Jewish News

Nearly 100,000 Attend Funeral of Ponevitch Rosh Yeshiva

Tens of thousands of haredim flocked to the central city of Bnei Brak on Tuesday morning to take part in the funeral of Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, one of the leaders of the Lithuanian-Orthodox faction and head of Ponovezh Yeshiva.Lefkowitz died at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Monday night, two days after collapsing, (as was first reported ...

NC congressman apologizes for behavior on video

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Democratic congressman apologized Monday after video posted online showed him swatting at a video camera and demanding that two men taping him identify themselves. “I deeply and profoundly regret my reaction an I apologize to all involved,” Rep. Bob Etheridge said in a statement. “No matter how intrusive and partisan our politics can become, this does ...

‘Nazi Mickey Mouse’ poster stirring up Poland’s Holocaust past

A huge outdoor art poster that blends Mickey Mouse’s image with that of a swastika and a nude woman’s body is causing a stir in Poland, where memories of the suffering inflicted by Nazi Germany remain strong. The poster, which went up in June in the western city of Poznan just steps from a synagogue, is an Italian artist’s take ...

Navigating Hebrew News Will Now be a Little Harder for Novices

Newcomers to Israel will now have to wade through sophisticated Hebrew in order to get their news in their new homeland’s mother tongue. The Hebrew newspaper Sha’ar La’matchil (literally, a gate for beginners ), which provided news in easy Hebrew, will no longer be published.The final edition of the paper came out in the first week of April, and as ...

Nationalist Politician Challenges Rabbi to Debate

Days after one of his colleagues admitted to having Jewish roots, a far-Right Hungarian politician has challenged a Jewish community leader in the country to a public debate.Gabor Vona, the leader of the Hungarian nationalist party Jobbik, said he wants to prove to Slomo Koves, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who heads the Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation, that his party not anti-Semitic, ...

Nasrallah: ‘Next time, we’ll begin with attack on Tel Aviv’

Should Israel enter into another war with Lebanon, Hezbollah will start by attacking Tel Aviv and not north of the country, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened on Friday, according to Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar.The Hezbollah strongman also addressed recent reports of foreign agents operating within the Lebanese terror organization. In a meeting with Hezbollah leaders, Nasrallah admitted that information passed ...

NASA scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on Mars.

A special mission to the Red Planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum – the building blocks of life as we know it.NASA unveiled the results of the recent Opportunity and Spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to discover signs of extraterrestrial life.Read more: @ thesun.co.ukYou might also like:Aircraft completes first solar-powered ...

NAS names Israeli scientist to biofuels committee

Prof. Sammy Boussiba, director of the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Dryland at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has been named as a member in a committee appointed by the American National Academy of Sciences, to examine the sustainable development of algal biofuels.According to the university, the NAS committee ...

Names of American Terror Victims in Israel Missing from US List

Dozens of names of American victims of Arab terror in Israel, including more than 10 who were murdered, are missing from a State Department list, which also offers up to $5 million for information on terrorists.The U.S. “Rewards for Justice“ program offers up to $5 million for information that brings to justice those responsible for the attacks. Since its inception, ...

NAACP Should Apologize for its Anti-Jewish Shtick!

I would like to say a few words regarding some forces who ‘Kvetch’ often about the Board of Education of the East Ramapo (NY) Central School District: They are driven by hate!They – The mid-Hudson and Westchester regions director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) , and the President of the Spring Valley, NY chapter ...

N.Y. Judge Rules Circumcision Consent Law is Legal

A Manhattan federal judge refused to block a New York City regulation requiring mohels to obtain written consent from parents before performing metzitzah b’peh.U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald on Thursday refused to issue a preliminary injunction against the change to the city’s health code, which some members of the city’s Orthodox Jewish communities called an unwarranted government intrusion on ...

N.Y. High Court takes on Orthodox sexual abuse scandal

New York State’s highest court has agreed to hear arguments in a case aimed at shedding light on the failed prosecution of alleged Orthodox child molester Avrohom Mondrowitz.Mondrowitz fled to Israel following his 1984 indictment on multiple counts of sexual abuse. Alleging that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office had bowed to pressure from the Orthodox community in failing to vigorously ...