The surfer got back to shore and saw there had been two sharks circling him.
By Rachel Levy
Machsom Watch women came to harass IDF soldiers in Hebron but embarrassed themselves instead.
“We have an extraordinary tie between the city of New York and the state of Israel,” the mayor told reporters. “Protecting the future of Israel is something so many New Yorkers care deeply about.”
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park holds the record for the highest birth rate in New York City in 2013.
A 40 year old man died Tuesday on Chol Hamoed Pesach after falling 50 meters from a path while hiking in the Judean Desert.
The 7 children will be buried in Israel.
A couple hiking in the woods near Jerusalem this weekend were robbed by Arab teens on horseback.
Richard White, 62, tried to attack a TSA agent Friday at New Orleans airport with a machete.
The fire, caused by the Shababt Blech, swept through the house while the family slept.
Mortar fire awakened southern Israelis living near the border with Gaza as two shells were shot from the city of Rafah.
By Rachel Levy
Leftist Jewish American group "J Street" is trying to help the anti-Netanyahu campaign with an ad geared head off Bibi's US supporters.
Pres. Reuven Rivlin launches joint project with 'Collective Impact' to integrate Israeli Arab workers into private business sector.
Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus is awarded the Israel Prize for Media Criticism.
This week marks the 46th anniversary of the Supersol Agron bombing attack in Jerusalem. Two Jewish students died.
The names of the IDF soldiers killed by Hezbollah at Mount Dov on Wednesday have been released for publication.
His philosophy was ‘a pintele yid is noch a yid.’ Every Jew is precious no matter what label they carry….
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University of the Negev have discovered an earlier way to diagnose brain damage.
Israeli Border Guard police managed to resuscitate an electrocuted PA Arab boy in Hebron and bring him back to life.
Polygamist cult leader Goel Razton is convicted in Tel Aviv District Court, and gets 30 years in prison.
Israeli transportation and tourism employees will carry out a work slowdown on Wednesday in solidarity with striking postal workers.
A 30-year-old man is listed in serious condition after setting himself afire at the Savion Junction in central Israel on Tuesday.
A 3-hour strike at Ben Gurion International Airport at check-in counters has delayed thousands.
A Michigan high school stopped a military dad from entering the building because his uniform "might offend" some students.
Construction of thousands of new homes for Jerusalem Arabs was approved Wednesday by a city development committee.
A forest fire is raging out of control in the Jerusalem corridor. According to reports on Israel Radio, six teams of fire fighters are battling the blaze near Shoresh and Ein Rafa, with an additional five teams working to put out a fire near Ma’aleh HaHamisha and Kiryat Anavim (Telz Stone). Heavy traffic is reported […]
Pro-Hamas activists hung a 200 foot PA flag from the Brooklyn Bridge.
5 boys got lost after leaving their Catskills camp for a hike....
A rabbi, identified as Rabbi Joseph Raksin by NBC news, was shot and killed on his way to synagogue Saturday morning, in North Miami Beach.
Israeli workers fitted with flak jackets to protect against Palestinian attacks while delivering humanitarian aid.
Video: Residents of Ma'aleh Adumim catch Palestinians illegally entering Israel, report incident to police.
Arab terror vows notwithstanding, Jerusalem Light Rail service has already been restored to northern neighborhoods.
Arab pedestrian arouses suspicion outside open-air market in capital; no injuries reported.
Ali Salim: Arab MKs encourage kids to fight police, then disappear.
Protesters clash with police for seventh night in Arab-majority towns and neighborhoods around country
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Legal group responds to rocket fire from Gaza, calls on gov't to withhold payments to Palestinian Authority to pay for repairs.
Judea and Samaria town uses manhunt for Eyal, Gil-Ad and Naftali to create opportunity for social cohesion
Mahane Yehuda market remains Likud stronghold, but locals say leaders need inner conviction to withstand public pressure.
By JTA
In response to the kidnapping of three boys last week, some Israelis have prayed. Some have voiced support on social media. And some have done what they do best: they made an app. Prompted by the kidnapping and set to launch in the near future, the SOS Israel app will allow anyone in Israel facing an emergency to trigger […]
Prowiser said: "if you are for freedom and democracy and you are not for Israel, you are a hypocrite.”
Women in Green founder takes on critics of Judea and Samaria hitchhikers, says fear not the way to move forward
Army raids Nablus-area refugee camps, arrests terror suspects, confiscates weapons, ammunition
Breaking News: Fatah-linked group is latest in string of terror orgs to say they are holding boys; will demand thousands of Palestinian prisoners
Instead of searching for the kidnappers of Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shayer and Naftali Frenkel, police spent Saturday night arresting Jewish teenagers suspected of throwing stones at Arab cars near the Haredi town of Beitar Ilit.. Police asked for the court to extend their remand, but the underage suspects were released by the court. The incident […]
Israel Railways is ending night train service to the Negev from Ben Gurion airport, 'not cost effective.'
New law proposes banning cigarettes from health facilities; currently smoking permitted in open-air spaces
Police interrogated "S" about a price tag attack for two weeks; Family: Shin Bet acting like "thugs"
Presumably, Bat Ayin children suspected of price tag crimes, but no charges have been filed; several teens held for more than a week without seeing a lawyer
Police find three-meter tunnel in South Hebron Hills; last week, local communities ran dry thanks to hundreds of illegal taps into water main
The Israeli and international press have barely noted Arab attacks against Jewish sites around Israel, including swastikas and anti-Israel graffiti - apparently neither have the police.
By JTA
Urban Adamah organization feared for safety of class participants.
Unknown vandals splattered red paint on a line of Israeli flags set up in the city of Jaffa (Yafo) in the wee hours of Wednesday.
By JTA
A $15,000 reward has been posted for information that will help find Peretz Sontag of Rockland County, New York.
By David Morris
Eli Cohen is now the nationally-known face of electoral integrity and honesty in Israel.
Professionals and lay leaders from around the world will gather in Jerusalem for a historic 3-day conference on child abuse.
Government plans to market 12,000 new apartments in Modi'in, where prices haven't stopped rising in recent years.
By JTA
A New Jersey rabbinical student on his way to morning prayers was struck by a garbage truck and killed in Brooklyn. Gedalia Gruntzweig, 25, a student at Tiferes Bachurim, a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Morristown, was visiting friends in Crown Heights on Sunday for a pre-wedding party. Gruntzweig, a Ukraine native, was pronounced dead at the […]
Who would have imagined that things Jewish on the Lower East Side of New York would get so tough that local Jewish residents must launch a petition to establish a kosher restaurant. "Kosher Restaurant in Seward Park" is an online petition of residents of the Seward Park co-op on the Lower East Side, urging their […]
New York City has another husband-and-wife team helping to run the city with the disclosure that Rikki Klieman, the wife of Police Chief Bill Bratton, plans to go to community meetings with him and will use her connections through her appearance on CBS as a legal analyst to his advantage. The husband and wife duo, […]
By Daniel Perez
Young Israel celebrates the life of the diplomat turned wartime hero.
The vandalism won't destroy the Chabad mission of responding to adversity with increased joy and celebration. Still, if the vandals are apprehended, Chabad will press charges.
Funding sources are invited to publicize grants at no cost.
16 year-old NCSY board member, Orly Ohayon, is in critical condition and her mother was killed when a car struck them on their way to shul erev Yom Kippur.
By Chabad.org
Some 300 people came specifically because of the floods.
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner found another subject to use as a soap box for his opinions – the crisis in Egypt. After having reiterated his stand last month that Israel does not “occupy” Judea and Samaria, Weiner recently said of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, “You can’t get elected by a relatively […]
Anthony Weiner has soared in pre-election poll and now is sharing the lead with two other candidates, according to one poll, while a second survey puts him the lead. Anew Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday puts Weiner in a statistical three-way tie with former frontrunner City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city comptroller William […]
“I’m gonna' do it. I am going to campaign in Borough Park aggressively" he said.
All of Eretz Israel is excited about the chance to win the coveted prize.
They can be done by the office of the mayor and the mayor can choose to make these as a priority, and see it through.
“Hey Anthony, you’re the only one that can win and keep us on the right track!”
“The events outside Manhattan are drawing large crowds and attracting GOP Primary voters, building the enthusiasm we need to win.”
By JTA
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a resolution to continue awarding city contracts without regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The resolution passed Wednesday was intended as a rebuttal to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to bring economic pressure to bear on Israel, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported. The […]
The Skulener Rebbe, 88, is beloved by every chasidic congregation in the State of New York and worldwide.
Mr. de Blasio dropped out less than an hour before he was supposed to appear on stage.
Anthony Weiner did what presidential candidates usually do: sign autographs.
“I didn’t leave my beard — my beard left me,” de Blasio told The Post.
Her support has dropped 39% percent, but she still manages to keep her lead over her opponents, including Mr. Weiner.
By Martin Bodek
They did it old school too, by avoiding the use of GPS technology to find their way.
Mr. Weiner spared the last dollar bill with the first guy that approached him.
Ms. Quinn urged the US government to immediately recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State
Weiner pleased the crowd, using continuously Hebrew and Yiddish phrases – such as Mikva, Kishkas and Eretz Yisroel.
“Not that I’m condoning what he did, but I always thought that he was good for the community.”
Mr. Weiner, who is the only Jewish candidate running in the Democratic primary, was cheered by many marchers and onlookers, but many also booed.
There are not many issues the Democratic mayoral hopefuls agree on, especially when they are seated at one table.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Similar attacks have occurred at other synagogues in the vicinity.
Although born into a Catholic family, the candidate is halachically Jewish.
“Oh my God, that’s Anthony Weiner!”
An April 19, 2013 Quinnipiac University survey gives Weiner 15 percent of Democratic primary voters.
They're avoiding the appearance of taking sides.
The Village Independent Democrats have opted to back City Comptroller John Liu — the most liberal in the race.
Many have questioned Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson’s relatively low profile over the past few months.
“If Bill de Blasio is the company he keeps, his mayoral campaign could be in serious trouble.”
The FJCC plans to address many of the civic and communal challenges that face the Jewish residents of Flatbush
"There are folks who are billionaires, and folks have to question why they're in the race."
A former staffer to New York City Councilman David Greenfield has accused him of promoting himself on a blog written by himself but under a pseudonym of “Dov Gordon.”
"We need a mayor who is not going to be confused by so many of these liberal ideas."
"It's about winning. Because if we are only here to blow a horn, it's not good enough."
If anti-Semitism is lunacy, an Iranian national in France apparently has made it official. He stabbed a rabbi and his son after reportedly escaping from a mental institution.
The standard for judging whether constitutional rights can be abrogated is not, as the Investigators claimed in their Report, based on sincerity, but on whether or not, at the very least, there is a reasonable belief that the Four were about to disrupt the BC BDS event. The Investigators stated clearly that there was no such reasonable belief at the time the Four were ejected from the event. Therefore, based on the evidence provided in the CUNY Report, it would appear that the constitutional rights of the four Jewish pro-Israel students were violated.
The timing was gruesome. The Port Authority showed off the view from the new WTC now under construction on day after there was a different view - possible remains were found of 9/11 terror victims.