One of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history is Haym Salomon (1740-1785).
The various special cabinets and deputy ministers were established.
By David Isaac
Israel's outgoing PM urged municipalities not to cooperate with an educational department to be headed by lawmaker Avi Maoz.
Gafni has little patience for those who are implying that the religious parties planning on usurping Israeli democracy.
The government said the ruling doesn't change the status quo, and the state would be filing an appeal in the case.
Rumor has it that Netanyahu is planning to offer Gantz a very sweet deal.
By Steve
The High Court said the government must fill the positions that were left empty after the last election.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The government will vote to push off a budget decision by 100 days.
"The alternative to the steps that we take today – is much harsher steps tomorrow."
Minister Zeev Elkin entered quarantine on Sunday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Minister Tzachi Hanegbi to replace Hotoveley as head of the Settlement Affairs Ministry.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
At a joint press conference in Jerusalem, America's top diplomat says that the IDF soldier's murder in a Palestinian rock attack the previous day “reminds us of the importance of making sure that people across the world know that Israel has the right to defend itself.”
Ron Kobi was accused of provoking and instigating against religious Jews. He was fired for failing to pass a budget.
Netanyahu ordered all ministers in the Israeli government not to say anything about the American strike.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We have a $38 billion commitment over 10 years for military aid to Israel,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who is the chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. “The Israelis need it for defense.”
By JNi.Media
The EBU also demands that Israel agree not to restrict in any way the events related to the contest that would fall on Shabbat.
By JNi.Media
"Whoever threatens us with destruction puts himself in similar danger and in any case will not achieve his goal," Netanyahu vowed.
By JNi.Media
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz: "We will be in of control of the envelope around the fence, and the level of terror will drop in the Gaza Strip, as pragmatic forces will rise."
By JNi.Media
The agreement was brought to a vote at the Europol headquarters and was unanimously approved by 28 representatives of the member states.
By JNi.Media
"You are a philosopher, you only know how to talk and leave the doing to the rest of us," Kahlon told Netanyahu bitterly.
By JNi.Media
In 2013, Prof. Shany evaluated the Israeli judicial system on YouTube – we believe his views foretell a worse scrutiny of Israel by the UNHRC in the next 18 months.
By JNi.Media
We are destroying the terrorist tunnels, and in contrast, we are building these tunnels here which shorten distances.
By JNi.Media
"States can do much worse. They can do everything that you heard here and much more."
By JNi.Media
"I hope the citizens of South Korea will gain the quiet they have been seeking for years.”
Governments and politicians are lying to you. But what's worse is that those that were hired to keep you safe are following suit.
MKs will debate laws to legalize the Jewish character of the state, and to limit the power of the Supreme Court.
By JNi.Media
'Often times I found myself asking foreign presidents not to speak at the Knesset for fear of a disgraceful outburst,' Speaker Edelstein said.
The new Radiotherapy department was opened at Ziv Hospital.
PM Netanyahu will be handing over this closely guarded ministry to Ayoub Kara.
The cabinet passed a series of concessions to appease Trump, including converting land in Area C to Area A.
"We are committed to doing everything in our power to strengthen the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria," said Rabbi Ben Dahan.
By Onan Coca
The right wing has used harsh terms, but only the most fringe have argued for the government's overthrow or the upending of a lawfully elected administration. Sadly the same can't be said for liberals
Israel will not be bullied into actions that will endanger its citizens anywhere they live, said DM Liberman.
An Israeli Watch-dog defends the community of Amona which the government plans to destroy.
By JNi.Media
'A judicial branch that intervenes in the legally created product of the legislative or executive branches is not adhering to the democratic model and it is our duty to bring it back on track.'
By JNi.Media
The committee began its investigations in 1995, following bloody clashes in Passover of 1994, between the followers of a Yemenite Rabbi and police.
By Paul Gherkin
Remarkably hypocritical for liberal groups to fight foreign governments from publicizing emails that Dems actually wrote, while supporting their efforts to ACTIVELY operate inside Israel anonymously.
By JNi.Media
As soon as they became public, those railroad projects turned into a ticking bomb.
By Isi Leibler
I applaud Israel's government for, albeit belatedly, acting to expel or bar entry to foreigners entering Israel as "tourists" to promote/assist BDS and provoke West Bank Palestinians against the IDF
By JNi.Media
The rightwing parties could possibly combine their numbers to boycott either Kahlon or Lapid, or both, from the future coalition government.
By JNi.Media
"Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria have been experiencing unique security realities on a daily basis because of their geographic location and the quality of life in the area."
By David Mark
The real question for the Israeli government is what cost do we incur letting the Muslim Waqf radically change our holiest site-the Temple Mount-in exchange for some 'quiet.'
Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman was unanimously voted in as defense minister by the cabinet after a government compromise.
By JNi.Media
Herzog did not explain how a 55% majority of the house can be considered "extremist" while the remaining 45% are the proverbial moderates.
By Batya Medad
Bibi wants a national unity government, because his narrow coalition (61 out of 120 MKs) is too tight to allow him to make any policy changes
By JNi.Media
Bennett plans to crash the Netanyahu coalition in six months, with or without Labor taking up residence in the cabinet.
By JNi.Media
Justice Minister Shaked wants to enhance control of the legislative and executive branches over judiciary decisions—a democratizing direction.
No shutdown: U.S. Government will be funded through Dec. 11.
Swiss Ambassador Portrays U.S. and Iran as doves of peace defecating on Netanyahu.
Visiting U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey said Thursday morning with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, "The greatest gift has been the friendship that we've managed to forge with the leaders in the IDF, and I know you're proud of them but we are too. It's our constitution, and you know […]
Prime Minister Netanyahu will head over to President Rivlin's house on Tuesday and ask for a 14 day extension to build his coalition.
The coalition likes to survive by blood-letting.
By Rachel Levy
The government tells Israeli southerners it's safe to go home; but the cease fire is set to end in two days. Then what happens?
By Rachel Levy
The coalition sharks are smelling blood - not from Israel's enemies, but rather from PM Netanyahu.
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.
In what is apparently a surprise move, the army-backed Egyptian government just resigned, following a 15 minute cabinet meeting.
All the tools you need to succeed!
By Barry Rubin
"Israel has become an affluent and developed country that can afford to pay for its own defense."
The Israeli government was respectful enough to offer Reform Jews their own location at one of the holiest sites in Judaism in order to pray as they please.
By Soeren Kern
"I want London to stand alongside Dubai and Kuala Lumpur as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world." — David Cameron, Prime Minister, Great Britain.
As frustrating as it may be for Israel’s critics, support for Zionism is baked into the DNA of American politics.
By Robert Ellis
The EU Commission's progress report deals with a polarized society and a government that takes repressive measures against citizens who assert their democratic rights.
Crimes were committed, but not a holocaust, against both Jews and non-Jews, and even this must still be verified by historians...
Al-Jazeera again appears to be promoting Islamic violence these days, in Egypt and in Israel.
By J. E. Dyer
He gets that we can’t just sit still, paralyzed by bad press and Democratic talking points.
Easily misrepresented or abused, international law can generally be manipulated to serve virtually any preferred geo-political strategy.
By Barry Rubin
The greatest danger for Israel would be to listen to the bad advice of Obama, Kerry, and their supporters.
By Batya Medad
According to Jewish Law, an insane person can't sign an important contract.
Egyptian foreign minister Nabil Fahmy is visiting Ramallah on Monday to discuss bilateral relations between Egypt and the Palestinian Authority with Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the Egyptian ambassador to the PA told Ma'an. Yasser Othman said that the visit comes in support of the Palestinian return to negotiations and in gratitude for the Palestinian Authority's position […]
When Chassidim make a request to a government official, he pays attention.
By J. E. Dyer
Liberty always – always – has to be deliberately established and hedged about with protections.
By Batya Medad
"Only the wealthy won't feel Binyamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid's latest budget cut."
Britain's chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, is blaming British Prime Minister David Cameron for failing to do enough to boost marriages in the UK, and saying multiculturalism in Britain has "had its day," The Times reported. Rabbi Sacks said Cameron should recognize marriage in the tax system and do more to support stay at home mothers. […]
The moderate Charedi world that I often talk about as the future of mainstream American Orthodoxy - is a beneficiary of the new high school curriculum.
My problem is with the part of the law that requires 61 signatures in order to submit a no-confidence measure in the Knesset, which effectively neutralizes the no-confidence option.
By Paula Stern
There is inside of me a part that thinks our greatest victory, even if the world does not recognize it, is simply that we are not like them.
By Barry Rubin
The Palestinian leadership's goal of wiping out Israel has not changed. Only if it ever does will there be any chance of a two-state solution.
By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
Across Europe, the lid has come off the demons repressed for a few decades after the Holocaust.
Ahmadi criticizes Iranian leadership’s view of Israel as “little Satan” to the US’ “big Satan.”
Yesh Atid and party chairman Yair Lapid are facing their first charges of unethical conduct following the revelation that one of Lipid’s advisers is a part-owner of a beer company that is due tor receive aid from the Finance Ministry that Lapid heads. Hillel Kobrinsky is an adviser to Lapid and holds a 4 percent […]
By Daniel Payne
Predicting the future of huge laws is next to impossible, except, in this case, to say that it will either fail or cost taxpayers a lot of money, or both.
By Rafi Farber
People, we are being hoodwinked. No matter what the government says, the government does not define marriage, nor can it.
By Batya Medad
It's not that the various coalition partners don't trust Bibi, but that he doesn't really trust them.
Gideon Sa'ar, a contender to replace Netanyahu as party chairman, may be taking recent allegations more seriously than initially believed.
The criticism focused on the fact that Livni will be given a leading role in negotiations with the Palestinians, by the Likud said the Prime Minister will lead the negotiating team.
Nasty threats, mistreatment, rumors, and a general lack of trust define this government's coalition building attempts.
By JoeSettler
No one wants Hareidim moving into their neighborhood. But no one is letting them build all-Hareidi communities either.
The institution of party primaries in Israel needs to be expanded not shrunk, so that the government will be under the supervision of the people from which it derives power and the moral authority to govern.
A little insulting but shouldn't the Temple become a central element in the public discourse?
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
There are Israeli voters making some surprising and rather unexpected choices.
An interview with Henry Juszkiewicz, chairman and CEO of the Gibson Guitar Corp.
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.
Danon came fifth in the primaries, which often means a ministerial position.
It should take just one visit to the Middle East to understand what America is all about.
Had Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Tevi Troy would be director of domestic policy on his transition team.
JERUSALEM – While it is almost certain that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next Israeli coalition government, the country’s confusing electoral system has created another medley of instant political parties headed by a variety of media celebrities and scorned politicians.
The government middle class is the most hopeless middle class in all of history. It aspires to nothing and it dreams of nothing.
Hungarian Jewry is asking the government of Russia to release between 300 and 400 Torah scrolls, covers, crowns, pointers, and other objects seized by the Nazis during World War II and then appropriated by the Red Army.
The government class is being led by liars and fools who see it as a lever for upending and taking over a working class society.
By J. E. Dyer
Many readers are no doubt aware of the millions in taxpayer dollars that the Obama administration has contracted out to PR firms for the purpose of hawking Obamacare to a reluctant public.