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‘Auschwitz Hero’ Survived Shoah so Grandsons Could be ‘Heroes in Israel’

‘Auschwitz Hero’ Survived Shoah so Grandsons Could be ‘Heroes in Israel’

“Our grandmother always said she beat Mengele during the Holocaust,” says IDF Lt. -Col.   Holocaust Remembrance Day holds special meaning for Shimon and Yair… Read More ›

JCC bomb hoaxer charged with vast list of offenses, including threats to execute children, blow up planes

JCC bomb hoaxer charged with vast list of offenses, including threats to execute children, blow up planes

US-Israeli teen hacker accused in Israeli court of making over 2,000 intimidating calls to Jewish institutions, malls, schools, airlines and police in US and worldwide;… Read More ›

Ukrainian PM to Visit Israel as Anger Over Anti-Settlement UN Resolution Subsides

Ukrainian PM to Visit Israel as Anger Over Anti-Settlement UN Resolution Subsides

One diplomatic official said that Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s rescheduled visit is a clear sign that relations with Ukraine have returned to normal.   Prime… Read More ›

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

PM hosts Holocaust survivors who will light memorial torches

Benjamin Netanyahu receives the six survivors who will light the ceremonial torches in memory of the six million Jews murdered on Holocaust Memorial Day. ‘You… Read More ›

Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill

Texas House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Anti-BDS Bill

  In a groundbreaking legislative act to blunt economic warfare against Israel, the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed on Thursday an anti-boycott bill that… Read More ›

Auschwitz survivor recounts her harrowing story to Israeli president

Auschwitz survivor recounts her harrowing story to Israeli president

‘We kept walking. After a few moments, we heard the shots’—a survivor of the Auschwitz extermination camp, who lost her entire family in the Holocaust… Read More ›

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

French Jews put off by Le Pen now worry about another presidential candidate

Rise of communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, an anti-Israel lawmaker, has Jewish community caught between two extremes   Even before the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged… Read More ›

Washington – Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Named To Time’s 100 Most Influential People List

Washington – Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump Named To Time’s 100 Most Influential People List

  Washington – Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were named to Time magazine’s  100 Most Influential People list for 2017 The Jewish daughter and son-in-law… Read More ›

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Swiss Foreign Minister Under Fire for Pro-Hamas Policies

Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter is widely considered as unfriendly toward Israel.   Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter’s meetings with the Jihadist organization Hamas have… Read More ›

Israeli start-up invents traumatic anxiety-treating app

Israeli start-up invents traumatic anxiety-treating app

With Israel unfortunately being a leading force in dealing with traumatic events, one psychologist and three former elite IDF fighters are looking to help work… Read More ›

Russian Envoy Foreign Ministry to Discuss Recognition of J’Lem

Russian Envoy Foreign Ministry to Discuss Recognition of J’Lem

Even though Russia recognized west Jerusalem as the capital, it does not mean that the embassy will move from Tel Aviv.   Russia’s Ambassador to… Read More ›

Israel to phase out customs duties on some consumer goods

Israel to phase out customs duties on some consumer goods

The Finance Minister reveals his financial plan: taxes on the import of baby clothes, shoes, and cellular devices will be abolished. Due to the ongoing… Read More ›

Comment: Sparing Erdogan’s Wrath

Comment: Sparing Erdogan’s Wrath

Perhaps Turkey may even play a bigger and more significant role now.   Luckily for Israel, the reconciliation agreement with Ankara, which ended six years… Read More ›

17 year old allegedly gang-raped in Herzliya

17 year old allegedly gang-raped in Herzliya

The girl accompanied a 22-year-old acquaintance to his home, where she found two of his friends waiting. The three then allegedly forced themselves on her… Read More ›

IDF Special Forces arrested by Palestinian police in Nablus

IDF Special Forces arrested by Palestinian police in Nablus

Two undercover soldiers from the Duvdevan unit were detained for questioning by Palestinian security forces and taken to the police station in Nablus. The soldiers… Read More ›

Like father, like daughter: Marine Le Pen is an anti-Semite too

Like father, like daughter: Marine Le Pen is an anti-Semite too

Op-ed: The radical left and the radical right in Europe have something in common—hatred and racism. Even when the leaders of far-right parties disassociate themselves… Read More ›

There is an outline for peace, but is there a partner?

There is an outline for peace, but is there a partner?

Op-ed: The chance of reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians is almost nonexistent, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing Israel can do to… Read More ›

Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?

Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?

Eclectic essays explore Ben-Gurion’s experimentation with demographic eugenics, and the Jewish ardor — and abhorrence — for taking stock   BOSTON — Whereas some find… Read More ›

Tufts University Students Pass BDS Resolution

Tufts University Students Pass BDS Resolution

Several other student governments at colleges and universities in the US have passed similar resolutions.   NEW YORK – The student senate at Tufts University… Read More ›

Can You Recite the Entire Seder by Heart?

Can You Recite the Entire Seder by Heart?

  If you can’t recite the Seder by heart, you’re not alone. Although 1,800 years ago, in the time of the Mishna, recitation of the… Read More ›