The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post –http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ There are many contributors to the Huffington Post. They have their paid staff and then contributing bloggers. This blog has about 54 million unique monthly visitors making it the number 1 most popular blog according to eBizmba.com.   The blog covers politics, world news, live news, entertainment news, comedy, technology, business, healthy living and media topics and other life related topics. The front page of the blog looks like the front page of a newspaper. It is very organized and clearly defined. There is a headline story and then 3 columns of various topics to choose from, relevant to current affairs. It is a simple and familiar layout, which is easily browsed.  Each story topic has a brief description and photo to click on which bring you to the entire story.  It is a smart and well thought out traditional approach to disseminating news. The layout looks like a traditional newspaper and the delivery is the latest resource for viewing information online. Its content is very targeted to the audience, obviously since is is rated the most popular blog on the internet. 

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John Kammin Religious News 2013

Ex-pope Benedict says God told him to resign during ‘mystical experience’

Pope Francis’s predecessor breaks silence to contradict explanation he gave to cardinals when he stepped down

Breaking his silence for the first time since he became the first pope to step down in 600 years, the 86-year-old reportedly said: “God told me to” when asked what had pushed him to retire to a secluded residence in the Vatican gardens.

Benedict denied he had been visited by an apparition or had heard God’s voice, but said he had undergone a “mystical experience” during which God had inspired in him an “absolute desire” to dedicate his life to prayer rather than push on as pope.

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John Kammin 2013 Sports News

Phillies end Dodgers’ 10-game winning streak

 

 

And then the strangest thing happened.

The Dodgers lost.

It’s true, it happened. There were witnesses and everything.

The Dodgers proved all too human Sunday, a pair of Hanley Ramirez errors in the ninth inning allowing the Phillies to score the winning run and salvage the finale of a three-game series with a 3-2 victory.

The loss snapped all kinds of Dodgers streaks: winning 10 straight, 12 consecutive victories in one-run games and 30 wins in a row when scoring first.

That’s how things had been going with the Dodgers for almost two months now. They constantly found different ways to pull out close victories, so even when the Phillies tied the score, 2-2, in the sixth inning, it was hard not to feel they would find a way to come back.

Manager Don Mattingly rested four regulars Sunday, including Adrian Gonzalez, starting Jerry Hairston Jr. at first base.

Hairston could not come up with a poor throw from Ramirez in the ninth inning, the ball apparently nipping the lip of the grass and coming up awkwardly on one hop. Hairston could not handle the hop and Ramirez was charged with error No. 1.

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2013 Leib Tropper Lecture

Leib Tropper 2013 Lecture

 

 

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2013 Leib Tropper Lecture

Rabbi Leib Tropper was invited by a number of Kol Yaakov Alumni who live in Brooklyn to deliver a lecture. This Lecture Took place on April 14 this Year.

Rabbi Leib Tropper delivered his lecture on the Topic titled ‘The
Jewish Ghetto; Is it the key to Jewish Survival’?

Rabbi Leib Tropper opened up the lecture thanking the sponsors of the lecture and expressing his gratitude for the opportunity to share some torah Ideas with them.

Rabbi Leib Tropper began his lecture With the question ‘Isn’t The Land of Israel a big jewish Ghetto’? After going through a brief tour of the European ghettos and the American centers of Torah Judaism, Rabbi Leib Tropper declared that one of the components that protect jewish values and maintain the eternity of the jewish people is the jewish ghetto.

All people are vulnerable to ‘Other’ influences. Jews no less. The temptation to dedicate one’s life to the vulgar pursuit of wealth is the strongest indicator of spiritual malaise.

Though there are divergent approaches to a ‘Torah Rich’ life, it is the consensus amongst orthodox  thinkers that the pursuit of wealth is the kryptonite that causes spiritual Impotence in a search for a ‘Torah rich’ life.

Spirituality requires ‘thinking big’ and living with a wide vision without the consequences of myopia which leads to an alien focus on money, status and power.

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