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AllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 25 April 11, 2012
Two Crown heights foodies started a kosher meat and deli business is now adding a specially made sausage for the passover holiday that started Friday at sundown. in the history of Passover Jews didn’t have the luxury of eating sausage. Pork sausage is always prohibited under Jewish law, other types like chicken and turkey are permitted – but banned along with ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 24 April 4, 2012
An Orthodox Jewish girls high school in Brooklyn ordered their students to close their facebook accounts or face being fined or worse expulsion. Benzion Stock, the administrator of the Crown Heights school said girls are getting killed on the Internet that’s the reason why they are telling their students to close their accounts. In Israel two girls almost succeeded in committing ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 23 March 28, 2012
More children are suffering accidents from poisoning to drowning during the two weeks before Passover than during any other fortnight in the year. The dangers are even greater during the week before the Festival of Freedom, when children are on school holiday and parents are involved in intensive cleaning preparations. Parents are told to protect their children, especially during this period. ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 22 March 21, 2012
Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the admor (rabbinic leader ) of Vizhnitz and head of Agudath Israel’s Council of Torah Sages, died Tuesday night at the age of 95 after a lengthy battle with various illnesses. He was laid to rest in Bnei Brak after 40 years at the sect’s helm. Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral of the long-time ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 21 March 14, 2012
13 israelis are part of the world’s billionaires list with Idan Ofer, director of Ofer Group leading the list of Israeli billionaires in the 161st spot, with an estimated fortune of $6.2 billion. Beny Steinmetz of Steinmetz Business Group ranked eight spots bellow Ofer, with a net worth of $5.9 billion. Another Ofer brother, Eyal, came in 173rd on the list, ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 20 March 7, 2012
Germany turned its focus to internal security. The unrest in Berlin during the summer of 1918 led the Prussian Ministry of the Interior to make a surprising decision. Bernhard Weiss, a little-known Jewish war hero and recipient of the Iron Cross First Class, was ordered to leave the front lines and serve as deputy head of Berlin’s criminal police. He also ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 19 February 29, 2012
The Milwaukee Brewers slugger, the first Jewish MVP in a half-century, became the first baseball player ever to successfully appeal a positive drug test. Ryan Braun won his appeal of a suspension imposed after he allegedly failed a test for performance-enhancing drugs, the baseball players union announced Thursday. “I am very pleased and relieved by today’s decision,” Braun said in a statement, ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 18 February 22, 2012
A camera crew stopped to film the exhibition of hasidic art organized by Rabbi Yitzchok Moully in Brooklyn during Sukkot last year, he was pleased. When they mentioned that they were working with Oprah Winfrey on her documentary about hasidic life, he was, he said, intrigued — but not particularly excited. “It was cool that they were interested. I don’t think the ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 17 February 15, 2012
A few days ago, a photo of a loaf of bread purchased at the Empire Kosher supermarket, with what appeared to be a second price label raising the cost of the loaf by 50 cents. The bakery department operator Yoily Glick tells us it was just a simple mistake: the sticker for a different and cheaper bread had mistakenly been placed ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 16 February 08, 2012
A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan has 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 more documents, date back from the 11th century, were found in Afghanistan’s Samangan province and most likely smuggled out – a sorry but common fate for ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 15 February 1, 2012
The HBO pilot “All Talk” a show that focuses on a Jewish family living in Washington will star Ben Stiller. The show whose tone is being described as “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent” – is written by “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” author Jonathan Safran Foer.A historic prayer service was conducted in the Knesset on Wednesday by a leadership ...
Read MoreAllJewishLinks.com Newsletter Issue # 14 January 25, 2012
A cold January temperatures and snowy weather didn’t even stop the parents and children from the Krivoy Rog Jewish community to come and celebrate the opening of a new facility. The Ukrainian community’s 10-year-old kindergarten moved into a new space, a beautifully designed building where the foundations of Jewish education will be laid for the city’s Jewish kinder. The new kindergarten is ...
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