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Medical Journal Touts 17,000 Pot-Related Studies Jerusalem, Israel: Cannabis is one of the most studied plants on the planet, according to a review published in the September issue of the journal Medicinal Research Reviews. "Research on the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabinoids and endocannabinoids has reached enormous proportions," the journal states. "[A]pproximately 15,000 articles on Cannabis sativa L. and cannabinoids and over 2,000 articles on endocannabinoids" are available in the scientific literature. Commenting on the review NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said, "Opponents of marijuana law reform - including those who oppose the therapeutic use of cannabis - are fond of claiming that further study of marijuana is necessary before we can amend current law. Yet in reality, cannabis is arguably the most investigated plant on Earth. It's clear that it's politics, not science, that is driving the criminal prohibition of cannabis and unfortunately the publication of another dozen - or even a thousand - studies is not going to change this reality." -NORML
Settler Rabbis for Change!
R'Menachem Froman, noted Zohar learning mystic and Rabbi of West Bank settlement "Tekoa," comes out with a message:
American Jews and Non-jews have to elect Peace! and Justice!
And I think, in the current situation, it's Obama
Barack Obama.
Justice
Police Lt. in Deadly Taser Case Commits Suicide
Updated, 8:52 a.m. | A New York City police lieutenant who gave the order to fire a Taser stun gun at a man who then fell to his death in Brooklyn committed suicide at Floyd Bennett Field early on Thursday, law enforcement sources said. The lieutenant, Michael Pigott, a 21-year veteran of the force, had been placed on modified assignment without his gun and badge after he gave the order to a sergeant to fire the Taser at a Bedford-Stuyvesant man, Iman Morales.
i like it when somebody takes his actions seriously and metes out his own brand of justice. i consider that a serious life.
You know you’re a Snag when…
Who knows, perhaps Elul has an influence on thieves too – at least it does on this one.Rabbi Levi Vilmovsky, who heads the Chabad operation in Migdal HaEmek, a resident of Kfar Chabad, was recently the victim of a burglary as his family was out of the home, celebrating a family bar mitzvah. Among the items taken was an envelope containing dollars given to him from the Rebbe Z”TL. The dollars have significant emotional value to Rav Vilmovsky and his family, and they made a public appeal to the thief to please return the envelope, which he did.
Using a third party to act as intermediary, the envelope with the Rebbe dollars made its way back to the Vilmovsky home.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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turkey sandwich
GROUND BREAK-SHATTERING NEWS
did you eat your t.s. today?
Report: Turkey Sandwiches An Excellent Source Of Turkey Sandwiches
CHICAGO—Turkey sandwiches, long suspected of being a rich source of turkey sandwiches, were found to contain a substantial amount of turkey sandwich in every bite, the Food and Drug Administration reported Monday. "While traces of turkey sandwich can be found in other foods, such as turkey, bread, mayonnaise, or turkey-and-ham sandwiches, only turkey sandwiches contain 100 percent turkey sandwich," the report read in part. "In addition, eating a turkey sandwich a day is proven to help reduce the risk of not eating turkey sandwiches. This is great news for the 12 million Americans who aren't currently getting enough turkey sandwich." The report noted that turkey sandwiches are no longer considered to be a good source of hot dogs.
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your shrimp does not count.
The MAN Burns in 5 Days!!!!
We intend to have a Thursday night cholent on the playa. If not Thursday then Friday night. If not Friday night then for shaleshides.Whoever would like to write a kvitel to be placed at the feet of the Man or at the Temple, write it here & I will have it written out to put there.As known, the Temple at Burning Man is a mokoym kodoysh, where thousands of kvitlach, messages etc. are left. They burn the Temple Sunday night, the night after the Man. This year's Temple looks awesome.If I have access to the internet on the playa, I'll try to post here some updates so everyone can be mitstaref in this awesome experience. Pray for me, that it shall be nichnas b'sholom v'yotzoh b'sholom. If I don't make it, you may curse me at my funeral & cast my bones to the vultures. Thanks in advance. YadadadadadaDA!!!! http://www.burningman.com – Z.I.Y. 
i know shafran and lerner, ner israel lackeys, telegenic drek
The Agriprocessors raid in May fueled a fundamental debate between the Orthodox and Conservative movements of Judaism. The Orthodox, who include the majority of Jews who keep kosher, adhere to a strict interpretation of Jewish law, while the Conservative movement has a more liberal interpretation emphasizing social justice. Among Conservative Jews, a minority observe kosher laws strictly.
Rabbi Allen said the Hekhsher Tzedek campaign grew out of his efforts to promote kosher practice in his synagogue, and his participation in a Jewish commission of inquiry that went to Postville after an article in 2006 in The Forward, the weekly Jewish newspaper, about conditions there. The commission’s report found “significant issues of concern, including health and safety.”
Since then a rift has grown between Rabbi Allen’s group and Agriprocessors and its supporters. Several rabbis supporting the Hekhsher Tzedek campaign joined a protest at the Postville plant in July.
Last month, a New York public relations firm representing Agriprocessors, 5W Public Relations, posted fake blog comments under Rabbi Allen’s name on FailedMessiah.com, a Web site that is fiercely critical of the Rubashkins, and on the Web site of JTA, the Jewish news agency. Shmarya Rosenberg, who runs FailedMessiah.com, traced the fraudulent comments on his site to a 5W address. JTA reported that one false posting in Rabbi Allen’s name came from an address belonging to a 5W executive, Juda Engelmayer.
The postings seemed intended to discredit Rabbi Allen by making him appear to use crude, arrogant language. In a statement, 5W confirmed that the postings came from its offices but said that they had been made by an intern without approval.
The Hekhsher Tzedek campaign has broadened its ambitions beyond Agriprocessors, hoping to see its “God Housekeeping Seal” adopted by kosher food producers nationwide. On Aug. 1, the campaign unveiled proposed “social justice criteria” for the seal, including standards for wages and benefits, worker safety, animal welfare and environmental protection.
In coming days, the two Conservative Jewish organizations behind the campaign will send out a mailing calling on rabbis to preach about it during Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
Rabbi Allen said the campaign was not seeking to change ancient kosher dietary laws, which are traditionally administered by Orthodox Jews. “We are not revising, we are enhancing,” he said.
But some Orthodox leaders predicted that the campaign would be spurned by Orthodox Jews. Rabbi Avi Shafran of Agudath Israel, a national Orthodox group, warned that the Hekhsher Tzedek was likely to backfire by raising the price of kosher food.
The campaign’s leaders appear “not so much interested in ensuring fair treatment of employees and the like as they are in redefining the very concept of kashrut” (the Hebrew word referring to kosher laws and practice), Rabbi Shafran said. “That, in our view, is deeply troubling.”
Meanwhile, the negative news from Agriprocessors spurred Orthodox leaders to action. David Eliezrie, a California rabbi who joined the trip to Postville, called the delegation “the New York Yankees of rabbis.” Aaron Troodler, another delegation member, said Agriprocessors had paid for the rabbis’ travel.
They saw changes that Agriprocessors had made since the raid, according to the report of their trip. They met with James Martin, a former federal prosecutor recently hired as a compliance officer, and were told of a toll-free hot line he set up for confidential worker complaints.
Workers interviewed on video by Yair Hoffman, a delegation member, said Agriprocessors now pays a starting wage of $10 an hour, up from $7.25 before the raid. Jacobson Staffing, an outside company that has taken charge of hiring, has enrolled the company in E-Verify, a federal program devised to block illegal immigrants from getting jobs.
After the three-hour tour, the rabbis issued an unqualified endorsement. They said they did not intend to delve into conditions before the raid or address the plight of the immigrant workers caught in the raid.
“I have no firsthand knowledge of what went on before,” Rabbi Lerner said. “But if you take away preraid, you’ve got to say it’s a wonderful situation now.”
L’CHAIM!!! Z’DOROVYA!!!
BRUSSELS (EJP)—Can a Jew be buried together with a bottle of Vodka ?
The Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE), which assists more than 600 rabbis across Europe on issues of daily life, was confronted last week with this very unusual halachic (related to Halacha or Jewish religious law) question after a member of a Jewish community in Germany passed away.
The man’s last will was to be buried with his best friend, a bottle of Vodka, with which he had never parted during his lifetime.
After hearing the weird request, the Jewish community’s rabbi immediately contacted the RCE's halachic experts in Brussels in order to determine if it is permissible to place a bottle of Vodka in the grave of the man.
Germany has become the home of a sizable Jewish community of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
The man, who lived in Karlsruhe, a city located in the south west of Germany, emigrated from the Soviet Union in the 70s and was not connected to the local Jewish community. However, a good friend of him, who is a regular participant of community events and an acquaintance of the local rabbi, delivered this last message of his friend to the rabbi.
"Every day he would drink a half a glass of Vodka in the morning and a half in the evening,” he told the rabbi.
The issue however actually raises a serious halachic dilemna.
On the one hand it is extremely important to fulfill the last wish of a Jew, but on the other hand it is unacceptable to bury any object together with the body of a deceased person.
The difficult question was then forwarded to Rabbi Yaacov Rozhe who serves as chairman of the Zaka Rabbinical Council and as representative of Israel’s chief rabbinate in the Medical Institute of Abu Kabir.
He replied that there is no halachic prohibition of placing the bottle near the coffin but under no circumstances it may be placed in the coffin itself nor beneath it so that no object interposes between the coffin and the ground.
With the implementation of this ruling the man and the bottle passed away side by side…
Comment by Joseph — September 9, 2008 @ 2:58 pm