Tag Archive for Jewish World

| February 1, 2013
No comments

Jewish entertainment news: with Abrams, Portman, Barrymore raising daughter Jewish & more

Former Chasidic reggae musician Matisyahu, stood outside the TAO nightclub for some 10 minutes unable to get in because the door managers had no idea who he was.

By Uri Fintzy

 

NEW YORK (6NoBacon) — Drew Barrymore stopped by to discuss marriage and motherhood with the women of “The View” on Friday.

Barrymore, who married art dealer Will Kopelman (son of Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman) seven months ago in a traditional Jewish wedding, talked about being married to a “nice Jewish man” from a “nice Jewish family.” While saying she hasn’t converted “yet,” Barrymore did reveal that she and her husband are planning to raise their baby daughter, Olive, “traditionally Jewish.” Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags:
| January 28, 2013
No comments

Bureaucracy delays construction of Italy’s 1st Holocaust Museum

Rome’s City Council approved final plans for the museum a year ago, but city funding was later blocked by government-imposed financial restrictions on municipal spending.

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

 

ROME (JTA) — If all goes according to plan, a starkly modern, $30 million Holocaust museum will soon rise on the site of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s Rome residence.

The design of Italy's Holocaust museum in RomeThe site, also the location of ancient Jewish catacombs and now a city park, will be home to a museum first proposed in 2005 but held up repeatedly by financial and bureaucratic problems.

“I hope construction begins this summer,” Leone Paserman, the president of the Museum of the Shoah Foundation, told JTA. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: ,
| January 25, 2013
No comments

Orthodox Jewish ex-champ makes inspiring comeback

Fighter Yuri Foreman credits fellow Jews for reviving his passion for the ring after demoralizing loss.

 

Yuri Foreman, the Orthodox rabbi-in-training and former boxing champ, is on the comeback trail ? and he thanks his fellow Jews for giving him the inspiration to make it happen.

Yuri Foreman

The one-time WBA world light middleweight champion returns to the ring in a non-title bout against Brandon Baue in New York on Wednesday, January 23. It will be Foreman’s first fight in New York since his devastating loss to Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium in June 2010.

“Jewish people are happy that I am coming back, they had been waiting, so it’s kind of inspiring, because it’s not just me,” he said. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , , ,
| January 24, 2013
4 comments

Remembered: Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Diplomat Who Saved 6,000 Jews During Holocaust

Even though the Japanese gov’t closed the consulate, and Sugihara’s train was about to leave the city, he kept writing visas from his carriage window. When the train began moving, he gave the visa stamp to a refugee to continue the job.

By Jaweed Kaleem

 

Most Americans know of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Holocaust by hiring Jews to work in his factories and fought Nazi efforts to remove them.

Chiune Sugihara

But fewer know about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who disobeyed his government’s orders and issued visas that allowed 6,000 Jews to escape from Nazi-occupied territories via Japan. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags:
| January 23, 2013
No comments

‘Jews live in fear in Europe’ says President of European Parliament

European Union was established ‘on the lessons of Auschwitz’ as a framework, but, what of the 50% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in France & in Austria in 2012?
There were also political gains by 2 virulently anti-Semitic parties: Golden Dawn in Greece & Jobbik in Hungary.

By JTA

 

BRUSSELS – Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said.

Holocaust Remembrance

“Yes, Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but this is not 1929, this is 2012,” European Parliament President Martin Schultz has said Jan. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| January 17, 2013
No comments

German court convicts & fines British Holocaust-denying Expelled-bishop

 

Ultra-conservative anti-Semitic British bishop to pay a fine of e1,800 for Holocaust denial during a television interview in 2008.

By

 

A German court has fined an ultra-conservative British bishop e1,800 for denying the Holocaust in a television interview.

Bishop Richard WilliamsonGerman news agency dpa reported that an administrative court in Regensburg convicted Richard Williamson of incitement and levied the fine on Wednesday. The case was retried after an earlier conviction of Williamson was overturned on procedural grounds.

The 72-year-old Williamson told a Swedish TV station in 2008, during an interview conducted near Regensburg, that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during World War II.

Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags: ,
| January 15, 2013
No comments

The word ‘Jew’, is the new ‘cool’ in Dutch, linguist says

Dutch teenagers use the word “jood” as an expression of enthusiasm.

The kids are also using the Yiddish word “tof” as “good.”

By JTA

 

THE HAGUE – Dutch teenagers are using “Jew” akin to “cool” or “awesome” in English, according to a linguist from Leiden University.

Jewish gay participants cruises canals in Holland. Photo by REUTERS - Michael KoorenProfessor Marc van Oostendorp wrote Monday on his blog that he heard the new usage of the word “jood” (pronounced yode) at a high school in Leiden shortly after learning about the phenomenon from an online forum about the Dutch language.“One is at first unsettled by it. The word Jew is still a slightly sensitive issue if used improperly,” van Oostendorp wrote, adding an example of how soccer fans use it as a pejorative.
Continue Reading »
Category: Innovations & Discoveries | Tags: ,
| January 10, 2013
No comments

Obama Picks Orthodox Jew as Treasury Secretary

Jack Lew, an orthodox Jew with strong ties within the Jewish community, is Obama’s choice as Treasury Secretary.

By Annie Lubin

 

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to appoint White House chief of staff Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary on Thursday, an orthodox Jew with strong ties within the American Jewish community.

Obama will name Lew as Secretary of Treasury

Obama will name Lew as Secretary of Treasury – Reuters

Lew is an observant Jew who attends Congregation Beth Sholom in Potomac, Maryland.

When asked about how he would be able to balance his religious beliefs and the high profile job of being in the President’s cabinet, Lew aid that having already worked with Obama as his Chief of Staff, he knows that the President is very respectful of his faith.

Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags: ,
| January 9, 2013
No comments

Twitter forced to divulge details of their anti-Semitic clients

Jewish student union petitions Paris court to order Twitter to divulge details.

Nazi hashtag makes list of top 5 trending topics in France on Saturday.

By

 

France’s main Jewish student union asked a Paris court to order Twitter to divulge details about users who post anti-Semitic comments.

Twitter logo.

Twitter logo. Photo by Twitter

Tuesday’s hearing came on the heels of a weekend of Twitter posts using the hashtag #SiJetaisNazi, or #IfIWereANazi, which was one of the country’s top five trending topics on January 5.

#agoodjew is a dead Jew

The court is expected to hand down a decision in the case on January 24. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| January 1, 2013
No comments

JTA’s Gentiles of the Year 2012

Remembering 10 Gentiles that influenced Jews through 2012.

By JTA Staff

 

gentiles of the year

 

Whether they made us cheer, bang our heads against the wall, wish they were Jewish or thank God that they’re not, this year had plenty of non-Jews who played an important role in the Jewish story. And what better time to highlight them than now, in this season of best-of lists and holiday cheer?

 

  •  Begrudged mazel tovs greeted news in August that Benjamin Millepied had wed Natalie Portman, one of the most desirable Jewish women in Hollywood. Millepied, the French-born choreographer who prepped Portman for her Oscar-winning turn as a troubled dancer in the 2010 hit “Black Swan,” donned a yarmulke and wrapped himself in a tallit for the ceremony, held underneath a chuppah in Big Sur, Calif.
Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags:
| December 30, 2012
No comments

Belgian Jewish girls school forced to admit sons of Holocaust denier

Rabbi Moshe Friedman, infamous for his participation with the Neturei Karta at the anti-Zionist & Holocaust-denial conference in Teheran in ’06, has again placed himself in the middle of a disgraceful controversy, but this time in Antwerp.

 

By JTA

A Belgian court ordered a Jewish school for girls to admit two boys or face heavy fines.

school

The Benoth Jeruzalem school for Jewish girls

A Belgian judge ruled on Dec. 21, that because yeshivas are subsidized by the Flemish community, Benoth Jerusalem must admit the boys or face a $2,600 penalty per child for each day the boys are not permitted to attend, according to the Gazet van Anwerpen, a local paper. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| December 29, 2012
No comments

My website is sexy, but is it kosher?

Ayo Oppenheimer launched her Jewrotica website, which features erotic stories with a Jewish flavor, where even women from Bnei Brak send her their secret sexual fantasies.

By Yigal Avidan

 

 

Jewish conferences can get very erotic, especially as the clock approaches 2 a.m. Last June, about 120 young Jewish activists from around the world gathered in Jerusalem to brainstorm about how to strengthen Jewish peoplehood and the bond between Jews and Israel.

Oppenheimer during her marriage, at a time when she still adhered to Jewish codes of modesty. – Photo: Public domain

Ayo Oppenheimer, 27, from Texas was among those assembled.

Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags:
| December 26, 2012
No comments

Israel’s PM asks Jewish Agency to find resolution on women praying at Western Wall

Israeli police detained 4 women from a liberal Jewish group who approached the holy site in Jerusalem last week, wearing prayer shawls.

“Israel still fails to live up to the ideals upon which it was founded, as a haven for Jews everywhere.”

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Jewish Agency to find a solution for non-Orthodox Jewish female groups wishing to pray at one of Judaism’s holiest sites.

Women praying during a Selichot service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Women praying during a Selichot service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. – Photo: Michal Fattal

 

An official said Tuesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency, to look into the matter. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , , ,
| December 23, 2012
No comments

Australian Tycoon Saves Sydney’s Chabad Headquarters

 “This transaction will undoubtedly increase community confidence in the long-term stability of Yeshiva, bringing much-awaited certainty to parents, teachers & the extended Chabad community.” commented Rabbi Feldman.

By JTA

 

SYDNEY – An Australian property tycoon has staved off a financial crisis that threatened the closure of the headquarters of Sydney’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Harry Triguboff and Rabbi Dovid Slavin with Yeshiva students – Photo: Ingrid Shakenovsky

Harry Triguboff, a longstanding benefactor of the ultra-Orthodox organization, purchased two Chabad buildings in Bondi Dec. 20 for a reported $6 million, enabling the beleaguered organization to pay off debts that threatened to cripple its ability to operate across Sydney.
Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
| December 22, 2012
No comments

50 of Bnei Menashe community of India move to Israel

 

Israel’s Chief rabbi recognized Bnei Menashe as a ‘Lost Tribe’ in 2005, but only 1,700 moved to Israel before the gov’t stopped granting visas

Gov’t recently reversed policy, reopening doors for immigration for the 7,200 remaining in India

The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

 

A group of 50 Jews said to descend from one of the 10 Lost Tribes prepared Thursday to immigrate to Israel from their village in northeastern India.

Ingathering of the exiles: Bnei Menashe pray prior to their departure for Israel. – Photo: AP

The members of the Bnei Menashe community prayed in their local synagogue and then hugged their crying relatives before heading off to the airport in the Manipur state capital of Imphal, 55 kilometers (34 miles) away.

Continue Reading »
Category: Jewish News | Tags: , , ,
« Older Entries   Recent Entries »