Articles by: JewishNews-Ben

Egypt announces parliamentary vote for October, November

Egypt announces parliamentary vote for October, November

After three years without legislature, long-awaited elections set to take place nationwide in step for democracy   Egypt on Sunday announced that long-awaited parliamentary elections… Read More ›

Don’t mess with Italy’s missionary woman

Don’t mess with Italy’s missionary woman

While established Italian Jewry shies away from her outreach to descendants of conversos, Reform Rabbi Barbara Aiello is finding a warm embrace in her ancestral… Read More ›

Tel Aviv’s top 6 hidden hotels

Tel Aviv’s top 6 hidden hotels

Straying from the well-trodden path can be unnerving, but these lesser-known hotels in Tel Aviv will convince you that the risk is often well worth… Read More ›

FBI tells art dealers to watch for antiquities looted by ISIS

FBI tells art dealers to watch for antiquities looted by ISIS

The FBI is asking art collectors and dealers to be on the lookout for antiquities that could have been put on the market by the… Read More ›

Floyd Mayweather pulls up to work in $4.8 million hypercar

Floyd Mayweather pulls up to work in $4.8 million hypercar

  When your nickname is “Money,” turning up to work in a $4.8 million car represents just another day in the office. No stranger to… Read More ›

Expert: We’re ‘locked-in’ to 3 feet sea level rise

Expert: We’re ‘locked-in’ to 3 feet sea level rise

It was less than two years ago that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its all-encompassing assessment on the current state of climate change research… Read More ›

Abbas building $13m. presidential palace near Ramallah

Abbas building $13m. presidential palace near Ramallah

Compound spread over 27 dunams to include two helipads; Palestinians mired in deep financial turmoil   Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is leading the construction… Read More ›

Gaza beach corn vendor attempts suicide after Hamas ‘harassment’

Gaza beach corn vendor attempts suicide after Hamas ‘harassment’

Israeli report parallels case of Muhammed Abu Asi to that of Tunisian who sparked Arab Spring, says Gazans are gearing up for protests   Four… Read More ›

500,000 sign petition to end Israel’s Gaza blockade

500,000 sign petition to end Israel’s Gaza blockade

Arab countries that didn’t follow up on reconstruction pledges cited, but Israel mostly blamed for Strip’s condition   More than half a million people have… Read More ›

Iran is laughing at leaky Israel, says Liberman after new Barak tapes aired

Iran is laughing at leaky Israel, says Liberman after new Barak tapes aired

While bashing former defense minister, Yisrael Beytenu leader also takes aim at PM for failing to tackle Iran effectively   Israel’s former foreign minister said… Read More ›

IS blows up 2,000-year-old temple in Syria’s Palmyra

IS blows up 2,000-year-old temple in Syria’s Palmyra

Antiquities chief says jihadists destroyed shrine of Baal Shamin, built in 17 CE and expanded in 130 CE   Islamic State group jihadists on Sunday… Read More ›

‘No ulterior motives for cancellation of Israel flights’

‘No ulterior motives for cancellation of Israel flights’

Airline due to shut down flights between Philadelphia and Tel Aviv starting January, say decision motivated strictly by economics. American Airlines, which announced last week… Read More ›

Released asylum seekers blocked from Tel Aviv, Eilat

Released asylum seekers blocked from Tel Aviv, Eilat

Some 1,200 to be released from Holot on Tuesday, Wednesday; those caught in Tel Aviv or Eilat to be detained at Saharonim. While some 1,200… Read More ›

Moving the needle on settlements debate?

Moving the needle on settlements debate?

With the possibility that the anti-settlement Orthodoxy promulgated by the Obama administration be challenged, the other side of the issue may get a wider hearing… Read More ›

Yom Kippur to once again coincide with Muslim holiday

Yom Kippur to once again coincide with Muslim holiday

Arab business owners appeal to open on Eid al-Adha, a significant day of revenue for shop-keepers and small businesses, which falls on the same day… Read More ›

The drought is going to cost California nearly $3 billion

The drought is going to cost California nearly $3 billion

  California’s ongoing drought will cost the economy in the most populous U.S. state an estimated $2.74 billion in 2015 and lead to the loss… Read More ›

Putin’s economy may be in a lot worse shape than previously thought

Putin’s economy may be in a lot worse shape than previously thought

  The Russian economy is in a full-blown recession and, according to analysts that study it, may be in even worse shape than is apparent… Read More ›

Canada is ‘getting clocked’ by something far bigger than oil

Canada is ‘getting clocked’ by something far bigger than oil

  Canada is likely in a technical recession, after the economy shrank for the first five months of the year. It’s heavily dependent on commodities.… Read More ›

Israel – 200 New Immigrants From North America Touch Down At Ben Gurion; 59 ‘Lone Wolf’ IDF Soldiers Among Group

Israel – 200 New Immigrants From North America Touch Down At Ben Gurion; 59 ‘Lone Wolf’ IDF Soldiers Among Group

  Israel – On Tuesday, over 200 new immigrants from North America touched down at Ben Gurion Airport aboard a Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight, including… Read More ›

Orlando, FL – Zimmerman To Sell Confederate Flag Painting To Help ‘Muslim-free’ Gunshop

Orlando, FL – Zimmerman To Sell Confederate Flag Painting To Help ‘Muslim-free’ Gunshop

Orlando, FL – George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, is raffling off a painting he… Read More ›