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Hungary Jews Fight Honor for Hitler Ally Miklos Horthy

Hungary’s main Jewish organization has urged the government and parliament to prevent the honoring of Miklos Horthy, the country’s Holocaust-era ruler.Horthy had “direct responsibility for the killing and destruction of several hundred thousand Hungarian Jews,” the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or Mazsihisz, said in a statement Wednesday.The statement was in reaction to the recent decision by the mayor of ...

Hungary Arrests the ‘Most Wanted Living Nazi’

Police in Hungary on Tuesday arrested Laszlo Csatary, said to be the world’s most wanted living Nazi, and charged him with war crimes related to the deportation of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz during World War II.Hungarian prosecution said it indicted the 95-year-old for the part he played in sending 15,700 Jews to Nazi death camps when he was the ...

Hungarian Man, 96, Charged With WWII War Crimes

A former Hungarian military officer has been charged with war crimes in the 1942 slaughter of 1,200 civilians in Serbia, prosecutors said Monday.The charges against Sandor Kepiro, 96, stem from his alleged participation in a raid by Hungarian forces on the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad in January 1942 that left more than 1,200 civilians dead, the Budapest.Read More: @ ...

Hundreds protest ‘neglect’ at Cave of Patriarchs

Hundreds of Jewish worshippers gathered at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Wednesday to protest the authorities’ “neglect” with regards to the site’s upkeep.Torrential rains bought down a makeshift tarp roof at the site a week ago.During Wednesday’s morning prayers, participants held black umbrellas with the slogans “Enough with the humiliation at the Cave of the Patriarchs” and ...

Hundreds of rabbis around the world decry anti-Arab religious ruling

Hundreds of leading rabbis from congregations the world have signed a petition criticizing their counterparts in Israel who issued a religious ruling to forbid Jews from selling or leasing property to Arabs.More than 750 signatories to the Rabbis against Religious Discrimination petition, funded by the New Israel Fund, deplored the 50 prominent rabbis promoting the new ruling as “causing shock ...

Hundreds of Officers: Stop Political IDF Officers’ Petitions

Hundreds of IDF officers have signed a petition protesting the use of petitions signed by officers like them for furthering political causes.The officers are angry at a recent document called “the Officers’ Letter” that features demands by IDF officers that the government act to release IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.In a democracy, the anti-petition officers say – it is strictly forbidden ...

Humiliation, Not Rule Of Law Was Reason Behind Rabbi Lior’s Arrest

The affair involving the arrest and interrogation of Rabbi Dov Lior has nothing to do with matters of law and order. The same was true when Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, who wrote the “King’s Torah” book, was cuffed by police. Both moves were meant to humiliate the rabbis rather than to enforce the law.Read More: @ yiddishnayes.comYou might also like:Police issue arrest ...

Huge Fire in Southwestern IDF Training Area

A blaze described as “huge” in scale has been burning in IDF training grounds at Lachish, near the communities of Amatzia and Shekef. Lachish is an area of south-western Israel, between the Judean mountains and Ashkelon.There is no intention, at this point, of evacuating the residents of the communities from their homes, because the fire has not come near residential ...

Huckabee pulls warning to Jews from website

Mike Huckabee removed a statement from his website warning Israel and the Jews “not to insult” the friends they have.The Anti-Defamation League on Monday had scolded the former Arkansas governor and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for inappropriate use of Holocaust imagery to decry the debt crisis.Both politicos, likely GOP presidential candidates in 2012, were reported over the weekend to have ...

Huckabee: Israelis should be able to live anywhere in Jewish state

Israelis should be able to live “anywhere in Israel they wished to live,” Iikely US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Monday during a visit to the Mount of Olives for a cornerstone-laying ceremony in a Jewish east Jerusalem neighborhood.“It is inconceivable in many ways that we would have to even argue and debate whether or not Israelis could live in ...

How Richard Holbrooke fought for Holocaust survivors

With the tragic passing of Richard Holbrooke, the world has lost a man who devoted his life to resolving intractable conflicts; our nation has lost the premier diplomat of his era in the midst of one of his most challenging assignments as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan; and I have lost a dear friend and long-time colleague.It is less ...

How do you Play Jewish Geography?

Living in San Francisco makes playing Jewish geography much more difficult. Besides for dealing with the average frummies negative feelings towards SF, I have to deal with most frummies thinking that SF and LA are right next to each (in a similar vein that New Yorkers thought Rochester was in some way the same thing as Westchester) Then I have to ...