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Year: 2014

In Print / Editorial

Iran: How Did We Get To This Point?

By Editorial Board

Mr. Obama repeatedly assured those skeptical about the worth of negotiations that a military option remained on the table despite the continuing diplomatic efforts.

In Print / Editorial

The Ferguson Fallout

By Editorial Board

Are Rev. Sharpton and President Obama saying that no non-biased person could have come to the same conclusion as the grand jury?

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / Global / News Briefs / Islamists

Burka-Clad Terrorist Kills American Teacher in Abu Dhabi Mall

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The victim’s 11-year-old are being cared for by the police. A video shows the murderer’s escape.

Jewish

Back in St. Petersburg, Former Refusenik Encourages Jews To Emigrate

By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA

But Mendelevitch had another objective in returning to a place he says “brings back no good memories.”

Terrorism

Islamic State Slave Trade Reflects Disturbing Realities Of Muslim world

By Ksenia Svetlova

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.

Uncategorized

Swiss Art Museum Formally Agrees To Accept Gurlitt Collection

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.

Front Page

The Jewish Ethic Of Personal Responsibility

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

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.

Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Eli Yishai Receives Death Threats

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Most Israeli Jewish Teens Targeted by Online Anti-Semites

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 […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria

Update: Terror Attack in Rami Levy Supermarket

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Jewish / News Briefs

Fears Grow that Alan Gross Will Die in Jail in Cuba

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 […]

News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Knesset Finally Shows National Unity in 84-0 Vote for Elections

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Video of the Day

MEMRI TV on YouTube

By Video of the Day

We would love to show you a MEMRI video, but YouTube has terminated their account. Sorry.

Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Israeli Government Dissolved, Elections In March, Budgets Halted

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.

Parsha

Vayishlach: A Call for Violence/Teaching Jews Defense

By Rabbi Reuven Mann

Yaakov encountering Esav is the classic source in dealing with anti-Semites littering our history

Shiloh Musings

Jordan, Israeli Ally or Dangerous Enemy‏

By Batya Medad

Calling Jordan "Palestine" gives recognition to a faux people, their faux culture&fictional history

Redeeming Relevance / Rabbi Francis Nataf

Redeeming Relevance in the Weekly Parsha: Vayishlach

By Rabbi Francis Nataf

By the time Yaakov becomes Yisrael, however, his worldview has changed dramatically.

News Briefs / Ukraine

Accident at Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant

By Jewish Press News Desk

The accident happened at a 1000-megawatt reactor which plays a role in supplying electricity to the country.

Goldstein on Gelt

The True Meaning of Wealth

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

Doug talks with Steve Repak about the nature&meaning of wealth and how you can eliminate your debts.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Will This Be a Turning Point?

By Harry Maryles

Obviously, the better part of caution is to report credible reports of abuse directly to the police.

Op-Eds

Response to Jewish Action’s “Neo-Chassidus”

By Yonatan Gordon

You can be into modern things and learn Chassidus--this is most encouraged and welcomed.

Israel / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Hamas Claims Victory, Says Elections are Proof

By Jewish Press News Desk

As always, Hamas decides that freedom and democracy are for losers.

Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Election Date Set for March 17, 2015

By Jewish Press News Desk

Party faction leaders were actually able to sit together in a room and agree on something.

Terrorism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Media

YouTube Deletes MEMRI TV Channel

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Israel / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Media / Islamists / Pallywood

AP Disses 'Whistleblower' But a New Whistle Blows

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

AP protests to the contrary, another reporter said he was told AP reporters can't interview NGO-Monitor's Prof. Steinberg.

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Lebanon / ISIS

Lebanon Arrests Wife of ISIS 'Caliph'

By Rachel Levy

Lebanese Army Intelligence has arrested one of the wives of ISIS "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs / Intifada

Kotel Bus Firebombed

By Jewish Press News Desk

A firebomb was thrown at an Egged #1 (Kotel) bus near the Old City.

The Muqata / Israel Elections 5775

In Extreme Statement, Dov Lipman Calls Bayit Yehudi Extremists

By Jameel@Muqata

As the mud slinging continues...I guess the Yesh Atid party line is to brand everyone "an extremist."

Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

New Election Poll Released

By Jewish Press News Desk

The first poll released since the announcement of new elections.

Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

PM Netanyahu Addresses Nation on New Elections in Kickoff Campaign Speech

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Israel / News Briefs / China

China to Send Two Giant Pandas to Israel

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 […]

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Lapid Calls Netanyahu a ‘Failure, Irresponsible and Afraid’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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 […]

Israel / US / News Briefs

Pollard Turned Down Escape Plan, Says His Mossad Contact

By JTA

Pollard opted for asylum – and ended up in jail.

Sponsored Posts

Lawyers Called Upon to Use Their Legal Skills in Israel’s Defense

By Jewish Press Staff

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

Op-Eds / Analysis

Our (next) National Mission

By Joseph Cox

We must engage in ideological war: Our ideas must cross their borders, infiltrating their societies.

Op-Eds / Analysis

Addressing the Sinai: First Step for Israeli/ Moderate Arab Alliance

By Terence Rosenthal

Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan all have much to gain in fortifying Gaza's borders.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Education – the Key to Transitioning Out Poverty

By Harry Maryles

{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 […]

The Muqata / Israel Elections 5775

Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel are Going to Lose the Elections

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.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Shekel-Dollar Rate Soars to 3.96 on Election Talk

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Lapid and Netanyahu have unwittingly helped exports by creating a government crisis.

Shiloh Musings

Israel, New Elections?

By Batya Medad

Poll: Given the choice between Netanyahu as PM and the wannabes, Bibi got by far the most support.

Guest Blog

"From the Edge of the Heavens" by Rabbi Dr. Yosef Mendelevitch; A Review

By David Herman

One amazing story ends and immediately a new one begins. Like a string of pearls threaded expertly.

Op-Eds

The Nazis Are Coming, The Nazis Are Coming

By Tibbi Singer

The average Israeli is remarkably stupid and thick-headed when it comes to the sanctity of freedom of speech.

Judaism

Nazi Hunter Declares Eichmann Aide Alois Brunner Dead

By JTA

It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.

Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Turkey / Palestinian Authority / Islamists / Jordan / Intifada

Report: Jordan Muslim Brotherhood Arms, Funds Hamas in Judea & Samaria

By Rachel Levy

Some two dozen members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were arrested for smuggling arms and money into Judea and Samaria.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria

3 Arabs Arrested in Tzomet Alon Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Arabs are suspected of being involved in the attack on the 60-year-old Jewish man at Tzomet Alon (east of Migdalim) yesterday.

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt / ISIS

Egypt's ISIS Affiliate Claims American's Death

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

An American killed this summer in Egypt was apparently an ISIS victim.

Israel / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Holocaust

Israeli Border Police Celebrate Birthday with Holocaust Survivor in Jerusalem

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.

Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Knesset Buzz Says Elections in March

By Jewish Press News Desk

MKs are busy talking about potential dates for general elections.

Teens and Twenties

Therapy? Straight Talk For Teens

By Mindy Blumenfeld

Believe it or not, some schools actually have therapists or guidance counselors on staff.

Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Bayit Yehudi Sets Date for Primaries

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Bayit Yehudi party will be running primaries to elect the head of the party on January 5, 2015.

Marriage and Relationships

I Don't Like My Mother

By Dr. Yael Respler

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.

Parenting Our Children

Liar, Liar Pants On Fire: Why Do People Lie?

By Rifka Schonfeld

Once you understand why you are lying, you might be better able to tell the truth.

Features / Kosher Food News

Li-Lac Chocolates: “Once You Taste Fresh Chocolate You’ll Never Go Back...”

By Sandy Eller

Demetrious’ insistence on handmaking his chocolaty treasures with only the highest quality ingredients paid off in customer loyalty...

Features On The Jewish World

Victims Of Terror: A Family Caught In Terror

By Rhona Lewis

Keeping my hands on my head, I looked up to see four or five balls of fire exploding in the sky.

Terrorism / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs

Confirmed Report: Hamas Test Fired Rocket Towards the Sea

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF has confirmed to JewishPress.com that Hamas test fired a rocket into the sea on Monday afternoon.

Government / News Briefs / Business and Economy

First Reading: Government to Pay Suppliers: Net+30

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Arabs Riot in Beit Fajr

By Jewish Press News Desk

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.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Rebbe Smiled

By Harry Maryles

The Chilul HaShem of religious Jews-long beards&wearing religious garb-acting like inner-city thugs

Video of the Day

When Avner Netanyahu Won in Israel's International Bible Quiz

By Video of the Day

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.

Guest Blog

Yes to Tolerance -NO! to Those Who Wish Our Destruction

By Yehudit Tayar

Knesset members must be first and foremost loyal to the Jewish State of Israel

Photo of the Day

Just Like Normal Parents

By Photo of the Day

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!

Op-Eds

Israel and the Art of the Showdown

By Daniel Grynglas

Israel needs to bring about a showdown with its detractors, despite the reluctance of its leadership

Israel / News Briefs / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs

NGO Monitor Responds to AP Ban on NGO Monitor and Professor Steinberg

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.

Op-Eds

Activism through Torah

By Yonatan Gordon

Rav Ginsburgh, dean of Od Yosef Chai, has come out publicly against any form of price tag vandalism

FirstOneThrough

Pope Francis in Turkey

By Paul Gherkin

Contrasting its coverage of the pope's visit to Israel, the media chose to ignore problems in Turkey

Shiloh Musings

So Much Ignorance About Israel...

By Batya Medad

I heard Netanyahu state his aim was to run for PM as a Centrist, establishing a Centrist coalition

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Shekel-Dollar Rates Tops 3.91

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It has been a one-way trip for the shekel since July, when the rate was 13 percent lower.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Intifada

Update: Terrorist Neutralized after Stabbing Soldier at Gush Etzion

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

News Briefs / Europe / Aliyah / Geulah / Russia / Judaism

Yosef Mendelevitch Visits City Where He Was Prisoner of Zion

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Netanyahu’s Son Enlists as Intelligence Combat Soldier

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

He was a Bible Quiz winner in 2010. Now he is a Givati Brigade Soldier.

Jewish / News Briefs / Sports

Detroit Tigers' New Jewish Relief Pitcher Brings Team Closer to a Minyan

By JTA

The time has come for the Tigers to start looking for a rabbi and chazan.

News Briefs / Media / Judea & Samaria / Settlements / Intifada

Terrorists Firebomb Home in Beit El in Samaria

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

There are two news items here – the firebombing and the intentionally deaf and blind establishment media.

IDF & Security / Politics / News Briefs / Media

AP Banned Interviews with Non-Anti-Israel Professor

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

AP banned its reporters from quoting pro-Israel Professor Gerald Steinberg and his NGO-Monitor regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Photo of the Day

The Prime Ministers

By Photo of the Day

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.

Video of the Day

Star Wars - The Force Awakens

By Video of the Day

What's Jewish about Star Wars? J.J.Abrams, Harrison Ford, Yoda... Good enough excuse to include the new Star Wars teaser.

Op-Eds / Analysis

Israel's Defiant Economic growth

By Yoram Ettinger

Assuming that Israel's economic growth depends on the conclusion of peace accords is inaccurate.

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5775

Either Bibi Wants Elections or Livni and Lapid Want Political Suicide

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Netanyahu, who once scored a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky, has everyone in check.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Jewish Watchdog Group Sues Romanian Mayor for Hitler Hairdo in 2009

By JTA

He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?

FirstOneThrough

The United Nations and Holy Sites in the Holy Land

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 […]

Shiloh Musings

Israeli Left Wants Communist Dictatorship‏

By Batya Medad

Isaac Herzog, Leftist Labor Party leader, goes for the popular headline which ignore reality.

Op-Eds

Let's Recognize the Right to Self-Determination

By Steven Plaut

What is the appropriate Israeli response when European countries recognize the "State of Palestine"?

Emes Ve-Emunah

Expressing Gratitude on Thanksgiving

By Harry Maryles

My Rebbe, Rav Ahron Soloveichik, permits celebrating the day with a festive family turkey dinner.

Goldstein on Gelt

BitLit, E-books, and the Reading Revolution

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

How can you turn your physical books into E-books?

Daughters of Zion

Western Media Ignores Jordanian Police Murdering Palestinian Teenager

By Rachel Avraham

In Jordan,Palestinians are discriminated in every field: education; healthcare; employment; business

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Serials

Persuaded - Chapter IV

By Barbara Bensoussan

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