The European Union\’s foreign policy chief crossed into Gaza from Israel during a visit to the region.\n\nCatherine Ashton, the EU\’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, arrived in the coastal strip Thursday one hour before a rocket fired by Palestinians in Gaza killed a migrant worker in the northern Negev.\n
Calgary police have issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant for an 18-year-old male over a slew of spray-painted anti-Semitic messages.\n\nThe racist graffiti on mailboxes, signs at synagogues and a memorial for Holocaust survivors, which surfaced last November, included swastikas and the words \”kill Jews\” and \”six million more.\”\n
A nationwide staffing company settled a lawsuit filed on behalf of two Jewish employees who were subjected to religious discrimination.\n\nThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had sued Texas-based Administaff, Inc., which provides human resource teams for small- to medium-sized companies, and Conn-X, a Florida-based cable service provider, after brothers Scott and Joey Jacobson were harassed for approximately two years at the Conn-X office in Edgewood, Md.\n
The student government at the University of California, Berkeley reportedly endorsed a divestment bill.\n\nThe Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley passed the bill by a wide margin early Thursday morning, it was reported.\n
Be aware that these delicious matzah balls in a recipe brought over from Germany are denser than typical \”Eastern\” ones, and are akin to a German dumpling or \”knoedel\”. I have enjoyed these many times at Passover seders at the Ermans, and to me they are more authentic than what we usually eat. Enjoy!
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