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| Tallit-Wearing Woman Arrested at Western Wall | Police arrested a woman at the Kotel after she wrapped herself in the prayer shawl traditionally worn by Jewish men. The High Court ruled that people coming to the Kotel must dress in accordance with the tradition of the place. | | READ MORE |
|  | Over the last month notebooks, backpacks, writing equipment and textbooks, as well as Braille keyboards and printers, were transferred for use in schools run by the United Nations in Gaza.
| | | | | |  | | The 3,000 cattle began crossing into Gaza through border crossings with Israel last week as part of a goodwill gesture | | | | | | | Turkish students were arrested after they bombarded the car of Gabi Levy with eggs, protesting Israel's military offensive in Gaza last winter | | | | |  | | The Sanhedrin warns that continued consideration of what it calls the "hostile, fallacious, and malicious" Goldstone document will bring upon the world catastrophic events. | | | | | |
| Some 250 chefs and chefs in training created the dish Saturday using 2,976 pounds of chickpeas and 13,525 ounces of lemon juice, according to the French news agency AFP. The final dish weighed in at more than 2 tons. | | | | | Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Friday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh. The mayor of Ramat Gan asked to send two zebras to the Gaza zoo in hopes it will prevent similar occurrences in the future. | | | | | Mikey Weinstein, is suing the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches, accusing Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, of "asking Jesus to plunder my fields ... seize my assets, kill me and my family then wipe away our descendants for 10 generations," The Dallas Morning News reported Monday. | | | | |  | | Judge Richard Goldstone, whose recent United Nations Human Rights Council investigation purported to find evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza, once indicted a fictional Serbian character and a dead man for war crimes as well. | | | | | | An Illinois court ruled that a Chicago dentist's last will and testament disinheriting his grandchildren if they marry non-Jews is legal. | | | |
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