Hack session w/@Snowden. I was impressed by his ability to arrive at big-picture insights. He is also kind and modest. Stay free, my friend! pic.twitter.com/DZEtjHa7t0
I never thought that I would find Myself in bed amongst the stones. The columns are all men begging to crush Mi. No shapes sail on the dark deep Lakes and no flags wave Mi home. In the caves, all Katz are Grey. In the caves, the textures coat My Skin. In the death cell, a Single note rings On ‘n On ‘n On…
Dov Bar-Leib: Is this the dawning of the age of the Water Bucket? Aquarius, the equivalent Mazal of the Water Bucket for the Umot HaOlam, has a face because HaShem hands the keys to rain to the angels overseeing the nations of the world. But in E. Yisrael, HaShem does NOT hand the keys to rain to any angel to dispense rain in Eretz Yisrael. Here in the Holy Land, HaShem reserves the keys to rain for Himself. The one thing we can say about months where the Mazal does not have a face is that during those months HaShem does not use angelic intermediaries and is therefore very, very close. So In E. Yisrael alone, the Water Bucket does not have a face. So the Dawning of the Age of the Water Bucket is when the wicked cease to receive their reward in any world (this world or in the next world either).
DovBear: When people bring their own thoughts and their own experiences to the group -where they offer and accept criticism, and honor the positions of others- our ideas are refined, and this process makes the ideas better. So though I agree that Judaism is not a democracy, I insist that democracy has a certain holiness because when it is used correctly and in good faith, the community draws nearer to the truth.
Rodel Flordeliz: As Filipinos are well-known for their hospitality, Israelis are also well-known for their spirit of giving – which binds the two peoples together as part of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Steven G. Vegh: His congregants include Darva Gruber, who has Filipino, Chinese and Spanish roots. Growing up Catholic in Hawaii, "I didn’t know any Jews," she said.
Her family moved to New Jersey, where she met and married her Jewish high school sweetheart. She agreed to raise their children Jewish.
In Norfolk, Gruber enrolled the children in Hebrew school, then started attending Temple Israel’s services and studying Judaism.
"What attracted me to it was, it was very welcoming." Gruber converted in 1996 and had her bat mitzvah in 2001.
As an Asian American, Gruber said being an ethnic minority in a religious minority is no big deal for her.
"I’m used to that environment. I’ve always been the different one, unless I get to go to Asia."
Mary Ann Miller, who is part Filipino, also converted after marrying her Jewish husband, John, who has Moroccan roots.
Though she was called a "shiksa" by someone who didn’t know the word disparages gentile women, Miller said she feels at home at Temple Israel. (The speaker later apologized.)
"You’d think I’d feel uncomfortable being Filipino in a Jewish synagogue, but absolutely not."
יובל שטייניץ: After years of arguments and delays, we are beginning to move forwards and to a situation in which Israel is a natural gas superpower in the region. Exporting to Egypt, in accordance with the government’s approval, is the first sign of energy cooperation of many in the coming years with other countries in the region, such as Egypt, Jordan, Greece, and Turkey, as well as with Europe, as a whole.
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.
