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Kashrut Alerts
To keep the Kehilla better informed of developments, we are
beginning a weekly series of Kashrut and related food alerts. *** The following Kosher Alert was received from the Orthodox Union on May 18, 2000 and repeated on June 12, 2001. Acme 16-Bean Soup Mix Ham Flavor, National Placement and Logistics, mistakenly bears an unauthorized OU and contains a non-Kosher flavor packet. The product is being recalled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashruth alert was from Kosherquest on June 10, 2001. (from the RCC) Please be advised that Lavash bread manufactured by Turlock Bakery, Los Angeles, CA (Sylmar-Lake View Terrace) under the brand names Babylon and Turlock bear unauthorized RCC-K logo and are NOT certified as kosher by the RCC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashruth alert was from the Orthodox Union on June 11, 2001. McCormick Taco Seasoning (food service size), McCormick & Co. Hunt Valley, MD is certified as OU-Dairy, but the "D" was inadvertently omitted. Corrective action is being taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashruth alert was from the Organized Kashruth Laboratories on June 5, 2001 in response to a reader's question. The Organized Kashruth Laboratories has suspended the supervision on the Fresh Express facility that supplies the Northeast for the time being due to heavy insect infestation. they continue to monitor and will reinstate the hechsher if their standards are met. Check each package for the hecksher. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashruth alert was from the Orthodox Union on June 4, 2001. Sardimar Canned Tuna (various flavors), Rich Coast Trading, Miami, FL mistakenly bears an OU and is NOT certified as kosher. The product is being withdrawn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashruth alert was from the Kosher Overseers of America on June 1, 2001. Distributing compang: The Whole Soy Company, San Fransisco, CA Processing company: Super Store Industries, San Fransisco, CA Product: The Wholesoy Organic Soy Yogurts These products are mislabeled Kosher-Parve. These are pareve products processed on Kosher-Dairy Equipment and will bear the Kosher-Overseers-DE seal for kosher dairy equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashruth alert was from the Organized Kashruth Laboratories on May 31, 2001. Please be advised that Milk Chocolate Baking Chips Semi-Sweet Chocolate Baking Chips White Chocolate Baking Chips Distributed by Endangered Species Chocolate Company carry an unauthorized OK symbol on the label. The Organized Kashruth Laboratories does NOT certify these products. Labels are being corrected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following kashrus alert was from the Orthodox Union on May 24, 2001. A posted Letter of Certification for ice cream mix should not be construed as Kashruth certification for a retail ice cream store. There is no assurance that Kosher ice cream mix, toppings, or cones are being used. Additionally, there is a concern that non-Kosher food may come into contact with equipment or utensils. Only on-site supervision (indicated by a Letter of Certification specifying the retail store) ensures the Kashruth of the ice cream. The Orthodox Union wishes to inform the public that Beachcomber located on Route 52 in Loch Sheldrake, NY is not and has never been under the Orthodox Union supervision, despite their posting a Letter of Certification referring to the ice cream being served. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following health alert was from the FDA on May 25, 2001. HP Hood, Chelsea, MA is voluntarily recalling half-gallon containers of Hood Light Chocolate Cookie Dough Ice Cream with code of 04/24/02. The code is located on the end flap of the carton. Consumers should note that there are almonds in the ice cream and could pose a health risk to anyone with an allergy to almonds. The affected product has been distributed to grocery retail outlets in New England and upstate New York. The problem is confined to half-gallon containers of Hood Light Chocolate Cookie Dough Ice Cream with a code of 04/24/02 only. No other Hood products are affected. Consumers may return the affected ice cream to their local store to obtain a refund. Consumer questions may be directed to Hood at 1-800-242-2423. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following health alert was from the Safetyalerts.com and Yahoo News on May 26, 2001. Friendly Ice Cream Corp., Wilbraham, MA is voluntarily recalling half-gallon Friendly Candy Shoppe Sundae ice cream packages that contain egg whites not listed as ingredients, which could cause serious allergic reactions in some people. One minor allergic reaction has been reported from the ice cream, which was distributed in supermarkets, convenience stores and Friendly's Restaurants in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The products come in a half-gallon package marked with an expiration date prior to March 4, 2002, embossed in the form of "04Mar02" or "Mar0402" (or earlier) or inkjet printed in the form of "25-26 WC5 020304 (these six digits indicate Year-Month-Day) 00000" or earlier. Friendly said in a statement. A printing error has been fixed. The ice cream was distributed in MA, ME, RI, CT, VT, NH, NY, NJ, PA, OH, VA, MD, District of Columbia, FL, TN, IN, WV, MI, NCand SC. Consumers who are allergic to egg whites and have purchased half-gallon packages of "Candy Shoppe Sundae" ice cream may return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 1-800-723-1591. Thank you to K A S H R U T . C O M The Premier Kosher Information Source on the Internet for supplying this information. |
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Fw: Weekly Halacha - Parshas Shelach
Eli Shulman
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From: "Jeffrey Gross" <jgross@...> To: <weekly-halacha@...> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:49 AM Subject: Weekly Halacha - Parshas Shelach following is the proper procedure:grab this mitzvah for himself."(3)written in Aramaic.(9) Some recite Berich Shmei before the Torah is removed fromthe aron,(10) while others insist that Berich Shmei be said only after it haswho sit on Simchas Torah during the hakafos even though the Torah is inthe hakafos unless he himself is holding a Torah.(17)] Thus when the Torah isthe Torah is in the aron and the aron is closed, if it is placed on the bimahor is being held by someone who is sitting down, there is no reason to stand.being carried, the person carrying the Torah stops to rest, one is required tothat there is no point for those who are not in the path of the Torah (e.g.,does not apply.sit behind the Torah reader or the person being called to the Torah, who areOthers hold that this is only permitted during Kerias ha-Torah or during haftarahChumash or during Ashrei, etc., the reader or the chazan should move to the sideso that his back is not directly facing the Torah(35).a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy to receive the honor of opening thepg. 122. Many Sephardim recite it only on Shabbos; Ben Ish Chai, Toldos 15.Shmei, since the time when the Torah is removed from the aron is considered aneis ratzon (auspicious time) in which one's prayers are more readily answered;week). During Pesukei d'Zimrah, however, one should not stop to recite Berichopinions, the requirement is to stand as long as one can sense that the Torah isbeing carried, even if it is not visible to him.17). handicapped person, it would be permissible.]to imply otherwise. See also Minchas Yitzchak 5:78.prepared to be published in book form, to be called The Monthly HalachahDiscussion. Dedications and sponsorships are available. Please contact me for moredaily Mishna Berurah class at Congregation Shomre Shabbos. or write to dedications@... or donations@... . Thank you! |
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Fw: One Israel Fund/Yesha Hearland Campaign
Eli Shulman
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From: "Suri Teller" <STeller@...> To: "Rabbi Distribution" Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 1:45 PM Subject: One Israel Fund/Yesha Hearland Campaign
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Fw: [TeaneckShulsChat] Fwd: Check out The real picture
Eli Shulman
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From: <hweissler@...> To: <TeaneckShulsChat@...> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: [TeaneckShulsChat] Fwd: Check out The real picture It's an urban legend.and Imagined: Herzl's children and the myth of phantom e-mails".his Israeli soldier-captors, supposedly having "wet his trousers," accordingto the caption. We're told that the "biased" media only ran the picture ofthe little boy under arrest, not the one of him throwing a rock.e-mail from an Israeli in Japan containing the picture of the arrestedPalestinian child, with a note saying that the picture came from a Palestinian source.The pictures can be seen by going to the photos search on Yahoo! news sectionShturm. in a Web discussion group, "I felt that the Palestinians are starting a mediato such an embarrassing moment [of the wet trousers]. The Palestinians, whothe dust and mud is mucky business. But while Reuter's edited that out withinthe Arabs are publicity geniuses, and that our fears are the same as fact.None of that, in this case, was true.E-mail transmission.or other electronic means, without special authorization. Such Authorizationor matter should not be relied upon and are not legally binding, valid or* *** TeaneckShulsChat@.... To unsubscribe, send a blank email to TeaneckShulsChat-unsubscribe@.... For more information go to For community announcement list, see
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Fw: netscape poll
Eli Shulman
From: "Aaron Tirschwell" <ATirschwell@...>
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interesting editorial
Eli Shulman
开云体育washingtonpost.com: What Happened to The Powell
Doctrine?What Happened to The
Powell Doctrine? ?
By Charles Krauthammer
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Friday, April 20, 2001; Page A25 Not many secretaries of state are immortalized with an eponymous doctrine even before they become secretary of state. But when Colin Powell was Gen. Powell, he enunciated the rule that the key to success in any military conflict was the use of overwhelming force. The Powell Doctrine found its ultimate expression in the Gulf War. The idea was not to match Iraqi power but to entirely overwhelm it in planes, tanks, technology, manpower and will. That would make the war short and make victory certain. It did. Today, the Powell Doctrine seems obvious, but it was not at the time. For decades the United States had followed a policy of proportionality: restraint because of fear of escalation. It was under this theory that Maj. Powell watched his men bleed and die purposelessly in Vietnam. Powell understood the problem. If you respond proportionately, you allow the enemy to set the limits and level of fighting. You grant him the initiative. In Vietnam, proportionality brought us endless losses and painful retreat. Powell learned a lesson for his generation. There would be no more self-restraining, self-defeating proportionality. "First we're going to cut it off," said Powell memorably of the Iraqi army. "Then we're going to kill it." That was then. A decade later, Powell seems to have carved out an exception to his rule. In the past few weeks, the Palestinians have ominously escalated their six-month guerrilla war of riots, shootings and terrorist bombings. Their new tactic is launching mortar rounds from Palestinian territory into Israel. We're not talking about attacks on settlers, or settlements, or soldiers, or outposts, or crossroads. We're talking about attacks on towns within Israel proper, such as the peaceful desert town of Sederot, attacked this week. Israel responded to this alarming escalation not with a proportional tit for tat, which would only regularize and institutionalize -- and legitimize -- such cross-border Palestinian aggression. Instead Israel delivered a sharper deterrent blow: occupying a piece of Gaza from which the attacks were launched. In other words, Israel applied the Powell Doctrine. And what did it get? The sharpest rebuke from an American secretary of state in years. On Tuesday, Powell denounced the attack as "excessive and disproportionate" and demanded Israel's retreat. Israel docilely complied. It will regret that decision, as will the United States. Powell's policy is understandable but shortsighted. He wants to keep the violence down. And every call for Arafat to stop his war has been met with contemptuous rebuff. In his March 29 news conference, President Bush had said that the signal he's "sending to the Palestinians is stop the violence. . . . And I hope that Chairman Arafat hears it loud and clear. . . . This is not the first time the message has been delivered." Yet since March 29, Arafat has escalated the violence with the cross-border mortar attacks. Taking the most limited view, Powell's policy is: If Arafat will not be restrained, restrain Israel and hope that this round won't blow up. But it is a losing proposition. As long as Arafat controls the tempo of violence -- as he does whenever Israel is forced into a futile Vietnam-like "proportionate" response -- he will keep the fires burning. And those fires are the real problem. They threaten to undermine the single most important American objective in the Middle East: prevention of a regional war. The spark for such a war would be the intifada that Arafat started six months ago. It is his fondest wish to bring Syria and Lebanon, Iraq and Iran, Egypt and Jordan into his war with Israel. He might yet succeed. Hezbollah, in support of the Palestinians, is opening a second front, launching its own cross-border attacks from Lebanon. On Saturday, it killed an Israeli soldier on patrol on his side of the internationally recognized border. That was meant to provoke -- it did provoke -- Israeli retaliation against Syrian positions in Lebanon. The constant violence Arafat began six months ago has created an intolerable and unstable situation. It can end in one of only two ways: Arafat calls it off, or it explodes in the kind of Middle East war we have not seen since 1973. Arafat's only incentive to call it off is if his war exacts from him a higher price than he can bear. Losing some of the territory he gained from Israel in the Oslo peace accords is a serious price. Israel is trying to make him pay it. It is precisely the kind of deterrent policy Powell had been preaching for years. Until Tuesday. ? 2001 The Washington Post Company |
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The real picture
Eli Shulman
The real picture
The picture that moved hearts This Picture was taken near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on Friday, April 6, 2001, by Evelyn Hockstein, a Reuters photographer. A Palestinian child was caught by Israeli policemen, and, in his fear - he wet his pants. Undoubtedly, this picture is very moving, and everyone can share the pain and panic of the child, that led to such an embarrassing moment. The Palestinians, who truly understand the power of the image, spread this picture worldwide, through the media and e-mails, but - they did not show the other picture. A few minutes before the above picture was taken, another Reuters photographer, Natalie Behring, had taken the following picture -- which was not as widely distributed (please notice the child in the center of the pic): Well, yes, it's the same child. Only at this stage, we may assume that his pants were still dry... ?All rights reserved to Politics Now For comments: editor@... |
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webpage
Eli Shulman
开云体育Jeffrey Grunstein (our webmaster) would like to put
a picture of the shul on the "about us" page of our website. Does anyone have a
digital camera, who could take such a picture and e-mail it to him (webmaster@...)?
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Fw: Award to Conrad Black
Eli Shulman
Subject: Fwd: Award to Conrad Black
HonestReporting Communique 15 March 2001 "AWARD WINNER: PUBLISHER CONRAD BLACK" * * * Dear Friend, Rarely does a major newspaper publisher publicly censure one of his prized writers. But last week, media mogul Conrad Black heavily criticized Taki Theodoracopulos, a columnist at Black's own British Spectator. The background to this public haranguing is as follows: On February 24, in discussing President Clinton's pardon of financial fugitive Mark Rich, Taki declared: "The way to Uncle Sam's heart runs through Tel Aviv and Israeli-occupied territory," and "America was not as yet Israel-occupied territory." Taki used the Rich case as a pretext to condemn Israel for attacking "rock-throwing youth with armour- piercing missiles" and "shooting at kids." On March 3, The Spectator's publisher, Conrad Black, responded full force. "Taki's reflections were indefensible," Black wrote. "He expressed a hatred for Israel and a contempt for the United States and its political institutions that were irrational and an offence to civilised taste. In the process, I am afraid he uttered a blood libel on the Jewish people wherever they may be." Black's lambasting continued: "In both its venomous character and its unfathomable absurdity, this farrago of lies is almost worthy of Goebbels or the authors of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' The Jews, according to Taki, have suborned the US government, direct that country's military like a docile attack dog, and glory in the murder of innocent or mischievous children. He presents the universal Jewish ethos as brutish, vulgar, grasping and cunningly wicked." Black's strong words sent ripples of fear through the ranks of anti-Israel journalists throughout the world. Black sits astride one of the world's largest newspaper empires -- the Hollinger Group () -- which includes The Spectator, Daily Telegraph of London, Chicago Sun-Times, Montreal Gazette, Jerusalem Post, and others. His newspaper holdings in Canada represent an estimated one-third of Canada's entire daily circulation. In recognition of this highly unprecedented and bold public stand, HonestReporting is proud to confer upon Conrad Black our "Monthly Award for Honest Reporting." Just as it is important to criticize media bias, it is also important to single out for praise examples of media honesty. But there's more. Publisher Black went beyond taking Taki to the woodshed; he protested the overall British media and government treatment of Israel -- singling out HonestReporting targets BBC and Guardian. Black wrote: "[Taki's] opinions are not greatly more extreme than those of large sections of the British media which habitually apply a double standard when judging the Israelis and Palestinians. Behind the spurious defence of merely seeking justice for the Palestinians, most of the relevant sections of the BBC, Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are rabidly anti-Israel. I doubt that most of the people involved would be hostile to someone merely because that person was Jewish, though some would, but they are almost all, wittingly or not, stoking the inferno of anti-Semitism." But Black didn't stop there. He also lambasted Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, according them sole blame for the violence: "Israel, after an unconscionable length of time, and with the exact borders still in dispute, has accepted the principle of two states in the territory it once hoped to occupy itself. The Palestinians have not accepted the right of the state of Israel to survive. They do not accept the Israelis as an indigenous people and still think of them as foreign colonial occupiers like the British, the Turks and the Romans. This and the implosion of Arafat's authority among his own people, and not the actions of the Israelis, are the sources of the present impasse, and every knowledgeable observer of the Middle East knows it." Black continues: "The West Bank is now governed by groups of thugs, and Arafat has been afraid to go there for several months. The Palestinian Authority is a brutal dictatorship and one of the most financially corrupt regimes in the world. The PLO has not lived up to any of its significant obligations under the Oslo Accords." HonestReporting encourages its members to praise Conrad Black for his bravery in going public against the anti-Israel media establishment. Send comments to Toby Young, editor of The Spectator: tyoung@... To see the full text of Black's remarks, and the original Taki article, use the search function at . ====================================== Encourage as many people as you can to join the growing movement of HonestReporting. It's easy to add your friends' email address at If you have seen an article that you feel is clearly biased in its reporting towards Israel, please send us details at Be informed! Read about the "Seven Areas of Media Distortion" at ====================================== HonestReporting was founded by a group of individuals that affiliates neither to the right nor to the left. We are only interested in ensuring that Israel receives fair coverage in the media. We scrutinize the media for examples of blatant bias, and then inform our subscribers of any offending articles, asking to complain directly to the news organization concerned. HonestReporting has over 12,000 members worldwide. (C) 2001 HonestReporting - All rights reserved. Email: action@... ====================================== To subscribe to HonestReporting, double-click and send a blank email to: join-honestreporting@.... Or use our form at: To UNsubscribe, double-click and send a blank email to: honestreporting-off@.... Or send a blank email to the address listed on the last line of this email message. |
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