The Gemara, in Kiddushin 57b, searches for a source to confirm that the bird that is to be set free is permitted to be eaten after the process is concluded.
If not now, then later, the Arabs will again prove they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Barkat discussed with the Congress members Jerusalem's status in the international arena, and asked them to ensure that Jerusalem stay unified.
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Israeli vandals slashed the tires of 40 cars and trucks and sprayed a hate message was sprayed on a wall in a Christian village near Safed (Tzfat) late Wednesday night or Thursday morning, the second attack apparently aimed at Christians in one week. The message sprayed on a wall of the Jish village read “Only […]
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Rivka Haut, a foremost advocate for agunot, Orthodox women who have been refused a religious divorce and also a founder of the Women of the Wall founder was buried this week after she succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 71. At the Women of the Wall prayer service on Tuesday, the worshipers recited […]
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A dozen Canadian border security officials raided the compound of the fringe Haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor Wednesday and arrested seven members believed to be in violation of immigration laws. Two families in the Lev Tahor community are at the center of an ongoing child custody case, including one family who fled to Guatemala, the […]
Terrorists in northern Gaza shot at an IDF patrol near the Gaza security fence early Thursday afternoon as attacks on soldiers become almost daily. No one was injured. The army maintains a small base on the outskirts of kibbutz, located in the Western Negev.
while each of us is an individual, we are also part of a larger unit
the observant individual has the seeds of self-discipline that can be applied to nonreligious endeavors
Our loved ones seem present though we can no longer see them or be with them, just as it is with God
Where do we find this "size of following" concept in the Torah?
American fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger visits at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City.
A sports broadcaster would have his hands full trying to keep up with Wednesday’s fast-paced frantic Peace Talks Game.
Shooting at Fort Hood, suspect at large.
“No I get by with a little help from my friends/Mm I get high with a little help from my friends” – the Beatles.
Unless this becomes law, a terrorist who aided in the U.S. hostage taking in Iran will get a U.S. visa
“Keeping Mr. Pollard on the bargaining table won’t salvage the talks.”
Wines to suit each personality type.
By Batya Medad
Rosh Chodesh Nissan commemorates the very first mitzvah.
So it always struck us as hypocritical that Israel was expected to release cold-blooded killers almost as a matter of habit while the U.S. balked at letting Pollard go.
One or more anti-Semites sent a package of suspicious white powder and a photograph of Nazis to the home of Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter on Wednesday. Security officials raised an emergency alert, and a bomb squad arrived to investigate. Officials concluded the powder was harmless baking powder. The photograph showed Nazi soldiers at a […]
The Department of Justice acknowledges that individuals can claim an exemption if they can demonstrate an adverse impact on their religious beliefs.
2015’s 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate will increase advances in Catholic-Jewish cooperation.
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Workers began demolishing a wall in Warsaw near the spot where Jews were gathered for transport to the Treblinka concentration camp, but a city official said it will be rebuilt and was torn down so trees and vegetation could be cut. The wall borders the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz […]
An unidentified gunman, possibly an Egyptian soldier, shot through the windshield of IDF jeep Wednesday evening, shattering glass that caused light injuries to one soldier during an Israeli maneuver to stop smugglers. The army said it could not identify the source of the rifle fire. Israeli soldiers at the border also came under fire on […]
With the new baseball season underway, The Jewish Press chatted with Zalta in his Flatbush home about some of his other memories.
Chemistry combined with Kabbalah reveals the 'peace process' will lead to forceful land concessions.
By Ben Sales
"He was like everyone else," she said. "He was serious. He wouldn't mess around. He would do what I said. He was quiet a lot and thought a lot. He did everything well."
Abbas is the number one candidate for Best Actor of the Year in the Worst Play of the Century
Dechner admitted funneling significant amounts of money to the defendants in order to move the Holyland project forward.
We now are in the season of advocacy of preschool, referring specifically to the education of children who are four years old.
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What do expect from a man who also wants a law that prohibits “promoting” homosexuality and grants citizenship embryos?
LAS VEGAS – The GOP Jewish faithful descended in force on Las Vegas, turning out in record numbers and striking a feisty, combative tone at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference.
Pro-Israel groups must broaden their coalitions and feature more pro-Israel minority speakers.
By Barry Shaw
Israel must assert its legitimate claim to the land or its credibility will be forever forfeited.
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A Russian Jewish group is preparing to open a kosher “Shachar Club” nightclub in the center of Moscow Saturday night, the Russia-language Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported. “Jewish youth in Moscow should have somewhere with an easy, relaxed atmosphere to hang out, discuss their identity, or just have fun,” a co-founder of the new club, […]
Another bust of a terrorist ring exposes deeper Islamic and Hamas' roots in Jerusalem.
He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, now Dan Schechtman wants to be president of Israel.
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The Atlanta Hawks toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum accompanied by the survivor mother-in-law of the NBA team’s owner, Bruce Levenson. Players and most of the coaching staff, along with Levenson and General Manager Danny Ferry, made the visit to the Washington museum. They were joined by Irene Boyarsky, 85, who spent time in a […]
The oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States was evacuated Tuesday night after New York firefighters discovered cracks in columns supporting the second floor. The structure was built in 1849 and was the home of Congregation Anshe Chesed before being bought in 1986 by the Spanish sculptor, Angel Orensanz. The center is an art […]
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“There is still a subset of Americans who are deeply infected with anti-Semitism.
The Saudi Arabian government a new law aimed at outlawing any activity loosely connected to terrorism -- or criticism of the government.
Al-Quds reporter outraged by precedent of releasing Pollard - guilty of espionage, but not murder.
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out their first nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses. Today we would call that BDS.
A Byzantine mosaic floor was uncovered during the construction of a new road.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai broadcasts from the 2014 Future Leaders of Israel Conference which recently wrapped up in Florida. Listen in to hear inspiring interviews with participants and presenters!
By Jack Bendheim and Sam Sutton
We are certain of this: advocacy is important, but it's nothing without champions in elected office.
Obama is increasingly out of touch with reality.
The State Dept. has systematically covered up the truth that the Palestinian Authority teaches incitement against Israel.
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Televangelist Pat Robertson said Jews are too busy “polishing diamonds” to do weekend chores. Conservative activist Rabbi Daniel Lapin appeared on the “700 Club” Monday with Robertson to discuss what makes Jews successful. “What is it about Jewish people that make them prosper financially? You almost never find Jews tinkering with their cars on the […]
Kerry and Abbas are making fools out of themselves.
The best weightlifters in the world will arrive for the championship, taking place in Tel Aviv April 5-12. The championship, will take place at a high school, and practices will take place in a see-through hall in the Tel Aviv Port. Both activities will be open to the public. This is the first time that the […]
The sacred flames of passion between the Jewish people and the Almighty expressed in Shir Ha-Shirim.
Can the US free Pollard if he refuses to attend his parole hearing, apparently a protest to being exchanged for terrorists?
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Kiryas Joel in upstate New York agreed to halt gender segregation at a public park in the Hasidic village. The decision announced Monday by Kiryas Joel, which is populated by Satmar Hasidim, settles a lawsuit filed in December by civil liberties groups, according to the Courthouse News Service. The Kinder Park was opened in April […]
Increased violence and attacks against Israel during March.
By Stella Paul
Multiculturalism rules at Vassar, with one exception: It’s edgy, it’s cool, it’s hip to hate Israel.
No one really believes it will happen this year, and it may not even be “kosher,” but there’s nothing like faith.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the matza bakery in Kfar Chabad on Tuesday, two weeks before the beginning of Passover. "At home, I have eaten this matza for years.” he said. “Today, for the first time, I am also preparing it myself. I am very excited. I wish the entire Jewish People a Happy Passover." […]
Israel’s collective stomach is wrenching over the prospect of massive concessions for Pollard and more “peace talks.”
Who knew Netanyahu also knows how to bake Matzahs?
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A Catholic monastery near Beit Shemesh was vandalized sometime before Tuesday morning with anti-American and anti-Christian epithets, and the tires of four vehicles also were slashed. “America is Nazi Germany” and “Price Tag — Peace Agreement,” as well as “Jesus is a monkey” and “Mary is a cow,” were spray painted on the walls of […]
Eilat residents woke this morning to two loud explosions in the air.
Women become victims of honor violence if their behavior is seen to cause shame or violate norms.
The traditional Arab-Muslim view of Jews is as an inferior dhimmi people, devoid of national rights.
I see less unity between religious factions than between religious Jews and secular Jews
The unity of the Jewish People and their tolerance for each other is of cosmic import.
Feel sorry for Pollard. He is doomed in jail but would feel doomed if freed in exchange for prisoners and “peace talks.”
The fact that Hamas and Gaza are two words that Kerry never mentions underscores his illusions.
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An Italian tourist tried to smuggle a piece of barbed wire from the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum out of Poland in his suitcase. The man was detained Sunday by border guards at the airport in Krakow. The tourist said he found the rusty piece of wire, which is nearly 16 inches long, on the ground. “During interrogation, […]
Steve Tisch, one of the most successful producers in the motion picture industry, will chair the 16th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival at Tel Aviv University May 31-June 7, 2014. Tisch is a partner at Escape Artists Productions and chairman of the New York Giants is the only person with both an Academy Award […]
By Steven Plaut
It's six K, five K, four K, Graft ! (Daylight come and da jail's his new home)
Palestinian Authority rock-throwing terrorists struck again Monday afternoon on Highway 60 Earlier in the day, Arabs on the southern section of Highway 60 between Gush Etzion and Kiryat-Arba-Hevron, hurled rocks at soldiers on patrol. No one was injured. Israeli soldiers continue to be under orders not to fire at terrorists who use rocks and boulders […]
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Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is preparing a film about the AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires. The Brazilian production company Prana Films will produce the movie based on the 1994 bombing attack on the center that left 85 dead and hundreds wounded. One venue will be the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este, […]
Kerry may force Israel to free more terrorist; the problem is he won’t take them with him when he leaves.
Too many Jews join in the herd sport of anti-Semitism, now permitted to them as anti-Israelism.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel's unemployment rates have been trending low over the past two years.
Israel Railways has received its first electric train, and will operate it on the new Jerusalem-Tel Aviv line which is under construction but has been delayed and now is scheduled to open in 2018. The electric trains will also operate on the line between Akko, north of Haifa, and Carmiel, east of Mediterranean Coast. Israel Railways […]
Abbas and the Arab leaders thumb their noses at U.S. conditions, instead they set their own.
Gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson, owner of the pro-Netanyahu Yisrael HaYom free newspaper, can move ahead with the purchase of the financially troubled Makor Rishon national religious newspaper, a Jerusalem court ruled Monday. The purchase will include the online website of the Maariv newspaper but not the newspaper itself, which has been on the brink of […]
The world so much wanted to believe that the fatal bomb blast at the PA office in Prague was accidental. Not so fast.
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Police in Malmo arrested two people who tried to break into a Jewish community building during a demonstration that featured anti-Semitic slogans. Five people gathered outside the Jewish community center in Malmo’s center on and tried to force their way inside past security, the Sydsvenskan regional daily newspaper reported. The intruders stopped at the gate, […]
There is no joy in having a former prime minister who is a crook, but at least the judicial system finally has nailed him.
The Jews who were ready to buy Second Temple history are no less guilty than the Arabs who stole and tried to sell it.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Moments ago a Tel Aviv court convicted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on an account of bribes he accepted.
Eight years after our attack, after having sent DoJ reams of material, our file was somehow empty.
I wonder if Netanyahu will have time for all those pictures he's going to have to be in.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Christian Zionist and Israel activist Brian Schrauger to talk about 'Christ at the Checkpoint' and the attempt to create an anti-Israel narrative in the Christian world.
Christie explained to Adelson that he does not believe Israel "occupies" Judea and Samaria.
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antiquities loaned to museum could not be seized for victims’ families because owners unknown