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April 21, 2016
As Passover approaches, longtime OU kosher supervisor sounds alarm on Manischewitz
Jared Sichel
April 21, 2016
Three days before the beginning of Passover, Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, a veteran mashgiach (kosher supervisor) for the Orthodox Union (OU), filed a lawsuit against Manischewitz and the OU, saying he can no longer stand behind the kosher status of the Manischewitz products he has supervised for 20 years, including its Passover matzos.
Passover frenzy grips Jerusalem market
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Passover eve, for observant Jews, is the deadline of all deadlines, a day by which all surfaces, all cupboards, all shelves have to be scoured and cleansed of anything that even may allude to a leavened product.
Cruz shows off ‘pastrami on rye’ during campaign stop in Indiana
jacobk
April 21, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz did all the mitzvahs needed to court Jewish voters in the Republican presidential primaries.
Arab-Israeli lawmaker compares Israel to Nazi Germany
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi declined an invitation to participate in a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, saying that there is an “alarming similarity” between Nazi Germany and current Israeli policies.
23 Jewish activists from Simone Zimmerman’s anti-occupation group arrested at Passover protests
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Police arrested 23 activists from an anti-Israeli occupation group at two protests, one at an Anti-Defamation League office and another at an American Israeli Public Affairs Committee headquarters.
Tribal Podcast: Yonah Bookstein, Rabbi at Pico Shul, Jewish community activist
Jared Sichel
April 21, 2016
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein joins Tribal to discuss the issues of the day facing young American Jews, his own unconventional path navigating the Jewish professional world and, of course … the Iran nuclear deal!
Peres to Queen Elizabeth II: ‘Life begins at 90′
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres sent Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II a happy birthday video message telling her that “life begins at 90.”
Pro-BDS activist elected head of British student union
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
An activist who supports the BDS movement against Israel was elected president of Britain’s national student union, leading Jewish students to express concern.
Israel’s attorney general bars women from reciting priestly blessing at Kotel
Jewish Journal
April 21, 2016
Israel’s attorney general banned Women of the Wall from holding a priestly blessing ceremony at the Western Wall.
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