This DIY Menorah was designed by Ken Goldman . List of Materials: “Altoids” tin 4.5 x1/2 inch strip of tin ( any thin metal will work : a piece of an old can,even a thick piece of tooling copper can work in a pinch) 2.5×1/2 Directions: One piece of tin 4. Read More »
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Anobit’s executive management gathered the startup company’s employees at a Herzliya hotel on Tuesday morning to inform them that they are now working for Apple. The global technology leviathan is performing its first acquisition in Israel and will open its first overseas development center in the Holy Land. Read More »
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Hanukkah Poll: Oil or Candles? Oil Candles View Results Loading … Is one way more “right” than others? Let us know in the comments! Read More »
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The Israeli government’s watchdog agency says the country is short on bomb shelters and is ill-prepared to protect its citizens in case of war. Read More »
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Hannukah is going on right now! Send us your photos of menorah lighting, latke frying and dreidel spinning to photos@achshav. Read More »
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“A person told me he’d never met a Jew but was taught that Jews were the cleverest people in the world. Read More »
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Jamie Geller, from JoyofKosher.com shows you “How to make Classic Potato Latkes, you cannot have a Hannukah Party without these! “ Read More »
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Lebanon said Monday it knows who is behind rocket attacks on Israel but won’t say. Later, it revealed the secret: Israel – of course. Read More »
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To the people who had dedicated their lives trying to bring back Gilad Shalit from captivity, what are you up to now that he has returned? PS. Read More »
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Welcome to Israel, Apple Inc. on your 1st acquisition here. I’m certain that you’ll benefit from the fruit of the Israeli knowledge. — The PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) December 20, 2011 Israeli News site Calcalist is confirming that the 4-500 million dollar deal has been finalized for Apple to buy the flash memory company Anobit . Read More »
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Photo by: REUTERS/Andrew Burton The Mayors office just released the following (really long) statement in regards to the new Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island in NYC. Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Read More »
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In light of the recent news of Kim Jong-il’s death, it made us wonder – are there any Jews in North Korea? If so, how is life there for them? Or perhaps when God said we would be spread among the nations, he didn’t have North Korea on that list? If you have read anything on the interwebs about this please let as know as we are very interested. Read More »
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Check out the hilarious trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator due to come out in May. Read More »
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Ho Ho Ho’nnukah! We are not sure if this picture is old or not but we think it is hilarious! Happy Hannukah to everyone! Read More »
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Campus Visualization courtesy of Cornell In an effort to bring some top tech talent to NYC, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the winners of the Roosevelt Island Campus bid are Cornell University and Israel’s Technion Instutute of Technology . The campus will cost more than $2 billion, and will be comprised of 2. Read More »
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Jerusalem – Israeli air force drones are patrolling the skies over the country’s gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea due to security concerns, a defense official said Tuesday.
The deployment comes in the wake of new threats from Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group. Read More »
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Philadelphia, PA – A Philadelphia man charged with posting an anti-Semitic threat against Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut will have his computer use monitored while he’s out on $50,000 bail. Read More »
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Haifa – An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was felt throughout the country on Sunday. The epicenter of the tremor was 40 kilometers west of Binyamina.
The Coastal District Police Department stated that it received many calls from frightened citizens, mainly in the coastal region and Haifa. Read More »
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Washington – Prominent Israel advocate Prof. Alan Dershowitz hit back at a book by the founder of J Street charging that he and others have silenced criticism of the Jewish state, in a recent interview with The Jerusalem Post. Read More »
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In this Wednesday, July 6, 2011 picture, Jean-Claude Goldbrenner, whose mother Elsa Goldbrenner died at Auschwitz in 1943 during the Holocaust, holds a photograph of himself from around 1945 or 1946, when he was around three years old, in France during World War II in his home in Potomac, Md. Read More »
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New York – There are girls with ribbons in their hair, boys in short pants or wool jackets (one even wears a discarded Hitler Youth uniform). There are teens and toddlers. There are kids who look happy, sad, scared, tense and relieved — greatly relieved. Read More »
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Israel – The IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny GAntz, has approved a committee’s recommendation to restore the pre-1967 version of the military Yizkor memorial prayer. Read More »
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1. Waiting as the Rebbe gets out of his carriage and goes into the location of the wedding:
2. Paks, Hungary, 1936, Yeshiva students:
3. Nemetkeresztur, Hungary, A group of students of the “Tzahalim” Yeshiva:
4. Piestany, Czechoslovakia, Rabbi Issachar Shlomo Teichtal, the Eim HaBanim Semeicha, with student:
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Israel – El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. filed a complaint with the Israel Antitrust Authority over price fixing by foreign airlines on transatlantic routes, following the closing of its direct Tel Aviv-Sao Paulo route because it was unprofitable. Read More »
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A new layer of airport security aimed at screening passenger behavior will begin testing Tuesday at Boston’s Logan International Airport. Read More »
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Manhattan, NY – New York City’s Diamond District should consider improving the appearance of the area’s buildings and marketing itself as a tourist destination as part of efforts to safeguard its future, a report released Monday said. Read More »
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Abdulhakim Muhammad
A convicted Muslim American terrorist who killed a U.S. army soldier two years ago has admitted he also fired ten bullets at a rabbi’s home in Arkansas, according to a letter obtained by the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act. Read More »
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Check out this clip from the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm! You know how men want women who don’t want them? Larry discovers the appeal of a Palestinian woman who not only doesn’t want you, she doesn’t even acknowledge your right to exist! Read More »
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No need to watch your step anymore, thanks to a new Israeli device the dog poo problem on city sidewalks could soon be a thing of the past. Read More »
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Thousands of doctors and students of medicine staged the largest protest so far in their battle for higher wages and better conditions Sunday July 31 2011, in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem. Read More »
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Attorneys Jennifer McCann and Pierre Basile, the defense team for Levi Aron, the man accused of killing and dismembering eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Read more: http: //www.nydailynews.com/news/ny crime/2011/07/31/2011-07-31 theyre fighting to help bklyn butcher new lawyers defend aron. Read More »
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Israelis march during a protest against the cost of living in Israel, in central Tel Aviv, Saturday, July 30, 2011. Thousands of people marched in downtown Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest rising housing prices, in a major demonstration in a movement calling attention to the soaring cost of living. Read More »
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Lakewood, NJ – A 20-year-old bochur passed away when his motorcycle was struck by a vehicle.
The boy, Chaim Asher Warmen, was hit late Motzei Shabbas while driving a motorcycle, he was rushed to the hospital where he passed away. Read More »
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Israel’s LGBT community will march Thursday in Jerusalem’s annual Gay Pride Parade, an event that in past years has sparked great tension and violent clashes in the city. Read More »
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Manhattan, NY – An 11-year-old New York City boy is planning a one-mile Hudson River swim as a Bat Mitzvah gift to a friend.
Aaron Perl tells 1010 WINS radio that life is about doing things for other people. He’ll jump in the water from the 79th Street Boat Basin in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon. Read More »
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New York, NY – The director of Kosher Law Enforcement for the New York State Department of Agriculture is confident that the discovery of packages of pork labeled “Shechitas Beis Yosef” at a Sunnyside supermarket was a one time, innocent mistake.
The New Yorker magazine was first to report about the incident. Read More »
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New York – A unique new service utilizing the resources of three separate organizations will assist travelers who find themselves unable to reach their destinations before Shabbos with an alternative to spending Shabbos on the side of the road or at the airport.
The Shabbos Emergency Roadside Service will debut today, three hours before Shabbos. Read More »
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Jerusalem – What about rabbis writing Facebook statuses?
Dozens of community rabbis from Israel and abroad discussed rabbinical social network activity during an international conference on the “era’s challenges” held in Jerusalem this week by the Tzohar organization and the World Zionist Organization’s spiritual services department. Read More »
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Spokane, WA – Alleged Spokane MLK Day bomber Kevin W. Harpham was affiliated with the neo-Nazi group the National Alliance, which believes, among other things, that “Zionist connections” to the U.S. government are responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Read More »
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Loch Sheldrake, NY – Running transforms Laykie Donin, clearing the Houston resident’s head and reducing the stress of raising four children and holding a full-time job.
“When I’m physically fit, I’m mentally fit,” said Donin. “When I come home (from exercising), I’m a much better mom. Read More »
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New York, NY – Mayor Bloomberg practiced his version of verbal jujitsu, mangling a greeting to Muslim leaders at a Ramadan gathering with “shalom alaikum.”
Hizzoner was shooting for “salaam alaikum” – the traditional Arabic “peace to you” greeting.
“He just got a little confused,” one witness said. Read More »
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San Francisco, CA – A San Francisco judge said Wednesday she intends to strike a ban on male circumcision from the city’s November ballot. Read More »
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She once claimed that she did not believe in religion.
But now Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed she wants to raise her children in the Jewish faith, following an appearance on the ancestry programme Who Do You Think You Are?
The American actress, whose Read More »
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The Palestinian Authority spends more than $5 million a month paying salaries to terrorists sitting in Israeli prisons, according to a Palestinian Media Watch report presented to congressmen in Washington on Tuesday. Read More »
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Rumor has it that Israel’s ultra-Orthodox residents don’t suffer from a housing crisis thanks to their representatives in the Knesset, but a short tour of Jerusalem – or underground Jerusalem, to be more exact – reveals a completely different reality. Read More »
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Israeli writer Etgar Keret has been labeled as (future) owner of the worlds smallest house. Dubbed the “Keret House”, it will be built in a crack between two buildings in Wola, Poland.
At its wider point, the house will be just four feet. At its thinnest, it will only be 28.3 inches. Read More »
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JERUSALEM – Israeli security forces intercepted a boat Monday on the Dead Sea carrying assault rifles and ammunition from Jordan, Israeli authorities said.
The military provided a photograph showing a haul of 10 Kalashnikov rifles and the same number of ammunition clips. Read More »
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BAYREUTH, Germany — Germany’s 100th Wagner opera festival kicked off here Monday in an edition that will include a taboo-busting performance by an Israeli orchestra. Read More »
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TRENTON, N.J. — The FBI says a New Jersey couple abducted an Israeli man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he didn’t give his wife a religious divorce.
Federal authorities say the victim had refused to give his wife a “get,” or a divorce sanctioned by the Rabbinical Court, preventing her from remarrying. Read More »
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Borough Park, NY – Detectives hauled out more children’s clothes from murder suspect Levi Aron ’s apartment yesterday and are investigating whether he is a first-time killer, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Read More »
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A rare bell with a buttonhole from the Second Temple period was found Thursday during an excavation at the Ir David (City of David) National Park, just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was found in a drainage canal originating just west of the Western Wall of the Temple. Read More »
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At about 3: 05 Drake and friends are sipping on some Bartenura! We aren’t sure exactly what the occasion was but Mazal Tov!
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Lush has opened in Brent Cross, north-west London, but its website is viciously anti-Israel.
Lush’s website says , inter alia, that “the catastrophe facing the Palestinian people is one of the defining global justice issues of our time” and “life for Read More »
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A raiding party of 60 agents from several government agencies descended yesterday on a former matzoh factory and warehouse in Brooklyn to gather evidence that it was converted illegally to residential lofts.
Tenants said firefighters used force to enter the offices of Nachman Brach, owner of the 11-story building at 475 Kent Ave. Read More »
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An autopsy revealed Leiby Kletzky was given a cocktail of drugs and then smothered to death, officials said Wednesday.
The 8-year-old boy had traces of a muscle relaxer, anti-psychotic medicine, a pain-killer and Tylenol in his blood, the city medical examiner said.
After he was drugged, the boy was smothered, the autopsy showed. Read More »
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It is a very interesting thing, reading the anti-Israel websites. I find them to be…well…absurd. Without thinking about it, they see a situation and automatically it is Israel’s fault. It is truly fascinating. Israel can never do anything right in these people’s eyes. Read More »
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A taxi driver has been given a community order and could lose his work licence after being found guilty of racially abusing children in front of Manchester’s King David School. Read More »
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