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140 U.S. Jewish Leaders Sign Letter Urging PM to ‘Compromise’ in Peace Talks

A broad range of U.S. Jewish figures have written to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to encourage him as peace talks are set to resume in Washington next week.“We recognize that achieving a two-state solution will require a territorial compromise that provides for a Palestinian state without jeopardizing Israel’s security,” said the letter, initiated by the Israel Policy Forum and signed ...

WUJS: Empowering the Next Generation on Campus

The perceived linkage between Judaism and Zionism can be a turn-off for some students, believes Chaya Esther Pomeranz, newly elected chair of the World Union of Jewish Students.Speaking with The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, Pomeranz said that despite having been raised as a religious Jew in Israel, where Zionism and Judaism are “one and the same,” such cannot be said ...

Nearly 1,000 Kids Making Aliyah in 2013

The Nefesh B’Nefesh first ever ‘Children Aliyah’ flight landed safely at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday morning. On the El Al flight, 106 children with their parents, along with 54 singles, left North America to make their new homes in Israel.The flight itself was a little unusual – coloring books, games and custom-made T-shirts were all prepared beforehand to keep the ...

Netanyahu Meets New Chief Rabbis

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Thursday with the two new chief rabbis – Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi, Rabbi David Lau.Holding the book of Vayikra (Leviticus) in his hand, he told them: “I have chosen to give you my blessings in your new important positions, with one thing, the verse from the book of Vayikra, ‘Love your neighbor as you ...

Is England’s Future King Jewish?

Mazel Tov! After much anticipation, at 4:24 p.m. in London on July 22, the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth. The Royal bundle is an 8lbs. 6oz. son, future King — and perhaps a real Jewish Prince.For those of you who haven’t heard, according to lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Kate’s mother, Carol, is the daughter of Ronald and Dorothy Goldsmith (whose parents, ...

Roger Waters Concert Features Nazi-Like Uniform, Pig Balloon with Jewish Symbol

Roger Waters, a rock musician critical of Israel, used a giant, pig-shaped balloon emblazoned with a Star of David and symbols of dictatorial regimes during a recent concert in Belgium.Waters, who recently urged other performers to boycott Israel and compared Israel to apartheid South Africa, was singing on stage on July 20 under the balloon while toting a machine gun ...

Polish Jews to Turn to Constitutional Court over Slaughter Ban

Poland’s Jewish community is preparing to go to their country’s Constitutional High Court to lift a ban on kosher slaughter that has been in effect since January, Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.Michael Boni, the Polish Administration and Digitization Minister requested leaders of the Jewish and Muslim communities file the motion. This advice comes after a ...

Thousands Mark 78 Years Since Rabbi Kook’s Passing

More than 3,000 people visited the tomb of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook on Friday, to mark 78 years since his passing.Rabbi Kook (more commonly known in Hebrew as ”Rav Kook” or “HaRoe”h” – the visionary, an acronym of his name) was born in Griva, Latvia in 1865. He studied at the prestigious Volozhin yeshiva (religious academy), and soon became a renown prodigy, developing ...

Mayoral Race Comes to Crown Heights

On Wednesday, Democratic Mayoral candidate Sal Albanese went to Crown Heights to visit community organizations and small businesses.Albanese started at the Crown Heights Community Council, where he met with Rabbi Eli Cohen. Albanese and Rabbi Cohen discussed public safety, Metzizah BePeh, affordable housing, and other issues facing the community in Crown Heights.Albanese then greeted store owners and Lubavitch community leaders ...

Iceland’s Few Jews Grapple with Faith

Iceland has no synagogue, no rabbis, no Jewish community center or organized structure. In fact, Judaism is not even one of Iceland’s state-recognized religions.Still, Iceland has about 100 Jews who call this North Atlantic island home. And last year, roughly 50 of them gathered in a hall downtown on Erev Rosh Hashanah for services — a proportion of prayer attendance ...

“Auschwitz Birkenau Must Stay Authentic, Untouched”

Arutz Sheva TV‘s Hezki Ezra met the Director General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. “The foundation was founded”, explain the founders, “in order for future generations visiting the remains of the Auschwitz Nazi German concentration camp to be able to see with their own eyes the authentic site of the crimes that the Nazis committed during the Second World War.”Professor Władysław Bartoszewski established ...

Peres in Lithuania: Ponar Slaughter is a Warning to Us All

On the second and final day of his state visit to Lithuania, President Shimon Peres, escorted by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, visited what is known as the Valley of Slaughter – the Ponar forest where some 100,000 Jews, gypsies, members of the Polish intelligentsia and some Soviet prisoners were mercilessly killed by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators.Approximately 70,000 of ...