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Sukkot in Colder Climes
At Brooklyn’s Sukkah Depot, “business is booming” for those who want to buy what is billed as the “Rolls Royce of Sukkahs,” according to customer service representative Dovid Efune. The pre-fabricated sukkah is made out of laminated, pressed-wooden panels with an aluminum frame, and it’s 100% waterproof. It also has rubber seals that cover the…
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Shooting Halts Services At Chabad Shul in Boca
A near-fatal shooting halted Rosh Hashanah services at a Florida synagogue last week, leaving one worshipper with three broken ribs and a collapsed lung and another in jail without bond. Marc Benayer, 79, was arrested October 4 after allegedly shooting Jonathan Samuels, 44, outside the Chabad Weltman Synagogue in Boca Raton on the first day…
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Sharon, Abbas Look Inward as Summit Fails
TEL AVIV — After disagreements forced them to cancel a planned summit this week — the second such cancellation this month — Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas turned their sights inward and moved to solidify their domestic support bases. The summit, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, was intended to show renewed…
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Miami Pol Closes In on Key Foreign Policy Post
WASHINGTON — Many on Capitol Hill scoffed when Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican and an ardently pro-Israel lawmaker, started lobbying publicly in March for the chairmanship of the House International Relations Committee. Several of the other Republicans on the committee had more seniority that she did. More importantly, Ros-Lehtinen lacked the experience, connections or…
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Republican Activist Chosen To Be Chief UJC Lobbyist
WASHINGTON — The country’s multi-billion-dollar network of Jewish charitable federations, an avid advocate for boosting government spending on social programs, has chosen a Republican activist to be its chief Washington lobbyist. This week the United Jewish Communities, the national roof body of local Jewish federations, tapped William Daroff, 36, to be its vice president for…
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Washington Caterer Sued Over Nonkosher Banquet
Among wedding faux pas, serving shrimp to your kashrut-observant in-laws ranks pretty high. But that is exactly what happened during a wedding in Washington, according to a lawsuit recently filed in U.S. District Court by Mark and Judy Siegel. The couple’s daughter, Rebecca Siegel Baron, married Craig Baron in an April 2 ceremony at the…
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Hasidic Village Keeps Women Out of the Driver’s Seat
Even as the White House presses Saudi Arabia to permit women to drive, an ultra-Orthodox community in New York has launched a campaign to reassert its ban on female motorists. During her trip last month to Saudi Arabia, Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes delivered a speech in which she stressed the Bush administration’s determination to…
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After Katrina, Rabbi’s Future Uncertain
A leading Orthodox outreach group has issued an urgent fund-raising plea to support a displaced rabbi whom it claims “no longer has a synagogue or a home to return to.” Aish HaTorah, an Orthodox Jewish outreach group that is the American arm of an Israeli yeshiva, sent out a mass October 7 e-mail appeal on…
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Newsdesk October 14, 2005
Suicide Report in Syria Syria’s official news agency has reported that the country’s interior minister, Ghazi Kenaan, committed suicide Wednesday. The announcement concerning Kenaan, who ran Lebanon as security chief until 2003, came just days before the expected release of a United Nations report on the assassination of a former Lebanese leader. “Interior Minister Brigadier…
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Game Theorist Wins Nobel Prize
Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yitzhak Robert Aumann, 75, was named co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that Aumann, an Israeli, was awarded the prize along with the University of Maryland’s Thomas Schelling, 84, in recognition of his work on game theory, the science of…
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Pakistan To Accept Aid From Israel
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called a top American Jewish communal leader this week to say that earthquake-torn Pakistan would accept emergency assistance from Israel. The call from Musharraf to Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress – Council for World Jewry, came Tuesday, just two days after Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told the…
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