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‘Schindler’s List’ Documents Sold at New Hampshire Auction

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Documents belonging to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved more than 1,000 Jewish workers from being sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust, were sold at a New Hampshire auction for more than $122,000 on Thursday. One of the documents is a letter signed by Schindler, the man whose story was immortalized on screen […]

News Briefs

Jewish Agency Developing Major Israel-Diaspora Ties Initiative

By JTA

The Jewish Agency for Israel is working on a major initiative in concert with the Israeli government and the philanthropic world to build Israel’s ties with the Diaspora. Tentatively titled The Prime Minister’s Initiative, the program would focus on Israel education in Jewish institutions; Israel engagement on campuses worldwide; educational trips to Israel; and incentives […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Islamists / Judaism

Add Brussels to the List of Where Jews Need to Hide. Again.

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The last remaining Jewish school in central Brussels has instructed its students to remove their kippot in the school's neighborhood and wait until they are inside the building to put it back on.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Tale of 2 Debts: Moody’s OKs Israel’s A1 Rating; US Sinks in Red

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hang on to your shekels. The Israeli economy is stable and Moody's okays its A1 debt rating. But in US, one economist says America’s debt is understated by 75 percent and is $70 trillion.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs / Egypt

Egypt Closes Border with Gaza as Clashes Continue

By JTA

Egypt closed the border between Sinai and Gaza Thursday as clashes between its government security forces and protesters backing deposed President Mohamed Morsi continued for a second day. The Rafiah crossing was closed “indefinitely,” the French news agency AFP reported Thursday, citing an unnamed Egyptian security official. The crossing was closed due to fears of […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / Lebanon / Hezbollah

Update: 22 Killed, 150 Wounded in Bomb Blast at Hezbollah Complex

By Jewish Press News Desk

A powerful car bomb explosion rocked a Hezbollah complex in Beirut early Thursday evening, killing at least 22 people and wounding 150 others, Red Cross officials told the Beirut Daily Star. The explosion burned dozens of cars and nearby homes. The attack severely damages Hezbollah’s standing in the country, where nationalists are incensed at the […]

US / News Briefs / Egypt

Obama Scolds Egypt by Cancelling Joint Military Exercise

By Jewish Press News Desk

President Barack Obama announced Thursday that the Egyptian security forces’ brutal campaign against Muslim Brotherhood opponents has convinced him to cancel a major joint US-Egypt military drill that takes place every two years and is a source of prestige to the Egyptian army. “We want to sustain our relationship with Egypt [but] our traditional cooperation […]

News Briefs

Cantor: Peace Progress Requires Palestinian ‘Cultural Mind-Shift’

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House Majority Leader, said while leading a trip of 28 congressmen to Israel that he doesn’t envision progress in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until there is a Palestinian “cultural mind-shift.” “Until that point comes, I don’t think that there will be much progress,” Cantor said at a press conference in […]

News Briefs

IBM to Pay $1 Billion for Israeli Data Security Firm

By JTA

IBM has agreed to acquire the Israeli data security firm Trusteer for an undisclosed sum that is believed to be up to $1 billion. Trusteer, which has locations in Tel Aviv and Boston, develops software to help businesses protect themselves against financial fraud and security threats. Upon the official closing of the deal, Trusteer will […]

News Briefs

LA Producer of Anti-Muslim Film Released from Prison

By JTA

The producer of the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims,” which sparked violence in the Middle East and elsewhere, was released from a Los Angeles prison. Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, of Los Angeles, was released to a halfway house to serve the remaining weeks of his prison term. He was sentenced  to prison last November for […]

US / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

Jewish Home Knesset Chair to Kerry: You Are a Hypocrite

By Jewish Press Staff

"By your own hand you have raised expectations to a dangerous level - one that might cause the whole region to spin out of control."

Terrorism / US / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Kerry, in Memory Lapse, Backs New Egyptian Elections

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

First, the US backed ousting Mubarak because of his violence. Then it urged elections, Morsi won, and the US backed his ouster. Then the army killed a few hundred, but Kerry has a solution: Elections.

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

IBM Buys Out Israeli Data Security Firm for $300-400 Million

By Jewish Press News Desk

IBM has announced it is buying up the Israeli data security company Trusteer for an undisclosed sum but which market analysts estimate is in the $300-400 million range. IBM said the purchase advances its investment in cloud-delivered software and services. Trusteer provides software solutions to protect companies from financial fraud and security threats. As part […]

Israel / News Briefs

Israeli Children Get Cell Phones at Young Age, Survey Finds

By JTA

One in four Israeli children between the ages of 6 and 8 has their own cell phone, a new survey by the Israeli cell phone company Pelephone found. The number increases to one in three children for ages 9 to 11 and 91 percent for ages 12 to 14. Some 93 percent of the mothers […]

Jewish / Global / Religion

New Super-Size Kitchen for Jews in Uman for Rosh HaShanah

By JTA

Jewish volunteers have finished building a kitchen the size of a basketball court in Uman, Ukraine, where they plan to prepare 105,000 meals to serve an expected 20,000 Jews visiting and praying at the burial site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The new kitchen, donated by philanthropist and entrepreneur Steve Bogomilsky of Florida, replaced a […]

US / News Briefs / Egypt

Official Death Toll In Egypt Now 278 but Still Counting

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egyptians officials have admitted that 278 people, including 43 policemen, were killed in Wednesday’s violence, while the Muslim Brotherhood movement claims that more than 2,000 were killed. The true numbers are likely somewhere between the two. The death toll was the highest since the uprising in 2011 against Hosni Mubarak. Thousands were wounded on Wednesday, […]

Israel / US / Travel / News Briefs

Smoke Warning Forces NY-Israel El Al Plane to Land in Greece

By Jewish Press News Desk

A smoke detector warning in a bathroom forced an El Al airplane with 324 passengers  on the New York-Tel Aviv route to land in Athens late Wednesday night, according to the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper. All of the crew and passengers are safe, and the airline placed them in hotel rooms before they could resume […]

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

17 Yemeni Jews Secretly Airlifted to Israel

By JTA

Radical Islamists have endangered the lives of almost 90 Jews still in Yemen. On Wednesday, 17 of them were secretly airlifted to Israel, 63 years after the ‘Magic Carpet’ brought over 49,000 Yemini Jews.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Livni Takes Herself Seriously - Again

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tzipi Livni, Israel’s senior negotiator in direct talks with the Palestinian Authority, could not resist the opportunity to say something about Wednesday night peace talks and revealed to reporters that the discussions were “serious.” Would anyone expect that the talks would not be serious? Thanks to Livni, everyone now knows that she and Saeb Erekat […]

News Briefs / Germany / Russia / Holocaust

Russia Giving Up to $1 Million to Auschwitz Conservation Fund

By JTA

Russia will contribute up to $1 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation for the conservation and maintenance of the site of the former Nazi concentration camp, the Polskie Radio website reported. A statement issued by the Russian Embassy in Warsaw stated that support for the project is “a common moral duty as it serves the mission […]

Terrorism / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Israel May Hand Over Bodies of Terrorists as ‘Goodwill’ Measure

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel reportedly is prepared to make another “goodwill” move to the Palestinian Authority by handing over the bodies of more terrorists who were buried in Israel, according to the Hebrew-language newspaper Yediot Acharonot. Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh said that dozens of bodies will be turned over to the Palestinian Authority because of the […]

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / Hamas / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

US Does not Know If Israel Freed Terrorists or ‘Freedom Fighters’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If the US were to call settlements ‘illegal,’ it would be defining Israel by its 1949-1967 borders. But if can’t even deny terrorists are ‘freedom fighters,’ it is defining the PA as a non-terror entity.

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

Forget the Borscht Belt - Go to Monticello, THE Bagel Capital!

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Monticello, NY is staging a comeback as The Bagel Capital with a Bagel Festival Aug. 16 - 17 - this effort is the model for how to revive a comatose resort town

Terrorism / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Hamas Rejects Abbas’ Legitimacy to ‘Give up Land and Rights’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hamas has stiffened its condemnation of Palestinian Authority  chairman Mahmoud Abbas and rejected his right to “give up any part of the land of Palestine or any of the people's rights.” The terrorist organization that runs Gaza has repeatedly rejected Abbas’ right to stage direct talks with Israel, and now it has called on the […]

News Briefs

Egyptian VP El Baradei Resigns

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egypt's interim vice president, Mohamed ElBaradei, resigned today in response to the violent crackdown of security on Islamist protest camps set up in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, Reuters reports. ElBaradei wrote in his resignation letter that "the beneficiaries of what happened today are those who call for violence, terrorism and the most extreme […]

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs

Report: CIA Kept File on Noam Chomsky

By JTA

The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged after years of denial that it kept a file on Noam Chomsky, though the file appears to have been destroyed. Chomsky, 84, an American academic who works as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was an anti-war activist in the 1970s. He also is a vociferous critic […]

Terrorism / Hamas / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

UN Human Rights Chiefs Ask Hamas to Halt Executions

By Jewish Press News Desk

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged the Hamas terrorist organization to halt plans for more executions without a fair trial. Navi Pillay added she is concerned over the torture of two men, both in their 20s, who later were sentenced to death and are to be publicly executes two prisoners, both men […]

News Briefs / Egypt

Egypt Declares National Emergency, Military Coup Now Official

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour declared a month-long state of emergency Wednesday, putting the stamp on what the Obama administration has refused to call a military coup. Mansour “has tasked the armed forces, in cooperation with the police, to take all necessary measures to maintain security and order and to protect public and private property […]

Europe / Religion / Aliyah / Geulah / Judaism

Holland Hebrew Bookstore Ex-Owners Move to Israel, Close Up Shop

By JTA

One of Western Europe’s largest Hebrew bookstores has closed down in Amsterdam as its former owners prepare to move to Israel. The Samech bookstore has been supplying Hebrew-language books to members of Holland’s Jewish community for nearly 40 years and possessed a stock of 100,000 books, according to the website of the Dutch Israelite Religious […]

Jewish / NY / News Briefs

Brooklyn Jews Fed Up with Overflowing Garbage Bins

By Jewish Press News Desk

Brooklyn residents, many of them Jews, are fed up with overflowing garbage bins, a situation that some people said is the worst in 50 years, New York’s CBS outlet WINS reported. "We literally have piles and piles of garbage,” City Councilman David Greenfield told the local station. Marilyn Leiman of Midwood told WINS, “I never […]

US / News Briefs / Egypt

US Closes Embassy in Cairo as Violence Spreads

By Jewish Press News Desk

The United States closed its consular services at its embassy in Cairo at 1 p.m. Wednesday as violence escalated across the country. At least two journalists, a cameraman for Sky News and a journalist from the United Arab Emirates, were gunned down. In understated language, the U.S. Embassy stated, “As a matter of general practice, […]

Government / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Government to Pay Students for Pro-Israel Social Media Messages

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israeli government has come up with a scheme to increase pro-Israel messages on social media by offering students scholarships for taking on the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel movement. The project will allow the students to post message through a government link so that they will not have to identify themselves, according to the office of […]

Israel

Iron Dome Prevents Major Tragedy In Eilat

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – The Eilat hotel industry’s worst nightmare nearly became a reality last Tuesday morning when one of the heavily armed jihadist groups operating in the northern Sinai peninsula, near the Egyptian-Israeli border, fired at least one Grad rocket at the Red Sea resort city. In the midst of the summer tourist season, Eilat’s hotels were packed with thousands of local and foreign guests. Though an IDF Iron Dome anti-missile battery intercepted and shot down the rocket, the rumbling explosions created momentary panic among the visitors, some of whom were treated for shock by Magen David Adom.

Israel / Iran

Notwithstanding Bibi’s Pleas, Top Dems Signal Openness To Iran’s New President

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling his American friends that the purported moderation of Iran’s new president is a ploy aimed at relieving international pressure and buying the Islamic Republic more time to cross the nuclear threshold.

US / Global / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Egyptian Army, Trying to Win Civil War in One Day, Kills Hundreds

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel’s neighbors love civil war. Lebanon, Syria. Jordan could be next. The Egyptian army learns from Assad’s mistake and tries to win it one day. Morsi supporters’ biggest weapon is the will to die.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Milan’s Jews Cut Ties with Muslim Group over Israel Slurs

By JTA

The Milan Jewish community has broken off relations with the Milan Islamic Associations Coordination (CAIM) following verbal attacks on Israel made by the group’s spokesman. A statement from the Jewish community said it had decided to break ties with CAIM, which links more than 30 Muslim groups in the Milan area, after the association’s spokesman […]

Haredim & Hassidim / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

Mother and Fighter for Religious Tolerance Quits Beit Shemesh

By JTA

The Los Angeles-born woman, whose daughter was spat on by extreme Haredim in Beit Shemesh, has given up her fight for religious tolerance and leaves the city , but she blames modern orthodox Jews.

Middle East / Levant / US / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Government / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

AP Reporter: Is Construction Deal Killer Despite Murderers' Release

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Reporters at the Aug. 13 State Dept. press briefing pummeled the spokesperson about whether Israel's plan to construct housing units across the "green line" would scuttle the peace talks

News Briefs

Kuwait Bans Sunni Cleric's Show for Hate Speech

By Jewish Press News Desk

Kuwait has banned the television show of a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric over accusations that he instigated hatred with speeches and comments on social media, Reuters reported. Kuwaiti Information Minister Sheikh Salman al-Humoud al-Sabah said an investigation was pending regarding the permission that was given Shafi al-Ajmi to broadcast on state television. The show was […]

News Briefs

Al Qaeda: Islam 'Unstoppable' in the West

By Jewish Press News Desk

A leader of Jihadiya Salafiya in the Gaza Strip, Abu Sager, told ABC Radio's Aaron Klein on Sunday that Islam is coming and no one can prevent it, the Washington Times reports. Although he did not claim that Islam would spread in America with violence, he did threaten that Islamist jihadists who are currently fighting […]

Police and Crime / News Briefs / Islamists / Egypt

Update: 250 Killed as Police Crush Cairo Sit-Ins

By Jewish Press Staff

Police snipers fired at protesters from the rooftop of surrounding buildings.

News Briefs

Zanzibar Acid Attack Jewish Victim Leaves Hospital

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

One of the two British-Jewish girls severely burned in an acid attack while on a volunteer trip in Zanzibar has been released from the London hospital where she was staying, and returned home to her family to recover. Though Kirstie Trup was discharged from the hospital on Sunday, her fellow victim and friend, Katie Gee, […]

News Briefs

Russian Company to Invest $30 Million in PA

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Russian company is set to invest $30 million in a building complex in Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority Minister of Economy Jawad al-Naji said Tuesday, according to Ma'an. The complex will include a music school, gym, administrative offices, gardens and commercial spaces. It will be built alongside the Russian Center for Science and Culture, on Vladmir […]

News Briefs

IAF Strikes Gaza Launcher following Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli planes attacked overnight underground rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip, in retaliation for a rocket attack on towns in south Israel Tuesday night. The IDF reported direct hits on the targets. Tuesday evening there was a rocket attack on the "Gaza envelope" tons of Sderot and the Western Negev red regional council. The […]

Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religion / Settlements / Israeli Arabs

Arab Christian Party: Don't Release Arab Murderers!

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

A new Arab Christian political party vehemently opposes BDS and the release of convicted Arab murderers, but whether it is the Holy Grail of Arabs fully supporting the Jewish State remains an open question

News Briefs / Turkey / Lebanon

Turkey Warns Lebanon to Free Kidnapped Pilots

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkey has warned Lebanon, that if the two Turkish pilots kidnapped last week aren't released, it will damage the ties between the two countries.

Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Next Terrorist Release Coming Soon

By Jewish Press News Desk

Issa Karka, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Prisoners revealed today that the next batch of Arab terrorists to be released will be in a month and a half from now. This next batch, he claims, will also include Arab terrorists with Israeli citizenship, and will include all the terrorists arrested before Oslo. Hamas Minister of […]

Terrorism / Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Rockets Fired at Israel During Terrorist Release

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two rockets were fired from the Hamas controlled area of Gaza during the controversial release of 26 terrorists, as a gesture to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. One rocket hit in an open area near Sderot. No injuries were reported. The second rocket landed within Gaza.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Israel Frees 26 Terrorists for Peace Talks

By Shalom Bear

Two convoys left the Ayalon prison on Tuesday night, carry 26 terrorists who were released as the first part of an Israeli gesture to the Palestinian Authority.

NY / Politics / News Briefs

In Online-Chat, Weiner Puts Down Media, Says He Really Wants to Win

By Jacob Kornbluh

The candidate appeared defiant and hopeful about his chances winning the New York City mayoral race this fall.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / Russia

Russian Firm Investing $30 Million in Bethlehem Complex

By Jewish Press News Desk

Russia is strengthening its presence in the Palestinian Authority with a $30 million investment in an office-commercial center in  Bethlehem that will include a gymnasium and music school. The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported that the complex will be built next to the Russian Center for Science and Culture.    

News Briefs / Egypt

Stand-Off in Egypt, Morsi Supporters Prepared to Die

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egyptian authorities have again canceled plans to disperse huge crowds of supporters for deposed president Mohammed Morsi, who have vowed to die rather than end their sit-in demonstration in Nasr city district of the capital and Nahda Square. Morsi continues to be detained at an undisclosed location, and his detention has been extended by another […]

Jewish / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Sharansky to Reveal Full Western Wall Plan in Two Weeks

By JTA

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky will release his full plan for a compromise among religious groups at the Western Wall in two weeks, Haaretz   reported. Under Sharansky’s plan, first reported in April, an existing egalitarian section of the wall known as Robinson’s Arch would be expanded and a unified entrance would be built leading […]

US / Government / News Briefs

New Envoy to US, Ron Dermer, Has Big Demands for Perks

By Jewish Press News Desk

Many Israeli officials are known to think a lot of themselves, but Ron Dermer, Israel’s next ambassador to the United States, takes the cake. He has demanded to start working before an agreed date and has come up with unprecedented demands for housing and staff, according to the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper. Dermer wants to […]

Terrorism / Hamas / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Israel’s Supreme Court rejects Suit against Freeing Terrorists

By JTA

Israel’s Supreme Court Tuesday, as expected, rejected a petition filed by families of terror victims against the release of 26 Palestinian Authority terrorists. Supreme Court President Asher Grunis stated after the rejection of the petition, “There is no dispute that the issue at hand is difficult and sensitive. Our hearts go out to the families […]

Terrorism / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Israeli Arabs

Arab Rock-Thrower Wounds Woman on Bus to Western Wall

By Jewish Press News Desk

Arab rock throwing continued on Tuesday, this time striking in the spiritual heart of Israel with an attack on an Egged public bus carrying passengers to the Western Wall. One woman was lightly wounded in the rock attack and was treated at the scene. The Arab attackers fled.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Police Launch Hate Crimes Probe of Toronto Arab Leader

By JTA

Toronto police launched a hate crimes investigation into comments made by an Arab community leader who called for the murder of Israelis. “We have received a complaint with regards to things said at last week’s Al-Quds Day rally, a global and annual event started by the late Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeini to press for the […]

US / Government / News Briefs / Europe / United Nations (UN) / Settlements

Bloomberg News: Netanyahu Running Scared from Worldwide Boycott

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Déjà vu. The “peace process’ began in 1991, when the threat of an international boycott forced Yitzchak Shamir to debate Arafat in Madrid. The same threat has Netanyahu running scared, says a columnist.

News Briefs

‘Islamic Militants’ Gun Down 56 in Nigerian Mosque

By Jewish Press News Desk

Islamic militants wearing army fatigues murdered 44 people who were praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria. Another 12 civilians were killed in a simultaneous attack, security agents said Monday. Sunday’s attacks were the latest in a wave of violence by religious extremists in West Africa, where the Boko Haram group, wishing to oust the […]

News Briefs

Palestinians Preparing for Prisoners' Release

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Palestinian authorities have finalized the preparations for the release of 26 prisoners, seen as a confidence building gesture from Israel to help sweeten the bitter pill of resuming direct peace talks. Officials said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will head the reception ceremony Tuesday night at the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) headquarters, where senior […]

News Briefs

Iran’s New Defense Minister Linked to 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Iran’s newly appointed defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, has links to the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks terrorist attack in Beirut that killed 199 American and French servicemen, says an Israeli think tank. According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), Dehghan, who has spent his entire military career in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, […]

News Briefs

Italian Wine Label Features Hitler

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“Enough is enough,” said Simon Wiesenthal Center Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier and Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper in a statement.

News Briefs

Parents Sue School District for Antisemitic Bullying of Son

By JTA

The parents of a 13-year-old boy are suing their Massachusetts school district for ignoring verbal and physical attacks on their son by other students for being Jewish. Jennyfer Sordillo and Robert Groezinger filed the lawsuit late last month against the Carver public schools in U.S. District Court in Boston. It was first reported in the […]

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Iron Dome Intercepted Rocket Fired at Eilat

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Iron Dome system last night intercepted a rocket that was shot from the Sinai at the city of Eilat.

Jewish / NY / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs

Head of Met Council Steps Down, Apologizes for Mistakes

By Jewish Press Staff

“I pray that my family and friends and all who care about Met Council can find it in their heart to forgive me for my actions."

News Briefs

Nadler: Stop and Frisk Rightly Ruled Unconstitutional

By Jewish Press News Desk

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, released the following statement: Today’s ruling by a federal judge that the New York Police Department’s stop and frisk policy violated the constitutional rights of New Yorkers is a step in the right direction. It’s unfortunate that it […]

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / Politics / News Briefs / Islamists

Shhhh Obama Released Taliban Prisoners to Encourage 'Peace' Talks

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

In late July five Taliban members who were held in the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were released. As a good will gesture. Or to show they have no will?

Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Argentinian Rabbi Wins Big in Midterm Congressional Primary Vote

By JTA

Argentina’s Rabbi Sergio Bergman won the midterm congressional primary elections, his first national test for a seat in the country’s Parliament. Bergman, who currently serves as a Buenos Aires city lawmaker for the center-right PRO Party, was the candidate who received the most votes for the lower house of the National Parliament in Sunday’s poll, […]

IDF & Security / US / News Briefs / Jordan

US Gen. Dempsey Lands in Israel, to Meet with Netanyahu

By Jewish Press News Desk

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey landed in Israel Monday afternoon to begin talks with Israel and later with Jordan, where American troops are stationed. Syria will top his agenda in Jordan, which has been flooded by Syrian refugees and where there has been a spillover in fighting in the Syrian […]

Israel / News Briefs / Europe / Sports / Judaism

Israeli Team Fined for not Playing Davis Cup Match on Yom Kippur

By JTA

The Israel Tennis Association has been fined more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match against Belgium on Yom Kippur this year in the world group playoffs, the highest level of Davis Cup play. The Belgian Tennis Association turned down Israel’s request to postpone the game on Sept. 14. The International Tennis […]

Terrorism / Israel / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Six of 26 Freed Terrorists are from Rival Groups to Abbas’ Fatah

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel gave Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas a double boost in the planned release of 26 terrorists names Monday morning, first by agreeing to Abbas’ pre-condition linking their freedom with the resumption of peace talks and secondly by including six terrorists from gangs that are rivals to Abbas’ Fatah party terrorist branch. Two of the […]

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel

Radical Haredim Riot against Construction over Alleged Tombs

By Jewish Press News Desk

Radical Haredim rioted in Jerusalem and in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on Monday because of construction at sites that they said contain Jewish graves. Police took into custody at least 14 rioters. The Haredim in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim and Geula neighborhoods set garbage containers on fire following a rabbinical ruled against claims of the […]

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Israeli Arabs

Arab and Israel Rock Bands Launch Their Own Peace Process

By Jewish Press News Desk

Move over John Kerry. Two Israeli rock bands, one Arab and one Jewish, are spreading a message of “metal brotherhood” with an 18-day European tour to show that co-existence is possible, CNN reported Monday. The Arab band is named "Khalas,” Arabic for “enough.” And the Jewish band is called “Orphaned Land.” Both bands will ride […]

News Briefs

French Police Arrest Soldier for Mosque Attack Plan

By Jewish Press News Desk

French police have arrested a young soldier on suspicion of planning to fire shots at a mosque near the city of Lyon, the interior ministry said Sunday. The 23-year-old man, who investigators say is “close to the radical far-right”, was detained at his airbase near Lyon, AFP reported. He was charged with possession of ammunition […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Israeli Engineer Shoots 9-Year-Old Son, Self, in NH (Video)

By Jewish Press Staff

The father sent an email to a friend saying he was suicidal before the shootings.

Terrorism / Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs / Islamists

Al-Qaeda Leaders Vow to Release all AQ Prisoners, Including at Gitmo

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The leaders of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have assured al Qaeda prisoners they will be set free - including those at Gitmo

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Israel Names the 26 Terrorists to be Released First

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israel Prison Service has released the names of the first batch of terrorists that Israel will be releasing in exchange for the Palestinian Authority to agree to talk to Israel.

IDF & Security / US / News Briefs

U.S. Air Force Chief Completes Secret Visit to Israel

By JTA

Gen. Mark Welsh, the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, has completed a secret visit to Israel, where was the guest of the Commander of the Israel Air Force, Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel. Welsh met with senior officers and defense personnel, including Chief of the General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Benjamin Gantz, and was hosted at […]

US / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

Rabbis Urge Netanyahu to Quit Rather than Free Terrorists

By Jewish Press Staff

Abbas has declared no Jew will be able to live in a PA state. The Rabbinical Congress for Peace says since Abbas obviously is not interested in peace, Netanyahu should quit before freeing terrorists.

Jewish / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Sports / Israeli Arabs

Beitar Jerusalem Announces Shabbat Ban on Soccer Games

By JTA

The Beitar Jerusalem soccer team announced that it will stop playing on Shabbat in order to allow its religious and traditional fans to attend team home games. Home games will be held on Saturday nights or weekdays, according to the announcement by the team’s new owner Eli Tabib. Beitar Jerusalem made headlines earlier this year […]

Haredim & Hassidim / UK / News Briefs / Europe

British Resort Lost $150,000 in Tourism by Ban on Shabbat Candles

By Jewish Press News Desk

The British coastal resort’s University of Aberystwyth lost $150,000 in tourism income by banning orthodox Jews from lighting candles on Shabbat, a decision that forced them to cancel their annual summer visit to the campus on the Welsh coast, according to sources reported by the Cambrian News. Only 15 families vacationed in Aberystwyth, but not […]

Israel / US / News Briefs

Negev Popular Site for Spectacular Perseid Meteors Sunday (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

‘He changes the times and arranges the stasr and their positions in the skies according to His will.’ The annual Perseid meteor spectacle takes place Sunday night.

US / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Settlements

Indyk Preps for PA-Israel Talks by Meeting with Abbas in Ramallah

By Jewish Press News Desk

Martin Indyk, President Barack Obama’s latest panacea to save the Middle East from American failure, met with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas Sunday in Ramallah on new developments in the “peace process.” Indyk reiterated American commitments to support direct talks with Israel over a period of nine months, starting with mid-July. Before the meeting, Israeli […]

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Despite US and Livni Objections, 1,200 Homes Approved

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel's housing minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) has given final approval to the construction of more than 1,000 apartments in Jewish Judea and Samaria and in East Jerusalem, three days before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are to resume in Jerusalem, and two days before the release of the first batch of Palestinian terrorists with Jewish blood […]

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Egyptian Government: No Deal with Muslim Brotherhood

By Jewish Press News Desk

Egyptian presidential media adviser Ahmed El-Muslimany has denied a report by Reuters that the government offered the Muslim Brotherhood ministerial posts, to release several of its jailed members and to unfreeze the group's assets as part of a deal to end the political crisis, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. Reuters reported earlier, citing a […]

News Briefs / Obituaries

Singer Eydie Gormé Dead at 84

By Jewish Press Staff

Gormé was born as Edith Garmezano in The Bronx, New York, in 1928, the daughter of Sephardi-Jewish parents.

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Netanyahu Recovering from Hernia Operation

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is recovering from a hernia surgery he underwent late Saturday night. Netanyahu was admitted to a Jerusalem hospital after complaining of abdominal pain. The surgery took about an hour. Netanyahu is expected to be released on Sunday. A Cabinet meeting planned for Sunday will be postponed. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon is […]

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Catholic School Educators Learn about Holocaust and Antisemitism

By JTA

A group of 40 Catholic school educators traveled to Washington, DC, in late July as part of a program to learn more about the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust. The Eileen Ludwig Greenland National Bearing Witness Summer Institute is a long-running program sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in partnership with the U.S. Conference […]

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Report: Israeli Drones Kill 5 Terrorists in the Sinai

By JTA

Egyptian security officials said a strike by an Israeli drone killed five suspected Islamist terrorists and destroyed a rocket launcher. Residents heard a large explosion Friday near the border with Israel. The officials told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the attack was in cooperation with Egyptian authorities. The Israeli military said they […]

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Reward for Info on Attackers of Jewish Girls in Zanzibar

By JTA

The Zanzibar government has offered a $6,170 reward for information on attackers who threw acid at two British Jewish women. Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18 and from London, sustained injuries on their faces, chests and hands after two men on a moped threw acid at them Wednesday night, in Zanzibar City, the capital […]

US / Politics / Global / News Briefs / Media

Obama's Friday Press Conf: Threats, Emb. Closures Insignificant

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Most of the questions at the president's first press conference in months focused on Edward Snowden and the U.S./Russia relationship. Very little attention was paid to the ongoing, specific and credible terrorist threats to U.S. interests from al Qaeda.

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Israeli GetTaxi Launches New York Limo Service

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israelis and taxis in New York -- not exactly news, except that this story is not about Israelis driving taxis, but offering a hi-tech solution to taxi-starved New Yorkers. On Thursday, GetTaxi Ltd. announced the launching of its new taxi hailing app in New York City, after many delays, partly due to resistance from the […]

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Talmud Takes to Jewish.tv

By Chabad.org

A class on Talmudic ethics in Vancouver, B.C., praised by regulars, is going virtual in a new series on Jewish.tv, the multimedia portal of the Judaism website Chabad.org. In the hour-long class, Rabbi Binyomin Bitton, director of Chabad of Downtown Vancouver and dean of the Jewish Academy there, dissects a complex Talmudic narrative and shows […]

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Russian Human Rights Council to Review Jewish Teacher’s Graft Sentence

By JTA

The Kremlin’s human rights council is reviewing a prison sentence meted out to Ilya Farber, a Jewish schoolteacher convicted of corruption. The regional court of Ostashkov, north of Moscow, sentenced Farber last week to seven years in jail after convicting him of receiving $13,000 in bribes from a construction company. The company was seeking permission […]

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US Issues First Visas to Same-Sex Israeli Couples

By JTA

The American embassy in Tel Aviv issued its first derivative visas to same-sex Israeli couples. The derivative visa allows the applicant to receive a visa through a spouse or first-degree relative who is eligible for residence in the United States. The embassy on Thursday issued the visas to the same-sex spouses of two Israelis relocating […]

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Kahneman Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

By JTA

President Obama awarded Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton psychologist known for his application of psychology to economic analysis, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House release Thursday naming Kahneman and other recipients notes that the Princeton University scholar, who shared the Nobel Price for Economics in 2002, escaped Nazi Europe and served in the Israeli […]

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / US / Politics / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Kerry Briefs Jewish 'Leaders' (Cheerleaders?) on MidEast Talks

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Secretary of State John Kerry met with what the Jewish Telegraph Agency described as "Jewish leaders" to "brief" them on the resumption of Israeli-Arab Palestinian talks on Thursday evening, August 8. Although the briefing was off the record, the JTA quoted unnamed attendants who said several things. First, that the meeting was dominated by Kerry's […]

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