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By Shalom Bear
Israel adopting Sundays-Off seemed like a great idea, until it was put into practice.
The students could have come from anywhere, but the content of many of the poems dealt with various aspects of their relationship to God and to Judaism.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The White House has requested that at least 1,000 Israelis be in attendance for Obama’s public address.
Ravivi was enraged: "It's unacceptable that we're the leaders in all the most important statistics, yet, in the end, we find ourselves in the 60th percentile."
The Israeli-British student said Galloway should be barred from the House of Commons. "He clearly had a problem not because I am Israeli - I'm sure he would have talked to an Israeli Arab, he didn't want to talk to me because I am an Israeli Jew," Aslan-Levy said.
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Officials from the Jewish Museum of Vienna said that hundreds of objects in the museum’s possession were looted from Jewish families during the Holocaust. A review of the artifacts found 490 objects and more than 980 books that may have been stolen from Jewish owners, The New York Times reported Wednesday. “For historic reasons, people […]
President Shimon Peres and the head of the Barcelona soccer club announced on Thursday a special soccer match for peace that will include players from the Palestinian Authority. President Peres told club president Sandro Rosell at a press conference, “I am delighted that we will have the opportunity to launch this project together. Your club […]
United Nations nuclear watchdogs said Thursday that Iran has installed next-generation centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear plant, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu quickly responded that it has come closer to his “red line.” The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it saw the centrifuges earlier this month, adding that “this is the first time that […]
Netanyahu wheels and deals, Livni sacrifices herself on the altar of a Cabinet post, Shas plays cute and the public is fed up. A new poll shows that if elections were held today, Lapid would win.
A Palestinian Authority prisoner on a long-term hunger strike in an Israeli jail will be released in March, but violent protests continued Thursday near the Ofer Prison, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Samer Issawi was sentenced to eight months in prison for violating the terms of his release under the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap, and […]
A British court found three Al Qaeda terrorists guilty on Thursday for planning what would have c been the worst-ever terror attack in Britain, featuring eight suicide bombers. A trial that last for four and a half months concluded with a guilty verdict for the Birmingham-based group, whose ringleaders were Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, […]
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Fans of the British soccer team the Tottenham Spurs were targeted by an apparent anti-Semitic attack at a pub in Lyon, France. The Spurs traditionally have had a large Jewish support base in London, which is sometimes referred to as the "Yid Army." Some 50 attackers entered the Smoking Dog on Wednesday night making a […]
Talks on a new government coalition have turned into spin after spin and bluff after bluff, with “everyone on first” and no one at home. Everyone is wearing masks to the point that some people, like Livni, already have lost their identities. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s deal with Tzipi Livni to appoint her in charge of […]
President Shimon Peres called on the European Union Thursday to face the facts and follow the American lead in blacklisting Hizbullah as a terrorist organization. Speaking at a ceremony on the 93rd anniversary of the death of Zionist pioneer Joseph Trumpeldor, the president cited Hizbullah’s proven involvement in terrorist attacks in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Nigeria. […]
Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas reportedly is angry at Hamas for reportedly conducting indirect talks with Israel, but his ire may be an excuse to appease the Obama administration and stay clear of the terrorist organization. However, Abbas also wants something in return from the United States, mainly forcing Israel to accept PA demands […]
The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington established a legal defense fund for Jews being held wrongfully because of their Jewishness and will assist Alan Gross, who is in prison in Cuba. Financial contributions will be used to help cover the legal defense of Jews in the United States and throughout the world who […]
Syrian rebels killed nearly three dozen people, including Assad’s security officials, and wounded more than 250 others in a car bomb blast near the headquarters of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ruling Baath party. Most of the casualties were civilians, but a number of security officials also were killed. Syrian television showed picture of dozens cars […]
By Shalom Bear
Who's to blame for there being no religious bloc in the negotiations with the Likud?
Hamas is getting it from all sides, even as, or perhaps because, they are reportedly secretly negotiating with Israel on the current cease-fire.
By JoeSettler
Google had a good idea on how to present the data.The only problem is, the data is wrong.
Schumer provided inaccurate information about other matters Wednesday morning. He said that "there is not a major Jewish organization against Hagel." That's not true.
The noose tightened on Hizbullah Wednesday after a Swedish-Lebanese citizen on trial in Cyprus admitted that the terrorist organization recruited him to stake out areas where Israelis gather. Hossam Taleb Yaacoub traveled to Cyprus on business and with no ulterior motives, according to his lawyer, before Hizbullah hooked him into cooperating with it. Cyprus police […]
The Syrian Free Army warned Hizbullah Wednesday it will open a new front in Lebanon in the ongoing war against the Syrian-Hizbullah alliance if the terrorist organization continues to fight for Syrian President Bashar Assad. “"We are announcing and warning that if Hizbullah will not stop shelling the Syrian lands, villages and civilians from inside […]
Two news agencies in Lebanon and Syria claimed Wednesday evening that an Israeli drone was downed, possibly by a SAM anti-missile that was fired from Syria. The official Lebanese National News Agency reported, “The tail of a surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired from Syria fell in the outskirts of the Lebanese town of Deir al-Ashayer,” near […]
In 2001, David Ehrlich, an Israeli promotional filmmaker originally from New York, was down on his luck. He and his wife, Gail, a pre-school teacher, had recently moved their family from Jerusalem to Efrat, but the Second Intifada and a dip in the finances of non-profits had thrown a wrench into his business.
US State Department spokesmen on several occasions have refused to give a straight answer to reporters’ questions concerning the location of Israel’s capital.
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Israel has awarded the first-ever oil drilling permit in the Golan Heights. On the eve of almost every high-level visit to Israel by US officials, the Israeli government habitually has angered the American government by coming up with an approval for building in Judea and Samaria or areas in Jerusalem that are claimed by the […]
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Police have agreed to allow the niece of American comedian Sarah Silverman will be allowed to attend a women's Megillah reading at the Western Wall despite being banned from the site. Hallel Abramowitz Silverman, 17, was one of 10 female worshipers arrested for wearing prayer shawls during a women's Rosh Chodesh prayer service at the […]
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The Zionist Federation of Australia blasted as “totally uninformed and mischievous” several claims in the media that Israel programs serve as recruitment camps for the Mossad. The Australian Broadcasting Corp last week delivered a bombshell report that linked “Prisoner X,” who committed suicide in an Israel prison two years ago, to Ben Zygier, a Melbourne-born […]
JERUSALEM – After being briefed by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and several high-ranking Israeli intelligence and military officials on the internal Syrian chaos, White House officials have reportedly advised President Obama to set aside a substantial amount of time to discuss various military and security issues with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the president’s upcoming visit to Israel.
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – How essential is a house of worship to a neighborhood? That’s the crux of a question now exercising Congress as a bill advances that would provide direct relief to synagogues and churches damaged by Superstorm Sandy last October.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomes on Wednesday Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, touted as one of the top possibilities to be GOP’s presidential candidate in 2016. They traded the usual pleasantries, the Prime Minister stating his gratitude for American support and Rubio pledging to back security in Israel. “You live in a challenging neighborhood but […]
The “Unbreakable Alliance” motto for President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel next month may be undermined by massive budget cuts in US aid for Israel’ anti-terrorist missile programs.
Two Palestinian Authority Arabs have been indicted for beating unconscious a 70-year-old Israeli cab driver and stealing his vehicle after throwing him out of the taxi near Ramallah. The attack took place at night in January but was kept under wraps during the investigation until police released a gag order on Wednesday. Yaakov Levi had […]
Palestinian Authority violence continued early Wednesday afternoon when approximately 200 Arabs in Samaria rioted and hurled rocks at soldiers who evacuated a small illegal village. Two of the soldiers were lightly injured and w ere treated on the spot. The IDF shot over the heads of the rioters to disperse them.
Digging up the streets in Israel is a great way to discover ancient history, such as a 1,500-year-old installation for extracting liquids, like wine from grapes, found in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Feeling abandoned, some residents of Judea and Samaria are taking security into their own hands.
Gideon Sa'ar, a contender to replace Netanyahu as party chairman, may be taking recent allegations more seriously than initially believed.
The criticism focused on the fact that Livni will be given a leading role in negotiations with the Palestinians, by the Likud said the Prime Minister will lead the negotiating team.
Shas and UTJ claim that they're joining the coalition. The question now is, who will be the last party to join?
It only took a month, but Likud-Beteinu finally managed to close a deal with its first coalition partner, Tzipi Livni's HaTnua party. Livni will reportedly receive the Justice Ministry and be an inner cabinet member. Amir Peretz will serve as environmental protection minister, and Amram Mitzna will be chairman of the Knesset House Committees. It […]
The Palestinian Authority is resisting demands by Arabs in foreign countries, called “refugees” by the United Nations, to have voting rights for PA elections, offering further proof that its only interest in the refugees is to use them as a tool for Israel to lose its Jewish majority. Ironically, the demographic issue is the favorite […]
Hassan Nasrallah has led Hizbullah – the “party of God” in Arabic - for 21 years. His army has killed hundreds of Jews, but now his opponents in Lebanon charge he is targeting them instead of Israel.
Egyptian representatives of Cairo’s Muslim Brotherhood government will visit Israel for talks on last November’s ceasefire with Hamas, according to UPI and the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency. Five Israeli officials reportedly traveled to Cairo on Sunday for the second time ion a week. Israel and Hamas are in effect holding indirect talks with Egypt as […]
Australian Jewish leaders have called for official investigations of the suicide death of “Prisoner X“ Ben Zygier, the alleged Mossad spy who hanged himself in an Israeli prison cell two years ago. "We look forward to the official inquiries publishing concrete information about the circumstances surrounding the death of Ben Zygier in the hope that […]
Senator Patrick Leahy and six other Congressmen arrived in Cuba this week to lobby for the freedom of Alan Gross, who has been jailed since 2009 on charges of illegally distributing communications equipment. It is not known if they will be able to visit Gross before they leave today. A State Department official said that […]
Future (Yesh Atid) party chairman Yair Lapid, who recently said he will be Prime Minister one day, has assured Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu he will not to bring down the next coalition before its term runs out, according to party sources. The latest report follows rumor after rumor, many of them planted as part of […]
Police in the northern Galilee city of Galilee raided a home in an Arab village this week and recovered 300 coins and artifacts, some of them dating back to the Hellenistic and Roman periods 2,000 years ago. The stolen cache included arrowheads, glassware, oil lamp fillers. One glass jar was from the Byzantine period. Nir […]
Maryland state legislators are pushing a bill that would allow online purchases of kosher wines for international retailers as “a reasonable religious accommodation that allows Marylanders of the Jewish faith to live out their faith more easily,” said Democrat Delegate Sam Arora. The state’s Daily Record, a publication focusing on law, reported that the state’s […]
Armed men stole millions of dollars worth of diamonds that were being loaded on an airplane in Brussels Monday night before it was scheduled to fly to Switzerland and then Israel, according to Belgian media. The Belgian VRT broadcasting system reported that a burned car, possibly the getaway car, was later found. The thieves stole […]
Topsy-turvy weather is in store for Israel for the rest of the week, with showers likely on Purim following the first “sharav” heat wave of the year. There also is a fair chance of showers in New York, but the sun will prevail in Chicago and Los Angeles. In Israel, Purim is “traditionally” but not […]
The State Dept. has expressed new concerns over Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ declaration that reconciliation talks with Hamas are progressing and that he will head a new unity government. U.S. State Department spokesman Olivia Nuland told a reporter who asked if unity would be a positive step, “If Hamas takes positions in the government, […]
Kleinman is a pretty typical New York liberal Jew, by his own admission. He didn't choose Yousef as a client, but he will defend him and his rights to the best of his abilities, no matter what he might think about the man, his motivations, or his merit.
First it was Barbie dolls. Then it was the Simpsons, another Western “evil.” Now, Iran defends itself against the wicked East and bans Buddha statues.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice charged teens at BBYO’s International Convention to “get impatient with the way things are so you can dream of the ways things can be.” Rice addressed some 1,700 B'nai Brith teens, staff and community last week, and the youth dispersed to 34 service sites across Washington to perform a collective 6,000 […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Jewish Agency Board of Governors Monday that Agency head Natan Sharansky is “a giant of the Jewish people,” and he asked the Board to renew his position for another four years. Sharansky, whose low height makes him an unlikely basketball star, “is the tallest chairman of the Jewish Agency,” […]
After too many Jewish drivers were attacked over the past few days, Jewish residents of the Shomron turned the tables around and blocked Arab traffic for an hour in protest.
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Argentinean foreign minister Hector Timerman insisted on Monday that not only did he not betray his Judaism by signing an accord with Iran but also it was his Judaism that prompted him to do so. “I did not betray my Judaism in the pact with Iran because we are trying to solve the AMIA bombing […]
Only 28 percent of likely US voters have a favorable opinion of Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, according to a new Rasmussen poll. However, most voters also think he eventually will be confirmed for the Cabinet position. Although 38 percent of the respondents have an unfavorable view of Hagel, […]
By JTA
President Barack Obama will be the American president ever to receive the Israeli “presidential decoration” when he visits next month, the office of President Shimon Peres announced Monday. The award will be represented at a gala dinner at President’s Peres’ official Jerusalem residence. “President Obama has stood by Israel in the toughest of times, promoted […]
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The leader of the gang that tortured and killed Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, in 2006 was sentenced to seven more years in prison for making anti-Semitic videos while in jail. Last Wednesday, seven years to the day after Ilan Halimi died, a correctional court in Moulins found Youssouf Fofana, head of the Gang of […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Jewish Agency Board of Governors in Jerusalem Monday that North Korea is a classic example that shows that sanctions against Iran will not work without a real military threat. “When people with unlimited ambitions of aggression get unlimited weapons, what they believe are weapons of unlimited power, the demon […]
If Obama calls Jews settlers, what would he call Arab attackers? Indians? Unlike “settlers,” he won’t be firebombed, stabbed, shot at or run over by Arab drivers without licenses.
UPDATED: On Monday afternoon, two Palestinians tried to enter the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station without any ID, and carrying a large knapsack. The two had tried to enter via gate #45. The guards got suspicious and questioned them further. When the Arabs, who said they were construction workers, could not say where they were […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Residents demand that the crimes be investigated and dealt with as they would anywhere else in Israel.
We are now in a situation where there seems to be no two ways about it - someone is lying, maybe several people. And school officials, both administration representatives as well as faculty members were on the scene - so if the students were unfairly ejected, an apology will hardly suffice.
From March 3rd through the 10th, Nefesh B'Nefesh will be holding Aliyah Mega Events and Fairs in New York, Baltimore, Washington, Miami, Toronto and Montreal. These mega events are for everyone who wants to hear it like it really is.
Only if sanctions are backed by "credible military threat" will there be a chance that Iran will peacefully halt its nuclear program, Netanyahu said.
DNA evidence left on SIM cards helped leader Bulgarian investigators to conclude that Hezbollah was indeed behind the bus bomb attack in Burgas in which five Israelis and one Bulgarian were killed, Ha'aretz reported. Bulgarian Foreign Minister will present the evidence of Hezbollah's guilt in a briefing to other E.U. Foreign Ministers today. The U.S., Israel […]
Israel's economy grew by 2.5 percent in the last quarter of 2012, as compared with 2.9 percent in the third quarter of the year and 2.8 percent in the second quarter, according to figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The numbers are also lower as compared with 2011, which saw growth rates of […]
At around 10:45 AM, dozens of Arab protesters have managed to close Highway 60, the main highway next to the town of Efrat. IDF and police managed to eventually open the road and disperse the protesters. Residents in the Shomron decided to return the favor, and blocked Arab traffic for an hour in protest, following […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not discounted the possibility of calling new elections, Likud sources say, according to the Israeli publication, Ma'ariv.
Nasty threats, mistreatment, rumors, and a general lack of trust define this government's coalition building attempts.
Following a threat by a young activist to disrupt the Fogel family memorial due to the inclusion of General Nitzan Alon in the ceremony, Rabbi Ronsky threatened to have his arms and legs broken if he showed up.
Kontorovich says, "international opinion is squarely against Israel, and if international law were a popularity contest, Israel would be voted off the island. But the whole point of international law is to buffer international politics, rather than serve them."
A picture of an app developed by an Israeli start-up is being used in a new Apple iPad Mini ad campaign, Israel’s Globes business newspaper reported Sunday. The app was developed by the start-up Kinetic Art, founded by former Israeli journalist Oran Huberman. Kinetic Art's Look & Cook platform is for writing and editing cookbooks […]
The Palestinian Authority is vying with Israel in an effort to win over President Barack Obama before his visit to the region next month. Senior PA negotiator Saeb Erekat and an associate are flying to Washington this week to make their case that Israel must stop building for Jews in Judea and Samaria and half […]
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Bulgaria reportedly expelled a visiting group of three Hamas legislators from Gaza on Friday, after removing them from their hotel room. The lawmakers blamed their expulsion on Israel. "We entered the country with an official visa, so we should have left willingly, rather than being expelled. The delegates represent the Palestinian people, not Hamas, though […]
Israel is making sure the favorite Americana politicians’ phrase of an “unbreakable alliance” with Israel will not be lost on visiting President Barack Obama next month.
Australian Holocaust survivors are furious with US-based Rabbi Manis Freidman for apologizing for comparing sexual abuse with diarrhea but not for expressing regret for remarks he made around 30 years ago that the Nazis should not be blamed for the Holocaust because it was part of a Divine plan. Rabbi Friedman recently posted a YouTube, […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has put a stop to his $2,700-a-year ice cream after Israel's Calcalist business newspaper reported the expenditure. The office of the Prime Minister said the ice cream bill was part of the cost of hosting foreign officials at his official home in Jerusalem, and Netanyahu admitted that the bill was "excessive […]
The saga of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense added a new chapter Sunday with South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham telling Fox News that Hagel did not “recall” making a comment that the State Department "has become adjunct to the Israeli Foreign Minister’s office." Based on a post on a blog, Republicans have charged […]
“Hitler” and Frankenstein” are two of 345 candidates running for state assembly seats in the predominantly Christian state of Meghalaya in India, but “Bomber” and Hilarious” may give them a good run for the money. Located in India’s northeast, the tribal state has “laugh clubs,” and people like to have fun giving their children strange […]
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In a letter to the editor of the Miami Herald, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said that one of the leading candidates to replace Pope Benedict XVI is an anti-Semite. Responding to a list published last week after the resignation of Benedict, which identified Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras as a possible successor […]
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, increasingly sounding like a candidate for the 2016 presidential campaign, flew on Saturday to Jordan and Israel for a previously unannounced six-day trip as a member of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committee. Rubio took the limelight as a possible GOP candidate in 2016 last week by being chosen […]
The Russian meteor shower that caused widespread damage Friday smashed the stained glass windows of a synagogue in Siberia Friday morning. Yechiel Michel Levitin, director of the Or Avner Jewish day school in Chelyabinsk, located 1,000 miles east of Moscow, said a miracle saved one congregant from injury when he left his seat to find […]
Iran’s underground Fordow uranium nuclear enrichment plant “will never be shut down because ... our national duty is to be able to defend our nuclear and vital centers against an enemy threat," a senior parliament official told an Iranian news agency Sunday. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who is the head of the legislature’s national security and foreign […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pointed out to the Cabinet Sunday, “Today, the seventh day of the Hebrew month of Adar, is both the birthday of Moses our Teacher, and the anniversary of his passing.” The place where Moses died is not mentioned in the Torah, and the Chief Rabbinate years ago also fixed the seventh […]
President Shimon Peres told a delegation of US Senators and Congressmen Sunday, “Around us today there is a great deal of confusion, I wouldn't even say that we know who our enemies are because we don't know who runs the countries. All of us are terribly disturbed by the tragedy in Syria; we cannot stand […]
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Two centrist Jewish groups called for further review of Chuck Hagel's record in light of an account of a 2007 speech in which he allegedly said the State Department acted as an "adjunct" of Israel's foreign ministry. Hagel, President Obama's nominee for defense secretary, has the support of a majority of senators, but confirmation of […]
"Over-exposure of security and intelligence activities may seriously harm state security."
"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."
This is Stanton's centennial year (it was founded back in 1913) and having an in house theatrical company seems absolutely in line with the shul's view of itself.
although Hamas members entered Bulgaria legally, information was later received which gave security services reason to believe that their presence posed a serious threat for national security
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) said he will not run again for the U.S. Senate. Lautenberg, 89, previously had said he would consider running again in 2014. On Thursday, he told various media that instead he would dedicate the final two years of his term to passing new gun controls and environmental protections, and to creating […]
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Jewish organizational officials were among more than 40 nonprofit officials testifying in Congress in support of keeping the charitable tax deduction. Congressional officials are considering changes to the tax code to raise revenue and have targeted tax loopholes. Republicans have championed curtailing the charitable deduction; the Obama administration wants to lower the deduction from 35 […]
this "State Department as Zionist lapdog" statement is a real zinger, but there were other statements made by Hagel at the Rutgers speech worth noting
Lionized as “the greatest builder in human history,” King Herod was also demonized for his cruelty and his shady religious origins.
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Two Liberal Democrat lawmakers last month suggested Israel shouldn't be judged according to special standards because of the Holocaust.
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