“What kind of a Jew are you? Can you sing Lecha Dodi? And do you fast on Yom Kippur? These are just some of the questions Israeli security personnel at the country’s airports and border crossings ask tourists whose names, passports or replies to other queries indicate they may be Jewish. A Jerusalem-based US journalist […]
“The Central Bureau of Statistics recently released data that showed there were 117,000 Jewish births in Israel in 2008.
The number of abortions in Israel for the same year is estimated to be over 40,000. Thus in 2008, of the approximately 160,000 pregnancies in Israel, 120,000 led to births and 40,000 (one in four) ended in […]
“New York…Major changes are looming for customers that covet the higher kosher standard of Cholov Yisroel dairy, KosherToday has learned. A new brand, Machmirim, has already made its debut with milk and is expected to roll out many additional products, including yogurt. It is already being sold at lower prices than the existing products, such […]
Ukraine – Residents of the east Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk celebrated the inauguration of a memorial built in honor of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Schneerson, the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory. Rabbi Levi Yitzhak served as the Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk (then known as Yekaterinoslav) from 1909 to 1939. […]
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” Yidden may be banned from davening at the Kosel for the first time since the site was restored to Jewish rule some 60 years ago during the upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI. The rov of the Kosel, Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz, said he is strongly against the idea, but some officials are saying […]
“In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, right, greets Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi in the Israeli city of Haifa, on the occasion of the pontiff’s meeting with a delegation of Israel’s chief rabbinate, part of regularly planned consultations to discuss aspects of Catholic and Jewish religious teachings, at […]
“An seemingly inebriated Jewish settler dressed as a soldier dances with others during an annual parade marking the Jewish holiday of Purim as they walk through a Palestinian area in the divided West Bank town of Hebron, Tuesday, March 10, 2009. The festival of Purim commemorates the rescue of Jews from genocide in ancient Persia. […]
“As Jews around the world are celebrating Purim, one Egyptian cleric has used the holiday to launch an attack against Starbucks, claiming that the woman in the logo of the international chain is Queen Esther, and her presence warrants a boycott of the company throughout the Arab world… “We want Starbucks to be shut down […]
“Gogol, now best known for his later works, like “Dead Souls,” “The Overcoat” and “The Inspector General,” first became famous for his tales of provincial Ukraine, which he peopled with an amalgam of Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Poles and Gypsies. In his first successful story, “The Sorochintsy Fair” (1830), we marvel at how “a gypsy and […]
“Are you ready to get on the Purim party bus?” Rabbi Saadya Notik screamed Tuesday to a group of women, many in costume, standing on a sidewalk at Mount Holyoke College. The women rushed to the charter bus, a virtual nightclub on wheels, where neon lights pulsed, smoke billowed from underneath the seats and music […]
“German prosecutors believe that John Demjanjuk was a sadistic guard at the notorious death camp Sobibor. They would like to put him on trial in Munich, but his family says the 88 year old is too old and frail to be extradited — and that he is innocent anyway. ” more@Spiegel.de
“In May, the Pope is coming to Israel and our government is ready to spend a few million Shekels on fixing churches and make everything nicer for the Pope. So, that Your “Holiness” is getting the very best impression.”
“… Maybe I should be against his visit, as this is the Holy Land, and idol worshippers […]
