The firebombs were thrown at the entrance of the hospital that faces Issawiya.
Among the dead are 36 civilians.
A ‘good news’ story from the Nepal avalanche disaster to warm your heart. Take out your Kleenex.
Two separate warnings sounded around 7:15 Sunday morning.
7:37am IDF declares.... "False Alarm". 7:22am The rocket siren went off, just as parents around the country are preparing to send their children back to school after Sukkot vacation. The alerted regions are for the Ashkelon and Tzeelim regions. Waiting now to hear if the IDF declares it a false alarm, or if it was […]
An Arab thief was stabbed by an unknown person as he tried to commit a robbery in community of Netiv Gedud.
Mexico refuses to let a Carnival Cruise ship with 4000 passengers dock after a Texas lab technician entered a voluntary quarantine on-board ship after handling Ebola infected fluids.
Kerry might need to find a different spokeswoman who is better at lying.
After a fit of vomiting, a 63 year old man died on a flight from Nigeria to JFK on Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that coalition forces killed 10 civilians in air strikes.
Let's see... ISIS now has artillery, fighter jets and chemical weapons. Good thing Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear weapons program years ago.
Barnum and Bailey’s three-ring circus could not have done better.
The temporary blockade may cause a major shift away from Israelis dependence on Uncle Sam.
Someone in the U.S. gave the order to stop assisting Israel in locating a kidnapped soldier this summer. Who was it?
Friends, enemies, it's all the same, as long as they get to kill people.
Abbas promises donors no Gazan violence and financial integrity. And unicorns and leprechauns.
By Paul Gherkin
Palestinians (and Jordanians) often use the term “provocation” regarding Israeli action in Jerusalem
By Joseph Cox
The creation of the world is described twice. Each description serves a unique purpose.
The zealots who engineered the ban have been publicly disgraced.
Tamar Ariel got her wings during the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots at the Hatzerim air force base in the Negev desert, near the southern city of Beersheva, on December 27, 2012. Tamar Ariel was among the Israelis confirmed dead in storm that hit northern Nepal earlier this week.
PLO ignores US aid cut threats, saying it will introduce UNSC resolution to 'end occupation' by 2016
State Dept. insists the danger of traveling to Israel in the war was greater than that posed by potential Ebola carriers.
At least 12 Israeis have been rescued.
He stopped short of saying Israeli surrender to the PA would stop ISIS sex slavery.
As this week's Parsha is Breishit (Genesis), we thought it would be interesting to run one of Rabbi Natan Slifkin's talks on Torah, Creation... and Dinosaurs. The photo above is from the site AllAboutJerusalem.com and the article there talks about the dinosaur footprints that were found in Beit Zayit in Jerusalem.
By JTA
Even more shocking is that Jews insist on remaining in France.
Is it worse to kill a teenaged terrorist than an adult terrorist?
Ben Gurion Airport will carry out an exercise Friday morning simulating the arrival of an Ebola-infected passenger. The exercise will include initial questioning as well as evacuation and hospital treatment. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed that preparations be increased at all entry points into Israel including preventive measures such as taking the temperature of passengers […]
A fourth Israeli remains missing. A dozen were rescued.
The share price of Protalix jumped nearly 50 percent this week.
Four firebombs were thrown at the Nof Tzion building complex in Jerusalem on Thursday evening.
Update on latest casualties numbers from Syria's civil war.
The war against the Islamic State (ISIS) is not going to be solved with a few aerial bombing raids but “is going to take a long time,” Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said at a joint press conference at the State Department Thursday afternoon. He also said there are a dozen “American adviser […]
British students reject Holocaust Commemoration and ISIS condemnation
Question: I recently loaned money to a friend who has been able to repay only part of it. This was an interest-free loan. We exchanged a signed IOU, not a proper shtar with witnesses, since I have always trusted her integrity and only wanted a document that confirms what was loaned and what was repaid. Now that shemittah is approaching, what should I do? Should I forgive the loan? And if my friend is not able to repay it, may I deduct the unpaid money from my ma’aser requirement? Name Withheld
By B. Schreiber
To the surprise of our protectzia-invested acquaintances, my family has thrived in our daled amos without that amenity, b’ezras Hashem.
Shimon started adjusting the branches on the roof. In doing so, a branch fell off the other side of the car and hit the side-view mirror, cracking it.
I, the one who is housed inside this body, am completely and utterly spiritual.
Should we sit in the sukkah on a day that may be the eighth day when we are not commanded to sit in the sukkah at all?
Each student received a brachah and a handshake.
The EU is preparing a blacklist of Jews who will be banned from Europe. History can be very repetitious sometimes.
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
For Appearance’s Sake ‘Shammai Did Not Follow Their Own Ruling’ (Yevamos 13b 14a)
Kerry equates barbaric ISIS misogyny with its claim of acting in the name of Islam.
Second health care worker in Texas tests positive for Ebola.
“This is a great opportunity to unite the West Bank and Gaza under one Palestinian leadership.”
Ambush victim’s solution to Arab rioting: “Put them in Gaza.”
Rabbi of Washington, D.C. shul arrested for allegedly installing a secret camera in the shul's mikveh shower.
The question remains why they advertised the anti-Semitic rings.
Lebanon is concerned after a number of soldiers defected to join ISIS and the Syrian rebels.
By Shalom Bear
Following escalating and extreme violence by Muslims on the Temple Mount, police have restricted Muslims access to the Jewish holy site.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai debates a cynical friend about the Jewish State, talks about the lack of Sukkot in the Hague, and broadcasts from the Moshav Carlebach Music Festival.
If one hurts another human being, God is hurt; if one brings joy to another, God is more joyous.
Journalists see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as morality play: Israel=evil; Palestine=innocent
Anthropology academics sign petition to boycott Israeli academic institutions to soothe their own guilt. Anthro-apologists.
By Ed Lion
Warsaw Ghetto: At its height, the Nazis walled in some 500,000 Jews within the1.3 square mile area.
While police officers face dangers every day on the job, Jews also face danger in their daily lives.
Carter developed a fondness for Arafat believing “they were both ordained to be peacemakers by God”
I'm grateful to Hashem for everything; Just the same, I'd love a joyous Yom Tov without aggravation.
Bereshit: Life includes hard choices that challenge our decisions, leaving lingering complications.
If Hamas is ISIS, the world asks, why didn’t Israel destroy it given justification and opportunity?
Rabbi Fohrman:" Great evils are often wrought by those who are blithely unaware of the power they wield."
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
The emphasis on choice, freedom and responsibility is a most distinctive features of Jewish thought.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. Zecharia 14:16 Sukkot is an unusual Jewish holiday in that it has a […]
I am sick and tired of this one way street boycott! Time to boycott all products developed or invented in the Palestinian controlled areas! Let's start with......umm....
That key is the disarming of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza – as the U.S., EU, and others agreed to in principle at the end of Operation Protective Edge.
We have no doubt there are those who deeply desire to present themselves as being of a gender that is not consistent with their anatomy, and we take no joy in the pain and embarrassment they suffer.
By Tibbi Singer
“This new sense that there are many Christians who want to hear what Jews have to say fits very well with a dormant Jewish feeling that we have a mission to say something but for a long time people weren’t interested in hearing what we have to say,” Hazony said.
By Tibbi Singer
Jewish schoolgirls were traumatized by official UK school inspectors who asked very inappropriate sex-related questions which you don't ask 9 year old religious girls.
Such an incredible miracle to have Israel, it's crazy that every Jew isn't clamoring to live here!
The effort to bring the Pattersons’ remains to Israel took three years and involved obtaining the approval of their grandson Alan, as well as the permission of a U.S. court.
By Marcy Oster and Ron Kampeas
"Ralph was an iconic and transformative figure who embodied the notion that all ‘Jews are responsible for one another’ throughout his long and extraordinary life,” said JDC's CEO, Alan Gill.
Does it not seem ironic that just on the day all of Israel is joyously celebrating another year of having concluded the public reading of the entire Pentateuch, we must mournfully and even tearfully commemorate the death of the individual who imparted to us God’s Torah in the first place?
By Steven Plaut
Why is "Palestine" worthier of "statehood recognition" than ISIS, another terrorist gang seeking it?
Living is Israel is costlier than in other countries but how will your kids grow up in the diaspora?
Dr. Salmaan Zarka has the honor of being appointed the first doctor from the Druze community to be appointed as head of an Israeli hospital.
On Tuesday morning, Israeli police arrested a Waqf guard on the Temple Mount for allegedly attacking and threatening a policeman.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Renowned Israeli cantor Binyamin Nakonechny and Malkah Fleisher in-studio with special Sukkot songs and stories. Listen in and get inspired!
Is UK support for Islamic State next?
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In a sukkah on a hilltop outside Jerusalem, 20 international parliamentarians gathered together at the Psagot winery on Sunday evening, October 12 as part of a solidarity trip to Israel with the Israel Allies Caucuses.
Jewish responses to the Klinghoffer opera range from Proud to Terrorist-humanizing to Meek.
We caught the United Nations in the act of an “unfortunate error.”
Slowly, very slowly and not so surely, perhaps the Temple Mount is returning to Jews.
He removed any doubts that the United Nations is a front for the United Anti-Israel Nations.
US is to blame for creating ISIS, Israel is to blame for Hamas, and it’s not even Halloween yet.
My difficulties persisted until I met a beggar outside a restaurant after Tisha B'Av 12 years ago.
The Torah emphasizes the joy of Sukkot, for after a season of labor, we celebrate our prosperity.
Saudi foreign minister called 'Iran part of the problem, not the solution' to Syrian conflict.
The U.S. has been flirting with Assad, and Iran for assistance against ISIS.
By Batya Medad
I'm more worried about the dangers of the Palestine virus than the Ebola one.
Turkey denies allowing US-led coalition forces to use its air base to launch strikes against ISIS.
There is no confirmation of the report that a French Jewish girl has joined ISIS.
By JTA
Two Penn State students who pleaded guilty to spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on a mostly Jewish fraternity house were sentenced to community service and probation. Eric Hyland, 20, was sentenced last week in Centre County Court to 200 hours of community service and two years’ probation, and was ordered to pay $6,000 restitution. Last month, Hayden […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday that Israeli is not an “occupier” and that Hamas is an enemy of peace. He added that the reason for Israel’s counter-terror Protective Edge campaign was Hamas rocket fire on the country. Regarding Ban’s concern over “provocations” on the Temple Mount, Netanyahu described the daily […]