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Erdogan's demand that Israel lift the Gaza naval blockade means he will not renew relations with Israel
By Tibbi Singer
The Rebbe will be staying in R. Asher Lev Wolf's luxurious apartment on Minchat Yitzchak Street in Jerusalem.
By David Morris
The new election date of March 11 was announced by the Ministry of Interior.
By JTA
American Jewish World Service, AJWS, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, anti-homosexuality policy, Ugandan embassy.
By JTA
A bill that would make the desecration of cemeteries a violation of religious freedom was introduced in the House of Representatives. On Monday, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) introduced the Protect Cemeteries Act, which would amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the vandalism of cemeteries. “Cemeteries are places of great significance […]
By JTA
Rabbi Michael Broyde, a prominent Modern Orthodox figure, resigned from the Rabbinical Council of America as a result of the scandal over his use of an online pseudonym. Broyde’s resignation was first reported Thursday by The Jewish Channel, which also uncovered Broyde’s online activities last year. “I deeply regret my wrongdoing and understand how disappointing […]
A group of "progressive" Jews attacked Mayor de Blasio because he told AIPAC his door was open to them.
Feiglin, a resident of Samaria, takes on the "Holy Cow” called the Yesha Council.
For the first time in decades, enemy forces can attack all of Israel’s cities.
The Philadelphia City Council has joined the ranks of outspoken anti- anti-Israel advocates
Obama's brother is wearing a Hamas keffiya in a photo on the Barack Hussein Obama (Sr) Foundation website
Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, the dean of Jewish lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Thursday he will retire, and Republicans immediately jumped on the announcement as a sign of weakness in the Democratic party. He was first elected to Congress from a Los Angeles-area district in 1974, and his resignation will take effect […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a 6-1 lead among Democrats answering a Washington Post-ABC News poll on their choice for president in 2016. Clinton, whose middle name easily could be “F.” considering how many times she has been reported as using the “f---“ word, has virtually no competition in both areas – the nomination for presidency […]
A poll by the Knesset Channel released on Thursday confirms the trend of increased popularity for the Jewish Home party, headed by Naftali Bennett, and lesser support for Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party. Unlike recent polls, strength in the Likud-Beiteinu party dropped a bit. Labor and Meretz gained backing at the expense of Yesh Atid, […]
By JTA
Travel to Israel sponsored by an affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has become an issue in the race for Nevada lieutenant governor. Sue Lowden, a former state senator, said her opponent in the Republican primary race, State Sen. Mark Hutchison, should have disclosed his 2013 trip to Israel with the American Israel […]
The unrepentant murderer of two Israeli college students was praised, rewarded, employed and promoted.
By JTA
President Obama in his State of the Union speech pledged to veto any new Iran sanctions. “Let me be clear: if this Congress sends me a new sanctions bill now that threatens to derail these talks, I will veto it,” he said Tuesday night. “For the sake of our national security, we must give diplomacy […]
By JTA
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Israeli President Shimon Peres paid tribute to Edgar Bronfman at a public memorial service Tuesday night. More than 1,000 people, including top Jewish communal leaders and alumni of the Bronfman Youth Fellowship program, turned out for the service held at Lincoln Center in New York. Bronfman, who […]
The question remains: Does Wasserman Schultz oppose the current sanctions bill or not?
It's a boom: some 100,000 housing units will replace military camps in the high-value center of Israel.
By JTA
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said an article describing differences between the group and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was “inaccurate.” “I wanted to forward a statement issued by AIPAC National Board Member Ike Fisher after The Huffington Post released an inaccurate article regarding AIPAC and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” said an alert sent […]
“If we prohibit it [circumcision], we must also address the issue of the Christian ritual of baptism.”
Iran's foreign minister is claiming that the White House misrepresented a major issue in the agreement between the P5+1 and Iran.
In reality, there were only 700,000 displaced Palestinians following Israel’s 1948 war of Independence.
By Chabad.org
Canadian Chabad rabbis accompanied Harper on his trip.
"That symbol on anyone's head is anti-Semitic," said Libby Schaaf. Her father was born Jewish and she is proud of her Jewish heritage.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev joined up with terrorists near the area of Islamists looking to disrupt the Olympics.
Even after suffering shocks from a Taser gun, he refused to sign on the administrative order.
By JTA
Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran, a longtime congressman from northern Virginia who repeatedly clashed with pro-Israel and Jewish groups, is retiring. Moran, 68, told media Wednesday that he would not run again in his district, which comprises Arlington, Falls Church and parts of Alexandria and Fairfax County, because it has become strongly Democratic, making his […]
She claims bipartisan Iran sanctions bill allows Israel "to determine when and where U.S. goes to war."
Democratic congressional leader: White House aide irresponsible for calling sanctions advocates warmongers.
In 1998, Katz lost a close race to Anthony Weiner for Chuck Schumer's congressional seat.
Michael Oren thinks if the U.S. can't force Israel to give up land for nothing, Israel should do it on its own.
While the "Interim Agreement" is set to go into effect on Jan. 2o, the U.S. senate is poised to pass a sanctions bill which would be triggered only if Iran defaults on its commitments.
By the time Hitchcock's film was finished, the allies' political needs had changed.
A congressional letter slams the American Studies Association's academic boycott of Israel as antithetical to academic freedom and as "thinly veiled bigotry." UPDATED!
State Senator Anthony Williams introduced a Resolution into the Pennsylvania legislature condemning the ASA boycott of Israel as antisemitic.
By JTA
Stark was remembered by friends and relatives as a “go-to guy.”
By JTA
Pope Francis will visit Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority in May. The pontiff made the formal announcement of his long-anticipated trip from his Vatican window before a crowd who had gathered in St. Peter’s Square on a rainy Sunday. “In the climate of joy, typical of this Christmas season, I wish to announce that […]
As secretary of state Kerry arrives in Israel to twist the arms of the parties into a "peace" agreement, the Palestinian Arabs make clear their goals and methodology
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not known for being gentle with those who oppose him. Putin's current opponent, Islamist mass terrorist Doku Umarov, is similarly steadfast.
Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Europeans and Americans are well-represented.
The basketball exhibition of NBA stars, which Dennis Rodman is preparing for the birthday celebration of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, is "an undeserved gift to a murderous tyrant," Rabbi Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.
Philadelphia Federation head calls on academic institutions to resign from the American Studies Association and urges people to call on their alma maters to condemn the ASA boycott of Israel
One judge wondered how meat could be considered kosher, if the employees of the kosher slaughtering firm "just passed on the cows."
Muslim Brotherhood radio statio shut down in Egypt opens in Turkey, with terrorist-supporting Imam Al-Qaradawi as its first host.
Turkey's prime minister implied that the U.S. was behind an ongoing graft probe and threatened to throw out the U.S. ambassador to Turkey
By JTA
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty will be able to continue receiving New York State funds in the wake of the scandal that has seen its former CEO charged with stealing millions from the charity. The New York State attorney general and comptroller announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement with the Met Council, […]
By JTA
A source close to Aharon Friedman, the estranged husband of Tamar Epstein, is denying a report that he has granted his wife a religious writ of divorce, or get. This week, the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot, or ORA, issued a flyer and fundraising call announcing that “Tamar is Free,” leading to an erroneous […]
The White House has threatened to veto the new "Nuclear Weapon Free Iran" bill even though new sanctions wouldn't be triggered until the expiration of the interim agreement or if Iran breaches that agreement
The loss of membership and the launching of a competitor association, along with the legal challenge to the American Studies Association's tax-exempt status, may be the only real legacy of the ASA's boycott of Israel.
By Daniel Perez
Young Israel celebrates the life of the diplomat turned wartime hero.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP) has submitted a draft law that could grant citizenship to descendants of Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition. The possibility of the bill was first announced last year by Spanish Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon. If the law is ratified, eligible Jews won’t have to relinquish their current nationalities […]
By JTA
A Native American studies association is the third U.S. academic body this year to recommend its members boycott Israeli universities. The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association in a Dec. 15 announcement said it “encourages NAISA members to boycott Israeli academic institutions because they are imbricated with the Israeli state and we wish to place […]
By JTA
A mother in Israel has appealed to the country’s Supreme Court a rabbinical court ruling requiring her to circumcise her son. In her appeal filed Wednesday, the mother said the rabbis cannot order her to circumcise her son, who is now a year old. The Jerusalem rabbinical court last month upheld the ruling of the […]
Maybe the moderator should have "reined in" the emotions when the audience was booing and "enraged" - her words - by Podhoretz's defense of Israel from J Street's blaming Israel for the academic boycott.
A law professor will challenge the tax exempt status of the American Studies Association, because academic boycotts of Israeli universities is not in their mission statement or an activity privileged with tax exemption
On Saturday, Tunisia's 21 political parties picked the minister of industry, Mehdi Jomaa, 50, as the next prime minister, who will replace the Islamist-led government with a team of technocrats, AP reported. Jomaa now has three weeks to cobble together his government, whose main task will be to prepare presidential and legislative elections next year. […]
Several Haredi residents in Beit Shemesh have confessed to police investigators that they gave the identification cards to others to vote in their place, Israel radio reported. On Election Day, police confiscated approximately 200 identification cards and disguises. Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein appealed to the courts to violate the recent elections in Beit Shemesh, and […]
The arms race is back on and out in the open, with Russia flexing its rhetorical strength and stretching its protective reach towards Iran.
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand why Jews support Obama as “pro-Israel” because he doesn’t understand the psyche of a liberal American Jewish Democrat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Now that the U.S. and other P5+1 powers made an interim nuclear deal with Iran without involving Israel, the Jewish state is free to act as it sees fit on the Iranian issue without consulting America, former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told JNS.org. “I think now [the Israelis] have really a […]
None of us support violence and we found out about the story in the media, just like every one else.
By JTA
Canada’s largest Protestant church launched a campaign to boycott goods made in Judea and Samaria. The United Church of Canada campaign, dubbed “Unsettling Goods: Choose Peace in Palestine and Israel,” encourages “economic action” against three Israeli companies: Keter Plastic Ltd., SodaStream and Ahava, which all have factories in Judea and Samaria. “With these efforts, we […]
By J. E. Dyer
Maybe it’s a tad undiplomatic to announce it publicly before telling Israel’s prime minister about it?
The cufflinks gift to Obama depicts a Menorah etching found in the City of David and dating back to the year 0. A subtle reminder, perhaps, to those who forget Jews have a millennial connection to Jerusalem.
By Paula Stern
Despite repeated promises by virtually every Israeli government in the last decade or two, E1 remains largely vacant.
After more than 60 years as a member nation of the UN, Israel will finally have an official regional home there as of Jan. 1, 2014
By Tibbi Singer
Is there a correlation between the NYPD being ordered to stop "profiling" potential criminals and the proliferation of antisemitic violence?
Israeli police prevent Jews from entering the site of the very Temple the Maccabees purified and re-opened more than 2,000 years ago.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) officials made conflicting statements on the existence of a report by the organization about allegations of anti-Israel teaching materials in the public school curriculum of Newton, Mass. Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) recently took out an advertisement in Boston-area newspapers that highlighted research by concerned parents and students on anti-Israel texts […]
By JTA
Israel's Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Eli Ben-Dahan has accused U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry of giving “legitimacy to terror” and misunderstanding Middle East politics. “John Kerry, who warns us of an intifada, does not understand the Middle East, and he is not worthy to be a mediator when he goes back to his […]
The academics decry the "Israeli Occupation" as harming the academic aspirations of Palestinian Arabs, yet prior to the "Occupation" there wasn't a single Arab university in Gaza or the "West Bank"
By JoeSettler
Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?
Israel markets itself as a global leader in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency, but it can only do so, claim the Haverford College-sponsored speakers - because they use the "West Bank" and Gaza as labs and the Arabs as their experimental mice.
By JTA
A nominee for the top court in Massachusetts is facing opposition in part because of his affiliation with the Anti-Defamation League. Joseph S. Berman, 49, a regional leader of the New England ADL and a commissioner for the national ADL since 2006, was nominated as a judge for the state Superior Court in October by […]
By JTA
Finnish police are investigating whether a captain overloaded a boat that sought to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The captain, Mika Jamian, is suspected of exceeding the maximum number of passengers allowed, according to a report Thursday by the Turun Sonomat daily. It said the ship, the Estelle, carried 30 people when it […]
By JTA
U.S. Senate leaders pledged to revisit intensified Iran sanctions after the Thanksgiving holiday. “The Senate must be prepared to move forward with a new bipartisan Iran sanctions bill when the Senate returns after Thanksgiving recess. And I am committed to do so,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, told The Hill, a Capitol Hill […]
Two days after severing its connections with Al-Quds University following its president's "unacceptable and inflammatory" verbal attack, Brandeis University also removed the Al-Quds President from the Advisory Board of a Brandeis Center for Ethics and Justice
What is the cause of the Shi'ite-Sunni conflict?
Democrats facing tough relection challenges voted in favor of a Republican sponsored Obamacare fix.
By Tibbi Singer
Will the secretary of State understand that the Israeli wine renaissance is taking place in the Shomron region, and therefore we're not letting it go?
Whenever someone asked Kerry "what would the Israelis say?" Kerry said, "Stop listening to the Israelis."
Kerry is now trying to defang the "biting sanctions" this administration crowed incessantly about during the presidential campaign.
By Tibbi Singer
Absent much to do in the home country, Ayalon got a job teaching at YU, where America's future diplomats usually don't come from.
With a unanimous acquittal of corruption charges under his belt, Avigdor Liberman returned to his post Monday as Israel's Foreign Minister.
Kerry's gloves came off last week, now former legal counsel to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs removed his. The difference? The Israeli's speech sans gloves are steeped in law and fact.
By JTA
The king of Spain, who is recovering from hip surgery, left his residence for the first time since the operation to greet a delegation of Jews led by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. King Juan Carlos left the Palace of Zarzuela to greet Adelson and other activists with the Keren Hayesod–United Israel Appeal philanthropic body on […]
By JTA
A group that seeks to convert Jews to Christianity removed from its website references to a scheduled fundraiser appearance by George W. Bush, though a Bush spokesman said the former president still plans to attend (GW Bush Fundraising for Proselytizers of Jews in America and Israel). Bush was scheduled to headline a Nov. 14 fundraiser […]
J Street blaming Israel for failure to achieve peace with the Palestinian Arabs and blaming groups opposed to easing sanctions against Iran as the reason Iran may acquire nukes, is entirely consistent with J Street's "pro-Israel, pro-peace" tagline
In a remarkable televised interview, US Secretary of State John Kerry placed all the blame for any snags in the peace talks on Israel and threatened Israel of dire consequences if the current talks are not resolved to this US administration's satisfaction on the timetable set up by this administration.
Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned by Israel in 2002, is serving five life sentences for his role in multiple terrorist attacks within Israel. He is one of the legendary leaders of what is widely known as the Second Intifada, in which more than a thousand Israelis were killed and many thousands were injured. But Barghouti is a […]
In public releases, and while in Israel, the U.S. sounds even-handed. But in territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. secretary of state was pointing a finger, it was pointed only towards the Israeli side, at the same time that his other hand was filled with additional $millions for the Arab Palestinians.
By JTA
The address list and labels from the Greater New Haven Jewish Federation were used by the campaign for a mayoral candidate in the Connecticut city. The mass mailing in support of Toni Harp was delivered over the weekend. Some recipients recognized the labels as originating from the federation, the New Haven Register reported. Syndney Perry, […]
Many antisemites have been fighting against the ‘Working Definition of Antisemitism,’ so they can continue their attacks on Jews and the Jewish State.
By JTA
Mindy Pollak, a 24-year-old aesthetician, became the first Chassidic woman to hold public office in Montreal. Pollak, a member of the Vishnitzer sect, defeated four candidates to win her race for the municipal council on Sunday in the Outremont borough. She garnered about 35 percent of the vote in a district that is home to an […]
A second round of municipal elections will be held in 38 Israeli towns Wednesday. Israeli law requires a runoff between the two top candidates in municipalities where no one received at least 40 percent of the vote. Tomorrow's elections will be held, among other places, in Hertzliya, Petach Tikvah, Kiryat Shmona, Rahat and Mevaseret Zion […]
By JTA
In a display of the changes the group has experienced this year, Women of the Wall held a peaceful prayer service under police protection at the Western Wall to mark the group’s 25th anniversary. Absent from Monday’s service, which the group said drew at least 800 worshipers, were large crowds of Orthodox girls who had […]
By JTA
Tunisia was suspended from next year’s Davis Cup after ordering one of its national team members to withdraw from a tournament rather than play an Israeli. The International Tennis Federation in a statement on Saturday said the Tunisian national team would be banned from the 2014 world competition for ordering Malek Jaziri not to compete […]
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