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Newcomer Rabbinic Organization Launches Lower East Side Eruv Against Establishment View

By JNi.Media

The new group encourages its constituencies "to pursue guidance from its own rabbinic authorities and to continue the spirit of mutual respect and dignity that Jewish practice demands and engenders."

Haredim & Hassidim / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Media / Jerusalem / Science and Tech

Reports: Haredi Establishment Using MikvahCams to Prevent Scandals

By JNi.Media

Access to the video records is restricted to certified rabbis, who may only watch the material in groups of three, and must verify their identities using their fingerprints.

J.E. Dyer

Liberty 101: The Principle of Establishment

By J. E. Dyer

Liberty always – always – has to be deliberately established and hedged about with protections.

Fink or Swim

What’s Wrong With the Star-K Kosher Phone?

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink

A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.

My Right Word

The JTA Politically Editorializes My Letter on The Soviet Jewry Movement

By Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad's letter to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the true beginning of the movement for Soviet Jewry and what country the JTA said Medad resided in.

This Ongoing War

Yediot: 'Dozens of Terrorists Released in Shalit Deal Arrested by Shin Bet During Past Year'

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 18, marks one year since the Shalit deal when Israel received back the kidnapped hostage soldier, Gilad Shalit, and freed more than a thousand convicted terrorists, many of them killers of Israeli civilians. Yediot Aharonot carried a report today that is translated to English and excerpted below. It reveals some aspects of the transaction that, as far as we can tell, have gotten little to no coverage in other parts of the Israeli media.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

Today in 1934 - Brooklyn Jewish Women Help Refugees from Nazi Germany

By JTA

SEPTEMBER 5, 1934 - Mrs. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Women's Association of the American Jewish Congress, who has just returned from a visit to the German refugee centers in Europe, will be hostess this afternoon to 500 Brooklyn women who have pledged to support the establishment of a center in New York City for refugees from Nazi Germany.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

On Academia, Politics and Survival in the Middle East

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

All of the universities in Israel are political, and moreover, all of the colleges, yeshivas, hospitals, prisons, factories, homes, roads, trees - everything that we have established, built, and planted in Israel - everything, but everything, is political. The whole Zionist enterprise is a political project because it is the political and nationalistic manifestation of the desire of the Jewish people to return to its land and to renew within it its national life, its independence and its sovereignty.

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / The Knesset / Media

Ahead of Vote, Liberman Video Touts Importance of Equal Service Law

By Tibbi Singer

On Monday, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman's party Yisrael Beytenu released a video stressing the importance of passing a law mandating equal service for all Israelis. The video shows, through dramatic graphics, how by 2020 a majority of Israelis will not be serving. Titled “One Citizenship. One Obligation. One Opportunity. One Vote,” the clip was released ahead of the planned vote on Yisrael Beytenu’s IDF, National, or Civilian Service Law Proposal this Wednesday in the Knesset.

Israel

Climbing to the Top: A Story of Strength

By Alisa Bodner, Tazpit News Agency

Menifa-Leverage for Life is a nonprofit organization that was founded in Israel in 2004. The mission of the organization is to prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of high school and to reintegrate detached youth into normative frameworks. Since its establishment, Menifa has operated 130 such programs around Israel.

Moshe Feiglin

More About Ulpana Hill

By Moshe Feiglin

Those who read my book, Where There Are No Men, already know that no real struggle can be conducted by the Yesha Council. We understood that the hard way when we established the Zo Artzeinu movement, and we have since explained how we reached this conclusion in detail.

Politics / The Knesset

PM Establishes Special Committee for Judea and Samaria

By Malkah Fleisher

The government on Sunday voted to put a ministerial committee headed by the Prime Minister in charge of Jewish development in Judea and Samaria , the first time in 16 years that the establishment and expansion of Jewish communities in the biblical heartland will not come under the purview of the full government.

News Briefs

Kosher Delight in Midtown NY Closing

By Jewish Press News Desk

YeahThatsKosher.com reports that Kosher Delight, the 28-year old establishment on Broadway between 36th and 37th street is scheduled to close on Sunday, according to rumors and the restaurant's staff. This closing comes on the heels of two other recent closures/moves in the midtown area, J2 Pizza and Clubhouse Cafe. According to the website, Kosher Delight […]

News Briefs

Historic Jaffa Cemetery Comes to Life

By Jewish Press Staff

The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Chevra Kadisha burial society will invest NIS 10 million in preserving and refurbishing a historic Jaffa cemetery established in 1840. The cemetery, at the corners of Yehuda Hayamit and Yehuda Meragusa streets, will revamp the site into a tourist location highlighting the settlement of Jews in the area prior to the establishment […]

News Briefs

Ayatollah's Advisor: 'Iran-Egypt Unity will Form Core of a Great Islamic Power'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Mehr news agency reports that Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, has said that Iran and Egypt are the major countries of the Muslim world, so their unity will form the core of a great Islamic power in today’s world. Velayati made the remarks during a meeting with a number […]

Editorial

'No' To A Jewish Super District

By Editorial Board

The current New York State Senate redistricting map championed by the Republican majority calls for the establishment of what has been characterized as a super Jewish district.

News Briefs

Report: Abbas, Mashaal Agree to Unity Government

By Jewish Press Staff

The two leaders are in Qatar discussing the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement

Ask the Rabbi

Q & A: Biblical Blue Fringe: Will the Real Chilazon Please Stand Up!

By Rabbi Yaakov Klass

In February we conducted a thorough discussion of the mitzvah of techeilet. The following guest piece by Baruch Sterman, marking 20 years since the establishment of the Ptil Tekhelet Foundation (www.tekhelet.com), is a follow up to that discussion.

News Briefs

Knesset Plenum Votes Down Proposed Bills by MK Ahmad Tibi

By Jewish Press Staff

Tibi proposes bill recognizing Jerusalem as Palestinian capital.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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