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By JTA
How do those “pro-Israel” and presumably pro-American Congressmen think that Iranian uranium is good for peace?
An IDF soldier was stabbed in the neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev, Jerusalem, on Thursday morning.
By JTA
A prayer book developed for use by Jews in the U.S. military will be released this week, the first of its type published since World War II. Reform, Orthodox and Conservative rabbis cooperated in creating the prayer book, which was commissioned by the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. The chaplains’ council, a program of the Jewish […]
By JTA
It is not wonder why aliyah from France is increasing, but it is surprising more don't come.
For the record, Rumsfeld did not compare Obama or Kerry with apes, but that is not necessarily a compliment.
By JTA
It is too easy to blame Bernard Madoff for Yeshiva University’s financial problems.
By JTA
A 65-year-old Haredi Orthodox man from London visiting New York for his grandson’s wedding was attacked early Tuesday morning in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park as he left the wedding reception. The attackers smashed their victim’s face into the sidewalk, and he was treated at a local hospital for a split lip and chipped […]
Osama Bin Laden’s senior adviser Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, was convicted on Wednesday of conspiring to kill Americans and providing support to terrorists. He is the most senior adviser to Laden to be tried in a civilian United States court since 9/11. Abu Ghaith, age 48 and a native of Kuwait, praised the 2001 aerial attacks […]
The Israeli Navy Wednesday morning thwarted an attempt to smuggle what may have been explosives form Egypt into Gaza. After two “fishing” boats encroached on international waters and refused orders from the Navy to stop, soldiers opened fire and hit the vessels, setting off secondary explosions. Two Arabs suffered light to moderate wounds. Arab sources […]
The Arab League has finished digging the grave, and Abbas is walking Kerry to the cemetery.
On Tuesday, the London Daily Telegraph reported that an intelligence source involved with the secretive investigation into the plane’s disappearance claimed that the incident might have been part of a deliberate suicide mission by one of the pilots or someone on board the aircraft. International aviation experts, including Israeli officials, believe that someone deliberately punched in a computer rerouting code shortly after takeoff.
By Ben Sales
More than having a hand on the wheel, the year since the formation of the new government has seen Jewish Home and the coalition’s other smaller parties driving much of the government's agenda. Netanyahu’s Likud party has taken a back seat on everything besides security affairs.
By JTA
The student government at Chicago’s Loyola University passed an Israel divestment resolution for a second time, while a similar resolution was defeated at the University of Michigan. On Tuesday, the Loyola United Student Government Association in a revote from a week ago passed the measure by a vote of 12-10 with nine abstentions. The resolution, […]
By JTA
Another New York City man has pleaded guilty to being part of a group of men who used violent means in exchange for pay to force Jewish husbands to give their wives religious divorces. Simcha Bulmash, 30, of Brooklyn pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Trenton, N.J., to participating in the extortion ring, […]
Obama and Bibi laughed on comedy talk shows; when serious, one worries about his health plan and the other about Iran.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel and Canada are jointly developing technologies for identifying the source of nuclear terror attacks.
Kerry is on a mission to convince Abbas to reverse his position that he has no intention of continuing negotiations with Israel over the U.S. sponsored “framework agreement.”
The entire world quotes Abbas’ blaming Israel for wiggling out of freeing terrorists. The facts show it is Abbas who is wiggling.
Either Obama or Kerry must tell the Saudis, bluntly, that they cannot have it both ways, Hier said.
By JTA
Irwin Cotler, a veteran human rights activist and member of Canada’s parliament, says being banned from Russia is an “honor.” When Russia issued its blacklist of 13 Canadians on Monday, Cotler was quick to express his pleasure at being included. ”I wear my exclusion from Russia as a badge of honor and am proud to […]
The Swedish-based H & M clothing chain has recalled thousands of vest tops adorned with a skull inside a Star of David after angry complaints from customers. “The order has been stopped and the others have been pulled,” said a H & M spokeswoman. “This was because of the feedback we received.” H M rejected […]
By JTA
Likud MK Danon tries outflanking Netanyahu by telling US Jews he will quit as minister if more terrorists are freed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.
A Fatah party official carries Kerry’s torch that the Palestinian Authority will get it wants either by diplomatic war or terror.
Netanyahu does as Obama says, Israel looks stupid and makes Erdogan the Chump look like a champ.
Anti-Arab vandals damaged an Arab store and tried to set it on fire in downtown Jerusalem Monday, police spokeswomen Luba al-Samri said. The vandals left behind slogans, “Kahane was right.” The incident occurred less than 24 hours after “price tag” vandals slashes tired of three dozen cars in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in […]
A federal jury Monday found five former employees of Bernard Madoff guilty of knowingly being involved in the biggest Ponzi scheme in history and rejected their claims that they were just following orders. The defendants’ testified that Madoff was the only one who knew of the swindle, but assistant U.S. attorney John T. Zach had […]
By JTA
Sheldon Adelson will host a dinner featuring former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on the eve of a conference of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Adelson, the casino magnate seen as a kingmaker in the Republican Party because of his willingness to spend tens of millions of dollars in an election, will host the dinner Thursday night […]
The Rolling Stones are not Jewish, Zionists or the model of holiness, but if it is bad for BDS, it is good for Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Disunity is the Arab Leagues common denominator.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
After decades in exile, Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky's ceremonial saber was returned to his heirs, the State of Israel.
The Arab League allegedly plans to end this week’s summit in Kuwait with two new “no”s with which to send the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table.
9,400 Mishloach Manot packages were delivered to IDF soldiers on Purim.
During an IAF flight over the Mediterranean on Monday, an F-16 pilot suffered from vertigo and wasn't able to fly the plane.
Saudi Arabia denied visa to a Jerusalem Post reporter who isn't Israeli and never lived in Israel.
If Israel releases terrorist Barghouti, it will have elected him as Arafat and Abbas' successor.
By JTA
An Ontario court has ordered the seizure of more than $7 million in assets belonging to Iran to compensate American victims of terror. The historic ruling last week brought to an end several lawsuits filed in Canada by terror victims from the United States seeking damages from Iran for training, arming and financing the Hamas […]
Sources in the kosher food industry are speculating that a new major supermarket deal will have a positive effect on kosher food sales. Cerberus Capital Management appears to be making a major investment into the supermarket industry by acquiring Safeway in addition to the Albertson’s chain which it already owns. Together, the two grocery chains […]
Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday he does not support the leftist-Arab "boycott, divest, sanction" campaign against Israel but added that products made in Judea and Samaria should not carry a “Made in Israel label.” He told the Associated Press in an interview that he and other “elders,” a group of retired senior leaders, “decided […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
An Israeli company was chosen to be part of a nine-member team of technology vendors in a digital security system project for the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York Harbor.
The thundering silence from the White House after Abbas’ exit was the calm before the coming storm.
When will Jews come to the conclusion that they can live as non-Jews in the Diaspora or as Jews in Israel?
By JTA
A new survey of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hungary showed up to 40 percent of respondents accepted some anti-Semitic attitudes. Conducted in December and commissioned by the Action and Protection Foundation, a watchdog on anti-Semitism of the Jewish community, the survey revealed that among those who accepted some anti-Semitic stereotypes, the proportion of people who displayed […]
Israeli security forces and soldiers lifted a gag order Monday and revealed they have arrested a Palestinian Authority terrorist cell from Samaria that carried out shooting attacks and a firebomb attacks in the past several months. They attacked Israeli motorists near Kedumim, located three miles east of the Karnei and Ginot Shomron communities in central […]
Peretz Sontag, a widely respected Orthodox Jew from Monsey who has been missing for 10 days, was found dead in his car that crashed over a ravine. Police are not treating the death as a suicide. After he was reported missing, police said that Sontag had been depressed and indicated he might harm himself. His […]
By JTA
Students at Chicago's Loyola University are mobilizing to convince the president of the student government to veto a resolution calling on the university to divest from companies that do business in Israel. The Loyola United Student Government Association voted March 18 to call on the university to remove its holdings from eight companies that provide […]
The police are unwittingly aiding and abetting if the enemy if they can’t find tiny percentage of Jews who libel all of us.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Meet Sarah, the 20 year old Kiryat Arba resident who won the Women's World Thai-Boxing Championship.
Hotovely's family Facebook page was filled with "mazel tovs!" in numerous languages on Monday morning in response to the announcement.
Clarification and Update: Wording in the title of the article "Rabbi in Crimea Escapes with Torah Scroll" tas been changed to "Rabbi in Crimea Makes it Out on the Last Train", to avoid any potential misunderstanding that Rabbi Yitzchok Meyer Lipszyc may have stolen the Torah from the Crimea war zone, or abandoned his community […]
Israel's Foreign Ministry's labor union has announced a general strike.
As the date approached for the upcoming 4th round of releasing terrorists, more and more Israeli citizens are protesting.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
150 Christian citizens of Israel demonstrated today outside the EU's delegation in Tel Aviv against “the ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East” (except Israel).
By JTA
Three for the price of one.
Hamas sent hundreds of SMS messages to journalists and other Israelis, telling them they would be the next Gilad Shalit and threatening to kill them.
The U.S. government may be prepared to take extreme steps to delay the collapse of Kerry's doomed-from-the-start peace talks.
By Adam Kredo
A Jewish teacher from Paris told police that three men had assaulted and cursed him in Arabic before drawing a swastika on his chest.
Israeli media quoted American Jewish groups attacking Ya'alon; at least half the quotes were re-cycled
According to the AMCHA Initiative, anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses is "growing at an alarming rate."
Panama gave Israel permission to board the vessel being used to smuggle Iranian weapons to Gaza.
By Ben Sales
Saddled with nearly $370 million in debt and an annual deficit exceeding $85 million, Hadassah Hospital struggles to chart a course back to solvency.
By Shalom Bear
The IDF discovered a 4th terror tunnel from Gaza. Watch the video of its discovery.
Last week, the Haredi politicians and Aryeh Deri in particular couldn't get enough of Labor (Avoda) leader Yitchak Herzog. It looks like that party is over.
Embattled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pulled the plug on Twitter at midnight, March 20, 2014.
Swastikas, graffiti stating "kill all the Jews," and little kids playing "jail the Jew" in Bedford, Massachusetts.
The Mossad has learned that eight of 11 Iranian Jews who tried to immigrate to flee the Islamic regime and move to Israel in the 1990s were murdered, the Office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated Thursday. The families of the missing Iranians have been informed following an investigation into their cases that was ordered […]
By JTA
Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff said in a prison interview that he does not feel he “betrayed the Jews.” Madoff, 70, is serving a 150-year sentence at the medium-security federal prison in Butner, N.C., for a scheme believed to be the largest of its kind in U.S. history — one that affected a disproportionate number of […]
Despite mini-crises over fake passports and Prisoner X, Australia has been one of Israel’s most reliable allies.
By JTA
Robert Strauss, the son of small-town Texas shopkeepers who became an adviser to presidents of both parties, died Wednesday at the age of 95. He helped found in 1945 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, the energy law firm that pioneered powerhouse lobbying after its 1971 move to Washington. Strauss, whose parents ran a general […]
What would have been the reaction if the actor dressed up as KKK members, just for the sake if history?
Norway’s health minister said Wednesday the countryman no intention of banning religious circumcisions but should restrict the religious practice to be carried out only in hospitals. "If the children are circumcised in hospitals by competent personnel, we will prevent complications," Health Minister Bent Høie told the Aftenposten newspaper. "This is the most realistic way to […]
How do you say “annihilate Israel with a nuclear bomb” in Persian?
By JTA
The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of Mazsihisz, the Association of Hungarian […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
President Peres began with the traditional greeting in Persian and said, "Iraniane Gerami, Novruzetan Piruz Bad".
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The course was designed to boost Ultra-Orthodox youth motivation to enlist, and allay religious concerns.
The inevitable failure of the "peace talks" alreasy are exploding in Israel's collective face.
From the standpoint of the Arabs, Jews indeed are guilty of incitement so long as Israel exists.
The goal of Harvard Israel Trek is to create informed, committed campus advocates. Does it?
By JTA
Jewish Toulouse leader tells young Jews to leave France.
DM Ya'alon has a habit of speaking harsh truths. Not everyone likes to hear the truth. It upsets them.
By JTA
An alleged former medic at Auschwitz was arrested in Germany on accusations that he was an accessory to murder. The name of the 93-year-old man was not released in accordance with German privacy laws. He is accused of serving as a medic at the concentration camp in September 1944. Eight transports arrived at Auschwitz during […]
President Obama has an unshakeable and eternal bond with himself.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose” – Janis Joplin.
Hillel International Board Chair: rabbi who quit made 'false, outrageous' claims about Hillel's Israel Guidelines.
By JTA
The Chabad Jewish Center in Boca Raton, Fla., was vandalized a day after an article in a local newspaper announced the center’s expansion plans. A cement marker with a sign indicating the rabbi’s parking space was torn from its place and thrown through a glass door of the Jewish center sometime Monday night, the Sun-Sentinel […]
If the Boycott Israel movement has any intellectual honesty, which it doesn’t, let’s see it tackle Whirlpool subsidiary KitchenAid.
Vandals scrawled a swastika and a Jewish Star of David on one of 16 fiberglass "sunfish” that were placed throughout the British city of Plymouth this week to celebrate the city’s young artists, the Plymouth Herald reported. The sculptures were unveiled at the start of National Apprentices Week and were placed to create a tourist […]
According to Arab and Israeli media sources, Abbas steadfastly demanded that the White House prod Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into releasing convicted killers Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat. He also reportedly insisted that Israel freeze all settlement construction activities in exchange for extending the peace talks until the end of the year.
By JTA
Gisela Kohn Dollinger tricked death twice.
By Sean Savage
Despite the massive humanitarian toll and the use of chemical weapons against his own people, over the past year Assad has seen his fortunes improve as Western and Arab countries, unsuccessful in ending the conflict diplomatically, have been unwilling to directly intervene.
Obama’s crew did not even say “boo" when the Palestinian Authority endorsed this week a video-song mocking John Kerry.
Israel soldiers killed a 15-year-old boy who was attempting to damage the security fence south of Hebron Wednesday and refused to heed soldier'warnings to halt. Palestinian Authority media came up with a new idea for the youth’s approaching the security fence. In Gaza, the suspects usually are described by Arab media as playing soccer or […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The scene of Russian troops sealing the region of Crimea conjures up scary reminders of the Nazi invasions of Europe.
The local Jerusalem council has approved this morning (Wednesday) the construction of 40 new apartments in Pisgat Ze'ev, and 146 in Har Homa Gimel.
By Shalom Bear
With the 4th round of planned terrrorist releases coming up, Deputy Minister Danon is taking a principled stand.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
IDF Targets Several Syrian Positions in Response to Attack on Israeli Army Jeep.
IDF forces retaliated against several Syrian military sites early Wednesday morning.
A Jewish trip to learn about Israeli history, culture and politics, ended up paying a visit to arch-terrorist Arafat's grave.
A bomb exploded along Israel's border with Syria, four soldiers were injured, one seriously.
The Russian search giant Yandex has bought out Israel’s KitLocate start-up, a maker of low-power mobile geolocation technology, for “several million Euros,” TechCrunch reported Tuesday. KitLocate features low battery consumption by using proprietary algorithms that allow location-based apps to request the device’s geographic coordinates less frequently without losing too much precision. Yandex will use KitlLocate’s […]
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