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President Shimon Peres wrote outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a “Dear Hillary” handwritten letter Thursday, expressing “bittersweet regret that I am writing this parting letter as your tenure as U.S. Secretary of State ends.” Peres has been a long-time champion of the moribund “peace process” that the United States has engineered but which […]
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard is facing a backlash from part of the country’s Jewish population of 107,000 following her announcement of election on September 14, which also is Yom Kippur. Jewish legislator Michael Danby said Labor must allow special voting arrangements for Jews or lose support from voters, the Australian “news.com” website reported. "As […]
Former Jewish Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in a deadly shooting in Arizona two years ago, has called on Congress to “be bold” and “do something” to stop gun violence. Six people were murdered in the shooting spree. Speaking at a congressional hearing on the issue, she said, “It will be […]
Egypt's representative declared that the council faced "a moment of truth."
Last February, close to 3,000 people tuned in to watch YU's first-ever Torah Halftime Show.
"It was a big explosion, and because the facility is built under the mountain rock, it is very hard to reach workers trapped in there."
There are concerns about the flight of millions of displaced Syrians over the border into Israel.
Ward appeared on television to defend his comments and reinforce his point, but on Sunday he changed his tune.
The couple's funeral service drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,000
The army finally overtook the Port Said prison, the banks and the courts, to prevent their falling into the hands of rioters.
Only half of the runaway crocodiles had been recaptured, according to the report.
According to Dershowitz, Glemp "was forced to apologize" as the result of Dershowitz's lawsuit against him.
The government is unable to make good on a ban that's been on the books since 2006.
Temple Israel was vandalized back in November, when someone wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the building.
The (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly shares remarks, photos from Yair Lapid’s address to its 2012 convention.
Jewish Home received only 12 seats.
Someone in the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria is paying attention.
Facebook allows Hamas leaders and other known terrorists to maintain pages.
Rubinstein made clear that candidate lists running for election may not trifle with injunctions issued by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission.
During the interview Bennett refused to answer what ministry he would like to head.
The Einstein Museum will be built in the shape of the great scientist's brain.
Yes, you can get the college degree you’ve been dreaming of (…that’s right, the one that you thought could never fit into your life…), while learning the subjects you love, at a pace you can handle, from the comfort of your own home!
The Musmus village council announced that the police alone would bear responsibility for the consequences of the visit.
The model of learning draws from the tradition of like Yale, Columbia, St. John's, Oxford and Cambridge
Most House members called on Obama to shut down the DC PLO office as punishment for the UN vote.
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The spot shows a Russian born bride to receive her instant giur-conversion document by fax.
Meet NYS Senator Eric Adams
But the next Quartet meeting will be held in Cairo, where president. Morsi has close ties with Hamas.
The poll numbers are shaky, but if they held until elections, even with the Likud-Beytenu's drop in seats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would still most likely form Israel's next government.
He soon realized that the plaintiff had taken advantage of him, spending the bulk of her time visiting relatives rather than with him.
A special dedication ceremony culminated in a friendly basketball game between kids from New York and from the neighborhood.
Yesterday the activists clashed with security forces and prevented the evacuation of the Oz Zion residents.
Due to the overwhelming huge response and registration for the January 1 conference, it has been moved to a much larger venue.
The third conference for the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria will be held in Jerusalem.
Israeli law already applies in Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.
Following a stabbing incident in which a visitor to the Jewish community of Maale HaZeitim adjacent to the historic Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery was attacked by Arabs in the Ras Al-Amud neighborhood, an Egged bus transporting Jewish residents to and from the enclave was smashed by rock-throwers, who committed the attack from the same place at which the stabbing took place.
New York’s Republican party has little to celebrate Thursday, seemingly close to losing control of the state Senate in addition to losing the state for the presidential election.
Come to the Jewish Press Election Chat online.
Despite the verbal confrontation between Israel and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, Israeli and Iranian officials participated this week in secret talks in Brussels, Belgium, on dismantling both countries' arsenals of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
Colin Shindler asks why European socialists identify with the cause of militant Islam.
Memorials for two memorable Jews took place this weekend, though they stood, perhaps, on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
At an election event held in the backyard of Moshe Feiglin in Karnei Shomron, a new alliance has been announced.
An Islamic group's request to mark International Al-Quds Day on Aug. 18 has been approved by the Ontario Legislature.
The Decision comes after the girl's mother applied for a court order in November 2011 to prevent her ex-husband from having the girl baptized.
The Ministry of Tourism's Christian You Tube channel is attracting millions of viewers from around the world. Launched at the end of 2011, the channel crossed the 1.5 million mark this week, averaging 5,500 views per day. And while these numbers are quite tame compared to the truly viral clips on You Tube, the Ministry of Tourism views the channel as an important platform in exposing Israel to the Christian world, promoting tourism to Israel at a time when some large denominations are debating boycotting Israel altogether.
Defense News magazine has reported that Egypt last week seized a large weapons cache, smuggled from Libya into Egypt, not far from the Libyan border. The cache included 138 Grad rockets and 139 Grad warheads, and the Egyptian interior ministry stated that police were searching for two men suspected of attempting to traffic the rockets “to […]
British police reported that the shots fired in front of Manchester’s Yeshivat Shaarei Torah around 2 AM last night were aimed at the yeshiva and did not happen by accident. The yeshiva is located in the mostly Jewish neighborhood of Broughton Park.
The 2012 B'nai B'rith World Center Survey on Contemporary Israeli Attitudes Toward Diaspora Jewry also found that an overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews disagree with calls on American Jewry to "boycott the settlements," while thirteen percent support such a boycott. And 51 percent of respondents said that “encouraging Aliya” is the best government response to anti-Semitism.
Ahmed Mohamed Shafik Zaki, who came second in Egypt's presidential runoff election last week, is reported to have boarded a flight to Abu Dhabi fleeing several corruption complaints.
Two years ago, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a visit to Moscow, proposed the idea of a monument in Israel commemorating the sacrifices of the Red Army on behalf of Jews, President Putin promised to come to Israel for the inauguration ceremony.
As president of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Merkin introduced Madoff to members like Mort Zuckerman and Elie Wiesel, who together took "a $2 billion bloodbath."
Mr. Softee truck and customer, East Broadway, NYC, Circa 2005. We caught the following online discussion from August through October, 2004 of the question of Mr. Softee's adherence to kashrut laws, on Chowhound.com: Ari Cohen: OK, does anyone know if these trucks which populate New York city during the summer months are kosher? Beerhound: To […]
An event sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles featuring controversial anti-Islamist Pamela Geller was cancelled on Sunday, just hours before it was to take place.
Two mimes joined the protesters against the cost of living on Rothschild Boulevard in downtown Tel-Aviv last Shabbat. The protests ended in clashes with police and mass arrests. Despite Police decision to indict 37 out of the 85 protesters who were arrested, the judge ordered their release as they had no criminal records and the […]
An Arab inspects a terrorist's motorcycle that was hit by an Israeli air strike in Dir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Tuesday. The IAF targeted motorized rocket launching terrorist teams, killing them before they were able to fire even more rockets into civilian areas in Israel.
Canadian MP Prof. Irwin Cotler: "“Israel is both a Jewish and democratic State with the added challenge of living in a hostile environment. The fundamental Jewish values of respect for the sanctity of human life should frame our discourse and policy when it comes to national issues, including Israel’s current African migration challenge.”
The 10 rockets launched by Hamas in the past 24 hours represent its first rocket barrage in some months, and its claim of responsibility and timing suggests that the escalation is linked to Muhammad Morsi's putative victory in the Egyptian presidential elections.
Speaking at a discussion of the Knesset Education Committee on the changing status-quo of religious and ultra-Orthodox education, committee member and chairman of the National Union MK Ya'akov Katz (Ketzaleh) said: It's all about the numbers. The change in the status-quo stems from demographic change. When I was in an officer training course 40 years […]
Western diplomats continue to accuse Iran of foot-dragging and obfuscation, noting that the five-point proposal presented by the Islamic Republic in Baghdad last month calls for discussions on matters that are tangential to the nuclear issue. Yet Western diplomats continue to hold out hope that Iran will finally "engage seriously" the proposal that the six-nation bloc made last month.
A reunion for Yeshiva University High School graduates will take place on Friday, June 22, 2012 at 10 AM, at the YU Gruss Center in Jerusalem. Some 200 Yeshiva University High School alumni residing in Israel will honor Rabbi Zuroff, principal and later supervisor of all Yeshiva University high schools, at the event.
Following a Knesset vote on the “Regulation Law” intended to prevent the evacuation of the Ulpana Neighborhood in Beit El, Ulpana residents and others supporting the law broke up in angry protest. Police, on horseback and on foot, acted brutally to subdue what was, essentially, a loud protest.
Rabbi Chaim Breisch, 65, one of the deans of the Mesivta yeshiva in London, died from drowning, and one of his students, Rabbi Yitzhak Beigel, in his 30s, was lightly injured and was hospitalized.
Israel ranked one spot behind the United Kingdom, and ahead of economic powerhouses China (23rd), Japan (27th), and France (29th). It also retained its position as the world's top investor in research and development for the third year in a row.
In an address marking the 23rd anniversary of the death of his predecessor Ayatollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also accused the West of cynically exaggerating the threat a nuclear Iran poses to divert attention: "What Americans and Westerners do is idiotic. They magnify the nuclear issue to cover up their own [economic] problems."
The terrorist approached the security fence near Kisufim at around 4:30 a.m., cut it, and snuck into Israel. A Golani unit rapidly deployed to the area, coming under fire by the terrorist. In the ensuing gunfight, a 20 year old soldier was shot, and soon after died of his wound.
Barak took the opportunity to reiterate that "All options remain firmly on the table."
In Cabinet meeting at Ammunition Hill, PM spoke of the threat that illegal immigrants - now totaling 60,000 - pose to Israel's Jewish and democratic character. He said that the physical barrier will be completed by October, and made clear that deportation was in the offing.
A group of Jewish children and their parents were targeted in a fierce rock attack Friday night outside the Maale HaZeitim neighborhood in Jerusalem, miraculously escaping serious injury. Jerusalem police who arrived to investigate were also pelted with stones – and left.
IDF spokesperson: "Terrorists approach the security fence in order to place explosives, plan terror attacks, and attempt to kidnap IDF soldiers, endangering Israeli civilians and security forces stationed in the region."
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According to the contract signed in 2007, Russia committed to supplying Iran with at least five S-300 air-defense systems. But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared in September 2010 that selling the missile systems to Iran would contravene UN Security Council Resolution 1929.
Several different Tel-Aviv Segway touring companies take folks on this unique atroll along the First Hebrew City's marina, port and beach promenade, the Tayelet. You owe it to yourself to experience gliding from the Hilton to the old Jaffa port when all you have to exercise is your sense of balance – watch out, no […]
Professor Benzion Netanyahu will be laid to rest at 5pm on Monday at the Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul neighborhood.
‘Global Winds of Change’ Conference addresses role of religion in democracies and changing societies.
The IDF on Thursday, ahead of the Passover holiday, issued a closure order affecting Palestinians crossings into and out of Judea and samaria. "In accordance with the directives of the Minister of Defense and as part of the situation assessments in the IDF, a general closure will be implemented in the Judea and Samaria region," […]
In a key defeat for NGO "Lawfare", the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Tuesday decided that it does not have jurisdiction to begin an investigation over cases related to the 2008-09 Gaza War because "Palestine" is not a state. But this victory over Israel's Palestinian foes may not be long lasting.
President Obama was unaware that he was within microphone range at the Seoul Nuclear Summit when he made the comments to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
The Iron Dome Support Act (IDSA) authorizes and encourages President Obama to provide funds for the "procurement, maintenance and sustainment" of more of the anti-missile defense systems, should the Israeli government request it. The legislation was actually inspired by an op-ed by Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, in which he wrote that "at least ten Iron Dome systems will be necessary in order to defend the whole country."
The Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, has confirmed that Mohammed Merah, the man responsible for the murders of 7 people last week, visited Israel in 2010. According to a Shin Bet investigation, Merah entered Israel via the Allenby Bridge from Jordan, prior his travels to Afghanistan, in September 2010. The investigation also revealed that […]
Reuters has reported that President Obama spoke with Turkish PM Erdogan Sunday morning, and told him that Iran still has time to solve the nuclear issue diplomatically, but that the window is closing. President Obama is currently in South Korea for a nuclear security conference in Seoul. He made a symbolic gesture by first visiting the De-Militarized […]
There are unconfirmed reports that Mohammed Merah, the Toulouse Killer is dead. He had reportedly put up stiff resistance as the police entered his apartment complex. Merah had barricaded himself in his apartment after police arrived to arrest him over 32 hours ago.
Gunshots have been heard at the apartment of Mohammed Merah, the Toulouse killer, according to Fance 24 News. This comes amid unconfimred reports that the police have stormed the Merah's apartment.
According to France 24 News, the French Police have announced that they will storm the apartment of Mohammad Mera - the perpetrator of the Toulouse school shooting that left 4 Jews dead - by 2:30 PM, French time (3:30 PM Israel time) if he does not surrender.
VIDEO OUTSIDE STANDOFF. The suspect's brother was arrested in an early dawn raid by the Toulouse police. The suspect's mother, an Algerian, is refusing to participate in attempts to coax him out. Police fear for the lives of civilians in the building. The morning standoff is in its 8th hour.
At least 4 are dead and others critically wounded after an unidentified attacker mowed down Jewish schoolchildren and teachers - at close range - outside the Otzar HaTorah school in Toulouse, France. Included in the dead: a teacher and his two children. Principal's daughter succumbs to her wounds.
AFP has reported that a shooting attack occurred Monday outside Ozar HaTorah Jewish school in Toulouse in the southwest France. Eyewitnesses said three people have been killed. French media reported that a man riding on a black scooter opened fire on the school, killing at least two children and one adult, and wounding several others.
Israel's Army Radio cited a report in the Turkish daily newspaper Zaman as saying that Turkey has warned Iran against perpetrating acts of terrorism against Israelis or Jewish targets in Turkey. The report comes after Israel's counter-terrorism bureau on Tuesday issued a travel advisory to citizens against traveling to Turkey, due to an unspecified plan by "terror […]
Israeli military magazine Israel Defense has reported that Russian military experts recently upgraded Syria’s long-range radar capabilities to provide Iran with a more cohesive early-detection system in the event of a strike on its nuclear facilities. The report said that the experts brought new equipment and software modifications with them, and focused on a radar facility "south of […]
According to a Gallup poll released Monday, Americans rank Iran as the US' top enemy. The poll, which was conducted February 2-5, asked: "What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States' greatest enemy today?" 32% of respondents said Iran, while 23% said China. North Korea was the only […]
Jodi Rudoren, who is taking over for Ethan Bronner in April, sent greetings to Electronic Intifada founder and raved about the book The Crisis of Zionism.
Are prayers are with her for a full and complete recovery.
Some things just shouldn't be downsized.
Government should extend money to encourage aliyah – MK Danon.
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicions fall on Iran and Hizbollah, as the attacks took place one day after the anniversary of the assassination of Hizbollah's deputy leader, Imad Mughniyeh.
Ismail Haniyeh's comments come as Hamas deals with an internal struggle regarding its strategy for Palestianian unity and statehood.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas will ask the Arab League to hold a peace conference.
The arrest comes as tensions between the US and Egypt have increased due to Egypt's prosecution of pro-democracy NGO organizations.
Jacob Lew tells "Fox News Sunday" that "there is no question that this regime will come to an end. The only question is when."
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