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Wellington Jewish Day School to Close

The only Jewish day school in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, is closing, the JTA news agency reported.The Moriah School will close at the end of 2012, its board announced.In a letter last week to parents, the board said it had “no option” but to close the school, which has fewer then 20 pupils aged 5 to 13.“We simply do ...

Passover story goes digital

In the long-standing practice of adding to the Exodus tale, the Internet is changing the way some families will be relating the story of Jews’ escape from slavery at Seder celebrations Monday.Thousands of years after Moses led his people out of Egypt, the Passover story is going digital.At Monday’s Seder meal, dozens of families will be reading the traditional tableside ...

New York – OK Rabbi: Cocoa Powder Is Kosher For Pesach

New York – Concern that cocoa powder from China is unfit for use on Pesach have proven to be nothing more than unsubstantiated rumors.In an interview with VIN News, Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, head of OK Kosher Certification, said that even after countless hours on the phone, he still does not even know exactly what the problem with cocoa is ...

Hurva Synagogue Reopens In Old City

An “invitation only” ceremony in the Old City of Jerusalem Monday celebrated the restoration of the Hurva synagogue, which was destroyed by the Jordanians in the War of Independence in 1948.Palestinian leaders had called on Israeli Arabs to flock to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to protect it, distributing pamphlets claiming that the rededication was the first step toward the ...

UK tabloid: Israel ‘forged thousands of IDs’

MI6 suspects that airline staff working for Mossad may have copied passports of Britons flying to Israel, News of the World reports, adding authorities also concerned about security searches carried out on British officials attending terrorism conference in country last September.The British secret intelligence service (MI6) suspects that airline staff working for the Israeli secret service Mossad may have copied ...

Jewish faith keeps them ‘solid’ while incarcerated

LAKE CITY — The hardened men drifted through a misty rain into a small room, where they exchanged a common pleasantry.“Boker tov.”The Hebrew phrase for ‘good morning’ — pronounced boh-kehr tohv — is not something the killers, drug dealers and thieves commonly use around the tough cell blocks of Columbia Correctional Institution.Read More: @ jacksonville.comReaders found more information by searching for:jewish ...

More health-conscious consumers turn to kosher foods

Grocers know observant and even not-so-active Jews want kosher foods for the two Seder meals that highlight the eight days of Passover, which starts Monday night. They stock up on foods that comply with the Kashrut, the ancient body of law that dictates how foods are to be stored, prepared and eaten.But interest in kosher food isn’t limited to special ...

Obama demands Netanyahu’s peace answers by Saturday

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will convene his senior ministers on Friday to discuss the demands made by US President Barack Obama and his overall trip to Washington – a trip that, because of negative atmospherics and amid a paucity of hard information, has been widely characterized as among the most difficult in recent memory.Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office continued ...

Nearly 300 Congress members declare commitment to unbreakable U.S.-Israel bond

Nearly 300 members of Congress have signed on to a declaration reaffirming their commitment to “the unbreakable bond that exists between [U.S.] and the State of Israel”, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.The letter was sent in the wake of the severe recent tensions between Israel and the U.S. over the prior’s decision to construct more than ...

Female Suicide Bombers Kill 37 in Moscow Subway

Two female suicide bombers killed at least 37 people on packed Moscow metro trains on Monday and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared that “terrorists will be destroyed.”Witnesses described morning rush-hour panic at two central Moscow stations, with commuters falling over each other in dense smoke and dust as they tried to escape the worst attack on the Russian capital in ...

US pressure won’t alter Israeli policy on Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Friday issued a statement insisting that pressure applied by the Obama Administration during the Israeli leader’s recent visit to Washington will not alter Israeli police regarding Jerusalem.US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier in the week tried to strong-arm Netanyahu into severely restricting Jewish construction on Jerusalem’s eastern side in ...

Jews Barred from Cairo’s Maimonides Synagogue

The Egyptian government has announced that it will not allow Jews to pray in Cairo’s newly-restored Maimonides Synagogue, in retaliation for Israel’s security response to Arab rioting on the Temple Mount.“The Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of the heritage of the Palestinian Arabs and Israel is not entitled to block them from it,” said Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of Egypt’s Supreme ...