Why Were Shaarei Orah Members Returning Home Early Shavuot Eve? – Jewish Link of New Jersey
admin | June 8, 2017
Ashkenazic Jews are accustomed to seeing Sephardic Jews return late on Shabbat and Yom Tov evenings.
Hungary to extradite German Holocaust denier who fled jail term – The Jerusalem Post
richards | June 8, 2017
The Jerusalem Post Hungary to extradite German Holocaust denier who fled jail term The Jerusalem Post A Hungarian court has ordered the extradition of German right-wing extremist Horst Mahler who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to antisemitism. Mahler, 81, was arrested on May 15 in the ...
Hungary to extradite Holocaust denier Horst Mahler to Germany – Politics.hu
richards | June 8, 2017
Horst Mahler, a former German lawyer sentenced to prison for Holocaust denial, is to be extradited to his homeland, the Budapest Court of Appeals said. Mahler was apprehended in the western Hungarian town of Sopron on May 15 on the basis of an international arrest warrant
Hasidic Thoughts, feelings and poetry and other stuff, all …
admin | June 8, 2017
God tells Moses: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. (Leviticus 19:2) This verse clearly sounds like a command; but some leading scholars believe that it is not a commandment for itself. It is, rather, the mission statement of the Jewish faith.
Former Hasidic Jew speaks out over custody battle with ultra … – RT
richards | June 8, 2017
When Sarah left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish faith, she became embroiled in a custody battle over her 11-year-old daughter. Her family still in the community refused her access to the girl for several months, she says. Its the most heartbreaking thing to not be able to contact your own child and see if shes okay, to see if shes happy, just nothing zero contact, she told RT
Should Hasidic Moms Have A Dress Code? – Forward
admin | June 8, 2017
Getty Images Women visiting the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Who among us would disagree with the suggestion that we unite to show our children that there is another way? Out of context, this suggestion seems as if it might relate to climate change, say
Will ‘Other Shoe’ Drop In Hasidic Village After Developer Pleads Guilty To Voter Fraud? – Forward
admin | June 7, 2017
In his years-long battle to build thousands of homes for Orthodox Jews in the small upstate New York village of Bloomingburg, developer Shalom Lamm often cast himself as a victim of anti-Semitism. On Tuesday, Lamm took on a new role: admitted felon. Lamm, son of one of Modern Orthodoxys most prominent rabbinic leaders, pled guilty in federal court in White Plains to a single count of conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process
Should Moms Have A Dress Code? – Forward
richards | June 7, 2017
Getty Images Women visiting the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Who among us would disagree with the suggestion that we unite to show our children that there is another way
In Attacks by Right-Wing Extremists, Guns are More Likely Than Bombs to Kill and Injure – The Trace
admin | June 7, 2017
Attacks by violent members of the American far right were more likely to kill or injure when perpetrators used guns than when they used bombs or other weapons, a review of 25 years of extremist incidents shows. A majority of attacks committed between 1993 and 2017 using solely firearms were successful, with 37 out of 55 total incidents resulting in deaths or injuries, according to data provided to The Trace by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The group, a nonprofit that combats anti-Semitism and other bigotry, examined the attacks in a May report titled A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States.
Israel’s Six-Day War Was a Step Backward for Zionism – The Atlantic – The Atlantic
admin | June 6, 2017
Israels victory in the 1967 Six-Day War and its resulting military occupation of the West Bank and its Palestinian residents transformed the Jewish state, providing it with both a measure of security it had not enjoyed and the responsibility of governing a people it did not want. It also transformed Zionismfrom an ideology of pragmatism and activism into an ideology of utopianism and passivity. The stunning defeat of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and the sudden expansion of the territory under Israels control was ironically a step backward for Zionism, and it has struggled ever since to reconcile its core philosophy with the set of circumstances that has reigned for the past half century
