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Syria Invites Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto to Visit Damascus

With highly improbable timing, even as it guns down its own people while attempting to retain power, the Syrian government has invited Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto to visit the country where many of his forefathers are buried, and to daven at their Damascus kevorim.Over the course of Mimouna celebrations at Moshav Gimzo, between Lod and Modi’in, last week, Jack Avital, the ...

Synagogue’s Expansion Plans Anger Neighbours

A small ultra Orthodox synagogue on Hutchison Street is creating a stir with residents in the area.Plans to expand the Gate David synagogue were approved by the Plateau Mont Royal borough Monday night.Critics of the plan say the expansion will lower the standard of living in the area.Some call the synagogues on Hutchison Street noisy and a nuisance, claiming that ...

Synagogue torched in Tunisia: Jewish leader

Arsonists set fire to a synagogue in the southern Gabes region of Tunisia, a leader of the local Jewish community said Tuesday.“Someone set fire to the synagogue on Monday night and the Torah scrolls were burned,” Trabelsi Perez told AFP, criticising the lack of action by the security services to stop the attack.“What astonished me was that there were police ...

Swiss party ad features Jewish doll

Jewish community outraged: Anti-Semitic group in Geneva distributes ad for independence day party showing doll wearing yarmulke with arrow on its head, Israeli flag painted on.Ads promoting an independence party in Geneva featured a doll of a man wearing a yarmulke with an arrow in its head and an Israeli flag painted on it, Swiss media reported Friday.Read More: @ ynetnews.comYou ...

Swiss Jews Fault President on Statement

Swiss Jewish groups are faulting the country’s president for failing to address the neutral country’s failings during World War II in a statement marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day.In a statement Sunday, President Ueli Maurer said Switzerland remained “a country of freedom and law” during the war and became a safe haven for many persecuted people.But Switzerland’s main Jewish organizations ...

Swine flu hits Israel, hospitals swamped

Hospitals were swamped Wednesday morning with patients seeking treatment for the swine flu, which hit Israel for the second sequential winter.The Health Ministry announced Wednesday morning that 14 people had been hospitalized in critical condition, among them six children.Three people have already died from the flu this year, including a 15-year old boy who appeared healthy but succumbed to the ...

Swedish Gallery Pulls Painting Made of Holocaust Victims’ Ashes

A Swedish art gallery in Lund reportedly has cancelled the exhibition of a painting made of Holocaust victims’ ashes.The gallery owner, Martin Bryder, is quoted as telling Sydsvenskan, a local newspaper, that he decided to pull the exhibition of a painting by Carl Michael von Hausswolff because of protests by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Jewish community of Malmo. ...

SWC Issues Travel Advisory for Copenhagen Amid Warnings

The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a travel advisory last week for Denmark in wake of warnings by Israel’s ambassador advising Jews and Israelis to refrain from wearing kippot, religious symbols, and speaking Hebrew on the streets of Copenhagen.“It is intolerable that any Jew should have to hide his or her identity on the streets of Copenhagen. The Simon Wiesenthal Center ...

Suspected spy for Israel escapes from Lebanon

A Lebanese man suspected of spying for Israel successfully escaped from Lebanon to Israel on Friday by crossing the border near Bint Jbeil, the Lebanese newspaper A-Nahar reported on Sunday. The man, an employee of the state-owned Alfa mobile telecommunications company, was not one of the two Alfa employees, Charbel Qazzi and Tareq Raba, who were recently arrested by Lebanon ...

Suspected Mossad agent lands in Israel after released in Germany

WARSAW – The Israeli suspected of forging a German passport allegedly used in the January assassination of a Hamas operative landed in Israel last night. The arrival of the man, identified as Uri Brodsky, came after a German court released him on bail following his extradition from Poland to Germany on Thursday.Read More: @ haaretz.comReaders found more information by searching for:condor ...

Suspected Mossad agent arrested in Poland over Dubai assassination

An alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the hit-squad slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai has been arrested in Poland, officials said Saturday. The man, using the name Uri Brodsky, is suspected of working for Mossad in Germany and helping to issue a fake German passport to a member of the Mossad operation that allegedly killed ...

Suspected hate crimes case rocks N.Y. Hasidic sect

A lawyer for a man who was badly burned at his home in a Hasidic Jewish village is seeking a federal investigation into what he calls “hate crimes” by the community’s religious leadership.He said the attack evoked “the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Germany.”Early Sunday morning, Aron Rottenberg suffered third-degree burns over half his body when he confronted behind his ...