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School starts: Bennett stresses core, Zionism

School starts: Bennett stresses core, Zionism

Overcrowding in classes, socioeconomic and sectorial gaps, poor student performance – these are only a few of the many problems facing the education system.  … Read More ›

Why Tel Aviv is so crazy about dogs

Why Tel Aviv is so crazy about dogs

Kelaviv dog festival displays high-tech and boutique products for pooches, highlights city’s canine charms   JTA — It’s not every day you see a dog… Read More ›

School strikes feared just hours before children return from summer holidays

School strikes feared just hours before children return from summer holidays

Education Minister Naftali Bennett faces mounting pressure over numerous threats of strikes across Israel; reasons range from failure to pay teachers’ salaries to shortage of… Read More ›

Celebrating Kedumim’s 40th, Bennett calls to annex Area C

Celebrating Kedumim’s 40th, Bennett calls to annex Area C

He told the thousands of people that he imagined how in a few short years he would be able to state: “We promised the imposition… Read More ›

Anti-immigrant and white supremacist, maybe. But is the alt-right anti-Semitic?

Anti-immigrant and white supremacist, maybe. But is the alt-right anti-Semitic?

Analysis: The movement is nudging its way into the American mainstream as it attaches itself to Trump’s success, and while some of its followers are… Read More ›

Howell, NJ – Good Samaritans Rescue Lakewood Baby Left In Parked Car While Orthodox Jewish Mom Shopped

Howell, NJ – Good Samaritans Rescue Lakewood Baby Left In Parked Car While Orthodox Jewish Mom Shopped

  Howell, NJ – A Orthodox Jewish woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly leaving her infant in the car for more than half an hour… Read More ›

Who’s afraid of the Jewish state?

Who’s afraid of the Jewish state?

Op-ed: Many Israelis support the demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state; but why aren’t we demanding the same from our own… Read More ›

Wasserman Schultz survives bruising primary battle

Wasserman Schultz survives bruising primary battle

Wasserman Schultz is an active member of the Israel advocacy community in Washington, and as chair of the DNC, served as one of the most… Read More ›

Jewish GOP billionaire abandons Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

Jewish GOP billionaire abandons Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

Martin Selig, a Jewish property developer who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1939, originally cast his support for Trump.   WASHINGTON – A… Read More ›

Settlement building ‘surged’ in recent months — UN envoy

Settlement building ‘surged’ in recent months — UN envoy

Quartet’s calls to halt construction in East Jerusalem and West Bank ignored by Jerusalem, peace process coordinator says   Settlement construction has “surged” in the… Read More ›

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

Having captured Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, a trembling Werner Meritz told fellow US soldiers he was going to have revenge   JTA — It sounds… Read More ›

Israel’s ‘modest’ swimmers wade into burkini controversy

Israel’s ‘modest’ swimmers wade into burkini controversy

Both Israeli Arabs and Jews insist full-body swimwear isn’t just for religious women, and government has no place making fashion decrees   Burkinis may be… Read More ›

PM to meet with religious party leaders in bid to resolve coalition crisis

PM to meet with religious party leaders in bid to resolve coalition crisis

Railway chief: Two-year delay if Shabbat work halted.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with the heads of the United Torah Judaism and Shas… Read More ›

Millennia before writing, ancient Holy Land etchings tracked passage of seasons

Millennia before writing, ancient Holy Land etchings tracked passage of seasons

16,500-year-old bird’s head carved into limestone plaque from Ein Qashish may be among oldest ritual objects ever found in the Levant   A collection of… Read More ›

The Obama presidency, Israel, national security and human rights

The Obama presidency, Israel, national security and human rights

Ensnared by events, Barack Obama ended up as a Democratic president who endorsed indefinite armed conflict and targeted killings.   US President Barack Obama’s dreams of… Read More ›

Ahmed Dawabsheh visits home of Hamas terrorist

Ahmed Dawabsheh visits home of Hamas terrorist

The sole survivor of the Duma arson, Ahmed Dawabshe, was taken by his grandfather to pay a solidarity visit to the destroyed house of a… Read More ›

Coalition crisis: Haredi leaders demand emergency meeting with Netanyahu

Coalition crisis: Haredi leaders demand emergency meeting with Netanyahu

Sources say haredi leaders to demand PM sacks Katz; Gafni “Katz a liar, no agreement for Shabbat work.”   Ultra-Orthodox party leaders on Saturday night… Read More ›

Spanish court overturns regional Israel boycott

Spanish court overturns regional Israel boycott

Ignacio Wenley Palacios, the ACOM lawyer leading the anti-boycott effort in Spain, said the BDS movement is “thinly disguised under a veil of a deceiving… Read More ›

Burkini ban great for business, says Israeli-French modest swimsuits maker

Burkini ban great for business, says Israeli-French modest swimsuits maker

Founder of Sea Secret fashion label devout women predicts boosted sales after controversial ban ignites divisive debate   JTA — According to the latest tally,… Read More ›

UK Labour parley at risk as Israel-linked security firm it spurned rejects plea for help

UK Labour parley at risk as Israel-linked security firm it spurned rejects plea for help

Main opposition party, led by Israel critic Jeremy Corbyn, may have to cancel flagship conference next month if it can’t find last-minute replacement for G4S… Read More ›