Jay S. Lapidus

Zichron Avraham Yehudah

In Memory of our beloved son, Avraham Yehudah ("Avi") Lapidus, 1990-2006.

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Articles By or About Yours Truly

• Move Forward on the Iran Nuclear Deal, Hartford Courant, July 30, 2015
• Rebuttal to John Podhoretz, Commentary, May 2010
• Two letters supporting Israel's Gaza operations, May 2004
• "Under God" and the Pledge, published NY Times letter.
• The Diallo Verdict. The Hartford Courant recognized this letter as one of the "60 best" letters of the year.
• Rebuttal of a Jewish Ledger editorial re driver's licenses and voting, Nov. 16, 2007.
• CT Jewish Ledger's Cheap Shot at Democrats, July 1, 2005.
• Democrats Should Stand Against Bankruptcy Bill, published in The Hartford Courant, Nov. 15, 2002.

• Two letters supporting Israel's Gaza operations, May 2004
• "Nonviolent Message Ignored": Rev. King for Israel, not Homicide Bombers, published 1/31/03, Courant (scroll down to the 3rd letter).
  
• Not "occupied territories" but DISPUTED territories, an unpublished response to PLO propagandist Tarazi's op-ed in The Washington Post, 6/21/02, reprinted in The Hartford Courant.
• Norway's Morally Bankrupt Silence: My correspondence with the Norwegian Embassy about the anti-Israel boycott.
• Response to yet another, foolish Hartford Courant preachment on Israel, May 6, 2002.
• Terrorists Deserve the Blame (4/20/02).
• Various letters to the Editor re Israel, the 2000 presidential election.

• Dr. Kevorkian Versus Jewish Ethics
• The October Dilemma: You can't solve the "December Dilemma" until you deal with the "October Dilemma."
• "I Saw My Rabbi at a Treyf Restaurant" - My reply to "Ask Wendy" of the Forward.
• What We Can Learn From the "Yale Four": Preserving Our Own Rights
• Must the President be a Moral Leader?: What we can learn from King David, Clinton and Reagan about moral leadership.
• The Wicked Son
  
• Eulogy for Yitzhak Rabin: My remarks at a memorial service on Long Island.
• Forgetting Yizkor: What happened to the "Yizkor Jews"?
• In Memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: January 1998
• Religious Attitudes of Jewish Teens: A Comparison with Parents
• Published letter to the Jewish Press, Aug. 2002, and the JP's response. They always have to get the last word!
• Silent Terror: Slavery in Mauritania, Sudan and elsewhere. Record-Journal.

The following Record-Journal articles are (temporarily?) not available:

• Distortions Against Israel: A reply to E. Fitch's column attacking Israel on her 50th anniversary, (Meriden) Record-Journal, May 1998.
• Mr. Clinton: Please Step Aside, and the House Republican leadership should all resign as well, (Meriden) Record-Journal, Sept. 1998.

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Halachic Organ Donation Society

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Jewish and Israeli News and Opinion

Ha'aretz in English
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The (New York) Jewish Week
Israel Government Press Office
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Israel, Washington, DC.
Southern New England Jewish Ledger
The Forward, an independent Jewish weekly

• J Street: Pro Israel, pro peace, pro democracy
• New Israel Fund
• The Anti-Defamation League
• The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian,Turkish, Urdu-Pashtu media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.
• Jewish Internet Association, a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing truthful, positive information to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity on the Internet.
• Baltimore Jewish Times which has more links to Jewish sites under 'Cyberspot.'
• The International Coalition for Israeli MIAs
• Jewish Agency for Israel

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Jewish Educational Resources

• Mechon Mamre: Bible, Talmud, Midrash and more online.
• Online Sefarim
• Words Can Heal, campaign against lashon hara, gossip, slander, tale-bearing, hurtful speech.
• CHAI Lifeline
• National Association of Chevra Kadisha
• CLAL - -The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
• Edah: "The Courage to Modern and Orthodox"
• Gates to Jewish Heritage, a comprehensive Jewish website by Rabbi David E. Lipman.
• Prof. Eliezer Segal has a fine Jewish site.
• Judaism 101 has a fine introduction to Judaism site.
• Jewish Mourner's Handbook by Rabbi Ron H. Isaacs and Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky.
• Jewish Law: Examining Halacha, Jewish Issues and Secular Law.
• Ellie's Torah Trope Tutor: Torah, Haftarah, and Megillot cantillation.
• Prof. Marc Brettler's home page, an excellent resource for Jewish Bible studies. Also, info about Jewish Boston.
• jadio.org 24/7 Jewish streaming audio site providing lectures and discussions by leading scholars.

• Conversion to Judaism Home Page: Dr. Larry Epstein's guide to conversion.
• Outreach Judaism: Rabbi Tovia Singer exposes the so-called "Jews for Jesus" and "Messianic Judaism."
• RussianAncestors.com is the primary Internet source connecting researchers of Russian Jewish ancestors worldwide.
• Shamash Home Page: Divrei Torah, kosher data-base, and other resources.
• More Jewish search lists.

• The Jewish Communication Network: More Jewish internet resources.
• The Jews of Cuba.

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Advocacy

• The Nizkor Project, dedicated to the nearly twelve million victims ruthlessly destroyed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime.
• Simon Wiesenthal Center rebuts antisemitic propaganda from "revisionists," the NOI, etc.
• The Southern Poverty Law Center fights the KKK and other racists.
• SPLC Hate Watch, a web based not for profit that monitors the evolving problem of online bigotry.
• Network For Good supporting terrorism and disaster victims.

• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• Melanoma Education Fund, in memory of David N. Fine, Peabody, MA, who died of melanoma at age 26.
• Ari Grashin Memorial

• The American Anti-Slavery Group, Inc.
• International Jewish Prisoner Services tends to the religious needs of Jewish correctional inmates.

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Et Cetera

• Rivkah Lapidus, artist, psychotherapist, sister
• Larry Teren's Baby Boomer Stories blog
• American Income Life Insurance Insurance Co., a 100% union company serving working families since 1951.

• 2009 Internet Browser Software Review Product Comparisons
• Gibson Research Corporation has excellent, Internet security freeware.
• Review: Free Antivirus Software
• WinPlanet: Software Downloads and Reviews for the Small Business
• Reviews of DSL internet providers.

• Logical Fallacies Handlist
• Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies

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