Pro-Israel figures insisted that the younger generation’s shift from a pro-Israel stand is nothing to panic about — yet.
By JTA
Rabbi Raksin’s funeral was in North Miami Beach , and he will be buried in New York on Mnday.
The good news is that 338 more American Jews are moving to Israel. The and news is that 5 million are not.
By JTA
Starbucks issued a statement saying the company and its CEO do not provide any financial support to Israel or its army.
By JTA
Pro-Israel groups sometimes forget that others are listening.
First reports are that it wasn’t a “hate crime” in the anti-Semitic sense, but what cold-blooded murder is not fueled by hate?
A rabbi, identified as Rabbi Joseph Raksin by NBC news, was shot and killed on his way to synagogue Saturday morning, in North Miami Beach.
By JTA
Love game. Israel is left with holding the racquet out of bounds..
Lieberman proves he can be a diplomat even if it hurts.
Israel more or less won the battle against Hamas, but has a poor of history of fighting the enemy known as “peace talks.”
A major pro-Israel rally will take place on Wednes.day, August 6 at Asser Levy Park in Brooklyn, NY from 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Here's the latest from the US State Department on Israel...
By Rachel Levy
It is clear that US President Barack Obama flip-flops on Israel; only the Congress is rock-solid in its support.
“I think the United States has been terrific” – Netanyahu. “I have been very clear…that Israel has a right to defend itself.” – Obama.
“…You shall smite Amalek, and you shall utterly destroy all that is his, and you shall not have pity on him” – Samuel 1, 15:3
Netanyahu called Kerry onto the carpet and Kerry and Ban Ki-Moon gave their assurances.
By Rachel Levy
Hamas has learned the art of kidnapping from Hezbollah. Israel neeeds to figure out quickly how to deal with that.
By Rachel Levy
As Gaza terrorists continue to 'carpet-rocket' Israel, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secy of State John Kerry plan another cease fire.
Obama has chosen shaky ally on the way out over strong ally solidly in the American orbit.
“He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun/That fool was the terror of Highway 101 - ‘ from the song “Black Denim Trousers.”
By Rachel Levy
The Obama administration casts Hamas in the light of a legitimate organization, not the terror group it is listed as by the US itself.
MK Ze'ev Elkin had harsh words for the US's push for negotiations with Hamas.
Kerry is consistent. He has talked so much and promised so much that, like the peace process, his ceasefire delivered nothing.
Wouldn't a direct wire transfer from the White House to Pyongyang have saved on the wire transfer fees?
Jewish entertainers Joan Rivers and Howard Stern are lone pro-Israel voices from the entertainment world. Where is Streisand?
A graduate from a New Jersey yeshiva and who now is a paratrooper in the IDF suffered moderate injuries to his head when a retaining wall fell on him in the war on terror in Gaza, the New Jersey Jewish News website reported. He was identified as Sgt. Moshe Hirt, 21, from Edison, New Jersey […]
By Shalom Bear
We're waiting to hear back if there will be a cease fire this afternoon. The terms grant Hamas political legitimacy.
Amb. Ron Dermer takes on CNN's coverage of Hamas, and wins.
By Shalom Bear
Israel threatened to go disproportional on Gaza, if the FAA ban on US flights to Israel wasn't rescinded.
Jewish communities from around the world have stepped up to support children from southern Israel who have lived their entire lives under the threat of missile attacks from Hamas freedom fighters in Gaza. (To quote the late comedian George Carlin: If firefighters fight fire, and crime fighters fight crime… what do freedom fighters fight? But […]
By Rachel Levy
Did the U.S. allow Hamas terrorists rule Israel's skies? Why would the Obama administration do that?
Last night, the FAA lifted their travel ban on flights to Israel.
Abbas adopts Hamas as peace partner, big brave Kerry scurries out of Israel despite FAA ban and Mashaal goes off his rocker.
Rubio: Civilian deaths in Gaza "100 percent" responsibility of Hamas
Father of fallen soldier Max Steinberg stuns crowd, ends eulogy with simple cry: Am Yisrael Chai.
US Secy of State John Kerry told reporters in Jerusalem there is "still work to be done" in trying for a cease fire with Hamas.
Ban ki-Moon and John Kerry might have some credibility if they would talk peace with terrorists in Syria.
Israel activists take the streets of New York on Sunday. For some reason, no rocks or Molotov cocktails were thrown at police.
By Rachel Levy
Israel needs an ally in talks over a premature cease fire with Hamas terrorists intent on wiping out the Jewish State.
Nothing infuriates Palestinian supporters than the suggestion that anti-Israel sentiment is fueled by anti-Semitism. Truth hurts, sometimes.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Of the 13 soldiers killed, two were U.S. citizens; Sean Carmeli with dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship of South Padre Island, Texas and Max Steinberg of Los Angeles, California.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders, to strengthen Israel's diplomatic position.
Psaki: Accidental killing of civilians 'horrifying'; Kerry tells Netanyahu to focus on smuggling tunnels
Jewish Home head responds to Human Rights Watch criticism: Radical left-wing reports don't impress me.
Theater of war becomes theater of absurd: Hamas offers 10-year truce; Abbas offers to patrol smuggling corridor.
Charlie Daniels, country music's senior statesman, performs Hatikva, fervent supporter of Israel
By JTA
Wave of anti-Semitic graffiti, physical attacks spreads, this time to University of Oregon
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF deployed its ninth Iron Dome battery this week, after it was scheduled to be prepared only in a few months and was produced in record time.
Channel 2 reported Tuesday that US President Barack Obama supports Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas missile attacks, but added that Washington is opposed to a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip by IDF forces.
Not always two sides to a story: Some try to kill babies, some try to protect them
Israel tells Hamas, “Your wish is our command.”
A New York doctor claims she was booted from a JetBlue flight when an Arab complained about her being on the plane.
If the swastika can be used as a sign of peace then the dove with an olive branch has turned into a permanent Frankenstein.
Anti-Israel violence spreading: Palestinians break up pro-Israel gathering in California
The IDF escorted 670 Arabs with dual nationality from foreign countries out of Gaza and away from the Hamas war front and safely in to Israel Sunday morning. The dual citizens left through the Erez Crossing, the northern border of Gaza, and include those with citizenship form the United States, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and other […]
DM Yaalon: IDF has hit Hamas, other terrorist organizations in Gaza very hard; militants' homes targeted
Some good friends of Israel in the US congress introduced the Naftali Fraenkel Reward Bill.
No one yet knows who is responsible for abu Khaider's death, yet the JCPA immediately drew a target on the map of Israel.
Israeli authorities condemned the murder swiftly and resolutely, asking all citizens to respect the rule of law.
“If I shoot you at the same time as saying I renounce violence, that doesn’t really make much sense” – AP reporter
There are those who believe that all people are, deep down, good. Hamas and its friends, along with other terrorist groups and rogue nations like Iran, give the lie to that lovely but naïve fantasy.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry responded forcefully to news of the murders of the three Israeli teenagers.
The US President condemned "the tragedy" and urged all parties to refrain from further destabilizing steps.
The White House issued a careful condemnation on the discovery the kidnapped Israeli teens were murdered.
Feiglin - "America needs Israel, not any less than Israel needs America."
Too many jobs are at stake in the State Dept. for Kerry to dismantles the peace process industry.
After the peace process inevitably collapsed and Indyk has quit.
A high school student takes on the NYT's silence on the Holocaust.
Cruz spoke in detail about each of the boys, about the kidnapping, and about the nature of Hamas.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
U.S. Governor of Georgia: ‘Israel is Vital Partner in Friendship’ and Economic Efforts
Congress gave Peres a farewell medal, but Israel will not get off so easily.
Gavrilov and several groups created a unique fundraising and awareness-raising program to #BringBackOurBoys.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Group behind offensive flyers, Students for Justice in Palestine, has already been suspended by several universities
By Rachel Levy
President Obama told Israeli President Peres that his attorney general will decide whether to free Pollard. But the A-G can't grant clemency.
By JTA
The ad airs for 15 seconds twice every hour, which usually costs $15,000.
FM Liberman is set to meet with US Secy of State Kerry on PA talks Thursday in Paris.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
"The two sides here are good and evil. Evil kidnaps children. Good does all it can to get those children back and to punish anyone who would be a part of that," Huckabee said.
U.S. media are reporting a mass shooting in downtown Miami, with at least 10 shot and two reportedly killed at the site.
“My friends all say I'm losing it big time…I'm going back there again/Back to the house of pain “ – Deep Purple
The U.S. releases military aid to Egypt after a year-long freeze; Sec'y John Kerry promises 10 Apache helicopters to fight terror in Sinai.
'The problem with Middle East scholarship? Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero and Fouad Ajami isn't.'
Even American security officials are joining the growing chorus of intellectuals and public figures who say enough is enough
By Shalom Bear
The State Department called for restraint "on all sides", but their spokeperson couldn't even bother to learn the name of the kidnapped boy with American citizenship.
Prowiser said: "if you are for freedom and democracy and you are not for Israel, you are a hypocrite.”
The White House finally issued a statement on last week's terror kidnapping of three Israeli teens, one a dual U.S. citizen.
A 53-year-old Israeli man died when the small plane he piloted crashed in the yard of a Long Island home.
New York NCSY, the OU, Bnei Akiva and RCA are launching a "virtual vigil" to bring the kidnapped teens home.
The bodies of two murdered children have returned to their mother in Ohio to be laid to rest.
By JTA
The Jewish community of Columbus, Ohio, has set up a fund to help the mother of two children slain in Israel by their father pay for their funerals.
Secretary of State hasn't bothered to tell the president, but said abduction is "despicable terrorist act"
Ambassador Oren: the U.S. should rescind its hasty recognition of the Fatah-Hamas unity government (PUG).
By JTA
Fischer, 70, succeeds Janet Yellen, who was elevated to Fed chairwoman in February to follow Ben Bernanke. All three are Jewish.
Divorced father stabbed to death his two American children after they arrived in Israel for a visit.
By Edwin Black
For Lowey, the question is whether she will break with the Obama Administration, which has signaled willingness to continue funding the new Hamas-infused Palestinian Authority.
Prime Minister Netanyahu met today with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and asked him to support Israel's fight against Arab terrorism. "You know that we are fighting terrorism. Our policy is simple – we will strike at those who would strike at us. Yesterday, the IDF and the ISA carried out a precise operation and […]
By JTA
Jewish Republicans retire to lick their wounds, consider future after shock of Cantor loss to no-name Tea Party candidate
The State Department briefing makes for such fascinatingly convoluted reading, in order to justify Obama's position to fund PUG, and consequently Hamas.
The scramble is now on as to who will get to replace Cantor.
By Rachel Levy
Rocket attack from Gaza starts off the morning in southern Israel to show the new PA unity government is the 'same old thing.'
Eric Cantor, the only Republican Jew in Congress, lost the Virginia primary race.