle with the impact of the financial crisis entire populations are suffering.

In one small town in Russia's southern Urals, more than 600 people have lost their jobs with many more facing poverty.

AlJazeeraEnglish

Albanians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament. The vote is seen as a test of the Balkan state's readiness for EU membership.

Albania is one of Europe's poorest countries and its current leader has been accused of corruption

AlJazeeraEnglish

Mohammed Al Gharani was the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

Now, seven years later, he has returned to Chad, his country of origin, after being freed and is adjusting to life without the fear of being brutalised.

Al Gharani spoke to Al Jazeera's Mohammed Vall about his first days of freedom and the abuse he had endured at Guantanamo

CBS: The Wildcard: Strange New Robot
Only On The Web: Japanese scientists develop revolutionary, and also slightly chilling, lifelike robots; Also, a 77-year-old grandma water skies using only her legs! (See the organ bit...)

Pajamasmedia

BY DAY, SHE HIDES BEHIND THE SECRET IDENTITY OF JANET NAPOLITANO, MILD-MANNERED DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. BUT WHENEVER THERES TROUBLE, SHE BECOMES: CRAZY LADY!

Ushpizin Trailer

Israeli Movie with subtitle

An Israeli drama with humour set in the customarily closed world of ultra-Orthodox Jews:
Moshe and Mali, a childless Orthodox couple in Jerusalem, find themselves penniless on the eve of the Jewish holy day of Succoth. As they both pray desperately to the Lord to help them, their prayers are heard and they receive an unexpected charitable donation. The miracle doesn't come without a test, however, as two escaped convicts appear uninvited on the couple's doorstep, friends from Moshe's shady secular past. The outrageous behavior of these unholy messengers and the havoc it brings to the Orthodox community will put Moshe and Mali's faith to the ultimate test.

(First screened in '04 - This is a squeeky clean movie by today's Holywood standards. It has a feel good ending as well a meaningful message)

ABOUT SUKKOT:
A couple of places where Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles is mentioned in the TaNaCh (Acronym for Torah,Neviim,Ketuvim/The Five Books of Moses,The Prophets,Writtings) are Devarim/Deuteronomy Chapter 16:11-16 and Zecharya/Zechariah 14:16

Books on the Laws of Sukkot (for Jews only):

(Please note: Books are initial guides only. Please consult further with your Local Orthodox Rabbi)

SUCCOS: ITS SIGNIFICANCE, LAWS, AND PRAYERS

THE LAWS OF YOM TOV

MUKTZEH: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

THE FESTIVALS IN HALACHAH - 2 VOLUME SHRINK WRAPPED SET

HANDY BOOKLETS
NCSY BENCHER POCKET SIZE
FAMILY ZEMIROS

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NOTE: For disposal purposes, please take holy books such as the Tanach and Chumash/The Five Books of Moses to your nearest Orthodox synagogue for proper burial. Holy books contain Holy Names of G-d that should not be carelessly discarded. For other items, please consult with your local Orthodox rabbi as to their disposal. Also, keep holy books in modest places and should not be taken to impure places such as the bathroom or where one undresses. --- *** This is done for Kosher JEWISH Text ONLY!!!*** ---
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....the place which the LORD shall choose

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WorldNetDaily: Hark! Where's the Bible Ark?

Ethiopia's Orthodox patriarch cops out on revealing plan for public viewing

??? Ethiopian Orthodox church has Ark of Covenant Part 1

Friday June 26 '09

a. The US has positioned defenses near Hawaii to protect against a possible attack by North Korea. According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a ground-based mobile missile system has been sent to the islands and radar has been positioned nearby.

b. 100,000 rally against U.S. in North Korea
Pyongyang says it'll respond with 'annihilating blow' if attacked

Netanyahu: N-Bomb for Iran not Just a ‘Status Symbol’

AlJazeeraEnglish

IsraelConsulate

whitehouse

MotorCities

2010 Chevrolet Volt - Preproduction Model Begins Testing

rabbilazer

Rabbi Lazer Brody shows how in three minutes, you can be a better husband! All you need to do is to learn the lesson of the burnt toast, and never ever criticize your wife...

AlJazeeraEnglish

pmwvideos

As PMW reported earlier this week, PA (Fatah) TV marked the second anniversary of the Hamas takeover of Gaza by broadcasting a public Fatah event that focuses on vilifying Hamas. One part of this performance features a graphic video of Hamas members brutally beating a Fatah member in Gaza.

Another part criticizes and mocks Hamas for the decrease in its terror operations against Israel, glorifies Fatah terror, and ends with Fatah boasting they "arrested two soldiers in Ramallah", a reference to the lynching in October 2000.

In this scene actors portray a Hamas teacher with student supporters of Fatah and Hamas, debating which movement is greater. Significantly, the competition between Fatah and Hamas supporters is based not on who has built more Palestinian infrastructures, nor on who has promoted peace, but rather on who can take credit for more terror

Shmuel Sackett - Manhigut Yehudit: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Israeli Politics

The Streets of Tehran

Wed June 24 '09

AlJazeeraEnglish

A former US national security adviser has told Al Jazeera that US intelligence agents are working in Iran.

But Brent Scowcroft said US government support for those in Iran who are protesting against the official results of a recent presidential election would only provoke a more intense crackdown by the government in Tehran.

He told Josh Rushing, the host of Al Jazeera's programme Fault Lines, that the Obama administration has taken the correct approach in dealing with the unrest in Iran.

AssociatedPress

Riot police in Iran's capital fired tear gas and bullets in the air Wednesday in clashes with protesters who converged on a square near the parliament building in defiance of government orders to halt demonstrations.

YouTube

(changes at YouTube - in viewing and channel appearance)

AlJazeeraEnglish

The US has pledged to bring an end to banking secrecy and pursue countries which open their doors to tax cheats.

But critics have told Al Jazeera that the very nation leading the crackdown on tax havens is failing to tackle its own loopholes.

AlJazeeraEnglish

(Video with Jewish hatred overtones, questioning Israel's rights and Jewish biblical rights --- Arabs have built illegally for years)

whitehouse

President Obama and President Michelle Bachelet of Chile talk to the press after meeting in the Oval Office.

(Israel originally warned the US not to show weakness towards Iran, that it would send the wrong message to others as well and yet, US did not listen. Israel's experience with terrorists and nazis were disregarded by previous administrations. Hopefully this one will wake up and be smarter and act upon truth instead and bring real change instead of the old wrongs and really stand with Israel and G-d)

The Guirush/Expulsion from Gush Katif in Gaza

(Churban Neve Dekalim/Town of Neve Dekalim
10th of Av 5765/Summer Aug 15, '05.)

(The report starts that it came time to evacuate. In the synagogue, It is filled with teenage girls who sing/pray the prayer of the afflicted, Tehilim/Psalm 102:1-3:

"A Prayer of the afflicted, when he fainteth, and poureth out his complaint before Hashem/G-d. Hashem/G-d listen to my prayers, and let my cry come unto Thee. Hide not Thy face from me in the day of my distress".

When time came to execute the orders, they cry out "Hashem Hu HaElokim" a few times. "The L-rd is G-d" , meaning behind is Hashem is the Judge

The Torah scroll is removed from the ark and the rabbi cries out "Hashem Elokeinu Melech HaOlam, Dayan HaEmet/Hashem our G-d, King of the world is the True Judge" and conducts the mourning procedure of Kriyah/ripping clothes as is done per Torah.

Hope was still there that it would not happen yet it did. I believe the prayers still reverberate in the Heavens and will, until the wrong is repaired or compensated as Torah teaches.)

Tues Jun 23 '09 - Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

Citizentube

Curently featured: Latest videos from Iran

AssociatedPress

Thousands of Pakistanis living in refugee camps say they are afraid to go back home even though the government says it has cleared the Taliban from sections of Swat Valley.

CBS
Obama Speaks Strongly
President Obama displayed his strongest condemnation so far of Iran by taking a swipe at Iran's government. This is following recent criticism for having a "timid response

CBS
Tehran Streets Finally Quiet
With their leader out of sight and constant violent threats, Tehran's latest protests have died down. Iran's powerful Guardian Council killed all hope of an election re-run.

bbcworldnews
Digital kills off Kodachrome era
Kodachrome, Kodak's brand of camera film that has dominated the mass market since its first appearance in the 1930s, is coming to an end

CBS
"Smoke Free" Cigarette Debate
Some smokers who wish to quit are now praising the controversial e-cigarette, which simulates the effects of smoking. But, as Karina Mitchell reports, U.S. health officials are less optimistic.

whitehouse

President Obama discusses Iran during his Press Conference at the White House on June 23, 2009

AlJazeeraEnglish

(Arabs trying to claim "the right to return" law that Israel has for Jews. In essence, their idea is for those who left, by "returning", they would contribute to Israel's destruction by demographically swinging the scale to their favor leading to, G-d forbid, the annullment of the State of Israel.

Many Jews who lived in Arab lands for generations lost properties and a lot of money with to date, no compensation. Many ended up in Israel and building the country alongside Jewry originally from Europe who came to Israel during and after the WWII / the holocaust.)

Song:

אל תשליכני לעת זקנה -
Do not cast me off in time of old age

Lyrics from Tehilim/Psalm 71:8-9

(Psalm 71:8-9: My mouth shall be filled with Thy praise, and with Thy glory all the day. Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength faileth, forsake me not.)

Yimaleh fi tehilatecha My mouth shall be filled with Thy praise

Kol hayom tifartecha And with Thy glory all the day.

Ah la la la....

Al tashlicheni le'et zikna Cast me not off in the time of old age;

Kichlot kochi al ta'azveni when my strength faileth, forsake me not.

Kichlot kochi al ta'azveni. when my strength faileth, forsake me not.

Tues June '23 '09

AssociatedPress

At an event to promote community service, Michelle Obama helped build a school playground and told the crowd of volunteers that Sasha&Malia can't watch TV or play computer games until after dinner to encourage exercise outside.

AssociatedPress

One Metro transit train smashed into the rear of another at the height of the capital city's Monday evening rush hour, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others

FoxNewsChannel

Woman killed by police sniper in Iran has become symbol of the uprising

CBS

Iranian Censorship Weak
If Iran's leaders had their way, few people would have seen last week's massive protests. They've tried everything to censor coverage, but news is still getting out. John Blackstone reports.

Protest Rallies Halted
About a thousand young people tried to rally in one of Iran's main public squares. However, a huge number of police and paramilitary dispersed them before they could march. Elizabeth Palmer reports.

whitehouse

Chef Bobby Flay advises the President not to take a peek before flipping his steak at the White House Young Mens Barbeque on June 19, 2009.

AlJazeeraEnglish

Inside Story asks if protests can shake the foundations of the Islamic revolution.

Sun June 21 '09

AssociatedPress

Here's the latest news for Sunday, June 21st: Protests turn bloody in Iran; Truck bomb kills more than 70 in northern Iraq; Published reports indicate Steve Jobs had liver transplant; Photo of Albert Einstein auctioned for top dollar.

whitehouse

President Obama tells the jokes that weren't funny enough for the White House Correspondents Dinner five weeks prior. June 20, 2009

FoxNewsChannel

Unbelievable amateur video of the scenes in Iran

FoxNewsChannel

How can the U.S. stay current on Iran election crisis?

AlJazeeraEnglish

The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 triggered an exodus of millions of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, including a community who found refuge in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

But facing persecution from Iraqi militias after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, many Palestinians fled to the Al Waleed refugee camp near the Iraqi-Syrian border.

As Al Jazeera's Nisreen El Shamayleh reports, these refugees say they now live in "horrendous" conditions

(See the following article in blog by clicking here)

AlJazeeraEnglish

In this episode of Al Jazeera's weekly business show: Can US banks resurrect themselves, a Russian manufacturer takes off at the Paris airshow, tight currency controls slow down car production in Venezuela and petro-dollars fuel luxury car investment in the Gulf.

AssociatedPress

A Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter is free after more than seven months in captivity in Afghanistan after escaping from his captors.

AlJazeeraEnglish

In this episode of Al Jazeera's weekly business show: Can US banks resurrect themselves, a Russian manufacturer takes off at the Paris air show, tight currency controls slow down car production in Venezuela and petro-dollars fuel luxury car investment in the Gulf

jewishtvnetwork1

Legendary rock producer Brooks Arthur and performer Lainie Kazan talk about The Jewish Songbook, classic Jewish songs performed by todays top stars including Adam Sandler.

Thurs June 18 '09

FoxNewsChannel

Pilot dies during flight from Belgium to Newark, New Jersey

FoxNewsChannel

Iran's interior minister releases letter claiming to show 'real' election results

AlJazeeraEnglish

As Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, continues his series of meetings with US officials, both sides are keen to play down any talk of a rift over the issue of settlements.

However the concerns come as a recent poll finds a 20 per cent drop in US public support for Israel, as Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports. (???Which polls are these?????)

bbcworldnews

Iran awaits supreme leader's words

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to lead Friday prayers, a week after blessing President Ahmedinejad's election victory.

AishVideo

Roi Klein's extraordinary act of self-sacrifice

whitehouse

Watch President Obama backstage as he records his cameo appearance on "The Colbert Report." In this pre-taped segment, he orders Colbert's head shaved, which was promptly executed by General Odierno during the show's special broadcasts from Camp Victory in Baghdad. (Have a laugh!!!)

ThirtySix.org and Rabbi Pinchas Winston

Working With Divine Providence

The Historical Ramifications of the Story of Yosef/Joseph and His Brothers. --- This is a wonderful presentation on the Yosef HaTzadik/Joseph The Righteous in the book of Shemot/Exodus (Sample of Torah and its insights)

More learning with Rabbi Pinchas Winston here

Wed Jun 17 '09

bbcworldnews: Uncertainty over Iranian future - Click here to view

Iran's political and religious establishment has seen its authority in the country seriously challenged since the election.

bbcworldnews: Obama unveils banking reform - Click here to view

President Obama has announced a major reform of financial regulation in the US to help prevent future economic crises.

CBS: News on YouTube - here

Harry Smith speaks with Steve Grove, the Director of News Video at YouTube, about the role YouTube is playing in Iran as the country tries to crack down on news organizations.

whitehouse:

The President signs a Presidential Memorandum expanding benefits for partners of gay federal employees.

CBS:

See also Pallywood. Is the above video one of their scenes with a more professional look? What purpose is it to serve? Why is Hamas being mentioned as protectors?

Added June 18 '09: Here is one possible purpose (Pallywood, be aware of it and make people aware!)

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