Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Analysis: What is the deal with these strange deepfake Trump memes?Analysis:

Analysis: What is the deal with these strange deepfake Trump memes?Analysis:

Before there was Trump as Jesus, there was Trump as the pope. There was Trump as Rocky. There was Trump in Apocalypse Now, smelling victory.… Read More ›

How a Blind Man Made It Possible for Others With Low Vision to Build Lego Sets

How a Blind Man Made It Possible for Others With Low Vision to Build Lego Sets

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Like a lot of young children, Matthew Shifrin loved building Lego sets. But because he was blind, Shifrin had to rely… Read More ›

Inside the mission to recover a downed American airman

Inside the mission to recover a downed American airman

Hiding alone in a mountain crevice behind enemy lines, the injured American airman knew exactly what to do: survive and evade. For more than a… Read More ›

Nine people wounded in Bnei Brak by Iranian cluster bomb munitions

Nine people wounded in Bnei Brak by Iranian cluster bomb munitions

Bomblets impact across central Israel as Iran fires 13 salvos throughout Tuesday; IDF says it struck ‘main’ explosives facility near Isfahan; Tehran accuses US, Israel… Read More ›

Woman wounded by shrapnel, dozens lightly hurt as Iranian missile hits northern town

Woman wounded by shrapnel, dozens lightly hurt as Iranian missile hits northern town

US military announces 4 killed in aircraft crash; IDF strikes 200 targets in Iran over past day, including underground weapons site; French soldier killed in… Read More ›

Iran’s ferocious retaliation for US-Israeli strikes has rattled its neighbors

Iran’s ferocious retaliation for US-Israeli strikes has rattled its neighbors

Arab states in the Persian Gulf tried to prevent a US-Israeli strike on Iran. Now, as Tehran retaliates, their own territories are under fire. Iran’s… Read More ›

Analysis: Trump’s dilemma on Iran

Analysis: Trump’s dilemma on Iran

It’s been more than a month since President Donald Trump declared a red line on Iran. He said that if Iran shot protesters, “we’ll be… Read More ›

Jackson Resident Sues to Block Yeshiva Ner Moshe Approval Over Environmental, Zoning Concerns

Jackson Resident Sues to Block Yeshiva Ner Moshe Approval Over Environmental, Zoning Concerns

JACKSON, N.J. — A Jackson Township resident has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the local Planning Board’s approval of a proposed private Orthodox Jewish… Read More ›

Trump Sues IRS and Treasury for $10 Billion Over Leaked Tax Info

Trump Sues IRS and Treasury for $10 Billion Over Leaked Tax Info

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure… Read More ›

PM vows no Qatari, Turkish troops in Gaza after countries given role on oversight body

PM vows no Qatari, Turkish troops in Gaza after countries given role on oversight body

At Knesset debate, Netanyahu acknowledges argument with US, insists Hamas will be disarmed; Lapid: Either you cut a secret deal or ‘Trump doesn’t give a… Read More ›

What happens to a marriage after long reserve duty? Here’s an inside look

What happens to a marriage after long reserve duty? Here’s an inside look

They felt like ‘two hedgehogs trying to hug’, she wanted help at home and time to breathe, he forgot how to be gentle; The war… Read More ›

UK government ‘delighted’ to bring activist to Britain who called to kill Zionists and whites

UK government ‘delighted’ to bring activist to Britain who called to kill Zionists and whites

Jewish Leadership Council said on Saturday that it was appalled by the welcome received by El-Fattah, which it felt contradicted Starmer’s previous promises to root… Read More ›

Australian PM announces gun buy-back plan, day of reflection following Bondi Beach shooting

Australian PM announces gun buy-back plan, day of reflection following Bondi Beach shooting

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national buy-back scheme for firearms to “get more guns off our streets” following the Bondi Beach massacre.… Read More ›

Former Colorado Clerk Will Remain in State Prison After a Federal Judge Rejects Her Bid for Freedom

Former Colorado Clerk Will Remain in State Prison After a Federal Judge Rejects Her Bid for Freedom

DENVER (AP) — A federal magistrate judge on Monday rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she… Read More ›

Soon No Pearl Harbor Survivors Will Be Alive. People Turn To Other Ways to Learn About the Bombing

Soon No Pearl Harbor Survivors Will Be Alive. People Turn To Other Ways to Learn About the Bombing

HONOLULU (AP) — Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on… Read More ›

IDF chief: Israel needs bold leadership that recognizes failure, doesn’t ‘frighten, evade’

IDF chief: Israel needs bold leadership that recognizes failure, doesn’t ‘frighten, evade’

Remarks, read as thinly veiled critique of government, come amid public spat with Defense Minister Israel Katz over the latter’s selective promotions of senior IDF… Read More ›

Two Arrested in Flatbush After Hat and Kippah Snatched on Sunday

Two Arrested in Flatbush After Hat and Kippah Snatched on Sunday

BROOKLYN — On Sunday, police arrested two individuals after they allegedly stole a young man’s hat and knocked off his kippah on Avenue N and… Read More ›

From evidence to enigma: Missing phones that shaped Israel’s biggest investigations

From evidence to enigma: Missing phones that shaped Israel’s biggest investigations

As police search for the missing cellphone of former military advocate general Yifat Tomer‑Yerushalmi, past cases show how lost or destroyed devices, from top police officers… Read More ›

‘Disregard for safety and security of the peacekeepers’: UNIFIL alleges Israeli grenade attack

‘Disregard for safety and security of the peacekeepers’: UNIFIL alleges Israeli grenade attack

UNIFIL claimed that an Israeli tank fired a shot towards UN peacekeepers on the Israel-Lebanon border on Sunday. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon… Read More ›

Trump tells CNN Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza ‘as soon as I say the word’ if Hamas won’t uphold ceasefire deal

Trump tells CNN Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza ‘as soon as I say the word’ if Hamas won’t uphold ceasefire deal

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume military action in Gaza if Hamas refuses to… Read More ›