Posted on: April 22nd, 2013

Traditionally, a religious Interior minister decided in favor of the religious, but now things have changed.

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Posted on: April 21st, 2013

South Koreans love the Talmud, a mandatory school course. A Korean language version is popular, and a Samsung official visited an Israeli yeshiva to grasp “the growing grounds” of the Jewish genius.

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Posted on: April 19th, 2013

Yesh Atid opposes both the Jewish Home candidate and the tricky legislation his appointment would require.

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Posted on: April 18th, 2013

The 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 […]

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Posted on: April 18th, 2013

Two leading Orthodox rabbis in Winnipeg are split over part of a bill, proposed last December, which would require any school that receives provincial funding to allow students to create a gay-straight alliance club. Fearing that Christian schools will be forced to accept such clubs, many Christian leaders in Manitoba have opposed the bill. But […]

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Posted on: April 17th, 2013

Likud Knesset Member Miri Regev announced Wednesday she will visit the Temple Mount to try to understand the problem with Jews praying at the holy site. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf officially controls the Temple Mount, a power granted to it by the Israeli government shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967. MK Regev, who chairs […]

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Posted on: April 17th, 2013

President Peres showed off his lack of knowledge of Jewish law and told the NY UJA, “The Torah does not ban women from wearing a tallis.”

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Posted on: April 17th, 2013

"A mother of two university graduate daughters, Magda Haroun is fluent in Arabic, French, English and moderate Italian."

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Posted on: April 16th, 2013

Do you remember where you were when Sandy Koufax said he would not play on Yom Kippur. The National Museum of American Jewish History is looking for you.

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Posted on: April 16th, 2013

“You can imagine the pandemonium. Everyone was running, and glass was flying around."

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Posted on: April 15th, 2013

This really is Independence Day! Satmar sets up an emergency panel to hustle IDF Draft Refugees’ out of Israel lest they be contaminated by serving the country. Let them be America’s problem.

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Posted on: April 15th, 2013

An 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 12th, 2013

Look up in the sky? Is It a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Plastic Man – the Orthodox Jew who wrapped himself in plastic on an airplane, apparently because he is a very scrupulous Kohen.

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Posted on: April 11th, 2013

Judge Sharon Larry Bavly stated that there was no cause for arresting the women.

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Posted on: April 11th, 2013

Meretz MKs Tamar Zandberg and Michal Rozin attended the ceremony.

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Posted on: April 10th, 2013

Illinois Rabbi Samuel N. Gordon and public relations executive Maureen Schulman are the newest members of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council, appointed on Tuesday by President Barack Obama. Rabbi Gordon is the founding rabbi of Congregation Sukkat Shalom in Wilmette, Ill. and is vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He also […]

Posted on: April 10th, 2013

Israeli archaeologists love highway contractors. Excavation for new roads frequently digs up history, and this time they struck it rich, finding a rare mikveh from the late Second Temple Period.

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Posted on: April 10th, 2013

They will be joined by MKs Tamara Zandberg and Michal Rozin.

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Posted on: April 9th, 2013

Sharansky says the Western Wall is long enough for women to have their own minyan and Torah reading. The Women of the Wall leader accepts the compromise. Will the Rabbinate big enough to agree?

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Posted on: April 9th, 2013

Barabe’s team was part of an effort organized by the National Geographic Society to authenticate the Gospel of Judas.