Unbelievably long-lived creature

A whale killed in the 2000s with a 19th-century harpoon stuck in it?
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Fight Ebola

This past month's Zman Magazine featured a story on this fearsome disease. Right now Google is offering a 2-to-1 matching donation to help Ebola victims. Your $10 can turn into a $30 donation.

Campaign: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/doubling-down-on-ebola-donations.html

In case you want halachic backup for donating to this charity, please see here: http://www.dinonline.org/2013/05/14/donating-to-non-jewish-charities/

Maltese

This unique language is the only Semitic language to be written in the Latin alphabet. Another thing that makes it so unique is that its vocabulary is a combination of Italian and Arabic! (Along with some English and French thrown in.) Maltese language

Welcome - Samuel Oppenheimer

The purpose of this blog is to post random interesting information I come across in the course of my research and fact-checking. The first post is about a 17th-century German Jewish banker and diplomat who went to great lengths to help his fellow Jews, established many synagogues and yeshivos, and stopped dissemination of an anti-Semitic tract. After his death the government in Vienna denied payment to his heirs of all its debts to him. Wikipedia Entry