Articles by: JewishNews-Ben

Saudis petition king to end male guardianship system

Saudis petition king to end male guardianship system

Saudi Arabian women’s rights campaigners are calling for an end to the country’s male guardianship system by sending telegrams and a petition to King Salman… Read More ›

NASA says it may have spotted water plumes on Jupiter’s moon

NASA says it may have spotted water plumes on Jupiter’s moon

Could a second celestial object in our solar system host living organisms? NASA says its astronomers may have spotted water vapor plumes erupting on the… Read More ›

Battle rages near Aleppo, air onslaught continues

Battle rages near Aleppo, air onslaught continues

Moscow says Washington failed to live up to its side of the latest deal by separating mainstream insurgents from hardened jihadists.   BEIRUT – Syrian… Read More ›

Study shows US Jewish votes could play decisive role in swing states

Study shows US Jewish votes could play decisive role in swing states

Unprecedented state-by-state research indicates Jews are mostly Democrats, not necessarily ‘liberal,’ could swing election in a tight race   BOSTON (JTA) — A new study,… Read More ›

A top journalist is suing the FDA over its alleged use of a banned and secretive practice to manipulate the news

A top journalist is suing the FDA over its alleged use of a banned and secretive practice to manipulate the news

  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may reportedly still engage in a banned practice that manipulates popular news coverage, and a few of… Read More ›

Eight people, including a 3-year-old girl, were hurt in a Baltimore shooting

Eight people, including a 3-year-old girl, were hurt in a Baltimore shooting

  (Reuters) – Eight people, including a three-year-old girl, were hurt in a shooting that Baltimore police called an act of “retaliatory violence” on Saturday… Read More ›

Donald Trump unleashes on ‘dopey’ Mark Cuban, threatens to seat ex-Bill Clinton mistress next to him at debate

Donald Trump unleashes on ‘dopey’ Mark Cuban, threatens to seat ex-Bill Clinton mistress next to him at debate

  Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to put Gennifer Flowers, a woman Bill Clinton said he had an affair with, in the front row of… Read More ›

Berlin – Holocaust Survivor Max Mannheimer Dies In Germany At Age 96

Berlin – Holocaust Survivor Max Mannheimer Dies In Germany At Age 96

Berlin –  Holocaust survivor Max Mannheimer, who dedicated his life in post-war Germany to fighting anti-Semitism, has died. He was 96. German Chancellor Angela Merkel… Read More ›

Venice, CA – Snapchat Introduces Video Glasses, Changes Company Name In First Hardware Push

Venice, CA – Snapchat Introduces Video Glasses, Changes Company Name In First Hardware Push

Venice, CA – Social media app Snapchat is introducing video-recording glasses called Spectacles and is changing its company name to incorporate the new product. The… Read More ›

Helsinki, Finland – Finns Protest Against Racism After Man Assaulted At Neo-Nazi Rally Dies

Helsinki, Finland – Finns Protest Against Racism After Man Assaulted At Neo-Nazi Rally Dies

  Helsinki, Finland – More than 15,000 people gathered in Helsinki on Saturday to protest against racism and violence, after the death of a man… Read More ›

IDF Transport Center prepares to operate in multi-front war

IDF Transport Center prepares to operate in multi-front war

‘Biggest moving company in Middle East’ adopts new methods to transport critical supplies   The IDF Transport Center, responsible for the critical task of delivering… Read More ›

New York bomb suspect charged with attempted murder

New York bomb suspect charged with attempted murder

FBI says no indication Ahmad Khan Rahami — who was arrested earlier after police shootout — connected to terror cell, increasing assessment he operated as… Read More ›

Trump: Profiling might be necessary to combat terrorism

Trump: Profiling might be necessary to combat terrorism

  Donald Trump suggested on Monday that profiling may be necessary to fight terrorist threats in the United States. In an interview with Fox News’s Bill… Read More ›

Police have released video of the fatal shooting of unarmed black man in Oklahoma

Police have released video of the fatal shooting of unarmed black man in Oklahoma

  Video of police fatally shooting an unarmed black man in Tusla, Oklahoma was released Monday. The video, taken from a police dashcam, shows 40-year-old Terence… Read More ›

OBAMA: Yes, to self-driving cars — but we need rules

OBAMA: Yes, to self-driving cars — but we need rules

  President Barack Obama is giving his blessing to self-driving cars. In an op-ed featured in thePittsburgh Post-Gazette, Obama lauded the efforts of tech giants that are developing self-driving… Read More ›

‘Fault in Our Stars’ couple: Dalton Prager dies

‘Fault in Our Stars’ couple: Dalton Prager dies

  As the end approached, Katie Prager spoke to her husband from afar, unable to be with him. Dalton Prager, the husband from the real-life… Read More ›

FBI investigates Minnesota stabbings as possible terror act

FBI investigates Minnesota stabbings as possible terror act

40,000-strong Somali community in state, which has seen members joint jihadist groups in Syria, fears anti-Muslim backlash   ST. CLOUD, Minnesota (AP) — A man… Read More ›

Feds test bomb remnants of New York blast that injured 29

Feds test bomb remnants of New York blast that injured 29

Investigators looking for links between two bombings and a third unexploded device in one day   NEW YORK (AP) — The bomb that rocked a… Read More ›

Clinton condemns spate of ‘apparent terrorist attacks’

Clinton condemns spate of ‘apparent terrorist attacks’

Bombings in New Jersey and New York, stabbing rampage in Minnesota ‘steel our resolve’ to defeat Islamic State, says Democratic candidate   WHITE PLAINS, New… Read More ›

Begin: Settler building on private Palestinian land ‘unjust’

Begin: Settler building on private Palestinian land ‘unjust’

“It’s not just and it’s not right,” Bennie Begin says in response to efforts regarding new legislation allowing building on Palestinian land.   The Regulations… Read More ›