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A Palestinian Authority Arab illegally in Petach Tikva was killed by volunteer Border Policemen after he attacked one of the policemen with a knife. The volunteer Border Policemen were searching the area near the Yarkon Cemetery in Petach Tikva for illegal aliens when they came across a group of 4 Palestinian Authority Arabs, one of […]
The academics decry the "Israeli Occupation" as harming the academic aspirations of Palestinian Arabs, yet prior to the "Occupation" there wasn't a single Arab university in Gaza or the "West Bank"
By David Morris
"The findings of the police investigation indicate serious criminal activity."
Fifty lone soldiers and over 200 young professional Olim celebrated “Thanksgivukkah" at a festive event organized by Nefesh B'Nefesh and White City Shabbat.
A two year old girl was injured in the head by Arab rock throwers in Jerusalem. The girl was in a car driving near the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem. The girl was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital with serious head injuries. There has been a series of stone throwing attacks in this area […]
In 2005, Eden Natan Zada, an AWOL IDF soldier, got on a bus and shot and killed four people in the village of Shfaram. Zada was captured by people on the bus and the police who handcuffed him inside the bus. Residents of Shfaram then mobbed the bus, the police ran, and the handcuffed Zada […]
By JTA
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday that the six-month interim agreement with Iran has not yet started. The next step is “a continuation of technical discussions at a working level so that we can essentially tee up the implementation of the agreement,” she said. It’s not clear when the agreement will come into […]
How appropriate at this time for the people of the Philippines to be Thankful for the Miracles Performed by the IDF
The Puritans in the American colonies were God-fearing settlers who published the Bay Book of Psalms, whose remaining copies are worth millions even though the Puritans were not so religious on typos.
By JTA
Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, some European Jew still are afraid to be confident enough to be Jewish in public. Christina Zionists are trying to help them, buy aliyah to Israel would be a lot easier.
Perhaps Obama and Kerry are finally learning that any agreement made with the Arab world simply is a basis for an argument. But don’t bet on it.
There is a glimmer of hope in fighting corrupt elections in Israel, which is no worse than anywhere else but simply more obvious.
The Palestinian Authority for years has been trying to destroy evidence of the existence of the Holy Temples, and new fears have arisen that they may try to the same in a Gush Etzion location of artifacts from the Hashmonean Dynasty, when the Miracle of Hanukkah occurred. Artifacts and remnants of a fortress dating back […]
By JTA
Alan Gross’ wife and Washington’s Jewish community are calling on President Obama to prioritize securing his release from a Cuban jail and will attend a demonstration at Lafayette Park outside the White House at noon next Tuesday, the fourth anniversary of his imprisonment. Judy Gross and officials from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater […]
Islamic and “Palestinian nationalist factions” in Hevron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday for the three Salafist jihad terrorists who Israel said were planning to attack Palestinian Authority official as well as Israelis, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) forces killed the three terrorists in […]
Bleeding heart, pro-Hamas groups should be putting their PR skills to work at better causes, such as breaking the Egyptian siege on Gaza.
JERUSALEM – For the first time since Israel’s founding in 1948, a high-ranking member of the Saudi royal family has publicly acknowledged that a country other than Israel is “the real danger” in the Middle East.
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.
An Israel court has released former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger from jail but ordered him under house arrest with a bond of nearly $425,000. The court in Rishon LeTzion, south of Tel Aviv, told the rabbi not to leave the country or talk to the media for six months. Besides facing charges of bribery […]
Senegal is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.
Foxman: Law enforcement under-reporting must be addressed.
By JTA
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate issued restrictions on the extent to which mikvah attendants may question and interact with women visiting the ritual baths. According to a letter sent Monday from the Chief Rabbinate to Itim, an organization that helps Israelis navigate the rabbinate’s bureaucracy, mikvah attendants may not question women visiting the baths, nor may they […]
By JTA
The White House held at least two phone calls with Jewish leaders to explain aspects of the interim sanctions-for-nuclear-rollbacks deal between Iran and major powers. Among the speakers on the conference calls Monday with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Federations for North America were Tony Blinken, a deputy […]
By JTA
Israel and the European Union have agreed on a compromise under which Israel will join the Horizon 2020 research and development project despite new EU guidelines on Jewish settlements. Following months of negotiations, the agreement was reported Tuesday night in the Israeli media after an impasse was reached on Monday night. The project is expected […]
Famous Israeli Hollywood producer finally admits he was a spy for Israel and helped his country acquire the technology for nuclear weapons
13 yr old assailant was told he'd "lose respect" if he didn't punch someone in the face, so the 12 yr old he punched was not deemed victim of "Knockout."
The group left Quebec for Ontario last week. They all left at once, in the middle of the night, in rented buses.
A United Nations report says the use of electric shock “Taser” guns is a form of torture. The US uses it only in extreme cases. And Israel? It is okay to shoot a settler, lying on the floor, with electric shocks.
Einstein, 74, is considered Israel's greatest singer of all times.
The IDF’s elimination of a Hevron-area Salafist jihad terror cell that plotted to kill Palestinian Authority officials as well as Israelis is evidence that Abbas cannot control terror, not even against his own people.
By JTA
The Zionist Organization of America blasted the interim Iran deal in the strongest terms, describing the agreement concluded over the weekend in Geneva between the P5+1 –– the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States) and Germany –– and the Islamic Republic of Iran as an […]
By JTA
Harvard Law School professor and vocal Israel supporter Alan Dershowitz said the deal reached in Geneva under which Iran promised to stop uranium enrichment beyond 5 percent in exchange for $7 billion in sanctions relief “could turn out to be a cataclysmic error of gigantic proportions.” “It could also turn out to be successful, to […]
Disney Documentary has bought the Israeli animated story of “Dolphin Boy,” about an Israeli Arab who became mute after being a brutal beating in his Arab village and who underwent rehabilitation through communication with dolphins in Eilat. Disney intends to promote the production into a full animated feature, the Times of Israel reported. The father […]
Israel’s Supreme Court soon may have to decide if it wants to set off fireworks and take on a case that involves the authority of a rabbinical court to order a circumcision.
By JTA
Elie Wiesel received the President’s Medal of Distinction from Israeli President Shimon Peres in a ceremony in New York Monday night. Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and author of more than 40 books, was awarded Israel’s highest civilian medal for “his unique contribution to the memorial of the Holocaust and in light of his uncompromising […]
Two soldiers received medals on Monday for their quick action. Oh, and one of the soldiers is an Arab.
Bracha Kapach, wife of a scholarly rabbi from Yemen and more widely known as the “Chicken Lady,” died Tuesday morning in Jerusalem at the age of 90. She earned her nickname because of her individual charity effort to make sure that poor Jews would have chicken and other foods for the Shabbat and holidays. The charity […]
By JoeSettler
Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?
On November 18, Palestine’s UN delegation cast a vote for the first time as a non-member observer state, after the General Assembly had voted to upgrade the Palestinians’ “entity” status a year ago. Chief Palestinian UN observer Ambassador Riyad Mansour told reporters it was a symbolic step, “but it is an important one because it […]
Her attacker is still at large.
By JTA
Jewish immigration from France to Israel has increased by 49 percent in the first nine months of 2013 compared to last year. Through September, 2,185 French Jews have immigrated to Israel, compared to 1,469 immigrants during the same time frame in 2012, according to Jewish Agency for Israel figures. The number of immigrants who arrived […]
Israel markets itself as a global leader in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency, but it can only do so, claim the Haverford College-sponsored speakers - because they use the "West Bank" and Gaza as labs and the Arabs as their experimental mice.
Hanukkah seems to be politically correct this year. So is the African American holiday Kwanzaa, both of which were honored with new US postage stamps. The Christians struck out this year – and are angry.
By JTA
At least four investigations of possible Nazi-era war criminals have been turned over to German investigators in recent months after being identified as a result of an awareness campaign by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “Operation Last Chance II,” launched in 2011 and expanded Monday with a new poster campaign, has yielded hundreds of calls and […]
There is nothing worse for Jews than a good looking and do-good non-Jewish woman doctor who sees the world through her stethoscope and thinks Jews are ignorant of health because they circumcise babies.
The IDF humanitarian delegation to the Philippines will leave from home on Wednesday and bring with them two Philippine children who will be transferred to the Schneider Hospital in Tel Aviv for further medical care. A military ceremony welcome the team at Ben Gurion International Airport, during which Hanukkah candles will be lit. During the […]
The Home Front Command will carry out what it called a routine drill Tuesday through Thursday in the Western Galilee to maintain preparedness for rocket attacks from Hezbollah or Syria. The exercise will include the distribution of gas masks. A siren will be activated in all parts of the Western Galilee at 10:15 a.m. Israeli […]
It now is official. This year’s rare coincidence of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving will be known as “Thanksgivukkah” where the Boston Tea Party took place, retiring Mayor Thomas Menino declared. The proclamation notes the special “diversity of all its citizens” and the values embodied by both Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, including “unity, hope and gratitude.” Thanksgiving and […]
Archaeologists are having a field day in excavations prior to the widening of a highway west of Jerusalem and have found evidence of the change from a rural to urban society 5,000 years ago.
By JTA
Ukrainian Jewish leaders said Romania was unfit to head a Holocaust remembrance forum because it has not done enough to come to grips with its own Holocaust-era culpability. Approximately 380,000 Jews were murdered in Romania-controlled areas during the Holocaust, according to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. “Romania’s actions prove it is not ready […]
The Defense Ministry announced Monday it already has approved the planning stage for new homes already announced for construction in Judea and Samaria. The reporting by run-of-the-mill media of every announcement and step in the bureaucratic procedure for new homes in Judea and Samaria gives the impression that Israelis building double or triple the actual […]
Apple has made short shrift of recent denials of Israel’s PrimeSense gesture recognition company that it is being bought out and has and confirmed on Monday it is paying $359 million for the firm. "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans," said Apple […]
A police raid on two homes before the elections last month uncovered 250 false identification cards that people intended to use to cast extra ballots.
By JTA
A nominee for the top court in Massachusetts is facing opposition in part because of his affiliation with the Anti-Defamation League. Joseph S. Berman, 49, a regional leader of the New England ADL and a commissioner for the national ADL since 2006, was nominated as a judge for the state Superior Court in October by […]
By JTA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only on the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a public statement last week called on Abbas to address the Knesset and said he would travel to Ramallah to speak to the P.A. leadership. “Netanyahu comes […]
By JTA
President Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States would consult closely with Israel as talks with Iran go forward. “Consistent with our commitment to consult closely with our Israeli friends, the president told the prime minister that he wants the United States and Israel to begin consultations immediately regarding our efforts […]
The dialogue was reported by members of the pro-Western March 14 coalition, driven out of power in 2011.
Some law enforcement officials fear labeling "Knockout" a hate crime as it may inspire more copycat attacks, while several public officials have pushed for wider discussion of the trend and increased penalties.
Saudi Arabia is loudly silent on the deal with Iran, but its royal billionaire prince who owns part of Twitter and Apple says “we” are concerned. And guess who is “We”? Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and loyalists to Syrian President Bassar al-Assad has claimed at least 160 lives in the suburbs of Damascus the past two days as the regimes continues to use starvation as a weapon. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said deadly clashes broke out on Friday in Ghouta, east of […]
By JTA
The student-run Harvard Ichthus Christian blog website apologized for an anonymous post by a Jewish convert to Christianity who wrote that Jews deserve to be persecuted for killing Jesus. The apology was issued on Friday, and the original post that was published last Wednesday has been removed from the site. “(W)e sincerely apologize for breaching […]
By JTA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would be willing to speak to the Knesset, but only on the issues he chooses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Abbas last week to address the Knesset and said he would be willing to travel to Ramallah to speak to the PA leadership. “Netanyahu comes up […]
Joint Plan of Action Preamble The goal for these negotiations is to reach a mutually-agreed long-term comprehensive solution that would ensure Iranˈs nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek or develop any nuclear weapons. This comprehensive solution would build on these initial measures and result in […]
President Shimon Peres played to role of Pollyanna following the “P5+1” deal with Iran and said, “This is an interim deal. The success or failure of the deal will be judged by results, not by words.” He then addressed the Iranian people, assuming they have the freedom to listen, and told them, “You are not […]
More than 11,000 children have been killed in the Syrian civil war, any of them starved to death and shot and tortured, according to a new report by the Oxford research Group. Male victims outnumber female victims by two-to-one, and most of the boys have been between 13 and 17 years of age. “The data […]
The Land of Milk and Honey also is the Land of Wine, not only today with wines that have won world prizes but also 3,700 years ago, according to a new discovery by a US-led archaeological team.
What was achieved last night in Geneva is not an historic agreement; it is an historic mistake.
On Shabbat morning, a Jewish man in Antwerp, Belgium, on his way to synagogue was beaten by a Moslem. The Moslem began to beat the man as he was walking down the street. The man ran into the synagogue, where the Moslem followed him. The man managed to lock the Moslem in the women's section, […]
The official text from President Obama on the P5+1 deal with Iran.
Montreal's Jewish General Hospital is squarely opposed to a new "Secularism Charter" introduced into the Quebec legislature this month.
By JTA
Citing anti-Semitic content, a French court sanctioned a publishing house for five books, including one first printed more than a century ago. The court in Bobigny, near Paris, last week handed down a blanket ban on the publication and dissemination of one book, “The Anthology of Quotes against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue. […]
By JTA
Finnish police are investigating whether a captain overloaded a boat that sought to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The captain, Mika Jamian, is suspected of exceeding the maximum number of passengers allowed, according to a report Thursday by the Turun Sonomat daily. It said the ship, the Estelle, carried 30 people when it […]
The man born Jacob Leon Rubenstein allegedly told his rabbi the day after shooting Lee Harvey Oswald that he did it to "show that Jewish had guts."
By JTA
An email from an athletic trainer at the U.S. Air Force Academy pledging to “talk about Jesus Christ” at work does not reflect Air Force policy, the academy said, but the official will not be disciplined. “Mr. Allen Willoughby does not speak for the Air Force’s Academy and we absolutely do not tolerate proselytizing among […]
By JTA
Israel’s proposal that Iran totally dismantle its nuclear capacity in exchange for sanctions relief would likely lead to war, a top White House official said. The official, in a conference call Wednesday with think tanks and advocacy groups sympathetic to the Obama administration’s Iran strategy, outlined the proposal that the major powers will put to […]
By JTA
U.S. Senate leaders pledged to revisit intensified Iran sanctions after the Thanksgiving holiday. “The Senate must be prepared to move forward with a new bipartisan Iran sanctions bill when the Senate returns after Thanksgiving recess. And I am committed to do so,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, told The Hill, a Capitol Hill […]
By JTA
The Jewish community of Paraguay inaugurated a new Jewish museum which includes the country’s first Holocaust studies center. The Walter Kochmann Jewish Museum of Paraguay, which opened to the public last week, has been under construction for the past 11 years, according to a report by the news site ABC.com.py. The museum is located inside […]
By JTA
A poll showed majority support for the Obama administration strategy of easing sanctions on Iran in exchange for a partial rollback of its nuclear program. A CNN poll released Thursday and conducted by ORC international showed 56 percent of respondents favored “an interim deal that would ease some of those economic sanctions and in exchange […]
By Shalom Bear
Israel has been has been threatening, almost explicitly, that any agreement signed with Iran will not restrict Israel from acting militarily to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear breakout.
Hamas has a new ambulance, thanks to the efforts of their Neturei Karta anti-Zionist comrades. How long will it take before Hamas tries to use it to smuggle terrorists into Israel?
Two days after severing its connections with Al-Quds University following its president's "unacceptable and inflammatory" verbal attack, Brandeis University also removed the Al-Quds President from the Advisory Board of a Brandeis Center for Ethics and Justice
A Canadian rabbi has created a new kind of Kosher certification named “Kosher Check” that not only makes sure foods are kosher under Jewish dietary laws but also monitors manufacturers to make sure they conform to food-safety controls. Rabbi Avraham Feigelstock, who sits on the Vancouver Rabbinical Court, said, "Approval will be predicated on food […]
By JTA
Detroit is bringing in the Jews. A couple of weeks after hiring Brad Ausmus as manager, the Tigers on Wednesday traded for Ian Kinsler, previously of the Texas Rangers, to play second base. The cost for the Jewish infielder, a three-time American League All-Star: mega-salaried first baseman Prince Fielder and a cool $30 million. Lucky […]
`The IDF rescue mission in the Philippines, like previous rescue operations, acts as one of Israel’s best goodwill ambassadors in addition to its primary task as a humanitarian effort.
The Palestinian Authority negotiating team has found its way down from a weak limb on a tall tree by saying that they resignations are final but that they will continue “temporarily” until replacements are found. Presumably, that will happen in around five months, when the nine-month period U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Grand Plan […]
Police said on Thursday they have solid evidence that former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger offered an apartment and cash to someone in return for his not spilling the beans to the police about the rabbis’ alleged offenses. Rabbi Metzger was arrested this week on charges of pocketing millions of dollars that were intended for […]
The Palestinian Authority sounds more like Iran every day, which is fine so long as the Arab on the street doesn’t believe it. The problem is the US also doesn’t believe it.
By JTA
A German pastor who defended Jews’ rights to ritual circumcision will receive the highest award of the Central Council of Jews in Germany in ceremonies in Berlin Thursday evening. The awarding of the Leo Baeck Prize will honor Nikolaus Schneider, 66, president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany – the country’s main […]
Israel employs more than 100,000 Palestinian Authority residents, including 20,000 who work for Jews in Judea and Samaria, according to new statistic released Thursday by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The number includes nearly 35,000 who work without permits. Using Palestinian Authority census data, which many sources say is exaggerated on the upside, 30 […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Jewish community leaders in Moscow during his trip to Russia, "The Iranians deny our past and repeat their commitment to wipe the State of Israel off the map. This reminds us of the dark regimes of the past that plotted against us first and then against all of humanity.” The […]
The Jewish Publication Society is about to release a 3-volume anthology titled Outside the Bible, with 3,301 pages of key texts of ancient Jewish literature from the Second Temple period, edited by Lawrence H Schiffman, James L Kugel and Louis H Feldman. It includes extensive commentary from more than 70 world-renowned experts and 29 new […]
The U.S.-Israel Science & Technology Foundation (USISTF) has released the 2013 “U.S.-Israel Innovation Index” that ranked Israel third among 16 nations considered to be the strongest partners of innovation through science and technology with the United States, using four key indicators that included government relationships, human capital, industry cooperation, and research and development synergy. Overall, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Canadian Center for Israel and Jewish affairs (CIJA) has called on the Canadian government to adopt the recommendations of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, which urges to “officially recognize” Jewish refugees from Arab nations and “to include all of the refugee populations as part of the overall […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s flagship index the Tel Aviv 25 hit an all-time record high Wednesday, closing at 1,344 points and passing the previous closing level of 1,341.89 points set on April 21, 2011, Globes reported. Similar to Wall Street’s Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Tel Aviv 25 index consists of the largest 25 companies within Israel’s stock market. The […]
By JTA
Yeshiva University President Richard Joel acknowledged the school was facing “substantial deficits.” In an email to faculty and staff obtained by JTA, Joel disclosed that the measures taken to shore up finances at the New York City university following the financial crisis in 2008 have been insufficient. “We intended to achieve a balanced budget by […]
The carnage continued in the Northern Sinai as suicide bombers rammed a convoy of Egyptian military personnel on Nov. 20, 2013.
The US talks with Iran about easing sanctions, but an Israeli activist lawyer says Obama overlooks the fact that Tehran owes American terror victims billions of dollars.
The Iranian Propaganda Ministry is getting hard up when it has to herd Jews, most of them elderly, holding Torah scrolls in Tehran to voice support for Iran’s nuclear development.
By JTA
A Ukrainian billionaire living in London is being sued by his rabbi over a joint property venture. Rabbi Yonah Pruss claims that he and Gennadiy Bogolyubov, a philanthropist who is involved in the Chabad movement, entered into a deal to find, purchase and manage investment properties in Britain along with a surveyor, Colin Gershinson, according […]
Iran’s attempt to soft-pedal its nuclear program in talks in Geneva has not affected its rabid anti-Zionism, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei now calling Israel the "rabid dog" of the Middle East. “It came from the mouth of the rabid dog of the region – Israel – that Iran is a threat to the world,” […]
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