User:Sholom

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I have many and extremely varied interests, ranging from Judaism to Ultimate to Genealogy, and, as I live in the DC area, politics, particularly US politics (both current events and history). And more!


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This user is interested in his or her family history.
C++ This user can program in C++.
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This user is Jewish.
This user is interested in the existence of a human soul or spirit.
This user observes the dietary laws of Kashrut.
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This user is from the Commonwealth of Virginia.
This user grew up in the state of New Jersey.
This user is owned by one or more cats.
gtr-2 This user is an intermediate guitarist.
This user enjoys rock music.
This user has an iPod.
This user plays ultimate.
pno-2 This user is an intermediate pianist.
WSH This user is a Washington Nationals fan.
NYM This user is a New York Mets fan.
WSH This user is a Washington Redskins fan.
NYJ This user is a New York Jets fan.
... This user is proud to say that they have kept their amateur procrastinator status intact.
This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
\sum This user is greater than the sum of his or her userboxes.

[edit] Greetings

Today is Wednesday, June 11, 2008. It's 08:20 (UT).

Wikipedia currently has 2,408,089 articles.

[edit] Today's Pic of the Day

Picture of the day
United States Capitol dome, 1846

A daguerreotype of the United States Capitol in 1846, with the original green copper dome as designed by Charles Bulfinch. Over time, extensions to both the north and south wings, made to accommodate the addition of new states to the Union, made the dome aesthetically displeasing, and as a result, it was replaced by a white cast iron dome which was completed in 1866.

Daguerreotype credit: John Plumbe
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[edit] General Editing

[edit] Images, Copyright, Etc.

[edit] Tools

[edit] Policy

[edit] Misc

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[edit] Congressional Templates

See [[Category:Succession templates]], particularly

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  state=Texas |
  district=22 |
  before=[[Ron Paul]] |
  start=1984
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  state=Washington| class=1 |
  before=[[Slade Gorton]] | 
  start=2001 | 
  alongside=[[Patty Murray]] |
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Preceded by
Ron Paul		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 22nd congressional district
1984 – present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Slade Gorton		 United States Senator (Class 1) from Washington
2001-present
Served alongside: Patty Murray		 Succeeded by
incumbent

Also:

[edit] External Links: 2006 Election

These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election. If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!

[edit] Reference Templates

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Two columns for references?

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[edit] To Do List

He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [3] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty. It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- Sholom 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

[edit] various 'landmarks'

[edit] some articles I created

[edit] Parsha of the Week

Weekly Torah Portion
Behaalotecha (בהעלותך)
Numbers 8:1–12:16
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 11 Sivan, 5768; June 14, 2008
“Is there a limit to the Lord’s power?” (Numbers 11:23.)
the lampstand, or menorah
the lampstand, or menorah
God told Moses to tell Aaron to mount the seven lamps so as to give light to the front of the lampstand in the Tabernacle, and Aaron did so.

God told Moses to cleanse the Levites by sprinkling on them water of purification, and making them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes. Moses was to assemble the Israelites around the Levites and cause the Israelites to lay their hands upon the Levites. Aaron was to designate the Levites as an elevation offering from the Israelites. The Levites were then to lay their hands in turn upon the heads of two bulls, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make expiation for the Levites. Thereafter, the Levites were qualified for the service of the Tent of Meeting, in place of the firstborn of the Israelites. God told Moses that Levites aged 25 to 50 were to work in the service of the Tent of Meeting, but after age 50 they were to retire and could stand guard but not perform labor.

At the beginning of the second year following the Exodus from Egypt, God told Moses to have the Israelites celebrate Passover at its set time. But some men were unclean because they had had contact with a corpse and could not offer the Passover sacrifice on the set day. They asked Moses and Aaron how they could participate in Passover, and Moses told them to stand by while he listened for God’s instructions. God told Moses that whenever Israelites were defiled by a corpse or on a long journey on Passover, they were to offer the Passover offering on the 14th day of the second month — a month after Passover — otherwise in strict accord with the law of the Passover sacrifice. But if a man who was clean and not on a journey refrained from offering the Passover sacrifice, he was to be cut off from his kin.

Starting the day that the Tabernacle was set up, a cloud covered the Tabernacle by day, and a fire rested on it by night. Whenever the cloud lifted from the Tent, the Israelites would follow it until the cloud settled, and there the Israelites would make camp and stay as long as the cloud lingered.

God told Moses to have two silver trumpets made to summon the community and to set it in motion. Upon long blasts of the two horns, the whole community was to assemble before the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. Upon the blast of one, the chieftains were to assemble. Short blasts directed the divisions encamped on the east to move forward, and a second set of short blasts directed those on the south to move forward. As well, short blasts were to be sounded when the Israelites were at war against an aggressor who attacked them, and the trumpets were to be sounded on joyous occasions, festivals, new moons, burnt offerings, and sacrifices of well-being.

In the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle and the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai to the wilderness of Paran. Moses asked his father-in-law (here called Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite) to come with the Israelites, promising to be generous with him, but he replied that he would return to his native land. Moses pressed him again, noting that he could serve as the Israelites’ guide.

They marched three days distance from Mount Sinai, with the Ark of the Covenant in front of them, and God’s cloud above them by day. When the Ark was to set out, Moses would say: “Advance, O Lord! May Your enemies be scattered, and may Your foes flee before You!” And when it halted, he would say: “Return, O Lord, You who are Israel’s myriads of thousands!”

The people took to complaining bitterly before God, and God ravaging the outskirts of the camp with fire until Moses prayed to God, and then the fire died down.
quail
quail
The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving and the Israelites complained, “If only we had meat to eat! Moses in turn complained to God, “Why have You . . . laid the burden of all this people upon me? God told Moses to gather 70 elders, so that God could come down and put some of the spirit that rested on Moses upon them, so that they might share the burden of the people. And God told Moses to tell the people to purify themselves, for the next day they would eat meat. But Moses questioned how enough flocks, herds, or fish could be found to feed 600,000. God answered: “Is there a limit to the Lord’s power?”

Moses gathered the 70 elders, and God came down in a cloud, spoke to Moses, and drew upon the spirit that was on Moses and put it upon the elders. When the spirit rested upon them, they spoke in ecstasy, but did not continue. Eldad and Medad had remained in camp, yet the spirit rested upon them, and they spoke in ecstasy in the camp. When a youth reported to Moses that Eldad and Medad were acting the prophet in the camp, Joshua called on Moses to restrain them. But Moses told Joshua: “Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, that the Lord put His spirit upon them!”

A wind from God then swept quail from the sea and strewed them all around the camp, and the people gathered quail for two days. While the meat was still between their teeth, God struck the people with a plague.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, saying: “He married a Cushite woman!” and “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” God heard and called Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to come to the Tent of Meeting. God came down in cloud and called out to Aaron and Miriam: “When a prophet of the Lord arises among you, I make Myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. Not so with My servant Moses; he is trusted throughout My household. With him I speak mouth to mouth, plainly and not in riddles, and he beholds the likeness of the Lord. How then did you not shrink from speaking against My servant Moses!” As the cloud withdrew, Miriam was stricken with snow-white scales. Moses cried out to God, “O God, pray heal her!” But God said to Moses, “If her father spat in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of camp for seven days.” And the people waited until she rejoined the camp.

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Commentary from Conservative Judaism by the Jewish Theological Seminary
Commentary from Conservative Judaism by the American Jewish University
Commentary from Reform Judaism
Commentaries from Orthodox Judaism by Project Genesis
Commentaries from Orthodox Judaism by Chabad.org
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Commentaries from Reconstructionist Judaism