By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court’s ability to “investigate, probe and render justice” is being undermined in the United States, says Omar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Israel regional vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, called her new appointment “dangerous.”
Biden may not be calling Netanyahu to make Bibi look weak ahead of the Israeli elections.
By Israel Hayom
With Israel’s national carrier the only airline operating flights for Israelis stranded in America due to the COVID closure of Ben-Gurion Airport, the Transportation Dep’t is threatening to prevent El Al from landing in the U.S.
Trump praised the victory and his supporters.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are not the type of people to be scared. We’re not the type of people that would be silenced. We’re not the type of people to back down from what we believe in,” says student Jeremy Zelner.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They will now return to the 50-percent-capacity limit that was in place before the New York governor’s zone plan.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Neither leader is probably eager for the call that will need to be made sooner or later.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The deal includes the procurement of F-35 and F-16 fighter jets, SH53K helicopters, refueling planes and the Eitan, a new-generation armored personnel carrier developed jointly by Israel and the United States.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Thousands of warfighters often struggle to find normalcy after returning home from combat deployments,” said U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.).
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
He allegedly was part of an incident in 2012 where several staffers at the center’s ThinkProgress website were condemned for using anti-Semitic tropes of Jews dominating politics and money.
Senators Jim Inhofe and Bill Hagerty introduced the amendment to ensure the U.S. Embassy to Israel remains in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
" Even during this incredibly challenging year, when the reality of our lives changed entirely, we are not giving up on this much-loved event."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Back to the failed formulas again.
In a lawsuit filed against the PLO, the family of an American soldier killed by Palestinians in PA territory is demanding compensation of $650 million.
“A new phase has begun and we have officially renewed relations with the US administration,” said PA Minister of Civilian Affairs Hussein A-Sheikh.
A “return to the nuclear deal from 2015 or even a similar deal with a few improvements is bad and wrong . . . operationally and strategically."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The controversial story was moved to the archives on NBC (but not deleted), as per an editor’s note.
By Marc Gronich
When you read this column, you can swap out the word “Asian” for “Jewish” and the meaning will be felt as though the resolution was written for our community.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The first four jets were sent to Arizon on Wednesday on a Russian Antonov cargo plane.
The Democrats were opposed to the deal from the beginning.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s military head has ordered plans for possible hit on Iranian nuclear sites.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
America will also renew relations with the Palestinian Authority, noting any Mideast peace deal must be agreed to by both sides.
Free expression of their Jewish identity, a fair education, a safe learning environment, a comprehensive definition of antisemitism, and a fair protections.
National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat spoke on Saturday night with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Flights will feature kosher food available for pre-order and kosher wine.
The third draft curriculum is now being reviewed by the State Board of Education and is likely to be approved in March with few changes.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Friedman was the first sitting US Ambassador to tour the City of David and since then has visited with numerous senior US officials.
President Trump addressed the nation on Tuesday, giving his farewell speech, listing off the incredible successes of his administration, and the challenges ahead.
Paul Packer and Ambassador David Friedman dedicated the plaque in the City of David.
"...over the years I have met many ambassadors from many countries, including from the US, our great ally, but I can say that there was never a better ambassador than David Friedman..."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The United States must not tolerate anybody who provides support to these radical Islamic terrorists,” said Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.).
As Iran tensions remain high, moving Israel to CENTOM’s area of responsibility would enable Israel, the United States and Arab partners to conduct joint exercises and planning for Iran-specific threats, thereby boosting readiness, says Jonathan Ruhe, director of foreign policy at JINSA.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“She will work with our partners to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, lift up vulnerable communities ... and advance American ideals and interests around the globe,” said President-elect Joe Biden.
Tackling the issues that could potentially redefine his entire presidency, President Trump addressed the nation and called for unity.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel let Biden know there's more than just the nuclear front to deal with with Iran, and let Iran know that Israel won't accept Iran in Syria, even during the Biden administration.
The latest polls show that Hamas stands to gain control of the Palestinian Authority Legislative Council and possibly the presidency if elections are held..
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Kristen Clarke was involved with a 1994 event featuring the late Wellesley College professor Tony Martin, who self-published “The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.”
By Marc Gronich
We are hurt, we are frustrated, we are in mourning, we are anxious. We are shocked that an invisible enemy could wreak such death and destruction, especially in this, the wealthiest and the most powerful nation on earth.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Relations between the US and Israel, and between Israel and the Middle East are completely different after David Friedman took office.
The last elections in the PA were in 2006.
President Trump releases a video statement following the Capitol riots.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In front of the camera, a man referred to as “Marc” shouted: “I’m gonna get in your face now and I’ll tell you why, yid.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“I have no doubt that American democracy will prevail – it always has,” PM Netanyahu said.
She said Gators for Israel, the University of Florida pro-Israel group, has included one in a package it is sending to her office on Capitol Hill.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Reps. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) and Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) were sworn in with hundreds of other legislators.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The flight by two Air Force B-52s was a response to intelligence that Iran may be planning to carry out attacks against U.S. allies in the region in the coming days, says senior U.S. military officer.
By Marc Gronich
When it comes to a safety first mantra, Barclay, 51, speaks from first-hand experience.
By Ariel Kahana
Senior Trump adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. special envoy Avi Berkowitz talk Abraham Accords, Israeli-Palestinian peace and Iran in a special interview from Morocco.
By Marc Gronich
Looking ahead to 2021, I predict state lawmakers will remain in their districts and conduct business virtually, relying on staff and conference leaders to do their bidding for them with the governor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Division of Human Rights is expected to hold a virtual forum for families discuss the incident and learn about resources to combat hate.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The peace agreements that we have made are planted seeds that will sustain life and bear fruit if tended to correctly,” said the senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump.
By Israel Hayom
The current exchange rate marks the lowest point for the United States currency since 1996
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the U.S. military presence in the Middle East was an “important element in regional stability, which must be preserved.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bernie Sanders and other progressives want to condition US Military Aid on Israeli policy towards the Palestinian Authority.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Revenge will be taken on those who ordered it and the murderers."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case that proved connections to the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas and other radical Islamic entities.
The event was a sign of appreciation of small communities in North America for their support of Israel and insistence on keeping their Jewish identity and celebrating the Jewish Holidays.
The tests were led by Rafael Advanced Systems from a testing site in central Israel, with the participation of the Israel Air Force and Navy.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The African country’s economy has struggled and the move will help the country obtain loans from international organizations.
By Baruch Lytle
An old, heavy coffee-table transformed into a beautiful dreidel-shaped menorah stand now sits not far from the bimah at the shul where, one year ago, a terrorist stormed into the house of the community’s Rabbi hoping to kill as many Jews as he could.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It appears that candidate Raphael Warnock still has a lot more to walk back, as new anti-Israel video surfaces.
The paper points to the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu has excluded his Foreign and Defense Ministers from his meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince,.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Aside from government-funding issues, the purpose behind the list is to issue a “public condemnation” of the anti-Israel movement.
Williamsburg actually seems to have the lowest death rate of any frum neighborhood.
By Marc Gronich
To help get the city’s fiscal house in order, Weprin wants to reinstate the commuter tax, which he wants to rename a non-resident income tax, and set at a rate higher than one half of one percent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A group of 43 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives has called for related language in a must-pass appropriations bill.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization, was founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar Hassan al-Banna in 1928.
Heading back to that again. The PA says the Biden Administration will make the change at the beginning of his tenure.
By Israel Hayom
Sudan has made it clear that without legislation that would grant it immunity from legal action over its terrorist past, ties will not be upgraded.
“This was really a priority of the Trump administration since the day it began,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. “It was a shocking surprise that was four years in the making, and I think the momentum will continue.”
“Israel is a very strong partner” and the “best example of democracy and the American values that we have in the Middle East,” says the Democrat, who tips his hat to the late Sen. Daniel Inouye.
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
“This goes to the heart of speaking hard truths in the name of moving peace forward,” says former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Nikki Haley.
Chris Ruddy, CEO and majority owner of Newsmax, told The Jewish Press that he has tried numerous times to get RCN to carry his channel but has not been successful.
“Sympathizers in the Democratic Party are trying to convince the Palestinians to make changes in the law so salaries will be based on economic conditions and not just on terrorism,” said Yossi Kuperwasser, a senior intelligence and security expert at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Out of 35 issues that people considered when voting, there were less than a handful that both groups agreed were important.
While Middle East analysts say Biden is building a team of people in whom he trusts, can rely on and can work together as a team, a good deal of concern centers on whether U.S. foreign policy will look too much like it did during the Obama administration.
Tlaib is worried that the incoming Jewish Secretary of State may (somehow) suppress her right to support BDS and criticize Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The man who served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard has lost his appeal to halt his deportation.
Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that “Trump is unwittingly undermining American deterrence in the Middle East.”
Pompeo spoke about his early days as an army cadet when he learned about the famous battles on the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria.
The decision on labeling is part of the US's "reality-based foreign policy approach" under President Trump.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Pompeo visited the Psagot Winery in the Shaar Binyamin Commercial Center and the Qasr al-Yahud baptism site in the Jordan River Valley.
The complaint makes clear that UIUC can protect the victims of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on its campus without violating the First Amendment.
Netanyahu told a reporter that the US will decide who is the next US president, not him.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The expected withdrawals come in the aftermath of shakeups at the Pentagon in which U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper was fired and replaced with Christopher Miller.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”
Malliotakis has called for forming a “freedom squad” to counter fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her axis in Congress, and to fight BDS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Out of 1,650 religious-motivated hate crimes, 60.3 percent, or almost 995, were anti-Jewish.
"Anti-Semitic acts and expressions are all too common in our country and in our world, and examples of that intolerance have occurred at this university as well."
70% of Arab and Muslim voters supported Biden with the help of campaigns led by "Palestinian" activists and institutions.
Warnock claims that Jesus was a Palestinian. Talk about anachronisms and historical revisionism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The possibility of doing so caused some pushback from some State Department officials, lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Republican New York State Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis got 57.9 percent of the vote; Rose, a Democrat, received 42.1 percent.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As a child, Gross was part of the small Jewish community in Alaska and celebrated his bar mitzvah there.
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin said “people have knocked on our door to say they are sorry this happened. I’ve also gotten texts, emails and calls of support from all over the country; it’s been very meaningful.”
Which Warnock are we supposed to believe? The one who made horrible anti-Israel statements and accusations before he was a front-runner candidate for US Senate, or the ones he made after he was exposed?
Ilhan Omar lied and claimed Israel ethnically cleansed an Arab village. She lied....