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The first video below is a must see of the Belze Rebbe and Rav Ovadia Yosef at last night's wedding. At the 9'26 minute mark, the two rabbis dance together. Click here to read, in Hebrew, the words that were exchanged between them. May the shalom that exists between the two great luminaries, extend to the whole nation and may we see siman tov umazal tov.

A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.
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The Daily Mail reports on two men who hacked to death a soldier in Britain.

ITV writes about the attack on the soldier.

The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned what it called a "truly barbaric act" following an attack in Woolwich.

This is a truly barbaric act that has no basis in Islam and we condemn this unreservedly.

The second video below is of Lois Lerner invoking the fifth amendment during a congressional hearing. One comment posted on Youtube states, "I find it fascinating that she invokes the 5th amendment, to not answer questions about denying other people's 1st amendment rights."

Click here for a video of Ms. Lerner speaking about trust, transparency and accountability at the IRS during a speech at Charity Law Conference in Toronto, Canada in May, 2012.


Watching the grilling of IRS officials by members of Congress should give us pause to reflect on the grilling we are to receive leachar meah ve'esrim. I don't believe we can get out of it so easily by invoking the fifth.