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I found this article online and felt compelled to share it with you guys.
(credit: Radio Praha)
Among the souvenirs that tourists bring back from a visit to Prague are little clay figures of the Golem – a giant linked to one of Prague’s best known legends. What few of them know is that there is a [...]

Switching languages can also switch personality: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers David Luna from Baruch College and Torsten Ringberg and Laura A. Peracchio from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studied groups of Hispanic women, all [...]

HAARETZ ARTICLE: Most people go to the Western Wall to pray, but now some will also head there to pay.
The cabinet has approved a plan that would allow for sponsorship messages to be beamed onto the Western Wall, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office told Haaretz Monday.
According to the plan, any company will be able [...]

Check out this article:
http://www.nytimes.com
I read this article and I wonder to myself, “what is it that made Pinchas decide to change the way he was leading his life just because of the fact that he found out that he is Jewish? If he really believed in the neo-Nazism that was guiding his life, so what [...]

Striking Differences between Winners and Losers

Some people are successful in whatever they do and some people just can’t seem to make it. Besides the little bit of luck and Lots of help from Hashem, there is a distinction between these two groups of people.
It is not a magic formula or an ancient word passed [...]

תורת משה ד”ה הנני מביא מחר
There was an ongoing מחלוקת between the Kingdoms of מצרים וכנען ופוט וחם, about the exact boundaries of their individual countries.
משה רבינו tells פרעה in the name of ה’ That ” הנני מביא מחר ארבה בגבוליך “, I will bring the plague of locusts in your borders, Wherever the [...]

Please Leave The Freeze!
Aish LA pleaded with me to leave the 20° NY weather and fly out to LA to play for a group of college students who were on a 10 day trip studying Torah and touring. I reached deep into my altruism closet and yanked out just enough strength to book a ticket [...]

”…If statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky way. properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the [...]