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Politics / Global / News Briefs / Media

Netanyahu: Excess Exposure on 'Prisoner X' Hurts National Security

By Jacob Edelist

"Over-exposure of security and intelligence activities may seriously harm state security."

Politics / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Jewish Home to Likud: Ball in Bibi's Court

By Jewish Press Staff

"Despite the mudslinging campaign against us before the elections, we recommended Netanyahu to form the next government."

NY / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Russian Theater Troupe Takes Residence at Stanton Street Shul

By Jewish Press Staff

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.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Europe / Islamists

Bulgaria Kicks Hamas to the Curb

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

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

News Briefs

Lautenberg Will Not Run Again

By JTA

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 […]

News Briefs

JFNA Joins Array of Charities Testifying in Favor of Deduction

By JTA

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 […]

US / Politics / News Briefs

Hagel Vote Filibustered, Still More Anti-Israel Revelations

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

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

Jewish / News Briefs / Religion / Archaeology

King Herod Exhibition Tracing the Life of a Builder and a Murderer

By Jacob Edelist

Lionized as “the greatest builder in human history,” King Herod was also demonized for his cruelty and his shady religious origins.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Jewish MP Asks Liberal Democrats to Condemn anti-Semitic Members

By JTA

Two Liberal Democrat lawmakers last month suggested Israel shouldn't be judged according to special standards because of the Holocaust.

News Briefs

French Nazi Hunter: Swiss Turned in 'Only' 3000 Jews

By JTA

Swiss authorities turned away "only" 3,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust and not 24,500 as believed, French Nazi hunter and historian Serge Klarsfeld said. Klarsfeld told Switzerland’s Der Sonntag newspaper that the figure of 24,500 came from imprecise archive material processed by the authors of the 1999 Bergier report on Switzerland’s Holocaust-era record and called […]

Israel / News Briefs

Prisoner X Met With Lawyer Before Suicide

By Jewish Press News Desk

More details are slowly coming to light in the case of Ben Zygier, also known as Prisoner X. A day before he committed suicide, Zygier met with outside defense attorney Avigdor Feldman, besides his meetings with his regular attorneys Roi Belcher, Moshe Mazor and Boaz Ben-Tzur. Zygier had been considering his legal options, including the […]

News Briefs

Israeli Soccer Player on U.K. Team Barred from Entering Dubai

By JTA

An Israeli soccer player for a British team is sitting out a team visit to Dubai because of tensions between the emirate and Israel. The 25-year-old striker, Itay Schechter, who plays for Swansea City, was prevented from attending the six-day group training session, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Wednesday. The United Arab Emirates does not […]

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / Settlements

Terrorist Shot Near Karnei Shomron

By Jewish Press News Desk

Following a police chase, a Palestinian terrorist was shot and stopped.

News Briefs / Egypt

Morsi's Egypt Poised to Criminalize Protest

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

banners or chants "that include insults, defamation or contempt of 'heavenly' religions, or that stir sedition, violence or hatred or include an offence to state bodies and institutions" will be prohibited

News Briefs

Sirens Sound throughout Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Thursday Israel's Home Front Command and Ministry of Education have begun conducting an exercise of the emergency services in all of the country's 4500 educational institutions. The scenario is of rocket and missile attacks. Participants include police, ambulance, fire and local authorities. The exercises have begun with a siren that lasted a minute and […]

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Holocaust Studies Take Root among Israel’s Arabs

By dvora

Can Shoah studies actually help neutralize Arab hatred for Israelis?

News Briefs

FIFA: Hungary to Play in Empty Stadium because of Anti-Israel Fans

By JTA

The FIFA international soccer organization has ruled that Hungary must play a crucial game in an empty stadium because of “abhorrent” anti-Semitic chants by fans in a friendly game against Israel last August. The car-right Jobbik party plans to rally outside the stadium during the March 22 game to protest the ban, which the team […]

News Briefs

Designer John Galliano Dresses as Chasid for NY Fashion Week Show

By JTA

John Galliano, the former Christian Dior fashion head who was fired after making anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe, dressed as a Chasidic Jew at New York Fashion Week. Galliano, who was praised recently by the Anti-Defamation League for his efforts at rehabilitation, wore a long black coat, black top hat and high socks at […]

News Briefs

Charleston Orthodox Jew Key to Black Tea Party Senator’s Success

By JTA

A Canadian-born and naturalized orthodox doctor is the man behind the sudden prominence of South Carolina’s first black Republican Congressman, and now senator, in more than a century. The ascension of Tim Scott from the South Carolina statehouse to the U.S. House of Representatives -- and last December to the U.S. Senate -- is relatively […]

Israel / US

Bibi Outlines Israel’s Challenges To U.S. Jewish Leaders

By Steve K. Walz

JERUSALEM – Speaking in Jerusalem before the annual gathering of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed Jewish leaders on the three main threats Israel must deal with in the coming weeks and months: the Iranian threat, instability in Syria, and peace talks with the Palestinians.

News & Views

Benedict’s Papacy: Close Jewish Relations With Occasional Serious Bumps

By dvora

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI’s eight-year reign as head of the world’s 1 billion Catholics sometimes was a bumpy one for the Vatican’s relations with Israel and the wider Jewish community. But it was also a period in which relations were consolidated and fervent pledges made to continue interfaith dialogue and bilateral cooperation.

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

Egypt Strangling Gaza by Flooding Smuggling Tunnels

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Egypt is flooding Gaza smuggling tunnels, choking off one of Hamas’ biggest sources for money and placing a virtual siege far more severe than Israel ever created.

News Briefs

Lebanon Says Israel Air Force Staged New Mock Raids

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israel Ari Force flew two F-16 jets over southern Lebanese villages Tuesday afternoon, according to the Beirut government’s official NNA national news agency. The Lebanese Army Command Guidance Directorate stated, “On Tuesday…at 4:50 p.m., two Israeli war planes violated Lebanese air space from above Kafrkila village, executed circular flight over various Lebanese regions; and […]

News Briefs

Israel Beats Turkey on Home Ice for Hockey Championship

By Jewish Press News Desk

Turkish anti-Israel fans failed to unnerve Israel’s ice hockey team, which won the Group B U-18 World Championship that was played on Turkey’s home ice. Turkish fans tried to upset the Israel team by unfurling a banner referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s outburst against President Shimon Peres in Davos in 2000. Israel […]

News Briefs

Conference of Presidents: American-Israeli Unity Strong as Ever

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

 ‘Unity’ was one slogan that often came up during the 39th annual mission of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations held at Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel – where 110 American Jewish leaders gathered together for meetings and conferences with Israeli figures throughout the week. The annual mission, whose primary aim is to strengthen ties […]

News Briefs

Australia Hid Prisoner X Information from Its Own Gov’t

By Jewish Press News Desk

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr revealed Wednesday that that some people in the Dept. of Foreign Affairs knew in 2010 that “Prisoner X” Ben Zygier, alias Ben Allen, was being held in a high-security Israeli jail. “A spokeswoman for Senator Carr says the Minister was initially advised that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) was […]

News Briefs

Leftist Jews Bad Mouth Jewish MP Candidate

By JTA

Italian Jews, with input from Israeli leftists, are squabbling over a Jewish candidate for the country's parliament. Sharon Nizza, an Italian Israeli who is running in next week’s general elections, is a candidate for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right People of Freedom Party. Fiamma Nirenstein, a Jewish member of the parliament and strong supporter […]

News Briefs

President Obama's State of the Union Speech: Full Text

By Jewish Press Staff

Full text of President Barack Obama's "State of the Union" address to Congress, February 12, 2013.

Terrorism / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Amb. Prosor: Many States Classify Hezbollah as 'Charity'

By Jewish Press Staff

"The EU must place Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations."

News Briefs

Obama Pledging Lasting Peace, Iran Diplomacy

By JTA

President Obama pledged to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb and to "stand steadfast" with Israel in his State of the Union speech. "The leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution, because a coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and we will do […]

NY / News Briefs / Religion

Orthodox Seeking Federal Funds for Sandy-Struck Synagogues UPDATED

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The law will correct a defect in the current FEMA legislation by making clear that houses of worship are to be included amongst the nonprofit recipients of federal disaster relief aid

News Briefs

Jerusalem on Alert for Terror Attack

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli security forces raised the alert level for an imminent terrorist attack in Jerusalem for the first time in more than a year Tuesday evening. Authorities did not release details on what type of attack is feared. Police, firefighters and Magen David Adom medics in the capital were on standby alert. Police officers were deployed […]

Middle East / Levant / Politics / News Briefs

Foreign Media: Ex-Mossad Agent Committed Suicide in Israeli Prison

By Jewish Press Staff

The Case of Prisoner X: He hanged himself in Israeli jail cell in 2010. A gag order was clamped on the story. An Australian media outlet now says he was a Mossad agent who committed a terrible crime.

News Briefs

Kerry at Odds with Congress on PA Funds

By Jewish Press News Desk

The State Department remains at the side of Abbas.

News Briefs

Gag Order Released: Five Arabs Attacked Soldiers and Stole Rifles

By Jewish Press News Desk

Five Arabs, including one with an Israeli citizenship identification card, attacked soldiers and stole at least five semi-automatic rifles in November and December. A gag order on the arrests and indictments was removed on Tuesday. Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and police arrested the terror cell after its members attacked a soldier at a northern […]

News Briefs

French Group that Saved Jews from Nazis Snubs Shoah Memorial Event

By Jewish Press News Desk

A French organization that saved Jews during the Holocaust has declined to attend a commemoration because it was organized by pro-Israel Jews. The Marseille branch of CIMADE, a French Protestant group established in 1939, declined to attend the region’s main memorial ceremony for Jewish Holocaust victims because of the pro-Israel attitude of CRIF, the umbrella […]

News Briefs

Three Torah Scrolls Stolen from Young Israel Synagogue

By Jewish Press News Desk

New York City police have asked the public for any information that may help them in an investigation of three Torah scrolls that were stolen from the Young Israel Mosholu Parkway Synagogue in the Bronx on Sunday, NY1 reported. The valued of the scrolls is estimated at $90,000. Anyone with information on the case should […]

Middle East / Levant / Islamists / Religion

Plague of Locusts Returns to Egypt

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Locusts, 10 Plagues, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Bible, Passover, agriculture,

News Briefs

Hamas Launches ‘Independent’ Controlled News Agency

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza has decided to copy the Iranian and Syrian propaganda machine and launch an “independent” news agency that will be “under the supervision of the government information office.” The new “Al Rai (Opinion)” agency was announce d by its director, Salameh Maaruf, who told the French AFP news agency, "It […]

News Briefs

Angry Citizen Tears Down Detroit’s ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ Sign

By Jewish Press News Desk

Detroit officials expressed all kinds of anger over the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that was erected on an overpass of the mostly abandoned Packard factory, but it took an angry citizen to do the job of removing the offensive slogan. The “dETROITfUNK.com” site wrote anonymously, “I went up with a hammer and tore the g-damn […]

US / News Briefs

More than 14,000 Sign 'Free Pollard Now' Petition

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

All segments of Israeli society have joined the petition, in a rare show of unity.

News Briefs

Norwegian Holocaust Center Accuses PA TV of Anti-Semitism

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Palestinian Authority TV channel, partly controlled by the Ramallah government of Mahmoud Abbas, sometimes spread anti-Semitism and a demonizing image of Israel, according to the same Norwegian Holocaust Center that has contributed money to the PA. “Some of the network's broadcasts definitely show traits of anti-Semitism, said Holocaust Center researcher Øivind Kopperud, quoted by […]

News Briefs

Cyber Attacks Good News for Israel Hi-Tech Firm

By Jewish Press News Desk

If indeed “It's an ill wind that blows no good,” cyber warfare is a gust of money for the Israel Radware company, which produces security software. Radware CEO Roy Zisapel told an investor meeting in New York Monday, “Banks and the financial sector are looking for the carriers to provide some kind of protection for […]

News Briefs

Fast Track for Tel Aviv-Eilat Rail Line

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel’s southern regional committee gave the green light on Monday for a 217-mile high-speed rail line that would connect Tel Aviv to Eilat, via Be’er Sheva. The next step before tenders can be issued for building the line is approval from the national planning committee, which will be challenged by environmentalists. Planners envision private investments […]

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Settlements

Foiled Sheep-nabbing in the Shomron

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Overnight, a group of Arabs infiltrated into Chavat Gilad (Gilad Farm) in the Shomron. They were attempting to, once again, steal a flock of sheep from the farm. Just before they got away with it, the farm's alarm system went off and the Arabs ran without their plunder.

Israel / News Briefs

The Kinneret Continues to Rise

By Jewish Press News Desk

Just since Monday, the Kinneret rose another 2 centimeters to 210.445 meters below sea level, and is now standing at 255 centimeters above the lower red line. In the past 6 days the Kinneret has risen 11 centimeters.

News Briefs

Peres Tells Jewish leaders ‘Lack of Dignity’ Is Mideast Problem

By Jewish Press News Desk

"The real problems in the Middle East are starvation, unemployment and lack of dignity,” President Shimon Peres told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Monday. “We are interested in seeing the Arab world in a better situation, finding answers to poverty and discrimination,” he added. President Peres continued to look at the […]

News Briefs

Co-Founder of IDF Women's Corps Dies at Age 94

By Jewish Press News Desk

Sarah Braverman, who was thought to be the last surviving parachutist from pre-State Israel who fought with the partisans in Europe during the Second World War, has passed away at the age of 94 at her house on Kibbutz Shamir, located in northern Israel. Braverman fought in the Palmach during the pre-State period and was […]

US / Politics / News Briefs

Jewish Nominee for Treasury May Hit Wall of GOP and Far Left

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

And guess who had close to $100,000 in assets socked away right there in the Cayman Islands? Jack Lew.

News Briefs

Netanyahu Tells US Jewish Leaders Iran Nears ‘Crossing the Line’

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran has not yet crossed the line Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu drew last September in the United Nations, but “they’re shortening that time is by putting in new, faster centrifuges that cut the time by one third,” the Prime Minister told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Monday. “Iran is putting itself […]

News Briefs

US Ambassador Shapiro Plays it Safe, ‘No Comment’ on Pollard

By Jewish Press News Desk

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem Monday he is not going to make any comments on the life prison sentence of Jonathan Pollard. The “Free Pollard” movement is seizing on the upcoming visit of President Barack Obama to promote its campaign that the President should sign the order to […]

News Briefs

Sharansky on Women of the Wall: Jews Chose a ‘Not Easy’ Religion

By Jewish Press News Desk

Former Soviet dissident and Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky, now chairman of the Jewish Agency, invoked the old “it is not easy to be a Jew” cliché after the latest Women of the Wall dispute Monday. The group, also known by its acronym WOW, comprises Reform and Conservative Jews, mostly from the United States and […]

News Briefs

Haredi MK ‘Threatens’ Drafting Haredim Will Make IDF Orthodox

By Jewish Press News Desk

Haredi Knesset Member Menachem Eliezer came up with an interesting twist on the military draft issue Monday, warning MKs in favor of conscripting Haredim that doing so will influence non-observant soldiers to become orthodox. The United Torah Judaism MK spoke after Yair Lapid, chairman of the Future (Yesh Atid) party and the new darling of […]

IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

IDF Saves Life of PA Accident Victim

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israeli soldiers and rescue teams routinely treat Palestinian Authority accident victims.

News Briefs

Jewish Canadian Singer Wins Grammy for Rap Album of the Year

By JTA

The Jewish Canadian singer Drake won a Grammy Award, his first, for Rap Album of the Year at the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Also, the indie pop band ”fun.” won the Song of the Year with "We Are Young" and also was selected as Best New Artist. Its lead singer, […]

News Briefs

Rabbis and Jewish Leaders Praise Pope Benedict

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel’s and Britain’s chief rabbis as well as the World Jewish Congress praised Pope Benedict XVI Monday following his surprise announcement that he is stepping down at the end of the month. “During his period (as pope), there were the best relations ever between the church and the chief rabbinate and we hope that this […]

News Briefs

Kuwait ‘Proud’ of Athlete Who Refused to Play against Israeli

By Jewish Press News Desk

Kuwait expressed “pride” over its star Taekwondo athlete who lost the chance for an international championship because he refused to play against an Israeli in a contest of the marital art whose students’ oath is to “build a more peaceful world.” Kuwaiti taekwondo federation chairman Waleed el-Mirshad praised Abdullah el-Farhood for withdrawing from the Trelleborg […]

News Briefs

Americans Want to Hear Obama Talk Middle Class, not Middle East

By Jewish Press News Desk

A grand total of 5 percent of respondents want to hear President Barack Obama talk about foreign policy, compared with 55 percent who want him to address the economy or the bloated deficit in his State of the Union address Tuesday, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Monday. The poll shows that slightly more than […]

News Briefs

Muslims Host First Ever Hebrew Conference Held in South Asia

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The first-ever Hebrew language and culture conference in South Asia was hosted at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and organized by none other than Muslims scholars in a show of Muslim-Jewish amity in India. Among a dozen Indian and Israeli institutions represented at the “Hebrew Language and Culture: Reception, Self Conception and Intercultural […]

Settlements

Uprooting that which Was Planted

By Zofnat Nordman

The fear of a Palestinian takeover of state lands in the center of Gush Etzion led Women in Green to plant trees, but the Civil Administration has issued an eviction order. The case will be heard in March.

News Briefs

Neo-Nazi Activist Who Threatened Jews to Stand Trial in Siberia

By JTA

Prosecutors in Siberia reportedly have indicted a Russian citizen of inciting to violence against Jews and quoting texts by Adolf Hitler. The Russian news agency Interfax reported on Monday that the 65-year-old man from Minusinsk in the Krasnoyarsk region was the founder of an anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi cell called "Minin and Pozharski People's Militia." Since 2011, […]

News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5773

Bibi and Bennett Meet

By Jewish Press News Desk

Following a 5 year estrangement, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu finally met in Tel Aviv. The meeting, held in the government's offices in the Kirya, took place just after noon, and lasted for 2 hours. The meeting was described as businesslike, and all the issues on the table were discussed. […]

News Briefs / Settlements

90 New Homes for Beit El

By Jewish Press News Desk

Construction of ninety new apartments in Beit El has been given approval by the Ministry of Defense. The construction is part of the 300 apartment compensation plan for Beit El following the evacuation of the Givat Ulpana neighborhood. As tenders have already begin to be issued, construction could begin in just a few months time.

News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Jewish Rapper Kosha Dillz: from Super Bowl to Super Star

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

he's been a Jewish criminal drug addict, and now he's becoming a star in the Black music world of rap and hip-hop who is an observant, proud Jew

News Briefs

A Big Apple Takes a Bite in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Apple has opened its third development center in Israel. After having established centers in Haifa and Herzliya, adjacent to Tel Aviv, Apple placed its newest center in Ra'anana, on the northern edge of metropolitan Tel Aviv. It has hired 100-150 workers who were fired several weeks ago by Texas Instruments as part of a worldwide […]

News Briefs

Old Prayer Books Looking for Homes

By JTA

All streams of Judaism are churning out new versions of prayer books faster than they can find homes for old ones, leaving burial as the only solution. Jewish law forbids throwing out books containing the name of God. Prayer books are becoming outdated so quickly that there is a glut on the market, and there […]

News Briefs

Iran, Hizbullah Eye Assad’s Fall, Build Terrorist Armies in Syria

By Jewish Press News Desk

Iran and Hizbullah, its proxy in Lebanon, are preparing to stake out their claims in Syria by building up terrorist armies there if and when Syrian President Bashar Assad falls. An Iranian-Hizbullah power base in Syria is aimed at helping it control supply routes, which Iran badly needs because of the U.S.-backed sanctions on the Islamic […]

News Briefs

Erekat Pours Cold Water on Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas Meeting

By Jewish Press News Desk

Palestinian Authority senior negotiator Saeb Erekat insisted on Sunday that no plans are being made to arrange a three-way meeting next month with visiting President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Speculation arose last week over such a meeting, and outgoing Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon also said on Saturday […]

News Briefs

Blowing 1,000 Shofars in Hopes of Finding a Mate

By Ben Sales

They walked up a tree-lined path through stony hills to a square, white building -- men in black hats, beards and frock coats; in T-shirts and jeans; in sweaters, slacks and velvet kippas. They came by the hundreds -- 19-year-olds looking for a match, 40-year-olds losing hope that they would ever find one, boys of […]

News Briefs

Buenos Aires Jews Fear ‘Truth Commission’ a Prelude to New Bombing

By JTA

The president of the AMIA (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) Buenos Aires Jewish center said the truth commission agreed to by Argentina and Iran "will allow a third bombing in Argentina." “This pact is viewed by some people as a step forward. This may be a step to the precipice," Guillermo Borger said. "It will allow a […]

News Briefs

A US Arab’s View: Obama To Visit Israel to Prove He Is a Christian

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The real reason President Barack Obama is visiting Israel next month is to pray at the Church of Nativity and prove to Americans he really is a Christian, writes internationally syndicated journalist Ray Hanania, born in Chicago and a self-described Arab-American Palestinian Christian. Hanania is a serious journalist, having been nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times […]

News Briefs

A Few Million Dollars Later, Suha Sorry She Married Yasser Arafat

By Jewish Press News Desk

Suha Arafat, who pocketed millions of dollars from her husband’s Yasser Arafat’s estate, now says the arch-terrorist Nobel Peace Prize winner denied her a divorce several times. "I know there were a lot of women who wanted to marry Arafat. However, it was my fate ... I tried to leave him hundreds of times, but […]

News Briefs

Rain, nor Sleet nor Nemo Can Stop Satmar

By Jewish Press News Desk

Snow? What snow? Satmar chassidim pledged $8.5 million during the snowy Sabbath for the sect’s new Boro Park building, which is to include a wedding hall and approximately 70 classrooms when completed, according to the Matzav blog site. Thousands of Satmar followers from the entire state stormed – pardon the expression – on Boro Park […]

News Briefs

Development Plan Could Ruin Tel Aviv’s UNESCO Heritage Site Status

By Jewish Press News Desk

Tel Aviv could lose its status as a UNESCO World heritage Site if it goes through with redevelopment plans. Property owners, the city’s engineer and Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar of the Likud party, have expressed objections to the plans, according to Globes business newspaper. Sa'ar is president of UNESCO Israel and warned that the urban […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs

Hitler’s Food Taster Says He Was a Vulgar Vegetarian

By Jewish Press News Desk

He never ate meat and she does not remember him eating fish.

News Briefs

Haredi MK Rabbi: Yeshiva Students Goof Off Just Like Gov’t Workers

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Haredi Knesset Member Rabbi Meir Porush has found less than complimentary common ground between yeshiva students on the one hand and government workers and academic students on the other – “goofing off.” MK Porush, adamantly against drafting yeshiva students into the army, recently said they would prefer to sit in jail rather than leave their […]

News Briefs

Adelsons Donate $50 million to Las Vegas Jewish Day Schools

By JTA

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have donated $50 million to the Adelson Education Campus in Las Vegas for the benefit the campus' three Jewish day schools, serving some 600 students ages pre-school to high school. The Adelson campus was modeled after the RealiSchool in Haifa, which Miriam Adelson attended for 12 years. […]

News Briefs / Obituaries

Jewish Philosopher Rabbi David Hartman Dies at 81

By JTA

In 1971, Hartman and his wife Bobbi and their five children, made aliyah to Israel with plans to establish an institute for Jewish studies in Israel

News Briefs

Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Tunisia

By JTA

For the second time in a month, vandals desecrated Jewish graves in Tunisia. Unidentified individuals smashed and overturned ten grave stones in Kef, in western Tunisia, according to the Tunisia News Network. An earlier incident in the coastal Tunisian town of Sousse left more than 68 Jewish graves ransacked and looted two weeks ago, according […]

Israel / News Briefs

Report: Obama to Link Iran, Peace Process

By Jewish Press News Desk

Early in his first term Obama tried to similarly link Israeli peace efforts and U.S. action on Iran's nuclear program.

NY / News Briefs

Northeast Under Blanket of Snow, NY City Spared Worst

By Jewish Press Staff

The storm, resulting from the collision of two weather systems, affected at least 40 million people.

News Briefs

Palestinians killed in Syrian Camp

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two Palestinians died Friday after being shot by snipers in a Syrian refugee camp, and medics discovered the body of a young girl killed by shelling, Ma’an reported. A Palestinian monitoring group in Syria said the two young men from al-Hassineh refugee camp were found dead Friday. The camp has been under blockade for 75 […]

Terrorism / Settlements

Terror Cell Caught Near Migdal Oz

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Minutes after the Shabbat began, IDF forces captured four Arabs near the entrance to Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. The four were all armed with knives, and during the initial interrogation admitted that they were planning to stab a soldier. Migdal Oz has been the site of repeated terror attacks emanating from nearby Beit […]

News Briefs

Eight Tips for Safe Snow Shoveling

By Jewish Press News Desk

A 2011 study published in the Clinical Research in Cardiology revealed that shoveling snow actually does increase the risk of a having a heart attack. The study looked at 500 people and found that 7% started experiencing symptoms of heart problems while shoveling snow. The cardiologists conducting the Canadian study felt that while 7% is […]

Israel / Syria / US / News Briefs

Turkish Ministers to US Amb: 'MYOB or Get Out!'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Deputy Prime Minister said it will be better for both Turkey and the U.S. if the ambassador minds his own business

Israel / News Briefs / Sports

Arsonists Burn Down Beitar Jerusalem's Office

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Friday, arsonists burnt down the Jerusalem offices of Beitar Jerusalem. The teams trophies, memorabilia, historical uniforms and more were destroyed in the fire, started by a Molotov cocktail thrown into the office. Beitar Jerusalem has once again become riled in controversy ever since the recent and rabid displays of racism on the part of a […]

Israel / News Briefs

Begin's Bedouin Blunder

By Jewish Press Staff

In its rush to pass the Bedouin land grab bill, the government forgot to due some basic due diligence.

Terrorism / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

IDF: Jibril Rajoub is Behind Terror Wave

By Jewish Press News Desk

This week alone over 60 Arab terror incidents were reported in Judea, Samaria, and even in Jerusalem. Seven Israelis were hurt in the attacks, ranging from stoning and firebombs, to a stabbing in Jerusalem. Some IDF officers are openly declaring that they believe we are already in the Third Intifada. According to a report in […]

News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

U.N. Agency Takes Anti-Israel Tweeter off the Payroll

By JTA

Badawi neither retracted nor apologized for her inaccurate tweet.

News Briefs

Is Morsi’s Prime Minister Insane or Just Plain Ignorant?

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Hesham Kandil, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s prime minister, has declared that the reason that babies in impoverished villages have health problems is that nursing mothers don’t clean their breasts. In case anyone might think Kandil is intelligent, he went on to explain that the lack of running water in the villages means that “men go […]

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ZOA Says F-16 Warplanes for Morsi Shows Up Obama as 'Naive'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed criticism over the Obama Administration's “naive endorsement” of the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Mohammed Morsi's Egyptian regime and its failure to condemn vile anti-Semitic statements by Morsi. At a joint ceremony in Cairo to mark the delivery of the warplanes, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Anne […]

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Social Media Hatred of Jews Booming in Britain

By Jewish Press News Desk

The British report that anti-Semitism rose by 5 percent last year masks a worrisome new phenomenon of the use of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to promote hatred of Jews. As reported earlier,  Britain’s Community Security Trust stated that 5 percent more anti-Semitic incidents were reported in 2012 than in the previous year. However, social media […]

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Brooklyn College BDS Event: Just One Example of 'Hostile Environment'?

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The letter lays out a litany of concerns regarding the intimidating atmosphere for students within Brooklyn College's political science department

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PA Worried Obama Won’t Fight Its Battle

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Palestinian Authority officials are working up a cold sweat over President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit next month. The White House has made it clear that the President’s luggage will not include any breathtaking suggestions to push Israel into accepting Mahmoud Abbas’ territorial and political demands. PA negotiator Mohammed Ishtayeh was quoted by the Associated Press […]

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Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 5 Percent in Britain

By JTA

Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain rose 5 percent over the previous year, making 2012 the third highest number of incidents on record. The Community Service Trust, British Jewry's security unit, reported Thursday that there were 640 reported anti-Semitic incidents, compared with 608 in 2011. Some 100 of the incidents were reported as part of a new […]

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Schumer Expects Vote Today on Violence against Women Act

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Sen. Charles Schumer said Thursday that the Senate will vote today on reauthorizing the Violence against Women Act, but the measure faces trouble if it passes in the upper chamber, as expected. The law was passed in 1994 but expired in 2011 after being reauthorized twice. The major disputes between the Senate and the House […]

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