Since its founding 127 years ago, the Fernández y Roche factory on the edge of this Andalusian capital has weathered every crisis known to hatters.
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A ten-year-old child in Essex, UK has been given permission by a judge to convert to Christianity against her Jewish mother’s wishes. Local Shliach Rabbi Odom Brandman argued before the court that such a move would be “disturbing, unnatural and unfair to the child,” to no avail.
A rabbi on a seaside holiday in the UK accidentally drowned while performing his daily ritual bathing in the sea. Jewish Orthodox Dov Berish Englander, 47, got into difficulties while performing a mikvah – a full body immersion in water to gain ritual purity.
Isaac Kadare, a 59-year-old father of four, was found dead Thursday night on the floor of his 99-cent store in the Bensenhurst section of Brooklyn. Kadare, a devout Jew who was born in Egypt, was found by a friend after […]
An exquisitely detailed exhibition, depicting various Jewish holidays in both different times and places, has been drawing large crowds in Borough Park since its arrival from Israel three weeks ago.
Close to 100,000 Orthodox Jews sang, danced and prayed inside what is billed as the world’s largest synagogue — at least for a night. MetLife Stadium was transformed Wednesday for a celebration of the completion of the reading of the Talmud, the book of Jewish laws and traditions.
For the second time in a month, evidence has surfaced about a case of neonatal herpes that shatters a myth about metzitzah b’peh (MBP) that the New York City Department of Health (DOH) is bent on propagating.
The Brooklyn Butcher will likely die in prison in a plea deal that’s been agreed to by all sides, the Daily News has learned.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday rebuffed rabbis’ threats of legal action if the city goes through with a proposal to restrict a controversial Orthodox Jewish circumcision procedure.
Vandals have desecrated 57 tombs containing the remains of around 250 people at a Jewish cemetery in Hungary, Jewish groups said Monday.
Germany’s lower house of parliament passed a resolution Thursday, July 19, reaffirming the religious rights of parents seeking to circumcise their infant sons.
In an effort to court the many Arab-American constituents in the district where he is running for congress, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has declared himself ‘the pro-Arab candidate.’
A brazen daytime bombing that killed seven people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgarian officials said Thursday. Israel stood by its claim that Iranian-backed Hezbollah was responsible and vowed to hit back. [Update: Freed Guantanamo detainee?]
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At least seven Israelis were killed and 20 others injured this morning in a terror attack on Israeli tourists’ bus traveling in Burgas, Bulgaria.
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On Thursday, July 12th, rocks, mud and trees crashed down a mountain above the shores of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, ripping through Johnsons Landing. It was followed by another slide on Friday. At least three houses were engulfed when the wall of mud, rock and trees cascaded down the hillside.
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested Monday in Jerusalem against attempts to draft members of the ‘Haredi’ community into the Israeli military.
A New York City man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Wednesday in what experts said was the first ever federal conviction for illegally selling human kidneys for profit.
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