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We Are What We Think, Beating Anxiety and Depression

What is emotion; a feeling? What then is a feeling? These terms are difficult to fully comprehend and define. For thousands of years people have been attempting to understand this phenomenon and will most likely debate it for a thousand more.The mainstream definition of emotion refers to a state of feeling involving thoughts, physiological changes, and an outward expression or ...

Dreyfus Letter Fetches Nearly $500,000 at Paris Auction

A letter handwritten by Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish soldier who was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, was sold at auction for nearly half a million dollars.The letter, which Dreyfus sent from prison to government officials in an attempt to clear his name, was sold Wednesday for $492,000 at an auction organized by Sotheby’s Paris branch. It was not ...

Jewish Organizations Slam Circumcision Cartoon

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday called a cartoon depicting the Jewish ritual circumcision appearing in the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, “deeply offensive and appalling.”The caricature, that appeared in Norway’s third largest daily, depcits what some construed to be Jews torturing a baby during a circumcision.It showed police officers looking on as a bearded man wearing a black hat and black coat ...

‘World’s Oldest’ Torah Scroll Found in Italy

The world’s oldest complete Torah scroll has been found in a university archive in Bologna, according to an Italian professor who said Wednesday the text could be from the 12th century.The precious lambskin scroll had been classified by the university library as being from the 17th century and was named simply “Scroll Number Two.”But Hebrew Studies Professor Mauro Perani told ...

Newly Discovered Prisoner Journal Donated to Auschwitz

The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum said on Wednesday it had acquired a newly discovered journal written and illustrated by Polish prisoners of the Nazi German death camp in southern Poland.The three inmates’ hand-made memoirs, which include poems and pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of gas chambers and a hanging, were donated by the widow of a US war veteran, museum spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel ...

Oklahoma Chabad Leaders Organize Dallas Youth

The Sooner State has long had a vibrant — if numerically tiny — Jewish population, but until just a few years ago most Oklahomans rarely saw an Orthodox Jew at community events.Today is a different story.In the latest and perhaps most visible manifestation of its presence, the area’s Chabad Jewish Community Center organized a weekend blitz of some three dozen teenagers ...

Israel Honors Gambling Mogul Adelson for his Contribution to Global Tourism

Israel’s goal is to reach 10 million visitors a year within a decade, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday at the Second Jerusalem International Tourism Summit.The guest of honor at the convention, a two-day affair at the capital’s International Convention Center, was the American billionaire-casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who was awarded the JITS prize for innovation and excellence in global ...

Rabbinate: Palestinian Coke not Kosher

The Chief Rabbinate released an urgent statement this week, warning the Israeli public against Coca-Cola manufactured in the West Bank town of Beitunia, near Ramallah, which is marketed alongside the strictly kosher beverage that has been manufactured in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak for the past decades.According to the statement, written by Rabbi Yaakov Sabag, director of the Chief ...

Elkin: The Jewish People Are Not Alone

Anti-Semitism is not just an Israeli or a Jewish problem, but is first and foremost a problem for any society in which it is allowed to manifest itself, Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin said on Tuesday.Speaking at the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism which convened in Jerusalem, Elkin said that there should be a “zero tolerance” policy towards manifestations of ...

Over 200 Enjoy Ahavas Yisroels’ ‘Shabbos in Gan Eden’

Over 200 people, including families and singles, enjoyed a special ‘Shabbos in Gan Eden’ Shabbaton with Chevra Ahavas Yisroel in the Berkshire Hills of upstate New York.The Shabbaton took place on the luxurious camp grounds of Emanuel Camp in the stunning Berkshire Hills which borders with Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the inclement weather did not dampen the spirit of those ...

Oldest Complete Torah Scroll Reportedly Found in Italy

An Italian university has found what it claims to be the oldest complete Torah scroll known to exist, the BBC reported on Tuesday.The scroll, which was found at the library of the University of Bologna, was believed to be no more than a few hundred years old, the report said. But recent carbon dating tests suggest it was written some ...

AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 79 – May 29, 2013

25,000 people of all ages are expected to attend the upcoming 20th Annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park. The Carl Freyer z”l Tribute and Dr. Manfred Lehmann Memorial event will be held at Central Park’s Bandshell on Sunday, June 2nd, the 46th anniversary of the miracle of the Six Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem, from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., ...