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| Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 | | 11:12 am |
| | Friday, December 12th, 2008 | | 11:47 am |
| | Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | | 7:04 pm |
Rav Gabi and Rivki ztz"l
The news of the deaths of the people at Chabad House is too terrible to say anything much. We were quite close with Chabad in Mumbai- close enough to be on bad terms with them. We spent quite a few Shabbatot there, and went 1-2 times a week for the first few months we were there. It's incredibly heartbreaking that they're just dead... I'm also really sad about the probable death of their maid Renu, who had a small child at home, and Jacky who was a great kid, and the other guy whose name I forget whose wife worked at Navy Nagar. I've had people I know die in terrorist attacks, but this is different- these were people whose house I stayed in, who checked my wife for the mikve and who were our anchours to Jewish life in Mumbai, with all the friction that entails. It's not just some guy I spoke to a few times- it's people who were really close. Yehi zichram baruch. | | Friday, October 31st, 2008 | | 8:18 am |
Copied from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) introducingyael: Support Jewish Girls! go here - http://memelabs.com/somedaystories/And click on "Evelyn from Sharon, Mass." It's a video contest. Evelyn's daughter is Leah, she is the 17 year old publisher of "Yalda" magazine for Jewish girls. Leah started the magazine when she was 13 and runs the whole thing herself! If she wins this contest, she gets $100k to help with getting this magazine on to Barnes and Noble shelves all over the country. How amazing would it be to have a high quality, tsnius magazine in the mainstream, just as readily available to young girls as CosmoGirl or YM? | | Monday, February 4th, 2008 | | 9:20 pm |
Can anyone help?
I got this from Rabbi Binyomin. I want to help... but I have limitted means. It's definitely a major mitzvah... Dear Daniel
How are you feeling? I hope that you and your family are all healthy and
feeling well.
We are now organizing a container for Pesach. We need to send it out 2
months before Pesach for it to get to Tokyo on time. (custom clearance
takes time)
Daniel, I wanted to ask if you can help us to find people who can help
us with the matzot and wine for Pesach. It is a big mitzvah. Pesach is a
very crucial time to connect to Yidden who otherwise disconnect
themselves from Torah and mitzvot.
The matzot cost $2,800.
We order wine for one year's supply, Pesach, shabbat, chagim. The total
cost of wine is $3,800.
The rest of the Pesach food, and the shipment to Tokyo, is $7,800.
Whatever you can help is good. Hashem surely will repay you much much
much more, I promise you.
| | Thursday, January 24th, 2008 | | 10:34 am |
Gossip
Oleg Viro Birthday conference in SwedenThis would be unremarkable except for what proceeded it. Oleg Viro was forced out of Uppsala University by a dean who wanted to kill non-applied mathematics. He was forced out through threats of false accusation of crimes. Very Israeli government like, no? I hear the KGB used the same method. Anyway, unfortunately for the dean, Viro had a recorder in his pocket and it was all on record. And he uploaded a transcript and got it sent around. Ari Laptev, head of the EMS, and other great and eminent mathematicians got involved. I haven't heard anything since. But now a birthday conference for him... in the same country, Sweden. With an all-star cast of famous mathematicians. There's a back-story- there's a huge back story. I'm sure of it! I wish they'd do stuff like this to Israeli political dissidents who get similar treatment. I wouldn't mind a Noam Federman birthday conference attended by ministers and heads of states! How about a birthday conference for those 7 brave girls... | | Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 | | 6:00 pm |
| | Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | | 1:32 pm |
The time of year tzaddikim are murdered
Achikam Amichai hy"d and David Rubin hy"d were murdered by terrorists on Friday while hiking. And so again, Sylvester, the traditional time for pogroms, is a time of mourning. It's the time we get murdered. Binyomin Kahane hy"d and his wife Talia were murdered in terrorist shooting on December 31st 2000. I suppose it's a zechus in some ways... it puts all ideas of "celebrating" the "New Year" about as far away as is humanly possible... | | Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 | | 3:10 pm |
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To Singapore
I'm off to Singapore now for 2 weeks. It's going to be non-trivial to have Yom Kippur in Singapore, but interesting probably. I'm meeting Kricker there, and we'll work on some problems we're both interested... and hopefully make significant progress and make a joint paper out of it. All this travel... well, at least I'll be somewhere where Arabs aren't so aggressive! Yesterday something quite funny happened- an Arab driving a huge truck stopped and started shouting obscenities at me. Then he got out of the truck, but probably suddenly realized he would be fired or something, tripped on the step, and fell flat on his face. Punishment from Hashem!!! "mekalelecha arur". | | Monday, September 10th, 2007 | | 12:13 pm |
Where the Arabs warn you
The Chabad shaliach in Frankfurt was stabbed a few days ago. Quite minor injury compared to what I had by all accounts, but the world news is buzzing with it. I had an Arab stop me today for a very unusual reason, warning me to take my kippa off before I got stabbed as well. I thanked him for his concern. This attack is all I prayed after I was stabbed that my attack would not be. It is free propaganda for those who say Jews should not live in Europe- certainly not frum Jews, certainly not frum Jews who won't compromise on things like wearing a kippa. When I was attacked my worry was it would become a "Jerusalem is dangerous" argument... those fears were unfounded since the media basically ignored it because it was politically inconvenient for Netanyahu to have terrorist stabbings taking place at the time. I got significantly more press coverage from falling off a mountain, again for bad propaganda reasons- in that case that non-professionals shouldn't climb mountains alone. This seriously sucks, that people use one's misfortunes as cautionary tales teaching lessons you oppose. It's like they gloat at your misfortune- see, that's why we shouldn't be like Daniel. One more good reason that if any Arab tries to stab me it's him not me who has to end up in hospital. Otherwise NOBODY will ever wear a kippa again in this city for the next few years at least. | | Sunday, September 9th, 2007 | | 5:36 pm |
てんてこ舞い
There's too much going on now to give a sensible update. First, math progress! Finally! Too bad it's too late... Secondly, I did half the parasha on Saturday. It was good. Vayelech is a lovely parasha to read. Third, we had a huge minyan for slichot at 1AM Saturday night (no, not Yemenite slichot... but still nice). I wish we had half those people coming on regular days... Fourth... oof, moving, travels, no time for anything... well, c'est la vie I suppose, isn't it. Current Mood:  busy | | Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 | | 8:44 am |
Ran in a race
Yesterday there was some wierd sports day things (the DHL relay) where 5000 teams of 5 people run 25km each (5km per person). I was third on one of the math department teams. It was actually a lot of fun! Surprisingly, the fact I have one and a half lungs (because of the terrorist ym"sh) wasn't as much of a problem as I thought it would be- I was only really out of breath after 3km. I came away with the feeling that a little bit of practice might go a long way towards improving my (actually all things considered perfectly respectable) performance. I also got to witness how much my level of fitness has dropped since living in Kyoto when I would climb the Daimonji each morning at 4:30AM to say Shacharis... Anyway, for the first time in this LJ, pictures! ( Before the race )( After the race ) | | Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | | 10:15 am |
| | Monday, September 3rd, 2007 | | 1:04 pm |
Japlish and aerobics
Wierd Japanese video. I feel strange watching this because I can see both sides- Japanese programmes to teach English are in the morning, and so are aerobics, so combine them and come up with entertaining scenarios... but the result is utterly absurd if one steps back for one second. | | Friday, August 31st, 2007 | | 10:44 am |
Conversions again
An e-mail I got today: Dear Daniel
... One last question: if I have a Japanese friend who is interested in seeing what Rosh Hashanah is like, do you think he'll [the Chabad Rabbi] be OK with having her come to services? ... she's actually Christian, and would like to learn more about Judaism. What do you think?... My response: Oh dear... I've done things like this, but I think I was wrong. Non-Jews, particularly Christians, don't really belong in services. I've hardly ever had it be worthwhile for them, although it was sometimes worthwhile for me, in that I went to services and participated to a greater extent than I might have done otherwise.
I'd say definitely don't bring her. The "would like to learn more about Judaism" thing is also often a bit of a trap- Japanese people never convert to Judaism, trust me. The only way it can ever happen, and this is rarer than the panda, is when they come to Israel or the US and first become Israeli or American rather than Japanese, as was the case with my wife, Michal, Rachel, Tamar, etc. What does happen is fake conversions, which is a terrible thing for Judaism and for the people involved. And if she doesn't want to ultimately convert, then going to Chabad to services is probably a much worse way to proceed than just reading any one of the many books in Judaism which came out in Japanese, by Rabbi Tokayer etc., for instance because she won't be getting much knowledge out of a service in Hebrew which she doesn't understand.
According to Hallacha she can come to services- but according to common sense I think she shouldn't, and if she does you shouldn't be helping her. Sorry for being so frank.I hope my gut feeling is wrong, that this guy has a prospective shiksa he's looking to be toyvel. He's a really nice, intelligent person, and I would hate to see him become another statistic. Current Mood:  worriedCurrent Music: Bodycount- Another body dead | | Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | | 1:52 pm |
Vietnam war
Having come back from Vietnam and read a lot more about it, I can't help feeling that the Vietnam war was as wrong as wrong can get. In retrospect it's absolutely obvious, as Robert McNamara acknowledges, but it should have been obvious at the time as well, and was to most people... I can't fathom the twisted, warped, evil minds of the people in power in America to go on a 14 year long killing spree. And now that idiot Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam. Thank you, Mr. Bush, for making the war in Iraq sound much LESS justified. After all, it also is based on a lie, it also is a war which Americans have no understanding of and don't know what they're supposed to be fighting for, it's also a war where the side being supported isn't much better than the side being carpet bombed... | | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | | 12:57 pm |
Arutz 7 sponsoring garbage
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/1#2274I've never been a fan of Steven Plaut, but I'm increasingly coming to dislike him intensely. Arutz 7 sponsor his blog, making him a "voice for the right wing", and what he does is launch personal attacks on people he disagrees with, often youth who are thinking for themselves and reaching different conclusions. And he "outs" them- that's his job- to make people harrass them and to damage their job prospects and make them lose jobs, because these are kids he's attacking, not established political players. He's been sued more than once by these kids dads and forced to award damages, and I feel A7 shouldn't be sponsoring him. He's a nasty, good-for-nothing person who gets off on damaging others. It makes us all look very bad. This kind of bullying tactic- and often against kids, not corrupt politicians- has no place on a website which claims to be based on Torah values, or anywhere else on the internet for that matter. | | 12:03 pm |
Slichot
I'm trying to organize a minyan for Yemenite slichot at some point. In a place it's really difficult to get 10 Jewish men to come for a minyan on a normal morning, getting 10 Yemenite Jewish men to come for a minyan at 2AM will be quite a challenge... I'll do my best. The Yemenites SHOULD have slichot here... and I want to be there with them. | | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | | 5:37 am |
Israelis
Today I got shouted at by somebody in a car. I thought it was an Arab who wanted to mess with me, so I attempted to escape- but the car chased me! Anyway, it was an Israeli, and he had shouted "Shalom Aleichem" although I hadn't heard it clearly. It was this bloke. Raffi Liven, Dan 10. Anyway, he was in his car so we didn't talk much, but I should stay in touch... the number of Jews I know in Denmark increases! |
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