טאנה נאזאן 2 تنه نزن ۲ .Taneh Nazan 2

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JEWISH WORLD NEWS

Sat, 3 November 2012 

18th of Cheshvan, 5773

י״ח בְּחֶשְׁוָן תשע״ג

PARASHAT VAYERA

FOR CHILDREN

 Hagar and Ishmael

PARASHAT

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WEEKLY * TORAH * STUDY

we make of Abraham’s actions in this week's portion? He negotiates with God about saving Sodom, but when he is commanded to sacrifice his son, he goes along with no complaint . MORE>

PARASHAT

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WEEKLY * TORAH * LEARNING

Three guests arrive at Abraham and Sarah's tent. They inform Abraham that God will give the elderly Sarah a child. The prophecy comes true, and they name their son Isaac.

As Abraham was sitting before his tent, after having circumcised himself, God appeared. Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw three men standing there. Abraham invited them to come in and made a fine meal for them. 

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Sanctity in Space 

The Salt of Sodom 

Combating Evil 

The Binding of Isaac 

Preparing for the Akeidah

The Journey to

 Mount Moriah

Hidden and Revealed Holiness

Abraham's Return 

from the Akeidah

Don't Look Back

* HAFTARAH *

 FOR VAYERA

II Kings 4:1-37

The prophet Elisha 

performs two miracles.

This week's haftarah contains two stories about the prophet Elisha, a protégé of Elijah. In the first story an unnamed woman, traditionally identified as the wife of Obadiah, one of the minor prophets, comes to Elisha with a complaint. Her husband has died, and she is so destitute without him that her children are about to be taken away from her to be sold as slave

JEWISH WORLD NEWS

Obama or Romney?

 Israel's politicians await

 the results of the

 U.S. elections 

The race to the White House concludes next week

 and the outcome will likely have a bearing on

 Israel’s elections in January. While Ehud Olmert and 

Tzipi Livni weigh their options, Moshe Kahlon dreams 

of being a game changer.

The ultra-Orthodox filmmaker 

who filled the Hollywood void

'You want the free spirit all the time', filmmaker

Rama Burshetein tells Haaretz. 'At 25, my free spirit

involved eating shrimp. Having sex. Now I know that

 the only free spirit is the connection with Hashem.’

Karin Bar 

Israel voted for Romney

Democrats decry survey as 'unscientific,' citing ties

to conservative backer Ronald Lauder.

An

Jewish Federations to stop 

running Otzma leadership

 program after 27 years

More than 150 have signed the online petition 

posted by alumni of the young adult leadership 

program in an effort to stave off the move.

'Fordo centrifuges installed'

'Sandy is God's punishment'

Some radical Muslim clerics claim that Hurricane

 Sandy was punishment for US sins, specifically

 anti-Mohammed film, urging Americans to convert to Islam

 KADIMA: ' BIbi obsessed with Iran'

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PM at Toulouse school:

 Nation of Israel lives

US upgrades Israel's 

 

aviation safety rating

Tunisia says foiled plot

 to kidnap local Jews

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