Iraqi police officers demonstrate their strength and nerve during a graduation ceremony in the southern city of Karbala on Monday. Special forces officers graduated from several divisions — including the police — at their training ground head quarters. Spiegel.de
“I don’t think the Jewish community can survive at this point without Rubashkin,” the owner of KosherMart in Rockville, Md., Mordechai Yitzhaky, said of the family that owns Agriprocessors. NYsun
“Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday”.
“In it, the renowned scientist, who declined an invitation to become Israel’s second president, rejected the idea that the Jews are God’s chosen people” “And […]
Despite the severity of their dress—black from skullcap to shoes for men, ankle-length skirts and head scarves for women—the Hasidim are not a somber people. The founder of the movement, the Baal Shem Tov, taught that God wants his creatures to approach him with enthusiasm and joy. His followers (Hasidim means “the pious”) put singing […]
Haredi Community’s leaders urge their public not to buy products adorned with Israeli flag “or any other symbol that advocates Zionist idolatry”
The Haredi Community, an ultra-Orthodox communal organization which strongly opposes Zionism, declared a consumers’ boycott on leading Israeli food brands that have been adorned with the Israeli flag in honor of the country’s 60th […]
The Federal Reserve and two other banking regulators are set to unveil today one of the most aggressive efforts in decades to crack down on the credit card industry, prohibiting practices such as arbitrarily raising interest rates on outstanding balances.The proposed regulations, which could be finalized by year’s end, would label as “unfair or […]
“Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the “Weissensee outrage” was an “intolerable insult to the memory of the 6 million victims of the Shoah.” The desecration was deliberately carried out on the night before Yom Hashoah, the Jewish Holocaust remembrance day, she says. “It looks like the work of […]
In Brooklyn, half the paycheck is going to the landlord.
From Bensonhurst to Williamsburg, 30% of Brooklynites are spending more than half of their income on the almighty rent check, a new study shows. More than 167,000 Brooklyn renters paid much more in 2006 than what financial experts typically recommend spending on rent: 30% of annual […]
The back story of how a Torah got from the fetid barracks of Auschwitz to the ark of the Central Synagogue at Lexington Avenue and 55th Street is one the pastor of the Lutheran church down the street sums up as simply “miraculous.”It is the story of a sexton in the synagogue in the Polish […]
TEL AVIV – Two musical talents with intertwining twists of fate… Ken Burgess, a noted composer, producer and singer, almost formed a duo with John Lennon after the Beatles broke up in 1970. Two decades later, Burgess converted to Orthodox Judaism and later went on to record several Jewish music records….Now his wife, Navah Baruchin, […]
AMSTERDAM — Dutch director Paul Verhoeven will publish his long-awaited biography of Jesus of Nazareth in September.
Published by Amsterdam-based Meulenhoff, the book is the result of more than 20 years of research. Over the years, Verhoeven was a regular attendee of U.S. scholar Robert W. Funk’s Jesus seminars, which call into question miracles and statements […]
THE Hasidic enclave of South Williamsburg is a good place to be a shoe repairman. Several cobblers there make a living thanks to the distinctive formality of the local Hasidic Jews, a formality that spares only the babies. In a community where men and boys wear long, double-breasted coats with matching felt hats, where women […]
