5 15, 2011
• Topics in the news
"Running Scared", performed by Eldar & Nigar from Azerbaijan, wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
New analysis of data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft provides direct evidence of an ocean of magma beneath the surface of Io (pictured), one of Jupiter's moons.
In a state assembly election held in West Bengal, India, the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist government loses power.
A double bombing in Charsadda District, Pakistan, kills at least 80 people and injures more than 150 others.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake, Spain's deadliest in 55 years, occurs near the town of Lorca.
•
• Current events of 15 5 15 2011
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Bahraini uprising: Saudi armored vehicles roll into Sitra city as fresh video footage of atrocities committed by Saudi-backed Bahraini forces surface. (Press TV)
In Egypt, a mob of Muslims attack Christian protesters calling for the government to take action to reduce religious tension in Cairo with 65 people injured. (AP via MSNBC) (BBC)
Two trucks plow through traffic and pedestrians in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, killing at least one person and injuring 13 in what is believed to be a terrorist attack. (Haaretz)
It is reported that Jennifer Mills-Westley, Tenerife's randomly beheaded British woman, complained of harassment moments before her head was chopped off in a supermarket. (BBC) (The Guardian)
• Business and economy
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex, rape and imprisonment charges:
One of the high devils of International Capitalism has aloowed the little head to get him in big trouble. New York City police arrested and question IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrested yesterday, over allegations that he sexually attacked a hotel maid near Times Square. Strauss-Kahn's schedule is threatened with interruption, with a meeting over the bailouts of Portugal and Greece with European Union finance ministers due in Brussels tomorrow. (BBC)
Police announce that he is expected to be formally arrested and charged. (Al Jazeera)
Strauss-Kahn is charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. (Sky News)
The leadership of the IMF and banking bailouts of European countries are thrown into disarray. (The Wall Street Journal)
Sony starts restoring its PlayStation Network following its recent PlayStation Network outage on a country by country basis with all services to be restored by the end of May. (Reuters via MSNBC)
• Disasters
• Floods in North America
The Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River has been opened for the first time in 37 years, deliberately flooding 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana to save most of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. (WWL-TV)
Amidst ongoing floods, in a controlled breach of the Assiniboine River southeast of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, floodwaters are released over farmland to prevent double the flooding elsewhere. (CTV) (Canoe.ca)
Severe flooding has continued for weeks along the James River from Canada to South Dakota, as well as Burlington, Vermont and North Platte, Nebraska. (National Weather Service)
• International relations
The New York Times reports that Blackwater Worldwide is putting together an army of mercenaries in the United Arab Emirates. (The New York Times)
• Politics and elections
Zurich votes on two proposals related to assisted suicide. (BBC)
Italy tests the popularity of its controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is embroiled in several criminal trials and sex scandals; Berlusconi alleges the opposition does not "wash much". (BBC)
• IMF head charged after alleged New York hotel sex attackFrom Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
New York
Other stories from New York
15 May 2011: IMF head charged after alleged New York hotel sex attack
7 May 2011: Al-Qaeda says bin Laden death will 'not be wasted'; Pentagon releases videos of terrorist leader in compound
A spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed Strauss-Kahn had been charged with three crimes, including attempted rape at a hotel in Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody by officials while on an Air France passenger plane which was about to take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport for Paris. He had reportedly fled from the hotel shortly after the alleged attack.
The chambermaid reported that she had been sexually assaulted by a man staying in a "luxury suite" at the Sofitel hotel near Times Square, who left the building "in a hurry" after the attack, leaving a number of personal items behind. "The maid described being forcibly attacked, locked in the room and and sexually assaulted," the police spokesperson said. She was reportedly hospitalized afterwards with minor injuries.
Strauss-Khan is considered a viable candidate for the French presidency; he previously worked as the finance minister. Analysts say his arrest will disrupt efforts to stabilize the financial states of struggling eurozone countries. He was meant to discuss the bailouts of Greece and Portugal with European Union financial officials at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. The IMF has so far declined to comment on the alleged assault.
Today in Judaism
BOKER TOV!
Today is: YOM RISHONE, Iyar 11, 5771 • 5 15, 2011
SIX DAYS TO SHABBAT!
Omer: Day 26 - Hod sheb'Netzach
• Today's Laws & Customs
• Count "Twenty-Seven Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the twenty-seventh day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: "Today is twenty-seven days, which are three weeks and six days, to the Omer." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day tomorrow, but without the preceding blessing).
The 49-day "Counting of the Omer" retraces our ancestors' seven-week spiritual journey from the Exodus to Sinai. Each evening we recite a special blessing and count the days and weeks that have passed since the Omer; the 50th day is Shavuot, the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tonight's Sefirah: Yesod sheb'Netzach -- "Connection in Ambition"
The teachings of Kabbalah explain that there are seven "Divine Attributes" -- Sefirot -- that G-d assumes through which to relate to our existence: Chessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut ("Love", "Strength", "Beauty", "Victory", "Splendor", "Foundation" and "Sovereignty"). In the human being, created in the "image of G-d," the seven sefirot are mirrored in the seven "emotional attributes" of the human soul: Kindness, Restraint, Harmony, Ambition, Humility, Connection and Receptiveness. Each of the seven attributes contain elements of all seven--i.e., "Kindness in Kindness", "Restraint in Kindness", "Harmony in Kindness", etc.--making for a total of forty-nine traits. The 49-day Omer Count is thus a 49-step process of self-refinement, with each day devoted to the "rectification" and perfection of one the forty-nine "sefirot."
• Today in Jewish History
• Jewish Books Confiscated (1510)
1,500 Jewish books were confiscated in Frankfurt am Main, Germany at the instigation of an apostate (Meshumad) on the 11th of Iyar.
• Riots in Wasilkow and Konotop (1881)
Anti Jewish riots (pogroms) continue to escalate in Russia and break out on the 11th of Iyar in Waslikow and Konotop. The Jews were blamed for the assassination of Czar Alexander II, who was assassinated by revolutionaries. The riots continued for three years across the entire Russia.
• The Battle at Deganya (1948)
The Israeli Army defeated the advancing Syrian Army, following the shelling at the entrance of Deganya, which began at sunrise and lasted nine hours. It is considered the first Israeli victory following the start of the War of Independence.
• Daily Quote
As they set out from their place above, each soul is male and female as one. Only as they descend to this world do they part, each to its own side. And then it is the One Above who unites them again. This is His exclusive domain, for He alone knows which soul belongs to which and how they must reunite.
- Zohar (Book I, 85b)
• Daily Study
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Bechukotai, 1st Portion Leviticus 26:3-26:5 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 60 - 65
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 48
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Hilchot Nizkei Mammon Chapter One
• 3 Chapters: Shabbos Chapter Thirty, Eruvin Chapter One, Eruvin Chapter Two
Hayom Yom:
• Sanctifying the Shabbat
• Positive Commandment 155
The 155th mitzvah is that we are commanded to make a verbal declaration when Shabbos enters and when it leaves. We must mention the greatness and exalted character of this day, and how it is distinct from the other days of the week which precede it and follow it.
The source of this commandment is G‑d's statementex1 (exalted be He), "Remember the Shabbos day to sanctify it." This means that one should commemorate it through mentioning its holiness and greatness. This is the mitzvah of Kiddush.
The Mechilta says the following: " 'Remember the Shabbos day to sanctify it,' — this means one should sanctify it through reciting a blessing." The Sages said explicitly,2 "Remember [Kiddush] over wine."
The Sages also said,3 "Sanctify it when it enters and when it leaves," [the phrase, "when it leaves"] referring to Havdalah, which is also part of our commandment to remember Shabbos.
HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
.CHILDREN OF YISRA'EL: HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
WHY REFUSE TO CALL THE DAYS BY THE NAME OF PAGAN DIETIES?
YHWH CREATED THEM, AND DID WONDROUS THINGS ON EACH!! WHY IS EACH DAY TO BE HELD IN SACRED AWE, AND WHY MUST WE AMONG ALL THE BLESSINGS HE GIVES OFFER PRAISE UNTO THE MOST HIGH YHWH EACH AND EVERY DAY?
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Hebrew Day's Names
Hebrew......................Meaning
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Yom Reeshone........... First day
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. 3
And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.
ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. 4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. {פ} 5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
• Topics in the news
"Running Scared", performed by Eldar & Nigar from Azerbaijan, wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
New analysis of data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft provides direct evidence of an ocean of magma beneath the surface of Io (pictured), one of Jupiter's moons.
In a state assembly election held in West Bengal, India, the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist government loses power.
A double bombing in Charsadda District, Pakistan, kills at least 80 people and injures more than 150 others.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake, Spain's deadliest in 55 years, occurs near the town of Lorca.
•
• Current events of 15 5 15 2011
•
• Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Bahraini uprising: Saudi armored vehicles roll into Sitra city as fresh video footage of atrocities committed by Saudi-backed Bahraini forces surface. (Press TV)
In Egypt, a mob of Muslims attack Christian protesters calling for the government to take action to reduce religious tension in Cairo with 65 people injured. (AP via MSNBC) (BBC)
Two trucks plow through traffic and pedestrians in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, killing at least one person and injuring 13 in what is believed to be a terrorist attack. (Haaretz)
It is reported that Jennifer Mills-Westley, Tenerife's randomly beheaded British woman, complained of harassment moments before her head was chopped off in a supermarket. (BBC) (The Guardian)
• Business and economy
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex, rape and imprisonment charges:
One of the high devils of International Capitalism has aloowed the little head to get him in big trouble. New York City police arrested and question IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrested yesterday, over allegations that he sexually attacked a hotel maid near Times Square. Strauss-Kahn's schedule is threatened with interruption, with a meeting over the bailouts of Portugal and Greece with European Union finance ministers due in Brussels tomorrow. (BBC)
Police announce that he is expected to be formally arrested and charged. (Al Jazeera)
Strauss-Kahn is charged with a criminal sexual act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. (Sky News)
The leadership of the IMF and banking bailouts of European countries are thrown into disarray. (The Wall Street Journal)
Sony starts restoring its PlayStation Network following its recent PlayStation Network outage on a country by country basis with all services to be restored by the end of May. (Reuters via MSNBC)
• Disasters
• Floods in North America
The Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River has been opened for the first time in 37 years, deliberately flooding 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana to save most of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. (WWL-TV)
Amidst ongoing floods, in a controlled breach of the Assiniboine River southeast of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, floodwaters are released over farmland to prevent double the flooding elsewhere. (CTV) (Canoe.ca)
Severe flooding has continued for weeks along the James River from Canada to South Dakota, as well as Burlington, Vermont and North Platte, Nebraska. (National Weather Service)
• International relations
The New York Times reports that Blackwater Worldwide is putting together an army of mercenaries in the United Arab Emirates. (The New York Times)
• Politics and elections
Zurich votes on two proposals related to assisted suicide. (BBC)
Italy tests the popularity of its controversial prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is embroiled in several criminal trials and sex scandals; Berlusconi alleges the opposition does not "wash much". (BBC)
• IMF head charged after alleged New York hotel sex attackFrom Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
New York
Other stories from New York
15 May 2011: IMF head charged after alleged New York hotel sex attack
7 May 2011: Al-Qaeda says bin Laden death will 'not be wasted'; Pentagon releases videos of terrorist leader in compound
A spokesperson for the New York Police Department confirmed Strauss-Kahn had been charged with three crimes, including attempted rape at a hotel in Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn was taken into custody by officials while on an Air France passenger plane which was about to take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport for Paris. He had reportedly fled from the hotel shortly after the alleged attack.
The chambermaid reported that she had been sexually assaulted by a man staying in a "luxury suite" at the Sofitel hotel near Times Square, who left the building "in a hurry" after the attack, leaving a number of personal items behind. "The maid described being forcibly attacked, locked in the room and and sexually assaulted," the police spokesperson said. She was reportedly hospitalized afterwards with minor injuries.
Strauss-Khan is considered a viable candidate for the French presidency; he previously worked as the finance minister. Analysts say his arrest will disrupt efforts to stabilize the financial states of struggling eurozone countries. He was meant to discuss the bailouts of Greece and Portugal with European Union financial officials at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. The IMF has so far declined to comment on the alleged assault.
Today in Judaism
BOKER TOV!
Today is: YOM RISHONE, Iyar 11, 5771 • 5 15, 2011
SIX DAYS TO SHABBAT!
Omer: Day 26 - Hod sheb'Netzach
• Today's Laws & Customs
• Count "Twenty-Seven Days to the Omer" Tonight
Tomorrow is the twenty-seventh day of the Omer Count. Since, on the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall of the previous evening, we count the omer for tomorrow's date tonight, after nightfall: "Today is twenty-seven days, which are three weeks and six days, to the Omer." (If you miss the count tonight, you can count the omer all day tomorrow, but without the preceding blessing).
The 49-day "Counting of the Omer" retraces our ancestors' seven-week spiritual journey from the Exodus to Sinai. Each evening we recite a special blessing and count the days and weeks that have passed since the Omer; the 50th day is Shavuot, the festival celebrating the Giving of the Torah at Sinai.
Tonight's Sefirah: Yesod sheb'Netzach -- "Connection in Ambition"
The teachings of Kabbalah explain that there are seven "Divine Attributes" -- Sefirot -- that G-d assumes through which to relate to our existence: Chessed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod and Malchut ("Love", "Strength", "Beauty", "Victory", "Splendor", "Foundation" and "Sovereignty"). In the human being, created in the "image of G-d," the seven sefirot are mirrored in the seven "emotional attributes" of the human soul: Kindness, Restraint, Harmony, Ambition, Humility, Connection and Receptiveness. Each of the seven attributes contain elements of all seven--i.e., "Kindness in Kindness", "Restraint in Kindness", "Harmony in Kindness", etc.--making for a total of forty-nine traits. The 49-day Omer Count is thus a 49-step process of self-refinement, with each day devoted to the "rectification" and perfection of one the forty-nine "sefirot."
• Today in Jewish History
• Jewish Books Confiscated (1510)
1,500 Jewish books were confiscated in Frankfurt am Main, Germany at the instigation of an apostate (Meshumad) on the 11th of Iyar.
• Riots in Wasilkow and Konotop (1881)
Anti Jewish riots (pogroms) continue to escalate in Russia and break out on the 11th of Iyar in Waslikow and Konotop. The Jews were blamed for the assassination of Czar Alexander II, who was assassinated by revolutionaries. The riots continued for three years across the entire Russia.
• The Battle at Deganya (1948)
The Israeli Army defeated the advancing Syrian Army, following the shelling at the entrance of Deganya, which began at sunrise and lasted nine hours. It is considered the first Israeli victory following the start of the War of Independence.
• Daily Quote
As they set out from their place above, each soul is male and female as one. Only as they descend to this world do they part, each to its own side. And then it is the One Above who unites them again. This is His exclusive domain, for He alone knows which soul belongs to which and how they must reunite.
- Zohar (Book I, 85b)
• Daily Study
Chitas and Rambam for today:
Chumash: Bechukotai, 1st Portion Leviticus 26:3-26:5 with Rashi
Tehillim: Chapters 60 - 65
Tanya: Likutei Amarim, beginning of Chapter 48
Rambam:
• Sefer Hamitzvos:
• 1 Chapter: Hilchot Nizkei Mammon Chapter One
• 3 Chapters: Shabbos Chapter Thirty, Eruvin Chapter One, Eruvin Chapter Two
Hayom Yom:
• Sanctifying the Shabbat
• Positive Commandment 155
The 155th mitzvah is that we are commanded to make a verbal declaration when Shabbos enters and when it leaves. We must mention the greatness and exalted character of this day, and how it is distinct from the other days of the week which precede it and follow it.
The source of this commandment is G‑d's statementex1 (exalted be He), "Remember the Shabbos day to sanctify it." This means that one should commemorate it through mentioning its holiness and greatness. This is the mitzvah of Kiddush.
The Mechilta says the following: " 'Remember the Shabbos day to sanctify it,' — this means one should sanctify it through reciting a blessing." The Sages said explicitly,2 "Remember [Kiddush] over wine."
The Sages also said,3 "Sanctify it when it enters and when it leaves," [the phrase, "when it leaves"] referring to Havdalah, which is also part of our commandment to remember Shabbos.
HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
.CHILDREN OF YISRA'EL: HONOR THE MOST HIGH! REMEMBER HIS LABORS!!
WHY REFUSE TO CALL THE DAYS BY THE NAME OF PAGAN DIETIES?
YHWH CREATED THEM, AND DID WONDROUS THINGS ON EACH!! WHY IS EACH DAY TO BE HELD IN SACRED AWE, AND WHY MUST WE AMONG ALL THE BLESSINGS HE GIVES OFFER PRAISE UNTO THE MOST HIGH YHWH EACH AND EVERY DAY?
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Genesis Chapter 1
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Hebrew Day's Names
Hebrew......................Meaning
THE SACREDNESS OF EACH DAY IN TORAH
Yom Reeshone........... First day
א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר. 3
And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.
ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ. 4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד. {פ} 5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
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