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Arab Preacher gets 8 Months for Inspiring Assassination Attempt on MK Glick

By JNi.Media

A Jewish young man with hardly any influence, who was convicted last March of possessing a document that was never disseminated, was given two years in prison.

Israel / US / Politics / Global / News Briefs / Turkey / Media / Islamists

Erdogan Blames Former Military Attaché to Israel and Muslim Peace Advocate for Coup Attempt

By JNi.Media

Some 2,839 military personnel involved in the coup attempt have been arrested, and 20 pro-coup soldiers, including some senior officers, were killed during the attempt to overthrow the government.

Politics / Iran / Antisemitism / News Briefs

150 Holocaust Cartoons from 50 Countries in Iran's Latest Attempt at Humor

By JNi.Media

“We do not mean to approve or deny the Holocaust," said the exhibition's curator. Good to know.

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

IDF, Police, Foil Overnight Attempt to Celebrate Independence Day in Ruined Settlement

By JNi.Media

What would better express Israel's independence than allowing the thriving communities of northern Samaria thrive again?

Moshe Feiglin

Pragmatism Or Ideology?

By Moshe Feiglin

The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.

Iran / News Briefs

Iran Launches Its Own "Acceptable" Version of YouTube

By Malkah Fleisher

In an attempt to meet the demands for online entertainment starved since the official censoring of YouTube in 2009, Iran’s government has created an “acceptable” version of the video site, filled with government-approved content.

On Our Own/Cheryl Kupfer

The Story Of Chanukah: ‘I Think I Can’

By Cheryl Kupfer

Chanukah is just about upon us and Jews across the planet are looking forward to family gatherings, delicious food (you can’t feel too guilty eating oily latkes and high carb donuts on the chag – hey, it’s practically a mitzvah to do so); giving and receiving gifts and in general celebrating our survival – our spiritual continuance as God-fearing Jews. (Our physical survival is an event we acknowledge on Purim.)

Op-Eds

You Make Me Sick

By Sheni Leumi

Are you really unaware how hollow you sound, how callow?

News Briefs / Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan

Reports in Gaza: Al-Aqsa Brigades Commander Escaped a Hit

By Jewish Press News Desk

Palestinian sources in Gaza reported that the commander of Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Gaza, Salem Thabet, escape an attempt on his life after the air force attacked the house he was in.

News Briefs

Fight over Circumcision Dividing German Parliament

By Jewish Press News Desk

Left-wing German MPs are threatening to oppose their government's attempt to keep male circumcision legal in Germany. More than 50 MPs from three parties are now proposing that parents should have to wait until their son is 14 so he can give his informed consent to the operation. Last summer, a regional court ruled that […]

South Florida

It's My Opinion: Kristallnacht: 74th Anniversary

By Shelley Benveniste

The Jewish community is marking the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which occurred on November 9-10 in 1938. South Florida’s Holocaust Memorial, located at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, held its ceremony on the evening of November 8. Commemorations were observed around the world.

Fresno Zionism

The European Problem with Zionism

By Vic Rosenthal

Yes, Israel affords civil rights and freedom of worship to its many minorities; but it makes no attempt to deny that there is one specific people, one particular narrative, one religion to which is it most centrally committed. The State of Israel is, to paraphrase Lincoln, “by the Jews, of the Jews and for the Jews.” How could those who labored to create the European Union not consider the very idea of a Jewish state anathema?

News Briefs

IDF Targets Terror Activity Sites in Gaza Strip

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

In response to the incessant rocket fire at southern Israel, IAF aircraft targeted a rocket launching site and a terror activity site in the northern Gaza Strip as well as a terror activity site in the southern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed. More than 615 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israeli communities this […]

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Israel Deports Estelle Infiltrators

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel deported 15 international protesters arrested for trying to infiltrate an Israeli security zone set up around Gaza with their flotilla, Estelle.

Israel / News Briefs

IDF Intercepts Latest Boat to Gaza

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Israeli Navy intercepted and boarded the "Estelle", a schooner  flying under the Finnish flag, that was en-route to Gaza in an attempt to break the Israel blockade of the Hamas-led terror state. Unlike the Mavi Marmara, the passengers on the "Estelle" did not used violence, and the boat was redirected to the Ashdod port. While the […]

Israel / Politics / News Briefs

Olmert and Livni Hold Elections Pow Wow

By Malkah Fleisher

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni may be throwing their hats into the political arena once more, teaming up to attempt to defeat the nationalist camp headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Israel / News Briefs

Former Mossad Chief's Health Improving in Belarus

By Malkah Fleisher

Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s condition is improving after contracting an infection following a liver transplant in Belarus.

Israel / News Briefs / Religion

'Feast of Tabernacles' March Around Jerusalem Begins

By Malkah Fleisher

Tens of thousands of Christians from 60 countries around the world are participating in Thursday’s “Feast of the Tabernacles” march around Jerusalem.

IDF & Security / Middle East / Levant / News Briefs

IDF Evacuates Visitors to Upper Hermon Due to Approach of Armed Syrians

By Malkah Fleisher

A group of visitors to Mount Hermon in Israel’s north were evacuated on Wednesday when a group of armed Syrians approached the border.

Israel / NY / Iran / News Briefs

Groups Blast NY Hotel for Offering Hospitality to Iranian President Ahmadinejad

By Malkah Fleisher

A growing rumble of protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming welcome in New York has led activist groups to take aim at the New York hotel the leader regularly inhabits during his US stays. The Warwick New York is set to provide a luxury suite to Ahmadinejad when he arrives  to address the United […]

News Briefs / Settlements

Migron Not Evacuated as Scheduled

By JTA

The Migron outpost in the West Bank was not evacuated as scheduled.

News Briefs

Latest Flytilla Lands

By Jewish Press News Desk

The latest Flytilla attempt landed in Jordan on Saturday. The anti-Israel activists plan to attempt to cross over into Israel via the Allenby Bridge tonight and tomorrow.

News Briefs

US Seizes $150 Million of Hezbollah Funds

By JTA

U.S. authorities announced the seizure of $150 million allegedly linked to a money-laundering scheme by the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. The Lebanese Canadian Bank and other unidentified institutions sent nearly $330 million to the United States between 2007 and 2011 to finance the purchase of used cars that were shipped to West Africa, according to […]

News Briefs

Beit Shean On Alert

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Wednesday evening, there were reports of an attempted cross-border infiltration into Israel from Jordan. The attempt happened near Beit Shean. Some security forces in the area are remaining on high alert. Police are saying everything is normal.

News Briefs

Palestinian Tries to Steal Soldier's Gun

By Jewish Press News Desk

Near Shavei Shomron a Palestinian tried to steal a soldier's gun. A reserve soldier was driving in his car when a Palestinian, mistaking him for a woman because of his long hair, blocked the road in an attempt to hijack the car.  When the soldier got out of his car, the Palestinian then tried to […]

Op-Eds

Let’s Not Overlook Hillary’s Role In Obama’s Approach To Israel

By Jonathan S. Tobin

The Washington Post trod over some familiar territory this past weekend with a 7,000-word retrospective on the Obama administration’s Middle East peace process misadventures.

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / United Nations (UN) / Archaeology

PA to UN: Make Church of Nativity World Heritage Site in State of Palestine

By Malkah Fleisher

The Palestinian Authority will attempt to register the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a world heritage site in the country of Palestine when the World Heritage Committee meets in Russia from June 24 to July 6.

Israel / News Briefs

National Union MKs Demand Defense of Jews on Mount of Olives

By Malkah Fleisher

National Union MKs Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad toured eastern Jerusalem’s A-Tur neighborhood on Sunday afternoon in an attempt to highlight the need for security in the area, famous for housing the millennia-old Mount of Olives cemetery.

Israel / Jewish / Health and Living

Israel May Up Fertility Treatment Subsidies to Three Kids, Cut Aid to Older First-Time Moms

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel’s Health Ministry is mulling a plan to vastly increase government assistance to couples with fertility difficulties to grow larger families, while decreasing the amount of subsidies to women over the age of 43 who have never succeeded in getting pregnant.

Archaeology

Oil Pipeline Threatens Ancient Babylon and World Cultural Heritage

By Noah Wiener, Bible History Daily

The General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq has filed a lawsuit against the Oil Projects Committee in an attempt to prevent the construction of the pipeline, which would pass through the wall of the 1,400 year old castle known as the Babil Fortress.

News Briefs

Two IDF Soldiers Injured by Terrorist Gunfire at Gaza Border

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

Two IDF soldiers were injured as a result of terrorist gunfire while engaged in routine security activity at the Gaza Strip security fence on Wednesday. The soldiers received initial medical treatment on site and were evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka hospital in Be'er Sheva. IDF soldiers responded with gunfire. Just last week, IDF soldiers […]

Middle East / Levant / News Extra

Video: Al Qaeda's Underwear Bomb Maker A Top Concern

By Yocheved Seidman

Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri is a 28 year old Saudi citizen now living in Yemen who is expert at creating bombs that can elude detection and penetrate airport security. He is the maker of two near miss underwear bombs as well as other hidden small devices including a bomb placed in his own brother's body […]

Israel / News Briefs

Israel's Cabinet Smashes Mega-Corporations

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to force some of Israel’s largest conglomerates to break up, in an attempt to drive competition and reduce the cost of living. According to a report in the Chicago Tribune, Israel has one of the highest concentrations of corporate power in the developed world, with 10 of Israel’s […]

Sports / Global / Olympics 2012

Olympic Committee Refuses to Commemorate Israeli Munich Massacre Victims

By Malkah Fleisher

A campaign by the widows of two Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre have had their petition for a memorial at the 2012 Olympic games rejected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Israel

2,300 Palestinian Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike

By Solomon Burke

"Palestinian Prisoner's day" is the latest attempt to load the Palestinian calendar with days of mass mobilization and action, with the higher aim of embarrassing Israel and pressuring it to make concessions. Among the demands being made are an end to administrative detention and access to newspapers and more television channels.

News Briefs

Drowned 7 Year Old Girl from Kiryat Sefer Pronounced Dead in Hospital

By Jewish Press News Desk

A 7-year-old girl who had fallen into a gushing river on Friday was rushed to Tel Hashomer Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. The severe weather of the past week in Israel turned the country's slow and harmless rivers into gushing, foaming white waters, and one such river, near the Modi'in Orthodox Jewish neighborhood […]

News Briefs

Report: Almost 50% of Syrian Territory No Longer Under Regime's Control

By Jewish Press Staff

Claim made by Riad Al-Assad, commander of the Free Syrian Army.

News Briefs

Technion To Build, Launch Mini-Satellites Into Space

By Jewish Press Staff

Project head Professor Pini Gurfil says the satellites have great practical applications.

News Briefs

Mashaal On Official Hamas Visit to Jordan

By Jewish Press Staff

Trip is Jordan is Mashaal's first since being expelled in 1999.

Jewish / NY

Teen Synagogue Firebomber Charged With Another Attempt

By Malkah Fleisher

The teen loner awaiting trial for the firebombings of two northern New Jersey synagogues has been charged with an additional arson attempt at the Jewish Community Center of Paramus.

News Briefs

Abbas: No Progress in Amman

By Jewish Press Staff

PA president not excluding possibility of additional low-level discussions.

News Briefs

Report: Russia to Sell Syria Fighter Jets

By Jewish Press Staff

36 aircraft would be delivered to Syria at a total cost of $550 million.

News Briefs

China Reproaches Iran on Nuclear Program

By Jewish Press Staff

Statements come as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wraps up trip to Gulf region.

Israel / US

US Sends Chief of Staff to Stop Israeli Attack on Iran

By Malkah Fleisher

Israel’s intensifying readiness to launch a military strike against Iran has met with a negative US response, with top government officials being dispatched to the Jewish state in the attempt to thwart an attack.

News Briefs

Activists Return to Rebuild Mitzpe Avichai

By Jewish Press Staff

Outpost community near Kiryat Arba dismantled earlier in the day.

Moshe Feiglin

Get The Settlers

By Moshe Feiglin

It is wrong to throw rocks at IDF soldiers. We must do all that we can to uproot this phenomenon. But the mad witch-hunt that raged recently has nothing to do with concern for and loyalty to the IDF.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter IX

By Barbara Bensoussan

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