Time Magazine in Shock that Men and Women are Different?

The Liberal Crazies just discovered what we all knew for thousands of years!

The liberals were telling us that women could be Firemen and Police, because there are no differences between the sexes, so to make these crazies credible , the stupid government lowered the standards... putting us all in jeopardy!

Now read this "SHOCKING" report!

The latest imaging data reveals gender-based differences in the way brain networks are connected. 

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, included nearly 1,000 young people aged eight to 22 and revealed small differences between girls and boys before puberty that became larger at around age 12 or 13.

That pattern, which remained throughout adulthood, showed that the women’s brains were wired to better integrate emotion and reason— while the  men’s brains had stronger links between coordinated action and perception. For men, that translated into brains more highly connected from front to back, so perceptual and action-focused areas enjoyed stronger networks, while women’s brains had more left to right wiring. That matchup strengthened the connections between intuitive and emotional regions with those involved in rationality and planning.

Because most of the changes are established around adolescence, the study’s senior author Ragini Verma, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania says both social and biological factors — from intensifying cultural pressures to conform to gender roles, to hormonal changes, may be involved in the divergent networks.

But which comes first — are biological differences generating the male or female connectivity patterns, or are social gender roles reinforcing specific connections? The study couldn’t say whether men’s better-connected action and perception areas made them superior at mechanical skills or whether more practice at physical tasks requiring dexterity enlarged and improved those regions in the first place. Similarly, women’s apparent advantage at integrating intuition and analysis might give them better social skills— or more socializing might improve those brain regions and create that talent. Given what’s known about how the brain develops, a combination of both practice and biology — in the form of neural networks especially receptive to that type of practice — is likely involved.

Cultural influences are also significant; for example, while girls in the U.S. typically underperform in math compared to boys, in the more egalitarian Scandinavian countries, either no gap, or only small ones exist.  Similarly, in rural India, girls from tribes where women have higher status perform better on tests of visual skills important to math than girls from tribes that are more patriarchal.

But understanding gender differences in brain networks could be critical to studying mental illness and developmental disorders, which often vary by gender and change with age. In autism, as well as in depression and schizophrenia, risk levels, timing and symptoms are highly affected by gender. Even for those unaffected by these disorders, the results could be useful in understanding what makes men and women “think” differently.

Read more: Why Men’s and Women’s Brains Work Differently: It’s All About the Wiring | TIME.com http://healthland.time.com/2013/12/03/why-men-and-womens-brains-work-differently-its-all-about-the-wiring/#ixzz2sf1VY8s8

Yeshiva Boys who dont want to learn and dont want to join the Army hanging out in the North during Learning Hours!

Yeshiva Boys goofing off during Yeshiva Hours!

אווירת הפקרות שוררת בימינו בישיבות, בעבר לא העזיו קבוצת בחורים לצאת לטיול באמצע סדר וזמן הישיבה, היום האוירה היא לא משנה אם אתה לומד או לא, אתה לא מתגייס אתה חלק מהמפלגה, ותמצא מי שיגן עליך גם אם אין לך עם הישיבה דבר, מה שאתה צריך זה להיות רשום ולהביע מידי פעם הזדהות, ואז תעשה מה שבא לך

הם לא הראשונים, רואים את זה כל הזמן, מי שנמצאים בצפון במקומות להיכן שמגיעים בחורים בטיולים כאלו מעידים שכל יום רואים אחרים שבאים, והכווה לבחורים, והשאלה היא איך זה, האינם חוששים שאם יתפסו יגייסו אותם בכח?

בעבר כשבדקו היה זה בשביל לעצור ולגייס אותך. היום הבדיקות הן תקציביות וכלכליות, מבקשים לחסוך כסף. לא מחפשים עוד בחורים שלא לומדים על מנת לגייסם

כן, מי שלא התייצב וגם לא לומד הוא מועמד לחיול, לא יתכן שגם לא תלמד וגם תטייל ותעשה חיים. חמשת הבחורים שהיו ברכב המטייל על פי הסדר חייבים לגייסם על מנת ללמד אותם לקח, ובשביל שהבחורים כולם יבינו כי אין עוד הפקרות

De Blasio will close Public Schools for Muslim New Year!

Newly-minted Mayor of New York City Bill De Blasio is calling forschool closures on two Muslim holidays and the Lunar New Year.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the last day of Ramadan, Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, and the Lunar New Year, which celebrates the first day of the Chinese Calendar Year, were all given the go-ahead; but De Blasio passed over the Hindu festivalDiwali. Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights—which celebrates life, its enjoyment, and goodness—has historical origins dating back to Indian “harvest” festivals.

Dr. Shashi Shah of the Association of Indians in America was saddened that the mayor failed to recognize Diwali: “We are disappointed. We’ve been trying for a long time… It’s very important for the community.”

It is unclear why De Blasio granted two holidays for Muslims and denied the appeals by Indians for one. Estimates of the number of Muslims in New York City vary between 200,000 and 1,000,000. A website called A Journey Through NYC Religions estimates the number to be 600,000—roughly seven percent of the population. Still, NYC has themost Hindu adherents of any city in the United States. Moreover, there are more than 80,000 Hindu adherents in the greater area of New York, NY-NJ-PA. For years, ethnic groups have lobbied for all four holidays to be recognized.

De Blasio is unsure when the school holiday status will take effect: “It is complicated in terms of logistics and school calendar and budget. But it’s something I want to get done in a reasonable time frame.” Former Mayor Bloomberg opposed all of the school closures, saying kids should not miss more school.

Yeshiva Students riot, burn Police Car just like the Shvartzas, Video

At least thirty ultra-Orthodox Jews were arrested after violent protests broke out across the country, Israel Police said.

The riots broke out after the Supreme Court ordered to freeze funding for students who dodge military service.

In the city of Ashdod, the protests came in the form of violence as a police car was set on fire. No one was injured, but the police car was destroyed.

In Ashdod, at least eight people were arrested for disorderly conduct, throwing stones and attacking police officers. Two protesters were slightly wounded, and police officers were also injured.

Some protesters were also angry that a yeshiva student was sent to jail for dodging military service.

As we reported earlier, a yeshiva student was arrested, charged and convicted of dodging military service, Israeli military prosecutors said.

Now, a military court has sentenced the yeshiva student to 5 days behind bars.

The student, identified as Yitzchak Efraim, was sentenced on Wednesday, by the military court in Tel Hashomer.

Before sentencing, the student told the judge that he will only listen to ultra-Orthodox Jewish rabbis, and that those rabbis ordered him not to respond to military officials.

The student who attends the Grodno yeshiva in Ashdod, was booked in the Prison Six jail.

The student was not the only one to be jailed in Prison Six for dodging military service. Recently, three yeshiva students were jailed after they failed to show up at an IDF recruitment center.

R' David Zicherman organizer of protests against the draft threatens "We will stop paying Taxes?"???????

The arrest of an ultra-Orthodox man who refused to enlist in the IDF sparked widespread protests throughout the country Thursday, as thousands of Haredi demonstrators demanded the young man’s immediate release from army prison and called on the government to reinstate payments to religious seminaries which were frozen earlier this week by Finance Minister Yair Lapid.

In Jerusalem, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with police forces on the light-rail suspension bridge near the entrance to the city. According to police, several protesters attempted to break through the police security buffer and throw bottles and firecrackers at security personnel and passersby. Fifteen demonstrators were arrested, police said. A number of main roads in the capital were blocked as a result of the protests, causing heavy traffic throughout the city.

“The Haredim [ultra-Orthodox Jews] will never enlist!” an enraged protester filmed by Channel Two News was heard saying.

“We’ve managed to overcome the inquisitions, we overcame Hitler, and we will now overcome the state,” he cried.

In the background, several demonstrates could be heard calling the policemen at the site Nazis.

The demonstrations were largely organized by a radical Lithuanian Haredi group known as “the Jerusalem branch,” Ynet reported.

About one hundred protesters clashed with police at the northern entrance to Ashdod, with twelve people arrested after allegedly attempting to assault a policeman. A police car was reported to have been set on fire by protesters as well.

Two demonstrators were treated on the spot for mild injuries.

Hundred of ultra-Orthodox protesters who attempted to block the main highway near Modiin were removed from the area by police. The protesters began praying along the highway shoulders, Walla reported.

Rabbi David Zicherman, one of the organizers of the Jerusalem protests, called on the ultra-Orthodox public to start a civil disobedience movement and stop paying taxes.

“You are pushing us into a corner,” he said of the government. “We will start a war with the State of Israel, and it will burn like wildfire. We, Holocaust survivors, are now encountering a spiritual Holocaust.”

“They will fail in their attempt to lead us to annihilation,” he warned. “We shall not compromise nor negotiate.”

Earlier this week, Lapid brought to a halt to state payments to religious seminaries that are attended by ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers hours before the cash was due to be paid out.

Lapid ordered the funding to be frozen right after a High Court ruling which determined that the state should stop making payments to seminaries as part of an ongoing effort to draft ultra-Orthodox men into national service.

Menachem Deutsch, Sexual Abuser Moves to Monsey! Parents Watch Out!

A Level 3 sex offender considered to be at high risk of repeating his crimes has moved into a home on Dr. Frank Road, according to information released by the state on Wednesday.

Menachem Deutsch, 21, recently moved from Brooklyn to 25 Dr. Frank Road, according to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Deutsch — who is about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes — was convicted of first-degree sexual abuse on June 25.

He was found to have forcibly abused two boys, ages 10 and 12, according to the state’s Sex Offender Registry. Deutsch was sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years probation.

Visit the state Division of Criminal Justice Services Sex Offender Registry at www.criminal justice.ny.gov to learn more about Deutsch.

Coca Cola will compete with the Israeli SodaStream! Time to support the Jews!

Coca-Cola is looking to tap into a new market, with plans to let customers make its sodas and other drinks at home.

The world’s biggest beverage maker said Wednesday that it’s buying a 10 percent stake in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. for $1.25 billion as part of an agreement to bring its familiar brands into the fast-growing at-home market. Green Mountain is known for its single-serve coffee makers, but is developing a machine for cold drinks as well.

The deal comes as SodaStream makes an aggressive push to make its at-home carbonation machines a fixture in U.S. kitchens. 

The Israeli company has touted its machines as a cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternative to buying Coke and Pepsi drinks. It advertised in the past two Super Bowls, with its latest ad starring actress Scarlett Johansson. Although it’s in just 1 percent of U.S. homes so far, SodaStream has noted that it’s in as many as 25 percent of homes in Sweden.

Investors sent Green Mountain’s stock soaring and SodaStream’s lower after the deal was announced.

In a call with reporters, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent seemed to play down the idea that the deal might eat into sales of its ready-to-drink bottles and cans.

“This is not a zero-sum game,” Kent said, after noting that the Green Mountain machine represented a “real game-changing innovation.”

Coca-Cola’s decision to team up with Green Mountain also comes as soda consumption in the U.S. and other developed nations continues to decline, in part because of the growing number of options people have in the beverage aisle.

Green Mountain’s “Keurig Cold” machine is expected to roll out in the company’s 2015 fiscal year, which begins this fall. The company says the machine will let people make sodas, sports drinks and other beverages with the touch of a button.

Jonas Feliciano, a beverage industry analyst for market researcher Euromonitor International, noted that Green Mountain has said its machine will not require CO2 carbonation cylinders that need to be replaced. The inconvenience of having to replace the CO2 cylinders in SodaStream’s machines has been seen as a barrier to the company’s potential.

As such, Feliciano said the potential of Coke’s deal with Green Mountain was “even beyond SodaStream.”

Green Mountain CEO Brian Kelley said during the call with reporters that the company planned to “do with cold beverages what has been done with hot tea and coffee.”

Before joining Green Mountain in late 2012, Kelley had been a high-ranking executive at Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola and Green Mountain said they have signed a 10-year agreement. 

As part of that deal, Coca-Cola, based in Atlanta, will acquire nearly 16.7 million new Green Mountain shares. Green Mountain, based in Waterbury, Vt., said it plans to use proceeds to buy back stock and fund expenses related to Keurig Cold.

Coca-Cola shares were up 1 percent at $37.98. Green Mountain’s shares soared 30 percent in after-hours trading. SodaStream shares were down more than 9 percent at $32.40

Is Pope Francis an Anti-Semite?

Pope Francis apparently plans to heed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's calls, and use hisupcoming visit to Israel in May as a propaganda move for the Palestine Authority (PA) against Israel, according to reports in Makor Rishon.

The revelation comes from Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a member of the Argentinian parliament and close friend of Pope Francis, who claimed the pope intends to define himself as the "Che Guevera of the Palestinians" and support their "struggle and rights."
In late December it was similarly noted that the pope will not host "mass" prayer services in Jerusalem during his trip, but instead in PA-controlled Bethlehem as a show of support. The move is slightly ironic, as most Christians have reportedly been driven out of the city by Muslims, while Abbas has claimed "Jesus was Palestinian."
Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud Beytenu) spoke with Arutz Sheva about the subject, noting that the foreign ministry is preparing for the visit and keeping an eye on developments between representatives from the Vatican and the PA.
Elkin claims Rabbi Bergman's description is exaggerated, and that he doesn't anticipate the pope to reference communist revolutionary Che Guevera as a model, even as he stresses that all official visitors are asked to stay balanced and "not dance at two weddings."
"Our role is to ensure that there won't be an unusual gesture, and we have the tools to do so," remarked Elkin, noting that talks are ongoing with the Vatican, which understands Israel would oppose such statements.
Elkin further claims the Vatican has important interests that would prevent it from taking a blatantly anti-Israel stance as described by Rabbi Bergman, saying "they won't want to endanger those interests."
Last July, Elkin rejected reports that the foreign ministry was planning to sign an agreement transferring all or part of King David's Tomb, located on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, to the Vatican. Above the tomb is located a room in which the Catholic Church claims the "Last Supper" occurred.
Despite Elkin's assurances, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, founder of the Temple Institute, warned in late January that the pope's visit may be timed for exactly such a transfer of ownership to occur, referencing the 2008 agreement by the government to relinquish control of the historic Russian Compound buildings in Jerusalem to Russian control. The offices of the Agriculture Ministry and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel vacated the premises in 2011.

Pro Israel Bill in Albany Shelved! IS Sheldon Silver Powerless against the ARAB LOBBY?

Sheldon Silver

by Ryan Karben

There was a political earthquake in Albany yesterday and its tremors reached Jerusalem.
A bill to penalize organizations at New York universities that participate in academic boycotts of Israel was yanked from consideration by the State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education at the last minute. When I served in the Assembly, bills were rarely placed on committee agendas unless they were certain to pass; even when we discovered technical errors, the bills would often be passed in committee and amended later on.
But this bill is different: it had already passed the state senate 56-4, directed its ire at enemies of Israel in a state where Jews are 10% of the population and was sponsored by the Speaker of the Assembly, Sheldon Silver, who wields an absolute veto over what bills the chamber considers.
Bills opposed by the Speaker never see the light of a legislative day; bills sponsored by the Speaker pass easily and never receive the sunlight of scrutiny.
But this bill, which had already been watered down from a tougher draft that would have financially penalized the universities rather than just the groups aiding the boycotts, disappeared from consideration under pressure from the state teacher’s union and two left-wing legal groups.
Capitol watchers were stunned because of what it might say about the Speaker’s influence over the committee (no change- it remains intact). But supporters of Israel are floored because of what it says about the state of Middle East policy in American politics. And it says a lot.
Disappearing Albany bill shows shift in support for Israel
When Israeli officials speak about fighting attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state through academic and economic boycotts, they hardly think they need to start with New York’s Democratic Party. Most Democrats, in New York and across the nation, are pro-Israel. They support military and foreign aid. They roundly and genuinely condemn terrorist attacks. They sign on to congressional letters circulated by the influential American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
And many Democrats regularly support symbolic bills, like Silver’s anti-boycott legislation, which has more impact in declaring the state’s affinity for Israel than in depriving publicity-hungry anti-Israel campus groups of meaningful funding. Every Democrat in the State Senate backed the bill.
But on the flashpoints in the Middle East debate today—academic and economic boycotts of the Jewish state and harsher sanctions on Iran to stop its march to nuclearization—there is an unmistakable and growing divide. Democrats and the interest groups that fire the party’s base and fill its coffers are moving away from global pro-Israel talking points.
The political shift is dramatic and consequential.
Bill and the Bubbe express
In 1992, Jewish voters and other strong supporters of Israel flocked to Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign after the then-Secretary of State Jim Baker snarkily told a congressional panel that Israel’s prime minister should “call him” if he was serious about peace. Republican candidates for Congress, already tied to the floundering first Bush administration, spent the campaign distancing themselves from Baker’s testimony.
In 2000, the Bubba express turned into the Bubbe express, as legions of Jewish grandmothers flooded Florida polling sites to support Al Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, the first Jew nominated on a major party ticket and an observant one to boot (we know how that turned out). There was no shortage of pro-Israel speeches at the party convention that year; we feasted on an endless supply of LA’s best kosher deli in Lieberman’s private skybox at the Staples Center. It was such a proud Jewish moment, I called my mother. Joe took the phone to accept her “mazal tov.”
A few months prior, I had helped organize a private coffee for Jewish women who were reluctant to support Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate bid after her infamous kiss with Yasser Arafat’s wife. If elected, she pledged to be “the pro-Israel leader” in the Senate. And she kept her word. If there was daylight between Senator Clinton and the pro-Israel agenda during her eight years in office, I never found any.
But the center of gravity in the Democratic Party on American policy in the Middle East is shifting- and fast.
How a little move can become a movement
Today, Hillary Clinton is backing President Obama’s opposition to new Iran sanctions, to the delight of more liberal Democratic primary voters and the consternation of many pro-Israel Democrats who believe the Iranian regime will never cease its efforts to acquire nuclear arms to use against the Jewish state. Bill DeBlasio, New York’s new progressive mayor and a pro-Israel stalwart, is under fire from some Democratic party activists for telling AIPAC activists that “part of my job description is to be a defender of Israel.”
Support for Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was dropped from the 2012 Democratic platform by the Obama Administration and restored by a staged voice vote from the party’s convention floor that no one seriously believes pro-Israel forces won.
Two years ago, when Israel strategically bombed Gazan military targets in response to ceaseless rocket fire from Hamas terrorists, 74% of Republican voters polled supported the Jewish state’s self-defense. Only 40% of Democrats backed Israel.
And yesterday in New York, the teacher’s union- one of the Democratic party’s largest donors- publicly stood up to one of the most powerful legislative leaders in America on anti-boycott legislation, raising questions about academic freedom even though the bill would have zero impact on academics. The union’s statement opposing Silver’s bill even justified academic boycotts for “issues of public concern” and contained not a single word of support for Israel’s universities, the most academically free in the Middle East and among the most open institutions in the world.
I support Palestinian statehood. I am among the many Jews anxious to end a military administration of the West Bank that places Israeli soldiers in dens of terror, sometimes forcing ugly choices between survival and humanity. But I also know that the Israeli people have repeatedly sued for peace and received a verdict of terrorism, hatred and isolation from the Arab world. Global Jewish memory is still keen to the intellectual and social boycotts in 1930s Germany that ripened the windows for Kristallnacht.
Democrats seeking nomination for President in 2016 can enhance the chance for peace by strongly making the case for America’s enduring partnership with Israel. Its strong trade unions, nationalized health care and strong environmental laws mirror what we Democrats seek for our own country.
Or Oval Office aspirants can echo the rhetoric of our party’s extreme elements and slowly retreat into the boycott-laden double-standards of Israel’s adversaries.
Israel’s government can either cling to an outdated fantasy of robust bipartisan support or make Israel’s case to liberal Democrats who are identifying more strongly with Palestinian aspirations that Israel’s multiethnic resilience and embracing a narrative that see Israel as a permanent Goliath rather than an imperfect democracy struggling to retain its values in the Middle East quicksand of terrorism and political disintegration.
Otherwise, Democratic voters’ support for Israel can disappear as quickly as Silver’s anti-boycott bill, and one small vote in Albany will look like a giant step forward for Israel’s enemies.
Ryan Karben is an attorney and public affairs consultant who served in the New York State Assembly from 2003 through 2006. A 20-year veteran adviser and fundraiser for Democratic candidates for federal and state office, Ryan blogs on politics and policy at karbencopy.blogspot.com.

Gital Dodelson gets her get!

Gital Dodelson, the “chained” woman featured on the front page of the New York Post last fall, says she has received a get, or religious writ of divorce, from her husband.

The announcement appeared Wednesday afternoon on a Facebook page dedicated to helping Dodelson obtain a get and was confirmed by a publicist who has worked with the Dodelson family.

In a story than ran in the Post on Nov. 4, 2013 and in subsequent media interviews, Dodelson detailed her struggle to obtain a religious divorce from her ex-husband, Avrohom Meir Weiss, whom she had divorced in civil court in August 2012.

According to traditional Jewish law, or halachah, a woman must obtain a get from her husband to be considered divorced; women whose husbands deny them a get are called agunot, or chained wives.

Shira Dicker, the publicist who has worked with the Dodelson family in their public campaign to compel Weiss to give the get, said the pressure finally worked.

“The community pressure really just began to multiply, and then something changed,” Dicker told JTA.

Dodelson’s claim of having received the get could not be independently verified with Weiss, who is a great-grandson of the late Orthodox luminary Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.

Dicker said Dodelson will continue to advocate for the countless Orthodox women chained to recalcitrant husbands.

“The family wants to remain as aguna advocates,” Dicker said. “It doesn’t end with Gital’s get.”