Month: December 2016
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“Ma’oz Tzur” – in Hebrew, transliterated, and translated to English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma’oz_Tzur
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musician Snatam Kaur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatam_Kaur https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatam_Kaur (I got introduced to this music through AC.)
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Hanukkah for Dummies, from Judah Maccabee to the days of Donald Trump (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.760313
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Chrismukkah is a pop-culture portmanteau neologism referring to the merging of the holidays of Christianity’s Christmas and Judaism’s Hanukkah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrismukkah https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnukka
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Haaretz.com opinion: The “good” Israeli drone operator
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.757546
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Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi says: fewer than 1 million halachic Jews died in Holocaust – and that’s what matters to him
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.757552
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Jewish online resources
JewishEncyclopedia.com – in English judaism.wikia.com – in English; pretty, pretty limited www.jewiki.net – in German
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Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem – why won’t the online encyclopedia allow the truth about the New York Times’ Holocaust coverage?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/65452/wikipedias-jewish-problem-karin-mcquillan
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I asked my Kshatriya work mate to help me finding a spiritual Sanskrit name – and he did not laugh at me
Vikrant showed his mild smile. And he asked what I wanted to express. I explained it. And he will find me one. I actually started the conversation with my recent shopping at the ISKCON website. And that they asked for a spiritual name. And that I don’t have one so far. If a stranger (in…