The Chief Rabbinate will invite Rabbi Riskin for a hearing on whether to extend his term, ostensibly because of his age but possibly because of his views on conversion.
The boys were heading to a Shavuot study session when they were attacked by the Arab terrorist.
Remarks by the President on Jewish American Heritage Month - May 22, 2015
Israel finally has a Foreign Minister who is not ashamed to say the word "God."
An Arab language website sent a reporter, dressed as a Jew, to the streets of Cairo.
Scotland Yard said it cannot prevent the upcoming neo-Nazi march that is planned for July 4th.
The President will speak Friday night at Washington's largest Conservative synagogue, probably to continue to express his opinion that Israel is racist & Israel should embody "Judeo-Christian"/universal values (as opposed to Jewish values). They're going to lap it up .
Robert Wistrich, considered the world's leading historian on anti-Semitism, died in Rome late Tuesday from a heart attack. He was 70 years old. He was scheduled to address the Italian Senate on increasing anti--Semitism in Europe. Wistrich was professor of Jewish history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and headed the university's Vidal Sassoon International Center […]
ICPHH Event Rallies Community to Support Wall Around 3000-Year Old Cemetery.
By Shalom Bear
Only in Israel will a Litvak MK go to a Chassideshe Rebbe to convince an "anti-Chareidi" MK to join the coalition.
Bnei Brak Hassidic woman and child are fine after C-section birth of in-vitro-fertilization baby.
Francis apparently wouldn't recognize the Angel of Death if it stared him in the face.
Because the attack was so violent, it was recommended that the woman take a 15-day furlough from work to recuperate.
Denied her doctorate by the Nazis, 102 year old woman will finally receive it, nearly 80 years later.
Two Jews, a women CEO of a start-up and a Naval Academy students, were among the seven people killed in Tuesday night's crash of a speeding Amtrak train in Philadelphia. The family of CEO Rachel Jacobs, who was active in the Reform Jewish community, said in a statement, “This is an unthinkable tragedy. Rachel was […]
By Shalom Bear
The Arab was upset the Israeli emergency clinic that treated her hung up "Israeli-Jewish" flags. She should go find a clinic in Syria.
NYC's UJA-Federation leadership was criticzed for allowing groups that support economic sanctions against Israel to again march in the Celebrate Israel Parade.
Ostensibly Jewish "leaders" are protecting and promoting those engaged in economic and legal warfare against the Jewish State.
A group of former IDF soldiers, incensed over an Israeli NGO's claims, have taken to social media to fight the allegations.
Four buses in Copenhagen were found on fire on Friday morning, and a fifth bus was covered with anti-Israel graffiti.
He said that "the Zionists are celebrating" his defeat.
The Officer-Rabbi was making a Shiva call when the extremists confronted him.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of "concrete threats" of terror attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Tunisia.
"It is indisputable that the dominant factor behind Aliyah to Israel from Western Europe is anti-Semitism."
"High noon" is 8 p.m. Wednesday. New elections, anyone?
Kachlon is sounding suspiciously like Yair Lapid, the last government's supposed champion of "social justice."
By Shalom Bear
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate has cut the arches off the 10 Commandments.
Is Aliyah to Israel going through the minds of Jews going to synagogues where private guards are needed?
The assault was on the same street where Ilan Halimi was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 2006.
"Even in their Protocols [of the Elders of Zion] and even in their bible [it says], ‘Don't live in Gaza,'" says Fatah spokesman.
The Ravens' Ray Lewis screamed that violence is never the answer." Unfortunately, he is wrong.
Jewish Vermont Sen. Sanders, who boasts he is "very close" to the teachings of Pope Francis," reportedly will announce his candidacy on Thursday.
By Kosher Today
Could it be that one of America’s largest Jewish communities and kosher markets does not offer kosher fare at its premier ballpark? Apparently so, say fans who voiced their complaints with the Jewish Journal. Second only to New York, Los Angeles is estimated to have more than 600,000 Jews, yet no kosher food at Dodger […]
“We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again,” said Red Cross President Peter Maurer.
By Shalom Bear
Kentucky Senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul wants to enlist Jewish support.
German Soccer fans were told to stop waving their Israeli flags.
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.
Miller would like a chance to tell the court it's time to “put the Jews on trial where they belong.”
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park holds the record for the highest birth rate in New York City in 2013.
Vying for dominance in the WZO election, are movements within our nation which seek to undermine and subvert Orthodox Judaism.
Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'
The officer of a Hareidi IDF unit was in Mea Shearim to visit two of his soldiers whose families have social or financial problems.
Prime Minister Netanyahu tells the contestants that "we could not exist without the Bible.
A new Chareidi initiative has been launched for Yom HaZikaron, called "Sheket, Zochrim" or "Be Silent, We are Remembering".
They Get-ring was uncovered by an undercover FBI agent posing as an Orthodox wife whose husband refused to grant her a Get.
World Zionist Congress elections are underway - you have until April 30 to vote.
He thanks Jews who stand up for Israel but didn’t even hint they should make Aliyah.
"He did not know what anger was and never engaged in slander."
Oskar Groening's admission of crimes and denial of guilt exposes the depths and truth of evil.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his sorrow over the passing of Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein Monday. "Rabbi Lichtenstein's knowledge found expression in his literary works. He served generations of students," said the Prime Minister. He added, "When I gave him the Israel Prize a year ago, I saw before my eyes a great rabbi, teacher and […]
President Reuven Rivlin granted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu two more weeks Monday morning to form a new government coalition after negotiations with different t parties have not produced a positive result. Rivlin really had no other choice. He would like to see a national unity government with the Likud and the Zionist Union, the euphemism […]
He followed and spread the teachings of his late father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
Bennett drew his red line on Twitter, but don’t worry. There is a Jewish solution.
Former chief Rome Rabbi Elio Toaff died on Sunday the age of 99, two weeks before what was supposed to be his 100th birthday. He served as chief rabbi of the city for 51 years until 2002 after having served as the chief rabbi of Venice. Rabbi Toaf once prayed with Pope John Paul II, […]
Alfred Taubman, who helped shopping in the United States by developing malls, died of a heart attack while at home on Friday, He was 91. Taubman was known for philanthropy, especially in his native Michigan, where was a large contributor to the Detroit Institute of Arts. "Al Taubman changed the way America shops. But his […]
The EU wants to label Settler products. Liberman want to remind them of the last time they labeled Jews.
The teacher could face three years in jail for displaying Nazi symbols, which includes singing Nazi songs.
The rock under the mosaic floor that was damaged is the foundation where the two Holy Temples stood.
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry calls the Shoah "the most painful and horrific chapter in human history."
The president was very politically correct on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
Some American Jews continue lobbying Obama to more aggressively undermine Israel
Israel, for good reason, is just about the only nation on Earth that understands the results of appeasing evil.
Sirens were heard across the country at 10 a.m., when people were asked to stand, or stop their cars, in memory of 6 million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis. Many Hareidim, but not all of them, do not stand, and every year the anti-Hareidi media post a picture of Hareidim walking while the siren blares. […]
Anti-Semitic vandals scrawled a swastika on a wall at Northwestern University and also included Afro-Americans in their hate messages by posting derogatory slogans. University police removed the offensive drawing and graffiti and are investigating. "This news is especially hurtful coming only days before Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on which we remember the millions of […]
Pardon our disappearance, the JewishPress.com website was hacked overnight.
Bar-Ilan University released the research report the evening before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
There are 189,000 survivors of the Holocaust still living, but an average of 40 die every day, the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel reported Monday in its annual report. Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed on Wednesday night and Thursday. The Foundation also said that 45,000 survivors live in poverty, as […]
Support for Obama from religious Jews is only 34 percent. Next year in New Hampshire?
Winter returned to Israel on Saturday, and Sunday, a week after Jews stopped praying for rain.
The gang planned to target two Spanish princesses and Jewish bookshops and synagogues.
The terrorist was behind the attack that killed 166 people, including a Chabad center rabbi and his wife.
A 40 year old man died Tuesday on Chol Hamoed Pesach after falling 50 meters from a path while hiking in the Judean Desert.
US Pres. Barack Obama posts late video Passover greetings and timely Easter greetings in a weekend message.
The modern state of Israel is 67 years old. We, the People of Israel, celebrate our 3,327th birthday tonight.
Noam Federman had a lamb in his possession.
Thousands of soldiers will remain on duty defending the country while Jews around the world are at the Seder table tonight.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in the ceremony to sell the State of Israel's chametz to Abu Ghosh resident Hussein Jabar.
The Temple Institute renacted the entire Pesach sacrifice ceremony.
A family. 7 Children. An indescribable tragedy. How do they go on? How do we react? And what lessons are we supposed to learn?
By Sandy Eller
While we are all accustomed to the occasional recipe substitutions – swapping milk for creamer, applesauce for oil – gluten-free cooking is a whole different ballgame.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
With one week to go before Passover, 110 new Ukrainian immigrants landed in Israel on Tuesday morning, March 24. The majority of newcomers are refugees who fled the fighting zones in the eastern part of the Ukraine including the husband of a woman killed by a direct rock hit that slammed into their house in […]
Why is the black kettle that whistles to Arabs to vote called "democratic" and the one that urges Jews to vote called "racist?"
Nazi symbols were written on the walls of a building that may have been designated as shelters for Nazi leaders.
The children were laid to rest in Jerusalem earlier Monday evening.
The 7 children will be buried in Israel.
85 people were killed in the July 1994 bombing.
The all-women Hareidi political party wanted to advertise to their constituency.
2 months after the terror attack that killed 4 Jews, the store reopened with new staff.
Rosen, a former Cleveland Indians slugger, was a proud Jew. He died Friday at age 91.
Chabad will be running a special election day campaign.
They disrupted a lecture by retired British Col. Richard Kemp, who says Israel tried to prevent civilian deaths in Gaza.
The election polls reflect the demographics of Israel, united by faith and divided by ideology and tradition.
The Shas chairman, the smartest politician in town, knows a coalition in the hand is better than one in the bush.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
How the volume made its way from a 17th-century Frankfurt printing press to finding its twin in Haifa is a fascinating story.
Sam Simon was 59 when he died in his California home on Sunday.
Once again, Arabs desecrated this ancient Jewish cemetery...
By Shalom Bear
Rabbi Lau was surreptitiously talking about current events and not ancient texts on the news Friday morning...
Purim is a national holiday and costume party in Israel, when there is a spirit of unity.
Bottles of wine accompany the Pesach storytelling - each glass of wine represents the four expressions used by G-d in describing the redemption of the Jewish people from Egypt.
"Today, we are no longer silent; today, we have a voice. Tomorrow, as prime minister of the only Jewish state, I plan to use that voice."