Toledo, Spain – Work Halted in Medieval Jewish Cemetery
Toledo, Spain - The Spanish government has ordered a freeze on a building project in a medieval Jewish cemetery in Toledo.
The decision made follows high-level meetings at the Spanish Foreign Ministr...
Afula, Israel – Savior Nanny Sandra: Moshel’e Asks For His Parents 10 Times Every Day, I Tell Him They Are In Sky
Afula, Iisarel - Rivka Holtzberg, the 27-year-old wife of Chabad House Rabbi, Gavriel Holtzberg, would frequently visit her family in Israel and stay on for a month or two, leaving her husband behind ...
Woodmere, NY – Multiple Injured After Car Crashes Into Store Hosting Chanukah Party [video]
Woodmere, NY - Hatzolah responded with a few ambulances to an accident on Broadway and Conklin Avenue where a car crashed into a store with multiple injured and some unconscious.
A total of 2 adult...
Manhattan, NY – Economic Crisis Preserves Lower East Side Freezing Old-Time Character
Manhattan, NY - About a year ago, the owners of the Streit’s matzo factory, a pillar of Manhattan’s Lower East Side since 1925, announced that they planned to sell the building and move their operatio...
New York – Does Judaism Permit Gambling On Chanukah By Playing ‘kvitlech’ Cards
New York - Some have speculated that gambling on Hanukka recalls an alleged attempt by Hasmonean Jews to hide their rebellious behavior from the intruding Greeks by playing with dice Does Judaism perm...
Chicago, IL – Obama Mourns Passing Of His Neighbor Reform Rabbi; Calls Him A Dear Friend
Chicago, IL - The death this week of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, an influential leader of Reform Judaism, drew a response Thursday from President-elect Barack Obama, whose Hyde Park home is across the st...
Jerusalem – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Encourages New Clause in Charedi ‘Shas’ Party’s Platform Calls for Advancement of Women, Equal ...
Jerusalem - Shas' gender agenda revealed: The Shas movement views the advancement of equality towards women in the society and encouraging their education and integration in the labor market as highly...
Rockville, MD – Elderly Woman Injured in Menorah Fire
Rockville, MD - Hanukkah celebrations became dangerous for an elderly Montgomery County woman who was critically injured in a menorah fire. Montgomery County fire officials report that an elderly woma...
London – Britain steps up inspections of Israeli goods
London - Britain has stepped up inspections of Israeli imports to make sure products from Jewish settlements in the West Bank do not enter duty-free but the government does not plan to mount a broader...
Lafayette, IN – Suspected Con Artist Swindles Shuls And Churches
Lafayette, IN - Authorities are warning Lafayette-area churches and Shuls to be cautious of a man, possibly posing as a Purdue University student, who they suspect has swindled dozens of several hundr...
Jerusalem – Ministry Urges To Install Energy Saving Systems in Mikvahs Across Israel
Jerusalem - With winter coming later each year and Israel facing a severe water crisis, the Ministry of Religious Services has launched a new initiative aimed at saving water.
The ministry is enco...
Brooklyn, NY – The [big] EVENT 5769 Concert Ad Campaign in Full Swing
Brooklyn, NY - Is this the return of last year's cancelled "The Big Event"? It sure seems that way!
The advertising campaign for a highly anticipated Jewish music concert, The Event 5769, is in fu...
New York – Ezra Merkin’s Investments In Madoff Scheme, And The Halachah Of Responsiblity
New York - Most of the yeshivas that lost money in the Madoff scandal did not lose it by investing directly with Bernard Madoff. Instead, they invested with Ezra Merkin’s Ascot Partners Fund, who, u...
Mumbai – Family, Friends Return To Attacked Chabad House To Light Menorah [photos-video]
Mumbai - Family, friends and colleagues of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries murdered in last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai, India, gathered at the couple’s Chabad ...
Passaic, NJ – Family Celebrating Chanukah Loses Everything in Three-Alarm Fire
Passaic, NJ - A three-alarm fire brought more than 40 firefighters from Passaic and Bergen counties out to 114 High Street in the Passaic Park neighborhood last night, where a fire destroyed a large V...
Omran, Yemen – Jews Refuse Government’s Relocation Offer
Omran, Yemen - The leaders of the Jewish community in the Omran district in northern Yemen rejected an offer by Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to relocate them to the city of Sana'a after a memb...
Jerusalem – Rabbi Metzger: ‘My Dream Is to Create a United Religious Nations’ Islam, Christianity and Judaism
Jerusaelm - Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, talks to SPIEGEL ONLINE about the Abraham as the father of all three monotheistic religions -- Islam, Christianity and Judaism -- and exp...
Brooklyn, NY – First On VIN News: New Song By Benny Friedman,Yitzy Spinner,Yisroel Werdyger On The Upcoming Shloishim of the Mumbai Kedoshim
Brooklyn, NY - Everyone helps out in the way that they can. Since I work with many talented people in the Jewish music industry, I wanted to do something musical that would express our feelings on the...
Meron, Israel – Bones Discovered During Restoration Work at Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai’s Tomb Ignite Uproar
Meron, Israel - It was not immediately clear why the guard, Fitousi, sat huddled up next to a space heater, its cord plugged into a socket some distance away, guarding a seemingly empty piece of groun...
Ramat Gan, Israel – NY Court Rules Against Trump in Ramat Gan “Trump Towers” Case
Ramat Gan, Israel - The Supreme Court of New York State has ruled against Donald Trump and in favor of Sonny Cahn and his partners in their use of Trump's name for a real estate project in Ramat Gan.
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