Archive for November 22nd, 2008
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 11:43 PM
New York - survivor of the holocaust and her rescuer will see each other for the first time in more than 60 years on Thanksgiving in what is sure to be an emotional reunion.
The family of Wiktoria Sozanska, of Poland, risked their lives to save the family of Rozia Rothschild, from Israel.
With more on this incredible story is Stanlee Stahl, the executive vice president of the Jewish...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 09:50 PM
Toronto, Canada - Canadian aboriginal leader David Ahenakew will appear before a Saskatchewan court next week after successfully appealing his original 2005 conviction on anti-Semitic incitement charges.
In a recorded 2002 interview with Saskatoon StarPhoenix reporter James Parker, Ahenakew praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler as having “cleaned up a hell of a lot of things” with the...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 09:44 PM
Borough Park, NY - Fire department are on the scene for a working fire which started on the rear of the 1st floor of a 20x40 house at 1466 54th Street and 15th Avenue. Hatzolah and police are standing by at the scene.
The house was empty at the time of the fire...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 08:49 PM
Pomona, NY - New York State Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal traffic accident that occurred last month.
Herman Neff, 23, from Pomona, NY, was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal car accident and tampering with physical evidence.
On Oct. 10, Jon Singer, 45, of Congers was found critically injured on the northbound lanes of the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Mount...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 07:36 PM
London - Racist vandals have targeted a kosher cafe in Hendon and etched anti-Semitic graffiti on the outside walls of the building in Hendon Park.
“I was very shocked and disappointed. I was gutted. We have had graffiti but nothing anti-Semitic, said café owner, Jason Ezekiel.
The words “dirty Jews” and the image of a gun containing the word “kill” were scratched into the brickwork...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 06:47 PM
Tehran, Iran - Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, a judiciary spokesman said Saturday.
Ali Reza Jamshidi said that Ali Ashtari was hanged on Nov. 17 after being sentenced to death on June 30 by a revolutionary court in Tehran. It was the country's first known conviction for espionage linked to Israel in almost a decade.
Jamshidi said Ashtari was found guilty of relaying...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 06:22 PM
New York, NY - Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the head of the city's Housing Authority is stepping down.
Tino Hernandez is returning to the private sector after seven years as NYCHA's chairman.
The NYCHA has come under fire recently for multiple problems with elevator maintenance in many buildings.
Mr. Hernandez's announcement came three months after a 5-year-old boy fell 10 stories to...
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 - 05:54 PM
Israel - More than 20,000 Jews descended on Hevron this Sabbath as Jews around the world heard the portion of the Torah that recounts the first recorded sale in the Bible - the purchase of the Patriarchs' Cave in Hevron by Abraham, the world's first Jew. No representative of the Jewish People has ever sold the Cave since then.
Hundreds remained Saturday night to show support for Jews trying to...