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First kosher bar in former Soviet Union serves up cocktails and Torah lessons

First kosher bar in former Soviet Union serves up cocktails and Torah lessons

Israeli Entrepreneur David Roitman says he opened Kosher Bar as personal duty to help rebuild the historic Jewish community of Odessa in Ukraine, which he… Read More ›

Texas Judge: Hospital Can Remove Baby From Life Support

Texas Judge: Hospital Can Remove Baby From Life Support

  DALLAS (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday sided with a hospital that plans to remove an 11-month-old girl from life support after her… Read More ›

Top Iranian general confirmed dead in US airstrike, days after an embassy siege in Iraq

Top Iranian general confirmed dead in US airstrike, days after an embassy siege in Iraq

  Iran’s elite Quds force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, was killed in an airstrike in Iraq on Thursday afternoon, according to the US military.… Read More ›

Belgian Orthodox Jewish Lawmaker Takes Heat For Lighting Menorah Near Parliament Nativity Scene

Belgian Orthodox Jewish Lawmaker Takes Heat For Lighting Menorah Near Parliament Nativity Scene

  LONDON (JTA) – A video by the only Orthodox Jewish lawmaker in the Belgium Federal Parliament lighting candles there on Hanukkah near a nativity… Read More ›

Photos show rockets used against the US were also shipped to Hezbollah

Photos show rockets used against the US were also shipped to Hezbollah

Rockets used against US forces in Iraq were same type Israel found in 2009 being shipped to Hezbollah   In 2009 Israel intercepted a shipment… Read More ›

IDF preparing for confrontation with Iran – Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi

IDF preparing for confrontation with Iran – Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi

Lt.-Gen. Kochavi acknowledges in public for the first time that Israel has struck Iranian targets in Iraq.   The IDF is preparing for a limited… Read More ›

4 dead, 20 injured after bus accident near Ben-Gurion Airport

4 dead, 20 injured after bus accident near Ben-Gurion Airport

The incident happened on Highway 40 in central Israel.   Four people have been killed after a bus overturned in a road accident on Sunday… Read More ›

Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar won Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate

Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar won Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate

  Seven of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates took the stage in Los Angeles on Thursday night for the sixth round of presidential debates. South… Read More ›

MK, fighter and firebrand Geula Cohen dies at 93

MK, fighter and firebrand Geula Cohen dies at 93

She battled the British in pre-state Palestine, escaped jail in 1947 to continue the fight and entered the Knesset in 1979 as strong opponent to… Read More ›

As violence spreads, Lebanese caretaker PM rules out staying in post

As violence spreads, Lebanese caretaker PM rules out staying in post

Saad Hariri says he is dropping his candidacy because of obstacles ‘to forming a government of specialists,’ which is opposed by Hezbollah and its allies… Read More ›

IDF: 57,277 veterans recognized as disabled, 5,000 suffer from PTSD

IDF: 57,277 veterans recognized as disabled, 5,000 suffer from PTSD

Defense Ministry publishes data to mark 5th annual Day of Appreciation for wounded veterans.   There are 57,277 disabled IDF veterans recognized by the Defense… Read More ›

New Jersey AG: Kosher market terror attack fueled by hatred of Jews

New Jersey AG: Kosher market terror attack fueled by hatred of Jews

Gurbir Grewal says case being investigated as domestic terror, killers had five guns when they burst into JC Kosher Supermarket in attack that left three… Read More ›

UK Jews, Israelis fete apparent defeat of ‘anti-Semite’ Corbyn

UK Jews, Israelis fete apparent defeat of ‘anti-Semite’ Corbyn

Labour leader had inpired fears among Jewish community given inability to deal ith anti-Semitism in party; former mayor Livingstone: The Jewish vote didn’t help  … Read More ›

Booker Slams Democratic Debate Rules As He Ends Iowa Tour

Booker Slams Democratic Debate Rules As He Ends Iowa Tour

  DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Fighting to be in the next Democratic presidential debate, Cory Booker concluded a nearly 800-mile, 12-county tour of Iowa on… Read More ›

The winners and losers of a third round of elections

The winners and losers of a third round of elections

Analysis: Netanyahu’s prosecution is on hold, Lapid will once again be up for the position of PM, and Bennett will get to keep his dream… Read More ›

Trump tells Jewish group they’ll vote for him to protect their wealth

Trump tells Jewish group they’ll vote for him to protect their wealth

President also says some Jews are not sufficiently supportive of Israel, accused of anti-Semitism after speech to Israeli American Council   WASHINGTON — US President… Read More ›

Sale Of Bergen-belsen Ledger Of Eyewitness Accounts Of Jewish Deaths Put On Hold

Sale Of Bergen-belsen Ledger Of Eyewitness Accounts Of Jewish Deaths Put On Hold

  JERUSALEM (JTA) — The auction of a rabbinical court ledger that documents eyewitness accounts of the deaths of Jews in Nazi camps has been… Read More ›

Why Gabbay and Olmert, not Gantz or Netanyahu, are to blame for elections

Why Gabbay and Olmert, not Gantz or Netanyahu, are to blame for elections

If there were only ghosts on Gantz’s side, perhaps it would not be too hard to form a government. But there is also a political… Read More ›

Israeli Stamps Show The First Torah Scroll Flown In Space

Israeli Stamps Show The First Torah Scroll Flown In Space

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new set of Israeli stamps shows the first Torah that was flown in space. The commemorative stamps also feature Jeffrey Hoffman,… Read More ›

Netanyahu ignores charges during first cabinet meeting since indictment

Netanyahu ignores charges during first cabinet meeting since indictment

PM opts to focus on the situation in Gaza and the protests in Iran, avoiding completely the topic of the indictment brought against him last… Read More ›