Yiddishe Neias from around the world!
New Zealand’s small Jewish community has begun mounting a legal case against the nation’s centre-right government in a bid to overturn a ban on the kosher slaughter of meat. Community spokesperson David Zwartz said that attempts to convince Agriculture Minister David Carter to reverse the ban on shechitah had failed, prompting Jewish leaders to...
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The men behind a unique six-hour eating marathon in Jerusalem want diners to know two things about locusts: First, they taste great stir-fried, and second, they’re kosher. When 240 observant Jews sat down to the 18-course dinner earlier this month, they were served a veritable zoo of animals that were unlikely candidates to be...
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Ultra-Orthodox figures on Wednesday pushed to halt renovation work on Ben Gurion International Airport runways after the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered ancient graves at the site. “Disorder in the area of the runways, or even close by, could disrupt flights to Israel,” an airline industry source said. “No airline will fly to an airport...
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An Exeter Township poultry-processing plant was sentenced Wednesday to two years of probation and fined $20,000 for discharging waste into a tributary of the Schuylkill River. Mehadrin Kosher Poultry pleaded no contest before Judge Stephen B. Lieberman to violating the state’s Solid Waste Management Act and Clean Streams Law from August to October 2008.
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A survey conducted among ultra-Orthodox teachers has uncovered a worrying lack of basic knowledge – including the words to the national anthem, Napoleon’s nationality, and even the word for Shabbat in English.
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Rabbi Tzali Wilschanski and his congregation at the B’nei Tzedek Chabad thought they would never see their two Torah scrolls again, but this weekend the sacred documents were returned. Just as an air of mystery surrounded the case of the missing Torahs, their return is equally as baffling. However, Wilschanski isn’t focused on the...
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A helicopter carrying one Romanian and six Israeli soldiers crashed Monday in mountainous terrain during joint military training, the Romanian defense ministry said.
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The Religious Zionist movement has issued a blanket condemnation of the arrest of Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira over the book he authored. Dozens of rabbis, Knesset members, and National Religious public figures have signed a petition against the rabbi’s arrest, claiming that he expressed “a halachic opinion.”
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A massive forest fire broke out this afternoon in the hills surrounding Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem. Police initially suspected arson, but by early evening concluded that careless picnickers were to blame and detained a 15-year-old Haredi youth who had been playing with fire, together with several friends, in the forest. Police suspect...
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Sweden – A few minutes after two o’clock police were alerted by several callers who heard a heavy bang and saw a glow after an explosion during the night of Friday, on the steps of the synagogue at Bethany Plan in Malmo. Police patrols found the black burnt residue at the synagogue, but consider...
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