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Instanbul, Turky - Dispute Between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews Over Burial Sites
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Instanbul, Turky - There is an ongoing dispute amid the Turkish Jewish community between Sephardi Jews from Spain and Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe concerning burial sites in cemeteries.
The office of the Hakham Bashi (chief rabbi) put an ad in the daily Şalom stating that the Sephardis were reserving burial places in Ashkenazi cemeteries and that the Ashkenazis were doing the same in Sephardi cemeteries.
The Ashkenazi Foundation...
Paris - Court Convicts Suspects in Brutal Anti-Semitic Killing of French Jew
Today at 05:04 PM
Paris, France - A court has convicted a gang leader of the brutal 2006 killing of a young man prosecutors say was targeted because he was Jewish.
Youssouf Fofana, 28, who was sentenced to life in prison, was one of 27 people on trial in the kidnapping, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi, who was 23 years old.
Halimi was found naked, handcuffed and covered with burn marks near railroad tracks in the Essonne region south of Paris on Feb. 13...
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Washington - Group Warns Congress Of Neo-Nazis In U.S. MilitaryToday at 03:06 PM
Washington - The infiltration of right-wing extremists in the military is a growing threat to national security and needs to be confronted with congressional action, a watchdog group warned on Friday.
Morris Dees, a co-founder of The Southern Poverty Law Center, a... |
Haifa - Inspection of Yeshiva Kitchen Fails after Students Suffer Food PoisoningToday at 01:58 PM
Haifa, Israel - The Education Ministry is considering closing down the Belz Yeshiva in Haifa after the kitchen failed two health inspections.
The first inspection was ordered after a number of students suffered food poisoning on Shabat.
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Albany, NY - Decision on New York Lt. Governor Won't Come Until Next WeekToday at 12:39 PM
Albany, NY - A judge won't decide until next week at the earliest whether it was legal for New York Gov. David Paterson to appoint a lieutenant governor.
Lawyers for Sens. Pedro Espada of the Bronx and Dean Skelos of Long Island told... |
Italy - Obama Handshake With Khadafy Infuriates Bombed Pan Am Flight FamiliesToday at 12:35 PM
Italy - President Obama and Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy shook hands Thursday, infuriating families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am... | |||
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Queens, NY - Huge Delays Expected As Kennedy Airport Runway to be Closed for 4 MonthsToday at 11:54 AM
Queens, NY - Kennedy Airport's busiest runway will be closed for about four months next year as part of a $204-million, three-year makeover, a... |
Jerusalem - Kabbalist Rabbi: Birth Control Damages Household IncomeToday at 10:26 AM
Jerusalem - Have at least 12 children, do not use birth control, and continue having children after 40. This is the formula for overcoming sterility... | |||
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New York - Senate Back to Business Passes Sales Tax IncreaseToday at 10:04 AM
New York - The half-percent sales tax increase Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted to balance the city budget just passed the Senate 43-19.
The bill had... |
New York - Was it Necessary For Jews to Demonize Madoff to Such an Extent?Today at 10:01 AM
New York - The chorus line of Bernard Madoff's victims who rushed to damn him on the airwaves last week following the ridiculously over-the-top... | |||
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New York - Real Estate Bubble About To Crash MoreToday at 09:53 AM
New York - Long-awaited evidence that the commercial real estate market is about to stumble may finally be emerging.
According to newly released... |
Cleveland, OH - Financial Hardship Prompts More And More Reform Jews To Choose CremationsToday at 09:42 AM
Cleveland, OH - “Cremation is a family tradition,” says Loe Goldwasser. “My grandfather chose cremation, and my mother felt scattering his... | |||
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Syndney, Australia - Outlawed Bikers Compare Themselves To Persecuted JewsToday at 09:26 AM
Syndney, Australia - Bikers have compared themselves with persecuted Jews and victims of South Africa's apartheid in a video protesting against new... |
Jerusalem - Plan to Humiliate Traffic Offenders Nixed by Rav ElyashivToday at 09:20 AM
Jerusalem - A chareidi avreich sent to the Transportation Ministry and the National Authority for Road Safety an original suggestion how to prevent... | |||
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Israel - Netanyahu Uses Nazi language to German foreign ministerToday at 09:19 AM
Israel - Hosting the German foreign minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an especially tainted term to condemn the Palestinian demand that Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank be removed.
"Judea and Samaria cannot be Yudenrein," a Netanyahu... |
Jaslo, Poland - Plan to Cut “Hitler Tree” to Ease Traffic Causes ControversyToday at 08:49 AM
Jaslo, Poland - Most of the townspeople in Jaslo, Poland agree that Adolf Hitler was a terror to the community many years ago. A tree that was... | |||
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Jordan - Tourist with Talis & Tefilin Denied Entry to JordanToday at 08:05 AM
Jordan - Border patrol denied an Israeli citizen entry into the country after border guards noticed that the traveler was carrying a prayer shawl and... |
Mamakating, NY - Hotel Faces Environment Law Charges after Oil SpillToday at 07:34 AM
Mamakating, NY - A former resort hotel that has been under intense scrutiny since it fell into the hands of a Hasidic sect from New City has been... | |||
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Salt Lake City, UT - Jewish Teen Students Experienced Gun Rights on Summer TourYesterday at 11:54 PM
Salt Lake City, UT - Several of the students had a knee-jerk reaction when gun-rights advocate Clark Aposhian blasted his first pistol round into a target Thursday. But it was physical, not ideological.
These students from around America were in Salt Lake City to... |
New York - Internet-based Therapy Shows Promise for InsomniaYesterday at 10:30 PM
New York - Sleepless people sometimes use the Internet to get through the night. Now a small study shows promising results for insomniacs with nine... | |||
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Albany, NY - Appellate Judge Overrules Decision to Block Appointment of Lt. GovernorYesterday at 08:01 PM
Albany, NY - An appellate judge has overruled a decision that blocked Gov. David Paterson from appointing a lieutenant governor.
Paterson on Wednesday named Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor. He was hoping to break a leadership... |
California - Mysterious Tremors Detected, Might Predict Massive Earthquae On The WayYesterday at 07:04 PM
alifornia - Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8... | |||
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Bnei Brak - Fearing Germs, Ger Rabbi Discontinues Mouth to Mouth Drinking from Rebbe's CupYesterday at 06:48 PM
Bnei Brak, Israel - The swine flu scare has prompted one of the leading spiritual figures of the ultra-Orthodox world to change one of Judaism's... |
Jerusalem - Poll: Most Charedim Believe Riots Hurt ShabbatYesterday at 06:02 PM
Jerusalem - A majority of the Israeli Jewish public believes that the protests surrounding the Karta parking lot in Jerusalem spur hatred and... | |||
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Cairo - Mubarak: Israel Aborted Deal for Captive SoldierYesterday at 05:01 PM
Cairo - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Israel of scuttling a deal that was on the verge of ending the three-year captivity in Gaza of... |
Jerusalem - Bentzion Miller’s Attorneys: “He Did an Act of Chessed”Yesterday at 04:40 PM
Jerusalem - After three months of delays the Tel Aviv District Court read aloud for the first time on Wednesday the indictment against Bentzion... | |||
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Budapest - Orthodox Jews Fear a Repeat of what Happened in Mumbai from Extremist in HungaryYesterday at 03:45 PM
Budapest, Hungary - Officials of Hungary's Orthodox Jewish community have urged the government to urgently provide police protection amid growing... |
New Jersey - Food Stamps Now Approved To Buy Produce at Farmers Markets Across StateYesterday at 03:09 PM
New Jersey - Low-income families looking to eat healthier may now use their food stamp cards at more than 80 farmers'... | |||
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Albany, NY - Espada To Rejoin Senate DemocratsYesterday at 02:33 PM
Albany, NY - Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. will return to the Democratic conference, potentially bringing an end to the month-old struggle for control of the... |
L'Aquila, Italy - G8 Calls for Release of Gilad ShalitYesterday at 01:39 PM
L'Aquila, Italy - The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations called on Thursday for the immediately release of... | |||
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New York - Kiddush Hashem and Chillul Hashem An Extraordinary ResponsibilityYesterday at 01:27 PM
New York - Everyone seems to be obsessed with Jews. Although numerically we are an insignificant minority of the world's population, the media focus... |
Sana'a - Young Jewish Bride Vanishes in YemenYesterday at 01:04 PM
Sana'a - A young Jewish woman, Lia Saed Hamdi, has either fled her husband's family in Sana'a last Tuesday, or, as some sources claim, was kidnapped by a Muslim man from the family's hometown.
Hamdi, who hails from the Kharef area in the northern... | |||
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Jerusalem - Israeli Suspected of Importing Ecstasy to U.S. ExtraditedYesterday at 12:33 PM
Jerusalem - Yaniv Haziza 39, a suspected of conspiring to import ecstasy to the United States was extradited to the US... |
New York - NY Times Admits Magazine Photos ManipulatedYesterday at 12:20 PM
New York - The New York Times inadvertently published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of its Sunday magazine, the newspaper... | |||
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