Mar 8, 2011

Interesting Posts #250

1. The Game Of Chess, Explained Chassidicly - now I kind of get why rebbes are so into playing chess in their downtime..

2. The Minhag Of Bringing A Wimpel To Shul

3. From Cairo To Bet Shemesh- comparing the Cairo newspapers to bet Shemesh newspapers

4. Women in The IDF

5. Dating During Conversion

6. Wrong On Shabbat Issue - playing sports on shabbos, and a girl who was told she could not

7. Circling The Gates Of Jerusalem

8. Gilad Shalit Solidarity event

9. Anatomy Of A Ban

2 comments:

  1. I just wanted to show you guys this video in the hopes that you might want to feature it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy-uj7F7SUI

    Students for Justice in Palestine tried to protest an Israel event at our university, and we parodied their video to use it against them. It's gotten a lot of hits on other blogs so I thought I'd just pass it on :-)

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  2. Thanks for the linkage.
    For people who are interested further in the minhag of wimpels, I hope to have a post up shortly, with photographs and details on the oldest wimpel currently in circulation at KAJ - from a baby born in 1877.

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