Twenty-thousand people escorted the bodies of the five members of the Fogel family, killed over the weekend in a gruesome terror attack, as they were laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM [AP] — Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of settler homes in the West Bank, the prime minister’s office said Sunday in a stern political message to the Palestinians after three children and their parents were murdered in a remote settlement over the weekend.
LAS VEGAS [AP] — Yuri Foreman, the aspiring rabbi-to-be who briefly held a piece of the 154-pound title, took a beating Saturday night at the hands of Pawel Wolak and lost for the second straight time.
One year after the tsunami that wasn’t, a massive shockwave spawned by an afternoon 8.9-earthquake off the coast of Japan slammed into the island nation Friday with 13-foot seas and sent tourists and locals almost 4,000 miles away in Hawaii scrambling for higher ground.
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger spoke out sharply on Wednesday night against the trend of rabbis’ letters addressing various social or political causes, declaring that such letters led to disparagement of religious leaders.
Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.
CANADA — A city teen who admitted spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue and another Jewish memorial won’t be sentenced until he can meet with a Holocaust survivor.
SOS Israel chairman says his call to fire rubber bullets at IDF soldiers was result of ‘a storm of emotions’, accuses PM and defense minister of ‘sending troops to shoot at Jews’.
A Chabad rabbi has called to strike back at soldiers in the same way they act against settlers, predicting a civil war among Israel’s Jews.
Among the Arab nations, the mightiest despots, who have been ruling with an iron fist for 30, 40, or even 50 years, have overnight been stripped of their power. It just goes to show us how tenuous a grip these rulers really have.
Now playing, exclusively on CrownHeights.info, the final episode of the Jewish Kids Radio for this year! Kids of all ages can now listen in to a meaningful program which includes a few chances to win great prizes, a few special story’s connected, and more!
The government’s attempt to silence the voices of friends-of-the-court [amicus curiae] in the Rubashkin case undermines the American justice system, argues an influential publication, Bloomberg Law Reports.
KIRYAS JOEL — Kiryas Joel School District has been ordered to repay $276,443 in federal funds that were spent improperly on rent for the district’s only school building, according to a recently completed audit.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused British journalists of a “Jewish conspiracy” against him, saying in an interview that negative press is “an obvious attempt to deprive him of Jewish support and donations.”
Three weeks ago, Israel airlifted 21 of its citizens out of harm’s way as Tunisians toppled the 23-year regime of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Now playing, exclusively on CrownHeights.info, the Jewish Kids Radio! Kids of all ages can now listen in to a meaningful program which includes a few chances to win great prizes, a few special story’s connected, and more!
In this months issue of the Tzivos Hashem Passover Kids Magazine there is a masterful page on Jewish history which tells the story of a certain Jewish king. He was very tall and strong – far beyond that of any regular man, and he provided dowries for the brides of Israel. His righteousness merited him in becoming king, can you identify who he was?
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