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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“You represent American Jews, not Israelis,” interjected an audience member named Nathan. “No, I represent the United States,” responded Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.).
If these people [Tlaib and Ilhan Omar] amass even more power or they’re not held accountable for the crimes they commit, what's to stop them from inciting violence against Jewish people?
While claiming that these incidents are carried out by dissident organizations, Hamas has full control of all events in Gaza.
President Rivlin spoke this evening with Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi about the importance of strong relations between the State of Israel and the United States of America.
It left a permanent mark on my conscience that we, as Americans, must be at the forefront of the fight against anti-Semitism and any other form of religious discrimination or hate.
By Baruch Lytle
Being welcomed here in America and going through the process of becoming a citizen was not only exciting; it’s something I will always hold dear.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sanders was responding to a question at a New Hampshire town hall meeting from an activist affiliated with the anti-Israel group IfNotNow.
Liberman said he would prefer someone other than Netanyahu as a Likud candidate for prime minister.
As Efrat inaugurates a beautiful new promenade, the town is becoming the go-to settlement community ahead of the upcoming elections.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A local organizer says the gatherings fill “a need for social groups for Jewish Republicans so that we can socialize and mobilize and give each other ideas.”
Israeli-Arab riots in Israel in October 2000 grew extremely violent. Clashes between rioters and the Israeli police ended with the deaths of 13 Arab demonstrators.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Former IDF chief rabbi Rafi Peretz insists that he “does not support” conversion therapy and claims that his remarks were misrepresented in a way that “further deepens the rift in Israeli society.”
Barak stated over the weekend that he has ordered his lawyers to reexamine the business contacts he shares with Epstein.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Israel . . . reiterates its full support and solidarity with Cyprus in exercising its sovereign rights in its maritime areas and its opposition to any attempt to violate those rights.”
Latest polls show that in a right vs. left constellation, Liberman is needed to form any coalition.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Salomon Tekah’s family asked the Ethiopian community to halt the protests in his name.
By Marc Gronich
This is the first time in the nation’s history that residential camps have been included in security grant legislation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The organization From the Depths, whose president, 93-year-old Edward Mosberg, is a Holocaust survivor, invited AOC to see the camp where an estimated 1.1. million people were murdered.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move took place three months after the U.S. House of Representatives was criticized for watering down and passing a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
The Young Israel of Toco Hills announced that its name will now be Kehillat Ohr Hatorah, Hebrew for “Light of the Torah,” after 93 percent of voting synagogue members voted to separate from Young Israel.
In a vote of 74 to 45, the 21st Knesset dissolved itself after just 2 months.
If Netanyahu doesn't manage to form a coalition within the next two days...
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If Netanyahu fails to secure a coalition before the Wednesday deadline and Israel goes to new elections, his Likud Party will win again, according to a survey conducted Sunday by Israeli daily “Ma’ariv.”
Not having to learn the ins and outs of the job will give Louis the ability to start immediately on what she said she has already been doing for years – meeting the needs of the constituents in the 45th District.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The former vice president is followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
After days of conflict with the Central Elections Committee and demands for vote recounts, Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked finally close the book on Israel’s 2019 elections.
Tehilah Berman is running for Civil Court in the Brooklyn community she grew up in, the neighborhood in which she is raising her four sons, and where her parents still live in the house they raised her and her siblings. “I’m proud to be from Brooklyn, and thrilled my husband and I are raising our […]
The counting of the ballots have been completed, and there have been some changes in seat distribution.
Only Bibi can send 3 Generals back to basic training for 4 years.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Netanyahu in English and in Hebrew.
In the settlements of Itamar and Bat Ayin, the Election Committee reports indicate an unusually large number of votes for Arab parties.
The Likud has a clear majority of 65 with its natural coalition.
Meretz chief Tamar Zandberg personally went to Kafr Kassem to try to get Arabs to the voting booths.
Arab voter turnout is also at record lows.
Photos of Israel politicians placing their vote in the ballot boxes.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The last polls published a few days ago showed that while Blue and White was the biggest party, the Likud had bigger chances of establishing a coalition of at least 61 members.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) reintroduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which would require the Department of Education to adopt the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism in evaluating incidents on college campuses.
Some 5,000 Israelis living abroad are eligible to vote.
Vice President Mike Pence blasted Democratic freshmen in the House of Representatives on Monday, in addition to certain candidates on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, for the former using “rank anti-Semitic language” and the latter for avoiding the AIPAC annual policy conference in Washington.
Netanyahu goes to a Purim party, costumed as... himself.
By Israel Hayom
It appears that the Iranians bought the data from hackers, rather than engaging in the hacking themselves.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Gantz’s political partners expressed anger that he did not share this information with them prior to its publication in the news.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas, which rules Gaza, is believed to be holding Lt. Hadar Goldin's remains, as well as those of Oron Shaul, another IDF soldier killed during the 2014 Gaza war .
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir and foreign-policy adviser Matthew Duss have been accused of furthering anti-Semitic conspiracy theories during their tenure at the left-wing think-tank Center for American Progress.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The Democrats have become an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish party,” said U.S. President Donald Trump.
The final tally of the legislation, which defines anti-Semitism as “the centuries-old bigotry and form of racism faced by Jewish people simply because they are Jews,” was 407-23.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said he will not eject Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the committee over her latest anti-Semitic remarks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish Otzma Yehudit, and anti-Zionist Ra’am-Balad and Hadash-Ta’al parties, will be allowed to run in Israel’s upcoming national elections, thanks to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.
By Israel Hayom
“This is expected to be the first international conference of its sort, and we can’t think of a better place to hold it,” says Marc Zell, chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel. “The proposed conference will present the unshakable alliance between the U.S. and Israel.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The polls indicate that only Netanyahu is likely to be able to form a coalition.
“There is nothing more Jewish than pointed disagreement. And there is nothing more democratic than pointed disagreement. It is possible, important and perhaps even crucial to discuss and to insist on a culture of disagreement."
Tlaib has also stated that she supports a one-state solution -- a bi-national state of “Palestine” -- to replace the State of Israel.
When Ilhan Omar complains about the role of lobbyists in politics, it seems she only means certain lobbyists.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The party is not obligated to appoint any female candidate to its electoral list, but the door is opened to the possibility.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The majority of Israelis view the disengagement as a disaster which led to the takeover by the Hamas terror organization in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In January 2017, Klobuchar was a co-sponsor of a Senate resolution to rebuke U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334.
“He is a committed Jew and pro-Israel advocate, and is smart as a whip. He is an extremely successful prosecutor,” said AEPi executive director Andy Borans.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Booker, 49, who represents a state with more than half a million Jews, labeled BDS as an “anti-Jewish movement.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN.) offered Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) the opportunity to discuss how to fight religious bigotry over Somali tea.
By Israel Hayom
Newly released minutes of June 2015 Communications Ministry meeting show regulators signed off on controversial Bezeq-Yes merger deal only after drawn-out process spanning a decade.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Harris voted against the nomination of David M. Friedman in March 2017 to be U.S. ambassador to Israel.
This development comes amid accusations of anti-Semitism within the movement’s leadership, causing many organizations to drop their support of the this year’s march, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Religious parties in the coalition refused to back the legislation called the Hareidi Draft Law.
74 percent of Israelis disapproved of how Prime Minister Netanyahu dealt with the confrontation with Hamas.
Hanegbi said there is a difference between the Gaza Belt Region and Tel Aviv.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The concern we have is that some new Democrats are not favorable for Israel, and the hope is that they will be marginalized.
Using Jewish blood to gain religious equivalency and legitimacy from an Orthodox newspaper like The Jewish Press was immoral and reprehensible.
By Marc Gronich
The only candidate to support the move was Faso, who also took exception to Delgado’s remark about Israel not being a Jewish democracy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Issues related to Israel have come up on the state level, such as efforts to pass anti-BDS measures, which have been approved by 25 states in recent years.
He saw life as a gift, and he felt he clearly had a duty and responsibility to rebuild what was lost in Europe.
I think there are many issues we can work together to solve, and I think getting too deep into culture wars is not conducive to that.
When the administration’s policies are good for New York, I will support them. When they aren’t – like the tax bill – I will negotiate and make them better.
By JNi.Media
Weinroth recently retired from representing the Prime Minister's wife, Sara Netanyahu, in a corruption case, after advising her to apologize and pay.
By JNi.Media
Alqasem's supported Rasmea Odeh, a convicted terrorist who murdered two Hebrew University students in 1969.
By JNi.Media
"The big battle is between Habayit Hayehudi, which will be pulling to the right in all areas, versus the center-left, which is Yisrael Beiteinu."
By JNi.Media
The Republican Jewish Coalition has terminated its $1 million television and digital ad campaign in North Dakota, and declared victory "given the dramatic shift in the race."
By JNi.Media
Location, Location, Location, in this case, adds a touch of frustration and sadness to what otherwise is yet another story of Israeli ingenuity offering amazing goods to the world.
By JNi.Media
Shaked is a ball of contradictions, which gives her power and makes her uniquely pan-Israeli.
By JNi.Media
“We’re talking about a handful of people; they’re certainly not going to move Congress’s wall-to-wall support for Israel."
By JNi.Media
The Netanyahu cabinet on Sunday debated an initiative to allow the Aliyah of first-degree relatives of the Falash Mura, who are not entitled to immigrate under the Law of Return.
By JNi.Media
“Life behind bars was very hard... I managed to pass my final exams in prison."
By JNi.Media
The Falash Mura are members of the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia and Eritrea who converted to Christianity over the past two centuries.
By JNi.Media
Some 20,000 Arabs rioted on Shabbat at several locations along the Gaza Strip border fence, torching tires and throwing explosive charges at IDF soldiers.
By JNi.Media
Liberman is in a fight for his job with his archenemies within the coalition, Education Minister Naftali Bennett.
By JNi.Media
"Throughout my life, new missiles have entered the scene and we found a solution."
By JNi.Media
Merkel denied that she had conditioned her visit to Israel on the Netanyahu government not carrying out the evacuation of the illegal Bedouin settlement Khan al-Ahmar.
By JNi.Media
“Sinwar is in the front row of terrorists who want Israel gone.”
By JNi.Media
David Adjaye was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Ron Arad was born in Tel Aviv.
By JNi.Media
The appeal on behalf of the terrorist's family was submitted by leftwing NGO HaMoked which received more than $3 million from foreign sources.
By JNi.Media
The missile systems are shown being unloaded from the An-124-100 Ruslan strategic airlift aircraft at the Hmeymim air base in Syria.
By JNi.Media
In his signing statement, back in September 2016, President Obama did not declare strategic cooperation with Israel to be an end in itself, as did Monday's statement from the Trump administration.
By JNi.Media
Speaking to ambassadors gathered at the Foreign Ministry, the FM extended an invitation to them to visit a site near Beirut's airport and another at a soccer Stadium, and see there's nothing there.
July 17, 2026 
