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Jewish Scene 'Fire rabbis who don't recognize military conversion' Local rabbis who do not recognize military conversions must immediately step down from their posts, and the Chief Rabbinate must fire them or take them to court for ... Full story Kobi Nahshoni (14:31 , 11.20.09 ) Wedding refugees Happiness waits on the third floor, above a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. “Yes, this is right”, the driver assures the suspicious faces in the rear-view mirror, ... Full story Sarah Stricker (07:58 , 11.20.09 ) Tiny survivor doesn't remember Mumbai attack Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do – he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a ... Full story Associated Press (15:09 , 11.19.09 ) Artists to receive Religious Tolerance award This Hannukah, the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies is awarding the Marc and Henia Liebhaber Prize for the Promotion of Religious Tolerance and Cultural Pluralism to ... Full story Tzofia Hirshfeld (08:13 , 11.19.09 ) Police arrest woman praying at Western Wall Police detained a woman from the Women of the Wall (WOW) movement Wednesday after she donned a prayer shawl and held a Torah scroll at the Western Wall compound in ... Full story Efrat Weiss (13:12 , 11.18.09 ) Lost images of pre-war Jewish life unearthed A Hanukkah dinner in Odessa, bathers in the Baltic Sea, a tailor in front of his shop in Serbia - just some of the 25,000 images of pre-war Jewish life garnered from the ... Full story AFP (09:42 , 11.18.09 ) 'Anti-Semites have the say in Budapest' It all started with a little joke. On the occasion of Imre Kertész's 80th birthday last Monday, the German newspaper Die Welt published an interview with the Nobel ... Full story Sarah Stricker (16:06 , 11.17.09 ) Yemen's Jews stay put in Sanaa Forced to flee fighting between Shiite rebels and the army in the north, Yemen's Jews have found a new home in Sanaa, where they benefit from the special protection of ... Full story AFP (08:15 , 11.17.09 ) Rabbis let haredi women work at Intel Rabbis and haredi instructors in Jerusalem gave their authorization over the weekend to a group of ultra-Orthodox women who wish to work in Intel's hi-tech plant, Ynet ... Full story Elad Tene (14:04 , 11.16.09 ) Hate crimes up against Jews in California The California Attorney General's office says that more gay and Jewish people were the victims of hate crimes last year even though the overall number of bias-related ... Full story Associated Press (07:43 , 11.16.09 ) US Jews turn to Israel to escape bleak job market Jewish American math teacher Goldie Burdetsky never expected to find herself working the front desk of a hotel in southern Israel alongside management interns young ... Full story Reuters (17:49 , 11.15.09 ) Rabbi Elyashiv to authorize Shabbat elevators The haredi grand adjudicator Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv is expected to issue a modified halachic ruling on the issue of Shabbat elevators that will allow their use for ... Full story Kobi Nahshoni (08:21 , 11.15.09 ) Nazi's grandson tries to sell items to Yad Vashem The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem recently received an unusual, and angering, appeal: The grandson of Rudolf Höss, the infamous commander of the Auschwitz ... Full story Eldad Beck (08:08 , 11.14.09 ) Jewish Peoplehood Hub launched The NADAV Fund, in partnership with UJA-Federation of New York and the Jewish Agency for Israel, launched the Jewish Peoplehood Hub (JPH) at the 2009 General Assembly of ... Full story Ynetnews (13:23 , 11.13.09 ) Shoah survivors slam Lebanese ban of Anne Frank's dairy The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants recently slammed Hezbollah for censoring Anne Frank’s diary out of a school textbook. According ... Full story Ynetnews (07:30 , 11.13.09 ) Jewish Scene

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