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Israel / Business and Economy / Chessed and Tzedaka

First Israeli Nonprofit Bank to Provide Life-Changing Loans as a ‘National Mission’

By Eliana Rudee

"We are here to help those enterprises and people who are not appealing for the financial system."

Israel / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy

PA Partially Pays Electric Bill, Reduces Half-Billion Dollar Debt to Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The debt reached approximately half a billion dollars before the PA began paying some of it off

Featured / Israel / The Courts / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy

High Court Blocks IEC From Disconnecting PA's Electricity Despite Massive Debt

By JNi.Media

The Palestinian Authority's accumulated unpaid bills have risen to over 2.2 billion shekels.

Halacha & Hashkafa

The Laws Of Debt Collection (Bava Metzia 113a)

By Raphael Grunfeld

When it comes to the payment of debts, halacha, like other systems of law, struggles with two competing concerns.

Op-Eds

My Debt To Lippman Bodoff

By Michael Feldstein

A paean to a teacher, friend, and mentor.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Business and Economy / Judea & Samaria

Agreement Reached on PA $530 Million Electricity Debt

By JNi.Media

The agreement places full responsibility for electric bills collection on the PA, which in the past rejected its responsibility for the debt.

Parsha

The Debt Of Pidyon Haben

By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs

The Vilna Gaon argues that that there is even more reason to permit doing pidyon haben via a shliach since pidyon haben is essentially repaying a debt.

Goldstein on Gelt

How to Avoid Drowning in Student Loan Debt

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Find out how to get out of debt, what “side hustles” are, and how they can help you improve your financial situation.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Religion

Shmita News: Knesset Committee Approves Bill to Erase Debts of the Destitute

By JNi.Media

A new “Shmita Law,” releasing more than 20 thousand Israelis who are too poor to meet their debt obligations, will now go to a vote in the Knesset.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / South America

Argentine Prez Cristina Kirchner Doesn’t Get Why her Shylock Comment Angers Jews

By JNi.Media

The 'Shylock' is Jewish Billionaire Paul Singer, whom Kirchner has actually accused of behaving like a vulture — for insisting Argentina pay him back the $1.5 billion they owe him.

US / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

While the US Is Aiding Abbas, the EU Says He's Crooked

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Abbas is a master schnoorer. The US forked over another $!48 million to Ramallah, which is peanuts to the $2.7 billion the EU says it wasted. Abbas has no money to pay workers – again – and blames Israel.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Is Obama Listening? Israel’s Debt Shrinks by 30 Percent

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israeli government’s deficit shrank by 30 percent, from $5.7 billion in the first nine months of 2013  to only $4 billion in the same period this year, Globes reported on Monday. September’s deficit was only $250 million. The deficit for the past 12 months represents 3.2 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), slightly […]

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Tale of 2 Debts: Moody’s OKs Israel’s A1 Rating; US Sinks in Red

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hang on to your shekels. The Israeli economy is stable and Moody's okays its A1 debt rating. But in US, one economist says America’s debt is understated by 75 percent and is $70 trillion.

Daniel Greenfield

The Left: Getting Rich by Fighting for the Poor

By Daniel Greenfield

Like Chavez, Obama presides over a poorer country whose poor are convinced that he is the only thing standing between them and absolute poverty.

Goldstein on Gelt

Hiding Money From Your Spouse

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Approximately 20 percent of British citizens have debts that they have not disclosed to their partners.

Tales of the Gaonim

Love Of Fellow Jews

By Rabbi Sholom Klass

The kinship and love between Jews is one of the cardinal principles and hallmarks of Judaism and none could match Rav Eliezer-Lippa, father of the two great chassidic leaders Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk and Reb Zusha of Hanipoli, when it came to this particular characteristic.

Goldstein on Gelt

Three Ways That Your Pension May be Spent Before It Enters Your Bank Account

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

When saving for retirement, you may feel secure because you’re putting aside earnings into a pension plan. However, what you may not realize is that some of that money is going to be spent even before it reaches your bank account.

Goldstein on Gelt

Romney Can’t and Obama Won’t Do What America Needs (Podcast Pt. II)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Romney may say the right things, but will he really be able to affect change? And Obama says… and does… the wrong things, and he has no reason to change. Democrats complain that Romney has no sympathy for the unemployment problem. Here is part II of Douglas Goldstein's radio show.

Goldstein on Gelt

Romney Can’t and Obama Won’t Do What America Needs (Podcast Pt. I)

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Douglas Goldstein interviews former Chief Economist for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Harvard professor Ken Rogoff on the American debt crisis.

Op-Eds

Moody's 2012 Report and Israel

By Yoram Ettinger

While recognizing pitfalls of the Israeli economy such as Israel's significant social and political problems as well as a slowdown in growth, Moody's 2012 credit report seems to have more confidence in israel's economy relative to the G-20 advanced countries.

Sultan Knish

Universal Education or Universal Competence?

By Daniel Greenfield

Politicians take for granted that education is the road to empowerment and equality. Obama has read poems off his teleprompter about the wonders of education as the only means of ensuring "our" children's future. There is nothing revolutionary about that. Every politician takes it for granted that education means empowerment. But does it really?

News Briefs

Makor Rishon to Buy Maariv?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Globes is reporting that Shlomo Ben-Zvi, one of the owners of the religious Israeli newspaper, Makor Rishon, is in advanced talks with Maariv owner Nochi Dankner to buy the Maariv newspaper. The report said that Ben-Zvi doesn't plan to buy the debt of the paper, just the assets, including the Maariv brand name and control. The deal is […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

My Big Fat Jewish Wedding

By Harry Maryles

צאנז 111 from bhol on Vimeo. Not being a Chasid of his (or Chasid of any kind) I don’t really know much about the Munkatcher Rebbe. But if he is like most other Chasidic Rebbes, he will have a huge blowout of a wedding next Monday for his grandson - similar to the one in […]

Moshe Feiglin

Social Insecurity

By Moshe Feiglin

More than any other reason, “social justice” killed Moshe Silman. Here’s why: Who confiscated his truck and for what purpose? Social security. After all, what is social security, if not the mechanism established by the state to ensure so-called social justice? It is an institution authorized to take from the “haves” and give to the “have-nots.” And from whom will the Institute for Social Justice take if not from the owner of a moving company? And to whom will it give the value of the truck? To the tycoons? Of course not. It will give the truck’s value to the have-nots, or to those who know how to hide what they have.

Analysis

Monetizing Debt: A Historically Disastrous Policy

By Lawrence Kadish

Few understand better than the Germans how economic self-destruction can bring a nation and the world to the edge of abyss. The crushing debt imposed on them at the end of World War I led to unprecedented hyperinflation as they monetized their obligations, running their printing presses to create millions of worthless marks.

Goldstein on Gelt

Three Reasons Why You Should Not Help Your Children Buy a Home or Apartment

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

What is the greatest present that you can give your children when they get married? In certain communities, the answer is, “an apartment.” Many parents take on second or third mortgages, sell their own homes, or bury themselves in debt to make sure that an apartment comes along with the trousseau.

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

French Jewry Leader: Hollande Victory a Boost to Anti-Israel Front

By Jacob Edelist

Following his victory Sunday, the 57-year-old François Hollande shouted himself hoarse, as he had done so often during the campaign, thanking his supporters for electing him president and promising to unite the whole country. But Richard Prasquier, President of the Jewish-French organizations, says one of the changes the Hollande presidency brings is a boost to the anti-Israel left.

News Briefs

Sarkozy in Neck and Neck Fight with Socialist Challenger

By Jewish Press News Desk

A sluggish economy and a rising popular hostility to conservative President Nicolas  Sarkozy's "American" style do not bode well for the French incumbent in the coming Sunday vote. Add to that the grim international view of France's ability to manage its debt, and it is clear that Sarkozy is in the uphill battle of his […]

Uncategorized

Barack Obama's 2012 New Year's Resolutions

By dvora

Obama will eliminate Welfare by requiring all poor people to move in with rich people.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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