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Jerusalem – Deciding To Challenge Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni Joins Opposition Head

Jerusalem – Deciding To Challenge Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni Joins Opposition Head

Jerusalem – On Wednesday political sources said that former Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni and the center-left parliamentary opposition leader will jointly challenge Prime Minister… Read More ›

Geneva – Heat Turned Up By Governments On Atheists

Geneva – Heat Turned Up By Governments On Atheists

Geneva – Geneva – Some governments are stepping up efforts to portray atheists and secularists as a danger to society and even as terrorists, amid… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – NYC Mayor: Need For Mental Health Assistance Highlighted By Shooting In Chabad Synogogue

Brooklyn, NY – NYC Mayor: Need For Mental Health Assistance Highlighted By Shooting In Chabad Synogogue

Brooklyn, N.Y. – Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, says today’s stabbing of Israeli student Levi Rosenblatt at Brooklyn’s Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters highlights the need and… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – UPDATE: Lawyer Says Suspect Bi-Polar, No Terrorism Link In Chabad Stabbing

Brooklyn, NY – UPDATE: Lawyer Says Suspect Bi-Polar, No Terrorism Link In Chabad Stabbing

Brooklyn, NY -In the middle of the night, a man with a history of mental illness slipped into the headquarters of a major Jewish organization… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Netanyahu: Despite Rainfall Arava Oil Spill Under Control

Jerusalem – Netanyahu: Despite Rainfall Arava Oil Spill Under Control

Jerusalem -Benjamin Netanyahu toured the afflicted area nearly one week following the oil spill in the Arava,  and said that at the moment the situation… Read More ›

Paris – In Connection To Jewish Museum Shooting, France Arrests 5

Paris – In Connection To Jewish Museum Shooting, France Arrests 5

Paris – French police, in connection with their investigation into the killing of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in May, have made a… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel Invokes ‘Dying Patient Act’ For Terminal Patients

Jerusalem – Israel Invokes ‘Dying Patient Act’ For Terminal Patients

Jerusalem – For the first time, Israel has invoked the provisions of its 2005 “Dying Patient Act” to allow a terminally ill patient to chose… Read More ›

Gaza Strip -In Gaza War,  Amnesty International Accuses Israel Of War Crimes

Gaza Strip -In Gaza War, Amnesty International Accuses Israel Of War Crimes

Gaza Strip – The human rights monitor for Amnesty International said on Tuesday that Israeli military committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive this summer… Read More ›

Israel – Nephew Of Israeli Teens’ Murderer’s Terror Attack Thwarted Outside Tekoa

Israel – Nephew Of Israeli Teens’ Murderer’s Terror Attack Thwarted Outside Tekoa

Israel –  On Tuesday, security forces arrested two Palestinians directly outside the Tekoa settlement in the West Bank. One of the suspects is the nephew… Read More ›

Tel Aviv – Israel, Rattled By Wartime Rockets, Plans Alternate Airport

Tel Aviv – Israel, Rattled By Wartime Rockets, Plans Alternate Airport

Tel Aviv – An airport planned for Israel’s southern desert is being billed as a wartime alternative to Tel Aviv,  which was briefly shunned by… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel Indicts American Over Plot To Assassinate Obama, Bomb Muslims

Jerusalem – Israel Indicts American Over Plot To Assassinate Obama, Bomb Muslims

Jerusalem –  Adam Everett Livvix, who is wanted in the United States for questioning on drug-related charges, was apprehended by Israeli police on November 19.… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Ahead Of Israeli Election, Netanyahu Makes Cost-of-living Promise

Jerusalem – Ahead Of Israeli Election, Netanyahu Makes Cost-of-living Promise

Jerusalem – Benjamin Netanyahu has been a security hawk, In nearly nine years as Israel’s prime minister spread over three terms, promising to do whatever… Read More ›

Jerusalem U: Engages, Educates, Empowers

Jerusalem U: Engages, Educates, Empowers

  Canadian born Israeli educator, writer‚ film producer‚ and Rabbi‚ Raphael Shore, is the founder of Jerusalem U. The Organization aims to address the prevalent… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Deri Says Yishai staying in Shas

Jerusalem – Deri Says Yishai staying in Shas

Jerusalem – Shas chairman Arye Deri declared on Monday that unity had been achieved within the party, during a faction meeting in the Knesset, referring… Read More ›

Ocean County, NJ -The Sentence Is One Year For Conspirator In Eliyahu Weinstein Scheme

Ocean County, NJ -The Sentence Is One Year For Conspirator In Eliyahu Weinstein Scheme

Ocean County, NJ – U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced a Lakewood, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to one year and one day in… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Jewish NGO:  Rabbi Is Being Openly Investigated For Threatening Hareidi Women Running For Office

Jerusalem – Jewish NGO: Rabbi Is Being Openly Investigated For Threatening Hareidi Women Running For Office

Jerusalem –  Suspected of using threats and extortion against hareidi women to prevent them from running for office, Rabbi Mordechai Blau, is being investigated by the… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israeli Parliament Sets Election After Dissolving Itself

Jerusalem – Israeli Parliament Sets Election After Dissolving Itself

Jerusalem – Israeli lawmakers have kicked off the country’s election campaign by voting overwhelmingly  to dissolve parliament. Monday’s vote in the 120-seat Knesset passed 93-0… Read More ›

Santiago del Estero, Argentina -Jewish Tombs Desecrated At Cemetery

Santiago del Estero, Argentina -Jewish Tombs Desecrated At Cemetery

Santiago del Estero, Argentina – Members of Argentina’s Jewish community are denouncing the desecration of about a dozen tombs at a Jewish cemetery in the… Read More ›

United Nations – Sanctions called For By Syria On Israel Over Air Strikes

United Nations – Sanctions called For By Syria On Israel Over Air Strikes

United Nations – Monday,  Syria asked the United Nations Security Council  to impose sanctions on neighboring Israel, one day after accusing the Jewish state of… Read More ›

United Nations- Collaboration Between Israel And Syrian Rebels Revealed By New UN Report

United Nations- Collaboration Between Israel And Syrian Rebels Revealed By New UN Report

United Nations – The Syrian ambassador to the UN has long complained of a Zionist conspiracy to overthrow President Bashar Assad working with the Syrian… Read More ›