tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11921533662314582542026-09-07T01:23:15.384-04:00Jewish & World NewsTop Jewish News Happening Now, And World News That's Worth a WOWjewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.comBlogger7569125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-69378498188415584192018-12-17T12:14:00.001-05:002018-12-17T12:14:24.380-05:00Germany will compensate Kindertransport survivors $2,800 each
Germany has agreed to compensate those who fled Nazi Germany as children on the so-called Kindertransport with a one-time payment of approximately $2,800 each.
The new agreement, negotiated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany with the German government, comes 80 years after the first rescue transports of children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to Englandjewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-10014491809307091582018-12-12T12:11:00.002-05:002018-12-12T12:11:30.960-05:00French Jewish cemetery defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti near Strasbourg
Several tombstones were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti at a Jewish cemetery near the French city of Strasbourg.
The incident was discovered Tuesday in Herrlisheim, a northern suburb, the CRIF umbrella of French Jewish communities said in a statement. “CRIF = ZOG” and the digits 88 were written on the tombstones. ZOG stands for “Zionist occupation government,” and the number is code forjewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-22037000588408769472018-12-12T11:53:00.003-05:002018-12-12T11:53:53.578-05:00Catholic school sued by Jewish teacher who ‘had to stare at a Swastika every day’
A West Orange man says that St. Joseph Regional High School did nothing to stop anti-Semitism he endured while teaching there -- then fired him when he complained about it.
Jacob Rabinowitz filed a lawsuit Dec. 4 in federal court in Newark accusing the school of religious discrimination, unlawful retaliation and creating a hostile work environment. Named as defendants were the all-boys high jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-48009475845682853102018-12-12T11:43:00.002-05:002018-12-12T11:43:46.052-05:00N.Y. Catholic schools will boycott new state survey, inspection program
In a major rebuke to the state, leaders of New York's more than 500 Catholic schools say they will boycott a proposed new review system in which local public school officials are supposed to inspect the parochial schools and determine whether they offer a “substantially equivalent” education.
“The parents who choose our schools can have great confidence in the academic rigor of our schools,” jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-12333807421328064032018-12-12T11:33:00.001-05:002018-12-12T11:33:05.859-05:00A lot of the bread in the US will no longer be kosher
The largest baking company in the United States will be removing kosher certification from nearly all of its bread and rolls.
Bimbo Bakeries USA confirmed to JTA that it will be removing the certification. The company produces brands including Arnold, Sara Lee, Stroehmann, Freihofer’s and others.
Two of its major brands, Entenmann’s and Thomas, will remain certified kosher. So, kosher eaters, jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-60161391598785996302018-12-10T22:20:00.001-05:002018-12-10T22:20:23.308-05:00Study: Half of online clothing purchases get returned
It won't just be the ugly Christmas sweater your aunt is giving you. A new report predicts half the clothing purchased online this holiday season will be returned for one reason or another.
Adobe Analytics reports online holiday sales have already reached $14.12 billion, a 20 percent gain from last year. Of that, clothing sales totaled $2.78 billion. If these numbers hold up, there will be a lotjewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-16024278031842653902018-12-10T22:14:00.002-05:002018-12-10T22:14:49.672-05:00Trump Tower is one of the city's biggest consumers of energy
As president, Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. out of an international emissions treaty that would fight global warming, pledged his support for carbon-belching fuel sources such as coal and rejected the scientific consensus that the climate is warming because of man-made causes, with effects that will be catastrophic to society and the environment.
As a landlord and developer for years in New jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-70528593898856832652018-12-10T16:09:00.003-05:002018-12-10T16:09:42.527-05:00Woman Loses Ring in Bathroom, City Worker Finds Near Manhole 9 Years Later
A southern New Jersey woman has her wedding ring back, nine years after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.
Paula Stanton was sure the diamond-encrusted gold ring was lost forever after she noticed it wasn't on her finger while she was cleaning her bathroom.
Luckily, a member of Somers Point's public works department remembered Stanton mentioning the ring about three years ago.
Last jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-75991450814725385672018-12-10T15:30:00.001-05:002018-12-10T15:30:18.111-05:00Employer-sponsored insurance costs soar in NY, report says
Employer-sponsored insurance-premium costs for single and family coverage saw double-digit increases in New York last year, according to a new study from Manhattan-based nonprofit The Commonwealth Fund.
From 2016 to 2017, average annual premium costs increased 10.5%, to $7,309, for single coverage and 10%, to $21,317, for family coverage. That compared with increases of 4.4%, to $6,368, for jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-61676202265425984842018-12-10T13:10:00.001-05:002018-12-10T13:10:21.356-05:00CHIEF RABBI OVADIA YOSEF FIRST HALACHIC AUTHORITY TRANSLATED TO AMHARIC
Yalkut Yosef, the halachic work based on the rulings of former Sephardic Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Shas political movement Ovadia Yosef, will be "the first halachic work written in the Amharic language" for the members of the Ethiopian community.
The translation was initiated by the Ministry of Religious Services and is aimed at making halachic rulings available to a wider audiencejewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-63690020127880992852018-12-10T13:02:00.000-05:002018-12-10T13:02:09.239-05:00Arab state okays Israeli flights
An Arab Gulf state will allow Israeli civilian flights to enter its airspace, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced Monday, cutting the travel time from Israel to India.
Speaking at an Israeli Foreign Ministry conference on Monday, Netanyahu revealed that Israeli passenger jets will now be permitted to fly over the Gulf Arab state of Oman, on the southeastern end of the Arabian Peninsula.
jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-37430127704534617612018-12-09T14:16:00.003-05:002018-12-09T14:16:51.438-05:00Study: Laws To Curb Drivers From Using Cell Phones Save Motorcyclists Lives
Laws aimed at getting drivers to put down their phones while they are behind the wheel have saved the lives of motorcyclists.
A new study by faculty at Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami, recently published in Social Science & Medicine, show that states with moderate to strong bans have motorcycle fatality rates that differ by as much as 11 percent compared to states jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-45375289090495912842018-12-09T12:41:00.002-05:002018-12-09T12:41:20.598-05:00GOP tensions running high on criminal justice bill
Republican tensions over a President Trump-backed criminal justice reform bill are spilling into public view as lawmakers run out of time to finish work on the legislation.
Supporters of the legislation believe they have momentum, pointing to the growing number of senators who have come out in support of the bill. On Friday, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) both announced they jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-84547877226816072962018-12-09T11:55:00.004-05:002018-12-09T11:55:37.930-05:00Who Invented The Beloved Doughnut?
If you look it up in Wikipedia, you may get the impression that it was either the Dutch settlers in early New York or a guy name Hanson Gregory (1847) who invented the doughnut. However, doughnuts – or pieces of dough fried in oil (even those with holes in them) – predated Dutch olykoeks by many thousands of years.
Archaeological remains at many of the Pharaohs’ tombs depict the different types jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-10608022039474172892018-12-09T11:07:00.000-05:002018-12-09T11:07:50.772-05:00Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free
Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free.
Fares on trains, trams and buses will be lifted next summer under the plans of the re-elected coalition government led by Xavier Bettel, who was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on Wednesday.
Bettel, whose Democratic party will form a government with the leftwing Socialist Workers’ partyjewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-24526452432227010412018-12-09T10:05:00.000-05:002018-12-09T10:05:02.154-05:00More than 2,500 New Kosher Certifications in 2018
New York, NY - The number of new kosher certifications – “hechsherim”- on products, establishments, and retailers will top 2500 as 2018 closes, Kosher Today has learned.
Almost a quarter of the new certifications will be by the Orthodox Union (OU) with other leading kosher certifications like the OK, Kof-K, cRc and Star-K also securing hundreds of new kosher certifications.
Many of the new jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-42525327199448699592018-12-06T23:05:00.001-05:002018-12-06T23:05:34.854-05:00Benjamin Netanyahu hated George H.W. Bush’s peace plan. Now it’s his policy
When a president dies, the tendency is to put aside long-simmering resentments and consider the wholeness of his record.
So it was when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remembered George Herbert Walker Bush, who died last week at 94.
Despite the tense relationship with Israel that was a hallmark of Bush’s single term, the prime minister praised the late president for things that a jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-11538451186574583562018-12-06T22:58:00.002-05:002018-12-06T22:58:40.785-05:00Netanyahu: Shin Bet prevented 500 terror attacks in 2018
The Shin Bet prevented 500 terror attacks in 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at an award ceremony honoring six groundbreaking operations and several Shin Bet agents who excelled in 2017 and 2018.
Among the operations highlighted were an operation to develop advanced technological capabilities in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML); an jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-25032520768424255862018-12-06T14:53:00.002-05:002018-12-06T14:53:47.947-05:00Ivanka Trump Ranked Just Behind Queen Elizabeth on List of World's Most Powerful Women
First daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump made Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the world list for the second time. Ivanka came in at number 24, just one place behind Queen Elizabeth II.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped the list for the eighth year in a row, while U.K. PM Theresa May was ranked second.
“The first daughter and advisor to President Trump has becomejewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-19183146535253999172018-12-06T14:49:00.003-05:002018-12-06T14:49:49.505-05:00First synagogue in Dubai
The small Jewish community in Dubai founded the first synagogue in the city, Bloomberg News reported.
The community includes Jewish citizens of other countries who deal in finance, law, energy, and diamonds. Three years ago they rented a villa in a quiet residential area where they would pray.
The building also has a kosher kitchen and a few bedrooms for guests and community members who observe jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-15004744831037859292018-12-06T14:48:00.000-05:002018-12-06T14:48:00.565-05:00Israeli measles epidemic spreads to London
A measles epidemic plaguing Israel’s haredi community has spread to the Jewish community in northern London, British news outlets have reported.
Haredi communities in New York City and Jerusalem have seen a surge in the number of measles infections since the spring, attributed in part to the relatively large number of people in those communities who have not been vaccinated.
By the end of jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-27122269147140961192018-12-06T14:46:00.001-05:002018-12-06T14:51:06.955-05:00Big bust of smuggling ring unlikely to stem flow of illegal smokes
Smokers in New York have a choice when buying cigarettes: They can pay $13 for a pack with all the required city and state taxes included or they can pay half as much for smokes smuggled in from other states. Most are choosing the latter.
The city is now the nation's capital for tobacco smuggling. Nearly 57% of all cigarettes smoked here are carted in from out of state, the highest rate in the jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-65641198300130133662018-12-05T14:02:00.000-05:002018-12-05T14:02:06.215-05:00HEZBOLLAH TUNNEL WAS TO BE USED TO CUT OFF METULLA: SENIOR IDF OFFICER
The cross-border Hezbollah tunnel discovered early Tuesday morning by the IDF outside of Metulla would have been used by the terror group to send militants from their elite Radwan unit to cut the community off from Route 90, a senior IDF officer said on Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters meters away from the Hezbollah tunnel, he said that the military decided to launch Operation Northern Shield jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-81273555359915239172018-12-04T22:47:00.000-05:002018-12-04T22:47:00.265-05:00El Al Shabbat flight blunder discussed in Knesset
The Knesset Public Inquiries Committee today discussed El Al's Shabbat flight debacle to learn lessons from LY002, which was delayed by heavy snowfall in New York.
The plane was forced to land in Athens so sabbath-observant passengers would not be forced to desecrating Shabbat. In addition, El Al had claimed that haredi passengers rioted on the flight - something that never happened.
Knesset jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192153366231458254.post-75796378152853916522018-12-04T22:37:00.002-05:002018-12-04T22:37:23.281-05:00Teachers Claim NYC School Is Filled With Mold, Rodents That Makes Staff, Students Sick
A group of teachers are calling attention to what they say are disgusting conditions at a school for children with special needs on Staten Island.
The teachers at PS 25 claim students and staff routinely get sick and they say it’s because the classrooms are filled with mold, insects and rodents.
“For three years, I have worked in a classroom filled with mold, insects and rodents,” 6th grade jewishworldnews@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233964404571397717noreply@blogger.com0