Friday, March 29, 2024

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Washington, DC – Judge Orders Russia to Preserve Thousands of Chabad Manuscripts

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Washington, DC - A federal judge is ordering Russia to preserve sacred religious documents that members of a Hasidic Jewish movement fear could be headed to the black market. During a hearing today...

Washington – Rahm’s Rabbi: Emanuel As Chief Of Staff Will Remove The Doubtful That Orthodox Jews Are Lunatics

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Washington - Rahm Emanuel is the new Chief of Staff for Barack Obama. Among other interesting details we know about him, he is a longtime member of a Modern Orthodox synagogue. Alana Kornfeld of Belie...

Washington – SEC: $45m Hedge Fund Run by Car Salesman A Ponzi Scheme

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Washington - U.S. regulators sued a used-car salesman from West Texas for touting a $45 million hedge fund that they said was actually a Ponzi scheme. Rod Cameron Stringer misappropriated millions ...

Brazil – Mengele [yemach shemo] Continued His Activities After WWII

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Brazil - The steely hearted "Angel of Death", whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the R...

Washington – The Jacket Rule Scrapped By Obama

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Washington - It's the same Oval Office. The same desk. Even the same curtains. But President Obama has already made one major change: Go through eight years of White House photos, and you won't find o...

Kiryas Joel, NY – KJ Mulls Strict Taxi Laws to Battle Harmful Drivers

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Kiryas Joel, NY - In these days, plans are being discussed to draft a new local village taxi law to bring an end to increasing troubles that come along with outsider dangerous cab service in Kiryas Jo...

Park City, Utah – Matisyahu At Festival Avoids Female Fans

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Park City, Utah - Hasidic rapper Matisyahu almost backed himself into a corner trying to avoid female fans at Tao's Sundance Lift. The married hip-hopper isn't allowed to touch women, per his religion...

New York, NY – Google Helping Tourists Around New York City

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New York, NY - A new Web site and visitor center partnered by Google and Travelocity will help tourists and residents find New York City's best shows and hottest restaurants. Mayor Michael Bloomber...

Jerusalem – Rabbi Cherlow: Spreading Fables About Rachel Imenu is Like Communicating with the Dead

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Jerusalem - The Internet was abuzz with accounts of a mysterious woman in black named Rachel who several times warned Israeli soldiers in Arabic not to enter booby-trapped buildings. Was the story rea...

New York – RCCS Org. Provides Five Year Old With Ten Million Dollars in Insurance Payments

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New York - In an emotional, tear inducing moment, thousands of attendees at the RCCS Boro Park Dinner Tuesday night recited Tehillim for Reuvain ben Tova Chaya, a five-year-old boy from the mid-West ...

Libya – Gaddafi: Obama Should Negotiate With Bin Ladan, Jews Can Move To Hawaii

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Libya - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi advised US President Barack Obama on Wednesday to give Osama bin Laden a chance to reform, telling the new president that America's most wanted man was looking fo...

Ashkelon, Israel – Rabbinate Back-Tracks Decision on Moving Ancient Human Remains to Build New Hospital Wing

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Ashkelon, Israel - The conflict over moving ancient human remains discovered at the construction site of an Ashkelon hospital emergency room slated to be reinforced against rockets has been resurrecte...

London – More Anti-Semitic Attacks in Golders Green

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London - The Jewish community in Golders Green has been the target of further anti-Semitic attacks, in the form of more offensive graffiti. Graffiti reading "Kill the filthy Jews" was daubed on wal...

Jerusalem – Rabbi : Halachically We Need 1-year Army Exemption for Newlyweds

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Jerusalem - Knesset Member Rabbi Chaim Amsellem (Shas) decided last week to revive his bill proposal calling for men in their first year of marriage to be exempt from military service. The matter ...

New York – Shoe Designer Ad Salutes Flight 1549 With Cheeky Billboard

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New York - A Manhattan billboard for fashion designer Kenneth Cole has often been used to make a statement. Its latest message is no exception. The billboard, which is poised over the West 57th Str...

Las Vegas, NV – Police to Settle Civil Rights Lawsuit with Orthodox Jewish Detective

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Las Vegas, NV - The Metropolitan Police Committee on Fiscal Affairs is scheduled to approve a $350,000 payment next week for Detective Steve Riback, an observant Orthodox Jew who claimed he was experi...

Peshawar, Pakistan – Al Qaeda Suspect in London Terror Bombings Arrested

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Peshawar, Pakistan - A Saudi Al Qaeda operative suspected of involvement in the London 7/7 attacks has been arrested in northwestern Pakistan. The operative, Zabi-ul-Taifi, was arrested with six ot...

Washington – Rabbi Lookstein: Participating At Interfaith Prayer In Church Was The Right Thing to Do

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Washington - An earlier report today by the JTA, that the Rabbinical Council of America has crtisized Rabbi Lookstein for violating its rules by participating at a church in Washington the National Pr...

Postville, IA – Agriprocessors Chicken Production Up

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Postville, IA - Chicken production at Agriprocessors, the embattled kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, is now up to 20,000 daily — about one-third its previous output — and beef production is e...

Washington – Obama Retakes Oath of Office After Chief Justice Roberts Flub

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Washington - President Barack Obama retook the oath of office at the White House on Wednesday after a blunder during Tuesday's inauguration. Chief Justice John Roberts stumbled slightly over the 35...