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By Howard Zik
The idea of a personal God implies the notion that God is more than just the sum total of the physical universe.
How did smugglers of arms to Iran escaped the law for 10 years. How could Israeli Jews even think of helping the enemy?
By Dov Shurin
I hollered over and over again, waving a clinched fist toward the heavens.
Speaking in his native German, Schulz used the opportunity to blast Israel.
The young man could not go through with the marriage.
President Shimon Peres will confer the Presidential Medal of Distinction on German Chancellor Angela Merkel next Tuesday for “her unwavering commitment to Israel's security and the fight against anti-Semitism.” His office stated Thursday, The medal, the highest civilian award in Israel and comparable to the Legion of Honor of France and the Order of Canada, […]
By JTA
The agenda for thousands of American Israel Public Affairs Committee activists who will meet with lawmakers next month includes Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Israeli-Palestinian talks. “From March 2-4, more than ten thousand AIPAC activists will be in Washington for our annual policy conference,” according to an email the group sent this week to lawmakers. The […]
By JTA
Several Muslim families currently residing in North Africa are candidates for receiving Spanish citizenship.
By JTA
The websites of the casino operation owned by Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson went back online, a week after they were hacked by unidentified vandals who criticized his support for Israel. The hackers on Feb. 11 took over the home page of websites run by the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino operator, which […]
By JTA
A Buenos Aires city court is requiring a vendor of Nazi souvenirs and symbols to perform community service and take a course about the Holocaust. City prosecutor Gustavo Galante collected evidence in the case with the help of the Anti-Discriminatory Division of the Federal Police. The seller, who has not been publicly named, sold Nazi […]
Vassar's Jewish Union couldn't bear to bar Israel-haters from its "open and welcoming space!"
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Elie Pieprz, Director of External Affairs at the Council for Judea and Samaria discuss the use of humor and media to combat John Kerry's attempt to force two states.
Mandela's grandsons are heirs to a lofty legacy, but ignorance about other cultures is problematic.
Friedman has been writing the same column for decades in which he asks Israelis whether they will leave the "West Bank."
Amalek tries to convince us there is no hashgacha in this world – that Hashem is not involved and doesn’t care about us.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Is it not ironic that the renewal of a decades-old Jewish town is considered an "illegal settlement" on "occupied territory"?
A Knesset committee headed by Jewish Home Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked approved on Wednesday a bill that would put Haredi draft dodgers in jail but which also has galvanized Haredi leaders to prepare for all-out war. The bill faced an immediate challenge by MK Shaked's party colleague Moti Yogev, who called on the committee to […]
Israel’s new position of being energy self-sufficient is merging with Jordan’s more dependent on Jerusalem.
Israel has begun sending illegal African infiltrators to Uganda, the country the Theodore Herzl once imagined more than a century ago would be the home of a Jewish state. Activists who encourage the infiltrators to demand remaining in Israel have argued that sending them to Uganda does not mean that they will be allowed to […]
For the first time in a year, Moshe Feiglin was allowed to go up to the Temple Mount and pray.
The Obama administration is taking off its mask from its being the negotiator for the Palestinian Authority.
Last month, after the Israeli government published plans for new construction, the State Department promptly repeated its longstanding refrain that the settlements were “illegitimate” and that “It is never helpful to have steps taken that are not conducive to our efforts to move forward on peace.”
According to the MDA spokesperson, a baby was injured after being hit in the head with a glass marble that was shot at a group of tourists near the Kotel.
While the thrust of the proposed law is easily understandable, there is a problem as well. The current draft requires claimants to prove malicious intent on the part of the present holder of the property, which some legal authorities say would be extremely difficult.
Arab rock-throwing terrorists attacked dozens of cars in western Samaria Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage but no injuries. The attackers fled the area when soldiers arrived at the scene on the road to Hashmonim, located between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and near the city of Modi’in. Soldiers so far have not nabbed the attackers.
Economics 101 teaches that “money is money because it is money,” but a bitcoin may not always be a bitcoin.
The kosher section at Winn-Dixie’s Boca Raton store is larger than that of many kosher-only supermarkets.
“What ought to be the goal of these negotiations [with Iran]? It’s not merely to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons…. It’s to prevent Iran from having the capability of manufacturing nuclear weapons. That is different,” Netanyahu said.
The Newport Touro synagogue was never officially named "Touro" – the community called itself Yeshuat Yisrael. By the mid-19th century, however, the Newport synagogue was recognized, though never formally, as the Touro Synagogue.
Of the 5,790 bias incidents in the U.S. in 2012 recorded by the FBI, 19 percent were motivated by religious bias, compared to 48 percent by racial bias and 20 percent by sexual-orientation bias, according to the bureau.
By JTA
Haredi Orthodox yeshiva students will face criminal charges for dodging the draft under a proposed law, after the intervention of the prime minister, Israeli media has reported. Under the proposed military draft law, the Haredi men would be criminally charged for evading the draft, but the penalties would not go into effect until 2017, according […]
Official statistics on aliyah to Israel from the United States have been corrected to show that there was only a tiny change for the worse in the past year from the number of new immigrants in 2012. The Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency issued a report in late December that […]
If we cannot see what is happening, it seems likely that we simply do not want it to be happening. But apparently not enough to try to stop it from happening.
By Batya Medad
Other people and religions also want the benefit of the "local call" to God.
Visitors to Israel will be able to use their foreign driving licenses for one year from their last time of entry if they have been outside of Israel for at least three months. Knesset Economics Committee on Monday corrected a contradiction in regulations to remove doubt on the validity of foreign licenses, and the changes […]
Gordon d’Angelo, author of the bestseller Vision: Your Pathway to Victory
Nate Silver adapted the theorem into his "Bayesian convergence," the method of dispelling myths and opposing opinions as evidence.
Rabbis and the Yesha Council are blowing a chance to prove that they are true nationalists and not country bumpkins.
By JTA
American Jewish organizations are going to bat for ObamaCare and are using social media to reach as many people as possible in an effort to convince them to sign up for health care under the Affordable Care Act. During Tuesday’s Jewish Community Day led by the left-leaning National Council of Jewish Women, or NCJW, Jewish […]
President Shimon Peres categorically rejected on Wednesday any suggestion, as reported here, that he would agree to extend his five-year term of office if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were to ask him to do so. The Prime Minister reportedly wants Peres to serve an extra year in order to give the Knesset time to enact […]
Cathmaps+ emailed us this announcement via their PR firm: Following the release we sent to you last week about Cathmaps+, the Israeli company that created the world’s first mobile app to help cardiac patients manage elevated risk, we wanted to updated you that in celebration of its launch last week in the United States and […]
By JTA
The White House is hiring Robert Malley, whose past writings on the Middle East have stirred controversy, as a senior member of the National Security Council. NSC officials confirmed Malley’s appointment on Tuesday to The New York Times. His area will be the Middle East. Malley disassociated himself from the Obama campaign in 2008 because […]
If you look like someone they wouldn't invite into their home, they won't invite you into their car.
Knife-wielding and loving former SFSU student still wants to kill Jews, and is presumably still in Bay area
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about rain in Israel, the price of produce around the world, and keeping Israel Jewish.
It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.
The United States and United Nations once again have showed their weakness and have failed to prevent violence in Ukraine.
The idea of same sex marriage didn't win at the ballot box, the marketing strategy developed by leftist social psychologists did.
We've become very good at symptom management and at not thinking about the underlying problem.
All four bodies were found bearing several stab wounds and other signs of extreme violence.
One is remembered for his mitzvahs and good deeds, and Rabbi “Heritage House’ Schuster will be remembered forever.
Shimon Peres, even at the age of 90, cannot get rid of his Polish-rooted Jewish ghetto mentality.
A senior Hungarian rabbi said Tuesday he has found 103 Torah scrolls that were stolen from Hungarian Jews in World War II and hidden in a Russian library in Novgorod, east of Moscow. Russia has not decided what to do with the holy scrolls, which Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation Chief Rabbi Shlomo Koves wants to […]
When a Muslim won’t look at a woman, it is called respect. When a Jew won’t shake her hand, it is called sexism.
Two mortar shells exploded in open areas in the central Golan Heights Tuesday afternoon, shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his entourage left the area following a visit. No one was injured, and no damage was reported. It is not known if Syrian soldiers or rebels were the source of the mortar fire and […]
Arab gas stations in Judea and Samaria have refused to fill tanks of Palestinian Authority security vehicles because of six months of unpaid bills, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The accumulated bill for unpaid fuel now stands at nearly $16 million, according to an official of the union of gas station owners, The […]
By Shadi Paveh
Shahabi has been ordered to pay an extortionate fine of 70 million Rials (US$5,700) or his release date will be delayed by two years.
The Golan Heights “divides the good from the bad,” meaning Iran, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday during a visit to the region along with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz. "On the day when talks between the major powers and Iran are being opened in Vienna, it is […]
Egyptian authorities said Tuesday they have charged two alleged Israeli Mossad intelligence agents and two Egyptians with plotting to spot on behalf of Israel by gathering information with "the intent of damaging national interests in exchange for money and gifts and sex." Egypt’s public prosecutor identified the Israelis as Samuel Ben Ze'ev and David Wisemen, […]
By Batya Medad
I finally realized/accepted/admitted that my weight had gone up a bit.
Of course the young men in Yeshivos get the same kind of Mussar, but they hardly have any time to act on it.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It could be Vogue or Elle. But it’s Hadar Magazine. In English, “hadar” means “glorious.”
By Paula Stern
The smell may be gone, but the air remains poisoned by the hatred.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"In many cases, perpetrators are ‘shipped’ to different communities instead of being dealt with.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The site reached the peak of its development in the Hellenistic period (3rd century BCE).
By David Morris
As if there was not enough drama in the re-called contentious Beit Shemesh municipal elections!
By JTA
Swastikas and other hate graffiti were painted on buildings throughout the French city of Toulouse. Sunday night’s vandalism, which also included far-right symbols, struck an LBGT center, a university and cemetery, and the offices of left-wing candidates in elections next month, according to Radio France International. Police have not identified any suspects. The graffiti attacked […]
By JTA
The chairman of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on the Middle East urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cooperate with John Kerry in advancing Middle East peace. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is touring the Middle East with Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), and met Sunday with Netanyahu and his defense minister, Moshe Yaalon. The senators also […]
By JTA
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, described how the Jewish youth movement BBYO helped to shape her. Sandberg, also the author of the best-seller “Lean In” on empowering women in the workplace, spoke in a video message to the annual BBYO conference in Dallas over the weekend. She said her experience in the organization […]
By JTA
Jewish religious leaders are part of an Argentine delegation following the path that Pope Francis will take on his scheduled May visit to the Middle East. The 45-member delegation of businesspeople, politicians and interfaith leaders is leaving Argentina on Tuesday for its trip to Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan. The group is scheduled to […]
By JTA
A bill that would allow more rabbis to conduct conversions in Israel advanced in the Knesset. The coalition government-backed bill passed its first reading by a vote of 28 to 16 in the Knesset plenum on Monday night. Under the measure, as many as 30 courts made up of municipal rabbis would be allowed for […]
By JTA
Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, cited the lateness of American actions against the Nazis in critiquing President Obama’s foreign policy. In a speech Monday to the Virginia Military Institute, Cantor (R-Va.), who is Jewish, described leading a congressional delegation recently to Auschwitz to mark the 69th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s liberation. […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Ben Bresky interview iconic singer songwriter Ariel Zilberg about his career and life.
American Jew Charlie White is first American to win Olympic gold as part of an ice skating pair.
"Ultimate Mission to Israel" promises a once in a lifetime exploration of the Jewish state's struggle for survival.
The reason young people like myself are leaving Modern Orthodoxy is that our education has succeeded beyond compare.
If you’re feeling down, stop reading right now. You’re only going to be more depressed.
The differences between the Boycott and Pro-Israel movement are that BDS is unified and is not crippled by competitors.
The fight for language is the fight for history. It is one in the same.
Netanyahu’s comments about the Boycott Israel movement is a sign he is seriously worried about its potential damage.
Gaza’s first personal security business has opened up, but its owner says terrorists will not be accepted as customers. “Secure Land” director Abdul Qader al-Arbid told the Chinese news agency Xinhua that clients will; include banks, hotels, celebrities and banks but not terrorists looking for protection from rival gangs. "We only work with the private […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will talk with Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Wednesday in his non-stop diplomatic assault to break the Palestinian Authority and Israel’s stated refusals to agree to American ideas for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority as a new country within Israel’s current borders. State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki said […]
By JTA
Kerry can like it or not, but sooner or later he has to deal with the issue of the Temple Mount.
The Palestinian Authority announced on Sunday that "the part that defines the religion of the Palestinian citizen has been erased” has been erased from identification cards. Hassan Olwi, a director in the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, told the Chinese news agency Xinhua that the decision was made a few days ago in accordance with PA law […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised Indonesia for its religious tolerance on Monday, six months after the last synagogue in the country was destroyed. “Yesterday, I had the privilege of going to the Istiqlal mosque,” Kerry said at a press conference during his visit. “And it’s my pleasure to not only say good morning […]
Haredi youth have no excuse to dodge the draft, unless they really don’t want to learn Torah.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Along with the much needed rain that drenched Israel this past weekend, Tel Aviv experienced a different kind of rain – chocolates galore – at the city’s annual Chocolate Festival. From chocolate shwarmas and kebabs, to chocolate jewelry, sculptures, and even a chocolate spa, the festival took place at the old train station in Yafo […]
By JTA
The first utility-scale solar power field in East Africa will be built on land belonging to a Jewish-sponsored youth village in Rwanda. The nearly $24 million project was announced Monday by Yosef Abramowitz, the president of Gigawatt Global Cooperatief, which arranged for its financing. Construction has already started on the solar field on land belonging […]
Netanyahu may have to follow Sharon and form a new party if he insists on selling out to the Kerry-Obama-Abbas trio.
Israel is an independent sovereign state, and it should not be treated as a banana republic.
By J. E. Dyer
It would be so catastrophic to not increase the debt ceiling that Senators must have the option of avoiding the people’s scrutiny.
By DovBear
This reduces the halachic process to an entirely ad hoc system.
By Batya Medad
To pass God's test, the Jewish People had to be independent of others and show faith in God.
By JTA
Greek authorities have intercepted arms shipments apparently sent by an unnamed Israeli and intended for Iran, in violation of international sanctions, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported. Greek officials, working together with the American Homeland Security Investigations agency, uncovered two shipments of spare parts for F4 Phantom jets in December 2012 and again in April 2013, […]
Israeli forces raided the Samaria Arab villages of Huwwara and Beita late Sunday after a fire bomb was thrown at an Israeli settler bus in the area, Ma'an reported. Witnesses told Ma'an that soldiers stormed the villages as flares were fired to light up the area. No arrests were reported.
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