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How an U.S. anti-terror program became a Jewish earmark

The Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School, in Chicago, put in new lights around its building and parking lot and now has a state-of-the-art video surveillance system with 12 cameras. Congregation Brith Shalom, in Bellaire, Texas, now has blast-proof doors and windows. In Baltimore, the Bais Hamedrash & Mesivta school installed a new gate to the parking lot and placed cameras throughout ...

How About Woven Paper Apples For Rosh HaShana?

You may have seen woven paper hearts, or paper hands with a woven insert, but have you ever seen woven apples? Me neither, until this idea popped into my head and these cute apples materialized on our dining room table a few nights ago. (You see, I told you a new pack of paper would be great inspiration given my ...

Hotels Discriminating Against Reform Jews?

Representatives of the non-Orthodox Jewish movements in Israel have complained to the tourism minister and the minister of public diplomacy and diaspora affairs against Israel’s hotels, which they claim are systematically discriminating against tourist groups from abroad by not allowing them to hold prayer services according to their customs.In a letter sent by Gilad Kariv, executive director of the Israel ...

Hotel Denied us Torah Because of Mixed Service

While on a trip to Israel last month, a group of students from the Solomon Schechter School in Westchester, New York, which is associated with the Conservative Judaism movement, were denied use of a Torah scroll for their prayer service at a hotel because they were conducting a mixed-gender service.The 66 students were in Israel on their senior two-month trip ...

Hospital worker stole rings off body

During 53 years of marriage, Dolores Yukness of west suburban Lombard almost never removed the rings from her left hand. But earlier this month, after she died at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, an emergency-room worker allegedly slipped off the rings and sold them, police said. That worker, Frederick Tapley, 36, of Romeoville, surrendered to police today on ...

Homeland Security advises Jewish institutions

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised Jewish institutions on protecting themselves from terrorist threats.About 500 Jewish agencies joined a 75-minute conference call on Wednesday focusing on security. The call was organized after the thwarted mail-bomb threat against two Jewish institutions in Chicago.Paul Goldenberg, national director of the Secure Community Network, the central agency for Jewish communal security, said the ...

Holyland affair: Was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef bribed?

The lawyer of Meir Rabin, the main suspect in the Holyland corruption affair, said Monday that his client was questioned in the past few days on suspicion of transferring money to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Shas’ spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, together with the state witness in the affair.Read More: @ ynetnews.comTags: Holyland, holyland affair, Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef bribedYou might also like:Lieberman: Jerusalem is ...

‘Holy dove’ drives yeshiva wild

“It’s a real wonder,” one of the students at the haredi Kamenitz Yeshiva says about his new classmate – a white dove. “This holy bird just listens to full lessons.”The following days, the bird would arrive at the yeshiva and stand in the corner for the entire lesson – prompting the excited yeshiva students to view it as a sign ...

Holocaust survivor’s wish to be buried at Treblinka fulfilled

Alex Werber calmly strode toward a patch of black stones, pulled up his sleeves and opened a plastic bag to dump out its contents.“Goodbye, mom,” he said, scattering her ashes at the former site of the Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the Nazis murdered 875,000 Jews during World War II.It was Lucy Werber’s final wish: to have her body ...

Holocaust Survivors Slated to Light Memorial Torches

Six Holocaust survivors are slated to light torches memorializing the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis, at the opening Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem Sunday night.The initial survivors chosen were Peretz Hochman, Otto Dov Pressburger, Dina Ostrover, Eliezer Eizenschmidt, Miriam Liptcher and Baruch Kopold. However, as Hochman died on Sunday, his widow, Sima, will represent him. Short videos ...

Holocaust Survivors Share Their Stories

It is estimated that about 190,000 holocaust survivors reside in Israel today, with about 37 of them passing away every day. The average age of survivors of the greatest atrocity in Jewish history is 84.We attended a Holocaust survivors’ meet up in Tel Aviv and listened to stories that some of the survivors here shared with us last week in ...

Holocaust Survivors Meet US Liberators

Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them gathered for what could be their last big reunion Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.One thousand survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the museum’s 20th anniversary. Organizers chose not ...