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Three seriously wounded Syrians have been brought to Nahariya hospital in northern Israel for treatment. The three were injured in the chest and body in the country's civil war. Nahariya hospital has treated 169 wounded Syrians, of which 21 are still in the hospital.
There are reports that the IDF is moving a large number of troops along the Lebanon border. Hezbollah has gone on high alert in South Lebanon.
The death toll in the bombing of Aleppo by Syrian government planes Sunday has risen to more than 100, including 16 children, according to opposition sources. The “barrel bomb” attack hit nine different parts of the city and was the worst bombing of the commercial hub in six months, the London Telegraph reported. The bombs […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial 2013 conference in a video address Sunday, “Peace is not a one-way street. It’s a two-way street” in his efforts for a peaceful solution to the Iranian and Palestinian Authority issues. He also praised recent efforts to find a compromise solution to interdenominational […]
Following the second shooting attack from Lebanon in 3 days, an IDF soldier was killed by gunfire from Lebanon.
Iran knows nothing about the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, the former Jewish FBI agent who was last seen on an Iranian island in 2007. The American government said at the time he was on a private trip, but it has since been revealed he was working for the CIA. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif […]
The Cabinet on Sunday appointed a committee to evaluate the possibility of purchasing a plane for the flights of the Prime Minister and President instead of the current procedure of using chartered planes. The panel will also come up a recommendation on whether a new office-residence should be built for the Prime Minister, whose official […]
A rocket was launched at Ashkelon from Gaza at 8:19 pm. It appears that the rocket fell short and landed within the Gaza strip. On Saturday, Israel transported fuel into Gaza to help alleviate the humanitarian disaster that Hamas created.
The app has helped streamline communication between parents, teachers and administration at MDS.
Torrential rains and the "snowstorm of the century” last week have left Jerusalem with 51 percent of its annual amount of precipitation, according to observations by the Israeli Meteorological Service, and the winter has barely begun. Be'er Sheva, where many areas still are flooded, now has accumulated 63 percent of is annual rainfall and more […]
Syrian President Bassar al-Assad’s Air Force dropped “barrel bombs” of explosives on Aleppo Sunday, killing 14 children and eight others, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A school was hit by the bombs, the Observatory said, and another activist group reported that there were several helicopter attacks. The city, Syria’s second largest, […]
On Saturday, Tunisia's 21 political parties picked the minister of industry, Mehdi Jomaa, 50, as the next prime minister, who will replace the Islamist-led government with a team of technocrats, AP reported. Jomaa now has three weeks to cobble together his government, whose main task will be to prepare presidential and legislative elections next year. […]
Gaza-based terrorists are training to fight alongside Islamists against the Assad regime, the BBC reported Sunday, quoting recent Internet videos showing fighters training to storm buildings with Islamic music in the background. One terrorist said on a video that he is going to fight a “holy war” in Syria because “there is no fighting with […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A statement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejecting a boycott of Israel has infuriated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) leaders. “No, we do not support the boycott of Israel,” Abbas told South African reporters last week, The Star reported. “But we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements. Because the settlements are […]
Jerusalem still is digging out of the “snowstorm of the century,” and the main highway from Tel Aviv was closed temporarily Sunday evening to allow workers to move freely to restore electricity to hundreds of families without electricity for more than two days. Schools will be closed in the capital on Monday. The road to […]
By JTA
A populist leader of a protest group told the La Repubblica newspaper Friday that Italy is “slave to the bankers, like the Rothschilds” and that “It is curious that five or six of the richest people in the world are Jews, but this is something I need to investigate.” The claims by Andrea Zunino, spokesman […]
The “snow siege" of Jerusalem is a God’s direct response to the recent jailing of yeshiva students who refused to accept draft orders to report for duty in the IDF, claimed Kabbalistic Rabbi Yaakov Addas Sunday. “There is a general principle that when there is an evil decree, such as a tsunami, everyone must do […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has rehashed his willingness to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu according to Lebanese news source, one month after he took up the Prime Minister’s challenge to speak in the Knesset – but without a condition that he declare that Israel is a Jewish state. Al-Mayadeen, a Lebanese channel close […]
Finance Minister and Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid has come out against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s request for buying a plane for him and the president and for new offices and official residence. "At the moral level, we are of the view that in these days of belt tightening and tax raises, when the […]
Conservative commentator Norman Podhoretz wrote in The Wall Street Journal late last week that Israel should attack Iran now to prevent it from gaining access to a nuclear weapon. Israel can "put at least a temporary halt, and conceivably even a permanent one, to the relentless Iranian quest for the bomb” he wrote. "The Obama […]
NASA satellite photo from this morning.
In an effort to help reopen the roads in and around Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Works sent 100 tons of Dead Sea salt to Jerusalem yesterday, to spread on the roads, according to a report in The Marker. No word yet on whether they included a complementary package of Dead Sea mud, or Ahava skin […]
In case you're wondering, temps in Jerusalem right now are 7 Celsius, or a comfortable 44 Fahrenheit.
By Shalom Bear
Up to 60,000 households lost electricity during the snow storm, and Israelis are beginning to question the lack of preparedness in advance.
By Tibbi Singer
The local security coordinator tried to alert the Army, but his calls were not answered.
According to the Hermon Mountain website there are 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) of snow on the upper Hermon and 1 meter (3.2 feet) of snow on the lower part of the mountain. The Kinneret rose 10 centimeters since Wednesday.
Four water pumps will be transferred to the Gaza Strip due to heavy flooding.
Residents of Yitzhar and Har Bracha are currently being evacuated from their homes - not because of another Disengagement, but because there's no electricity and no heat. Six buses are transporting the residents to temporary shelter in Petach Tikva.
The train connecting Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, and the only ground transportation currently connecting the two cities at the moment, has gotten stuck near Lod (which is near Ben Gurion Airport). It's been stuck there for the past 3 hours (currently 10:50 PM). Highways 1 and 443 have been shut down due to snow and […]
Highway 1 to Jerusalem was shut down on Saturday evening a mere hour after it was reopened to buses and taxis. The Ministry of Transportation decided that using the road was too risky because of icing conditions. The tunnel road connecting Gush Etzion to Jerusalem has been shut down too.
As of now, on Sunday there will be no school in the following locations: Jerusalem Ariel Kiryat Arba Golan Parts of the Galil Gush Etzion Ramallah Beit El
Over Shabbat, a woman from Yitzhar began having contractions. Unable to get to the hospital because of the snow on the road, an IDF helicopter was called in. The helicopter landed in Yitzhar and transported the woman to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva. No news yet if it was a boy or a girl.
By Shalom Bear
The massive snow storm knocked out electricity, and shut down the main highways to Jerusalem.
By JTA
A suburb of Paris honored a man imprisoned for helping to murder diplomats from Israel and the United States. A majority of aldermen in the city council of Bagnolet east of the French capital voted on Wednesday to make the Lebanese citizen, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, an honorary resident, calling him a “communist activist” and “political […]
By JTA
A Spanish hotel built on the remains of a 15th century synagogue opened a new synagogue on its seventh floor. The opening last week at the four-star Parador de Lorca hotel in Lorca, a city in the southeastern region of Murcia, was the result of negotiations between management and the Sefarad Beitenu Jewish association, which […]
The Kansan was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Palestinian Authority influential businessman Sam Bahour wrote New York City’s outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “Thank you, but no thank you” after Hizzoner said he would donate award money of $1 million to "promote commerce between the people in Palestine and the people in Israel.” Bahour wrote, “’Commerce between the people in Palestine and the people […]
Several Haredi residents in Beit Shemesh have confessed to police investigators that they gave the identification cards to others to vote in their place, Israel radio reported. On Election Day, police confiscated approximately 200 identification cards and disguises. Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein appealed to the courts to violate the recent elections in Beit Shemesh, and […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Friday morning and into the afternoon following his talks with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas Thursday night. The snowstorm that has literally placed Jerusalem under siege forced Kerry to alter his plan to talk twice with the Prime Minister, once before […]
A European Union official said that its Political and Security Committee has approved a policy to offer Israel and the Palestinian Authority an aid package that could be worth billions of dollars if they sign an agreement, Haaretz reported. The official, who insisted on anonymity, said the European Union will announce the policy on Monday […]
Chief Rabbi David Lau said has urged Jerusalem families to open their doors and host drivers and passengers stranded in the mammoth snowstorm that has closed highways out of the city and buried the capital under 18 inches of snow. He also said that efforts to rescue people stranded on highways must continue during Shabbat, […]
Robert Levinson, a former Jewish FBI agent, was working directly for the CIA on a mission in Iran when he was last seen in 2007, the Associated Press stated in an investigative report. The U.S. government has claimed that Levinson, who is married and has seven children, traveled to the Iranian resort island of Kish […]
The Foreign Ministry has notified Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter that its consulate offices in Philadelphia will remain open following reports that they were to be closed. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sent to the mayor a copy of the letter via Mid-Atlantic Regional Consul General Yaron Sideman, who was attending a board meeting of the Jewish […]
By JTA
The Union for Reform Judaism has sold off half of its headquarters in New York and is investing $1 million from the proceeds to overhaul its youth programming. The sale of one of the union’s two floors at its midtown Manhattan headquarters closed on Wednesday; Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the movement’s president, announced the sale in […]
The Jerusalem Rabbinic Eiruv Committee has announced that this coming Shabbat, parshat Va'yechi, the Eiruv in the city is not reliable, due to the heavy snow fall. So far, Jerusalem has endured just under two feet of snow, but as of Friday morning it's still coming down. Jerusalemites are advised not to carry any items […]
Interviewed by France 24, UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer says UNHRC election of China, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia is a "black day for human rights."
The arms race is back on and out in the open, with Russia flexing its rhetorical strength and stretching its protective reach towards Iran.
Lt. Colonel Eisner was trying to stop anarchists from blocking Highway 90, when he hit at least one of the anarchists.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has voted to welcome Israel as its 21st member state. CERN's main area of research is particle physics, which is the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting between them. CERN was established in 1953. It is located near Geneva, on the border between […]
By JTA
The United States is prepared to move against violators of its sanctions against Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. “Our enforcement of the sanctions regime will be as unflinching as ever, so any CEO, general counsel or businessperson who thinks now might be a time to test our […]
The snow in Jerusalem Thursday no only did not stop Arabs from attacking Jewish motorists with rocks but also helped them to do sin by disguising the rocks as snowballs. Pelting drivers with snowballs is a dangerous hobby all over the world because if they are like ice, the projectiles can easily break a window […]
By JTA
An Israeli army patrol working on the border with Lebanon came under fire Thursday and returned fire. No on was injured in the exchange. The soldiers were on patrol near Metullah, which borders Lebanon. The IDF is investigating but said that the source of the shooting could have been hunters on the other side of […]
The snowstorm’s delay of Kerry’s meeting with Netanyahu finally gives Abbas a chance to explain why Israel must not exist as a Jewish state.
Israel’s Frutarom flavor technology company’s appetite continues to grow with the announcement Thursday of the purchase of the American flavor company Hagelin and its affiliate NRC Operating Company for $52 million. It is Frutarom’s third buy-out of a foreign company in a month and counters the trend of American companies purchasing Israel high-rech startups. Frutarom […]
Bavaria has decided to scrap its plans to reprint Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" with critical commentary when a legal ban by Germany on republishing it expires at the end of 2015. Germany owns the book’s copyright because Hitler, born in Austria, was registered as a resident of Munich. He wrote the autobiographical "Mein Kampf" (My […]
It is the first civilian nuclear power plant built in the Middle East.
l-Quds University, like Mahmoud Abbas, glorifies the mass murderer known as Abu Jihad, as well as other terrorists. But in a report, Brandeis faculty tell their administration not to pay any attention to that terrorism behind the curtain.
Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour expressed fear on Wednesday over the “disastrous” conditions of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon amid the winter storm hitting the country, al-Akhbar reported. “We are incapable, the ministry is working through international associations to aid the refugees,” Abou Faour said in an interview, adding that “frosting will take […]
By JTA
A Montreal blogger was cleared in a libel claim brought by leaders of the city’s Hasidic community. In clearing Pierre Lacerte, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled last week that the blogger’s criticism was harsh but he had supported his claims with facts. Since 2007, Lacerte has used his blog to criticize Hasidim for things […]
By JTA
An Israeli playing basketball at Seton Hall University was ordered to return home to serve in the army. The Israel Defense Forces told Tom Maayan, a sophomore guard at the New Jersey college, to return by Jan. 2 to be drafted. Maayan had spent several months over the summer in basic training with the Israeli […]
By JTA
Bill Richardson, the former U.N. ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately. In a Dec. 10 letter to Obama, whom he endorsed after dropping out of the 2008 presidential race, Richardson noted that an increasing number of figures involved in government when Pollard […]
By JTA
The Union for Reform Judaism awarded one of its highest honors to an Orthodox rabbi, the late David Hartman, at the opening plenary of the union’s biennial conference in San Diego. On Wednesday evening, the union’s president, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, presented the Alexander M. Schindler World Jewry Award to Hartman’s son, Rabbi Donniel Hartman, president […]
Falk Complains: "The Ultra-Zionist UN Watch Complicated My Task"
Will SFSU president or national security take any serious action in response to a student leader calling for the decapitation of all IDF soldiers and their supporters?
Snow began falling shortly before midnight in Gush Etzion, which includes some hills higher than all other locations south of Tzfat (Safed). Snow also was reported in Kiryat Arba, and 10 snow plows are on standby Jerusalem is expected to be covered with white in the morning. The snow is expected to reach the southern […]
Chairmen of the Senate and House of Representatives budget committees have proposed a budget deal that would restore $220 million for two more Iron Dome anti-missile batteries only months after they were said to be victims of budget sequestration. The proposed deal needs to be approved by houses of Congress before becoming law. The deal also […]
The Obama administration is close to announcing that former Israel Bank Governor Stanley Fischer will take over the number two position at the Federal Reserve Bank under recently confirmed director Janet Yellen. Fischer was hoping to be named head of the Fed, but at 70, his age was a barrier. Fischer is widely respected in […]
European Union money for the Palestinian Authority includes of millions of dollars for salaries civil servants who don’t show up for work, according to the European Court of Auditors (ECA)., the Luxembourg-based body which describes itself as the ‘’Guardians of EU finances.” The amount of EU funding to the Palestinian Authority between 2008 and 2012 […]
All the boys were called up together, and recited – for the very first time – the blessing for being called to the Torah, with their interpreter.
By JTA
A sapling that came from the tree that stood outside the hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was cut down and stolen in Frankfurt, German police said. Unidentified parties cut down the 8-foot tree outside the Anne Frank School sometime between last week and Monday, according to a report Tuesday by the Dutch public […]
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand why Jews support Obama as “pro-Israel” because he doesn’t understand the psyche of a liberal American Jewish Democrat.
Congratulations to Elliot and to Bonnie, the first two winners in the Abeles & Heymann free hot dog contest.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – In the early 1940s, at a time when it was virtually impossible for a South African of color to secure a professional apprenticeship, the Jewish law firm Witkin, Sidelsky and Eidelman gave a young black man a job as a clerk.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Amid simmering tensions over Iran policy, the Obama and Netanyahu governments appear to have quietly forged common ground in recent weeks on Israeli-Palestinian talks, with the United States accepting that a possible “framework” agreement might not address every outstanding issue in the negotiations.
Of the 175 cases of measles in the U.S in 2013, a mere 23 were connected to Hare Krishnas in North Carolina. The 175 cases were triple the national average in previous years. Embarrassingly enough, the largest group of people infected with measles came from our very own anti-vaccination cult of Brooklyn Hareidi Jews. Thirty […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
During a Mass with Egypt’s Catholic leader, Pope Francis prayed for the safety and religious liberty of Middle East Christians. “Let real guarantees of religious liberty be given to all, together with the rights of Christians to live peacefully in the places where they were born, in the native country they love as citizens of […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City Councilwoman-elect Laurie Cumbo has apologized for a previous statement about the “knockout” attacks on Jews in Brooklyn blaming “the accomplishments of the Jewish community” for “feelings of resentment” among the African American community. She also said that black residents in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn fear being “pushed out by their Jewish […]
By JTA
A Jewish family may proceed with its legal battle to recover a valuable painting surrendered to the Nazis following a ruling by a U.S. appeals court on lost artwork. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday reinstated a California law allowing lawsuits to recover artwork lost as long as 100 […]
By JTA
A Dutch water company has cut ties with Israel, because Israel's water company, Mekorot, works in Judea and Samaria, supplying water to all the residents.
Iran dismissed on Tuesday Israeli President Shimon Peres' offer to fly over and meet meet his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, RT reported. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Marzieh Afkham, said the offer amounted to a desperate attempt on the part of Israel to alleviate its global isolation, after the nuclear deal that was reached in […]
Hillel's new CEO sets the standard: Hillel's name carries benefits and responsibilities. To acquire the benefits you must accept the responsibilities.
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Canadian immigration officials this week ordered a former leader of the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary out of the country prior to a speaking engagement in Montreal. Csanad Szegedi was sent back to Budapest on a plane just before he was slated to address a Chabad group. Approximately 200 people who came out to hear […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Congress on Tuesday that new sanctions against Iran would be “gratuitous” and could harm any agreement with Iran as well as relations with world powers in the P5+1 group. Speaking to the House Foreign Affairs Committee before leaving for another trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and […]
With all due respect to the man and his memory, Mandela promoted strong independent states for minorities – except Israel. He publicly praised Arab terrorism against Israel in the name of "freedom."
Sweden took a break from anti-Semitism Tuesday with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in chemistry to Israel-Americans Aryeh Warshel and Michael Levitt, who were named last month as prize winners “for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems.” The two men and co-winner Martin Karplus each received $1 million from the Royal […]
Israelis have prayed for rain in a dry November and now are getting the dividends in spades, thanks to a rare early winter storm “from Russia with love.”
By JTA
A former hotel security guard pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge for defacing a Jewish school’s Torah scroll and prayer books. Justin Shawn Baker, age 25 and an Iraq War veteran, admitted during a plea hearing Monday in a Jackson, Tenn., court to violating the civil rights of students of the Margolin Hebrew […]
Four soldiers in a tank unit involved in a training exercise in the Golan Heights suffered burn wounds Tuesday afternoon, and three helicopters evacuated the soldiers, two of them whose injuries were described as serious. The other two soldiers suffered moderate burns. The IDF is investigating the incident involving Unit 401, which uses the most […]
By JTA
A new initiative will use Jewish law to help “Agunot” women, separated from husbands who refuse to grant them a divorce that would let them re-marry.
By JTA
The British government is warning the business community to steer clear of Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria. New recommendations noting there are “clear risks” and the United Kingdom does “not offer support to such activity” were published last week on the U.K. Trade and Investment website in the section titled Overseas Business Risk–Israel. The […]
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."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has pushed off a planned trip to the Far East and will return to Israel and the Palestinian Authority for more discussions, the State Dept. announced Monday. He left last week after what all reports said was a failed mission to bridge gaps between PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas and […]
By JTA
Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who resigned amid sexual harassment accusations, was sentenced on Monday to three months of home confinement and three years’ probation for acts against three women. Filner, 71, pleaded guilty to the charges against him in October in exchange for a plea bargain that would keep him out of jail. […]
The Red-Dead Sea Project signed in Washington is a multi-billion dollar excuse for a political project that might not have any necessity if Israel were to start using one of its new resources – water.
Stories of Russian repression of its citizenry and crackdown on its nascent press freedoms signals yet another pivot away from Western values.
By JTA
Pennsylvania State College police have identified two men who allegedly painted anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas on and around a mostly Jewish fraternity on campus. The two men are white and college-age, the police said, according to the Centre Daily Time, and they face charges of ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct The slogans and […]
We don’t pretend to know how and why God works, but it can be speculated that the financial disaster of Israel’s giant IDB was the way for a Chabad Jew to enter Israel’s secular Big Business elite.
President Shimon Peres is under the weather with the flu and will not be able to attend the memorial for Nelson Mandela in South Africa. His absence will make even more obvious the non-appearance of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, whose spokesmen said that complicated and expensive security arrangements are the reasons he will not be […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Now that the U.S. and other P5+1 powers made an interim nuclear deal with Iran without involving Israel, the Jewish state is free to act as it sees fit on the Iranian issue without consulting America, former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told JNS.org. “I think now [the Israelis] have really a […]
By JTA
Accused Nazi war criminal Hans Lipschis was released from custody in Germany after being diagnosed with dementia. The arrest warrant against Lipschis, 94, was canceled Friday due to a psychiatrist’s determination that the alleged former SS guard at Auschwitz was suffering from the early stages of the illness and therefore might not sufficiently understand and […]
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