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ZOA Cancels Annual Fundraising Dinner Over Tax Status

The Zionist Organization of America has canceled its annual fundraising dinner because of the loss of its tax-exempt status, the organization has confirmed.The fundraiser, usually held in late November or early December, is a key annual event for the group. Recent galas have drawn such high-profile speakers as conservative talk show host Glenn Beck and Republican Rep. Eric Cantor, the ...

YU launches Hebrew mentoring workshop

Yeshiva University announced recently that seven honors students from the Yeshiva University high schools will be participating in a new independent study Hebrew literature course in which they will be mentored by a renowned Israeli author with the goal of developing their Hebrew-language creative writing skills.Entitled “Meet the Israeli Author,” the workshop is the first of its kind in a ...

YouTube Removes Videos From Yemeni Cleric

YouTube has removed from its site videos featuring calls to holy war by an al-Qaida-linked Muslim cleric after pressure from British and U.S. officials.YouTube spokeswoman Victoria Grand said the videos by Anwar al-Awlaki violated the site’s guidelines prohibiting “incitement to commit violent acts.”YouTube reportedly made the move after a British official urged the videos be removed.Read More: @ newyork.cbslocal.comYou might also ...

Your Friendly Campus Rabbi

On a Friday after sunset, you may see students walking up Roosevelt Drive. They pass Stimson and Keller College then continue up the hill until they reach building ‘A’ of West Apartments. They look left and see a tree with Christmas lights wrapped around its trunk. That’s where they enter the woods. They follow a path lined with lights that ...

Youngest ‘Schindler’s List’ Survivor Dies

Leon Leyson, who was the youngest of 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by Oskar Schindler, has died in California at 83.His daughter, Stacy Wilfong, tells the Los Angeles Times that Leyson died Saturday from lymphoma.Leyson was nearly 10 when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. He lost two brothers during the Holocaust but was protected by Schindler and at 13 ...

Young Israel Synagogues Across The U.S. Are Awarded Homeland Security Grants

The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) announced that nine Young Israel branches from across the United States have been awarded 2010 Non-Profit Homeland Security Grants and will receive a total of approximately $700,000 to enhance security for their synagogues. Grants awarded under this program can be used for equipment for specific “target-hardening” activities, such as physical security enhancements, inspection ...

Young Israel Sets Up Charity Fund For The Haifa Fire Emergency

The Israel Trauma Coalition needs your help to provide emergency aid in this unprecedented situation.Fires are consuming large areas around Haifa. Entire areas have been destroyed, with unimaginable loss of lives and property.Haifa was the target of intense attack, with many citizens forced to leave their homes and evacuate to the south.These same people are now in the path of ...

Yossi Green’s 8th Note Takes To The Skies

In what may be a first for the mainstream Jewish music market, composer Yossi Green confirms that British Airways will be featuring his 8th Note CD on most of their flights as of February 1, 2011.Green recalls that in his early days, he fantasized about writing music that was so good it could cross over and be accepted into the ...

Yishai to join Shalit march

While the prime minister makes his way back to Jerusalem from Washington, Interior Minister Eli Yishai will be traveling to the capital by foot – along with the Shalit family and participants in the march for captive soldier Gilad Shalit’s release. Yishai on Wednesday announced that he would join the march in Beit Shemesh, and will be the first minister ...

Yishai to block online services on Shabbat

Interior Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) intends to block all of his ministry’s online payment services offered via the gov.il portal on Shabbat and religious holidays.The portal was set up as part of the “accessible government” project to enable Israeli citizens to access a range of ministry services via the internet, thereby reducing the burden of regional centers and improving citizens’ ...

Yeshiva U. Students Tackle Record With ‘Dreidelpalooza’

All they want for Hanukkah is a new world record – and they apparently got it.Two Yeshiva University students led the effort to beat the current holder of the top place for dreidel spinning in the Guinness Book of World Records.A university spokesman says the two students, along with 616 others, set a new record of 618 simultaneously spinning dreidels ...

Yeshiva Students Run, Learn About Health

The Bnei Akiva Nechalim yeshiva has decided to take seriously the issue of health awareness among youth and decided to devote a whole month of activities to the issue.During the course of the month the students learned about nutrition, fitness, harmful factors and addictions. Arutz Sheva visited the yeshiva on the final day of this month-long project, which was made ...