http://mezuzahstore.com/blog by Rabbi Aaron Shaffier - Certified Torah Scribe Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:42:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to The Lansey Brothers' Blog http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/04/mezuzah-at-google-tel-aviv/ Some of you may have tried to visit our site in the last 12 hours or so and found that the site was down.  We had a really horrible experience with our web hosting company.  When we realized that the site was down, we contacted customer support right away.  It ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/07/were-back/ You will be happy to hear that the Israeli athletes at the Olympic village will have Mezuzahs on their door.  Rabbi Freundlach of Chabad-Beijing affixed them this week.  The Rabbi also is making sure that there will be kosher food available at all times at Dini's Kosher Restaurant, situated near ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/06/mezuzahs-at-the-olympics/ On Sunday I posted about my little project to take over the Google search results for terms like "Printable Mezuzah".   My goal was that people who are searching for a printable Mezuzah scroll would end up on a page on my site that explains why it is so important to ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/05/printable-mezuzah-scroll-update/ Its coming up on a year since we moved here to Tekoa, Israel.  The longer I am here the more I realize how amazing Tekoa is.  I have really been wanting to build a website dedicated to Tekoa.  I have been very busy this year and haven't had the time ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/04/tekoa/ Could this too be a product of the tough economy?  Lately I have noticed that a lot of people reach our website searching for terms like "free printable mezuzah" or "printable mezuzah scroll".  Of course, we don't have any such item to offer because we very much believe that every ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/03/free-printable-mezuzah/ But I just think it is very cool.  Take a look at my Judaism knol and you will see a very interesting conversation going on in the comments.  This is the kind of thing that I love about the internet. I even started a Knol Blog today on blogger.  Can't wait ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/28/knol-blog/ Google just came out with a new service called Knol.  It seems their idea is to make a sort of Wikipedia that is written by individual authors instead of by community collaboration.  With Wikipedia, there can only be one ariticle on any given subject, and it is the job ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/26/excited-about-knols/ Last week I launched this Mezuzah Planet project. I knew from the start that the most difficult part of it would be to get the first few post.  Of course nobody wants to be the first.  That's why I made a contest to win a $108 gift certificate. After a ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/17/jewish-antisemitism/ From time to time, I like to look through the statistics for our website.  I keep on top of how people find us.  If it is from Google or if it is from some other page that links to us etc.  Today I was going through the stats and I ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/mezuzahstorecom-has-enemies-imagine-that/ That is what the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.  The ruling came in a case where Lynne Bloch of Chicago, put up a Mezuzah on the door to  her condo.  The home owners association at Shoreline Towers said that it was a violation of their rule ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/11/jews-have-no-right-to-put-up-mezuzahs-in-the-usa/ I was looking over our order history since we started back in 2004.  I realized that we have literally covered the planet with Mezuzahs.  People all over the globe have bought Mezuzahs from us.  I started picturing this image of the Earth covered in Mezuzahs.  Then I came accross some ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/10/mezuzah-planet/ I don't know how I overlooked this one!  This story is from more than a year ago but was too interesting to ignore.  When I read the headline of this story from the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, I was sure that they were going to say that somehow the cops ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/07/the-mezuzah-and-the-marijuana-raid/ I recently came across this post at a blog called Kintropy in Action Last week, I finally got around to hanging the Mezuzahs around the house. We've only been living here 6 years, and we bought the Mezuzahs 4 years ago. So last week, the day before we were interviewed by ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/07/30-days-to-put-up-mezuzahs/ MezuzahStore.com now has a new Jewish Link Directory.  If you have a site of Jewish interest, you can post a link to it in our directory so that our visitors can benefit from it. We are being very selective about what links we accept.  In order to qualify, your site must ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/28/jewish-link-directory/ More and more, I am noticing Judaica products that are made in China or India.  Another thing that I am noticing is items made by Israeli companies that are actually manufactured in the Far East (much as you might by a Whirlpool dishwasher that was made in China). I am not ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/28/made-in-israel/ Reb Gutman Locks at Mystical Paths writes the following:' A friend of mine, Daniel, was learning in a yeshiva in Brooklyn. He was having a problem and thought that maybe Rabbi Ben Tov could look as his mezuzah and tell him what he should change in his life. He took the ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/26/youve-heard-of-palm-readingbut-what-about-mezuzah-reading/ Since we started our website a few years ago, some of our best sellers have been Mezuzahs made from Jerusalem stone.  Mezuzahs like the Kotel Mezuzah or the Land of Israel Mezuzah have been favorites of our customers for years. Recently, we got in six new products from the same manufacturer.  ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/26/jerusalem-stone-mezuzahs/ Our friend Morah Leah has a great new children's CD. Morah Leah is my neighbor here in Tekoa, Israel and she gave us a copy of this CD a few weeks ago. My kids haven't stopped listening since. I thought it would be a good idea to ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/03/jewish-children-cd/ You may have heard that Israeli Astronaut, Ilan Ramon took a Mezuzah and other Jewish items with him into space on the the fatal mission of Columbia in 2003. Now Jewish Astronaut, Gregory Chamitoff is planning on affixing a Mezuzah to the door post leading to his quarters on the shuttle ... http://mezuzahstore.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/15/mezuzah-in-space-take-two/