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Maariv

Headline / Jewish / NY / Police and Crime / Diaspora

Can NY Jews Go Out After Curfew for Religious Needs?

By Jewish Press News Desk

There have been numerous inquiries about going to the Mikvah or to a Minyan for Maariv...

Featured / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / Government

Bennett: Instead of Curbing Gaza Fuel Supplies – Kill Terrorists

By JNi.Media

"The big battle is between Habayit Hayehudi, which will be pulling to the right in all areas, versus the center-left, which is Yisrael Beiteinu."

Featured / IDF & Security / Politics / Health and Medicine

Former IDF Chief Medical Officer: Inform Female Combat Soldiers of Higher Injury Risk

By JNi.Media

"When we integrate more and more women into combat units, we must make sure that they are consciously willing to volunteer, precisely because their injury rates are so much higher."

Featured / US / Politics / Holidays & Observances / Interfaith Relations / Religion

NC Gay Pride Event Pushed on Account of Yom Kippur

By JNi.Media

You could finish Ma'ariv with the minyan, then even do Kiddush Levanah, if the sky isn't overcast, change into your leather shorts and hit the festival.

Parsha

Tefillas Ma’ariv

By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs

I want to suggest that although ma’ariv is a voluntary tefillah in its essence, it differs from a nedavah.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Police and Crime / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs

Israeli Media Reporting on Hebron Shooter Trial Strictly Political

By JNi.Media

The case for both an acquittal and a mistrial appears strong, so that there's little doubt that a conviction would result in an appeal to the civilian Supreme Court.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria

Report: IDF Prosecutor, Brass, Media Railroading Sergeant Elor Azaria

By JNi.Media

When Azaria's attorneys asked Naaman in court which of his testimonies they should go with, did the terrorist move, didn't he, the key witness answered, "Now I don't recall exactly."

Israel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Media

Arutz-7 to End Financial Support of Ha'aretz

By Jewish Press News Desk

Basheva will be printed by Yisrael Hayom instead of by Haaretz.

Israel / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Son (Complete Opposite) of I. B. Singer Dead at 85

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Son of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Israeli author Israel Zalman, dead at 85.

Israel

Makor Rishon to Change Owners

By Shalom Bear

Baruch Hashem, the popular Israeli paper Makor Rishon won't shut down, just have new owners.

Israel / News Briefs

Makor Rishon For Sale?

By Jewish Press News Desk

It appears that Makor Rishon may now be up for sale. Makor Rishon is a popular Israeli/Hebrew newspaper that caters to the Religious-Zionist market. Last year, the newspaper's management purchased the failed newspaper, Maariv, which subsequently turned into a financial black hole that has neen sucking Makor Rishon dry. Agreements connected to the purchase of […]

Israel / News Briefs / Europe / Religion

French Imams in Jerusalem For Anti-Anti-Jewish Campaign

By Malkah Fleisher

A campaign by a group of 12 French imams to portray themselves as friendly to Jews is set to take place on Sunday when they arrive in Israel for a five-day visit.

Op-Eds

Obama’s Attempts At Making Nice With The Mullahs

By P. David Hornik

It turns out that soon after taking office, President Obama tried to make friends – totally – with the mullahs’ regime in Iran.

US / Politics / Iran / News Briefs / Media

Maariv: Iran Said 'No' to Obama's Plea for Reconciliation

By Jewish Press Staff

A few months after he had been elected, President Barack Obama attempted to renew on a gradual basis U.S. diplomatic relations with Iran.

Op-Eds

Don’t Blame Adelson For Collapse Of Israel’s Monolithic Liberal Media

By David M. Weinberg

Liberal pundits have coined a new saw: Sheldon Adelson and the newspaper he owns, Israel Hayom, are primarily responsible for the collapse of many Israeli media outlets, and this endangers Israeli democracy.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israel Elections 5773

Polls Indicate Netanyahu Will Score in New Elections

By Malkah Fleisher

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s call to disband the government and call for new elections may serve him well, if two public opinion polls published Thursday pan out.

News Briefs

Abbas Says He Will Go Ahead with UN Bid Speech

By Jewish Press News Desk

P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Wednesday that he will deliver a speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations to ask for recognition of Palestine as a non-member state, Ma'an reported. The comments, which were posted on the president's Facebook page, added that the speech would most likely take place on September 27. […]

Israel / News Briefs

Israel Newspaper Staffs Go On Strike

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli newspaper staff have gone on strike today due to the staffing cuts that are expected to hit many of the papers. Maariv employees are burning tires in the street.

Israel / News Briefs

Makor Rishon Buys Maariv

By Jewish Press News Desk

As JewishPress.com first reported last Thursday, Shlomo Ben-Zvi, the publisher of the national-religious paper Makor Rishon announced the purchase of the struggling Maariv newspaper on Friday. Maariv is the 3rd largest paper in Israel. It was owned by Nochi Dankner and IDB, and had recently announced it would be going completely digital, except for the weekend editions. […]

News Briefs

Makor Rishon to Buy Maariv?

By Jewish Press News Desk

Globes is reporting that Shlomo Ben-Zvi, one of the owners of the religious Israeli newspaper, Makor Rishon, is in advanced talks with Maariv owner Nochi Dankner to buy the Maariv newspaper. The report said that Ben-Zvi doesn't plan to buy the debt of the paper, just the assets, including the Maariv brand name and control. The deal is […]

Israel

Maariv Goes Digital

By Jewish Press News Desk

It's official. The 64 year old Israeli newspaper Maariv is officially stopping its daily print edition and will go digital only, with a printed edition only on the weekends.  

Emes Ve-Emunah

As the Pendulum Swings - Ever Rightward

By Harry Maryles

Fact is there is of course nothing wrong with raising standards of religious observance. As long as it is voluntary. But when schools start making new demands along those lines, they completely ignore individual choice. Being Machmir should be an individual choice and not forced upon anyone. These strictrures have nothing to do with basic Halacha. They have to do with image.

Photo of the Day

Self Defense

By Jewish Press Staff

Jewish Settlers practicing the self-defense martial arts sport Krav Maga at the Jewish outpost of Ramat Migron. A summer camp for young women was held this week in Ramat Migron, for the next generation of women in Judea and Samaria. The three day camp included self-defense classes, painting buildings and lectures. One of the twenty […]

News Briefs

Gadhafi’s Mother Was Jewish, his Protocol Chief Says

By JTA

Muammar Gadhafi's mother was Jewish, the late Libyan leader's chief of protocol Nuri al-Samara told Al-Hayat. Last year, a 76-year-old Jewish resident of Netanya told Maariv that Gadhafi was her cousin. "My grandmother converted to Islam but never forgot her roots," Gita Boaron told Maariv at the time. "She would come to visit us, give […]

Israel / News Briefs

Did Ha'aretz Turn Eli Yishai Into a Racist 'White Man'?

By Shalom Bear

A missing sentence in an Ha'aretz translation is all that stands between Eli Yishai being a racist, and those he's quoting.

Halacha & Hashkafa

Sefirat Ha’Omer At Sunset

By Rabbi J. Simcha Cohen

Question: May one recite Sefirat Ha’Omer with a berachah after sunset (shekiah)?

Potpourri

The Hat

By Alan Magill

I do not dress like the average Orthodox man in my Brooklyn neighborhood. It’s not that I’m trying to make a statement by often going hatless and wearing blue and brown suits, it’s just that in becoming religious I have changed so much - there are certain things I don’t want to give up, especially since my religion doesn’t truly ask me to do so.

Knesset Corner

Battle of the Polls and Hallway Chatter

By Jeremy Saltan

Two polls - one commissioned by Maariv, the other by Haaretz - paint drastically different pictures of the current political frontrunners, leading to heated debate in the halls of the Knesset

Middle East / Levant / Global

Report: President Obama Offers Israel Weapons in Exchange for Inaction

By Rafi Harkham

Anonymous diplomatic and intelligence sources tell Israeli paper that the Obama administration would supply Israel with weapons that would extend its time-line for military action – like advanced GBU-28 bunker-busting bombs and long-range refueling aircraft, so that Israel could wait till after the 2012 presidential election to launch a strike.

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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E-Edition

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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