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U.S. Military Chief: Iran Has Enough Material to Make a Nuclear Weapon [CNN] Iran likely has enough material to make a nuclear weapon, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen told CNN on Sunday. "We think they do, quite frankly," Mullen said. "Iran having a nuclear weapon, I believe, for a long time, is a very, very bad outcome for the region and for the world." In February the Institute for Science and International Security released a report concluding that Iran has reached "nuclear weapons breakout capability," based on an analysis of data fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UK Jews object to report targeting kosher stores for stocking settlement goods However, Dutch research company rep tells 'Post' report only used material available from open sources.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Int'l declaration to fight anti-Semitism signed in London Declaration notes dramatic increase in anti-Semitism disseminated in the media and attacks targeting Jews and their property.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russia freezes sale of S-300 to Iran Moscow reportedly wants to avoid hindering dialogue with new US administration, drone deal with Israel.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holocaust survivor groups protest YouTube Hitler parody Demand video sharing website to remove clip due to the sensitivities of elderly Holocaust victims.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peres: I was wrong about disengagement President says Israel has learned from mistakes of Gaza pullout. "It should have been done otherwise."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Manchester U. Students Vote to Condemn Israel [Jewish Chronicle-UK] Jonathan Kalmus - In an emergency general meeting of the Manchester University's Student Union on Wednesday, 550 students voted for a motion to boycott Israeli goods and condemn Israel's Gaza operation, defeating 200 voting against.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Egypt Cracking Down on Gaza Smugglers? [Los Angeles Times] Ashraf Khalil - Gaza smuggling-tunnel owners have begun to direct their fury at the Egyptian government as Egypt has begun to impose stronger checkpoints throughout the Sinai Peninsula to prevent merchandise from reaching the tunnel zone. There's talk of police using informants to find hidden entrances and destroy dozens of tunnels with explosives or huge water hoses. "They seem to be taking it seriously this time," says Musab Shurrab, a police officer stationed at th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Over Europe, Evidence of a Rise in Anti-Semitism [Times-UK] Denis MacShane - The periodic crises that have shaken world capitalism in the past century and a half are marked by a common political phenomenon: the rise of political anti-Semitism. Attacks on Jews and Jewishness constitute the canary in the coal mine that tells us something is going seriously wrong. The UK's Community Security Trust reports as many attacks on Jews in the first weeks of 2009 as in the first six months of last year. As the world enters a new era of economic c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stimulus bill gives $1 billion to Jewish social service providers The funds come from the $87 billion that the legislation allots for state Medicaid programs.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holocaust survivor groups protest YouTube Hitler parody Demand video sharing website to remove clip due to the sensitivities of elderly Holocaust victims.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5769 — Mishpatim In this episode Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels discusses Parshat Mishpatim. Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at: podcast -at- pardesusa.org For more information about Pardes, visit our website, www.pardes.org Credits Larry Kluger - Creative Consultant Dr. David Bernstein - Executive Producer About Rabbi Jacobson-Maisels Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels is a faculty member at Pardes. His focus is Jewish Mysticism. Rabbi James Jacobson-Maisels holds a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading the Megilla in Public Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching Reading Proficiency - 019 : Classroom Teaching with Mark Smilowitz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UK pledges to combat anti-Semitism Government expresses support for strong legislation against racial, religious discrimination and crimes.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website France's role in Holocaust legally recognized Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Tehran Ready to Talk? [International Herald Tribune] David Sanger - When President Ahmadinejad on Tuesday took up President Obama's oft-repeated invitation for direct talks between the U.S. and Iran, he seemed to be signaling the start of a long-delayed war-or-peace drama that may define the Obama administration's first engagement with the rest of the world.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Palestinian Actions Have Reduced Israeli Society's Hope for Peace [Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - On innumerable occasions over the last 15 years, since the signing of the Oslo accords, Israel has been warned by both the well-meaning and the patronizing that it had better watch its steps, lest it radicalize the Palestinians. What we didn't hear much of during this period were entreaties to the Palestinians not to take actions that would radicalize Israeli society, that would rob it of hope, that would push it to despair of ever reaching a peace agreeme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kadima, Likud Both Claim Victory in Israeli Elections [Ha'aretz] With 99% of the votes counted Wednesday, Tzipi Livni's Kadima party had 28 of the Knesset's 120 seats and Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party had 27 seats. Yet it is not certain that Livni will be able to muster the 61-seat coalition needed to form a government. Netanyahu in fact has a better chance of forging a coalition because of gains by parties that are his natural allies. By law, President Shimon Peres must consult with all the parties as to who they prefer as prime minister, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tzitzis and the Yam Suf The message of Tzitzis and the splitting of the Yam Suf - Presented by Rabbi Yosef Grossman, OU Director of Kosher Education and host of "The Good Vort" on OURadio.org. Recorded live at OU World Headquarters NY, NY February 11, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'The Left was hit hard in this election' Barak: Shattered system of government must be changed; Meretz leader Oron: Expectations too high.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Netanyahu declares: I will be next PM Despite exit polls putting his party 2nd to Kadima, Likud leader says he'll start coalition talks on Wed.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Livni calls on Bibi to join her gov't "Honor the Israeli people's decision," Kadima leader tells Likud leader. "The people have chosen us."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lieberman: I prefer right-wing coalition Israel Beiteinu leader says his top priority for the next government is to topple Hamas in Gaza.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Analysis: Election arithmetic puts Bibi in the driving seat But the Likud leader faces a bumpy road to the prime ministership.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yemeni Jews Demand Rescue [Yemen Times-Yemen] Kawkab al-Thaibani - Despite numerous government assurances and presidential instructions to protect and relocate the Jewish minority in Raidah village, Amran governorate, the some 400 Yemeni Jewish citizens fear for their lives today more than ever.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama: U.S. Seeks Dialogue and Engagement with Iran [New York Times] President Obama told a press conference Monday: Iran's "financing of terrorist organizations like Hizbullah and Hamas, the bellicose language that they've used towards Israel, their development of a nuclear weapon or their pursuit of a nuclear weapon...all of those things create the possibility of destabilizing the region and are not only contrary to our interests, but I think are contrary to the interests of international peace." "My national security team is currently ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OU Daf Bava Kama 45 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class 11: Parshat Yitro: The Origin of Yitro's Soul In this shiur (Torah class), Rabbi Hershel Reichman explains the significance of various names of yitro, Moshe Rabbeinu's father in law. The names of Yitro teach us important elements of his spiritual makeup which affected Moshe and the entire Jewish People. By: Rabbi Hershel Reichman Added: 02/10/2009 Category: Chassidut, Parsha, Parshat Yitro Preview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rise in UK Anti-Semitic Attacks Worst in Decades [Observer-UK] Mark Townsend - Police patrols have been stepped up in Jewish neighborhoods following the most intense period of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain in decades. Anti-Semitic incidents are running at around seven a day.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Choice But to Fight [International Herald Tribune] Yossi Klein Halevi - The Middle East conflict has been transformed from a nationalist struggle over the creation of a Palestinian state into an Islamist struggle against the existence of a Jewish state. Terror enclaves aligned with Iran - Hizbullah in the north, Hamas in the south - have formed on our borders. For the first time since the 1948 war, the Israeli home front has become the actual front. Meanwhile, an Iranian regime whose threats to destroy Isr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jews in South America Increasingly Uneasy [Washington Post] Juan Forero and Joshua Partlow - In Argentina - which has the largest Jewish population in Latin America, about 250,000-strong - Jewish leaders describe a tense climate in which swastikas have been painted on Jewish schools, and graffiti demanding that Jews leave the country have been scrawled on walls. In Bolivia, President Evo Morales expelled the Israeli ambassador over the Gaza war. Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that outsi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel Air Force Strikes Hamas Targets in Gaza [Ynet News/Ha'aretz] Ali Waked - Israeli aircraft struck Hamas outposts in Gaza early Monday in retaliation for Sunday's rocket fire on Israel. More than 35 Kassam rockets, mortar shells, and Grad missiles have been fired at Israel since a cease-fire ended Israel's offensive against Hamas in Gaza over two weeks ago, the IDF said.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cyprus Ship Is Carrying Prohibited Weapons-Related Material from Iran [Reuters] A ship detained by Cyprus appears to be carrying banned weapon-related material from Iran prohibited under UN resolutions, a senior Cypriot source said on Saturday. A UN panel monitoring compliance of sanctions said that on the basis of evidence provided, the Cyprus-flagged "Monchegorsk," sailing from Iran to Syria, is carrying a cargo that is in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrests Made in Venezuela Synagogue Attack [Reuters] Seven Venezuelan police agents and four civilians have been arrested in connection with an attack on a synagogue that sparked international condemnation, investigators said on Sunday. President Hugo Chavez told Venevision TV on Sunday: "What a coincidence, the gang leader is a metropolitan police officer who for the last four years was the personal bodyguard of the synagogue's rabbi."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Kansas/Susan Del Percio/Mike Burstyn/Benjamin Blech Leon Charney talks Dave Kansas author of The End Of Wall Street about the Economy. Then Charney and Republican Political Consultant Susan Del Percio talk about Politics. Charney then has a conversation with Mike Burstyn, star of Lansky. Finally Chanrey speaks with Rabbi Benjamin Blech about the Vatican. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class 2: The Dikduk of Rashi: Causative Verbs In this Torah shiur (class) on the grammatical Rashi's in Chumash, Mrs. Yehudit Weiss discusses various examples of Rashi's commentaries relating to causative verbs (binyan hif'il and hitpa'el).   This Torah class is available online in streaming video and for download in mp3 and ipod video formats. By: Mrs. Yehudith Weiss Added: 02/09/2009 Category: Chumash Preview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conservative Movement promotes aliya Special liaison appointed ahead of new campaign; immigrants to be matched with Masorti communities.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Halachot of Tu Beshvat. Halacha Yomit by Rabbi Chaim Brovender Tags: Halacha, Halacha Yomit, Rabbi Brovender, Tu Beshvat, Video Related posts Writing, Laundry and Sanctity oF Chol Hamoed (Halacha Yomit - Hilchot Pesach) (0) Women and the Reading of the Megilla - Part 2 (Halacha Yomit) (0) Women and the Reading of the Megila (Halacha Yomit) (2) Wine That Shows Up During A Meal (Halacha Yomit) (0) Why is Honey Kosher? Halacha Yomit by Rabbi Chaim Brovender (0) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evaluating Your Teaching - 018 : Classroom Teaching with Mark Smilowitz Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website German Sentenced by French Court in Tunisian Synagogue Attack [AP] Verena Von Derschau - A French court sentenced Christian Ganczarski, 42, a German convert to Islam, to 18 years in prison Thursday for his role in the bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 21 people in April 2002. Prosecutors said the attack was carried out on the orders of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who is being held at Guantanamo Bay for his role in the 9/11 attacks. The brother of one of the Tunisian suicide bombers, Walid Naouar, received a 12-year sentence for having provid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Az Yashir and S’hma The connection between Az Yashir and S'hma. Esther Wein's new shiur for Parshat Beshalach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aish Hatorah head Weinberg dies at 78 "He believed that all Jews had an obligation to recognize the tremendous good God did for us by giving us a state."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ambassador to Sweden gets 'the shoe' Israeli diplomat also pelted with school supplies by protesters while speaking at Stockholm University.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Americans still strongly back Israel' But new survey shows support dropped due to Gaza war; US voters say road to peace runs through Iran.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barbra Sofer winner of the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism Barbra Sofer is the recent winner of the Eliav-Sartawi Awards for Middle Eastern Journalism, The award is given annually by Search for Common Ground. for journalism that contributes to better understanding between people. In the winning article, a religious Jewish woman from Jerusalem describes her experience with her Muslim roommate from Hebron during an interfaith [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class 16: Parshat Beshalach: Salvation at Sea This Torah shiur (class) on Parshat Beshalach by Rabbi Hanoch Teller describes the amazing miracle of the Splitting of the Sea.  This Torah class is available online in streaming video and for download in mp3 and ipod video formats. By: Rabbi Hanoch Teller Added: 02/05/2009 Category: Parsha, Parshat Beshalach Preview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YJN #168 - 02/04/09- Rabbi Nicki Greninger on Becoming a Rabbi This week's links: Rabbi Barry Dov Lerner discusses becoming a Rabbi on About.com Hebrew Union College, the Reform movement seminary How to Become a Rabbi, from eHow.com Rabbi: Teacher, Preacher, Judge -- But Not Priest, from MyJewishLearning.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vatican: Holocaust denier must recant Pope states he wasn't aware of Bishop Williamson's views when he agreed to lift excommunication.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 6 powers back US-Iran direct talks Israeli official: We trust Obama on Iran, EU support for talks isn't sign of US weakness on issue.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5769— Beshalach This week Rabbi Levin-Kruss discusses Parshat Beshalach.There is a handout for this podcast, please see the next episode.Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at:podcast -at- pardesusa.orgFor more information about Pardes, visit our website,www.pardes.org.ilCreditsLarry Kluger - Creative ConsultantDr. David Bernstein - Executive ProducerAbout Rabbi Levin-KrussRabbi David Levin-Kruss is a faculty member and the Director of Special Programs for the Pardes I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shots fired at Jewish center in Holland Maintenance man finds bullet holes in window of 'Sinai' center; none hurt; police launch investigation.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class 10: Birchat Hatorah: Bracha of Praise or Birchat Hamitzvah? In this Torah shiur (class) on Gemara Brachot, Rabbi Moshe NechemiaReichman discusses the views of the various commentaries as to thenature of Birchat HaTorah.  This Torah class is available online in streaming video and for download in mp3 and ipod video formats.By:Rabbi Moshe N. ReichmanAdded: 02/04/2009Category:Preview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protesters fear Venezuelan anti-Semitism Dozens of demonstrators gather in front of UN offices to condemn last week's Caracas synagogue attack.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Treasury blocked plan for 'Jewish Al-Jazeera' Isaac Herzog: Network would have balanced Arab bias, but treasury rejected idea for 'lack of funds.'Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cracking the Vatican walls Some 800 ancient Hebrew texts which survived Church-ordered burnings have finally been made public.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Merkel: Pope must clarify Shoah stance German chancellor calls for "very clear" rejection of Holocaust denials after former bishop rehabilitated.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baba kama Daf 37 - Limited Muad Status (Shabbos etc.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IDF warns Gazans of impending strike Grad hits Ashkelon for 1st time since op; damage caused, but none hurt; Kassam hits Sha'ar Hanegev.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Netanyahu promises to topple Hamas regime in Gaza if elected Likud leader blasts Kadima during tour of Ashkleon in the wake of Grad attack; Livni hints at another Gaza op if rocket attacks continue.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Constable/Uriel Heilman/Carolyn Kissane Leon Charney talks to Dow Jones Newswire Columnist Simon Constable about the Economy. Then Charney speaks to JTA's Uriel Heilman about Israel and the Middle East. Finally Charney has a conversation with Carolyn Kissane of NYU about world affairs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting for Good, International Kabbalah Congress 2009 in Israel, Lesson 4, Growing ego Lecturer:Rav Michael LaitmanDate:2009-02-03Video:ENG 95.28MB Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baba Kama Daf 35 - Contrasting Obligations of an Ox Damaging With Obligations of a Man Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gazans Describe Being Used as Human Shields by Hamas [Palestinian Media Watch] Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - Members of a Gaza family whose farm was turned into a "fortress" by Hamas fighters have reported that they were helpless to stop Hamas from using them as human shields. The official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, reported Tuesday: "The hill on which the Abd Rabbo family lives overlooks the Israeli town Sderot, a fact that turned it into an ideal military position for the Palestinian fighters, from which they have launched hundre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Account of Israeli Attack on Gaza School Doesn't Hold Up to Scrutiny [Globe and Mail-Canada] Patrick Martin - Most people remember the headlines: "Israeli Strike Kills Dozens at UN School." On Jan. 6, mortar shells fired by advancing Israeli forces reportedly killed 43 civilians at the UNRWA school where they had taken refuge in Jabalya in Gaza. But the story was not quite accurate. Physical evidence and interviews with several eyewitnesses, including a teacher who was in the schoolyard at the time of the shelling, make it clear: While a few people were i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Jews Support Israeli Operation in Gaza [JTA] Eric Fingerhut - An Anti-Defamation League poll of the American Jewish community released Thursday found that 79% believed Israel's response to the "current crisis in Gaza" was appropriate, with just 17% believing it was excessive. 81% said Hamas was "responsible for the recent escalation in violence," compared to just 14% who blamed Israel. Overall, 94% expressed sympathy for Israel over Hamas; only 1% for Hamas.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hamas Rejects Israeli Truce Proposal [Ynet News] Ali Waked - Hamas rejected Wednesday the Israeli truce proposal, with particular opposition to Prime Minister Olmert's demand that it be conditioned on progress in negotiations to bring home kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. Hamas also rejects the establishment a 500-yard security corridor along Gaza's border with Israel. A member of the Hamas delegation to the Cairo negotiations, Salah al-Bardawil, added that Hamas does not believe that it lost the war. "They did not damage t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 4 Parshiot Insights into the 4 Parshiot in the Teffillin Shel Rosh. Esther Wein's new shiur for Parshat Bo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitchell: Open Gaza crossings with PA US envoy urges "mechanism to allow flow of legal goods with participation of Palestinian Authority."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video Clip - Happiness Date: 2009-01-26Video: ENG 81.49MB Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US Jewish leader: Israel must take more financial responsibility Rebecca Caspi says fundraising proceeds for Jewish causes in the US have dropped by about 20 percent.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Parshat Bo - Rabbi Weinreb Brief Words From The Wise Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solana softens policy towards Hamas Position dovetails with French stand; Olmert tells Mitchell IDF op gave PA chance to reassert in Gaza.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Erdogan's remarks aid anti-Semiticism' Official explains that following Gaza war, Jews in Turkey are experiencing 'worst situation in memory.'Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S.: Iranian Arms Probably Were Bound for Gaza [AP] Anne Gearan - Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed Tuesday that a Cypriot-flagged ship intercepted in the Red Sea last week was carrying Iranian arms and that U.S. authorities suspect that the shipment was ultimately bound for the Gaza. "The United States did as much as we could do legally," Mullen said, adding, "We were not authorized to seize the weapons."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Combat Obama, Al-Qaeda Hurls Insults [Washington Post] Joby Warrick - Al-Qaeda has unleashed a stream of verbal tirades against Barack Obama, each more venomous than the last. Obama has been called a "hypocrite," a "killer" of innocents, an "enemy of Muslims." He was even blamed for the Israeli military assault in Gaza, which began and ended before he took office. The torrent of hateful words is part of what terrorism experts now believe is a deliberate propaganda campaign against a president who appears to have gotten und ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former U.S. Diplomat: Mitchell's Prospects "Slim to None" [Council on Foreign Relations-New York Times] Bernard Gwertzman - Aaron David Miller, who was a top U.S. Middle East negotiator for ten years, says that despite naming George Mitchell as a new special envoy, the administration has "no intention of making major changes in America's approach to the Arab-Israeli issue, because right now, the prospects of any sort of conflict-ending agreement between Israelis and Palestinians are slim to none." "Gaza has so many moving parts - anti-smuggli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ahmadinejad: Obama Must Apologize to Iran [Reuters] Zahra Hosseinian - Responding to President Obama's offer to extend a hand of peace to Iran, Iranian President Ahmadinejad said Wednesday, "Those who say they want to make change, this is the change they should make: they should apologize to the Iranian nation and try to make up for their dark background and the crimes they have committed against the Iranian nation." He listed a range of "crimes" such as trying to block Tehran's nuclear program, hindering Iran's development, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cairo Stops Iranian Arms Ship [Jerusalem Post] Yaakov Katz - Israel is closely tracking an Iranian freighter believed to be carrying weaponry for Hamas that is currently docked in the Red Sea outside the Suez Canal. "So far the Egyptians have prevented the ship from crossing the Suez and we hope it will stay that way," a senior defense official said. Defense officials said Iran is trying to supply Hamas with new Grad-Katyusha rockets and high-grade explosives. The IDF is concerned that Iran will supply Hamas with lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swedish city cancels Holocaust event Spokesman for local church cites IDF offensive in Gaza as reason for calling off torchlight procession.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US Ambassador to UN: We'll talk to Iran Susan Rice warns of further action against Teheran unless it suspends nuclear enrichment program.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Binah.20090202.Pinsky Poet Robert Pinsky reads in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on January 11th, 2009. His reading is the keynote for 'Life After Life: A Day-Long Program on the End of Life, Mourning and Life After Loss.' For details, please visit www.jccsf.org/lifeafterlife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asaf Shariv/Paul Maidment/Lane Greene Leon Charney talks Asaf Shariv, the Consul General of Israel about Gaza. Than Charney speaks with Paul Maidment of Forbes about the Economy. Finally Charney goes over current affairs with Lane Greene of The Economist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Iranian Frogmen Bring Weapons to Hamas [Maariv-Hebrew, 23Jan09] Nadav Zeevi and Amir Buhbut - According to an Israeli security source, the IDF has encountered Iranian-leased weapons ships anchored ten miles out to sea opposite Rafiah in Egyptian waters. The weapons are packed in waterproof containers which travel under the surface. During the night, Iranian frogmen transport the containers and tie them to Palestinian fishing vessels located closer to shore. The Palestinian vessels return to Gaza, towing the containers underw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaza Operation Caused Huge Backlog in Egypt of Arms Meant for Hamas [Ha'aretz] Barak Ravid - Israeli Defense Minister Barak on Sunday said a large quantity of arms had piled up in Egypt en route to Gaza as a result of Israel's recent offensive and that Israel had informed Egypt of the build-up.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-Israel vs. Anti-Semite [Chicago Tribune] Tom Neumann - I've seldom found someone who is anti-Israel but at the same time likes Jews. Anti-Israel attitudes do not fall into a pattern of normal political hostility of the type directed toward other countries. At their core, objections to Israel are not based on the country's policies but instead rest on Israel's very right to exist. Faced with terror attacks, there is no country in the world that would not have garnered sympathy except Israel. The exceedingly ug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aerial Photographs Show Rocket-Launching Sites and Terrorist Bases in the Heart of Civilian Gaza Neighborhoods [Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center] Marked aerial photographs show how Hamas turned entire civilian neighborhoods, including houses, mosques, schools, hospitals and UN facilities, into quasi-military compounds from which it waged combat against the IDF. By doing so Hamas inevitably caused loss of life and property damage to innocent civilians.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website US envoy won't meet with Hamas, stop in Syria ME trip Dovish US Jewish groups praise former Senator Mitchell for his "even-handedness."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YJN #167 - 01/25/09 - Rabbi Judy Shanks on personal spiritual practices This week's links: Prayer upon waking, from Wikipedia Chesed explained, from aish.com Various prayers for eating A Book of Life, from Amazon.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama vows he'll 'aggressively' seek Middle East peace Envoy Mitchell to be sent to region soon; president wants Gaza crossing opened, says US "committed" to Israel's security, "hope for Palestinians."Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hamas Confirms Executing Fatah Collaborators [Jerusalem Post] Khaled Abu Toameh - PA Minister of Social Welfare Mahmoud Habbash accused Hamas on Wednesday of confiscating 63 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid while they were on their way to UNRWA in Gaza. He also said 19 Palestinians were murdered in cold blood by Hamas during and after Israel's Gaza operation, while more than 60 others were shot in the legs.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gaza Doctor: Hamas Exaggerated Gaza Death Toll - 600 Killed, Mostly Fighters, Not 1,300 [Maariv-Hebrew] Yossi Bar - The Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra Thursday quoted a doctor at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City saying that, despite Hamas and UN claims, most of those killed in Gaza were young men who were members of terror groups. "The number of deaths was between 500-600...most were young men between 17 and 23 who were recruited into the ranks of Hamas, which sent them to be slaughtered," he said. Journalist Lorenzo Cremonesi confirmed that only 600 people were killed, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Egypt: No Foreign Navies in Egyptian Waters to Combat Smuggling [AP/International Herald Tribune] Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Wednesday his country will not allow foreign naval forces to operate in its territorial waters to prevent weapons smuggling to Gaza.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chicago's rabbis, teachers stress Jewish morality amid gov't and financial scandals Chicago Jews felt the effects of both the Blagojevich and Madoff scandals.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waltz with Bashir gets Oscar nod Israeli anti-war film will try to win Best Foreign Film accolades on Oscar night in February.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'No end to Gaza crisis without Schalit' Livni tells European counterparts "full cessation of arms smuggling" vital for sustainable truce.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jewish University In A Day: I Imagine You, I Name You - but I Don't Know You In this first lecture of the Skirball Center's Winter Jewish University In A Day program, Skirball Faculty Fellow Mishael Zion gives a talk entitled I Imagine You, I Name You - but I Don't Know You. The texts he discusses in this lecture can be viewed online here. For information about future lectures and other programs of The Skirball Center, please visit adultjewishlearning.org Or call 212.507.9580. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5769 — Va’era We’re pleased to announce a new service from Pardes, “(Sh)tender Thoughts,” a video blog by Rabbi Daniel Landes. In the blog, Rabbi Landes discusses his thoughts on the issues of the day. The video blog is available at shtenderthoughts.pardes.org. In the future we will make it available as a video podcast too. In this episode of Pardes from Jerusalem, Rabbi Daniel Landes discusses Parshat Va’era. Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, wri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Character Study: Abraham, Part VI Abraham internalized what Noah did not. A Character Study of the Patriarchs: Abraham, part 6 of 6, by Rochi Lerner, host of Torah Sessions on OURadio.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hamas Declares Victory in Rallies Across Gaza [AP] Karin Laub and Ibrahim Barzak - Waving green Islamic flags, Hamas held more than a dozen victory rallies across Gaza attended by thousands of supporters Tuesday. Addressing a crowd near Gaza City's demolished parliament building, Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, declared: "Gaza is not our goal. The liberation of all of Palestine, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, God willing, will be achieved." Gaza resident Jawdat Abu Nahel dismissed Hamas' victory claims. "We can't ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The OU's Daily Nach Yomi Psalms - Chapter 69 Exile Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.S.-Funded Program Fails to Stop Tunnel Smuggling [AP] Anna Johnson and Omar Sinan - The U.S. last year allocated $23 million to help train Egyptian officials to stop the smuggling into Gaza through tunnels beneath the border. Months later, there is little noticeable effect: Smuggling has continued at a robust pace, allowing Hamas militants in Gaza to gain rockets to shoot at Israeli citizens.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IDF unveils Hamas map seized in Gaza Chief intelligence officer says map shows how Hamas uses civilian infrastructure for terrorist activity.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Baba Kama Daf 11 - Six Statements of Ulla amar R' Elazar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Binah.090112.Canin Author Ethan Canin on Writing Fiction, in conversation with Judson True in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on November 20th, 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class 13: Parshat Vayechi: The Blessing to Ephraim and Menashe In this Torah shiur (class) on the weekly Parsha, Mrs. Chana Prero analyzes the brachot (blessings) that Yaakov Avinu bestowed on his grandsons Ephraim and Menashe.  This Torah class is available online in streaming video and for download in mp3 and ipod video formats. By: Mrs. Chana Prero Added: 01/08/2009 Category: Parsha, Parshat Vayechi Preview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Chabon, author VoA - Audio - Michael Chabon, author Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State VoA - Audio - Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice VoA - Audio - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judea Pearl, President, Daniel Pearl Foundation VoA - Audio - Judea Pearl, President, Daniel Pearl Foundation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawrence Summers, Professor of Economics, Harvard University VoA - Audio - Lawrence Summers, Professor of Economics, Harvard University Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irwin Cotler, Member of Canadian Parliament, former Minister of Justice of Canada VoA - Audio - Irwin Cotler, Member of Canadian Parliament, former Minister of Justice of Canada Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deborah Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University VoA - Audio - Deborah Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Small, Director, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism VoA - Audio - Charles Small, Director, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Character Study: Abraham, Part IV Abraham internalized what Noah did not. A Character Study of the Patriarchs: Abraham, part 4 of 6, by Rochi Lerner, host of Torah Sessions on OURadio.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anti-Semitic threats up in Germany, Switzerland Jewish community leader in Germany compares situation to fierce hostility during Second Lebanon War.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website European Jews launch series of pro-Israel rallies Move follows anti-Semitic attacksin UK, Belgium, France, Sweden.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 5769 — Vayehi This week Rabbi Levin-Kruss discusses Parshat Vayehi. Please let us know your comments and thoughts about the podcast, write us at: podcast -at- pardesusa.org For more information about Pardes, visit our website, www.pardes.org.il Credits Larry Kluger - Creative Consultant Dr. David Bernstein - Executive Producer About Rabbi Levin-Kruss Rabbi David Levin-Kruss is a faculty member and the Director of Special Programs for the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. Rabbi Levin-Kruss holds a BA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three IDF soldiers killed by errant tank shell in Strip Another 24 wounded, including Golani brigade commander, as IDF extends operation into densely populated urban centers in Gaza.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barak: The main test is still before us Knesset committee told that Hamas still has enough rockets and mortars to last for weeks.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back to the Front My job in this war is to reinforce Israel's position in the media. And, with all due deference to Hamas's fighters, journalists often pose a more formidable challenge.Read to you by OutloudOpinion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Over the Lebanon Syndrome Why Israeli parents are willing to send their children into Gaza.Read to you by OutloudOpinion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herzog calls on American Jews to voice their support for Gaza operation Urging that "we're in this together," minister urges them "not to be shy" in publicizing Israel's case in as many ways as possible.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel: Erdogan's words 'unacceptable' Turkish PM: "Allah will punish Israel" for Gaza op; Babacan, Muallem discuss ways to end violence.Click here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marc Aronson's Unsettled Unsettled: The Problem of Loving Israel is Marc Aronson's rather unsettling new nonfiction book for teens. We spoke to him about the challenges of writing and reading nonfiction and about this book at the SLJ Leadership Summit in Hollywood Florida. www.bookoflifepodcast.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Class 13: Questions and Answers for Today's Jewish Woman, Part 13 In this question and answer session, Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller addressesreal issues and struggles sent in by Naaleh students all over theworld. Issues such as how to relate to the war in Southern Israel,dealing with the loneliness of singlehood, strategies to deal with the'off the derech' phenomenon, how to create the right atmosphere on Shabbat and many others, are related to with sensitivity, wisdom, and humor.  This Torah class is available online in streaming video and for download ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website