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” Orthodox Jewish youth stand on a roof of a disputed house in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, Dec. 25, 2009.” DayLife.com

” Many drivers no doubt have no idea who that is. And that’s precisely why the signs are there.
On March 1, 1994, Ari Halberstam was shot on the ramp as he and other yeshiva students were returning to Brooklyn in a van from a vigil for the ailing Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Ari died […]

“That’s where the Imam is standing, note cards in hand, a tiny microphone clipped to his lapel. The men and women stand up, raise their hands on either side of their head, murmur “Allahu akhbar,” bow and kneel again. This is how it always starts, the Friday prayer held by Muslims worldwide — even here […]

“”If Gilad Shalit, Heaven forbid, is executed or not returned in peace, prisoners will be executed immediately,” ruled the court of the reestablished “Sandhedrin” organization, in a ruling published last week on the backdrop of the negotiations  to release the captured Israeli soldier. The rabbis even recommended that Israel capture senior Palestinian figures – “including […]

“A poster of a conservative initiative promoting the ban of the building of minarets in Switzerland is sprayed with a peace sign and a sticker saying “thank you” in the village of Amsteg in central Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the […]

“Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government. In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking […]

“Then, amid terrible violence unleashed against Jewish Viennese, King Zog messengered to Fritzi’s father the papers that would grant all members of the Weitzman family safe passage to Albania. In all, Fritzi and twelve relatives immigrated to Albania. The day after Kristallnacht, Fritzi and her immediately family left Vienna and arrived in the port city […]

“Palestinian primary school students display 50 New Israeli Shekels bills they received from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to help impoverished families, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 15, 2009. ” DayLife

“It was only weeks ago that a German ship was found carrying weapons intended for the Islamist militants of Hezbollah. Now, Israeli special forces have discovered another German-owned ship carrying 36 containers full of munitions and have accused Iran of having sent the cache to Hezbollah.Late on Tuesday night, special forces belonging to the Israeli […]

“For more than three decades, visionaries have imagined tapping solar power where the sun always shines—in space. If we could place giant solar panels in orbit around the Earth, and beam even a fraction of the available energy back to Earth, they could deliver nonstop electricity to any place on the planet. The technology may […]

“On Monday, a secret Hezbollah munitions bunker in South Lebanon blew up under mysterious circumstances, injuring a senior official in the organization. This is the second such incident in recent months. The first occurred on July 14, when an explosion destroyed a major Hezbollah munitions dump in the South Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim. Hezbollah […]