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Ironically, given its promotion of an event that would silence academics, BC's Poli-Sci department is defending its involvement in the event by invoking "academic freedom."
Bank of Israel Governor, U.S. born Stanley Fischer, on Tuesday told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to resign at the end of June, after eight years in office. The dramatic announcement that was published at noon by the Bank of Israel said: "The Governor noted that in addition to his goal of promoting […]
Egypt's representative declared that the council faced "a moment of truth."
Last February, close to 3,000 people tuned in to watch YU's first-ever Torah Halftime Show.
A new Israeli government survey sheds light on mainstream media slander of Haredim and points to a growing trend of Haredim studying law and business.
On Tuesday at 2:30 PM, a Palestinian managed to infiltrate into the town of Shavei Shomron. He was caught by the town's local security team. Update: This is turning out to be an unusual story, as the Palestinian did not infiltrate into the town to commit a terror attack. The Palestinian was involved in a […]
Palestinian terrorist stabs Jewish teenager.
NASA Director Charles Bolden was on hand Monday for the launching of Israel’s new science and space center that might host future Israeli astronauts. Bolden is in Israel for the seventh annual Herzliya Space Conference marking the Columbia Space shuttle tragedy 10 years ago, which took the lives of seven astronauts, including Israel’s Ilan Ramon. […]
An elderly patient killed orthodox Jewish Dr. Ronald Gilbert in his medical office in Newport Beach, California on Monday. The alleged murderer was captured, but no motive has been established. Dr. Gilbert was scheduled to perform surgery on the patient, who was arrested at the Hoag Hospital after six or seven shots were fired at […]
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who 18 years ago recognized the Holocaust-era complicity of some Dutchmen, has abdicated the throne after 33 years. Beatrix, who will celebrate her 75th birthday on Thursday, announced the abdication in favor of her eldest son, Prince Willem-Alexander. In 1995, Beatrix made the first official recognition by a Dutch head […]
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Leaders of the American Jewish Committee met with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman over the weekend to discuss political and strategic developments in the Middle East. The AJC Board of Governors’ 16-member delegation, headed by President Robert Elman, met separately with the king and three Jordanian Cabinet members. They also spoke with Jordanian business […]
The flood gates at Israel’s largest overland water source may have to be opened this year thanks to God’s gift of rain – and Israel’s success in desalinating water.
"It was a big explosion, and because the facility is built under the mountain rock, it is very hard to reach workers trapped in there."
On Monday evening, a suspicious object was noticed on the road leading to the northern entrance of Efrat, in Gush Etzion. Upon further investigation is was discovered that a fake bomb had been planted on the road.
There are concerns about the flight of millions of displaced Syrians over the border into Israel.
Ward appeared on television to defend his comments and reinforce his point, but on Sunday he changed his tune.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declared a state of emergency in Port Said, Suez and Ismailia, the three Suez Canal cities hit by rioting that resulted in close to 40 dead. Speaking on state television, Morsi said the emergency measures, which include night curfews, would stay in place from 9 PM to 6 AM, for 30 […]
There are some who insist that Israel is a modern day version of the grand masters of genocide.
His first wife is 8 years his senior, the younger is 22.
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The cartoon published on Sunday, which was International Holocaust Memorial Day.
By Ron Kampeas
Gina Campbell, the cathedral’s director of worship, “encouraged all the religious leaders to be faithful to their own traditions.”
On Sunday evening, three Arab residents of the village of Balata approached a checkpoint at the Tapuach junction. Something about the group raised suspicions of the Border Police, who then initiated protocols for dealing with suspicious incidents like that. The three terrorists were found to have been carrying 8 pipe bombs, and a gun. They […]
In 2009, Naftali Bennett voluntarily took a lie detector test to prove his loyalty to PM Netanyahu, according to an Israel Channel 2 report. At the time, Netanyahu apparently thought that Bennett, possibly among others, was the one who leaked the information that resulted in the Bibi-Tours investigation. In order to clear his name, Bennett […]
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi condemned fascist Italy’s anti-Semitic laws but said dictator Benito Mussolini’s regime also had carried out positive policies. “The fact of the racial laws was the worst fault of a leader, Mussolini, who in many other ways did well,” Berlusconi said in informal remarks to the media at the inauguration […]
Yediot Ahronot reported. on Friday that former Iranian intelligence officials who defected to the West claim that Iran's underground Fordo uranium enrichment facility has been almost completely demolished, and hundreds of staff members are at this moment trapped underground, This has to be the worst blow to Iran's nuclear ambitions so far. WND, an American […]
The couple's funeral service drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,000
On Friday afternoon, Arabs blocked the entrance to the town of Elazar in Gush Etzion. On Friday evening, a terrorist was caught infiltrating into the nearby town of Efrat. H/T Natan Epstein
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Selective perception is the hallmark of Security Council debates, says Ron Prosor.
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A Brazilian judge sentenced a man to 35 months in jail for giving Jewish students a Nazi salute and exposing his swastika tattoo.
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A panel of experts advised the Dutch government to return only one painting out of 189 claimed by relatives of a Holocaust-era art collector.
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Israel’s 2012 report on terrorist activity lists no Israeli fatalities in Judea, Samaria, or Jerusalem for the first time in four decades. The report, released Jan. 24 by Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, says 1973 was the last year no such casualties were recorded. Attacks inside Israel claimed the lives of 10 Israelis in […]
Rumors are flying in the Israeli media today that the other possible reason between the acrimonious relationship between Bibi and Bennett is the anonymous claim that Bennett leaked information that led to the Bibi-Tours investigation. The investigation into Netanyahu's financial relationships with certain donors is once again being talked about in the news. Bennett has […]
The Kinneret continues to rise and rain continues to fall.
The army finally overtook the Port Said prison, the banks and the courts, to prevent their falling into the hands of rioters.
The town's security personnel were called out, just as Shabbat was beginning.
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A panel of experts advised the Dutch government to return only one painting out of 189 claimed by relatives of a Holocaust-era art collector. The Advisory Commission on Restitution Requests, Cultural Goods and World War II asserted that descendants of the art collector Nathan Katz and his brother, Benjamin, failed to prove that the brothers […]
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On Friday, dozens of activists occupied the reception of the UEFA European soccer association in Nyon, Switzerland, to protest Israel's hosting of a championship. About 40 protesters carrying banners and placards, some critical of UEFA President Michel Platini, chanted slogans at the offices, according to the Associated Press. The protesters had come to demonstrate against […]
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The left-wing Jewish Forward’s Yiddish-language publication will shift to a bi-weekly print schedule. The Forverts, a 116-year-old publication that switched from a daily to a weekly print schedule 30 years ago, will become a bi-weekly beginning Feb. 4, the newspaper announced Friday. The publication will continue to maintain a daily online presence. According to The […]
Geller promises she and Spencer will partake in a proudly Zionist event in the Shangri-La Hotel, "we will talk forthrightly about the roots of Islamic antisemitism in the Quran and other Islamic texts."
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The British Foreign Office included Israel as "a country of concern" in a report on human rights violators. Israel appeared on a list of 28 countries accused of perpetrating human rights violations in a quarterly report on human rights and democracy issued Thursday by the foreign office. The report cites the Gaza war of last […]
Only half of the runaway crocodiles had been recaptured, according to the report.
David Coleman Headley, an American citizen, was sentenced on Thursday to 35 years in prison for his role in the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that has been called India's 9/11. Headley 's meticulous scouting missions facilitated the assault by 10 Pakistani gunmen, who killed 160 people, including children. The attackers arrived by boat on […]
By Sandy Eller
A Brooklyn photographer alleged that he was a victim of police brutality last week after an altercation with members of Brooklyn's 70th precinct left him in handcuffs and both his cell phone and camera damaged.
Two days after the elections ended, PM Netanyahu finally decided to call HaBayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) head Naftali Bennett. The two did not set a time they would meet, and rumors from within the Likud before the elections said that Netanyahu would not include the "Jewish Home" party in his coalition. Netanyahu will not be […]
Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, youth director at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, will be introducing a new art installation in honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of Trees, inspired by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.
More than 2,000 people have made contributions in memory of the young victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut to plant a grove of trees in Israel.
Shoshana Hebshi, a half-Jewish, half-Arab woman from Ohio is suing Frontier Airlines, the FBI, TSA and other governmental agencies after she says she was forced off a flight, strip-searched, and imprisoned on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.
Women may enter military combat in the United States, following the lift of a military ban on women in combat by defense secretary Leon Panetta.
According to Dershowitz, Glemp "was forced to apologize" as the result of Dershowitz's lawsuit against him.
The Jewish National Fund will reconsider a plan to forest parts of the Arava desert, following the request of environmental organizations to consider the impact of trying to alter the native ecosystem.
The government is unable to make good on a ban that's been on the books since 2006.
Since the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident there have been many behind the scenes efforts to calm political tensions.
Temple Israel was vandalized back in November, when someone wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the building.
The (Conservative) Rabbinical Assembly shares remarks, photos from Yair Lapid’s address to its 2012 convention.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Israel and western countries not to attempt to stop Iran’s nuclear program through military means.
Israeli stocks and bounds advanced following elections, “as investors bet Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition would weaken ultra-Orthodox factions as the nation seeks to narrow its budget deficit,” according to a report by Bloomberg business news.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yesh Atid perceives a possible peace process as a response to an ensemble of threats looming over the State of Israel.
By Ben Sales
TEL AVIV – His party shrunk, his opponents grew and his challengers multiplied. But with the results in, it seems Benjamin Netanyahu survived the Knesset elections Tuesday to serve another term as prime minister.
JERUSALEM – With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu slate, still expected to be tapped by President Shimon Peres to form Israel’s 33rd government, its makeup will look different from the outgoing coalition.
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
Rock music festival Lollapalooza, which was scheduled to take place August 20-22 at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, has been cancelled.
Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster, and the University of Haifa have teamed up to prove that chess can make you smarter and better adjusted.
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Jewish people are living in fear in Europe but the European Union will make sure they are not harmed, the president of the European Parliament said.
Counting of the 250,000 votes from soldiers, hospitals, embassies and prisoners are expected to only be completed on Thursday. As a result, some of the party numbers may still change. There are predictions that Likud may still go up to 33, HaBayit HaYehudi to 12, while Yesh Atid may drop to 18 and the Arab […]
Bibi want to block democracy within the Likud.
These are the final results for the elections to the 19th Knesset.
Update: There was a slight surge for the religious/right during the middle of the counting, but in the end it didn't pan out. As the voting results continue to be tallied, it appears that the Right and Religious parties are gaining in strength compared to the the results released in the earlier exit polls, with […]
Who's in, who's not in the 19th Knesset.
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Satmar counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years.
Jewish Home received only 12 seats.
Is the Likud in danger?
For an Israeli election race where no one can actually say what the important issues of the race are, voter turnout has been at an all time high all day long. By 2:00PM, voting was at 38.3%, compared to the previous high in 1999, when it was at 34%. At 4:00 PM, voting reached 46.6%, […]
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He called for a return to peace talks "without preconditions."
In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting for two primary reasons. The first is to minimize their participation in the Zionist enterprise, the second is that many Chareidim are actually disillusioned with the Chareidi political leadership, and […]
On Tuesday afternoon, the IDF captured and arrested the Arab terrorist that seriously injured a guard from Yitzhar. During the attack that occurred around December 17, 2012, Arab attacked residents of Yitzhar, and injured one of the town's security men with a rock, causing him severe damage in the head and eye.
Someone in the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria is paying attention.
A Channel 1 survey reported that 20% of voters remain undecided until the last minute. Many will only be deciding on the party to vote for once they reach the voting booth. Voter turnout is the highest its been since the elections in 1999.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices.
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Top Jewish organizational leaders met with Chuck Hagel, President Obama's defense secretary nominee, and Vice President Joe Biden. A four-sentence statement Monday issued by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations described the Jan. 18 meeting in Washington as "an important opportunity for a serious and thorough discussion of key issues of importance […]
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The attack occurred as Bennett began praying in front of the Wall
In what is turning in an almost nightly event, Arabs from next door Beit Fajr shot at the southern entrance of Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion on Monday evening. IDF troops chased the five terrorists into Beit Fajr. Bystanders heard shooting inside the Arab village, but the terrorists managed to get away. An explosive […]
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While former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been making the rounds putting down the achievements of his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prosecution in Olmert's "Holyland" bribery trial has presented its first witness. Olmert is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes during the construction of the Holyland Apartments project in Jerusalem when […]
Indian Chief of Air Staff Norman Anil Kumar Browne is in Israel for talks with the highest ranking Israeli military officials as ties deepen between the two countries’ defense establishments.
Still deciding who will get your vote? The Jewish Press team has interviewed several of this election's most newsworthy candidates - hear what they have to say about the issues affecting you most, and cast your ballot on January 22.
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Leaders of Russia’s Jewish community have criticized a U.S. federal court ruling that fined Russia for refusing to hand over ancient Chasidic texts.
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A lawmaker from Hungary’s Jobbik Party who recently called for listing Jews as a “security risk” reportedly is planning a lecture tour about the “Zionist threat.”
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A history of New York Jewry took Jewish book of the year honors in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards.
Facebook allows Hamas leaders and other known terrorists to maintain pages.
The more than 60,000 deaths during the Syrian Civil War, are referred to in UN-speak as "the events in Syria since March, 2011," or, sometimes, as "the current events."
ABC's Barbara Walters fell during an inauguration party in Washington and has been hospitalized, AP reported. Walters, 83, fell on Saturday night at the residence of British Ambassador Peter Westmacott and sustained a cut on her forehead. Walters was taken to hospital for treatment and an examination. An ABC spokesperson said she was alert and […]
Rubinstein made clear that candidate lists running for election may not trifle with injunctions issued by the Chairman of the Central Election Commission.
Ron Nachman, the Mayor of the Samarian city of Ariel, passed away after losing his battle to bladder cancer.
The United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) on Saturday denounced fighters in Syria for endangering children in the bloody civil war which has gripped the country for almost two years.
Politics junkies and sports fans alike will enjoy the new up-to-the-minute poll updates being made available for this Tuesday’s Knesset elections.
Shas party spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef is urging Israelis not to vote for the party headed by Naftali Bennett, the Bayit HaYehudi Jewish Home party, calling it not a home for Jews but a home for gentiles.
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Livson, 30, the Israeli-born son of Finnish immigrants, was officially installed as chief rabbi on Jan. 13, taking over from Rabbi Moshe Edelman.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.
At the Oz Etzion (Jewish) outpost in the Binyamin region, a large number of troops arrived on Saturday night to expel the residents and destroy the homes that were built there. There are two permanent homes built on the site. They were rebuilt there after troops destroyed the homes that were on the hill a […]
On Saturday, Palestinians tried to set up another illegal outpost. This latest attempt was in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Maskiot. Border Police took down the 19 tents. No Arabs were arrested, and injuries were reported on either side. Last week, Arabs set up an illegal outpost in E1, near Maaleh Adumim, which […]
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President Obama's new gun control proposals drew broad Jewish communal support. The uniformity of the Jewish response to the proposals unveiled Wednesday stood in contrast to Republican opposition to many of the suggested measures, including a ban on assault weapons and tighter background checks on gun purchasers. Supportive statements came from the Jewish Council for […]
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