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By JTA
The president of France’s main Jewish group has toned down his blanket condemnation of the quenelle gesture and said it is not necessarily anti-Semitic. Roger Cukierman of the CRIF umbrella group adjusted his position in a filmed interview published Tuesday on the website of the Le Figaro daily. Reacting to the decision that day by […]
Thousands of illegal Sudanese and Eritrean illegal infiltrators took their campaign to remain in Israel to 12 embassies in Tel Aviv Wednesday in a protest march. They accused Israel of not properly examining their claims they fled their native countries as refugees and not as people seeking a higher standard of living. Simultaneous protests are […]
By Ron Csillag
Since his election in 2006, the Conservative prime minister has been full-throated, unapologetic and seemingly indifferent to consequence in his support for Israel.
A new satirical new site called “PreOccupied Territory” features a Jewish and Israeli perspective on news around the world as seen by journalist David Swidler, who also is behind the blog “Mightier than the Pen.” His objective is to make the news more understandable through humor, something The Jewish Press does on a regular basis […]
This past autumn the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project released the findings of its survey of American Jews. “A Portrait of Jewish Americans” immediately won the attention of a good number of American Jews and became the focus of considerable media coverage.
JERUSALEM – Despite Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state and no apparent movement on key issues such as settlement construction, Secretary of State Kerry seems determined to issue a memorandum of understanding at a summit meeting scheduled for next week with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders in Aqaba.
Recently published photographs of people allegedly tortured by the regime of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad brought out the Nazi comparisons Wednesday by Syrian opposition leader Ahmed Jarba. Speaking to the Geneva II talks, he said, "The pictures of torture are unprecedented except in the Nazi camps during the Second World War.” The photos were provided […]
No one has a monopoly on the truth.
Van Susteren said that she had never before received a call to try and shut down a colleague.
Al Qaeda operates in Judea and Samaria through the Internet in Gaza.
It would make sense that an article about anticipation was itself anticipated!
David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene.
Police shot and killed two three protesters in violent clashes on Wednesday between stick-wielding demonstrators and security forces in Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. A third protester died after a fall. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov blamed the deaths on opposition leaders and claimed that the police did fire live bullets. The violence escalated after […]
This archaeological discovery will save Jews from living in homes built over the remains of a church.
Pirkei Avot teaches: 'who is wise? One who learns from all people.'
By JTA
New York City has dropped a lawsuit against Hasidic-owned stores that posted a dress code for shoppers. The New York City Human Rights Commission reached a settlement with the seven Hasidic-owned shops in a lawsuit the city had filed alleging that the stores’ posted dress codes implied gender and religious discrimination, according to the New […]
In reality, there were only 700,000 displaced Palestinians following Israel’s 1948 war of Independence.
By Chabad.org
Canadian Chabad rabbis accompanied Harper on his trip.
"That symbol on anyone's head is anti-Semitic," said Libby Schaaf. Her father was born Jewish and she is proud of her Jewish heritage.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about the Canadian delegation in Israel, MK Bennett's inspirational speech to the Knesset, and attending the Bar Mitzvah of the son of Rabbi Shmueley Boteach.
The IDF successfully targeted the PFLP terrorist who was responsible for rocket attacks during Sharon's funeral as well as other terrorist attacks.
You'd never know from UNESCO's "postponement" announcement that the exhibition was called off because of Arab pressure, rather than because the exhibition wasn't ready.
Israel should hire Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as its ambassador to the world.
Yiddish messages rooted in Jewish liturgy and Biblical texts encouraging Jews to make Aliyah.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A special monitoring system run by the University of Padova in Italy has been installed in the Tower of David heritage site as part of an international project that attempts to use technology to determine the structural weaknesses in an ancient edifice . The Tower of David is the tallest structure in the Old City […]
By JTA
Fliers hung in the Oakland, Calif., Montclair neighborhood of Jewish city councilwoman Libby Schaaf show a swastika drawn on her forehead. The fliers hung district represented by Schaaf read, “Stop Schaaf. Stop the DAC” (domain awareness center) — a reference to a city plan to build a combined surveillance center for police and firefighters. Schaaf, […]
Former CNN host Larry King and the Haifa-based Technion Institute are establishing the Israel Silicon Valley Chambers of Commerce to promote Israeli high tech and encourage multinational companies to open R&D centers in Israel. King will help finance the project with a $600,000 investment. The new chambers of commerce will be launched next month in […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will travel Wednesday to the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, where he will deliver an address under the heading "Israel – Innovation Nation,” with an emphasis on the cyber industry. He also will attend the IT session, in the presence of Cisco CEO John Chambers, and a cyber session that […]
Israelis forget that normal countries with normal police arrest abnormal hotheads.
The University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has given a suspended sentence of a one-year ouster to 11 students charged with disrupting a concert last march by Israeli-born pianist Yosef Reshef on the university campus. The students and other Muslims and BDS extremists broke into the auditorium and forced the cancellation of a performance the world-renowned […]
By JTA
More than 1,000 people have applied for new compensation of a one-time payment of $2,700 from Germany for labor performed in Amsterdam’s Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust. The compensation is offered to people who lived in three districts of the Dutch capital that served as ghettos for the city’s Jewish community during the German occupation […]
It’s all over but the shouting.
A Be'er Sheva court sentenced Tuesday sentenced Asher Dahan to life in prison for stabbing to death Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira, grandson of the revered Baba Sali, in July 2011. In a clear-cut version of “the Devil made me do it” defense, the 45-year-old murdered said he was angry at the rabbi for not advising him […]
“Price Tag’ vandals slashed tires on dozens of cars and destroyed trees in the Arab village of Kablan in Samaria Monday night, according to local villagers and the pro-Palestinian Authority Rabbis for Human Watch organization. Most of the damaged vehicles reportedly were in car repair garage, and graffiti was scrawled on a nearby wall with […]
By Barry Rubin
The interviewer responds, "There was also Balfour."
By JTA
Nearly 350 years after his wrongful execution, a French Jew who had been convicted of a blood libel was exonerated and declared a martyr. The village of Glatigny in the eastern district of Moselle set the record straight Sunday on the wrongful conviction of Raphael Levy in 1670 for murder. Levy, a simple merchant, was […]
By Batya Medad
When you have nothing to die for, you really don't have anything to live for.
Hezbollah is on the course of self-destruction but is bringing Lebanon down with it.
Orthodox Jews are free to teach Leviticus and we are free to deny any religious rights and privileges to anyone we so choose.
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Col. Adam Susman, head of the International Military Cooperation Department, landed in Brussels on Tuesday for the annual NATO Chiefs of Defense Meeting. Lt. Gen. Gantz will be meeting with fellow Chiefs of Staff from around the world as well as NATO official sand will take part in […]
"Zionism is based on racism, which carry the seeds of failure in itself."
"I don’t think my kids have any difficulties that are specific to the Israeli school system."
By Tibbi Singer
Israel will host the 2015 International Astronautical Federation conference.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai interviews Rabbi Ailon Meir about the wonderful experience he and his Yeshiva Torat Shraga students had on a special trip to the locations they learned about in their study of the Book of Joshua. Do not miss this moving close encounter with the Holy Land up close. TONIGHT THE YISHAI FLEISHER SHOW WILL BE […]
Tamerlan Tsarnaev joined up with terrorists near the area of Islamists looking to disrupt the Olympics.
Iran proves once again it cannot be trusted, but is anyone listening?
Like him or not, Netanyahu is a master of making mincemeat of Arabs MKs who heckled Prime Minister Harper.
When a person plays hard to get, the dynamic of the foundation that they are creating is that of acquisition.
Mohammed beheaded Mahuddin Mahmud making it a case of Mohammed on Mohammed violence.
Many of my critics ask me why I don’t focus on the problems in the Modern Orthodox community.
The post WW II era ushered in many new forms of idolatry, but none compares to the Idolatry of Peace.
Obama is placing all the pressure on 16 Senators from his own party rather than squarely on the Iranians.
New York City has another husband-and-wife team helping to run the city with the disclosure that Rikki Klieman, the wife of Police Chief Bill Bratton, plans to go to community meetings with him and will use her connections through her appearance on CBS as a legal analyst to his advantage. The husband and wife duo, […]
By JTA
British lawmaker David Ward has raised Jewish ire again for tweeting two days after the death of Ariel Sharon. “Sharon’s death makes you think. The brutal, genocidal treatment of Jews must never be forgotten but … the Palestinians were not responsible.” One tweet in response to Ward, by British Jewish gay rights activist Benjamin Cohen, […]
Israel advances its strategy of playing defense instead of offense.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and brethren may be able to blow up the “peace talks” with a bit more war.
Her husband took a big risk by marrying an American. Especially one who was Jewish. She was alone.
SAR High School in Riverdale, New York, is now allowing girls to wrap tefillin during Shacharit-morning prayer, probably the first Modern Orthodox high school in the U.S. to do so, reports The Boiling Point, the online student newspaper of Shalhevet High School in LA. Two girls were granted permission to wrap tefillin and wear a […]
By JTA
Romania supports in principle Israel’s demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish state but encourages compromises on this and other issues, Romanian President Traian Basescu said. Speaking to JTA at his presidential palace two days before an Israel visit that began Sunday, Basescu said that “if they [the Palestinians] want peace, they must […]
No confirmation of the alleged assault was reported by any news outlet other than Ma'an.
By JTA
Israel for once surrendered to public pressure for the right reason.
Kerry is whistling Dixie to think that everything that helps the Palestinian Authority helps Israel.
A Border Police officer shot and seriously wounded a suspected Palestinian Authority terrorist Monday afternoon near the Jewish community of Telem, located on the highway leading from Kiryat Arba-Hebron to Kiryat Gat and Beit Shemesh. The policeman spotted the suspect running towards the security control tower. The suspect ran away after warnings shots were fired […]
The United States has backed an ultimatum by Syrian opposition forces to rescind an invitation to Iran to joint the Geneva II peace talks scheduled for Wednesday unless Tehran publicly accepts that the conference will establish a political process to end the rule of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad. The peace talks appeared to be over before […]
By JTA
Hungarian Jewish leaders demanded the resignation of a key government appointee and threatened to boycott government-sponsored events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary. In an unusually strong statement posted Sunday on its website, the leadership of Mazsihisz, the official Hungarian Jewish umbrella organization, said they were “aghast and find incomprehensible” the “relativization […]
Canada’s constant support of Israel since Harper became Prime Minister is a rare example of intellectual honesty.
The Catholic Church was behind nearly two thousand years of antisemitism and murder of Jews.
By Janet Levy
Muslims & political influence in New Jersey.
Terrorists from Hamas-ruled Gaza attacked southern Israel again Sunday morning with two more rockets that exploded in open areas and caused no damage or injuries. Military officials said last week that Israel will not allow a return to the days of “tit-for-tat” retaliation, with Hamas and other terrorists launching a couple of rockets a day […]
By David Wilder
Seventeen years ago today, the ‘Hebron Accords were implemented.
A Jerusalem couple and their only child, a two-year-old boy, were killed in a gas explosion that also injured 14 others late Sunday night their apartment building in the Gilo neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. Police have arrested a gas technician had worked on the premises before the blast, and a Jerusalem court has remanded him […]
By Paula Stern
At one point the Dr. asked me if I was famous because of the blog...
A Crown Heights Shul was burglarized on Friday night and the thief made off with the silver crown of the Sefer Torah, tools, a guitar and other items of value, crownheights.info reported. The theft occurred in Chevra Ahavas Yisroel on Albany Avenue and Lincoln Place, and was discovered Shabbat Morning when the Shuls Rabbi, Rabbi Chezzi […]
Major General (res.) Meir Dagan, former chief of the Mossad, joined United Hatzalah’s international board of directors on Sunday afternoon. Dagan joined the organization in a ceremony held at United Hatzalah’s headquarters, where he also personally dedicated an ambucycle to United Hatzalah's fleet of more than 500. “It was a great pleasure and honor for […]
Hadassah New Zealand is planning to raise funds for the Rozana Project by participating in the March 2014 Jerusalem marathon and generating donations from sponsors in New Zealand and Israel, J-wire reported. Tali Dowek, the Director of Hadassah’s Department of Development, Donors & Events, said that since the launch of the Rozana Project, about 2 […]
By Shalom Bear
A new "Mehadrin" level Kashrut certification introduced by the Jerusalem Rabbinate is beginning to gain traction and save restaurants money.
By JTA
A bipartisan slate of 134 U.S. Congress members wrote a letter to the American Studies Association protesting its decision last month to boycott Israeli universities. “Academic cooperation can be an important tool to help foster peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but you have chosen the unproductive path of isolation,” said the letter dated Friday, initiated […]
Despite what some rabbis would tell you, there is no halachic law against women serving in the army.
The U.S. government is tacitly agreeing that the historical truth about the Jews and Israel is inimical to “peace.”
By Jeremy Rosen
There is a dichotomy between personal, private prayer and public communal prayer.
By Daniel Pipes
Oman will grant Iran a strategic location on a mountain overlooking the whole gulf region.
I’d like to share my own recent account of what I think it means to be an "open source idealist."
Once again, I am impressed by the level headed approach taken by a moderate Charedi.
ale of Israeli goods is a violation of Law 21 of 1964.
Two other air strikes in central and southern Gaza Strip left no reported injuries.
By Moshe Herman
Ariel Sharon's Complex Legacy Part 1 Ariel Sharon's Complex Legacy Part 2
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At about 11:00 PM last night, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Terrorist struck the Sdot Negev Regional Council. No injuries or damage were registered. In retaliation the Israel Air Force targeted two terror activity sites in the southern and the central Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, IDF […]
By JTA
On Friday night, 3 youths jumped and stabbed a yeshiva student on his way home.
11:08 PM The rocket attack red alert just went off near the Gaza border. 11:16 PM The rocket fell in an open area.
On Saturday night a car rammed through the Rantis checkpoint heading towards central Israel. IDF troops opened fire and shot 8 bullets at the car, hitting the windows, wheel, and possibly the driver. The car continued on, and was found abandoned near Rosh HaAyin. There was blood in the car. A helicopter and trackers have […]
A 19 year old resident of Migdal Shams is in light to medium condition after being shot at near the Syrian border with Israel. The man was taken to Ziv hospital in Tzfat with a bullet wound in his leg. The hospital said the bullet was shot was a long distance. The IDF said it […]
Iron Dome in its new temporary home.
On Saturday night, a Palestinian Authority terrorist shot towards the entrance of the town of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. The shooting was done with a homemade gun. Three shots were fired. IDF forces captured the terrorist, and no one was injured in the attack.
Congratulations to our latest winners of free Abeles & Heymann kosher hot dogs.
By JTA
The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the plight of Holocaust survivors in the United States. Both Republicans and Democrats on the committee said at the Wednesday hearing that survivors are better off aging at home. “The emphasis on caring for aging survivors must be on creating a safe space surrounded […]
By JTA
Moroccan police are investigating the death of two Jewish sisters in their home in the central city of Beni Mellal. The sisters, whose names were not made public, were found earlier this week in a state of advanced decomposition and are believed to have died three months ago inside their locked home, the news site […]
By JTA
Juliana Rangel, icj, Nuremberg trials, isaac stone, kedem, Chabad Berlin
By JTA
Congress budgeted $13 million for a nonprofit security assistance program that mostly aids Jewish institutions. The money was allocated in the $1.1 trillion budget passed this week by both houses of Congress. The program, which has existed since the mid-2000s, has so far disbursed $138 million through the Department of Homeland Security, not counting the […]
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