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100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian

100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian

Since the Soviet regime prevented proliferation of the writer’s anti-communist religious nostalgia, these new translations are a first glimpse into shtetl life for many  … Read More ›

First Sudanese asylum seeker receives refugee status

First Sudanese asylum seeker receives refugee status

Sudanese asylum seeker who’s home was burned down in Darfur and who crossed Israel’s border in 2009 has been granted refugee status for first time… Read More ›

New Israeli application determines taste of watermelons

New Israeli application determines taste of watermelons

The application was developed in Haifa’s Technion University by three students frustrated by disappointment of a bitter watermelon: ‘We have tested it on 30 watermelons… Read More ›

Slicing the salami of settlement costs

Slicing the salami of settlement costs

Op-ed: West Bank settlements continually receive budget items, monetary diversions, and transfers of funds; their pupils receive more money than other Israelis, and their hand… Read More ›

Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump slams Israeli rabbinate’s ‘cruel’ rejection of US convert

Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump slams Israeli rabbinate’s ‘cruel’ rejection of US convert

NY Rabbi Haskel Lookstein speaks to ‘Post’ on rabbinate’s decision to prevent American woman who moved to Israel from marrying her fiance because the body… Read More ›

Democratic platform drafters align on Israeli-Palestinian stance

Democratic platform drafters align on Israeli-Palestinian stance

“Israelis today live in fear of acts of terror that can turn peaceful marketplaces and neighborhoods into scenes of violence and horror,” Reps. Keith Ellison… Read More ›

From Jewish schools to churches, Brits vote on EU referendum

From Jewish schools to churches, Brits vote on EU referendum

Londoners happy to finally have their say on whether to remain or leave the European Union.   LONDON – In schools, churches, libraries and various… Read More ›

Analysis: The first missions, Intelligence and covert operations

Analysis: The first missions, Intelligence and covert operations

As soon as they become active within the IAF, the planes will begin taking over jobs currently carried out by F-15s and F-16s – flights… Read More ›

NY anti-Semitism exhibit shows how history repeats itself

NY anti-Semitism exhibit shows how history repeats itself

50 sobering pieces, including bedtime stories, signs, propaganda posters, and paperwork on display at the New-York Historical Society until July 31   NEW YORK —… Read More ›

Secretive $20 billion startup Palantir is buying $225 million of stock back from employees in exchange for their silence

Secretive $20 billion startup Palantir is buying $225 million of stock back from employees in exchange for their silence

  Palantir, the secretive $20 billion data-mining startup cofounded by Peter Thiel, is buying $225 million of stock back from employees. The catch, reports BuzzFeed’s… Read More ›

Twilio, the closely watched tech IPO, is already beating Wall Street expectations

Twilio, the closely watched tech IPO, is already beating Wall Street expectations

  Twilio, one of the few tech companies testing the IPO waters in 2016, just priced its offering at $15 a share – above its… Read More ›

Wall Street is turning its back on Elon Musk

Wall Street is turning its back on Elon Musk

  Investors may be finally turning their backs on Elon Musk. Musk’s electric-car company,Tesla, made an offer on Tuesday to buy Musk’s solar-power company, SolarCity.… Read More ›

Chicago, IL – Ex-Speaker Hastert Enters Prison _ Now Inmate No. 47991-424

Chicago, IL – Ex-Speaker Hastert Enters Prison _ Now Inmate No. 47991-424

  Chicago, IL –  Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence… Read More ›

Orlando, FL – Florida Gator That Killed Boy Likely Removed: Authorities

Orlando, FL – Florida Gator That Killed Boy Likely Removed: Authorities

  Orlando, FL –  The Florida alligator that killed a vacationing 2-year-old boy at Disney World Resort has likely been removed from the area of… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Actress Helen Mirren Rejects Efforts To Boycot

Jerusalem – Actress Helen Mirren Rejects Efforts To Boycot

  Jerusalem – Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren said Wednesday she was a “believer” in Israel and rejected efforts to boycott it. Mirren showered Israeli artists… Read More ›

Iceland: Island’s saga just got ‘crazy’ with England up next

Iceland: Island’s saga just got ‘crazy’ with England up next

Written off by Cristiano Ronaldo as having a “small mentality,” Iceland struck it big at Euro 2016 after beating Austria in dramatic finish to reach… Read More ›

Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal star throws reporter’s microphone into lake

Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal star throws reporter’s microphone into lake

  Without a win or a goal at Euro 2016, is Cristiano Ronaldo starting to crack under the pressure? The Portugal star was out for… Read More ›

Inside the Pennsylvania home where 12 girls were kept for years

Inside the Pennsylvania home where 12 girls were kept for years

Feasterville, Pennsylvania – Police knocked on the bright blue door of Lee Kaplan’s home in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. When the detective stepped inside, the children scattered.… Read More ›

Pro-settlement NGO urges Brexit over EU’s West Bank policies

Pro-settlement NGO urges Brexit over EU’s West Bank policies

Regavim’s parody video features Hamas operatives advising Britons who ‘hate Isra-Hell and the Jews’ to vote ‘stay’ An Israeli pro-settlement group is campaigning for Britain… Read More ›

British Jewry faces Brexit vote with fear and trepidation

British Jewry faces Brexit vote with fear and trepidation

For Jews there are three big questions regarding a continuing relationship with Europe: its attitudes to Israel, ritual slaughter and circumcision   LONDON — As… Read More ›