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Louisville, KY – Reform Rabbi Fires Up Crowd Ali’s Memorial Service

Louisville, KY – Reform Rabbi Fires Up Crowd Ali’s Memorial Service

  Louisville, KY – Two rabbis have spoken at the interfaith memorial service for Muhammad Ali, with one of them receiving four standing ovations and… Read More ›

Israeli paramedics organize food drive for Ramadan

Israeli paramedics organize food drive for Ramadan

Hundreds of meals donated to Magen David Adom as part of effort to provide meals to needy Muslim families during fast days of Ramadan; Modeled… Read More ›

Thousands of items belonging to Auschwitz victims newly uncovered

Thousands of items belonging to Auschwitz victims newly uncovered

Jewelry, cutlery, brushes among last belongings of Jews led to their death in Nazi camp in Poland during Holocaust   The Auschwitz museum said Tuesday… Read More ›

IT BEGINS: One of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans just backed off supporting Donald Trump

IT BEGINS: One of the most vulnerable Senate Republicans just backed off supporting Donald Trump

  A Republican senator from Illinois announced on Tuesday that he would not support Donald Trump, his party’s presumptive nominee for president, in November. Mark… Read More ›

A billionaire investor thinks Tesla could become one of the largest companies in the entire world

A billionaire investor thinks Tesla could become one of the largest companies in the entire world

  Ron Baron, CEO of Baron Capital Group, believes that Tesla is going to grow and grow and grow. He said that the electric-car maker… Read More ›

Trump releases monumental statement on judge attacks, vows never to talk about university case again

Trump releases monumental statement on judge attacks, vows never to talk about university case again

  In a monumental statement released by his campaign on Tuesday, Donald Trump vowed to stop talking about the civil case involving his now defunct… Read More ›

Commander awakens troops with tear gas

Commander awakens troops with tear gas

Officer who threw a tear gas grenade into a tent full of soldiers on trial; eyewitnesses claim commander was often violent: ‘We were choking, vomiting;’… Read More ›

Queen and Adam Lambert may perform in Israel

Queen and Adam Lambert may perform in Israel

The rock legend and multitalented youngster are in talks to give one show in Israel Adding to the summer sizzle of fabulous foreign fan favorites,… Read More ›

US Jewish LGBT leadership in historic Israel visit

US Jewish LGBT leadership in historic Israel visit

Over 100 leaders of the US LGBT community came on an unprecedented trip to Israel to express solidarity with Israeli LGBT community More than 100… Read More ›

Hundreds of people take part in pluralist Jerusalem Day march

Hundreds of people take part in pluralist Jerusalem Day march

The alternative Jerusalem Day march on Sunday is known as the “March of the Families.”   Several hundred people took part in an alternative Jerusalem… Read More ›

UN under sec.-gen. tells ‘Post’ Hezbollah busy fighting in Syria, war in Lebanon unlikely

UN under sec.-gen. tells ‘Post’ Hezbollah busy fighting in Syria, war in Lebanon unlikely

French diplomat Ladsous: Syria no longer “peacekeeping territory” but UNDOF still needed.   Hezbollah has its hands full fighting on behalf of the Assad regime… Read More ›

Netanyahu: Yes to peace, no to dividing Jerusalem

Netanyahu: Yes to peace, no to dividing Jerusalem

On Jerusalem Day, Netanyahu pledges to never abandon Kotel or cut ties to Temple Mount.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Sunday not to… Read More ›

Fight for Falluja: How we got here, why it matters

Fight for Falluja: How we got here, why it matters

  One of the most significant battles against ISIS is unfolding in the crucial city of Falluja. The metropolis west of Baghdad is much more… Read More ›

Kahlon appeals to Herzog: Regional peace efforts ‘more substantial’ than reported

Kahlon appeals to Herzog: Regional peace efforts ‘more substantial’ than reported

Finance minister urges Zionist Union ‘not to miss historic window of opportunity,’ is rebufffed   There is a substantive effort underway to launch a regional… Read More ›

PM: Paris peace parley will ‘radicalize’ Palestinian demands

PM: Paris peace parley will ‘radicalize’ Palestinian demands

Two days before conference to which Israel and PA are not invited, Netanyahu says ‘direct negotiations’ are ‘only path to peace’   Prime Minister Benjamin… Read More ›

Diaspora leaders warn of ‘major rift’ if Western Wall plan collapses

Diaspora leaders warn of ‘major rift’ if Western Wall plan collapses

As ultra-Orthodox parties stymie implementation of pluralistic prayer pavilion, Diaspora Jewish heads hold crisis talks at PMO, look to Netanyahu to prove his leadership  … Read More ›

Attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison

Attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison

Alaa Ziad, who carried out a ramming and stabbing attack last November, will also have to pay victims hundreds of thousands of Shekels in compensaton;… Read More ›

IDF to institute changes in placing slain soldiers’ siblings in combat units

IDF to institute changes in placing slain soldiers’ siblings in combat units

After agreeing to send lone remaining sons, families will not be able to change their minds.   Until now, parents of slain soldiers who left behind… Read More ›

He found Judaism at 14. Today he’s at the forefront of Poland’s Jewish revival

He found Judaism at 14. Today he’s at the forefront of Poland’s Jewish revival

In the midst of a steady post-Communist Jewish resurgence, Maciej Pawlak now heads the Lauder Morasha Jewish Middle School   WARSAW — On the face… Read More ›

Bartenders are winning Cuba’s embrace of capitalism — and doctors are losing

Bartenders are winning Cuba’s embrace of capitalism — and doctors are losing

  Cuban state employees are abandoning their jobs for high-paying, private-sector gigs—in Cuba. As bartenders, bellhops, and taxi drivers. The growth of the Cuban private… Read More ›