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A poll by the Knesset Channel released on Thursday confirms the trend of increased popularity for the Jewish Home party, headed by Naftali Bennett, and lesser support for Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. Unlike recent polls, strength in the Likud-Beiteinu party dropped a bit. Labor and Meretz gained backing at the expense of Yesh Atid, […]
With every word he spoke, I became more and more anxious.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
So long as every crisis was dealt with by Moses and miracles, the Israelite default response was complaint.
The difference between Hitler and Belgium legislator Laurent Louis is 80 years and a moustache.
By JTA
Travel to Israel sponsored by an affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has become an issue in the race for Nevada lieutenant governor. Sue Lowden, a former state senator, said her opponent in the Republican primary race, State Sen. Mark Hutchison, should have disclosed his 2013 trip to Israel with the American Israel […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported positive results in its Phase 2a trial of an oral insulin capsule produced by Israeli-based Oramed. The drug is for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. The Phase 2b study will be carried out later this year, and Oramed also plans a Phase 2a study for […]
The so-called French comedian Dieudonne is a suspect for money laundering after police raided his Paris home Tuesday and found more than $1 million in cash there and in a theatre he operates. If charged and convicted, his previous hate crimes, primarily anti-Semitic slurs against Jews, will seem like petty theft, and God willing, his […]
By Tibbi Singer
Here's Thomas L. Friedman at the 7th Annual International INSS Conference in Tel Aviv, on January 29, 2014. I'll bet you no one else there tied their sweater around their neck like this, because no one else there was living in 1982. From the Urban Dictionary: When a person decides to wear a sweater LOOSELY […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and ZOA's Joe Sabag discuss the current relationship between Israel and the United States including recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol, Barack Obama and the Arab leadership, and dealing with Iran.
The unrepentant murderer of two Israeli college students was praised, rewarded, employed and promoted.
Everyone who knows Rabbi Weiss can attest that he is a man of honesty and integrity.
For decades, it has been difficult to sort out the precise dividing lines between the varieties of Orthodoxy – Ultra, Haredi, Centrist, Modern, Liberal.
The parents, Shimon and Michal Gross have advised us how to proceed, and they didn't ask for revenge.
Question: What is the message behind the most famous statement of Jewish faith: “Shema Yisrael”?
Al Qaeda terrorists already have set up three bases in Turkey after having established a presence in Syria, IDF Intelligence Chief Maj.- Gen. Aviv Kochavi told a national security conference in Tel Aviv. "Syria is projecting its conflict to the whole region. Those blotches (on the map) in Turkey are no mistake by the graphic […]
Jibril Rajoub, a senior leader in the Fatah party headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, visited Iran Tuesday, the first time a PA official has traveled to the Islamic Republic in several years. He told Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Fatah “will not stop the resistance until the establishment of an […]
Favored to win his match, Lipsky fell in two tough sets to an Austrian-Romanian duo. After flying to the opposite side of the world, losing a first round match was not the best result.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran, which he called “our second home. The ayatollah in return “described the current brotherly and friendly relations between the two countries as unparalleled in recent centuries,” Iran’s official Press TV reported. Erdogan apparently has made another about face in his roller coaster policies […]
No one illustrates the posture of power of the United States of America more than John Kerry.
Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett personally apologized to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday night, dousing the flames of the political fire that threatened to spread out of control. The differences between the two over a future Palestinian Authority state were headlined on Tuesday when Bennett, referring to the Prime Minister‘s earlier statement that Jews could […]
The difference between Yair Netanyahu and Anthony Weiner and Hillary Clinton is that Israel is a Jewish state.
Both brothers who were in life-threatening condition from the same poison that killed their two younger sisters last week now are breathing on their own, doctors at Schneider Children’s Medical Center said Wednesday. Five-year-old Yitzchak woke up from from unconsciousness, but his seven-year-old brother Michael, remains sedated. Although their condition is better, doctors said they […]
By Jason Maoz
What really makes one wonder about the affinity felt by certain Jews for Grant was the welcome mat he put out for some of the country’s most pernicious anti-Semites.
There is an ever-widening schism among Modern Orthodox Jews.
The NPI ranks countries in terms of their ability to influence global events. The ranking is based on a statistical comparative analysis of a country’s economy, military, diplomacy, technology, and population.
The Times reported that American influence “has ebbed” following Syrian President Assad’s defiance of American demands that he step down and al Qaeda’s significant military successes in Iraq.
Recently dubbed “the greatest living figure of chassidic music” by NPR, Shenker still composes several new pieces every year. He is currently recording an album of some of his Haggadah compositions, which he hopes will be out before Pesach.
The head of IDF Intelligence said on Wednesday that enemy countries have 170,000 missiles ready to be fired on Israel, a threat that is worse than the Iranian nuclear program. The numbers have been known before the sum total was announced by Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi. It has been reported dozens of times […]
JERUSALEM – Amid a series of growing threats from al Qaeda-affiliated terror organizations in the region and freelance Palestinian and Islamic cyber militias trying to steal top-secret information from Israeli government websites, Israel’s military has beefed up its physical presence along the nation’s borders and increased cyber counter-intelligence operations.
The road back is paved with love, understanding, hugs, and honest communication.
By Atara Beck
“Israel Apartheid” lies disseminated by Arab-Israeli MK Ahmed Tibi were recently exposed by Israeli think tank Regavim.
The nationalist Legal Grounds organization in Israeli has applauded actress Scarlett Johansson for standing up for Israeli-based SodaStream and invited her to Israel as their guest “to see for herself the benefits that SodaStream and other Israeli companies based in Judea and Samaria provide to people of all religions and ethnicities.” SodaStream recently signed on […]
By dvora
“We stand at the gate of hell on earth,” MK Yariv Levin (Likud-Beiteinu) said. “The visit by a delegation of the parliament of an independent and strong Jewish state, together with survivors who were here, symbolizes Israel’s total commitment to the protection of the Jewish people.
By JTA
French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, husband of Jewish actress Natalie Portman, told an Israeli newspaper that he is converting to Judaism. Millepied told the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot that he is “in the middle of the conversion process.” He added that he hopes that the conversion process will “come to an end soon and I will become […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Legendary folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger, who died on Monday in New York City at the age of 94, left behind a complicated if not questionable legacy when it came to Israel. Famous for 1960s hits like “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” Seeger […]
Paul Piff, a social psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley.
By JTA
A new Jewish community was dedicated in the former East Berlin, in the footsteps of one destroyed by the Nazis. In an odd twist, the community has the same name as another Berlin congregation that is mired in legal limbo and debt after failing to prove it has any members. In Tuesday’s ceremonies at the […]
During one of his first biopsies, he apologized to the technician for crying out in pain, making his job more difficult.
The Palestinian Authority promotes terror as “resistance” and speaks the truth in inaction more than in words.
By JTA
Israel will be sending five athletes to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, starting next month. Evgeni Krasnopolski, 25, a Ukraine native who grew up in Israel, will skate in the pairs competition with Andrea Davidovich, 16, of Vermont. The pair, who train in Hackensack, N.J., finished seventh in the senior pairs competition at the […]
By JTA
Nazi-looted paintings recovered by the Allies platoon known as the Monuments Men will be sold at auction in New York. The four lots will go on the block at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday as part of a sale of Old Master paintings and sculpture. Some of the works were owned by the Rothschild […]
By JTA
President Obama in his State of the Union speech pledged to veto any new Iran sanctions. “Let me be clear: if this Congress sends me a new sanctions bill now that threatens to derail these talks, I will veto it,” he said Tuesday night. “For the sake of our national security, we must give diplomacy […]
By JTA
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli President Shimon Peres paid tribute to Edgar Bronfman at a public memorial service Tuesday night. More than 1,000 people, including top Jewish communal leaders and alumni of the Bronfman Youth Fellowship program, turned out for the service held at Lincoln Center in New York. Bronfman, who […]
The Nachum Segal Network drafts Lenny Solomon and Shlock Rock to kick off its new game day tradition.
The question remains: Does Wasserman Schultz oppose the current sanctions bill or not?
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about Prime Minster Netanyahu's non-Jewish girlfriend, Scarlett Johansson's pro-Israel product endorsement, and haters of Israel uniting to attempt to slander Johansson to perpetrate their hatred.
Knocking the holy Coca Cola and Pepsi earned SodaStream and Johansson publicity Fox News didn’t count on.
The Palestinians were unhappy with Kerry for being biased, now they are angry with Livni for daring to criticize Abbas.
There is probably a lot going on in the mind of a Baal Teshuva that is left unsaid - but ought to be.
By Meir Indor
By warning of a boycott, "Israel’s captains of industry" are actually encouraging one.
Bennett gets the headline, Abbas scores a point and Netanyahu has the last word.
The interim deal between the major world powers and Iran left the Islamic Republic “six weeks from a nuclear weapon,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv Tuesday night. He has previously said that the goal of should not just be to stop Iran from […]
As former pres. Morsi briefly appeared in court, terrorism continues unabated in Egypt
By JTA
The Anti-Defamation League has accepted the “heartfelt apology” from venture capitalist Thomas Perkins, who likened criticism of the wealthy to Kristallnacht. “We believe that Mr. Perkins now realizes why his Holocaust comparison was so offensive,” the ADL said in a statement after a long conversation Monday between Perkins and the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman. […]
Another “Let’s get Bibi” case has bit the dust. Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein has accepted the recommendations of the police and state prosecutors and will close the “Bibi Tours” case that raised suspicions that Netanyahu illegally pocketed money for trips when he a Knesset Member, The case arose after a Channel 10 reporter claimed that […]
The official Palestinian Authority daily last week, days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, published an op-ed demonizing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who it said has Nazi genes that he may have “acquired it genetically from the days of the Nazis and the Aryan race." The report, translated and published by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), […]
Land must be liberated from the "impurity of Zionism" and "Armed struggle" continues in 2014 -- pass it on...
SodaStream is believed to be the first Israeli firm to introduce a court case against the Palestinian lobby.
The Helmsley Charitable trust, which was bankrolled by the late hotel tycoon “Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley, has donated $25 million to Haifa University, which will use the funds for undersea robots and automated vehicles and undersea laboratories for its new Mediterranean Sea Research Center. Her name became more widely known for her including her […]
Israeli soldiers delayed the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah for the fourth time in a month on Tuesday, according to the PA’s official WAFA website. It did not say how long the convoy was delayed but only stated that the soldiers stopped the vehicles to inspect identification cards of Hamdallah’s security force. […]
If that Israeli wasn't in "occupied territory", would he still be a "dog" in Hamdallah's perception?
By Daniel Pipes
In general, the regions these days hosts unchanging, repetitious and dreary news.
Some people are assuming the intentions of these women are less than perfect, but that’s complete conjecture.
By JTA
Chile’s Palestine Football Club, after being fined for wearing uniforms on which the number one in players’ numbers in the backs of their shirts were represented by a map of Israel as Palestine, unveiled its new uniforms that now show exactly the same thing on the front of the shirt. Inset into the players’ numbers […]
SodaStream supports Palestinian Arab families every single day, a lot more than any leftist NGO.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
All of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount site were restored to Israel in 1967, but few want to acknowledge it.
In order to complete the task of eating the worm each time, Billy often coated the worms in ketchup.
I looks like European antisemitism is becoming more and more inventive.
Neturei Karta is shooting itself in the head with its anti-Zionist antics, and that might be all for the best.
It's a boom: some 100,000 housing units will replace military camps in the high-value center of Israel.
By JTA
Israel issued a passport for a baby born in Thailand to a same-sex couple using a surrogate mother. Twelve other babies born in Thailand will receive passports this week, Walla reported. The issuance of the passport comes several days after the families of 65 born or soon-to-be-born babies in Thailand to Israeli parents through surrogacy […]
By JTA
Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen, the top Obama administration official monitoring Iran sanctions compliance, will visit Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The Treasury Department announcement Monday casts this week’s visit in the context of making sure nations still comply with the main sanctions even as a number of sanctions have been removed while talks, known […]
By JTA
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said an article describing differences between the group and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was “inaccurate.” “I wanted to forward a statement issued by AIPAC National Board Member Ike Fisher after The Huffington Post released an inaccurate article regarding AIPAC and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” said an alert sent […]
Stewart Rahr, aka the "King of Fun," founder and CEO of Kinray and a self-made billionaire, is the guest of honor today, 11:45 AM at the dedication ceremony unveiling 12 life-saving ambucycles (estimated value $320,000) that he, together with friends and family, donated to United Hatzalah. The life saving ambucyles will be unveiled in a […]
The Ruderman Foundation Prize went to a global leader in extending rights to those with disabilities
By Moshe Herman
Yishai presents exclusive audio from the recent visit to Israel from delegates from Canada.
But the most painful part of an otherwise illuminating and extraordinary Forum was Iranian President Rouhani's speech.
The launching of the CyberSpark national cyber complex in Be’er Sheva this week prepares the way for what the “capital of the Negev” hopes will turn the city into Israel’s next Silicon Valley. Lockheed Martin and IBM formally announced that they will set up their research activities in the park, joining Deutsche Telekom and EMC. […]
Israeli security forces in 2013 foiled 40 attempted or planned attacks by terrorists who were freed by Israel in November 2011 for the return of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) reported Monday in its annual summary of terror. In addition, several attacks were carried out by other terrorists freed in […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli negotiator and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni are the only two people who still believe in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said in Tel Aviv Monday night. “The Israelis are the Palestinians are ambivalent towards their future and towards the […]
Maybe the crow and the seagull know something that most of us know but the pope won’t believe.
By JTA
A march through Paris against French President Francois Hollande ended with anti-Semitic chants and cries of support for an anti-Semitic comedian. At least 150 protesters were arrested in the “Day of Anger” demonstrations on Sunday, according to reports. Nineteen police officers were injured in clashes with protesters, one seriously, the French news agency AFP reported. […]
Jewish leaders may be taking a big risk by charging that refusing to free Pollard is a vendetta against US Jews
Israeli spokesman said “no comment” on reports from Lebanon that the Israeli Air Force bombed Syrian missiles destined for Hezbollah. Explosions were reported in the Syrian port city of Latakia, which previously has been targeted and presumably by Israel to prevent “game-changing” weapons from being smuggled into Lebaon for Hezbollah. Several Lebanese new sources as […]
A recently-discovered letter sent to Hitler in 1939 offered him 100,000 Palestine lira in exchange for allowing Jews to buy land in Gush Etzion and move to Israel. The proposal, which was sent in a letter dated April 9, 1939, but was not carried out. Researchers at the Kfar Etzion Museum found a copy of […]
SodaStream is getting great free publicity from Boycott Israel and now Fox News, which rejected its Super Bowl ad.
How to plan your finances without fear.
No one seems to remember that Netanyahu once won a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky.
By JTA
Dozens of lawmakers from Israel, the United States and Europe convened at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau for ceremonies commemorating its liberation 69 years ago. The largest foreign parliamentary delegation landed in Poland from Israel on Monday, Jan. 27 — the day that the United Nations in 2005 designated as International Holocaust Remembrance […]
"Our view on Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is absolute and non-negotiable."
Sometimes being left alone anywhere on the spectrum is isolating. Sometimes it’s incredibly painful.
Hackers attacked Israeli computers including one used by the defense ministry department dealing with civilians in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli data protection expert told Army Radio on Monday. "At the beginning of this month a number of mails were sent to a number of companies in Israel, including security organizations," Seculert cyber security […]
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