"Kaddish, extreme edition"--does anybody know what this means?

From Jewish News of Northern California:

All his life, Leon Charney had uttered the Kaddish. By rote.

He davened from the amud alot?

Then, when his mother died, Charney opted for the Mourner’s Kaddish, extreme edition, reciting it several times a day with a minyan for a year. The experience got him wondering why the prayer has proven so central to Jewish life.

Charney’s inquiry resulted in "The Mystery of the Kaddish," a bestselling book he co-wrote with Israeli journalist Saul Mayzlish. On Nov. 29, Charney will speak about the book and the prayer at Berkeley’s Jewish Community Center of the East Bay.

For a man known for his work as a Middle East peace negotiator, talk show host and philanthropist, this intimate quest to understand the Kaddish might seem out of character. It wasn’t.

I mean, a quest to understand Kaddish would be understandable, but an intimate quest?

"What I learned," he said from his New York office, "is that this integral prayer, brought about by rabbinical Judaism, has kept the Jewish people together for 2,000 years. The whole idea is minyan, and minyan is community." [...]

So it's the same concept as shmaltz herring?

Tags: Judiasm, Kaddish, Jews

This kinda says it all

Here.

So does this.

Tags: terror, Israel, Palestinians, Pakistan

IRIB Radio: "Ahmadinejad: Fossil Fuels have not found their place in the world yet"

IRIB Radio always gives him the title "Doctor" for some reason. Anyway, it's sad about the fossil fuels. Hope you find your place in the world soon!

Iranian President Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: OPEC is under heavy political and economic pressures and for this reason fossil fuels have not found their place in the world yet. According to IRNA, speaking on Saturday on his way to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, he pointed to the 3rd OPEC summit to open in Riyadh today evening, saying: The pressure on the fossil energy market is not uncalled for or artificial, and the price for this energy is lower than what it really should be.

Tags: Ahmadinejad, fossil fuels

A strangely familiar joke

Here.

Tags: old jokes, Judaizing

Howard Dean: "Kol Yisrael yeish lahem cheilek le'olam haba"

Here.

Hat Tip: Lucianne.com

Tags: Howard Dean, Olam Haba

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Gratuitous link to my other blog.

Massad denied tenure?

Hat tip: Martin Kramer

Tags: Massad, Columbia, tenure