Articles by: JewishNews-Ester

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 ›

North Korea believed to earn a fortune from forced labor overseas, U.N. says

North Korea believed to earn a fortune from forced labor overseas, U.N. says

North Korea’s catalog of abuses against its own people within the secretive country’s tightly controlled borders has been widely reported. But Kim Jong Un’s regime… Read More ›

Remembering Rabin through art

Remembering Rabin through art

A new exhibit hosts posters related to the late Prime Minister and his assassination, hoping to put a new twist in the nation’s thoughts regarding… Read More ›

New video shows scenes from raid to free hostages from ISIS

New video shows scenes from raid to free hostages from ISIS

Amid the incessant crackle of gunfire, the soldiers usher the cowering men through darkened rooms. The men are barefoot, most of them wearing long robes,… Read More ›

Poland edges further right in election

Poland edges further right in election

  Poland’s parliamentary election has seen the Eastern European nation edge further to the right, an election official announced Monday. Wojciech Hermelinski, head of the… Read More ›

If meat causes cancer, what can we eat?

If meat causes cancer, what can we eat?

  You may have just learned that processed meat such as bacon, sausage and ham may cause cancer and unprocessed meat may be “probably carcinogenic… Read More ›

20,000 Israelis sue Facebook for ignoring Palestinian incitement

20,000 Israelis sue Facebook for ignoring Palestinian incitement

Class-action suit filed in Brooklyn requires social network to immediately remove all posts ‘containing incitement to murder Jews’   NEW YORK — A class-action lawsuit… Read More ›

At Rabin memorial, Netanyahu blames PA for failed peace efforts

At Rabin memorial, Netanyahu blames PA for failed peace efforts

PM says there’s no peace because Palestinians refuse to recognize Jewish state; Herzog pans him for 10 years of failure   Addressing the Knesset during… Read More ›

Clinton: I really loved Rabin, and he would have made peace

Clinton: I really loved Rabin, and he would have made peace

In interview aired 20 years after assassination of PM, former president recalls how Arafat said Rabin’s word was better than any contract   Had he… Read More ›

New Brunswick, NJ – Fire That Destroyed Synagogue Appears To Be Accidental; One Torah Saved”

New Brunswick, NJ – Fire That Destroyed Synagogue Appears To Be Accidental; One Torah Saved”

  New Brunswick, NJ – Authorities say a fire that destroyed a historic New Jersey synagogue appears to be accidental. The Middlesex County prosecutor’s office said… Read More ›

Stillwater, OK – Police: Drunk Driver Slams Into Parade, 4 Dead, 34 Injured

Stillwater, OK – Police: Drunk Driver Slams Into Parade, 4 Dead, 34 Injured

  Stillwater, OK – A woman suspected of driving under the influence plowed into a crowd Saturday during the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade, killing… Read More ›

Ramallah – For Palestinians, Social Media Is Source Of News And Anger

Ramallah – For Palestinians, Social Media Is Source Of News And Anger

  Ramallah – Four dailies, eight TV stations, and scores of radio stations report on the current wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Palestinian territories.… Read More ›

Report: Ahmadinejad’s bodyguard killed in Syria

Report: Ahmadinejad’s bodyguard killed in Syria

  A bodyguard for former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been killed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Tehran’s state media reported. Abdollah Baqeri… Read More ›

Actress Maureen O’Hara of ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ dies at 95

Actress Maureen O’Hara of ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ dies at 95

  Legendary actress Maureen O’Hara, best known for her roles in “Miracle on 34th Street” and films by John Ford, died Saturday of natural causes,… Read More ›

Netanyahu declares all quiet on the Gaza front during visit

Netanyahu declares all quiet on the Gaza front during visit

The prime minister, defense minister, and senior IDF officers toured the Gaza border, where Netanyahu declared that the ‘situation was under control.’ Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›