New Synagogue Joins Fort Jackson

Newly recruited soldiers train at Ft. Jackson boot camp.

Shep Cutler feels good about helping put Columbia’s Chabad-Lubavitch of South Carolina on the map. He and his wife Joni donated $125,000 toward the establishment of a new synagogue, a permanent home for a community that has been renting space at an area country club for the past 10 years.

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Video: Algemeiner Director Appears on Fox News

Moments before President Obama was due to deliver his major Middle East policy address today, Algemeiner director Dovid Efune spoke on Fox News live about the origins of the Arab Israeli conflict, why territorial concessions would endanger lives, the Arab phased plan and the dangers of the positions taken by the Obama administration.

Obama Endorses 1967 Borders for Israel

New York Times

President Obama spoke about Middle East policy at the State Department on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, President Obama for the first time on Thursday publicly called for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would create a non-militarized Palestinian state on the basis of Israel’s borders before 1967.

The Great Parade’s Great Sign!

Measuring an imposing 75 feet by 30 feet, the new and updated sign replaces the signs that graced the parade from past years. Yitzy Vail together with a group of volunteers put up the sign this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming parade this Sunday.

Video: ‘Chassidim’ Meet with Ahmadinejad

Two men from the organization Jews United Against Zionism, also known as Neturei Karta, spent Shabbos in Iran to attend the International conference on Global Alliance against Terrorism for a Just Peace in Tehran. The two men wearing traditional Chasidic clothing are U.S. Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, of Rockland County, and Canadian Rabbi Yeshaye Rosenberg. On Sunday both of them met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Doctors Weigh In as Voters Mull Circumcision Ban

Bay Area medical professionals and clerics have mobilized against attempts by a local anti-circumcision group to enact a citywide ban against the practice. If activists have their way in municipal elections this November, when voters will be asked to vote on the measure, circumcision of a boy under the age of 18 years of age for religious reasons would be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.