Articles by: JewishNews-Ben

‘Morocco’s king dispatches Jewish aide to push Israeli-Palestinian talks’

‘Morocco’s king dispatches Jewish aide to push Israeli-Palestinian talks’

Channel 2 says senior officials from both sides will meet this week under auspices of Sam Ben Shitrit, with backing from Abbas and Netanyahu  … Read More ›

Looking for a quickie Jewish wedding in Las Vegas? Call Rabbi Mel Hecht

Looking for a quickie Jewish wedding in Las Vegas? Call Rabbi Mel Hecht

He came in the ’80s to serve a synagogue congregation, but wound up being the indiosyncratic rabbi of Sin City   LAS VEGAS (JTA) –… Read More ›

Israel starts returning terrorists’ bodies to families

Israel starts returning terrorists’ bodies to families

After public outcry, the first of ten bodies of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks in current wave of violence was returned to his family… Read More ›

Poland seeks punishments for use of ‘Polish death camp’ phrase

Poland seeks punishments for use of ‘Polish death camp’ phrase

In effort to eliminate the misleading phrase, Warsaw is drawing up new regulations to punish those who refer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor and Treblinka, among others,… Read More ›

Balad MK defends visit to terrorists’ families

Balad MK defends visit to terrorists’ families

‘They (the terrorists) did not go out to murder with criminal intent,’ claims Bassel Ghattas in interview with Arabic language channel Hala TV. Balad MK… Read More ›

Turkey strikes regime forces in Syria

Turkey strikes regime forces in Syria

Turkish troops respond to Assad army fire at its military guard post in the Hatay region, as well as shells Kurdish targets around the town… Read More ›

Expert recommends education, rehabilitation for teenage terrorists

Expert recommends education, rehabilitation for teenage terrorists

“The push factors can be negative conditions such as poverty, despair, lack of education and having nothing better to do,” says Dr. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen.… Read More ›

Educator who saved Holocaust youth commemorated in his native Aachen

Educator who saved Holocaust youth commemorated in his native Aachen

Fredy Hirsch saved some from transports, organized activities, extra rations for others.   Special to The Jerusalem Post AACHEN, Germany – Alfred “Fredy” Hirsch, a Zionist… Read More ›

On Valentine’s Day, Israeli flowers are smelling better than ever

On Valentine’s Day, Israeli flowers are smelling better than ever

Local research improves floral scents, color, and saves lives.   As a young physics student in the Soviet Union, Prof. Alexander Vainstein never could have… Read More ›

ANALYSIS: Russia, US compete to ally with Kurds in ISIS fight

ANALYSIS: Russia, US compete to ally with Kurds in ISIS fight

Russia-Turkey relations have deteriorated since the crisis over the downing of a Russian aircraft in November.   Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be making another… Read More ›

Jewish groups blast Ted Nugent for anti-Semitic gun control post

Jewish groups blast Ted Nugent for anti-Semitic gun control post

Rock guitarist and NRA board member labels Jewish politicians with Israeli flags, calls them evil for stance on gun laws   Rocker and gun rights… Read More ›

The hot software-as-a-service startups of the last couple of years are getting murdered

The hot software-as-a-service startups of the last couple of years are getting murdered

The stock market had an awful day on Monday, and tech companies were hit harder than most other sectors. But within tech, one segment did particularly poorly: “software… Read More ›

The CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups has suddenly resigned

The CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups has suddenly resigned

  Parker Conrad, cofounder and CEO of high-flying Zenefits, which has lately come under attack for missing its revenue projections and running into friction with regulatory agencies,… Read More ›

HARRY DENT: ‘This looks like the beginning of the end’

HARRY DENT: ‘This looks like the beginning of the end’

  Since late 2008, central banks around the world have used unprecedented QE to try and stoke the global economy. Then in June 2014, the… Read More ›

For Kiev’s Jewish refugees, little thought about tomorrow

For Kiev’s Jewish refugees, little thought about tomorrow

Around 11,000 Jews lived in Donetsk, the center of the current insurgency, prior to the outbreak of hostilities two years ago, but after two years… Read More ›

Jewish group condemns Hungary far-right’s WWII remembrance

Jewish group condemns Hungary far-right’s WWII remembrance

Event in which speakers lauded pro-Nazi wartime leader a ‘blatant attempt to glorify the perpetrators of the Holocaust’   DAPEST, Hungary — The Simon Wiesenthal… Read More ›

Arson suspected in prayer tent fire

Arson suspected in prayer tent fire

Law enforcement investigating locals’ suspicions that a fire that burned several Torah books was deliberately started by a Palestinian Anonymous individuals on Saturday night set… Read More ›

Arab stabs Jew, flees in southern Israel

Arab stabs Jew, flees in southern Israel

Witnesses say young Arab man stabbed Jewish woman in her 60s, moderately wounding her, at street market in Rahat; police searching for suspect. A young… Read More ›

Fear of knowledge: What the ultra-Orthodox and secular share

Fear of knowledge: What the ultra-Orthodox and secular share

Op-ed: While the ultra-Orthodox public is intentionally ignorant about general matters, the secular public seems to be choosing its own brand of ignorance when it… Read More ›

‘The Kotel compromise defused a strategic threat to US-Israel relationship’

‘The Kotel compromise defused a strategic threat to US-Israel relationship’

Former ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren looks at this week’s agreement to build an egalitarian section of the Western Wall with satisfaction.  … Read More ›