Jewish Life
The “chanukiyah” will be lit every evening at the Western Wall during the eight-day holiday, which starts on the evening of Dec. 14.
The course marked a milestone in the army’s ongoing efforts to integrate Haredi soldiers into the Hasmonean Brigade.
The works come from the Judaica collection of lawyer and art patron Max N. Berry, who has been a board member at many major U.S. museums.
“We must stop antisemitism because we are all connected, and we’re all involved in this together,” the New York City mayor said.
Rabbi Joel Nickerson, of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, told JNS that it was a “disturbing outbreak of hate.”
“What happened in Stonnington Council was a slap in the face of the Jewish community,” said Dr. Dvir Abramovich, chair of the Melbourne-based Anti-Defamation Commission.
“The Arab public in the State of Israel isn’t summoned to enlist, so it doesn’t apply to them,” the Yesh Atid Party leader said.
Michele Weiss, a self-declared “moderate” Republican and an Orthodox Jew, told JNS that “this race pitted Democrats against Republicans in a way I’ve never seen.”
Seven people are in custody in connection with the investigation.
Shalom Lamm, of Operation Benjamin, told JNS that “those who sacrificed all ought to be remembered for eternity for who they truly were in life.”
Australian Magistrate Malcolm Thomas found that Angelo Loras, 35, had been in the grip of a delusion stemming from failure to take his schizophrenia medication when he set fire to the East Melbourne Synagogue.
Police are probing the break-in as deliberate vandalism rather than theft.
