In most of the money-laundering cases, Dwek approached rabbis and schemed with them to launder money through the rabbis’ religious charities, with the rabbis taking a percentage. Prosecutors say Dwek told the rabbis that the money came from illegal activities — bank fraud and the sale of counterfeit goods, including Prada and Gucci handbags. One [...]
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Tonight begins the Month of Av, the 9th of which is the most important Jewish day of national mourning, and the 15th of which is a party day for singles. From Klein’s Guide to Jewish Religious Practice on Tisha b’Av (the 9th of Av): The ninth of Av is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. The [...] An old posting of mine to an email list followed by an article no longer online (but that I had saved) that discusses the reinvention of Judaism by the Deuteronomist [...] Here is a matter where the halakha is decided according to a variant reading the Talmud had that is not in the masoretic text of today’s Torahs And, most significantly, sometimes the Talmud bases laws on the spelling of particular words (e.g., the number of compartments required in the head tefillin),17 yet the spelling differs from [...] In Parshas Chukas, God behaves almost like a blogger. Rather than authoring his own material, our Lord and Creator twice references the published work of other people. The first occurrence is a cite from the the Book of the Wars of the Lord a book that was lost, and excluded from the canon. The second occurrence … [...] After my 4GB cell phone flash memory card died and took with it my offline backup of dafyomi’s point-by-point Talmud summary, I had to go and find a Torah portion program for my Windows Mobile Pocket PC (Samsung i760). I found one that works well. In any event, I got the one with R’ Shlomo Itzhaki [...] | ||||
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