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New York – Hamantaschen For Purim Inspires Dozens Of Variations Share Tweet Share Mail

New York – Hamantaschen For Purim Inspires Dozens Of Variations Share Tweet Share Mail

  New York – The most recognizable symbol for the Jewish holiday of Purim is a three-cornered cookie, called a hamantaschen. Purim, which begins March… Read More ›

Prisoner on death row performs Bar Mitzvah

Prisoner on death row performs Bar Mitzvah

Houston Chabad rabbi helps Jewish prisoner on death row put on tefillin and perform a Bar Mitzvah; the rabbi says, ‘When he saw that I… Read More ›

Israel presents Bedouin with demolition orders

Israel presents Bedouin with demolition orders

Israel sent notices to ramshackle 12 Bedouin properties; affected bedouin says ‘The Israeli occupation seeks to displace us from our territory’ Israel’s Civil Administration, the… Read More ›

Government, environmentalists butt heads over Haifa pollution at special Knesset session in Haifa

Government, environmentalists butt heads over Haifa pollution at special Knesset session in Haifa

Government representatives said it is too early to tell if there is correlation between pollution and health problems in Haifa – everyone else criticized them… Read More ›

Last year some 13,000 trucks laden with products from Turkey and Bulgaria passed through Israel, an increase of more than 25%.

Last year some 13,000 trucks laden with products from Turkey and Bulgaria passed through Israel, an increase of more than 25%.

  Chances are good that if members of the Saudi royal family are eating Turkish dried fruit or wearing Bulgarian shoes, some of those products… Read More ›

AP bureau chief: Israeli media criticism of foreign press verges on ‘incitement’

AP bureau chief: Israeli media criticism of foreign press verges on ‘incitement’

Comments come during Israeli offensive against “biased media.”   Israel’s increasingly hostile condemnations of the foreign press are beginning to verge on incitement, Associated Press… Read More ›

Egypt – Arab Social Media Abuzz Over Sisi’s Reported Praise Of Netanyahu To American Jewish Leaders

Egypt – Arab Social Media Abuzz Over Sisi’s Reported Praise Of Netanyahu To American Jewish Leaders

  Egypt – What exactly did Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi say to a group of American Jewish leaders about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? That… Read More ›

Treblinka revolt’s last survivor passes away at 93

Treblinka revolt’s last survivor passes away at 93

Samuel Willenburg, one of 67 to escape the Treblinka extermination camp in 1943, passed away Saturday evening beside his beloved daughter and wife Samuell Willenburg,… Read More ›

Education Ministry presents new ‘culture basket’ for next school year

Education Ministry presents new ‘culture basket’ for next school year

Budget increase to fund 6,000 cultural performances for 8,000 students, with less advantaged towns getting priority; following controversy over play this year, a new external… Read More ›

Clinton e-mails reveal thoughts on Israel

Clinton e-mails reveal thoughts on Israel

New batch of communications sent on Hillary Clinton’s private server give a behind-the-scenes look at the then-secretary of state’s views on Israel, and particularly Prime… Read More ›

From hi-tech to ‘high’ tech, Israel is planting the seeds for a cannabis economy

From hi-tech to ‘high’ tech, Israel is planting the seeds for a cannabis economy

Israel has been a leader in cannabis research, compared to the United States, where heavy regulation prohibits many forms of marijuana- related research.   Spark-Up… Read More ›

Iran-backed group blames Israel for trying to kill leader in Gaza

Iran-backed group blames Israel for trying to kill leader in Gaza

Iranian-backed terror group Al-Sabireen popped up in the Gaza Strip about three years ago and has since posed a direct challenge to Hamas.   The… Read More ›

Amid concerns Syrian war may widen, Russia urges Israel to resume peace process

Amid concerns Syrian war may widen, Russia urges Israel to resume peace process

Israel’s Gold tells Russian FM Lavrov: “Regional security prerequisite for peace.”   Amid concerns the raging war in Syria may widen, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei… Read More ›

Israeli court convicts radical right-wing activist of sedition

Israeli court convicts radical right-wing activist of sedition

Moshe Orbach faces maximum of 5 years in prison for writing pamphlet with instructions on how to firebomb Palestinian homes   The Rehovot Magistrate’s Court… Read More ›

Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online

Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online

Gov’t allots $26 million to fight BDS movement; Israel is using its world-leading expertise in cyber security to take on the growing threat of the… Read More ›

Soldier killed and another wounded in Sha’ar Binyamin stabbing attack

Soldier killed and another wounded in Sha’ar Binyamin stabbing attack

Two 14-year-old Palestinians enter a Rami Levi supermarket and stab two Israelis. 21-year-old Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman died of his wounds. Two 14-year-old Palestinians carried… Read More ›

Gadi Eisenkot: a leading moral figure

Gadi Eisenkot: a leading moral figure

Op-ed: IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot is only a quarter of the way through his tenure, yet is making his mark as a moral… Read More ›

Bereaved families NGO demands Netanyahu do more to stop terrorism

Bereaved families NGO demands Netanyahu do more to stop terrorism

A confidential six-point plan to better fight Israel’s war against terrorism was handed to the premier.   “There is a lot of pain in this… Read More ›

Israel, national security on the minds of South Carolina voters

Israel, national security on the minds of South Carolina voters

The state’s open-primary allows residents to vote in either the Republican or Democratic races, which creates an interesting dynamic.   CHARLESTON – All eyes are… Read More ›

TRUMP: I’ll give solving the Israel-Palestine conflict ‘one hell of a shot’

TRUMP: I’ll give solving the Israel-Palestine conflict ‘one hell of a shot’

  Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he’ll give solving the conflict between Israel and Palestine “one hell of a shot.” During an MSNBC town… Read More ›