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Yishai and Widen on Violence in the Middle East
 
Orthodox Yeshiva Graduates Class of Female Leaders

June 18, 2013 - 10:51 AM
 
Bennett: Police Got ‘Wide Powers’ to Catch ‘Price Tag’ Activists

June 18, 2013 - 10:22 AM
 
The RCA Supports Rabbi David Stav

June 18, 2013 - 8:04 AM
 
Film of Israeli Rape Victim Who Became Miss World, at AFI

June 18, 2013 - 6:19 AM
 
Streisand Spouts Off on Women ‘In Foreign Land of Israel’

June 18, 2013 - 12:28 AM
 
‘What’s Bad for the Goose is Worse for Kosher Slaughter’

June 17, 2013 - 10:56 PM
 
Los Angeles Freeway Project Causes Havoc with ‘Eruv’

June 17, 2013 - 10:23 PM
 
Egypt Fears Gaza Terrorists Planning Anti-Government Protests

June 17, 2013 - 9:55 PM
 
Montreal’s First Jewish Mayor Arrested in Corruption Crackdown

June 17, 2013 - 8:10 PM
 
Arming Rebels May Give Al Qaeda Missiles that Can Down Israeli Plane

June 17, 2013 - 7:50 PM
 
SodaStream Israel and KitchenAid Join Forces for New Machine

June 17, 2013 - 4:27 PM
 
Cancer-Stricken Girl Sings to Barbra Streisand

June 17, 2013 - 3:53 PM
 
Pope Francis Blesses Peres on Eve of His 90th Birthday

June 17, 2013 - 3:15 PM
 
‘Price Tag’ Attackers an ‘Illegal Group’ but not Terrorists

June 17, 2013 - 3:04 PM
 
NY Daily News: Brava to Alicia Keys’ Refusal to Bow to BDS

June 17, 2013 - 1:47 PM
 
Hundreds Detained in Istanbul Clashes

June 17, 2013 - 1:08 PM
 
Catsimatidis Quietly Breaks Record with 50 Friendraiser Events

June 17, 2013 - 12:41 PM
 
Bennett: ‘The Idea of Establishing a Palestinian State Reached a Dead End’

June 17, 2013 - 12:25 PM
 
Syrian TV: IAF Bombed Syrian Airport

June 17, 2013 - 12:04 PM
 
Rabbi Stav Attacked by Haredi Youths at a Wedding

June 17, 2013 - 9:47 AM
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As a preventative measure, the police closed part of the upper plaza – above the prayer plazas, to keep the protesters away from the women's section, and all the Women of the Wall were channeled into the plaza through a passageway running below the Mugrhabi bridge.
 

Women of the Wall Searching for Next ‘Struggle’

Posted on: June 9th, 2013

NewsHaredim

Police prepared for the monthly event, and from a law-and-order perspective it made perfect sense.

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Their high point was crossing the Erie Canal bridge, a marker that proved to them that they were going in the right direction.
 

Wonder Twins Complete Cycling Journey from Buffalo to Brooklyn

Posted on: June 9th, 2013

NewsJewish

They did it old school too, by avoiding the use of GPS technology to find their way.

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Weiner Gives Tzedakah
 

Video: Weiner Gives Tzedakah to Homeless Man

Posted on: June 8th, 2013

NewsJewish

Mr. Weiner spared the last dollar bill with the first guy that approached him.

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Headline from one of Turkey's largest newspapers.
 

What Took so Long: Jews Finally Blamed for Turkish Unrest?

Posted on: June 8th, 2013

NewsJewish

Erdogan blamed the "financial lobby" for Turkey's unrest and recent economic troubles. Sound familiar?

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Ant-Israel Activist Blaine Coleman with the ad the bus company won't accept.
 

Ann Arbor TA Bars ‘Boycott Israel’ bus Ads

Posted on: June 7th, 2013

NewsAntisemitism

In 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the AATA over the bus ad.

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Wolfson Medical Center
 

Baby Dies in Israeli Hospital following Circumcision

Posted on: June 7th, 2013

NewsIsrael

The circumcision had actually been performed flawlessly, and apparently baby choked during feeding.

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker
 

Pro-Israel PAC Endorses Booker for Lautenberg’s Senate Seat

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsIsrael

“We must ensure that this seat is filled by someone with the same passion and commitment to those critical issues.”

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At Jewish Forum Weiner Not the Comeback Kid
 

At Jewish Forum Weiner Is Hero But Not Comeback Kid (Video)

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsJewish

Weiner pleased the crowd, using continuously Hebrew and Yiddish phrases – such as Mikva, Kishkas and Eretz Yisroel.

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A member of Women of the Wall holds a Torah scroll outside a police station in Jerusalem earlier this year.
 

Women of the Wall Go for Broke, Plan to Read from Torah at Kotel

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsIsrael

Women of the Wall plan their monthly Rosh Chodesh prayers at the Kotel the second day of the month, with a Torah scroll. It’s okay to make up rules as they go along, so long as the Orthodox don’t make the rules.

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Super Bowl ad that upset Pepsi and Coke: 
'With SodaStream, we could have saved 500 million bottles on Game Day alone.'
 

Report: PepsiCo Offered $2B for ‘Settlements’ Labeled SodaStream

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsJewish

If you can’t beat’em, join’em. PepsiCo is reportedly bidding $2 billion buy out the Israeli SodaStream firm. A buyout could jeopardize the factory in Maaleh Adumim because of the boycott movement.

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The Norwegian daily Dagbladet not only defends its blood libel caricature of circumcision, it also equates the angry Jewish response as being like Muslim violence in response to anti-Mohammed cartoons.
 

Daily Compares Jewish Ire on Circumcision Cartoon to Muslim Riots

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsAntisemitism

The Oslo daily that published a blood libel caricature of circumcision now pours salt on Jewish wounds, stating that the angry reaction of Jews is just like the Muslim riots to cartoons mocking Mohammed.

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Greek Church’s ‘Eye or an Eye’ Blocks Jerusalem Festival

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsIsrael

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem said Tuesday that it will not allow Jerusalem to use church property in the Old City for a festival because of alleged police action against Christians, according to WAFA, the official website of the Palestinian Authority. Patriarch Theophilos III add that the festival “does not reflect in any way [...]

 

Empire Kosher Fined for Environmental Violations

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsJewish

Empire Kosher Poultry was fined $99,000 by Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection for repeat violations dating back to 2008. The infractions at America’s largest kosher poultry producer, which has its plant in Mifflintown, Pa., included chemical spills, discharge of untreated industrial wastewater into the nearby Juniata River, improper storage of solid waste and a lack [...]

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Robbers ‘Dressed Like Haredim’ Clean Out Jewish Jeweler

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsEurope

Armed robbers reportedly “dressed like Haredim” ripped off a Jewish jeweler in France before releasing toxic gas in the air. Four men approached the jeweler near his Marseille shop on Wednesday morning, the news site La Depeche reported. Two of them were “dressed like haredis,” according to the French news agency AFP. Two wore masks, [...]

A suspect was picked up in B'nei B'rak on Wednesday.
 

Homosexuals Arrested for Murder Originally Pinned on Orthodox

Posted on: June 6th, 2013

NewsHaredim

In 1995, “everyone” knew settlers murdered Rabin. The “settler” Yigal Amir was from the Haifa area. Four years ago, gays accused Haredi gay-haters for killing three homosexuals. Now police say, “Not so.”

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Two Jewish whiskey lovers at the 'Whiskey Jewbilee'
 

Shabbos Holds 100 Proof for Whiskey Lovers

Posted on: June 5th, 2013

NewsJewish

L’Chaim. Observing the Jewish Sabbath is secondary when it comes to saving a person’s life or performing a circumcision. But what happens a whiskey festival occurs on Shabbat? Hold a Whiskey Jewbilee.

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Argentinean Jew Investing in struggling Israeli Conglomerate

Posted on: June 5th, 2013

NewsIsrael

Argentinean real estate mogul Eduardo Elsztain said he will invest $75 million in Israel businesses, including $57 million in the struggling IDB group and $18 million in Ganden Holdings, both controlled by Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner. In February Elsztain, a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, bought a 10 percent stake in Ganden for [...]

 

Half of NY Wants Sheldon Silver Gone – Except his Voters

Posted on: June 5th, 2013

NewsJewish

Half of New York voters think that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver should quit because of his actions in the Vito Lopez sex harassment scandal, and 52 percent disapproved of his overall performance, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Which is a meaningless figure, since Silver continues to be very popular in his district which [...]

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Candidate Sal Albanese
 

Albanese and Salgado Left Out of FJCC Debate on Jewish Issues

Posted on: June 5th, 2013

NewsJewish

In an interview with Zev Brenner Saturday night, Josh Mehlman, the chairman of the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition told the radio host that only the major five Democratic candidates, that stand a chance to become the next mayor of New York City, will participate in Tuesday night’s mayoral forum on Jewish issues. Sal Albanese and [...]

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