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UC President Condemns On-Campus Anti-Israel Attacks

By Jewish Press News Desk

UC President Mark G. Yudof released an open letter calling on UC students, faculty and staff members to "foster a climate of tolerance, civility and open-mindedness," reports Angela Swartz of the California Aggie. Yudof specifically addressed recent anti-Israel incidents on UC campuses. He denounced students who heckled speakers at a UC Davis Feb. 27 event, […]

News Briefs

'Hamas Will not Give Up Armed Resistance'

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hamas leader Osama Hamdan, the top representative of Hamas in Lebanon and a member of the organization's politburo, told Quds Press in an interview on Sunday that Israel's aggression serves a new practical proof on failure of the "peace process". Hamdan suggested the aggression reflected an internal Israeli crisis and fear of the spirit of […]

News Briefs

Palestinians: Israeli Air Strikes Kill 3 in Gaza, Death Toll Reaches 20

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Palestinian news agency Ma’an reports that Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed three people in the Gaza Strip, including a 12-year-old boy, as cross-border violence continued for a third day. Israeli warplanes also fired on the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, killing Ahmad Deib Salim, 24, a known terrorist. Ma'an also claims that a […]

News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Migron Settlers Signed Evacuation Agreement 'With a Gun to our Head'

By Tibbi Singer

Some 13 years after its establishment, and six years after the court case on the settlement's legality began, all the residents of Migron, a large outposts in Judea and Samaria, arrived Sunday night at their local synagogue and signed an affidavit to be submitted to the court, committing to leave their homes voluntarily and without any forced eviction in three and a half years.

Middle East / Levant / Global

Report: US Talking Military Intervention in Syria

By Rafi Harkham

The Obama administration has begun "serious discussions" about directly arming the opposition, deploying troops to secure a humanitarian corridor, or establishing a no-fly zone in Syria.

News Briefs

Twitter Launches Hebrew Menus

By Malkah Fleisher

Twitter users who share short thoughts and follow their favorite Israelis in the Hebrew language can now enjoy a full range of services, thanks to Twitter’s new Hebrew menus.

News Briefs

1 Shekel Sells for a Million Dollars

By Jewish Press News Desk

We knew the Israeli economy was in good shape, but this is ridiculous. Well, not if the shekel in question was minted just under 2000 years ago.  The ancient Jewish coin was sold for $1.1 million (a record) at the Heritage Auctions house in Manhattan. It’s a silver shekel from 66 AD, and was bought […]

Israel

Hundreds of Thousands of Israeli Students Kept Home - Due to Terror in the South

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The military's latest estimate is that the rocket fire will continue in the coming days, and fears that the rockets' range will expand to the Tel Aviv area as well.

News Briefs

Gaza Power Station Shuts Down

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Palestinian Ma'an news agency reports that Gaza's sole power station was shut down on Saturday evening due to lack of fuel supplies. It is the third closure in the past month. Parts of the Gaza Strip were plunged into darkness, but limited power was available in some locations. Fuel deliveries through underground tunnels from […]

News Briefs

Air Strikes in Yemen Kill 45 Al-Qaida Terrorists

By Jewish Press News Desk

Reuters reports that on Saturday the U S drone attacks killed at least 25 al-Qaida fighters, including one commander, while a Yemeni air force raid killed 20 more in the south, sources said on Saturday. These were the biggest air strikes since Yemen's new president took office. Al-Qaida forces have increased their operations in southern […]

News Briefs

IDF Kills 16 Palestinians over the Weekend

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Palestinian Information Center reports that IAF raids on Friday and Saturday have so far resulted in 16 dead and more than 30 wounded. All those killed are believed to be terrorists. The most recent killings took place Saturday afternoon, when Israeli planes killed two more Palestinians in fresh raids on Gaza and Rafah, and […]

News Briefs

US 'deeply concerned' over Violence in Southern Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, "We are deeply concerned by the renewal of violence in southern Israel. We call on both sides to make every effort to restore calm." "We condemn in the strongest terms the rocket fire from Gaza by terrorists into southern Israel in recent days, which has dramatically and dangerously escalated […]

News Briefs

Defying Boycott, Iran, India, Trade to Reach $100 Billion over Four Years

By Jewish Press News Desk

If you were looking for clues as to how Iran could stand up to global pressure over its nuclear program, perhaps this bit of news serves as an explanation: the semi-official Mehr news agency reports that Tehran and New Delhi have announced that they are planning to hit $25 billion in annual bilateral trade over […]

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

IAF Kills Shalit Kidnapper, Palestinian Rocket Attacks Met with Firm Retaliation, 'Iron Dome' Successful

By Jacob Edelist

While the Air Force continues to attack Gaza and rocket attacks on communities in the south persist, following the killing of Gilad Shalit's kidnapper, both Israel's Prime Minister and Minister of Defense are threatening terrorist organizations in Gaza. In conversation with mayors in the south, Netanyahu said: "We'll arm ourselves with additional Iron Dome systems, which have tested well again." Barak: "No one in Gaza is immune." IDF Chief of Staff: "We will respond aggressively to every rocket launch against Israel."

News Briefs

Panetta: We Can Hit Iran Harder Than Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the National Journal on Thursday: "If they (Israel) decided to do it, there's no question that it would have an impact, but I think it's also clear that if the United States did it, we would have a hell of a bigger impact." President Obama and US officials have been […]

Israel / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Video: UFO in Rishon Lezion, Israel, Sky?

By Tibbi Singer

A resident of Israel's central region driving last night on the Ayalon Highway spotted two unidentified objects glowing in the sky, and decided to pull over and capture the strange phenomenon. "It was unusual, I was shocked and could not stop myself," he told News 2. "I never believed it but now I think again." Watch the documentation: an illusion or a discovery?

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Matisyahu Goes Blonde in Jerusalem

By Tibbi Singer

The 32-year-old ultra-Orthodox rapper Matisyahu has surfaced in Jerusalem with a new bottle-blonde hair, AFP reports. He is sporting a completely new image, with bleached blonde hair and a casual look that includes combat pants, a brown leather jacket and open-toed army boots. The singer arrived on Tuesday for a three-day visit to shoot a […]

News Briefs

Ayatollah Khamenei Praises President Obama

By Jewish Press News Desk

RT.com reports that: Ayatollah Khamenei, the highest authority figure within the Islamic Republic of Iran, is publicly applauding US President Barack Obama over the American commander-in-chief’s insistence in postponing any military pressure overseas. Although Israel and America have both expressed concern over the possibility of a nuclear warhead procurement program in Iran, President Obama has […]

News Briefs

Report: Russia Upgrades Syria Radar System to Provide Early Warning to Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Israeli military magazine Israel Defense has reported that Russian military experts recently upgraded Syria’s long-range radar capabilities to provide Iran with a more cohesive early-detection system in the event of a strike on its nuclear facilities. The report said that the experts brought new equipment and software modifications with them, and focused on a radar facility "south of […]

Global

British PM: Iran Developing Nuclear Missiles Capable of Striking London

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

PM David Cameron: "I don’t believe that an Iranian nuclear weapon is just a threat to Israel...Not least because there are signs that the Iranians want to have some sort of intercontinental missile capability. So we have to be clear this is potentially a threat much more widely."

Middle East / Levant / Global

Report: President Obama Offers Israel Weapons in Exchange for Inaction

By Rafi Harkham

Anonymous diplomatic and intelligence sources tell Israeli paper that the Obama administration would supply Israel with weapons that would extend its time-line for military action – like advanced GBU-28 bunker-busting bombs and long-range refueling aircraft, so that Israel could wait till after the 2012 presidential election to launch a strike.

Global

French PM: Jews, Muslims Should Reconsider 'Ancestral Traditions' of Kashrut, Halal

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Francois Fillon: Jews and Muslims should reconsider "ancestral traditions...We live in a modern society."

Jewish / US

Meet Josh Mandel, Rising Ohio Jewish GOP Rock Star

By Tibbi Singer

Meet Josh Mandel, who won the Ohio GOP primary and will take on Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in the fall. A new-age GOP, his fiscal policy comes down to this: he says the country needs to undertake "sweeping regulatory reform." Mandel is a strong supporter of Israel—He and his wife Ilana were married in Jerusalem in 2008. In February 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli government thanked Mandel for his staunch support.

News Briefs

'Letter Bomber' Convicted of 11 Counts of Attempted Murder

By Jewish Press News Desk

Toronto CityNews reports that Adel Aranout, 41, was convicted of 11 counts of attempted murder between 2004 and 2007, when he sent bottled water containing toxic industrial solvent and letter bombs containing explosives and nails to several people in Toronto and Guelph. Aranout, an aspiring actor and model, sent tainted water to a modeling agency […]

News Briefs

Councilman: Down with 'Super Jewish' Senate Seat

By Jewish Press News Desk

NY1 News reports that Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) is about to denounce the creation of the so-called Super Jewish state Senate seat, merging portions of six senate districts into one. Greenfield will argue that the Senate district lines as currently proposed will dilute the voice and power of Borough Park and Midwood. Greenfield will […]

News Briefs

Egyptian women to March Thursday Demanding Political Representation

By Jewish Press News Desk

Al Ahram reports that a women's demonstration has been planned for Thursday to coincide with International Women’s Day, in downtown Cairo. Organizers are expected to provide parliamentary leaders with 100 suggested names of prominent female Egyptian figures for inclusion in a constituent assembly that will be mandated with drawing up a new constitution. Despite the […]

News Briefs

France: Iran "Two-Faced," Doubts Talks' Success

By Jewish Press News Desk

Reuters reports that French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe voiced skepticism on Wednesday that resumed talks between the six world powers and Iran would succeed. He said Tehran was not sincerely willing to negotiate about the future of its nuclear program. "I am a little skeptical ... I think Iran continues to be two-faced," Juppe said […]

News Briefs

Syrian Deputy Oil Minister Defects to Rebel Forces

By Jewish Press News Desk

CNN reports that a man identifying himself as Abdo Hussam el Din, the country's Deputy Oil Minister, announced in a video posted on YouTube that he was defecting from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. "I am joining the revolution of this noble people who will not accept injustice," the man says in Arabic. "I've […]

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

Iranian Parliament Acting to Curb Ahmadinejad's Power

By Jacob Edelist

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may no longer be as popular with Iran's powers that be as he used to be. The Majlis, Iran's parliament, has approved a proposal calling for the removal of the President from the general assembly of representatives of shareholders of major companies affiliated with the Oil Ministry, including the National Iranian Oil Company. Meanwhile, the President will appear before the parliament to answer questions on March 14 about irregularities in his administration.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Global

Is Israeli Home Front Ready For War With Iran?

By Etta Prince-Gibson

MK Zeev Bielski, chairman of the Knesset subcommittee on Israel’s home defense: “The home front is not ready. We have made improvements over the situation since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, when the home front was completely unprepared, but the situation is not good.”

Middle East / Levant / NY

Iran Threat Hits Home

By Jacob Kamaras and Maxine Dovere

After the recent attacks on Israeli embassies in India and Georgia, Jewish institutions in the U.S. are asking a question that is much closer to home: Does Iran pose a local terror threat?

Middle East / Levant / Global

Report: Iran Conducted A-Bomb Test With North Korean Assistance

By Steve K. Walz

If the reports are accurate, North Korea is playing a direct role in helping Tehran create the infrastructure to assemble nuclear warheads that can be mounted on missiles aimed at Israel, American military bases in the Persian Gulf and pro-Western oil sheikhdoms in the Middle East.

Jewish / NY

Modern-Day Miracle? Williamsburg Anti-Religion Billboard Doesn't Hang on Purim

By Solomon Burke

David Silverman, president of American Atheists, responds angrily: “The Jews have stopped the billboard. It’s really ugly bigotry. As a former Jew, it’s repugnant to see Jews act like this.”

Israel / US / Global

Obama, Netanyahu Exchange Assurances But Differences Remain On Iran

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may not have bridged their differences on how to deal with Iran, but each managed to give the other a measure of reassurance.

US / News Briefs

Romney Leads, Republicans Pick Jewish Senate Candidate, and Kucinich Loses

By JTA

Super Tuesday Republican primaries were a race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, Republicans selected a Jewish veteran for Ohio's Senate run, and Dennis Kucinich lost his bid for reelection. Ten states went to the polls Tuesday in what is the biggest election day of primary season.

News Briefs

Jewish Graves Desecrated at Bushnell, Fl. National Cemetery

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Orlando Sentinel reported that thirteen Jewish graves were desecrated over the weekend at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell. Only Jewish tombstones knocked over or uprooted, while other graves were left untouched. Sumter County Sheriff''s Office is investigating the vandalism as a hate crime. "Every headstone that was targeted had a Star of David […]

US

An Open Letter to University of California President Mark Yudof

By AMCHA Initiative

Last week, two shameful events occurred on University of California campuses that made Jewish students feel targeted, intimidated, harassed, and unsafe. We charge the UC administration with failing in their basic responsibilities - to protect Jewish students from a hostile environment and to ensure their rights to freedom of speech.

News Briefs

Jewish Composer of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Dies at 86

By Jewish Press News Desk

Robert Bernard Sherman, who died in London this week at age 86, composed, with his brother Richard, the scores for films including "The Jungle Book," "The Aristocats," "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." They also wrote Disneyland's anthem, "It's a Small World After All." Robert Sherman was born on December 19, 1925 in New […]

News Briefs

Romney Appears to Win Ohio: NYT

By Jewish Press News Desk

The NY Times reported early Wednesday morning Mitt Romney appeared to win narrowly in the Ohio Super Tuesday  primary, but lost at least three other states to Rick Santorum, which challenges Romney’s claim to the Republican presidential nomination. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each won three states in Super Tuesday primaries, and Newt Gingrich took […]

News Briefs

Director Won't Release 'Love Song of Saul Alinsky' Tape with Obama's 'Share'

By Jewish Press News Desk

According to breitbart.com, Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky" in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play, and she won’t release it. “There is only one archive tape of the play and I have it,” Dickler […]

NY / News Briefs

In Response to AP Story, Chicago Police, Mayor Emanuel, Promise: We Won't Spy on Muslims

By Jacob Edelist

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy announced in response to an AP Exposé that his department will never conduct blanket surveillance of Muslims the way the New York Police Department had done in Newark, N.J., when he was the chief of police there. Mayor Bloomberg's response to the same AP story was: "We cannot slack in our vigilance. The threat was real. The threat is real. The threat is not going away."

US

Anti-Semitic Vandalism Follows Soon After UPenn's Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference

By Solomon Burke

Two Philadelphia universities - the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University - have reported being victims of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the wake of the hate-fest known as Israel Apartheid Week that recently took place across North America

Israel / Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Santorum to AIPAC on Super Tuesday: US Must Give Iran an Ultimatum

By Jacob Edelist

At a speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, coinciding with the Super Tuesday primaries, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused President Barack Obama of appeasement of Iran and urged an ultimatum demanding that it put a stop to its nuclear production immediately, or the US will "tear down" its plants. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich took a break from their race for votes in the high-stakes primaries to speak to the pro-Israel lobby.

US

Jewish House Majority Leader Endorses Romney for President

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: Romney "by far the right man for this historic election and the only one in the race who has put forward these kind of solutions and I believe he can beat Barack Obama."

IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant / US / Global

Experts: Israel's New Bunker-Busters Can Take Out Iran's Nuke Plants

By Jacob Edelist

Berlin-based researcher Benjamin Weinthal argues that Israel is militarily capable today of launching a successful attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. It would require successive strikes, using GBU-28 bunker busters to knock out Iran's entire nuclear program. Those devastating bombs were delivered to Israel by President Obama, who made good on a promise made by President Bush.

Global

US State Department Actively Promoting Islam in Europe

By Soeren Kern

The French government – which has been trying to reverse the pernicious effects of decades of state-sponsored multiculturalism – expressed dismay at what it called "meddling."

News Briefs

Florida House Passes Religious Law Bill

By JTA

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Florida House of Representatives passed legislation opposed by Jewish and Muslim groups that would ban the application of religious or foreign law in marriage, divorce or custody cases. The bill is one of a number around the country that has sought to limit the influence of Sharia, or Islamic law. The bill, […]

Global

Sen. McCain Urges US to Take Lead in Airstrikes Against Assad Regime

By Solomon Burke

The Senator's position is in stark contrast to the current policy of the Obama administration, which seeks to solve the year-old crisis through diplomatic isolation and a sanctions regime intended to prod Assad into stepping down.

Israel / US / News Briefs

Bibi: Israel Will Not Allow Those who Seek her Destruction to Possess the Means to Achieve that Goal

By Jewish Press News Desk

A transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before the AIPAC Policy Conference Monday.

News Briefs

Jewish Man Harassed Out of Maine Home

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Bangor Daily News reports that the Maine Human Rights Commission found Monday that a Lewiston, Maine, man was harassed out of his home by another tenant last spring because he is Jewish. Bruce Brown of Lewiston said a tenant in the apartment building he lived in drove him out of his home by painting […]

Israel / US

Florida State Legislature Unanimously Passes Resolution Recognizing Israel’s Right to Judea and Samaria

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

“The members of [Florida’s Legislature] support Israel in its legal, historical, moral and God-given right of self-governance and self-defense upon the entirety of its own lands, recognizing that Israel is neither an attacking force nor an occupier of the lands of others, and that peace can be afforded the region only through a whole and united Israel governed under one law for all people.”

News Briefs

Egyptian Oil Pipeline in Sinai Blown Up... Again

By Jewish Press News Desk

Once again, the Egyptian oil pipeline to Israel in the Sinai was blown up.

Israel / Religion

New Group Combating Child Molestation in Ultra Orthodox Enclave

By Tibbi Singer

"Magen" is a new Child Protection Agency operating in Ramat Beit Shemesh, whose Haredi vs. National Religious and Secular clamorous encounters made headlines a month or so ago. But Magen deals with a quieter, more sinister aspect of life in this area. Founded two years ago, Magen now reports the presence of at least 36 suspected child abusers in the community of Ramat Beit Shemesh.

News Briefs

Korean Jewish Community Gets First Torah Scroll

By Jewish Press News Desk

The dedication of a new Torah scroll is always a cause for celebration. But for the small yet proud Jewish community in South Korea, just such a dedication Sunday meant so much more. Not only did it cap the community’s recent unprecedented growth, it welcomed what for Jews elsewhere in the world is almost a […]

Religious & Secular in Israel

Leftist Campaign Against Purim Hits the Web

By Solomon Burke

The internet pamphlet plays on a popular Purim greeting, 'sameach u'mevadech' [happy and humorous], and asks rhetorically if people really know what Purim is about.

Israel

Israel's Exports to Asia Surpass Exports to US For First Time

By Rafi Harkham

The Israel Export Research Institute reported that from October 2011 to January 2012, the US share of Israeli exports had drastically declined as compared to the same period the year before. In contrast, Israel's exports to the Asian market have seen healthy growth, with an increase of 9% over the same period, totaling $3.1 billion.

Israel

Hanging Out in Judea and Samaria – Tourism in the Biblical Land

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Rare landscapes, natural settings, springs, Biblical sites and the largest flying fox in Israel – these are just a few of the attractions you will find on a tour of Judea and Samaria

News Briefs

Texas Orthodox Jewish School Loses Bball Final

By Jewish Press News Desk

The NY Times reports that Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish high school which succeeded in its appeal to reschedule a semi-final game of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools from Shabbat to Friday afternoon last week, on Saturday night lost to Abilene Christian, 46-42, in the state championship game. The final, […]

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / News Briefs

Pro-Palestinian Jewish Author Facing Indian Deportation for Muslim Extremist Ties

By Jacob Edelist

After immigrating to Israel from England in 1999 at age 50, Susan Nathan has become an outspoken pro-Palestinian advocate, appearing in the Swedish Human Rights festival and the Stockholm Olof Palme Centre, as well as forums sponsored by the Arab American Association. She came to India for medical treatment, but her visa expired and the government wants her out on suspicion of contact with extremist Muslim organizations.

News Briefs

From Canada, Netanyahu 'appreciates' Obama's Promises on Iran

By Jewish Press News Desk

Canada.com reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he "appreciated" President Barack Obama's statements on Iran and was looking forward to discussing them when he arrives in Washington Monday. “I very much appreciated that President Obama reiterated his position that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons and that […]

Jewish / US

President Obama to AIPAC: 'When the Chips are Down, I Have Israel's Back'

By Rafi Harkham

President Obama: "I do not have a policy of containment, I have a policy of preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons." He also hailed himself as Israel's greatest friend, and said he plans to honors Israeli President Shimon Peres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor.

News Briefs

Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Sign Underwater Electric Cable Deal

By Jewish Press News Desk

AFP reports that Israel and Cyprus have signed an accord Sunday to lay an underwater electricity cable between the two countries. It's the first stage in an effort to transfer power between mainland Europe and Israel. The cable, to be complete by 2016, will stretch 178 miles, at a depth of 6,550 feet. Israel Electric […]

Israel / Jewish / US

Peres to AIPAC: 'Iran Will Not Develop a Nuclear Weapon'

By Rafi Harkham

President Peres said "there is NO space between" Israel and the US, and insisted that Obama's "commitment to Israel is deep and profound." Regarding peace with the Palestinians, he said "the principle of the 'The Two State solution' was "a paramount Israeli interest."

Israel / News Briefs

Since Thursday Kinneret Level Rises 7.9 Inches

By Tibbi Singer

Large amounts of water that swept through northern Israel and led to a strong flow of streams have produced exceptionally high figures for the National Lake's level. The Kinneret water is now at about 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) above the "lower red line." While rain may be ceasing soon, the snow thaw is expected to add even more water in the spring.

News Briefs

2nd Arrest in NJ Synagogue Firebombings

By Jewish Press News Desk

The NY Post reports that a second man was charged Friday in a series of attacks on synagogues in northern New Jersey that included the firebombing of a house of worship where a rabbi and several family members were sleeping upstairs. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said 19-year-old Aakash Dalal of New Brunswick instigated […]

News Briefs

Foreign Minister Lieberman: Immediate Help to the Syrian People

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel's Channel 2 News reports that in a meeting held  between Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the latter clarified Israel's position on events in Syria, stating that Israel will provide immediate humanitarian aid to the victims of President Assad. Yesterday, the Red Cross entered the besieged city of Homs to […]

Jewish / US

ADL Praises Mormon Church Prohibition of Holocaust Victims' Posthumous Baptism

By Jacob Edelist

"Without exception," reads the letter from LDS President Thomas S. Monson and other church leaders, "church members must not submit for proxy temple ordinances any names from unauthorized groups, such as celebrities and Jewish Holocaust victims. If members do so, they may forfeit their new family-search privileges. Other corrective action may also be taken."

News Briefs

Ahmadinejad's Sister Lost in Iran Election

By Jewish Press News Desk

CNN reports that Parvin Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President's sister, lost her bid for a seat in the parliamentary elections, which is viewed as a blow to the leader and, according to one analyst, a "possible sign of fraud." Running in her family's hometown of Garmsar, Ahmadinejad was defeated by a conservative rival in Friday's elections […]

Middle East / Levant / US / News Briefs

Occupy AIPAC Advocates Palestinian State, Against Iran Strike

By Jacob Edelist

Occupy AIPAC is a weekend long series of events to coincide with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual Policy Conference, going through March 6. The Occupy AIPAC website says the group is gathering in Washington DC for a policy-style summit on the issues of Iran, the Arab Uprising and Palestine and "the affects of AIPAC in determining US foreign policy around those topics."

News Briefs

Israeli-Arabs Protesting the Continued Imprisonment of 2 Murderers

By Jewish Press News Desk

500 Israeli-Arabs were protesting on Saturday evening in Arara, and Arab village in the North. It was organized by the Balad party and the Palestinian Prisoner's movement. They were protesting that the continued imprisonment  of Maher and Kareem Younis. The two were arrested and given life sentences for the murder of IDF soldier Avi Bromberg […]

News Briefs

Disneyland on Lockdown after Bomb Scare

By Jewish Press News Desk

Disneyland has been placed on lockdown early Saturday morning, after a park employee The employees spotted a suspicious object at about 7:00 a.m., before the opening of the park. The object – which has not been described – was spotted in a tree near the park, according to police.

News Briefs

Drowned 7 Year Old Girl from Kiryat Sefer Pronounced Dead in Hospital

By Jewish Press News Desk

A 7-year-old girl who had fallen into a gushing river on Friday was rushed to Tel Hashomer Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. The severe weather of the past week in Israel turned the country's slow and harmless rivers into gushing, foaming white waters, and one such river, near the Modi'in Orthodox Jewish neighborhood […]

News Briefs

Congrats! Texas Jewish School Gets to Play Ball Friday Afternoon, Observe Shabbat

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish high school, was expecting to have to forfeit their game against the Covenant School of Dallas, which was scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday. The school appealed to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (Tapps), organizers of the event, but the association initially said it was […]

Jewish / US

Shabbat Across America Unites Thousands of Jews

By Tibbi Singer

Beginning Friday night, March 2, hundreds of communities across the continent will take part in an historic national Jewish event to celebrate what unifies all Jews — Shabbat. More than 500 colleges and synagogues will take part in the medley of traditions across the United States and Canada, with 40,000-50,000 Jews expected to participate.

Israel / Jewish / US

Plagued by Charges of Ineptness and Corruption, Olmert to Keynote at J Street Conference

By Jacob Edelist

Although J Street describes itself as a pro-Israel organization that supports peace between Israel and its neighbors, many Israelis and US Jews, including many public figures, have said that J Street is anti-Israel, particularly in relation to the security challenges facing the Jewish state. Several US Jewish leaders have objected to J Street's position on Israel, and have publicly disassociated themselves from the organization.

News Briefs

Rabbi Elyashiv's Condition Deteriorating – Defined as Very Difficult

By Jewish Press News Desk

The condition of Ultra-Orthodox Lithuanian leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, 102, who has been hospitalized in recent weeks at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, is deteriorating. He has been ventilated and sedated and is suffering from fever and physical pain. Shaare Zedek doctors are attempting to treat the problems of water in his lungs and […]

News Briefs

On Charlie Rose, Peres Praises Obama, US Ties

By Jewish Press News Desk

In an hour-long interview with American broadcaster Charlie Rose, conducted before a large audience at New York’s 92nd Street Y, Peres said that he does not want to interfere in American politics, but he is stating his opinion that US President Barack Obama is "a great president and a great friend of Israel, because it’s […]

News Briefs

Florida School Prayer Bill to Become Law

By Jewish Press News Desk

According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Florida House voted 88-27 Thursday to give final approval to a bill that allows school boards to set policies that would allow students to offer "inspirational messages" at school events, including mandatory gatherings such as student assemblies. The bill now goes to Gov. Rick Scott. The bill has been […]

US / News Briefs

Tea Party's Jewish Enfant Terrible's Death Raises Suspicions

By Jacob Edelist

Andrew Breitbart, who enraged the Left and delighted Tea Partisans both with his unabashed opinions and his video shenanigans, collapsed and died outside his Los Angeles home Thursday morning.

News & Views

Report: Iranian Retaliation Will Be Multi-Pronged Attack on Israeli, Jewish Targets

By Rafi Harkham

The New York Times quoted a former senior Israeli official as saying that the Iranian retaliation against an Israeli military strike would be the functional equivalent of Iraq's scud missile attack on Israel during the 1991 Gulf War, the 3000+ Hizbollah rockets fired on Israel during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and the terror attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s, multiplied in scale at least three times.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Jewish / News Briefs

Rabbi Rosen: Ahmadinejad Is Amalek and We Must Destroy Him

By Tibbi Singer

Once we recognize that the enemy is not acting against us based on rational reasons, but out of a pathological hatred, it is our duty to act on our conclusion and strike at the enemy, disregarding world opinion.

Israel

English-Speakers Laugh At Life in Israel

By Malkah Fleisher

A new video by a young Israeli from New York earned 57,000 views in two days, taking comedic aim at the life of the average young English-speaking immigrant to Israel.

News Briefs

Illinois Republican Candidate for Congress Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Oak Lawn Patch reported that Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler's birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District. "As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international […]

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3,000 Shells Stolen from IDF Base Under Soldiers' Noses

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel TV Channel 2 reports that seven people are being charged with trading in weapons that had been stolen from an IDF munitions base in the south. Indictments against them were submitted to the Beer Sheva District Court. Three of the suspects, who live in the Bedouin diaspora, are suspected of stealing at least 3,000 […]

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First Yahrzeit of the Massacre of Five Members of the Fogel Family

By Jewish Press Staff

Tonight marks the first yahrzeit of the massacre of five members of the Fogel family. Ehud Fogel was brutally murdered while asleep in his home in the Samaria community of Itamar, along with his wife, Ruth, and their three children, Yoav (11), Elad (4) and Hadas (3 months). They are survived by the Fogel's remaining […]

Analysis / Global

Syrian Crisis May Top Agenda At Bibi-Obama Meeting

By Steve K. Walz

The Iran issue may be moved somewhat down the agenda as flailing Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is being pressured by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to move both his WMD cache and long-range Scud missiles to well-protected Hizbullah bases inside Lebanon.

Analysis / Israel

2/29/12: Will Israel’s Supreme Court Tilt Right Under New Chief?

By Mati Wagner

The Supreme Court’s interventionist approach was pioneered by Aharon Barak, who served as the court’s president from 1995 till 2006. Dorit Beinisch, who is retiring from the court this week after serving as president since her mentor's retirement, upheld the tradition of judicial activism, keeping the court at the center of Israeli public debate and making it a lightning rod for Orthodox and right-wing critics. That could change as Beinisch is replaced by Asher Grunis, a conservative justice who has made a name for himself as a supporter of judicial restraint.

Middle East / Levant

Syria’s main opposition group: We Would Ally With Hizbollah

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council indicated that - despite the blood of over 7000 Syrian citizens on the hands of Hizbollah's patron Assad - political expedience alone will dictate its policy: "There are no permanent enmities in politics as there are no permanent friendships. Alliances are built on goals. We want to achieve our goals."

News Briefs

IDF Raids, Shuts Down, Palestinian Television Station

By Jewish Press News Desk

Reuters reports that a privately owned TV station, which had just begun its operations in Ramallah, Judea and Samariah, was raided by Israeli soldiers on Wednesday. The soldiers seized broadcast equipment, computers and files, according to Ahmed Milhem, an employee. Watan TV began to operate at 0200 a.m. local time and lasted for three hours. […]

IDF & Security / Global / News Briefs

Israel to Sell Germany Spike Missiles Totaling Hundreds of Millions

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel Defense reports that Eurospike, a subsidiary of weapons manufacturer Rafael, has signed a contract to supply Spike missiles totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to Germany.

News Briefs

Romney Wins Michigan

By Jewish Press News Desk

With most of the vote counted, Mitt Romney was ahead with 42 percent compared to 37 for Santorum in the Republican presidential primary in Michigan on Tuesday. NBC, CNN and Fox projected him the winner, after a tight race in which neither candidate mentioned how they had been against the Detroit Big Cars bailout. Negative […]

Jewish / US

Boxed Out: No Exceptions for Orthodox School in Texas Scheduled to Play Bball on Shabbat

By Rafi Harkham

The Robert M. Beren Academy has reached the semifinals of its league play, but players and coaches are adamant that they won't play the game, which is scheduled for Friday night. The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools was unmoved by the school's appeal and has replaced Beren with the team it had vanquished to reach the semifinals.

Israel

High Court President Dorit Beinisch Retires

By Rafi Harkham

The 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel, Beinisch presided over an active term, in which she wrote landmark decisions like the 2005 ruling against the IDF’s use of “human shields,” the 2007 ruling that Israel's separation fence route must be modified, and the 2009 ruling declaring private prisons unconstitutional. But the most memorable ruling of her legacy may be her penultimate one – the High Court's revocation of the Tal Law.

Judaism / Israel / Middle East / Levant / The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Jewish Press Radio: Canada Loves Israel, Happy Hebrew Life, and Middle East Inside

By Yocheved Seidman

Malkah and Yishai discuss Canadian dedication to Israel, and simple but deeply important aspects of distinctly Jewish life, experts from Brookings get real on Middle East dynamics, and, finally, Rebbitzin Mizrachi teaches how to be truly happy.

US / News Briefs

Westport to Lubavitch: Hands Off the Three Bears

By Tibbi Singer

When you think of Lubavitch and Bears, you're more likely to come up with Dov Ber rather than that illustrious trio renowned for that infamous Goldilox incident. But this time you'd be wrong.

Israel / Jewish / Global / News Briefs

Dr. Pepper Not Kosher – In Israel

By Tibbi Singer

The Chief Rabbinate claims that, based on data provided by the Badatz in London, it appears that the products under the name "Dr Pepper" which are made in England and imported to Israel are not kosher.

US

Alan Dershowitz: Media Matters Hurts Obama

By Alan M. Dershowitz

Recent comments by Media Matters' Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg are the most recent incarnation of the age-old accusation against Jews of disloyalty to their own country. It finds its roots in the Biblical villains Pharaoh and Hamen who accused the Jews of Egypt and Persia of disloyalty. It was a central tenet of Nazism, Stalinism and other anti-Semitic regimes. Today, it is the mantra of David Duke, Patrick Buchanan, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Jew haters of every race, religion and national origin.

News Briefs

5.1 Magnitude Earthquake in Iran

By Jewish Press News Desk

The United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earthquake Hazards Program reported Monday evening a Magnitude 5.1 earthquake in Central Iran, 82 miles North Northwest of Kerman, Iran, and 423 miles South East of Tehran.

Israel

Israel Railways Proposes Ambitious Plan to Link Israel with Judea and Samaria By Rail

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

The plan, drawn up at the request of Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, has little chance of succeeding without the cooperation of the Palestinians. But if the Palestinians won't even talk to the Israelis, its unlikely they'll be riding together anytime soon.

News Briefs

Nazi-Hunter's Wife Long Shot Presidential Wannabe

By Jewish Press News Desk

The German-born wife of French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, Beate, has been nominated Monday by the Left party as a candidate for the German presidency in next month's elections. The 73-year-old Klarsfeld will compete against former East German pro-democracy activist Joachim Gauck in a March 18 vote by a special parliamentary assembly. In 1968, Beate […]

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