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| July 17, 2012
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Sheldon and Miriam Adelson give $13m. to Birthright-Taglit

American Billionaire couple says the donation will bring another 5,000 young adults on free trips to Israel in 2012.

By GIL SHEFLER

 

Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam donated 13 million dollars to Birthright-Taglit, it was announced on Tuesday.

The couple’s gift to the organization, which brings young Jewish adults on free trips to Israel, came in addition to the 20 million dollars they already gave it earlier this year.
Taglit Mega Event - Photo: Courtesy

Taglit Mega Event – Photo: Courtesy

“We are so grateful to the Adelsons for all they have done for us,” said Gidi Mark, CEO of Taglit-Birthright Israel. “This new gift brings their total giving to over $140 million and moves us significantly toward our target of 42,000 participants this year.
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| July 17, 2012
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Merkel: Germany will soon become a laughingstock over our circumcision ban

Germany’s Chancellor told party members she didn’t want Germany to be the ‘only country in which Jews cannot practice their rites’

By AFP

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party the country risked becoming a “laughingstock” over a court ruling calling religious circumcision a criminal act, according to a report Monday.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel Photo: AFP

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel – Photo: AFP

The mass-circulation daily Bild said in an article to be published Tuesday that Merkel warned the board of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) that Germany must restore legal protection for circumcision.

“I do not want Germany to be the only country in the world in which Jews cannot practice their rites,” Bild quoted Merkel as saying, citing several CDU members who attended the meeting. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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An Israeli Camp for Sick Arab Kids – Is Not News

Israel’s Civil Administration’s summer camp for Palestinian Authority children with cancer, fails to interest the media.

By Gil Ronen

 

The IDF Civil Administration hosted a three-day summer camp in early July for 24 cancer-stricken children from the Palestinian Authority (PA) entities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

The event went unnoticed by news outlets inside and outside Israel that are usually eager to pounce on news casting Israel in a bad light and showing its alleged cruelty toward the PA Arabs.

The camp was financed by the Civil Administration, reported the website of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2012
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Nigeria’s black Jews are re-discovered

New Yorker’s documentary takes in-depth look at the Igbo tribe in Nigeria & their path at rediscovering their Jewish heritage

By Tali Farkash

 

 

A new documentary by New Yorker Jeff Lieberman called Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria is taking an in depth look into one of the most unique ‘Jewish’ communities in the world: The Igbos of Nigeria.

Lieberman’s film is a rare testimonial to the daily life of a group that for years has been living off the official Jewish radar and in a political atmosphere of massacres between Christians and Muslims with the constant threat of destruction over their heads. Continue Reading »

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| July 13, 2012
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Germany says it will allow religous circumcisions

Merkel says she favors religion in Germany, doesn’t want to punish circumcision if it is carried out in a responsible manner.

By REUTERS

 

BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman promised Germany’s Jewish and Muslim communities on Friday they would be free to carry out circumcision on young boys despite a court ban which has provoked concerns about religous freedom.

An infant Jewish boy at his ‘secular-friendly’ circumcision.
– Photo by Phillip Pasmanick

In a country that is especially sensitive to allegations of intolerance because of the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the government said it would find a way around the Cologne court ban in June as a matter of urgency. Continue Reading »

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| July 12, 2012
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Plot to attack London Jewish areas revealed

Documents detailing plots to strike Stamford Hill, Golders Green found on body of African al-Qaida leader in Somalia.

By JTA

 

Documents detailing a plot to attack Jewish neighborhoods in London were found on the body of an African leader of al-Qaida.
London, England - Photo: Thinkstock/Imagebank

London, England – Photo: Thinkstock/Imagebank

The plans, which included plots for a kidnapping and attacks on Eton College and the Ritz and Dorchester hotels in London, were found on the body of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 38, who was shot last year by Somali forces as he tried to crash through a government checkpoint, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday.

According to the plans, the terrorists would strike London’s Stamford Hill and Golders Green neighborhoods, which are populated with “tens of thousands of Jews crammed in a small area,” the Star reported. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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NY Times Claims Israel ‘Took’ Yesha from Jordan in 1967

A NY Times editorial rewrites history: Israel “took” Judea and Samaria from Jordan in 1967, when Jordan fled the areas in the Six Day war.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

A New York Times editorial Tuesday rewrites history and claims Israel “took” Judea and Samaria from Jordan in 1967, when Jordan fled the areas after joining other Arab nations as they converged on Israel in the Six Day War.

3-D Yesha Map

3-D Yesha Map – Myesha.org.il

The editorial lambasted Israel in last week’s non-binding report by a government-appointed judicial panel, which contradicted the international community’s claim that Israel is an “occupier” and that it is illegal for Jewish communities to exist in Judea and Samaria. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2012
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Tzohar rabbis to start secular-friendly brit milah program in Israel

Chairman of religious Zionist group: goal is to provide parents with an ‘informed and compassionate partner’ so they can ‘appreciate the importance of this historical Jewish custom.’

By JTA

 

The Tzohar rabbinical organization, which helps to involve non-religious couples and their families in religious wedding ceremonies, is introducing a brit milah program “friendly” to non-observant Jews in Israel.

Illustration: An infant boy at his ‘secular-friendly’ circumcision.
– Photo by Phillip Pasmanick

The initiative, which will help parents circumcise their sons according to normative Jewish law, was born in response to the rising number of couples foregoing ritual circumcision, the organization said in a press release. Continue Reading »

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| July 10, 2012
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Woody Allen Urged to Film Next Movie in Israel

Actress Noa Tishby to Woody Allen: “Don’t worry, we’re gonna bring you home.”

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

The Los Angeles Jewish Journal has launched a new Internet campaign aimed at persuading Woody Allen to film his next movie in Israel.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker makes one movie a year and, according to what he told The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and LA Weekly, he chooses the locations based on “where the money is.”

Within recent years, Allen has filmed in London for “Matchpoint”, in Barcelona for “Vicky Christina Barcelona”, in Paris for “Midnight in Paris”, and most recently, in Rome for “To Rome With Love.” Continue Reading »

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| July 8, 2012
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Government approves new aliya from Ethiopia

Decision will allow around 250 Jews from Ethiopia to arrive in Israel each month, some after waiting for more than 10 years.

By RUTH EGLASH

 

 

In a drive to expedite what has been touted as the historic final chapter in mass aliya from Ethiopia, the government on Sunday approved an additional budget of NIS 17 million, which will speed up the entire process and also see the opening of a new absorption center here.

Ethiopian Jews (illustrative) - Photo: Ruth Eglash

Ethiopian Jews (illustrative) – Photo: Ruth Eglash

The goal is to ensure the arrival in Israel of some 2,200 new immigrants before the end of March 2014.

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| July 8, 2012
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Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good

In December 1938, Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old London stockbroker, was about to leave for a skiing holiday in Switzerland, when he received a phone call from his friend Martin Blake asking him to cancel his holiday and immediately come to Prague: “I have a most interesting assignment and I need your help. Don’t bother bringing your skis.” When Winton arrived, he was asked to help in the camps, in which thousands of refugees were living in appalling conditions.

 

Sir Nicholas Winton


MUNICH AGREEMENT

The Munich Conference was held September 29-30, 1938, following Hitler’s demand to annex the Sudetenland, a region in Czechoslovakia populated largely by ethnic Germans. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2012
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Menorah like image from the second Temple found in Rome.

The Romans were again caught red handed looting the Jewish second Temple.

By YourJewishNews.com/Shifra Unger

 

Historical sources describe the menorah looted by the Romans when they destroyed the Second Temple of Jerusalem in AD 70, as gold, as God instructed Moses in Exodus.

The menorah image stolen by the Romans from the Jewish second Temple

The menorah image stolen by the Romans from the Jewish second Temple

Thus, the recent discovery that a version of the menorah in a bas-relief on the Arch of Titus in the first century of the Roman Forum was originally painted rich yellow color should not be a surprise. But because the image faded to the color of the stone foundation after a long time – like so many other things in and around the Forum – a precise knowledge of their once brilliant pigmentation appears as an interesting revelation for historians and archaeologists. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2012
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Hospital in Berlin suspends circumcisions after recent court ban.

Is the second exodus for Jews out of Germany coming? Seems like Jews won’t be able to practice their religion in Germany anymore after a recent court ruling banning circumcision for less than 18 year olds.

By YourJewishNews.com/Shifra Unger

 


Jewish ritual circumcision.

Jewish ritual circumcision.

The Jewish Hospital of Berlin has decided to suspend all circumcisions of children for religious grounds following the ruling by a German court, a hospital spokesman said Friday.

“We are suspending circumcisions until the legal situation is clarified,” said Gerhard Nerlich, a hospital spokesman, citing the head of internal medicine Kristof Graf.
The Jewish hospital in Berlin (JKB) performs 300 circumcisions a year, including 100 for religious reasons and the rest for medical reasons. Continue Reading »

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| July 2, 2012
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Teenagers arrested after gun attack by Manchester Yeshiva

Two 17 year old boys from Broughton, Manchester, have been arrested  on suspicion of possessing and discharging a firearm after an incident in the early hours of this morning when a gun was fired at the Yeshiva in Upper Park Road, Broughton.

 

The incident is not being treated as a hate crime or anti-Semitic.

No one was injured in the attack in the area of the Shaarei Torah Yehiva in the mainly Jewish area of Broughton Park at around 2am this morning. Two cars were reportedly driving erratically around the yeshiva, the largest of its kind in Manchester and a large multi-storey building prominent for its Hebrew writing fronting its street entrance. Continue Reading »

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| June 30, 2012
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Former PM Yitzhak Shamir passes away at age 96 in Tel Aviv

Israel’s seventh prime minister passes away in Tel Aviv nursing home, scheduled to be laid to rest in state funeral on Monday; receives praise from across political spectrum for uncompromising loyalty to Israel.

 

 

Former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir passed away at the age of 96 on Saturday at the nursing home in which he resided in Tel Aviv after a long illness.

He will be laid to rest at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl Cemetery in a state funeral on Monday after his son, Yair, returns from abroad. The procession will begin at the Knesset, where the public will be invited to pay its last respects.

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