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Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

In Attack on Jews, Arabs Burn Down Arab Owned Fields

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Thursday, Arabs launched an attack on Israelis in and near Yitzhar. It began when they ignited a large fire near an IDF tent encampment in the hope the wind would help burn down the tents. When Yitzhar residents and soldiers came over to put out the fire, the Arabs attacked them with a barrage […]

News Briefs / The Knesset

Hotovely Goes Custom

By Jewish Press News Desk

The newly married MK made a decision to go custom.

Israel / News Briefs / Holocaust

Peres’ Two-Month 90th Birthday Fete Starts in Native Belarus

By Jewish Press News Desk

Celebrations for President Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday August 2 started two months early on Wednesday in his hometown of Vishneyeva, Belarus, where a plaque was revealed on the home that now sits on the lot where President Peres grew up. The ceremonies were held in the presence of his eldest daughter Tzvia Walden, named after […]

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Waze’s Demand to Keep Jobs in Israel Freezes Facebook’s Bid

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel’s Waze user-based social mapping and navigation startup seems to be too Zionist for Facebook, which has been trying to pay up to $1 billion for the company. Facebook reportedly insists that the Waze management team re-locate to California from Israel, a condition that money can’t buy, at least not yet, according to the AllThingsD […]

News Briefs

Drone Kills Four, Including Taliban Commander

By Jewish Press News Desk

A drone strike in the tribal region of Pakistan early Wednesday, killed four fighters, and according to Pakistani officials, one of those killed was the number two commander of the Pakistani Taliban, Waliur Rehman. The strike comes six days after President Barack Obama vowed to curb the use of drone strikes, which have finished off many in […]

News Briefs

Child Abuse in Ancient Egyptian Cemetery

By Jewish Press News Desk

A 2- to 3-year-old child from a Romano-Christian-period cemetery in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, shows evidence of physical child abuse, archaeologists have found, according to a reprt in discovery.com. The child, who lived around 2,000 years ago, represents the earliest documented case of child abuse on record, and the first case ever found in Egypt, researchers […]

Israel / Travel / News Briefs

Netanyahu Aims for 10 Millions Tourists a Year

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel will host 10 million tourists a year by the end of the decade, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Second Jerusalem Tourism Conference Wednesday. "What we're doing in the tourism industry is exciting,” he said. “We've doubled the number of tourists from 1.5 million to three million a year, and we need to double […]

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Islamists

UAV Kills Taliban Terrorists 4 Days After Obama Limits Drones

By Jewish Press News Desk

At lest one Taliban terrorist and three others were killed in a drone strike in Pakistasn Wednesday, four days after President Barack Obama declared he would limit the use of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in order to reduce civilian casualties. The CIA maintained its usual policy of not commenting on specific attacks, but Taliban […]

News Briefs

Lapid: 70% of Haredim of Age Will Be Enlisted in Three Years

By Jewish Press News Desk

Finance Minister Yair Lapid said that in three years as many as 70% of Haredim will be enlisted in the IDF, which would be their badge of honor, Reshet Bet reported. At a press conference in the Knesset Wednesday, Minister Lapid thanked the Jacob Perry equality burden Committee members, noting especially Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon. […]

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Poll: Two-Thirds of Israelis Favor Jailing Haredi Draft Dodgers

By Jewish Press News Desk

A poll commissioned by the Knesset Channel 99 revealed that two-thirds of Israelis favor jailing Haredim who refuse to join the armed forces. Almost the same majority backed extending the length of service for Hesder yeshiva students, according to the poll, quoted by the Jerusalem Post. The Peri Committee recommended treating Haredi draft dodgers as […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Hezbollah

‘Massive Missile Attack from North will Defeat Iron Dome’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israelis cannot count on the Iron Dome anti-missile system to protect them if enemies across the northern border launch a massive missile attack, Home Front Minister Gilad Erdan warned Tuesday. He said people should face the fact that the Iron Dome system cannot cope with hundreds of incoming missiles. The military will examine “how to […]

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Syrian Rebels Demand Hezbollah's Expulsion

By Jewish Press News Desk

In an interview on Tuesday, Salim Idris, the head of the Syrian rebel army, called on Lebanon's president Michel Suleiman, the Arab League, and the UN to remove Hezbollah from Syria within 24 hours. Idris threatened that if Hezbollah is not gone within 24 hours, their men would be hunted down wherever they are. Idris […]

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Cancer Patients at High Maternity Risk, Says New Israel Research

By Jewish Press News Desk

Cancer sufferers and survivors are at increased risk of major obstetric complications, according to new research by Israeli researchers to be presented next week at the Annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. It is well known that cancer treatments decrease fertility, but very little has been known until now concerning […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Israel Honors Adelson with Tourism Award

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tourist Minister Uzi Landau and  Taglit-Birthright presented American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson with an honorary award on innovation and excellence in global tourism at the Second Jerusalem International Tourism Summit. Adelson has “changed the face of tourism on three continents,” said the speakers who awarded the gambling casino tycoon. Last week, Birthright Israel said Adelson […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

How to Graduate in the Palestinian Authority

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Palestinian Authority is offering its younger citizens an easier path to High School graduation, according to a source in the IDF. Any High School student who gets arrested by the IDF automatically passes 10 of their their matriculation (Bagrut) exams. Is it any wonder that terrorist attacks are up?

Jewish / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Jewish Home MK Orbach Supports Rabbi Stav for Chief Rabbinate

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jewish Home Minister Uri Orbach announced Monday night on his Facebook page that he supports Rabbi David Stav, who is part of the Tzohar organization, as Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel. Some other Jewish Home Knesset Members have backed Rabbi Yaakov Ariel for the position, but his candidacy is in doubt because of his age. […]

News Briefs

Hungarian MP: Auschwitz 'May not Reflect Real Facts'

By Jewish Press News Desk

An MP for the ultra-far right Jobbik party in Hungary has said that the Auschwitz concentration camp museum "may not reflect real facts," the International Business Times reports. During a discussion in parliament of a bill funding visits of Hungarian teenagers in the Nazi death camp in Poland, Tamas Gaudi-Nagy said the country's schools should […]

News Briefs

Saudi Scholar Banned in Switzerland

By Jewish Press News Desk

Saudi religious scholar Mohammad Al Arifi has been banned from entering Switzerland and the Schengen countries (26 European countries that have abolished passport and immigration controls at their common borders), Gulf News reports. With Islamic anti-social behavior increasing in the streets of Europe, travel bans have proliferated in Europe, reflecting the rise to power of […]

Terrorism / Syria / US / News Briefs

McCain Slips into Syria to Meet with Rebels

By Jewish Press News Desk

Sen. John McCain Monday slipped into Syria from Turkey Monday and met with Syrian rebel leaders, who appealed for direct U.S. military aid, the Daily Beast reported. Sen. McCain has been outspoken in his harsh criticism of the Obama administration for not having helped the rebels long ago to topple the regime of Syrian President […]

Jewish / NY / News Briefs / Religion

New York Synagogues Bury 12 Torah Scrolls, Victims of Sandy

By Jewish Press News Desk

Approximately 1000 people participated on Sunday in the burial of approximately 12 Torahs scrolls that sustained irreparable damage in Hurricane Sandy seven months ago. More than 40 synagogues were represented at the ceremony in Far Rockaway. The Torah scrolls were from synagogues in Far Rockaway, Belle Harbor, Bayswater, Oceanside and Seagate. The burials were not […]

Jewish / NY / Politics / News Briefs / Religion

Weiner Misses Queens Memorial Day Parade to Speak at Church

By Jewish Press News Desk

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner passed up the annual Memorial Day parade in his former Queens district on Sunday in order to speak at a half-empty church. “I was, like, ‘Where’s Weiner?!’” Forest Hills resident Frankie Esposito told the New York Post.  “I figured he’d come out to see his constituents. I don’t […]

US / News Briefs / Religion

Texas Official Cites Jewish Chaplain’s WW II Dedication

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Texas state official spoke at a Memorial Day service and quoted a Jewish chaplain’s dedication of a temporary cemetery on Iwo Jima in World War II. Jerry Patterson, the state’s Land Commissioner and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, said that whenever he speaks at a Memorial Day service, he quotes Lt. Roland B Gittlesohn, a […]

Israel

Petition: PM Netanyahu Stop the Terrorism on Our Roads (+Video)

By Jewish Press News Desk

Watch the video below the petition. [emailpetition id="5"] JewishPress.com has been closely following the escalating terrorism in Gush Etzion. Below is a shocking video where you will see the what it like to have a rock thrown at you, and how the IDF has been responding. It is shocking that the government of Israel is […]

Israel / News Briefs

Nationwide Emergency Drill Begins

By Jewish Press News Desk

The first of two sirens went off in Israel at 12:30PM, as the country performs a nationwide drill. Residents are expected to go to their safe rooms for 10 minutes. There will be a second siren alarm later in the day.

News Briefs

Is Livni Preparing to Release More Murderers?

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Almagor Terror Victims Association and a group of bereaved families have requested an urgent meeting with Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. The request follows reports that Livni solicited the legal files of the terrorists who have been in Israeli jails since before the Oslo Accord, whom the PA is demanding be freed as a precondition […]

News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem

MK Hotovely Visits Temple Mount Day before Wedding

By Jewish Press News Desk

Likud Knesset Member Tzipi Hotovely ascended the Temple Mount Sunday in what she was a personal and not a political visit prior to her wedding Monday night. The visit was coordinated with the police, and no incidents were reported. Hotovely, 34, was engaged to attorney Ohr Alon, who is orthodox, two days before the new […]

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Bus Attacked Near Efrat Tunnels

By Jewish Press News Desk

A bus was attacked by Arab stone throwers on Sunday afternoon near the Beitar (el Hadr) Junction on Route 60, just north of Efrat. On Friday, residents of Efrat protested the escalating terrorist attacks on the roads, and in that section of the road in particular.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Terror on the Roads: Arabs Oil Up

By Jewish Press News Desk

For the second time in just over a week, Arabs have poured oil on the main road connecting Highway 60 to Beitar (near Efrat), in the middle of the night. A little over a week ago, Arabs poured oil on the same road causing a car to spin out of control and crash. The fire […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Settlements

Israelis Protest Around Yesha

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israelis protested and held vigils in locations around Judea and Samaria on Friday. The locations where the vigils were held were selected based on locations on the road where Jews have been recently attacked by Arabs. Some of the locations included the roads near Beit El, the Beitar Junction on Road 60, El Arub near […]

US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Is Daniel Werfel Jewish?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Readers are already asking us if newly appointed acting commissioner of the IRS, Daniel Werfel is a Jew.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Waze. Outsmarting Google and Facebook. Together.

By Jewish Press News Desk

With the deal Facebook and Waze not yet closed, Google has reportedly jumped into the fray,  making a play for the Israeli start-up company, who's opening bid is at $1 billion dollars. There's another alternative also on the table now, Waze turns down both giants, keeps its independence, and raises money with another round of venture […]

News Briefs

Kaspersky: One Out of Every Three Israeli Computers Under Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Kaspersky Lab has revealed that the first quarter of 2013 almost a million network attacks were detected in Israel. In fact, every third Israeli computer is under malware attacks at any given moment. Kaspersky Lab and its representative in Israel Power Communications presented this data on Wednesday, in Tel Aviv. Last year, six million […]

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Arabs Attack Girl Near Efrat

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arab stone throwing and other violent disturbances near Efrat continues. Following in the footsteps of the pipe bomb found near the northern entrance last week, a girl was hurt Thursday when rocks were thrown at a car she was riding in. A number of cars were hit and damaged near Efrat's northern entrance. Last week […]

News Briefs

ADL Condemns Detroit Leaders' Love-In with Farrakhan

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed deep disappointment with the members of Detroit City Council and local clergy who met with and embraced the antisemitic and racist leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, during his visit to the city last week. During his visit to Detroit, Farrakhan was invited by Rev. Wendell Anthony, President […]

News Briefs

Former Iranian President: 'Things Have Never Been This Bad'

By Jewish Press News Desk

Former Iranian president Akbar Rafsanjani on Wednesday strongly criticized the leadership of his country, following his disqualification as presidential candidate this week. "I don't think the country could have been run worse, even if it had been planned in advance," the 78-year-old Rafsanjani reportedly told members of his campaign team. "I don't want to get […]

News Briefs

Nadler Disappointed by Nixing of Immigration Reform LGBT Amendment

By Jewish Press News Desk

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) on Wednesday responded to the withholding of the Leahy Amendment to protect LGBT families in immigration reform legislation: “As the House sponsor of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), I am extremely disappointed that an amendment to ensure equal treatment for same-sex, bi-national couples was withheld, without a vote, during the […]

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe

Bibi to Talk Separately with Kerry, Sarkozy and Hague – in 4 Hours

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has a busy day Thursday and is scheduled to talk with two foreign ministers and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a four-hour time span. His office announced he will welcome U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at 10:15, and the American efforts to bring Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority […]

Terrorism / Israel / Iran / News Briefs

Steinitz Warns Iran Will Be Able To Make 30 Nuclear Bombs a Year

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran will be able top produce 30 nuclear bombs a year and 100 within the decade, Minister of Strategy, Intelligence and International Relations Affairs Yuval Steinitz told a defense conference this week. He told the IsraelDefense C5I Conference that Iran could reach the capability of operating 54,000 centrifuges. "Iran is not North Korea or Pakistan […]

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Dizzy Dollar Dumps the Shekel

By Jewish Press News Desk

The shekel-dollar rate has soared 4 percent in the past two weeks, with the latest jump today (Wednesday) prompted by expectations that the Bank of Israel will lower the interest rate again in June. The rate crossed the level of 3.69 shekels to the dollar on Wednesday after having dropped under 3.55 shekels to the […]

News Briefs

Shmuley Boteach to Host Jewish Values Gala for Rambam Medical Center

By Jewish Press News Desk

At the inaugural Values Network Gala on June 4, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach will be honoring Holocaust survivor Professor Elie Wiesel, renowned philanthropists Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson and influential health advocate Dr. Mehmet Oz for their outstanding work as champions for Jewish and human values. Proceeds from the dinner, to be held at the New […]

News Briefs

Ahmadinejad Irate at Disqualification of his Candidate

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected a decision by election overseers to disqualify his own top aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, from the June 14 presidential vote in Iran as an act of "oppression" and threatened to take the case to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, AP reported. His comments were posted Wednesday on his website […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Soldier Killed in Training Accident

By Jewish Press News Desk

An IDF soldier was killed Tuesday afternoon in a training accident on the Golan Heights. The soldier, in the Combat Engineering Corps, was clearing anti-tank mines when one mine unexpectedly exploded.

Israel / News Briefs

Waze Defeats Google

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel’s Waze user-run navigation service easily beat out Google’s app Tuesday night when the Israel Electric Corp. closed down the high-speed Ayalon Highway that runs through Tel Aviv. Drivers using the Google app, which uses Android devices that broadcast information of traffic, found themselves being directed to the Ayalon even though it was closed, the […]

News Briefs

Nefesh B’Nefesh Co-Founder to Receive YU Honorary Doctorate

By Jewish Press News Desk

Co-Founder and the Executive Director of Nefesh B’Nefesh Rabbi Joshua Fass, a Yeshiva University alumnus, will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary doctorate at YU’s 82nd Commencement Ceremony, Thursday, May 30, at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ. YU President Richard M. Joel will also confer honorary doctorates upon entrepreneur Tony B. […]

News Briefs

Report: Discrimination against Jews and Muslims Rising Everywhere

By Jewish Press News Desk

Discrimination against Jews and Muslims is on the rise around the world, according to the annual U.S. State Dept. report for 2012. The report points to growing antisemitism, especially in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran. The BBC noted that the International Religious Freedom Report noted that in Egypt, antisemitic sentiment in the media sometimes included Holocaust […]

News Briefs

Nadler Demands Justice for Jacob Ostreicher

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Monday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, participated in a Congressional hearing which examined the issue of Jacob Ostreicher’s illegal detention. Mr. Ostreicher, a constituent of Rep. Nadler’s from Brooklyn, has been detained in Bolivia for nearly two years. Rep. Nadler has previously […]

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

IDF Returns Fire after Gunfire from Syria on Golan Heights

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli soldiers returned fire on Syrian territory after another incident of gunfire on a military area in the Golan Heights Monday night. No one was injured, and there was no damage to property. Military spokesmen said that the soldiers' fire on the source of the attack" hit the target," but they did not provide any […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Egypt Prepares for Battle in Sinai to Free Soldiers

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Muslim Brotherhood government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is moving tanks and heavy arms towards the northern Sinai towards possible all-out battle with a gang that   kidnapped seven Egyptian security personnel four days ago. Morsi has ruled out negotiating, saying there was "no room for dialogue with the criminals.” and that his government would […]

Terrorism / Israel / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Media

Legal Activist Calls for Prosecuting France 2 for Al-Dura Hoax

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel should file criminal charges against France 2 following a government report Sunday that the television channel broadcast a film in 200 that falsely portrayed the alleged killing of 12-year-old Mohammed Al-Dura by Israeli soldiers. Charles Enderlin was bureau chief of France 2 when the Second Intifada, also known as the Oslo War, broke out. […]

Israel / News Briefs

Updated: Be'er Sheva Bank Attack, Hostages, Dead, and Wounded

By Jewish Press News Desk

What initially appeared to be a bank robbery gone wrong, turned out to be a revenge attack on the bank staff.

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Natural Gas Magnate Says Gov’t Can Pocket Billions from Exports

By Jewish Press News Desk

The government can expect to rake in billions of dollars from natural gas exports in the next 20 years, claimed Yitzchak Tshuva, controlling shareholder of Delek, which is a major partner in the Nobel Energy consortium that has begun pumping gas from its off-shore oil discovery. Opposing views are trying to prohibit exports, arguing that […]

News Briefs

Iran Executes Two for Spying for Mossad, CIA

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two men convicted of spying for foreign intelligence agencies were hanged Sunday morning in Iran, IRNA reported. According to Tehran Magistrate Office, one of the culprits was convicted to death for accumulating and selling classified information to agents of the Zionist regime's Mossad and receiving money in return during repeated meetings with them outside the […]

News Briefs

Syrian Army Bombing Central Rebel Town

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Syrian military has been pounding the rebel-held central town of Qusayr, killing 13, preparing for a ground assault, AFP reported. “After two days of calm, planes bombed the town of Qusayr in the early hours of the morning,” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdul Rahman said. “The bombing and air raids killed […]

News Briefs

Spanish Politicians Call for Cancellation of Achinoam Nini Concert

By Jewish Press News Desk

Left-wing politicians in the autonomous region of Galicia in Spain recently called on their local government to cancel an upcoming concert by Israeli singer Achinoam Nini and to boycott Israel., Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center reports. The Galician Left Alternative, an umbrella organization that represents the region’s third largest political bloc, went on to […]

Syria / News Briefs / Russia

Syrian Army Completes S300 Training in Russia

By Jewish Press News Desk

The first anti-aircraft missiles may be delivered to Syria within 2 months.

Jewish / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Bennett and Livni in Facebook Fight over Women of the Wall

By Jewish Press News Desk

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Religious Affairs Minister Yair Lapid, who doubles as Finance Minister, are arguing via Facebook over the issue of a women’s minyan at the Western Wall. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky has proposed that a Women of the Wall demand for the minyan be allowed at the southern part of the […]

Terrorism / Israel / Syria / Hamas / News Briefs

Arabs ‘Celebrate’ Nakba with Kassam on Negev and Mortars on Golan

By Jewish Press News Desk

Gaza and Syrian Arabs on Wednesday marked Nakba Day, the English date of the re-establishment of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948, with a Kassam rocket attack on the Negev and two mortar shells on the Golan Heights. The mortar shells may have been unintentionally fallen on the Israeli side of the border […]

Israel / Antisemitism / Islamists

Geller Raps Toronto Rabbis for ‘Loshon HaRa’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Pamela Geller, a controversial critic of radical Islam, has accused the Toronto Board of Rabbis for “loshon hara” in response to the clerics charging that she “is known for her extreme criticism of Muslims in language that is intended to shock and ridicule.” The Toronto rabbis had criticized the Jewish Defense League of Canada for […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Obituaries

Jewish Psychologist-Media Star Dr. Joyce Brothers Dies

By Jewish Press News Desk

Millions of Americans this week are mourning Dr. Joyce Brothers, the Jewish psychologist and media start who died Monday in Fort Lee, New Jersey Monday at the age of 85. She was buried at the Beth David Cemetery on Long Island. Born in Brooklyn, she earned degrees in psychology from Cornell and Columbia. She broke […]

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy

More Natural Gas Found

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel has (more) gas. Baruch Hashem. But who should profit?

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Cabinet Passes ‘Austerity Budget’

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Cabinet Monday evening passed a two-year budget, nearly five months late, with tax hikes and across-the-board cuts in spending, Only one minister voted against the  budget, the second and last time it will cover two years instead of one. Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who is chairman of the Yesh Atid party, said after the […]

Jewish / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

Vienna Hosts First European Jewish Choral Festival

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Vienna Jewish Choir last weekend hosted the first European Jewish Choral Festival with a comprehensive repertoire of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino songs, the European Jewish Press reported, Hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish singers from 18 groups in Europe participated n the four-day event that drew approximately 1,500 spectators. The festival, under the patronage of […]

Jewish / NY / Politics / News Briefs / Religion

Hillary and Bill Clinton Give Weiner the Cold Shoulder

By Jewish Press News Desk

Anthony Weiner can forget about any support from Hillary and Bill Clinton if he decides to run for mayor of New York City, the New York Post reported Monday. The main reason is Huma Abedin, Weiner’s Muslim wife who suffered disgrace shortly after their marriage when Weiner was caught using the Internet for online relationships […]

Israel / Global / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Blue and White, All the Waze

By Jewish Press News Desk

Waze and Facebook have reached an impasse in their negotiations, but not over whether Facebook will buy Waze for 700 million dollars, or a clean billion, but over Israel, according to the Israeli site Telecom News. Facebook wants to close down Waze's Raanana office, and transfer some of the developers to the U.S. While the […]

News Briefs

Pope Beatifies 813 Italians Beheaded by Turks

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Sunday, in a packed St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis announced his first canonization of new saints, including 813 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam. The 813 "Martyrs of Otranto" were slain in the southern Italian city in 1480, for refusing the demands of the Turkish invaders to renounce Christianity. […]

News Briefs

Trial of Accused American Front Leader Starts

By Jewish Press News Desk

The trial of Marcus Faella, 40, the alleged ringleader of the American Front, a white supremacist group that was training at a compound in the rural area of St. Cloud, is set to begin on Monday at the Osceola County, FL, courthouse. The American Front is an antisemitic militia with paramilitary training. Its members have […]

News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Settlements / Holocaust

Church of Scotland Thinks Twice, Grants Israel the Right to Exist

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Church of Scotland has called last week’s publication of a Church and Society Council report that denies Israel’s right to exist a “misunderstanding” and now says the Jewish state can remain as part of the world. The Jewish communities of Scotland were shocked by the report, and the local Council of Christians and Jews […]

News Briefs

Egypt Blocks Qaeda Plot Against Western Embassy

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egypt's interior minister said on Saturday that police arrested members of an Al-Qaeda-linked cell that was plotting suicide bombings against a Western embassy as well as other targets, Egyptian Interior Mohammed Ibrahim said at a news conference. According to Ibrahim, police "have delivered a successful blow against a terror cell plotting suicide bomb attacks," including […]

News Briefs

UN Ambassador Prosor: Hezbollah Will Not Test our Resolve

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor spoke on Friday during a discussion on counter-terrorism at the UN Security Council. In his remarks, Ambassador Prosor said terrorism to a "growth industry," with a "business development arm" and a "human resources division." He said: "Chapter Seven of the United Nations Charter sets out the Security […]

News Briefs

While You Were Keeping Shabbat

By Jewish Press News Desk

(All times are local, Israel) Friday, 7 PM: an Arab terrorist was moderately injured by IDF fire near the Mount Hebron village of Idhna, after trying to damage the security fence. Friday, 7:15 PM: An Eritrean national, 20, was moderately injured after falling off his bicycle near the Megiddo junction. He was taken to Haemek […]

Terrorism / Syria / Iran / News Briefs / Islamists / Hezbollah

Nasrallah Brags Syria will Give Hezbollah ‘Game-Changing’ Weapons

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hezbollah supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Thursday that the Syrian regime will ship to the terrorist organization “game-changing” weapons, a week after Israel bombed Iranian missiles that were sent to Syria for delivery to Hezbollah. Nasrallah's rhetoric came a day after Syrian President Bashar Assad’ bravado that he will strike Israel but only when […]

Israel / Global / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Netanyahu Views Chinese Wall ‘Security Fence’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited the Great Wall of China on Thursday, allowing him to make the obvious comparison with Israel’s security fence, dubbed by leftists as the “Apartheid Wall. Unlike the Chinese Great Wall, the “wall” in Israel extends less than 10 percent of the total length of the fortification, […]

IDF & Security / Travel / News Briefs

Israel’s Semi-Automatic Tavor Rifle May Replace M-16s at Airport

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tourists landing at Ben Gurion Airport soon may see guards toting the Israel-made Tavor rifle instead of the traditional M-16, according to Israel defense, The Micro Tavor is shorter but heavier than the M-16, and started replacing the M-16 in IDF combat units approximately three years ago.

News Briefs / Islamists

Invest or Gamble? Egypt Sells Islamic Bonds

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt, headed by President Mohammed Morsi, is set to issue “Islamic bonds,” not to be confused with the highly successful Israeli bonds that helped the Jewish state get off it feet after its re-establishment in 1948. Unlike Israel, modern Egypt has been around for a long time, but the Arab […]

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Three Jews from US and France to Be Awarded Dan David Prize

By Jewish Press News Desk

The international Dan David Prize will be awarded  June 9 at Tel Aviv University to an American Jewish philosopher, a research doctor at Johns Hopkins and a French economist. The Dan David Prize awards three $1 million to individuals with proven exceptional excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service and entrepreneurship that have made […]

Middle East / Levant / US / Politics / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Settlements

Kerry Hosts Livni, to Return to Israel to Push Talks

By Jewish Press News Desk

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with visiting Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni this week and told reporters he will return to Israel in two weeks to push ahead for more “peace process” talks. In a brief session with reporters,  Kerry did not refer to the de facto building freeze that Israel media reported […]

Jewish / US / Religion

Yogurtland Launches Kosher Store

By Jewish Press News Desk

Yogurtland, a leading frozen yogurt chain, is following the lead of Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robbins and The Coffee Bean and has launched its first kosher store, the Beverly Connection location in Los Angeles. The store is under the kosher supervision of the Rabbinical Council of California, according to the Kosher Today newsletter. Yogurtland’s self-serve frozen […]

Israel / News Briefs / Islamists

Police Arrest Jerusalem Mufti

By Jewish Press News Desk

Following threats and violence on the Temple Mount, the police detain the Jerusalem Mufti.

Syria / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Syrian Rebels Take 4 UN Peacekeepers Prisoner

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syrian Rebels are holding four UN peacekeepers prisoner. The four Filipino peacekeepers were on the Golan Heights to monitor the ceasefire line between Syria and Israel. The Rebels claim they are holding them, to keep them safe.

Jewish / US / Politics / News Briefs / Religion

Biden Wants Rabbis, Pastors and Nuns to Back ‘Moral’ Gun Control

By Jewish Press News Desk

Vice President Joe Biden met with Jewish, Muslim Christians, Sikh and other religious leaders Monday to encourage them to back gun control as matter of morals. He met for two and a half hours with rabbis, pastors, nuns and other religious leaders before the gun control bill comes up for a Senate vote. "The conversation […]

Israel / News Briefs

Samsung S4 Smartphone Makes ‘Aliyah’ and Costs $1,100

By Jewish Press News Desk

Samsung's Galaxy S4 flagship Smartphone arrived in Israel this week with an official price tag of approximately $1,100 (3,600-3,700 shekels). Prices may drop a bit if local mobile carriers try to undercutting each other, and one retailer already is offering it for $920. The Samsung S4 has a five-inch screen with a super-thin glass and […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religion

Israel Hotels Attracting Tourists with OU Kosher Certification

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli restaurants and hotels are more interested n seeking kosher certification from the American-based Orthodox Union (OU) in order to attract foreign tourists, according to the Kosher Today newsletter. It said that many American Jewish tourists generally are more familiar with the OU than Israeli rabbinic certifications. The OU operates in Israel in an office […]

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Israel Moves Closer to Eliminating Small Parties

By Jewish Press News Desk

A bill to increase the minimum number for a political party to be represented in the Knesset has passed a ministerial committee and will be brought to the Knesset for a first vote. If it passes, it will be discussed in a Knesset committee for returning to the Knesset for further votes. The bill is […]

News Briefs

New $10.4 million Security Pavilion at Moynihan Federal Courthouse

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Monday, Congressmen José E. Serrano, Jerrold Nadler and Peter King joined Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska to announce that the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse has received $10.4 million in federal funds to build a new state-of-the-art security pavilion. The security pavilion was planned for shortly after 9/11 but until the intercession of the […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Settlements

Israeli Injured by Arab Terrorists Wakes From Coma

By Jewish Press News Desk

Aharon Zlotkin, the 53 year old man hit in the head by Arab terrorists two days ago at the Doar Junction, has come out of his coma. He's also managed to slightly move his hands and feet. His condition is still listed as serious.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

IDF Wants to Equalize Term of Service for Men and Women

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israel Armed Forces is proposing that women and men both serve in  the army for the same amount of time for equal positions. Men soldiers currently serve for three years and women for two years. The IDF wants to cut the men’s service to 32 months and extend the service for women as well […]

Israel / News Briefs

Netanyahu Promoting Israeli High-Tech in China

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Shanghai Monday and immediately traveled from the airport to an exhibition at a high-tech industrial park and promoted Israel’s high-tech industry. Next to a wall on which were the logos of the companies operating in the high-tech park, the Prime Minister said, "We see here the logos of many […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / US / News Briefs

Israel Did not Notify US of Bombing Mission in Syria

By Jewish Press News Desk

An American intelligence official, speaking on the basis of anonymity, told Reuters that Israel did not notify the Obama administration before the two bombing missions last weekend that targeted Iranian missiles destined for the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Israel informed the United States of the pre-emptive counterterrorist operation after the attacks. Unlike many previous secret maneuvers […]

IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs

Syria Aims Missiles at Israel; Local Flights Banned in North

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syria and Israel stepped closer to getting ready for war Sunday, with Syrian missiles reportedly deployed and aimed at Israel, which has closed off air space in the north to civilian air traffic. Arkia airlines told Channel 2 television that "due to IDF instructions on the closure of airspace in the North until May 9, […]

Israel / Syria / Iran / News Briefs

Iran: Israel Used Radioactive Uranium in Syrian Missile Bombing

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Iranian propaganda machine is working overtime Sunday, claiming that Israel used depleted uranium in its missile attacks on Syria early this weekend. “The first missile…contained uranium substances, a correspondent of the Russian TV quoted some local sources as saying,” the Iranian regime-controlled Fars News Agency reported. “Other media outlets had also earlier released similar […]

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Saudi Arabia Warns Students of Hebrew U. 'Suspicious’ Website

By Jewish Press News Desk

Saudi Arabia’s Education Ministry has warned students to steer clear of what it called “suspicious websites,” an apparent reference to the Hebrew University site that has attracted Saudi students. The ministry’s spokesman, Dr. Muhammad Al-Hayzan, said the certificates from such institutions will not be accredited by the ministry. “Students have other alternatives. One of them […]

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Gaza Rocket Hits Eshkol Region

By Jewish Press News Desk

Reshet Bet reports that a rocket from Gaza just hit the Eshkol region. No injuries or damage were reported. No alerts went off either.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Shalit Released Terrorist Caught in Ashdod

By Jewish Press News Desk

Gadia Abdallah, one of the many terrorists released in the Gilad Shalit deal, was caught in Ashdod, according to a report in Hakol HaYehudi. The police say his presence there was illegal, and his arrest has been extended. He claims he was there looking for work. The terrorist who murdered Evyatar Borovsky last week was also recently […]

News Briefs

Iron Domes Redeployed to North

By Jewish Press News Desk

In light of the recent IAF activities in Syria, Israel has repositioned two Iron Dome anti-missile batteries to the country's north. One has been placed near Tzfat (Sefad), the second near Haifa.

News Briefs

Women in Green: It's Time to Wake Up!

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Friday, we received the following press release from Nadia Matar of Women in Green: Something bad is cooking. Arab Stone throwing. Adele Biton. Roads blocked by stones. Molotov cocktails. An attempted murder near Kedumim. Arabs attacking the fence of Ofrah. The murder of Evyatar Borovsky HY"D. The IDF's destruction this morning of the office […]

News Briefs

State Dept. Suddenly Appalled by Massacre in al-Bayda

By Jewish Press News Desk

We received the following statement from the U.S. Dept. of State: The United States is appalled by horrific reports that more than 100 people were killed May 2 in gruesome attacks on the coastal town of al-Bayda, Syria. Regime and Shabiha forces reportedly destroyed the area with mortar fire then stormed the town and executed […]

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

Rebellion in Shas

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Saturday Night, Rav Ovadiah Yosef, the spiritual head of the Shas party said that he had to return political control of the Shas party back to Aryeh Deri, as it was promised to be returned to him (Deri) when he was sent to prison. Eli Yishai, the successful, but now displaced Shas party head, […]

Israel / Global / News Briefs

(Not) Only Netanyahu Can Go to China

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prime Minister Netanyahu is on his way to China on Sunday evening, but he won't be the only one. PA President Mahmoud Abbas is also on his way. The two are not expected to meet - it is a big country after all. Netanyahu will be in China for 5 days to discuss economic agreements […]

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Breaking News: Multiple Shooting Attacks, Jew Injured

By Jewish Press News Desk

Multiple Shooting attacks have been reported in the Shomron in the past 10 minutes (5:03 pm). One occurred between Karnei Shomron and Yitzhar (Tzir Gilad), one person has been injured. MDA is responding. In the second shooting attack also near Gilad farm, a number of Israeli cars were hit, but no injuries were reported.

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