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Western Wall Rabbi Questions Sharansky Plan

Shmuel Rabinowitz, the rabbi of the Western Wall, said rabbis must weigh whether to oppose a compromise proposal over egalitarian prayer at Judaism’s holiest site.In a statement Thursday, Rabinowitz vowed to fight against “the slightest deviation” from customary practice at the Western Wall. However, he left unclear whether the compromise forged by Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky, which ...

West Bank rabbis: Only Jews to renovate Joseph’s Tomb

Following Ynet’s report on an agreement that the Palestinian Agreement would restore Joseph’s Tomb, a group of rabbis from Samaria is demanding that the renovation work be carried out by Israeli Jews only. The rabbis fear that PA construction on the holy site, which was conquered at the outset of the al-Aqsa Intifada, will be interpreted by the Palestinians as ...

Welcome to Crown Heights, the Hasidic SoHo

Crown Heights is becoming the Hasidic SoHo. The neighborhood now has a spanking-new gallery of Jewish art with $175,000 paintings; a female rock band whose members are frum (religiously observant); and a kosher pizzeria that’s a hangout for chic moms with Louis Vuitton handbags.“There’s been a renaissance in Crown Heights,” said Dovy Andrusier, 44, who chose to locate Betzalel Gallery ...

Website posts recording of racist Gibson rant

Mel Gibson is heard using a racial epithet and calling his ex-girlfriend a “whore” in a recording released by a celebrity news website Friday. The two-minute recording posted by RadarOnline.com includes segments in which a voice sounding distinctively like thAcademy Award winner is heard telling his then-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that she is dressing too provocatively and that it would be ...

Website offers ‘Rick Perry Mezuzah’

A website specializing in mezuzot is offering a gigantic mezuzah named after Texas Governor Rick Perry in honor of the Mezuzah Law he signed in June.The law was signed to counter condominium associations which were prohibiting the object affixed to the doorframe in Jewish homes.Aaron Shaffier, the owner of the website, explained: “When I read about the law, I noticed ...

Website of Jewish Culture Launched

A website dedicated to providing educational resources on Jewish culture to teachers and educators in Israel was launched this week at the residence of the British ambassador.Tarbut IL, the brainchild of the Posen Foundation in conjunction with the Shalom Hartman Institute, the AVI CHAI foundation and the Center for Educational Technology, was unveiled on Tuesday night with the goal of ...

Website Lists Open Sukkahs All Over the World

A world-wide registry of Sukkahs available for public use 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 go there to eat. The idea of this service is not to list every Sukkah, but to try and have a Sukkah listed for ...

We will resume suicide attacks

The Islamic Jihad organization said on Sunday that it has decided to resume suicide attacks against Israel from the West Bank. The threat came in response to attacks launched by IAF planes on the Gaza Strip following the firing of rockets on Israel in the past few days. The group, however, admitted that it has become very difficult to launch ...

Watch / The modern day Maccabeats’ spin a Hanukkah tune

YouTube Hanukkah hit received over 200,000 hits Wednesday as Jews around the world prepared to spin their dreidels and flip some Latkes on the first night of Hanukkah.The song is performed by The Maccabeats, a student a-cappella group from Yeshiva University in New York.Read More: @ haaretz.comReaders found more information by searching for:maccabeats han (4)maccabeats (3)feliz hanukkah song (2)maccabeats hann (2)feliz hanukkah i wanna make ...

WATCH / Jewish youth demand peace for the New Year

The youth wing of Jewish Voice for Peace, a grassroots organization dedicated to reaching a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians, launched a video campaign in honor of the New Year on Tuesday, with close to 40 young Jews aged 18-36 demanding a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.The members of Young, Jewish and Proud declare to the camera: “We ...

Was the Frankfurt Airport Shooter a Lone-Wolf Jihadist?

According to German authorities, the 21-year-old Kosovar man who opened fire on a U.S. Air Force bus at Frankfurt’s international airport on Wednesday, killing two U.S. airmen and seriously wounding two others, was a radical Islamist who had links to prominent militants in Germany and harbored an intense hatred of the U.S. military. The interior minister of the state of ...

Was Bin Laden betrayed by his right-hand man? Al Qaeda’s deputy leader ‘led U.S. troops to Pakistan hideaway’

Osama Bin Laden’s deputy led U.S. troops to the Al Qaeda leader’s hideout so he could take over the terrorist group, it was claimed today.Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahiri, who has been touted widely as the man who will succeed Bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda, turned his back on his terrorist leader following a prolonged power struggle, according ...