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West Bank – Palestinian FM Warns: Israel will pay for death of minister

West Bank – Palestinian FM Warns: Israel will pay for death of minister

West Bank – Sparking outrage in the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, is the death of a Palestinian minister who died shortly after clashes with Israeli… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Deciding To Challenge Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni Joins Opposition Head

Jerusalem – Deciding To Challenge Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni Joins Opposition Head

Jerusalem – On Wednesday political sources said that former Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni and the center-left parliamentary opposition leader will jointly challenge Prime Minister… Read More ›

Geneva – Heat Turned Up By Governments On Atheists

Geneva – Heat Turned Up By Governments On Atheists

Geneva – Geneva – Some governments are stepping up efforts to portray atheists and secularists as a danger to society and even as terrorists, amid… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – NYC Mayor: Need For Mental Health Assistance Highlighted By Shooting In Chabad Synogogue

Brooklyn, NY – NYC Mayor: Need For Mental Health Assistance Highlighted By Shooting In Chabad Synogogue

Brooklyn, N.Y. – Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, says today’s stabbing of Israeli student Levi Rosenblatt at Brooklyn’s Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters highlights the need and… Read More ›

Brooklyn, NY – UPDATE: Lawyer Says Suspect Bi-Polar, No Terrorism Link In Chabad Stabbing

Brooklyn, NY – UPDATE: Lawyer Says Suspect Bi-Polar, No Terrorism Link In Chabad Stabbing

Brooklyn, NY -In the middle of the night, a man with a history of mental illness slipped into the headquarters of a major Jewish organization… Read More ›

Paris – In Connection To Jewish Museum Shooting, France Arrests 5

Paris – In Connection To Jewish Museum Shooting, France Arrests 5

Paris – French police, in connection with their investigation into the killing of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in May, have made a… Read More ›

Ultra-Orthodox women demand a public voice in government

Ultra-Orthodox women demand a public voice in government

The backlash against ultra-Orthodox women who are daring to demand a public voice in government didn’t come as a big surprise, but it did come… Read More ›

Gaza Strip -In Gaza War,  Amnesty International Accuses Israel Of War Crimes

Gaza Strip -In Gaza War, Amnesty International Accuses Israel Of War Crimes

Gaza Strip – The human rights monitor for Amnesty International said on Tuesday that Israeli military committed war crimes during its Gaza offensive this summer… Read More ›

More than $500,000 raised for IDF’s Iron Trails Brigade

More than $500,000 raised for IDF’s Iron Trails Brigade

More than 1,550 prominent young professionals and supporters of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) from across New York raised more than $500,000 for… Read More ›

Five people who were involved in terrorism in Belgium arrested

Five people who were involved in terrorism in Belgium arrested

Five people who are suspected of assisting the terrorist in Belgium who opened fire at the Brussels Jewish Museum this past spring were arrested on… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Israel Indicts American Over Plot To Assassinate Obama, Bomb Muslims

Jerusalem – Israel Indicts American Over Plot To Assassinate Obama, Bomb Muslims

Jerusalem –  Adam Everett Livvix, who is wanted in the United States for questioning on drug-related charges, was apprehended by Israeli police on November 19.… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Ahead Of Israeli Election, Netanyahu Makes Cost-of-living Promise

Jerusalem – Ahead Of Israeli Election, Netanyahu Makes Cost-of-living Promise

Jerusalem – Benjamin Netanyahu has been a security hawk, In nearly nine years as Israel’s prime minister spread over three terms, promising to do whatever… Read More ›

Israeli student stabbed while praying in a Brooklyn synagogue – Video

Israeli student stabbed while praying in a Brooklyn synagogue – Video

Police shot and killed a disturbed man inside one of Brooklyn’s most prominent synagogues Tuesday morning, apparently after he asked for a Bible and then… Read More ›

Ocean County, NJ -The Sentence Is One Year For Conspirator In Eliyahu Weinstein Scheme

Ocean County, NJ -The Sentence Is One Year For Conspirator In Eliyahu Weinstein Scheme

Ocean County, NJ – U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced a Lakewood, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to one year and one day in… Read More ›

Santiago del Estero, Argentina -Jewish Tombs Desecrated At Cemetery

Santiago del Estero, Argentina -Jewish Tombs Desecrated At Cemetery

Santiago del Estero, Argentina – Members of Argentina’s Jewish community are denouncing the desecration of about a dozen tombs at a Jewish cemetery in the… Read More ›

United Nations – Sanctions called For By Syria On Israel Over Air Strikes

United Nations – Sanctions called For By Syria On Israel Over Air Strikes

United Nations – Monday,  Syria asked the United Nations Security Council  to impose sanctions on neighboring Israel, one day after accusing the Jewish state of… Read More ›

Bill Cassidy enjoyed a warm meeting with Jewish activists

Bill Cassidy enjoyed a warm meeting with Jewish activists

Congressman Bill Cassidy’s win in the Senate run-off election in Louisiana which saw the defeat of Senator Mary Landriu a strong supporter of the US-Israel… Read More ›

Food donations to seniors in advance of Chanukah

Food donations to seniors in advance of Chanukah

The Bronx Jewish Community Council organized a Chanukah giveaway which saw hundreds of packages given out to elderly homebound people in advance of the Jewish… Read More ›

Is US-Israel friendship damaged?

Is US-Israel friendship damaged?

Former prime minister and defense minister Ehud Barak lamented his former partner Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for damaging the US-Israeli relationship and for failing to… Read More ›

Obama’s Jewish personal chef is leaving him

Obama’s Jewish personal chef is leaving him

Obama’s Jewish personal chef and longest-serving aide, Sam Kass has resigned from his job at the first family’s residence and is moving to New York,… Read More ›