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By JTA
The president of Denmark’s Jewish community has disputed a government minister’s claims that new regulations would outlaw all kosher slaughter in the country. “We find this an odd statement,” Finn Schwarz, the community’s president, told JTA on Thursday about statements made earlier in the week by Agriculture Minister Dan Jorgensen to the Ritzau news agency. […]
The next presidents of Israel as well as the United States might be women.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceuticals full approval for Synribo, a drug that is injected for adults with a with chronic phase or accelerated phase of myeloid leukemia. Chronic myeloid leukemia, also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia, is one of four main types of leukemia and is a cancer […]
A software malfunction brought Israeli businesses and consumers to their knees Thursday morning, leaving motorists unable to fill their tanks and grocery shoppers with unpaid grocery baskets full of food. Anyone without cash was stuck. Concerns that credit card security has been breached by a cyber attack were alleviated when the clearinghouse of credit card […]
Sid Caeser, one of the Jewish pioneers of comedy on television, is literally irreplaceable.
Israel soldiers shot and killed a Gaza man and wounded one other after they tried to approach a restricted area to sabotage the security fence near Gaza City. The injured man was treated for light wounds in a Gaza hospital. The dead man was identified as Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26. A Gaza health spokesman told […]
The truth behind “peace talks” has been hidden in transparent code, but now the PA has exposed its lie.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority announced last week it will be giving an additional $46 million a year to released prisoners, including hundreds of murderers of civilians, according to the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). This new funding is an addition to the tens of millions the PA already gives in salaries and other benefits to terrorists in […]
By JTA
A steady increase of Jews fleeing anti-Semitism and moving to Israel has prompted the Ministry of Absorption to submit for government approval a new plan to help them start new lives as “olim” [new immigrants]. In 2013, there were 3,301 new immigrants from France, the highest recorded number from that country since the year 2000. […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Breastfeeding can significantly reduce the risk of children getting cancer, says a new study conducted by Israel’s University of Haifa. According to the study, children who were breastfed decreased the chances of developing cancer by 60 percent. “We asked the mothers in the study about breastfeeding, nutrition, exposure to pets, exposure to detergents, etc.,” said […]
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 JTA
Amid reports that kosher slaughter is continuing in Poland in the face of a law prohibiting it, the country’s chief rabbi suspended an aide who appears to have misrepresented the practice to government inspectors. The aide, Michael Alper, wrote a letter to Polish veterinarians in which he asked for permission to slaughter 250 cows after […]
Israelis not only live where the world says they are forbidden but also teach Torah as a Light unto the Nations.
The trial of Dzokhar Tsarnaev will begin on Nov. 3, 2014, the federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
By Sara Lehmann
In a recent tirade on a public radio station in Albany, Governor Cuomo lambasted New York conservatives in one broad stroke. While lashing out against New Yorkers who oppose his SAFE Act, a draconian gun-control bill rammed through the New York legislature soon after the Newtown massacre, Cuomo targeted all Republicans and conservatives as the enemy.
By JTA
An Egyptian radio host who calls himself the official voice of Donald Duck on Disney Middle East was fired after sending anti-Israel tweets. Wael Mansour tweeted the news of his firing on February 6, six months after his tweet against Israel. “Disney decided I am no longer the official voice of Donald Duck in its […]
Erdogan's demand that Israel lift the Gaza naval blockade means he will not renew relations with Israel
The White House on Wednesday confirmed that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet on March 3 and added that the Prime Minister’s visit “is a demonstration of the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel, and our close consultations on a range of security issues.” That was White […]
Has the United States done anything right in the Middle East in the last few decades?
The Israeli government is inviting Jews from around the world to participate in a 72-hour online conversation next week to help formulate strategies for strengthening the Jewish People and bolstering Diaspora-Israel ties The three-day event starts Sunday and will open the floor to all Jews to help formulate strategies for strengthening both Jewish identity and […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is likely to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during the AIPAC convention in March, U.S. State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday. “I would not be surprised if they have a meeting, of course, or they see each other while he’s here,” she said in answer to […]
Hate graffiti and swastikas painted on a Haredi Orthodox school in Be’er Sheva is the result of “incitement against the Haredi Orthodox,” the Shas Party said Wednesday after the vandalism at the entrance to the school was discovered. “The public atmosphere against the haredi public and Torah students has gotten out of control and actually […]
Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar has approved permanent residency status in Israel for 221 children of foreign workers aged 8-23 and whose parents entered Israel with a legal visa or permit. Most of the children were born in Israel and all have been integrated into the Israeli education system. Their parents' countries of origin include Ghana, […]
Police from Israel’s Major Crime Unit have recommended that former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger be put on trial for charges of bribery, money laundering and breach of public trust. The recommendation revealed more details of alleged criminal violations, including the rabbi’s allegedly pocketing money for his participation in a ceremony in Poland marking 70 […]
By JTA
Will the Haredi rabbi who prefers U.S. army uniforms to those of IDF on Purim tell U.S. Haredim to fight for Uncle Sam?
The privately owned Hadassah Medical Center reported that it currently has a deficit of $367 million, with annual budgetary expenses exceeding income by about $80 million.
By Ron Kampeas
Administration officials and Jewish groups sympathetic to Kerry’s initiative say there is a longer-term agenda in preempting attacks on the framework peace agreement the Obama administration is expected to propose soon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A top Palestinian Authority (PA) official said that the PA wants control of all the areas in Jerusalem that were won by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, including the Western Wall. Minister of Holy Places for the PA Mahmoud al-Habbash told Israel's Channel 10 network that “there will be no peace until the end of […]
By JTA
Unidentified passengers aboard a Belgian train used the speaker system to urge Jews to get off at Auschwitz and shower at the concentration camp. The incident of Jan. 31 prompted the Belgian rail company SNCB to file a complaint with police over incitement to hatred, the RTL broadcaster reported Tuesday. According to RTL, the suspects […]
By JTA
Kosher and halal meals going to food pantries must be tracked and labeled as such under a new federal law. An amendment to the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act enacted last week mandates the tracking and labeling by the Department of Agriculture. The department currently purchases kosher and halal foods but does not […]
By JTA
Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, recommitted to securing Israel a tour on the U.N. Security Council after assisting its entry to a U.N. regional group. Israel last month became a member of the JUSCANZ regional group at U.N. headquarters in New York. JUSCANZ stands for Japan, United States, Canada, Australia, and […]
By JTA
After he steps down, Foxman will serve as a part-time consultant.
By Tibbi Singer
The Rebbe will be staying in R. Asher Lev Wolf's luxurious apartment on Minchat Yitzchak Street in Jerusalem.
The Ground Zero Mosque developer will build a high rise in Mid-Town with a historic synagogue inside.
Outside counsel was brought in to correct financial irregularities; but he lined his pockets too.
The CathMaps+ app provides emergency personnel with a cardiac patient's medical history immediately.
If the deal goes through it would be for between $2.4 and $2.7 billion.
By JTA
Thousands more Holocaust survivors in Israel will receive benefits under a law just passed by the Knesset. The law received its third and final reading and was passed by unanimous vote on Monday, Feb. 10. The law does several things: first, it makes eligible all 18,500 Israelis who survived the death camps and the ghettos […]
By David Morris
The new election date of March 11 was announced by the Ministry of Interior.
By JTA
Hillel director Rabbi Oren Hayon told the Los Angeles Times that he did not believe the attack was anti-Semitic.
CathMaps+, the world’s first HIPAA-compliant mobile application for cardiac patients and people living with elevated risk of a cardiac incident, that integrates their cardiac history with an interactive map of Cath Labs throughout most of the world, was launched for the U.S. market today. CathMaps+ mission is simple: to use mobile technology to provide peace […]
By JTA
American Jewish World Service, AJWS, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, anti-homosexuality policy, Ugandan embassy.
By JTA
Jewish groups backed the decision by the main Jewish umbrella group in Hungary to boycott official Holocaust memorial year events unless the government reverses policy seen as minimizing the country’s role in the Shoah. The international Jewish organizations urged the Hungarian government to respond to Jewish concerns. “The Jewish community’s decision to protest planned Holocaust […]
By JTA
A bill that would make the desecration of cemeteries a violation of religious freedom was introduced in the House of Representatives. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) introduced the Protect Cemeteries Act, which would amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the vandalism of cemeteries. “Cemeteries are places of great significance […]
By JTA
Israeli short track speed skater Vladislav Bykanov failed to qualify for the 1,500-meter semifinals in the Winter Olympics by less than a second. Bykanov finished fourth on Monday in the second heat in 2:21.163 — 0.8 away from advancing — at the games in Sochi, Russia. He will compete in the 1,000-meter race on Thursday […]
By JTA
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were America’s most generous donors for 2013. The couple topped the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the 50 U.S. donors who gave the most to charitable causes. They received the most charitable designation with their December donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued […]
The centrist ADL's long-time national director Abraham Foxman will step down in July, 2015.
Russia's Chief Rabbi and the Sochi Chabad led a welcoming event for the Israeli Olympic athletes.
One of the PM's goals while in the U.S. is to advance the "peace process."
By JTA
The Foundation for Jewish Camp is piloting a new program this summer offering some first-time campers discounts of 40 to 80 percent below the standard rate. Called BunkConnect, the program will make available 1,100 discounted slots at 35 camps in the Northeast, New England and Mid-Atlantic regions, the foundation announced Monday. The Center for Entrepreneurial […]
Even a non-kosher "Jewish deli" attracts ugly anti-Semitic attacks
By JTA
Striking doctors at Israel's Hadassah Medical Center were joined by non-medical personnel and nurses. Hospital staff received only half their January salaries due to the center’s $367 million deficit. Only emergency and birthing services were in operation at the two Hadassah campuses on Monday. The doctors have been on partial strike, offering only urgent treatment […]
By Ari Schwartz
On Sunday, just 3 days into the Sochi games, Jews have already won 3 medals.
In violent antisemitic attacks there was little difference between the 2013 and 2012 figures.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One in three Israelis has faced cyberbullying either on Facebook or other social networking sites, revealed a survey conducted by the Israel Internet Association ahead of Safer Internet Day on Feb. 11. The figures show that 81 percent of those questioned feel the Internet is unsafe for children and teens, and 61 percent of the […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The two sides bring their own unique advantages to the table in the agreement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Pro-Israel organizations are divided over a new bill in the U.S. Congress that would pull federal funding from universities that boycott Israel. The bill, titled Protect Academic Freedom Act, proposed by U.S. Reps. Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL), has garnered polarizing reactions over whether or not it is constitutional by limiting free speech […]
By JTA
Iran reportedly will allow the United Nations to investigate possible military uses for the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. The agreement reported by news services on Sunday was among seven accords made by Iran during meetings with the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The talks began Saturday. Iran reportedly also agreed to […]
By JTA
A British lawmaker apologized for remarks comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labor Party made her apology in a statement on Friday for remarks she made two days earlier to the Parliament. “The debate was about the plight of the Palestinian people and in no […]
By JTA
Israeli lawmaker David Rotem offered a full apology for reportedly saying the Reform movement “is not Jewish.”
By JTA
Allen said he will not address the accusations again.
By JTA
Spain’s Jewish community congratulated the government for approving a bill proposing to facilitate the naturalization of Sephardic Jews of Spanish descent. On Friday, Spain’s government approved the bill, which was filed last month by the ruling Popular Party and proposes to amend previous legislation that allowed for granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews who chose to […]
By JTA
A French court cleared comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala of charges connected to a video in which he called for the release of a man who brutally murdered a Jew. The Correctional Court of Paris acquitted Dieudonne on Friday in connection with a video what was recorded in April 2010, in which Dieudonne called for the […]
By JTA
Rabbi Michael Broyde, a prominent Modern Orthodox figure, resigned from the Rabbinical Council of America as a result of the scandal over his use of an online pseudonym. Broyde’s resignation was first reported Thursday by The Jewish Channel, which also uncovered Broyde’s online activities last year. “I deeply regret my wrongdoing and understand how disappointing […]
By JTA
A Long Island yeshiva student was charged with repeatedly scrawling antisemitic graffiti inside a commuter train station. Jonathan Schuster, 18, a senior at Priority-1: Torah Academy of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, in Cedarhurst, N.Y.,was charged with the crimes on Thursday He admitted to using black marker to write anti-Semitic statements, often including expletives, on eight occasions since December […]
By JTA
The Senate unanimously urged the State Department to renegotiate the terms for the return to Iraq of an archive of Iraqi Jewish texts. The resolution passed Thursday “strongly urges” the department to renegotiate the agreement with the Iraqi government “in order to ensure that the Iraqi Jewish Archive be kept in a place where its […]
By JTA
Obama administration officials briefed Jewish and Arab-American student leaders on the peace process. Among the participants in Thursday’s three-hour White House briefing were students affiliated with Hillel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American Jewish Committee, J Street and Americans for Peace Now. “As part of our ongoing efforts of working with key stakeholders […]
By JTA
The Anti-Defamation League awarded its highest honor to former President George W. Bush. The ADL presented its America’s Democratic Legacy Award to the former president during a Thursday night gala dinner that opened the its national executive committee meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. “We will never forget, Mr. President, how the vision you laid out […]
By JTA
A Belgian supermarket chain has recalled a costume which is meant to allow children to dress up as prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The recall was announced Friday by the Delhaize chain in a press release that it issued conjointly with the Belgian League against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA. “Delhaize deplores this incident and regrets […]
By Shalom Bear
The PA has renewed ties with Iran and is threatening to bring back suicide bombers. Does this concern anyone?
The church "study guide" casts supporters of the Jewish homeland as "inherently racist and abusive."
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 […]
Syrian rebels seized part of a major government prison near Aleppo after it staged a car bomb attack, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The official media of the Assad regime said it repelled the attack by “armed terrorists” and that a “large number of their members [were] dead and wounded,” but other […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs from the village of Al Aroob rioted and blocked the only road connecting Gush Etzion with Kiryat Arba-Hevron Thursday night and then attacked IDF soldiers with firebombs and rocks before they were dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets. None of the soldiers were injured, an IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press, […]
Israel cannot dare say a bad word about Secretary of State Kerry, but the State Dept. can curse the EU.
Academic boycotts of Israel are Anti-Semitic; American taxpayers must not be forced to be complicit.
Terrorists form Gaza attacked Israel with one and possibly two missiles on Thursday despite pledges by Hamas that it would halt rocket firing. Either Hamas is not capable of controlling rival terrorist gangs, which has been the situation off and on for more two years, or it has returned to its old tactic of pledging […]
An Israel Knesset Member got a whack on his tongue for angering the Diaspora.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (Mazsihisz) is considering sending people to physically prevent Hungary's ultra-nationalist Jobbik party from holding a rally at a former synagogue on next Friday. Jobbik, which holds 43 of 386 seats in the country's parliament, is planning the rally in a building in the city of Esztergom which had once […]
Haredim could turn hate into love by serving in the army and showing non-religious soldiers the Light of Torah,
Mohammed Dahlan, the former Fatah party strongman in Gaza, denied on Thursday that he recently met with Shlomo Molcho, one of Israel’s two negotiators with the Palestinian Authority and a confidant to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Maariv newspaper reported that the two men met in Dubai to establish a closer relationship with Dahlan, who […]
By JTA
A Dallas-area rabbi who uses his home as a synagogue is being sued by a neighbor who says it has lowered his property values. Rabbi Yaakov Rich told the local Fox affiliate Fox4 in a video posted Wednesday that his 3,700-square-foot home is a synagogue with about 25 members. A website identifies his synagogue as […]
Jews are better off with ignorant anti-Semites rather than with those who have a normal IQ.
The Anne Frank House Museum has announced that toys Anne Frank gave away before she and her family went into hiding were recovered, and her tin of marbles is going on display this week, at the Kunsthal art gallery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Fox News reported. On July 6, 1942, about two years after the […]
By JTA
Several Jewish organizations in Hungary as a form of protest will not accept government grants for memorial events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust. The groups are protesting what they consider the state’s whitewashing of Hungary’s role in the Holocaust. The organizations turning down the grants from the Civil Fund include the Frankel Leo […]
By JTA
Gital Dodelson, the “chained” woman featured on the front page of the New York Post last fall, says she has received a get, or religious writ of divorce, from her husband. The announcement appeared Wednesday afternoon on a Facebook page dedicated to helping Dodelson obtain a get and was confirmed by a publicist who has […]
Had a Muslim woman been stopped for reading Islamic materials, it would be front page news everywhere.
The giant Dutch ABP pension fund has rejected dis-investing from Israeli firms as was done earlier the past several days by funds in Denmark and Norway. The bank announced that it issued a statement that it is holding on to its investments in three Israel companies because of the publicity over the other funds’ boycott […]
By JTA
Doctors at the Hadassah Medical Center launched a strike on Tuesday after talks between the Jerusalem hospital and the government over the institution’s $367 million deficit broke off. The doctors are offering only urgent treatment on a Sabbath and holiday schedule. Teaching also has been halted. The strike also is protesting that hospital staff members […]
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 […]
Thee eastern Jerusalem Arabs were sentenced to prison terms of four to seven years Wednesday for organizing Hamas activities and spreading its ideology. The Jerusalem court verdict declared that Hamas is trying “to take control of Jerusalem” through social activities, which is exactly the model Hezbollah used to take over southern Lebanon. The court denied […]
The IDF’s Israeli Medical Corps and the U.S. Air Force signed a Memo of Understanding Wednesday that “lays the foundation for a deep and ongoing cooperation in areas of aviation medicine, mental health, academics and research," the Israeli military announced. The memo was signed at the conclusion of the Surgeon General of the United States Air […]
Reform leaders too often make themselves look silly by bending the Bible for their own convenience.
Boycotting a boycotter could boomerang, despite all of the good intentions off those behind the idea.
New York City mayors have been outspoken defenders of Israel since its establishment – and of the Zionist cause even before that.
JERUSALEM – Actress Scarlett Johansson announced last week that she was ending her relationship with Oxfam following criticism from the humanitarian group over her work as a spokeswoman for SodaStream, a producer of home soda-making machines, which operates a factory in the West Bank.
By Ron Kampeas
“As we have since the beginning of the process, we continue to support Secretary Kerry’s diplomatic efforts to achieve a secure and lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” AIPAC spokesman Marshall Wittman said in a statement to JTA.
The increasing number of Jerusalem Arab terror plots is scarier than the “peace talks.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has sent an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizing him for his threat that Israel faces boycotts if the American-backed peace talks with the Palestinian Authority do not succeed. ADL’s director Abraham H. Foxman also sharply rapped Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his “unwillingness to accept […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs in a village near Shechem in northern Samaria lightly wounded an Israeli soldier with rock throwing and firebombs early Wednesday after the IDF entered area to arrests four suspected terrorists, according o Arab media. An IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press that only one terrorist was arrested and that there were no […]
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