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Beit Avi Chai commemorates Holocaust Day

Beit Avi Chai and the Jewish Community Center in San Diego will hold a joint event to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday at 8 pm. Journalist Haim Etgar will be the MC, and Prof. Yehuda Bauer will lecture on true and imaginary memories.The musical segment of the evening will feature the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble and the Ha-Lev ve-ha-Maayan ...

Beis Yaakov Expells 9 Girls for “non-kosher” cellphones

Nine students from the Beis Yaakov Yerushalayim (BJJ) Jerusalem High School were expelled because they own “non-kosher” cell phones. Mynet, the regional ynet website reported as follows (roughly translated by Jameel).The story began in the twelfth grade class this week, when a student suddenly jumped up excitedly and announced that her friend got engaged.Her teacher realized that she had received ...

Beis Shmuel Mini Minyaners Awarded

On Tuesday evening the Bais Shmuel-Chabad Mini Minyan, attended by well over 40 children, celebrated the end of the year with the program’s biggest annual event – the pizza party awards dinner, which celebrated the tremendous effort and achievement of the boys who participated in the program throughout the year.The event was also the culmination of the Mivtza to prepare ...

Beach Segregation Angers Secular Bathers

A stretch of beach in Ashdod has become a bone of contention between residents of the southern port city in recent weeks after the municipality chose to shut it down, seemingly in order to shield religious bathers from secular ones.Like most Israeli cities located on the shore of the Mediterranean, Ashdod has a sex segregated beach that caters to religious ...

BBC Pulls Documentary Claiming Story of Jewish Exodus from Jerusalem is a ‘Myth’

An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D.Ilan Ziv said in a blog post on April 27 that the BBC exhibited “a mixture of incompetence, political naivete, conscious or subconscious political pressure and ultimately, I believe, a lack of courage of broadcasters when they are faced ...

Bayless Tweets Censored by White House

A series of tweets put Chicago chef Rick Bayless in hot water with the White House.Bayless is in Washington, D.C. to prepare Wednesday night’s State Dinner to honor Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The top chef was so excited about the trip he started tweeting about it Monday.Read More: @ nbcchicago.comReaders found more information by searching for:rick bayless (61)is rick bayless jewish (41)rick bayless jewish (29)Chef Rick Bayless (8)rick ...

Baseball / Ausmus Hopeful other Major Leaguers will Join Israeli All-Stars

With a pair of Jewish ex-major leaguers on his roster, the new coach of Israel’s team in the World Baseball Classic says his squad is already a legitimate contender.Former All-Star catcher Brad Ausmus said Shawn Green and Gabe Kapler have committed to play for him, and he’s hopeful that other Jewish big leaguers, including All-Stars such as Ryan Braun, Kevin ...

Barak’s vision of dividing Jerusalem is not Israeli policy, says Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday distanced himself from Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s expressed support for partitioning Jerusalem along Jewish and Arab lines, according to an initiative presented by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2000.Read More: @ haaretz.comReaders found more information by searching for:dividing jerusalem december 2010 (1)isreal policy on dividing jerusalem (1)You might also like:Netanyahu: Creative thinking can remove obstacles on ...

Barak asks ministers to keep mum on Jerusalem

Defense Minister Ehud Barak published a statement Thursday in which he asks government ministers and Palestinian leaders to “act responsibly and avoid harsh or provocative statements on Jerusalem.”Read More: @ ynetnews.comYou might also like:Ehud Barak: History Will Judge Obama on Nuclear IranIsrael is Jewish state, world understands thisUS: Hizbullah Has One of World’s Largest Missile ArsenalsPM distances himself from Yosef’s rantEmbargo ...

Bar mitzvah hit by stray wedding shots

Gunfire shocked guests of a bar mitzvah in Kfar Tavor on Thursday, as two bullets apparently fired at a wedding taking place in the neighboring village of Shibli flew into the backyard hosting the celebration.The bullets hit the backyard tables and, miraculously, there were no injuries among Daniel Goldstein’s 90 guests.Read More: @ ynetnews.comYou might also like:Netanyahu celebrates grandson’s britCalifornia ...

Bar-Ilan’s ’21st Century Zionism’ Material for Day Schools

An innovative “Israel throughout the Year” curriculum five years in the making has been completed for schools in the United States and Canada by The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education at Bar-Ilan University, school officials said.Responding to a need expressed by numerous educators in the U.S. about the lack of Israel education in Jewish schools, The Lookstein Center set out ...

Bank of Israel to replace all coins

The Bank of Israel is planning to change the country’s current series of coins after 25 years, following a recent government decision to change all of the State’s banknotes, Yedioth Ahronoth has learned.The decision is aimed at preventing forgeries, reducing the cost of the metal used to manufacture the coins and changing the current name – “new Israeli shekel” – ...