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Jewish Organizations Protest UNESCO Insult to Judaism

By Jewish Press Staff

Marchers protested UNESCO's effort to erase Judaism from the Jewish people's holiest sites.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

US Losing Middle East Coalition

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Lately, the pro-Western coalition has begun to crumble, and two key countries - Saudi Arabia and Egypt - are searching for a new political crutch.

Khaled Abu Toameh

How Jerusalem's Arabs Act Against Their Own Interests

By Khaled Abu Toameh

The overwhelming majority of Jerusalem's Arabs are still afraid of the radicals.

Op-Eds

Iceland to Get its First Mosque

By Soeren Kern

The Muslim Association of Iceland now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque's construction costs.

Op-Eds

What the Syria Crisis Tells Us about the Israel Lobby

By Ben Cohen

Rather than the “Lobby” running the administration, it is the administration that runs the “Lobby.”

Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinians Accuse Peace Negotiators of Treason

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Palestinian leaders have legitimized Israel to the point where it has become a "crime" for any Palestinian to be seen talking to, much less negotiating with any Israeli.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Curse of Sinai

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Post-Mursi Egypt accuses Hamas of responsibility for the terrorist chaos in Sinai, and not without good cause.

United with Israel

Chinese-Israeli Cultural Relations Blossoming

By Rachel Avraham

Increased economic ties between Israel and China usher in cultural exchange.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Next Bloodbath : Lebanon

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

In Lebanon there is a rare opportunity to cut off a significant part of one of the most important arms of the Iranian octopus, which comprises Syria and Hezbollah.

Aliyah / Geulah / Jewish / News Briefs / US

1 Million Sign On For ‘Virtual March’ Marking ‘87 Soviet Jewry Rally

By JTA

More than 1 million people have signed on to join a "virtual march" commemorating the Washington rally 25 years for the Soviet Jewry movement, according to a coalition marking the 1987 event.

News Briefs

ADL Commemorates its Centennial by Honoring Bain Capital Executive

By Jewish Press News Desk

On its 100th year, the Anti-Defamation League  is recognizing Lavine's immense civic leadership and influence to affect positive change in our community. Their press release states: Lavine believes strongly in giving back to his community. Together with his wife Jeannie, Lavine has helped create, grow and sustain numerous organizations focused on improving the lives of children […]

Analysis / Op-Eds

The Hollow Ceasefire and How It Can Be Fixed

By MK Aryeh Eldad

The sole purpose of this ceasefire is to allow Netanyahu to survive the coming election.

Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan / News Briefs

Prime Minister Netanyahu's Official Statement on the Cease Fire

By Jewish Press News Desk

PM Netanyahu's Statement at November 21 Press Conference with Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense - Operation Pillar of Defense – Cease-Fire

Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan / News Briefs

UPDATED: Hamas Psych Ops Emails

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hamas is sending out emails to try to convince you that they're winning the war they're losing.

News Briefs

Netanyahu to Cabinet: World Leaders Understand Us

By Malkah Fleisher

The following was recorded and released by the Government Press Office from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's weekly cabinet meeting:

Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan

A Thank You from JewishPress.com

By Dovid Schwartz

Thank you to all our readers who responded and opened up their homes to residents from Israel's south.

Eye on "Palestine" / IDF & Security / Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan / News Briefs / Terrorism

Video: IDF Drops Leaflets on Gaza, Warns Residents to Flee Hamas Areas

By Malkah Fleisher

The IDF has dispersed warning leaflets above several locations in the Gaza Strip. This video is from Thursday, November 15, over Khan Yunis.

News & Views / This Ongoing War

Getting the Message out to the Innocent Victims

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

As massive as the fighting is, the count of dead on the Palestinian Arab side has three, perhaps two, civilians. Let's hope the effectiveness of the Israeli fighters continues at that exemplary level.

Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan

IAF Drops Warning Leaflets over Gaza Strip

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The IAF dispersed leaflets above several locations in the Gaza Strip. These leaflets warn the residents of the Gaza Strip to stay away from Hamas, and other terror organizations' operatives and facilities that pose a risk to their safety. The leaflets state: "Important announcement for the residents of the Gaza Strip: "For your own safety, take […]

Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan / News Briefs

Extensive Damage to Terrorist Long-Range Launch Capabilities

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

5:34 PM, Israel Time: The IDF carried out an extensive attack damaging to the long-range launch capabilities (over 25 miles) of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The attack caused significant damage to underground launch systems and weapons and ammunition storehouses belonging to terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. The purpose of the attack is to disrupt the […]

IDF & Security / Israel At War: Operation Amud Anan / News Briefs / Terrorism

'Pillar of Cloud' Operation Launched to Punish Gazan Terror (Updated)

By Jewish Press Staff

Update, 5:34 PM, Israel Time: The IDF carried out an extensive attack damaging to the long-range launch capabilities (over 25 miles) of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The attack caused significant damage to underground launch systems and weapons and ammunition storehouses belonging to terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. The purpose of the attack is to disrupt […]

Media / News Briefs / NY

Sandy Flooding Closing Forward Offices 'For Months'

By JTA

The building at 125 Maiden Lane may remain closed for months while transformers, boilers and other equipment are replaced.

Op-Eds

The Importance Of Strong Management In Day Schools

By Jake Goldstein

One of the hottest topics across all spectrums in the Jewish community is the financial sustainability of Jewish day school education in America. Schools have invested a lot of time and resources to train their professionals in the art of fundraising, developing donor relationships, and launching effective capital campaigns. And there has been a concerted effort among Jewish educational organizations to establish programs to assist day schools in improving their governance and developmental practices.

News Briefs

IAF Hits Rocket Squad, But 4 Rockets Fall in Be'er Sheva

By Jewish Press News Desk

Two more rockets were launched at the Be'er Sheva area at 7:40 Sunday morning. The rockets fell in an open area. No injuries or damage reported. This follows a series of rocket and mortar launches overnight from Gaza, and the IAF taking out one of the terrorists who launched a mortar at Israel. Overnight, IAF […]

News Briefs

Hundreds of World Jewish Leaders Coming to Israel Next week

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hundreds of Jewish leaders are coming to Israel next week from around the world to participate in the Jewish Agency for Israel Board of Governors in Tel Aviv, October 28-30. The central event is expected to be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attending a ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport welcoming the first charter flight of Operation […]

IDF & Security / Iran / Islamists / News Briefs / Terrorism

Netanyahu Says Israel May Use Military Option to Protect Syrian Bio-Chem Weapons

By Malkah Fleisher

“Israel will do everything it takes to ensure Syria’s chemical weapons do not fall into the hands of terrorist organizations — and if such a situation arises, then Israel will weigh a military option,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a group of European ambassadors in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

South Florida

RASG Hebrew Academy Breaks Ground For New Gym

By Shelley Benveniste

The Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy held a groundbreaking for a new, regulation-sized indoor gymnasium on Friday, September 21. The ceremony was held at the school’s west campus field, located at 2400 Pine Tree Drive in Miami Beach.

Israel

Sinai Becoming Terror Stronghold

By Tom Nisani and Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The rocket attacks from Gaza, the terrorist attack in Sinai which was stopped by the IDF from coming into Israel, all stem from the change in the balance of power since Mubarak's ouster. Since then, not only have terror groups in Gaza been strengthened, but the Sinai has become a training and smuggling base for Gaza terror organizations and others, including Hezbollah, according to reports the IDF has been receiving since February 2011. The Egyptians, under Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, have refused to take responsibility for their sovereign territory.

Europe / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Politics

UK Urges EU to Classify Hizbollah Military Wing as Terrorist Group

By JTA

Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague urged the European Union to place Hizbullah’s military wing on its list of terrorist organizations.

Fresno Zionism / On Campus / Education

Evergreen State — a Total Immersion Experience

By Vic Rosenthal

Students are drawn into psycho-political cyclotrons and are insulated from all other voices. What begins as a concern for human rights is amplified by contact with more and more extreme expressions of anti-Israel ideology.

Egypt / Israel / News Briefs

African Migrants Stuck at Egypt-Israel Border

By JTA

A group of some 20 African migrants is trapped between Israel's border fence with Egypt and Israeli soldiers who have been ordered not to let them in.

Back to School

Back To School

By Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman

What is the most impressive accomplishment in professional sports? What is that question doing in this newspaper? One of the lessons Ben Azzai teaches us in Pirkei Avos is al t’hi maflig l’chol davar, which means there is potential value in everything in Hashem’s world (Tiferes Yisrael on Avos 4:3). We might even be able to derive a musar haskal from professional sports.

News Briefs

Hadassah Foundation Awards 13 Bat Mitzvah-Year Mini-Grants

By Malkah Fleisher

The Hadassah Foundation announced 13 mini-grants for organizations serving Jewish young people in 11 states.

Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

This Is How the UN and the European Union Intentionally Promote Illegal Construction in Judea And Samaria

By Jewish Press Staff

European countries, European NGO’s and international support organizations have carried out at least 200 illegal building projects in Area C of Judea and Samaria.

This Ongoing War

Accidental Explosion in Gaza Car Terminates One Terrorist Career Prematurely, Puts Two More on Hold

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

Terrorists inside cars, frequently young men with explosives stuffed into their clothing, are a fixture in streets controlled by Hamas and other like-minded terrorist groups. There's an understandable reticence on the part of the Palestinian Arab terror organizations to own up to the way they place their own communities and neighbours at mortal risk, using them in effect as human shields.

Sultan Knish

The Peace Business

By Daniel Greenfield

The Israeli left is an alliance between Israeli and American oligarchs who would be perfectly happy with a country the size of Singapore, a city-state stretching across the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area, a place with a bustling stock exchange, a lot of good restaurants and start up companies. A properly liberal place at peace with its Muslim neighbors, with gay bars side-by-side with mosques and experimental theaters putting on the latest revolutionary plays.

News Briefs

Young Judaea Urged to Leave Hadassah Nest

By JTA

Young Judaea is en route to full independence from Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Hadassah's board had voted for the separation in June 2011, and both organizations announced this week that the move to independence had begun. Simon Klarfeld was hired in December as Young Judaea's executive director. Hadassah will provide $7 million […]

News Briefs

Search for Guma Aguiar Called Off

By JTA

The search for Guma Aguiar, a Florida businessman and philanthropist who has given millions to Jewish nonprofit organizations, reportedly was called off. Aguiar, the CEO of Leor Energy who lives in Fort Lauderdale, was last seen on the evening of June 19. His yacht washed ashore in Fort Lauderdale the following day, according to reports. […]

The Muqata

Haaretz on its Daily Warpath

By Jameel@Muqata

Once again the Haaretz newspaper is on the warpath, targeting its bitter Zionist enemy, the State of Israel.

News Briefs

Israeli Navy Captures Palestinian Smugglers Vessel

By IDF Spokesperson's Office

The Israeli Navy captured a Palestinian fishing vessel engaged in illegal smuggling travelling towards the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. No weapons were discovered on board the ship, only spare vehicle parts, and it was taken to shore by an Israeli Navy Dvora class fast patrol boat. After the investigation was complete, the smugglers were released […]

InDepth / The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

Jewish Press Radio with Yishai Fleisher: Hitting Them Where it Hurts

By Moshe Herman

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Israel Law Center Shurat HaDin, and a winner of the 2012 Moskowitz Prize for Zionism, join Yishai Fleisher to discuss stopping funds to terrorists, defending families of victims of terror attacks, and educating the public about terrorism.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / US

American Hostage Pleads with Obama To Free Al-Qaeda, Taliban Prisoners

By Malkah Fleisher

Warren Weinstein, an American humanitarian aid worker kidnapped by al-Qaeda  begged US President Barack Obama to free all al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners in US detention camps, and end airstrikes against forces in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia in exchange for his freedom. Weinstein, 71 of Rockville, Maryland, was kidnapped August 13, 2011, while in Lahore, […]

Israel / News Briefs

Zion Oil & Gas to Sponsor This Year's CUFI Summit

By Malkah Fleisher

Zion Oil & Gas announced Wednesday that it will sponsor both the "Night to Honor Israel" banquet and the "Ambassadors" reception at the 7th Annual Washington-Israel Summit of Christians United for Israel (CUFI).

Eye on "Palestine" / Israel / Media

Israel Fighting Flytilla Battle with Commercial Muscle and Irony

By Tibbi Singer

Israeli security forces are preparing for a "fly-in" of as many as 2000 pro-Palestinian provocateurs, who will be trying to push their way in front of the cameras at Ben Gurion airport on Sunday. Those activists who will make it through, coming in mostly from Europe, will be turned around and sent right back to their ports of origin, but not before being handed a leaflet expressing the sentiments of their brief hosts.

News Briefs

Mayor Bloomberg Links Surveillance to Jewish-School Shooting in France

By Jewish Press News Desk

At a press conference Monday evening, Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered a sympathetic reaction to reports that a gunman killed four people at a Jewish school in France, and linked it with the NYPD's out-of-state surveillance efforts, Capital New York reports. "It’s easy to sit here and say New York City should just take care of […]

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Mordechai Kedar: What's Really Going on in Gaza?

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

The Gaza Strip is no different from the rest of the Arab world, so tribal culture is alive and kicking there. Ever since the Hamas movement took control of Gaza trip in 2007, it has transformed itself from a gang of jihadists into a ruling government, a standard Arab state. The minor movements - Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Resistance Committeess - function like tribes, challenging the authority of the state. Today, these groups are doing to Hamas what Hamas did to the PLO twenty years ago when it was in power.

News Briefs

One Dead in Thwarted Infiltration Attempt on Israel–Egypt Border

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF Spokesperson's Office reports that IDF soldiers patrolling along the Israel-Egypt border Thursday night identified a group of suspects who had infiltrated into Israel. The soldiers called on the suspects to stop, and when they failed to comply, the soldiers acted in accordance with the Army's rules of engagement. Simultaneously, shots were fired from […]

West Coast Happenings

NCSY Philanthropy

By Jeanne Litvin

Over the past three months seven groups of NCSY teen leaders researched non-profit organizations, meeting with and learning from these organizations’ representatives about the Jewish perspective regarding philanthropy.

Potpourri

If You Don’t See Where You’re Going, You Might Not See Where You End Up

By Elke Weiss

Purim is my favorite holiday, and I love to share the joy. I have spent previous years wandering around my neighborhood in costume. This year, I fully intend to celebrate with full cheer, and I want everyone to know why I plan to spend the day in costume, singing Shoshanat Yaakov at the top of my lungs.

Editorial

Muslims Versus The NYPD

By Editorial Board

We are encouraged by signs that shortsighted attempts by some Muslim groups to blunt the obviously successful proactive NYPD anti-terrorism programs – programs that involve heightened scrutiny of some Muslim-Americans – are not getting any traction.

News Briefs

IDF Thwarts Major Terror Attack on Israel-Egypt Border

By Jewish Press Staff

The IDF and Israel Police uncovered a powerful explosive device overnight while on an anti-smuggling operation. According to the IDF Spokesperson, "Israeli forces that were trying to stop smugglers saw a man throw a suspicious bag and flee the scene. After an examination...it was determined that the bag contained a powerful explosive device. The device […]

News Briefs

Egypt Bans Swedish NGO worker From Leaving Country

By Jewish Press Staff

A Swedish NGO worker was prevented from boarding a flight from Egypt to Cyprus Monday. According to Cairo International Airport Authorities, Jean Eric was on a list of people banned from leaving Egypt due to their involvement in ongoing investigations into NGOs that have been the recipients of foreign funding. "During the passport check-in process for […]

Israel

Intensive Campaign for Jewish Rights on Temple Mount Launched

By Rafi Harkham

Coinciding with a scathing press release by the Zionist Organization of America, 30 senior activists from Temple Mount groups and organizations around Israel recently convened an unprecedented meeting and resolved to challenge the Israeli government's discriminatory treatment of Jews on the Temple Mount.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Kedar: Egypt's Question of Sovereignty

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Egypt's prosecution of pro-democracy NGOs reflects unresolved suspicions and hostilities towards the West and democracy.

Israel

Letter to New Israel Fund Board on Adalah participation in Apartheid Week

By Gerald Steinberg

NGO Monitor President calls on New Israel Fund to immediately and publicly condemn and disassociate from NIF grantee Adalah.

News Briefs

Egypt to Charge 19 American NGO Workers

By Jewish Press Staff

The Obama administration has expressed serious concern about these developments and has threatened to cut billions of dollars in American aid.

News Briefs

Congress Considering Cut Aid to Egypt

By Jewish Press Staff

Egypt's military receives $1.3 billion a year from the US.

On Our Own/Cheryl Kupfer

Saying Farewell To Toronto’s Couple Of Valor

By Cheryl Kupfer

Every Friday evening, in Jewish homes across the world, the question is asked, "Eishet chayil mi yimtzah – The woman of valor, where can she be found?"

News Briefs

New Israel Fund Comes Clean on Role in Tent Protests

By Jewish Press Staff

Organization highlights a role in protest it had previously denied.

Israel

Shalit Says Knesset Run Won’t Involve Gilad

By JTA

Noam Shalit, fresh off his successful campaign to have his son, Gilad, freed in exchange for over a thousand Arab security prisoners, will attempt to win a Knesset seat with the Labor party.

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