Three charged

In an image which will cause widespread outrage, two serving British soldiers appear to give Nazi-style salutes while standing to attention in front of the Union Flag.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477639/SHAMEFUL-Fury-UK-soldiers-investigated-performing-Nazi-style-salute-Helmand.html

Police have charged three people over an alleged anti-Semitic attack in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Four men and a woman were walking home from the synagogue in Bondi in the early hours of Saturday when a group of about eight young men began yelling anti-Semitic insults at them.
Continue reading: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-26/jewish-attack-antisemitic-bondi-charged/5047598

Shmuel Rosner discusses the end of Daylight Savings Time in Israel this Saturday night.

Most Israelis — 73 percent of them, according to a poll taken on May 30 — have been wanting to extend D.S.T. so that they can have light during more of their active hours, save on electricity and drive more safely. (Not all these expected benefits have been proved.) But ultra-Orthodox politicians have opposed the idea on the grounds that longer days make religious practices more burdensome.

 

Morning prayers can only begin with sunrise, but if sunrise comes later because of D.S.T. (this Saturday in Tel Aviv dawn comes at 6:53), some people might have difficulty completing their prayers and getting to work on time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/opinion/international/rosner-israels-duel-on-the-sun.html?_r=0

 

Let's hope the implementation won't cause too much hardship for people who daven Shachris before beginning their work day.