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Food Aspiring to Most Orthodox Career — as Chefs
(JTA) — Five haredi Orthodox men are standing around a large wooden table crowded with bowls of chopped tomato, garlic, carrots and greens, their ritual fringes poking out from under their aprons. Each is wielding a large chef’s knife. Their instructor, wearing an embroidered chef’s outfit and grasping a raw chicken thigh, tells his charges…
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Fast Forward Kosher Grocery Victims Charged $13K for Jerusalem Funerals
Israel’s burial association charged each of the families of the Paris kosher supermarket victims nearly $13,000 for their Jerusalem burial plots and funerals. The charges were levied by the Chevra Kadisha, part of the Religious Services Ministry, after the families refused to bury the men in multi-story tombs, which would have been free, Ynet reported…
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Fast Forward Thousands Mourn 4 Paris Kosher Grocery Victims at Israel Funeral
Thousands attended the funeral in Jerusalem of the four victims of the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris. “We wanted you alive, we wanted for you, life,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said in an address at the funeral Tuesday at the Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem. “At moments such as these, I stand before…
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Fast Forward Israel Bans 3 Islamist Groups From Temple Mount
(Reuters) — Israel shut down three local Islamist groups on Monday, accusing them of stoking tensions at a contested shrine in occupied East Jerusalem that has seen increased visits by Jews. Al Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem is Islam’s third-holiest site and the vestige of Judaism’s ancient temples. Captured by Israel from Jordan in…
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Fast Forward Har Nof Victim Gets $100K From Toronto Federation
The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto raised more than $100,000 for the family of a victim of a terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue. Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky presented a check for more than $100,000 to the family of Howie Chaim Rothman on Monday. Rothman’s wife, Risa, and his brother Steven, who…
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Opinion How Pepper Spray Became Jerusalem’s Weapon of Choice
Jerusalem store owner Amir Schreiber has sold out of pepper spray multiple times / Naomi Zeveloff Pepper spray has become a hot commodity in Jerusalem as the city’s Jewish citizens are arming themselves in the wake of recent Palestinian attacks — and some innocent Palestinians are getting sprayed. On Jerusalem Facebook groups, people are asking…
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Fast Forward Saudi Islamic Leader Plans Temple Mount Visit
The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation plans to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Iyad bin Amin Madani will be in Jerusalem on Monday, according to the OnIslam news site. There have been clashes in recent months over Muslim and Jewish access to the…
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Fast Forward Court Halts Demolition of Yehuda Glick Attacker’s Home
Israel’s Supreme Court suspended a demolition order for the home of the Palestinian terrorist who severely injured Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in an assassination attempt. The panel of three Supreme Court judges on Wednesday asked the state to explain why the home of the terrorist Mutaz Hijazi, located in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of…
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