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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Mishneh Torah

Hi Fintor. Glad you saw my extensions of the Mishneh Torah article! I would recommend not including links in the article (like you did there), but to add them to "External links". The only exception is links that function as references (ie without a body text). JFW | T@lk 19:21, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Talmud and Orthodox Judaism

Hi Fintor. My compliments on your judicious edits of the above. There are some problems with these and some related articles, and I was wondering what your thoughts were on the matter:

  • Some are very badly structured
  • Some contain POV fossils that nobody has bothered to remove
  • Some are reflections of religious fervor rather than an attempt at gathering encyclopedic knowledge
  • The external links are often used to introduce POVed material instead of using the body text
  • They are being edited continually by a large number of people who employ varying terminology, effectively leading to chaos

Would you see any blessing in starting up a Wikipedia:WikiProject that sets guidelines on Judaism-related articles? JFW | T@lk 10:03, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, Fintor. I now little about finance, but I do my bit on Judaism and medical topics on wikipedia...
If we are to start of a Wikiproject, I'm not sure if we should use any catalogisation or classification system at all. The Category:Judaism should perhaps be split up a bit, with everything flowing from there (e.g. into Category:Jewish books, Category:Rabbis). Cooperation between the "branches", even though they might exclude each other's validity, will be necessary.
There should be little editorial policy on a Jewish wikiproject. Simply wikipedia rules are in force. Validation against any source is probably not necessary; the wiki-consensus will do its work.
However:
(1) Modern Hebrew transliteration rules (without Unicode characters, like Noah with a dot under the "h")
(2) Basic and brief translations of important concepts, and perhaps a "Jewish glossary" somewhere for more elaborate things. I've seen too many: "The Torah is the five books of moses, the first five books of the Jewish Bible/Old Testament..." in articles that only tangentially touch on this.
(3) As little external links as possible - only to truly representative organisations, and not propaganda machines.
PS, for a POV fossil, please see what I deleted from the Tenth Commandment in Ten Commandments: according to the order of the words it flows that in the Midbar houses were more valuable than women, while in Arvoth Moav it was the other way round ???!! Baloney de'Orayso.
JFW | T@lk 18:51, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Many Jewish articles have grown a list of categories. While I applaud this categorisation, I feel there is a lot of overlinking (all articles were suddenly in Category:Rabbis, while this was unnecessary). I have deleted a large number of instances and discussed this with User:IZAK, who did most of the categorisation. You might care to review the categorisations whenever you edit a Jewish page... JFW | T@lk 12:06, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Modern portfolio theory

I just noticed your article on Modern portfolio theory. Excellent work! mydogategodshat 03:25, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Hebrew language vs. "Canaanite languages"

Hi, please see:

Request for assistance in a conflict between users regarding Canaanite and Hebrew linguistics articles

Your interest and input would be appreciated. Thank you. IZAK 09:35, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • Update: The above discussion was moved to Talk:Hebrew languages and your input would be appreciated. Thanks. IZAK 06:49, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish Wikiproject

Mazel tov, it's here! Ezra Wax has commenced the "Judaism" WikiProject! The bris is next week. JFW | T@lk 14:11, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] re: Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism

Hi Fintor, please take a moment to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism as it deals with your issues and your contributions would be most welcome. Thanks. IZAK 23:34, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Warmly, no hotly invited! But bring your own coffee mug and parev creamer. JFW | T@lk 15:26, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages Please join Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages Your input will be crucial. IZAK 08:26, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The business and economics forum

Anouncing the introduction of The Business and Economics Forum. It is a "place" where those of us with an interest in the business and economics section of Wikipedia can "meet" and discuss issues. Please drop by: the more contributors, the greater its usefulness. If you know of other Wikipedians who might be interested, please send this to them.

mydogategodshat 18:52, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Vote

See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Occupation of Palestine

[edit] Vote: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis

See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis. Thank you. IZAK 09:25, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Need for support

See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/IZAK. Thank you. IZAK 02:55, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Spade

Vote "NO". Opposed to SamSpade's unfriendly views in the Jew article. IZAK 08:45, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Comeandhear links

Hi Fintor. I'd like to make you aware that http://www.come-and-hear.com, however innocent-looking, is a project of the rather anti-semitic (or, shall we say, keeping a close track on Jews) http://www.public-action.com . I appreciate Talmud fulltext is hard to come by online, but I advise you to find a better link for Nezikin. JFW | T@lk 16:45, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] See these six categories up for "votes of deletion":

See these six categories up for "votes of deletion":

Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Palestinian_terrorists and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Palestinian_terrorist_organizations and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Middle_East_terrorists and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Terrorist_organizations and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Islamic_terrorist_organizations and this one too: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Jewish_terrorist_organizations

IZAK 10:10, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Opinion for IZAK

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/IZAK/Evidence. Thank you. IZAK 07:08, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Yechezkel Landau

Hey Fintor, making a page with just links is really not done! :-) I wrote the article for you. Also, please do not use horizontal rules on pages - the manual of style discourages them. JFW | T@lk 11:22, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Neo Orthodoxy

I think Neo-Orthodoxy is simply a misnomer of Torah im Derech Eretz. It presumes that there is neo at all, which I personally disagree with. Rav Hirsch - in his own view - never innovated anything, and there are plenty of sources (e.g. Shaarei Talmud Torah by Rav Yehuda Levi) that support this. Most rishonim and the majority of the acharonim support the acquisition of secular knowledge, and the Maharal you quoted even extends this outside the scope of professional education.

What would the difference be between Torah im Derech Eretz and Neo-Orthodoxy anyway? I think the latter should redirect to the former. JFW | T@lk 14:41, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Delete vote on Jewish ethnocentrism

The article Jewish ethnocentrism is currently up for deletion. You can see the relevant discussion, and vote, at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jewish ethnocentrism. Jayjg (talk) 16:28, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Just another note, the vote ends quite soon. Jayjg (talk) 14:58, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Christian Bible" or just "Bible"?

There's a vote on this topic going on at Talk:Bible. I thought you might be interested in taking part. Jayjg (talk) 14:53, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Meforshim and rabbis

Hi, please see discussion at Talk:Meforshim, and see RK's recent edits about Rabbi at [1] thanks. IZAK 07:33, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about dates at Geonim

Fintor, there is some question about conflicting dates at the Geonim article. Since you are the author of some of that, would you mind commenting? Jayjg (talk) 17:06, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Fintor. Perhaps you missed this question when I first posted it. Do you think you could go to the Geonim article and help clarify your edits please? Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 02:36, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Fintor. I feel a little like I'm harrassing you, but have you had a chance to look that up yet? Jayjg (talk) 21:48, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Template:Judaism

Hi Fintor, please see and provide your input on the talk page of the proposed Template:Judaism. Thank you. IZAK 07:27, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jews as a chosen people

There are some interesting edits being entered by an anonymous editor at Jews as a chosen people; you might want to take a look. Jayjg (talk) 22:59, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BC/AD versus BCE/CE

There's a discussion and a vote on this topic going on at Talk:Jesus#Reversions & Consensus on BCE/AD; I thought you might be interested. Jayjg (talk) 18:55, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sephirah (Kabbalah)

Hello Fintor: Looking at the Sephirah (Kabbalah) article, the following articles are waiting to be written:

These have brief articles, but could use improvement:

  • Keter ("Crown"; כתר)
  • Chochmah ("Wisdom"; חכמה)
  • Hod ("Majesty"; הוד)
  • Da'at ("Knowledge"; דעת)

Best wishes, IZAK 09:53, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abif

Please review the "Biblical" article Abif. Thanks. IZAK 05:34, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] za list.

Feel free to ad your name to the list of South African Wikipedians.  — Jeandré, 2005-07-07t17:44z

[edit] VfD: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Jews

Hi Fintor. You might be interested in this VfD: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Religious persecution by Jews. Jayjg (talk) 17:13, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Noahide Laws

You might be interested in the current debate going on at Talk:Noahide Laws. Jayjg (talk) 18:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit count

My total count is 91 short of 20,000 in all namespaces. Great isn't it? When you're done with Reb Azriel, who are you going to give the Fintor treatment? JFW | T@lk 08:31, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ritual Decalogue

Would you mind taking a look at this article? Much appreciated if you could. Jayjg (talk) 20:11, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Minhag

Have a look at this new page: Minhag. JFW | T@lk 23:08, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tzadik

Please see the page that I made for Tzadik and my comments to the talk page of chabad regarding ther merging of the section "Relationship between God, the Rebbe and his followers" into Tzadik. Thanks. --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 04:16, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish texts

Hello Fintor: Someone has tried to create a new "Jewish texts" template and has been pasting it on related pages without any discussion. This is a serious matter and your input is needed ASAP. See Template talk:Jewish texts. Thank you. IZAK 07:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please have a look

Please have a look at Category:Superstition, its CFD, the editing of Baphomet. (talk · contribs) and a sweet little exchange on Talk:Prayer. JFW | T@lk 11:18, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Joburg

It's great to find another Jewish Wikipedian from Joburg! Could you perhaps give me a clue about your real identity?Ayinyud 20:32, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I probably know you from somewhere. Tell me, where do you daven? If you want to get hold of me, leave a message at the Bnei Akiva office.Ayinyud 13:35, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Middle Eastern deities

I thought you might be interested in Template:Middle Eastern deities. Jayjg (talk) 20:30, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vfd

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Day of Atonement, Christian - please vote. JFW | T@lk 03:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categ:Jewish diaspora, vfd

Hi Fintor, Category:Jewish diaspora has been nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 October 16. IZAK 04:39, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:613 mitzvot

Please have a look and offer your comments here. JFW | T@lk 10:33, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Decalogue

FDuffy (talk · contribs) has been working his magic on Ten Commandments. Please review the edit history. JFW | T@lk 12:29, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naming conventions for articles on Jews

As there is a great deal of inconsistency in the naming of articles about Jews, I have proposed that they be made consistent. I'd appreciate it if you could commment on this here: Template_talk:Jew#Name_of_articles_on_Jews. Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 07:59, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gamliel

Hi Fintor: Would you like to add to the article Gamliel please? Thank you. IZAK 09:25, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Fintor, could you provide edit summaries for your edits please? JFW | T@lk 08:35, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Will do :)

Great. It's just that everytime Torah im Derech Eretz pops up on my watchlist I wonder what you've doing to it this time :-). Have I asked you to review Shimon Schwab for me? JFW | T@lk 09:38, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Crazy changes by Gilgamesh

Unfortunately, User:Gilgamesh is now imposing his own views by changing the transliterated Hebrew names of articles with redirects to unreadable Hebrew names and fonts, as if his criteria are the only ones to reckon with, when there are in fact several. My computer, as I am sure many others' as well, does not pick up his type of fonts, and thus he is messing up articles such as Safed, Hadera, Holon, Afula, Arad, Israel and many others defacing them and making them unreadable on the web. He is going to DESTROY the normal usage of Wikipedia's Hebrew transliterations to satisfy his own needs without there being any consensus. Common usages are being thrown out in favor of obscure and pedantic academic usages familiar to only a handful of unkown academics. He should be called upon to stop BEFORE he rushes to do further damage without any consensus being reached. All his changes should therefore be reverted. See all his recent contributions via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Gilgamesh I thank you for your interest, and urge all readers here to act. IZAK 04:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hebrew naming conventions

At the present time there is a serious discussion taking place, aiming at some consensus that will result in "official" Wikipedia guidelines about how Hebrew should be used and written in Wikipedia articles. Because of your past or ongoing interest in these type of articles with Hebrew words in them, your attention is called to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) [2] TO MAKE YOUR VIEWS KNOWN AND TO ADD TO THE DISCUSSION BEFORE THE "DOORS ARE SHUT" PLEASE SEE THE RELATED DISCUSSION PAGE AT Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Hebrew) [3] Thank you! IZAK 04:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] South African Jews

Hi Fintor. You might want to look at the South African Jews article/talk page, and contribute to it. Jayjg (talk) 00:56, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of High Priests of Israel

Hi Fintor: What do you make of the characters on List of High Priests of Israel, especially the latter-names, they don't sound Jewish to me at all. IZAK 09:01, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User PinchasC is making outrageous personal attacks and reverting articles

I am being harassed by User PinchasC, who keeps making personal attacks on me, is accusing other Wikipeida contributors of attempting to "shock" and deceive readers of our articles, is making outrageous lies about my editing, and is unilaterally reverting a consensus version of an article to one which pushes his own religious belief system. For almost a year I have tried to work with him, along with JayJg and JFW, but PinchasC shows no sign of stopping his religious tirade.

PinchasC is now trying to ban me from Wikipedia by flat-out lying. He is making outrageous baldfaced lies, such as (a) I am writing under sockpuppets, and (b) that I am making more than three reversions in a single day. In point of fact (a) I use no sock puppets, and I proudly sign the discussion page of each article, and (b) two reverts is not more than three. PinchasC has become unhinged in his outrageous dishonesty. RK 20:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

PinchasC's latest violations of Wikipedia policy are thus:

  • Doing multiple reverts of an article that had a stable consensus state, and then flat out denies that he had done so, even though the edit history clearly shows this.
  • Making false accusations that I am editing Wikipedia under some kind of "sockpuppet", a bizarre and obviously false lie. In fact, despite using multiple computers, I take pains to sign in and use my username, RK.
  • "Outing" Wikipedia members who edit under anonymous usernames by broadcasting their real names in the article Discussion pages. This is a gross breach of Wikipedia protocol.
  • Lying about the status of an important researcher in the field of the disputed subject. (PinchasC keeps retitling Rabbi Professor David Beger and Mr. Berger, which is not only misleading, but also considered a gross and delibertae insult in the Jewish community.
  • Inserting attacks questioning academic and Orthodox Jewish authorities whose view of Chabad theology differs from his own. When discussing the new forms of theology developing within Chabad, PinchasC refuses to allow various POVs to be shown in accord with our NPOV policy. Rather, his edit censors multiple academic and Orthodox voices, and replaces all of their POvs with the slur "While the term received little attention at the time, it was later used to shock those who have no exposure to these sources." Please see the article to see the full context. PinchasC is stating that academic and Orthodox Jews who disagree with messianic Chabad beliefs are deceiving their readers by shocking them, and not letting them know that such beliefs are (in PinchasC's view) standard theology. Of course, how could anyone know, since his edits cut out many quotes and sources....all with an array of POVs that PinchasC apparently does not want our readers to be exposed to. RK

For example, PinchasC write "I would like to make a note here about the use of sockpuppets by RK to circumvent his restrictions in editing Judaism related articles. He is 66.155.200.129. --PinchasC | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 19:42, 2 December 2005 (UTC)"

Well, that's just bizarre. Please see the page in question, Chabad, which I sign with my username all the time. In fact, my name is all over that page, explaining my edits. There is simply no way that PinchasC can claim that I am trying to hide my User ID identity. He's just out of control. RK 20:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Judaism_and_Christianity#Love

Hi Fintor, I thought you might be interested in this section, recently added to the article, and in the discussion on the Talk: page regarding it. Jayjg (talk) 18:15, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bnei Akiva

I saw you've done some editing for the Bnei Article; wondered if you'd be interested in {{User Bnei Akiva}}- the bnei Akiva userbox Ayinyud 11:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Circumcision in the Bible & Brit milah

Hello Fintor: I am wondering how to combine/reconcile these two articles: Circumcision in the Bible and Brit milah. What are your thoughts on the subject and do you have any suggestions? Feel free to commence some merging. Best wishes, IZAK 05:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Template:Juddom

Hi Fintor: Shavua Tov! Please see the newly-proposed Template:Juddom which strikes me as odd and redundent for now. Please add your views at Template talk:Juddom. Thanks. IZAK 14:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seudah article

Hey Fintor, you might want to take a look at a new article by MPerel, Seudah. It looks pretty good to me, but I'm sure it could be touched up a bit. Jayjg (talk) 18:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bach

Fintor: great work on that Yoel Sirkis article! The only slight thing was that the Rosh you linked to was the commonly known Asher ben Yechiel whereas (apparantly as this was in the original article) the Bach wrote another different work called the Rosh. We need to verify this - see the discussion page. With thanks, Nesher 16:51, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week

Hi Fintor, I've created an Orthodox Rabbinical Biography Collaboration of the Week. I'd love to see your comments, improvements, amendations and nominations, preferably all on the discussion or the actual page there. Many thanks, Nesher 13:37, 14 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism

Dear Fintor! I have created Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Judaism. Please put it on your watchlist, and please add relevant AfD's as you find them. Cheers. - CrazyRussian talk/email 19:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Deletions/Renamings

Hi Fintor, Please see:

Many thanks, Nesher 12:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Fintor, could you e-mail me? Jayjg (talk) 23:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Fintor, did you see this? Jayjg (talk) 00:43, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I tried to e-mail you, but it said you hadn't specified a valid e-mail address. Jayjg (talk) 15:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talmudic Aramic

זעירא sounds better. Cockneyite 22:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism

Hi Fintor: Thought you would be interested in the latest adventure that has started at Wikipedia:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism (perhaps you may want to join) and the discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orthodox Judaism. Shabbat Shalom. IZAK 12:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 07:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Delta neutral

Thanks for helping out on the Delta neutral page - I like your edits. If you get a chance, I made a major revision to Implied volatility that I'd appreciate some feedback on. You seem like you're familiar with the space. Ronnotel 11:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Religious reactions to same-sex marriage in South Africa

Hi Fintor, Shavua Tov: Hope all is well. Since you are familiar with South Africa, I was curious if you could look into the discussion surrounding the opposition of organized religious movements to Same-sex marriage in South Africa, see Talk:Same-sex marriage in South Africa#Same-sex marriage in South Africa & The Mediation Cabal. More discussion about this subject is now also at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-11-17 Religious opposition to same-sex marriage in South Africa. If you have any information about what has been happening in South Africa on this subject, your input would be helpful. Thanks for looking into this. Best wishes, IZAK 07:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orthodox Judaism and feminism

Hi Fintor: Shavuah Tov! There is an article on Jewish feminism that mentions its connection with Orthodox Judaism, Jewish feminism#Orthodox Judaism and feminism, it seems to be from a Modern Orthodox perspective only, and needs to be broadened. IZAK 10:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response to NOTICE and OBJECTIONS to WikiProject Religion vs. Judaism

Hi Fintor: It is very important that you see the points and the response from User:Badbilltucker about his aims at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#NOTICE and OBJECTIONS to WikiProject Religion vs. Judaism ASAP. Have a Happy Chanukah! IZAK 15:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan

On his discussion page it mentioned that you met him personally, do I have the right person? 7cows 17:11, 27 Feb 2007 (AU)

[edit] Weekly Torah Portion

Thanks for your kind comments on the Weekly Torah Portion pages. And any suggestions on how to further improve them would be welcome. Thanks again. All the best, Dauster 11:04, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again for your positive reinforcement on the Weekly Torah Portion pages. Shalom, Dauster 23:36, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2007

Hi Fintor

Wikimania 2007, which is being held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 3-5, is offering opportunities for travel scholarships to Wikimania for active users of Wikimedia projects from the continent of Africa. Although the original scholarship deadline has passed, please, if you are interested, you may still apply at http://wm07schols.wikimedia.org/apply.php. Sincerely yours, Cary Bass 20:54, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ritual washing in Judaism

The Ritual washing in Judaism article has recently gone a major re-write, with much contentious material inserted. I've tried to clean up some of it, but I'd appreciate it if you could take a look. Jayjg (talk) 18:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Italian translation request

The paragraph in Rule of 72#History has been translated. In the future, please use the standard translation request template, rather than just adding text to the translation page. —Ryan McDaniel 21:20, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem about the informality. Really, it's just for ease of tracking the request. If you've got any other translation requests (esp. history related), just let me know. —Ryan McDaniel 23:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Torah im Derech Eretz

Hey Fintor, just a reminder that Torah im Derech Eretz has {{Citations missing}} on it. Given that you have written most of the content, perhaps you could turn the "sources" into footnotes. JFW | T@lk 10:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Modern Orthodox Judaism#Conservative Judaism

Please see my comment at Talk:Modern Orthodox Judaism#Conservative Judaism. Best, --Shirahadasha 21:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

See additional comment at above link. Best, --Shirahadasha 14:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] help

Please respond to Bikinibomb's comments about figs and Judaism here, thanks Slrubenstein | Talk 00:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)