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Report: IDF planning to demolish home of Litmans’ killer

Report: IDF planning to demolish home of Litmans’ killer

Military confirms visit to Hebron residence of Shadi Matua’s family; Hamas website says army warned that house would be razed   Hamas’s al-Aqsa network said… Read More ›

How to make your Thanksgiving leftovers into ‘bestovers’

How to make your Thanksgiving leftovers into ‘bestovers’

This recipe for Leftover Turkey Noodle Soup with Matzah Balls makes a stew with a whole lotta Jewish soul   The Nosher via JTA —… Read More ›

WATCH: Israel successfully launches new naval missile defense system

WATCH: Israel successfully launches new naval missile defense system

IDF holds first operational test of ‘Barak 8,’ aimed to deflect Hezbollah weapons, as all eyes turn to more powerful Russian S-400   The Israeli… Read More ›

European press infantilizes Palestinians, says visiting delegation of journalists

European press infantilizes Palestinians, says visiting delegation of journalists

Tour of country organized by the Europe Israel Press Association.   European press coverage of Israel can be problematic, several members of a delegation of continental… Read More ›

When Paris victims poured into hospitals, doctors thought it was a drill

When Paris victims poured into hospitals, doctors thought it was a drill

Medics recall ‘nightmare’ on night of November 13 attacks with massive influx of gunshot, bombing injuries   The medics treating the scores of victims in… Read More ›

The New York Times editorial board is slamming Trump for ‘racist lies’

The New York Times editorial board is slamming Trump for ‘racist lies’

  The New York Times editorial board slammed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for telling voters “racist lies” in an editorial posted Tuesday. Among the… Read More ›

War of the maps: Turkey released a map showing where Russia violated its airspace, and Russia countered

War of the maps: Turkey released a map showing where Russia violated its airspace, and Russia countered

Turkey and Russia have released competing maps showing where a Russian warplane violated — or steered clear of, depending on the point of view — Turkish… Read More ›

CONFIRMED: Martin Shkreli is cutting the price of the drug he hiked 5,000%, but there’s a catch

CONFIRMED: Martin Shkreli is cutting the price of the drug he hiked 5,000%, but there’s a catch

  Turing Pharmaceuticals, the drug company helmed by Martin Shkreli, is planning to cut the price of its drug Daraprim by as much as 50% for… Read More ›

New York Rabbis sentenced for violently coercing divorces

New York Rabbis sentenced for violently coercing divorces

Harshest punishment handed down in New York case so far was 48 months in prison.   Several New York rabbis were sentenced to jail terms… Read More ›

S. African president links Paris attacks to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

S. African president links Paris attacks to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Terror, wherever it occurs, highlights imperative for Middle East peace, Jacob Zuma tells local Jews; Israel’s ambassador calls remark ‘unfair’ and a misunderstanding of Islamic… Read More ›

Report: 30 sleeping jade hunters killed when hill of mine tailings collapses

Report: 30 sleeping jade hunters killed when hill of mine tailings collapses

  At least 30 people were killed in northernMyanmar when a 60-meter-high (200-foot-high) hill of tailings from a jade mine collapsed onto the huts of… Read More ›

Iran sentences journalist Jason Rezaian to prison

Iran sentences journalist Jason Rezaian to prison

An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian to prison for spying, the semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported Sunday. The length of the… Read More ›

Brussels remains under highest terror alert amid warning of ‘imminent threat’

Brussels remains under highest terror alert amid warning of ‘imminent threat’

Brussels, Belgium – Paris and Brussels continued to defend against the threat of terrorist attacks Sunday, with raids and arrests in the Belgian capital and a… Read More ›

Hamas, Fatah threaten ex-settler leader who thwarted terror attack

Hamas, Fatah threaten ex-settler leader who thwarted terror attack

Image posted to Twitter depicts ‘child killer’ Gershon Mesika with a target and blood splatter over his face   Hours after a former local politician… Read More ›

US condemns killing of American yeshiva student

US condemns killing of American yeshiva student

Jewish groups criticize tardy statements on Thursday attack that killed three, including teenager from Sharon, Massachusetts The Obama administration condemned in the “strongest possible terms”… Read More ›

Ezra Schwartz remembered as warm teen with ‘boundless energy’

Ezra Schwartz remembered as warm teen with ‘boundless energy’

In Boston, more than 1,500 mourners attend funeral of 18-year-old yeshiva student murdered by Palestinian terrorist on Thursday   SHARON, Massachusetts — Amid sobs of… Read More ›

2 killed, 8 held after France raid, but ringleader’s status still unknown

2 killed, 8 held after France raid, but ringleader’s status still unknown

Paris, France – French authorities took the offensive Wednesday, raiding a purported hideout of the ringleader in last week’s deadly Paris attacks in an operation that… Read More ›

Paris rabbi: Terrorists will not affect Jewish life here

Paris rabbi: Terrorists will not affect Jewish life here

Local Chabad leader says community undeterred by police raid on attackers believed responsible for killing 129 people last week   PARIS — The presence of… Read More ›

Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’ in call with Hollande

Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’ in call with Hollande

PM expresses Israel’s solidarity with France in fight against terrorism after Friday’s deadly Paris attacks that killed 129   Paris, France — Israeli Prime Minister… Read More ›

‘IS sympathizers stabbed Marseille Jewish teacher in the face’

‘IS sympathizers stabbed Marseille Jewish teacher in the face’

Chabad emissary and Judaic-studies instructor, Tzion Saadoun, 56, sustains serious injuries but is in stable condition   The three people believed to be Islamic State… Read More ›