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Middle Israel: A Middle Eastern Finland

Middle Israel: A Middle Eastern Finland

With conflicts rapidly multiplying around it, Israel is steadily adopting a mind-set of neutrality.   There was a time when Switzerland epitomized the idyll Israel… Read More ›

Abdelfattah Mourou in NJ Sermon: U.S. Muslims Should Serve as a Beacon and a Model for Islamic World

Abdelfattah Mourou in NJ Sermon: U.S. Muslims Should Serve as a Beacon and a Model for Islamic World

Peaceful Muslim Protester? You Decide

Peaceful Muslim Protester? You Decide

A Song about Gefilte Fish by Moshe Mendelson

A Song about Gefilte Fish by Moshe Mendelson

Netanyahu on Swedish FM’s remarks: Outrageous, immoral, unjust and stupid

Netanyahu on Swedish FM’s remarks: Outrageous, immoral, unjust and stupid

At press conference with foreign media, PM rips double standards applied to Israel, calls for ‘reset’ in ties with EU.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu… Read More ›

Fractured field for big GOP Iowa debate

Fractured field for big GOP Iowa debate

While anti-establishment frontrunners Trump and Cruz exchange blows, Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Christie vie to stand out as alternatives   NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) —… Read More ›

Goldman just got wiped out

Goldman just got wiped out

  Goldman Sachs’ fourth-quarter earnings essentially just got wiped out. The bank said on Thursday that it will pay a $5 billion settlement related to… Read More ›

Morgan Stanley just announced bonuses ― and fixed-income traders are not happy

Morgan Stanley just announced bonuses ― and fixed-income traders are not happy

It’s bonus day at Morgan Stanley. That means the bank is telling employees what they’ll receive for their work from the previous year. Bonuses, not base… Read More ›

Democratic campaign erupts into firefight after Bernie Sanders ad criticizes Hillary Clinton on Wall Street

Democratic campaign erupts into firefight after Bernie Sanders ad criticizes Hillary Clinton on Wall Street

  Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign pounced on Thursday after her chief primary rival, US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), swiped at… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Netanyahu Stands Behind Proposed Envoy To Brazil Share Tweet Share Mail

Jerusalem – Netanyahu Stands Behind Proposed Envoy To Brazil Share Tweet Share Mail

  Jerusalem – Israel’s prime minister says he remains firmly behind his candidate to be the new ambassador to Brazil — despite Brazil’s apparent objections… Read More ›

West Bank – Palestinians Appeal For Poet On Death Row In Saudi Arabia

West Bank – Palestinians Appeal For Poet On Death Row In Saudi Arabia

  West Bank – Palestinian intellectuals and writers have gathered in the West Bank to read poems and call for the release of a Palestinian… Read More ›

New York – NYC Mayor On Cusp Of Possible Horse Carriage Deal

New York – NYC Mayor On Cusp Of Possible Horse Carriage Deal

  New York – New York City officials are close to a deal that would save Central Park’s horse-drawn carriages from a threatened ban. When… Read More ›

Alan Rickman, Snape in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at 69

Alan Rickman, Snape in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at 69

Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” films as well as “Die… Read More ›

Taiwan set to elect first female leader

Taiwan set to elect first female leader

Hong Kong – Voters in the only Chinese democracy are expected to elect Taiwan’s first female leader when they go to the polls Saturday for presidential… Read More ›

Outrage over Charlie Hebdo cartoon of dead toddler Alan Kurdi as sex attacker

Outrage over Charlie Hebdo cartoon of dead toddler Alan Kurdi as sex attacker

After a year in which it has never been far from the headlines, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is back in the news again —… Read More ›

EU presents aggressive strategy for fighting anti-Semitism

EU presents aggressive strategy for fighting anti-Semitism

New coordinator aims to tackle online hate speech, expand legislation prohibiting Holocaust denial   Tackling online hate speech, implementing hate crime legislation and education are… Read More ›

Anti-Semitism drives record-high Western European immigration to Israel

Anti-Semitism drives record-high Western European immigration to Israel

Amid rise in attacks, 9,880 make aliya in 2015, including almost 8,000 from France   AP — Jewish immigration to Israel from Western Europe has… Read More ›

French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?

French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?

Calls to hide Jewishness amount to ‘projecting part of the responsibility on the victim,’ warns France’s Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia   PARIS (AP) — Religious… Read More ›

In the absence of a foreign minister

In the absence of a foreign minister

Op-ed: Boycotting IKEA is not the answer to Sweden’s comments against Israel. The European Union is not our enemy. By realizing this, Yair Lapid got… Read More ›

Synagogue in memory of slain Israeli teen opened

Synagogue in memory of slain Israeli teen opened

Tair Rada was murdered at her school’s bathroom in 2006 when she was only 13; he father, who is terminally ill, was overjoyed he lived… Read More ›