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Worst Affected Hospitals: Ichilov, Meir and Rambam

Two hundred and seventy-seven residents did not show up for work in the country’s hospitals Monday morning, a few weeks after handing in their resignations.Of the no-shows, 104 are from Ichilov Hospital (Tel Aviv), 77 from Rambam (Haifa), 71 from Meir (Kfar Saba), 18 from Bnei Tzion (Haifa) and seven from Assaf HaRofeh (Tzrifin).Dep. Min. Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) says the ...

Worries over Iranian Jews if Israel Attacks

All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran’s suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in the Islamic Republic and could be caught in the middle.Although Iran has a history of treating its Jewish minority fairly well, some Iranian Jews who have emigrated to Israel worry that an Israeli attack could ...

Worldwide sukkah directory goes online

A world-wide registry of sukkot has been set up, and is listed online at www.localsukkah.org.The directory has been designed for Jews to locate a sukkah near to them, so that they can dine there. The idea of this service is not to list every sukkah, but to try and have a sukkah listed for every area in which Jewish people ...

World’s Largest Mezuzah Donated to Hospital

It is made of Bronze, weighs 40 kilograms and is 1.4 meters tall – meet the largest mezuzah in the world, which was placed on Monday at the entrance to the emergency Room at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot.The parchment rolled inside the mezuzah, which is inscribed with Shma Yisrael and additional Torah portions, is 60 centimeters long when spread out.The ...

World’s largest collection of Holocaust documents goes digital

The world’s largest collection of Holocaust documents is going digital.Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, is teaming up with Google to make its photographs and documents interactive and searchable on the Internet. The first 130,000 photos hit the web Wednesday.Although much of Yad Vashem’s archive was already available through its formidable website, the new project enables users to search keywords and ...

World Jews on High Alert Ahead of Pesach

The Counter-Terrorism Bureau has instructed Chabad centers and Jewish communities in several sensitive countries to boost security and go as far as hiring local security companies to guard the mass Passover Seders planned during the Jewish holiday.In some countries there are even preparations to have hikers conduct security checks at the entrance to Passover Seders in order to verify the ...

World Jews mark Independence Day

Independence Day celebrations spread worldwide: Many Jews and Israelis across the world are celebrating Israel’s 63rd anniversary as far as thousands of kilometers away.World Zionist Organization representative Enrique Grinberg told Ynet that as many as 10,000 Jews were expected to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day at a stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Many of them were to get there by foot as ...

World Jewry To Mark ‘Rosh Hashanah’, The Jewish New Year

The Jewish People begin the High Holidays on Wednesday evening, ushering in the year 5772 by starting nearly a month of special days: Two days of Rosh Hashanah on Thursday and Friday are this year followed immediately by Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath of Repentance, and on Sunday by the Fast of Gedaliah.Rosh Hashana is also the start of the Ten ...

World Jewish leader to Obama: Is U.S. committed to Israel’s security?

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has publicly questioned United States President Barack Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security, in a letter he reportedly drafted with the approval of his close friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy,” wrote Lauder, in a letter published Thursday ...

World Class Resort Chosen for National Jewish Retreat

In an exciting move bound to cause a lot of excitement in the Sunshine state and throughout the country, the 2012 National Jewish Retreat will be moving to the luxurious Hyatt Regency Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.This year’s retreat will take place July 31- August 5, 2012 (12-17 Av, 5772), and will once again combine the best of ...

Women’s Whispers: The artful Jew

A bibliophile was guiding me through a collection of antique Haggadot, when he paused to lament the primitiveness of the artwork. “Jews are people of the word, not the image,” I reminded him.It was not always so. The Pentateuch lavishes long passages among its spare and precious prose on the making of the Tabernacle, detailing precise dimensions, materials, processing of ...

Women’s right to eulogize must be enforced

Despite a new ministerial directive presented to the Knesset on Wednesday instructing burial societies and municipal rabbis that they may not prevent women from giving eulogies at funerals, concerns remain that the directive will not be enforced.Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, as well as religious rights groups, expressed disappointment that the renewal of a burial society’s license, which oversees Jewish funeral ...