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On ‘Mad Men,’ Sterling Cooper gets a Jewish Copywriter

“Mad Men” is like the Jews — it gets a lot of attention for a show watched by less than 2 percent of the population.To kick off its fifth season, the 1960s period program, winner of four straight Emmys for best drama, has a new Jewish character. To be more precise, the advertising firm at the center of the AMC ...

Olmert declared chief suspect in Holyland real estate case

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is a suspect in the Holyland real estate scandal, police announced Thursday.According to police suspicions, between 1999 and 2008, the Holyland development company and associated land development projects, then owned by businessman Hillel Charni, paid tens of millions of shekels in bribes to senior public decision makers in the Jerusalem Municipality, members of its planning ...

Oldest Written Document Ever Found

Hebrew University excavations recently unearthed a clay fragment dating back to the 14th century BCE, said to be the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem. The tiny fragment is only 2 cm. by 2.8 cm. in surface area and 1 cm. thick and appears to have once been part of a larger tablet. Researchers say the ancient fragment testifies ...

Old Jewish Scrolls Found in Afghanistan

A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan that has only recently come to light is creating a storm among scholars who say the landmark find could reveal an undiscovered side of medieval Jewry.The 150 or so documents, dated from the 11th century, were found in Afghanistan’s Samangan province and most likely smuggled out – a sorry but common ...

OK to rent to Arabs when security not at stake

Or Etzion’s Rabbi Haim Druckman on Thursday morning explained the reasoning behind the rabbinic opinion issued by him and signed by other rabbis, including Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu – whose halachic ruling encouraging city residents not to rent or sell homes to non-Jews provoked much controversy in recent days.Druckman spoke in particular about how he convinced Rabbi Eliahu to ...

Officials fear ‘Palestine’ declaration will bring boycott

Concern is growing in Israel over the possibility that following a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinians later this year, countries around the world will boycott Israeli military products.The concern, voiced by leading officials in the defense establishment, comes ahead of the Paris Air Show next month, where Israeli hardware will be on display in pursuit of new sales.“We ...

Official Objections to Emanuel Candidacy

Rahm Emanuel has made it perfectly clear that he wants to be mayor of this city. Now the question is: Does he qualify?On Wednesday, at least five local residents filed separate objections to the candidacy of Mr. Emanuel with elections officials here, and more objections were expected to trickle in to the city’s Board of Elections in the next few ...

Odessa Schools Battle Bitter Cold

As a cold snap freezes the Eurasian land mass, Israel’s Army Radio is broadcasting stories off expatriates living amidst arctic weather conditions.Chabad-Lubavitch of Odessa co-director Chaya Wolff told reporter Micha Fridman last Friday that the sub-zero temperatures are among the coldest she remembers since moving to Ukraine 18 years ago. The wind from the neighboring Black Sea has made it ...

“Obama’s Rabbi” Tells President: Free Pollard Now

As the effort to gain clemency for Jonathan Pollard continues to grow, the Chicago-based Rabbi Capers C. Funnye, Jr. wrote to President Obama and called upon him to free Pollard.What makes Rabbi Funnye’s call for clemency so unique is that Funnye is related to the President. Rabbi Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye, and First Lady Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Frasier ...

Obama’s Jewish backers on edge over his Mideast peace plan

President Obama’s Jewish fundraising network is trying to calm uneasy donors who fear that his blueprint for Middle East peace would jeopardize Israel’s security.While Obama’s core fundraising volunteers aren’t panicking, they say that his outline for a peace deal has thrown up unexpected obstacles that make it more difficult to meet short-term fundraising targets.Obama laid out his vision of a ...

Obama’s granny ‘prayed for him to become Muslim’

The Kenyan grandmother of US President Barack Obama said during her hajj pilgrimage to Mecca that she had prayed for the American leader to convert to Islam, a newspaper has revealed.The paper said that Omar was in Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage along with her son, Obama’s uncle Saeed Hussein Obama, and four of her grandchildren.“I prayed for my grandson Barack ...

Obama: world safer after Washington nuke summit

President Barack Obama declared the world safer Tuesday after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline to lock down loose nuclear materials to prevent them from falling into militant hands.“Because of the steps we’ve taken the American people will be safer and the world will be more secure,” Obama said at the end of the summit in Washington.Read More: @ nypost.comReaders ...