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The news of the deaths of the people at Chabad House is too terrible to say anything much ( Read more... )

go here - http://memelabs.com/somedaystories/Read more... )

I got this from Rabbi Binyomin. I want to help... but I have limitted means. It's definitely a major mitzvah...
Dear Daniel ( Read more... )

Oleg Viro Birthday conference in SwedenThis would be unremarkable except for what proceeded it. Oleg Viro was forced out of Uppsala University by a dean who wanted to kill non-applied mathematics. He was forced out through threats of false accusation of crimes. Very Israeli government like, no? I hear the KGB used the same method. Anyway, ( Read more... )

Fast day tomorrow.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/139862

Achikam Amichai hy"d and David Rubin hy"d were murdered by terrorists on Friday while hiking. And so again, Sylvester, the traditional time for pogroms, is a time of mourning. It's the time we get murdered ( Read more... )

Everybody should sign up to www.jajah.com
It's better than Skype.

I'm off to Singapore now for 2 weeks. It's going to be non-trivial to have Yom Kippur in Singapore, but interesting probably. I'm meeting Kricker there, and we'll work on some problems we're both interested... and hopefully make significant progress and make a joint paper out of it ( Read more... )