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Congress not bound by Obama’s Israel defense deal, senator says

Congress not bound by Obama’s Israel defense deal, senator says

The US senator used some colorful language conveying his sentiments on the White House during a conversation with the prime minister.   NEW YORK –… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – Freier, Schwartz, Jaffee, Wieder All Win In Today’s Primaries

Brooklyn, NY – Freier, Schwartz, Jaffee, Wieder All Win In Today’s Primaries

Brooklyn, NY – With 100 percent of the votes counted in the Brooklyn’s 5th Judicial District as reported by WNYC, Brooklyn lawyer Ruchie Freier has… Read More ›

BDS event on Capitol Hill cancelled after US congresswoman withdraws support

BDS event on Capitol Hill cancelled after US congresswoman withdraws support

US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee says she was not aware of the arrangement, saying a former staffer made the reservation without her knowledge.   An… Read More ›

A year without the first victim of Israel’s wave of terror

A year without the first victim of Israel’s wave of terror

The children of Alexander Levlovich, who was killed last Rosh Hashana after losing control of his vehicle when Palestinians pelted him with stones, explain how… Read More ›

184 US synagogues pledge to welcome, support refugees

184 US synagogues pledge to welcome, support refugees

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn says ‘Welcome Campaign’ is ‘about who we want to be as American Jews’   Some 184 Jewish congregations and communities in the… Read More ›

Israeli charged in New York over alleged kidnapping plot

Israeli charged in New York over alleged kidnapping plot

The kidnapping was intended to have the man issue a “get,” a document that would grant his wife a religious divorce, prosecutors said.   NEW… Read More ›

Israeli High Court may intervene to carry out stalled Western Wall deal

Israeli High Court may intervene to carry out stalled Western Wall deal

Israeli Justices reprimand state for failure to implement plan for egalitarian prayer section at holy site.   Supreme Court President Miriam Naor, along with two… Read More ›

The alt-right emerges joyous into the light — and argues about Jews

The alt-right emerges joyous into the light — and argues about Jews

A surreal Washington press conference drives home the movement’s racism and misogyny, its support for ‘leader’ Trump, and its newfound desire to appeal   WASHINGTON… Read More ›

New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

How a quiet New England couple traveled to Europe on the eve of WWII and saved hundreds through clandestine operations — including money laundering and… Read More ›

For the love of gefilte: Scottish inmates converting to Judaism for better meals

For the love of gefilte: Scottish inmates converting to Judaism for better meals

Inspired by an episode of ‘Orange is the New Black,’ more than 130 Scottish inmates have become Jewish to receive kosher meals, which are considered… Read More ›

Chief Rabbinate: ‘Get your hands off the holy Sabbath!’

Chief Rabbinate: ‘Get your hands off the holy Sabbath!’

The rabbinate has released a vaguely worded statement calling to protect the sanctity of Shabbat, the ‘Jewish home’ and ‘other matters’; Haredi faction leaders join… Read More ›

Hamas ‘blesses’ Italian goalkeeper for alleged ‘Free Palestine’ chants

Hamas ‘blesses’ Italian goalkeeper for alleged ‘Free Palestine’ chants

Publications have appeared on a myriad of Arab sports and social media sites extolling Italy’s national soccer goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon for apparently shouting ‘Free Palestine’… Read More ›

Meet the Holocaust survivor who organized the generals’ endorsement of Trump

Meet the Holocaust survivor who organized the generals’ endorsement of Trump

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Sidney Shachnow, who lived through WWII in Lithuania, says GOP nominee ‘has temperament to be commander-in-chief’   JTA — Maj. Gen. (ret.)… Read More ›

Report: Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent

Report: Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent

Documents smuggled to London from Moscow by former KGB archivist and defector Vasili Mitrokhin list the Palestinian Authority President as being a KGB agent in… Read More ›

Putting an end to the suicide taboo in Haredi society

Putting an end to the suicide taboo in Haredi society

Thanks to an NGO working to prevent suicide in religious society, rabbis are no longer afraid to directly ask members of their congregation if they… Read More ›

‘BDS doesn’t want a better Israel — it wants no Israel’

‘BDS doesn’t want a better Israel — it wants no Israel’

Holocaust scholar Prof. Yehuda Bauer slammed the BDS movement while speaking with British-Muslim MP Tulip Siddiq.   Eminent Hebrew Universtiy historian Prof. Yehuda Bauer slammed the… Read More ›

UCLA student leader says university ‘intimidated’ by campus BDS groups

UCLA student leader says university ‘intimidated’ by campus BDS groups

Chatterjee will complete his third year of law school at New York University’s School of Law, an environment which he says has thus far been… Read More ›

Between Warsaw and the Nakba

Between Warsaw and the Nakba

Op-ed: A strong and confident nation can recognize the wrongs it has done without undermining the foundations of its existence. It is time to accept… Read More ›

Expel Livingstone, Jewish leaders urge Labour, as he revives Hitler-Zionist claim

Expel Livingstone, Jewish leaders urge Labour, as he revives Hitler-Zionist claim

Former London mayor ‘grotesquely’ trying ‘to rewrite history,’ complains Board of Deputies   The umbrella organization of British Jews on Monday called on the opposition… Read More ›

Israeli groups seeks referendum on disputed territories

Israeli groups seeks referendum on disputed territories

‘Decision 50’, led by prominent figures in Israel’s self-proclaimed peace camp has urged PM Netanyahu to call a nationwide referendum on whether Israel should withdraw… Read More ›