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"Our policy is not aimed at regime change, but rather at changing the regime’s behavior."
Mark Treyger, a candidate for city council in New York City’s 47th council district, met recently with the editorial board of The Jewish Press at the newspaper’s Boro Park office.
Bill de Blasio, one of the Democratic frontrunner in the race for New York City mayor, met last week with the editorial board of The Jewish Press at the newspaper’s Boro Park office. De Blasio is the New York City public advocate.
The absence of Haredi parties in the government is already being, and women probably will be among those nominating Israel’s next rabbinic judges and chief rabbis.
Iranian spies were caught in Turkey and India lat year. Now it is Nepal’s turn, and this time the Israeli Embassy caught the spy, who used a fake Israeli passport.
In Israel, a new five month scholarship program being offered to young aspiring athletes - one of them could be you.
Approximately 25 percent of the New York City electorate is Jewish, and a growing number are Orthodox.
The ancient port of Ashkelon was a key point for trading Israeli wine. Archaeologists have unearthed a huge wine press and rare ceramic church model near the city’s old highway.
“My name is Itzhak Hazan. I was raised in a traditional Jewish family in France. I initially came to Israel in 1977 as a lone backpacker and felt an immediate attachment to the people and country. I realized that there was a difference between the French culture in which I was raised and Jewish culture.
”Soldiers with special needs voluntarily commit to serve their country for three years, just like their peers.”
Israel women’s soldiers are known for being tough. They are combat soldiers Air Force pilots, logistic specialists and martial arts experts. And one of them may be Miss Universe.
In its rush to pass the Bedouin land grab bill, the government forgot to due some basic due diligence.
The family: My name is Rivka (Teitlebaum) Shech. I have 3 grown children and I’m divorced. Background: My parents, my sister and I came to Israel from Hungary in 1950. We entered at Haifa Port and were taken to the Bat Galim immigrant transit camp. I was 1½ years old at the time and my sister was 4.
Ronald Lauder and Morton Zuckerman, past chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will head the groups’ 39th Annual Leadership Mission to Israel with a trip in advance to France, the Conference announced Thursday. The Conference is an umbrella group for 50 major U.S. Jewish organizations. More than 100 leaders of […]
In honor of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, gay news site Queerty is encouraging LGBT Jews to buy a new book featuring a Jewish boy with two fathers, the first of its kind to bring Judaism, children, and homosexuality together.
The Forward is going back to its roots and is about to launch the “Forverts” Yiddish-language website, further evidence of the incredible survival of the Yiddish language. New York hosts approximately 80,000 Chassidic Jews who speak Yiddish at home, and the community’s birth rate is soaring. The Forward will bring the Forverts site online on […]
NASA Director Charles Bolden was on hand Monday for the launching of Israel’s new science and space center that might host future Israeli astronauts. Bolden is in Israel for the seventh annual Herzliya Space Conference marking the Columbia Space shuttle tragedy 10 years ago, which took the lives of seven astronauts, including Israel’s Ilan Ramon. […]
An elderly patient killed orthodox Jewish Dr. Ronald Gilbert in his medical office in Newport Beach, California on Monday. The alleged murderer was captured, but no motive has been established. Dr. Gilbert was scheduled to perform surgery on the patient, who was arrested at the Hoag Hospital after six or seven shots were fired at […]
His first wife is 8 years his senior, the younger is 22.
We asked our writers and contributors to share some of their favorite “fruit” recipes for Tu B’Shevat.
"Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," hosted by Jewish Press columnist Aaron Klein and broadcast on New York's WABC, achieved a milestone in the latest rankings, becoming number 1 on the AM dial in New York City.
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon, during a visit to the Mount of Olives Jewish community of Maale HaZeitim to discuss Likud’s plans for the future of Israel, sat down with the Jewish Press's Yishai Fleisher to talk about the state of Israeli security.
Formerly Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu participated in a candid interview with CNN, discussing his departure from observant Jewish life and his connection to his religion.
The family: Yossi (38), Yamit (33) and daughters Tohar (4.5), Romi (2) and a new baby girl. Background: Yamit is the daughter of Ezra and Malka Mordechai, the first couple in Gush Katif. Ezra arrived in Gush Katif as a bachelor in 1974 and was one of three community founders. Yamit was raised in Netzer Hazani, the first established Gush Katif community.
The fake website listed an NYC phone number to text with questions about donations.
Wednesday's poll shows the highest right-wing share in the vote to date – 68 seats against 52 to the right.
After UN Watch protest, HRW removes Falk & deletes his name from website
One resolution condemned Israel for holding on to the Golan Heights, demanding Israel hand the land and its people to Syria.
"In any conceivable political arrangement, Israel will not cede control of E-1."
It turned out to be a toy gun -- but very convincing.
The election of the next chief rabbis will take place after the 19th Knesset is convened.
One mother said she decided not to intervene in her boy's diet to avoid fighting with him.
The specific subjects sought by Pollard's Israeli handlers were Syrian drones, Egyptian missile programs, and Soviet air defenses.
"Statements attributed by The Forward to Dr. Lamm, are reprehensible."
The IRS has been known to impose sanctions against a bank which knowingly permitted customers to violate FACTA rules.
Police say the two were involved in an "ongoing dispute."
"The Palestinian policemen proved that our state does have a border, and the Israeli occupiers can't walk in here whenever they want, because if they will – they will be beaten up."
Two members of Congress met in Bolivia with an American-Jewish businessman who has been jailed there without charges for 18 months.
Nechemya Weberman, a prominent member of Brooklyn’s Satmar chassidic community who practiced therapy without a license, was found guilty on 59 counts of sexual abuse.
Come the next American pressure, Netanyahu will fold.
The Jewish Press would like to apologize to Jack Abramoff for a recent blog post that questioned whether or not he was eating non-kosher when spotted at a Washington D.C. restaurant meeting with Tom DeLay. Mr. Abramoff has made it clear to the paper that he would never eat treif. We apologize for any anguish […]
Israeli forces confiscated files and computer hardware.
Danon came fifth in the primaries, which often means a ministerial position.
Young Israel of Bal Harbour, located at 9592 Harding Avenue in Surfside, presents a wide array of classes and activities for the communities of Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor and Surfside. Talmud classes are held Monday through Friday before Shacharis at 6:20 a.m. Daf yomi classes are held Sunday through Friday immediately after Shacharis.
Speaker of the Knesset Reuven Rivlin (Likud) criticized the practice of switching between parties by various Members of Knesset and Knesset candidates , calling on the next Knesset to regulate such behavior, Israel's Channel 10 website reported. "We need to ask ourselves what is transpiring in our political culture," Rivlin said. "To my regret, what […]
Only 42 years ago, King Abdullah's father slaughtered at least 10 thousand Palestinians.
Thousands of pro and anti-Morsi forces clashed into the night outside the presidential palace.
MK Aryeh Eldad (Strength to Israel) and Knesset candidate Moshe Feiglin (Likud) traded barbs today over ideological purity and compromise in politics.
Avigdor Liberman's campaign to unload the "stars" of his party, Israel Beiteinu, continues full blast into Tuesday, the day of submitting all the lists of nominees to the Knesset, Israel's Channel 2 News reported. The list of Liberman's party is shared this election with Netanyahu's Likud. After the untimely "retirement" of Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov […]
Rescue teams released him completely free from injury.
The mosque demolition followed a Regavim movement's appeal to the Supreme Court.
Following his comments on Sunday night football advocating for greater gun control, NBC sports announcer Bob Costas is facing growing anger by gun owning football fans who are calling on the NFL to ban Costas. The angry fans have started a Facebook page, entitled "The NFL Should Ban Bob Costas." The page has over 1500 […]
Sources have described "an appetite for action" within the Foreign Office.
No one seemed to be in charge of the movements of the Sudanese workers.
"The response to the attack on Zionism and the State of Israel must reinforce and underscore the implementation of the settlement plan."
The family: Carol & Shmuel Hezi and their six children, Asnat, Eitan, Amichai, Vardit, Harel and Maital
The conference, titled "Freedom of Religion and/or Mutual Respect in Europe," was jointly organized by the European Parliament and the European Jewish Association.
Hamshushalayim is the central cultural festival of the winter season in Israel that attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year and offers a unique combination of hundreds of quality cultural events coupled with tourist and culinary attractions, all concentrated into four fun packed weekends during December. Thanks to a sweeping collaboration of Jerusalem’s cultural […]
An amendment to S. 3254, the National Defense Authorization Act would punish both the PA and the UN for a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian "observer state."
"No decision by the UN can break the 4000-year-old bond between the people of Israel and the land of Israel."
Cvetkovic was arrested in January, 2011, after a Bosnian court issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Coalition Against Insurance Fraud warns homeowners about five worst frauds to avoid.
Thousands of protesters are converging on Tahrir Square from points around Cairo to rally against President Mohamed Morsi’s constitutional declaration. One protester has died after inhaling teargas, Egypt Independent reports. Dozens of parties and civil society groups called for the protests after Morsi's declaration last Thursday which gave him tyrannical powers and declared the Constituent […]
The right-wing block would receive 70 seats, vs. 50 to the center-left, including the Arabs.
"We are trying to fix the tunnel in order to return to our normal life."
Both the perpetrator and his employer admitted the charges against them.
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