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1993 World Trade Center Bombing Mastermind 'Blind Sheikh' Is Dead

By JNi.Media

Egyptian officials testified at his trial that the CIA was actively assisting Omar Abdel-Rahman in entering the US.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Science and Tech / Asia

Elbit Subsidiary Launches Cybersecurity Training and Simulation Center in Japan

By JNi.Media

The Elbit training platform provides a rich and up-to-date selection of simulated attack scenarios, including ransomware.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / History / News Briefs / On Campus / Education / Judaism

Time to Come Home: South Dakota Chabad Center Completes 50-State Outreach

By JNi.Media

According to Chabad, the way to "bring the messiah" is by spreading Hasidic teaching, so that once every land has in it Jews capable of Hasidic meditation and action, redemption must come next.

South Florida

Holocaust Documentation and Education Center Moves to Dania Beach

By Shelley Benveniste

The center has always strived to teach people from all walks of life the universal lessons of the Holocaust.

Terrorism / Politics / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Argentine Judge Wants to Probe Former President on 1994 Jewish Center Bombing

By JNi.Media

On October 25, 2006, special prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally accused the government of Iran of directing the AMIA bombing, and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out.

Front Page

Man At The Center Of Creation

By Rabbi Yuval Cherlow

Torah and halacha are based on a different language, one that teaches responsibility and pride, freedom and merit, self-acceptance and natural morality.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / On Campus / Education

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Buys Permanent Facilities

By JNi.Media

July marks the two-year anniversary of the Oregon Jewish Museum's merger with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.

News Briefs

Argentina to Investigate Official for Incitement against Israel

By JTA

An Argentinian prosecutor a government official of incitement against Israel and public intimidation. Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA cultural center, said there is “concrete evidence to start an investigation” of acting Under Secretary of Family Agriculture Emilio Persico, who participated in an Aug. 2 ceremony marking Al Quds […]

My Right Word / Israel Elections 5773

First-Time Israeli Voters Going Right

By Yisrael Medad

This item in Hebrew from Israel's Channel 2/Mako informs us that: 49% of all first time voters define themselves as right-wing. 20% as center but right-leaning. 5% as left and 9% as center but left-leaning. How are those stats? Visit My Right Word.

The Muqata

MSM vs. The Likud

By Jameel@Muqata

"Fascist".... "Radical"... "Ultra-nationalist"....these words were used over and over again by Channels 1, 2, and 10 TV. It seems the mainstream media in Israel is upset by what the people want.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset

With Tzipi Livni Declaring Today, Polls Give Likud a Clear Lead

By Jewish Press Staff

The right-wing block would receive 70 seats, vs. 50 to the center-left, including the Arabs.

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Batsheva Sherman And Yad L’isha

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

Yad L’isha - Helping Hand for Woman is a Legal Aid Center and Hotline where free legal advice and representation is offered to women locked in marital prisons who would otherwise have nowhere to turn.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Famed IDF Rescue Team in Ghana After Mall Collapses

By Malkah Fleisher

The Israel Defense Forces galvanized its internationally-recognized emergency response team to assist in a search and rescue operation in Ghana Wednesday night, after a shopping center collapsed in the country’s capital.

Op-Eds

Israel’s Political Circus In Full Swing

By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

On October 15, the Knesset voted unanimously to dissolve itself. Elections will be held on January 22, 2013. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to take the step after realizing he could not obtain a majority for his proposed budget.

News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Operation Dove’s Wings Begins as Ethiopian Aliyah Comes to a Close

By Jewish Press Staff

The flight was organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel, pursuant to the July government decision to increase the rate of Ethiopian Aliyah.

Photo of the Day

Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29

By Jewish Press Staff

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite captured this visible image of Hurricane Sandy battering the U.S. East coast on Monday, Oct. 29 at 9:10 a.m. EDT. At 8 a.m. EDT the National Hurricane Center noted that the center of Hurricane Sandy was located near latitude 36.8 north and longitude 71.1 west. This was about 310 miles (505 km) […]

News Briefs

The Ethiopian Aliyah Comes to a Close

By Jewish Press News Desk

A ceremony welcoming the new immigrants will take place at Ben Gurion Airport Terminal 1 on Monday, 29.10.12 at 15:00. In attendance will be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, James S. Tisch, Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Sofa Landver, […]

NY / Local

Probes Launched Into Alleged Police Brutality

By Elliot Resnick

The NYPD and Brooklyn district attorney’s office have both opened investigations into the October 8th beating of 21-year-old Ehud HaLevy by two Brooklyn police officers.

NY / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Police Beat Up Unarmed Israeli in Brooklyn Jewish Center (Video)

By Tibbi Singer

The officers decided to arrest Halevi, who refused to be handcuffed and pushed the two cops off. In an instant, the male officer flew into a rage.

Fresno Zionism

Mitt, You Were Right the First Time!

By Vic Rosenthal

While events — the Hamas takeover of Gaza, the Second Intifada — have convinced the great majority of Israelis that a practical two-state solution is a fantasy based on wishful thinking, this has generally not penetrated the US media or political establishment. So Mitt’s remarks in May came as a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, it seems as though Romney has now changed his mind.

News Briefs

Jerusalem Municipality Approves New NIS 18 Million Deer Park and Sanctuary

By Jewish Press News Desk

Sunday - The Jerusalem Municipality approved a plan to invest in and upgrade the Jerusalem Deer Sanctuary  in Deer Valley (near the Pot Junction), and to turn it into the first city-based nature park in Israel. The park will cover an area of over 60 acres. New deers will be brought into the existing sanctuary, and the […]

Local

Outrage Over Planned Truancy Center In Brooklyn Neighborhood

By Naomi Klass Mauer

In a move that has sparked outrage among many in the Flatbush Jewish community, the New York City Department of Education has set into motion the opening of a Truancy Center at 1780 Ocean Ave., corner of Ave. M. The location is just yards from Yeshiva Shaarei Torah, a girls’ high school.

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

Who Is Behind the Wave of Fires in Israel?

By Jacob Edelist

Firefighters cannot remember a summer like this in many years.

Op-Eds

The Center of Jewish Culture is Already in Israel

By Vic Rosenthal

The center of Jewish culture — spiritual, scientific, entrepreneurial, artistic — is today, as it should be, Israel. This was not the case in 1948 or 1967, but it is true now, and I can only expect it to become more true as time goes by.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Pre-Preparing for Elul

By Moshe Herman

Yishai presents a recent class given by Rabbi Zev Reichman about the sanctity and power of physicality and its center in Israel.

News Briefs

Barak Orders Haredi Conscription

By JTA

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Israeli Defense Forces to draft Haredi men as it does other Jewish Israelis. The order came as the Tal Law, which allowed many Haredi men to defer army service, expired on Wednesday. Israel’s Supreme Court overturned the law in February. Israeli law mandates that Jewish Israelis enter the […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Haredi IDF Battalion Marks 33% Increase in Recruits

By Jewish Press Staff

Last Thursday the recruitment began at the "Netzach Yehuda" Haredi battalion of the Kfir Brigade, as more than 200 anxious ultra-Orthodox recruits arrived at the processing center. Last year, some 380 soldiers joined the regiment, and according to official data from the Department of Manpower, the current cycle will see an increase of 33% in the number of recruits.

Op-Eds

Re-Imagining Av – Signs of Hope in Jerusalem

By Charlene Seidle and Brachie Sprung

By harnessing the creative energy that is bubbling below the surface, Jerusalem is being restored to its rightful place as the center of world-wide social innovation.

Israel

Climbing to the Top: A Story of Strength

By Alisa Bodner, Tazpit News Agency

Menifa-Leverage for Life is a nonprofit organization that was founded in Israel in 2004. The mission of the organization is to prevent at-risk youth from dropping out of high school and to reintegrate detached youth into normative frameworks. Since its establishment, Menifa has operated 130 such programs around Israel.

News Briefs

Egyptian Clerics: Take Down the Heathen Pyramids

By Jewish Press News Desk

Frontpagemag.com cites several reports in the Arabic media, that prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids, or, as Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘I put it, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long been planning to cover with wax. According to Frontpagemag.com, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of […]

News Briefs / On Campus / Education

State Rejects Ariel's University Status as Peers Fear Its Success

By Jewish Press Staff

The Planning and Budgeting Committee of Israel's Council for Higher Education recommended Wednesday to defer the decision until a comprehensive evaluation is undertaken in the next year. The list of Ariel's accomplishments may be the very reason for its failure to achieve recognition by its peers in Israel.

News Briefs

Chicago Chabad House Files for Bankruptcy to Avoid Foreclosure

By JTA

The brownstone housing the Chabad Lubavitch of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park was to have gone on the auction block Wednesday, but the bankruptcy filing this week gave Chabad additional time to repay a bank loan, the Chicago Tribune reported. The group has found a way to pay its debts but needed more […]

InDepth / The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Jewish Press Radio with Yishai Fleisher: From Caleb to Today

By Moshe Herman

Yishai and Malkah talk about the story of Caleb and how a recent trip to Hebron is related along with the view of Arabs in the Religious Zionist world. Malkah talks about her recent experience at an Israeli firearms training center.

News Briefs

Celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, 84

By JTA

Celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, who was committed to fighting anti-Semitism and fought in Israel's War of Independence, has died. Sassoon died Wednesday in his Los Angeles home. He was 84. He had been battling leukemia, according to the Los Angeles Times. In 1982, he established the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism […]

Op-Eds

No Equal Justice Under The Law

By Sarah Stern

The Koby Mandell Act created the Office of Justice of Victims for Overseas Terrorism in the Department of Justice, to ensure that all American citizens, irrespective of where they were killed or maimed, would get the justice under American law they deserve. I naively thought that the 54 American citizens who had been killed by Palestinian terrorists and the 83 who had been wounded would finally get a crack at the American justice they so richly deserved.

News Briefs / SciTech

Apple To Start Massive Israel Hiring Push

By Jewish Press Staff

In the next few weeks, Apple’s new Israeli research and development center will launch a major hiring campaign.

News Briefs

Anti-Semitic Attack on Sheepshead Bay Jewish Center

By Malkah Fleisher

What appears to be the latest in a series of anti-Semitic defacements of the Avenue Z Jewish Center in southern Brooklyn has left the Jewish community wondering when the attacks will come to an end.

News Briefs

Canada Shuts Down Organization Supporting B'Tzelem

By Jewish Press News Desk

The website Shalom Toronto reports that Canada's foreign office will close down the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic development, which two years ago has decided to support B'Tzelem and the two Palestinian human rights organizations Al Chak and Al Mizan. B'Tzelem is an Israeli organization which has been presenting a decidedly pro-Palestinian view […]

Op-Eds

The Joy of the Soul - Remembering 13 Year Old Shlomo Nativ HY"D

By Shlomo Vile

Three years ago on the 8th of Nisan, 5769, an Arab terrorist with an axe ran into the center of our community of Bat Ayin and killed a 13 year old Shlomo Nativ. Every year before the anniversary of this terrible event, our community comes together to remember and honor Shlomo and his family and to connect with one another.

News Briefs

Lubavitch Going to Federal Court on Connecticut Synagogue Application Denial

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Hartford Courant reports that Chabad Lubavitch of Litchfield County has filed notice in federal court appealing a federal judge's dismissal in February of its lawsuit. Chabad claimed it was the victim of religious discrimination when the Borough of Litchfield, the Borough's Historic District Commission and others denied the application to build a synagogue and […]

Focus on Israel/Dov Gilor

An American Odyssey (Part 7)

By Dov Gilor

We left Santa Fe on our way to visit the Painted Forest and the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Part of our day was spent traveling on the historic Route 66 and we stopped at the state visitor's center as we entered Arizona. At each state visitor’s center, we stopped to gather information about interesting sites and to request coupon booklets with reduced entry coupons.

Potpourri

Haman’s ‘Family Tree’

By Esther Ottensoser

This Purim centerpiece is sure to keep all your guests “hanging around” until dessert. It can be put together on any level, from simple backyard branches with plain gingerbread man cookies dangling, to curly willow branches with elaborately decorated royal iced gingerbread man cookies – and everything in between! Before you can say all of Haman’s 10 sons in one breath – the cookies will be gone.

Knesset Corner

Nationalist Camp Grows to 76 seats in Recent Poll, Likud Opens Big Lead with 39 Seats

By Jeremy Saltan

According to the poll, PM Netanyahu could form a coalition of 62 seats with Yisrael Beitenu, National Union and Jewish Home without the need for any ultra-orthodox or center-left parties.

Israel

Tel Shiloh Declared a National Heritage Site

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Thirty sites, including Tel Arad, the Herodium, and Beit Ha'Aztmaut in Tel Aviv have been declared National Heritage Sites. So it turns out the Jewish people are not in occupiers in Judea and Samaria after all.

Israel / Jewish / Global

Israeli Innovation: Blood Test to Detect Multiple Cancer Types

By Tibbi Singer

A new method in development at Soroka Medical Center and Ben Gurion University will offer early detection using infrared light. Preliminary tests show 90% rate of success.

News Briefs

71 Olim From Ethiopia Land in Israel

By Jewish Press Staff

The new immigrants were taken to an absorption center in Kiryat Gat, where they will live while integrating into the Jewish state.

Middle East / Levant

Syrian Rebels Briefly Seize Damascus Suburb

By Sam Ser

Witnesses said the Free Syrian Army held territory and set up roadblocks in Douma, a center of dissent, for up to several hours before retreating to their hideouts.

Israel / SciTech

Apple Makes First Israeli Acquisition

By Malkah Fleisher

After weeks of negotiations, computer mega-giant Apple has acquired its first Israeli company, Anobit Technologies, for $390 million.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter VII

By Barbara Bensoussan

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