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Devorah Leah Andrusier Part 2: Overcoming Addictions in the Jewish Community

By Vera Kessler

Devorah Leah Andrusier is an addictions coach who helps people overcome their battle with all different types of addictions.

America's Top Rebbetzins

Devorah Leah Andrusier Part 1: Overcoming Addictions in the Jewish Community

By Vera Kessler

Devorah Leah Andrusier is an addictions coach who helps people overcome their battle with all different types of addictions.

Health and Medicine

New Israeli Study Sheds Light on Promising Antidepressant

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A newly revealed mechanism of ketamine’s action on potassium channels in neurons may lead to improved therapies for depression, a new study by Weizmann Institute researchers shows.

IDF & Security / Police and Crime / Lebanon

Israeli Forces Thwart Largest Arms Smuggling Op from Lebanon in History

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

61 weapons and drugs with a total value of approximately NIS 3,500,000 were seized.

IDF & Security / Lebanon / Jordan

IDF Thwarts Smuggling of Gun and Drugs from Lebanon, Jordan

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The smugglers with Jordan were caught with a haul of 53 weapons, including 39 handguns, 10 Kalashnikov assault rifles, and four M-16 assault rifles.

Terrorism / Lebanon / Hezbollah

Report: Since 2015, Hezbollah-Led Drug Network Attempted to Smuggle 600 Million Pills Out of Lebanon

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

According to the report, over $3 billion worth of Captagon amphetamine was seized since February 2020 alone.

Photo of the Day

Welcome to Rahat

By Photo of the Day

Prime Minister Bennett examines some of the guns and drugs that were seized by police from the Bedouin village of Rahat, in the Negev.

Israel / Russia

In Personal Letter, Netanyahu Vows to Free Naama Issachar

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“We do not abandon anyone to his fate,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes to Naama Issachar, 27, who was arrested in Moscow on drug charges in April.

Police and Crime

Telegrass Founder Extradited to Israel After Failed Jailbreak Attempt in Ukraine

By Arye Green / TPS

Silver is suspected of having started a narcotics distribution network, which was operational since 2017 and had been used as a platform for the trade of Cannabis, MDMA and other psychedelic drugs.

Politics / Police and Crime / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy / Media / Health and Medicine

Knesset to Weigh Decriminalizing Weed as War on Drugs Authority Flips

By JNi.Media

The Drug Authority's Chief Scientist, Yossi Fisch, noted that the incidence of Marijuana serving as a "gateway drug" is "negligible, zero."

US / News Briefs / Saudi Arabia

Saudi Prince Accused of Threatening and Sexually Assaulting LA Women

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Three housekeepers in his $37 million mansion are suing. The prince reportedly was drunk.

Israel / US / Iran / News Briefs

Netanyahu Meth Metaphor Focuses Debate on Inspections as AIPAC and J Street Battle It Out

By JNi.Media

"Can you imagine giving a drug dealer 24 days’ notice before you check the premises? That’s a lot of time to flush a lot of meth down the toilet.”

US / News Briefs / Obituaries

Former DC Mayor Marion Barry, Dead at 78

By Jewish Press News Desk

Former Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry died early Sunday at age 78.

Israel / Global / News Briefs

Bullet-Filled Doll Halts Traffic at Ben Gurion Airport

By Jewish Press Staff

Never, never, never take packages from someone without knowing what is inside.

Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Israel Police Report 9% Rise in Calls for Help

By Jewish Press Staff Writer

Israel Police received more than 9 million ‘100' calls (Israel’s ‘911') in 2013; 18 percent came from Tel Aviv.

Israel / Global / News Briefs / Science and Tech

Teva Wins FDA Approval for Leukemia Drug

By Jewish Press News Desk

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceuticals full approval for Synribo, a drug that is injected for adults with a with chronic phase or accelerated phase of myeloid leukemia. Chronic myeloid leukemia, also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia, is one of four main types of leukemia and is a cancer […]

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Israeli Arabs

Israeli Police Expose Palestinian Authority Drug Lab

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Israeli police exposed a drug lab in the Palestinian Authority city of Tulkarm, located on the western edge of Samaria and less than 15 miles from Netanya. A police spokesperson explained that Tulkarm was chosen as a site for the drug lab because it is not easily accessible to the Israeli Police A large force […]

NY / News Briefs / Judaism

Police Nab Sabbath Observant Drug Traffickers

By JTA

Criminals who observe the Sabbath forgot that Torah also commands not to endanger others, but New York City narcotic agents have now made sure they can’t do so after arresting them on charges of multiple crimes, from illegal possession of narcotics to illegal possession of a weapon, according to CBS news. The drug ring was […]

News Briefs

Heroin-Addicted Would-Be Terrorist Not a Nazi

By JTA

By Talia Lavin New York loves nothing so much as a good scandal. So considering the carnival of a mayoral race that is now unfolding, it’s probably understandable some people might have missed this one: Aaron Greene, 31, a son of New York Jewish privilege, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for possession […]

Israel / News Briefs / Religion

Israel Rabbi Says Marijuana ‘Kosher’ if Medicinal

By JTA

Marijuana is not milk or dairy; it is not an animal whose kashrus is questionable. Rabbis have ruled it’s not kosher to take drugs to escape the world, but one rules “grass” for medical purposes is kosher.

Israel / Global / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Tel Aviv U Researcher Says Marijuana Can Halt Brain Damage

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Marijuana is known to have therapeutic qualities. A Tel Aviv Univ. professor now says a very low dosage of grass also can prevent brain damage. A new study may reach the same conclusion for the heart.

Jewish / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

British Jewish Crime Boss Sues Prison for Kosher Meals

By Jewish Press News Desk

An orthodox British Jew serving time in jail for trying to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine is suing prison officials for discrimination by denying him kosher food, the London Sun reported. Simon Price, 68, complained of “institutionalized anti-Semitism” and charged that although inmates are allowed to cook their own meals, he was given […]

Israel / News Briefs

PA Stats Reveals 3% of Arabs Are Drug Addicts

By Jewish Press News Desk

Approximately one of every 30 Arabs in areas claimed by the Palestinian Authority is a drug addict, according to statistics reported by the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency Monday. The Arab population of Judea and Samaria, along with those living in eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem, is estimated by Israeli demographers at slightly more than 1.5 […]

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VIII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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