I said that if I would post any follow up from Netvision. This morning I got a call from Tami at Netvision who had read my last post and was keen to try to make amends. Read More »

If any readers are considering 013 Netvision as an Internet Service Provider or long distance phone carrier – don’t. If you already have an account with 013 Netvision, you should carefully check your monthly statements to make sure that there are no additional charges for services that you did not agree to. Read More »

One of the most famous Halachic questions to come out of New Zealand (and Japan) is the question of where the Halachic dateline is. Briefly the question is where the dateline should be. The International Dateline marked on maps is loosely based on 180 degrees from Greenwich. Read More »

Simply Jews just asked “What Is Your Favourite Christmas Song? ” and responded with a really funny “They ain’t making Jews like Jesus any more” (click on the link above, you won’t regret it). Read More »

Shana Tova to all my readers,May the comming year be a year of health, happiness, Yirat Shamayim, and Peace for all klal Yisrael and the entire world. Read More »

The following question was posted today in the Ethics Column of the New York Times : My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11: 29 a.m. The flight boarded after 4 and didn’t leave the gate until 4: 40, and a half-hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. Read More »

One of my favourite columnists is James Taranto who writes the conservative-leaning humorous “Best of the Web Today ”, published by the Wall Street Journal. Below is his take on the Palestinian Statehood bid, I couldn’t have said it better. Read More »

A few weeks after I wrote to the New Zealand Minister of Foreign affairs about the Durban III conference , New Zealand decided to boycott the conference. In the coming days it looks like the Palestinians are going to go ahead with the bid for statehood at the UN.  A while ago I blogged about my thoughts on a Palestinian State . Read More »

The weeks Parsha, Ki Tavo includes the ceremony of Blessing and Curses that took place on Har Eival and Har Grazim. Read More »

Saw this image in an email today, I’m reposting here with no additional comment (other than to say the Princess Bride was possibly the best movie ever made) Read More »

As I from time-to-time need to remind my kids, you should never throw stones . it is dangerous and can even be potential lethal. Sometimes the “first” intifada is described as “non-violent” as it consisted largely of stone throwing (or stone shooting from a slingshot). Read More »

If there are any readers out there who are citizens of countries that are still planning to attend the “Durban III” hate-fest at the UN on September 22, I would strongly recommend that you write to your MP or Foreign Minister and question why your government is attending. Read More »

A few blogs (The Muqata and DovBear ) have posts on the following wedding invitation which lists the location of the wedding as ירושלם תובב”א פלשתינא (Jerusalem, May it be built speedily, Palestine ) Needless to say, there has not been a “Jerusalem, Palestine” since the end of the British Mandate. Read More »

The New Zealand media (followed by other media outlets and Honest Reporting ) is all abuzz about an alleged spy scandal that the Israeli who died in the Christchurch earthquake was a Mossad agent. Read More »

I just saw one of the most disgusting responses to last week’s tragic murder in Boro Park. This letter printed on The Yeshiva World, and other places, puts the blame for the murder on Klal Yisrael, in particular our “Goyisha type materialism”. Read More »

As Americans are getting ready for the 4-yearly power pageant (AKA Presidential Elections), the entire world gets an entertaining several months as Americans put on the ultimate reality show – primaries. Read More »

For many years various outreach organizations, most notably Aish Hatorah have used the “Torah Codes” to “prove” that the Torah must have been written by G-d. Basically the argument was that using “highspeed computer analysis of the letters of the Torah”. Read More »

In case any of my readers are planning on joining the “Freedom Flotilla” to support the poor people of Gaza who only have a one small border with Egypt through which they can smuggle missiles to fire peacefully at the evil Zionist occupiers who go to kindergartens and schools in the Israeli towns near Gaza – well think again. Read More »

Henry Kissinger, when asked about the Iran-Iraq war is quoted as saying “It’s a pity they can’t both lose”. That about sums up my reaction when reading about  demonstration against the “Westboro Baptist church” by none other than the Ku Klux Kan . Read More »

One of the email lists that I’m active on is the New Zealand Jewish list. Not surprisingly, after Obama’s speeches over the last few days, there has been discussion on the list about the pros and cons of a Palestinian State and “Defensible Borders” Read More »