By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
What? France anti-Semitic?
Competition was fierce for Simon Wiesenthal Center's 10 Worst anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel incidents of 2014
By JTA
The Nazis nearly destroyed the 17th synagogue.
Abbas ignored Kerry’s hints of sanctions and told him Jordan will present a resolution to the UN to force Israel to "Auschwitz borders.”
Another Malaysian airplane has disappeared mid-flight.
North Korea and Obama are engaged in escalating threats and both are sniping at Sony.
Bullet holes in an identifiably Jewish-owned building Friday morning makes this the third such attack on Jews in Paris this week.
By JTA
Argentina’s president Christina Fernandez has accepted an official Jewish godson for the first time in the country’s history to help counter legend of death to a seventh son. She described in seven tweets her meeting with her new godson, Yair Tawil, a member of a Chabad-Lubavitch family. He was adopted as a godson under a […]
A kosher restaurant is the scene of the second shooting incident at a Jewish site in Paris this week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia is one of Israel’s primary exports market, with produce amounting to 30 percent of all exports.
Greek Jewish cemetery vandalized, graffiti called for "six million more."
He was yelling "Allah hu Akbar" at the time.
The bullet just missed the Rabbi and his assistant.
Thousands of British Jews fought an anti-Israel boycott.
Driver shouting "Allahu Akbar" plows into pedestrian in third such attack in France in 3 days
Man shouting "Allahu Akbar" drives car into crowd in the French city of Dijon.
First Lebanon's Hezbollah started the Second Lebanon War, now the UN wants Israel to pay Lebanon for damages.
The Islamic terrorist entered the police station and began stabbing policemen while yelling "Allah hu Akbar".
Radical US Jewish lawyer involved in attempt to unite terrorists.
The UN General Assembly approves resolution to refer N. Korea to the Intl Criminal Court at The Hague.
Is Sydney also going to turn out the lights on Christmas trees?
Putin warns financial crisis could last for years.
The State Dept. re-defines “unilateral” and won’t veto a resolution that does not explicitly ”prejudge” outcome of peace talks.
After 5 years in jail, Cuba has released Jewish-American Alan Gross.
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has expressed outrage over the removal of Hamas from the European Union’s list of officially designated terror organizations, after the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg accepted an appeal filed by Hamas against its inclusion in the list. “We have reached a new low in moral relativity if an organization […]
“We are not satisfied with the European Union's explanation that the removal of Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations is a 'technical matter,” 'Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday following the decision of the General Court of the European Union. “The burden of proof is on the European Union and we expect it […]
The decision may boomerang on Hamas once the court studies new evidence to prove Israel’s case.
Hundreds of schoolchildren killed or wounded in Taliban attack on Pakistani school.
Abbas’ counting on vocal support doesn’t mean he knows how to count votes.
More than 1,000 high school seniors from 25 Jewish schools across France will light the Hanukkah menorah together on Thursday in Jerusalem. Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky who said that the French Jewish students' arrival in Israel is "a massive expression of solidarity that reflects the warm and unique connection between the French Jewish community […]
Australian police stormed the Lindt Chocolate Cafe to free the hostages.
The gunman, besides being a Muslim cleric, has a violent record.
Abbas' sidekick Erekat says Palestinian Authority will win the High Noon showdown and go the UN for statehood.
Gad Elbaz wrote on Facebook, “A Miracle, a miracle a miracle of Hanukkah.”
Islamist terrorists have taken 13 hostage in a chocolates cafe in Sydney, Australia.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
An initiative of the Israeli embassy in Senegal recently led to the inauguration of a drip-irrigated vegetable farm in the city of Fatick earlier in December.
No one was injured in the attack.
More than a dozen bullets were fired from two Kalashnikov rifles. No one was injured.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The French police made five new arrests related to the shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels this past May in which four people, including an Israeli couple, were killed in the attack. A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, said that three men and two women were arrested Tuesday in […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
President Rivlin commented that Angola has a central role in Africa. “We are impressed by your progress in the area of water and agriculture, and successful use of natural resources,” Rivlin told the Angolan ambassador.
By JTA
The ban was ruled unconstitutional by the narrowest of margins in a 5-4 vote.
Kerry wants to hear Netanyahu has to say about borders for the PA as defined by France and the United Nations.
By JTA
At least a dozen headstones were desecrated and upended at a Jewish cemetery in Santiago del Estero, an Argentine city of nearly 250,000 and located about 620 miles northeast of Buenos Aires. The attack, which is believed to have occurred over the weekend, was discovered on Monday by a cemetery worker. “Photos were scattered and […]
Terrorism ties led UK to strip British family of citizenship
There is concern that terrorists may try to attack the foreign embassies.
Editor-in-chief and the op-ed editor of the Jerusalem Post respond to UNRWA's call to boycott paper
OUTRAGEOUS: UNRWA call for boycott of Israeli newspaper may also violate State Dept. neutrality agreement
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Hungarian-Israeli Scientific Society Established at Bar-Ilan University
Kerry forgot to mention Israel as an essential stake holder in a Middle East peace plan.
By JTA
A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva.
The victim’s 11-year-old are being cared for by the police. A video shows the murderer’s escape.
The accident happened at a 1000-megawatt reactor which plays a role in supplying electricity to the country.
By JTA
The Chinese government has agreed to send two giant pandas to the Haifa Zoo if Chinese panda experts agree that the conditions there will be appropriate for the animals, according to Haaretz. The conditions include providing the appropriate food, a certain kind of bamboo, and the zoo must also build a special habitat for the […]
Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch made an emotional return to the city where he was imprisoned in the 1970s to join hundreds of Jews from across Russia for the 4th Annual Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) in St. Petersburg this weekend. St. Petersburg claims the second largest Jewish community in Russia today with about […]
By JTA
He explains he was just following that other people were doing. Sound familiar?
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations voted in a plan for the partition of the British Mandate territory of Palestine. The plan came to be called the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine or United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181.
Will Jordan's King Abdullah II ibn al-Hussein be abdicating his throne to create a "Palestinian" state?
“Ninety percent of them [Arabs] don’t know what is written in the Kuran.”
By JTA
The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
"You've been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.”
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
World Council of Arameans Now "Looks Specifically to Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon"
By JTA
The Netherlands will not recognize Palestinian statehood right now because it would not help restart peace talks with Israel, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said.
Iran wants to buy more time and Israel, not Kerry, may have to pay the price.
A Toronto synagogue issued a rare Shabbat appeal to help the family.
Is the West about to provide Iran with a major concession in order to reach an "historic" (but empty) deal?
By JTA
Her tweet proves a baroness can be a twit.
Israel's UN Ambassador called on entire UNSC to confront the reality of the Palestinian Arab barbarity.
The four men murdered in the Har Nof Massacre held US and British citizenship along with Israeli citizenship.
"Sorry, we actually don't want to see that picture, if you can take that down."
The European Jewish Congress has called on European leaders to condition future aid and cooperation between the European Union and the Palestinians on the end of rampant incitement against Israel and Jews in the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the terror attack against worshipers in a synagogue in Jerusalem this morning. “The European Union, […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Police documents reveal that Hezbollah has been providing the Brazilian gang with weapons while also acting as intermediaries in the sale of explosives that the PCC stole from Paraguay.
By JTA
A Canadian university professor was charged in Paris on Saturday in the deadly 1980 synagogue bombing in Paris that killed four and injured more than 40. The arraignment of Hassan Diab came hours after he arrived in Paris after being extradited from Canada following a six-year fight to prevent it. Canada’s Supreme Court last week […]
The UK Board of Deputies of Jewish Organizations voted to admit the British version of J Street.
The Europeans simply want to transform the "Green Line" into a "Red Line" which is actually an Apartheid line.
Islam expands peacefully, unlike the evil west, Erdogan tells South American Muslims.
By JTA
The summer war between Israel and Hamas released an explosion of online anti-Semitic hate speech in several European countries, an international watchdog reported.
By JTA
“Operation ‘Hospitals of Hope’ is an integral part of the vision of MASHAV and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel of helping nations in need, including nations without diplomatic relations with Israel.
Welcome to Post-Nazi Europe.
London hotel reportedly goes sharia-compliant: no alcohol or pork.
Now will there be advice that Jews should not anger anti-Semites and not walk to synagogue?
By JTA
The German envoy has a perverse version of “never forget.”
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Israel and Kenya signed an agreement today, pledging to strengthen ties and increase cooperation between the two countries.
By Shalom Bear
Israel is not cooperating with William Schabas's attempt to write the Goldstone 2 report.
By Rachel Levy
Better late than never, the EU condemns Arab terror in the wake of two deadly attacks on Israeli civilians.
The question is, “Do Western leaders have a clue of what happens outside their hotel rooms?”
Abbas may meet Israel in the ICC a lot sooner than he thought.
Ron Prosor wrote he has no expectations from the UNSC, and deems them lacking sound judgement.
By JTA
Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed recently that there would be no ban on religious slaughter in the United Kingdom.
By JTA
A member of Russia’s Human Rights Council slammed a news website that said that nearly a quarter of Russia’s top billionaires are Jews.
By Tibbi Singer
UK schools that are found to be ‘indoctrinating pupils about gay people’ will face closing under new rules designed to promote ‘British values,’ the British Government confirmed Monday.
Turks find Israel more detestable than Hamas and Hezbollah. In fact, Turks absolutely despise the Jewish state.
Sweden and John Kerry would make wonderful partners to get lost in the same maze.
“It’s serious, there are now genuine questions being asked about whether we will be able to vote Labor next May.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Authorities in Peru this week arrested a suspected Hezbollah terrorist who planned to murder Jews. Lebanese citizen Mohammed Hamden was in possession of explosives and other materials when he was arrested, according to the Peruvian Interior Ministry. Police found traces of TNT, detonators and other explosive devices in his apartment. Reports indicate that the suspect […]
Foreign Minister Lieberman may be playing “chicken.” What happens if France follows Sweden?
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
China has acquired $7 billion in Israeli assets in the past three years.
By Rachel Levy
Columnist quotes Obama aide insulting Netanyahu, citing "crisis" in US-Israel relations.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Israel Will Buy, And Help Produce, American Jet Fighters; Will Sell Communications Equipment to Canada
The obvious rejection will be valuable for historians to understand why the UN is a world disaster area.