Hafsakah

I will be unable to blog until early May, so see you again with new posts when we are counting the Omer. Feel free to read old post, search and connect through the links until then.

L'shalom (wishing you peace).

IDF Completes Handover of Jericho

Yesterday I posted about the delayed handover of Jericho. The IDF completed it and now the Palestinians of Jericho govern themselves. You can read about it in this Ha'aretz article.

May peace prevail.

Good News Morning re Israel

Hello. Today seems to be a good news day for Israel (may this continue to be so). Israeli troups turned over control of Jericho to the Palestinians (with Tulkaram, Qalqiya and Bethlehem on the short list for future cities) and the effort to remove Syria from Lebanon moves forward. (Now we just need to do something about Hizbollah.)

Here are some net sources:
Ha'artez, "Israel to Hand Over Jericho Today"
New York Times, "Lebanon Flag Is Hoisted as Syrians Slip Away"
BBC (with its usual viewpoint), "Israel begins handover of Jericho"

UPDATE: Ha'aretz "Jericho handover delayed at last minute"

Search This Blog

Shavuah tov! I recently added a search feature to this blog (see the right sidebar). I hope that it faciliatates finding information in previous posts.

Another New Link

New link to a kids peace initiative - Al-Quds Kids Council - found in the sidebar under Israel Peace Blogs.

New Jewish Blogs

Shalom, ya'll.

Thanks to Rabbi Miller's blog I have added links to two kosher food blogs, Kosher Bachelor (another blog from Steven Weiss) and Kosher Vegan. Read, eat and enjoy!

Jewish Trivia Game

Looking for a way to have some educational fun online? Try Babaganewz's Jewpardy game!

Have fun and go and learn!

One more Daf Yomi Source

Here is another daf yomi site - Yeshivah University Torah Online

Another Post on the Siyyum & Study

More and more women are engaging in serious Torah study. Quite a few are even participating in daf yomi.

The Jerusalem Post has a story on women studying daf yomi and the controversy and various opinions which this issue raises.

Study Resources

In honor of today's siyyum of the 7-year cycle of daf yomi (daily study of a page of Talmud) I am posting some new links for Torah study. They appear in this post and in the margin where appropriate. (Thanks to Temple Sholom in Eau Clarie for many of the links.)

Daf Yomi
E-Daf
Daf Yomi Advancement Forum
Daf Yomi

Torah & Tanach
Targum Onqelos on the Torah with parallel Hebrew and Aramaic text (Mechon Mamre).
Tikkun Korim (Unvocalized text as in the sefer Torah (Mechon Mamre).

Genealogies of People in the Tanach (ORT)
Reference on People and Places in the Torah (ORT)

Rabbinic & Medieval Texts
Four of the Major Sources of Oral Torah - Hebrew (Mishnah, Talmud Bavli Talmud Yerushalmi and Tosefta from Machon Mamre).
Talmud Bavli in English (Under construction.)
Rashi Study Source>
Rambam's Mishneh Torah with Parallel Hebrew/English text (Mechon Mamre).
Seforim Online, a Source for Many Texts.

General Study Resources
Hebrew Books.org

As the sages said - Zil G'mor - Go and Study!