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| June 29, 2012
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Hareidi Youth to Bear Olympic Torch

A hareidi young man with seven charities to his name will carry the Olympic Torch in London.

By Maayana Miskin

 

A hareidi-religious young man from London will be among those carrying the Olympic Torch in Britain this summer. Efraim Goldstein, 22, was chosen due to his long history of volunteerism.

The sun sets at London's Olympic Park

The sun sets at London's Olympic Park - Reuters

Goldstein had established seven volunteer organizations by the age of 16. The groups he set up now have a total of several hundred volunteers.

Efraim currently volunteers for the Shomrim Patrol, an emergency search and rescue group that he established. He also runs a soup kitchen for the homeless, and visits sick children through the Helping Hand organization. Continue Reading »

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| June 26, 2012
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3 haredim suspected of vandalizing Yad Vashem

Police arrest three residents of Jerusalem, Bnei Brak in connection to defacement of Holocaust Museum

Itamar Fleishman

 

 

The police have arrested three suspects in the vandalism of Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum earlier in June.

Some of the graffiti Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

Some of the graffiti - Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

The three, 18, 26 and 27, are ultra-Orthodox residents of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak.

The Jerusalem district Police said Tuesday that the suspects have also been linked to other vandalism cases of monuments in the greater Jerusalem area.

According to police sources, a search of the suspects’ apartments yielded anti-Israel and anti-Zionists material, spray cans and PLO flags. Continue Reading »

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| June 23, 2012
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Hebrew National hot dogs not kosher, lawsuit claims

Consumers say meat processing services provided to ConAgra Foods fell short of standards necessary to label company’s products as kosher. Lawyer: This is an invisible fraud

Reuters

ConAgra Foods Inc has been sued by consumers who contend that hot dogs and other products sold under its Hebrew National brand are not kosher.

The lawsuit alleges that meat processing services provided to ConAgra by privately held AER Services Inc fell short of the standards necessary to label Hebrew National products as kosher. As a result, they said, ConAgra misled consumers and was able to charge premium prices.

Illustration Photo: Visual Photos

Illustration Photo: Visual Photos

Eleven individual consumers filed their complaint in May in Minnesota state court. Continue Reading »

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| June 22, 2012
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Chevra Kadisha to compensate woman for funeral

Court rules in favor of woman who claimed rabbi sex-segregated her father’s funeral, barred her from saying goodbye

by Ynet

A Beersheba small claims court has ordered Chevra Kadisha to compensate a woman with NIS 31,900 (roughly $8,300) for the distress the group had caused her by barring her from walking alongside her father’s coffin during his funeral.

According to the plaintiff, the rabbi who led the burial ritual in January 2011 ordered the women to walk behind the men in the funeral procession. She and her five sisters were also forced to sit behind the men during the ceremony.

Moreover, the rabbi refused to allow the plaintiff to deliver the eulogy she had written on behalf of her family. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2012
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Replica of ancient Egypt synagogue arrives at Tel Aviv museum

 With its awe-inspiring size and boulevard lined with columns, the Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue of Alexandria once served a community of 40,000 Jews. Today, a miniature version is available for Israelis and tourists to admire.

 

 

While Egypt was voting in a new president over the weekend, a replica of an ancient Egyptian synagogue arrived in Tel Aviv’s Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People. The model of the magnificent Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue from Alexandria was added to the museum’s permanent collection on Monday, where it joined 20 other models of synagogues from around the world. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2012
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Israeli honeymooners attacked by pirates in Zanzibar

Machete-wielding pirates attack Yoav and Esther Peled; Yoav fights back, loses some fingers – but surgeons managed to reattach them

By Shiri Hadar

 

 

A honeymoon turned sour this week for an Israeli couple who were attacked by pirates in Zanzibar.

A honeymoon to remember

A honeymoon to remember

Yoav and Esther Peled of Givatayim married on May 30 and travelled to the Tanzanian islands after the wedding. On Sunday, a group of pirates armed with machetes attacked the couple. Yoav, who confronted them, lost some of his fingers to the pirates’ blades.

Peled managed to reach medical help, and was flown from Zanzibar to Dar es-Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, where he had emergency surgery. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2012
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Wiesel rejects Hungarian award over Nazi concerns

Holocaust survivor denies Grand Cross Order of Merit after learning of Hungarian top officials’ participation in ceremony commending Nazi sympathizer; ‘It’s too close to home,’ says Wiesel

Associated Press

 

 

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel says he’s repudiating a Hungarian award he received in 2004 because top officials from Budapest recently attended a ceremony for a Nazi sympathizer.

Eli Wiesel Photo: Reuters

Eli Wiesel Photo: Reuters

The memorial rite weeks ago offended the 83-year-old Holocaust survivor, whose parents and sister were sent to their deaths by wartime Hungarian officials.

“It’s too close to home,” Wiesel told The Associated Press in an interview last week. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2012
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The Man in Black’s Zionist roots

Professor Shalom Goldman makes a strong case for Johnny Cash being the forerunner of the American Christian Zionist movement.

 

 

Way before the modern-day Christian Zionist movement became a bastion of American support for Israel, there was the Man in Black.Johnny Cash, the all-American country music great whose career spanned six decades, carried on an ardent love affair with Israel for most of that time. Cash, a devout Christian who died in 2003 at the age of 71, visited the country five times from 1966 through the mid-1990s along with his wife June Carter Cash and their children.
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| June 17, 2012
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Egypt busts Sinai terror ring amid run-off presidential elections, report says

Egyptian daily al-Shuruq says 22 men, including Palestinians, Syrians, and Jordan’s planned to destabilize country following poll results, obtained police uniform and weapons.

 

 

Egyptian security forces arrested a suspected terror ring, thought to have planned attacks against targets in the Sinai in an attempt to destabilize the country following a key run-off presidential election, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Sunday.

The reported bust comes on the second day of voting in Egypt, pitting Ahmed Shadiq, former premier under Hosni Mubarak, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, and follows reported attempts by the Brotherhood to strike Israeli targets in order to sway election results. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2012
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Romney Woos Christians with Support for Israel

Romney stumped for the Christian vote in Pennsylvania by promising he would do “the opposite” of Obama and stand firm with Israel.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Mitt Romney stumped for the “evangelical Christian vote in Pennsylvania on Saturday by promising a cheering crowd he would do “the opposite” of President Barack Obama and stand firm with Israel.

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney - Reuters

Polls show that Pennsylvania is solidly behind the president, but Republicans see a change in the surveys that indicate they have a shot at taking the state in the general elections in November. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won Pennsylvania was in 1988, when George Bush was elected after Ronald Reagan’s two terms as president. Continue Reading »

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| June 15, 2012
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Audrey Russo’s The Invisible Refugees Of 1948

By Audrey Russo

The constant bombardment, via the media, of the so-called palestinian refugees is beyond an emetic. It’s been evident to those with ears to hear and eyes to see, that this manufactured problem was part of a grander machination by the Arab/Muslim nations. How can this be said with any integrity? When the facts are revealed…the dots will be connected.

And the true, yet oddly imperceptible…refugees will make the proper nexus…

Almost 1 million Jews lived in diverse Arab countries in 1945. The majority of those communities dated back to Biblical times.

From 1947-48, Jews in these countries were persecuted.

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| June 13, 2012
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N.J. cemetery pres. paid more than any other Jewish non-profit official in U.S.

Cedar Park general manager defends president’s compensation, citing the cemetery’s ‘state of the art facilities.’

By Josh Nathan-Kazis

 

 

Ask those in the know who the highest paid executives at Jewish not-for-profits are, and you are likely to hear about salaries at groups such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Center or any number of big-city Jewish federations. But as it turns out, a Jewish executive at a not-for-profit cemetery in northern New Jersey is paid more than nearly any other Jewish communal official in the country.

Cedar Park & Beth El Cemetery.

Cedar Park & Beth El Cemetery. - Photo by Shulamit Seidler-Feller / Forward

 

Cedar Park & Beth El Cemetery’s president, Herbert B. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2012
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Mass. Jews: Romney kept his distance as governor, but was a great leader of healthcare reform

The Republican nominee would prefer to woo the U.S. Jewish community with his commitment to Israel than his visionary role in the healthcare reform.

By Dina Kraft

BOSTON – Mitt Romney is remembered by some in Massachusetts’ Jewish community as a distant figure on a grassroots level, a governor with whom their main interaction came during the effort to pass a groundbreaking healthcare reform providing near-universal coverage for state residents.

Today it’s the very subject that the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president wishes would disappear.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, June 8, 2012.

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reach out to shake his hand - Photo by AP

 

“He was an absolutely key visionary player in the reform that was passed,” said Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who in 2006, when the legislation was approved, was co-chair of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, an interfaith group that helped push the bi-partisan effort for healthcare reform in Massachusetts as part of a broader coalition advocating for change. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2012
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Dan Margalit: The writing was on the wall

Perhaps words can’t physically kill the body, but they certainly do kill. They kill the cultural and democratic national norms that obligate us to honor the memory of the Holocaust.

By Dan Margalit

 

There is no way of knowing who spray-painted shockingly offensive slogans on the walls of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Monday, but the style of the writing suggests that it was particularly radical members of the decidedly anti-Zionist extremist ultra-Orthodox public. Conceivably, someone could have written “thank you, Hitler” and criticized Israel’s ultra-Orthodox just to divert suspicion away from themselves, as Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau has speculated, but for now, the suspicion stands until proven otherwise. Continue Reading »

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| June 12, 2012
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Forbes presents: The richest rabbis in Israel

Descendents of the Baba Sali known for working miracles – which seem to include accumulating bills and coins – top the list.

Descendents of Rabbi Israel Abuhatzeira, or “the Baba Sali,” a renowned Kabbalist who immigrated to Israel from Morocco and founded his court in Netivot, are known as righteous men, knowledgeable in Kabbalah, and miracle workers – though it is possible that their miracle is accumulating bills and coins.

Two of the “admorim” (admor is an acronym in Hebrew for our master, our teacher, and our rabbi ) from the Abuhatzeira dynasty top the list of wealthiest rabbis published by Forbes Israel this week, as part of a comprehensive briefing on the “Baba” economy in Israel. Continue Reading »

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