Tues Dec 22 '09


Lipa Birchas Ha'neiros: Lipa lights the menorah and sings the ברכות והנרות הללו at the Yeshiva University Chanukah Concert '09
- Lipa Shmeltzer lit the on the 7th night while appearing in concert
60 Minutes: Growing Body Parts

Morley Safer reports on the emerging technology of growing body parts from human cells taken directly from patients, providing new hope for amputees and patients on organ-transplant lists
60 Minutes: Resurrecting Eden

Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization

CBSNews: Most Energy-Efficient Home?

Beat Meier is renovating his home to be more energy-efficient; it will be so efficient it will have surplus electricity it can sell to the electric company. Elizabeth Palmer reports
CBSNews: Near Zero-Energy Building

Elizabeth Palmer visits a building that recycles everything from rainwater to human body heat
60 Minutes: The Harlem Children's Zone

Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone has helped put historically low-achieving students in New York on academic par with their grammar-school peers. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports

Mitchell Barak on Israeli Settlement Freeze - Def Min Barak - Settlers Strategy 20 Dec 09


JewishLeadership: Manhigut Mon Nov 30th, '09 - 3 part video
Yishai Fleisher discusses Prime Minister Netanyahu's policy of freezing home building in Judea, Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem with Moshe Feiglin - the leader of the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction in the Likud Party


IsraelNews - כך מכשירים את דור העתיד של הטרוריסטים באל קאעידה

Al-Qaeda teaches children how to become terrorists
מיטב המוחות בארגון אל קאעידה ישבו וחשבו "כיצד נמלא את מצבת הלוחמים המידרדרת?" - אז הם הגיעו למסקנה שכל האמצעים כשרים למען המטרה ולמען הג'יהאד, והחלו לאמן באפגניסטן ילדים ונערים. צפו בסרט שמראה - כך מאמנים את הטרוריסטים לעתיד

Video features the next generation of terrorists with Al-Qaeda teaching their grandkids


Torah Portion for this Shabbat
Parashat Vayigash/And he approached

Children's Section
Akhlah: Parsha & Puzzle




ThirtySix.org: Working with Divide Providence - The Historical Ramifications of the Story of Yosef and His Brothers

Other videos with Rabbi Pinchas Winston giving classes available here

Rabbi Winston is scheduled to be in the US from Jan 18 - 27. To arrange for a speaking engagement in your area, or for any other info, please contact him


Reconciliation between brothers and sisters, parents and children, lovers and friends, all have their root in Torah. The root for the ultimate reconciliation, between G-d and man, can be seen in the story of Yosef reuniting with his brothers.

Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27)
Parashat Vayigash is read on Shabbat:
Tevet 9, 5770/December 26, 2009

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