Thursday, April 25th 2024 |
(JTA) — A senior Hamas operative said that the group is paying young Arabs to harass Jews at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel’s domestic security service announced.
Hamas operative Mahmoud Toameh, 63, made the claim in interrogations by the Shin Bet security services after his arrest on May 14, Shin Bet wrote in a statement posted Thursday on its website.
Shin Bet’s account of Toameh’s interrogations quotes him as...
Whether by luck or design, the cleverest location for a new business sprang up this past April as Waffles on Maple, the city’s newest kosher food enterprise, opened its door to offer sweet and savory varieties of waffles with or without syrup. Located in a snug building at 7712 Maple Street, its exterior design looks very much like a waffle.
Owner Rotem Dahan, an Israeli, and manager Zev Attias, who...
Benjamin Berman, who has served as president of Congregation Anshe Sfard for the past six and a half years, has announced his resignation from the Orthodox synagogue effective June 1.
Berman, who oversaw major renovations to the interior of the once deteriorating structure and was critical in the hiring of Rabbi David Polsky three years ago, will also resign as the head of the synagogue’s cemetery committee. Outside of the...
Rabbi Robert Loewy, the senior rabbi in the New Orleans Jewish community, will celebrate his three decades of pulpit leadership at Congregation Gates of Prayer with a celebratory dinner and a special service of re-dedication tonight.
The dinner which requires reservations is at 6:00 p.m. to be followed by worship services at the regular 8:00 p.m time.
Beginning next Shabbat, the unified Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) synagogues of Temple...
Twenty-six area Jewish youth will be participating in confirmation ceremonies to highlight their graduation from their local religious schools. Touro Synagogue will host services tonight, Friday, May 30th, beginning promptly at 6:00 pm with their traditional processional. The class is composed of five male students.
On Tuesday, June 3rd, the date of Shavuot on the Hebrew calendar, both Temple Sinai and Congregation Gates of Prayer will hold their ceremonies beginning...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will join Pope Francis in a prayer for peace at the Vatican.
The prayer will take place on June 8, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi confirmed Thursday, according to Vatican Radio.
The pope made the invitation following the celebration of Mass in Manger Square in Bethlehem during his visit last week to the Palestinian West Bank city....
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused the Jewish Agency for Israel of leaking a plan to evacuate Jews from eastern Ukraine.
The plans to leave the country in the wake of ongoing political crisis and violence there were reported in the Ukrainian media, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Wednesday. The plans are no longer viable, according to the report.
Israel’s ambassador to the Ukraine, Reuven Din El, called the leaks...
(JTA) — The rabbinical leader of the haredi Orthodox Agudath Israel of America said the Conservative and Reform movements “will be relegated to the dustbins of Jewish history.”
Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker rebbe, also slammed a more liberal branch of Orthodoxy at Agudah’s annual dinner Tuesday in Manhattan.
Perlow, the head of Agudah’s Council of Torah Sages, said the Reform and Conservative movements “have disintegrated themselves, become oblivious, fallen...
(JTA) — Malcolm Glazer, owner of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the British soccer club Manchester United, has died.
Glazer died Wednesday, three days after his 85th birthday. He had been in failing health after suffering two strokes since April 2006.
One of seven children born to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, Glazer took over the family’s watch parts business at the age of 15 following the death of his father....
(JTA) — A man who gave a Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler” outside a kosher restaurant in London on Holocaust Remembrance Day was banned from the city district for one year.
Miroslav Ondrus, 33, a Slovakian national, was barred by a London magistrate’s court from the NW11 district of London, which includes the highly Jewish populated neighborhoods of Hampstead and Golders Green. He also was sentenced to 180 hours...
