Locusts Invade Israel but More of a Tourist Site than a Plague

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

Israelis are excited over the latest tourists – locusts – while the Agriculture Ministry is making sure the pests have a short stay. Armchair preachers are having as field day with the new arrivals.

Muslim Terrorist Wannabe’s Jewish Lawyer Seeks to Bar Jews from Jury UPDATE

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

Cohn's effort highlights an increasing tendency, in an effort to achieve "fairness" towards accused terrorists, of marching along a road littered with the civil rights of others.

Obama Must Keep Kosher for Passover at King David Hotel

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

President Barack Obama will have to eat kosher for Passover meals, without bread, during his stay the King David Hotel next week, Haaretz reported. “We’re used to hosting heads of state and also American presidents, but this situation is very special for us because it’s so close to Pesach [Passover]. For us it will be [...]

Barbra Streisand to Sing at 90th Birthday Bash for Peres

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

Barbra Streisand will make her official performing debut in Israel at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference, where 4,500 people are expected to attend. Streisand is slated to perform at the opening ceremony of the Israeli Presidential Conference on June 18. She has traveled to Israel several times [...]

Pro-Israel Valerie Harper (Rhoda) Suffering Incurable Cancer

Posted on: March 11th, 2013

Although many people thought Harper was Jewish, she was actually Catholic. "I'm not Jewish, but I guess I've always been a Zionist without a word for it," she said.

Passover 5773-2013 Is Around the Corner

Posted on: March 10th, 2013

An elementary list of reminders regarding the Holiday of Freedom.

Husband Jumps Out of Court Window to Escape Divorce

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Jerusalem police deployed a helicopter Wednesday to help them look for a convict who jumped out from a bathroom window in rabbinical court rather than face divorce proceedings intended to free his estranged wife of 12 years to marry again. Shai Cohen, 40, has been in jail for six years for refusing to divorce his [...]

French School to Muslims and Jews: Let Them Eat Pork!

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

A French public school has stopped offering alternatives to pork in its cafeteria for its Jewish and Muslim pupils, and official said their solution is to be vegetarians. The alternative meats were removed last week to lower the overhead of running the cafeteria of the elementary school of Arveyres, a small town near Bordeaux in [...]

Brazilian Female Judo Champ Makes Aliyah

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

This martial artist is 21, Jewish, Brazilian and a woman. Her name is Camila Minakawa. She also is a judo champ, so it is a lot safer for Israel that she is on our side – she made aliyah on Wednesday.

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Sharansky Opens Agency in Munich, Fears Assimilation

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky opened a new Jewish campus in Munich this week and declared, “The Jewish community in Germany is indeed unique” but faces the challenge of assimilation. The campus will house the Jewish Agency’s Munich office and the European Janusz Korczak Academy, a Jewish Agency-supported school that integrates traditional Jewish learning with [...]

Chicken Shortage Rumor a Bad Egg

Posted on: March 5th, 2013

Hatched fears of a chicken shortage for Passover because of a one-day shutdown at Empire Kosher’s poultry plant are not even worth chickenfeed, according to an industry source. Empire shut down its large Mifflintown, Pa. plant on Monday a week ago, either because the chickens were underweight or had leg problems that made them non-kosher, [...]

Rabbi Froman of Tekoa, Gush Etzion, Dies after Long Illness

Posted on: March 4th, 2013

Rabbi Menachem Froman died Monday night at has home in Tekoa in Gush Etzion, where 200 of his students and followers sang and prayed instead of learning with him a weekly lesson in the mystical Zohar.

Canadian Doctors to Drop Anti-Circumcision Stance

Posted on: March 4th, 2013

The anti-circumcision crowd is about to suffer a setback with a “revolutionary” new policy by Canadian pediatricians, who will suggest, “Let the parents decide.”

Ukrainian Jewish Businessman Survives Murder Attack

Posted on: March 4th, 2013

Vadim Rabinovich, a Jewish Ukrainian philanthropist and businessman, survived an apparent attempt on his life in Kiev. According to the online edition of the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, an explosive device was hurled into Rabinovich’s car near the Klovska metro station on Monday. The daily said it was not yet clear whether Rabinovich, co-chairman of [...]

Bloomberg Rated as World’s 13th Richest Billionaire

Posted on: March 4th, 2013

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s worth is now around $27 billion, according to Forbes, placing him as the 13th richest billionaire in the world. At the top of the list for the second year in a  row is Mexico’s telecom entrepreneur Carlos Slim Helu and his family, whose worth is an astonishing $73 billion. Oracle [...]

‘Miracle Baby’ Dies

Posted on: March 4th, 2013

The “miracle baby” who was delivered after his Satmar community parents died in a traffic crash en route to a hospital on Shabbat has died. The New York Post reported that the baby will be named and circumcised and then buried next to  his parents, without a funeral ceremony. The 4-pound baby was listed in [...]

Warsaw to Transfer Ancient Jewish Cemetery to Jewish Community

Posted on: March 3rd, 2013

The city of Warsaw agreed to hand over ownership of an ancient cemetery to Poland’s Jewish community. The Brodno Cemetery, on the eastern banks of the Vistula River, will be handed over to the Jewish community in the coming weeks and undergo a major restoration operation this year, according to a report last week on [...]

Satmar Couple Killed in Motzei Shabbat Car Crash; Unborn Baby Survives (Video)

Posted on: March 3rd, 2013

Nachman Glauber’s rabbi told him to rush his wife to the hospital on the Sabbath after she said did not feel her unborn baby moving. The couple was killed in a crash. The baby was later delivered.

Joan Rivers Moves on from Holocaust Joke to Mimicking Hitler

Posted on: March 3rd, 2013

Joan Rivers ignored critics of her crass joke about the Holocaust at the Oscars last week and decided to have a go with Hitler, just for laughs. On Friday, she cut off a piece of her hair and held it where a mustache usually grows as she tried to mimic Hitler, according to Radaronline. Rivers [...]

IFCJ Denying Report on Netanya Charity Rejecting Donation

Posted on: March 1st, 2013

The money was contingent on hanging a sign revealing who were the givers.