Yemen – Yemeni Rebels Hold Jew Over Smuggling Out Old Torah Scroll
Yemen – Yemeni security officials say a member of the country’s Jewish minority has been detained over allegations he helped smuggle an 800-year-old scroll to Israel.
Yemen – Yemeni security officials say a member of the country’s Jewish minority has been detained over allegations he helped smuggle an 800-year-old scroll to Israel.
Following the death of 18-year-old Yitzhak Samet, who was killed along with 27 year-old Mordechai Gerber by the deadly stampede that occurred at the Bnei Brak funeral of leading haredi Rabbi Shmuel Wosner on Saturday night, the yeshiva (Torah academy) of R’ Wosner, Hochmei Lublin, has moved to absolve itself of responsibility.
A teenage yeshiva student from Ashdod was killed early Monday morning in a car accident as he drove to Jerusalem.
A diplomatic effort that began two years ago bore fruit on Friday, when the UN Secretariat announced that Yom Kippur will be recognized as an official UN holiday.
Musician Yosi Piamenta, one of the most beloved and veteran voices in the Jewish music scene, passed away on Sunday, Elul 8, 5775.
Yossi Gerson, a 29-year-old man from Lawrence, New York, who has been missing for six days has been found safe and in good health.
TENAFLY, New Jersey – A young boy from New York City has died after he was pulled from a swimming pool at a Jewish community center in northern New Jersey last week.
A Jewish group associated with the Kars4Kids charity is trying to wrest a Staten Island synagogue away from its congregation, the synagogue’s members charge.
Aמ Israeli hiker died overnight Saturday during a holiday in Chile, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has confirmed.
עשרות אנשים מגיעים מדי יום לביתה בחצר שהקימה ברחוב יהודית בירושלים, לא רחוק משוק מחנה יהודה. משרדה ממוקם בבניין מגוריה ואליו מגיעים פוליטיקאים, קציני משטרה ולהבדיל, גם בכירי העולם התחתון. היא מייעצת גם לאנשי עסקים ולאנשי צבא, לרופאים ולאנשים מהיישוב. כולם רוצים עצות וברכות. גם שועי עולם, בהם נשיאים לשעבר כמו ניקולא סרקוזי, ויקטור יושנקו…
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