Dear Friends, As Iran completes her bomb, and America and her allies look the other way, one cannot help being reminded of the days preceding the Holocaust. Many Jews and other good people living in safety did nothing to help the Jews of Europe. Afterwards, they felt ashamed. I cannot tell anyone what to do.…
It’s very, very easy to add YouTube videos to this site. The first step is to register. Then sign in and click the Videos menu item. You’ll see an Add Videos Tab. Click the Tab and follow the (simple, quick) directions. You’ll be helping us add to our library of Kosher YouTube videos in no…
It seems of late our human audience has been competing with Hungry Robots (BOTS) for band width. When we least expect it web-crawling BOTS begin slurping our videos and grabbing our band width which can cause overloads and slow down your enjoyment of KosherTube Videos. We think they may be Google BOTS but are not…
KosherTube is the official website of the Electronic Torah Educational Foundation Inc. (US), and the Riverdale Jewish Community Centre (Canada). It is a registered charity not for profit with the CRA (BN# 87690 3964 RR0001). KosherTube was established in 2007 by Rabbi David Ostriker and Dr. Michael Kigel. The Website went online November 25, 2008.…
Allen Booth is the creative designer/developer of KosherTube. But Allen is more than a techie he has become an adviser and a confidant. I know may more about Yiddishkeit than Allen, but I suspect he knows more about you. This morning he told me it was time to begin to write a weekly paragraph or…
Tefillin and Phylacteries were two of the ten most-GOOGLED words last week. I assume our readers know the story of: Jewish Teen’s Tefillin Diverts US Airways Flight 3709 From LaGuardia The flight landed in Philadelphia and was met by police, bomb-sniffing dogs and officials from the FBI and Transportation Security Administration. The media are having…
“There were no holidays as joyous for the Jewish People as the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur …” (Mishnah, Taanit) (Much of the material in this section is adapted with permission from the Book of Our Heritage by Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov.) “Tu B’Av” – The Fifteenth of Av Nowadays, on the Fifteenth of Av,…
