"This is not only an opportunity to learn about the rebbe's teachings," says Rabbi Yaakov Kaplan, who produced the course. "Rather, this is a chance to learn the rebbe's teachings themselves. It is a guided tour through complex and nuanced Torah study."
Comments revealed in minutes from cabinet session earlier this month, made just days after MK Rafi Peretz was appointed to oversee Israel's education system. Peretz is the head of the United Right in the Knesset.
Environmentalists secured an injunction against a memorial to the over 102,000 Dutch Jews who were deported or murdered during the Holocaust on the grounds that the project would require 24 trees to be uprooted.
School district says principal William Latson was reassigned "effective immediately" because of an email in which he said teaching the Holocaust should not be a priority because some people doubt it ever happened.
Brauner produced hundreds of films, among them the Golden Globe-winning "Europa Europa," about a boy in Nazi Germany who joins the Hitler Youth in an attempt to conceal his Jewish identity.
Jewish native of Romania was sent in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where most of her family were killed. She and her twin sister survived, but were subjected to inhumane medical experiments.
Millions of people to participate in prayers, lectures, gatherings, tributes and performance of good deeds in Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson's memory. Over 50,000 visitors expected at his burial place in Queens, NY, this week.
Witnesses say Tristan Morgan was laughing to himself as he walked away from the Exeter Synagogue, which he set on fire last July. Police commander: Morgan holds "extreme right-wing, anti-Semitic, and white supremacist views."
Around 44% of respondents aged 16-34 say they have suffered harassment, more than double the proportion for over-60s, according to a survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. More than 80% of Jews of all ages say they feel anti-Semitism has increased on the internet over the past five years.
Suspect, 53, is believed to have driven a group of men to the home of Argentine Chief Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich in February. The gang proceeded to beat him, breaking several of his bones and puncturing one of his lungs.
