Harvard University, one of America’s premiere academic institutions, is coming under fire for running an advertisement in its campus newspaper questioning the reality of the Holocaust. Recently named for the second straight year as the No. 1 school in U.S. News & World Report rankings of American colleges, Harvard is known for its rigorous scholarly […]
“I am outraged by the fact that the haredim in Israel are forced “back into the closet”. They are asked to sit quietly, in the dark, while studying the Talmud as not to disturb secular Israelis with their unwanted presence. They are being informed that they must not shop at stores that desecrate the Shabbat, […]
“Following haredi pressure, Ben-Gurion Airport keeps arriving passengers in planes which land in Israel with a body in their cargo areas, until corpse is removed. Airlines demand a different solution, saying ‘torture of passengers must end’. A number of airlines demanded last week that the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) stop the “impurity of Kohanim” procedure. […]
“A rare Hebrew manuscript written in 14th century Germany is going on display for the first time, just before the Jewish New Year, Israel Museum officials said Wednesday. The Nuremberg Mahzor got its name from its home for more than 300 years — the Nuremberg municipal library in Germany. The manuscript was originally commissioned for […]
“CAIRO — Egyptians generally do not make any distinction between Jewish people and Israelis. Israelis are seen as the enemy, so Jews are, too. Khalid Badr, 40, is pretty typical in that regard, living in a neighborhood of winding, rutted roads in Old Cairo, selling snacks from a kiosk while listening to the Koran on […]
“Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the hareidi-religious Jew who heads the Zaka emergency service, said Thursday that hareidi demonstrations will continue. Interviewed by Arutz 7, Meshi-Zahav said that the public does not recognize the dynamic under which the community acts. He explained that the community does not recognize the secular state and that demonstrations are the community’s only […]
“The image is said to have been created in Vienna by Hitler’s art teacher, Emma Lowenstramm, and is signed on the reverse by the two dictators. Hitler was a jobbing artist in the city in 1909 and Lenin was in exile and the house where they allegedly played the […]
“New York state has provided New Square with $1.6 million toward the construction of a massive poultry processing plant in the village, next door to New Hempstead. The state money was part of $153.6 million in “Restore New York” grants announced yesterday by Gov. David Paterson and Denis Mullen, the CEO and chairman of the […]
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky sent a letter to Religious Affairs Minister Ya’acov Margi last week in which he rejects Margi’s claim that only Orthodox institutions are eligible for state-funded religious services.”I was surprised to read your statements in The Jerusalem Post in which you claim that only institutions that are run in accordance with […]
“The Internal Revenue Service will expand a program designed to catch tax cheats that searches for inconsistencies between mortgage payments and income. After prompting from an IRS auditor, the agency will study whether it should make greater use of data on mortgage-interest payments provided to it by banks. The IRS currently uses such data to […]
“John Kalymon, 88, once known as Iwan Kalymon sheds a tear talking about his deportation outside his home Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 in Troy. Kalymon, accused of helping the Nazis during World War II as a Ukrainian policeman, says the government’s decision to try to deport him is “terrible.” The Justice Department charges that he […]
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