Jewish Voice

Saturday
May 19th, 2012
Text size
  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
U.S. Jewish Groups Clash as Obama Comes Out in Support of Gay Marriage

U.S. Jewish Groups Clash as Obama Comes Out in Support of Gay Marriage

After years for which he essentially kept mum on the issue, President Barack Obama has finally decided to plunge into the social policy arena and endorse same-sex marriage.
The president’s announcement came in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC Ne...
Iran Hangs Alleged Israeli Secret Agent

Iran Hangs Alleged Israeli Secret Agent

An Israeli spy who allegedly assassinated an Iranian nuclear scientist two years ago was e...
Turkey to Issue Indictments Regarding 2010 Flotilla Incident

Turkey to Issue Indictments Regarding 2010 Flotilla Incident

A Turkish state court has finished its investigation into the May 2010 IDF raid of the Gaz...
Orthodox Elementary Student Chosen as Finalist in Google Logo Contest

Orthodox Elementary Student Chosen as Finalist in Google Logo Contest

An eleven-year-old girl attending an Orthodox day school in Maryland has been selected as ...
Travolta Says Hollywood Run by Gay Jews, Lawsuit Claims

Travolta Says Hollywood Run by Gay Jews, Lawsuit Claims

Saturday Night Fever and Grease star John Travolta is in hot water recently after being su...
 

Chasidic Art Gallery Comes to Crown Heights

Chasidic Art Gallery Comes to Crown Heights
Exhibition Featuring Works by Legendary  Jewish Painter Itshak Holtz Opens This Week

The Betzalel Gallery, a new fine art gallery in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Broo...
More:

Israeli Government Awards T3 Motion Two-Year Electric Vehicle Tender

Israeli Government Awards T3 Motion Two-Year Electric Vehicle Tender

T3 Motion, Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TTTM) a producer of clean/green technology, announced that Israel has awarded T3 Motion and its Israeli distributor, Yaum Ltd., a two-year cont...

More:

Northfield Bank Comes to Boro Park; New Branch Opens Rosh Chodesh Sivan, May 22

Northfield Bank Comes to Boro Park; New Branch Opens Rosh Chodesh Sivan, May 22
Northfield Bank announced last Wednesday (May 9) the opening of their new Boro Park branch, located at 4602 13th Avenue at the corner of 46th Street in Brooklyn, New York...
More:

IAF Appoints New Commander

IAF Appoints New Commander A new commander was appointed to head the Israeli Air Force last week, according to media sources.

Major-General Ido Nehushtan had headed the IAF for four years and served...
More:

Rabbi Yonason Sacks Appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College

Rabbi Yonason Sacks Appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College
Rabbi Yonason Sacks, a revered and beloved Torah scholar, has been appointed Rosh HaYeshiva of Beis Medrash L’Talmud at Lander College for Men (LCM), announced Dr. Alan K...
More:

Touro College Graduate School of Social Work Hosts Program on Planning for End-of-Life Care

Touro College Graduate School of Social Work Hosts Program on Planning for End-of-Life Care
The Touro College Graduate School of Social Work recently hosted a forum on “Planning for End-of-Life Care with Dignity and Compassion,” in honor of its Spring 2012 Commu...
More:

Con Edison and ThinkEco Launch Window Air Conditioner Energy Savings Program

Con Edison and ThinkEco Launch Window Air Conditioner Energy Savings Program
  Device Allows Customers to Control their Window A/C Power Usage

As temperatures begin to climb this summer, Con Edison and ThinkEco have partnered to launch a window air ...
More:

EU Releases Documents With False Accusations Against Israel

The European Union is under fire for releasing six documents between 2010 and 2012 that criticized Israel but later proved to contain many inaccuracies.

Some of the errors...
More:

Palestinians Reject Israeli Offer to Resume Talks; Miss Yet Another Opportunity for Statehood

Palestinian officials have rejected an Israeli call for the resumption of direct peace talks without preconditions, rejected a letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...
More:

Incarcerated Kruger Craves Kosher Cuisine

Incarcerated Kruger Craves Kosher Cuisine
Disgraced former Brooklyn State senator, Carl Kruger, sentenced last month for seven years in jail for corruption and bribery charges, now wants to serve his prison sente...
More:

L.I. Synagogue Pushes for Eviction of Caterer

L.I. Synagogue Pushes for Eviction of Caterer
A Long Island synagogue is pushing for the eviction of a caterer who was accused earlier this year of violating the laws of kashrut, according to local news reports.

Scott...
More:

Eminent Former Diplomat Addresses Israel Bonds Gathering at Safra Synagogue

Eminent Former Diplomat Addresses Israel Bonds Gathering at Safra Synagogue
Event Raises Over $60,000 in Support of Israel

Rabanit Estie Abadie, welcomes Ambassador Yehuda Avner to Safra Synagogue for a Development Corporation for Israel/Israel Bo...
More:

PA Prisoners Are Hungry, But For What?

Fewer (much fewer) than 1% of the Arab prisoners hunger-striking in Israeli prisons are administrative detainees. Almost all were charged, tried and convicted for the mos...
More:

Parshat Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)

Parshat Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)
The Power of a Tzibbur

“If you go in my ways and follow my statutes…Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and they will fall from...
More:

Obama vs. Romney: The Jewish Debate

Obama vs. Romney: The Jewish Debate
On May 5, President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election campaign in front of a crowd of 14,000 people at Ohio State University. Obama presented his new campaign sloga...
More:

Nevele Hotel in Catskills Set For $500 Million Redevelopment

Nevele Hotel in Catskills Set For $500 Million Redevelopment
The well-known Nevele Grande Hotel and Country Club, a sprawling 500-acre spread in the Catskills Mountains, is expected to undergo a $500 million redevelopment that will...
More:

Touring Israel Presents Opportunities to Meet Tel Aviv Boutique Designers and Access New Collections

Touring Israel Presents Opportunities to Meet Tel Aviv Boutique Designers and Access New Collections
Specially designed for clothing, shoe, jewelry, and handbag enthusiasts, Touring Israel’s Tel Aviv STYLE tour is a sought-after excursion for fashionistas visiting Israel...
More:

Mexican Jihad: New Terror Threat Emerges From South of the Border

Mexican Jihad: New Terror Threat Emerges From South of the Border
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been target...
More:

Rangers Advance, as the Knicks are Sent Packing

Rangers Advance, as the Knicks are Sent Packing
It has been an exciting and fun 2012 playoff run for both the Knicks and Rangers this season. Both Garden tenants came out fighting for their respective titles from the s...
More:

Israel Free Loan Association – Rebuilding Jewish Lives Every Day of the Year

Israel Free Loan Association – Rebuilding Jewish Lives Every Day of the Year
The Israel Free Loan Association is the largest interest-free loan organization in the world (according to its website – freeloan.org.il), and it has loaned out $160 mill...
More:

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Discusses Role of Religion in Public Sphere at YU

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Discusses Role of Religion in Public Sphere at YU
On the evening of May 8, students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the greater Yeshiva University community filled Lamport Auditorium to hear Cory Booker, mayor of ...
More:

Bar-Ilan University Professor Discusses Iranian Threat to Israel at Palm Beach Synagogue

Bar-Ilan University Professor Discusses Iranian Threat to Israel at Palm Beach Synagogue
Bar-Ilan University (BIU) Professor Mordechai Kedar, one of the Middle East’s leading experts on Islam, terrorist groups, Islamic fundamentalists, and Arab regimes, recen...
More: