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Extreme Segregation at College Cafeteria

Students at the Haredi College of Jerusalem were surprised recently to see a tall screen separating between men and women at the institution’s public cafeteria, in addition to the gender segregation in classrooms.The students expressed their wonder over the complete separation, as the college is headed by Rabbanit Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who ...

Explosion hits Egypt gas pipeline carrying gas to Israel

Masked gunmen blew up a natural gas terminal near Egypt’s border with Israel on Wednesday, sending flames shooting into the air in the early hours of the morning and forcing the shutdown of the country’s gas export pipeline to Israel and Jordan.“An unknown armed gang attacked the gas pipeline,” said an Egyptian security source, adding that the flow of gas ...

Exclusive interview with Rabbi of Yemen’s Sana’a Jews

By most estimates, only several hundred Jews remain in Yemen today, split into two communities that have little to do with each other. An enclave numbering fewer than 100 Jews is located in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital city. Its residents, the remainder of the community of Sa’ada, were forced to leave their homes by the Houthis, who in 2004, began a ...

Ex-Jerusalem Mayor Lupolianski Arrested in ‘Holyland’ Probe

Uri Lupolianski was arrested Wednesday for allegedly receiving over three million shekels in bribes from the entrepreneurs behind the Holyland housing project in Jerusalem. He is also suspected of money laundering. His remand has been extended for five days.The courts saw fit to place the former mayor in custody on the same day that it decided to let Anat Kam, ...

Ex-con targets ADL’s Foxman

An ex-con and white supremacist apparently had Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League in New York, in his sights when police arrested him last week in Arizona.Danny Warner, 33, known as “Tombstone” among those in the Silent Aryan Warriors he came to know while serving a 10-year prison sentence in Utah, told his wife that he was, ...

Ex-Borough President Gets No Jail Time after Plea

A judge has decided that a once-prominent New York City politician can serve 500 hours of community service rather than jail time for a misdemeanor tax charge conviction.Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis imposed the sentence Tuesday after former New York City Council President Andrew Stein apologized and said he’ll live with the pain of his misdeeds for the rest of his ...

Evidence of Canaanite Jewish Rituals in Reign of King David

A Hebrew University archaeologist has uncovered spectacular evidence confirming the reign of King David and that non-Jews believed in one Creator. Architecture that was uncovered pre-dates the First Temple built by King Solomon.Prof. Yosef Garfinkel announced on Tuesday the discovery of objects found in the ruins called Khirbet Qeiyafa, a fortified border city in the Kingdom of Judah adjacent to ...

“Every Jew Should Learn About This Day”

The World Zionist Organization staged a re-enactment of the November 29, 1947 recognition of Israel by the United Nations in Jerusalem on Tuesday. The dramatic vote in the United Nations 64 years ago gave the British Empire one year to leave the country it had occupied since 1917, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.The event featured live entertainment and ...

Europe’s Jews to have own parliament

Many in the Jewish world have envisioned the establishment of a European Jewish Parliament, which would gather together the thoughts, beliefs and ideas as well as representing and voicing the concerns and inspirations of European Jews towards European and world leaders.The European Jewish Union (EJU) has announced the establishment of a European Jewish Parliament, which will “serve to bring together ...

Europe’s Custodial Jewish Vote

Yesterday in London, more Jews than ever voted not only as Londoners, but as concerned Jews as well. On Sunday, throughout France, the same pattern will be repeated. That is, if the media hype is to be believed, and I think in this case it is.Statistics on Jewish voting trends in Britain and France are hard to come by. The ...

European Rabbis Slam Dutch Ban on Jewish Slaughter

CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt called the ban an outrage in that it would prevent Jews from living a Jewish life in The Netherlands.“We have passed the stage of arguing the nuances of intention of anti-Semiitsm. The practical effects of this bill mean that Jews are no longer welcome in The Netherlands. This has not happened for 70 years,” Rabbi ...

European Rabbis Rap Apple Over Anti-Semitic App

European rabbis say they’re lobbying Apple Inc. to pull a mobile app version of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a notorious anti-Semitic forgery.The Conference of European Rabbis, which represents Orthodox Jewish congregations across the continent, says it wants the iPhone manufacturer to stop selling an Arabic-language version of the Protocols being offered through its iTunes service.The Protocols purport ...