Paying it forward

I caught a post at Collive.com with a caption under a photo which reads, "Hollywood Director Brett Ratner puts on Tefillin with the help of West Coast Head Shliach Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin and Shliach Shalom Ber Cunin, then helps others put on Tefillin as well."
http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=35999&alias=movie-director-pays-it-forward

A comment under the post reads, " I think this should be the next "ice bucket challenge" to put on Tefillin (and something equivalent for the ladies) and then challenge a friend to do it too! It can be in honour or protection for the soldiers in Israel, awareness for something or just to bring Moshiach!"

YidwithLid writes, "In a unanimous Opinion issued Friday, June 19, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with and affirmed the D.C. District Court's ruling that the pro-Israel organization Z Street correctly brought a lawsuit alleging the Internal Revenue Service violated Z Street First Amendment rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination."
Read more: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.be/2015/06/todays-z-street-court-victory-may-blow.html

Fighting back

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‘When Western women stop being objectified, they can criticise us.’ Orthodox Jewish women fight back

Despite the July 4 being a Shabbat, a large number of Jews will be joining members of other faiths and those of none, to demonstrate their abhorrence of what can only be described as an “anti-Jew” rally planned for the Saturday afternoon in one of the heartlands of London Jewry, northwest London’s Golders Green area.
Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-community-to-counter-anti-Jew-rally-in-Golders-Green-406635

The corresponding Hebrew date of July 4th this year is the 17th of Tamuz.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer: My Top Tips for a Long and Healthy Life

 

The antidote

Parshas Korach - The Antidote For Jealousy

Crowds Converge on Rebbe's Ohel

Self will run riot

Hillary Clinton summed up in one FANTASTIC comparison

A Talit That Is Completely Techelet

Reaffirming support

The New York State Assembly passed on its last day of the legislative session a resolution rejecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and reaffirming its support for Israel.
Read more: http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/18/ny-assembly-passes-resolution-rejecting-bds-against-israel/

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Click here to view sample pages of Living Shabbos by Rabbi David Sutton.

Good neighbors

Great article by Rabbi Zvi Teichman about neighbors - Parshas Korach - It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood


Parshas Korach - Unity

The mouth of the Earth

Why was the mouth of the Earth used to punish Korach and his followers, couldn't a bolt of lightening or death by plague sufficed as a punishment?
Read more: http://www.shortvort.com/korah-parasha/12276-korach

Korach had many outstanding qualities. He hailed from a distinguished family, was a talmid chacham, possessed extraordinary wealth, and was a very wise man. How then could he have fallen so low to accuse Moshe of selfishly taking power and prestige for himself, especially after the Torah testifies about Moshe, “Now the man Moshe was exceedingly humble, more than any person on the face of the earth.”? How could he possibly accuse him of possessing the contemptible trait of arrogance?!
Read more: http://www.shortvort.com/korah-parasha/12134-blinded

The protest

There are 20 Jewish Families in Barbados & We are 1 of Them

The extreme right-wing organizers of a Saturday protest in a predominantly Jewish London neighborhood plan to burn Israeli flags and even a copy of the Jewish Oral Law, or Talmud, the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/06/16/fascist-demonstrators-to-burn-talmud-at-london-rally-in-jewish-neighborhood/

Study: Anti-Semitism Skyrockets in Canada

From the time of King David

Born in Jerusalem, ISRAEL

Muslims Speak to US Jewish Group in Push for Interfaith Dialogue

Ancient pottery inscribed with the name of a powerful figure from the time of King David has been discovered by archaeologists. 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3126419/Who-Eshba-al-Ben-Beda-Mysterious-powerful-figure-lived-time-King-David-inscribed-3-000-year-old-pottery.html#ixzz3dGBltxr5

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Discrimination claims

Did The Louvre Discriminate Against A Group Of Jewish Art Students? Paris Officials Investigating Claims From Tel Aviv University

Cantorial Concert in Central Park

Some of Clinton's Libya emails said to be withheld from Benghazi Committee

Women only screening

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Centre cancels 'illegal' women-only screening of film by Jewish director