Articles by: JewishNews-Ben

Getting to know Avigdor Liberman, Bibi’s enigmatic pick for defense minister

Getting to know Avigdor Liberman, Bibi’s enigmatic pick for defense minister

Yisrael Beytenu head is often a voice for moderation — and a vocal populist whose rhetoric undercuts his apparent restraint   But Israel’s onetime foreign… Read More ›

New York, NY – NYPD Officer Stripped Of Gun, Badge After Pulling Gun On Video

New York, NY – NYPD Officer Stripped Of Gun, Badge After Pulling Gun On Video

New York, NY –  A New York City police officer shown on video pointing his gun at a bystander who was filming a police encounter… Read More ›

West Point, NY – VP Joe BIden: Diverse Military Of Gays And Women Strengthens US‎ Forces

West Point, NY – VP Joe BIden: Diverse Military Of Gays And Women Strengthens US‎ Forces

  West Point, NY – Vice President Joe Biden told the U.S. Military Academy’s class of 2016 on Saturday that greater diversity, including more women… Read More ›

Detroit – Holocaust Survivor Sings National Anthem At Tigers Game

Detroit – Holocaust Survivor Sings National Anthem At Tigers Game

  Detroit – An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the U.S. national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Hermina… Read More ›

Cyclone Roanu batters Bangladesh, kills 21

Cyclone Roanu batters Bangladesh, kills 21

Tropical Cyclone Roanu lashed the coast of Bangladesh with heavy winds and sheets of rain, killing at least 21 people and forcing the evacuation of… Read More ›

Taliban leader Mullah Mansour likely killed in airstrike, U.S. officials say

Taliban leader Mullah Mansour likely killed in airstrike, U.S. officials say

Washington – Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was likely killed in an airstrike in Pakistan on Saturday, two U.S. officials told CNN. One of… Read More ›

Liberman said to accept defense minister post in coalition shakeup

Liberman said to accept defense minister post in coalition shakeup

After a day of political twists and turns, Yisrael Beytenu reportedly accepts deal to join Likud-led government   Avigdor Liberman met Wednesday afternoon with Prime… Read More ›

Under fire over aborted unity talks, Herzog says PM blew ‘historic chance’

Under fire over aborted unity talks, Herzog says PM blew ‘historic chance’

After Netanyahu reportedly gives Liberman defense post, opposition head hits out at party colleague Yachimovich for ‘filthy campaign’ against him   Opposition leader Isaac Herzog… Read More ›

Offering Liberman the defense job, Netanyahu embraces a politician who despises him

Offering Liberman the defense job, Netanyahu embraces a politician who despises him

Op-Ed: Has the PM calculated wisely — for Israel’s sake and his own — in giving this most sensitive of positions to a brusque, ambitious… Read More ›

Washington – Aide Says Audio Tape Didn’t Sound Like Trump Posing As Own Spokesman

Washington – Aide Says Audio Tape Didn’t Sound Like Trump Posing As Own Spokesman

Washington –  A top aide to Donald Trump said on Sunday he did not believe a report that the billionaire once posed as his own… Read More ›

Piscataway, NJ – Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won’t Solve Ills

Piscataway, NJ – Rebuking Trump, Obama Tells Graduates Walls Won’t Solve Ills

  Piscataway, NJ – President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building… Read More ›

New York – “I’m Not Stupid, Okay”, Trump Tells British PM Cameron

New York – “I’m Not Stupid, Okay”, Trump Tells British PM Cameron

  New York – Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he hopes to be able to work with British Prime Minister David Cameron… Read More ›

Mural of Trump and Putin kissing sparks attention

Mural of Trump and Putin kissing sparks attention

  It looks like the 2016 election is entering the avant-garde. A mural depicting presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin… Read More ›

Man arrested in hacking deaths of 2 LGBT activists in Bangladesh

Man arrested in hacking deaths of 2 LGBT activists in Bangladesh

A member of a homegrown Islamist militant group in Bangladesh has been arrested in connection with the hacking deaths of two LGBT-rights activists, police in… Read More ›

Last ‘True American’ in Damascus doesn’t want to leave his home

Last ‘True American’ in Damascus doesn’t want to leave his home

Damascus, Syria – The brutality of Syria’s civil war is staggering: More than 300,000 people killed, and millions either internally displaced or have fled the… Read More ›

Maria Sharapova: Business as usual as star serves up new chocolate line

Maria Sharapova: Business as usual as star serves up new chocolate line

Maria Sharapova may be provisionally banned from tennis but it is business as usual for her Sugarpova brand. Sharapova’s candy business, which she founded in… Read More ›

Meet Donald Trump’s Chinese fans

Meet Donald Trump’s Chinese fans

Beijing – China is quite possibly Donald Trump’s favorite campaign-trail target. Earlier this month, the presumptive Republican nominee went as far as describing China’s trade… Read More ›

Israelis mob national parks, beaches for 68th Independence Day

Israelis mob national parks, beaches for 68th Independence Day

Sites across the country filled with many doing traditional cookouts; heavy traffic reported on major roads   Throngs of Israelis crowded national parks, beaches and… Read More ›

Herzog: Talks of breakthrough in coalition talks premature

Herzog: Talks of breakthrough in coalition talks premature

Amid harsh internal criticism, opposition leader says if appropriate offer is made by Netanyahu, he would seriously consider it   Opposition leader and Zionist Union… Read More ›

Netanyahu says he’s ready to meet Abbas for talks ‘right now

Netanyahu says he’s ready to meet Abbas for talks ‘right now

PM claims he’s taken unprecedented steps for peace, tells Palestinian leader to heed calls for direct negotiations   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that… Read More ›