Beit Shemesh segregation signs removed

Published on July 5, 2012

A sign calling for women to avoid using sidewalks in order to avoid contact with men was removed from a neighborhood in Beit Shemesh.

Browns sign Jewish offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz

Published on May 15, 2012

Offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz, a second-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, signed a four-year, $5.17 million contract with the team.

Decals on my car - don’t want any!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 10, 2011

Auschwitz sign stealer sentenced to prison

Published on December 30, 2010

A Swedish neo-Nazi leader who organized the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from Auschwitz was sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

Auschwitz sign thieves skip out on jail

Published on April 22, 2010

Three Polish men convicted of stealing the famous Auschwitz “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign failed to show up for their prison sentences.

Three jailed in Auschwitz sign theft

Published on March 18, 2010

A Polish court convicted three men for stealing the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz.

The Polish men, who confessed last week to cutting the 16-foot metal sign in pieces and stealing it, were given sentences ranging from six months to 2 1/2 years, according to reports.

‘Oy Vey’  Such a Sign

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Published on October 6, 2005

A traffic sign with the words, "Leaving Brooklyn Oy Vey!" went up on the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn into Manhattan.

Sign of Hope

By Jewish Journal Staff
Published on February 22, 2001

The sign to the left, posted by Israeli Jewish and Arab students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology around the elite Rehovot campus, reads: "We, the Arab and Jewish students of the Technion, who daily sit together in the same classrooms in cooperation and friendship, express our pain over the recent outbreaks of violence in our country. It is up to us to continue living here in mutual dignity, peace and security. We call on every Technion student to speak out against violence, and on every citizen to work on behalf of good neighborly relations."

Endpaper

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 24, 2000

Israel has never seen anything this glitzy. True, there have been neon menorahs for Chanukah and light bulbs outlining Israel's numerical age on Independence Days. But this is another ball game altogether. Hundreds of thousands of people driving on the Israeli freeway this week have looked up at an electric millennium welcome reminiscent of Times Square.