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MBD & Copyrights- The True Version

Origination of the phrase Keeping up with the Joneses Keeping up with the Joneses … George Herriman's The Family Upstairs, where Krazy Kat rose to fame — they were never seen either, but were merely referred to in the title, not named.) The stars of the Jones strip were the McGinises (husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, housemaid Belladonna). They were the ones trying to keep up. The McGinis family's struggle began in 1916, when cartoonist Arthur R. "Pop" Momand launched the strip in Joseph Pulitzer's paper, The New York World. Its focus wasn't as narrow as the title implied. It was simply a domestic comedy, along the lines of Bringing Up Father (which its art style superficially resembled) or Toots & Casper. (The modern equivalent would be FoxTrot or Moose & Molly. ) It's just that their neighbors, the Joneses, were referred to from time to time, usually as objects of envy, and even this became less prevalent in the strip's l...

Rabbi Hutner z"l

The Lost History of Shabbat Lake By Jeff Green A document recently surfaced at the headquarters of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) in Toronto that points to the existence of a synagogue near what is now the Jehovah’s Witness building just south of Sharbot Lake. The document is a bill of sale, dated April 1, 1848, transferring a parcel of land for the "purposes of the construction of a religious building" to a committee headed by a Vintel Ashkenza and a Phievel Badorovsky, both immigrant refugees from persecution in what is now Poland. Believed to be Victor Ashkana In the Canadian Jewish Congress archives there was also a description of the building, thought to be the first synagogue in eastern Ontario, which was constructed between 1850 and 1852. It was "a five sided structure in what might be called a rustic gothic style." There is also an account of the dedication ceremony, which took place on September 27 in 1852. When contacted, a Hebrew scholar, Baruch Bross...

Harav Eliezer Menachem Mann Shach z"l Before and After

Yeshivish Marriage proposal - circa 2006

Menachem Begin plotted to kill Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign secretary in 1946. The Sunday Times March 05, 2006 Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London JEWISH terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel. Begin, whom MI6 believed was backed by the Soviet Union, planned to send five terrorist cells to Britain to carry out bombings and assassinations that would “beat the dog in his own kennel”. The Jewish insurgents aimed to force British occupying forces out of Palestine, enabling the founding of the Jewish state. Details of the plot are included in MI5 files released at the National Archives in Kew, London. Lord Bethell, author of The Palestine Triangle and an expert on Soviet intelligence, sai...

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