Terrorist Murders Israeli Teen With Axe

JERUSALEM [JTA] — An axe-wielding Palestinian worker killed an Israeli boy and injured another in the West Bank.

The worker began attacking the boys, aged 13 and 7, as he ran with the axe through the community of Bat Ayin, located in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, shortly after noon Thursday.

Boymelgreen CEO: We Lack Resources to Repay Debts

TEL AVIV — “The company has not yet published its financial report, but I hope that we’ll do so by the end of today,” Boymelgreen Capital Ltd. (TASE:BMGN) CEO Gil Tobul told bondholders today. US real estate developer Shaya Boymelgreen controls the company.

Tobul added, “The company had a plan for the sale of assets in order to meet its commitments. We’re dealing with a crisis, which no here has ever experienced, and the sales failed. The offers we received for not solve the problems.”

Report: Canada Anti-Semitism at All-Time High

TORONTO — Anti-Semitism in Canada reached an all-time high last year, despite the government’s efforts to combat the phenomenon, B’nai Brith said Tuesday in its annual report, adding that Jews were being used as scapegoats for the ailing economy.

Hearing set in Agriprocessors Child Labor Case

DES MOINES, AI [AP] — Attorneys for the owner and former managers of an embattled northeast Iowa kosher slaughterhouse are scheduled to appear Wednesday in court in Waterloo to seek a delay in a trial on child labor charges.

Other issues expected to be argued during the hearing involving Agriprocessors Inc. of Postville and its former leaders include motions to dismiss and motions for change of venue.

Blessing the Sun Where Iron Curtain Once Obscured the Light

KHARKOV, Ukraine — Excitement is building in Jewish communities throughout Ukraine in anticipation of the first Blessing of the Sun since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Growing Up Manischewitz – Some Manischewitz History

When Laura Manischewitz Alpern moved to New York from Cincinnati in 1959, she was taken aback that strangers recognized her name. Her great-grandfather Dov Behr Manischewitz started baking matzahs in 1888, as a young immigrant in Cincinnati — and ultimately revolutionized the matzah business, producing square matzahs by machine. Her book, “Manishewitz: The Matzo Family” (Ktav), is a family history and the story of the iconic company, sold to a conglomerate in 1990. Alpern was recently visiting Manhattan, from her home in Geneva, Switzerland.