As usual, there is a big gap between what Arab countries promise and what they deliver.
President Obama is sending Jack Lew, the first Orthodox Jewish Treasury Secretary to the commemoration. Secretary Lew will be leading a delegation of State Department officials and Auschwitz survivors.
Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms have fallen off the Internet worldwide.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Fifteen Auschwitz survivors, aged 80-94, returned this morning, Monday January 26, to the infamous death camp, Auschwitz, some for the first time.
Maybe the court will forgive the gang because one of them apologized.
French far-rightist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen suffered a facial injury.
By Rachel Levy
Apple may have handed the Chinese government access to the software used in its iPhones.
If US Jews were to make Aliyah at the rate the Jewish Agency expects from France, Israel would have 1 million more Jews.
In the Alberta province of Canada, a synagogue was defaced with huge block letters scrawled on its walls: 'Leave Canada'
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his rage and demanded the release of the hostages.
By Shalom Bear
"In case someone murders me, all the data is saved."
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
During this year’s Operation Smile campaign in Vietnam, two Israeli doctors joined 300 delegation members from 18 countries.
Criminal charges prepared by Alberto Nisman incriminate Argentine's president and Jewish foreign minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Earlier this week, ten Israeli tourists were violently assaulted in an anti-Semitic attack at a hostel in Argentina.
Yemeni president and government resigns, shia rebels appear to seize control, al-Qaeda remains big concern
Iran, for the time being, has gotten away with 85 murders in the AMAI bombing in 1994.
Following terrorist knifing attack on Israelis, social media members extol the weapon, with #JeSuisCouteau.
Haaretz also said that Hollande’s displeasure had been evident during a ceremony at the Grand Synagogue in Paris on Sunday night, when it said the president left while Netanyahu was at the podium.
The mayor of Paris is threatening to sue Fox News for segments she claims have insulted her city.
The Islamic State wants to punish Japan for spending $200 million on the war against ISIS.
Visiting Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday, "Canada doesn't stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it." Baird won a warm welcome in Jerusalem after Sunday's visit to his Palestinian Authority counterpart in Ramallah, where his car was pelted by eggs thrown by demonstrators waiting outside the Canadian offices in […]
Israel is not boycotting Europe. It simply is taking its business elsewhere, says Netanyahu.
The ICC is a political organization dependent on donor countries.
PA police stood by while Abbas' Fatah youth wing stood armed with eggs to throw at Baird.
A Paris court also banned a planned rally under the banner "Islamists out of France."
Japan and Israel are expanding and strengthening their economic ties.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Sunday with a delegation of more than 100 government officials and heads of leading Japanese global companies. Representatives of major Japanese companies also will arrive in order to evaluate economic opportunities in Israel. The two prime ministers will discuss advancing efforts to expand […]
European Jewish Association (EJA) director Rabbi Menachem Margolin has "clarified" reports that he supports arming European Jews with guns and said he does not advocate widespread gun use. It was the EJA that posted the original report, published here by The Jewish Press on Friday, that European Union countries should allow Jews to carry guns to […]
It is not the "occupation" and the "Zionist enemy" that are the targets of angry Muslims.
"Israel rejects the absurd decision of the ICC prosecutor," Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said.
The Obama administration is not in love with Israel but certainly is divorcing itself from the Palestinian Authority.
Two RCMP were shot by an assailant...
Multiple terror scares in Paris, just a normal Friday.
Allowing Jews to carry guns won't stop the fear of terror threatening Judaism and Jews in Belgium.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israel firm, AORA, will be the first to provide solar-biogas hybrid power solutions for rural communities in Ethiopia.
Boko Haram is kidnapping young girls and using them as human bombs.
A policewoman was deliberately hit by a car...
The Oxford University Press rolled over to political correctness despite the world rallying around "Free Speech."
Israelis head to Geneva to talk about Gaza war.
The magazine printed 3 million copies. Their normal print run in 60,000.
By Shalom Bear
A CAA survey shows a bleak picture for UK Jewry. The results are so bad that the report describes itself a “Wake Up Call”.
By Rachel Levy
Egypt's top Islamic cleric warns Charlie Hebdo staff to pull its 'provocative' cover.
French Jewry probably hasn't felt this much love in a long time.
Quite unexpected, to say the least.
The deadly attacks on Charles Hedbo's offices and on a Paris kosher deli have made the magazine a household name.
White House admits "higher-profile" official should have attended "I am Charlie" rally against Islamic terror.
Additional photos from the HyperCacher victim's funerals.
Thousands of Israelis showed their solidarity and sympathy at the funerals of the four victims killed by a terrorist attack on the kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher in Paris.
Photoessay from the Jerusalem funeral for the HyperCacher terror victims.
One of the four Jewish victims of French Islamic terror will join his son, who is buried in Jerusalem.
China's Hainan Airlines plans to start flying between Beijing and Tel Aviv three times a week starting in September, reflecting the sharp rise in tourism and trade between Israel and China. Hainan, China's fourth largest airline, will be competing with El Al and also will fly on Shabbat, when El Al does not operate, and […]
Crude oil prices are dropping to levels not seen in years.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
"It was a very difficult scene inside the supermarket. It was as if time stood still, with shopping carts full of food in preparation for Shabbat in the cashier aisles and deliveries waiting to be sent to customers..."
The wrong people stood in the solidarity rally.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with French Jewish leaders Monday morning and said that that terrorism will spread and worsen if the world does not join forces to fight it. "Israel supports Europe in the struggle against terrorism and the time has come for Europe to support Israel in the exact same struggle, he said. […]
El Al is bringing the victims and their families to Israel.
World leader, families of victims, and 1.5 million people walked though Paris to protest Islamic terrorism.
When Phyllis Chesler first published The New Anti-Semitism more than a decade ago, it was a glowing lamp in the darkening night. Since that time, The Jewish Press readers know that much has gotten worse. Anti-Semitism is louder, more widely and brazenly espoused, with less shame, than it had been in decades. More people can now see what […]
Over 1,000 people took part in a solidarity rally for the French people organized by the Jerusalem municipality.
Following the march, a memorial ceremony was held in the Grand Synagogue of Paris.
Conductor: Israel is supposed to support persecuted Jews.
Two buildings evacuated...
Terrorist murdered woman 100 yards from Jewish school.
'Paris was the beginning of the apocalypse in Europe' blared a tweet on the firebombed German newspaper.
After PA President Mahmoud Abbas's initial announcement that he won't be able to fly to Paris to participate in the unity rally due to the bad weather, he has apparently changed his mind (as the weather hasn't really changed), and Abu Mazen announced he will be going after all. Leaders from around the world will […]
The 4 were killed at the start of the attack, not when the special forces went in.
Wold leaders will be participating in an anti-terror silent unity march in Paris on Sunday.
A phoned-in bomb threat to Paris police has caused an evacuation of the Gaumont cinemas around the city.
The 4 will probably be buried on the Mount of Olives.
Lassana Bathily's quick thinking saved 15 lives in the HyperCacher supermarket in Paris.
This is the first time since World War II that the synagogue didn't hold Friday night services.
Uncensored video of French Special Forces raiding the HyperCacher supermarket and freeing the hostages.
The names of the French supermarket victims have been released.
Part of Melbourne Airport has been evacuated due to bomb threat made against a TigerAir flight.
A kosher supermarket in eastern Paris has been attacked by armed men.
Two killed in shootout northeast of French capital.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
In Jerusalem, on a cold rainy night, nearly 100 people gathered together at the French consulate to pay homage to the victims of the deadly terror attack.
Exchange of fire after police track down terrorists.
Jihadi flags found in getaway car of Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects
The suspected shooter, with a rifle and protective vest, has been caught.
A witness who spoke to the terrorists before the attack and let them into the building, said they spoke perfect French and they said they were from Al Qaida.
Two gunman entered the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satire magazine in France and began shooting.
Bennett suggested Livni offer the French her ideas for peace which she keeps trying to foist onto Israel...
A car went up in flames outside a French Synagogue in Sarcelles at around 4 PM.
It's not an April Fool's joke, though it makes the UN and ICC look like fools.
By Rachel Levy
The Palestinian Authority complains to the UN after Israel withholds tax money as partial payment for a huge electricity bill.
Palestinian Authority diplomacy, like the Arab armies in previous wars, is leading a war of self-destruction.
Interpol would be able to give the PA information on criminal networks. What the PA will do with it is a different story.
Two can play the "I'll see you in court for war crimes" game, Israel tells the Palestinian Arabs.
The question is will the Palestinian Authority evaporate because it has no raison d’etre or has no money.
ZOA says anti-Zionists should not be permitted in the World Zionist Congress, setting policy for the World Zionist Organization.
Shomrim assisted in arrest of a London man for anti-Semitic vandalism plaguing a North London neighborhood.
Wiesenthal Center urges US to reconsider funding PA after it moves to become a party to the International Criminal Court.
The US says it is "deeply troubled" by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas signing the Rome Statute to join ICC.
Aliyah was up by 32 percent compared with 2013.
By JTA
More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas. The Nazi symbol was drawn on approximately 27 cars in the Osbaldeston Road area of Stoke Newington on Sunday night, The Daily Mail reported. An unnamed 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the vandalism Tuesday. The neighborhood […]
Israel told the Palestinian Arabs to cease their folly of trying to achieve a state through UN resolutions.
Resolution to force Israel to end the "Occupation" fails at the UN Security Council.
Arab delegates still have not decided when to put the resolution to a vote at the U.N. Security Council.