Shas: Deri, Lapid agreed to cancel cuts in haredi educational institutions
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 14:34:16 -0700 | political-news
Deri, Lapid agreed to cancel cuts in haredi educational institutions The Shas party said that Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Shas leader Aryeh Deri reached an agreement in which cuts planned for haredi educational instutions will be canceled altogether. ...
State: 3-year imprisonment of infiltrators is constitutional
Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 14:00:45 -0700 | disasters-news
The response stated, "the harm to the right to freedom resulted by keeping an infiltrator in custody stands the test of past court decisions." The State's response, which comes following a court order, also reads that "the law balances...
Sex and the Moabite girl
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 13:07:16 -0700 | allnews
Marc Israel Sellem /The Jerusalem Post It is fair to say that the Book of Ruth contains the most explicit love scene in the Hebrew Bible. In chapter three, Ruth approaches the sleeping Boaz, uncovers him and embraces him...In the...
Sex and the Moabite girl
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 13:07:16 -0700 | allnews
Marc Israel Sellem /The Jerusalem Post It is fair to say that the Book of Ruth contains the most explicit love scene in the Hebrew Bible. In chapter three, Ruth approaches the sleeping Boaz, uncovers him and embraces him...In the...
The other Women of the Wall
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 12:52:43 -0700 | political-news
Doesn't matter whether you understand why some Jews are devastated when they see you praying. Jews praying at the Western Wall Photo: Darren Whiteside / Reuters Before my first trip to Israel in 1977, the Reform Movement, which sponsored the...
Shavuot – Torah, gratitude, humility
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 12:52:42 -0700 | political-news
Shavuot Torah, gratitude, humility 05/13/2013 22:14 Also called the Day of Bikkurim, first fruits, because when the Temple was in J'lem, nation would bring fruits to J'lem from Shavuot on. Fruits [Illustrative] Photo: Wikimedia Commons The festival of Shavuot is...
Esh Kodesh Puts Price on Rioters' Heads
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 12:09:19 -0700 | political-news
The posters offer a $1000 reward for the capture of the terrorists. "We have the footage and IDs of the rioters, and we are still waiting for the police to do their job," say the residents.
Facebook Waze Deal on hold
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 12:09:18 -0700 | business-news
The biggest issue, explains BGR appears to be Facebook's desire to shutter Waze's Israel-base research and development center and transfer several key Waze employees to Facebook's U.S. headquarters. BGR adds that according to the paper's sources, Waze CEO Noam Bardin and...
Danon: We are Committed to Yesha Construction
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 12:09:18 -0700 | political-news
Facing Yesha rioting and terror, commanders must empower the soldiers to do everything to defend the residents...All IDF soldiers can completely ignore radical anarchist's cameras, be sure we will completely back up our soldiers, and they will never be held...
Desecrating Judaism in the name of God
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 10:07:40 -0700 | political-news
Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post Last Tuesday, Palestinian rioters threw rocks and chairs at a group of Jews who offended them by visiting Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount. Last Friday, haredi rioters threw rocks and chairs at a group...
Fischer cuts interest rate .25%, analysts cite budget
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 09:37:36 -0700 | business-news
Lapid and Fischer class over budget cuts Photo: courtesy ministry of finance When Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer made the surprise announcement Monday that the interest rate would drop from 1.75% to 1.5% starting this week, he cited the...
iENGAGE: Time to End the Disgrace at the Wall
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 09:23:33 -0700 | political-news
Time to End the Disgrace at the Wall 05/13/2013 18:03 Haredi men who threw garbage at women in prayer shawls behaved like pogromists; silence in the haredi community added to the disgrace. Women of the wall Photo: Tovah Lazaroff The...
Court Upholds Indictment of Prof Hillel Weiss
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 08:49:56 -0700 | political-news
In addition to denying the charges as false, Weiss also demanded case dismissal on grounds of police withholding investigation material, and unjust discriminatory enforcement of the law. The Court rejected the demand, adding all material was submitted by the police...
Hesder Yeshivas Facing Financial Collapse
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 08:49:53 -0700 | political-news
26 Reported News Brief 5/13/2013, Sivan 4, 5773 Hesder Yeshivas Facing Financial Collapse Hesder Yeshiva Union Director Eitan Ozeri urgently wrote The Jewish Home MKs Monday, "40% of the Yeshiva budgets have already been withheld due to the delayed...
"Conversions should have less Obstacles"
Source: Israel National News
Jerusalem :: Israel | updated 2013-05-13 08:49:52 -0700 | travel-news
The Religious Affairs Ministry says the bureaucracy and state conversion criteria are the main cause for frustration with the system, as the Rabbis of the Conversion Court are open-minded, liberal and welcoming towards applicants.
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