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A motion to ban the non-medical circumcision of males younger than 18 was presented to the Swedish parliament. Two lawmakers from the rightist Sweden Democrats party, noting that female genital mutilation is illegal in Sweden, submitted the motion to the Riksdag on Tuesday. A vote on the motion has not been set. Bjorn Soder and […]
The “red line” associated with Iran’s nuclear program or Syria’s use of chemical weapons has sparked an ongoing international debate, in which both Israeli and Diaspora Jews have made their voices heard. But a debate that hits closer to home for American Jews is about where Jewish federations in their communities draw the line on funding programs associated with varying opinions about Israel.
JERUSALEM – Israel’s military and security services worked overtime during the Sukkot holiday, as officials contended with domestic and international crises that could have short- and long-term ramifications for both the peace process and the global war on terrorism.
Obama was not joking at the UN. He actually said, “The world is a more stable place today than it was five years ago.” Does he watch TV? Does he know that Islamic terrorists killed 400 people in five days?
Samantha Lewthwaite, the British-born “white widow” terrorist whose husband was a suicide bomber in the 2005 attack on London’s subway and bus system, may have been among the attackers on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall and probably was killed, A Kenyan minister suggested. “From the information that we have, two or three Americans (were involved) and I […]
El Al announced it will halt all daytime flights to Eilat starting Thursday, two weeks after resuming flights based on an understanding with government aviation officials that a solution would be found to a new landing path that El Al considers too dangerous to use. Terrorist attacks from the neighboring Sinai Peninsula have occasionally targeted […]
Hundreds of thousands of Jews in Israel and throughout the Diaspora are praying for the health of “Rav Ovadia,” one of Israel’s most influential rabbis and one of today’s greatest Torah sages. A name has been added.
Jerusalem police once again have prohibited Jews from visiting the Temple Mount because of security officials' unintended admission that they cannot or do not want to deal with violent Arabs. Officially, police say that they blocked the planned visit of hundreds of Jews to the holy site on Tuesday, the sixth day of the Sukkot […]
Kenyan authorities declared Tuesday morning that security forces have taken complete control of the mall and that no hostages remain, but Al Shabaab terrorist spokesmen claim live hostages still are trapped by attackers. Kenya declared that a third terrorist has been killed, but the announcement came after authorities said the siege is over. Based on […]
By JTA
“No thanks” is the message American-Iranian Jews delivered to new Iranian government headed by President Hassan Rohani, after the regime sent the Iranian American Jewish Federation received an official invitation to meet with him in New York. The meeting also would have included Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif and the only Jewish Iranian Member of […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nearly two dozen Christian lawmakers from more than a dozen countries traveled to Israel on Sunday to take part in the Israel Allies Foundation’s Jerusalem Chairman’s Conference. The Israel Allies Foundation was started by former Israeli Minister of Tourism Binyamin Elon to work with lawmakers around the world to “mobilize political support for Israel based […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Reports indicate that recently elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will bring Iran’s only Jewish parliament member to the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York. Siamak Moreh Sedgh, a 48-year-old physician, has been an Iranian parliament member since 2008. He and Ahmad-Reza Dastgheyb, who is a Muslim, will be the only parliament members […]
By JTA
The Netherlands opposes any kind of import ban on Israeli products, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said, though it must enforce European Union legislation on labeling settlement goods. “I would like to stress that the Netherlands opposes any type of import ban or the boycott of Israeli products,” a Dutch official wrote in Rutte’s name […]
Naim led federal agents to his computer and admitted to viewing and downloading child pornography for multiple years.
When we wrote two months ago here that Obama’s reincarnated “peace process” was doomed from the start, we stated the ugly truth: Terrorists would drive in the first nail. Yet, the PA blames Israel.
Terrorists, like Mafia kingpins, are allies until one of them thinks he can rule the world. When they trip up over their own arrogance, they run back into each other’s self-destructive clutches.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Everyone is “Pro-Israel” today. Jewish federations bankroll “Zionist” Gaza sympathizers and “Zionist” boycotters of anything over the “Green Line.” Fundraisers find they have crossed the “red line.”
More than 60 people took part in a special one day Kilometers for Koby Sukkot hike along the Israel Trail and the Burma Road this week to help raise funds for Camp Koby, established in memory of terror teenage victim Koby Mandell. He and a friend were killed nearly 13 years ago in a terrorist […]
An Egyptian court has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood leaving the short-lived leading political party of the country back where it was under the Mubarak regime, when it was outlawed even though it maintained tiny faction in the parliament. The judicial order to confiscate the Muslim Brotherhood’s assets follows a dramatic and violent crackdown on its […]
Kenya is ending the terrorist siege on the partly-owned Israeli mall in Nairobi after carrying out a policy, of “no negotiations with terrorists,” as Israel used to implement, but no more.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday that the absence of a Palestinian Authority condemnation of the kidnap-murder at the hands of a PA Arab terrorist over the weekend proves that leadership of Mahmoud Abbas leadership has no intention of making peace with Israel. “The fact that the Palestinian Authority hasn’t […]
Heavy gunfire erupted at the Nairobi shopping mall, where Kenya's military is now trying to end a two-day assault by Islamist gunmen. A VOA reporter at the scene says the shooting Monday morning continued for close to 15 minutes. The army began its assault Sunday night at the upscale Westgate Mall, where an unknown number […]
Three diplomats were injured when a mortar shell hit the Russian embassy compound in Damascus on Sunday. According to Xinhua, the shell was fired by rebels in the volatile district of Brazeh. Fighting has been raging in Brazeh on for days, between the rebels and the Syrian government army. "Three members of the embassy's staff […]
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The World Jewish Congress slammed a Polish magazine report that alleged corrupt practices in the restitution and management of Jewish property in Poland. In a statement issued Sept. 18, WJC President Ronald Lauder called the report in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine “littered with factual errors” and “sensationalist,” and its allegations “unfounded and slanderous.” […]
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A town near Strasbourg unveiled dozens of Judaica items hidden before the Holocaust and discovered during the renovation of a former synagogue. The recently discovered items were presented to the public on Sunday. They had been hidden at what is now the new cultural center of Dambach-la-Ville, a town of 2,000 in eastern France, the […]
By JTA
A man who claimed to be the cousin of Mohammed Merah was arrested for allegedly making a threatening phone call to the French Jewish school where Merah killed four. French police arrested a 20-year-old French national of Moroccan origin, Reuters reported, over the weekend near Vesoul, a city in eastern France near Strasbourg. The man, […]
The FBI is investigating whether three, and possibly five of the ten to fifteen terrorists in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya are American citizens. As of now, it is believed that three American, a Canadian, a Brit, and a Finnish citizen are among the terrorists. As of Sunday, at least 68 people were killed […]
Netanyahu has given orders to permit the return of Jewish residents to the "Patriarch House" in Hebron.
By Shalom Bear
IDF Staff Sergeant Gal Kobi (20), from Tirat Carmel, was killed on Sunday after being shot by an Arab sniper in Hebron.
By Shalom Bear
On Sunday morning, the traditional Birkat Cohanim, Blessing of the Priests, was held in the Kotel courtyard. The Kotel was packed.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An IDF soldier was fired upon by Arab Terrorists and critically wounded in Hebron on Sunday evening.
Israel security forces have joined the battle against Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, according to a report by a French news agency. Israel and the IDF have not commented on the report. The Israeli forces reportedly are involved either in logistics or in the efforts to rescue hostages and eliminate the Al Shabaab terrorists hold up in […]
Does your Sukkah stand up to the challenge as the “best in the world.” The Jewish Agency will be the judge in its “Sukkathon 2013” competition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel will allow building materials for private projects into Gaza for the first time since 2007, when the Palestinian terror group Hamas seized control of the territory. An Israeli defense official said that Israel’s decision came after a request by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel previously has allowed the shipment to Gaza of cement, […]
Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for the ongoing terrorist attack that so far has resulted in the murders of at least 59 victims, with others still being held hostage by up to 15 terrorists. Nearly 200 have been wounded. The attack began on Saturday with an armed attack on Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall. More than […]
By JTA
The third season of the television hit “Homeland” will discuss the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. In the first episode, which is scheduled to air on Sept. 29, CIA agents agree during a meeting on a list of six terrorists who must be captured. A CIA agent presents one of the […]
Even the UN denounced the Palestinian Authority terrorist kidnap-murder of an Israeli soldier, but PA chairman Abbas has nothing to say. Based on previous demands, he should seek release of the killer.
If the Women of the Wall want equality with men, why don’t they try to perform the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall? Do tribal distinctions contradict “equality?” If so, who needs a Reform "rabbi?"
Iranian President Hassan Rohani Sunday unknowingly backed up a U.S. Congresswoman’s claim that he is full of deceit when he stated that the West must recognize Iran’s “right” to enrich uranium. In a speech during Iran’s annual military parade on Sunday, Rohani declared that the West must accept "all the rights of the Iranian nation, […]
By JTA
A Jewish anti-drugs campaigner defeated the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin with his election to mayor of Russia’s fourth-largest city. Yevgeny Roizman, 50, beat the ruling United Russia Party candidate in a mayoral election last week in Yekaterinburg, a city of 1.4 million people in the industrial belt of the Ural Mountains which is […]
Hundreds of Syrian rebels have signed up to fight in the northern and eastern areas of Syria with Al Qaeda against Bassar al-Assad's forces, according to sources quoted by Reuters. Al Qaeda forces, primarily the Nusra terrorist group that is linked with Al Qaeda, are better trained and more effective than many opposition fighters, and […]
By JTA
A Belgian Education Ministry website compared Israel and Nazi Germany, a Jewish newspaper reported. The comparisons were made on the KlasCement.be website, a major teaching resource offered by the Education Ministry of the Flemish Region, one of three entities that make up the federal Belgian state, the Jewish monthly Joods Actueel reported Monday. The website […]
By JTA
A GOP official in Virginia refused to apologize for an antisemitic joke, although the party’s candidate for governor called it inappropriate. “I did not tell an antisemitic joke,” John Whitbeck, the Republican Party’s chairman in its 10th Congressional District, in northern Virginia, told the Free Beacon on Wednesday. “I told a joke I heard from […]
Is it kosher for a dyed in the wool Israel-hater to be brought to South Dakota by a South Dakotan Israel hater to meet with the local Democrats? Hardly. But if you say that, you'll be accused of being part of the "Israel Lobby."
Former Israeli chief rabbi and spiritual leader of the Shas party, Rav Ovadia Yosef, was taken to Hadassah-Ein Kerem Medical Center Saturday night following a deterioration of his medical condition, Kikar Hashabbat reports. He was fully conscious during the ride to the hospital. Over Shabbat Chol Hamoed, Rav Ovadia was not feeling well and did […]
Slightly early this year, Israel had its first major rain storm, called in Hebrew, the Yoreh rain. The rain and wind were so strong in some areas that Sukkahs were knocked down and even blown away. Only on Thursday, during the Shmini Atzeret (Simchat Torah) holiday, does Israel begin to add the prayers for rain […]
It all started when Israel hit back.
By Shalom Bear
An IDF soldier was kidnapped and murdered by an Arab terrorist he was acquainted with.
By Shalom Bear
The UN's nuclear assembly voted down an Arab League non-binding resolution that singled out Israel for its alleged nuclear arsenal.
JewishPress.com will be back in full force after Shabbat. Enjoy your Chag!
The U.S. can use the proceeds to compensate victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism.
The families of twenty Israeli terror victims have won a monumental decision in the New York State Appellate Division (1st Dept.) in their case against the Bank of China (BOC). The Appellate Court affirmed that the civil action brought in 2008 by the Israeli victims of Palestinian rocket attacks and suicide bombings can proceed against the BOC in the United […]
Following Arab disturbances on the Temple Mount, one policeman was injured and taken for medical treatment.
By JTA
No Arab in his right mind could claim Egypt launched the Yom Kippur War as a pre-emptive” attack, but leave it to the BBC to come up with the unbelievable idea and believe it could get away with it.
While Abbas insists that a Palestinian Authority state will include all of the Jordan Valley, Israel plans facts on the ground to dissect it with a “dream road” from Gush Etzion to the Dead Sea.
British David Cameron said that the horrors of the Holocaust should bring out outrage in people who are against facing the reality that the Assad regime is using chemical weapons in Syria. He told the Holocaust Education Trust’s annual dinner in London on Monday, “The evidence [is] before our eyes,” the London Jewish Chronicle reported. […]
By Alex Traiman
Twenty years after the signing of the fateful Oslo Accords between Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasir Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Knesset members are debating the merits of the peace process and the two-state solution paradigm.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu communicated to President Barack Obama Tuesday “heartfelt condolences” following the massacre at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington on Monday. "On behalf of the people of Israel, please accept following the tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard,” he wrote. “We extend our deepest sympathies to the families of the victims of […]
JERUSALEM – High-ranking Israeli defense and intelligence officials scoff at the notion that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will divulge his entire arsenal of chemical weapons to UN officials.
A new Israeli government committee has 90 days to present to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ideas on how to implement a more cashless society, with free electronic charge cards to replace cash transactions in a war against the “underground” economy.” The cash cards, unlike credit cards, will be available to poor people on welfare or […]
By JTA
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will discuss stopping Iran’s nuclear program during a meeting with President Barack Obama later this month during the United Nations General Assembly, he told his Cabinet on Tuesday. Until Iran actually stops its nuclear program “the pressure on Iran must be increased and not relaxed, and certainly not eased,” Netanyahu said. […]
The most dramatic change in Egypt is the war on Islamic terror. Its success can be measured by the army’s rescuing Christians from Islamists. Obama should be jealous; Christians in the PA should be so lucky.
In the wake of the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria, the fear of genocide has once again been cast on a world stage. This World: The Jewish Values Network will present an historic panel, “Genocide: Do the Strong Have a Responsibility to Protect the Weak?” on Sunday, Sept. 29th at the Great Hall at […]
The American Islamic Center, a Bosnian Muslim congregation filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the city of Des Plaines, Il. and five of its aldermen, for violated its religious freedom when they denied it permission to convert a vacant office building into a mosque, the Chicago Tribune reports. "We are not happy that we have […]
Julian Omidi and his brother Michael Omidi, cofounders of No More Poverty, are new supporters of the Los Angeles-based Jewish charity, Tomchei Shabbos. Serving the Jewish community of southern California for more than 35 years, Tomchei Shabbos provides kosher food deliveries and financial assistance to families in need. “Everyone, at one time or another, needs […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced one week before her country’s upcoming federal elections that “Germany’s support for Israel’s security is part of our national ethos, our raison d’etre.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In light of tensions in Syria, the award-winning TV series "Homeland" has decided to shoot scenes originally slated for Israel in Morocco instead. According to Israeli media, the American producers of the show contacted their Israeli counterparts on Sunday to notify them of the decision. Estimates say that Israeli production companies are set to lose […]
The commander of the Free Syrian Army rebel group warns that Assad will continue to murder his own people.
Israeli tax official surprised Lulav and Etrog street vendors around the country on Monday.
Rabbi Philip Berg, founder of the controverisal Kabbalah Centre passed away on Monday
16 year-old NCSY board member, Orly Ohayon, is in critical condition and her mother was killed when a car struck them on their way to shul erev Yom Kippur.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A group of 16 Knesset Members in Israel’s governing coalition, many from the Likud that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads, wrote him on Sunday not to give up territory to the Palestinian Authority. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the MKs called on […]
By JTA
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to talk to Russia about a deal to destroy Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons. The Wall Street Journal, citing American and Middle Eastern officials briefed on the exchange, reported Monday that Netanyahu and Kerry spoke about the issue on Sept. 11. During the […]
Turkish planes shot down a Syrian Helicopter which Turkey claims was flying 2 kilometers inside their airspace, according to an AFP report on Monday. Turkey claims to have warned the Syrians a few times to exit their airspace, before hitting the helicopter with a missile. The helicopter reportedly crashed on Syrian soil.
Residents of the "Nof" neighborhood of Beit El found themselves under a barrage of stones this evening as they were outside building their Sukkahs. The Arab assailants were very surprised to discover that these Beit El residents weren't very passive when it came to responding to the Arab attacks. The Beit El residents quickly reacted, […]
Monday could be Israel’s finest hour for human rights and blackest day for a Jewish state. The court struck down a Knesset bid to detain African illegals for three years, but there are more options.
Arabs through stones and a firebomb at cars driving on road 60, near the northern entrance to Efrat. Earlier in the afternoon, Arabs through massive amounts of stones at cars at the El Hadr/Beitar junction. No injuries were reported in either attack
Bill Thompson will concede to Bill de Blasio Tuesday morning in New York, eliminating the need for a second-round of voting to determine who will be the Democratic party nominee, a virtual shoo-in to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor of the city. Unofficially, de Blasio already does not need a second round contest because the […]
Two or three gunmen went on a shooting spree at the US Navy Yard in Washington, killing at least four people and wounding 8 or 10 others including two police officers.
Circumcision has as much to do with Jews growing up to become national religious Jews as atheism has to do with Peace Now, but Israel’s anti-nationalist media think otherwise in a TV promo for "satire."
By Chabad.org
Some 300 people came specifically because of the floods.
By JTA
The Simon Wiesenthal Center urged an Argentinean soccer association to sanction a team associated with the Jewish community for making racist chants. The center made its request in a letter late last week to the Argentine Football Association’s Disciplinary Court over chants by fans of the Atlanta Football Club in its Aug. 25 match against […]
Was it all the negative articles in which the other front-runner for Federal Reserve Chair, Janet L. Yellen, was compared to Lawrence Summers and Summers was found wanting? Was it that, plus the snarky articles pointing out that despite what some saw as Yellen's superior credentials, that Obama was intent on naming Summers to replace […]
Professor Richard Falk, the UN "Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories," will deliver a public lecture in Melbourne on Monday, and so local Jews are organizing a protest, J-Wire reports. Falk will speak on “Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories" at the Village Roadshow Theatrette at the State Library of […]
A killer flood in Colorado submerged a synagogue and a rabbi’s home in Boulder County, and the Chabad synagogue rabbi is thankful that Torah scrolls were saved with the help of students from the nearby University of Colorado. “Thank G‑d, the students have been immensely helpful moving the Torahs and other sacred items to higher […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he expects “the full destruction of the stocks of chemical weapons that the Syrian regime has used against its own people.” Speaking at a state ceremony at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem to mark the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, he added, "We hope […]
Israel and Palestinian Authority negotiators promised Kerry they would hold secret talks, without using the media to promote agendas. Israel has obliged. PA negotiator Saeb Erekat has not.
“Auctioning” off the honor of being called to the Torah and for the privilege of reading the “Haftorah,” or “Maftir” section of the Prophets, is common in the Diaspora and also in many urban and more affluent communities in Israel, but it takes a lot to top an unidentified Moscow millionaire, or perhaps billionaire, who […]
Here is the latest jihadist history lesson: Israel killed Yasser Arafat because he refused to sign an agreement at Camp David in 2000. Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed al-Hindi, speaking during a rally in Gaza City, claimed that Arafat was put under siege after returning from the summit, before being poisoned for his unyielding position, the […]
Israel has no information to confirm Syrian rebel claims that the Assad regime has sent part of its stockpile of chemical weapons to Iraq, Knesset Member and former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told Voice of Israel radio Sunday. However, the regime still is planning to ship the illegal weapons to Iraq and to Hezbollah, Free […]
By JTA
A group of teenagers “of African and North African origins” assaulted ten 13-year-old Jewish students at a public sports center in Paris from the Ner HaTorah Jewish school on Thursday, according to France’s Bureau for Vigilance against Anti-Semitism. There were no serious injuries. The attackers asked the Jews to stop “occupying the area,” the report […]
Want to stop smoking? Drink less alcohol? Ask your local government to raise taxes on cigarettes and liquor. It works wonders. Just ask Israelis.
Egypt may be on the verge of doing what Israel, Europe and the United States have not been able to do – rid the country of unlicensed Islamic clerics who preach violence and rebellion.
While most Jews had completed their seuda mafseket-the meal before the fast, Samaria police were busy carrying out their last mission before the holiday – arresting seven Jewish residents of the Ramat Migron outpost, Hakol Hayehudi reports. The detainees were rushed to the Sha'ar Binyamin police station after the holiday had begun, and interrogated on […]
A 4-year old girl drowned around noon time in a mikvah-ritual bath on Neufeld Street in B'nei B'rak. The establishment was open, even though Jews are not permitted to dip on Yom Kippur. Magen David Adom paramedics took the child to Schneider hospital in Petach Tikvah, where she was declared dead, Kikar Hashabbat reports. According […]
By JTA
Flooding in Colorado submerged a synagogue and a rabbi’s home. The flooding, which has killed three people and displaced hundreds, hit Boulder County hardest, including the Chabad synagogue near the University of Colorado. “Thank G‑d, the students have been immensely helpful moving the Torahs and other sacred items to higher ground, and we still have […]
By JTA
Kosovo’s deputy foreign minister, citing his country’s record of ethnic Albanians protecting Jews during the Holocaust, urged American Jewish groups to press Israel for recognition of the country. In a meeting with Jewish officials in Washington, Petrit Selimi also noted that Kozovo's pro-American tilt made relations between the two countries a natural. “With such a […]
By JTA
Travelers will be asked to open the container with the etrog and unwrap it for inspection by experts.
John Kerry's remarks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after their meeting, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland, September 14, 2013.
Richard Allen of JCC Watch, evoking the character Johnny Friendly from the Marlon Brando movie, "On the Waterfront" said, "Nothing moves on the NYC Jewish waterfront without John Ruskay's approval."
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