By JTA
Cantor can thank his defeat to a Tea Party candidate for leading him to more lucrative and stable career.
Hamas won the war in political terms, but that won’t stop Kerry.
A farmer in the (legal) Tikkun Olan Cannabis farm near Tzfat. This is one of their greenhouses. The company is licensed by Israel's Ministry of Health to grow, process and distribute the medicinal plant.
By Rachel Levy
Diplomatic relations with Israel are likely to remain in deep freeze for the next few years, Turkish PM Davutoglu signals.
By Rachel Levy
Events on the other side of Israel's northern border are heating up. The IDF is on high alert in the Golan Heights.
Germany and other western countries have begun providing weapons to Kurds in fight against the IS.
Sept. 1 is a spectacularly important day in Israel.
By JTA
BDS will be claim victory, but the truth is that a logistics would be a major factor if SodaStream leaves Maaleh Adumim.
By Zeev Ben-Yechiel / Tazpit News Agency
The body of 1st Sgt. Shachar Shalev was laid to rest this afternoon in the cemetery in Hipsin.
Palestinian Authority terrorists wounded a three-year-old girl and a bus driver in two separate rock throwing and firebombing attacks on Monday. Both victims suffered light injuries and were treated on the spot, without need for hospitalization. The girl was riding a bus in northern Jerusalem when the attackers smashed a glass window on the bus. […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“He was part hippie, part yippie, part beatnik, and part New Age,” – Elli Wohlgelernter in a Jerusalem Post eulogy in 1994.
Palestinian Authority manipulation of the media makes it impossible for peace between PA Arabs and Israelis.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“I know that you spent your vacation doing things not according to what you planned," the prime minister told students in southern Israel.
By Zeev Ben-Yechiel / Tazpit News Agency
Heavy fighting in Syria is overflowing into Israel.
By Zeev Ben-Yechiel / Tazpit News Agency
The recent war in Gaza is not expected to inflict any lasting damage on economic performance.
The price of self-service 95 octane gasoline in Israel dropped by a tiny bit -- one agora per liter -- at midnight on Sunday.
"I knew that being there would allow me to protect other soldiers.”
Home is Milwaukee where their congregation, Beth Jehudah, and community always await their return.
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler asks what could still possibly be on the negotiating table with the PA after a summer like we just had...
By Rachel Levy
Arab media claim the US is again pressuring Israel to restart final status talks with the Palestinian Authority.
If you had an important court date scheduled – one that would determine your financial future, or even your very life – you'd be sure to prepare for weeks beforehand. On Rosh Hashanah, each individual is judged on the merit of his deeds. Whether he will live out the year or not. Whether he will […]
Now everyone has easy access to the culture and all of its vices, both social and intellectual.
By Batya Medad
Connect the dots, please: All of these Muslim Arab terror organizations are connected.
By Rachel Levy
The Obama administration has sharply condemned the Israeli government's decision Sunday to designate a lot in Gush Etzion as state land.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore Israel off the beaten track, feel the conflict first hand, understand the security issues and politic realities, and have an unforgettable trip!
What is interesting is the latest reason the Arabs are rioting...
A mortar launched from Syria landed inside an Israeli agricultural area, close to 9am.
Assad and the rebels are fighting again for control over the crossing with Israel.
It doesn't matter how old you are, boys like their toys. In this case, the boy is Israeli President Ruby Rivlin sitting in a fighter jet in the Tel Nof Air Force base. Vrrmmmm, whoosh, boom...
Jews seeking to shame Netanyahu into enforcing the Apartheid Green Line so as not to anger the UNGA are shameful.
Lady Gaga once again defies the BDSers and will appear in Tel Aviv on Sept. 13.
It's only taken 12 years, but Jerusalem may once again have a Chief Rabbi...
The US embassy was taken over... so was the embassy's pool.
"...while Hamas has been weakened it has not been destroyed..."
The War projects to lower Israel's 2014 GDP 0.5% but will have little influence on foreign investors
Jewish Home leader blocks exhibition of dead bodies citing Jewish tradition to honor the dead; NIF objects.
By Paul Gherkin
Jewish donors bought and donated the greenhouses to the Palestinians.
It is in the nature of the Nations of the World to be hostile towards the Jewish People.
Cabinet holds special session in Ashkelon, faces criticism from local residents, officials over lack of aid package
By JTA
Mixing the Haredi Lev Tahor cult with a bunch of fiercely religious Roman Catholics is a recipe for dynamite.
For two-and-a-half years, residents of the Golan Heights understood that domestic interests in Syria would keep war away from them.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are actually fighting to "liberate Jerusalem and all Palestine."
The IAF shot down a drone from Syria...
The Israel Museum has a wonderful interactive exhibit called "Bamboo", or as the kids call it, "Bambuk". Made completely out of bamboo poles and rope, you can walk all over around it, all the way to the top of this multistory structure. Highly recommended.
4,000 dunams in G'vaot area declared state land, will open door for large construction project.
Sgt. Shahar Shalev, an IDF paratrooper who was critically wounded in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge, has died of his wounds. His death brings the number of Israeli casualties from Operation Protective Edge to 72. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
This week's podcast discusses the need for transparency in international business dealings.
By Shalom Bear
Burning ISIS flags is starting to go viral in Lebanon, but the Lebanese Justice Minister wants to make it illegal.
With Judeophobic attacks spiking around United Kingdom, local Jews say not enough done to enforce hate crime laws
Almost a month after being shot in Jerusalem by a terrorist, IDF soldier Chen Schwartz is going home...
The jihad network has snared teenagers in its web. One out of every six Frenchmen supports the ISIS.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Palestinian Authority terrorists set off a bomb at a bus stop in Samaria and threw two pipe bombs at passing Jewish drivers in Samaria on Sunday. No one was injured. Police sappers were called to the Rechalim Junction where the bomb exploded. They did not find any other explosive devices and still are searching for […]
What other country would allow legislators to openly declare their allegiance to another entity?
Israel is better off with a weak Hamas rather than a dead Hamas, for the time being, says Netanyahu.
Two mortars landed close to the Israel-Syrian border/cease-fire lines in the Eastern Golan Heights
By JTA
If Israel would just not exists, and if Jews would stop being Jewish, there would be no anti-Semitism in the world.
Doctors are hopeful but worried. Her daughter Melissa is an “emotional wreck.”
We wish him a speedy recovery and a lifetime of laryngitis.
The FIlipino UN troops were successfully extracted by Irish UN troops from the Syrian rebel siege.
Joan Rivers, 81, is in an induced coma following throat surgery on Thursday. Rivers suffered a heart attack during surgery.
What better proof do we need than the recent war with Hamas in Gaza, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge,” that transformed the pain and suffering of three families into a sense of unparalleled unity and outpouring of love of the entire nation of Israel?
“It isn’t the work,” said Eliezer. “I want to learn our holy Torah.”
So many families are mourning, and all along we mourned with them.
By Libi Astaire
In addition to his great erudition, Rabi Akiva was known for his optimism.
She told me that she was busy and that he could sit in his wet clothes for the rest of the day. It would teach him to be more careful.
What can we do to help him stop feeling so sad all the time?
Children with dyslexia or dysgraphia frequently have problems in social relationships.
Israel’s neighbors engaged in hostilities from the onset. The War of Independence was a hard-won battle. Aggression and enmity has followed for 66 years.
The inclusion program, in which children with special needs are in the same class as neurotypical (mainstream) peers, is, says Gansburg, the only Jewish program of its kind in Florida.
The contest will include student-created sculpture, computer graphic design, collage, videography, PowerPoint and painting.
David, an 8-year-old boy on the autism spectrum, recently attended a Friendship Circle event. As he entered he told his Dad, “I love coming to the FC programs ‘cause everyone loves each other.”
Goldsmith himself went on his own “voyage of discovery” to the places where his grandfather and uncle landed and were sent.
Frank proclaimed himself Zvi’s successor and the reincarnation of King David.
By Shalom Bear
With new neighbors along our Syrian border, we thought we'd check out what they're saying and what's going on...
You’re probably wondering why the greatest advocate of fast and easy preps in the kitchen is talking about layer cakes, right?
We wish a speedy recovery to Joan Rivers, the straight-shooting Jewish comedienne whose exact analysis of the war was, “Hamas started it.”
An IDF soldier who was critically injured last week by a rocket that hit Ashdod died from his wounds today. He is Israel's 71st casualty in the war. Sergeant Natanel Maman, 21, from Gan Yavne, an Ordnance Corps soldier, was critically injured by a rocket that hit Ashdod last Friday. He was promoted posthumously from […]
More than 200,000 Muslims live in Michigan. Fifty of them showed up for a protest against ISIS.
Sofer, who may have died from dehydration after falling in a ravine while hiking, is being buried in Beit Shemesh.
The Boycott Israel movement, so far, is more bark than bite.
The bad news is that ISIS and Al Qaeda are on the Syrian Golan. The good news is that every terrorist in Syria is killing each other.
By Donny Fuchs
The new “Begin Plan” is an impending nightmare, it rewards the Bedouins for brazen land-grabbing.
By Batya Medad
There is absolutely nothing for Israel's security in this American document.
By JTA
Netanyahu gets support from Congressmen on House Armed Services Committee
By Nachum Segal
The congregants, Ethiopians spanning generations, were beaming with joy and pride.
Some Chareidi entertainers thrilled the crowd on Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street with some Jewish entertainment.
The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip nine years ago did not enhance Israel’s security.
How does a soldier from a religious home fall in love with a soldier from a non- religious kibbutz?
Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal dashed any hopes of long-term peace with Israel in a speech in Qatar on Thursday in which he shot from the hip at Israel and also at his terrorist organization’s new partner, the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His lengthy speech in Qatar, which has […]
In 19th century entire ancient Jewish communities fled Palestine to escape brutal Muslim authorities
First, how could a beis din of 23 judges present a guilty verdict in a capital punishment case? After all, only a majority of the 23 judges ruled in favor of his verdict.
Of paramount importance is that both the king and his people realize that while he is the leader, he is still a subject of God.
By Rabbi Yaakov Klass and Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum
Untimely News ‘A Mourner Is Forbidden To Wear Shoes…’ (Mo’ed Katan 20b)