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Argentinian ‘Platform for Hate’ Puts Jewish Community at Risk

The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced “the repeated use of Holocaust-language” on the Contexto magazine website, based in the Argentine province of Tucuman, saying such terminology amounts to ethnic and religious slurs.In a letter to Contexto Magazine Director Tomás Luciani, Director for International Relations of the Wiesenthal Center, Shimon Samuels and the Center’s Latin American Director, Sergio Widder, charged that, “the repeated use ...

Are you sure you want a window seat? Close encounter for landing passenger jets … and, apparently, it’s perfectly safe

It looks like a daring mid-air stunt or a particularly aggressive attempt at overtaking.But this breathtaking image actually shows a common occurrence – two jets approaching the dual runways of San Francisco International Airport for parallel landings.While it may appear that they’re close enough for the passengers to see the panic on one another’s faces through the windows, the fuselages ...

Are these the nails used to crucify Jesus?

HaShalom forest is a small grove of pines sandwiched between the Abu Tur neighborhood and main promenade in Jerusalem. Anyone walking along the road that snakes through the grove can see a green pipe rising from the ground and reaching a height of several meters.This pipe, if journalist Simcha Jacobovici is to be believed, this is the physical tip of ...

Are These Not Jewish Children?

We have heard the news and perhaps seen the pictures.The facts are not disputed.A little eight year religious Jewish girl was attempting to walk to her school.A group of (how many and who they represent is open to debate) Orthodox Jews verbally assaulted and spit at the young Jewish girl.The focal point of this contentious issue is Naama Margolese, an ...

Are Internet & Other Bans Hurting Or Helping?

The majority of the chareidi tzibur, perhaps with the exception of Chabad, has labeled the Internet taboo along will cellular telephones and other gadgetry. Talmidim are also prohibited from carrying MP4 players because they can be used for movies, and in some cases, electronic devices with audio capability only are also banned.Rabbi Asher Schapiro, the son of the Naroler Rebbe ...

Archives of Nissan Mindel to be Published

In 1940 Chabad had begun its inception in the United States, there at the very beginning was Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel who had documented and preserved much of the history of Chabad in America. Today, after much anticipation and great demand, a book devoted to these works will be published.This new book is described to be of unique and unprecedented ...

Archive Dispute Derails Russian Art Loans to U.S.

everal paintings from Gaugin’s Tahitian period will probably be missing from a major exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington when it opens this month, as will a canvas in that museum’s coming show on the Venetian painter Canaletto and his rivals. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art a small but important exhibition of Cézanne’s ...

Archaeologists Find Rare Ancient Jewelry at Megiddo

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare trove of 3,000-year-old jewelry, including a ring and earrings, hidden in a ceramic jug near the ancient city of Megiddo, where the New Testament predicts the final battle of Armageddon.Archaeologists who unearthed the jug during excavations at the site in 2010 left it in a laboratory while they waited for a molecular analysis of ...

Arab Villagers Declare ‘Jews Out!’

Kochav Segal HaLevi, a Jewish security guard, legally bought a house in the mixed Muslim-Christian Arab village of Ibillin in northern Israel, east of Haifa. Upon moving in, however, he discovered that the locals are unwilling to let Jews live there.It is a well known fact in Israel that Jews who try to live in Arab villages risk their lives, ...

Arab unrest signals Messiah’s coming

Prominent rabbis from the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox sector have offered their own curious interpretations for the upheaval that is spreading through the Middle East, stating that the events are a clear proof that a higher power is at work.The cellular portal Haredim, which offered a collection of responses on the matter, quoted Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman, the leader of the ultra-Orthodox Lithuanian sector ...

Arab MKs launch anti-chametz campaign

The lawmakers have launched a campaign urging the Arab public to avoid selling pita bread and other leavened products at main intersections and other public areas, within and outside Jewish cities, so as not to offend Jews traveling across the country during the holiday.The initiative is being led by Deputy Knesset Speaker Raleb Majadele (Labor), who accepted an appeal from ...

Apple’s iPad helps Israeli hospital treat patients

A hospital in Israel has begun using Apple’s iPad to enable medical staff to help treat patients, provide consultations and study X-rays and CT scans from afar.The Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, located in the largely ultra-orthodox Tel Aviv suburb Bnei Brak, said on Tuesday it is the first hospital to program the high-resolution, touch-screen iPad to interact with Microsoft Corp’s ...