When the thousands of delegates, journalists and observers drive to the United Nations this September for the General Assembly, I’d like to suggest that on their way they swing by the intersection of 10th Avenue and 35th Street.
A decision by the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial to levy a fee on commercial tour guides has received strong support from Jewish leaders and survivor representatives, contrary to initial reports.
Tnuva, Israel\’s largest dairy products manufacturer, agreed to lower cottage cheese prices by about 20 percent following a nationwide boycott. The company announced Wednesday that it would lower the recommended price of a 9-ounce tub of cottage cheese by about from $2.17 to $1.70.
A new mikvah to replace one destroyed by the Soviets was dedicated in the Siberian community of Tomsk, Russia.
Joseph Hochstein, editor and publisher for nearly two decades of the weekly newspaper now known as the Washington Jewish Week, has died. Hochstein died in Tel Aviv, where he lived for nearly three decades, from complications of cirrhosis of the liver. He was 77.
The Jerusalem-based Answers.com fired about two-thirds of its staff two months after being acquired by a private company.
European Jewish groups slammed a decision by the lower house of the Dutch parliament to ban the ritual slaughter of animals. The Conference of European Rabbis President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt called the ban an outrage that would prevent Jews from living a Jewish life in The Netherlands.
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty charged that peace between Israel and the Palestinians is \”further away now\” than it was the day President Obama took office.
The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, was arrested in London while on a speaking tour and will be deported.
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