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Princeton Students Nix Hummus Ban

Princeton University students have voted down a referendum on hummus.The university’s Undergraduate Student Government announced Friday that measure was defeated in voting this week 1,014 to 699.Sabra is based in Queens, N.Y., and Richmond, Va. It is owned by PepsiCo and the Israeli food conglomerate Strauss Group. Strauss contributes money to support troops in the Israeli Defense Forces. Some say ...

Prince William back at work after royal wedding

The couple have delayed announcing their overseas honeymoon, which they had been expected to reveal on Saturday, the day after their wedding.“He will return to work,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense. “It is a normal working day.”Media estimates put the global audience for the wedding at between several hundred million and 2.4 billion, helped by extensive international ...

Prince William And Kate Middleton To Marry

After months of speculation, the couple finally announced they would tie the knot in London in spring or summer next year.William and Kate, both 28, have been together for eight years and became engaged while on holiday in Kenya last month.“The wedding will take place in the Spring or Summer of 2011, in London,” Clarence House said in a statement.Read ...

Prince Harry takes a royal tumble off his horse during polo match

It was hardly the prince’s most regal of moments. As Prince Harry attempted to impress his American hosts, he fell off his horse during a polo match in New York. Playing at the third annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Governors Island yesterday – where tables were going for up to £33,000 – Harry took a rather nasty tumble and ...

Priest and Sister Honored for Saving Jewish Children

A nun and a deceased priest were honored as “Righteous Gentiles” Tuesday for saving three Jewish children in France during the Holocaust.The children did not know how they were saved until one of them began investigating their background in the 1990s, more than 45 years after the fall of the Nazi regime.Sister Marie Emilienne received the medal and certificate of ...

‘Price-tag’ vandals uproot olive trees near Hebron

About 45 olive trees belonging to Palestinians were uprooted in an apparent “price-tag” attack in the West Bank near Hebron on Thursday.On a boulder nearby the words “Price-Tag Infiltration” were sprayed along with a Jewish star.Israeli media speculated that the vandalism was likely in response to a fatal car accident near Kiryat Arba that may have occurred as a result ...

Prestigious Global Financial Group Honors Israeli Hatzalah Leader

Geneva, Switzerland – In announcement made this week, the founder and president of United Hatzala of Israel was one of one hundred and ninety two people chosen to be honored as the Young Global Leaders of 2012 by the World Economic Forum, the Geneva based financial leader that hopes to foster global improvement by encouraging society’s leaders to use their ...

Pressure on ‘Jewish Home’ as Destruction Looms

The Jewish Home party is facing growing pressure over the threat to Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, with residents of the region calling on MKs to make their issue make-or-break for the coalition.The Yesha (Judea and Samaria) Council voted unanimously Thursday to call on Jewish Home MKs to make it clear that if a Jewish town or neighborhood is ...

President Obama in Poland: Polish Jews plead with Obama to support Israel

President Obama was confronted Friday with a plea from a Polish Jew to support Israel just moments after he landed in the country where Nazis staged the Holocaust.“It’s the only Jewish state we have,” Monika Krawczyk told the President on his first visit to Poland.“I will always be there for Israel,” Obama replied.Obama also planted a kiss on Halina Szpilman, ...

‘Preserve Auschwitz-Birkenau for Future’

The Auschwitz-Birkenau foundation has raised close to 100 of the 120 million euros necessary for the preservation of the camp, the organization’s CEO Jacek Kastelaniec told The Jerusalem Post during an interview ahead of International Holocaust Day earlier this week.“We have already raised 99m. euros and are very close to achieving our goal of raising 120m. euros for the preservation ...

Pre-Yom Kippur Hamodia Editorial Addresses Plight of Yeshiva-less Children

A hard hitting editorial in today’s Hamodia highlights the plight of the many children who are currently without a yeshiva placement because they were either not accepted to any institution or they were asked not to return to their previous school.The editorial titled ‘Did You Faint’, calls on the entire community to accept its obligation to educate not just their ...

‘Pre-slaughter stun less humane than shechita’

An Israeli study on electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) for severely depressed or psychotic patients has apparently disproved the claim that the similar process of stunning animals before slaughter is humane and minimizes their suffering.Prof. Rael Strous, a psychiatrist at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Be’er Ya’acov Mental Health Center, has just published an article on the subject ...