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Ashkenazi Jews

Jewish / History / Business and Economy / Germany

700-Year-Old Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor Sells for $8.3 Million

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Jewish cultural organization that let go of this treasure said they were forced into it because of their steep debts.

Jewish / US / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Feinstein Institutes Researchers Studying Ashkenazi Jews Discover New Schizophrenia Genetic Mutation

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just a few hundred individuals who migrated to Eastern Europe less than 1,000 years ago are the ancestors of nearly 10 million Ashkenazi Jews today.

Government / History / News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem

Knesset Committee to Declassify Evidence Related to Alleged Yemenite Child Abductions

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The history of the stolen children of Yemenite immigrants to Israel haunts their descendants to this day.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / Russia

Medvedev, Netanyahu, Rivlin, Discuss Bilateral Cooperation and Agricultural Innovation

By JNi.Media

The Volcani tour will conclude with new sensors to monitor milk quality and output in cows, and new wheat storage solutions that protect against pests.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Hareidim Keep 'Liberal' Zionists in Minority on Rabbinical Courts

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hareidim claimed victory by blocking the appointment of three "liberal religious Zionists" to the country's 12 regional rabbinical courts. There now are 22 judges, 7 more than in previous years, but only eight of them are from the national religious community. The other 14 are divided equally between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Haredim Absent from […]

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Arab Knesset Member Damns Leftists as 'Rich Racists' Who Feign 'Peace'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

MK Jamal Zahalka said everything that a right-winger thinks but would not dare say about leftists - "racist", "spoiled" and "engineers of expulsion."

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Bennett and Netanyahu Clash over Rollback of Religious Reforms

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Netanyahu falsely accused Bennett of signing a coalition agreement that returns more power to Hareidim.

Jewish / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Parkinson’s Study Will Look at Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Mutation

By JTA

A study sponsored by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research will investigate a genetic mutation found more often in Ashkenazi Jews. The Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative, a large-scale biomarker study, is expanding to study individuals with genetic mutations associated with Parkinson’s disease. Among those mutations is the LRRK2, which accounts for a greater […]

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism

Livni, Bennett Back Bill to Pretend Jews Need Only One Chief Rabbi

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The idea of “One Rabbi for One People” sounds lovely, but can Jews really get along with each other if they have nothing to argue about?

Israel / US / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Left a Kosher Empire

By Kosher Today

Overlooked in the eulogies and praise of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the role he played in the development of the kosher certification, Badatz Beit Yosef, under the leadership of his youngest son Rabbi Moshe Yosef. The Beit Yosef kosher standard meticulously follows the standards of Rabbi Yosef Caro, the author of the codification of Jewish […]

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism

Rav Ovadia: I Love Knitted-Yarmulke Jews – But Not their MKs

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Rav Ovadia Yosef, the same rabbi who last month call national religious Rabbi Stav “evil,” now says he really loves knitted kippa Jews. Well, most of them. Their political leaders still are Amalek. Happy Tu B'Av.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Next Israel Shekel Bills to Feature Sephardi Jew

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Netanyahu government is going “politically correct” and will make sure the next serious of Israel shekel bills will feature a Sephardi Jew following last year’s four new banknotes that featured only Ashkenazi Jews. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he personally prefers that the “Sephardi shekel bill” feature poet Rabbi Yehuda HaLevy, calling […]

Parsha

The Aveilus Of Tisha B’Av Week

By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs

One may not perform several actions during the week in which Tisha B’Av falls. This is referred to as shavua she’chal bo. For example, one may not take a haircut or wash his clothing (Ashkenazi Jews are forbidden in these actions prior to the week of Tisha B’Av in accordance with the ruling of the Ramah). The Mechaber (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 551: 4) writes that in a year when Tisha B’Av falls on Shabbos and is pushed off to Sunday (as it does this year) there is a machlokes as to whether there are any prohibitions during the week before Tisha B’Av. The Mechaber seemingly sides with the view that there are no halachos of shavua she’chal bo in such circumstances.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VIII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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