Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Australian Open 2016: Caroline Wozniacki crashes out in shock defeat

Australian Open 2016: Caroline Wozniacki crashes out in shock defeat

  Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki might be the best of friends but the pair could scarcely have had more different experiences on the Australian… Read More ›

Hundreds may be dead after ISIS abductions in Deir Ezzor

Hundreds may be dead after ISIS abductions in Deir Ezzor

The city of Deir Ezzor in northern Syria has seen more than its share of conflict and suffering since the Syrian insurgency began. But the… Read More ›

American officials condemn ‘barbaric’ attacks on Israeli civilians

American officials condemn ‘barbaric’ attacks on Israeli civilians

State Department calls stabbings ‘horrific’; UN envoy ‘increasingly alarmed’ by near daily terror attacks, calls on leaders to work against violence   The US State… Read More ›

Israel employs double legal standard in West Bank, US envoy charges

Israel employs double legal standard in West Bank, US envoy charges

Furious Netanyahu calls critique from Dan Shapiro, on a day when murdered mother-of-six laid to rest, ‘unacceptable and incorrect’   US ambassador to Israel Dan… Read More ›

Bush slams Clinton, Slaughter over proposal to ‘shame Israel’

Bush slams Clinton, Slaughter over proposal to ‘shame Israel’

While GOP presidential hopeful castigates rival, veteran US diplomats say former secretary of state unlikely to have considered idea   WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate… Read More ›

Holocaust survivors missing out on funds because of legal dispute

Holocaust survivors missing out on funds because of legal dispute

The company that is supposed to look after Holocaust survivors in Israel is locked in a legal dispute, meaning that survivors are denied funds from… Read More ›

Foreign Ministry employees announce Bennett boycott

Foreign Ministry employees announce Bennett boycott

In response to an interview in which Education Minister Naftali Bennett seemed to cast aspersions on the loyalty of Israeli diplomats, Foreign Ministry employees decide… Read More ›

EU: Agreements with Israel only apply within 1967 borders

EU: Agreements with Israel only apply within 1967 borders

Israel is battling an EU proposal that will be tabled next week in a meeting of European foreign ministers, which calls for all European Union… Read More ›

PMO: Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapon, will destabilize Middle East

PMO: Iran continues to pursue nuclear weapon, will destabilize Middle East

Unless there is an appropriate response to each Iranian violation of its deal with the six world powers “Iran will surmise that it can continue… Read More ›

Jewish-American Robert Levinson not included in prisoners released from Iran

Jewish-American Robert Levinson not included in prisoners released from Iran

According to sources, as part of the exchange deal Iran “committed to continue cooperating with the United States to determine the whereabouts of Robert Levinson.”… Read More ›

Middle Israel: A Middle Eastern Finland

Middle Israel: A Middle Eastern Finland

With conflicts rapidly multiplying around it, Israel is steadily adopting a mind-set of neutrality.   There was a time when Switzerland epitomized the idyll Israel… Read More ›

Alan Rickman, Snape in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at 69

Alan Rickman, Snape in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies at 69

Alan Rickman, the British actor with the unforgettable voice who played the brooding Professor Severus Snape in the “Harry Potter” films as well as “Die… Read More ›

Taiwan set to elect first female leader

Taiwan set to elect first female leader

Hong Kong – Voters in the only Chinese democracy are expected to elect Taiwan’s first female leader when they go to the polls Saturday for presidential… Read More ›

Outrage over Charlie Hebdo cartoon of dead toddler Alan Kurdi as sex attacker

Outrage over Charlie Hebdo cartoon of dead toddler Alan Kurdi as sex attacker

After a year in which it has never been far from the headlines, French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is back in the news again —… Read More ›

EU presents aggressive strategy for fighting anti-Semitism

EU presents aggressive strategy for fighting anti-Semitism

New coordinator aims to tackle online hate speech, expand legislation prohibiting Holocaust denial   Tackling online hate speech, implementing hate crime legislation and education are… Read More ›

Anti-Semitism drives record-high Western European immigration to Israel

Anti-Semitism drives record-high Western European immigration to Israel

Amid rise in attacks, 9,880 make aliya in 2015, including almost 8,000 from France   AP — Jewish immigration to Israel from Western Europe has… Read More ›

French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?

French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?

Calls to hide Jewishness amount to ‘projecting part of the responsibility on the victim,’ warns France’s Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia   PARIS (AP) — Religious… Read More ›

Philly police probe tip that radical group wants to harm officers

Philly police probe tip that radical group wants to harm officers

Man who shot cop said he was ‘following Allah,’ is believed to have traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2011   PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in… Read More ›

Cologne police: New Year mob violence cases rise to 516

Cologne police: New Year mob violence cases rise to 516

Apparently coordinated robberies, sexual assaults on women by ‘foreign’ assailants put new pressure on Germany’s migrant policy   BERLIN (AP) — German authorities need to… Read More ›

How social media helped free a ‘chained’ woman after 8 years

How social media helped free a ‘chained’ woman after 8 years

Following intense public pressure — and a little help from YouTube — an Ohio man provides a Jewish bill of divorce to the wife he… Read More ›