Archive for December 10, 2014
Poland’s Constitutional Court overturns ban on kosher slaughter
Constitutional court’s decision in favor of an EJA-led petition against the ban, that would have been implemented in 2015, came just in time.
European Jewish Association director: ‘This is an important day for all European Jews.’
ByYnet
Poland’s constitutional court on Wednesday allowed the resumption of kosher slaughter in the country, ruling in favor of a petition to overturn a ban implemented last year.
Kosher slaughter will remain lawful in Poland. – Photo: EPA
“Jewish communities all over Europe can sigh in relief,” said a statement by the European Jewish Association (EJA), which led the drive to reallow kosher slaughter in Poland. Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News, The Diaspora |
Tags: Courts, Jewish Culture, Jewish Diaspora, Jewish food, kosher, Poland, shechita, shechita ban
Palestinians ‘Suspends Coordination’ after PA Official Dies During Confrontation with IDF
Senior gov’t official, in Abbas’ Palestinian Authority, Ziad Abu Ein died after apparent heart attack. Abu Ein, who often clashed with the IDF, had high blood pressure and still refused help from an Israeli army paramedic.
By Gil Ronen, Ari Yashar
A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official died Wednesday, after he apparently suffered a heart attack during a “protest march” in Samaria. Arab sources claim he was struck by soldiers.
Ziad Abu Ein in previous clash with IDF soldiers in Hevron two weeks ago – Photo: Reuters
Channel 2 news‘s website cited PA sources who said that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas has decided to suspend security coordination with Israel as a result.
Category: Israel News |
Tags: Ziad Abu Ein
What happens to Christians under the proposed ‘Jewish State Bill’ ?
Minority religious groups are worried about the impact of the proposed Jewish State bill. But the proposed legislation seeks to only place in law Israel’s ‘Jewishness’, that’s already being practiced.
Christians in Israel are debating whether the proposed “Jewish State” bill will weaken Israel’s democracy by marginalizing minority religious groups, or whether it will strengthen the Holy Land as a unified state.
A Christian woman outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. – Photo: ARIEL COHEN
The “Jewish State” bill legally defines Israel as “the nation-state of the Jewish people,” and reinforces the use of “Hatikva” as the national anthem, state symbols, use of the Hebrew calendar and the Law of Return. Continue Reading »
Category: Israel News |
Tags: Arab Christians, Christians and Jews, Father Gabriel Naddaf, Israeli Christians, minorities
Jerusalem District Court has ruled against gender segregation at funerals
The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that unless deceased’s family specifically requests segregation, Chevra Kadisha burial society can no longer place signs separating between men & women at cemeteries.
By Kobi Nachshoni
The Chevra Kadisha burial society will not be able to place signs separating between men and women in cemeteries, unless the deceased’s family specifically asks for it, the Jerusalem District Court has ruled.
Sign reads, ‘Men to the right, women to the left’ (archives)
The outline suggested by the court has been accepted by both Chevra Kadisha and groups opposing gender segregation. The parties are now waiting for Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein to confirm that the proposal does not fall under the category of forbidden exclusion of women in the public domain. Continue Reading »
Category: Israel News |
Tags: Chevra Kadisha, District Court, IRAC, Jerusalem, Jewish cemetery, religion, religious rights
Israel arrests US citizen with 3lbs of explosives, was approached by Palestinian to kill Obama
According to the Shin Bet, Adam Everett Livvix, a 30 yr-old Texan Christian who was living in the Palestinian territories, was approached about assassinating U.S. President Barack Obama.
By Gili Cohen , Amos Harel & The Associated Press
The Israel Police and Shin Bet Security Service released information on Tuesday regarding a Christian American citizen arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack on Muslim holy sites in Israel.
Tourists pose for a picture in front of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City October 19, 2014.
Palestinian President Pays Caught Terrorist Prisoners More Than His PA Police
MK Orit Struk revealed in Knesset Committee meeting, “Being a terrorist actually becomes a profession of choice.”
By Hezki Ezra and Tova Dvorin
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee debated Sunday a groundbreaking proposal to offset the money Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority (PA) by funneling money given to terrorists back into the State.
Prisoner captive jail bars – Thinkstock
MK Orit Struk (Jewish Home), one of the initiators of the bill, noted that funds given to the PA are a significant factor in encouraging terrorism against Israelis and Jews.
“Being a terrorist actually becomes a profession of choice,” Struk stated during the hearing.
Category: Israel News |
Tags: Israel-PA, Knesset, MK Orit Struk, Palestinian prisoners, terrorist pensions
WATCH: Arab Born Kuwaiti Muslim Discusses His Return to Judaism
Interview with Kuwaiti man who, like all Arab children is raised to hate Israel, discovers his Jewish ancestry so he moves to the Jewish state to marry & raise Jewish children.
By Israel Today Staff
Mordechai Halawa’s touching story of growing up a Kuwaiti Muslim with Palestinian Arab ancestry only to discover he’s actually a Jew has been making the rounds in the Israeli media over the past week.
Mordechai Halawa in Jerusalem, where he now lives – Photo: Orot TV
Born Mumtaz Halawa, he always knew his grandmother had been a Jew who converted to Islam in order to marry his grandfather, an Arab from what is now the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Nablus (biblical Shechem).
Category: Israel News |
Tags: Jewish World
Jewish Damascus Bibles could spark ownership challenge
Decades after the Mossad smuggled the ancient Hebrew Bibles out of Syria, Israel’s national library asks court to grant it custodianship to enshrine them as “owned by the Jewish people.”
By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff
Two decades after Israeli spies helped Syrian Jews whisk ancient Hebrew Bibles from Damascus to Jerusalem, Israel’s national library asked an Israeli court on Monday to grant it custodianship over the manuscripts — a move that could spark an ownership battle over some of the Syrian Jewish community’s most important treasures.
A library official shows a Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem – Photo: AP
Known as the Crowns of Damascus, the nine leather-bound parchment books — some featuring microscopic calligraphy and gold-leaf illuminations — were written mostly in Spain and Italy between 700 and 1,000 years ago. Continue Reading »
Dramatic Video Released: Footage of stabbing attack at Chabad yeshiva in Brooklyn
Reason for the attack is still unknown, but some claim it was a hate crime.
By SAM SOKOL
Dramatic footage of Monday’s stabbing attack against an Israeli yeshiva student outside of Chabad’s international headquarters in Brooklyn was released Tuesday.
Stabbing attack against an Israeli yeshiva student – Screenshot
The attacker, an unidentified African-American described as a homeless man by the Daily News, entered the building and, according to witnesses, asked for a book. He subsequently left but then returned and took out a switchblade, menacing a group of students before stabbing 22-year-old Levi Yitzchok ben Raizel of Betar Illit, Israel. Continue Reading »
Israeli Ambassador to Sweden: Stockholm should look at itself before it judges Israel
The UN panel against torture reported on Sweden’s illegal treatment of minors, minorities, and refugees prompted the Israeli envoy to hit back at the country that hypocritically criticizes Israeli policy in territories.
By Itamar Eichner
A United Nations report accusing Sweden of violating human rights of refugees, minors and minorities has been serving as a basis for a diplomatic settling of scores between Stockholm and Jerusalem, with critics saying Sweden must take a hard look at itself before it slams Israeli policy towards Palestinians.
Sweden’s Riksdagshuset – Photo courtesy, Wikipedia Commons
The report, presented by the United Nations Committee against Torture, criticized the treatment of children in Swedish detention and custody. Continue Reading »
Palestine newest observers at International Criminal Court
New status is said to be first step toward joining the world’s international war crimes tribunal in order to later press charges against Israel for alleged war crimes.
By The Associated Press
The Palestinians have become observers at the summit meeting of the 122 countries that are members of the International Criminal Court, a move they say is a step toward joining the world’s permanent war crimes tribunal.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas acknowledges the audience after delivering a speech at Cooper Union, Sept. 22, 2014.- Photo: AP
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to seek membership in the ICC in order to press charges against Israel for alleged war crimes. Continue Reading »
No one makes notice that Arabs are moving into Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem
Int’l media, in maintaining their double standard, ignore how middle-class Arab families are steadily moving to the Pisgat Ze’ev, French Hill & Neveh Ya’acov neighborhoods of ‘Jewish’ Jerusalem for cheaper rent & better municipal services.
Continue Reading »Report: 2 Hezbollah members killed during air-strike on Syria
Arabic-language press reports alleged IAF strike targeted sites storing Russian-made advanced Syrian missiles for Hezbollah.
Moscow demands explanation.
By Roi Kais
Two Hezbollah activists were killed Sunday in what foreign sources have said was an Israeli airstrike on military targets in Syria, the Al Arabiya news channel reported Monday. The report contradicts earlier claims by Syrian security forces, who said Sunday that there had been no casualties in the attack.
Smoke trails over Syria allegedly left by IAF warplanes.
While official Israel continues to keep mum on the daylight attack in Syria that has been attributed to it, the Arab press has in the meantime published more and more details about the alleged Israeli assault. Continue Reading »
U.K. synagogue cancels Dr. Mordechai Kedar as invited speaker
Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University served for 25 years in IDF Military Intelligence specializing in Arab political discourse but his opponents say his opinion is “toxic for interfaith relations”.
A leading London synagogue has cancelled a talk by an Israeli academic who said earlier this year that the only way to deter terrorists is by raping their female relatives.
Mordechai Kedar – Photo: Michal Fattal
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, of Bar-Ilan University, was due to speak at the Finchley United Synagogue on Monday night as part of a speaking tour in the United Kingdom organized by the local Zionist Federation, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Continue Reading »