The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is set to induct Neil Diamond. Diamond, 69, who launched his career as a songwriter in the 1960s in the Brill Building songwriting factory, penning hits for groups like The Monkees, will be inducted Monday night at a ceremony in New York.
Poland is shelving plans to compensate former property owners — among them Holocaust survivors — for assets confiscated during the communist period. The announcement by Poland\’s state treasury was met with \”shock and dismay\” by the World Jewish Restitution Organization, which represents survivors and their heirs. \”Given the current economic situation, work on this draft legislation cannot be continued,\” a Polish official announced on March 9, the French news agency AFP reported.
An Alaska Airlines flight crew issued a security alert after three Mexican Orthodox Jews began praying with tefillin. The flight attendants, who were concerned by the prayers being said aloud in Hebrew and the unfamiliar boxes with leather straps hanging from them, locked down the cockpit and radioed a security alert ahead to Los Angeles International Airport.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the killing of five members of a West Bank Jewish family \”despicable,\” \”inhuman and immoral.\” \”A human being is not capable of something like that,\” Abbas said in Arabic during an interview Monday morning on Israel Radio. His words were translated into Hebrew by the interviewer.
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