News Brief

YU President Issues Disclaimer On Cardozo Honor For Carter

04/09/2013

Yeshiva University’s president, Richard Joel, has issued a statement on his disagreements with Jimmy Carter in response to a student group’s April 10th forum with the ex-president at YU’s Benjamin Cardozo Law School.

“While he has been properly lauded for his role in the Camp David Accords of 1978, I strongly disagree with many of President Carter’s statements and actions in recent years which have mischaracterized the Middle East conflict and have served to alienate those of us who care about Israel,” Joel said in a statement posted on YU’s news blog Monday.

Mezuzot Burned At Williamsburg Housing Project

04/09/2013 | JTA

Eleven mezuzahs were set afire in a residential building in Brooklyn in an incident that New York City police are treating as a hate crime.

Health Department: Child Infected In Circumcision That Defied NYC Consent Law

04/04/2013 | Hella Winston | Special Correspondent

The mother of an infant who contracted herpes following a bris with direct oral suction last month denied receiving the required consent form from the mohel, whose name the family refused to disclose to the New York City Department of Health, The Jewish Week has learned.

Stephen Hawking To Visit Israel

04/04/2013 | JNS

Stephen Hawking, internationally renowned English theoretical physicist and popular science author, is scheduled to visit Israel this summer, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Former Princeton Rabbi Killed In Car Accident

04/04/2013 | JTA

Rabbi James Diamond, the retired director of Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life, died in a traffic accident after leaving a breakfast Talmud study group.

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Chaplain At Buchenwald Liberation, Dies At 95

03/28/2013

Staff Report – Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a national Jewish leader and the only Jewish chaplain present at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died Thursday at the age of 95.