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A high school student takes on the NYT's silence on the Holocaust.
Holy for Jews, non-Jews alike: Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones visit Old City, enjoy tour of Kotel tunnels with Rabbi of Western Wall
Eight hours after Mohammed Karake was killed by a Syrian anti-tank missile, no Palestinian or human rights org has condemned the crime.
Breaking News: Fatah-linked group is latest in string of terror orgs to say they are holding boys; will demand thousands of Palestinian prisoners
From Spain to Sudan, from England to Australia, radical Islam has been on the march spreading values of jihad, hate
Are the Israeli journalists cajoling the 'anti-normalizationists' who bar their entry to PA cities?
By inserting word "radical" into description of Islamists, NYT serves to blur fact that Islamists by definition are radical, as opposed to Muslims
Mick Jagger started the performance with a "Chag Shavuot Sameach Yisrael".
The Rolling Stones have arrived in Israel.
By Shalom Bear
Who says you can't always get what you want?
In Eman Mohammed's TED interview were wildly false accounts of IDF ethical standards and actions.
Jay Leno was in Israel to host the Genesis Award.
"Bring you own popcorn," says Minister Naftali Bennett on his Facebook page after the Knesset bill passed the popcorn bill.
Neither of the two women who were to receive honorary degrees from Brandeis on Sunday will be there.
By JTA
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno will visit Israel to host the presentation of the inaugural Genesis Prize. The May 22 ceremony in Jerusalem will honor former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the $1 million award. “Jay Leno is a comedic icon who has entertained millions of people around the […]
The city of Jerusalem has big plans for the Sherover Promenade overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, with a new Yes Planet multiplex.
Former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, who now heads the Israeli Council of Journalists, has called on the powers-to-be to prevent the closure of the bankrupt national religious newspaper Makkor Rishon that American casino magnate Sheldon Adelson wants to buy. Adelson also owns the highly successful freebie Israel HaYom newspaper, which staunchly supported Prime Minister […]
Antitrust Commissioner David Gilo has delayed signing off on Sheldon Adelson's purchase of the paper.
The prophecy in Joel, like most prophecies, is surreal, beautiful, and open to many interpretations.
The BDS movement has done us a favor by showing the world they are idiots over the Scarlett-SodaStream duet.
The holder of a vast trove of potentially Nazi-looted artwork has agreed to cooperate with officials
Al-Quds reporter outraged by precedent of releasing Pollard - guilty of espionage, but not murder.
Gambling mogul Sheldon Adelson, owner of the pro-Netanyahu Yisrael HaYom free newspaper, can move ahead with the purchase of the financially troubled Makor Rishon national religious newspaper, a Jerusalem court ruled Monday. The purchase will include the online website of the Maariv newspaper but not the newspaper itself, which has been on the brink of […]
First it was Twitter, now Turkey has blocked YouTube.
Obama and Bibi laughed on comedy talk shows; when serious, one worries about his health plan and the other about Iran.
Either Obama or Kerry must tell the Saudis, bluntly, that they cannot have it both ways, Hier said.
The Rolling Stones are not Jewish, Zionists or the model of holiness, but if it is bad for BDS, it is good for Israel.
Hackers invaded the website of the left-wing Meretz party on Monday and readers now get an “Oops” or “Not available” message when trying to access it. The Hackers posted an Arabic message on the site. Apparently as part of their celebration of Israel Apartheid Week, which actually is a month-long festivity of attacking right-wing, the […]
During an interview on the official Palestinian Arab television station on March 12, 2014, the hostess asked her guest, Abbas Zaki, about recent efforts undertaken by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The clip and translation is from Palestinian Media Watch. Zaki is the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative to Lebanon and a member of the Fatah […]
By David Morris
Eli Cohen is now the nationally-known face of electoral integrity and honesty in Israel.
Glick strips the bark from the threat of a One State Solution and reveals a worthy option: the Israeli Solution
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In his speech at the 2014 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Jewish-American actress Scarlett Johansson for her decision to continue representing Israeli carbonated beverage company SodaStream, which is located across the Green line and employs hundreds of Palestinians. Johansson stepped down as a global ambassador […]
By Tibbi Singer
But she's in no hurry to get married, despite the fact that she's expecting.
By JTA
A senior Chabad rabbi in Australia who was accused of raping a student inside a synagogue in the 1970s will not be charged. Detectives in Melbourne confirmed Friday that they have closed an investigation into Rabbi Avrohom Glick, who was then deputy principal of Yeshivah College in Melbourne. Rabbi Glick, 67, vehemently denied allegations that […]
By JTA
“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” won the Academy Award for documentary short Sunday night.
By JTA
Palestinian “Omar” was best foreign-language film finalist, while Israel’s “Bethlehem” was eliminated early on.
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A public opinion poll published by the Knesset Channel (Israel's C-Span) shows that if elections were held today, the ruling party, Israel Beiteinu would maintain it status, with 32 Knesset seats. The next largest party would by Labor, rising from its current 15 to 21 seats. Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid would drop from 19 to […]
By Sharon Katz
Dames of the Dance raised NIS 40,000 from ticket sales for Kimcha d’Pischa of Gush Etzion/Efrat.
Two rare early editions of “Mein Kampf” signed by Adolf Hitler may for more than $20,000 at an online auction on Thursday, AP reports. Nate Sanders, owner of Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles, expects criticism for auctioning the 1925 and 1926 books up for bid. But he says that it’s a piece of […]
“In today’s international climate where people are looking for every reason to hate Israel, we cannot allow untruths to go unchallenged.”
The actor and director Harold Ramis, perhaps best known for his acting role in the 1984 film "Ghost Busters," died at his home in Chicago early Monday, Feb. 24. He was 69 years old. Ramis wrote, directed and/or starred in some of the most popular low-brow comedies of the late 1970s - 1990s. He wrote […]
Chloé Valdary was hurt by the overt racism directed at her just for being a Zionist
NYC's Jewish Museum portrayed pro-Israel patrons as the bad guys in a Kafkaesque episode.
The film uses scholars, activists and carefully selected film clips to unravel the magical marketing mystery of J Street.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"In many cases, perpetrators are ‘shipped’ to different communities instead of being dealt with.”
By JTA
Google has acquired the Israeli internet security startup SlickLogin. The Israeli company made the announcement Sunday on the homepage of its website, signed by CEO Or Zelig, CTO Eran Galili, and VP R&D Ori Kabeli. “Today we're announcing that the SlickLogin team is joining Google, a company that shares our core beliefs that logging in should […]
By JTA
A Japanese e-commerce firm said it will buy the Israeli-founded Viber chat startup for $900 million. Rakuten Inc announced its planned purchase of Viber Media Inc. on Friday. Viber, run by the Israeli entrepreneur Talmon Marco, will add 300 million users to Rakuten’s existing 200 million users, Rakuten’s CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani, told reporters in Tokyo. […]
By JTA
It cited “sources with the Rolling Stones,” but there has been no such announcement.
Sid Caeser, one of the Jewish pioneers of comedy on television, is literally irreplaceable.
The truth behind “peace talks” has been hidden in transparent code, but now the PA has exposed its lie.
By JTA
The website of the casino operation owned by Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson was hacked by unidentified vandals who criticized his support for Israel. The hackers on Tuesday took over the home page of websites run by the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino operator, which is owned by Adelson. In addition to criticizing […]
By David Morris
The new election date of March 11 was announced by the Ministry of Interior.
By JTA
Allen said he will not address the accusations again.
The Al Jazeera network aired a 25-minute program weed that was a bald-faced commercial for boycotting Israel under the guise of a supposed news program that featured two pro-Arab interviewees and, just to make an uneven program seem half-legitimate, Danny Dayan of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria. Throughout the entire […]
Obama, like Nixon, wants to have his media cake and eat it, too.
By JTA
Roger Waters assailed actress Scarlett Johansson for working with SodaStream and musician Neil Young for his planned performance in Israel. In a Facebook post on Saturday, the former Pink Floyd front man said he was making a public plea to Johansson and Young after writing to them privately in recent days. Waters has publicly called […]
Barry Rubin's was a rare voices of clarity in the Israeli academia and in Jewish media. He was one of the good guys.
By Tibbi Singer
Here's Thomas L. Friedman at the 7th Annual International INSS Conference in Tel Aviv, on January 29, 2014. I'll bet you no one else there tied their sweater around their neck like this, because no one else there was living in 1982. From the Urban Dictionary: When a person decides to wear a sweater LOOSELY […]
By JTA
French choreographer Benjamin Millepied, husband of Jewish actress Natalie Portman, told an Israeli newspaper that he is converting to Judaism. Millepied told the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot that he is “in the middle of the conversion process.” He added that he hopes that the conversion process will “come to an end soon and I will become […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Legendary folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger, who died on Monday in New York City at the age of 94, left behind a complicated if not questionable legacy when it came to Israel. Famous for 1960s hits like “If I Had a Hammer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” Seeger […]
The Nachum Segal Network drafts Lenny Solomon and Shlock Rock to kick off its new game day tradition.
The question remains: Does Wasserman Schultz oppose the current sanctions bill or not?
Knocking the holy Coca Cola and Pepsi earned SodaStream and Johansson publicity Fox News didn’t count on.
SodaStream is getting great free publicity from Boycott Israel and now Fox News, which rejected its Super Bowl ad.
No one seems to remember that Netanyahu once won a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky.
By JTA
A French advertiser scaled back a campaign for the dating site JDate after its billboards were vandalized. Thierry Courrault, a regional director for the JC Decaux billboard giant, said his company decided to pull 18 billboards out of 100 advertising JDate. The reason was “vandalism against out property (swastika graffiti and broken windowpanes),” he told […]
Iran's foreign minister is claiming that the White House misrepresented a major issue in the agreement between the P5+1 and Iran.
A new satirical new site called “PreOccupied Territory” features a Jewish and Israeli perspective on news around the world as seen by journalist David Swidler, who also is behind the blog “Mightier than the Pen.” His objective is to make the news more understandable through humor, something The Jewish Press does on a regular basis […]
In reality, there were only 700,000 displaced Palestinians following Israel’s 1948 war of Independence.
No confirmation of the alleged assault was reported by any news outlet other than Ma'an.
By JTA
Israel for once surrendered to public pressure for the right reason.
By JTA
A Jewish community center in San Diego cancelled a concert by Eyal Golan amid suspicions that the Israeli singer had sex with minors, an Israeli radio station reported. Golan was slated to perform Jan. 19 at a concert which was advertised as late as Jan. 10 on the website of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community […]
By JTA
The decision arose out of UNESCO’s support for peace talks.
Palestinian Authority police allegedly took photographers into custody and deleted their footage of recent protests in Ramallah against UNRWA policies, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms said that the actions violate "freedom of opinion and expression," and demanded authorities "enable journalists to exercise their professional duty […]
Canadian singer Neil Young, of the former Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young rock group of the late 60s, will perform with his Crazy Horse band in Tel Aviv this July, his first performance in Israel since 1995. The announcement by an Israeli producer comes a week after a report, quoting Israeli producers, that the Rolling […]
By JTA
Andy Samberg’s acceptance speech for Golden Globes awards might deserve an award of its own.
By the time Hitchcock's film was finished, the allies' political needs had changed.
By JTA
A Chinese businessman who is determined to buy an American newspaper said he is just as smart as the Jews who own some of those newspapers. Chen Guangbiao, chairman of Jiangsu Huangpu Recycling Resources, who made his fortune in recycling construction materials in China, announced late last month that he would travel to New York […]
The Stones are negotiating for a $.5 million offer to play in Tel Aviv.
Hamas claims an Islamic Jihad terrorist was killed in Gaza, but since the IDF said it did not carry out any counter-terrorist operations, either the story is phony or he died while working with explosives. Hamas’ Health Ministry said that Mohammed al-Lila was killed in a drone attack on Gaza City. Islamic Jihad confirmed one […]
By JTA
Stark was remembered by friends and relatives as a “go-to guy.”
As secretary of state Kerry arrives in Israel to twist the arms of the parties into a "peace" agreement, the Palestinian Arabs make clear their goals and methodology
Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Europeans and Americans are well-represented.
By Tibbi Singer
Tony Parker did the “quenelle.”
By JTA
The New York Times is conducting a survey of Hungarian Jews to help deepen its coverage of anti-Semitism in that country. The survey, published online Tuesday, asks respondents whether they experienced anti-Semitism and considered emigrating as a result, among other questions. “An openly anti-Semitic political party has gained power in Hungary’s Parliament in recent years, […]
An American "diplomatic initiative" is an end run around the Israeli government.
Muslim Brotherhood radio statio shut down in Egypt opens in Turkey, with terrorist-supporting Imam Al-Qaradawi as its first host.
NBC reportedly has bowed to Palestinian Authority pressure and has cancelled plans to short part of its new “DIG” television series near the Old City in areas of Jerusalem claimed by the PA. "There was no plan made to film the series in the City of David National Park or in the village of Silwan, furthermore, […]
Maybe the moderator should have "reined in" the emotions when the audience was booing and "enraged" - her words - by Podhoretz's defense of Israel from J Street's blaming Israel for the academic boycott.
By JTA
The Haredi Gat Brothers, Aryeh and Gil, have become the first act named to the semi-finals of the popular new Israeli talent show “Rising Star.” The show, which allows Israeli viewers to vote in real time for their favorite performers using an app on their mobile phones, is designed to uncover the next hot Israeli […]
In case you're wondering, temps in Jerusalem right now are 7 Celsius, or a comfortable 44 Fahrenheit.
A J Street U student was rude and disruptive during a campus event at Brandeis, wrote about the event omitting relevant details, then asked an editor to remove someone else's blog post describing his behavior because it might affect his "future employment."
Stories of Russian repression of its citizenry and crackdown on its nascent press freedoms signals yet another pivot away from Western values.
The future New York City Councilwoman blamed the violence of "young people of color" in her community on "governmental neglect, outside uncontrolled influences and failed leadership."
By JTA
A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. “Er Ist Wieder Da,” German for “He’s Back,” sold 1.3 million copies in Germany after its 2012 release. In the book, Hitler awakens in modern-day Berlin and garners enough attention to become host of his […]
Despite Nusseibeh's claim and a Ma'an report, 40 Arab Palestinians were not shot by Israelis, there were no tear gas canisters thrown nor were any sound bombs used.
If you really love Israel, get out your Kleenex to wipe the tears as Peres and Netanyahu sing together the epic “You and I, We'll Change to World” by the late Arik Einstein. Lyrics are below so you can sing along and cry.
Famous Israeli Hollywood producer finally admits he was a spy for Israel and helped his country acquire the technology for nuclear weapons
August 21, 2026 
