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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.
A swastika and other anti-Semitic graffiti were scrawled outside two synagogues in San Francisco, the northern California JWeekly website reported. The website said that police are investigating the incidentas a hate crime. The website said that on the morning of May 30, traffic sign outside Congregation Beth Israel Judea and Or Shalom Jewish Community was […]
Kosher barbecue experts, fire up your grills! You will be tested in southern Connecticut this fall.
By Rachel Levy
The "only sane plan" is to annex Area C in Judea and Samaria, says Economy Minister Naftali Bennett. Coalition crisis ahead?
By Rachel Levy
Arab media are salivating over Jewish squabbles about internal Israeli divisions on policy reported by wire services.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A new petition has been launched demanding the release of incarcerated Israeli Jonathan Pollard.
The Prime Minister didn't mince words at Sunday's cabinet meeting, slamming the int'l community for embracing the Hamas government, while praising Australia for its moral clarity.
The US has been going after international banks who may have violated new money laundering laws.
The US is trying to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear weapons program so it can drop the sanctions against them.
Even those who don't live in South Carolina can participate in this expression of support for the Jewish State, by donating money to the Chabad specifically for this project.
Parliament speaker to ask US Secretary of State John Kerry to intervene, give up claim to coastal waters
Residents of southern Israel can rest easy: Hamas promised not to fire rockets at Israel from Gaza anymore!
Blaming Israel for the breakdown of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority might be a convenient for John Kerry not to cause waves in the Arab world, but the American people aren’t buying it: More than two-thirds of Americans place the blame for the failed talks squarely on Palestinian shoulders. According to a […]
By JTA
Sharansky admits that non-practicing Jews likely to assimilate, says Israel "only way" to keep connection to Judaism
Obama tried to re-set US-Muslim relations, but he has failed to meet the challenges of his time in office.
By Shalom Bear
Kerry's friendly visit to Hezbollah dominated Lebanon was a message to Israel.
"There is no fig leaf large enough to cover Hamas' blood-drenched legacy," said the heads of the SWC.
The executive branch's embrace of the PUG will not be a group hug, according to some legislators.
By Shalom Bear
While some people were surprised by the move, regular readers of JewishPress.com saw this one coming a mile away.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to PA law and in practice, the PA does not give stipends to terrorist prisoners' families, but salaries to the terrorist prisoners themselves.
By Rachel Levy
A US president faces outraged lawmakers and public questions over swapping jailed Taliban terrorists for a hostage soldier.
By JTA
Kosher meals for prisoners cost nearly four times the cost of non-kosher meals; appeal also covers prisoner beard length
Initial sum of NIS 570 million to be invested in joint initiatives to connect young Jews to their Jewish identity and to Israel.
Abbas said the unity government will follow international law, just as the PA does now.
MS. PSAKI: Well, there has been no invitation issued to Prime Minister Hamdallah...
Someone scammed California taxpayers, using their money for faculty meet-ups with terrorists.
Hamas-Fatah Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has been invited to Washington D.C., according to Palestinian Authority sources.
By JTA
Missile defense system has proved about 80 percent effective in previous rounds of fighting against Palestinian terrorists
Germany's leader, Angela Merkel, is the most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes Magazine.
Last week an Islamist group rallied at Al Aqsa mosque, calling to erase 'Jewish filth' at the Temple Mount.
The financially troubled Einstein College of Medicine will have Montefiore as its key financial manager; YU will continue granting the degrees.
A federal judge instructed the IRS to respond to Z STREET's claim of political discrimination.
Middle school students taunt Jewish classmate; goal is to put Jews into army camp 'until disposed of
By JTA
The $1 million Genesis Generation Challenge fellowship, open to anyone aged 20 to 36 with the best “big idea” to benefit the world, was announced Thursday in Jerusalem.
By JTA
A Staten Island man was charged in the theft of blank checks from a yeshiva he reportedly attended and cashing them for more than $50,000.
The UCLA judicial board handed Students for Justice in Palestine the latest in a string of defeats.
By JTA
Stanley Fischer was confirmed as a member of the Federal Reserve, clearing the way for the former Bank of Israel governor to become the Fed’s vice chairman.
Generations of Jews who could not live in the Holy Land dreamt only of being buried on the Mount of Olives. Today, Jews who visit take their lives in their hands.
Now Hamas is being given a strategy for making acceptable its unalterable hostility towards the Jewish state.
Allow Chloé to help you and those you know how to stop punishing truth and rewarding intimidation.
By Shalom Bear
Soros's organizations are quietly trying to influence politics. While Adelson does his influencing openly. Why is only Sheldon attacked?
U.S. rapper Macklemore apologized after a firestorm over appearing in costume as what looked like an eastern European Jew.
Just because speech is constitutionally protected doesn’t mean that it is wise, fair or productive.
US Army Specialist Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, California, was shot and killed on Saturday. He died in an Amman, Jordan hospital from his injuries. US military officials said the shooting was not combat related, but there are no other details known about the incident, other than officials say the shooter was not Jordanian, […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“We met with Israeli residents who just want to live their lives, to coexist with their neighbors. They want to leave politics out of it. It was impressive to see how these communities actually function and how well they get along with their surroundings.”
Will Obama really give Israel "time out"?
On her US immigration form, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh forgot to mention she killed 2 people in a terror attack.
The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that Martin Indyk spent a half hour bashing Israel over drinks, and then met Ehud Barak.
Neither of the two women who were to receive honorary degrees from Brandeis on Sunday will be there.
Statements from the meeting between Hagel and Netanyahu.
By JTA
NEW YORK (JTA) – Kutsher’s, the fabled Catskills resort hotel, is set to be demolished later this month. The 1,300-acre property near Monticello, N.Y., was sold last year for $8.18 million to Veria Lifestyle Inc., which plans to turn it into a health and wellness resort. Pre-demolition work already has begun with the clearing of […]
By Shalom Bear
The US denies President Obama had any role in the German decision to cancel the promised discount.
The SJP is emboldened while the grown-ups cower in the corner, avoiding the wrath of the troublemakers.
There is lots of evidence that Hilary Rodham Clinton, the former senator from New York, first lady and secretary of state, will to try to win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. Even before formally announcing her candidacy, she's been campaigning and making waves, all in an attempt to keep her name not only […]
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The Israel Tax Authority has reached agreement with the U.S. to coordinate info between the IRS and Israeli banks.
Christie reportedly told Adelson later that weekend that he “misspoke” in his Vegas appearance.
Orange County campus has been hotbed of Jewish-Muslim tension for years, since Muslim students prevented Israel's ambassador from speaking
By JTA
Four New York men, including a rabbi, were indicted for allegedly stealing more than $12.4 million in funding intended for children with disabilities.
Trivialization of the Holocaust has reached new lows.
By JTA
An Israeli man charged in the United States with selling arms to Iran was arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
A Jewish carpenter is suing New York City’s Housing Authority after allegedly being threatened and insulted with anti-Semitic epithets.
The former director of the 92nd Street Y is dead after hanging himself last Friday at his home in Seagate.
Israel has demanded that US Intelligence officials either show evidence that any of these allegations have happened, or openly state there is no basis to Newsweek's stories.
During a Q & A session after the screening, audience members strongly praised the film and urged that it be shown in schools.
Radical Islamist groups in the US have asked the National September 11 Memorial Museum to censor derogatory references about al-Qaeda in order not to offend Muslims.
A haredi man from Lakewood, N.J. has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in order to force a man to give his wife a get (Jewish divorce document). The Lohud online news service reported that Fifty-one-year-old David Wax also implicated residents of Brooklyn and Monsey. Two of the men, Rabbi Mendel Epstein of Brooklyn […]
By JTA
A Brooklyn construction worker has been indicted for the kidnapping and murder of Haredi real estate developer Menachem Stark. A grand jury in Brooklyn on Monday indicted Kendel Felix, who was employed by a contractor hired by Stark, the New York Post reported. Felix was arrested on April 30 and admitted that he and two accomplices accidentally suffocated […]
“Last year we took the $10,000 from him,” Jay Sanderson, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, told JTA. “We’re not going to take it anymore.”
By JTA
A full-page advertisement reproducing Israel’s Declaration of Independence appeared in The New York Times and USA Today.
Community officials say Yom HaAtzma'ut celebration will be 'non-political', but Bay Area remains hub of pro-Palestinian activity
The NYU mock eviction notices raised serious questions about sensitivity for the reasonable concerns of Jewish students.
J Street claims that its rejection from the Conference of Presidents is proof its voice is needed.
By JTA
Is this really a big deal? Let’s say the cardinal really was Jewish. It runs in the family, because so was his boss.
A university lecturer has called on administrators to protect Jewish students on campus
Strongly titled, but Danon's op-ed captured the feelings of many Israelis and Israel supporters.
New US tax regs to impact US-Israel dual citizens
Hubris is what propelled J Street through the starting gate; it's also what slammed the door shut in J Street's face.
The JMA will “Ride to Remember” to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust and to raise money for organizations that support and promote Holocaust education and awareness.
Kerry has made such a mess that no matter what he says about Israel or the PA, he is wrong. And he is a diplomat?
Grimm said the indictment was a "political witch hunt" against him because he "was an outsider who wasn't supposed to win."
By JTA
An Ethiopian-Israeli Knesset Member called racist statements attributed to Donald Sterling, the Jewish owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, “disgusting” in a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. “As a Jew, as a citizen of a country founded on the ruins of racism in Europe, it hurt me to hear Mr. Sterling, especially on this […]
By JTA
Jewish Democrats called on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Monday to apologize for warning that the failure to achieve a two-state solution could lead to apartheid. “We express our deep disappointment that the Secretary of State has chosen to invoke the specter of ‘apartheid’ in discussing his concerns about the failing peace process,” the […]
Kerry: I do not believe nor have I ever said that Israel is or intends to become an Apartheid State.
Used car chain CarMax, KIA, energy drink producer AQUAhydrate, auto title company LoanMart and State Farm are cancelling or suspending their sponsorship of the LA Clippers following the reported racist rant by the team’s Jewish owner, Donald Sterling. “CarMax finds the statements attributed to the Clippers’ owner completely unacceptable,” the company said in a statement. […]
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