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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Second try   2 months, 1 week ago

    Thanks Rafi, for giving me the push to try this again! I hope I can keep at it.

    Yosef

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Welcome All – Were Live!   2 months, 1 week ago

    I know it will take a while, but communities take time to grow.

    Let me know if you have any issues.

    Yosef

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    Yosef Greenberg started the forum topic test in the group test:   2 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: What "Citizen Journalism" is doing to us   4 months ago

    Terrifying.

    Read the whole post here. To the end. I really mean to the end because there is a real punchline there.

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/nsfw-after-fort-hood-another-example-of-how-citizen-journalists-cant-handle-the-truth/

    I, for one, never did watch the Neda video. I get frightened too easily. (Maybe because I don’t watch movies?)

    Whatever. Read It. and take heart.

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: The Matzav Phone Service – I investigate   4 months ago

    Matzav.com has recently begun advertising VoIP phone service in the Yated, with whom they seem to be very tight with. (See the Yated book ads on Matzav’s website.)

    Aside from some misleading statements like “more than 90% of businesses have switched to VoIP” and that you get higher, “digital quality” sound, the pricing is [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Amazing read   4 months ago

    http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200203/mann

    I urge you to read this article in its entirety. You may be misled in the first few paragraphs as to the intent of the article.

    This tells me great insight into scientific research and to how it is conducted. While most might have a quest for truth, it is almost [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Learning Nach or dikduk in Slabodka   4 months ago

    Ishim Veshitos writes that it was “illegal” to learn Nach or dikduk in the yeshiva in Slabodka due to Masilic concerns.

    Josh Waxman notes that this is an example that a certain yeshiva’s approach does not necessarily have to be in line define the overall “Torah True” approach (whatever that means).

    He fails to highlight [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Chamor Nosai Seforim   4 months ago

    On The Main Line writes that the term חמור נושא ספרים, may have a Koranic origin.

    The first Jewish source he find for it is in the sefer Chovos Halvavos.

    I view it as a emotional issue rather than a real problem. It might not feel right but I don’t see anything [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Thank you Hebrew Books   4 months, 1 week ago

    A special post to thank the most comprehensive Jewish library available online for free.

    Thank you HebrewBooks.org.

    With over 40,000 seforim currently available online as of now, they have outgrown the paid-only Otzar Hahochma.

    Otzar is not happy about this, and are trying to undermine HB. More on this later.<br [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Corzine loses in New Jersey, Bloomberg wins in NYC et al   4 months, 1 week ago

    The (preliminary) result are in and it seem that the GOP won big.

    With the gubernatorial election in New Jersey and Virginia won by Republicans by a wide margin, there seems to be no change for a challenge in court.

    I must say that I was pleasantly surprise to see such landslide wins.

    I [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Did the malachim eat meat and milk together?   4 months, 1 week ago

    First, see the possuk with Rashi:

    8. And he took cream and milk and the calf [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: List of Jewish hotlines   4 months, 1 week ago

    For now I’m only making a simple list of all numbers. I hope to provide more background information on each number as I progress.

    Alter Moshe Goldberger  1-212-990-6143
    Crown Heights Hotline     1-212-434-0770 (old: 1-212-461-8874)
    Kol Bobov (MDU)         1-718-305-6300
    Kol Hachasidus (Chabad) 1-718-735-7333 (Alternates: 1-845-436-6700, 1-845-928-3115)
    Kol Halashon (70,000+ shiurim) 1-718-906-6400
    Kol Haolam [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Daylight Savings Time, No enviromental merit?   4 months, 1 week ago

    Environmentalists have long claimed Daylight Savings Time as a great way to save energy with little inconvenience.

    According to most studies, however, it seems to be the opposite!

    One of the only studies to claim lowered energy consumption using DST was done dring the ’70s energy crisis.

    Duh.

    I still find [...]

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    Yosef Greenberg wrote a new blog post: Hamodia skipped the Gerrer Rebbe’s visit   4 months, 1 week ago

    Anyone else surprised?

    The Gerrer Rebbe was on a visit to the USA last week. The visit was cut short due to his wife not feeling well in Israel, mid-visit.

    Might well be because Hamodia USA has no interest in mixing into machlokes and alienating possibly most of their readership. But I could [...]