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10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

Despite anguish, Miki Goldwasser, mother of captured and killed reserve soldier Ehud, says the war was a great victory.   A family can live day-to-day… Read More ›

PM heading to Rome to oppose French initiative

PM heading to Rome to oppose French initiative

Netanyahu expected to discuss his thoughts on the French peace initiaitive, to meet with John Kerry and Federica Mogherini and with UN Secretary General Ban… Read More ›

Rwanda looks to Israel as model of how to persevere after genocide

Rwanda looks to Israel as model of how to persevere after genocide

“Israel’s achievements are really spectacular, we want to learn how they achieved this.”   As a country where genocide was committed just over two decades… Read More ›

UK minister compares Brexit opponents to Nazi campaign against Einstein

UK minister compares Brexit opponents to Nazi campaign against Einstein

Justice minister insinuates multiple experts who’ve warned against leaving EU are on government payroll   Britain’s justice minister likened some opponents of the campaign to… Read More ›

New York – Radio Persona Sliwa Unloads On NYPD’s Jewish Liaisons Program (audio)

New York – Radio Persona Sliwa Unloads On NYPD’s Jewish Liaisons Program (audio)

  New York – Guardian Angels founder and popular radio host Curtis Sliwa minced no words on his WABC Drive at Five radio program on… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Were Israel’s Yemenite Children Kidnapped? Question Once Again Shakes Israel

Jerusalem – Were Israel’s Yemenite Children Kidnapped? Question Once Again Shakes Israel

  Jerusalem – A painful chapter in Israel’s history – the mysterious disappearance, or abduction, of hundreds of Yemenite children shortly after the country’s founding… Read More ›

A dangerous ‘confluence of forces’ is threatening the US economy

A dangerous ‘confluence of forces’ is threatening the US economy

  The International Monetary Fund released a preliminary report on Wednesday that predicted that the US economy will grow 2.2% this year, and 2.5% in… Read More ›

HEDGE FUND: ‘There’s too much short-termism in the market’

HEDGE FUND: ‘There’s too much short-termism in the market’

  Harlan Zimmerman thinks that there’s a problem with stock buybacks. Companies in the US have spent billions of dollars to gobble up their own… Read More ›

US stock futures are getting slammed after early Brexit surprises

US stock futures are getting slammed after early Brexit surprises

After early surprises in the UK’s EU referendum, US stock futures have turned negative. Near 9:05 p.m. ET, S&P 500 futures were down by as… Read More ›

What Hitler’s Jewish neighbor saw

What Hitler’s Jewish neighbor saw

London – “I knew only too well, even when I was 8 years old — I knew it was a very bad business for us.”… Read More ›

German cinema attacker takes hostages before being killed by police

German cinema attacker takes hostages before being killed by police

A masked gunman stormed a German cinema Thursday afternoon, taking hostages before he was killed by police, officials said. The rifle-wielding man entered the cinema… Read More ›

Five reasons Europe would miss the UK

Five reasons Europe would miss the UK

Brussels, Belgium – Britain’s referendum on EU membership stands to be the biggest change in the Union’s history. It would be the first time a… Read More ›

Brexit figurehead Farage says UK will likely stay in EU

Brexit figurehead Farage says UK will likely stay in EU

UKIP leader says his party will ‘only continue to grow stronger’ even if ‘Leave’ campaign fails   Anti-EU figurehead Nigel Farage said Thursday it appeared… Read More ›

First mainland Brexit results closer than expected

First mainland Brexit results closer than expected

Pound takes wild ride as markets react to early vote counts, which indicate contest over staying or leaving EU is neck and neck   LONDON… Read More ›

100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian

100 years later, Sholem Aleichem’s censored tales available in Russian

Since the Soviet regime prevented proliferation of the writer’s anti-communist religious nostalgia, these new translations are a first glimpse into shtetl life for many  … Read More ›

First Sudanese asylum seeker receives refugee status

First Sudanese asylum seeker receives refugee status

Sudanese asylum seeker who’s home was burned down in Darfur and who crossed Israel’s border in 2009 has been granted refugee status for first time… Read More ›

New Israeli application determines taste of watermelons

New Israeli application determines taste of watermelons

The application was developed in Haifa’s Technion University by three students frustrated by disappointment of a bitter watermelon: ‘We have tested it on 30 watermelons… Read More ›

Slicing the salami of settlement costs

Slicing the salami of settlement costs

Op-ed: West Bank settlements continually receive budget items, monetary diversions, and transfers of funds; their pupils receive more money than other Israelis, and their hand… Read More ›

Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump slams Israeli rabbinate’s ‘cruel’ rejection of US convert

Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump slams Israeli rabbinate’s ‘cruel’ rejection of US convert

NY Rabbi Haskel Lookstein speaks to ‘Post’ on rabbinate’s decision to prevent American woman who moved to Israel from marrying her fiance because the body… Read More ›

Democratic platform drafters align on Israeli-Palestinian stance

Democratic platform drafters align on Israeli-Palestinian stance

“Israelis today live in fear of acts of terror that can turn peaceful marketplaces and neighborhoods into scenes of violence and horror,” Reps. Keith Ellison… Read More ›