Paris Jewish School Rabbi Indicted for not Reporting Sex Abuse

Posted on: February 24th, 2013

The principal of a Jewish school in Paris was indicted for failing to report the sexual abuse of minors. The television network RILL reported that a Paris magistrate indicted the principal, identified by RILL as Rabbi Benjamin M., 55, on Feb. 21 for “non-reporting of sexual abuse of minors under 15 years.” Victims’ parents told [...]

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Smartphone app Has Text of Megillah and Drowns Out Haman’s Name

Posted on: February 24th, 2013

What would Purim be without the following apps? One Smartphone app provides a noisemaker, and another lets you choose which noise to make – such as a machine gun or air horn.

Germany Drops Charges against Mohel

Posted on: February 24th, 2013

A German prosecutor has dropped all charges against Rabbi David Goldberg , who faced a criminal trial last year after a Cologne court ruled that circumcision was illegal in Germany. The ruling followed a case of a four-year-old Muslim boy who was hospitalized for excessive bleeding after being circumcised The German parliament has since passed [...]

Samsung Israel Treats Facebook Friends with Purim

Posted on: February 24th, 2013

Samsung, which operates R & D operations in Israel, is sending 10,000 baskets of Purim Mishloach Manot goodies to anyone whose relative or friends signed him up on the company’s Mobile Israel Facebook page. The company also contributed to two charity organizations by paying the Variety Israel and Enosh Fund organizations to pack the snacks [...]

Modern Orthodox Students Meet to ‘Slam’ in Poetry Combat

Posted on: February 22nd, 2013

The students could have come from anywhere, but the content of many of the poems dealt with various aspects of their relationship to God and to Judaism.

Vienna Jewish Museum Contains Looted Objects, Officials Say

Posted on: February 21st, 2013

Officials from the Jewish Museum of Vienna said that hundreds of objects in the museum’s possession were looted from Jewish families during the Holocaust. A review of the artifacts found 490 objects and more than 980 books that may have been stolen from Jewish owners, The New York Times reported Wednesday. “For historic reasons, people [...]

Jews in Washington Launch Fund to Help Gross and other Jailed Jews

Posted on: February 21st, 2013

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington established a legal defense fund for Jews being held wrongfully because of their Jewishness and will assist Alan Gross, who is in prison in Cuba. Financial contributions will be used to help cover the legal defense of Jews in the United States and throughout the world who [...]

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Police Let Sarah Silverman’s Niece Visit Western Wall on Purim

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Police have agreed to allow the niece of American comedian Sarah Silverman will be allowed to attend a women’s Megillah reading at the Western Wall despite being banned from the site. Hallel Abramowitz Silverman, 17, was one of 10 female worshipers arrested for wearing prayer shawls during a women’s Rosh Chodesh prayer service at the [...]

Maryland May Allow Online Purchase of Israeli Wines

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

Maryland state legislators are pushing a bill that would allow online purchases of kosher wines for international retailers as “a reasonable religious accommodation that allows Marylanders of the Jewish faith to live out their faith more easily,” said Democrat Delegate Sam Arora. The state’s Daily Record, a publication focusing on law, reported that the state’s [...]

Rice Implores BBYO Teens to Work for Change

Posted on: February 18th, 2013

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice charged teens at BBYO’s International Convention to “get impatient with the way things are so you can dream of the ways things can be.” Rice addressed some 1,700 B’nai Brith teens, staff and community last week, and the youth dispersed to 34 service sites across Washington to perform a collective 6,000 [...]

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Netanyahu Wants Sharansky for Second Term as Jewish Agency Head

Posted on: February 18th, 2013

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Jewish Agency Board of Governors Monday that Agency head Natan Sharansky is “a giant of the Jewish people,” and he asked the Board to renew his position for another four years. Sharansky, whose low height makes him an unlikely basketball star, “is the tallest chairman of the Jewish Agency,” [...]

Civil Rights Violations, Lies & Audiotape: B’klyn College Still in Spotlight

Posted on: February 18th, 2013

We are now in a situation where there seems to be no two ways about it - someone is lying, maybe several people. And school officials, both administration representatives as well as faculty members were on the scene - so if the students were unfairly ejected, an apology will hardly suffice.

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King Herod Exhibition Tracing the Life of a Builder and a Murderer

Posted on: February 14th, 2013

Lionized as “the greatest builder in human history,” King Herod was also demonized for his cruelty and his shady religious origins.

Argentinean Jewish FM Slams Israel over Iran Collaboration

Posted on: February 14th, 2013

Dealing with Iran was not "pleasant," he said in his testimony, "but our goal is advancing the AMIA case."

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Police Arrest 10 Women of the Wall as Liberating Paratroopers Watch

Posted on: February 11th, 2013

WOW spokesperson said police behavior was "sneaky," or at least confusing, seeing as they arrested the women after they had already cleared the area.

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NGOs to Promote Social Change in Israel through ‘Forgotten Mitzvahs’

Posted on: February 10th, 2013

"Our joint goal is to have the Torah guide our agenda in all areas of life."

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Ed Koch: Fiercely Jewish But Buried in a Churchyard

Posted on: February 5th, 2013

He explained at the time that he could not bear the idea that his body would have to leave New York City. "This is my home, the idea of having to go to New Jersey was so distressing to me."

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British Judge Accepts N.Y. Beth Din’s Divorce Ruling

Posted on: February 4th, 2013

A British judge reportedly has accepted a U.S. rabbinical court’s ruling in a dispute between a haredi Orthodox man and his ex-wife.

Northern Most Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Celebrated in Murmansk

Posted on: February 4th, 2013

On the day of the ceremony, the entrance to the Jewish Agency building in the city was blocked by snow.

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Hall of Fame Punts Late Ravens’ Jewish Owner Art Modell

Posted on: February 3rd, 2013

Art Modell, who died in September, helped make pro football a multi-billion dollar empire, but the late Jewish owner of the Ravens won’t make it into the Hall of Fame, at least not this time.