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Haredi-owned restaurant to stop employing waitresses on nights when yeshiva boys patronize it; owner blames jealous competitors for kashrut supervisors’ strictness.
A Haredi-owned Jerusalem restaurant will be restricting the working hours of waitresses in order to receive the strict mehadrin kashrut certificate.
The veteran eatery, Heimische Essen, in Rehavia, will cease employing waitresses on Thursday nights, a favorite time for yeshiva boys to patronize the eatery.
Waitresses at the (…)

To Whom It May Concern,
As an American citizen and a practicing rabbi who believes in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard for all people, I want to urge you to drop the charges against three activists, including Olivia Zemor for advocating a boycott of Israeli products.
Boycott is a tool for economic pressure. Although Israeli is violating international law on many fronts as outlined in the Goldstone Report, Amnesty International Reports and by B’Tselem, (…)

Australia’s ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) is now an an Anti-Arab anti-Semitic Labor Party, an Anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Labor Party, an Anti-Semitic Labor Party, an Anti-Asian Labor Party and an Anti-African Labor Party. Pro-Zionist Labor requires national and international censure for its anti-Semitism and the threat it poses towards decent, anti-racist Jewish Australians.
For anti-racist Jewish Australians and indeed all anti-racists and anti-racist Australians, the World War 2 (…)

Dear Activist,
Sandra Fluke is the Georgetown Law student who was denied the right to testify in front of the sham, no-women-allowed hearing that Republicans held on access to birth control. When Democrats gave her the chance to testify, she was a very brave, intelligent, and articulate advocate for women.
Rush Limbaugh, in response, launched a ruthless and completely disgusting attack. He said that she wanted to be "paid to have sex." Then this: "What does that make her? It makes her a (…)

Truth Wins Out expressed outrage today that a fundamentalist rock band known for preaching offensive hate messages was allowed to spew its misinformation at a Dunkerton High School assembly. While on-stage a Junkyard Prophet band member said, “Homosexuals died at the age of 42.” Bradlee Dean, a Minnesota radio talk show host who had been praised by Rep. Michele Bachmann, leads the rock band.
According to reports, “students and teachers at an Iowa high school say they were blindsided when a (…)

Australia:
Radioactive wastes Liberals and labor unite in the Senate to rush through the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill. However, the Greens managed to get included an important amendment against international wastes being included. Opposition to this legislation continues. Aboriginal landowners continue their legal fight against the Muckaty nuclear waste dump plan.
Fukushima anniversary: Australians in all States and Territories held anti nuclear, anti uranium rallies on (…)

THURSDAY 15 MARCH 5.30 PM DOWNING STREET, LONDON SW1A 2AA
This Thursday 15 March, Stop the War is calling a protest to stop the killings in Afghanistan and bring the troops home immediately.
Protests across Afghanistan show that the recent atrocities have generated massive anger and that the majority in Afghanistan are opposed to the occupation. The latest opinion poll shows 73% of the British population want the troops home immediately (SEE http://bit.ly/AmSsOK).
The only reason tens (…)

A question I’ve frequently been asked since I began writing for Pravda.Ru in 2003 is, “Why did you become disillusioned with the practice of law?”
This question is understandable, particularly since, in most people’s minds, being an attorney is synonymous with wealth and political power.
I’ve always been reluctant to answer this question for fear it will discourage conscientious and ethical people from pursuing careers in the legal profession—a profession where conscientious and ethical (…)

Statement by the EuroAnarkismo network
We won’t pay their debt - let’s move away from capitalism!
The end of 2011 has seen an ever-stronger offensive against the working classes by capitalists and their allies - the governments. There is a tacit agreement between both left- and right-wing governments all over Europe to implement austerity policies and on the principle of making the people pay for the crisis. Greece is emblematic in this respect: having formed a national unity government (…)

A delegation from the International Energy Agency spent two days in Baghdad speaking with high-ranking officials in preparation for an end-of-year report on the country’s oil sector. By some estimates, Iraq could hold some of the largest oil reserves in the world and an international auction for oil and natural gas blocks is planned for May. Without a hydrocarbon law, and considering the fractured political system, the IEA’s report may be more about political obstacles than oil potential, (…)