Israeli authorities captured two religious Jews in Jerusalem this week accusing them of being ring-leaders in a high-profile drug smuggling case going on now in Japan. Unfortunately, when the Jerusalem arrests were reported online, secular news portals and even some religious ones revealed the identities of the two accused individuals. Naturally, reader comment pages were replete with angry attacks against them, based on nothing more than a police accusation. Indeed, when one of the two was… Continue

Recently, Chareidio Global News was called to task over the use of the word "militant" in place of "terrorist" that appeared in one of our stories on a rocket attack launched from Gaza against the Israeli town of Sderot. Indeed, many consider it a "distortion of words", a mudding of the distinction between good and evil, when the terminology is changed. After all, how can society fight terrorists if we are unable to confront the phenomenon for what it is?

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As authorities make their belated swoop on the now-defunct Ponzi scheme that once went by a prestigious Wall Street name, mass-media has gathered on the sidelines to report the facts of the case as they become available.



There's little to say, of course, other than what is quoted directly from court documents, and from companies now acknowledging the possibility of having incurred serious losses if indeed the firm's asset base is truly depleted. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop the… Continue

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What a pity that the Israeli government doesn't realize what an improvement in quality of life is afforded the elderly when they have access to full time filipino nursing. The filipinos provide proper food, take them outside, and look after them reliably and with care, easing the burden on younger family members who would otherwise have to take time from work to care for their older relatives. How pathetic that the head of the committee designated to 'study'… Continue

Haaretz wrote: "Munich says carnival parade on Holocaust Day is unstoppable -- Despite complaints from Jewish groups that the date is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a carnival parade through the city of Munich is set to go ahead Sunday.The annual date was established by the UN General Assembly in 2005 and is not a public holiday in Germany.According to a report to appear Wednesday in the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel, Christian Ude, mayor of Munich, said, "The day doesn't have a legal… Continue