Mr. Obama repeatedly assured those skeptical about the worth of negotiations that a military option remained on the table despite the continuing diplomatic efforts.
Are Rev. Sharpton and President Obama saying that no non-biased person could have come to the same conclusion as the grand jury?
The victim’s 11-year-old are being cared for by the police. A video shows the murderer’s escape.
But Mendelevitch had another objective in returning to a place he says “brings back no good memories.”
A horrific video shared on social media shows members of Islamic State boasting about the slave girls that they had just bought or would soon be buying – and the response of many Internet users in Egypt and Jordan was very supportive.
By dvora
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder welcomed the museum’s decision to discover which pieces were looted by the Nazis and to work to restitute them.
The brilliance of Yaakov’s approach – and by extension, any type of individual or group effort – is that it appealed to three different modes of salvation.
Unlike normal MKs who receive death threats for their connection to the Temple Mount, Eli Yishai was threatened to be stabbed if he left the Shas party.
By JTA
It's not even safe to be thought you are Jewish these days.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nearly 83 percent of Jewish Israeli teenagers encounter online anti-Semitism, and more than 51 percent are targeted due to their nationality, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) In the same poll last year, 69 percent of Israeli teens reported being exposed to Web anti-Semitism, including 36 percent due to nationalistic […]
As Obama would say, they act like they are married.
On Wednesday afternoon around 4:30 PM, a terrorist entered the Rami Levy supermarket in the Mishor Adumim Industrial Park (near Maaleh Adumim) and began to stab shoppers. An off-duty guard, who work in the Prime Minister's office, who was shopping in the branch shot the terrorist in the leg and saved the day. Two men […]
By JTA
American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross completed his fifth year in prison in Cuba on Tuesday, one-third of a 15-year prison term for “crimes against the state, and his wife fears he will not survive much longer. Gross, 65, of Potomac, Md., was leaving Cuba when he was arrested in December 2009 for setting up Internet access […]
Wednesday’s Knesset unanimous vote on the first reading of the bill to go to elections gives Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a national unity government on at least one issue. He need not gloat because most of the country would prefer that the Knesset Members fight it out by themselves instead of wasting $500 million and […]
We would love to show you a MEMRI video, but YouTube has terminated their account. Sorry.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
One of the side effects of going to early elections is that all budgets are frozen at 2014 levels of spending.
Yaakov encountering Esav is the classic source in dealing with anti-Semites littering our history
By Batya Medad
Calling Jordan "Palestine" gives recognition to a faux people, their faux culture&fictional history
By the time Yaakov becomes Yisrael, however, his worldview has changed dramatically.
The accident happened at a 1000-megawatt reactor which plays a role in supplying electricity to the country.
Doug talks with Steve Repak about the nature&meaning of wealth and how you can eliminate your debts.
Obviously, the better part of caution is to report credible reports of abuse directly to the police.
You can be into modern things and learn Chassidus--this is most encouraged and welcomed.
As always, Hamas decides that freedom and democracy are for losers.
Party faction leaders were actually able to sit together in a room and agree on something.
MEMRI translates and exposes hate content from mainstream Arabic and Islamic terrorist group media outlets, which would otherwise go unnoticed by the non-Arabic speaking public.
AP protests to the contrary, another reporter said he was told AP reporters can't interview NGO-Monitor's Prof. Steinberg.
By Rachel Levy
Lebanese Army Intelligence has arrested one of the wives of ISIS "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“Lapid and Livni worked as the Opposition within the government.”
A firebomb was thrown at an Egged #1 (Kotel) bus near the Old City.
As the mud slinging continues...I guess the Yesh Atid party line is to brand everyone "an extremist."
The first poll released since the announcement of new elections.
Netanyahu laid the blame for new elections squarely on Lapid and Livni and the fact that the Likud did not have enough mandates to govern unhindered.
By JTA
The Chinese government has agreed to send two giant pandas to the Haifa Zoo if Chinese panda experts agree that the conditions there will be appropriate for the animals, according to Haaretz. The conditions include providing the appropriate food, a certain kind of bamboo, and the zoo must also build a special habitat for the […]
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, who until an hour ago was Finance Minister before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu fired him, called said the Prime Minister has failed as a leader. Shooting the opening gun and setting the tone in what is going to be a nasty, bitter and ugly election campaign, Lapid called Prime Minister […]
The family is donating his organs to those in need.
By JTA
Pollard opted for asylum – and ended up in jail.
"I will not tolerate this opposition from within."
Learn about the up to the minute human rights and legal challenges facing Israel, while networking with other likeminded professionals and earning CLE credits in your jurisdictions – all at the same time
By Joseph Cox
We must engage in ideological war: Our ideas must cross their borders, infiltrating their societies.
By Kosher Today
Coffee for five shekels a cup not available.
Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan all have much to gain in fortifying Gaza's borders.
{Originally posted on author's website, Emes Ve-Emunah} It seems so simple to me. So Logical. It makes so much sense. And yet it seems that logic is thrown out the window when it comes to the ways in which Charedi leaders in Israel view it. The ‘it’ I’m talking about is economically integrating itself productively […]
By JoeSettler
If Bennett and Ariel split the party, Bayit Yehudi votes will go to the only party fielding a strong, stable religious bloc... the Likud.
Lapid and Netanyahu have unwittingly helped exports by creating a government crisis.
By Paul Gherkin
A Sad and Sick SATIRE of satanic sadism
By Batya Medad
Poll: Given the choice between Netanyahu as PM and the wannabes, Bibi got by far the most support.
By David Herman
One amazing story ends and immediately a new one begins. Like a string of pearls threaded expertly.
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
By Tibbi Singer
The average Israeli is remarkably stupid and thick-headed when it comes to the sanctity of freedom of speech.
By JTA
It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.
By Rachel Levy
Some two dozen members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were arrested for smuggling arms and money into Judea and Samaria.
The Arabs are suspected of being involved in the attack on the 60-year-old Jewish man at Tzomet Alon (east of Migdalim) yesterday.
An American killed this summer in Egypt was apparently an ISIS victim.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
As part of a joint Yad Vashem project, Israeli border police stationed in Jerusalem ‘adopt’ Holocaust survivors living in neighborhoods across the capital.
MKs are busy talking about potential dates for general elections.
Believe it or not, some schools actually have therapists or guidance counselors on staff.
The Bayit Yehudi party will be running primaries to elect the head of the party on January 5, 2015.
My mother thinks of herself as a superior person, has very little feelings for other people, and probably suffers from a deep lack of self-esteem.
Once you understand why you are lying, you might be better able to tell the truth.
By Sandy Eller
Demetrious’ insistence on handmaking his chocolaty treasures with only the highest quality ingredients paid off in customer loyalty...
By Rhona Lewis
Keeping my hands on my head, I looked up to see four or five balls of fire exploding in the sky.
The IDF has confirmed to JewishPress.com that Hamas test fired a rocket into the sea on Monday afternoon.
The Knesset's Economic Committee passed its first reading on a proposal which would require government organizations to pay suppliers based on terms of Net+30.
Israeli security forces entered the town of Beit Fajr in Gush Etzion to arrest the father of the Monday's Tzomet HaGush terrorist. Arab media identified the female terrorist as a member of the Fatah terrorist group, and was previously arrested. Beit Fajr residents rioted when security forces entered the town to make the arrest.
Police suspect it was possibly a terror attack.
The Chilul HaShem of religious Jews-long beards&wearing religious garb-acting like inner-city thugs
Four years ago, Avner Netanyahu, the son of the Prime Minister, won third place in the International Bible Quiz. Today Avner was drafted into a combat unit. Here are clips from the Bible Quiz video from 4 years ago.
Knesset members must be first and foremost loyal to the Jewish State of Israel
They may be the Prime Minister of Israel and his wife, but today they were just like every other normal Israeli parent sending their son (Avner) off to the army for the draft. Bahatzlacha!
Israel needs to bring about a showdown with its detractors, despite the reluctance of its leadership
By NGO Monitor
“Matti Friedman’s revelations regarding the efforts to censor NGO Monitor and me as its president are not entirely surprising,” said Professor Gerald Steinberg.
Rav Ginsburgh, dean of Od Yosef Chai, has come out publicly against any form of price tag vandalism
By Paul Gherkin
Contrasting its coverage of the pope's visit to Israel, the media chose to ignore problems in Turkey
By Batya Medad
I heard Netanyahu state his aim was to run for PM as a Centrist, establishing a Centrist coalition
It has been a one-way trip for the shekel since July, when the rate was 13 percent lower.
A female terrorist was shot and seriously wounded Monday morning after stabbing a soldier at the bus stop at the Gush Etzion Junction, just south of Jerusalem on Monday morning.
Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) in St. Petersburg this weekend. St. Petersburg claims the second largest Jewish community in Russia today with about […]
He was a Bible Quiz winner in 2010. Now he is a Givati Brigade Soldier.
By JTA
The time has come for the Tigers to start looking for a rabbi and chazan.
There are two news items here – the firebombing and the intentionally deaf and blind establishment media.
AP banned its reporters from quoting pro-Israel Professor Gerald Steinberg and his NGO-Monitor regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in the office of late Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion, following a memorial ceremony for Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, in Sde Boker, southern Israel, November 27, 2014.
What's Jewish about Star Wars? J.J.Abrams, Harrison Ford, Yoda... Good enough excuse to include the new Star Wars teaser.
Assuming that Israel's economic growth depends on the conclusion of peace accords is inaccurate.
Netanyahu, who once scored a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky, has everyone in check.
By JTA
He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted on author's site, FirstOneThrough} The United Nations is inconsistent regarding its position on the “character”, “access” and “rights” of holy sites in the Holy Land across the Green Line. In 2010, UNESCO published a paper highly critical of Israel regarding its treatment of two holy places in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank: the Tomb of […]
By Batya Medad
Isaac Herzog, Leftist Labor Party leader, goes for the popular headline which ignore reality.
Israel gets a mensch for Chief of Staff along with a Yiddishe Mama.
By Steven Plaut
What is the appropriate Israeli response when European countries recognize the "State of Palestine"?
My Rebbe, Rav Ahron Soloveichik, permits celebrating the day with a festive family turkey dinner.
How can you turn your physical books into E-books?
In Jordan,Palestinians are discriminated in every field: education; healthcare; employment; business