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Annual Law Enforcement Meeting With Jewish Officials Over Catskills Summer Migration

Relations between law enforcement and the religious Jewish community have never been better and with that spirit of cooperation, police top brass from across the region met with Hasidic leaders in the Village of Kiryas Joel on Monday.As that cooperation improves every summer, the number of incidents that arise decreases dramatically with no issues at all last summer, said Sullivan ...

Anne Frank flat to open to public for 1 day

Paying guests are to be given a one-off chance to view the apartment where Jewish diarist Anne Frank lived with her family before they went into hiding from the Nazis during World War II, the housing corporation that owns it said last week.Ymere corporation said in a statement that a maximum of 300 people will next month be allowed to ...

Anne Frank analogy ‘shocking’

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called remarks by retired New York Giants running back Tiki Barber, comparing an incident in his personal life to the experience of Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis, “outrageous and perverse.In a Sports Illustrated profile, Barber described how he went into hiding in the attic of his agent’s home in New Jersey after leaving his then-pregnant ...

Ann Arbor Transportation Agency Rejects Anti-Israel Ads

The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (AATA) has, for the second time, rejected a request to run an anti-Israel advertisement on its buses, the Ann Arbor Chronicle reported.AATA met to reconsider the ad on Thursday, following a court order.In January of 2011, the agency rejected a request from Ann Arbor resident Blaine Coleman to place an anti-Israel advertisement on its buses, prompting the ...

Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Turkey

United Nations envoy Angelina Jolie traveled to Turkey’s border with Syria on Friday, sharing fruit and dessert with some of the thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled their government’s bloody crackdown.The Hollywood celebrity and goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees arrived in the Turkish province of Hatay on a private jet with boxes of toys for ...

Anderson Cooper Attacked by Mob in Egypt

Anderson Cooper was attacked in Egypt Wednesday.CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted, “Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration.”Cooper then escaped to the roof of a nearby building, where he said on air that he and his crew were trying to get to a neutral zone between ...

Anat Kam affair: Israelis were the last to know

While the Israeli press could only vaguely refer to the security affair which was cleared for publication Thursday, readers exposed to foreign media could find extensive reports of the counts journalist Anat Kam will be facing.The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) released its first report on March 29, where it revealed that Kam, until recently a reporter with the Walla website, ...

An unholy battle in a holy city

By pure coincidence, the main opposing forces in Safed’s latest anti-Arab flare-up are next-door neighbors. One is Eli Zvieli, 89, who became a target of threats and public denunciations after he rented an apartment to three Beduin college students last month. The other is Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu, who vehemently repeated his decade-old call on Jews to refuse to ...

An Adventure Through 14 American States

Aaron D. Neufeld is a true New Yorker. With the exception of his college years, he had rarely, if ever, ventured beyond the state’s borders. So unacquainted was he with Middle America, that “Old McDonald” was the only farmer he’d ever heard of. That all changed after he participated in the annual Bike For Friendship this past summer.Bike 4 Friendship ...

Amsterdam Jews may End Relationship with US Rabbi

He was exotic, but familiar; well connected, yet independent; serious, but flexible. It was love at first sight for Amsterdam’s Orthodox community and Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag.But six years after appointing Ralbag as the chief rabbi of Amsterdam, the community’s board is considering an end to the long-distance relationship, which has been strained by cultural gaps.Ralbag, a rabbinical judge and the ...

Amsterdam ‘Jewish Houses’ project hits home

Millions of tourists have visited the cramped quarters where Anne Frank hid from the Nazis while writing the diary that so powerfully conveyed the horror of the Holocaust.This week I discovered a link shockingly close to home: It turns out I live in a building − and have lived in the very apartment − where two Jews were deported and ...

Amnesty to IDF: Rescind death penalty demand for Fogel family murderers

The Israel Defense Forces should rescind its reported demand that the suspects in the Itamar stabbing attacks be given the death penalty, Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday.Last week, Haaretz reported that the army intended to seek the death penalty for the suspected murderers of five members of the Fogel family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar ...