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Suspect Who Stabbed Yeshiva Student Is Arrested

After an intense investigation by the NYPD, the suspect wanted in the stabbing of a Yeshiva student in Flatbush, has been arrested. The stabbing which was first reported by FlatbushScoop.com, occurred on Motzei Shabbos, February 26th, on Avenue K and East 33rd Street. The suspect had asked the boy for the time, and then his money.When he answered that he had ...

Susan Rice Favored by U.S. Jews to Replace Clinton in State Department

The very quality that helped get Susan Rice in hot water with some in Washington is what pro-Israel groups have come to appreciate — she is a vigorous and reliable defender of the Obama administration’s foreign policies.Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is widely seen as a leading candidate to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, ...

Survivor who Defied Nazis Dies before Holocaust Day

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day will focus on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which took place 70 years ago. The uprising was the largest single revolt by Jews during the Holocaust.Among those who were to be honored with lighting one of six memorial flames at the official state ceremony was Peretz Hochman, who fought in the Polish uprising in Warsaw that followed the ghetto uprising.Peretz was ...

Surprise! ‘Häagen-Dazs not kosher’

The bad news in Israel keeps piling up. Religious tensions, Iran’s nuclear program and regional instability are all worrying enough – but now Häagen-Dazs ice cream in Israel is under threat, and may become a rarity on supermarket shelves.According to a recent kashrut update from the Chief Rabbinate, Häagen-Dazs is not approved by the State Rabbinical Authority, and stores and ...

‘Surfing rabbi’ rallies with British anti-Islam group outside Israel embassy

An Orthodox California rabbi running for state senate under the Tea Party banner marched yesterday with a far right-wing anti-Islam group in Britain outside the Israeli Embassy.Rabbi Nachum Shifren, an ex-lifeguard known as the surfing rabbi, is considered a long shot to represent west Los Angeles in the California senate. He has spoken at Tea Party events and says he ...

Supreme Court rebukes Shin Bet for ‘isolating’ alleged Jewish terrorists

Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy on Wednesday rebuked the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Shin Bet for failing to bring alleged “Jewish terrorist” Chaim Pearlman and his alleged associate, David Sitbon, to court hearings regarding their cases. “It cannot be that the suspects remain isolated from the outside world and cannot know about their rights,”Read More: @ haaretz.comReaders found more information ...

Supporters of Sholom Rubashkin Outraged by Excessive Prison Sentence

Family, friends and supporters of Sholom Rubashkin expressed outrage Monday after the federal court announced a sentence of 27 years in prison for Rubashkin for his bank fraud conviction. The sentence is greater than the amended recommendation from prosecutors, and is inconsistent with calls from throughout the legal community for Rubashkin to be sentenced in a manner similar to other ...

Sunday Times Owner Murdoch Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Cartoon

Rupert Murdoch apologized on Monday for a “grotesque” cartoon carried in one of his British newspapers, showing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu building a wall with the bodies of Palestinian Authority Arabs, AFP reports.The acting editor of the Sunday Times newspaper, Martin Ivens, is due to meet with members of the Jewish community in Britain on Tuesday to apologize in person after they made a ...

Sundance Town Gets Kosher Restaurant

Just in time for the Sundance Film Festival, which descends on this winter hamlet each January, Canyons Resort opened the glatt kosher Bistro at Canyons. The bistro is the only full-service kosher-certified restaurant in Utah and is thought to be the first-ever kosher eatery at a North American ski resort.The Bistro’s offerings are on par with other high-end restaurants in ...

Sultan Yaqub Letter: “I Saw a Body on the Tank’s Catwalk”

Several days ago, the British Foreign Office gave the lawyer representing Mrs. Mriam Baumel, mother of IDF soldier Zachary Baumel, a document that sheds new light on the mystery of the three soldiers still missing in action from the June 11,1982 battle of Sultan Yaqub, the last battle of the 1st Lebanon War.Zachary Baumel, a US citizen, Tzvi Feldman and Yehuda ...

Sukkah to Be Constructed from Mega Blocks in Miami

Two South Florida women are hoping to create unity between the many diverse cultures inhabiting their local area by having community organizations partner in the construction of a succah that will be classified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest succah made entirely out of Mega Bloks.Over one million Mega Bloks are expected to be used ...

Suddenly, We Discovered We’re Jews

I will never forget that night – Christmas Eve. I was five years old, and the entire family gathered for “the holiday”. During the celebration, my father revealed that his father’s family was of Jewish decent. My grandmother – his mother – became silent. I never got over it.Despite the Christmas discovery, the family had always acted as a Christian ...