By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
London Jewish groups said they are “delighted” that the project came about after 15 years of advocacy.
Kahlon, now 77, was recently served with an eviction notice by Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry.
By Ben Bresky
The line-up will include Quarter to Africa, Bini Landau, Lea Shabat, Shakoof, Aharit Hayamim, Nachat Ruach, David Lifshitz, Shuli Rand, and many more.
When the average Israeli is asked why they pollute they reply: "Because there was no trash can." When asked why others pollute they say: "because they enjoy it."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Anti-Semitic graffiti and assaults on Jewish people also accounted for nearly 60 percent of subway hate crimes in 2019, with the highest number of them occurring in the borough of Brooklyn.
“It is a testament to the members’ determination to not only carry on but to forge ahead despite the daunting work that lies ahead ... and just how important the moshav is for Klal Yisrael,” said Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman.
DOT will review the 50,000 existing notices of violation to determine which were caused exclusively by street trees and cancel the lien for any that meets the criteria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The heavily Jewish Broward County has been collecting permit fees for nearly 40 years, but on Sept. 10, commissioners will vote on whether or not to repeal the kosher-license regulations.
By Baruch Lytle
I ran after the guy," Perry told The Jewish Press. I told him to just give me the jacket – I don’t want to hurt you and you don’t want to hurt me.
By Marc Gronich
This is the first time in the nation’s history that residential camps have been included in security grant legislation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While they stopped short of ruling that any gender-segregated pool is unlawful, one of them expressed “vehement disapproval of segregation” over the “separate, but equal” policies.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lakewood is a hub of Orthodox Judaism and home to one of the largest Yeshivas in the world, the 6,500-student Beth Medrash Govoha.
RUOC consistently denies being anti-Semitic, but many find its Facebook posts and videos unmistakably anti-Jewish.
By Marc Gronich
The only candidate to support the move was Faso, who also took exception to Delgado’s remark about Israel not being a Jewish democracy.
By Duvi Honig
Religiously observant, Minister Elkin made a major kiddush Hashem when he walked a great distance one Shabbos to receive urgent medical care.
By Duvi Honig
The lineup at the business conference will feature at top-of-the-line presenters on an array of pertinent general business topics, as well as several intriguing workshops catering to Women in the Workforce.
By Shimmy Blum
Insurance companies often do not cover necessary treatments, leaving patients with as much as $100,000 a year or more in out-of-pocket medical expenditures.
By Mimi Minsky
As an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, Alcantara can empathize and understand more than most the challenges young women and men often face coming into a new world, and she takes it upon herself to advocate for those in need.
Schneider says the values he learned growing up in a Jewish household play a large role in his activism and desire to serve his community. It is what gives him such a strong commitment to pursing justice and volunteering for the community.
By Mimi Minsky
“There was nobody to really show me that you can be a full-time working mom and have a family. This is why I’ve always allowed kids to intern for me, shadow me on any given day, and into my life and home.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ben's Best closed on June 30th, why are there so few Jewish delicatessens left in the Big Apple?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Coupled with Tel Aviv’s presence as a major high-tech and business center, and the strong tourism market in the city, the project fits perfectly with our global clientele,” said Nobu CEO Trevor Horwell.
Margalit Zinati never married because it would have meant leaving Peki'in, and abandoning the town’s ancient synagogue, which features a limestone column engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions dating to the Roman period.
Police discovered the two thieves had been stung by their hijacked cargo, and were now in the process of desperately trying to remove the bees.
Bennett: "While the government is holding talks, the situation on the ground is only getting worse."
"When we (realized we were) out of options, we went for a deal that would be good for our next generation.”
It was the ”innovation and openness to new ideas” in Tel Aviv that attracted Z-Park to open its 11th overseas liaison office here, company officials said.
By Marc Gronich
Master of Ceremonies Yaacov Brisman, a labor lawyer, noted his frustration with humor. “This is my third year and the reason I love coming back is because this is the only event that it doesn’t matter what I say because nobody’s listening.”
By State Senator Simcha Felder
While comforting and well intentioned, these officers don’t stand a chance in the event of a sudden attack.
Israel's Ministry of Education has long fought to prevent the Palestinian Authority from infiltrating Arab schools in Jerusalem.
The project is expected to save the use of 33,000 liters of chemical pesticides.
Cuomo said that he is hopeful that the surcharge will create a shift away from opioids within the medical community.
“In the end, Congress will do what ‘the Jew’ wants, as the vulgar prototype of true power is called,” she wrote.
Touro has created a school with strong roots that will allow professionals and individuals to survive the storms of life, said Dr. Alan Kadish, president of the Touro College and University System,
“This will allow us to positively contribute to helping these couples build healthy new relationships and families in accordance with Halacha and the laws of the State of Israel."
“The court’s decision is revolutionary because for the first time, Facebook is required to look at users as people with rights and not just as goods.”
Under Maury’s dynamic leadership, the Teach Advocacy Network has become a national force in state houses across the country, with state and local officials regularly working with us to address the needs of our yeshivas and day schools.
They already had cargo planes ready, and Diaz allowed room on his Bronx containers for the Brooklyn donations.
In the midst of the day’s frenzied activities, a VIP dinner was held where leaders of both Chambers celebrated the event’s success with some of the leading business and governmental figures in attendance.
In an era in which there is a breakdown of civic and civil conversation, Yeshiva University is uniquely positioned to address the most pressing moral issues of the day.
Conan, an Irish Catholic, said he was looking forward to visiting the ancient sites in Israel, and said he would travel to Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The main road in Efrat has been closed down until an engineer assesses the damage.
Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, head of the Monsey eruv, opposes the notion that the eruv will facilitate an influx of Jewish residents.
“There are 40 people who voted in favor of a bill to close the newspaper Yisrael Hayom and they are accusing me of bribery and breach of trust? Is anyone investigating them?"
The winemakers of Israel are unique because they're constantly "trading ideas back and forth. If one winery in Israel succeeds, we all succeed."
The giant ammonia tank was deemed a major health, environmental and security hazard for years.
“We believe that this transaction will yield important benefits for NeuroDerm’s shareholders and the Parkinson’s disease patients who urgently need new therapies."
Haifa served as a base for the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the 1980s and 90s, but the Pentagon ended that in 2000 when the second intifada erupted.
By JNi.Media
By 4 PM, voter turnout was at 274,152, or 35.3% of the 787,386 eligible registered voters.
"Jewish landlords ... are at the forefront of pushing black and Latino people out of Upper Manhattan," he charged.
Families always face the dilemma of planning fun and appropriate activities during intermediate days of Passover.
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority has revealed a beautiful and rare coral cave in the lower Galilee, via photographs taken recently on site.
Israeli authorities have been ordered to release the body of Ya’akub Musa Abu al-Qi’an, who ran over an Israeli police officer.
A 5-alarm fire spread like lightning, totally destroying a building in Queens, NY that stood for generations and housed 14 businesses.
The former president was released on strict parole terms. He can't supervise women, and has a 10 pm curfew for 2 years.
By JNi.Media
The IDF is the only institution that's still trusted widely: trust in the IDF by Jewish Israelis is at 90% (versus 93% last year) and at 82% by all Israelis. Only 32% of Israeli Arabs, however, trust the IDF.
Israel Police will increase use of body cameras, something that is being used more often in the U.S. as well.
Jewish and Arab master chefs are combining their skills in Haifa to create culinary heaven at a unique festival.
Jerusalem Jews protested having to endure the loud sound of the Islamic call to prayer, even during their sleep.
By JNi.Media
The new group encourages its constituencies "to pursue guidance from its own rabbinic authorities and to continue the spirit of mutual respect and dignity that Jewish practice demands and engenders."
Former President Shimon Peres remains sedated and on a respirator but slowly improving, albeit still in critical condition in the ICU at Sheba Hospital.
By JNi.Media
According to the union, the Shabbat protocol will permit landings of already scheduled flights from abroad, but no takeoffs.
By JNi.Media
The special crew will enhance the hospital's ability to offer first response at a fire event and be able to effect an organized handing over control of the scene once the firefighters arrive on the scene.
By JNi.Media
“We took on this initiative with the understanding that normal life, which is what we aspire for here, cannot exist if we feel that we are living in a bunker and with an atmosphere of having to defend ourselves."
A Jewish woman and child were attacked by an Arab male in Jerusalem on Shavuot.
“I’ve been disgusted every time I’ve heard the absurd plastic bag tax legislation introduced.”
By JNi.Media
The cake can be prepared parve, but the cream cheese filling is what makes it unique.
'Spring forward, fall back' returns to Israel on Thursday night as we move the clocks ahead one hour.
A small community in northern Israel is home to a winery built in a former Syrian military bunker.
Seconds later, the content of the bin was loaded onto the truck along with the expensive ring...
By JNi.Media
Most of the women on the streets wear hijabs, or headscarves, and niqabs, veils that leave visible only the area around the eyes.
By Marc Gronich
Assemblyman Dov Hikind introduced the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service award, Rabbi Joel Rosenfeld, inter-government relations director for the Bobov community.
An Arab resident of the Negev Bedouin town of Kuseifa is arrested for incitement on his Facebook page.
Shoshana Selavan, chairperson of the Old City's Jewish Quarter community, launches a new column on Jewish Life in the Old City.
By Rachel Levy
Members of the Likud Youth Organization ignored a directive from PM Netanyahu, ascending the Temple Mount anyway.
By JNi.Media
For a state that goes out of its way to discriminate in favor of one group, Israel receives high grades in treatment of immigrants of all colors and creeds, beating out the UK, the US and Saudi Arabia.
By JNi.Media
Residents of Hai Taieb Street objected to the plans that would change the character of their street and overwhelm the infrastructure.
