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Following intelligence reports of further expected Arab rioting and violence on the Temple Mount today, the police have placed restrictions on Muslim entry to the Jewish holy site, according to a report on Arutz-7. Entry will be limited to Muslims over the age of 50, and women, also they must be Israeli citizens or residency […]
PA President Abbas's refusal to publicly condemn the terror attack that killed Baruch Mizrachi is putting a damper on the parade.
The Shas political party, founded and run by the late Rav Ovadia Yosef, has a appointed a new spiritual leader, according to a Galei Tzahal report. The rabbi chosen to replace Harav Ovadia and be the new president of the party's Council of Torah Sages is Rabbi Shalom Cohen. Aryeh Deri is the political leader […]
In 1941, the Jews of Kiev received a similar leaflet. When they showed up the next day, more than 34,000 were murdered.
Teen stabbed in South Florida high school.
Four Israeli citizens were hurt Thursday in a road terror attack near Tekoa in Gush Etzion.
Hundreds attended the funeral of Police Chief Superintendent Baruch Mizrachi, who was slain by terrorists on Passover eve.
The following is President Obama's statement on Passover (April 14, 2014). As he has in the past, the President held an official Passover Seder at the White House. Michelle and I send our warmest greetings to all those celebrating Passover in the United States, in Israel, and around the world. On Tuesday, just as we […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Some reactions in response to the latest terror attack.
By Steve
The officers had signaled to the Arab driver to pull over. He then rammed into them.
The Palestinian terrorist stood by the side of the road at shot at passing cars with an AK-47.
Kerry reportedly admitted that he had “made a mistake.”
By Ron Kampeas
But Israel's stance is not sufficiently consequential to set off a fight between friends, neoconservative scholars said.
By Shalom Bear
No, it's not another Haredi protest against the draft, it's burning the Chametz.
Even the Egyptians didn't dare do this!
The attacker apparently targeted various Jewish centers.
By JTA
(JTA) — The parents of a Jewish student at an exclusive girls’ school in London called on the head of school to make a public statement about an incident in which a teacher told their daughter that she would be sent “to one of your gas chambers.” The incident at North London Collegiate School occurred […]
The prophecy in Joel, like most prophecies, is surreal, beautiful, and open to many interpretations.
90% of Israelis will participate in a Seder, and 80% of "secular" Jews believe in God. Not bad.
By Shalom Bear
Hamas terrorists forced the Israeli police to not allow Jews and other visitors onto the Temple Mount.
The IDF has stocked up for Passover, and hopes the citizens will enjoy touring the countryside (but don't hike in any minefields).
The government’s approval of Jews moving into the Hebron building marks a return to a bit of political normalcy.
The lack of runways in Israel’s strategic hills in the Golan, Judea and Samaria and the Negev make helicopters essential for defense.
There is nothing like a good round of anti-Semitism to sober up Jews to move to Israel.
If you are looking for a hotel room for Passover in Mitzpeh Ramon in the Central Negev, start looking elsewhere. Roman Abramovich, owner of Britain’s Chelsea soccer club, has booked all 111 rooms in the Beresheet Hotel in the mountain desert resort city, the London Daily Mail reported. Abramovich reportedly will fly to Israel today […]
American Jews are increasingly buying more hand-made matzah as well as American-made manufactured matzah. All at the expense of Israeli exports, according to Kosher Today. Israeli exports used to hold approximately 40 percent of the American market but has declined by 11 percent. Sales of hand-made “shmurah matzah” have soared by nearly 15 percent. One […]
By JTA
Alan Gross suspended his hunger strike Friday after a week at the behest of his elderly mother. “Alan’s mother asked him to stop the fast,” Jill Zuckman, the spokeswoman of the family of the State Department subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba, told JTA. “He agreed to do that.” Gross, who launched his fast April 3, told […]
Card-carrying Israeli citizens in a totally Arab city in the western Galilee already are preparing celebrations for what they expect will be the return of their “heroes” who killed Israelis in terrorist attacks. The United States is trying to work out a deal with Israel to allow freeing several Arab terrorists with Israeli citizenship in […]
By Shalom Bear
Two policemen were injured in the attack on the Jewish holy site.
Ron Pundak was involved in many leftist "peace" initiatives. Pundak died on Friday.
Streets were blocked, garbage burned, and some general mayhem ensued after a Haredi draft dodger was arrested.
By Shalom Bear
Israel is preparing dozens of claims against senior officials of the Palestinian Authority for participating in terror attacks.
By JTA
Jacob Birnbaum mobilized students to call on the Kremlin to stop the oppression of Soviet Jews.
By Shalom Bear
The state has demanded back NIS 84,000 for the time the man was not studying in Yeshiva, when he claimed he was.
Another failed anti-Israel Divestment measure. This one at Cornell University.
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson toured the Israel Aerospace Industries plant at Ben Gurion Airport Thursday, when executives told her that the first pair of wings for the DF-35 stealth fighter will be produced by September. IAI is scheduled to manufacture more than 800 pairs of wings in the next several years as the F-35 […]
By JTA
The Council of Europe has climbed down from along and weak limb by issuing a letter that in effect neutralizes a resolution by its parliament that equated mutilation of female genitals and non-medical circumcision of boys for religious purposes. The Council called them “by no means comparable.” The Council of Europe’s leadership sent a letter […]
By JTA
Trans-Atlantic basketball is not so far-fetched. If it will make money for the NBA, it will happen.
The US may pretend it was forced to give up Pollard, but it is US that most wants to continue talks.
The BDS movement has done us a favor by showing the world they are idiots over the Scarlett-SodaStream duet.
Yesha leader have a problem condemning violence if it carried out “for the cause.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A report in the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, citing sources in Lebanon, said Hezbollah is facing increasing financial pressure over austerity measures by the Iranian government since President Hassan Rouhani took office last summer, as well as strain over the terror group’s involvement in the Syrian civil war. Additionally, the report said Hezbollah is facing financial […]
The Sheldon Adelson Family Foundation has contributed $16.4 million to the Israel Lunar Project to build the world smallest spacecraft that SpaceIL hopes to land on the moon. The donation is nearly half of the project’s budget, estimated at $36 million. SpaceIL is an Israeli non-profit founded at the end of 2010 by three young […]
By JTA
A sapling taken from the tree that grew outside the attic where teen Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was hidden will be planted at the U.S. Capitol. The tree will be planted on the west front lawn on April 30. Saplings taken from the tree have been planted around the world. The tree, at more than […]
It might be best to say the Traveler’s Prayer on the airplane before putting on tefillin.
Gazan terrorists shot at an IDF patrol near Kissufim. No soldiers were injured in the attack. The IDF fired back at the source of fire.
A Lod district court has decided that former Israeli president, Moshe Katzav, will stay in prison for Pesach.
A 16-year-old student wounded 22, several critically, in a mass stabbing spree at a Pennsylvania high school Wednesday.
Hirsi Ali's critics wanted her silenced; Brandeis granted their wish.
Israel successfully launched its “Ofek 10” satellite Wednesday night from the Palmachim Air Force Base near Tel Aviv. The satellite has photo capabilities in all weather conditions and at night and is expected to bolster Israel’s intelligence system and security.
It won’t happen so soon, but it is only a matter of time until Jewish in Efrat finally can be like Jews in Tel Aviv.
Oh, man, it’s the end of an era.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A new “Samson” military transport plane purchased from the United States, was inaugurated into the IAF today at the Nevatim airbase near Be’er Sheva.
Tit-for-tat retaliation for terror is a form, of Russian Roulette that leaves southern Israel living on miracles.
Gazans are among the principal victims of the terror-addicted Hamas Islamists.
A mortar from Gaza hit inside the Israeli town, the alarm did not go off...
By JTA
Maryland lawmakers failed to vote on a bill that would have required the French rail firm SNCF to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors in order to work on a new line. The bill did not progress past committee hearings in the state legislature, where the 2014 legislative session ended Monday night. State Sen. Joan Carter […]
The familiar symbol of the Israeli flag that adorns El Al airplanes will be accompanied the logo of the Vatican when the airline brings Pope Francis back from Israel to the Vatican after his visit in May. A specially selected crew will man the plane, which will carry the pope, 30 church officials and dozens […]
By Ben Sales
On Monday, Lapid told JTA that he would sooner agree to freeze settlement growth than free Palestinian prisoners, as Netanyahu has done previously in an effort to advance the process.
Before returning to Washington, Abbas reiterated to Kerry in a face-to-face meeting in Ramallah that the PA and the Arab League would never recognize the existence of a Jewish state in Israel.
“You shall set up judges and police…in all your cities…and they shall judge…[with] righteous judgment.” – Devarim, 16:18.
Security police arrested a 16-year-old boy in Yitzhar on Wednesday for throwing rocks at police during the morning, one day after 50 young people went on a rampage, clashed with Border Police and ransacked a post manned by Israeli army reservists. Leaders across the political spectrum have called for a stop to the violence by […]
By JTA
Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation, implying that the Hungarian government bore no responsibility for the death of Jews. Work on the statue began Tuesday in downtown Budapest, according to Klubradio, a news station known to be […]
Two Israeli Merkava tanks crossed the electronic fence on the northern border and entered Lebanese territory Tuesday, the Lebanese-run National News Agency reported. The IDF refused to confirm or deny the report, and military spokeswoman explained to The Jewish Press, “We do not comment on reports from foreign media.” The Lebanese news agency claimed that […]
Brandeis buckled to those who embrace diversity and tolerance only of their own views.
By JTA
A French mayor from the far-right National Front party evicted from city-owned offices an anti-racism group inspired by the Dreyfus trial. Steeve Briois, who was elected last month to run the town of Henin-Beaumont, ordered the Human Rights League, or LDH, to clear out of its workspace last week, LDH President Pierre Tartakowsky told JTA. […]
Every time Kerry opens his mouth about his Peace Talks Follies, he only makes things worse, especially for himself.
China gave President Shimon Peres the royal welcome Tuesday, with Chinese President Xi Jinping stating that the Jewish people and the Chinese share a common opposition to militarism and fascism. Xi added that China wants to continue high-level exchanges with Israel and establish stronger ties and cooperation in the fields of technology, agriculture, medical treatment, […]
By JTA
American-Jewish contractor Alan Gross has gone on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment in a Cuban jail and the lack of American assistance. “I began a fast on April 3rd in protest of the treatment to which I am subjected by the governments of Cuba and the United States,” Gross said in a statement […]
No one has addressed question, “Why were plastic explosives laying around the PA office?”
Fifty settlers raided and ransacked on Tuesday an IDF outpost that was manned by six soldiers who were deployed there to defend their attackers and neighbors in the community of Yitzhar, in northern Samaria. An IDF spokesman told The Jewish Press that the soldiers did not suffer any injuries, contrary to a report in Ynet […]
By JTA
Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Israel Defense Forces to bar a Palestinian runner from Gaza from participating in a marathon in Bethlehem but nevertheless recommended that he be allowed to participate in the race. Olympian Nader Masri, 34, had asked Israel’s military for permission to travel to the second Bethlehem marathon that […]
Israeli officials at a Jordanian border crossing have arrested an Indian tourist who literally was caught with his pants down, exposing smuggled diamonds and gold worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Customs officials apparently did not have any advance knowledge of the smuggling attempt but noticed that the man showed discomfort from his clothing. A […]
An Israeli startup company called StoreDot has unveiled a prototype charger that can re-energize a phone battery in 30 seconds. The new technology was based on research for Alzheimer’s disease at the nanotechnology department of Tel Aviv University, but the prototype still needs to be developed into a smaller batter to be of commercial use. […]
Celebrate Israel Parade should be successful, without anti-Israel BDSers parading down 5th Avenue!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If Israel sends a spacecraft to the moon, will BDS call the lunar surface “occupied territory”?
The student union of Ryerson University in Toronto voted to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement aimed at Israel, but the university said it will ignore the non-binding decision. “The student union is a corporation independent of the university, we have to be clear there,” said Michael Forbes, a spokesperson for Ryerson and quoted […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A self-described former terrorist, Dr. Tawfik Hamid states that the Arabs' suffering must be acknowledged, but the source of their suffering is their own leadership.
Five structures in Yitzhar were demolished by security forces late Monday, despite fierce resistance from residents.
Iran named a terrorist as ambassador to the UN, the Senate passed a bill banning his entry.
The holder of a vast trove of potentially Nazi-looted artwork has agreed to cooperate with officials
Jews of Kaifeng, China will have their first traditional seder this year!
These students are happy, proud Zionists celebrating the civil rights movement of the Jewish people.
Carter still wears blinders that make him see that everything that Abbas does is for peace.
The Peace Process dummies think that Arabs play by Western rules while Islam says “you are allowed to lie in politics.”
A masked terrorist shot killed a widely-known Dutch priest and another priest in the city of Homs Monday, another sign of what the awaits the Christian minority whenever the civil war ends. Christians have tried to stay neutral in the war but have been victimized by all sides – Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, an Alawite, […]
A Syrian mortar shell landed and exploded near the security fence in the central Golan Heights Monday afternoon. No injuries or damage was reported. The IDF said that the firing probably was not intended to strike Israel.
Tel Aviv University has cancelled the appearance at a campus event of a former Arab prisoner jailed by Israel for his activities on behalf of the terrorist Hezbollah organization. Mohammed Kana’ane, an Arab-Israeli who spent four-and-a-half years in prison, was invited to speak Monday by the left-wing Hadash and Balad student groups at a conference […]
‘Yesterday I was a Muslim. Today I am a Jewish man.”
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 […]
The terrorist who killed five Israelis and their tour bus driver and wounded 32 Israelis in Burgas in 2012 was an Algerian who worked for Hezbollah, Bulgaria said Monday. It was one of the most unsurprising declarations of the year since all signs have pointed to Hezbollah since the attack at the Black Sea resort. […]
By JTA
The Shin Bet was prepared for a hacker attack on Israeli websites by Anonymous, which would be smart to stay that way considering its failure.
“Here comes the sun, and I say/It's all right” – The Beatles.
By JTA
Jerusalem Arabs hurled several firebombs were thrown at a dance club next to Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus in French Hill , injuring one person. Three Arab youths from the adjoining neighborhood of Isawiya were arrested.
Two suspects were caught Monday morning planting a bomb near the Gaza security fence.
Israeli ex-Pres. Moshe Katsav has requested a Passover prison leave though he isn't eligible.
At 5:30 PM a rocket from Gaza landed near the town of Sha'ar HaNegev. The Red Alert did not go off. No injuries or damage were reported from from the attack.
"The Palestinians substantially violated the understandings that were reached with American involvement."
By JTA
The Jewish community in Milan is confronting an apparent case of embezzlement in which millions of dollars were removed from the community bank accounts.
By JTA
A Dutch Jewish organization rediscovered two ancient ritual baths that had been forgotten after the Holocaust.
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