WELLINGTON, New Zealand (WJC)–Jews in New Zealand have won a temporary exemption from a new legal requirement that animals must first be stunned before being slaughtered. Representatives of the Jewish community last week filed legal proceedings against Agriculture Minister David Carter and on Monday said said a Wellington court had ordered a temporary exemption until [...]
Garry Fabian Compiled by Garry Fabian Shechita outlawed in New Zealand WELLINGTON, New Zealand , May 28 — he days of a Jewish mother making the traditional chicken soup for the family Friday night Shabbat dinner have come to an end for New Zealanders. The country has issued a new Animal Welfare Commercial Slaughter Code [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian Aid for orphans in Cochin, India MELBOURNE, 22 April - A year 9 community service project at Bialik College grew into something bigger after a group of students raised more than $3000 for an Indian orphanage. Under the leadership of Jewish Aid Australia, the class was divided up and each group [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–National holidays are occasions for reflection. The linkage of Memorial Day and Independence Day was designed to focus on the miseries and hopes of being Jewish and Israeli, so there should be no surprise that they work on our emotions, this year as in the past. Memorial Day is heart wrenching stories of [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Money, money everywhere, but not enough. That’s the message from the massive deficit already apparent and projected for the United States. It comes from too many wars, too many tax cuts, too many entitlement programs, and too much exploitation by highly paid capitalists who forced the government into unprecedented bail-outs. Who’s [...]
