So today the AP reported (as well as the Washington Post) on a study published Monday in the journal Psychopharmacology. Dr. Roland Griffiths of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine led a study into the effects of psilocybin —…
From Yediot Aharonot: The London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat reported that Israel has agreed to the terms presented to it in the framework of the indirect negotiations with Corporal Gilad Shalit’s kidnappers, held via Egyptian mediators. According to the report, Israel…
The Houston Chronicle, inter alia, reported today of the charges being levied against a group of US troops in Iraq today. Five US Army soldiers stand accusing of assaulting a young lady, killing her and her family, and then “allegedly…
The pundits in Israel and New York just can’t stop talking. Former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi HaRav R’ Yisra’el Meir Lau may be next in line to take over Moshe Katzav’s largely ceremonial office as President of Israel. On June 6…
The findings of the Pew Research Center‘s spring 2006 study of attitudes throughout the Muslim word was reviewed in the Jerusalem Post today. Muslims in 10 countries — 6 Islamic, 4 Western with Muslim minorities (France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain)…
The Miami Herald reported today the story of Ross Lawson. He’s currently serving time in Florida State Prison for a list of unsavory offenses, including armed robbery and carjacking, and “felony causing bodily injury”. Turned on to Orthodox Judaism in…
Stories like this pain me to my core. The Asbury Park Press reported today of the advent of the Shomrim in Lakewood. The largely Chassidic security force has already achieved what the Press refer to as a “built-in trust level”…
Yediot Aharonot on Tuesday printed an Op-Ed piece in its “soapbox” section about Kibbutz Degania’s decision to open a synagogue. Kibbutz Degania is Israel’s oldest kibbutz, founded by chalutzim in 1910, at the Southwest of the Kinneret. Its long and…