Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Amazon Takes Major Step Toward Commencing Israel Operations

Amazon Takes Major Step Toward Commencing Israel Operations

For the first time, an Amazon Services website in both Hebrew and English offers both local and foreign vendors access to Israeli buyers.   E-commerce… Read More ›

IDF: 3 rockets fired from Gaza, 2 intercepted by Iron Dome

IDF: 3 rockets fired from Gaza, 2 intercepted by Iron Dome

The shrapnel from one of the rockets landed in the southern city of Sderot where at least 2 people were lightly hurt while running to… Read More ›

A victim of the anti-vaccination movement

A victim of the anti-vaccination movement

Opinion: Some 4,300 Israelis contracted a long-gone disease this year because of a movement that doesn’t respond to reason; the health ministry can’t simply settle… Read More ›

US, Russia Nuke Tensions May Be Even Worse than Iran Threat – Analysis

US, Russia Nuke Tensions May Be Even Worse than Iran Threat – Analysis

  The threat posed by a potential nuclear Iran is no laughing matter. But neither is the escalating threat of a nuclear exchange between the… Read More ›

The secret service of Antwerp’s Jewish community

The secret service of Antwerp’s Jewish community

The 20,000 strong Jewish population of Belgium’s second city has its own protection in the form of a clandestine group of volunteers who work with… Read More ›

Gazan gunman shot after firing at troops in fresh border battle

Gazan gunman shot after firing at troops in fresh border battle

IDF shells Hamas positions in response to infiltration attempt in northern Strip day after four Palestinian killed trying to sneak into Israel   Israeli forces… Read More ›

New York – Panic In Times Square Amid Fears Of Active Shooter [VIDEO]

New York – Panic In Times Square Amid Fears Of Active Shooter [VIDEO]

New York – The New York Police Department says the loud noise of a motorcycle backfiring caused a panic and sent people scrambling in Times… Read More ›

Analysis: Election lists close with rifts on left and right, leaving Liberman as kingmaker

Analysis: Election lists close with rifts on left and right, leaving Liberman as kingmaker

Three major takeaways as 32 parties register with the Central Elections Committee for the September 17 national vote   With 47 days to go until… Read More ›

Party leaders race to win the Russian vote

Party leaders race to win the Russian vote

Just a few kilometers apart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman both met with Russian speaking voters in an effort to… Read More ›

New York – 108-year-old Synagogue Is Becoming Apartments For Syracuse University Students

New York – 108-year-old Synagogue Is Becoming Apartments For Syracuse University Students

Syracuse, NY – Central New York’s oldest synagogue is being redeveloped as student housing for Syracuse University. Temple Concord, also known as the Temple Society… Read More ›

Prison riot in Brazil leaves 16 inmates decapitated and dozens more killed

Prison riot in Brazil leaves 16 inmates decapitated and dozens more killed

More than 50 inmates were killed during a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday, according to local authorities. Jarbas Vasconcelos, superintendent of the penitentiary… Read More ›

Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes is reportedly talking to the US government about how to break up Facebook

Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes is reportedly talking to the US government about how to break up Facebook

  Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes has been meeting with the US government about breaking up Facebook, according to The New York Times. Hughes has become… Read More ›

Big tech’s antitrust wipeout: $33 billion erased from the value of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google after DOJ announces probe

Big tech’s antitrust wipeout: $33 billion erased from the value of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google after DOJ announces probe

  Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google’s share prices fell after the US Department of Justice announced an antitrust investigation into “online platforms.” As of 5.30… Read More ›

Los Angles – Joe Biden Compares Trump To Segregationist George Wallace

Los Angles – Joe Biden Compares Trump To Segregationist George Wallace

  Los Angeles – Joe Biden, a former U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, compared Republican President Donald Trump on Friday to the late… Read More ›

Analysis: Iran’s gamble on a tanker seizure will end its credit — even among friends

Analysis: Iran’s gamble on a tanker seizure will end its credit — even among friends

Steadily increasing its bets in an international game of bluff, Iran has gone almost all in with a gamble that its hard liners must believe… Read More ›

US House condemns Trump’s racist tweets in extraordinary rebuke

US House condemns Trump’s racist tweets in extraordinary rebuke

Measure carries no legal repercussions for US president; highly partisan vote in Democratic-led House unlikely to cost him with his die-hard conservative base   WASHINGTON… Read More ›

Tensions Rise in Gulf as U.S, UK Up Their Forces

Tensions Rise in Gulf as U.S, UK Up Their Forces

‘Tanker war’ feared as West determined to keep oil exports flowing.   Britain is reinforcing its military presence in the Gulf by sending a second… Read More ›

Amazon workers are planning a strike for one of its busiest shopping days of the year

Amazon workers are planning a strike for one of its busiest shopping days of the year

  Amazon workers at one of the company’s fulfillment centers in Minnesota are planning to strike for six hours during Amazon Prime Day. These workers want job… Read More ›

Atlanta – Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Celebrate 73 Years Of Marriage

Atlanta – Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Celebrate 73 Years Of Marriage

Atlanta – Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are marking their 73rd wedding anniversary, approaching George and Barbara Bush as the longest-married presidential… Read More ›

Analysis: Women’s World Cup: As champions for equality, USWNT to be admired in its fight for lasting change

Analysis: Women’s World Cup: As champions for equality, USWNT to be admired in its fight for lasting change

It has been impossible to ignore the US Women’s National Team in this World Cup, but so too impossible not to admire them. When many… Read More ›