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Without the Rabbinate, I’ll thee wed

The people who attended Yehiel and Tamar’s wedding ceremony two and a half years ago thought they’d come to a typical wedding of a graduate of a hesder yeshiva (combining religious studies with military service ) and a graduate of a religious studies institute for women. The mesader kiddushin (officiating rabbi ) was a well-known yeshiva head, the band played ...

With New York’s Israel Parade Ready to Go, not Everyone is Feeling the Love

It’s America’s biggest annual show of support for Israel, and if this year’s marchers have any luck, the sun will be shining on Sunday morning when tens of thousands assemble on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for the 48th annual Israel day parade.From Jewish day school contingents to the Chai Riders motorcycle club to non-Jewish marching bands to corporate sponsors riding on ...

Winnipeg Street to Be Named ‘Chabad Lane’

fter two years of delay, the city is poised to allow a non-profit group to put a sign in a back lane in River Heights. The Chabad Jewish Learning Centre has been asking that a new lane near its campus at 1845 Mathers Avenue be renamed Chabad Street.But city bureaucrats worried about the precedent that might set for other lanes.At ...

Winners of Bible Contest Chosen

Teens Elior Bavian and Koren Kazas have been named the winners of this year’s national Bible Quiz for high school students. Elior learns in the Shaarei Torah yeshiva high school in Jerusalem, and Koren learns in the De Shalit public high school in Rehovot.The two defeated 12 other contestants in the final round Tuesday.Runners-up were Techelet Feigenson, who learns in ...

Williamsburg, NY – Chilling Testimony of Orthodox Teacher Beaten by Two Teens

Williamsburg, NY – The victim of a Thanksgiving hate crime testified Friday his attackers screamed “Jew, Jew!” as they beat him unconscious on a Brooklyn street.“They ripped off my clothes, my hat and my yarmulke. They were punching my face,” said Joel Weinberger, 26, a Hasidic teacher and father of four.Read More: @ vosizneias.comReaders found more information by searching for:Chilling Testimony ...

Will Rabbinical Court get female director?

The High Court of Justice on Monday held a hearing on a petition filed by the Center of Jewish Pluralism, the Rackman Center for the advancement of the status of women and other women’s groups against Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman.The petitioners demanded to cancel the appointment procedure for the director of the Rabbinical Court, and allow women to contend for ...

WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse

Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza’s economy “on the brink of collapse” while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday.Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks, showed that Israel kept the U.S. Embassy in Tel ...

WikiLeaks: Interpol issues wanted notice for Julian Assange

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is tonight facing growing legal problems around the world, with the US announcing that it was investigating whether he had violated its espionage laws.Assange’s details were also added to Interpol’s worldwide wanted list. Dated 30 November, the entry reads: “sex crimes” and says the warrant has been issued by the international public prosecution office in ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange WILL be extradited to Sweden to face sex attack allegations, judge rules

The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, will be extradited to Sweden to answer sex attack allegations, a judge has ruled.The 39-year-old Australian is accused of sexually assaulting one woman and raping another during a week-long visit to Stockholm in August.He denies any wrongdoing and has sought to fight the case on the grounds that if he is sent ...

WikiLeaks dispatch: Iran’s Khamenei has terminal cancer

U.S. diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks include remarks from an Iran source in 2009 saying Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has terminal cancer, French daily Le Monde reported.The source, a non-Iranian businessman based in Central Asia and travelling often to Tehran, “has learned from one of his contacts that (former president Ali Akbar) Rafsanjani told him Supreme Leader ...

Wife Who Hired Cousin to Kill Husband Appeals Conviction

In a last-minute decision, the judge ordered defense lawyers to cram overnight and deliver closing arguments the next morning, but gave prosecutors the weekend to write theirs.And after the defendant — accused of ordering her husband’s murder in 2007 and facing life in prison — decided to testify, the judge forbade her to explain why she did certain peculiar things, ...

Wife campaigns to release husband from Cuban jail

The wife of a Jewish American, whose husband was sentenced to 15 years in prison for subversion by a Cuban court, launched a national campaign on Tuesday aimed at obtaining his release.Judy Gross asked the crowd assembled at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly in Denver to lobby for the release of her husband, Alan Gross, who has ...