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AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 71 – March 14, 2013

Park Slope has not been home to a kosher restaurant, that changed when owners of a popular authentic French Bistro decided to make changes. Along with a new name, a French chef and Kosher certification. Formerly known as Belleville, is now called Chagall and according to the owners Dan and Sonia Halimi the inspiration for the new name comes from the Jewish ...

British Guilty of Disguised Anti-Semitism, Israeli Minister Tells The Telegraph

Israel’s Strategic Affairs minister Yuval Steinitz has expressed concern over recent British hostility towards Israel in media coverage, boycott campaigns and official British policy, telling U.K.’s The Daily Telegraph that he sees such actions as “some kind of disguised anti-Semitism.”In the interview with newspaper, when asked about the current relationship between Britain and Israel, Steinitz said: “It’s difficult to say. Traditionally ...

AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 78 – May 23, 2013

Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited for saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her. The walkway is in the former Warsaw Ghetto between a monument to the Jews who fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews.Should we ...

Haredi Press Ignores Beersheba Massacre

While the massacre perpetrated by Itamar Alon on Monday at a Beersheba branch of Bank Hapoalim sent the country spiraling into shock, the ultra-Orthodox media ignored wholesale the story that generated frantic coverage in mainstream outlets.While Yeted Ne’eman, Hamevaser and Hamodia – traditionally considered mouthpieces of the United Torah Judaism party, or at least closely affiliated to it – kept ...

Imprisoned Alan Gross Settles Lawsuit Against US Employer

American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross, who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 2009, settled a negligence lawsuit against his U.S. government employer, claiming the risks associated with his mission had been underestimated.Gross and his wife, Judy, settled the suit against Development Alternatives Inc (DAI)., a for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Maryland, according to a federal notice issued last week.The ...

Kosher Bites at the Beach

When Rabbi Yossi and Shterna Mintz opened their fledgling Chabad center in Redondo Beach, Calif., people told them it was a lost cause, saying that no Jews lived there. Seventeen years later, with a new kosher restaurant under construction and Hebrew day school on the horizon, the community has grown and developed beyond their wildest imagination.The restaurant, slated to open ...

Mel Brooks’ Top 10 ‘Jewy Jewish’ Scenes

Monday night marks the national premier broadcast of the American Masters installment on Mel Brooks. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together a collection of Brooks’ best Jewish clips.What exactly that means is a good question. As with two others recent subjects on the PBS series – Woody Allen and Phillip Roth (hey, guys, maybe change it up a bit, ...

AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 77 – May 15, 2013

A Jewish burial plot in the island state of Cape Verde was rededicated with help from the king of Morocco. About 100 people attended the rededication ceremony last week. The support of King Mohammed VI to this project is representative of Morocco’s attachment to the preservation of its patrimony whether Arab, Jewish or Berber, Andre Azoulay, the king’s Jewish advisor, said in ...

Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey Senator who Opened Gates to Soviet Jews, Dies at 89

New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, whose signature law facilitated a flood of Soviet Jewish emigration just prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died.Lautenberg, 89, died Monday morning of viral pneumonia, his office said. Lautenberg was the oldest serving U.S. senator and the last lawmaker in the chamber to have served in World War II.Two far-reaching laws bear the ...

Birthright-Style Program Proposed for Non-Jews

European leaders should send university students to Israel as part of efforts to combat rising levels of anti-Semitism and xenophobia, Foreign Ministry director general for public diplomacy Gideon Meir declared on Thursday. He was speaking at the close of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem.“I believe we can do something about this if we work together,” Meir said. ...

Deaf-Mute Children’s Prayer Heard

For decades, deaf-mute bar mitzvah boys have not been called up to read from the Torah due to their disability. Now, following a new halachic issued by Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, these boys will be able to celebrate their coming of age just like their friends.According to the Halacha, people called up to read from the Torah must say the ...

Don’t Hesitate – Make Aliyah!

A large commencement exercise was held in New Jersey, Thursday, for Yeshiva University’s latest graduates. During the ceremony the university honored several people, among them alumnus Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, co-founder of the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization for aliyah (immigration) to Israel.Arutz Sheva spoke to several of the graduating students, who discussed their hopes for the future, including hopes to someday live in Israel. “There’s ...