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April 9, 2013
12:54 pm

State comptroller’s database to aid Holocaust heirs

From the web The Jewish Week: An initial search of 50,000 Holocaust victims found 4,000 matches for unclaimed NY state comptroller funds

April 9, 2013
11:53 am

Election provisions ‘not perfect’

From the web Australian Jewish News: Early voting facilities to be opened in areas with high Jewish populations before Yom Kippur elections

April 9, 2013
11:34 am

Yariv Horowitz (center) and friends at a Maimouna party in Caesarea (Courtesy Yariv Horowitz Facebook)

Israeli filmmaker says he’ll file police complaint about assault in France

‘Rock the Casbah’ director Yariv Horowitz returns home to Israel, and wants to clarify what really happened at the Aubagne Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

April 9, 2013
11:31 am

Chai Kosher set to close May 3

From the web Canadian Jewish News: Kosher poultry consumers should not anticipate price hikes, says competition

April 9, 2013
11:04 am

Austria honors passengers on Nazi train to Dachau

Ceremony held at Westbahnhof, the station where the first trainload of Jews and political prisoners departed on April 1, 1938

April 9, 2013
10:56 am

UN Watch to bestow Kasparov with accolade

Chess champ chosen for his ‘long and nonviolent struggle for human rights in Russia’

April 9, 2013
10:12 am

Illustrative photo of a synagogue in Europe. (photo credit: Efrat Herman/Flash90)

Italian high-school kids deflect anti-Semitic slur

‘Had you been in Auschwitz, you would have been more careful,’ teacher had told inattentive student in class

April 9, 2013
8:51 am

Budapest, the Danube river and the Hungarian parliament, as seen through a window of the Fishermen's Bastion. (photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)

Anti-Semitic demonstration banned in Budapest

Bikers’ rally, protested by Jewish groups as a ‘call to repeat’ Auschwitz, was set to coincide with Holocaust commemoration

April 9, 2013
8:48 am

A burnt mezuzah in a building in the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Williamsburg on Monday April 9, 2013 (screen capture: WNBC - Channel 4, New York).

Vandals burn mezuzahs in Brooklyn building

Police investigating whether act was fueled by anti-Semitism

By Asher Zeiger

April 9, 2013
8:13 am

Former US President Jimmy Carter speaks to reporters in Jerusalem in October. (Photo credit: Raphael Ahren/The Times of Israel)

Yeshiva U. backs students’ right to honor Carter

But institution’s president says he ‘strongly disagrees’ with former president’s stance on Israel

April 9, 2013
6:37 am

Rabbi Gilad Kariv, the head of the Reform movement in Israel, performs a Reform Jewish wedding ceremony in front of the Knesset, on March 18, 2013. To the left of the couple stands Labor party MK and secretary-general Hilik Bar. (photo credit: Flash90)

US women’s group urges Israeli civil weddings

National Council of Jewish Women decries Orthodox monopoly on marriage and divorce, urges Jewish pressure to effect change

By Haviv Rettig Gur

April 9, 2013
4:56 am

A mezuza fixed to the door frame of a Jewish home (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Jewish religious objects found burned on Holocaust Remembrance Day

From the web NBC: Public advocate says hate crime is only explanation for destruction of 11 mezuzot in Brooklyn

April 9, 2013
4:01 am

Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter as appearing on the hologram-like interactive presentation developed by the USC Shoah Foundation. (photo credit: USC Institute for Creative Technology)

Adding a new dimension to Holocaust testimony

New technology affords future generations the privilege of personal interactive conversations with survivors

By Edmon J. Rodman

April 9, 2013
2:15 am

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland (photo credit: Google Street Views)

Auschwitz center to buy home of Oswiecim’s last Jewish resident

Group launches online fundraising campaign to transform house into a cafe

April 9, 2013
1:19 am

Boris Johnson makes his shot on April 8 (YouTube Screen Shot)

Boris shows Barack how it’s done

London’s mayor finds the basket… with his back turned and his suit jacket buttoned up

By Times of Israel staff

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