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By JTA
Nearly 700 rabbis and other Jewish communal officials were briefed by a top White House aide on President Obama’s Syria plans. The call Tuesday with Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, was organized by the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly and attracted 691 callers from all religious streams, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is one thing to rub salt in a wound, and it’s another to wipe the murderer's blood on the victim’s coffin, but that is what an official Saudi site did to mark the anniversary of 9/11’ carried out by Saudi terrorists.
Is Assad’s mind so twisted that he used chemical weapons again? Or are the rebels equally twisted enough to gas Assad’s soldiers and then accuse the regime. And does it matter anymore?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A Polish couple pleaded guilty to the desecration of a historic site for destroying a Holocaust-era Jewish hideout in the Warsaw apartment the couple was renting. The hideout was made into an official historic monument in 1999. A Holocaust hideout built by a Warsaw ghetto inmate was destroyed by a polish couple who pleaded guilty […]
By JTA
El Al Airlines has reinstated flights to Eilat, after having cancelled its three daily daytime flights from Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday because of concerns about the safety of new landing and takeoff designed to reduce the chances of a terrorist attack from Egypt. The airline’s nighttime flights, whose routing had not been changed, were […]
A Palestinian Authority terrorist opened fire on IDF troops securing Joseph's Tomb.
Following the fiascoes where Netanyahu's preferred choices for Bank of Israel governors couldn't be appointedt, the Turkel Committee vetted and approved three new candidates for the job.
At first we thought the article in Globes was a joke, but it turns out its not.
At 8 AM, a 54 year old, Arab resident of Natzrat Ilit rammed into the gate of the Ramat David Air Force base in northern Israel. The driver had indicated to the guards that he had planned to make a U-Turn, and then ran full speed into the gate, and suffered light injuries as a […]
“This is the second largest baby that was born in the 35 years that I’ve worked at Rambam,”
A Penn junior studying at al Quds University laments the "worldwide systems of white supremacism and colonialism," and especially Israel as the "settler-colonial apartheid state," but ignores al Quds' glorification of murderers of Israelis, Americans, teenagers and children.
A minor earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale was felt in Jerusalem on early Thursday morning. [Personally, I slept through it and didn't feel a thing.]
‘Peace talks’ are an excuse to avoid THE issue - the Temple Mount – but the PA pushes it in media, warns of religious war. Housing Minister blesses at the site. Fatah terrorists warn of ‘violent Friday.”
Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists returned to one of their favorite spots south of Jerusalem Wednesday and attack passing Jewish motorists, injuring one girl. Near Hevron, the IDF arrested four Arabs were arrested, including those who had prepared firebombs to hurl at vehicles on Highway 60 at Beit Umar, located between Gush Etzion and Kiryat Arab-Hevron.
Zakheim frequently used his access to ambulances and helicopters to transfer sick or injured individuals to hospitals.
By JTA
The National Security Agency provides raw data to Israeli intelligence services, according to a secret document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. A memorandum of understanding between the NSA and the Israeli Signals Intelligence Unit (ISNU), leaked by Edward Snowden to the London Guardian, states that the NSA will provide data to the ISNU […]
Baltimore native Rabbi Avraham Leventhal, who moved to Beit Shemesh eight years ago after making aliyah, has tossed his hat in the political ring and is running for a seat on the city council. Elections will take place October 22. Another former American, Rabbi Dov Lipman, also was active in politics after making aliyah. He […]
By JTA
Two French soldiers who posed in front of a Paris synagogue a few weeks ago while making an anti-Semitic gesture will be sanctioned by the French army. The soldiers of the Alpine Hunters elite unit currently are the subject of an investigation, the French military’s spokesperson, Bruno Louisfert, told radio station RTL France Tuesday. He […]
JERUSALEM – With Israel’s media recounting the decisions made by high-ranking Israeli generals and then-Prime Minister Golda Meir on the eve of the Yom Kippur War 40 years ago this week, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to reassure Israelis that the country would not be caught unprepared again amid threats from Syria, Hizbullah and Iran.
Al Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers 12 years ago. With the help of other terrorists, it is bringing down Mideast regimes, banking on chaos to spread its policy of destruction of the West.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Pro-Israel officials rolled their eyes this week in response to the opposing spins about their support for President Obama’s drive to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad for his purported use of chemical weapons against his own people.
The shekel-dollar rate sank to a two-year low Wednesday, reaching to as low as under 3.56 shekels to the dollar, after President Barack Obama called off a Senate vote on giving him permission to attack Syria. One shekel now is worth slightly more than 28 cents, good news for Israelis wanting dollars but terrible for […]
Syria is ceasing to be its former self, and “the war and terror have divided that country into parts, into a number of countries,” President Shimon Peres said Wednesday. Speaking during a tour of Israel’s internationally-marketed Plasson plastics factory, President Peres stated, "The world cannot remain silent regarding the bloodshed and murder of children that […]
A double suicide bombing attack by Al Qaeda terrorists killed at least 11 Egyptian soldiers and civilians on Wednesday at its intelligence headquarters and a checkpoint in Rafiah, on the border with Gaza. The terrorist attack came 24 hours after the Egyptian military carried out helicopter gunship raids on Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the Sinai […]
Iran for years has been trying to get Russia’s advanced S-300 missile system that can down commercial airplanes. Putin, feeling his oats after leading Obama by the nose, is ready to supply the goods.
Part of a ceiling has collapsed in a 3-story building undergoing renovations at 32 Herzl Street in downtown Tel Aviv. Six people were trapped in the building, one 30-year-old man is dead, one is seriously injured and four are lightly injured. Medical teams have removed them to area hospitals. Large rescue teams were involved in […]
By JTA
A newly discovered CIA document indicates that Israel likely built up its own chemical weapons arsenal. Intelligence circles in Washington believe that Israel amassed a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons decades ago to complement its nuclear arsenal, Foreign Policy reported Monday on its website. Information about Israel’s chemical weapons production appears in a secret […]
By JTA
A senior Palestinian official said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “guaranteed in writing” that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would start with the 1967 lines. American officials, however, denied the existence of such a document, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Nabil Shaath, the Palestinian commissioner for international relations, told the newspaper that the Palestinians agreed […]
By JTA
International computer hacking groups called on Muslim hackers to attack U.S. and Israeli websites and other Internet presences on 9/11. The threat for Wednesday was posted last week in a YouTube video by the hacker groups Anonymous, AnonGhost and Fallaga. The groups are protesting Israeli policies on the Palestinians. “Hi, Israel, do you remember us?” […]
By JTA
The newly elected president of the International Olympic Committee heads a German-based organization that helps companies to guarantee that their products do not contain anything from Israel. Thomas Bach, a German who was elected Tuesday at an IOC session in Buenos Aires, is chairman of Ghorfa, the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which was […]
By JTA
President Obama asked Congress to delay a vote on whether to strike Syria while he consults with Russia over a deal that would end Syria’s chemical weapons program. “I have therefore asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path,” Obama said in […]
Assad insisted he has no chemical weapons. Syria now admits it does. Russia insisted it is not supplying S-300 missiles to Syria. Now it says it sent parts. And Assad will turn over all chemical weapons?
It's estimated that 13,000 Jews visited Ma'arat HaMachpelah (the Tomb of the Patriachs) today for tours and the evening Selichot prayers ahead of Yom Kippur. Among those that will be at this evening's Selichot prayers are the Chief Rabbis of Israel, city rabbis, MKs and government ministers. There have been reports of Arabs stoning buses […]
In a settlement deal between the state and the family of Ben Zygier (aka Prisoner X), the State of Israel has agreed to pay the family NIS 4 million. As part of the settlement deal, the state will not assume any responsibility for the suicide of the former Mossad agent, or mistakes that were made […]
By Kosher Today
Israel’s national snack food is Bamba, made by Osem, in which Nestle has a major stake. Strauss Foods is partly owned by Pepsi. Now China wants to buy Israel Tnuva. Will McDonald’s buy out falafel stands?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned House Armed Services Committee Tuesday that failure to grant President Obama the freedom to attack the Assad regime in Syria will strengthen the hand of Iran. “Iran … [is] watching what you do and whether or not this means something,” he said. “If we choose not to act, […]
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has appointed the first woman as one of the members of the State Committee for the Appointment of Rabbinical Court Judges. Dr. Rachel Levmore, director of the Project for the Prevention of Agunot and Get-Refusal of the International Young Israel Movement and the Jewish Agency, was named to the panel based […]
Free Wifi will be available in 80 different locations in Tel Aviv, and will serve residents and visitors to the city.
Firebombs, carjackings, and stonings seem to be the rule this evening.
In the Jewish State, religious Jews are kept by secular politicians on the command of Arab executives from setting foot on the holiest place on Earth.
In multiple interviews with TV networks, President Barack Obama said he would prefer to have a diplomatic solution to the crisis rather than insist on a military attack, hinting that he would gladly avoid the strike against Syria if the Syrian government turned over control of its chemical weapons. "John Kerry and the rest of […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Authorities in the northern Israeli city of Haifa are preparing for possible conflicts resulting from the fact that Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on Friday, coincides this year with the Eastern Orthodox Feast of the Cross.
Mark Leibler and Dr Colin Rubenstein of The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council have sent congratulations to Australia’s new Government, J-Wire reported. Newly elected PM Tony Abbott of the conservative Liberal Party is known for supporting Israel, and said during the election campaign that he is “firmly committed to restoring the Australia- Israeli friendship.” The congratulatory note […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate, has been condemned for plans to speak at a conference hosted by the Fatima Center, a Catholic, antisemitic fringe group. “For Ron Paul to associate himself with such a disreputable, hateful religious movement is simply beyond comprehension,” American Jewish Committee (AJC) Executive Director David Harris said […]
Team Obama came down hard on AIPAC to use its political muscle to convince members of congress to vote in favor of the U.S. strike on Syria.
Traces of the wild polio virus have been found in Jerusalem sewage system.
The White House announced Monday that more than dozen more countries have formally backed a “strong international response" to the use of chemical weapons in Syria. The United States now has the support of 24 countries, not including Israel which has tried to lay low. The list includes an interesting collection of allies, such as […]
Extremist Haredim were at again in Beit Shemesh, breaking into a construction site that they say contains old Jewish graves. The Haredim found the Arab guards even more violent.
Bill de Blasio has turned around the election polls one day before the real vote and has a chance to win Tuesday’s election without a run-off, according to the new and last pre-elections survey conducted by Quinnipiac University. De Blasio won 39 percent of the respondents’ support, one percent point short of the minimum 40 […]
By JTA
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny called for a recount in Moscow’s mayoral election after missing the runoff vote cutoff by one percentage point. He is asking for a recount. Incumbent Sergei Sobyanin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, garnered just over 51 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election to 27 percent for […]
Thompson brushed off suggestions that having D’Amato stumping for him tarnished his liberal credentials.
Russia suggests Assad turn over chemical weapons to the UN. Then Obama can call off an attack and Assad can claim he captured poison gas from rebels. But what about the nerve gas the Assad keeps hidden?
The IDF staged a surprise drill Saturday night on Mount Hermon, and Nahal Brigade soldiers used live fire and took over a mock outpost near the border with Syria. The exercise had been planned, and the IDF said it was not necessarily connected to the current tension in the wake of a threatened American military […]
The US, Israel and others might be hit with chemical weapons if they attack, says Assad. But would he use them? Of course not. Not him. But there always is Hezbollah. Or rebels. But not Assad. Never.
Israeli start-up Outbrain, which provides a digital content management and storage solution, sis going to Wall Street to raise $100-200 million in a public stock offering. The company’s decision to go public rather than sell out to foreign companies puts it in company with Wix, Matomy Media and Fifty One Inc., now called Borderfree, all […]
Israel may have struck it rich twice – once with indications of oil off the southern coast and twice with the prospect of Hamas and Abbas fighting it out over probable claims to the Israeli discovery.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Dr. Mazar estimates the treasure was abandoned during the Persian conquest of Jerusalem, in 614 CE.
Six people were killed in an accident last Tuesday, in which a package of live ammunition exploded while being smuggled into Turkey.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Iranian media has denied that the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, sent a Rosh Hashanah greeting to Jews. A Sept. 4 message from the Twitter handle @HassanRouhani stated, “As the sun is about to set here in Tehran, I wish all Jews, especially Iranian Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah.” Major media outlets picked up on the […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After previously agreeing to release 104 Palestinian terrorist prisoners for the restarting of Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations, Israel on Sunday made another concession to the Palestinian Authority (PA), issuing 5,000 new work permits to allow residents of PA territories to work in Israel. The first 26 Palestinian terrorists in the prisoner release were freed in August. […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the midst of renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas awarded $6,000 to the Dalal Group for Popular Arts, a dance troupe named after Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist who was behind a bus attack in which 37 Israeli civilians died, Palestinian Media Watch reported. The official Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, […]
Convicted Israeli president Katzav gets to go home, for a short time.
Looks like disgraced Jewish New York politicians get one free pass, after that, the crowd turns ugly. Weiner, still spouting the happy talk, is now down to single digits in the polls.
Saudi Arabia has agreed to support an American-led attack on Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Sunday in Paris, where he met with Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elarab and nine Arab foreign ministers. He said “a number of [Arab] countries” are ready to sign a joint declaration blaming Syrian President Bassar […]
By JTA
Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard, who claimed he knew nothing about the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews. Has died at the age of 96. SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was at Hitler’s side he and Eva Braun committed suicide before the Allies could capture them. Braun, who was his mistress until a quick marriage ceremony shortly […]
The Golden Dome now has company after the IDF deployed an Iron Dome system in Jerusalem on Sunday.
Abbas in 2003: ‘We reject terrorism in all forms.' In 2013: there’s no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.’ Results of his ‘Peace Process’ are 5,700 attacks in first six months of 2013.
Israel’s reputation as an incubator for Start-Ups has attracted non-Jewish Americans who have settled into successful careers, The Christian Science Monitor reported. The new immigrants have a downside because some of the non-Jewish entrepreneurs have married Israeli girls. Although their children are Jewish according to Jewish law, the chances of their growing up in a […]
By JTA
‘What’s good for the Jews is good for the Muslims,” says a French Islamic website citing the closure of a city street for Jews through the High Holidays. It demands the same for Muslim street prayers.
Sderot Mayor David Buskila “celebrated” Rosh HaShanah by camping out in a protest tent next to the official residence of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to protest budget cuts to the Gaze Belt town. He said he intends to remain in tent until the government restores funds that were cut in the austerity budget. […]
By JTA
Plans for a memorial in Munich to 11 Israelis and a German police officer murdered at the 1972 Summer Olympics there were unveiled on Wednesday, the eve of Rosh HaShanah, at the Bavarian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs. The planned hall of remembrance is slated to be built near the site that housed the […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau says that he hopes to create a program modeled after Taglit-Birthright Israel trips for young Evangelical Christians, as part of an effort to increase Christian tourism in the Jewish state. “The Christians have a problem with their next generation too,” Landau said, Ynet reported. “We are looking to get closer […]
The Timna Valley copper mines in southern Israel are considered to date back to ancient Egypt, but Tel Aviv University archaeologists now reveal they actually are from the period of King Solomon.
On Sunday, Jews will be refraining from food and drink from dawn until sunset to commemorate the Fast of Gedaliah.
By Shalom Bear
The Netanyahu government is contesting an unprecedented decision to commute the sentences of 6 Israeli Arabs who killed IDF soldiers in terror attacks.
There has been another improvement in the medical condition of Rav Ovadia Yosef, who is still in the ICU at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center. Rav Yosef spent Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat in prayers, accompanied by family members. Doctors will conduct a complete evaluation of his condition on Sunday, to weigh his discharge. He has […]
Egyptian armed forces bombed several sites in Sinai on Saturday in the largest military campaign in the area since the 1970 war with Israel, Ma'an reports. Army helicopters launched airstrikes on 12 locations north Sinai, targeting sites where terrorists had been storing vehicles and weapons. Egyptian forces also took control of a terrorist communications center, […]
Palestinian Arabs threw stones at police at the Mugrabi gate to the Temple Mount compound on Friday. Police broke into the compound and dispersed the rioters using shock grenades. Later the stone throwing at police forces resumed and they went back into the compound, moved hundreds of worshipers outside, dispersed the stone throwers and arrested […]
An officer and a soldier were lightly injured on Friday from rocks thrown by Arabs during riots in Judea and Samaria. The officer was injured in Kfar Kadum, west of Sh'chem, and the soldier was injured in Bal'in, west of Ramallah. Both received medical care on the spot. In Bitunia, north of Jerusalem, dozens of […]
By dvora
Rosh Hashana Greetings from Prime Minister Netanyahu
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Egyptian military has reportedly destroyed nearly 20 homes along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip as part of a widespread effort to crackdown on terrorists operating in the Sinai Peninsula. Residents near the border with Gaza say Egyptian military authorities have begun to tear down homes that are suspected of hiding tunnel entrances, Reuters […]
By JTA
One of Russia’s most prominent gay rights activists made anti-Semitic statements on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The tweets appeared last week on Nikolai Alexeyev’s account in connection with an article about him in OUT Magazine. Alexeyev re-tweeted comments calling the author of the article, Michael Lucas, a “Jewish pig” and “Israeli monkey,” and calling […]
Lt.-Colonel Shalom Eisner, who was suspended from duty after striking a foreign anarchist, has reached a plea bargain with the IDF.
There was a concerted effort this morning by Arabs, to block Jewish entry onto the Temple Mount.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey made their case for the use of military force against Syria on September 3, in a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
It’s a theory, but darned possible given Obama’s ego and powers of persuasion. What American would oppose a US attack to rid Syria of chemical weapons on Sept. 11 and regain the image of the almighty US?
Judicial officials in Germany have investigated 49 former Nazi guards at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and said 30 of them should be prosecuted, while nine others have since died Another seven of the former guards are living outside of the country. Some of the guards are reportedly as old as 97. The justice agency in […]
El Al has signed an agreement with GetTaxi to offer passengers discounts for GetTaxi's cab hailing service in New York, Tel Aviv and other cities where it operates, the Globes business newspaper reported. The discount from JFK to Manhattan will take $25 off the usual fare of $60-85. The discount program also is available in […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Apples area mainstay of Rosh HaShanah, when Jews dip them in honey and bless it as sign of a sweet year, which this year should be very sweet if 15,000 tons apples can do the trick.
Muslim Brotherhood members given life sentences by Egyptian court. In Egypt, a life sentence carries a maximum of 25 years imprisonment.
By JTA
More Jews give to non-Jewish causes than Jewish causes, and Jews overall are more generous givers than non-Jews, according to a new survey called Connected to Give. It found that 76 percent of American Jews reported a charitable contribution in 2012, compared to 63 percent among non-Jewish Americans. The median annual giving rate among Jews […]
By JTA
The New York Police Department several years investigated Kahane Chai, a militant Jewish group, for threats against Rabbi Shmuley Boteach but never told him, according to internal NYPD documents obtained by the Tablet website. The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) asked the NYPD’s intelligence division to monitor the group in the late 2000s after anti-Boteach […]
By Sean Savage
Caught between the larger Sunni-Shi’a battles for supremacy in Syria, Christians are forced to contemplate an uncertain future as Western powers debate action against the government of Bashar al-Assad.
JERUSALEM – Despite repeated assurances by President Obama that the U.S. will not allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has quietly met with senior military and political leaders to reassess Israel’s options against the Islamic regime in the wake of Obama’s reluctance to launch an all-out military attack against Syrian positions.
New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez told CBS Tuesday morning that Iran and Hezbollah “could possibly” strike Israel if the United States attacks the Assad regime although Syria is full of “ bluster. The Senator, a Democrat and chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said on the "This Morning” program, “The Iranians and Hezbollah […]
The Women of the Wall was so focused on Haredim that the girls forgot to ask Jordan for permission to pray in their own minyan. Now maybe the WoW will wake up to reality and pray on the Temple Mount.
A joint US-Israel missile launch is not such a big deal - unless it comes when Obama plans an attack on Syria. If the test was designed to scare the dickens out of everyone, it was a huge success.
“You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Lapid soared to political stardom on his “middle class” soap box, which turned out to be full of hogwash. His wealth now is estimated at $6 million.
Approximately 20 percent of applicants for work at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were affiliated with Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda, according to a document released by Edward Snowden, who worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) before fleeing the United States. The document said the applicants had “significant terrorist and/or hostile intelligence connections and […]
On Tuesday, Egyptian helicopter gunships attacked and killed dozens of Islamic terrorists in northern Sinai. The operation is reportedly still ongoing. Since the military coup which overthrew the elected Muslim Brotherhood president, Egypt has been stepping up operations to stamp out the Islamic terrorists who have been attacking Egyptian, and even Israeli interests. On Monday, […]
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