Jewish News

Kinus Highlights Crown Heights Hospitality

The legendary hospitality of the Crown Heights community is often put to the test. Throughout the year, Yomim Tovim, conferences and events bring thousands into the area, all of whom are cared for with gracious kindness.With the annual Kinus HaShluchim just weeks away, thousands of Shluchim and lay leaders will once again pour into the neighborhood, and be welcomed into ...

Kiev Attack Not Necessarily Anti-Semitic

Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine Reuven Dinel visited the Kiev hospital where 25-year-old yeshiva student Aharon Alexander Gorshonov has been hospitalized in critical condition.He has been in hospital since Friday night, when he was assaulted in what some are saying was an anti-Semitic attack as he left a local synagogue on the Passover holiday.The ambassador asked that people not rush to ...

Kids Escape Brooklyn Fire By Jumping From Window

A Brooklyn father was forced to make a life and death decision Wednesday morning, as he pushed his children out of a third-floor window to save them from their burning home.Muhammed Qasim and his wife pushed three of their children from the top window of their burning house to the second-floor ledge below, reports CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman.“When I see ...

Kever Rochel and Machpelah No Longer “Israeli Sites”

The Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb, both holy sites in Judea and Samaria, will be omitted from Israel’s list of national heritage sites, contrary to a promise made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two years ago, Army Radio reported Tuesday.The list of national heritage sites was expected to be approved by the government on Tuesday. Officials in the ...

Keep track of the Kotel from anywhere in the world

IPhone users can now visit Judaism’s holiest prayer site from anywhere in the world.The Israeli foundation that administers the Western Wall has launched an iPhone application that streams live from the site around the clock — except on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays, when transmissions are forbidden by Jewish law.The application allows users to send e-mails to be placed in ...

Katy Perry’s dad regrets anti-Jew remarks

A suburban Cleveland church where the father of pop star Katy Perry delivered a sermon that drew accusations of anti-Semitism has released an apology in which he says he regrets his “hurtful and ugly language.”Pastor Paul Endrei of the Church on the Rise in Westlake said Wednesday that Perry’s father, the Rev. Keith Hudson, meant to compliment Jewish people’s prosperity ...

Katsav’s lawyers: We’ll appeal ‘unequivocal’ rape verdict

Former President Moshe Katsav’s attorneys are planning to appeal the Tel Aviv District Court’s decision to convict him of rape, sexual assault and other sexual abuses.“Precisely because the verdict was so unequivocal there is room to appeal and to raise the fact that the court ignored the evidence,” attorney Avigdor Feldman told Israel Radio after the judges read their decision ...

Kashrus Alert: Canadian Children’s Tylenol Not Kosher

New Square Kashrus Council has advised that grape flavored children’s liquid Tylenol that is made in Canada is not kosher and should not be used. The product contains a substantial amount of glycerin produced from non-kosher sources and should not be used. This product affects only the grape flavored children’s Tylenol that was produced in Canada.Read More: @ vosizneias.comReaders found more ...

Kaliningrad Jews battle circus over restoring synagogue

Jews in the Russian city of Kaliningrad want to reconstruct a grand synagogue on the same spot where it stood before the Nazis destroyed it, but first they have to evict the current tenants: the local circus.Rabbi David Shvedik told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday he has been trying for years to relocate the circus from the vacant plot where ...

Kadima’s Shamalov Joins Demand to Close Down Haaretz

MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich (Kadima) asked the Minister of Interior Monday to use hispowers to close down the Haaretz newspaper, following recent revelations of an espionagescandal involving the newspaper’s reporter, Uri Blau, and a former soldier, Anat Kam. Her request follows an identical one by MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union.Read More: @ israelnationalnews.com

Kabbalah gathering transcends religious boundaries

Lovers of the Kabbalah from 54 countries – 4,500 Israelis and 2,500 visitors from other nations – gathered on Tuesday at the Trade Fairs Center in Tel Aviv for the Eighth Annual World Kabbalah Convention. The mostly non-Jewish visitors hailed from Turkey, Germany, China, South Africa, Sweden, among others.Holding their countries’ flags, delegation representatives took to the stage at the ...

“Kabbalah for the Masses” Comes to Israel

About a thousand “Kabbalah believers” from countries such as the Netherlands, Cameroon, Venezuela and Colombia gathered in Jerusalem this week in an attempt to “connect” to the spirit of the late Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (1885-1954) who is considered the founder of the so-called Kabbalah movement, which, as opposed to traditional Jewish practice, teaches esoterics to the masses.At the center of the gathering was ...