Articles by: JewishNews-Aryeh

Hebrew U. tops Israeli schools making top international university list

Hebrew U. tops Israeli schools making top international university list

The 2016 QS World University Rankings list continues to cite the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the highest ranked Israeli university; Tel Aviv University crowned… Read More ›

Putting an end to the suicide taboo in Haredi society

Putting an end to the suicide taboo in Haredi society

Thanks to an NGO working to prevent suicide in religious society, rabbis are no longer afraid to directly ask members of their congregation if they… Read More ›

IAF strikes Syrian weapon sites in response to mortar fire

IAF strikes Syrian weapon sites in response to mortar fire

The strikes came after a Syrian mortar shell exploded in the northern Golan Heights.   The Israel Air Force on Thursday struck a number of… Read More ›

Analysis: Does Israel’s existence rely on Trump’s election?

Analysis: Does Israel’s existence rely on Trump’s election?

Though Donald Trump has expressed his concern for Israel’s security in the past, the claim that he alone can prevent Israel’s destruction is new.  … Read More ›

‘BDS doesn’t want a better Israel — it wants no Israel’

‘BDS doesn’t want a better Israel — it wants no Israel’

Holocaust scholar Prof. Yehuda Bauer slammed the BDS movement while speaking with British-Muslim MP Tulip Siddiq.   Eminent Hebrew Universtiy historian Prof. Yehuda Bauer slammed the… Read More ›

Sculpture honoring fallen soldiers scandalizes Egyptians

Sculpture honoring fallen soldiers scandalizes Egyptians

A traditional artistic personification of Egypt, a slender peasant woman, embraced by a helmeted soldier has been deemed inappropriate by Sohag residents who claimed that… Read More ›

Ultra-Orthodox press praises Netanyahu, criticizes Katz

Ultra-Orthodox press praises Netanyahu, criticizes Katz

The controversy over Shabbat work on train lines has led the ultra-Orthodox media in Israel to berate the transportation minister, who supported the Shabbat renovations,… Read More ›

The Iran deal, one year later

The Iran deal, one year later

Analysis: Many of the assumptions—good and bad—made by pundits and politicians after the Iran deal was signed in 2015 have proven false so far. What… Read More ›

Australian FM: Palestinians share blame for impasse

Australian FM: Palestinians share blame for impasse

During visit to Israel, Julie Bishop tells ‘Post’ that BDS is anti-Semitism   Unilateral actions toward statehood and violence by Palestinians – not only Israeli settlement… Read More ›

Netanyahu-Katz fight puts interim-PM post in doubt

Netanyahu-Katz fight puts interim-PM post in doubt

With Erdan, Liberman and Steinitz abroad, who will fill in?   The ongoing dispute between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Israel Katz has created… Read More ›

Top researcher: Israel must ‘finally set national space policy’

Top researcher: Israel must ‘finally set national space policy’

Space expert tells ‘Post’: Amos-7 possible in two years.   The Israeli government must finally lay out a clearly defined national space policy, based on… Read More ›

Washington – State Dept. To Give AP All Clinton Schedules Before Election

Washington – State Dept. To Give AP All Clinton Schedules Before Election

  Washington – The State Department agreed Thursday to turn over all the detailed planning schedules from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state to… Read More ›

Warsaw, Poland – Prosecutors’ Team To Probe Returns Of Seized Warsaw Property

Warsaw, Poland – Prosecutors’ Team To Probe Returns Of Seized Warsaw Property

  Warsaw, Poland – A team of prosecutors will investigate suspected irregularities in the restoration of Warsaw property seized by the communists to private owners,… Read More ›

New York – More Reforms, Including Tasers, Slated For NY’s Rikers Jail

New York – More Reforms, Including Tasers, Slated For NY’s Rikers Jail

  New York – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a new raft of reforms aimed at improving safety at the… Read More ›

Explosion at SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral

Explosion at SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral

A SpaceX rocket exploded at its Cape Canaveral launch pad Thursday morning, destroying the rocket and the satellite it was due to launch on Saturday.… Read More ›

Why is Beijing so scared of this 25-year-old Hong Konger?

Why is Beijing so scared of this 25-year-old Hong Konger?

Hong Kong – “We are the future of Hong Kong!” Edward Leung stands on a crowded overpass connected to a busy metro station, speaking into… Read More ›

Safety tip from India’s tourism minister: Don’t wear skirts

Safety tip from India’s tourism minister: Don’t wear skirts

India’s tourism minister is furiously backpedaling after suggesting that women who visit India shouldn’t wear skirts for their own safety. Mahesh Sharma made the comments… Read More ›

Gene Wilder, star of ‘Willy Wonka,’ dead at 83

Gene Wilder, star of ‘Willy Wonka,’ dead at 83

Gene Wilder, who brought a wild-eyed desperation to a series of memorable and iconic comedy roles in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, his lawyer,… Read More ›

Abedin, Weiner separating after new sexting allegations

Abedin, Weiner separating after new sexting allegations

Washington – Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin announced Monday that she and former US Rep. Anthony Weiner are separating after new reports surfaced that… Read More ›

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

Having captured Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, a trembling Werner Meritz told fellow US soldiers he was going to have revenge   JTA — It sounds… Read More ›