Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.

BBC Yanked Israeli Film on Jewish Exodus from Jerusalem (video)
Posted on: May 1st, 2013
News → AntisemitismThe BBC strikes again. Known for its bias against Israel, it said that a documentary claiming that man “Palestinians” of today actually are descendants of Jews did “not fit editorially.” How true.
Holocaust Victims’ Violins to be Used in Monaco Concert
Posted on: April 30th, 2013
News → EuropeThe Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo will perform a “Violins of Hope” concert in Monaco featuring Several violins of Jewish Holocaust victims murdered by the Nazis The concert will be held May 5 at Monaco’s Grimaldi Forum, and the stories of their owners will be told, according to a report in the Nice, France Matain daily. The [...]
Masorti Rabbis Perform First Conversions in Lisbon
Posted on: April 29th, 2013
News → EuropeFor the first time in the history of the Masorti movement, its rabbis performed conversions to Judaism in Portugal. The two conversions were performed in the Portuguese capital at a Beit Din rabbinical court of three judges, who recognized Juliana Fernandes da Silva and her life partner Edgard Pimentel as Jews. Though the Masorti movement [...]
Dutch Jews ‘Vexed’ by Royal Event on Yom Kippur, Rabbi Says
Posted on: April 28th, 2013
News → EuropeA Dutch chief rabbi said his community was “vexed” because a farewell event for the Dutch queen was scheduled on Yom Kippur. “Jews are again faced with a reality in which they don’t belong and that is painful,” Holland’s chief interprovincial rabbi, Binyomin Jacobs, told NRC Handelsblad on April 26. On Yom Kippur, the Day [...]
Jewish Liberators of Italy Blocked from Speaking at Celebration
Posted on: April 27th, 2013
News → AntisemitismThe organizers of a Thursday parade in Rome marking the World War II liberation of Italy prevented a representative from the Jewish Brigade group from speaking at the commemorative ceremony. A group of Jews and others marched under the Israeli flag and a banner of the Jewish Brigade that fought the Nazis in Italy. The [...]
Israeli Rabbinate Backs Berlin Rabbi for Oral Suction at Brit
Posted on: April 24th, 2013
News → EuropeThe Chief Rabbinate of Israel has sent a letter of support to Berlin Chabad Rabbi Yehudah Teichtal, who was charged by an anti-circumcision activist for practicing the ritual of oral suction of a small amount of blood at a circumcision. The practice is widely accepted in Israel but caused controversy in the New York area [...]

Iranian ‘Mental Patient’ Stabs Paris Rabbi, Son
Posted on: April 23rd, 2013
News → EuropeIf anti-Semitism is lunacy, an Iranian national in France apparently has made it official. He stabbed a rabbi and his son after reportedly escaping from a mental institution.
Cabinet Approves ‘Open Skies’ Agreement and Skies Stayed Closed
Posted on: April 21st, 2013
News → EuropeEl Al has cancelled all flights that were scheduled to take off before 9 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) as its workers continue to strike even after the Cabinet approved the European-Mediterranean Sea “Open Skies” aviation agreement. Click here to understand the agreement and why the unions are striking. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The goal [...]
IKEA Pulls Ad from Swedish Anti-Semitic blog
Posted on: April 21st, 2013
News → AntisemitismIKEA is investigating how its online advertisement banner came to be placed on a Swedish anti-Semitic blog, a spokesperson for the furniture giant said. IKEA has two stores in Israel. Aftonbladet found ads for several companies, including IKEA and Western Union, on a Swedish blog called the “Gothic team,” which features anti-Semitic and other racist [...]

Israeli Airlines Grounded on Day 1 of Anti ‘Open Skies’ Policy
Posted on: April 21st, 2013
News → EuropeAn internal report predicts the collapse of El-Al.
‘Righteous Muslim’ Exhibition Planned for those Who Saved Jews
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
News → EuropeThe London Board of Deputies of British Jews is launching a new Righteous Muslim Exhibition with 70 photographs and stories of Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II, the BBC reported. The Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial and Museum in Israel honors ‘Righteous Gentiles” who helped save Jews from the Holocaust gas chambers and death [...]
Britain’s Rabbi Sacks Says Thatcher as More like Moses than Aaron
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
News → EuropeBritish Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks paid tribute to Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral, saying that “in public, her leadership style was more like Moses than Aaron, more conviction and confrontation than compromise and conciliation. “But we need both. Aaron was more loved than Moses. The sages said that when Aaron died, [...]
European Report Says Greece Can Ban Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → AntisemitismA report released by the Council of Europe says that Greece could legally ban the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party, but Greece has rejected the idea. The Council of Europe is based in Strasbourg, France and runs the European Court of Human Rights. The 32-page was issued Tuesday by the council’s human rights commissioner Nils Mutinies, [...]

Roger Waters: ‘I Am Considering my Position’ on Anti-Israel Boycott
Posted on: April 17th, 2013
News → AntisemitismThat's a lot of thinking for a rock musician, you must give him that.

Scottish Brewer from Gush Etzion Crafts Traditional Beer
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
News → EuropeWhat a brew! A Scottish brew master, his Tunisian wife and two Yanks operate a boutique brewery. They produce several hundred bottles a month and plan more.
British Jewish Crime Boss Sues Prison for Kosher Meals
Posted on: April 15th, 2013
News → EuropeAn orthodox British Jew serving time in jail for trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine is suing prison officials for discrimination by denying him kosher food, the London Sun reported. Simon Price, 68, complained of “institutionalized anti-Semitism” and charged that although inmates are allowed to cook their own meals, he was given [...]
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Posted on: April 15th, 2013
News → EuropeA French Jewish group which last month sued Twitter for hosting anti-Semitic content has lodged a fresh complaint against the company and accused it of lying. The latest complaint by the Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, was filed on April 12 with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office against Twitter President and Director [...]

Swedish Social Democrats Oust Chairman of Islamic Association
Posted on: April 14th, 2013
News → AntisemitismIslamiska Förbundet has invited to Sweden speakers with known anti-Semitic views.

Spiegel Bemoaning ‘Germanophobia’
Posted on: April 14th, 2013
News → EuropeThere is no doubt Germanophobia exists, look at Greece, at Italy, even Ireland.
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G8 Issue Message of Hope to Palestinian Deadbeats and Firebombers
Posted on: April 12th, 2013
News → EuropeWe interrupt this press release to examine the information therein…
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