“Israeli right wing activists hold signs as they protest outside the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not seen, in Jerusalem, Monday, July 27. 2009. U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell on Monday pressed Israel to start “dealing” with its West Bank settlements as a step toward bringing a comprehensive peace to the Middle East. […]
“As a result, a ring has been placed around East Jerusalem that is intended to impede partition of the Israeli capital — one of the political objectives of the American multimillionaire’s acts of charity. Moskowitz makes no secret of his motives. He has compared the Oslo Accords, which were intended to encourage accommodation between Israelis […]
“The rewards could come from state governments or approved charities, not from individuals, and the organs would be distributed according to formulas already in place. That means organs will not be available only to the wealthy. What Mr. Rosenbaum is accused of doing is indeed against the law, and if he is found guilty he […]
“Einstein supported a “homeland” for Jews in Palestine, but he opposed a Jewish state “with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power.” Since two-thirds of the population of Palestine consisted of Arabs, he preferred bi-national status with “continuously functioning, mixed, administrative, economic, and social organizations.” Only cooperation with Arabs, led by “educated, spiritually […]
Chris Christie and Jon Corzine as The Honeymooners
“New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s re-election bid may be damaged by the federal corruption arrests of 44 people yesterday, which shifted attention from the economy to the state’s reputation for pay-to-play politics. The investigation was ongoing while Christopher Christie, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, was the U.S. attorney for […]
Yerushalayim Magistrate’s Court Judge Shulamit Dotan has placed Yenti, the Meah Shearim mother accused of starving her son, Chaimkeh, under house arrest and has ruled that she can see her other children. At the same time, askanim, led by the indefatigable Rebbetzin Yocheved Grossman, have created a website containing accurate information about the case, as […]
photo: Rabbi Saul J. Kassin outside federal court in Newark on Thursday. He was one of five rabbis charged in a wide-ranging money-laundering investigation
“In a criminal complaint, the F.B.I. said the rabbis used their congregations’ charitable organizations to launder about $3 million — passing what they were told was a donor’s ill-gotten gains through their […]
“Eventually she was evaluated by Dr. Weil, who was acceptable to both the State and the (ultra-Orthodox) community. Dr. Weil offered unequivocal conclusions, and determined that my client poses no danger to her children and can return home.”The police apparently found this conclusion unsatisfactory, because the district psychiatrist was called on… and in some peculiar, […]
In the Netherlands an important relic from World War II —the shed where Jewish diarist Anne Frank last worked as a slave laborer — has burned down, most likely as a result of arson. The place where famous World War II diarist Anne Frank worked has been destroyed. The shed from Dutch transit camp, Westerbork, […]
“American gedolim have signed a letter written by the Novominsker Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Perlow, Rosh Agudas Yisroel of America, encouraging Yidden to provide financial assistance to R’ Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin. The letter, which was written on 9 Tammuz by the Novominsker Rebbe himself, was signed by Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, rosh yeshiva of Philadelphia Yeshiva; the […]
“In 1897, Isaac Fromme, an office-seeker from the largely Jewish Lower East Side, punctuated his campaign palaver with Yiddishisms to refute insinuations that he was Irish. In 1922, Fiorello H. La Guardia was re-elected to Congress from East Harlem after he rebutted charges of anti-Semitism by challenging a rival to debate in Yiddish. La Guardia, […]
Tammuz 28 is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum (1759-1841) of Uhely, Hungary, author of Yismach Moshe and patriarch of the Hungarian Chassidic dynasties.
” After his daughter married the Aryeh D’Bei Ila’i Rav Aryeh Leib Lipshitz he noticed strange behavior by his new son-in-law. When he realized that Rav Aryeh Leib was a chosid he […]
