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Tehran is also in talks with Moscow to buy new Russian fighter jets.
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The Russians and the Syrians also discussed cooperation with Chinese companies to increase oil and gas digging in Syrian fields which are safe from rebel attacks.
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The purpose of the expedition is to bring Jewish traditions to Jews who are far from the culture.
A wealthy Russian Jewish leader and businessman was critically wounded by a single gunshot in an attempted murder that could have been prompted by anti-Semitism but also may have been related to revenge. The victim was identified as Sergey Ustinov, who was shot in the neck with a sawed-off pistol. Ustinov founded the Museum of […]
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Vladimir Putin is clamping down on “foreign” influences and intellectuals, and as Jews feel they are the natural targets of his ire, they have been leaving Russia for Israel in droves.
How insulting that the P5+1 dare to impose demands on Iran!
By Rachel Levy
US-led talks with Tehran appear to have reached a deal on sanctions relief: but what about access to Iranian nuclear sites?
The model Egypt received was painted yellow.
Guess which ally helps the other, lets it take credit and then gets spat on?
Russ has offered to host a peace-pipe meeting between Hamas and Fatah, the Lebanese as-Safir newspaper reported this week. It added that Hamas accepted the proposal while Fatah, headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, is still thinking about it. A meeting hosted by Russia would solve the thorny problem of where Fatah and Hamas […]
A recent poll shows the majority of Americans believe the country has already gone to hell in that darn hand basket.
By Shalom Bear
The Russian government’s plan to rid the capital Moscow of swastikas and everything else of Nazi origin, in time for Victory Day.
The emails are unclassified but include sensitive information of correspondence with ambassadors.
Kremlin says the lifting of the ban on selling the anti-missile systems to Iran was only a "political and legal decision."
if Iran tries to move a Russian s-300 antimissile system to Syria or Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel will make sure it doesn't get there.
In the past, both Russia and Israel stopped their weapons sales to avoid excess friction between the countries. Not anymore.
Congressional oversight of Iran bill unanimously passes Committee, President no longer threatens veto.
Russia gives Iran a bear hug and also gives Israel another reason to show Obama that the "deal" is worse than bad.
A small plane departing for Russia burst into flames just before takeoff at noon Wednesday at Ben Gurion Intl Airport.
The Iran nuclear deal allows continued uranium enrichment, a bunkered centrifuge center and no snap inspections. Lucky Iran.
Lausanne has become the center stage of act that would put the world's best novelist or Broadway producer to shame.
With "congratulations" like these, who needs a punch in the stomach?
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has consulted with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in preparation for a resumption of negotiations Wednesday with the P5+1 towards reaching an interim agreement before the end of the month on Tehran's nuclear program. Russia is a member of the P5+1 but also has a vested interest in Iran's […]
On February 10, Nemtsov wrote in a news website, "I'm afraid Putin will kill me."
Details of the negotiations with Iran reveal Bibi's warnings correct: this is a very bad deal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday morning he has agreed to a cease-fire brokered by France and Germany to end the 10-month stand-off in Ukraine. The deal is amends the cease-fire agreement last September that failed. Each side has agreed to retract heavy weapons, release all prisoners and allow more autonomy to separatists in eastern […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia is one of Israel’s primary exports market, with produce amounting to 30 percent of all exports.
The UN General Assembly approves resolution to refer N. Korea to the Intl Criminal Court at The Hague.
Putin warns financial crisis could last for years.
By JTA
A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva.
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
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.
Underneath all of the mess in Syria, Israel prefers Russian-backed Assad over jihadist rebels.
Russia and Egypt have reached a preliminary agreement for a $3.5 billion arms deals.
By Rachel Levy
Did the U.S. allow Hamas terrorists rule Israel's skies? Why would the Obama administration do that?
Ukraine rebels are holding four European observers hostage, and shot down a gov't helicopter, killing 14.
Ostrovsky was beaten and blindfolded during his captivity
By Roman Mokrinsky / Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine, with reports of casualties continuing to stream out of the provinces in dispute,
The US has decided to begin restoring its military aid to Egypt, apparently in response to the Egypt-Russia MiG-35 deal that is on the table.
This massive Russian-Egyptian arms deal is a slap in the face for President Obama and his failed foreign policy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
There is nothing like a war of anti-Semites against anti-Semites to encourage Aliyah. Ukrainian Jewish immigration to Israel has risen 70 percent in 2014 amid the recent political upheaval in that country. According to the Jewish Agency for Israel, 375 new immigrants from Ukraine arrived in the first three months of 2014, compared with 221 […]
By JTA
What do expect from a man who also wants a law that prohibits “promoting” homosexuality and grants citizenship embryos?
By JTA
A Russian Jewish group is preparing to open a kosher “Shachar Club” nightclub in the center of Moscow Saturday night, the Russia-language Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported. “Jewish youth in Moscow should have somewhere with an easy, relaxed atmosphere to hang out, discuss their identity, or just have fun,” a co-founder of the new club, […]
By JTA
Being a Jew in the Diaspora usually means having to defend the host country in the vain hope it will guarantee their safety.
By JTA
Irwin Cotler, a veteran human rights activist and member of Canada’s parliament, says being banned from Russia is an “honor.” When Russia issued its blacklist of 13 Canadians on Monday, Cotler was quick to express his pleasure at being included. ”I wear my exclusion from Russia as a badge of honor and am proud to […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The scene of Russian troops sealing the region of Crimea conjures up scary reminders of the Nazi invasions of Europe.
The Russian search giant Yandex has bought out Israel’s KitLocate start-up, a maker of low-power mobile geolocation technology, for “several million Euros,” TechCrunch reported Tuesday. KitLocate features low battery consumption by using proprietary algorithms that allow location-based apps to request the device’s geographic coordinates less frequently without losing too much precision. Yandex will use KitlLocate’s […]
Israel’s Defense Minister Ya’alon is sounding more like Foreign Minister Lieberman every day.
On the one hand, Putin has been a friend to Chabad and to Israel. On the other hand, Putin is a brutal dictator.
The Obama administration imposed sanctions on seven Russians and four Ukrainians in retaliation on Monday in response to the apparently imminent annexation by Russia of the Crimean peninsula of the Ukraine. Among those sanctioned were advisers to Russian President Vladimir Putin and parliament members in and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. The European Union has […]
The Obama administration has rejected an appeal from the interim government in Ukraine that the United States send arms, ammunition and intelligence support, senior officials said Thursday. With Vladimir Putin breathing down his neck, the last thing President Barack Obama needs is doing anything to aggravate the Russian bear, who already is fuming at the […]
By JTA
Ira Forman, the Obama administration’s special envoy on anti-Semitism, disputed claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukrainian revolutionaries were spreading hatred of Jews. In an interview published Thursday in the Jewish Daily Forward, Forman said Putin’s assertions were not credible. “We have no indication that what President Putin has been saying about anti-Semitism has […]
When a region experiences strife and instability, the first to come under threat are the Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The signatories challenge the assertion that antisemitism has risen in Ukraine.
Russia test-fired an ICBM on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Will the Haredim escape to Israel before or after the gates are closed.
By JTA
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, one of the two chief rabbis of the Ukraine (the other one is Rabbi Azriel Chaikin), accused Russia of staging antisemitic “provocations” in Crimea in order to justify its invasion of the former Soviet republic. At a press conference in the Manhattan office of the United Jewish Communities of Eastern Europe, […]
By JTA
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, the head of a pro-democracy group in his native Russia, was granted Croatian citizenship. Kasparov reportedly became a Croatian citizen last week after applying for citizenship in early February. He owns a home in Croatia and speaks the language, according to reports. The founder and […]
Russia is thumbing her nose at President Obama.
By JTA
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews said it will send $1 million to assist the Jewish community in Ukraine amid the country’s political upheaval. The help, which will go toward security for Jewish institutions and for the elderly and impoverished, was announced Wednesday by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the founder and president of the fellowship. […]
Anti-Yanukovych workers jubilantly removed a replica of the Russian Red Star from Ukraine’s parliament building Tuesday. “The Soviet star has been cut off,” said Ruslan Koshulinsky, the deputy speaker of parliament. The star is similar to those on buildings in Russia and countries from the former Soviet Union. Ukraine is still trying to put things […]
The United States proves how weak its foreign policy really is every time it tries to solve the world's problems
A senior Hungarian rabbi said Tuesday he has found 103 Torah scrolls that were stolen from Hungarian Jews in World War II and hidden in a Russian library in Novgorod, east of Moscow. Russia has not decided what to do with the holy scrolls, which Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation Chief Rabbi Shlomo Koves wants to […]
By JTA
A local politician from the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Jews of destroying Russia. The accusation by Oleg Bolychev, a legislator from the ruling United Russia party at the regional parliament in Kaliningrad, was made in the parliament on Feb. 6, according to the Regnum news agency, which reported on it on […]
Has the United States done anything right in the Middle East in the last few decades?
By Ari Schwartz
On Sunday, just 3 days into the Sochi games, Jews have already won 3 medals.
A student killed one policeman, a biology teacher, shot and wounded another policeman and took 20 pupils hostage before police overcame and arrested him Sunday in the northern end of Moscow. "The person who took 20 people and a teacher hostage is a student in the upper classes at the same school," an interior ministry […]
By JTA
Israel will be sending five athletes to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, starting next month. Evgeni Krasnopolski, 25, a Ukraine native who grew up in Israel, will skate in the pairs competition with Andrea Davidovich, 16, of Vermont. The pair, who train in Hackensack, N.J., finished seventh in the senior pairs competition at the […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas asked Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Thursday to invest in a $1 billion natural gas project off the coast of Hamas-controlled Gaza, Russia’s news agency reported. Abbas is vesting Moscow, which has been a strong backer of the Palestinian Authority. Securing a huge investment for Gaza would help Abbas win […]
The Limmud FSU (Former Soviet Union) announced Monday that the upcoming Limmud FSU conference in Belarus this summer will feature a special event in memory of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose parents were born in Belarus. The event will take place in Sharon’s father’s hometown city of Brest, and Sharon’s sons Omri and Gilad, […]
By JTA
Prison authorities in Russia released a Jewish schoolteacher whose controversial bribery conviction triggered protests by leading politicians. The teacher, Ilya Farber, was released Friday from the Tver correctional prison after serving three years of a 7-year sentence for accepting $13,000 in bribes. “The campaign to resolve the issue of [political] prisoners just got another devoted […]
See also: Female Suicide Bomber Kills 18 in Area of 2014 Russian Winter Olympics. At least 15 people were killed and 23 wounded in an explosion on a crowded trolley bus in Volgograd, southern Russia, according to the Interfax news agency. Volgograd is on high alert today, Monday, after a female suicide bomber attacked a train […]
P eople around the station thought a plane had crashed
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes Western politicians have started to realize that overthrowing Assad’s government might lead to a worsening of the Syrian crisis, the official Russain News agency RT reports. “The attitudes are changing in Western countries, they are becoming more realistic in their approach towards settling the Syrian crisis,” said Lavrov. “The […]
By JTA
Unidentified Russian vandals used a pig’s head to desecrate a synagogue in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, according to representatives of the Jewish community of the city, located 600 miles west of Baku, Azerbaijan. They found the pig’s head at the entrance to their synagogue and believe the perpetrators are also responsible for English-language […]
By JTA
A Russian court ordered the early release of a Jewish teacher whose bribery trial was marred by anti-Semitic statements and whose lengthy prison sentence was criticized by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Tver Regional Court last week reduced Ilya Farber’s sentence from seven years to three for accepting bribes and abusing his position while working […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Thursday he will sign pardon for jailed tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky "in the nearest future," RIA Novosti reported. Khodorkovsky’s father was Jewish and his mother was Christian. He was Russia's richest man before his arrested in 2003 and was slated to be freed next August. "He has spent over […]
By JTA
The Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has agreed to acknowledge the Jewish identity of Holocaust victims killed there by the Nazis. The municipality’s Memorial Council last week announced its decision to revise a memorial plaque at the Zmievskaya Balka mass grave to mention the Jewish identity of the majority of the approximately 27,000 bodies buried there […]
It is the first civilian nuclear power plant built in the Middle East.
The Pentagon is fielding more than 35,000 troops in the Persian Gulf as a “bulwark against aggression.”
The Interior Ministry will grant Evgeny Kissin, one of the world's leading classical pianists and an enthusiastic Jewish supporter of Israel, Israeli citizenship event though he does not live in the country, the Jewish Agency said Thursday Kissin, 42, told Jewish Agency Chairman Sharansky a year ago that he was interested in acquiring Israeli citizenship […]
The Palestinian Authority was born out of a lie and will die out of the truth, ever so slowly.
By JTA
Immigrants to Israel from seven countries will light Hanukkah candles Tuesday night simultaneously with Jews in seven other countries in a ceremony organized by the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption and The Jewish Agency for Israel. The candle lighting in Israel will take place at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, where 300 young […]
By Shalom Bear
Israel has been has been threatening, almost explicitly, that any agreement signed with Iran will not restrict Israel from acting militarily to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear breakout.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Jewish community leaders in Moscow during his trip to Russia, "The Iranians deny our past and repeat their commitment to wipe the State of Israel off the map. This reminds us of the dark regimes of the past that plotted against us first and then against all of humanity.” The […]
By Shalom Bear
Russia and Egypt are set to sign a major arms deal that is of similar value to the amount of aid the US had been sending to Egypt.
By JTA
Russian church officials suspended a priest for using an anti-Semitic pejorative while baptizing a girl. The two-month ban on Andrey Evstigneeva was announced earlier this month on the website of the Diocese of Saratov, a city 450 miles southeast of Moscow. It followed complaints by the family and the Russian Jewish Congress, the Interfax news […]
By Shalom Bear
Russia is filling in the vacuum in Egpyt that the U.S. is leaving behind.
Prominent opposition figure Aleksey Navalny and co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov have been given a suspended sentence in their trumped up embezzlement trial that has attracted a lot of international attention. According to RT, President Putin's official news agency, Navalny is going to appeal the sentence. “Neither I nor my colleagues are going to stop the political […]
The commander of the Free Syrian Army rebel group warns that Assad will continue to murder his own people.
“Auctioning” off the honor of being called to the Torah and for the privilege of reading the “Haftorah,” or “Maftir” section of the Prophets, is common in the Diaspora and also in many urban and more affluent communities in Israel, but it takes a lot to top an unidentified Moscow millionaire, or perhaps billionaire, who […]
Israel has no information to confirm Syrian rebel claims that the Assad regime has sent part of its stockpile of chemical weapons to Iraq, Knesset Member and former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told Voice of Israel radio Sunday. However, the regime still is planning to ship the illegal weapons to Iraq and to Hezbollah, Free […]
John Kerry's remarks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after their meeting, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland, September 14, 2013.
Is Assad’s mind so twisted that he used chemical weapons again? Or are the rebels equally twisted enough to gas Assad’s soldiers and then accuse the regime. And does it matter anymore?
Al Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers 12 years ago. With the help of other terrorists, it is bringing down Mideast regimes, banking on chaos to spread its policy of destruction of the West.
Iran for years has been trying to get Russia’s advanced S-300 missile system that can down commercial airplanes. Putin, feeling his oats after leading Obama by the nose, is ready to supply the goods.
By JTA
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called for a recount in Moscow’s mayoral election after missing the runoff vote cutoff by one percentage point. He is asking for a recount. Incumbent Sergei Sobyanin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, garnered just over 51 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election to 27 percent for […]
By JTA
One of Russia’s most prominent gay rights activists made anti-Semitic statements on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The tweets appeared last week on Nikolai Alexeyev’s account in connection with an article about him in OUT Magazine. Alexeyev re-tweeted comments calling the author of the article, Michael Lucas, a “Jewish pig” and “Israeli monkey,” and calling […]
El Al has signed an agreement with GetTaxi to offer passengers discounts for GetTaxi's cab hailing service in New York, Tel Aviv and other cities where it operates, the Globes business newspaper reported. The discount from JFK to Manhattan will take $25 off the usual fare of $60-85. The discount program also is available in […]
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