New Zealand – In an 11th hour settlement, shechita (kosher slaughter) of poultry will continue in New Zealand, after agreement was reached on Friday afternoon between the New Zealand Jewish
A defense attorney has filed what is almost certainly the first ever “writ of possible ‘simcha.'” But first, a little background regarding all the meshugas that has since ensued. In
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An all new Season Two of “A Jewish Star” – the world’s first Jewish music singing competition – was launched today, November 25, 2010 with many seeing the contest as
Woburn, MA – The unembalmed body of a widow mistakenly laid to rest next to another woman’s husband in Woburn was dug up and driven back to a Brookline funeral
Authorities have found a second homemade explosive and more of a type of explosive previously discovered in a house in an unincorporated area near Escondido, California, officials said Thursday. The
In his first public statements on the recent maelstrom raging in Shas around MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, party chairman and Interior Minister Eli Yishai for an hour lashed out against
A new program to teach Arabic language and culture to all Jewish children in Israel’s north – as a means of promoting closer ties between Jews and Arabs – could
A new study shows a sharp decline in the proportion of New Yorkers who have health insurance through their jobs. Just 58 percent of New Yorkers are covered by employee-sponsored
A West Rogers Park man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 months in prison for mailing a letter threatening to blow up a Jewish high school. A half-dozen friends and neighbors
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening made the following remarks: “The Palestinian Authority Information Ministry’s denial of the link between the Jewish People and the Western Wall is reprehensible and
Ben Smith of Politico reports the following: A Pennsylvania Jewish group that has claimed the Internal Revenue Service is targeting pro-Israel groups introduced in federal court today a letter from
The Justice Department and other federal agencies have intensified their review of the banking industry’s foreclosure documentation problems, using their powers over bankruptcy proceedings to scrutinize the treatment of troubled
Chicago – Rahm Emanuel has made it perfectly clear that he wants to be mayor of this city. Now the question is: Does he qualify? On Wednesday, at least five
Authorities in the Netherlands have issued a European arrest warrant for a convicted Nazi war criminal living in Germany. Dutch-born Klaas Carel Faber had been sentenced to death by a
Three men, two Poles and a Swede, have been charged with crimes connected to the theft last December of the Auschwitz “Arbeit macht frei” sign. The three men are Poles
The Kenyan grandmother of US President Barack Obama said during her hajj pilgrimage to Mecca that she had prayed for the American leader to convert to Islam, a newspaper has
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