Yearly Archives: 2016


Parkoffletter Internet Sites

http://parkoffletter.com   An historical travel blog, where  you travel both in history and in place. It is not meant to be a Caribbean cruise but a true exploration of the past and the present. http://hardball.parkoffletter.org    American Constitutional Issues, the misuse of governmental power, and the misuse of corporate wealth.  How does misuse of power hurt a country? and how may it be repaired? http://water.parkoffletter.org   All facets of water use […]


President Putin on Why the Jews Have Survived

President Putin Told Rav Yitzchak Yosef Why The Jews Have Survived While All Others Have Vanished (Friday, June 24th, 2016 09:30 AM) 10 SHARES Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedInShare to Email Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita during a recent shiur explained to participants that a period of time ago, he attended a rabbinical conference in Moscow. He stated he was asked to give a shiur, […]


Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts

Faulkner, R.O. : Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Oxford University Press – Oxford, 1969, p.9, utterance 43. Faulkner was a British Egyptologist who studied under Alan Gardiner: Faulkner developed an interest in Egyptology, and in 1918 he took to studying Egyptian hieroglyphs in his spare time at University College London under the tutelage of Margaret Murray. In 1926 he became the full-time assistant to Dr Alan Gardiner, from whom […]


מניין שהיה לפרעה תפילין

  מניין שהיה לפרעה תפילין?  שנאמר: ושמת את הנשר ואת הנחש על ראשך, למען ידעו כל מצריים שאתה המושל והשליט : וכל זר לא תלבש בו Translation: From where do we know that Pharoah wore Tefillin? As it says, and you shall put the eagle and the snake on your head, in order that all of The Egyptians  will know that you are the ruler and unmistakable head […]


New citizenship law has Jews flocking to tiny Portugal city

Turkish Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva, right, talking to congregants outside Kadoorie – Mekor Haim synagogue in Porto, Portugal, Jan. 29, 2016 (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA) Writers Home > Jewish Times New citizenship law has Jews flocking to tiny Portugal city Three hundred applications have been approved, but with recent elections over, that figure is set to incease By Cnaan Liphshiz February 12, 2016, 6:24 am 9 PORTO, Portugal (JTA) — […]