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July 24, 2007

Down In A Power Outage

The latest word:
TypePad, Vox, and LJ are unreachable for many due to a power problem @ hosting facility, also affecting Technorati and Craigslist. More soon
Why no mirror sites? Maybe a techie or two out there can explain this to us.

July 24, 2007

The OU Lies Again: Meat Hook Throat Probing *Not* USDA Mandated – Meat Hook To Throat “Part Of Glatt Kosher Slaughter”

The OU Lies Again: Meat Hook Throat Probing Not USDA Mandated – Meat Hook To Throat “Part Of Glatt Kosher Slaughter”
I spoke yesterday with Trent Berhow, the vice president of the National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, and with Jim Shanahan, head of the local in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Shanahan told he he [...]

July 24, 2007

Why The “Second Cut” Is Illegal

July 24, 2007
Why The “Second Cut” Is Illegal
At the end of 2004, the USDA issued a H.I.K.E. scenario to teach line inspectors what to do when they witness ritual slaughter and see violations. In part, it says:
…This second cut was performed by a person other than the religious authority making the ritual slaughter cut; it [...]

July 24, 2007

The Perfidy That Never Was

The Perfidy That Never Was
Yad Vashem received the papers of Rudolph Kastner (also spelled Kasztner), the Zionist official who, although he saved many Jews during the Holocaust, was vilified as a “Nazi collaborator.” The vilification led directly to Kastner’s murder in Israel in 1957.
Here’s what Yad Vashem’s chairman and its librarian have to say about [...]

January 25, 2007

The New FailedMessiah.com

This is the new home of FailedMessiah.com. Soon I’ll be moving FailedMessiah here to WordPress. You’ll note some changes, and some dead links. I’ll fix as many of these as possible, as time permits. In the meantime, the TypePad site is still up and running.

December 28, 2006

Sephardi Kiruv

Lots of of really beautiful women, too. Watch for the beautiful Ethiopian girl.
[Hat Tip: C-Girl.]

September 20, 2006

Nigerian Jews?

This video and the one posted immediately below were taken (it appears) by a Chabadnik traveling through Nigeria.
My first thought is they can’t be Jews – no one is talking, everyone is actually praying. And the children are too well behaved.
[Hat tip: Yoyo.]
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September 20, 2006

Nigerian Jews?

[Hat tip: Yoyo.]

April 30, 2006

Jordanian Cartoon Series Aims For Coexistence

A new Jordanian cartoon series, Ben and Izzy aims for coexistence between Jews and Arabs. The series target market? American cable TV, the New York Times reports.

April 12, 2006

Chag Kasher v’Samayakh!

Chag kasher v’samayakh to you all!

March 27, 2006

Moscow Shul Attacker Sentenced To 13 years

The skinhead who attacked a Chabad synagogue in Moscow, wounding 9 people, including four seriously, was sentenced to 13 years in prision today. The stiffer charge of incitement to racial hatred and violence was dropped by the court. The prosecution intends to appeal that decision.

June 19, 2005

Chief Pilot Of Operation Magic Carpet Dead – Saved 50,000 Yemenite Jews

From the New York Times:
Robert F. Maguire Jr., the chief pilot of Operation Magic Carpet, which evacuated more than 40,000 Jewish refugees from Yemen to the newly created state of Israel between late 1948 and early 1950, died on June 10 at his home in Northridge, Calif. He was 94.…
Starting in November 1947, when the [...]