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Nightly Gemara Shiur Hold Siyum on Eruvin

Sunday evening, 15 Tammuz, the Crown Heights Nightly Gemara Shiur held a siyum on Maseches Eruvin at Empire Shtiebel. Among the distinguished participants was Rabbi Yossi Paltiel, who spoke about the idea of Eruvin according to Chassidus.Eruvin is one of the tougher masechtos in Shas, and is also one of those that is very rarely studied in yeshivah. Most people ...

Prince Charles Fears Rise of Anti-Semitism in Britain

Britain’s Prince Charles warned Monday that his monarchy was suffering from an “apparent rise in anti-Semitism, British media reported.In a speech celebrating the retirement of Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s outgoing chief rabbi, Prince Charles said: “Running throughout your time as chief rabbi has been that all-important principle of which this country has long been an exponent – the principle of tolerance. ...

World Forum for Russian Jewry Head Announces New Babi Yar Memorial

A new memorial complex is slated to be built at the site of the infamous Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Alexander Levin, the president of the World Forum for Russian Jewry, announced.Speaking at the Jewish Agency’s board of governors meeting in Kiev on Sunday, Levin said that the planned complex will incorporate a community center and that “in the place ...

Muslims Mark Jewish Heritage Month

May was Jewish History Month in the Canadian province of Ontario, proclaimed by an act of the provincial government one year ago. The month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements and contributions of Jews, Jewish organizations and the Jewish community to life in Ontario.The government held a significant reception at Queen’s Park, home of the Legislature, on May 28, to ...

Multilingual TV News Channel to Launch July 1

A new Israel-based 24-hour TV news channel broadcasting in English, French and Arabic is to go on air on July 1, its CEO announced.The new station, based in Tel Aviv’s seafront Jaffa district, is named i24news.“The channel will be launched on July 1, in three languages, including the website,” Frank Melloul told the AFPnews agency.Looking at global broadcasters Al-Jazeera and France 24, it will broadcast around ...

JETS Students Graduate, 10 Get Semicha

JETS celebrated the many accomplishments of its students and graduates, as well as the ordination of ten Smicha students, at their June Banquet and the year end trip to the Grand Canyon.Now entering its 9th year, JETS is a unique school that caters to the individual needs of each student, enabling him to be in a warm chassidishe environment while ...

N.Y. Yeshiva Graduates its First Class of Female Religious Leaders

Yeshivat Maharat, which trains Orthodox Jewish women to be religious leaders, held its first graduation ceremony on Sunday.The ceremony, in which Ruth Balinsky Friedman, Rachel Kohl Feingold and Abby Brown Schier graduated, was attended by some 500 people.The graduates are set to work for Orthodox synagogues and institutions.Maharat is a Hebrew acronym for Manhiga Hilkhatit Rukhanit Toranit, or leader in legal, ...

AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 82 – June 26, 2013

Catherine Afarian calls herself a “love child of the ‘70s.” Her mother discovered that she was pregnant after she had broken off a relationship of less than a year. Afarian has never met her biological father, but her mother always said he came from a big Italian family. In late 2010, though, Afarian learned that a big part of her identity ...

Praying for Daylight Saving Time

Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan has initiated an amendment to the legislation on daylight saving time that would allow religiously observant workers to arrive late to work in the last weeks of October in order to be able to pray in the morning, without any deductions from their salary.The new law, which passed its first reading in the Knesset ...

Jews Voice Concern Over Pius Sainthood

A Jewish leader has expressed concern to Pope Pius XII, who has been accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust.Francis made no mention of his wartime predecessor during his talks with members of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC), but the pontiff repeated the Roman Catholic Church’s condemnation of anti-Semitism.“The Jewish community continues to be concerned about ...

New Yad Vashem Exhibit Honors ‘Righteous Among the Nations’

The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial organization will open a new exhibit Wednesday focused on the “Righteous of the Nations,” non-Jews who saved Jews’ lives during the Holocaust.Diplomats and Holocaust survivors whose lives were saved by non-Jews will be among those at the opening ceremony.Yad Vashem explained that the exhibit will emphasize five complex situations that were common themes of the ...

15 Years Later, Vol. 2 of Letters and the Spirit Published

Now available for the first time is the second volume of the popular Letters and the Spirit book, which was first published some 15 years ago.Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel , personal secretary of the Rebbe for over four decades and responsible for his correspondence, describes in fascinating detail in his comprehensive introduction to this multi-volume compendium, the process by which ...