![Shabbat Shalom Dear Readers, Parshat Emor [Music Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DGMendes400.jpg)
Candle lighting this week is at 7:45PM in New York City. Candles lighting time is 18 minutes before sunset, which marks the start of Shabbat. To find the local candle lighting time in your location, Chabad.org has a section of their site for this purpose. Chabad. Org also has links to articles that can [...]
The New York Times had a lengthy and unspeakably sad piece about people in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who have been shunned after reporting the sexual molestation of their children. Rabbinic authorities with no powers to imprison or execute offenders are, according to some misguided people in the community, supposed to be the first stop for [...]
![The Origins of Christianity According to Jewish Tradition [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/nag-hammadi-codices-416x247.jpg)
The Talmud, which was originally the Jewish orally transmitted law, has, over the centuries mentioned Christianity extensively, delving into its origins with a far different perspective than Christians themselves have about the origins of their faith, For this reason, the Talmud was censored over the centuries, with any references to Christianity deleted. It is necessary [...]
A case in the Israeli courts of an American Jewish teenager whose arrest for public urination turned into a horrifying ordeal in which he was beaten mercilessly by three Arab cops and ended up being sent to an adult prison while awaiting trial where he was gang raped is now working its way through [...]
In honour of parshat Metzora, which deals with an affliction commonly associated with gossip and other forms of forbidden speech, we are presenting various videos which deal with this concept. The videos are chosen for the clarity with which they present this concept to a general audience. There i a saying that Ann Landers used [...]
This Shabbat, Parshat Tazria Metzora, candle lighting will be at 7:30 PM in Brooklyn New York. This week is a double parsha which deals with laws of childbirth, as well as the laws of Tsaras, an affliction mistakenly translated as leprosy. In reality, tsaras is similar symptomatically to psoriasi, although it is entrely different. [...]
![Thank The Almighty For The Israel Defense Forces [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Tsahal.jpg)
With thanks to G-d, we, the writers of Globe Tribune.Info express our gratitude to the Almighty for watching over the land ofIsrael, its people and the soldiers who defend it. May the land and people of Israel know only peace, and may the wanderings of those who came to Israel’s shores in search of refuge [...]
Part of what drives American foreign policy is the idea to export to the nations of the world the tolerance and rule of law that is what most Americans aspire to. America is a nation of laws, and people who agree to baide by its laws can be any creed or colour. That vision [...]
![A Look At Primo Levi [Videos]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Primo-Levi.jpg)
Primo Levi has written extensively about his life as a Jew in Italy before, during and after World War Two. He interests me on a number of levels. His use of chemistry as a metaphor in “The Periodic Table” is an interesting blend of his world view with his chosen profession. The bits of his [...]
![60 Minutes Criticised For Segment Attacking Israel On Treatment Of Christians [Video]](http://globetribune.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Israeli-Christians.jpg)
Yet again, Israel has been blamed for a decrease in the Christian population of the Palestinian Authority. According to 60 Minutes reporters, Israeli security measures and its building of townas and villages in the Palestinian Authority is a reason that the Christian minority under the Palestinian Authority has been shrinking. Not surprisingly, Christians interviewed who [...]
