A local journalist who revealed that a man who posed as a rabbi in north-central Poland for several years is not actually a rabbi has been accused of anti-Semitism in the Poznan Jewish community. Meanwhile, the Poznan Jewish community’s lack of knowledge about the rabbi that served it has been criticized by the leaders of…
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall for the traditional Priestly Blessing. The worshippers – estimated by the office of the rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites in Israel at 50,000 – converged on Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday for the blessing, called Birkat Kohanim in Hebrew, during the second…
Senior Palestinian officials, including some from Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, are criticizing the Palestinian Authority president’s decision to postpone consideration of a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction. For the past several weeks, the Palestinians have been telling both Western diplomats and the media that they intend to demand a vote on the resolution,…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at a campaign stop in Baltimore compared poverty in areas of the city to conditions “in the West Bank in Palestine.” “Poverty in Baltimore, and around this country, is a death sentence,” Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, said Saturday. RealClearPolitics published a video of the speech on its website….
Israel’s entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest said he was harassed by Russian border control officers while travelling to Moscow for a preview event, blaming the harassment on his being gay. The incident took place a couple weeks ago, but Hovi Star spoke about it on Friday during a television interview on Maltese television station…
Nine Jewish visitors were removed from the Temple Mount for violating the terms of visiting the holy site, including attempting to pray. Some 800 people visited the Temple Mount on Sunday, including 685 foreign tourists and 115 Jewish Israelis. Also on Sunday, Palestinians and Jews verbally clashed at the site. Among the Jewish visitors were…
B’nai Brith in Montreal is trying to block the entry into Canada of French comedian Dieudonne, who has multiple convictions and fines for making anti-Semitic statements against Jews in France and Belgium. Dieudonne, whose full name is Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, is slated to appear May 11-16 at ten sold-out shows in a 200-seat art gallery…
The Women of the Wall group held Passover holiday prayers at the Western Wall, but did not hold a priestly blessing ceremony, after being banned by Israel’s attorney general. Some 200 women arrived at the Western Wall on buses from throughout the country to hold the Shacharit, or morning, prayers, and Mussaf, or additional, prayers…
Dutch archaeologists unearthed what they said was the remnants of a Jewish 17th-century slum in the center of the Dutch capital. The discovery of the slum on Valkenburger Street, north of the Portuguese Synagogue in the eastern part of the center of Amsterdam, was made earlier this month by a construction crew digging a foundation…
A GoFundMe page set up to help a New Orleans rabbi and his family after their home was destroyed by a pre-Passover fire has more than reached its goal. The “Help Gabe and Abby” page established on April 20 raised more than $50,000 in its first day and as of Saturday night stood at more…
President Barack Obama sounded a wistful note in his last Passover message as president. “Mah nishtana halailah hazeh?” said the White House statement released Friday, hours before the start of the holiday, using the Haggadah’s phrase, reserved for the youngest child at the seder meal, who asks “Why is this night different from all others?”…
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