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Ottawa – Israeli Canadian Woman’s Varied Past Revealed

Ottawa – Israeli Canadian Woman’s Varied Past Revealed

Ottawa –  – The shadowed and mixed past of the Canadian woman reported to have been captured earlier this week by Islamic militants while fighting… Read More ›

Rome – The  Jewish Museum In Rome Shows How Ghetto Was In 1880s

Rome – The Jewish Museum In Rome Shows How Ghetto Was In 1880s

Rome – Visitors to Rome’s Jewish Museum can now “walk” streets as they were before the Ghetto neighborhood’s  were demolished in the 1880s. Tucked behind… Read More ›

Finnish community and Jews connect through environment

Finnish community and Jews connect through environment

President of KKL-JNF Finland, Ms. Ethel Salutskij, organized an event called “The Great Israel Event”, which took place on November 2nd, the anniversary of the… Read More ›

French Embassy in Israel encourages students to study in France

French Embassy in Israel encourages students to study in France

The French Embassy in Israel is set to hold an Information Day on Friday to inform and encourage potential students about the numerous study and… Read More ›

Jerusalem – “I Am At The Start Of A Fight For Our Life” Livni Says On Threshold Of Election Campaign

Jerusalem – “I Am At The Start Of A Fight For Our Life” Livni Says On Threshold Of Election Campaign

Jerusalem – Former justice minister Tzipi Livni, in a farewell ceremony to the workers of the ministry after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired her earlier… Read More ›

Israel -Security Official States Palestinians Inciting Terror To Influence Israeli Politics

Israel -Security Official States Palestinians Inciting Terror To Influence Israeli Politics

Israel –  Security forces are concerned about an upswing in attempts to carry out terrorist attacks in order to influence domestic affairs in Israel, amid… Read More ›

Paris-  Attack Highlights Anti-Semitism Concerns With French Jews

Paris- Attack Highlights Anti-Semitism Concerns With French Jews

Paris -An attack on a French couple is reviving worries about long-simmering anti-Semitic sentiment in France. Assailants this week forced their way into an apartment… Read More ›

Jerusalem – Charedi Extremists Attack Rabbi Police Officer In Mea Shearim Synagogue

Jerusalem – Charedi Extremists Attack Rabbi Police Officer In Mea Shearim Synagogue

Jerusalem – Jewish extremists attacked a police officer in uniform who entered a synagogue to pray in the Mea Shearim neighborhood  on Thursday. The officer did… Read More ›

Newark, NJ – Man Acquitted Of Stabbing Jewish Man In Crown Heights Riots Now Charged With DWI

Newark, NJ – Man Acquitted Of Stabbing Jewish Man In Crown Heights Riots Now Charged With DWI

Newark, NJ -After being found passed out with a bottle of scotch in his car near Newark Airport. Lemrick Nelson Jr. – known for stabbing… Read More ›

Washington – Congress OKs Bill Although Watered Down On US-Israel Ties

Washington – Congress OKs Bill Although Watered Down On US-Israel Ties

Washington -On Wednesday, congress approved legislation deepening U.S.-Israeli cooperation after softening a push to grant Israelis visa-free travel rights to the United States even as… Read More ›

Several London Jewish institutions have cancelled their speeches

Several London Jewish institutions have cancelled their speeches

Mordechai Kedar had been due to begin a speaking tour at Lauderdale Road Synagogue last night but the ZF confirmed it and a talk at… Read More ›

Russian Jew is beaten in Moscow

Russian Jew is beaten in Moscow

A student at the Torat Haim yeshiva near Moscow was badly beaten outside the yeshiva. Shlomo (Fyodor) Romanovsky of Belarus was in the hospital and… Read More ›

Paris – Frenchman Jailed For Five Years For Hit-And-Run Killing In Israe

Paris – Frenchman Jailed For Five Years For Hit-And-Run Killing In Israe

Paris – A French national was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in jail for killing an Israeli woman while driving in Tel Aviv in… Read More ›

New York – The Jewish Daily Forward Profiles Rabbi Twersky’s Inner Dealings New Square Enclave

New York – The Jewish Daily Forward Profiles Rabbi Twersky’s Inner Dealings New Square Enclave

New York – The Jewish Daily Forward profiles Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi David Twersky and the secretive dealings and goings-on in his New Square enclave and… Read More ›

London’s Deputy Mayor met with Jewish group to discuss anti-Semitic crime

London’s Deputy Mayor met with Jewish group to discuss anti-Semitic crime

Jewish groups had a meeting with London’s Deputy Mayor Steven Greenhalgh for Policing and Crime(MOPAC)  to discuss anti-Semitic hate crime at demonstrations and on social media.… Read More ›

US Secretary of State hopes a new Israel government will be committed to peace

US Secretary of State hopes a new Israel government will be committed to peace

“We hope that whatever government is formed is a government that will – or whether there are elections, that those elections will produce — the… Read More ›

Bethoncourt, France – Young Girls Targeted By Jihadists In Europe For Recruitment To Attack Jews

Bethoncourt, France – Young Girls Targeted By Jihadists In Europe For Recruitment To Attack Jews

Bethoncourt, France – There is an increase in adolescent girls joining Islamic jihadists after being lured by Internet recruiters, European government officials say. The New… Read More ›

United Nations -Israel Calls Iran Seeking Key UN Post ‘Absurd’

United Nations -Israel Calls Iran Seeking Key UN Post ‘Absurd’

United Nations – In a move that Israel on Tuesday compared to gangster Al Capone running the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Iran is seeking… Read More ›

Amman – Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Smuggling Weapons Into Israel

Amman – Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood Smuggling Weapons Into Israel

Amman – Arab media reports that the Jordanian government arrested 21 Muslim Brotherhood members for smuggling weapons and money into the West Bank. The Brotherhood… Read More ›

Two Israeli start-ups are finalists in the iiAwards

Two Israeli start-ups are finalists in the iiAwards

Two Israeli start-ups, Pixoneye and Pzartech, are two of the six super finalists in the iiAwards, a world start-up competition organized by the Paris Region… Read More ›