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Ramallah – Abbas: Palestinians To Join International Criminal Court

Ramallah – Abbas: Palestinians To Join International Criminal Court

Ramallah – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinians will join the International Criminal Court — a move that sets the stage for filing a… Read More ›

Thousands of Nigerian Christians visit Israel

Thousands of Nigerian Christians visit Israel

More than 14,000 Nigerian Christians have arrived to Israel for the Christmas season, spotlighting growing ties between Israel and Nigeria. Speaking at a sendoff ceremony last… Read More ›

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is supposed to speak at different vacation destinations during Passover

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is supposed to speak at different vacation destinations during Passover

Ted Cruz is being advertised as a featured attraction for several high end resort vacation getaways catering to religious Jews, in addition to some of… Read More ›

Islamabad – Mumbai Suspect Arrested Again In Pakistan

Islamabad – Mumbai Suspect Arrested Again In Pakistan

Islamabad – Pakistani police have rearrested the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks quashing expectations that he might soon be freed, officials said… Read More ›

Cairo – Egypt’s Jewish Leader Condemns Ban On Rabbi’s Festival

Cairo – Egypt’s Jewish Leader Condemns Ban On Rabbi’s Festival

Cairo – The head of Egypt’s Jewish community condemned Tuesday the court decision in his own country to ban an annual Jewish festival, calling the… Read More ›

Somalia – U.S. Air Strike Kills Key Militant Leader

Somalia – U.S. Air Strike Kills Key Militant Leader

Somalia – U.S. and Somali officials said on Tuesday that a leader of the Somali militant group al Shabaab was killed by a U.S. air… Read More ›

United Nations – Britain Says It Cannot Support The New Palestinian U.N. Draft Resolution

United Nations – Britain Says It Cannot Support The New Palestinian U.N. Draft Resolution

United Nations – Britain joined the United States on Tuesday, declaring that it cannot support a new Palestinian draft proposal calling for peace with Israel… Read More ›

Israeli ambassador will speak at HMD events in Ireland

Israeli ambassador will speak at HMD events in Ireland

The Israeli Embassy hosted a meeting with heads of the Holocaust Education Trust of Ireland (HETI), which has been embroiled in a row after it… Read More ›

Egypt – Annual Festival Honoring Moroccan Rabbi Abu Hatzeira Banned By Court

Egypt – Annual Festival Honoring Moroccan Rabbi Abu Hatzeira Banned By Court

An Egyptian court has banned an annual festival in honor of Moroccan rabbi that was regularly attended by hundreds of Jewish pilgrims, mainly from Israel… Read More ›

Garages Vandalized At Chicago Synagogue With Anti-Semitic Slurs

Garages Vandalized At Chicago Synagogue With Anti-Semitic Slurs

Chicago – Anti-Semitic graffiti was found on various garages and a synagogue in a highly populated Jewish area in Chicago early Sunday morning. Messages were… Read More ›

First kosher restaurant in Tokyo

First kosher restaurant in Tokyo

A kosher restaurant “Chana’s Place” established by Rabbi Mendy Sudakveich, and named after his wife, is set to open next week in Tokyo. “Initially, the… Read More ›

Argentinian president adopts Jewish godson

Argentinian president adopts Jewish godson

President de Kirchner met Yair Tawil – son of Shlomo Tawil, director of the Chabad House in Rosario, Argentina – and his family at her office… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Ranking Senator Graham: If The UN ‘Takes Over’ Peace Process US Congress May Suspend Funds

Jerusalem – Ranking Senator Graham: If The UN ‘Takes Over’ Peace Process US Congress May Suspend Funds

Jerusalem – Visiting US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) on Saturday night alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, There will be a “violent backlash” by… Read More ›

Syria – Islamic State Fighters Are Moving Closer And Closer To Israel

Syria – Islamic State Fighters Are Moving Closer And Closer To Israel

Syria – Islamic State has suffered severe losses as a result of coalition air strikes in the last months. Over 1,000 of its fighters have… Read More ›

Pyongyang – N. Korea Suffers New Internet Outage, Calls Obama ‘Monkey’ And Threatens “Deadly Blows”

Pyongyang – N. Korea Suffers New Internet Outage, Calls Obama ‘Monkey’ And Threatens “Deadly Blows”

Pyongyang – After the release of a comedy film about a fictional plot to kill its leader, North Korea suffered a new Internet outage on Saturday… Read More ›

‘Jewish Oprah’ turns page from Jewish book counsil

‘Jewish Oprah’ turns page from Jewish book counsil

Carolyn Starman Hessel joined the New York-based Jewish Book Council in 1994. Since then, she’s been called the “Jewish Oprah” for her ability to help authors… Read More ›

Jewish little boy raises $1 million to help his ill friend

Jewish little boy raises $1 million to help his ill friend

A fundraising campaign started quietly by two first graders two years ago to help find a cure for a rare genetic disease just passed the… Read More ›

Bnei Brak – Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Consider Bigger Role For Women

Bnei Brak – Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Consider Bigger Role For Women

Bnei Brak – A struggle for women’s rights is brewing within Israel’s deeply conservative ultra-Orthodox community. Women, who have largely been shut out of politics,… Read More ›

Jordan – Prisoner Swap Could Be Possible With ISIS For Captured Jordanian Pilot

Jordan – Prisoner Swap Could Be Possible With ISIS For Captured Jordanian Pilot

Jordan –  According to a report in the Arab press, a prisoner exchange may be in the cards for a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic… Read More ›

Tehran – Iran Expands ‘Smart Filter’ Internet Censorship To Facebook

Tehran – Iran Expands ‘Smart Filter’ Internet Censorship To Facebook

Tehran – On Friday Iran said it is going to expand what it calls “smart filtering” of the Internet, a policy of censoring undesirable content… Read More ›