You can no longer grace your home with a poster of a concentration camp The infamous poster with the description: “Gate with inscription Arbeit Macht Frei, Dachau Concentration Camp,” has been removed from their website, according to Heeb. Walmart statement reads, “We were horrified to see that this item was on our site. We sincerely…
Kiosks selling Dead Sea beauty products were removed from all Westfield malls in New Zealand in the wake of a TV investigation exposing its sales practices on elderly and vulnerable shoppers. Kiosks in several malls in New Zealand were closed down as a result of an expose on the “cynical” methods used by young Israeli…
Israeli air strikes wounded 15 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, local residents said, and militants kept up rocket fire on Israel, damaging two homes, in rising border tensions following the death of a Palestinian youth. Violent Arab protests erupted on Wednesday after the body of the 16-year-old Palestinian boy was discovered in Jerusalem,…
Members of the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor are slowly leaving Canada for Guatemala, effectively ending the group’s tumultuous situation in Quebec and Ontario. All phone numbers for Lev Tahor leaders have been disconnected, according to BlackburnNews.com. The landlord at the location in southwestern Ontario to where sect members fled last fall from Quebec also…
The secretary general of the World B’nei Akiva movement is under pressure to resign after he called for the murder of three Israeli teens to be avenged with blood. Rabbi Noam Perel made the call in a Facebook post on Monday, hours after the bodies of three Israeli teens were discovered in a field north…
The U.N. human rights chief condemned both Palestinians and Israelis for a flare up of violence across the Israel-Gaza border following the deaths of three abducted Jewish teens. “From a human rights point of view, I utterly condemn these rocket attacks and more especially I condemn Israel’s excessive acts of retaliation,” U.N. Commissioner for Human…
Argentine Jewish leaders slammed CNN in Spanish contributor Pedro Brieger for justifying the killing of three Israeli teens in a commentary on Argentina television. “Every occupation provokes resistance of all kinds, peaceful and violent,” said Brieger, who is Jewish, in a commentary that aired Monday on public TV. It was the same day that the…
Hundreds of soon-to-be immigrants to Israel gathered at one of the French capital’s largest synagogues for a sendoff ceremony celebrating their departure. Some 700 people attended the ceremony Wednesday at the Synagogue de Tournelles, which began with a moment of silence in memory of Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrach and Gilad Shaar, the Israeli teenagers whose…
Jonathan Sarna, a leading scholar of American Jewish history, has returned home from the hospital two months after collapsing at his daughter’s college graduation. Sarna announced his homecoming in a post on his Facebook page. “A long recovery still awaits, but I do not want to settle into rehabilitation and work before first thanking everyone…
The full recording of the emergency call placed by one of three abducted teens, in which the kidnappers can be heard celebrating, was released. Wednesday’s release of the full audio, which is 2 minutes, 9 seconds, comes a day after the first 49 seconds were released. In the full tape, the kidnappers are heard singing…
Israel demolished the home of a Palestinian indicted in the Passover eve murder of a senior police officer. The home of Ziad Awad located in the West Bank village of Idhna near Hebron was demolished by Israeli troops early Wednesday morning. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the house could be razed, despite petitions by…
