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Romney is running in 2016

Romney is running in 2016

Republican insiders seem convinced that Mitt Romney is running for the third term for president in 2016. Mitt Romney held meetings with donors in New… Read More ›

A massive cleanout in Silicon Valley

Police and social services in Silicon Valley are starting a massive cleanout Thursday of what’s likely the nation’s largest homeless encampment. Animal control and a… Read More ›

Jews who escaped the Nazis to make movies in Hollywood

Jews who escaped the Nazis to make movies in Hollywood

Henry Koster had a long and successful career in Hollywood, directing a string of hits from the 1930s through the ‘60s. No doubt his best-known… Read More ›

Finnish community and Jews connect through environment

Finnish community and Jews connect through environment

President of KKL-JNF Finland, Ms. Ethel Salutskij, organized an event called “The Great Israel Event”, which took place on November 2nd, the anniversary of the… Read More ›

French Embassy in Israel encourages students to study in France

French Embassy in Israel encourages students to study in France

The French Embassy in Israel is set to hold an Information Day on Friday to inform and encourage potential students about the numerous study and… Read More ›

Oil spill in Israel

Oil spill in Israel

Israel says a breached pipeline has caused a large oil spill in the southern part of the country. Guy Samet, an Environment Ministry official in… Read More ›

Several London Jewish institutions have cancelled their speeches

Several London Jewish institutions have cancelled their speeches

Mordechai Kedar had been due to begin a speaking tour at Lauderdale Road Synagogue last night but the ZF confirmed it and a talk at… Read More ›

Russian Jew is beaten in Moscow

Russian Jew is beaten in Moscow

A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva. Shlomo (Fyodor) Romanovsky of Belarus was in the hospital and… Read More ›

London’s Deputy Mayor met with Jewish group to discuss anti-Semitic crime

London’s Deputy Mayor met with Jewish group to discuss anti-Semitic crime

Jewish groups had a meeting with London’s Deputy Mayor Steven Greenhalgh for Policing and Crime(MOPAC)  to discuss anti-Semitic hate crime at demonstrations and on social media.… Read More ›

Iranian ambassador’s house was attacked by Al-Qaida

Iranian ambassador’s house was attacked by Al-Qaida

Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on the Iranian ambassador’s house in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday that medics said… Read More ›

US Secretary of State hopes a new Israel government will be committed to peace

US Secretary of State hopes a new Israel government will be committed to peace

“We hope that whatever government is formed is a government that will – or whether there are elections, that those elections will produce — the… Read More ›

American teacher stabbed in Abu Dhabi

American teacher stabbed in Abu Dhabi

An American school teacher was stabbed to death in a public restroom at a mall by a suspect wearing the traditional black robe, full-face veil… Read More ›

Two Israeli start-ups are finalists in the iiAwards

Two Israeli start-ups are finalists in the iiAwards

Two Israeli start-ups, Pixoneye and Pzartech, are two of the six super finalists in the iiAwards, a world start-up competition organized by the Paris Region… Read More ›

Anti-Semite sends death threats to Paris Hilton

Anti-Semite sends death threats to Paris Hilton

The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating death threats sent to actress Paris Hilton and her father Rick Hilton. The man seemed to believe that… Read More ›

Pope Francis pledged to end human trafficking

Pope Francis standing next to leaders across the religious spectrum, including his long-time friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka, pledged on Tuesday to end modern day slavery… Read More ›

Israel’s King of Blues Rock

Israel’s King of Blues Rock

If it hadn’t been for Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, Lazer Lloyd thinks he would’ve been famous by now. On the other hand, he figures that by… Read More ›

Prime Minister of Israel wants a new, bigger and more stable government

Prime Minister of Israel wants a new, bigger and more stable government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the secretary of government on Tuesday evening to dismiss Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. “In the… Read More ›

Agreement on a $585 billion defense policy bill have been reached

House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a $585 billion defense policy bill that provides funds to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq to… Read More ›

Jews and Muslims can be friends

Jews and Muslims can be friends

This past summer, Armin Langer, a 24-year-old rabbinical student in Berlin, came to speak at the Sehitlik mosque in Neukoelln, a district of the German… Read More ›

Israel could have an early national election

Israel could have an early national election

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, enmeshed in a cabinet crisis, said on Monday he would call an early national election unless rebellious ministers stopped attacking… Read More ›