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Praying for a child: Infertility in religious society

In the religious sector, children do not just bring happiness – children are a must. Many religious women will tell you that just months after their wedding, people began staring at their stomachs in search of any changes in size.Infertility is a terrible burden on any woman seeking to bring new life into this world. But when you’re religious – ...

Power Restored To Thousands Of New Yorkers

Ten of thousands of New Yorkers who lost their electricity due to Thursday’s tornadoes had their power restored by Consolidated Edison Saturday evening, and the utility also distributed dry ice to many Queens residents.As of 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Consolidated Edison said more than 4,000 city customers were still without electricity, and almost all of them were in Queens.Read More: @ ny1.comVisitors ...

Postville documentary criticizes sentencings

A federal judge who participated in controversial court hearings after the huge immigration raid in Postville says the 2008 legal proceedings were “a travesty.”District Judge Mark Bennett, who sentenced 57 of the 389 immigrant workers arrested at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant, makes his allegations in a new documentary film about the raid’s aftermath.Critics, including defense lawyers and immigrant advocates, have ...

Postmen Refuse to Distribute New Testament

Dozens of Israel Postal Company employees in Ramat Gan refused to distribute thousands of copies of the New Testament to city residents. They claimed such distribution is forbidden according to the halacha laws, and might even be illegal.Both religious and secular postal workers were asked to hand out mail and advertisements on Monday, along with thousands of holy Christian booklets ...

Poster calling to boycott stores where Arabs work with Jewish women spotted in Jerusalem

“Do you want your grandson to be named Ahmed ben Sarah?” a street poster slapped on the walls of Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods inquires, in a not-so-subtle dig at the Yesh retail chain.The problem the authors of the broadside (pashkevil, in Hebrew ) have is that Yesh, the Haredi arm of the Super-Sol supermarket chain, allows Arab men to work alongside ...

Possible suspect in slaying of heroic liquor store clerk Yoseph Robinson tries to flee from cops

A possible suspect in the murder of a Brooklyn liquor store clerk tried to escape Tuesday while being questioned inside a police stationhouse, sources said. The man who cops think is tied to the slaying of Yoseph Robinson tried to make a run for it when he was briefly left alone and unhandcuffed in an interrogation room at the 70th ...

Pope meets Israeli religious leaders

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday urged the leaders of religious communities in Israel whom he received at the Vatican to “educate” their followers to a “deeper understanding” of members of different religions, stating that the relationship with God must be “a force for peace”Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop Fouad Twal, Chief Imam of Israel Mohammed ...

Pope Francis Extends Passover Greetings to Jewish Community

Pope Francis on Monday extended his wishes to Rome’s chief rabbi and Jews worldwide in a gesture aimed at strengthening relations between the two religions, as the Jewish world marks the beginning of the holiday of Passover.In his message to Rabbi Riccardo di Segni, the pope said he hoped “that the Almighty, who freed his people from slavery in Egypt ...

Pope exonerates Jews for Jesus’ death

Pope Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity in a new book.In “Jesus of Nazareth-Part II” excerpts released Wednesday, Benedict explains biblically and theologically why there is no basis in Scripture for the argument that the Jewish people as a whole ...

Poll: More than half of Egyptians want to cancel peace treaty with Israel

More than half of all Egyptians would like to see the 1979 peace treaty with Israel annulled, according to results of a poll conducted by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center released Monday.According to the poll results, only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 percent who would like to see it scrapped.Read more : ...

Poll: 51% say ‘kosher buses’ legitimate

The majority of the Israeli public believes that voluntary separation between men and women on public transportation in or between ultra-Orthodox areas is a legitimate thing, according to a Ynet-Gesher poll commissioned on the backdrop of the exclusion of women phenomenon.The survey was conducted by the Panels institute through the Panel4All Internet panel among 508 respondents – a representative sample ...

Politicians Denounce Anti Semitic Remarks By Henry Kissinger

At a press conference today to denounce the anti-Semitic remarks by former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Senator Eric Adams, and Holocaust-survivor Edith Cohen gathered outside Kissinger Associates Inc. in Manhattan to demand a formal apology from “pig” and “self-hating Jew” ...