Poland’s Kosher Meat Supply Disappearing after Ban on Slaughter

Posted on: April 8th, 2013

Poland’s Jewish community has about a one month supply of kosher meat left, following a ban on ritual slaughter that went into effect at the beginning of the year, Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, told the JTA on Monday from Warsaw. The status of ritual slaughter in Poland […]

‘Memories in the Living Room’ Replacing Holocaust Memorials

Posted on: April 8th, 2013

A typical evening consists of a conversation with a holocaust survivor, an artistic interlude, and group discussion.

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Hamas Attacks Sderot with Missile to Mark Holocaust Day

Posted on: April 7th, 2013

An early warning siren wailed in the Sderot area Sunday night, hours before a nationwide siren reminds the country of the Holocaust. “The journey for justice and freedom is not yet over,” said Peres.

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Peres: Holocaust ‘Cries from the Prayer Shawls’

Posted on: April 7th, 2013

The Holocaust “cries from the prayer shawls the hair, the shoes that we see with our own eyes, resonates as we step on the stones of the ghettos, [and] it floats like a ghost in the barracks of the camp, President Shimon Peres said at the beginning of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day Sunday night. […]

Chief of Staff, Son of Holocaust Survivor, Visits Auschwitz

Posted on: April 7th, 2013

A woman who survived the Holocaust had no idea at the time that her son would command Israel’s army. On Monday, Benny Gantz will become the first IDF Chief of Staff to lead the March of the Living.

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Nazi’s Mass Grave Posted on Facebook under Headline ‘Lazy Jews’

Posted on: April 7th, 2013

Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline “Lazy Jews.” In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlicky, Face book’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the hate page was […]

IDF Chief of Staff Visits Auschwitz (Video)

Posted on: April 7th, 2013

Lt. Gen. Gantz will be welcomed in a military ceremony upon his arrival in Poland.

Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day Starts Sunday Night

Posted on: April 6th, 2013

Yom HaShoah will open at sundown at Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem.

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Archaeologists’ Discovery May Be in Abraham’s Home City of Ur

Posted on: April 5th, 2013

“Terah took Abram his son, and Lot…and Sarai… from Ur…to go to the land of Canaan.” No one has ever found Ur – until now, with a “breathtaking find” of a 4,000-year-old public building near Ur.

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Kotel Rabbi Promises Women Won’t Be Arrested for Saying ’Kaddish’

Posted on: April 5th, 2013

Israel’s Haredi rabbis continue to make a mockery of themselves and of Judaism by pressing to arrest women for saying the mourner’s prayer at the Kotel. Sharansky comes to the rescue.

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Nazi-Looted Art to Return to Heirs of N.Y. Collector

Posted on: April 5th, 2013

Two artworks sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Germany will be returned to the heirs of New York art collector Michael Berolzheimer, who died in 1942 after escaping from Germany and settling in suburban WestchesterCounty. Berolzheimer and his family fled from Germany in 1938 after selling his art under duress, traveling first to […]

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US Jewish Leaders Hope Decision Will Spur EU to Ban Hizbullah

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is urging European nations to follow the example of France’s declaring Hizbullah a terrorist organization. “We welcome the French government’s decision, [which] follows the declaration by the Bulgarian government of Hizbullah’s responsibility for the attack in Burgas in July, 2012 and the conviction of a Hizbullah […]

Mother Blames Mohel for Baby’s Herpes after Circumcision

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

The question of the safety of the controversial ritual of sucking the baby’s blood after the foreskin is cut in a circumcision has again been raised following another case of Herpes.

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Anti-Semitic Vandals Paint Swastikas on LA School Baseball Field

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

Vandals painted swastikas and the word “skinhead” on an elementary school baseball field in metropolitan Los Angeles, according to school officials. Orange County’s Kaiser Elementary School Principal Deborah Granger told the Los Angeles Times that school staff saw the hate messages when they returned to school on Monday. Swastikas were also were painted on trash […]

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Princeton’s Rabbi James Diamond Killed in Traffic Accident

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

Rabbi James Diamond, the retired director of Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life, has died in a traffic accident after leaving a breakfast Talmud study group. Rabbi Diamond, 73, who retired from the center 10 years ago, was killed when a speeding car crashed into a parked car which the rabbi was entering on the […]

Israeli Hero Saved Two Bedouin Brothers from Drowning

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

An Israeli Jew saved two Bedouin brothers from the fate of three other brothers who drowned last Thursday, it was revealed this week. The brothers were swept off to sea by strong currents during their family’s visit to the Ashkelon coast. After four days of rescue efforts which involved the Israeli Navy, police ships, jet […]

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Pakistani Jewish Vote?

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

The Pakistani Election Commission lists approximately 800 voters as Jewish although there are virtually no Jews in the country, according to the country’s The News website contributor Dr. Abdul Majeed Abid. He facetiously asked, “We can only wait to see which way the ‘Jewish vote’ goes, if it goes anywhere.” He noted that no Jews […]

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US Dept. of Agriculture Probing LA Glatt Kosher Scandal

Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

The Doheny Glatt Kosher meat market controversy has reached the federal level, where the Dept. of Agriculture announced it is investigating accusations against Doheny owner Michael Engelmen that he sold meat that was not properly certified as kosher. Rabbinical councils usually take measures in similar cases, and legal action against improper kosher meat certification is […]

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Feiglin Wants Turkey Apology for Deaths of 766 Holocaust Refugees

Posted on: April 2nd, 2013

If Erdogan wants Israel to apologize for killing terrorists, it should search its own soul for the deaths of 766 Holocaust refugees by towing their stricken ship to the high seas, where it was sunk.

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Jews Showcased in Berlin — Literally

Posted on: April 2nd, 2013

Germans find out "The Whole Truth … everything you always wanted to know about Jews" at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

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