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• Creating A Business On The Internet
  This coming week, Borders Bookstores is likely going to declare bankruptcy. It's a very sad sigh to see as I personally love books. Barnes and Nobles its larger competitor is also facing financial difficulties.
  Published 09Mar2011, viewed 150 times

• Important Tips on Starting a Business
  Starting a business is never easy. Whether you're thinking of setting up a small operation that you can manage from home office or you're aiming for a much bigger and more lucrative venture, you need to know and understand the basics on how to actually start and run a business.
  Published 09Mar2011, viewed 167 times

• Surviving the Challenges of Small Business
  For anyone who has a started a business, the challenge of making sure everything that needs to be done can be exhausting. Individuals who start small businesses are typically go getters who have high energy and also have a strong level of concern.
  Published 09Mar2011, viewed 114 times

• The Current Situation in Egypt
  The current political situation in Egypt has pundits on all sides of the political spectrum crying foul and speculating what should have been done by the United States to either prevent or support the current turmoil.
  Published 11Feb2011, viewed 1053 times

• What You Need to Know About Running a Business
  Are you sick and tired of having to make ends meet? Are you tired of working for a boss that is unrealistic in their expectations and has you working incredibly long hours for little reward or advancement? Do you want to achieve financial freedom by managing a business that you really do enjoy?
  Published 11Feb2011, viewed 174 times

• 3 Reasons to Start Your Very Own Home Business
  There are a lot ways that you can start earning extra cash these days. Whether you're interested in the food trade, the clothing industry or even party planning, you'll be able to make some extra money without having to leave the comforts of your own home.
  Published 24Feb2011, viewed 207 times

• Why You Shouldn't Invest In Collectibles
  Many people enjoy spending money on collectibles. In addition to the pleasure of owning a particular item, the process of finding a rare collectible at a garage sale or thrift store can also be thrilling for both novice and expert collectors alike.
  Published 28Jan2011, viewed 179 times

• 3 Characteristics of the Entrepreneur
  Most people like the idea of starting your own business and not having to work for someone else's company for the rest of their lives. However, when it comes right down to it, entrepreneurship is much more difficult than many people realize, and the truth is that not everyone is cut out for it.
  Published 24Feb2011, viewed 446 times

• Why You Have to Accept Some Risk in Investing
  If you talk to the average person about investing, you'll probably hear a lot of talk about why investing your money is so risky. You may be told that you should stay away from the stock market or real estate because there is a great chance that you'll end up losing all of your hard earned money at one point or another.
  Published 23Feb2011, viewed 198 times

• Weighing the Long-Term Risks in the Stock Market
  The truth is that no one can guarantee any particular investment, so there'll always be some risk involved whether you choose to enter the stock market, real estate investing, or the world of small business
  Published 23Feb2011, viewed 182 times

• Do You Have An Appetite For Small Business?
  If you're like many people who are tired of going to work every day for someone else, you have probably thought about starting your own small business. This is a great option for many people, since the small business owner can pursue any number of opportunities including franchises and home-based businesses.
  Published 23Feb2011, viewed 137 times

• 5 Reasons Why You Should Not Purchase Collectibles As Investments
  Most people have some sort of hobby or pastime that they enjoy working on, and these hobbies usually involve some sort of collectible item. These items range from baseball cards to old dolls and rare books, with everything in between.
  Published 28Jan2011, viewed 189 times

• Why You Should Use Ownership Investments to Build Wealth
  If you're serious about building wealth over time, you'll want to take a close look at participating in a variety of ownership investments. What exactly are ownership investments? As the name suggests, they simply involve owning assets such as stocks, real estate, or small businesses that will hopefully generate profits for you and your fellow co-owners.
  Published 19Feb2011, viewed 185 times

• Why You Should Be Careful With Options Investing
  Let's suppose that you're interested in a brand-new company that has invented a new kind of technology, like an MP3 player or some similar kind of gadget. You're really impressed with the new product, and you believe the company is well-managed and has a great chance of becoming an extremely profitable venture.
  Published 19Feb2011, viewed 116 times

• Why Everyone Needs to Get Started in Investing
  Most Americans, even during a serious economic recession, are not struggling for survival and have all the necessities of life including food, shelter, and clothing. Of course, even in the United States some people struggle for survival, but for most Americans the problem is not how to survive but rather how to spend their money wisely.
  Published 19Feb2011, viewed 117 times

• Three Ownership Investments You Should Consider
  Ownership investments will certainly have ups and downs over time, and they can make you nervous if you tend to focus on the short-term results of investments. However, if you're serious about building wealth over the long term, ownership investments are essential to your success.
  Published 18Feb2011, viewed 152 times

• Should You Pass Up on Precious Metals Investing?
  Precious metals, specifically gold and silver, have been considered real money and have been used as mediums of exchange for thousands of years. In the United States, for instance, the currency was based on the gold standard until the 1970s.
  Published 17Feb2011, viewed 166 times

• Should You Consider Cash Equivalent Investments
  One of the major problems with ownership investments like stocks, real estate, and small businesses is that you may not be able to quickly convert your assets into cash. Cash equivalents, on the other hand, allow you to make withdrawals more easily and often without any costs involved.
  Published 17Feb2011, viewed 221 times

• Can You Generate Income From Lending Investments?
  If you are looking for safer places to put your money, lending investments provide a safer alternative if you're willing to accept smaller rewards.
  Published 17Feb2011, viewed 137 times

• How an Ambitious Person Can Get Ahead
  If you're an ambitious person, you most likely want to get ahead in your career and in each aspect of your life as quickly as possible. But how do you achieve this? Can we really boil down success to a simple formula that everyone can follow in their daily lives?
  Published 11Feb2011, viewed 471 times

• What is the Primary Reason for Financial Problems?
  Most people tend to blame their financial problems (and probably other problems as well) on other people or outside circumstances. They may recite a list of excuses for their financial situation, including lack of education, the general economic climate, or just plain bad luck.
  Published 11Feb2011, viewed 123 times

• The Psychology of Spending and How It Can Lead to Disaster
  When most people examine their financial problems, they tend to focus on the need for greater income so as to pay off their debts and breathe more easily each month. Depending on your current circumstances, you may indeed need to find ways to increase your income over time in order to make things easier for you and improve your standard of living.
  Published 11Feb2011, viewed 144 times

• The Secrets of Success From A Self-Made Billionaire
  A self-made billionaire by the name of HL Hunt was once asked to reveal the secrets of his financial success. His reply was simple yet powerful, because it provided a formula that anyone could follow to achieve big goals in life.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 222 times

• Correcting Three Common Myths About Entrepreneurship
  There are a number of myths about entrepreneurship that seem to persist year after year for whatever reason. These mischaracterizations about the business world may seem inconsequential, but the sad truth is that many people are convinced that they are not good enough to start their own business.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 148 times

• Choosing Your Ideal Life is the First Step to Making It a Reality
  Many people throughout history have tried to study successful people in order to determine what qualities are necessary to achieve great things. These studies have yielded some useful conclusions about what it takes to become successful, such as self discipline, goal setting, and other skills.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 161 times

• The Four Root Causes of Negative Emotions
  In a previous article, we explained the importance of identifying negative emotions that hinder us on the road to success and goal achievement. These negative emotions of fear, jealousy or envy, inferiority, and anger can seriously damage your peace of mind on a daily basis.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 590 times

• Does Running Your Own Business Mean You Have No Bosses?
  One of the major reasons people choose to start their own businesses is a desire for independence. Many people are simply tired of working for others and constantly being under supervision. All of us have probably had the experience of a bad boss at one time or another, so it's understandable why some want to become self-employed in order to gain some independence.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 350 times

• Can Setting Goals be the Key to Happiness?
  Happiness is a difficult subject to tackle, and many people have many different opinions about what would constitute happiness. How do you exactly determine what happiness is? Is a certain lifestyle, a certain behavior, a certain world view? People have a variety of opinions.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 273 times

• Are You Going to Make Financial Sacrifices to Live the Entrepreneurial Life?
  Many people are excited about the prospect of starting their own business and liberating themselves from the rat race of a 9-to-5 job. Of course, many people underestimate the amount of time, effort, and money necessary to begin such an endeavor.
  Published 10Feb2011, viewed 185 times

• Breaking the Phenomenon of Learned Helplessness
  One of the biggest roadblocks to achieving goals and realizing success in life is a feeling of helplessness. So many people go through life assuming that they can do nothing about their circumstances and simply wait around until someone else intervenes and make things better.
  Published 31Jan2011, viewed 397 times

• Learn to Separate What is Urgent From What is Truly Important
  If you want to become more productive and start achieving more of your goals as quickly as possible, you need to ask yourself one very important question. How do you spend your days at work? This may seem like a simple question, but it could have huge ramifications.
  Published 30Jan2011, viewed 221 times

• How Negative Emotions Can Drag You Down and Steal Your Chances of Success
  Everyone wants to be happy, or at least I've never met anyone who wished to be unhappy. Most of us, however, wrestle with negative emotions throughout our lives that zap our energy and make it difficult to lead happy and productive lives.
  Published 30Jan2011, viewed 185 times

• Does Writing Down your Goals Guarantee Success?
  One of the most important steps you could ever take if you wish to achieve an important goal is to write everything down on paper. There is something about this simple step which is extremely powerful, and writing down your goals will greatly increase your chances of accomplishing your objectives.
  Published 28Jan2011, viewed 524 times

• The Importance of Idealization and Future Orientation
  Perhaps these individuals experienced a serious disappointment at some point in their lives. Maybe they failed to achieve a large goal that they had set for themselves because the goal was too big and unrealistic given their skills at that particular time.
  Published 28Jan2011, viewed 200 times

• The Great Successful Law of the Universe
  There is a law of the universe that is of monumental importance for anyone who wishes to reach their highest potential in their career, as well as in life in general. It can literally determine just how successful you will be at everything you attempt.
  Published 28Jan2011, viewed 215 times

• The Most Important Quality for Outstanding Achievement in Life
  Many people over the years have made a great effort to study the qualities that lead to great success in life. Many books and articles have been written on the subject of goal setting and achievement, and motivational speakers give lectures and speeches to thousands of people each year regarding how to get the most out of life.
  Published 28Jan2011, viewed 537 times

• Three Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start Your Business
  There are many factors that contribute to entrepreneurial success, but here we would like to focus on three questions you should ask yourself before making the leap and starting your own business. Answering these questions honestly can give you a good idea about whether you're ready to put in the enormous effort needed in starting a business.
  Published 22Jan2011, viewed 158 times

• Correcting Three Common Myths About Entrepreneurship
  There are a number of myths about entrepreneurship that seem to persist year after year for whatever reason. These mischaracterizations about the business world may seem inconsequential, but the sad truth is that many people are convinced that they are not good enough to start their own business.
  Published 22Jan2011, viewed 155 times

• The Psychology of Spending and How it Can Lead to Disaster
  When most people examine their financial problems, they tend to focus on the need for greater income so as to pay off their debts and breathe more easily each month. Depending on your current circumstances, you may indeed need to find ways to increase your income over time in order to make things easier for you and improve your standard of living.
  Published 22Jan2011, viewed 171 times

• The Problem of Money and Negative Emotions
  We have already spoken about the problem of negative emotions and how they can take away our energy and destroy our happiness.Negative emotions can make our lives miserable and make it much more difficult, if not impossible, to achieve our biggest goals in life.
  Published 22Jan2011, viewed 310 times

• What are Your Two Worst Enemies on the Road to Goal Achievement?
  Most people prefer to blame others when something goes wrong instead of taking responsibility. This is always easier than taking time to examine one's own actions and motivations when we fail to achieve our objectives.
  Published 21Jan2011, viewed 271 times

• What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Own Business
  Many people love the idea of starting their own small business, especially if they are facing difficult economic times or problems at work. There are many potential benefits to going into business for yourself, and the financial rewards can be very great in the long run.
  Published 21Jan2011, viewed 147 times

• What is the Primary Reason for Financial Problems?
  Most people tend to blame their financial problems (and probably other problems as well) on other people or outside circumstances. They may recite a list of excuses for their financial situation, including lack of education, the general economic climate, or just plain bad luck. However, this is simply covering up the main cause for so many financial difficulties such as bankruptcy, credit card debt, and difficulty making monthly bills.
  Published 21Jan2011, viewed 395 times

• Why an Entrepreneur Needs to Withstand Rejection and Negative Feedback
  Virtually all entrepreneurs are going to run into negative reactions from various people along the way. To start with, your friends and family may express their disapproval and even ridicule your ideas. Are you ready to withstand this kind of rejection along the way to entrepreneurial success?
  Published 20Jan2011, viewed 202 times

• Why Don't Most People Have Goals?
  Every human being has an incredible capacity to achieve great things in his or her life. As long as there is no serious damage to a person's physical or mental faculties, any person of reasonable intelligence can go on to accomplish great things.
  Published 20Jan2011, viewed 400 times

• Why Entrepreneurs Must Understand Their Shortcomings
  When you're starting out in business, you're unlikely to have a lot of money to hire every kind of service you could possibly need. You will have to learn to do a lot of things yourself, including a little bit of accounting, marketing, customer service, and a whole host of other activities that are part of a normal daily operation of any business.
  Published 20Jan2011, viewed 146 times

• You Become What You Think About
  Look around you and observe all of the various aspects of modern life. Every invention, every object in the man-made world originated in a person's mind before entering the physical world.
  Published 20Jan2011, viewed 635 times

• Your Past is Not Your Future
  Many people have had quite a few negative experiences throughout their lives. Perhaps they grew up in a bad or troubled family or associated with the wrong people in the neighborhood when they were growing up.
  Published 20Jan2011, viewed 171 times

• The Differences Between Jews in Germany and Jews in Spain
  The differences between the Sephardim and Ashkenazim are traced to the different social, religious, economic, political, geographic, and even ethnic influences existent in each of these communities. The differences are too numerous to enumerate in detail.
  Published 16Jan2011, viewed 371 times

• The Views of Rabbi Yehudah HaLevi
  While his works betray some Platonic influence, the overall views of Yehudah HaLevi do not belong to any particular philosophical school. In his fact, HaLevi's major philosophical work, The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith, popularly known as the Kuzari, includes a serious critique of philosophical speculation
  Published 15Jan2011, viewed 356 times

• Jewish Mysticism
  There are various types of mysticism known from Jewish sources. All of them seek a communion with or identity with the ultimate reality of God through direct experience or insight.
  Published 15Jan2011, viewed 382 times

• Jewish Views on Spirituality
  David Hartman's book, A Living Covenant centers on two important topics on the subject of Jewish spirituality. The first deals with the allegation that traditional Judaism excessively concerns itself with matters of "law" to the extent that a mechanical approach, in matters of faith and relating to God, is realized.
  Published 07Jan2011, viewed 302 times

• Near Eastern Accounts of Creation
  The first chapter of the book of Genesis recalls the story of creation. But it provides far more than simply an Israelite cosmology. It offers an understanding of various Near Eastern cosmologies or the remnants of the former still existent in the memory of Israelite society
  Published 23Dec2010, viewed 306 times

• The Jewish Philosophy of Mordecai Kaplan
  Of all the Jewish thinkers that arose in the twentieth century, none stands out as revolutionary and as controversial as Mordecai Kaplan.
  Published 22Dec2010, viewed 470 times

• The Transformation of Israelite Religion into Rabbinic Judaism
  The transformation of the religion of biblical Israel into rabbinic Judaism was a complex process that occurred over centuries.
  Published 22Dec2010, viewed 548 times

• The Expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula
  The history of the Jews of the Iberian peninsula ended in 1492 and in 1497 with the edicts of expulsion issued by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella for Castile and Aragon and by King Manuel I of Portugal respectively, after a tumultuous century of radical changes in Jewish life.
  Published 22Dec2010, viewed 343 times

• Finding Your Ideal Online Business Opportunity
  With the New Year already here and tens of millions of Americans still unemployed or underemployed, the American Dream seems more elusive than ever. Manufacturing and traditional employment opportunities continue to migrate overseas in search of ever-cheaper labor markets, and many displaced American workers grow more and more disillusioned with the prospects of finding gainful employment.
  Published 19Feb2010, viewed 196 times

• The Importance of Having Good Fitness
  There is no doubt that we are currently living in a fast paced world. Technology has advanced so much that most of us have become solely reliable on computerised machines and equipment.
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 202 times

• How to Prepare your Home for a Quick Sale
  In the current market conditions, it can be very tempting to want to get out of your current home. The instability in the housing market, and worries about your future employment and subsequent ability to make payments on your mortgage might push you to listing your home, with the hopes and dreams of a quick sale.
  Published 04Mar2010, viewed 211 times

• Find the Best flights online
  Traveling is always stressful. That is especially true these days with constantly increasing security issues in light of recent events. But the stress of travel has also been increased by the challenges faced by the air industry.
  Published 28Feb2010, viewed 271 times

• Dealing with Divorce
  The statistics can be staggering, and for anyone entering a marriage or considering it, it can be little disconcerting to say the least. Depending on the study, the percentage of marriages that end in divorce today can be as high as nearly half of all marriages, though some studies do show lower rates.
  Published 29Jan2010, viewed 239 times

• Learning French online
  If you have always longed to "Parlez Francais", but never picked up the French language, don't be to hard on yourself. Learning a foreign language can be a difficult endeavor for a lot of people, especially if they are adults.
  Published 29Mar2010, viewed 288 times

• Three Tips for a Great Speech
  It is often said that the second greatest fear that most people have is dying, topped only by public speaking. That would indicate that, given the choice of where to be at a funeral, a person would rather be in the coffin than the one doing the eulogy.
  Published 27Feb2010, viewed 415 times

• Should you have Pet Insurance?
  If you have a pet at home, one of your primary concerns will be their health. It is not always easy to know when your pet is not feeling well - they can't tell you when they're feeling under the weather, though certain animals such as dogs can be quite descriptive of how they feel by their actions or perhaps better said, their lack of them.
  Published 27Feb2010, viewed 581 times

• Buying your First House
  The decision to purchase your first home can be quite exciting, and incredibly intimidating. This can be especially true in the current economic downturn as the seeming security of owning property has caused many individuals and families to reconsider.
  Published 28Jan2010, viewed 271 times

• Running to Lose Weight
  Many people begin a running or jogging program with the expressed goal of losing weight. This was the case for me. And while any sort of vigorous exercise - running included - will help people to burn calories and lose weight, many people find it difficult to stick to an exercise program if the only benefit is on the bathroom scale.
  Published 28Jan2010, viewed 300 times

• Getting the Best Insurance Rates
  Buying insurance can certainly be a hassle. While it would be nice to think that a talking gecko could simply gather what information you would need and easily point the way, the real world is rarely that cut and dried.
  Published 28Mar2010, viewed 234 times

• Buying Gold Online
  In today's current economic environment, individuals and families are desperately looking for ways to diversify their investments and increase their returns, or at the very least keep what funds they do have from losing any further value.
  Published 26Feb2010, viewed 325 times

• The Problem with Payday Loans
  The payday loan store that you see on the street, or the payday loan company that you receive unsolicited emails from may seem like a good idea for those who need a little extra money to get themselves by until their next pay check comes.
  Published 25Feb2010, viewed 228 times

• Interview Tips
  You have managed the first step in your employment search - you have gotten your resume into the hands of someone who controls the hiring for a company you like, and they have agreed to bring you in for an interview
  Published 26Jan2010, viewed 223 times

• Getting the Best Deal on Your Domain Name
  If you want a presence on the internet, your best course of action is to carve out a space for yourself and your company by securing the rights to a domain name that reflects who you are and what you do.
  Published 26Jan2010, viewed 202 times

• How to bid effectively on EBay
  Nevertheless, EBay is still a wonderful web site with an incredible range of products, no matter if you are buying, selling, or simply browsing
  Published 26Jan2010, viewed 506 times

• A Short History of Karate
  Karate or karate-do is a martial art developed in the Japanese territory known as the Ryukyu Islands.
  Published 24Jun2009, viewed 439 times

• Judo History and Origins
  Judo is a modern Japanese martial art and sport. The Japanese word Judo can be translated as "gentle way."
  Published 18Jun2009, viewed 311 times

• The How of Learning an Additional Language
  The most crucial aspect in learning a foreign language is the amount of time you commit to surrounding yourself with it. The more experience you have with the language, the quicker you'll pick it up. This equates to hearing, seeing, using, and scrutinizing the lingo.
  Published 26Aug2008, viewed 317 times

• Some Pointers for Picking up Chinese, Portuguese, French or Spanish
  In today's world, knowing another language or two has become very, very important - even essential in some cases. Foreign communication surrounds most people daily, and people desire to obtain other languages to increase their brain power, grow as people, or for more whimsical reasons.
  Published 25Aug2008, viewed 297 times

• Learning a New Language
  There are a number of reasons to learn a new language. But whether it is to stimulate your intellect, work towards personal growth, travel the world, or whatever else, most people would agree that studying a distant or exotic foreign language takes a considerable amount of time and effort.
  Published 20Aug2008, viewed 302 times

• Western Delaware: A Native American People and Language
  Western Delaware is an updated take of a Southern Unami dialect, taught by the Delaware Tribe of Indians. It is labeled Western because the language was used in the Western region of Oklahoma.
  Published 19Aug2008, viewed 304 times

• Navajo: The Most Popular Native American Language
  Navajo (also spelled Navaho) is an Athabaskan language used in southwest America by the Navajo tribe. Its native name is Diné bizaad. It's unique in that most of the other Athabakan language family members are from the north.
  Published 17Aug2008, viewed 340 times

• You're Never Too Old to Study another Language
  You may have written off learning a foreign language, assuming that it will be very difficult. In this day and age, however, it's actually quite easy, due to a plethora of help and courses that exist.
  Published 31Jul2008, viewed 349 times

• The Written Torah and the Oral Torah
  Classical Judaism holds that there is a dual Torah, consisting of the Torah Sh'b'ktav (the Written Torah) and the Torah Sh'Ba'al Peh (the Oral Torah). Commandments derived from the written Torah are called "d'Oraita" from the Aramaic word meaning "from the Torah."
  Published 30Jul2008, viewed 607 times

• The Caddo Language: Little is Known, But It's Still Important
  Caddo is, understandably, a Caddoan language originating in the Southern Plains. It is the sole Southern tongue from the family and is spoken by very few among the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
  Published 29Jul2008, viewed 610 times

• The Chickasaw Language: Beautiful and Rare
  The Chickasaw language is derived from the Muskogean family and is spoken by Chickasaw inhabitants of Southeastern Oklahoma. It is one of the less common Native American languages, as only about 1,000 individuals speak it today.
  Published 24Jul2008, viewed 618 times

• Learning Choctaw
  Choctaw is a language conventionally spoken by the Choctaw tribe. It is grouped under the Muskogean family and is used by Native Americans in the southeastern U.S.
  Published 22Jul2008, viewed 553 times

• The Cherokee: A Well-Known Tribe
  Like many other languages, the Cherokee tongue is named after its people, the Cherokee. It is classified under the Iroquoian language family, and it is the only Southern one from the group that is still used.
  Published 21Jul2008, viewed 516 times

• The Revelation of Torah at Sinai
  The revelatory experience at Sinai is considered by Jews as the seminal event in the history of the Jewish people.
  Published 18Jul2008, viewed 367 times

• Are there Different Kinds of Jews?
  The primary divisions among Jews beginning in the medieval period were Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Its quite clear however that dividing Jews into only these two categories is incorrect and oversimplification.
  Published 14Jul2008, viewed 505 times

• The Lighting of Candles on the Sabbath
  One of the most well known Jewish practices related to the observance of Shabbat (the Sabbath) is the lighting of oil lamps or candles before its commencement.
  Published 02Jul2008, viewed 586 times

• Learning Brazilian Portuguese
  If you are an American and have ever traveled to the UK, or visa versa, then you understand that American English and British English can sometimes feel like completely different languages.
  Published 30Jun2008, viewed 528 times

• The Bible and Jewish Identity
  The Bible never approaches the subject of Jewish identity quite as directly as the Mishnah and only addresses it circuitously. The patriarch of Abraham for example, the founder of Biblical faith, does not appear until the end of chapter eleven in the book of Genesis, yet others with a relationship with God are mentioned before his appearance.
  Published 29Jun2008, viewed 342 times

• Kabblah and the Divine Name of God
  In the Kabbalah, the divine name of God in Hebrew written in four Hebrew characters YHVH, represents the concept of Midat HaRachamim ( God's Attributes of Mercy).
  Published 27Jun2008, viewed 594 times

• The History of Jewish Intrepretation of the Bible
  One of the principal concerns of classical Jewish thought is the importance of biblical texts and their interpretation.
  Published 25Jun2008, viewed 331 times

• What is a Bar Mitzvah?
  This concept of responsibility for personal actions and more importantly adherence and fidelity to the covenant of Torah was solidified in most Jewish communities as being generally applicable to girls at age twelve and boys at thirteen.
  Published 23Jun2008, viewed 382 times

• Learning Modern Hebrew
  Modern Hebrew is an excellent language to learn if you are interested in studying a beautiful, historic foreign language.
  Published 20Jun2008, viewed 317 times

• What is a Tallit?
  For many, the tallit often referred to as a prayer shawl, is one of the iconic symbols of Judaism. The purpose of the tallit, however is often misunderstood.
  Published 18Jun2008, viewed 473 times

• The Rising Importance of Arabic
  Learning Arabic is an ever increasing skill in today's complicated world. The continuing rise of oil prices and the ongoing political and military instability in the Middle East insures that Arabic speaking countries and particularly those that are oil producing are of tremendous importance.
  Published 05May2008, viewed 394 times

• Why Learning Japanese is Important
  Despite being overshadowed in the news by the economic rise of countries like China and India, Japan remains the second largest economy in the world and hence learning Japanese can be an important skill.
  Published 30Apr2008, viewed 631 times

• The Rise of Portuguese on the World Stage
  Learning Portuguese can be an important skill. Despite being overshadowed by the economic rise of countries like China and India, Portuguese exports of various agricultural products, increased manufacturing, and oil discoveries have strengthened its economy and led Brazil to be the economic powerhouse of South America exceeding Mexico in economic output.
  Published 25Apr2008, viewed 390 times

• The Importance of Learning the Russian Language
  Learning Russian can be an important useful skill. Despite being overshadowed by the economic rise of China, Russian exports of oil have strengthened its economy and led Russia to be the energy producing powerhouse of Europe.
  Published 24Apr2008, viewed 1461 times

• The Continuing Importance of German on the World Stage
  Learning German can be an enjoyable and can be a very useful skill. Despite the rise of China, Germany stands as the fourth largest economy in the world and the economic powerhouse of Europe.
  Published 17Apr2008, viewed 309 times

• The Importance of Learning Mandarin Chinese
  Chinese is the most frequently spoken language in the world with approximately 900 million speakers and is hence one of the key languages in the world culturally and in business.
  Published 14Apr2008, viewed 764 times

• Why Learning Spanish is Important
  Learning Spanish can be a enjoyable and can be a very useful skill. With a growing Hispanic population, Spanish is the second most frequently spoken language in the United States and with up to 500 million speakers, one of the key second languages in the world.
  Published 10Apr2008, viewed 349 times

• Why Learning French is Important
  Learning French can be a lot of fun and can be a very useful skill. After English, French is the second most frequently taught second language in the world. Learning French can open doors to employment in a variety of occupations such as in teaching, translation, interpreting and the travel industry. Learning French greatly improves your chances of success in the job market.
  Published 08Apr2008, viewed 916 times

• Ethiopia: Ancient Churches, Semitic Culture, and the Amharic Language
  In the 1980s Ethiopia was largely known in the international press for two reasons. The first was the tragic famine that occurred in 1984-1985. The second, was the first exodus of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984 and subsequently followed by a second exodus in 1991.
  Published 26Feb2008, viewed 836 times

• Kosovo and the Albanian Language
  The just recently declared independence of the enclave of Kosovo has refocused attention on the various territories of the former Yugoslavia and Albania, and the various languages spoken in the region.
  Published 20Feb2008, viewed 477 times

• The Turkish Language
  The Turkish language is spoken by more than 70 million people throughout the world, making Turkish the most commonly spoken language of Turkic origin. Turkish speakers reside primarily in Turkey, though very significant populations of speakers now reside in Germany with smaller communities existing in Cyprus, Bulgaria, and other parts of Eastern Europe.
  Published 10Feb2008, viewed 503 times

• The Arabic Language
  Modern Arabic has a variety of sub dialects and these various Arabic dialects are spoken throughout the Arab world. Standard Arabic is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world.
  Published 03Feb2008, viewed 624 times

• Latin: An Enduring Classical Language
  The rise of Latin is connected with the rise of the Roman Republic and later with the Roman Empire. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire did not however end its influence.
  Published 30Jan2008, viewed 466 times

• German Around the World
  The German language is a one of the world's major languages. The German language an is closely related to English and Dutch.
  Published 21Jan2008, viewed 572 times

• A History of the Romanian Language
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