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Leading rabbi: Higher education for women more damaging than the Holocaust

Leading rabbi: Higher education for women more damaging than the Holocaust

The remarks were reported amid a growing furor in the haredi world over Education Ministry efforts to prevent discrimination against teenage girls in high schools.… Read More ›

Tel Aviv coop decides to boycott settlement goods

Tel Aviv coop decides to boycott settlement goods

Small organic Florentin coop draws online criticism after announcing produce from West Bank ‘not welcome’   A Tel Aviv supermarket coop has decided to ban… Read More ›

Muslim writes Hebrew letter in German community’s new Torah

Muslim writes Hebrew letter in German community’s new Torah

Marburg Jews invite leaders of other faiths to help complete scroll and celebrate synagogue’s 10th anniversary   In a first for Germany, and perhaps the world,… Read More ›

Israeli women live longer but are more susceptible to breast cancer

Israeli women live longer but are more susceptible to breast cancer

Report presented to Knesset’s Health Committee reveals that while Israeli women’s life expectancy is higher than the OECD average, Israel ranks fifth in breast cancer… Read More ›

Middle Israel: Naftali Bennett’s dangerous liaisons

Middle Israel: Naftali Bennett’s dangerous liaisons

Naftali Bennett’s dream to refashion religious Zionism as Israel’s political fulcrum seems increasingly elusive, following his scandalized protégé Yinon Magal’s resignation.   The never learn.… Read More ›

PLO: Jewish plans to add installations at Western Wall a ‘flagrant assault’

PLO: Jewish plans to add installations at Western Wall a ‘flagrant assault’

The PLO called on the Israeli government to “take the hand of the (Jerusalem) occupation municipality off the Al-Aksa Mosque and its premises.”   The… Read More ›

Arab MK, expert debate: Does the Arab minority integrate into Israeli society?

Arab MK, expert debate: Does the Arab minority integrate into Israeli society?

“I can never be Zionist and Jewish, said the Arab MK, “but my state should take care of me like other citizens in the country.”… Read More ›

A survival story from the daughter of a survivor

A survival story from the daughter of a survivor

What’s a Jewish comic to do, after growing up with hoarder mother who was born in wartime Kirgizia? She works it out for us in… Read More ›

Jewish victim of California attack had argued with shooter about Islam

Jewish victim of California attack had argued with shooter about Islam

Messianic Jew Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, one of 14 fatalities, had heated debate with co-worker Syed Rizwan Farook two weeks before San Bernardino rampage   One… Read More ›

West Bank shooter identified as PA intel officer

West Bank shooter identified as PA intel officer

Mazen Aribe, an East Jerusalem father of 4, was a member of Palestinian Authority’s security forces, sources say   Palestinian security sources have identified the… Read More ›

Israeli car hit in suspected West Bank terror shooting

Israeli car hit in suspected West Bank terror shooting

Driver emerges uninjured despite some 10 bullets hitting his car near just north of Jerusalem   More than 10 bullets pummeled an Israeli car in… Read More ›

Edelstein urges Germany to lead opposition to EU labeling move

Edelstein urges Germany to lead opposition to EU labeling move

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein called on Germany on Thursday to urge other European countries to oppose EU plans to require products from West Bank settlements… Read More ›

Trump: Israel may not want peace with Palestinians

Trump: Israel may not want peace with Palestinians

Republican frontrunner in hot water with Jewish voters after refusing to back down on comments he made to AP; ‘You’re not going to support me… Read More ›

Wild outpost reveals extemism of ‘hilltop youth’

Wild outpost reveals extemism of ‘hilltop youth’

Radical right-wing ‘hilltop youth’ have made the Baladim outpost in the West Bank their HQ; their incitement against the authorities is revealed in their Facebook… Read More ›

GOP contenders highlight Obama as a wedge in Jewish support

GOP contenders highlight Obama as a wedge in Jewish support

Republican presidential candidates address Jewish lobbying group in Washington.   WASHINGTON – Candidates for the Republican nomination for president made their case for support from… Read More ›

The confrontation between Turkey and Russia: Lessons for Israel

The confrontation between Turkey and Russia: Lessons for Israel

Israeli policy has thus far favored sitting on the fence and observing from the side while developments unfold.   The confrontation between Turkey and Russia… Read More ›

IDF soldier lightly injured in stabbing attack near Hebron, attackers killed

IDF soldier lightly injured in stabbing attack near Hebron, attackers killed

This is the third attack against Israeli citizens in the last 24 hours.   Two Palestinians attacked an IDF soldier at the Jilber position in… Read More ›

MK Oren Hazan suspended for 1 month

MK Oren Hazan suspended for 1 month

Complaints lead Ethics Committee to suspend Hazan from Knesset meetings for a month; AG expected to order his indictment on separate matter of finances. What… Read More ›

IDF’s five-year plan to focus on strategic supplies

IDF’s five-year plan to focus on strategic supplies

Israel’s military is learning the lesson from Gaza conflicts which left its stocks depleted. IDF chief Eisenkot has instructed that a larger portion of the… Read More ›

Organized crime hurts economy, inflates housing prices – Justice minister

Organized crime hurts economy, inflates housing prices – Justice minister

One of the main ways organized crime affects housing and construction prices is through the use of “security companies” that extort exorbitant fees from contractors.… Read More ›