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John Kerry’s name today would have been John Kohn, or maybe Yonatan Kohn, if his great-grandfather had not converted to Catholicism, and assuming his parents would have survived the Holocaust.
Netanyahu condemns the terror attack in letter to Obama
In honor of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, gay news site Queerty is encouraging LGBT Jews to buy a new book featuring a Jewish boy with two fathers, the first of its kind to bring Judaism, children, and homosexuality together.
Though the permissibility of watching hired sports players go to battle in a large stadium is a source of controversy amongst Torah observant Jews, the food being served at the upcoming Super Bowl games in New Orleans is not.
Troops have been writing home asking families and friends to send them care packages of cereals and other breakfast foods.
"Like the right to free speech, academic freedom rights are not unbounded; the department has basically yelled “fire” on campus, and locked the doors to their department after doing so."
Jewish Outreach founder Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald and Birthright’s co-founder, self-declared atheist Michael Steinhardt have agreed “to wrestle out” their beliefs in a debate.
Ironically, given its promotion of an event that would silence academics, BC's Poli-Sci department is defending its involvement in the event by invoking "academic freedom."
"It was a big explosion, and because the facility is built under the mountain rock, it is very hard to reach workers trapped in there."
The couple's funeral service drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 1,000
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Selective perception is the hallmark of Security Council debates, says Ron Prosor.
By Sandy Eller
A Brooklyn photographer alleged that he was a victim of police brutality last week after an altercation with members of Brooklyn's 70th precinct left him in handcuffs and both his cell phone and camera damaged.
Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, youth director at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, will be introducing a new art installation in honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of Trees, inspired by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.
More than 2,000 people have made contributions in memory of the young victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut to plant a grove of trees in Israel.
Shoshana Hebshi, a half-Jewish, half-Arab woman from Ohio is suing Frontier Airlines, the FBI, TSA and other governmental agencies after she says she was forced off a flight, strip-searched, and imprisoned on the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.
Women may enter military combat in the United States, following the lift of a military ban on women in combat by defense secretary Leon Panetta.
Temple Israel was vandalized back in November, when someone wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the building.
President Obama was issuing a not so subtly veiled threat to the Israeli voters.
By JTA
Satmar counselor Nechemya Weberman was sentenced to 103 years in prison for sexual abuse of a teenage female patient over several years.
By JTA
Leaders of Russia’s Jewish community have criticized a U.S. federal court ruling that fined Russia for refusing to hand over ancient Chasidic texts.
By JTA
A history of New York Jewry took Jewish book of the year honors in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards.
"The settlements erode hope ... of a peace agreement in the future."
By JTA
The Chicago Bears hired a Jewish head coach, Marc Trestman, to improve their pigskin prowess.
During a visit to an IDF base in Israel’s south on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a message to US President Barack Obama that Israelis will be the ones to determine what is in their best interest, rather than the American president.
Two major Japanese airlines grounded their Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplanes after one was forced to make an emergency landing due to battery problems and a burning smell in the cockpit.
By JTA
A physical education teacher at a Baltimore Jewish high school was arrested and charged with child abuse.
William Harry Meece, a 40 year old death row inmate from Kentucky who is awaiting execution for murdering three people in 1993, has been denied a request by the Kentucky Court of Appeals to make use of the Institutional Religious Center at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville for Jewish prayers.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a public health emergency on Saturday, in the wake of the worst flu outbreak in many years.
By JTA
The Israeli former bodyguard of teen idol Justin Bieber reportedly sued the pop star for assault.
Congress is debating whether to add Israel to the list of countries that don't need an entry Visa.
Most House members called on Obama to shut down the DC PLO office as punishment for the UN vote.
By JTA
The Orthodox Jewish parents of a Florida Jewish teen on life support have filed a motion in court to prevent the hospital from removing life-sustaining machines.
There are those who think a politician cannot be charged with anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism if the politician appoints Jews or Israelis to high positions. President Obama has just handed such people another shield to hold up against those charges. Bloomberg and other news sites are reporting that tomorrow, January 10, Obama will nominate his Orthodox […]
Jewish children who want to dress up as a "Jewish Grand Rabbi" or "Jewish Mother Rachel" can now do so, thanks to Walmart
President Obama on Monday nominated former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, who has been criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike for his record on Israel, as his new secretary of defense.
The campaign slogan is: "Smear a Bagel, Not Chuck Hagel."
By JTA
Results of the second inquest matched those of the original in October 2011.
The best most pro-Israel leaders were willing to do was downplay the policy-making role of the secretary of defense.
EMET focuses its attention on educating members of Congress about issues crucial to Jews and to Israel.
But the next Quartet meeting will be held in Cairo, where president. Morsi has close ties with Hamas.
Al Gore, former politician, "founder" of the Internet, and Global Warming Guru has just traded entree into 40 million U.S. homes for $100 million from the Qatari-Royal-Family-Owned Arab media conglomerate Al Jazeera. The operation will be called Al JazeeraAmerica. The deal has left many questioning its kosher bona fides. Perhaps the most traif aspect of […]
Hagel once told an employee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that she was a "[expletive] tool from AIPAC."
By JTA
An 11-year-old New York girl was disqualified from the 2012 U.S. National Table Tennis Championships when she opted not to play her final match, which fell on Shabbat.
The Arab news network Al-Jazeera has acquired former US Vice President Al Gore’s Current TV.
The bounty is intended "to encourage our Muslim Ummah (nation), and to expand the circle of the jihad (holy war) by the masses."
Lower Court said he purchased "nonkosher" food items including cookies, soft drinks, coffee, tuna, and candy.
By JTA
More than 2,000 people have donated funds to plant a grove of more than 3,000 trees in Israel in memory of the victims of the Newtown shooting.
A special dedication ceremony culminated in a friendly basketball game between kids from New York and from the neighborhood.
By JTA
Federal prosecutors charged a New York woman with lying to federal agents during an investigation into an alleged scheme soliciting donations in the name of Newtown rampage victim Noah Pozner.
Formerly Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu participated in a candid interview with CNN, discussing his departure from observant Jewish life and his connection to his religion.
A New York City man who was pushed in front of a NYC subway train has died, the second such fatality this month.
The highly decorated Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf died in his home in Tampa, Florida. The cause of death was not immediately known. Known to his soldiers as "Stormin' Norman," General Schwarzkopf led some 540,000 U.S. and 200,000 allied troops in the first Gulf war that forced Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's army out of Kuwait in 1991. […]
By JTA
A Brooklyn fishmonger was indicted for throwing a cup of bleach in the face of a Chasidic rabbi who advocates for victims of sexual abuse in the haredi Orthodox community.
By JTA
Hawaii's governor named his Jewish lieutenant governor, Brian Schatz, to replace the late Daniel Inouye in the U.S. Senate.
A suicide bomber detonated himself on Wednesday near the US army base Camp Chapman in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three Afghans and injuring more.
In a letter circulated to members of Congress by the PLO Envoy, Aerikat sought to dissuade Congress from responding to the PA provocation.
The first day of a US military strike on Iran will result in a massive 30,000 casualties of American soldiers, according to Iran’s Former Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
For the first time, the United States has extradited to Israel a suspect wanted for tax-related offenses.
Los Angeles police have arrested 46 year old Wan Ryung Song, aka Patrick Song, for scrawling a swastika and anti-Semitic epithets on the Wilshire Boulevard Temple on December 6.
By JTA
The owner of San Francisco's only kosher market says she is closing her doors.
By dvora
It was a eulogy for a life that had only just begun.
Colorado Springs police are looking for vandals who spray-painted a swastika on the Hanukkah menorah of the Chabad of Southern Colorado.
The State Department on Tuesday spoke with disdain about Israel’s “pattern of provocative action” – the building of homes for Jewish citizens in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria.
By JTA
"Senator Inouye deeply understood the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship."
For the second time in office, US President Barack Obama has used a Hanukkah menorah from a hurricane-ravaged area to conduct the official White House Hanukkah celebration.
By JTA
A Jewish child was identified as the youngest of the 26 victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn.
PM Netanyahu's Letter to US President Obama (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser).
In obviously separate events, both former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fell and hit their heads. Mubarak (84) fell while in a prison shower and suffered a chest injury and a bruised chest. He had fallen previously, 2 months ago. Clinton (64) fainted and sustained a concussion. She had […]
A madman shot up a Connecticut kindergarten killing 26 people, among them 20 children.
The specific subjects sought by Pollard's Israeli handlers were Syrian drones, Egyptian missile programs, and Soviet air defenses.
There are reports that this U.S. administration insists on weakening the efforts against both rogue entities.
The IRS has been known to impose sanctions against a bank which knowingly permitted customers to violate FACTA rules.
Police say the two were involved in an "ongoing dispute."
By JTA
A Jewish student organization at Binghamton University is claiming to have broken a record for dreidel spinning, but a student newspaper there says the spinners spun out before breaking the mark.
By JTA
A New Jersey synagogue said that it set a new Guinness World Record by lighting 834 menorahs on 90 tables in an airport hangar.
The deadline for Superstorm Sandy victims in New York City, Nassau, Westchester, Orange, Suffolk, Rockland, Putnam, Sullivan and Ulster counties has been extended to January 28, 2013 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Nechemya Weberman, a prominent member of Brooklyn’s Satmar chassidic community who practiced therapy without a license, was found guilty on 59 counts of sexual abuse.
The vast majority of the rabbis of the Williamsburg community backed Weberman from the time of his arrest.
Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, a Williamsburg based counter-pedophilia activist was attacked and injured, allegedly by the son of a man Rosenberg had named as a pedophile. The attacker threw bleach in Rosenberg's face. Source: Failed Messiah
Clinton's approval ratings have always been high amongst American Jews - this was true even after the infamous "Suha Smooch."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to Freeman, the rabbis and settlers are to blame for Israel's belligerent military actions.
By JTA
The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces fundraiser that singer Stevie Wonder pulled out of raised more than $14 million.
After a week of medical tests in the hospital, Jonathan Pollard was returned on Sunday to his prison cell. After falling seriously ill a week ago, Pollard was taken to a hospital were tests were performed,including an MRI of his brain. The results are not yet in, but his condition stabilized enough that the authorities […]
As cheerleaders shake their pom poms, top-dollar players hone their victory dances, and marketers prepare to rake in the dough raised through advertising and sales, Super Bowl XLVII will not just showcase a rivalry between this year’s best winningest football teams, but stands to highlight a burgeoning campaign against Israeli life in the biblical heartland.
By JTA
More than 1 million people have signed on to join a "virtual march" commemorating the Washington rally 25 years for the Soviet Jewry movement, according to a coalition marking the 1987 event.
Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to all those celebrating Hanukkah around the world.
A large menorah covered in seashells and used to spread the light of Hanukkah at Miami Beach was vandalized on Sunday, scrawled with black graffiti stating “You Killed Jesus”.
His former employer The Israel Project is focused on helping Israel improve its image, and so it's a mystery how Elsner lasted there for two years.
Syrian military is just waiting for the "go" order from the embattled President Bashar Al-Assad.
Had Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Tevi Troy would be director of domestic policy on his transition team.
Ahmed Ferhani, one of two men arrested in an undercover sting in May 2011 and charged with attempting to blow up synagogues in New York City, has pled guilty, and now faces a sentence of 10 years in prison.
The US Senate approved a massive $631 billion defense bill authorizing new funds for weapons, air and sea craft, and pay raises for military officials.
Incredibly, the AP badgered the U.S. State Department spokesperson about the passport stamp change.
Congregation Adas Israel, the last of several orthodox synagogues that once served the Jews of Fall River, Massachusetts – will be handing the keys over to a new group of worshippers – congregants of The Word of Life Community Church.
By JTA
A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators urged Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to crack down on arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip.
A Woodmere synagogue which lost four Torah scrolls in the chaos of Hurricane Sandy received a gift given in the spirit of Jewish brotherhood and Torah values from their kinsmen in Kansas City.
The former principal of a Jewish high school in Brooklyn was convicted on 75 counts of sexual abuse against three boys.
Following his comments on Sunday night football advocating for greater gun control, NBC sports announcer Bob Costas is facing growing anger by gun owning football fans who are calling on the NFL to ban Costas. The angry fans have started a Facebook page, entitled "The NFL Should Ban Bob Costas." The page has over 1500 […]
For the first time since September 2011, tolls for travelers going in and out of Manhattan are going up.
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