Freedom and dignity

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas again insisted at a two-day “Freedom and Dignity” conference in Ramallah last week that Palestinians who murder Israeli Jews cannot be punished.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/30/abbas-palestinians-who-kill-jews-cannot-be-punishe/#ixzz2S1JSc8ej

Jewish American heritage month

Presidential Proclamation -- Jewish American Heritage Month, 2013

Jewish sorcery

An Iranian regime official and a website close to the regime have recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and of employing it against Iran.
Read more: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7154.htm

Mishneh Torah at auction

A 550-year-old Jewish holy book is expected to reach around $5 million in a New York auction.

The copy of the Mishneh Torah, from Italy around 1457, is an early copy of the code of Jewish law assembled by Maimonides.
The book, with an estimate of $4.5 million to $6 million (£2.8 million to £3.9 million), forms part of a collection of Jewish artefacts, or Judaica, expected to reach $11 million (£7 million) at Sotheby's. The collection belongs to philanthropist and former hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt and his wife, Judy.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/500yearold-jewish-holy-book-mishneh-torah-expected-to-make-5m-in-new-york-auction-8594957.html

New Women of the Wall challenge

Women seeking equal prayer rights at the Western Wall are planning a further challenge to Jewish Orthodox tradition at the site after a court ruling bolstered their cause, an activist said on Sunday.
The Women of the Wall movement hopes to have its members read from a Torah (holy scriptures) scroll at the Jerusalem site, a ritual reserved under Orthodox practice for men only, when it holds its monthly prayer session there on May 10, according to Anat Hoffman, a leader of the group.
Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/04/28/israel-wall-idINDEE93R04L20130428

Accidents happen

The New York man accused of killing an entire Brooklyn family in a brutal hit-and-run crash last month leading to his arrest across state lines is defending himself while saying 'accidents happen.'
'Sure I played a part, I couldn't stop. Accidents happen,' Julio Acevedo told WABC Newsin a jailhouse interview while being held without bond on three counts of vehicular manslaughter in the March 3 crash.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315712/Julio-Acevedo-Driver-hit-run-killed-Orthodox-Jewish-family-denies-guilt-says-accidents-happen.html#ixzz2RhFhDhw5


Africa's oldest synagogue is playing host to that rarity in the Arab world - a religious gathering of hundreds of Jews drawn from Europe and Israel.

Guarded by armed Tunisian police, Jewish revelers chant and dance in a three-day pilgrimage to the El Ghriba synagogue at an island resort 500 km south of Tunis.
Continue reading: http://news.yahoo.com/jews-revive-annual-pilgrimage-africas-oldest-synagogue-152347681.html

Petition to keep Galliano out

Not everyone has forgiven former Dior designer John Galliano for his anti-Semitic tirade in 2011. Galliano was recently hired to teach a master course at Parsons fashion school in New York City, but some students say that's not OK.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/fashion/petition-john-galliano-parsons-article-1.1327134#ixzz2RV9x9Ncr