Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

Bloody October: 11 killed in 609 attacks

Bloody October: 11 killed in 609 attacks

Statistics published by the Shin Bet show the increase in terror throughout the last month. Ten Israelis and one foreign citizen paid with their lives,… Read More ›

Report: Air force struck near Damascus airport

Report: Air force struck near Damascus airport

Syrian opposition media outlets claim Israel bombed targets about two weeks after prior report of Israeli airstrikes; both reports remain unconfirmed. Israel’s air force conducted… Read More ›

No alien radio signals detected in space anomaly, SETI says

No alien radio signals detected in space anomaly, SETI says

  A star system that has been a source of speculation about extraterrestrial intelligence has offered only radio silence. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute… Read More ›

Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation

Sexting scandal: Colorado high school faces felony investigation

Students at a Colorado high school exchanged hundreds of naked photos of themselves, prompting a felony investigation by police and the forfeiture of a football… Read More ›

U.S. officials express growing confidence bomb downed Russian plane

U.S. officials express growing confidence bomb downed Russian plane

The United States appears to be increasingly confident that a terrorist bomb brought down the Russian passenger jet that broke apart over Egypt. The growing… Read More ›

Police to recommend indicting Al-Aqsa preacher for incitement

Police to recommend indicting Al-Aqsa preacher for incitement

Khaled al-Mughrabi arrested again after sermons calling for extermination of Jews; case to be transferred to prosecutor   Israeli police will recommend leveling criminal charges… Read More ›

At Kristallnacht gathering, MK Zoabi compares Israel to Nazis

At Kristallnacht gathering, MK Zoabi compares Israel to Nazis

In Amsterdam speech to event hosted by far-left Jewish group, Joint List lawmaker says Jewish state engaged in ‘ethnic cleansing’ against Palestinians   AMSTERDAM —… Read More ›

Paradise lost, and remembered, for the Jews of Rhodes

Paradise lost, and remembered, for the Jews of Rhodes

An exhibition at the University of Hartford explores a once-thriving Greek Jewish community before the Nazis deported all 1,800 to Auschwitz; only 150 survived  … Read More ›

US and Russia conduct joint air drills in Syria

US and Russia conduct joint air drills in Syria

One month into Russian strikes in Syria, American and Russian aircraft conduct drills in the country’s skies, exchanging messages in Russian and English; Russia and… Read More ›

‘Media misleading by reporting that Iran implementing nuclear deal’

‘Media misleading by reporting that Iran implementing nuclear deal’

MEMRI head Yigal Carmon: Not one centrifuge has been removed.   The mainstream media are misleading the world into believing that Iran has accepted and… Read More ›

Hundreds barricade themselves in synagogue slated for demolition

Hundreds barricade themselves in synagogue slated for demolition

Worshipers, on orders from the court, evacuated their possessions from Givat Ze’ev building already in August.   Hundreds of people barricaded themselves inside a synagogue… Read More ›

On Europe trip, Abbas gets red carpet – and some hard questions

On Europe trip, Abbas gets red carpet – and some hard questions

European leaders remain willing to embrace PA president because they fear the alternatives could be worse, says former Dutch foreign minister.   THE HAGUE, Netherlands… Read More ›

WTA Finals 2015: Petra Kvitova stuns Maria Sharapova

WTA Finals 2015: Petra Kvitova stuns Maria Sharapova

  Petra Kvitova and Agnieszka Radwanska advanced to the title match at the WTA Finals Saturday after upset victories in semifinal matches in Singapore. Fomer… Read More ›

Blogger killed in Bangladesh, three others wounded, police say

Blogger killed in Bangladesh, three others wounded, police say

  Dhaka, Bangladesh – Another secular blogger was hacked to death and three other people were severely wounded in two separate attacks in Bangladesh’s capital on… Read More ›

Russian plane crashes in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board

Russian plane crashes in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board

Cairo – A Russian passenger plane crashed early Saturday in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people aboard, officials said. Russian state media reported that many… Read More ›

US, Israeli hostility to receive ‘crushing response,’ Iran warns

US, Israeli hostility to receive ‘crushing response,’ Iran warns

Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan responds to US-Israel defense talks with vow to inflict an ‘unforgettable lesson’   Iran’s defense minister warned Saturday that his country… Read More ›

Peace is only way to ensure security for Israel, says Obama at Rabin memorial

Peace is only way to ensure security for Israel, says Obama at Rabin memorial

In pre-recorded speech to Tel Aviv rally, US president pays tribute to PM, says ‘a bullet can take a man’s life, but his dream of… Read More ›

Twenty years on, an unfulfilled plea for peace

Twenty years on, an unfulfilled plea for peace

Participants at memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin say Israeli society has grown more divided, and more extreme, since he was assassinated   TEL AVIV —… Read More ›

Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest

Spring Valley High School officer suspended after violent classroom arrest

A student slammed to the ground by a South Carolina school resource officer “bears some responsibility,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. The student’s… Read More ›

Kurdish family fleeing Syria stuck in Moscow airport for over 50 days

Kurdish family fleeing Syria stuck in Moscow airport for over 50 days

A Kurdish family that fled the Syrian civil war has landed in a bureaucratic purgatory: the Moscow airport. Hassan Abdo Ahmed Mohammed, his wife and… Read More ›